memorials

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

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

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

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

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

46:5.253. The cir­cles of the Uni­verse Aids have the head­quar­ters of the Evening Stars sit­u­ated in the enor­mous cen­tral space. Here is lo­cated the sys­tem head­quar­ters of Galan­tia, the as­so­ciate head of this pow­er­ful group of super­an­gels, be­ing the first com­mis­sioned of all the as­cen­dant Evening Stars. This is one of the most mag­nif­i­cent of all the ad­min­is­tra­tive sec­tors of Je­ru­sem, even though it is among the more re­cent con­struc­tions. This cen­ter is fifty miles in di­am­e­ter. The Galan­tia head­quar­ters is a mono­lithic cast crys­tal, wholly trans­par­ent. These ma­te­rial-mor­ontia crys­tals are greatly ap­pre­ci­ated by both mor­ontia and ma­te­rial be­ings. The cre­ated Evening Stars ex­ert their in­flu­ence all over Je­ru­sem, be­ing pos­sessed of such ex­trap­er­son­al­ity at­tri­butes. The en­tire world has been ren­dered spir­i­tu­ally fra­grant since so many of their ac­tiv­i­ties were trans­ferred here from Sal­ving­ton.

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

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

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

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