memorials

46:5.275. The cir­cles of the as­cend­ing mor­tals. The cen­tral area of the cir­cles of the as­cend­ing mor­tals is oc­cu­pied by a group of 619 plan­e­tary memo­ri­als rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the in­hab­ited worlds of the sys­tem, and these struc­tures pe­ri­od­i­cally un­dergo ex­ten­sive changes. It is the priv­i­lege of the mor­tals from each world to agree, from time to time, upon cer­tain of the al­ter­ations or ad­di­tions to their plan­e­tary memo­ri­als. Many changes are even now be­ing made in the Uran­tia struc­tures. The cen­ter of these 619 tem­ples is oc­cu­pied by a work­ing model of Eden­tia and its many worlds of as­cen­dant cul­ture. This model is forty miles in di­am­e­ter and is an ac­tual re­pro­duc­tion of the Eden­tia sys­tem, true to the orig­i­nal in ev­ery de­tail.

46:5.31The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the sporna­gia and pro­vide the host of cre­ative dec­o­ra­tions and mon­u­men­tal memo­ri­als which abound in ev­ery place of pub­lic as­sem­bly. The stu­dios of these ar­ti­sans are among the largest and most beau­ti­ful of all the match­less struc­tures of this won­der­ful world. The other cour­tesy colonies main­tain ex­ten­sive and beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters. Many of these build­ings are con­structed wholly of crys­tal gems. All the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds abound in crys­tals and the so-called pre­cious met­als.

46:5.19These cir­cu­lar reser­va­tions of the Sons oc­cupy an enor­mous area, and un­til nine­teen hun­dred years ago there ex­isted a great open space at its cen­ter. This cen­tral re­gion is now oc­cu­pied by the Mi­chael memo­rial, com­pleted some five hun­dred years ago. Four hun­dred and ninety-five years ago, when this tem­ple was ded­i­cated, Mi­chael was pres­ent in per­son, and all Je­ru­sem heard the touch­ing story of the Mas­ter Son’s be­stowal on Uran­tia, the least of Sa­ta­nia. The Mi­chael memo­rial is now the cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties em­braced in the mod­i­fied man­age­ment of the sys­tem oc­ca­sioned by Mi­chael’s be­stowal, in­clud­ing most of the more re­cently trans­planted Sal­ving­ton ac­tiv­i­ties. The memo­rial staff con­sists of over one mil­lion per­son­al­i­ties.

46:5.327. The cir­cles of the fi­nal­i­ters have a unique struc­ture at the cen­ter. And this same va­cant tem­ple is found on ev­ery sys­tem head­quar­ters world through­out Neb­a­don. This ed­i­fice on Je­ru­sem is sealed with the in­signia of Mi­chael, and it bears this in­scrip­tion: “Unded­i­cated to the sev­enth stage of spirit—to the eter­nal as­sign­ment.” Ga­briel placed the seal on this tem­ple of mys­tery, and none but Mi­chael can or may break the seal of sov­er­eignty af­fixed by the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Some day you shall look upon this silent tem­ple, even though you may not pen­e­trate its mys­tery.