Eternal Son

• also known as › Co-ordinate Creator
• also known as › Second Person of Deity
• also known as › Spirit Controller

0:2.132. God the Son—Co-or­di­nate Cre­ator, Spirit Con­trol­ler, and Spir­i­tual Ad­min­is­tra­tor. The Eter­nal Son, the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity.

• nature › spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in

0:3.153. The uni­verse spirit forces are con­ver­gent in the Eter­nal Son.

• creation of Eternal Son › differentiation from I AM

0:3.22In this orig­i­nal trans­ac­tion the the­o­ret­i­cal I AM achieved the re­al­iza­tion of per­son­al­ity by be­com­ing the Eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son si­mul­ta­ne­ously with be­com­ing the Eter­nal Source of the Isle of Par­a­dise. Co­ex­is­tent with the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Son from the Fa­ther, and in the pres­ence of Par­a­dise, there ap­peared the per­son of the In­fi­nite Spirit and the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. With the ap­pear­ance of co­ex­is­tent per­sonal De­ity, the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Fa­ther es­caped, as a per­son­al­ity, from oth­er­wise in­ev­i­ta­ble dif­fu­sion through­out the po­ten­tial of To­tal De­ity. Thence­forth it is only in Trin­ity as­so­ci­a­tion with his two De­ity equals that the Fa­ther fills all De­ity po­ten­tial, while in­creas­ingly ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity is be­ing ac­tu­al­ized on the di­vin­ity lev­els of Su­prem­acy, Ul­ti­macy, and Ab­so­lute­ness.

• nature › Absolute of actuality

0:4.71. Ac­tual and Po­ten­tial. Re­al­i­ties ex­ist­ing in full­ness of ex­pres­sion in con­trast to those which carry undis­closed ca­pac­ity for growth. The Eter­nal Son is an ab­so­lute spir­i­tual ac­tu­al­ity; mor­tal man is very largely an un­re­al­ized spir­i­tual po­ten­tial­ity.

• nature › Absolute Person

0:5.5The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the se­cret of the re­al­ity of per­son­al­ity, the be­stowal of per­son­al­ity, and the des­tiny of per­son­al­ity. The Eter­nal Son is the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity, the se­cret of spir­i­tual en­ergy, mor­ontia spir­its, and per­fected spir­its. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the spirit-mind per­son­al­ity, the source of in­tel­li­gence, rea­son, and the uni­ver­sal mind. But the Isle of Par­a­dise is non­per­sonal and ex­traspir­i­tual, be­ing the essence of the uni­ver­sal body, the source and cen­ter of phys­i­cal mat­ter, and the ab­so­lute mas­ter pat­tern of uni­ver­sal ma­te­rial re­al­ity.

• personality of E.S. is master pattern for all personality

0:6.13Pat­tern is a mas­ter de­sign from which copies are made. Eter­nal Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns; the Eter­nal Son is the pat­tern per­son­al­ity; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the di­rect an­ces­tor-source of both. But Par­a­dise does not be­stow pat­tern, and the Son can­not be­stow per­son­al­ity.

• nature › revelation of divine love

1:3.8I come forth from the Eter­nal, and I have re­peat­edly re­turned to the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I know of the ac­tu­al­ity and per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, the Eter­nal and Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I know that, while the great God is ab­so­lute, eter­nal, and in­fi­nite, he is also good, di­vine, and gra­cious. I know the truth of the great dec­la­ra­tions: “God is spirit” and “God is love,” and these two at­tri­butes are most com­pletely re­vealed to the uni­verse in the Eter­nal Son.

• nature › spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in

2:7.7The eter­nal quest is for uni­fi­ca­tion, for di­vine co­her­ence. The far-flung phys­i­cal uni­verse co­heres in the Isle of Par­a­dise; the in­tel­lec­tual uni­verse co­heres in the God of mind, the Con­joint Ac­tor; the spir­i­tual uni­verse is co­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son. But the iso­lated mor­tal of time and space co­heres in God the Fa­ther through the di­rect re­la­tion­ship be­tween the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Man’s Ad­juster is a frag­ment of God and ev­er­last­ingly seeks for di­vine uni­fi­ca­tion; it co­heres with, and in, the Par­a­dise De­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• Adjusters use spirit-gravity circuits of E.S. to convey worship to Father
• functions of the Eternal Son › prayer should be directed to

5:3.2Sup­pli­ca­tions of all kinds be­long to the realm of the Eter­nal Son and the Son’s spir­i­tual or­ga­ni­za­tion. Prayers, all for­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tions, ev­ery­thing ex­cept ado­ra­tion and wor­ship of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, are mat­ters that con­cern a lo­cal uni­verse; they do not or­di­nar­ily pro­ceed out of the realm of the ju­ris­dic­tion of a Cre­ator Son. But wor­ship is un­doubt­edly en­cir­cuited and dis­patched to the per­son of the Cre­ator by the func­tion of the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. We fur­ther be­lieve that such reg­istry of the homage of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt crea­ture is fa­cil­i­tated by the Fa­ther’s spirit pres­ence. There ex­ists a tremen­dous amount of ev­i­dence to sub­stan­ti­ate such a be­lief, and I know that all or­ders of Fa­ther frag­ments are em­pow­ered to reg­is­ter the bona fide ado­ra­tion of their sub­jects ac­cept­ably in the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Ad­justers un­doubt­edly also uti­lize di­rect preper­sonal chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with God, and they are like­wise able to uti­lize the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son.

• functions of the Eternal Son › prayer should be directed to

5:3.4The mo­ment the el­e­ment of self-in­ter­est in­trudes upon wor­ship, that in­stant de­vo­tion trans­lates from wor­ship to prayer and more ap­pro­pri­ately should be di­rected to the per­son of the Eter­nal Son or the Cre­ator Son. But in prac­ti­cal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence there ex­ists no rea­son why prayer should not be ad­dressed to God the Fa­ther as a part of true wor­ship.

5:3.5When you deal with the prac­ti­cal af­fairs of your daily life, you are in the hands of the spirit per­son­al­i­ties hav­ing ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter; you are co-op­er­at­ing with the agen­cies of the Con­joint Ac­tor. And so it is: You wor­ship God; pray to, and com­mune with, the Son; and work out the de­tails of your earthly so­journ in con­nec­tion with the in­tel­li­gences of the In­fi­nite Spirit op­er­at­ing on your world and through­out your uni­verse.

• creation of Eternal Son › original and only-begotten Son of God
• nature › Word of God
• presence immediately enshrouds Father on Paradise

6:0.1The Eter­nal Son is the per­fect and fi­nal ex­pres­sion of the “first” per­sonal and ab­so­lute con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Ac­cord­ingly, when­ever and how­ever the Fa­ther per­son­ally and ab­so­lutely ex­presses him­self, he does so through his Eter­nal Son, who ever has been, now is, and ever will be, the liv­ing and di­vine Word. And this Eter­nal Son is res­i­den­tial at the cen­ter of all things, in as­so­ci­a­tion with, and im­me­di­ately en­shroud­ing the per­sonal pres­ence of, the Eter­nal and Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• nature › Absolute Person
• nature › spiritual personalization of Father’s infinite concept of divine reality

6:0.3The Eter­nal Son is the spir­i­tual per­son­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal and in­fi­nite con­cept of di­vine re­al­ity, un­qual­i­fied spirit, and ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity. And thereby does the Son con­sti­tute the di­vine rev­e­la­tion of the cre­ator iden­tity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The per­fect per­son­al­ity of the Son dis­closes that the Fa­ther is ac­tu­ally the eter­nal and uni­ver­sal source of all the mean­ings and val­ues of the spir­i­tual, the vo­li­tional, the pur­pose­ful, and the per­sonal.

• also known as › Second Person of Deity
• also known as › Second Source and Center
• creation of Eternal Son › original and only-begotten Son of God
• nature › Second Person of Deity

6:1.1The Eter­nal Son is the orig­i­nal and only-be­got­ten Son of God. He is God the Son, the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity and the as­so­ciate cre­ator of all things. As the Fa­ther is the First Great Source and Cen­ter, so the Eter­nal Son is the Sec­ond Great Source and Cen­ter.

• also known as › Personality Absolute
• functions of the Eternal Son › spiritual administration not discernible
• nature › Absolute Person

6:1.2The Eter­nal Son is the spir­i­tual cen­ter and the di­vine ad­min­is­tra­tor of the spir­i­tual gov­ern­ment of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is first a cre­ator and then a con­trol­ler; the Eter­nal Son is first a cocre­ator and then a spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tor. “God is spirit,” and the Son is a per­sonal rev­e­la­tion of that spirit. The First Source and Cen­ter is the Vo­li­tional Ab­so­lute; the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter is the Per­son­al­ity Ab­so­lute.

• Jesus was not the E.S.
• nature › Word of God

6:1.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never per­son­ally func­tions as a cre­ator ex­cept in con­junc­tion with the Son or with the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the Son. Had the New Tes­ta­ment writer re­ferred to the Eter­nal Son, he would have ut­tered the truth when he wrote: “In the be­gin­ning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him, and with­out him was not any­thing made that was made.”

6:1.4When a Son of the Eter­nal Son ap­peared on Uran­tia, those who frat­er­nized with this di­vine be­ing in hu­man form al­luded to him as “He who was from the be­gin­ning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, whom we have looked upon, and our hands have han­dled, even the Word of life.” And this be­stowal Son came forth from the Fa­ther just as truly as did the Orig­i­nal Son, as is sug­gested in one of his earthly prayers: “And now, O my Fa­ther, glo­rify me with your own self, with the glory which I had with you be­fore this world was.”

• also known as › Original Son
• also known as › other titles
• also known as › Son of Sons

6:1.5The Eter­nal Son is known by dif­fer­ent names in var­i­ous uni­verses. In the cen­tral uni­verse he is known as the Co-or­di­nate Source, the Cocre­ator, and the As­so­ciate Ab­so­lute. On Uversa, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse, we des­ig­nate the Son as the Co-or­di­nate Spirit Cen­ter and as the Eter­nal Spirit Ad­min­is­tra­tor. On Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse, this Son is of rec­ord as the Sec­ond Eter­nal Source and Cen­ter. The Mel­chiz­e­deks speak of him as the Son of Sons. On your world, but not in your sys­tem of in­hab­ited spheres, this Orig­i­nal Son has been con­fused with a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, who be­stowed him­self upon the mor­tal races of Uran­tia.

• also known as › Second Source and Center

6:1.6Al­though any of the Par­a­dise Sons may fit­tingly be called Sons of God, we are in the habit of re­serv­ing the des­ig­na­tion “the Eter­nal Son” for this Orig­i­nal Son, the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter, cocre­ator with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the cen­tral uni­verse of power and per­fec­tion and cocre­ator of all other di­vine Sons who spring from the in­fi­nite De­i­ties.

• recognition of the Eternal Son › easier to approach than Father

6:2.1The Eter­nal Son is just as change­less and in­finitely de­pend­able as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He is also just as spir­i­tual as the Fa­ther, just as truly an un­lim­ited spirit. To you of lowly ori­gin the Son would ap­pear to be more per­sonal since he is one step nearer you in ap­proach­a­bil­ity than is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• nature › spiritual and personal nature of God amplified by divestment of all else
• nature › Word of God

6:2.2The Eter­nal Son is the eter­nal Word of God. He is wholly like the Fa­ther; in fact, the Eter­nal Son is God the Fa­ther per­son­ally man­i­fest to the uni­verse of uni­verses. And thus it was and is and for­ever will be true of the Eter­nal Son and of all the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons: “He who has seen the Son has seen the Fa­ther.”

6:2.3In na­ture the Son is wholly like the spirit Fa­ther. When we wor­ship the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, ac­tu­ally we at the same time wor­ship God the Son and God the Spirit. God the Son is just as di­vinely real and eter­nal in na­ture as God the Fa­ther.

6:2.4The Son not only pos­sesses all the Fa­ther’s in­fi­nite and tran­scen­dent righ­teous­ness, but the Son is also re­flec­tive of all the Fa­ther’s ho­li­ness of char­ac­ter. The Son shares the Fa­ther’s per­fec­tion and jointly shares the re­spon­si­bil­ity of aid­ing all crea­tures of im­per­fec­tion in their spir­i­tual ef­forts to at­tain di­vine per­fec­tion.

• functions of the Eternal Son › spiritual administration not discernible

6:2.5The Eter­nal Son pos­sesses all the Fa­ther’s char­ac­ter of di­vin­ity and at­tri­butes of spir­i­tu­al­ity. The Son is the full­ness of God’s ab­so­lute­ness in per­son­al­ity and spirit, and these qual­i­ties the Son re­veals in his per­sonal man­age­ment of the spir­i­tual gov­ern­ment of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

6:2.6God is, in­deed, a uni­ver­sal spirit; God is spirit; and this spirit na­ture of the Fa­ther is fo­cal­ized and per­son­al­ized in the De­ity of the Eter­nal Son. In the Son all spir­i­tual char­ac­ter­is­tics are ap­par­ently greatly en­hanced by dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion from the uni­ver­sal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. And as the Fa­ther shares his spirit na­ture with the Son, so do they to­gether just as fully and un­re­servedly share the di­vine spirit with the Con­joint Ac­tor, the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• nature › equal with Father in love of truth and creation of beauty; more devoted to spiritual beauty

6:2.7In the love of truth and in the cre­ation of beauty the Fa­ther and the Son are equal ex­cept that the Son ap­pears to de­vote him­self more to the re­al­iza­tion of the ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual beauty of uni­ver­sal val­ues.

• nature › looks upon creatures both as father and as brother

6:2.8In di­vine good­ness I dis­cern no dif­fer­ence be­tween the Fa­ther and the Son. The Fa­ther loves his uni­verse chil­dren as a fa­ther; the Eter­nal Son looks upon all crea­tures both as fa­ther and as brother.

• nature › revelation of divine love

6:3.1The Son shares the jus­tice and righ­teous­ness of the Trin­ity but over­shad­ows these di­vin­ity traits by the in­fi­nite per­son­al­iza­tion of the Fa­ther’s love and mercy; the Son is the rev­e­la­tion of di­vine love to the uni­verses. As God is love, so the Son is mercy. The Son can­not love more than the Fa­ther, but he can show mercy to crea­tures in one ad­di­tional way, for he not only is a pri­mal cre­ator like the Fa­ther, but he is also the Eter­nal Son of that same Fa­ther, thereby shar­ing in the son­ship ex­pe­ri­ence of all other sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• nature › is mercy

6:3.2The Eter­nal Son is the great mercy min­is­ter to all cre­ation. Mercy is the essence of the Son’s spir­i­tual char­ac­ter. The man­dates of the Eter­nal Son, as they go forth over the spirit cir­cuits of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter, are keyed in tones of mercy.

• functions of the Eternal Son › revelation of Father’s love to universes

6:3.4The min­istry of the Eter­nal Son is de­voted to the rev­e­la­tion of the God of love to the uni­verse of uni­verses. This di­vine Son is not en­gaged in the ig­no­ble task of try­ing to per­suade his gra­cious Fa­ther to love his lowly crea­tures and to show mercy to the wrong­do­ers of time. How wrong to en­vis­age the Eter­nal Son as ap­peal­ing to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to show mercy to his lowly crea­tures on the ma­te­rial worlds of space! Such con­cepts of God are crude and grotesque. Rather should you re­al­ize that all the mer­ci­ful min­is­tra­tions of the Sons of God are a di­rect rev­e­la­tion of the Fa­ther’s heart of uni­ver­sal love and in­fi­nite com­pas­sion. The Fa­ther’s love is the real and eter­nal source of the Son’s mercy.

• nature › is mercy
• nature › loves like a mother

6:3.5God is love, the Son is mercy. Mercy is ap­plied love, the Fa­ther’s love in ac­tion in the per­son of his Eter­nal Son. The love of this uni­ver­sal Son is like­wise uni­ver­sal. As love is com­pre­hended on a sex planet, the love of God is more com­pa­ra­ble to the love of a fa­ther, while the love of the Eter­nal Son is more like the af­fec­tion of a mother. Crude, in­deed, are such il­lus­tra­tions, but I em­ploy them in the hope of con­vey­ing to the hu­man mind the thought that there is a dif­fer­ence, not in di­vine con­tent but in qual­ity and tech­nique of ex­pres­sion, be­tween the love of the Fa­ther and the love of the Son.

• nature › absolute spiritual power

6:4.1The Eter­nal Son mo­ti­vates the spirit level of cos­mic re­al­ity; the spir­i­tual power of the Son is ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to all uni­verse ac­tu­al­i­ties. He ex­er­cises per­fect con­trol over the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of all un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated spirit en­ergy and over all ac­tu­al­ized spirit re­al­ity through his ab­so­lute grasp of spirit grav­ity. All pure un­frag­mented spirit and all spir­i­tual be­ings and val­ues are re­spon­sive to the in­fi­nite draw­ing power of the pri­mal Son of Par­a­dise. And if the eter­nal fu­ture should wit­ness the ap­pear­ance of an un­lim­ited uni­verse, the spirit grav­ity and the spirit power of the Orig­i­nal Son will be found wholly ad­e­quate for the spir­i­tual con­trol and ef­fec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of such a bound­less cre­ation.

• nature › spiritually omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent

6:4.2The Son is om­nipo­tent only in the spir­i­tual realm. In the eter­nal econ­omy of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, waste­ful and need­less rep­e­ti­tion of func­tion is never en­coun­tered; the De­i­ties are not given to use­less du­pli­ca­tion of uni­verse min­istry.

6:4.3The om­nipres­ence of the Orig­i­nal Son con­sti­tutes the spir­i­tual unity of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The spir­i­tual co­he­sion of all cre­ation rests upon the ev­ery­where ac­tive pres­ence of the di­vine spirit of the Eter­nal Son. When we con­ceive of the Fa­ther’s spir­i­tual pres­ence, we find it dif­fi­cult to dif­fer­en­ti­ate it in our think­ing from the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son. The spirit of the Fa­ther is eter­nally res­i­dent in the spirit of the Son.

6:4.4The Fa­ther must be spir­i­tu­ally om­ni­pres­ent, but such om­nipres­ence ap­pears to be in­sep­a­ra­ble from the ev­ery­where spirit ac­tiv­i­ties of the Eter­nal Son. We do, how­ever, be­lieve that in all sit­u­a­tions of Fa­ther-Son pres­ence of a dual spir­i­tual na­ture the spirit of the Son is co-or­di­nate with the spirit of the Fa­ther.

6:4.5In his con­tact with per­son­al­ity, the Fa­ther acts in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. In his per­sonal and de­tectable con­tact with spir­i­tual cre­ation, he ap­pears in the frag­ments of the to­tal­ity of his De­ity, and these Fa­ther frag­ments have a soli­tary, unique, and ex­clu­sive func­tion wher­ever and when­ever they ap­pear in the uni­verses. In all such sit­u­a­tions the spirit of the Son is co-or­di­nate with the spir­i­tual func­tion of the frag­mented pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• nature › spirit is not indwelling like Adjuster’s, but is omnipresent
• nature › spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in

6:4.6Spir­i­tu­ally the Eter­nal Son is om­ni­pres­ent. The spirit of the Eter­nal Son is most cer­tainly with you and around you, but not within you and a part of you like the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. The in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment ad­justs the hu­man mind to pro­gres­sively di­vine at­ti­tudes, where­upon such an as­cend­ing mind be­comes in­creas­ingly re­spon­sive to the spir­i­tual draw­ing power of the all-pow­er­ful spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter.

6:4.7The Orig­i­nal Son is uni­ver­sally and spir­i­tu­ally self-con­scious. In wis­dom the Son is the full equal of the Fa­ther. In the realms of knowl­edge, om­ni­science, we can­not dis­tin­guish be­tween the First and Sec­ond Sources; like the Fa­ther, the Son knows all; he is never sur­prised by any uni­verse event; he com­pre­hends the end from the be­gin­ning.

6:4.8The Fa­ther and the Son re­ally know the num­ber and where­abouts of all the spir­its and spir­i­tu­al­ized be­ings in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Not only does the Son know all things by virtue of his own om­ni­pres­ent spirit, but the Son, equally with the Fa­ther and the Con­joint Ac­tor, is fully cog­nizant of the vast re­flec­tiv­ity in­tel­li­gence of the Su­preme Be­ing, which in­tel­li­gence is at all times aware of all things that tran­spire on all the worlds of the seven super­uni­verses. And there are other ways in which the Par­a­dise Son is om­ni­scient.

• nature › equal to Father in love, mercy, and ministry

6:4.9The Eter­nal Son, as a lov­ing, mer­ci­ful, and min­is­ter­ing spir­i­tual per­son­al­ity, is wholly and in­finitely equal with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, while in all those mer­ci­ful and af­fec­tion­ate per­sonal con­tacts with the as­cen­dant be­ings of the lower realms the Eter­nal Son is just as kind and con­sid­er­ate, just as pa­tient and long-suf­fer­ing, as are his Par­a­dise Sons in the lo­cal uni­verses who so fre­quently be­stow them­selves upon the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time.

6:4.10It is need­less fur­ther to ex­pa­ti­ate on the at­tri­butes of the Eter­nal Son. With the ex­cep­tions noted, it is only nec­es­sary to study the spir­i­tual at­tri­butes of God the Fa­ther to un­der­stand and cor­rectly eval­u­ate the at­tri­butes of God the Son.

• functions of the Eternal Son › does not personally function on physical or mindal levels
• nature › spiritually omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent

6:5.1The Eter­nal Son does not per­son­ally func­tion in the phys­i­cal do­mains, nor does he func­tion, ex­cept through the Con­joint Ac­tor, in the lev­els of mind min­istry to crea­ture be­ings. But these qual­i­fi­ca­tions do not in any man­ner oth­er­wise limit the Eter­nal Son in the full and free ex­er­cise of all the di­vine at­tri­butes of spir­i­tual om­ni­science, om­nipres­ence, and om­nipo­tence.

• functions of the Eternal Son › created vast other-than-personal spirit host
• functions of the Eternal Son › does not bestow personality except with Father

6:5.3Per­son­al­ity is the ex­clu­sive gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Eter­nal Son de­rives per­son­al­ity from the Fa­ther, but he does not, with­out the Fa­ther, be­stow per­son­al­ity. The Son gives ori­gin to a vast spirit host, but such deriva­tions are not per­son­al­i­ties. When the Son cre­ates per­son­al­ity, he does so in con­junc­tion with the Fa­ther or with the Con­joint Cre­ator, who may act for the Fa­ther in such re­la­tion­ships. The Eter­nal Son is thus a cocre­ator of per­son­al­i­ties, but he be­stows per­son­al­ity upon no be­ing and of him­self, alone, never cre­ates per­sonal be­ings. This lim­i­ta­tion of ac­tion does not, how­ever, de­prive the Son of the abil­ity to cre­ate any or all types of other-than-per­sonal re­al­ity.

• nature › limited in transmittal of Creator prerogatives

6:5.4The Eter­nal Son is lim­ited in trans­mit­tal of cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives. The Fa­ther, in eter­nal­iz­ing the Orig­i­nal Son, be­stowed upon him the power and priv­i­lege of sub­se­quently join­ing with the Fa­ther in the di­vine act of pro­duc­ing ad­di­tional Sons pos­sess­ing cre­ative at­tri­butes, and this they have done and now do. But when these co-or­di­nate Sons have been pro­duced, the pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship are ap­par­ently not fur­ther trans­mis­si­ble. The Eter­nal Son trans­mits cre­ator­ship pow­ers only to the first or di­rect per­son­al­iza­tion. There­fore, when the Fa­ther and the Son unite to per­son­al­ize a Cre­ator Son, they achieve their pur­pose; but the Cre­ator Son thus brought into ex­is­tence is never able to trans­mit or del­e­gate the pre­rog­a­tives of cre­ator­ship to the var­i­ous or­ders of Sons which he may sub­se­quently cre­ate, not­with­stand­ing that, in the high­est lo­cal uni­verse Sons, there does ap­pear a very lim­ited re­flec­tion of the cre­ative at­tri­butes of a Cre­ator Son.

• functions of the Eternal Son › draws all spirit personalities and spirit realities to himself
• nature › incapable of fragmentation

6:5.5The Eter­nal Son, as an in­fi­nite and ex­clu­sively per­sonal be­ing, can­not frag­men­tize his na­ture, can­not dis­tribute and be­stow in­di­vid­u­al­ized por­tions of his self­hood upon other en­ti­ties or per­sons as do the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit. But the Son can and does be­stow him­self as an un­lim­ited spirit to bathe all cre­ation and un­ceas­ingly draw all spirit per­son­al­i­ties and spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties to him­self.

6:5.6Ever re­mem­ber, the Eter­nal Son is the per­sonal por­trayal of the spirit Fa­ther to all cre­ation. The Son is per­sonal and noth­ing but per­sonal in the De­ity sense; such a di­vine and ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity can­not be dis­in­te­grated or frag­men­tized. God the Fa­ther and God the Spirit are truly per­sonal, but they are also ev­ery­thing else in ad­di­tion to be­ing such De­ity per­son­al­i­ties.

• functions of the Eternal Son › approved plan of Adjuster bestowal, though he cannot personally participate

6:5.7Though the Eter­nal Son can­not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, he did sit in coun­cil with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the eter­nal past, ap­prov­ing the plan and pledg­ing end­less co-op­er­a­tion, when the Fa­ther, in pro­ject­ing the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, pro­posed to the Son, “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” And as the spirit frag­ment of the Fa­ther dwells within you, so does the spirit pres­ence of the Son en­velop you, while these two for­ever work as one for your spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment.

• nature › mind like Father’s; with it, ancestral to minds of Conjoint Creator

6:6.3The mind of the Eter­nal Son is like that of the Fa­ther but un­like any other mind in the uni­verse, and with the mind of the Fa­ther it is an­ces­tor to the di­verse and far-flung minds of the Con­joint Cre­ator. The mind of the Fa­ther and the Son, that in­tel­lect which is an­ces­tral to the ab­so­lute mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter, is per­haps best il­lus­trated in the pre­mind of a Thought Ad­juster, for, though these Fa­ther frag­ments are en­tirely out­side of the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor, they have some form of pre­mind; they know as they are known; they en­joy the equiv­a­lent of hu­man think­ing.

• creation of Eternal Son › Father trinitized
• nature › Absolute Person

6:7.1The Eter­nal Son is that in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity from whose un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity fet­ters the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther es­caped by the tech­nique of trin­i­ti­za­tion, and by virtue of which he has ever since con­tin­ued to be­stow him­self in end­less pro­fu­sion upon his ever-ex­pand­ing uni­verse of Cre­ators and crea­tures. The Son is ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity; God is fa­ther per­son­al­ity—the source of per­son­al­ity, the be­stower of per­son­al­ity, the cause of per­son­al­ity. Ev­ery per­sonal be­ing de­rives per­son­al­ity from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther just as the Orig­i­nal Son eter­nally de­rives his per­son­al­ity from the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

6:7.2The per­son­al­ity of the Par­a­dise Son is ab­so­lute and purely spir­i­tual, and this ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity is also the di­vine and eter­nal pat­tern, first, of the Fa­ther’s be­stowal of per­son­al­ity upon the Con­joint Ac­tor and, sub­se­quently, of his be­stowal of per­son­al­ity upon the myr­i­ads of his crea­tures through­out a far-flung uni­verse.

• nature › spiritual and personal nature of God amplified by divestment of all else

6:7.3The Eter­nal Son is truly a mer­ci­ful min­is­ter, a di­vine spirit, a spir­i­tual power, and a real per­son­al­ity. The Son is the spir­i­tual and per­sonal na­ture of God made man­i­fest to the uni­verses—the sum and sub­stance of the First Source and Cen­ter, di­vested of all that which is non­per­sonal, ex­tradi­vine, non­spir­i­tual, and pure po­ten­tial. But it is im­pos­si­ble to con­vey to the hu­man mind a word pic­ture of the beauty and grandeur of the su­per­nal per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son. Ev­ery­thing that tends to ob­scure the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther op­er­ates with al­most equal in­flu­ence to pre­vent the con­cep­tual rec­og­ni­tion of the Eter­nal Son. You must await your at­tain­ment of Par­a­dise, and then you will un­der­stand why I was un­able to por­tray the char­ac­ter of this ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity to the un­der­stand­ing of the fi­nite mind.

• nature › loves like a mother

6:8.1Con­cern­ing iden­tity, na­ture, and other at­tri­butes of per­son­al­ity, the Eter­nal Son is the full equal, the per­fect com­ple­ment, and the eter­nal coun­ter­part of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In the same sense that God is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Son is the Uni­ver­sal Mother. And all of us, high and low, con­sti­tute their uni­ver­sal fam­ily.

• recognition of the Eternal Son › virtually indistinguishable from Father to lower orders; discerned apart by Havona and Paradise natives

6:8.2To ap­pre­ci­ate the char­ac­ter of the Son, you should study the rev­e­la­tion of the di­vine char­ac­ter of the Fa­ther; they are for­ever and in­sep­a­ra­bly one. As di­vine per­son­al­i­ties they are vir­tu­ally in­dis­tin­guish­able by the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gence. They are not so dif­fi­cult of sep­a­rate rec­og­ni­tion by those whose ori­gin is in the cre­ative acts of the De­i­ties them­selves. Be­ings of na­tiv­ity in the cen­tral uni­verse and on Par­a­dise dis­cern the Fa­ther and the Son not only as one per­sonal unity of uni­ver­sal con­trol but also as two sep­a­rate per­son­al­i­ties func­tion­ing in def­i­nite do­mains of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• nature › Word of God

6:8.3As per­sons you may con­ceive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son as sep­a­rate in­di­vid­u­als, for they in­deed are; but in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses they are so in­ter­twined and in­ter­re­lated that it is not al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween them. When, in the af­fairs of the uni­verses, the Fa­ther and the Son are en­coun­tered in con­fus­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tions, it is not al­ways prof­itable to at­tempt to seg­re­gate their op­er­a­tions; merely re­call that God is the ini­ti­at­ing thought and the Son is the ex­pres­sion­ful word. In each lo­cal uni­verse this in­sep­a­ra­bil­ity is per­son­al­ized in the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator Son, who stands for both Fa­ther and Son to the crea­tures of ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds.

• also known as › Son of Sons

6:8.4The Eter­nal Son is in­fi­nite, but he is ap­proach­able through the per­sons of his Par­a­dise Sons and through the pa­tient min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit. With­out the be­stowal ser­vice of the Par­a­dise Sons and the lov­ing min­istry of the crea­tures of the In­fi­nite Spirit, be­ings of ma­te­rial ori­gin could hardly hope to at­tain the Eter­nal Son. And it is equally true: With the help and guid­ance of these ce­les­tial agen­cies the God-con­scious mor­tal will cer­tainly at­tain Par­a­dise and some­time stand in the per­sonal pres­ence of this ma­jes­tic Son of Sons.

• personality of E.S. is master pattern for all personality

6:8.5Even though the Eter­nal Son is the pat­tern of mor­tal per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment, you find it eas­ier to grasp the re­al­ity of both the Fa­ther and the Spirit be­cause the Fa­ther is the ac­tual be­stower of your hu­man per­son­al­ity and the In­fi­nite Spirit is the ab­so­lute source of your mor­tal mind. But as you as­cend in the Par­a­dise path of spir­i­tual pro­gres­sion, the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son will be­come in­creas­ingly real to you, and the re­al­ity of his in­finitely spir­i­tual mind will be­come more dis­cern­i­ble to your pro­gres­sively spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing mind.

• nature › difficult for mortals to grasp

6:8.6Never can the con­cept of the Eter­nal Son shine brightly in your ma­te­rial or sub­se­quent mor­ontial mind; not un­til you spir­i­tize and com­mence your spirit as­cen­sion will the com­pre­hen­sion of the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son be­gin to equal the vivid­ness of your con­cept of the per­son­al­ity of the Cre­ator Son of Par­a­dise ori­gin who, in per­son and as a per­son, one­time in­car­nated and lived on Uran­tia as a man among men.

• bestowals › Creator Sons compensate for our inability to grasp

6:8.7Through­out your lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence the Cre­ator Son, whose per­son­al­ity is com­pre­hen­si­ble by man, must com­pen­sate for your in­abil­ity to grasp the full sig­nif­i­cance of the more ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual, but none the less per­sonal, Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise. As you pro­gress through Or­von­ton and Ha­vona, as you leave be­hind you the vivid pic­ture and deep mem­o­ries of the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the pass­ing of this ma­te­rial and mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence will be com­pen­sated by ever-en­larg­ing con­cepts and in­ten­si­fy­ing com­pre­hen­sion of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise, whose re­al­ity and near­ness will ever aug­ment as you pro­gress Par­adis­e­ward.

6:8.8The Eter­nal Son is a grand and glo­ri­ous per­son­al­ity. Al­though it is be­yond the pow­ers of the mor­tal and ma­te­rial mind to grasp the ac­tu­al­ity of the per­son­al­ity of such an in­fi­nite be­ing, doubt not, he is a per­son. I know whereof I speak. Times al­most with­out num­ber I have stood in the di­vine pres­ence of this Eter­nal Son and then jour­neyed forth in the uni­verse to ex­e­cute his gra­cious bid­ding.

6:8.9[In­dited by a Di­vine Coun­selor as­signed to for­mu­late this state­ment de­pict­ing the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.]

• nature › bestows everything possible upon his Sons

7:0.2The Son is like the Fa­ther in that he seeks to be­stow ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble of him­self upon his co-or­di­nate Sons and upon their sub­or­di­nate Sons. And the Son shares the Fa­ther’s self-dis­tribu­tive na­ture in the un­stinted be­stowal of him­self upon the In­fi­nite Spirit, their con­joint ex­ec­u­tive.

• nature › counterpoise to Paradise

7:0.3As the up­holder of spirit re­al­i­ties, the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter is the eter­nal coun­ter­poise of the Isle of Par­a­dise, which so mag­nif­i­cently up­holds all things ma­te­rial. Thus is the First Source and Cen­ter for­ever re­vealed in the ma­te­rial beauty of the ex­qui­site pat­terns of the cen­tral Isle and in the spir­i­tual val­ues of the su­per­nal per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

• functions of the Eternal Son › upholds all spiritual realities

7:0.4The Eter­nal Son is the ac­tual up­holder of the vast cre­ation of spirit re­al­i­ties and spir­i­tual be­ings. The spirit world is the habit, the per­sonal con­duct, of the Son, and the im­per­sonal re­al­i­ties of spirit na­ture are al­ways re­spon­sive to the will and pur­pose of the per­fect per­son­al­ity of the Ab­so­lute Son.

• nature › absolute spiritual power
• nature › spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in

7:1.1Ev­ery­thing taught con­cern­ing the im­ma­nence of God, his om­nipres­ence, om­nipo­tence, and om­ni­science, is equally true of the Son in the spir­i­tual do­mains. The pure and uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity of all cre­ation, this ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual cir­cuit, leads di­rectly back to the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter on Par­a­dise. He pre­sides over the con­trol and op­er­a­tion of that ever-pres­ent and unerring spir­i­tual grasp of all true spirit val­ues. Thus does the Eter­nal Son ex­er­cise ab­so­lute spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty. He lit­er­ally holds all spirit re­al­i­ties and all spir­i­tu­al­ized val­ues, as it were, in the hol­low of his hand. The con­trol of uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual grav­ity is uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty.

• nature › all spirit is actually part of E.S.

7:1.4The re­ac­tions and fluc­tu­a­tions of spirit grav­ity are ever true to the con­tent of spir­i­tual val­ues, the qual­i­ta­tive spir­i­tual sta­tus of an in­di­vid­ual or a world. This draw­ing power is in­stantly re­spon­sive to the in­ter- and in­traspirit val­ues of any uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or plan­e­tary con­di­tion. Ev­ery time a spir­i­tual re­al­ity ac­tu­al­izes in the uni­verses, this change ne­ces­si­tates the im­me­di­ate and in­stan­ta­neous read­just­ment of spirit grav­ity. Such a new spirit is ac­tu­ally a part of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter; and just as cer­tainly as mor­tal man be­comes a spir­i­tized be­ing, he will at­tain the spir­i­tual Son, the cen­ter and source of spirit grav­ity.

• nature › omnipresent spirit distinct from spirit gravity

7:1.7Like the ma­te­rial grav­ity of Par­a­dise, the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son is ab­so­lute. Sin and re­bel­lion may in­ter­fere with the op­er­a­tion of lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits, but noth­ing can sus­pend the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pro­duced many changes in your sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds and on Uran­tia, but we do not ob­serve that the re­sul­tant spir­i­tual quar­an­tine of your planet in the least af­fected the pres­ence and func­tion of ei­ther the om­ni­pres­ent spirit of the Eter­nal Son or the as­so­ci­ated spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit.

• relation to Deity Absolute

7:1.9But along­side this very de­pend­able and pre­dictable func­tion of the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son, there are en­coun­tered phe­nom­ena which are not so pre­dictable in their re­ac­tions. Such phe­nom­ena prob­a­bly in­di­cate the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute in the realms of emerg­ing spir­i­tual po­ten­tials. We know that the spirit pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son is the in­flu­ence of a ma­jes­tic and in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity, but we hardly re­gard the re­ac­tions as­so­ci­ated with the con­jec­tured per­for­mances of the De­ity Ab­so­lute as per­sonal.

7:1.10Viewed from the per­son­al­ity stand­point and by per­sons, the Eter­nal Son and the De­ity Ab­so­lute ap­pear to be re­lated in the fol­low­ing way: The Eter­nal Son dom­i­nates the realm of ac­tual spir­i­tual val­ues, whereas the De­ity Ab­so­lute seems to per­vade the vast do­main of po­ten­tial spirit val­ues. All ac­tual value of spirit na­ture finds lodg­ment in the grav­ity grasp of the Eter­nal Son but, if po­ten­tial, then ap­par­ently in the pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

7:1.11Spirit seems to emerge from the po­ten­tials of the De­ity Ab­so­lute; evolv­ing spirit finds cor­re­la­tion in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial and in­com­plete grasps of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate; spirit even­tu­ally finds fi­nal des­tiny in the ab­so­lute grasp of the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. This ap­pears to be the cy­cle of ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit, but ex­is­ten­tial spirit is in­her­ent in the in­fin­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter.

• bestowals › bestows himself in bestowal of each Son of God
• relation to Deity Absolute

7:2.1On Par­a­dise the pres­ence and per­sonal ac­tiv­ity of the Orig­i­nal Son is pro­found, ab­so­lute in the spir­i­tual sense. As we pass out­ward from Par­a­dise through Ha­vona and into the realms of the seven super­uni­verses, we de­tect less and less of the per­sonal ac­tiv­ity of the Eter­nal Son. In the post-Ha­vona uni­verses the pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son is per­son­al­ized in the Par­a­dise Sons, con­di­tioned by the ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate, and co-or­di­nated with the un­lim­ited spirit po­ten­tial of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

7:2.2In the cen­tral uni­verse the per­sonal ac­tiv­ity of the Orig­i­nal Son is dis­cern­i­ble in the ex­qui­site spir­i­tual har­mony of the eter­nal cre­ation. Ha­vona is so mar­velously per­fect that the spir­i­tual sta­tus and the en­ergy states of this pat­tern uni­verse are in per­fect and per­pet­ual bal­ance.

• functions of the Eternal Son › does not personally function in superuniverses; maintains superpersonal representation
• superpersonalities of

7:2.3In the super­uni­verses the Son is not per­son­ally pres­ent or res­i­dent; in these cre­ations he main­tains only a super­per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tion. These spirit man­i­fes­ta­tions of the Son are not per­sonal; they are not in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We know of no bet­ter term to use than to des­ig­nate them super­per­son­al­i­ties; and they are fi­nite be­ings; they are nei­ther ab­so­nite nor ab­so­lute.

7:2.4The ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Eter­nal Son in the super­uni­verses, be­ing ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual and super­per­sonal, is not dis­cern­i­ble by crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. Nonethe­less, the all-per­vad­ing spir­i­tual urge of the Son’s per­sonal in­flu­ence is en­coun­tered in ev­ery phase of the ac­tiv­i­ties of all sec­tors of the do­mains of the An­cients of Days. In the lo­cal uni­verses, how­ever, we ob­serve the Eter­nal Son per­son­ally pres­ent in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Sons. Here the in­fi­nite Son spir­i­tu­ally and cre­atively func­tions in the per­sons of the ma­jes­tic corps of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons.

• nature › always concerned with our welfare, spiritual security
• nature › spirit is not indwelling like Adjuster’s, but is omnipresent

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.

• functions of the Eternal Son › trustee of Father’s plan of creature ascension

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.

• functions of the Eternal Son › draws near by downstepping gradations of divine sonship

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.

• bestowals › incarnation experiences of Paradise Sons are to E.S. what Father fragments are to Father
• nature › incapable of fragmentation

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.

• bestowals › came to man in incarnation of his Son Michael as Jesus

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.

• bestowals › bestowed himself upon 7 circuits of Havona in times of Grandfanda

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.

• bestowals › did not pass through rest before Paradise; cannot suspend consciousness of personality

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.

• bestowals › bestows himself in bestowal of each Son of God

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.

• bestowals › he who has seen a Paradise Son has seen

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.

• functions of the Eternal Son › personal source of mercy and service of descending Sons

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.

• creation of Eternal Son › original and only-begotten Son of God

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.

• Creator Sons in perfect and constant communication with
• intersonship circuit with Paradise Sons

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.

• nature › spiritually omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent

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.

• functions of the Eternal Son › all knowledge of Father comes from E.S. and Paradise Sons
• nature › spiritual and personal nature of God amplified by divestment of all else

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.

• recognition of the Eternal Son › easier to approach than 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.

• bestowals › came to man in incarnation of his Son Michael as Jesus

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.

• creation of Eternal Son › original and only-begotten Son of God

8:0.1Back in eter­nity, when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s “first” in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute thought finds in the Eter­nal Son such a per­fect and ad­e­quate word for its di­vine ex­pres­sion, there en­sues the su­preme de­sire of both the Thought-God and the Word-God for a uni­ver­sal and in­fi­nite agent of mu­tual ex­pres­sion and com­bined ac­tion.

• functions of the Eternal Son › bestows all possible authority and power upon Conjoint Creator

8:3.2Since the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Third Source, the First Source no more per­son­ally par­tic­i­pates in uni­verse cre­ation. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther del­e­gates ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble to his Eter­nal Son; like­wise does the Eter­nal Son be­stow all pos­si­ble au­thor­ity and power upon the Con­joint Cre­ator.

• attained only through Infinite Spirit
• functions of the Eternal Son › no personality attains Father except through

8:3.7The Eter­nal Son is the only av­enue of ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and the In­fi­nite Spirit is the only means of at­tain­ing the Eter­nal Son. Only by the pa­tient min­istry of the Spirit are the as­cen­dant be­ings of time able to dis­cover the Son.

8:3.8At the cen­ter of all things the In­fi­nite Spirit is the first of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties to be at­tained by the as­cend­ing pil­grims. The Third Per­son en­shrouds the Sec­ond and the First Per­sons and there­fore must al­ways be first rec­og­nized by all who are can­di­dates for pre­sen­ta­tion to the Son and his Fa­ther.

• nature › is mercy

8:4.2God is love, the Son is mercy, the Spirit is min­istry—the min­istry of di­vine love and end­less mercy to all in­tel­li­gent cre­ation. The Spirit is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Fa­ther’s love and the Son’s mercy; in him are they eter­nally united for uni­ver­sal ser­vice. The Spirit is love ap­plied to the crea­ture cre­ation, the com­bined love of the Fa­ther and the Son.

• bestowals › bestowed himself upon 7 circuits of Havona in times of Grandfanda

8:4.3On Uran­tia the In­fi­nite Spirit is known as an om­ni­pres­ent in­flu­ence, a uni­ver­sal pres­ence, but in Ha­vona you shall know him as a per­sonal pres­ence of ac­tual min­istry. Here the min­istry of the Par­a­dise Spirit is the ex­em­plary and in­spir­ing pat­tern for each of his co-or­di­nate Spir­its and sub­or­di­nate per­son­al­i­ties min­is­ter­ing to the cre­ated be­ings on the worlds of time and space. In this di­vine uni­verse the In­fi­nite Spirit fully par­tic­i­pated in the seven tran­scen­den­tal ap­pear­ances of the Eter­nal Son; like­wise did he par­tic­i­pate with the orig­i­nal Mi­chael Son in the seven be­stowals upon the cir­cuits of Ha­vona, thereby be­com­ing the sym­pa­thetic and un­der­stand­ing spirit min­is­ter to ev­ery pil­grim of time travers­ing these per­fect cir­cles on high.

• attained only through Infinite Spirit

8:6.2The In­fi­nite Spirit is a com­plete and per­fect per­son­al­ity, the di­vine equal and co-or­di­nate of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Con­joint Cre­ator is just as real and vis­i­ble to the higher in­tel­li­gences of the uni­verses as are the Fa­ther and the Son; in­deed more so, for it is the Spirit whom all as­cend­ers must at­tain be­fore they may ap­proach the Fa­ther through the Son.

• nature › infinite in wisdom and truth; universal revealer

9:0.2The Fa­ther is in­fi­nite in love and vo­li­tion, in spir­i­tual thought and pur­pose; he is the uni­ver­sal up­holder. The Son is in­fi­nite in wis­dom and truth, in spir­i­tual ex­pres­sion and in­ter­pre­ta­tion; he is the uni­ver­sal re­vealer. Par­a­dise is in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial for force en­dow­ment and in ca­pac­ity for en­ergy dom­i­nance; it is the uni­ver­sal sta­bi­lizer. The Con­joint Ac­tor pos­sesses unique pre­rog­a­tives of syn­the­sis, in­fi­nite ca­pac­ity to co-or­di­nate all ex­ist­ing uni­verse en­er­gies, all ac­tual uni­verse spir­its, and all real uni­verse in­tel­lects; the Third Source and Cen­ter is the uni­ver­sal uni­fier of the man­i­fold en­er­gies and di­verse cre­ations which have ap­peared in con­se­quence of the di­vine plan and the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• nature › absolute spiritual power

9:1.4The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther pre­sides over the realms of pre-en­ergy, pre­spirit, and per­son­al­ity; the Eter­nal Son dom­i­nates the spheres of spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties; the pres­ence of the Isle of Par­a­dise uni­fies the do­main of phys­i­cal en­ergy and ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing power; the Con­joint Ac­tor op­er­ates not only as an in­fi­nite spirit rep­re­sent­ing the Son but also as a uni­ver­sal ma­nip­u­la­tor of the forces and en­er­gies of Par­a­dise, thus bring­ing into ex­is­tence the uni­ver­sal and ab­so­lute mind. The Con­joint Ac­tor func­tions through­out the grand uni­verse as a pos­i­tive and dis­tinct per­son­al­ity, es­pe­cially in the higher spheres of spir­i­tual val­ues, phys­i­cal-en­ergy re­la­tion­ships, and true mind mean­ings. He func­tions specif­i­cally wher­ever and when­ever en­ergy and spirit as­so­ciate and in­ter­act; he dom­i­nates all re­ac­tions with mind, wields great power in the spir­i­tual world, and ex­erts a mighty in­flu­ence over en­ergy and mat­ter. At all times the Third Source is ex­pres­sive of the na­ture of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• creation of Eternal Son › Paradise appeared simultaneously with E.S.

9:1.7And herein is an in­fi­nite mys­tery: That the In­fi­nite si­mul­ta­ne­ously re­vealed his in­fin­ity in the Son and as Par­a­dise, and then there springs into ex­is­tence a be­ing equal to God in di­vin­ity, re­flec­tive of the Son’s spir­i­tual na­ture, and ca­pa­ble of ac­ti­vat­ing the Par­a­dise pat­tern, a be­ing pro­vi­sion­ally sub­or­di­nate in sov­er­eignty but in many ways ap­par­ently the most ver­sa­tile in ac­tion. And such ap­par­ent su­pe­ri­or­ity in ac­tion is dis­closed in an at­tri­bute of the Third Source and Cen­ter which is su­pe­rior even to phys­i­cal grav­ity—the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• nature › oneness with Father and Spirit

10:0.2The Par­a­dise Trin­ity ef­fec­tively pro­vides for the full ex­pres­sion and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of the eter­nal na­ture of De­ity. The Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity like­wise af­ford a full and per­fect rev­e­la­tion of di­vine jus­tice. The Trin­ity is De­ity unity, and this unity rests eter­nally upon the ab­so­lute foun­da­tions of the di­vine one­ness of the three orig­i­nal and co-or­di­nate and co­ex­is­tent per­son­al­i­ties, God the Fa­ther, God the Son, and God the Spirit.

• Eternal Son
• functions of the Eternal Son › all knowledge of Father comes from E.S. and Paradise Sons
• nature › spiritual and personal nature of God amplified by divestment of all else

10:1.4For knowl­edge con­cern­ing the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity and di­vine at­tri­butes we will al­ways be de­pen­dent on the rev­e­la­tions of the Eter­nal Son, for when the con­joint act of cre­ation was ef­fected, when the Third Per­son of De­ity sprang into per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence and ex­e­cuted the com­bined con­cepts of his di­vine par­ents, the Fa­ther ceased to ex­ist as the un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity. With the com­ing into be­ing of the Con­joint Ac­tor and the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of the cen­tral core of cre­ation, cer­tain eter­nal changes took place. God gave him­self as an ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity to his Eter­nal Son. Thus does the Fa­ther be­stow the “per­son­al­ity of in­fin­ity” upon his only-be­got­ten Son, while they both be­stow the “con­joint per­son­al­ity” of their eter­nal union upon the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• nature › revealed in Paradise Sons

10:1.6Since the Par­a­dise Sons of God visit the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and some­times even there dwell in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and since these be­stowals make it pos­si­ble for mor­tal man ac­tu­ally to know some­thing of the na­ture and char­ac­ter of di­vine per­son­al­ity, there­fore must the crea­tures of the plan­e­tary spheres look to the be­stowals of these Par­a­dise Sons for re­li­able and trust­wor­thy in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit.

• nature › Absolute Person

10:2.4The First Source and Cen­ter is the in­fi­nite fa­ther-per­son­al­ity, the un­lim­ited source per­son­al­ity. The Eter­nal Son is the un­qual­i­fied per­son­al­ity-ab­so­lute, that di­vine be­ing who stands through­out all time and eter­nity as the per­fect rev­e­la­tion of the per­sonal na­ture of God. The In­fi­nite Spirit is the con­joint per­son­al­ity, the unique per­sonal con­se­quence of the ev­er­last­ing Fa­ther-Son union.

• Father speaks to universe only through E.S.
• functions of the Eternal Son › all knowledge of Father comes from E.S. and Paradise Sons

10:3.3The di­vine Sons are in­deed the “Word of God,” but the chil­dren of the Spirit are truly the “Act of God.” God speaks through the Son and, with the Son, acts through the In­fi­nite Spirit, while in all uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties the Son and the Spirit are ex­qui­sitely fra­ter­nal, work­ing as two equal broth­ers with ad­mi­ra­tion and love for an hon­ored and di­vinely re­spected com­mon Fa­ther.

• nature › is eternal

10:3.5The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, prior to his self-willed di­vest­ment of the per­son­al­ity, pow­ers, and at­tri­butes which con­sti­tute the Son and the Spirit, seems to have been (phil­o­soph­i­cally con­sid­ered) an un­qual­i­fied, ab­so­lute, and in­fi­nite De­ity. But such a the­o­ret­i­cal First Source and Cen­ter with­out a Son could not in any sense of the word be con­sid­ered the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; fa­ther­hood is not real with­out son­ship. Fur­ther­more, the Fa­ther, to have been ab­so­lute in a to­tal sense, must have ex­isted at some eter­nally dis­tant mo­ment alone. But he never had such a soli­tary ex­is­tence; the Son and the Spirit are both co­eter­nal with the Fa­ther. The First Source and Cen­ter has al­ways been, and will for­ever be, the eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son and, with the Son, the eter­nal pro­gen­i­tor of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• nature › absolute spiritual power
• nature › incapable of fragmentation

10:3.18The Eter­nal Son seems to func­tion as one with the Fa­ther in all spir­i­tual re­spects ex­cept in the be­stowals of the God frag­ments and in other preper­sonal ac­tiv­i­ties. Nei­ther is the Son closely iden­ti­fied with the in­tel­lec­tual ac­tiv­i­ties of ma­te­rial crea­tures nor with the en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of the ma­te­rial uni­verses. As ab­so­lute the Son func­tions as a per­son and only in the do­main of the spir­i­tual uni­verse.

• nature › oneness with Father and Spirit

10:7.1The First, Sec­ond, and Third Per­sons of De­ity are equal to each other, and they are one. “The Lord our God is one God.” There is per­fec­tion of pur­pose and one­ness of ex­e­cu­tion in the di­vine Trin­ity of eter­nal De­i­ties. The Fa­ther, the Son, and the Con­joint Ac­tor are truly and di­vinely one. Of a truth it is writ­ten: “I am the first, and I am the last, and be­side me there is no God.”

• presence immediately enshrouds Father on Paradise

11:1.1Par­a­dise serves many pur­poses in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­ver­sal realms, but to crea­ture be­ings it ex­ists pri­mar­ily as the dwell­ing place of De­ity. The per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is res­i­dent at the very cen­ter of the up­per sur­face of this well-nigh cir­cu­lar, but not spher­i­cal, abode of the De­i­ties. This Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is im­me­di­ately sur­rounded by the per­sonal pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son, while they are both in­vested by the un­speak­able glory of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• creation of Eternal Son › Paradise appeared simultaneously with E.S.

11:9.3In the eter­nity of the past, when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther gave in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion of his spirit self in the be­ing of the Eter­nal Son, si­mul­ta­ne­ously he re­vealed the in­fin­ity po­ten­tial of his non­per­sonal self as Par­a­dise. Non­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual Par­a­dise ap­pears to have been the in­ev­i­ta­ble reper­cus­sion to the Fa­ther’s will and act which eter­nal­ized the Orig­i­nal Son. Thus did the Fa­ther project re­al­ity in two ac­tual phases—the per­sonal and the non­per­sonal, the spir­i­tual and the non­spir­i­tual. The ten­sion be­tween them, in the face of will to ac­tion by the Fa­ther and the Son, gave ex­is­tence to the Con­joint Ac­tor and the cen­tral uni­verse of ma­te­rial worlds and spir­i­tual be­ings.

• active spirit gravity of E.S. calculated

12:3.92. Spir­i­tual Grav­ity. By the same tech­nique of com­par­a­tive es­ti­ma­tion and cal­cu­la­tion these re­searchers have ex­plored the pres­ent re­ac­tion ca­pac­ity of spirit grav­ity and, with the co-op­er­a­tion of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and other spirit per­son­al­i­ties, have ar­rived at the sum­ma­tion of the ac­tive spirit grav­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. And it is most in­struc­tive to note that they find about the same value for the ac­tual and func­tional pres­ence of spirit grav­ity in the grand uni­verse that they pos­tu­late for the pres­ent to­tal of ac­tive spirit grav­ity. In other words: At the pres­ent time prac­ti­cally the en­tire spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, com­puted on this the­ory of to­tal­ity, is ob­serv­able as func­tion­ing in the grand uni­verse. If these find­ings are de­pend­able, we may con­clude that the uni­verses now evolv­ing in outer space are at the pres­ent time wholly non­spir­i­tual. And if this is true, it would sat­is­fac­to­rily ex­plain why spirit-en­dowed be­ings are in pos­ses­sion of lit­tle or no in­for­ma­tion about these vast en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions aside from know­ing the fact of their phys­i­cal ex­is­tence.

• nature › absolute spiritual power

12:8.4The be­stowal of spirit and the spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of per­son­al­i­ties, the do­main of spir­i­tual grav­ity, is the realm of the Eter­nal Son. And this spirit grav­ity of the Son, ever draw­ing all spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties to him­self, is just as real and ab­so­lute as is the all-pow­er­ful ma­te­rial grasp of the Isle of Par­a­dise. But ma­te­rial-minded man is nat­u­rally more fa­mil­iar with the ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions of a phys­i­cal na­ture than with the equally real and mighty op­er­a­tions of a spir­i­tual na­ture which are dis­cerned only by the spir­i­tual in­sight of the soul.

• 7 sacred worlds of E.S.

13:0.4On the seven sa­cred worlds of the Eter­nal Son there ap­pear to take ori­gin the im­per­sonal en­er­gies of spirit lu­mi­nos­ity. No per­sonal be­ing may so­journ on any of these seven shin­ing realms. With spir­i­tual glory they il­lu­mi­nate all Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, and they di­rec­tion­ize pure spirit lu­mi­nos­ity to the seven super­uni­verses. These bril­liant spheres of the sec­ond cir­cuit like­wise emit their light (light with­out heat) to Par­a­dise and to the bil­lion worlds of the seven-cir­cuited cen­tral uni­verse.

• bestowals › incarnation is mystery of E.S.

13:1.8The se­crets of Sonar­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons. When a Son of God be­comes a Son of Man, is lit­er­ally born of woman, as oc­curred on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago, it is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery. It is oc­cur­ring right along through­out the uni­verses, and it is a Sonar­ing­ton se­cret of di­vine son­ship. The Ad­justers are a mys­tery of God the Fa­ther. The in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons is a mys­tery of God the Son; it is a se­cret locked up in the sev­enth sec­tor of Sonar­ing­ton, a realm pen­e­trated by none save those who have per­son­ally passed through this unique ex­pe­ri­ence. Only those phases of in­car­na­tion hav­ing to do with your as­cen­sion ca­reer have been brought to your no­tice. There are many other phases of the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of the Par­a­dise Sons of un­re­vealed types on mis­sions of uni­verse ser­vice which are undis­closed to you. And there are still other Sonar­ing­ton mys­ter­ies.

13:3.1The seven lu­mi­nous spheres of the Eter­nal Son are the worlds of the seven phases of pure-spirit ex­is­tence. These shin­ing orbs are the source of the three­fold light of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, their in­flu­ence be­ing largely, but not wholly, con­fined to the cen­tral uni­verse.

13:3.2Per­son­al­ity is not pres­ent on these Par­a­dise satel­lites; there­fore is there lit­tle con­cern­ing these pure-spirit abodes which can be pre­sented to the mor­tal and ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity. We are taught that these worlds teem with the oth­er­wise-than-per­sonal life of the be­ings of the Eter­nal Son. We in­fer that these en­ti­ties are be­ing as­sem­bled for min­istry in the pro­jected new uni­verses of outer space. The Par­a­dise philoso­phers main­tain that each Par­a­dise cy­cle, about two bil­lion years of Uran­tia time, wit­nesses the cre­ation of ad­di­tional re­serves of these or­ders on the se­cret worlds of the Eter­nal Son.

13:3.3As far as I am in­formed, no per­son­al­ity has ever been on any one of these spheres of the Eter­nal Son. I have never been as­signed to visit one of these worlds in all my long ex­pe­ri­ence in and out of Par­a­dise. Even the per­son­al­i­ties cocre­ated by the Eter­nal Son do not go to these worlds. We in­fer that all types of im­per­sonal spir­its—re­gard­less of parent­age—are ad­mit­ted to these spirit homes. As I am a per­son and have a spirit form, no doubt such a world would seem empty and de­serted even if I were per­mit­ted to pay it a visit. High spirit per­son­al­i­ties are not given to the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pur­pose­less cu­rios­ity, purely use­less ad­ven­ture. There is at all times al­to­gether too much in­trigu­ing and pur­pose­ful ad­ven­ture to per­mit the de­vel­op­ment of any great in­ter­est in those projects which are ei­ther fu­tile or un­real.

• nature › absolute spiritual power

14:2.6All nat­u­ral law is co-or­di­nated on a ba­sis en­tirely dif­fer­ent than in the dual-en­ergy sys­tems of the evolv­ing cre­ations. The en­tire cen­tral uni­verse is or­ga­nized in ac­cor­dance with the three­fold sys­tem of per­fect and sym­met­ri­cal con­trol. Through­out the whole Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem there is main­tained a per­fect bal­ance be­tween all cos­mic re­al­i­ties and all spir­i­tual forces. Par­a­dise, with an ab­so­lute grasp of ma­te­rial cre­ation, per­fectly reg­u­lates and main­tains the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of this cen­tral uni­verse; the Eter­nal Son, as a part of his all-em­brac­ing spirit grasp, most per­fectly sus­tains the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all who in­dwell Ha­vona. On Par­a­dise noth­ing is ex­per­i­men­tal, and the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem is a unit of cre­ative per­fec­tion.

• functions of the Eternal Son › draws all spirit personalities and spirit realities to himself

14:2.7The uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son is amaz­ingly ac­tive through­out the cen­tral uni­verse. All spirit val­ues and spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties are un­ceas­ingly drawn in­ward to­wards the abode of the Gods. This God­ward urge is in­tense and in­es­cap­able. The am­bi­tion to at­tain God is stronger in the cen­tral uni­verse, not be­cause spirit grav­ity is stronger than in the out­ly­ing uni­verses, but be­cause those be­ings who have at­tained Ha­vona are more fully spir­i­tu­al­ized and hence more re­spon­sive to the ever-pres­ent ac­tion of the uni­ver­sal spirit-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son.

14:2.8Like­wise does the In­fi­nite Spirit draw all in­tel­lec­tual val­ues Par­adis­e­ward. Through­out the cen­tral uni­verse the mind grav­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit func­tions in li­ai­son with the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, and these to­gether con­sti­tute the com­bined urge of the as­cen­dant souls to find God, to at­tain De­ity, to achieve Par­a­dise, and to know the Fa­ther.

• nature › Second Person of Deity
• satisfactions afforded by Havona

14:6.122. The Eter­nal Son—the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. To the Eter­nal Son the su­perb cen­tral cre­ation af­fords eter­nal proof of the part­ner­ship ef­fec­tive­ness of the di­vine fam­ily—Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit. It is the spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial ba­sis for ab­so­lute con­fi­dence in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

14:6.13Ha­vona af­fords the Eter­nal Son an al­most un­lim­ited base for the ever-ex­pand­ing re­al­iza­tion of spirit power. The cen­tral uni­verse af­forded the Eter­nal Son the arena wherein he could safely and se­curely demon­strate the spirit and tech­nique of the be­stowal min­istry for the in­struc­tion of his as­so­ciate Par­a­dise Sons.

14:6.14Ha­vona is the re­al­ity foun­da­tion for the Eter­nal Son’s spirit-grav­ity con­trol of the uni­verse of uni­verses. This uni­verse af­fords the Son the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of pa­ren­tal crav­ing, spir­i­tual re­pro­duc­tion.

• nature › Word of God

14:6.15The Ha­vona worlds and their per­fect in­hab­i­tants are the first and the eter­nally fi­nal dem­on­stra­tion that the Son is the Word of the Fa­ther. Thereby is the con­scious­ness of the Son as an in­fi­nite com­ple­ment of the Fa­ther per­fectly grat­i­fied.

14:6.16And this uni­verse af­fords the op­por­tu­nity for the re­al­iza­tion of re­cip­ro­ca­tion of equal­ity fra­ter­nity be­tween the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, and this con­sti­tutes the ev­er­last­ing proof of the in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity of each.

• intersonship circuit with Paradise Sons

15:9.74. The cir­cuit of the in­ter­com­mu­nion of the Eter­nal Son with his Par­a­dise Sons.

• Reflective Image Aids represent superpersonal agents of
• superpersonalities of

15:10.21The Re­flec­tive Im­age Aids also func­tion as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of nu­mer­ous groups of be­ings who are in­flu­en­tial in the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments, but who are not, at pres­ent, for var­i­ous rea­sons, fully ac­tive in their in­di­vid­ual ca­pac­i­ties. Em­braced within this group are: the evolv­ing super­uni­verse per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing, the Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme, the Qual­i­fied Vicegerents of the Ul­ti­mate, the un­named li­ai­son re­flec­ti­va­tors of Maj­es­ton, and the super­per­sonal spirit rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Eter­nal Son.

• nature › revealed in Paradise Sons

16:2.1Just as the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Son is re­vealed through the per­sons of the con­stantly in­creas­ing num­ber of di­vine Sons, so is the In­fi­nite and Di­vine Spirit re­vealed through the chan­nels of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and their as­so­ci­ated spirit groups. At the cen­ter of cen­ters the In­fi­nite Spirit is ap­proach­able, but not all who at­tain Par­a­dise are im­me­di­ately able to dis­cern his per­son­al­ity and dif­fer­en­ti­ated pres­ence; but all who at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse can and do im­me­di­ately com­mune with one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the one pre­sid­ing over the super­uni­verse from which the newly ar­rived space pil­grim hails.

• Father speaks to universe only through E.S.

16:2.2To the uni­verse of uni­verses the Par­a­dise Fa­ther speaks only through his Son, while he and the Son con­jointly act only through the In­fi­nite Spirit. Out­side of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona the In­fi­nite Spirit speaks only by the voices of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

• functions of the Eternal Son › draws all spirit personalities and spirit realities to himself
• intersonship circuit with Paradise Sons
• nature › absolute spiritual power

20:1.13The Cre­ator Sons seem to pos­sess a spir­i­tual en­dow­ment cen­ter­ing in their per­sons, which they con­trol and which they can be­stow, as did your own Cre­ator Son when he poured out his spirit upon all mor­tal flesh on Uran­tia. Each Cre­ator Son is en­dowed with this spir­i­tual draw­ing power in his own realm; he is per­son­ally con­scious of ev­ery act and emo­tion of ev­ery de­scend­ing Son of God serv­ing in his do­main. Here is a di­vine re­flec­tion, a lo­cal uni­verse du­pli­ca­tion, of that ab­so­lute spir­i­tual draw­ing power of the Eter­nal Son which en­ables him to reach out to make and main­tain con­tact with all his Par­a­dise Sons, no mat­ter where they may be in all the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• creation of Eternal Son › perfect expression of Father’s first absolute and infinite thought
• nature › Word of God

20:5.1The Eter­nal Son is the eter­nal Word of God. The Eter­nal Son is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the “first” ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite thought of his eter­nal Fa­ther. When a per­sonal du­pli­ca­tion or di­vine ex­ten­sion of this Orig­i­nal Son starts on a be­stowal mis­sion of mor­tal in­car­na­tion, it be­comes lit­er­ally true that the di­vine “Word is made flesh,” and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly be­ings of an­i­mal ori­gin.

• bestowals › he who has seen a Paradise Son has seen

20:6.5The mor­tal-be­stowal ca­reers of the Mi­cha­els and the Avo­nals, while com­pa­ra­ble in most re­spects, are not iden­ti­cal in all: Never does a Mag­is­te­rial Son pro­claim, “Whoso­ever has seen the Son has seen the Fa­ther,” as did your Cre­ator Son when on Uran­tia and in the flesh. But a be­stowed Avo­nal does de­clare, “Whoso­ever has seen me has seen the Eter­nal Son of God.” The Mag­is­te­rial Sons are not of im­me­di­ate de­scent from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, nor do they in­car­nate sub­ject to the Fa­ther’s will; al­ways do they be­stow them­selves as Par­a­dise Sons sub­ject to the will of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

• also known as › Eternal Mother Son

21:1.3The di­vine na­tures of these Cre­ator Sons are, in prin­ci­ple, de­rived equally from the at­tri­butes of both Par­a­dise par­ents. All par­take of the full­ness of the di­vine na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and of the cre­ative pre­rog­a­tives of the Eter­nal Son, but as we ob­serve the prac­ti­cal out­work­ing of the Mi­chael func­tions in the uni­verses, we dis­cern ap­par­ent dif­fer­ences. Some Cre­ator Sons ap­pear to be more like God the Fa­ther; oth­ers more like God the Son. For ex­am­ple: The trend of ad­min­is­tra­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don sug­gests that its Cre­ator and rul­ing Son is one whose na­ture and char­ac­ter more re­sem­ble that of the Eter­nal Mother Son. It should be fur­ther stated that some uni­verses are pre­sided over by Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els who ap­pear equally to re­sem­ble God the Fa­ther and God the Son. And these ob­ser­va­tions are in no sense im­plied crit­i­cisms; they are sim­ply a record­ing of fact.

• also known as › Eternal Mother Son
• Creator Sons in perfect and constant communication with

21:5.10The Mas­ter Sons seem to be in per­fect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with their be­stowal worlds, not only the worlds of their per­sonal so­journ but all worlds whereon a Mag­is­te­rial Son has be­stowed him­self. This con­tact is main­tained by their own spir­i­tual pres­ence, the Spirit of Truth, which they are able to “pour out upon all flesh.” These Mas­ter Sons also main­tain an un­bro­ken con­nec­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son at the cen­ter of all things. They pos­sess a sym­pa­thetic reach which ex­tends from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on high to the lowly races of plan­e­tary life in the realms of time.

• functions of the Eternal Son › no personality attains Father except through

26:1.15All or­ders of the an­gelic hosts are de­voted to the var­i­ous uni­verse ser­vices, and they min­is­ter in one way or an­other to the higher or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings; but it is the super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, and ser­a­phim who, in large num­bers, are em­ployed in the fur­ther­ance of the as­cend­ing scheme of pro­gres­sive per­fec­tion for the chil­dren of time. Func­tion­ing in the cen­tral, su­per-, and lo­cal uni­verses, they form that un­bro­ken chain of spirit min­is­ters which has been pro­vided by the In­fi­nite Spirit for the help and guid­ance of all who seek to at­tain the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through the Eter­nal Son.

• recognition of the Eternal Son › ascenders recognize E.S. on 4th circuit of Havona

26:8.1The fourth Ha­vona cir­cuit is some­times called the “cir­cuit of the Sons.” From the worlds of this cir­cuit the as­cend­ing pil­grims go to Par­a­dise to achieve an un­der­stand­ing con­tact with the Eter­nal Son, while on the worlds of this cir­cuit the de­scend­ing pil­grims achieve a new com­pre­hen­sion of the na­ture and mis­sion of the Cre­ator Sons of time and space. There are seven worlds in this cir­cuit on which the re­serve corps of the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els main­tain spe­cial ser­vice schools of mu­tual min­istry to both the as­cend­ing and de­scend­ing pil­grims; and it is on these worlds of the Mi­chael Sons that the pil­grims of time and the pil­grims of eter­nity ar­rive at their first truly mu­tual un­der­stand­ing of one an­other. In many re­spects the ex­pe­ri­ences of this cir­cuit are the most in­trigu­ing of the en­tire Ha­vona so­journ.

26:8.2The Son find­ers are the super­aphic min­is­ters to the as­cend­ing mor­tals of the fourth cir­cuit. In ad­di­tion to the gen­eral work of prepar­ing their can­di­dates for a re­al­iza­tion of the Trin­ity re­la­tion­ships of the Eter­nal Son, these Son find­ers must so fully in­struct their sub­jects that they will be wholly suc­cess­ful: first, in the ad­e­quate spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion of the Son; sec­ond, in the sat­is­fac­tory per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion of the Son; and third, in the proper dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Son from the per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• in Uversa personality register

30:2.122. The Eter­nal Son.

• Jesus was not the E.S.
• recognition of the Eternal Son › Michael possesses all attributes of E.S., were E.S. in Nebadon

33:1.2Our Cre­ator Son is not the Eter­nal Son, the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise as­so­ciate of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is not a mem­ber of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Nev­er­the­less our Mas­ter Son pos­sesses in his realm all of the di­vine at­tri­butes and pow­ers that the Eter­nal Son him­self would man­i­fest were he ac­tu­ally to be pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don. Mi­chael pos­sesses even ad­di­tional power and au­thor­ity, for he not only per­son­i­fies the Eter­nal Son but also fully rep­re­sents and ac­tu­ally em­bod­ies the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to and in this lo­cal uni­verse. He even rep­re­sents the Fa­ther-Son. These re­la­tion­ships con­sti­tute a Cre­ator Son the most pow­er­ful, ver­sa­tile, and in­flu­en­tial of all di­vine be­ings who are ca­pa­ble of di­rect ad­min­is­tra­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and of per­son­al­ity con­tact with im­ma­ture crea­ture be­ings.

• nature › not limited by time or space

34:3.1Nei­ther the Eter­nal Son nor the In­fi­nite Spirit is lim­ited or con­di­tioned by ei­ther time or space, but most of their off­spring are.

• Creator Sons in perfect and constant communication with

34:3.5Though the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son op­er­ates in­de­pen­dently of both time and space, all func­tions of the Cre­ator Sons are not ex­empt from space lim­i­ta­tions. If the trans­ac­tions of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds are ex­cepted, these Mi­chael Sons seem to be able to op­er­ate rel­a­tively in­de­pen­dent of time. A Cre­ator Son is not hand­i­capped by time, but he is con­di­tioned by space; he can­not per­son­ally be in two places at the same time. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don acts time­lessly within his own uni­verse and by re­flec­tiv­ity prac­ti­cally so in the super­uni­verse. He com­mu­ni­cates time­lessly with the Eter­nal Son di­rectly.

• nature › spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in

44:5.43. Spir­i­tual-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. The ma­nip­u­la­tors of spir­i­tual en­ergy are an in­trigu­ing group. Spir­i­tual en­ergy acts in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished laws, just as does phys­i­cal en­ergy. That is, spirit force, when stud­ied, yields de­pend­able de­duc­tions and can be pre­cisely dealt with, even as can the phys­i­cal en­er­gies. There are just as cer­tain and re­li­able laws in the spirit world as ob­tain in the ma­te­rial realms. Dur­ing the last few mil­lions of years many im­proved tech­niques for the in­take of spir­i­tual en­ergy have been ef­fected by these stu­dents of the fun­da­men­tal laws of the Eter­nal Son gov­ern­ing spirit en­ergy as ap­plied to the mor­ontia and other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings through­out the uni­verses.

• recognition of the Eternal Son › Planetary Princes are nearest personal approach of E.S. (aside from incarnation) to man

50:1.1The Plan­e­tary Prince and his as­sis­tant breth­ren rep­re­sent the near­est per­son­al­ized ap­proach (aside from in­car­na­tion) that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise can make to the lowly crea­tures of time and space. True, the Cre­ator Son touches the crea­tures of the realms through his spirit, but the Plan­e­tary Prince is the last of the or­ders of per­sonal Sons ex­tend­ing out from Par­a­dise to the chil­dren of men. The In­fi­nite Spirit comes very near in the per­sons of the guard­i­ans of des­tiny and other an­gelic be­ings; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther lives in man by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors; but the Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sents the last ef­fort of the Eter­nal Son and his Sons to draw near you. On a newly in­hab­ited world the Plan­e­tary Prince is the sole rep­re­sen­ta­tive of com­plete di­vin­ity, spring­ing from the Cre­ator Son (the off­spring of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son) and the Di­vine Min­is­ter (the uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit).

• nature › Word of God

56:2.1The Thought-Fa­ther re­al­izes spirit ex­pres­sion in the Word-Son and at­tains re­al­ity ex­pan­sion through Par­a­dise in the far-flung ma­te­rial uni­verses. The spir­i­tual ex­pres­sions of the Eter­nal Son are cor­re­lated with the ma­te­rial lev­els of cre­ation by the func­tions of the In­fi­nite Spirit, by whose spirit-re­spon­sive min­istry of mind, and in whose phys­i­cal-di­rec­tive acts of mind, the spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of De­ity and the ma­te­rial reper­cus­sions of De­ity are cor­re­lated the one with the other.

• creation of Eternal Son › Paradise appeared simultaneously with E.S.

56:2.2Mind is the func­tional en­dow­ment of the In­fi­nite Spirit, there­fore in­fi­nite in po­ten­tial and uni­ver­sal in be­stowal. The pri­mal thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther eter­nal­izes in dual ex­pres­sion: the Isle of Par­a­dise and his De­ity equal, the spir­i­tual and Eter­nal Son. Such du­al­ity of eter­nal re­al­ity ren­ders the mind God, the In­fi­nite Spirit, in­ev­i­ta­ble. Mind is the in­dis­pens­able chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties. The ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture can con­ceive and com­pre­hend the in­dwelling spirit only by the min­istry of mind.

• nature › spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in

56:3.1As the uni­ver­sal mind grav­ity is cen­tered in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, so does the uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity cen­ter in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is one, but to time-space he is re­vealed in the dual phe­nom­ena of pure en­ergy and pure spirit.

• nature › unifies all time-space spirit

56:3.4While mind is more uni­fied on the level of the Mas­ter Spir­its in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Su­preme Be­ing and as the cos­mic mind in sub­or­di­na­tion to the Ab­so­lute Mind, the spirit min­istry to the evolv­ing worlds is more di­rectly uni­fied in the per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent on the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses and in the per­sons of the pre­sid­ing Di­vine Min­is­ters, who are in turn well-nigh per­fectly cor­re­lated with the Par­a­dise grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son, wherein oc­curs fi­nal uni­fi­ca­tion of all time-space spirit man­i­fes­ta­tions.

• nature › Second Person of Deity

56:7.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, and the In­fi­nite Spirit are ex­is­ten­tial de­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions to in­tel­li­gent crea­tures and are not, there­fore, sim­i­larly ex­panded in per­son­al­ity re­la­tions with the mind and spirit crea­tures of all cre­ation.

• nature › Absolute Person

56:9.5As crea­ture minds may view this prob­lem, they are led to the fi­nal pos­tu­late of the Uni­ver­sal I AM as the pri­mal cause and the un­qual­i­fied source of both the Trin­ity and the Ab­so­lute. When, there­fore, we crave to en­ter­tain a per­sonal con­cept of the Ab­so­lute, we re­vert to our ideas and ide­als of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. When we de­sire to fa­cil­i­tate com­pre­hen­sion or to aug­ment con­scious­ness of this oth­er­wise im­per­sonal Ab­so­lute, we re­vert to the fact that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the ex­is­ten­tial Fa­ther of ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity; the Eter­nal Son is the Ab­so­lute Per­son, though not, in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial sense, the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Ab­so­lute. And then we go on to en­vis­age the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­i­ties as cul­mi­nat­ing in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­iza­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, while con­ceiv­ing the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute as con­sti­tut­ing the uni­verse and the ex­trau­ni­verse phe­nom­ena of the man­i­fest pres­ence of the im­per­sonal ac­tiv­i­ties of the uni­fied and co-or­di­nated De­ity as­so­ci­a­tions of su­prem­acy, ul­ti­macy, and in­fin­ity—the Trin­ity of Trin­i­ties.

• nature › knows Father as infinity

56:9.6God the Fa­ther is dis­cern­i­ble on all lev­els from the fi­nite to the in­fi­nite, and though his crea­tures from Par­a­dise to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds have var­i­ously per­ceived him, only the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit know him as an in­fin­ity.

• Jesus was not the E.S.

104:1.11The first Trin­ity of Chris­tian­ity was pro­claimed at An­ti­och and con­sisted of God, his Word, and his Wis­dom. Paul knew of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity of Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit, but he sel­dom preached about it and made men­tion thereof in only a few of his let­ters to the newly form­ing churches. Even then, as did his fel­low apos­tles, Paul con­fused Je­sus, the Cre­ator Son of the lo­cal uni­verse, with the Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity, the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

• triunity and triodity membership

104:4.3The First Tri­unity—the per­sonal-pur­po­sive tri­unity. This is the group­ing of the three De­ity per­son­al­i­ties:

• triunity and triodity membership

104:4.9The Sec­ond Tri­unity—the power-pat­tern tri­unity. Whether it be a tiny ul­ti­ma­ton, a blaz­ing star, or a whirling neb­ula, even the cen­tral or super­uni­verses, from the small­est to the largest ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions, al­ways is the phys­i­cal pat­tern—the cos­mic con­fig­u­ra­tion—de­rived from the func­tion of this tri­unity. This as­so­ci­a­tion con­sists of:

• triunity and triodity membership

104:4.16The Third Tri­unity—the spirit-evo­lu­tional tri­unity. The en­tirety of spir­i­tual man­i­fes­ta­tion has its be­gin­ning and end in this as­so­ci­a­tion, con­sist­ing of:

• triunity and triodity membership

104:5.2The Tri­odity of Ac­tu­al­ity. This tri­odity con­sists in the in­ter­re­la­tion­ship of the three ab­so­lute ac­tu­als:

• nature › Absolute of actuality
• nature › Absolute Person

104:5.6The Eter­nal Son is the ab­so­lute of spirit re­al­ity, the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity. The Par­a­dise Isle is the ab­so­lute of cos­mic re­al­ity, the ab­so­lute pat­tern. The Con­joint Ac­tor is the ab­so­lute of mind re­al­ity, the co-or­di­nate of ab­so­lute spirit re­al­ity, and the ex­is­ten­tial De­ity syn­the­sis of per­son­al­ity and power. This tri­une as­so­ci­a­tion even­tu­ates the co-or­di­na­tion of the sum to­tal of ac­tu­al­ized re­al­ity—spirit, cos­mic, or mindal. It is un­qual­i­fied in ac­tu­al­ity.

• creation of Eternal Son

105:2.51. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I AM fa­ther of the Eter­nal Son. This is the pri­mal per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ship of ac­tu­al­i­ties. The ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Son makes ab­so­lute the fact of God’s fa­ther­hood and es­tab­lishes the po­ten­tial son­ship of all per­son­al­i­ties. This re­la­tion­ship es­tab­lishes the per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite and con­sum­mates its spir­i­tual rev­e­la­tion in the per­son­al­ity of the Orig­i­nal Son. This phase of the I AM is par­tially ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble on spir­i­tual lev­els even by mor­tals who, while yet in the flesh, may wor­ship our Fa­ther.

• functions of the Eternal Son › no personality attains Father except through
• nature
• nature › Absolute Person

105:3.32. The Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. Sec­ond Per­son of De­ity, the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Son; the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity re­al­i­ties of the I AM and the ba­sis for the re­al­iza­tion-rev­e­la­tion of “I AM per­son­al­ity.” No per­son­al­ity can hope to at­tain the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ex­cept through his Eter­nal Son; nei­ther can per­son­al­ity at­tain to spirit lev­els of ex­is­tence apart from the ac­tion and aid of this ab­so­lute pat­tern for all per­son­al­i­ties. In the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter spirit is un­qual­i­fied while per­son­al­ity is ab­so­lute.

• functions of the Eternal Son › draws near by downstepping gradations of divine sonship

107:1.7As the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther frag­men­tizes his preper­sonal De­ity, so does the In­fi­nite Spirit in­di­vid­u­ate por­tions of his pre­mind spirit to in­dwell and ac­tu­ally to fuse with the evo­lu­tion­ary souls of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals of the spirit-fu­sion se­ries. But the na­ture of the Eter­nal Son is not thus frag­mentable; the spirit of the Orig­i­nal Son is ei­ther dif­fuse or dis­cretely per­sonal. Son-fused crea­tures are united with in­di­vid­u­al­ized be­stowals of the spirit of the Cre­ator Sons of the Eter­nal Son.

• nature › Absolute of actuality

115:3.72. The Ac­tual. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of ac­tu­al­ity, the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters. This tri­odity of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Par­a­dise Isle con­sti­tutes the ac­tual rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• nature › Absolute of actuality

115:3.83. The Po­ten­tial. The union of the three Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity, the De­ity, Un­qual­i­fied, and Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lutes. This tri­odity of ex­is­ten­tial po­ten­tial­ity con­sti­tutes the po­ten­tial rev­e­la­tion of the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• nature › Absolute of actuality

115:3.10In the as­so­ci­a­tion of the De­ity, Uni­ver­sal, and Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lutes, po­ten­tial­ity is ab­so­lute while ac­tu­al­ity is emer­gent; in the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Sec­ond, Third, and Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, ac­tu­al­ity is ab­so­lute while po­ten­tial­ity is emer­gent; in the orig­i­nal­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, we can­not say that ei­ther ac­tu­al­ity or po­ten­tial­ity is ei­ther ex­is­tent or emer­gent—the Fa­ther is.

• personality of E.S. is master pattern for all personality

115:3.14It is in the tri­odity of ac­tu­al­ity that the ex­is­tents of the cos­mos have their cen­ter; be it spirit, mind, or en­ergy, all cen­ter in this as­so­ci­a­tion of the Son, the Spirit, and Par­a­dise. The per­son­al­ity of the spirit Son is the mas­ter pat­tern for all per­son­al­ity through­out all uni­verses. The sub­stance of the Par­a­dise Isle is the mas­ter pat­tern of which Ha­vona is a per­fect, and the super­uni­verses are a per­fect­ing, rev­e­la­tion. The Con­joint Ac­tor is at one and the same time the mind ac­ti­va­tion of cos­mic en­ergy, the con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion of spirit pur­pose, and the in­te­gra­tion of the math­e­mat­i­cal causes and ef­fects of the ma­te­rial lev­els with the vo­li­tional pur­poses and mo­tives of the spir­i­tual level. In and to a fi­nite uni­verse the Son, Spirit, and Par­a­dise func­tion in and upon the Ul­ti­mate as he is con­di­tioned and qual­i­fied in the Su­preme.

• bestowals › bestows himself in bestowal of each Son of God

116:3.32. The per­son­al­ity rev­e­la­tions of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. The mind pres­ences of the Con­joint Ac­tor unify the spirit of di­vin­ity with the pat­tern of en­ergy. The be­stowal in­car­na­tions of the Eter­nal Son and his Par­a­dise Sons unify, ac­tu­ally fuse, the di­vine na­ture of a Cre­ator with the evolv­ing na­ture of a crea­ture. The Su­preme is both crea­ture and cre­ator; the pos­si­bil­ity of his be­ing such is re­vealed in the be­stowal ac­tions of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate Sons. The be­stowal or­ders of son­ship, the Mi­cha­els and the Avo­nals, ac­tu­ally aug­ment their di­vine na­tures with bona fide crea­ture na­tures which have be­come theirs by the liv­ing of the ac­tual crea­ture life on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. When di­vin­ity be­comes like hu­man­ity, in­her­ent in this re­la­tion­ship is the pos­si­bil­ity that hu­man­ity can be­come di­vine.

• nature › spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in

116:7.4Mor­tal man is re­spon­sive to spirit guid­ance, even as the grand uni­verse re­sponds to the far-flung spirit-grav­ity grasp of the Eter­nal Son, the uni­ver­sal super­ma­te­rial co­he­sion of the eter­nal spir­i­tual val­ues of all the cre­ations of the fi­nite cos­mos of time and space.

• functions of the Eternal Son › finaliters allied with spirit-gravity circuit of

117:5.3The evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul of man, the joint cre­ation of the ma­te­rial mind and the Ad­juster, as­cends as such to Par­a­dise and sub­se­quently, when mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, be­comes al­lied in some new way with the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son by a tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence known as fi­nal­i­ter tran­scen­da­tion. Such fi­nal­i­ters thus be­come ac­cept­able can­di­dates for ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion as per­son­al­i­ties of God the Su­preme. And when these mor­tal in­tel­lects in the un­re­vealed fu­ture as­sign­ments of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity at­tain the sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, such dual minds will be­come tri­une. These two at­tuned minds, the hu­man and the di­vine, will be­come glo­ri­fied in union with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind of the then ac­tu­al­ized Su­preme Be­ing.

• bestowals › bestowed himself upon 7 circuits of Havona in times of Grandfanda

119:0.2The at­tri­bute of be­stowal is in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In their de­sire to come close to the life ex­pe­ri­ences of their sub­or­di­nate liv­ing crea­tures, the var­i­ous or­ders of the Par­a­dise Sons are re­flect­ing the di­vine na­ture of their Par­a­dise par­ents. The Eter­nal Son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity led the way in this prac­tice, hav­ing seven times be­stowed him­self upon the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona dur­ing the times of the as­cen­sion of Grand­fanda and the first of the pil­grims from time and space. And the Eter­nal Son con­tin­ues to be­stow him­self upon the lo­cal uni­verses of space in the per­sons of his rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the Mi­chael and Avo­nal Sons.

• accepted Michael’s bestowal at transfiguration

158:3.21. The ac­cep­tance of the full­ness of the be­stowal of the in­car­nated life of Mi­chael on Uran­tia by the Eter­nal Mother-Son of Par­a­dise. As far as con­cerned the re­quire­ments of the Eter­nal Son, Je­sus had now re­ceived as­sur­ance of their ful­fill­ment. And Ga­briel brought Je­sus that as­sur­ance.

• Jesus was not the E.S.

161:1.61. The Fa­ther in Par­a­dise does en­joy equal­ity of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with at least two other be­ings who are fully equal to him­self and wholly like him­self—the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit. In view of the doc­trine of the Trin­ity, the Greek was com­pelled to con­cede the per­son­al­ity pos­si­bil­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. (It was the later con­sid­er­a­tion of these dis­cus­sions which led to the en­larged con­cep­tion of the Trin­ity in the minds of the twelve apos­tles. Of course, it was the gen­eral be­lief that Je­sus was the Eter­nal Son.)

• nature › spiritual and personal nature of God amplified by divestment of all else

169:4.10He was, in­deed, the Son of even the Elo­him God; but in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh and to the mor­tal sons of God, he chose to limit his life rev­e­la­tion to the por­trayal of his Fa­ther’s char­ac­ter in so far as such a rev­e­la­tion might be com­pre­hen­si­ble to mor­tal man. As re­gards the char­ac­ter of the other per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, we shall have to be con­tent with the teach­ing that they are al­to­gether like the Fa­ther, who has been re­vealed in per­sonal por­trai­ture in the life of his in­car­nated Son, Je­sus of Naz­a­reth.

• nature › unqualified in volition

195:6.14The fact of the ab­so­lute mech­a­nism of Par­a­dise at the cen­ter of the uni­verse of uni­verses, in the pres­ence of the un­qual­i­fied vo­li­tion of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter, makes for­ever cer­tain that de­ter­min­ers are not the ex­clu­sive law of the cos­mos. Ma­te­ri­al­ism is there, but it is not ex­clu­sive; mech­a­nism is there, but it is not un­qual­i­fied; de­ter­min­ism is there, but it is not alone.