Paper 120
The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia 미가엘의 유란시아 증여
1. The Seventh Bestowal Commission
2. The Bestowal Limitations
3. Further Counsel and Advice
4. The Incarnation — Making Two One
120:0.1 (1323.1) 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 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 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 various orders of created beings, is a part of the price which every Creator Son must pay for the full and supreme sovereignty of his self-made universe of things and beings. 미가엘이 지구(유란시아)에 필사 육신의 모습으로 있을 때, 그의 일생의 재진술을 감독하는, 이 업무를 맡은 계시 위원회의 위원장, 나 멜기세덱은, 가브리엘의 임명으로, 창조자 아들이 마지막 단계의 우주 증여 체험에 착수하려고 지구(유란시아)에 도착하기 바로 앞서 일어난 이 특정한 사건들의 이야기를 드러내도록, 위임받았습니다. 그가 자신이 창조한 지능 존재들에게 맡겨준 것처럼 똑같은 그런 삶을 살고, 그래서 그의 다양한 계층의 창조된 존재들의 모습으로 자신을 증여하는 것은, 모든 창조자 아들이 자신이 창조한, 사물들과 존재들의 우주에 대해 충분한 최극 주권을 위해 지불해야만 하는 대가(代價)의 일부입니다.
120:0.2 (1323.2) Before the events I am about to delineate, Michael of Nebadon had 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 lowest order of his intelligent will creatures, and, as such a human of the material realm, to execute the final act in the drama of the acquirement of universe sovereignty in accordance with the mandates of the divine Paradise Rulers of the universe of universes. 내가 기술하려는 사건들에 앞서, 네바돈의 미가엘은 그가 창조한 다양한 지능 존재들 중 다른 여섯 계층들의 모습으로 여섯 번 자신을 증여했습니다. 그 후 그는 필사 육신, 즉 그의 지능적 의지 창조물들 중 가장 낮은 계층의 모습으로 지구(유란시아)에 내려가, 물질 영역의 그런 인간으로서, 우주들의 우주의 신적 천국 통치자들의 명령에 따라 우주의 주권을 얻는 드라마의 최종 막(幕연극의 단락)을 수행하려고 준비했습니다.
120:0.3 (1323.3) In the course of each of these 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 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 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. 이전에 있었던 이런 증여의 각 과정에서 미가엘은 자신이 창조한 존재들에 속한 한 집단의 유한한 체험을 얻었을 뿐만 아니라, 본래 그 자체로, 그가 자신이 만든 우주 주권의 조성에, 더욱 기여할 천국 협력에 필수적인 체험도 얻었습니다. 지난 모든 지역 우주 시간 내내 어떤 순간에도, 미가엘은 창조자 아들로서 개인적 주권을 주장할 수 있었고, 창조자 아들로서 자신이 택한 방식으로 자신의 우주를 다스릴 수 있었습니다. 그런 경우에 임마누엘과 관련 천국 아들들은 그 우주를 떠났을 것입니다. 그러나 미가엘은 창조자 아들로서, 단순히 그 자신의 고립된 권리만으로 네바돈을 다스리려고 하지 않았습니다. 그는 천국 삼위일체에 협력적으로 종속하여 실재 체험을 통해 상승하는 우주 신분의 그 높은 자리에 상승하기를 바라셨는데, 그 자리에서 그는 언젠가 최극 존재의 고양된 통치의 특징이 될 통찰의 완전함과 실행의 지혜로, 자신의 우주를 다스리고 그 업무들을 경영할 자격이 있게 될 것이었습니다. 그는 창조자 아들로서 통치의 완전성이 아니라, 최극 존재의 우주 지혜와 신적 체험의 체현(體現)으로서 경영하는 최극위를 열망하셨습니다.
120:0.4 (1324.1) Michael, therefore, had a double purpose in the making of these seven bestowals upon the 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 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 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 universe bestowals, successfully and acceptably voluntarily subordinate himself to the variously constituted wills of the diverse associations of the persons of the Paradise Trinity. That is, on the first bestowal he was subject to the combined will of the Father, Son, and 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. 그로인해, 미가엘은 자기 우주 창조물들의 다양한 계층들에게 일곱 번의 이 증여에 이중 목적을 갖고 있었습니다. 첫째, 그는 규정된 창조물 이해의 체험을 완성하셨는데, 이 규정은 모든 창조자 아들들이 완비된 주권을 떠맡기 전에 그들에게 요구되었습니다. 창조자 아들은 언제든지 자기 권리로 그의 우주를 다스릴 수도 있지만, 그는 오직 일곱 번 우주-창조물 증여들을 거친 후에 천국 삼위일체의 최극 대표자로서 다스릴 수 있습니다. 둘째, 그는 천국 삼위일체의 최대 권위를 대표하는 특권을 품었는데, 이 권위로 지역 우주를 직접 고유적 경영을 행사할 수 있게 됩니다. 따라서 미가엘은 그의 각 우주적 증여 체험 동안, 천국 삼위일체 고유자들의 여러 관계로 다양하게 구성된 의지들에 대하여, 성공적으로 흡족하게 자청해서 자신을 복종시켰습니다. 다시 말해서, 그는 첫째 증여에서 아버지, 아들과 영의 결합된 뜻에; 둘째 증여에서 아버지와 아들의 뜻에; 셋째 증여에서 아버지와 영의 뜻에; 넷째 증여에서 아들과 영의 뜻에; 다섯째 증여에서 무한 영(靈)의 뜻에; 여섯째 증여에서 영원 아들의 뜻에; 그리고 일곱째 최종적 증여, 즉 지구(유란시아)에서 우주 아버지의 뜻에 복종했습니다.
120:0.5 (1324.2) Michael, therefore, combines in his personal sovereignty the divine will of the 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 one and the same time the sevenfold viewpoint of Paradise Deity with the creature viewpoint of time and space. 따라서, 미가엘은 자신의 고유적 주권에 있어서, 자기 지역 우주 창조물을 이해하는 체험에, 우주 창조자들의 7중 단계에 속한 신적 뜻을 결합하십니다. 그래서 그의 경영은, 독단적인 모든 권력 인수(引受넘겨 받음)를 양도(讓渡넘겨 줌)했음에도 불구하고, 가능한 최대의 권능과 권위를 대표하게 되었습니다. 그의 권능은 천국 신(神)들과 체험적 연합에서 파생되었기에 제한이 없습니다. 그의 권위는 우주의 창조물들의 모습으로 실재 체험을 통하여 얻었기 때문에 의문의 여지가 없습니다. 그의 주권은 천국 신(神)의 칠중 관점과, 시간과 공간의 창조물의 관점을, 완전히 한 번에 통합했기 때문에 최극입니다.
120:0.6 (1324.3) 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 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. 마지막 증여의 시기가 결정되고 이 특별한 사건이 발생하게 될 행성이 선택되자, 미가엘은 가브리엘과 일상적 증여준비 회의를 한 후, 그의 형님이며 천국 조언자, 임마누엘 앞에 나타나셨습니다. 미가엘은 이전에 가브리엘에게 주지 않았던 우주 경영의 모든 권능들을, 이제 임마누엘의 보호 관리에 맡겼습니다. 미가엘이 지구(유란시아) 성육신(成肉身)을 위해 출발하기 직전에, 임마누엘은 지구(유란시아) 증여 기간 동안 우주의 보호 관리를 받아들이고, 미가엘이 그 영역의 필사자로서 지구(유란시아)에서 바로 성장할 때, 그를 위한 성육신(成肉身) 안내로서 사용될 증여 조언을 주기 위해 나아갔습니다.
120:0.7 (1324.4) 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 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 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. 이것과 관련해서, 미가엘이 필사 육신의 모습으로, 천국 아버지의 뜻에 복종하여, 이 증여를 수행하기로 선택했음을 명심해야만 합니다. 창조자 아들이 우주 주권 획득의 목적으로만 이 성육신(成肉身) 실행하기 위해서 아무에게도 지시받을 필요가 없었지만, 그는 천국 신(神)들의 다양한 뜻에 협력하는 활동이 포함된 최극자의 계시 계획에 착수했습니다. 그렇게 그의 주권이 최종적으로 직접 성취되면, 최극자 안에서 절정에 이르듯이 신(神)의 칠중(七重) 뜻을 실제로 모두 포함하게 될 것입니다. 그러므로 그는 이전에 여섯 번 다양한 천국 신(神)들과 그와 관련된 고유적 대표자들의 지시를 받았습니다. 이제 그는 연합으로 늘 계신 이, 즉 네바돈 지역 우주에 우주 아버지를 대행하는 천국 삼위일체의 대사로부터 지시를 받았습니다.
120:0.8 (1325.1) There were immediate advantages and tremendous compensations resultant from the willingness of this mighty Creator Son once more voluntarily to subordinate himself to the 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. 이 막강한 창조자 아들이 천국 신(神)들의 뜻에, 이번에는 우주 아버지의 뜻에 자발적으로 자신을 다시 한 번 복종하는 자진(自進스스로 나섬)의 결과로 즉각적 유익과 커다란 보상이 있었습니다. 그런 연합적 복종을 완수하려는 이 결심에 의해, 미가엘은 이 성육신(成肉身)으로 필사 사람의 본성만이 아니라, 만유의 천국 아버지의 뜻까지 체험할 것이었습니다. 그리고 게다가, 그는, 자신이 지구(유란시아) 증여로 자리를 비운 동안에 임마누엘이 자기 우주의 경영에 천국 아버지의 충만한 권위를 행사하겠다는 것만이 아니라, 초우주의 옛적부터 늘 계신 이들이 전체의 증여 기간 내내 미가엘 영역의 안전을 선포했다는 위안이 되는 지식으로, 완전한 확신 가운데 이 독특한 증여에 들어갈 수 있었습니다.
120:0.9 (1325.2) And this was the setting of the momentous occasion when Immanuel presented the seventh bestowal commission. And from this prebestowal charge of Immanuel to the universe ruler who subsequently became Jesus of Nazareth (Christ Michael) on Urantia, I am permitted to present the following excerpts: 그리고 이것이 임마누엘이 일곱째 증여 사명을 제안했을 때 그 중대한 상황의 배경이었습니다. 그리고 후에 지구(유란시아)에서 나사렛 예수(그리스도 미가엘)가 된 우주 통치자에게 임마누엘이 증여하기 이전(以前)에 맡은 명령에서, 나는 허락을 받아 다음의 발췌내용을 밝힙니다.
1. The Seventh Bestowal Commission 7차 증여 임무
120:1.1 (1325.3) “My Creator brother, I am about to witness your seventh and final 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 terminal sovereignty bestowal. Heretofore you have appeared on your 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 fully developed mortal, but as a helpless 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 in the likeness of a creature. “나의 창조자 형제여, 나는 너의 일곱 번째 마지막 증여를 지켜보려고 하노라. 너는 가장 충실하고 완전히 이전 여섯 사명들을 실행했으며, 네가 이번에 최종적인 주권 증여도 똑같이 성공할 것에 나는 추호의 의심도 없노라. 지금까지 너는 네가 택한 계층에 속한 성숙된 존재로서, 증여 구체들에 나타났느니라. 이제 너는 네가 선택한 행성, 혼란스럽고 어지러운 지구(유란시아)에, 성숙한 필사자가 아니라 무력한 아기로 나타나려 하는구나. 내 친구여, 이는 네게 새로우며 해보지 않은 체험이리라. 너는 증여의 대가를 충분히 치르고, 창조자가 창조체물의 모습으로 성육신하여 완전한 깨우침을 얻으려 하는도다.”
120:1.2 (1325.4) “Throughout each of your former bestowals you have voluntarily chosen to subject yourself to the will of the three Paradise Deities and their divine interassociations. Of the 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 your universe for the time of your incarnation.
120:1.3 (1325.5) “In entering upon the Urantia bestowal, you have voluntarily divested yourself of all 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 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 and Father.
120:1.4 (1326.1) “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 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 Universe Sovereign, confirmed by Paradise, and receive back from my hands, not the vicegerent authority which you now surrender to me, but, instead, the supreme power over, and jurisdiction of, your universe.
120:1.5 (1326.2) “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 unconditional sovereign of 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 your universe.
120:1.6 (1326.3) “As in each of your 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 endowments, 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 your 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 (1326.4) “As long as you are absent on this final and extraordinary bestowal, I pledge (with Gabriel’s co-operation) the faithful administration of 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 your 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:
2. The Bestowal Limitations
120:2.1 (1327.1) “1. In accordance with the usages and in conformity with the technique of Sonarington — in compliance with the mandates of the Eternal Son of Paradise — I have provided in every way for your immediate entrance upon this mortal 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 your Father to receive from him the supreme sovereignty of your universe.
120:2.2 (1327.2) “2. Apart from your earth mission and your universe revelation, but incidental to both, I counsel that you assume, after you are sufficiently self-conscious of your divine identity, the additional task of technically terminating the Lucifer rebellion in the system of Satania, and that you do all this as the Son of Man; thus, as a mortal creature of the realm, in weakness made powerful by faith-submission to the will of your Father, I suggest that you graciously achieve all you have repeatedly declined arbitrarily to accomplish by power and might when you were so endowed at the time of the inception of this sinful and unjustified rebellion. I would regard it as a fitting climax of your mortal bestowal if you should return to us as the Son of Man, Planetary Prince of Urantia, as well as the Son of God, supreme sovereign of your universe. As a mortal man, the lowest type of intelligent creature in Nebadon, meet and adjudicate the blasphemous pretensions of Caligastia and Lucifer and, in your assumed humble estate, forever end the shameful misrepresentations of these fallen children of light. Having steadfastly declined to discredit these rebels through the exercise of your creator prerogatives, now it would be fitting that you should, in the likeness of the lowest creatures of your creation, wrest dominion from the hands of these fallen Sons; and so would your whole local universe in all fairness clearly and forever recognize the justice of your doing in the role of mortal flesh those things which mercy admonished you not to do by the power of arbitrary authority. And having thus by your bestowal established the possibility of the sovereignty of the Supreme in Nebadon, you will in effect have brought to a close the unadjudicated affairs of all preceding insurrections, notwithstanding the greater or lesser time lag involved in the realization of this achievement. By this act the pending dissensions of your universe will be in substance liquidated. And with the subsequent endowment of supreme sovereignty over your universe, similar challenges to your authority can never recur in any part of your great personal creation.
120:2.3 (1327.3) “3. When you have succeeded in terminating the Urantia secession, as you undoubtedly will, I counsel you to accept from Gabriel the conference of the title of ‘Planetary Prince of Urantia’ as the eternal recognition by your universe of your final bestowal experience; and that you further do any and all things, consistent with the purport of your bestowal, to atone for the sorrow and confusion brought upon Urantia by the Caligastia betrayal and the subsequent Adamic default.
120:2.4 (1328.1) “4. In accordance with your request, Gabriel and all concerned will co-operate with you in the expressed desire to end your Urantia bestowal with the pronouncement of a dispensational judgment of the realm, accompanied by the termination of an age, the resurrection of the sleeping mortal survivors, and the establishment of the dispensation of the bestowed Spirit of Truth.
120:2.5 (1328.2) “5. As concerns the planet of your 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 age-old fears. And then, in accordance with your mortal wisdom, minister to the physical well-being and material comfort of your brothers in the flesh. Live the ideal religious life for the inspiration and edification of all your universe.
120:2.6 (1328.3) “6. On the planet of your 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, 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 bestowal the Spirit of Truth 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 (1328.4) “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 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 days of your earthly sojourn nor for any subsequent generation of human beings 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 ages to come.
120:2.8 (1328.5) “8. Your great mission to be realized and experienced in the mortal incarnation is embraced in your decision to live a life wholeheartedly motivated 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 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 (1329.1) “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 Son of Man, the creative attributes of your personal divinity will follow you from Salvington to Urantia. It will ever be within your power-of-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 will, make an undivided decision which would terminate in whole-personality choice.
3. Further Counsel and Advice
120:3.1 (1329.2) “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:
120:3.2 (1329.3) “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.
120:3.3 (1329.4) “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.
120:3.4 (1329.5) “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.
120:3.5 (1329.6) “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.
120:3.6 (1330.1) “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.
120:3.7 (1330.2) “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.
120:3.8 (1330.3) “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.
120:3.9 (1330.4) “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.
120:3.10 (1330.5) “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.
120:3.11 (1330.6) “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.”
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120:3.12 (1330.7) 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.
4. The Incarnation — Making Two One
120:4.1 (1331.1) 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.”
120:4.2 (1331.2) 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.
120:4.3 (1331.3) 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.
120:4.4 (1331.4) Never lose sight of the fact that the supreme spiritual purpose of the Michael bestowal was to enhance the revelation of God.
120:4.5 (1331.5) 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.
120:4.6 (1331.6) 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.