The Urantia Book - The Attributes of the Third Source and Center

Paper 9

The Third Source and Center is known by many names, all indicative of relationship and in recognition of function: as God the Spirit, it is the coordinated personality and the divine equal of God the Son and God the Father. Like the Infinite Spirit, it is an omnipresent spiritual influence. Like the Universal Manipulator, it is the ancestor of the creatures that control the power and the activator of the cosmic forces of space. As the Joint Actor, he is the joint representative and executive of the Father-Son society. Like the Absolute Mind, it is the source of intellectual endowment in all universes. As the God of Action, he is the apparent ancestor of movement, change, and relationship.

Some of the attributes of the Third Source and Center are derived from the Father, some of the Son, while others, are not observed to be present, actively and personally, neither in the Father nor in the Son-attributes that can hardly be explained except Through the hypothesis that the Father-Son society that eternalizes the Third Source and Center functions uniformly in consonance with and in recognition of the eternal fact that Paradise is absolute. The Joint Creator incorporates the fullness of the infinite and combined concepts of the First and Second Persons of the Godhead.

When you imagine the Father as the original creator and the Son as spiritual administrator, you must think of the Third Source and Center as universal coordinator, a minister of unlimited cooperation. The Joint Actor is the correlator of all current reality; Is the divine depositor of the thought of the Father and of the word of the Son, and in action is eternally respectful of the material absoluteness of the central Isle. The Paradise Trinity has established the universal order of progress, and the providence of God is under the dominion of the Joint Creator and the evolving Supreme Being. No current or current reality can escape the final relationship with the Third Source and Center.

The Universal Father presides over the domains of pre-energy, preschool, and personality; The Eternal Son dominates the spheres of spiritual activities; The presence of the Island of Paradise unifies the domain of physical energy and the materializing power; The Joint Actor operates not only as an infinite spirit representing the Son, but also as a universal manipulator of the forces and energies of Paradise, thus bringing into existence the universal and absolute mind. The Joint Actor works throughout the grand universe as a positive and well-differentiated personality, especially in the higher spheres of spiritual values, physical energy relationships, and true intellectual meanings. It works specifically at any place and time when energy and spirit are associated and interacted; Dominates all reactions with the mind, exerts a great power in the spiritual world and a powerful influence on energy and matter. The Third Source always expresses the nature of the First Source and Center.

The Third Source and Center perfectly and unconditionally shares the omnipresence of the First Source and Center, sometimes being called the Omnipresent Spirit. In a peculiar and very personal way, the God of the mind participates in the omniscience of the Universal Father and his Eternal Son; The knowledge of the Spirit is deep and complete. The Joint Creator manifests certain phases of the omnipotence of the Universal Father, but is only really omnipotent in the domain of the mind. The Third Person of the Deity is the intellectual center and universal administrator of the realms of the mind; In them he is absolute: his sovereignty is unqualified.

The Joint Actor seems to be motivated by the Father-Son society, but all his actions seem to recognize the Father-Paradise relationship. Sometimes and in certain functions seems to compensate for the incomplete development of experiential Deities: God the Supreme and God the Ultimate.

And here is an infinite mystery: that the Infinite simultaneously revealed its infinity in the Son and as Paradise, and that then there arises to the existence a being equal to God in divinity, that reflects the spiritual nature of the Son, and able to activate the The original model of Paradise, a being provisionally subordinate in sovereignty, but apparently in many ways the most versatile in action. This apparent superiority in action is revealed in an attribute of the Third Source and Center which is superior even to physical gravity, the universal manifestation of the Isle of Paradise.

In addition to this supercontrol of energy and physical things, the Infinite Spirit is splendidly endowed with those attributes of patience, mercy, and love that are so exquisitely revealed in his spiritual ministry. The Spirit is highly competent to minister love and to envelop justice in mercy. God the Spirit possesses all the exalted goodness and the merciful affection of the Original and Eternal Son. The universe of your origin is being forged between the anvil of justice and the hammer of suffering; But those who wield the hammer are the children of mercy, the spiritual progeny of the Infinite Spirit.

 [Presented on Urantia by a Divine Counselor of Uversa commissioned by the Ancients of Days to describe the nature and work of the Infinite Spirit.]