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Paper 21

The Paradise Creator Sons

Perfector of Wisdom

4. The Michael Bestowals

21:4.1There are seven groups of be­stowal Cre­ator Sons, and they are so clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with the num­ber of times they have be­stowed them­selves upon the crea­tures of their realms. They range from the ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence up through five ad­di­tional spheres of pro­gres­sive be­stowal un­til they at­tain the sev­enth and fi­nal episode of crea­ture-Cre­ator ex­pe­ri­ence.

21:4.2Avo­nal be­stowals are al­ways in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but the seven be­stowals of a Cre­ator Son in­volve his ap­pear­ing on seven crea­ture lev­els of be­ing and per­tain to the rev­e­la­tion of the seven pri­mary ex­pres­sions of the will and na­ture of De­ity. With­out ex­cep­tion, all Cre­ator Sons pass through this seven times giv­ing of them­selves to their cre­ated chil­dren be­fore they as­sume set­tled and su­preme ju­ris­dic­tion over the uni­verses of their own cre­ation.

21:4.3Though these seven be­stowals vary in the dif­fer­ent sec­tors and uni­verses, they al­ways em­brace the mor­tal-be­stowal ad­ven­ture. In the fi­nal be­stowal a Cre­ator Son ap­pears as a mem­ber of one of the higher mor­tal races on some in­hab­ited world, usu­ally as a mem­ber of that racial group which con­tains the largest hered­i­tary legacy of the Adamic stock which has pre­vi­ously been im­ported to up­step the phys­i­cal sta­tus of the an­i­mal-ori­gin peo­ples. Only once in his sev­en­fold ca­reer as a be­stowal Son is a Par­a­dise Mi­chael born of woman as you have the rec­ord of the babe of Beth­le­hem. Only once does he live and die as a mem­ber of the low­est or­der of evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures.

21:4.4Af­ter each of his be­stowals a Cre­ator Son pro­ceeds to the “right hand of the Fa­ther,” there to gain the Fa­ther’s ac­cep­tance of the be­stowal and to re­ceive in­struc­tion prepara­tory to the next episode of uni­verse ser­vice. Fol­low­ing the sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal a Cre­ator Son re­ceives from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther su­preme au­thor­ity and ju­ris­dic­tion over his uni­verse.

21:4.5It is of rec­ord that the di­vine Son of last ap­pear­ance on your planet was a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son who had com­pleted six phases of his be­stowal ca­reer; con­se­quently, when he gave up the con­scious grasp of the in­car­nated life on Uran­tia, he could, and did, truly say, “It is fin­ished”—it was lit­er­ally fin­ished. His death on Uran­tia com­pleted his be­stowal ca­reer; it was the last step in ful­fill­ing the sa­cred oath of a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son. And when this ex­pe­ri­ence has been ac­quired, such Sons are su­preme uni­verse sov­er­eigns; no longer do they rule as vicegerents of the Fa­ther but in their own right and name as “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” With cer­tain stated ex­cep­tions these sev­en­fold be­stowal Sons are un­qual­i­fiedly su­preme in the uni­verses of their abode. Con­cern­ing his lo­cal uni­verse, “all power in heaven and on earth” was rel­e­gated to this tri­umphant and en­throned Mas­ter Son.

21:4.6Cre­ator Sons, sub­se­quent to the com­ple­tion of their be­stowal ca­reers, are reck­oned as a sep­a­rate or­der, sev­en­fold Mas­ter Sons. In per­son the Mas­ter Sons are iden­ti­cal with the Cre­ator Sons, but they have un­der­gone such a unique be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence that they are com­monly re­garded as a dif­fer­ent or­der. When a Cre­ator deigns to ef­fect a be­stowal, a real and per­ma­nent change is des­tined to take place. True, the be­stowal Son is still and none the less a Cre­ator, but he has added to his na­ture the ex­pe­ri­ence of a crea­ture, which for­ever re­moves him from the di­vine level of a Cre­ator Son and el­e­vates him to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial plane of a Mas­ter Son, one who has fully earned the right to rule a uni­verse and ad­min­is­ter its worlds. Such be­ings em­body all that can be se­cured from di­vine parent­age and em­brace ev­ery­thing to be de­rived from per­fected-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. Why should man be­moan his lowly ori­gin and en­forced evo­lu­tion­ary ca­reer when the very Gods must pass through an equiv­a­lent ex­pe­ri­ence be­fore they are ac­counted ex­pe­ri­en­tially wor­thy and com­pe­tent fi­nally and fully to rule over their uni­verse do­mains!