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119:0.1 Chief of the [[Evening Stars]] of [[Nebadon]], I am assigned to [[Urantia]] by [[Gabriel]] on the mission of [[revealing]] the [[story]] of the [[seven]] bestowals of the [[Creator Son|Universe Sovereign]], [[Michael]] of Nebadon, and my name is ''Gavalia''. In making this presentation, I will adhere strictly to the [[limitations]] imposed by my commission.

119:0.1 Chief of the [[Evening Stars]] of [[Nebadon]], I am assigned to [[Urantia]] by [[Gabriel]] on the mission of [[revealing]] the [[story]] of the [[seven]] bestowals of the [[Creator Son|Universe Sovereign]], [[Michael]] of Nebadon, and my name is ''Gavalia''. In making this presentation, I will adhere strictly to the [[limitations]] imposed by my commission.

119:0.2 The [[attribute]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL bestowed himself] upon the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michael] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS Avonal Sons].

119:0.2 The [[attribute]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL bestowed himself] upon the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michael] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:2._THE_MAGISTERIAL_SONS Avonal Sons].

119:0.3 When the [[Eternal Son]] bestows a [[Creator Son]] upon a [[projected]] [[local universe]], that [[Creator Son]] assumes full [[responsibility]] for the completion, [[control]], and [[composure]] of that new [[universe]], including the [[solemn]] [[oath]] to the eternal [[Trinity]] not to [[assume]] full [[sovereignty]] of the new [[creation]] until his [[seven]] [[creature]] [[bestowals]] shall have been successfully completed and certified by the [[Ancients of Days]] of the [[superuniverse]] of [[jurisdiction]]. This [[obligation]] is [[assumed]] by every [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michael Son] who [[volunteers]] to go out from [[Paradise]] to [[engage]] in [[universe]] [[organization]] and [[creation]].

119:0.3 When the [[Eternal Son]] bestows a [[Creator Son]] upon a [[projected]] [[local universe]], that [[Creator Son]] assumes full [[responsibility]] for the completion, [[control]], and [[composure]] of that new [[universe]], including the [[solemn]] [[oath]] to the eternal [[Trinity]] not to [[assume]] full [[sovereignty]] of the new [[creation]] until his [[seven]] [[creature]] [[bestowals]] shall have been successfully completed and certified by the [[Ancients of Days]] of the [[superuniverse]] of [[jurisdiction]]. This [[obligation]] is [[assumed]] by every [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michael Son] who [[volunteers]] to go out from [[Paradise]] to [[engage]] in [[universe]] [[organization]] and [[creation]].

119:0.4 The [[purpose]] of these [[creature]] [[incarnations]] is to enable such [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Creators] to become [[wise]], [[sympathetic]], [[just]], and [[understanding]] sovereigns. These [[divine Sons]] are [[innately]] [[just]], but they become [[understanding]]ly [[merciful]] as a result of these [[successive]] [[bestowal]] [[experiences]]; they are naturally [[merciful]], but these [[experiences]] make them [[merciful]] in new and additional ways. These [[bestowals]] are the last steps in their [[education]] and [[training]] for the [[sublime]] tasks of ruling the [[local universes]] in [[divine]] [[righteousness]] and by [[just]] [[judgment]].

119:0.4 The [[purpose]] of these [[creature]] [[incarnations]] is to enable such [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Creators] to become [[wise]], [[sympathetic]], [[just]], and [[understanding]] sovereigns. These [[divine Sons]] are [[innately]] [[just]], but they become [[understanding]]ly [[merciful]] as a result of these [[successive]] [[bestowal]] [[experiences]]; they are naturally [[merciful]], but these [[experiences]] make them [[merciful]] in new and additional ways. These [[bestowals]] are the last steps in their [[education]] and [[training]] for the [[sublime]] tasks of ruling the [[local universes]] in [[divine]] [[righteousness]] and by [[just]] [[judgment]].

119:0.5 Though numerous incidental benefits accrue to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 various worlds], [[the System|systems]], and [[constellations]], as well as to the [[different]] orders of universe [[intelligences]] affected and benefited by these bestowals, still they are primarily [[designed]] to [[complete]] the [[personal]] [[training]] and [[universe]] [[education]] of a [[Creator Son]] himself. These bestowals are not [[essential]] to the [[wise]], [[just]], and [[efficient]] [[management]] of a [[local universe]], but they are [[absolutely]] [[necessary]] to a [[fair]], merciful, and [[understanding]] [[administration]] of such a [[creation]], teeming with its varied [[forms]] of life and its myriads of [[intelligent]] but imperfect [[creatures]].

119:0.5 Though numerous incidental benefits accrue to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 various worlds], [[the System|systems]], and [[constellations]], as well as to the [[different]] orders of universe [[intelligences]] affected and benefited by these bestowals, still they are primarily [[designed]] to [[complete]] the [[personal]] [[training]] and [[universe]] [[education]] of a [[Creator Son]] himself. These bestowals are not [[essential]] to the [[wise]], [[just]], and [[efficient]] [[management]] of a [[local universe]], but they are [[absolutely]] [[necessary]] to a [[fair]], merciful, and [[understanding]] [[administration]] of such a [[creation]], teeming with its varied [[forms]] of life and its myriads of [[intelligent]] but imperfect [[creatures]].

119:0.6 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michael Sons] begin their [[work]] of [[universe]] [[organization]] with a full and [[just]] [[sympathy]] for the various orders of [[beings]] whom they have created. They have vast stores of [[mercy]] for all these differing [[creatures]], even [[pity]] for those who err and flounder in the [[selfish]] mire of their own production. But such [[endowments]] of [[justice]] and [[righteousness]] will not suffice in the estimate of the [[Ancients of Days]]. These [[triune]] rulers of the [[superuniverses]] will never certify a [[Creator Son]] as [[Universe Sovereign]] until he has really acquired the [[viewpoint]] of his own [[creatures]] by [[actual]] [[experience]] in the [[environment]] of their [[existence]] and as these very [[creatures]] themselves. In this way such Sons become [[intelligent]] and [[understanding]] rulers; they come to know the various [[groups]] over which they rule and exercise [[universe]] [[authority]]. By living [[experience]] they [[possess]] themselves of [[practical]] [[mercy]], [[fair]] [[judgment]], and the [[patience]] born of [[experiential]] [[creature]] [[existence]].

119:0.6 The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Michael Sons] begin their [[work]] of [[universe]] [[organization]] with a full and [[just]] [[sympathy]] for the various orders of [[beings]] whom they have created. They have vast stores of [[mercy]] for all these differing [[creatures]], even [[pity]] for those who err and flounder in the [[selfish]] mire of their own production. But such [[endowments]] of [[justice]] and [[righteousness]] will not suffice in the estimate of the [[Ancients of Days]]. These [[triune]] rulers of the [[superuniverses]] will never certify a [[Creator Son]] as [[Universe Sovereign]] until he has really acquired the [[viewpoint]] of his own [[creatures]] by [[actual]] [[experience]] in the [[environment]] of their [[existence]] and as these very [[creatures]] themselves. In this way such Sons become [[intelligent]] and [[understanding]] rulers; they come to know the various [[groups]] over which they rule and exercise [[universe]] [[authority]]. By living [[experience]] they [[possess]] themselves of [[practical]] [[mercy]], [[fair]] [[judgment]], and the [[patience]] born of [[experiential]] [[creature]] [[existence]].

119:0.7 The [[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 611,121st [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL 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, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_years_ago 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.

119:0.7 The [[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 611,121st [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL 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, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_years_ago 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. THE FIRST BESTOWAL==

==119:1. THE FIRST BESTOWAL==

119:1.1 It was a [[solemn]] occasion on [[Salvington]] almost [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_years_ago 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]]."

119:1.1 It was a [[solemn]] occasion on [[Salvington]] almost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_years_ago 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]]."

119:1.2 After 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]].

119:1.2 After 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]].

119:1.3 All the [[inhabitants]] of [[Salvington]] and those dwelling on the [[constellation]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 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 [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_SONS Melchizedek sphere], the [[headquarters]] of that order in [[Nebadon]], which simply [[record]]ed 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS emergency service] of the [[Melchizedeks]] of [[Nebadon]]. And it has been so ordered; it has been done."

119:1.3 All the [[inhabitants]] of [[Salvington]] and those dwelling on the [[constellation]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_SONS Melchizedek sphere], the [[headquarters]] of that order in [[Nebadon]], which simply [[record]]ed 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS emergency service] of the [[Melchizedeks]] of [[Nebadon]]. And it has been so ordered; it has been done."

119:1.4 And 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_WORLDS Melchizedek world], a [[recital]] of the [[service]] of this [[unique]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:2._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_SONS Melchizedek Son] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS 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:

119:1.4 And 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_WORLDS Melchizedek world], a [[recital]] of the [[service]] of this [[unique]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:2._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_SONS Melchizedek Son] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS 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]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_V]

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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:2._THE_OMNIAPHIM 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS 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]]."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_V]

119:1.6 And 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_years_ago 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington], and the [[records]] of that [[secret]] world are not open to us. Only on this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER 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.

119:1.6 And 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_years_ago 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington], and the [[records]] of that [[secret]] world are not open to us. Only on this [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER 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. THE SECOND BESTOWAL==

==119:2. THE SECOND BESTOWAL==

119:2.1 For almost one hundred and fifty million years after the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL Melchizedek bestowal of Michael], all went well in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]], when trouble began to brew in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 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]].

119:2.1 For almost one hundred and fifty million years after the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL Melchizedek bestowal of Michael], all went well in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]], when trouble began to brew in [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 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]].

119:2.2 This [[rebel]] [[System Sovereign]], ''Lutentia'', reigned supreme on his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 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]].

119:2.2 This [[rebel]] [[System Sovereign]], ''Lutentia'', reigned supreme on his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 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]].

119:2.3 [[Simultaneously]] with the [[reception]] of this request on [[Salvington]], [[Michael]] [[initiated]] the second of those extraordinary [[proclamation]]s of [[intention]] to be [[absent]] from the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33 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]].

119:2.3 [[Simultaneously]] with the [[reception]] of this request on [[Salvington]], [[Michael]] [[initiated]] the second of those extraordinary [[proclamation]]s of [[intention]] to be [[absent]] from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33 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]].

119:2.4 And then, by the same [[technique]] [[observed]] at the time of his departure in [[connection]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL Melchizedek bestowal], [[Michael]] again took leave of his [[Salvington|headquarters sphere]]. [[Three]] days after this unexplained leave-taking there [[appeared]] among the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:8._THE_LANONANDEK_SONS reserve corps] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:9._THE_LANONANDEK_RULERS primary Lanonandek Sons] of [[Nebadon]], a new and [[unknown]] member. This new Son appeared at noon, unannounced and accompanied by a lone [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:1._THE_TERTIAPHIM tertiaphim] who bore [[credentials]] from the [[Uversa]] [[Ancients of Days]], certified by [[Immanuel]] of [[Salvington]], directing that this new Son be assigned to [[the System|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]].

119:2.4 And then, by the same [[technique]] [[observed]] at the time of his departure in [[connection]] with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL Melchizedek bestowal], [[Michael]] again took leave of his [[Salvington|headquarters sphere]]. [[Three]] days after this unexplained leave-taking there [[appeared]] among the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:8._THE_LANONANDEK_SONS reserve corps] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:9._THE_LANONANDEK_RULERS primary Lanonandek Sons] of [[Nebadon]], a new and [[unknown]] member. This new Son appeared at noon, unannounced and accompanied by a lone [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:1._THE_TERTIAPHIM tertiaphim] who bore [[credentials]] from the [[Uversa]] [[Ancients of Days]], certified by [[Immanuel]] of [[Salvington]], directing that this new Son be assigned to [[the System|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]].

119:2.5 For 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]] [[the system|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''.

119:2.5 For 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]] [[the system|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''.

119:2.6 And 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 Sovereign|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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 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]]."

119:2.6 And 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 Sovereign|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 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]]."

119:2.7 And then did this [[transient]] ruler of a [[rebellious]] [[the System|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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL Melchizedek bestowal], and now the third follows upon the termination of the second or [[Lanonandek]] mission.

119:2.7 And then did this [[transient]] ruler of a [[rebellious]] [[the System|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL Melchizedek bestowal], and now the third follows upon the termination of the second or [[Lanonandek]] mission.

==119:3. THE THIRD BESTOWAL==

==119:3. THE THIRD BESTOWAL==

119:3.1 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:8._THE_LEGISLATIVE_AND_EXECUTIVE_FUNCTIONS supreme council] on [[Salvington]] had just finished the [[consideration]] of the call of the [[Life Carriers]] on [[planet]] 217 in [[the system|system]] 87 in [[constellation]] 61 for the dispatch to their [[assistance]] of a [[Material Son]]. Now this [[planet]] was situated in a [[the System|system]] of [[inhabited worlds]] where another [[System Sovereign]] had gone astray, the second such [[rebellion]] in all [[Nebadon]] up to that time.

119:3.1 The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:8._THE_LEGISLATIVE_AND_EXECUTIVE_FUNCTIONS supreme council] on [[Salvington]] had just finished the [[consideration]] of the call of the [[Life Carriers]] on [[planet]] 217 in [[the system|system]] 87 in [[constellation]] 61 for the dispatch to their [[assistance]] of a [[Material Son]]. Now this [[planet]] was situated in a [[the System|system]] of [[inhabited worlds]] where another [[System Sovereign]] had gone astray, the second such [[rebellion]] in all [[Nebadon]] up to that time.

119:3.2 Upon 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]] [[Administration|direction]] in the hands of [[Immanuel]], while he in[[trusted]] command of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38 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.

119:3.2 Upon 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]] [[Administration|direction]] in the hands of [[Immanuel]], while he in[[trusted]] command of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38 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.

119:3.3 And, as might have been [[expected]], on the third day thereafter there [[appeared]], unannounced, on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 headquarters world] of [[the System|system]] 87 in [[constellation]] 61, a strange [[Material Son]], accompanied by a lone [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:3._THE_SECONAPHIM 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.

119:3.3 And, as might have been [[expected]], on the third day thereafter there [[appeared]], unannounced, on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 headquarters world] of [[the System|system]] 87 in [[constellation]] 61, a strange [[Material Son]], accompanied by a lone [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:3._THE_SECONAPHIM 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.

119:3.4 Thus did this [[unique]] [[Material Son]] begin his [[difficult]] [[career]] on a [[quarantined]] world of [[secession]] and [[rebellion]], located in a beleaguered [[the System|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 [[default]]ing [[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]].

119:3.4 Thus did this [[unique]] [[Material Son]] begin his [[difficult]] [[career]] on a [[quarantined]] world of [[secession]] and [[rebellion]], located in a beleaguered [[the System|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 [[default]]ing [[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]].

119:3.5 I [[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]].

119:3.5 I [[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]].

119:3.6 The [[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL bestowals of Michael as a Melchizedek Son], then as a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:2._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER sacred sphere of Sonarington].

119:3.6 The [[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL bestowals of Michael as a Melchizedek Son], then as a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:2._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER sacred sphere of Sonarington].

119:3.7 Never, 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,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_IV] even as they must also be tried and tested.

119:3.7 Never, 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,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_IV] even as they must also be tried and tested.

119:3.8 Each 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:8._THE_LANONANDEK_SONS higher types] of [[rebel]] [[personalities]].

119:3.8 Each 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:8._THE_LANONANDEK_SONS higher types] of [[rebel]] [[personalities]].

==119:4. THE FOURTH BESTOWAL==

==119:4. THE FOURTH BESTOWAL==

119:4.1 It was at the end of one of the periodic millennial roll calls of [[Uversa]] that [[Michael]] proceeded to place the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33 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 f''ourth 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.

119:4.1 It was at the end of one of the periodic millennial roll calls of [[Uversa]] that [[Michael]] proceeded to place the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33 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 f''ourth 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.

119:4.2 On the third day after this [[bestowal]] disappearance we [[observed]], in the [[universe]] [[broadcasts]] to [[Uversa]], this significant news item from the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38#38:4._THE_SERAPHIC_WORLDS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme order of the angels] of a [[local universe]] and has already been assigned to the corps of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:2._SUPERIOR_SERAPHIM teaching counselors (39:1.13)]."

119:4.2 On the third day after this [[bestowal]] disappearance we [[observed]], in the [[universe]] [[broadcasts]] to [[Uversa]], this significant news item from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_38#38:4._THE_SERAPHIC_WORLDS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme order of the angels] of a [[local universe]] and has already been assigned to the corps of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:2._SUPERIOR_SERAPHIM teaching counselors (39:1.13)]."

119:4.3 [[Michael]] 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:2._SUPERIOR_SERAPHIM seraphic teaching counselor (39:1.13)], 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 [[the system|system]] 84 of [[constellation]] 3 in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]].

119:4.3 [[Michael]] 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:2._SUPERIOR_SERAPHIM seraphic teaching counselor (39:1.13)], 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 [[the system|system]] 84 of [[constellation]] 3 in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]].

119:4.4 Never, 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 [[Creator Son|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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme seraphim] regarded with special solicitude, lest any of us should find that we had unawares been [[host]] to the [[Creator Son|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"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_II]

119:4.4 Never, 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 [[Creator Son|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme seraphim] regarded with special solicitude, lest any of us should find that we had unawares been [[host]] to the [[Creator Son|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"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_II]

119:4.5 As 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]].

119:4.5 As 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]].

119:4.6 Now has [[Michael]] passed through the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal experience] of [[three]] orders of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 created universe Sons]: the [[Melchizedeks]], the [[Lanonandeks]], and the [[Material Sons]]. Next he condescends to [[personalize]] in the likeness of [[angel]]ic life as a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme seraphim] before turning his [[attention]] to the various [[phases]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending careers] of his lowest form of [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]], the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolutionary mortals] of [[time and space]].

119:4.6 Now has [[Michael]] passed through the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal experience] of [[three]] orders of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 created universe Sons]: the [[Melchizedeks]], the [[Lanonandeks]], and the [[Material Sons]]. Next he condescends to [[personalize]] in the likeness of [[angel]]ic life as a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39#39:1._SUPREME_SERAPHIM supreme seraphim] before turning his [[attention]] to the various [[phases]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending careers] of his lowest form of [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolutionary mortals] of [[time and space]].

==119:5. THE FIFTH BESTOWAL==

==119:5. THE FIFTH BESTOWAL==

119:5.1 A little over [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59#PAPER_59:_THE_MARINE-LIFE_ERA_ON_URANTIA 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 [[Creator Son|Sovereign]] departed, but the [[broadcasts]] of the [[superuniverse]] never made mention of [[Michael]]'s arrival at the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:10._RULERS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES 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 [[Anonymous|unidentified]] [[being]] presents the [[status]] of a true [[spirit]] and has been [[received]] into our [[fellowship]]."

119:5.1 A little over [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59#PAPER_59:_THE_MARINE-LIFE_ERA_ON_URANTIA 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 [[Creator Son|Sovereign]] departed, but the [[broadcasts]] of the [[superuniverse]] never made mention of [[Michael]]'s arrival at the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:10._RULERS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES 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 [[Anonymous|unidentified]] [[being]] presents the [[status]] of a true [[spirit]] and has been [[received]] into our [[fellowship]]."

119:5.2 If 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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,"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_IV] 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.

119:5.2 If 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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,"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_IV] 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.

119:5.3 On [[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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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]].

119:5.3 On [[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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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]].

119:5.4 Not until the completion of this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal]. That [[Michael]] had in [[person]] [[performed]] in the role of an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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]].

119:5.4 Not until the completion of this [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal]. That [[Michael]] had in [[person]] [[performed]] in the role of an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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]].

119:5.5 Still, the [[technique]] of these [[successive]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowals] remained a [[mystery]]. Even [[Gabriel]] [[confesses]] that he does not [[comprehend]] the [[method]] whereby this [[Paradise Son]] and [[universe]] [[Creator]] could, at [[Free will|will]], [[assume]] the [[personality]] and live the life of one of his own subordinate [[creatures]].

119:5.5 Still, the [[technique]] of these [[successive]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowals] remained a [[mystery]]. Even [[Gabriel]] [[confesses]] that he does not [[comprehend]] the [[method]] whereby this [[Paradise Son]] and [[universe]] [[Creator]] could, at [[Free will|will]], [[assume]] the [[personality]] and live the life of one of his own subordinate [[creatures]].

==119:6. THE SIXTH BESTOWAL==

==119:6. THE SIXTH BESTOWAL==

119:6.1 Now that all [[Salvington]] was familiar with the preliminaries of an impending [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:2._THE_CONSTELLATION_GOVERNMENT courts] of the [[Most High Fathers]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:3._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS headquarters planet] of the fifth [[constellation]]. And then we heard for the first time the [[announcement]] that his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL seventh and final bestowal] would be made on some [[evolutionary world]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]].

119:6.1 Now that all [[Salvington]] was familiar with the preliminaries of an impending [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:2._THE_CONSTELLATION_GOVERNMENT courts] of the [[Most High Fathers]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:3._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS headquarters planet] of the fifth [[constellation]]. And then we heard for the first time the [[announcement]] that his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL seventh and final bestowal] would be made on some [[evolutionary world]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]].

119:6.2 Before 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 [[Administration|direction]] of the [[universe]] had again been in[[trust]]ed to [[Immanuel]], there was a wider [[distribution]] of [[administrative]] [[responsibilities]].

119:6.2 Before 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 [[Administration|direction]] of the [[universe]] had again been in[[trust]]ed to [[Immanuel]], there was a wider [[distribution]] of [[administrative]] [[responsibilities]].

119:6.3 [[Michael]] [[appeared]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS headquarters of constellation] five as a full-fledged [[morontia]] [[mortal]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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''.

119:6.3 [[Michael]] [[appeared]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS headquarters of constellation] five as a full-fledged [[morontia]] [[mortal]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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''.

119:6.4 When [[Michael]] returned from this [[morontia]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal], it was apparent to all of us that our [[Creator]] had become a fellow [[creature]], that the [[Creator Son|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]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal], even still more so after his return from the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 career] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122#122:5._JESUS.27_EARTH_PARENTS carpenter's son] on [[Urantia]].

119:6.4 When [[Michael]] returned from this [[morontia]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal], it was apparent to all of us that our [[Creator]] had become a fellow [[creature]], that the [[Creator Son|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]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal], even still more so after his return from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 career] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122#122:5._JESUS.27_EARTH_PARENTS carpenter's son] on [[Urantia]].

119:6.5 We 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS 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 [[Creator Son|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]] "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_2]

119:6.5 We 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS 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 [[Creator Son|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]] "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Luke#Chapter_2]

119:6.6 But from that day down to the hour when [[Michael]] embarked upon his [[Urantia]] [[adventure]] as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE Son of Man], all [[Nebadon]] continued to [[discuss]] the many exploits of their [[Creator Son|Sovereign Ruler]] as he [[functioned]] on ''Endantum'' as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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]].

119:6.6 But from that day down to the hour when [[Michael]] embarked upon his [[Urantia]] [[adventure]] as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE Son of Man], all [[Nebadon]] continued to [[discuss]] the many exploits of their [[Creator Son|Sovereign Ruler]] as he [[functioned]] on ''Endantum'' as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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. THE SEVENTH AND FINAL BESTOWAL==

==119:7. THE SEVENTH AND FINAL BESTOWAL==

119:7.1 For tens of thousands of years we all looked forward to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 seventh and final bestowal] of [[Michael]]. [[Gabriel]] had taught us that this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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]].

119:7.1 For tens of thousands of years we all looked forward to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 seventh and final bestowal] of [[Michael]]. [[Gabriel]] had taught us that this [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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]].

119:7.2 The [[public]] [[announcement]] that [[Michael]] had selected [[Urantia]] as the [[theater]] for his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 final bestowal] was made shortly after we learned about the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 default of Adam and Eve]. And thus, for more than thirty-five thousand years, your world occupied a very [[conspicuous]] place in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:6._GENERAL_ADMINISTRATION councils] of the entire [[Local Universe|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 [[Master Son|supreme Universe Sovereign]], there was the fullest [[universe]] [[publicity]] of all that transpired on your small but highly [[honored]] world.

119:7.2 The [[public]] [[announcement]] that [[Michael]] had selected [[Urantia]] as the [[theater]] for his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 final bestowal] was made shortly after we learned about the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 default of Adam and Eve]. And thus, for more than thirty-five thousand years, your world occupied a very [[conspicuous]] place in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:6._GENERAL_ADMINISTRATION councils] of the entire [[Local Universe|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 [[Master Son|supreme Universe Sovereign]], there was the fullest [[universe]] [[publicity]] of all that transpired on your small but highly [[honored]] world.

119:7.3 While 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant infant] of the realm. Theretofore had he always [[appeared]] as a fully [[developed]] [[individual]] of the [[personality]] [[group]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal selection], and it was a thrilling [[announcement]] which was [[broadcast]] from [[Salvington]] telling that the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122 babe of Bethlehem] had been born on [[Urantia]].

119:7.3 While 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant infant] of the realm. Theretofore had he always [[appeared]] as a fully [[developed]] [[individual]] of the [[personality]] [[group]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowal selection], and it was a thrilling [[announcement]] which was [[broadcast]] from [[Salvington]] telling that the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122 babe of Bethlehem] had been born on [[Urantia]].

119:7.4 We 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 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 [[Master Son|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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_121 last bestowal] was in [[progress]], and as we had long [[known]] of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] in [[Satania]] and of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:1._THE_CALIGASTIA_BETRAYAL 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]].

119:7.4 We 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 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 [[Master Son|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_121 last bestowal] was in [[progress]], and as we had long [[known]] of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] in [[Satania]] and of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:1._THE_CALIGASTIA_BETRAYAL 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]].

119:7.5 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122#122:1._JOSEPH_AND_MARY Joshua 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington], and such [[mysteries]] are the exclusive [[possession]] of those [[divine Sons]] who have passed through the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD bestowal experience].

119:7.5 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122#122:1._JOSEPH_AND_MARY Joshua 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington], and such [[mysteries]] are the exclusive [[possession]] of those [[divine Sons]] who have passed through the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD bestowal experience].

119:7.6 Certain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi wise men] of [[earth]] knew of [[Michael]]'s impending arrival. Through the [[contacts]] of one world with another, these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi wise men] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] learned of the forthcoming [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 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]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122#122:8._THE_BIRTH_OF_JESUS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden].

119:7.6 Certain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi wise men] of [[earth]] knew of [[Michael]]'s impending arrival. Through the [[contacts]] of one world with another, these [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi wise men] of [[spiritual]] [[insight]] learned of the forthcoming [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 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]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122#122:8._THE_BIRTH_OF_JESUS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden].

119:7.7 [[Jesus]]' [[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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_121 race and age].

119:7.7 [[Jesus]]' [[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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_121 race and age].

119:7.8 The [[story]] of [[Michael]]'s [[sojourn]] on [[Urantia]], the [[narrative]] of the [[mortal]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowal of the Creator Son] on your world, is a matter beyond the scope and [[purpose]] of this [[narrative]].

119:7.8 The [[story]] of [[Michael]]'s [[sojourn]] on [[Urantia]], the [[narrative]] of the [[mortal]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 bestowal of the Creator Son] on your world, is a matter beyond the scope and [[purpose]] of this [[narrative]].

==119:8. MICHAEL'S POSTBESTOWAL STATUS==

==119:8. MICHAEL'S POSTBESTOWAL STATUS==

119:8.1 After 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.

119:8.1 After [[Michael]]'s [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 final and successful bestowal] on [[Urantia]] he was not only [[accepted]] by the [[Ancients of Days]] as [[Master Son|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS constellation headquarters] were also instructed to retire from the [[councils]] of the [[Most Highs]]. But [[Michael]] would not [[consent]] to the withdrawal of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#PAPER_18:_THE_SUPREME_TRINITY_PERSONALITIES Trinity Sons] of [[counsel]] and [[co-operation]]. He assembled them on [[Salvington]] and [[personal]]ly 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]] [[divorce]]ment which forever attached these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#PAPER_18:_THE_SUPREME_TRINITY_PERSONALITIES Sons] of the [[central universe]] to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:7._THE_COURTS_OF_NEBADON court] of [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]].

119:8.2 It 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.

119:8.2 It required almost one billion years of [[Urantia]] time to complete the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#PAPER_21:_THE_PARADISE_CREATOR_SONS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS previous bestowals].

119:8.3 In 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.

119:8.3 In completing his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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]].

119:8.4 These 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.

119:8.4 These various [[Free will|will]] aspects of [[the Deities]] are [[eternally]] [[personalized]] in the differing [[natures]] of the [[Seven Master Spirits]], and each of [[Michael]]'s [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowals] was peculiarly [[revelatory]] of one of these [[divinity]] [[manifestations]]. On his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:1._THE_FIRST_BESTOWAL Melchizedek bestowal] he [[manifested]] the [[united]] [[Free will|will]] of[[ the Father]], [[the Son|Son]], and [[the Spirit|Spirit]], on his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:2._THE_SECOND_BESTOWAL Lanonandek bestowal] the will of [[the Father]] and [[the Son]]; on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:3._THE_THIRD_BESTOWAL Adamic bestowal] he revealed the will of [[the Father]] and [[the Spirit]], on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:4._THE_FOURTH_BESTOWAL seraphic bestowal] the will of [[the Son]] and [[the Spirit]]; on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:5._THE_FIFTH_BESTOWAL Uversa mortal bestowal] he portrayed the will of the [[Conjoint Actor]], on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:6._THE_SIXTH_BESTOWAL morontia mortal bestowal] the will of the [[Eternal Son]]; and on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL Urantia material bestowal] he lived the will of the [[Universal Father]], even as a [[mortal]] of [[flesh]] and blood.

119:8.5 The 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.

119:8.5 The completion of these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS bestowals] did he [[reveal]] [[God the Supreme]], but the sum [[total]] of all [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#PAPER_119:_THE_BESTOWALS_OF_CHRIST_MICHAEL seven bestowals] is a new [[Nebadon]] [[revelation]] of the [[Supreme Being]].

119:8.6 In 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.

119:8.6 In 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XII._THE_TRINITIES Trinity Ultimate].

119:8.7 In 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.

119:8.7 In 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 Son]]s, 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#XII._THE_TRINITIES first experiential Trinity] for and in the [[universes]] of [[outer space]].

119:8.8 Urantia 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.

119:8.8 [[Urantia]] is the sentimental [[shrine]] of all [[Nebadon]], the chief of ten million [[inhabited worlds]], the [[mortal]] [[home]] of [[Christ]] [[Michael]], [[Master Son|sovereign]] of all [[Nebadon]], a [[Melchizedek]] minister to the realms, a [[the System|system]] [[savior]], an [[Adamic]] [[redeemer]], a [[seraphic]] fellow, an [[associate]] of [[ascending]] spirits, a [[morontia]] progressor, a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120#120:4._THE_INCARNATION.E2.80.94MAKING_TWO_ONE 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_176#176:2._THE_MASTER.27S_SECOND_COMING return to the world] of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 terminal bestowal], the ''World of the Cross''.

119:8.9 This 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.

119:8.9 This 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini A.D.] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935 1935] of [[Urantia]] time.

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