The Local System Administration

45:1.1The seven ma­jor worlds swing­ing around Je­ru­sem are gen­er­ally known as the tran­si­tional cul­ture spheres. Their rulers are des­ig­nated from time to time by the Je­ru­sem su­preme ex­ec­u­tive coun­cil. These spheres are num­bered and named as fol­lows:

45:1.2Num­ber 1. The Fi­nal­i­ter World. This is the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ter corps of the lo­cal sys­tem and is sur­rounded by the re­ceiv­ing worlds, the seven man­sion worlds, ded­i­cated so fully to the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion. The fi­nal­i­ter world is ac­ces­si­ble to the in­hab­i­tants of all seven man­sion worlds. Trans­port ser­a­phim carry as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties back and forth on these pil­grim­ages, which are de­signed to cul­ti­vate their faith in the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of tran­si­tion mor­tals. Al­though the fi­nal­i­ters and their struc­tures are not or­di­nar­ily per­cep­ti­ble to mor­ontia vi­sion, you will be more than thrilled, from time to time, when the en­ergy trans­form­ers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors en­able you mo­men­tar­ily to glimpse these high spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have ac­tu­ally com­pleted the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion, and who have re­turned to the very worlds where you are be­gin­ning this long jour­ney, as the pledge of as­sur­ance that you may and can com­plete the stu­pen­dous un­der­tak­ing. All man­sion world so­journ­ers go to the fi­nal­i­ter sphere at least once a year for these as­sem­blies of fi­nal­i­ter vi­su­al­iza­tion.

45:1.3Num­ber 2. The Mor­ontia World. This planet is the head­quar­ters of the super­vi­sors of mor­ontia life and is sur­rounded by the seven spheres whereon the mor­ontia chiefs train their as­so­ciates and helpers, both mor­ontia be­ings and as­cend­ing mor­tals.

45:1.4In pass­ing through the seven man­sion worlds, you will also pro­gress through these cul­tural and so­cial spheres of in­creas­ing mor­ontia con­tact. When you ad­vance from the first to the sec­ond man­sion world, you will be­come el­i­gi­ble for a vis­i­tor’s per­mit to tran­si­tional head­quar­ters num­ber two, the mor­ontia world, and so on. And when pres­ent on any one of these six cul­tural spheres, you may, on in­vi­ta­tion, be­come a vis­i­tor and ob­server on any of the seven sur­round­ing worlds of as­so­ci­ated group ac­tiv­i­ties.

45:1.5Num­ber 3. The An­gelic World. This is the head­quar­ters of all the se­raphic hosts en­gaged in sys­tem ac­tiv­i­ties and is sur­rounded by the seven worlds of an­gelic train­ing and in­struc­tion. These are the se­raphic so­cial spheres.

45:1.6Num­ber 4. The Super­an­gel World. This sphere is the Sa­ta­nia home of the Bril­liant Evening Stars and a vast con­course of co-or­di­nate and near-co-or­di­nate be­ings. The seven satel­lites of this world are as­signed to the seven ma­jor groups of these un­named ce­les­tial be­ings.

45:1.7Num­ber 5. The World of the Sons. This planet is the head­quar­ters of the di­vine Sons of all or­ders, in­clud­ing the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons. The sur­round­ing seven worlds are de­voted to cer­tain in­di­vid­ual group­ings of these di­vinely re­lated sons.

45:1.8Num­ber 6. The World of the Spirit. This sphere serves as the sys­tem ren­dezvous of the high per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Its seven sur­round­ing satel­lites are as­signed to in­di­vid­ual groups of these di­verse or­ders. But on tran­si­tion world num­ber six there is no rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Spirit, nei­ther is such a pres­ence to be ob­served on the sys­tem cap­i­tals; the Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton is ev­ery­where in Neb­a­don.

45:1.9Num­ber 7. The World of the Fa­ther. This is the silent sphere of the sys­tem. No group of be­ings is domi­ciled on it. The great tem­ple of light oc­cu­pies a cen­tral place, but no one can be dis­cerned therein. All be­ings of all the sys­tem worlds are wel­comed as wor­shipers.

45:1.10The seven satel­lites sur­round­ing the Fa­ther’s world are var­i­ously uti­lized in the dif­fer­ent sys­tems. In Sa­ta­nia they are now used as the de­ten­tion spheres for the in­terned groups of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. The con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tal, Eden­tia, has no anal­o­gous prison worlds; the few ser­a­phim and cheru­bim who went over to the rebels in the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion have been long since con­fined on these iso­la­tion worlds of Je­ru­sem.

45:1.11As a so­journer on the sev­enth man­sion world, you have ac­cess to the sev­enth tran­si­tion world, the sphere of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and are also per­mit­ted to visit the Sa­ta­nia prison worlds sur­round­ing this planet, whereon are now con­fined Lu­cifer and the ma­jor­ity of those per­son­al­i­ties who fol­lowed him in re­bel­lion against Mi­chael. And this sad spec­ta­cle has been ob­serv­able dur­ing these re­cent ages and will con­tinue to serve as a solemn warn­ing to all Neb­a­don un­til the An­cients of Days shall ad­ju­di­cate the sin of Lu­cifer and his fallen as­so­ciates who re­jected the sal­va­tion prof­fered by Mi­chael, their uni­verse Fa­ther.