Gabriel

• status › chief executive of Nebadon; also represents Ancients of Days

33:0.1While the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther most cer­tainly rules over his vast cre­ation, he func­tions in a lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion through the per­son of the Cre­ator Son. The Fa­ther does not oth­er­wise per­son­ally func­tion in the ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse. These mat­ters are in­trusted to the Cre­ator Son and to the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit and to their man­i­fold chil­dren. The plans, poli­cies, and ad­min­is­tra­tive acts of the lo­cal uni­verse are formed and ex­e­cuted by this Son, who, in con­junc­tion with his Spirit as­so­ciate, del­e­gates ex­ec­u­tive power to Ga­briel and ju­ris­dic­tional au­thor­ity to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and Plan­e­tary Princes.

• functions and actions › regent when Michael absent

33:2.5Al­though Mi­chael’s head­quar­ters is of­fi­cially lo­cated on Sal­ving­ton, the cap­i­tal of Neb­a­don, he spends much of his time vis­it­ing the con­stel­la­tion and sys­tem head­quar­ters and even the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. Pe­ri­od­i­cally he jour­neys to Par­a­dise and of­ten to Uversa, where he coun­sels with the An­cients of Days. When he is away from Sal­ving­ton, his place is as­sumed by Ga­briel, who then func­tions as re­gent of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

• status › Bright and Morning Star
• status › first-born of Michael and Spirit

33:4.1The Bright and Morn­ing Star is the per­son­al­iza­tion of the first con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of per­son­al­ity con­ceived by the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Go­ing back to the early days of the lo­cal uni­verse, be­fore the union of the Cre­ator Son and the Mother Spirit in the bonds of cre­ative as­so­ci­a­tion, back to the times be­fore the be­gin­ning of the cre­ation of their ver­sa­tile fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters, the first con­joint act of this early and free as­so­ci­a­tion of these two di­vine per­sons re­sults in the cre­ation of the high­est spirit per­son­al­ity of the Son and the Spirit, the Bright and Morn­ing Star.

• status › administrator, not a creator
• status › like Michael in divinity but limited in Deity attributes

33:4.2Only one such be­ing of wis­dom and majesty is brought forth in each lo­cal uni­verse. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son can, in fact do, cre­ate an un­lim­ited num­ber of Sons in di­vin­ity equal to them­selves; but such Sons, in union with the Daugh­ters of the In­fi­nite Spirit, can cre­ate only one Bright and Morn­ing Star in each uni­verse, a be­ing like them­selves and par­tak­ing freely of their com­bined na­tures but not of their cre­ative pre­rog­a­tives. Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is like the Uni­verse Son in di­vin­ity of na­ture though con­sid­er­ably lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of De­ity.

33:4.3This first-born of the par­ents of a new uni­verse is a unique per­son­al­ity pos­sess­ing many won­der­ful traits not vis­i­bly pres­ent in ei­ther an­ces­tor, a be­ing of un­prece­dented ver­sa­til­ity and unimag­ined bril­liance. This su­per­nal per­son­al­ity em­braces the di­vine will of the Son com­bined with the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion of the Spirit. The thoughts and acts of the Bright and Morn­ing Star will ever be fully rep­re­sen­ta­tive of both the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit. Such a be­ing is also ca­pa­ble of a broad un­der­stand­ing of, and sym­pa­thetic con­tact with, both the spir­i­tual se­raphic hosts and the ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures.

• status › administrator, not a creator

33:4.4The Bright and Morn­ing Star is not a cre­ator, but he is a mar­velous ad­min­is­tra­tor, be­ing the per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Cre­ator Son. Aside from cre­ation and life im­par­ta­tion the Son and the Spirit never con­fer upon im­por­tant uni­verse pro­ce­dures with­out Ga­briel’s pres­ence.

• status › chief executive of Nebadon; also represents Ancients of Days

33:4.5Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and the ar­biter of all ex­ec­u­tive ap­peals re­spect­ing its ad­min­is­tra­tion. This uni­verse ex­ec­u­tive was cre­ated fully en­dowed for his work, but he has gained ex­pe­ri­ence with the growth and evo­lu­tion of our lo­cal cre­ation.

• functions and actions › judgment and dispensational resurrections delegated to
• status › supreme commander of armies of heaven

33:4.6Ga­briel is the chief of­fi­cer of ex­e­cu­tion for super­uni­verse man­dates re­lat­ing to non­per­sonal af­fairs in the lo­cal uni­verse. Most mat­ters per­tain­ing to mass judg­ment and dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions, ad­ju­di­cated by the An­cients of Days, are also del­e­gated to Ga­briel and his staff for ex­e­cu­tion. Ga­briel is thus the com­bined chief ex­ec­u­tive of both the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse rulers. He has at his com­mand an able corps of ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tants, cre­ated for their spe­cial work, who are un­re­vealed to evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals. In ad­di­tion to these as­sis­tants, Ga­briel may em­ploy any and all of the or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don, and he is also the com­man­der in chief of “the armies of heaven”—the ce­les­tial hosts.

• functions and actions › closely identified with Urantia
• functions and actions › regent when Michael absent
• status › administrator, not a creator

33:4.7Ga­briel and his staff are not teach­ers; they are ad­min­is­tra­tors. They were never known to de­part from their reg­u­lar work ex­cept when Mi­chael was in­car­nated on a crea­ture be­stowal. Dur­ing such be­stowals Ga­briel was ever at­ten­dant on the will of the in­car­nated Son, and with the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Union of Days, he be­came the ac­tual di­rec­tor of uni­verse af­fairs dur­ing the later be­stowals. Ga­briel has been closely iden­ti­fied with the his­tory and de­vel­op­ment of Uran­tia ever since the mor­tal be­stowal of Mi­chael.

• mortals seldom encounter

33:4.8Aside from meet­ing Ga­briel on the be­stowal worlds and at the times of gen­eral- and spe­cial-res­ur­rec­tion roll calls, mor­tals will sel­dom en­counter him as they as­cend through the lo­cal uni­verse un­til they are in­ducted into the ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the lo­cal cre­ation. As ad­min­is­tra­tors, of what­ever or­der or de­gree, you will come un­der the di­rec­tion of Ga­briel.

• functions and actions › regent when Michael absent
• status › chief executive of Nebadon; also represents Ancients of Days

33:6.1Ga­briel is the chief ex­ec­u­tive and ac­tual ad­min­is­tra­tor of Neb­a­don. Mi­chael’s ab­sence from Sal­ving­ton in no way in­ter­feres with the or­derly con­duct of uni­verse af­fairs. Dur­ing the ab­sence of Mi­chael, as re­cently on the mis­sion of re­union of Or­von­ton Mas­ter Sons on Par­a­dise, Ga­briel is the re­gent of the uni­verse. At such times Ga­briel al­ways seeks the coun­sel of Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton re­gard­ing all ma­jor prob­lems.

• Father Melchizedek is first assistant of

33:6.2The Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek is Ga­briel’s first as­sis­tant. When the Bright and Morn­ing Star is ab­sent from Sal­ving­ton, his re­spon­si­bil­i­ties are as­sumed by this orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek Son.

• functions and actions › supervises courts of Nebadon

33:7.2The en­tire ju­di­cial mech­a­nism of Neb­a­don is un­der the super­vi­sion of Ga­briel. The high courts, lo­cated on Sal­ving­ton, are oc­cu­pied with prob­lems of gen­eral uni­verse im­port and with the ap­pel­late cases com­ing up from the sys­tem tri­bu­nals. There are sev­enty branches of these uni­verse courts, and they func­tion in seven di­vi­sions of ten sec­tions each. In all mat­ters of ad­ju­di­ca­tion there pre­sides a dual mag­is­tracy con­sist­ing of one judge of per­fec­tion an­tecedents and one mag­is­trate of as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence.

• cabinet of

33:8.4The one hun­dred coun­cils of su­preme sanc­tion are also sit­u­ated on Sal­ving­ton. The pres­i­dents of these coun­cils con­sti­tute the im­me­di­ate work­ing cab­i­net of Ga­briel.

• never away from Salvington when Father Melchizedek is also away
• status › ex officio chairman of most Salvington conclaves, councils, and tribunals

35:1.2In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek acts as the first ex­ec­u­tive as­so­ciate of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Ga­briel is oc­cu­pied more with uni­verse poli­cies, Mel­chiz­e­dek with prac­ti­cal pro­ce­dures. Ga­briel pre­sides over the reg­u­larly con­sti­tuted tri­bu­nals and coun­cils of Neb­a­don, Mel­chiz­e­dek over the spe­cial, ex­traor­di­nary, and emer­gency com­mis­sions and ad­vi­sory bod­ies. Ga­briel and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek are never away from Sal­ving­ton at the same time, for in Ga­briel’s ab­sence the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek func­tions as the chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don.

• Melchizedeks are chief aids of

35:2.5These el­dest Sons of a uni­verse are the chief aids of the Bright and Morn­ing Star in car­ry­ing out the man­dates of the Cre­ator Son. When a Mel­chiz­e­dek goes to a re­mote world in the name of Ga­briel, he may, for the pur­poses of that par­tic­u­lar mis­sion, be dep­u­tized in the name of the sender and in that event will ap­pear on the planet of as­sign­ment with the full au­thor­ity of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Es­pe­cially is this true on those spheres where a higher Son has not yet ap­peared in the like­ness of the crea­tures of the realm.

• status › chief executive of Nebadon; also represents Ancients of Days

37:1.9Of the first or­der of Uni­verse Aids, the Bright and Morn­ing Stars, there is just one in each lo­cal uni­verse, and he is the first-born of all crea­tures na­tive to a lo­cal uni­verse. The Bright and Morn­ing Star of our uni­verse is known as Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton. He is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of all Neb­a­don, func­tion­ing as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Sov­er­eign Son and as spokesman for his cre­ative con­sort.

• functions and actions › worked quite alone with Michael and Mother Spirit in early days

37:1.10Dur­ing the ear­lier times of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel worked quite alone with Mi­chael and the Cre­ative Spirit. As the uni­verse grew and ad­min­is­tra­tive prob­lems mul­ti­plied, he was pro­vided with a per­sonal staff of un­re­vealed as­sis­tants, and even­tu­ally this group was aug­mented by the cre­ation of the Neb­a­don corps of Evening Stars.

• Brilliant Evening Stars are liaison officers for

37:2.1These bril­liant crea­tures were planned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks and were then brought into be­ing by the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit. They serve in many ca­pac­i­ties but chiefly as li­ai­son of­fi­cers of Ga­briel, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. One or more of these be­ings func­tion as his rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the cap­i­tal of ev­ery con­stel­la­tion and sys­tem in Neb­a­don.

• cannot be 2 places at same time
• status › ex officio chairman of most Salvington conclaves, councils, and tribunals

37:2.2As chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel is ex of­fi­cio chair­man of, or ob­server at, most of the Sal­ving­ton con­claves, and as many as one thou­sand of these are of­ten in ses­sion si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Bril­liant Evening Stars rep­re­sent Ga­briel on these oc­ca­sions; he can­not be in two places at the same time, and these super­an­gels com­pen­sate for this lim­i­ta­tion. They per­form an anal­o­gous ser­vice for the corps of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

37:2.3Though per­son­ally oc­cu­pied with ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties, Ga­briel main­tains con­tact with all other phases of uni­verse life and af­fairs through the Bril­liant Evening Stars. They al­ways ac­com­pany him on his plan­e­tary tours and fre­quently go on spe­cial mis­sions to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets as his per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives. On such as­sign­ments they have some­times been known as “the an­gel of the Lord.” They fre­quently go to Uversa to rep­re­sent the Bright and Morn­ing Star be­fore the courts and as­sem­blies of the An­cients of Days, but they sel­dom jour­ney be­yond the con­fines of Or­von­ton.

• status › supreme commander of armies of heaven

38:6.2Twelve le­gions of an­gels com­prise a host num­ber­ing 2,985,984 pairs or 5,971,968 in­di­vid­u­als, and twelve such hosts (35,831,808 pairs or 71,663,616 in­di­vid­u­als) make up the largest op­er­at­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion of ser­a­phim, an an­gelic army. A se­raphic host is com­manded by an arch­an­gel or by some other per­son­al­ity of co-or­di­nate sta­tus, while the an­gelic armies are di­rected by the Bril­liant Evening Stars or by other im­me­di­ate lieu­tenants of Ga­briel. And Ga­briel is the “su­preme com­man­der of the armies of heaven,” the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don, “the Lord God of hosts.”

• Most High executive represents G. in Norlatiadek

43:5.75. The Most High ex­ec­u­tive, the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Ga­briel sta­tioned on Eden­tia ever since the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• functions and actions › sealed vacant temple on Jerusem

46:5.327. The cir­cles of the fi­nal­i­ters have a unique struc­ture at the cen­ter. And this same va­cant tem­ple is found on ev­ery sys­tem head­quar­ters world through­out Neb­a­don. This ed­i­fice on Je­ru­sem is sealed with the in­signia of Mi­chael, and it bears this in­scrip­tion: “Unded­i­cated to the sev­enth stage of spirit—to the eter­nal as­sign­ment.” Ga­briel placed the seal on this tem­ple of mys­tery, and none but Mi­chael can or may break the seal of sov­er­eignty af­fixed by the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Some day you shall look upon this silent tem­ple, even though you may not pen­e­trate its mys­tery.

• functions and actions › appealed to Ancients of Days for rebels’ destruction 200,000 years ago

46:8.1The purely lo­cal and rou­tine af­fairs of Je­ru­sem are di­rected from the one hun­dred tri­an­gles. These units are clus­tered around the ten mar­velous struc­tures domi­cil­ing the lo­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion of Je­ru­sem. The tri­an­gles are sur­rounded by the panoramic de­pic­tion of the sys­tem head­quar­ters his­tory. At pres­ent there is an era­sure of over two stan­dard miles in this cir­cu­lar story. This sec­tor will be re­stored upon the read­mis­sion of Sa­ta­nia into the con­stel­la­tion fam­ily. Ev­ery pro­vi­sion for this event has been made by the de­crees of Mi­chael, but the tri­bu­nal of the An­cients of Days has not yet fin­ished the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Sa­ta­nia may not come back into the full fel­low­ship of Nor­la­ti­adek so long as it har­bors arch­re­bels, high cre­ated be­ings who have fallen from light into dark­ness.

46:8.2When Sa­ta­nia can re­turn to the con­stel­la­tion fold, then will come up for con­sid­er­a­tion the read­mis­sion of the iso­lated worlds into the sys­tem fam­ily of in­hab­ited plan­ets, ac­com­pa­nied by their restora­tion to the spir­i­tual com­mu­nion of the realms. But even if Uran­tia were re­stored to the sys­tem cir­cuits, you would still be em­bar­rassed by the fact that your whole sys­tem rests un­der a Nor­la­ti­adek quar­an­tine par­tially seg­re­gat­ing it from all other sys­tems.

46:8.3But ere long, the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of Lu­cifer and his as­so­ciates will re­store the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem to the Nor­la­ti­adek con­stel­la­tion, and sub­se­quently, Uran­tia and the other iso­lated spheres will be re­stored to the Sa­ta­nia cir­cuits, and again will such worlds en­joy the priv­i­leges of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion and in­ter­sys­tem com­mu­nion.

46:8.4There will come an end for rebels and re­bel­lion. The Su­preme Rulers are mer­ci­ful and pa­tient, but the law of de­lib­er­ately nour­ished evil is uni­ver­sally and unerringly ex­e­cuted. “The wages of sin is death”—eter­nal oblit­er­a­tion.

• status › chief executive of Nebadon; also represents Ancients of Days
• status › Planetary Princes under jurisdiction of

50:2.1All Plan­e­tary Princes are un­der the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tive ju­ris­dic­tion of Ga­briel, the chief ex­ec­u­tive of Mi­chael, while in im­me­di­ate au­thor­ity they are sub­ject to the ex­ec­u­tive man­dates of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns.

• functions and actions › certain Lucifer would soon rebel

53:2.4Through­out this pe­riod Lu­cifer be­came in­creas­ingly crit­i­cal of the en­tire plan of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion but al­ways pro­fessed whole­hearted loy­alty to the Su­preme Rulers. His first out­spo­ken dis­loy­alty was man­i­fested on the oc­ca­sion of a visit of Ga­briel to Je­ru­sem just a few days be­fore the open procla­ma­tion of the Lu­cifer Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty. Ga­briel was so pro­foundly im­pressed with the cer­tainty of the im­pend­ing out­break that he went di­rect to Eden­tia to con­fer with the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers re­gard­ing the mea­sures to be em­ployed in case of open re­bel­lion.

• functions and actions › unceasingly exposed rebel sophistries in Lucifer rebellion

53:4.6Ga­briel was per­son­ally pres­ent through­out all these dis­loyal pro­ceed­ings and only an­nounced that he would, in due time, speak for Mi­chael, and that all be­ings would be left free and un­mo­lested in their choice; that the “gov­ern­ment of the Sons for the Fa­ther de­sired only that loy­alty and de­vo­tion which was vol­un­tary, whole­hearted, and soph­istry-proof.”

• functions and actions › unceasingly exposed rebel sophistries in Lucifer rebellion

53:5.4Since Mi­chael elected to re­main aloof from the ac­tual war­fare of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, Ga­briel called his per­sonal staff to­gether on Eden­tia and, in coun­sel with the Most Highs, elected to as­sume com­mand of the loyal hosts of Sa­ta­nia. Mi­chael re­mained on Sal­ving­ton while Ga­briel pro­ceeded to Je­ru­sem, and es­tab­lish­ing him­self on the sphere ded­i­cated to the Fa­ther—the same Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther whose per­son­al­ity Lu­cifer and Sa­tan had ques­tioned—in the pres­ence of the for­gath­ered hosts of loyal per­son­al­i­ties, he dis­played the ban­ner of Mi­chael, the ma­te­rial em­blem of the Trin­ity gov­ern­ment of all cre­ation, the three azure blue con­cen­tric cir­cles on a white back­ground.

• functions and actions › unceasingly exposed rebel sophistries in Lucifer rebellion

53:5.6“There was war in heaven; Mi­chael’s com­man­der and his an­gels fought against the dragon (Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and the apos­tate princes); and the dragon and his re­bel­lious an­gels fought but pre­vailed not.” This “war in heaven” was not a phys­i­cal bat­tle as such a con­flict might be con­ceived on Uran­tia. In the early days of the strug­gle Lu­cifer held forth con­tin­u­ously in the plan­e­tary am­phithe­ater. Ga­briel con­ducted an un­ceas­ing ex­po­sure of the rebel soph­ist­ries from his head­quar­ters taken up near at hand. The var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties pres­ent on the sphere who were in doubt as to their at­ti­tude would jour­ney back and forth be­tween these dis­cus­sions un­til they ar­rived at a fi­nal de­ci­sion.

• functions and actions › appealed to Ancients of Days for rebels’ destruction 200,000 years ago

53:8.4The Son of Man was con­fi­dent of suc­cess, and he knew that his tri­umph on your world would for­ever set­tle the sta­tus of his age­long en­e­mies, not only in Sa­ta­nia but also in the other two sys­tems where sin had en­tered. There was sur­vival for mor­tals and se­cu­rity for an­gels when your Mas­ter, in re­ply to the Lu­cifer pro­pos­als, calmly and with di­vine as­sur­ance replied, “Get you be­hind me, Sa­tan.” That was, in prin­ci­ple, the real end of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. True, the Uversa tri­bu­nals have not yet ren­dered the ex­ec­u­tive de­ci­sion re­gard­ing the ap­peal of Ga­briel pray­ing for the de­struc­tion of the rebels, but such a de­cree will, no doubt, be forth­com­ing in the full­ness of time since the first step in the hear­ing of this case has al­ready been taken.

• functions and actions › appealed to Ancients of Days for rebels’ destruction 200,000 years ago

53:9.4Sa­tan could come to Uran­tia be­cause you had no Son of stand­ing in res­i­dence—nei­ther Plan­e­tary Prince nor Ma­te­rial Son. Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek has since been pro­claimed vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, and the open­ing of the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer has sig­nal­ized the in­au­gu­ra­tion of tem­po­rary plan­e­tary regimes on all the iso­lated worlds. It is true that Sa­tan did pe­ri­od­i­cally visit Cali­gas­tia and oth­ers of the fallen princes right up to the time of the pre­sen­ta­tion of these rev­e­la­tions, when there oc­curred the first hear­ing of Ga­briel’s plea for the an­ni­hi­la­tion of the arch­re­bels. Sa­tan is now un­qual­i­fiedly de­tained on the Je­ru­sem prison worlds.

• functions and actions › first hearing recently held in case vs. Lucifer

54:4.8But these mercy de­lays are not in­ter­minable. Not­with­stand­ing the long de­lay (as time is reck­oned on Uran­tia) in ad­ju­di­cat­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, we may re­cord that, dur­ing the time of ef­fect­ing this rev­e­la­tion, the first hear­ing in the pend­ing case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer was held on Uversa, and soon there­after there is­sued the man­date of the An­cients of Days di­rect­ing that Sa­tan be hence­forth con­fined to the prison world with Lu­cifer. This ends the abil­ity of Sa­tan to pay fur­ther vis­its to any of the fallen worlds of Sa­ta­nia. Jus­tice in a mercy-dom­i­nated uni­verse may be slow, but it is cer­tain.

• status › would become chief administrator if Michael ever left Nebadon for outer space

55:10.10If Mi­chael should ever leave Neb­a­don, Ga­briel would un­doubt­edly be­come chief ad­min­is­tra­tor with the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek as his as­so­ciate. At the same time new sta­tus would be im­parted to all or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, such as Ma­te­rial Sons, uni­v­i­ta­tia, mid­soniters, susa­tia, and Spirit-fused mor­tals. But as long as evo­lu­tion con­tin­ues, the ser­a­phim and the arch­an­gels will be re­quired in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• functions and actions › unceasingly exposed rebel sophistries in Lucifer rebellion

67:3.1The out­break of re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem, the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia, was broad­cast by the Mel­chiz­e­dek coun­cil. The emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks were im­me­di­ately dis­patched to Je­ru­sem, and Ga­briel vol­un­teered to act as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Cre­ator Son, whose au­thor­ity had been chal­lenged. With this broad­cast of the fact of re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia the sys­tem was iso­lated, quar­an­tined, from her sis­ter sys­tems. There was “war in heaven,” the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, and it spread to ev­ery planet in the lo­cal sys­tem.

• functions and actions › appealed to Ancients of Days for rebels’ destruction 200,000 years ago

67:4.7The vast ma­jor­ity of all hu­man and super­hu­man be­ings who were vic­tims of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem and the var­i­ous mis­led plan­ets have long since heart­ily re­pented of their folly; and we truly be­lieve that all such sin­cere pen­i­tents will in some man­ner be re­ha­bil­i­tated and re­stored to some phase of uni­verse ser­vice when the An­cients of Days fi­nally com­plete the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion, which they have so re­cently be­gun.

• functions and actions › judgment and dispensational resurrections delegated to

74:2.8Then was heard the arch­an­gels’ procla­ma­tion, and the broad­cast voice of Ga­briel de­creed the sec­ond judg­ment roll call of Uran­tia and the res­ur­rec­tion of the sleep­ing sur­vivors of the sec­ond dis­pen­sa­tion of grace and mercy on 606 of Sa­ta­nia. The dis­pen­sa­tion of the Prince has passed; the age of Adam, the third plan­e­tary epoch, opens amidst scenes of sim­ple grandeur; and the new rulers of Uran­tia start their reign un­der seem­ingly fa­vor­able con­di­tions, not­with­stand­ing the world-wide con­fu­sion oc­ca­sioned by lack of the co-op­er­a­tion of their pre­de­ces­sor in au­thor­ity on the planet.

• functions and actions › appeared to pronounce judgment on Adam

75:7.1It was while the Edenic car­a­van was halted that Adam and Eve were in­formed of the na­ture of their trans­gres­sions and ad­vised con­cern­ing their fate. Ga­briel ap­peared to pro­nounce judg­ment. And this was the ver­dict: The Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve of Uran­tia are ad­judged in de­fault; they have vi­o­lated the covenant of their trustee­ship as the rulers of this in­hab­ited world.

• functions and actions › supposedly sanctioned loose New Zealand practices

92:2.5Races of men only su­per­fi­cially ac­cept a strange and new re­li­gion; they ac­tu­ally ad­just it to their mores and old ways of be­liev­ing. This is well il­lus­trated by the ex­am­ple of a cer­tain New Zealand tribe whose priests, af­ter nom­i­nally ac­cept­ing Chris­tian­ity, pro­fessed to have re­ceived di­rect rev­e­la­tions from Ga­briel to the ef­fect that this self­same tribe had be­come the cho­sen peo­ple of God and di­rect­ing that they be per­mit­ted freely to in­dulge in loose sex re­la­tions and nu­mer­ous other of their olden and rep­re­hen­si­ble cus­toms. And im­me­di­ately all of the new-made Chris­tians went over to this new and less ex­act­ing ver­sion of Chris­tian­ity.

• functions and actions › approved Melchizedek’s emergency bestowal

93:10.2Ma­chi­venta ter­mi­nated his be­stowal as a crea­ture of flesh and blood just as sud­denly and un­cer­e­mo­ni­ously as he had be­gun it. Nei­ther his ap­pear­ance nor de­par­ture were ac­com­pa­nied by any un­usual an­nounce­ment or dem­on­stra­tion; nei­ther res­ur­rec­tion roll call nor end­ing of plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion marked his ap­pear­ance on Uran­tia; his was an emer­gency be­stowal. But Ma­chi­venta did not end his so­journ in the flesh of hu­man be­ings un­til he had been duly re­leased by the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek and had been in­formed that his emer­gency be­stowal had re­ceived the ap­proval of the chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.

• functions and actions › involvement in Michael’s bestowals

119:4.2On the third day af­ter this be­stowal dis­ap­pear­ance we ob­served, in the uni­verse broad­casts to Uversa, this sig­nif­i­cant news item from the se­raphic head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don: “Re­port­ing the unan­nounced ar­rival of an un­known ser­a­phim, ac­com­pa­nied by a soli­tary super­na­phim and Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton. This un­reg­is­tered ser­a­phim qual­i­fies as of the Neb­a­don or­der and bears cre­den­tials from the Uversa An­cients of Days, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. This ser­a­phim tests out as be­long­ing to the su­preme or­der of the an­gels of a lo­cal uni­verse and has al­ready been as­signed to the corps of the teach­ing coun­selors.”

• functions and actions › involvement in Michael’s bestowals

119:4.5As these suc­ces­sive be­stowals par­took in­creas­ingly of the na­ture of the lower forms of uni­verse life, Ga­briel be­came more and more an as­so­ciate of these in­car­na­tion ad­ven­tures, func­tion­ing as the uni­verse li­ai­son be­tween the be­stowed Mi­chael and the act­ing uni­verse ruler, Im­manuel.

• functions and actions › involvement in Michael’s bestowals

119:5.3On Sal­ving­ton we fol­lowed the ca­reer of this spirit pil­grim with con­sum­mate in­ter­est, know­ing full well, by the pres­ence of Ga­briel, that this unas­sum­ing and un­num­bered pil­grim spirit was none other than the be­stowed ruler of our lo­cal uni­verse. This first ap­pear­ance of Mi­chael in­car­nated in the role of one stage of mor­tal evo­lu­tion was an event which thrilled and en­thralled all Neb­a­don. We had heard of such things but now we be­held them. He ap­peared on Uversa as a fully de­vel­oped and per­fectly trained spirit mor­tal and, as such, con­tin­ued his ca­reer up to the oc­ca­sion of the ad­vance­ment of a group of as­cend­ing mor­tals to Ha­vona; where­upon he held con­verse with the An­cients of Days and im­me­di­ately, in the com­pany of Ga­briel, took sud­den and un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous leave of Uversa, ap­pear­ing shortly there­after in his ac­cus­tomed place on Sal­ving­ton.

• functions and actions › involvement in Michael’s bestowals

119:6.2Be­fore leav­ing Sal­ving­ton for the sixth be­stowal, Mi­chael ad­dressed the as­sem­bled in­hab­i­tants of the sphere and de­parted in full view of ev­ery­one, ac­com­pa­nied by a lone ser­a­phim and the Bright and Morn­ing Star of Neb­a­don. While the di­rec­tion of the uni­verse had again been in­trusted to Im­manuel, there was a wider dis­tri­bu­tion of ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

• functions and actions › involvement in Michael’s bestowals

120:0.6Hav­ing de­ter­mined the time of his fi­nal be­stowal and hav­ing se­lected the planet whereon this ex­traor­di­nary event would take place, Mi­chael held the usual pre­be­stowal con­fer­ence with Ga­briel and then pre­sented him­self be­fore his el­der brother and Par­a­dise coun­selor, Im­manuel. All pow­ers of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion which had not pre­vi­ously been con­ferred upon Ga­briel, Mi­chael now as­signed to the cus­tody of Im­manuel. And just be­fore Mi­chael’s de­par­ture for the Uran­tia in­car­na­tion, Im­manuel, in ac­cept­ing the cus­tody of the uni­verse dur­ing the time of the Uran­tia be­stowal, pro­ceeded to im­part the be­stowal coun­sel which would serve as the in­car­na­tion guide for Mi­chael when he would pres­ently grow up on Uran­tia as a mor­tal of the realm.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › Immanuel committed safekeeping of Michael to

120:3.11“In your stead I now reign. I as­sume ju­ris­dic­tion of all Neb­a­don as act­ing sov­er­eign dur­ing the in­terim of your sev­enth and mor­tal be­stowal on Uran­tia. And to you, Ga­briel, I com­mit the safe­keep­ing of the Son of Man about-to-be un­til he shall pres­ently and in power and glory be re­turned to me as the Son of Man and the Son of God. And, Ga­briel, I am your sov­er­eign un­til Mi­chael thus re­turns.”

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › chose Jews as race for Michael’s incarnation

122:0.2Af­ter a study of the spe­cial re­port on the sta­tus of seg­re­gated worlds pre­pared by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, in coun­sel with Ga­briel, Mi­chael fi­nally chose Uran­tia as the planet whereon to en­act his fi­nal be­stowal. Sub­se­quent to this de­ci­sion Ga­briel made a per­sonal visit to Uran­tia, and, as a re­sult of his study of hu­man groups and his sur­vey of the spir­i­tual, in­tel­lec­tual, racial, and ge­o­graphic fea­tures of the world and its peo­ples, he de­cided that the He­brews pos­sessed those rel­a­tive ad­van­tages which war­ranted their se­lec­tion as the be­stowal race. Upon Mi­chael’s ap­proval of this de­ci­sion, Ga­briel ap­pointed and dis­patched to Uran­tia the Fam­ily Com­mis­sion of Twelve—se­lected from among the higher or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties—which was in­trusted with the task of mak­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion of Jew­ish fam­ily life. When this com­mis­sion ended its labors, Ga­briel was pres­ent on Uran­tia and re­ceived the re­port nom­i­nat­ing three prospec­tive unions as be­ing, in the opin­ion of the com­mis­sion, equally fa­vor­able as be­stowal fam­i­lies for Mi­chael’s pro­jected in­car­na­tion.

122:0.3From the three cou­ples nom­i­nated, Ga­briel made the per­sonal choice of Joseph and Mary, sub­se­quently mak­ing his per­sonal ap­pear­ance to Mary, at which time he im­parted to her the glad tid­ings that she had been se­lected to be­come the earth mother of the be­stowal child.

122:2.1Je­sus’ life­work on Uran­tia was re­ally be­gun by John the Bap­tist. Zach­a­rias, John’s fa­ther, be­longed to the Jew­ish priest­hood, while his mother, Eliz­a­beth, was a mem­ber of the more pros­per­ous branch of the same large fam­ily group to which Mary the mother of Je­sus also be­longed. Zach­a­rias and Eliz­a­beth, though they had been mar­ried many years, were child­less.

122:2.2It was late in the month of June, 8 B.C., about three months af­ter the mar­riage of Joseph and Mary, that Ga­briel ap­peared to Eliz­a­beth at noon­tide one day, just as he later made his pres­ence known to Mary. Said Ga­briel:

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › named John the Baptist

122:2.3“While your hus­band, Zach­a­rias, stands be­fore the al­tar in Je­ru­sa­lem, and while the as­sem­bled peo­ple pray for the com­ing of a de­liv­erer, I, Ga­briel, have come to an­nounce that you will shortly bear a son who shall be the fore­run­ner of this di­vine teacher, and you shall call your son John. He will grow up ded­i­cated to the Lord your God, and when he has come to full years, he will glad­den your heart be­cause he will turn many souls to God, and he will also pro­claim the com­ing of the soul-healer of your peo­ple and the spirit-lib­er­a­tor of all man­kind. Your kinswoman Mary shall be the mother of this child of prom­ise, and I will also ap­pear to her.”

122:2.4This vi­sion greatly fright­ened Eliz­a­beth. Af­ter Ga­briel’s de­par­ture she turned this ex­pe­ri­ence over in her mind, long pon­der­ing the say­ings of the ma­jes­tic vis­i­tor, but did not speak of the rev­e­la­tion to any­one save her hus­band un­til her sub­se­quent visit with Mary in early Febru­ary of the fol­low­ing year.

122:2.5For five months, how­ever, Eliz­a­beth with­held her se­cret even from her hus­band. Upon her dis­clo­sure of the story of Ga­briel’s visit, Zach­a­rias was very skep­ti­cal and for weeks doubted the en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence, only con­sent­ing half­heart­edly to be­lieve in Ga­briel’s visit to his wife when he could no longer ques­tion that she was ex­pec­tant with child. Zach­a­rias was very much per­plexed re­gard­ing the prospec­tive moth­er­hood of Eliz­a­beth, but he did not doubt the in­tegrity of his wife, not­with­stand­ing his own ad­vanced age. It was not un­til about six weeks be­fore John’s birth that Zach­a­rias, as the re­sult of an im­pres­sive dream, be­came fully con­vinced that Eliz­a­beth was to be­come the mother of a son of des­tiny, one who was to pre­pare the way for the com­ing of the Mes­siah.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › appeared to Mary in November, 8 B.C.

122:2.6Ga­briel ap­peared to Mary about the mid­dle of Novem­ber, 8 B.C., while she was at work in her Naz­a­reth home. Later on, af­ter Mary knew with­out doubt that she was to be­come a mother, she per­suaded Joseph to let her jour­ney to the City of Ju­dah, four miles west of Je­ru­sa­lem, in the hills, to visit Eliz­a­beth. Ga­briel had in­formed each of these moth­ers-to-be of his ap­pear­ance to the other. Nat­u­rally they were anx­ious to get to­gether, com­pare ex­pe­ri­ences, and talk over the prob­a­ble fu­tures of their sons. Mary re­mained with her dis­tant cousin for three weeks. Eliz­a­beth did much to strengthen Mary’s faith in the vi­sion of Ga­briel, so that she re­turned home more fully ded­i­cated to the call to mother the child of des­tiny whom she was so soon to pre­sent to the world as a help­less babe, an av­er­age and nor­mal in­fant of the realm.

122:2.7John was born in the City of Ju­dah, March 25, 7 B.C. Zach­a­rias and Eliz­a­beth re­joiced greatly in the re­al­iza­tion that a son had come to them as Ga­briel had prom­ised, and when on the eighth day they pre­sented the child for cir­cum­ci­sion, they for­mally chris­tened him John, as they had been di­rected afore­time. Al­ready had a nephew of Zach­a­rias de­parted for Naz­a­reth, car­ry­ing the mes­sage of Eliz­a­beth to Mary pro­claim­ing that a son had been born to her and that his name was to be John.

122:2.8From his ear­li­est in­fancy John was ju­di­ciously im­pressed by his par­ents with the idea that he was to grow up to be­come a spir­i­tual leader and re­li­gious teacher. And the soil of John’s heart was ever re­spon­sive to the sow­ing of such sug­ges­tive seeds. Even as a child he was found fre­quently at the tem­ple dur­ing the sea­sons of his fa­ther’s ser­vice, and he was tremen­dously im­pressed with the sig­nif­i­cance of all that he saw.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › named Jesus “Joshua”

122:3.1One evening about sun­down, be­fore Joseph had re­turned home, Ga­briel ap­peared to Mary by the side of a low stone ta­ble and, af­ter she had re­cov­ered her com­po­sure, said: “I come at the bid­ding of one who is my Mas­ter and whom you shall love and nur­ture. To you, Mary, I bring glad tid­ings when I an­nounce that the con­cep­tion within you is or­dained by heaven, and that in due time you will be­come the mother of a son; you shall call him Joshua, and he shall in­au­gu­rate the king­dom of heaven on earth and among men. Speak not of this mat­ter save to Joseph and to Eliz­a­beth, your kinswoman, to whom I have also ap­peared, and who shall pres­ently also bear a son, whose name shall be John, and who will pre­pare the way for the mes­sage of de­liv­er­ance which your son shall pro­claim to men with great power and deep con­vic­tion. And doubt not my word, Mary, for this home has been cho­sen as the mor­tal habi­tat of the child of des­tiny. My bene­dic­tion rests upon you, the power of the Most Highs will strengthen you, and the Lord of all the earth shall over­shadow you.”

122:3.2Mary pon­dered this vis­i­ta­tion se­cretly in her heart for many weeks un­til of a cer­tainty she knew she was with child, be­fore she dared to dis­close these un­usual events to her hus­band. When Joseph heard all about this, al­though he had great con­fi­dence in Mary, he was much trou­bled and could not sleep for many nights. At first Joseph had doubts about the Ga­briel vis­i­ta­tion. Then when he be­came well-nigh per­suaded that Mary had re­ally heard the voice and be­held the form of the di­vine mes­sen­ger, he was torn in mind as he pon­dered how such things could be. How could the off­spring of hu­man be­ings be a child of di­vine des­tiny? Never could Joseph rec­on­cile these con­flict­ing ideas un­til, af­ter sev­eral weeks of thought, both he and Mary reached the con­clu­sion that they had been cho­sen to be­come the par­ents of the Mes­siah, though it had hardly been the Jew­ish con­cept that the ex­pected de­liv­erer was to be of di­vine na­ture. Upon ar­riv­ing at this mo­men­tous con­clu­sion, Mary has­tened to de­part for a visit with Eliz­a­beth.

122:3.3Upon her re­turn, Mary went to visit her par­ents, Joachim and Han­nah. Her two broth­ers and two sis­ters, as well as her par­ents, were al­ways very skep­ti­cal about the di­vine mis­sion of Je­sus, though, of course, at this time they knew noth­ing of the Ga­briel vis­i­ta­tion. But Mary did con­fide to her sis­ter Sa­lome that she thought her son was des­tined to be­come a great teacher.

122:3.4Ga­briel’s an­nounce­ment to Mary was made the day fol­low­ing the con­cep­tion of Je­sus and was the only event of super­nat­u­ral oc­cur­rence con­nected with her en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence of car­ry­ing and bear­ing the child of prom­ise.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › Jesus only learned of G.’s visit to Mary at his baptism

126:2.4Still he knew noth­ing of the Ga­briel visit to his mother be­fore his birth; he only learned of this from John on the day of his bap­tism, at the be­gin­ning of his pub­lic min­istry.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › Jesus only learned of G.’s visit to Mary at his baptism

135:8.7John fol­lowed Je­sus a suf­fi­cient dis­tance to tell him the story of Ga­briel’s visit to his mother ere ei­ther had been born, as he had heard it so many times from his mother’s lips. He al­lowed Je­sus to con­tinue on his way af­ter he had said, “Now I know of a cer­tainty that you are the De­liv­erer.” But Je­sus made no re­ply.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › Jesus only learned of G.’s visit to Mary at his baptism

135:9.1When John re­turned to his dis­ci­ples (he now had some twenty-five or thirty who abode with him con­stantly), he found them in earnest con­fer­ence, dis­cussing what had just hap­pened in con­nec­tion with Je­sus’ bap­tism. They were all the more as­ton­ished when John now made known to them the story of the Ga­briel vis­i­ta­tion to Mary be­fore Je­sus was born, and also that Je­sus spoke no word to him even af­ter he had told him about this. There was no rain that evening, and this group of thirty or more talked long into the star­lit night. They won­dered where Je­sus had gone, and when they would see him again.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › re-established communication after Jesus’ baptism

136:3.4While wan­der­ing about in the hills, seek­ing a suit­able shel­ter, Je­sus en­coun­tered his uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive, Ga­briel, the Bright and Morn­ing Star of Neb­a­don. Ga­briel now re-es­tab­lished per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Cre­ator Son of the uni­verse; they met di­rectly for the first time since Mi­chael took leave of his as­so­ciates on Sal­ving­ton when he went to Eden­tia prepara­tory to en­ter­ing upon the Uran­tia be­stowal. Ga­briel, by di­rec­tion of Im­manuel and on au­thor­ity of the Uversa An­cients of Days, now laid be­fore Je­sus in­for­ma­tion in­di­cat­ing that his be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence on Uran­tia was prac­ti­cally fin­ished so far as con­cerned the earn­ing of the per­fected sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse and the ter­mi­na­tion of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. The for­mer was achieved on the day of his bap­tism when the per­son­al­iza­tion of his Ad­juster demon­strated the per­fec­tion and com­ple­tion of his be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and the lat­ter was a fact of his­tory on that day when he came down from Mount Her­mon to join the wait­ing lad, Tiglath. Je­sus was now in­formed, upon the high­est au­thor­ity of the lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse, that his be­stowal work was fin­ished in so far as it af­fected his per­sonal sta­tus in re­la­tion to sov­er­eignty and re­bel­lion. He had al­ready had this as­sur­ance di­rect from Par­a­dise in the bap­tismal vi­sion and in the phe­nom­e­non of the per­son­al­iza­tion of his in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › with Jesus at the transfiguration

158:1.6It was about three o’clock on this beau­ti­ful af­ter­noon that Je­sus took leave of the three apos­tles, say­ing: “I go apart by my­self for a sea­son to com­mune with the Fa­ther and his mes­sen­gers; I bid you tarry here and, while await­ing my re­turn, pray that the Fa­ther’s will may be done in all your ex­pe­ri­ence in con­nec­tion with the fur­ther be­stowal mis­sion of the Son of Man.” And af­ter say­ing this to them, Je­sus with­drew for a long con­fer­ence with Ga­briel and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, not re­turn­ing un­til about six o’clock. When Je­sus saw their anx­i­ety over his pro­longed ab­sence, he said: “Why were you afraid? You well know I must be about my Fa­ther’s busi­ness; where­fore do you doubt when I am not with you? I now de­clare that the Son of Man has cho­sen to go through his full life in your midst and as one of you. Be of good cheer; I will not leave you un­til my work is fin­ished.”

• status › supreme commander of armies of heaven

168:2.1As this com­pany of some forty-five mor­tals stood be­fore the tomb, they could dimly see the form of Laz­a­rus, wrapped in linen ban­dages, rest­ing on the right lower niche of the burial cave. While these earth crea­tures stood there in al­most breath­less si­lence, a vast host of ce­les­tial be­ings had swung into their places prepara­tory to an­swer­ing the sig­nal for ac­tion when it should be given by Ga­briel, their com­man­der.

• status › supreme commander of armies of heaven

168:2.8As they walked to­ward the house, Ga­briel dis­missed the ex­tra groups of the as­sem­bled heav­enly host while he made rec­ord of the first in­stance on Uran­tia, and the last, where a mor­tal crea­ture had been res­ur­rected in the like­ness of the phys­i­cal body of death.

• status › supreme commander of armies of heaven

182:3.8The as­sem­bled hosts of a vast cre­ation are now hov­ered over this scene un­der the tran­sient joint com­mand of Ga­briel and the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus. The di­vi­sion com­man­ders of these armies of heaven have re­peat­edly been warned not to in­ter­fere with these trans­ac­tions on earth un­less Je­sus him­self should or­der them to in­ter­vene.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › on Urantia during the crucifixion

186:4.2It was a lit­tle af­ter eight o’clock when Pi­late turned Je­sus over to the sol­diers and a lit­tle be­fore nine o’clock when they started for the scene of the cru­ci­fix­ion. Dur­ing this pe­riod of more than half an hour Je­sus never spoke a word. The ex­ec­u­tive busi­ness of a great uni­verse was prac­ti­cally at a stand­still. Ga­briel and the chief rulers of Neb­a­don were ei­ther as­sem­bled here on Uran­tia, or else they were closely at­tend­ing upon the space re­ports of the arch­an­gels in an ef­fort to keep ad­vised as to what was hap­pen­ing to the Son of Man on Uran­tia.

• functions and actions › sealed Michael Memorial

188:3.11In the vast court of the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the first man­sion world of Sa­ta­nia, there may now be ob­served a mag­nif­i­cent ma­te­rial-mor­ontia struc­ture known as the “Mi­chael Memo­rial,” now bear­ing the seal of Ga­briel. This memo­rial was cre­ated shortly af­ter Mi­chael de­parted from this world, and it bears this in­scrip­tion: “In com­mem­o­ra­tion of the mor­tal tran­sit of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth on Uran­tia.”

• functions and actions › presided over Salvington council
• status › ex officio chairman of most Salvington conclaves, councils, and tribunals

188:3.12There are rec­ords ex­tant which show that dur­ing this pe­riod the su­preme coun­cil of Sal­ving­ton, num­ber­ing one hun­dred, held an ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing on Uran­tia un­der the pres­i­dency of Ga­briel. There are also rec­ords show­ing that the An­cients of Days of Uversa com­mu­ni­cated with Mi­chael re­gard­ing the sta­tus of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don dur­ing this time.

• functions and actions › involvement in Michael’s bestowals
• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal

189:0.1Soon af­ter the burial of Je­sus on Fri­day af­ter­noon, the chief of the arch­an­gels of Neb­a­don, then pres­ent on Uran­tia, sum­moned his coun­cil of the res­ur­rec­tion of sleep­ing will crea­tures and en­tered upon the con­sid­er­a­tion of a pos­si­ble tech­nique for the restora­tion of Je­sus. These as­sem­bled sons of the lo­cal uni­verse, the crea­tures of Mi­chael, did this on their own re­spon­si­bil­ity; Ga­briel had not as­sem­bled them. By mid­night they had ar­rived at the con­clu­sion that the crea­ture could do noth­ing to fa­cil­i­tate the res­ur­rec­tion of the Cre­ator. They were dis­posed to ac­cept the ad­vice of Ga­briel, who in­structed them that, since Mi­chael had “laid down his life of his own free will, he also had power to take it up again in ac­cor­dance with his own de­ter­mi­na­tion.” Shortly af­ter the ad­journ­ment of this coun­cil of the arch­an­gels, the Life Car­ri­ers, and their var­i­ous as­so­ciates in the work of crea­ture re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and mor­ontia cre­ation, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus, be­ing in per­sonal com­mand of the as­sem­bled ce­les­tial hosts then on Uran­tia, spoke these words to the anx­ious wait­ing watch­ers:

• Gabriel

189:1.5We know that no crea­ture of the lo­cal uni­verse par­tic­i­pated in this mor­ontia awak­en­ing. We per­ceived the seven per­son­al­i­ties of Par­a­dise sur­round the tomb, but we did not see them do any­thing in con­nec­tion with the Mas­ter’s awak­en­ing. Just as soon as Je­sus ap­peared be­side Ga­briel, just above the tomb, the seven per­son­al­i­ties from Par­a­dise sig­nal­ized their in­ten­tion of im­me­di­ate de­par­ture for Uversa.

• functions and actions › sealed Michael Memorial

189:1.93. He did come forth from this tomb of Joseph in the very like­ness of the mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties of those who, as res­ur­rected mor­ontia as­cen­dant be­ings, emerge from the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the first man­sion world of this lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. And the pres­ence of the Mi­chael memo­rial in the cen­ter of the vast court of the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia num­ber one leads us to con­jec­ture that the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia was in some way fos­tered on this, the first of the sys­tem man­sion worlds.

• Gabriel

189:1.10The first act of Je­sus on aris­ing from the tomb was to greet Ga­briel and in­struct him to con­tinue in ex­ec­u­tive charge of uni­verse af­fairs un­der Im­manuel, and then he di­rected the chief of the Mel­chiz­e­deks to con­vey his broth­erly greet­ings to Im­manuel. He there­upon asked the Most High of Eden­tia for the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the An­cients of Days as to his mor­tal tran­sit; and turn­ing to the as­sem­bled mor­ontia groups of the seven man­sion worlds, here gath­ered to­gether to greet and wel­come their Cre­ator as a crea­ture of their or­der, Je­sus spoke the first words of the post­mor­tal ca­reer. Said the mor­ontia Je­sus: “Hav­ing fin­ished my life in the flesh, I would tarry here for a short time in tran­si­tion form that I may more fully know the life of my as­cen­dant crea­tures and fur­ther re­veal the will of my Fa­ther in Par­a­dise.”

• functions and actions › judgment and dispensational resurrections delegated to

189:3.1A lit­tle af­ter half past four o’clock this Sun­day morn­ing, Ga­briel sum­moned the arch­an­gels to his side and made ready to in­au­gu­rate the gen­eral res­ur­rec­tion of the ter­mi­na­tion of the Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion on Uran­tia. When the vast host of the ser­a­phim and the cheru­bim con­cerned in this great event had been mar­shaled in proper for­ma­tion, the mor­ontia Mi­chael ap­peared be­fore Ga­briel, say­ing: “As my Fa­ther has life in him­self, so has he given it to the Son to have life in him­self. Al­though I have not yet fully re­sumed the ex­er­cise of uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, this self-im­posed lim­i­ta­tion does not in any man­ner re­strict the be­stowal of life upon my sleep­ing sons; let the roll call of the plan­e­tary res­ur­rec­tion be­gin.”

189:3.2The cir­cuit of the arch­an­gels then op­er­ated for the first time from Uran­tia. Ga­briel and the arch­an­gel hosts moved to the place of the spir­i­tual po­lar­ity of the planet; and when Ga­briel gave the sig­nal, there flashed to the first of the sys­tem man­sion worlds the voice of Ga­briel, say­ing: “By the man­date of Mi­chael, let the dead of a Uran­tia dis­pen­sa­tion rise!” Then all the sur­vivors of the hu­man races of Uran­tia who had fallen asleep since the days of Adam, and who had not al­ready gone on to judg­ment, ap­peared in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia in readi­ness for mor­ontia in­vesti­ture. And in an in­stant of time the ser­a­phim and their as­so­ciates made ready to de­part for the man­sion worlds. Or­di­nar­ily these se­raphic guard­i­ans, one­time as­signed to the group cus­tody of these sur­viv­ing mor­tals, would have been pres­ent at the mo­ment of their awak­ing in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia, but they were on this world it­self at this time be­cause of the ne­ces­sity of Ga­briel’s pres­ence here in con­nec­tion with the mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus.

• involvement in Michael’s earth bestowal › with Jesus during his morontia transit

189:3.4When the sig­nal of the plan­e­tary res­ur­rec­tion had been re­ceived by the chief of arch­an­gels, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of the Son of Man re­lin­quished his au­thor­ity over the ce­les­tial hosts as­sem­bled on Uran­tia, turn­ing all these sons of the lo­cal uni­verse back to the ju­ris­dic­tion of their re­spec­tive com­man­ders. And when he had done this, he de­parted for Sal­ving­ton to reg­is­ter with Im­manuel the com­ple­tion of the mor­tal tran­sit of Mi­chael. And he was im­me­di­ately fol­lowed by all the ce­les­tial host not re­quired for duty on Uran­tia. But Ga­briel re­mained on Uran­tia with the mor­ontia Je­sus.