The Paradise Sons of God

20:6.1The method whereby a Par­a­dise Son be­comes ready for mor­tal in­car­na­tion as a be­stowal Son, be­comes en­moth­ered on the be­stowal planet, is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery; and any ef­fort to de­tect the work­ing of this Sonar­ing­ton tech­nique is doomed to meet with cer­tain fail­ure. Let the sub­lime knowl­edge of the mor­tal life of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth sink into your souls, but waste no thought in use­less spec­u­la­tion as to how this mys­te­ri­ous in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don was ef­fected. Let us all re­joice in the knowl­edge and as­sur­ance that such achieve­ments are pos­si­ble to the di­vine na­ture and waste no time on fu­tile con­jec­tures about the tech­nique em­ployed by di­vine wis­dom to ef­fect such phe­nom­ena.

20:6.2On a mor­tal-be­stowal mis­sion a Par­a­dise Son is al­ways born of woman and grows up as a male child of the realm, as Je­sus did on Uran­tia. These Sons of su­preme ser­vice all pass from in­fancy through youth to man­hood just as does a hu­man be­ing. In ev­ery re­spect they be­come like the mor­tals of the race into which they are born. They make pe­ti­tions to the Fa­ther as do the chil­dren of the realms in which they serve. From a ma­te­rial view­point, these hu­man-di­vine Sons live or­di­nary lives with just one ex­cep­tion: They do not beget off­spring on the worlds of their so­journ; that is a uni­ver­sal re­stric­tion im­posed on all or­ders of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons.

20:6.3As Je­sus worked on your world as the car­pen­ter’s son, so do other Par­a­dise Sons la­bor in var­i­ous ca­pac­i­ties on their be­stowal plan­ets. You could hardly think of a vo­ca­tion that has not been fol­lowed by some Par­a­dise Son in the course of his be­stowal on some one of the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets of time.

20:6.4When a be­stowal Son has mas­tered the ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing the mor­tal life, when he has achieved per­fec­tion of at­tune­ment with his in­dwelling Ad­juster, there­upon he be­gins that part of his plan­e­tary mis­sion de­signed to il­lu­mi­nate the minds and to in­spire the souls of his breth­ren in the flesh. As teach­ers, these Sons are ex­clu­sively de­voted to the spir­i­tual en­light­en­ment of the mor­tal races on the worlds of their so­journ.

20:6.5The mor­tal-be­stowal ca­reers of the Mi­cha­els and the Avo­nals, while com­pa­ra­ble in most re­spects, are not iden­ti­cal in all: Never does a Mag­is­te­rial Son pro­claim, “Whoso­ever has seen the Son has seen the Fa­ther,” as did your Cre­ator Son when on Uran­tia and in the flesh. But a be­stowed Avo­nal does de­clare, “Whoso­ever has seen me has seen the Eter­nal Son of God.” The Mag­is­te­rial Sons are not of im­me­di­ate de­scent from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, nor do they in­car­nate sub­ject to the Fa­ther’s will; al­ways do they be­stow them­selves as Par­a­dise Sons sub­ject to the will of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

20:6.6When the be­stowal Sons, Cre­ator or Mag­is­te­rial, en­ter the por­tals of death, they reap­pear on the third day. But you should not en­ter­tain the idea that they al­ways meet with the tragic end en­coun­tered by the Cre­ator Son who so­journed on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago. The ex­traor­di­nary and un­usu­ally cruel ex­pe­ri­ence through which Je­sus of Naz­a­reth passed has caused Uran­tia to be­come lo­cally known as “the world of the cross.” It is not nec­es­sary that such in­hu­man treat­ment be ac­corded a Son of God, and the vast ma­jor­ity of plan­ets have af­forded them a more con­sid­er­ate re­cep­tion, al­low­ing them to fin­ish their mor­tal ca­reers, ter­mi­nate the age, ad­ju­di­cate the sleep­ing sur­vivors, and in­au­gu­rate a new dis­pen­sa­tion, with­out im­pos­ing a vi­o­lent death. A be­stowal Son must en­counter death, must pass through the whole of the ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tals of the realms, but it is not a re­quire­ment of the di­vine plan that this death be ei­ther vi­o­lent or un­usual.

20:6.7When be­stowal Sons are not put to death by vi­o­lence, they vol­un­tar­ily re­lin­quish their lives and pass through the por­tals of death, not to sat­isfy the de­mands of “stern jus­tice” or “di­vine wrath,” but rather to com­plete the be­stowal, “to drink the cup” of the ca­reer of in­car­na­tion and per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence in all that con­sti­tutes a crea­ture’s life as it is lived on the plan­ets of mor­tal ex­is­tence. Be­stowal is a plan­e­tary and a uni­verse ne­ces­sity, and phys­i­cal death is noth­ing more than a nec­es­sary part of a be­stowal mis­sion.

20:6.8When the mor­tal in­car­na­tion is fin­ished, the Avo­nal of ser­vice pro­ceeds to Par­a­dise, is ac­cepted by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­turns to the lo­cal uni­verse of as­sign­ment, and is ac­knowl­edged by the Cre­ator Son. There­upon the be­stowal Avo­nal and the Cre­ator Son send their con­joint Spirit of Truth to func­tion in the hearts of the mor­tal races dwell­ing on the be­stowal world. In the presovereignty ages of a lo­cal uni­verse, this is the joint spirit of both Sons, im­ple­mented by the Cre­ative Spirit. It dif­fers some­what from the Spirit of Truth which char­ac­ter­izes the lo­cal uni­verse ages fol­low­ing a Mi­chael’s sev­enth be­stowal.

20:6.9Upon the com­ple­tion of a Cre­ator Son’s fi­nal be­stowal the Spirit of Truth pre­vi­ously sent into all Avo­nal-be­stowal worlds of that lo­cal uni­verse changes in na­ture, be­com­ing more lit­er­ally the spirit of the sov­er­eign Mi­chael. This phe­nom­e­non takes place con­cur­rently with the lib­er­a­tion of the Spirit of Truth for ser­vice on the Mi­chael-mor­tal-be­stowal planet. There­after, each world hon­ored by a Mag­is­te­rial be­stowal will re­ceive the same spirit Com­forter from the sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with that Mag­is­te­rial Son, which it would have re­ceived had the lo­cal uni­verse Sov­er­eign per­son­ally in­car­nated as its be­stowal Son.