Seraphic Planetary Government

114:1.1The orig­i­nal sov­er­eignty of Uran­tia was held in trust by the sov­er­eign of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. It was first del­e­gated by him to a joint com­mis­sion of Mel­chiz­e­deks and Life Car­ri­ers, and this group func­tioned on Uran­tia un­til the ar­rival of a reg­u­larly con­sti­tuted Plan­e­tary Prince. Sub­se­quent to the down­fall of Prince Cali­gas­tia, at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, Uran­tia had no sure and set­tled re­la­tion­ship with the lo­cal uni­verse and its ad­min­is­tra­tive di­vi­sions un­til the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal in the flesh, when he was pro­claimed, by the Union of Days, Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. Such a procla­ma­tion in surety and in prin­ci­ple for­ever set­tled the sta­tus of your world, but in prac­tice the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son made no ges­ture of per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of the planet aside from the es­tab­lish­ment of the Je­ru­sem com­mis­sion of twenty-four for­mer Uran­tians with au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent him in the gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia and all other quar­an­tined plan­ets in the sys­tem. One of this coun­cil is now al­ways res­i­dent on Uran­tia as res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral.

114:1.2Vicegerent au­thor­ity to act for Mi­chael as Plan­e­tary Prince has been re­cently vested in Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, but this Son of the lo­cal uni­verse has made not the slight­est move to­ward mod­i­fy­ing the pres­ent plan­e­tary regime of the suc­ces­sive ad­min­is­tra­tions of the res­i­dent gov­er­nors gen­eral.

114:1.3There is lit­tle like­li­hood that any marked change will be made in the gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia dur­ing the pres­ent dis­pen­sa­tion un­less the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince should ar­rive to as­sume his tit­u­lar re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. It ap­pears to cer­tain of our as­so­ciates that at some time in the near fu­ture the plan of send­ing one of the twenty-four coun­selors to Uran­tia to act as gov­er­nor gen­eral will be su­per­seded by the for­mal ar­rival of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek with the vicegerent man­date of the sov­er­eignty of Uran­tia. As act­ing Plan­e­tary Prince he would un­doubt­edly con­tinue in charge of the planet un­til the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and prob­a­bly on into the dis­tant fu­ture of plan­e­tary set­tle­ment in light and life.

114:1.4Some be­lieve that Ma­chi­venta will not come to take per­sonal di­rec­tion of Uran­tian af­fairs un­til the end of the cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion. Oth­ers hold that the vicegerent Prince may not come, as such, un­til Mi­chael some­time re­turns to Uran­tia as he prom­ised when still in the flesh. Still oth­ers, in­clud­ing this nar­ra­tor, look for Mel­chiz­e­dek’s ap­pear­ance any day or hour.