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Paper 35 - The Local Universe Sons of God Printer-friendly versionSend by email The Urantia Book The Local Universe Sons of God 35:0.1 (384.1) THE Sons of God previously introduced have had a Paradise origin. They are the offspring of the divine Rulers of the universal domains. Of the first Paradise order of sonship, the Creator Sons, there is in Nebadon only one, Michael, the universe father and sovereign. Of the second order of Paradise sonship, the Avonal or Magisterial Sons, Nebadon has its full quota—1,062. And these “lesser Christs” are just as effective and all-powerful in their planetary bestowals as was the Creator and Master Son on Urantia. The third order, being of Trinity origin, do not register in a local universe, but I estimate there are in Nebadon between fifteen and twenty thousand Trinity Teacher Sons exclusive of 9,642 creature-trinitized assistants of record. These Paradise Daynals are neither magistrates nor administrators; they are superteachers. 35:0.2 (384.2) The types of Sons about to be considered are of local universe origin; they are the offspring of a Paradise Creator Son in varied association with the complemental Universe Mother Spirit. The following orders of local universe sonship find mention in these narratives: Melchizedek Sons. Vorondadek Sons. Lanonandek Sons. 35:0.7 (384.7) Triune Paradise Deity functions for the creation of three orders of sonship: the Michaels, the Avonals, and the Daynals. Dual Deity in the local universe, the Son and the Spirit, also functions in the creation of three high orders of Sons: the Melchizedeks, the Vorondadeks, and the Lanonandeks; and having achieved this threefold expression, they collaborate with the next level of God the Sevenfold in the production of the versatile order of Life Carriers. These beings are classified with the descending Sons of God, but they are a unique and original form of universe life. Their consideration will occupy the whole of the next paper. 35:1.1 (384.8) After bringing into existence the beings of personal aid, such as the Bright and Morning Star and other administrative personalities, in accordance with the divine purpose and creative plans of a given universe, there occurs a new form of creative union between the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit, the local universe Daughter of the Infinite Spirit. The personality offspring resulting from this creative partnership is the original Melchizedek—the Father Melchizedek—that unique being who subsequently collaborates with the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit to bring into existence the entire group of that name. 35:1.2 (385.1) In the universe of Nebadon the Father Melchizedek acts as the first executive associate of the Bright and Morning Star. Gabriel is occupied more with universe policies, Melchizedek with practical procedures. Gabriel presides over the regularly constituted tribunals and councils of Nebadon, Melchizedek over the special, extraordinary, and emergency commissions and advisory bodies. Gabriel and the Father Melchizedek are never away from Salvington at the same time, for in Gabriel’s absence the Father Melchizedek functions as the chief executive of Nebadon. 35:1.3 (385.2) The Melchizedeks of our universe were all created within one millennial period of standard time by the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit in liaison with the Father Melchizedek. Being an order of sonship wherein one of their own number functioned as co-ordinate creator, Melchizedeks are in constitution partly of self-origin and therefore candidates for the realization of a supernal type of self-government. They periodically elect their own administrative chief for a term of seven years of standard time and otherwise function as a self-regulating order, though the original Melchizedek does exercise certain inherent coparental prerogatives. From time to time this Father Melchizedek designates certain individuals of his order to function as special Life Carriers to the midsonite worlds, a type of inhabited planet not heretofore revealed on Urantia. 35:1.4 (385.3) The Melchizedeks do not function extensively outside the local universe except when they are called as witnesses in matters pending before the tribunals of the superuniverse, and when designated special ambassadors, as they sometimes are, representing one universe to another in the same superuniverse. The original or first-born Melchizedek of each universe is always at liberty to journey to the neighboring universes or to Paradise on missions having to do with the interests and duties of his order. 35:2.1 (385.4) The 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. 35:2.2 (385.5) The 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. 35:2.3 (386.1) The 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. 35:2.4 (386.2) The 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. 35:2.5 (386.3) These 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. 35:2.6 (386.4) When 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. 35:2.7 (386.5) There 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. 35:2.8 (386.6) The 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. 35:2.9 (387.1) These 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. 35:3.1 (387.2) The 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. 35:3.2 (387.3) The 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: The pilot world—the home world of the Melchizedek Sons. The world of the physical-life schools and the laboratories of living energies. The world of morontia life. The sphere of initial spirit life. The world of mid-spirit life. The sphere of advancing spirit life. The domain of co-ordinate and supreme self-realization. 35:3.10 (387.11) The six tributary worlds of each of these Melchizedek spheres are devoted to activities germane to the work of the associated primary sphere. 35:3.11 (387.12) The 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. 35:3.12 (387.13) Ascending 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. 35:3.13 (387.14) Many 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: 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. 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. 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. The fourth sphere is occupied with a review of the experiences of the seventy tributary worlds of the constellation and of their associated spheres. On the fifth sphere there is conducted the review of the ascendant sojourn on the constellation headquarters world. 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. 35:3.20 (388.7) The 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. 35:3.21 (388.8) In 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. 35:3.22 (388.9) The 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. 35:4.1 (388.10) A highly specialized branch of Melchizedek activities has to do with the supervision of the progressive morontia career of the ascending mortals. Much of this training is conducted by the patient and wise seraphic ministers, assisted by mortals who have ascended to relatively higher levels of universe attainment, but all of this educational work is under the general supervision of the Melchizedeks in association with the Trinity Teacher Sons. 35:4.2 (389.1) While the Melchizedek orders are chiefly devoted to the vast educational system and experiential training regime of the local universe, they also function in unique assignments and in unusual circumstances. In an evolving universe eventually embracing approximately ten million inhabited worlds, many things out of the ordinary are destined to happen, and it is in such emergencies that the Melchizedeks act. On Edentia, your constellation headquarters, they are known as emergency Sons. They are always ready to serve in all exigencies—physical, intellectual, or spiritual—whether on a planet, in a system, in a constellation, or in the universe. Whenever and wherever special help is needed, there you will find one or more of the Melchizedek Sons. 35:4.3 (389.2) When failure of some feature of the Creator Son’s plan is threatened, forthwith will go a Melchizedek to render assistance. But not often are they summoned to function in the presence of sinful rebellion, such as occurred in Satania. 35:4.4 (389.3) The Melchizedeks are the first to act in all emergencies of whatever nature on all worlds where will creatures dwell. They sometimes act as temporary custodians on wayward planets, serving as receivers of a defaulting planetary government. In a planetary crisis these Melchizedek Sons serve in many unique capacities. It is easily possible for such a Son to make himself visible to mortal beings, and sometimes one of this order has even incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh. Seven times in Nebadon has a Melchizedek served on an evolutionary world in the similitude of mortal flesh, and on numerous occasions these Sons have appeared in the likeness of other orders of universe creatures. They are indeed the versatile and volunteer emergency ministers to all orders of universe intelligences and to all the worlds and systems of worlds. 35:4.5 (389.4) The Melchizedek who lived on Urantia during the time of Abraham was locally known as Prince of Salem because he presided over a small colony of truth seekers residing at a place called Salem. He volunteered to incarnate in the likeness of mortal flesh and did so with the approval of the Melchizedek receivers of the planet, who feared that the light of life would become extinguished during that period of increasing spiritual darkness. And he did foster the truth of his day and safely pass it on to Abraham and his associates. 35:5.1 (389.5) After the creation of the personal aids and the first group of the versatile Melchizedeks, the Creator Son and the local universe Creative Spirit planned for, and brought into existence, the second great and diverse order of universe sonship, the Vorondadeks. They are more generally known as Constellation Fathers because a Son of this order is uniformly found at the head of each constellation government in every local universe. 35:5.2 (389.6) The number of Vorondadeks varies in each local universe, just one million being the recorded number in Nebadon. These Sons, like their co-ordinates, the Melchizedeks, possess no power of reproduction. There exists no known method whereby they can increase their numbers. 35:5.3 (389.7) In many respects these Sons are a self-governing body; as individuals and as groups, even as a whole, they are largely self-determinative, much as are the Melchizedeks, but Vorondadeks do not function through such a wide range of activities. They do not equal their Melchizedek brethren in brilliant versatility, but they are even more reliable and efficient as rulers and farseeing administrators. Neither are they quite the administrative peers of their subordinates, the Lanonandek System Sovereigns, but they excel all orders of universe sonship in stability of purpose and in divinity of judgment. 35:5.4 (390.1) Although the decisions and rulings of this order of Sons are always in accordance with the spirit of divine sonship and in harmony with the policies of the Creator Son, they have been cited for error to the Creator Son, and in details of technique their decisions have sometimes been reversed on appeal to the superior tribunals of the universe. But these Sons rarely fall into error, and they have never gone into rebellion; never in all the history of Nebadon has a Vorondadek been found in contempt of the universe government. 35:5.5 (390.2) The service of the Vorondadeks in the local universes is extensive and varied. They serve as ambassadors to other universes and as consuls representing constellations within their native universe. Of all orders of local universe sonship they are the most often intrusted with the full delegation of sovereign powers to be exercised in critical universe situations. 35:5.6 (390.3) On those worlds segregated in spiritual darkness, those spheres which have, through rebellion and default, suffered planetary isolation, an observer Vorondadek is usually present pending the restoration of normal status. In certain emergencies this Most High observer could exercise absolute and arbitrary authority over every celestial being assigned to that planet. It is of record on Salvington that the Vorondadeks have sometimes exercised such authority as Most High regents of such planets. And this has also been true even of inhabited worlds that were untouched by rebellion. 35:5.7 (390.4) Often a corps of twelve or more Vorondadek Sons sits en banc as a high court of review and appeal concerning special cases involving the status of a planet or a system. But their work more largely pertains to the legislative functions indigenous to the constellation governments. As a result of all these services, the Vorondadek Sons have become the historians of the local universes; they are personally familiar with all the political struggles and the social upheavals of the inhabited worlds. 35:6.1 (390.5) At least three Vorondadeks are assigned to the rulership of each of the one hundred constellations of a local universe. These Sons are selected by the Creator Son and are commissioned by Gabriel as the Most Highs of the constellations for service during one dekamillennium—10,000 standard years, about 50,000 years of Urantia time. The reigning Most High, the Constellation Father, has two associates, a senior and a junior. At each change of administration the senior associate becomes the head of the government, the junior assumes the duties of the senior, while the unassigned Vorondadeks resident on the Salvington worlds nominate one of their number as candidate for selection to assume the responsibilities of junior associate. Thus each of the Most High rulers, in accordance with present policy, has a period of service on the headquarters of a constellation of three dekamillenniums, about 150,000 Urantia years. 35:6.2 (390.6) The one hundred Constellation Fathers, the actual presiding heads of the constellation governments, constitute the supreme advisory cabinet of the Creator Son. This council is in frequent session at universe headquarters and is unlimited in the scope and range of its deliberations but is chiefly concerned with the welfare of the constellations and with the unification of the administration of the entire local universe. 35:6.3 (391.1) When a Constellation Father is in attendance upon duties at the universe headquarters, as he frequently is, the senior associate becomes acting director of constellation affairs. The normal function of the senior associate is the oversight of spiritual affairs, while the junior associate is personally occupied with the physical welfare of the constellation. No major policy, however, is ever carried out in a constellation unless all three of the Most Highs are agreed upon all the details of its execution. 35:6.4 (391.2) The entire mechanism of spirit intelligence and communication channels is at the disposal of the constellation Most Highs. They are in perfect touch with their superiors on Salvington and with their direct subordinates, the sovereigns of the local systems. They frequently convene in council with these System Sovereigns to deliberate upon the state of the constellation. 35:6.5 (391.3) The Most Highs surround themselves with a corps of counselors, which varies in number and personnel from time to time in accordance with the presence of the various groups at constellation headquarters and also as the local requirements vary. During times of stress they may ask for, and will quickly receive, additional Sons of the Vorondadek order to assist with the administrative work. Norlatiadek, your own constellation, is at present administered by twelve Vorondadek Sons. 35:7.1 (391.4) The 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. 35:7.2 (391.5) The 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. 35:7.3 (391.6) The 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. 35:8.1 (392.1) After the creation of the Vorondadeks, the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit unite for the purpose of bringing into existence the third order of universe sonship, the Lanonandeks. Although occupied with varied tasks connected with the system administrations, they are best known as System Sovereigns, the rulers of the local systems, and as Planetary Princes, the administrative heads of the inhabited worlds. 35:8.2 (392.2) Being a later and lower—as concerns divinity levels—order of sonship creation, these beings were required to pass through certain courses of training on the Melchizedek worlds in preparation for subsequent service. They were the first students in the Melchizedek University and were classified and certified by their Melchizedek teachers and examiners according to ability, personality, and attainment. 35:8.3 (392.3) The universe of Nebadon began its existence with exactly twelve million Lanonandeks, and when they had passed through the Melchizedek sphere, they were divided in the final tests into three classes: Primary Lanonandeks. Of the highest rank there were 709,841. These are the Sons designated as System Sovereigns and assistants to the supreme councils of the constellations and as counselors in the higher administrative work of the universe. Secondary Lanonandeks. Of this order emerging from Melchizedek there were 10,234,601. They are assigned as Planetary Princes and to the reserves of that order. Tertiary Lanonandeks. This group contained 1,055,558. These Sons function as subordinate assistants, messengers, custodians, commissioners, observers, and prosecute the miscellaneous duties of a system and its component worlds. 35:8.7 (392.7) It is not possible, as it is with evolutionary beings, for these Sons to progress from one group to another. When subjected to the Melchizedek training, when once tested and classified, they serve continuously in the rank assigned. Neither do these Sons engage in reproduction; their number in the universe is stationary. 35:8.8 (392.8) In round numbers the Lanonandek order of Sons is classified on Salvington as follows: 35:8.9 (392.9) Universe Co-ordinators and Constellation Counselors . 35:8.10 (392.10) System Sovereigns and Assistants. 35:8.11 (392.11) Planetary Princes and Reserves. 35:8.12 (392.12) Messenger Corps . 35:8.13 (392.13) Custodians and Recorders. 35:8.15 (392.15) Since Lanonandeks are a somewhat lower order of sonship than the Melchizedeks and the Vorondadeks, they are of even greater service in the subordinate units of the universe, for they are capable of drawing nearer the lower creatures of the intelligent races. They also stand in greater danger of going astray, of departing from the acceptable technique of universe government. But these Lanonandeks, especially the primary order, are the most able and versatile of all local universe administrators. In executive ability they are excelled only by Gabriel and his unrevealed associates. 35:9.1 (393.1) The Lanonandeks are the continuous rulers of the planets and the rotating sovereigns of the systems. Such a Son now rules on Jerusem, the headquarters of your local system of inhabited worlds. 35:9.2 (393.2) The System Sovereigns rule in commissions of two or three on the headquarters of each system of inhabited worlds. The Constellation Father names one of these Lanonandeks as chief every dekamillennium. Sometimes no change in the head of the trio is made, the matter being entirely optional with the constellation rulers. System governments do not suddenly change in personnel unless a tragedy of some sort occurs. 35:9.3 (393.3) When System Sovereigns or assistants are recalled, their places are filled by selections made by the supreme council located on the constellation headquarters from the reserves of that order, a group which is larger on Edentia than the average indicated. 35:9.4 (393.4) The supreme Lanonandek councils are stationed on the various constellation headquarters. Such a body is presided over by the senior Most High associate of the Constellation Father, while the junior associate supervises the reserves of the secondary order. 35:9.5 (393.5) The System Sovereigns are true to their names; they are well-nigh sovereign in the local affairs of the inhabited worlds. They are almost paternal in their direction of the Planetary Princes, the Material Sons, and the ministering spirits. The personal grasp of the sovereign is all but complete. These rulers are not supervised by Trinity observers from the central universe. They are the executive division of the local universe, and as custodians of the enforcement of legislative mandates and as executives for the application of judicial verdicts, they present the one place in all universe administration where personal disloyalty to the will of the Michael Son could most easily and readily intrench itself and seek to assert itself. 35:9.6 (393.6) Our local universe has been unfortunate in that over seven hundred Sons of the Lanonandek order have rebelled against the universe government, thus precipitating confusion in several systems and on numerous planets. Of this entire number of failures only three were System Sovereigns; practically all of these Sons belonged to the second and third orders, Planetary Princes and tertiary Lanonandeks. 35:9.7 (393.7) The large number of these Sons who have lapsed from integrity does not indicate any fault in creatorship. They could have been made divinely perfect, but they were so created that they might better understand, and draw near to, the evolutionary creatures dwelling on the worlds of time and space. 35:9.8 (393.8) Of all the local universes in Orvonton, our universe has, with the exception of Henselon, lost the largest number of this order of Sons. On Uversa it is the consensus that we have had so much administrative trouble in Nebadon because our Sons of the Lanonandek order have been created with such a large degree of personal liberty in choosing and planning. I do not make this observation by way of criticism. The Creator of our universe has full authority and power to do this. It is the contention of our high rulers that, while such free-choosing Sons make excessive trouble in the earlier ages of the universe, when things are fully sifted and finally settled, the gains of higher loyalty and fuller volitional service on the part of these thoroughly tested Sons will far more than compensate for the confusion and tribulations of earlier times. 35:9.9 (394.1) In the event of rebellion on a system headquarters, a new sovereign is usually installed within a comparatively short time, but not so on the individual planets. They are the component units of the material creation, and creature free will is a factor in the final adjudication of all such problems. Successor Planetary Princes are designated for isolated worlds, planets whose princes of authority may have gone astray, but they do not assume active rulership of such worlds until the results of insurrection are partially overcome and removed by the remedial measures adopted by the Melchizedeks and other ministering personalities. Rebellion by a Planetary Prince instantly isolates his planet; the local spiritual circuits are immediately severed. Only a bestowal Son can re-establish interplanetary lines of communication on such a spiritually isolated world. 35:9.10 (394.2) There exists a plan for saving these wayward and unwise Sons, and many have availed themselves of this merciful provision; but never again may they function in those positions wherein they defaulted. After rehabilitation they are assigned to custodial duties and to departments of physical administration. 35:10.1 (394.3) The 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. 35:10.2 (394.4) These 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. 35:10.3 (394.5) While 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. 35:10.4 (394.6) It 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. 35:10.5 (395.1) Many 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 (395.2) [Sponsored by the Chief of Archangels acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.] Urantia Book Standardized - Front Matter - Part I. The Central and Superuniverses - Part II. The Local Universe - Paper 32 - The Evolution of Local Universes - Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe - Paper 34 - The Local Universe Mother Spirit - Paper 35 - The Local Universe Sons of God - Paper 36 - The Life Carriers - Paper 37 - Personalities of the Local Universe - Paper 38 - Ministering Spirits of the Local Universe - Paper 39 - The Seraphic Hosts - Paper 40 - The Ascending Sons of God - Paper 41 - Physical Aspects of the Local Universe - Paper 42 - Energy- Mind and Matter - Paper 43 - The Constellations - Paper 44 - The Celestial Artisans - Paper 45 - The Local System Administration - Paper 46 - The Local System Headquarters - Paper 47 - The Seven Mansion Worlds - Paper 48 - The Morontia Life - Paper 49 - The Inhabited Worlds - Paper 50 - The Planetary Princes - Paper 51 - The Planetary Adams - Paper 52 - Planetary Mortal Epochs - Paper 53 - The Lucifer Rebellion - Paper 54 - Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion - Paper 55 - The Spheres of Light and Life - Paper 56 - Universal Unity - Part III. The History Of Urantia - Part IV. The Life and Teachings of Jesus
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43:0.1 URANTIJA se obično navodi kao broj 606 Satanije u Norlatiadeku iz Nebadona, što znači da je to šesto šesti nastanjeni svijet u lokalnom sustavu Satanije, smješten u zviježđu Norlatiadek, jednom od stotinu zviježđa lokalnog svemira Nebadona. Zviježđa čine primarne segmente u sastavu lokalnog svemira, a njihovi vladari povezuju lokalne sustave naseljenih svjetova sa središnjom upravom lokalnog svemira na Salvingtonu i pomoću refleksivnosti sa superadministracijom Starih Dana na Uversi. 43:0.2 Vlada vašeg zviježđa nalazi se na skupini od 771 arhitektonske sfere, od kojih je centralna i najveća Edentija, sjedište uprave Očeva Zviježđa koji su Svevišnji u Norlatiadeku. Sama Edentija je oko sto puta veća od vašeg svijeta. Sedamdeset glavnih sfera oko Edentije su oko deset puta veće od Urantije, dok je deset satelita koji se okreću oko svakog od tih sedamdeset svjetova oko veličine Urantije. Ove 771 arhitektonske sfere su prilično usporedive veličine s onima iz drugih zviježđa. 43:0.3 Na Edentiji se računa vrijeme i mjeri udaljenost isto kao na Salvingtonu i kao glavne sfere svemira, centralni svjetovi zviježđa u potpunosti su popunjeni sa svim vrstama nebeskih inteligencija. Općenito, ove osobe nisu jako različite od onih opisanih u vezi sa kozmičkom administracijom. 43:0.4 Nadzorni serafimi, treći red anđela lokalnog svemira, dodjeljuju se u službu zviježđa. Oni imaju svoje sjedište na glavnim sferama i najvećim dijelom služe na okružujućim svjetovima morontija obuke. Na Norlatiadeških sedamdeset glavnih sfera, zajedno sa sedam stotina manjih satelita, obitavaju univitatije, stalni građani zviježđa. Svim ovim arhitektonskim svjetovima u potpunosti upravljaju razne skupine autohtonih bića, a veći dio je neobznanjen izuzev učinkovitih spirongi i prekrasnih spornagija. Budući da je to središnja točka u programumorontija treninga, kao što ste mogli pretpostaviti, morontija život zviježđa je tipičan i idealan. 43:1.1 Edentija obiluje fascinantnim visoravnima, opsežnim povišenjima fizičke materije koja su okrunjena morontija životom i prekrivena duhovnom slavom, ali ona nema robusnih planinskih lanaca kao što se pojavljuju na Urantiji. Postoje deseci tisuća pjenušavih jezera i tisuće i tisuće međusobno spojenih potoka, ali nema velikih oceana ni bujnih rijeka. Samo su visoravni lišene tih površinskih tokova. 43:1.2 Voda na Edentiji i sličnim arhitektonskim sferama se ne razlikuje od vode iz evolucijskih planeta. Vodotokovi takvih područja su i površinski i podzemni, a vlaga je u stalnom optjecaju. Edentija se može oplovili preko tih različitih vodenih putova, iako je glavni kanal prijevoza atmosfera. Bića duha prirodno putuju iznad površine sfere, a morontija i materijalna bića iskorišćavaju materijalna i polumaterijalna sredstava za savladavanje atmosferskog prolaza. 43:1.3 Edentija i pridruženi svjetovi imaju pravu atmosferu, uobičajenu mješavinu tri plina koja je karakteristična za takve arhitektonske kreacije, a koja utjelovljuje dva elementa Urantijine atmosfere plus jedan morontija plin pogodan za disanje morontija bića. No, dok je ova atmosfera i materijalna i morontijalna, nema oluja ili uragana; niti je tamo ljeto, niti zima. Ovaj nedostatak atmosferskih smetnji i sezonskih varijacija omogućuje uljepšavanje svega na otvorenom na ovim posebno stvorenim svjetovima. 43:1.4 Na Edentiji, gorja imaju veličanstvene fizičke karakteristike, a njihova ljepota je pojačana beskrajnim obiljem života kojim obiluju širom svoje dužine i širine. Izuzev nekoliko prilično izoliranih građevina, ta gorja ne sadrže ništa što je izgrađeno rukama stvorenih bića. Materijalni i morontijalni ukrasi su ograničeni na stambena područja. Ta manja uzvišenja su mjesta posebnih prebivališta koja su lijepo ukrašena sa biološkom i morontija umjetnosti. 43:1.5 Smještene na vrhu sedmog planinskog vijenca su dvorane uskrsnuća Edentije, gdje se bude uzlazni smrtnici sekundarnog modificiranog reda uzašašća. Te komore za montažu stvorenja su pod nadzorom Melkizedeka. Prva od prijemnih sfera Edentije (poput Melkizedeškog planeta u blizini Salvingtona) također ima posebne uskrsne dvorane, gdje se sklapaju smrtnici modificiranih redova uspona. 43:1.6 Melkizedeci također održavaju dva posebna učilišta na Edentiji. Jedno, koje je vanredno učilište, posvećeno je proučavanju rastućih problema koji su proizašli iz Satanijske pobune. Drugo, učilište darivanja, posvećeno je ovladavanju problema koji proizlaze iz činjenice da je Mihael napravio svoje konačno darivanje na jednom od svjetova iz Norlatiadeka. Ovaj potonji fakultet osnovan je prije gotovo četri tisuće godina, odmah nakon najave Mihaela da je odabrao Urantiju kao svijet za svoje konačno darivanje. 43:1.7 Stakleno more, prijemno područje Edentije, blizu je administrativnog središta i okruženo glavnim središnjim amfiteatrom. U okolini tog područja smješteni su centri vlasti za sedamdeset podjela u poslovima zviježđa. Jedna polovica Edentije podijeljena je u sedamdeset trokutastih sekcija čije granice konvergiraju u glavnoj upravnoj zgradi svakog pojedinačnog sektora. Ostatak ovog područja je jedan veliki prirodni park, vrtovi Boga. 43:1.8 Tijekom vaših povremenih obilazaka Edentije, kad cijeli planet bude otvoren za vaše uvide, većinu svog vremena ćete potrošiti u tom administrativnom trokutu čiji broj odgovara vašem trenutnom stambenom svijetu. Vi ćete uvijek biti dobrodošli kao promatrač u zakonodavnim skupštinama. 43:1.9 Morontija prostor dodijeljen uzlaznim smrtnicima sa prebivalištem na Edentiji se nalazi u srednjoj zoni trideset i petog trokuta, susjedno sjedištu finalista, koji su smješteni u trideset šestom trokutu. Glavno sjedište univitatije zauzima ogroman prostor u srednjem području trideset- četvrtog trokuta, odmah do susjednog stambenog prostora rezerviranog za morontija građane. Iz tih aranžmana može se vidjeti da je stvorena prikladna akomodacija za smještaj najmanje sedamdeset glavnih podjela nebeskog života, ali i da je svaki od tih sedamdeset trokutastih područja u korelaciji s nekom od sedamdeset glavnih sfera morontija obuke. 43:1.10 Edentijino stakleno more je jedan ogroman kružni kristal sa oko sto šezdeset kilometara u opsegu i oko pedeset kilometara u dubini. Ovaj veličanstveni kristal služi kao prijemno polje za sve prijevozne serafime i druga bića koja dolaze iz lokacija izvan sfere; a takvo stakleno more uveliko olakšava slijetanje serafimskog transporta. 43:1.11 Polje kristala toga tipa se nalazi na gotovo svim arhitektonskim svjetovima; i ono služi u mnoge svrhe, osim svoje ukrasne vrijednosti, kako se koristi za prikazivanje supersvemirskereflektivnosti bićima koja se tu okupljaju i kao faktor u tehnici energetske transformacije pri modificiranju prostornih struja i prilagodbi drugih dolaznih fizičko-energetskih tokova. 43:2.1 Zviježđa su autonomne jedinice lokalnog svemira, a svako zviježđe donosi i primjenjuje svoje zakonske akte. Kada sudovi Nebadona sude o kozmičkim poslovima, sva unutarnja pitanja se presuđuju u skladu sa zakonima koji vladaju u dotičnom zviježđu. Ove sudske dekrete Salvingtona, zajedno sa zakonskim aktima zviježđa, izvršavaju administratori lokalnih sustava. 43:2.2 Zviježđa dakle funkcioniraju kao zakonodavna tijela ili jedinice koje donose zakone, dok lokalni sustavi služe kao izvršne ili sprovedbene jedinice. Salvingtonska vlada je vrhovna sudska i koordinacijska vlast. 43:2.3 Dok vrhovnu pravosudnu funkciju nosi središnja uprava lokalnog svemira, postoje dva pomoćna ali glavna suda u sjedištu svakog zviježđa, Melkizedeško vijeće i sud Svevišnjh. 43:2.4 Sve sudske probleme prvo razmatraju vijeća Melkizedeka. Dvanaestorica ovog reda koji su imali određena potrebna iskustva na evolucijskim planetarna i na sjedištu sustava svjetova su ovlašteni za pregled dokaza, proučavanje prigovora i formuliranje privremenih presuda, koje se dalje prenose na sud Svevišnjega, aktualnog Oca Zviježđa. Smrtni odjel ovog potonjeg suda sastoji se od sedam sudaca, od kojih su svi uzlazni smrtnici. Što se više budete uspinjali u svemiru, to će vam neminovnije suditi bića vaše vlastite vrste. 43:2.5 Zakonodavno tijelo zviježđa je podijeljeno u tri skupine. Zakonodavni program zviježđa vuče porijeklo iz donjeg doma uzlaznih bića, grupe kojom predsjedava finalista i koja se sastoji od tisuću reprezentativnih smrtnika. Svaki sustav imenuje deset članova koji će sjediti u ovoj savjetodavnoj skupštini. Na Edentiji ovo tijelo nije u potpunosti regrutirano u ovom trenutku. 43:2.6 Srednji zakonodavni dom se sastoji od serafimskog mnoštva i njihovih suradnika, druge djece Majčinskog Duha lokalnog svemira. Ova skupina ubraja sto članova i nju nominiraju nadzorne ličnosti koje predsjedavaju raznim aktivnostima takvih bića koja funkcioniraju u zviježđu. 43:2.7 Savjetodavno ili najviše tijelo zakonodavne skupštine se sastoji od doma kolega - doma božanskih Sinova. Ovaj zbor su izabrali Svevišnji Očevi i u njega ulazi deset članova. Samo Sinovi posebnog iskustva mogu služiti u ovoj gornjoj kući. Ta skupina radi na utvrđivanju činjenica i uštedi vremena i na taj način vrlo učinkovito služi obje niže grane zakonodavne skupštine. 43:2.8 Kombinirano vijeće zakonodavaca se sastoji od tri člana iz svake od tih zasebnih grana savjetodavnih skupština zviježđa, a njime predsjedava vladajući mlađi Svevišnji.Ova skupina daje konačni oblik svim aktima i odobrava njihovo proglašenje od strane emitera. Odobrenje ovog vrhovnog povjerenstva donosi zakonske odredbe pojedinog područja; njihovi akti su konačni. Zakonske izjave na Edentijipredstavljaju temeljni zakon cjelokupnog Norlatiadeka. 43:3.1 Vladari zviježđa pripadaju redu Sinova Vorondadeka lokalnog svemira. Prilikom postavke na aktivnu dužnost u svemiru u ulozi vladara zviježđa ili na drugim pozicijama, ovi Sinovi su poznati kao Svevišnji jer utjelovljuju najvišu upravnu mudrost sa najdalekovidijom i najinteligentnijom odanosti od svih redova Lokalno Svemirskih Sinova Boga. Njihov osobni integritet i grupna lojalnost nikada nisu dovedeni u pitanje; nikada nije bio slučaj da je neki Sin Vorondadek iznevjerio povjerenje u Nebadonu. 43:3.2 Gabrijel postavlja najmanje tri Sina Vorondadeka kao Svevišnje u svakom zviježđu Nebadona. Predsjedavajući član ove trojice je poznat kao Otac Zviježđa, a njegova dva suradnika kao stariji Svevišnji i mlađi Svevišnji. Otac Zviježđa vlada u trajanju od deset tisuća standardnih godina (oko 50.000 Urantijinih godina), nakon što je prethodno služio kao mlađi suradnik i kao stariji suradnik za jednaka razdoblja. 43:3.3 Psalmist je znao da su na Edentiji vladala tri Oca Zviježđa i sukladno tome je govorio o njihovom prebivalištu u množini: "Tu je rijeka i rukavci njezini vesele grad Božji, presveti šator Višnjega." 43:3.4 Kroz brojna stoljeća došlo je do velike zbrke na Urantiji u vezi raznih kozmičkih vladara. Mnogi kasniji učitelji miješaju svoja nebulozna i nepotpuno definirana plemenska božanstava s Svevišnjim Ocima. Nešto kasnije, Hebreji spajaju sve ove nebeske vladare u jedno kompozitno Božanstvo. Jedan učitelj je shvatio da Svevišnji nisu Vrhovni Vladari, jer je rekao: "Ti što prebivaš na tajnom mjestu Višnjega, počivaš u sjeni Svemogućega." U zapisima Urantije vrlo je teško nekom prilikom znati točno tko je iza pojma "Svevišnji." No, Daniel je u potpunosti razumio ova pitanja. On je rekao: "Svevišnji Bog ima vlast nad kraljevstvom ljudskim i stavlja mu na čelo koga on hoće." 43:3.5 Očevi Zviježđa nisu toliko zaokupljeni pojedinačnim bićima naseljenih planeta, već su usko povezani s tim zakonodavnim i pravosudnim funkcijama zviježđa koje se bitno tiču bilo koje smrtne rase i nacionalne skupine koja živi na naseljenim svjetovima. 43:3.6 Iako režim zviježđa stoji između vas i kozmičke administracije, kao pojedinci, ljudi inače imaju malo razloga da se zanimaju za vladu zviježđa. Vas bi normalno zanimao glavni centar u lokalnom sustavu, Sataniji; ali privremeno, Urantija je usko povezana sa vladarima zviježđa zbog određenih sustavnih i planetarnih uvjeta koji su proizašli iz Luciferove pobune. 43:3.7 Svevišnji Edentije su preuzeli određene faze planetarne vlasti na pobunjenim svjetovima za vrijeme Luciferovog odcjepljenja. Oni su nastavili sprovoditi tu vlast i Stari Dani su odavno odobrili ovo preuzimanje kontrole nad tim svojevoljnim svjetovima. Oni će bez sumnje nastaviti sprovoditi ovu preuzetu nadležnost sve dok Lucifer živi. Velik dio ove vlasti bi inače, u odanom sustavu, bio u rukama Sustavnog Suverena. 43:3.8 No, tu je još jedan način na koji je Urantia postala posebno vezana uz Svevišnje. Kada je Mihael, Sin Stvoritelj, bio na svojoj zadnjoj misiji darivanja, budući da nasljednik Lucifera još nije bio u punoj vlasti u lokalnom sustavu, svi Urantijini poslovi koji su se odnosili na Mihaelovo darivanje odmah su stavljeni pod nadzor Svevišnjih iz Norlatiadeka. 43:4.1 Presveta zborna gora je mjesto prebivališta Vjernih Dana, predstavnika Rajskog Trojstva koji funkcioniraju na Edentiji. 43:4.2 Ovaj pripadnik Vjernih Dana je Trojstveni Sin Raja i on je bio prisutan na Edentiji kao osobni predstavnik Emanuela od stvaranja glavnog središnjeg svijeta. Zauvijek Vjerni Dani stoje zdesna Očeva Zviježđa i savjetuju ih, ali oni nikad ne daju savjet osim ako se to traži. Visoki Sinovi Raja nikada ne sudjeluju u vođenju poslova lokalnog svemira osim na prijedlog djelujućih vladara tih područja. No, sve što su Unije Dana za Sina Stvoritelja, Vjerni Dani su za Svevišnje u zviježđu. 43:4.3 Rezidencija Vjernih Dana koja je smještena na Edentiji je središte zviježđa Rajskog sustava posebne izvansvemirske komunikacije i obavještavanja. Ovi Trojstveni Sinovi, sa njihovim osobljem Havonskih i Rajskih ličnosti, u suradnji sa nadzornim Unijom Dana, su u izravnoj i stalnoj komunikaciji s njihovim redom u svim svemirima, čak i sa Havonom i Rajem. 43:4.4 Presveta gora je izvrsno lijepo i čudesno uređena, dok je stvarno prebivalište Rajskog Sina skromno u odnosu na središnje prebivalište Svevišnjih i okolnih sedamdeset građevina koje čine stambenu jedinicu Sinova Vorondadeka. Ova prebivališta su isključivo stambena; ona su potpuno odvojena od prostranih administrativnih građevina glavnog sjedišta u kojima se obavljaju poslovi zviježđa. 43:4.5 Rezidencija Vjernih Dana na Edentiji se nalazi sjeverno od tih rezidencija Svevišnjih, a poznata je kao "gora Rajskog zborovanja." Na tom posvećenom brdu uzlazni smrtnici povremeno se okupe da čuju govor Rajskog Sina o dugom i intrigantanom putu napredujućih smrtnika preko milijarde svjetova Havone koji služe usavršavanju uzlaznih bića, sve do neopisivih užitaka Raja. Na ovim posebnim skupovima na Zbornoj Gori, morontija smrtnici postaju potpuno upoznati s različitim skupinama osoba porijeklom iz središnjeg svemira. 43:4.6 Izdajnički Lucifer, nekadašnji suveren Satanije, najavljujući svoju uzurpaciju vlasti, tražio je da se skinu s vlasti svi visoki redovi sinova u vladinom programu lokalnog svemira. U svom si je srcu govorio: "Prijesto ću sebi dići povrh Sinova Božjih; na zborovnoj ću stolovati gori na krajnjem sjeveru; bit ću jednak Višnjemu.” 43:4.7 Sto Sustavnih Vladara dolaze povremeno na Edentiju na zborove na kojima razmatraju dobrobit zviježđa. Nakon Satanijske pobune su pobunjeničke vođe Jeruzema bili navikli da dolaze na te zborove Edentije baš kao što su dolazili u bivšim okolnostima. A nije bilo moguće naći načina da se zaustave ova arogancija i drskost sve do nakon darivanju Mihaela na Urantiji i kasnijeg preuzimanja neograničenog suvereniteta nad cijelim Nebadonom. Od tog dana, ovim pokretačima grijeha nikad nije bilo dopušteno sjediti u vijećima Edentije među odanim Vladarima Sustava. 43:4.8 To da su učitelji u stara vremena bili upoznati s ovim pitanjima pokazuje zapis: "Jednoga dana dođu Sinovi Božji da stanu pred Svevišnjeg, a među njima pristupi i Satan." Ovaj je zapis istinit bez obzira na kontekst u kojem se slučajno pojavljuje. 43:4.9 Od trijumfa Krista, sav Norlatiadek se čisti od grijeha i pobunjenika. Negdje prije Mihaelove smrti u tijelu pali Luciferov suradnik, Satan, tražio je da prisustvuje takvom Edentijskom zboru, ali antipatija protiv pobunjenika tada je već dosegla točku gdje su vrata simpatije svugdje bila tako čvrsto zatvorena da bi se igdje moglo naći plodno tlo za Satanijske otpadnike. Kad ne postoje otvorena vrata za prijem zla, ne postoji mogućnost za prihvaćanje grijeha. Vrata u srcima cijele Edentije su zatvorena Satanu; njega su jednoglasno odbacili okupljeni Sustavni Vladari i to je bilo ovom prilikom da Sin Čovječji "vidje Satana kako pada kao munja s neba." 43:4.10 Od Luciferove pobune nova građevina je podignuta u blizini rezidencije Vjernih Dana. Ova privremena građevina je sjedište vezivnog pomoćnika Svevišnjega koji funkcionira u bliskom dodiru sa Rajskim Sinom kao savjetnik u vlasti zviježđa u svim pitanjima vezanim za politiku i stav poretka Dana prema grijehu i pobuni. 43:5.1 Rotacija Svevišnjih na Edentiji je suspendirana uvrijeme Luciferove pobune. Mi još uvijek imamo iste vladare koji su bili na dužnosti u to vrijeme. Naš je zaključak da će ti vladari ostati na dužnosti sve dok Lucifer i njegovi suradnici konačno ne budu zbrinuti. 43:5.2 Današnja vlada zviježđa, međutim, u svom proširenom obliku uključuje dvanaest Sinova Vorondadeka. To je slijedećih dvanaest: Otac Zviježđa. Svevišnji vladar Norlatiadeka ima broj 617.318 iz Vorondadeške serije Nebadona. Služio je u mnogim zviježđima u našem lokalnom svemiru prije nego što je preuzeo odgovornosti na Edentiji. Stariji Svevišnji pomoćnik. Mlađi Svevišnji pomoćnik. Svevišnji Savjetnik, osobni predstavnik Mihaela od njegova postignuća statusa Glavnog Sina. Svevišnji izvršni, osobni predstavnik Gabrijela stacioniran na Edentiji od Luciferove pobune. Svevišnji šef planetarnih promatrača, ravnatelj Vorondadeških promatrača stacioniranih na izoliranim svjetovima Satanije. Svevišnji sudac, Sin Vorondadek kojemu je povjerena dužnost prilagodbe svih poteškoća koje su nastale kao posljedica pobune u zviježđu. Svevišnji hitni administrator, Sin Vorondadek koji je zadužen za prilagodbu hitnih akta Norlatiadeškog zakonodavstva na one svjetove Satanije koji su izolirani pobunom. Svevišnji posrednik, Sin Vorondadek dodijeljen za usklađenje posebnih prilagodbi koje su uzrokovane darivanjima na Urantiji sa rutinskom administracijom zviježđa. Prisutnost određenih aktivnosti arhanđela i brojnih drugih vanrednih službi na Urantiji, zajedno sa posebnim aktivnostima Sjajne Večernje Zvijezde na Jeruzemu, zahtijeva funkcioniranje ovog Sina. Svevišnji sudac-zastupnik, šef vanrednog suda posvećenog prilagodbi posebnih problema Norlatiadeka koji proizrastaju iz zbunjenosti koja je uslijedila nakon Satanijske pobune. Svevišnji za vezu, Sin Vorondadek priključen Edentijskim vladarima, ali postavljen kao posebni savjetnik Vjernim Danima u pogledu načina na koji se najbolje može nastaviti upravljanje problemima koji se odnose na pobunu i nelojalna bića. Svevišnji direktor, predsjednik vanrednog vijeća Edentije. Sve osobe koje se dodjeljuju Norlatiadeku zbog Satanijskog prevrata ulaze u vanredno vijeće, a njihov voditelj je Sin Vorondadek bogatog iskustva. 43:5.15 I ovo ne uzima u obzir brojne Vorondadeke, izaslanike Nebadonskih zviježđa i druge koji također prebivaju na Edentiji. 43:5.16 Nakon Luciferove pobune su Edentijini Očevi imali posebnu brigu nad Urantijom i ostalim izoliranim svjetovima Satanije. Davno je prorok prepoznao kontrolnu ruku Očeva Zviježđa u poslovima naroda. "Kad je Svevišnji baštinu dijelio narodima, kad je razdvojio sinove Adamove, odredi im međe među narodima." 43:5.17 Na svakom svijetu koje je stavljen u karantenu i izolaciju djeluje Sin Vorondadek kao promatrač. On ne sudjeluje u planetarnoj upravi, osim kada po nalogu Oca Zviježđa intervenira u poslovima naroda. Zapravo to je taj Svevišnji promatrač koji "ima vlast nad kraljevstvima ljudskim." Urantij a je jedan od izoliranih svjetova Norlatiadeka i Vorondadeški promatrač je stacioniran na planeti od Kaligastijine izdaje. Kad je MakiventaMelkizedek služio u polumaterijalnom obliku na Urantiji, iskazao je poštovanje i počast Svevišnjem promatraču tada na dužnosti, kao što je pisano: "A Melkizedek, kralj salemski, bio je svećenik Svevišnjega." Melkizedek je otkrio odnose ovog Svevišnjega promatrača Abrahamu kad je rekao: "Neka je Svevišnjem blagoslov, što ti u ruke preda neprijatelje." 43:6.1 Dok su glavna sustavna sjedišta na naročit način uljepšana sa materijalnim i mineralnim građevinama i dok je svemirsko sjedište prije svega odraz duhovne slave, prijestolnice zviježđa su vrhunac morontijalnih aktivnosti i živih ukrasa. Na glavnim svjetovima zviježđa općenito se koriste živi ukrasi i upravo je to preobilje života - botaničke umjetnosti - uzrok da se ti svjetovi zovu“ vrtovi Božji". 43:6.2 Oko polovice Edentije posvećeno je izvrsnim vrtovima Svevišnjih, a ti vrtovi su među najljepšim morontija kreacijama lokalnog svemira. To objašnjava zašto se izvanredno lijepa mjesta na naseljenim svjetovima Norlatiadeka često nazivaju "Edenskim vrtom." 43:6.3 Centralno smješten u ovom veličanstvenom vrtu je hram obožavanja Svevišnjih. Psalmist je morao znati nešto o tim pitanjima, jer je napisao: "Tko će se uzići na goru Svevišnjih? Tko će stajati na svetom mjestu njegovu? Onaj u koga su ruke čiste i srce nedužno, duša mu se ne predaje ispraznosti i ne kune se varavo." U ovom svetištu, na svaki deseti dan opuštanja, Svevišnji dovode sve na Edentiji u obožavateljsku meditaciju Boga Vrhovnog. 43:6.4 Arhitektonski svjetovi uživaju u deset oblika života materijalnog reda. Na Urantiji postoje biljni i životinjski svijet, ali na takvom svijetu kao što je Edentija postoji deset podjela materijalnih redova života. Kad bi vidjeli ovih deset kategorija života na Edentiji, ljudi ne bi oklijevali da svrstaju prva tri kao povrće i zadnja tri kao životinje, ali ne bi bili u stanju shvatiti prirodu četiri posredujuće skupine plodnih i fascinantnih oblika života. 43:6.5 Čak i izrazito životinjski svijet je vrlo različit od životinja koje žive na evolucijskim svjetovima, toliko različit da je sasvim nemoguće predočiti smrtnim umovima jedinstveni karakter i srdačnu prirodu tih nijemih stvorenja. Postoje tisuće i tisuće živih bića koje vaša mašta nije u stanju zamisliti. Cijela kategorija životinja pripada sasvim drugačijem redu od grubih životinjskih vrsta evolucijskih planeta. No, sav životinjski svijet je vrlo inteligentan i izvanredno uslužan, a sve različite vrste su iznenađujuće nježne i dirljivo druželjubive. Na takvim arhitektonskim svjetovima nema mesoždera; ne postoji ništa na cijeloj Edentiji čega bi se bilo koje živo biće moglo bojati. 43:6.6 Povrće je također vrlo različito od povrća na Urantiji, a sastoji se od materijalnih i morontija vrsta. Materijalne biljke imaju karakterističnu zelenu boju, ali morontija ekvivalenti vegetativnog života imaju ljubičastu ili orhidnu primjesu različitih boja i odraza. Takva morontija vegetacija nije ništa drugo nego izraslina energije; kad se jede ne dolazi do stvaranja otpada. 43:6.7 Kako su obdareni sa deset kategorija fizičkog života, a da ne spominjem morontija varijacije, ti arhitektonski svjetovi pružaju ogromne mogućnosti za biološko uljepšavanje krajolika i materijalnih i morontija građevina. Nebeski obrtnici usmjeravaju spornagije, koje su rodom sa ovih planeta, u ovom opsežnom radu na botaničkom uređenju i biološkom uljepšavanju. Dok vaši umjetnici moraju posegnuti za nepokretnim bojama i beživotnim mramorom kako bi prikazali svoje koncepte, nebeski obrtnici i univitatiječešto koriste žive materijale za predstavljanje svojih ideja i za izražavanje svojih ideala. 43:6.8 Ako uživate u cvijeću, grmlju i drveću Urantije, onda će vam biti blagdan za oči kad ugledate botaničke ljepote i cvjetne raskoši božanstvenih vrtova Edentije. Ali to je izvan mojih moći izražavanja da probam prenijeti smrtnom umu adekvatan koncept ljepote ovih nebeskih svjetova. Zaista, vaše oči nisu vidjele takve slave koja vas očekuje prilikom vašeg dolaska na ove svjetove avanture smrtnog uzašašća. 43:7.1 Univitatije su stalni stanovnici Edentije i njezijih povezanih svjetova, a svih sedam stotina sedamdeset svjetova koji okružuju glavni centar zviježđa nalaze se pod njihovim nadzorom. Ta djeca Sina Stvoritelja i Stvaralačkog Duha projicirana su na razini postojanja koja je između materijalnog i duhovnog, ali oni nisu morontija bića. Univitatije, koje su rodom iz svake od sedamdeset glavnih sfera Edentije, imaju različita vidljiva obličja, i oni su ti koji podešavaju morontija obličja morontija smrtnika u skladu sa odgovarajućom uzlaznom skalom svaki put kad ovi smrtnici promijene prebivalište iz jedne Edentijine sfere u drugu dok prolaze sukcesivno od svijeta broja jedan do svijeta broj sedamdeset. 43:7.2 Duhovno su sve univitatije međusobno jednake; intelektualno, oni se razlikuju kao i smrtnici; u formi, oni su uveliko nalik morontija stanju postojanja, a oni su stvoreni da funkcioniraju u sedamdeset različitih redova ličnosti. Svaki od ovih redova univitatije pokazuje deset glavnih varijacija intelektualne aktivnosti, a svaki od tih različitih intelektualnih tipova predsjedava posebnom obukom i kulturnim školama progresivnog rada i praktičnog podruštvljavanja na nekom od deset satelita koji kruže oko jednog od glavnih svjetova Edentije. 43:7.3 Ovih sedam stotina manjih svjetova su tehničke sfere praktičnog obrazovanja u radu cijelog lokalnog svemira i otvoreni su za sve klase inteligentnih bića. Ove škole treninga u kojima bića stječu posebne vještine i tehničko znanje ne provode se isključivo za uzlazne smrtnike, iako morontija studenti čine daleko najveću skupinu svih onih koji pohađaju ove tečajeve osposobljavanja. Kada budete primljeni na bilo koji od sedamdeset velikih svjetova društvene kulture, odmah primate dozvolu da posjetite svaki od deset okolnih satelita. 43:7.4 U različitim uslužnim kolonijama, uzlazni morontija smrtnici prevladavaju među upraviteljima razonode, ali univitatije predstavljaju najveću skupinu koja je povezana sa upravom nad Nebadonskim zborom nebeskih obrtnika. U cijelom Orvontonu nema posebnih Havonskih bića sa izuzetkom abandonteraUverse koji se mogu usporediti s univitatijama u umjetničkoj vještini, društvenoj prilagodljivosti i koordinacijskoj spretnosti. 43:7.5 Ti građani zviježđa zapravo nisu članovi zbora obrtnika, već oni slobodno rade sa svim skupinama i čine veliki doprinos pretvaraju ovih svjetova zviježđa u glave sfere za realizaciju veličanstvenih umjetničkih postignuća prijelazne kulture.Oni ne funkcioniraju izvan granica sjedišnih svjetova zviježđa. 43:8.1 Fizičko obdarenjeEdentije i okolnih sfera je gotovo savršeno; no oni se i pored toga ne mogu mjeriti sa duhovnom raskoši sfera Salvingtona, ali daleko nadmašuju slavu i ljepotu koja vlada na svjetovima obuke Jeruzema.Sve ove sfere Edentije primaju energiju izravno od univerzalnih prostornih struja, dok centari zviježđa stručno nadziru i distribuiraju njihove ogromne energetske sustave, materijalne i morontijalne, uz pomoć stručnog zbora Glavnih Fizičkih Kontrolora i Morontija Nadglednika Snage. 43:8.2 Vrijeme provedeno na sedamdeset svjetova obuke prijelazne morontija kulture tijekom dobi smrtnog uspona na Edentiji najstaloženije je razdoblje u karijeri uzlaznog smrtnika sve do ostvarenja finalističkog statusa; ovo je doista tipičan morontija život. Dok morate proći kroz podešenje svaki put kad pređete sa jednog velikog kulturnog svijeta u drugi, ostajete u istom morontija tijelu i ne prolazite kroz period nesvjestice. 43:8.3 Vaš boravak na Edentiji i njezinim povezanim sferama bit će uglavnom zaokupljen ovladavanjem grupne etike, tajne ugodnih i profitabilnih odnosa između različitih svemirskih i supersvemirskih redova inteligentnih ličnosti. 43:8.4 Na prebivališnim svjetovima ste završili ujedinjenje evolutivne smrtne ličnosti; na glavnom sustavu ste primili državljanstvo Jeruzema i postigli spremnost da sebe podvrgnete disciplinama grupnih aktivnosti i koordiniranih poduzeća; ali sada, prilikom obuke na svjetovima zviježđa, dolazi do istinskog podruštvljenja vaše evolutivne morontija ličnosti. Ovo uzvišeno kulturno postignuće sastoji se u učenju kako: Živjeti sretno i raditi učinkovito sa deset različitih morontija kolega, dok je deset takvih skupina povezano u jedinice od sto koje su udružene u zborove od tisuću. Povinovati se životu s radošću i srdačno surađivati sa deset univitatija, koji iako su intelektualno slični morontija bićima, su vrlo različiti na svaki drugi način. A onda morate raditi sa ovom skupinom od deset u koordinaciji sa deset drugih obitelji koje su pak skupljenje u u zboru od tisuća univitatija. Postići istovremeno prilagodbu morontija suradnicima i ovim autohtonim univitatijama. Steći sposobnost za dobrovoljnu i učinkovitu suradnju sa svojim vlastitim redom bića u uskoj radnoj suradnji sa nešto različitom skupinom inteligentnih bića. Dok na taj način društveno funkcionirate sa bićima poput vas kao i različitim od vas, postižete intelektualni sklad i ostvarujete profesionalno podešavanje u skladu sa obje grupe suradnika. Dok postižete zadovoljavajuće podruštvljenje ličnosti na intelektualnim i profesionalnim razinama, dodatno usavršavate svoju sposobnost za življenje u bliskom kontaktu sa sličnim i pomalo različitim bićima uz sve manje iritabilnosti i netrpeljivosti. Upravitelji razonode mnogo pridonose ovom potonjem postignuću kroz aktivnosti skupnih igara. Podesite sve ove različite tehnike podruštvljenja u progresivnoj koordinaciji karijere Rajskog uzašašća; i dalje da povećate svemirski uvid i poboljšate sposobnost za shvaćanje vječnih ciljeva i značenja koji se kriju unutar tih naizgled beznačajnih vremensko-prostornih aktivnosti. I onda dolazi do vrhunca u cijelom tom procesu višestrukog podruštvljavanja u istodobnom produbljenju duhovnog uvida u pogledu povećanja svih faza osobnog obdarenja kroz grupne duhovne veze i morontija koordinaciju. Intelektualno, društveno i duhovno dva moralna bića ne samo da udvostručuju svoje osobne potencijale kozmičkog postignuća tehnikom partnerstva; oni više gotovo učetverostručuju svoja postignuća i mogućnosti ostvarenja. 43:8.12 Mi smo portretirali podruštvljenje do kojeg dolazi na Edentiji kao sklapanje veza između morontija smrtnika sa obiteljskom grupom univitatija koja se sastoji od deset intelektualno različitih pojedinaca u sličnom odnosu sa deset morontija kolega. No, na prvih sedam velikih svjetova samo jedan uspinjući smrtnik živi s deset univitatija. Na drugoj skupini od sedam velikih svjetova dva smrtnika ostanu u svakoj rodnoj skupini od deset, i tako dalje sve do posljednje skupine od sedam glavnih sfera, gdje je deset morontija bića povezano s deset univitatia. Kada budete naučili kako se bolje družiti s univitatijama, doći će do poboljšanja etike u vašim odnosima sa vašim kolegama, progresivnim morontija bićima. 43:8.13 Kao uzlazni smrtnici vi ćete uživati u boravku na svjetovima napretka na Edentiji, ali nećete doživjeti to osobno uzbuđenje zadovoljstva koje obilježava vaš početni kontakt sa kozmičkim poslovima na sjedištu sustava ili vaš oproštajni dodir s tim stvarnostima na konačnim svjetovima svemirskog sjedišta. 43:9.1 Nakon što uzlazni smrtnici prime diplomu na svijetu broj sedamdeset, oni se nastane na Edentiji.Uzlaznici sada, po prvi put, prisustvuju "zborovima Raja" i čuju priču o njihovoj dugotrajnoj karijeri u predočenju Vjernih Dana, prvih Vrhovnih Ličnosti podrijetlom od Trojstva koje imaju priliku sresti. 43:9.2 Cijeli taj boravak na svjetovima obuke zviježđa, koji kulminira u primanju državljanstva na Edentiji, je razdoblje istinskog i nebeskog blaženstva progresivnih morontija bića. Tijekom vašeg boravka na svjetovima sustava vi se razvijate iz gotovo-životinjskih u morontija bića; više ste materijalni nego duhovni. Na Salvingtonskim sferama vi ćete se razvijati iz morontija bića u status pravog duha; vi ćete biti više duhovni nego materijalni. No, na Edentiji, uzlaznici su na pola puta između njihova bivšeg i njihova budućeg staleža, na pola puta u prolazu od evolucijske životinje do uzlaznog duha. Tijekom cijelog boravka na Edentiji i njezinim svjetovima, vi ste "kao anđeli"; stalno napredujete, ali zadržavate opći i tipični morontija status. 43:9.3 Ovaj boravak uzlaznih smrtnika na zviježđima je najuravnoteženija i najstabilnija epoha u cijeloj karijeri morontija napretka. To iskustvo je trening u podruštvljenju uzlaznih smrtnika u stadiju pred-duha. To je analogno predfinalističkom duhovnom iskustvu na Havoni i predapsonitnoj obuci na Raju. 43:9.4 Uzlazni smrtnici na Edentiji su uglavnom zauzeti sa zadacima na sedamdeset progresivnih svjetova univitatije. Oni također služe na različitim pozicijama na samoj Edentiji, uglavnom u okviru programa zviježđa koji se bavi skupnim, rasnim, nacionalnim i planetarnim blagostanjem. Svevišnji ne sudjeluju toliko u poticanju individualnog napretka na naseljenim svjetovima; oni vladaju u kraljevstvima ljudi više nego u srcima pojedinaca. 43:9.5 A onoga dana kad se budete spremali otići sa Edentije i započeti Salvingtonsku karijeru, tada se možete zaustaviti i osvrnuti na jednu od najljepših i najvitalnijih epoha obuke prije Raja. No, naći ćete sve veću slavu kako se više budete penjali prema unutra i postigli veću sposobnost za uvećano uvažavanje božanskih značenja i duhovnih vrijednosti. 43:9.6 Pod pokroviteljstvom MalavatijeMelkizedeka