Seraphic Planetary Government

114:3.1Ev­ery one hun­dred years of Uran­tia time, the Je­ru­sem corps of twenty-four plan­e­tary super­vi­sors des­ig­nates one of their num­ber to so­journ on your world to act as their ex­ec­u­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tive, as res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral. Dur­ing the times of the prepa­ra­tion of these nar­ra­tives this ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer was changed, the nine­teenth so to serve be­ing suc­ceeded by the twen­ti­eth. The name of the cur­rent plan­e­tary super­vi­sor is with­held from you only be­cause mor­tal man is so prone to ven­er­ate, even to de­ify, his ex­traor­di­nary com­pa­tri­ots and super­hu­man su­pe­ri­ors.

114:3.2The res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral has no ac­tual per­sonal au­thor­ity in the man­age­ment of world af­fairs ex­cept as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the twenty-four Je­ru­sem coun­selors. He acts as the co-or­di­na­tor of super­hu­man ad­min­is­tra­tion and is the re­spected head and uni­ver­sally rec­og­nized leader of the ce­les­tial be­ings func­tion­ing on Uran­tia. All or­ders of an­gelic hosts re­gard him as their co-or­di­nat­ing di­rec­tor, while the United Mid­way­ers, since the de­par­ture of 1-2-3 the first to be­come one of the twenty-four coun­selors, re­ally look upon the suc­ces­sive gov­er­nors gen­eral as their plan­e­tary fa­thers.

114:3.3Al­though the gov­er­nor gen­eral does not pos­sess ac­tual and per­sonal au­thor­ity on the planet, he hands down scores of rul­ings and de­ci­sions each day which are ac­cepted as fi­nal by all per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned. He is much more of a fa­therly ad­viser than a tech­ni­cal ruler. In cer­tain ways he func­tions as would a Plan­e­tary Prince, but his ad­min­is­tra­tion much more closely re­sem­bles that of the Ma­te­rial Sons.

114:3.4The Uran­tia gov­ern­ment is rep­re­sented in the coun­cils of Je­ru­sem in ac­cor­dance with an ar­range­ment whereby the re­turn­ing gov­er­nor gen­eral sits as a tem­po­rary mem­ber of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign’s cab­i­net of Plan­e­tary Princes. It was ex­pected, when Ma­chi­venta was des­ig­nated vicegerent Prince, that he would im­me­di­ately as­sume his place in the coun­cil of the Plan­e­tary Princes of Sa­ta­nia, but thus far he has made no ges­ture in this di­rec­tion.

114:3.5The super­ma­te­rial gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia does not main­tain a very close or­ganic re­la­tion­ship with the higher units of the lo­cal uni­verse. In a way, the res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral rep­re­sents Sal­ving­ton as well as Je­ru­sem since he acts on be­half of the twenty-four coun­selors, who are di­rectly rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Mi­chael and Ga­briel. And be­ing a Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen, the plan­e­tary gov­er­nor can func­tion as a spokesman for the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign. The con­stel­la­tion au­thor­i­ties are rep­re­sented di­rectly by a Vo­ron­da­dek Son, the Eden­tia ob­server.