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Urantia Book Paper 35 The Local Universe Sons Of God
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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 35 The Local Universe Sons Of God
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Introduction
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THE Sons of God previously introduced have had a Paradise origin. They are the
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offspring of the divine Rulers of the universal domains. Of the first Paradise
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order of sonship, the Creator Sons, there is in Nebadon only one, Michael, the
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universe father and sovereign. Of the second order of Paradise sonship, the
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Avonal or Magisterial Sons, Nebadon has its full quota--1,062. And these
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"lesser Christs" are just as effective and all-powerful in their planetary
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bestowals as was the Creator and Master Son on Urantia. The third order, being
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of Trinity origin, do not register in a local universe, but I estimate there
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are in Nebadon between fifteen and twenty thousand Trinity Teacher Sons
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exclusive of 9,642 creature-trinitized assistants of record. These Paradise
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Daynals are neither magistrates nor administrators; they are superteachers.
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The types of Sons about to be considered are of local universe origin; they are
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the offspring of a Paradise Creator Son in varied association with the
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complemental Universe Mother Spirit. The following orders of local universe
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sonship find mention in these narratives:
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1. Melchizedek Sons.
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2. Vorondadek Sons.
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3. Lanonandek Sons.
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4. Life Carrier Sons.
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Triune Paradise Deity functions for the creation of three orders of sonship:
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the Michaels, the Avonals, and the Daynals. Dual Deity in the local universe,
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the Son and the Spirit, also functions in the creation of three high orders of
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Sons: the Melchizedeks, the Vorondadeks, and the Lanonandeks; and having
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achieved this threefold expression, they collaborate with the next level of God
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the Sevenfold in the production of the versatile order of Life Carriers. These
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beings are classified with the descending Sons of God, but they are a unique
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and original form of universe life. Their consideration will occupy the whole
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of the next paper.
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1. THE FATHER MELCHIZEDEK
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After bringing into existence the beings of personal aid, such as the Bright
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and Morning Star and other administrative personalities, in accordance with the
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divine purpose and creative plans of a given universe, there occurs a new form
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of creative union between the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit, the local
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universe Daughter of the Infinite Spirit. The personality offspring resulting
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from this creative partnership is the original Melchizedek--the Father
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Melchizedek--that unique being who subsequently collaborates with the Creator
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Son and the Creative Spirit to bring into existence the entire group of that
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name.
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In the universe of Nebadon the Father Melchizedek acts as the first executive
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associate of the Bright and Morning Star. Gabriel is occupied more with
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universe policies, Melchizedek with practical procedures. Gabriel presides over
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the regularly constituted tribunals and councils of Nebadon, Melchizedek over
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the special, extraordinary, and emergency commissions and advisory bodies.
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Gabriel and the Father Melchizedek are never away from Salvington at the same
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time, for in Gabriel's absence the Father Melchizedek functions as the chief
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executive of Nebadon.
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The Melchizedeks of our universe were all created within one millennial period
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of standard time by the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit in liaison with the
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Father Melchizedek. Being an order of sonship wherein one of their own number
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functioned as co-ordinate creator, Melchizedeks are in constitution partly of
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self-origin and therefore candidates for the realization of a supernal type of
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self-government. They periodically elect their own administrative chief for a
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term of seven years of standard time and otherwise function as a
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self-regulating order, though the original Melchizedek does exercise certain
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inherent coparental prerogatives. From time to time this Father Melchizedek
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designates certain individuals of his order to function as special Life
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Carriers to the midsonite worlds, a type of inhabited planet not heretofore
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revealed on Urantia.
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The Melchizedeks do not function extensively outside the local universe except
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when they are called as witnesses in matters pending before the tribunals of
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the superuniverse, and when designated special ambassadors, as they sometimes
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are, representing one universe to another in the same superuniverse. The
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original or first-born Melchizedek of each universe is always at liberty to
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journey to the neighboring universes or to Paradise on missions having to do
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with the interests and duties of his order.
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2. THE MELCHIZEDEK SONS
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The Melchizedeks are the first order of divine Sons to approach sufficiently
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near the lower creature life to be able to function directly in the ministry of
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mortal uplift, to serve the evolutionary races without the necessity of
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incarnation. These Sons are naturally at the mid-point of the great personality
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descent, by origin being just about midway between the highest Divinity and the
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lowest creature life of will endowment. They thus become the natural
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intermediaries between the higher and divine levels of living existence and the
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lower, even the material, forms of life on the evolutionary worlds. The
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seraphic orders, the angels, delight to work with the Melchizedeks; in fact,
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all forms of intelligent life find in these Sons understanding friends,
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sympathetic teachers, and wise counselors.
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The Melchizedeks are a self-governing order. With this unique group we
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encounter the first attempt at self-determination on the part of local universe
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beings and observe the highest type of true self-government. These Sons
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organize their own machinery for their group and home-planet administration, as
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well as that for the six associated spheres and their tributary worlds. And it
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should be recorded that they have never abused their prerogatives; not once
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throughout all the superuniverse of Orvonton have these Melchizedek Sons ever
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betrayed their trust. They are the hope of every universe group which aspires
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to self-government; they are the pattern and the teachers of self-government to
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all the spheres of Nebadon. All orders of intelligent beings, superiors from
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above and subordinates from below, are wholehearted in their praise of the
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government of the Melchizedeks.
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The Melchizedek order of sonship occupies the position, and assumes the
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responsibility, of the eldest son in a large family. Most of their work is
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regular and somewhat routine, but much of it is voluntary and altogether
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self-imposed. A majority of the special assemblies which, from time to time,
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convene on Salvington are called on motion of the Melchizedeks. On their own
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initiative these Sons patrol their native universe. They maintain an autonomous
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organization devoted to universe intelligence, making periodical reports to the
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Creator Son independent of all information coming up to universe headquarters
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through the regular agencies concerned with the routine administration of the
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realm. They are by nature unprejudiced observers; they have the full confidence
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of all classes of intelligent beings.
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The Melchizedeks function as mobile and advisory review courts of the realms;
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these universe Sons go in small groups to the worlds to serve as advisory
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commissions, to take depositions, to receive suggestions, and to act as
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counselors, thus helping to compose the major difficulties and settle the
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serious differences which arise from time to time in the affairs of the
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evolutionary domains.
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These eldest Sons of a universe are the chief aids of the Bright and Morning
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Star in carrying out the mandates of the Creator Son. When a Melchizedek goes
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to a remote world in the name of Gabriel, he may, for the purposes of that
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particular mission, be deputized in the name of the sender and in that event
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will appear on the planet of assignment with the full authority of the Bright
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and Morning Star. Especially is this true on those spheres where a higher Son
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has not yet appeared in the likeness of the creatures of the realm.
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When a Creator Son enters upon the bestowal career on an evolutionary world, he
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goes alone; but when one of his Paradise brothers, an Avonal Son, enters upon a
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bestowal, he is accompanied by the Melchizedek supporters, twelve in number,
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who so efficiently contribute to the success of the bestowal mission. They also
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support the Paradise Avonals on magisterial missions to the inhabited worlds,
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and in these assignments the Melchizedeks are visible to mortal eyes if the
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Avonal Son is also thus manifest.
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There is no phase of planetary spiritual need to which they do not minister.
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They are the teachers who so often win whole worlds of advanced life to the
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final and full recognition of the Creator Son and his Paradise Father.
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The Melchizedeks are well-nigh perfect in wisdom, but they are not infallible
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in judgment. When detached and alone on planetary missions, they have sometimes
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erred in minor matters, that is, they have elected to do certain things which
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their supervisors did not subsequently approve. Such an error of judgment
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temporarily disqualifies a Melchizedek until he goes to Salvington and, in
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audience with the Creator Son, receives that instruction which effectually
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purges him of the disharmony which caused disagreement with his fellows; and
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then, following the correctional rest, reinstatement to service ensues on the
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third day. But these minor misadaptations in Melchizedek function have rarely
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occurred in Nebadon.
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These Sons are not an increasing order; their number is stationary, although
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varying in each local universe. The number of Melchizedeks of record on their
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headquarters planet in Nebadon is upward of ten million.
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3. THE MELCHIZEDEK WORLDS
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The Melchizedeks occupy a world of their own near Salvington, the universe
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headquarters. This sphere, by name Melchizedek, is the pilot world of the
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Salvington circuit of seventy primary spheres, each of which is encircled by
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six tributary spheres devoted to specialized activities. These marvelous
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spheres--seventy primaries and 420 tributaries--are often spoken of as the
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Melchizedek University. Ascending mortals from all the constellations of
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Nebadon pass through training on all 490 worlds in the acquirement of
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residential status on Salvington. But the education of ascenders is only one
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phase of the manifold activities taking place on the Salvington cluster of
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architectural spheres.
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The 490 spheres of the Salvington circuit are divided into ten groups, each
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containing seven primary and forty-two tributary spheres. Each of these groups
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is under the general supervision of some one of the major orders of universe
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life. The first group, embracing the pilot world and the next six primary
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spheres in the encircling planetary procession, is under the supervision of the
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Melchizedeks. These Melchizedek worlds are:
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1. The pilot world--the home world of the Melchizedek Sons.
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2. The world of the physical-life schools and the laboratories of living
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energies.
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3. The world of morontia life.
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4. The sphere of initial spirit life.
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5. The world of mid-spirit life.
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6. The sphere of advancing spirit life.
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7. The domain of co-ordinate and supreme self-realization.
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The six tributary worlds of each of these Melchizedek spheres are devoted to
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activities germane to the work of the associated primary sphere.
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The pilot world, the sphere Melchizedek, is the common meeting ground for all
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beings who are engaged in educating and spiritualizing the ascending mortals of
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time and space. To an ascender this world is probably the most interesting
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place in all Nebadon. All evolutionary mortals who graduate from their
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constellation training are destined to land on Melchizedek, where they are
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initiated into the regime of the disciplines and spirit progression of the
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Salvington educational system. And never will you forget your reactions to the
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first day of life on this unique world, not even after you have reached your
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Paradise destination.
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Ascending mortals maintain residence on the Melchizedek world while pursuing
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their training on the six encircling planets of specialized education. And this
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same method is adhered to throughout their sojourn on the seventy cultural
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worlds, the primary spheres of the Salvington circuit.
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Many diverse activities occupy the time of the numerous beings who reside on
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the six tributary worlds of the Melchizedek sphere, but as concerns the as-
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cending mortals, these satellites are devoted to the following special phases
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of study:
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1. Sphere number one is occupied with the review of the initial planetary life
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of the ascending mortals. This work is carried on in classes composed of those
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who hail from a given world of mortal origin. Those from Urantia pursue such an
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experiential review together.
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2. The special work of sphere number two consists in a similar review of the
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experiences passed through on the mansion worlds encircling the premier
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satellite of the local system headquarters.
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3. The reviews of this sphere pertain to the sojourn on the capital of the
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local system and embrace the activities of the remainder of the architectural
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worlds of the system headquarters cluster.
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4. The fourth sphere is occupied with a review of the experiences of the
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seventy tributary worlds of the constellation and of their associated spheres.
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5. On the fifth sphere there is conducted the review of the ascendant sojourn
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on the constellation headquarters world.
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6. The time on sphere number six is devoted to an attempt to correlate these
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five epochs and thus achieve co-ordination of experience preparatory to
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entering the Melchizedek primary schools of universe training.
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The schools of universe administration and spiritual wisdom are located on the
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Melchizedek home world, where also are to be found those schools devoted to a
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single line of research, such as energy, matter, organization, communication,
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records, ethics, and comparative creature existence.
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In the Melchizedek College of Spiritual Endowment all orders--even the Paradise
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orders--of the Sons of God co-operate with the Melchizedek and the seraphic
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teachers in training the hosts who go forth as evangels of destiny, proclaiming
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spiritual liberty and divine sonship even to the remote worlds of the universe.
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This particular school of the Melchizedek University is an exclusive universe
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institution; student visitors are not received from other realms.
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The highest course of training in universe administration is given by the
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Melchizedeks on their home world. This College of High Ethics is presided over
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by the original Father Melchizedek. It is to these schools that the various
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universes send exchange students. While the young universe of Nebadon stands
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low in the scale of universes as regards spiritual achievement and high ethical
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development, nevertheless, our administrative troubles have so turned the whole
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universe into a vast clinic for other near-by creations that the Melchizedek
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colleges are thronged with student visitors and observers from other realms.
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Besides the immense group of local registrants there are always upward of one
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hundred thousand foreign students in attendance upon the Melchizedek schools,
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for the order of Melchizedeks in Nebadon is renowned throughout all Splandon.
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4. SPECIAL WORK OF THE MELCHIZEDEKS
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A highly specialized branch of Melchizedek activities has to do with the
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supervision of the progressive morontia career of the ascending mortals. Much
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of this training is conducted by the patient and wise seraphic ministers,
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assisted by mortals who have ascended to relatively higher levels of universe
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attainment,
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but all of this educational work is under the general supervision of the
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Melchizedeks in association with the Trinity Teacher Sons.
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While the Melchizedek orders are chiefly devoted to the vast educational system
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and experiential training regime of the local universe, they also function in
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unique assignments and in unusual circumstances. In an evolving universe
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eventually embracing approximately ten million inhabited worlds, many things
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out of the ordinary are destined to happen, and it is in such emergencies that
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the Melchizedeks act. On Edentia, your constellation headquarters, they are
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known as emergency Sons. They are always ready to serve in all
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exigencies--physical, intellectual, or spiritual--whether on a planet, in a
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system, in a constellation, or in the universe. Whenever and wherever special
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help is needed, there you will find one or more of the Melchizedek Sons.
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When failure of some feature of the Creator Son's plan is threatened, forthwith
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will go a Melchizedek to render assistance. But not often are they summoned to
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function in the presence of sinful rebellion, such as occurred in Satania.
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The Melchizedeks are the first to act in all emergencies of whatever nature on
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all worlds where will creatures dwell. They sometimes act as temporary
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custodians on wayward planets, serving as receivers of a defaulting planetary
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government. In a planetary crisis these Melchizedek Sons serve in many unique
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capacities. It is easily possible for such a Son to make himself visible to
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mortal beings, and sometimes one of this order has even incarnated in the
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likeness of mortal flesh. Seven times in Nebadon has a Melchizedek served on an
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evolutionary world in the similitude of mortal flesh, and on numerous occasions
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these Sons have appeared in the likeness of other orders of universe creatures.
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They are indeed the versatile and volunteer emergency ministers to all orders
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of universe intelligences and to all the worlds and systems of worlds.
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The Melchizedek who lived on Urantia during the time of Abraham was locally
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known as Prince of Salem because he presided over a small colony of truth
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seekers residing at a place called Salem. He volunteered to incarnate in the
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likeness of mortal flesh and did so with the approval of the Melchizedek
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receivers of the planet who feared that the light of life would become
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extinguished during that period of increasing spiritual darkness. And he did
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foster the truth of his day and safely pass it on to Abraham and his
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associates.
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5. THE VORONDADEK SONS
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After the creation of the personal aids and the first group of the versatile
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Melchizedeks, the Creator Son and the local universe Creative Spirit planned
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for, and brought into existence, the second great and diverse order of universe
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sonship, the Vorondadeks. They are more generally known as Constellation
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Fathers because a Son of this order is uniformly found at the head of each
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constellation government in every local universe.
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The number of Vorondadeks varies in each local universe, just one million being
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the recorded number in Nebadon. These Sons, like their co-ordinates, the
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Melchizedeks, possess no power of reproduction. There exists no known method
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whereby they can increase their numbers.
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In many respects these Sons are a self-governing body; as individuals and as
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groups, even as a whole, they are largely self-determinative, much as are the
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Melchizedeks, but Vorondadeks do not function through such a wide range of
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activities. They do not equal their Melchizedek brethren in brilliant
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versatility, but they are even more reliable and efficient as rulers and
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farseeing administrators. Neither are they quite the administrative peers of
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their subordinates, the Lanonandek System Sovereigns, but they excel all orders
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of universe sonship in stability of purpose and in divinity of judgment.
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Although the decisions and rulings of this order of Sons are always in
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accordance with the spirit of divine sonship and in harmony with the policies
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of the Creator Son, they have been cited for error to the Creator Son, and in
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details of technique their decisions have sometimes been reversed on appeal to
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the superior tribunals of the universe. But these Sons rarely fall into error,
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and they have never gone into rebellion; never in all the history of Nebadon
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has a Vorondadek been found in contempt of the universe government.
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The service of the Vorondadeks in the local universes is extensive and varied.
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They serve as ambassadors to other universes and as consuls representing
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constellations within their native universe. Of all orders of local universe
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sonship they are the most often intrusted with the full delegation of sovereign
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powers to be exercised in critical universe situations.
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On those worlds segregated in spiritual darkness, those spheres which have,
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through rebellion and default, suffered planetary isolation, an observer
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Vorondadek is usually present pending the restoration of normal status. In
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certain emergencies this Most High observer could exercise absolute and
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arbitrary authority over every celestial being assigned to that planet. It is
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of record on Salvington that the Vorondadeks have sometimes exercised such
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authority as Most High regents of such planets. And this has also been true
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even of inhabited worlds that were untouched by rebellion.
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Often a corps of twelve or more Vorondadek Sons sits en banc as a high court of
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review and appeal concerning special cases involving the status of a planet or
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a system. But their work more largely pertains to the legislative functions
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indigenous to the constellation governments. As a result of all these services,
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the Vorondadek Sons have become the historians of the local universes; they are
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personally familiar with all the political struggles and the social upheavals
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of the inhabited worlds.
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6. THE CONSTELLATION FATHERS
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At least three Vorondadeks are assigned to the rulership of each of the one
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hundred constellations of a local universe. These Sons are selected by the
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Creator Son and are commissioned by Gabriel as the Most Highs of the
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constellations for service during one dekamillennium--10,000 standard years,
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about 50,000 years of Urantia time. The reigning Most High, the Constellation
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Father, has two associates, a senior and a junior. At each change of
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administration the senior associate becomes the head of the government, the
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junior assumes the duties of the senior, while the unassigned Vorondadeks
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resident on the Salvington worlds nominate one of their number as candidate for
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selection to assume the responsibilities of junior associate. Thus each of the
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Most High rulers, in accordance with present policy, has a period of service on
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the headquarters of a constellation of three dekamillenniums, about 150,000
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Urantia years.
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The one hundred Constellation Fathers, the actual presiding heads of the
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constellation governments, constitute the supreme advisory cabinet of the Crea-
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tor Son. This council is in frequent session at universe headquarters and is
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unlimited in the scope and range of its deliberations but is chiefly concerned
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with the welfare of the constellations and with the unification of the
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administration of the entire local universe.
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When a Constellation Father is in attendance upon duties at the universe
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headquarters as he frequently is, the senior associate becomes acting director
|
||
of constellation affairs. The normal function of the senior associate is the
|
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oversight of spiritual affairs, while the junior associate is personally
|
||
occupied with the physical welfare of the constellation. No major policy,
|
||
however, is ever carried out in a constellation unless all three of the Most
|
||
Highs are agreed upon all the details of its execution.
|
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|
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The entire mechanism of spirit intelligence and communication channels is at
|
||
the disposal of the constellation Most Highs. They are in perfect touch with
|
||
their superiors on Salvington and with their direct subordinates, the
|
||
sovereigns of the local systems. They frequently convene in council with these
|
||
System Sovereigns to deliberate upon the state of the constellation.
|
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The Most Highs surround themselves with a corps of counselors, which varies in
|
||
number and personnel from time to time in accordance with the presence of the
|
||
various groups at constellation headquarters and also as the local requirements
|
||
vary. During times of stress they may ask for, and will quickly receive,
|
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additional Sons of the Vorondadek order to assist with the administrative work.
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Norlatiadek, your own constellation, is at present administered by twelve
|
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Vorondadek Sons.
|
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7. THE VORONDADEK WORLDS
|
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The second group of seven worlds in the circuit of seventy primary spheres
|
||
surrounding Salvington comprise the Vorondadek planets. Each of these spheres,
|
||
with its six encircling satellites, is devoted to a special phase of Vorondadek
|
||
activities. On these forty-nine realms the ascending mortals secure the acme of
|
||
their education respecting universe legislation.
|
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|
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The ascending mortals have observed the legislative assemblies as they
|
||
functioned on the headquarters worlds of the constellations, but here on these
|
||
Vorondadek worlds they participate in the enactment of the actual general
|
||
legislation of the local universe under the tutelage of the senior Vorondadeks.
|
||
Such enactments are designed to co-ordinate the varied pronouncements of the
|
||
autonomous legislative assemblies of the one hundred constellations. The
|
||
instruction to be had in the Vorondadek schools is unexcelled even on Uversa.
|
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This training is progressive, extending from the first sphere, with
|
||
supplemental work on its six satellites, on up through the remaining six
|
||
primary spheres and their associated satellite groups.
|
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|
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The ascending pilgrims will be introduced to numerous new activities on these
|
||
worlds of study and practical work. We are not forbidden to undertake the
|
||
revelation of these new and undreamed-of pursuits, but we despair of being able
|
||
to portray these undertakings to the material mind of mortal beings. We are
|
||
without words to convey the meanings of these supernal activities, and there
|
||
are no analogous human engagements which might be utilized as illustrations of
|
||
these new occupations of the ascending mortals as they pursue their studies on
|
||
these forty-nine worlds. And many other activities, not a part of the ascendant
|
||
regime, are centered on these Vorondadek worlds of the Salvington circuit.
|
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8. THE LANONANDEK SONS
|
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|
||
After the creation of the Vorondadeks, the Creator Son and the Universe Mother
|
||
Spirit unite for the purpose of bringing into existence the third order of
|
||
universe sonship, the Lanonandeks. Although occupied with varied tasks
|
||
connected with the system administrations, they are best known as System
|
||
Sovereigns, the rulers of the local systems, and as Planetary Princes, the
|
||
administrative heads of the inhabited worlds.
|
||
|
||
Being a later and lower--as concerns divinity levels--order of sonship
|
||
creation, these beings were required to pass through certain courses of
|
||
training on the Melchizedek worlds in preparation for subsequent service. They
|
||
were the first students in the Melchizedek University and were classified and
|
||
certified by their Melchizedek teachers and examiners according to ability,
|
||
personality, and attainment.
|
||
|
||
The universe of Nebadon began its existence with exactly twelve million
|
||
Lanonandeks, and when they had passed through the Melchizedek sphere, they were
|
||
divided in the final tests into three classes:
|
||
|
||
1. Primary Lanonandeks. Of the highest rank there were 709,841. These are the
|
||
Sons designated as System Sovereigns and assistants to the supreme councils of
|
||
the constellations and as counselors in the higher administrative work of the
|
||
universe.
|
||
|
||
2. Secondary Lanonandeks. Of this order emerging from Melchizedek there were
|
||
10,234,601. They are assigned as Planetary Princes and to the reserves of that
|
||
order.
|
||
|
||
3. Tertiary Lanonandeks. This group contained 1,055,558. These Sons function as
|
||
subordinate assistants, messengers, custodians, commissioners, observers, and
|
||
prosecute the miscellaneous duties of a system and its component worlds.
|
||
|
||
It is not possible, as it is with evolutionary beings, for these Sons to
|
||
progress from one group to another. When subjected to the Melchizedek training,
|
||
when once tested and classified, they serve continuously in the rank assigned.
|
||
Neither do these Sons engage in reproduction; their number in the universe is
|
||
stationary.
|
||
|
||
In round numbers the Lanonandek order of Sons is classified on Salvington as
|
||
follows:
|
||
|
||
Universe Co-ordinators and Constellation Counselors .....100,000
|
||
|
||
System Sovereigns and Assistants ........................600,000
|
||
|
||
Planetary Princes and Reserves .......................10,000,000
|
||
|
||
Messenger Corps .........................................400,000
|
||
|
||
Custodians and Recorders ................................100,000
|
||
|
||
Reserve Corps ...........................................800,000
|
||
|
||
Since Lanonandeks are a somewhat lower order of sonship than the Melchizedeks
|
||
and the Vorondadeks, they are of even greater service in the subordinate units
|
||
of the universe, for they are capable of drawing nearer the lower creatures of
|
||
the intelligent races. They also stand in greater danger of going astray, of
|
||
departing from the acceptable technique of universe government. But these
|
||
Lanonandeks, especially the primary order, are the most able and versatile of
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
all local universe administrators. In executive ability they are excelled only
|
||
by Gabriel and his unrevealed associates.
|
||
|
||
9. THE LANONANDEK RULERS
|
||
|
||
The Lanonandeks are the continuous rulers of the planets and the rotating
|
||
sovereigns of the systems. Such a Son now rules on Jerusem, the headquarters of
|
||
your local system of inhabited worlds.
|
||
|
||
The System Sovereigns rule in commissions of two or three on the headquarters
|
||
of each system of inhabited worlds. The Constellation Father names one of these
|
||
Lanonandeks as chief every dekamillennium. Sometimes no change in the head of
|
||
the trio is made, the matter being entirely optional with the constellation
|
||
rulers. System governments do not suddenly change in personnel unless a tragedy
|
||
of some sort occurs.
|
||
|
||
When System Sovereigns or assistants are recalled, their places are filled by
|
||
selections made by the supreme council located on the constellation
|
||
headquarters from the reserves of that order, a group which is larger on
|
||
Edentia than the average indicated.
|
||
|
||
The supreme Lanonandek councils are stationed on the various constellation
|
||
headquarters. Such a body is presided over by the senior Most High associate of
|
||
the Constellation Father, while the junior associate supervises the reserves of
|
||
the secondary order.
|
||
|
||
The System Sovereigns are true to their names; they are well-nigh sovereign in
|
||
the local affairs of the inhabited worlds. They are almost paternal in their
|
||
direction of the Planetary Princes, the Material Sons, and the ministering
|
||
spirits. The personal grasp of the sovereign is all but complete. These rulers
|
||
are not supervised by Trinity observers from the central universe. They are the
|
||
executive division of the local universe, and as custodians of the enforcement
|
||
of legislative mandates and as executives for the application of judicial
|
||
verdicts, they present the one place in all universe administration where
|
||
personal disloyalty to the will of the Michael Son could most easily and
|
||
readily intrench itself and seek to assert itself.
|
||
|
||
Our local universe has been unfortunate in that over seven hundred Sons of the
|
||
Lanonandek order have rebelled against the universe government, thus
|
||
precipitating confusion in several systems and on numerous planets. Of this
|
||
entire number of failures only three were System Sovereigns; practically all of
|
||
these Sons belonged to the second and third orders, Planetary Princes and
|
||
tertiary Lanonandeks.
|
||
|
||
The large number of these Sons who have lapsed from integrity does not indicate
|
||
any fault in creatorship. They could have been made divinely perfect, but they
|
||
were so created that they might better understand, and draw near to, the
|
||
evolutionary creatures dwelling on the worlds of time and space.
|
||
|
||
Of all the local universes in Orvonton, our universe has, with the exception of
|
||
Henselon, lost the largest number of this order of Sons. On Uversa it is the
|
||
consensus that we have had so much administrative trouble in Nebadon because
|
||
our Sons of the Lanonandek order have been created with such a large degree of
|
||
personal liberty in choosing and planning. I do not make this observation by
|
||
way of criticism. The Creator of our universe has full authority and power to
|
||
do this. It is the contention of our high rulers that, while such free-choosing
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Sons make excessive trouble in the earlier ages of the universe, when things
|
||
are fully sifted and finally settled, the gains of higher loyalty and fuller
|
||
volitional service on the part of these thoroughly tested Sons will far more
|
||
than compensate for the confusion and tribulations of earlier times.
|
||
|
||
In the event of rebellion on a system headquarters, a new sovereign is usually
|
||
installed within a comparatively short time, but not so on the individual
|
||
planets. They are the component units of the material creation, and creature
|
||
free will is a factor in the final adjudication of all such problems. Successor
|
||
Planetary Princes are designated for isolated worlds, planets whose princes of
|
||
authority may have gone astray, but they do not assume active rulership of such
|
||
worlds until the results of insurrection are partially overcome and removed by
|
||
the remedial measures adopted by the Melchizedeks and other ministering
|
||
personalities. Rebellion by a Planetary Prince instantly isolates his planet;
|
||
the local spiritual circuits are immediately severed. Only a bestowal Son can
|
||
re-establish interplanetary lines of communication on such a spiritually
|
||
isolated world.
|
||
|
||
There exists a plan for saving these wayward and unwise Sons, and many have
|
||
availed themselves of this merciful provision; but never again may they
|
||
function in those positions wherein they defaulted. After rehabilitation they
|
||
are assigned to custodial duties and to departments of physical administration.
|
||
|
||
10. THE LANONANDEK WORLDS
|
||
|
||
The third group of seven worlds in the Salvington circuit of seventy planets,
|
||
with their respective forty-two satellites, constitute the Lanonandek cluster
|
||
of administrative spheres. On these realms the experienced Lanonandeks
|
||
belonging to the ex-System Sovereign corps officiate as administrative teachers
|
||
of the ascending pilgrims and the seraphic hosts. The evolutionary mortals
|
||
observe the system administrators at work on the system capitals, but here they
|
||
participate in the actual co-ordination of the administrative pronouncements of
|
||
the ten thousand local systems.
|
||
|
||
These administrative schools of the local universe are supervised by a corps of
|
||
Lanonandek Sons who have had long experience as System Sovereigns and as
|
||
constellation counselors. These executive colleges are excelled only by the
|
||
administrative schools of Ensa.
|
||
|
||
While serving as training spheres for ascending mortals, the Lanonandek worlds
|
||
are the centers for extensive undertakings having to do with the normal and
|
||
routine administrative operations of the universe. All the way in to Paradise
|
||
the ascending pilgrims pursue their studies in the practical schools of applied
|
||
knowledge--actual training in really doing the things they are being taught.
|
||
The universe educational system sponsored by the Melchizedeks is practical,
|
||
progressive, meaningful, and experiential. It embraces training in things
|
||
material, intellectual, morontial, and spiritual.
|
||
|
||
It is in connection with these administrative spheres of the Lanonandeks that
|
||
most of the salvaged Sons of that order serve as custodians and directors of
|
||
planetary affairs. And these defaulting Planetary Princes and their associates
|
||
in rebellion who choose to accept the proffered rehabilitation will continue to
|
||
serve in these routine capacities, at least until the universe of Nebadon is
|
||
settled in light and life.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Many of the Lanonandek Sons in the older systems, however, have established
|
||
wonderful records of service, administration, and spiritual achievement. They
|
||
are a noble, faithful, and loyal group, notwithstanding their tendency to fall
|
||
into error through fallacies of personal liberty and fictions of
|
||
self-determination.
|
||
|
||
[Sponsored by the Chief of Archangels acting by authority of Gabriel of
|
||
Salvington.]
|
||
|
||
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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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