This paper is mainly about Christ Michael’s preparation prior to the incarnation on Urantia, and the counsel he receives from his elder brother and Paradise counsellor Immanuel.
In the introduction to this paper, we learn that Michael had already bestowed himself six times as six differing orders of his intelligent beings, but that in order to acquire the supreme sovereignty over his local universe, he needs to do a seventh bestowal as a human, which is the lowest order of his intelligent beings. By doing all these bestowals, Christ will gain the experience of what it is like to be each one of his seven orders of intelligent local universe creatures.
Although Michael can assert his sovereignty as a Creator Son over the local universe at any moment he desires and rule it in his own way, he prefers to rule the universe as the supreme representative of the Paradise Trinity, and that requires seven bestowals to experience co-operative subordination of his will to the sevenfold will of Deity.
Thus, on his seventh bestowal, Michael is going to experience the nature of mortal man along with subordination to the Will of the Paradise Father.
Next, Immanuel proceeds to present the seventh bestowal commission to Michael.
He proceeds to tell Michael that he will be born as a helpless baby, which will be a new experience for him. He also tells Michael that the focus of his life will be his communion with the Universal Father, and by this perfect relationship of Christ with the Father, not only Urantia but the entire universe will receive a new and more understandable revelation of the Father.
Immanuel assures Michael that the local universe will be secure during his absence, and that when he finishes his seventh bestowal, Michael will come back not as vice regent, but as the supreme sovereign of his local universe.
After this, Immanuel proceeds to give Michael advice about what he should do during his seventh bestowal. Immanuel counsels Michael to put an end to the Lucifer rebellion in the humility of being a mortal man instead of using his powers of a Creator Son. By doing this, Michael will return to Salvington as the Son of Man, Planetary Prince of Urantia and the Son of God, supreme sovereign over his local universe with no rebels to challenge his authority.
Immanuel also tells Michael that Gabriel and others will co-operate with him in ending his Urantia bestowal by pronouncing a dispensational judgement of the realm, along with a termination of an age, the resurrection of sleeping mortal survivors, and the establishment of the dispensation of the bestowed Spirit of Truth. This Spirit of Truth will allow all normal humans to receive ministry from their Thought Adjusters.
Immanuel counsels Christ Michael to live as a religious teacher who will focus on the spiritual nature of humans first and foremost, second on healing their minds, and last on their physical well-being and material comforts.
The point of his ideal religious life is to unite the will of the finite creature of mortal man with the Will of the infinite Creator, and this will be edifying to all human and superhuman intelligent beings throughout Nebadon.
Immanuel proceeds to give Michael further advice by telling him to accept the customs of his family, community, and the people he is going to live with on Urantia, and to keep his focus on the spiritual regeneration and intellectual emancipation of man without getting entangled in politics and economics.
While Michael is not allowed to interfere with the evolution of the Urantia races, he can advance the spiritual and religious status of humans by providing a system of positive religious ethics without establishing a cult, or a crystallized religion since the teachings of Christ are for all humans, not just for a specific ethnic or religious group.
Immanuel tells Michael to leave no writings behind and no images of him so as to avoid idolatry, along with leaving no offspring behind. He is allowed to get married, but this is unlikely to happen.
The Paper ends with a section on the Incarnation. It says that although some of Michael’s unworthy children accused him of selfishly seeking power for himself, his selfless life of service on Urantia will refute all such false accusations. Also, even though Christ is of double origin, he is not of double personality; he is God incarnate in man. Yeshua was God and man from the beginning of his life on Urantia; there was no point at which Yeshua became a God and man; what did happen at some point was the recognition by Yeshua’s human mind that he is both God and man.
After this, we are told that the supreme spiritual purpose of Michael’s mission on earth is to enhance the revelation of God the Universal Father, and that even though there are few miracles from the perspective of celestial beings in our local universe, the incarnational bestowals of the Paradise Sons are considered to be miraculous by these beings.