Brilliant Evening Stars

55:4.14In each suc­ceed­ing age of set­tled ex­is­tence the fi­nal­i­ters func­tion in ever-in­creas­ing ca­pac­i­ties. There ex­ists a close work­ing con­nec­tion be­tween the fi­nal­i­ters, the Evening Stars (the super­an­gels), and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

37:2.5Both types of Bril­liant Evening Stars are eas­ily vis­i­ble to mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties and cer­tain types of super­mor­tal ma­te­rial be­ings. The cre­ated be­ings of this in­ter­est­ing and ver­sa­tile or­der pos­sess a spirit force which can be man­i­fested in­de­pen­dently of their per­sonal pres­ence.

• accompany Magisterial Sons on bestowals

20:2.9In all their work for and on the in­hab­ited worlds, the Mag­is­te­rial Sons are as­sisted by two or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse crea­tures, the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the arch­an­gels, while on be­stowal mis­sions they are also ac­com­pa­nied by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, like­wise of ori­gin in the lo­cal cre­ations. In ev­ery plan­e­tary ef­fort the sec­ondary Par­a­dise Sons, the Avo­nals, are sup­ported by the full power and au­thor­ity of a pri­mary Par­a­dise Son, the Cre­ator Son of their lo­cal uni­verse of ser­vice. To all in­tents and pur­poses their work on the in­hab­ited spheres is just as ef­fec­tive and ac­cept­able as would have been the ser­vice of a Cre­ator Son upon such worlds of mor­tal habi­ta­tion.

• represent Trinity Teacher Sons on planetary missions

20:9.3The Teacher Sons usu­ally re­main on their vis­i­ta­tion plan­ets for one thou­sand years of plan­e­tary time. One Teacher Son pre­sides over the plan­e­tary mil­len­nial reign and is as­sisted by sev­enty as­so­ciates of his or­der. The Day­nals do not in­car­nate or oth­er­wise so ma­te­ri­al­ize them­selves as to be vis­i­ble to mor­tal be­ings; there­fore is con­tact with the world of vis­i­ta­tion main­tained through the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars, lo­cal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties who are as­so­ci­ated with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

• one or more represent Gabriel on each constellation and system
• order was planned by Melchizedeks

37:2.1These bril­liant crea­tures were planned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks and were then brought into be­ing by the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit. They serve in many ca­pac­i­ties but chiefly as li­ai­son of­fi­cers of Ga­briel, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. One or more of these be­ings func­tion as his rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the cap­i­tal of ev­ery con­stel­la­tion and sys­tem in Neb­a­don.

• represent Gabriel at Salvington conclaves
• represent Trinity Teacher Sons on planetary missions

37:2.2As chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel is ex of­fi­cio chair­man of, or ob­server at, most of the Sal­ving­ton con­claves, and as many as one thou­sand of these are of­ten in ses­sion si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Bril­liant Evening Stars rep­re­sent Ga­briel on these oc­ca­sions; he can­not be in two places at the same time, and these super­an­gels com­pen­sate for this lim­i­ta­tion. They per­form an anal­o­gous ser­vice for the corps of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

37:2.3Though per­son­ally oc­cu­pied with ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties, Ga­briel main­tains con­tact with all other phases of uni­verse life and af­fairs through the Bril­liant Evening Stars. They al­ways ac­com­pany him on his plan­e­tary tours and fre­quently go on spe­cial mis­sions to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets as his per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives. On such as­sign­ments they have some­times been known as “the an­gel of the Lord.” They fre­quently go to Uversa to rep­re­sent the Bright and Morn­ing Star be­fore the courts and as­sem­blies of the An­cients of Days, but they sel­dom jour­ney be­yond the con­fines of Or­von­ton.

• accompany Magisterial Sons on bestowals
• bid bestowal Sons to be about Father’s or brother’s business

37:2.8One of the high du­ties of the Evening Stars is to ac­com­pany the Avo­nal be­stowal Sons on their plan­e­tary mis­sions, even as Ga­briel ac­com­pa­nied Mi­chael on his Uran­tia be­stowal. The two at­tend­ing super­an­gels are the rank­ing per­son­al­i­ties of such mis­sions, serv­ing as co­com­man­ders of the arch­an­gels and all oth­ers as­signed to these un­der­tak­ings. It is the se­nior of these super­an­gel com­man­ders who, at the sig­nif­i­cant time and age, bids the Avo­nal be­stowal Son, “Be about your brother’s busi­ness.”

• represent Trinity Teacher Sons on planetary missions

37:2.9Sim­i­lar pairs of these super­an­gels are as­signed to the plan­e­tary corps of Trin­ity Teacher Sons that func­tions to es­tab­lish the postbestowal or dawn­ing spir­i­tual age of an in­hab­ited world. On such as­sign­ments the Evening Stars serve as li­aisons be­tween the mor­tals of the realm and the in­vis­i­ble corps of Teacher Sons.

• in charge of 6th Salvington circuit

37:2.10The Worlds of the Evening Stars. The sixth group of seven Sal­ving­ton worlds and their forty-two trib­u­tary satel­lites are as­signed to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Bril­liant Evening Stars. The seven pri­mary worlds are pre­sided over by the cre­ated or­ders of these super­an­gels, while the trib­u­tary satel­lites are ad­min­is­tered by as­cen­dant Evening Stars.

• liaison with Gravity Messengers

37:2.11The satel­lites of the first three worlds are de­voted to the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Evening Stars ded­i­cated to the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse. The next three groups are oc­cu­pied by sim­i­lar joint schools de­voted to the train­ing of as­cend­ing mor­tals. The sev­enth-world satel­lites are re­served for the tri­une de­lib­er­a­tions of the Teacher Sons, the Evening Stars, and the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing re­cent times these super­an­gels have been closely iden­ti­fied with the lo­cal uni­verse work of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and they have long been as­so­ci­ated with the Teacher Sons. There ex­ists a li­ai­son of tremen­dous power and im­port be­tween the Evening Stars and the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers at­tached to the fi­nal­i­ter work­ing groups. The sev­enth pri­mary world it­self is re­served for those un­re­vealed mat­ters which per­tain to the fu­ture re­la­tion­ship that will ob­tain be­tween the Teacher Sons, the fi­nal­i­ters, and the Evening Stars con­se­quent upon the com­pleted emer­gence of the super­uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God the Su­preme.

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

37:10.7[Dic­tated by a Bril­liant Evening Star of Neb­a­don, Num­ber 1,146 of the Cre­ated Corps.]

• direct seraphic armies

38:6.2Twelve le­gions of an­gels com­prise a host num­ber­ing 2,985,984 pairs or 5,971,968 in­di­vid­u­als, and twelve such hosts (35,831,808 pairs or 71,663,616 in­di­vid­u­als) make up the largest op­er­at­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion of ser­a­phim, an an­gelic army. A se­raphic host is com­manded by an arch­an­gel or by some other per­son­al­ity of co-or­di­nate sta­tus, while the an­gelic armies are di­rected by the Bril­liant Evening Stars or by other im­me­di­ate lieu­tenants of Ga­briel. And Ga­briel is the “su­preme com­man­der of the armies of heaven,” the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don, “the Lord God of hosts.”

• teach on Jerusem

45:7.2The Bril­liant Evening Stars (and their un­named co-or­di­nates) fre­quently serve as teach­ers in the var­i­ous ed­u­ca­tional en­ter­prises of the uni­verse, in­clud­ing those spon­sored by the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Also do the Trin­ity Teacher Sons col­lab­o­rate, and they im­part the touches of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion to these pro­gres­sive train­ing schools. But all these ac­tiv­i­ties are not ex­clu­sively de­voted to the ad­vance­ment of as­cend­ing mor­tals; many are equally oc­cu­pied with the pro­gres­sive train­ing of the na­tive spirit per­son­al­i­ties of Neb­a­don.

• form examining corps on Jerusem

45:7.7From time to time Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens pre­sent them­selves to the Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, who cer­tify to their at­tain­ment of mor­ontia wis­dom. Then they go be­fore the ex­am­in­ing corps of the Bril­liant Evening Stars or their des­ig­nates, who as­cer­tain the de­gree of spirit in­sight. Next they ap­pear in the pres­ence of the four and twenty coun­selors and their as­so­ciates, who pass upon their sta­tus of ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment of so­cial­iza­tion. These three fac­tors are then car­ried to the cit­i­zen­ship reg­is­trars of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment, who quickly com­pute the mota sta­tus and as­sign suf­frage qual­i­fi­ca­tions in ac­cor­dance there­with.

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

47:10.8[Spon­sored by a Bril­liant Evening Star.]

• assist Trinity Teacher Sons in light and life

55:0.1The age of light and life is the fi­nal evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of a world of time and space. From the early times of prim­i­tive man, such an in­hab­ited world has passed through the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary ages—the pre- and the post-Plan­e­tary Prince ages, the post-Adamic age, the post-Mag­is­te­rial Son age, and the postbestowal Son age. And then is such a world made ready for the cul­mi­nat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment, the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, by the min­istry of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary mis­sions of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons with their ever-ad­vanc­ing rev­e­la­tions of di­vine truth and cos­mic wis­dom. In these en­deav­ors the Teacher Sons en­joy the as­sis­tance of the Bril­liant Evening Stars al­ways, and the Mel­chiz­e­deks some­times, in es­tab­lish­ing the fi­nal plan­e­tary age.

• portray teachings of finaliters in light and life

55:4.18At any time af­ter this age the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve can pe­ti­tion the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son for re­lease from plan­e­tary du­ties in or­der to be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent; or they can re­main on the planet as di­rec­tors of the newly ap­pear­ing or­der of in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual so­ci­ety com­posed of ad­vanced mor­tals striv­ing to com­pre­hend the philo­sophic teach­ings of the fi­nal­i­ters por­trayed by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, who are now as­signed to these worlds to col­lab­o­rate in pairs with the se­con­a­phim from the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse.

• advised Melchizedek receivers after rebellion

67:6.5The af­fairs of Uran­tia were for a long time ad­min­is­tered by a coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers, twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks, con­firmed by the man­date of the se­nior con­stel­la­tion ruler, the Most High Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. As­so­ci­ated with the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers was an ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sist­ing of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers, a Trin­i­tized Son in ap­pren­tice­ship train­ing, a vol­un­teer Teacher Son, a Bril­liant Evening Star of Avalon (pe­ri­od­i­cally), the chiefs of ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, ad­vis­ers from two neigh­bor­ing plan­ets, the di­rec­tor gen­eral of sub­or­di­nate an­gelic life, and Van, the com­man­der in chief of the mid­way crea­tures. And thus was Uran­tia gov­erned and ad­min­is­tered un­til the ar­rival of Adam. It is not strange that the coura­geous and loyal Van was as­signed a place on the coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers which for so long ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs of Uran­tia.

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

85:7.4[Pre­sented by a Bril­liant Evening Star of Neb­a­don.]

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

86:7.7[Pre­sented by an Evening Star of Neb­a­don.]

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

87:7.11[Pre­sented by a Bril­liant Evening Star of Neb­a­don.]

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

88:6.9[Pre­sented by a Bril­liant Evening Star of Neb­a­don.]

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

89:10.7[Pre­sented by a Bril­liant Evening Star of Neb­a­don.]

• destiny guardians report to after subjects’ deaths

113:6.2The in­stant the pi­lot light in the hu­man mind dis­ap­pears, the spirit lu­mi­nos­ity which ser­a­phim as­so­ciate with the pres­ence of the Ad­juster, the at­tend­ing an­gel re­ports in per­son to the com­mand­ing an­gels, suc­ces­sively, of the group, com­pany, bat­tal­ion, unit, le­gion, and host; and af­ter be­ing duly reg­is­tered for the fi­nal ad­ven­ture of time and space, such an an­gel re­ceives cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by the plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim for re­port­ing to the Evening Star (or other lieu­tenant of Ga­briel) in com­mand of the se­raphic army of this can­di­date for uni­verse as­cen­sion. And upon be­ing granted per­mis­sion from the com­man­der of this high­est or­ga­ni­za­tional unit, such a guard­ian of des­tiny pro­ceeds to the first man­sion world and there awaits the con­sciou­siz­ing of her for­mer ward in the flesh.

• one attended upon Jesus throughout his bestowal
• one is liaison of 24 councilors with Michael

114:2.2This board of plan­e­tary di­rec­tors is es­pe­cially con­cerned with the super­vi­sion of those ac­tiv­i­ties on this world which re­sult from the fact that Mi­chael here ex­pe­ri­enced his ter­mi­nal be­stowal. They are kept in close and im­me­di­ate touch with Mi­chael by the li­ai­son ac­tiv­i­ties of a cer­tain Bril­liant Evening Star, the iden­ti­cal be­ing who at­tended upon Je­sus through­out the mor­tal be­stowal.

• sponsored Papers 37, 47, 85–89, 119

119:8.9This pa­per, de­pict­ing the seven be­stowals of Christ Mi­chael, is the sixty-third of a se­ries of pre­sen­ta­tions, spon­sored by nu­mer­ous per­son­al­i­ties, nar­rat­ing the his­tory of Uran­tia down to the time of Mi­chael’s ap­pear­ance on earth in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. These pa­pers were au­tho­rized by a Neb­a­don com­mis­sion of twelve act­ing un­der the di­rec­tion of Man­tu­tia Mel­chiz­e­dek. We in­dited these nar­ra­tives and put them in the En­glish lan­guage, by a tech­nique au­tho­rized by our su­pe­ri­ors, in the year A.D. 1935 of Uran­tia time.

• bid bestowal Sons to be about Father’s or brother’s business

124:6.15On the day be­fore the Pass­over Sab­bath, flood tides of spir­i­tual il­lu­mi­na­tion swept through the mor­tal mind of Je­sus and filled his hu­man heart to over­flow­ing with af­fec­tion­ate pity for the spir­i­tu­ally blind and morally ig­no­rant mul­ti­tudes as­sem­bled for the cel­e­bra­tion of the an­cient Pass­over com­mem­o­ra­tion. This was one of the most ex­traor­di­nary days that the Son of God spent in the flesh; and dur­ing the night, for the first time in his earth ca­reer, there ap­peared to him an as­signed mes­sen­ger from Sal­ving­ton, com­mis­sioned by Im­manuel, who said: “The hour has come. It is time that you be­gan to be about your Fa­ther’s busi­ness.”

30:1.388. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

30:2.1422. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

• in group Universe Aids

37:1.32. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

• possess spirit force manifestable independently of personal presence

46:5.253. The cir­cles of the Uni­verse Aids have the head­quar­ters of the Evening Stars sit­u­ated in the enor­mous cen­tral space. Here is lo­cated the sys­tem head­quar­ters of Galan­tia, the as­so­ciate head of this pow­er­ful group of super­an­gels, be­ing the first com­mis­sioned of all the as­cen­dant Evening Stars. This is one of the most mag­nif­i­cent of all the ad­min­is­tra­tive sec­tors of Je­ru­sem, even though it is among the more re­cent con­struc­tions. This cen­ter is fifty miles in di­am­e­ter. The Galan­tia head­quar­ters is a mono­lithic cast crys­tal, wholly trans­par­ent. These ma­te­rial-mor­ontia crys­tals are greatly ap­pre­ci­ated by both mor­ontia and ma­te­rial be­ings. The cre­ated Evening Stars ex­ert their in­flu­ence all over Je­ru­sem, be­ing pos­sessed of such ex­trap­er­son­al­ity at­tri­butes. The en­tire world has been ren­dered spir­i­tu­ally fra­grant since so many of their ac­tiv­i­ties were trans­ferred here from Sal­ving­ton.

• none went astray in Lucifer rebellion

53:7.4This was a La­non­an­dek re­bel­lion. The higher or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship did not join the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion, al­though a few of the Life Car­ri­ers sta­tioned on the rebel plan­ets were some­what in­flu­enced by the re­bel­lion of the dis­loyal princes. None of the Trin­i­tized Sons went astray. The Mel­chiz­e­deks, arch­an­gels, and the Bril­liant Evening Stars were all loyal to Mi­chael and, with Ga­briel, valiantly con­tended for the Fa­ther’s will and the Son’s rule.

37:2.4The Bril­liant Evening Stars are a unique two­fold or­der, em­brac­ing some of cre­ated dig­nity and oth­ers of at­tained ser­vice. The Neb­a­don corps of these super­an­gels now num­bers 13,641. There are 4,832 of cre­ated dig­nity, while 8,809 are as­cen­dant spir­its who have at­tained this goal of ex­alted ser­vice. Many of these as­cen­dant Evening Stars started their uni­verse ca­reers as ser­a­phim; oth­ers have as­cended from un­re­vealed lev­els of crea­ture life. As an at­tain­ment goal this high corps is never closed to as­cen­sion can­di­dates so long as a uni­verse is not set­tled in light and life.

46:5.13The sec­ond cir­cle is oc­cu­pied by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. In this sa­cred do­main the Day­nals and their as­so­ciates carry for­ward the train­ing of the newly ar­rived pri­mary Teacher Sons. And in all of this work they are ably as­sisted by a di­vi­sion of cer­tain co-or­di­nates of the Bril­liant Evening Stars. The crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons oc­cupy a sec­tor of the Day­nal cir­cle. The Trin­ity Teacher Sons come the near­est to be­ing the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in a lo­cal sys­tem; they are at least Trin­ity-ori­gin be­ings. This sec­ond cir­cle is a do­main of ex­traor­di­nary in­ter­est to all the peo­ples of Je­ru­sem.

39:8.1Ser­a­phim are of ori­gin in the lo­cal uni­verses, and in these very realms of their na­tiv­ity some achieve ser­vice des­tiny. With the help and coun­sel of the se­nior arch­an­gels some ser­a­phim may be el­e­vated to the ex­alted du­ties of Bril­liant Evening Stars, while oth­ers at­tain the sta­tus and ser­vice of the un­re­vealed co-or­di­nates of the Evening Stars. Still other ad­ven­tures in lo­cal uni­verse des­tiny may be at­tempted, but Seraph­ing­ton ever re­mains the eter­nal goal of all an­gels. Seraph­ing­ton is the an­gelic thresh­old to Par­a­dise and De­ity at­tain­ment, the tran­si­tion sphere from the min­istry of time to the ex­alted ser­vice of eter­nity.

45:1.6Num­ber 4. The Super­an­gel World. This sphere is the Sa­ta­nia home of the Bril­liant Evening Stars and a vast con­course of co-or­di­nate and near-co-or­di­nate be­ings. The seven satel­lites of this world are as­signed to the seven ma­jor groups of these un­named ce­les­tial be­ings.

47:6.1When you ar­rive on the fourth man­sion world, you have well en­tered upon the mor­ontia ca­reer; you have pro­gressed a long way from the ini­tial ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. Now are you given per­mis­sion to make vis­its to tran­si­tion world num­ber four, there to be­come fa­mil­iar with the head­quar­ters and train­ing schools of the super­an­gels, in­clud­ing the Bril­liant Evening Stars. Through the good of­fices of these super­an­gels of the fourth tran­si­tion world the mor­ontia vis­i­tors are en­abled to draw very close to the var­i­ous or­ders of the Sons of God dur­ing the pe­ri­odic vis­its to Je­ru­sem, for new sec­tors of the sys­tem cap­i­tal are grad­u­ally open­ing up to the ad­vanc­ing mor­tals as they make these re­peated vis­its to the head­quar­ters world. New grandeurs are pro­gres­sively un­fold­ing to the ex­pand­ing minds of these as­cend­ers.

37:2.7No group­ing or com­pany or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Bril­liant Evening Stars ex­ists other than their cus­tom­ary as­so­ci­a­tion in pairs on many as­sign­ments. They are not ex­ten­sively as­signed on mis­sions per­tain­ing to the as­cen­dant ca­reer of mor­tals, but when thus com­mis­sioned, they never func­tion alone. They al­ways work in pairs—one a cre­ated be­ing, the other an as­cen­dant Evening Star.