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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. *** 6:8. REALIZATION OF THE
ETERNAL 6:8.1 Concerning
identity, nature, and other attributes of personality,
the Eternal Son
is the full equal, the perfect complement, and the eternal counterpart of the
Universal Father.
In the same sense that God is the Universal Father, the Son is the Universal Mother.
And all of us, high and low, constitute their universal family. 6:8.2 To
appreciate the character of the Son, you should study the revelation of the
divine character of the Father; they are forever and inseparably one. As
divine personalities they are virtually indistinguishable by the lower orders
of intelligence. They are not so difficult of separate recognition by those
whose origin is in the creative acts of the Deities themselves. Beings of
nativity in the central universe and on Paradise
discern the Father and the Son not only as one personal unity of universal
control but also as two separate personalities functioning in definite
domains of universe administration. 6:8.3 As
persons you may conceive of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son as
separate individuals, for they indeed are; but in the administration of the
universes they are so intertwined and interrelated that it is not always
possible to distinguish between them. When, in the affairs of the universes,
the Father and the Son are encountered in confusing interassociations,
it is not always profitable to attempt to segregate their operations; merely
recall that God is the initiating thought and the Son is the expressionful word. In each local universe this inseparability
is personalized in the divinity
of the Creator Son, who stands for both Father and Son to the creatures of
ten million inhabited worlds. 6:8.4 The
Eternal Son is infinite, but he is approachable through the persons of his 6:8.5 Even
though the Eternal Son is the pattern of mortal personality attainment, you
find it easier to grasp the reality of both the Father and the Spirit because
the Father is the actual bestower of your human
personality and the Infinite Spirit is the absolute source of your mortal mind.
But as you ascend in the 6:8.6 Never can
the concept of the Eternal Son shine brightly in your material or subsequent morontial mind; not until you spiritize
and commence your spirit ascension will the comprehension of the personality
of the Eternal Son begin to equal the vividness of your concept of the
personality of the Creator Son of Paradise origin who, in person and as a
person, onetime incarnated and lived on Urantia as
a man among men. 6:8.7 Throughout
your local universe experience the Creator Son, whose personality is
comprehensible by man, must compensate for your inability to grasp the full
significance of the more exclusively spiritual, but none the less personal,
Eternal Son of Paradise. As you progress through Orvonton
and Havona, as you leave behind you the vivid picture
and deep memories of the Creator Son of your local universe, the passing of
this material and morontia experience will be
compensated by ever-enlarging concepts and intensifying comprehension of the
Eternal Son of Paradise, whose reality and nearness will ever augment as you
progress Paradiseward. 6:8.8 The
Eternal Son is a grand and glorious personality. Although it is beyond the
powers of the mortal and material mind to grasp the actuality of the
personality of such an infinite being, doubt not, he is a person. I know
whereof I speak. Times almost without number I have stood in the divine
presence of this Eternal Son and then journeyed forth in the universe to
execute his gracious bidding. 6:8.9 [Indited by a Divine Counselor assigned to formulate this
statement depicting the Eternal Son of REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 6, Section 6:8.1 – 8.9 |
