Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

7:1.1Ev­ery­thing taught con­cern­ing the im­ma­nence of God, his om­nipres­ence, om­nipo­tence, and om­ni­science, is equally true of the Son in the spir­i­tual do­mains. The pure and uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity of all cre­ation, this ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual cir­cuit, leads di­rectly back to the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter on Par­a­dise. He pre­sides over the con­trol and op­er­a­tion of that ever-pres­ent and unerring spir­i­tual grasp of all true spirit val­ues. Thus does the Eter­nal Son ex­er­cise ab­so­lute spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty. He lit­er­ally holds all spirit re­al­i­ties and all spir­i­tu­al­ized val­ues, as it were, in the hol­low of his hand. The con­trol of uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual grav­ity is uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty.

7:1.2This grav­ity con­trol of spir­i­tual things op­er­ates in­de­pen­dently of time and space; there­fore is spirit en­ergy undi­min­ished in trans­mis­sion. Spirit grav­ity never suf­fers time de­lays, nor does it un­dergo space diminu­tion. It does not de­crease in ac­cor­dance with the square of the dis­tance of its trans­mis­sion; the cir­cuits of pure spirit power are not re­tarded by the mass of the ma­te­rial cre­ation. And this tran­scen­dence of time and space by pure spirit en­er­gies is in­her­ent in the ab­so­lute­ness of the Son; it is not due to the in­ter­po­si­tion of the anti­grav­ity forces of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

7:1.3Spirit re­al­i­ties re­spond to the draw­ing power of the cen­ter of spir­i­tual grav­ity in ac­cor­dance with their qual­i­ta­tive value, their ac­tual de­gree of spirit na­ture. Spirit sub­stance (qual­ity) is just as re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity as the or­ga­nized en­ergy of phys­i­cal mat­ter (quan­tity) is re­spon­sive to phys­i­cal grav­ity. Spir­i­tual val­ues and spirit forces are real. From the view­point of per­son­al­ity, spirit is the soul of cre­ation; mat­ter is the shad­owy phys­i­cal body.

7:1.4The re­ac­tions and fluc­tu­a­tions of spirit grav­ity are ever true to the con­tent of spir­i­tual val­ues, the qual­i­ta­tive spir­i­tual sta­tus of an in­di­vid­ual or a world. This draw­ing power is in­stantly re­spon­sive to the in­ter- and in­traspirit val­ues of any uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or plan­e­tary con­di­tion. Ev­ery time a spir­i­tual re­al­ity ac­tu­al­izes in the uni­verses, this change ne­ces­si­tates the im­me­di­ate and in­stan­ta­neous read­just­ment of spirit grav­ity. Such a new spirit is ac­tu­ally a part of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter; and just as cer­tainly as mor­tal man be­comes a spir­i­tized be­ing, he will at­tain the spir­i­tual Son, the cen­ter and source of spirit grav­ity.

7:1.5The Son’s spir­i­tual draw­ing power is in­her­ent to a lesser de­gree in many Par­a­dise or­ders of son­ship. For there do ex­ist within the ab­so­lute spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit those lo­cal sys­tems of spir­i­tual at­trac­tion that func­tion in the lesser units of cre­ation. Such sub­ab­so­lute fo­cal­iza­tions of spirit grav­ity are a part of the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties of time and space and are cor­re­lated with the emerg­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing.

7:1.6Spirit-grav­ity pull and re­sponse thereto op­er­ate not only on the uni­verse as a whole but also even be­tween in­di­vid­u­als and groups of in­di­vid­u­als. There is a spir­i­tual co­he­sive­ness among the spir­i­tual and spir­i­tized per­son­al­i­ties of any world, race, na­tion, or be­liev­ing group of in­di­vid­u­als. There is a di­rect at­trac­tive­ness of a spirit na­ture be­tween spir­i­tu­ally minded per­sons of like tastes and long­ings. The term kin­dred spir­its is not wholly a fig­ure of speech.

7:1.7Like the ma­te­rial grav­ity of Par­a­dise, the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son is ab­so­lute. Sin and re­bel­lion may in­ter­fere with the op­er­a­tion of lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits, but noth­ing can sus­pend the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pro­duced many changes in your sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds and on Uran­tia, but we do not ob­serve that the re­sul­tant spir­i­tual quar­an­tine of your planet in the least af­fected the pres­ence and func­tion of ei­ther the om­ni­pres­ent spirit of the Eter­nal Son or the as­so­ci­ated spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit.

7:1.8All re­ac­tions of the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the grand uni­verse are pre­dictable. We rec­og­nize all ac­tions and re­ac­tions of the om­ni­pres­ent spirit of the Eter­nal Son and find them to be de­pend­able. In ac­cor­dance with well-known laws, we can and do mea­sure spir­i­tual grav­ity just as man at­tempts to com­pute the work­ings of fi­nite phys­i­cal grav­ity. There is an un­vary­ing re­sponse of the Son’s spirit to all spirit things, be­ings, and per­sons, and this re­sponse is al­ways in ac­cor­dance with the de­gree of ac­tu­al­ity (the qual­i­ta­tive de­gree of re­al­ity) of all such spir­i­tual val­ues.

7:1.9But along­side this very de­pend­able and pre­dictable func­tion of the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son, there are en­coun­tered phe­nom­ena which are not so pre­dictable in their re­ac­tions. Such phe­nom­ena prob­a­bly in­di­cate the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute in the realms of emerg­ing spir­i­tual po­ten­tials. We know that the spirit pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son is the in­flu­ence of a ma­jes­tic and in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity, but we hardly re­gard the re­ac­tions as­so­ci­ated with the con­jec­tured per­for­mances of the De­ity Ab­so­lute as per­sonal.

7:1.10Viewed from the per­son­al­ity stand­point and by per­sons, the Eter­nal Son and the De­ity Ab­so­lute ap­pear to be re­lated in the fol­low­ing way: The Eter­nal Son dom­i­nates the realm of ac­tual spir­i­tual val­ues, whereas the De­ity Ab­so­lute seems to per­vade the vast do­main of po­ten­tial spirit val­ues. All ac­tual value of spirit na­ture finds lodg­ment in the grav­ity grasp of the Eter­nal Son but, if po­ten­tial, then ap­par­ently in the pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

7:1.11Spirit seems to emerge from the po­ten­tials of the De­ity Ab­so­lute; evolv­ing spirit finds cor­re­la­tion in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial and in­com­plete grasps of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate; spirit even­tu­ally finds fi­nal des­tiny in the ab­so­lute grasp of the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. This ap­pears to be the cy­cle of ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit, but ex­is­ten­tial spirit is in­her­ent in the in­fin­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter.