Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

7:5.1The Eter­nal Son with­out reser­va­tion joined with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in broad­cast­ing that tremen­dous in­junc­tion to all cre­ation: “Be you per­fect, even as your Fa­ther in Ha­vona is per­fect.” And ever since, that in­vi­ta­tion-com­mand has mo­ti­vated all the sur­vival plans and the be­stowal projects of the Eter­nal Son and his vast fam­ily of co-or­di­nate and as­so­ci­ated Sons. And in these very be­stowals the Sons of God have be­come to all evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures “the way, the truth, and the life.”

7:5.2The Eter­nal Son can­not con­tact di­rectly with hu­man be­ings as does the Fa­ther through the gift of the preper­sonal Thought Ad­justers, but the Eter­nal Son does draw near to cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties by a se­ries of down­step­ping gra­da­tions of di­vine son­ship un­til he is en­abled to stand in man’s pres­ence and, at times, as man him­self.

7:5.3The purely per­sonal na­ture of the Eter­nal Son is in­ca­pable of frag­men­ta­tion. The Eter­nal Son min­is­ters as a spir­i­tual in­flu­ence or as a per­son, never oth­er­wise. The Son finds it im­pos­si­ble to be­come a part of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence in the sense that the Fa­ther-Ad­juster par­tic­i­pates therein, but the Eter­nal Son com­pen­sates this lim­i­ta­tion by the tech­nique of be­stowal. What the ex­pe­ri­ence of frag­mented en­ti­ties means to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the in­car­na­tion ex­pe­ri­ences of the Par­a­dise Sons mean to the Eter­nal Son.

7:5.4The Eter­nal Son comes not to mor­tal man as the di­vine will, the Thought Ad­juster in­dwelling the hu­man mind, but the Eter­nal Son did come to mor­tal man on Uran­tia when the di­vine per­son­al­ity of his Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, in­car­nated in the hu­man na­ture of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. To share the ex­pe­ri­ence of cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties, the Par­a­dise Sons of God must as­sume the very na­tures of such crea­tures and in­car­nate their di­vine per­son­al­i­ties as the ac­tual crea­tures them­selves. In­car­na­tion, the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, is the tech­nique of the Son’s es­cape from the oth­er­wise all-en­com­pass­ing fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism.

7:5.5Long, long ago the Eter­nal Son be­stowed him­self upon each of the cir­cuits of the cen­tral cre­ation for the en­light­en­ment and ad­vance­ment of all the in­hab­i­tants and pil­grims of Ha­vona, in­clud­ing the as­cend­ing pil­grims of time. On none of these seven be­stowals did he func­tion as ei­ther an as­cender or a Havoner. He ex­isted as him­self. His ex­pe­ri­ence was unique; it was not with or as a hu­man or other pil­grim but in some way as­so­cia­tive in the super­per­sonal sense.

7:5.6Nei­ther did he pass through the rest that in­ter­venes be­tween the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit and the shores of Par­a­dise. It is not pos­si­ble for him, an ab­so­lute be­ing, to sus­pend con­scious­ness of per­son­al­ity, for in him cen­ter all lines of spir­i­tual grav­ity. And dur­ing the times of these be­stowals the cen­tral Par­a­dise lodg­ment of spir­i­tual lu­mi­nos­ity was undimmed, and the Son’s grasp of uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity was undi­min­ished.

7:5.7The be­stowals of the Eter­nal Son in Ha­vona are not within the scope of hu­man imag­i­na­tion; they were tran­scen­den­tal. He added to the ex­pe­ri­ence of all Ha­vona then and sub­se­quently, but we do not know whether he added to the sup­posed ex­pe­ri­en­tial ca­pac­ity of his ex­is­ten­tial na­ture. That would fall within the be­stowal mys­tery of the Par­a­dise Sons. We do, how­ever, be­lieve that what­ever the Eter­nal Son ac­quired on these be­stowal mis­sions, he has ever since re­tained; but we do not know what it is.

7:5.8What­ever our dif­fi­culty in com­pre­hend­ing the be­stowals of the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity, we do com­pre­hend the Ha­vona be­stowal of a Son of the Eter­nal Son, who lit­er­ally passed through the cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse and ac­tu­ally shared those ex­pe­ri­ences which con­sti­tute an as­cender’s prepa­ra­tion for De­ity at­tain­ment. This was the orig­i­nal Mi­chael, the first-born Cre­ator Son, and he passed through the life ex­pe­ri­ences of the as­cend­ing pil­grims from cir­cuit to cir­cuit, per­son­ally jour­ney­ing a stage of each cir­cle with them in the days of Grand­fanda, the first of all mor­tals to at­tain Ha­vona.

7:5.9What­ever else this orig­i­nal Mi­chael re­vealed, he made the tran­scen­dent be­stowal of the Orig­i­nal Mother Son real to the crea­tures of Ha­vona. So real, that forever­more each pil­grim of time who labors in the ad­ven­ture of mak­ing the Ha­vona cir­cuits is cheered and strength­ened by the cer­tain knowl­edge that the Eter­nal Son of God seven times ab­di­cated the power and glory of Par­a­dise to par­tic­i­pate in the ex­pe­ri­ences of the time-space pil­grims on the seven cir­cuits of pro­gres­sive Ha­vona at­tain­ment.

7:5.10The Eter­nal Son is the ex­em­plary in­spi­ra­tion for all the Sons of God in their min­is­tra­tions of be­stowal through­out the uni­verses of time and space. The co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons and the as­so­ciate Mag­is­te­rial Sons, to­gether with other un­re­vealed or­ders of son­ship, all par­take of this won­der­ful will­ing­ness to be­stow them­selves upon the var­ied or­ders of crea­ture life and as the crea­tures them­selves. There­fore, in spirit and be­cause of kin­ship of na­ture as well as fact of ori­gin, it be­comes true that in the be­stowal of each Son of God upon the worlds of space, in and through and by these be­stowals, the Eter­nal Son has be­stowed him­self upon the in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures of the uni­verses.

7:5.11In spirit and na­ture, if not in all at­tri­butes, each Par­a­dise Son is a di­vinely per­fect por­trai­ture of the Orig­i­nal Son. It is lit­er­ally true, whoso­ever has seen a Par­a­dise Son has seen the Eter­nal Son of God.