The Spheres of Light and Life

55:10.1When a uni­verse be­comes set­tled in light and life, it soon swings into the es­tab­lished super­uni­verse cir­cuits, and the An­cients of Days pro­claim the es­tab­lish­ment of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity. This new gov­ern­ing body con­sists of the one hun­dred Faith­fuls of Days, pre­sided over by the Union of Days, and the first act of this su­preme coun­cil is to ac­knowl­edge the con­tin­ued sov­er­eignty of the Mas­ter Cre­ator Son.

55:10.2The uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, as far as con­cerns Ga­briel and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, is quite un­changed. This coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity is chiefly con­cerned with the new prob­lems and the new con­di­tions aris­ing out of the ad­vanced sta­tus of light and life.

55:10.3The As­so­ciate In­spec­tor now mo­bi­lizes all As­signed Sen­tinels to con­sti­tute the sta­bi­liza­tion corps of the lo­cal uni­verse and asks the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek to share its super­vi­sion with him. And now, for the first time, a corps of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are as­signed to the ser­vice of the Union of Days.

55:10.4The set­tling of an en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life in­au­gu­rates pro­found read­just­ments in the en­tire scheme of ad­min­is­tra­tion, from the in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited worlds to the uni­verse head­quar­ters. New re­la­tion­ships ex­tend down to the con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. The lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit ex­pe­ri­ences new li­ai­son re­la­tions with the Mas­ter Spirit of the super­uni­verse, and Ga­briel es­tab­lishes di­rect con­tact with the An­cients of Days to be ef­fec­tive when and as the Mas­ter Son may be ab­sent from the head­quar­ters world.

55:10.5Dur­ing this and sub­se­quent ages the Mag­is­te­rial Sons con­tinue to func­tion as dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tors, while one hun­dred of these Avo­nal Sons of Par­a­dise con­sti­tute the new high coun­cil of the Bright and Morn­ing Star on the uni­verse cap­i­tal. Later on, and as re­quested by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, one of these Mag­is­te­rial Sons will be­come the su­preme coun­selor sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters world of each lo­cal sys­tem un­til the sev­enth stage of unity is at­tained.

55:10.6Dur­ing this epoch the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are vol­un­teer ad­vis­ers, not only to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eigns, but in groups of three they sim­i­larly serve the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. And at last these Sons find their place in the lo­cal uni­verse, for at this time they are re­moved from the ju­ris­dic­tion of the lo­cal cre­ation and are as­signed to the ser­vice of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity.

55:10.7The fi­nal­i­ter corps now, for the first time, ac­knowl­edges the ju­ris­dic­tion of an ex­tra-Par­a­dise au­thor­ity, the su­preme coun­cil. Here­to­fore the fi­nal­i­ters have rec­og­nized no super­vi­sion this side of Par­a­dise.

55:10.8The Cre­ator Sons of such set­tled uni­verses spend much of their time on Par­a­dise and its as­so­ci­ated worlds and in coun­sel­ing the nu­mer­ous fi­nal­i­ter groups serv­ing through­out the lo­cal cre­ation. In this way the man of Mi­chael will find a fuller fra­ter­nity of as­so­ci­a­tion with the glo­ri­fied fi­nal­i­ter mor­tals.

55:10.9Spec­u­la­tion con­cern­ing the func­tion of these Cre­ator Sons in con­nec­tion with the outer uni­verses now in pro­cess of pre­lim­i­nary as­sem­bly is wholly fu­tile. But we all en­gage in such pos­tu­la­tions from time to time. On at­tain­ing this fourth stage of de­vel­op­ment the Cre­ator Son be­comes ad­min­is­tra­tively free; the Di­vine Min­is­ter is pro­gres­sively blend­ing her min­istry with that of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit and the In­fi­nite Spirit. There seems to be evolv­ing a new and sub­lime re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Cre­ator Son, the Cre­ative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter corps.

55:10.10If Mi­chael should ever leave Neb­a­don, Ga­briel would un­doubt­edly be­come chief ad­min­is­tra­tor with the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek as his as­so­ciate. At the same time new sta­tus would be im­parted to all or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, such as Ma­te­rial Sons, uni­v­i­ta­tia, mid­soniters, susa­tia, and Spirit-fused mor­tals. But as long as evo­lu­tion con­tin­ues, the ser­a­phim and the arch­an­gels will be re­quired in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:10.11We are, how­ever, sat­is­fied re­gard­ing two fea­tures of our spec­u­la­tions: If the Cre­ator Sons are des­tined to the outer uni­verses, the Di­vine Min­is­ters will un­doubt­edly ac­com­pany them. We are equally sure that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are to re­main with the uni­verses of their ori­gin. We hold that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are des­tined to play ever-in­creas­ingly re­spon­si­ble parts in lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion.