The Local System Administration

45:7.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks are the di­rec­tors of that large corps of in­struc­tors—par­tially spir­i­tu­al­ized will crea­tures and oth­ers—who func­tion so ac­cept­ably on Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds but es­pe­cially on the seven man­sion worlds. These are the de­ten­tion plan­ets, where those mor­tals who fail to achieve fu­sion with their in­dwelling Ad­justers dur­ing the life in the flesh are re­ha­bil­i­tated in tran­sient form to re­ceive fur­ther help and to en­joy ex­tended op­por­tu­nity for con­tin­u­ing their striv­ings for spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, those very ef­forts which were pre­ma­turely in­ter­rupted by death. Or if, for any other rea­son of hered­i­tary hand­i­cap, un­fa­vor­able en­vi­ron­ment, or con­spir­acy of cir­cum­stances, this soul at­tain­ment was not com­pleted, no mat­ter what the rea­son, all who are true of pur­pose and wor­thy in spirit find them­selves, as them­selves, pres­ent on the con­tin­u­ing plan­ets, where they must learn to mas­ter the es­sen­tials of the eter­nal ca­reer, to pos­sess them­selves of traits which they could not, or did not, ac­quire dur­ing the life­time in the flesh.

45:7.2The Bril­liant Evening Stars (and their un­named co-or­di­nates) fre­quently serve as teach­ers in the var­i­ous ed­u­ca­tional en­ter­prises of the uni­verse, in­clud­ing those spon­sored by the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Also do the Trin­ity Teacher Sons col­lab­o­rate, and they im­part the touches of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion to these pro­gres­sive train­ing schools. But all these ac­tiv­i­ties are not ex­clu­sively de­voted to the ad­vance­ment of as­cend­ing mor­tals; many are equally oc­cu­pied with the pro­gres­sive train­ing of the na­tive spirit per­son­al­i­ties of Neb­a­don.

45:7.3The Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons con­duct up­ward of thirty dif­fer­ent ed­u­ca­tional cen­ters on Je­ru­sem. These train­ing schools be­gin with the col­lege of self-eval­u­a­tion and end with the schools of Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship, wherein the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters join with the Mel­chiz­e­deks and oth­ers in their su­preme ef­fort to qual­ify the mor­tal sur­vivors for the as­sump­tion of the high re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment. The en­tire uni­verse is or­ga­nized and ad­min­is­tered on the rep­re­sen­ta­tive plan. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment is the di­vine ideal of self-gov­ern­ment among non­per­fect be­ings.

45:7.4Ev­ery one hun­dred years of uni­verse time each sys­tem se­lects its ten rep­re­sen­ta­tives to sit in the con­stel­la­tion leg­is­la­ture. They are cho­sen by the Je­ru­sem coun­cil of one thou­sand, an elec­tive body charged with the duty of rep­re­sent­ing the sys­tem groups in all such del­e­gated or ap­pointive mat­ters. All rep­re­sen­ta­tives or other del­e­gates are se­lected by the coun­cil of one thou­sand elec­tors, and they must be grad­u­ates of the high­est school of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Col­lege of Ad­min­is­tra­tion, as also are all of those who con­sti­tute this group of one thou­sand elec­tors. This school is fos­tered by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, lat­terly as­sisted by the fi­nal­i­ters.

45:7.5There are many elec­tive bod­ies on Je­ru­sem, and they are voted into au­thor­ity from time to time by three or­ders of cit­i­zen­ship—the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, the ser­a­phim and their as­so­ciates, in­clud­ing mid­way crea­tures, and the as­cend­ing mor­tals. To re­ceive nom­i­na­tion for rep­re­sen­ta­tive honor a can­di­date must have gained req­ui­site rec­og­ni­tion from the Mel­chiz­e­dek schools of ad­min­is­tra­tion.

45:7.6Suf­frage is uni­ver­sal on Je­ru­sem among these three groups of cit­i­zen­ship, but the vote is dif­fer­en­tially cast in ac­cor­dance with the rec­og­nized and duly reg­is­tered per­sonal pos­ses­sion of mota—mor­ontia wis­dom. The vote cast at a Je­ru­sem elec­tion by any one per­son­al­ity has a value rang­ing from one up to one thou­sand. Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens are thus clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with their mota achieve­ment.

45:7.7From time to time Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens pre­sent them­selves to the Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, who cer­tify to their at­tain­ment of mor­ontia wis­dom. Then they go be­fore the ex­am­in­ing corps of the Bril­liant Evening Stars or their des­ig­nates, who as­cer­tain the de­gree of spirit in­sight. Next they ap­pear in the pres­ence of the four and twenty coun­selors and their as­so­ciates, who pass upon their sta­tus of ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment of so­cial­iza­tion. These three fac­tors are then car­ried to the cit­i­zen­ship reg­is­trars of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment, who quickly com­pute the mota sta­tus and as­sign suf­frage qual­i­fi­ca­tions in ac­cor­dance there­with.

45:7.8Un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks the as­cend­ing mor­tals, es­pe­cially those who are tardy in their per­son­al­ity uni­fi­ca­tion on the new mor­ontia lev­els, are taken in hand by the Ma­te­rial Sons and are given in­ten­sive train­ing de­signed to rec­tify such de­fi­cien­cies. No as­cend­ing mor­tal leaves the sys­tem head­quar­ters for the more ex­ten­sive and var­ied so­cial­iza­tion ca­reer of the con­stel­la­tion un­til these Ma­te­rial Sons cer­tify to the achieve­ment of mota per­son­al­ity—an in­di­vid­u­al­ity com­bin­ing the com­pleted mor­tal ex­is­tence in ex­pe­ri­en­tial as­so­ci­a­tion with the bud­ding mor­ontia ca­reer, both be­ing duly blended by the spir­i­tual over­con­trol of the Thought Ad­juster.

45:7.9[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of tem­po­rary as­sign­ment on Uran­tia.]