Planetary Prince of Urantia

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.

189:3.3Not­with­stand­ing that count­less in­di­vid­u­als hav­ing per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans and those achiev­ing the req­ui­site at­tain­ment of spir­i­tual per­son­al­ity prog­ress had gone on to man­so­nia dur­ing the ages sub­se­quent to the times of Adam and Eve, and though there had been many spe­cial and mil­len­nial res­ur­rec­tions of Uran­tia sons, this was the third of the plan­e­tary roll calls, or com­plete dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions. The first oc­curred at the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince, the sec­ond dur­ing the time of Adam, and this, the third, sig­nal­ized the mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion, the mor­tal tran­sit, of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth.

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.

65:4.8An­other out­stand­ing vari­a­tion of pro­ce­dure was the late ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. As a rule, the prince ap­pears on a planet about the time of will de­vel­op­ment; and if such a plan had been fol­lowed, Cali­gas­tia might have come to Uran­tia even dur­ing the life­times of An­don and Fonta in­stead of al­most five hun­dred thou­sand years later, si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ap­pear­ance of the six San­gik races.

65:4.9On an or­di­nary in­hab­ited world a Plan­e­tary Prince would have been granted on the re­quest of the Life Car­ri­ers at, or some­time af­ter, the ap­pear­ance of An­don and Fonta. But Uran­tia hav­ing been des­ig­nated a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion planet, it was by prea­gree­ment that the Mel­chiz­e­dek ob­servers, twelve in num­ber, were sent as ad­vis­ers to the Life Car­ri­ers and as over­seers of the planet un­til the sub­se­quent ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. These Mel­chiz­e­deks came at the time An­don and Fonta made the de­ci­sions which en­abled Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell their mor­tal minds.

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.

55:7.3When such an era is at­tained on your world, no doubt Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, now the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, will oc­cupy the seat of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and it has long been con­jec­tured on Je­ru­sem that he will be ac­com­pa­nied by a son and daugh­ter of the Uran­tia Adam and Eve who are now held on Eden­tia as wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. These chil­dren of Adam might so serve on Uran­tia in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek-Sov­er­eign since they were de­prived of pro­cre­ative pow­ers al­most 37,000 years ago at the time they gave up their ma­te­rial bod­ies on Uran­tia in prepa­ra­tion for tran­sit to Eden­tia.

93:10.5Ma­chi­venta con­tin­ued as a plan­e­tary re­ceiver up to the times of the tri­umph of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. Sub­se­quently, he was at­tached to the Uran­tia ser­vice on Je­ru­sem as one of the four and twenty di­rec­tors, only just re­cently hav­ing been el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of per­sonal am­bas­sador on Je­ru­sem of the Cre­ator Son, bear­ing the ti­tle Vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. It is our be­lief that, as long as Uran­tia re­mains an in­hab­ited planet, Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek will not be fully re­turned to the du­ties of his or­der of son­ship but will re­main, speak­ing in the terms of time, for­ever a plan­e­tary min­is­ter rep­re­sent­ing Christ Mi­chael.

93:10.6As his was an emer­gency be­stowal on Uran­tia, it does not ap­pear from the rec­ords what Ma­chi­venta’s fu­ture may be. It may de­velop that the Mel­chiz­e­dek corps of Neb­a­don have sus­tained the per­ma­nent loss of one of their num­ber. Re­cent rul­ings handed down from the Most Highs of Eden­tia, and later con­firmed by the An­cients of Days of Uversa, strongly sug­gest that this be­stowal Mel­chiz­e­dek is des­tined to take the place of the fallen Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia. If our con­jec­tures in this re­spect are cor­rect, it is al­to­gether pos­si­ble that Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek may again ap­pear in per­son on Uran­tia and in some mod­i­fied man­ner re­sume the role of the de­throned Plan­e­tary Prince, or else ap­pear on earth to func­tion as vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sent­ing Christ Mi­chael, who now ac­tu­ally holds the ti­tle of Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. While it is far from clear to us as to what Ma­chi­venta’s des­tiny may be, nev­er­the­less, events which have so re­cently taken place strongly sug­gest that the fore­go­ing con­jec­tures are prob­a­bly not far from the truth.

114:1.2Vicegerent au­thor­ity to act for Mi­chael as Plan­e­tary Prince has been re­cently vested in Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, but this Son of the lo­cal uni­verse has made not the slight­est move to­ward mod­i­fy­ing the pres­ent plan­e­tary regime of the suc­ces­sive ad­min­is­tra­tions of the res­i­dent gov­er­nors gen­eral.

114:1.3There is lit­tle like­li­hood that any marked change will be made in the gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia dur­ing the pres­ent dis­pen­sa­tion un­less the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince should ar­rive to as­sume his tit­u­lar re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. It ap­pears to cer­tain of our as­so­ciates that at some time in the near fu­ture the plan of send­ing one of the twenty-four coun­selors to Uran­tia to act as gov­er­nor gen­eral will be su­per­seded by the for­mal ar­rival of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek with the vicegerent man­date of the sov­er­eignty of Uran­tia. As act­ing Plan­e­tary Prince he would un­doubt­edly con­tinue in charge of the planet un­til the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and prob­a­bly on into the dis­tant fu­ture of plan­e­tary set­tle­ment in light and life.

114:1.4Some be­lieve that Ma­chi­venta will not come to take per­sonal di­rec­tion of Uran­tian af­fairs un­til the end of the cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion. Oth­ers hold that the vicegerent Prince may not come, as such, un­til Mi­chael some­time re­turns to Uran­tia as he prom­ised when still in the flesh. Still oth­ers, in­clud­ing this nar­ra­tor, look for Mel­chiz­e­dek’s ap­pear­ance any day or hour.

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.

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.

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.

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.