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Paper 15

The Seven Superuniverses

Universal Censor

11. The Deliberative Assembly

15:11.1It is on such worlds as Uversa that the be­ings rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the au­toc­racy of per­fec­tion and the democ­racy of evo­lu­tion meet face to face. The ex­ec­u­tive branch of the super­gov­ern­ment orig­i­nates in the realms of per­fec­tion; the leg­isla­tive branch springs from the flow­er­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses.

15:11.2The de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly of the super­uni­verse is con­fined to the head­quar­ters world. This leg­isla­tive or ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sists of seven houses, to each of which ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse ad­mit­ted to the super­uni­verse coun­cils elects a na­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tive. These rep­re­sen­ta­tives are cho­sen by the high coun­cils of such lo­cal uni­verses from among the as­cend­ing-pil­grim grad­u­ates of Or­von­ton who are tar­ry­ing on Uversa, ac­cred­ited for trans­port to Ha­vona. The av­er­age term of ser­vice is about one hun­dred years of super­uni­verse stan­dard time.

15:11.3Never have I known of a dis­agree­ment be­tween the Or­von­ton ex­ec­u­tives and the Uversa as­sem­bly. Never yet, in the his­tory of our super­uni­verse, has the de­lib­er­a­tive body ever passed a rec­om­men­da­tion that the ex­ec­u­tive di­vi­sion of the super­gov­ern­ment has even hes­i­tated to carry out. There al­ways has pre­vailed the most per­fect har­mony and work­ing agree­ment, all of which tes­ti­fies to the fact that evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings can re­ally at­tain the heights of per­fected wis­dom which qual­i­fies them to con­sort with the per­son­al­i­ties of per­fect ori­gin and di­vine na­ture. The pres­ence of the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­blies on the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters re­veals the wis­dom, and fore­shad­ows the ul­ti­mate tri­umph, of the whole vast evo­lu­tion­ary con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Eter­nal Son.