“Of all Jesus’ earth-life experiences, the fourteenth and fifteenth years were the most crucial. These two years, after initially becoming self-conscious of divinity and destiny and before achieving a large measure of communication with the indwelling Adjuster, were the most trying. It is this

Jesus, when almost thirteen years old, went with the family to Jerusalem to participate in the celebration of the Passover. “No incident in all Jesus’ eventful earth career was more engaging, more humanly thrilling, than this first remembered visit to Jerusalem. Jesus was especially stimulated by the experience of attending the temple discussions alone, and it stood out as the great event of

At Nazareth, Jesus “had such a splendid environment for working out life problems with a minimum of educational guidance, at the same time enjoying the great advantage

Because Mary had been told about Jesus’ having a special

This paper tells the story of the events leading to, and

“Jesus did not come to this world during an age of spiritual decadence; at the time of Jesus’ birth Urantia was experiencing a revival of spiritual thinking and religious living as it had not known in all its previous post-Edenic history nor has experienced in any era since. When Michael incarnated on Urantia, the world presented the most favorable conditions for the Local Universe Creator’s

“Before the events about to be delineated, Michael of Nebadon had been bestowed six times as six differing orders of diverse intelligent beings. Then Michael

“The attribute of bestowal is inherent in the Paradise Children of the Universal Source. In their desire to come close to the life experiences of their subordinate living

Beyond the level of the finite grand universe lie the levels of outer space, which are designated in The Urantia Book as the domains of the Ultimate. When the grand universe is finally completed and settled in light and life, the next step in the development of universal reality will be the emergence of the Ultimate. “If the Supreme ever assumes direct control of the universes of time and space, we are confident that such a Deity administration will function under the overcontrol of the Ultimate.”

The culmination of evolution is the status of “light and life.” “If all residents of the grand universe should ever relatively achieve the full living of the will of the Creator, then the time-space creations would be settled in light and life, and