Michael of Nebadon

Michael of Nebadon is the Creator Son who, according to The Urantia Book, organized and rules Nebadon, the local universe that contains Urantia 32:0.3 37:0.1. The book identifies him with Jesus of Nazareth, calling the human life on Urantia the incarnation of Michael, "a divine Son of Paradise and the creator of all this local universe of things and beings" 119:7.5. Because of that last bestowal he is also called Christ Michael 33:1.1.

Origin and nature

The book describes a Creator Son as springing into being when "the fullness of absolute spiritual ideation in the Eternal Son encounters the fullness of absolute personality concept in the Universal Father" 21:1.1. Michael is "the personification of the 611,121st original concept of infinite identity" of this kind, and in that sense "the 'only-begotten Son'" of that concept 33:1.1.

The book insists on a distinction that it says is often blurred. "Our Creator Son is not the Eternal Son," and Michael "is not a member of the Paradise Trinity" 33:1.2. In his own universe, though, he holds all the attributes and powers the Eternal Son would show if present, and more, since he also represents the Universal Father 33:1.2-3. To Nebadon he is "to all practical intents and purposes, God" 33:1.4. Of the Creator Sons, the book says, some resemble the Father more and some the Son, and Michael "very definitely" resembles the Eternal Son 33:2.1.

Creator and ruler of Nebadon

Michael chose his own site and began organizing Nebadon "about four hundred billion years ago" 119:0.7. Like every Creator Son he came with a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, who became the universe's Mother Spirit 21:2.2. The Mother Spirit of Salvington volunteered to go with him and has since worked with him in creating and governing Nebadon 33:3.2. Their first joint creation was Gabriel, the Bright and Morning Star 33:4.1-2.

His power has limits. It is bounded by the gravity circuits centered on Paradise and by the reservation to the Ancients of Days of final judgments on the extinction of personality. Personality itself "is the sole bestowal of the Father" 33:2.2. The book says Michael "is supremely concerned with but three things: creation, sustenance, and ministry," and leaves judgment to others, because "creators never sit in judgment on their creatures" 33:7.1. His headquarters is Salvington, but he spends much time visiting other worlds and journeys to Paradise and Uversa; in his absence Gabriel serves as regent 33:2.5.

The seven bestowals

Every Creator Son swears to the Trinity not to assume full sovereignty "until his seven creature bestowals shall have been successfully completed" 119:0.3. The purpose, according to Paper 119, is to make Creators "wise, sympathetic, just, and understanding sovereigns." The bestowals are "not essential to the wise, just, and efficient management of a local universe, but they are absolutely necessary to a fair, merciful, and understanding administration" 119:0.4-5. Michael's took place about a hundred and fifty million years apart, beginning about a billion years ago 119:0.7. Before each of them he left the universe in the care of Immanuel, the Union of Days 119:1.1 119:2.3 119:6.2.

1. As a Melchizedek. A stranger appeared among the Melchizedek Sons, served as one of them, and became chief of the order by common consent 119:1.5. The book notes that the records "do not specifically state" this was Michael, "but it is universally believed that he was" 119:1.6. 2. As a Lanonandek Son, governing for more than seventeen years of universe time a system left in confusion by the rebel System Sovereign Lutentia 119:2.2-5. 3. As a Material Son, acting as Planetary Prince of world 217 in system 87 of constellation 61, a world isolated by rebellion, where he won back the defaulting Prince and his staff 119:3.3-4. 4. As a seraphim, serving as a teaching counselor to twenty-six master teachers on twenty-two worlds 119:4.3. 5. As an ascending mortal in spirit form, a pilgrim known as Eventod on Uversa 119:5.2. 6. As a morontia mortal on Endantum, whose details the author is "forbidden to reveal" 119:6.3. 7. As a mortal of the flesh on Urantia 119:7.3.

In the first three he appeared "suddenly and as a fully developed individual" 119:3.6. How it was done remains a mystery: "Even Gabriel confesses that he does not comprehend the method" 119:5.5. The book links each bestowal to one of the seven aspects of Deity will personalized in the Seven Master Spirits. The last of them, on Urantia, revealed the will of the Universal Father 119:8.4.

The Urantia bestowal

Michael's choice of Urantia was announced shortly after the default of Adam and Eve, more than thirty-five thousand years before the event 119:7.2. Until it happened, no one knew he would come "as a helpless infant of the realm" 119:7.3. Joshua ben Joseph "was conceived and was born into the world just as all other babies," except that he was Michael incarnate, and the book says the technique of the incarnation "will forever remain unsolved" 119:7.5.

Before he left, Immanuel took over the universe and told Michael that in all six earlier bestowals he had submitted to every aspect of the will of Deity except "the personal will of your Paradise Father" 120:1.2. The commission counseled him to end the Lucifer rebellion in Satania as "the Son of Man" 120:2.2; to avoid founding "an organized cult, a crystallized religion" 120:3.6; and to "leave no writings behind" 120:3.7. Its central charge was to live "a life wholeheartedly motivated to do the will of your Paradise Father, thus to reveal God" 120:2.8.

The book is precise about the dual nature it describes:

He was not God in association with man but, rather, God incarnate in man.120:4.2

"Jesus was God and man—always and even forevermore" 120:4.3. The supreme spiritual purpose of the bestowal, it says, "was to enhance the revelation of God" 120:4.4.

Sovereignty

After the Urantia bestowal Michael was accepted by the Ancients of Days and recognized by the Universal Father as sovereign. He was proclaimed "the settled ruler of Nebadon" when he returned to Salvington 119:8.1. He asked the Trinity Sons attached to Nebadon to stay, and they were permanently attached to his court 119:8.1. The whole bestowal career took almost a billion years:

Michael was born a creator, educated an administrator, trained an executive, but he was required to earn his sovereignty by experience.119:8.2

On his return the Mother Spirit acknowledged her subordination to him, and he thereby gained "all power in heaven and on earth" 33:2.3. He then issued the "Proclamation of Equality," making her co-ruler 33:3.6. The book adds that through the bestowals Michael helped bring about the sovereignty of the Supreme in Nebadon 119:8.5, and it states a belief, presented as belief, that in a future age he will work with the Supreme Being "in the first experiential Trinity" for the universes of outer space 119:8.7.

The Personalized Adjuster that guided Jesus is said now to direct all Adjuster activity in Nebadon 109:6.4. The book also reports that Jesus "has promised sometime to return to the world of his terminal bestowal" 119:8.8.

Michael and the Bible

The book reuses New Testament titles for Michael in its own sense. It calls him the "only-begotten Son" of a particular divine concept 33:1.1, a phrase drawn from John Jn 1:14; Jn 3:16, while denying that he is the Eternal Son. It applies "all power in heaven and on earth" Mt 28:18 to the authority he gained when the Mother Spirit acknowledged him 33:2.3. The claim of Hebrews that Christ was "in all points tempted" Heb 4:15 appears in the account of the Material Son bestowal, so that the Material Sons know their sovereign has been "tried and tested" as they are 119:3.7. The promise of return Jn 14:3 is read as a promise to come back to Urantia 119:8.8. The editors of the footnoted text also link the book's naming of Michael as sovereign of Nebadon to the creation passage in John's prologue 32:0.3 Jn 1:1-3.

Index of references

Description

• Michael of Nebadon is the head of all personality in Nebadon and the creator of Nebadon. He is at the same time a father, a creator and a sovereign for all inhabitants of Nebadon. 33:3.2 37:0.1 128:1.13
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• Michael is the very being whose creative fatherhood in this universe of tie has made possible the fact of our lives 112:7.8
• no man goes to Father except through Michael 0:8.11 180:3.7
• he personally grants mortals’ credentials to proceed upon superuniverse career 112:7.8
• He is the 611,121st bestowal of Father and Son, or 611,121st personalization of universal concept of divinity and infinity 33:1.1 119:0.7
• The Michael of Nebadon is the “only-begotten Son” personalizing this 611,121st universal concept of divinity and infinity. 33:1.1
• Our Creator Son exerts the same spirit gravity that the Eternal Son of Paradise would exert if he were personally present on Salvington, and more 33:1.3
• To our universe and all its inhabited worlds the Sovereign Son is, to all practical intents and purposes, God. 33:1.4 183:3.4
• Michael of Nebadon is a mercy-dominated Son; compassion is his very nature. 140:8.11
• The Eternal Son is known by different names in various universes. On our world this Original Son has been confused with Michael of Nebadon, who bestowed himself upon our mortal races of Urantia. Our Creator Son is not the Eternal Son, the existential Paradise associate of the Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit. (6:1.3,5) 33:1.2 161:1.6
• He is our elder brother in fact since he became one of us 40:6.5
• Michael is actually the Planetary Prince of Urantia since he was proclaimed like that by the Union of Days at the end of his bestowal in the flesh, but he made no gesture of personal administration of the planet aside from the establishment of the Jerusem commission of twenty-four advisers 45:4.16 114:0.8 114:1.1 120:2.2 136:3.1 176:4.4
• He manifests traits and attributes which more resemble the Eternal Son. 21:1.3 33:2.1
• Michael, as a sevenfold Master Son, is a member of one of the divine corps constituting the Trinity Ultimate 28:6.18 119:8.6
• Michael of Nebadon is like the Paradise Father because he shares his Paradise perfection 106:2.6
• In Christ Michael the Son of God and The Son of Man are one 40:7.2
• In his last bestowal in Urantia Michael of Nebadon was known as Jesus of Nazareth 7:5.4 20:6.1 32:0.3 49:5.26 76:5.7 119:7.5
• He is also referred to as Christ Michael | Christ

History of Nebadon creation

• 399,000,000,000 years ago Michael of Nebadon selected a disintegrating nebula called Andronover as the site for building Nebadon. It required almost one million years to complete the architectural worlds of Salvington and the constellations. The local system headquarters planets were constructed over a period extending from that time to about five billion years ago 57:3.8 119:0.7
• 300,000,000,000 years ago the staff of Michael arrived on Salvington, and the Uversa government of Orvonton extended physical recognition to the local universe of Nebadon 57:3.9
• 200,000,000,000 years ago Michael’s creation is registered on Uversa as a universe of inhabitation and progressive mortal ascension. The oldest inhabited planets of Nebadon date from these times. 57:3.10
• And all of Michael’s plans for this local universe were fully approved by the Paradise Trinity before he ever embarked upon the supreme adventure of space. 32:0.3

Bestowals | Creator Sons:creature bestowals; Paradise Sons of God:bestowals

• began 1 billion years ago; occurred at 150 million year intervals 119:0.7 119:8.2
• could rule as representative of Trinity only after all 7 bestowals, acquiring thereby supreme sovereignty 21:3 120:0.4
• created possibility for sovereignty of Supreme in Nebadon 119:8.5-7
• subordination to variously constituted wills of Father, Son, and Spirit 119:8.3-4 120:0.3-4
• 1st bestowal
• The first bestowal of Michael was as a Melchizedek, in the Melchizedek headquarters sphere. It happened one billion years ago. 119:1
• On his Melchizedek bestowal he manifested the united will of the Father, Son, and Spirit 119:8.4
• 2nd bestowal
• The second bestowal of Michael was as a primary Lanonandek, in Palonia, system 11 of constellation 37, one hundred and fifty million years after the Melchizedek bestowal of Michael. He helped to repare the system from the rebellion of Lutentia, the system sovereign 119:2
• in this one he manifested will of Father and Son 119:8.4
• 3rd bestowal
• The third bestowal of Michael was as a Material Son on world 217, system 87, constellation 61. He he achieved the repentance of the Planetary Prince in the midst of a system rebellion 119:3
• in this bestowal he revealed will of Father and Spirit 119:8.4
• 4th bestowal
• the fourth bestowal of Michael was as a supreme seraphim; served as secretary to 26 teachers. His last or terminal assignment was as counselor and helper attached to a bestowal mission of a Trinity Teacher Son on world 462 in system 84 of constellation 3 in the universe of Nebadon 39:1.15 119:4
• in this bestowal he revealed united will of Son and Spirit 119:8.4
• 5th bestowal
• the fifth bestowal of Michael was as a ascending mortal on Uversa, a little over three hundred million years ago. His name was Eventod 119:5
• he portrayed will of Infinite Spirit 119:8.4
• 6th bestowal
• the sixth bestowal of Michael was as a morontia mortal on Endantum, on the headquarters planet of the fifth constellation 119:6
• in this bestowal he revealed will of Eternal Son 119:8.4
• 7th Urantia bestowal, the Urantia bestowal
• After a study of the special report on the status of segregated worlds prepared by the Melchizedeks, in counsel with Gabriel, Michael finally chose Urantia as the planet whereon to enact his final bestowal. 63:7.1 76:5.7 120:1.1 122:0.2 128:0.1
• The public announcement that Michael had selected Urantia as the theater for his final bestowal was made shortly after the default of Adam and Eve 119:7.2
• Michael sent a message of friendship and comfort to Adam and Eve, who at that time did not fully understand 76:5.3
• Michael could hardly come to Urantia until there existed a people believing in the Universal Father among whom he could appear. 96:0.2
• When Michael incarnated on Urantia, the world presented the most favorable condition for the Creator Son’s bestowal that had ever previously prevailed or has since obtained. 121:1.1
• in this bestowal he was known as Jesus of Nazareth 32:0.3 52:5.1-2 119:7 120:0.9
• it was his last bestowal and in it he lived the will of Universal Father 119:8.4
• preparation
• before departing he recevived a list of commissions by Immanuel, his Union of Days 120:1-3 141:7.11
• * he was counseled to function largely as teacher;
• * atone for Caligastia and Adamic default;
• * and terminate Lucifer rebellion 93:10.7 120:2.2-5
• * the single thought to have in his mission had to be revealing Father 120:1.5
• Immanuel was responsible for Michael, the voucher for his personality integrity, before the arrival of his Adjuster 120:2.9
• during the Urantia bestowal Michael voluntarily divested of all extraplanetary support and special assistance 120:1.3
• All powers of universe administration which had not previously been conferred upon Gabriel, Michael now assigned to the custody of Immanuel. 120:0.6
• in this time he was born of woman 20:2.7
• he had nothing to do with selecting his parents. From the three couples nominated, Gabriel made the personal choice of Joseph and Mary 122:0.3 128:0.1
• after the bestowal
• After his ascension Michael became master of the experience of Supremacy, the realization of the Supreme; and as the one person in Nebadon able to experience the reality of the Supreme, he forthwith attained to the status of the sovereignty of supremacy in and to his local universe. 101:6.5
• Fortant is director for all activities related to Michael’s bestowal on Urantia 45:3.7
• All broadcasts to the individual worlds are relayed from the system capitals except the Michael messages, which sometimes go direct to their destinations over the archangels’ circuit. 46:3.4
• One special Melchizedek college in Edentia is devoted to to the mastery of the new problems arising out of the fact that Michael made his final bestowal on one of the worlds of Norlatiadek 43:1.6
• Most High mediator harmonizes bestowal adjustments with constellation administration 43:5.11
• this bestowal permitted the Urantia bestowal of Thought Adjusters and the Spirit of Truth to all normal mortals. The Spirit of Truth is the spirit of Michael on Urantia. 120:2.6 15:9.12
• The Most High adviser is the personal representative of Michael in Norlatiadek since his attainment of the status of a Master Son 43:5.6
• A memorial to Michael was dedicated on Jerusem 495 years ago, and today it is the center of all activities integrated into the leadership of the system. 46:5.19
• purposes of 7th bestowal
• * to complete required experience;
• * to subordinate himself to will of Father 120:0.4 189:1.10
• * to gain a creature experience,
• * to gain the universe sovereignty,
• * to settle Lucifer rebellion,
• * to reveal God andlead men to become son-conscious 120 120:4.4 128:0.2-4 128:1.1 128:7.6 129:3.5-8 129:4.7 185:3.4 189:1.10 193:0.3
• how it happens
• When a Son of God becomes a Son of Man, is literally born of woman, as occurred on your world nineteen hundred years ago, it is a universal mystery. 13:1.8
• When a personal duplication or divine extension of this Original Son starts on a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it becomes literally true that the divine “Word is made flesh,” and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly beings of animal origin. 20:5.1 | Jesus:personality and nature

Organization of Nebadon

• The Master Son, Michael, is supremely concerned with but three things: creation, sustenance, and ministry. He does not personally participate in the judicial work of the universe. Creators never sit in judgment on their creatures 33:7.1
• after his bestowal in Urantia, he established 24 counselors in Jerusem, who represent him concerning roll calls of Satania and in many other phases of the scheme of mortal ascension 45:4.1 114:1.1
• Gabriel is regent of Nebadon when Michael is absent from Salvington 33:2.5 33:4.7 33:6.1
• his headquarters is threefold mansion of light on Salvington 33:1.1
• Although Michael’s headquarters is officially located on Salvington, the capital of Nebadon, he spends much of his time visiting the constellation and system headquarters and even the individual planets. 33:2.5 33:6.1

Sovereignty

• 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, but he wisely chose not to. 21:3.2-3 120:0.3-4 120:1.6
• Immanuel of Salvington, number 611,121 of the sixth order of Supreme Trinity Personalities, is a being of sublime dignity and of such superb condescension that he refuses the worship and adoration of all living creatures. He bears the distinction of being the only personality in all Nebadon who has never acknowledged subordination to his brother Michael. He functions as adviser to the Sovereign Son 33:5.2
• Michael's personal power is limited by the pre-existent gravity circuits centering at Paradise and by the reservation on the part of the Ancients of Days of the superuniverse government of all final executive judgments 33:2.2
• Michael earned authority through actual experience in the likeness of universe creatures 120:0 120:1.4 127:0.4 191:3.4
• Michael received all power and authority after bestowals 20:5.5 21:3.8 43:4.7 179:2.3 180:4.1 182:1.3
• After Michael’s final and successful bestowal on Urantia he was not only accepted by the Ancients of Days as sovereign ruler of Nebadon, but he was also recognized by the Universal Father as the established director of the local universe of his own creation 119:8
• It was an afternoon at the end of the summer of the year 25, on Mount Hermon, amid the trees and the silence of nature, when Michael of Nebadon won the unquestioned sovereignty of his universe. 134:8.9 136:3.1

Lucifer rebellion | Lucifer rebellion

• At the time of Lucifer's rebellion and the two which preceded it there was no absolute and personal sovereign authority in the universe of Nebadon. Michael ruled by divine right, as vicegerent of the Universal Father, but not yet in his own personal right 53:5.2-3 54:5.6
• Michael knew of Lucifer’s disaffection 500 years before rebellion 53:2.3
• Michael offered salvation to all rebels. To all who would show proof of sincere repentance, he offered, upon his attainment of complete universe sovereignty, forgiveness and reinstatement in some form of universe service 53:9.1 54:4.5
• Seventh bestowal terminated rebellions, the one due to Lucifer, except on planets with apostate Planetary Princes, and the two other ones in other systems 53:8.3-4
• Michael, upon assuming the supreme sovereignty of Nebadon, petitioned the Ancients of Days for authority to intern all personalities concerned in the Lucifer rebellion pending the rulings of the superuniverse tribunals in the case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer 53:9.3
• Michael restored spiritual status of realm by his bestowal 7:4.5
• From the outbreak of rebellion to the day of his enthronement as sovereign ruler of Nebadon, Michael never interfered with the rebel forces of Lucifer; he applied a policy of noninterference and they were allowed to run a free course for almost 200,000 years 53:5.1-4

Future

• Michael promised to return to Urantia in the future, but nobody knows when 20:4.5 | Jesus:second coming
• Michael will serve in outer space in next universe age 119:8.7

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Jesus: “I am the way.” 180:3.7 — Jn 14:6.
• Only begotten Son 33:1.1 — Ps 2:7; Jn 1:14,18; Jn 3:16,18; Acts 13:33; Heb 1:5; Heb 5:5; 1 Jn 4:9.
• Father & Son are one 33:1.4 — Jn 1:1; Jn 5:17-18; Jn 10:30,38; Jn 14:7-11,20; Jn 17:11,21-22.
• See Son, see Father 33:1.4 — Jn 12:45; Jn 14:7-9.
• Whom do you seek? I am he. 183:3.4 — Jn 18:4-6.
• Who is one's neighbor? 140:8.11 — Lk 10:29-37.
• Machiventa Melchizedek 45:4.16 — Gn 14:18ff; Ps 110:4; Heb 5:6,10; Heb 6:20; Heb 7:1-3,10,17,21; Heb 7:21.
• Jerusem commission 114:1.1 — Rev 4:4; Rev 11:16.
• Urantia management 114:1.1 — Rev 4:4,10; Rev 5:8,14; Rev 7:11; Rev 11:16; Rev 14:3; Rev 19:4.
• “Children of light” 120:2.2 — Lk 16:8; Jn 12:36; Eph 5:8; 1 Th 5:5.
• Terminate rebellion 120:2.2 — Is 14:12-20; Mt 4:1-11; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:1-14; Lk 10:18; 2 P 2:4; Rev 12:7-9.
• The “forty days” 136:3.1 — Mt 4:1-11; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:1-13.
• Greatest be server of all 28:6.18 — Acts 20:35.
• Greatest be server of all (quotation) 28:6.18 — Mt 20:26-27; Mt 23:11-12; Mk 9:35; Mk 10:43-44; Lk 22:26.
• Michael's perfection 106:2.6 — Jn 14:9-10.
• Be you perfect 106:2.6 — Gn 17:1; 1 Ki 8:61; Lv 19:2; Dt 18:13; Mt 5:48; 2 Co 13:11; Jm 1:4; 1 P 1:16.
• Michael of Salvington 32:0.3 — Jn 1:1-3.
• Incarnation of Michael 119:7.5 — Mk 1:1; Lk 1:30-33; Lk 2:4-7; Jn 1:14. *Visit of the Magi*: Mt 2:1-12.
• Michael's creation 57:3.8 — Ps 33:6; Ps 102:25; Is 45:12,18; Jn 1:1-3; Eph 2:10; Eph 3:9; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2,10; Rev 4:11.
• Reveal will of the Universal Father 120:0.4 — Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Jn 4:34; Jn 5:30; Jn 6:38-40; Jn 15:10; Jn 17:4.
• Jesus lived will of Father 119:8.4 — Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Jn 4:34; Jn 5:30; Jn 6:38-40; Jn 15:10; Jn 17:4.
• Jesus lived human life 128:0.1 — Heb 2:14-18; Heb 4:15.
• Jesus lived the will of Father 141:7.11 — Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Jn 4:34; Jn 5:30; Jn 6:38-40; Jn 15:10; Jn 17:4.
• Prince of Peace 93:10.7 — Is 9:6.
• Second Adam 93:10.7 — 1 Co 15:45-47.
• Jerusem broadcasts 46:3.4 — Rev 4:5.
• Free spiritual captives 120:2.6 — Is 42:5-7; Is 49:9; Is 61:1; Lk 4:18; Ga 5:1,13.
• Enhanced revelation 120:4.4 — Mt 11:27; Lk 10:22; Jn 1:18; Jn 6:45-46; Jn 8:26-27; Jn 12:43-44,49-50; Jn 14:7-11; Jn 17:7-9,25-26.
• Jesus, the new and living way 129:4.7 — Jn 14:6; Heb 10:20.
• Jesus' destiny: to show truth 185:3.4 — Jn 18:37b.

Where it appears

Michael of Nebadon is linked in 186 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• Christ
• Creator Sons
• Jesus
• Master Michaels

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