Administration of the Local Universe

33:4.1The Bright and Morn­ing Star is the per­son­al­iza­tion of the first con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of per­son­al­ity con­ceived by the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Go­ing back to the early days of the lo­cal uni­verse, be­fore the union of the Cre­ator Son and the Mother Spirit in the bonds of cre­ative as­so­ci­a­tion, back to the times be­fore the be­gin­ning of the cre­ation of their ver­sa­tile fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters, the first con­joint act of this early and free as­so­ci­a­tion of these two di­vine per­sons re­sults in the cre­ation of the high­est spirit per­son­al­ity of the Son and the Spirit, the Bright and Morn­ing Star.

33:4.2Only one such be­ing of wis­dom and majesty is brought forth in each lo­cal uni­verse. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son can, in fact do, cre­ate an un­lim­ited num­ber of Sons in di­vin­ity equal to them­selves; but such Sons, in union with the Daugh­ters of the In­fi­nite Spirit, can cre­ate only one Bright and Morn­ing Star in each uni­verse, a be­ing like them­selves and par­tak­ing freely of their com­bined na­tures but not of their cre­ative pre­rog­a­tives. Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is like the Uni­verse Son in di­vin­ity of na­ture though con­sid­er­ably lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of De­ity.

33:4.3This first-born of the par­ents of a new uni­verse is a unique per­son­al­ity pos­sess­ing many won­der­ful traits not vis­i­bly pres­ent in ei­ther an­ces­tor, a be­ing of un­prece­dented ver­sa­til­ity and unimag­ined bril­liance. This su­per­nal per­son­al­ity em­braces the di­vine will of the Son com­bined with the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion of the Spirit. The thoughts and acts of the Bright and Morn­ing Star will ever be fully rep­re­sen­ta­tive of both the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit. Such a be­ing is also ca­pa­ble of a broad un­der­stand­ing of, and sym­pa­thetic con­tact with, both the spir­i­tual se­raphic hosts and the ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures.

33:4.4The Bright and Morn­ing Star is not a cre­ator, but he is a mar­velous ad­min­is­tra­tor, be­ing the per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Cre­ator Son. Aside from cre­ation and life im­par­ta­tion the Son and the Spirit never con­fer upon im­por­tant uni­verse pro­ce­dures with­out Ga­briel’s pres­ence.

33:4.5Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and the ar­biter of all ex­ec­u­tive ap­peals re­spect­ing its ad­min­is­tra­tion. This uni­verse ex­ec­u­tive was cre­ated fully en­dowed for his work, but he has gained ex­pe­ri­ence with the growth and evo­lu­tion of our lo­cal cre­ation.

33:4.6Ga­briel is the chief of­fi­cer of ex­e­cu­tion for super­uni­verse man­dates re­lat­ing to non­per­sonal af­fairs in the lo­cal uni­verse. Most mat­ters per­tain­ing to mass judg­ment and dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions, ad­ju­di­cated by the An­cients of Days, are also del­e­gated to Ga­briel and his staff for ex­e­cu­tion. Ga­briel is thus the com­bined chief ex­ec­u­tive of both the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse rulers. He has at his com­mand an able corps of ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tants, cre­ated for their spe­cial work, who are un­re­vealed to evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals. In ad­di­tion to these as­sis­tants, Ga­briel may em­ploy any and all of the or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don, and he is also the com­man­der in chief of “the armies of heaven”—the ce­les­tial hosts.

33:4.7Ga­briel and his staff are not teach­ers; they are ad­min­is­tra­tors. They were never known to de­part from their reg­u­lar work ex­cept when Mi­chael was in­car­nated on a crea­ture be­stowal. Dur­ing such be­stowals Ga­briel was ever at­ten­dant on the will of the in­car­nated Son, and with the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Union of Days, he be­came the ac­tual di­rec­tor of uni­verse af­fairs dur­ing the later be­stowals. Ga­briel has been closely iden­ti­fied with the his­tory and de­vel­op­ment of Uran­tia ever since the mor­tal be­stowal of Mi­chael.

33:4.8Aside from meet­ing Ga­briel on the be­stowal worlds and at the times of gen­eral- and spe­cial-res­ur­rec­tion roll calls, mor­tals will sel­dom en­counter him as they as­cend through the lo­cal uni­verse un­til they are in­ducted into the ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the lo­cal cre­ation. As ad­min­is­tra­tors, of what­ever or­der or de­gree, you will come un­der the di­rec­tion of Ga­briel.