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GOD’S
RELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL THE
ETERNAL |
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CEDOMIL
VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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In the previous Interim-Papers we have
reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the Paradise Universal Father,
the PRAYER SUPPLICATIONS to the realms of the Paradise Eternal Son and His
Spirit of Truth, and qualified PRAYER REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of
the Holy Spirit, the Mind of the Paradise Conjoint Actor. The following Interim-Paper is
devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of God.
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6:6. THE SPIRIT 6:6.1 The Eternal Son is spirit and has mind, but not a mind or a spirit which mortal mind can comprehend. Mortal man perceives mind on the finite, cosmic, material, and personal levels. Man also observes mind phenomena in living organisms functioning on the subpersonal (animal) level, but it is difficult for him to grasp the nature of mind when associated with supermaterial beings and as a part of exclusive spirit personalities. Mind must, however, be differently defined when it refers to the spirit level of existence, and when it is used to denote spirit functions of intelligence. That kind of mind which is directly allied with spirit is comparable neither to that mind which co-ordinates spirit and matter nor to that mind which is allied only with matter. 6:6.2 Spirit is ever conscious, minded, and possessed of
varied phases of identity. Without mind in some phase there would be no
spiritual consciousness in the fraternity of spirit beings. The equivalent of
mind, the ability to know and be known, is indigenous to Deity.
Deity may be personal, prepersonal, superpersonal, or impersonal, but Deity is never
mindless, that is, never without the ability at least to communicate with
similar entities, beings, or personalities. 6:6.3 The mind of the Eternal Son is like that of the Father
but unlike any other mind in the universe, and with the mind of the Father it
is ancestor to the diverse and far-flung minds of the Conjoint Creator.
The mind of the Father and the Son, that intellect which is ancestral to the
absolute mind of the Third Source and
Center, is perhaps best illustrated in the premind
of a Thought Adjuster, for, though these Father fragments
are entirely outside of the mind circuits
of the Conjoint Actor,
they have some form of premind; they know as they
are known; they enjoy the equivalent of human thinking. 6:6.4 The Eternal Son is wholly spiritual; man is very nearly
entirely material; therefore much pertaining to the spirit personality
of the Eternal Son, to his seven spiritual spheres encircling Paradise
and to the nature of the impersonal creations of the Paradise Son, will have
to await your attainment of spirit status following your completion of the morontia ascension of the local universe of Nebadon. And then, as you pass through the superuniverse and on to Havona, many of these spirit-concealed mysteries
will clarify as you begin to be endowed with the "
mind of the spirit "— spiritual
insight. REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 6, Section 6:6.1 – 6.4 |
