Spiritual Advice and Guidance Blog: Urantia Book

Q: Please, in your opinion, what is the difference between the Will of the Universal Father and the Will of the Eternal Son? I just discovered from The Urantia Book that there is the Will of the Eternal Son and the Will of the Father as I was reading about Magisterial Sons being subjected to the Will of the Eternal Son and not to the Universal Father. I am quite perplexed about it.

A: I wonder if this is the reference you are asking about:

(20:6.5) The mortal-bestowal careers of the Michaels and the Avonals, while comparable in most respects, are not identical in all: Never does a Magisterial Son proclaim, "Whosoever has seen the Son has seen the Father," as did your Creator Son when on Urantia and in the flesh. But a bestowed Avonal does declare, "Whosoever has seen me has seen the Eternal Son of God." The Magisterial Sons are not of immediate descent from the Universal Father, nor do they incarnate subject to the Father's will; always do they bestow themselves as Paradise Sons subject to the will of the Eternal Son of Paradise.

This Eternal Son is the second person of the Trinity. Most religions assume that Jesus is this person, but we know from Urantia Book revelation that he is not. Instead, Jesus is a Creator Son on the order of Michael, and he is of origin in the Universal Father, whereas, Magisterial Sons are called Paradise Sons, originating in the Eternal Son.

(7:6.5) 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.

I am answering you in a sort of roundabout way, but I think it will help you to understand better if you can bear with me here. I would suggest you first read about the Seven Master Spirits In this section, we learn about the "associative possibilities mathematically inherent in the factual existence of the three persons of Deity."

And they all evidently have their own "will aspects" of Deity.

Getting a grasp on the idea of the Seven Master Spirits will help you to understand this next passage. I offer it as an example in which Jesus was subject to all of these "wills" of all seven of the Master Spirits in his seven bestowals in our universe.

(119:8.4) These various will aspects of the Deities are eternally personalized in the differing natures of the Seven Master Spirits, and each of Michael's bestowals was peculiarly revelatory of one of these divinity manifestations. On his Melchizedek bestowal he manifested the united will of the Father, Son, and Spirit, on his Lanonandek bestowal the will of the Father and the Son; on the Adamic bestowal he revealed the will of the Father and the Spirit, on the seraphic bestowal the will of the Son and the Spirit; on the Uversa mortal bestowal he portrayed the will of the Conjoint Actor, on the morontia mortal bestowal the will of the Eternal Son; and on the Urantia material bestowal he lived the will of the Universal Father, even as a mortal of flesh and blood.

Jesus, being a Creator Son, and of origin in the Father, is subject finally to the will of the Father, and all the other "divinity manifestations." But Magisterial Sons are of origin in the Eternal Son, as in the first quote above:

"The Magisterial Sons are not of immediate descent from the Universal Father, nor do they incarnate subject to the Father's will; always do they bestow themselves as Paradise Sons subject to the will of the Eternal Son of Paradise."

This is referring to the second Master Spirit, that of the Eternal Son. Magisterial Sons do bestow themselves on planets such as ours, and I expect they are subject to the will of the Eternal Son because that is their point of origin, as in the above quote.

But you might assume that since the Eternal Son is one of the Trinity, then he is on an equal footing with God the Father, and so, maybe the difference is academic in the end...or maybe not. The Trinity is a mystery beyond my comprehension....

I am not sure if this adequately answers your question, but I hope it has given you some material to study, so that you understand these distinctions.

Thanks again for this great question - keep reading!!!

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