The Local System Headquarters

46:7.1The one thou­sand rect­an­gles of Je­ru­sem are oc­cu­pied by the lower na­tive life of the head­quar­ters planet, and at their cen­ter is sit­u­ated the vast cir­cu­lar head­quar­ters of the sporna­gia.

46:7.2On Je­ru­sem you will be amazed by the ag­ri­cul­tural achieve­ments of the won­der­ful sporna­gia. There the land is cul­ti­vated largely for aes­thetic and or­na­men­tal ef­fects. The sporna­gia are the land­scape gar­den­ers of the head­quar­ters worlds, and they are both orig­i­nal and artis­tic in their treat­ment of the open spaces of Je­ru­sem. They uti­lize both an­i­mals and nu­mer­ous me­chan­i­cal con­trivances in the cul­ture of the soil. They are in­tel­li­gently ex­pert in the em­ploy­ment of the power agen­cies of their realms as well as in the uti­liza­tion of nu­mer­ous or­ders of their lesser breth­ren of the lower an­i­mal cre­ations, many of which are pro­vided them on these spe­cial worlds. This or­der of an­i­mal life is now largely di­rected by the as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres.

46:7.3Sporna­gia are not Ad­juster in­dwelt. They do not pos­sess sur­vival souls, but they do en­joy long lives, some­times to the ex­tent of forty to fifty thou­sand stan­dard years. Their num­ber is le­gion, and they af­ford phys­i­cal min­istry to all or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties re­quir­ing ma­te­rial ser­vice.

46:7.4Al­though sporna­gia nei­ther pos­sess nor evolve sur­vival souls, though they do not have per­son­al­ity, nev­er­the­less, they do evolve an in­di­vid­u­al­ity which can ex­pe­ri­ence rein­car­na­tion. When, with the pass­ing of time, the phys­i­cal bod­ies of these unique crea­tures de­te­ri­o­rate from us­age and age, their cre­ators, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Life Car­ri­ers, fab­ri­cate new bod­ies in which the old sporna­gia re-es­tab­lish their res­i­dences.

46:7.5Sporna­gia are the only crea­tures in all the uni­verse of Neb­a­don who ex­pe­ri­ence this or any other sort of rein­car­na­tion. They are only re­ac­tive to the first five of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its; they are not re­spon­sive to the spir­its of wor­ship and wis­dom. But the five-ad­ju­tant mind equiv­alates to a to­tal­ity or sixth re­al­ity level, and it is this fac­tor which per­sists as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial iden­tity.

46:7.6I am quite with­out com­par­isons in un­der­tak­ing to de­scribe these use­ful and un­usual crea­tures as there are no an­i­mals on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds com­pa­ra­ble to them. They are not evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings, hav­ing been pro­jected by the Life Car­ri­ers in their pres­ent form and sta­tus. They are bi­sex­ual and pro­cre­ate as they are re­quired to meet the needs of a grow­ing pop­u­la­tion.

46:7.7Per­haps I can best sug­gest to Uran­tia minds some­thing of the na­ture of these beau­ti­ful and ser­vice­able crea­tures by say­ing that they em­brace the com­bined traits of a faith­ful horse and an af­fec­tion­ate dog and man­i­fest an in­tel­li­gence ex­ceed­ing that of the high­est type of chim­panzee. And they are very beau­ti­ful, as judged by the phys­i­cal stan­dards of Uran­tia. They are most ap­pre­cia­tive of the at­ten­tions shown them by the ma­te­rial and semi­ma­te­rial so­journ­ers on these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds. They have a vi­sion which per­mits them to rec­og­nize—in ad­di­tion to ma­te­rial be­ings—the mor­ontia cre­ations, the lower an­gelic or­ders, mid­way crea­tures, and some of the lower or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties. They do not com­pre­hend wor­ship of the In­fi­nite, nor do they grasp the im­port of the Eter­nal, but they do, through af­fec­tion for their mas­ters, join in the out­ward spir­i­tual de­vo­tions of their realms.

46:7.8There are those who be­lieve that, in a fu­ture uni­verse age, these faith­ful sporna­gia will es­cape from their an­i­mal level of ex­is­tence and at­tain a wor­thy evo­lu­tional des­tiny of pro­gres­sive in­tel­lec­tual growth and even spir­i­tual achieve­ment.