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Paper 33

Administration of the Local Universe

Chief of Archangels

1. Michael of Nebadon

33:1.1Our Cre­ator Son is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the 611,121st orig­i­nal con­cept of in­fi­nite iden­tity of si­mul­ta­ne­ous ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is the “only-be­got­ten Son” per­son­al­iz­ing this 611,121st uni­ver­sal con­cept of di­vin­ity and in­fin­ity. His head­quar­ters is in the three­fold man­sion of light on Sal­ving­ton. And this dwell­ing is so or­dered be­cause Mi­chael has ex­pe­ri­enced the liv­ing of all three phases of in­tel­li­gent crea­ture ex­is­tence: spir­i­tual, mor­ontial, and ma­te­rial. Be­cause of the name as­so­ci­ated with his sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal on Uran­tia, he is some­times spo­ken of as Christ Mi­chael.

33:1.2Our Cre­ator Son is not the Eter­nal Son, the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise as­so­ciate of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is not a mem­ber of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Nev­er­the­less our Mas­ter Son pos­sesses in his realm all of the di­vine at­tri­butes and pow­ers that the Eter­nal Son him­self would man­i­fest were he ac­tu­ally to be pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don. Mi­chael pos­sesses even ad­di­tional power and au­thor­ity, for he not only per­son­i­fies the Eter­nal Son but also fully rep­re­sents and ac­tu­ally em­bod­ies the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to and in this lo­cal uni­verse. He even rep­re­sents the Fa­ther-Son. These re­la­tion­ships con­sti­tute a Cre­ator Son the most pow­er­ful, ver­sa­tile, and in­flu­en­tial of all di­vine be­ings who are ca­pa­ble of di­rect ad­min­is­tra­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and of per­son­al­ity con­tact with im­ma­ture crea­ture be­ings.

33:1.3Our Cre­ator Son ex­erts the same spir­i­tual draw­ing power, spirit grav­ity, from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise would ex­ert if he were per­son­ally pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton, and more; this Uni­verse Son is also the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ity cen­ters for the spir­i­tual forces of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther-Son. Cre­ator Sons are the fi­nal power-per­son­al­ity fo­cal­iza­tions of the mighty time-space at­tri­butes of God the Sev­en­fold.

33:1.4The Cre­ator Son is the vicegerent per­son­al­iza­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the di­vin­ity co-or­di­nate of the Eter­nal Son, and the cre­ative as­so­ciate of the In­fi­nite Spirit. To our uni­verse and all its in­hab­ited worlds the Sov­er­eign Son is, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, God. He per­son­i­fies all of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties which evolv­ing mor­tals can dis­cern­ingly com­pre­hend. This Son and his Spirit as­so­ciate are your cre­ator par­ents. To you, Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Son, is the su­preme per­son­al­ity; to you, the Eter­nal Son is super­su­preme—an in­fi­nite De­ity per­son­al­ity.

33:1.5In the per­son of the Cre­ator Son we have a ruler and di­vine par­ent who is just as mighty, ef­fi­cient, and benef­i­cent as would be the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son if both were pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and en­gaged in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the af­fairs of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don.