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9:8.11 (106.9) 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 of the power directors. Likewise does 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 to encircuited creatures of the Father.

9:8.12 (106.10) Both First Source and Third Source personalities are endowed with all and more than man associates with the concept of personality; they have minds embracing memory, reason, judgment, creative imagination, idea association, decision, choice, and numerous additional powers of intellect wholly 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 spirit existence.

9:8.13 (107.1) Even you will be able to 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 enlarged sensitivity to the reality of spiritual things.

9:8.14 (107.2) The functional family of the Third Source and Center, as it is revealed in these narratives, falls into three great groups:

9:8.15 (107.3) I. The Supreme Spirits.

A group of composite origin that embraces, among others, the following orders:

9:8.16 (107.4) 1. The Seven Master Spirits of Paradise.

9:8.17 (107.5) 2. The Reflective Spirits of the Superuniverses.

9:8.18 (107.6) 3. The Creative Spirits of the Local Universes.

9:8.19 (107.7) II. The Power Directors. A group of control creatures and agencies that function throughout all organized space.

9:8.20 (107.8) III. The 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:

9:8.21 (107.9) 1. The Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit.

9:8.22 (107.10) 2. The Messenger Hosts of Space.

9:8.23 (107.11) 3. The Ministering Spirits of Time.

9:8.24 (107.12) These groups serve on Paradise, in the central or residential universe, in the superuniverses, and they embrace orders that function in the local universes, even to the constellations, systems, and planets.

9:8.25 (107.13) The spirit personalities of the vast family of the Divine and Infinite Spirit are forever dedicated to the service of the ministry of the love of God and the 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 climbs from chaos to glory.

9:8.26 (107.14) [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.]

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Paper 10The Paradise Trinity

10:0.1 (108.1) THE Paradise Trinity of eternal Deities facilitates the Father’s escape from personality absolutism. The Trinity perfectly associates the limitless expression of God’s infinite personal will with the absoluteness of Deity. The Eternal Son and the various Sons of divine origin, together with the Conjoint Actor and his universe children, effectively provide for the Father’s liberation from the limitations otherwise inherent in primacy, perfection, changelessness, eternity, universality, absoluteness, and infinity.

10:0.2 (108.2) The Paradise Trinity effectively provides for the full expression and perfect revelation of the eternal nature of Deity. The Stationary Sons of the Trinity likewise afford a full and perfect revelation of divine justice. The Trinity is Deity unity, and this unity rests eternally upon the absolute foundations of the divine oneness of the three original and co-ordinate and coexistent personalities, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit.