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Urantia Book Paper 9 Relation Of The Infinite Spirit To The Universe
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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Paper 9 Relation Of The Infinite Spirit To The Universe
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Introduction
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A STRANGE thing occurred when, in the presence of Paradise, the Universal
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Father and the Eternal Son unite to personalize themselves. Nothing in this
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eternity situation foreshadows that the Conjoint Actor would personalize as an
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unlimited spirituality co-ordinated with absolute mind and endowed with unique
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prerogatives of energy manipulation. His coming into being completes the
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Father's liberation from the bonds of centralized perfection and from the
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fetters of personality absolutism. And this liberation is disclosed in the
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amazing power of the Conjoint Creator to create beings well adapted to serve as
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ministering spirits even to the material creatures of the subsequently evolving
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universes.
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The Father is infinite in love and volition, in spiritual thought and purpose;
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he is the universal upholder. The Son is infinite in wisdom and truth, in
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spiritual expression and interpretation; he is the universal revealer. Paradise
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is infinite in potential for force endowment and in capacity for energy
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dominance; it is the universal stabilizer. The Conjoint Actor possesses unique
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prerogatives of synthesis, infinite capacity to co-ordinate all existing
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universe energies, all actual universe spirits, and all real universe
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intellects; the Third Source and Center is the universal unifier of the
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manifold energies and diverse creations which have appeared in consequence of
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the divine plan and the eternal purpose of the Universal Father.
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The Infinite Spirit, the Conjoint Creator, is a universal and divine minister.
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The Spirit unceasingly ministers the Son's mercy and the Father's love, even in
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harmony with the stable, unvarying, and righteous justice of the Paradise
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Trinity. His influence and personalities are ever near you; they really know
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and truly understand you.
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Throughout the universes the agencies of the Conjoint Actor ceaselessly
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manipulate the forces and energies of all space. Like the First Source and
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Center, the Third is responsive to both the spiritual and the material. The
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Conjoint Actor is the revelation of the unity of God, in whom all things
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consist--things, meanings, and values; energies, minds, and spirits.
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The Infinite Spirit pervades all space; he indwells the circle of eternity; and
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the Spirit, like the Father and the Son, is perfect and changeless--absolute.
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1. ATTRIBUTES OF THE THIRD SOURCE AND CENTER
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The Third Source and Center is known by many names, all designative of
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relationship and in recognition of function: As God the Spirit, he is the
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person-
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ality co-ordinate and divine equal of God the Son and God the Father. As the
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Infinite Spirit, he is an omnipresent spiritual influence. As the Universal
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Manipulator, he is the ancestor of the power-control creatures and the
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activator of the cosmic forces of space. As the Conjoint Actor, he is the joint
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representative and partnership executive of the Father-Son. As the Absolute
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Mind, he is the source of the endowment of intellect throughout the universes.
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As the God of Action, he is the apparent ancestor of motion, change, and
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relationship.
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Some of the attributes of the Third Source and Center are derived from the
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Father, some from the Son, while still others are not observed to be actively
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and personally present in either the Father or the Son--attributes that can
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hardly be explained except by assuming that the Father-Son partnership which
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eternalizes the Third Source and Center consistently functions in consonance
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with, and in recognition of, the eternal fact of the absoluteness of Paradise.
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The Conjoint Creator embodies the fullness of the combined and infinite
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concepts of the First and Second Persons of Deity.
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While you envisage the Father as an original creator and the Son as a spiritual
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administrator, you should think of the Third Source and Center as a universal
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co-ordinator, a minister of unlimited co-operation. The Conjoint Actor is the
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correlator of all actual reality; he is the Deity repository of the Father's
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thought and the Son's word and in action is eternally regardful of the material
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absoluteness of the central Isle. The Paradise Trinity has ordained the
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universal order of progress, and the providence of God is the domain of the
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Conjoint Creator and the evolving Supreme Being. No actual or actualizing
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reality can escape eventual relationship with the Third Source and Center.
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The Universal Father presides over the realms of pre-energy, prespirit, and
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personality; the Eternal Son dominates the spheres of spiritual activities; the
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presence of the Isle of Paradise unifies the domain of physical energy and
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materializing power; the Conjoint Actor operates not only as an infinite spirit
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representing the Son but also as a universal manipulator of the forces and
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energies of Paradise, thus bringing into existence the universal and absolute
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mind. The Conjoint Actor functions throughout the grand universe as a positive
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and distinct personality, especially in the higher spheres of spiritual values,
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physical-energy relationships, and true mind meanings. He functions
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specifically wherever and whenever energy and spirit associate and interact; he
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dominates all reactions with mind, wields great power in the spiritual world,
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and exerts a mighty influence over energy and matter. At all times the Third
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Source is expressive of the nature of the First Source and Center.
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The Third Source and Center perfectly and without qualification shares the
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omnipresence of the First Source and Center, sometimes being called the
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Omnipresent Spirit. In a peculiar and very personal manner the God of mind
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shares the omniscience of the Universal Father and his Eternal Son; the
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knowledge of the Spirit is profound and complete. The Conjoint Creator
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manifests certain phases of the omnipotence of the Universal Father but is
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actually omnipotent only in the domain of mind. The Third Person of Deity is
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the intellectual center and the universal administrator of the mind realms;
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herein is he absolute--his sovereignty is unqualified.
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The Conjoint Actor seems to be motivated by the Father-Son partnership, but all
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his actions appear to recognize the Father-Paradise relationship. At times
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and in certain functions he seems to compensate for the incompleteness of the
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development of the experiential Deities--God the Supreme and God the Ultimate.
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And herein is an infinite mystery: That the Infinite simultaneously revealed
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his infinity in the Son and as Paradise, and then there springs into existence
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a being equal to God in divinity, reflective of the Son's spiritual nature, and
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capable of activating the Paradise pattern, a being provisionally subordinate
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in sovereignty but in many ways apparently the most versatile in action. And
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such apparent superiority in action is disclosed in an attribute of the Third
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Source and Center which is superior even to physical gravity--the universal
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manifestation of the Isle of Paradise.
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In addition to this supercontrol of energy and things physical, the Infinite
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Spirit is superbly endowed with those attributes of patience, mercy, and love
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which are so exquisitely revealed in his spiritual ministry. The Spirit is
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supremely competent to minister love and to overshadow justice with mercy. God
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the Spirit possesses all the supernal kindness and merciful affection of the
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Original and Eternal Son. The universe of your origin is being forged out
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between the anvil of justice and the hammer of suffering; but those who wield
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the hammer are the children of mercy, the spirit offspring of the Infinite
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Spirit.
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2. THE OMNIPRESENT SPIRIT
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God is spirit in a threefold sense: He himself is spirit; in his Son he appears
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as spirit without qualification; in the Conjoint Actor, as spirit allied with
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mind. And in addition to these spiritual realities, we think we discern levels
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of experiential spirit phenomena--the spirits of the Supreme Being, Ultimate
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Deity, and Deity Absolute.
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The Infinite Spirit is just as much a complement of the Eternal Son as the Son
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is a complement of the Universal Father. The Eternal Son is a spiritualized
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personalization of the Father; the Infinite Spirit is a personalized
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spiritualization of the Eternal Son and the Universal Father.
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There are many untrammeled lines of spiritual force and sources of
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supermaterial power linking the people of Urantia directly with the Deities of
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Paradise. There exist the connection of the Thought Adjusters direct with the
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Universal Father, the widespread influence of the spiritual-gravity urge of the
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Eternal Son, and the spiritual presence of the Conjoint Creator. There is a
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difference in function between the spirit of the Son and the spirit of the
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Spirit. The Third Person in his spiritual ministry may function as mind plus
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spirit or as spirit alone.
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In addition to these Paradise presences, Urantians benefit by the spiritual
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influences and activities of the local and the superuniverse, with their almost
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endless array of loving personalities who ever lead the true of purpose and the
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honest of heart upward and inward towards the ideals of divinity and the goal
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of supreme perfection.
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The presence of the universal spirit of the Eternal Son we know--we can
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unmistakably recognize it. The presence of the Infinite Spirit, the Third
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Person of Deity, even mortal man may know, for material creatures can actually
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experience the beneficence of this divine influence which functions as the Holy
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Spirit of local universe bestowal upon the races of mankind. Human beings can
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also in some degree become conscious of the Adjuster, the impersonal presence
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of the Universal Father. These divine spirits which work for man's uplifting
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and spirit-
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ualization all act in unison and in perfect co-operation. They are as one in
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the spiritual operation of the plans of mortal ascension and perfection
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attainment.
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3. THE UNIVERSAL MANIPULATOR
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The Isle of Paradise is the source and substance of physical gravity; and that
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should be sufficient to inform you that gravity is one of the most real and
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eternally dependable things in the whole physical universe of universes.
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Gravity cannot be modified or annulled except by the forces and energies
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conjointly sponsored by the Father and the Son, which have been intrusted to,
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and are functionally associated with, the person of the Third Source and
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Center.
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The Infinite Spirit possesses a unique and amazing power--antigravity. This
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power is not functionally (observably) present in either the Father or the Son.
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This ability to withstand the pull of material gravity, inherent in the Third
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Source, is revealed in the personal reactions of the Conjoint Actor to certain
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phases of universe relationships. And this unique attribute is transmissible to
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certain of the higher personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
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Antigravity can annul gravity within a local frame; it does so by the exercise
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of equal force presence. It operates only with reference to material gravity,
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and it is not the action of mind. The gravity-resistant phenomenon of a
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gyroscope is a fair illustration of the effect of antigravity but of no value
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to illustrate the cause of antigravity.
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Still further does the Conjoint Actor display powers which can transcend force
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and neutralize energy. Such powers operate by slowing down energy to the point
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of materialization and by other techniques unknown to you.
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The Conjoint Creator is not energy nor the source of energy nor the destiny of
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energy; he is the manipulator of energy. The Conjoint Creator is
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action--motion, change, modification, co-ordination, stabilization, and
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equilibrium. The energies subject to the direct or indirect control of Paradise
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are by nature responsive to the acts of the Third Source and Center and his
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manifold agencies.
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The universe of universes is permeated by the power-control creatures of the
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Third Source and Center: physical controllers, power directors, power centers,
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and other representatives of the God of Action who have to do with the
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regulation and stabilization of physical energies. These unique creatures of
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physical function all possess varying attributes of power control, such as
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antigravity, which they utilize in their efforts to establish the physical
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equilibrium of the matter and energies of the grand universe.
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All these material activities of the God of Action appear to relate his
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function to the Isle of Paradise, and indeed the agencies of power are all
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regardful of, even dependent on, the absoluteness of the eternal Isle. But the
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Conjoint Actor does not act for, or in response to, Paradise. He acts,
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personally, for the Father and the Son. Paradise is not a person. The
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nonpersonal, impersonal, and otherwise not personal doings of the Third Source
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and Center are all volitional acts of the Conjoint Actor himself; they are not
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reflections, derivations, or repercussions of anything or anybody.
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Paradise is the pattern of infinity; the God of Action is the activator of that
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pattern. Paradise is the material fulcrum of infinity; the agencies of the
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Third Source and Center are the levers of intelligence which motivate the
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material level and inject spontaneity into the mechanism of the physical
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creation.
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4. THE ABSOLUTE MIND
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There is an intellectual nature of the Third Source and Center that is distinct
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from his physical and spiritual attributes. Such a nature is hardly
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contactable, but it is associable--intellectually though not personally. It is
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distinguishable from the physical attributes and the spiritual character of the
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Third Person on mind levels of function, but to the discernment of
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personalities this nature never functions independently of physical or
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spiritual manifestations.
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The absolute mind is the mind of the Third Person; it is inseparable from the
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personality of God the Spirit. Mind, in functioning beings, is not separated
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from energy or spirit, or both. Mind is not inherent in energy; energy is
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receptive and responsive to mind; mind can be superimposed upon energy, but
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consciousness is not inherent in the purely material level. Mind does not have
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to be added to pure spirit, for spirit is innately conscious and identifying.
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Spirit is always intelligent, minded in some way. It may be this mind or that
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mind, it may be premind or supermind, even spirit mind, but it does the
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equivalent of thinking and knowing. The insight of spirit transcends,
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supervenes, and theoretically antedates the consciousness of mind.
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The Conjoint Creator is absolute only in the domain of mind, in the realms of
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universal intelligence. The mind of the Third Source and Center is infinite; it
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utterly transcends the active and functioning mind circuits of the universe of
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universes. The mind endowment of the seven superuniverses is derived from the
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Seven Master Spirits, the primary personalities of the Conjoint Creator. These
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Master Spirits distribute mind to the grand universe as the cosmic mind, and
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your local universe is pervaded by the Nebadon variant of the Orvonton type of
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cosmic mind.
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Infinite mind ignores time, ultimate mind transcends time, cosmic mind is
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conditioned by time. And so with space: The Infinite Mind is independent of
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space, but as descent is made from the infinite to the adjutant levels of mind,
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intellect must increasingly reckon with the fact and limitations of space.
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Cosmic force responds to mind even as cosmic mind responds to spirit. Spirit is
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divine purpose, and spirit mind is divine purpose in action. Energy is thing,
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mind is meaning, spirit is value. Even in time and space, mind establishes
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those relative relationships between energy and spirit which are suggestive of
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mutual kinship in eternity.
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Mind transmutes the values of spirit into the meanings of intellect; volition
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has power to bring the meanings of mind to fruit in both the material and
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spiritual domains. The Paradise ascent involves a relative and differential
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growth in spirit, mind, and energy. The personality is the unifier of these
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components of experiential individuality.
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5. THE MINISTRY OF MIND
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The Third Source and Center is infinite in mind. If the universe should grow to
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infinity, still his mind potential would be adequate to endow limitless numbers
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of creatures with suitable minds and other prerequisites of intellect.
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In the domain of created mind the Third Person, with his co-ordinate and
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subordinate associates, rules supreme. The realms of creature mind are of ex-
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clusive origin in the Third Source and Center; he is the bestower of mind. Even
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the Father fragments find it impossible to indwell the minds of men until the
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way has been properly prepared for them by the mind action and spiritual
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function of the Infinite Spirit.
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The unique feature of mind is that it can be bestowed upon such a wide range of
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life. Through his creative and creature associates the Third Source and Center
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ministers to all minds on all spheres. He ministers to human and subhuman
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intellect through the adjutants of the local universes and, through the agency
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of the physical controllers, ministers even to the lowest nonexperiencing
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entities of the most primitive types of living things. And always is the
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direction of mind a ministry of mind-spirit or mind-energy personalities.
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Since the Third Person of Deity is the source of mind, it is quite natural that
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the evolutionary will creatures find it easier to form comprehensible concepts
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of the Infinite Spirit than they do of either the Eternal Son or the Universal
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Father. The reality of the Conjoint Creator is disclosed imperfectly in the
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very existence of human mind. The Conjoint Creator is the ancestor of the
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cosmic mind, and the mind of man is an individualized circuit, an impersonal
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portion, of that cosmic mind as it is bestowed in a local universe by a
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Creative Daughter of the Third Source and Center.
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Because the Third Person is the source of mind, do not presume to reckon that
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all phenomena of mind are divine. Human intellect is rooted in the material
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origin of the animal races. Universe intelligence is no more a true revelation
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of God who is mind than is physical nature a true revelation of the beauty and
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harmony of Paradise. Perfection is in nature, but nature is not perfect. The
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Conjoint Creator is the source of mind, but mind is not the Conjoint Creator.
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Mind, on Urantia, is a compromise between the essence of thought perfection and
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the evolving mentality of your immature human nature The plan for your
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intellectual evolution is, indeed, one of sublime perfection, but you are far
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short of that divine goal as you function in the tabernacles of the flesh. Mind
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is truly of divine origin, and it does have a divine destiny, but your mortal
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minds are not yet of divine dignity.
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Too often, all too often, you mar your minds by insincerity and sear them with
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unrighteousness; you subject them to animal fear and distort them by useless
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anxiety. Therefore, though the source of mind is divine, mind as you know it on
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your world of ascension can hardly become the object of great admiration, much
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less of adoration or worship. The contemplation of the immature and inactive
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human intellect should lead only to reactions of humility.
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6. THE MIND-GRAVITY CIRCUIT
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The Third Source and Center, the universal intelligence, is personally
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conscious of every mind, every intellect, in all creation, and he maintains a
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personal and perfect contact with all these physical, morontial, and spiritual
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creatures of mind endowment in the far-flung universes. All these activities of
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mind are grasped in the absolute mind-gravity circuit which focalizes in the
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Third Source and Center and is a part of the personal consciousness of the
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Infinite Spirit.
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Much as the Father draws all personality to himself, and as the Son attracts
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all spiritual reality, so does the Conjoint Actor exercise a drawing power on
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all
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minds; he unqualifiedly dominates and controls the universal mind circuit. All
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true and genuine intellectual values, all divine thoughts and perfect ideas,
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are unerringly drawn into this absolute circuit of mind.
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Mind gravity can operate independently of material and spiritual gravity, but
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wherever and whenever the latter two impinge, mind gravity always functions.
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When all three are associated, personality gravity may embrace the material
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creature--physical or morontial, finite or absonite. But irrespective of this,
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the endowment of mind even in impersonal beings qualifies them to think and
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endows them with consciousness despite the total absence of personality.
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Selfhood of personality dignity, human or divine, immortal or potentially
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immortal, does not however originate in either spirit, mind, or matter; it is
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the bestowal of the Universal Father. Neither is the interaction of spirit,
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mind, and material gravity a prerequisite to the appearance of personality
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gravity. The Father's circuit may embrace a mind-material being who is
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unresponsive to spirit gravity, or it may include a mind-spirit being who is
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unresponsive to material gravity. The operation of personality gravity is
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always a volitional act of the Universal Father.
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While mind is energy associated in purely material beings and spirit associated
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in purely spiritual personalities, innumerable orders of personality, including
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the human, possess minds that are associated with both energy and spirit. The
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spiritual aspects of creature mind unfailingly respond to the spirit-gravity
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pull of the Eternal Son; the material features respond to the gravity urge of
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the material universe.
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Cosmic mind, when not associated with either energy or spirit, is subject to
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the gravity demands of neither material nor spiritual circuits. Pure mind is
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subject only to the universal gravity grasp of the Conjoint Actor. Pure mind is
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close of kin to infinite mind, and infinite mind (the theoretical co-ordinate
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of the absolutes of spirit and energy) is apparently a law in itself.
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The greater the spirit-energy divergence, the greater the observable function
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of mind; the lesser the diversity of energy and spirit, the lesser the
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observable function of mind. Apparently, the maximum function of the cosmic
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mind is in the time universes of space. Here mind seems to function in a
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mid-zone between energy and spirit, but this is not true of the higher levels
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of mind; on Paradise, energy and spirit are essentially one.
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The mind-gravity circuit is dependable; it emanates from the Third Person of
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Deity on Paradise, but not all the observable function of mind is predictable.
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Throughout all known creation there parallels this circuit of mind some
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little-understood presence whose function is not predictable. We believe that
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this unpredictability is partly attributable to the function of the Universal
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Absolute. What this function is, we do not know; what actuates it, we can only
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conjecture; concerning its relation to creatures, we can only speculate.
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Certain phases of the unpredictability of finite mind may be due to the
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incompleteness of the Supreme Being, and there is a vast zone of activities
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wherein the Conjoint Actor and the Universal Absolute may possibly be tangent.
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There is much about mind that is unknown, but of this we are sure: The Infinite
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Spirit is the perfect expression of the mind of the Creator to all creatures;
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the Supreme Being is the evolving expression of the minds of all creatures to
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their Creator.
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7. UNIVERSE REFLECTIVITY
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The Conjoint Actor is able to co-ordinate all levels of universe actuality in
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such manner as to make possible the simultaneous recognition of the mental, the
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material, and the spiritual. This is the phenomenon of universe reflectivity,
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that unique and inexplicable power to see, hear, sense, and know all things as
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they transpire throughout a superuniverse, and to focalize, by reflectivity,
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all this information and knowledge at any desired point. The action of
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reflectivity is shown in perfection on each of the headquarters worlds of the
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seven superuniverses. It is also operative throughout all sectors of the
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superuniverses and within the boundaries of the local universes. Reflectivity
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finally focalizes on Paradise.
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The phenomenon of reflectivity, as it is disclosed on the superuniverse
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headquarters worlds in the amazing performances of the reflective personalities
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there stationed, represents the most complex interassociation of all phases of
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existence to be found in all creation. Lines of spirit can be traced back to
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the Son, physical energy to Paradise, and mind to the Third Source; but in the
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extraordinary phenomenon of universe reflectivity there is a unique and
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exceptional unification of all three, so associated as to enable the universe
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rulers to know about remote conditions instantaneously, simultaneously with
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their occurrence.
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Much of the technique of reflectivity we comprehend, but there are many phases
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which truly baffle us. We know that the Conjoint Actor is the universe center
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of the mind circuit, that he is the ancestor of the cosmic mind, and that
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cosmic mind operates under the dominance of the absolute mind gravity of the
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Third Source and Center. We know further that the circuits of the cosmic mind
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influence the intellectual levels of all known existence; they contain the
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universal space reports, and just as certainly they focus in the Seven Master
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Spirits and converge in the Third Source and Center.
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The relationship between the finite cosmic mind and the divine absolute mind
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appears to be evolving in the experiential mind of the Supreme. We are taught
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that, in the dawn of time, this experiential mind was bestowed upon the Supreme
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by the Infinite Spirit, and we conjecture that certain features of the
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phenomenon of reflectivity can be accounted for only by postulating the
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activity of the Supreme Mind. If the Supreme is not concerned in reflectivity,
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we are at a loss to explain the intricate transactions and unerring operations
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of this consciousness of the cosmos.
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Reflectivity appears to be omniscience within the limits of the experiential
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finite and may represent the emergence of the presence-consciousness of the
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Supreme Being. If this assumption is true, then the utilization of reflectivity
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in any of its phases is equivalent to partial contact with the consciousness of
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the Supreme.
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8. PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT
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The Infinite Spirit possesses full power to transmit many of his powers and
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prerogatives to his co-ordinate and subordinate personalities and agencies.
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The first Deity-creating act of the Infinite Spirit, functioning apart from the
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Trinity but in some unrevealed association with the Father and the Son, person-
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alized in the existence of the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise, the
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distributors of the Infinite Spirit to the universes.
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There is no direct representative of the Third Source and Center on the
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headquarters of a superuniverse. Each of these seven creations is dependent on
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one of the Master Spirits of Paradise, who acts through the seven Reflective
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Spirits situated at the capital of the superuniverse.
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The next and continuing creative act of the Infinite Spirit is disclosed, from
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time to time, in the production of the Creative Spirits. Every time the
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Universal Father and the Eternal Son become parent to a Creator Son, the
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Infinite Spirit becomes ancestor to a local universe Creative Spirit who
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becomes the close associate of that Creator Son in all subsequent universe
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experience.
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Just as it is necessary to distinguish between the Eternal Son and the Creator
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Sons, so it is necessary to differentiate between the Infinite Spirit and the
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Creative Spirits, the local universe co-ordinates of the Creator Sons. What the
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Infinite Spirit is to the total creation, a Creative Spirit is to a local
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universe.
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The Third Source and Center is represented in the grand universe by a vast
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array of ministering spirits, messengers, teachers, adjudicators, helpers, and
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advisers, together with supervisors of certain circuits of physical, morontial,
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and spiritual nature. Not all of these beings are personalities in the strict
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meaning of the term. Personality of the finite-creature variety is
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characterized by:
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1. Subjective self-consciousness.
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2. Objective response to the Father's personality circuit.
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There are creator personalities and creature personalities, and in addition to
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these two fundamental types there are personalities of the Third Source and
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Center, beings who are personal to the Infinite Spirit, but who are not
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unqualifiedly personal to creature beings. These Third Source personalities are
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not a part of the Father's personality circuit. First Source personality and
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Third Source personality are mutually contactable; all personality is
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contactable.
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The Father bestows personality by his personal free will. Why he does so we can
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only conjecture; how he does so we do not know. Neither do we know why the
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Third Source bestows non-Father personality, but this the Infinite Spirit does
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in his own behalf, in creative conjunction with the Eternal Son and in numerous
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ways unknown to you. The Infinite Spirit can also act for the Father in the
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bestowal of First Source personality.
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There are numerous types of Third Source personalities. The Infinite Spirit
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bestows Third Source personality upon numerous groups who are not included in
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the Father's personality circuit, such as certain of the power directors.
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Likewise does the Infinite Spirit treat as personalities numerous groups of
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beings, such as the Creative Spirits, who are in a class by themselves in their
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relations to encircuited creatures of the Father.
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Both First Source and Third Source personalities are endowed with all and more
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than man associates with the concept of personality; they have minds embracing
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memory, reason, judgment, creative imagination, idea association, decision,
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choice, and numerous additional powers of intellect wholly unknown to mortals.
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With few exceptions the orders revealed to you possess form and distinct
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individuality; they are real beings. A majority of them are visible to all
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orders of spirit existence.
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Even you will be able to see your spiritual associates of the lower orders as
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soon as you are delivered from the limited vision of your present material eyes
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and have been endowed with a morontia form with its enlarged sensitivity to the
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reality of spiritual things.
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The functional family of the Third Source and Center, as it is revealed in
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these narratives, falls into three great groups:
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I. The Supreme Spirits. A group of composite origin that embraces, among
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others, the following orders:
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1. The Seven Master Spirits of Paradise.
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2. The Reflective Spirits of the Superuniverses.
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3. The Creative Spirits of the Local Universes.
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II. The Power Directors. A group of control creatures and agencies that
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function throughout all organized space.
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III. The Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. This designation does not
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necessarily imply that these beings are Third Source personalities though some
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of them are unique as will creatures. They are usually grouped in three major
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classifications:
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1. The Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit.
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2. The Messenger Hosts of Space.
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3. The Ministering Spirits of Time.
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These groups serve on Paradise, in the central or residential universe, in the
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superuniverses, and they embrace orders that function in the local universes,
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even to the constellations, systems, and planets.
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The spirit personalities of the vast family of the Divine and Infinite Spirit
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are forever dedicated to the service of the ministry of the love of God and the
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mercy of the Son to all the intelligent creatures of the evolutionary worlds of
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time and space. These spirit beings constitute the living ladder whereby mortal
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man climbs from chaos to glory.
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[Revealed on Urantia by a Divine Counselor of Uversa commissioned by the
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Ancients of Days to portray the nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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