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Urantia Book Paper 33 Administration 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 33 Administration Of The Local Universe
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Introduction
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WHILE the Universal Father most certainly rules over his vast creation, he
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functions in a local universe administration through the person of the Creator
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Son. The Father does not otherwise personally function in the administrative
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affairs of a local universe. These matters are intrusted to the Creator Son and
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to the local universe Mother Spirit and to their manifold children. The plans,
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policies, and administrative acts of the local universe are formed and executed
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by this Son, who, in conjunction with his Spirit associate, delegates executive
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power to Gabriel and jurisdictional authority to the Constellation Fathers,
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System Sovereigns, and Planetary Princes.
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1. MICHAEL OF NEBADON
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Our Creator Son is the personification of the 611,121st original concept of
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infinite identity of simultaneous origin in the Universal Father and the
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Eternal Son. The Michael of Nebadon is the "only-begotten Son" personalizing
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this 611,121st universal concept of divinity and infinity. His headquarters is
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in the threefold mansion of light on Salvington. And this dwelling is so
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ordered because Michael has experienced the living of all three phases of
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intelligent creature existence: spiritual, morontial, and material. Because of
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the name associated with his seventh and final bestowal on Urantia, he is
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sometimes spoken of as Christ Michael.
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Our Creator Son is not the Eternal Son, the existential Paradise associate of
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the Universal Father and the Infinite Spirit. Michael of Nebadon is not a
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member of the Paradise Trinity. Nevertheless our Master Son possesses in his
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realm all of the divine attributes and powers that the Eternal Son himself
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would manifest were he actually to be present on Salvington and functioning in
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Nebadon. Michael possesses even additional power and authority, for he not only
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personifies the Eternal Son but also fully represents and actually embodies the
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personality presence of the Universal Father to and in this local universe. He
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even represents the Father-Son. These relationships constitute a Creator Son
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the most powerful, versatile, and influential of all divine beings who are
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capable of direct administration of evolutionary universes and of personality
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contact with immature creature beings.
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Our Creator Son exerts the same spiritual drawing power, spirit gravity, from
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the headquarters of the local universe that the Eternal Son of Paradise would
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exert if he were personally present on Salvington, and more; this Universe Son
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is also the personification of the Universal Father to the universe of Nebadon.
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Creator Sons are personality centers for the spiritual forces of the Para-
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dise Father-Son. Creator Sons are the final power-personality focalizations of
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the mighty time-space attributes of God the Sevenfold.
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The Creator Son is the vicegerent personalization of the Universal Father, the
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divinity co-ordinate of the Eternal Son, and the creative associate of the
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Infinite Spirit. To our universe and all its inhabited worlds the Sovereign Son
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is, to all practical intents and purposes, God. He personifies all of the
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Paradise Deities which evolving mortals can discerningly comprehend. This Son
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and his Spirit associate are your creator parents. To you, Michael, the Creator
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Son, is the supreme personality; to you, the Eternal Son is supersupreme--an
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infinite Deity personality.
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In the person of the Creator Son we have a ruler and divine parent who is just
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as mighty, efficient, and beneficent as would be the Universal Father and the
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Eternal Son if both were present on Salvington and engaged in the
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administration of the affairs of the universe of Nebadon.
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2. THE SOVEREIGN OF NEBADON
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Observation of Creator Sons discloses that some resemble more the Father, some
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the Son, while others are a blend of both their infinite parents. Our Creator
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Son very definitely manifests traits and attributes which more resemble the
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Eternal Son.
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Michael elected to organize this local universe, and herein he now reigns
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supreme. His personal power is limited by the pre-existent gravity circuits
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centering at Paradise and by the reservation on the part of the Ancients of
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Days of the superuniverse government of all final executive judgments regarding
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the extinction of personality. Personality is the sole bestowal of the Father,
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but the Creator Sons, with the approval of the Eternal Son, do initiate new
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creature designs, and with the working co-operation of their Spirit associates
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they may attempt new transformations of energy-matter.
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Michael is the personification of the Paradise Father-Son to and in the local
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universe of Nebadon; therefore, when the Creative Mother Spirit, the local
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universe representation of the Infinite Spirit, subordinated herself to Christ
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Michael upon the return from his final bestowal on Urantia, the Master Son
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thereby acquired jurisdiction over "all power in heaven and on earth."
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This subordination of the Divine Ministers to the Creator Sons of the local
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universes constitutes these Master Sons the personal repositories of the
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finitely manifestable divinity of the Father, Son, and Spirit, while the
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creature-bestowal experiences of the Michaels qualify them to portray the
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experiential divinity of the Supreme Being. No other beings in the universes
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have thus personally exhausted the potentials of present finite experience, and
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no other beings in the universes possess such qualifications for solitary
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sovereignty.
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Although Michael's headquarters is officially located on Salvington, the
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capital of Nebadon, he spends much of his time visiting the constellation and
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system headquarters and even the individual planets. Periodically he journeys
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to Paradise and often to Uversa, where he counsels with the Ancients of Days.
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When he is away from Salvington, his place is assumed by Gabriel, who then
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functions as regent of the universe of Nebadon.
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3. THE UNIVERSE SON AND SPIRIT
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While pervading all the universes of time and space, the Infinite Spirit
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functions from the headquarters of each local universe as a specialized
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focalization acquiring full personality qualities by the technique of creative
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co-operation with the Creator Son. As concerns a local universe, the
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administrative authority of a Creator Son is supreme; the Infinite Spirit, as
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the Divine Minister, is wholly co-operative though perfectly co-ordinate.
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The Universe Mother Spirit of Salvington, the associate of Michael in the
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control and administration of Nebadon, is of the sixth group of Supreme
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Spirits, being the 611,121st of that order. She volunteered to accompany
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Michael on the occasion of his liberation from Paradise obligations and has
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ever since functioned with him in creating and governing his universe.
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The Master Creator Son is the personal sovereign of his universe, but in all
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the details of its management the Universe Spirit is codirector with the Son.
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While the Spirit ever acknowledges the Son as sovereign and ruler, the Son
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always accords the Spirit a co-ordinate position and equality of authority in
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all the affairs of the realm. In all his work of love and life bestowal the
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Creator Son is always and ever perfectly sustained and ably assisted by the
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all-wise and ever-faithful Universe Spirit and by all of her diversified
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retinue of angelic personalities. Such a Divine Minister is in reality the
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mother of spirits and spirit personalities, the ever-present and all-wise
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adviser of the Creator Son, a faithful and true manifestation of the Paradise
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Infinite Spirit.
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The Son functions as a father in his local universe. The Spirit, as mortal
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creatures would understand, enacts the role of a mother, always assisting the
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Son and being everlastingly indispensable to the administration of the
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universe. In the face of insurrection only the Son and his associated Sons can
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function as deliverers. Never can the Spirit undertake to contest rebellion or
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defend authority, but ever does the Spirit sustain the Son in all of everything
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he may be required to experience in his efforts to stabilize government and
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uphold authority on worlds tainted with evil or dominated by sin. Only a Son
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can retrieve the work of their joint creation, but no Son could hope for final
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success without the incessant co-operation of the Divine Minister and her vast
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assemblage of spirit helpers, the daughters of God, who so faithfully and
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valiantly struggle for the welfare of mortal men and the glory of their divine
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parents.
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Upon the completion of the Creator Son's seventh and final creature bestowal,
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the uncertainties of periodic isolation terminate for the Divine Minister, and
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the Son's universe helper becomes forever settled in surety and control. It is
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at the enthronement of the Creator Son as a Master Son, at the jubilee of
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jubilees, that the Universe Spirit, before the assembled hosts, first makes
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public and universal acknowledgment of subordination to the Son, pledging
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fidelity and obedience. This event occurred in Nebadon at the time of Michael's
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return to Salvington after the Urantian bestowal. Never before this momentous
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occasion did the Universe Spirit acknowledge subordination to the Universe Son,
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and not until after this voluntary relinquishment of power and authority by the
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Spirit could it be truthfully proclaimed of the Son that "all power in heaven
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and on earth has been committed to his hand."
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After this pledge of subordination by the Creative Mother Spirit, Michael of
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Nebadon nobly acknowledged his eternal dependence on his Spirit companion,
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constituting the Spirit coruler of his universe domains and requiring all their
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creatures to pledge themselves in loyalty to the Spirit as they had to the Son;
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and there issued and went forth the final "Proclamation of Equality." Though he
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was the sovereign of this local universe, the Son published to the worlds the
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fact of the Spirit's equality with him in all endowments of personality and
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attributes of divine character. And this becomes the transcendent pattern for
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the family organization and government of even the lowly creatures of the
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worlds of space. This is, in deed and in truth, the high ideal of the family
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and the human institution of voluntary marriage.
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The Son and the Spirit now preside over the universe much as a father and
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mother watch over, and minister to, their family of sons and daughters. It is
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not altogether out of place to refer to the Universe Spirit as the creative
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companion of the Creator Son and to regard the creatures of the realms as their
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sons and daughters--a grand and glorious family but one of untold
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responsibilities and endless watchcare.
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The Son initiates the creation of certain of the universe children, while the
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Spirit is solely responsible for bringing into existence the numerous orders of
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spirit personalities who minister and serve under the direction and guidance of
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this selfsame Mother Spirit. In the creation of other types of universe
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personalities, both the Son and the Spirit function together, and in no
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creative act does the one do aught without the counsel and approval of the
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other.
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4. GABRIEL--THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
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The Bright and Morning Star is the personalization of the first concept of
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identity and ideal of personality conceived by the Creator Son and the local
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universe manifestation of the Infinite Spirit. Going back to the early days of
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the local universe, before the union of the Creator Son and the Mother Spirit
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in the bonds of creative association, back to the times before the beginning of
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the creation of their versatile family of sons and daughters, the first
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conjoint act of this early and free association of these two divine persons
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results in the creation of the highest spirit personality of the Son and the
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Spirit, the Bright and Morning Star.
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Only one such being of wisdom and majesty is brought forth in each local
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universe. The Universal Father and the Eternal Son can, in fact do, create an
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unlimited number of Sons in divinity equal to themselves; but such Sons, in
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union with the Daughters of the Infinite Spirit, can create only one Bright and
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Morning Star in each universe, a being like themselves and partaking freely of
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their combined natures but not of their creative prerogatives. Gabriel of
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Salvington is like the Universe Son in divinity of nature though considerably
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limited in the attributes of Deity.
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This first-born of the parents of a new universe is a unique personality
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possessing many wonderful traits not visibly present in either ancestor, a
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being of unprecedented versatility and unimagined brilliance. This supernal
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personality embraces the divine will of the Son combined with the creative
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imagination of the Spirit. The thoughts and acts of the Bright and Morning Star
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will ever be fully representative of both the Creator Son and the Creative
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Spirit. Such a
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being is also capable of a broad understanding of, and sympathetic contact
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with, both the spiritual seraphic hosts and the material evolutionary will
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creatures.
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The Bright and Morning Star is not a creator, but he is a marvelous
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administrator, being the personal administrative representative of the Creator
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Son. Aside from creation and life impartation the Son and the Spirit never
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confer upon important universe procedures without Gabriel's presence.
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Gabriel of Salvington is the chief executive of the universe of Nebadon and the
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arbiter of all executive appeals respecting its administration. This universe
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executive was created fully endowed for his work, but he has gained experience
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with the growth and evolution of our local creation.
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Gabriel is the chief officer of execution for superuniverse mandates relating
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to nonpersonal affairs in the local universe. Most matters pertaining to mass
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judgment and dispensational resurrections, adjudicated by the Ancients of Days,
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are also delegated to Gabriel and his staff for execution. Gabriel is thus the
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combined chief executive of both the super- and the local universe rulers. He
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has at his command an able corps of administrative assistants, created for
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their special work, who are unrevealed to evolutionary mortals. In addition to
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these assistants, Gabriel may employ any and all of the orders of celestial
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beings functioning in Nebadon, and he is also the commander in chief of "the
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armies of heaven"--the celestial hosts.
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Gabriel and his staff are not teachers; they are administrators. They were
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never known to depart from their regular work except when Michael was
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incarnated on a creature bestowal. During such bestowals Gabriel was ever
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attendant on the will of the incarnated Son, and with the collaboration of the
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Union of Days, he became the actual director of universe affairs during the
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later bestowals. Gabriel has been closely identified with the history and
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development of Urantia ever since the mortal bestowal of Michael.
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Aside from meeting Gabriel on the bestowal worlds and at the times of general-
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and special-resurrection roll calls, mortals will seldom encounter him as they
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ascend through the local universe until they are inducted into the
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administrative work of the local creation. As administrators, of whatever order
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or degree, you will come under the direction of Gabriel.
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5. THE TRINITY AMBASSADORS
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The administration of Trinity-origin personalities ends with the government of
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the superuniverses. The local universes are characterized by dual supervision,
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the beginning of the father-mother concept. The universe father is the Creator
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Son; the universe mother is the Divine Minister, the local universe Creative
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Spirit. Every local universe is, however, blessed with the presence of certain
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personalities from the central universe and Paradise. At the head of this
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Paradise group in Nebadon is the ambassador of the Paradise Trinity--Immanuel
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of Salvington--the Union of Days assigned to the local universe of Nebadon. In
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a certain sense this high Trinity Son is also the personal representative of
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the Universal Father to the court of the Creator Son; hence his name, Immanuel.
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Immanuel of Salvington, number 611,121 of the sixth order of Supreme Trinity
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Personalities, is a being of sublime dignity and of such superb condescension
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that he refuses the worship and adoration of all living creatures. He bears the
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distinction of being the only personality in all Nebadon who has never
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acknowledged subordination to his brother Michael. He functions as adviser to
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the Sovereign Son but gives counsel only on request. In the absence of the
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Creator Son he might preside over any high universe council but would not
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otherwise participate in the executive affairs of the universe except as
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requested.
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This ambassador of Paradise to Nebadon is not subject to the jurisdiction of
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the local universe government. Neither does he exercise authoritative
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jurisdiction in the executive affairs of an evolving local universe except in
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the supervision of his liaison brethren, the Faithfuls of Days, serving on the
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headquarters of the constellations.
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The Faithfuls of Days, like the Union of Days, never proffer advice or offer
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assistance to the constellation rulers unless it is asked for. These Paradise
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ambassadors to the constellations represent the final personal presence of the
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Stationary Sons of the Trinity functioning in advisory roles in the local
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universes. Constellations are more closely related to the superuniverse
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administration than local systems, which are administered exclusively by
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personalities native to the local universe.
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6. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
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Gabriel is the chief executive and actual administrator of Nebadon. Michael's
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absence from Salvington in no way interferes with the orderly conduct of
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universe affairs. During the absence of Michael, as recently on the mission of
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reunion of Orvonton Master Sons on Paradise, Gabriel is the regent of the
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universe. At such times Gabriel always seeks the counsel of Immanuel of
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Salvington regarding all major problems.
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The Father Melchizedek is Gabriel's first assistant. When the Bright and
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Morning Star is absent from Salvington, his responsibilities are assumed by
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this original Melchizedek Son.
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The various subadministrations of the universe have assigned to them certain
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special domains of responsibility. While, in general, a system government looks
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after the welfare of its planets, it is more particularly concerned with the
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physical status of living beings, with biologic problems. In turn, the
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constellation rulers pay especial attention to the social and governmental
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conditions prevailing on the different planets and systems. A constellation
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government is chiefly exercised over unification and stabilization. Still
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higher up, the universe rulers are more occupied with the spiritual status of
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the realms.
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Ambassadors are appointed by judicial decree and represent universes to other
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universes. Consuls are representatives of constellations to one another and to
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the universe headquarters; they are appointed by legislative decree and
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function only within the confines of the local universe. Observers are
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commissioned by executive decree of a System Sovereign to represent that system
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to other systems and at the constellation capital, and they, too, function only
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within the confines of the local universe.
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From Salvington, broadcasts are simultaneously directed to the constellation
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headquarters, the system headquarters, and to individual planets. All higher
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orders of celestial beings are able to utilize this service for communication
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with their fellows scattered throughout the universe. The universe broadcast is
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extended to all inhabited worlds regardless of their spiritual status.
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Planetary intercommunication is denied only those worlds under spiritual
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quarantine.
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Constellation broadcasts are periodically sent out from the headquarters of the
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constellation by the chief of the Constellation Fathers.
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Chronology is reckoned, computed, and rectified by a special group of beings on
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Salvington. The standard day of Nebadon is equal to eighteen days and six hours
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of Urantia time, plus two and one-half minutes. The Nebadon year consists of a
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segment of the time of universe swing in relation to the Uversa circuit and is
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equal to one hundred days of standard universe time, about five years of
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Urantia time.
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Nebadon time, broadcast from Salvington, is the standard for all constellations
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and systems in this local universe. Each constellation conducts its affairs by
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Nebadon time, but the systems maintain their own chronology, as do the
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individual planets.
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The day in Satania, as reckoned on Jerusem, is a little less (1 hour, 4
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minutes, 15 seconds) than three days of Urantia time. These times are generally
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known as Salvington or universe time, and Satania or system time. Standard time
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is universe time.
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7. THE COURTS OF NEBADON
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The Master Son, Michael, is supremely concerned with but three things:
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creation, sustenance, and ministry. He does not personally participate in the
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judicial work of the universe. Creators never sit in judgment on their
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creatures; that is the exclusive function of creatures of high training and
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actual creature experience.
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The entire judicial mechanism of Nebadon is under the supervision of Gabriel.
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The high courts, located on Salvington, are occupied with problems of general
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universe import and with the appellate cases coming up from the system
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tribunals. There are seventy branches of these universe courts, and they
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function in seven divisions of ten sections each. In all matters of
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adjudication there presides a dual magistracy consisting of one judge of
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perfection antecedents and one magistrate of ascendant experience.
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As regards jurisdiction, the local universe courts are limited in the following
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matters:
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1. The administration of the local universe is concerned with creation,
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evolution, maintenance, and ministry. The universe tribunals are, therefore,
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denied the right to pass upon those cases involving the question of eternal
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life and death. This has no reference to natural death as it obtains on
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Urantia, but if the question of the right of continued existence, life eternal,
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comes up for adjudication, it must be referred to the tribunals of Orvonton,
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and if decided adversely to the individual, all sentences of extinction are
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carried out upon the orders, and through the agencies, of the rulers of the
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supergovernment.
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2. The default or defection of any of the Local Universe Sons of God which
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jeopardizes their status and authority as Sons is never adjudicated in the
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tribunals of a Son; such a misunderstanding would be immediately carried to the
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superuniverse courts.
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3. The question of the readmission of any constituent part of a local
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universe--such as a local system--to the fellowship of full spiritual status in
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the
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local creation subsequent to spiritual isolation must be concurred in by the
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high assembly of the superuniverse.
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In all other matters the courts of Salvington are final and supreme. There is
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no appeal and no escape from their decisions and decrees.
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However unfairly human contentions may sometimes appear to be adjudicated on
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Urantia, in the universe justice and divine equity do prevail. You are living
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in a well-ordered universe, and sooner or later you may depend upon being dealt
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with justly, even mercifully.
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8. THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
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On Salvington, the headquarters of Nebadon, there are no true legislative
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bodies. The universe headquarters worlds are concerned largely with
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adjudication. The legislative assemblies of the local universe are located on
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the headquarters of the one hundred constellations. The systems are chiefly
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concerned with the executive and administrative work of the local creations.
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The System Sovereigns and their associates enforce the legislative mandates of
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the constellation rulers and execute the judicial decrees of the high courts of
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the universe.
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While true legislation is not enacted at the universe headquarters, there do
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function on Salvington a variety of advisory and research assemblies, variously
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constituted and conducted in accordance with their scope and purpose. Some are
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permanent; others disband upon the accomplishment of their objective.
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The supreme council of the local universe is made up of three members from each
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system and seven representatives from each constellation. Systems in isolation
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do not have representation in this assembly, but they are permitted to send
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observers who attend and study all its deliberations.
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The one hundred councils of supreme sanction are also situated on Salvington.
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The presidents of these councils constitute the immediate working cabinet of
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Gabriel.
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All findings of the high universe advisory councils are referred either to the
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Salvington judicial bodies or to the legislative assemblies of the
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constellations. These high councils are without authority or power to enforce
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their recommendations. If their advice is founded on the fundamental laws of
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||
the universe, then will the Nebadon courts issue rulings of execution; but if
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their recommendations have to do with local or emergency conditions, they must
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pass down to the legislative assemblies of the constellation for deliberative
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enactment and then to the system authorities for execution. These high councils
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||
are, in reality, the universe superlegislatures, but they function without the
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||
authority of enactment and without the power of execution.
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While we speak of universe administration in terms of "courts" and
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"assemblies," it should be understood that these spiritual transactions are
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very different from the more primitive and material activities of Urantia which
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bear corresponding names.
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[Presented by the Chief of the Archangels of Nebadon.]
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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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