The Eternal Son

6:5.1The Eter­nal Son does not per­son­ally func­tion in the phys­i­cal do­mains, nor does he func­tion, ex­cept through the Con­joint Ac­tor, in the lev­els of mind min­istry to crea­ture be­ings. But these qual­i­fi­ca­tions do not in any man­ner oth­er­wise limit the Eter­nal Son in the full and free ex­er­cise of all the di­vine at­tri­butes of spir­i­tual om­ni­science, om­nipres­ence, and om­nipo­tence.

6:5.2The Eter­nal Son does not per­son­ally per­vade the po­ten­tials of spirit in­her­ent in the in­fin­ity of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, but as these po­ten­tials be­come ac­tual, they come within the all-pow­er­ful grasp of the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Son.

6:5.3Per­son­al­ity is the ex­clu­sive gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Eter­nal Son de­rives per­son­al­ity from the Fa­ther, but he does not, with­out the Fa­ther, be­stow per­son­al­ity. The Son gives ori­gin to a vast spirit host, but such deriva­tions are not per­son­al­i­ties. When the Son cre­ates per­son­al­ity, he does so in con­junc­tion with the Fa­ther or with the Con­joint Cre­ator, who may act for the Fa­ther in such re­la­tion­ships. The Eter­nal Son is thus a cocre­ator of per­son­al­i­ties, but he be­stows per­son­al­ity upon no be­ing and of him­self, alone, never cre­ates per­sonal be­ings. This lim­i­ta­tion of ac­tion does not, how­ever, de­prive the Son of the abil­ity to cre­ate any or all types of other-than-per­sonal re­al­ity.

6:5.4The Eter­nal Son is lim­ited in trans­mit­tal of cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives. The Fa­ther, in eter­nal­iz­ing the Orig­i­nal Son, be­stowed upon him the power and priv­i­lege of sub­se­quently join­ing with the Fa­ther in the di­vine act of pro­duc­ing ad­di­tional Sons pos­sess­ing cre­ative at­tri­butes, and this they have done and now do. But when these co-or­di­nate Sons have been pro­duced, the pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship are ap­par­ently not fur­ther trans­mis­si­ble. The Eter­nal Son trans­mits cre­ator­ship pow­ers only to the first or di­rect per­son­al­iza­tion. There­fore, when the Fa­ther and the Son unite to per­son­al­ize a Cre­ator Son, they achieve their pur­pose; but the Cre­ator Son thus brought into ex­is­tence is never able to trans­mit or del­e­gate the pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship to the var­i­ous or­ders of Sons which he may sub­se­quently cre­ate, not­with­stand­ing that, in the high­est lo­cal uni­verse Sons, there does ap­pear a very lim­ited re­flec­tion of the cre­ative at­tri­butes of a Cre­ator Son.

6:5.5The Eter­nal Son, as an in­fi­nite and ex­clu­sively per­sonal be­ing, can­not frag­men­tize his na­ture, can­not dis­tribute and be­stow in­di­vid­u­al­ized por­tions of his self­hood upon other en­ti­ties or per­sons as do the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit. But the Son can and does be­stow him­self as an un­lim­ited spirit to bathe all cre­ation and un­ceas­ingly draw all spirit per­son­al­i­ties and spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties to him­self.

6:5.6Ever re­mem­ber, the Eter­nal Son is the per­sonal por­trayal of the spirit Fa­ther to all cre­ation. The Son is per­sonal and noth­ing but per­sonal in the De­ity sense; such a di­vine and ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity can­not be dis­in­te­grated or frag­men­tized. God the Fa­ther and God the Spirit are truly per­sonal, but they are also ev­ery­thing else in ad­di­tion to be­ing such De­ity per­son­al­i­ties.

6:5.7Though the Eter­nal Son can­not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, he did sit in coun­cil with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the eter­nal past, ap­prov­ing the plan and pledg­ing end­less co-op­er­a­tion, when the Fa­ther, in pro­ject­ing the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, pro­posed to the Son, “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” And as the spirit frag­ment of the Fa­ther dwells within you, so does the spirit pres­ence of the Son en­velop you, while these two for­ever work as one for your spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment.