local universes

24:4.1The Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, on the seven Par­a­dise spheres of the In­fi­nite Spirit, col­lec­tively func­tion as the ad­min­is­tra­tive board of super­man­agers for the seven super­uni­verses. The As­so­ciate In­spec­tors are the per­sonal em­bod­i­ment of the au­thor­ity of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives to the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. These high ob­servers of the af­fairs of the lo­cal cre­ations are the joint off­spring of the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. In the near times of eter­nity seven hun­dred thou­sand were per­son­al­ized, and their re­serve corps abides on Par­a­dise.

24:4.2As­so­ciate In­spec­tors work un­der the di­rect super­vi­sion of the Seven Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tives, be­ing their per­sonal and pow­er­ful rep­re­sen­ta­tives to the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. An in­spec­tor is sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters sphere of each lo­cal cre­ation and is a close as­so­ciate of the res­i­dent Union of Days.

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.

37:8.5An As­so­ciate In­spec­tor is res­i­dent on Sal­ving­ton. He is the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive of Or­von­ton. His as­so­ciates, the As­signed Sen­tinels in the lo­cal sys­tems, are also rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive of Or­von­ton.

24:1.10A ter­tiary cir­cuit super­vi­sor func­tions on the head­quar­ters world of ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse. This or­der, like the sec­ondary super­vi­sors, is of con­tin­u­ous cre­ation, be­ing cre­ated in groups of seven hun­dred. They are as­signed to the lo­cal uni­verses by the An­cients of Days.

6:8.3As per­sons you may con­ceive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son as sep­a­rate in­di­vid­u­als, for they in­deed are; but in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses they are so in­ter­twined and in­ter­re­lated that it is not al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween them. When, in the af­fairs of the uni­verses, the Fa­ther and the Son are en­coun­tered in con­fus­ing in­teras­so­ci­a­tions, it is not al­ways prof­itable to at­tempt to seg­re­gate their op­er­a­tions; merely re­call that God is the ini­ti­at­ing thought and the Son is the ex­pres­sion­ful word. In each lo­cal uni­verse this in­sep­a­ra­bil­ity is per­son­al­ized in the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator Son, who stands for both Fa­ther and Son to the crea­tures of ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds.

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

15:2.21One uni­verse (100 con­stel­la­tions) 10,000,000 worlds

35:4.2While the Mel­chiz­e­dek or­ders are chiefly de­voted to the vast ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem and ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing regime of the lo­cal uni­verse, they also func­tion in unique as­sign­ments and in un­usual cir­cum­stances. In an evolv­ing uni­verse even­tu­ally em­brac­ing ap­prox­i­mately ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds, many things out of the or­di­nary are des­tined to hap­pen, and it is in such emer­gen­cies that the Mel­chiz­e­deks act. On Eden­tia, your con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, they are known as emer­gency Sons. They are al­ways ready to serve in all ex­i­gen­cies—phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, or spir­i­tual—whether on a planet, in a sys­tem, in a con­stel­la­tion, or in the uni­verse. When­ever and wher­ever spe­cial help is needed, there you will find one or more of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

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

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.

29:2.164. Lo­cal Uni­verse Cen­ters. On the head­quar­ters of each lo­cal uni­verse are sta­tioned one hun­dred power cen­ters of the fourth or­der. They func­tion to down­step and oth­er­wise to mod­ify the seven power cir­cuits em­a­nat­ing from super­uni­verse head­quar­ters, thus mak­ing them ap­pli­ca­ble to the ser­vices of the con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. The lo­cal as­tro­nom­i­cal catas­tro­phes of space are of pass­ing con­cern to these power cen­ters; they are en­gaged in the or­derly dis­patch of ef­fec­tive en­ergy to the sub­sidiary con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. They are of great as­sis­tance to the Cre­ator Sons dur­ing the later times of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion and en­ergy mo­bi­liza­tion. These cen­ters are able to pro­vide in­ten­si­fied lanes of en­ergy use­ful for in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween im­por­tant in­hab­ited points. Such a lane or line of en­ergy, some­times also called an en­ergy path, is a di­rect cir­cuit of en­ergy from one power cen­ter to an­other power cen­ter or from one phys­i­cal con­trol­ler to an­other con­trol­ler. It is an in­di­vid­u­al­ized stream of power and stands in con­trast to the free space move­ments of un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated en­ergy.

32:2.2These power di­rec­tors and en­ergy con­trol­lers who long pre­ceded the Cre­ator Son in the pre­lim­i­nary phys­i­cal work of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion later serve in mag­nif­i­cent li­ai­son with this Uni­verse Son, for­ever re­main­ing in as­so­ci­ated con­trol of those en­er­gies which they orig­i­nally or­ga­nized and cir­cuitized. On Sal­ving­ton there now func­tion the same one hun­dred power cen­ters who co-op­er­ated with your Cre­ator Son in the orig­i­nal for­ma­tion of this lo­cal uni­verse.

41:1.3The one hun­dred lo­cal uni­verse cen­ters are sta­tioned on Sal­ving­ton, where they func­tion at the ex­act en­ergy cen­ter of that sphere. Ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, such as Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem, are lighted, heated, and en­er­gized by meth­ods which make them quite in­de­pen­dent of the suns of space. These spheres were con­structed—made to or­der—by the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and were de­signed to ex­ert a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence over en­ergy dis­tri­bu­tion. Bas­ing their ac­tiv­i­ties on such fo­cal points of en­ergy con­trol, the power cen­ters, by their liv­ing pres­ences, di­rec­tion­ize and chan­nel­ize the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of space. And these en­ergy cir­cuits are ba­sic to all phys­i­cal-ma­te­rial and mor­ontia-spir­i­tual phe­nom­ena.

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.

26:1.143. The Min­is­ter­ing Spir­its of the Lo­cal Uni­verses em­brace the ser­a­phim and their as­sis­tants, the cheru­bim. With these off­spring of a Uni­verse Mother Spirit mor­tal as­cend­ers have ini­tial con­tact. The mid­way crea­tures, of na­tiv­ity on the in­hab­ited worlds, are not re­ally of the an­gelic or­ders proper, though of­ten func­tion­ally grouped with the min­is­ter­ing spir­its. Their story, with an ac­count of the ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, is pre­sented in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of your lo­cal uni­verse.

21:2.1The Par­a­dise Sons of the pri­mary or­der are the de­sign­ers, cre­ators, builders, and ad­min­is­tra­tors of their re­spec­tive do­mains, the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space, the ba­sic cre­ative units of the seven evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses. A Cre­ator Son is per­mit­ted to choose the space site of his fu­ture cos­mic ac­tiv­ity, but be­fore he may be­gin even the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of his uni­verse, he must spend a long pe­riod of ob­ser­va­tion de­voted to the study of the ef­forts of his older broth­ers in var­i­ous cre­ations lo­cated in the super­uni­verse of his pro­jected ac­tion. And prior to all this, the Mi­chael Son will have com­pleted his long and unique ex­pe­ri­ence of Par­a­dise ob­ser­va­tion and Ha­vona train­ing.

21:2.11When a Mi­chael Son is ab­sent from his uni­verse, its gov­ern­ment is di­rected by the first-born na­tive be­ing, the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. The ad­vice and coun­sel of the Union of Days is in­valu­able at such times. Dur­ing these ab­sences a Cre­ator Son is able to in­vest the as­so­ci­ated Mother Spirit with the over­con­trol of his spir­i­tual pres­ence on the in­hab­ited worlds and in the hearts of his mor­tal chil­dren. And the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse re­mains al­ways at its head­quar­ters, ex­tend­ing her fos­ter­ing care and spir­i­tual min­istry to the ut­ter­most parts of such an evo­lu­tion­ary do­main.

32:2.6Pres­ently, the phys­i­cal plan of a uni­verse is com­pleted, and the Cre­ator Son, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Cre­ative Spirit, projects his plan of life cre­ation; where­upon does this rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit be­gin her uni­verse func­tion as a dis­tinct cre­ative per­son­al­ity. When this first cre­ative act is for­mu­lated and ex­e­cuted, there springs into be­ing the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of this ini­tial cre­ative con­cept of iden­tity and ideal of di­vin­ity. This is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse, the per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Cre­ator Son, one like him in all as­pects of char­ac­ter, though markedly lim­ited in the at­tri­butes of di­vin­ity.

33:0.1While the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther most cer­tainly rules over his vast cre­ation, he func­tions in a lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion through the per­son of the Cre­ator Son. The Fa­ther does not oth­er­wise per­son­ally func­tion in the ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs of a lo­cal uni­verse. These mat­ters are in­trusted to the Cre­ator Son and to the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit and to their man­i­fold chil­dren. The plans, poli­cies, and ad­min­is­tra­tive acts of the lo­cal uni­verse are formed and ex­e­cuted by this Son, who, in con­junc­tion with his Spirit as­so­ciate, del­e­gates ex­ec­u­tive power to Ga­briel and ju­ris­dic­tional au­thor­ity to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and Plan­e­tary Princes.

• energy directionized from superuniverse capitals

15:8.1The head­quar­ters spheres of the super­uni­verses are so con­structed that they are able to func­tion as ef­fi­cient power-en­ergy reg­u­la­tors for their var­i­ous sec­tors, serv­ing as fo­cal points for the di­rec­tion­iza­tion of en­ergy to their com­po­nent lo­cal uni­verses. They ex­ert a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence over the bal­ance and con­trol of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies cir­cu­lat­ing through or­ga­nized space.

• Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, and mind circuits

15:9.121. The be­stowal spirit of the Par­a­dise Sons, the Com­forter of the be­stowal worlds. The Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

15:9.132. The cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ters, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spir­its, the Holy Spirit of your world.

15:9.143. The in­tel­li­gence-min­istry cir­cuit of a lo­cal uni­verse, in­clud­ing the di­versely func­tion­ing pres­ence of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its.

• spirit circuits flow through Mother Spirits

34:1.2From and through this new per­sonal seg­re­ga­tion of the Con­joint Cre­ator there pro­ceed the es­tab­lished cur­rents and the or­dained cir­cuits of spirit power and spir­i­tual in­flu­ence des­tined to per­vade all the worlds and be­ings of that lo­cal uni­verse. In re­al­ity, this new and per­sonal pres­ence is but a trans­for­ma­tion of the pre-ex­is­tent and less per­sonal as­so­ciate of the Son in his ear­lier work of phys­i­cal uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

34:4.1There are three dis­tinct spirit cir­cuits in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don:

34:4.21. The be­stowal spirit of the Cre­ator Son, the Com­forter, the Spirit of Truth.

34:4.32. The spirit cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Holy Spirit.

34:4.43. The in­tel­li­gence-min­istry cir­cuit, in­clud­ing the more or less uni­fied ac­tiv­i­ties but di­verse func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its.

34:4.5The Cre­ator Sons are en­dowed with a spirit of uni­verse pres­ence in many ways anal­o­gous to that of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of Par­a­dise. This is the Spirit of Truth which is poured out upon a world by a be­stowal Son af­ter he re­ceives spir­i­tual ti­tle to such a sphere. This be­stowed Com­forter is the spir­i­tual force which ever draws all truth seek­ers to­wards Him who is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of truth in the lo­cal uni­verse. This spirit is an in­her­ent en­dow­ment of the Cre­ator Son, emerg­ing from his di­vine na­ture just as the mas­ter cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse are de­rived from the per­son­al­ity pres­ences of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

34:4.6The Cre­ator Son may come and go; his per­sonal pres­ence may be in the lo­cal uni­verse or else­where; yet the Spirit of Truth func­tions undis­turbed, for this di­vine pres­ence, while de­rived from the per­son­al­ity of the Cre­ator Son, is func­tion­ally cen­tered in the per­son of the Di­vine Min­is­ter.

34:4.7The Uni­verse Mother Spirit, how­ever, never leaves the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters world. The spirit of the Cre­ator Son may and does func­tion in­de­pen­dently of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Son, but not so with her per­sonal spirit. The Holy Spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter would be­come non­func­tional if her per­sonal pres­ence should be re­moved from Sal­ving­ton. Her spirit pres­ence seems to be fixed on the uni­verse head­quar­ters world, and it is this very fact that en­ables the spirit of the Cre­ator Son to func­tion in­de­pen­dently of the where­abouts of the Son. The Uni­verse Mother Spirit acts as the uni­verse fo­cus and cen­ter of the Spirit of Truth as well as of her own per­sonal in­flu­ence, the Holy Spirit.

34:4.8The Cre­ator Fa­ther-Son and the Cre­ative Mother Spirit both con­tribute var­i­ously to the mind en­dow­ment of their lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. But the Cre­ative Spirit does not be­stow mind un­til she is en­dowed with per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives.

34:4.9The super­evo­lu­tion­ary or­ders of per­son­al­ity in a lo­cal uni­verse are en­dowed with the lo­cal uni­verse type of the super­uni­verse pat­tern of mind. The hu­man and the sub­hu­man or­ders of evo­lu­tion­ary life are en­dowed with the ad­ju­tant spirit types of mind min­is­tra­tion.

34:4.10The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are the cre­ation of the Di­vine Min­is­ter of a lo­cal uni­verse. These mind-spir­its are sim­i­lar in char­ac­ter but di­verse in power, and all par­take alike of the na­ture of the Uni­verse Spirit, al­though they are hardly re­garded as per­son­al­i­ties apart from their Mother Cre­ator. The seven ad­ju­tants have been given the fol­low­ing names: the spirit of wis­dom, the spirit of wor­ship, the spirit of coun­sel, the spirit of knowl­edge, the spirit of cour­age, the spirit of un­der­stand­ing, the spirit of in­tu­ition—of quick per­cep­tion.

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.

34:4.12But it was of Sal­ving­ton that John wrote: “And out of the throne pro­ceeded light­nings and thun­der­ings and voices”—the uni­verse broad­casts to the lo­cal sys­tems. He also en­vis­aged the di­rec­tional con­trol crea­tures of the lo­cal uni­verse, the liv­ing com­passes of the head­quar­ters world. This di­rec­tional con­trol in Neb­a­don is main­tained by the four con­trol crea­tures of Sal­ving­ton, who op­er­ate over the uni­verse cur­rents and are ably as­sisted by the first func­tion­ing mind-spirit, the ad­ju­tant of in­tu­ition, the spirit of “quick un­der­stand­ing.” But the de­scrip­tion of these four crea­tures—called beasts—has been sadly marred; they are of un­par­al­leled beauty and ex­qui­site form.

34:4.13The four points of the com­pass are uni­ver­sal and in­her­ent in the life of Neb­a­don. All liv­ing crea­tures pos­sess bod­ily units which are sen­si­tive and re­spon­sive to these di­rec­tional cur­rents. These crea­ture cre­ations are du­pli­cated on down through the uni­verse to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and, in con­junc­tion with the mag­netic forces of the worlds, so ac­ti­vate the hosts of mi­cro­scopic bod­ies in the an­i­mal or­gan­ism that these di­rec­tion cells ever point north and south. Thus is the sense of ori­en­ta­tion for­ever fixed in the liv­ing be­ings of the uni­verse. This sense is not wholly want­ing as a con­scious pos­ses­sion by man­kind. These bod­ies were first ob­served on Uran­tia about the time of this nar­ra­tion.

• energy circuits and power lanes bind together

41:1.1The spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, the mother wheels of the spheres of space, are ini­ti­ated by Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers; and fol­low­ing neb­u­lar evo­lu­tion of grav­ity re­sponse, they are su­per­seded in super­uni­verse func­tion by the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, who there­upon as­sume full re­spon­si­bil­ity for di­rect­ing the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of the en­su­ing gen­er­a­tions of stel­lar and plan­e­tary off­spring. This phys­i­cal super­vi­sion of the Neb­a­don pre­uni­verse was, upon the ar­rival of our Cre­ator Son, im­me­di­ately co-or­di­nated with his plan for uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion. Within the do­main of this Par­a­dise Son of God, the Su­preme Power Cen­ters and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers col­lab­o­rated with the later ap­pear­ing Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors and oth­ers to pro­duce that vast com­plex of com­mu­ni­ca­tion lines, en­ergy cir­cuits, and power lanes which firmly bind the man­i­fold space bod­ies of Neb­a­don into one in­te­grated ad­min­is­tra­tive unit.

• Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, and mind circuits

56:3.3No mat­ter on what level of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties you may en­counter spir­i­tual phe­nom­ena or con­tact with spirit be­ings, you may know that they are all de­rived from the God who is spirit by the min­istry of the Spirit Son and the In­fi­nite Mind Spirit. And this far-flung spirit func­tions as a phe­nom­e­non on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time as it is di­rected from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verses. From these cap­i­tals of the Cre­ator Sons come the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth, to­gether with the min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, to the lower and evolv­ing lev­els of ma­te­rial minds.

62:7.1We did not have to wait long. At noon, the day af­ter the run­away of the twins, there oc­curred the ini­tial test flash of the uni­verse cir­cuit sig­nals at the plan­e­tary re­cep­tion-fo­cus of Uran­tia. We were, of course, all astir with the re­al­iza­tion that a great event was im­pend­ing; but since this world was a life-ex­per­i­ment sta­tion, we had not the slight­est idea of just how we would be ap­prised of the rec­og­ni­tion of in­tel­li­gent life on the planet. But we were not long in sus­pense. On the third day af­ter the elope­ment of the twins, and be­fore the Life Car­rier corps de­parted, there ar­rived the Neb­a­don arch­an­gel of ini­tial plan­e­tary cir­cuit es­tab­lish­ment.

62:7.2It was an event­ful day on Uran­tia when our small group gath­ered about the plan­e­tary pole of space com­mu­ni­ca­tion and re­ceived the first mes­sage from Sal­ving­ton over the newly es­tab­lished mind cir­cuit of the planet. And this first mes­sage, dic­tated by the chief of the arch­an­gel corps, said:

62:7.3“To the Life Car­ri­ers on Uran­tia—Greet­ings! We trans­mit as­sur­ance of great plea­sure on Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem in honor of the reg­is­tra­tion on the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don of the sig­nal of the ex­is­tence on Uran­tia of mind of will dig­nity. The pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion of the twins to flee north­ward and seg­re­gate their off­spring from their in­fe­rior an­ces­tors has been noted. This is the first de­ci­sion of mind—the hu­man type of mind—on Uran­tia and au­to­mat­i­cally es­tab­lishes the cir­cuit of com­mu­ni­ca­tion over which this ini­tial mes­sage of ac­knowl­edg­ment is trans­mit­ting.”

62:7.4Next over this new cir­cuit came the greet­ings of the Most Highs of Eden­tia, con­tain­ing in­struc­tions for the res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers for­bid­ding us to in­ter­fere with the pat­tern of life we had es­tab­lished. We were di­rected not to in­ter­vene in the af­fairs of hu­man prog­ress. It should not be in­ferred that Life Car­ri­ers ever ar­bi­trar­ily and me­chan­i­cally in­ter­fere with the nat­u­ral out­work­ing of the plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion­ary plans, for we do not. But up to this time we had been per­mit­ted to ma­nip­u­late the en­vi­ron­ment and shield the life plasm in a spe­cial man­ner, and it was this ex­traor­di­nary, but wholly nat­u­ral, super­vi­sion that was to be dis­con­tin­ued.

62:7.5And no sooner had the Most Highs left off speak­ing than the beau­ti­ful mes­sage of Lu­cifer, then sov­er­eign of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem, be­gan to plan­e­tize. Now the Life Car­ri­ers heard the wel­come words of their own chief and re­ceived his per­mis­sion to re­turn to Je­ru­sem. This mes­sage from Lu­cifer con­tained the of­fi­cial ac­cep­tance of the Life Car­ri­ers’ work on Uran­tia and ab­solved us from all fu­ture crit­i­cism of any of our ef­forts to im­prove the life pat­terns of Neb­a­don as es­tab­lished in the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem.

62:7.6These mes­sages from Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem for­mally marked the ter­mi­na­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers’ age­long super­vi­sion of the planet. For ages we had been on duty, as­sisted only by the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. And now, will, the power of choos­ing to wor­ship and to as­cend, hav­ing ap­peared in the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of the planet, we re­al­ized that our work was fin­ished, and our group pre­pared to de­part. Uran­tia be­ing a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world, per­mis­sion was granted to leave be­hind two se­nior Life Car­ri­ers with twelve as­sis­tants, and I was cho­sen as one of this group and have ever since been on Uran­tia.

62:7.7It is just 993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934) that Uran­tia was for­mally rec­og­nized as a planet of hu­man habi­ta­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion had once again achieved the hu­man lev­els of will dig­nity; man had ar­rived on planet 606 of Sa­ta­nia.

62:7.8[Spon­sored by a Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don res­i­dent on Uran­tia.]

33:7.3As re­gards ju­ris­dic­tion, the lo­cal uni­verse courts are lim­ited in the fol­low­ing mat­ters:

33:7.41. The ad­min­is­tra­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse is con­cerned with cre­ation, evo­lu­tion, main­te­nance, and min­istry. The uni­verse tri­bu­nals are, there­fore, de­nied the right to pass upon those cases in­volv­ing the ques­tion of eter­nal life and death. This has no ref­er­ence to nat­u­ral death as it ob­tains on Uran­tia, but if the ques­tion of the right of con­tin­ued ex­is­tence, life eter­nal, comes up for ad­ju­di­ca­tion, it must be re­ferred to the tri­bu­nals of Or­von­ton, and if de­cided ad­versely to the in­di­vid­ual, all sen­tences of ex­tinc­tion are car­ried out upon the or­ders, and through the agen­cies, of the rulers of the super­gov­ern­ment.

33:7.52. The de­fault or de­fec­tion of any of the Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God which jeop­ar­dizes their sta­tus and au­thor­ity as Sons is never ad­ju­di­cated in the tri­bu­nals of a Son; such a mis­un­der­stand­ing would be im­me­di­ately car­ried to the super­uni­verse courts.

33:7.63. The ques­tion of the read­mis­sion of any con­stituent part of a lo­cal uni­verse—such as a lo­cal sys­tem—to the fel­low­ship of full spir­i­tual sta­tus in the lo­cal cre­ation sub­se­quent to spir­i­tual iso­la­tion must be con­curred in by the high as­sem­bly of the super­uni­verse.

33:7.7In all other mat­ters the courts of Sal­ving­ton are fi­nal and su­preme. There is no ap­peal and no es­cape from their de­ci­sions and de­crees.

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

• make and rule the l.u.

21:0.1The Cre­ator Sons are the mak­ers and rulers of the lo­cal uni­verses of time and space. These uni­verse cre­ators and sov­er­eigns are of dual ori­gin, em­body­ing the char­ac­ter­is­tics of God the Fa­ther and God the Son. But each Cre­ator Son is dif­fer­ent from ev­ery other; each is unique in na­ture as well as in per­son­al­ity; each is the “only-be­got­ten Son” of the per­fect de­ity ideal of his ori­gin.

21:2.2When a Cre­ator Son de­parts from Par­a­dise to em­bark upon the ad­ven­ture of uni­verse mak­ing, to be­come the head—vir­tu­ally the God—of the lo­cal uni­verse of his own or­ga­ni­za­tion, then, for the first time, he finds him­self in in­ti­mate con­tact with, and in many re­spects de­pen­dent upon, the Third Source and Cen­ter. The In­fi­nite Spirit, though abid­ing with the Fa­ther and the Son at the cen­ter of all things, is des­tined to func­tion as the ac­tual and ef­fec­tive helper of each Cre­ator Son. There­fore is each Cre­ator Son ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, that be­ing who is des­tined to be­come the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Mother Spirit of the new lo­cal uni­verse.

21:2.3The de­par­ture of a Mi­chael Son on this oc­ca­sion for­ever lib­er­ates his cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives from the Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, sub­ject only to cer­tain lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in the pre-ex­is­tence of these Sources and Cen­ters and to cer­tain other an­te­ced­ent pow­ers and pres­ences. Among these lim­i­ta­tions to the oth­er­wise all-pow­er­ful cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives of a lo­cal uni­verse Fa­ther are the fol­low­ing:

21:2.41. En­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nated by the In­fi­nite Spirit. Be­fore any new forms of things, great or small, may be cre­ated, be­fore any new trans­for­ma­tions of en­ergy-mat­ter may be at­tempted, a Cre­ator Son must se­cure the con­sent and work­ing co-op­er­a­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

21:2.52. Crea­ture de­signs and types are con­trolled by the Eter­nal Son. Be­fore a Cre­ator Son may en­gage in the cre­ation of any new type of be­ing, any new de­sign of crea­ture, he must se­cure the con­sent of the Eter­nal and Orig­i­nal Mother Son.

21:2.63. Per­son­al­ity is de­signed and be­stowed by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

21:2.7The types and pat­terns of mind are de­ter­mined by the precrea­ture fac­tors of be­ing. Af­ter these have been as­so­ci­ated to con­sti­tute a crea­ture (per­sonal or oth­er­wise), mind is the en­dow­ment of the Third Source and Cen­ter, the uni­ver­sal source of mind min­istry to all be­ings be­low the level of Par­a­dise Cre­ators.

21:2.8The con­trol of spirit de­signs and types de­pends on the level of their man­i­fes­ta­tion. In the last anal­y­sis, spir­i­tual de­sign is con­trolled by the Trin­ity or by the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ments of the Trin­ity per­son­al­i­ties—Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit.

21:2.9When such a per­fect and di­vine Son has taken pos­ses­sion of the space site of his cho­sen uni­verse; when the ini­tial prob­lems of uni­verse ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and of gross equi­lib­rium have been re­solved; when he has formed an ef­fec­tive and co-op­er­a­tive work­ing union with the com­ple­men­tal Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit—then do this Uni­verse Son and this Uni­verse Spirit ini­ti­ate that li­ai­son which is de­signed to give ori­gin to the in­nu­mer­able hosts of their lo­cal uni­verse chil­dren. In con­nec­tion with this event the Cre­ative Spirit fo­cal­iza­tion of the Par­a­dise In­fi­nite Spirit be­comes changed in na­ture, tak­ing on the per­sonal qual­i­ties of the Mother Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse.

21:2.10Not­with­stand­ing that all Cre­ator Sons are di­vinely like their Par­a­dise par­ents, none ex­actly re­sem­bles an­other; each is unique, di­verse, ex­clu­sive, and orig­i­nal in na­ture as well as in per­son­al­ity. And since they are the ar­chi­tects and mak­ers of the life plans of their re­spec­tive realms, this very di­ver­sity in­sures that their do­mains will also be di­verse in ev­ery form and phase of Mi­chael-de­rived liv­ing ex­is­tence which may be cre­ated or sub­se­quently evolved therein. Hence the or­ders of crea­tures na­tive to the lo­cal uni­verses are quite var­ied. No two are ad­min­is­tered or in­hab­ited by dual-ori­gin na­tive be­ings who are in all re­spects iden­ti­cal. Within any super­uni­verse, one half of their in­her­ent at­tri­butes are quite alike, be­ing de­rived from the uni­form Cre­ative Spir­its; the other half vary, be­ing de­rived from the di­ver­si­fied Cre­ator Sons. But such di­ver­sity does not char­ac­ter­ize those crea­tures of sole ori­gin in the Cre­ative Spirit nor those im­ported be­ings who are na­tive to the cen­tral or super­uni­verses.

21:2.12The per­sonal pres­ence of a Cre­ator Son in his lo­cal uni­verse is not nec­es­sary to the smooth run­ning of an es­tab­lished ma­te­rial cre­ation. Such Sons may jour­ney to Par­a­dise, and still their uni­verses swing on through space. They may lay down their lines of power to in­car­nate as the chil­dren of time; still their realms whirl on about their re­spec­tive cen­ters. No ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion is in­de­pen­dent of the ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp of Par­a­dise or of the cos­mic over­con­trol in­her­ent in the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• choose space sites for l.u.; Architects of Master Universe approve

31:9.14The Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects con­tribute tech­ni­cal ap­proval of the as­sign­ment of the Cre­ator Sons to their space sites for the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses. There is a very close as­so­ci­a­tion be­tween the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects and the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, and while this re­la­tion­ship is un­re­vealed, you have been in­formed of the as­so­ci­a­tion of the Ar­chi­tects and the grand uni­verse Su­preme Cre­ators in the re­la­tion­ship of the first ex­pe­ri­en­tial Trin­ity. These two groups, to­gether with the evolv­ing and ex­pe­ri­en­tial Su­preme Be­ing, con­sti­tute the Trin­ity Ul­ti­mate of tran­scen­den­tal val­ues and mas­ter uni­verse mean­ings.

• choose space sites for l.u.; Architects of Master Universe approve

32:0.4The Sons of God may choose the realms of their cre­ator ac­tiv­i­ties, but these ma­te­rial cre­ations were orig­i­nally pro­jected and planned by the Par­a­dise Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

23:2.226. Am­bas­sadors and Emis­saries of Spe­cial As­sign­ment. Lo­cal uni­verses sit­u­ated within the same super­uni­verse cus­tom­ar­ily ex­change am­bas­sadors se­lected from their na­tive or­ders of son­ship. But to avoid de­lay, Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are fre­quently asked to go as am­bas­sadors from one lo­cal cre­ation to an­other, to rep­re­sent and in­ter­pret one realm to an­other. For ex­am­ple: When a newly in­hab­ited realm is dis­cov­ered, it may prove to be so re­mote in space that a long time will pass be­fore an en­ser­a­phimed am­bas­sador can reach this far-dis­tant uni­verse. An en­ser­a­phimed be­ing can­not pos­si­bly ex­ceed the ve­loc­ity of 558,840 Uran­tia miles in one sec­ond of your time. Mas­sive stars, cross­cur­rents, and de­tours, as well as at­trac­tion tan­gents, will all tend to re­tard such speed so that on a long jour­ney the ve­loc­ity will av­er­age about 550,000 miles per sec­ond.

32:3.4With the ex­cep­tion of the de­ity pres­ence of the Fa­ther, ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, in a cer­tain sense, a du­pli­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral or pat­tern cre­ation. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse, he does not in­dwell the minds of the be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in that uni­verse as he does lit­er­ally dwell with the souls of the mor­tals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise com­pen­sa­tion in the ad­just­ment and reg­u­la­tion of the spir­i­tual af­fairs of the far-flung cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent as such but ab­sent in the minds of the chil­dren of that per­fect cre­ation; in the uni­verses of space the Fa­ther is ab­sent in per­son, be­ing rep­re­sented by his Sov­er­eign Sons, while he is in­ti­mately pres­ent in the minds of his mor­tal chil­dren, be­ing spir­i­tu­ally rep­re­sented by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that re­side in the minds of these will crea­tures.

1:2.9In the­ory you may think of God as the Cre­ator, and he is the per­sonal cre­ator of Par­a­dise and the cen­tral uni­verse of per­fec­tion, but the uni­verses of time and space are all cre­ated and or­ga­nized by the Par­a­dise corps of the Cre­ator Sons. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not the per­sonal cre­ator of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don; the uni­verse in which you live is the cre­ation of his Son Mi­chael. Though the Fa­ther does not per­son­ally cre­ate the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, he does con­trol them in many of their uni­ver­sal re­la­tion­ships and in cer­tain of their man­i­fes­ta­tions of phys­i­cal, mindal, and spir­i­tual en­er­gies. God the Fa­ther is the per­sonal cre­ator of the Par­a­dise uni­verse and, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Eter­nal Son, the cre­ator of all other per­sonal uni­verse Cre­ators.

32:4.1Do not en­ter­tain the idea that, since the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has del­e­gated so much of him­self and his power to oth­ers, he is a silent or in­ac­tive mem­ber of the De­ity part­ner­ship. Aside from per­son­al­ity do­mains and Ad­juster be­stowal, he is ap­par­ently the least ac­tive of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties in that he al­lows his De­ity co-or­di­nates, his Sons, and nu­mer­ous cre­ated in­tel­li­gences to per­form so much in the car­ry­ing out of his eter­nal pur­pose. He is the silent mem­ber of the cre­ative trio only in that he never does aught which any of his co-or­di­nate or sub­or­di­nate as­so­ciates can do.

32:4.2God has full un­der­stand­ing of the need of ev­ery in­tel­li­gent crea­ture for func­tion and ex­pe­ri­ence, and there­fore, in ev­ery sit­u­a­tion, be it con­cerned with the des­tiny of a uni­verse or the wel­fare of the hum­blest of his crea­tures, God re­tires from ac­tiv­ity in fa­vor of the galaxy of crea­ture and Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties who in­her­ently in­ter­vene be­tween him­self and any given uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or cre­ative event. But not­with­stand­ing this re­tire­ment, this ex­hi­bi­tion of in­fi­nite co-or­di­na­tion, there is on God’s part an ac­tual, lit­eral, and per­sonal par­tic­i­pa­tion in these events by and through these or­dained agen­cies and per­son­al­i­ties. The Fa­ther is work­ing in and through all these chan­nels for the wel­fare of all his far-flung cre­ation.

32:4.3As re­gards the poli­cies, con­duct, and ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther acts in the per­son of his Cre­ator Son. In the in­ter­re­la­tion­ships of the Sons of God, in the group as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­son­al­i­ties of ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter, or in the re­la­tion­ship be­tween any other crea­tures, such as hu­man be­ings—as con­cerns such as­so­ci­a­tions the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never in­ter­venes. The law of the Cre­ator Son, the rule of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and the Plan­e­tary Princes—the or­dained poli­cies and pro­ce­dures for that uni­verse—al­ways pre­vail. There is no di­vi­sion of au­thor­ity; never is there a cross work­ing of di­vine power and pur­pose. The De­i­ties are in per­fect and eter­nal una­nim­ity.

32:4.4The Cre­ator Son rules su­preme in all mat­ters of eth­i­cal as­so­ci­a­tions, the re­la­tions of any di­vi­sion of crea­tures to any other class of crea­tures or of two or more in­di­vid­u­als within any given group; but such a plan does not mean that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther may not in his own way in­ter­vene and do aught that pleases the di­vine mind with any in­di­vid­ual crea­ture through­out all cre­ation, as per­tains to that in­di­vid­ual’s pres­ent sta­tus or fu­ture prospects and as con­cerns the Fa­ther’s eter­nal plan and in­fi­nite pur­pose.

32:4.5In the mor­tal will crea­tures the Fa­ther is ac­tu­ally pres­ent in the in­dwelling Ad­juster, a frag­ment of his preper­sonal spirit; and the Fa­ther is also the source of the per­son­al­ity of such a mor­tal will crea­ture.

32:4.6These Thought Ad­justers, the be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, are com­par­a­tively iso­lated; they in­dwell hu­man minds but have no dis­cern­i­ble con­nec­tion with the eth­i­cal af­fairs of a lo­cal cre­ation. They are not di­rectly co-or­di­nated with the se­raphic ser­vice nor with the ad­min­is­tra­tion of sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, or a lo­cal uni­verse, not even with the rule of a Cre­ator Son, whose will is the su­preme law of his uni­verse.

32:4.7The in­dwelling Ad­justers are one of God’s sep­a­rate but uni­fied modes of con­tact with the crea­tures of his all but in­fi­nite cre­ation. Thus does he who is in­vis­i­ble to mor­tal man man­i­fest his pres­ence, and could he do so, he would show him­self to us in still other ways, but such fur­ther rev­e­la­tion is not di­vinely pos­si­ble.

32:4.8We can see and un­der­stand the mech­a­nism whereby the Sons en­joy in­ti­mate and com­plete knowl­edge re­gard­ing the uni­verses of their ju­ris­dic­tion; but we can­not fully com­pre­hend the meth­ods whereby God is so fully and per­son­ally con­ver­sant with the de­tails of the uni­verse of uni­verses, al­though we at least can rec­og­nize the av­enue whereby the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can re­ceive in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing, and man­i­fest his pres­ence to, the be­ings of his im­mense cre­ation. Through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit the Fa­ther is cog­nizant—has per­sonal knowl­edge—of all the thoughts and acts of all the be­ings in all the sys­tems of all the uni­verses of all cre­ation. Though we can­not fully grasp this tech­nique of God’s com­mu­nion with his chil­dren, we can be strength­ened in the as­sur­ance that the “Lord knows his chil­dren,” and that of each one of us “he takes note where we were born.”

32:4.9In your uni­verse and in your heart the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is pres­ent, spir­i­tu­ally speak­ing, by one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its of cen­tral abode and, specif­i­cally, by the di­vine Ad­juster who lives and works and waits in the depths of the mor­tal mind.

32:4.10God is not a self-cen­tered per­son­al­ity; the Fa­ther freely dis­tributes him­self to his cre­ation and to his crea­tures. He lives and acts, not only in the De­i­ties, but also in his Sons, whom he in­trusts with the do­ing of ev­ery­thing that it is di­vinely pos­si­ble for them to do. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has truly di­vested him­self of ev­ery func­tion which it is pos­si­ble for an­other be­ing to per­form. And this is just as true of mor­tal man as of the Cre­ator Son who rules in God’s stead at the head­quar­ters of a lo­cal uni­verse. Thus we be­hold the out­work­ing of the ideal and in­fi­nite love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

32:4.11In this uni­ver­sal be­stowal of him­self we have abun­dant proof of both the mag­ni­tude and the mag­na­nim­ity of the Fa­ther’s di­vine na­ture. If God has with­held aught of him­self from the uni­ver­sal cre­ation, then of that residue he is in lav­ish gen­eros­ity be­stow­ing the Thought Ad­justers upon the mor­tals of the realms, the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors of time, who so pa­tiently in­dwell the mor­tal can­di­dates for life ev­er­last­ing.

32:4.12The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has poured out him­self, as it were, to make all cre­ation rich in per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion and po­ten­tial spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. God has given us him­self that we may be like him, and he has re­served for him­self of power and glory only that which is nec­es­sary for the main­te­nance of those things for the love of which he has thus di­vested him­self of all things else.

• mortals evolve to true spirits on

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.

• are morontia spheres

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

• ascenders have 491 successive morontia bodies in

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

• special probationary nurseries maintained on

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

• possibilities for physical expansion must be exhausted; spirit status settled

32:3.2The phys­i­cal sys­tems of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary in ori­gin. They are not even phys­i­cally sta­bi­lized un­til they are swung into the set­tled cir­cuits of their super­uni­verses. Nei­ther is a lo­cal uni­verse set­tled in light and life un­til its phys­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties of ex­pan­sion and de­vel­op­ment have been ex­hausted, and un­til the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all its in­hab­ited worlds has been for­ever set­tled and sta­bi­lized.

• almost infinite variety of Creator Sons’ plans for

32:3.3Ex­cept in the cen­tral uni­verse, per­fec­tion is a pro­gres­sive at­tain­ment. In the cen­tral cre­ation we have a pat­tern of per­fec­tion, but all other realms must at­tain that per­fec­tion by the meth­ods es­tab­lished for the ad­vance­ment of those par­tic­u­lar worlds or uni­verses. And an al­most in­fi­nite va­ri­ety char­ac­ter­izes the plans of the Cre­ator Sons for or­ga­niz­ing, evolv­ing, dis­ci­plin­ing, and set­tling their re­spec­tive lo­cal uni­verses.

55:10.1When a uni­verse be­comes set­tled in light and life, it soon swings into the es­tab­lished super­uni­verse cir­cuits, and the An­cients of Days pro­claim the es­tab­lish­ment of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity. This new gov­ern­ing body con­sists of the one hun­dred Faith­fuls of Days, pre­sided over by the Union of Days, and the first act of this su­preme coun­cil is to ac­knowl­edge the con­tin­ued sov­er­eignty of the Mas­ter Cre­ator Son.

55:10.2The uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, as far as con­cerns Ga­briel and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, is quite un­changed. This coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity is chiefly con­cerned with the new prob­lems and the new con­di­tions aris­ing out of the ad­vanced sta­tus of light and life.

55:10.3The As­so­ciate In­spec­tor now mo­bi­lizes all As­signed Sen­tinels to con­sti­tute the sta­bi­liza­tion corps of the lo­cal uni­verse and asks the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek to share its super­vi­sion with him. And now, for the first time, a corps of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are as­signed to the ser­vice of the Union of Days.

55:10.4The set­tling of an en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life in­au­gu­rates pro­found read­just­ments in the en­tire scheme of ad­min­is­tra­tion, from the in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited worlds to the uni­verse head­quar­ters. New re­la­tion­ships ex­tend down to the con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. The lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit ex­pe­ri­ences new li­ai­son re­la­tions with the Mas­ter Spirit of the super­uni­verse, and Ga­briel es­tab­lishes di­rect con­tact with the An­cients of Days to be ef­fec­tive when and as the Mas­ter Son may be ab­sent from the head­quar­ters world.

55:10.5Dur­ing this and sub­se­quent ages the Mag­is­te­rial Sons con­tinue to func­tion as dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tors, while one hun­dred of these Avo­nal Sons of Par­a­dise con­sti­tute the new high coun­cil of the Bright and Morn­ing Star on the uni­verse cap­i­tal. Later on, and as re­quested by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, one of these Mag­is­te­rial Sons will be­come the su­preme coun­selor sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters world of each lo­cal sys­tem un­til the sev­enth stage of unity is at­tained.

55:10.6Dur­ing this epoch the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are vol­un­teer ad­vis­ers, not only to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eigns, but in groups of three they sim­i­larly serve the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. And at last these Sons find their place in the lo­cal uni­verse, for at this time they are re­moved from the ju­ris­dic­tion of the lo­cal cre­ation and are as­signed to the ser­vice of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity.

55:10.7The fi­nal­i­ter corps now, for the first time, ac­knowl­edges the ju­ris­dic­tion of an ex­tra-Par­a­dise au­thor­ity, the su­preme coun­cil. Here­to­fore the fi­nal­i­ters have rec­og­nized no super­vi­sion this side of Par­a­dise.

55:10.8The Cre­ator Sons of such set­tled uni­verses spend much of their time on Par­a­dise and its as­so­ci­ated worlds and in coun­sel­ing the nu­mer­ous fi­nal­i­ter groups serv­ing through­out the lo­cal cre­ation. In this way the man of Mi­chael will find a fuller fra­ter­nity of as­so­ci­a­tion with the glo­ri­fied fi­nal­i­ter mor­tals.

55:10.9Spec­u­la­tion con­cern­ing the func­tion of these Cre­ator Sons in con­nec­tion with the outer uni­verses now in pro­cess of pre­lim­i­nary as­sem­bly is wholly fu­tile. But we all en­gage in such pos­tu­la­tions from time to time. On at­tain­ing this fourth stage of de­vel­op­ment the Cre­ator Son be­comes ad­min­is­tra­tively free; the Di­vine Min­is­ter is pro­gres­sively blend­ing her min­istry with that of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit and the In­fi­nite Spirit. There seems to be evolv­ing a new and sub­lime re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Cre­ator Son, the Cre­ative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter corps.

55:10.10If Mi­chael should ever leave Neb­a­don, Ga­briel would un­doubt­edly be­come chief ad­min­is­tra­tor with the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek as his as­so­ciate. At the same time new sta­tus would be im­parted to all or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, such as Ma­te­rial Sons, uni­v­i­ta­tia, mid­soniters, susa­tia, and Spirit-fused mor­tals. But as long as evo­lu­tion con­tin­ues, the ser­a­phim and the arch­an­gels will be re­quired in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:10.11We are, how­ever, sat­is­fied re­gard­ing two fea­tures of our spec­u­la­tions: If the Cre­ator Sons are des­tined to the outer uni­verses, the Di­vine Min­is­ters will un­doubt­edly ac­com­pany them. We are equally sure that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are to re­main with the uni­verses of their ori­gin. We hold that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are des­tined to play ever-in­creas­ingly re­spon­si­ble parts in lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• Master Spirits more active

56:7.2As the com­po­nents of a lo­cal uni­verse are pro­gres­sively set­tled in light and life, God the Sev­en­fold is in­creas­ingly made man­i­fest. Time-space evo­lu­tion be­gins on a planet with the first ex­pres­sion of God the Sev­en­fold—the Cre­ator Son-Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­a­tion—in con­trol. With the set­tling of a sys­tem in light, this Son-Spirit li­ai­son at­tains the full­ness of func­tion; and when an en­tire con­stel­la­tion is thus set­tled, the sec­ond phase of God the Sev­en­fold be­comes more ac­tive through­out such a realm. The com­pleted ad­min­is­tra­tive evo­lu­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse is at­tended by new and more di­rect min­is­tra­tions of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spir­its; and at this point there also be­gins that ever-ex­pand­ing rev­e­la­tion and re­al­iza­tion of God the Su­preme which cul­mi­nates in the as­cender’s com­pre­hen­sion of the Su­preme Be­ing while pass­ing through the worlds of the sixth Ha­vona cir­cuit.

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

32:2.12The uni­verse of Neb­a­don now swings far to the south and east in the super­uni­verse cir­cuit of Or­von­ton. The near­est neigh­bor­ing uni­verses are: Avalon, Henselon, Sanselon, Por­talon, Wolver­ing, Fa­nov­ing, and Alvor­ing.

32:2.1The Cre­ator Sons are pre­ceded in uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion by the power di­rec­tors and other be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in the Third Source and Cen­ter. From the en­er­gies of space, thus pre­vi­ously or­ga­nized, Mi­chael, your Cre­ator Son, es­tab­lished the in­hab­ited realms of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and ever since has been painstak­ingly de­voted to their ad­min­is­tra­tion. From pre-ex­is­tent en­ergy these di­vine Sons ma­te­ri­al­ize vis­i­ble mat­ter, project liv­ing crea­tures, and with the co-op­er­a­tion of the uni­verse pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, cre­ate a di­verse ret­inue of spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

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.

32:2.4Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don, is sit­u­ated at the ex­act en­ergy-mass cen­ter of the lo­cal uni­verse. But your lo­cal uni­verse is not a sin­gle as­tro­nomic sys­tem, though a large sys­tem does ex­ist at its phys­i­cal cen­ter.

32:2.5Sal­ving­ton is the per­sonal head­quar­ters of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, but he will not al­ways be found there. While the smooth func­tion­ing of your lo­cal uni­verse no longer re­quires the fixed pres­ence of the Cre­ator Son at the cap­i­tal sphere, this was not true of the ear­lier epochs of phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion. A Cre­ator Son is un­able to leave his head­quar­ters world un­til such a time as grav­ity sta­bi­liza­tion of the realm has been ef­fected through the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of suf­fi­cient en­ergy to en­able the var­i­ous cir­cuits and sys­tems to coun­ter­bal­ance one an­other by mu­tual ma­te­rial at­trac­tion.

32:2.7And now that the right-hand helper and chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Cre­ator Son has been pro­vided, there en­sues the bring­ing into ex­is­tence of a vast and won­der­ful ar­ray of di­verse crea­tures. The sons and daugh­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse are forth­com­ing, and soon there­after the gov­ern­ment of such a cre­ation is pro­vided, ex­tend­ing from the su­preme coun­cils of the uni­verse to the fa­thers of the con­stel­la­tions and the sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal sys­tems—the ag­gre­ga­tions of those worlds which are de­signed sub­se­quently to be­come the homes of the var­ied mor­tal races of will crea­tures; and each of these worlds will be pre­sided over by a Plan­e­tary Prince.

32:2.8And then, when such a uni­verse has been so com­pletely or­ga­nized and so re­pletely manned, does the Cre­ator Son en­ter into the Fa­ther’s pro­posal to cre­ate mor­tal man in their di­vine im­age.

32:2.9The or­ga­ni­za­tion of plan­e­tary abodes is still pro­gress­ing in Neb­a­don, for this uni­verse is, in­deed, a young clus­ter in the starry and plan­e­tary realms of Or­von­ton. At the last reg­istry there were 3,840,101 in­hab­ited plan­ets in Neb­a­don, and Sa­ta­nia, the lo­cal sys­tem of your world, is fairly typ­i­cal of other sys­tems.

32:2.10Sa­ta­nia is not a uni­form phys­i­cal sys­tem, a sin­gle as­tro­nomic unit or or­ga­ni­za­tion. Its 619 in­hab­ited worlds are lo­cated in over five hun­dred dif­fer­ent phys­i­cal sys­tems. Only five have more than two in­hab­ited worlds, and of these only one has four peo­pled plan­ets, while there are forty-six hav­ing two in­hab­ited worlds.

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.

32:2.13But the evo­lu­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse is a long nar­ra­tive. Pa­pers deal­ing with the super­uni­verse in­tro­duce this sub­ject, those of this sec­tion, treat­ing of the lo­cal cre­ations, con­tinue it, while those to fol­low, touch­ing upon the his­tory and des­tiny of Uran­tia, com­plete the story. But you can ad­e­quately com­pre­hend the des­tiny of the mor­tals of such a lo­cal cre­ation only by a pe­rusal of the nar­ra­tives of the life and teach­ings of your Cre­ator Son as he once lived the life of man, in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, on your own evo­lu­tion­ary world.

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.

37:9.1As with the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses, the lo­cal uni­verse has its or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship. These in­clude the fol­low­ing cre­ated types:

37:9.21. Susa­tia.

37:9.32. Uni­v­i­ta­tia.

37:9.43. Ma­te­rial Sons.

37:9.54. Mid­way Crea­tures.

37:9.6These na­tives of the lo­cal cre­ation, to­gether with the Spirit-fused as­cend­ers and the spironga (who are oth­er­wise clas­si­fied), con­sti­tute a rel­a­tively per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship. These or­ders of be­ings are by and large nei­ther as­cend­ing nor de­scend­ing. They are all ex­pe­ri­en­tial crea­tures, but their en­larg­ing ex­pe­ri­ence con­tin­ues to be avail­able to the uni­verse on their level of ori­gin. While this is not wholly true of the Adamic Sons and mid­way crea­tures, it is rel­a­tively true of these or­ders.

37:9.7The Susa­tia. These mar­velous be­ings re­side and func­tion as per­ma­nent cit­i­zens on Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of this lo­cal uni­verse. They are the bril­liant off­spring of the Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit and are closely as­so­ci­ated with the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse, the Spirit-fused mor­tals of the Neb­a­don Corps of Per­fec­tion.

37:9.8The Uni­v­i­ta­tia. Each of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters clus­ters of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres en­joys the con­tin­u­ous min­istry of a res­i­den­tial or­der of be­ings known as the uni­v­i­ta­tia. These chil­dren of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit con­sti­tute the per­ma­nent pop­u­la­tion of the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds. They are non­re­pro­duc­ing be­ings ex­ist­ing on a plane of life about half­way be­tween the semi­ma­te­rial sta­tus of the Ma­te­rial Sons domi­ciled on the sys­tem head­quar­ters and the more def­i­nitely spir­i­tual plane of the Spirit-fused mor­tals and the susa­tia of Sal­ving­ton; but the uni­v­i­ta­tia are not mor­ontia be­ings. They ac­com­plish for as­cend­ing mor­tals dur­ing the traver­sal of the con­stel­la­tion spheres what the Ha­vona na­tives con­tribute to the pil­grim spir­its pass­ing through the cen­tral cre­ation.

37:9.9The Ma­te­rial Sons of God. When a cre­ative li­ai­son be­tween the Cre­ator Son and the uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, has com­pleted its cy­cle, when no more off­spring of the com­bined na­ture are forth­com­ing, then does the Cre­ator Son per­son­al­ize in dual form his last con­cept of be­ing, thus fi­nally con­firm­ing his own and orig­i­nal dual ori­gin. In and of him­self he then cre­ates the beau­ti­ful and su­perb Sons and Daugh­ters of the ma­te­rial or­der of uni­verse son­ship. This is the ori­gin of the orig­i­nal Adam and Eve of each lo­cal sys­tem of Neb­a­don. They are a re­pro­duc­ing or­der of son­ship, be­ing cre­ated male and fe­male. Their progeny func­tion as the rel­a­tively per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of a sys­tem cap­i­tal, though some are com­mis­sioned as Plan­e­tary Adams.

37:9.10On a plan­e­tary mis­sion the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are com­mis­sioned to found the Adamic race of that world, a race de­signed even­tu­ally to amal­ga­mate with the mor­tal in­hab­i­tants of that sphere. Plan­e­tary Adams are both de­scend­ing and as­cend­ing Sons, but we or­di­nar­ily class them as as­cend­ing.

37:9.11The Mid­way Crea­tures. In the early days of most in­hab­ited worlds, cer­tain super­hu­man but ma­te­ri­al­ized be­ings are of as­sign­ment, but they usu­ally re­tire upon the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Adams. The trans­ac­tions of such be­ings and the ef­forts of the Ma­te­rial Sons to im­prove the evo­lu­tion­ary races of­ten re­sult in the ap­pear­ance of a lim­ited num­ber of crea­tures who are dif­fi­cult to clas­sify. These unique be­ings are of­ten mid­way be­tween the Ma­te­rial Sons and the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures; hence their des­ig­na­tion, mid­way crea­tures. In a com­par­a­tive sense these mid­way­ers are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. From the early days of the ar­rival of a Plan­e­tary Prince to the far-dis­tant time of the set­tling of the planet in light and life, they are the only group of in­tel­li­gent be­ings to re­main con­tin­u­ously on the sphere. On Uran­tia the mid­way min­is­ters are in re­al­ity the ac­tual cus­to­di­ans of the planet; they are, prac­ti­cally speak­ing, the cit­i­zens of Uran­tia. Mor­tals are in­deed the phys­i­cal and ma­te­rial in­hab­i­tants of an evo­lu­tion­ary world, but you are all so short-lived; you tarry on your na­tiv­ity planet such a short time. You are born, live, die, and pass on to other worlds of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion. Even the super­hu­man be­ings who serve on the plan­ets as ce­les­tial min­is­ters are of tran­sient as­sign­ment; few of them are long at­tached to a given sphere. The mid­way crea­tures, how­ever, pro­vide con­ti­nu­ity of plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion in the face of ever-chang­ing ce­les­tial min­istries and con­stantly shift­ing mor­tal in­hab­i­tants. Through­out all of this never-ceas­ing chang­ing and shift­ing, the mid­way crea­tures re­main on the planet un­in­ter­rupt­edly car­ry­ing on their work.

37:9.12In like man­ner, all di­vi­sions of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the lo­cal uni­verses and super­uni­verses have their more or less per­ma­nent pop­u­la­tions, in­hab­i­tants of cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus. As Uran­tia has its mid­way­ers, Je­ru­sem, your sys­tem cap­i­tal, has the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters; Eden­tia, your con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, has the uni­v­i­ta­tia, while the cit­i­zens of Sal­ving­ton are two­fold, the cre­ated susa­tia and the evolved Spirit-fused mor­tals. The ad­min­is­tra­tive worlds of the mi­nor and ma­jor sec­tors of the super­uni­verses do not have per­ma­nent cit­i­zens. But the Uversa head­quar­ters spheres are con­tin­u­ously fos­tered by an amaz­ing group of be­ings known as the aban­don­ters, the cre­ation of the un­re­vealed agents of the An­cients of Days and the seven Re­flec­tive Spir­its res­i­dent on the cap­i­tal of Or­von­ton. These res­i­den­tial cit­i­zens on Uversa are at pres­ent ad­min­is­ter­ing the rou­tine af­fairs of their world un­der the im­me­di­ate super­vi­sion of the Uversa corps of the Son-fused mor­tals. Even Ha­vona has its na­tive be­ings, and the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life is the home of the var­i­ous groups of Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens.

38:0.2As the super­na­phim in the cen­tral uni­verse and the se­con­a­phim in a super­uni­verse, so the ser­a­phim, with the as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim and sa­no­bim, con­sti­tute the an­gelic corps of a lo­cal uni­verse.

• all have same energy charge
• many nebulae may be encompassed within

15:4.6Neb­u­lae are not di­rectly re­lated to any of the ad­min­is­tra­tive units, such as mi­nor sec­tors or lo­cal uni­verses, al­though some lo­cal uni­verses have been or­ga­nized from the prod­ucts of a sin­gle neb­ula. Each lo­cal uni­verse em­braces ex­actly one one-hun­dred-thou­sandth part of the to­tal en­ergy charge of a super­uni­verse ir­re­spec­tive of neb­u­lar re­la­tion­ship, for en­ergy is not or­ga­nized by neb­u­lae—it is uni­ver­sally dis­tributed.

• Force Organizers leave when Creator Son arrives

29:5.6Upon the com­ple­tion of the plans for the cre­ation of a lo­cal uni­verse, sig­nal­ized by the ar­rival of a Cre­ator Son, the As­so­ciate Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers give way to the or­ders of power di­rec­tors act­ing in the super­uni­verse of as­tro­nomic ju­ris­dic­tion. But in the ab­sence of such plans the as­so­ciate force or­ga­niz­ers con­tinue on in­def­i­nitely in charge of these ma­te­rial cre­ations, even as they now op­er­ate in outer space.

• all are evolutionary

32:0.2These uni­verses of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary. The cre­ative plan of the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els al­ways pro­ceeds along the path of grad­ual evolve­ment and pro­gres­sive de­vel­op­ment of the phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual na­tures and ca­pac­i­ties of the man­i­fold crea­tures who in­habit the var­ied or­ders of spheres com­pris­ing such a lo­cal uni­verse.

32:1.1The pre­uni­verse ma­nip­u­la­tions of space-force and the pri­mor­dial en­er­gies are the work of the Par­a­dise Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers; but in the super­uni­verse do­mains, when emer­gent en­ergy be­comes re­spon­sive to lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity, they re­tire in fa­vor of the power di­rec­tors of the super­uni­verse con­cerned.

32:1.2These power di­rec­tors func­tion alone in the pre­ma­te­rial and post­force phases of a lo­cal uni­verse cre­ation. There is no op­por­tu­nity for a Cre­ator Son to be­gin uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion un­til the power di­rec­tors have ef­fected the mo­bi­liza­tion of the space-en­er­gies suf­fi­ciently to pro­vide a ma­te­rial foun­da­tion—lit­eral suns and ma­te­rial spheres—for the emerg­ing uni­verse.

32:1.3The lo­cal uni­verses are all ap­prox­i­mately of the same en­ergy po­ten­tial, though they dif­fer greatly in phys­i­cal di­men­sions and may vary in vis­i­ble-mat­ter con­tent from time to time. The power charge and po­ten­tial-mat­ter en­dow­ment of a lo­cal uni­verse are de­ter­mined by the ma­nip­u­la­tions of the power di­rec­tors and their pre­de­ces­sors as well as by the Cre­ator Son’s ac­tiv­i­ties and by the en­dow­ment of the in­her­ent phys­i­cal con­trol pos­sessed by his cre­ative as­so­ciate.

• all have same energy charge

32:1.4The en­ergy charge of a lo­cal uni­verse is ap­prox­i­mately one one-hun­dred-thou­sandth of the force en­dow­ment of its super­uni­verse. In the case of Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, the mass ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion is a tri­fle less. Phys­i­cally speak­ing, Neb­a­don pos­sesses all of the phys­i­cal en­dow­ment of en­ergy and mat­ter that may be found in any of the Or­von­ton lo­cal cre­ations. The only phys­i­cal lim­i­ta­tion upon the de­vel­op­men­tal ex­pan­sion of the Neb­a­don uni­verse con­sists in the quan­ti­ta­tive charge of space-en­ergy held cap­tive by the grav­ity con­trol of the as­so­ci­ated pow­ers and per­son­al­i­ties of the com­bined uni­verse mech­a­nism.

32:1.5When en­ergy-mat­ter has at­tained a cer­tain stage in mass ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son ap­pears upon the scene, ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ar­rival of the Cre­ator Son, work is be­gun upon the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere which is to be­come the head­quar­ters world of the pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse. For long ages such a lo­cal cre­ation evolves, suns be­come sta­bi­lized, plan­ets form and swing into their or­bits, while the work of cre­at­ing the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds which are to serve as con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and sys­tem cap­i­tals con­tin­ues.

• all are evolutionary

32:3.1The only cre­ation that is per­fectly set­tled is Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, which was made di­rectly by the thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the word of the Eter­nal Son. Ha­vona is an ex­is­ten­tial, per­fect, and re­plete uni­verse, sur­round­ing the home of the eter­nal De­i­ties, the cen­ter of all things. The cre­ations of the seven super­uni­verses are fi­nite, evo­lu­tion­ary, and con­sis­tently pro­gres­sive.

• take shape because of space presence of Mother Spirit, power centers, and material control of Creator Son

34:1.1Af­ter the com­ple­tion of the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion of a starry and plan­e­tary clus­ter and the es­tab­lish­ment of the en­ergy cir­cuits by the super­uni­verse power cen­ters, sub­se­quent to this pre­lim­i­nary work of cre­ation by the agen­cies of the In­fi­nite Spirit, op­er­at­ing through, and un­der the di­rec­tion of, his lo­cal uni­verse cre­ative fo­cal­iza­tion, there goes forth the procla­ma­tion of the Mi­chael Son that life is next to be pro­jected in the newly or­ga­nized uni­verse. Upon the Par­a­dise rec­og­ni­tion of this dec­la­ra­tion of in­ten­tion, there oc­curs a re­ac­tion of ap­proval in the Par­a­dise Trin­ity, fol­lowed by the dis­ap­pear­ance in the spir­i­tual shin­ing of the De­i­ties of the Mas­ter Spirit in whose super­uni­verse this new cre­ation is or­ga­niz­ing. Mean­while the other Mas­ter Spir­its draw near this cen­tral lodg­ment of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, and sub­se­quently, when the De­ity-em­braced Mas­ter Spirit emerges to the rec­og­ni­tion of his fel­lows, there oc­curs what is known as a “pri­mary erup­tion.” This is a tremen­dous spir­i­tual flash, a phe­nom­e­non clearly dis­cern­i­ble as far away as the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse con­cerned; and si­mul­ta­ne­ously with this lit­tle-un­der­stood Trin­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion there oc­curs a marked change in the na­ture of the cre­ative spirit pres­ence and power of the In­fi­nite Spirit res­i­dent in the lo­cal uni­verse con­cerned. In re­sponse to these Par­a­dise phe­nom­ena there im­me­di­ately per­son­al­izes, in the very pres­ence of the Cre­ator Son, a new per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit. This is the Di­vine Min­is­ter. The in­di­vid­u­al­ized Cre­ative Spirit helper of the Cre­ator Son has be­come his per­sonal cre­ative as­so­ciate, the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit.

• defined by presence of local universe Mother Spirit

41:0.1The char­ac­ter­is­tic space phe­nom­e­non which sets off each lo­cal cre­ation from all oth­ers is the pres­ence of the Cre­ative Spirit. All Neb­a­don is cer­tainly per­vaded by the space pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton, and such pres­ence just as cer­tainly ter­mi­nates at the outer bor­ders of our lo­cal uni­verse. That which is per­vaded by our lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit is Neb­a­don; that which ex­tends be­yond her space pres­ence is out­side Neb­a­don, be­ing the ex­tra-Neb­a­don space re­gions of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton—other lo­cal uni­verses.

• all have same energy charge
• no clear lines of physical demarcation between

41:0.2While the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the grand uni­verse dis­closes a clear-cut di­vi­sion be­tween the gov­ern­ments of the cen­tral, su­per-, and lo­cal uni­verses, and while these di­vi­sions are as­tro­nom­i­cally par­al­leled in the space sep­a­ra­tion of Ha­vona and the seven super­uni­verses, no such clear lines of phys­i­cal de­mar­ca­tion set off the lo­cal cre­ations. Even the ma­jor and mi­nor sec­tors of Or­von­ton are (to us) clearly dis­tin­guish­able, but it is not so easy to iden­tify the phys­i­cal bound­aries of the lo­cal uni­verses. This is be­cause these lo­cal cre­ations are ad­min­is­tra­tively or­ga­nized in ac­cor­dance with cer­tain cre­ative prin­ci­ples gov­ern­ing the seg­men­ta­tion of the to­tal en­ergy charge of a super­uni­verse, whereas their phys­i­cal com­po­nents, the spheres of space—suns, dark is­lands, plan­ets, etc.—take ori­gin pri­mar­ily from neb­u­lae, and these make their as­tro­nom­i­cal ap­pear­ance in ac­cor­dance with cer­tain precre­ative (tran­scen­den­tal) plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

• many nebulae may be encompassed within
• spheres of each travel together as contiguous unit

41:0.3One or more—even many—such neb­u­lae may be en­com­passed within the do­main of a sin­gle lo­cal uni­verse even as Neb­a­don was phys­i­cally as­sem­bled out of the stel­lar and plan­e­tary progeny of And­ro­no­ver and other neb­u­lae. The spheres of Neb­a­don are of di­verse neb­u­lar an­ces­try, but they all had a cer­tain min­i­mum com­mon­ness of space mo­tion which was so ad­justed by the in­tel­li­gent ef­forts of the power di­rec­tors as to pro­duce our pres­ent ag­gre­ga­tion of space bod­ies, which travel along to­gether as a con­tigu­ous unit over the or­bits of the super­uni­verse.

• 100 4th order Power Centers assigned to each

41:1.2One hun­dred Su­preme Power Cen­ters of the fourth or­der are per­ma­nently as­signed to our lo­cal uni­verse. These be­ings re­ceive the in­com­ing lines of power from the third-or­der cen­ters of Uversa and re­lay the down-stepped and mod­i­fied cir­cuits to the power cen­ters of our con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. These power cen­ters, in as­so­ci­a­tion, func­tion to pro­duce the liv­ing sys­tem of con­trol and equal­iza­tion which op­er­ates to main­tain the bal­ance and dis­tri­bu­tion of oth­er­wise fluc­tu­at­ing and vari­able en­er­gies. Power cen­ters are not, how­ever, con­cerned with tran­sient and lo­cal en­ergy up­heavals, such as sun spots and sys­tem elec­tric dis­tur­bances; light and elec­tric­ity are not the ba­sic en­er­gies of space; they are sec­ondary and sub­sidiary man­i­fes­ta­tions.

• defined by presence of local universe Mother Spirit

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.

• all born of circular gaseous nebulae

57:2.1All evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial cre­ations are born of cir­cu­lar and gaseous neb­u­lae, and all such pri­mary neb­u­lae are cir­cu­lar through­out the early part of their gaseous ex­is­tence. As they grow older, they usu­ally be­come spi­ral, and when their func­tion of sun for­ma­tion has run its course, they of­ten ter­mi­nate as clus­ters of stars or as enor­mous suns sur­rounded by a vary­ing num­ber of plan­ets, satel­lites, and smaller groups of mat­ter in many ways re­sem­bling your own diminu­tive so­lar sys­tem.

• defined by presence of local universe Mother Spirit
• take shape because of space presence of Mother Spirit, power centers, and material control of Creator Son

116:5.13In the early days of uni­verse build­ing even the Par­a­dise Cre­ators are pri­mar­ily con­cerned with ma­te­rial equi­lib­rium. The pat­tern of a lo­cal uni­verse takes shape not only as a re­sult of the ac­tiv­i­ties of the power cen­ters but also be­cause of the space pres­ence of the Cre­ative Spirit. And through­out these early epochs of lo­cal uni­verse build­ing the Cre­ator Son ex­hibits a lit­tle-un­der­stood at­tri­bute of ma­te­rial con­trol, and he does not leave his cap­i­tal planet un­til the gross equi­lib­rium of the lo­cal uni­verse has been es­tab­lished.

15:9.15When there de­vel­ops such a spir­i­tual har­mony in a lo­cal uni­verse that its in­di­vid­ual and com­bined cir­cuits be­come in­dis­tin­guish­able from those of the super­uni­verse, when such iden­tity of func­tion and one­ness of min­istry ac­tu­ally pre­vail, then does the lo­cal uni­verse im­me­di­ately swing into the set­tled cir­cuits of light and life, be­com­ing at once el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion into the spir­i­tual con­fed­er­a­tion of the per­fected union of the super­cre­ation. The req­ui­sites for ad­mis­sion to the coun­cils of the An­cients of Days, mem­ber­ship in the super­uni­verse con­fed­er­a­tion, are:

15:9.161. Phys­i­cal Sta­bil­ity. The stars and plan­ets of a lo­cal uni­verse must be in equi­lib­rium; the pe­ri­ods of im­me­di­ate stel­lar meta­mor­pho­sis must be over. The uni­verse must be pro­ceed­ing on a clear track; its or­bit must be safely and fi­nally set­tled.

15:9.172. Spir­i­tual Loy­alty. There must ex­ist a state of uni­ver­sal rec­og­ni­tion of, and loy­alty to, the Sov­er­eign Son of God who pre­sides over the af­fairs of such a lo­cal uni­verse. There must have come into be­ing a state of har­mo­nious co-op­er­a­tion be­tween the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse.

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.

20:1.5The re­main­ing four or­ders of de­scend­ing son­ship are known as the Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God:

20:1.64. Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

20:1.75. Vo­ron­da­dek Sons.

20:1.86. La­non­an­dek Sons.

20:1.97. The Life Car­ri­ers.

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.

40:9.9A Spirit-fused sur­vivor is also able to learn much about the life he lived in the flesh by re­vis­it­ing his na­tiv­ity world sub­se­quent to the plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion in which he lived. Such chil­dren of Spirit fu­sion are en­abled to en­joy these op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­ves­ti­gat­ing their hu­man ca­reers since they are in gen­eral con­fined to the ser­vice of the lo­cal uni­verse. They do not share your high and ex­alted des­tiny in the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; only Ad­juster-fused mor­tals or other es­pe­cially em­braced as­cen­dant be­ings are mus­tered into the ranks of those who await the eter­nal De­ity ad­ven­ture. Spirit-fused mor­tals are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses; they may as­pire to Par­a­dise des­tiny, but they can­not be sure of it. In Neb­a­don their uni­verse home is the eighth group of worlds en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton, a des­tiny-heaven of na­ture and lo­ca­tion much like the one en­vi­sioned by the plan­e­tary tra­di­tions of Uran­tia.

40:10.4We have an­a­lyzed this prob­lem and have reached the un­doubted con­clu­sion that the con­sign­ment of all mor­tals to an ul­ti­mate Par­a­dise des­tiny would be un­fair to the time-space uni­verses inas­much as the courts of the Cre­ator Sons and of the An­cients of Days would then be wholly de­pen­dent on the ser­vices of those who were in tran­sit to higher realms. And it does seem to be no more than fit­ting that the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments should each be pro­vided with a per­ma­nent group of as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship; that the func­tions of these ad­min­is­tra­tions should be en­riched by the ef­forts of cer­tain groups of glo­ri­fied mor­tals who are of per­ma­nent sta­tus, evo­lu­tion­ary com­ple­ments of the aban­don­ters and of the susa­tia. Now it is quite ob­vi­ous that the pres­ent as­cen­sion scheme ef­fec­tively pro­vides the time-space ad­min­is­tra­tions with just such groups of as­cen­dant crea­tures; and we have many times won­dered: Does all this rep­re­sent an in­tended part of the all-wise plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse de­signed to pro­vide the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days with a per­ma­nent as­cen­dant pop­u­la­tion? with evolved or­ders of cit­i­zen­ship that will be­come in­creas­ingly com­pe­tent to carry for­ward the af­fairs of these realms in the uni­verse ages to come?

30:3.5Sim­i­lar as­tron­o­mer colonies are to be found on the sec­tor head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verse as well as on the ar­chi­tec­tural cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses and their ad­min­is­tra­tive sub­di­vi­sions. Ex­cept on Par­a­dise, knowl­edge is not in­her­ent; un­der­stand­ing of the phys­i­cal uni­verse is largely de­pen­dent on ob­ser­va­tion and re­search.

25:3.94. Con­cil­ia­tors to the Lo­cal Uni­verses. In this larger work of a uni­verse the com­mis­sion­ers are of great as­sis­tance to both the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the Mag­is­te­rial Sons and to the con­stel­la­tion rulers and the hosts of per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned with the co-or­di­na­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions. The dif­fer­ent or­ders of ser­a­phim and other res­i­dents of the head­quar­ters spheres of a lo­cal uni­verse also avail them­selves of the help and de­ci­sions of the ref­eree trios.

25:3.10It is al­most im­pos­si­ble to ex­plain the na­ture of those dif­fer­ences which may arise in the de­tailed af­fairs of a sys­tem, a con­stel­la­tion, or a uni­verse. Dif­fi­cul­ties do de­velop, but they are very un­like the petty tri­als and tra­vails of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence as it is lived on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.