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Urantia Book Paper 45 The Local System Administration
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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 45 The Local System Administration
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Introduction
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THE administrative center of Satania consists of a cluster of architectural
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spheres, fifty-seven in number--Jerusem itself, the seven major satellites, and
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the forty-nine subsatellites. Jerusem, the system capital, is almost one
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hundred times the size of Urantia, although its gravity is a trifle less.
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Jerusem's major satellites are the seven transition worlds, each of which is
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about ten times as large as Urantia, while the seven subsatellites of these
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transition spheres are just about the size of Urantia.
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The seven mansion worlds are the seven subsatellites of transition world number
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one.
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This entire system of fifty-seven architectural worlds is independently
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lighted, heated, watered, and energized by the co-ordination of the Satania
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Power Center and the Master Physical Controllers in accordance with the
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established technique of the physical organization and arrangement of these
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specially created spheres. They are also physically cared for and otherwise
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maintained by the native spornagia.
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1. TRANSITIONAL CULTURE WORLDS
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The seven major worlds swinging around Jerusem are generally known as the
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transitional culture spheres. Their rulers are designated from time to time by
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the Jerusem supreme executive council. These spheres are numbered and named as
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follows:
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Number 1. The Finaliter World. This is the headquarters of the finaliter corps
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of the local system and is surrounded by the receiving worlds, the seven
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mansion worlds, dedicated so fully to the scheme of mortal ascension. The
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finaliter world is accessible to the inhabitants of all seven mansion worlds.
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Transport seraphim carry ascending personalities back and forth on these
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pilgrimages, which are designed to cultivate their faith in the ultimate
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destiny of transition mortals. Although the finaliters and their structures are
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not ordinarily perceptible to morontia vision, you will be more than thrilled,
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from time to time, when the energy transformers and the Morontia Power
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Supervisors enable you momentarily to glimpse these high spirit personalities
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who have actually completed the Paradise ascension, and who have returned to
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the very worlds where you are beginning this long journey, as the pledge of
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assurance that you may and can complete the stupendous undertaking. All mansion
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world sojourners go to the finaliter sphere at least once a year for these
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assemblies of finaliter visualization.
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Number 2. The Morontia World. This planet is the headquarters of the
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supervisors of morontia life and is surrounded by the seven spheres whereon the
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morontia chiefs train their associates and helpers, both morontia beings and
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ascending mortals.
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In passing through the seven mansion worlds, you will also progress through
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these cultural and social spheres of increasing morontia contact. When you
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advance from the first to the second mansion world, you will become eligible
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for a visitor's permit to transitional headquarters number two, the morontia
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world, and so on. And when present on any one of these six cultural spheres,
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you may, on invitation, become a visitor and observer on any of the seven
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surrounding worlds of associated group activities.
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Number 3. The Angelic World. This is the headquarters of all the seraphic hosts
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engaged in system activities and is surrounded by the seven worlds of angelic
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training and instruction. These are the seraphic social spheres.
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Number 4. The Superangel World. This sphere is the Satania home of the
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Brilliant Evening Stars and a vast concourse of co-ordinate and
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near-co-ordinate beings. The seven satellites of this world are assigned to the
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seven major groups of these unnamed celestial beings.
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Number 5. The World of the Sons. This planet is the headquarters of the divine
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Sons of all orders, including the creature-trinitized sons. The surrounding
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seven worlds are devoted to certain individual groupings of these divinely
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related sons.
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Number 6. The World of the Spirit. This sphere serves as the system rendezvous
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of the high personalities of the Infinite Spirit. Its seven surrounding
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satellites are assigned to individual groups of these diverse orders. But on
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transition world number six there is no representation of the Spirit, neither
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is such a presence to be observed on the system capitals; the Divine Minister
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of Salvington is everywhere in Nebadon.
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Number 7. The World of the Father. This is the silent sphere of the system. No
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group of beings is domiciled on it. The great temple of light occupies a
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central place, but no one can be discerned therein. All beings of all the
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system worlds are welcomed as worshipers.
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The seven satellites surrounding the Father's world are variously utilized in
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the different systems. In Satania they are now used as the detention spheres
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for the interned groups of the Lucifer rebellion. The constellation capital,
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Edentia, has no analogous prison worlds; the few seraphim and cherubim who went
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over to the rebels in the Satania rebellion have been long since confined on
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these isolation worlds of Jerusem.
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As a sojourner on the seventh mansion world, you have access to the seventh
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transition world, the sphere of the Universal Father, and are also permitted to
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visit the Satania prison worlds surrounding this planet, whereon are now
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confined Lucifer and the majority of those personalities who followed him in
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rebellion against Michael. And this sad spectacle has been observable during
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these recent ages and will continue to serve as a solemn warning to all Nebadon
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until the Ancients of Days shall adjudicate the sin of Lucifer and his fallen
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associates who rejected the salvation proffered by Michael, their universe
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Father.
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2. THE SYSTEM SOVEREIGN
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The chief executive of a local system of inhabited worlds is a primary
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Lanonandek Son, the System Sovereign. In our local universe these sovereigns
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are intrusted with large executive responsibilities, unusual personal
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prerogatives. Not all universes, even in Orvonton, are so organized as to
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permit the System Sovereigns to exercise such unusually wide powers of personal
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discretion in the direction of system affairs. But in all the history of
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Nebadon these untrammeled executives have exhibited disloyalty only three
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times. The Lucifer rebellion in the system of Satania was the last and the most
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widespread of all.
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In Satania, even after this disastrous upheaval, absolutely no changes have
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been made in the technique of system administration. The present System
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Sovereign possesses all the power and exercises all the authority that were
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invested in his unworthy predecessor except for certain matters now under the
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supervision of the Constellation Fathers which the Ancients of Days have not
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yet fully restored to Lanaforge, the successor of Lucifer.
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The present head of Satania is a gracious and brilliant ruler, and he is a
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rebellion-tested sovereign. When serving as an assistant System Sovereign,
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Lanaforge was faithful to Michael in an earlier upheaval in the universe of
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Nebadon. This mighty and brilliant Lord of Satania is a tried and tested
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administrator. At the time of the second system rebellion in Nebadon, when the
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System Sovereign stumbled and fell into darkness, Lanaforge, the first
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assistant to the erring chief, seized the reins of government and so conducted
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the affairs of the system that comparatively few personalities were lost either
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on the headquarters worlds or on the inhabited planets of that unfortunate
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system. Lanaforge bears the distinction of being the only primary Lanonandek
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Son in all Nebadon who thus functioned loyally in the service of Michael and in
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the very presence of the default of his brother of superior authority and
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antecedent rank. Lanaforge will probably not be removed from Jerusem until all
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the results of the former folly have been overcome and the products of
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rebellion removed from Satania.
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While all the affairs of the isolated worlds of Satania have not been returned
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to his jurisdiction, Lanaforge discloses great interest in their welfare, and
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he is a frequent visitor on Urantia. As in other and normal systems, the
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Sovereign presides over the system council of world rulers, the Planetary
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Princes and the resident governors general of the isolated worlds. This
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planetary council assembles from time to time on the headquarters of the
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system--"When the Sons of God come together."
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Once a week, every ten days on Jerusem, the Sovereign holds a conclave with
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some one group of the various orders of personalities domiciled on the
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headquarters world. These are the charmingly informal hours of Jerusem, and
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they are never-to-be-forgotten occasions. On Jerusem there exists the utmost
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fraternity between all the various orders of beings and between each of these
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groups and the System Sovereign.
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These unique assemblages occur on the sea of glass, the great gathering field
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of the system capital. They are purely social and spiritual occasions; nothing
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pertaining to the planetary administration or even to the ascendant plan is
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ever discussed. Ascending mortals come together at these times merely to enjoy
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themselves and to meet their fellow Jerusemites. Those groups which are not
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being entertained by the Sovereign at these weekly relaxations meet at their
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own headquarters.
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3. THE SYSTEM GOVERNMENT
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The chief executive of a local system, the System Sovereign, is always
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supported by two or three Lanonandek Sons, who function as first and second
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assistants. But at the present time the system of Satania is administered by a
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staff of seven Lanonandeks:
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1. The System Sovereign--Lanaforge, number 2,709 of the primary order and
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successor to the apostate Lucifer.
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2. The first assistant Sovereign--Mansurotia, number 17,841 of the tertiary
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Lanonandeks. He was dispatched to Satania along with Lanaforge.
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3. The second assistant Sovereign--Sadib, number 271,402 of the tertiary order.
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Sadib also came to Satania with Lanaforge.
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4. The custodian of the system--Holdant, number 19 of the tertiary corps, the
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holder and controller of all interned spirits above the order of mortal
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existence. Holdant likewise came to Satania with Lanaforge.
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5. The system recorder--Vilton, secretary of the Lanonandek ministry of
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Satania, number 374 of the third order. Vilton was a member of the original
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Lanaforge group.
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6. The bestowal director--Fortant, number 319,847 of the reserves of the
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secondary Lanonandeks and temporary director of all universe activities
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transplanted to Jerusem since Michael's bestowal on Urantia. Fortant has been
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attached to the staff of Lanaforge for nineteen hundred years of Urantia time.
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7. The high counselor--Hanavard, number 67 of the primary Lanonandek Sons and a
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member of the high corps of universe counselors and co-ordinators. He functions
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as acting chairman of the executive council of Satania. Hanavard is the twelfth
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of this order so to serve on Jerusem since the Lucifer rebellion.
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This executive group of seven Lanonandeks constitutes the expanded emergency
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administration made necessary by the exigencies of the Lucifer rebellion. There
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are only minor courts on Jerusem since the system is the unit of
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administration, not adjudication, but the Lanonandek administration is
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supported by the Jerusem executive council, the supreme advisory body of
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Satania. This council consists of twelve members:
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1. Hanavard, the Lanonandek chairman.
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2. Lanaforge, the System Sovereign.
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3. Mansurotia, the first assistant Sovereign.
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4. The chief of Satania Melchizedeks.
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5. The acting director of the Satania Life Carriers.
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6. The chief of the Satania finaliters.
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7. The original Adam of Satania, the supervising head of the Material Sons.
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8. The director of the Satania seraphic hosts.
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9. The chief of the Satania physical controllers.
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10. The director of the system Morontia Power Supervisors.
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11. The acting director of system midway creatures.
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12. The acting head of the corps of ascending mortals.
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This council periodically chooses three members to represent the local system
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on the supreme council at universe headquarters, but this representation is
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suspended by rebellion. Satania now has an observer at the headquarters of the
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local universe, but since the bestowal of Michael the system has resumed the
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election of ten members to the Edentia legislature.
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4. THE FOUR AND TWENTY COUNSELORS
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At the center of the seven angelic residential circles on Jerusem is located
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the headquarters of the Urantia advisory council, the four and twenty
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counselors. John the Revelator called them the four and twenty elders: "And
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round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw
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four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment." The throne in the
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center of this group is the judgment seat of the presiding archangel, the
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throne of the resurrection roll call of mercy and justice for all Satania. This
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judgment seat has always been on Jerusem, but the twenty-four surrounding seats
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were placed in position no more than nineteen hundred years ago, soon after
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Christ Michael was elevated to the full sovereignty of Nebadon. These four and
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twenty counselors are his personal agents on Jerusem, and they have authority
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to represent the Master Son in all matters concerning the roll calls of Satania
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and in many other phases of the scheme of mortal ascension on the isolated
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worlds of the system. They are the designated agents for executing the special
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requests of Gabriel and the unusual mandates of Michael.
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These twenty-four counselors have been recruited from the eight Urantia races,
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and the last of this group were assembled at the time of the resurrection roll
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call of Michael, nineteen hundred years ago. This Urantia advisory council is
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made up of the following members:
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1. Onagar, the master mind of the pre-Planetary Prince age, who directed his
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fellows in the worship of "The Breath Giver."
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2. Mansant, the great teacher of the post-Planetary Prince age on Urantia, who
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pointed his fellows to the veneration of "The Great Light."
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3. Onamonalonton, a far-distant leader of the red man and the one who directed
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this race from the worship of many gods to the veneration of "The Great
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Spirit."
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4. Orlandof, a prince of the blue men and their leader in the recognition of
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the divinity of "The Supreme Chief."
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5. Porshunta, the oracle of the extinct orange race and the leader of this
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people in the worship of "The Great Teacher."
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6. Singlangton, the first of the yellow men to teach and lead his people in the
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worship of "One Truth" instead of many. Thousands of years ago the yellow man
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knew of the one God.
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7. Fantad, the deliverer of the green men from darkness and their leader in the
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worship of "The One Source of Life."
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8. Orvonon, the enlightener of the indigo races and their leader in the onetime
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service of "The God of Gods."
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9. Adam, the discredited but rehabilitated planetary father of Urantia, a
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Material Son of God who was relegated to the likeness of mortal flesh, but who
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survived and was subsequently elevated to this position by the decree of
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Michael.
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10. Eve, the mother of the violet race of Urantia, who suffered the penalty of
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default with her mate and was also rehabilitated with him and assigned to serve
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with this group of mortal survivors.
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11. Enoch, the first of the mortals of Urantia to fuse with the Thought
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Adjuster during the mortal life in the flesh.
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12. Moses, the emancipator of a remnant of the submerged violet race and the
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instigator of the revival of the worship of the Universal Father under the name
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of "The God of Israel."
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13. Elijah, a translated soul of brilliant spiritual achievement during the
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post-Material Son age.
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14. Machiventa Melchizedek, the only Son of this order to bestow himself upon
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the Urantia races. While still numbered as a Melchizedek, he has become
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"forever a minister of the Most Highs," eternally assuming the assignment of
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service as a mortal ascender, having sojourned on Urantia in the likeness of
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mortal flesh at Salem in the days of Abraham. This Melchizedek has latterly
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been proclaimed vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia with headquarters on
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Jerusem and authority to act in behalf of Michael, who is actually the
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Planetary Prince of the world whereon he experienced his terminal bestowal in
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human form. Notwithstanding this, Urantia is still supervised by successive
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resident governors general, members of the four and twenty counselors.
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15. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Michael's mission on Urantia and, in
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the flesh, distant cousin of the Son of Man.
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16. 1-2-3 the First, the leader of the loyal midway creatures in the service of
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Gabriel at the time of the Caligastia betrayal, elevated to this position by
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Michael soon after his entrance upon unconditioned sovereignty.
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These selected personalities are exempt from the ascension regime for the time
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being, on Gabriel's request, and we have no idea how long they may serve in
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this capacity.
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Seats numbers 17, 18, 19, and 20 are not permanently occupied. They are
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temporarily filled by the unanimous consent of the sixteen permanent members,
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being kept open for later assignment to ascending mortals from the present
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post-bestowal Son age on Urantia.
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Numbers 21, 22, 23, and 24 are likewise temporarily filled while being held in
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reserve for the great teachers of other and subsequent ages which undoubtedly
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will follow the present age. Eras of the Magisterial Sons and Teacher Sons and
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the ages of light and life are to be anticipated on Urantia, regardless of
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unexpected visitations of divine Sons which may or may not occur.
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5. THE MATERIAL SONS
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The great divisions of celestial life have their headquarters and immense
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preserves on Jerusem, including the various orders of divine Sons, high
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spirits, superangels, angels, and midway creatures. The central abode of this
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wonderful sector is the chief temple of the Material Sons.
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The domain of the Adams is the center of attraction to all new arrivals on
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Jerusem. It is an enormous area consisting of one thousand centers, although
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each family of Material Sons and Daughters lives on an estate of its own up to
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the time of the departure of its members for service on the evolutionary worlds
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of space or until their embarkation upon the Paradise-ascension career.
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These Material Sons are the highest type of sex-reproducing beings to be found
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on the training spheres of the evolving universes. And they are really
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material; even the Planetary Adams and Eves are plainly visible to the mortal
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races of the inhabited worlds. These Material Sons are the last and physical
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link in the chain of personalities extending from divinity and perfection above
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down to humanity and material existence below. These Sons provide the inhabited
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worlds with a mutually contactable intermediary between the invisible Planetary
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Prince and the material creatures of the realms.
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At the last millennial registration on Salvington there were of record in
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Nebadon 161,432,840 Material Sons and Daughters of citizenship status on the
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local system capitals. The number of Material Sons varies in the different
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systems, and their number is being constantly increased by natural
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reproduction. In the exercise of their reproductive functions they are not
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guided wholly by the personal desires of the contacting personalities but also
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by the higher governing bodies and advisory councils.
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These Material Sons and Daughters are the permanent inhabitants of Jerusem and
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its associated worlds. They occupy vast estates on Jerusem and participate
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liberally in the local management of the capital sphere, administering
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practically all routine affairs with the assistance of the midwayers and the
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ascenders.
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On Jerusem these reproducing Sons are permitted to experiment with the ideals
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of self-government after the manner of the Melchizedeks, and they are achieving
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a very high type of society. The higher orders of sonship reserve the veto
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functions of the realm, but in nearly every respect the Jerusem Adamites govern
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themselves by universal suffrage and representative government. Some time they
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hope to be granted virtually complete autonomy.
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The character of the service of the Material Sons is largely determined by
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their ages. While they are not eligible for admission to the Melchizedek
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University of Salvington--being material and ordinarily limited to certain
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planets--nevertheless, the Melchizedeks maintain strong faculties of teachers
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on the headquarters of each system for the instruction of the younger
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generations of Material Sons. The educational and spiritual training systems
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provided for the development of the younger Material Sons and Daughters are the
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acme of perfection in scope, technique, and practicability.
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6. ADAMIC TRAINING OF ASCENDERS
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The Material Sons and Daughters, together with their children, present an
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engaging spectacle which never fails to arouse the curiosity and intrigue the
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attention of all ascending mortals. They are so similar to your own material
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sex races that you both find much of common interest to engage your thoughts
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and occupy your seasons of fraternal contact.
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Mortal survivors spend much of their leisure on the system capital observing
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and studying the life habits and conduct of these superior semiphysical sex
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creatures, for these citizens of Jerusem are the immediate sponsors and mentors
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of the mortal survivors from the time they attain citizenship on the
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headquarters world until they take leave for Edentia.
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On the seven mansion worlds ascending mortals are afforded ample opportunities
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for compensating any and all experiential deprivations suffered on their worlds
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of origin, whether due to inheritance, environment, or unfortunate premature
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termination of the career in the flesh. This is in every sense true except in
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the mortal sex life and its attendant adjustments. Thousands of mortals reach
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the mansion worlds without having benefited particularly from the disciplines
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||
derived from fairly average sex relations on their native spheres. The mansion
|
||
world experience can provide little opportunity for compensating these very
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||
personal deprivations. Sex experience in a physical sense is past for these
|
||
ascenders, but in close association with the Material Sons and Daughters, both
|
||
individually and as members of their families, these sex-deficient mortals are
|
||
enabled to compensate the social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual
|
||
aspects of their deficiency. Thus are all those humans whom circumstances or
|
||
bad judgment deprived of the benefits of advantageous sex association on the
|
||
evolutionary worlds, here on the system capitals afforded full opportunity to
|
||
acquire these essential mortal experiences in close and loving association with
|
||
the supernal Adamic sex creatures of permanent residence on the system
|
||
capitals.
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||
|
||
No surviving mortal, midwayer, or seraphim may ascend to Paradise, attain the
|
||
Father, and be mustered into the Corps of the Finality without having passed
|
||
through that sublime experience of achieving parental relationship to an
|
||
evolving child of the worlds or some other experience analogous and equivalent
|
||
thereto. The relationship of child and parent is fundamental to the essential
|
||
concept of the Universal Father and his universe children. Therefore does such
|
||
an experience become indispensable to the experiential training of all
|
||
ascenders.
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||
|
||
The ascending midway creatures and the evolutionary seraphim must pass through
|
||
this parenthood experience in association with the Material Sons and Daughters
|
||
of the system headquarters. Thus do such nonreproducing ascenders obtain the
|
||
experience of parenthood by assisting the Jerusem Adams and Eves in rearing and
|
||
training their progeny.
|
||
|
||
All mortal survivors who have not experienced parenthood on the evolutionary
|
||
worlds must also obtain this necessary training while sojourning in the homes
|
||
of the Jerusem Material Sons and as parental associates of these superb fathers
|
||
and mothers. This is true except in so far as such mortals have been able to
|
||
compensate their deficiencies on the system nursery located on the first
|
||
transitional-culture world of Jerusem.
|
||
|
||
This probation nursery of Satania is maintained by certain morontia
|
||
personalities on the finaliters' world, one half of the planet being devoted to
|
||
this work of child rearing. Here are received and reassembled certain children
|
||
of surviving mortals, such as those offspring who perished on the evolutionary
|
||
worlds before acquiring spiritual status as individuals. The ascension of
|
||
either of its natural parents insures that such a mortal child of the realms
|
||
will be accorded repersonalization on the system finaliter planet and there be
|
||
permitted to demonstrate by subsequent freewill choice whether or not it elects
|
||
to follow the parental path of mortal ascension. Children here appear as on the
|
||
nativity world except for the absence of sex differentiation. There is no
|
||
reproduction of mortal kind after the life experience on the inhabited worlds.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
Mansion world students who have one or more children in the probationary
|
||
nursery on the finaliters' world, and who are deficient in essential parental
|
||
experience, may apply for a Melchizedek permit which will effect their
|
||
temporary transfer from ascension duties on the mansion worlds to the finaliter
|
||
world, where they are granted opportunity to function as associate parents to
|
||
their own and other children. This service of parental ministry may be later
|
||
accredited on Jerusem as the fulfillment of one half of the training which such
|
||
ascenders are required to undergo in the families of the Material Sons and
|
||
Daughters.
|
||
|
||
The probation nursery itself is supervised by one thousand couples of Material
|
||
Sons and Daughters, volunteers from the Jerusem colony of their order. They are
|
||
immediately assisted by about an equal number of volunteer midsonite parental
|
||
groups who stop off here to render this service on their way from the midsonite
|
||
world of Satania to the unrevealed destiny on their special worlds of
|
||
reservation among the finaliter spheres of Salvington.
|
||
|
||
7. THE MELCHIZEDEK SCHOOLS
|
||
|
||
The Melchizedeks are the directors of that large corps of
|
||
instructors--partially spiritualized will creatures and others--who function so
|
||
acceptably on Jerusem and its associated worlds but especially on the seven
|
||
mansion worlds. These are the detention planets, where those mortals who fail
|
||
to achieve fusion with their indwelling Adjusters during the life in the flesh
|
||
are rehabilitated in transient form to receive further help and to enjoy
|
||
extended opportunity for continuing their strivings for spiritual attainment,
|
||
those very efforts which were prematurely interrupted by death. Or if, for any
|
||
other reason of hereditary handicap, unfavorable environment, or conspiracy of
|
||
circumstances, this soul attainment was not completed, no matter what the
|
||
reason, all who are true of purpose and worthy in spirit find themselves, as
|
||
themselves, present on the continuing planets, where they must learn to master
|
||
the essentials of the eternal career, to possess themselves of traits which
|
||
they could not, or did not, acquire during the lifetime in the flesh.
|
||
|
||
The Brilliant Evening Stars (and their unnamed co-ordinates) frequently serve
|
||
as teachers in the various educational enterprises of the universe, including
|
||
those sponsored by the Melchizedeks. Also do the Trinity Teacher Sons
|
||
collaborate, and they impart the touches of Paradise perfection to these
|
||
progressive training schools. But all these activities are not exclusively
|
||
devoted to the advancement of ascending mortals; many are equally occupied with
|
||
the progressive training of the native spirit personalities of Nebadon.
|
||
|
||
The Melchizedek Sons conduct upward of thirty different educational centers on
|
||
Jerusem. These training schools begin with the college of self-evaluation and
|
||
end with the schools of Jerusem citizenship, wherein the Material Sons and
|
||
Daughters join with the Melchizedeks and others in their supreme effort to
|
||
qualify the mortal survivors for the assumption of the high responsibilities of
|
||
representative government. The entire universe is organized and administered on
|
||
the representative plan. Representative government is the divine ideal of
|
||
self-government among nonperfect beings.
|
||
|
||
Every one hundred years of universe time each system selects its ten
|
||
representatives to sit in the constellation legislature. They are chosen by the
|
||
Jerusem council of one thousand, an elective body charged with the duty of
|
||
representing the system groups in all such delegated or appointive matters. All
|
||
repre-
|
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
sentatives or other delegates are selected by the council of one thousand
|
||
electors, and they must be graduates of the highest school of the Melchizedek
|
||
College of Administration, as also are all of those who constitute this group
|
||
of one thousand electors. This school is fostered by the Melchizedeks, latterly
|
||
assisted by the finaliters.
|
||
|
||
There are many elective bodies on Jerusem, and they are voted into authority
|
||
from time to time by three orders of citizenship--the Material Sons and
|
||
Daughters, the seraphim and their associates, including midway creatures, and
|
||
the ascending mortals. To receive nomination for representative honor a
|
||
candidate must have gained requisite recognition from the Melchizedek schools
|
||
of administration.
|
||
|
||
Suffrage is universal on Jerusem among these three groups of citizenship, but
|
||
the vote is differentially cast in accordance with the recognized and duly
|
||
registered personal possession of mota--morontia wisdom. The vote cast at a
|
||
Jerusem election by any one personality has a value ranging from one up to one
|
||
thousand. Jerusem citizens are thus classified in accordance with their mota
|
||
achievement.
|
||
|
||
From time to time Jerusem citizens present themselves to the Melchizedek
|
||
examiners, who certify to their attainment of morontia wisdom. Then they go
|
||
before the examining corps of the Brilliant Evening Stars or their designates,
|
||
who ascertain the degree of spirit insight. Next they appear in the presence of
|
||
the four and twenty counselors and their associates, who pass upon their status
|
||
of experiential attainment of socialization. These three factors are then
|
||
carried to the citizenship registrars of representative government, who quickly
|
||
compute the mota status and assign suffrage qualifications in accordance
|
||
therewith.
|
||
|
||
Under the supervision of the Melchizedeks the ascending mortals, especially
|
||
those who are tardy in their personality unification on the new morontia
|
||
levels, are taken in hand by the Material Sons and are given intensive training
|
||
designed to rectify such deficiencies. No ascending mortal leaves the system
|
||
headquarters for the more extensive and varied socialization career of the
|
||
constellation until these Material Sons certify to the achievement of mota
|
||
personality--an individuality combining the completed mortal existence in
|
||
experiential association with the budding morontia career, both being duly
|
||
blended by the spiritual overcontrol of the Thought Adjuster.
|
||
|
||
[Presented by a Melchizedek of temporary assignment on Urantia.]
|
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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
|
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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|
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|
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