The Bestowals of Christ Michael

119:7.1For tens of thou­sands of years we all looked for­ward to the sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal of Mi­chael. Ga­briel had taught us that this ter­mi­nal be­stowal would be made in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but we were wholly ig­no­rant of the time, place, and man­ner of this cul­mi­nat­ing ad­ven­ture.

119:7.2The pub­lic an­nounce­ment that Mi­chael had se­lected Uran­tia as the the­ater for his fi­nal be­stowal was made shortly af­ter we learned about the de­fault of Adam and Eve. And thus, for more than thirty-five thou­sand years, your world oc­cu­pied a very con­spic­u­ous place in the coun­cils of the en­tire uni­verse. There was no se­crecy (aside from the in­car­na­tion mys­tery) con­nected with any step in the Uran­tia be­stowal. From first to last, up to the fi­nal and tri­umphant re­turn of Mi­chael to Sal­ving­ton as su­preme Uni­verse Sov­er­eign, there was the fullest uni­verse pub­lic­ity of all that tran­spired on your small but highly hon­ored world.

119:7.3While we be­lieved that this would be the method, we never knew, un­til the time of the event it­self, that Mi­chael would ap­pear on earth as a help­less in­fant of the realm. Thereto­fore had he al­ways ap­peared as a fully de­vel­oped in­di­vid­ual of the per­son­al­ity group of the be­stowal se­lec­tion, and it was a thrilling an­nounce­ment which was broad­cast from Sal­ving­ton telling that the babe of Beth­le­hem had been born on Uran­tia.

119:7.4We then not only re­al­ized that our Cre­ator and friend was tak­ing the most pre­car­i­ous step in all his ca­reer, ap­par­ently risk­ing his po­si­tion and au­thor­ity on this be­stowal as a help­less in­fant, but we also un­der­stood that his ex­pe­ri­ence in this fi­nal and mor­tal be­stowal would eter­nally en­throne him as the undis­puted and su­preme sov­er­eign of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. For a third of a cen­tury of earth time all eyes in all parts of this lo­cal uni­verse were fo­cused on Uran­tia. All in­tel­li­gences re­al­ized that the last be­stowal was in prog­ress, and as we had long known of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia and of the Cali­gas­tia dis­af­fec­tion on Uran­tia, we well un­der­stood the in­ten­sity of the strug­gle which would en­sue when our ruler con­de­scended to in­car­nate on Uran­tia in the hum­ble form and like­ness of mor­tal flesh.

119:7.5Joshua ben Joseph, the Jew­ish baby, was con­ceived and was born into the world just as all other ba­bies be­fore and since ex­cept that this par­tic­u­lar baby was the in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a di­vine Son of Par­a­dise and the cre­ator of all this lo­cal uni­verse of things and be­ings. And this mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of De­ity within the hu­man form of Je­sus, oth­er­wise of nat­u­ral ori­gin on the world, will for­ever re­main un­solved. Even in eter­nity you will never know the tech­nique and method of the in­car­na­tion of the Cre­ator in the form and like­ness of his crea­tures. That is the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, and such mys­ter­ies are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of those di­vine Sons who have passed through the be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence.

119:7.6Cer­tain wise men of earth knew of Mi­chael’s im­pend­ing ar­rival. Through the con­tacts of one world with an­other, these wise men of spir­i­tual in­sight learned of the forth­com­ing be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. And the ser­a­phim did, through the mid­way crea­tures, make an­nounce­ment to a group of Chaldean priests whose leader was Ard­non. These men of God vis­ited the new­born child in the manger. The only super­nat­u­ral event as­so­ci­ated with the birth of Je­sus was this an­nounce­ment to Ard­non and his as­so­ciates by the ser­a­phim of for­mer at­tach­ment to Adam and Eve in the first gar­den.

119:7.7Je­sus’ hu­man par­ents were av­er­age peo­ple of their day and gen­er­a­tion, and this in­car­nated Son of God was thus born of woman and was reared in the or­di­nary man­ner of the chil­dren of that race and age.

119:7.8The story of Mi­chael’s so­journ on Uran­tia, the nar­ra­tive of the mor­tal be­stowal of the Cre­ator Son on your world, is a mat­ter be­yond the scope and pur­pose of this nar­ra­tive.