Seraphic Planetary Government

114:2.1Since the times of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on your world the gen­eral man­age­ment of Uran­tia has been in­trusted to a spe­cial group on Je­ru­sem of twenty-four one­time Uran­tians. Qual­i­fi­ca­tion for mem­ber­ship on this com­mis­sion is un­known to us, but we have ob­served that those who have been thus com­mis­sioned have all been con­trib­u­tors to the en­larg­ing sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. By na­ture they were all real lead­ers when they func­tioned on Uran­tia, and (ex­cept­ing Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek) these qual­i­ties of lead­er­ship have been fur­ther aug­mented by man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence and sup­ple­mented by the train­ing of Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship. Mem­bers are nom­i­nated to the twenty-four by the cab­i­net of Lanaforge, sec­onded by the Most Highs of Eden­tia, ap­proved by the As­signed Sen­tinel of Je­ru­sem, and ap­pointed by Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton in ac­cor­dance with the man­date of Mi­chael. The tem­po­rary ap­pointees func­tion just as fully as do the per­ma­nent mem­bers of this com­mis­sion of spe­cial super­vi­sors.

114:2.2This board of plan­e­tary di­rec­tors is es­pe­cially con­cerned with the super­vi­sion of those ac­tiv­i­ties on this world which re­sult from the fact that Mi­chael here ex­pe­ri­enced his ter­mi­nal be­stowal. They are kept in close and im­me­di­ate touch with Mi­chael by the li­ai­son ac­tiv­i­ties of a cer­tain Bril­liant Evening Star, the iden­ti­cal be­ing who at­tended upon Je­sus through­out the mor­tal be­stowal.

114:2.3At the pres­ent time one John, known to you as “the Bap­tist,” is chair­man of this coun­cil when it is in ses­sion on Je­ru­sem. But the ex of­fi­cio head of this coun­cil is the As­signed Sen­tinel of Sa­ta­nia, the di­rect and per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the As­so­ciate In­spec­tor on Sal­ving­ton and of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive of Or­von­ton.

114:2.4The mem­bers of this same com­mis­sion of for­mer Uran­tians also act as ad­vi­sory super­vi­sors of the thirty-six other re­bel­lion-iso­lated worlds of the sys­tem; they per­form a very valu­able ser­vice in keep­ing Lanaforge, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, in close and sym­pa­thetic touch with the af­fairs of these plan­ets, which still re­main more or less un­der the over­con­trol of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Nor­la­ti­adek. These twenty-four coun­selors make fre­quent trips as in­di­vid­u­als to each of the quar­an­tined plan­ets, es­pe­cially to Uran­tia.

114:2.5Each of the other iso­lated worlds is ad­vised by sim­i­lar and vary­ing sized com­mis­sions of its one­time in­hab­i­tants, but these other com­mis­sions are sub­or­di­nate to the Uran­tian group of twenty-four. While the mem­bers of the lat­ter com­mis­sion are thus ac­tively in­ter­ested in ev­ery phase of hu­man prog­ress on each quar­an­tined world in Sa­ta­nia, they are es­pe­cially and par­tic­u­larly con­cerned with the wel­fare and ad­vance­ment of the mor­tal races of Uran­tia, for they im­me­di­ately and di­rectly super­vise the af­fairs of none of the plan­ets ex­cept Uran­tia, and even here their au­thor­ity is not com­plete ex­cept­ing in cer­tain do­mains con­cerned with mor­tal sur­vival.

114:2.6No one knows how long these twenty-four Uran­tia coun­selors will con­tinue in their pres­ent sta­tus, de­tached from the reg­u­lar pro­gram of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. They will no doubt con­tinue to serve in their pres­ent ca­pac­i­ties un­til some change in plan­e­tary sta­tus en­sues, such as the end of a dis­pen­sa­tion, the as­sump­tion of full au­thor­ity by Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, or the reap­pear­ance of Mi­chael on the world of his fi­nal be­stowal. The pres­ent res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral of Uran­tia seems in­clined to the opin­ion that all but Ma­chi­venta may be re­leased for Par­a­dise as­cen­sion the mo­ment the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia is re­stored to the con­stel­la­tion cir­cuits. But other opin­ions are also cur­rent.