Personalities of the Local Universe

37:9.1As with the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verse has its or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship. These in­clude the fol­low­ing cre­ated types:

37:9.21. Susa­tia.

37:9.32. Uni­v­i­ta­tia.

37:9.43. Ma­te­rial Sons.

37:9.54. Mid­way Crea­tures.

37:9.6These na­tives of the lo­cal cre­ation, to­gether with the Spirit-fused as­cend­ers and the spironga (who are oth­er­wise clas­si­fied), con­sti­tute a rel­a­tively per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship. These or­ders of be­ings are by and large nei­ther as­cend­ing nor de­scend­ing. They are all ex­pe­ri­en­tial crea­tures, but their en­larg­ing ex­pe­ri­ence con­tin­ues to be avail­able to the uni­verse on their level of ori­gin. While this is not wholly true of the Adamic Sons and mid­way crea­tures, it is rel­a­tively true of these or­ders.

37:9.7The Susa­tia. These mar­velous be­ings re­side and func­tion as per­ma­nent cit­i­zens on Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of this lo­cal uni­verse. They are the bril­liant off­spring of the Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit and are closely as­so­ci­ated with the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse, the Spirit-fused mor­tals of the Neb­a­don Corps of Per­fec­tion.

37:9.8The Uni­v­i­ta­tia. Each of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters clus­ters of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres en­joys the con­tin­u­ous min­istry of a res­i­den­tial or­der of be­ings known as the uni­v­i­ta­tia. These chil­dren of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit con­sti­tute the per­ma­nent pop­u­la­tion of the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds. They are non­re­pro­duc­ing be­ings ex­ist­ing on a plane of life about half­way be­tween the semi­ma­te­rial sta­tus of the Ma­te­rial Sons domi­ciled on the sys­tem head­quar­ters and the more def­i­nitely spir­i­tual plane of the Spirit-fused mor­tals and the susa­tia of Sal­ving­ton; but the uni­v­i­ta­tia are not mor­ontia be­ings. They ac­com­plish for as­cend­ing mor­tals dur­ing the traver­sal of the con­stel­la­tion spheres what the Ha­vona na­tives con­tribute to the pil­grim spir­its pass­ing through the cen­tral cre­ation.

37:9.9The Ma­te­rial Sons of God. When a cre­ative li­ai­son be­tween the Cre­ator Son and the uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, has com­pleted its cy­cle, when no more off­spring of the com­bined na­ture are forth­com­ing, then does the Cre­ator Son per­son­al­ize in dual form his last con­cept of be­ing, thus fi­nally con­firm­ing his own and orig­i­nal dual ori­gin. In and of him­self he then cre­ates the beau­ti­ful and su­perb Sons and Daugh­ters of the ma­te­rial or­der of uni­verse son­ship. This is the ori­gin of the orig­i­nal Adam and Eve of each lo­cal sys­tem of Neb­a­don. They are a re­pro­duc­ing or­der of son­ship, be­ing cre­ated male and fe­male. Their progeny func­tion as the rel­a­tively per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of a sys­tem cap­i­tal, though some are com­mis­sioned as Plan­e­tary Adams.

37:9.10On a plan­e­tary mis­sion the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are com­mis­sioned to found the Adamic race of that world, a race de­signed even­tu­ally to amal­ga­mate with the mor­tal in­hab­i­tants of that sphere. Plan­e­tary Adams are both de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing Sons, but we or­di­nar­ily class them as as­cend­ing.

37:9.11The Mid­way Crea­tures. In the early days of most in­hab­ited worlds, cer­tain super­hu­man but ma­te­ri­al­ized be­ings are of as­sign­ment, but they usu­ally re­tire upon the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Adams. The trans­ac­tions of such be­ings and the ef­forts of the Ma­te­rial Sons to im­prove the evo­lu­tion­ary races of­ten re­sult in the ap­pear­ance of a lim­ited num­ber of crea­tures who are dif­fi­cult to clas­sify. These unique be­ings are of­ten mid­way be­tween the Ma­te­rial Sons and the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures; hence their des­ig­na­tion, mid­way crea­tures. In a com­par­a­tive sense these mid­way­ers are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. From the early days of the ar­rival of a Plan­e­tary Prince to the far-dis­tant time of the set­tling of the planet in light and life, they are the only group of in­tel­li­gent be­ings to re­main con­tin­u­ously on the sphere. On Uran­tia the mid­way min­is­ters are in re­al­ity the ac­tual cus­to­di­ans of the planet; they are, prac­ti­cally speak­ing, the cit­i­zens of Uran­tia. Mor­tals are in­deed the phys­i­cal and ma­te­rial in­hab­i­tants of an evo­lu­tion­ary world, but you are all so short-lived; you tarry on your na­tiv­ity planet such a short time. You are born, live, die, and pass on to other worlds of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion. Even the super­hu­man be­ings who serve on the plan­ets as ce­les­tial min­is­ters are of tran­sient as­sign­ment; few of them are long at­tached to a given sphere. The mid­way crea­tures, how­ever, pro­vide con­ti­nu­ity of plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion in the face of ever-chang­ing ce­les­tial min­istries and con­stantly shift­ing mor­tal in­hab­i­tants. Through­out all of this never-ceas­ing chang­ing and shift­ing, the mid­way crea­tures re­main on the planet un­in­ter­rupt­edly car­ry­ing on their work.

37:9.12In like man­ner, all di­vi­sions of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses and super­uni­verses have their more or less per­ma­nent pop­u­la­tions, in­hab­i­tants of cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus. As Uran­tia has its mid­way­ers, Je­ru­sem, your sys­tem cap­i­tal, has the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters; Eden­tia, your con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, has the uni­v­i­ta­tia, while the cit­i­zens of Sal­ving­ton are two­fold, the cre­ated susa­tia and the evolved Spirit-fused mor­tals. The ad­min­is­tra­tive worlds of the mi­nor and ma­jor sec­tors of the super­uni­verses do not have per­ma­nent cit­i­zens. But the Uversa head­quar­ters spheres are con­tin­u­ously fos­tered by an amaz­ing group of be­ings known as the aban­don­ters, the cre­ation of the un­re­vealed agents of the An­cients of Days and the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its res­i­dent on the cap­i­tal of Or­von­ton. These res­i­den­tial cit­i­zens on Uversa are at pres­ent ad­min­is­ter­ing the rou­tine af­fairs of their world un­der the im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion of the Uversa corps of the Son-fused mor­tals. Even Ha­vona has its na­tive be­ings, and the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life is the home of the var­i­ous groups of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.