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   Appointed by Gabriel to oversee the execution of the new exposition of the life of Michael on Urantia in the form of mortal flesh, I, Melchizedek, head of the commission of divine revelations to whom the task was assigned, am authorized to relate certain events immediately preceding the arrival of the Creator Son on Urantia to enter upon the closing stage of his universal initiations. To live such a life as is prepared for the intelligent beings of his own creation, and thus to consecrate himself in the image of his various classes of created beings, is part of that sacrifice which every Creator Son has to make in order to acquire complete and supreme authority in his own created universe of things and beings.

   Before the commencement of the events to which I am about to proceed, Michael of Nebadon had six times consecrated himself in the guise of creatures belonging to six different categories of his diverse creation of intelligent beings. He then prepared to descend to Urantia in the form of mortal flesh, the lowest category of his rational willed creatures, so that in the guise of man, an inhabitant of the material world, he might perform the last act in the drama of the acquisition of universal dominion according to the commands of the divine Paradise Governors of the universe of universes.

    Emmanuel presented his seventh ordination commission

 From this preliminary instruction of Immanuel to the universal governor, who afterwards became Jesus of Nazareth (Christ Michael) of Urantia, I, Melchizedek, am permitted to quote the following extracts:

   “My brother-Creator, I will soon witness your seventh and final initiation into the universe. You have indeed faithfully and perfectly fulfilled the six preceding commissions, and I have not the shadow of a doubt that this last initiation of yours, necessary for the acquisition of full power, will be equally triumphant. Until now you appeared in the realms where your initiations passed as a fully developed being of your chosen category. Now you are about to appear on Urantia, the disordered planet that chose you, not as an adult mortal, but as a helpless infant. This will become for you, my friend, a new and unknown trial. Soon you will pay the full price of initiation and know to the end what it is to incarnate a Creator in the image of a creature.

   In each of your previous initiations you made a voluntary decision to submit yourself to the will of the three Heavenly Deities and their mutual divine unions. Of the seven aspects of the will of the Most High, in your past initiations you have obeyed all but the personal will of your Heavenly Father. Now that you have decided to submit completely to the will of the Father during your seventh initiation, I, as the personal representative of our Father, assume unlimited authority over your universe for the time of your incarnation.

 

   Incarnation - the transformation of two into one

   And so some unworthy children of Michael, accusing their Creator-father of a selfish desire for dominion, and in their insinuations descended to the assertion that the Creator-Son arbitrarily and despotically held on to power at the expense of the blind devotion of those introduced into deluded creatures of the universe, were forced to silence forever, struck and enlightened by the life lived in self-sacrificing service, which the Son of God began as the Son of Man, and in the course of which he obeyed the "will of the Heavenly Father."

   Christ Michael did not become God gradually. God did not become man at some crucial moment in Jesus' earthly life. Jesus was God and man - so it was and so it will always be. This God and this man were and remain one, just as the Paradise Trinity of three Beings is in reality one Godhead.

   The mortals of Urantia have various conceptions of the miraculous, but we, the creatures possessing the status of citizens of the local universe, seldom encounter miracles, and the most mysterious of these are the incarnational initiations of the Sons of Paradise. We consider the appearance of the Son of God on and in your world in the course of a process that is natural in its outward signs, a miracle, a manifestation of universal laws that is incomprehensible to us. Jesus of Nazareth was a miraculous person.

 

   Never lose sight of the fact that the higher spiritual purpose of Michael's initiation was to deepen the revelation of God.