missions and processions

In my gift-ontology, processions name the eternal origins within God, while missions name the temporal sendings in the economy. The guiding discipline is that missions reveal processions without introducing intrinsic novelty in God. The Incarnation is the temporal mission of the Son. Pentecost and sanctification are missions of the Spirit. These missions involve real novelty in created reality, new instituted gift-terms and histories, but they do not produce new intrinsic states in God. This pairing is one of the clearest applications of term-side novelty: the economy is truly new in creatures, while the triune act remains immutable. At the same time, missions are not mere appearances. They are real instituted effects through which the one act-of-gift communicates grace.