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THE SPIRIT OF BESTOWAL 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.
*** 007:5 THE SPIRIT OF BESTOWAL 7:5.1 The Eternal Son
without reservation joined with the Universal Father
in broadcasting that tremendous injunction to all creation: " Be you perfect, even as your Father in Havona is perfect. " And ever since, that
invitation-command has motivated all the survival plans and the bestowal
projects of the Eternal Son and his vast family of co-ordinate and associated
Sons. And in these very bestowals the Sons of God
have become to all evolutionary creatures " the
way, the truth, and the life. " 7:5.2 The Eternal Son cannot contact directly with human beings
as does the Father through the gift of the prepersonal
Thought
Adjusters, but the Eternal Son does draw near to created personalities
by a series of downstepping gradations of divine sonship until he is enabled to stand in man's
presence and, at times, as man himself. 7:5.3 The purely personal nature of the Eternal Son is incapable
of fragmentation. The Eternal Son ministers as a spiritual influence or as a
person, never otherwise. 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. 7:5.4 The Eternal Son comes not to mortal man as the divine will,
the Thought Adjuster indwelling the human mind, but 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. To share the experience of created personalities, the Paradise Sons of
God must assume the very natures of such creatures and incarnate
their divine personalities as the actual creatures themselves. Incarnation,
the secret of Sonarington, is the technique of the Son's escape from
the otherwise all-encompassing fetters of personality absolutism. 7:5.5 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, including the
ascending pilgrims of time. On none of these seven bestowals did he function
as either an ascender or a Havoner. He existed as
himself. His experience was unique; it was not with or as a human or other
pilgrim but in some way associative in the superpersonal
sense. 7:5.6 Neither did he pass through the rest that intervenes
between the inner Havona circuit and the shores of 7:5.7 The bestowals of the Eternal Son in Havona
are not within the scope of human imagination; they were transcendental. He
added to the experience of all Havona then and
subsequently, but we do not know whether he added to the supposed
experiential capacity of his existential nature. That would fall within the
bestowal mystery of the 7:5.8 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, and he
passed through the life experiences of the ascending pilgrims from circuit to
circuit, personally journeying a stage of each circle with them in the days
of Grandfanda, the first of all mortals to attain Havona. 7:5.9 Whatever else this original Michael revealed, he made the
transcendent bestowal of the Original Mother
Son real to the creatures of Havona. So
real, that forevermore each pilgrim of time who labors in the adventure of
making the Havona circuits is cheered and
strengthened by the certain knowledge that the Eternal Son of God seven times
abdicated the power and glory of Paradise to participate in the experiences
of the time-space pilgrims on the seven circuits of progressive Havona attainment. 7:5.10 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. The co-ordinate Creator Sons
and the associate Magisterial Sons,
together with other unrevealed orders of sonship,
all partake of this wonderful willingness to bestow themselves upon the
varied orders of creature life and as the creatures themselves. Therefore, in
spirit and because of kinship of nature as well as fact of origin, it becomes
true that in the bestowal of each Son of God upon the worlds of space, in and
through and by these bestowals, the Eternal Son has bestowed himself upon the
intelligent will creatures of the universes. 7:5.11 In spirit and nature, if not in all attributes, each |
