The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia

120:1.1“My Cre­ator brother, I am about to wit­ness your sev­enth and fi­nal uni­verse be­stowal. Most faith­fully and per­fectly have you ex­e­cuted the six pre­vi­ous com­mis­sions, and I en­ter­tain no thought but that you will be equally tri­umphant on this, your ter­mi­nal sov­er­eignty be­stowal. Here­to­fore you have ap­peared on your be­stowal spheres as a fully de­vel­oped be­ing of the or­der of your choos­ing. Now you are about to ap­pear upon Uran­tia, the dis­or­dered and dis­turbed planet of your choice, not as a fully de­vel­oped mor­tal, but as a help­less babe. This, my com­rade, will be a new and un­tried ex­pe­ri­ence for you. You are about to pay the full price of be­stowal and to ex­pe­ri­ence the com­plete en­light­en­ment of the in­car­na­tion of a Cre­ator in the like­ness of a crea­ture.

120:1.2“Through­out each of your for­mer be­stowals you have vol­un­tar­ily cho­sen to sub­ject your­self to the will of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties and their di­vine in­teras­so­ci­a­tions. Of the seven phases of the will of the Su­preme you have in your pre­vi­ous be­stowals been sub­ject to all but the per­sonal will of your Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Now that you have elected to be wholly sub­ject to your Fa­ther’s will through­out your sev­enth be­stowal, I, as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of our Fa­ther, as­sume the un­qual­i­fied ju­ris­dic­tion of your uni­verse for the time of your in­car­na­tion.

120:1.3“In en­ter­ing upon the Uran­tia be­stowal, you have vol­un­tar­ily di­vested your­self of all ex­tra­plan­e­tary sup­port and spe­cial as­sis­tance such as might be ren­dered by any crea­ture of your own cre­ation. As your cre­ated sons of Neb­a­don are wholly de­pen­dent upon you for safe con­duct through­out their uni­verse ca­reers, so now must you be­come wholly and un­re­servedly de­pen­dent upon your Par­a­dise Fa­ther for safe con­duct through­out the un­re­vealed vi­cis­si­tudes of your en­su­ing mor­tal ca­reer. And when you shall have fin­ished this be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence, you will know in very truth the full mean­ing and the rich sig­nif­i­cance of that faith-trust which you so un­vary­ingly re­quire all your crea­tures to mas­ter as a part of their in­ti­mate re­la­tion­ship with you as their lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator and Fa­ther.

120:1.4“Through­out your Uran­tia be­stowal you need be con­cerned with but one thing, the un­bro­ken com­mu­nion be­tween you and your Par­a­dise Fa­ther; and it will be by the per­fec­tion of such a re­la­tion­ship that the world of your be­stowal, even all the uni­verse of your cre­ation, will be­hold a new and more un­der­stand­able rev­e­la­tion of your Fa­ther and my Fa­ther, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of all. Your con­cern, there­fore, has only to do with your per­sonal life on Uran­tia. I will be fully and ef­fi­ciently re­spon­si­ble for the se­cu­rity and un­bro­ken ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse from the mo­ment of your vol­un­tary re­lin­quish­ment of au­thor­ity un­til you re­turn to us as Uni­verse Sov­er­eign, con­firmed by Par­a­dise, and re­ceive back from my hands, not the vicegerent au­thor­ity which you now sur­ren­der to me, but, in­stead, the su­preme power over, and ju­ris­dic­tion of, your uni­verse.

120:1.5“And that you may know with as­sur­ance that I am em­pow­ered to do all that I am now promis­ing (know­ing full well that I am the as­sur­ance of all Par­a­dise for the faith­ful per­for­mance of my word), I an­nounce to you that there has just been com­mu­ni­cated to me a man­date of the An­cients of Days on Uversa which will pre­vent all spir­i­tual jeop­ardy in Neb­a­don through­out the pe­riod of your vol­un­tary be­stowal. From the mo­ment you sur­ren­der con­scious­ness, upon the be­gin­ning of the mor­tal in­car­na­tion, un­til you re­turn to us as su­preme and un­con­di­tional sov­er­eign of this uni­verse of your own cre­ation and or­ga­ni­za­tion, noth­ing of se­ri­ous im­port can hap­pen in all Neb­a­don. In this in­terim of your in­car­na­tion, I hold the or­ders of the An­cients of Days which un­qual­i­fiedly man­date the in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic ex­tinc­tion of any be­ing guilty of re­bel­lion or pre­sum­ing to in­sti­gate in­sur­rec­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don while you are ab­sent on this be­stowal. My brother, in view of the au­thor­ity of Par­a­dise in­her­ent in my pres­ence and aug­mented by the ju­di­cial man­date of Uversa, your uni­verse and all its loyal crea­tures will be se­cure dur­ing your be­stowal. You may pro­ceed upon your mis­sion with but a sin­gle thought—the en­hanced rev­e­la­tion of our Fa­ther to the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of your uni­verse.

120:1.6“As in each of your pre­vi­ous be­stowals, I would re­mind you that I am re­cip­i­ent of your uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion as brother-trus­tee. I ex­er­cise all au­thor­ity and wield all power in your name. I func­tion as would our Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in ac­cor­dance with your ex­plicit re­quest that I thus act in your stead. And such be­ing the fact, all this del­e­gated au­thor­ity is yours again to ex­er­cise at any mo­ment you may see fit to req­ui­si­tion its re­turn. Your be­stowal is, through­out, wholly vol­un­tary. As a mor­tal in­car­nate in the realm you are with­out ce­les­tial en­dow­ments, but all your re­lin­quished power may be had at any time you may choose to rein­vest your­self with uni­verse au­thor­ity. If you should choose to re­in­state your­self in power and au­thor­ity, re­mem­ber, it will be wholly for per­sonal rea­sons since I am the liv­ing and su­preme pledge whose pres­ence and prom­ise guar­an­tee the safe ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with your Fa­ther’s will. Re­bel­lion, such as has three times oc­curred in Neb­a­don, can­not oc­cur dur­ing your ab­sence from Sal­ving­ton on this be­stowal. For the pe­riod of the Uran­tia be­stowal the An­cients of Days have de­creed that re­bel­lion in Neb­a­don shall be in­vested with the au­to­matic seed of its own an­ni­hi­la­tion.

120:1.7“As long as you are ab­sent on this fi­nal and ex­traor­di­nary be­stowal, I pledge (with Ga­briel’s co-op­er­a­tion) the faith­ful ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse; and as I com­mis­sion you to un­der­take this min­istry of di­vine rev­e­la­tion and to un­dergo this ex­pe­ri­ence of per­fected hu­man un­der­stand­ing, I act in be­half of my Fa­ther and your Fa­ther and of­fer you the fol­low­ing coun­sel, which should guide you in the liv­ing of your earth life as you be­come pro­gres­sively self-con­scious re­gard­ing the di­vine mis­sion of your con­tin­ued so­journ in the flesh: