Universe Aids

• in personality registers

30:1.4111. Un­re­vealed Uni­verse Aids.

• in personality registers
• orders

30:2.140B. The Uni­verse Aids.

30:2.1411. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

30:2.1422. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

30:2.1433. Arch­an­gels.

30:2.1444. Most High As­sis­tants.

30:2.1455. High Com­mis­sion­ers.

30:2.1466. Ce­les­tial Over­seers.

30:2.1477. Man­sion World Teach­ers.

• carry out missions for Creator Sons

30:2.148On all head­quar­ters worlds of both lo­cal and super­uni­verses, pro­vi­sion is made for these be­ings who are en­gaged in spe­cific mis­sions for the Cre­ator Sons, the lo­cal uni­verse rulers. We wel­come these Uni­verse Aids on Uversa, but we have no ju­ris­dic­tion over them. Such emis­saries pros­e­cute their work and carry on their ob­ser­va­tions un­der au­thor­ity of the Cre­ator Sons. Their ac­tiv­i­ties are more fully de­scribed in the nar­ra­tive of your lo­cal uni­verse.

37:1.1Many of the unique or­ders gen­er­ally grouped in this cat­e­gory are un­re­vealed, but as pre­sented in these pa­pers, the Uni­verse Aids in­clude the fol­low­ing seven or­ders:

37:1.21. Bright and Morn­ing Stars.

37:1.32. Bril­liant Evening Stars.

37:1.43. Arch­an­gels.

37:1.54. Most High As­sis­tants.

37:1.65. High Com­mis­sion­ers.

37:1.76. Ce­les­tial Over­seers.

37:1.87. Man­sion World Teach­ers.

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.

37:1.10Dur­ing the ear­lier times of Neb­a­don, Ga­briel worked quite alone with Mi­chael and the Cre­ative Spirit. As the uni­verse grew and ad­min­is­tra­tive prob­lems mul­ti­plied, he was pro­vided with a per­sonal staff of un­re­vealed as­sis­tants, and even­tu­ally this group was aug­mented by the cre­ation of the Neb­a­don corps of Evening Stars.

37:2.1These bril­liant crea­tures were planned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks and were then brought into be­ing by the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit. They serve in many ca­pac­i­ties but chiefly as li­ai­son of­fi­cers of Ga­briel, the lo­cal uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive. One or more of these be­ings func­tion as his rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the cap­i­tal of ev­ery con­stel­la­tion and sys­tem in Neb­a­don.

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.

37:2.3Though per­son­ally oc­cu­pied with ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties, Ga­briel main­tains con­tact with all other phases of uni­verse life and af­fairs through the Bril­liant Evening Stars. They al­ways ac­com­pany him on his plan­e­tary tours and fre­quently go on spe­cial mis­sions to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets as his per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tives. On such as­sign­ments they have some­times been known as “the an­gel of the Lord.” They fre­quently go to Uversa to rep­re­sent the Bright and Morn­ing Star be­fore the courts and as­sem­blies of the An­cients of Days, but they sel­dom jour­ney be­yond the con­fines of Or­von­ton.

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.

37:2.5Both types of Bril­liant Evening Stars are eas­ily vis­i­ble to mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties and cer­tain types of super­mor­tal ma­te­rial be­ings. The cre­ated be­ings of this in­ter­est­ing and ver­sa­tile or­der pos­sess a spirit force which can be man­i­fested in­de­pen­dently of their per­sonal pres­ence.

37:2.6The head of these super­an­gels is Gavalia, the first-born of this or­der in Neb­a­don. Since the re­turn of Christ Mi­chael from his tri­umphant be­stowal on Uran­tia, Gavalia has been as­signed to the as­cen­dant mor­tal min­istry, and for the last nine­teen hun­dred Uran­tia years his as­so­ciate, Galan­tia, has main­tained head­quar­ters on Je­ru­sem, where he spends about half of his time. Galan­tia is the first of the as­cen­dant super­an­gels to at­tain this high es­tate.

37:2.7No group­ing or com­pany or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Bril­liant Evening Stars ex­ists other than their cus­tom­ary as­so­ci­a­tion in pairs on many as­sign­ments. They are not ex­ten­sively as­signed on mis­sions per­tain­ing to the as­cen­dant ca­reer of mor­tals, but when thus com­mis­sioned, they never func­tion alone. They al­ways work in pairs—one a cre­ated be­ing, the other an as­cen­dant Evening Star.

37:2.8One of the high du­ties of the Evening Stars is to ac­com­pany the Avo­nal be­stowal Sons on their plan­e­tary mis­sions, even as Ga­briel ac­com­pa­nied Mi­chael on his Uran­tia be­stowal. The two at­tend­ing super­an­gels are the rank­ing per­son­al­i­ties of such mis­sions, serv­ing as co­com­man­ders of the arch­an­gels and all oth­ers as­signed to these un­der­tak­ings. It is the se­nior of these super­an­gel com­man­ders who, at the sig­nif­i­cant time and age, bids the Avo­nal be­stowal Son, “Be about your brother’s busi­ness.”

37:2.9Sim­i­lar pairs of these super­an­gels are as­signed to the plan­e­tary corps of Trin­ity Teacher Sons that func­tions to es­tab­lish the postbestowal or dawn­ing spir­i­tual age of an in­hab­ited world. On such as­sign­ments the Evening Stars serve as li­aisons be­tween the mor­tals of the realm and the in­vis­i­ble corps of Teacher Sons.

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.

37:2.11The satel­lites of the first three worlds are de­voted to the schools of the Teacher Sons and the Evening Stars ded­i­cated to the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse. The next three groups are oc­cu­pied by sim­i­lar joint schools de­voted to the train­ing of as­cend­ing mor­tals. The sev­enth-world satel­lites are re­served for the tri­une de­lib­er­a­tions of the Teacher Sons, the Evening Stars, and the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing re­cent times these super­an­gels have been closely iden­ti­fied with the lo­cal uni­verse work of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and they have long been as­so­ci­ated with the Teacher Sons. There ex­ists a li­ai­son of tremen­dous power and im­port be­tween the Evening Stars and the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers at­tached to the fi­nal­i­ter work­ing groups. The sev­enth pri­mary world it­self is re­served for those un­re­vealed mat­ters which per­tain to the fu­ture re­la­tion­ship that will ob­tain be­tween the Teacher Sons, the fi­nal­i­ters, and the Evening Stars con­se­quent upon the com­pleted emer­gence of the super­uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God the Su­preme.

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.

37:3.2Arch­an­gels are one of the few groups of lo­cal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties who are not nor­mally un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of Ga­briel. They are not in any man­ner con­cerned with the rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse, be­ing ded­i­cated to the work of crea­ture sur­vival and to the fur­ther­ance of the as­cend­ing ca­reer of the mor­tals of time and space. While not or­di­nar­ily sub­ject to the di­rec­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star, the arch­an­gels do some­times func­tion by his au­thor­ity. They also col­lab­o­rate with oth­ers of the Uni­verse Aids, such as the Evening Stars, as is il­lus­trated by cer­tain trans­ac­tions de­picted in the nar­ra­tive of life trans­plan­ta­tion on your world.

37:3.3The arch­an­gel corps of Neb­a­don is di­rected by the first-born of this or­der, and in more re­cent times a di­vi­sional head­quar­ters of the arch­an­gels has been main­tained on Uran­tia. It is this un­usual fact that soon ar­rests the at­ten­tion of ex­tra-Neb­a­don stu­dent vis­i­tors. Among their early ob­ser­va­tions of in­trau­ni­verse trans­ac­tions is the dis­cov­ery that many as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars are di­rected from the cap­i­tal of a lo­cal sys­tem, Sa­ta­nia. On fur­ther ex­am­i­na­tion they dis­cover that cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties are di­rected from a small and ap­par­ently in­signif­i­cant in­hab­ited world called Uran­tia. And then en­sues the rev­e­la­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia and their im­me­di­ately quick­ened in­ter­est in you and your lowly sphere.

37:3.4Do you grasp the sig­nif­i­cance of the fact that your lowly and con­fused planet has be­come a di­vi­sional head­quar­ters for the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion and di­rec­tion of cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties hav­ing to do with the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion scheme? This un­doubt­edly presages the fu­ture con­cen­tra­tion of other as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties on the be­stowal world of Mi­chael and lends a tremen­dous and solemn im­port to the Mas­ter’s per­sonal prom­ise, “I will come again.”

37:3.5In gen­eral, the arch­an­gels are as­signed to the ser­vice and min­istry of the Avo­nal or­der of son­ship, but not un­til they have passed through ex­ten­sive pre­lim­i­nary train­ing in all phases of the work of the var­i­ous min­is­ter­ing spir­its. A corps of one hun­dred ac­com­pa­nies ev­ery Par­a­dise be­stowal Son to an in­hab­ited world, be­ing tem­porar­ily as­signed to him for the du­ra­tion of such a be­stowal. If the Mag­is­te­rial Son should be­come tem­po­rary ruler of the planet, these arch­an­gels would act as the di­rect­ing heads of all ce­les­tial life on that sphere.

37:3.6Two se­nior arch­an­gels are al­ways as­signed as the per­sonal aids of a Par­a­dise Avo­nal on all plan­e­tary mis­sions, whether in­volv­ing ju­di­cial ac­tions, mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, or be­stowal in­car­na­tions. When this Par­a­dise Son has fin­ished the judg­ment of a realm and the dead are called to rec­ord (the so-called res­ur­rec­tion), it is lit­er­ally true that the se­raphic guard­i­ans of the slum­ber­ing per­son­al­i­ties re­spond to “the voice of the arch­an­gel.” The roll call of a dis­pen­sa­tion ter­mi­na­tion is pro­mul­gated by an at­ten­dant arch­an­gel. This is the arch­an­gel of the res­ur­rec­tion, some­times re­ferred to as the “arch­an­gel of Mi­chael.”

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.

37:3.8It is on these worlds that per­son­al­ity rec­ords and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion sureties are clas­si­fied, filed, and pre­served dur­ing that time which in­ter­venes be­tween mor­tal death and the hour of reper­son­al­iza­tion, the res­ur­rec­tion from death.

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.

37:4.2From time to time we thus ben­e­fit from the min­istry and as­sis­tance of such Par­a­dise-ori­gin be­ings as Per­fec­tors of Wis­dom, Di­vine Coun­selors, Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors, In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, Trin­i­tized Sons, Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, super­na­phim, se­con­a­phim, ter­tiaphim, and other gra­cious min­is­ters, who so­journ with us for the pur­pose of help­ing our na­tive per­son­al­i­ties in the ef­fort to bring all Neb­a­don into fuller har­mony with the ideas of Or­von­ton and the ide­als of Par­a­dise.

37:4.3Any of these be­ings may be vol­un­tar­ily serv­ing in Neb­a­don and hence be tech­ni­cally out­side our ju­ris­dic­tion, but when func­tion­ing by as­sign­ment, such per­son­al­i­ties of the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses are not wholly ex­empt from the reg­u­la­tions of the lo­cal uni­verse of their so­journ, though they con­tinue to func­tion as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the higher uni­verses and to work in ac­cor­dance with the in­struc­tions which con­sti­tute their mis­sion in our realm. Their gen­eral head­quar­ters is sit­u­ated in the Sal­ving­ton sec­tor of the Union of Days, and they op­er­ate in Neb­a­don sub­ject to the over­super­vi­sion of this am­bas­sador of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. When serv­ing in un­at­tached groups, these per­son­al­i­ties from the higher realms are usu­ally self-di­rect­ing, but when serv­ing on re­quest, they of­ten vol­un­tar­ily place them­selves wholly un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the super­vis­ing di­rec­tors of the realms of as­signed func­tion.

37:4.4Most High As­sis­tants serve in lo­cal uni­verse and in con­stel­la­tion ca­pac­i­ties but are not di­rectly at­tached to the sys­tem or plan­e­tary gov­ern­ments. They may, how­ever, func­tion any­where in the lo­cal uni­verse and may be as­signed to any phase of Neb­a­don ac­tiv­ity—ad­min­is­tra­tive, ex­ec­u­tive, ed­u­ca­tional, and oth­ers.

37:4.5Most of this corps is en­listed in as­sist­ing the Neb­a­don Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties—the Union of Days, the Cre­ator Son, the Faith­fuls of Days, the Mag­is­te­rial Sons, and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. Now and then in the trans­ac­tion of the af­fairs of a lo­cal cre­ation it be­comes wise to with­hold cer­tain de­tails, tem­porar­ily, from the knowl­edge of prac­ti­cally all of the na­tive per­son­al­i­ties of that lo­cal uni­verse. Cer­tain ad­vanced plans and com­plex rul­ings are also bet­ter grasped and more fully un­der­stood by the more ma­ture and farsee­ing corps of Most High As­sis­tants, and it is in such sit­u­a­tions, and many oth­ers, that they are so highly ser­vice­able to the uni­verse rulers and ad­min­is­tra­tors.

37:5.1The High Com­mis­sion­ers are Spirit-fused as­cen­dant mor­tals; they are not Ad­juster fused. You quite well un­der­stand about the uni­verse-as­cen­sion ca­reer of a mor­tal can­di­date for Ad­juster fu­sion, that be­ing the high des­tiny in prospect for all Uran­tia mor­tals since the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael. But this is not the ex­clu­sive des­tiny of all mor­tals in the pre­be­stowal ages of worlds like yours, and there is an­other type of world whose in­hab­i­tants are never per­ma­nently in­dwelt by Thought Ad­justers. Such mor­tals are never per­ma­nently joined in union with a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor of Par­a­dise be­stowal; nev­er­the­less, the Ad­justers do tran­siently in­dwell them, serv­ing as guides and pat­terns for the du­ra­tion of the life in the flesh. Dur­ing this tem­po­rary so­journ they fos­ter the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul just as in those be­ings with whom they hope to fuse, but when the mor­tal race is run, they take eter­nal leave of the crea­tures of tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion.

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.

37:5.3Not be­ing Ad­juster fused, they never be­come fi­nal­i­ters, but they do even­tu­ally be­come en­rolled in the lo­cal uni­verse Corps of Per­fec­tion. They have in spirit obeyed the Fa­ther’s com­mand, “Be you per­fect.”

37:5.4Af­ter at­tain­ing the Neb­a­don Corps of Per­fec­tion, Spirit-fused as­cend­ers may ac­cept as­sign­ment as Uni­verse Aids, this be­ing one of the av­enues of con­tin­u­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth which is open to them. Thus do they be­come can­di­dates for com­mis­sions to the high ser­vice of in­ter­pret­ing the view­points of the evolv­ing crea­tures of the ma­te­rial worlds to the ce­les­tial au­thor­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse.

37:5.5The High Com­mis­sion­ers be­gin their ser­vice on the plan­ets as race com­mis­sion­ers. In this ca­pac­ity they in­ter­pret the view­points and por­tray the needs of the var­i­ous hu­man races. They are su­premely de­voted to the wel­fare of the mor­tal races whose spokes­men they are, ever seek­ing to ob­tain for them mercy, jus­tice, and fair treat­ment in all re­la­tion­ships with other peo­ples. Race com­mis­sion­ers func­tion in an end­less se­ries of plan­e­tary crises and serve as the ar­tic­u­late ex­pres­sion of whole groups of strug­gling mor­tals.

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.

37:5.7We in­vari­ably find these com­mis­sion­ers in all the tri­bu­nals of jus­tice, from the low­est to the high­est. Not that they par­tic­i­pate in the pro­ceed­ings of jus­tice, but they do act as friends of the court, ad­vis­ing the pre­sid­ing mag­is­trates re­spect­ing the an­tecedents, en­vi­ron­ment, and in­her­ent na­ture of those con­cerned in the ad­ju­di­ca­tion.

37:5.8High Com­mis­sion­ers are at­tached to the var­i­ous mes­sen­ger hosts of space and al­ways to the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time. They are en­coun­tered on the pro­grams of var­i­ous uni­verse as­sem­blies, and these same mor­tal-wise com­mis­sion­ers are al­ways at­tached to the mis­sions of the Sons of God to the worlds of space.

37:5.9When­ever fair­ness and jus­tice re­quire an un­der­stand­ing of how a con­tem­plated pol­icy or pro­ce­dure would af­fect the evo­lu­tion­ary races of time, these com­mis­sion­ers are at hand to pre­sent their rec­om­men­da­tions; they are al­ways pres­ent to speak for those who can­not be pres­ent to speak for them­selves.

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.

37:5.11Ex­cept for those few who at­tain Uversa and Par­a­dise, these worlds are the per­ma­nent res­i­dence of the Spirit-fused sur­vivors. Such de­signed lim­i­ta­tion of mor­tal as­cent re­acts to the good of the lo­cal uni­verses by in­sur­ing the re­ten­tion of a per­ma­nent evolved pop­u­la­tion whose aug­ment­ing ex­pe­ri­ence will con­tinue to en­hance the fu­ture sta­bi­liza­tion and di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These be­ings may not at­tain Par­a­dise, but they achieve an ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom in the mas­tery of Neb­a­don prob­lems that ut­terly sur­passes any­thing at­tained by the tran­sient as­cend­ers. And these sur­viv­ing souls con­tinue as unique com­bi­na­tions of the hu­man and the di­vine, be­ing in­creas­ingly able to unite the view­points of these two widely sep­a­rate lev­els and to pre­sent such a dual view­point with ever-height­en­ing wis­dom.

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.

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.

37:6.3The meth­ods em­ployed in many of the higher schools are be­yond the hu­man con­cept of the art of teach­ing truth, but this is the keynote of the whole ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem: char­ac­ter ac­quired by en­light­ened ex­pe­ri­ence. The teach­ers pro­vide the en­light­en­ment; the uni­verse sta­tion and the as­cender’s sta­tus af­ford the op­por­tu­nity for ex­pe­ri­ence; the wise uti­liza­tion of these two aug­ments char­ac­ter.

37:6.4Fun­da­men­tally, the Neb­a­don ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem pro­vides for your as­sign­ment to a task and then af­fords you op­por­tu­nity to re­ceive in­struc­tion as to the ideal and di­vine method of best per­form­ing that task. You are given a def­i­nite task to per­form, and at the same time you are pro­vided with teach­ers who are qual­i­fied to in­struct you in the best method of ex­e­cut­ing your as­sign­ment. The di­vine plan of ed­u­ca­tion pro­vides for the in­ti­mate as­so­ci­a­tion of work and in­struc­tion. We teach you how best to ex­e­cute the things we com­mand you to do.

37:6.5The pur­pose of all this train­ing and ex­pe­ri­ence is to pre­pare you for ad­mis­sion to the higher and more spir­i­tual train­ing spheres of the super­uni­verse. Prog­ress within a given realm is in­di­vid­ual, but tran­si­tion from one phase to an­other is usu­ally by classes.

37:6.6The pro­gres­sion of eter­nity does not con­sist solely in spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. In­tel­lec­tual ac­qui­si­tion is also a part of uni­ver­sal ed­u­ca­tion. The ex­pe­ri­ence of the mind is broad­ened equally with the ex­pan­sion of the spir­i­tual hori­zon. Mind and spirit are af­forded like op­por­tu­ni­ties for train­ing and ad­vance­ment. But in all this su­perb train­ing of mind and spirit you are for­ever free from the hand­i­caps of mor­tal flesh. No longer must you con­stantly ref­eree the con­flict­ing con­tentions of your di­ver­gent spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial na­tures. At last you are qual­i­fied to en­joy the uni­fied urge of a glo­ri­fied mind long since di­vested of prim­i­tive an­i­mal­is­tic trends to­wards things ma­te­rial.

37:6.7Be­fore leav­ing the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, most Uran­tia mor­tals will be af­forded op­por­tu­nity to serve for a longer or shorter time as mem­bers of the Neb­a­don corps of Ce­les­tial Over­seers.

37:7.1The Man­sion World Teach­ers are re­cruited and glo­ri­fied cheru­bim. Like most other in­struc­tors in Neb­a­don they are com­mis­sioned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks. They func­tion in most of the ed­u­ca­tional en­ter­prises of the mor­ontia life, and their num­ber is quite be­yond the com­pre­hen­sion of mor­tal mind.

37:7.2As an at­tain­ment level of cheru­bim and sa­no­bim, the Man­sion World Teach­ers will re­ceive fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tion in the next pa­per, while as teach­ers play­ing an im­por­tant part in the mor­ontia life, they will be more ex­ten­sively dis­cussed in the pa­per of that name.

• residence in Jerusem circles

46:5.253. The cir­cles of the Uni­verse Aids have the head­quar­ters of the Evening Stars sit­u­ated in the enor­mous cen­tral space. Here is lo­cated the sys­tem head­quar­ters of Galan­tia, the as­so­ciate head of this pow­er­ful group of super­an­gels, be­ing the first com­mis­sioned of all the as­cen­dant Evening Stars. This is one of the most mag­nif­i­cent of all the ad­min­is­tra­tive sec­tors of Je­ru­sem, even though it is among the more re­cent con­struc­tions. This cen­ter is fifty miles in di­am­e­ter. The Galan­tia head­quar­ters is a mono­lithic cast crys­tal, wholly trans­par­ent. These ma­te­rial-mor­ontia crys­tals are greatly ap­pre­ci­ated by both mor­ontia and ma­te­rial be­ings. The cre­ated Evening Stars ex­ert their in­flu­ence all over Je­ru­sem, be­ing pos­sessed of such ex­trap­er­son­al­ity at­tri­butes. The en­tire world has been ren­dered spir­i­tu­ally fra­grant since so many of their ac­tiv­i­ties were trans­ferred here from Sal­ving­ton.