Eternal Son
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personality of Eternal Son is master pattern for all personality 0:6.13 6:7 6:8.5 115:3.14
On the seven sacred worlds of the Eternal Son there appear to take origin the impersonal energies of spirit luminosity. 13:0.4 13:3
active spirit gravity of Eternal Son calculated is the same in the grand universe than in existing totality 12:3.9
Adjusters use spirit-gravity circuits of Eternal Son to convey worship to Father 5:3.2
In the Urantia Book
Attained only through Infinite Spirit (8:3.7-8) (8:6.2)
- he appears in Uversa personality register as the second person in the Paradise Deities catergory 30:2.12
- Father speaks to universe only through Eternal Son 10:3.3 16:2.2
- his presence immediately enshrouds Father on Paradise 6:0.1 11:1.1
- Reflective Image Aids represent the superpersonal agents of Eternal Son 15:10.21
- some unpredictable phenomena seems to indicate a relation between Eternal Son to Deity Absolute 7:1.9-11 7:2.1
- Havona affords the Eternal Son an almost unlimited base for the ever-expanding realization of spirit power. 14:6.12-16
- spirit manifestations of the Son in the superuniverses are superpersonalities 7:2.3 15:10.21
- the Eternal Son in member of the First, Second and Third Triunities and of Triodities (104:4.3,9,16) 104:5.2
Also known as
- * Co-ordinate Creator 0:2.13
- * Spirit Controller 0:2.13
- * Eternal Mother Son 21:1.3 21:5.10
- * Original Son 6:1.5-6
- * Second Person of Deity 0:2.13 6:1.1
- * Second Source and Center (6:1.1,6)
- * other titles 6:1.5-6
Eternal Son and Jesus
- Jesus was not the Eternal Son 6:1.3 33:1.2 104:1.11 161:1.6
- the Eternal Son accepted Michael’s bestowal during the event at mount of transfiguration 158:3.2
- there is a intersonship circuit between the Eternal Son with Paradise Sons 7:6.7 15:9.7 20:1.13
- Creator Sons are in perfect and constant communication with Eternal Son 7:6.7 21:5.10 34:3.5
Bestowals
- he bestowed himself upon the seven circuits of Havona in times of Grandfanda 7:5.5-7 8:4.3 119:0.2
- he bestows himself in bestowal of each Son of God 7:2.1 7:5.10-11 116:3.3
- Creator Sons compensate for our inability to grasp him 6:8.7
- he who has seen a Paradise Son has seen the Eternal Son of God 7:5.11 20:6.5
- the Eternal Son came to us through incarnation of Jesus 7:5.4 7:7.6
- incarnation is mystery of Eternal Son 13:1.8
Creation of Eternal Son
- he appeared as a differentiation from I AM in a Father and a Son 105:2.5 0:3.22
- the Father escaped the personality fetters by the technique of trinitization, giving the Son the absolute personality 6:7.1
- he is the original and only-begotten Son of God 6:0.1 6:1.1 7:6.3 8:0.1
- Paradise appeared simultaneously with Eternal Son 9:1.7 11:9.3 56:2.2
- he is the perfect expression of Father’s first absolute and infinite thought 20:5.1
Functions of the Eternal Son
- all knowledge of Father comes from Eternal Son and Paradise Sons 7:7.1 10:1.4 10:3.3
- he created a vast other-than-personal spirit host. He only creates personal beings in conjunction with the Father or the Spirit 6:5.3
- he does not bestow personality except with Father 6:5.3-6
- he does not personally function in superuniverses; he only maintains a superpersonal representation, that is, he creates superpersonalities that are not personal, and are finite beings, neither absonite not absolute 7:2.3
- he does not personally function on physical or mindal levels 6:5.1
- he draws all spirit personalities and spirit realities to himself 6:5.5 14:2.7-8 20:1.13
- he draws near created personalities by a series of downstepping gradations of divine sonship 7:5.2 107:1.7
- finaliters allied with spirit-gravity circuit of Eternal Son 117:5.3
- no personality attains Father except through 8:3.7 26:1.15 105:3.3
- prayer should be directed to Eternal Son and worship to Father (5:3.2,4-5)
- the relation of Eternal Son to individuals is through his spiritual presence that pulls the soul of man Paradiseward, the spiritual gravity 7:3
- The ministry of the Eternal Son is devoted to the revelation of the God of love to the universe of universes. 6:3.4
- his spiritual administration is not discernible out of Havona, in the superuniverses 6:1.2 6:2.5 7:2
- The Eternal Son is the personal trustee, the divine custodian, of the Father’s universal plan of creature ascension. 7:4.7
- he upholds all spiritual realities 7:0.4
Nature
- The Eternal Son is an absolute spiritual actuality 0:4.7 (6:1.2,4) 104:5.6 105:3.3 (115:3.7,8,10)
- he is the Absolute Personality 0:5.5 6:0.3 6:1.2 6:7.1 10:2.4 56:9.5 104:5.6 105:3.3
- his spiritual power is absolute 6:4.1 7:1.1 9:1.4 10:3.18 12:8.4 14:2.6-7 20:1.13
- all spirit is actually part of Eternal Son 7:1.4
- he is always concerned with our welfare and spiritual security 7:3.1
- he bestows everything possible upon his Sons 7:0.2
- he is the eternal counterpoise to Paradise. Paradise upholds material things and Eternal Son spiritual ones 7:0.3
- he is difficult for mortals to grasp 6:8.6
- he is equal to Father in love, mercy, and ministry 6:4.9
- Eternal Son, as an infinite and exclusively personal being, cannot fragmentize his nature 6:5.5-6 7:5.3 10:3.18
- he is infinite in wisdom and truth; he is the universal revealer 9:0.2
- he is eternal 10:3.5
- The Eternal Son is the great mercy minister to all creation. (6:3.2,5) 8:4.2
- he knows Father as infinity 56:9.6
- The Eternal Son is limited in transmittal of creator prerogatives. 6:5.4
- he loves like a mother 6:3.5 6:8.1
- he is not limited by time or space 34:3.1
- he acts like an omnipresent spirit with an spirit-gravity circuit 7:1.7
- he forms a oneness with Father and Spirit 10:0.2 10:7.1
- Eternal Son is revealed through his Paradise Sons 10:1.6 16:2.1
- he is a revelation of divine love 1:3.8 6:3.1
- he is the Second Person of Deity 6:1.1 14:6.12 56:7.3
- his spirit is not indwelling mortals like Adjuster’s, but it is omnipresent 6:4.6 7:3.1
- spirit values and forces, spirit gravity, converge and cohere in Eternal Son 0:3.15 2:7.7 6:4.6 7:1.1 44:5.4 56:3.1 116:7.4
- The Son is the spiritual and personal nature of God made manifest to the universes—the sum and substance of the First Source and Center, divested of all that which is nonpersonal, extradivine, nonspiritual, and pure potential. 6:2.2-6 6:7.3 7:7.1-2 10:1.4 169:4.10
- The Eternal Son is the spiritual personalization of the Paradise Father’s universal and infinite concept of divine reality, unqualified spirit, and absolute personality. 6:0.3
- he is spiritually omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent 6:4.2-8 6:5.1 7:6.8
- he unifies all time-space spirit manifestations 56:3.4
- he is unqualified in volition 195:6.14
- he is the Word of God, the living and divine Word 6:0.1 6:1.3 6:2.2 6:8.3 14:6.15 20:5.1 56:2.1
Recognition of the Eternal Son
- 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. 6:8
- ascenders recognize Eternal Son on fourth circuit of Havona 26:8.1-2
- it is easier to approach Eternal Son than Father 7:7.5
- Michael possesses all attributes of Eternal Son, were Eternal Son in Nebadon 33:1.2
- Planetary Princes are nearest personal approach, aside from incarnation, that Eternal Son can make to man 50:1.1
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- “Word” of God 10:3.3 — Jn 1:1-4,14.
- Act of God 10:3.3 — Gn 1:1ff.
- Spirit of Truth 21:5.10 — Ezk 11:19; Ezk 18:31; Ezk 36:26-27; Jl 2:28-29; Lk 24:49; Jn 7:39; Jn 14:16-18,23,26; Jn 15:4,26; Jn 16:7-8,13-14; Jn 17:21-23; Acts 1:5,8a; Acts 2:1-4,16-18; Acts 2:33; 2 Co 13:5; Ga 2:20; Ga 4:6; Eph 1:13; Eph 4:30; 1 Jn 4:12-15.
- Pour out Spirit of Truth 21:5.10 — Acts 2:16-18.
- Only begotten son 6:1.1 — Jn 1:14,18; Jn 3:16,18; 1 Jn 4:9.
- God made everything 6:1.3 — Gn 1:1; Gn 2:4; Gn 5:1-2; Ex 20:11; Ex 31:17; 2 Ki 19:15; 2 Ch 2:12; Neh 9:6; Ps 115:15; Ps 121:2; Ps 124:8; Ps 134:3; Ps 146:6; Sir 1:1; Ec 33:10; Is 37:16; Is 40:26-28; Is 42:5; Is 45:12,18; Jer 10:11-12; Jer 32:17; Jer 51:15; Bar 3:32; Am 4:13; Mal 2:10; Mk 13:19; Acts 4:24; Acts 14:15; Eph 3:9; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2; 1 P 4:19; Rev 4:11; Rev 10:6; Rev 14:7.
- The Word & God 6:1.3 — Jn 1:1; Jn 5:18; Jn 10:30,38; Jn 14:9-11,20; Jn 17:11,21-22.
- Paul's early view of trinity 104:1.11 — 1 Co 12:4-6.
- Son poured out spirit on flesh 20:1.13 — Ezk 11:19; Ezk 18:31; Ezk 36:26-27; Jl 2:28-29; Lk 24:49; Jn 7:39; Jn 14:16-18,23,26; Jn 15:4,26; Jn 16:7-8,13-14; Jn 17:21-23; Acts 1:5,8a; Acts 2:1-4,17-18; Acts 2:33; 2 Co 13:5; Ga 2:20; Ga 4:6; Eph 1:13; Eph 4:30; 1 Jn 4:12-15.
- Spirit gravity 20:1.13 — Jer 31:3; Jn 6:44; Jn 12:32.
- Who sees Son sees Father 20:6.5 — Jn 12:45; Jn 14:9.
- Son is “Word” 20:5.1 — Jn 1:1.
- Word made flesh 20:5.1 — Jn 1:14a; 1 Jn 1:1.
- Son: the only way 8:3.7 — Mt 11:27; Lk 10:22; Jn 1:18; Jn 6:44-46; Jn 14:6-11,20.
- God is spirit 6:1.2 — Jn 4:24.
- Be you perfect 7:4.7 — Gn 17:1; Lv 19:2; 1 Ki 8:61; Dt 18:13; Mt 5:48; 2 Co 13:11; Jm 1:4; 1 P 1:16.
- Hold in hollow of hand 7:1.1 — Is 40:12.
- God is love 8:4.2 — 1 Jn 4:8,16.
- Son is mercy 6:3.5 — 1 Ch 16:34.
- Paradise Trinity 10:0.2 — Mt 28:19; Acts 2:32-33; 2 Co 13:14; 1 Jn 5:7.
- Paradise Trinity (Paul's early view) 10:0.2 — 1 Co 12:4-6.
- Unity of Deity 10:7.1 — 1 Jn 5:7.
- The Lord our God is one God 10:7.1 — 2 Ki 19:19; 1 Ch 17:20; Neh 9:6; Ps 86:10; Sir 36:5; Is 37:16; Is 44:6,8; Is 45:5-6,21; Dt 4:35,39; Dt 6:4; Mk 12:29,32; Jn 17:3; Ro 3:30; 1 Co 8:4-6; Ga 3:20; Eph 4:6; 1 Ti 2:5; Jm 2:19; 1 Sam 2:2; 2 Sam 7:22.
- First, Last, and only God 10:7.1 — Is 41:4; Is 44:6; Is 48:12; Rev 1:17; Rev 2:8.
- Alpha & Omega 10:7.1 — Rev 1:8,11; Rev 21:6; Rev 22:13.
- Paradise Sons 10:1.6 — Mt 11:27; Lk 10:22; Jn 1:14,18; Jn 6:45-46; Jn 8:26; Jn 12:49-50; Jn 14:7-11,20; Jn 17:6,25-26.
- Who sees me sees Father 6:2.2 — Jn 14:9.
- Father and Son one 6:8.3 — Jn 1:1; Jn 5:17-18; Jn 10:30,38; Jn 12:45; Jn 14:7-11,20; Jn 17:11,21-22.
Where it appears
Eternal Son is linked in 146 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.
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See also
- gravity:spirit gravity
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