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GOD’S
RELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL THE
ETERNAL |
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CEDOMIL
VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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In the previous Interim-Papers we have
reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the Paradise Universal Father,
the PRAYER SUPPLICATIONS to the realms of the Paradise Eternal Son and His
Spirit of Truth, and qualified PRAYER REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of
the Holy Spirit, the Mind of the Paradise Conjoint Actor. The following Interim-Paper is
devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of God.
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ATTRIBUTES OF THE ETERNAL 6:4.1 The
Eternal Son motivates the spirit level of cosmic reality; the spiritual power
of the Son is absolute in relation to all universe actualities. He exercises
perfect control over the interassociation of all undifferentiated spirit
energy and over all actualized spirit reality through his absolute grasp of
spirit gravity. All pure unfragmented spirit and all spiritual beings and
values are responsive to the infinite drawing power of the primal Son of
Paradise. And if the eternal future should witness the appearance of an
unlimited universe, the spirit gravity and the spirit power of the Original
Son will be found wholly adequate for the spiritual control and effective
administration of such a boundless creation. 6:4.2 The Son is
omnipotent only in the spiritual realm. In the eternal economy of universe
administration, wasteful and needless repetition of function is never encountered;
the Deities are not given to useless duplication of universe ministry. 6:4.3 The
omnipresence of the Original Son constitutes the spiritual unity of the
universe of universes. The spiritual cohesion of all creation rests upon the
everywhere active presence of the divine spirit of the Eternal Son. When we
conceive of the Father's spiritual presence, we find it difficult to
differentiate it in our thinking from the spiritual presence of the Eternal
Son. The spirit of the Father is eternally resident in the spirit of the Son. 6:4.4 The Father
must be spiritually omnipresent, but such omnipresence appears to be
inseparable from the everywhere spirit activities of the Eternal Son. We do,
however, believe that in all situations of Father-Son presence of a dual
spiritual nature the spirit of the Son is co-ordinate with the spirit of the
Father. 6:4.5 In his
contact with personality, the Father acts in the personality circuit. In his
personal and detectable contact with spiritual creation, he appears in the
fragments of the totality of his Deity, and these Father fragments have a
solitary, unique, and exclusive function wherever and whenever they appear in
the universes. In all such situations the spirit of the Son is co-ordinate
with the spiritual function of the fragmented presence of the Universal
Father. 6:4.6
Spiritually the Eternal Son is omnipresent. The spirit of the Eternal Son is
most certainly with you and around you, but not within you and a part of you
like the Mystery Monitor. The indwelling Father fragment adjusts the human
mind to progressively divine attitudes, whereupon such an ascending mind
becomes increasingly responsive to the spiritual drawing power of the
all-powerful spirit-gravity circuit of the Second Source and Center. 6:4.7 The
Original Son is universally and spiritually self-conscious. In wisdom the Son
is the full equal of the Father. In the realms of knowledge, omniscience, we
cannot distinguish between the First and Second Sources; like the Father, the
Son knows all; he is never surprised by any universe event; he comprehends
the end from the beginning. 6:4.8 The Father
and the Son really know the number and whereabouts of all the spirits and
spiritualized beings in the universe of universes. Not only does the Son know
all things by virtue of his own omnipresent spirit, but the Son, equally with
the Father and the Conjoint Actor, is fully cognizant of the vast
reflectivity intelligence of the Supreme Being, which intelligence is at all
times aware of all things that transpire on all the worlds of the seven
superuniverses. And there are other ways in which the Paradise Son is
omniscient. 6:4.9 The
Eternal Son, as a loving, merciful, and ministering spiritual personality, is
wholly and infinitely equal with the Universal Father, while in all those
merciful and affectionate personal contacts with the ascendant beings of the
lower realms the Eternal Son is just as kind and considerate, just as patient
and long-suffering, as are his Paradise Sons in the local universes who so
frequently bestow themselves upon the evolutionary worlds of time. 6:4.10 It is
needless further to expatiate on the attributes of the Eternal Son. With the
exceptions noted, it is only necessary to study the spiritual attributes of
God the Father to understand and correctly evaluate the attributes of God the
Son. REFERENCE: The Urantia
Book, Paper 6, Section 6:4.1 – 4.10 |
