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Paper 7

Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

Divine Counselor

2. The Administration of the Eternal Son

7:2.1On Par­a­dise the pres­ence and per­sonal ac­tiv­ity of the Orig­i­nal Son is pro­found, ab­so­lute in the spir­i­tual sense. As we pass out­ward from Par­a­dise through Ha­vona and into the realms of the seven super­uni­verses, we de­tect less and less of the per­sonal ac­tiv­ity of the Eter­nal Son. In the post-Ha­vona uni­verses the pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son is per­son­al­ized in the Par­a­dise Sons, con­di­tioned by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate, and co-or­di­nated with the un­lim­ited spirit po­ten­tial of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

7:2.2In the cen­tral uni­verse the per­sonal ac­tiv­ity of the Orig­i­nal Son is dis­cern­i­ble in the ex­qui­site spir­i­tual har­mony of the eter­nal cre­ation. Ha­vona is so mar­velously per­fect that the spir­i­tual sta­tus and the en­ergy states of this pat­tern uni­verse are in per­fect and per­pet­ual bal­ance.

7:2.3In the super­uni­verses the Son is not per­son­ally pres­ent or res­i­dent; in these cre­ations he main­tains only a super­per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tion. These spirit man­i­fes­ta­tions of the Son are not per­sonal; they are not in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We know of no bet­ter term to use than to des­ig­nate them super­per­son­al­i­ties; and they are fi­nite be­ings; they are nei­ther ab­so­nite nor ab­so­lute.

7:2.4The ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Eter­nal Son in the super­uni­verses, be­ing ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual and super­per­sonal, is not dis­cern­i­ble by crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. Nonethe­less, the all-per­vad­ing spir­i­tual urge of the Son’s per­sonal in­flu­ence is en­coun­tered in ev­ery phase of the ac­tiv­i­ties of all sec­tors of the do­mains of the An­cients of Days. In the lo­cal uni­verses, how­ever, we ob­serve the Eter­nal Son per­son­ally pres­ent in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Sons. Here the in­fi­nite Son spir­i­tu­ally and cre­atively func­tions in the per­sons of the ma­jes­tic corps of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons.