Most High observers

35:5.5The ser­vice of the Voron­dadeks in the lo­cal uni­verses is ex­ten­sive and var­ied. They serve as am­bas­sadors to other uni­verses and as con­suls rep­re­sent­ing con­stel­la­tions within their na­tive uni­verse. Of all or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship they are the most of­ten in­trusted with the full del­e­ga­tion of sov­er­eign pow­ers to be ex­er­cised in crit­i­cal uni­verse sit­u­a­tions.

35:5.6On those worlds seg­re­gated in spir­i­tual dark­ness, those spheres which have, through re­bel­lion and de­fault, suf­fered plan­e­tary iso­la­tion, an ob­server Vo­ron­da­dek is usu­ally pres­ent pend­ing the restora­tion of nor­mal sta­tus. In cer­tain emer­gen­cies this Most High ob­server could ex­er­cise ab­so­lute and ar­bi­trary au­thor­ity over ev­ery ce­les­tial be­ing as­signed to that planet. It is of rec­ord on Sal­ving­ton that the Voron­dadeks have some­times ex­er­cised such au­thor­ity as Most High re­gents of such plan­ets. And this has also been true even of in­hab­ited worlds that were un­touched by re­bel­lion.

114:4.4A Most High ob­server is em­pow­ered, at his dis­cre­tion, to seize the plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment in times of grave plan­e­tary crises, and it is of rec­ord that this has hap­pened thirty-three times in the his­tory of Uran­tia. At such times the Most High ob­server func­tions as the Most High re­gent, ex­er­cis­ing un­ques­tioned au­thor­ity over all min­is­ters and ad­min­is­tra­tors res­i­dent on the planet ex­cept­ing only the di­vi­sional or­ga­ni­za­tion of the arch­an­gels.

43:5.16Ever since the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion the Eden­tia Fa­thers have ex­er­cised a spe­cial care over Uran­tia and the other iso­lated worlds of Sa­ta­nia. Long ago the prophet rec­og­nized the con­trol­ling hand of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers in the af­fairs of na­tions. “When the Most High di­vided to the na­tions their in­her­i­tance, when he sep­a­rated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the peo­ple.”

43:5.17Ev­ery quar­an­tined or iso­lated world has a Vo­ron­da­dek Son act­ing as an ob­server. He does not par­tic­i­pate in plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion ex­cept when or­dered by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther to in­ter­vene in the af­fairs of the na­tions. Ac­tu­ally it is this Most High ob­server who “rules in the king­doms of men.” Uran­tia is one of the iso­lated worlds of Nor­la­ti­adek, and a Vo­ron­da­dek ob­server has been sta­tioned on the planet ever since the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal. When Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek min­is­tered in semi­ma­te­rial form on Uran­tia, he paid re­spect­ful homage to the Most High ob­server then on duty, as it is writ­ten, “And Mel­chiz­e­dek, king of Salem, was the priest of the Most High.” Mel­chiz­e­dek re­vealed the re­la­tions of this Most High ob­server to Abra­ham when he said, “And blessed be the Most High, who has de­liv­ered your en­e­mies into your hand.”