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Paper 7

Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

Divine Counselor

7. The Supreme Revelation of the Father

7:7.1The Eter­nal Son is a com­plete, ex­clu­sive, uni­ver­sal, and fi­nal rev­e­la­tion of the spirit and the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. All knowl­edge of, and in­for­ma­tion con­cern­ing, the Fa­ther must come from the Eter­nal Son and his Par­a­dise Sons. The Eter­nal Son is from eter­nity and is wholly and with­out spir­i­tual qual­i­fi­ca­tion one with the Fa­ther. In di­vine per­son­al­ity they are co-or­di­nate; in spir­i­tual na­ture they are equal; in di­vin­ity they are iden­ti­cal.

7:7.2The char­ac­ter of God could not pos­si­bly be in­trin­si­cally im­proved upon in the per­son of the Son, for the di­vine Fa­ther is in­finitely per­fect, but that char­ac­ter and per­son­al­ity are am­pli­fied, by di­vest­ment of the non­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual, for rev­e­la­tion to crea­ture be­ings. The First Source and Cen­ter is much more than a per­son­al­ity, but all of the spirit qual­i­ties of the fa­ther per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter are spir­i­tu­ally pres­ent in the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

7:7.3The pri­mal Son and his Sons are en­gaged in mak­ing a uni­ver­sal rev­e­la­tion of the spir­i­tual and per­sonal na­ture of the Fa­ther to all cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verses, or on the in­hab­ited plan­ets, it is a Par­a­dise Son who re­veals the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to men and an­gels. The Eter­nal Son and his Sons re­veal the av­enue of crea­ture ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. And even we of high ori­gin un­der­stand the Fa­ther much more fully as we study the rev­e­la­tion of his char­ac­ter and per­son­al­ity in the Eter­nal Son and in the Sons of the Eter­nal Son.

7:7.4The Fa­ther comes down to you as a per­son­al­ity only through the di­vine Sons of the Eter­nal Son. And you at­tain the Fa­ther by this same liv­ing way; you as­cend to the Fa­ther by the guid­ance of this group of di­vine Sons. And this re­mains true not­with­stand­ing that your very per­son­al­ity is a di­rect be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

7:7.5In all these wide­spread ac­tiv­i­ties of the far-flung spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Eter­nal Son, do not for­get that the Son is a per­son just as truly and ac­tu­ally as the Fa­ther is a per­son. In­deed, to be­ings of the one­time hu­man or­der the Eter­nal Son will be more easy to ap­proach than the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In the prog­ress of the pil­grims of time through the cir­cuits of Ha­vona, you will be com­pe­tent to at­tain the Son long be­fore you are pre­pared to dis­cern the Fa­ther.

7:7.6More of the char­ac­ter and mer­ci­ful na­ture of the Eter­nal Son of mercy you should com­pre­hend as you med­i­tate on the rev­e­la­tion of these di­vine at­tri­butes which was made in lov­ing ser­vice by your own Cre­ator Son, one­time Son of Man on earth, now the ex­alted sov­er­eign of your lo­cal uni­verse—the Son of Man and the Son of God.

7:7.7[In­dited by a Di­vine Coun­selor as­signed to for­mu­late this state­ment de­pict­ing the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.]