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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.

119:7.2 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 [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]].

119:7.3 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 [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]].

119:7.4 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 [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].

119:7.5 [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 [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].

119:7.6 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 [https://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].