Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

7:0.1The Orig­i­nal Son is ever con­cerned with the ex­e­cu­tion of the spir­i­tual as­pects of the Fa­ther’s eter­nal pur­pose as it pro­gres­sively un­folds in the phe­nom­ena of the evolv­ing uni­verses with their man­i­fold groups of liv­ing be­ings. We do not fully com­pre­hend this eter­nal plan, but the Par­a­dise Son un­doubt­edly does.

7:0.2The Son is like the Fa­ther in that he seeks to be­stow ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble of him­self upon his co-or­di­nate Sons and upon their sub­or­di­nate Sons. And the Son shares the Fa­ther’s self-dis­tribu­tive na­ture in the un­stinted be­stowal of him­self upon the In­fi­nite Spirit, their con­joint ex­ec­u­tive.

7:0.3As the up­holder of spirit re­al­i­ties, the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter is the eter­nal coun­ter­poise of the Isle of Par­a­dise, which so mag­nif­i­cently up­holds all things ma­te­rial. Thus is the First Source and Cen­ter for­ever re­vealed in the ma­te­rial beauty of the ex­qui­site pat­terns of the cen­tral Isle and in the spir­i­tual val­ues of the su­per­nal per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

7:0.4The Eter­nal Son is the ac­tual up­holder of the vast cre­ation of spirit re­al­i­ties and spir­i­tual be­ings. The spirit world is the habit, the per­sonal con­duct, of the Son, and the im­per­sonal re­al­i­ties of spirit na­ture are al­ways re­spon­sive to the will and pur­pose of the per­fect per­son­al­ity of the Ab­so­lute Son.

7:0.5The Son is not, how­ever, per­son­ally re­spon­si­ble for the con­duct of all spirit per­son­al­i­ties. The will of the per­sonal crea­ture is rel­a­tively free and hence de­ter­mines the ac­tions of such vo­li­tional be­ings. There­fore the free­will spirit world is not al­ways truly rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the char­ac­ter of the Eter­nal Son, even as na­ture on Uran­tia is not truly rev­e­la­tory of the per­fec­tion and im­mutabil­ity of Par­a­dise and De­ity. But no mat­ter what may char­ac­ter­ize the free­will ac­tion of man or an­gel, the Son’s eter­nal grasp of the uni­ver­sal grav­ity con­trol of all spirit re­al­i­ties con­tin­ues as ab­so­lute.