Urantia Paper 9—Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe—§1. Attributes

Two weeks ago we started Paper 9, but we didn't get past introduction to the paper. This is the last of the papers authored by a Divine Counselor. He's swinging for the fences with this one, because even the introduction to the paper was deep beyond what we could cover in a reqular episode. Therefore, we will begin again our study of Urantia Paper 9. Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe, Secion 1. Attributes of the Third Source and Center. As we learned from the introduction: A STRANGE thing occurred when, in the presence of Paradise, the Universal Father and the Eternal Son unite to personalize themselves. Nothing in this eternity situation foreshadows that the Conjoint Actor would personalize as an unlimited spirituality co-ordinated with absolute mind and endowed with unique prerogatives of energy manipulation. His coming into being completes the Father’s liberation from the bonds of centralized perfection and from the fetters of personality absolutism. And this liberation is disclosed in the amazing power of the Conjoint Creator to create beings well adapted to serve as ministering spirits even to the material creatures of the subsequently evolving universes. 9:1.4. The Conjoint Actor functions throughout the grand universe as a positive and distinct personality, especially in the higher spheres of spiritual values, physical-energy relationships, and true mind meanings. He functions specifically wherever and whenever energy and spirit associate and interact; he dominates all reactions with mind, wields great power in the spiritual world, and exerts a mighty influence over energy and matter. 9:1.7. And herein is an infinite mystery: That the Infinite simultaneously revealed his infinity in the Son and as Paradise, and then there springs into existence a being equal to God in divinity, reflective of the Son's spiritual nature, and capable of activating the Paradise pattern...  Join us!