Birth and Infancy of Jesus

122:0.1It will hardly be pos­si­ble fully to ex­plain the many rea­sons which led to the se­lec­tion of Pales­tine as the land for Mi­chael’s be­stowal, and es­pe­cially as to just why the fam­ily of Joseph and Mary should have been cho­sen as the im­me­di­ate set­ting for the ap­pear­ance of this Son of God on Uran­tia.

122:0.2Af­ter a study of the spe­cial re­port on the sta­tus of seg­re­gated worlds pre­pared by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, in coun­sel with Ga­briel, Mi­chael fi­nally chose Uran­tia as the planet whereon to en­act his fi­nal be­stowal. Sub­se­quent to this de­ci­sion Ga­briel made a per­sonal visit to Uran­tia, and, as a re­sult of his study of hu­man groups and his sur­vey of the spir­i­tual, in­tel­lec­tual, racial, and ge­o­graphic fea­tures of the world and its peo­ples, he de­cided that the He­brews pos­sessed those rel­a­tive ad­van­tages which war­ranted their se­lec­tion as the be­stowal race. Upon Mi­chael’s ap­proval of this de­ci­sion, Ga­briel ap­pointed and dis­patched to Uran­tia the Fam­ily Com­mis­sion of Twelve—se­lected from among the higher or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties—which was in­trusted with the task of mak­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion of Jew­ish fam­ily life. When this com­mis­sion ended its labors, Ga­briel was pres­ent on Uran­tia and re­ceived the re­port nom­i­nat­ing three prospec­tive unions as be­ing, in the opin­ion of the com­mis­sion, equally fa­vor­able as be­stowal fam­i­lies for Mi­chael’s pro­jected in­car­na­tion.

122:0.3From the three cou­ples nom­i­nated, Ga­briel made the per­sonal choice of Joseph and Mary, sub­se­quently mak­ing his per­sonal ap­pear­ance to Mary, at which time he im­parted to her the glad tid­ings that she had been se­lected to be­come the earth mother of the be­stowal child.