Our part of creation is a local universe called Nebadon ruled by a Creator Son and our universe Mother Spirit. A local universe is the smallest creative unit in the grand universe and there about seven hundred thousand local universes. When Nebadon is complete it will have about ten million inhabited planets. The name of our creator son is Michael.
Our creator son
Michael, along with our Universe Mother Spirit, is the creator of all the life in our local universe. Even though he organized the physical creation and created all the forms of life therein he could not rule in his own name until he fully earned that right by seven times living as one of his created subjects. The first six times he appeared as a fully formed individual and for a period of time fulfilled the duties he was assigned. The first of these was as a Melchizedek son, among the others he twice appeared as an ascendant mortal in different stages of growth toward paradise.[1]
After the sixth bestowal it became obvious that our creator father, Michael, was beginning to better understand the lives of the creatures in his universe[2] and that is the purpose of these bestowals.[3]
For his seventh and final bestowal, Michael lived the full life from birth to death of an evolutionary mortal on one of the worlds in his creation. He chose our planet, partially because we truly did need help; we know him as Jesus of Nazareth. This event of the creator bestowing himself on an evolutionary planet such as ours happens only once in ten million inhabited planets.
The primary goal of this final bestowal was to reveal the nature of our Father to everyone in his universe;[4] each of the seven bestowals was a revelation of a different aspect of God. This bestowal was for the benefit of his entire universe, not just this one planet; all the beings in this universe have benefited by this portrayal of the nature of our Heavenly Father as revealed in the earth life of our Jesus.
The process by which our creator father could be born as a helpless infant is not revealed, they do say however that he was conceived and born as is every mortal.
Seventh bestowal
Palestine was chosen for the bestowal partially because of its location as well as the spiritual and intellectual nature of its inhabitants. The world had experienced a spiritual revival, the Greek language and Roman rule had spread throughout the region and Palestine was well situated to spread these new teachings both east and west.[5]
One way new teachings could spread is by means of the caravans that pass from the Orient into the Mediterranean area. More than half of these caravans passed near the little town of Nazareth in Galilee.[6] This meant that the young Jesus could go to the caravan meeting place, learn several languages and interact with people from many lands. For this reason Nazareth was an ideal place for Jesus to grow up.
A final reason for the placement of the birth of Jesus was the couple Mary and Joseph. Out of three prospective couples, Mary and Joseph were chosen to be the parents of the child of promise. They were in fact excellent parents.[7]
As recounted in the Bible, Mary was visited by Gabriel announcing the birth of a child of promise.[8] Gabriel is the first born of the local universe and is Michael’s chief executive.[9] Joseph was skeptical of his visitation to Mary until he had an impressive dream in which he was told that their son would become a great light in the world.[10] As a result of this dream he believed Mary’s account of the previous Gabriel visit.
Birth of Jesus
Jesus was born in the stable at Bethlehem much as reported in The Bible.[11] The major difference was that the choir of angels singing praises was not visible to mortals and there were no shepherds paying homage at the inn. As far as those present knew it was an ordinary birth in the stable of a small town inn; an ordinary birth of a male child who would dramatically shift the spiritual awareness of this planet and all the planets in his universe.
The life of Jesus was the fourth time advanced truth was bestowed upon our planet. He is truth for that time and for all time. His life among us is a shining example of the life of service that is a natural result of living a God knowing life. The bestowal of Jesus was a revelation of the nature of the relationship between the individual and God, between each child of God and the creator of all things and beings. Jesus also taught and lived according to true religion; his bestowal is the defining moment in the history of our planet; it portrays to us the true nature of our Heavenly Father and shows God the true nature of mortals, the best we can become.
To summarize the life he lived on Earth: Jesus was the perfectly unified human personality. And today, as in Galilee, he continues to unify mortal experience and to co-ordinate human endeavors. He unifies life, ennobles character, and simplifies experience. He enters the human mind to elevate, transform, and transfigure it. It is literally true: “If any man has Christ Jesus within him, he is a new creature; old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.” (Urantia Book 1103.6)
Further Reading
“Light of Truth: Anticipating the Triumph of Righteousness”
