Gabriel

 ==Urantia Text [|PAPER 33]:[|4. GABRIEL—THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE] ==

33:4.1 The [|Bright and Morning Star] is the [|personalization] of the first [|concept] of [|identity] and [|ideal] of [|personality] [|conceived] by the [|Creator Son] and the [|local universe] [|manifestation] of the [|Infinite Spirit]. Going back to the [|early days of the local universe], before the [|union] of the [|Creator Son] and the [|Mother Spirit] in the bonds of [|creative] [|association], back to the times before the beginning of the [|creation] of their [|versatile] [|family] of sons and daughters, the first conjoint [|act] of this early and [|free] [|association] of these two [|divine] [|persons] results in the [|creation] of the highest [|spirit] [|personality] of the Son and the Spirit, the [|Bright and Morning Star]. 33:4.2 Only one such [|being] of [|wisdom] and [|majesty] is brought forth in each [|local universe]. The [|Universal Father] and the [|Eternal Son] can, in [|fact] do, create an unlimited [|number] of Sons in [|divinity] [|equal] to themselves; but [|such Sons], in [|union] with the [|Daughters of the Infinite Spirit], can create only one [|Bright and Morning Star] in each [|universe], a being like themselves and partaking freely of their combined [|natures] but not of their [|creative] prerogatives. [|Gabriel] of [|Salvington] is like the [|Universe Son] in [|divinity] of [|nature] though considerably [|limited] in the [|attributes] of [|Deity]. 33:4.3 This first-born of the [|parents] of a new [|universe] is a [|unique] [|personality] [|possessing] many [|wonderful] traits not visibly present in either [|ancestor], a being of unprecedented [|versatility] and unimagined [|brilliance]. This [|supernal] [|personality] [|embraces] the [|divine] [|will] of the Son combined with the [|creative] [|imagination] of the Spirit. The [|thoughts] and [|acts] of the [|Bright and Morning Star] will ever be fully [|representative] of both the [|Creator Son] and the [|Creative Spirit]. Such a [|being] is also capable of a broad [|understanding] of, and [|sympathetic] contact with, both the [|spiritual] [|seraphic hosts] and the [|material] [|evolutionary will creatures]. 33:4.4 The [|Bright and Morning Star] is not a creator, but he is a marvelous administrator, being the personal administrative representative of the Creator Son. Aside from creation and life impartation the Son and the Spirit never confer upon important [|universe] [|procedures] without [|Gabriel]'s [|presence]. 33:4.5 [|Gabriel] of [|Salvington] is the chief [|executive] of the [|universe] of [|Nebadon] and the arbiter of all [|executive] appeals respecting its [|administration]. This [|universe] [|executive] was created fully [|endowed] for his [|work], but he has gained [|experience] with the [|growth] and [|evolution] of our [|local creation]. 33:4.6 [|Gabriel] is the chief officer of [|execution] for [|superuniverse] [|mandates] relating to nonpersonal affairs in the [|local universe]. Most matters pertaining to mass [|judgment] and dispensational [|resurrections], [|adjudicated] by the [|Ancients of Days], are also [|delegated] to [|Gabriel] and his staff for [|execution]. [|Gabriel] is thus the combined chief executive of both the [[Superuniverse|super-] and the [|local universe] rulers. He has at his command an able corps of administrative assistants, created for their special [|work], who are unrevealed to [|evolutionary mortals]. In addition to these assistants, [|Gabriel] may employ any and all of the orders of [|celestial] [|beings] functioning in [|Nebadon], and he is also the commander in chief of "the armies of heaven"[|[4]]—[|the celestial hosts]. 33:4.7 [|Gabriel] and his staff are not [|teachers]; they are [|administrators]. They were never known to depart from their regular [|work] except when [|Michael] was [|incarnated] on a [|creature bestowal]. During such bestowals [|Gabriel] was ever attendant on the [|will] of the [|incarnated] Son, and with the [|collaboration] of the [|Union of Days], he became the actual director of universe affairs during the [|later bestowals]. Gabriel has been closely identified with the [|history] and [|development] of [|Urantia] ever since the [|mortal bestowal of Michael].[|[5]] 33:4.8 Aside from meeting [|Gabriel] on the [|bestowal worlds] and at the times of [|general- and special-resurrection roll calls], [|mortals] will seldom encounter him as they [|ascend] through the [|local universe] until they are inducted into the [|administrative] [|work] of the local creation. As [|administrators], of whatever order or [|degree], you will come under the direction of [|Gabriel].