local systems

15:2.16Lo­cal sys­tems 7,000,000,000

15:2.17In­hab­it­able plan­ets 7,000,000,000,000

15:2.18Each of the seven super­uni­verses is con­sti­tuted, ap­prox­i­mately, as fol­lows:

15:2.19One sys­tem em­braces, ap­prox­i­mately 1,000 worlds

53:1.1Lu­cifer was not an as­cen­dant be­ing; he was a cre­ated Son of the lo­cal uni­verse, and of him it was said: “You were per­fect in all your ways from the day you were cre­ated till un­righ­teous­ness was found in you.” Many times had he been in coun­sel with the Most Highs of Eden­tia. And Lu­cifer reigned “upon the holy moun­tain of God,” the ad­min­is­tra­tive mount of Je­ru­sem, for he was the chief ex­ec­u­tive of a great sys­tem of 607 in­hab­ited worlds.

52:2.2The av­er­age length of this dis­pen­sa­tion is around five hun­dred thou­sand years, some longer, some shorter. Dur­ing this era the planet is es­tab­lished in the cir­cuits of the sys­tem, and a full quota of se­raphic and other ce­les­tial helpers is as­signed to its ad­min­is­tra­tion. The Thought Ad­justers come in in­creas­ing num­bers, and the se­raphic guard­i­ans am­plify their regime of mor­tal super­vi­sion.

25:3.62. Con­cil­ia­tors to the Sys­tem Head­quar­ters. From ser­vice on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds these com­mis­sions of four are ad­vanced to duty on a sys­tem head­quar­ters. Here they have much work to do, and they prove to be the un­der­stand­ing friends of men, an­gels, and other spirit be­ings. The ref­eree trios are not so much con­cerned with per­sonal dif­fer­ences as with group con­tentions and with mis­un­der­stand­ings aris­ing be­tween dif­fer­ent or­ders of crea­tures; and on a sys­tem head­quar­ters there live both spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial be­ings, as well as the com­bined types, such as the Ma­te­rial Sons.

25:3.7The mo­ment the Cre­ators bring into ex­is­tence evolv­ing in­di­vid­u­als with the power of choice, that mo­ment a de­par­ture is made from the smooth work­ing of di­vine per­fec­tion; mis­un­der­stand­ings are cer­tain to arise, and pro­vi­sion for the fair ad­just­ment of these hon­est dif­fer­ences of view­point must be made. We should all re­mem­ber that the all-wise and all-pow­er­ful Cre­ators could have made the lo­cal uni­verses just as per­fect as Ha­vona. No con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sions need func­tion in the cen­tral uni­verse. But the Cre­ators did not choose in their all-wis­dom to do this. And while they have pro­duced uni­verses which abound in dif­fer­ences and teem with dif­fi­cul­ties, they have like­wise pro­vided the mech­a­nisms and the means for com­pos­ing all these dif­fer­ences and for har­mo­niz­ing all this seem­ing con­fu­sion.

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.

• 1 Assigned Sentinel stationed on each represents authority of Seven Supreme Executives

24:5.2Much as an As­so­ciate In­spec­tor rep­re­sents the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives to a whole lo­cal uni­verse, so in each of the ten thou­sand sys­tems of that lo­cal cre­ation there is an As­signed Sen­tinel, who acts as the di­rect rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the far-dis­tant and su­preme board of super­con­trol for the af­fairs of all seven super­uni­verses. The sen­tinels on duty in the lo­cal sys­tem gov­ern­ments of Or­von­ton are act­ing un­der the di­rect au­thor­ity of Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive Num­ber Seven, the co-or­di­na­tor of the sev­enth super­uni­verse. But in their ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion all sen­tinels com­mis­sioned in a lo­cal uni­verse are sub­or­di­nate to the As­so­ciate In­spec­tor sta­tioned at uni­verse head­quar­ters.

• 1 Supreme Power Center of 6th order assigned to each

29:2.186. Sys­tem Cen­ters. One Su­preme Power Cen­ter is per­ma­nently as­signed to each lo­cal sys­tem. These sys­tem cen­ters dis­patch the power cir­cuits to the in­hab­ited worlds of time and space. They co-or­di­nate the ac­tiv­i­ties of the sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and oth­er­wise func­tion to in­sure the sat­is­fac­tory dis­tri­bu­tion of power in the lo­cal sys­tem. The cir­cuit re­lay be­tween the plan­ets de­pends upon the per­fect co-or­di­na­tion of cer­tain ma­te­rial en­er­gies and upon the ef­fi­cient reg­u­la­tion of phys­i­cal power.

• mansion worlds are satellites or subsatellites

30:4.16The plan of ini­tial mor­tal de­ten­tion on seven worlds of pro­gres­sive train­ing is nearly uni­ver­sal in Or­von­ton. In each lo­cal sys­tem of ap­prox­i­mately one thou­sand in­hab­ited plan­ets there are seven man­sion worlds, usu­ally satel­lites or sub­satel­lites of the sys­tem cap­i­tal. They are the re­ceiv­ing worlds for the ma­jor­ity of as­cend­ing mor­tals.

• particularly concerned with biologic problems

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.

• 1 Supreme Power Center of 6th order assigned to each

41:1.5One Su­preme Power Cen­ter of the sixth or­der is sta­tioned at the ex­act grav­ity fo­cus of each lo­cal sys­tem. In the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia the as­signed power cen­ter oc­cu­pies a dark is­land of space lo­cated at the as­tro­nomic cen­ter of the sys­tem. Many of these dark is­lands are vast dy­namos which mo­bi­lize and di­rec­tion­ize cer­tain space-en­er­gies, and these nat­u­ral cir­cum­stances are ef­fec­tively uti­lized by the Sa­ta­nia Power Cen­ter, whose liv­ing mass func­tions as a li­ai­son with the higher cen­ters, di­rect­ing the streams of more ma­te­ri­al­ized power to the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets of space.

• linked by reflectivity to Ancients of Days

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.

• mansion worlds are satellites or subsatellites

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

• independently lighted, heated, and energized
• physically cared for by spornagia

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.

• mansion worlds are satellites or subsatellites

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.

• mansion worlds are satellites or subsatellites

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.

• Nebadon’s built from 400 to 5 billion years ago

57:3.8It was scarcely a mil­lion years sub­se­quent to this epoch that Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a Cre­ator Son of Par­a­dise, se­lected this dis­in­te­grat­ing neb­ula as the site of his ad­ven­ture in uni­verse build­ing. Al­most im­me­di­ately the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds of Sal­ving­ton and the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters groups of plan­ets were be­gun. It re­quired al­most one mil­lion years to com­plete these clus­ters of spe­cially cre­ated worlds. The lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters plan­ets were con­structed over a pe­riod ex­tend­ing from that time to about five bil­lion years ago.

• fusion with Adjuster usually effected in

112:7.3Fu­sion with the Ad­juster is usu­ally ef­fected while the as­cender is res­i­dent within his lo­cal sys­tem. It may oc­cur on the planet of na­tiv­ity as a tran­scen­dence of nat­u­ral death; it may take place on any one of the man­sion worlds or on the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem; it may even be de­layed un­til the time of the con­stel­la­tion so­journ; or, in spe­cial in­stances, it may not be con­sum­mated un­til the as­cender is on the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tal.

55:8.1When an en­tire sys­tem be­comes set­tled in life, a new or­der of gov­ern­ment is in­au­gu­rated. The Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eigns be­come mem­bers of the sys­tem con­clave, and this new ad­min­is­tra­tive body, sub­ject to the veto of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, is su­preme in au­thor­ity. Such a sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds be­comes vir­tu­ally self-gov­ern­ing. The sys­tem leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly is con­sti­tuted on the head­quar­ters world, and each planet sends its ten rep­re­sen­ta­tives thereto. Courts are now es­tab­lished on the sys­tem cap­i­tals, and only ap­peals are taken to the uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:8.2With the set­tling of the sys­tem the As­signed Sen­tinel, rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the super­uni­verse Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive, be­comes the vol­un­teer ad­viser to the sys­tem su­preme court and ac­tual pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer of the new leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly.

55:8.3Af­ter the set­tling of an en­tire sys­tem in light and life the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns will no more come and go. Such a sov­er­eign re­mains per­pet­u­ally at the head of his sys­tem. The as­sis­tant sov­er­eigns con­tinue to change as in for­mer ages.

55:8.4Dur­ing this epoch of sta­bi­liza­tion, for the first time mid­soniters come from the uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds of their so­journ to act as coun­selors to the leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies and ad­vis­ers to the ad­ju­di­ca­tional tri­bu­nals. These mid­soniters also carry on cer­tain ef­forts to in­cul­cate new mota mean­ings of su­preme value into the teach­ing en­ter­prises which they spon­sor jointly with the fi­nal­i­ters. What the Ma­te­rial Sons did for the mor­tal races bi­o­log­i­cally, the mid­sonite crea­tures now do for these uni­fied and glo­ri­fied hu­mans in the ever-ad­vanc­ing realms of phi­los­o­phy and spir­i­tu­al­ized think­ing.

55:8.5On the in­hab­ited worlds the Teacher Sons be­come vol­un­tary col­lab­o­ra­tors with the fi­nal­i­ters, and these same Teacher Sons also ac­com­pany the fi­nal­i­ters to the man­sion worlds when those spheres are no longer to be uti­lized as dif­fer­en­tial re­ceiv­ing worlds af­ter an en­tire sys­tem is set­tled in light and life; at least this is true by the time the en­tire con­stel­la­tion has thus evolved. But there are no groups that far ad­vanced in Neb­a­don.

55:8.6We are not per­mit­ted to re­veal the na­ture of the work of the fi­nal­i­ters who will super­vise such reded­i­cated man­sion worlds. You have, how­ever, been in­formed that there are through­out the uni­verses var­i­ous types of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who have not been por­trayed in these nar­ra­tives.

55:8.7And now, as the sys­tems one by one be­come set­tled in light by virtue of the prog­ress of their com­po­nent worlds, the time comes when the last sys­tem in a given con­stel­la­tion at­tains sta­bi­liza­tion, and the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors—the Mas­ter Son, the Union of Days, and the Bright and Morn­ing Star—ar­rive on the cap­i­tal of the con­stel­la­tion to pro­claim the Most Highs the un­qual­i­fied rulers of the newly per­fected fam­ily of one hun­dred set­tled sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds.

• corporeal staffs of Planetary Princes dependent upon system life circuits

66:2.5These Jerusemite vol­un­teers were brought by se­raphic trans­port di­rect from the sys­tem cap­i­tal to Uran­tia, and upon ar­rival they were held en­ser­a­phimed un­til they could be pro­vided with per­son­al­ity forms of the dual na­ture of spe­cial plan­e­tary ser­vice, lit­eral bod­ies con­sist­ing of flesh and blood but also at­tuned to the life cir­cuits of the sys­tem.

• corporeal staffs of Planetary Princes dependent upon system life circuits

66:4.6These spe­cial be­ings there­fore had lit­tle or no idea as to what type of ma­te­rial crea­ture would be pro­duced by their sex­ual union. And they never did know; be­fore the time for such a step in the pros­e­cu­tion of their world work the en­tire regime was up­set by re­bel­lion, and those who later func­tioned in the pa­ren­tal role had been iso­lated from the life cur­rents of the sys­tem.

• tree of life provided antidotal complements of system life currents

66:4.123. The Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred were per­son­ally im­mor­tal, or undy­ing. There cir­cu­lated through their ma­te­rial forms the an­ti­do­tal com­ple­ments of the life cur­rents of the sys­tem; and had they not lost con­tact with the life cir­cuits through re­bel­lion, they would have lived on in­def­i­nitely un­til the ar­rival of a sub­se­quent Son of God, or un­til their some­time later re­lease to re­sume the in­ter­rupted jour­ney to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise.

66:4.13These an­ti­do­tal com­ple­ments of the Sa­ta­nia life cur­rents were de­rived from the fruit of the tree of life, a shrub of Eden­tia which was sent to Uran­tia by the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek at the time of Cali­gas­tia’s ar­rival. In the days of Dala­ma­tia this tree grew in the cen­tral court­yard of the tem­ple of the un­seen Fa­ther, and it was the fruit of the tree of life that en­abled the ma­te­rial and oth­er­wise mor­tal be­ings of the Prince’s staff to live on in­def­i­nitely as long as they had ac­cess to it.

66:4.14While of no value to the evo­lu­tion­ary races, this super­sus­te­nance was quite suf­fi­cient to con­fer con­tin­u­ous life upon the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred and also upon the one hun­dred mod­i­fied An­don­ites who were as­so­ci­ated with them.

66:4.15It should be ex­plained in this con­nec­tion that, at the time the one hun­dred An­don­ites con­tributed their hu­man germ plasm to the mem­bers of the Prince’s staff, the Life Car­ri­ers in­tro­duced into their mor­tal bod­ies the com­ple­ment of the sys­tem cir­cuits; and thus were they en­abled to live on con­cur­rently with the staff, cen­tury af­ter cen­tury, in de­fi­ance of phys­i­cal death.

• corporeal staffs of Planetary Princes dependent upon system life circuits

67:4.2The sixty mem­bers of the plan­e­tary staff who went into re­bel­lion chose Nod as their leader. They worked whole­heart­edly for the rebel Prince but soon dis­cov­ered that they were de­prived of the sus­te­nance of the sys­tem life cir­cuits. They awak­ened to the fact that they had been de­graded to the sta­tus of mor­tal be­ings. They were in­deed super­hu­man but, at the same time, ma­te­rial and mor­tal. In an ef­fort to in­crease their num­bers, Dali­gas­tia or­dered im­me­di­ate re­sort to sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, know­ing full well that the orig­i­nal sixty and their forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates were doomed to suf­fer ex­tinc­tion by death, sooner or later. Af­ter the fall of Dala­ma­tia the dis­loyal staff mi­grated to the north and the east. Their de­scen­dants were long known as the Nod­ites, and their dwell­ing place as “the land of Nod.”

15:2.31. The Sys­tem. The ba­sic unit of the super­gov­ern­ment con­sists of about one thou­sand in­hab­ited or in­hab­it­able worlds. Blaz­ing suns, cold worlds, plan­ets too near the hot suns, and other spheres not suit­able for crea­ture habi­ta­tion are not in­cluded in this group. These one thou­sand worlds adapted to sup­port life are called a sys­tem, but in the younger sys­tems only a com­par­a­tively small num­ber of these worlds may be in­hab­ited. Each in­hab­ited planet is pre­sided over by a Plan­e­tary Prince, and each lo­cal sys­tem has an ar­chi­tec­tural sphere as its head­quar­ters and is ruled by a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

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.

49:0.2All in­hab­ited worlds are ba­si­cally grouped for ce­les­tial ad­min­is­tra­tion into the lo­cal sys­tems, and each of these lo­cal sys­tems is lim­ited to about one thou­sand evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. This lim­i­ta­tion is by the de­cree of the An­cients of Days, and it per­tains to ac­tual evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets whereon mor­tals of sur­vival sta­tus are liv­ing. Nei­ther worlds fi­nally set­tled in light and life nor plan­ets in the pre­hu­man stage of life de­vel­op­ment are reck­oned in this group.

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.

33:6.4Am­bas­sadors are ap­pointed by ju­di­cial de­cree and rep­re­sent uni­verses to other uni­verses. Con­suls are rep­re­sen­ta­tives of con­stel­la­tions to one an­other and to the uni­verse head­quar­ters; they are ap­pointed by leg­isla­tive de­cree and func­tion only within the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse. Ob­servers are com­mis­sioned by ex­ec­u­tive de­cree of a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to rep­re­sent that sys­tem to other sys­tems and at the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tal, and they, too, func­tion only within the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse.

36:4.1In ev­ery lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds through­out Neb­a­don there is a sin­gle sphere whereon the Mel­chiz­e­deks have func­tioned as life car­ri­ers. These abodes are known as the sys­tem mid­sonite worlds, and on each of them a ma­te­ri­ally mod­i­fied Mel­chiz­e­dek Son has mated with a se­lected Daugh­ter of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship. The Mother Eves of such mid­sonite worlds are dis­patched from the sys­tem head­quar­ters of ju­ris­dic­tion, hav­ing been cho­sen by the des­ig­nated Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­rier from among the nu­mer­ous vol­un­teers who re­spond to the call of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ad­dressed to the Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters of his sphere.

49:0.3Sa­ta­nia it­self is an un­fin­ished sys­tem con­tain­ing only 619 in­hab­ited worlds. Such plan­ets are num­bered se­ri­ally in ac­cor­dance with their reg­is­tra­tion as in­hab­ited worlds, as worlds in­hab­ited by will crea­tures. Thus was Uran­tia given the num­ber 606 of Sa­ta­nia, mean­ing the 606^th world in this lo­cal sys­tem on which the long evo­lu­tion­ary life pro­cess cul­mi­nated in the ap­pear­ance of hu­man be­ings. There are thirty-six un­in­hab­ited plan­ets near­ing the life-en­dow­ment stage, and sev­eral are now be­ing made ready for the Life Car­ri­ers. There are nearly two hun­dred spheres which are evolv­ing so as to be ready for life im­plan­ta­tion within the next few mil­lion years.

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.

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.

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:

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.

43:9.2This en­tire so­journ on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds, cul­mi­nat­ing in Eden­tia cit­i­zen­ship, is a pe­riod of true and heav­enly bliss for the mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. Through­out your so­journ on the sys­tem worlds you were evolv­ing from a near-an­i­mal to a mor­ontia crea­ture; you were more ma­te­rial than spir­i­tual. On the Sal­ving­ton spheres you will be evolv­ing from a mor­ontia be­ing to the sta­tus of a true spirit; you will be more spir­i­tual than ma­te­rial. But on Eden­tia, as­cend­ers are mid­way be­tween their for­mer and their fu­ture es­tates, mid­way in their pas­sage from evo­lu­tion­ary an­i­mal to as­cend­ing spirit. Dur­ing your whole stay on Eden­tia and its worlds you are “as the an­gels”; you are con­stantly pro­gress­ing but all the while main­tain­ing a gen­eral and a typ­i­cal mor­ontia sta­tus.

41:2.1While the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers serve with the power cen­ters through­out the grand uni­verse, their func­tions in a lo­cal sys­tem, such as Sa­ta­nia, are more easy of com­pre­hen­sion. Sa­ta­nia is one of one hun­dred lo­cal sys­tems which make up the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, hav­ing as im­me­di­ate neigh­bors the sys­tems of Sand­ma­tia, As­sun­tia, Poro­gia, Sor­to­ria, Rantu­lia, and Glan­to­nia. The Nor­la­ti­adek sys­tems dif­fer in many re­spects, but all are evo­lu­tion­ary and pro­gres­sive, very much like Sa­ta­nia.

15:6.16The laws of phys­i­cal-en­ergy be­hav­ior are ba­si­cally uni­ver­sal, but lo­cal in­flu­ences have much to do with the phys­i­cal con­di­tions which pre­vail on in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and in lo­cal sys­tems. An al­most end­less va­ri­ety of crea­ture life and other liv­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions char­ac­ter­izes the count­less worlds of space. There are, how­ever, cer­tain points of sim­i­lar­ity in a group of worlds as­so­ci­ated in a given sys­tem, while there also is a uni­verse pat­tern of in­tel­li­gent life. There are phys­i­cal re­la­tion­ships among those plan­e­tary sys­tems which be­long to the same phys­i­cal cir­cuit, and which closely fol­low each other in the end­less swing around the cir­cle of uni­verses.

49:1.3All the worlds of a lo­cal sys­tem dis­close un­mis­tak­able phys­i­cal kin­ship; nev­er­the­less, each planet has its own scale of life, no two worlds be­ing ex­actly alike in plant and an­i­mal en­dow­ment. These plan­e­tary vari­a­tions in the sys­tem life types re­sult from the de­ci­sions of the Life Car­ri­ers. But these be­ings are nei­ther capri­cious nor whim­si­cal; the uni­verses are con­ducted in ac­cor­dance with law and or­der. The laws of Neb­a­don are the di­vine man­dates of Sal­ving­ton, and the evo­lu­tion­ary or­der of life in Sa­ta­nia is in con­so­nance with the evo­lu­tion­ary pat­tern of Neb­a­don.