The Bestowals of Christ Michael

119:0.1Chief of the Evening Stars of Neb­a­don, I am as­signed to Uran­tia by Ga­briel on the mis­sion of re­veal­ing the story of the seven be­stowals of the Uni­verse Sov­er­eign, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, and my name is Gavalia. In mak­ing this pre­sen­ta­tion, I will ad­here strictly to the lim­i­ta­tions im­posed by my com­mis­sion.

119:0.2The at­tri­bute of be­stowal is in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In their de­sire to come close to the life ex­pe­ri­ences of their sub­or­di­nate liv­ing crea­tures, the var­i­ous or­ders of the Par­a­dise Sons are re­flect­ing the di­vine na­ture of their Par­a­dise par­ents. The Eter­nal Son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity led the way in this prac­tice, hav­ing seven times be­stowed him­self upon the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona dur­ing the times of the as­cen­sion of Grand­fanda and the first of the pil­grims from time and space. And the Eter­nal Son con­tin­ues to be­stow him­self upon the lo­cal uni­verses of space in the per­sons of his rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the Mi­chael and Avo­nal Sons.

119:0.3When the Eter­nal Son be­stows a Cre­ator Son upon a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, that Cre­ator Son as­sumes full re­spon­si­bil­ity for the com­ple­tion, con­trol, and com­po­sure of that new uni­verse, in­clud­ing the solemn oath to the eter­nal Trin­ity not to as­sume full sov­er­eignty of the new cre­ation un­til his seven crea­ture be­stowals shall have been suc­cess­fully com­pleted and cer­ti­fied by the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. This obli­ga­tion is as­sumed by ev­ery Mi­chael Son who vol­un­teers to go out from Par­a­dise to en­gage in uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion and cre­ation.

119:0.4The pur­pose of these crea­ture in­car­na­tions is to en­able such Cre­ators to be­come wise, sym­pa­thetic, just, and un­der­stand­ing sov­er­eigns. These di­vine Sons are in­nately just, but they be­come un­der­stand­ingly mer­ci­ful as a re­sult of these suc­ces­sive be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences; they are nat­u­rally mer­ci­ful, but these ex­pe­ri­ences make them mer­ci­ful in new and ad­di­tional ways. These be­stowals are the last steps in their ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing for the sub­lime tasks of rul­ing the lo­cal uni­verses in di­vine righ­teous­ness and by just judg­ment.

119:0.5Though nu­mer­ous in­ci­den­tal ben­e­fits ac­crue to the var­i­ous worlds, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions, as well as to the dif­fer­ent or­ders of uni­verse in­tel­li­gences af­fected and ben­e­fited by these be­stowals, still they are pri­mar­ily de­signed to com­plete the per­sonal train­ing and uni­verse ed­u­ca­tion of a Cre­ator Son him­self. These be­stowals are not es­sen­tial to the wise, just, and ef­fi­cient man­age­ment of a lo­cal uni­verse, but they are ab­so­lutely nec­es­sary to a fair, mer­ci­ful, and un­der­stand­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion of such a cre­ation, teem­ing with its var­ied forms of life and its myr­i­ads of in­tel­li­gent but im­per­fect crea­tures.

119:0.6The Mi­chael Sons be­gin their work of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion with a full and just sym­pa­thy for the var­i­ous or­ders of be­ings whom they have cre­ated. They have vast stores of mercy for all these dif­fer­ing crea­tures, even pity for those who err and floun­der in the self­ish mire of their own pro­duc­tion. But such en­dow­ments of jus­tice and righ­teous­ness will not suf­fice in the es­ti­mate of the An­cients of Days. These tri­une rulers of the super­uni­verses will never cer­tify a Cre­ator Son as Uni­verse Sov­er­eign un­til he has re­ally ac­quired the view­point of his own crea­tures by ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the en­vi­ron­ment of their ex­is­tence and as these very crea­tures them­selves. In this way such Sons be­come in­tel­li­gent and un­der­stand­ing rulers; they come to know the var­i­ous groups over which they rule and ex­er­cise uni­verse au­thor­ity. By liv­ing ex­pe­ri­ence they pos­sess them­selves of prac­ti­cal mercy, fair judg­ment, and the pa­tience born of ex­pe­ri­en­tial crea­ture ex­is­tence.

119:0.7The lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don is now ruled by a Cre­ator Son who has com­pleted his ser­vice of be­stowal; he reigns in just and mer­ci­ful su­prem­acy over all the vast realms of his evolv­ing and per­fect­ing uni­verse. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is the 611,121^st be­stowal of the Eter­nal Son upon the uni­verses of time and space, and he be­gan the or­ga­ni­za­tion of your lo­cal uni­verse about four hun­dred bil­lion years ago. Mi­chael made ready for his first be­stowal ad­ven­ture about the time Uran­tia was tak­ing on its pres­ent form, one bil­lion years ago. His be­stowals have oc­curred about one hun­dred and fifty mil­lion years apart, the last tak­ing place on Uran­tia nine­teen hun­dred years ago. I will now pro­ceed to un­fold the na­ture and char­ac­ter of these be­stowals as fully as my com­mis­sion per­mits.