The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia

120:3.1“And now, my brother, in tak­ing leave of you as you pre­pare to de­part for Uran­tia and af­ter coun­sel­ing you re­gard­ing the gen­eral con­duct of your be­stowal, al­low me to pre­sent cer­tain ad­vices that have been ar­rived at in con­sul­ta­tion with Ga­briel, and which con­cern mi­nor phases of your mor­tal life. We fur­ther sug­gest:

120:3.2“1. That, in the pur­suit of the ideal of your mor­tal earth life, you also give some at­ten­tion to the re­al­iza­tion and ex­em­pli­fi­ca­tion of some things prac­ti­cal and im­me­di­ately help­ful to your fel­low men.

120:3.3“2. As con­cerns fam­ily re­la­tion­ships, give prece­dence to the ac­cepted cus­toms of fam­ily life as you find them es­tab­lished in the day and gen­er­a­tion of your be­stowal. Live your fam­ily and com­mu­nity life in ac­cor­dance with the prac­tices of the peo­ple among whom you have elected to ap­pear.

120:3.4“3. In your re­la­tions to the so­cial or­der we ad­vise that you con­fine your ef­forts largely to spir­i­tual re­gen­er­a­tion and in­tel­lec­tual eman­ci­pa­tion. Avoid all en­tan­gle­ments with the eco­nomic struc­ture and the po­lit­i­cal com­mit­ments of your day. More es­pe­cially de­vote your­self to liv­ing the ideal re­li­gious life on Uran­tia.

120:3.5“4. Un­der no cir­cum­stances and not even in the least de­tail, should you in­ter­fere with the nor­mal and or­derly pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion of the Uran­tia races. But this pro­hi­bi­tion must not be in­ter­preted as lim­it­ing your ef­forts to leave be­hind you on Uran­tia an en­dur­ing and im­proved sys­tem of pos­i­tive re­li­gious ethics. As a dis­pen­sa­tional Son you are granted cer­tain priv­i­leges per­tain­ing to the ad­vance­ment of the spir­i­tual and re­li­gious sta­tus of the world peo­ples.

120:3.6“5. As you may see fit, you are to iden­tify your­self with ex­ist­ing re­li­gious and spir­i­tual move­ments as they may be found on Uran­tia but in ev­ery pos­si­ble man­ner seek to avoid the for­mal es­tab­lish­ment of an or­ga­nized cult, a crys­tal­lized re­li­gion, or a seg­re­gated eth­i­cal group­ing of mor­tal be­ings. Your life and teach­ings are to be­come the com­mon her­itage of all re­li­gions and all peo­ples.

120:3.7“6. To the end that you may not un­nec­es­sar­ily con­tribute to the cre­ation of sub­se­quent stereo­typed sys­tems of Uran­tia re­li­gious be­liefs or other types of non­pro­gres­sive re­li­gious loy­al­ties, we ad­vise you still fur­ther: Leave no writ­ings be­hind you on the planet. Re­frain from all writ­ing upon per­ma­nent ma­te­ri­als; en­join your as­so­ciates to make no im­ages or other like­nesses of your­self in the flesh. See that noth­ing po­ten­tially idol­a­trous is left on the planet at the time of your de­par­ture.

120:3.8“7. While you will live the nor­mal and av­er­age so­cial life of the planet, be­ing a nor­mal in­di­vid­ual of the male sex, you will prob­a­bly not en­ter the mar­riage re­la­tion, which re­la­tion would be wholly hon­or­able and con­sis­tent with your be­stowal; but I must re­mind you that one of the in­car­na­tion man­dates of Sonar­ing­ton for­bids the leav­ing of hu­man off­spring be­hind on any planet by a be­stowal Son of Par­a­dise ori­gin.

120:3.9“8. In all other de­tails of your on­com­ing be­stowal we would com­mit you to the lead­ing of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, the teach­ing of the ever-pres­ent di­vine spirit of hu­man guid­ance, and the rea­son-judg­ment of your ex­pand­ing hu­man mind of hered­i­tary en­dow­ment. Such an as­so­ci­a­tion of crea­ture and Cre­ator at­tri­butes will en­able you to live for us the per­fect life of man on the plan­e­tary spheres, not nec­es­sar­ily per­fect as re­garded by any one man in any one gen­er­a­tion on any one world (much less on Uran­tia) but wholly and su­premely re­plete as eval­u­ated on the more highly per­fected and per­fect­ing worlds of your far-flung uni­verse.

120:3.10“And now, may your Fa­ther and my Fa­ther, who has ever sus­tained us in all past per­for­mances, guide and sus­tain you and be with you from the mo­ment you leave us and achieve the sur­ren­der of your con­scious­ness of per­son­al­ity, through­out your grad­ual re­turn to rec­og­ni­tion of your di­vine iden­tity in­car­nate in hu­man form, and then on through the whole of your be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence on Uran­tia un­til your de­liv­er­ance from the flesh and your as­cen­sion to our Fa­ther’s right hand of sov­er­eignty. When I shall again see you on Sal­ving­ton, we shall wel­come your re­turn to us as the su­preme and un­con­di­tional sov­er­eign of this uni­verse of your own mak­ing, serv­ing, and com­pleted un­der­stand­ing.

120:3.11“In your stead I now reign. I as­sume ju­ris­dic­tion of all Neb­a­don as act­ing sov­er­eign dur­ing the in­terim of your sev­enth and mor­tal be­stowal on Uran­tia. And to you, Ga­briel, I com­mit the safe­keep­ing of the Son of Man about-to-be un­til he shall pres­ently and in power and glory be re­turned to me as the Son of Man and the Son of God. And, Ga­briel, I am your sov­er­eign un­til Mi­chael thus re­turns.”

120:3.12Then, im­me­di­ately, in the pres­ence of all Sal­ving­ton as­sem­bled, Mi­chael re­moved him­self from our midst, and we saw him no more in his ac­cus­tomed place un­til his re­turn as the su­preme and per­sonal ruler of the uni­verse, sub­se­quent to the com­ple­tion of his be­stowal ca­reer on Uran­tia.