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Urantia Book Paper 6 The Eternal Son
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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Paper 6 The Eternal Son
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Introduction
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THE Eternal Son is the perfect and final expression of the "first" personal and
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absolute concept of the Universal Father. Accordingly, whenever and however the
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Father personally and absolutely expresses himself, he does so through his
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Eternal Son, who ever has been, now is, and ever will be, the living and divine
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Word. And this Eternal Son is residential at the center of all things, in
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association with, and immediately enshrouding the personal presence of, the
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Eternal and Universal Father.
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We speak of God's "first" thought and allude to an impossible time origin of
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the Eternal Son for the purpose of gaining access to the thought channels of
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the human intellect. Such distortions of language represent our best efforts at
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contact-compromise with the time-bound minds of mortal creatures. In the
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sequential sense the Universal Father never could have had a first thought, nor
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could the Eternal Son ever have had a beginning. But I was instructed to
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portray the realities of eternity to the time-limited minds of mortals by such
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symbols of thought and to designate the relationships of eternity by such time
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concepts of sequentiality.
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The Eternal Son is the spiritual personalization of the Paradise Father's
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universal and infinite concept of divine reality, unqualified spirit, and
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absolute personality. And thereby does the Son constitute the divine revelation
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of the creator identity of the Universal Father. The perfect personality of the
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Son discloses that the Father is actually the eternal and universal source of
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all the meanings and values of the spiritual, the volitional, the purposeful,
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and the personal.
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In an effort to enable the finite mind of time to form some sequential concept
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of the relationships of the eternal and infinite beings of the Paradise
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Trinity, we utilize such license of conception as to refer to the "Father's
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first personal, universal, and infinite concept." It is impossible for me to
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convey to the human mind any adequate idea of the eternal relations of the
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Deities; therefore do I employ such terms as will afford the finite mind
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something of an idea of the relationship of these eternal beings in the
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subsequent eras of time. We believe the Son sprang from the Father; we are
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taught that both are unqualifiedly eternal. It is apparent, therefore, that no
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time creature can ever fully comprehend this mystery of a Son who is derived
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from the Father, and yet who is co-ordinately eternal with the Father himself.
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1. IDENTITY OF THE ETERNAL SON
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The Eternal Son is the original and only-begotten Son of God. He is God the
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Son, the Second Person of Deity and the associate creator of all things. As the
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Father is the First Great Source and Center, so the Eternal Son is the Second
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Great Source and Center.
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The Eternal Son is the spiritual center and the divine administrator of the
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spiritual government of the universe of universes. The Universal Father is
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first a creator and then a controller; the Eternal Son is first a cocreator and
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then a spiritual administrator. "God is spirit," and the Son is a personal
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revelation of that spirit. The First Source and Center is the Volitional
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Absolute; the Second Source and Center is the Personality Absolute.
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The Universal Father never personally functions as a creator except in
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conjunction with the Son or with the co-ordinate action of the Son. Had the New
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Testament writer referred to the Eternal Son, he would have uttered the truth
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when he wrote: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
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the Word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything
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made that was made."
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When a Son of the Eternal Son appeared on Urantia, those who fraternized with
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this divine being in human form alluded to him as "He who was from the
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beginning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, whom we have
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looked upon, and our hands have handled, even the Word of life." And this
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bestowal Son came forth from the Father just as truly as did the Original Son,
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as is suggested in one of his earthly prayers: "And now, O my Father, glorify
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me with your own self, with the glory which I had with you before this world
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was."
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The Eternal Son is known by different names in various universes. In the
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central universe he is known as the Co-ordinate Source, the Cocreator, and the
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Associate Absolute. On Uversa, the headquarters of the superuniverse, we
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designate the Son as the Co-ordinate Spirit Center and as the Eternal Spirit
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Administrator. On Salvington, the headquarters of your local universe, this Son
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is of record as the Second Eternal Source and Center. The Melchizedeks speak of
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him as the Son of Sons. On your world, but not in your system of inhabited
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spheres, this Original Son has been confused with a co-ordinate Creator Son,
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Michael of Nebadon, who bestowed himself upon the mortal races of Urantia.
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Although any of the Paradise Sons may fittingly be called Sons of God, we are
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in the habit of reserving the designation "the Eternal Son" for this Original
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Son, the Second Source and Center, cocreator with the Universal Father of the
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central universe of power and perfection and cocreator of all other divine Sons
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who spring from the infinite Deities.
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2. NATURE OF THE ETERNAL SON
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The Eternal Son is just as changeless and infinitely dependable as the
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Universal Father. He is also just as spiritual as the Father, just as truly an
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unlimited spirit. To you of lowly origin the Son would appear to be more
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personal since he is one step nearer you in approachability than is the
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Universal Father.
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The Eternal Son is the eternal Word of God. He is wholly like the Father; in
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fact, the Eternal Son is God the Father personally manifest to the universe of
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universes. And thus it was and is and forever will be true of the Eternal Son
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and of all the co-ordinate Creator Sons: "He who has seen the Son has seen the
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Father."
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In nature the Son is wholly like the spirit Father. When we worship the
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Universal Father, actually we at the same time worship God the Son and God the
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Spirit. God the Son is just as divinely real and eternal in nature as God the
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Father.
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The Son not only possesses all the Father's infinite and transcendent
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righteousness, but the Son is also reflective of all the Father's holiness of
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character. The Son shares the Father's perfection and jointly shares the
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responsibility of aiding all creatures of imperfection in their spiritual
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efforts to attain divine perfection.
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The Eternal Son possesses all the Father's character of divinity and attributes
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of spirituality. The Son is the fullness of God's absoluteness in personality
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and spirit, and these qualities the Son reveals in his personal management of
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the spiritual government of the universe of universes.
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God is, indeed, a universal spirit; God is spirit; and this spirit nature of
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the Father is focalized and personalized in the Deity of the Eternal Son. In
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the Son all spiritual characteristics are apparently greatly enhanced by
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differentiation from the universality of the First Source and Center. And as
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the Father shares his spirit nature with the Son, so do they together just as
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fully and unreservedly share the divine spirit with the Conjoint Actor, the
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Infinite Spirit.
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In the love of truth and in the creation of beauty the Father and the Son are
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equal except that the Son appears to devote himself more to the realization of
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the exclusively spiritual beauty of universal values.
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In divine goodness I discern no difference between the Father and the Son. The
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Father loves his universe children as a father; the Eternal Son looks upon all
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creatures both as father and as brother.
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3. MINISTRY OF THE FATHER'S LOVE
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The Son shares the justice and righteousness of the Trinity but overshadows
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these divinity traits by the infinite personalization of the Father's love and
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mercy; the Son is the revelation of divine love to the universes. As God is
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love, so the Son is mercy. The Son cannot love more than the Father, but he can
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show mercy to creatures in one additional way, for he not only is a primal
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creator like the Father, but he is also the Eternal Son of that same Father,
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thereby sharing in the sonship experience of all other sons of the Universal
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Father.
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The Eternal Son is the great mercy minister to all creation. Mercy is the
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essence of the Son's spiritual character. The mandates of the Eternal Son, as
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they go forth over the spirit circuits of the Second Source and Center, are
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keyed in tones of mercy.
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To comprehend the love of the Eternal Son, you must first perceive its divine
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source, the Father, who is love, and then behold the unfolding of this infinite
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affection in the far-flung ministry of the Infinite Spirit and his almost
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limitless host of ministering personalities.
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The ministry of the Eternal Son is devoted to the revelation of the God of love
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to the universe of universes. This divine Son is not engaged in the ignoble
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task of trying to persuade his gracious Father to love his lowly creatures and
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to show mercy to the wrongdoers of time. How wrong to envisage the Eternal Son
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as appealing to the Universal Father to show mercy to his lowly creatures on
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the material worlds of space! Such concepts of God are crude and grotesque.
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Rather should you realize that all the merciful ministrations of the Sons of
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God are a direct revelation of the Father's heart of universal love and
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infinite compassion. The Father's love is the real and eternal source of the
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Son's mercy.
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God is love, the Son is mercy. Mercy is applied love, the Father's love in
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action in the person of his Eternal Son. The love of this universal Son is
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like-
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wise universal. As love is comprehended on a sex planet, the love of God is
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more comparable to the love of a father, while the love of the Eternal Son is
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more like the affection of a mother. Crude, indeed, are such illustrations, but
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I employ them in the hope of conveying to the human mind the thought that there
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is a difference, not in divine content but in quality and technique of
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expression, between the love of the Father and the love of the Son.
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4. ATTRIBUTES OF THE ETERNAL SON
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The Eternal Son motivates the spirit level of cosmic reality; the spiritual
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power of the Son is absolute in relation to all universe actualities. He
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exercises perfect control over the interassociation of all undifferentiated
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spirit energy and over all actualized spirit reality through his absolute grasp
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of spirit gravity. All pure unfragmented spirit and all spiritual beings and
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values are responsive to the infinite drawing power of the primal Son of
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Paradise. And if the eternal future should witness the appearance of an
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unlimited universe, the spirit gravity and the spirit power of the Original Son
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will be found wholly adequate for the spiritual control and effective
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administration of such a boundless creation.
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The Son is omnipotent only in the spiritual realm. In the eternal economy of
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universe administration, wasteful and needless repetition of function is never
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encountered; the Deities are not given to useless duplication of universe
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ministry.
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The omnipresence of the Original Son constitutes the spiritual unity of the
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universe of universes. The spiritual cohesion of all creation rests upon the
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everywhere active presence of the divine spirit of the Eternal Son. When we
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conceive of the Father's spiritual presence, we find it difficult to
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differentiate it in our thinking from the spiritual presence of the Eternal
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Son. The spirit of the Father is eternally resident in the spirit of the Son.
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The Father must be spiritually omnipresent, but such omnipresence appears to be
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inseparable from the everywhere spirit activities of the Eternal Son. We do,
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however, believe that in all situations of Father-Son presence of a dual
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spiritual nature the spirit of the Son is co-ordinate with the spirit of the
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Father.
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In his contact with personality, the Father acts in the personality circuit. In
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his personal and detectable contact with spiritual creation, he appears in the
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fragments of the totality of his Deity, and these Father fragments have a
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solitary, unique, and exclusive function wherever and whenever they appear in
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the universes. In all such situations the spirit of the Son is co-ordinate with
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the spiritual function of the fragmented presence of the Universal Father.
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Spiritually the Eternal Son is omnipresent. The spirit of the Eternal Son is
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most certainly with you and around you, but not within you and a part of you
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like the Mystery Monitor. The indwelling Father fragment adjusts the human mind
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to progressively divine attitudes, whereupon such an ascending mind becomes
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increasingly responsive to the spiritual drawing power of the all-powerful
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spirit-gravity circuit of the Second Source and Center.
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The Original Son is universally and spiritually self-conscious. In wisdom the
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Son is the full equal of the Father. In the realms of knowledge, omniscience,
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we cannot distinguish between the First and Second Sources; like the Father,
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the Son knows all; he is never surprised by any universe event; he comprehends
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the end from the beginning.
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The Father and the Son really know the number and whereabouts of all the
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spirits and spiritualized beings in the universe of universes. Not only does
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the Son know all things by virtue of his own omnipresent spirit, but the Son,
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equally with the Father and the Conjoint Actor, is fully cognizant of the vast
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reflectivity intelligence of the Supreme Being, which intelligence is at all
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times aware of all things that transpire on all the worlds of the seven
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superuniverses. And there are other ways in which the Paradise Son is
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omniscient.
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The Eternal Son, as a loving, merciful, and ministering spiritual personality,
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is wholly and infinitely equal with the Universal Father, while in all those
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merciful and affectionate personal contacts with the ascendant beings of the
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lower realms the Eternal Son is just as kind and considerate, just as patient
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and long-suffering, as are his Paradise Sons in the local universes who so
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frequently bestow themselves upon the evolutionary worlds of time.
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It is needless further to expatiate on the attributes of the Eternal Son. With
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the exceptions noted, it is only necessary to study the spiritual attributes of
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God the Father to understand and correctly evaluate the attributes of God the
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Son.
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5. LIMITATIONS OF THE ETERNAL SON
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The Eternal Son does not personally function in the physical domains, nor does
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he function, except through the Conjoint Actor, in the levels of mind ministry
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to creature beings. But these qualifications do not in any manner otherwise
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limit the Eternal Son in the full and free exercise of all the divine
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attributes of spiritual omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.
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The Eternal Son does not personally pervade the potentials of spirit inherent
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in the infinity of the Deity Absolute, but as these potentials become actual,
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they come within the all-powerful grasp of the spirit-gravity circuit of the
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Son.
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Personality is the exclusive gift of the Universal Father. The Eternal Son
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derives personality from the Father, but he does not, without the Father,
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bestow personality. The Son gives origin to a vast spirit host, but such
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derivations are not personalities. When the Son creates personality, he does so
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in conjunction with the Father or with the Conjoint Creator, who may act for
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the Father in such relationships. The Eternal Son is thus a cocreator of
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personalities, but he bestows personality upon no being and of himself, alone,
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never creates personal beings. This limitation of action does not, however,
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deprive the Son of the ability to create any or all types of
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other-than-personal reality.
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The Eternal Son is limited in transmittal of creator prerogatives. The Father,
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in eternalizing the Original Son, bestowed upon him the power and privilege of
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subsequently joining with the Father in the divine act of producing additional
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Sons possessing creative attributes, and this they have done and now do. But
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when these co-ordinate Sons have been produced, the prerogatives of creatorship
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are apparently not further transmissible. The Eternal Son transmits creatorship
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powers only to the first or direct personalization. Therefore, when the Father
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and the Son unite to personalize a Creator Son, they achieve their purpose; but
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the Creator Son thus brought into existence is never able to transmit or
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delegate the prerogatives of creatorship to the various orders of Sons which he
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may subsequently create, notwithstanding that, in the highest local universe
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Sons, there does appear a very limited reflection of the creative attributes of
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a Creator Son.
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The Eternal Son, as an infinite and exclusively personal being, cannot
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fragmentize his nature, cannot distribute and bestow individualized portions of
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his selfhood upon other entities or persons as do the Universal Father and the
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Infinite Spirit. But the Son can and does bestow himself as an unlimited spirit
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to bathe all creation and unceasingly draw all spirit personalities and
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spiritual realities to himself.
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Ever remember, the Eternal Son is the personal portrayal of the spirit Father
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to all creation. The Son is personal and nothing but personal in the Deity
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sense; such a divine and absolute personality cannot be disintegrated or
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fragmentized. God the Father and God the Spirit are truly personal, but they
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are also everything else in addition to being such Deity personalities.
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Though the Eternal Son cannot personally participate in the bestowal of the
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Thought Adjusters, he did sit in council with the Universal Father in the
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eternal past, approving the plan and pledging endless co-operation, when the
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Father, in projecting the bestowal of the Thought Adjusters, proposed to the
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Son, "Let us make mortal man in our own image." And as the spirit fragment of
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the Father dwells within you, so does the spirit presence of the Son envelop
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you, while these two forever work as one for your spiritual advancement.
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6. THE SPIRIT MIND
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The Eternal Son is spirit and has mind, but not a mind or a spirit which mortal
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mind can comprehend. Mortal man perceives mind on the finite, cosmic, material,
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and personal levels. Man also observes mind phenomena in living organisms
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functioning on the subpersonal (animal) level, but it is difficult for him to
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grasp the nature of mind when associated with supermaterial beings and as a
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part of exclusive spirit personalities. Mind must, however, be differently
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defined when it refers to the spirit level of existence, and when it is used to
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denote spirit functions of intelligence. That kind of mind which is directly
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allied with spirit is comparable neither to that mind which co-ordinates spirit
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and matter nor to that mind which is allied only with matter.
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Spirit is ever conscious, minded, and possessed of varied phases of identity.
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Without mind in some phase there would be no spiritual consciousness in the
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fraternity of spirit beings. The equivalent of mind, the ability to know and be
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known, is indigenous to Deity. Deity may be personal, prepersonal,
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superpersonal, or impersonal, but Deity is never mindless, that is, never
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without the ability at least to communicate with similar entities, beings, or
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personalities.
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The mind of the Eternal Son is like that of the Father but unlike any other
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mind in the universe, and with the mind of the Father it is ancestor to the
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diverse and far-flung minds of the Conjoint Creator. The mind of the Father and
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the Son, that intellect which is ancestral to the absolute mind of the Third
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Source and Center, is perhaps best illustrated in the premind of a Thought
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Adjuster, for, though these Father fragments are entirely outside of the mind
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circuits of the Conjoint Actor, they have some form of premind; they know as
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they are known; they enjoy the equivalent of human thinking.
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The Eternal Son is wholly spiritual; man is very nearly entirely material;
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therefore much pertaining to the spirit personality of the Eternal Son, to his
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seven spiritual spheres encircling Paradise and to the nature of the impersonal
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creations of the Paradise Son, will have to await your attainment of spirit
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status following your completion of the morontia ascension of the local
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universe of
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Nebadon. And then, as you pass through the superuniverse and on to Havona, many
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of these spirit-concealed mysteries will clarify as you begin to be endowed
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with the "mind of the spirit"--spiritual insight.
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7. PERSONALITY OF THE ETERNAL SON
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The Eternal Son is that infinite personality from whose unqualified personality
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fetters the Universal Father escaped by the technique of trinitization, and by
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virtue of which he has ever since continued to bestow himself in endless
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profusion upon his ever-expanding universe of Creators and creatures. The Son
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is absolute personality; God is father personality--the source of personality,
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the bestower of personality, the cause of personality. Every personal being
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derives personality from the Universal Father just as the Original Son
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eternally derives his personality from the Paradise Father.
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The personality of the Paradise Son is absolute and purely spiritual, and this
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absolute personality is also the divine and eternal pattern, first, of the
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Father's bestowal of personality upon the Conjoint Actor and, subsequently, of
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his bestowal of personality upon the myriads of his creatures throughout a
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far-flung universe.
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The Eternal Son is truly a merciful minister, a divine spirit, a spiritual
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power, and a real personality. The Son is the spiritual and personal nature of
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God made manifest to the universes--the sum and substance of the First Source
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and Center, divested of all that which is nonpersonal, extradivine,
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nonspiritual, and pure potential. But it is impossible to convey to the human
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mind a word picture of the beauty and grandeur of the supernal personality of
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the Eternal Son. Everything that tends to obscure the Universal Father operates
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with almost equal influence to prevent the conceptual recognition of the
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Eternal Son. You must await your attainment of Paradise, and then you will
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understand why I was unable to portray the character of this absolute
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personality to the understanding of the finite mind.
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8. REALIZATION OF THE ETERNAL SON
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Concerning identity, nature, and other attributes of personality, the Eternal
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Son is the full equal, the perfect complement, and the eternal counterpart of
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the Universal Father. In the same sense that God is the Universal Father, the
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Son is the Universal Mother. And all of us, high and low, constitute their
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universal family.
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To appreciate the character of the Son, you should study the revelation of the
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divine character of the Father; they are forever and inseparably one. As divine
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personalities they are virtually indistinguishable by the lower orders of
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intelligence. They are not so difficult of separate recognition by those whose
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origin is in the creative acts of the Deities themselves. Beings of nativity in
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the central universe and on Paradise discern the Father and the Son not only as
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one personal unity of universal control but also as two separate personalities
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functioning in definite domains of universe administration.
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As persons you may conceive of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son as
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separate individuals, for they indeed are; but in the administration of the
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universes they are so intertwined and interrelated that it is not always
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possible to distinguish between them. When, in the affairs of the universes,
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the Father and the Son
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are encountered in confusing interassociations, it is not always profitable to
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attempt to segregate their operations; merely recall that God is the initiating
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thought and the Son is the expressionful word. In each local universe this
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inseparability is personalized in the divinity of the Creator Son, who stands
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for both Father and Son to the creatures of ten million inhabited worlds.
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The Eternal Son is infinite, but he is approachable through the persons of his
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Paradise Sons and through the patient ministry of the Infinite Spirit. Without
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the bestowal service of the Paradise Sons and the loving ministry of the
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creatures of the Infinite Spirit, beings of material origin could hardly hope
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to attain the Eternal Son. And it is equally true: With the help and guidance
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of these celestial agencies the God-conscious mortal will certainly attain
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Paradise and sometime stand in the personal presence of this majestic Son of
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Sons.
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Even though the Eternal Son is the pattern of mortal personality attainment,
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you find it easier to grasp the reality of both the Father and the Spirit
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because the Father is the actual bestower of your human personality and the
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Infinite Spirit is the absolute source of your mortal mind. But as you ascend
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in the Paradise path of spiritual progression, the personality of the Eternal
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Son will become increasingly real to you, and the reality of his infinitely
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spiritual mind will become more discernible to your progressively
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spiritualizing mind.
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Never can the concept of the Eternal Son shine brightly in your material or
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subsequent morontial mind; not until you spiritize and commence your spirit
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ascension will the comprehension of the personality of the Eternal Son begin to
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equal the vividness of your concept of the personality of the Creator Son of
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Paradise origin who, in person and as a person, onetime incarnated and lived on
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Urantia as a man among men.
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Throughout your local universe experience the Creator Son, whose personality is
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comprehensible by man, must compensate for your inability to grasp the full
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significance of the more exclusively spiritual, but none the less personal,
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Eternal Son of Paradise. As you progress through Orvonton and Havona, as you
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leave behind you the vivid picture and deep memories of the Creator Son of your
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local universe, the passing of this material and morontia experience will be
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compensated by ever-enlarging concepts and intensifying comprehension of the
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Eternal Son of Paradise, whose reality and nearness will ever augment as you
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progress Paradiseward.
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The Eternal Son is a grand and glorious personality. Although it is beyond the
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powers of the mortal and material mind to grasp the actuality of the
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personality of such an infinite being, doubt not, he is a person. I know
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whereof I speak. Times almost without number I have stood in the divine
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presence of this Eternal Son and then journeyed forth in the universe to
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execute his gracious bidding.
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[Indited by a Divine Counselor assigned to formulate this statement depicting
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the Eternal Son of Paradise.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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