The Eternal Son

6:1.1The Eter­nal Son is the orig­i­nal and only-be­got­ten Son of God. He is God the Son, the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity and the as­so­ciate cre­ator of all things. As the Fa­ther is the First Great Source and Cen­ter, so the Eter­nal Son is the Sec­ond Great Source and Cen­ter.

6:1.2The Eter­nal Son is the spir­i­tual cen­ter and the di­vine ad­min­is­tra­tor of the spir­i­tual gov­ern­ment of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is first a cre­ator and then a con­trol­ler; the Eter­nal Son is first a cocre­ator and then a spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tor. “God is spirit,” and the Son is a per­sonal rev­e­la­tion of that spirit. The First Source and Cen­ter is the Vo­li­tional Ab­so­lute; the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter is the Per­son­al­ity Ab­so­lute.

6:1.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never per­son­ally func­tions as a cre­ator ex­cept in con­junc­tion with the Son or with the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the Son. Had the New Tes­ta­ment writer re­ferred to the Eter­nal Son, he would have ut­tered the truth when he wrote: “In the be­gin­ning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him, and with­out him was not any­thing made that was made.”

6:1.4When a Son of the Eter­nal Son ap­peared on Uran­tia, those who frat­er­nized with this di­vine be­ing in hu­man form al­luded to him as “He who was from the be­gin­ning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, whom we have looked upon, and our hands have han­dled, even the Word of life.” And this be­stowal Son came forth from the Fa­ther just as truly as did the Orig­i­nal Son, as is sug­gested in one of his earthly prayers: “And now, O my Fa­ther, glo­rify me with your own self, with the glory which I had with you be­fore this world was.”

6:1.5The Eter­nal Son is known by dif­fer­ent names in var­i­ous uni­verses. In the cen­tral uni­verse he is known as the Co-or­di­nate Source, the Cocre­ator, and the As­so­ciate Ab­so­lute. On Uversa, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse, we des­ig­nate the Son as the Co-or­di­nate Spirit Cen­ter and as the Eter­nal Spirit Ad­min­is­tra­tor. On Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse, this Son is of rec­ord as the Sec­ond Eter­nal Source and Cen­ter. The Mel­chiz­e­deks speak of him as the Son of Sons. On your world, but not in your sys­tem of in­hab­ited spheres, this Orig­i­nal Son has been con­fused with a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, who be­stowed him­self upon the mor­tal races of Uran­tia.

6:1.6Al­though any of the Par­a­dise Sons may fit­tingly be called Sons of God, we are in the habit of re­serv­ing the des­ig­na­tion “the Eter­nal Son” for this Orig­i­nal Son, the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter, cocre­ator with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the cen­tral uni­verse of power and per­fec­tion and cocre­ator of all other di­vine Sons who spring from the in­fi­nite De­i­ties.