Lanaforge

45:2.4While all the af­fairs of the iso­lated worlds of Sa­ta­nia have not been re­turned to his ju­ris­dic­tion, Lanaforge dis­closes great in­ter­est in their wel­fare, and he is a fre­quent vis­i­tor on Uran­tia. As in other and nor­mal sys­tems, the Sov­er­eign pre­sides over the sys­tem coun­cil of world rulers, the Plan­e­tary Princes and the res­i­dent gov­er­nors gen­eral of the iso­lated worlds. This plan­e­tary coun­cil as­sem­bles from time to time on the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem—“When the Sons of God come to­gether.”

72:0.1By per­mis­sion of Lanaforge and with the ap­proval of the Most Highs of Eden­tia, I am au­tho­rized to nar­rate some­thing of the so­cial, moral, and po­lit­i­cal life of the most ad­vanced hu­man race liv­ing on a not far-dis­tant planet be­long­ing to the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem.

72:12.3This recital of the af­fairs of a neigh­bor­ing planet is made by spe­cial per­mis­sion with the in­tent of ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion and aug­ment­ing gov­ern­men­tal evo­lu­tion on Uran­tia. Much more could be nar­rated that would no doubt in­ter­est and in­trigue Uran­tians, but this dis­clo­sure cov­ers the lim­its of our per­mis­sive man­date.

45:2.2In Sa­ta­nia, even af­ter this dis­as­trous up­heaval, ab­so­lutely no changes have been made in the tech­nique of sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion. The pres­ent Sys­tem Sov­er­eign pos­sesses all the power and ex­er­cises all the au­thor­ity that were in­vested in his un­wor­thy pre­de­ces­sor ex­cept for cer­tain mat­ters now un­der the super­vi­sion of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers which the An­cients of Days have not yet fully re­stored to Lanaforge, the suc­ces­sor of Lu­cifer.

45:2.3The pres­ent head of Sa­ta­nia is a gra­cious and bril­liant ruler, and he is a re­bel­lion-tested sov­er­eign. When serv­ing as an as­sis­tant Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lanaforge was faith­ful to Mi­chael in an ear­lier up­heaval in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. This mighty and bril­liant Lord of Sa­ta­nia is a tried and tested ad­min­is­tra­tor. At the time of the sec­ond sys­tem re­bel­lion in Neb­a­don, when the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign stum­bled and fell into dark­ness, Lanaforge, the first as­sis­tant to the erring chief, seized the reins of gov­ern­ment and so con­ducted the af­fairs of the sys­tem that com­par­a­tively few per­son­al­i­ties were lost ei­ther on the head­quar­ters worlds or on the in­hab­ited plan­ets of that un­for­tu­nate sys­tem. Lanaforge bears the dis­tinc­tion of be­ing the only pri­mary La­non­an­dek Son in all Neb­a­don who thus func­tioned loy­ally in the ser­vice of Mi­chael and in the very pres­ence of the de­fault of his brother of su­pe­rior au­thor­ity and an­te­ced­ent rank. Lanaforge will prob­a­bly not be re­moved from Je­ru­sem un­til all the re­sults of the for­mer folly have been over­come and the prod­ucts of re­bel­lion re­moved from Sa­ta­nia.

45:3.21. The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign—Lanaforge, num­ber 2,709 of the pri­mary or­der and suc­ces­sor to the apos­tate Lu­cifer.

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.

53:7.13With the ar­rival of Lanaforge the arch­re­bels were de­throned and shorn of all gov­ern­ing pow­ers, though they were per­mit­ted freely to go about Je­ru­sem, the mor­ontia spheres, and even to the in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited worlds. They con­tin­ued their de­cep­tive and se­duc­tive ef­forts to con­fuse and mis­lead the minds of men and an­gels. But as con­cerned their work on the ad­min­is­tra­tive mount of Je­ru­sem, “their place was found no more.”

93:3.2Mel­chiz­e­dek taught the con­cept of one God, a uni­ver­sal De­ity, but he al­lowed the peo­ple to as­so­ciate this teach­ing with the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek, whom he termed El Elyon—the Most High. Mel­chiz­e­dek re­mained all but silent as to the sta­tus of Lu­cifer and the state of af­fairs on Je­ru­sem. Lanaforge, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, had lit­tle to do with Uran­tia un­til af­ter the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal. To a ma­jor­ity of the Salem stu­dents Eden­tia was heaven and the Most High was God.

114:2.4The mem­bers of this same com­mis­sion of for­mer Uran­tians also act as ad­vi­sory super­vi­sors of the thirty-six other re­bel­lion-iso­lated worlds of the sys­tem; they per­form a very valu­able ser­vice in keep­ing Lanaforge, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, in close and sym­pa­thetic touch with the af­fairs of these plan­ets, which still re­main more or less un­der the over­con­trol of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Nor­la­ti­adek. These twenty-four coun­selors make fre­quent trips as in­di­vid­u­als to each of the quar­an­tined plan­ets, es­pe­cially to Uran­tia.

76:6.2They did not long rest in the obliv­ion of the un­con­scious sleep of the mor­tals of the realm. On the third day af­ter Adam’s death, the sec­ond fol­low­ing his rev­er­ent burial, the or­ders of Lanaforge, sus­tained by the act­ing Most High of Eden­tia and con­curred in by the Union of Days on Sal­ving­ton, act­ing for Mi­chael, were placed in Ga­briel’s hands, di­rect­ing the spe­cial roll call of the dis­tin­guished sur­vivors of the Adamic de­fault on Uran­tia. And in ac­cor­dance with this man­date of spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, num­ber twenty-six of the Uran­tia se­ries, Adam and Eve were reper­son­al­ized and re­assem­bled in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia to­gether with 1,316 of their as­so­ciates in the ex­pe­ri­ence of the first gar­den. Many other loyal souls had al­ready been trans­lated at the time of Adam’s ar­rival, which was at­tended by a dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tion of both the sleep­ing sur­vivors and of the liv­ing qual­i­fied as­cend­ers.

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.