You should not forget that for two hundred thousand years all the worlds of Satania [our system] have rested under the spiritual ban of Norlatiadek [our constellation] in consequence of the Lucifer rebellion. And it will require age upon age to retrieve the resultant handicaps of sin and secession. Your world still continues to pursue an irregular and checkered career as a result of the double tragedy of a rebellious Planetary Prince and a defaulting Material Son. Even the bestowal of Christ Michael on Urantia did not immediately set aside the temporal consequences of these serious blunders in the earlier administration of the world.
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0578:05
This statement is from the same secondary Lanonandek Son who introduced the previous three Parts. His concern is evident. Will we really be “age upon age” before the spiritual ban of our constellation is lifted? I am here to tell you the New Dispensation is a merciful, celestial speedup.
Now it is possible to send, as a mortal bestowal, a secondary Lanonandek Son, a local universe creation, extensively trained in the Heavens to serve as a Planetary Prince; someone of superior spiritual insight to lay ground for the return of Adam and Eve’s children. And how could we choose anyone more attuned to the planetary difficulties on Urantia than this narrator? The choice is obvious.
How would a “bestowal” of a secondary Lanonandek Son appear to us? We should contrast this with our experience of two prior bestowals. Four thousand years ago, Machiventa Melchizedek bestowed himself as an incarnated adult male, fully aware of his past life as a celestial. Two thousand years ago, the bestowal of Michael of Nebadon, as Jesus of Nazareth, was different. Michael was born naturally as a helpless male child and had to remember who he was. By the time of his baptism by John in the river Jordan, the event inaugurating his public career, he had fully restored to his consciousness the memory of his life in the Heavens. Our Michael full well knew this universe was his creation.
As we know, Michael’s bestowal was difficult. Aside from the indignity of being crucified for his creation, he had unusual challenges even as a young adult. His mother Mary’s last child, baby Ruth, was born April 17, A.D. 9, almost seven months after the unexpected death of her husband Joseph in a work-related accident. This left Jesus, at the tender age of fourteen, the sole support of his widowed mother and seven younger siblings, his five brothers and two sisters; the arrival of Jesus’ third sister would swell that number to eight. Ruth was a joyous addition: “Of all his family in the flesh, only one, Ruth, believed wholeheartedly and continuously in the divinity of his mission on earth” (1721:01).
The bestowal of our secondary Lanonandek Son would follow the same path as Michael’s: to be born naturally as a helpless child, to face the same task of remembering his life in the Heavens. The possession of this memory is a superconscious experience and will have to be brought to ordinary consciousness. It goes without saying, this remembering will be a supreme achievement. How many of us can say we remember our life before we were born?
Throughout A Course in Miracles, we are encouraged to remember the Universal Father, “… for God is in your memory” (T-10.II.2:4). In just this manner, our new Lanonandek Son bestowal would be striving to remember his past life in the Heavens. While not so difficult, if we stand back, hand in hand with Michael, this memory is not possible when we allow any separate, ego-self to hold space.
We should note in passing: throughout A Course In Miracles, Michael of Nebadon never uses the term “the Universal Father,” a usage from The URANTIA Book. Michael need not avoid controversy. He will use “the Father,” “our Father,” “God the Father,” but most often, simply “God.”
Ernest Clement
[To decode the reference from A Course in Miracles in the next to last paragraph of this essay: T is the Text; 10 is the 10th chapter; II is section 2 of that chapter; 2 is the 2nd paragraph of that section; 4 is the 4th sentence of that paragraph.]
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