sovereignty

• God’s s. unlimited; fundamental fact of all creation

3:6.2The sov­er­eignty of God is un­lim­ited; it is the fun­da­men­tal fact of all cre­ation. The uni­verse was not in­ev­i­ta­ble. The uni­verse is not an ac­ci­dent, nei­ther is it self-ex­is­tent. The uni­verse is a work of cre­ation and is there­fore wholly sub­ject to the will of the Cre­ator. The will of God is di­vine truth, liv­ing love; there­fore are the per­fect­ing cre­ations of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses char­ac­ter­ized by good­ness—near­ness to di­vin­ity; by po­ten­tial evil—re­mote­ness from di­vin­ity.

• control of spiritual gravity by Eternal Son is spiritual s.

7:1.1Ev­ery­thing taught con­cern­ing the im­ma­nence of God, his om­nipres­ence, om­nipo­tence, and om­ni­science, is equally true of the Son in the spir­i­tual do­mains. The pure and uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity of all cre­ation, this ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual cir­cuit, leads di­rectly back to the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter on Par­a­dise. He pre­sides over the con­trol and op­er­a­tion of that ever-pres­ent and unerring spir­i­tual grasp of all true spirit val­ues. Thus does the Eter­nal Son ex­er­cise ab­so­lute spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty. He lit­er­ally holds all spirit re­al­i­ties and all spir­i­tu­al­ized val­ues, as it were, in the hol­low of his hand. The con­trol of uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual grav­ity is uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty.

• because Ancients of Days did not earn right to rule, they will be superseded by Supreme

18:3.8Aside from the De­i­ties and their Par­a­dise as­so­ciates, the An­cients of Days are the most per­fect, most ver­sa­tile, and the most di­vinely en­dowed rulers in all time-space ex­is­tence. Ap­par­ently they are the su­preme rulers of the super­uni­verses; but they have not ex­pe­ri­en­tially earned this right to rule and are there­fore des­tined some­time to be su­per­seded by the Su­preme Be­ing, an ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign, whose vicegerents they will un­doubt­edly be­come.

• local universe s. › Creator Sons earn

18:3.9The Su­preme Be­ing is achiev­ing the sov­er­eignty of the seven super­uni­verses by ex­pe­ri­en­tial ser­vice just as a Cre­ator Son ex­pe­ri­en­tially earns the sov­er­eignty of his lo­cal uni­verse. But dur­ing the pres­ent age of the un­fin­ished evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme, the An­cients of Days pro­vide the co-or­di­nated and per­fect ad­min­is­tra­tive over­con­trol of the evolv­ing uni­verses of time and space. And the wis­dom of orig­i­nal­ity and the ini­tia­tive of in­di­vid­u­al­ity char­ac­ter­ize all the de­crees and rul­ings of the An­cients of Days.

21:3.1A Cre­ator Son is given the range of a uni­verse by the con­sent of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and with the con­fir­ma­tion of the super­vis­ing Mas­ter Spirit of the super­uni­verse con­cerned. Such ac­tion con­sti­tutes ti­tle of phys­i­cal pos­ses­sion, a cos­mic lease­hold. But the el­e­va­tion of a Mi­chael Son from this ini­tial and self-lim­ited stage of ruler­ship to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial su­prem­acy of self-earned sov­er­eignty comes as a re­sult of his own per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences in the work of uni­verse cre­ation and in­car­nated be­stowal. Un­til the achieve­ment of be­stowal-earned sov­er­eignty, he rules as vicegerent of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

21:3.2A Cre­ator Son could as­sert full sov­er­eignty over his per­sonal cre­ation at any time, but he wisely chooses not to. If, prior to pass­ing through the crea­ture be­stowals, he as­sumed an un­earned su­preme sov­er­eignty, the Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent in his lo­cal uni­verse would with­draw. But this has never hap­pened through­out all the cre­ations of time and space.

21:3.3The fact of cre­ator­ship im­plies the full­ness of sov­er­eignty, but the Mi­cha­els choose to ex­pe­ri­en­tially earn it, thereby re­tain­ing the full co-op­er­a­tion of all Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties at­tached to the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. We know of no Mi­chael who ever did oth­er­wise; but they all could, they are truly free­will Sons.

21:3.4The sov­er­eignty of a Cre­ator Son in a lo­cal uni­verse passes through six, per­haps seven, stages of ex­pe­ri­en­tial man­i­fes­ta­tion. These ap­pear in the fol­low­ing or­der:

21:3.51. Ini­tial vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the soli­tary pro­vi­sional au­thor­ity ex­er­cised by a Cre­ator Son be­fore the ac­quire­ment of per­sonal qual­i­ties by the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ative Spirit.

21:3.62. Con­joint vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the joint rule of the Par­a­dise pair sub­se­quent to the per­son­al­ity achieve­ment of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit.

21:3.73. Aug­ment­ing vicegerent sov­er­eignty—the ad­vanc­ing au­thor­ity of a Cre­ator Son dur­ing the pe­riod of his seven crea­ture be­stowals.

21:3.84. Su­preme sov­er­eignty—the set­tled au­thor­ity fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the sev­enth be­stowal. In Neb­a­don, su­preme sov­er­eignty dates from the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. It has ex­isted just slightly over nine­teen hun­dred years of your plan­e­tary time.

21:3.95. Aug­ment­ing su­preme sov­er­eignty—the ad­vanced re­la­tion­ship grow­ing out of the set­tling of a ma­jor­ity of the crea­ture do­mains in light and life. This stage per­tains to the un­achieved fu­ture of your lo­cal uni­verse.

21:3.106. Trini­tar­ian sov­er­eignty—ex­er­cised sub­se­quent to the set­tling of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life.

21:3.117. Un­re­vealed sov­er­eignty—the un­known re­la­tion­ships of a fu­ture uni­verse age.

21:3.12In ac­cept­ing the ini­tial vicegerent sov­er­eignty of a pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse, a Cre­ator Mi­chael takes an oath to the Trin­ity not to as­sume su­preme sov­er­eignty un­til the seven crea­ture be­stowals have been com­pleted and cer­ti­fied by the super­uni­verse rulers. But if a Mi­chael Son could not, at will, as­sert such un­earned sov­er­eignty, there would be no mean­ing in tak­ing an oath not to do so.

21:3.13Even in the pre­be­stowal ages a Cre­ator Son rules his do­main well-nigh su­premely when there is no dis­sent in any of its parts. Lim­ited ruler­ship would hardly be man­i­fest if sov­er­eignty were never chal­lenged. The sov­er­eignty ex­er­cised by a pre­be­stowal Cre­ator Son in a uni­verse with­out re­bel­lion is no greater than in a uni­verse with re­bel­lion; but in the first in­stance sov­er­eignty lim­i­ta­tions are not ap­par­ent; in the sec­ond, they are.

21:3.14If ever the au­thor­ity or ad­min­is­tra­tion of a Cre­ator Son is chal­lenged, at­tacked, or jeop­ar­dized, he is eter­nally pledged to up­hold, pro­tect, de­fend, and if nec­es­sary re­trieve his per­sonal cre­ation. Such Sons can be trou­bled or ha­rassed only by the crea­tures of their own mak­ing or by higher be­ings of their own choos­ing. It might be in­ferred that “higher be­ings,” those of ori­gin on lev­els above a lo­cal uni­verse, would be un­likely to trou­ble a Cre­ator Son, and this is true. But they could if they chose to. Virtue is vo­li­tional with per­son­al­ity; righ­teous­ness is not au­to­matic in free­will crea­tures.

21:3.15Be­fore the com­ple­tion of the be­stowal ca­reer a Cre­ator Son rules with cer­tain self-im­posed lim­i­ta­tions of sov­er­eignty, but sub­se­quent to his fin­ished be­stowal ser­vice he rules by virtue of his ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the form and like­ness of his man­i­fold crea­tures. When a Cre­ator has seven times so­journed among his crea­tures, when the be­stowal ca­reer is fin­ished, then is he su­premely set­tled in uni­verse au­thor­ity; he has be­come a Mas­ter Son, a sov­er­eign and su­preme ruler.

21:3.16The tech­nique of ob­tain­ing su­preme sov­er­eignty over a lo­cal uni­verse in­volves the fol­low­ing seven ex­pe­ri­en­tial steps:

21:3.171. Ex­pe­ri­en­tially to pen­e­trate seven crea­ture lev­els of be­ing through the tech­nique of in­car­nated be­stowal in the very like­ness of the crea­tures on the level con­cerned.

21:3.182. To make an ex­pe­ri­en­tial con­se­cra­tion to each phase of the sev­en­fold will of Par­a­dise De­ity as it is per­son­i­fied in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its.

21:3.193. To tra­verse each of the seven ex­pe­ri­ences on the crea­ture lev­els si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ex­e­cu­tion of one of the seven con­se­cra­tions to the will of Par­a­dise De­ity.

21:3.204. On each crea­ture level, ex­pe­ri­en­tially to por­tray the acme of crea­ture life to Par­a­dise De­ity and to all uni­verse in­tel­li­gences.

21:3.215. On each crea­ture level, ex­pe­ri­en­tially to re­veal one phase of the sev­en­fold will of De­ity to the be­stowal level and to all the uni­verse.

21:3.226. Ex­pe­ri­en­tially to unify the sev­en­fold crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence with the sev­en­fold ex­pe­ri­ence of con­se­cra­tion to the rev­e­la­tion of the na­ture and will of De­ity.

21:3.237. To achieve new and higher re­la­tion­ship with the Su­preme Be­ing. The reper­cus­sion of the to­tal­ity of this Cre­ator-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence aug­ments the super­uni­verse re­al­ity of God the Su­preme and the time-space sov­er­eignty of the Al­mighty Su­preme and fac­tu­al­izes the su­preme lo­cal uni­verse sov­er­eignty of a Par­a­dise Mi­chael.

21:3.24In set­tling the ques­tion of sov­er­eignty in a lo­cal uni­verse, the Cre­ator Son is not only demon­strat­ing his own fit­ness to rule but is also re­veal­ing the na­ture and por­tray­ing the sev­en­fold at­ti­tude of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties. The fi­nite un­der­stand­ing and crea­ture ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the Fa­ther’s pri­macy is con­cerned in the ad­ven­ture of a Cre­ator Son when he con­de­scends to take upon him­self the form and ex­pe­ri­ences of his crea­tures. These pri­mary Par­a­dise Sons are the real re­veal­ers of the Fa­ther’s lov­ing na­ture and benef­i­cent au­thor­ity, the same Fa­ther who, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Son and the Spirit, is the uni­ver­sal head of all power, per­son­al­ity, and gov­ern­ment through­out all the uni­ver­sal realms.

• local universe s. › Jesus achieved completion of

21:4.5It is of rec­ord that the di­vine Son of last ap­pear­ance on your planet was a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son who had com­pleted six phases of his be­stowal ca­reer; con­se­quently, when he gave up the con­scious grasp of the in­car­nated life on Uran­tia, he could, and did, truly say, “It is fin­ished”—it was lit­er­ally fin­ished. His death on Uran­tia com­pleted his be­stowal ca­reer; it was the last step in ful­fill­ing the sa­cred oath of a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son. And when this ex­pe­ri­ence has been ac­quired, such Sons are su­preme uni­verse sov­er­eigns; no longer do they rule as vicegerents of the Fa­ther but in their own right and name as “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” With cer­tain stated ex­cep­tions these sev­en­fold be­stowal Sons are un­qual­i­fiedly su­preme in the uni­verses of their abode. Con­cern­ing his lo­cal uni­verse, “all power in heaven and on earth” was rel­e­gated to this tri­umphant and en­throned Mas­ter Son.

• political sovereignty › characteristic of true state

71:1.23The em­bry­onic state was made pos­si­ble by the de­cline of the blood bond in fa­vor of the ter­ri­to­rial, and such tribal fed­er­a­tions were usu­ally firmly ce­mented by con­quest. While a sov­er­eignty that tran­scends all mi­nor strug­gles and group dif­fer­ences is the char­ac­ter­is­tic of the true state, still, many classes and castes per­sist in the later state or­ga­ni­za­tions as rem­nants of the clans and tribes of for­mer days. The later and larger ter­ri­to­rial states had a long and bit­ter strug­gle with these smaller con­san­guineous clan groups, the tribal gov­ern­ment prov­ing a valu­able tran­si­tion from fam­ily to state au­thor­ity. Dur­ing later times many clans grew out of trades and other in­dus­trial as­so­ci­a­tions.

• local universe s. › Creator Sons earn

120:0.1As­signed by Ga­briel to super­vise the re­state­ment of the life of Mi­chael when on Uran­tia and in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, I, the Mel­chiz­e­dek di­rec­tor of the rev­e­la­tory com­mis­sion in­trusted with this task, am au­tho­rized to pre­sent this nar­ra­tive of cer­tain events which im­me­di­ately pre­ceded the Cre­ator Son’s ar­rival on Uran­tia to em­bark upon the ter­mi­nal phase of his uni­verse be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence. To live such iden­ti­cal lives as he im­poses upon the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of his own cre­ation, thus to be­stow him­self in the like­ness of his var­i­ous or­ders of cre­ated be­ings, is a part of the price which ev­ery Cre­ator Son must pay for the full and su­preme sov­er­eignty of his self-made uni­verse of things and be­ings.

• local universe s. › Creator Sons earn

120:0.4Mi­chael, there­fore, had a dou­ble pur­pose in the mak­ing of these seven be­stowals upon the var­i­ous or­ders of his uni­verse crea­tures: First, he was com­plet­ing the re­quired ex­pe­ri­ence in crea­ture un­der­stand­ing which is de­manded of all Cre­ator Sons be­fore they as­sume com­plete sov­er­eignty. At any time a Cre­ator Son may rule his uni­verse in his own right, but he can rule as the su­preme rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity only af­ter pass­ing through the seven uni­verse-crea­ture be­stowals. Sec­ond, he was as­pir­ing to the priv­i­lege of rep­re­sent­ing the max­i­mum au­thor­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity which can be ex­er­cised in the di­rect and per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse. Ac­cord­ingly, did Mi­chael, dur­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of each of his uni­verse be­stowals, suc­cess­fully and ac­cept­ably vol­un­tar­ily sub­or­di­nate him­self to the var­i­ously con­sti­tuted wills of the di­verse as­so­ci­a­tions of the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. That is, on the first be­stowal he was sub­ject to the com­bined will of the Fa­ther, Son, and Spirit; on the sec­ond be­stowal to the will of the Fa­ther and the Son; on the third be­stowal to the will of the Fa­ther and the Spirit; on the fourth be­stowal to the will of the Son and the Spirit; on the fifth be­stowal to the will of the In­fi­nite Spirit; on the sixth be­stowal to the will of the Eter­nal Son; and dur­ing the sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal, on Uran­tia, to the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

134:4.1The broth­er­hood of men is founded on the fa­ther­hood of God. The fam­ily of God is de­rived from the love of God—God is love. God the Fa­ther di­vinely loves his chil­dren, all of them.

134:4.2The king­dom of heaven, the di­vine gov­ern­ment, is founded on the fact of di­vine sov­er­eignty—God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this king­dom is spir­i­tual. The king­dom of heaven is nei­ther ma­te­rial nor merely in­tel­lec­tual; it is a spir­i­tual re­la­tion­ship be­tween God and man.

134:4.3If dif­fer­ent re­li­gions rec­og­nize the spirit sov­er­eignty of God the Fa­ther, then will all such re­li­gions re­main at peace. Only when one re­li­gion as­sumes that it is in some way su­pe­rior to all oth­ers, and that it pos­sesses ex­clu­sive au­thor­ity over other re­li­gions, will such a re­li­gion pre­sume to be in­tol­er­ant of other re­li­gions or dare to per­se­cute other re­li­gious be­liev­ers.

134:4.4Re­li­gious peace—broth­er­hood—can never ex­ist un­less all re­li­gions are will­ing to com­pletely di­vest them­selves of all ec­cle­si­as­ti­cal au­thor­ity and fully sur­ren­der all con­cept of spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty. God alone is spirit sov­er­eign.

134:4.5You can­not have equal­ity among re­li­gions (re­li­gious lib­erty) with­out hav­ing re­li­gious wars un­less all re­li­gions con­sent to the trans­fer of all re­li­gious sov­er­eignty to some super­hu­man level, to God him­self.

134:4.6The king­dom of heaven in the hearts of men will cre­ate re­li­gious unity (not nec­es­sar­ily uni­for­mity) be­cause any and all re­li­gious groups com­posed of such re­li­gious be­liev­ers will be free from all no­tions of ec­cle­si­as­ti­cal au­thor­ity—re­li­gious sov­er­eignty.

134:4.7God is spirit, and God gives a frag­ment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spir­i­tu­ally, all men are equal. The king­dom of heaven is free from castes, classes, so­cial lev­els, and eco­nomic groups. You are all breth­ren.

134:4.8But the mo­ment you lose sight of the spirit sov­er­eignty of God the Fa­ther, some one re­li­gion will be­gin to as­sert its su­pe­ri­or­ity over other re­li­gions; and then, in­stead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dis­sen­sions, re­crim­i­na­tions, even re­li­gious wars, at least wars among re­li­gion­ists.

134:4.9Free­will be­ings who re­gard them­selves as equals, un­less they mu­tu­ally ac­knowl­edge them­selves as sub­ject to some super­sov­er­eignty, some au­thor­ity over and above them­selves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their abil­ity to gain power and au­thor­ity over other per­sons and groups. The con­cept of equal­ity never brings peace ex­cept in the mu­tual rec­og­ni­tion of some over­con­trol­ling in­flu­ence of super­sov­er­eignty.

134:4.10The Ur­mia re­li­gion­ists lived to­gether in com­par­a­tive peace and tran­quil­lity be­cause they had fully sur­ren­dered all their no­tions of re­li­gious sov­er­eignty. Spir­i­tu­ally, they all be­lieved in a sov­er­eign God; so­cially, full and un­chal­lenge­able au­thor­ity rested in their pre­sid­ing head—Cym­boy­ton. They well knew what would hap­pen to any teacher who as­sumed to lord it over his fel­low teach­ers. There can be no last­ing re­li­gious peace on Uran­tia un­til all re­li­gious groups freely sur­ren­der all their no­tions of di­vine fa­vor, cho­sen peo­ple, and re­li­gious sov­er­eignty. Only when God the Fa­ther be­comes su­preme will men be­come re­li­gious broth­ers and live to­gether in re­li­gious peace on earth.

134:5.1[While the Mas­ter’s teach­ing con­cern­ing the sov­er­eignty of God is a truth—only com­pli­cated by the sub­se­quent ap­pear­ance of the re­li­gion about him among the world’s re­li­gions—his pre­sen­ta­tions con­cern­ing po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty are vastly com­pli­cated by the po­lit­i­cal evo­lu­tion of na­tion life dur­ing the last nine­teen hun­dred years and more. In the times of Je­sus there were only two great world pow­ers—the Ro­man Em­pire in the West and the Han Em­pire in the East—and these were widely sep­a­rated by the Parthian king­dom and other in­ter­ven­ing lands of the Caspian and Tur­kes­tan re­gions. We have, there­fore, in the fol­low­ing pre­sen­ta­tion de­parted more widely from the sub­stance of the Mas­ter’s teach­ings at Ur­mia con­cern­ing po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty, at the same time at­tempt­ing to de­pict the im­port of such teach­ings as they are ap­pli­ca­ble to the pe­cu­liarly crit­i­cal stage of the evo­lu­tion of po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty in the twen­ti­eth cen­tury af­ter Christ.]

• political sovereignty › delusional virus of national s.

134:5.2War on Uran­tia will never end so long as na­tions cling to the il­lu­sive no­tions of un­lim­ited na­tional sov­er­eignty. There are only two lev­els of rel­a­tive sov­er­eignty on an in­hab­ited world: the spir­i­tual free will of the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal and the col­lec­tive sov­er­eignty of man­kind as a whole. Be­tween the level of the in­di­vid­ual hu­man be­ing and the level of the to­tal of man­kind, all group­ings and as­so­ci­a­tions are rel­a­tive, tran­si­tory, and of value only in so far as they en­hance the wel­fare, well-be­ing, and prog­ress of the in­di­vid­ual and the plan­e­tary grand to­tal—man and man­kind.

134:5.3Re­li­gious teach­ers must al­ways re­mem­ber that the spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty of God over­rides all in­ter­ven­ing and in­ter­me­di­ate spir­i­tual loy­al­ties. Some­day civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the king­doms of men.

134:5.4This rule of the Most Highs in the king­doms of men is not for the es­pe­cial ben­e­fit of any es­pe­cially fa­vored group of mor­tals. There is no such thing as a “cho­sen peo­ple.” The rule of the Most Highs, the over­con­trollers of po­lit­i­cal evo­lu­tion, is a rule de­signed to fos­ter the great­est good to the great­est num­ber of all men and for the great­est length of time.

• political sovereignty › is power, grows by organization

134:5.5Sov­er­eignty is power and it grows by or­ga­ni­za­tion. This growth of the or­ga­ni­za­tion of po­lit­i­cal power is good and proper, for it tends to en­com­pass ever-widen­ing seg­ments of the to­tal of man­kind. But this same growth of po­lit­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions cre­ates a prob­lem at ev­ery in­ter­ven­ing stage be­tween the ini­tial and nat­u­ral or­ga­ni­za­tion of po­lit­i­cal power—the fam­ily—and the fi­nal con­sum­ma­tion of po­lit­i­cal growth—the gov­ern­ment of all man­kind, by all man­kind, and for all man­kind.

134:5.6Start­ing out with pa­ren­tal power in the fam­ily group, po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty evolves by or­ga­ni­za­tion as fam­i­lies over­lap into con­san­guineous clans which be­come united, for var­i­ous rea­sons, into tribal units—super­con­san­guineous po­lit­i­cal group­ings. And then, by trade, com­merce, and con­quest, tribes be­come uni­fied as a na­tion, while na­tions them­selves some­times be­come uni­fied by em­pire.

134:5.7As sov­er­eignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are less­ened. That is, mi­nor wars be­tween smaller na­tions are less­ened, but the po­ten­tial for greater wars is in­creased as the na­tions wield­ing sov­er­eignty be­come larger and larger. Pres­ently, when all the world has been ex­plored and oc­cu­pied, when na­tions are few, strong, and pow­er­ful, when these great and sup­pos­edly sov­er­eign na­tions come to touch bor­ders, when only oceans sep­a­rate them, then will the stage be set for ma­jor wars, world-wide con­flicts. So-called sov­er­eign na­tions can­not rub el­bows with­out gen­er­at­ing con­flicts and even­tu­at­ing wars.

134:5.8The dif­fi­culty in the evo­lu­tion of po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty from the fam­ily to all man­kind, lies in the in­er­tia-re­sis­tance ex­hib­ited on all in­ter­ven­ing lev­els. Fam­i­lies have, on oc­ca­sion, de­fied their clan, while clans and tribes have of­ten been sub­ver­sive of the sov­er­eignty of the ter­ri­to­rial state. Each new and for­ward evo­lu­tion of po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty is (and has al­ways been) em­bar­rassed and ham­pered by the “scaf­fold­ing stages” of the pre­vi­ous de­vel­op­ments in po­lit­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion. And this is true be­cause hu­man loy­al­ties, once mo­bi­lized, are hard to change. The same loy­alty which makes pos­si­ble the evo­lu­tion of the tribe, makes dif­fi­cult the evo­lu­tion of the super­tribe—the ter­ri­to­rial state. And the same loy­alty (pa­tri­o­tism) which makes pos­si­ble the evo­lu­tion of the ter­ri­to­rial state, vastly com­pli­cates the evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment of the gov­ern­ment of all man­kind.

• political sovereignty › created out of surrender of self-determinism

134:5.9Po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty is cre­ated out of the sur­ren­der of self-de­ter­min­ism, first by the in­di­vid­ual within the fam­ily and then by the fam­i­lies and clans in re­la­tion to the tribe and larger group­ings. This pro­gres­sive trans­fer of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion from the smaller to ever larger po­lit­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions has gen­er­ally pro­ceeded un­abated in the East since the es­tab­lish­ment of the Ming and the Mogul dy­nas­ties. In the West it ob­tained for more than a thou­sand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an un­for­tu­nate ret­ro­grade move­ment tem­porar­ily re­versed this nor­mal trend by re-es­tab­lish­ing the sub­merged po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty of nu­mer­ous small groups in Eu­rope.

134:5.10Uran­tia will not en­joy last­ing peace un­til the so-called sov­er­eign na­tions in­tel­li­gently and fully sur­ren­der their sov­er­eign pow­ers into the hands of the broth­er­hood of men—man­kind gov­ern­ment. In­ter­na­tion­al­ism—Leagues of Na­tions—can never bring per­ma­nent peace to man­kind. World-wide con­fed­er­a­tions of na­tions will ef­fec­tively pre­vent mi­nor wars and ac­cept­ably con­trol the smaller na­tions, but they will not pre­vent world wars nor con­trol the three, four, or five most pow­er­ful gov­ern­ments. In the face of real con­flicts, one of these world pow­ers will with­draw from the League and de­clare war. You can­not pre­vent na­tions go­ing to war as long as they re­main in­fected with the delu­sional virus of na­tional sov­er­eignty. In­ter­na­tion­al­ism is a step in the right di­rec­tion. An in­ter­na­tional po­lice force will pre­vent many mi­nor wars, but it will not be ef­fec­tive in pre­vent­ing ma­jor wars, con­flicts be­tween the great mil­i­tary gov­ern­ments of earth.

134:5.11As the num­ber of truly sov­er­eign na­tions (great pow­ers) de­creases, so do both op­por­tu­nity and need for man­kind gov­ern­ment in­crease. When there are only a few re­ally sov­er­eign (great) pow­ers, ei­ther they must em­bark on the life and death strug­gle for na­tional (im­pe­rial) su­prem­acy, or else, by vol­un­tary sur­ren­der of cer­tain pre­rog­a­tives of sov­er­eignty, they must cre­ate the es­sen­tial nu­cleus of super­na­tional power which will serve as the be­gin­ning of the real sov­er­eignty of all man­kind.

134:5.12Peace will not come to Uran­tia un­til ev­ery so-called sov­er­eign na­tion sur­ren­ders its power to make war into the hands of a rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment of all man­kind. Po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty is in­nate with the peo­ples of the world. When all the peo­ples of Uran­tia cre­ate a world gov­ern­ment, they have the right and the power to make such a gov­ern­ment SOV­ER­EIGN; and when such a rep­re­sen­ta­tive or demo­cratic world power con­trols the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can pre­vail—but not un­til then.

134:5.13To use an im­por­tant nine­teenth- and twen­ti­eth-cen­tury il­lus­tra­tion: The forty-eight states of the Amer­i­can Fed­eral Union have long en­joyed peace. They have no more wars among them­selves. They have sur­ren­dered their sov­er­eignty to the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, and through the ar­bitra­ment of war, they have aban­doned all claims to the delu­sions of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion. While each state reg­u­lates its in­ter­nal af­fairs, it is not con­cerned with for­eign re­la­tions, tar­iffs, im­mi­gra­tion, mil­i­tary af­fairs, or in­ter­state com­merce. Nei­ther do the in­di­vid­ual states con­cern them­selves with mat­ters of cit­i­zen­ship. The forty-eight states suf­fer the rav­ages of war only when the fed­eral gov­ern­ment’s sov­er­eignty is in some way jeop­ar­dized.

134:5.14These forty-eight states, hav­ing aban­doned the twin soph­ist­ries of sov­er­eignty and self-de­ter­mi­na­tion, en­joy in­ter­state peace and tran­quil­lity. So will the na­tions of Uran­tia be­gin to en­joy peace when they freely sur­ren­der their re­spec­tive sovereign­ties into the hands of a global gov­ern­ment—the sov­er­eignty of the broth­er­hood of men. In this world state the small na­tions will be as pow­er­ful as the great, even as the small state of Rhode Is­land has its two sen­a­tors in the Amer­i­can Congress just the same as the pop­u­lous state of New York or the large state of Texas.

134:5.15The lim­ited (state) sov­er­eignty of these forty-eight states was cre­ated by men and for men. The super­state (na­tional) sov­er­eignty of the Amer­i­can Fed­eral Union was cre­ated by the orig­i­nal thir­teen of these states for their own ben­e­fit and for the ben­e­fit of men. Some­time the super­na­tional sov­er­eignty of the plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment of man­kind will be sim­i­larly cre­ated by na­tions for their own ben­e­fit and for the ben­e­fit of all men.

134:5.16Cit­i­zens are not born for the ben­e­fit of gov­ern­ments; gov­ern­ments are or­ga­ni­za­tions cre­ated and de­vised for the ben­e­fit of men. There can be no end to the evo­lu­tion of po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty short of the ap­pear­ance of the gov­ern­ment of the sov­er­eignty of all men. All other sovereign­ties are rel­a­tive in value, in­ter­me­di­ate in mean­ing, and sub­or­di­nate in sta­tus.

134:5.17With sci­en­tific prog­ress, wars are go­ing to be­come more and more dev­as­tat­ing un­til they be­come al­most racially sui­ci­dal. How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of na­tions must fail be­fore men will be will­ing to es­tab­lish the gov­ern­ment of man­kind and be­gin to en­joy the bless­ings of per­ma­nent peace and thrive on the tran­quil­lity of good will—world-wide good will—among men?

134:6.1If one man craves free­dom—lib­erty—he must re­mem­ber that all other men long for the same free­dom. Groups of such lib­erty-lov­ing mor­tals can­not live to­gether in peace with­out be­com­ing sub­servient to such laws, rules, and reg­u­la­tions as will grant each per­son the same de­gree of free­dom while at the same time safe­guard­ing an equal de­gree of free­dom for all of his fel­low mor­tals. If one man is to be ab­so­lutely free, then an­other must be­come an ab­so­lute slave. And the rel­a­tive na­ture of free­dom is true so­cially, eco­nom­i­cally, and po­lit­i­cally. Free­dom is the gift of civ­i­liza­tion made pos­si­ble by the en­force­ment of LAW.

134:6.2Re­li­gion makes it spir­i­tu­ally pos­si­ble to re­al­ize the broth­er­hood of men, but it will re­quire man­kind gov­ern­ment to reg­u­late the so­cial, eco­nomic, and po­lit­i­cal prob­lems as­so­ci­ated with such a goal of hu­man hap­pi­ness and ef­fi­ciency.

134:6.3There shall be wars and ru­mors of wars—na­tion will rise against na­tion—just as long as the world’s po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty is di­vided up and un­justly held by a group of na­tion-states. Eng­land, Scot­land, and Wales were al­ways fight­ing each other un­til they gave up their re­spec­tive sovereign­ties, repos­ing them in the United King­dom.

134:6.4An­other world war will teach the so-called sov­er­eign na­tions to form some sort of fed­er­a­tion, thus cre­at­ing the ma­chin­ery for pre­vent­ing small wars, wars be­tween the lesser na­tions. But global wars will go on un­til the gov­ern­ment of man­kind is cre­ated. Global sov­er­eignty will pre­vent global wars—noth­ing else can.

134:6.5The forty-eight Amer­i­can free states live to­gether in peace. There are among the cit­i­zens of these forty-eight states all of the var­i­ous na­tion­al­i­ties and races that live in the ever-war­ring na­tions of Eu­rope. These Amer­i­cans rep­re­sent al­most all the re­li­gions and re­li­gious sects and cults of the whole wide world, and yet here in North Amer­ica they live to­gether in peace. And all this is made pos­si­ble be­cause these forty-eight states have sur­ren­dered their sov­er­eignty and have aban­doned all no­tions of the sup­posed rights of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

• political sovereignty › delusional virus of national s.

134:6.6It is not a ques­tion of ar­ma­ments or dis­ar­ma­ment. Nei­ther does the ques­tion of con­scrip­tion or vol­un­tary mil­i­tary ser­vice en­ter into these prob­lems of main­tain­ing world-wide peace. If you take ev­ery form of mod­ern me­chan­i­cal ar­ma­ments and all types of ex­plo­sives away from strong na­tions, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs as long as they cling to their delu­sions of the di­vine right of na­tional sov­er­eignty.

134:6.7War is not man’s great and ter­ri­ble dis­ease; war is a symp­tom, a re­sult. The real dis­ease is the virus of na­tional sov­er­eignty.

134:6.8Uran­tia na­tions have not pos­sessed real sov­er­eignty; they never have had a sov­er­eignty which could pro­tect them from the rav­ages and dev­as­ta­tions of world wars. In the cre­ation of the global gov­ern­ment of man­kind, the na­tions are not giv­ing up sov­er­eignty so much as they are ac­tu­ally cre­at­ing a real, bona fide, and last­ing world sov­er­eignty which will hence­forth be fully able to pro­tect them from all war. Lo­cal af­fairs will be han­dled by lo­cal gov­ern­ments; na­tional af­fairs, by na­tional gov­ern­ments; in­ter­na­tional af­fairs will be ad­min­is­tered by global gov­ern­ment.

134:6.9World peace can­not be main­tained by treaties, diplo­macy, for­eign poli­cies, al­liances, bal­ances of power, or any other type of make­shift jug­gling with the sovereign­ties of na­tion­al­ism. World law must come into be­ing and must be en­forced by world gov­ern­ment—the sov­er­eignty of all man­kind.

134:6.10The in­di­vid­ual will en­joy far more lib­erty un­der world gov­ern­ment. To­day, the cit­i­zens of the great pow­ers are taxed, reg­u­lated, and con­trolled al­most op­pres­sively, and much of this pres­ent in­ter­fer­ence with in­di­vid­ual lib­er­ties will van­ish when the na­tional gov­ern­ments are will­ing to trus­tee their sov­er­eignty as re­gards in­ter­na­tional af­fairs into the hands of global gov­ern­ment.

134:6.11Un­der global gov­ern­ment the na­tional groups will be af­forded a real op­por­tu­nity to re­al­ize and en­joy the per­sonal lib­er­ties of gen­uine democ­racy. The fal­lacy of self-de­ter­mi­na­tion will be ended. With global reg­u­la­tion of money and trade will come the new era of world-wide peace. Soon may a global lan­guage evolve, and there will be at least some hope of some­time hav­ing a global re­li­gion—or re­li­gions with a global view­point.

134:6.12Col­lec­tive se­cu­rity will never af­ford peace un­til the col­lec­tiv­ity in­cludes all man­kind.

134:6.13The po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty of rep­re­sen­ta­tive man­kind gov­ern­ment will bring last­ing peace on earth, and the spir­i­tual broth­er­hood of man will for­ever in­sure good will among all men. And there is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be re­al­ized.

134:6.14Af­ter the death of Cym­boy­ton, his sons en­coun­tered great dif­fi­cul­ties in main­tain­ing a peace­ful fac­ulty. The reper­cus­sions of Je­sus’ teach­ings would have been much greater if the later Chris­tian teach­ers who joined the Ur­mia fac­ulty had ex­hib­ited more wis­dom and ex­er­cised more tol­er­ance.

134:6.15Cym­boy­ton’s el­dest son had ap­pealed to Ab­ner at Phil­a­del­phia for help, but Ab­ner’s choice of teach­ers was most un­for­tu­nate in that they turned out to be un­yield­ing and un­com­pro­mis­ing. These teach­ers sought to make their re­li­gion dom­i­nant over the other be­liefs. They never sus­pected that the oft-re­ferred-to lec­tures of the car­a­van con­duc­tor had been de­liv­ered by Je­sus him­self.

134:6.16As con­fu­sion in­creased in the fac­ulty, the three broth­ers with­drew their fi­nan­cial sup­port, and af­ter five years the school closed. Later it was re­opened as a Mith­raic tem­ple and even­tu­ally burned down in con­nec­tion with one of their or­gias­tic cel­e­bra­tions.

• local universe s. › Jesus achieved completion of

136:3.4While wan­der­ing about in the hills, seek­ing a suit­able shel­ter, Je­sus en­coun­tered his uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive, Ga­briel, the Bright and Morn­ing Star of Neb­a­don. Ga­briel now re-es­tab­lished per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Cre­ator Son of the uni­verse; they met di­rectly for the first time since Mi­chael took leave of his as­so­ciates on Sal­ving­ton when he went to Eden­tia prepara­tory to en­ter­ing upon the Uran­tia be­stowal. Ga­briel, by di­rec­tion of Im­manuel and on au­thor­ity of the Uversa An­cients of Days, now laid be­fore Je­sus in­for­ma­tion in­di­cat­ing that his be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence on Uran­tia was prac­ti­cally fin­ished so far as con­cerned the earn­ing of the per­fected sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse and the ter­mi­na­tion of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. The for­mer was achieved on the day of his bap­tism when the per­son­al­iza­tion of his Ad­juster demon­strated the per­fec­tion and com­ple­tion of his be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and the lat­ter was a fact of his­tory on that day when he came down from Mount Her­mon to join the wait­ing lad, Tiglath. Je­sus was now in­formed, upon the high­est au­thor­ity of the lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse, that his be­stowal work was fin­ished in so far as it af­fected his per­sonal sta­tus in re­la­tion to sov­er­eignty and re­bel­lion. He had al­ready had this as­sur­ance di­rect from Par­a­dise in the bap­tismal vi­sion and in the phe­nom­e­non of the per­son­al­iza­tion of his in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster.

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.”