P108:4, 10:1.1
It would seem that the Father, back in eternity, inaugurated a policy of profound
self-distribution. There is inherent in the selfless, loving, and lovable
nature of the Universal Father something which causes him to reserve to himself
the exercise of only those powers and that authority which he apparently finds
it impossible to delegate or to bestow.
P108:5, 10:1.2
The Universal Father all along has divested himself of every part of himself
that was
bestowable on any other Creator or creature. He has delegated to
his divine Sons and their associated intelligences every power and all authority
that could be delegated. He has actually transferred to his Sovereign Sons,
in their respective universes, every prerogative of administrative authority
that was transferable. In the affairs of a local universe, he has made each
Sovereign Creator Son just as perfect, competent, and authoritative as is
the Eternal Son in the original and central universe. He has given away, actually
bestowed, with the dignity and sanctity of personality possession, all of
himself and all of his attributes, everything he possibly could divest himself
of, in every way, in every age, in every place, and to every person, and in
every universe except that of his central indwelling.
P109:1, 10:1.3
Divine personality is not self-centered; self-distribution and sharing of
personality characterize divine freewill selfhood. Creatures crave association
with other personal creatures; Creators are moved to share divinity with their
universe children; the personality of the Infinite is disclosed as the Universal
Father, who shares reality of being and equality of self with two co-ordinate
personalities, the Eternal Son and the Conjoint Actor.
P109:2, 10:1.4
For knowledge concerning the Father's personality and divine attributes we
will always be dependent on the revelations of the Eternal Son, for when the
conjoint act of creation was effected, when the Third Person of Deity sprang
into personality existence and executed the combined concepts of his divine
parents, the Father ceased to exist as the unqualified personality. With the
coming into being of the Conjoint Actor and the materialization of the central
core of creation, certain eternal changes took place. God gave himself as
an absolute personality to his Eternal Son. Thus does the Father bestow the
"personality of infinity" upon his only-begotten Son, while they both bestow
the "conjoint personality" of their eternal union upon the Infinite Spirit.
P109:3, 10:1.5
For these and other reasons beyond the concept of the finite mind, it is exceedingly
difficult for the human creature to comprehend God's infinite father-personality
except as it is universally revealed in the Eternal Son and, with the Son,
is universally active in the Infinite Spirit.
P109:4, 10:1.6
Since the Paradise Sons of God visit the evolutionary worlds and sometimes
even there dwell in the likeness of mortal flesh, and since these bestowals
make it possible for mortal man actually to know something of the nature and
character of divine personality, therefore must the creatures of the planetary
spheres look to the bestowals of these Paradise Sons for reliable and trustworthy
information regarding the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.