The Local System Administration

45:4.1At the cen­ter of the seven an­gelic res­i­den­tial cir­cles on Je­ru­sem is lo­cated the head­quar­ters of the Uran­tia ad­vi­sory coun­cil, the four and twenty coun­selors. John the Rev­e­la­tor called them the four and twenty el­ders: “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty el­ders sit­ting, clothed in white rai­ment.” The throne in the cen­ter of this group is the judg­ment seat of the pre­sid­ing arch­an­gel, the throne of the res­ur­rec­tion roll call of mercy and jus­tice for all Sa­ta­nia. This judg­ment seat has al­ways been on Je­ru­sem, but the twenty-four sur­round­ing seats were placed in po­si­tion no more than nine­teen hun­dred years ago, soon af­ter Christ Mi­chael was el­e­vated to the full sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don. These four and twenty coun­selors are his per­sonal agents on Je­ru­sem, and they have au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Mas­ter Son in all mat­ters con­cern­ing the roll calls of Sa­ta­nia and in many other phases of the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion on the iso­lated worlds of the sys­tem. They are the des­ig­nated agents for ex­e­cut­ing the spe­cial re­quests of Ga­briel and the un­usual man­dates of Mi­chael.

45:4.2These twenty-four coun­selors have been re­cruited from the eight Uran­tia races, and the last of this group were as­sem­bled at the time of the res­ur­rec­tion roll call of Mi­chael, nine­teen hun­dred years ago. This Uran­tia ad­vi­sory coun­cil is made up of the fol­low­ing mem­bers:

45:4.31. On­a­gar, the mas­ter mind of the pre-Plan­e­tary Prince age, who di­rected his fel­lows in the wor­ship of “The Breath Giver.”

45:4.42. Mansant, the great teacher of the post-Plan­e­tary Prince age on Uran­tia, who pointed his fel­lows to the ven­er­a­tion of “The Great Light.”

45:4.53. Ona­mo­na­lon­ton, a far-dis­tant leader of the red man and the one who di­rected this race from the wor­ship of many gods to the ven­er­a­tion of “The Great Spirit.”

45:4.64. Or­landof, a prince of the blue men and their leader in the rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vin­ity of “The Su­preme Chief.”

45:4.75. Por­shunta, the or­a­cle of the ex­tinct or­ange race and the leader of this peo­ple in the wor­ship of “The Great Teacher.”

45:4.86. Singlang­ton, the first of the yel­low men to teach and lead his peo­ple in the wor­ship of “One Truth” in­stead of many. Thou­sands of years ago the yel­low man knew of the one God.

45:4.97. Fan­tad, the de­liv­erer of the green men from dark­ness and their leader in the wor­ship of “The One Source of Life.”

45:4.108. Or­vonon, the en­light­ener of the in­digo races and their leader in the one­time ser­vice of “The God of Gods.”

45:4.119. Adam, the dis­cred­ited but re­ha­bil­i­tated plan­e­tary fa­ther of Uran­tia, a Ma­te­rial Son of God who was rel­e­gated to the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but who sur­vived and was sub­se­quently el­e­vated to this po­si­tion by the de­cree of Mi­chael.

45:4.1210. Eve, the mother of the vi­o­let race of Uran­tia, who suf­fered the penalty of de­fault with her mate and was also re­ha­bil­i­tated with him and as­signed to serve with this group of mor­tal sur­vivors.

45:4.1311. Enoch, the first of the mor­tals of Uran­tia to fuse with the Thought Ad­juster dur­ing the mor­tal life in the flesh.

45:4.1412. Moses, the eman­ci­pa­tor of a rem­nant of the sub­merged vi­o­let race and the in­sti­ga­tor of the re­vival of the wor­ship of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther un­der the name of “The God of Is­rael.”

45:4.1513. Eli­jah, a trans­lated soul of bril­liant spir­i­tual achieve­ment dur­ing the post-Ma­te­rial Son age.

45:4.1614. Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, the only Son of this or­der to be­stow him­self upon the Uran­tia races. While still num­bered as a Mel­chiz­e­dek, he has be­come “for­ever a min­is­ter of the Most Highs,” eter­nally as­sum­ing the as­sign­ment of ser­vice as a mor­tal as­cender, hav­ing so­journed on Uran­tia in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh at Salem in the days of Abra­ham. This Mel­chiz­e­dek has lat­terly been pro­claimed vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia with head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem and au­thor­ity to act in be­half of Mi­chael, who is ac­tu­ally the Plan­e­tary Prince of the world whereon he ex­pe­ri­enced his ter­mi­nal be­stowal in hu­man form. Not­with­stand­ing this, Uran­tia is still super­vised by suc­ces­sive res­i­dent gov­er­nors gen­eral, mem­bers of the four and twenty coun­selors.

45:4.1715. John the Bap­tist, the fore­run­ner of Mi­chael’s mis­sion on Uran­tia and, in the flesh, dis­tant cousin of the Son of Man.

45:4.1816. 1-2-3 the First, the leader of the loyal mid­way crea­tures in the ser­vice of Ga­briel at the time of the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal, el­e­vated to this po­si­tion by Mi­chael soon af­ter his en­trance upon un­con­di­tioned sov­er­eignty.

45:4.19These se­lected per­son­al­i­ties are ex­empt from the as­cen­sion regime for the time be­ing, on Ga­briel’s re­quest, and we have no idea how long they may serve in this ca­pac­ity.

45:4.20Seats num­bers 17, 18, 19, and 20 are not per­ma­nently oc­cu­pied. They are tem­porar­ily filled by the unan­i­mous con­sent of the six­teen per­ma­nent mem­bers, be­ing kept open for later as­sign­ment to as­cend­ing mor­tals from the pres­ent postbestowal Son age on Uran­tia.

45:4.21Num­bers 21, 22, 23, and 24 are like­wise tem­porar­ily filled while be­ing held in re­serve for the great teach­ers of other and sub­se­quent ages which un­doubt­edly will fol­low the pres­ent age. Eras of the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and Teacher Sons and the ages of light and life are to be an­tic­i­pated on Uran­tia, re­gard­less of un­ex­pected vis­i­ta­tions of di­vine Sons which may or may not oc­cur.