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Urantia Book Paper 21 The Paradise Creator Sons
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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Trinitized Sons Of God The Solitary Messengers Higher Personalities Of The
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Infinite Spirit The Messenger Hosts Of Space Ministering Spirits Of The Central
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Universe Ministry Of The Primary Supernaphim Ministering Spirits Of The
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Superuniverses The Universe Power Directors Personalities Of The Grand Universe
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The Corps Of The Finality
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Paper 21 The Paradise Creator Sons
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Introduction
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THE Creator Sons are the makers and rulers of the local universes of time and
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space. These universe creators and sovereigns are of dual origin, embodying the
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characteristics of God the Father and God the Son. But each Creator Son is
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different from every other; each is unique in nature as well as in personality;
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each is the "only-begotten Son" of the perfect deity ideal of his origin.
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In the vast work of organizing, evolving, and perfecting a local universe,
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these high Sons always enjoy the sustaining approval of the Universal Father.
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The relationship of the Creator Sons with their Paradise Father is touching and
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superlative. No doubt the profound affection of the Deity parents for their
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divine progeny is the wellspring of that beautiful and well-nigh divine love
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which even mortal parents bear their children.
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These primary Paradise Sons are personalized as Michaels. As they go forth from
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Paradise to found their universes, they are known as Creator Michaels. When
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settled in supreme authority, they are called Master Michaels. Sometimes we
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refer to the sovereign of your universe of Nebadon as Christ Michael. Always
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and forever do they reign after the "order of Michael," that being the
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designation of the first Son of their order and nature.
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The original or first-born Michael has never experienced incarnation as a
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material being, but seven times he passed through the experience of spiritual
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creature ascent on the seven circuits of Havona, advancing from the outer
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spheres to the innermost circuit of the central creation. The order of Michael
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knows the grand universe from one end to the other; there is no essential
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experience of any of the children of time and space in which the Michaels have
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not personally participated; they are in fact partakers not only of the divine
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nature but also of your nature, meaning all natures, from the highest to the
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lowest.
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The original Michael is the presiding head of the primary Paradise Sons when
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they assemble for conference at the center of all things. Not long since on
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Uversa we recorded a universal broadcast of a conclave extraordinary on the
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eternal Isle of one hundred fifty thousand Creator Sons assembled in the
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parental presence and engaged in deliberations having to do with the progress
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of the unification and stabilization of the universe of universes. This was a
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selected group of Sovereign Michaels, sevenfold bestowal Sons.
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1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF CREATOR SONS
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When the fullness of absolute spiritual ideation in the Eternal Son encounters
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the fullness of absolute personality concept in the Universal Father, when such
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a creative union is finally and fully attained, when such absolute identity of
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spirit
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and such infinite oneness of personality concept occur, then, right then and
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there, without the loss of anything of personality or prerogative by either of
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the infinite Deities, there flashes into full-fledged being a new and original
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Creator Son, the only-begotten Son of the perfect ideal and the powerful idea
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whose union produces this new creator personality of power and perfection.
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Each Creator Son is the only-begotten and only-begettable offspring of the
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perfect union of the original concepts of the two infinite and eternal and
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perfect minds of the ever-existent Creators of the universe of universes. There
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never can be another such Son because each Creator Son is the unqualified,
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finished, and final expression and embodiment of all of every phase of every
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feature of every possibility of every divine reality that could, throughout all
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eternity, ever be found in, expressed by, or evolved from, those divine
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creative potentials which united to bring this Michael Son into existence. Each
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Creator Son is the absolute of the united deity concepts which constitute his
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divine origin.
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The divine natures of these Creator Sons are, in principle, derived equally
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from the attributes of both Paradise parents. All partake of the fullness of
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the divine nature of the Universal Father and of the creative prerogatives of
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the Eternal Son, but as we observe the practical outworking of the Michael
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functions in the universes, we discern apparent differences. Some Creator Sons
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appear to be more like God the Father; others more like God the Son. For
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example: The trend of administration in the universe of Nebadon suggests that
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its Creator and ruling Son is one whose nature and character more resemble that
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of the Eternal Mother Son. It should be further stated that some universes are
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presided over by Paradise Michaels who appear equally to resemble God the
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Father and God the Son. And these observations are in no sense implied
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criticisms; they are simply a recording of fact.
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I do not know the exact number of Creator Sons in existence, but I have good
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reasons for believing that there are more than seven hundred thousand. Now, we
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know that there are exactly seven hundred thousand Unions of Days and no more
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are being created. We also observe that the ordained plans of the present
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universe age seem to indicate that one Union of Days is to be stationed in each
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local universe as the counseling ambassador of the Trinity. We note further
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that the constantly increasing number of Creator Sons already exceeds the
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stationary number of the Unions of Days. But concerning the destiny of the
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Michaels beyond seven hundred thousand, we have never been informed.
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2. THE CREATORS OF LOCAL UNIVERSES
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The Paradise Sons of the primary order are the designers, creators, builders,
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and administrators of their respective domains, the local universes of time and
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space, the basic creative units of the seven evolutionary superuniverses. A
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Creator Son is permitted to choose the space site of his future cosmic
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activity, but before he may begin even the physical organization of his
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universe, he must spend a long period of observation devoted to the study of
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the efforts of his older brothers in various creations located in the
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superuniverse of his projected action. And prior to all this, the Michael Son
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will have completed his long and unique experience of Paradise observation and
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Havona training.
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When a Creator Son departs from Paradise to embark upon the adventure of
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universe making, to become the head--virtually the God--of the local uni-
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verse of his own organization, then, for the first time, he finds himself in
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intimate contact with, and in many respects dependent upon, the Third Source
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and Center. The Infinite Spirit, though abiding with the Father and the Son at
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the center of all things, is destined to function as the actual and effective
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helper of each Creator Son. Therefore is each Creator Son accompanied by a
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Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, that being who is destined to become
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the Divine Minister, the Mother Spirit of the new local universe.
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The departure of a Michael Son on this occasion forever liberates his creator
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prerogatives from the Paradise Sources and Centers, subject only to certain
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limitations inherent in the pre-existence of these Sources and Centers and to
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certain other antecedent powers and presences. Among these limitations to the
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otherwise all-powerful creator prerogatives of a local universe Father are the
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following:
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1. Energy-matter is dominated by the Infinite Spirit. Before any new forms of
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things, great or small, may be created, before any new transformations of
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energy-matter may be attempted, a Creator Son must secure the consent and
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working co-operation of the Infinite Spirit.
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2. Creature designs and types are controlled by the Eternal Son. Before a
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Creator Son may engage in the creation of any new type of being, any new design
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of creature, he must secure the consent of the Eternal and Original Mother Son.
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3. Personality is designed and bestowed by the Universal Father.
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The types and patterns of mind are determined by the precreature factors of
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being. After these have been associated to constitute a creature (personal or
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otherwise), mind is the endowment of the Third Source and Center, the universal
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source of mind ministry to all beings below the level of Paradise Creators.
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The control of spirit designs and types depends on the level of their
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manifestation. In the last analysis, spiritual design is controlled by the
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Trinity or by the pre-Trinity spirit endowments of the Trinity
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personalities--Father, Son, and Spirit.
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When such a perfect and divine Son has taken possession of the space site of
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his chosen universe; when the initial problems of universe materialization and
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of gross equilibrium have been resolved; when he has formed an effective and
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co-operative working union with the complemental Daughter of the Infinite
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Spirit--then do this Universe Son and this Universe Spirit initiate that
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liaison which is designed to give origin to the innumerable hosts of their
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local universe children. In connection with this event the Creative Spirit
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focalization of the Paradise Infinite Spirit becomes changed in nature, taking
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on the personal qualities of the Mother Spirit of a local universe.
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Notwithstanding that all Creator Sons are divinely like their Paradise parents,
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none exactly resembles another; each is unique, diverse, exclusive, and
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original in nature as well as in personality. And since they are the architects
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and makers of the life plans of their respective realms, this very diversity
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insures that their domains will also be diverse in every form and phase of
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Michael-derived living existence which may be created or subsequently evolved
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therein. Hence the orders of creatures native to the local universes are quite
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varied. No two are administered or inhabited by dual-origin native beings who
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are in all respects identical. Within any superuniverse, one half of their
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inherent attributes are quite alike, being derived from the uniform Creative
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Spirits; the other half
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vary, being derived from the diversified Creator Sons. But such diversity does
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not characterize those creatures of sole origin in the Creative Spirit nor
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those imported beings who are native to the central or superuniverses.
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When a Michael Son is absent from his universe, its government is directed by
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the first-born native being, the Bright and Morning Star, the local universe
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chief executive. The advice and counsel of the Union of Days is invaluable at
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such times. During these absences a Creator Son is able to invest the
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associated Mother Spirit with the overcontrol of his spiritual presence on the
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inhabited worlds and in the hearts of his mortal children. And the Mother
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Spirit of a local universe remains always at its headquarters, extending her
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fostering care and spiritual ministry to the uttermost parts of such an
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evolutionary domain.
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The personal presence of a Creator Son in his local universe is not necessary
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to the smooth running of an established material creation. Such Sons may
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journey to Paradise, and still their universes swing on through space. They may
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lay down their lines of power to incarnate as the children of time; still their
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realms whirl on about their respective centers. No material organization is
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independent of the absolute-gravity grasp of Paradise or of the cosmic
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overcontrol inherent in the space presence of the Unqualified Absolute.
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3. LOCAL UNIVERSE SOVEREIGNTY
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A Creator Son is given the range of a universe by the consent of the Paradise
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Trinity and with the confirmation of the supervising Master Spirit of the
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superuniverse concerned. Such action constitutes title of physical possession,
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a cosmic leasehold. But the elevation of a Michael Son from this initial and
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self-limited stage of rulership to the experiential supremacy of self-earned
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sovereignty comes as a result of his own personal experiences in the work of
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universe creation and incarnated bestowal. Until the achievement of
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bestowal-earned sovereignty, he rules as vicegerent of the Universal Father.
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A Creator Son could assert full sovereignty over his personal creation at any
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time, but he wisely chooses not to. If, prior to passing through the creature
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bestowals, he assumed an unearned supreme sovereignty, the Paradise
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personalities resident in his local universe would withdraw. But this has never
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happened throughout all the creations of time and space.
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The fact of creatorship implies the fullness of sovereignty, but the Michaels
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choose to experientially earn it, thereby retaining the full co-operation of
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all Paradise personalities attached to the local universe administration. We
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know of no Michael who ever did otherwise; but they all could, they are truly
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freewill Sons.
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The sovereignty of a Creator Son in a local universe passes through six,
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perhaps seven, stages of experiential manifestation. These appear in the
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following order:
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1. Initial vicegerent sovereignty--the solitary provisional authority exercised
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by a Creator Son before the acquirement of personal qualities by the associated
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Creative Spirit.
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2. Conjoint vicegerent sovereignty--the joint rule of the Paradise pair
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subsequent to the personality achievement of the Universe Mother Spirit.
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3. Augmenting vicegerent sovereignty--the advancing authority of a Creator Son
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during the period of his seven creature bestowals.
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4. Supreme sovereignty--the settled authority following the completion of the
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seventh bestowal. In Nebadon, supreme sovereignty dates from the completion of
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Michael's bestowal on Urantia. It has existed just slightly over nineteen
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hundred years of your planetary time.
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5. Augmenting supreme sovereignty--the advanced relationship growing out of the
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settling of a majority of the creature domains in light and life. This stage
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pertains to the unachieved future of your local universe.
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6. Trinitarian sovereignty--exercised subsequent to the settling of the entire
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local universe in light and life.
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7. Unrevealed sovereignty--the unknown relationships of a future universe age.
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In accepting the initial vicegerent sovereignty of a projected local universe,
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a Creator Michael takes an oath to the Trinity not to assume supreme
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sovereignty until the seven creature bestowals have been completed and
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certified by the superuniverse rulers. But if a Michael Son could not, at will,
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assert such unearned sovereignty, there would be no meaning in taking an oath
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not to do so.
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Even in the prebestowal ages a Creator Son rules his domain well-nigh supremely
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when there is no dissent in any of its parts. Limited rulership would hardly be
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manifest if sovereignty were never challenged. The sovereignty exercised by a
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prebestowal Creator Son in a universe without rebellion is no greater than in a
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universe with rebellion; but in the first instance sovereignty limitations are
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not apparent; in the second, they are.
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If ever the authority or administration of a Creator Son is challenged,
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attacked, or jeopardized, he is eternally pledged to uphold, protect, defend,
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and if necessary retrieve his personal creation. Such Sons can be troubled or
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harassed only by the creatures of their own making or by higher beings of their
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own choosing. It might be inferred that "higher beings," those of origin on
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levels above a local universe, would be unlikely to trouble a Creator Son, and
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this is true. But they could if they chose to. Virtue is volitional with
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personality; righteousness is not automatic in freewill creatures.
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Before the completion of the bestowal career a Creator Son rules with certain
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self-imposed limitations of sovereignty, but subsequent to his finished
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bestowal service he rules by virtue of his actual experience in the form and
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likeness of his manifold creatures. When a Creator has seven times sojourned
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among his creatures, when the bestowal career is finished, then is he supremely
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settled in universe authority; he has become a Master Son, a sovereign and
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supreme ruler.
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The technique of obtaining supreme sovereignty over a local universe involves
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the following seven experiential steps:
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1. Experientially to penetrate seven creature levels of being through the
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technique of incarnated bestowal in the very likeness of the creatures on the
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level concerned.
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2. To make an experiential consecration to each phase of the sevenfold will of
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Paradise Deity as it is personified in the Seven Master Spirits.
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3. To traverse each of the seven experiences on the creature levels
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simultaneously with the execution of one of the seven consecrations to the will
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of Paradise Deity.
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4. On each creature level, experientially to portray the acme of creature life
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to Paradise Deity and to all universe intelligences.
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5. On each creature level, experientially to reveal one phase of the sevenfold
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will of Deity to the bestowal level and to all the universe.
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6. Experientially to unify the sevenfold creature experience with the sevenfold
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experience of consecration to the revelation of the nature and will of Deity.
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7. To achieve new and higher relationship with the Supreme Being. The
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repercussion of the totality of this Creator-creature experience augments the
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superuniverse reality of God the Supreme and the time-space sovereignty of the
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Almighty Supreme and factualizes the supreme local universe sovereignty of a
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Paradise Michael.
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In settling the question of sovereignty in a local universe, the Creator Son is
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not only demonstrating his own fitness to rule but is also revealing the nature
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and portraying the sevenfold attitude of the Paradise Deities. The finite
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understanding and creature appreciation of the Father's primacy is concerned in
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the adventure of a Creator Son when he condescends to take upon himself the
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form and experiences of his creatures. These primary Paradise Sons are the real
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revealers of the Father's loving nature and beneficent authority, the same
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Father who, in association with the Son and the Spirit, is the universal head
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of all power, personality, and government throughout all the universal realms.
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4. THE MICHAEL BESTOWALS
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There are seven groups of bestowal Creator Sons, and they are so classified in
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accordance with the number of times they have bestowed themselves upon the
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creatures of their realms. They range from the initial experience up through
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five additional spheres of progressive bestowal until they attain the seventh
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and final episode of creature-Creator experience.
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Avonal bestowals are always in the likeness of mortal flesh, but the seven
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bestowals of a Creator Son involve his appearing on seven creature levels of
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being and pertain to the revelation of the seven primary expressions of the
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will and nature of Deity. Without exception, all Creator Sons pass through this
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seven times giving of themselves to their created children before they assume
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settled and supreme jurisdiction over the universes of their own creation.
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Though these seven bestowals vary in the different sectors and universes, they
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always embrace the mortal-bestowal adventure. In the final bestowal a Creator
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Son appears as a member of one of the higher mortal races on some inhabited
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world, usually as a member of that racial group which contains the largest
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hereditary legacy of the Adamic stock which has previously been imported to
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upstep the physical status of the animal-origin peoples. Only once in his
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sevenfold career as a bestowal Son is a Paradise Michael born of woman as you
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have the record of the babe of Bethlehem. Only once does he live and die as a
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member of the lowest order of evolutionary will creatures.
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After each of his bestowals a Creator Son proceeds to the "right hand of the
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Father," there to gain the Father's acceptance of the bestowal and to receive
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instruction preparatory to the next episode of universe service. Following the
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seventh and final bestowal a Creator Son receives from the Universal Father
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supreme authority and jurisdiction over his universe.
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It is of record that the divine Son of last appearance on your planet was a
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Paradise Creator Son who had completed six phases of his bestowal career;
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consequently, when he gave up the conscious grasp of the incarnated life on
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Urantia, he could, and did, truly say, "It is finished"--it was literally
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finished. His death on Urantia completed his bestowal career; it was the last
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step in fulfilling the sacred oath of a Paradise Creator Son. And when this
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experience has been acquired, such Sons are supreme universe sovereigns; no
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longer do they rule as vicegerents of the Father but in their own right and
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name as "King of Kings and Lord of Lords." With certain stated exceptions these
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sevenfold bestowal Sons are unqualifiedly supreme in the universes of their
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abode. Concerning his local universe, "all power in heaven and on earth" was
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relegated to this triumphant and enthroned Master Son.
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Creator Sons, subsequent to the completion of their bestowal careers, are
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reckoned as a separate order, sevenfold Master Sons. In person the Master Sons
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are identical with the Creator Sons, but they have undergone such a unique
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bestowal experience that they are commonly regarded as a different order. When
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a Creator deigns to effect a bestowal, a real and permanent change is destined
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to take place. True, the bestowal Son is still and none the less a Creator, but
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he has added to his nature the experience of a creature, which forever removes
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him from the divine level of a Creator Son and elevates him to the experiential
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plane of a Master Son, one who has fully earned the right to rule a universe
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and administer its worlds. Such beings embody all that can be secured from
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divine parentage and embrace everything to be derived from perfected-creature
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experience. Why should man bemoan his lowly origin and enforced evolutionary
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career when the very Gods must pass through an equivalent experience before
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they are accounted experientially worthy and competent finally and fully to
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rule over their universe domains!
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5. RELATION OF MASTER SONS TO THE UNIVERSE
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The power of a Master Michael is unlimited because derived from experienced
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association with the Paradise Trinity, is unquestioned because derived from
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actual experience as the very creatures subject to such authority. The nature
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of the sovereignty of a sevenfold Creator Son is supreme because it:
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1. Embraces the sevenfold viewpoint of Paradise Deity.
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2. Embodies a sevenfold attitude of time-space creatures.
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3. Perfectly synthesizes Paradise attitude and creature viewpoint.
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This experiential sovereignty is thus all-inclusive of the divinity of God the
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Sevenfold culminating in the Supreme Being. And the personal sovereignty of a
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sevenfold Son is like the future sovereignty of the sometime-to-be-completed
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Supreme Being, embracing as it does the fullest possible content of the power
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and authority of the Paradise Trinity manifestable within the time-space limits
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concerned.
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With the achievement of supreme local universe sovereignty, there passes from a
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Michael Son the power and opportunity to create entirely new types of
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creature beings during the present universe age. But a Master Son's loss of
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power to originate entirely new orders of beings in no way interferes with the
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work of life elaboration already established and in process of unfoldment; this
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vast program of universe evolution goes on without interruption or curtailment.
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The acquirement of supreme sovereignty by a Master Son implies the
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responsibility of personal devotion to the fostering and the administering of
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that which has already been designed and created, and of that which will
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subsequently be produced by those who have been thus designed and created. In
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time there may develop an almost endless evolution of diverse beings, but no
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entirely new pattern or type of intelligent creature will henceforth take
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direct origin from a Master Son. This is the first step, the beginning, of a
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settled administration in any local universe.
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The elevation of a sevenfold bestowal Son to the unquestioned sovereignty of
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his universe means the beginning of the end of agelong uncertainty and relative
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confusion. Subsequent to this event, that which cannot be sometime
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spiritualized will eventually be disorganized; that which cannot be sometime
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co-ordinated with cosmic reality will eventually be destroyed. When the
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provisions of endless mercy and nameless patience have been exhausted in an
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effort to win the loyalty and devotion of the will creatures of the realms,
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justice and righteousness will prevail. That which mercy cannot rehabilitate
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justice will eventually annihilate.
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The Master Michaels are supreme in their own local universes when once they
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have been installed as sovereign rulers. The few limitations upon their rule
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are those inherent in the cosmic pre-existence of certain forces and
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personalities. Otherwise these Master Sons are supreme in authority,
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responsibility, and administrative power in their respective universes; they
|
||
are as Creators and Gods, supreme in virtually all things. There is no
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penetration beyond their wisdom regarding the functioning of a given universe.
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After his elevation to settled sovereignty in a local universe a Paradise
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Michael is in full control of all other Sons of God functioning in his domain,
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and he may freely rule in accordance with his concept of the needs of his
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realms. A Master Son may at will vary the order of the spiritual adjudication
|
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and evolutionary adjustment of the inhabited planets. And such Sons do make and
|
||
carry out the plans of their own choosing in all matters of special planetary
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needs, in particular regarding the worlds of their creature sojourn and still
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more concerning the realm of terminal bestowal, the planet of incarnation in
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the likeness of mortal flesh.
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The Master Sons seem to be in perfect communication with their bestowal worlds,
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not only the worlds of their personal sojourn but all worlds whereon a
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Magisterial Son has bestowed himself. This contact is maintained by their own
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spiritual presence, the Spirit of Truth, which they are able to "pour out upon
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all flesh." These Master Sons also maintain an unbroken connection with the
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Eternal Mother Son at the center of all things. They possess a sympathetic
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reach which extends from the Universal Father on high to the lowly races of
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planetary life in the realms of time.
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6. DESTINY OF THE MASTER MICHAELS
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No one may with finality of authority presume to discuss either the natures or
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the destinies of the sevenfold Master Sovereigns of the local universes; never-
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theless, we all speculate much regarding these matters. We are taught, and we
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believe, that each Paradise Michael is the absolute of the dual deity concepts
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of his origin; thus he embodies actual phases of the infinity of the Universal
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Father and the Eternal Son. The Michaels must be partial in relation to total
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infinity, but they are probably absolute in relation to that part of infinity
|
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concerned in their origin. But as we observe their work in the present universe
|
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age, we detect no action that is more than finite; any conjectured superfinite
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capacities must be self-contained and as yet unrevealed.
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The completion of the creature-bestowal careers and the elevation to supreme
|
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universe sovereignty must signify the completed liberation of a Michael's
|
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finite-action capacities accompanied by the appearance of capacity for
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more-than-finite service. For in this connection we note that such Master Sons
|
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are then restricted in the production of new types of creature beings, a
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restriction undoubtedly made necessary by the liberation of their superfinite
|
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potentialities.
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It is highly probable that these undisclosed creator powers will remain
|
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self-contained throughout the present universe age. But sometime in the
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far-distant future, in the now mobilizing universes of outer space, we believe
|
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that the liaison between a sevenfold Master Son and a seventh-stage Creative
|
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Spirit may attain to absonite levels of service attended by the appearance of
|
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new things, meanings, and values on transcendental levels of ultimate universe
|
||
significance.
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|
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Just as the Deity of the Supreme is actualizing by virtue of experiential
|
||
service, so are the Creator Sons achieving the personal realization of the
|
||
Paradise-divinity potentials bound up in their unfathomable natures. When on
|
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Urantia, Christ Michael once said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." And
|
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we believe that in eternity the Michaels are literally destined to be "the way,
|
||
the truth, and the life," ever blazing the path for all universe personalities
|
||
as it leads from supreme divinity through ultimate absonity to eternal deity
|
||
finality.
|
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[Presented by a Perfector of Wisdom from Uversa.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART I: The Central and Super
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Universes : The Universal Father The Nature Of God The Attributes Of God God's
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Relation To The Universe God's Relation To The Individual The Eternal Son
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Relation Of The Eternal Son To The Universe The Infinite Spirit Relation Of The
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Infinite Spirit To The Universe The Paradise Trinity The Eternal Isle Of
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Paradise The Universe Of Universes The Sacred Spheres Of Paradise The Central
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And Divine Universe The Seven Superuniverses The Seven Master Spirits The Seven
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Supreme Spirit Groups The Supreme Trinity Personalities The Co-ordinate
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Trinity-origin Beings The Paradise Sons Of God The Paradise Creator Sons The
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