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12:8.1 "God is spirit,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_4] but [[Paradise]] is not. The [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Cosmology material universe] is always the arena wherein take place all [[spiritual]] [[activities]]; spirit [[beings]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40_-_The_Ascending_Sons_of_God spirit ascenders] live and [[work]] on physical [[spheres]] of [[material]] [[reality]].
12:8.2 The bestowal of [[cosmic]] [[force]], the domain of cosmic [[gravity]], is the [[function]] of the [[Isle of Paradise]]. All [[original]] force-energy proceeds from Paradise, and the [[matter]] for the making of untold [[universes]] now circulates throughout the [[master universe]] in the form of a supergravity presence which constitutes the force-charge of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:6._SPACE_RESPIRATION pervaded space].
12:8.3 Whatever the [[transformations]] of force in the outlying universes, having gone out from [[Paradise]], it [[journeys]] on subject to the never-ending, ever-[[present]], unfailing [[Law of Attraction|pull]] of the eternal Isle, [[obediently]] and [[inherently]] swinging on forever around the eternal space paths of the universes. Physical energy is the one reality which is true and [[steadfast]] in its obedience to [[universal]] [[law]]. Only in the realms of [[creature]] [[volition]] has there been deviation from the divine paths and the original plans. [[Power]] and [[energy]] are the universal [[evidences]] of the [[stability]], constancy, and [[eternity]] of the central [[Isle of Paradise]].
12:8.4 The bestowal of [[spirit]] and the [[Progress|spiritualization]] of personalities, the domain of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT spiritual gravity], is the realm of the [[Eternal Son]]. And this spirit gravity of the Son, ever drawing all spiritual realities to himself, is just as real and [[absolute]] as is the all-powerful material grasp of the Isle of Paradise. But material-minded [[man]] is naturally more familiar with the [[material]] [[manifestations]] of a [[physical]] [[nature]] than with the equally real and mighty operations of a [[spiritual]] nature which are discerned only by the spiritual [[insight]] of the [[soul]].
12:8.5 As the [[mind]] of any personality in the universe becomes more [[spiritual]]—Godlike—it becomes less [[responsive]] to material gravity. [[Reality]], measured by [[Quantitative|physical-gravity]] response, is the [[antithesis]] of reality as determined by [[quality]] of spirit [[content]]. Physical-gravity action is a quantitative determiner of nonspirit energy; spiritual-gravity action is the qualitative [[measure]] of the living energy of [[divinity]].
12:8.6 What Paradise is to the physical creation, and what the Eternal Son is to the spiritual universe, the [[Conjoint Actor]] is to the realms of [[mind]]—the intelligent universe of material, morontial, and spiritual beings and personalities.
12:8.7 The Conjoint Actor reacts to both material and spiritual realities and therefore [[inherently]] becomes the universal minister to all [[intelligent]] [[beings]], beings who may [[represent]] a union of both the material and spiritual [[phases]] of [[creation]]. The endowment of intelligence, the ministry to the material and the spiritual in the [[phenomenon]] of mind, is the exclusive domain of the Conjoint Actor, who thus becomes the partner of the spiritual mind, the [[essence]] of the [[morontia]] mind, and the substance of the material mind of the evolutionary creatures of time.
12:8.8 Mind is the [[technique]] whereby spirit realities become [[experiential]] to creature personalities. And in the last [[analysis]] the unifying possibilities of even human mind, the ability to [[co-ordinate]] [[things]], [[ideas]], and [[values]], is supermaterial.
12:8.9 Though it is hardly possible for the mortal mind to comprehend the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106#PAPER_106:_UNIVERSE_LEVELS_OF_REALITY seven levels] of relative cosmic [[reality]], the human [[intellect]] should be able to grasp much of the [[meaning]] of three functioning levels of [[finite]] reality:
*1. 12:8.10 ''Matter''. Organized [[energy]] which is subject to [[linear]] [[gravity]] except as it is modified by [[motion]] and conditioned by [[mind]].
*2. 12:8.11 ''Mind''. Organized [[consciousness]] which is not wholly subject to material gravity, and which becomes truly liberated when modified by spirit.
*3. 12:8.12 ''Spirit''. The highest [[personal]] [[reality]]. True spirit is not subject to physical gravity but eventually becomes the motivating [[influence]] of all evolving energy systems of personality [[dignity]].
12:8.13 The goal of [[existence]] of all personalities is spirit; material [[manifestations]] are [[relative]], and the cosmic mind intervenes between these universal [[opposites]]. The bestowal of mind and the ministration of spirit are the [[work]] of the associate persons of Deity, the [[Infinite Spirit]] and the [[Eternal Son]]. Total Deity reality is not mind but spirit-mind—mind-spirit [[unified]] by [[personality]]. Nevertheless [[the absolutes]] of both the spirit and the thing converge in the person of the Universal Father.
12:8.14 On Paradise the three energies, physical, mindal, and spiritual, are [[co-ordinate]]. In the [[evolutionary]] [[cosmos]] energy-matter is dominant except in [[personality]], where spirit, through the mediation of mind, is striving for the [[Self-mastery|mastery]]. Spirit is the [[fundamental]] reality of the personality [[experience]] of all creatures because God is spirit. Spirit is unchanging, and therefore, in all personality relations, it [[transcends]] both [[mind]] and [[matter]], which are experiential variables of [[progressive]] [[attainment]].
12:8.15 In cosmic [[evolution]] [[matter]] becomes a philosophic [[shadow]] cast by mind in the [[presence]] of spirit [[luminosity]] of divine [[enlightenment]], but this does not invalidate the reality of matter-energy. Mind, matter, and spirit are equally real, but they are not of equal value to personality in the attainment of [[divinity]]. [[Consciousness]] of divinity is a [[progressive]] spiritual [[experience]].
12:8.16 The brighter the shining of the spiritualized personality ([[the Father]] in the universe, the [[Thought Adjuster|fragment]] of [[potential]] spirit personality in the individual [[creature]]), the greater the shadow cast by the intervening mind upon its material investment. In time, man's body is just as real as mind or spirit, but in death, both mind ([[identity]]) and spirit [[survive]] while the body does not. A cosmic reality can be nonexistent in personality experience. And so your Greek figure of speech—the material as the shadow of the more real spirit substance[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave]—does have a philosophic significance.
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[[Category:Paper 12 - The Universe of Universes]]
12:8.1 "God is spirit,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_4] but [[Paradise]] is not. The [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Cosmology material universe] is always the arena wherein take place all [[spiritual]] [[activities]]; spirit [[beings]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40_-_The_Ascending_Sons_of_God spirit ascenders] live and [[work]] on physical [[spheres]] of [[material]] [[reality]].
12:8.2 The bestowal of [[cosmic]] [[force]], the domain of cosmic [[gravity]], is the [[function]] of the [[Isle of Paradise]]. All [[original]] force-energy proceeds from Paradise, and the [[matter]] for the making of untold [[universes]] now circulates throughout the [[master universe]] in the form of a supergravity presence which constitutes the force-charge of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:6._SPACE_RESPIRATION pervaded space].
12:8.3 Whatever the [[transformations]] of force in the outlying universes, having gone out from [[Paradise]], it [[journeys]] on subject to the never-ending, ever-[[present]], unfailing [[Law of Attraction|pull]] of the eternal Isle, [[obediently]] and [[inherently]] swinging on forever around the eternal space paths of the universes. Physical energy is the one reality which is true and [[steadfast]] in its obedience to [[universal]] [[law]]. Only in the realms of [[creature]] [[volition]] has there been deviation from the divine paths and the original plans. [[Power]] and [[energy]] are the universal [[evidences]] of the [[stability]], constancy, and [[eternity]] of the central [[Isle of Paradise]].
12:8.4 The bestowal of [[spirit]] and the [[Progress|spiritualization]] of personalities, the domain of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:1._THE_SPIRIT-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT spiritual gravity], is the realm of the [[Eternal Son]]. And this spirit gravity of the Son, ever drawing all spiritual realities to himself, is just as real and [[absolute]] as is the all-powerful material grasp of the Isle of Paradise. But material-minded [[man]] is naturally more familiar with the [[material]] [[manifestations]] of a [[physical]] [[nature]] than with the equally real and mighty operations of a [[spiritual]] nature which are discerned only by the spiritual [[insight]] of the [[soul]].
12:8.5 As the [[mind]] of any personality in the universe becomes more [[spiritual]]—Godlike—it becomes less [[responsive]] to material gravity. [[Reality]], measured by [[Quantitative|physical-gravity]] response, is the [[antithesis]] of reality as determined by [[quality]] of spirit [[content]]. Physical-gravity action is a quantitative determiner of nonspirit energy; spiritual-gravity action is the qualitative [[measure]] of the living energy of [[divinity]].
12:8.6 What Paradise is to the physical creation, and what the Eternal Son is to the spiritual universe, the [[Conjoint Actor]] is to the realms of [[mind]]—the intelligent universe of material, morontial, and spiritual beings and personalities.
12:8.7 The Conjoint Actor reacts to both material and spiritual realities and therefore [[inherently]] becomes the universal minister to all [[intelligent]] [[beings]], beings who may [[represent]] a union of both the material and spiritual [[phases]] of [[creation]]. The endowment of intelligence, the ministry to the material and the spiritual in the [[phenomenon]] of mind, is the exclusive domain of the Conjoint Actor, who thus becomes the partner of the spiritual mind, the [[essence]] of the [[morontia]] mind, and the substance of the material mind of the evolutionary creatures of time.
12:8.8 Mind is the [[technique]] whereby spirit realities become [[experiential]] to creature personalities. And in the last [[analysis]] the unifying possibilities of even human mind, the ability to [[co-ordinate]] [[things]], [[ideas]], and [[values]], is supermaterial.
12:8.9 Though it is hardly possible for the mortal mind to comprehend the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106#PAPER_106:_UNIVERSE_LEVELS_OF_REALITY seven levels] of relative cosmic [[reality]], the human [[intellect]] should be able to grasp much of the [[meaning]] of three functioning levels of [[finite]] reality:
*1. 12:8.10 ''Matter''. Organized [[energy]] which is subject to [[linear]] [[gravity]] except as it is modified by [[motion]] and conditioned by [[mind]].
*2. 12:8.11 ''Mind''. Organized [[consciousness]] which is not wholly subject to material gravity, and which becomes truly liberated when modified by spirit.
*3. 12:8.12 ''Spirit''. The highest [[personal]] [[reality]]. True spirit is not subject to physical gravity but eventually becomes the motivating [[influence]] of all evolving energy systems of personality [[dignity]].
12:8.13 The goal of [[existence]] of all personalities is spirit; material [[manifestations]] are [[relative]], and the cosmic mind intervenes between these universal [[opposites]]. The bestowal of mind and the ministration of spirit are the [[work]] of the associate persons of Deity, the [[Infinite Spirit]] and the [[Eternal Son]]. Total Deity reality is not mind but spirit-mind—mind-spirit [[unified]] by [[personality]]. Nevertheless [[the absolutes]] of both the spirit and the thing converge in the person of the Universal Father.
12:8.14 On Paradise the three energies, physical, mindal, and spiritual, are [[co-ordinate]]. In the [[evolutionary]] [[cosmos]] energy-matter is dominant except in [[personality]], where spirit, through the mediation of mind, is striving for the [[Self-mastery|mastery]]. Spirit is the [[fundamental]] reality of the personality [[experience]] of all creatures because God is spirit. Spirit is unchanging, and therefore, in all personality relations, it [[transcends]] both [[mind]] and [[matter]], which are experiential variables of [[progressive]] [[attainment]].
12:8.15 In cosmic [[evolution]] [[matter]] becomes a philosophic [[shadow]] cast by mind in the [[presence]] of spirit [[luminosity]] of divine [[enlightenment]], but this does not invalidate the reality of matter-energy. Mind, matter, and spirit are equally real, but they are not of equal value to personality in the attainment of [[divinity]]. [[Consciousness]] of divinity is a [[progressive]] spiritual [[experience]].
12:8.16 The brighter the shining of the spiritualized personality ([[the Father]] in the universe, the [[Thought Adjuster|fragment]] of [[potential]] spirit personality in the individual [[creature]]), the greater the shadow cast by the intervening mind upon its material investment. In time, man's body is just as real as mind or spirit, but in death, both mind ([[identity]]) and spirit [[survive]] while the body does not. A cosmic reality can be nonexistent in personality experience. And so your Greek figure of speech—the material as the shadow of the more real spirit substance[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave]—does have a philosophic significance.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12 Go to Paper 12]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 12 - The Universe of Universes]]
