The book of urantia - Personalities of the Infinite Spirit

The Infinite Spirit possesses full power to transmit many of his powers and prerogatives to their personalities and coordinate and subordinate agencies.

The first creative act of Deity the Infinite Spirit, functioning apart from the Trinity but in some unrevealed association with the Father and the Son, personalized in the existence of the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise, the distributors of the Infinite Spirit to the universes.

There is no direct representative of the Third Source and Center in the center of a superuniverse government. Each of these seven creations is dependent on one of the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise, who acts through the seven Reflective Spirits located in the capital of the superuniverse.

The next and continuing creative act of the Infinite Spirit is disclosed, from time to time, in the production of the Creative Spirits. Every time the Universal Father and the Eternal Son parents of a Creator Son are, the Infinite Spirit becomes the progenitor of a Creative Spirit of a local universe that becomes the most intimate associate of that Creator Son in all subsequent universe experience .

Just as it is necessary to distinguish between the Eternal Son and the Creator Sons, just as we must differentiate between the Infinite Spirit and the Creative Spirits, coordinated universal Creator Sons. What the Infinite Spirit is for all creation, a Creative Spirit is to a local universe.

The Third Source and Center is represented in the grand universe by a vast array of ministering spirits, messengers, teachers, adjudicators, helpers and counselors, as well as supervisors of certain circuits of physical, morontial, and spiritual nature. Not all of these beings are personalities in the strict sense of the term. Personality variety of finite creatures is characterized by:

1. Self-awareness subjective.

2. Objective response to the Father's personality circuit.

There are creator personalities and creature personalities, and in addition to these two fundamental types there are personalities of the Third Source and Center, beings who are personal to the Infinite Spirit, but who are not unqualifiedly personal to creature beings. These Third Source personalities are not part of the Father's personality circuit. The personality of the First Source and Third Source personality may be contacting each other; it is possible to contact every personality.

The Father bestows personality by his personal free will. We can only guess why he does it, and do not know how. Nor do we know why the Third Source bestows non-Father personality but the Infinite Spirit does in his own behalf, in creative conjunction with the Eternal Son and in numerous ways unknown to you. The Infinite Spirit can also act for the Father in the bestowal of First Source personality.

There are numerous types of Third Source personalities. The Infinite Spirit bestows Third Source personality upon numerous groups who are not included in the Father's personality circuit, such as certain directors of power. Likewise, the Infinite Spirit treat as personalities numerous groups of beings, such as the Creative Spirits, who are in a class by themselves in their relations with encircuited creatures of the Father.

Both the personalities of the First Source and Third Source you are endowed with all and more than man associates with the concept of personality; have minds embracing memory, reason, judgment, creative imagination, association of ideas, decision, choice, and numerous additional intellectual faculties completely unknown to mortals. With few exceptions the orders revealed to you possess form and distinct individuality; they are real beings. A majority of them are visible to all orders of spiritual existence.

Even you can see your spiritual associates of the lower orders as soon as you are delivered from the limited vision of your present material eyes and have been endowed with a morontia form with its greater sensitivity to the reality of spiritual things.

The functional family of the Third Source and Center,  as revealed in these documents, is divided into three main groups:

I. The Supreme Spirits.

 A group of parent compound that includes, among others, the following commands:

1. The Seven Master Spirits of Paradise.

 2. Reflective Spirits Superuniverse.

3. The Creative Spirits of the Local Universes.

II. The Power Directors. A group of control creatures and agencies operating in all organized space.

III. Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. 

This designation does not necessarily imply that these beings are Third Source personalities though some of them are unique as will creatures. They are usually grouped in three major classifications:

 1. The Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit.

2. The Messenger Hosts of Space.

3. The Ministering Spirits of Time.

These groups serve on Paradise, in the central or residential universe, in the super- and include orders that function in the local universes, even to the constellations, systems and planets.

Spirit personalities of the vast family of the Divine and Infinite Spirit are forever dedicated to the service of the ministry of God's love and mercy of the Son to all the intelligent creatures of the evolutionary worlds of time and space. These spirit beings constitute the living ladder whereby mortal man can ascend from chaos to glory.

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