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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.
*** PAPER 7: RELATION OF THE ETERNAL 7:0.1 The
Original Son is ever concerned with the execution of the spiritual aspects of
the Father's eternal purpose as it progressively unfolds in the phenomena of
the evolving universes with their manifold groups of living beings. We do not
fully comprehend this eternal plan, but the Paradise
Son undoubtedly does. 7:0.2 The Son
is like the Father in that he seeks to bestow everything possible of himself
upon his co-ordinate Sons and upon their subordinate Sons. And the Son shares
the Father's self-distributive nature in the unstinted bestowal of himself
upon the Infinite Spirit,
their conjoint executive. 7:0.3 As the
upholder of spirit realities, the Second Source and
Center is the eternal counterpoise of the Isle of Paradise,
which so magnificently upholds all things material. Thus is the First Source and
Center forever revealed in the material beauty of the exquisite patterns
of the central Isle and in the spiritual values
of the supernal personality
of the Eternal Son. 7:0.4 The
Eternal Son is the actual upholder of the vast creation of spirit realities
and spiritual beings. The spirit world is the habit, the personal conduct, of
the Son, and the impersonal realities of spirit nature are always responsive
to the will and purpose of the perfect personality of the Absolute Son. 7:0.5 The Son
is not, however, personally responsible for the conduct of all spirit personalities.
The will of the personal creature is relatively free and hence determines the
actions of such volitional beings. Therefore the freewill spirit world is not
always truly representative of the character of the Eternal Son, even as
nature on Urantia is not truly revelatory of the
perfection and immutability of 7:1. THE SPIRIT-GRAVITY CIRCUIT 7:1.1 Everything
taught concerning the immanence of God, his omnipresence,
omnipotence,
and omniscience,
is equally true of the Son in the spiritual domains. The pure and universal
spirit gravity
of all creation, this exclusively spiritual circuit, leads directly back to
the person of the Second Source and
Center on Paradise.
He presides over the control and operation of that ever-present and unerring
spiritual grasp of all true spirit values.
Thus does the Eternal Son
exercise absolute spiritual sovereignty.
He literally holds all spirit realities and all spiritualized values, as it
were, in the hollow of his hand. The control of universal spiritual gravity
is universal spiritual sovereignty. 7:1.2 This
gravity control of spiritual things operates independently of time and space;
therefore is spirit energy undiminished in transmission. Spirit gravity never
suffers time delays, nor does it undergo space diminution. It does not
decrease in accordance with the square of the distance of its transmission;
the circuits
of pure spirit power are not retarded by the mass of the material creation.
And this transcendence
of time and space by pure spirit energies is inherent in the absoluteness of
the Son; it is not due to the interposition of the antigravity
forces of the Third Source and
Center. 7:1.3 Spirit
realities respond to the drawing power of the center of spiritual gravity in
accordance with their qualitative value, their actual degree of spirit
nature. Spirit substance (quality) is just as responsive to spirit gravity as
the organized energy of physical matter
(quantity) is responsive to physical gravity. Spiritual values and spirit
forces are real. From the viewpoint of personality,
spirit is the soul
of creation; matter is the shadowy physical body. 7:1.4 The
reactions and fluctuations of spirit gravity are ever true to the content of
spiritual values, the qualitative spiritual status of an individual or a
world. This drawing power is instantly responsive to the
inter- and intraspirit values of any
universe situation or planetary condition. Every time a spiritual reality
actualizes in the universes, this change necessitates the immediate and
instantaneous readjustment of spirit gravity. Such a new spirit is actually a
part of the Second Source and Center; and just as certainly as mortal man
becomes a spiritized being, he will attain the
spiritual Son, the center and source of spirit gravity. 7:1.5 The Son's
spiritual drawing power is inherent to a lesser degree in many 7:1.6 Spirit-gravity
pull and response thereto operate not only on the universe as a whole but
also even between individuals and groups of individuals. There is a spiritual
cohesiveness among the spiritual and spiritized
personalities of any world, race, nation, or believing group of individuals.
There is a direct attractiveness of a spirit nature between spiritually
minded persons of like tastes and longings. The term kindred spirits is not
wholly a figure of speech. 7:1.7 Like the
material gravity of 7:1.8 All
reactions of the spirit-gravity circuit of the grand universe
are predictable. We recognize all actions and reactions of the omnipresent
spirit of the Eternal Son and find them to be dependable. In accordance with
well-known laws, we can and do measure spiritual gravity just as man attempts
to compute the workings of finite physical gravity. There is an unvarying
response of the Son's spirit to all spirit things, beings, and persons, and
this response is always in accordance with the degree of actuality (the
qualitative degree of reality) of all such spiritual values. 7:1.9 But
alongside this very dependable and predictable function of the spiritual
presence of the Eternal Son, there are encountered phenomena which
are not so predictable in their reactions. Such phenomena probably indicate
the co-ordinate action of the Deity Absolute
in the realms of emerging spiritual potentials.
We know that the spirit presence of the Eternal Son is the influence of a
majestic and infinite personality, but we hardly regard the reactions
associated with the conjectured performances of the Deity
Absolute as personal. 7:1.10 Viewed
from the personality standpoint and by persons, the Eternal Son and the Deity
Absolute appear to be related in the following way: The Eternal Son dominates
the realm of actual spiritual values, whereas the Deity Absolute seems to
pervade the vast domain of potential spirit values. All actual value of
spirit nature finds lodgment in the gravity grasp of the Eternal Son but, if
potential, then apparently in the presence of the Deity Absolute. 7:1.11 Spirit
seems to emerge from the potentials of the Deity Absolute; evolving spirit
finds correlation in the experiential and incomplete grasps of the Supreme
and the Ultimate;
spirit eventually finds final destiny in the absolute grasp of the spiritual
gravity of the Eternal Son. This appears to be the cycle of experiential
spirit, but existential spirit is inherent in the infinity of the Second
Source and Center. REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 7, Section 7:0.1 – 7:1.11 |
