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The Cosmic Citizen

The Cosmic Citizen

Written by: Paula Thompson
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Are you ready to courageously follow your own sense of mercy, justice, and truth? Are you searching for religious teachings that make sense? Are you having a hard time accepting teachings which seem spiritually unholy and untruthful? Then, have we got a show for you! The Cosmic Citizen is a show for progressive religionists and spiritual people who are ready to find a spirituality worthy of an age of science and enlightenment. Our hosts, Paula Thompson, Andre Radatus , Chuck Thurston, Pamela Chaddock, and Marvin Gawryn are ministers, students and scholars of The Urantia Book, all with at least four decades of experience with it. We sometimes interview guests on topics related to modern and progressive spirituality, but most often we explore The Urantia Book together on air. We embrace diversity, civil and intelligent dialogue, and a willingness to serve a purpose that is true, beautiful and good. Please join us!Copyright Paula Thompson Spirituality
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  • Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons: § 5. Relation of Master Sons to the Universe - § 6. Destiny of the Master Michaels

    Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons: § 5. Relation of Master Sons to the Universe - § 6. Destiny of the Master Michaels
    Jun 24 2026
    On this episode of The Cosmic Citizen we draw to a close our amazing exploration of Urantia Paper 21, "The Paradise Creator Sons," with a reading and discussion of Section 5, "Relation of Master Sons to the Universe," and Section 6, "Destiny of the Master Michaels."

    These are the final gorgeous sections of an awe-inspiring paper. They are dense, sweeping, and full of that cosmic majesty that makes the Creator Sons, the Michaels, so compelling to learn about.

    In these sections, Paper 21 unveils the breathtaking scope of a Master Michael’s sovereignty. It is a rulership earned through the lived experience of becoming one of us, and one with us. We learn that a Creator Son’s authority is supreme not because it is granted, but because it is experienced.
    They blend the perfect viewpoint of Paradise Deity with the intimate understanding of time‑space creatures. They bridge the perfect with the imperfect. Once a Michael completes his seven bestowals, he truly becomes the settled sovereign of his universe, guiding its destiny with wisdom, mercy, and unquestionable authority.

    The final section of this paper dares to look ahead to what the future may hold for these Master Sons! While their full destiny remains unrevealed, the text hints that their liberated, super-finite potentials may one day blaze new paths of meaning and value in the outer universes. Just as Jesus Christ Michael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life...” the final section suggests that in eternity the Michaels will literally be that way. They will lead all creation from the age of the Supreme to the age of the Ultimate and far beyond.


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    2 hrs and 3 mins
  • Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 4. The Michael Bestowals

    Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 4. The Michael Bestowals
    Jun 16 2026
    On this episode of The Cosmic Citizen we continued our reading and discussion of Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 4. The Michael Bestowals.

    We explored one of the most astonishing revelations in the Urantia Papers: the seven bestowals of a Paradise Creator Son. Before a Michael can rule a universe in his own right, he must walk seven different paths of creature experience. It's a voluntary descent from divinity into the very lives of the beings he has created. Each bestowal reveals a new facet of the Father’s nature, a new depth of divine empathy, and a new dimension of experiential wisdom.

    Unlike the Avonals, who always incarnate as mortals, the Michaels traverse seven distinct levels of creature existence, culminating in the supreme adventure of bestowal into the mortal life. Only once in the history of any universe is a Creator Son become “born of woman.” In our universe, that moment unfolded on our world, Urantia. When the babe of Bethlehem entered the world, he arrived as a Creator Son who had already completed six previous bestowals, and his life and death here completed the seventh. No wonder he could say, with cosmic certainty, “It is finished.”

    After this final bestowal, a Creator Son is no longer a vicegerent of the Father but a sovereign in his own right, truly a Master Son, one who has earned authority through lived experience and someone who embodies the fullness of divine origin and the hard‑won understanding of creature life. As we discussed last week, their sovereignty is achieved.

    This section invites us to rethink our own evolutionary struggles. If even the Michaels must pass through the school of experience to become worthy rulers, then our own ascent, being slow, imperfect, and often painful, is part of the same cosmic pattern and plan. The universe is literally built on experiential growth, and the Gods themselves have walked the path that waits for us.

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 3. Local Universe Sovereignty

    Urantia Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, Section 3. Local Universe Sovereignty
    Jun 11 2026
    In this episode of the Cosmic Citizen we continued our study of Paper 21. The Paradise Creator Sons, with a reading a discussion of Section 3. Local Universe Sovereignty.

    What does it mean for a Creator Son to truly earn the right to rule a universe? Urantia Paper 21 reveals the awe‑inspiring truth that Creator Sons, like Michael of Nebadon, do not seize sovereignty by divine privilege. To the contrary, they live it, share it, suffer it, and ultimately embodied it through the long, loving road of actual experience.

    A Creator Son is not given an automatic coronation. He goes through a universe‑shaping odyssey in which he, a divine being, voluntarily lays aside unearned authority to walk among his own creatures, to understand them from the inside, and to reveal the Father’s nature to them at every level of existence.


    We explore how love becomes leadership, how experience becomes authority, and how a Creator Son becomes a Master Son. From the early days of provisional vicegerent rule to the triumphant moment of bestowal‑earned sovereignty, we follow the ascent of Michael Sons and learn why they must earn their sovereignty through seven incarnations, seven consecrations, and seven revelations of the Paradise Deities. It is a spiritual epic that show us how a Creator becomes like his creatures so that his creatures may one day become like God.

    This section reveals the cosmic reassurance that our universe is governed not by detached all-powerful ruler, but by One who knows us because he lived among us. A sovereign who has earned the right to govern through humility, courage, and the experiential embrace of every creature he created.

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    2 hrs and 1 min
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