Paradise Sons of God

• bestowals › Eternal Son comes to mortals as personality in
• bestowals › in every respect become like mortals
• bestowals › incarnation is secret of Sonarington

7:5.4The Eter­nal Son comes not to mor­tal man as the di­vine will, the Thought Ad­juster in­dwelling the hu­man mind, but the Eter­nal Son did come to mor­tal man on Uran­tia when the di­vine per­son­al­ity of his Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, in­car­nated in the hu­man na­ture of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth. To share the ex­pe­ri­ence of cre­ated per­son­al­i­ties, the Par­a­dise Sons of God must as­sume the very na­tures of such crea­tures and in­car­nate their di­vine per­son­al­i­ties as the ac­tual crea­tures them­selves. In­car­na­tion, the se­cret of Sonar­ing­ton, is the tech­nique of the Son’s es­cape from the oth­er­wise all-en­com­pass­ing fet­ters of per­son­al­ity ab­so­lutism.

• forgather every millennium for conclaves

7:6.1The lack of a knowl­edge of the mul­ti­ple Sons of God is a source of great con­fu­sion on Uran­tia. And this ig­no­rance per­sists in the face of such state­ments as the rec­ord of a con­clave of these di­vine per­son­al­i­ties: “When the Sons of God pro­claimed joy, and all of the Morn­ing Stars sang to­gether.” Ev­ery mil­len­nium of sec­tor stan­dard time the var­i­ous or­ders of the di­vine Sons for­gather for their pe­ri­odic con­claves.

• have all of Eternal Son’s divine nature, though not all attributes

7:6.2The Eter­nal Son is the per­sonal source of the adorable at­tri­butes of mercy and ser­vice which so abun­dantly char­ac­ter­ize all or­ders of the de­scend­ing Sons of God as they func­tion through­out cre­ation. All the di­vine na­ture, if not all the in­fin­ity of at­tri­butes, the Eter­nal Son un­fail­ingly trans­mits to the Par­a­dise Sons who go out from the eter­nal Isle to re­veal his di­vine char­ac­ter to the uni­verse of uni­verses.

7:6.3The Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Son is the off­spring-per­son of the “first” com­pleted and in­fi­nite thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Ev­ery time the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son jointly project a new, orig­i­nal, iden­ti­cal, unique, and ab­so­lute per­sonal thought, that very in­stant this cre­ative idea is per­fectly and fi­nally per­son­al­ized in the be­ing and per­son­al­ity of a new and orig­i­nal Cre­ator Son. In spirit na­ture, di­vine wis­dom, and co-or­di­nate cre­ative power, these Cre­ator Sons are po­ten­tially equal with God the Fa­ther and God the Son.

7:6.4The Cre­ator Sons go out from Par­a­dise into the uni­verses of time and, with the co-op­er­a­tion of the con­trol­ling and cre­ative agen­cies of the Third Source and Cen­ter, com­plete the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion. These Sons are not at­tached to, nor are they con­cerned with, the cen­tral and uni­ver­sal con­trols of mat­ter, mind, and spirit. Hence are they lim­ited in their cre­ative acts by the pre-ex­is­tence, pri­or­ity, and pri­macy of the First Source and Cen­ter and his co-or­di­nate Ab­so­lutes. These Sons are able to ad­min­is­ter only that which they bring into ex­is­tence. Ab­so­lute ad­min­is­tra­tion is in­her­ent in pri­or­ity of ex­is­tence and is in­sep­a­ra­ble from eter­nity of pres­ence. The Fa­ther re­mains pri­mal in the uni­verses.

7:6.5Much as the Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ized by the Fa­ther and the Son, so are the Mag­is­te­rial Sons per­son­al­ized by the Son and the Spirit. These are the Sons who, in the ex­pe­ri­ences of crea­ture in­car­na­tion, earn the right to serve as the judges of sur­vival in the cre­ations of time and space.

7:6.6The Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit also unite to per­son­al­ize the ver­sa­tile Trin­ity Teacher Sons, who range the grand uni­verse as the su­per­nal teach­ers of all per­son­al­i­ties, hu­man and di­vine. And there are nu­mer­ous other or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship that have not been brought to the at­ten­tion of Uran­tia mor­tals.

• all are united in near-absolute spiritual association
• in direct and constant communication with Eternal Son

7:6.7Be­tween the Orig­i­nal Mother Son and these hosts of Par­a­dise Sons scat­tered through­out all cre­ation, there is a di­rect and ex­clu­sive chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, a chan­nel whose func­tion is in­her­ent in the qual­ity of spir­i­tual kin­ship which unites them in bonds of near-ab­so­lute spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. This in­ter­son­ship cir­cuit is en­tirely dif­fer­ent from the uni­ver­sal cir­cuit of spirit grav­ity, which also cen­ters in the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. All Sons of God who take ori­gin in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties are in di­rect and con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son. And such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is in­stan­ta­neous; it is in­de­pen­dent of time though some­times con­di­tioned by space.

7:6.8The Eter­nal Son not only has at all times per­fect knowl­edge con­cern­ing the sta­tus, thoughts, and man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of all or­ders of Par­a­dise son­ship, but he also has per­fec­tion of knowl­edge at all times re­gard­ing ev­ery­thing of spir­i­tual value which ex­ists in the hearts of all crea­tures in the pri­mary cen­tral cre­ation of eter­nity and in the sec­ondary time cre­ations of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons.

• all knowledge of Father comes from Eternal Son, P.S.

7:7.1The Eter­nal Son is a com­plete, ex­clu­sive, uni­ver­sal, and fi­nal rev­e­la­tion of the spirit and the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. All knowl­edge of, and in­for­ma­tion con­cern­ing, the Fa­ther must come from the Eter­nal Son and his Par­a­dise Sons. The Eter­nal Son is from eter­nity and is wholly and with­out spir­i­tual qual­i­fi­ca­tion one with the Fa­ther. In di­vine per­son­al­ity they are co-or­di­nate; in spir­i­tual na­ture they are equal; in di­vin­ity they are iden­ti­cal.

7:7.2The char­ac­ter of God could not pos­si­bly be in­trin­si­cally im­proved upon in the per­son of the Son, for the di­vine Fa­ther is in­finitely per­fect, but that char­ac­ter and per­son­al­ity are am­pli­fied, by di­vest­ment of the non­per­sonal and non­spir­i­tual, for rev­e­la­tion to crea­ture be­ings. The First Source and Cen­ter is much more than a per­son­al­ity, but all of the spirit qual­i­ties of the fa­ther per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter are spir­i­tu­ally pres­ent in the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

7:7.3The pri­mal Son and his Sons are en­gaged in mak­ing a uni­ver­sal rev­e­la­tion of the spir­i­tual and per­sonal na­ture of the Fa­ther to all cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verses, or on the in­hab­ited plan­ets, it is a Par­a­dise Son who re­veals the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to men and an­gels. The Eter­nal Son and his Sons re­veal the av­enue of crea­ture ap­proach to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. And even we of high ori­gin un­der­stand the Fa­ther much more fully as we study the rev­e­la­tion of his char­ac­ter and per­son­al­ity in the Eter­nal Son and in the Sons of the Eter­nal Son.

• Father comes down to us as a personality only through

7:7.4The Fa­ther comes down to you as a per­son­al­ity only through the di­vine Sons of the Eter­nal Son. And you at­tain the Fa­ther by this same liv­ing way; you as­cend to the Fa­ther by the guid­ance of this group of di­vine Sons. And this re­mains true not­with­stand­ing that your very per­son­al­ity is a di­rect be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• Father delegates all possible power and authority to

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

• are › revelations of Eternal Son
• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › look to P.S. for reliable information regarding Father, Son, and Spirit

10:1.6Since the Par­a­dise Sons of God visit the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and some­times even there dwell in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and since these be­stowals make it pos­si­ble for mor­tal man ac­tu­ally to know some­thing of the na­ture and char­ac­ter of di­vine per­son­al­ity, there­fore must the crea­tures of the plan­e­tary spheres look to the be­stowals of these Par­a­dise Sons for re­li­able and trust­wor­thy in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit.

• are › Word of God

10:3.3The di­vine Sons are in­deed the “Word of God,” but the chil­dren of the Spirit are truly the “Act of God.” God speaks through the Son and, with the Son, acts through the In­fi­nite Spirit, while in all uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties the Son and the Spirit are ex­qui­sitely fra­ter­nal, work­ing as two equal broth­ers with ad­mi­ra­tion and love for an hon­ored and di­vinely re­spected com­mon Fa­ther.

• bestowals › incarnation is secret of Sonarington

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.

• bestowals › Eternal Son demonstrated bestowal in Havona

14:6.13Ha­vona af­fords the Eter­nal Son an al­most un­lim­ited base for the ever-ex­pand­ing re­al­iza­tion of spirit power. The cen­tral uni­verse af­forded the Eter­nal Son the arena wherein he could safely and se­curely demon­strate the spirit and tech­nique of the be­stowal min­istry for the in­struc­tion of his as­so­ciate Par­a­dise Sons.

• in direct and constant communication with Eternal Son

15:9.74. The cir­cuit of the in­ter­com­mu­nion of the Eter­nal Son with his Par­a­dise Sons.

• are › revelations of Eternal Son
• numbers are constantly increasing

16:2.1Just as the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Son is re­vealed through the per­sons of the con­stantly in­creas­ing num­ber of di­vine Sons, so is the In­fi­nite and Di­vine Spirit re­vealed through the chan­nels of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and their as­so­ci­ated spirit groups. At the cen­ter of cen­ters the In­fi­nite Spirit is ap­proach­able, but not all who at­tain Par­a­dise are im­me­di­ately able to dis­cern his per­son­al­ity and dif­fer­en­ti­ated pres­ence; but all who at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse can and do im­me­di­ately com­mune with one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the one pre­sid­ing over the super­uni­verse from which the newly ar­rived space pil­grim hails.

• Master Spirit #2 in close association with

16:3.4Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber Two. This Spirit ad­e­quately por­trays the match­less na­ture and charm­ing char­ac­ter of the Eter­nal Son, the first-born of all cre­ation. He is al­ways in close as­so­ci­a­tion with all or­ders of the Sons of God when­ever they may hap­pen to be in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse as in­di­vid­u­als or in joy­ous con­clave. In all the as­sem­blies of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its he al­ways speaks for, and in be­half of, the Eter­nal Son.

• bestowals › God in man; Word made flesh

19:3.7Seven Di­vine Coun­selors in li­ai­son with a trin­i­tized evo­lu­tion­ary trio—a Mighty Mes­sen­ger, One High in Au­thor­ity, and One with­out Name and Num­ber—rep­re­sent the near­est super­uni­verse ap­proach to the union of the hu­man view­point and the di­vine at­ti­tude on near-par­a­di­si­a­cal lev­els of spir­i­tual mean­ings and re­al­ity val­ues. Such close ap­prox­i­ma­tion of the united cos­mic at­ti­tudes of the crea­ture and the Cre­ator is only sur­passed in the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons, who are, in ev­ery phase of per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence, God and man.

• are › of direct divine creation on Paradise

20:1.1All de­scend­ing Sons of God have high and di­vine ori­gins. They are ded­i­cated to the de­scend­ing min­istry of ser­vice on the worlds and sys­tems of time and space, there to fa­cil­i­tate the prog­ress in the Par­a­dise climb of the lowly crea­tures of evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin—the as­cend­ing sons of God. Of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of de­scend­ing Sons, seven will be de­picted in these nar­ra­tives. Those Sons who come forth from the De­i­ties on the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life are called the Par­a­dise Sons of God and em­brace the fol­low­ing three or­ders:

• origins of
• work of each is as if he were the first and only Son of God; identical in quality

20:1.11The Par­a­dise Sons of God are of three­fold ori­gin: The pri­mary or Cre­ator Sons are brought into be­ing by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son; the sec­ondary or Mag­is­te­rial Sons are chil­dren of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit; the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are the off­spring of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit. From the stand­point of ser­vice, wor­ship, and sup­pli­ca­tion the Par­a­dise Sons are as one; their spirit is one, and their work is iden­ti­cal in qual­ity and com­plete­ness.

• are › divine ministers – creators, servers, bestowers, judges, teachers, and truth revealers

20:1.12As the Par­a­dise or­ders of Days proved to be di­vine ad­min­is­tra­tors, so have the or­ders of Par­a­dise Sons re­vealed them­selves as di­vine min­is­ters—cre­ators, servers, be­stow­ers, judges, teach­ers, and truth re­veal­ers. They range the uni­verse of uni­verses from the shores of the eter­nal Isle to the in­hab­ited worlds of time and space, per­form­ing man­i­fold ser­vices in the cen­tral and super­uni­verses not dis­closed in these nar­ra­tives. They are var­i­ously or­ga­nized, de­pen­dent on the na­ture and where­abouts of their ser­vice, but in a lo­cal uni­verse both Mag­is­te­rial and Teacher Sons serve un­der the di­rec­tion of the Cre­ator Son who pre­sides over that do­main.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › inaugurate new dispensations; repersonalize sleeping survivors
• presence on an evolutionary world terminates dispensation

20:3.4Avo­nal Sons may act as plan­e­tary judges prior to both the mag­is­te­rial and be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences. On ei­ther of these mis­sions, how­ever, the in­car­nated Son will judge the pass­ing plan­e­tary age; like­wise does a Cre­ator Son when in­car­nated on a mis­sion of be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. When a Par­a­dise Son vis­its an evo­lu­tion­ary world and be­comes like one of its peo­ple, his pres­ence ter­mi­nates a dis­pen­sa­tion and con­sti­tutes a judg­ment of the realm.

• bestowals › Adjusters participating in bestowals become Personalized

20:4.3When in­car­nated on ei­ther be­stowal or mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, the Par­a­dise Sons have ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­justers, and these Ad­justers are dif­fer­ent for each in­car­na­tion. The Ad­justers that oc­cupy the minds of the in­car­nated Sons of God can never hope for per­son­al­ity through fu­sion with the hu­man-di­vine be­ings of their in­dwelling, but they are of­ten per­son­al­ized by fiat of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Such Ad­justers form the su­preme Di­vin­ing­ton coun­cil of di­rec­tion for the ad­min­is­tra­tion, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and dis­patch of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors to the in­hab­ited realms. They also re­ceive and ac­credit Ad­justers on their re­turn to the “bo­som of the Fa­ther” upon the mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion of their earthly taber­na­cles. In this way the faith­ful Ad­justers of the world judges be­come the ex­alted chiefs of their kind.

• bestowals › God in man; 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.

• bestowals › do not influence Father’s attitude
• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › necessary training

20:5.2On Uran­tia there is a wide­spread be­lief that the pur­pose of a Son’s be­stowal is, in some man­ner, to in­flu­ence the at­ti­tude of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But your en­light­en­ment should in­di­cate that this is not true. The be­stowals of the Avo­nal and the Mi­chael Sons are a nec­es­sary part of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial pro­cess de­signed to make these Sons safe and sym­pa­thetic mag­is­trates and rulers of the peo­ples and plan­ets of time and space. The ca­reer of sev­en­fold be­stowal is the su­preme goal of all Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons. And all Mag­is­te­rial Sons are mo­ti­vated by this same spirit of ser­vice which so abun­dantly char­ac­ter­izes the pri­mary Cre­ator Sons and the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › make possible Adjusters’ indwelling

20:5.3Some or­der of Par­a­dise Son must be be­stowed upon each mor­tal-in­hab­ited world in or­der to make it pos­si­ble for Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell the minds of all nor­mal hu­man be­ings on that sphere, for the Ad­justers do not come to all bona fide hu­man be­ings un­til the Spirit of Truth has been poured out upon all flesh; and the send­ing of the Spirit of Truth is de­pen­dent upon the re­turn to uni­verse head­quar­ters of a Par­a­dise Son who has suc­cess­fully ex­e­cuted a mis­sion of mor­tal be­stowal upon an evolv­ing world.

• bestowals › only one P.S. bestows himself on each planet

20:5.4Dur­ing the course of the long his­tory of an in­hab­ited planet, many dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tions will take place, and more than one mag­is­te­rial mis­sion may oc­cur, but or­di­nar­ily only once will a be­stowal Son serve on the sphere. It is only re­quired that each in­hab­ited world have one be­stowal Son come to live the full mor­tal life from birth to death. Sooner or later, re­gard­less of spir­i­tual sta­tus, ev­ery mor­tal-in­hab­ited world is des­tined to be­come host to a Mag­is­te­rial Son on a be­stowal mis­sion ex­cept the one planet in each lo­cal uni­verse whereon a Cre­ator Son elects to make his mor­tal be­stowal.

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.

20:5.6At the head­quar­ters of his lo­cal uni­verse a Cre­ator Son, es­pe­cially af­ter the com­ple­tion of his own mor­tal be­stowal, spends much of his time in coun­sel­ing and in­struct­ing the col­lege of as­so­ciate Sons, the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and oth­ers. In love and de­vo­tion, with ten­der mercy and af­fec­tion­ate con­sid­er­a­tion, these Mag­is­te­rial Sons be­stow them­selves upon the worlds of space. And in no way are these plan­e­tary ser­vices in­fe­rior to the mor­tal be­stowals of the Mi­cha­els. It is true that your Cre­ator Son se­lected for the realm of his fi­nal ad­ven­ture in crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence one which had had un­usual mis­for­tunes. But no planet could ever be in such a con­di­tion that it would re­quire the be­stowal of a Cre­ator Son to ef­fect its spir­i­tual re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion. Any Son of the be­stowal group would have equally suf­ficed, for in all their work on the worlds of a lo­cal uni­verse the Mag­is­te­rial Sons are just as di­vinely ef­fec­tive and all wise as would have been their Par­a­dise brother, the Cre­ator Son.

• bestowals › no mission has ever failed

20:5.7Though the pos­si­bil­ity of dis­as­ter al­ways at­tends these Par­a­dise Sons dur­ing their be­stowal in­car­na­tions, I have yet to see the rec­ord of the fail­ure or de­fault of ei­ther a Mag­is­te­rial or a Cre­ator Son on a mis­sion of be­stowal. Both are of ori­gin too close to ab­so­lute per­fec­tion to fail. They in­deed as­sume the risk, re­ally be­come like the mor­tal crea­tures of flesh and blood and thereby gain the unique crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, but within the range of my ob­ser­va­tion they al­ways suc­ceed. They never fail to achieve the goal of the be­stowal mis­sion. The story of their be­stowal and plan­e­tary ser­vice through­out Neb­a­don con­sti­tutes the most no­ble and fas­ci­nat­ing chap­ter in the his­tory of your lo­cal uni­verse.

• bestowals › are miracles

20:6.1The method whereby a Par­a­dise Son be­comes ready for mor­tal in­car­na­tion as a be­stowal Son, be­comes en­moth­ered on the be­stowal planet, is a uni­ver­sal mys­tery; and any ef­fort to de­tect the work­ing of this Sonar­ing­ton tech­nique is doomed to meet with cer­tain fail­ure. Let the sub­lime knowl­edge of the mor­tal life of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth sink into your souls, but waste no thought in use­less spec­u­la­tion as to how this mys­te­ri­ous in­car­na­tion of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don was ef­fected. Let us all re­joice in the knowl­edge and as­sur­ance that such achieve­ments are pos­si­ble to the di­vine na­ture and waste no time on fu­tile con­jec­tures about the tech­nique em­ployed by di­vine wis­dom to ef­fect such phe­nom­ena.

• bestowals › always born as male child
• bestowals › do not beget offspring
• bestowals › in every respect become like mortals

20:6.2On a mor­tal-be­stowal mis­sion a Par­a­dise Son is al­ways born of woman and grows up as a male child of the realm, as Je­sus did on Uran­tia. These Sons of su­preme ser­vice all pass from in­fancy through youth to man­hood just as does a hu­man be­ing. In ev­ery re­spect they be­come like the mor­tals of the race into which they are born. They make pe­ti­tions to the Fa­ther as do the chil­dren of the realms in which they serve. From a ma­te­rial view­point, these hu­man-di­vine Sons live or­di­nary lives with just one ex­cep­tion: They do not beget off­spring on the worlds of their so­journ; that is a uni­ver­sal re­stric­tion im­posed on all or­ders of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Sons.

• bestowals › follow many vocations

20:6.3As Je­sus worked on your world as the car­pen­ter’s son, so do other Par­a­dise Sons la­bor in var­i­ous ca­pac­i­ties on their be­stowal plan­ets. You could hardly think of a vo­ca­tion that has not been fol­lowed by some Par­a­dise Son in the course of his be­stowal on some one of the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets of time.

• bestowals › achieve perfect attunement with indwelling Adjusters
• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › exclusively devoted to spiritual enlightenment
• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › necessary training

20:6.4When a be­stowal Son has mas­tered the ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing the mor­tal life, when he has achieved per­fec­tion of at­tune­ment with his in­dwelling Ad­juster, there­upon he be­gins that part of his plan­e­tary mis­sion de­signed to il­lu­mi­nate the minds and to in­spire the souls of his breth­ren in the flesh. As teach­ers, these Sons are ex­clu­sively de­voted to the spir­i­tual en­light­en­ment of the mor­tal races on the worlds of their so­journ.

20:6.5The mor­tal-be­stowal ca­reers of the Mi­cha­els and the Avo­nals, while com­pa­ra­ble in most re­spects, are not iden­ti­cal in all: Never does a Mag­is­te­rial Son pro­claim, “Whoso­ever has seen the Son has seen the Fa­ther,” as did your Cre­ator Son when on Uran­tia and in the flesh. But a be­stowed Avo­nal does de­clare, “Whoso­ever has seen me has seen the Eter­nal Son of God.” The Mag­is­te­rial Sons are not of im­me­di­ate de­scent from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, nor do they in­car­nate sub­ject to the Fa­ther’s will; al­ways do they be­stow them­selves as Par­a­dise Sons sub­ject to the will of the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise.

• bestowals › cruel death not necessary

20:6.6When the be­stowal Sons, Cre­ator or Mag­is­te­rial, en­ter the por­tals of death, they reap­pear on the third day. But you should not en­ter­tain the idea that they al­ways meet with the tragic end en­coun­tered by the Cre­ator Son who so­journed on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago. The ex­traor­di­nary and un­usu­ally cruel ex­pe­ri­ence through which Je­sus of Naz­a­reth passed has caused Uran­tia to be­come lo­cally known as “the world of the cross.” It is not nec­es­sary that such in­hu­man treat­ment be ac­corded a Son of God, and the vast ma­jor­ity of plan­ets have af­forded them a more con­sid­er­ate re­cep­tion, al­low­ing them to fin­ish their mor­tal ca­reers, ter­mi­nate the age, ad­ju­di­cate the sleep­ing sur­vivors, and in­au­gu­rate a new dis­pen­sa­tion, with­out im­pos­ing a vi­o­lent death. A be­stowal Son must en­counter death, must pass through the whole of the ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tals of the realms, but it is not a re­quire­ment of the di­vine plan that this death be ei­ther vi­o­lent or un­usual.

20:6.7When be­stowal Sons are not put to death by vi­o­lence, they vol­un­tar­ily re­lin­quish their lives and pass through the por­tals of death, not to sat­isfy the de­mands of “stern jus­tice” or “di­vine wrath,” but rather to com­plete the be­stowal, “to drink the cup” of the ca­reer of in­car­na­tion and per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence in all that con­sti­tutes a crea­ture’s life as it is lived on the plan­ets of mor­tal ex­is­tence. Be­stowal is a plan­e­tary and a uni­verse ne­ces­sity, and phys­i­cal death is noth­ing more than a nec­es­sary part of a be­stowal mis­sion.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › chief mission is to release Spirit of Truth

20:6.8When the mor­tal in­car­na­tion is fin­ished, the Avo­nal of ser­vice pro­ceeds to Par­a­dise, is ac­cepted by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­turns to the lo­cal uni­verse of as­sign­ment, and is ac­knowl­edged by the Cre­ator Son. There­upon the be­stowal Avo­nal and the Cre­ator Son send their con­joint Spirit of Truth to func­tion in the hearts of the mor­tal races dwell­ing on the be­stowal world. In the presovereignty ages of a lo­cal uni­verse, this is the joint spirit of both Sons, im­ple­mented by the Cre­ative Spirit. It dif­fers some­what from the Spirit of Truth which char­ac­ter­izes the lo­cal uni­verse ages fol­low­ing a Mi­chael’s sev­enth be­stowal.

20:6.9Upon the com­ple­tion of a Cre­ator Son’s fi­nal be­stowal the Spirit of Truth pre­vi­ously sent into all Avo­nal-be­stowal worlds of that lo­cal uni­verse changes in na­ture, be­com­ing more lit­er­ally the spirit of the sov­er­eign Mi­chael. This phe­nom­e­non takes place con­cur­rently with the lib­er­a­tion of the Spirit of Truth for ser­vice on the Mi­chael-mor­tal-be­stowal planet. There­after, each world hon­ored by a Mag­is­te­rial be­stowal will re­ceive the same spirit Com­forter from the sev­en­fold Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with that Mag­is­te­rial Son, which it would have re­ceived had the lo­cal uni­verse Sov­er­eign per­son­ally in­car­nated as its be­stowal Son.

• work of each is as if he were the first and only Son of God; identical in quality

20:10.1All the Par­a­dise Sons of God are di­vine in ori­gin and in na­ture. The work of each Par­a­dise Son in be­half of each world is just as if the Son of ser­vice were the first and only Son of God.

• collaborate in revelation of Deities

20:10.4In the lo­cal uni­verses these or­ders of son­ship col­lab­o­rate to ef­fect the rev­e­la­tion of the De­i­ties of Par­a­dise to the crea­tures of space: As the Fa­ther of a lo­cal uni­verse, a Cre­ator Son por­trays the in­fi­nite char­ac­ter of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. As the be­stowal Sons of mercy, the Avo­nals re­veal the match­less na­ture of the Eter­nal Son of in­fi­nite com­pas­sion. As the true teach­ers of as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties, the Trin­ity Day­nal Sons dis­close the teacher per­son­al­ity of the In­fi­nite Spirit. In their di­vinely per­fect co-op­er­a­tion, Mi­cha­els, Avo­nals, and Day­nals are con­tribut­ing to the ac­tu­al­iza­tion and rev­e­la­tion of the per­son­al­ity and sov­er­eignty of God the Su­preme in and to the time-space uni­verses. In the har­mony of their tri­une ac­tiv­i­ties these Par­a­dise Sons of God ever func­tion in the van­guard of the per­son­al­i­ties of De­ity as they fol­low the never-end­ing ex­pan­sion of the di­vin­ity of the First Great Source and Cen­ter from the ev­er­last­ing Isle of Par­a­dise into the un­known depths of space.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › inaugurate new dispensations; repersonalize sleeping survivors

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

• are › of direct divine creation on Paradise

35:0.1The Sons of God pre­vi­ously in­tro­duced have had a Par­a­dise ori­gin. They are the off­spring of the di­vine Rulers of the uni­ver­sal do­mains. Of the first Par­a­dise or­der of son­ship, the Cre­ator Sons, there is in Neb­a­don only one, Mi­chael, the uni­verse fa­ther and sov­er­eign. Of the sec­ond or­der of Par­a­dise son­ship, the Avo­nal or Mag­is­te­rial Sons, Neb­a­don has its full quota—1,062. And these “lesser Christs” are just as ef­fec­tive and all-pow­er­ful in their plan­e­tary be­stowals as was the Cre­ator and Mas­ter Son on Uran­tia. The third or­der, be­ing of Trin­ity ori­gin, do not reg­is­ter in a lo­cal uni­verse, but I es­ti­mate there are in Neb­a­don be­tween fif­teen and twenty thou­sand Trin­ity Teacher Sons ex­clu­sive of 9,642 crea­ture-trin­i­tized as­sis­tants of rec­ord. These Par­a­dise Day­nals are nei­ther mag­is­trates nor ad­min­is­tra­tors; they are super­teach­ers.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › re-establish circuits on quarantined worlds

35:9.9In the event of re­bel­lion on a sys­tem head­quar­ters, a new sov­er­eign is usu­ally in­stalled within a com­par­a­tively short time, but not so on the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. They are the com­po­nent units of the ma­te­rial cre­ation, and crea­ture free will is a fac­tor in the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of all such prob­lems. Suc­ces­sor Plan­e­tary Princes are des­ig­nated for iso­lated worlds, plan­ets whose princes of au­thor­ity may have gone astray, but they do not as­sume ac­tive ruler­ship of such worlds un­til the re­sults of in­sur­rec­tion are par­tially over­come and re­moved by the re­me­dial mea­sures adopted by the Mel­chiz­e­deks and other min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­i­ties. Re­bel­lion by a Plan­e­tary Prince in­stantly iso­lates his planet; the lo­cal spir­i­tual cir­cuits are im­me­di­ately sev­ered. Only a be­stowal Son can re-es­tab­lish in­ter­plan­e­tary lines of com­mu­ni­ca­tion on such a spir­i­tu­ally iso­lated world.

• bestowals › High Commissioners always accompany

37:5.8High Com­mis­sion­ers are at­tached to the var­i­ous mes­sen­ger hosts of space and al­ways to the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time. They are en­coun­tered on the pro­grams of var­i­ous uni­verse as­sem­blies, and these same mor­tal-wise com­mis­sion­ers are al­ways at­tached to the mis­sions of the Sons of God to the worlds of space.

• automatic self-rejuvenators; incapable of depletion

48:4.11All be­ings en­joy this sort of re­ver­sion ex­cept those who are in­her­ent Cre­ators, hence au­to­matic self-re­ju­ve­na­tors, and cer­tain highly spe­cial­ized types of crea­tures, such as the power cen­ters and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, who are al­ways and eter­nally thor­oughly busi­nesslike in all their re­ac­tions. These pe­ri­odic re­leases from the ten­sion of func­tional duty are a reg­u­lar part of life on all worlds through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses but not on the Isle of Par­a­dise. Be­ings in­dige­nous to the cen­tral abode are in­ca­pable of de­ple­tion and are not, there­fore, sub­ject to re-en­er­giz­ing. And with such be­ings of eter­nal Par­a­dise per­fec­tion there can be no such re­ver­sion to evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ences.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › chief mission is to release Spirit of Truth

49:5.25When the in­tel­lec­tual and eth­i­cal prog­ress of a hu­man race has reached the lim­its of evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment, there comes an Avo­nal Son of Par­a­dise on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion; and later on, when the spir­i­tual sta­tus of such a world is near­ing its limit of nat­u­ral at­tain­ment, the planet is vis­ited by a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. The chief mis­sion of a be­stowal Son is to es­tab­lish the plan­e­tary sta­tus, re­lease the Spirit of Truth for plan­e­tary func­tion, and thus ef­fect the uni­ver­sal com­ing of the Thought Ad­justers.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › inaugurate new dispensations; repersonalize sleeping survivors

49:6.3Through­out the ear­lier ages of an in­hab­ited world, many are called to the man­sion spheres at the spe­cial and the mil­len­nial res­ur­rec­tions, but most sur­vivors are reper­son­al­ized at the in­au­gu­ra­tion of a new dis­pen­sa­tion as­so­ci­ated with the ad­vent of a di­vine Son of plan­e­tary ser­vice.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › inaugurate new dispensations; repersonalize sleeping survivors

49:6.7Thus are the sleep­ing sur­vivors of a plan­e­tary age reper­son­al­ized in the dis­pen­sa­tional roll calls. But with re­gard to the non­salv­able per­son­al­i­ties of a realm, no im­mor­tal spirit is pres­ent to func­tion with the group guard­i­ans of des­tiny, and this con­sti­tutes ces­sa­tion of crea­ture ex­is­tence. While some of your rec­ords have pic­tured these events as tak­ing place on the plan­ets of mor­tal death, they all re­ally oc­cur on the man­sion worlds.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › inaugurate new dispensations; repersonalize sleeping survivors

50:1.4But not of­ten do these world princes fail in their mis­sions of or­ga­niz­ing and ad­min­is­ter­ing the in­hab­ited spheres, and their suc­cess greatly fa­cil­i­tates the sub­se­quent mis­sions of the Ma­te­rial Sons, who come to en­graft the higher forms of crea­ture life on the prim­i­tive men of the worlds. Their rule also does much to pre­pare the plan­ets for the Par­a­dise Sons of God, who sub­se­quently come to judge the worlds and to in­au­gu­rate suc­ces­sive dis­pen­sa­tions.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › inaugurate new dispensations; repersonalize sleeping survivors

52:0.1From the in­cep­tion of life on an evo­lu­tion­ary planet to the time of its fi­nal flow­er­ing in the era of light and life, there ap­pear upon the stage of world ac­tion at least seven epochs of hu­man life. These suc­ces­sive ages are de­ter­mined by the plan­e­tary mis­sions of the di­vine Sons, and on an av­er­age in­hab­ited world these epochs ap­pear in the fol­low­ing or­der:

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › establish new and living way

52:5.4The be­stowal Son lives and dies for the spir­i­tual up­lift of the mor­tal races of a world. He es­tab­lishes the “new and liv­ing way”; his life is an in­car­na­tion of Par­a­dise truth in mor­tal flesh, that very truth—even the Spirit of Truth—in the knowl­edge of which men shall be free.

• bestowals › as Princes of Peace

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

• bestowals › Adjusters participating in bestowals become Personalized

107:2.87. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers, those who have served with the in­car­nated Par­a­dise Sons, to­gether with many who have achieved un­usual dis­tinc­tion dur­ing the mor­tal in­dwelling, but whose sub­jects re­jected sur­vival. We have rea­sons for be­liev­ing that such Ad­justers are per­son­al­ized on the rec­om­men­da­tions of the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of their as­sign­ment.

• bestowals › Adjusters participating in bestowals become Personalized

109:6.3When Ad­justers of long uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence vol­un­teer to in­dwell di­vine Sons on be­stowal mis­sions, they full well know that per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment can never be achieved through this ser­vice. But of­ten does the Fa­ther of spir­its grant per­son­al­ity to these vol­un­teers and es­tab­lish them as di­rec­tors of their kind. These are the per­son­al­i­ties hon­ored with au­thor­ity on Di­vin­ing­ton. And their unique na­tures em­body the mo­saic hu­man­ity of their mul­ti­ple ex­pe­ri­ences of mor­tal in­dwelling and also the spirit tran­script of the hu­man di­vin­ity of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of the ter­mi­nal in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ence.

• bestowals › most beautiful expression of divinity is found in earth lives of

116:2.3Un­qual­i­fied Par­a­dise De­ity is in­com­pre­hen­si­ble to the evolv­ing crea­tures of time and space. Eter­nity and in­fin­ity con­note a level of de­ity re­al­ity which time-space crea­tures can­not com­pre­hend. In­fin­ity of de­ity and ab­so­lute­ness of sov­er­eignty are in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, and the Trin­ity is a re­al­ity which lies some­what be­yond the un­der­stand­ing of mor­tal man. Time-space crea­tures must have ori­gins, rel­a­tiv­i­ties, and des­tinies in or­der to grasp uni­verse re­la­tion­ships and to un­der­stand the mean­ing val­ues of di­vin­ity. There­fore does Par­a­dise De­ity at­ten­u­ate and oth­er­wise qual­ify the ex­tra-Par­a­dise per­son­al­iza­tions of di­vin­ity, thus bring­ing into ex­is­tence the Su­preme Cre­ators and their as­so­ciates, who ever carry the light of life far­ther and far­ther from its Par­a­dise source un­til it finds its most dis­tant and beau­ti­ful ex­pres­sion in the earth lives of the be­stowal Sons on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

• bestowals › fuse nature of creature and Creator
• bestowals › P.S. augment their divine natures by

116:3.32. The per­son­al­ity rev­e­la­tions of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. The mind pres­ences of the Con­joint Ac­tor unify the spirit of di­vin­ity with the pat­tern of en­ergy. The be­stowal in­car­na­tions of the Eter­nal Son and his Par­a­dise Sons unify, ac­tu­ally fuse, the di­vine na­ture of a Cre­ator with the evolv­ing na­ture of a crea­ture. The Su­preme is both crea­ture and cre­ator; the pos­si­bil­ity of his be­ing such is re­vealed in the be­stowal ac­tions of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate Sons. The be­stowal or­ders of son­ship, the Mi­cha­els and the Avo­nals, ac­tu­ally aug­ment their di­vine na­tures with bona fide crea­ture na­tures which have be­come theirs by the liv­ing of the ac­tual crea­ture life on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. When di­vin­ity be­comes like hu­man­ity, in­her­ent in this re­la­tion­ship is the pos­si­bil­ity that hu­man­ity can be­come di­vine.

• bestowals › P.S. augment their divine natures by

116:3.5The crea­ture be­stowals of the Par­a­dise or­ders of son­ship en­able these di­vine Sons to en­rich their per­son­al­i­ties by the ac­qui­si­tion of the ac­tual na­ture of uni­verse crea­tures, while such be­stowals un­fail­ingly re­veal to the crea­tures them­selves the Par­a­dise path of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment. The Ad­juster be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther en­able him to draw the per­son­al­i­ties of the vo­li­tional will crea­tures to him­self. And through­out all these re­la­tion­ships in the fi­nite uni­verses the Con­joint Ac­tor is the ever-pres­ent source of the mind min­istry by virtue of which these ac­tiv­i­ties take place.

• bestowals › purpose of bestowals › illuminate progression through Supreme to Father

116:4.10When the be­stowal Sons re­veal new ways for man to find God, they are not cre­at­ing these paths of di­vin­ity at­tain­ment; rather are they il­lu­mi­nat­ing the ev­er­last­ing high­ways of pro­gres­sion which lead through the pres­ence of the Su­preme to the per­son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• bestowals

119:0.2The at­tri­bute of be­stowal is in­her­ent in the Par­a­dise Sons of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In their de­sire to come close to the life ex­pe­ri­ences of their sub­or­di­nate liv­ing crea­tures, the var­i­ous or­ders of the Par­a­dise Sons are re­flect­ing the di­vine na­ture of their Par­a­dise par­ents. The Eter­nal Son of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity led the way in this prac­tice, hav­ing seven times be­stowed him­self upon the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona dur­ing the times of the as­cen­sion of Grand­fanda and the first of the pil­grims from time and space. And the Eter­nal Son con­tin­ues to be­stow him­self upon the lo­cal uni­verses of space in the per­sons of his rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the Mi­chael and Avo­nal Sons.

• bestowals › are mysteries

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.

• love and crave to understand their creatures

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.”

• bestowals › are mysteries

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.

• bestowals › are miracles

120:4.5Uran­tia mor­tals have vary­ing con­cepts of the mirac­u­lous, but to us who live as cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse there are few mir­a­cles, and of these by far the most in­trigu­ing are the in­car­na­tional be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons. The ap­pear­ance in and on your world, by ap­par­ently nat­u­ral pro­cesses, of a di­vine Son, we re­gard as a mir­a­cle—the op­er­a­tion of uni­ver­sal laws be­yond our un­der­stand­ing. Je­sus of Naz­a­reth was a mirac­u­lous per­son.

• bestowals › are miracles

124:6.17As time passed, the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion be­came, to all of us, more and more un­fath­omable. We could hardly com­pre­hend that this lad of Naz­a­reth was the cre­ator of all Neb­a­don. Nei­ther do we nowa­days un­der­stand how the spirit of this same Cre­ator Son and the spirit of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther are as­so­ci­ated with the souls of man­kind. With the pass­ing of time, we could see that his hu­man mind was in­creas­ingly dis­cern­ing that, while he lived his life in the flesh, in spirit on his shoul­ders rested the re­spon­si­bil­ity of a uni­verse.