Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

7:4.1The Eter­nal Son is in ev­er­last­ing li­ai­son with the Fa­ther in the suc­cess­ful pros­e­cu­tion of the di­vine plan of prog­ress: the uni­ver­sal plan for the cre­ation, evo­lu­tion, as­cen­sion, and per­fec­tion of will crea­tures. And, in di­vine faith­ful­ness, the Son is the eter­nal equal of the Fa­ther.

7:4.2The Fa­ther and his Son are as one in the for­mu­la­tion and pros­e­cu­tion of this gi­gan­tic at­tain­ment plan for ad­vanc­ing the ma­te­rial be­ings of time to the per­fec­tion of eter­nity. This project for the spir­i­tual el­e­va­tion of the as­cen­dant souls of space is a joint cre­ation of the Fa­ther and the Son, and they are, with the co-op­er­a­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, en­gaged in as­so­cia­tive ex­e­cu­tion of their di­vine pur­pose.

7:4.3This di­vine plan of per­fec­tion at­tain­ment em­braces three unique, though mar­velously cor­re­lated, en­ter­prises of uni­ver­sal ad­ven­ture:

7:4.41. The Plan of Pro­gres­sive At­tain­ment. This is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion, a pro­gram un­re­servedly ac­cepted by the Eter­nal Son when he con­curred in the Fa­ther’s pro­posal, “Let us make mor­tal crea­tures in our own im­age.” This pro­vi­sion for up­step­ping the crea­tures of time in­volves the Fa­ther’s be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers and the en­dow­ing of ma­te­rial crea­tures with the pre­rog­a­tives of per­son­al­ity.

7:4.52. The Be­stowal Plan. The next uni­ver­sal plan is the great Fa­ther-rev­e­la­tion en­ter­prise of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate Sons. This is the pro­posal of the Eter­nal Son and con­sists of his be­stowal of the Sons of God upon the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations, there to per­son­al­ize and fac­tu­al­ize, to in­car­nate and make real, the love of the Fa­ther and the mercy of the Son to the crea­tures of all uni­verses. In­her­ent in the be­stowal plan, and as a pro­vi­sional fea­ture of this min­is­tra­tion of love, the Par­a­dise Sons act as re­ha­bil­i­ta­tors of that which mis­guided crea­ture will has placed in spir­i­tual jeop­ardy. When­ever and wher­ever there oc­curs a de­lay in the func­tion­ing of the at­tain­ment plan, if re­bel­lion, per­chance, should mar or com­pli­cate this en­ter­prise, then do the emer­gency pro­vi­sions of the be­stowal plan be­come ac­tive forth­with. The Par­a­dise Sons stand pledged and ready to func­tion as re­triev­ers, to go into the very realms of re­bel­lion and there re­store the spir­i­tual sta­tus of the spheres. And such a heroic ser­vice a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son did per­form on Uran­tia in con­nec­tion with his ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­stowal ca­reer of sov­er­eignty ac­quire­ment.

7:4.63. The Plan of Mercy Min­istry. When the at­tain­ment plan and the be­stowal plan had been for­mu­lated and pro­claimed, alone and of him­self, the In­fi­nite Spirit pro­jected and put in op­er­a­tion the tremen­dous and uni­ver­sal en­ter­prise of mercy min­istry. This is the ser­vice so es­sen­tial to the prac­ti­cal and ef­fec­tive op­er­a­tion of both the at­tain­ment and the be­stowal un­der­tak­ings, and the spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter all par­take of the spirit of mercy min­istry which is so much a part of the na­ture of the Third Per­son of De­ity. Not only in cre­ation but also in ad­min­is­tra­tion, the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions truly and lit­er­ally as the con­joint ex­ec­u­tive of the Fa­ther and the Son.

7:4.7The Eter­nal Son is the per­sonal trus­tee, the di­vine cus­to­dian, of the Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal plan of crea­ture as­cen­sion. Hav­ing pro­mul­gated the uni­ver­sal man­date, “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect,” the Fa­ther in­trusted the ex­e­cu­tion of this tremen­dous un­der­tak­ing to the Eter­nal Son; and the Eter­nal Son shares the fos­ter­ing of this su­per­nal en­ter­prise with his di­vine co-or­di­nate, the In­fi­nite Spirit. Thus do the De­i­ties ef­fec­tively co-op­er­ate in the work of cre­ation, con­trol, evo­lu­tion, rev­e­la­tion, and min­is­tra­tion—and if re­quired, in restora­tion and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.