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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.
*** 6:5.
LIMITATIONS OF THE ETERNAL SON 6:5.1 The Eternal Son
does not personally function in the physical domains, nor does he function, except through the Conjoint Actor,
in the levels of mind ministry to creature beings. But these qualifications
do not in any manner otherwise limit the Eternal Son in the full and free
exercise of all the divine attributes of spiritual omniscience,
omnipresence,
and omnipotence. 6:5.2 The Eternal Son does not personally pervade the potentials
of spirit inherent in the infinity of the Deity Absolute,
but as these potentials become actual, they come within the all-powerful
grasp of the spirit-gravity circuit of the Son. 6:5.3 Personality is the exclusive gift of the Universal Father.
The Eternal Son derives personality
from the Father, but he does not, without the Father, bestow personality. The
Son gives origin to a vast spirit host, but such derivations are not
personalities. When the Son creates personality, he does so in conjunction
with the Father or with the Conjoint Creator,
who may act for the Father in such relationships. The Eternal Son is thus a cocreator of personalities, but he bestows personality
upon no being and of himself, alone, never creates personal beings. This
limitation of action does not, however, deprive the Son of the ability to
create any or all types of other-than-personal reality. 6:5.4 The Eternal Son is limited in transmittal of
creator prerogatives. The Father, in eternalizing the Original Son, bestowed
upon him the power and privilege of subsequently joining with the Father in
the divine act of producing additional Sons possessing creative attributes,
and this they have done and now do. But when these co-ordinate Sons have been
produced, the prerogatives of creatorship are apparently not further
transmissible. The Eternal Son transmits creatorship powers only to the first
or direct personalization. Therefore, when the Father and the Son unite to
personalize a Creator Son, they achieve their purpose; but the Creator Son
thus brought into existence is never able to transmit or delegate the
prerogatives of creatorship to the various orders of Sons which he may
subsequently create, notwithstanding that, in the highest local universe
Sons, there does appear a very limited reflection of the creative attributes
of a Creator Son. 6:5.5 The Eternal Son, as an infinite and exclusively personal
being, cannot fragmentize his nature, cannot distribute and bestow
individualized portions of his selfhood upon other entities or persons as do
the Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit.
But the Son can and does bestow himself as an unlimited spirit to bathe all
creation and unceasingly draw all spirit personalities and spiritual
realities to himself. 6:5.6 Ever remember, the Eternal Son
is the personal portrayal of the spirit Father to all creation. The Son is
personal and nothing but personal in the Deity
sense; such a divine and absolute personality cannot be disintegrated or
fragmentized. God the Father
and God the Spirit
are truly personal, but they are also everything else in addition to being
such Deity personalities. 6:5.7 Though the Eternal Son cannot personally participate in
the bestowal of the Thought
Adjusters, he did sit in council with the Universal Father in the
eternal past, approving the plan and pledging endless co-operation, when the
Father, in projecting the bestowal of the Thought Adjusters, proposed to the
Son, " Let us make mortal man in our own image.
" And as the spirit fragment of the Father dwells within you, so does
the spirit presence of the Son envelop you, while these two forever work as
one for your spiritual advancement. REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 6, Section 6:5.1 – 5.7 |
