Paper 7 Overview: Relation of the Eternal Son to the Universe

The Eternal Son is devoted to implementing the spiritual aspects of the Universal Father's eternal purpose as it unfolds through the evolving universes. He shares the Father's self-giving nature, bestowing himself upon his Sons and the Infinite Spirit. As the upholder of spiritual realities, the Eternal Son balances Paradise's material foundation, revealing the Father through spiritual values while maintaining absolute control of the universal spiritual gravity circuit.

The Son and his Paradise Sons work throughout creation to reveal the Father's nature to all beings. The Eternal Son is the spiritual center and divine administrator of the spiritual government of the universe, controlling all spirit realities through his spirit gravity circuit. For ascending mortals, the Eternal Son becomes increasingly approachable as they progress spiritually, though initially they may more easily comprehend the local Creator Son who once lived among them.

The Original Son is eternally concerned with executing the spiritual aspects of the Father's plan as it progressively unfolds throughout the evolving universes. Though we do not fully comprehend this eternal plan, the Paradise Son undoubtedly does. The Son resembles the Father in his desire to bestow everything possible upon his coordinate and subordinate Sons, sharing the Father's self-distributive nature through his unstinted giving to the Infinite Spirit.

The Second Source and Center upholds spirit realities as a counterbalance to Paradise's material foundation, thus revealing the Father through both material beauty and spiritual values. The Eternal Son is the actual upholder of all spirit realities and beings, with the spirit world responding to his perfect personality. However, the Son is not personally responsible for the conduct of free-will spirit personalities, whose choices may not always reflect his character, though his absolute spiritual gravity control remains unaffected by these choices.

Everything taught about God's omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience applies equally to the Eternal Son in spiritual domains. The pure and universal spirit gravity of all creation leads directly back to the Second Source and Center on Paradise, who maintains absolute spiritual sovereignty through his unerring grasp of all spirit values. This control of universal spiritual gravity constitutes the Son's universal spiritual sovereignty over all creation.

This gravity control operates independently of time and space, with spirit energy remaining undiminished in transmission. Spirit gravity never experiences time delays or space diminution, nor does it decrease with distance like physical gravity. Spirit realities respond to the drawing power of spiritual gravity according to their qualitative value or spiritual nature. The Eternal Son's spirit gravity is absolute and cannot be suspended by sin or rebellion, remaining predictable and dependable in all its actions and reactions across the grand universe.

On Paradise, the Original Son's presence and personal activity are profound and absolute in the spiritual sense. As we move outward from Paradise through Havona into the seven superuniverses, we detect progressively less personal activity of the Eternal Son. In the universes beyond Havona, the Eternal Son's presence is personalized in the Paradise Sons and conditioned by the experiential realities of the Supreme and Ultimate.

In the central universe, the Original Son's personal activity is evident in the exquisite spiritual harmony of this eternal creation. However, in the superuniverses, the Son is not personally present but maintains only a superpersonal representation beyond the personality circuit of the Universal Father. In the local universes, the Eternal Son is personally present through the Paradise Sons, with his all-pervading spiritual influence touching every phase of activity in the domains of the Ancients of Days.

In the local universe ascent, mortals look to the Creator Son as the personal representative of the Eternal Son. As they begin superuniverse training, ascending pilgrims increasingly detect the inspiring spirit of the Eternal Son and benefit from this spiritual energization. In Havona, ascenders become even more aware of the Original Son's loving embrace. At no stage does the Eternal Son indwell the mind or soul of time pilgrims, but his beneficence remains near and concerned with their spiritual welfare.

The spiritual gravity pull of the Eternal Son constitutes the inherent secret of Paradise ascension for surviving human souls. All genuine spirit values and truly spiritualized individuals are held within the unfailing grasp of the Son's spiritual gravity. The spirit-gravity circuit transmits genuine prayers directly from human consciousness to Deity consciousness. In practical religious experience, it doesn't matter whether you visualize the Creator Son or the Eternal Son when praying, as the spiritual value of your petition will reach all divine personalities concerned.

The Eternal Son works in perpetual partnership with the Father to successfully execute the divine plan of progress—the universal plan for the creation, evolution, ascension, and perfection of will creatures. In divine faithfulness, the Son stands as the Father's eternal equal, and together they formulate and pursue this gigantic plan for advancing material beings from time to the perfection of eternity. With the Infinite Spirit's cooperation, they engage in the associative execution of their divine purpose.

This divine perfection plan embraces three correlated enterprises: first, the Plan of Progressive Attainment, which is the Father's evolutionary ascension program involving the bestowal of Thought Adjusters; second, the Bestowal Plan, the Son's revelation enterprise through his Paradise Sons who sometimes incarnate in the likeness of creatures; and third, the Plan of Mercy Ministry, the Infinite Spirit's service essential to the practical operation of the other two undertakings. The Eternal Son serves as the divine trustee and custodian of the Father's universal plan of creature ascension.

The Eternal Son unreservedly joined with the Universal Father in broadcasting the injunction to all creation: "Be you perfect, even as your Father in Havona is perfect." This invitation-command has motivated all the bestowal plans and projects of the Eternal Son and his vast family of Sons. Through these bestowals, the Sons of God have become "the way, the truth, and the life" for all evolutionary creatures seeking spiritual advancement.

The Eternal Son cannot directly contact human beings as the Father does through Thought Adjusters. Because of his purely personal nature, the Son cannot fragment himself but must approach created personalities through a series of downstepping gradations of divine sonship. The Son compensates for this limitation through the bestowal technique, whereby Paradise Sons sometimes incarnate in the likeness of creatures. The secret of Sonarington involves this technique that allows the Son to escape the otherwise all-encompassing limitations of personality absolutism.

The lack of knowledge about the multiple Sons of God creates considerable confusion on Urantia. The Eternal Son is the personal source of the adorable attributes of mercy and service that characterize all orders of descending Sons of God throughout creation. He transmits the divine nature and attributes to the Paradise Sons who reveal his divine character to the universe of universes.

The Original Son and Eternal Son is the offspring-person of the Father's first infinite thought. Creator Sons go forth from Paradise to organize local universes, while Magisterial Sons earn the right to serve as judges of survival. The Father, Son, and Spirit also unite to personalize the Trinity Teacher Sons who teach throughout the grand universe. Between the Original Son and all Paradise Sons, there exists a direct and exclusive communication channel based on their spiritual kinship, allowing instantaneous contact independent of time and distance.

The Eternal Son constitutes a complete, exclusive, universal, and final revelation of the spirit and personality of the Universal Father. All knowledge and information about the Father must come through the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons. The perfect personality of the Son discloses that the Father is the eternal and universal source of all meanings and values of the spiritual, volitional, purposeful, and personal.

The primal Son and his Sons are engaged in making a universal revelation of the Father's spiritual and personal nature to all creation. The Father approaches you as a personality only through his divine Sons, and you attain the Father by following their guidance. In the progress of time pilgrims through Havona, you will be able to attain the Son long before you are prepared to discern the Father. You can better understand the Eternal Son's character and merciful nature by meditating on the revelation made by your own Creator Son, who once lived on earth as both the Son of Man and the Son of God.