Bestowal

BESTOWAL
== Urantia Book [|Paper 20]:[|5. BESTOWAL OF THE PARADISE SONS OF GOD] ==

20:5.1 The [|Eternal Son] is the [|eternal] [|Word of God]. The Eternal Son is the perfect expression of the "first" absolute and infinite thought of his eternal Father. When a personal duplication or divine extension of this Original Son starts on a bestowal mission of mortal incarnation, it becomes literally true that the divine "Word is made flesh,"[|[5]] and that the Word thus dwells among the lowly [|beings] of [|animal] [|origin].

20:5.2 On [|Urantia] there is a widespread [|belief] that the [|purpose] of a [|Son's bestowal] is, in some [|manner], to [|influence] the [|attitude] of the [|Universal Father]. But your [|enlightenment] should indicate that this is not true. The bestowals of the [|Avonal] and the [|Michael Sons] are a [|necessary] part of the [|experiential] [|process] designed to make these Sons safe and [|sympathetic] [|magistrates] and rulers of the peoples and [|planets] of [|time and space]. The [|career] of [|sevenfold bestowal] is the [|supreme] goal of all Paradise [|Creator Sons]. And all [|Magisterial Sons] are [|motivated] by this same [|spirit] of [|service] which so [|abundantly] characterizes the primary [|Creator Sons] and the [|Eternal Son] of [|Paradise].

20:5.3 Some order of Paradise Son must be bestowed upon each [|mortal]-[|inhabited world] in order to make it possible for [|Thought Adjusters] to indwell the [|minds] of all [|normal] [|human beings] on that [|sphere], for the [|Adjusters] do not come to all bona fide human beings until the [|Spirit of Truth] has been poured out upon all [|flesh]; and the sending of the [|Spirit of Truth] is dependent upon the return to universe headquarters of a Paradise Son who has successfully [|executed] a mission of [|mortal bestowal upon an evolving world].

20:5.4 During the [|course] of the long [|history] of an [|inhabited planet], many [|dispensational] [|adjudications] will take place, and more than one [|magisterial mission] may occur, but ordinarily only once will a [|bestowal Son] serve on the [|sphere]. It is only required that each [|inhabited world] have one [|bestowal Son] come to live the full [|mortal] life from [|birth] to [|death]. Sooner or later, regardless of [|spiritual] [|status], every [|mortal]-[|inhabited world] is [|destined] to become [|host] to a [|Magisterial Son] on a [|bestowal mission] except the one [|planet] in each [|local universe] whereon a [|Creator Son] elects to make his [|mortal bestowal].

20:5.5 [|Understanding] more about the [|bestowal Sons], you [|discern] why so much interest attaches to [|Urantia] in the [|history] of [|Nebadon]. Your small and insignificant [|planet] is of [|local universe] concern [|simply] because it is the [|mortal] [|home] world of [|Jesus of Nazareth]. It was the scene of the [|final and triumphant bestowal] of your [|Creator Son], the arena in which [|Michael] won the [|supreme] [|personal] [|sovereignty] of the [|universe] of [|Nebadon].[|[6]]

20:5.6 At the [|headquarters] of his [|local universe], a [|Creator Son], especially after the completion of his own [|mortal bestowal], spends much of his [|time] in [|counseling] and instructing the college of associate Sons, the [|Magisterial Sons] and others. In [|love] and [|devotion], with tender [|mercy] and [|affectionate] consideration, these [|Magisterial Sons] bestow themselves upon the [|worlds of space]. And in no way are these planetary [|services] inferior to the [|mortal bestowals of the Michaels]. It is true that your [|Creator Son] selected for the realm of his final [|adventure] in [|creature] [|experience] one which had had unusual misfortunes. But no [|planet] could ever be in such a condition that it would require the bestowal of a [|Creator Son] to [|effect] its [|spiritual] [|rehabilitation]. Any Son of the bestowal group would have equally sufficed, for in all their [|work] on the worlds of a [|local universe] the [|Magisterial Sons] are just as [|divinely] [|effective] and all [|wise] as would have been their [|Paradise] [|brother], the [|Creator Son].

20:5.7 Though the [|possibility] of [|disaster] always attends these Paradise Sons during their [|bestowal] [|incarnations], I have yet to see the record of the failure or [|default] of either a [|Magisterial] or a [|Creator Son] on a mission of bestowal. Both are of [|origin] too close to [|absolute] [|perfection] to fail. They indeed [|assume] the [|risk], really become like the [|mortal] [|creatures] of [|flesh and blood] and thereby gain the [|unique] [|creature] [|experience], but within the range of my [|observation] they always succeed. They never fail to achieve the goal of the [|bestowal mission]. The [|story] of their bestowal and [|planetary] [|service] throughout [|Nebadon] [|constitutes] the most [|noble] and fascinating chapter in the [|history] of your [|local universe].