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Urantia Book Paper 37 Personalities Of The Local Universe
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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Paper 37 Personalities Of The Local Universe
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Introduction
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AT THE head of all personality in Nebadon stands the Creator and Master Son,
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Michael, the universe father and sovereign. Co-ordinate in divinity and
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complemental in creative attributes is the local universe Mother Spirit, the
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Divine Minister of Salvington. And these creators are in a very literal sense
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the Father-Son and the Spirit-Mother of all the native creatures of Nebadon.
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Preceding papers have dealt with the created orders of sonship; succeeding
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narratives will portray the ministering spirits and the ascending orders of
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sonship. This paper is chiefly concerned with an intervening group, the
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Universe Aids, but it will also give brief consideration to certain of the
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higher spirits stationed in Nebadon and to certain of the orders of permanent
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citizenship in the local universe.
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1. THE UNIVERSE AIDS
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Many of the unique orders generally grouped in this category are unrevealed,
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but as presented in these papers, the Universe Aids include the following seven
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orders:
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1. Bright and Morning Stars.
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2. Brilliant Evening Stars.
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3. Archangels.
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4. Most High Assistants.
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5. High Commissioners.
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6. Celestial Overseers.
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7. Mansion World Teachers.
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Of the first order of Universe Aids, the Bright and Morning Stars, there is
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just one in each local universe, and he is the first-born of all creatures
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native to a local universe. The Bright and Morning Star of our universe is
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known as Gabriel of Salvington. He is the chief executive of all Nebadon,
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functioning as the personal representative of the Sovereign Son and as
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spokesman for his creative consort.
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During the earlier times of Nebadon, Gabriel worked quite alone with Michael
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and the Creative Spirit. As the universe grew and administrative problems
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multiplied, he was provided with a personal staff of unrevealed assistants, and
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eventually this group was augmented by the creation of the Nebadon corps of
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Evening Stars.
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2. THE BRILLIANT EVENING STARS
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These brilliant creatures were planned by the Melchizedeks and were then
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brought into being by the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit. They serve in
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many capacities but chiefly as liaison officers of Gabriel, the local universe
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chief executive. One or more of these beings function as his representatives at
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the capital of every constellation and system in Nebadon.
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As chief executive of Nebadon, Gabriel is ex officio chairman of, or observer
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at, most of the Salvington conclaves, and as many as one thousand of these are
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often in session simultaneously. The Brilliant Evening Stars represent Gabriel
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on these occasions; he cannot be in two places at the same time, and these
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superangels compensate for this limitation. They perform an analogous service
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for the corps of the Trinity Teacher Sons.
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Though personally occupied with administrative duties, Gabriel maintains
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contact with all other phases of universe life and affairs through the
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Brilliant Evening Stars. They always accompany him on his planetary tours and
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frequently go on special missions to the individual planets as his personal
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representatives. On such assignments they have sometimes been known as "the
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angel of the Lord." They frequently go to Uversa to represent the Bright and
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Morning Star before the courts and assemblies of the Ancients of Days, but they
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seldom journey beyond the confines of Orvonton.
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The Brilliant Evening Stars are a unique twofold order, embracing some of
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created dignity and others of attained service. The Nebadon corps of these
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superangels now numbers 13,641. There are 4,832 of created dignity, while 8,809
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are ascendant spirits who have attained this goal of exalted service. Many of
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these ascendant Evening Stars started their universe careers as seraphim;
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others have ascended from unrevealed levels of creature life. As an attainment
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goal this high corps is never closed to ascension candidates so long as a
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universe is not settled in light and life.
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Both types of Brilliant Evening Stars are easily visible to morontia
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personalities and certain types of supermortal material beings. The created
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beings of this interesting and versatile order possess a spirit force which can
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be manifested independently of their personal presence.
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The head of these superangels is Gavalia, the first-born of this order in
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Nebadon. Since the return of Christ Michael from his triumphant bestowal on
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Urantia, Gavalia has been assigned to the ascendant mortal ministry, and for
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the last nineteen hundred Urantia years his associate, Galantia, has maintained
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headquarters on Jerusem, where he spends about half of his time. Galantia is
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the first of the ascendant superangels to attain this high estate.
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No grouping or company organization of the Brilliant Evening Stars exists other
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than their customary association in pairs on many assignments. They are not
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extensively assigned on missions pertaining to the ascendant career of mortals,
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but when thus commissioned, they never function alone. They always work in
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pairs--one a created being, the other an ascendant Evening Star.
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One of the high duties of the Evening Stars is to accompany the Avonal bestowal
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Sons on their planetary missions, even as Gabriel accompanied Michael on his
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Urantia bestowal. The two attending superangels are the ranking personalities
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of such missions, serving as cocommanders of the archangels
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and all others assigned to these undertakings. It is the senior of these
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superangel commanders who, at the significant time and age, bids the Avonal
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bestowal Son, "Be about your brother's business."
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Similar pairs of these superangels are assigned to the planetary corps of
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Trinity Teacher Sons that functions to establish the postbestowal or dawning
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spiritual age of an inhabited world. On such assignments the Evening Stars
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serve as liaisons between the mortals of the realm and the invisible corps of
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Teacher Sons.
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The Worlds of the Evening Stars. The sixth group of seven Salvington worlds and
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their forty-two tributary satellites are assigned to the administration of the
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Brilliant Evening Stars. The seven primary worlds are presided over by the
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created orders of these superangels, while the tributary satellites are
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administered by ascendant Evening Stars.
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The satellites of the first three worlds are devoted to the schools of the
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Teacher Sons and the Evening Stars dedicated to the spirit personalities of the
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local universe. The next three groups are occupied by similar joint schools
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devoted to the training of ascending mortals. The seventh-world satellites are
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reserved for the triune deliberations of the Teacher Sons, the Evening Stars,
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and the finaliters. During recent times these superangels have been closely
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identified with the local universe work of the Corps of the Finality, and they
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have long been associated with the Teacher Sons. There exists a liaison of
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tremendous power and import between the Evening Stars and the Gravity
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Messengers attached to the finaliter working groups. The seventh primary world
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itself is reserved for those unrevealed matters which pertain to the future
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relationship that will obtain between the Teacher Sons, the finaliters, and the
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Evening Stars consequent upon the completed emergence of the superuniverse
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manifestation of the personality of God the Supreme.
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3. THE ARCHANGELS
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Archangels are the offspring of the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit.
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They are the highest type of high spirit being produced in large numbers in a
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local universe, and at the time of the last registry there were almost eight
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hundred thousand in Nebadon.
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Archangels are one of the few groups of local universe personalities who are
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not normally under the jurisdiction of Gabriel. They are not in any manner
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concerned with the routine administration of the universe, being dedicated to
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the work of creature survival and to the furtherance of the ascending career of
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the mortals of time and space. While not ordinarily subject to the direction of
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the Bright and Morning Star, the archangels do sometimes function by his
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authority. They also collaborate with others of the Universe Aids, such as the
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Evening Stars, as is illustrated by certain transactions depicted in the
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narrative of life transplantation on your world.
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The archangel corps of Nebadon is directed by the first-born of this order, and
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in more recent times a divisional headquarters of the archangels has been
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maintained on Urantia. It is this unusual fact that soon arrests the attention
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of extra-Nebadon student visitors. Among their early observations of
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intrauniverse transactions is the discovery that many ascendant activities of
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the Brilliant Evening Stars are directed from the capital of a local system,
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Satania. On
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further examination they discover that certain archangel activities are
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directed from a small and apparently insignificant inhabited world called
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Urantia. And then ensues the revelation of Michael's bestowal on Urantia and
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their immediately quickened interest in you and your lowly sphere.
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Do you grasp the significance of the fact that your lowly and confused planet
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has become a divisional headquarters for the universe administration and
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direction of certain archangel activities having to do with the Paradise
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ascension scheme? This undoubtedly presages the future concentration of other
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ascendant activities on the bestowal world of Michael and lends a tremendous
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and solemn import to the Master's personal promise, "I will come again."
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In general, the archangels are assigned to the service and ministry of the
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Avonal order of sonship, but not until they have passed through extensive
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preliminary training in all phases of the work of the various ministering
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spirits. A corps of one hundred accompanies every Paradise bestowal Son to an
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inhabited world, being temporarily assigned to him for the duration of such a
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bestowal. If the Magisterial Son should become temporary ruler of the planet,
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these archangels would act as the directing heads of all celestial life on that
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sphere.
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Two senior archangels are always assigned as the personal aids of a Paradise
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Avonal on all planetary missions, whether involving judicial actions,
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magisterial missions, or bestowal incarnations. When this Paradise Son has
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finished the judgment of a realm and the dead are called to record (the
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so-called resurrection), it is literally true that the seraphic guardians of
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the slumbering personalities respond to "the voice of the archangel." The roll
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call of a dispensation termination is promulgated by an attendant archangel.
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This is the archangel of the resurrection, sometimes referred to as the
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"archangel of Michael."
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The Worlds of the Archangels. The seventh group of the encircling Salvington
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worlds, with their associated satellites, is assigned to the archangels. Sphere
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number one and all of its six tributary satellites are occupied by the
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personality record keepers. This enormous corps of recorders busy themselves
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with keeping straight the record of each mortal of time from the moment of
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birth up through the universe career until such an individual either leaves
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Salvington for the superuniverse regime or is "blotted out of recorded
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existence" by the mandate of the Ancients of Days.
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It is on these worlds that personality records and identification sureties are
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classified, filed, and preserved during that time which intervenes between
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mortal death and the hour of repersonalization, the resurrection from death.
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4. MOST HIGH ASSISTANTS
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The Most High Assistants are a group of volunteering beings, of origin outside
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the local universe, who are temporarily assigned as central and superuniverse
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representatives to, or observers of, the local creations. Their number varies
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constantly but is always far up in the millions.
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From time to time we thus benefit from the ministry and assistance of such
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Paradise-origin beings as Perfectors of Wisdom, Divine Counselors, Universal
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Censors, Inspired Trinity Spirits, Trinitized Sons, Solitary Messengers,
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supernaphim, seconaphim, tertiaphim, and other gracious ministers, who sojourn
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with us for the purpose of helping our native personalities in the effort to
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bring
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all Nebadon into fuller harmony with the ideas of Orvonton and the ideals of
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Paradise.
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Any of these beings may be voluntarily serving in Nebadon and hence be
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technically outside our jurisdiction, but when functioning by assignment, such
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personalities of the super- and central universes are not wholly exempt from
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the regulations of the local universe of their sojourn, though they continue to
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function as representatives of the higher universes and to work in accordance
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with the instructions which constitute their mission in our realm. Their
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general headquarters is situated in the Salvington sector of the Union of Days,
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and they operate in Nebadon subject to the oversupervision of this ambassador
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of the Paradise Trinity. When serving in unattached groups, these personalities
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from the higher realms are usually self-directing, but when serving on request,
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they often voluntarily place themselves wholly under the jurisdiction of the
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supervising directors of the realms of assigned function.
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Most High Assistants serve in local universe and in constellation capacities
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but are not directly attached to the system or planetary governments. They may,
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however, function anywhere in the local universe and may be assigned to any
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phase of Nebadon activity--administrative, executive, educational, and others.
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Most of this corps is enlisted in assisting the Nebadon Paradise
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personalities--the Union of Days, the Creator Son, the Faithfuls of Days, the
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Magisterial Sons, and the Trinity Teacher Sons. Now and then in the transaction
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of the affairs of a local creation it becomes wise to withhold certain details,
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temporarily, from the knowledge of practically all of the native personalities
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of that local universe. Certain advanced plans and complex rulings are also
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better grasped and more fully understood by the more mature and farseeing corps
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of Most High Assistants, and it is in such situations, and many others, that
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they are so highly serviceable to the universe rulers and administrators.
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5. HIGH COMMISSIONERS
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The High Commissioners are Spirit-fused ascendant mortals; they are not
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Adjuster fused. You quite well understand about the universe-ascension career
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of a mortal candidate for Adjuster fusion, that being the high destiny in
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prospect for all Urantia mortals since the bestowal of Christ Michael. But this
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is not the exclusive destiny of all mortals in the prebestowal ages of worlds
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like yours, and there is another type of world whose inhabitants are never
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permanently indwelt by Thought Adjusters. Such mortals are never permanently
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joined in union with a Mystery Monitor of Paradise bestowal; nevertheless, the
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Adjusters do transiently indwell them, serving as guides and patterns for the
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duration of the life in the flesh. During this temporary sojourn they foster
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the evolution of an immortal soul just as in those beings with whom they hope
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to fuse, but when the mortal race is run, they take eternal leave of the
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creatures of temporary association.
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Surviving souls of this order attain immortality by eternal fusion with an
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individualized fragment of the spirit of the local universe Mother Spirit. They
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are not a numerous group, at least not in Nebadon. On the mansion worlds you
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will meet and fraternize with these Spirit-fused mortals as they ascend the
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Paradise path with you as far as Salvington, where they stop. Some of them may
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subsequently ascend to higher universe levels, but the majority will forever
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main in the service of the local universe; as a class they are not destined to
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attain Paradise.
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Not being Adjuster fused, they never become finaliters, but they do eventually
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become enrolled in the local universe Corps of Perfection. They have in spirit
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obeyed the Father's command, "Be you perfect."
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After attaining the Nebadon Corps of Perfection, Spirit-fused ascenders may
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accept assignment as Universe Aids, this being one of the avenues of continuing
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experiential growth which is open to them. Thus do they become candidates for
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commissions to the high service of interpreting the viewpoints of the evolving
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creatures of the material worlds to the celestial authorities of the local
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universe.
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The High Commissioners begin their service on the planets as race
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commissioners. In this capacity they interpret the viewpoints and portray the
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needs of the various human races. They are supremely devoted to the welfare of
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the mortal races whose spokesmen they are, ever seeking to obtain for them
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mercy, justice, and fair treatment in all relationships with other peoples.
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Race commissioners function in an endless series of planetary crises and serve
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as the articulate expression of whole groups of struggling mortals.
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After long experience in problem solving on the inhabited worlds, these race
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commissioners are advanced to the higher levels of function, eventually
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attaining the status of High Commissioners of and in the local universe. The
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last registration recorded slightly over one and one-half billion of these High
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Commissioners in Nebadon. These beings are not finaliters, but they are
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ascendant beings of long experience and of great service to their native realm.
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We invariably find these commissioners in all the tribunals of justice, from
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the lowest to the highest. Not that they participate in the proceedings of
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justice, but they do act as friends of the court, advising the presiding
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magistrates respecting the antecedents, environment, and inherent nature of
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those concerned in the adjudication.
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High Commissioners are attached to the various messenger hosts of space and
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always to the ministering spirits of time. They are encountered on the programs
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of various universe assemblies, and these same mortal-wise commissioners are
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always attached to the missions of the Sons of God to the worlds of space.
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Whenever fairness and justice require an understanding of how a contemplated
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policy or procedure would affect the evolutionary races of time, these
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commissioners are at hand to present their recommendations; they are always
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present to speak for those who cannot be present to speak for themselves.
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The Worlds of the Spirit-fused Mortals. The eighth group of seven primary
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worlds and tributary satellites in the Salvington circuit are the exclusive
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possession of the Spirit-fused mortals of Nebadon. Ascending Adjuster-fused
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mortals are not concerned with these worlds except to enjoy many pleasant and
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profitable sojourns as the invited guests of the Spirit-fused residents.
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Except for those few who attain Uversa and Paradise, these worlds are the
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permanent residence of the Spirit-fused survivors. Such designed limitation of
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mortal ascent reacts to the good of the local universes by insuring the
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retention of a permanent evolved population whose augmenting experience will
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continue to enhance the future stabilization and diversification of the local
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universe ad-
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ministration. These beings may not attain Paradise, but they achieve an
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experiential wisdom in the mastery of Nebadon problems that utterly surpasses
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anything attained by the transient ascenders. And these surviving souls
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continue as unique combinations of the human and the divine, being increasingly
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able to unite the viewpoints of these two widely separate levels and to present
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such a dual viewpoint with ever-heightening wisdom.
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6. CELESTIAL OVERSEERS
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The Nebadon educational system is jointly administered by the Trinity Teacher
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Sons and the Melchizedek teaching corps, but much of the work designed to
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effect its maintenance and upbuilding is carried on by the Celestial Overseers.
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These beings are a recruited corps embracing all types of individuals connected
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with the scheme of educating and training the ascending mortals. There are
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upward of three million of them in Nebadon, and they are all volunteers who
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have qualified by experience to serve as educational advisers to the entire
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realm. From their headquarters on the Salvington worlds of the Melchizedeks,
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these overseers range the local universe as inspectors of the Nebadon school
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technique designed to effect the mind training and the spirit education of the
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ascending creatures.
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This training of mind and education of spirit is carried on from the worlds of
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human origin up through the system mansion worlds and the other spheres of
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progress associated with Jerusem, on the seventy socializing realms attached to
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Edentia, and on the four hundred and ninety spheres of spirit progress
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encircling Salvington. On the universe headquarters itself are numerous
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Melchizedek schools, the colleges of the Universe Sons, the seraphic
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universities, and the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Union of Days. Every
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possible provision is made to qualify the various personalities of the universe
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for advancing service and improving function. The entire universe is one vast
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school.
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The methods employed in many of the higher schools are beyond the human concept
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of the art of teaching truth, but this is the keynote of the whole educational
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system: character acquired by enlightened experience. The teachers provide the
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enlightenment; the universe station and the ascender's status afford the
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opportunity for experience; the wise utilization of these two augments
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character.
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Fundamentally, the Nebadon educational system provides for your assignment to a
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task and then affords you opportunity to receive instruction as to the ideal
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and divine method of best performing that task. You are given a definite task
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to perform, and at the same time you are provided with teachers who are
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qualified to instruct you in the best method of executing your assignment. The
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divine plan of education provides for the intimate association of work and
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instruction. We teach you how best to execute the things we command you to do.
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The purpose of all this training and experience is to prepare you for admission
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to the higher and more spiritual training spheres of the superuniverse.
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Progress within a given realm is individual, but transition from one phase to
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another is usually by classes.
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The progression of eternity does not consist solely in spiritual development.
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Intellectual acquisition is also a part of universal education. The experience
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of the mind is broadened equally with the expansion of the spiritual horizon.
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Mind
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and spirit are afforded like opportunities for training and advancement. But in
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all this superb training of mind and spirit you are forever free from the
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handicaps of mortal flesh. No longer must you constantly referee the
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conflicting contentions of your divergent spiritual and material natures. At
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last you are qualified to enjoy the unified urge of a glorified mind long since
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divested of primitive animalistic trends towards things material.
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Before leaving the universe of Nebadon, most Urantia mortals will be afforded
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opportunity to serve for a longer or shorter time as members of the Nebadon
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corps of Celestial Overseers.
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7. MANSION WORLD TEACHERS
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The Mansion World Teachers are recruited and glorified cherubim. Like most
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other instructors in Nebadon they are commissioned by the Melchizedeks. They
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function in most of the educational enterprises of the morontia life, and their
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number is quite beyond the comprehension of mortal mind.
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As an attainment level of cherubim and sanobim, the Mansion World Teachers will
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receive further consideration in the next paper, while as teachers playing an
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important part in the morontia life, they will be more extensively discussed in
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the paper of that name.
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8. HIGHER SPIRIT ORDERS OF ASSIGNMENT
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Besides the power centers and the physical controllers, certain of the
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higher-origin spirit beings of the family of the Infinite Spirit are of
|
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permanent assignment to the local universe. Of the higher spirit orders of the
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family of the Infinite Spirit the following are so assigned:
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The Solitary Messengers, when functionally attached to the local universe
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administration, render invaluable service to us in our efforts to overcome the
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handicaps of time and space. When they are not thus assigned, we of the local
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universes have absolutely no authority over them, but even then these unique
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beings are always willing to help us with the solution of our problems and with
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the execution of our mandates.
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Andovontia is the name of the tertiary Universe Circuit Supervisor stationed
|
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in our local universe. He is concerned only with spirit and morontia circuits,
|
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not with those under the jurisdiction of the power directors. It was he who
|
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isolated Urantia at the time of the Caligastia betrayal of the planet during
|
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the testing seasons of the Lucifer rebellion. In sending greetings to the
|
||
mortals of Urantia, he expresses pleasure in the anticipation of your sometime
|
||
restoration to the universe circuits of his supervision.
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The Nebadon Census Director, Salsatia, maintains headquarters within the
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Gabriel sector of Salvington. He is automatically cognizant of the birth and
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||
death of will and currently registers the exact number of will creatures
|
||
functioning in the local universe. He works in close association with the
|
||
personality recorders domiciled on the record worlds of the archangels.
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An Associate Inspector is resident on Salvington. He is the personal
|
||
representative of the Supreme Executive of Orvonton.
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His associates, the Assigned Sentinels in the local systems, are also
|
||
representatives of the Supreme Executive of Orvonton.
|
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|
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The Universal Conciliators are the traveling courts of the universes of time
|
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and space, functioning from the evolutionary worlds up through every section of
|
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the local universe and on beyond. These referees are registered on Uversa; the
|
||
exact number operating in Nebadon is not of record, but I estimate that there
|
||
are in the neighborhood of one hundred million conciliating commissions in our
|
||
local universe.
|
||
|
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Of the Technical Advisers, the legal minds of the realm, we have our quota,
|
||
about one-half billion. These beings are the living and circulating
|
||
experiential law libraries of all space.
|
||
|
||
Of the Celestial Recorders, the ascendant seraphim, we have in Nebadon
|
||
seventy-five. These are the senior or supervising recorders. The advancing
|
||
students of this order in training number almost four billion.
|
||
|
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The ministry of the seventy billion Morontia Companions in Nebadon is described
|
||
in those narratives dealing with the transition planets of the pilgrims of
|
||
time.
|
||
|
||
Each universe has its own native angelic corps; nevertheless, there are
|
||
occasions on which it is very helpful to have the assistance of those higher
|
||
spirits of origin outside the local creation. Supernaphim perform certain rare
|
||
and unique services; the present chief of Urantia seraphim is a primary
|
||
supernaphim of Paradise. The reflective seconaphim are encountered wherever the
|
||
superuniverse personnel is functioning, and a great many tertiaphim are of
|
||
temporary service as Most High Assistants.
|
||
|
||
9. PERMANENT CITIZENS OF THE LOCAL UNIVERSE
|
||
|
||
As with the super- and central universes, the local universe has its orders of
|
||
permanent citizenship. These include the following created types:
|
||
|
||
1. Susatia.
|
||
|
||
2. Univitatia.
|
||
|
||
3. Material Sons.
|
||
|
||
4. Midway Creatures.
|
||
|
||
These natives of the local creation, together with the Spirit-fused ascenders
|
||
and the spironga (who are otherwise classified), constitute a relatively
|
||
permanent citizenship. These orders of beings are by and large neither
|
||
ascending nor descending. They are all experiential creatures, but their
|
||
enlarging experience continues to be available to the universe on their level
|
||
of origin. While this is not wholly true of the Adamic Sons and midway
|
||
creatures, it is relatively true of these orders.
|
||
|
||
The Susatia. These marvelous beings reside and function as permanent citizens
|
||
on Salvington, the headquarters of this local universe. They are the brilliant
|
||
offspring of the Creator Son and Creative Spirit and are closely associated
|
||
with the ascendant citizens of the local universe, the Spirit-fused mortals of
|
||
the Nebadon Corps of Perfection.
|
||
|
||
The Univitatia. Each of the one hundred constellation headquarters clusters of
|
||
architectural spheres enjoys the continuous ministry of a residential order of
|
||
beings known as the univitatia. These children of the Creator Son and the
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Creative Spirit constitute the permanent population of the constellation
|
||
headquarters worlds. They are nonreproducing beings existing on a plane of life
|
||
about halfway between the semimaterial status of the Material Sons domiciled on
|
||
the system headquarters and the more definitely spiritual plane of the
|
||
Spirit-fused mortals and the susatia of Salvington; but the univitatia are not
|
||
morontia beings. They accomplish for ascending mortals during the traversal of
|
||
the constellation spheres what the Havona natives contribute to the pilgrim
|
||
spirits passing through the central creation.
|
||
|
||
The Material Sons of God. When a creative liaison between the Creator Son and
|
||
the universe representative of the Infinite Spirit, the Universe Mother Spirit,
|
||
has completed its cycle, when no more offspring of the combined nature are
|
||
forthcoming, then does the Creator Son personalize in dual form his last
|
||
concept of being, thus finally confirming his own and original dual origin. In
|
||
and of himself he then creates the beautiful and superb Sons and Daughters of
|
||
the material order of universe sonship. This is the origin of the original Adam
|
||
and Eve of each local system of Nebadon. They are a reproducing order of
|
||
sonship, being created male and female. Their progeny function as the
|
||
relatively permanent citizens of a system capital, though some are commissioned
|
||
as Planetary Adams.
|
||
|
||
On a planetary mission the Material Son and Daughter are commissioned to found
|
||
the Adamic race of that world, a race designed eventually to amalgamate with
|
||
the mortal inhabitants of that sphere. Planetary Adams are both descending and
|
||
ascending Sons, but we ordinarily class them as ascending.
|
||
|
||
The Midway Creatures. In the early days of most inhabited worlds, certain
|
||
superhuman but materialized beings are of assignment, but they usually retire
|
||
upon the arrival of the Planetary Adams. The transactions of such beings and
|
||
the efforts of the Material Sons to improve the evolutionary races often result
|
||
in the appearance of a limited number of creatures who are difficult to
|
||
classify. These unique beings are often midway between the Material Sons and
|
||
the evolutionary creatures; hence their designation, midway creatures. In a
|
||
comparative sense these midwayers are the permanent citizens of the
|
||
evolutionary worlds. From the early days of the arrival of a Planetary Prince
|
||
to the far-distant time of the settling of the planet in light and life, they
|
||
are the only group of intelligent beings to remain continuously on the sphere.
|
||
On Urantia the midway ministers are in reality the actual custodians of the
|
||
planet; they are, practically speaking, the citizens of Urantia. Mortals are
|
||
indeed the physical and material inhabitants of an evolutionary world, but you
|
||
are all so short-lived; you tarry on your nativity planet such a short time.
|
||
You are born, live, die, and pass on to other worlds of evolutionary
|
||
progression. Even the superhuman beings who serve on the planets as celestial
|
||
ministers are of transient assignment; few of them are long attached to a given
|
||
sphere. The midway creatures, however, provide continuity of planetary
|
||
administration in the face of ever-changing celestial ministries and constantly
|
||
shifting mortal inhabitants. Throughout all of this never-ceasing changing and
|
||
shifting, the midway creatures remain on the planet uninterruptedly carrying on
|
||
their work.
|
||
|
||
In like manner, all divisions of the administrative organization of the local
|
||
universes and superuniverses have their more or less permanent populations,
|
||
inhabitants of citizenship status. As Urantia has its midwayers, Jerusem, your
|
||
system capital, has the Material Sons and Daughters; Edentia, your constella-
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
tion headquarters, has the univitatia, while the citizens of Salvington are
|
||
twofold, the created susatia and the evolved Spirit-fused mortals. The
|
||
administrative worlds of the minor and major sectors of the superuniverses do
|
||
not have permanent citizens. But the Uversa headquarters spheres are
|
||
continuously fostered by an amazing group of beings known as the abandonters,
|
||
the creation of the unrevealed agents of the Ancients of Days and the seven
|
||
Reflective Spirits resident on the capital of Orvonton. These residential
|
||
citizens on Uversa are at present administering the routine affairs of their
|
||
world under the immediate supervision of the Uversa corps of the Son-fused
|
||
mortals. Even Havona has its native beings, and the central Isle of Light and
|
||
Life is the home of the various groups of Paradise Citizens.
|
||
|
||
10. OTHER LOCAL UNIVERSE GROUPS
|
||
|
||
Besides the seraphic and mortal orders, who will be considered in later papers,
|
||
there are numerous additional beings concerned in the maintenance and
|
||
perfecting of such a gigantic organization as the universe of Nebadon, which
|
||
even now has more than three million inhabited worlds, with ten million in
|
||
prospect. The various Nebadon types of life are much too numerous to be
|
||
catalogued in this paper, but there are two unusual orders that function
|
||
extensively on the 647,591 architectural spheres of the local universe, that
|
||
may be mentioned.
|
||
|
||
The Spironga are the spirit offspring of the Bright and Morning Star and the
|
||
Father Melchizedek. They are exempt from personality termination but are not
|
||
evolutionary or ascending beings. Neither are they functionally concerned with
|
||
the evolutionary ascension regime. They are the spirit helpers of the local
|
||
universe, executing the routine spirit tasks of Nebadon.
|
||
|
||
The Spornagia. The architectural headquarters worlds of the local universe are
|
||
real worlds--physical creations. There is much work connected with their
|
||
physical upkeep, and herein we have the assistance of a group of physical
|
||
creatures called spornagia. They are devoted to the care and culture of the
|
||
material phases of these headquarters worlds, from Jerusem to Salvington.
|
||
Spornagia are neither spirits nor persons; they are an animal order of
|
||
existence, but if you could see them, you would agree that they seem to be
|
||
perfect animals.
|
||
|
||
The various courtesy colonies are domiciled on Salvington and elsewhere. We
|
||
especially profit from the ministry of the celestial artisans on the
|
||
constellations and benefit from the activities of the reversion directors, who
|
||
operate chiefly on the capitals of the local systems.
|
||
|
||
Always there is attached to the universe service a corps of ascending mortals,
|
||
including the glorified midway creatures. These ascenders, after attaining
|
||
Salvington, are used in an almost endless variety of activities in the conduct
|
||
of universe affairs. From each level of achievement these advancing mortals
|
||
reach back and down to extend a helping hand to their fellows who follow them
|
||
in the upward climb. Such mortals of temporary sojourn on Salvington are
|
||
assigned on requisition to practically all corps of celestial personalities as
|
||
helpers, students, observers, and teachers.
|
||
|
||
There are still other types of intelligent life concerned with the
|
||
administration of a local universe, but the plan of this narrative does not
|
||
provide for the
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
further revelation of these orders of creation. Enough of the life and
|
||
administration of this universe is being herewith portrayed to afford the
|
||
mortal mind a grasp of the reality and grandeur of the survival existence.
|
||
Further experience in your advancing careers will increasingly reveal these
|
||
interesting and charming beings. This narrative cannot be more than a brief
|
||
outline of the nature and work of the manifold personalities who throng the
|
||
universes of space administering these creations as enormous training schools,
|
||
schools wherein the pilgrims of time advance from life to life and from world
|
||
to world until they are lovingly dispatched from the borders of the universe of
|
||
their origin to the higher educational regime of the superuniverse and thence
|
||
on to the spirit-training worlds of Havona and eventually to Paradise and the
|
||
high destiny of the finaliters--the eternal assignment on missions not yet
|
||
revealed to the universes of time and space.
|
||
|
||
[Dictated by a Brilliant Evening Star of Nebadon, Number 1,146 of the Created
|
||
Corps.]
|
||
|
||
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|
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
|
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
|
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
|
||
Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
|
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
|
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
|
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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