The Local Universe Sons of God

35:6.1At least three Voron­dadeks are as­signed to the ruler­ship of each of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions of a lo­cal uni­verse. These Sons are se­lected by the Cre­ator Son and are com­mis­sioned by Ga­briel as the Most Highs of the con­stel­la­tions for ser­vice dur­ing one dekamil­len­nium—10,000 stan­dard years, about 50,000 years of Uran­tia time. The reign­ing Most High, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther, has two as­so­ciates, a se­nior and a ju­nior. At each change of ad­min­is­tra­tion the se­nior as­so­ciate be­comes the head of the gov­ern­ment, the ju­nior as­sumes the du­ties of the se­nior, while the un­as­signed Voron­dadeks res­i­dent on the Sal­ving­ton worlds nom­i­nate one of their num­ber as can­di­date for se­lec­tion to as­sume the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of ju­nior as­so­ciate. Thus each of the Most High rulers, in ac­cor­dance with pres­ent pol­icy, has a pe­riod of ser­vice on the head­quar­ters of a con­stel­la­tion of three dekamil­len­ni­ums, about 150,000 Uran­tia years.

35:6.2The one hun­dred Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the ac­tual pre­sid­ing heads of the con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ments, con­sti­tute the su­preme ad­vi­sory cab­i­net of the Cre­ator Son. This coun­cil is in fre­quent ses­sion at uni­verse head­quar­ters and is un­lim­ited in the scope and range of its de­lib­er­a­tions but is chiefly con­cerned with the wel­fare of the con­stel­la­tions and with the uni­fi­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse.

35:6.3When a Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther is in at­ten­dance upon du­ties at the uni­verse head­quar­ters, as he fre­quently is, the se­nior as­so­ciate be­comes act­ing di­rec­tor of con­stel­la­tion af­fairs. The nor­mal func­tion of the se­nior as­so­ciate is the over­sight of spir­i­tual af­fairs, while the ju­nior as­so­ciate is per­son­ally oc­cu­pied with the phys­i­cal wel­fare of the con­stel­la­tion. No ma­jor pol­icy, how­ever, is ever car­ried out in a con­stel­la­tion un­less all three of the Most Highs are agreed upon all the de­tails of its ex­e­cu­tion.

35:6.4The en­tire mech­a­nism of spirit in­tel­li­gence and com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels is at the dis­posal of the con­stel­la­tion Most Highs. They are in per­fect touch with their su­pe­ri­ors on Sal­ving­ton and with their di­rect sub­or­di­nates, the sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal sys­tems. They fre­quently con­vene in coun­cil with these Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns to de­lib­er­ate upon the state of the con­stel­la­tion.

35:6.5The Most Highs sur­round them­selves with a corps of coun­selors, which varies in num­ber and per­son­nel from time to time in ac­cor­dance with the pres­ence of the var­i­ous groups at con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and also as the lo­cal re­quire­ments vary. Dur­ing times of stress they may ask for, and will quickly re­ceive, ad­di­tional Sons of the Vo­ron­da­dek or­der to as­sist with the ad­min­is­tra­tive work. Nor­la­ti­adek, your own con­stel­la­tion, is at pres­ent ad­min­is­tered by twelve Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.