Seraphic Planetary Government

114:0.1The Most Highs rule in the king­doms of men through many ce­les­tial forces and agen­cies but chiefly through the min­istry of ser­a­phim.

114:0.2At noon to­day the roll call of plan­e­tary an­gels, guard­i­ans, and oth­ers on Uran­tia was 501,234,619 pairs of ser­a­phim. There were as­signed to my com­mand two hun­dred se­raphic hosts—597,196,800 pairs of ser­a­phim, or 1,194,393,600 in­di­vid­ual an­gels. The reg­istry, how­ever, shows 1,002,469,238 in­di­vid­u­als; it fol­lows there­fore that 191,924,362 an­gels were ab­sent from this world on trans­port, mes­sen­ger, and death duty. (On Uran­tia there are about the same num­ber of cheru­bim as ser­a­phim, and they are sim­i­larly or­ga­nized.)

114:0.3Ser­a­phim and their as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim have much to do with the de­tails of the super­hu­man gov­ern­ment of a planet, es­pe­cially of worlds which have been iso­lated by re­bel­lion. The an­gels, ably as­sisted by the mid­way­ers, func­tion on Uran­tia as the ac­tual super­ma­te­rial min­is­ters who ex­e­cute the man­dates of the res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral and all his as­so­ciates and sub­or­di­nates. Ser­a­phim as a class are oc­cu­pied with many as­sign­ments other than those of per­sonal and group guardian­ship.

114:0.4Uran­tia is not with­out proper and ef­fec­tive super­vi­sion from the sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and uni­verse rulers. But the plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment is un­like that of any other world in the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem, even in all Neb­a­don. This unique­ness in your plan of super­vi­sion is due to a num­ber of un­usual cir­cum­stances:

114:0.51. The life mod­i­fi­ca­tion sta­tus of Uran­tia.

114:0.62. The ex­i­gen­cies of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

114:0.73. The dis­rup­tions of the Adamic de­fault.

114:0.84. The ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties grow­ing out of the fact that Uran­tia was one of the be­stowal worlds of the Uni­verse Sov­er­eign. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is the Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia.

114:0.95. The spe­cial func­tion of the twenty-four plan­e­tary di­rec­tors.

114:0.106. The lo­ca­tion on the planet of an arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit.

114:0.117. The more re­cent des­ig­na­tion of the one­time in­car­nated Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek as vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince.