The Eternal Son

6:3.1The Son shares the jus­tice and righ­teous­ness of the Trin­ity but over­shad­ows these di­vin­ity traits by the in­fi­nite per­son­al­iza­tion of the Fa­ther’s love and mercy; the Son is the rev­e­la­tion of di­vine love to the uni­verses. As God is love, so the Son is mercy. The Son can­not love more than the Fa­ther, but he can show mercy to crea­tures in one ad­di­tional way, for he not only is a pri­mal cre­ator like the Fa­ther, but he is also the Eter­nal Son of that same Fa­ther, thereby shar­ing in the son­ship ex­pe­ri­ence of all other sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

6:3.2The Eter­nal Son is the great mercy min­is­ter to all cre­ation. Mercy is the essence of the Son’s spir­i­tual char­ac­ter. The man­dates of the Eter­nal Son, as they go forth over the spirit cir­cuits of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter, are keyed in tones of mercy.

6:3.3To com­pre­hend the love of the Eter­nal Son, you must first per­ceive its di­vine source, the Fa­ther, who is love, and then be­hold the un­fold­ing of this in­fi­nite af­fec­tion in the far-flung min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit and his al­most lim­it­less host of min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­i­ties.

6:3.4The min­istry of the Eter­nal Son is de­voted to the rev­e­la­tion of the God of love to the uni­verse of uni­verses. This di­vine Son is not en­gaged in the ig­no­ble task of try­ing to per­suade his gra­cious Fa­ther to love his lowly crea­tures and to show mercy to the wrong­do­ers of time. How wrong to en­vis­age the Eter­nal Son as ap­peal­ing to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to show mercy to his lowly crea­tures on the ma­te­rial worlds of space! Such con­cepts of God are crude and grotesque. Rather should you re­al­ize that all the mer­ci­ful min­is­tra­tions of the Sons of God are a di­rect rev­e­la­tion of the Fa­ther’s heart of uni­ver­sal love and in­fi­nite com­pas­sion. The Fa­ther’s love is the real and eter­nal source of the Son’s mercy.

6:3.5God is love, the Son is mercy. Mercy is ap­plied love, the Fa­ther’s love in ac­tion in the per­son of his Eter­nal Son. The love of this uni­ver­sal Son is like­wise uni­ver­sal. As love is com­pre­hended on a sex planet, the love of God is more com­pa­ra­ble to the love of a fa­ther, while the love of the Eter­nal Son is more like the af­fec­tion of a mother. Crude, in­deed, are such il­lus­tra­tions, but I em­ploy them in the hope of con­vey­ing to the hu­man mind the thought that there is a dif­fer­ence, not in di­vine con­tent but in qual­ity and tech­nique of ex­pres­sion, be­tween the love of the Fa­ther and the love of the Son.