Nebadon

9:1.8In ad­di­tion to this super­con­trol of en­ergy and things phys­i­cal, the In­fi­nite Spirit is su­perbly en­dowed with those at­tri­butes of pa­tience, mercy, and love which are so ex­qui­sitely re­vealed in his spir­i­tual min­istry. The Spirit is su­premely com­pe­tent to min­is­ter love and to over­shadow jus­tice with mercy. God the Spirit pos­sesses all the su­per­nal kind­ness and mer­ci­ful af­fec­tion of the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Son. The uni­verse of your ori­gin is be­ing forged out be­tween the anvil of jus­tice and the ham­mer of suf­fer­ing; but those who wield the ham­mer are the chil­dren of mercy, the spirit off­spring of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• 1 Universe Circuit Supervisor (Tertiary)

24:1.11Cir­cuit super­vi­sors are cre­ated for their spe­cific tasks, and they eter­nally serve in the groups of their orig­i­nal as­sign­ment. They are not ro­tated in ser­vice and hence make an age­long study of the prob­lems found in the realms of their orig­i­nal as­sign­ment. For ex­am­ple: Ter­tiary cir­cuit super­vi­sor num­ber 572,842 has func­tioned on Sal­ving­ton since the early con­cept of your lo­cal uni­verse, and he is a mem­ber of the per­sonal staff of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don.

• 100 Supreme Power Centers

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.

• 13,641 Brilliant Evening Stars

37:2.4The Bril­liant Evening Stars are a unique two­fold or­der, em­brac­ing some of cre­ated dig­nity and oth­ers of at­tained ser­vice. The Neb­a­don corps of these super­an­gels now num­bers 13,641. There are 4,832 of cre­ated dig­nity, while 8,809 are as­cen­dant spir­its who have at­tained this goal of ex­alted ser­vice. Many of these as­cen­dant Evening Stars started their uni­verse ca­reers as ser­a­phim; oth­ers have as­cended from un­re­vealed lev­els of crea­ture life. As an at­tain­ment goal this high corps is never closed to as­cen­sion can­di­dates so long as a uni­verse is not set­tled in light and life.

• 800,000 archangels

37:3.1Arch­an­gels are the off­spring of the Cre­ator Son and the Uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are the high­est type of high spirit be­ing pro­duced in large num­bers in a lo­cal uni­verse, and at the time of the last reg­istry there were al­most eight hun­dred thou­sand in Neb­a­don.

• Most High Assistants, many millions

37:4.1The Most High As­sis­tants are a group of vol­un­teer­ing be­ings, of ori­gin out­side the lo­cal uni­verse, who are tem­porar­ily as­signed as cen­tral and super­uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tives to, or ob­servers of, the lo­cal cre­ations. Their num­ber varies con­stantly but is al­ways far up in the mil­lions.

• Spirit-fused mortals

37:5.2Sur­viv­ing souls of this or­der at­tain im­mor­tal­ity by eter­nal fu­sion with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized frag­ment of the spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are not a nu­mer­ous group, at least not in Neb­a­don. On the man­sion worlds you will meet and frat­er­nize with these Spirit-fused mor­tals as they as­cend the Par­a­dise path with you as far as Sal­ving­ton, where they stop. Some of them may sub­se­quently as­cend to higher uni­verse lev­els, but the ma­jor­ity will for­ever re­main in the ser­vice of the lo­cal uni­verse; as a class they are not des­tined to at­tain Par­a­dise.

• 1.5 billion High Commissioners

37:5.6Af­ter long ex­pe­ri­ence in prob­lem solv­ing on the in­hab­ited worlds, these race com­mis­sion­ers are ad­vanced to the higher lev­els of func­tion, even­tu­ally at­tain­ing the sta­tus of High Com­mis­sion­ers of and in the lo­cal uni­verse. The last reg­is­tra­tion re­corded slightly over one and one-half bil­lion of these High Com­mis­sion­ers in Neb­a­don. These be­ings are not fi­nal­i­ters, but they are as­cen­dant be­ings of long ex­pe­ri­ence and of great ser­vice to their na­tive realm.

• 3 million Celestial Overseers

37:6.1The Neb­a­don ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem is jointly ad­min­is­tered by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons and the Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ing corps, but much of the work de­signed to ef­fect its main­te­nance and up­build­ing is car­ried on by the Ce­les­tial Over­seers. These be­ings are a re­cruited corps em­brac­ing all types of in­di­vid­u­als con­nected with the scheme of ed­u­cat­ing and train­ing the as­cend­ing mor­tals. There are up­ward of three mil­lion of them in Neb­a­don, and they are all vol­un­teers who have qual­i­fied by ex­pe­ri­ence to serve as ed­u­ca­tional ad­vis­ers to the en­tire realm. From their head­quar­ters on the Sal­ving­ton worlds of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, these over­seers range the lo­cal uni­verse as in­spec­tors of the Neb­a­don school tech­nique de­signed to ef­fect the mind train­ing and the spirit ed­u­ca­tion of the as­cend­ing crea­tures.

• Solitary Messengers

37:8.2The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, when func­tion­ally at­tached to the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, ren­der in­valu­able ser­vice to us in our ef­forts to over­come the hand­i­caps of time and space. When they are not thus as­signed, we of the lo­cal uni­verses have ab­so­lutely no au­thor­ity over them, but even then these unique be­ings are al­ways will­ing to help us with the so­lu­tion of our prob­lems and with the ex­e­cu­tion of our man­dates.

• 1 Universe Circuit Supervisor (Tertiary)

37:8.3An­dovon­tia is the name of the ter­tiary Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sor sta­tioned in our lo­cal uni­verse. He is con­cerned only with spirit and mor­ontia cir­cuits, not with those un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the power di­rec­tors. It was he who iso­lated Uran­tia at the time of the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal of the planet dur­ing the test­ing sea­sons of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. In send­ing greet­ings to the mor­tals of Uran­tia, he ex­presses plea­sure in the an­tic­i­pa­tion of your some­time restora­tion to the uni­verse cir­cuits of his super­vi­sion.

• Salsatia, Census Director

37:8.4The Neb­a­don Cen­sus Di­rec­tor, Sal­sa­tia, main­tains head­quar­ters within the Ga­briel sec­tor of Sal­ving­ton. He is au­to­mat­i­cally cog­nizant of the birth and death of will and cur­rently reg­is­ters the ex­act num­ber of will crea­tures func­tion­ing in the lo­cal uni­verse. He works in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the per­son­al­ity re­cord­ers domi­ciled on the rec­ord worlds of the arch­an­gels.

• 1 Associate Inspector
• 10,000 Assigned Sentinels

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.

• 400 million Universal Conciliators

37:8.6The Uni­ver­sal Con­cil­ia­tors are the trav­el­ing courts of the uni­verses of time and space, func­tion­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds up through ev­ery sec­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse and on be­yond. These ref­er­ees are reg­is­tered on Uversa; the ex­act num­ber op­er­at­ing in Neb­a­don is not of rec­ord, but I es­ti­mate that there are in the neigh­bor­hood of one hun­dred mil­lion con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sions in our lo­cal uni­verse.

• 500 million Technical Advisers

37:8.7Of the Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers, the le­gal minds of the realm, we have our quota, about one-half bil­lion. These be­ings are the liv­ing and cir­cu­lat­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial law li­braries of all space.

• 75 Celestial Recorders

37:8.8Of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers, the as­cen­dant ser­a­phim, we have in Neb­a­don sev­enty-five. These are the se­nior or super­vis­ing re­cord­ers. The ad­vanc­ing stu­dents of this or­der in train­ing num­ber al­most four bil­lion.

• 70 billion Morontia Companions

37:8.9The min­istry of the sev­enty bil­lion Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions in Neb­a­don is de­scribed in those nar­ra­tives deal­ing with the tran­si­tion plan­ets of the pil­grims of time.

• seconaphim
• supernaphim
• tertiaphim

37:8.10Each uni­verse has its own na­tive an­gelic corps; nev­er­the­less, there are oc­ca­sions on which it is very help­ful to have the as­sis­tance of those higher spir­its of ori­gin out­side the lo­cal cre­ation. Super­na­phim per­form cer­tain rare and unique ser­vices; the pres­ent chief of Uran­tia ser­a­phim is a pri­mary super­na­phim of Par­a­dise. The re­flec­tive se­con­a­phim are en­coun­tered wher­ever the super­uni­verse per­son­nel is func­tion­ing, and a great many ter­tiaphim are of tem­po­rary ser­vice as Most High As­sis­tants.

• susatia

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.

• univitatia

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.

• spironga

37:10.2The Spironga are the spirit off­spring of the Bright and Morn­ing Star and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. They are ex­empt from per­son­al­ity ter­mi­na­tion but are not evo­lu­tion­ary or as­cend­ing be­ings. Nei­ther are they func­tion­ally con­cerned with the evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion regime. They are the spirit helpers of the lo­cal uni­verse, ex­e­cut­ing the rou­tine spirit tasks of Neb­a­don.

• spornagia

37:10.3The Sporna­gia. The ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse are real worlds—phys­i­cal cre­ations. There is much work con­nected with their phys­i­cal up­keep, and herein we have the as­sis­tance of a group of phys­i­cal crea­tures called sporna­gia. They are de­voted to the care and cul­ture of the ma­te­rial phases of these head­quar­ters worlds, from Je­ru­sem to Sal­ving­ton. Sporna­gia are nei­ther spir­its nor per­sons; they are an an­i­mal or­der of ex­is­tence, but if you could see them, you would agree that they seem to be per­fect an­i­mals.

• Spirit-fused mortals

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.

• 100 Supreme Power Centers

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.

• 161,432,840 Material Sons on local system capitals

45:5.4At the last mil­len­nial reg­is­tra­tion on Sal­ving­ton there were of rec­ord in Neb­a­don 161,432,840 Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters of cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus on the lo­cal sys­tem cap­i­tals. The num­ber of Ma­te­rial Sons varies in the dif­fer­ent sys­tems, and their num­ber is be­ing con­stantly in­creased by nat­u­ral re­pro­duc­tion. In the ex­er­cise of their re­pro­duc­tive func­tions they are not guided wholly by the per­sonal de­sires of the con­tact­ing per­son­al­i­ties but also by the higher gov­ern­ing bod­ies and ad­vi­sory coun­cils.

33:7.1The Mas­ter Son, Mi­chael, is su­premely con­cerned with but three things: cre­ation, sus­te­nance, and min­istry. He does not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the ju­di­cial work of the uni­verse. Cre­ators never sit in judg­ment on their crea­tures; that is the ex­clu­sive func­tion of crea­tures of high train­ing and ac­tual crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence.

33:7.2The en­tire ju­di­cial mech­a­nism of Neb­a­don is un­der the super­vi­sion of Ga­briel. The high courts, lo­cated on Sal­ving­ton, are oc­cu­pied with prob­lems of gen­eral uni­verse im­port and with the ap­pel­late cases com­ing up from the sys­tem tri­bu­nals. There are sev­enty branches of these uni­verse courts, and they func­tion in seven di­vi­sions of ten sec­tions each. In all mat­ters of ad­ju­di­ca­tion there pre­sides a dual mag­is­tracy con­sist­ing of one judge of per­fec­tion an­tecedents and one mag­is­trate of as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence.

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.

33:7.8How­ever un­fairly hu­man con­tentions may some­times ap­pear to be ad­ju­di­cated on Uran­tia, in the uni­verse jus­tice and di­vine eq­uity do pre­vail. You are liv­ing in a well-or­dered uni­verse, and sooner or later you may de­pend upon be­ing dealt with justly, even mer­ci­fully.

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.

33:1.1Our Cre­ator Son is the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the 611,121^st orig­i­nal con­cept of in­fi­nite iden­tity of si­mul­ta­ne­ous ori­gin in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is the “only-be­got­ten Son” per­son­al­iz­ing this 611,121^st uni­ver­sal con­cept of di­vin­ity and in­fin­ity. His head­quar­ters is in the three­fold man­sion of light on Sal­ving­ton. And this dwell­ing is so or­dered be­cause Mi­chael has ex­pe­ri­enced the liv­ing of all three phases of in­tel­li­gent crea­ture ex­is­tence: spir­i­tual, mor­ontial, and ma­te­rial. Be­cause of the name as­so­ci­ated with his sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal on Uran­tia, he is some­times spo­ken of as Christ Mi­chael.

33:1.2Our Cre­ator Son is not the Eter­nal Son, the ex­is­ten­tial Par­a­dise as­so­ciate of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the In­fi­nite Spirit. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don is not a mem­ber of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Nev­er­the­less our Mas­ter Son pos­sesses in his realm all of the di­vine at­tri­butes and pow­ers that the Eter­nal Son him­self would man­i­fest were he ac­tu­ally to be pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don. Mi­chael pos­sesses even ad­di­tional power and au­thor­ity, for he not only per­son­i­fies the Eter­nal Son but also fully rep­re­sents and ac­tu­ally em­bod­ies the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to and in this lo­cal uni­verse. He even rep­re­sents the Fa­ther-Son. These re­la­tion­ships con­sti­tute a Cre­ator Son the most pow­er­ful, ver­sa­tile, and in­flu­en­tial of all di­vine be­ings who are ca­pa­ble of di­rect ad­min­is­tra­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and of per­son­al­ity con­tact with im­ma­ture crea­ture be­ings.

33:1.3Our Cre­ator Son ex­erts the same spir­i­tual draw­ing power, spirit grav­ity, from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise would ex­ert if he were per­son­ally pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton, and more; this Uni­verse Son is also the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ity cen­ters for the spir­i­tual forces of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther-Son. Cre­ator Sons are the fi­nal power-per­son­al­ity fo­cal­iza­tions of the mighty time-space at­tri­butes of God the Sev­en­fold.

33:1.4The Cre­ator Son is the vicegerent per­son­al­iza­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the di­vin­ity co-or­di­nate of the Eter­nal Son, and the cre­ative as­so­ciate of the In­fi­nite Spirit. To our uni­verse and all its in­hab­ited worlds the Sov­er­eign Son is, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, God. He per­son­i­fies all of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties which evolv­ing mor­tals can dis­cern­ingly com­pre­hend. This Son and his Spirit as­so­ciate are your cre­ator par­ents. To you, Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Son, is the su­preme per­son­al­ity; to you, the Eter­nal Son is super­su­preme—an in­fi­nite De­ity per­son­al­ity.

33:1.5In the per­son of the Cre­ator Son we have a ruler and di­vine par­ent who is just as mighty, ef­fi­cient, and benef­i­cent as would be the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son if both were pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and en­gaged in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the af­fairs of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

128:1.1With the at­tain­ment of adult years Je­sus be­gan in earnest and with full self-con­scious­ness the task of com­plet­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of mas­ter­ing the knowl­edge of the life of his low­est form of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures, thereby fi­nally and fully earn­ing the right of un­qual­i­fied ruler­ship of his self-cre­ated uni­verse. He en­tered upon this stu­pen­dous task fully re­al­iz­ing his dual na­ture. But he had al­ready ef­fec­tively com­bined these two na­tures into one—Je­sus of Naz­a­reth.

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.

33:4.5Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and the ar­biter of all ex­ec­u­tive ap­peals re­spect­ing its ad­min­is­tra­tion. This uni­verse ex­ec­u­tive was cre­ated fully en­dowed for his work, but he has gained ex­pe­ri­ence with the growth and evo­lu­tion of our lo­cal cre­ation.

33:4.6Ga­briel is the chief of­fi­cer of ex­e­cu­tion for super­uni­verse man­dates re­lat­ing to non­per­sonal af­fairs in the lo­cal uni­verse. Most mat­ters per­tain­ing to mass judg­ment and dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions, ad­ju­di­cated by the An­cients of Days, are also del­e­gated to Ga­briel and his staff for ex­e­cu­tion. Ga­briel is thus the com­bined chief ex­ec­u­tive of both the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse rulers. He has at his com­mand an able corps of ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tants, cre­ated for their spe­cial work, who are un­re­vealed to evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals. In ad­di­tion to these as­sis­tants, Ga­briel may em­ploy any and all of the or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don, and he is also the com­man­der in chief of “the armies of heaven”—the ce­les­tial hosts.

33:6.1Ga­briel is the chief ex­ec­u­tive and ac­tual ad­min­is­tra­tor of Neb­a­don. Mi­chael’s ab­sence from Sal­ving­ton in no way in­ter­feres with the or­derly con­duct of uni­verse af­fairs. Dur­ing the ab­sence of Mi­chael, as re­cently on the mis­sion of re­union of Or­von­ton Mas­ter Sons on Par­a­dise, Ga­briel is the re­gent of the uni­verse. At such times Ga­briel al­ways seeks the coun­sel of Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton re­gard­ing all ma­jor prob­lems.

37:1.9Of the first or­der of Uni­verse Aids, the Bright and Morn­ing Stars, there is just one in each lo­cal uni­verse, and he is the first-born of all crea­tures na­tive to a lo­cal uni­verse. The Bright and Morn­ing Star of our uni­verse is known as Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton. He is the chief ex­ec­u­tive of all Neb­a­don, func­tion­ing as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Sov­er­eign Son and as spokesman for his cre­ative con­sort.

37:2.2As chief ex­ec­u­tive of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel is ex of­fi­cio chair­man of, or ob­server at, most of the Sal­ving­ton con­claves, and as many as one thou­sand of these are of­ten in ses­sion si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Bril­liant Evening Stars rep­re­sent Ga­briel on these oc­ca­sions; he can­not be in two places at the same time, and these super­an­gels com­pen­sate for this lim­i­ta­tion. They per­form an anal­o­gous ser­vice for the corps of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

50:2.1All Plan­e­tary Princes are un­der the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tive ju­ris­dic­tion of Ga­briel, the chief ex­ec­u­tive of Mi­chael, while in im­me­di­ate au­thor­ity they are sub­ject to the ex­ec­u­tive man­dates of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns.

44:4.3Each super­uni­verse has its own lan­guage, a tongue spo­ken by its per­son­al­i­ties and pre­vail­ing through­out its sec­tors. This is known as the tongue of Uversa in our super­uni­verse. Each lo­cal uni­verse also has its own lan­guage. All of the higher or­ders of Neb­a­don are bilin­gual, speak­ing both the lan­guage of Neb­a­don and the tongue of Uversa. When two in­di­vid­u­als from dif­fer­ent lo­cal uni­verses meet, they com­mu­ni­cate in the tongue of Uversa; if, how­ever, one of them hails from an­other super­uni­verse, they must have re­course to a trans­la­tor. In the cen­tral uni­verse there is lit­tle need of a lan­guage; there ex­ists per­fect and well-nigh com­plete un­der­stand­ing; there, only the Gods are not fully com­pre­hended. We are taught that a chance meet­ing on Par­a­dise re­veals more of mu­tual un­der­stand­ing than could be com­mu­ni­cated by a mor­tal lan­guage in a thou­sand years. Even on Sal­ving­ton we “know as we are known.”

• 48 symbols in alphabet

44:4.4The abil­ity to trans­late thought into lan­guage in the mor­ontia and spirit spheres is be­yond mor­tal com­pre­hen­sion. Our rate of re­duc­ing thought to a per­ma­nent rec­ord can be so speeded up by the ex­pert re­cord­ers that the equiv­a­lent of over half a mil­lion words, or thought sym­bols, can be reg­is­tered in one minute of Uran­tia time. These uni­verse lan­guages are far more re­plete than the speech of the evolv­ing worlds. The con­cept sym­bols of Uversa em­brace more than a bil­lion char­ac­ters, al­though the ba­sic al­pha­bet con­tains only sev­enty sym­bols. The lan­guage of Neb­a­don is not quite so elab­o­rate, the ba­sic sym­bols, or al­pha­bet, be­ing forty-eight in num­ber.

44:4.74. Pro­mot­ers of or­a­tory. This group of re­cord­ers are oc­cu­pied with the task of pre­serv­ing thought for re­pro­duc­tion by or­a­tory. But in the lan­guage of Neb­a­don we could, in a half hour’s ad­dress, cover the sub­ject mat­ter of the en­tire life­time of a Uran­tia mor­tal. Your only hope of com­pre­hend­ing these trans­ac­tions is to pause and con­sider the tech­nique of your dis­or­dered and gar­bled dream life—how you can in a few sec­onds tra­verse years of ex­pe­ri­ence in these fan­tasies of the night sea­son.

• mastered before leaving 4th mansonia

47:7.2Hav­ing mas­tered the lo­cal uni­verse lan­guage be­fore leav­ing the fourth man­sion world, you now de­vote more time to the per­fec­tion of the tongue of Uversa to the end that you may be pro­fi­cient in both lan­guages be­fore ar­riv­ing on Je­ru­sem with res­i­den­tial sta­tus. All as­cend­ing mor­tals are bilin­gual from the sys­tem head­quar­ters up to Ha­vona. And then it is only nec­es­sary to en­large the super­uni­verse vo­cab­u­lary, still ad­di­tional en­large­ment be­ing re­quired for res­i­dence on Par­a­dise.

• meaning of “Andon” and “Fonta”

63:0.3An­don is the Neb­a­don name which sig­ni­fies “the first Fa­ther­like crea­ture to ex­hibit hu­man per­fec­tion hunger.” Fonta sig­ni­fies “the first Son­like crea­ture to ex­hibit hu­man per­fec­tion hunger.” An­don and Fonta never knew these names un­til they were be­stowed upon them at the time of fu­sion with their Thought Ad­justers. Through­out their mor­tal so­journ on Uran­tia they called each other Sonta-an and Sonta-en, Sonta-an mean­ing “loved by mother,” Sonta-en sig­ni­fy­ing “loved by fa­ther.” They gave them­selves these names, and the mean­ings are sig­nif­i­cant of their mu­tual re­gard and af­fec­tion.

33:8.1On Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don, there are no true leg­isla­tive bod­ies. The uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds are con­cerned largely with ad­ju­di­ca­tion. The leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies of the lo­cal uni­verse are lo­cated on the head­quar­ters of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions. The sys­tems are chiefly con­cerned with the ex­ec­u­tive and ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the lo­cal cre­ations. The Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and their as­so­ciates en­force the leg­isla­tive man­dates of the con­stel­la­tion rulers and ex­e­cute the ju­di­cial de­crees of the high courts of the uni­verse.

0:0.5Your world, Uran­tia, is one of many sim­i­lar in­hab­ited plan­ets which com­prise the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. This uni­verse, to­gether with sim­i­lar cre­ations, makes up the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, from whose cap­i­tal, Uversa, our com­mis­sion hails. Or­von­ton is one of the seven evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses of time and space which cir­cle the never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing cre­ation of di­vine per­fec­tion—the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. At the heart of this eter­nal and cen­tral uni­verse is the sta­tion­ary Isle of Par­a­dise, the ge­o­graphic cen­ter of in­fin­ity and the dwell­ing place of the eter­nal God.

15:1.5Your lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don be­longs to Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse, which swings on be­tween super­uni­verses one and six, hav­ing not long since (as we reckon time) turned the south­east­ern bend of the super­uni­verse space level. To­day, the so­lar sys­tem to which Uran­tia be­longs is a few bil­lion years past the swing around the south­ern cur­va­ture so that you are just now ad­vanc­ing be­yond the south­east­ern bend and are mov­ing swiftly through the long and com­par­a­tively straight­away north­ern path. For un­told ages Or­von­ton will pur­sue this al­most di­rect northerly course.

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.

55:8.5On the in­hab­ited worlds the Teacher Sons be­come vol­un­tary col­lab­o­ra­tors with the fi­nal­i­ters, and these same Teacher Sons also ac­com­pany the fi­nal­i­ters to the man­sion worlds when those spheres are no longer to be uti­lized as dif­fer­en­tial re­ceiv­ing worlds af­ter an en­tire sys­tem is set­tled in light and life; at least this is true by the time the en­tire con­stel­la­tion has thus evolved. But there are no groups that far ad­vanced in Neb­a­don.

• one of newer creations in Orvonton; on outer southeast edge

12:1.12The Seven Super­uni­verses are not pri­mary phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions; nowhere do their bound­aries di­vide a neb­u­lar fam­ily, nei­ther do they cross a lo­cal uni­verse, a prime cre­ative unit. Each super­uni­verse is sim­ply a ge­o­graphic space clus­ter­ing of ap­prox­i­mately one sev­enth of the or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited post-Ha­vona cre­ation, and each is about equal in the num­ber of lo­cal uni­verses em­braced and in the space en­com­passed. Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, is one of the newer cre­ations in Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

12:1.13The Grand Uni­verse is the pres­ent or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation. It con­sists of the seven super­uni­verses, with an ag­gre­gate evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial of around seven tril­lion in­hab­ited plan­ets, not to men­tion the eter­nal spheres of the cen­tral cre­ation. But this ten­ta­tive es­ti­mate takes no ac­count of ar­chi­tec­tural ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres, nei­ther does it in­clude the out­ly­ing groups of un­or­ga­nized uni­verses. The pres­ent ragged edge of the grand uni­verse, its un­even and un­fin­ished pe­riph­ery, to­gether with the tremen­dously un­set­tled con­di­tion of the whole as­tro­nom­i­cal plot, sug­gests to our star stu­dents that even the seven super­uni­verses are, as yet, un­com­pleted. As we move from within, from the di­vine cen­ter out­ward in any one di­rec­tion, we do, even­tu­ally, come to the outer lim­its of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation; we come to the outer lim­its of the grand uni­verse. And it is near this outer bor­der, in a far-off cor­ner of such a mag­nif­i­cent cre­ation, that your lo­cal uni­verse has its event­ful ex­is­tence.

• counterclockwise swing around Paradise

15:1.2We have long since dis­cov­ered that the seven super­uni­verses tra­verse a great el­lipse, a gi­gan­tic and elon­gated cir­cle. Your so­lar sys­tem and other worlds of time are not plung­ing head­long, with­out chart and com­pass, into un­mapped space. The lo­cal uni­verse to which your sys­tem be­longs is pur­su­ing a def­i­nite and well-un­der­stood coun­ter­clock­wise course around the vast swing that en­cir­cles the cen­tral uni­verse. This cos­mic path is well charted and is just as thor­oughly known to the super­uni­verse star ob­servers as the or­bits of the plan­ets con­sti­tut­ing your so­lar sys­tem are known to Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers.

• one of newer creations in Orvonton; on outer southeast edge

15:1.3Uran­tia is sit­u­ated in a lo­cal uni­verse and a super­uni­verse not fully or­ga­nized, and your lo­cal uni­verse is in im­me­di­ate prox­im­ity to nu­mer­ous par­tially com­pleted phys­i­cal cre­ations. You be­long to one of the rel­a­tively re­cent uni­verses. But you are not, to­day, plung­ing on wildly into un­charted space nor swing­ing out blindly into un­known re­gions. You are fol­low­ing the or­derly and pre­de­ter­mined path of the super­uni­verse space level. You are now pass­ing through the very same space that your plan­e­tary sys­tem, or its pre­de­ces­sors, tra­versed ages ago; and some day in the re­mote fu­ture your sys­tem, or its suc­ces­sors, will again tra­verse the iden­ti­cal space through which you are now so swiftly plung­ing.

15:1.4In this age and as di­rec­tion is re­garded on Uran­tia, super­uni­verse num­ber one swings al­most due north, ap­prox­i­mately op­po­site, in an east­erly di­rec­tion, to the Par­a­dise res­i­dence of the Great Sources and Cen­ters and the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. This po­si­tion, with the cor­re­spond­ing one to the west, rep­re­sents the near­est phys­i­cal ap­proach of the spheres of time to the eter­nal Isle. Super­uni­verse num­ber two is in the north, prepar­ing for the west­ward swing, while num­ber three now holds the north­ern­most seg­ment of the great space path, hav­ing al­ready turned into the bend lead­ing to the southerly plunge. Num­ber four is on the com­par­a­tively straight­away southerly flight, the ad­vance re­gions now ap­proach­ing op­po­si­tion to the Great Cen­ters. Num­ber five has about left its po­si­tion op­po­site the Cen­ter of Cen­ters while con­tin­u­ing on the di­rect southerly course just pre­ced­ing the east­ward swing; num­ber six oc­cu­pies most of the south­ern curve, the seg­ment from which your super­uni­verse has nearly passed.

15:1.6Uran­tia be­longs to a sys­tem which is well out to­wards the bor­der­land of your lo­cal uni­verse; and your lo­cal uni­verse is at pres­ent travers­ing the pe­riph­ery of Or­von­ton. Be­yond you there are still oth­ers, but you are far re­moved in space from those phys­i­cal sys­tems which swing around the great cir­cle in com­par­a­tive prox­im­ity to the Great Source and Cen­ter.

• in rotation around Sagittarius

15:3.114. The swing of the lo­cal star cloud of Neb­a­don and its as­so­ci­ated cre­ations around the Sagit­tar­ius cen­ter of their mi­nor sec­tor.

• not in settled circuits

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.

15:9.18Your lo­cal uni­verse is not even reck­oned as be­long­ing to the set­tled phys­i­cal or­der of the super­uni­verse, much less as hold­ing mem­ber­ship in the rec­og­nized spir­i­tual fam­ily of the super­gov­ern­ment. Al­though Neb­a­don does not yet have rep­re­sen­ta­tion on Uversa, we of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment are dis­patched to its worlds on spe­cial mis­sions from time to time, even as I have come to Uran­tia di­rectly from Uversa. We lend ev­ery pos­si­ble as­sis­tance to your di­rec­tors and rulers in the so­lu­tion of their dif­fi­cult prob­lems; we are de­sirous of see­ing your uni­verse qual­i­fied for full ad­mis­sion into the as­so­ci­ated cre­ations of the super­uni­verse fam­ily.

• not one single astronomic system, though a large system exists at physical center
• Salvington is at energy-mass center of

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.

• 3,840,101 inhabited planets
• one of newer creations in Orvonton; on outer southeast edge

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.

• 200,000 light years from Jerusem to Uversa
• 250,000 light years from far edge of N. to Uversa

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.

• neighboring local universes

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.

• 4 points of compass inherent in

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.

• 647,591 architectural spheres
• 3,840,101 inhabited planets

37:10.1Be­sides the se­raphic and mor­tal or­ders, who will be con­sid­ered in later pa­pers, there are nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional be­ings con­cerned in the main­te­nance and per­fect­ing of such a gi­gan­tic or­ga­ni­za­tion as the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, which even now has more than three mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds, with ten mil­lion in prospect. The var­i­ous Neb­a­don types of life are much too nu­mer­ous to be cat­a­logued in this pa­per, but there are two un­usual or­ders that func­tion ex­ten­sively on the 647,591 ar­chi­tec­tural spheres of the lo­cal uni­verse, that may be men­tioned.

• physically assembled out of Andronover and other nebulae
• spheres share minimum commonness of space motion

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.

• in rotation around Sagittarius

41:0.4Such is the con­sti­tu­tion of the lo­cal star cloud of Neb­a­don, which to­day swings in an in­creas­ingly set­tled or­bit about the Sagit­tar­ius cen­ter of that mi­nor sec­tor of Or­von­ton to which our lo­cal cre­ation be­longs.

• Antares is largest star in

41:3.2The suns of Neb­a­don are not un­like those of other uni­verses. The ma­te­rial com­po­si­tion of all suns, dark is­lands, plan­ets, and satel­lites, even me­te­ors, is quite iden­ti­cal. These suns have an av­er­age di­am­e­ter of about one mil­lion miles, that of your own so­lar orb be­ing slightly less. The largest star in the uni­verse, the stel­lar cloud Antares, is four hun­dred and fifty times the di­am­e­ter of your sun and is sixty mil­lion times its vol­ume. But there is abun­dant space to ac­com­mo­date all of these enor­mous suns. They have just as much com­par­a­tive el­bow room in space as one dozen or­anges would have if they were cir­cu­lat­ing about through­out the in­te­rior of Uran­tia, and were the planet a hol­low globe.

• 10 standard divisions of physical life on architectural spheres

43:6.4The ar­chi­tec­tural worlds en­joy ten forms of life of the ma­te­rial or­der. On Uran­tia there is plant and an­i­mal life, but on such a world as Eden­tia there are ten di­vi­sions of the ma­te­rial or­ders of life. Were you to view these ten di­vi­sions of Eden­tia life, you would quickly clas­sify the first three as veg­etable and the last three as an­i­mal, but you would be ut­terly un­able to com­pre­hend the na­ture of the in­ter­ven­ing four groups of pro­lific and fas­ci­nat­ing forms of life.

• 10 standard divisions of physical life on architectural spheres

43:6.7Be­ing en­dowed with ten di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life, not to men­tion the mor­ontia vari­a­tions, these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds pro­vide tremen­dous pos­si­bil­i­ties for the bi­o­logic beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of the land­scape and of the ma­te­rial and the mor­ontia struc­tures. The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the na­tive sporna­gia in this ex­ten­sive work of botanic dec­o­ra­tion and bi­o­logic em­bel­lish­ment. Whereas your artists must re­sort to in­ert paint and life­less mar­ble to por­tray their con­cepts, the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and the uni­v­i­ta­tia more fre­quently uti­lize liv­ing ma­te­ri­als to rep­re­sent their ideas and to cap­ture their ide­als.

• 10 standard divisions of physical life on architectural spheres

46:2.5Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds are en­dowed with the ten stan­dard di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life char­ac­ter­is­tic of the ar­chi­tec­tural spheres of Neb­a­don. And since there is no or­ganic evo­lu­tion on Je­ru­sem, there are no con­flict­ing forms of life, no strug­gle for ex­is­tence, no sur­vival of the fittest. Rather is there a cre­ative adap­ta­tion which fore­shad­ows the beauty, the har­mony, and the per­fec­tion of the eter­nal worlds of the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse. And in all this cre­ative per­fec­tion there is the most amaz­ing in­ter­min­gling of phys­i­cal and of mor­ontia life, ar­tis­ti­cally con­trasted by the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and their fel­lows.

• 3% of worlds are nonbreather

49:3.1The ma­jor­ity of in­hab­ited plan­ets are peo­pled with the breath­ing type of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. But there are also or­ders of mor­tals who are able to live on worlds with lit­tle or no air. Of the Or­von­ton in­hab­ited worlds this type amounts to less than seven per cent. In Neb­a­don this per­cent­age is less than three. In all Sa­ta­nia there are only nine such worlds.

• 90% of worlds are Adjuster-fusion types

49:5.316. Ad­juster-fu­sion se­ries. The spir­i­tual clas­si­fi­ca­tion or group­ing of all mor­tals dur­ing their pre­fu­sion ex­pe­ri­ence is wholly de­ter­mined by the re­la­tion of the per­son­al­ity sta­tus to the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. Al­most ninety per cent of the in­hab­ited worlds of Neb­a­don are peo­pled with Ad­juster-fu­sion mor­tals in con­trast with a near-by uni­verse where scarcely more than one half of the worlds har­bor be­ings who are Ad­juster-in­dwelt can­di­dates for eter­nal fu­sion.

• physically assembled out of Andronover and other nebulae

57:1.1Uran­tia is of ori­gin in your sun, and your sun is one of the mul­ti­far­i­ous off­spring of the And­ro­no­ver neb­ula, which was one­time or­ga­nized as a com­po­nent part of the phys­i­cal power and ma­te­rial mat­ter of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. And this great neb­ula it­self took ori­gin in the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space in the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, long, long ago.

• physically assembled out of Andronover and other nebulae
• work begun on N. 400 billion years ago

57:3.8It was scarcely a mil­lion years sub­se­quent to this epoch that Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a Cre­ator Son of Par­a­dise, se­lected this dis­in­te­grat­ing neb­ula as the site of his ad­ven­ture in uni­verse build­ing. Al­most im­me­di­ately the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds of Sal­ving­ton and the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters groups of plan­ets were be­gun. It re­quired al­most one mil­lion years to com­plete these clus­ters of spe­cially cre­ated worlds. The lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters plan­ets were con­structed over a pe­riod ex­tend­ing from that time to about five bil­lion years ago.

57:3.9300,000,000,000 years ago the And­ro­no­ver so­lar cir­cuits were well es­tab­lished, and the neb­u­lar sys­tem was pass­ing through a tran­sient pe­riod of rel­a­tive phys­i­cal sta­bil­ity. About this time the staff of Mi­chael ar­rived on Sal­ving­ton, and the Uversa gov­ern­ment of Or­von­ton ex­tended phys­i­cal rec­og­ni­tion to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

• oldest inhabited planets are 200 billion years old

57:3.10200,000,000,000 years ago wit­nessed the pro­gres­sion of con­trac­tion and con­den­sa­tion with enor­mous heat gen­er­a­tion in the And­ro­no­ver cen­tral clus­ter, or nu­clear mass. Rel­a­tive space ap­peared even in the re­gions near the cen­tral mother-sun wheel. The outer re­gions were be­com­ing more sta­bi­lized and bet­ter or­ga­nized; some plan­ets re­volv­ing around the new­born suns had cooled suf­fi­ciently to be suit­able for life im­plan­ta­tion. The old­est in­hab­ited plan­ets of Neb­a­don date from these times.

15:7.7Sal­ving­ton, the cap­i­tal of Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, is sur­rounded by ten uni­ver­sity clus­ters of forty-nine spheres each. Hereon is man spir­i­tu­al­ized fol­low­ing his con­stel­la­tion so­cial­iza­tion.

22:2.4The se­nior Mighty Mes­sen­gers were cho­sen from those as­cen­dant mor­tals of time and space who were among the ear­lier Par­a­dise ar­rivals, many hav­ing tra­versed Ha­vona in the times of Grand­fanda. But the first trini­tiz­ing of Mighty Mes­sen­gers was not ef­fected un­til the can­di­date corps con­tained rep­re­sen­ta­tives from each of the seven super­uni­verses. And the last group of this or­der to qual­ify on Par­a­dise em­braced as­cen­dant pil­grims from the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

22:3.2Sev­enty thou­sand of Those High in Au­thor­ity are trin­i­tized at each Trin­ity li­ai­son. Though the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don is a com­par­a­tively young cre­ation, it has rep­re­sen­ta­tives among a re­cently trin­i­tized class of this or­der. There are now com­mis­sioned in Or­von­ton more than ten bil­lion of these skill­ful ad­min­is­tra­tors. Like all sep­a­rate or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, they main­tain their own head­quar­ters on Uversa, and like the other Trin­ity-em­braced sons, their re­serves on Uversa act as the cen­tral di­rect­ing body of their or­der in Or­von­ton.

188:3.83. The ac­quired spirit iden­tity of the man of Naz­a­reth which was built up dur­ing his life­time in the flesh, first, by the di­rect ef­forts of his Thought Ad­juster, and later, by his own per­fect ad­just­ment be­tween the phys­i­cal ne­ces­si­ties and the spir­i­tual re­quire­ments of the ideal mor­tal ex­is­tence, as it was ef­fected by his never-ceas­ing choice of the Fa­ther’s will, must have been con­signed to the cus­tody of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Whether or not this spirit re­al­ity re­turned to be­come a part of the res­ur­rected per­son­al­ity, we do not know, but we be­lieve it did. But there are those in the uni­verse who hold that this soul-iden­tity of Je­sus now re­poses in the “bo­som of the Fa­ther,” to be sub­se­quently re­leased for lead­er­ship of the Neb­a­don Corps of the Fi­nal­ity in their undis­closed des­tiny in con­nec­tion with the un­cre­ated uni­verses of the un­or­ga­nized realms of outer space.

• lost more Lanonandeks to rebellion than any local universe in Orvonton, except Henselon

35:9.8Of all the lo­cal uni­verses in Or­von­ton, our uni­verse has, with the ex­cep­tion of Henselon, lost the largest num­ber of this or­der of Sons. On Uversa it is the con­sen­sus that we have had so much ad­min­is­tra­tive trou­ble in Neb­a­don be­cause our Sons of the La­non­an­dek or­der have been cre­ated with such a large de­gree of per­sonal lib­erty in choos­ing and plan­ning. I do not make this ob­ser­va­tion by way of crit­i­cism. The Cre­ator of our uni­verse has full au­thor­ity and power to do this. It is the con­tention of our high rulers that, while such free-choos­ing Sons make ex­ces­sive trou­ble in the ear­lier ages of the uni­verse, when things are fully sifted and fi­nally set­tled, the gains of higher loy­alty and fuller vo­li­tional ser­vice on the part of these thor­oughly tested Sons will far more than com­pen­sate for the con­fu­sion and tribu­la­tions of ear­lier times.

• 1st by Lutentia

119:2.1For al­most one hun­dred and fifty mil­lion years af­ter the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal of Mi­chael, all went well in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, when trou­ble be­gan to brew in sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37. This trou­ble in­volved a mis­un­der­stand­ing by a La­non­an­dek Son, a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, which had been ad­ju­di­cated by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers and ap­proved by the Faith­ful of Days, the Par­a­dise coun­selor to that con­stel­la­tion, but the protest­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was not fully rec­on­ciled to the ver­dict. Af­ter more than one hun­dred years of dis­sat­is­fac­tion he led his as­so­ciates in one of the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous re­bel­lions against the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son ever in­sti­gated in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, a re­bel­lion long since ad­ju­di­cated and ended by the ac­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

119:2.2This rebel Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lu­ten­tia, reigned su­preme on his head­quar­ters planet for more than twenty years of stan­dard Neb­a­don time; where­upon, the Most Highs, with ap­proval from Uversa, or­dered his seg­re­ga­tion and req­ui­si­tioned the Sal­ving­ton rulers for the des­ig­na­tion of a new Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to as­sume di­rec­tion of that strife-torn and con­fused sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

• 2nd in system 87 of constellation 61

119:3.1The su­preme coun­cil on Sal­ving­ton had just fin­ished the con­sid­er­a­tion of the call of the Life Car­ri­ers on planet 217 in sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61 for the dis­patch to their as­sis­tance of a Ma­te­rial Son. Now this planet was sit­u­ated in a sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds where an­other Sys­tem Sov­er­eign had gone astray, the sec­ond such re­bel­lion in all Neb­a­don up to that time.

• 2nd in system 87 of constellation 61

119:3.3And, as might have been ex­pected, on the third day there­after there ap­peared, unan­nounced, on the head­quar­ters world of sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61, a strange Ma­te­rial Son, ac­com­pa­nied by a lone se­con­a­phim, ac­cred­ited by the Uversa An­cients of Days, and cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. Im­me­di­ately the act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pointed this new and mys­te­ri­ous Ma­te­rial Son act­ing Plan­e­tary Prince of world 217, and this des­ig­na­tion was at once con­firmed by the Most Highs of con­stel­la­tion 61.

188:3.12There are rec­ords ex­tant which show that dur­ing this pe­riod the su­preme coun­cil of Sal­ving­ton, num­ber­ing one hun­dred, held an ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing on Uran­tia un­der the pres­i­dency of Ga­briel. There are also rec­ords show­ing that the An­cients of Days of Uversa com­mu­ni­cated with Mi­chael re­gard­ing the sta­tus of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don dur­ing this time.

45:2.1The chief ex­ec­u­tive of a lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds is a pri­mary La­non­an­dek Son, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign. In our lo­cal uni­verse these sov­er­eigns are in­trusted with large ex­ec­u­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, un­usual per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives. Not all uni­verses, even in Or­von­ton, are so or­ga­nized as to per­mit the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns to ex­er­cise such un­usu­ally wide pow­ers of per­sonal dis­cre­tion in the di­rec­tion of sys­tem af­fairs. But in all the his­tory of Neb­a­don these un­tram­meled ex­ec­u­tives have ex­hib­ited dis­loy­alty only three times. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia was the last and the most wide­spread of all.

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.

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.

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.