The Local System Headquarters

46:3.1The super­uni­verse and Par­a­dise-Ha­vona broad­casts are re­ceived on Je­ru­sem in li­ai­son with Sal­ving­ton and by a tech­nique in­volv­ing the po­lar crys­tal, the sea of glass. In ad­di­tion to pro­vi­sions for the re­cep­tion of these ex­tra-Neb­a­don com­mu­ni­ca­tions, there are three dis­tinct groups of re­ceiv­ing sta­tions. These sep­a­rate but tri­cir­cu­lar groups of sta­tions are ad­justed to the re­cep­tion of broad­casts from the lo­cal worlds, from the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, and from the cap­i­tal of the lo­cal uni­verse. All these broad­casts are au­to­mat­i­cally dis­played so as to be dis­cern­i­ble by all types of be­ings pres­ent in the cen­tral broad­cast am­phithe­ater; of all pre­oc­cu­pa­tions for an as­cen­dant mor­tal on Je­ru­sem, none is more en­gag­ing and en­gross­ing than that of lis­ten­ing in on the never-end­ing stream of uni­verse space re­ports.

46:3.2This Je­ru­sem broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing sta­tion is en­cir­cled by an enor­mous am­phithe­ater, con­structed of scin­til­lat­ing ma­te­ri­als largely un­known on Uran­tia and seat­ing over five bil­lion be­ings—ma­te­rial and mor­ontia—be­sides ac­com­mo­dat­ing in­nu­mer­able spirit per­son­al­i­ties. It is the fa­vorite di­ver­sion for all Je­ru­sem to spend their leisure at the broad­cast sta­tion, there to learn of the wel­fare and state of the uni­verse. And this is the only plan­e­tary ac­tiv­ity which is not slowed down dur­ing the re­ces­sion of light.

46:3.3At this broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing am­phithe­ater the Sal­ving­ton mes­sages are com­ing in con­tin­u­ously. Near by, the Eden­tia word of the Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers is re­ceived at least once a day. Pe­ri­od­i­cally the reg­u­lar and spe­cial broad­casts of Uversa are re­layed through Sal­ving­ton, and when Par­a­dise mes­sages are in re­cep­tion, the en­tire pop­u­la­tion is as­sem­bled around the sea of glass, and the Uversa friends add the re­flec­tiv­ity phe­nom­ena to the tech­nique of the Par­a­dise broad­cast so that ev­ery­thing heard be­comes vis­i­ble. And it is in this man­ner that con­tin­ual fore­tastes of ad­vanc­ing beauty and grandeur are af­forded the mor­tal sur­vivors as they jour­ney in­ward on the eter­nal ad­ven­ture.

46:3.4The Je­ru­sem send­ing sta­tion is lo­cated at the op­po­site pole of the sphere. All broad­casts to the in­di­vid­ual worlds are re­layed from the sys­tem cap­i­tals ex­cept the Mi­chael mes­sages, which some­times go di­rect to their des­ti­na­tions over the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit.