Salvington

41:1.3The one hun­dred lo­cal uni­verse cen­ters are sta­tioned on Sal­ving­ton, where they func­tion at the ex­act en­ergy cen­ter of that sphere. Ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, such as Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem, are lighted, heated, and en­er­gized by meth­ods which make them quite in­de­pen­dent of the suns of space. These spheres were con­structed—made to or­der—by the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and were de­signed to ex­ert a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence over en­ergy dis­tri­bu­tion. Bas­ing their ac­tiv­i­ties on such fo­cal points of en­ergy con­trol, the power cen­ters, by their liv­ing pres­ences, di­rec­tion­ize and chan­nel­ize the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of space. And these en­ergy cir­cuits are ba­sic to all phys­i­cal-ma­te­rial and mor­ontia-spir­i­tual phe­nom­ena.

33:8.2While true leg­is­la­tion is not en­acted at the uni­verse head­quar­ters, there do func­tion on Sal­ving­ton a va­ri­ety of ad­vi­sory and re­search as­sem­blies, var­i­ously con­sti­tuted and con­ducted in ac­cor­dance with their scope and pur­pose. Some are per­ma­nent; oth­ers dis­band upon the ac­com­plish­ment of their ob­jec­tive.

33:8.5All find­ings of the high uni­verse ad­vi­sory coun­cils are re­ferred ei­ther to the Sal­ving­ton ju­di­cial bod­ies or to the leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies of the con­stel­la­tions. These high coun­cils are with­out au­thor­ity or power to en­force their rec­om­men­da­tions. If their ad­vice is founded on the fun­da­men­tal laws of the uni­verse, then will the Neb­a­don courts is­sue rul­ings of ex­e­cu­tion; but if their rec­om­men­da­tions have to do with lo­cal or emer­gency con­di­tions, they must pass down to the leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies of the con­stel­la­tion for de­lib­er­a­tive en­act­ment and then to the sys­tem au­thor­i­ties for ex­e­cu­tion. These high coun­cils are, in re­al­ity, the uni­verse super­leg­is­la­tures, but they func­tion with­out the au­thor­ity of en­act­ment and with­out the power of ex­e­cu­tion.

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.

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.

35:2.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks are the first or­der of di­vine Sons to ap­proach suf­fi­ciently near the lower crea­ture life to be able to func­tion di­rectly in the min­istry of mor­tal up­lift, to serve the evo­lu­tion­ary races with­out the ne­ces­sity of in­car­na­tion. These Sons are nat­u­rally at the mid-point of the great per­son­al­ity de­scent, by ori­gin be­ing just about mid­way be­tween the high­est Di­vin­ity and the low­est crea­ture life of will en­dow­ment. They thus be­come the nat­u­ral in­ter­me­di­aries be­tween the higher and di­vine lev­els of liv­ing ex­is­tence and the lower, even the ma­te­rial, forms of life on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The se­raphic or­ders, the an­gels, de­light to work with the Mel­chiz­e­deks; in fact, all forms of in­tel­li­gent life find in these Sons un­der­stand­ing friends, sym­pa­thetic teach­ers, and wise coun­selors.

35:2.2The Mel­chiz­e­deks are a self-gov­ern­ing or­der. With this unique group we en­counter the first at­tempt at self-de­ter­mi­na­tion on the part of lo­cal uni­verse be­ings and ob­serve the high­est type of true self-gov­ern­ment. These Sons or­ga­nize their own ma­chin­ery for their group and home-planet ad­min­is­tra­tion, as well as that for the six as­so­ci­ated spheres and their trib­u­tary worlds. And it should be re­corded that they have never abused their pre­rog­a­tives; not once through­out all the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton have these Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons ever be­trayed their trust. They are the hope of ev­ery uni­verse group which as­pires to self-gov­ern­ment; they are the pat­tern and the teach­ers of self-gov­ern­ment to all the spheres of Neb­a­don. All or­ders of in­tel­li­gent be­ings, su­pe­ri­ors from above and sub­or­di­nates from be­low, are whole­hearted in their praise of the gov­ern­ment of the Mel­chiz­e­deks.

35:2.3The Mel­chiz­e­dek or­der of son­ship oc­cu­pies the po­si­tion, and as­sumes the re­spon­si­bil­ity, of the el­dest son in a large fam­ily. Most of their work is reg­u­lar and some­what rou­tine, but much of it is vol­un­tary and al­to­gether self-im­posed. A ma­jor­ity of the spe­cial as­sem­blies which, from time to time, con­vene on Sal­ving­ton are called on mo­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. On their own ini­tia­tive these Sons pa­trol their na­tive uni­verse. They main­tain an au­ton­o­mous or­ga­ni­za­tion de­voted to uni­verse in­tel­li­gence, mak­ing pe­ri­od­i­cal re­ports to the Cre­ator Son in­de­pen­dent of all in­for­ma­tion com­ing up to uni­verse head­quar­ters through the reg­u­lar agen­cies con­cerned with the rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tion of the realm. They are by na­ture un­prej­u­diced ob­servers; they have the full con­fi­dence of all classes of in­tel­li­gent be­ings.

35:2.4The Mel­chiz­e­deks func­tion as mo­bile and ad­vi­sory re­view courts of the realms; these uni­verse Sons go in small groups to the worlds to serve as ad­vi­sory com­mis­sions, to take de­po­si­tions, to re­ceive sug­ges­tions, and to act as coun­selors, thus help­ing to com­pose the ma­jor dif­fi­cul­ties and set­tle the se­ri­ous dif­fer­ences which arise from time to time in the af­fairs of the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains.

35:2.5These el­dest Sons of a uni­verse are the chief aids of the Bright and Morn­ing Star in car­ry­ing out the man­dates of the Cre­ator Son. When a Mel­chiz­e­dek goes to a re­mote world in the name of Ga­briel, he may, for the pur­poses of that par­tic­u­lar mis­sion, be dep­u­tized in the name of the sender and in that event will ap­pear on the planet of as­sign­ment with the full au­thor­ity of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Es­pe­cially is this true on those spheres where a higher Son has not yet ap­peared in the like­ness of the crea­tures of the realm.

35:2.6When a Cre­ator Son en­ters upon the be­stowal ca­reer on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, he goes alone; but when one of his Par­a­dise broth­ers, an Avo­nal Son, en­ters upon a be­stowal, he is ac­com­pa­nied by the Mel­chiz­e­dek sup­port­ers, twelve in num­ber, who so ef­fi­ciently con­tribute to the suc­cess of the be­stowal mis­sion. They also sup­port the Par­a­dise Avo­nals on mag­is­te­rial mis­sions to the in­hab­ited worlds, and in these as­sign­ments the Mel­chiz­e­deks are vis­i­ble to mor­tal eyes if the Avo­nal Son is also thus man­i­fest.

35:2.7There is no phase of plan­e­tary spir­i­tual need to which they do not min­is­ter. They are the teach­ers who so of­ten win whole worlds of ad­vanced life to the fi­nal and full rec­og­ni­tion of the Cre­ator Son and his Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

35:2.8The Mel­chiz­e­deks are well-nigh per­fect in wis­dom, but they are not in­fal­li­ble in judg­ment. When de­tached and alone on plan­e­tary mis­sions, they have some­times erred in mi­nor mat­ters, that is, they have elected to do cer­tain things which their super­vi­sors did not sub­se­quently ap­prove. Such an er­ror of judg­ment tem­porar­ily dis­qual­i­fies a Mel­chiz­e­dek un­til he goes to Sal­ving­ton and, in au­di­ence with the Cre­ator Son, re­ceives that in­struc­tion which ef­fec­tu­ally purges him of the dishar­mony which caused dis­agree­ment with his fel­lows; and then, fol­low­ing the cor­rec­tional rest, re­in­state­ment to ser­vice en­sues on the third day. But these mi­nor mis­adap­ta­tions in Mel­chiz­e­dek func­tion have rarely oc­curred in Neb­a­don.

35:2.9These Sons are not an in­creas­ing or­der; their num­ber is sta­tion­ary, al­though vary­ing in each lo­cal uni­verse. The num­ber of Mel­chiz­e­deks of rec­ord on their head­quar­ters planet in Neb­a­don is up­ward of ten mil­lion.

35:3.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks oc­cupy a world of their own near Sal­ving­ton, the uni­verse head­quar­ters. This sphere, by name Mel­chiz­e­dek, is the pi­lot world of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit of sev­enty pri­mary spheres, each of which is en­cir­cled by six trib­u­tary spheres de­voted to spe­cial­ized ac­tiv­i­ties. These mar­velous spheres—sev­enty pri­maries and 420 trib­u­taries—are of­ten spo­ken of as the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity. As­cend­ing mor­tals from all the con­stel­la­tions of Neb­a­don pass through train­ing on all 490 worlds in the ac­quire­ment of res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Sal­ving­ton. But the ed­u­ca­tion of as­cend­ers is only one phase of the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties tak­ing place on the Sal­ving­ton clus­ter of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres.

35:3.2The 490 spheres of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are di­vided into ten groups, each con­tain­ing seven pri­mary and forty-two trib­u­tary spheres. Each of these groups is un­der the gen­eral super­vi­sion of some one of the ma­jor or­ders of uni­verse life. The first group, em­brac­ing the pi­lot world and the next six pri­mary spheres in the en­cir­cling plan­e­tary pro­ces­sion, is un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. These Mel­chiz­e­dek worlds are:

35:3.31. The pi­lot world—the home world of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons.

35:3.42. The world of the phys­i­cal-life schools and the lab­o­ra­to­ries of liv­ing en­er­gies.

35:3.53. The world of mor­ontia life.

35:3.64. The sphere of ini­tial spirit life.

35:3.75. The world of mid-spirit life.

35:3.86. The sphere of ad­vanc­ing spirit life.

35:3.97. The do­main of co-or­di­nate and su­preme self-re­al­iza­tion.

35:3.10The six trib­u­tary worlds of each of these Mel­chiz­e­dek spheres are de­voted to ac­tiv­i­ties ger­mane to the work of the as­so­ci­ated pri­mary sphere.

35:3.11The pi­lot world, the sphere Mel­chiz­e­dek, is the com­mon meet­ing ground for all be­ings who are en­gaged in ed­u­cat­ing and spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing the as­cend­ing mor­tals of time and space. To an as­cender this world is prob­a­bly the most in­ter­est­ing place in all Neb­a­don. All evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals who grad­u­ate from their con­stel­la­tion train­ing are des­tined to land on Mel­chiz­e­dek, where they are ini­ti­ated into the regime of the dis­ci­plines and spirit pro­gres­sion of the Sal­ving­ton ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem. And never will you for­get your re­ac­tions to the first day of life on this unique world, not even af­ter you have reached your Par­a­dise des­ti­na­tion.

35:3.12As­cend­ing mor­tals main­tain res­i­dence on the Mel­chiz­e­dek world while pur­su­ing their train­ing on the six en­cir­cling plan­ets of spe­cial­ized ed­u­ca­tion. And this same method is ad­hered to through­out their so­journ on the sev­enty cul­tural worlds, the pri­mary spheres of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit.

35:3.13Many di­verse ac­tiv­i­ties oc­cupy the time of the nu­mer­ous be­ings who re­side on the six trib­u­tary worlds of the Mel­chiz­e­dek sphere, but as con­cerns the as­cend­ing mor­tals, these satel­lites are de­voted to the fol­low­ing spe­cial phases of study:

35:3.141. Sphere num­ber one is oc­cu­pied with the re­view of the ini­tial plan­e­tary life of the as­cend­ing mor­tals. This work is car­ried on in classes com­posed of those who hail from a given world of mor­tal ori­gin. Those from Uran­tia pur­sue such an ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­view to­gether.

35:3.152. The spe­cial work of sphere num­ber two con­sists in a sim­i­lar re­view of the ex­pe­ri­ences passed through on the man­sion worlds en­cir­cling the pre­mier satel­lite of the lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters.

35:3.163. The re­views of this sphere per­tain to the so­journ on the cap­i­tal of the lo­cal sys­tem and em­brace the ac­tiv­i­ties of the re­main­der of the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds of the sys­tem head­quar­ters clus­ter.

35:3.174. The fourth sphere is oc­cu­pied with a re­view of the ex­pe­ri­ences of the sev­enty trib­u­tary worlds of the con­stel­la­tion and of their as­so­ci­ated spheres.

35:3.185. On the fifth sphere there is con­ducted the re­view of the as­cen­dant so­journ on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters world.

35:3.196. The time on sphere num­ber six is de­voted to an at­tempt to cor­re­late these five epochs and thus achieve co-or­di­na­tion of ex­pe­ri­ence prepara­tory to en­ter­ing the Mel­chiz­e­dek pri­mary schools of uni­verse train­ing.

35:3.20The schools of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion and spir­i­tual wis­dom are lo­cated on the Mel­chiz­e­dek home world, where also are to be found those schools de­voted to a sin­gle line of re­search, such as en­ergy, mat­ter, or­ga­ni­za­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, rec­ords, ethics, and com­par­a­tive crea­ture ex­is­tence.

35:3.21In the Mel­chiz­e­dek Col­lege of Spir­i­tual En­dow­ment all or­ders—even the Par­a­dise or­ders—of the Sons of God co-op­er­ate with the Mel­chiz­e­dek and the se­raphic teach­ers in train­ing the hosts who go forth as evan­gels of des­tiny, pro­claim­ing spir­i­tual lib­erty and di­vine son­ship even to the re­mote worlds of the uni­verse. This par­tic­u­lar school of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity is an ex­clu­sive uni­verse in­sti­tu­tion; stu­dent vis­i­tors are not re­ceived from other realms.

35:3.22The high­est course of train­ing in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion is given by the Mel­chiz­e­deks on their home world. This Col­lege of High Ethics is pre­sided over by the orig­i­nal Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. It is to these schools that the var­i­ous uni­verses send ex­change stu­dents. While the young uni­verse of Neb­a­don stands low in the scale of uni­verses as re­gards spir­i­tual achieve­ment and high eth­i­cal de­vel­op­ment, nev­er­the­less, our ad­min­is­tra­tive trou­bles have so turned the whole uni­verse into a vast clinic for other near-by cre­ations that the Mel­chiz­e­dek col­leges are thronged with stu­dent vis­i­tors and ob­servers from other realms. Be­sides the im­mense group of lo­cal reg­is­trants there are al­ways up­ward of one hun­dred thou­sand for­eign stu­dents in at­ten­dance upon the Mel­chiz­e­dek schools, for the or­der of Mel­chiz­e­deks in Neb­a­don is renowned through­out all Splan­don.

35:7.1The sec­ond group of seven worlds in the cir­cuit of sev­enty pri­mary spheres sur­round­ing Sal­ving­ton com­prise the Vo­ron­da­dek plan­ets. Each of these spheres, with its six en­cir­cling satel­lites, is de­voted to a spe­cial phase of Vo­ron­da­dek ac­tiv­i­ties. On these forty-nine realms the as­cend­ing mor­tals se­cure the acme of their ed­u­ca­tion re­spect­ing uni­verse leg­is­la­tion.

35:7.2The as­cend­ing mor­tals have ob­served the leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies as they func­tioned on the head­quar­ters worlds of the con­stel­la­tions, but here on these Vo­ron­da­dek worlds they par­tic­i­pate in the en­act­ment of the ac­tual gen­eral leg­is­la­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse un­der the tute­lage of the se­nior Voron­dadeks. Such en­act­ments are de­signed to co-or­di­nate the var­ied pro­nounce­ments of the au­ton­o­mous leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies of the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tions. The in­struc­tion to be had in the Vo­ron­da­dek schools is un­ex­celled even on Uversa. This train­ing is pro­gres­sive, ex­tend­ing from the first sphere, with sup­ple­men­tal work on its six satel­lites, on up through the re­main­ing six pri­mary spheres and their as­so­ci­ated satel­lite groups.

35:7.3The as­cend­ing pil­grims will be in­tro­duced to nu­mer­ous new ac­tiv­i­ties on these worlds of study and prac­ti­cal work. We are not for­bid­den to un­der­take the rev­e­la­tion of these new and un­dreamed-of pur­suits, but we de­spair of be­ing able to por­tray these un­der­tak­ings to the ma­te­rial mind of mor­tal be­ings. We are with­out words to con­vey the mean­ings of these su­per­nal ac­tiv­i­ties, and there are no anal­o­gous hu­man en­gage­ments which might be uti­lized as il­lus­tra­tions of these new oc­cu­pa­tions of the as­cend­ing mor­tals as they pur­sue their stud­ies on these forty-nine worlds. And many other ac­tiv­i­ties, not a part of the as­cen­dant regime, are cen­tered on these Vo­ron­da­dek worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit.

35:10.1The third group of seven worlds in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit of sev­enty plan­ets, with their re­spec­tive forty-two satel­lites, con­sti­tute the La­non­an­dek clus­ter of ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres. On these realms the ex­pe­ri­enced La­non­an­deks be­long­ing to the ex-Sys­tem Sov­er­eign corps of­fi­ci­ate as ad­min­is­tra­tive teach­ers of the as­cend­ing pil­grims and the se­raphic hosts. The evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals ob­serve the sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tors at work on the sys­tem cap­i­tals, but here they par­tic­i­pate in the ac­tual co-or­di­na­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive pro­nounce­ments of the ten thou­sand lo­cal sys­tems.

35:10.2These ad­min­is­tra­tive schools of the lo­cal uni­verse are super­vised by a corps of La­non­an­dek Sons who have had long ex­pe­ri­ence as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as con­stel­la­tion coun­selors. These ex­ec­u­tive col­leges are ex­celled only by the ad­min­is­tra­tive schools of Ensa.

35:10.3While serv­ing as train­ing spheres for as­cend­ing mor­tals, the La­non­an­dek worlds are the cen­ters for ex­ten­sive un­der­tak­ings hav­ing to do with the nor­mal and rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tive op­er­a­tions of the uni­verse. All the way in to Par­a­dise the as­cend­ing pil­grims pur­sue their stud­ies in the prac­ti­cal schools of ap­plied knowl­edge—ac­tual train­ing in re­ally do­ing the things they are be­ing taught. The uni­verse ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem spon­sored by the Mel­chiz­e­deks is prac­ti­cal, pro­gres­sive, mean­ing­ful, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. It em­braces train­ing in things ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual.

35:10.4It is in con­nec­tion with these ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres of the La­non­an­deks that most of the sal­vaged Sons of that or­der serve as cus­to­di­ans and di­rec­tors of plan­e­tary af­fairs. And these de­fault­ing Plan­e­tary Princes and their as­so­ciates in re­bel­lion who choose to ac­cept the prof­fered re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion will con­tinue to serve in these rou­tine ca­pac­i­ties, at least un­til the uni­verse of Neb­a­don is set­tled in light and life.

35:10.5Many of the La­non­an­dek Sons in the older sys­tems, how­ever, have es­tab­lished won­der­ful rec­ords of ser­vice, ad­min­is­tra­tion, and spir­i­tual achieve­ment. They are a no­ble, faith­ful, and loyal group, not­with­stand­ing their ten­dency to fall into er­ror through fal­la­cies of per­sonal lib­erty and fic­tions of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

35:10.6[Spon­sored by the Chief of Arch­an­gels act­ing by au­thor­ity of Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]

• 5th is of finaliters

36:4.5The Sal­ving­ton Worlds of the Fi­nal­i­ters. The Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers, as well as the as­so­ci­ated Mother Eves, go from the sys­tem mid­sonite spheres to the fi­nal­i­ters’ worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit, where their off­spring are also des­tined to for­gather.

36:4.6It should be ex­plained in this con­nec­tion that the fifth group of seven pri­mary worlds in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the Neb­a­don worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters. The chil­dren of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers and the Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters are domi­ciled on the sev­enth world of the fi­nal­i­ters, the Sal­ving­ton mid­sonite sphere.

36:4.7The satel­lites of the seven pri­mary worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters are the ren­dezvous of the per­son­al­i­ties of the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses who may be ex­e­cut­ing as­sign­ments in Neb­a­don. While the as­cend­ing mor­tals go about freely on all of the cul­tural worlds and train­ing spheres of the 490 worlds com­pris­ing the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity, there are cer­tain spe­cial schools and nu­mer­ous re­stricted zones which they are not per­mit­ted to en­ter. This is es­pe­cially true of the forty-nine spheres un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the fi­nal­i­ters.

• 6th is of Brilliant Evening Stars

37:2.10The Worlds of the Evening Stars. The sixth group of seven Sal­ving­ton worlds and their forty-two trib­u­tary satel­lites are as­signed to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Bril­liant Evening Stars. The seven pri­mary worlds are pre­sided over by the cre­ated or­ders of these super­an­gels, while the trib­u­tary satel­lites are ad­min­is­tered by as­cen­dant Evening Stars.

• 7th is of archangels

37:3.7The Worlds of the Arch­an­gels. The sev­enth group of the en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton worlds, with their as­so­ci­ated satel­lites, is as­signed to the arch­an­gels. Sphere num­ber one and all of its six trib­u­tary satel­lites are oc­cu­pied by the per­son­al­ity rec­ord keep­ers. This enor­mous corps of re­cord­ers busy them­selves with keep­ing straight the rec­ord of each mor­tal of time from the mo­ment of birth up through the uni­verse ca­reer un­til such an in­di­vid­ual ei­ther leaves Sal­ving­ton for the super­uni­verse regime or is “blot­ted out of re­corded ex­is­tence” by the man­date of the An­cients of Days.

• 8th is of Spirit-fused mortals

37:5.10The Worlds of the Spirit-fused Mor­tals. The eighth group of seven pri­mary worlds and trib­u­tary satel­lites in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of the Spirit-fused mor­tals of Neb­a­don. As­cend­ing Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are not con­cerned with these worlds ex­cept to en­joy many pleas­ant and prof­itable so­journs as the in­vited guests of the Spirit-fused res­i­dents.

37:6.2This train­ing of mind and ed­u­ca­tion of spirit is car­ried on from the worlds of hu­man ori­gin up through the sys­tem man­sion worlds and the other spheres of prog­ress as­so­ci­ated with Je­ru­sem, on the sev­enty so­cial­iz­ing realms at­tached to Eden­tia, and on the four hun­dred and ninety spheres of spirit prog­ress en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton. On the uni­verse head­quar­ters it­self are nu­mer­ous Mel­chiz­e­dek schools, the col­leges of the Uni­verse Sons, the se­raphic uni­ver­si­ties, and the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Union of Days. Ev­ery pos­si­ble pro­vi­sion is made to qual­ify the var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties of the uni­verse for ad­vanc­ing ser­vice and im­prov­ing func­tion. The en­tire uni­verse is one vast school.

38:4.1The ninth group of seven pri­mary spheres in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the worlds of the ser­a­phim. Each of these worlds has six trib­u­tary satel­lites, whereon are the spe­cial schools de­voted to all phases of se­raphic train­ing. While the ser­a­phim have ac­cess to all forty-nine worlds com­pris­ing this group of Sal­ving­ton spheres, they ex­clu­sively oc­cupy only the first clus­ter of seven. The re­main­ing six clus­ters are oc­cu­pied by the six or­ders of an­gelic as­so­ciates un­re­vealed on Uran­tia; each such group main­tains head­quar­ters on one of these six pri­mary worlds and car­ries on spe­cial­ized ac­tiv­i­ties on the six trib­u­tary satel­lites. Each an­gelic or­der has free ac­cess to all the worlds of these seven di­verse groups.

38:4.2These head­quar­ters worlds are among the mag­nif­i­cent realms of Neb­a­don; the se­raphic es­tates are char­ac­ter­ized by both beauty and vast­ness. Here each ser­a­phim has a real home, and “home” means the domi­cile of two ser­a­phim; they live in pairs.

38:4.3Though not male and fe­male as are the Ma­te­rial Sons and the mor­tal races, ser­a­phim are neg­a­tive and pos­i­tive. In the ma­jor­ity of as­sign­ments it re­quires two an­gels to ac­com­plish the task. When they are not en­cir­cuited, they can work alone; nei­ther do they re­quire com­ple­ments of be­ing when sta­tion­ary. Or­di­nar­ily they re­tain their orig­i­nal com­ple­ments of be­ing, but not nec­es­sar­ily. Such as­so­ci­a­tions are pri­mar­ily ne­ces­si­tated by func­tion; they are not char­ac­ter­ized by sex emo­tion, though they are ex­ceed­ingly per­sonal and truly af­fec­tion­ate.

38:4.4Be­sides des­ig­nated homes, ser­a­phim also have group, com­pany, bat­tal­ion, and unit head­quar­ters. They for­gather for re­unions ev­ery mil­len­nium and are all pres­ent in ac­cor­dance with the time of their cre­ation. If a ser­a­phim bears re­spon­si­bil­i­ties which for­bid ab­sence from duty, she al­ter­nates at­ten­dance with her com­ple­ment, be­ing re­lieved by a ser­a­phim of an­other birth date. Each se­raphic part­ner is thereby pres­ent at least ev­ery other re­union.

• 8th is of 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.

• required 1 million years to complete associated worlds

32:1.5When en­ergy-mat­ter has at­tained a cer­tain stage in mass ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son ap­pears upon the scene, ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ar­rival of the Cre­ator Son, work is be­gun upon the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere which is to be­come the head­quar­ters world of the pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse. For long ages such a lo­cal cre­ation evolves, suns be­come sta­bi­lized, plan­ets form and swing into their or­bits, while the work of cre­at­ing the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds which are to serve as con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and sys­tem cap­i­tals con­tin­ues.

• physical creation took 1 billion years

32:2.3The first com­pleted act of phys­i­cal cre­ation in Neb­a­don con­sisted in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the head­quar­ters world, the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere of Sal­ving­ton, with its satel­lites. From the time of the ini­tial moves of the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers to the ar­rival of the liv­ing staff on the com­pleted spheres of Sal­ving­ton, there in­ter­vened a lit­tle over one bil­lion years of your pres­ent plan­e­tary time. The con­struc­tion of Sal­ving­ton was im­me­di­ately fol­lowed by the cre­ation of the one hun­dred head­quar­ters worlds of the pro­jected con­stel­la­tions and the ten thou­sand head­quar­ters spheres of the pro­jected lo­cal sys­tems of plan­e­tary con­trol and ad­min­is­tra­tion, to­gether with their ar­chi­tec­tural satel­lites. Such ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are de­signed to ac­com­mo­date both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties as well as the in­ter­ven­ing mor­ontia or tran­si­tion stages of be­ing.

• construction began 400 billion years ago
• required 1 million years to complete associated worlds

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.

34:4.11These are the “seven spir­its of God,” “like lamps burn­ing be­fore the throne,” which the prophet saw in the sym­bols of vi­sion. But he did not see the seats of the four and twenty sen­tinels about these seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. This rec­ord rep­re­sents the con­fu­sion of two pre­sen­ta­tions, one per­tain­ing to the uni­verse head­quar­ters and the other to the sys­tem cap­i­tal. The seats of the four and twenty el­ders are on Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

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.

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.

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.

43:2.2Con­stel­la­tions thus func­tion as the leg­isla­tive or law­mak­ing units, while the lo­cal sys­tems serve as the ex­ec­u­tive or en­force­ment units. The Sal­ving­ton gov­ern­ment is the su­preme ju­di­cial and co-or­di­nat­ing au­thor­ity.