Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 7
RELATION OF THE ETERNAL SON TO THE UNIVERSE
1. The Original Son is ever concerned with the execution of the spiritual aspects of the Father’s eternal purpose ...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 ...The Eternal Son is the actual upholder of the vast creation of spirit realities and spiritual beings.
2. Everything taught concerning the immanence of God, his omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, is equally true of the Son in the spiritual domains...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.
3. This gravity control of spiritual things operates independently of time and space; therefore is spirit energy undiminished in transmission...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.
4. Spiritual values and spirit forces are real. From the viewpoint of personality, spirit is the soul of creation; matter is the shadowy physical body.
5. The Son’s spiritual drawing power is inherent to a lesser degree in many Paradise orders of sonship...Such subabsolute focalizations of spirit gravity are a part of the divinity of the Creator personalities of time and space and are correlated with the emerging experiential overcontrol of the Supreme Being.
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. Sin and rebellion may interfere with the operation of local universe circuits, but nothing can suspend the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son... 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.
8. 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.
9. On Paradise the presence and personal activity of the Original Son in profound, absolute in the spiritual sense. As we pass outward from Paradise through Havona, and into the realms of the seven superuniverses, we detect less and less of the personal activity of the Eternal Son.
10. The administration of the Eternal Son in the superuniverses, being exclusively spiritual and superpersonal, is not discernible by creature personalities...In the local universes, however, we observe the Eternal Son personally present in the persons of the Paradise Sons. Here the infinite Son spiritually and creatively functions in the persons of the majestic corps of the co-ordinate Creator Sons.
11. 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...The spirit-gravity circuit literally pulls the soul of man Paradiseward.
12. 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...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.
13. 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...It is the motivating thought, the spiritual content, that validates the mortal supplication. Words are valueless.
14.The Eternal Son is in everlasting liaison with the Father in the successful prosecution of the divine plan of progress; the universal plan for the creation, evolution, ascension, and perfection of will creatures...The Eternal Son is the personal trustee, the divine custodian, of the Father's universal plan of creature ascension...and the Eternal Son shares the fostering of this supernal enterprise with his divine co-ordinate, the Infinite Spirit.
15.The Son finds it impossible to become a part of creature experience in the sense that the Father-Adjuster participates therein, but the Eternal Son compensates this limitation by the technique of bestowal. What the experience of fragmented entities means to the Universal Father, the incarnation experiences of the Paradise Sons mean to the Eternal Son ...the Eternal Son did come to mortal man on Urantia when the divine personality of his Son, Michael of Nebadon, incarnated in the human nature of Jesus of Nazareth.
16. Long, long ago the Eternal Son bestowed himself upon each of the circuits of the central creation for the enlightenment and advancement of all the inhabitants and pilgrims of Havona...The bestowals of the Eternal Son in Havona are not within the scope of human imagination; they were transcendental.
17. Whatever our difficulty in comprehending the bestowals of the Second Person of Deity, we do comprehend the Havona bestowal of a Son of the Eternal Son, who literally passed through the circuits of the central universe and actually shared those experiences which constitute an ascender’s preparation for Deity attainment. This was the original Michael, the first-born Creator Son...Whatever also this original Michael revealed, he made the transcendent bestowal of the Original Mother Son real to the creatures of Havona.
18. The Eternal Son is the exemplary inspiration for all the Sons of God in their ministrations of bestowal throughout the universes of time and space...In spirit and nature, if not in all attributes, each Paradise Son is a divinely perfect portraiture of the Original Son. It is literally true, whosoever has seen a Paradise Son has seen the Eternal Son of God.
19. The lack of a knowledge of the multiple Sons of God is a source of great confusion on Urantia...Every time the Universal Father and the Eternal Son jointly project a new, original, identical, unique, and absolute personal thought, that very instant this creative idea is perfectly and finally personalized in the being and personality of a new and original Creator Son.
20. Much as the Creator Sons are personalized by the Father and the Son, so are the Magisterial Sons personalized by the Son and the Spirit. These are the Sons who, in the experiences of creature incarnation, earn the right to serve as the judges of survival in the creations of time and space.
21.The Father, Son, and Spirit also unite to personalize the versatile Trinity Teacher Sons, who range the grand universe as the supernal teachers of all personalities, human and divine. And there are numerous other orders of Paradise sonship that have not been brought to the attention of Urantia mortals.
22. All Sons of God who take origin in the persons of the Paradise Deities are in direct and constant communication with the Eternal Mother Son. And such communication is instantaneous; it is independent of time though sometimes conditioned by space.
23. The Eternal Son is a complete, exclusive, universal, and final revelation of the spirit and the personality of the Universal Father...In the central universe, the superuniverses, the local universes, or on the inhabited planets, it is a Paradise Son who reveals the Universal Father to men and angels. The Eternal Son and his Sons reveal the avenue of creature approach to the Universal Father ... In the progress of the pilgrims of time through the circuits of Havona, you will be competent to attain the Son long before you are prepared to discern the Father.
Discussion Questions
1. What are some of the experiential effects of the Son’s absolute spiritual gravity control?
2. What values in human nature are most closely related to spiritual reality?
3. What is the meaning of Jesus’ statement in the New Testament: “I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself?”
4. Knowing that the true spiritual values of our prayers are immediately carried to all divine personalities concerned, is this likely to change our prayers, our spiritual consciousness, and our lives?
5. How reliable is kindred spirit attraction in our social experience?
6. A Divine Counselor tells us that spirit is real, the soul of creation; matter is the shadowy physical body. How does this register with human experience?
7. How is the divine plan for progress related to human plans for progress?
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