The Eternal Son

6:6.1The Eter­nal Son is spirit and has mind, but not a mind or a spirit which mor­tal mind can com­pre­hend. Mor­tal man per­ceives mind on the fi­nite, cos­mic, ma­te­rial, and per­sonal lev­els. Man also ob­serves mind phe­nom­ena in liv­ing or­gan­isms func­tion­ing on the sub­per­sonal (an­i­mal) level, but it is dif­fi­cult for him to grasp the na­ture of mind when as­so­ci­ated with super­ma­te­rial be­ings and as a part of ex­clu­sive spirit per­son­al­i­ties. Mind must, how­ever, be dif­fer­ently de­fined when it refers to the spirit level of ex­is­tence, and when it is used to de­note spirit func­tions of in­tel­li­gence. That kind of mind which is di­rectly al­lied with spirit is com­pa­ra­ble nei­ther to that mind which co-or­di­nates spirit and mat­ter nor to that mind which is al­lied only with mat­ter.

6:6.2Spirit is ever con­scious, minded, and pos­sessed of var­ied phases of iden­tity. With­out mind in some phase there would be no spir­i­tual con­scious­ness in the fra­ter­nity of spirit be­ings. The equiv­a­lent of mind, the abil­ity to know and be known, is in­dige­nous to De­ity. De­ity may be per­sonal, preper­sonal, super­per­sonal, or im­per­sonal, but De­ity is never mind­less, that is, never with­out the abil­ity at least to com­mu­ni­cate with sim­i­lar en­ti­ties, be­ings, or per­son­al­i­ties.

6:6.3The mind of the Eter­nal Son is like that of the Fa­ther but un­like any other mind in the uni­verse, and with the mind of the Fa­ther it is an­ces­tor to the di­verse and far-flung minds of the Con­joint Cre­ator. The mind of the Fa­ther and the Son, that in­tel­lect which is an­ces­tral to the ab­so­lute mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter, is per­haps best il­lus­trated in the pre­mind of a Thought Ad­juster, for, though these Fa­ther frag­ments are en­tirely out­side of the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor, they have some form of pre­mind; they know as they are known; they en­joy the equiv­a­lent of hu­man think­ing.

6:6.4The Eter­nal Son is wholly spir­i­tual; man is very nearly en­tirely ma­te­rial; there­fore much per­tain­ing to the spirit per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son, to his seven spir­i­tual spheres en­cir­cling Par­a­dise and to the na­ture of the im­per­sonal cre­ations of the Par­a­dise Son, will have to await your at­tain­ment of spirit sta­tus fol­low­ing your com­ple­tion of the mor­ontia as­cen­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. And then, as you pass through the super­uni­verse and on to Ha­vona, many of these spirit-con­cealed mys­ter­ies will clar­ify as you be­gin to be en­dowed with the “mind of the spirit”—spir­i­tual in­sight.