Christ

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

0:5.3On at­tained ex­pe­ri­en­tial lev­els all per­son­al­ity or­ders or val­ues are as­so­cia­ble and even co­cre­a­tional. Even God and man can co­ex­ist in a uni­fied per­son­al­ity, as is so ex­qui­sitely demon­strated in the pres­ent sta­tus of Christ Mi­chael—Son of Man and Son of God.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

20:4.4Uran­tia has never been host to an Avo­nal Son on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion. Had Uran­tia fol­lowed the gen­eral plan of in­hab­ited worlds, it would have been blessed with a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion some­time be­tween the days of Adam and the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael. But the reg­u­lar se­quence of Par­a­dise Sons on your planet was wholly de­ranged by the ap­pear­ance of your Cre­ator Son on his ter­mi­nal be­stowal nine­teen hun­dred years ago.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

21:0.3These pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons are per­son­al­ized as Mi­cha­els. As they go forth from Par­a­dise to found their uni­verses, they are known as Cre­ator Mi­cha­els. When set­tled in su­preme au­thor­ity, they are called Mas­ter Mi­cha­els. Some­times we re­fer to the sov­er­eign of your uni­verse of Neb­a­don as Christ Mi­chael. Al­ways and for­ever do they reign af­ter the “or­der of Mi­chael,” that be­ing the des­ig­na­tion of the first Son of their or­der and na­ture.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

21:6.4Just as the De­ity of the Su­preme is ac­tu­al­iz­ing by virtue of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ser­vice, so are the Cre­ator Sons achiev­ing the per­sonal re­al­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise-di­vin­ity po­ten­tials bound up in their un­fath­omable na­tures. When on Uran­tia, Christ Mi­chael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” And we be­lieve that in eter­nity the Mi­cha­els are lit­er­ally des­tined to be “the way, the truth, and the life,” ever blaz­ing the path for all uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties as it leads from su­preme di­vin­ity through ul­ti­mate ab­sonity to eter­nal de­ity fi­nal­ity.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

27:0.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are also placed in com­mand of the se­raphic hosts min­is­ter­ing on worlds iso­lated be­cause of re­bel­lion. When a Par­a­dise Son is be­stowed upon such a world, com­pletes his mis­sion, as­cends to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is ac­cepted, and re­turns as the ac­cred­ited de­liv­erer of this iso­lated world, a pri­mary super­na­phim is al­ways des­ig­nated by the chiefs of as­sign­ment to as­sume com­mand of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its on duty in the newly re­claimed sphere. Super­na­phim in this spe­cial ser­vice are pe­ri­od­i­cally ro­tated. On Uran­tia the pres­ent “chief of ser­a­phim” is the sec­ond of this or­der to be on duty since the times of the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

30:4.112. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors. All mor­tals of sur­vival sta­tus, in the cus­tody of per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny, pass through the por­tals of nat­u­ral death and, on the third pe­riod, per­son­al­ize on the man­sion worlds. Those ac­cred­ited be­ings who have, for any rea­son, been un­able to at­tain that level of in­tel­li­gence mas­tery and en­dow­ment of spir­i­tu­al­ity which would en­ti­tle them to per­sonal guard­i­ans, can­not thus im­me­di­ately and di­rectly go to the man­sion worlds. Such sur­viv­ing souls must rest in un­con­scious sleep un­til the judg­ment day of a new epoch, a new dis­pen­sa­tion, the com­ing of a Son of God to call the rolls of the age and ad­ju­di­cate the realm, and this is the gen­eral prac­tice through­out all Neb­a­don. It was said of Christ Mi­chael that, when he as­cended on high at the con­clu­sion of his work on earth, “He led a great mul­ti­tude of cap­tives.” And these cap­tives were the sleep­ing sur­vivors from the days of Adam to the day of the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

33:1.1Our Cre­ator Son is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the 611,121^st 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 611,121^st 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.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

33:2.3Mi­chael is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther-Son to and in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don; there­fore, when the Cre­ative Mother Spirit, the lo­cal uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, sub­or­di­nated her­self to Christ Mi­chael upon the re­turn from his fi­nal be­stowal on Uran­tia, the Mas­ter Son thereby ac­quired ju­ris­dic­tion over “all power in heaven and on earth.”

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

37:2.6The head of these super­an­gels is Gavalia, the first-born of this or­der in Neb­a­don. Since the re­turn of Christ Mi­chael from his tri­umphant be­stowal on Uran­tia, Gavalia has been as­signed to the as­cen­dant mor­tal min­istry, and for the last nine­teen hun­dred Uran­tia years his as­so­ciate, Galan­tia, has main­tained head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem, where he spends about half of his time. Galan­tia is the first of the as­cen­dant super­an­gels to at­tain this high es­tate.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

37:5.1The High Com­mis­sion­ers are Spirit-fused as­cen­dant mor­tals; they are not Ad­juster fused. You quite well un­der­stand about the uni­verse-as­cen­sion ca­reer of a mor­tal can­di­date for Ad­juster fu­sion, that be­ing the high des­tiny in prospect for all Uran­tia mor­tals since the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael. But this is not the ex­clu­sive des­tiny of all mor­tals in the pre­be­stowal ages of worlds like yours, and there is an­other type of world whose in­hab­i­tants are never per­ma­nently in­dwelt by Thought Ad­justers. Such mor­tals are never per­ma­nently joined in union with a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor of Par­a­dise be­stowal; nev­er­the­less, the Ad­justers do tran­siently in­dwell them, serv­ing as guides and pat­terns for the du­ra­tion of the life in the flesh. Dur­ing this tem­po­rary so­journ they fos­ter the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul just as in those be­ings with whom they hope to fuse, but when the mor­tal race is run, they take eter­nal leave of the crea­tures of tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

40:6.52. A Cre­ator Son of God be­came one of you; he is your el­der brother in fact; and if in spirit you be­come truly re­lated broth­ers of Christ, the vic­to­ri­ous Mi­chael, then in spirit must you also be sons of that Fa­ther which you have in com­mon—even the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of all.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

40:7.2Your own races of sur­viv­ing mor­tals be­long to this group of the as­cend­ing Sons of God. You are now plan­e­tary sons, evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­rived from the Life Car­rier im­plan­ta­tions and mod­i­fied by the Adamic-life in­fu­sion, hardly yet as­cend­ing sons; but you are in­deed sons of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial—even to the high­est heights of glory and di­vin­ity at­tain­ment—and this spir­i­tual sta­tus of as­cend­ing son­ship you may at­tain by faith and by free­will co-op­er­a­tion with the spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of the in­dwelling Ad­juster. When you and your Ad­justers are fi­nally and for­ever fused, when you two are made one, even as in Christ Mi­chael the Son of God and the Son of Man are one, then in fact have you be­come the as­cend­ing sons of God.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

45:4.1At the cen­ter of the seven an­gelic res­i­den­tial cir­cles on Je­ru­sem is lo­cated the head­quar­ters of the Uran­tia ad­vi­sory coun­cil, the four and twenty coun­selors. John the Rev­e­la­tor called them the four and twenty el­ders: “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty el­ders sit­ting, clothed in white rai­ment.” The throne in the cen­ter of this group is the judg­ment seat of the pre­sid­ing arch­an­gel, the throne of the res­ur­rec­tion roll call of mercy and jus­tice for all Sa­ta­nia. This judg­ment seat has al­ways been on Je­ru­sem, but the twenty-four sur­round­ing seats were placed in po­si­tion no more than nine­teen hun­dred years ago, soon af­ter Christ Mi­chael was el­e­vated to the full sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don. These four and twenty coun­selors are his per­sonal agents on Je­ru­sem, and they have au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Mas­ter Son in all mat­ters con­cern­ing the roll calls of Sa­ta­nia and in many other phases of the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion on the iso­lated worlds of the sys­tem. They are the des­ig­nated agents for ex­e­cut­ing the spe­cial re­quests of Ga­briel and the un­usual man­dates of Mi­chael.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

50:6.5You should not for­get that for two hun­dred thou­sand years all the worlds of Sa­ta­nia have rested un­der the spir­i­tual ban of Nor­la­ti­adek in con­se­quence of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. And it will re­quire age upon age to re­trieve the re­sul­tant hand­i­caps of sin and se­ces­sion. Your world still con­tin­ues to pur­sue an ir­reg­u­lar and check­ered ca­reer as a re­sult of the dou­ble tragedy of a re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince and a de­fault­ing Ma­te­rial Son. Even the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia did not im­me­di­ately set aside the tem­po­ral con­se­quences of these se­ri­ous blun­ders in the ear­lier ad­min­is­tra­tion of the world.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

51:3.9Your world has been vis­ited by four or­ders of son­ship: Cali­gas­tia, the Plan­e­tary Prince; Adam and Eve of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God; Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, the “sage of Salem” in the days of Abra­ham; and Christ Mi­chael, who came as the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. How much more ef­fec­tive and beau­ti­ful it would have been had Mi­chael, the su­preme ruler of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, been wel­comed to your world by a loyal and ef­fi­cient Plan­e­tary Prince and a de­voted and suc­cess­ful Ma­te­rial Son, both of whom could have done so much to en­hance the life­work and mis­sion of the be­stowal Son! But not all worlds have been so un­for­tu­nate as Uran­tia, nei­ther has the mis­sion of the Plan­e­tary Adams al­ways been so dif­fi­cult or so haz­ardous. When they are suc­cess­ful, they con­tribute to the de­vel­op­ment of a great peo­ple, con­tin­u­ing as the vis­i­ble heads of plan­e­tary af­fairs even far into the age when such a world is set­tled in light and life.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

52:5.5On Uran­tia the es­tab­lish­ment of this “new and liv­ing way” was a mat­ter of fact as well as of truth. The iso­la­tion of Uran­tia in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion had sus­pended the pro­ce­dure whereby mor­tals can pass, upon death, di­rectly to the shores of the man­sion worlds. Be­fore the days of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia all souls slept on un­til the dis­pen­sa­tional or spe­cial mil­len­nial res­ur­rec­tions. Even Moses was not per­mit­ted to go over to the other side un­til the oc­ca­sion of a spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, the fallen Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia, con­test­ing such a de­liv­er­ance. But ever since the day of Pen­te­cost, Uran­tia mor­tals again may pro­ceed di­rectly to the mor­ontia spheres.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

52:6.1The be­stowal Son is the Prince of Peace. He ar­rives with the mes­sage, “Peace on earth and good will among men.” On nor­mal worlds this is a dis­pen­sa­tion of world-wide peace; the na­tions no more learn war. But such salu­tary in­flu­ences did not at­tend the com­ing of your be­stowal Son, Christ Mi­chael. Uran­tia is not pro­ceed­ing in the nor­mal or­der. Your world is out of step in the plan­e­tary pro­ces­sion. Your Mas­ter, when on earth, warned his dis­ci­ples that his ad­vent would not bring the usual reign of peace on Uran­tia. He dis­tinctly told them that there would be “wars and ru­mors of wars,” and that na­tion would rise against na­tion. At an­other time he said, “Think not that I have come to bring peace upon earth.”

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

53:0.2In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, the do­main of Christ Mi­chael, there are ten thou­sand sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds. In all the his­tory of La­non­an­dek Sons, in all their work through­out these thou­sands of sys­tems and at the uni­verse head­quar­ters, only three Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns have ever been found in con­tempt of the gov­ern­ment of the Cre­ator Son.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

53:5.3From the out­break of re­bel­lion to the day of his en­throne­ment as sov­er­eign ruler of Neb­a­don, Mi­chael never in­ter­fered with the rebel forces of Lu­cifer; they were al­lowed to run a free course for al­most two hun­dred thou­sand years of Uran­tia time. Christ Mi­chael now has am­ple power and au­thor­ity to deal promptly, even sum­mar­ily, with such out­breaks of dis­loy­alty, but we doubt that this sov­er­eign au­thor­ity would lead him to act dif­fer­ently if an­other such up­heaval should oc­cur.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

75:2.2It must be re­mem­bered that Cali­gas­tia was still the tit­u­lar Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, a mis­guided but nev­er­the­less high Son of the lo­cal uni­verse. He was not fi­nally de­posed un­til the times of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

77:6.6Af­ter the death of Adam­son the re­main­der of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers be­came a strange, un­or­ga­nized, and un­at­tached in­flu­ence on Uran­tia. From that time to the days of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek they led an ir­reg­u­lar and un­or­ga­nized ex­is­tence. They were par­tially brought un­der con­trol by this Mel­chiz­e­dek but were still pro­duc­tive of much mis­chief up to the days of Christ Mi­chael. And dur­ing his so­journ on earth they all made fi­nal de­ci­sions as to their fu­ture des­tiny, the loyal ma­jor­ity then en­list­ing un­der the lead­er­ship of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

77:7.5On no world can evil spir­its pos­sess any mor­tal mind sub­se­quent to the life of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. But be­fore the days of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia—be­fore the uni­ver­sal com­ing of the Thought Ad­justers and the pour­ing out of the Mas­ter’s spirit upon all flesh—these rebel mid­way­ers were ac­tu­ally able to in­flu­ence the minds of cer­tain in­fe­rior mor­tals and some­what to con­trol their ac­tions. This was ac­com­plished in much the same way as the loyal mid­way crea­tures func­tion when they serve as ef­fi­cient con­tact guard­i­ans of the hu­man minds of the Uran­tia re­serve corps of des­tiny at those times when the Ad­juster is, in ef­fect, de­tached from the per­son­al­ity dur­ing a sea­son of con­tact with super­hu­man in­tel­li­gences.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

83:8.3Nei­ther can mar­riage be truly com­pared to the re­la­tion of the Ad­juster to man nor to the fra­ter­nity of Christ Mi­chael and his hu­man breth­ren. At scarcely any point are such re­la­tion­ships com­pa­ra­ble to the as­so­ci­a­tion of hus­band and wife. And it is most un­for­tu­nate that the hu­man mis­con­cep­tion of these re­la­tion­ships has pro­duced so much con­fu­sion as to the sta­tus of mar­riage.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

92:4.84. Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. Christ Mi­chael pre­sented for the fourth time to Uran­tia the con­cept of God as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this teach­ing has gen­er­ally per­sisted ever since. The essence of his teach­ing was love and ser­vice, the lov­ing wor­ship which a crea­ture son vol­un­tar­ily gives in rec­og­ni­tion of, and re­sponse to, the lov­ing min­istry of God his Fa­ther; the free­will ser­vice which such crea­ture sons be­stow upon their breth­ren in the joy­ous re­al­iza­tion that in this ser­vice they are like­wise serv­ing God the Fa­ther.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

93:9.11But one of the writ­ers of the Book of He­brews un­der­stood the mis­sion of Mel­chiz­e­dek, for it is writ­ten: “This Mel­chiz­e­dek, priest of the Most High, was also king of peace; with­out fa­ther, with­out mother, with­out pedi­gree, hav­ing nei­ther be­gin­ning of days nor end of life but made like a Son of God, he abides a priest con­tin­u­ally.” This writer des­ig­nated Mel­chiz­e­dek as a type of the later be­stowal of Mi­chael, af­firm­ing that Je­sus was “a min­is­ter for­ever on the or­der of Mel­chiz­e­dek.” While this com­par­i­son was not al­to­gether for­tu­nate, it was lit­er­ally true that Christ did re­ceive pro­vi­sional ti­tle to Uran­tia “upon the or­ders of the twelve Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers” on duty at the time of his world be­stowal.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

93:10.5Ma­chi­venta con­tin­ued as a plan­e­tary re­ceiver up to the times of the tri­umph of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. Sub­se­quently, he was at­tached to the Uran­tia ser­vice on Je­ru­sem as one of the four and twenty di­rec­tors, only just re­cently hav­ing been el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of per­sonal am­bas­sador on Je­ru­sem of the Cre­ator Son, bear­ing the ti­tle Vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. It is our be­lief that, as long as Uran­tia re­mains an in­hab­ited planet, Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek will not be fully re­turned to the du­ties of his or­der of son­ship but will re­main, speak­ing in the terms of time, for­ever a plan­e­tary min­is­ter rep­re­sent­ing Christ Mi­chael.

93:10.6As his was an emer­gency be­stowal on Uran­tia, it does not ap­pear from the rec­ords what Ma­chi­venta’s fu­ture may be. It may de­velop that the Mel­chiz­e­dek corps of Neb­a­don have sus­tained the per­ma­nent loss of one of their num­ber. Re­cent rul­ings handed down from the Most Highs of Eden­tia, and later con­firmed by the An­cients of Days of Uversa, strongly sug­gest that this be­stowal Mel­chiz­e­dek is des­tined to take the place of the fallen Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia. If our con­jec­tures in this re­spect are cor­rect, it is al­to­gether pos­si­ble that Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek may again ap­pear in per­son on Uran­tia and in some mod­i­fied man­ner re­sume the role of the de­throned Plan­e­tary Prince, or else ap­pear on earth to func­tion as vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sent­ing Christ Mi­chael, who now ac­tu­ally holds the ti­tle of Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. While it is far from clear to us as to what Ma­chi­venta’s des­tiny may be, nev­er­the­less, events which have so re­cently taken place strongly sug­gest that the fore­go­ing con­jec­tures are prob­a­bly not far from the truth.

93:10.7We well un­der­stand how, by his tri­umph on Uran­tia, Mi­chael be­came the suc­ces­sor of both Cali­gas­tia and Adam; how he be­came the plan­e­tary Prince of Peace and the sec­ond Adam. And now we be­hold the con­fer­ring upon this Mel­chiz­e­dek of the ti­tle Vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. Will he also be con­sti­tuted Vicegerent Ma­te­rial Son of Uran­tia? Or is there a pos­si­bil­ity that an un­ex­pected and un­prece­dented event is to take place, the some­time re­turn to the planet of Adam and Eve or cer­tain of their progeny as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Mi­chael with the ti­tles vicegerents of the sec­ond Adam of Uran­tia?

93:10.8And all these spec­u­la­tions as­so­ci­ated with the cer­tainty of fu­ture ap­pear­ances of both Mag­is­te­rial and Trin­ity Teacher Sons, in con­junc­tion with the ex­plicit prom­ise of the Cre­ator Son to re­turn some­time, make Uran­tia a planet of fu­ture un­cer­tainty and ren­der it one of the most in­ter­est­ing and in­trigu­ing spheres in all the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. It is al­to­gether pos­si­ble that, in some fu­ture age when Uran­tia is ap­proach­ing the era of light and life, af­ter the af­fairs of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion have been fi­nally ad­ju­di­cated, we may wit­ness the pres­ence on Uran­tia, si­mul­ta­ne­ously, of Ma­chi­venta, Adam, Eve, and Christ Mi­chael, as well as ei­ther a Mag­is­te­rial Son or even Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

94:6.1About six hun­dred years be­fore the ar­rival of Mi­chael, it seemed to Mel­chiz­e­dek, long since de­parted from the flesh, that the pu­rity of his teach­ing on earth was be­ing un­duly jeop­ar­dized by gen­eral ab­sorp­tion into the older Uran­tia be­liefs. It ap­peared for a time that his mis­sion as a fore­run­ner of Mi­chael might be in dan­ger of fail­ing. And in the sixth cen­tury be­fore Christ, through an un­usual co-or­di­na­tion of spir­i­tual agen­cies, not all of which are un­der­stood even by the plan­e­tary super­vi­sors, Uran­tia wit­nessed a most un­usual pre­sen­ta­tion of man­i­fold re­li­gious truth. Through the agency of sev­eral hu­man teach­ers the Salem gospel was re­stated and re­vi­tal­ized, and as it was then pre­sented, much has per­sisted to the times of this writ­ing.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael
• the anointed one

98:7.2It is not the prov­ince of this pa­per to deal with the ori­gin and dis­sem­i­na­tion of the Chris­tian re­li­gion. Suf­fice it to say that it is built around the per­son of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, the hu­manly in­car­nate Mi­chael Son of Neb­a­don, known to Uran­tia as the Christ, the anointed one. Chris­tian­ity was spread through­out the Lev­ant and Oc­ci­dent by the fol­low­ers of this Galilean, and their mis­sion­ary zeal equaled that of their il­lus­tri­ous pre­de­ces­sors, the Sethites and Salemites, as well as that of their earnest Asi­atic con­tem­po­raries, the Bud­dhist teach­ers.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

101:6.5Christ Mi­chael, when be­stowed on Uran­tia, lived un­der the reign of evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gion up to the time of his bap­tism. From that mo­ment up to and in­clud­ing the event of his cru­ci­fix­ion he car­ried for­ward his work by the com­bined guid­ance of evo­lu­tion­ary and re­vealed re­li­gion. From the morn­ing of his res­ur­rec­tion un­til his as­cen­sion he tra­versed the man­i­fold phases of the mor­ontia life of mor­tal tran­si­tion from the world of mat­ter to that of spirit. Af­ter his as­cen­sion Mi­chael be­came mas­ter of the ex­pe­ri­ence of Su­prem­acy, the re­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme; and be­ing the one per­son in Neb­a­don pos­sessed of un­lim­ited ca­pac­ity to ex­pe­ri­ence the re­al­ity of the Su­preme, he forth­with at­tained to the sta­tus of the sov­er­eignty of su­prem­acy in and to his lo­cal uni­verse.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

102:3.14In evo­lu­tion, re­li­gion of­ten leads to man’s cre­at­ing his con­cepts of God; rev­e­la­tion ex­hibits the phe­nom­e­non of God’s evolv­ing man him­self, while in the earth life of Christ Mi­chael we be­hold the phe­nom­e­non of God’s re­veal­ing him­self to man. Evo­lu­tion tends to make God man­like; rev­e­la­tion tends to make man God­like.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

119:8.8Uran­tia is the sen­ti­men­tal shrine of all Neb­a­don, the chief of ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds, the mor­tal home of Christ Mi­chael, sov­er­eign of all Neb­a­don, a Mel­chiz­e­dek min­is­ter to the realms, a sys­tem sav­ior, an Adamic re­deemer, a se­raphic fel­low, an as­so­ciate of as­cend­ing spir­its, a mor­ontia pro­gres­sor, a Son of Man in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and the Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. And your rec­ord tells the truth when it says that this same Je­sus has prom­ised some­time to re­turn to the world of his ter­mi­nal be­stowal, the World of the Cross.

119:8.9This pa­per, de­pict­ing the seven be­stowals of Christ Mi­chael, is the sixty-third of a se­ries of pre­sen­ta­tions, spon­sored by nu­mer­ous per­son­al­i­ties, nar­rat­ing the his­tory of Uran­tia down to the time of Mi­chael’s ap­pear­ance on earth in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. These pa­pers were au­tho­rized by a Neb­a­don com­mis­sion of twelve act­ing un­der the di­rec­tion of Man­tu­tia Mel­chiz­e­dek. We in­dited these nar­ra­tives and put them in the En­glish lan­guage, by a tech­nique au­tho­rized by our su­pe­ri­ors, in the year A.D. 1935 of Uran­tia time.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

120:0.9And this was the set­ting of the mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion when Im­manuel pre­sented the sev­enth be­stowal com­mis­sion. And from this pre­be­stowal charge of Im­manuel to the uni­verse ruler who sub­se­quently be­came Je­sus of Naz­a­reth (Christ Mi­chael) on Uran­tia, I am per­mit­ted to pre­sent the fol­low­ing ex­cerpts:

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

120:4.2But make no mis­take; Christ Mi­chael, while truly a dual-ori­gin be­ing, was not a dou­ble per­son­al­ity. He was not God in as­so­ci­a­tion with man but, rather, God in­car­nate in man. And he was al­ways just that com­bined be­ing. The only pro­gres­sive fac­tor in such a nonun­der­stand­able re­la­tion­ship was the pro­gres­sive self-con­scious re­al­iza­tion and rec­og­ni­tion (by the hu­man mind) of this fact of be­ing God and man.

120:4.3Christ Mi­chael did not pro­gres­sively be­come God. God did not, at some vi­tal mo­ment in the earth life of Je­sus, be­come man. Je­sus was God and man—al­ways and even forever­more. And this God and this man were, and now are, one, even as the Par­a­dise Trin­ity of three be­ings is in re­al­ity one De­ity.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

121:1.1Je­sus did not come to this world dur­ing an age of spir­i­tual deca­dence; at the time of his birth Uran­tia was ex­pe­ri­enc­ing such a re­vival of spir­i­tual think­ing and re­li­gious liv­ing as it had not known in all its pre­vi­ous post-Adamic his­tory nor has ex­pe­ri­enced in any era since. When Mi­chael in­car­nated on Uran­tia, the world pre­sented the most fa­vor­able con­di­tion for the Cre­ator Son’s be­stowal that had ever pre­vi­ously pre­vailed or has since ob­tained. In the cen­turies just prior to these times Greek cul­ture and the Greek lan­guage had spread over Oc­ci­dent and near Ori­ent, and the Jews, be­ing a Lev­an­tine race, in na­ture part Oc­ci­den­tal and part Ori­en­tal, were em­i­nently fit­ted to uti­lize such cul­tural and lin­guis­tic set­tings for the ef­fec­tive spread of a new re­li­gion to both East and West. These most fa­vor­able cir­cum­stances were fur­ther en­hanced by the tol­er­ant po­lit­i­cal rule of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean world by the Ro­mans.

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

121:3.1Al­though the so­cial and eco­nomic con­di­tion of the Ro­man state was not of the high­est or­der, the wide­spread do­mes­tic peace and pros­per­ity was pro­pi­tious for the be­stowal of Mi­chael. In the first cen­tury af­ter Christ the so­ci­ety of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean world con­sisted of five well-de­fined strata:

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

136:5.4In ac­cept­ing this com­mand of the uni­verse hosts in at­ten­dance upon Christ Mi­chael, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster took great pains to point out to Je­sus that, while such an as­sem­bly of uni­verse crea­tures could be lim­ited in their space ac­tiv­i­ties by the del­e­gated au­thor­ity of their Cre­ator, such lim­i­ta­tions were not op­er­a­tive in con­nec­tion with their func­tion in time. And this lim­i­ta­tion was de­pen­dent on the fact that Ad­justers are non­time be­ings when once they are per­son­al­ized. Ac­cord­ingly was Je­sus ad­mon­ished that, while the Ad­juster’s con­trol of the liv­ing in­tel­li­gences placed un­der his com­mand would be com­plete and per­fect as to all mat­ters in­volv­ing space, there could be no such per­fect lim­i­ta­tions im­posed re­gard­ing time. Said the Ad­juster: “I will, as you have di­rected, en­join the em­ploy­ment of this at­ten­dant host of uni­verse in­tel­li­gences in any man­ner in con­nec­tion with your earth ca­reer ex­cept in those cases where the Par­a­dise Fa­ther di­rects me to re­lease such agen­cies in or­der that his di­vine will of your choos­ing may be ac­com­plished, and in those in­stances where you may en­gage in any choice or act of your di­vine-hu­man will which shall only in­volve de­par­tures from the nat­u­ral earth or­der as to time. In all such events I am pow­er­less, and your crea­tures here as­sem­bled in per­fec­tion and unity of power are like­wise help­less. If your united na­tures once en­ter­tain such de­sires, these man­dates of your choice will be forth­with ex­e­cuted. Your wish in all such mat­ters will con­sti­tute the abridg­ment of time, and the thing pro­jected is ex­is­tent. Un­der my com­mand this con­sti­tutes the fullest pos­si­ble lim­i­ta­tion which can be im­posed upon your po­ten­tial sov­er­eignty. In my self-con­scious­ness time is nonex­is­tent, and there­fore I can­not limit your crea­tures in any­thing re­lated thereto.”

• Michael of Nebadon referred to as Christ Michael

196:1.1Je­sus’ de­vo­tion to the Fa­ther’s will and the ser­vice of man was even more than mor­tal de­ci­sion and hu­man de­ter­mi­na­tion; it was a whole­hearted con­se­cra­tion of him­self to such an un­re­served be­stowal of love. No mat­ter how great the fact of the sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael, you must not take the hu­man Je­sus away from men. The Mas­ter has as­cended on high as a man, as well as God; he be­longs to men; men be­long to him. How un­for­tu­nate that re­li­gion it­self should be so mis­in­ter­preted as to take the hu­man Je­sus away from strug­gling mor­tals! Let not the dis­cus­sions of the hu­man­ity or the di­vin­ity of the Christ ob­scure the sav­ing truth that Je­sus of Naz­a­reth was a re­li­gious man who, by faith, achieved the know­ing and the do­ing of the will of God; he was the most truly re­li­gious man who has ever lived on Uran­tia.

• do not sacrifice human Jesus to concept of glorified Christ

196:1.2The time is ripe to wit­ness the fig­u­ra­tive res­ur­rec­tion of the hu­man Je­sus from his burial tomb amidst the the­o­log­i­cal tra­di­tions and the re­li­gious dog­mas of nine­teen cen­turies. Je­sus of Naz­a­reth must not be longer sac­ri­ficed to even the splen­did con­cept of the glo­ri­fied Christ. What a tran­scen­dent ser­vice if, through this rev­e­la­tion, the Son of Man should be re­cov­ered from the tomb of tra­di­tional the­ol­ogy and be pre­sented as the liv­ing Je­sus to the church that bears his name, and to all other re­li­gions! Surely the Chris­tian fel­low­ship of be­liev­ers will not hes­i­tate to make such ad­just­ments of faith and of prac­tices of liv­ing as will en­able it to “fol­low af­ter” the Mas­ter in the dem­on­stra­tion of his real life of re­li­gious de­vo­tion to the do­ing of his Fa­ther’s will and of con­se­cra­tion to the un­selfish ser­vice of man. Do pro­fessed Chris­tians fear the ex­po­sure of a self-suf­fi­cient and un­con­se­crated fel­low­ship of so­cial re­spectabil­ity and self­ish eco­nomic mal­ad­just­ment? Does in­sti­tu­tional Chris­tian­ity fear the pos­si­ble jeop­ardy, or even the over­throw, of tra­di­tional ec­cle­si­as­ti­cal au­thor­ity if the Je­sus of Gal­i­lee is re­in­stated in the minds and souls of mor­tal men as the ideal of per­sonal re­li­gious liv­ing? In­deed, the so­cial read­just­ments, the eco­nomic trans­for­ma­tions, the moral re­ju­ve­na­tions, and the re­li­gious re­vi­sions of Chris­tian civ­i­liza­tion would be dras­tic and rev­o­lu­tion­ary if the liv­ing re­li­gion of Je­sus should sud­denly sup­plant the the­o­logic re­li­gion about Je­sus.

• divine Jesus became a religion

196:2.4But the great­est mis­take was made in that, while the hu­man Je­sus was rec­og­nized as hav­ing a re­li­gion, the di­vine Je­sus (Christ) al­most overnight be­came a re­li­gion. Paul’s Chris­tian­ity made sure of the ado­ra­tion of the di­vine Christ, but it al­most wholly lost sight of the strug­gling and valiant hu­man Je­sus of Gal­i­lee, who, by the valor of his per­sonal re­li­gious faith and the hero­ism of his in­dwelling Ad­juster, as­cended from the lowly lev­els of hu­man­ity to be­come one with di­vin­ity, thus be­com­ing the new and liv­ing way whereby all mor­tals may so as­cend from hu­man­ity to di­vin­ity. Mor­tals in all stages of spir­i­tu­al­ity and on all worlds may find in the per­sonal life of Je­sus that which will strengthen and in­spire them as they pro­gress from the low­est spirit lev­els up to the high­est di­vine val­ues, from the be­gin­ning to the end of all per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence.

• do not sacrifice human Jesus to concept of glorified Christ

196:2.5At the time of the writ­ing of the New Tes­ta­ment, the au­thors not only most pro­foundly be­lieved in the di­vin­ity of the risen Christ, but they also de­vot­edly and sin­cerely be­lieved in his im­me­di­ate re­turn to earth to con­sum­mate the heav­enly king­dom. This strong faith in the Lord’s im­me­di­ate re­turn had much to do with the ten­dency to omit from the rec­ord those ref­er­ences which por­trayed the purely hu­man ex­pe­ri­ences and at­tri­butes of the Mas­ter. The whole Chris­tian move­ment tended away from the hu­man pic­ture of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth to­ward the ex­al­ta­tion of the risen Christ, the glo­ri­fied and soon-re­turn­ing Lord Je­sus Christ.