ambassadors

• primitive peace a. sucked each other’s blood

70:3.10The first treaties of peace were the “blood bonds.” The peace am­bas­sadors of two war­ring tribes would meet, pay their re­spects, and then pro­ceed to prick the skin un­til it bled; where­upon they would suck each other’s blood and de­clare peace.

• on neighboring planet

72:12.2Just now this su­pe­rior gov­ern­ment is plan­ning to es­tab­lish am­bas­sado­rial re­la­tions with the in­fe­rior peo­ples, and for the first time a great re­li­gious leader has arisen who ad­vo­cates the send­ing of mis­sion­ar­ies to these sur­round­ing na­tions. We fear they are about to make the mis­take that so many oth­ers have made when they have en­deav­ored to force a su­pe­rior cul­ture and re­li­gion upon other races. What a won­der­ful thing could be done on this world if this con­ti­nen­tal na­tion of ad­vanced cul­ture would only go out and bring to it­self the best of the neigh­bor­ing peo­ples and then, af­ter ed­u­cat­ing them, send them back as emis­saries of cul­ture to their be­nighted breth­ren! Of course, if a Mag­is­te­rial Son should soon come to this ad­vanced na­tion, great things could quickly hap­pen on this world.

• sending a. dates from Adam; great step forward

74:5.8The send­ing of am­bas­sadors from one tribe to an­other dates from the times of Adam. This was a great for­ward step in the evo­lu­tion of gov­ern­ment.

• none between superuniverses

15:10.23The super­uni­verses do not main­tain any sort of am­bas­sado­rial rep­re­sen­ta­tion; they are com­pletely iso­lated from each other. They know of mu­tual af­fairs only through the Par­a­dise clear­ing­house main­tained by the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. Their rulers work in the coun­cils of di­vine wis­dom for the wel­fare of their own super­uni­verses re­gard­less of what may be tran­spir­ing in other sec­tions of the uni­ver­sal cre­ation. This iso­la­tion of the super­uni­verses will per­sist un­til such time as their co-or­di­na­tion is achieved by the more com­plete fac­tu­al­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity-sov­er­eignty of the evolv­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme Be­ing.

• Trinity Teacher Sons represent local universes

20:8.1The Par­a­dise Spir­i­tual Sons are unique Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings and the only Trin­ity crea­tures to be so com­pletely as­so­ci­ated with the con­duct of the dual-ori­gin uni­verses. They are af­fec­tion­ately de­voted to the ed­u­ca­tional min­istry to mor­tal crea­tures and the lower or­ders of spir­i­tual be­ings. They be­gin their labors in the lo­cal sys­tems and, in ac­cor­dance with ex­pe­ri­ence and achieve­ment, are ad­vanced in­ward through the con­stel­la­tion ser­vice to the high­est work of the lo­cal cre­ation. Upon cer­ti­fi­ca­tion they may be­come spir­i­tual am­bas­sadors rep­re­sent­ing the lo­cal uni­verses of their ser­vice.

• Solitary Messengers serve as temporary

23:2.226. Am­bas­sadors and Emis­saries of Spe­cial As­sign­ment. Lo­cal uni­verses sit­u­ated within the same super­uni­verse cus­tom­ar­ily ex­change am­bas­sadors se­lected from their na­tive or­ders of son­ship. But to avoid de­lay, Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are fre­quently asked to go as am­bas­sadors from one lo­cal cre­ation to an­other, to rep­re­sent and in­ter­pret one realm to an­other. For ex­am­ple: When a newly in­hab­ited realm is dis­cov­ered, it may prove to be so re­mote in space that a long time will pass be­fore an en­ser­a­phimed am­bas­sador can reach this far-dis­tant uni­verse. An en­ser­a­phimed be­ing can­not pos­si­bly ex­ceed the ve­loc­ity of 558,840 Uran­tia miles in one sec­ond of your time. Mas­sive stars, cross­cur­rents, and de­tours, as well as at­trac­tion tan­gents, will all tend to re­tard such speed so that on a long jour­ney the ve­loc­ity will av­er­age about 550,000 miles per sec­ond.

23:2.23When it de­vel­ops that it will re­quire hun­dreds of years for a na­tive am­bas­sador to reach a far-dis­tant lo­cal uni­verse, a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is of­ten asked to pro­ceed there im­me­di­ately to act as am­bas­sador ad in­terim. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers can go in very short or­der, not in­de­pen­dently of time and space as do the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, but nearly so. They also serve in other cir­cum­stances as emis­saries of spe­cial as­sign­ment.

• judicially appointed; represent local universes

33:6.4Am­bas­sadors are ap­pointed by ju­di­cial de­cree and rep­re­sent uni­verses to other uni­verses. Con­suls are rep­re­sen­ta­tives of con­stel­la­tions to one an­other and to the uni­verse head­quar­ters; they are ap­pointed by leg­isla­tive de­cree and func­tion only within the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse. Ob­servers are com­mis­sioned by ex­ec­u­tive de­cree of a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to rep­re­sent that sys­tem to other sys­tems and at the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tal, and they, too, func­tion only within the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse.

• Melchizedeks serve as a. to other universes

35:1.4The Mel­chiz­e­deks do not func­tion ex­ten­sively out­side the lo­cal uni­verse ex­cept when they are called as wit­nesses in mat­ters pend­ing be­fore the tri­bu­nals of the super­uni­verse, and when des­ig­nated spe­cial am­bas­sadors, as they some­times are, rep­re­sent­ing one uni­verse to an­other in the same super­uni­verse. The orig­i­nal or first-born Mel­chiz­e­dek of each uni­verse is al­ways at lib­erty to jour­ney to the neigh­bor­ing uni­verses or to Par­a­dise on mis­sions hav­ing to do with the in­ter­ests and du­ties of his or­der.

• Vorondadeks serve as

35:5.5The ser­vice of the Voron­dadeks in the lo­cal uni­verses is ex­ten­sive and var­ied. They serve as am­bas­sadors to other uni­verses and as con­suls rep­re­sent­ing con­stel­la­tions within their na­tive uni­verse. Of all or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship they are the most of­ten in­trusted with the full del­e­ga­tion of sov­er­eign pow­ers to be ex­er­cised in crit­i­cal uni­verse sit­u­a­tions.