The Urantia Book - The Ministry of Mind

The Third Source and Center is infinite in mind. If the universe should grow to infinity, still his mind potential would be adequate to provide an unlimited number of creatures with suitable minds and other prerequisites of intellect.

In the field of created mind the Third Person, with his co-ordinate and subordinate associates, rules supreme. Domains of mind of the creature originate exclusively from the Third Source and Center: it is he who gives the mind. Even the Father fragments find it impossible to inhabit the minds of men before the road has been properly prepared for them by the mind action and spiritual function of the Infinite Spirit.

The distinctive feature of mind is that it can be given to a wide variety of life. Through its creative and creature associates the Third Source and Center ministers all minds on all spheres. Minister to human and subhuman intellect through the adjutant mind of the local universes and, through the agency of the physical controllers; Minister even the lowest nonexperiencing of the most primitive types of living things entities. The direction of mind is always a ministry of mind-spirit personalities or mind-energy.

Since the Third Person of Deity is the source of mind, it is natural that the evolutionary will creatures find it easier to form comprehensible concepts of the Infinite Spirit of the Eternal Son or the Universal Father. The reality of the Conjoint Creator is disclosed imperfectly in the very existence of the human mind. The Conjoint Creator is the ancestor of the cosmic mind, and the mind of man is an individualized circuit, an impersonal portion, of that cosmic mind as a Creative Daughter of the Third Source and Center bestows in a local universe.

But the fact that the Third Person is the source of mind, do not presume to reckon that all phenomena of mind are divine. The human intellect is rooted in the material origin of animal breeds. Universal Intelligence is not a true revelation of God who is mind as well as physical nature is not a true revelation of the beauty and harmony of Paradise. Perfection is in nature, but nature is not perfect. The Conjoint Creator is the source of mind, but the mind is not the Conjoint Creator.

Mind, on Urantia, is a compromise between the essence of thought perfection and the evolving mentality of your immature human nature. The plan for your intellectual evolution is indeed sublime perfection, but you are far short of that divine goal as you function in the tabernacles of the flesh. Mind is truly of divine origin, and has a divine destiny, but your mortal minds have not yet reached the divine dignity.

Very frequently, too frequently you mar your minds by insincerity and sear them with unrighteousness; the subject yourselves to fears animals and distort them by useless anxiety. Therefore, though the source of mind is divine, mind as you know it on your world of ascension can hardly become the object of great admiration, much less of adoration or worship. The contemplation of the immature and inactive human intellect should lead only to reactions of humility.