The Bestowals of Christ Michael

119:4.1It was at the end of one of the pe­ri­odic mil­len­nial roll calls of Uversa that Mi­chael pro­ceeded to place the gov­ern­ment of Neb­a­don in the hands of Im­manuel and Ga­briel; and, of course, re­call­ing what had hap­pened in times past fol­low­ing such ac­tion, we all pre­pared to wit­ness Mi­chael’s dis­ap­pear­ance on his fourth mis­sion of be­stowal, and we were not long kept wait­ing, for he shortly went out upon the Sal­ving­ton dis­patch­ing field and was lost to our view.

119:4.2On the third day af­ter this be­stowal dis­ap­pear­ance we ob­served, in the uni­verse broad­casts to Uversa, this sig­nif­i­cant news item from the se­raphic head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don: “Re­port­ing the unan­nounced ar­rival of an un­known ser­a­phim, ac­com­pa­nied by a soli­tary super­na­phim and Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton. This un­reg­is­tered ser­a­phim qual­i­fies as of the Neb­a­don or­der and bears cre­den­tials from the Uversa An­cients of Days, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. This ser­a­phim tests out as be­long­ing to the su­preme or­der of the an­gels of a lo­cal uni­verse and has al­ready been as­signed to the corps of the teach­ing coun­selors.”

119:4.3Mi­chael was ab­sent from Sal­ving­ton dur­ing this, the se­raphic be­stowal, for a pe­riod of over forty stan­dard uni­verse years. Dur­ing this time he was at­tached as a se­raphic teach­ing coun­selor, what you might de­nom­i­nate a pri­vate sec­re­tary, to twenty-six dif­fer­ent mas­ter teach­ers, func­tion­ing on twenty-two dif­fer­ent worlds. His last or ter­mi­nal as­sign­ment was as coun­selor and helper at­tached to a be­stowal mis­sion of a Trin­ity Teacher Son on world 462 in sys­tem 84 of con­stel­la­tion 3 in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

119:4.4Never, through­out the seven years of this as­sign­ment, was this Trin­ity Teacher Son wholly per­suaded as to the iden­tity of his se­raphic as­so­ciate. True, all ser­a­phim dur­ing that age were re­garded with pe­cu­liar in­ter­est and scrutiny. Full well we all knew that our beloved Sov­er­eign was abroad in the uni­verse, dis­guised as a ser­a­phim, but never could we be cer­tain of his iden­tity. Never was he pos­i­tively iden­ti­fied un­til the time of his at­tach­ment to the be­stowal mis­sion of this Trin­ity Teacher Son. But al­ways through­out this era were the su­preme ser­a­phim re­garded with spe­cial so­lic­i­tude, lest any of us should find that we had un­awares been host to the Sov­er­eign of the uni­verse on a mis­sion of crea­ture be­stowal. And so it has be­come for­ever true, con­cern­ing an­gels, that their Cre­ator and Ruler has been “in all points tried and tested in the like­ness of se­raphic per­son­al­ity.”

119:4.5As these suc­ces­sive be­stowals par­took in­creas­ingly of the na­ture of the lower forms of uni­verse life, Ga­briel be­came more and more an as­so­ciate of these in­car­na­tion ad­ven­tures, func­tion­ing as the uni­verse li­ai­son be­tween the be­stowed Mi­chael and the act­ing uni­verse ruler, Im­manuel.

119:4.6Now has Mi­chael passed through the be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence of three or­ders of his cre­ated uni­verse Sons: the Mel­chiz­e­deks, the La­non­an­deks, and the Ma­te­rial Sons. Next he con­de­scends to per­son­al­ize in the like­ness of an­gelic life as a su­preme ser­a­phim be­fore turn­ing his at­ten­tion to the var­i­ous phases of the as­cend­ing ca­reers of his low­est form of will crea­tures, the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals of time and space.