The Constellations

43:3.1The rulers of the con­stel­la­tions are of the Vo­ron­da­dek or­der of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship. When com­mis­sioned to ac­tive duty in the uni­verse as con­stel­la­tion rulers or oth­er­wise, these Sons are known as the Most Highs since they em­body the high­est ad­min­is­tra­tive wis­dom, cou­pled with the most farsee­ing and in­tel­li­gent loy­alty, of all the or­ders of the Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God. Their per­sonal in­tegrity and their group loy­alty have never been ques­tioned; no dis­af­fec­tion of the Vo­ron­da­dek Sons has ever oc­curred in Neb­a­don.

43:3.2At least three Vo­ron­da­dek Sons are com­mis­sioned by Ga­briel as the Most Highs of each of the Neb­a­don con­stel­la­tions. The pre­sid­ing mem­ber of this trio is known as the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther and his two as­so­ciates as the se­nior Most High and the ju­nior Most High. A Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther reigns for ten thou­sand stan­dard years (about 50,000 Uran­tia years), hav­ing pre­vi­ously served as ju­nior as­so­ciate and as se­nior as­so­ciate for equal pe­ri­ods.

43:3.3The Psalmist knew that Eden­tia was ruled by three Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers and ac­cord­ingly spoke of their abode in the plu­ral: “There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the most holy place of the taber­na­cles of the Most Highs.”

43:3.4Down through the ages there has been great con­fu­sion on Uran­tia re­gard­ing the var­i­ous uni­verse rulers. Many later teach­ers con­fused their vague and in­def­i­nite tribal de­i­ties with the Most High Fa­thers. Still later, the He­brews merged all of these ce­les­tial rulers into a com­pos­ite De­ity. One teacher un­der­stood that the Most Highs were not the Su­preme Rulers, for he said, “He who dwells in the se­cret place of the Most High shall abide un­der the shadow of the Al­mighty.” In the Uran­tia rec­ords it is very dif­fi­cult at times to know ex­actly who is re­ferred to by the term “Most High.” But Daniel fully un­der­stood these mat­ters. He said, “The Most High rules in the king­dom of men and gives it to whom­so­ever he will.”

43:3.5The Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers are lit­tle oc­cu­pied with the in­di­vid­u­als of an in­hab­ited planet, but they are closely as­so­ci­ated with those leg­isla­tive and law­mak­ing func­tions of the con­stel­la­tions which so greatly con­cern ev­ery mor­tal race and na­tional group of the in­hab­ited worlds.

43:3.6Al­though the con­stel­la­tion regime stands be­tween you and the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, as in­di­vid­u­als you would or­di­nar­ily be lit­tle con­cerned with the con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ment. Your great in­ter­est would nor­mally cen­ter in the lo­cal sys­tem, Sa­ta­nia; but tem­porar­ily, Uran­tia is closely re­lated to the con­stel­la­tion rulers be­cause of cer­tain sys­tem and plan­e­tary con­di­tions grow­ing out of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

43:3.7The Eden­tia Most Highs seized cer­tain phases of plan­e­tary au­thor­ity on the re­bel­lious worlds at the time of the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion. They have con­tin­ued to ex­er­cise this power, and the An­cients of Days long since con­firmed this as­sump­tion of con­trol over these way­ward worlds. They will no doubt con­tinue to ex­er­cise this as­sumed ju­ris­dic­tion as long as Lu­cifer lives. Much of this au­thor­ity would or­di­nar­ily, in a loyal sys­tem, be in­vested in the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

43:3.8But there is still an­other way in which Uran­tia be­came pe­cu­liarly re­lated to the Most Highs. When Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Son, was on his ter­mi­nal be­stowal mis­sion, since the suc­ces­sor of Lu­cifer was not in full au­thor­ity in the lo­cal sys­tem, all Uran­tia af­fairs which con­cerned the Mi­chael be­stowal were im­me­di­ately super­vised by the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek.