Cosmic mind
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Also: universal spirit-mind, cosmic-mind, cosmic-mind-endowed.
In the Urantia Book
Definition
- the cosmic mind is the intellectual potential of the grand universe, a subabsolute manifestation of the mind of the Third Source and Center, and ministers the universes of time and space 16:6.1 56:2.3
- cosmic mind is pure mind, only subject to gravity grasp of Conjoint Actor 9:6.6
- cosmic mind is the spirit presence of Infinite Spirit 194:2.12
- cosmic mind is time-space mind, that is co-ordinated in Supreme Being by some unknown associative technique 9:4.4 16:6.1 42:10.6 116:1.4
- human mind is circuit of cosmic mind 9:5.4 111:1.2 180:5.3
Location
- this mind is distributed in the superuniverses by the seven Master Spirits 0:3.14 3:1.8 9:4.4 9:7.3 13:4.3 16:4.2 16:6 42:10.6 56:2.3 116:4.3
- The fact of the cosmic mind explains the kinship of various types of human and superhuman minds. Not only are kindred spirits attracted to each other, but kindred minds are also very fraternal and inclined towards co-operation the one with the other. 16:6.3 194:2.12
- The Havona worlds are the mind laboratory of the creators of the cosmic mind and the ministers to every creature mind in existence. 14:6.20-21
- operates under mind gravity of Infinite Spirit 9:7.3
- the sublime traits of divinity are co-ordinated in the near-supreme levels of the cosmic mind 8:2.8
Appearance
- Infinite Spirit is ancestor of cosmic mind 9:5.4 9:7.3 12:6.3
- when the Seven Master Spirits unitedly engaged in their first act of collective creation, the Seven Supreme Power Directors appeared, and the spiritual circuits of the Master Spirits, and immediately did the cosmic mind appear 116:5.10
Function
- cosmic mind attaches intuitive validity to human subjective experience 16:9.1
- validity attaches to unification of cosmic mind responses 16:9.1-2
- circuits of cosmic mind contain space reports 9:7.3
- cosmic mind co-ordinates matter and spirit 12:8.13 116:5.10
- The influence of the cosmic mind constantly injects spontaneity into even the material worlds. 195:6.15
- endows innate scientific, moral, and spiritual insight 16:6.5-9 16:7.5 16:8.15-18 16:9.1 101:3.2
- she evolves the human body with the help of adjutant mind-spirits 42:12.11
- morontia mind evolves by direct contact with cosmic mind; increasingly associates with her 42:10.5 110:6.21 112:6.6
- The fact of repersonalization consists in the seizure of the encircuited morontia phase of the newly segregated cosmic mind by the awakening human self. 112:5.20 112:6.4
- cosmic mind responds to spirit as cosmic force responds to mind 9:4.5
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Spirit mind 9:5.4 — Ro 8:27; Ro 11:34; 1 Co 2:16; Eph 4:23; Phil 2:5.
- Kindred minds 16:6.3 — Ro 12:15; Ro 15:5-6; 1 Co 1:10; 1 Co 13:11; Phil 1:27; Phil 2:2; Phil 4:2; 1 P 3:8; 1 P 4:1.
Where it appears
Cosmic mind is linked in 1 paragraph of the text.
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