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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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RELATION OF THE ETERNAL 7:3.1 In the
local universe ascent the mortals of time look to the Creator Son as the
personal representative of the Eternal Son.
But when they begin the ascent of the superuniverse
training regime, the pilgrims of time increasingly detect the supernal
presence of the inspiring spirit of the Eternal Son, and they are able to
profit by the intake of this ministry of spiritual energization.
In Havona the ascenders become still more conscious of
the loving embrace of the all-pervading spirit of the Original Son. At no
stage of the entire mortal ascension does the spirit of the Eternal Son
indwell the mind or soul
of the pilgrim of time, but his beneficence is ever near and always concerned
with the welfare and spiritual security of the advancing children of time. 7:3.2 The
spiritual-gravity pull of the Eternal Son constitutes the inherent secret of
the Paradise
ascension of surviving human souls. All genuine spirit values
and all bona fide spiritualized individuals are held within the unfailing
grasp of the spiritual gravity
of the Eternal Son. The mortal mind,
for example, initiates its career as a material mechanism and is eventually
mustered into the Corps of the
Finality as a well-nigh perfected spirit existence, becoming
progressively less subject to material gravity and correspondingly more
responsive to the inward pulling urge of spirit gravity during this entire
experience. The spirit-gravity circuit literally pulls the soul of man Paradiseward. 7:3.3 The
spirit-gravity circuit is the basic channel for transmitting the genuine
prayers of the believing human heart from the level of human consciousness to
the actual consciousness of Deity.
That which represents true spiritual value in your petitions will be seized
by the universal circuit of spirit gravity and will pass immediately and
simultaneously to all divine personalities concerned. Each will occupy himself
with that which belongs to his personal province. Therefore, in your
practical religious experience, it is immaterial whether, in addressing your
supplications, you visualize the Creator Son of your local universe or the
Eternal Son at the center of all things. 7:3.4 The
discriminative operation of the spirit-gravity circuit might possibly be
compared to the functions of the neural circuits
in the material human body: Sensations travel inward over the neural paths;
some are detained and responded to by the lower automatic spinal centers;
others pass on to the less automatic but habit-trained centers of the lower
brain, while the most important and vital incoming messages flash by these
subordinate centers and are immediately registered in the highest levels of
human consciousness. 7:3.5 But how
much more perfect is the superb technique of the spiritual world! If anything
originates in your consciousness that is fraught with supreme spiritual
value, when once you give it expression, no power in the universe can prevent
its flashing directly to the Absolute Spirit Personality of all creation. 7:3.6 Conversely,
if your supplications are purely material and wholly self-centered, there
exists no plan whereby such unworthy prayers can find lodgment in the spirit
circuit of the Eternal Son. The content of any petition which is not "
spirit indited " can find no place in the
universal spiritual circuit; such purely selfish and material requests fall
dead; they do not ascend in the circuits of true spirit values. Such words
are as " sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
" 7:3.7 It is the
motivating thought, the spiritual content, that
validates the mortal supplication. Words are valueless. REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 7, Section
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