The Bestowals of Christ Michael

119:5.1A lit­tle over three hun­dred mil­lion years ago, as time is reck­oned on Uran­tia, we wit­nessed an­other of those trans­fers of uni­verse au­thor­ity to Im­manuel and ob­served the prepa­ra­tions of Mi­chael for de­par­ture. This oc­ca­sion was dif­fer­ent from the pre­vi­ous ones in that he an­nounced that his des­ti­na­tion was Uversa, head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. In due time our Sov­er­eign de­parted, but the broad­casts of the super­uni­verse never made men­tion of Mi­chael’s ar­rival at the courts of the An­cients of Days. Shortly af­ter his de­par­ture from Sal­ving­ton there did ap­pear in the Uversa broad­casts this sig­nif­i­cant state­ment: “There ar­rived to­day an unan­nounced and un­num­bered as­cen­dant pil­grim of mor­tal ori­gin from the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton and ac­com­pa­nied by Ga­briel of Neb­a­don. This uniden­ti­fied be­ing pre­sents the sta­tus of a true spirit and has been re­ceived into our fel­low­ship.”

119:5.2If you should visit Uversa to­day, you would hear the re­count­ing of the days when Even­tod so­journed there, this par­tic­u­lar and un­known pil­grim of time and space be­ing known on Uversa by that name. And this as­cend­ing mor­tal, at least a su­perb per­son­al­ity in the ex­act like­ness of the spirit stage of the as­cend­ing mor­tals, lived and func­tioned on Uversa for a pe­riod of eleven years of Or­von­ton stan­dard time. This be­ing re­ceived the as­sign­ments and per­formed the du­ties of a spirit mor­tal in com­mon with his fel­lows from the var­i­ous lo­cal uni­verses of Or­von­ton. In “all points he was tested and tried, even as his fel­lows,” and on all oc­ca­sions he proved wor­thy of the con­fi­dence and trust of his su­pe­ri­ors, while he un­fail­ingly com­manded the re­spect and loyal ad­mi­ra­tion of his fel­low spir­its.

119:5.3On Sal­ving­ton we fol­lowed the ca­reer of this spirit pil­grim with con­sum­mate in­ter­est, know­ing full well, by the pres­ence of Ga­briel, that this unas­sum­ing and un­num­bered pil­grim spirit was none other than the be­stowed ruler of our lo­cal uni­verse. This first ap­pear­ance of Mi­chael in­car­nated in the role of one stage of mor­tal evo­lu­tion was an event which thrilled and en­thralled all Neb­a­don. We had heard of such things but now we be­held them. He ap­peared on Uversa as a fully de­vel­oped and per­fectly trained spirit mor­tal and, as such, con­tin­ued his ca­reer up to the oc­ca­sion of the ad­vance­ment of a group of as­cend­ing mor­tals to Ha­vona; where­upon he held con­verse with the An­cients of Days and im­me­di­ately, in the com­pany of Ga­briel, took sud­den and un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous leave of Uversa, ap­pear­ing shortly there­after in his ac­cus­tomed place on Sal­ving­ton.

119:5.4Not un­til the com­ple­tion of this be­stowal did it fi­nally dawn upon us that Mi­chael was prob­a­bly go­ing to in­car­nate in the like­ness of his var­i­ous or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, from the high­est Mel­chiz­e­deks right on down to the mor­tals of flesh and blood on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. About this time the Mel­chiz­e­dek col­leges be­gan to teach the prob­a­bil­ity of Mi­chael’s some­time in­car­nat­ing as a mor­tal of the flesh, and there oc­curred much spec­u­la­tion as to the pos­si­ble tech­nique of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble be­stowal. That Mi­chael had in per­son per­formed in the role of an as­cend­ing mor­tal lent new and added in­ter­est to the whole scheme of crea­ture pro­gres­sion all the way up through both the lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse.

119:5.5Still, the tech­nique of these suc­ces­sive be­stowals re­mained a mys­tery. Even Ga­briel con­fesses that he does not com­pre­hend the method whereby this Par­a­dise Son and uni­verse Cre­ator could, at will, as­sume the per­son­al­ity and live the life of one of his own sub­or­di­nate crea­tures.