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Urantia Book Paper 7 Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe
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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 7 Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe
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Introduction
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THE Original Son is ever concerned with the execution of the spiritual aspects
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of the Father's eternal purpose as it progressively unfolds in the phenomena of
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the evolving universes with their manifold groups of living beings. We do not
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fully comprehend this eternal plan, but the Paradise Son undoubtedly does.
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The Son is like the Father in that he seeks to bestow everything possible of
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himself upon his co-ordinate Sons and upon their subordinate Sons. And the Son
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shares the Father's self-distributive nature in the unstinted bestowal of
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himself upon the Infinite Spirit, their conjoint executive.
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As the upholder of spirit realities, the Second Source and Center is the
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eternal counterpoise of the Isle of Paradise, which so magnificently upholds
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all things material. Thus is the First Source and Center forever revealed in
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the material beauty of the exquisite patterns of the central Isle and in the
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spiritual values of the supernal personality of the Eternal Son.
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The Eternal Son is the actual upholder of the vast creation of spirit realities
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and spiritual beings. The spirit world is the habit, the personal conduct, of
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the Son, and the impersonal realities of spirit nature are always responsive to
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the will and purpose of the perfect personality of the Absolute Son.
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The Son is not, however, personally responsible for the conduct of all spirit
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personalities. The will of the personal creature is relatively free and hence
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determines the actions of such volitional beings. Therefore the freewill spirit
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world is not always truly representative of the character of the Eternal Son,
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even as nature on Urantia is not truly revelatory of the perfection and
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immutability of Paradise and Deity. But no matter what may characterize the
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freewill action of man or angel, the Son's eternal grasp of the universal
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gravity control of all spirit realities continues as absolute.
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1. THE SPIRIT-GRAVITY CIRCUIT
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Everything taught concerning the immanence of God, his omnipresence,
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omnipotence, and omniscience, is equally true of the Son in the spiritual
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domains. The pure and universal spirit gravity of all creation, this
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exclusively spiritual circuit, leads directly back to the person of the Second
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Source and Center on Paradise. He presides over the control and operation of
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that ever-present and unerring spiritual grasp of all true spirit values. Thus
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does the Eternal Son exercise absolute spiritual sovereignty. He literally
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holds all spirit realities and all spiritualized values, as it were, in the
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hollow of his hand. The control of universal spiritual gravity is universal
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spiritual sovereignty.
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This gravity control of spiritual things operates independently of time and
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space; therefore is spirit energy undiminished in transmission. Spirit gravity
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never suffers time delays, nor does it undergo space diminution. It does not
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decrease in accordance with the square of the distance of its transmission; the
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circuits of pure spirit power are not retarded by the mass of the material
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creation. And this transcendence of time and space by pure spirit energies is
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inherent in the absoluteness of the Son; it is not due to the interposition of
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the antigravity forces of the Third Source and Center.
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Spirit realities respond to the drawing power of the center of spiritual
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gravity in accordance with their qualitative value, their actual degree of
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spirit nature. Spirit substance (quality) is just as responsive to spirit
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gravity as the organized energy of physical matter (quantity) is responsive to
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physical gravity. Spiritual values and spirit forces are real. From the
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viewpoint of personality, spirit is the soul of creation; matter is the shadowy
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physical body.
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The reactions and fluctuations of spirit gravity are ever true to the content
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of spiritual values, the qualitative spiritual status of an individual or a
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world. This drawing power is instantly responsive to the inter- and intraspirit
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values of any universe situation or planetary condition. Every time a spiritual
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reality actualizes in the universes, this change necessitates the immediate and
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instantaneous readjustment of spirit gravity. Such a new spirit is actually a
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part of the Second Source and Center; and just as certainly as mortal man
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becomes a spiritized being, he will attain the spiritual Son, the center and
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source of spirit gravity.
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The Son's spiritual drawing power is inherent to a lesser degree in many
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Paradise orders of sonship. For there do exist within the absolute
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spirit-gravity circuit those local systems of spiritual attraction that
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function in the lesser units of creation. Such subabsolute focalizations of
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spirit gravity are a part of the divinity of the Creator personalities of time
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and space and are correlated with the emerging experiential overcontrol of the
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Supreme Being.
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Spirit-gravity pull and response thereto operate not only on the universe as a
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whole but also even between individuals and groups of individuals. There is a
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spiritual cohesiveness among the spiritual and spiritized personalities of any
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world, race, nation, or believing group of individuals. There is a direct
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attractiveness of a spirit nature between spiritually minded persons of like
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tastes and longings. The term kindred spirits is not wholly a figure of speech.
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Like the material gravity of Paradise, the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son
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is absolute. Sin and rebellion may interfere with the operation of local
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universe circuits, but nothing can suspend the spirit gravity of the Eternal
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Son. The Lucifer rebellion produced many changes in your system of inhabited
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worlds and on Urantia, but we do not observe that the resultant spiritual
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quarantine of your planet in the least affected the presence and function of
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either the omnipresent spirit of the Eternal Son or the associated
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spirit-gravity circuit.
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All reactions of the spirit-gravity circuit of the grand universe are
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predictable. We recognize all actions and reactions of the omnipresent spirit
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of the Eternal Son and find them to be dependable. In accordance with
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well-known laws, we can and do measure spiritual gravity just as man attempts
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to compute the workings of finite physical gravity. There is an unvarying
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response of the Son's spirit to all spirit things, beings, and persons, and
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this response is always in accordance
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with the degree of actuality (the qualitative degree of reality) of all such
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spiritual values.
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But alongside this very dependable and predictable function of the spiritual
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presence of the Eternal Son, there are encountered phenomena which are not so
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predictable in their reactions. Such phenomena probably indicate the
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co-ordinate action of the Deity Absolute in the realms of emerging spiritual
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potentials. We know that the spirit presence of the Eternal Son is the
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influence of a majestic and infinite personality, but we hardly regard the
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reactions associated with the conjectured performances of the Deity Absolute as
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personal.
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Viewed from the personality standpoint and by persons, the Eternal Son and the
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Deity Absolute appear to be related in the following way: The Eternal Son
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dominates the realm of actual spiritual values, whereas the Deity Absolute
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seems to pervade the vast domain of potential spirit values. All actual value
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of spirit nature finds lodgment in the gravity grasp of the Eternal Son but, if
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potential, then apparently in the presence of the Deity Absolute.
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Spirit seems to emerge from the potentials of the Deity Absolute; evolving
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spirit finds correlation in the experiential and incomplete grasps of the
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Supreme and the Ultimate; spirit eventually finds final destiny in the absolute
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grasp of the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son. This appears to be the cycle
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of experiential spirit, but existential spirit is inherent in the infinity of
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the Second Source and Center.
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2. THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ETERNAL SON
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On Paradise the presence and personal activity of the Original Son is profound,
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absolute in the spiritual sense. As we pass outward from Paradise through
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Havona and into the realms of the seven superuniverses, we detect less and less
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of the personal activity of the Eternal Son. In the post-Havona universes the
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presence of the Eternal Son is personalized in the Paradise Sons, conditioned
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by the experiential realities of the Supreme and the Ultimate, and co-ordinated
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with the unlimited spirit potential of the Deity Absolute.
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In the central universe the personal activity of the Original Son is
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discernible in the exquisite spiritual harmony of the eternal creation. Havona
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is so marvelously perfect that the spiritual status and the energy states of
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this pattern universe are in perfect and perpetual balance.
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In the superuniverses the Son is not personally present or resident; in these
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creations he maintains only a superpersonal representation. These spirit
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manifestations of the Son are not personal; they are not in the personality
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circuit of the Universal Father. We know of no better term to use than to
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designate them superpersonalities; and they are finite beings; they are neither
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absonite nor absolute.
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The administration of the Eternal Son in the superuniverses, being exclusively
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spiritual and superpersonal, is not discernible by creature personalities.
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Nonetheless, the all-pervading spiritual urge of the Son's personal influence
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is encountered in every phase of the activities of all sectors of the domains
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of the Ancients of Days. In the local universes, however, we observe the
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Eternal Son personally present in the persons of the Paradise Sons. Here the
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infinite Son spiritually and creatively functions in the persons of the
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majestic corps of the co-ordinate Creator Sons.
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3. RELATION OF THE ETERNAL SON TO THE INDIVIDUAL
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In the local universe ascent the mortals of time look to the Creator Son as the
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personal representative of the Eternal Son. But when they begin the ascent of
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the superuniverse training regime, the pilgrims of time increasingly detect the
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supernal presence of the inspiring spirit of the Eternal Son, and they are able
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to profit by the intake of this ministry of spiritual energization. In Havona
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the ascenders become still more conscious of the loving embrace of the
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all-pervading spirit of the Original Son. At no stage of the entire mortal
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ascension does the spirit of the Eternal Son indwell the mind or soul of the
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pilgrim of time, but his beneficence is ever near and always concerned with the
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welfare and spiritual security of the advancing children of time.
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The spiritual-gravity pull of the Eternal Son constitutes the inherent secret
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of the Paradise ascension of surviving human souls. All genuine spirit values
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and all bona fide spiritualized individuals are held within the unfailing grasp
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of the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son. The mortal mind, for example,
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initiates its career as a material mechanism and is eventually mustered into
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the Corps of the Finality as a well-nigh perfected spirit existence, becoming
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progressively less subject to material gravity and correspondingly more
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responsive to the inward pulling urge of spirit gravity during this entire
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experience. The spirit-gravity circuit literally pulls the soul of man
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Paradiseward.
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The spirit-gravity circuit is the basic channel for transmitting the genuine
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prayers of the believing human heart from the level of human consciousness to
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the actual consciousness of Deity. That which represents true spiritual value
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in your petitions will be seized by the universal circuit of spirit gravity and
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will pass immediately and simultaneously to all divine personalities concerned.
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Each will occupy himself with that which belongs to his personal province.
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Therefore, in your practical religious experience, it is immaterial whether, in
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addressing your supplications, you visualize the Creator Son of your local
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universe or the Eternal Son at the center of all things.
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The discriminative operation of the spirit-gravity circuit might possibly be
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compared to the functions of the neural circuits in the material human body:
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Sensations travel inward over the neural paths; some are detained and responded
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to by the lower automatic spinal centers; others pass on to the less automatic
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but habit-trained centers of the lower brain, while the most important and
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vital incoming messages flash by these subordinate centers and are immediately
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registered in the highest levels of human consciousness.
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But how much more perfect is the superb technique of the spiritual world! If
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anything originates in your consciousness that is fraught with supreme
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spiritual value, when once you give it expression, no power in the universe can
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prevent its flashing directly to the Absolute Spirit Personality of all
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creation.
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Conversely, if your supplications are purely material and wholly self-centered,
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there exists no plan whereby such unworthy prayers can find lodgment in the
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spirit circuit of the Eternal Son. The content of any petition which is not
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"spirit indited" can find no place in the universal spiritual circuit; such
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purely selfish and material requests fall dead; they do not ascend in the
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circuits of true spirit values. Such words are as "sounding brass and a
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tinkling cymbal."
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It is the motivating thought, the spiritual content, that validates the mortal
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supplication. Words are valueless.
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4. THE DIVINE PERFECTION PLANS
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The Eternal Son is in everlasting liaison with the Father in the successful
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prosecution of the divine plan of progress: the universal plan for the
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creation, evolution, ascension, and perfection of will creatures. And, in
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divine faithfulness, the Son is the eternal equal of the Father.
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The Father and his Son are as one in the formulation and prosecution of this
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gigantic attainment plan for advancing the material beings of time to the
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perfection of eternity. This project for the spiritual elevation of the
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ascendant souls of space is a joint creation of the Father and the Son, and
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they are, with the co-operation of the Infinite Spirit, engaged in associative
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execution of their divine purpose.
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This divine plan of perfection attainment embraces three unique, though
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marvelously correlated, enterprises of universal adventure:
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1. The Plan of Progressive Attainment. This is the Universal Father's plan of
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evolutionary ascension, a program unreservedly accepted by the Eternal Son when
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he concurred in the Father's proposal, "Let us make mortal creatures in our own
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image." This provision for upstepping the creatures of time involves the
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Father's bestowal of the Thought Adjusters and the endowing of material
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creatures with the prerogatives of personality.
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2. The Bestowal Plan. The next universal plan is the great Father-revelation
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enterprise of the Eternal Son and his co-ordinate Sons. This is the proposal of
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the Eternal Son and consists of his bestowal of the Sons of God upon the
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evolutionary creations, there to personalize and factualize, to incarnate and
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make real, the love of the Father and the mercy of the Son to the creatures of
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all universes. Inherent in the bestowal plan, and as a provisional feature of
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this ministration of love, the Paradise Sons act as rehabilitators of that
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which misguided creature will has placed in spiritual jeopardy. Whenever and
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wherever there occurs a delay in the functioning of the attainment plan, if
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rebellion, perchance, should mar or complicate this enterprise, then do the
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emergency provisions of the bestowal plan become active forthwith. The Paradise
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Sons stand pledged and ready to function as retrievers, to go into the very
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realms of rebellion and there restore the spiritual status of the spheres. And
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such a heroic service a co-ordinate Creator Son did perform on Urantia in
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connection with his experiential bestowal career of sovereignty acquirement.
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3. The Plan of Mercy Ministry. When the attainment plan and the bestowal plan
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had been formulated and proclaimed, alone and of himself, the Infinite Spirit
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projected and put in operation the tremendous and universal enterprise of mercy
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ministry. This is the service so essential to the practical and effective
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operation of both the attainment and the bestowal undertakings, and the
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spiritual personalities of the Third Source and Center all partake of the
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spirit of mercy ministry which is so much a part of the nature of the Third
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Person of Deity. Not only in creation but also in administration, the Infinite
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Spirit functions truly and literally as the conjoint executive of the Father
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and the Son.
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The Eternal Son is the personal trustee, the divine custodian, of the Father's
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universal plan of creature ascension. Having promulgated the universal mandate,
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"Be you perfect, even as I am perfect," the Father intrusted the execution of
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this tremendous undertaking to the Eternal Son; and the Eternal Son shares the
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fostering of this supernal enterprise with his divine co-ordinate, the Infinite
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Spirit. Thus do the Deities effectively co-operate in the work of creation,
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control, evolution, revelation, and ministration--and if required, in
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restoration and rehabilitation.
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5. THE SPIRIT OF BESTOWAL
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The Eternal Son without reservation joined with the Universal Father in
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broadcasting that tremendous injunction to all creation: "Be you perfect, even
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as your Father in Havona is perfect." And ever since, that invitation-command
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has motivated all the survival plans and the bestowal projects of the Eternal
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Son and his vast family of co-ordinate and associated Sons. And in these very
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bestowals the Sons of God have become to all evolutionary creatures "the way,
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the truth, and the life."
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The Eternal Son cannot contact directly with human beings as does the Father
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through the gift of the prepersonal Thought Adjusters, but the Eternal Son does
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draw near to created personalities by a series of downstepping gradations of
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divine sonship until he is enabled to stand in man's presence and, at times, as
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man himself.
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The purely personal nature of the Eternal Son is incapable of fragmentation.
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The Eternal Son ministers as a spiritual influence or as a person, never
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otherwise. The Son finds it impossible to become a part of creature experience
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in the sense that the Father-Adjuster participates therein, but the Eternal Son
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compensates this limitation by the technique of bestowal. What the experience
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of fragmented entities means to the Universal Father, the incarnation
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experiences of the Paradise Sons mean to the Eternal Son.
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The Eternal Son comes not to mortal man as the divine will, the Thought
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Adjuster indwelling the human mind, but the Eternal Son did come to mortal man
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on Urantia when the divine personality of his Son, Michael of Nebadon,
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incarnated in the human nature of Jesus of Nazareth. To share the experience of
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created personalities, the Paradise Sons of God must assume the very natures of
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such creatures and incarnate their divine personalities as the actual creatures
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themselves. Incarnation, the secret of Sonarington, is the technique of the
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Son's escape from the otherwise all-encompassing fetters of personality
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absolutism.
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Long, long ago the Eternal Son bestowed himself upon each of the circuits of
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the central creation for the enlightenment and advancement of all the
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inhabitants and pilgrims of Havona, including the ascending pilgrims of time.
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On none of these seven bestowals did he function as either an ascender or a
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Havoner. He existed as himself. His experience was unique; it was not with or
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as a human or other pilgrim but in some way associative in the superpersonal
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sense.
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Neither did he pass through the rest that intervenes between the inner Havona
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circuit and the shores of Paradise. It is not possible for him, an absolute
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being, to suspend consciousness of personality, for in him center all lines of
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spiritual gravity. And during the times of these bestowals the central Paradise
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lodgment of spiritual luminosity was undimmed, and the Son's grasp of universal
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spirit gravity was undiminished.
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The bestowals of the Eternal Son in Havona are not within the scope of human
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imagination; they were transcendental. He added to the experience of all Havona
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then and subsequently, but we do not know whether he added to the supposed
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experiential capacity of his existential nature. That would fall within the
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bestowal mystery of the Paradise Sons. We do, however, believe that whatever
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the Eternal Son acquired on these bestowal missions, he has ever since
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retained; but we do not know what it is.
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Whatever our difficulty in comprehending the bestowals of the Second Person of
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Deity, we do comprehend the Havona bestowal of a Son of the Eternal Son, who
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literally passed through the circuits of the central universe and actually
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shared those experiences which constitute an ascender's preparation for Deity
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attainment. This was the original Michael, the first-born Creator Son, and he
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passed through the life experiences of the ascending pilgrims from circuit to
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circuit, personally journeying a stage of each circle with them in the days of
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Grandfanda, the first of all mortals to attain Havona.
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Whatever else this original Michael revealed, he made the transcendent bestowal
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of the Original Mother Son real to the creatures of Havona. So real, that
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forevermore each pilgrim of time who labors in the adventure of making the
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Havona circuits is cheered and strengthened by the certain knowledge that the
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Eternal Son of God seven times abdicated the power and glory of Paradise to
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participate in the experiences of the time-space pilgrims on the seven circuits
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of progressive Havona attainment.
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The Eternal Son is the exemplary inspiration for all the Sons of God in their
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ministrations of bestowal throughout the universes of time and space. The
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co-ordinate Creator Sons and the associate Magisterial Sons, together with
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other unrevealed orders of sonship, all partake of this wonderful willingness
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to bestow themselves upon the varied orders of creature life and as the
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creatures themselves. Therefore, in spirit and because of kinship of nature as
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well as fact of origin, it becomes true that in the bestowal of each Son of God
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upon the worlds of space, in and through and by these bestowals, the Eternal
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Son has bestowed himself upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes.
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In spirit and nature, if not in all attributes, each Paradise Son is a divinely
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perfect portraiture of the Original Son. It is literally true, whosoever has
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seen a Paradise Son has seen the Eternal Son of God.
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6. THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD
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The lack of a knowledge of the multiple Sons of God is a source of great
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confusion on Urantia. And this ignorance persists in the face of such
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statements as the record of a conclave of these divine personalities: "When the
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Sons of God proclaimed joy, and all of the Morning Stars sang together." Every
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millennium of sector standard time the various orders of the divine Sons
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forgather for their periodic conclaves.
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The Eternal Son is the personal source of the adorable attributes of mercy and
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service which so abundantly characterize all orders of the descending Sons of
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God as they function throughout creation. All the divine nature, if not all the
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infinity of attributes, the Eternal Son unfailingly transmits to the Paradise
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Sons who go out from the eternal Isle to reveal his divine character to the
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universe of universes.
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The Original and Eternal Son is the offspring-person of the "first" completed
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and infinite thought of the Universal Father. Every time the Universal Father
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and the Eternal Son jointly project a new, original, identical, unique, and
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absolute personal thought, that very instant this creative idea is perfectly
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and finally personalized in the being and personality of a new and original
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Creator Son. In spirit nature, divine wisdom, and co-ordinate creative power,
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these Creator Sons are potentially equal with God the Father and God the Son.
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The Creator Sons go out from Paradise into the universes of time and, with the
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co-operation of the controlling and creative agencies of the Third Source and
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Center, complete the organization of the local universes of progressive
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evolution. These Sons are not attached to, nor are they concerned with, the
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central and universal controls of matter, mind, and spirit. Hence are they
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limited in their creative acts by the pre-existence, priority, and primacy of
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the First Source and Center and his co-ordinate Absolutes. These Sons are able
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to administer only that which they bring into existence. Absolute
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administration is inherent in priority of existence and is inseparable from
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eternity of presence. The Father remains primal in the universes.
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Much as the Creator Sons are personalized by the Father and the Son, so are the
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Magisterial Sons personalized by the Son and the Spirit. These are the Sons
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who, in the experiences of creature incarnation, earn the right to serve as the
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judges of survival in the creations of time and space.
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The Father, Son, and Spirit also unite to personalize the versatile Trinity
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Teacher Sons, who range the grand universe as the supernal teachers of all
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personalities, human and divine. And there are numerous other orders of
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Paradise sonship that have not been brought to the attention of Urantia
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mortals.
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Between the Original Mother Son and these hosts of Paradise Sons scattered
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throughout all creation, there is a direct and exclusive channel of
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communication, a channel whose function is inherent in the quality of spiritual
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kinship which unites them in bonds of near-absolute spiritual association. This
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intersonship circuit is entirely different from the universal circuit of spirit
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gravity, which also centers in the person of the Second Source and Center. All
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Sons of God who take origin in the persons of the Paradise Deities are in
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direct and constant communication with the Eternal Mother Son. And such
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communication is instantaneous; it is independent of time though sometimes
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conditioned by space.
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The Eternal Son not only has at all times perfect knowledge concerning the
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status, thoughts, and manifold activities of all orders of Paradise sonship,
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but he also has perfection of knowledge at all times regarding everything of
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spiritual value which exists in the hearts of all creatures in the primary
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central creation of eternity and in the secondary time creations of the
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co-ordinate Creator Sons.
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7. THE SUPREME REVELATION OF THE FATHER
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The Eternal Son is a complete, exclusive, universal, and final revelation of
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the spirit and the personality of the Universal Father. All knowledge of, and
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information concerning, the Father must come from the Eternal Son and his
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Paradise Sons. The Eternal Son is from eternity and is wholly and without
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spiritual qualification one with the Father. In divine personality they are
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co-ordinate; in spiritual nature they are equal; in divinity they are
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identical.
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The character of God could not possibly be intrinsically improved upon in the
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person of the Son, for the divine Father is infinitely perfect, but that
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character and personality are amplified, by divestment of the nonpersonal and
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nonspiritual, for revelation to creature beings. The first Source and Center is
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much more than a personality, but all of the spirit qualities of the father
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personality of the First Source and Center are spiritually present in the
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absolute personality of the Eternal Son.
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The primal Son and his Sons are engaged in making a universal revelation of the
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spiritual and personal nature of the Father to all creation. In the central
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universe, the superuniverses, the local universes, or on the inhabited planets,
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it is a Paradise Son who reveals the Universal Father to men and angels. The
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Eternal Son and his Sons reveal the avenue of creature approach to the
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Universal Father. And even we of high origin understand the Father much more
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fully as we study the revelation of his character and personality in the
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Eternal Son and in the Sons of the Eternal Son.
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The Father comes down to you as a personality only through the divine Sons of
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the Eternal Son. And you attain the Father by this same living way; you ascend
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to the Father by the guidance of this group of divine Sons. And this remains
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true notwithstanding that your very personality is a direct bestowal of the
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Universal Father.
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In all these widespread activities of the far-flung spiritual administration of
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the Eternal Son, do not forget that the Son is a person just as truly and
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actually as the Father is a person. Indeed, to beings of the onetime human
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order the Eternal Son will be more easy to approach than the Universal Father.
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In the progress of the pilgrims of time through the circuits of Havona, you
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will be competent to attain the Son long before you are prepared to discern the
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Father.
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More of the character and merciful nature of the Eternal Son of mercy you
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should comprehend as you meditate on the revelation of these divine attributes
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which was made in loving service by your own Creator Son, onetime Son of Man on
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earth, now the exalted sovereign of your local universe--the Son of Man and the
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Son of God.
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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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