Ancients of Days of Uversa

• mandated Urantia Papers

31:10.22These thirty-one pa­pers de­pict­ing the na­ture of De­ity, the re­al­ity of Par­a­dise, the or­ga­ni­za­tion and work­ing of the cen­tral and super­uni­verses, the per­son­al­i­ties of the grand uni­verse, and the high des­tiny of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals, were spon­sored, for­mu­lated, and put into En­glish by a high com­mis­sion con­sist­ing of twenty-four Or­von­ton ad­min­is­tra­tors act­ing in ac­cor­dance with a man­date is­sued by the An­cients of Days of Uversa di­rect­ing that we should do this on Uran­tia, 606 of Sa­ta­nia, in Nor­la­ti­adek of Neb­a­don, in the year A.D. 1934.

• confirmed Most Highs’ control over rebel worlds

43:3.7The Eden­tia Most Highs seized cer­tain phases of plan­e­tary au­thor­ity on the re­bel­lious worlds at the time of the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion. They have con­tin­ued to ex­er­cise this power, and the An­cients of Days long since con­firmed this as­sump­tion of con­trol over these way­ward worlds. They will no doubt con­tinue to ex­er­cise this as­sumed ju­ris­dic­tion as long as Lu­cifer lives. Much of this au­thor­ity would or­di­nar­ily, in a loyal sys­tem, be in­vested in the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

• few rulings adjudicating Lucifer rebellion

46:8.1The purely lo­cal and rou­tine af­fairs of Je­ru­sem are di­rected from the one hun­dred tri­an­gles. These units are clus­tered around the ten mar­velous struc­tures domi­cil­ing the lo­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion of Je­ru­sem. The tri­an­gles are sur­rounded by the panoramic de­pic­tion of the sys­tem head­quar­ters his­tory. At pres­ent there is an era­sure of over two stan­dard miles in this cir­cu­lar story. This sec­tor will be re­stored upon the read­mis­sion of Sa­ta­nia into the con­stel­la­tion fam­ily. Ev­ery pro­vi­sion for this event has been made by the de­crees of Mi­chael, but the tri­bu­nal of the An­cients of Days has not yet fin­ished the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Sa­ta­nia may not come back into the full fel­low­ship of Nor­la­ti­adek so long as it har­bors arch­re­bels, high cre­ated be­ings who have fallen from light into dark­ness.

• Lucifer attacked, as foreign potentates

53:3.4Most bit­terly did he at­tack the right of the An­cients of Days—“for­eign po­ten­tates”—to in­ter­fere in the af­fairs of the lo­cal sys­tems and uni­verses. These rulers he de­nounced as tyrants and usurpers. He ex­horted his fol­low­ers to be­lieve that none of these rulers could do aught to in­ter­fere with the op­er­a­tion of com­plete home rule if men and an­gels only had the cour­age to as­sert them­selves and boldly claim their rights.

53:3.5He con­tended that the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days could be de­barred from func­tion­ing in the lo­cal sys­tems if the na­tive be­ings would only as­sert their in­de­pen­dence. He main­tained that im­mor­tal­ity was in­her­ent in the sys­tem per­son­al­i­ties, that res­ur­rec­tion was nat­u­ral and au­to­matic, and that all be­ings would live eter­nally ex­cept for the ar­bi­trary and un­just acts of the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days.

• confirmed Most Highs’ control over rebel worlds

53:7.14While Lu­cifer was de­prived of all ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity in Sa­ta­nia, there then ex­isted no lo­cal uni­verse power nor tri­bu­nal which could de­tain or de­stroy this wicked rebel; at that time Mi­chael was not a sov­er­eign ruler. The An­cients of Days sus­tained the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers in their seizure of the sys­tem gov­ern­ment, but they have never handed down any sub­se­quent de­ci­sions in the many ap­peals still pend­ing with re­gard to the pres­ent sta­tus and fu­ture dis­po­si­tion of Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and their as­so­ciates.

• Lucifer taken into custody by agents of

53:9.2The archde­ceiver has never been on Uran­tia since the days when he sought to turn back Mi­chael from the pur­pose to com­plete the be­stowal and to es­tab­lish him­self fi­nally and se­curely as the un­qual­i­fied ruler of Neb­a­don. Upon Mi­chael’s be­com­ing the set­tled head of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, Lu­cifer was taken into cus­tody by the agents of the Uversa An­cients of Days and has since been a pris­oner on satel­lite num­ber one of the Fa­ther’s group of the tran­si­tion spheres of Je­ru­sem. And here the rulers of other worlds and sys­tems be­hold the end of the un­faith­ful Sov­er­eign of Sa­ta­nia. Paul knew of the sta­tus of these re­bel­lious lead­ers fol­low­ing Mi­chael’s be­stowal, for he wrote of Cali­gas­tia’s chiefs as “spir­i­tual hosts of wicked­ness in the heav­enly places.”

• allowed Satan to make periodic visits to fallen worlds

53:9.3Mi­chael, upon as­sum­ing the su­preme sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don, pe­ti­tioned the An­cients of Days for au­thor­ity to in­tern all per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pend­ing the rul­ings of the super­uni­verse tri­bu­nals in the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer, placed on the rec­ords of the Uversa su­preme court al­most two hun­dred thou­sand years ago, as you reckon time. Con­cern­ing the sys­tem cap­i­tal group, the An­cients of Days granted the Mi­chael pe­ti­tion with but a sin­gle ex­cep­tion: Sa­tan was al­lowed to make pe­ri­odic vis­its to the apos­tate princes on the fallen worlds un­til an­other Son of God should be ac­cepted by such apos­tate worlds, or un­til such time as the courts of Uversa should be­gin the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer.

• decreed instantaneous extinction of rebels during Michael’s bestowal

54:4.5There are many rea­sons known to us why the Su­preme Rulers did not im­me­di­ately de­stroy or in­tern the lead­ers of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. There are no doubt still other and pos­si­bly bet­ter rea­sons un­known to us. The mercy fea­tures of this de­lay in the ex­e­cu­tion of jus­tice were ex­tended per­son­ally by Mi­chael of Neb­a­don. Ex­cept for the af­fec­tion of this Cre­ator-fa­ther for his erring Sons, the su­preme jus­tice of the super­uni­verse would have acted. If such an episode as the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion had oc­curred in Neb­a­don while Mi­chael was in­car­nated on Uran­tia, the in­sti­ga­tors of such evil might have been in­stantly and ab­so­lutely an­ni­hi­lated.

• few rulings adjudicating Lucifer rebellion

67:4.7The vast ma­jor­ity of all hu­man and super­hu­man be­ings who were vic­tims of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem and the var­i­ous mis­led plan­ets have long since heart­ily re­pented of their folly; and we truly be­lieve that all such sin­cere pen­i­tents will in some man­ner be re­ha­bil­i­tated and re­stored to some phase of uni­verse ser­vice when the An­cients of Days fi­nally com­plete the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion, which they have so re­cently be­gun.

• decreed instantaneous extinction of rebels during Michael’s bestowal

120:0.8There were im­me­di­ate ad­van­tages and tremen­dous com­pen­sa­tions re­sul­tant from the will­ing­ness of this mighty Cre­ator Son once more vol­un­tar­ily to sub­or­di­nate him­self to the will of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, this time to that of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. By this de­ci­sion to ef­fect such as­so­cia­tive sub­or­di­na­tion, Mi­chael would ex­pe­ri­ence in this in­car­na­tion, not only the na­ture of mor­tal man, but also the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all. And fur­ther, he could en­ter upon this unique be­stowal with the com­plete as­sur­ance, not only that Im­manuel would ex­er­cise the full au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of his uni­verse dur­ing his ab­sence on the Uran­tia be­stowal, but also with the com­fort­ing knowl­edge that the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse had de­creed the safety of his realm through­out the en­tire be­stowal pe­riod.

• decreed instantaneous extinction of rebels during Michael’s bestowal

120:1.5“And that you may know with as­sur­ance that I am em­pow­ered to do all that I am now promis­ing (know­ing full well that I am the as­sur­ance of all Par­a­dise for the faith­ful per­for­mance of my word), I an­nounce to you that there has just been com­mu­ni­cated to me a man­date of the An­cients of Days on Uversa which will pre­vent all spir­i­tual jeop­ardy in Neb­a­don through­out the pe­riod of your vol­un­tary be­stowal. From the mo­ment you sur­ren­der con­scious­ness, upon the be­gin­ning of the mor­tal in­car­na­tion, un­til you re­turn to us as su­preme and un­con­di­tional sov­er­eign of this uni­verse of your own cre­ation and or­ga­ni­za­tion, noth­ing of se­ri­ous im­port can hap­pen in all Neb­a­don. In this in­terim of your in­car­na­tion, I hold the or­ders of the An­cients of Days which un­qual­i­fiedly man­date the in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic ex­tinc­tion of any be­ing guilty of re­bel­lion or pre­sum­ing to in­sti­gate in­sur­rec­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don while you are ab­sent on this be­stowal. My brother, in view of the au­thor­ity of Par­a­dise in­her­ent in my pres­ence and aug­mented by the ju­di­cial man­date of Uversa, your uni­verse and all its loyal crea­tures will be se­cure dur­ing your be­stowal. You may pro­ceed upon your mis­sion with but a sin­gle thought—the en­hanced rev­e­la­tion of our Fa­ther to the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of your uni­verse.

120:1.6“As in each of your pre­vi­ous be­stowals, I would re­mind you that I am re­cip­i­ent of your uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion as brother-trus­tee. I ex­er­cise all au­thor­ity and wield all power in your name. I func­tion as would our Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in ac­cor­dance with your ex­plicit re­quest that I thus act in your stead. And such be­ing the fact, all this del­e­gated au­thor­ity is yours again to ex­er­cise at any mo­ment you may see fit to req­ui­si­tion its re­turn. Your be­stowal is, through­out, wholly vol­un­tary. As a mor­tal in­car­nate in the realm you are with­out ce­les­tial en­dow­ments, but all your re­lin­quished power may be had at any time you may choose to rein­vest your­self with uni­verse au­thor­ity. If you should choose to re­in­state your­self in power and au­thor­ity, re­mem­ber, it will be wholly for per­sonal rea­sons since I am the liv­ing and su­preme pledge whose pres­ence and prom­ise guar­an­tee the safe ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with your Fa­ther’s will. Re­bel­lion, such as has three times oc­curred in Neb­a­don, can­not oc­cur dur­ing your ab­sence from Sal­ving­ton on this be­stowal. For the pe­riod of the Uran­tia be­stowal the An­cients of Days have de­creed that re­bel­lion in Neb­a­don shall be in­vested with the au­to­matic seed of its own an­ni­hi­la­tion.

• communicated with Michael during time of tomb

188:3.12There are rec­ords ex­tant which show that dur­ing this pe­riod the su­preme coun­cil of Sal­ving­ton, num­ber­ing one hun­dred, held an ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing on Uran­tia un­der the pres­i­dency of Ga­briel. There are also rec­ords show­ing that the An­cients of Days of Uversa com­mu­ni­cated with Mi­chael re­gard­ing the sta­tus of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don dur­ing this time.

• certified Jesus’ mortal transit

189:1.10The first act of Je­sus on aris­ing from the tomb was to greet Ga­briel and in­struct him to con­tinue in ex­ec­u­tive charge of uni­verse af­fairs un­der Im­manuel, and then he di­rected the chief of the Mel­chiz­e­deks to con­vey his broth­erly greet­ings to Im­manuel. He there­upon asked the Most High of Eden­tia for the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the An­cients of Days as to his mor­tal tran­sit; and turn­ing to the as­sem­bled mor­ontia groups of the seven man­sion worlds, here gath­ered to­gether to greet and wel­come their Cre­ator as a crea­ture of their or­der, Je­sus spoke the first words of the post­mor­tal ca­reer. Said the mor­ontia Je­sus: “Hav­ing fin­ished my life in the flesh, I would tarry here for a short time in tran­si­tion form that I may more fully know the life of my as­cen­dant crea­tures and fur­ther re­veal the will of my Fa­ther in Par­a­dise.”