Lanonandek Sons

35:8.1Af­ter the cre­ation of the Voron­dadeks, the Cre­ator Son and the Uni­verse Mother Spirit unite for the pur­pose of bring­ing into ex­is­tence the third or­der of uni­verse son­ship, the La­non­an­deks. Al­though oc­cu­pied with var­ied tasks con­nected with the sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tions, they are best known as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, the rulers of the lo­cal sys­tems, and as Plan­e­tary Princes, the ad­min­is­tra­tive heads of the in­hab­ited worlds.

35:8.2Be­ing a later and lower—as con­cerns di­vin­ity lev­els—or­der of son­ship cre­ation, these be­ings were re­quired to pass through cer­tain courses of train­ing on the Mel­chiz­e­dek worlds in prepa­ra­tion for sub­se­quent ser­vice. They were the first stu­dents in the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity and were clas­si­fied and cer­ti­fied by their Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ers and ex­am­in­ers ac­cord­ing to abil­ity, per­son­al­ity, and at­tain­ment.

35:8.3The uni­verse of Neb­a­don be­gan its ex­is­tence with ex­actly twelve mil­lion La­non­an­deks, and when they had passed through the Mel­chiz­e­dek sphere, they were di­vided in the fi­nal tests into three classes:

35:8.41. Pri­mary La­non­an­deks. Of the high­est rank there were 709,841. These are the Sons des­ig­nated as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as­sis­tants to the su­preme coun­cils of the con­stel­la­tions and as coun­selors in the higher ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the uni­verse.

35:8.52. Sec­ondary La­non­an­deks. Of this or­der emerg­ing from Mel­chiz­e­dek there were 10,234,601. They are as­signed as Plan­e­tary Princes and to the re­serves of that or­der.

35:8.63. Ter­tiary La­non­an­deks. This group con­tained 1,055,558. These Sons func­tion as sub­or­di­nate as­sis­tants, mes­sen­gers, cus­to­di­ans, com­mis­sion­ers, ob­servers, and pros­e­cute the mis­cel­la­neous du­ties of a sys­tem and its com­po­nent worlds.

35:8.7It is not pos­si­ble, as it is with evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings, for these Sons to pro­gress from one group to an­other. When sub­jected to the Mel­chiz­e­dek train­ing, when once tested and clas­si­fied, they serve con­tin­u­ously in the rank as­signed. Nei­ther do these Sons en­gage in re­pro­duc­tion; their num­ber in the uni­verse is sta­tion­ary.

35:8.8In round num­bers the La­non­an­dek or­der of Sons is clas­si­fied on Sal­ving­ton as fol­lows:

35:8.9Uni­verse Co-or­di­na­tors and Con­stel­la­tion Coun­selors 100,000

35:8.10Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and As­sis­tants 600,000

35:8.11Plan­e­tary Princes and Re­serves 10,000,000

35:8.12Mes­sen­ger Corps 400,000

35:8.13Cus­to­di­ans and Re­cord­ers 100,000

35:8.14Re­serve Corps 800,000

35:8.15Since La­non­an­deks are a some­what lower or­der of son­ship than the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the Voron­dadeks, they are of even greater ser­vice in the sub­or­di­nate units of the uni­verse, for they are ca­pa­ble of draw­ing nearer the lower crea­tures of the in­tel­li­gent races. They also stand in greater dan­ger of go­ing astray, of de­part­ing from the ac­cept­able tech­nique of uni­verse gov­ern­ment. But these La­non­an­deks, es­pe­cially the pri­mary or­der, are the most able and ver­sa­tile of all lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. In ex­ec­u­tive abil­ity they are ex­celled only by Ga­briel and his un­re­vealed as­so­ciates.

35:9.1The La­non­an­deks are the con­tin­u­ous rulers of the plan­ets and the ro­tat­ing sov­er­eigns of the sys­tems. Such a Son now rules on Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

35:9.2The Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns rule in com­mis­sions of two or three on the head­quar­ters of each sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds. The Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther names one of these La­non­an­deks as chief ev­ery dekamil­len­nium. Some­times no change in the head of the trio is made, the mat­ter be­ing en­tirely op­tional with the con­stel­la­tion rulers. Sys­tem gov­ern­ments do not sud­denly change in per­son­nel un­less a tragedy of some sort oc­curs.

35:9.3When Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns or as­sis­tants are re­called, their places are filled by se­lec­tions made by the su­preme coun­cil lo­cated on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters from the re­serves of that or­der, a group which is larger on Eden­tia than the av­er­age in­di­cated.

35:9.4The su­preme La­non­an­dek coun­cils are sta­tioned on the var­i­ous con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters. Such a body is pre­sided over by the se­nior Most High as­so­ciate of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther, while the ju­nior as­so­ciate super­vises the re­serves of the sec­ondary or­der.

35:9.5The Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns are true to their names; they are well-nigh sov­er­eign in the lo­cal af­fairs of the in­hab­ited worlds. They are al­most pa­ter­nal in their di­rec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Princes, the Ma­te­rial Sons, and the min­is­ter­ing spir­its. The per­sonal grasp of the sov­er­eign is all but com­plete. These rulers are not super­vised by Trin­ity ob­servers from the cen­tral uni­verse. They are the ex­ec­u­tive di­vi­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse, and as cus­to­di­ans of the en­force­ment of leg­isla­tive man­dates and as ex­ec­u­tives for the ap­pli­ca­tion of ju­di­cial ver­dicts, they pre­sent the one place in all uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion where per­sonal dis­loy­alty to the will of the Mi­chael Son could most eas­ily and read­ily in­trench it­self and seek to as­sert it­self.

35:9.6Our lo­cal uni­verse has been un­for­tu­nate in that over seven hun­dred Sons of the La­non­an­dek or­der have re­belled against the uni­verse gov­ern­ment, thus pre­cip­i­tat­ing con­fu­sion in sev­eral sys­tems and on nu­mer­ous plan­ets. Of this en­tire num­ber of fail­ures only three were Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns; prac­ti­cally all of these Sons be­longed to the sec­ond and third or­ders, Plan­e­tary Princes and ter­tiary La­non­an­deks.

35:9.7The large num­ber of these Sons who have lapsed from in­tegrity does not in­di­cate any fault in cre­ator­ship. They could have been made di­vinely per­fect, but they were so cre­ated that they might bet­ter un­der­stand, and draw near to, the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures dwell­ing on the worlds of time and space.

35:9.8Of all the lo­cal uni­verses in Or­von­ton, our uni­verse has, with the ex­cep­tion of Henselon, lost the largest num­ber of this or­der of Sons. On Uversa it is the con­sen­sus that we have had so much ad­min­is­tra­tive trou­ble in Neb­a­don be­cause our Sons of the La­non­an­dek or­der have been cre­ated with such a large de­gree of per­sonal lib­erty in choos­ing and plan­ning. I do not make this ob­ser­va­tion by way of crit­i­cism. The Cre­ator of our uni­verse has full au­thor­ity and power to do this. It is the con­tention of our high rulers that, while such free-choos­ing Sons make ex­ces­sive trou­ble in the ear­lier ages of the uni­verse, when things are fully sifted and fi­nally set­tled, the gains of higher loy­alty and fuller vo­li­tional ser­vice on the part of these thor­oughly tested Sons will far more than com­pen­sate for the con­fu­sion and tribu­la­tions of ear­lier times.

35:9.9In the event of re­bel­lion on a sys­tem head­quar­ters, a new sov­er­eign is usu­ally in­stalled within a com­par­a­tively short time, but not so on the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. They are the com­po­nent units of the ma­te­rial cre­ation, and crea­ture free will is a fac­tor in the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of all such prob­lems. Suc­ces­sor Plan­e­tary Princes are des­ig­nated for iso­lated worlds, plan­ets whose princes of au­thor­ity may have gone astray, but they do not as­sume ac­tive ruler­ship of such worlds un­til the re­sults of in­sur­rec­tion are par­tially over­come and re­moved by the re­me­dial mea­sures adopted by the Mel­chiz­e­deks and other min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­i­ties. Re­bel­lion by a Plan­e­tary Prince in­stantly iso­lates his planet; the lo­cal spir­i­tual cir­cuits are im­me­di­ately sev­ered. Only a be­stowal Son can re-es­tab­lish in­ter­plan­e­tary lines of com­mu­ni­ca­tion on such a spir­i­tu­ally iso­lated world.

35:9.10There ex­ists a plan for sav­ing these way­ward and un­wise Sons, and many have availed them­selves of this mer­ci­ful pro­vi­sion; but never again may they func­tion in those po­si­tions wherein they de­faulted. Af­ter re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion they are as­signed to cus­to­dial du­ties and to de­part­ments of phys­i­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion.

50:2.3The rule of the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets in their early and un­set­tled ca­reers is largely au­to­cratic. The Plan­e­tary Princes or­ga­nize their spe­cial­ized groups of as­sis­tants from among their corps of plan­e­tary aids. They usu­ally sur­round them­selves with a su­preme coun­cil of twelve, but this is var­i­ously cho­sen and di­versely con­sti­tuted on the dif­fer­ent worlds. A Plan­e­tary Prince may also have as as­sis­tants one or more of the third or­der of his own group of son­ship and some­times, on cer­tain worlds, one of his own or­der, a sec­ondary La­non­an­dek as­so­ciate.

20:1.10Mel­chiz­e­deks are the joint off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Son, Cre­ative Spirit, and Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. Both Voron­dadeks and La­non­an­deks are brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and his Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciate. Voron­dadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers; La­non­an­deks as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as Plan­e­tary Princes. The three­fold or­der of Life Car­ri­ers is brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­ated with one of the three An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. But the na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties of these Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God are more prop­erly por­trayed in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of the lo­cal cre­ations.

35:10.1The third group of seven worlds in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit of sev­enty plan­ets, with their re­spec­tive forty-two satel­lites, con­sti­tute the La­non­an­dek clus­ter of ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres. On these realms the ex­pe­ri­enced La­non­an­deks be­long­ing to the ex-Sys­tem Sov­er­eign corps of­fi­ci­ate as ad­min­is­tra­tive teach­ers of the as­cend­ing pil­grims and the se­raphic hosts. The evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals ob­serve the sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tors at work on the sys­tem cap­i­tals, but here they par­tic­i­pate in the ac­tual co-or­di­na­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive pro­nounce­ments of the ten thou­sand lo­cal sys­tems.

35:10.2These ad­min­is­tra­tive schools of the lo­cal uni­verse are super­vised by a corps of La­non­an­dek Sons who have had long ex­pe­ri­ence as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as con­stel­la­tion coun­selors. These ex­ec­u­tive col­leges are ex­celled only by the ad­min­is­tra­tive schools of Ensa.

35:10.3While serv­ing as train­ing spheres for as­cend­ing mor­tals, the La­non­an­dek worlds are the cen­ters for ex­ten­sive un­der­tak­ings hav­ing to do with the nor­mal and rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tive op­er­a­tions of the uni­verse. All the way in to Par­a­dise the as­cend­ing pil­grims pur­sue their stud­ies in the prac­ti­cal schools of ap­plied knowl­edge—ac­tual train­ing in re­ally do­ing the things they are be­ing taught. The uni­verse ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem spon­sored by the Mel­chiz­e­deks is prac­ti­cal, pro­gres­sive, mean­ing­ful, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. It em­braces train­ing in things ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual.

35:10.4It is in con­nec­tion with these ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres of the La­non­an­deks that most of the sal­vaged Sons of that or­der serve as cus­to­di­ans and di­rec­tors of plan­e­tary af­fairs. And these de­fault­ing Plan­e­tary Princes and their as­so­ciates in re­bel­lion who choose to ac­cept the prof­fered re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion will con­tinue to serve in these rou­tine ca­pac­i­ties, at least un­til the uni­verse of Neb­a­don is set­tled in light and life.

35:10.5Many of the La­non­an­dek Sons in the older sys­tems, how­ever, have es­tab­lished won­der­ful rec­ords of ser­vice, ad­min­is­tra­tion, and spir­i­tual achieve­ment. They are a no­ble, faith­ful, and loyal group, not­with­stand­ing their ten­dency to fall into er­ror through fal­la­cies of per­sonal lib­erty and fic­tions of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

35:10.6[Spon­sored by the Chief of Arch­an­gels act­ing by au­thor­ity of Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]

30:1.377. The La­non­an­deks.

30:2.446. La­non­an­dek Sons.

• rebelled 3 times in Nebadon

45:2.1The chief ex­ec­u­tive of a lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds is a pri­mary La­non­an­dek Son, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign. In our lo­cal uni­verse these sov­er­eigns are in­trusted with large ex­ec­u­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, un­usual per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives. Not all uni­verses, even in Or­von­ton, are so or­ga­nized as to per­mit the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns to ex­er­cise such un­usu­ally wide pow­ers of per­sonal dis­cre­tion in the di­rec­tion of sys­tem af­fairs. But in all the his­tory of Neb­a­don these un­tram­meled ex­ec­u­tives have ex­hib­ited dis­loy­alty only three times. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia was the last and the most wide­spread of all.

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.

• secondary › Planetary Princes are

50:0.1While be­long­ing to the or­der of La­non­an­dek Sons, the Plan­e­tary Princes are so spe­cial­ized in ser­vice that they are com­monly re­garded as a dis­tinct group. Af­ter their Mel­chiz­e­dek cer­ti­fi­ca­tion as sec­ondary La­non­an­deks, these lo­cal uni­verse Sons are as­signed to the re­serves of their or­der on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters. From here they are as­signed to var­i­ous du­ties by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and even­tu­ally com­mis­sioned as Plan­e­tary Princes and sent forth to rule the evolv­ing in­hab­ited worlds.

• secondary › wrote Papers 50, 51

50:7.4[Pre­sented by a Sec­ondary La­non­an­dek Son of the Re­serve Corps.]

• secondary › wrote Papers 50, 51

51:7.6[Pre­sented by a Sec­ondary La­non­an­dek Son of the Re­serve Corps.]

119:2.1For al­most one hun­dred and fifty mil­lion years af­ter the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal of Mi­chael, all went well in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, when trou­ble be­gan to brew in sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37. This trou­ble in­volved a mis­un­der­stand­ing by a La­non­an­dek Son, a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, which had been ad­ju­di­cated by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers and ap­proved by the Faith­ful of Days, the Par­a­dise coun­selor to that con­stel­la­tion, but the protest­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was not fully rec­on­ciled to the ver­dict. Af­ter more than one hun­dred years of dis­sat­is­fac­tion he led his as­so­ciates in one of the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous re­bel­lions against the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son ever in­sti­gated in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, a re­bel­lion long since ad­ju­di­cated and ended by the ac­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

119:2.2This rebel Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lu­ten­tia, reigned su­preme on his head­quar­ters planet for more than twenty years of stan­dard Neb­a­don time; where­upon, the Most Highs, with ap­proval from Uversa, or­dered his seg­re­ga­tion and req­ui­si­tioned the Sal­ving­ton rulers for the des­ig­na­tion of a new Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to as­sume di­rec­tion of that strife-torn and con­fused sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

119:2.3Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the re­cep­tion of this re­quest on Sal­ving­ton, Mi­chael ini­ti­ated the sec­ond of those ex­traor­di­nary procla­ma­tions of in­ten­tion to be ab­sent from the uni­verse head­quar­ters for the pur­pose of “do­ing the bid­ding of my Par­a­dise Fa­ther,” promis­ing to “re­turn in due sea­son” and con­cen­trat­ing all au­thor­ity in the hands of his Par­a­dise brother, Im­manuel, the Union of Days.

119:2.4And then, by the same tech­nique ob­served at the time of his de­par­ture in con­nec­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal, Mi­chael again took leave of his head­quar­ters sphere. Three days af­ter this un­ex­plained leave-tak­ing there ap­peared among the re­serve corps of the pri­mary La­non­an­dek Sons of Neb­a­don, a new and un­known mem­ber. This new Son ap­peared at noon, unan­nounced and ac­com­pa­nied by a lone ter­tiaphim who bore cre­den­tials from the Uversa An­cients of Days, cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton, di­rect­ing that this new Son be as­signed to sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37 as the suc­ces­sor of the de­posed Lu­ten­tia and with full au­thor­ity as act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign pend­ing the ap­point­ment of a new sov­er­eign.

119:2.5For more than sev­en­teen years of uni­verse time this strange and un­known tem­po­rary ruler ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs and wisely ad­ju­di­cated the dif­fi­cul­ties of this con­fused and de­mor­al­ized lo­cal sys­tem. No Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was ever more ar­dently loved or more widespreadly hon­ored and re­spected. In jus­tice and mercy this new ruler set the tur­bu­lent sys­tem in or­der while he painstak­ingly min­is­tered to all his sub­jects, even of­fer­ing his re­bel­lious pre­de­ces­sor the priv­i­lege of shar­ing the sys­tem throne of au­thor­ity if he would only apol­o­gize to Im­manuel for his in­dis­cre­tions. But Lu­ten­tia spurned these over­tures of mercy, well know­ing that this new and strange Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was none other than Mi­chael, the very uni­verse ruler whom he had so re­cently de­fied. But mil­lions of his mis­guided and de­luded fol­low­ers ac­cepted the for­give­ness of this new ruler, known in that age as the Sav­ior Sov­er­eign of the sys­tem of Palo­nia.

119:2.6And then came that event­ful day on which there ar­rived the newly ap­pointed Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, des­ig­nated by the uni­verse au­thor­i­ties as the per­ma­nent suc­ces­sor of the de­posed Lu­ten­tia, and all Palo­nia mourned the de­par­ture of the most no­ble and the most be­nign sys­tem ruler that Neb­a­don had ever known. He was beloved by all the sys­tem and adored by his fel­lows of all groups of the La­non­an­dek Sons. His de­par­ture was not un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous; a great cel­e­bra­tion was ar­ranged when he left the sys­tem head­quar­ters. Even his erring pre­de­ces­sor sent this mes­sage: “Just and righ­teous are you in all your ways. While I con­tinue in re­jec­tion of the Par­a­dise rule, I am com­pelled to con­fess that you are a just and mer­ci­ful ad­min­is­tra­tor.”

119:2.7And then did this tran­sient ruler of a re­bel­lious sys­tem take leave of the planet of his short ad­min­is­tra­tive so­journ, while on the third day there­after Mi­chael ap­peared on Sal­ving­ton and re­sumed the di­rec­tion of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. There soon fol­lowed the third Uversa procla­ma­tion of the ad­vanc­ing ju­ris­dic­tion of the sov­er­eignty and au­thor­ity of Mi­chael. The first procla­ma­tion was made at the time of his ar­rival in Neb­a­don, the sec­ond was is­sued soon af­ter the com­ple­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal, and now the third fol­lows upon the ter­mi­na­tion of the sec­ond or La­non­an­dek mis­sion.