The Paradise Sons of God

20:5.1The Eter­nal Son is the eter­nal Word of God. The Eter­nal Son is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the “first” ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite thought of his eter­nal Fa­ther. When a per­sonal du­pli­ca­tion or di­vine ex­ten­sion of this Orig­i­nal Son starts on a be­stowal mis­sion of mor­tal in­car­na­tion, it be­comes lit­er­ally true that the di­vine “Word is made flesh,” and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly be­ings of an­i­mal ori­gin.

20:5.2On Uran­tia there is a wide­spread be­lief that the pur­pose of a Son’s be­stowal is, in some man­ner, to in­flu­ence the at­ti­tude of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But your en­light­en­ment should in­di­cate that this is not true. The be­stowals of the Avo­nal and the Mi­chael Sons are a nec­es­sary part of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial pro­cess de­signed to make these Sons safe and sym­pa­thetic mag­is­trates and rulers of the peo­ples and plan­ets of time and space. The ca­reer of sev­en­fold be­stowal is the su­preme goal of all Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons. And all Mag­is­te­rial Sons are mo­ti­vated by this same spirit of ser­vice which so abun­dantly char­ac­ter­izes the pri­mary Cre­ator Sons and the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

20:5.3Some or­der of Par­a­dise Son must be be­stowed upon each mor­tal-in­hab­ited world in or­der to make it pos­si­ble for Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell the minds of all nor­mal hu­man be­ings on that sphere, for the Ad­justers do not come to all bona fide hu­man be­ings un­til the Spirit of Truth has been poured out upon all flesh; and the send­ing of the Spirit of Truth is de­pen­dent upon the re­turn to uni­verse head­quar­ters of a Par­a­dise Son who has suc­cess­fully ex­e­cuted a mis­sion of mor­tal be­stowal upon an evolv­ing world.

20:5.4Dur­ing the course of the long his­tory of an in­hab­ited planet, many dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tions will take place, and more than one mag­is­te­rial mis­sion may oc­cur, but or­di­nar­ily only once will a be­stowal Son serve on the sphere. It is only re­quired that each in­hab­ited world have one be­stowal Son come to live the full mor­tal life from birth to death. Sooner or later, re­gard­less of spir­i­tual sta­tus, ev­ery mor­tal-in­hab­ited world is des­tined to be­come host to a Mag­is­te­rial Son on a be­stowal mis­sion ex­cept the one planet in each lo­cal uni­verse whereon a Cre­ator Son elects to make his mor­tal be­stowal.

20:5.5Un­der­stand­ing more about the be­stowal Sons, you dis­cern why so much in­ter­est at­taches to Uran­tia in the his­tory of Neb­a­don. Your small and in­signif­i­cant planet is of lo­cal uni­verse con­cern sim­ply be­cause it is the mor­tal home world of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. It was the scene of the fi­nal and tri­umphant be­stowal of your Cre­ator Son, the arena in which Mi­chael won the su­preme per­sonal sov­er­eignty of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

20:5.6At the head­quar­ters of his lo­cal uni­verse a Cre­ator Son, es­pe­cially af­ter the com­ple­tion of his own mor­tal be­stowal, spends much of his time in coun­sel­ing and in­struct­ing the col­lege of as­so­ciate Sons, the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and oth­ers. In love and de­vo­tion, with ten­der mercy and af­fec­tion­ate con­sid­er­a­tion, these Mag­is­te­rial Sons be­stow them­selves upon the worlds of space. And in no way are these plan­e­tary ser­vices in­fe­rior to the mor­tal be­stowals of the Mi­cha­els. It is true that your Cre­ator Son se­lected for the realm of his fi­nal ad­ven­ture in crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence one which had had un­usual mis­for­tunes. But no planet could ever be in such a con­di­tion that it would re­quire the be­stowal of a Cre­ator Son to ef­fect its spir­i­tual re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion. Any Son of the be­stowal group would have equally suf­ficed, for in all their work on the worlds of a lo­cal uni­verse the Mag­is­te­rial Sons are just as di­vinely ef­fec­tive and all wise as would have been their Par­a­dise brother, the Cre­ator Son.

20:5.7Though the pos­si­bil­ity of dis­as­ter al­ways at­tends these Par­a­dise Sons dur­ing their be­stowal in­car­na­tions, I have yet to see the rec­ord of the fail­ure or de­fault of ei­ther a Mag­is­te­rial or a Cre­ator Son on a mis­sion of be­stowal. Both are of ori­gin too close to ab­so­lute per­fec­tion to fail. They in­deed as­sume the risk, re­ally be­come like the mor­tal crea­tures of flesh and blood and thereby gain the unique crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, but within the range of my ob­ser­va­tion they al­ways suc­ceed. They never fail to achieve the goal of the be­stowal mis­sion. The story of their be­stowal and plan­e­tary ser­vice through­out Neb­a­don con­sti­tutes the most no­ble and fas­ci­nat­ing chap­ter in the his­tory of your lo­cal uni­verse.