The Bestowals of Christ Michael

119:3.1The su­preme coun­cil on Sal­ving­ton had just fin­ished the con­sid­er­a­tion of the call of the Life Car­ri­ers on planet 217 in sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61 for the dis­patch to their as­sis­tance of a Ma­te­rial Son. Now this planet was sit­u­ated in a sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds where an­other Sys­tem Sov­er­eign had gone astray, the sec­ond such re­bel­lion in all Neb­a­don up to that time.

119:3.2Upon the re­quest of Mi­chael, ac­tion on the pe­ti­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers of this planet was de­ferred pend­ing its con­sid­er­a­tion by Im­manuel and his re­port thereon. This was an ir­reg­u­lar pro­ce­dure, and I well re­mem­ber how we all an­tic­i­pated some­thing un­usual, and we were not long held in sus­pense. Mi­chael pro­ceeded to place uni­verse di­rec­tion in the hands of Im­manuel, while he in­trusted com­mand of the ce­les­tial forces to Ga­briel, and hav­ing thus dis­posed of his ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, he took leave of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and van­ished from the dis­patch­ing field of Sal­ving­ton pre­cisely as he had done on two pre­vi­ous oc­ca­sions.

119:3.3And, as might have been ex­pected, on the third day there­after there ap­peared, unan­nounced, on the head­quar­ters world of sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61, a strange Ma­te­rial Son, ac­com­pa­nied by a lone se­con­a­phim, ac­cred­ited by the Uversa An­cients of Days, and cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. Im­me­di­ately the act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pointed this new and mys­te­ri­ous Ma­te­rial Son act­ing Plan­e­tary Prince of world 217, and this des­ig­na­tion was at once con­firmed by the Most Highs of con­stel­la­tion 61.

119:3.4Thus did this unique Ma­te­rial Son be­gin his dif­fi­cult ca­reer on a quar­an­tined world of se­ces­sion and re­bel­lion, lo­cated in a be­lea­guered sys­tem with­out any di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the out­side uni­verse, work­ing alone for one whole gen­er­a­tion of plan­e­tary time. This emer­gency Ma­te­rial Son ef­fected the re­pen­tance and recla­ma­tion of the de­fault­ing Plan­e­tary Prince and his en­tire staff and wit­nessed the restora­tion of the planet to the loyal ser­vice of the Par­a­dise rule as es­tab­lished in the lo­cal uni­verses. In due time a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter ar­rived on this re­ju­ve­nated and re­deemed world, and when they had been duly in­stalled as vis­i­ble plan­e­tary rulers, the tran­si­tory or emer­gency Plan­e­tary Prince took for­mal leave, dis­ap­pear­ing at noon one day. On the third day there­after, Mi­chael ap­peared in his ac­cus­tomed place on Sal­ving­ton, and very soon the super­uni­verse broad­casts car­ried the fourth procla­ma­tion of the An­cients of Days an­nounc­ing the fur­ther ad­vance­ment of the sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael in Neb­a­don.

119:3.5I re­gret that I do not have per­mis­sion to nar­rate the pa­tience, for­ti­tude, and skill with which this Ma­te­rial Son met the try­ing sit­u­a­tions on this con­fused planet. The recla­ma­tion of this iso­lated world is one of the most beau­ti­fully touch­ing chap­ters in the an­nals of sal­va­tion through­out Neb­a­don. By the end of this mis­sion it had be­come ev­i­dent to all Neb­a­don as to why their beloved ruler chose to en­gage in these re­peated be­stowals in the like­ness of some sub­or­di­nate or­der of in­tel­li­gent be­ing.

119:3.6The be­stowals of Mi­chael as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son, then as a La­non­an­dek Son, and next as a Ma­te­rial Son are all equally mys­te­ri­ous and be­yond ex­pla­na­tion. In each in­stance he ap­peared sud­denly and as a fully de­vel­oped in­di­vid­ual of the be­stowal group. The mys­tery of such in­car­na­tions will never be known ex­cept to those who have ac­cess to the in­ner cir­cle of the rec­ords on the sa­cred sphere of Sonar­ing­ton.

119:3.7Never, since this mar­velous be­stowal as the Plan­e­tary Prince of a world in iso­la­tion and re­bel­lion, have any of the Ma­te­rial Sons or Daugh­ters in Neb­a­don been tempted to com­plain of their as­sign­ments or to find fault with the dif­fi­cul­ties of their plan­e­tary mis­sions. For all time the Ma­te­rial Sons know that in the Cre­ator Son of the uni­verse they have an un­der­stand­ing sov­er­eign and a sym­pa­thetic friend, one who has in “all points been tried and tested,” even as they must also be tried and tested.

119:3.8Each of these mis­sions was fol­lowed by an age of in­creas­ing ser­vice and loy­alty among all ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gences of uni­verse ori­gin, while each suc­ceed­ing be­stowal age was char­ac­ter­ized by ad­vance­ment and im­prove­ment in all meth­ods of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion and in all tech­niques of gov­ern­ment. Since this be­stowal no Ma­te­rial Son or Daugh­ter has ever know­ingly joined in re­bel­lion against Mi­chael; they love and honor him too de­vot­edly ever con­sciously to re­ject him. Only through de­cep­tion and soph­istry have the Adams of re­cent times been led astray by higher types of rebel per­son­al­i­ties.