LESSON 6: The Creator Son
To the children of a local universe a Michael Son is, to all practical intents and purposes, God. Urantia Book 5:3.6
While the Universal Father most certainly rules over his vast creation, he functions in a local universe administration through the person of the Creator Son. Michael and the local universe Mother Spirit delegate executive power to Gabriel and jurisdictional authority to the Constellation Fathers, System Sovereigns, and Planetary Princes.
Michael of Nebadon
The Michael of Nebadon is the “only-begotten Son” personalizing the 611,121st universal concept of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. His headquarters is in the threefold mansion of light on Salvington. And this dwelling is so ordered because Michael has experienced the living of all three phases of intelligent creature existence: spiritual, morontial, and material. Because of the name associated with his seventh and final bestowal on Urantia, he is sometimes spoken of as Christ Michael.
Creator Sons are the final power-personality focalizations of the mighty time-space attributes of God the Sevenfold. To our universe and all its inhabited worlds the Sovereign Son is, to all practical intents and purposes, God. In the person of the Creator Son we have a ruler and divine parent who is just as mighty, efficient, and beneficent as would be the Universal Father and the Eternal Son if both were present on Salvington and engaged in the administration of the affairs of the universe of Nebadon.
The sovereign of Nebadon
Our Creator Son very definitely manifests traits and attributes which more resemble the Eternal Son. Michael is the personification of the Paradise Father-Son to and in the local universe of Nebadon. When the Creative Mother Spirit subordinated herself to Christ Michael upon the return from his final bestowal on Urantia, the Master Son thereby acquired jurisdiction over “all power in heaven and on earth.” The creature-bestowal experiences of the Michaels qualify them to portray the experiential divinity of the Supreme Being. No other beings in the universes have thus personally exhausted the potentials of present finite experience for solitary sovereignty.
The universe Son and Spirit
As concerns a local universe, the administrative authority of a Creator Son is supreme; the Infinite Spirit, as the Divine Minister, is wholly co-operative though perfectly co-ordinate. The Son functions as a father in his local universe. The Spirit enacts the role of a mother, always assisting the Son and being everlastingly indispensable to the administration of the universe. After the pledge of subordination by the Creative Mother Spirit, Michael of Nebadon nobly acknowledged his eternal dependence on his Spirit companion and there went forth the final “Proclamation of Equality.” The Son and the Spirit now preside over the universe much as a father and mother watch over, and minister to, their family of sons and daughters. The Son initiates the creation of certain of the universe children, while the Spirit is solely responsible for bringing into existence the numerous orders of spirit personalities. In the creation of other types of universe personalities, both the Son and the Spirit function together, and in no creative act does the one do aught without the counsel and approval of the other.
ORIGIN AND NATURE (references are from the Urantia Book)
- Sometimes the sovereign of Nebadon is referred to as Christ Michael. 21:0.3
- Our Creator Son is the personification of the 611,121st infinite concept of the Father and the Son. 33:1.1
- Each Creator Son is the unique, unqualified, and final expression of the infinite
concept of his origin. 21:1.2 - When the concept of absolute ideation in the Eternal Son encounters an absolute
personality concept in the Universal Father — there flashes into existence an original
Creator Son. 21:1.1 - Each Creator Son is endowed with spiritual drawing power in his own realm. 20:1.13
- A Creator Son is limited by space, but not by time. 34:3.5
- There are more than seven hundred thousand Creator Sons in existence. 21:1.4
CREATORS OF LOCAL UNIVERSES
- The Creator Sons are preceded in universe organization by the power directors and
other Third Source beings. 32:2.1 - From the energies of space, thus previously organized, our Creator Son established
the inhabited worlds of Nebadon. 32:2.1 - Each Creator Son is accompanied by a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit — the
local universe Mother Spirit. 21:2.2 - The first creative act of the Creator Son and the Creative Mother Spirit produces the
chief executive — Gabriel. 32:2.6 - The Creator Sons earn their sovereignty by bestowing themselves in the likeness of
their own creatures. 120:0.1 - The Michaels are the most versatile and powerful of all divine beings in the local
universes. 33:1.2 - The local universe of Nebadon has 3,840,101 inhabited worlds. The local system of
Satania has 619. 32:2.9 - In accepting vicegerent sovereignty, a Creator Son takes an oath not to assume
complete sovereignty until he completes his seven bestowal experiences. 21:3.12
THE MICHAEL BESTOWALS
- In each bestowal experience the Creator Son adds to his nature that of the creature.
21:4.6 - Jesus of Nazareth was on his seventh bestowal when he sojourned on Urantia.
21:4.5 - The Creator Son is truly “the way, the truth, and the life.” 21:6.4
The Michael bestowals were:
First — a Melchizedek.
Second — Lanonandek Son.
Third — Material Son.
Fourth — Seraphim.
Fifth — Spirit ascender.
Sixth — Morontia mortal.
Seventh — Urantia mortal. 119:0.7
Talk about Urantia's good fortune of being Michael's native home for His 7th bestowal.
Take Me Off The Cross And Worship The Father
I am presenting you with these explanations to assist you in taking a deeper look upon your environment, upon creation, and upon my person, as well as upon the place of your own selves. Without these explanations of mine, you would carry on along the course of living that is painful and tormenting to your soul from within. I have told you, and now I repeat it again: “I am that path.” But rather than walking on my path you still exalt my death on the cross. I do desire to deliver you from death so that you boldly, without the slightest shade of fear, would tread along my living path together with me who is resurrected and is alive.
I do desire that the Father‘s love and peace would rule rather than the vision of my death. You must create life in love rather than in pain and anguish around yourselves.
Can you explain to your little children about the Father’s love, and experience it by yourselves while you are depicting me as suffering on the cross? Then a feeling of fear is creeping into the little heart of a little child. He does not see love where somebody is suffering and shedding their blood. He notices love only where there is a hug by one’s mother or father out of pure feeling and tenderness, where there is encouragement and support.
Can a little dear one, seeing me on the cross, bleeding and exhausted, sense within his little heart that the Father loves me and gives me a hug, warms me up and comforts me, helps me and strengthens me?
How many questions pop up in the head of that little one when you are explaining to him about me that I have died for the sins of the people also to save even sinful children since they are born already having a sin. Can such a little dear one understand where he has committed a sin that I had to die even for him? Where was my loving Father that He allowed me to suffer so much?
It is true that my hanging on the cross produces fear within the little one. And already, from the early and first days of his life, he is tending to hide from such a God so that he would not suffer the way I did. The child begins to fear God ever more.
I have brought the concept of a loving Father to humanity, and to my entire universe. Not the concept of an intimidating and chastising Father. Only you have failed to understand me and you have distorted all of my teachings by turning me into the symbol of suffering to all humanity. I did not teach you that. Would you find at least one hint even in the so-called Holy Scriptures about putting me in public places hanging on the cross and showing me suffering. Did I teach you that? No, I did not teach you that.
Then why do you do what I have not taught you to do?
Did I teach you that God is the Father and one to all, and that all the people are brethren? Yes, I did. But you have distorted my teaching and you glorify me instead of the Father.
I did not teach you to glorify and worship me. Then why do you always glorify me, and not the Father? I worship the Father even now.
And now I am addressing you so that you would start glorifying the Father, and only Him. He is the only God the Father. And it is He who is glorified by all of creation, and by me as well. I am not God the Father. God the Father and I are one in spirit. And despite this spiritual unity of ours we are two separate persons.
The time shall come when after your resurrection you will become the manifestation of your spiritual vibrations that will be much higher, or the soul form, possessing your present self that is eternal, since it has been bestowed upon you by the Father. You shall stand in my presence after having covered the whole stage of your soul development, and having become an eternal spirit with a still higher manifestation of your spiritual vibration, or in the form of a spirit, then we bid you farewell and you shall proceed further on, out of our universe, and closer to the Father until you find yourselves in the presence of the Father himself in the very eternal center, on Paradise. And even then you shall glorify the Father. And throughout eternity you shall glorify only Him; and even then you shall glorify the Father. And throughout eternity you shall glorify only Him, the only person to be worshipped.
Thus, even now I am explaining to you so that you would hear my good tidings that I pronounced two thousand years ago; my gospel to your whole world, and to all my universe – the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man – and now by my present-day disciples and apostles expanded to include the brotherhood of all creation; so that after having heard it you would begin to follow it and live every day comprehending ever more deeply that we all are brothers and sisters; all of us. The Father of us all is one. He is the Universal Father, The First Source and Center. Therefore, I am also your senior brother. I am teaching you and helping you proceed on to our Father. Thus, the time has come to tell you frankly that I do desire that all of you would experience the depth of my words together with the Father, sensing it within yourselves. I am together with you. With all of you, through my Spirit of Truth poured out upon you. But the Father is always within you, each of you; all the time.
And He is inside you for He has sent to you, to each of you, His spirit, Thought Adjuster. And it is His spirit that is leading you all the time unwittingly from within. And I am always knocking from without. I am knocking and I enter the heart of each whoever opens it. And then, together with the Father, I begin to influence you from within. And our joint operation has one more helper – the Holy Spirit. I have already explained to you that this spirit is the spirit of my Partner – Mother Spirit of the Universe. And we, in harmony, even in a perfect concord, are leading you all, but each one individually, to the Father. We are leading you along the only path – the path of your inner faith. It is only faith that is the way to the Father. And it is through me. In no way shall you ever escape my path until you stand in my presence having become an eternal spirit. Even though there are countless roads of experience leading to the Father, the main and the only path that saves everyone is one’s living faith; not a ritualistic belief but the living faith.
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