Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

7:3.1In the lo­cal uni­verse as­cent the mor­tals of time look to the Cre­ator Son as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Eter­nal Son. But when they be­gin the as­cent of the super­uni­verse train­ing regime, the pil­grims of time in­creas­ingly de­tect the su­per­nal pres­ence of the in­spir­ing spirit of the Eter­nal Son, and they are able to profit by the in­take of this min­istry of spir­i­tual en­er­giza­tion. In Ha­vona the as­cend­ers be­come still more con­scious of the lov­ing em­brace of the all-per­vad­ing spirit of the Orig­i­nal Son. At no stage of the en­tire mor­tal as­cen­sion does the spirit of the Eter­nal Son in­dwell the mind or soul of the pil­grim of time, but his benef­i­cence is ever near and al­ways con­cerned with the wel­fare and spir­i­tual se­cu­rity of the ad­vanc­ing chil­dren of time.

7:3.2The spir­i­tual-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son con­sti­tutes the in­her­ent se­cret of the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion of sur­viv­ing hu­man souls. All gen­uine spirit val­ues and all bona fide spir­i­tu­al­ized in­di­vid­u­als are held within the un­fail­ing grasp of the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The mor­tal mind, for ex­am­ple, ini­ti­ates its ca­reer as a ma­te­rial mech­a­nism and is even­tu­ally mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity as a well-nigh per­fected spirit ex­is­tence, be­com­ing pro­gres­sively less sub­ject to ma­te­rial grav­ity and cor­re­spond­ingly more re­spon­sive to the in­ward pulling urge of spirit grav­ity dur­ing this en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence. The spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit lit­er­ally pulls the soul of man Par­adis­e­ward.

7:3.3The spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit is the ba­sic chan­nel for trans­mit­ting the gen­uine prayers of the be­liev­ing hu­man heart from the level of hu­man con­scious­ness to the ac­tual con­scious­ness of De­ity. That which rep­re­sents true spir­i­tual value in your pe­ti­tions will be seized by the uni­ver­sal cir­cuit of spirit grav­ity and will pass im­me­di­ately and si­mul­ta­ne­ously to all di­vine per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned. Each will oc­cupy him­self with that which be­longs to his per­sonal prov­ince. There­fore, in your prac­ti­cal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, it is im­ma­te­rial whether, in ad­dress­ing your sup­pli­ca­tions, you vi­su­al­ize the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse or the Eter­nal Son at the cen­ter of all things.

7:3.4The dis­crim­i­na­tive op­er­a­tion of the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit might pos­si­bly be com­pared to the func­tions of the neu­ral cir­cuits in the ma­te­rial hu­man body: Sen­sa­tions travel in­ward over the neu­ral paths; some are de­tained and re­sponded to by the lower au­to­matic spinal cen­ters; oth­ers pass on to the less au­to­matic but habit-trained cen­ters of the lower brain, while the most im­por­tant and vi­tal in­com­ing mes­sages flash by these sub­or­di­nate cen­ters and are im­me­di­ately reg­is­tered in the high­est lev­els of hu­man con­scious­ness.

7:3.5But how much more per­fect is the su­perb tech­nique of the spir­i­tual world! If any­thing orig­i­nates in your con­scious­ness that is fraught with su­preme spir­i­tual value, when once you give it ex­pres­sion, no power in the uni­verse can pre­vent its flash­ing di­rectly to the Ab­so­lute Spirit Per­son­al­ity of all cre­ation.

7:3.6Con­versely, if your sup­pli­ca­tions are purely ma­te­rial and wholly self-cen­tered, there ex­ists no plan whereby such un­wor­thy prayers can find lodg­ment in the spirit cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son. The con­tent of any pe­ti­tion which is not “spirit in­dited” can find no place in the uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual cir­cuit; such purely self­ish and ma­te­rial re­quests fall dead; they do not as­cend in the cir­cuits of true spirit val­ues. Such words are as “sound­ing brass and a tin­kling cym­bal.”

7:3.7It is the mo­ti­vat­ing thought, the spir­i­tual con­tent, that val­i­dates the mor­tal sup­pli­ca­tion. Words are val­ue­less.