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==PAPER 120: THE BESTOWAL OF MICHAEL ON URANTIA==   

==PAPER 120: THE BESTOWAL OF MICHAEL ON URANTIA==   

120:0.1 Assigned by [[Gabriel]] to supervise the restatement of the life of [[Michael]] when on [[Urantia]] and in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], I, the [[Melchizedek]] director of the [[First Revelatory Commission|revelatory commission]] intrusted with this task, am [[authorized]] to present this [[narrative]] of certain [[events]] which immediately preceded the [[Creator Son]]'s arrival on [[Urantia]] to embark upon the terminal [[phase]] of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe bestowal experience]. To live such [[identical]] lives as he imposes upon the [[intelligent]] [[beings]] of his own [[creation]], thus to [[bestow]] himself in the likeness of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119 various orders] of created [[beings]], is a part of the price which every [[Creator Son]] must pay for the full and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty] of his self-made [[universe]] of [[things]] and [[beings]].

120:0.1 Assigned by [[Gabriel]] to supervise the restatement of the life of [[Michael]] when on [[Urantia]] and in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], I, the [[Melchizedek]] director of the [[First Revelatory Commission|revelatory commission]] intrusted with this task, am [[authorized]] to present this [[narrative]] of certain [[events]] which immediately preceded the [[Creator Son]]'s arrival on [[Urantia]] to embark upon the terminal [[phase]] of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe bestowal experience]. To live such [[identical]] lives as he imposes upon the [[intelligent]] [[beings]] of his own [[creation]], thus to [[bestow]] himself in the likeness of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119 various orders] of created [[beings]], is a part of the price which every [[Creator Son]] must pay for the full and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty] of his self-made [[universe]] of [[things]] and [[beings]].

120:0.2 Before the [[events]] I am about to delineate, [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] had [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119 bestowed himself] six times after the similitude of six differing orders of his [[diverse]] [[creation]] of [[intelligent]] [[beings]]. Then he [[prepared]] to [[descend]] upon [[Urantia]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE lowest order] of his [[intelligent]] [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]], and, as such a [[human]] of the [[material]] realm, to [[execute]] the final act in the [[drama]] of the acquirement of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY universe sovereignty] in accordance with the [[mandates]] of the [[divine]] [[Paradise Rulers]] of the [[universe of universes]].

120:0.2 Before the [[events]] I am about to delineate, [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] had [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119 bestowed himself] six times after the similitude of six differing orders of his [[diverse]] [[creation]] of [[intelligent]] [[beings]]. Then he [[prepared]] to [[descend]] upon [[Urantia]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE lowest order] of his [[intelligent]] [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]], and, as such a [[human]] of the [[material]] realm, to [[execute]] the final act in the [[drama]] of the acquirement of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY universe sovereignty] in accordance with the [[mandates]] of the [[divine]] [[Paradise Rulers]] of the [[universe of universes]].

120:0.3 In the [[course]] of each of these [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS preceding bestowals] [[Michael]] not only acquired the [[finite]] [[experience]] of one [[group]] of his [[created]] [[beings]], but he also acquired an [[essential]] [[experience]] in [[Paradise]] [[co-operation]] which would, in and of itself, further contribute to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY constituting him the sovereign] of his [[self]]-made [[universe]]. At any [[moment]] throughout all [[past]] [[local universe]] [[time]], [[Michael]] could have asserted [[personal]] [[sovereignty]] as a [[Creator Son]] and as a Creator Son could have ruled his [[universe]] after the [[manner]] of his own [[choosing]]. In such an [[event]], [[Immanuel]] and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18 associated] [[Paradise Sons]] would have taken leave of the [[universe]]. But [[Michael]] did not wish to rule [[Nebadon]] merely in his own [[isolated]] right, as a [[Creator Son]]. He [[desired]] to [[ascend]] through [[actual]] [[experience]] in [[co-operative]] [[subordination]] to the [[Paradise Trinity]] to that high place in [[universe]] [[status]] where he would become qualified to rule his [[universe]] and [[administer]] its affairs with that [[perfection]] of [[insight]] and [[wisdom]] of [[execution]] which will sometime be characteristic of the exalted rule of the [[Supreme Being]]. He [[aspired]] not to [[perfection]] of rule as a [[Creator Son]] but to [[supremacy]] of [[administration]] as the [[embodiment]] of the [[universe]] [[wisdom]] and the [[divine]] [[experience]] of the [[Supreme Being]].

120:0.3 In the [[course]] of each of these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS preceding bestowals] [[Michael]] not only acquired the [[finite]] [[experience]] of one [[group]] of his [[created]] [[beings]], but he also acquired an [[essential]] [[experience]] in [[Paradise]] [[co-operation]] which would, in and of itself, further contribute to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY constituting him the sovereign] of his [[self]]-made [[universe]]. At any [[moment]] throughout all [[past]] [[local universe]] [[time]], [[Michael]] could have asserted [[personal]] [[sovereignty]] as a [[Creator Son]] and as a Creator Son could have ruled his [[universe]] after the [[manner]] of his own [[choosing]]. In such an [[event]], [[Immanuel]] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#18:7._THE_FAITHFULS_OF_DAYS associated] [[Paradise Sons]] would have taken leave of the [[universe]]. But [[Michael]] did not wish to rule [[Nebadon]] merely in his own [[isolated]] right, as a [[Creator Son]]. He [[desired]] to [[ascend]] through [[actual]] [[experience]] in [[co-operative]] [[subordination]] to the [[Paradise Trinity]] to that high place in [[universe]] [[status]] where he would become qualified to rule his [[universe]] and [[administer]] its affairs with that [[perfection]] of [[insight]] and [[wisdom]] of [[execution]] which will sometime be characteristic of the exalted rule of the [[Supreme Being]]. He [[aspired]] not to [[perfection]] of rule as a [[Creator Son]] but to [[supremacy]] of [[administration]] as the [[embodiment]] of the [[universe]] [[wisdom]] and the [[divine]] [[experience]] of the [[Supreme Being]].

120:0.4 [[Michael]], therefore, had a [[Two|double]] [[purpose]] in the making of these [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS seven bestowals] upon the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 various orders] of his [[universe]] [[creatures]]: First, he was completing the required [[experience]] in [[creature]] [[understanding]] which is demanded of all [[Creator Sons]] before they [[assume]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY complete sovereignty]. At any [[time]] a [[Creator Son]] may rule his [[universe]] in his own [[right]], but he can rule as the [[supreme]] [[representative]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]] only after passing through the [[seven]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe-creature bestowals]. Second, he was [[aspiring]] to the [[privilege]] of [[representing]] the maximum [[authority]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]] which can be [[exercised]] in the direct and [[personal]] [[administration]] of a [[local universe]]. Accordingly, did [[Michael]], during the [[experience]] of each of his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe bestowals], successfully and acceptably voluntarily subordinate himself to the variously [[constituted]] wills of the [[diverse]] [[associations]] of the [[persons]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104_-_Growth_of_the_Trinity_Concept#104:4._THE_SEVEN_TRIUNITIES]. That is, on the first bestowal he was subject to the combined will of [[the Father]], [[the Son|Son]], and [[the Spirit|Spirit]]; on the second bestowal to the will of [[the Father]] and [[the Son]]; on the third bestowal to the will of [[the Father]] and [[the Spirit]]; on the fourth bestowal to the will of [[the Son]] and [[the Spirit]]; on the fifth bestowal to the will of the [[Infinite Spirit]]; on the sixth bestowal to the will of the [[Eternal Son]]; and during the seventh and final bestowal, on [[Urantia]], to the will of the [[Universal Father]].

120:0.4 [[Michael]], therefore, had a [[Two|double]] [[purpose]] in the making of these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS seven bestowals] upon the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 various orders] of his [[universe]] [[creatures]]: First, he was completing the required [[experience]] in [[creature]] [[understanding]] which is demanded of all [[Creator Sons]] before they [[assume]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY complete sovereignty]. At any [[time]] a [[Creator Son]] may rule his [[universe]] in his own [[right]], but he can rule as the [[supreme]] [[representative]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]] only after passing through the [[seven]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe-creature bestowals]. Second, he was [[aspiring]] to the [[privilege]] of [[representing]] the maximum [[authority]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]] which can be [[exercised]] in the direct and [[personal]] [[administration]] of a [[local universe]]. Accordingly, did [[Michael]], during the [[experience]] of each of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe bestowals], successfully and acceptably voluntarily subordinate himself to the variously [[constituted]] wills of the [[diverse]] [[associations]] of the [[persons]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104_-_Growth_of_the_Trinity_Concept#104:4._THE_SEVEN_TRIUNITIES]. That is, on the first bestowal he was subject to the combined will of [[the Father]], [[the Son|Son]], and [[the Spirit|Spirit]]; on the second bestowal to the will of [[the Father]] and [[the Son]]; on the third bestowal to the will of [[the Father]] and [[the Spirit]]; on the fourth bestowal to the will of [[the Son]] and [[the Spirit]]; on the fifth bestowal to the will of the [[Infinite Spirit]]; on the sixth bestowal to the will of the [[Eternal Son]]; and during the seventh and final bestowal, on [[Urantia]], to the will of the [[Universal Father]].

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

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

120:0.6 Having determined the [[time]] of his final [[bestowal]] and having selected the [[planet]] whereon this extraordinary [[event]] would take place, [[Michael]] held the usual prebestowal [[conference]] with [[Gabriel]] and then presented himself before his [[elder]] [[brother]] and [[Paradise]] [[counselor]], [[Immanuel]]. All [[powers]] of [[universe]] [[administration]] which had not previously been conferred upon [[Gabriel]], [[Michael]] now assigned to the [[custody]] of [[Immanuel]]. And just before [[Michael]]'s departure for the [[Urantia]] [[incarnation]], [[Immanuel]], in accepting the [[custody]] of the [[Nebadon|universe]] during the time of the [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]], proceeded to impart the bestowal [[counsel]] which would serve as the [[incarnation]] [[guide]] for [[Michael]] when he would presently [[grow]] up on [[Urantia]] as a [[mortal]] of the realm.

120:0.6 Having determined the [[time]] of his final [[bestowal]] and having selected the [[planet]] whereon this extraordinary [[event]] would take place, [[Michael]] held the usual prebestowal [[conference]] with [[Gabriel]] and then presented himself before his [[elder]] [[brother]] and [[Paradise]] [[counselor]], [[Immanuel]]. All [[powers]] of [[universe]] [[administration]] which had not previously been conferred upon [[Gabriel]], [[Michael]] now assigned to the [[custody]] of [[Immanuel]]. And just before [[Michael]]'s departure for the [[Urantia]] [[incarnation]], [[Immanuel]], in accepting the [[custody]] of the [[Nebadon|universe]] during the time of the [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]], proceeded to impart the bestowal [[counsel]] which would serve as the [[incarnation]] [[guide]] for [[Michael]] when he would presently [[grow]] up on [[Urantia]] as a [[mortal]] of the realm.

120:0.7 In this [[connection]] it should be borne in [[mind]] that [[Michael]] had [[elected]] to [[execute]] this [[bestowal]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], subject to the [[Free will|will]] of the [[Paradise Father]]. The [[Creator Son]] required [[instructions]] from no one in order to [[effect]] this [[incarnation]] for the sole [[purpose]] of achieving [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY universe sovereignty], but he had embarked upon a [[program]] of the [[revelation]] of [[the Supreme]] which involved [[co-operative]] [[functioning]] with the [[diverse]] wills of the [[Paradise Deities]]. Thus his [[sovereignty]], when finally and [[personally]] [[acquired]], would [[actually]] be all-[[inclusive]] of [[the sevenfold]] will of [[Deity]] as it culminates in [[the Supreme]]. He had, therefore, six times previously been instructed by the [[personal]] [[representatives]] of the various [[Paradise Deities]] and [[associations]] thereof; and now he was instructed by the [[Union of Days]], [[ambassador]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]] to the [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]], acting on behalf of the [[Universal Father]].

120:0.7 In this [[connection]] it should be borne in [[mind]] that [[Michael]] had [[elected]] to [[execute]] this [[bestowal]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], subject to the [[Free will|will]] of the [[Paradise Father]]. The [[Creator Son]] required [[instructions]] from no one in order to [[effect]] this [[incarnation]] for the sole [[purpose]] of achieving [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY universe sovereignty], but he had embarked upon a [[program]] of the [[revelation]] of [[the Supreme]] which involved [[co-operative]] [[functioning]] with the [[diverse]] wills of the [[Paradise Deities]]. Thus his [[sovereignty]], when finally and [[personally]] [[acquired]], would [[actually]] be all-[[inclusive]] of [[the sevenfold]] will of [[Deity]] as it culminates in [[the Supreme]]. He had, therefore, six times previously been instructed by the [[personal]] [[representatives]] of the various [[Paradise Deities]] and [[associations]] thereof; and now he was instructed by the [[Union of Days]], [[ambassador]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]] to the [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]], acting on behalf of the [[Universal Father]].

120:0.8 There were [[immediate]] advantages and tremendous [[compensations]] resultant from the willingness of this mighty [[Creator Son]] once more [[voluntarily]] to [[subordinate]] himself to the [[Free will|will]] of the [[Paradise Deities]], this time to that of the [[Universal Father]]. By this [[decision]] to [[effect]] such [[associative]] [[subordination]], [[Michael]] would [[experience]] in this [[incarnation]], not only the [[nature]] of [[mortal]] [[man]], but also the will of the [[Paradise Father]] of all. And further, he could enter upon this [[unique]] [[bestowal]] with the complete [[assurance]], not only that [[Immanuel]] would exercise the full [[authority]] of the [[Paradise Father]] in the [[administration]] of his [[universe]] during his [[absence]] on the [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]], but also with the comforting [[knowledge]] that the [[Ancients of Days]] of the [[superuniverse]] had [[decreed]] the [[safety]] of his realm throughout the entire bestowal period.

120:0.8 There were [[immediate]] advantages and tremendous [[compensations]] resultant from the willingness of this mighty [[Creator Son]] once more [[voluntarily]] to [[subordinate]] himself to the [[Free will|will]] of the [[Paradise Deities]], this time to that of the [[Universal Father]]. By this [[decision]] to [[effect]] such [[associative]] [[subordination]], [[Michael]] would [[experience]] in this [[incarnation]], not only the [[nature]] of [[mortal]] [[man]], but also the will of the [[Paradise Father]] of all. And further, he could enter upon this [[unique]] [[bestowal]] with the complete [[assurance]], not only that [[Immanuel]] would exercise the full [[authority]] of the [[Paradise Father]] in the [[administration]] of his [[universe]] during his [[absence]] on the [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]], but also with the comforting [[knowledge]] that the [[Ancients of Days]] of the [[superuniverse]] had [[decreed]] the [[safety]] of his realm throughout the entire bestowal period.

==120:1. THE SEVENTH BESTOWAL COMMISSION==   

==120:1. THE SEVENTH BESTOWAL COMMISSION==   

120:1.1 "My [[Creator Son|Creator brother]], I am about to [[witness]] your seventh and final [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe bestowal]. Most [[faithfully]] and perfectly have you [[executed]] the six previous commissions, and I entertain no [[thought]] but that you will be equally triumphant on this, your [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY terminal sovereignty bestowal]. Heretofore you have [[appeared]] on your [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119 bestowal spheres] as a fully developed [[being]] of the order of your [[choosing]]. Now you are about to [[appear]] upon [[Urantia]], the disordered and disturbed [[planet]] of your [[choice]], not as a [[Maturity|fully developed]] [[mortal]], but as a helpless [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant babe]. This, my [[comrade]], will be a new and untried [[experience]] for you. You are about to pay the full price of [[bestowal]] and to [[experience]] the complete [[enlightenment]] of the [[incarnation]] of a [[Creator Son|Creator]] in the likeness of a [[creature]].

120:1.1 "My [[Creator Son|Creator brother]], I am about to [[witness]] your seventh and final [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS universe bestowal]. Most [[faithfully]] and perfectly have you [[executed]] the six previous commissions, and I entertain no [[thought]] but that you will be equally triumphant on this, your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY terminal sovereignty bestowal]. Heretofore you have [[appeared]] on your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119 bestowal spheres] as a fully developed [[being]] of the order of your [[choosing]]. Now you are about to [[appear]] upon [[Urantia]], the disordered and disturbed [[planet]] of your [[choice]], not as a [[Maturity|fully developed]] [[mortal]], but as a helpless [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant babe]. This, my [[comrade]], will be a new and untried [[experience]] for you. You are about to pay the full price of [[bestowal]] and to [[experience]] the complete [[enlightenment]] of the [[incarnation]] of a [[Creator Son|Creator]] in the likeness of a [[creature]].

120:1.2 "Throughout each of your [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS former bestowals] you have voluntarily [[chosen]] to subject yourself to the will of the [[three]] [[Paradise Deities]] and their [[divine]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:4._THE_SEVEN_TRIUNITIES interassociations]. Of the [[The Sevenfold|seven phases]] of the will of [[the Supreme]] you have in your previous bestowals been subject to all but the [[personal]] will of your [[Paradise Father]]. Now that you have elected to be wholly subject to your Father's will throughout your seventh bestowal, I, as the [[personal]] [[representative]] of [[our Father]], [[assume]] the unqualified [[jurisdiction]] of [[Nebadon|your universe]] for the time of your [[incarnation]].

120:1.2 "Throughout each of your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS former bestowals] you have voluntarily [[chosen]] to subject yourself to the will of the [[three]] [[Paradise Deities]] and their [[divine]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:4._THE_SEVEN_TRIUNITIES interassociations]. Of the [[The Sevenfold|seven phases]] of the will of [[the Supreme]] you have in your previous bestowals been subject to all but the [[personal]] will of your [[Paradise Father]]. Now that you have elected to be wholly subject to your Father's will throughout your seventh bestowal[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_4], I, as the [[personal]] [[representative]] of [[our Father]], [[assume]] the unqualified [[jurisdiction]] of [[Nebadon|your universe]] for the time of your [[incarnation]].

120:1.3 "In entering upon the [[Urantia]] bestowal, you have voluntarily divested yourself of all [[Superhuman|extraplanetary]] support and special assistance such as might be rendered by any [[creature]] of your own [[creation]]. As your created sons of [[Nebadon]] are wholly dependent upon you for safe conduct throughout their [[Ascension Career|universe careers]], so now must you become wholly and unreservedly dependent upon your [[Paradise Father]] for safe conduct throughout the unrevealed [[vicissitudes]] of your ensuing [[mortal]] [[career]]. And when you shall have finished this bestowal [[experience]], you will know in very [[truth]] the full [[meaning]] and the rich significance of that [[faith]]-[[trust]] which you so unvaryingly require all your [[creatures]] to master as a part of their [[intimate]] [[relationship]] with you as their [[local universe]] [[Creator Son|Creator]] and [[Father]].

120:1.3 "In entering upon the [[Urantia]] bestowal, you have voluntarily divested yourself of all [[Superhuman|extraplanetary]] support and special assistance such as might be rendered by any [[creature]] of your own [[creation]]. As your created sons of [[Nebadon]] are wholly dependent upon you for safe conduct throughout their [[Ascension Career|universe careers]], so now must you become wholly and unreservedly dependent upon your [[Paradise Father]] for safe conduct throughout the unrevealed [[vicissitudes]] of your ensuing [[mortal]] [[career]]. And when you shall have finished this bestowal [[experience]], you will know in very [[truth]] the full [[meaning]] and the rich significance of that [[faith]]-[[trust]] which you so unvaryingly require all your [[creatures]] to master as a part of their [[intimate]] [[relationship]] with you as their [[local universe]] [[Creator Son|Creator]] and [[Father]].

120:1.4 "Throughout your [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]] you need be concerned with but one [[thing]], the unbroken [[communion]] between you and your [[Paradise Father]]; and it will be by the [[perfection]] of such a [[relationship]] that [[Urantia|the world of your bestowal]], even all the [[universe]] of your [[creation]], will behold a new and more understandable [[revelation]] of your [[Father]] and my Father, the [[Universal Father]] of all. Your concern, therefore, has only to do with your [[personal]] life on [[Urantia]]. I will be fully and [[efficiently]] [[responsible]] for the [[security]] and unbroken [[administration]] of your [[universe]] from the [[moment]] of your voluntary relinquishment of [[authority]] until you return to us as [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE Universe Sovereign], [[confirmed]] by [[Paradise]], and receive back from my hands, not the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY vicegerent authority] which you now [[surrender]] to me, but, instead, the [[supreme]] [[power]] over, and [[jurisdiction]] of, your [[universe]].

120:1.4 "Throughout your [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]] you need be concerned with but one [[thing]], the unbroken [[communion]] between you and your [[Paradise Father]]; and it will be by the [[perfection]] of such a [[relationship]] that [[Urantia|the world of your bestowal]], even all the [[universe]] of your [[creation]], will behold a new and more understandable [[revelation]] of your [[Father]] and my Father, the [[Universal Father]] of all[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_John#Chapter_1]. Your concern, therefore, has only to do with your [[personal]] life on [[Urantia]]. I will be fully and [[efficiently]] [[responsible]] for the [[security]] and unbroken [[administration]] of your [[universe]] from the [[moment]] of your voluntary relinquishment of [[authority]] until you return to us as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE Universe Sovereign], [[confirmed]] by [[Paradise]], and receive back from my hands, not the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY vicegerent authority] which you now [[surrender]] to me, but, instead, the [[supreme]] [[power]] over, and [[jurisdiction]] of, your [[universe]].

120:1.5 "And that you may [[know]] with [[assurance]] that I am empowered to do all that I am now [[promising]] (knowing full well that I am the assurance of all [[Paradise]] for the [[faithful]] [[performance]] of my [[word]]), I [[announce]] to you that there has just been [[communicated]] to me a [[mandate]] of the [[Ancients of Days]] on [[Uversa]] which will prevent all [[spiritual]] [[jeopardy]] in [[Nebadon]] throughout the period of your voluntary [[bestowal]]. From the moment you surrender [[consciousness]], upon the beginning of the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]], until you return to us as [[supreme]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE unconditional sovereign] of [[Nebadon|this universe]] of your own [[creation]] and [[organization]], nothing of serious import can happen in all [[Nebadon]]. In this interim of your [[incarnation]], I hold the orders of the [[Ancients of Days]] which unqualifiedly [[mandate]] the [[instantaneous]] and [[automatic]] [[extinction]] of any [[being]] [[guilty]] of [[rebellion]] or presuming to instigate insurrection in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]] while you are absent on this [[bestowal]]. My [[brother]], in view of the [[authority]] of [[Paradise]] [[inherent]] in my [[presence]] and augmented by the [[judicial]] [[mandate]] of [[Uversa]], your [[universe]] and all its [[loyal]] [[creatures]] will be [[secure]] during your bestowal. You may [[proceed]] upon your mission with but a single [[thought]]—the enhanced [[revelation]] of [[our Father]] to the [[intelligent]] [[beings]] of [[Nebadon|your universe]].

120:1.5 "And that you may [[know]] with [[assurance]] that I am empowered to do all that I am now [[promising]] (knowing full well that I am the assurance of all [[Paradise]] for the [[faithful]] [[performance]] of my [[word]]), I [[announce]] to you that there has just been [[communicated]] to me a [[mandate]] of the [[Ancients of Days]] on [[Uversa]] which will prevent all [[spiritual]] [[jeopardy]] in [[Nebadon]] throughout the period of your voluntary [[bestowal]]. From the moment you surrender [[consciousness]], upon the beginning of the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]], until you return to us as [[supreme]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE unconditional sovereign] of [[Nebadon|this universe]] of your own [[creation]] and [[organization]], nothing of serious import can happen in all [[Nebadon]]. In this interim of your [[incarnation]], I hold the orders of the [[Ancients of Days]] which unqualifiedly [[mandate]] the [[instantaneous]] and [[automatic]] [[extinction]] of any [[being]] [[guilty]] of [[rebellion]] or presuming to instigate insurrection in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]] while you are absent on this [[bestowal]]. My [[brother]], in view of the [[authority]] of [[Paradise]] [[inherent]] in my [[presence]] and augmented by the [[judicial]] [[mandate]] of [[Uversa]], your [[universe]] and all its [[loyal]] [[creatures]] will be [[secure]] during your bestowal. You may [[proceed]] upon your mission with but a single [[thought]]—the enhanced [[revelation]] of [[our Father]] to the [[intelligent]] [[beings]] of [[Nebadon|your universe]].

120:1.6 "As in each of your [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS previous bestowals], I would remind you that I am recipient of your [[universe]] [[jurisdiction]] as brother-trustee. I exercise all [[authority]] and wield all [[power]] in your name. I [[function]] as would our [[Paradise Father]] and in [[accordance]] with your explicit request that I thus [[act]] in your stead. And such being the [[fact]], all this [[delegated]] [[authority]] is yours again to [[exercise]] at any [[moment]] you may see fit to requisition its return. Your [[bestowal]] is, throughout, wholly [[voluntary]]. As a [[mortal]] [[incarnate]] in the realm you are without [[celestial]] [[endowment]]s, but all your relinquished [[power]] may be had at any time you may [[choose]] to reinvest yourself with universe [[authority]]. If you should choose to reinstate yourself in [[power]] and [[authority]], remember, it will be wholly for [[personal]] reasons since I am the living and [[supreme]] [[pledge]] whose [[presence]] and [[promise]] guarantee the safe [[administration]] of your universe in [[accordance]] with y[[our Father]]'s will. [[Rebellion]], such as has three times occurred in [[Nebadon]], cannot occur during your [[absence]] from [[Salvington]] on this bestowal. For the period of the [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]] the [[Ancients of Days]] have [[decreed]] that [[rebellion]] in [[Nebadon]] shall be invested with the [[automatic]] [[seed]] of its own [[annihilation]].

120:1.6 "As in each of your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:4._THE_MICHAEL_BESTOWALS previous bestowals], I would remind you that I am recipient of your [[universe]] [[jurisdiction]] as brother-trustee. I exercise all [[authority]] and wield all [[power]] in your name. I [[function]] as would our [[Paradise Father]] and in [[accordance]] with your explicit request that I thus [[act]] in your stead. And such being the [[fact]], all this [[delegated]] [[authority]] is yours again to [[exercise]] at any [[moment]] you may see fit to requisition its return. Your [[bestowal]] is, throughout, wholly [[voluntary]]. As a [[mortal]] [[incarnate]] in the realm you are without [[celestial]] [[endowment]]s, but all your relinquished [[power]] may be had at any time you may [[choose]] to reinvest yourself with universe [[authority]]. If you should choose to reinstate yourself in [[power]] and [[authority]], remember, it will be wholly for [[personal]] reasons since I am the living and [[supreme]] [[pledge]] whose [[presence]] and [[promise]] guarantee the safe [[administration]] of your universe in [[accordance]] with y[[our Father]]'s will. [[Rebellion]], such as has three times occurred in [[Nebadon]], cannot occur during your [[absence]] from [[Salvington]] on this bestowal. For the period of the [[Urantia]] [[bestowal]] the [[Ancients of Days]] have [[decreed]] that [[rebellion]] in [[Nebadon]] shall be invested with the [[automatic]] [[seed]] of its own [[annihilation]].

120:1.7 "As long as you are [[absent]] on this final and extraordinary [[bestowal]], I pledge (with [[Gabriel]]'s [[co-operation]]) the [[faithful]] [[administration]] of [[Nebadon|your universe]]; and as I commission you to undertake this [[ministry]] of [[divine]] [[revelation]] and to undergo this [[experience]] of [[perfected]] [[human]] [[understanding]], I act in behalf of my Father and y[[our Father]] and offer you the following [[counsel]], which should [[guide]] you in the living of your [[earth]] life as you become [[progressively]] [[self-conscious]] regarding the [[divine]] mission of your continued [[sojourn]] in the [[flesh]]:

120:1.7 "As long as you are [[absent]] on this final and extraordinary [[bestowal]], I pledge (with [[Gabriel]]'s [[co-operation]]) the [[faithful]] [[administration]] of [[Nebadon|your universe]]; and as I commission you to undertake this [[ministry]] of [[divine]] [[revelation]] and to undergo this [[experience]] of [[perfected]] [[human]] [[understanding]], I act in behalf of my Father and y[[our Father]] and offer you the following [[counsel]], which should [[guide]] you in the living of your [[earth]] life as you become [[progressively]] [[self-conscious]] regarding the [[divine]] mission of your continued [[sojourn]] in the [[flesh]]:

==120:2. THE BESTOWAL LIMITATIONS==   

==120:2. THE BESTOWAL LIMITATIONS==   

120:2.1 "1. In [[accordance]] with the [[Practice|usages]] and in [[conformity]] with the [[technique]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington (13:1.7.2)]—in compliance with the [[mandates]] of the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]]—I have provided in every way for your [[immediate]] entrance upon this [[mortal]] [[Incarnation|bestowal]] in [[harmony]] with the [[plans]] formulated by you and placed in my keeping by [[Gabriel]]. You will grow up on [[Urantia]] as a [[child]] of the realm, complete your human [[education]]—all the while subject to the will of your [[Paradise Father]]—live your life on [[Urantia]] as you have [[determined]], terminate your [[planetary]] [[sojourn]], and [[prepare]] for [[ascension]] to y[[our Father]] to [[receive]] from him the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty] of [[Nebadon|your universe]].

120:2.1 "1. In [[accordance]] with the [[Practice|usages]] and in [[conformity]] with the [[technique]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington (13:1.7.2)]—in compliance with the [[mandates]] of the [[Eternal Son]] of [[Paradise]]—I have provided in every way for your [[immediate]] entrance upon this [[mortal]] [[Incarnation|bestowal]] in [[harmony]] with the [[plans]] formulated by you and placed in my keeping by [[Gabriel]]. You will grow up on [[Urantia]] as a [[child]] of the realm, complete your human [[education]]—all the while subject to the will of your [[Paradise Father]]—live your life on [[Urantia]] as you have [[determined]], terminate your [[planetary]] [[sojourn]], and [[prepare]] for [[ascension]] to y[[our Father]] to [[receive]] from him the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty] of [[Nebadon|your universe]].

120:2.2 "2. Apart from your [[earth]] [[Purpose|mission]] and your [[universe]] [[revelation]], but incidental to both, I [[counsel]] that you [[assume]], after you are sufficiently [[self-conscious]] of your [[divine]] [[identity]], the additional task of [[technically]] terminating the [[Lucifer rebellion]] in [[the system]] of [[Satania]], and that you do all this as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Son of Man (13:1.8)]; thus, as a [[mortal]] [[creature]] of the realm, in weakness made powerful by [[faith]]-submission to the will of y[[our Father]], I suggest that you [[graciously]] [[achieve]] all you have repeatedly declined [[arbitrarily]] to accomplish by [[power]] and might when you were so [[endowed]] at the time of the inception of [[Lucifer Rebellion|this sinful and unjustified rebellion]]. I would regard it as a fitting [[climax]] of your [[mortal]] [[Incarnation|bestowal]] if you should return to us as the Son of Man, [[Planetary Prince]] of [[Urantia]], as well as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL Son of God (7:5.9-11)], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE supreme sovereign] of [[Nebadon|your universe]]. As a [[mortal]] man, the lowest type of [[intelligent]] [[creature]] in [[Nebadon]], meet and [[adjudicate]] the [[blasphemous]] pretensions of [[Caligastia]] and [[Lucifer]] and, in your assumed [[humble]] estate, forever end the [[shame]]ful misrepresentations of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel fallen children] of [[light]]. Having [[steadfastly]] declined to discredit these [[rebels]] through the [[exercise]] of your [[creator]] [[prerogatives]], now it would be fitting that you should, in the likeness of the lowest [[creatures]] of your [[creation]], wrest [[dominion]] from the hands of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel fallen Sons]; and so would your whole [[local universe]] in all [[fairness]] clearly and forever [[recognize]] the [[justice]] of your doing in the role of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] those things which [[mercy]] admonished you not to do by the [[power]] of [[arbitrary]] [[authority]]. And having thus by your [[Incarnation|bestowal]] [[established]] the [[possibility]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY sovereignty] of [[the Supreme]] in [[Nebadon]], you will in [[effect]] have brought to a close the unadjudicated affairs of all [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:2._THE_SYSTEM_SOVEREIGN preceding insurrections (45:2.1)], notwithstanding the greater or lesser [[time]] [[lag]] involved in the [[realization]] of this [[achievement]]. By this [[act]] the pending [[Dissent|dissensions]] of your [[universe]] will be in substance liquidated. And with the subsequent [[endowment]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty] over [[Nebadon|your universe]], similar [[challenges]] to your [[authority]] can never recur in any part of your great [[personal]] [[creation]].

120:2.2 "2. Apart from your [[earth]] [[Purpose|mission]] and your [[universe]] [[revelation]], but incidental to both, I [[counsel]] that you [[assume]], after you are sufficiently [[self-conscious]] of your [[divine]] [[identity]], the additional task of [[technically]] terminating the [[Lucifer rebellion]] in [[the system]] of [[Satania]], and that you do all this as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Son of Man (13:1.8)]; thus, as a [[mortal]] [[creature]] of the realm, in weakness made powerful by [[faith]]-submission to the will of y[[our Father]], I suggest that you [[graciously]] [[achieve]] all you have repeatedly declined [[arbitrarily]] to accomplish by [[power]] and might when you were so [[endowed]] at the time of the inception of [[Lucifer Rebellion|this sinful and unjustified rebellion]]. I would regard it as a fitting [[climax]] of your [[mortal]] [[Incarnation|bestowal]] if you should return to us as the Son of Man, [[Planetary Prince]] of [[Urantia]], as well as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_7#7:5._THE_SPIRIT_OF_BESTOWAL Son of God (7:5.9-11)], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE supreme sovereign] of [[Nebadon|your universe]]. As a [[mortal]] man, the lowest type of [[intelligent]] [[creature]] in [[Nebadon]], meet and [[adjudicate]] the [[blasphemous]] pretensions of [[Caligastia]] and [[Lucifer]] and, in your assumed [[humble]] estate, forever end the [[shame]]ful misrepresentations of these [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel fallen children] of [[light]]. Having [[steadfastly]] declined to discredit these [[rebels]] through the [[exercise]] of your [[creator]] [[prerogatives]], now it would be fitting that you should, in the likeness of the lowest [[creatures]] of your [[creation]], wrest [[dominion]] from the hands of these [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel fallen Sons]; and so would your whole [[local universe]] in all [[fairness]] clearly and forever [[recognize]] the [[justice]] of your doing in the role of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] those things which [[mercy]] admonished you not to do by the [[power]] of [[arbitrary]] [[authority]]. And having thus by your [[Incarnation|bestowal]] [[established]] the [[possibility]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY sovereignty] of [[the Supreme]] in [[Nebadon]], you will in [[effect]] have brought to a close the unadjudicated affairs of all [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#45:2._THE_SYSTEM_SOVEREIGN preceding insurrections (45:2.1)], notwithstanding the greater or lesser [[time]] [[lag]] involved in the [[realization]] of this [[achievement]]. By this [[act]] the pending [[Dissent|dissensions]] of your [[universe]] will be in substance liquidated. And with the subsequent [[endowment]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY supreme sovereignty] over [[Nebadon|your universe]], similar [[challenges]] to your [[authority]] can never recur in any part of your great [[personal]] [[creation]].

120:2.3 "3. When you have succeeded in terminating the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67 Urantia secession], as you undoubtedly will, I [[counsel]] you to [[accept]] from [[Gabriel]] the conference of the title of `[[Planetary Prince]] of [[Urantia]]' as the [[eternal]] [[recognition]] by your [[universe]] of your final [[Incarnation|bestowal]] [[experience]]; and that you further do any and all things, [[consistent]] with the purport of your bestowal, to [[atone]] for the [[sorrow]] and [[confusion]] brought upon [[Urantia]] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:1._THE_CALIGASTIA_BETRAYAL Caligastia betrayal] and the subsequent [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Adamic default].

120:2.3 "3. When you have succeeded in terminating the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67 Urantia secession], as you undoubtedly will, I [[counsel]] you to [[accept]] from [[Gabriel]] the conference of the title of `[[Planetary Prince]] of [[Urantia]]' as the [[eternal]] [[recognition]] by your [[universe]] of your final [[Incarnation|bestowal]] [[experience]]; and that you further do any and all things, [[consistent]] with the purport of your bestowal, to [[atone]] for the [[sorrow]] and [[confusion]] brought upon [[Urantia]] by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:1._THE_CALIGASTIA_BETRAYAL Caligastia betrayal] and the subsequent [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Adamic default].

120:2.4 "4. In [[accordance]] with your request, [[Gabriel]] and all concerned will [[co-operate]] with you in the [[expressed]] [[desire]] to end your [[Urantia]] [[Incarnation|bestowal]] with the pronouncement of a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76_-_The_Second_Garden#76:6._SURVIVAL_OF_ADAM_AND_EVE dispensational judgment (76:6.2)] of the realm, accompanied by the termination of an [[Epoch|age]], the [[resurrection]] of the [[sleeping mortal survivors]], and the [[establishment]] of the dispensation of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_194 bestowed] [[Spirit of Truth]].

120:2.4 "4. In [[accordance]] with your request, [[Gabriel]] and all concerned will [[co-operate]] with you in the [[expressed]] [[desire]] to end your [[Urantia]] [[Incarnation|bestowal]] with the pronouncement of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76_-_The_Second_Garden#76:6._SURVIVAL_OF_ADAM_AND_EVE dispensational judgment (76:6.2)] of the realm, accompanied by the termination of an [[Epoch|age]], the [[resurrection]] of the [[sleeping mortal survivors]], and the [[establishment]] of the dispensation of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_194 bestowed] [[Spirit of Truth]].

120:2.5 "5. As concerns the [[planet]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]] and the [[immediate]] [[generation]] of men living thereon at the time of your [[mortal]] [[sojourn]], I [[counsel]] you to [[function]] largely in the role of a [[teacher]]. Give [[attention]], first, to the [[liberation]] and [[inspiration]] of [[man]]'s [[spiritual]] [[nature]]. Next, [[illuminate]] the [[darkened]] human [[intellect]], heal the [[souls]] of men, and [[emancipate]] their [[minds]] from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_87#87:1._GHOST_FEAR age-old] [[fears]]. And then, in [[accordance]] with your [[mortal]] [[wisdom]], minister to the [[physical]] [[Health|well-being]] and [[material]] [[comfort]] of your [[brothers]] in the [[flesh]]. Live the [[ideal]] [[religious]] life for the [[inspiration]] and edification of all [[Nebadon|your universe]].

120:2.5 "5. As concerns the [[planet]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]] and the [[immediate]] [[generation]] of men living thereon at the time of your [[mortal]] [[sojourn]], I [[counsel]] you to [[function]] largely in the role of a [[teacher]]. Give [[attention]], first, to the [[liberation]] and [[inspiration]] of [[man]]'s [[spiritual]] [[nature]]. Next, [[illuminate]] the [[darkened]] human [[intellect]], heal the [[souls]] of men, and [[emancipate]] their [[minds]] from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_87#87:1._GHOST_FEAR age-old] [[fears]]. And then, in [[accordance]] with your [[mortal]] [[wisdom]], minister to the [[physical]] [[Health|well-being]] and [[material]] [[comfort]] of your [[brothers]] in the [[flesh]]. Live the [[ideal]] [[religious]] life for the [[inspiration]] and edification of all [[Nebadon|your universe]].

120:2.6 "6. On the [[planet]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]], set [[rebellion]]-[[segregated]] man spiritually [[free]]. On [[Urantia]], make a further contribution to the [[sovereignty]] of [[the Supreme]], thus extending the [[establishment]] of this sovereignty throughout the broad [[domains]] of your [[personal]] [[creation]]. In this, your [[material]] [[bestowal]] in the likeness of the [[flesh]], you are about to [[experience]] the final [[enlightenment]] of a [[time-space]] [[Creator Son|Creator]], the [[dual]] [[experience]] of working within the [[nature]] of man with the will of your [[Paradise Father]]. In your [[temporal]] life the will of the [[finite]] [[creature]] and the will of the [[infinite]] [[Creator]] are to become as [[one]], even as they are also uniting in the [[evolving]] [[Deity]] of the [[Supreme Being]]. Pour out upon the [[planet]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]] the [[Spirit of Truth]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_194] and thus make all [[normal]] [[mortals]] on that [[isolated]] [[sphere]] [[immediately]] and fully accessible to the [[ministry]] of the [[segregated]] [[presence]] of our [[Paradise Father]], the [[Thought Adjusters]] of the realms.

120:2.6 "6. On the [[planet]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]], set [[rebellion]]-[[segregated]] man spiritually [[free]]. On [[Urantia]], make a further contribution to the [[sovereignty]] of [[the Supreme]], thus extending the [[establishment]] of this sovereignty throughout the broad [[domains]] of your [[personal]] [[creation]]. In this, your [[material]] [[bestowal]] in the likeness of the [[flesh]], you are about to [[experience]] the final [[enlightenment]] of a [[time-space]] [[Creator Son|Creator]], the [[dual]] [[experience]] of working within the [[nature]] of man with the will of your [[Paradise Father]]. In your [[temporal]] life the will of the [[finite]] [[creature]] and the will of the [[infinite]] [[Creator]] are to become as [[one]], even as they are also uniting in the [[evolving]] [[Deity]] of the [[Supreme Being]]. Pour out upon the [[planet]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]] the [[Spirit of Truth]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_194] and thus make all [[normal]] [[mortals]] on that [[isolated]] [[sphere]] [[immediately]] and fully accessible to the [[ministry]] of the [[segregated]] [[presence]] of our [[Paradise Father]], the [[Thought Adjusters]] of the realms.

120:2.7 "7. In all that you may [[perform]] on the world of your [[bestowal]], bear constantly in [[mind]] that you are living a life for the instruction and edification of all [[Nebadon|your universe]]. You are bestowing this life of [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] upon [[Urantia]], but you are to live such a life for the [[spiritual]] [[inspiration]] of every [[human]] and [[superhuman]] [[intelligence]] that has lived, now exists, or may yet live on every [[inhabited world]] which has formed, now forms, or may yet form a part of the vast [[galaxy]] of your [[administrative]] [[domain]]. Your [[earth]] life in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] shall not be so lived as to [[constitute]] an [[example]] for the mortals of [[Urantia]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century days] of your earthly [[sojourn]] nor for any subsequent [[generation]] of [[human being]]s on [[Urantia]] or on any other world. Rather shall your life in the [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]] be the [[inspiration]] for all lives upon all [[Nebadon]] worlds throughout all [[generations]] in the [[Future|ages to come]].

120:2.7 "7. In all that you may [[perform]] on the world of your [[bestowal]], bear constantly in [[mind]] that you are living a life for the instruction and edification of all [[Nebadon|your universe]]. You are bestowing this life of [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] upon [[Urantia]], but you are to live such a life for the [[spiritual]] [[inspiration]] of every [[human]] and [[superhuman]] [[intelligence]] that has lived, now exists, or may yet live on every [[inhabited world]] which has formed, now forms, or may yet form a part of the vast [[galaxy]] of your [[administrative]] [[domain]]. Your [[earth]] life in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]] shall not be so lived as to [[constitute]] an [[example]] for the mortals of [[Urantia]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century days] of your earthly [[sojourn]] nor for any subsequent [[generation]] of [[human being]]s on [[Urantia]] or on any other world. Rather shall your life in the [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]] be the [[inspiration]] for all lives upon all [[Nebadon]] worlds throughout all [[generations]] in the [[Future|ages to come]].

120:2.8 "8. Your great mission to be [[realized]] and [[experienced]] in the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] is [[embraced]] in your [[decision]] to live a life wholeheartedly [[motivated]] [[Doing the will of God|to do the will]] of your [[Paradise Father]], thus to [[reveal]] [[God]], your [[Father]], in the [[flesh]] and especially to the [[creatures]] of the flesh. At the [[same time]] you will also [[interpret]], with a new enhancement, [[our Father]], to the [[supermortal]] [[beings]] of all [[Nebadon]]. Equally with this [[ministry]] of new [[revelation]] and augmented [[interpretation]] of the [[Paradise Father]] to the [[human]] and the [[superhuman]] type of [[mind]], you will also so [[function]] as to make a new [[revelation]] of man to [[God]]. [[Exhibit]] in your one short life in the [[flesh]], as it has never before been seen in all [[Nebadon]], the [[transcendent]] [[possibilities]] [[attainable]] by a God-knowing human during the short [[career]] of mortal [[existence]], and make a new and [[illuminating]] [[interpretation]] of [[man]] and the [[vicissitudes]] of his [[planetary]] life to all the [[superhuman]] [[intelligences]] of all [[Nebadon]], and for all time. You are to go down to [[Urantia]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], and living as a man in your day and [[generation]], you will so [[function]] as to show [[Nebadon|your entire universe]] the [[ideal]] of perfected [[technique]] in the [[supreme]] [[engagement]] of the affairs of your vast [[creation]]: The [[achievement]] of [[God]] seeking [[man]] and finding him and the [[phenomenon]] of man seeking God and finding him; and doing all of this to [[mutual]] [[satisfaction]] and doing it during one short lifetime in the [[flesh]].

120:2.8 "8. Your great mission to be [[realized]] and [[experienced]] in the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] is [[embraced]] in your [[decision]] to live a life wholeheartedly [[motivated]] [[Doing the will of God|to do the will]] of your [[Paradise Father]], thus to [[reveal]] [[God]], your [[Father]], in the [[flesh]] and especially to the [[creatures]] of the flesh. At the [[same time]] you will also [[interpret]], with a new enhancement, [[our Father]], to the [[supermortal]] [[beings]] of all [[Nebadon]]. Equally with this [[ministry]] of new [[revelation]] and augmented [[interpretation]] of the [[Paradise Father]] to the [[human]] and the [[superhuman]] type of [[mind]], you will also so [[function]] as to make a new [[revelation]] of man to [[God]]. [[Exhibit]] in your one short life in the [[flesh]], as it has never before been seen in all [[Nebadon]], the [[transcendent]] [[possibilities]] [[attainable]] by a God-knowing human during the short [[career]] of mortal [[existence]], and make a new and [[illuminating]] [[interpretation]] of [[man]] and the [[vicissitudes]] of his [[planetary]] life to all the [[superhuman]] [[intelligences]] of all [[Nebadon]], and for all time. You are to go down to [[Urantia]] in the likeness of [[mortal]] [[flesh]], and living as a man in your day and [[generation]], you will so [[function]] as to show [[Nebadon|your entire universe]] the [[ideal]] of perfected [[technique]] in the [[supreme]] [[engagement]] of the affairs of your vast [[creation]]: The [[achievement]] of [[God]] seeking [[man]] and finding him and the [[phenomenon]] of man seeking God and finding him; and doing all of this to [[mutual]] [[satisfaction]] and doing it during one short lifetime in the [[flesh]].

120:2.9 "9. I [[caution]] you ever to bear in [[mind]] that, while in [[fact]] you are to become an ordinary [[human]] of the realm, in [[potential]] you will remain a [[Creator Son]] of the [[Paradise Father]]. Throughout this [[incarnation]], although you will live and [[act]] as a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Son of Man (13:1.8)], the [[creative]] [[attributes]] of your [[personal]] [[divinity]] will follow you from [[Salvington]] to [[Urantia]]. It will ever be within your [[power]]-of-[[Choice|will]] to terminate the [[incarnation]] at any [[moment]] subsequent to the arrival of your [[Thought Adjuster]]. Prior to the arrival and [[reception]] of the [[Adjuster]] I will vouch for your [[personality]] [[integrity]]. But subsequent to the arrival of your [[Adjuster]] and concomitant with your [[progressive]] [[recognition]] of the [[nature]] and import of your bestowal mission, you should refrain from the [[formulation]] of any [[superhuman]] will-to-[[attainment]], achievement, or [[power]] in view of the [[fact]] that your [[creator]] [[prerogatives]] will remain associated with your [[mortal]] [[personality]] because of the inseparability of these [[attributes]] from your [[personal]] [[presence]]. But no [[superhuman]] [[repercussions]] will attend your earthly [[career]] apart from the will of the [[Paradise Father]] unless you should, by an [[act]] of [[conscious]] and deliberate [[Choice|will]], make an undivided decision which would terminate in [[whole]]-[[personality]] [[choice]].

120:2.9 "9. I [[caution]] you ever to bear in [[mind]] that, while in [[fact]] you are to become an ordinary [[human]] of the realm, in [[potential]] you will remain a [[Creator Son]] of the [[Paradise Father]]. Throughout this [[incarnation]], although you will live and [[act]] as a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Son of Man (13:1.8)], the [[creative]] [[attributes]] of your [[personal]] [[divinity]] will follow you from [[Salvington]] to [[Urantia]]. It will ever be within your [[power]]-of-[[Choice|will]] to terminate the [[incarnation]] at any [[moment]] subsequent to the arrival of your [[Thought Adjuster]]. Prior to the arrival and [[reception]] of the [[Adjuster]] I will vouch for your [[personality]] [[integrity]]. But subsequent to the arrival of your [[Adjuster]] and concomitant with your [[progressive]] [[recognition]] of the [[nature]] and import of your bestowal mission, you should refrain from the [[formulation]] of any [[superhuman]] will-to-[[attainment]], achievement, or [[power]] in view of the [[fact]] that your [[creator]] [[prerogatives]] will remain associated with your [[mortal]] [[personality]] because of the inseparability of these [[attributes]] from your [[personal]] [[presence]]. But no [[superhuman]] [[repercussions]] will attend your earthly [[career]] apart from the will of the [[Paradise Father]] unless you should, by an [[act]] of [[conscious]] and deliberate [[Choice|will]], make an undivided decision which would terminate in [[whole]]-[[personality]] [[choice]].

==120:3. FURTHER COUNSEL AND ADVICE==   

==120:3. FURTHER COUNSEL AND ADVICE==   

120:3.1 "And now, my brother, in taking leave of you as you prepare to depart for Urantia and after counseling you regarding the general conduct of your bestowal, allow me to present certain advices that have been arrived at in consultation with Gabriel, and which concern minor phases of your mortal life. We further suggest:

120:3.1 "And now, my [[brother]], in taking leave of you as you [[prepare]] to depart for [[Urantia]] and after [[counseling]] you regarding the general [[conduct]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]], allow me to present certain advices that have been arrived at in consultation with [[Gabriel]], and which concern minor [[phases]] of your [[mortal]] life. We further suggest:

*1. 120:3.2 "1. That, in the pursuit of the ideal of your mortal earth life, you also give some attention to the realization and exemplification of some things practical and immediately helpful to your fellow men.

*1. 120:3.2 "1. That, in the pursuit of the [[ideal]] of your [[mortal]] [[earth]] life, you also give some [[attention]] to the [[realization]] and exemplification of some [[things]] [[practical]] and [[immediately]] helpful to your fellow men.

*2. 120:3.3 "2. As concerns family relationships, give precedence to the accepted customs of family life as you find them established in the day and generation of your bestowal. Live your family and community life in accordance with the practices of the people among whom you have elected to appear.

*2. 120:3.3 "2. As concerns [[family]] [[relationships]], give precedence to the accepted [[customs]] of family life as you find them [[established]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Century day] and [[generation]] of your [[Incarnation|bestowal]]. Live your family and [[community]] life in [[accordance]] with the [[practices]] of the people among whom you have elected to appear.

*3. 120:3.4 "3. In your relations to the social order we advise that you confine your efforts largely to spiritual regeneration and intellectual emancipation. Avoid all entanglements with the economic structure and the political commitments of your day. More especially devote yourself to living the ideal religious life on Urantia.

*3. 120:3.4 "3. In your relations to the [[social]] order we advise that you confine your [[efforts]] largely to [[spiritual]] regeneration and [[intellectual]] [[emancipation]]. Avoid all [[entanglements]] with the [[economic]] [[structure]] and the [[political]] commitments of your day. More especially [[devote]] yourself to living the [[ideal]] religious life on [[Urantia]].

*4. 120:3.5 "4. Under no circumstances and not even in the least detail, should you interfere with the normal and orderly progressive evolution of the Urantia races. But this prohibition must not be interpreted as limiting your efforts to leave behind you on Urantia an enduring and improved system of positive religious ethics. As a dispensational Son you are granted certain privileges pertaining to the advancement of the spiritual and religious status of the world peoples.

*4. 120:3.5 "4. Under no circumstances and not even in the least detail, should you [[interfere]] with the [[normal]] and orderly progressive [[evolution]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#PAPER_78:_THE_VIOLET_RACE_AFTER_THE_DAYS_OF_ADAM Urantia races]. But this [[prohibition]] must not be [[interpreted]] as limiting your [[efforts]] to leave behind you on [[Urantia]] an enduring and improved [[system]] of positive religious [[ethics]]. As a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:6._THE_MORTAL-BESTOWAL_CAREERS dispensational Son] you are granted certain [[privileges]] pertaining to the advancement of the [[spiritual]] and [[religious]] [[status]] of the world peoples.

*5. 120:3.6 "5. As you may see fit, you are to identify yourself with existing religious and spiritual movements as they may be found on Urantia but in every possible manner seek to avoid the formal establishment of an organized cult, a crystallized religion, or a segregated ethical grouping of mortal beings. Your life and teachings are to become the common heritage of all religions and all peoples.

*5. 120:3.6 "5. As you may see fit, you are to identify yourself with existing [[religious]] and [[spiritual]] [[movements]] as they may be found on [[Urantia]] but in every possible [[manner]] seek to avoid the [[formal]] [[establishment]] of an [[organized]] [[cult]], a crystallized [[religion]], or a [[segregated]] ethical grouping of [[mortal]] [[beings]]. Your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus life and teachings] are to become the common [[heritage]] of all religions and all peoples.

*6. 120:3.7 "6. To the end that you may not unnecessarily contribute to the creation of subsequent stereotyped systems of Urantia religious beliefs or other types of nonprogressive religious loyalties, we advise you still further: Leave no writings behind you on the planet. Refrain from all writing upon permanent materials; enjoin your associates to make no images or other likenesses of yourself in the flesh. See that nothing potentially idolatrous is left on the planet at the time of your departure.

*6. 120:3.7 "6. To the end that you may not unnecessarily [[contribute]] to the [[creation]] of subsequent [[stereotype]]d [[systems]] of [[Urantia]] religious [[beliefs]] or other types of [[Retrograde|nonprogressive]] religious loyalties, we advise you still further: Leave no [[writings]] behind you on the [[planet]]. Refrain from all [[writing]] upon [[permanent]] [[materials]]; enjoin your [[Colleagues|associates]] to make [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm no images] or other likenesses of yourself in the [[flesh]]. See that nothing potentially [[idolatrous]] is left on the planet at the time of your departure.

*7. 120:3.8 "7. While you will live the normal and average social life of the planet, being a normal individual of the male sex, you will probably not enter the marriage relation, which relation would be wholly honorable and consistent with your bestowal; but I must remind you that one of the incarnation mandates of Sonarington forbids the leaving of human offspring behind on any planet by a bestowal Son of Paradise origin.

*7. 120:3.8 "7. While you will live the [[normal]] and [[average]] [[social]] life of the [[planet]], being a [[normal]] [[individual]] of the [[male]] [[Gender|sex]], you will probably not enter the [[marriage]] relation, which relation would be wholly honorable and consistent with your bestowal; but I must remind you that one of the [[incarnation]] [[mandates]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER Sonarington (13:1.7.2)] forbids the leaving of [[human]] [[offspring]] behind on any [[planet]] by a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD bestowal Son] of [[Paradise]] origin.

*8. 120:3.9 "8. In all other details of your oncoming bestowal we would commit you to the leading of the indwelling Adjuster, the teaching of the ever-present divine spirit of human guidance, and the reason-judgment of your expanding human mind of hereditary endowment. Such an association of creature and Creator attributes will enable you to live for us the perfect life of man on the planetary spheres, not necessarily perfect as regarded by any one man in any one generation on any one world (much less on Urantia) but wholly and supremely replete as evaluated on the more highly perfected and perfecting worlds of your far-flung universe.

*8. 120:3.9 "8. In all other details of your oncoming [[bestowal]] we would [[commit]] you to the [[leading]] of the indwelling [[Adjuster]], the teaching of the ever-present divine spirit of [[human]] [[guidance]], and the [[reason]]-[[judgment]] of your expanding human [[mind]] of [[hereditary]] [[endowment]]. Such an [[association]] of [[creature]] and [[Creator]] [[attributes]] will enable you to live for us the [[perfect]] life of man on the [[Inhabited worlds|planetary spheres]], not necessarily perfect as regarded by any one man in any one [[generation]] on any one world (much less on [[Urantia]]) but wholly and [[supreme]]ly replete as [[evaluated]] on the more highly perfected and perfecting worlds of [[Nebadon|your far-flung universe]].

120:3.10 "And now, may your Father and my Father, who has ever sustained us in all past performances, guide and sustain you and be with you from the moment you leave us and achieve the surrender of your consciousness of personality, throughout your gradual return to recognition of your divine identity incarnate in human form, and then on through the whole of your bestowal experience on Urantia until your deliverance from the flesh and your ascension to our Father's right hand of sovereignty. When I shall again see you on Salvington, we shall welcome your return to us as the supreme and unconditional sovereign of this universe of your own making, serving, and completed understanding.

120:3.10 "And now, may y[[our Father]] and my Father, who has ever [[sustained]] us in all past [[performances]], [[guide]] and sustain you and be with you from the [[moment]] you leave us and achieve the [[surrender]] of your [[consciousness]] of [[personality]], throughout your [[gradual]] return to [[recognition]] of your [[divine]] [[identity]] [[incarnate]] in [[human]] [[form]], and then on through the [[whole]] of your bestowal experience on [[Urantia]] until your deliverance from the [[flesh]] and your [[ascension]] to [[our Father]]'s [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE right hand of sovereignty]. When I shall again see you on [[Salvington]], we shall [[welcome]] your return to us as the [[supreme]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY unconditional sovereign] of [[Nebadon|this universe]] of your own making, serving, and completed [[understanding]].

120:3.11 "In your stead I now reign. I assume jurisdiction of all Nebadon as acting sovereign during the interim of your seventh and mortal bestowal on Urantia. And to you, Gabriel, I commit the safekeeping of the Son of Man about-to-be until he shall presently and in power and glory be returned to me as the Son of Man and the Son of God. And, Gabriel, I am your sovereign until Michael thus returns."

120:3.11 "In your stead I now reign. I [[assume]] [[jurisdiction]] of all [[Nebadon]] as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_(law) acting sovereign] during the interim of your seventh and [[mortal]] [[Incarnation|bestowal]] on [[Urantia]]. And to you, [[Gabriel]], I commit the safekeeping of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_126#126:3._THE_FIFTEENTH_YEAR_.28A.D._9.29 Son of Man (126:3.8)] about-to-be until he shall presently and in [[power]] and [[glory]] be returned to me as the Son of Man and the Son of God. And, [[Gabriel]], I am your sovereign until [[Michael]] thus returns."

120:3.12 Then, immediately, in the presence of all Salvington assembled, Michael removed himself from our midst, and we saw him no more in his accustomed place until his return as the supreme and personal ruler of the universe, subsequent to the completion of his bestowal career on Urantia.

120:3.12 Then, [[immediately]], in the [[presence]] of all [[Salvington]] assembled, [[Michael]] removed himself from our midst, and we saw him no more in his accustomed place until his return as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:5._RELATION_OF_MASTER_SONS_TO_THE_UNIVERSE supreme and personal ruler] of the [[Nebadon|universe]], subsequent to the completion of his bestowal [[career]] on [[Urantia]].

==120:4. THE INCARNATION—MAKING TWO ONE==   

==120:4. THE INCARNATION—MAKING TWO ONE==   

120:4.1 And so certain unworthy children of Michael, who had accused their Creator-father of selfishly seeking rulership and indulged the insinuation that the Creator Son was arbitrarily and autocratically upheld in power by virtue of the unreasoning loyalty of a deluded universe of subservient creatures, were to be silenced forever and left confounded and disillusioned by the life of self-forgetful service which the Son of God now entered upon as the Son of Man—all the while subject to "the will of the Paradise Father."

120:4.1 And so certain unworthy [[children]] of [[Michael]], who had accused their [[Creator]]-[[father]] of [[selfish]]ly seeking rulership and indulged the insinuation that the [[Creator Son]] was [[arbitrarily]] and [[autocratically]] upheld in [[power]] by [[virtue]] of the unreasoning [[loyalty]] of a [[deluded]] [[universe]] of subservient [[creatures]], were to be silenced forever and left confounded and [[disillusioned]] by the life of self-forgetful [[service]] which the [[Son of God]] now entered upon as the Son of Man—all the while subject to "the will of the [[Paradise Father]]."

120:4.2 But make no mistake; Christ Michael, while truly a dual-origin being, was not a double personality. He was not God in association with man but, rather, God incarnate in man. And he was always just that combined being. The only progressive factor in such a nonunderstandable relationship was the progressive self-conscious realization and recognition (by the human mind) of this fact of being God and man.

120:4.2 But make no mistake; [[Christ]] [[Michael]], while truly a [[dual]]-[[origin]] [[being]], was not a double [[personality]]. He was not [[God]] in [[association]] with man but, rather, God [[incarnate]] in man. And he was always just that combined [[being]]. The only [[progressive]] [[factor]] in such a nonunderstandable [[relationship]] was the [[progressive]] [[self-conscious]] [[realization]] and [[recognition]] (by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_(MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS) human mind] of this [[fact]] of being [[God]] and [[man]].

120:4.3 Christ Michael did not progressively become God. God did not, at some vital moment in the earth life of Jesus, become man. Jesus was God and man—always and even forevermore. And this God and this man were, and now are, one, even as the Paradise Trinity of three beings is in reality one Deity.

120:4.3 [[Christ]] [[Michael]] did not [[progressive]]ly become [[God]]. God did not, at some [[vital]] [[moment]] in the [[earth]] life of [[Jesus]], become man. [[Jesus]] was [[God]] and [[man]]—always and even forevermore. And this God and this man were, and now are, one, even as the [[Paradise Trinity]] of [[three]] [[beings]] is in [[reality]] one [[Deity]].

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

120:4.4 Never lose [[sight]] of the [[fact]] that the [[supreme]] [[spiritual]] [[purpose]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_119#119:7._THE_SEVENTH_AND_FINAL_BESTOWAL Michael bestowal] was to enhance the [[revelation]] of [[God]]

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

120:4.5 [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] have varying [[concepts]] of the [[miraculous]], but to us who live as [[citizens]] of the [[local universe]] there are few miracles, and of these by far the most [[intriguing]] are the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD incarnational bestowals] of the [[Paradise Sons]]. The [[appearance]] in and on your world, by apparently [[natural]] [[process]]es, of a divine Son, we regard as a [[miracle]]—the operation of [[universal]] [[laws]] beyond our [[understanding]]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was a miraculous [[person]].

120:4.6 In and through all this extraordinary experience, God the Father chose to manifest himself as he always does—in the usual way—in the normal, natural, and dependable way of divine acting.

120:4.6 In and through all this extraordinary [[experience]], [[God]] [[the Father]] [[chose]] to [[manifest]] himself as he always does—in the usual way—in the [[normal]], [[natural]], and dependable way of [[divine]] [[acting]].

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