Michael of Nebadon

• no man goes to Father except through

0:8.11The Cre­ator Sons in the De­ity as­so­ci­a­tion of God the Sev­en­fold pro­vide the mech­a­nism whereby the mor­tal be­comes im­mor­tal and the fi­nite at­tains the em­brace of the in­fi­nite. The Su­preme Be­ing pro­vides the tech­nique for the power-per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, the di­vine syn­the­sis, of all these man­i­fold trans­ac­tions, thus en­abling the fi­nite to at­tain the ab­so­nite and, through other pos­si­ble fu­ture ac­tu­al­iza­tions, to at­tempt the at­tain­ment of the Ul­ti­mate. The Cre­ator Sons and their as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ters are par­tic­i­pants in this su­preme mo­bi­liza­tion, but the An­cients of Days and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its are prob­a­bly eter­nally fixed as per­ma­nent ad­min­is­tra­tors in the grand uni­verse.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › inherent in closing a planetary age; not made necessary to win God’s favor

4:5.6The be­stowal of a Par­a­dise Son on your world was in­her­ent in the sit­u­a­tion of clos­ing a plan­e­tary age; it was in­es­cap­able, and it was not made nec­es­sary for the pur­pose of win­ning the fa­vor of God. This be­stowal also hap­pened to be the fi­nal per­sonal act of a Cre­ator Son in the long ad­ven­ture of earn­ing the ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse. What a trav­esty upon the in­fi­nite char­ac­ter of God! this teach­ing that his fa­therly heart in all its aus­tere cold­ness and hard­ness was so un­touched by the mis­for­tunes and sor­rows of his crea­tures that his ten­der mer­cies were not forth­com­ing un­til he saw his blame­less Son bleed­ing and dy­ing upon the cross of Cal­vary!

• description › not the Eternal Son

6:1.3The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never per­son­ally func­tions as a cre­ator ex­cept in con­junc­tion with the Son or with the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the Son. Had the New Tes­ta­ment writer re­ferred to the Eter­nal Son, he would have ut­tered the truth when he wrote: “In the be­gin­ning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him, and with­out him was not any­thing made that was made.”

• description › came forth from Father as truly as Eternal Son

6:1.4When a Son of the Eter­nal Son ap­peared on Uran­tia, those who frat­er­nized with this di­vine be­ing in hu­man form al­luded to him as “He who was from the be­gin­ning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, whom we have looked upon, and our hands have han­dled, even the Word of life.” And this be­stowal Son came forth from the Fa­ther just as truly as did the Orig­i­nal Son, as is sug­gested in one of his earthly prayers: “And now, O my Fa­ther, glo­rify me with your own self, with the glory which I had with you be­fore this world was.”

• description › not the Eternal Son

6:1.5The Eter­nal Son is known by dif­fer­ent names in var­i­ous uni­verses. In the cen­tral uni­verse he is known as the Co-or­di­nate Source, the Cocre­ator, and the As­so­ciate Ab­so­lute. On Uversa, the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse, we des­ig­nate the Son as the Co-or­di­nate Spirit Cen­ter and as the Eter­nal Spirit Ad­min­is­tra­tor. On Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse, this Son is of rec­ord as the Sec­ond Eter­nal Source and Cen­ter. The Mel­chiz­e­deks speak of him as the Son of Sons. On your world, but not in your sys­tem of in­hab­ited spheres, this Orig­i­nal Son has been con­fused with a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, who be­stowed him­self upon the mor­tal races of Uran­tia.

• Lucifer rebellion › M. restored spiritual status of realm by bestowal

7:4.52. The Be­stowal Plan. The next uni­ver­sal plan is the great Fa­ther-rev­e­la­tion en­ter­prise of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate Sons. This is the pro­posal of the Eter­nal Son and con­sists of his be­stowal of the Sons of God upon the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations, there to per­son­al­ize and fac­tu­al­ize, to in­car­nate and make real, the love of the Fa­ther and the mercy of the Son to the crea­tures of all uni­verses. In­her­ent in the be­stowal plan, and as a pro­vi­sional fea­ture of this min­is­tra­tion of love, the Par­a­dise Sons act as re­ha­bil­i­ta­tors of that which mis­guided crea­ture will has placed in spir­i­tual jeop­ardy. When­ever and wher­ever there oc­curs a de­lay in the func­tion­ing of the at­tain­ment plan, if re­bel­lion, per­chance, should mar or com­pli­cate this en­ter­prise, then do the emer­gency pro­vi­sions of the be­stowal plan be­come ac­tive forth­with. The Par­a­dise Sons stand pledged and ready to func­tion as re­triev­ers, to go into the very realms of re­bel­lion and there re­store the spir­i­tual sta­tus of the spheres. And such a heroic ser­vice a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son did per­form on Uran­tia in con­nec­tion with his ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­stowal ca­reer of sov­er­eignty ac­quire­ment.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › Son of God became Son of Man

13:1.8The se­crets of Sonar­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons. When a Son of God be­comes a Son of Man, is lit­er­ally born of woman, as oc­curred on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago, it is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery. It is oc­cur­ring right along through­out the uni­verses, and it is a Sonar­ing­ton se­cret of di­vine son­ship. The Ad­justers are a mys­tery of God the Fa­ther. The in­car­na­tion of the di­vine Sons is a mys­tery of God the Son; it is a se­cret locked up in the sev­enth sec­tor of Sonar­ing­ton, a realm pen­e­trated by none save those who have per­son­ally passed through this unique ex­pe­ri­ence. Only those phases of in­car­na­tion hav­ing to do with your as­cen­sion ca­reer have been brought to your no­tice. There are many other phases of the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of the Par­a­dise Sons of un­re­vealed types on mis­sions of uni­verse ser­vice which are undis­closed to you. And there are still other Sonar­ing­ton mys­ter­ies.

• Spirit of Truth is spirit of

15:9.121. The be­stowal spirit of the Par­a­dise Sons, the Com­forter of the be­stowal worlds. The Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › born of woman

20:2.73. Be­stowal Mis­sions. The Avo­nal Sons do all, at least once, be­stow them­selves upon some mor­tal race on some evo­lu­tion­ary world. Ju­di­cial vis­its are nu­mer­ous, mag­is­te­rial mis­sions may be plu­ral, but on each planet there ap­pears but one be­stowal Son. Be­stowal Avo­nals are born of woman as Mi­chael of Neb­a­don was in­car­nated on Uran­tia.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › Word made flesh

20:5.1The Eter­nal Son is the eter­nal Word of God. The Eter­nal Son is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the “first” ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite thought of his eter­nal Fa­ther. When a per­sonal du­pli­ca­tion or di­vine ex­ten­sion of this Orig­i­nal Son starts on a be­stowal mis­sion of mor­tal in­car­na­tion, it be­comes lit­er­ally true that the di­vine “Word is made flesh,” and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly be­ings of an­i­mal ori­gin.

• sovereignty › M. received all power and authority after bestowals

20:5.5Un­der­stand­ing more about the be­stowal Sons, you dis­cern why so much in­ter­est at­taches to Uran­tia in the his­tory of Neb­a­don. Your small and in­signif­i­cant planet is of lo­cal uni­verse con­cern sim­ply be­cause it is the mor­tal home world of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. It was the scene of the fi­nal and tri­umphant be­stowal of your Cre­ator Son, the arena in which Mi­chael won the su­preme per­sonal sov­er­eignty of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

• description › resembles Eternal Son

21:1.3The di­vine na­tures of these Cre­ator Sons are, in prin­ci­ple, de­rived equally from the at­tri­butes of both Par­a­dise par­ents. All par­take of the full­ness of the di­vine na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and of the cre­ative pre­rog­a­tives of the Eter­nal Son, but as we ob­serve the prac­ti­cal out­work­ing of the Mi­chael func­tions in the uni­verses, we dis­cern ap­par­ent dif­fer­ences. Some Cre­ator Sons ap­pear to be more like God the Fa­ther; oth­ers more like God the Son. For ex­am­ple: The trend of ad­min­is­tra­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don sug­gests that its Cre­ator and rul­ing Son is one whose na­ture and char­ac­ter more re­sem­ble that of the Eter­nal Mother Son. It should be fur­ther stated that some uni­verses are pre­sided over by Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els who ap­pear equally to re­sem­ble God the Fa­ther and God the Son. And these ob­ser­va­tions are in no sense im­plied crit­i­cisms; they are sim­ply a record­ing of fact.

21:3.1A Cre­ator Son is given the range of a uni­verse by the con­sent of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and with the con­fir­ma­tion of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit of the super­uni­verse con­cerned. Such ac­tion con­sti­tutes ti­tle of phys­i­cal pos­ses­sion, a cos­mic lease­hold. But the el­e­va­tion of a Mi­chael Son from this ini­tial and self-lim­ited stage of ruler­ship to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial su­prem­acy of self-earned sov­er­eignty comes as a re­sult of his own per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences in the work of uni­verse cre­ation and in­car­nated be­stowal. Un­til the achieve­ment of be­stowal-earned sov­er­eignty, he rules as vicegerent of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• sovereignty › could have asserted personal sovereignty at any moment

21:3.2A Cre­ator Son could as­sert full sov­er­eignty over his per­sonal cre­ation at any time, but he wisely chooses not to. If, prior to pass­ing through the crea­ture be­stowals, he as­sumed an un­earned su­preme sov­er­eignty, the Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent in his lo­cal uni­verse would with­draw. But this has never hap­pened through­out all the cre­ations of time and space.

21:3.3The fact of cre­ator­ship im­plies the full­ness of sov­er­eignty, but the Mi­cha­els choose to ex­pe­ri­en­tially earn it, thereby re­tain­ing the full co-op­er­a­tion of all Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties at­tached to the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. We know of no Mi­chael who ever did oth­er­wise; but they all could, they are truly free­will Sons.

21:3.4The sov­er­eignty of a Cre­ator Son in a lo­cal uni­verse passes through six, per­haps seven, stages of ex­pe­ri­en­tial man­i­fes­ta­tion. These ap­pear in the fol­low­ing or­der:

21:3.51. Ini­tial vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the soli­tary pro­vi­sional au­thor­ity ex­er­cised by a Cre­ator Son be­fore the ac­quire­ment of per­sonal qual­i­ties by the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ative Spirit.

21:3.62. Con­joint vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the joint rule of the Par­a­dise pair sub­se­quent to the per­son­al­ity achieve­ment of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit.

21:3.73. Aug­ment­ing vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the ad­vanc­ing au­thor­ity of a Cre­ator Son dur­ing the pe­riod of his seven crea­ture be­stowals.

• sovereignty › M. received all power and authority after bestowals

21:3.84. Su­preme sov­er­eignty—the set­tled au­thor­ity fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the sev­enth be­stowal. In Neb­a­don, su­preme sov­er­eignty dates from the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. It has ex­isted just slightly over nine­teen hun­dred years of your plan­e­tary time.

21:3.95. Aug­ment­ing su­preme sov­er­eignty—the ad­vanced re­la­tion­ship grow­ing out of the set­tling of a ma­jor­ity of the crea­ture do­mains in light and life. This stage per­tains to the un­achieved fu­ture of your lo­cal uni­verse.

21:3.106. Trini­tar­ian sov­er­eignty—ex­er­cised sub­se­quent to the set­tling of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life.

21:3.117. Un­re­vealed sov­er­eignty—the un­known re­la­tion­ships of a fu­ture uni­verse age.

21:3.12In ac­cept­ing the ini­tial vicegerent sov­er­eignty of a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, a Cre­ator Mi­chael takes an oath to the Trin­ity not to as­sume su­preme sov­er­eignty un­til the seven crea­ture be­stowals have been com­pleted and cer­ti­fied by the super­uni­verse rulers. But if a Mi­chael Son could not, at will, as­sert such un­earned sov­er­eignty, there would be no mean­ing in tak­ing an oath not to do so.

21:3.13Even in the pre­be­stowal ages a Cre­ator Son rules his do­main well-nigh su­premely when there is no dis­sent in any of its parts. Lim­ited ruler­ship would hardly be man­i­fest if sov­er­eignty were never chal­lenged. The sov­er­eignty ex­er­cised by a pre­be­stowal Cre­ator Son in a uni­verse with­out re­bel­lion is no greater than in a uni­verse with re­bel­lion; but in the first in­stance sov­er­eignty lim­i­ta­tions are not ap­par­ent; in the sec­ond, they are.

21:3.14If ever the au­thor­ity or ad­min­is­tra­tion of a Cre­ator Son is chal­lenged, at­tacked, or jeop­ar­dized, he is eter­nally pledged to up­hold, pro­tect, de­fend, and if nec­es­sary re­trieve his per­sonal cre­ation. Such Sons can be trou­bled or ha­rassed only by the crea­tures of their own mak­ing or by higher be­ings of their own choos­ing. It might be in­ferred that “higher be­ings,” those of ori­gin on lev­els above a lo­cal uni­verse, would be un­likely to trou­ble a Cre­ator Son, and this is true. But they could if they chose to. Virtue is vo­li­tional with per­son­al­ity; righ­teous­ness is not au­to­matic in free­will crea­tures.

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.

21:3.16The tech­nique of ob­tain­ing su­preme sov­er­eignty over a lo­cal uni­verse in­volves the fol­low­ing seven ex­pe­ri­en­tial steps:

21:3.171. Ex­pe­ri­en­tially to pen­e­trate seven crea­ture lev­els of be­ing through the tech­nique of in­car­nated be­stowal in the very like­ness of the crea­tures on the level con­cerned.

21:3.182. To make an ex­pe­ri­en­tial con­se­cra­tion to each phase of the sev­en­fold will of Par­a­dise De­ity as it is per­son­i­fied in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

21:3.193. To tra­verse each of the seven ex­pe­ri­ences on the crea­ture lev­els si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ex­e­cu­tion of one of the seven con­se­cra­tions to the will of Par­a­dise De­ity.

21:3.204. On each crea­ture level, ex­pe­ri­en­tially to por­tray the acme of crea­ture life to Par­a­dise De­ity and to all uni­verse in­tel­li­gences.

21:3.215. On each crea­ture level, ex­pe­ri­en­tially to re­veal one phase of the sev­en­fold will of De­ity to the be­stowal level and to all the uni­verse.

21:3.226. Ex­pe­ri­en­tially to unify the sev­en­fold crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence with the sev­en­fold ex­pe­ri­ence of con­se­cra­tion to the rev­e­la­tion of the na­ture and will of De­ity.

21:3.237. To achieve new and higher re­la­tion­ship with the Su­preme Be­ing. The reper­cus­sion of the to­tal­ity of this Cre­ator-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence aug­ments the super­uni­verse re­al­ity of God the Su­preme and the time-space sov­er­eignty of the Al­mighty Su­preme and fac­tu­al­izes the su­preme lo­cal uni­verse sov­er­eignty of a Par­a­dise Mi­chael.

21:3.24In set­tling the ques­tion of sov­er­eignty in a lo­cal uni­verse, the Cre­ator Son is not only demon­strat­ing his own fit­ness to rule but is also re­veal­ing the na­ture and por­tray­ing the sev­en­fold at­ti­tude of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The fi­nite un­der­stand­ing and crea­ture ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the Fa­ther’s pri­macy is con­cerned in the ad­ven­ture of a Cre­ator Son when he con­de­scends to take upon him­self the form and ex­pe­ri­ences of his crea­tures. These pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons are the real re­veal­ers of the Fa­ther’s lov­ing na­ture and benef­i­cent au­thor­ity, the same Fa­ther who, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Son and the Spirit, is the uni­ver­sal head of all power, per­son­al­ity, and gov­ern­ment through­out all the uni­ver­sal realms.

• description › sevenfold Master Son

28:6.18The uni­ver­sal econ­omy is based on in­take and out­put; through­out the eter­nal ca­reer you will never en­counter mo­not­ony of in­ac­tion or stag­na­tion of per­son­al­ity. Prog­ress is made pos­si­ble by in­her­ent mo­tion, ad­vance­ment grows out of the di­vine ca­pac­ity for ac­tion, and achieve­ment is the child of imag­i­na­tive ad­ven­ture. But in­her­ent in this ca­pac­ity for achieve­ment is the re­spon­si­bil­ity of ethics, the ne­ces­sity for rec­og­niz­ing that the world and the uni­verse are filled with a mul­ti­tude of dif­fer­ing types of be­ings. All of this mag­nif­i­cent cre­ation, in­clud­ing your­self, was not made just for you. This is not an ego­cen­tric uni­verse. The Gods have de­creed, “It is more blessed to give than to re­ceive,” and said your Mas­ter Son, “He who would be great­est among you let him be server of all.”

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › as Jesus of Nazareth
• Trinity fully approved plans for Nebadon

32:0.3Uran­tia be­longs to a lo­cal uni­verse whose sov­er­eign is the God-man of Neb­a­don, Je­sus of Naz­a­reth and Mi­chael of Sal­ving­ton. And all of Mi­chael’s plans for this lo­cal uni­verse were fully ap­proved by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity be­fore he ever em­barked upon the su­preme ad­ven­ture of space.

• description › 611,121st bestowal of Father and Son
• description › only-begotten Son
• headquarters is threefold mansion of light

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

• description › not the Eternal Son

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

• description › exerts same spirit gravity as Eternal Son

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

• description › God of our creation

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

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

• description › resembles Eternal Son

33:2.1Ob­ser­va­tion of Cre­ator Sons dis­closes that some re­sem­ble more the Fa­ther, some the Son, while oth­ers are a blend of both their in­fi­nite par­ents. Our Cre­ator Son very def­i­nitely man­i­fests traits and at­tri­butes which more re­sem­ble the Eter­nal Son.

• sovereignty › limitations to authority

33:2.2Mi­chael elected to or­ga­nize this lo­cal uni­verse, and herein he now reigns su­preme. His per­sonal power is lim­ited by the pre-ex­is­tent grav­ity cir­cuits cen­ter­ing at Par­a­dise and by the reser­va­tion on the part of the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment of all fi­nal ex­ec­u­tive judg­ments re­gard­ing the ex­tinc­tion of per­son­al­ity. Per­son­al­ity is the sole be­stowal of the Fa­ther, but the Cre­ator Sons, with the ap­proval of the Eter­nal Son, do ini­ti­ate new crea­ture de­signs, and with the work­ing co-op­er­a­tion of their Spirit as­so­ciates they may at­tempt new trans­for­ma­tions of en­ergy-mat­ter.

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

33:2.4This sub­or­di­na­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ters to the Cre­ator Sons of the lo­cal uni­verses con­sti­tutes these Mas­ter Sons the per­sonal repos­i­to­ries of the finitely man­i­festable di­vin­ity of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit, while the crea­ture-be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences of the Mi­cha­els qual­ify them to por­tray the ex­pe­ri­en­tial di­vin­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. No other be­ings in the uni­verses have thus per­son­ally ex­hausted the po­ten­tials of pres­ent fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence, and no other be­ings in the uni­verses pos­sess such qual­i­fi­ca­tions for soli­tary sov­er­eignty.

• Gabriel is regent when M. is away
• spends much time away from Salvington

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.

• description › creator of Nebadon

33:3.2The Uni­verse Mother Spirit of Sal­ving­ton, the as­so­ciate of Mi­chael in the con­trol and ad­min­is­tra­tion of Neb­a­don, is of the sixth group of Su­preme Spir­its, be­ing the 611,121^st of that or­der. She vol­un­teered to ac­com­pany Mi­chael on the oc­ca­sion of his lib­er­a­tion from Par­a­dise obli­ga­tions and has ever since func­tioned with him in cre­at­ing and gov­ern­ing his uni­verse.

• Gabriel is regent when M. is away

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.

• sovereignty › Immanuel is only personality in Nebadon who has never acknowledged subordination to M.

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.

• Gabriel is regent when M. is away
• spends much time away from Salvington

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.

• concerned with creation, sustenance, and ministry
• not involved in judicial work

33:7.1The Mas­ter Son, Mi­chael, is su­premely con­cerned with but three things: cre­ation, sus­te­nance, and min­istry. He does not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the ju­di­cial work of the uni­verse. Cre­ators never sit in judg­ment on their crea­tures; that is the ex­clu­sive func­tion of crea­tures of high train­ing and ac­tual crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence.

• description › creator of Nebadon

37:0.1At the head of all per­son­al­ity in Neb­a­don stands the Cre­ator and Mas­ter Son, Mi­chael, the uni­verse fa­ther and sov­er­eign. Co-or­di­nate in di­vin­ity and com­ple­men­tal in cre­ative at­tri­butes is the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, the Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton. And these cre­ators are in a very lit­eral sense the Fa­ther-Son and the Spirit-Mother of all the na­tive crea­tures of Neb­a­don.

• bestowals › 4th bestowal › as supreme seraphim; served as secretary to 26 teachers

39:1.15The fourth crea­ture be­stowal of the Cre­ator Son was in the like­ness of a teach­ing coun­selor of the su­preme ser­a­phim of Neb­a­don.

• description › our elder brother in fact

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

• description › Son of Man and Son of God

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

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › Melchizedek school devoted to

43:1.6The Mel­chiz­e­deks also main­tain two spe­cial col­leges on Eden­tia. One, the emer­gency school, is de­voted to the study of prob­lems grow­ing out of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion. The other, the be­stowal school, is ded­i­cated to the mas­tery of the new prob­lems aris­ing out of the fact that Mi­chael made his fi­nal be­stowal on one of the worlds of Nor­la­ti­adek. This lat­ter col­lege was es­tab­lished al­most forty thou­sand years ago, im­me­di­ately af­ter the an­nounce­ment by Mi­chael that Uran­tia had been se­lected as the world for his fi­nal be­stowal.

• sovereignty › M. received all power and authority after bestowals

43:4.7The one hun­dred Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns come pe­ri­od­i­cally to the Eden­tia con­claves which de­lib­er­ate on the wel­fare of the con­stel­la­tion. Af­ter the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion the arch­re­bels of Je­ru­sem were wont to come up to these Eden­tia coun­cils just as they had on for­mer oc­ca­sions. And there was found no way to stop this ar­ro­gant ef­fron­tery un­til af­ter the be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia and his sub­se­quent as­sump­tion of un­lim­ited sov­er­eignty through­out all Neb­a­don. Never, since that day, have these in­sti­ga­tors of sin been per­mit­ted to sit in the Eden­tia coun­cils of the loyal Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns.

• Most High adviser represents M. in Norlatiadek

43:5.64. The Most High ad­viser, the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Mi­chael since his at­tain­ment of the sta­tus of a Mas­ter Son.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › Most High mediator harmonizes bestowal adjustments with constellation administration

43:5.119. The Most High me­di­a­tor, the Vo­ron­da­dek Son as­signed to har­mo­nize the spe­cial be­stowal ad­just­ments on Uran­tia with the rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tion of the con­stel­la­tion. The pres­ence of cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties and nu­mer­ous other ir­reg­u­lar min­is­tra­tions on Uran­tia, to­gether with the spe­cial ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars on Je­ru­sem, ne­ces­si­tates the func­tion­ing of this Son.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › Fortant is director for all activities related to

45:3.76. The be­stowal di­rec­tor—For­t­ant, num­ber 319,847 of the re­serves of the sec­ondary La­non­an­deks and tem­po­rary di­rec­tor of all uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties trans­planted to Je­ru­sem since Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. For­t­ant has been at­tached to the staff of Lanaforge for nine­teen hun­dred years of Uran­tia time.

• established 24 counselors, who represent him concerning roll calls of Satania

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

• description › Planetary Prince of Urantia

45:4.1614. Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, the only Son of this or­der to be­stow him­self upon the Uran­tia races. While still num­bered as a Mel­chiz­e­dek, he has be­come “for­ever a min­is­ter of the Most Highs,” eter­nally as­sum­ing the as­sign­ment of ser­vice as a mor­tal as­cender, hav­ing so­journed on Uran­tia in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh at Salem in the days of Abra­ham. This Mel­chiz­e­dek has lat­terly been pro­claimed vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia with head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem and au­thor­ity to act in be­half of Mi­chael, who is ac­tu­ally the Plan­e­tary Prince of the world whereon he ex­pe­ri­enced his ter­mi­nal be­stowal in hu­man form. Not­with­stand­ing this, Uran­tia is still super­vised by suc­ces­sive res­i­dent gov­er­nors gen­eral, mem­bers of the four and twenty coun­selors.

• sometimes sends messages on archangels’ circuit

46:3.4The Je­ru­sem send­ing sta­tion is lo­cated at the op­po­site pole of the sphere. All broad­casts to the in­di­vid­ual worlds are re­layed from the sys­tem cap­i­tals ex­cept the Mi­chael mes­sages, which some­times go di­rect to their des­ti­na­tions over the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit.

• Michael memorial on Jerusem

46:5.19These cir­cu­lar reser­va­tions of the Sons oc­cupy an enor­mous area, and un­til nine­teen hun­dred years ago there ex­isted a great open space at its cen­ter. This cen­tral re­gion is now oc­cu­pied by the Mi­chael memo­rial, com­pleted some five hun­dred years ago. Four hun­dred and ninety-five years ago, when this tem­ple was ded­i­cated, Mi­chael was pres­ent in per­son, and all Je­ru­sem heard the touch­ing story of the Mas­ter Son’s be­stowal on Uran­tia, the least of Sa­ta­nia. The Mi­chael memo­rial is now the cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties em­braced in the mod­i­fied man­age­ment of the sys­tem oc­ca­sioned by Mi­chael’s be­stowal, in­clud­ing most of the more re­cently trans­planted Sal­ving­ton ac­tiv­i­ties. The memo­rial staff con­sists of over one mil­lion per­son­al­i­ties.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › as Jesus of Nazareth

52:5.1When a cer­tain stan­dard of in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment is at­tained on an in­hab­ited world, a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son al­ways ar­rives. On nor­mal worlds he does not ap­pear in the flesh un­til the races have as­cended to the high­est lev­els of in­tel­lec­tual de­vel­op­ment and eth­i­cal at­tain­ment. But on Uran­tia the be­stowal Son, even your own Cre­ator Son, ap­peared at the close of the Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion, but that is not the usual or­der of events on the worlds of space.

52:5.2When the worlds have be­come ripe for spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion, the be­stowal Son ar­rives. These Sons al­ways be­long to the Mag­is­te­rial or Avo­nal or­der ex­cept in that case, once in each lo­cal uni­verse, when the Cre­ator Son pre­pares for his ter­mi­nal be­stowal on some evo­lu­tion­ary world, as oc­curred when Mi­chael of Neb­a­don ap­peared on Uran­tia to be­stow him­self upon your mor­tal races. Only one world in near ten mil­lion can en­joy such a gift; all other worlds are spir­i­tu­ally ad­vanced by the be­stowal of a Par­a­dise Son of the Avo­nal or­der.

• Lucifer rebellion › M. knew of Lucifer’s disaffection 500 years before rebellion

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.

• Lucifer rebellion › policy of noninterference for 200,000 years

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.

• Lucifer rebellion › M. was not sovereign ruler at time of

53:5.2At the time of this re­bel­lion and the two which pre­ceded it there was no ab­so­lute and per­sonal sov­er­eign au­thor­ity in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Mi­chael ruled by di­vine right, as vicegerent of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, but not yet in his own per­sonal right. He had not com­pleted his be­stowal ca­reer; he had not yet been vested with “all power in heaven and on earth.”

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

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.

• Lucifer rebellion › 7th bestowal terminated rebellion except on planets with apostate Planetary Princes, and in 2 other systems

53:8.3The be­stowal of Mi­chael ter­mi­nated the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in all Sa­ta­nia aside from the plan­ets of the apos­tate Plan­e­tary Princes. And this was the sig­nif­i­cance of Je­sus’ per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence, just be­fore his death in the flesh, when he one day ex­claimed to his dis­ci­ples, “And I be­held Sa­tan fall as light­ning from heaven.” He had come with Lu­cifer to Uran­tia for the last cru­cial strug­gle.

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.

• Lucifer rebellion › M. offered rebels forgiveness, some form of reinstatement

53:9.1Early in the days of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, sal­va­tion was of­fered all rebels by Mi­chael. To all who would show proof of sin­cere re­pen­tance, he of­fered, upon his at­tain­ment of com­plete uni­verse sov­er­eignty, for­give­ness and re­in­state­ment in some form of uni­verse ser­vice. None of the lead­ers ac­cepted this mer­ci­ful prof­fer. But thou­sands of the an­gels and the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, in­clud­ing hun­dreds of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, ac­cepted the mercy pro­claimed by the Panop­tians and were given re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion at the time of Je­sus’ res­ur­rec­tion nine­teen hun­dred years ago. These be­ings have since been trans­ferred to the Fa­ther’s world of Je­ru­sem, where they must be held, tech­ni­cally, un­til the Uversa courts hand down a de­ci­sion in the mat­ter of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer. But no one doubts that, when the an­ni­hi­la­tion ver­dict is is­sued, these re­pen­tant and sal­vaged per­son­al­i­ties will be ex­empted from the de­cree of ex­tinc­tion. These pro­ba­tion­ary souls now la­bor with the Panop­tians in the work of car­ing for the Fa­ther’s world.

• Lucifer rebellion › M. petitioned Ancients of Days to intern rebels

53:9.3Mi­chael, upon as­sum­ing the su­preme sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don, pe­ti­tioned the An­cients of Days for au­thor­ity to in­tern all per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pend­ing the rul­ings of the super­uni­verse tri­bu­nals in the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer, placed on the rec­ords of the Uversa su­preme court al­most two hun­dred thou­sand years ago, as you reckon time. Con­cern­ing the sys­tem cap­i­tal group, the An­cients of Days granted the Mi­chael pe­ti­tion with but a sin­gle ex­cep­tion: Sa­tan was al­lowed to make pe­ri­odic vis­its to the apos­tate princes on the fallen worlds un­til an­other Son of God should be ac­cepted by such apos­tate worlds, or un­til such time as the courts of Uversa should be­gin the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer.

• Lucifer rebellion › M. offered rebels forgiveness, some form of reinstatement

54:4.5There are many rea­sons known to us why the Su­preme Rulers did not im­me­di­ately de­stroy or in­tern the lead­ers of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. There are no doubt still other and pos­si­bly bet­ter rea­sons un­known to us. The mercy fea­tures of this de­lay in the ex­e­cu­tion of jus­tice were ex­tended per­son­ally by Mi­chael of Neb­a­don. Ex­cept for the af­fec­tion of this Cre­ator-fa­ther for his erring Sons, the su­preme jus­tice of the super­uni­verse would have acted. If such an episode as the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion had oc­curred in Neb­a­don while Mi­chael was in­car­nated on Uran­tia, the in­sti­ga­tors of such evil might have been in­stantly and ab­so­lutely an­ni­hi­lated.

• Lucifer rebellion › M. was not sovereign ruler at time of

54:5.65. Re­gard­less of Mi­chael’s at­ti­tude to­ward Lu­cifer, not­with­stand­ing his be­ing Lu­cifer’s Cre­ator-fa­ther, it was not in the prov­ince of the Cre­ator Son to ex­er­cise sum­mary ju­ris­dic­tion over the apos­tate Sys­tem Sov­er­eign be­cause he had not then com­pleted his be­stowal ca­reer, thereby at­tain­ing un­qual­i­fied sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don.

• began organization of Nebadon 400 billion years ago; staff arrived 300 billion years ago

57:3.8It was scarcely a mil­lion years sub­se­quent to this epoch that Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a Cre­ator Son of Par­a­dise, se­lected this dis­in­te­grat­ing neb­ula as the site of his ad­ven­ture in uni­verse build­ing. Al­most im­me­di­ately the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds of Sal­ving­ton and the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters groups of plan­ets were be­gun. It re­quired al­most one mil­lion years to com­plete these clus­ters of spe­cially cre­ated worlds. The lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters plan­ets were con­structed over a pe­riod ex­tend­ing from that time to about five bil­lion years ago.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › personally chose Urantia

63:7.1An­don and Fonta, the splen­did found­ers of the hu­man race, re­ceived rec­og­ni­tion at the time of the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of Uran­tia upon the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince, and in due time they emerged from the regime of the man­sion worlds with cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus on Je­ru­sem. Al­though they have never been per­mit­ted to re­turn to Uran­tia, they are cog­nizant of the his­tory of the race they founded. They grieved over the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal, sor­rowed be­cause of the Adamic fail­ure, but re­joiced ex­ceed­ingly when an­nounce­ment was re­ceived that Mi­chael had se­lected their world as the the­ater for his fi­nal be­stowal.

• message of friendship to Adam and Eve

76:5.3Adam knew about the dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tion which oc­curred si­mul­ta­ne­ously with his ar­rival on the planet, and he be­lieved that he and his com­pan­ion would prob­a­bly be reper­son­al­ized in con­nec­tion with the ad­vent of the next or­der of son­ship. He did not know that Mi­chael, the sov­er­eign of this uni­verse, was so soon to ap­pear on Uran­tia; he ex­pected that the next Son to ar­rive would be of the Avo­nal or­der. Even so, it was al­ways a com­fort to Adam and Eve, as well as some­thing dif­fi­cult for them to un­der­stand, to pon­der the only per­sonal mes­sage they ever re­ceived from Mi­chael. This mes­sage, among other ex­pres­sions of friend­ship and com­fort, said: “I have given con­sid­er­a­tion to the cir­cum­stances of your de­fault, I have re­mem­bered the de­sire of your hearts ever to be loyal to my Fa­ther’s will, and you will be called from the em­brace of mor­tal slum­ber when I come to Uran­tia if the sub­or­di­nate Sons of my realm do not send for you be­fore that time.”

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › personally chose Urantia

76:5.7Mis­for­tune has not, how­ever, been the sole lot of Uran­tia; this planet has also been the most for­tu­nate in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Uran­tians should count it all gain if the blun­ders of their an­ces­tors and the mis­takes of their early world rulers so plunged the planet into such a hope­less state of con­fu­sion, all the more con­founded by evil and sin, that this very back­ground of dark­ness should so ap­peal to Mi­chael of Neb­a­don that he se­lected this world as the arena wherein to re­veal the lov­ing per­son­al­ity of the Fa­ther in heaven. It is not that Uran­tia needed a Cre­ator Son to set its tan­gled af­fairs in or­der; it is rather that the evil and sin on Uran­tia af­forded the Cre­ator Son a more strik­ing back­ground against which to re­veal the match­less love, mercy, and pa­tience of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › commission by Immanuel › counseled to function largely as teacher; atone for Caligastia and Adamic default; terminate Lucifer rebellion

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

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › could not come until people believed in Father

96:0.2The Salem re­li­gion was revered as a tra­di­tion by the Ken­ites and sev­eral other Ca­naan­ite tribes. And this was one of the pur­poses of Mel­chiz­e­dek’s in­car­na­tion: That a re­li­gion of one God should be so fos­tered as to pre­pare the way for the earth be­stowal of a Son of that one God. Mi­chael could hardly come to Uran­tia un­til there ex­isted a peo­ple be­liev­ing in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther among whom he could ap­pear.

• possesses unlimited capacity to experience Supreme

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

• description › shares Father’s Paradise perfection

106:2.6Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is like the Par­a­dise Fa­ther be­cause he shares his Par­a­dise per­fec­tion; so will evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals some­time at­tain to kin­ship with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme, for they will truly share his evo­lu­tion­ary per­fec­tion.

• his creative fatherhood has made our lives possible
• personally grants mortals’ credentials to proceed upon superuniverse career

112:7.8But the fused in­di­vid­ual is re­ally one per­son­al­ity, one be­ing, whose unity de­fies all at­tempts at anal­y­sis by any in­tel­li­gence of the uni­verses. And so, hav­ing passed the tri­bu­nals of the lo­cal uni­verse from the low­est to the high­est, none of which have been able to iden­tify man or Ad­juster, the one apart from the other, you shall fi­nally be taken be­fore the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse Fa­ther. And there, at the hand of the very be­ing whose cre­ative fa­ther­hood in this uni­verse of time has made pos­si­ble the fact of your life, you will be granted those cre­den­tials which en­ti­tle you even­tu­ally to pro­ceed upon your super­uni­verse ca­reer in quest of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• description › Planetary Prince of Urantia

114:0.84. The ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties grow­ing out of the fact that Uran­tia was one of the be­stowal worlds of the Uni­verse Sov­er­eign. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is the Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia.

• description › Planetary Prince of Urantia
• established 24 counselors, who represent him concerning roll calls of Satania

114:1.1The orig­i­nal sov­er­eignty of Uran­tia was held in trust by the sov­er­eign of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. It was first del­e­gated by him to a joint com­mis­sion of Mel­chiz­e­deks and Life Car­ri­ers, and this group func­tioned on Uran­tia un­til the ar­rival of a reg­u­larly con­sti­tuted Plan­e­tary Prince. Sub­se­quent to the down­fall of Prince Cali­gas­tia, at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, Uran­tia had no sure and set­tled re­la­tion­ship with the lo­cal uni­verse and its ad­min­is­tra­tive di­vi­sions un­til the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal in the flesh, when he was pro­claimed, by the Union of Days, Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. Such a procla­ma­tion in surety and in prin­ci­ple for­ever set­tled the sta­tus of your world, but in prac­tice the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son made no ges­ture of per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of the planet aside from the es­tab­lish­ment of the Je­ru­sem com­mis­sion of twenty-four for­mer Uran­tians with au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent him in the gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia and all other quar­an­tined plan­ets in the sys­tem. One of this coun­cil is now al­ways res­i­dent on Uran­tia as res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral.

• began organization of Nebadon 400 billion years ago; staff arrived 300 billion years ago
• bestowals › began 1 billion years ago; occurred at 150 million year intervals
• description › 611,121st bestowal of Father and Son

119:0.7The lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don is now ruled by a Cre­ator Son who has com­pleted his ser­vice of be­stowal; he reigns in just and mer­ci­ful su­prem­acy over all the vast realms of his evolv­ing and per­fect­ing uni­verse. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is the 611,121^st be­stowal of the Eter­nal Son upon the uni­verses of time and space, and he be­gan the or­ga­ni­za­tion of your lo­cal uni­verse about four hun­dred bil­lion years ago. Mi­chael made ready for his first be­stowal ad­ven­ture about the time Uran­tia was tak­ing on its pres­ent form, one bil­lion years ago. His be­stowals have oc­curred about one hun­dred and fifty mil­lion years apart, the last tak­ing place on Uran­tia nine­teen hun­dred years ago. I will now pro­ceed to un­fold the na­ture and char­ac­ter of these be­stowals as fully as my com­mis­sion per­mits.

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.”

119:1.2Af­ter send­ing this farewell broad­cast, Mi­chael ap­peared on the dis­patch­ing field of Sal­ving­ton, just as on many pre­vi­ous oc­ca­sions when prepar­ing for de­par­ture to Uversa or Par­a­dise ex­cept that he came alone. He con­cluded his state­ment of de­par­ture with these words: “I leave you but for a short sea­son. Many of you, I know, would go with me, but whither I go you can­not come. That which I am about to do, you can­not do. I go to do the will of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, and when I have fin­ished my mis­sion and have ac­quired this ex­pe­ri­ence, I will re­turn to my place among you.” And hav­ing thus spo­ken, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don van­ished from the sight of all those as­sem­bled and did not reap­pear for twenty years of stan­dard time. In all Sal­ving­ton, only the Di­vine Min­is­ter and Im­manuel knew what was tak­ing place, and the Union of Days shared his se­cret only with the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse, Ga­briel, the Bright and Morn­ing Star.

119:1.3All the in­hab­i­tants of Sal­ving­ton and those dwell­ing on the con­stel­la­tion and sys­tem head­quar­ters worlds as­sem­bled about their re­spec­tive re­ceiv­ing sta­tions for uni­verse in­tel­li­gence, hop­ing to get some word of the mis­sion and where­abouts of the Cre­ator Son. Not un­til the third day af­ter Mi­chael’s de­par­ture was any mes­sage of pos­si­ble sig­nif­i­cance re­ceived. On this day a com­mu­ni­ca­tion was reg­is­tered on Sal­ving­ton from the Mel­chiz­e­dek sphere, the head­quar­ters of that or­der in Neb­a­don, which sim­ply re­corded this ex­traor­di­nary and never-be­fore-heard-of trans­ac­tion: “At noon to­day there ap­peared on the re­ceiv­ing field of this world a strange Mel­chiz­e­dek Son, not of our num­ber but wholly like our or­der. He was ac­com­pa­nied by a soli­tary om­niaphim who bore cre­den­tials from Uversa and pre­sented or­ders ad­dressed to our chief, de­rived from the An­cients of Days and con­curred in by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton, di­rect­ing that this new Mel­chiz­e­dek Son be re­ceived into our or­der and as­signed to the emer­gency ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­deks of Neb­a­don. And it has been so or­dered; it has been done.”

119:1.4And this is about all that ap­pears on the rec­ords of Sal­ving­ton re­gard­ing the first Mi­chael be­stowal. Noth­ing more ap­pears un­til af­ter one hun­dred years of Uran­tia time, when there was re­corded the fact of Mi­chael’s re­turn and unan­nounced re­sump­tion of the di­rec­tion of uni­verse af­fairs. But a strange rec­ord is to be found on the Mel­chiz­e­dek world, a recital of the ser­vice of this unique Mel­chiz­e­dek Son of the emer­gency corps of that age. This rec­ord is pre­served in a sim­ple tem­ple which now oc­cu­pies the fore­ground of the home of the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, and it com­prises the nar­ra­tion of the ser­vice of this tran­si­tory Mel­chiz­e­dek Son in con­nec­tion with his as­sign­ment to twenty-four mis­sions of uni­verse emer­gency. And this rec­ord, which I have so re­cently re­viewed, ends thus:

119:1.5“And at noon on this day, with­out pre­vi­ous an­nounce­ment and wit­nessed by only three of our broth­er­hood, this vis­it­ing Son of our or­der dis­ap­peared from our world as he came, ac­com­pa­nied only by a soli­tary om­niaphim; and this rec­ord is now closed with the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion that this vis­i­tor lived as a Mel­chiz­e­dek, in the like­ness of a Mel­chiz­e­dek he worked as a Mel­chiz­e­dek, and he faith­fully per­formed all of his as­sign­ments as an emer­gency Son of our or­der. By uni­ver­sal con­sent he has be­come chief of Mel­chiz­e­deks, hav­ing earned our love and ado­ra­tion by his match­less wis­dom, su­preme love, and su­perb de­vo­tion to duty. He loved us, un­der­stood us, and served with us, and for­ever we are his loyal and de­voted fel­low Mel­chiz­e­deks, for this stranger on our world has now eter­nally be­come a uni­verse min­is­ter of Mel­chiz­e­dek na­ture.”

119:1.6And that is all I am per­mit­ted to tell you of the first be­stowal of Mi­chael. We, of course, fully un­der­stand that this strange Mel­chiz­e­dek who so mys­te­ri­ously served with the Mel­chiz­e­deks a bil­lion years ago was none other than the in­car­nated Mi­chael on the mis­sion of his first be­stowal. The rec­ords do not specif­i­cally state that this unique and ef­fi­cient Mel­chiz­e­dek was Mi­chael, but it is uni­ver­sally be­lieved that he was. Prob­a­bly the ac­tual state­ment of that fact can­not be found out­side of the rec­ords of Sonar­ing­ton, and the rec­ords of that se­cret world are not open to us. Only on this sa­cred world of the di­vine Sons are the mys­ter­ies of in­car­na­tion and be­stowal fully known. We all know of the facts of the Mi­chael be­stowals, but we do not un­der­stand how they are ef­fected. We do not know how the ruler of a uni­verse, the cre­ator of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, can so sud­denly and mys­te­ri­ously be­come one of their num­ber and, as one of them, live among them and work as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son for one hun­dred years. But it so hap­pened.

119:2.1For al­most one hun­dred and fifty mil­lion years af­ter the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal of Mi­chael, all went well in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, when trou­ble be­gan to brew in sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37. This trou­ble in­volved a mis­un­der­stand­ing by a La­non­an­dek Son, a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, which had been ad­ju­di­cated by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers and ap­proved by the Faith­ful of Days, the Par­a­dise coun­selor to that con­stel­la­tion, but the protest­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was not fully rec­on­ciled to the ver­dict. Af­ter more than one hun­dred years of dis­sat­is­fac­tion he led his as­so­ciates in one of the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous re­bel­lions against the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son ever in­sti­gated in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, a re­bel­lion long since ad­ju­di­cated and ended by the ac­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

119:2.2This rebel Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lu­ten­tia, reigned su­preme on his head­quar­ters planet for more than twenty years of stan­dard Neb­a­don time; where­upon, the Most Highs, with ap­proval from Uversa, or­dered his seg­re­ga­tion and req­ui­si­tioned the Sal­ving­ton rulers for the des­ig­na­tion of a new Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to as­sume di­rec­tion of that strife-torn and con­fused sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

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.

119:2.4And then, by the same tech­nique ob­served at the time of his de­par­ture in con­nec­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal, Mi­chael again took leave of his head­quar­ters sphere. Three days af­ter this un­ex­plained leave-tak­ing there ap­peared among the re­serve corps of the pri­mary La­non­an­dek Sons of Neb­a­don, a new and un­known mem­ber. This new Son ap­peared at noon, unan­nounced and ac­com­pa­nied by a lone ter­tiaphim who bore cre­den­tials from the Uversa An­cients of Days, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton, di­rect­ing that this new Son be as­signed to sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37 as the suc­ces­sor of the de­posed Lu­ten­tia and with full au­thor­ity as act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign pend­ing the ap­point­ment of a new sov­er­eign.

119:2.5For more than sev­en­teen years of uni­verse time this strange and un­known tem­po­rary ruler ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs and wisely ad­ju­di­cated the dif­fi­cul­ties of this con­fused and de­mor­al­ized lo­cal sys­tem. No Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was ever more ar­dently loved or more widespreadly hon­ored and re­spected. In jus­tice and mercy this new ruler set the tur­bu­lent sys­tem in or­der while he painstak­ingly min­is­tered to all his sub­jects, even of­fer­ing his re­bel­lious pre­de­ces­sor the priv­i­lege of shar­ing the sys­tem throne of au­thor­ity if he would only apol­o­gize to Im­manuel for his in­dis­cre­tions. But Lu­ten­tia spurned these over­tures of mercy, well know­ing that this new and strange Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was none other than Mi­chael, the very uni­verse ruler whom he had so re­cently de­fied. But mil­lions of his mis­guided and de­luded fol­low­ers ac­cepted the for­give­ness of this new ruler, known in that age as the Sav­ior Sov­er­eign of the sys­tem of Palo­nia.

119:2.6And then came that event­ful day on which there ar­rived the newly ap­pointed Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, des­ig­nated by the uni­verse au­thor­i­ties as the per­ma­nent suc­ces­sor of the de­posed Lu­ten­tia, and all Palo­nia mourned the de­par­ture of the most no­ble and the most be­nign sys­tem ruler that Neb­a­don had ever known. He was beloved by all the sys­tem and adored by his fel­lows of all groups of the La­non­an­dek Sons. His de­par­ture was not un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous; a great cel­e­bra­tion was ar­ranged when he left the sys­tem head­quar­ters. Even his erring pre­de­ces­sor sent this mes­sage: “Just and righ­teous are you in all your ways. While I con­tinue in re­jec­tion of the Par­a­dise rule, I am com­pelled to con­fess that you are a just and mer­ci­ful ad­min­is­tra­tor.”

119:2.7And then did this tran­sient ruler of a re­bel­lious sys­tem take leave of the planet of his short ad­min­is­tra­tive so­journ, while on the third day there­after Mi­chael ap­peared on Sal­ving­ton and re­sumed the di­rec­tion of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. There soon fol­lowed the third Uversa procla­ma­tion of the ad­vanc­ing ju­ris­dic­tion of the sov­er­eignty and au­thor­ity of Mi­chael. The first procla­ma­tion was made at the time of his ar­rival in Neb­a­don, the sec­ond was is­sued soon af­ter the com­ple­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal, and now the third fol­lows upon the ter­mi­na­tion of the sec­ond or La­non­an­dek mis­sion.

119:3.1The su­preme coun­cil on Sal­ving­ton had just fin­ished the con­sid­er­a­tion of the call of the Life Car­ri­ers on planet 217 in sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61 for the dis­patch to their as­sis­tance of a Ma­te­rial Son. Now this planet was sit­u­ated in a sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds where an­other Sys­tem Sov­er­eign had gone astray, the sec­ond such re­bel­lion in all Neb­a­don up to that time.

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.

119:3.3And, as might have been ex­pected, on the third day there­after there ap­peared, unan­nounced, on the head­quar­ters world of sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61, a strange Ma­te­rial Son, ac­com­pa­nied by a lone se­con­a­phim, ac­cred­ited by the Uversa An­cients of Days, and cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. Im­me­di­ately the act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pointed this new and mys­te­ri­ous Ma­te­rial Son act­ing Plan­e­tary Prince of world 217, and this des­ig­na­tion was at once con­firmed by the Most Highs of con­stel­la­tion 61.

119:3.4Thus did this unique Ma­te­rial Son be­gin his dif­fi­cult ca­reer on a quar­an­tined world of se­ces­sion and re­bel­lion, lo­cated in a be­lea­guered sys­tem with­out any di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the out­side uni­verse, work­ing alone for one whole gen­er­a­tion of plan­e­tary time. This emer­gency Ma­te­rial Son ef­fected the re­pen­tance and recla­ma­tion of the de­fault­ing Plan­e­tary Prince and his en­tire staff and wit­nessed the restora­tion of the planet to the loyal ser­vice of the Par­a­dise rule as es­tab­lished in the lo­cal uni­verses. In due time a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter ar­rived on this re­ju­ve­nated and re­deemed world, and when they had been duly in­stalled as vis­i­ble plan­e­tary rulers, the tran­si­tory or emer­gency Plan­e­tary Prince took for­mal leave, dis­ap­pear­ing at noon one day. On the third day there­after, Mi­chael ap­peared in his ac­cus­tomed place on Sal­ving­ton, and very soon the super­uni­verse broad­casts car­ried the fourth procla­ma­tion of the An­cients of Days an­nounc­ing the fur­ther ad­vance­ment of the sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael in Neb­a­don.

119:3.5I re­gret that I do not have per­mis­sion to nar­rate the pa­tience, for­ti­tude, and skill with which this Ma­te­rial Son met the try­ing sit­u­a­tions on this con­fused planet. The recla­ma­tion of this iso­lated world is one of the most beau­ti­fully touch­ing chap­ters in the an­nals of sal­va­tion through­out Neb­a­don. By the end of this mis­sion it had be­come ev­i­dent to all Neb­a­don as to why their beloved ruler chose to en­gage in these re­peated be­stowals in the like­ness of some sub­or­di­nate or­der of in­tel­li­gent be­ing.

119:3.6The be­stowals of Mi­chael as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son, then as a La­non­an­dek Son, and next as a Ma­te­rial Son are all equally mys­te­ri­ous and be­yond ex­pla­na­tion. In each in­stance he ap­peared sud­denly and as a fully de­vel­oped in­di­vid­ual of the be­stowal group. The mys­tery of such in­car­na­tions will never be known ex­cept to those who have ac­cess to the in­ner cir­cle of the rec­ords on the sa­cred sphere of Sonar­ing­ton.

119:3.7Never, since this mar­velous be­stowal as the Plan­e­tary Prince of a world in iso­la­tion and re­bel­lion, have any of the Ma­te­rial Sons or Daugh­ters in Neb­a­don been tempted to com­plain of their as­sign­ments or to find fault with the dif­fi­cul­ties of their plan­e­tary mis­sions. For all time the Ma­te­rial Sons know that in the Cre­ator Son of the uni­verse they have an un­der­stand­ing sov­er­eign and a sym­pa­thetic friend, one who has in “all points been tried and tested,” even as they must also be tried and tested.

119:3.8Each of these mis­sions was fol­lowed by an age of in­creas­ing ser­vice and loy­alty among all ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gences of uni­verse ori­gin, while each suc­ceed­ing be­stowal age was char­ac­ter­ized by ad­vance­ment and im­prove­ment in all meth­ods of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion and in all tech­niques of gov­ern­ment. Since this be­stowal no Ma­te­rial Son or Daugh­ter has ever know­ingly joined in re­bel­lion against Mi­chael; they love and honor him too de­vot­edly ever con­sciously to re­ject him. Only through de­cep­tion and soph­istry have the Adams of re­cent times been led astray by higher types of rebel per­son­al­i­ties.

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.

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.”

119:4.3Mi­chael was ab­sent from Sal­ving­ton dur­ing this, the se­raphic be­stowal, for a pe­riod of over forty stan­dard uni­verse years. Dur­ing this time he was at­tached as a se­raphic teach­ing coun­selor, what you might de­nom­i­nate a pri­vate sec­re­tary, to twenty-six dif­fer­ent mas­ter teach­ers, func­tion­ing on twenty-two dif­fer­ent worlds. His last or ter­mi­nal as­sign­ment was as coun­selor and helper at­tached to a be­stowal mis­sion of a Trin­ity Teacher Son on world 462 in sys­tem 84 of con­stel­la­tion 3 in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

119:4.4Never, through­out the seven years of this as­sign­ment, was this Trin­ity Teacher Son wholly per­suaded as to the iden­tity of his se­raphic as­so­ciate. True, all ser­a­phim dur­ing that age were re­garded with pe­cu­liar in­ter­est and scrutiny. Full well we all knew that our beloved Sov­er­eign was abroad in the uni­verse, dis­guised as a ser­a­phim, but never could we be cer­tain of his iden­tity. Never was he pos­i­tively iden­ti­fied un­til the time of his at­tach­ment to the be­stowal mis­sion of this Trin­ity Teacher Son. But al­ways through­out this era were the su­preme ser­a­phim re­garded with spe­cial so­lic­i­tude, lest any of us should find that we had un­awares been host to the Sov­er­eign of the uni­verse on a mis­sion of crea­ture be­stowal. And so it has be­come for­ever true, con­cern­ing an­gels, that their Cre­ator and Ruler has been “in all points tried and tested in the like­ness of se­raphic per­son­al­ity.”

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.

119:4.6Now has Mi­chael passed through the be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence of three or­ders of his cre­ated uni­verse Sons: the Mel­chiz­e­deks, the La­non­an­deks, and the Ma­te­rial Sons. Next he con­de­scends to per­son­al­ize in the like­ness of an­gelic life as a su­preme ser­a­phim be­fore turn­ing his at­ten­tion to the var­i­ous phases of the as­cend­ing ca­reers of his low­est form of will crea­tures, the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals of time and space.

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.”

119:5.2If you should visit Uversa to­day, you would hear the re­count­ing of the days when Even­tod so­journed there, this par­tic­u­lar and un­known pil­grim of time and space be­ing known on Uversa by that name. And this as­cend­ing mor­tal, at least a su­perb per­son­al­ity in the ex­act like­ness of the spirit stage of the as­cend­ing mor­tals, lived and func­tioned on Uversa for a pe­riod of eleven years of Or­von­ton stan­dard time. This be­ing re­ceived the as­sign­ments and per­formed the du­ties of a spirit mor­tal in com­mon with his fel­lows from the var­i­ous lo­cal uni­verses of Or­von­ton. In “all points he was tested and tried, even as his fel­lows,” and on all oc­ca­sions he proved wor­thy of the con­fi­dence and trust of his su­pe­ri­ors, while he un­fail­ingly com­manded the re­spect and loyal ad­mi­ra­tion of his fel­low spir­its.

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.

119:5.4Not un­til the com­ple­tion of this be­stowal did it fi­nally dawn upon us that Mi­chael was prob­a­bly go­ing to in­car­nate in the like­ness of his var­i­ous or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, from the high­est Mel­chiz­e­deks right on down to the mor­tals of flesh and blood on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. About this time the Mel­chiz­e­dek col­leges be­gan to teach the prob­a­bil­ity of Mi­chael’s some­time in­car­nat­ing as a mor­tal of the flesh, and there oc­curred much spec­u­la­tion as to the pos­si­ble tech­nique of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble be­stowal. That Mi­chael had in per­son per­formed in the role of an as­cend­ing mor­tal lent new and added in­ter­est to the whole scheme of crea­ture pro­gres­sion all the way up through both the lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse.

119:5.5Still, the tech­nique of these suc­ces­sive be­stowals re­mained a mys­tery. Even Ga­briel con­fesses that he does not com­pre­hend the method whereby this Par­a­dise Son and uni­verse Cre­ator could, at will, as­sume the per­son­al­ity and live the life of one of his own sub­or­di­nate crea­tures.

119:6.1Now that all Sal­ving­ton was fa­mil­iar with the pre­lim­i­nar­ies of an im­pend­ing be­stowal, Mi­chael called the so­journ­ers on the head­quar­ters planet to­gether and, for the first time, un­folded the re­main­der of the in­car­na­tion plan, an­nounc­ing that he was soon to leave Sal­ving­ton for the pur­pose of as­sum­ing the ca­reer of a mor­ontia mor­tal at the courts of the Most High Fa­thers on the head­quar­ters planet of the fifth con­stel­la­tion. And then we heard for the first time the an­nounce­ment that his sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal would be made on some evo­lu­tion­ary world in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh.

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.

119:6.3Mi­chael ap­peared on the head­quar­ters of con­stel­la­tion five as a full-fledged mor­ontia mor­tal of as­cend­ing sta­tus. I re­gret that I am for­bid­den to re­veal the de­tails of this un­num­bered mor­ontia mor­tal’s ca­reer, for it was one of the most ex­traor­di­nary and amaz­ing epochs in Mi­chael’s be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence, not even ex­cept­ing his dra­matic and tragic so­journ on Uran­tia. But among the many re­stric­tions im­posed upon me in ac­cept­ing this com­mis­sion is one which for­bids my un­der­tak­ing to un­fold the de­tails of this won­der­ful ca­reer of Mi­chael as the mor­ontia mor­tal of En­dan­tum.

119:6.4When Mi­chael re­turned from this mor­ontia be­stowal, it was ap­par­ent to all of us that our Cre­ator had be­come a fel­low crea­ture, that the Uni­verse Sov­er­eign was also the friend and sym­pa­thetic helper of even the low­est form of cre­ated in­tel­li­gence in his realms. We had noted this pro­gres­sive ac­quire­ment of the crea­ture’s view­point in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion be­fore this, for it had been grad­u­ally ap­pear­ing, but it be­came more ap­par­ent af­ter the com­ple­tion of the mor­ontia mor­tal be­stowal, even still more so af­ter his re­turn from the ca­reer of the car­pen­ter’s son on Uran­tia.

119:6.5We were in­formed in ad­vance by Ga­briel of the time of Mi­chael’s re­lease from the mor­ontia be­stowal, and ac­cord­ingly we ar­ranged a suit­able re­cep­tion on Sal­ving­ton. Mil­lions upon mil­lions of be­ings were as­sem­bled from the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds of Neb­a­don, and a ma­jor­ity of the so­journ­ers on the worlds ad­ja­cent to Sal­ving­ton were gath­ered to­gether to wel­come him back to the ruler­ship of his uni­verse. In re­sponse to our many ad­dresses of wel­come and ex­pres­sions of ap­pre­ci­a­tion of a Sov­er­eign so vi­tally in­ter­ested in his crea­tures, he only replied: “I have sim­ply been about my Fa­ther’s busi­ness. I am only do­ing the plea­sure of the Par­a­dise Sons who love and crave to un­der­stand their crea­tures.”

119:6.6But from that day down to the hour when Mi­chael em­barked upon his Uran­tia ad­ven­ture as the Son of Man, all Neb­a­don con­tin­ued to dis­cuss the many ex­ploits of their Sov­er­eign Ruler as he func­tioned on En­dan­tum as the be­stowal in­car­na­tion of a mor­ontia mor­tal of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion, be­ing in all points tested like his fel­lows as­sem­bled from the ma­te­rial worlds of the en­tire con­stel­la­tion of his so­journ.

119:7.1For tens of thou­sands of years we all looked for­ward to the sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal of Mi­chael. Ga­briel had taught us that this ter­mi­nal be­stowal would be made in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but we were wholly ig­no­rant of the time, place, and man­ner of this cul­mi­nat­ing ad­ven­ture.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › announced after default of Adam and Eve

119:7.2The pub­lic an­nounce­ment that Mi­chael had se­lected Uran­tia as the the­ater for his fi­nal be­stowal was made shortly af­ter we learned about the de­fault of Adam and Eve. And thus, for more than thirty-five thou­sand years, your world oc­cu­pied a very con­spic­u­ous place in the coun­cils of the en­tire uni­verse. There was no se­crecy (aside from the in­car­na­tion mys­tery) con­nected with any step in the Uran­tia be­stowal. From first to last, up to the fi­nal and tri­umphant re­turn of Mi­chael to Sal­ving­ton as su­preme Uni­verse Sov­er­eign, there was the fullest uni­verse pub­lic­ity of all that tran­spired on your small but highly hon­ored world.

119:7.3While we be­lieved that this would be the method, we never knew, un­til the time of the event it­self, that Mi­chael would ap­pear on earth as a help­less in­fant of the realm. Thereto­fore had he al­ways ap­peared as a fully de­vel­oped in­di­vid­ual of the per­son­al­ity group of the be­stowal se­lec­tion, and it was a thrilling an­nounce­ment which was broad­cast from Sal­ving­ton telling that the babe of Beth­le­hem had been born on Uran­tia.

119:7.4We then not only re­al­ized that our Cre­ator and friend was tak­ing the most pre­car­i­ous step in all his ca­reer, ap­par­ently risk­ing his po­si­tion and au­thor­ity on this be­stowal as a help­less in­fant, but we also un­der­stood that his ex­pe­ri­ence in this fi­nal and mor­tal be­stowal would eter­nally en­throne him as the undis­puted and su­preme sov­er­eign of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. For a third of a cen­tury of earth time all eyes in all parts of this lo­cal uni­verse were fo­cused on Uran­tia. All in­tel­li­gences re­al­ized that the last be­stowal was in prog­ress, and as we had long known of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia and of the Cali­gas­tia dis­af­fec­tion on Uran­tia, we well un­der­stood the in­ten­sity of the strug­gle which would en­sue when our ruler con­de­scended to in­car­nate on Uran­tia in the hum­ble form and like­ness of mor­tal flesh.

119:7.5Joshua ben Joseph, the Jew­ish baby, was con­ceived and was born into the world just as all other ba­bies be­fore and since ex­cept that this par­tic­u­lar baby was the in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a di­vine Son of Par­a­dise and the cre­ator of all this lo­cal uni­verse of things and be­ings. And this mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion of De­ity within the hu­man form of Je­sus, oth­er­wise of nat­u­ral ori­gin on the world, will for­ever re­main un­solved. Even in eter­nity you will never know the tech­nique and method of the in­car­na­tion of the Cre­ator in the form and like­ness of his crea­tures. That is the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, and such mys­ter­ies are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of those di­vine Sons who have passed through the be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence.

119:7.6Cer­tain wise men of earth knew of Mi­chael’s im­pend­ing ar­rival. Through the con­tacts of one world with an­other, these wise men of spir­i­tual in­sight learned of the forth­com­ing be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. And the ser­a­phim did, through the mid­way crea­tures, make an­nounce­ment to a group of Chaldean priests whose leader was Ard­non. These men of God vis­ited the new­born child in the manger. The only super­nat­u­ral event as­so­ci­ated with the birth of Je­sus was this an­nounce­ment to Ard­non and his as­so­ciates by the ser­a­phim of for­mer at­tach­ment to Adam and Eve in the first gar­den.

119:7.7Je­sus’ hu­man par­ents were av­er­age peo­ple of their day and gen­er­a­tion, and this in­car­nated Son of God was thus born of woman and was reared in the or­di­nary man­ner of the chil­dren of that race and age.

119:7.8The story of Mi­chael’s so­journ on Uran­tia, the nar­ra­tive of the mor­tal be­stowal of the Cre­ator Son on your world, is a mat­ter be­yond the scope and pur­pose of this nar­ra­tive.

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.

• bestowals › began 1 billion years ago; occurred at 150 million year intervals

119:8.2It re­quired al­most one bil­lion years of Uran­tia time to com­plete the be­stowal ca­reer of Mi­chael and to ef­fect the fi­nal es­tab­lish­ment of his su­preme au­thor­ity in the uni­verse of his own cre­ation. Mi­chael was born a cre­ator, ed­u­cated an ad­min­is­tra­tor, trained an ex­ec­u­tive, but he was re­quired to earn his sov­er­eignty by ex­pe­ri­ence. And thus has your lit­tle world be­come known through­out all Neb­a­don as the arena wherein Mi­chael com­pleted the ex­pe­ri­ence which is re­quired of ev­ery Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son be­fore he is given un­lim­ited con­trol and di­rec­tion of the uni­verse of his own mak­ing. As you as­cend the lo­cal uni­verse, you will learn more about the ide­als of the per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned in Mi­chael’s pre­vi­ous be­stowals.

• bestowals › subordination to variously constituted wills of Father, Son, and Spirit

119:8.3In com­plet­ing his crea­ture be­stowals, Mi­chael was not only es­tab­lish­ing his own sov­er­eignty but also was aug­ment­ing the evolv­ing sov­er­eignty of God the Su­preme. In the course of these be­stowals the Cre­ator Son not only en­gaged in a de­scend­ing ex­plo­ration of the var­i­ous na­tures of crea­ture per­son­al­ity, but he also achieved the rev­e­la­tion of the var­i­ously di­ver­si­fied wills of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, whose syn­thetic unity, as re­vealed by the Su­preme Cre­ators, is rev­e­la­tory of the will of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• bestowals › 1st bestowal › manifested will of the Father, Son, and Spirit
• bestowals › 2nd bestowal › manifested will of Father and Son
• bestowals › 3rd bestowal › revealed will of Father and Spirit
• bestowals › 4th bestowal › revealed will of Son and Spirit
• bestowals › 5th bestowal › portrayed will of Infinite Spirit
• bestowals › 6th bestowal › revealed will of Eternal Son
• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › lived will of Universal Father

119:8.4These var­i­ous will as­pects of the De­i­ties are eter­nally per­son­al­ized in the dif­fer­ing na­tures of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, and each of Mi­chael’s be­stowals was pe­cu­liarly rev­e­la­tory of one of these di­vin­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions. On his Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal he man­i­fested the united will of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit, on his La­non­an­dek be­stowal the will of the Fa­ther and the Son; on the Adamic be­stowal he re­vealed the will of the Fa­ther and the Spirit, on the se­raphic be­stowal the will of the Son and the Spirit; on the Uversa mor­tal be­stowal he por­trayed the will of the Con­joint Ac­tor, on the mor­ontia mor­tal be­stowal the will of the Eter­nal Son; and on the Uran­tia ma­te­rial be­stowal he lived the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, even as a mor­tal of flesh and blood.

• bestowals › created possibility for sovereignty of Supreme in Nebadon

119:8.5The com­ple­tion of these seven be­stowals re­sulted in the lib­er­a­tion of Mi­chael’s su­preme sov­er­eignty and also in the cre­ation of the pos­si­bil­ity for the sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme in Neb­a­don. On none of Mi­chael’s be­stowals did he re­veal God the Su­preme, but the sum to­tal of all seven be­stowals is a new Neb­a­don rev­e­la­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• description › sevenfold Master Son

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.

• will serve in outer space in next universe age

119:8.7In pass­ing through the ex­pe­ri­ence of re­veal­ing the Seven Mas­ter Spirit wills of the Trin­ity, the Cre­ator Son has passed through the ex­pe­ri­ence of re­veal­ing the will of the Su­preme. In func­tion­ing as a rev­e­la­tor of the will of Su­prem­acy, Mi­chael, to­gether with all other Mas­ter Sons, has iden­ti­fied him­self eter­nally with the Su­preme. In this uni­verse age he re­veals the Su­preme and par­tic­i­pates in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of Su­prem­acy. But in the next uni­verse age we be­lieve he will be col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Su­preme Be­ing in the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity for and in the uni­verses of outer space.

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

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

120:0.1As­signed by Ga­briel to super­vise the re­state­ment of the life of Mi­chael when on Uran­tia and in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, I, the Mel­chiz­e­dek di­rec­tor of the rev­e­la­tory com­mis­sion in­trusted with this task, am au­tho­rized to pre­sent this nar­ra­tive of cer­tain events which im­me­di­ately pre­ceded the Cre­ator Son’s ar­rival on Uran­tia to em­bark upon the ter­mi­nal phase of his uni­verse be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence. To live such iden­ti­cal lives as he im­poses upon the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of his own cre­ation, thus to be­stow him­self in the like­ness of his var­i­ous or­ders of cre­ated be­ings, is a part of the price which ev­ery Cre­ator Son must pay for the full and su­preme sov­er­eignty of his self-made uni­verse of things and be­ings.

120:0.2Be­fore the events I am about to de­lin­eate, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don had be­stowed him­self six times af­ter the simil­i­tude of six dif­fer­ing or­ders of his di­verse cre­ation of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. Then he pre­pared to de­scend upon Uran­tia in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, the low­est or­der of his in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures, and, as such a hu­man of the ma­te­rial realm, to ex­e­cute the fi­nal act in the drama of the ac­quire­ment of uni­verse sov­er­eignty in ac­cor­dance with the man­dates of the di­vine Par­a­dise Rulers of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• bestowals › subordination to variously constituted wills of Father, Son, and Spirit
• sovereignty › could have asserted personal sovereignty at any moment

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to complete required experience; subordinate himself to will of Father
• bestowals › could rule as representative of Trinity only after all 7 bestowals, acquiring thereby supreme sovereignty

120:0.4Mi­chael, there­fore, had a dou­ble pur­pose in the mak­ing of these seven be­stowals upon the var­i­ous or­ders of his uni­verse crea­tures: First, he was com­plet­ing the re­quired ex­pe­ri­ence in crea­ture un­der­stand­ing which is de­manded of all Cre­ator Sons be­fore they as­sume com­plete sov­er­eignty. At any time a Cre­ator Son may rule his uni­verse in his own right, but he can rule as the su­preme rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity only af­ter pass­ing through the seven uni­verse-crea­ture be­stowals. Sec­ond, he was as­pir­ing to the priv­i­lege of rep­re­sent­ing the max­i­mum au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity which can be ex­er­cised in the di­rect and per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse. Ac­cord­ingly, did Mi­chael, dur­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of each of his uni­verse be­stowals, suc­cess­fully and ac­cept­ably vol­un­tar­ily sub­or­di­nate him­self to the var­i­ously con­sti­tuted wills of the di­verse as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. That is, on the first be­stowal he was sub­ject to the com­bined will of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit; on the sec­ond be­stowal to the will of the Fa­ther and the Son; on the third be­stowal to the will of the Fa­ther and the Spirit; on the fourth be­stowal to the will of the Son and the Spirit; on the fifth be­stowal to the will of the In­fi­nite Spirit; on the sixth be­stowal to the will of the Eter­nal Son; and dur­ing the sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal, on Uran­tia, to the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

120:0.5Mi­chael, there­fore, com­bines in his per­sonal sov­er­eignty the di­vine will of the sev­en­fold phases of the uni­ver­sal Cre­ators with the un­der­stand­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of his lo­cal uni­verse crea­tures. Thus has his ad­min­is­tra­tion be­come rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the great­est pos­si­ble power and au­thor­ity al­though di­vested of all ar­bi­trary as­sump­tions. His power is un­lim­ited since it is de­rived from ex­pe­ri­enced as­so­ci­a­tion with the Par­a­dise De­i­ties; his au­thor­ity is un­ques­tioned inas­much as it was ac­quired through ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the like­ness of uni­verse crea­tures; his sov­er­eignty is su­preme since it em­bod­ies at one and the same time the sev­en­fold view­point of Par­a­dise De­ity with the crea­ture view­point of time and space.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › powers conferred upon Gabriel and Immanuel

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.

120:0.7In this con­nec­tion it should be borne in mind that Mi­chael had elected to ex­e­cute this be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, sub­ject to the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. The Cre­ator Son re­quired in­struc­tions from no one in or­der to ef­fect this in­car­na­tion for the sole pur­pose of achiev­ing uni­verse sov­er­eignty, but he had em­barked upon a pro­gram of the rev­e­la­tion of the Su­preme which in­volved co-op­er­a­tive func­tion­ing with the di­verse wills of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. Thus his sov­er­eignty, when fi­nally and per­son­ally ac­quired, would ac­tu­ally be all-in­clu­sive of the sev­en­fold will of De­ity as it cul­mi­nates in the Su­preme. He had, there­fore, six times pre­vi­ously been in­structed by the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the var­i­ous Par­a­dise De­i­ties and as­so­ci­a­tions thereof; and now he was in­structed by the Union of Days, am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don, act­ing on be­half of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › as Jesus of Nazareth

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

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › appeared as helpless babe, a new experience; earlier bestowals as fully developed beings
• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › personally chose Urantia

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.

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › no extraplanetary support

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.

• sovereignty › M. earned authority through actual experience

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › commission by Immanuel › single thought to be revealing Father

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.

• sovereignty › could have asserted personal sovereignty at any moment

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › commission by Immanuel › counseled to function largely as teacher; atone for Caligastia and Adamic default; terminate Lucifer rebellion
• description › Planetary Prince of Urantia

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › commission by Immanuel › set rebellion-segregated man spiritually free
• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › permitted universal bestowal of Adjusters

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › could terminate incarnation at will after arrival of his Adjuster
• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › Immanuel responsible for M. before arrival of his 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:

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › commission by Immanuel › give attention to things practical and immediately helpful to fellow men

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.

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

120:4.4Never lose sight of the fact that the su­preme spir­i­tual pur­pose of the Mi­chael be­stowal was to en­hance the rev­e­la­tion of God.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › most favorable time for incarnation ever

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

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › personally chose Urantia

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.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › did not select parents

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.

• sovereignty › M. earned authority through actual experience

127:0.4Slowly, but cer­tainly and by ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence, this di­vine Son is earn­ing the right to be­come sov­er­eign of his uni­verse, the un­ques­tioned and su­preme ruler of all cre­ated in­tel­li­gences on all lo­cal uni­verse worlds, the un­der­stand­ing refuge of the be­ings of all ages and of all de­grees of per­sonal en­dow­ment and ex­pe­ri­ence.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › did not select parents
• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › personally chose Urantia

128:0.1As Je­sus of Naz­a­reth en­tered upon the early years of his adult life, he had lived, and con­tin­ued to live, a nor­mal and av­er­age hu­man life on earth. Je­sus came into this world just as other chil­dren come; he had noth­ing to do with se­lect­ing his par­ents. He did choose this par­tic­u­lar world as the planet whereon to carry out his sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal, his in­car­na­tion in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but oth­er­wise he en­tered the world in a nat­u­ral man­ner, grow­ing up as a child of the realm and wrestling with the vi­cis­si­tudes of his en­vi­ron­ment just as do other mor­tals on this and on sim­i­lar worlds.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

128:0.2Al­ways be mind­ful of the two­fold pur­pose of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia:

128:0.31. The mas­ter­ing of the ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing the full life of a hu­man crea­ture in mor­tal flesh, the com­ple­tion of his sov­er­eignty in Neb­a­don.

128:0.42. The rev­e­la­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the mor­tal dwellers on the worlds of time and space and the more ef­fec­tive lead­ing of these same mor­tals to a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

128:1.1With the at­tain­ment of adult years Je­sus be­gan in earnest and with full self-con­scious­ness the task of com­plet­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of mas­ter­ing the knowl­edge of the life of his low­est form of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures, thereby fi­nally and fully earn­ing the right of un­qual­i­fied ruler­ship of his self-cre­ated uni­verse. He en­tered upon this stu­pen­dous task fully re­al­iz­ing his dual na­ture. But he had al­ready ef­fec­tively com­bined these two na­tures into one—Je­sus of Naz­a­reth.

• description › creator of Nebadon

128:1.13Af­ter his bap­tism he thought noth­ing of per­mit­ting his sin­cere be­liev­ers and grate­ful fol­low­ers to wor­ship him. Even while he wres­tled with pov­erty and toiled with his hands to pro­vide the ne­ces­si­ties of life for his fam­ily, his aware­ness that he was a Son of God was grow­ing; he knew that he was the maker of the heav­ens and this very earth whereon he was now liv­ing out his hu­man ex­is­tence. And the hosts of ce­les­tial be­ings through­out the great and on­look­ing uni­verse like­wise knew that this man of Naz­a­reth was their beloved Sov­er­eign and Cre­ator-fa­ther. A pro­found sus­pense per­vaded the uni­verse of Neb­a­don through­out these years; all ce­les­tial eyes were con­tin­u­ously fo­cused on Uran­tia—on Pales­tine.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

128:7.6Never lose sight of the fact that the prime mis­sion of Je­sus in his sev­enth be­stowal was the ac­quire­ment of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, the achieve­ment of the sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don. And in the gath­er­ing of this very ex­pe­ri­ence he made the su­preme rev­e­la­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther to Uran­tia and to his en­tire lo­cal uni­verse. In­ci­den­tal to these pur­poses he also un­der­took to un­tan­gle the com­pli­cated af­fairs of this planet as they were re­lated to the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

129:3.5In all your ef­forts to de­ci­pher the mean­ing of Je­sus’ life on Uran­tia, you must be mind­ful of the mo­ti­va­tion of the Mi­chael be­stowal. If you would com­pre­hend the mean­ing of many of his ap­par­ently strange do­ings, you must dis­cern the pur­pose of his so­journ on your world. He was con­sis­tently care­ful not to build up an over­at­trac­tive and at­ten­tion-con­sum­ing per­sonal ca­reer. He wanted to make no un­usual or over­pow­er­ing ap­peals to his fel­low men. He was ded­i­cated to the work of re­veal­ing the heav­enly Fa­ther to his fel­low mor­tals and at the same time was con­se­crated to the sub­lime task of liv­ing his mor­tal earth life all the while sub­ject to the will of the same Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

129:3.6It will also al­ways be help­ful in un­der­stand­ing Je­sus’ life on earth if all mor­tal stu­dents of this di­vine be­stowal will re­mem­ber that, while he lived this life of in­car­na­tion on Uran­tia, he lived it for his en­tire uni­verse. There was some­thing spe­cial and in­spir­ing as­so­ci­ated with the life he lived in the flesh of mor­tal na­ture for ev­ery sin­gle in­hab­ited sphere through­out all the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. The same is also true of all those worlds which have be­come hab­it­able since the event­ful times of his so­journ on Uran­tia. And it will like­wise be equally true of all worlds which may be­come in­hab­ited by will crea­tures in all the fu­ture his­tory of this lo­cal uni­verse.

129:3.7The Son of Man, dur­ing the time and through the ex­pe­ri­ences of this tour of the Ro­man world, prac­ti­cally com­pleted his ed­u­ca­tional con­tact-train­ing with the di­ver­si­fied peo­ples of the world of his day and gen­er­a­tion. By the time of his re­turn to Naz­a­reth, through the medium of this travel-train­ing he had just about learned how man lived and wrought out his ex­is­tence on Uran­tia.

129:3.8The real pur­pose of his trip around the Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin was to know men. He came very close to hun­dreds of hu­mankind on this jour­ney. He met and loved all man­ner of men, rich and poor, high and low, black and white, ed­u­cated and un­e­d­u­cated, cul­tured and un­cul­tured, an­i­mal­is­tic and spir­i­tual, re­li­gious and ir­re­li­gious, moral and im­moral.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

129:4.7And this was his true and su­preme pur­pose. He did not come down to live on Uran­tia as the per­fect and de­tailed ex­am­ple for any child or adult, any man or woman, in that age or any other. True it is, in­deed, that in his full, rich, beau­ti­ful, and no­ble life we may all find much that is ex­qui­sitely ex­em­plary, di­vinely in­spir­ing, but this is be­cause he lived a true and gen­uinely hu­man life. Je­sus did not live his life on earth in or­der to set an ex­am­ple for all other hu­man be­ings to copy. He lived this life in the flesh by the same mercy min­istry that you all may live your lives on earth; and as he lived his mor­tal life in his day and as he was, so did he thereby set the ex­am­ple for all of us thus to live our lives in our day and as we are. You may not as­pire to live his life, but you can re­solve to live your lives even as, and by the same means that, he lived his. Je­sus may not be the tech­ni­cal and de­tailed ex­am­ple for all the mor­tals of all ages on all the realms of this lo­cal uni­verse, but he is ev­er­last­ingly the in­spi­ra­tion and guide of all Par­a­dise pil­grims from the worlds of ini­tial as­cen­sion up through a uni­verse of uni­verses and on through Ha­vona to Par­a­dise. Je­sus is the new and liv­ing way from man to God, from the par­tial to the per­fect, from the earthly to the heav­enly, from time to eter­nity.

• sovereignty › won on Mount Hermon

134:8.9On an af­ter­noon in late sum­mer, amid the trees and in the si­lence of na­ture, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don won the un­ques­tioned sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse. On that day he com­pleted the task set for Cre­ator Sons to live to the full the in­car­nated life in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. The uni­verse an­nounce­ment of this mo­men­tous achieve­ment was not made un­til the day of his bap­tism, months af­ter­ward, but it all re­ally took place that day on the moun­tain. And when Je­sus came down from his so­journ on Mount Her­mon, the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia and the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion on Uran­tia were vir­tu­ally set­tled. Je­sus had paid the last price re­quired of him to at­tain the sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse, which in it­self reg­u­lates the sta­tus of all rebels and de­ter­mines that all such fu­ture up­heavals (if they ever oc­cur) may be dealt with sum­mar­ily and ef­fec­tively. Ac­cord­ingly, it may be seen that the so-called “great temp­ta­tion” of Je­sus took place some­time be­fore his bap­tism and not just af­ter that event.

• description › Planetary Prince of Urantia
• sovereignty › won on Mount Hermon

136:3.1Je­sus had en­dured the great temp­ta­tion of his mor­tal be­stowal be­fore his bap­tism when he had been wet with the dews of Mount Her­mon for six weeks. There on Mount Her­mon, as an un­aided mor­tal of the realm, he had met and de­feated the Uran­tia pre­tender, Cali­gas­tia, the prince of this world. That event­ful day, on the uni­verse rec­ords, Je­sus of Naz­a­reth had be­come the Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. And this Prince of Uran­tia, so soon to be pro­claimed su­preme Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don, now went into forty days of re­tire­ment to for­mu­late the plans and de­ter­mine upon the tech­nique of pro­claim­ing the new king­dom of God in the hearts of men.

• description › mercy-dominated Son

140:8.113. So­cial at­ti­tude. The Jew­ish rab­bis had long de­bated the ques­tion: Who is my neigh­bor? Je­sus came pre­sent­ing the idea of ac­tive and spon­ta­neous kind­ness, a love of one’s fel­low men so gen­uine that it ex­panded the neigh­bor­hood to in­clude the whole world, thereby mak­ing all men one’s neigh­bors. But with all this, Je­sus was in­ter­ested only in the in­di­vid­ual, not the mass. Je­sus was not a so­ci­ol­o­gist, but he did la­bor to break down all forms of self­ish iso­la­tion. He taught pure sym­pa­thy, com­pas­sion. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is a mercy-dom­i­nated Son; com­pas­sion is his very na­ture.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › commission by Immanuel

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.

• description › not the Eternal Son

161:1.61. The Fa­ther in Par­a­dise does en­joy equal­ity of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with at least two other be­ings who are fully equal to him­self and wholly like him­self—the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit. In view of the doc­trine of the Trin­ity, the Greek was com­pelled to con­cede the per­son­al­ity pos­si­bil­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. (It was the later con­sid­er­a­tion of these dis­cus­sions which led to the en­larged con­cep­tion of the Trin­ity in the minds of the twelve apos­tles. Of course, it was the gen­eral be­lief that Je­sus was the Eter­nal Son.)

• description › Planetary Prince of Urantia

176:4.4Many of us are in­clined to be­lieve that Je­sus will re­turn to Uran­tia many times dur­ing the ages to come. We do not have his spe­cific prom­ise to make these plu­ral vis­its, but it seems most prob­a­ble that he who car­ries among his uni­verse ti­tles that of Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia will many times visit the world whose con­quest con­ferred such a unique ti­tle upon him.

• sovereignty › M. received all power and authority after bestowals

179:2.3Je­sus be­gan thus to talk to his apos­tles be­cause he knew that his hour had come. He un­der­stood that the time had come when he was to re­turn to the Fa­ther, and that his work on earth was al­most fin­ished. The Mas­ter knew he had re­vealed the Fa­ther’s love on earth and had shown forth his mercy to man­kind, and that he had com­pleted that for which he came into the world, even to the re­ceiv­ing of all power and au­thor­ity in heaven and on earth. Like­wise, he knew Ju­das Is­car­iot had fully made up his mind to de­liver him that night into the hands of his en­e­mies. He fully re­al­ized that this traitorous be­trayal was the work of Ju­das, but that it also pleased Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and Cali­gas­tia the prince of dark­ness. But he feared none of those who sought his spir­i­tual over­throw any more than he feared those who sought to ac­com­plish his phys­i­cal death. The Mas­ter had but one anx­i­ety, and that was for the safety and sal­va­tion of his cho­sen fol­low­ers. And so, with the full knowl­edge that the Fa­ther had put all things un­der his au­thor­ity, the Mas­ter now pre­pared to en­act the para­ble of broth­erly love.

• no man goes to Father except through

180:3.7When Je­sus heard Thomas, he an­swered: “Thomas, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man goes to the Fa­ther ex­cept through me. All who find the Fa­ther, first find me. If you know me, you know the way to the Fa­ther. And you do know me, for you have lived with me and you now see me.”

• sovereignty › M. received all power and authority after bestowals

180:4.1Je­sus con­tin­ued to teach, say­ing: “When I have gone to the Fa­ther, and af­ter he has fully ac­cepted the work I have done for you on earth, and af­ter I have re­ceived the fi­nal sov­er­eignty of my own do­main, I shall say to my Fa­ther: Hav­ing left my chil­dren alone on earth, it is in ac­cor­dance with my prom­ise to send them an­other teacher. And when the Fa­ther shall ap­prove, I will pour out the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh. Al­ready is my Fa­ther’s spirit in your hearts, and when this day shall come, you will also have me with you even as you now have the Fa­ther. This new gift is the spirit of liv­ing truth. The un­be­liev­ers will not at first lis­ten to the teach­ings of this spirit, but the sons of light will all re­ceive him gladly and with a whole heart. And you shall know this spirit when he comes even as you have known me, and you will re­ceive this gift in your hearts, and he will abide with you. You thus per­ceive that I am not go­ing to leave you with­out help and guid­ance. I will not leave you des­o­late. To­day I can be with you only in per­son. In the times to come I will be with you and all other men who de­sire my pres­ence, wher­ever you may be, and with each of you at the same time. Do you not dis­cern that it is bet­ter for me to go away; that I leave you in the flesh so that I may the bet­ter and the more fully be with you in the spirit?

• sovereignty › M. received all power and authority after bestowals

182:1.3“Fa­ther, my hour has come; now glo­rify your Son that the Son may glo­rify you. I know that you have given me full au­thor­ity over all liv­ing crea­tures in my realm, and I will give eter­nal life to all who will be­come faith sons of God. And this is eter­nal life, that my crea­tures should know you as the only true God and Fa­ther of all, and that they should be­lieve in him whom you sent into the world. Fa­ther, I have ex­alted you on earth and have ac­com­plished the work which you gave me to do. I have al­most fin­ished my be­stowal upon the chil­dren of our own cre­ation; there re­mains only for me to lay down my life in the flesh. And now, O my Fa­ther, glo­rify me with the glory which I had with you be­fore this world was and re­ceive me once more at your right hand.

• description › God of our creation

183:3.4Je­sus made one last ef­fort to save Ju­das from ac­tu­ally be­tray­ing him in that, be­fore the traitor could reach him, he stepped to one side and, ad­dress­ing the fore­most sol­dier on the left, the cap­tain of the Ro­mans, said, “Whom do you seek?” The cap­tain an­swered, “Je­sus of Naz­a­reth.” Then Je­sus stepped up im­me­di­ately in front of the of­fi­cer and, stand­ing there in the calm majesty of the God of all this cre­ation, said, “I am he.” Many of this armed band had heard Je­sus teach in the tem­ple, oth­ers had learned about his mighty works, and when they heard him thus boldly an­nounce his iden­tity, those in the front ranks fell sud­denly back­ward. They were over­come with sur­prise at his calm and ma­jes­tic an­nounce­ment of iden­tity. There was, there­fore, no need for Ju­das to go on with his plan of be­trayal. The Mas­ter had boldly re­vealed him­self to his en­e­mies, and they could have taken him with­out Ju­das’s as­sis­tance. But the traitor had to do some­thing to ac­count for his pres­ence with this armed band, and be­sides, he wanted to make a show of car­ry­ing out his part of the be­trayal bar­gain with the rulers of the Jews in or­der to be el­i­gi­ble for the great re­ward and hon­ors which he be­lieved would be heaped upon him in com­pen­sa­tion for his prom­ise to de­liver Je­sus into their hands.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

185:3.4“Then you are a king af­ter all?” said Pi­late. And Je­sus an­swered: “Yes, I am such a king, and my king­dom is the fam­ily of the faith sons of my Fa­ther who is in heaven. For this pur­pose was I born into this world, even that I should show my Fa­ther to all men and bear wit­ness to the truth of God. And even now do I de­clare to you that ev­ery one who loves the truth hears my voice.”

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to complete required experience; subordinate himself to will of Father
• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

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.”

• sovereignty › M. earned authority through actual experience

191:3.4In this man­ner did Mi­chael of Neb­a­don com­plete his ser­vice of uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence since he had al­ready, in con­nec­tion with his pre­vi­ous be­stowals, ex­pe­ri­enced to the full the life of the as­cen­dant mor­tals of time and space from the so­journ on the head­quar­ters of the con­stel­la­tion even on to, and through, the ser­vice of the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse. And it was by these very mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ences that the Cre­ator Son of Neb­a­don re­ally fin­ished and ac­cept­ably ter­mi­nated his sev­enth and fi­nal uni­verse be­stowal.

• bestowals › 7th (Urantia bestowal) › purposes of 7th bestowal › to gain creature experience, universe sovereignty, settle Lucifer rebellion, reveal God, lead men to become son-conscious

193:0.3“And now you should give ear to my words lest you again make the mis­take of hear­ing my teach­ing with the mind while in your hearts you fail to com­pre­hend the mean­ing. From the be­gin­ning of my so­journ as one of you, I taught you that my one pur­pose was to re­veal my Fa­ther in heaven to his chil­dren on earth. I have lived the God-re­veal­ing be­stowal that you might ex­pe­ri­ence the God-know­ing ca­reer. I have re­vealed God as your Fa­ther in heaven; I have re­vealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact be­comes an eter­nal and liv­ing truth in your hearts. When, by liv­ing faith, you be­come di­vinely God-con­scious, you are then born of the spirit as chil­dren of light and life, even the eter­nal life where­with you shall as­cend the uni­verse of uni­verses and at­tain the ex­pe­ri­ence of find­ing God the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.