constellations

• consist of 100 local systems presided over by 3 Vorondadek Sons
• each has a Faithful of Days as Trinity observer

15:2.42. The Con­stel­la­tion. One hun­dred sys­tems (about 100,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) make up a con­stel­la­tion. Each con­stel­la­tion has an ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters sphere and is pre­sided over by three Vo­ron­da­dek Sons, the Most Highs. Each con­stel­la­tion also has a Faith­ful of Days in ob­ser­va­tion, an am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• contain 100,000 inhabitable worlds

15:2.53. The Lo­cal Uni­verse. One hun­dred con­stel­la­tions (about 10,000,000 in­hab­it­able plan­ets) con­sti­tute a lo­cal uni­verse. Each lo­cal uni­verse has a mag­nif­i­cent ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters world and is ruled by one of the co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Sons of God of the or­der of Mi­chael. Each uni­verse is blessed by the pres­ence of a Union of Days, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• contain 100,000 inhabitable worlds

15:2.20One con­stel­la­tion (100 sys­tems) 100,000 worlds

• ours is Norlatiadek

15:14.6Sa­ta­nia has a head­quar­ters world called Je­ru­sem, and it is sys­tem num­ber twenty-four in the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek. Your con­stel­la­tion, Nor­la­ti­adek, con­sists of one hun­dred lo­cal sys­tems and has a head­quar­ters world called Eden­tia. Nor­la­ti­adek is num­ber sev­enty in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. The lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don con­sists of one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions and has a cap­i­tal known as Sal­ving­ton. The uni­verse of Neb­a­don is num­ber eighty-four in the mi­nor sec­tor of Ensa.

• work of conciliating commissions on

25:3.83. The Con­stel­la­tion Con­cil­ia­tors. From ser­vice in the sys­tems the con­cil­ia­tors are pro­moted to the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the prob­lems of a con­stel­la­tion, tak­ing up the mi­nor dif­fi­cul­ties aris­ing be­tween its one hun­dred sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds. Not many prob­lems de­vel­op­ing on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters fall un­der their ju­ris­dic­tion, but they are kept busy go­ing from sys­tem to sys­tem gath­er­ing ev­i­dence and prepar­ing pre­lim­i­nary state­ments. If the con­tention is hon­est, if the dif­fi­cul­ties arise out of sin­cere dif­fer­ences of opin­ion and hon­est di­ver­sity of view­points, no mat­ter how few per­sons may be in­volved, no mat­ter how ap­par­ently triv­ial the mis­un­der­stand­ing, a con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sion can al­ways be had to pass upon the mer­its of the con­tro­versy.

• 10 Constellation Centers stationed in each

29:2.175. Con­stel­la­tion Cen­ters. Ten of these liv­ing power cen­ters are sta­tioned in each con­stel­la­tion, func­tion­ing as en­ergy pro­jec­tors to the one hun­dred trib­u­tary lo­cal sys­tems. From these be­ings there go forth the power lines for com­mu­ni­ca­tion and trans­port and for the en­er­giz­ing of those liv­ing crea­tures who are de­pen­dent upon cer­tain forms of phys­i­cal en­ergy for the main­te­nance of life. But nei­ther the power cen­ters nor the sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are oth­er­wise con­cerned with life as a func­tional or­ga­ni­za­tion.

• consist of 100 local systems presided over by 3 Vorondadek Sons

32:0.1A lo­cal uni­verse is the hand­i­work of a Cre­ator Son of the Par­a­dise or­der of Mi­chael. It com­prises one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions, each em­brac­ing one hun­dred sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds. Each sys­tem will even­tu­ally con­tain ap­prox­i­mately one thou­sand in­hab­ited spheres.

• concerned with social and governmental conditions

33:6.3The var­i­ous sub­ad­min­is­tra­tions of the uni­verse have as­signed to them cer­tain spe­cial do­mains of re­spon­si­bil­ity. While, in gen­eral, a sys­tem gov­ern­ment looks af­ter the wel­fare of its plan­ets, it is more par­tic­u­larly con­cerned with the phys­i­cal sta­tus of liv­ing be­ings, with bi­o­logic prob­lems. In turn, the con­stel­la­tion rulers pay es­pe­cial at­ten­tion to the so­cial and gov­ern­men­tal con­di­tions pre­vail­ing on the dif­fer­ent plan­ets and sys­tems. A con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ment is chiefly ex­er­cised over uni­fi­ca­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion. Still higher up, the uni­verse rulers are more oc­cu­pied with the spir­i­tual sta­tus of the realms.

• time, distance measured as in local universe

33:6.8Neb­a­don time, broad­cast from Sal­ving­ton, is the stan­dard for all con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems in this lo­cal uni­verse. Each con­stel­la­tion con­ducts its af­fairs by Neb­a­don time, but the sys­tems main­tain their own chronol­ogy, as do the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets.

• local universe legislatures

33:8.1On Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don, there are no true leg­isla­tive bod­ies. The uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds are con­cerned largely with ad­ju­di­ca­tion. The leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies of the lo­cal uni­verse are lo­cated on the head­quar­ters of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions. The sys­tems are chiefly con­cerned with the ex­ec­u­tive and ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the lo­cal cre­ations. The Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and their as­so­ciates en­force the leg­isla­tive man­dates of the con­stel­la­tion rulers and ex­e­cute the ju­di­cial de­crees of the high courts of the uni­verse.

• local universe legislatures

39:3.32. Law Fore­cast­ers. The in­tel­lec­tual foun­da­tion of jus­tice is law, and in a lo­cal uni­verse law orig­i­nates in the leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies of the con­stel­la­tions. These de­lib­er­a­tive bod­ies cod­ify and for­mally pro­mul­gate the ba­sic laws of Neb­a­don, laws de­signed to af­ford the great­est pos­si­ble co-or­di­na­tion of a whole con­stel­la­tion con­sis­tent with the fixed pol­icy of non­in­fringe­ment of the moral free will of per­sonal crea­tures. It is the duty of the sec­ond or­der of super­vi­sor ser­a­phim to place be­fore the con­stel­la­tion law­mak­ers a fore­cast of how any pro­posed en­act­ment would af­fect the lives of free­will crea­tures. This ser­vice they are well qual­i­fied to per­form by virtue of long ex­pe­ri­ence in the lo­cal sys­tems and on the in­hab­ited worlds. These ser­a­phim seek no spe­cial fa­vors for one group or an­other, but they do ap­pear be­fore the ce­les­tial law­mak­ers to speak for those who can­not be pres­ent to speak for them­selves. Even mor­tal man may con­tribute to the evo­lu­tion of uni­verse law, for these very ser­a­phim do faith­fully and fully por­tray, not nec­es­sar­ily man’s tran­sient and con­scious de­sires, but rather the true long­ings of the in­ner man, the evolv­ing mor­ontia soul of the ma­te­rial mor­tal on the worlds of space.

• 10 Constellation Centers stationed in each
• 10 mechanical controllers and 10 frandalanks stationed on capitals of each

41:1.4Ten Su­preme Power Cen­ters of the fifth or­der are as­signed to each of Neb­a­don’s pri­mary sub­di­vi­sions, the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions. In Nor­la­ti­adek, your con­stel­la­tion, they are not sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters sphere but are sit­u­ated at the cen­ter of the enor­mous stel­lar sys­tem which con­sti­tutes the phys­i­cal core of the con­stel­la­tion. On Eden­tia there are ten as­so­ci­ated me­chan­i­cal con­trol­lers and ten fran­dalanks who are in per­fect and con­stant li­ai­son with the near-by power cen­ters.

• autonomous primary units of local universe
• ours is Norlatiadek

43:0.1Uran­tia is com­monly re­ferred to as 606 of Sa­ta­nia in Nor­la­ti­adek of Neb­a­don, mean­ing the six hun­dred sixth in­hab­ited world in the lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, sit­u­ated in the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, one of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Con­stel­la­tions be­ing the pri­mary di­vi­sions of a lo­cal uni­verse, their rulers link the lo­cal sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds to the cen­tral ad­min­is­tra­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse on Sal­ving­ton and by re­flec­tiv­ity to the super­ad­min­is­tra­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

• headquarters spheres are comparable to Edentia with 770 satellites and subsatellites

43:0.2The gov­ern­ment of your con­stel­la­tion is sit­u­ated in a clus­ter of 771 ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, the cen­ter­most and largest of which is Eden­tia, the seat of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. Eden­tia it­self is ap­prox­i­mately one hun­dred times as large as your world. The sev­enty ma­jor spheres sur­round­ing Eden­tia are about ten times the size of Uran­tia, while the ten satel­lites which re­volve around each of these sev­enty worlds are about the size of Uran­tia. These 771 ar­chi­tec­tural spheres are quite com­pa­ra­ble in size to those of other con­stel­la­tions.

• time, distance measured as in local universe

43:0.3Eden­tia time reck­on­ing and dis­tance mea­sure­ment are those of Sal­ving­ton, and like the spheres of the uni­verse cap­i­tal, the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds are fully sup­plied with all or­ders of ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gences. In gen­eral, these per­son­al­i­ties are not very dif­fer­ent from those de­scribed in con­nec­tion with the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• supervisor seraphim, univitatia, spironga, and spornagia assigned to

43:0.4The super­vi­sor ser­a­phim, the third or­der of lo­cal uni­verse an­gels, are as­signed to the ser­vice of the con­stel­la­tions. They make their head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tal spheres and min­is­ter ex­ten­sively to the en­cir­cling mor­ontia-train­ing worlds. In Nor­la­ti­adek the sev­enty ma­jor spheres, to­gether with the seven hun­dred mi­nor satel­lites, are in­hab­ited by the uni­v­i­ta­tia, the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the con­stel­la­tion. All these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are fully ad­min­is­tered by the var­i­ous groups of na­tive life, for the greater part un­re­vealed but in­clud­ing the ef­fi­cient spironga and the beau­ti­ful sporna­gia. Be­ing the mid-point in the mor­ontia-train­ing regime, as you might sus­pect, the mor­ontia life of the con­stel­la­tions is both typ­i­cal and ideal.

• autonomous primary units of local universe

43:2.1The con­stel­la­tions are the au­ton­o­mous units of a lo­cal uni­verse, each con­stel­la­tion be­ing ad­min­is­tered ac­cord­ing to its own leg­isla­tive en­act­ments. When the courts of Neb­a­don sit in judg­ment on uni­verse af­fairs, all in­ter­nal mat­ters are ad­ju­di­cated in ac­cor­dance with the laws pre­vail­ing in the con­stel­la­tion con­cerned. These ju­di­cial de­crees of Sal­ving­ton, to­gether with the leg­isla­tive en­act­ments of the con­stel­la­tions, are ex­e­cuted by the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the lo­cal sys­tems.

• local universe legislatures

43:2.2Con­stel­la­tions thus func­tion as the leg­isla­tive or law­mak­ing units, while the lo­cal sys­tems serve as the ex­ec­u­tive or en­force­ment units. The Sal­ving­ton gov­ern­ment is the su­preme ju­di­cial and co-or­di­nat­ing au­thor­ity.

• judicial review by Melchizedeks and ascenders

43:2.3While the su­preme ju­di­cial func­tion rests with the cen­tral ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse, there are two sub­sidiary but ma­jor tri­bu­nals at the head­quar­ters of each con­stel­la­tion, the Mel­chiz­e­dek coun­cil and the court of the Most High.

43:2.4All ju­di­cial prob­lems are first re­viewed by the coun­cil of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Twelve of this or­der who have had cer­tain req­ui­site ex­pe­ri­ence on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets and on the sys­tem head­quar­ters worlds are em­pow­ered to re­view ev­i­dence, di­gest pleas, and for­mu­late pro­vi­sional ver­dicts, which are passed on to the court of the Most High, the reign­ing Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther. The mor­tal di­vi­sion of this lat­ter tri­bu­nal con­sists of seven judges, all of whom are as­cen­dant mor­tals. The higher you as­cend in the uni­verse, the more cer­tain you are to be judged by those of your own kind.

• local universe legislatures › lower house consists of 1000 mortals

43:2.5The con­stel­la­tion leg­isla­tive body is di­vided into three groups. The leg­isla­tive pro­gram of a con­stel­la­tion orig­i­nates in the lower house of as­cend­ers, a group pre­sided over by a fi­nal­i­ter and con­sist­ing of one thou­sand rep­re­sen­ta­tive mor­tals. Each sys­tem nom­i­nates ten mem­bers to sit in this de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly. On Eden­tia this body is not fully re­cruited at the pres­ent time.

• local universe legislatures › mid-chamber consists of 100 seraphim

43:2.6The mid-cham­ber of leg­is­la­tors is com­posed of the se­raphic hosts and their as­so­ciates, other chil­dren of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. This group num­bers one hun­dred and is nom­i­nated by the super­vis­ing per­son­al­i­ties who pre­side over the var­i­ous ac­tiv­i­ties of such be­ings as they func­tion within the con­stel­la­tion.

• local universe legislatures › advisory house consists of 10 divine Sons

43:2.7The ad­vi­sory or high­est body of con­stel­la­tion leg­is­la­tors con­sists of the house of peers—the house of the di­vine Sons. This corps is cho­sen by the Most High Fa­thers and num­bers ten. Only Sons of spe­cial ex­pe­ri­ence may serve in this up­per house. This is the fact-find­ing and time­sav­ing group which very ef­fec­tively serves both of the lower di­vi­sions of the leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly.

43:2.8The com­bined coun­cil of leg­is­la­tors con­sists of three mem­bers from each of these sep­a­rate branches of the con­stel­la­tion de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­bly and is pre­sided over by the reign­ing ju­nior Most High. This group sanc­tions the fi­nal form of all en­act­ments and au­tho­rizes their pro­mul­ga­tion by the broad­cast­ers. The ap­proval of this su­preme com­mis­sion ren­ders leg­isla­tive en­act­ments the law of the realm; their acts are fi­nal. The leg­isla­tive pro­nounce­ments of Eden­tia con­sti­tute the fun­da­men­tal law of all Nor­la­ti­adek.

• chief realm of activity for celestial artisans

43:7.4In the var­i­ous cour­tesy colonies, as­cend­ing mor­ontia mor­tals pre­dom­i­nate among the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, but the uni­v­i­ta­tia rep­re­sent the largest group as­so­ci­ated with the Neb­a­don corps of ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. In all Or­von­ton no ex­tra-Ha­vona be­ings ex­cept­ing the Uversa aban­don­ters can equal the uni­v­i­ta­tia in artis­tic skill, so­cial adapt­abil­ity, and co-or­di­nat­ing clev­er­ness.

• chief realm of activity for celestial artisans

44:0.1Among the cour­tesy colonies of the var­i­ous di­vi­sional and uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds may be found the unique or­der of com­pos­ite per­son­al­i­ties de­nom­i­nated the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans. These be­ings are the mas­ter artists and ar­ti­sans of the mor­ontia and lower spirit realms. They are the spir­its and semispir­its who are en­gaged in mor­ontia em­bel­lish­ment and in spir­i­tual beau­ti­fi­ca­tion. Such ar­ti­sans are dis­tributed through­out the grand uni­verse—on the head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verses, the con­stel­la­tions, and sys­tems, as well as on all spheres set­tled in light and life; but their chief realm of ac­tiv­ity is in the con­stel­la­tions and es­pe­cially on the seven hun­dred sev­enty worlds sur­round­ing each head­quar­ters sphere.

• local universe legislatures › systems select 10 representatives for

45:3.22This coun­cil pe­ri­od­i­cally chooses three mem­bers to rep­re­sent the lo­cal sys­tem on the su­preme coun­cil at uni­verse head­quar­ters, but this rep­re­sen­ta­tion is sus­pended by re­bel­lion. Sa­ta­nia now has an ob­server at the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse, but since the be­stowal of Mi­chael the sys­tem has re­sumed the elec­tion of ten mem­bers to the Eden­tia leg­is­la­ture.

• local universe legislatures › systems select 10 representatives for

45:7.4Ev­ery one hun­dred years of uni­verse time each sys­tem se­lects its ten rep­re­sen­ta­tives to sit in the con­stel­la­tion leg­is­la­ture. They are cho­sen by the Je­ru­sem coun­cil of one thou­sand, an elec­tive body charged with the duty of rep­re­sent­ing the sys­tem groups in all such del­e­gated or ap­pointive mat­ters. All rep­re­sen­ta­tives or other del­e­gates are se­lected by the coun­cil of one thou­sand elec­tors, and they must be grad­u­ates of the high­est school of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Col­lege of Ad­min­is­tra­tion, as also are all of those who con­sti­tute this group of one thou­sand elec­tors. This school is fos­tered by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, lat­terly as­sisted by the fi­nal­i­ters.

• morontia spheres

48:1.2The mor­ontia spheres are the tran­si­tion phases of mor­tal as­cen­sion through the pro­gres­sion worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse. Only the seven worlds sur­round­ing the fi­nal­i­ters’ sphere of the lo­cal sys­tems are called man­sion worlds, but all fifty-six of the sys­tem tran­si­tion abodes, in com­mon with the higher spheres around the con­stel­la­tions and the uni­verse head­quar­ters, are called mor­ontia worlds. These cre­ations par­take of the phys­i­cal beauty and the mor­ontia grandeur of the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters spheres.

• ascenders have 71 morontia bodies in course of

48:1.5The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able to ef­fect a union of ma­te­rial and of spir­i­tual en­er­gies, thereby or­ga­niz­ing a mor­ontia form of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion which is re­cep­tive to the super­im­po­si­tion of a con­trol­ling spirit. When you tra­verse the mor­ontia life of Neb­a­don, these same pa­tient and skill­ful Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors will suc­ces­sively pro­vide you with 570 mor­ontia bod­ies, each one a phase of your pro­gres­sive trans­for­ma­tion. From the time of leav­ing the ma­te­rial worlds un­til you are con­sti­tuted a first-stage spirit on Sal­ving­ton, you will un­dergo just 570 sep­a­rate and as­cend­ing mor­ontia changes. Eight of these oc­cur in the sys­tem, sev­enty-one in the con­stel­la­tion, and 491 dur­ing the so­journ on the spheres of Sal­ving­ton.

• special probationary nurseries maintained on

49:6.14Sim­i­lar pro­ba­tion nurs­eries are main­tained on the fi­nal­i­ter spheres of the con­stel­la­tion and the uni­verse head­quar­ters for the Ad­juster­less chil­dren of the pri­mary and sec­ondary mod­i­fied or­ders of as­cend­ers.

• council of seventy selected from evolutionary beings

50:2.2The Plan­e­tary Princes may at any time seek the coun­sel of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, their for­mer in­struc­tors and spon­sors, but they are not ar­bi­trar­ily re­quired to ask for such as­sis­tance, and if such aid is not vol­un­tar­ily re­quested, the Mel­chiz­e­deks do not in­ter­fere with the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion. These world rulers may also avail them­selves of the ad­vice of the four and twenty coun­selors, as­sem­bled from the be­stowal worlds of the sys­tem. In Sa­ta­nia these coun­selors are at pres­ent all na­tives of Uran­tia. And there is an anal­o­gous coun­cil of sev­enty at the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters also se­lected from the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings of the realms.

• local universe legislatures

53:4.2Self-as­ser­tion was the bat­tle cry of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. One of his chief ar­gu­ments was that, if self-gov­ern­ment was good and right for the Mel­chiz­e­deks and other groups, it was equally good for all or­ders of in­tel­li­gence. He was bold and per­sis­tent in the ad­vo­cacy of the “equal­ity of mind” and “the broth­er­hood of in­tel­li­gence.” He main­tained that all gov­ern­ment should be lim­ited to the lo­cal plan­ets and their vol­un­tary con­fed­er­a­tion into the lo­cal sys­tems. All other super­vi­sion he dis­al­lowed. He prom­ised the Plan­e­tary Princes that they should rule the worlds as su­preme ex­ec­u­tives. He de­nounced the lo­ca­tion of leg­isla­tive ac­tiv­i­ties on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and the con­duct of ju­di­cial af­fairs on the uni­verse cap­i­tal. He con­tended that all these func­tions of gov­ern­ment should be con­cen­trated on the sys­tem cap­i­tals and pro­ceeded to set up his own leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly and or­ga­nized his own tri­bu­nals un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of Sa­tan. And he di­rected that the princes on the apos­tate worlds do the same.

• translated souls exempt from passing through

55:2.9The trans­lated souls of the flow­er­ing ages of the set­tled spheres do not pass through the man­sion worlds. Nei­ther do they so­journ, as stu­dents, on the mor­ontia worlds of the sys­tem or con­stel­la­tion. They do not pass through any of the ear­lier phases of mor­ontia life. They are the only as­cend­ing mor­tals who so nearly es­cape the mor­ontia tran­si­tion from ma­te­rial ex­is­tence to semispirit sta­tus. The ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence of such Son-seized mor­tals in the as­cen­sion ca­reer is in the ser­vices of the pro­gres­sion worlds of the uni­verse head­quar­ters. And from these study worlds of Sal­ving­ton they go back as teach­ers to the very worlds they passed by, sub­se­quently go­ing on in­ward to Par­a­dise by the es­tab­lished route of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

55:2.10Could you but visit a planet in an ad­vanced stage of de­vel­op­ment, you would quickly grasp the rea­sons for pro­vid­ing for the dif­fer­en­tial re­cep­tion of as­cend­ing mor­tals on the man­sion and higher mor­ontia worlds. You would read­ily un­der­stand that be­ings pass­ing on from such highly evolved spheres are pre­pared to re­sume their Par­a­dise as­cent far in ad­vance of the av­er­age mor­tal ar­riv­ing from a dis­or­dered and back­ward world like Uran­tia.

55:9.1The uni­fi­ca­tion of a whole con­stel­la­tion of set­tled sys­tems is at­tended by new dis­tri­bu­tions of ex­ec­u­tive au­thor­ity and ad­di­tional read­just­ments of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. This epoch wit­nesses ad­vanced at­tain­ment on ev­ery in­hab­ited world but is par­tic­u­larly char­ac­ter­ized by read­just­ments on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, with marked mod­i­fi­ca­tion of re­la­tion­ships with both the sys­tem super­vi­sion and the lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment. Dur­ing this age many con­stel­la­tion and uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties are trans­ferred to the sys­tem cap­i­tals, and the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the super­uni­verse as­sume new and more in­ti­mate re­la­tions with the plan­e­tary, sys­tem, and uni­verse rulers. Con­comi­tant with these new as­so­ci­a­tions, cer­tain super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors es­tab­lish them­selves on the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tals as vol­un­teer ad­vis­ers to the Most High Fa­thers.

• local universe legislatures › function ceases in light and life

55:9.2When a con­stel­la­tion is thus set­tled in light, the leg­isla­tive func­tion ceases, and the house of Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, pre­sided over by the Most Highs, func­tions in­stead. Now, for the first time, such ad­min­is­tra­tive groups deal di­rectly with the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment in mat­ters per­tain­ing to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise re­la­tion­ships. Oth­er­wise the con­stel­la­tion re­mains re­lated to the lo­cal uni­verse as be­fore. From stage to stage in the set­tled life the uni­v­i­ta­tia con­tinue to ad­min­is­ter the con­stel­la­tion mor­ontia worlds.

55:9.3As the ages pass, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers take over more and more of the de­tailed ad­min­is­tra­tive or super­vis­ing func­tions which were for­merly cen­tered on the uni­verse head­quar­ters. By the at­tain­ment of the sixth stage of sta­bi­liza­tion these uni­fied con­stel­la­tions will have reached the po­si­tion of well-nigh com­plete au­ton­omy. En­trance upon the sev­enth stage of set­tled­ness will no doubt wit­ness the ex­al­ta­tion of these rulers to the true dig­nity sig­ni­fied by their names, the Most Highs. To all in­tents and pur­poses the con­stel­la­tions will then deal di­rectly with the super­uni­verse rulers, while the lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment will ex­pand to grasp the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of new grand uni­verse obli­ga­tions.