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Paper 7

Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

Divine Counselor

6. The Paradise Sons of God

7:6.1The lack of a knowl­edge of the mul­ti­ple Sons of God is a source of great con­fu­sion on Uran­tia. And this ig­no­rance per­sists in the face of such state­ments as the rec­ord of a con­clave of these di­vine per­son­al­i­ties: “When the Sons of God pro­claimed joy, and all of the Morn­ing Stars sang to­gether.” Ev­ery mil­len­nium of sec­tor stan­dard time the var­i­ous or­ders of the di­vine Sons for­gather for their pe­ri­odic con­claves.

7:6.2The Eter­nal Son is the per­sonal source of the adorable at­tri­butes of mercy and ser­vice which so abun­dantly char­ac­ter­ize all or­ders of the de­scend­ing Sons of God as they func­tion through­out cre­ation. All the di­vine na­ture, if not all the in­fin­ity of at­tri­butes, the Eter­nal Son un­fail­ingly trans­mits to the Par­a­dise Sons who go out from the eter­nal Isle to re­veal his di­vine char­ac­ter to the uni­verse of uni­verses.

7:6.3The Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Son is the off­spring-per­son of the “first” com­pleted and in­fi­nite thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Ev­ery time the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son jointly project a new, orig­i­nal, iden­ti­cal, unique, and ab­so­lute per­sonal thought, that very in­stant this cre­ative idea is per­fectly and fi­nally per­son­al­ized in the be­ing and per­son­al­ity of a new and orig­i­nal Cre­ator Son. In spirit na­ture, di­vine wis­dom, and co-or­di­nate cre­ative power, these Cre­ator Sons are po­ten­tially equal with God the Fa­ther and God the Son.

7:6.4The Cre­ator Sons go out from Par­a­dise into the uni­verses of time and, with the co-op­er­a­tion of the con­trol­ling and cre­ative agen­cies of the Third Source and Cen­ter, com­plete the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion. These Sons are not at­tached to, nor are they con­cerned with, the cen­tral and uni­ver­sal con­trols of mat­ter, mind, and spirit. Hence are they lim­ited in their cre­ative acts by the pre-ex­is­tence, pri­or­ity, and pri­macy of the First Source and Cen­ter and his co-or­di­nate Ab­so­lutes. These Sons are able to ad­min­is­ter only that which they bring into ex­is­tence. Ab­so­lute ad­min­is­tra­tion is in­her­ent in pri­or­ity of ex­is­tence and is in­sep­a­ra­ble from eter­nity of pres­ence. The Fa­ther re­mains pri­mal in the uni­verses.

7:6.5Much as the Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ized by the Fa­ther and the Son, so are the Mag­is­te­rial Sons per­son­al­ized by the Son and the Spirit. These are the Sons who, in the ex­pe­ri­ences of crea­ture in­car­na­tion, earn the right to serve as the judges of sur­vival in the cre­ations of time and space.

7:6.6The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit also unite to per­son­al­ize the ver­sa­tile Trin­ity Teacher Sons, who range the grand uni­verse as the su­per­nal teach­ers of all per­son­al­i­ties, hu­man and di­vine. And there are nu­mer­ous other or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship that have not been brought to the at­ten­tion of Uran­tia mor­tals.

7:6.7Be­tween the Orig­i­nal Mother Son and these hosts of Par­a­dise Sons scat­tered through­out all cre­ation, there is a di­rect and ex­clu­sive chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, a chan­nel whose func­tion is in­her­ent in the qual­ity of spir­i­tual kin­ship which unites them in bonds of near-ab­so­lute spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. This in­ter­son­ship cir­cuit is en­tirely dif­fer­ent from the uni­ver­sal cir­cuit of spirit grav­ity, which also cen­ters in the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. All Sons of God who take ori­gin in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties are in di­rect and con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son. And such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is in­stan­ta­neous; it is in­de­pen­dent of time though some­times con­di­tioned by space.

7:6.8The Eter­nal Son not only has at all times per­fect knowl­edge con­cern­ing the sta­tus, thoughts, and man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of all or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship, but he also has per­fec­tion of knowl­edge at all times re­gard­ing ev­ery­thing of spir­i­tual value which ex­ists in the hearts of all crea­tures in the pri­mary cen­tral cre­ation of eter­nity and in the sec­ondary time cre­ations of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons.