Master Michaels

21:5.6With the achieve­ment of su­preme lo­cal uni­verse sov­er­eignty, there passes from a Mi­chael Son the power and op­por­tu­nity to cre­ate en­tirely new types of crea­ture be­ings dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age. But a Mas­ter Son’s loss of power to orig­i­nate en­tirely new or­ders of be­ings in no way in­ter­feres with the work of life elab­o­ra­tion al­ready es­tab­lished and in pro­cess of un­fold­ment; this vast pro­gram of uni­verse evo­lu­tion goes on with­out in­ter­rup­tion or cur­tail­ment. The ac­quire­ment of su­preme sov­er­eignty by a Mas­ter Son im­plies the re­spon­si­bil­ity of per­sonal de­vo­tion to the fos­ter­ing and the ad­min­is­ter­ing of that which has al­ready been de­signed and cre­ated, and of that which will sub­se­quently be pro­duced by those who have been thus de­signed and cre­ated. In time there may de­velop an al­most end­less evo­lu­tion of di­verse be­ings, but no en­tirely new pat­tern or type of in­tel­li­gent crea­ture will hence­forth take di­rect ori­gin from a Mas­ter Son. This is the first step, the be­gin­ning, of a set­tled ad­min­is­tra­tion in any lo­cal uni­verse.

21:6.2The com­ple­tion of the crea­ture-be­stowal ca­reers and the el­e­va­tion to su­preme uni­verse sov­er­eignty must sig­nify the com­pleted lib­er­a­tion of a Mi­chael’s fi­nite-ac­tion ca­pac­i­ties ac­com­pa­nied by the ap­pear­ance of ca­pac­ity for more-than-fi­nite ser­vice. For in this con­nec­tion we note that such Mas­ter Sons are then re­stricted in the pro­duc­tion of new types of crea­ture be­ings, a re­stric­tion un­doubt­edly made nec­es­sary by the lib­er­a­tion of their super­fi­nite po­ten­tial­i­ties.

20:1.15In a sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son, Cre­ator and crea­ture are for­ever blended in un­der­stand­ing, sym­pa­thetic, and mer­ci­ful as­so­ci­a­tion. The en­tire or­der of Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Sons, is so unique that the con­sid­er­a­tion of their na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties will be re­served to the next pa­per in this se­ries, while this nar­ra­tive will be chiefly con­cerned with the two re­main­ing or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship: the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

21:6.3It is highly prob­a­ble that these undis­closed cre­ator pow­ers will re­main self-con­tained through­out the pres­ent uni­verse age. But some­time in the far-dis­tant fu­ture, in the now mo­bi­liz­ing uni­verses of outer space, we be­lieve that the li­ai­son be­tween a sev­en­fold Mas­ter Son and a sev­enth-stage Cre­ative Spirit may at­tain to ab­so­nite lev­els of ser­vice at­tended by the ap­pear­ance of new things, mean­ings, and val­ues on tran­scen­den­tal lev­els of ul­ti­mate uni­verse sig­nif­i­cance.

21:3.15Be­fore the com­ple­tion of the be­stowal ca­reer a Cre­ator Son rules with cer­tain self-im­posed lim­i­ta­tions of sov­er­eignty, but sub­se­quent to his fin­ished be­stowal ser­vice he rules by virtue of his ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the form and like­ness of his man­i­fold crea­tures. When a Cre­ator has seven times so­journed among his crea­tures, when the be­stowal ca­reer is fin­ished, then is he su­premely set­tled in uni­verse au­thor­ity; he has be­come a Mas­ter Son, a sov­er­eign and su­preme ruler.

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

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

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

33:3.5Upon the com­ple­tion of the Cre­ator Son’s sev­enth and fi­nal crea­ture be­stowal, the un­cer­tain­ties of pe­ri­odic iso­la­tion ter­mi­nate for the Di­vine Min­is­ter, and the Son’s uni­verse helper be­comes for­ever set­tled in surety and con­trol. It is at the en­throne­ment of the Cre­ator Son as a Mas­ter Son, at the ju­bilee of ju­bilees, that the Uni­verse Spirit, be­fore the as­sem­bled hosts, first makes pub­lic and uni­ver­sal ac­knowl­edg­ment of sub­or­di­na­tion to the Son, pledg­ing fi­delity and obe­di­ence. This event oc­curred in Neb­a­don at the time of Mi­chael’s re­turn to Sal­ving­ton af­ter the Uran­tian be­stowal. Never be­fore this mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion did the Uni­verse Spirit ac­knowl­edge sub­or­di­na­tion to the Uni­verse Son, and not un­til af­ter this vol­un­tary re­lin­quish­ment of power and au­thor­ity by the Spirit could it be truth­fully pro­claimed of the Son that “all power in heaven and on earth has been com­mit­ted to his hand.”

10:1.2The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther all along has di­vested him­self of ev­ery part of him­self that was be­stow­able on any other Cre­ator or crea­ture. He has del­e­gated to his di­vine Sons and their as­so­ci­ated in­tel­li­gences ev­ery power and all au­thor­ity that could be del­e­gated. He has ac­tu­ally trans­ferred to his Sov­er­eign Sons, in their re­spec­tive uni­verses, ev­ery pre­rog­a­tive of ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity that was trans­fer­able. In the af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse, he has made each Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son just as per­fect, com­pe­tent, and au­thor­i­ta­tive as is the Eter­nal Son in the orig­i­nal and cen­tral uni­verse. He has given away, ac­tu­ally be­stowed, with the dig­nity and sanc­tity of per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion, all of him­self and all of his at­tri­butes, ev­ery­thing he pos­si­bly could di­vest him­self of, in ev­ery way, in ev­ery age, in ev­ery place, and to ev­ery per­son, and in ev­ery uni­verse ex­cept that of his cen­tral in­dwelling.

21:5.9Af­ter his el­e­va­tion to set­tled sov­er­eignty in a lo­cal uni­verse a Par­a­dise Mi­chael is in full con­trol of all other Sons of God func­tion­ing in his do­main, and he may freely rule in ac­cor­dance with his con­cept of the needs of his realms. A Mas­ter Son may at will vary the or­der of the spir­i­tual ad­ju­di­ca­tion and evo­lu­tion­ary ad­just­ment of the in­hab­ited plan­ets. And such Sons do make and carry out the plans of their own choos­ing in all mat­ters of spe­cial plan­e­tary needs, in par­tic­u­lar re­gard­ing the worlds of their crea­ture so­journ and still more con­cern­ing the realm of ter­mi­nal be­stowal, the planet of in­car­na­tion in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh.

21:5.10The Mas­ter Sons seem to be in per­fect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with their be­stowal worlds, not only the worlds of their per­sonal so­journ but all worlds whereon a Mag­is­te­rial Son has be­stowed him­self. This con­tact is main­tained by their own spir­i­tual pres­ence, the Spirit of Truth, which they are able to “pour out upon all flesh.” These Mas­ter Sons also main­tain an un­bro­ken con­nec­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son at the cen­ter of all things. They pos­sess a sym­pa­thetic reach which ex­tends from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on high to the lowly races of plan­e­tary life in the realms of time.

20:4.5Uran­tia may yet be vis­ited by an Avo­nal com­mis­sioned to in­car­nate on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion, but re­gard­ing the fu­ture ap­pear­ance of Par­a­dise Sons, not even “the an­gels in heaven know the time or man­ner of such vis­i­ta­tions,” for a Mi­chael-be­stowal world be­comes the in­di­vid­ual and per­sonal ward of a Mas­ter Son and, as such, is wholly sub­ject to his own plans and rul­ings. And with your world, this is fur­ther com­pli­cated by Mi­chael’s prom­ise to re­turn. Re­gard­less of the mis­un­der­stand­ings about the Uran­tian so­journ of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, one thing is cer­tainly au­then­tic—his prom­ise to come back to your world. In view of this prospect, only time can re­veal the fu­ture or­der of the vis­i­ta­tions of the Par­a­dise Sons of God on Uran­tia.

119:8.6In the ex­pe­ri­ence of de­scend­ing from God to man, Mi­chael was con­comi­tantly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the as­cent from par­tial­ity of man­i­festa­bil­ity to su­prem­acy of fi­nite ac­tion and fi­nal­ity of the lib­er­a­tion of his po­ten­tial for ab­so­nite func­tion. Mi­chael, a Cre­ator Son, is a time-space cre­ator, but Mi­chael, a sev­en­fold Mas­ter Son, is a mem­ber of one of the di­vine corps con­sti­tut­ing the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate.

21:5.1The power of a Mas­ter Mi­chael is un­lim­ited be­cause de­rived from ex­pe­ri­enced as­so­ci­a­tion with the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, is un­ques­tioned be­cause de­rived from ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence as the very crea­tures sub­ject to such au­thor­ity. The na­ture of the sov­er­eignty of a sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son is su­preme be­cause it:

21:5.21. Em­braces the sev­en­fold view­point of Par­a­dise De­ity.

21:5.32. Em­bod­ies a sev­en­fold at­ti­tude of time-space crea­tures.

21:5.43. Per­fectly syn­the­sizes Par­a­dise at­ti­tude and crea­ture view­point.

21:5.5This ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty is thus all-in­clu­sive of the di­vin­ity of God the Sev­en­fold cul­mi­nat­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing. And the per­sonal sov­er­eignty of a sev­en­fold Son is like the fu­ture sov­er­eignty of the some­time-to-be-com­pleted Su­preme Be­ing, em­brac­ing as it does the fullest pos­si­ble con­tent of the power and au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity man­i­festable within the time-space lim­its con­cerned.

15:12.2The courts of the An­cients of Days are the high re­view tri­bu­nals for the spir­i­tual ad­ju­di­ca­tion of all com­po­nent uni­verses. The Sov­er­eign Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses are su­preme in their own do­mains; they are sub­ject to the super­gov­ern­ment only in so far as they vol­un­tar­ily sub­mit mat­ters for coun­sel or ad­ju­di­ca­tion by the An­cients of Days ex­cept in mat­ters in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures. Man­dates of judg­ment orig­i­nate in the lo­cal uni­verses, but sen­tences in­volv­ing the ex­tinc­tion of will crea­tures are al­ways for­mu­lated on, and ex­e­cuted from, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse. The Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses can de­cree the sur­vival of mor­tal man, but only the An­cients of Days may sit in ex­ec­u­tive judg­ment on the is­sues of eter­nal life and death.

21:5.7The el­e­va­tion of a sev­en­fold be­stowal Son to the un­ques­tioned sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse means the be­gin­ning of the end of age­long un­cer­tainty and rel­a­tive con­fu­sion. Sub­se­quent to this event, that which can­not be some­time spir­i­tu­al­ized will even­tu­ally be dis­or­ga­nized; that which can­not be some­time co-or­di­nated with cos­mic re­al­ity will even­tu­ally be de­stroyed. When the pro­vi­sions of end­less mercy and name­less pa­tience have been ex­hausted in an ef­fort to win the loy­alty and de­vo­tion of the will crea­tures of the realms, jus­tice and righ­teous­ness will pre­vail. That which mercy can­not re­ha­bil­i­tate jus­tice will even­tu­ally an­ni­hi­late.

21:5.8The Mas­ter Mi­cha­els are su­preme in their own lo­cal uni­verses when once they have been in­stalled as sov­er­eign rulers. The few lim­i­ta­tions upon their rule are those in­her­ent in the cos­mic pre-ex­is­tence of cer­tain forces and per­son­al­i­ties. Oth­er­wise these Mas­ter Sons are su­preme in au­thor­ity, re­spon­si­bil­ity, and ad­min­is­tra­tive power in their re­spec­tive uni­verses; they are as Cre­ators and Gods, su­preme in vir­tu­ally all things. There is no pen­e­tra­tion be­yond their wis­dom re­gard­ing the func­tion­ing of a given uni­verse.

21:6.1No one may with fi­nal­ity of au­thor­ity pre­sume to dis­cuss ei­ther the na­tures or the des­tinies of the sev­en­fold Mas­ter Sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal uni­verses; nev­er­the­less, we all spec­u­late much re­gard­ing these mat­ters. We are taught, and we be­lieve, that each Par­a­dise Mi­chael is the ab­so­lute of the dual de­ity con­cepts of his ori­gin; thus he em­bod­ies ac­tual phases of the in­fin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Mi­cha­els must be par­tial in re­la­tion to to­tal in­fin­ity, but they are prob­a­bly ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to that part of in­fin­ity con­cerned in their ori­gin. But as we ob­serve their work in the pres­ent uni­verse age, we de­tect no ac­tion that is more than fi­nite; any con­jec­tured super­fi­nite ca­pac­i­ties must be self-con­tained and as yet un­re­vealed.

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

21:6.5[Pre­sented by a Per­fec­tor of Wis­dom from Uversa.]

26:11.5The mor­tal crea­ture must find God. The Cre­ator Son never stops un­til he finds man—the low­est will crea­ture. Be­yond doubt, the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal chil­dren are prepar­ing for some fu­ture and un­known uni­verse ser­vice. Both tra­verse the gamut of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verse and so are ed­u­cated and trained for their eter­nal mis­sion. Through­out the uni­verses there is oc­cur­ring this unique blend­ing of the hu­man and the di­vine, the com­min­gling of crea­ture and Cre­ator. Un­think­ing mor­tals have re­ferred to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of di­vine mercy and ten­der­ness, es­pe­cially to­wards the weak and in be­half of the needy, as in­dica­tive of an an­thro­po­mor­phic God. What a mis­take! Rather should such man­i­fes­ta­tions of mercy and for­bear­ance by hu­man be­ings be taken as ev­i­dence that mor­tal man is in­dwelt by the spirit of the liv­ing God; that the crea­ture is, af­ter all, di­vin­ity mo­ti­vated.