Most Highs of Norlatiadek

• headquarters on Edentia

43:0.2The gov­ern­ment of your con­stel­la­tion is sit­u­ated in a clus­ter of 771 ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, the cen­ter­most and largest of which is Eden­tia, the seat of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. Eden­tia it­self is ap­prox­i­mately one hun­dred times as large as your world. The sev­enty ma­jor spheres sur­round­ing Eden­tia are about ten times the size of Uran­tia, while the ten satel­lites which re­volve around each of these sev­enty worlds are about the size of Uran­tia. These 771 ar­chi­tec­tural spheres are quite com­pa­ra­ble in size to those of other con­stel­la­tions.

• actions › seized planetary authority upon Lucifer rebellion

43:3.6Al­though the con­stel­la­tion regime stands be­tween you and the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, as in­di­vid­u­als you would or­di­nar­ily be lit­tle con­cerned with the con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ment. Your great in­ter­est would nor­mally cen­ter in the lo­cal sys­tem, Sa­ta­nia; but tem­porar­ily, Uran­tia is closely re­lated to the con­stel­la­tion rulers be­cause of cer­tain sys­tem and plan­e­tary con­di­tions grow­ing out of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• Ancients of Days sustained M.H. in seizure of Satania government

43:3.7The Eden­tia Most Highs seized cer­tain phases of plan­e­tary au­thor­ity on the re­bel­lious worlds at the time of the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion. They have con­tin­ued to ex­er­cise this power, and the An­cients of Days long since con­firmed this as­sump­tion of con­trol over these way­ward worlds. They will no doubt con­tinue to ex­er­cise this as­sumed ju­ris­dic­tion as long as Lu­cifer lives. Much of this au­thor­ity would or­di­nar­ily, in a loyal sys­tem, be in­vested in the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

• rotation suspended at time of Lucifer rebellion

43:5.1The ro­ta­tion of the Most Highs on Eden­tia was sus­pended at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. We now have the same rulers who were on duty at that time. We in­fer that no change in these rulers will be made un­til Lu­cifer and his as­so­ciates are fi­nally dis­posed of.

• Constellation Father is Vorondadek Son #617,318

43:5.31. The Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther. The pres­ent Most High ruler of Nor­la­ti­adek is num­ber 617,318 of the Vo­ron­da­dek se­ries of Neb­a­don. He saw ser­vice in many con­stel­la­tions through­out our lo­cal uni­verse be­fore tak­ing up his Eden­tia re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

• actions › exercise special care over fallen worlds

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.”

• supervision over Satania

45:2.2In Sa­ta­nia, even af­ter this dis­as­trous up­heaval, ab­so­lutely no changes have been made in the tech­nique of sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion. The pres­ent Sys­tem Sov­er­eign pos­sesses all the power and ex­er­cises all the au­thor­ity that were in­vested in his un­wor­thy pre­de­ces­sor ex­cept for cer­tain mat­ters now un­der the super­vi­sion of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers which the An­cients of Days have not yet fully re­stored to Lanaforge, the suc­ces­sor of Lu­cifer.

• supervision over Satania

45:2.4While all the af­fairs of the iso­lated worlds of Sa­ta­nia have not been re­turned to his ju­ris­dic­tion, Lanaforge dis­closes great in­ter­est in their wel­fare, and he is a fre­quent vis­i­tor on Uran­tia. As in other and nor­mal sys­tems, the Sov­er­eign pre­sides over the sys­tem coun­cil of world rulers, the Plan­e­tary Princes and the res­i­dent gov­er­nors gen­eral of the iso­lated worlds. This plan­e­tary coun­cil as­sem­bles from time to time on the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem—“When the Sons of God come to­gether.”

• broadcast to local systems daily

46:3.3At this broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing am­phithe­ater the Sal­ving­ton mes­sages are com­ing in con­tin­u­ously. Near by, the Eden­tia word of the Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers is re­ceived at least once a day. Pe­ri­od­i­cally the reg­u­lar and spe­cial broad­casts of Uversa are re­layed through Sal­ving­ton, and when Par­a­dise mes­sages are in re­cep­tion, the en­tire pop­u­la­tion is as­sem­bled around the sea of glass, and the Uversa friends add the re­flec­tiv­ity phe­nom­ena to the tech­nique of the Par­a­dise broad­cast so that ev­ery­thing heard be­comes vis­i­ble. And it is in this man­ner that con­tin­ual fore­tastes of ad­vanc­ing beauty and grandeur are af­forded the mor­tal sur­vivors as they jour­ney in­ward on the eter­nal ad­ven­ture.

• residence in Jerusem circles

46:5.15The fourth cir­cle is the home of the Voron­dadeks and all other or­ders of the vis­it­ing and ob­server Sons who are not oth­er­wise pro­vided for. The Most High Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers take up their abode in this cir­cle when on vis­its of in­spec­tion to the lo­cal sys­tem. Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, and Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors all re­side in this cir­cle when on duty in the sys­tem.

• actions › consent to executions of conciliating commissions

50:2.6The rov­ing com­mis­sions of con­cil­ia­tors serve and sup­ple­ment the plan­e­tary tri­bu­nals, and both spirit and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are sub­ject to the find­ings of these con­cil­ia­tors. But no ar­bi­trary ex­e­cu­tion is ever car­ried out with­out the con­sent of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther, for the “Most Highs rule in the king­doms of men.”

• knew of Lucifer’s disaffection 500 years before rebellion

53:2.3No one ever sug­gested re­bel­lion to Lu­cifer. The idea of self-as­ser­tion in op­po­si­tion to the will of Mi­chael and to the plans of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, as they are rep­re­sented in Mi­chael, had its ori­gin in his own mind. His re­la­tions with the Cre­ator Son had been in­ti­mate and al­ways cor­dial. At no time prior to the ex­al­ta­tion of his own mind did Lu­cifer openly ex­press dis­sat­is­fac­tion about the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. Not­with­stand­ing his si­lence, for more than one hun­dred years of stan­dard time the Union of Days on Sal­ving­ton had been re­flec­ti­vat­ing to Uversa that all was not at peace in Lu­cifer’s mind. This in­for­ma­tion was also com­mu­ni­cated to the Cre­ator Son and the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Nor­la­ti­adek.

• actions › imposed quarantine on Satania

53:4.7Lu­cifer was per­mit­ted fully to es­tab­lish and thor­oughly to or­ga­nize his rebel gov­ern­ment be­fore Ga­briel made any ef­fort to con­test the right of se­ces­sion or to coun­ter­work the rebel pro­pa­ganda. But the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers im­me­di­ately con­fined the ac­tion of these dis­loyal per­son­al­i­ties to the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Nev­er­the­less, this pe­riod of de­lay was a time of great trial and test­ing to the loyal be­ings of all Sa­ta­nia. All was chaotic for a few years, and there was great con­fu­sion on the man­sion worlds.

• Lanaforge’s message to

53:7.12It was over two years of sys­tem time from the be­gin­ning of the “war in heaven” un­til the in­stal­la­tion of Lu­cifer’s suc­ces­sor. But at last the new Sov­er­eign came, land­ing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the re­serves mo­bi­lized on Eden­tia by Ga­briel, and I well re­mem­ber the first mes­sage of Lanaforge to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. It read: “Not a sin­gle Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen was lost. Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal sur­vived the fiery trial and emerged from the cru­cial test tri­umphant and al­to­gether vic­to­ri­ous.” And on to Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, and Par­a­dise went this mes­sage of as­sur­ance that the sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal as­cen­sion is the great­est se­cu­rity against re­bel­lion and the surest safe­guard against sin. This no­ble Je­ru­sem band of faith­ful mor­tals num­bered just 187,432,811.

• Ancients of Days sustained M.H. in seizure of Satania government

53:7.14While Lu­cifer was de­prived of all ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity in Sa­ta­nia, there then ex­isted no lo­cal uni­verse power nor tri­bu­nal which could de­tain or de­stroy this wicked rebel; at that time Mi­chael was not a sov­er­eign ruler. The An­cients of Days sus­tained the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers in their seizure of the sys­tem gov­ern­ment, but they have never handed down any sub­se­quent de­ci­sions in the many ap­peals still pend­ing with re­gard to the pres­ent sta­tus and fu­ture dis­po­si­tion of Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and their as­so­ciates.

• Faithful of Days advised M.H. to allow rebels free course that evil be sooner uprooted

54:5.98. The Faith­ful of Days on Eden­tia ad­vised the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers to al­low the rebels free course to the end that all sym­pa­thy for these evil­do­ers should be the sooner up­rooted in the hearts of ev­ery pres­ent and fu­ture cit­i­zen of Nor­la­ti­adek—ev­ery mor­tal, mor­ontia, or spirit crea­ture.

• actions › message to Urantia Life Carriers

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.

• actions › approved members of Van’s supreme court in advance

66:5.3110. The su­preme court of tribal co-or­di­na­tion and racial co-op­er­a­tion. This su­preme coun­cil was di­rected by Van and was the court of ap­peals for all of the other nine spe­cial com­mis­sions charged with the super­vi­sion of hu­man af­fairs. This coun­cil was one of wide func­tion, be­ing in­trusted with all mat­ters of earthly con­cern which were not specif­i­cally as­signed to the other groups. This se­lected corps had been ap­proved by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Eden­tia be­fore they were au­tho­rized to as­sume the func­tions of the su­preme court of Uran­tia.

• actions › seized planetary authority upon Lucifer rebellion

67:3.10There is no end to the recital of the stir­ring events of these tragic days. But at last the fi­nal de­ci­sion of the last per­son­al­ity was made, and then, but only then, did a Most High of Eden­tia ar­rive with the emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks to seize au­thor­ity on Uran­tia. The Cali­gas­tia panoramic reign-rec­ords on Je­ru­sem were oblit­er­ated, and the pro­ba­tion­ary era of plan­e­tary re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion was in­au­gu­rated.

• actions › confirmed rule of Melchizedek receivers

67:6.5The af­fairs of Uran­tia were for a long time ad­min­is­tered by a coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers, twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks, con­firmed by the man­date of the se­nior con­stel­la­tion ruler, the Most High Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. As­so­ci­ated with the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers was an ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sist­ing of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers, a Trin­i­tized Son in ap­pren­tice­ship train­ing, a vol­un­teer Teacher Son, a Bril­liant Evening Star of Avalon (pe­ri­od­i­cally), the chiefs of ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, ad­vis­ers from two neigh­bor­ing plan­ets, the di­rec­tor gen­eral of sub­or­di­nate an­gelic life, and Van, the com­man­der in chief of the mid­way crea­tures. And thus was Uran­tia gov­erned and ad­min­is­tered un­til the ar­rival of Adam. It is not strange that the coura­geous and loyal Van was as­signed a place on the coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers which for so long ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs of Uran­tia.

• actions › sustained Van’s appeal; decision marooned

67:6.9It should be re­corded that, when Van ap­pealed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia af­ter Lu­cifer had sus­tained Cali­gas­tia on Uran­tia, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers dis­patched an im­me­di­ate de­ci­sion sus­tain­ing Van on ev­ery point of his con­tention. This ver­dict failed to reach him be­cause the plan­e­tary cir­cuits of com­mu­ni­ca­tion were sev­ered while it was in tran­sit. Only re­cently was this ac­tual rul­ing dis­cov­ered lodged in the pos­ses­sion of a re­lay en­ergy trans­mit­ter where it had been ma­rooned ever since the iso­la­tion of Uran­tia. With­out this dis­cov­ery, made as the re­sult of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions of the Uran­tia mid­way­ers, the re­lease of this de­ci­sion would have awaited the restora­tion of Uran­tia to the con­stel­la­tion cir­cuits. And this ap­par­ent ac­ci­dent of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion was pos­si­ble be­cause en­ergy trans­mit­ters can re­ceive and trans­mit in­tel­li­gence, but they can­not ini­ti­ate com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

• actions › authorized dispatch of Material Sons to Urantia

73:0.1The cul­tural deca­dence and spir­i­tual pov­erty re­sult­ing from the Cali­gas­tia down­fall and con­se­quent so­cial con­fu­sion had lit­tle ef­fect on the phys­i­cal or bi­o­logic sta­tus of the Uran­tia peo­ples. Or­ganic evo­lu­tion pro­ceeded apace, quite re­gard­less of the cul­tural and moral set­back which so swiftly fol­lowed the dis­af­fec­tion of Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia. And there came a time in the plan­e­tary his­tory, al­most forty thou­sand years ago, when the Life Car­ri­ers on duty took note that, from a purely bi­o­logic stand­point, the de­vel­op­men­tal prog­ress of the Uran­tia races was near­ing its apex. The Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, con­cur­ring in this opin­ion, read­ily agreed to join the Life Car­ri­ers in a pe­ti­tion to the Most Highs of Eden­tia ask­ing that Uran­tia be in­spected with a view to au­tho­riz­ing the dis­patch of bi­o­logic up­lifters, a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter.

• actions › exercise special care over fallen worlds

73:0.2This re­quest was ad­dressed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia be­cause they had ex­er­cised di­rect ju­ris­dic­tion over many of Uran­tia’s af­fairs ever since Cali­gas­tia’s down­fall and the tem­po­rary va­ca­tion of au­thor­ity on Je­ru­sem.

• actions › selected Adam and Eve for Urantia

74:1.3When the procla­ma­tion was is­sued call­ing for vol­un­teers for the mis­sion of Adamic ad­ven­ture on Uran­tia, the en­tire se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters vol­un­teered. The Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, with the ap­proval of Lanaforge and the Most Highs of Eden­tia, fi­nally se­lected the Adam and Eve who sub­se­quently came to func­tion as the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Uran­tia.

74:1.4Adam and Eve had re­mained loyal to Mi­chael dur­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion; nev­er­the­less, the pair were called be­fore the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and his en­tire cab­i­net for ex­am­i­na­tion and in­struc­tion. The de­tails of Uran­tia af­fairs were fully pre­sented; they were ex­haus­tively in­structed as to the plans to be pur­sued in ac­cept­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of ruler­ship on such a strife-torn world. They were put un­der joint oaths of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Eden­tia and to Mi­chael of Sal­ving­ton. And they were duly ad­vised to re­gard them­selves as sub­ject to the Uran­tia corps of Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers un­til that gov­ern­ing body should see fit to re­lin­quish rule on the world of their as­sign­ment.

• children of Adam under 20 became wards of

75:6.3The Edenic car­a­van was halted on the third day out from the Gar­den by the ar­rival of the se­raphic trans­ports from Je­ru­sem. And for the first time Adam and Eve were in­formed of what was to be­come of their chil­dren. While the trans­ports stood by, those chil­dren who had ar­rived at the age of choice (twenty years) were given the op­tion of re­main­ing on Uran­tia with their par­ents or of be­com­ing wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. Two thirds chose to go to Eden­tia; about one third elected to re­main with their par­ents. All chil­dren of pre­choice age were taken to Eden­tia. No one could have be­held the sor­row­ful part­ing of this Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter and their chil­dren with­out re­al­iz­ing that the way of the trans­gres­sor is hard. These off­spring of Adam and Eve are now on Eden­tia; we do not know what dis­po­si­tion is to be made of them.

• children of Adam under 20 became wards of

77:5.3Adam­son was 120 years old at this time and had been the fa­ther of thirty-two pure-line chil­dren of the first gar­den. He wanted to re­main with his par­ents and as­sist them in up­build­ing the sec­ond gar­den, but he was greatly dis­turbed by the loss of his mate and their chil­dren, who had all elected to go to Eden­tia along with those other Adamic chil­dren who chose to be­come wards of the Most Highs.

• actions › ordered internment of rebel midwayers

77:7.8The en­tire group of rebel mid­way­ers is at pres­ent held pris­oner by or­der of the Most Highs of Eden­tia. No more do they roam this world on mis­chief bent. Re­gard­less of the pres­ence of the Thought Ad­justers, the pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh for­ever made it im­pos­si­ble for dis­loyal spir­its of any sort or de­scrip­tion ever again to in­vade even the most fee­ble of hu­man minds. Since the day of Pen­te­cost there never again can be such a thing as de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion.

• actions › dismissed plea by Melchizedek Urantia receivers

93:1.2The twelve Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers knew of Mi­chael’s im­pend­ing be­stowal on their planet, but they did not know how soon it would oc­cur; there­fore they con­vened in solemn coun­cil and pe­ti­tioned the Most Highs of Eden­tia that some pro­vi­sion be made for main­tain­ing the light of truth on Uran­tia. This plea was dis­missed with the man­date that “the con­duct of af­fairs on 606 of Sa­ta­nia is fully in the hands of the Mel­chiz­e­dek cus­to­di­ans.” The re­ceivers then ap­pealed to the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek for help but only re­ceived word that they should con­tinue to up­hold truth in the man­ner of their own elec­tion “un­til the ar­rival of a be­stowal Son,” who “would res­cue the plan­e­tary ti­tles from for­fei­ture and un­cer­tainty.”

• Melchizedek revealed M.H. as El Elyon

93:3.2Mel­chiz­e­dek taught the con­cept of one God, a uni­ver­sal De­ity, but he al­lowed the peo­ple to as­so­ciate this teach­ing with the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek, whom he termed El Elyon—the Most High. Mel­chiz­e­dek re­mained all but silent as to the sta­tus of Lu­cifer and the state of af­fairs on Je­ru­sem. Lanaforge, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, had lit­tle to do with Uran­tia un­til af­ter the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal. To a ma­jor­ity of the Salem stu­dents Eden­tia was heaven and the Most High was God.

• actions › exercise special care over fallen worlds

114:2.4The mem­bers of this same com­mis­sion of for­mer Uran­tians also act as ad­vi­sory super­vi­sors of the thirty-six other re­bel­lion-iso­lated worlds of the sys­tem; they per­form a very valu­able ser­vice in keep­ing Lanaforge, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, in close and sym­pa­thetic touch with the af­fairs of these plan­ets, which still re­main more or less un­der the over­con­trol of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Nor­la­ti­adek. These twenty-four coun­selors make fre­quent trips as in­di­vid­u­als to each of the quar­an­tined plan­ets, es­pe­cially to Uran­tia.

• actions › appearance to Jesus

136:3.5While he tar­ried on the moun­tain, talk­ing with Ga­briel, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Eden­tia ap­peared to Je­sus and Ga­briel in per­son, say­ing: “The rec­ords are com­pleted. The sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael num­ber 611,121 over his uni­verse of Neb­a­don rests in com­ple­tion at the right hand of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I bring to you the be­stowal re­lease of Im­manuel, your spon­sor-brother for the Uran­tia in­car­na­tion. You are at lib­erty now or at any sub­se­quent time, in the man­ner of your own choos­ing, to ter­mi­nate your in­car­na­tion be­stowal, as­cend to the right hand of your Fa­ther, re­ceive your sov­er­eignty, and as­sume your well-earned un­con­di­tional ruler­ship of all Neb­a­don. I also tes­tify to the com­ple­tion of the rec­ords of the super­uni­verse, by au­tho­riza­tion of the An­cients of Days, hav­ing to do with the ter­mi­na­tion of all sin-re­bel­lion in your uni­verse and en­dow­ing you with full and un­lim­ited au­thor­ity to deal with any and all such pos­si­ble up­heavals in the fu­ture. Tech­ni­cally, your work on Uran­tia and in the flesh of the mor­tal crea­ture is fin­ished. Your course from now on is a mat­ter of your own choos­ing.”

• Melchizedek revealed M.H. as El Elyon

142:3.42. The Most High. This con­cept of the Fa­ther in heaven was pro­claimed by Mel­chiz­e­dek to Abra­ham and was car­ried far from Salem by those who sub­se­quently be­lieved in this en­larged and ex­panded idea of De­ity. Abra­ham and his brother left Ur be­cause of the es­tab­lish­ment of sun wor­ship, and they be­came be­liev­ers in Mel­chiz­e­dek’s teach­ing of El Elyon—the Most High God. Theirs was a com­pos­ite con­cept of God, con­sist­ing in a blend­ing of their older Mes­o­po­ta­mian ideas and the Most High doc­trine.

• received instructions from Michael while in tomb

188:3.15The rec­ords of Eden­tia in­di­cate that the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek was on Uran­tia, and that he re­ceived in­struc­tions from Mi­chael dur­ing this time of the tomb.