While pervading all the universes
of time and space, the Infinite Spirit functions from the headquarters of each
local universe as a specialized focalization acquiring full personality
qualities by the technique of creative co-operation with the Creator Son. As
concerns a local universe, the administrative authority of a Creator Son is
supreme; the Infinite Spirit, as the Divine Minister, is wholly co-operative
though perfectly co-ordinate.
The Universe Mother Spirit of
Salvington, the associate of Michael in the control and administration of
Nebadon, is of the sixth group of Supreme Spirits, being the 611,121st of
that order. She volunteered to accompany Michael on the occasion of his
liberation from Paradise obligations and has ever since functioned with him in
creating and governing his universe.
The Master Creator Son is the
personal sovereign of his universe, but in all the details of its management
the Universe Spirit is codirector with the Son. While the Spirit ever acknowledges
the Son as sovereign and ruler, the Son always accords the Spirit a co-ordinate
position and equality of authority in all the affairs of the realm. In all his
work of love and life bestowal the Creator Son is always and ever perfectly
sustained and ably assisted by the all-wise and ever-faithful Universe Spirit
and by all of her diversified retinue of angelic personalities. Such a Divine
Minister is in reality the mother of spirits and spirit personalities, the
ever-present and all-wise adviser of the Creator Son, a faithful and true
manifestation of the Paradise Infinite Spirit.
The Son functions as a father in
his local universe. The Spirit, as mortal creatures would understand, enacts
the role of a mother, always assisting the Son and being everlastingly
indispensable to the administration of the universe. In the face of
insurrection only the Son and his associated Sons can function as deliverers.
Never can the Spirit undertake to contest rebellion or defend authority, but
ever does the Spirit sustain the Son in all of everything he may be required to
experience in his efforts to stabilize government and uphold authority on
worlds tainted with evil or dominated by sin. Only a Son can retrieve the work
of their joint creation, but no Son could hope for final success without the
incessant co-operation of the Divine Minister and her vast assemblage of spirit
helpers, the daughters of God, who so faithfully and valiantly struggle for the
welfare of mortal men and the glory of their divine parents.
Upon the completion of the Creator
Son’s seventh and final creature bestowal, the uncertainties of periodic
isolation terminate for the Divine Minister, and the Son’s universe helper
becomes forever settled in surety and control. It is at the enthronement of the
Creator Son as a Master Son, at the jubilee of jubilees, that the Universe
Spirit, before the assembled hosts, first makes public and universal
acknowledgment of subordination to the Son, pledging fidelity and obedience. This
event occurred in Nebadon at the time of Michael’s return to Salvington after
the Urantian bestowal. Never before this momentous occasion did the Universe
Spirit acknowledge subordination to the Universe Son, and not until after this
voluntary relinquishment of power and authority by the Spirit could it be
truthfully proclaimed of the Son that “all power in heaven and on earth has
been committed to his hand.”
After this pledge of subordination
by the Creative Mother Spirit, Michael of Nebadon nobly acknowledged his
eternal dependence on his Spirit companion, constituting the Spirit coruler of
his universe domains and requiring all their creatures to pledge themselves in
loyalty to the Spirit as they had to the Son; and there issued and went forth
the final “Proclamation of Equality.” Though he was the sovereign of this local
universe, the Son published to the worlds the fact of the Spirit’s equality
with him in all endowments of personality and attributes of divine character.
And this becomes the transcendent pattern for the family organization and
government of even the lowly creatures of the worlds of space. This is, indeed
and in truth, the high ideal of the family and the human institution of
voluntary marriage.
The Son and the Spirit now preside
over the universe much as a father and mother watch over, and minister to,
their family of sons and daughters. It is not altogether out of place to refer
to the Universe Spirit as the creative companion of the Creator Son and to
regard the creatures of the realms as their sons and daughters — a grand and
glorious family but one of untold responsibilities and endless watchcare.
The Son initiates the creation of
certain of the universe children, while the Spirit is solely responsible for
bringing into existence the numerous orders of spirit personalities who
minister and serve under the direction and guidance of this selfsame Mother
Spirit. In the creation of other types of universe personalities, both the Son
and the Spirit function together, and in no creative act does the one do aught
without the counsel and approval of the other.
Courtesy of the Urantia Revelations
~Sovrnty Society
