Jerusem

53:7.12It was over two years of sys­tem time from the be­gin­ning of the “war in heaven” un­til the in­stal­la­tion of Lu­cifer’s suc­ces­sor. But at last the new Sov­er­eign came, land­ing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the re­serves mo­bi­lized on Eden­tia by Ga­briel, and I well re­mem­ber the first mes­sage of Lanaforge to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. It read: “Not a sin­gle Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen was lost. Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal sur­vived the fiery trial and emerged from the cru­cial test tri­umphant and al­to­gether vic­to­ri­ous.” And on to Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, and Par­a­dise went this mes­sage of as­sur­ance that the sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal as­cen­sion is the great­est se­cu­rity against re­bel­lion and the surest safe­guard against sin. This no­ble Je­ru­sem band of faith­ful mor­tals num­bered just 187,432,811.

46:5.29The ac­tiv­i­ties of such a world are of three dis­tinct va­ri­eties: work, prog­ress, and play. Stated oth­er­wise, they are: ser­vice, study, and re­lax­ation. The com­pos­ite ac­tiv­i­ties con­sist of so­cial in­ter­course, group en­ter­tain­ment, and di­vine wor­ship. There is great ed­u­ca­tional value in min­gling with di­verse groups of per­son­al­i­ties, or­ders very dif­fer­ent from one’s own fel­lows.

74:1.1The Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve of Uran­tia were mem­bers of the se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem, be­ing jointly num­ber 14,311. They be­longed to the third phys­i­cal se­ries and were a lit­tle more than eight feet in height.

74:1.2At the time Adam was cho­sen to come to Uran­tia, he was em­ployed, with his mate, in the trial-and-test­ing phys­i­cal lab­o­ra­to­ries of Je­ru­sem. For more than fif­teen thou­sand years they had been di­rec­tors of the di­vi­sion of ex­per­i­men­tal en­ergy as ap­plied to the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of liv­ing forms. Long be­fore this they had been teach­ers in the cit­i­zen­ship schools for new ar­rivals on Je­ru­sem. And all this should be borne in mind in con­nec­tion with the nar­ra­tion of their sub­se­quent con­duct on Uran­tia.

74:1.3When the procla­ma­tion was is­sued call­ing for vol­un­teers for the mis­sion of Adamic ad­ven­ture on Uran­tia, the en­tire se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters vol­un­teered. The Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, with the ap­proval of Lanaforge and the Most Highs of Eden­tia, fi­nally se­lected the Adam and Eve who sub­se­quently came to func­tion as the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Uran­tia.

74:1.4Adam and Eve had re­mained loyal to Mi­chael dur­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion; nev­er­the­less, the pair were called be­fore the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and his en­tire cab­i­net for ex­am­i­na­tion and in­struc­tion. The de­tails of Uran­tia af­fairs were fully pre­sented; they were ex­haus­tively in­structed as to the plans to be pur­sued in ac­cept­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of ruler­ship on such a strife-torn world. They were put un­der joint oaths of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Eden­tia and to Mi­chael of Sal­ving­ton. And they were duly ad­vised to re­gard them­selves as sub­ject to the Uran­tia corps of Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers un­til that gov­ern­ing body should see fit to re­lin­quish rule on the world of their as­sign­ment.

74:1.5This Je­ru­sem pair left be­hind them on the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia and else­where, one hun­dred off­spring—fifty sons and fifty daugh­ters—mag­nif­i­cent crea­tures who had es­caped the pit­falls of pro­gres­sion, and who were all in com­mis­sion as faith­ful stew­ards of uni­verse trust at the time of their par­ents’ de­par­ture for Uran­tia. And they were all pres­ent in the beau­ti­ful tem­ple of the Ma­te­rial Sons at­ten­dant upon the farewell ex­er­cises as­so­ci­ated with the last cer­e­monies of the be­stowal ac­cep­tance. These chil­dren ac­com­pa­nied their par­ents to the de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion head­quar­ters of their or­der and were the last to bid them farewell and di­vine speed as they fell asleep in the per­son­al­ity lapse of con­scious­ness which pre­cedes the prepa­ra­tion for se­raphic trans­port. The chil­dren spent some time to­gether at the fam­ily ren­dezvous re­joic­ing that their par­ents were soon to be­come the vis­i­ble heads, in re­al­ity the sole rulers, of planet 606 in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia.

74:1.6And thus did Adam and Eve leave Je­ru­sem amidst the ac­claim and well-wish­ing of its cit­i­zens. They went forth to their new re­spon­si­bil­i­ties ad­e­quately equipped and fully in­structed con­cern­ing ev­ery duty and dan­ger to be en­coun­tered on Uran­tia.

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.

47:10.1The re­cep­tion of a new class of man­sion world grad­u­ates is the sig­nal for all Je­ru­sem to as­sem­ble as a com­mit­tee of wel­come. Even the sporna­gia en­joy the ar­rival of these tri­umphant as­cend­ers of evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin, those who have run the plan­e­tary race and fin­ished the man­sion world pro­gres­sion. Only the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are ab­sent from these oc­ca­sions of re­joic­ing.

47:10.2John the Rev­e­la­tor saw a vi­sion of the ar­rival of a class of ad­vanc­ing mor­tals from the sev­enth man­sion world to their first heaven, the glo­ries of Je­ru­sem. He re­corded: “And I saw as it were a sea of glass min­gled with fire; and those who had gained the vic­tory over the beast that was orig­i­nally in them and over the im­age that per­sisted through the man­sion worlds and fi­nally over the last mark and trace, stand­ing on the sea of glass, hav­ing the harps of God, and singing the song of de­liv­er­ance from mor­tal fear and death.” (Per­fected space com­mu­ni­ca­tion is to be had on all these worlds; and your any­where re­cep­tion of such com­mu­ni­ca­tions is made pos­si­ble by car­ry­ing the “harp of God,” a mor­ontia con­trivance com­pen­sat­ing for the in­abil­ity to di­rectly ad­just the im­ma­ture mor­ontia sen­sory mech­a­nism to the re­cep­tion of space com­mu­ni­ca­tions.)

47:10.3Paul also had a view of the as­cen­dant-cit­i­zen corps of per­fect­ing mor­tals on Je­ru­sem, for he wrote: “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the liv­ing God, the heav­enly Je­ru­sa­lem, and to an in­nu­mer­able com­pany of an­gels, to the grand as­sem­bly of Mi­chael, and to the spir­its of just men be­ing made per­fect.”

47:10.4Af­ter mor­tals have at­tained res­i­dence on the sys­tem head­quar­ters, no more lit­eral res­ur­rec­tions will be ex­pe­ri­enced. The mor­ontia form granted you on de­par­ture from the man­sion world ca­reer is such as will see you through to the end of the lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence. Changes will be made from time to time, but you will re­tain this same form un­til you bid it farewell when you emerge as first-stage spir­its prepara­tory for tran­sit to the super­uni­verse worlds of as­cend­ing cul­ture and spirit train­ing.

47:10.5Seven times do those mor­tals who pass through the en­tire man­so­nia ca­reer ex­pe­ri­ence the ad­just­ment sleep and the res­ur­rec­tion awak­en­ing. But the last res­ur­rec­tion hall, the fi­nal awak­en­ing cham­ber, was left be­hind on the sev­enth man­sion world. No more will a form-change ne­ces­si­tate the lapse of con­scious­ness or a break in the con­ti­nu­ity of per­sonal mem­ory.

47:10.6The mor­tal per­son­al­ity ini­ti­ated on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and taber­na­cled in the flesh—in­dwelt by the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors and in­vested by the Spirit of Truth—is not fully mo­bi­lized, re­al­ized, and uni­fied un­til that day when such a Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen is given clear­ance for Eden­tia and pro­claimed a true mem­ber of the mor­ontia corps of Neb­a­don—an im­mor­tal sur­vivor of Ad­juster as­so­ci­a­tion, a Par­a­dise as­cender, a per­son­al­ity of mor­ontia sta­tus, and a true child of the Most Highs.

47:10.7Mor­tal death is a tech­nique of es­cape from the ma­te­rial life in the flesh; and the man­so­nia ex­pe­ri­ence of pro­gres­sive life through seven worlds of cor­rec­tive train­ing and cul­tural ed­u­ca­tion rep­re­sents the in­tro­duc­tion of mor­tal sur­vivors to the mor­ontia ca­reer, the tran­si­tion life which in­ter­venes be­tween the evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial ex­is­tence and the higher spirit at­tain­ment of the as­cend­ers of time who are des­tined to achieve the por­tals of eter­nity.

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

• 24 counselors

34:4.11These are the “seven spir­its of God,” “like lamps burn­ing be­fore the throne,” which the prophet saw in the sym­bols of vi­sion. But he did not see the seats of the four and twenty sen­tinels about these seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. This rec­ord rep­re­sents the con­fu­sion of two pre­sen­ta­tions, one per­tain­ing to the uni­verse head­quar­ters and the other to the sys­tem cap­i­tal. The seats of the four and twenty el­ders are on Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

• executive council of Satania

45:3.87. The high coun­selor—Hanavard, num­ber 67 of the pri­mary La­non­an­dek Sons and a mem­ber of the high corps of uni­verse coun­selors and co-or­di­na­tors. He func­tions as act­ing chair­man of the ex­ec­u­tive coun­cil of Sa­ta­nia. Hanavard is the twelfth of this or­der so to serve on Je­ru­sem since the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

45:3.9This ex­ec­u­tive group of seven La­non­an­deks con­sti­tutes the ex­panded emer­gency ad­min­is­tra­tion made nec­es­sary by the ex­i­gen­cies of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. There are only mi­nor courts on Je­ru­sem since the sys­tem is the unit of ad­min­is­tra­tion, not ad­ju­di­ca­tion, but the La­non­an­dek ad­min­is­tra­tion is sup­ported by the Je­ru­sem ex­ec­u­tive coun­cil, the su­preme ad­vi­sory body of Sa­ta­nia. This coun­cil con­sists of twelve mem­bers:

45:3.101. Hanavard, the La­non­an­dek chair­man.

45:3.112. Lanaforge, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

45:3.123. Man­su­ro­tia, the first as­sis­tant Sov­er­eign.

45:3.134. The chief of Sa­ta­nia Mel­chiz­e­deks.

45:3.145. The act­ing di­rec­tor of the Sa­ta­nia Life Car­ri­ers.

45:3.156. The chief of the Sa­ta­nia fi­nal­i­ters.

45:3.167. The orig­i­nal Adam of Sa­ta­nia, the super­vis­ing head of the Ma­te­rial Sons.

45:3.178. The di­rec­tor of the Sa­ta­nia se­raphic hosts.

45:3.189. The chief of the Sa­ta­nia phys­i­cal con­trol­lers.

45:3.1910. The di­rec­tor of the sys­tem Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

45:3.2011. The act­ing di­rec­tor of sys­tem mid­way crea­tures.

45:3.2112. The act­ing head of the corps of as­cend­ing mor­tals.

• 24 counselors

45:4.1At the cen­ter of the seven an­gelic res­i­den­tial cir­cles on Je­ru­sem is lo­cated the head­quar­ters of the Uran­tia ad­vi­sory coun­cil, the four and twenty coun­selors. John the Rev­e­la­tor called them the four and twenty el­ders: “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty el­ders sit­ting, clothed in white rai­ment.” The throne in the cen­ter of this group is the judg­ment seat of the pre­sid­ing arch­an­gel, the throne of the res­ur­rec­tion roll call of mercy and jus­tice for all Sa­ta­nia. This judg­ment seat has al­ways been on Je­ru­sem, but the twenty-four sur­round­ing seats were placed in po­si­tion no more than nine­teen hun­dred years ago, soon af­ter Christ Mi­chael was el­e­vated to the full sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don. These four and twenty coun­selors are his per­sonal agents on Je­ru­sem, and they have au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Mas­ter Son in all mat­ters con­cern­ing the roll calls of Sa­ta­nia and in many other phases of the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion on the iso­lated worlds of the sys­tem. They are the des­ig­nated agents for ex­e­cut­ing the spe­cial re­quests of Ga­briel and the un­usual man­dates of Mi­chael.

• council of 1000 represents system groups

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.

• council of Planetary Princes

188:3.14There is good rea­son for be­liev­ing that some per­son­al­ity sat in the seat of Cali­gas­tia in the sys­tem coun­cil of the Plan­e­tary Princes on Je­ru­sem which con­vened while the body of Je­sus rested in the tomb.

46:5.306. The cir­cles of the cour­tesy colonies. The seven cir­cles of the cour­tesy colonies are graced by three enor­mous struc­tures: the vast as­tro­nomic ob­ser­va­tory of Je­ru­sem, the gi­gan­tic art gallery of Sa­ta­nia, and the im­mense as­sem­bly hall of the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, the the­ater of mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties de­voted to rest and recre­ation.

46:5.31The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the sporna­gia and pro­vide the host of cre­ative dec­o­ra­tions and mon­u­men­tal memo­ri­als which abound in ev­ery place of pub­lic as­sem­bly. The stu­dios of these ar­ti­sans are among the largest and most beau­ti­ful of all the match­less struc­tures of this won­der­ful world. The other cour­tesy colonies main­tain ex­ten­sive and beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters. Many of these build­ings are con­structed wholly of crys­tal gems. All the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds abound in crys­tals and the so-called pre­cious met­als.

39:4.177. The Re­serves. The re­serve corps of ad­min­is­tra­tor ser­a­phim on Je­ru­sem spend much of their wait­ing time in vis­it­ing, as spirit com­pan­ions, with the newly ar­rived as­cend­ing mor­tals from the var­i­ous worlds of the sys­tem—the ac­cred­ited grad­u­ates of the man­sion worlds. One of the de­lights of your so­journ on Je­ru­sem will be to talk and visit, dur­ing re­cess pe­ri­ods, with these much-trav­eled and many-ex­pe­ri­enced ser­a­phim of the wait­ing re­serve corps.

39:4.18It is just such friendly re­la­tion­ships as these that so en­dear a sys­tem cap­i­tal to the as­cend­ing mor­tals. On Je­ru­sem you will find the first in­ter­min­gling of Ma­te­rial Sons, an­gels, and as­cend­ing pil­grims. Here frat­er­nize be­ings who are wholly spir­i­tual and semispir­i­tual and in­di­vid­u­als just emerg­ing from ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. Mor­tal forms are there so mod­i­fied and hu­man ranges of light re­ac­tion so ex­tended that all are able to en­joy mu­tual rec­og­ni­tion and sym­pa­thetic per­son­al­ity un­der­stand­ing.

37:2.6The head of these super­an­gels is Gavalia, the first-born of this or­der in Neb­a­don. Since the re­turn of Christ Mi­chael from his tri­umphant be­stowal on Uran­tia, Gavalia has been as­signed to the as­cen­dant mor­tal min­istry, and for the last nine­teen hun­dred Uran­tia years his as­so­ciate, Galan­tia, has main­tained head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem, where he spends about half of his time. Galan­tia is the first of the as­cen­dant super­an­gels to at­tain this high es­tate.

15:7.5Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, has its seven worlds of tran­si­tion cul­ture, each of which is en­cir­cled by seven satel­lites, among which are the seven man­sion worlds of mor­ontia de­ten­tion, man’s first post­mor­tal res­i­dence. As the term heaven has been used on Uran­tia, it has some­times meant these seven man­sion worlds, the first man­sion world be­ing de­nom­i­nated the first heaven, and so on to the sev­enth.

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.

45:0.1The ad­min­is­tra­tive cen­ter of Sa­ta­nia con­sists of a clus­ter of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, fifty-seven in num­ber—Je­ru­sem it­self, the seven ma­jor satel­lites, and the forty-nine sub­satel­lites. Je­ru­sem, the sys­tem cap­i­tal, is al­most one hun­dred times the size of Uran­tia, al­though its grav­ity is a tri­fle less. Je­ru­sem’s ma­jor satel­lites are the seven tran­si­tion worlds, each of which is about ten times as large as Uran­tia, while the seven sub­satel­lites of these tran­si­tion spheres are just about the size of Uran­tia.

46:0.1Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, is an av­er­age cap­i­tal of a lo­cal sys­tem, and aside from nu­mer­ous ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties oc­ca­sioned by the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and the be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia, it is typ­i­cal of sim­i­lar spheres. Your lo­cal sys­tem has passed through some stormy ex­pe­ri­ences, but it is at pres­ent be­ing ad­min­is­tered most ef­fi­ciently, and as the ages pass, the re­sults of dishar­mony are be­ing slowly but surely erad­i­cated. Or­der and good will are be­ing re­stored, and the con­di­tions on Je­ru­sem are more and more ap­proach­ing the heav­enly sta­tus of your tra­di­tions, for the sys­tem head­quar­ters is truly the heaven vi­su­al­ized by the ma­jor­ity of twen­ti­eth-cen­tury re­li­gious be­liev­ers.

45:4.1614. Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, the only Son of this or­der to be­stow him­self upon the Uran­tia races. While still num­bered as a Mel­chiz­e­dek, he has be­come “for­ever a min­is­ter of the Most Highs,” eter­nally as­sum­ing the as­sign­ment of ser­vice as a mor­tal as­cender, hav­ing so­journed on Uran­tia in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh at Salem in the days of Abra­ham. This Mel­chiz­e­dek has lat­terly been pro­claimed vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia with head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem and au­thor­ity to act in be­half of Mi­chael, who is ac­tu­ally the Plan­e­tary Prince of the world whereon he ex­pe­ri­enced his ter­mi­nal be­stowal in hu­man form. Not­with­stand­ing this, Uran­tia is still super­vised by suc­ces­sive res­i­dent gov­er­nors gen­eral, mem­bers of the four and twenty coun­selors.

41:2.3Ex­cept for the pres­ence of the as­signed power cen­ter, the super­vi­sion of the en­tire phys­i­cal-en­ergy sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia is cen­tered on Je­ru­sem. A Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­ler, sta­tioned on this head­quar­ters sphere, works in co-or­di­na­tion with the sys­tem power cen­ter, serv­ing as li­ai­son chief of the power in­spec­tors head­quar­tered on Je­ru­sem and func­tion­ing through­out the lo­cal sys­tem.

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.

• construction

32:2.3The first com­pleted act of phys­i­cal cre­ation in Neb­a­don con­sisted in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the head­quar­ters world, the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere of Sal­ving­ton, with its satel­lites. From the time of the ini­tial moves of the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers to the ar­rival of the liv­ing staff on the com­pleted spheres of Sal­ving­ton, there in­ter­vened a lit­tle over one bil­lion years of your pres­ent plan­e­tary time. The con­struc­tion of Sal­ving­ton was im­me­di­ately fol­lowed by the cre­ation of the one hun­dred head­quar­ters worlds of the pro­jected con­stel­la­tions and the ten thou­sand head­quar­ters spheres of the pro­jected lo­cal sys­tems of plan­e­tary con­trol and ad­min­is­tra­tion, to­gether with their ar­chi­tec­tural satel­lites. Such ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are de­signed to ac­com­mo­date both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties as well as the in­ter­ven­ing mor­ontia or tran­si­tion stages of be­ing.

• 200,000 light years from Uversa

32:2.11The Sa­ta­nia sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds is far re­moved from Uversa and that great sun clus­ter which func­tions as the phys­i­cal or as­tro­nomic cen­ter of the sev­enth super­uni­verse. From Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, it is over two hun­dred thou­sand light-years to the phys­i­cal cen­ter of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, far, far away in the dense di­am­e­ter of the Milky Way. Sa­ta­nia is on the pe­riph­ery of the lo­cal uni­verse, and Neb­a­don is now well out to­wards the edge of Or­von­ton. From the out­er­most sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds to the cen­ter of the super­uni­verse is a tri­fle less than two hun­dred and fifty thou­sand light-years.

• located near an enormous dark island of space

41:2.2Sa­ta­nia it­self is com­posed of over seven thou­sand as­tro­nom­i­cal groups, or phys­i­cal sys­tems, few of which had an ori­gin sim­i­lar to that of your so­lar sys­tem. The as­tro­nomic cen­ter of Sa­ta­nia is an enor­mous dark is­land of space which, with its at­ten­dant spheres, is sit­u­ated not far from the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem gov­ern­ment.

45:0.2The seven man­sion worlds are the seven sub­satel­lites of tran­si­tion world num­ber one.

45:0.3This en­tire sys­tem of fifty-seven ar­chi­tec­tural worlds is in­de­pen­dently lighted, heated, wa­tered, and en­er­gized by the co-or­di­na­tion of the Sa­ta­nia Power Cen­ter and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers in ac­cor­dance with the es­tab­lished tech­nique of the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and ar­range­ment of these spe­cially cre­ated spheres. They are also phys­i­cally cared for and oth­er­wise main­tained by the na­tive sporna­gia.

45:1.1The seven ma­jor worlds swing­ing around Je­ru­sem are gen­er­ally known as the tran­si­tional cul­ture spheres. Their rulers are des­ig­nated from time to time by the Je­ru­sem su­preme ex­ec­u­tive coun­cil. These spheres are num­bered and named as fol­lows:

45:1.2Num­ber 1. The Fi­nal­i­ter World. This is the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ter corps of the lo­cal sys­tem and is sur­rounded by the re­ceiv­ing worlds, the seven man­sion worlds, ded­i­cated so fully to the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion. The fi­nal­i­ter world is ac­ces­si­ble to the in­hab­i­tants of all seven man­sion worlds. Trans­port ser­a­phim carry as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties back and forth on these pil­grim­ages, which are de­signed to cul­ti­vate their faith in the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of tran­si­tion mor­tals. Al­though the fi­nal­i­ters and their struc­tures are not or­di­nar­ily per­cep­ti­ble to mor­ontia vi­sion, you will be more than thrilled, from time to time, when the en­ergy trans­form­ers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors en­able you mo­men­tar­ily to glimpse these high spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have ac­tu­ally com­pleted the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion, and who have re­turned to the very worlds where you are be­gin­ning this long jour­ney, as the pledge of as­sur­ance that you may and can com­plete the stu­pen­dous un­der­tak­ing. All man­sion world so­journ­ers go to the fi­nal­i­ter sphere at least once a year for these as­sem­blies of fi­nal­i­ter vi­su­al­iza­tion.

45:1.3Num­ber 2. The Mor­ontia World. This planet is the head­quar­ters of the super­vi­sors of mor­ontia life and is sur­rounded by the seven spheres whereon the mor­ontia chiefs train their as­so­ciates and helpers, both mor­ontia be­ings and as­cend­ing mor­tals.

45:1.4In pass­ing through the seven man­sion worlds, you will also pro­gress through these cul­tural and so­cial spheres of in­creas­ing mor­ontia con­tact. When you ad­vance from the first to the sec­ond man­sion world, you will be­come el­i­gi­ble for a vis­i­tor’s per­mit to tran­si­tional head­quar­ters num­ber two, the mor­ontia world, and so on. And when pres­ent on any one of these six cul­tural spheres, you may, on in­vi­ta­tion, be­come a vis­i­tor and ob­server on any of the seven sur­round­ing worlds of as­so­ci­ated group ac­tiv­i­ties.

45:1.5Num­ber 3. The An­gelic World. This is the head­quar­ters of all the se­raphic hosts en­gaged in sys­tem ac­tiv­i­ties and is sur­rounded by the seven worlds of an­gelic train­ing and in­struc­tion. These are the se­raphic so­cial spheres.

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.

45:1.7Num­ber 5. The World of the Sons. This planet is the head­quar­ters of the di­vine Sons of all or­ders, in­clud­ing the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons. The sur­round­ing seven worlds are de­voted to cer­tain in­di­vid­ual group­ings of these di­vinely re­lated sons.

45:1.8Num­ber 6. The World of the Spirit. This sphere serves as the sys­tem ren­dezvous of the high per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Its seven sur­round­ing satel­lites are as­signed to in­di­vid­ual groups of these di­verse or­ders. But on tran­si­tion world num­ber six there is no rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Spirit, nei­ther is such a pres­ence to be ob­served on the sys­tem cap­i­tals; the Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton is ev­ery­where in Neb­a­don.

45:1.9Num­ber 7. The World of the Fa­ther. This is the silent sphere of the sys­tem. No group of be­ings is domi­ciled on it. The great tem­ple of light oc­cu­pies a cen­tral place, but no one can be dis­cerned therein. All be­ings of all the sys­tem worlds are wel­comed as wor­shipers.

45:1.10The seven satel­lites sur­round­ing the Fa­ther’s world are var­i­ously uti­lized in the dif­fer­ent sys­tems. In Sa­ta­nia they are now used as the de­ten­tion spheres for the in­terned groups of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. The con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tal, Eden­tia, has no anal­o­gous prison worlds; the few ser­a­phim and cheru­bim who went over to the rebels in the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion have been long since con­fined on these iso­la­tion worlds of Je­ru­sem.

45:1.11As a so­journer on the sev­enth man­sion world, you have ac­cess to the sev­enth tran­si­tion world, the sphere of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and are also per­mit­ted to visit the Sa­ta­nia prison worlds sur­round­ing this planet, whereon are now con­fined Lu­cifer and the ma­jor­ity of those per­son­al­i­ties who fol­lowed him in re­bel­lion against Mi­chael. And this sad spec­ta­cle has been ob­serv­able dur­ing these re­cent ages and will con­tinue to serve as a solemn warn­ing to all Neb­a­don un­til the An­cients of Days shall ad­ju­di­cate the sin of Lu­cifer and his fallen as­so­ciates who re­jected the sal­va­tion prof­fered by Mi­chael, their uni­verse Fa­ther.

• temples of Material Sons, power, records

45:5.1The great di­vi­sions of ce­les­tial life have their head­quar­ters and im­mense pre­serves on Je­ru­sem, in­clud­ing the var­i­ous or­ders of di­vine Sons, high spir­its, super­an­gels, an­gels, and mid­way crea­tures. The cen­tral abode of this won­der­ful sec­tor is the chief tem­ple of the Ma­te­rial Sons.

46:1.1Je­ru­sem is di­vided into one thou­sand lat­i­tu­di­nal sec­tors and ten thou­sand lon­gi­tu­di­nal zones. The sphere has seven ma­jor cap­i­tals and sev­enty mi­nor ad­min­is­tra­tive cen­ters. The seven sec­tional cap­i­tals are con­cerned with di­verse ac­tiv­i­ties, and the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign is pres­ent in each at least once a year.

46:1.2The stan­dard mile of Je­ru­sem is equiv­a­lent to about seven Uran­tia miles. The stan­dard weight, the “gradant,” is built up through the dec­i­mal sys­tem from the ma­ture ul­ti­ma­ton and rep­re­sents al­most ex­actly ten ounces of your weight. The Sa­ta­nia day equals three days of Uran­tia time, less one hour, four min­utes, and fif­teen sec­onds, that be­ing the time of the ax­ial rev­o­lu­tion of Je­ru­sem. The sys­tem year con­sists of one hun­dred Je­ru­sem days. The time of the sys­tem is broad­cast by the mas­ter chro­nol­deks.

• equal temperature; no abrupt days or nights

46:1.3The en­ergy of Je­ru­sem is su­perbly con­trolled and cir­cu­lates about the sphere in the zone chan­nels, which are di­rectly fed from the en­ergy charges of space and ex­pertly ad­min­is­tered by the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. The nat­u­ral re­sis­tance to the pas­sage of these en­er­gies through the phys­i­cal chan­nels of con­duc­tion yields the heat re­quired for the pro­duc­tion of the equable tem­per­a­ture of Je­ru­sem. The full-light tem­per­a­ture is main­tained at about 70 de­grees Fahren­heit, while dur­ing the pe­riod of light re­ces­sion it falls to a lit­tle lower than 50 de­grees.

46:1.4The light­ing sys­tem of Je­ru­sem should not be so dif­fi­cult for you to com­pre­hend. There are no days and nights, no sea­sons of heat and cold. The power trans­form­ers main­tain one hun­dred thou­sand cen­ters from which rar­efied en­er­gies are pro­jected up­ward through the plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere, un­der­go­ing cer­tain changes, un­til they reach the elec­tric air-ceil­ing of the sphere; and then these en­er­gies are re­flected back and down as a gen­tle, sift­ing, and even light of about the in­ten­sity of Uran­tia sun­light when the sun is shin­ing over­head at ten o’clock in the morn­ing.

46:1.5Un­der such con­di­tions of light­ing, the light rays do not seem to come from one place; they just sift out of the sky, em­a­nat­ing equally from all space di­rec­tions. This light is very sim­i­lar to nat­u­ral sun­light ex­cept that it con­tains very much less heat. Thus it will be rec­og­nized that such head­quar­ters worlds are not lu­mi­nous in space; if Je­ru­sem were very near Uran­tia, it would not be vis­i­ble.

46:1.6The gases which re­flect this light-en­ergy from the Je­ru­sem up­per iono­sphere back to the ground are very sim­i­lar to those in the Uran­tia up­per air belts which are con­cerned with the au­ro­ral phe­nom­ena of your so-called north­ern lights, al­though these are pro­duced by dif­fer­ent causes. On Uran­tia it is this same gas shield which pre­vents the es­cape of the ter­res­trial broad­cast waves, re­flect­ing them earth­ward when they strike this gas belt in their di­rect out­ward flight. In this way broad­casts are held near the sur­face as they jour­ney through the air around your world.

46:1.7This light­ing of the sphere is uni­formly main­tained for sev­enty-five per cent of the Je­ru­sem day, and then there is a grad­ual re­ces­sion un­til, at the time of min­i­mum il­lu­mi­na­tion, the light is about that of your full moon on a clear night. This is the quiet hour for all Je­ru­sem. Only the broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing sta­tions are in op­er­a­tion dur­ing this pe­riod of rest and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.

46:1.8Je­ru­sem re­ceives faint light from sev­eral near-by suns—a sort of bril­liant starlight—but it is not de­pen­dent on them; worlds like Je­ru­sem are not sub­ject to the vi­cis­si­tudes of sun dis­tur­bances, nei­ther are they con­fronted with the prob­lem of a cool­ing or dy­ing sun.

46:1.9The seven tran­si­tional study worlds and their forty-nine satel­lites are heated, lighted, en­er­gized, and wa­tered by the Je­ru­sem tech­nique.

• no rugged mountains, oceans, earthquakes, or rainfall

46:2.1On Je­ru­sem you will miss the rugged moun­tain ranges of Uran­tia and other evolved worlds since there are nei­ther earth­quakes nor rain­falls, but you will en­joy the beau­teous high­lands and other unique vari­a­tions of to­pog­ra­phy and land­scape. Enor­mous ar­eas of Je­ru­sem are pre­served in a “nat­u­ral state,” and the grandeur of such dis­tricts is quite be­yond the pow­ers of hu­man imag­i­na­tion.

46:2.2There are thou­sands upon thou­sands of small lakes but no rag­ing rivers nor ex­pan­sive oceans. There is no rain­fall, nei­ther storms nor bliz­zards, on any of the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds, but there is the daily pre­cip­i­ta­tion of the con­den­sa­tion of mois­ture dur­ing the time of low­est tem­per­a­ture at­tend­ing the light re­ces­sion. (The dew point is higher on a three-gas world than on a two-gas planet like Uran­tia.) The phys­i­cal plant life and the mor­ontia world of liv­ing things both re­quire mois­ture, but this is largely sup­plied by the sub­soil sys­tem of cir­cu­la­tion which ex­tends all over the sphere, even up to the very tops of the high­lands. This wa­ter sys­tem is not en­tirely sub­sur­face, for there are many canals in­ter­con­nect­ing the sparkling lakes of Je­ru­sem.

• 3-gas atmosphere

46:2.3The at­mo­sphere of Je­ru­sem is a three-gas mix­ture. This air is very sim­i­lar to that of Uran­tia with the ad­di­tion of a gas adapted to the res­pi­ra­tion of the mor­ontia or­der of life. This third gas in no way un­fits the air for the res­pi­ra­tion of an­i­mals or plants of the ma­te­rial or­ders.

46:2.4The trans­porta­tion sys­tem is al­lied with the cir­cu­la­tory streams of en­ergy move­ment, these main en­ergy cur­rents be­ing lo­cated at ten-mile in­ter­vals. By ad­just­ment of phys­i­cal mech­a­nisms the ma­te­rial be­ings of the planet can pro­ceed at a pace vary­ing from two to five hun­dred miles per hour. The trans­port birds fly at about one hun­dred miles an hour. The air mech­a­nisms of the Ma­te­rial Sons travel around five hun­dred miles per hour. Ma­te­rial and early mor­ontia be­ings must uti­lize these me­chan­i­cal means of trans­port, but spirit per­son­al­i­ties pro­ceed by li­ai­son with the su­pe­rior forces and spirit sources of en­ergy.

• no organic evolution or survival of fittest

46:2.5Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds are en­dowed with the ten stan­dard di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life char­ac­ter­is­tic of the ar­chi­tec­tural spheres of Neb­a­don. And since there is no or­ganic evo­lu­tion on Je­ru­sem, there are no con­flict­ing forms of life, no strug­gle for ex­is­tence, no sur­vival of the fittest. Rather is there a cre­ative adap­ta­tion which fore­shad­ows the beauty, the har­mony, and the per­fec­tion of the eter­nal worlds of the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse. And in all this cre­ative per­fec­tion there is the most amaz­ing in­ter­min­gling of phys­i­cal and of mor­ontia life, ar­tis­ti­cally con­trasted by the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and their fel­lows.

46:2.6Je­ru­sem is in­deed a fore­taste of par­a­di­si­a­cal glory and grandeur. But you can never hope to gain an ad­e­quate idea of these glo­ri­ous ar­chi­tec­tural worlds by any at­tempted de­scrip­tion. There is so lit­tle that can be com­pared with aught on your world, and even then the things of Je­ru­sem so tran­scend the things of Uran­tia that the com­par­i­son is al­most grotesque. Un­til you ac­tu­ally ar­rive on Je­ru­sem, you can hardly en­ter­tain any­thing like a true con­cept of the heav­enly worlds, but that is not so long a time in the fu­ture when your com­ing ex­pe­ri­ence on the sys­tem cap­i­tal is com­pared with your some­time ar­rival on the more re­mote train­ing spheres of the uni­verse, the super­uni­verse, and Ha­vona.

• intricate material economy
• more like earth life than spirit existence

46:2.7The man­u­fac­tur­ing or lab­o­ra­tory sec­tor of Je­ru­sem is an ex­ten­sive do­main, one which Uran­tians would hardly rec­og­nize since it has no smok­ing chim­neys; nev­er­the­less, there is an in­tri­cate ma­te­rial econ­omy as­so­ci­ated with these spe­cial worlds, and there is a per­fec­tion of me­chan­i­cal tech­nique and phys­i­cal achieve­ment which would as­ton­ish and even awe your most ex­pe­ri­enced chemists and in­ven­tors. Pause to con­sider that this first world of de­ten­tion in the Par­a­dise jour­ney is far more ma­te­rial than spir­i­tual. Through­out your stay on Je­ru­sem and its tran­si­tion worlds you are far nearer your earth life of ma­te­rial things than your later life of ad­vanc­ing spirit ex­is­tence.

• transports depart from Mount Seraph

46:2.8Mount Ser­aph is the high­est el­e­va­tion on Je­ru­sem, al­most fif­teen thou­sand feet, and is the point of de­par­ture for all trans­port ser­a­phim. Nu­mer­ous me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ments are used in pro­vid­ing ini­tial en­ergy for es­cap­ing the plan­e­tary grav­ity and over­com­ing the air re­sis­tance. A se­raphic trans­port de­parts ev­ery three sec­onds of Uran­tia time through­out the light pe­riod and, some­times, far into the re­ces­sion. The trans­port­ers take off at about twenty-five stan­dard miles per sec­ond of Uran­tia time and do not at­tain stan­dard ve­loc­ity un­til they are over two thou­sand miles away from Je­ru­sem.

46:2.9Trans­ports ar­rive on the crys­tal field, the so-called sea of glass. Around this area are the re­ceiv­ing sta­tions for the var­i­ous or­ders of be­ings who tra­verse space by se­raphic trans­port. Near the po­lar crys­tal re­ceiv­ing sta­tion for stu­dent vis­i­tors you may as­cend the pearly ob­ser­va­tory and view the im­mense re­lief map of the en­tire head­quar­ters planet.

• amphitheater seats 5 billion

46:3.2This Je­ru­sem broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing sta­tion is en­cir­cled by an enor­mous am­phithe­ater, con­structed of scin­til­lat­ing ma­te­ri­als largely un­known on Uran­tia and seat­ing over five bil­lion be­ings—ma­te­rial and mor­ontia—be­sides ac­com­mo­dat­ing in­nu­mer­able spirit per­son­al­i­ties. It is the fa­vorite di­ver­sion for all Je­ru­sem to spend their leisure at the broad­cast sta­tion, there to learn of the wel­fare and state of the uni­verse. And this is the only plan­e­tary ac­tiv­ity which is not slowed down dur­ing the re­ces­sion of light.

46:4.1Con­sid­er­able por­tions of Je­ru­sem are as­signed as res­i­den­tial ar­eas, while other por­tions of the sys­tem cap­i­tal are given over to the nec­es­sary ad­min­is­tra­tive func­tions in­volv­ing the super­vi­sion of the af­fairs of 619 in­hab­ited spheres, 56 tran­si­tional-cul­ture worlds, and the sys­tem cap­i­tal it­self. On Je­ru­sem and in Neb­a­don these ar­range­ments are de­signed as fol­lows:

46:4.21. The cir­cles—the non­na­tive res­i­den­tial ar­eas.

46:4.32. The squares—the sys­tem ex­ec­u­tive-ad­min­is­tra­tive ar­eas.

• rectangles of lower native life, spornagia

46:4.43. The rect­an­gles—the ren­dezvous of the lower na­tive life.

46:4.54. The tri­an­gles—the lo­cal or Je­ru­sem ad­min­is­tra­tive ar­eas.

46:4.6This ar­range­ment of the sys­tem ac­tiv­i­ties into cir­cles, squares, rect­an­gles, and tri­an­gles is com­mon to all the sys­tem cap­i­tals of Neb­a­don. In an­other uni­verse an en­tirely dif­fer­ent ar­range­ment might pre­vail. These are mat­ters de­ter­mined by the di­verse plans of the Cre­ator Sons.

46:4.7Our nar­ra­tive of these res­i­den­tial and ad­min­is­tra­tive ar­eas takes no ac­count of the vast and beau­ti­ful es­tates of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God, the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem, nei­ther do we men­tion nu­mer­ous other fas­ci­nat­ing or­ders of spirit and near-spirit crea­tures. For ex­am­ple: Je­ru­sem en­joys the ef­fi­cient ser­vices of the spironga of de­sign for sys­tem func­tion. These be­ings are de­voted to spir­i­tual min­istry in be­half of the super­ma­te­rial res­i­dents and vis­i­tors. They are a won­der­ful group of in­tel­li­gent and beau­ti­ful be­ings who are the tran­si­tion ser­vants of the higher mor­ontia crea­tures and of the mor­ontia helpers who la­bor for the up­keep and em­bel­lish­ment of all mor­ontia cre­ations. They are on Je­ru­sem what the mid­way crea­tures are on Uran­tia, mid­way helpers func­tion­ing be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual.

46:4.8The sys­tem cap­i­tals are unique in that they are the only worlds which ex­hibit well-nigh per­fectly all three phases of uni­verse ex­is­tence: the ma­te­rial, the mor­ontial, and the spir­i­tual. Whether you are a ma­te­rial, mor­ontia, or spirit per­son­al­ity, you will feel at home on Je­ru­sem; so also do the com­bined be­ings, such as the mid­way crea­tures and the Ma­te­rial Sons.

46:4.9Je­ru­sem has great build­ings of both ma­te­rial and mor­ontia types, while the em­bel­lish­ment of the purely spir­i­tual zones is no less ex­qui­site and re­plete. If I only had words to tell you of the mor­ontia coun­ter­parts of the mar­velous phys­i­cal equip­ment of Je­ru­sem! If I could only go on to por­tray the sub­lime grandeur and ex­qui­site per­fec­tion of the spir­i­tual ap­point­ments of this head­quar­ters world! Your most imag­i­na­tive con­cept of per­fec­tion of beauty and re­plete­ness of ap­point­ment would hardly ap­proach these grandeurs. And Je­ru­sem is but the first step on the way to the su­per­nal per­fec­tion of Par­a­dise beauty.

46:5.1The res­i­den­tial reser­va­tions as­signed to the ma­jor groups of uni­verse life are des­ig­nated the Je­ru­sem cir­cles. Those cir­cle groups which find men­tion in these nar­ra­tives are the fol­low­ing:

46:5.21. The cir­cles of the Sons of God.

46:5.32. The cir­cles of the an­gels and higher spir­its.

46:5.43. The cir­cles of the Uni­verse Aids, in­clud­ing the crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons not as­signed to the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

46:5.54. The cir­cles of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

46:5.65. The cir­cles of the as­signed as­cend­ing mor­tals, in­clud­ing the mid­way crea­tures.

46:5.76. The cir­cles of the cour­tesy colonies.

46:5.87. The cir­cles of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

46:5.9Each of these res­i­den­tial group­ings con­sists of seven con­cen­tric and suc­ces­sively el­e­vated cir­cles. They are all con­structed along the same lines but are of dif­fer­ent sizes and are fash­ioned of dif­fer­ing ma­te­ri­als. They are all sur­rounded by far-reach­ing en­clo­sures, which mount up to form ex­ten­sive prom­e­nades en­tirely en­com­pass­ing ev­ery group of seven con­cen­tric cir­cles.

46:5.101. Cir­cles of the Sons of God. Though the Sons of God pos­sess a so­cial planet of their own, one of the tran­si­tional-cul­ture worlds, they also oc­cupy these ex­ten­sive do­mains on Je­ru­sem. On their tran­si­tional-cul­ture world the as­cend­ing mor­tals freely min­gle with all or­ders of di­vine son­ship. There you will per­son­ally know and love these Sons, but their so­cial life is largely con­fined to this spe­cial world and its satel­lites. In the Je­ru­sem cir­cles, how­ever, these var­i­ous groups of son­ship may be ob­served at work. And since mor­ontia vi­sion is of enor­mous range, you can walk about on the Sons’ prom­e­nades and over­look the in­trigu­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of their nu­mer­ous or­ders.

46:5.11These seven cir­cles of the Sons are con­cen­tric and suc­ces­sively el­e­vated so that each of the outer and larger cir­cles over­looks the in­ner and smaller ones, each be­ing sur­rounded by a pub­lic prom­e­nade wall. These walls are con­structed of crys­tal gems of gleam­ing bright­ness and are so el­e­vated as to over­look all of their re­spec­tive res­i­den­tial cir­cles. The many gates—from fifty to one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand—which pen­e­trate each of these walls con­sist of sin­gle pearly crys­tals.

46:5.12The first cir­cle of the do­main of the Sons is oc­cu­pied by the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and their per­sonal staffs. Here cen­ter all of the plans and im­me­di­ate ac­tiv­i­ties of the be­stowal and ad­ju­di­ca­tional ser­vices of these ju­ridi­cal Sons. It is also through this cen­ter that the Avo­nals of the sys­tem main­tain con­tact with the uni­verse.

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.

46:5.14The third cir­cle is de­voted to the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Here the sys­tem chiefs re­side and super­vise the al­most end­less ac­tiv­i­ties of these ver­sa­tile Sons. From the first of the man­sion worlds on through all the Je­ru­sem ca­reer of as­cend­ing mor­tals, the Mel­chiz­e­deks are fos­ter fa­thers and ever-pres­ent ad­vis­ers. It would not be amiss to say that they are the dom­i­nant in­flu­ence on Je­ru­sem aside from the ever-pres­ent ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters.

46:5.15The fourth cir­cle is the home of the Voron­dadeks and all other or­ders of the vis­it­ing and ob­server Sons who are not oth­er­wise pro­vided for. The Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers take up their abode in this cir­cle when on vis­its of in­spec­tion to the lo­cal sys­tem. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors all re­side in this cir­cle when on duty in the sys­tem.

46:5.16The fifth cir­cle is the abode of the La­non­an­deks, the son­ship or­der of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and the Plan­e­tary Princes. The three groups min­gle as one when at home in this do­main. The sys­tem re­serves are held in this cir­cle, while the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign has a tem­ple sit­u­ated at the cen­ter of the gov­ern­ing group of struc­tures on ad­min­is­tra­tion hill.

46:5.17The sixth cir­cle is the tar­ry­ing place of the sys­tem Life Car­ri­ers. All or­ders of these Sons are here as­sem­bled, and from here they go forth on their world as­sign­ments.

46:5.18The sev­enth cir­cle is the ren­dezvous of the as­cend­ing sons, those as­signed mor­tals who may be tem­porar­ily func­tion­ing on the sys­tem head­quar­ters, to­gether with their se­raphic con­sorts. All ex-mor­tals above the sta­tus of Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens and be­low that of fi­nal­i­ters are reck­oned as be­long­ing to the group hav­ing its head­quar­ters in this cir­cle.

• Michael memorial

46:5.19These cir­cu­lar reser­va­tions of the Sons oc­cupy an enor­mous area, and un­til nine­teen hun­dred years ago there ex­isted a great open space at its cen­ter. This cen­tral re­gion is now oc­cu­pied by the Mi­chael memo­rial, com­pleted some five hun­dred years ago. Four hun­dred and ninety-five years ago, when this tem­ple was ded­i­cated, Mi­chael was pres­ent in per­son, and all Je­ru­sem heard the touch­ing story of the Mas­ter Son’s be­stowal on Uran­tia, the least of Sa­ta­nia. The Mi­chael memo­rial is now the cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties em­braced in the mod­i­fied man­age­ment of the sys­tem oc­ca­sioned by Mi­chael’s be­stowal, in­clud­ing most of the more re­cently trans­planted Sal­ving­ton ac­tiv­i­ties. The memo­rial staff con­sists of over one mil­lion per­son­al­i­ties.

46:5.202. The cir­cles of the an­gels. Like the res­i­den­tial area of the Sons, these cir­cles of the an­gels con­sist of seven con­cen­tric and suc­ces­sively el­e­vated cir­cles, each over­look­ing the in­ner ar­eas.

46:5.21The first cir­cle of the an­gels is oc­cu­pied by the Higher Per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit who may be sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters world—Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and their as­so­ciates. The sec­ond cir­cle is ded­i­cated to the mes­sen­ger hosts, Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, com­pan­ions, in­spec­tors, and re­cord­ers as they may chance to func­tion on Je­ru­sem from time to time. The third cir­cle is held by the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of the higher or­ders and group­ings.

• temples of Material Sons, power, records

46:5.22The fourth cir­cle is held by the ad­min­is­tra­tor ser­a­phim, and the ser­a­phim serv­ing in a lo­cal sys­tem like Sa­ta­nia are an “in­nu­mer­able host of an­gels.” The fifth cir­cle is oc­cu­pied by the plan­e­tary ser­a­phim, while the sixth is the home of the tran­si­tion min­is­ters. The sev­enth cir­cle is the tar­ry­ing sphere of cer­tain un­re­vealed or­ders of ser­a­phim. The re­cord­ers of all these groups of an­gels do not so­journ with their fel­lows, be­ing domi­ciled in the Je­ru­sem tem­ple of rec­ords. All rec­ords are pre­served in trip­li­cate in this three­fold hall of ar­chives. On a sys­tem head­quar­ters, rec­ords are al­ways pre­served in ma­te­rial, in mor­ontia, and in spirit form.

• exhibit panorama, 35,000 miles around with 14-mile erasure

46:5.23These seven cir­cles are sur­rounded by the ex­hibit pan­o­rama of Je­ru­sem, five thou­sand stan­dard miles in cir­cum­fer­ence, which is de­voted to the pre­sen­ta­tion of the ad­vanc­ing sta­tus of the peo­pled worlds of Sa­ta­nia and is con­stantly re­vised so as to truly rep­re­sent up-to-date con­di­tions on the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. I doubt not that this vast prom­e­nade over­look­ing the cir­cles of the an­gels will be the first sight of Je­ru­sem to claim your at­ten­tion when you are per­mit­ted ex­tended leisure on your ear­lier vis­its.

46:5.24These ex­hibits are in charge of the na­tive life of Je­ru­sem, but they are as­sisted by the as­cend­ers from the var­i­ous Sa­ta­nia worlds who are tar­ry­ing on Je­ru­sem en route to Eden­tia. The por­trayal of plan­e­tary con­di­tions and world prog­ress is ef­fected by many meth­ods, some known to you, but mostly by tech­niques un­known on Uran­tia. These ex­hibits oc­cupy the outer edge of this vast wall. The re­main­der of the prom­e­nade is al­most en­tirely open, be­ing highly and mag­nif­i­cently em­bel­lished.

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.

• forbidden zones
• temples of Material Sons, power, records

46:5.264. The cir­cles of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. The var­i­ous or­ders of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers are con­cen­tri­cally ar­ranged around the vast tem­ple of power, wherein pre­sides the power chief of the sys­tem in as­so­ci­a­tion with the chief of the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors. This tem­ple of power is one of two sec­tors on Je­ru­sem where as­cend­ing mor­tals and mid­way crea­tures are not per­mit­ted. The other one is the de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing sec­tor in the area of the Ma­te­rial Sons, a se­ries of lab­o­ra­to­ries wherein the trans­port ser­a­phim trans­form ma­te­rial be­ings into a state quite like that of the mor­ontia or­der of ex­is­tence.

• 619 planetary memorials
• working model of Edentia worlds

46:5.275. The cir­cles of the as­cend­ing mor­tals. The cen­tral area of the cir­cles of the as­cend­ing mor­tals is oc­cu­pied by a group of 619 plan­e­tary memo­ri­als rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the in­hab­ited worlds of the sys­tem, and these struc­tures pe­ri­od­i­cally un­dergo ex­ten­sive changes. It is the priv­i­lege of the mor­tals from each world to agree, from time to time, upon cer­tain of the al­ter­ations or ad­di­tions to their plan­e­tary memo­ri­als. Many changes are even now be­ing made in the Uran­tia struc­tures. The cen­ter of these 619 tem­ples is oc­cu­pied by a work­ing model of Eden­tia and its many worlds of as­cen­dant cul­ture. This model is forty miles in di­am­e­ter and is an ac­tual re­pro­duc­tion of the Eden­tia sys­tem, true to the orig­i­nal in ev­ery de­tail.

46:5.28As­cend­ers en­joy their Je­ru­sem ser­vices and take plea­sure in ob­serv­ing the tech­niques of other groups. Ev­ery­thing done in these var­i­ous cir­cles is open to the full ob­ser­va­tion of all Je­ru­sem.

• undedicated vacant temple; sealed by Gabriel

46:5.327. The cir­cles of the fi­nal­i­ters have a unique struc­ture at the cen­ter. And this same va­cant tem­ple is found on ev­ery sys­tem head­quar­ters world through­out Neb­a­don. This ed­i­fice on Je­ru­sem is sealed with the in­signia of Mi­chael, and it bears this in­scrip­tion: “Unded­i­cated to the sev­enth stage of spirit—to the eter­nal as­sign­ment.” Ga­briel placed the seal on this tem­ple of mys­tery, and none but Mi­chael can or may break the seal of sov­er­eignty af­fixed by the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Some day you shall look upon this silent tem­ple, even though you may not pen­e­trate its mys­tery.

46:5.33Other Je­ru­sem cir­cles: In ad­di­tion to these res­i­den­tial cir­cles there are on Je­ru­sem nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional des­ig­nated abodes.

46:6.1The ex­ec­u­tive-ad­min­is­tra­tive di­vi­sions of the sys­tem are lo­cated in the im­mense de­part­men­tal squares, one thou­sand in num­ber. Each ad­min­is­tra­tive unit is di­vided into one hun­dred sub­di­vi­sions of ten sub­groups each. These one thou­sand squares are clus­tered in ten grand di­vi­sions, thus con­sti­tut­ing the fol­low­ing ten ad­min­is­tra­tive de­part­ments:

46:6.21. Phys­i­cal main­te­nance and ma­te­rial im­prove­ment, the do­mains of phys­i­cal power and en­ergy.

46:6.32. Ar­bi­tra­tion, ethics, and ad­min­is­tra­tive ad­ju­di­ca­tion.

46:6.43. Plan­e­tary and lo­cal af­fairs.

46:6.54. Con­stel­la­tion and uni­verse af­fairs.

46:6.65. Ed­u­ca­tion and other Mel­chiz­e­dek ac­tiv­i­ties.

46:6.76. Plan­e­tary and sys­tem phys­i­cal prog­ress, the sci­en­tific do­mains of Sa­ta­nia ac­tiv­i­ties.

46:6.87. Mor­ontia af­fairs.

46:6.98. Pure spirit ac­tiv­i­ties and ethics.

46:6.109. As­cen­dant min­istry.

46:6.1110. Grand uni­verse phi­los­o­phy.

• many buildings made of crystal gems

46:6.12These struc­tures are trans­par­ent; hence all sys­tem ac­tiv­i­ties can be viewed even by stu­dent vis­i­tors.

46:7.1The one thou­sand rect­an­gles of Je­ru­sem are oc­cu­pied by the lower na­tive life of the head­quar­ters planet, and at their cen­ter is sit­u­ated the vast cir­cu­lar head­quar­ters of the sporna­gia.

46:7.2On Je­ru­sem you will be amazed by the ag­ri­cul­tural achieve­ments of the won­der­ful sporna­gia. There the land is cul­ti­vated largely for aes­thetic and or­na­men­tal ef­fects. The sporna­gia are the land­scape gar­den­ers of the head­quar­ters worlds, and they are both orig­i­nal and artis­tic in their treat­ment of the open spaces of Je­ru­sem. They uti­lize both an­i­mals and nu­mer­ous me­chan­i­cal con­trivances in the cul­ture of the soil. They are in­tel­li­gently ex­pert in the em­ploy­ment of the power agen­cies of their realms as well as in the uti­liza­tion of nu­mer­ous or­ders of their lesser breth­ren of the lower an­i­mal cre­ations, many of which are pro­vided them on these spe­cial worlds. This or­der of an­i­mal life is now largely di­rected by the as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures from the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres.

46:7.3Sporna­gia are not Ad­juster in­dwelt. They do not pos­sess sur­vival souls, but they do en­joy long lives, some­times to the ex­tent of forty to fifty thou­sand stan­dard years. Their num­ber is le­gion, and they af­ford phys­i­cal min­istry to all or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties re­quir­ing ma­te­rial ser­vice.

46:7.4Al­though sporna­gia nei­ther pos­sess nor evolve sur­vival souls, though they do not have per­son­al­ity, nev­er­the­less, they do evolve an in­di­vid­u­al­ity which can ex­pe­ri­ence rein­car­na­tion. When, with the pass­ing of time, the phys­i­cal bod­ies of these unique crea­tures de­te­ri­o­rate from us­age and age, their cre­ators, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Life Car­ri­ers, fab­ri­cate new bod­ies in which the old sporna­gia re-es­tab­lish their res­i­dences.

46:7.5Sporna­gia are the only crea­tures in all the uni­verse of Neb­a­don who ex­pe­ri­ence this or any other sort of rein­car­na­tion. They are only re­ac­tive to the first five of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its; they are not re­spon­sive to the spir­its of wor­ship and wis­dom. But the five-ad­ju­tant mind equiv­alates to a to­tal­ity or sixth re­al­ity level, and it is this fac­tor which per­sists as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial iden­tity.

46:7.6I am quite with­out com­par­isons in un­der­tak­ing to de­scribe these use­ful and un­usual crea­tures as there are no an­i­mals on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds com­pa­ra­ble to them. They are not evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings, hav­ing been pro­jected by the Life Car­ri­ers in their pres­ent form and sta­tus. They are bi­sex­ual and pro­cre­ate as they are re­quired to meet the needs of a grow­ing pop­u­la­tion.

46:7.7Per­haps I can best sug­gest to Uran­tia minds some­thing of the na­ture of these beau­ti­ful and ser­vice­able crea­tures by say­ing that they em­brace the com­bined traits of a faith­ful horse and an af­fec­tion­ate dog and man­i­fest an in­tel­li­gence ex­ceed­ing that of the high­est type of chim­panzee. And they are very beau­ti­ful, as judged by the phys­i­cal stan­dards of Uran­tia. They are most ap­pre­cia­tive of the at­ten­tions shown them by the ma­te­rial and semi­ma­te­rial so­journ­ers on these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds. They have a vi­sion which per­mits them to rec­og­nize—in ad­di­tion to ma­te­rial be­ings—the mor­ontia cre­ations, the lower an­gelic or­ders, mid­way crea­tures, and some of the lower or­ders of spirit per­son­al­i­ties. They do not com­pre­hend wor­ship of the In­fi­nite, nor do they grasp the im­port of the Eter­nal, but they do, through af­fec­tion for their mas­ters, join in the out­ward spir­i­tual de­vo­tions of their realms.

46:7.8There are those who be­lieve that, in a fu­ture uni­verse age, these faith­ful sporna­gia will es­cape from their an­i­mal level of ex­is­tence and at­tain a wor­thy evo­lu­tional des­tiny of pro­gres­sive in­tel­lec­tual growth and even spir­i­tual achieve­ment.

• exhibit panorama, 35,000 miles around with 14-mile erasure

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.

46:8.2When Sa­ta­nia can re­turn to the con­stel­la­tion fold, then will come up for con­sid­er­a­tion the read­mis­sion of the iso­lated worlds into the sys­tem fam­ily of in­hab­ited plan­ets, ac­com­pa­nied by their restora­tion to the spir­i­tual com­mu­nion of the realms. But even if Uran­tia were re­stored to the sys­tem cir­cuits, you would still be em­bar­rassed by the fact that your whole sys­tem rests un­der a Nor­la­ti­adek quar­an­tine par­tially seg­re­gat­ing it from all other sys­tems.

46:8.3But ere long, the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of Lu­cifer and his as­so­ciates will re­store the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem to the Nor­la­ti­adek con­stel­la­tion, and sub­se­quently, Uran­tia and the other iso­lated spheres will be re­stored to the Sa­ta­nia cir­cuits, and again will such worlds en­joy the priv­i­leges of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion and in­ter­sys­tem com­mu­nion.

46:8.4There will come an end for rebels and re­bel­lion. The Su­preme Rulers are mer­ci­ful and pa­tient, but the law of de­lib­er­ately nour­ished evil is uni­ver­sally and unerringly ex­e­cuted. “The wages of sin is death”—eter­nal oblit­er­a­tion.

46:8.5[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel of Neb­a­don.]

46:3.1The super­uni­verse and Par­a­dise-Ha­vona broad­casts are re­ceived on Je­ru­sem in li­ai­son with Sal­ving­ton and by a tech­nique in­volv­ing the po­lar crys­tal, the sea of glass. In ad­di­tion to pro­vi­sions for the re­cep­tion of these ex­tra-Neb­a­don com­mu­ni­ca­tions, there are three dis­tinct groups of re­ceiv­ing sta­tions. These sep­a­rate but tri­cir­cu­lar groups of sta­tions are ad­justed to the re­cep­tion of broad­casts from the lo­cal worlds, from the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, and from the cap­i­tal of the lo­cal uni­verse. All these broad­casts are au­to­mat­i­cally dis­played so as to be dis­cern­i­ble by all types of be­ings pres­ent in the cen­tral broad­cast am­phithe­ater; of all pre­oc­cu­pa­tions for an as­cen­dant mor­tal on Je­ru­sem, none is more en­gag­ing and en­gross­ing than that of lis­ten­ing in on the never-end­ing stream of uni­verse space re­ports.

46:3.3At this broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing am­phithe­ater the Sal­ving­ton mes­sages are com­ing in con­tin­u­ously. Near by, the Eden­tia word of the Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers is re­ceived at least once a day. Pe­ri­od­i­cally the reg­u­lar and spe­cial broad­casts of Uversa are re­layed through Sal­ving­ton, and when Par­a­dise mes­sages are in re­cep­tion, the en­tire pop­u­la­tion is as­sem­bled around the sea of glass, and the Uversa friends add the re­flec­tiv­ity phe­nom­ena to the tech­nique of the Par­a­dise broad­cast so that ev­ery­thing heard be­comes vis­i­ble. And it is in this man­ner that con­tin­ual fore­tastes of ad­vanc­ing beauty and grandeur are af­forded the mor­tal sur­vivors as they jour­ney in­ward on the eter­nal ad­ven­ture.

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.

• mansion worlds swing around world #1

47:0.1The Cre­ator Son, when on Uran­tia, spoke of the “many man­sions in the Fa­ther’s uni­verse.” In a cer­tain sense, all fifty-six of the en­cir­cling worlds of Je­ru­sem are de­voted to the tran­si­tional cul­ture of as­cend­ing mor­tals, but the seven satel­lites of world num­ber one are more specif­i­cally known as the man­sion worlds.

47:0.2Tran­si­tion world num­ber one it­self is quite ex­clu­sively de­voted to as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties, be­ing the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ter corps as­signed to Sa­ta­nia. This world now serves as the head­quar­ters for more than one hun­dred thou­sand com­pa­nies of fi­nal­i­ters, and there are one thou­sand glo­ri­fied be­ings in each of these groups.

45:7.6Suf­frage is uni­ver­sal on Je­ru­sem among these three groups of cit­i­zen­ship, but the vote is dif­fer­en­tially cast in ac­cor­dance with the rec­og­nized and duly reg­is­tered per­sonal pos­ses­sion of mota—mor­ontia wis­dom. The vote cast at a Je­ru­sem elec­tion by any one per­son­al­ity has a value rang­ing from one up to one thou­sand. Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens are thus clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with their mota achieve­ment.