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archangels’ circuit

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Every paragraph the index cites under archangels’ circuit, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

37:3.3The arch­an­gel corps of Neb­a­don is di­rected by the first-born of this or­der, and in more re­cent times a di­vi­sional head­quar­ters of the arch­an­gels has been main­tained on Uran­tia. It is this un­usual fact that soon ar­rests the at­ten­tion of ex­tra-Neb­a­don stu­dent vis­i­tors. Among their early ob­ser­va­tions of in­trau­ni­verse trans­ac­tions is the dis­cov­ery that many as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars are di­rected from the cap­i­tal of a lo­cal sys­tem, Sa­ta­nia. On fur­ther ex­am­i­na­tion they dis­cover that cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties are di­rected from a small and ap­par­ently in­signif­i­cant in­hab­ited world called Uran­tia. And then en­sues the rev­e­la­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia and their im­me­di­ately quick­ened in­ter­est in you and your lowly sphere.

43:5.119. The Most High me­di­a­tor, the Vo­ron­da­dek Son as­signed to har­mo­nize the spe­cial be­stowal ad­just­ments on Uran­tia with the rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tion of the con­stel­la­tion. The pres­ence of cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties and nu­mer­ous other ir­reg­u­lar min­is­tra­tions on Uran­tia, to­gether with the spe­cial ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars on Je­ru­sem, ne­ces­si­tates the func­tion­ing of this Son.

44:5.76. The ex­perts of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Uran­tia, like­wise, is served by twelve tech­ni­cians of in­ter­plan­e­tary and in­teruni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion. These long-ex­pe­ri­enced be­ings are ex­pert in the knowl­edge of the laws of trans­mit­tal and in­ter­fer­ence as ap­plied to the com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the realms. This corps is con­cerned with all forms of space mes­sages ex­cept those of Grav­ity and Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. On Uran­tia much of their work must be ac­com­plished over the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit.

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.

62:7.3“To the Life Car­ri­ers on Uran­tia—Greet­ings! We trans­mit as­sur­ance of great plea­sure on Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem in honor of the reg­is­tra­tion on the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don of the sig­nal of the ex­is­tence on Uran­tia of mind of will dig­nity. The pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion of the twins to flee north­ward and seg­re­gate their off­spring from their in­fe­rior an­ces­tors has been noted. This is the first de­ci­sion of mind—the hu­man type of mind—on Uran­tia and au­to­mat­i­cally es­tab­lishes the cir­cuit of com­mu­ni­ca­tion over which this ini­tial mes­sage of ac­knowl­edg­ment is trans­mit­ting.”

108:4.4When a world is iso­lated by re­bel­lion, when a planet is cut off from all out­side en­cir­cuited com­mu­ni­ca­tion, as was Uran­tia af­ter the Cali­gas­tia up­heaval, aside from per­sonal mes­sen­gers there re­mains but one pos­si­bil­ity of di­rect in­ter­plan­e­tary or uni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and that is through the li­ai­son of the Ad­justers of the spheres. No mat­ter what hap­pens on a world or in a uni­verse, the Ad­justers are never di­rectly con­cerned. The iso­la­tion of a planet in no way af­fects the Ad­justers and their abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate with any part of the lo­cal uni­verse, super­uni­verse, or the cen­tral uni­verse. And this is the rea­son why con­tacts with the su­preme and the self-act­ing Ad­justers of the re­serve corps of des­tiny are so fre­quently made on quar­an­tined worlds. Re­course is had to such a tech­nique as a means of cir­cum­vent­ing the hand­i­caps of plan­e­tary iso­la­tion. In re­cent years the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit has func­tioned on Uran­tia, but that means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion is largely lim­ited to the trans­ac­tions of the arch­an­gel corps it­self.

114:0.106. The lo­ca­tion on the planet of an arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit.

114:5.4This rather loosely or­ga­nized and some­what per­son­ally ad­min­is­tered plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment is more than ex­pect­edly ef­fec­tive be­cause of the time­sav­ing as­sis­tance of the arch­an­gels and their ever-ready cir­cuit, which is so fre­quently uti­lized in plan­e­tary emer­gen­cies and ad­min­is­tra­tive dif­fi­cul­ties. Tech­ni­cally, the planet is still spir­i­tu­ally iso­lated in the Nor­la­ti­adek cir­cuits, but in an emer­gency this hand­i­cap can now be cir­cum­vented through uti­liza­tion of the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit. Plan­e­tary iso­la­tion is, of course, of lit­tle con­cern to in­di­vid­ual mor­tals since the pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh nine­teen hun­dred years ago.

114:7.16No one in the lo­cal uni­verse seems to know when the un­set­tled sta­tus of the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion will ter­mi­nate. The Neb­a­don Mel­chiz­e­deks are in­clined to the opin­ion that lit­tle change will oc­cur in the plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion un­til Mi­chael’s sec­ond per­sonal ar­rival on Uran­tia. Un­doubt­edly at this time, if not be­fore, sweep­ing changes will be ef­fected in plan­e­tary man­age­ment. But as to the na­ture of such mod­i­fi­ca­tions of world ad­min­is­tra­tion, no one seems to be able even to con­jec­ture. There is no prece­dent for such an episode in all the his­tory of the in­hab­ited worlds of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Among the many things dif­fi­cult to un­der­stand con­cern­ing the fu­ture gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia, a promi­nent one is the lo­ca­tion on the planet of a cir­cuit and di­vi­sional head­quar­ters of the arch­an­gels.

189:3.2The cir­cuit of the arch­an­gels then op­er­ated for the first time from Uran­tia. Ga­briel and the arch­an­gel hosts moved to the place of the spir­i­tual po­lar­ity of the planet; and when Ga­briel gave the sig­nal, there flashed to the first of the sys­tem man­sion worlds the voice of Ga­briel, say­ing: “By the man­date of Mi­chael, let the dead of a Uran­tia dis­pen­sa­tion rise!” Then all the sur­vivors of the hu­man races of Uran­tia who had fallen asleep since the days of Adam, and who had not al­ready gone on to judg­ment, ap­peared in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia in readi­ness for mor­ontia in­vesti­ture. And in an in­stant of time the ser­a­phim and their as­so­ciates made ready to de­part for the man­sion worlds. Or­di­nar­ily these se­raphic guard­i­ans, one­time as­signed to the group cus­tody of these sur­viv­ing mor­tals, would have been pres­ent at the mo­ment of their awak­ing in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia, but they were on this world it­self at this time be­cause of the ne­ces­sity of Ga­briel’s pres­ence here in con­nec­tion with the mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus.

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Cited alongside: Urantia, Michael of Nebadon, quarantine