Judicial+Actions

Urantia Book [|Paper 20]:[|3. JUDICIAL ACTIONS]
20:3.1 The [|Avonals] are known as [|Magisterial Sons] because they are the high [|magistrates] of the realms, the [|adjudicators] of the successive [|dispensations] of the [|worlds of time]. They preside over the [|awakening] of the [|sleeping survivors], sit in [|judgment] on the realm, bring to an end a [|dispensation] of suspended [|justice], [|execute] the [|mandates] of an age of probationary [|mercy], reassign the [|space] [|creatures] of planetary [|ministry] to the tasks of the new [|dispensation], and return to the headquarters of their [|local universe] upon the completion of their mission.

20:3.2 When they sit in [|judgment] on the [|destinies] of an [|age], the [|Avonals] [|decree] the fate of the [|evolutionary] [|races], but though they may render [|judgments] extinguishing the [|identity] of [|personal] [|creatures], they do not [|execute] such sentences. [|Verdicts] of this [|nature] are executed by none but the [|authorities] of a [|superuniverse][|[1]].

20:3.3 The arrival of a [|Paradise] [|Avonal] on an [|evolutionary] world for the [|purpose] of terminating a [|dispensation] and of inaugurating a [|new era] of planetary [|progression] is not [|necessarily] either a [|magisterial mission] or a [|bestowal mission]. Magisterial missions sometimes, and bestowal missions always, are [|incarnations]; that is, on such assignments the Avonals serve on a planet in [|material] form—[|literally]. Their other visits are " technical, " and in this capacity an Avonal is not incarnated for [|planetary] [|service]. If a Magisterial Son comes solely as a dispensational adjudicator, he arrives on a [|planet] as a [|spiritual] [|being], invisible to the [|material] [|creatures] of the realm. Such technical visits occur repeatedly in the long [|history] of an [|inhabited world].

20:3.4 Avonal Sons may act as [|planetary] [|judges] prior to both the [|magisterial] and [|bestowal] [|experiences]. On either of these missions, however, the incarnated Son will judge the passing [|planetary age]; likewise does a [|Creator Son] when incarnated on a mission of bestowal in the likeness of [|mortal] [|flesh]. When a Paradise Son visits an evolutionary world and becomes like one of its people, his [|presence] terminates a dispensation and constitutes a [|judgment] of the realm.