The Eternal Son

6:8.1Con­cern­ing iden­tity, na­ture, and other at­tri­butes of per­son­al­ity, the Eter­nal Son is the full equal, the per­fect com­ple­ment, and the eter­nal coun­ter­part of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In the same sense that God is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Son is the Uni­ver­sal Mother. And all of us, high and low, con­sti­tute their uni­ver­sal fam­ily.

6:8.2To ap­pre­ci­ate the char­ac­ter of the Son, you should study the rev­e­la­tion of the di­vine char­ac­ter of the Fa­ther; they are for­ever and in­sep­a­ra­bly one. As di­vine per­son­al­i­ties they are vir­tu­ally in­dis­tin­guish­able by the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gence. They are not so dif­fi­cult of sep­a­rate rec­og­ni­tion by those whose ori­gin is in the cre­ative acts of the De­i­ties them­selves. Be­ings of na­tiv­ity in the cen­tral uni­verse and on Par­a­dise dis­cern the Fa­ther and the Son not only as one per­sonal unity of uni­ver­sal con­trol but also as two sep­a­rate per­son­al­i­ties func­tion­ing in def­i­nite do­mains of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

6:8.3As per­sons you may con­ceive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son as sep­a­rate in­di­vid­u­als, for they in­deed are; but in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses they are so in­ter­twined and in­ter­re­lated that it is not al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween them. When, in the af­fairs of the uni­verses, the Fa­ther and the Son are en­coun­tered in con­fus­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tions, it is not al­ways prof­itable to at­tempt to seg­re­gate their op­er­a­tions; merely re­call that God is the ini­ti­at­ing thought and the Son is the ex­pres­sion­ful word. In each lo­cal uni­verse this in­sep­a­ra­bil­ity is per­son­al­ized in the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator Son, who stands for both Fa­ther and Son to the crea­tures of ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds.

6:8.4The Eter­nal Son is in­fi­nite, but he is ap­proach­able through the per­sons of his Par­a­dise Sons and through the pa­tient min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit. With­out the be­stowal ser­vice of the Par­a­dise Sons and the lov­ing min­istry of the crea­tures of the In­fi­nite Spirit, be­ings of ma­te­rial ori­gin could hardly hope to at­tain the Eter­nal Son. And it is equally true: With the help and guid­ance of these ce­les­tial agen­cies the God-con­scious mor­tal will cer­tainly at­tain Par­a­dise and some­time stand in the per­sonal pres­ence of this ma­jes­tic Son of Sons.

6:8.5Even though the Eter­nal Son is the pat­tern of mor­tal per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment, you find it eas­ier to grasp the re­al­ity of both the Fa­ther and the Spirit be­cause the Fa­ther is the ac­tual be­stower of your hu­man per­son­al­ity and the In­fi­nite Spirit is the ab­so­lute source of your mor­tal mind. But as you as­cend in the Par­a­dise path of spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion, the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son will be­come in­creas­ingly real to you, and the re­al­ity of his in­finitely spir­i­tual mind will be­come more dis­cern­i­ble to your pro­gres­sively spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing mind.

6:8.6Never can the con­cept of the Eter­nal Son shine brightly in your ma­te­rial or sub­se­quent mor­ontial mind; not un­til you spir­i­tize and com­mence your spirit as­cen­sion will the com­pre­hen­sion of the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son be­gin to equal the vivid­ness of your con­cept of the per­son­al­ity of the Cre­ator Son of Par­a­dise ori­gin who, in per­son and as a per­son, one­time in­car­nated and lived on Uran­tia as a man among men.

6:8.7Through­out your lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence the Cre­ator Son, whose per­son­al­ity is com­pre­hen­si­ble by man, must com­pen­sate for your in­abil­ity to grasp the full sig­nif­i­cance of the more ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual, but none the less per­sonal, Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise. As you pro­gress through Or­von­ton and Ha­vona, as you leave be­hind you the vivid pic­ture and deep mem­o­ries of the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the pass­ing of this ma­te­rial and mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence will be com­pen­sated by ever-en­larg­ing con­cepts and in­ten­si­fy­ing com­pre­hen­sion of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise, whose re­al­ity and near­ness will ever aug­ment as you pro­gress Par­adis­e­ward.

6:8.8The Eter­nal Son is a grand and glo­ri­ous per­son­al­ity. Al­though it is be­yond the pow­ers of the mor­tal and ma­te­rial mind to grasp the ac­tu­al­ity of the per­son­al­ity of such an in­fi­nite be­ing, doubt not, he is a per­son. I know whereof I speak. Times al­most with­out num­ber I have stood in the di­vine pres­ence of this Eter­nal Son and then jour­neyed forth in the uni­verse to ex­e­cute his gra­cious bid­ding.

6:8.9[In­dited by a Di­vine Coun­selor as­signed to for­mu­late this state­ment de­pict­ing the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.]