Immanuel

18:6.1The Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties of the or­der of “Days” do not func­tion in an ad­min­is­tra­tive ca­pac­ity be­low the level of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. In the evolv­ing lo­cal uni­verses they act only as coun­selors and ad­vis­ers. The Unions of Days are a group of li­ai­son per­son­al­i­ties ac­cred­ited by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity to the dual rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses. Each or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited lo­cal uni­verse has as­signed to it one of these Par­a­dise coun­selors, who acts as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Trin­ity, and in some re­spects, of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, to the lo­cal cre­ation.

18:6.2There are seven hun­dred thou­sand of these be­ings in ex­is­tence, though they have not all been com­mis­sioned. The re­serve corps of the Unions of Days func­tions on Par­a­dise as the Su­preme Coun­cil of Uni­verse Ad­just­ments.

18:6.3In a spe­cial man­ner these Trin­ity ob­servers co-or­di­nate the ad­min­is­tra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties of all branches of the uni­ver­sal gov­ern­ment, from those of the lo­cal uni­verses up through the sec­tor gov­ern­ments to those of the super­uni­verse, hence their name—Unions of Days. They make a three­fold re­port to their su­pe­ri­ors: They re­port per­ti­nent data of a phys­i­cal and semi-in­tel­lec­tual na­ture to the Re­cents of Days of their mi­nor sec­tor; they re­port in­tel­lec­tual and quasi-spir­i­tual hap­pen­ings to the Per­fec­tions of Days of their ma­jor sec­tor; they re­port spir­i­tual and semi­par­a­disi­a­cal mat­ters to the An­cients of Days at the cap­i­tal of their super­uni­verse.

18:6.4Since they are Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings, all of the Par­a­dise cir­cuits are avail­able to them for in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and thus are they al­ways in touch with each other and with all other re­quired per­son­al­i­ties up to the su­preme coun­cils of Par­a­dise.

18:6.5A Union of Days is not or­gan­i­cally con­nected with the gov­ern­ment of the lo­cal uni­verse of his as­sign­ment. Aside from his du­ties as an ob­server, he acts only at the re­quest of the lo­cal au­thor­i­ties. He is an ex of­fi­cio mem­ber of all pri­mary coun­cils and all im­por­tant con­claves of the lo­cal cre­ation, but he does not par­tic­i­pate in the tech­ni­cal con­sid­er­a­tion of ad­min­is­tra­tive prob­lems.

18:6.6When a lo­cal uni­verse is set­tled in light and life, its glo­ri­fied be­ings as­so­ciate freely with the Union of Days, who then func­tions in an en­larged ca­pac­ity in such a realm of evo­lu­tion­ary per­fec­tion. But he is still pri­mar­ily a Trin­ity am­bas­sador and Par­a­dise coun­selor.

18:6.7A lo­cal uni­verse is di­rectly ruled by a di­vine Son of dual De­ity ori­gin, but he has con­stantly by his side a Par­a­dise brother, a Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­ity. In the event of the tem­po­rary ab­sence of a Cre­ator Son from the head­quar­ters of his lo­cal uni­verse, the act­ing rulers are largely guided in their ma­jor de­ci­sions by the coun­sel of their Union of Days.

• so named because representative of Father
• Union of Days number 611,121 assigned to Nebadon

33:5.1The ad­min­is­tra­tion of Trin­ity-ori­gin per­son­al­i­ties ends with the gov­ern­ment of the super­uni­verses. The lo­cal uni­verses are char­ac­ter­ized by dual super­vi­sion, the be­gin­ning of the fa­ther-mother con­cept. The uni­verse fa­ther is the Cre­ator Son; the uni­verse mother is the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit. Ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, how­ever, blessed with the pres­ence of cer­tain per­son­al­i­ties from the cen­tral uni­verse and Par­a­dise. At the head of this Par­a­dise group in Neb­a­don is the am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity—Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton—the Union of Days as­signed to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. In a cer­tain sense this high Trin­ity Son is also the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the court of the Cre­ator Son; hence his name, Im­manuel.

• has never acknowledged subordination to Michael
• participates in executive affairs only upon request

33:5.2Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton, num­ber 611,121 of the sixth or­der of Su­preme Trin­ity Per­son­al­i­ties, is a be­ing of sub­lime dig­nity and of such su­perb con­de­scen­sion that he re­fuses the wor­ship and ado­ra­tion of all liv­ing crea­tures. He bears the dis­tinc­tion of be­ing the only per­son­al­ity in all Neb­a­don who has never ac­knowl­edged sub­or­di­na­tion to his brother Mi­chael. He func­tions as ad­viser to the Sov­er­eign Son but gives coun­sel only on re­quest. In the ab­sence of the Cre­ator Son he might pre­side over any high uni­verse coun­cil but would not oth­er­wise par­tic­i­pate in the ex­ec­u­tive af­fairs of the uni­verse ex­cept as re­quested.

• supervises Faithfuls of Days

33:5.3This am­bas­sador of Par­a­dise to Neb­a­don is not sub­ject to the ju­ris­dic­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment. Nei­ther does he ex­er­cise au­thor­i­ta­tive ju­ris­dic­tion in the ex­ec­u­tive af­fairs of an evolv­ing lo­cal uni­verse ex­cept in the super­vi­sion of his li­ai­son breth­ren, the Faith­fuls of Days, serv­ing on the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tions.

33:5.4The Faith­fuls of Days, like the Union of Days, never prof­fer ad­vice or of­fer as­sis­tance to the con­stel­la­tion rulers un­less it is asked for. These Par­a­dise am­bas­sadors to the con­stel­la­tions rep­re­sent the fi­nal per­sonal pres­ence of the Sta­tion­ary Sons of the Trin­ity func­tion­ing in ad­vi­sory roles in the lo­cal uni­verses. Con­stel­la­tions are more closely re­lated to the super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion than lo­cal sys­tems, which are ad­min­is­tered ex­clu­sively by per­son­al­i­ties na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verse.

• knew of Lucifer’s disaffection for 500 years

53:2.3No one ever sug­gested re­bel­lion to Lu­cifer. The idea of self-as­ser­tion in op­po­si­tion to the will of Mi­chael and to the plans of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, as they are rep­re­sented in Mi­chael, had its ori­gin in his own mind. His re­la­tions with the Cre­ator Son had been in­ti­mate and al­ways cor­dial. At no time prior to the ex­al­ta­tion of his own mind did Lu­cifer openly ex­press dis­sat­is­fac­tion about the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. Not­with­stand­ing his si­lence, for more than one hun­dred years of stan­dard time the Union of Days on Sal­ving­ton had been re­flec­ti­vat­ing to Uversa that all was not at peace in Lu­cifer’s mind. This in­for­ma­tion was also com­mu­ni­cated to the Cre­ator Son and the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Nor­la­ti­adek.

• Michael’s elder brother

53:5.1Upon the out­break of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion, Mi­chael took coun­sel of his Par­a­dise brother, Im­manuel. Fol­low­ing this mo­men­tous con­fer­ence, Mi­chael an­nounced that he would pur­sue the same pol­icy which had char­ac­ter­ized his deal­ings with sim­i­lar up­heavals in the past, an at­ti­tude of non­in­ter­fer­ence.

• counseled Michael to allow rebellion to self-obliterate
• Michael’s elder brother

54:5.87. It is ev­i­dent that Im­manuel coun­seled Mi­chael to re­main aloof from the rebels and al­low re­bel­lion to pur­sue a nat­u­ral course of self-oblit­er­a­tion. And the wis­dom of the Union of Days is the time re­flec­tion of the united wis­dom of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

119:1.1It was a solemn oc­ca­sion on Sal­ving­ton al­most one bil­lion years ago when the as­sem­bled di­rec­tors and chiefs of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don heard Mi­chael an­nounce that his el­der brother, Im­manuel, would pres­ently as­sume au­thor­ity in Neb­a­don while he (Mi­chael) would be ab­sent on an un­ex­plained mis­sion. No other an­nounce­ment was made about this trans­ac­tion ex­cept that the farewell broad­cast to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, among other in­struc­tions, said: “And for this pe­riod I place you un­der the care and keep­ing of Im­manuel while I go to do the bid­ding of my Par­a­dise Fa­ther.”

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

119:2.3Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the re­cep­tion of this re­quest on Sal­ving­ton, Mi­chael ini­ti­ated the sec­ond of those ex­traor­di­nary procla­ma­tions of in­ten­tion to be ab­sent from the uni­verse head­quar­ters for the pur­pose of “do­ing the bid­ding of my Par­a­dise Fa­ther,” promis­ing to “re­turn in due sea­son” and con­cen­trat­ing all au­thor­ity in the hands of his Par­a­dise brother, Im­manuel, the Union of Days.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

119:3.2Upon the re­quest of Mi­chael, ac­tion on the pe­ti­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers of this planet was de­ferred pend­ing its con­sid­er­a­tion by Im­manuel and his re­port thereon. This was an ir­reg­u­lar pro­ce­dure, and I well re­mem­ber how we all an­tic­i­pated some­thing un­usual, and we were not long held in sus­pense. Mi­chael pro­ceeded to place uni­verse di­rec­tion in the hands of Im­manuel, while he in­trusted com­mand of the ce­les­tial forces to Ga­briel, and hav­ing thus dis­posed of his ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, he took leave of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and van­ished from the dis­patch­ing field of Sal­ving­ton pre­cisely as he had done on two pre­vi­ous oc­ca­sions.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

119:4.1It was at the end of one of the pe­ri­odic mil­len­nial roll calls of Uversa that Mi­chael pro­ceeded to place the gov­ern­ment of Neb­a­don in the hands of Im­manuel and Ga­briel; and, of course, re­call­ing what had hap­pened in times past fol­low­ing such ac­tion, we all pre­pared to wit­ness Mi­chael’s dis­ap­pear­ance on his fourth mis­sion of be­stowal, and we were not long kept wait­ing, for he shortly went out upon the Sal­ving­ton dis­patch­ing field and was lost to our view.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

119:5.1A lit­tle over three hun­dred mil­lion years ago, as time is reck­oned on Uran­tia, we wit­nessed an­other of those trans­fers of uni­verse au­thor­ity to Im­manuel and ob­served the prepa­ra­tions of Mi­chael for de­par­ture. This oc­ca­sion was dif­fer­ent from the pre­vi­ous ones in that he an­nounced that his des­ti­na­tion was Uversa, head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. In due time our Sov­er­eign de­parted, but the broad­casts of the super­uni­verse never made men­tion of Mi­chael’s ar­rival at the courts of the An­cients of Days. Shortly af­ter his de­par­ture from Sal­ving­ton there did ap­pear in the Uversa broad­casts this sig­nif­i­cant state­ment: “There ar­rived to­day an unan­nounced and un­num­bered as­cen­dant pil­grim of mor­tal ori­gin from the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton and ac­com­pa­nied by Ga­briel of Neb­a­don. This uniden­ti­fied be­ing pre­sents the sta­tus of a true spirit and has been re­ceived into our fel­low­ship.”

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during 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.

• Michael requested I. forever to remain in Nebadon

119:8.1Af­ter Mi­chael’s fi­nal and suc­cess­ful be­stowal on Uran­tia he was not only ac­cepted by the An­cients of Days as sov­er­eign ruler of Neb­a­don, but he was also rec­og­nized by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther as the es­tab­lished di­rec­tor of the lo­cal uni­verse of his own cre­ation. Upon his re­turn to Sal­ving­ton this Mi­chael, the Son of Man and the Son of God, was pro­claimed the set­tled ruler of Neb­a­don. From Uversa came the eighth procla­ma­tion of Mi­chael’s sov­er­eignty, while from Par­a­dise came the joint pro­nounce­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son con­sti­tut­ing this union of God and man sole head of the uni­verse and di­rect­ing the Union of Days sta­tioned on Sal­ving­ton to sig­nify his in­ten­tion of with­draw­ing to Par­a­dise. The Faith­fuls of Days on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters were also in­structed to re­tire from the coun­cils of the Most Highs. But Mi­chael would not con­sent to the with­drawal of the Trin­ity Sons of coun­sel and co-op­er­a­tion. He as­sem­bled them on Sal­ving­ton and per­son­ally re­quested them for­ever to re­main on duty in Neb­a­don. They sig­ni­fied their de­sire to com­ply with this re­quest to their di­rec­tors on Par­a­dise, and shortly there­after there were is­sued those man­dates of Par­a­dise di­vorce­ment which for­ever at­tached these Sons of the cen­tral uni­verse to the court of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don.

• would have left Nebadon had Michael asserted premature sovereignty

120:0.3In the course of each of these pre­ced­ing be­stowals Mi­chael not only ac­quired the fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence of one group of his cre­ated be­ings, but he also ac­quired an es­sen­tial ex­pe­ri­ence in Par­a­dise co-op­er­a­tion which would, in and of it­self, fur­ther con­tribute to con­sti­tut­ing him the sov­er­eign of his self-made uni­verse. At any mo­ment through­out all past lo­cal uni­verse time, Mi­chael could have as­serted per­sonal sov­er­eignty as a Cre­ator Son and as a Cre­ator Son could have ruled his uni­verse af­ter the man­ner of his own choos­ing. In such an event, Im­manuel and the as­so­ci­ated Par­a­dise Sons would have taken leave of the uni­verse. But Mi­chael did not wish to rule Neb­a­don merely in his own iso­lated right, as a Cre­ator Son. He de­sired to as­cend through ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in co-op­er­a­tive sub­or­di­na­tion to the Par­a­dise Trin­ity to that high place in uni­verse sta­tus where he would be­come qual­i­fied to rule his uni­verse and ad­min­is­ter its af­fairs with that per­fec­tion of in­sight and wis­dom of ex­e­cu­tion which will some­time be char­ac­ter­is­tic of the ex­alted rule of the Su­preme Be­ing. He as­pired not to per­fec­tion of rule as a Cre­ator Son but to su­prem­acy of ad­min­is­tra­tion as the em­bod­i­ment of the uni­verse wis­dom and the di­vine ex­pe­ri­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during 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.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

120:0.8There were im­me­di­ate ad­van­tages and tremen­dous com­pen­sa­tions re­sul­tant from the will­ing­ness of this mighty Cre­ator Son once more vol­un­tar­ily to sub­or­di­nate him­self to the will of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, this time to that of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. By this de­ci­sion to ef­fect such as­so­cia­tive sub­or­di­na­tion, Mi­chael would ex­pe­ri­ence in this in­car­na­tion, not only the na­ture of mor­tal man, but also the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all. And fur­ther, he could en­ter upon this unique be­stowal with the com­plete as­sur­ance, not only that Im­manuel would ex­er­cise the full au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of his uni­verse dur­ing his ab­sence on the Uran­tia be­stowal, but also with the com­fort­ing knowl­edge that the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse had de­creed the safety of his realm through­out the en­tire be­stowal pe­riod.

120:1.1“My Cre­ator brother, I am about to wit­ness your sev­enth and fi­nal uni­verse be­stowal. Most faith­fully and per­fectly have you ex­e­cuted the six pre­vi­ous com­mis­sions, and I en­ter­tain no thought but that you will be equally tri­umphant on this, your ter­mi­nal sov­er­eignty be­stowal. Here­to­fore you have ap­peared on your be­stowal spheres as a fully de­vel­oped be­ing of the or­der of your choos­ing. Now you are about to ap­pear upon Uran­tia, the dis­or­dered and dis­turbed planet of your choice, not as a fully de­vel­oped mor­tal, but as a help­less babe. This, my com­rade, will be a new and un­tried ex­pe­ri­ence for you. You are about to pay the full price of be­stowal and to ex­pe­ri­ence the com­plete en­light­en­ment of the in­car­na­tion of a Cre­ator in the like­ness of a crea­ture.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

120:1.2“Through­out each of your for­mer be­stowals you have vol­un­tar­ily cho­sen to sub­ject your­self to the will of the three Par­a­dise De­i­ties and their di­vine in­teras­so­ci­a­tions. Of the seven phases of the will of the Su­preme you have in your pre­vi­ous be­stowals been sub­ject to all but the per­sonal will of your Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Now that you have elected to be wholly sub­ject to your Fa­ther’s will through­out your sev­enth be­stowal, I, as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of our Fa­ther, as­sume the un­qual­i­fied ju­ris­dic­tion of your uni­verse for the time of your in­car­na­tion.

120:1.3“In en­ter­ing upon the Uran­tia be­stowal, you have vol­un­tar­ily di­vested your­self of all ex­tra­plan­e­tary sup­port and spe­cial as­sis­tance such as might be ren­dered by any crea­ture of your own cre­ation. As your cre­ated sons of Neb­a­don are wholly de­pen­dent upon you for safe con­duct through­out their uni­verse ca­reers, so now must you be­come wholly and un­re­servedly de­pen­dent upon your Par­a­dise Fa­ther for safe con­duct through­out the un­re­vealed vi­cis­si­tudes of your en­su­ing mor­tal ca­reer. And when you shall have fin­ished this be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence, you will know in very truth the full mean­ing and the rich sig­nif­i­cance of that faith-trust which you so un­vary­ingly re­quire all your crea­tures to mas­ter as a part of their in­ti­mate re­la­tion­ship with you as their lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator and Fa­ther.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

120:1.4“Through­out your Uran­tia be­stowal you need be con­cerned with but one thing, the un­bro­ken com­mu­nion be­tween you and your Par­a­dise Fa­ther; and it will be by the per­fec­tion of such a re­la­tion­ship that the world of your be­stowal, even all the uni­verse of your cre­ation, will be­hold a new and more un­der­stand­able rev­e­la­tion of your Fa­ther and my Fa­ther, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of all. Your con­cern, there­fore, has only to do with your per­sonal life on Uran­tia. I will be fully and ef­fi­ciently re­spon­si­ble for the se­cu­rity and un­bro­ken ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse from the mo­ment of your vol­un­tary re­lin­quish­ment of au­thor­ity un­til you re­turn to us as Uni­verse Sov­er­eign, con­firmed by Par­a­dise, and re­ceive back from my hands, not the vicegerent au­thor­ity which you now sur­ren­der to me, but, in­stead, the su­preme power over, and ju­ris­dic­tion of, your uni­verse.

120:1.5“And that you may know with as­sur­ance that I am em­pow­ered to do all that I am now promis­ing (know­ing full well that I am the as­sur­ance of all Par­a­dise for the faith­ful per­for­mance of my word), I an­nounce to you that there has just been com­mu­ni­cated to me a man­date of the An­cients of Days on Uversa which will pre­vent all spir­i­tual jeop­ardy in Neb­a­don through­out the pe­riod of your vol­un­tary be­stowal. From the mo­ment you sur­ren­der con­scious­ness, upon the be­gin­ning of the mor­tal in­car­na­tion, un­til you re­turn to us as su­preme and un­con­di­tional sov­er­eign of this uni­verse of your own cre­ation and or­ga­ni­za­tion, noth­ing of se­ri­ous im­port can hap­pen in all Neb­a­don. In this in­terim of your in­car­na­tion, I hold the or­ders of the An­cients of Days which un­qual­i­fiedly man­date the in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic ex­tinc­tion of any be­ing guilty of re­bel­lion or pre­sum­ing to in­sti­gate in­sur­rec­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don while you are ab­sent on this be­stowal. My brother, in view of the au­thor­ity of Par­a­dise in­her­ent in my pres­ence and aug­mented by the ju­di­cial man­date of Uversa, your uni­verse and all its loyal crea­tures will be se­cure dur­ing your be­stowal. You may pro­ceed upon your mis­sion with but a sin­gle thought—the en­hanced rev­e­la­tion of our Fa­ther to the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of your uni­verse.

120:1.6“As in each of your pre­vi­ous be­stowals, I would re­mind you that I am re­cip­i­ent of your uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion as brother-trus­tee. I ex­er­cise all au­thor­ity and wield all power in your name. I func­tion as would our Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in ac­cor­dance with your ex­plicit re­quest that I thus act in your stead. And such be­ing the fact, all this del­e­gated au­thor­ity is yours again to ex­er­cise at any mo­ment you may see fit to req­ui­si­tion its re­turn. Your be­stowal is, through­out, wholly vol­un­tary. As a mor­tal in­car­nate in the realm you are with­out ce­les­tial en­dow­ments, but all your re­lin­quished power may be had at any time you may choose to rein­vest your­self with uni­verse au­thor­ity. If you should choose to re­in­state your­self in power and au­thor­ity, re­mem­ber, it will be wholly for per­sonal rea­sons since I am the liv­ing and su­preme pledge whose pres­ence and prom­ise guar­an­tee the safe ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with your Fa­ther’s will. Re­bel­lion, such as has three times oc­curred in Neb­a­don, can­not oc­cur dur­ing your ab­sence from Sal­ving­ton on this be­stowal. For the pe­riod of the Uran­tia be­stowal the An­cients of Days have de­creed that re­bel­lion in Neb­a­don shall be in­vested with the au­to­matic seed of its own an­ni­hi­la­tion.

120:1.7“As long as you are ab­sent on this fi­nal and ex­traor­di­nary be­stowal, I pledge (with Ga­briel’s co-op­er­a­tion) the faith­ful ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse; and as I com­mis­sion you to un­der­take this min­istry of di­vine rev­e­la­tion and to un­dergo this ex­pe­ri­ence of per­fected hu­man un­der­stand­ing, I act in be­half of my Fa­ther and your Fa­ther and of­fer you the fol­low­ing coun­sel, which should guide you in the liv­ing of your earth life as you be­come pro­gres­sively self-con­scious re­gard­ing the di­vine mis­sion of your con­tin­ued so­journ in the flesh:

120:2.1“1. In ac­cor­dance with the us­ages and in con­for­mity with the tech­nique of Son­ar­ing­ton—in com­pli­ance with the man­dates of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise—I have pro­vided in ev­ery way for your im­me­di­ate en­trance upon this mor­tal be­stowal in har­mony with the plans for­mu­lated by you and placed in my keep­ing by Ga­briel. You will grow up on Uran­tia as a child of the realm, com­plete your hu­man ed­u­ca­tion—all the while sub­ject to the will of your Par­a­dise Fa­ther—live your life on Uran­tia as you have de­ter­mined, ter­mi­nate your plan­e­tary so­journ, and pre­pare for as­cen­sion to your Fa­ther to re­ceive from him the su­preme sov­er­eignty of your uni­verse.

120:2.2“2. Apart from your earth mis­sion and your uni­verse rev­e­la­tion, but in­ci­den­tal to both, I coun­sel that you as­sume, af­ter you are suf­fi­ciently self-con­scious of your di­vine iden­tity, the ad­di­tional task of tech­ni­cally ter­mi­nat­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, and that you do all this as the Son of Man; thus, as a mor­tal crea­ture of the realm, in weak­ness made pow­er­ful by faith-sub­mis­sion to the will of your Fa­ther, I sug­gest that you gra­ciously achieve all you have re­peat­edly de­clined ar­bi­trar­ily to ac­com­plish by power and might when you were so en­dowed at the time of the in­cep­tion of this sin­ful and un­jus­ti­fied re­bel­lion. I would re­gard it as a fit­ting cli­max of your mor­tal be­stowal if you should re­turn to us as the Son of Man, Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, as well as the Son of God, su­preme sov­er­eign of your uni­verse. As a mor­tal man, the low­est type of in­tel­li­gent crea­ture in Neb­a­don, meet and ad­ju­di­cate the blas­phe­mous pre­ten­sions of Cali­gas­tia and Lu­cifer and, in your as­sumed hum­ble es­tate, for­ever end the shame­ful mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions of these fallen chil­dren of light. Hav­ing stead­fastly de­clined to dis­credit these rebels through the ex­er­cise of your cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives, now it would be fit­ting that you should, in the like­ness of the low­est crea­tures of your cre­ation, wrest do­min­ion from the hands of these fallen Sons; and so would your whole lo­cal uni­verse in all fair­ness clearly and for­ever rec­og­nize the jus­tice of your do­ing in the role of mor­tal flesh those things which mercy ad­mon­ished you not to do by the power of ar­bi­trary au­thor­ity. And hav­ing thus by your be­stowal es­tab­lished the pos­si­bil­ity of the sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme in Neb­a­don, you will in ef­fect have brought to a close the un­ad­ju­di­cated af­fairs of all pre­ced­ing in­sur­rec­tions, not­with­stand­ing the greater or lesser time lag in­volved in the re­al­iza­tion of this achieve­ment. By this act the pend­ing dis­sen­sions of your uni­verse will be in sub­stance liq­ui­dated. And with the sub­se­quent en­dow­ment of su­preme sov­er­eignty over your uni­verse, sim­i­lar chal­lenges to your au­thor­ity can never re­cur in any part of your great per­sonal cre­ation.

120:2.3“3. When you have suc­ceeded in ter­mi­nat­ing the Uran­tia se­ces­sion, as you un­doubt­edly will, I coun­sel you to ac­cept from Ga­briel the con­fer­ence of the ti­tle of ‘Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia’ as the eter­nal rec­og­ni­tion by your uni­verse of your fi­nal be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence; and that you fur­ther do any and all things, con­sis­tent with the pur­port of your be­stowal, to atone for the sor­row and con­fu­sion brought upon Uran­tia by the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal and the sub­se­quent Adamic de­fault.

120:2.4“4. In ac­cor­dance with your re­quest, Ga­briel and all con­cerned will co-op­er­ate with you in the ex­pressed de­sire to end your Uran­tia be­stowal with the pro­nounce­ment of a dis­pen­sa­tional judg­ment of the realm, ac­com­pa­nied by the ter­mi­na­tion of an age, the res­ur­rec­tion of the sleep­ing mor­tal sur­vivors, and the es­tab­lish­ment of the dis­pen­sa­tion of the be­stowed Spirit of Truth.

120:2.5“5. As con­cerns the planet of your be­stowal and the im­me­di­ate gen­er­a­tion of men liv­ing thereon at the time of your mor­tal so­journ, I coun­sel you to func­tion largely in the role of a teacher. Give at­ten­tion, first, to the lib­er­a­tion and in­spi­ra­tion of man’s spir­i­tual na­ture. Next, il­lu­mi­nate the dark­ened hu­man in­tel­lect, heal the souls of men, and eman­ci­pate their minds from age-old fears. And then, in ac­cor­dance with your mor­tal wis­dom, min­is­ter to the phys­i­cal well-be­ing and ma­te­rial com­fort of your broth­ers in the flesh. Live the ideal re­li­gious life for the in­spi­ra­tion and ed­i­fi­ca­tion of all your uni­verse.

120:2.6“6. On the planet of your be­stowal, set re­bel­lion-seg­re­gated man spir­i­tu­ally free. On Uran­tia, make a fur­ther con­tri­bu­tion to the sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme, thus ex­tend­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of this sov­er­eignty through­out the broad do­mains of your per­sonal cre­ation. In this, your ma­te­rial be­stowal in the like­ness of the flesh, you are about to ex­pe­ri­ence the fi­nal en­light­en­ment of a time-space Cre­ator, the dual ex­pe­ri­ence of work­ing within the na­ture of man with the will of your Par­a­dise Fa­ther. In your tem­po­ral life the will of the fi­nite crea­ture and the will of the in­fi­nite Cre­ator are to be­come as one, even as they are also unit­ing in the evolv­ing De­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. Pour out upon the planet of your be­stowal the Spirit of Truth and thus make all nor­mal mor­tals on that iso­lated sphere im­me­di­ately and fully ac­ces­si­ble to the min­istry of the seg­re­gated pres­ence of our Par­a­dise Fa­ther, the Thought Ad­justers of the realms.

120:2.7“7. In all that you may per­form on the world of your be­stowal, bear con­stantly in mind that you are liv­ing a life for the in­struc­tion and ed­i­fi­ca­tion of all your uni­verse. You are be­stow­ing this life of mor­tal in­car­na­tion upon Uran­tia, but you are to live such a life for the spir­i­tual in­spi­ra­tion of ev­ery hu­man and super­hu­man in­tel­li­gence that has lived, now ex­ists, or may yet live on ev­ery in­hab­ited world which has formed, now forms, or may yet form a part of the vast galaxy of your ad­min­is­tra­tive do­main. Your earth life in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh shall not be so lived as to con­sti­tute an ex­am­ple for the mor­tals of Uran­tia in the days of your earthly so­journ nor for any sub­se­quent gen­er­a­tion of hu­man be­ings on Uran­tia or on any other world. Rather shall your life in the flesh on Uran­tia be the in­spi­ra­tion for all lives upon all Neb­a­don worlds through­out all gen­er­a­tions in the ages to come.

120:2.8“8. Your great mis­sion to be re­al­ized and ex­pe­ri­enced in the mor­tal in­car­na­tion is em­braced in your de­ci­sion to live a life whole­heart­edly mo­ti­vated to do the will of your Par­a­dise Fa­ther, thus to re­veal God, your Fa­ther, in the flesh and es­pe­cially to the crea­tures of the flesh. At the same time you will also in­ter­pret, with a new en­hance­ment, our Fa­ther, to the super­mor­tal be­ings of all Neb­a­don. Equally with this min­istry of new rev­e­la­tion and aug­mented in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther to the hu­man and the super­hu­man type of mind, you will also so func­tion as to make a new rev­e­la­tion of man to God. Ex­hibit in your one short life in the flesh, as it has never be­fore been seen in all Neb­a­don, the tran­scen­dent pos­si­bil­i­ties at­tain­able by a God-know­ing hu­man dur­ing the short ca­reer of mor­tal ex­is­tence, and make a new and il­lu­mi­nat­ing in­ter­pre­ta­tion of man and the vi­cis­si­tudes of his plan­e­tary life to all the super­hu­man in­tel­li­gences of all Neb­a­don, and for all time. You are to go down to Uran­tia in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and liv­ing as a man in your day and gen­er­a­tion, you will so func­tion as to show your en­tire uni­verse the ideal of per­fected tech­nique in the su­preme en­gage­ment of the af­fairs of your vast cre­ation: The achieve­ment of God seek­ing man and find­ing him and the phe­nom­e­non of man seek­ing God and find­ing him; and do­ing all of this to mu­tual sat­is­fac­tion and do­ing it dur­ing one short life­time in the flesh.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › vouched for Michael’s personality integrity prior to arrival of Adjuster

120:2.9“9. I cau­tion you ever to bear in mind that, while in fact you are to be­come an or­di­nary hu­man of the realm, in po­ten­tial you will re­main a Cre­ator Son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Through­out this in­car­na­tion, al­though you will live and act as a Son of Man, the cre­ative at­tri­butes of your per­sonal di­vin­ity will fol­low you from Sal­ving­ton to Uran­tia. It will ever be within your power-of-will to ter­mi­nate the in­car­na­tion at any mo­ment sub­se­quent to the ar­rival of your Thought Ad­juster. Prior to the ar­rival and re­cep­tion of the Ad­juster I will vouch for your per­son­al­ity in­tegrity. But sub­se­quent to the ar­rival of your Ad­juster and con­comi­tant with your pro­gres­sive rec­og­ni­tion of the na­ture and im­port of your be­stowal mis­sion, you should re­frain from the for­mu­la­tion of any super­hu­man will-to-at­tain­ment, achieve­ment, or power in view of the fact that your cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives will re­main as­so­ci­ated with your mor­tal per­son­al­ity be­cause of the in­sep­a­ra­bil­ity of these at­tri­butes from your per­sonal pres­ence. But no super­hu­man reper­cus­sions will at­tend your earthly ca­reer apart from the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther un­less you should, by an act of con­scious and de­lib­er­ate will, make an un­di­vided de­ci­sion which would ter­mi­nate in whole-per­son­al­ity choice.

120:3.1“And now, my brother, in tak­ing leave of you as you pre­pare to de­part for Uran­tia and af­ter coun­sel­ing you re­gard­ing the gen­eral con­duct of your be­stowal, al­low me to pre­sent cer­tain ad­vices that have been ar­rived at in con­sul­ta­tion with Ga­briel, and which con­cern mi­nor phases of your mor­tal life. We fur­ther sug­gest:

120:3.2“1. That, in the pur­suit of the ideal of your mor­tal earth life, you also give some at­ten­tion to the re­al­iza­tion and ex­em­pli­fi­ca­tion of some things prac­ti­cal and im­me­di­ately help­ful to your fel­low men.

120:3.3“2. As con­cerns fam­ily re­la­tion­ships, give prece­dence to the ac­cepted cus­toms of fam­ily life as you find them es­tab­lished in the day and gen­er­a­tion of your be­stowal. Live your fam­ily and com­mu­nity life in ac­cor­dance with the prac­tices of the peo­ple among whom you have elected to ap­pear.

120:3.4“3. In your re­la­tions to the so­cial or­der we ad­vise that you con­fine your ef­forts largely to spir­i­tual re­gen­er­a­tion and in­tel­lec­tual eman­ci­pa­tion. Avoid all en­tan­gle­ments with the eco­nomic struc­ture and the po­lit­i­cal com­mit­ments of your day. More es­pe­cially de­vote your­self to liv­ing the ideal re­li­gious life on Uran­tia.

120:3.5“4. Un­der no cir­cum­stances and not even in the least de­tail, should you in­ter­fere with the nor­mal and or­derly pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion of the Uran­tia races. But this pro­hi­bi­tion must not be in­ter­preted as lim­it­ing your ef­forts to leave be­hind you on Uran­tia an en­dur­ing and im­proved sys­tem of pos­i­tive re­li­gious ethics. As a dis­pen­sa­tional Son you are granted cer­tain priv­i­leges per­tain­ing to the ad­vance­ment of the spir­i­tual and re­li­gious sta­tus of the world peo­ples.

120:3.6“5. As you may see fit, you are to iden­tify your­self with ex­ist­ing re­li­gious and spir­i­tual move­ments as they may be found on Uran­tia but in ev­ery pos­si­ble man­ner seek to avoid the for­mal es­tab­lish­ment of an or­ga­nized cult, a crys­tal­lized re­li­gion, or a seg­re­gated eth­i­cal group­ing of mor­tal be­ings. Your life and teach­ings are to be­come the com­mon her­itage of all re­li­gions and all peo­ples.

120:3.7“6. To the end that you may not un­nec­es­sar­ily con­tribute to the cre­ation of sub­se­quent stereo­typed sys­tems of Uran­tia re­li­gious be­liefs or other types of non­pro­gres­sive re­li­gious loy­al­ties, we ad­vise you still fur­ther: Leave no writ­ings be­hind you on the planet. Re­frain from all writ­ing upon per­ma­nent ma­te­ri­als; en­join your as­so­ciates to make no im­ages or other like­nesses of your­self in the flesh. See that noth­ing po­ten­tially idol­a­trous is left on the planet at the time of your de­par­ture.

120:3.8“7. While you will live the nor­mal and av­er­age so­cial life of the planet, be­ing a nor­mal in­di­vid­ual of the male sex, you will prob­a­bly not en­ter the mar­riage re­la­tion, which re­la­tion would be wholly hon­or­able and con­sis­tent with your be­stowal; but I must re­mind you that one of the in­car­na­tion man­dates of Sonar­ing­ton for­bids the leav­ing of hu­man off­spring be­hind on any planet by a be­stowal Son of Par­a­dise ori­gin.

120:3.9“8. In all other de­tails of your on­com­ing be­stowal we would com­mit you to the lead­ing of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, the teach­ing of the ever-pres­ent di­vine spirit of hu­man guid­ance, and the rea­son-judg­ment of your ex­pand­ing hu­man mind of hered­i­tary en­dow­ment. Such an as­so­ci­a­tion of crea­ture and Cre­ator at­tri­butes will en­able you to live for us the per­fect life of man on the plan­e­tary spheres, not nec­es­sar­ily per­fect as re­garded by any one man in any one gen­er­a­tion on any one world (much less on Uran­tia) but wholly and su­premely re­plete as eval­u­ated on the more highly per­fected and per­fect­ing worlds of your far-flung uni­verse.

120:3.10“And now, may your Fa­ther and my Fa­ther, who has ever sus­tained us in all past per­for­mances, guide and sus­tain you and be with you from the mo­ment you leave us and achieve the sur­ren­der of your con­scious­ness of per­son­al­ity, through­out your grad­ual re­turn to rec­og­ni­tion of your di­vine iden­tity in­car­nate in hu­man form, and then on through the whole of your be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence on Uran­tia un­til your de­liv­er­ance from the flesh and your as­cen­sion to our Fa­ther’s right hand of sov­er­eignty. When I shall again see you on Sal­ving­ton, we shall wel­come your re­turn to us as the su­preme and un­con­di­tional sov­er­eign of this uni­verse of your own mak­ing, serv­ing, and com­pleted un­der­stand­ing.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › assumed authority during Michael’s bestowals

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.”

120:3.12Then, im­me­di­ately, in the pres­ence of all Sal­ving­ton as­sem­bled, Mi­chael re­moved him­self from our midst, and we saw him no more in his ac­cus­tomed place un­til his re­turn as the su­preme and per­sonal ruler of the uni­verse, sub­se­quent to the com­ple­tion of his be­stowal ca­reer on Uran­tia.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › vouched for Michael’s personality integrity prior to arrival of Adjuster

123:2.2On this day in Febru­ary the di­rect and per­sonal super­vi­sion of the Uni­verse Rulers, as it was re­lated to the in­tegrity of the child­like in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael, ter­mi­nated. From that time on through­out the hu­man un­fold­ing of the in­car­na­tion, the guardian­ship of Je­sus was des­tined to rest in the keep­ing of this in­dwelling Ad­juster and the as­so­ci­ated se­raphic guard­i­ans, sup­ple­mented from time to time by the min­istry of mid­way crea­tures as­signed for the per­for­mance of cer­tain def­i­nite du­ties in ac­cor­dance with the in­struc­tion of their plan­e­tary su­pe­ri­ors.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › messages to Jesus

124:6.15On the day be­fore the Pass­over Sab­bath, flood tides of spir­i­tual il­lu­mi­na­tion swept through the mor­tal mind of Je­sus and filled his hu­man heart to over­flow­ing with af­fec­tion­ate pity for the spir­i­tu­ally blind and morally ig­no­rant mul­ti­tudes as­sem­bled for the cel­e­bra­tion of the an­cient Pass­over com­mem­o­ra­tion. This was one of the most ex­traor­di­nary days that the Son of God spent in the flesh; and dur­ing the night, for the first time in his earth ca­reer, there ap­peared to him an as­signed mes­sen­ger from Sal­ving­ton, com­mis­sioned by Im­manuel, who said: “The hour has come. It is time that you be­gan to be about your Fa­ther’s busi­ness.”

• Michael’s elder brother

128:1.11He never ob­jected to any of these ti­tles as they were ap­plied to him sub­se­quent to the emer­gence from his purely hu­man life into the later years of his self-con­scious­ness of the min­istry of di­vin­ity in hu­man­ity, and for hu­man­ity, and to hu­man­ity on this world and for all other worlds. Je­sus ob­jected to but one ti­tle as ap­plied to him: When he was once called Im­manuel, he merely replied, “Not I, that is my el­der brother.”

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › after baptism, Jesus recalled instructions of

129:3.9On this Med­i­ter­ra­nean jour­ney Je­sus made great ad­vances in his hu­man task of mas­ter­ing the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind, and his in­dwelling Ad­juster made great prog­ress in the as­cen­sion and spir­i­tual con­quest of this same hu­man in­tel­lect. By the end of this tour Je­sus vir­tu­ally knew—with all hu­man cer­tainty—that he was a Son of God, a Cre­ator Son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Ad­juster more and more was able to bring up in the mind of the Son of Man shad­owy mem­o­ries of his Par­a­dise ex­pe­ri­ence in as­so­ci­a­tion with his di­vine Fa­ther ere he ever came to or­ga­nize and ad­min­is­ter this lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Thus did the Ad­juster, lit­tle by lit­tle, bring to Je­sus’ hu­man con­scious­ness those nec­es­sary mem­o­ries of his for­mer and di­vine ex­is­tence in the var­i­ous epochs of the well-nigh eter­nal past. The last episode of his pre­hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence to be brought forth by the Ad­juster was his farewell con­fer­ence with Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton just be­fore his sur­ren­der of con­scious per­son­al­ity to em­bark upon the Uran­tia in­car­na­tion. And this fi­nal mem­ory pic­ture of pre­hu­man ex­is­tence was made clear in Je­sus’ con­scious­ness on the very day of his bap­tism by John in the Jor­dan.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › after baptism, Jesus recalled instructions of

136:3.3Je­sus did not go into re­tire­ment for the pur­pose of fast­ing and for the af­flic­tion of his soul. He was not an as­cetic, and he came for­ever to de­stroy all such no­tions re­gard­ing the ap­proach to God. His rea­sons for seek­ing this re­tire­ment were en­tirely dif­fer­ent from those which had ac­tu­ated Moses and Eli­jah, and even John the Bap­tist. Je­sus was then wholly self-con­scious con­cern­ing his re­la­tion to the uni­verse of his mak­ing and also to the uni­verse of uni­verses, super­vised by the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, his Fa­ther in heaven. He now fully re­called the be­stowal charge and its in­struc­tions ad­min­is­tered by his el­der brother, Im­manuel, ere he en­tered upon his Uran­tia in­car­na­tion. He now clearly and fully com­pre­hended all these far-flung re­la­tion­ships, and he de­sired to be away for a sea­son of quiet med­i­ta­tion so that he could think out the plans and de­cide upon the pro­ce­dures for the pros­e­cu­tion of his pub­lic labors in be­half of this world and for all other worlds in his lo­cal uni­verse.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › Jesus’ bestowal release
• regarding Michael’s bestowal › messages to Jesus

136:3.5While he tar­ried on the moun­tain, talk­ing with Ga­briel, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Eden­tia ap­peared to Je­sus and Ga­briel in per­son, say­ing: “The rec­ords are com­pleted. The sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael num­ber 611,121 over his uni­verse of Neb­a­don rests in com­ple­tion at the right hand of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I bring to you the be­stowal re­lease of Im­manuel, your spon­sor-brother for the Uran­tia in­car­na­tion. You are at lib­erty now or at any sub­se­quent time, in the man­ner of your own choos­ing, to ter­mi­nate your in­car­na­tion be­stowal, as­cend to the right hand of your Fa­ther, re­ceive your sov­er­eignty, and as­sume your well-earned un­con­di­tional ruler­ship of all Neb­a­don. I also tes­tify to the com­ple­tion of the rec­ords of the super­uni­verse, by au­tho­riza­tion of the An­cients of Days, hav­ing to do with the ter­mi­na­tion of all sin-re­bel­lion in your uni­verse and en­dow­ing you with full and un­lim­ited au­thor­ity to deal with any and all such pos­si­ble up­heavals in the fu­ture. Tech­ni­cally, your work on Uran­tia and in the flesh of the mor­tal crea­ture is fin­ished. Your course from now on is a mat­ter of your own choos­ing.”

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › after baptism, Jesus recalled instructions of

136:4.2The first thing Je­sus did, af­ter think­ing through the gen­eral plan of co-or­di­nat­ing his pro­gram with John’s move­ment, was to re­view in his mind the in­struc­tions of Im­manuel. Care­fully he thought over the ad­vice given him con­cern­ing his meth­ods of la­bor, and that he was to leave no per­ma­nent writ­ing on the planet. Never again did Je­sus write on any­thing ex­cept sand. On his next visit to Naz­a­reth, much to the sor­row of his brother Joseph, Je­sus de­stroyed all of his writ­ing that was pre­served on the boards about the car­pen­ter shop, and which hung upon the walls of the old home. And Je­sus pon­dered well over Im­manuel’s ad­vice per­tain­ing to his eco­nomic, so­cial, and po­lit­i­cal at­ti­tude to­ward the world as he should find it.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › suggested Jesus continue bestowal to end

136:4.9It was thus made clear to Je­sus that there were two ways in which he could or­der the re­main­der of his earth life. Each of these ways had some­thing to be said in its fa­vor as it might be re­garded in the light of the im­me­di­ate sit­u­a­tion. The Son of Man clearly saw that his choice be­tween these two modes of con­duct would have noth­ing to do with his re­cep­tion of uni­verse sov­er­eignty; that was a mat­ter al­ready set­tled and sealed on the rec­ords of the uni­verse of uni­verses and only awaited his de­mand in per­son. But it was in­di­cated to Je­sus that it would af­ford his Par­a­dise brother, Im­manuel, great sat­is­fac­tion if he, Je­sus, should see fit to fin­ish up his earth ca­reer of in­car­na­tion as he had so nobly be­gun it, al­ways sub­ject to the Fa­ther’s will. On the third day of this iso­la­tion Je­sus prom­ised him­self he would go back to the world to fin­ish his earth ca­reer, and that in a sit­u­a­tion in­volv­ing any two ways he would al­ways choose the Fa­ther’s will. And he lived out the re­main­der of his earth life al­ways true to that re­solve. Even to the bit­ter end he in­vari­ably sub­or­di­nated his sov­er­eign will to that of his heav­enly Fa­ther.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › bestowal commission to Michael

141:7.11It was on this oc­ca­sion that Je­sus in­ti­mated to Pe­ter, James, and John that his work on earth was in some re­spects to be lim­ited by the com­mis­sion of his “as­so­ciate on high,” re­fer­ring to the pre­be­stowal in­struc­tions of his Par­a­dise brother, Im­manuel. He told them that he had come to do his Fa­ther’s will and only his Fa­ther’s will. Be­ing thus mo­ti­vated by a whole­hearted sin­gle­ness of pur­pose, he was not anx­iously both­ered by the evil in the world.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › messages to Jesus

188:3.13We know that at least one mes­sage passed be­tween Mi­chael and Im­manuel on Sal­ving­ton while the Mas­ter’s body lay in the tomb.

• regarding Michael’s bestowal › messages to Jesus

196:1.82. The mes­sen­ger of Im­manuel who ap­peared to him at Je­ru­sa­lem when he was about twelve years old.