Personalities of the Local Universe

37:2.1These bril­liant crea­tures were planned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks and were then brought into be­ing by the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit. They serve in many ca­pac­i­ties but chiefly as li­ai­son of­fi­cers of Ga­briel, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. One or more of these be­ings func­tion as his rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the cap­i­tal of ev­ery con­stel­la­tion and sys­tem in Neb­a­don.

37:2.2As chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel is ex of­fi­cio chair­man of, or ob­server at, most of the Sal­ving­ton con­claves, and as many as one thou­sand of these are of­ten in ses­sion si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Bril­liant Evening Stars rep­re­sent Ga­briel on these oc­ca­sions; he can­not be in two places at the same time, and these super­an­gels com­pen­sate for this lim­i­ta­tion. They per­form an anal­o­gous ser­vice for the corps of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

37:2.3Though per­son­ally oc­cu­pied with ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties, Ga­briel main­tains con­tact with all other phases of uni­verse life and af­fairs through the Bril­liant Evening Stars. They al­ways ac­com­pany him on his plan­e­tary tours and fre­quently go on spe­cial mis­sions to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets as his per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives. On such as­sign­ments they have some­times been known as “the an­gel of the Lord.” They fre­quently go to Uversa to rep­re­sent the Bright and Morn­ing Star be­fore the courts and as­sem­blies of the An­cients of Days, but they sel­dom jour­ney be­yond the con­fines of Or­von­ton.

37:2.4The Bril­liant Evening Stars are a unique two­fold or­der, em­brac­ing some of cre­ated dig­nity and oth­ers of at­tained ser­vice. The Neb­a­don corps of these super­an­gels now num­bers 13,641. There are 4,832 of cre­ated dig­nity, while 8,809 are as­cen­dant spir­its who have at­tained this goal of ex­alted ser­vice. Many of these as­cen­dant Evening Stars started their uni­verse ca­reers as ser­a­phim; oth­ers have as­cended from un­re­vealed lev­els of crea­ture life. As an at­tain­ment goal this high corps is never closed to as­cen­sion can­di­dates so long as a uni­verse is not set­tled in light and life.

37:2.5Both types of Bril­liant Evening Stars are eas­ily vis­i­ble to mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties and cer­tain types of super­mor­tal ma­te­rial be­ings. The cre­ated be­ings of this in­ter­est­ing and ver­sa­tile or­der pos­sess a spirit force which can be man­i­fested in­de­pen­dently of their per­sonal pres­ence.

37:2.6The head of these super­an­gels is Gavalia, the first-born of this or­der in Neb­a­don. Since the re­turn of Christ Mi­chael from his tri­umphant be­stowal on Uran­tia, Gavalia has been as­signed to the as­cen­dant mor­tal min­istry, and for the last nine­teen hun­dred Uran­tia years his as­so­ciate, Galan­tia, has main­tained head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem, where he spends about half of his time. Galan­tia is the first of the as­cen­dant super­an­gels to at­tain this high es­tate.

37:2.7No group­ing or com­pany or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Bril­liant Evening Stars ex­ists other than their cus­tom­ary as­so­ci­a­tion in pairs on many as­sign­ments. They are not ex­ten­sively as­signed on mis­sions per­tain­ing to the as­cen­dant ca­reer of mor­tals, but when thus com­mis­sioned, they never func­tion alone. They al­ways work in pairs—one a cre­ated be­ing, the other an as­cen­dant Evening Star.

37:2.8One of the high du­ties of the Evening Stars is to ac­com­pany the Avo­nal be­stowal Sons on their plan­e­tary mis­sions, even as Ga­briel ac­com­pa­nied Mi­chael on his Uran­tia be­stowal. The two at­tend­ing super­an­gels are the rank­ing per­son­al­i­ties of such mis­sions, serv­ing as co­com­man­ders of the arch­an­gels and all oth­ers as­signed to these un­der­tak­ings. It is the se­nior of these super­an­gel com­man­ders who, at the sig­nif­i­cant time and age, bids the Avo­nal be­stowal Son, “Be about your brother’s busi­ness.”

37:2.9Sim­i­lar pairs of these super­an­gels are as­signed to the plan­e­tary corps of Trin­ity Teacher Sons that func­tions to es­tab­lish the postbestowal or dawn­ing spir­i­tual age of an in­hab­ited world. On such as­sign­ments the Evening Stars serve as li­aisons be­tween the mor­tals of the realm and the in­vis­i­ble corps of Teacher Sons.

37:2.10The Worlds of the Evening Stars. The sixth group of seven Sal­ving­ton worlds and their forty-two trib­u­tary satel­lites are as­signed to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Bril­liant Evening Stars. The seven pri­mary worlds are pre­sided over by the cre­ated or­ders of these super­an­gels, while the trib­u­tary satel­lites are ad­min­is­tered by as­cen­dant Evening Stars.

37:2.11The satel­lites of the first three worlds are de­voted to the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Evening Stars ded­i­cated to the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse. The next three groups are oc­cu­pied by sim­i­lar joint schools de­voted to the train­ing of as­cend­ing mor­tals. The sev­enth-world satel­lites are re­served for the tri­une de­lib­er­a­tions of the Teacher Sons, the Evening Stars, and the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing re­cent times these super­an­gels have been closely iden­ti­fied with the lo­cal uni­verse work of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and they have long been as­so­ci­ated with the Teacher Sons. There ex­ists a li­ai­son of tremen­dous power and im­port be­tween the Evening Stars and the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers at­tached to the fi­nal­i­ter work­ing groups. The sev­enth pri­mary world it­self is re­served for those un­re­vealed mat­ters which per­tain to the fu­ture re­la­tion­ship that will ob­tain be­tween the Teacher Sons, the fi­nal­i­ters, and the Evening Stars con­se­quent upon the com­pleted emer­gence of the super­uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God the Su­preme.