Bright and Morning Stars

• chief executives of local universes
• direct government in absence of Creator Sons
• first-born of local universes by Creator Sons and Mother Spirits

21:2.11When a Mi­chael Son is ab­sent from his uni­verse, its gov­ern­ment is di­rected by the first-born na­tive be­ing, the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. The ad­vice and coun­sel of the Union of Days is in­valu­able at such times. Dur­ing these ab­sences a Cre­ator Son is able to in­vest the as­so­ci­ated Mother Spirit with the over­con­trol of his spir­i­tual pres­ence on the in­hab­ited worlds and in the hearts of his mor­tal chil­dren. And the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse re­mains al­ways at its head­quar­ters, ex­tend­ing her fos­ter­ing care and spir­i­tual min­istry to the ut­ter­most parts of such an evo­lu­tion­ary do­main.

• first-born of local universes by Creator Sons and Mother Spirits

28:1.3Through­out the early times of uni­verse build­ing, these one thou­sand ter­tiaphim are the only per­sonal staff of a Cre­ator Son. They ac­quire a mighty ex­pe­ri­ence as Son as­sis­tants dur­ing these stir­ring ages of uni­verse as­sem­bling and other as­tro­nom­i­cal ma­nip­u­la­tions. They serve by the side of the Cre­ator Son un­til the day of the per­son­al­iza­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the first-born of a lo­cal uni­verse. There­upon the for­mal res­ig­na­tions of the ter­tiaphim are ten­dered and ac­cepted. And with the ap­pear­ance of the ini­tial or­ders of na­tive an­gelic life, they re­tire from ac­tive ser­vice in the lo­cal uni­verse and be­come the li­ai­son min­is­ters be­tween the Cre­ator Son of for­mer at­tach­ment and the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.

• in personality registers

30:1.333. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

• in personality registers

30:2.1411. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

• chief executives of local universes
• first-born of local universes by Creator Sons and Mother Spirits
• like Creator Sons, but limited in creatorship

32:2.6Pres­ently, the phys­i­cal plan of a uni­verse is com­pleted, and the Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ative Spirit, projects his plan of life cre­ation; where­upon does this rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit be­gin her uni­verse func­tion as a dis­tinct cre­ative per­son­al­ity. When this first cre­ative act is for­mu­lated and ex­e­cuted, there springs into be­ing the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of this ini­tial cre­ative con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of di­vin­ity. This is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse, the per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son, one like him in all as­pects of char­ac­ter, though markedly lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of di­vin­ity.

• chief executives of local universes

33:0.1While the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther most cer­tainly rules over his vast cre­ation, he func­tions in a lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion through the per­son of the Cre­ator Son. The Fa­ther does not oth­er­wise per­son­ally func­tion in the ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse. These mat­ters are in­trusted to the Cre­ator Son and to the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit and to their man­i­fold chil­dren. The plans, poli­cies, and ad­min­is­tra­tive acts of the lo­cal uni­verse are formed and ex­e­cuted by this Son, who, in con­junc­tion with his Spirit as­so­ciate, del­e­gates ex­ec­u­tive power to Ga­briel and ju­ris­dic­tional au­thor­ity to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and Plan­e­tary Princes.

• first-born of local universes by Creator Sons and Mother Spirits

33:4.1The Bright and Morn­ing Star is the per­son­al­iza­tion of the first con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of per­son­al­ity con­ceived by the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Go­ing back to the early days of the lo­cal uni­verse, be­fore the union of the Cre­ator Son and the Mother Spirit in the bonds of cre­ative as­so­ci­a­tion, back to the times be­fore the be­gin­ning of the cre­ation of their ver­sa­tile fam­ily of sons and daugh­ters, the first con­joint act of this early and free as­so­ci­a­tion of these two di­vine per­sons re­sults in the cre­ation of the high­est spirit per­son­al­ity of the Son and the Spirit, the Bright and Morn­ing Star.

• like Creator Sons, but limited in creatorship

33:4.2Only one such be­ing of wis­dom and majesty is brought forth in each lo­cal uni­verse. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son can, in fact do, cre­ate an un­lim­ited num­ber of Sons in di­vin­ity equal to them­selves; but such Sons, in union with the Daugh­ters of the In­fi­nite Spirit, can cre­ate only one Bright and Morn­ing Star in each uni­verse, a be­ing like them­selves and par­tak­ing freely of their com­bined na­tures but not of their cre­ative pre­rog­a­tives. Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is like the Uni­verse Son in di­vin­ity of na­ture though con­sid­er­ably lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of De­ity.

• beings of unimagined versatility and brilliance

33:4.3This first-born of the par­ents of a new uni­verse is a unique per­son­al­ity pos­sess­ing many won­der­ful traits not vis­i­bly pres­ent in ei­ther an­ces­tor, a be­ing of un­prece­dented ver­sa­til­ity and unimag­ined bril­liance. This su­per­nal per­son­al­ity em­braces the di­vine will of the Son com­bined with the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion of the Spirit. The thoughts and acts of the Bright and Morn­ing Star will ever be fully rep­re­sen­ta­tive of both the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit. Such a be­ing is also ca­pa­ble of a broad un­der­stand­ing of, and sym­pa­thetic con­tact with, both the spir­i­tual se­raphic hosts and the ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures.

• administrators, not creators

33:4.4The Bright and Morn­ing Star is not a cre­ator, but he is a mar­velous ad­min­is­tra­tor, be­ing the per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Cre­ator Son. Aside from cre­ation and life im­par­ta­tion the Son and the Spirit never con­fer upon im­por­tant uni­verse pro­ce­dures with­out Ga­briel’s pres­ence.

• created fully endowed, but have gained experience

33:4.5Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and the ar­biter of all ex­ec­u­tive ap­peals re­spect­ing its ad­min­is­tra­tion. This uni­verse ex­ec­u­tive was cre­ated fully en­dowed for his work, but he has gained ex­pe­ri­ence with the growth and evo­lu­tion of our lo­cal cre­ation.

• Ancients of Days delegate mass judgment and dispensational resurrections to

33:4.6Ga­briel is the chief of­fi­cer of ex­e­cu­tion for super­uni­verse man­dates re­lat­ing to non­per­sonal af­fairs in the lo­cal uni­verse. Most mat­ters per­tain­ing to mass judg­ment and dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions, ad­ju­di­cated by the An­cients of Days, are also del­e­gated to Ga­briel and his staff for ex­e­cu­tion. Ga­briel is thus the com­bined chief ex­ec­u­tive of both the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse rulers. He has at his com­mand an able corps of ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tants, cre­ated for their spe­cial work, who are un­re­vealed to evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals. In ad­di­tion to these as­sis­tants, Ga­briel may em­ploy any and all of the or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don, and he is also the com­man­der in chief of “the armies of heaven”—the ce­les­tial hosts.

33:4.7Ga­briel and his staff are not teach­ers; they are ad­min­is­tra­tors. They were never known to de­part from their reg­u­lar work ex­cept when Mi­chael was in­car­nated on a crea­ture be­stowal. Dur­ing such be­stowals Ga­briel was ever at­ten­dant on the will of the in­car­nated Son, and with the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Union of Days, he be­came the ac­tual di­rec­tor of uni­verse af­fairs dur­ing the later be­stowals. Ga­briel has been closely iden­ti­fied with the his­tory and de­vel­op­ment of Uran­tia ever since the mor­tal be­stowal of Mi­chael.

33:4.8Aside from meet­ing Ga­briel on the be­stowal worlds and at the times of gen­eral- and spe­cial-res­ur­rec­tion roll calls, mor­tals will sel­dom en­counter him as they as­cend through the lo­cal uni­verse un­til they are in­ducted into the ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the lo­cal cre­ation. As ad­min­is­tra­tors, of what­ever or­der or de­gree, you will come un­der the di­rec­tion of Ga­briel.

• first-born of local universes by Creator Sons and Mother Spirits

34:2.5In the cre­ation of a uni­verse of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures the Cre­ative Mother Spirit func­tions first in the sphere of uni­verse per­fec­tion, col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Son in the pro­duc­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Sub­se­quently the off­spring of the Spirit in­creas­ingly ap­proach the or­der of cre­ated be­ings on the plan­ets, even as the Sons grade down­ward from the Mel­chiz­e­deks to the Ma­te­rial Sons, who ac­tu­ally con­tact with the mor­tals of the realms. In the later evo­lu­tion of mor­tal crea­tures the Life Car­rier Sons pro­vide the phys­i­cal body, fab­ri­cated out of the ex­ist­ing or­ga­nized ma­te­rial of the realm, while the Uni­verse Spirit con­tributes the “breath of life.”

• in group Universe Aids

37:1.21. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

• create spironga with Father Melchizedeks

37:10.2The Spironga are the spirit off­spring of the Bright and Morn­ing Star and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. They are ex­empt from per­son­al­ity ter­mi­na­tion but are not evo­lu­tion­ary or as­cend­ing be­ings. Nei­ther are they func­tion­ally con­cerned with the evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion regime. They are the spirit helpers of the lo­cal uni­verse, ex­e­cut­ing the rou­tine spirit tasks of Neb­a­don.

• Son-Spirit minister supreme seraphim affiliated with intelligence service of

39:1.21. Son-Spirit Min­is­ters. The first group of the su­preme ser­a­phim are as­signed to the ser­vice of the high Sons and Spirit-ori­gin be­ings res­i­dent and func­tion­ing in the lo­cal uni­verse. This group of an­gelic min­is­ters also serve the Uni­verse Son and the Uni­verse Spirit and are closely af­fil­i­ated with the in­tel­li­gence corps of the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive of the united wills of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit.

• intelligence corps seraphim report to

39:2.31. The In­tel­li­gence Corps. These ser­a­phim be­long to the per­sonal staff of Ga­briel, the Bright and Morn­ing Star. They range the lo­cal uni­verse gath­er­ing the in­for­ma­tion of the realms for his guid­ance in the coun­cils of Neb­a­don. They are the in­tel­li­gence corps of the mighty hosts over which Ga­briel pre­sides as vicegerent of the Mas­ter Son. These ser­a­phim are not di­rectly af­fil­i­ated with ei­ther the sys­tems or the con­stel­la­tions, and their in­for­ma­tion pours in di­rect to Sal­ving­ton upon a con­tin­u­ous, di­rect, and in­de­pen­dent cir­cuit.

• would become chief local universe administrators if Creator Sons left for new universes in outer space

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.