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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 45
THE LOCAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
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THE administrative center of Satania consists of a
cluster of architectural spheres, fifty-seven in number
-- Jerusem itself, the seven major satellites, and the
forty-nine subsatellites. Jerusem, the system capital,
is almost one hundred times the size of Urantia,
although its gravity is a trifle less. Jerusem's major
satellites are the seven transition worlds, each of
which is about ten times as large as Urantia, while the
seven subsatellites of these transition spheres are just
about the size of Urantia.
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The seven mansion worlds are the seven subsatellites of
transition world number one.
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This entire system of fifty-seven architectural worlds
is independently lighted, heated, watered, and energized
by the co-ordination of the Satania Power Center and the
Master Physical Controllers in accordance with the
established technique of the physical organization and
arrangement of these specially created spheres. They are
also physically cared for and otherwise maintained by
the native spornagia.
1. TRANSITIONAL CULTURE WORLDS
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The seven major worlds swinging around Jerusem are
generally known as the transitional culture spheres.
Their rulers are designated from time to time by the
Jerusem supreme executive council. These spheres are
numbered and named as follows:
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Number 1. The
Finaliter World. This is the headquarters of the
finaliter corps of the local system and is surrounded by
the receiving worlds, the seven mansion worlds,
dedicated so fully to the scheme of mortal ascension.
The finaliter world is accessible to the inhabitants of
all seven mansion worlds. Transport seraphim carry
ascending personalities back and forth on these
pilgrimages, which are designed to cultivate their faith
in the ultimate destiny of transition mortals. Although
the finaliters and their structures are not ordinarily
perceptible to morontia vision, you will be more than
thrilled, from time to time, when the energy
transformers and the Morontia Power Supervisors enable
you momentarily to glimpse these high spirit
personalities who have actually completed the Paradise
ascension, and who have returned to the very worlds
where you are beginning this long journey, as the pledge
of assurance that you may and can complete the
stupendous undertaking. All mansion world sojourners go
to the finaliter sphere at least once a year for these
assemblies of finaliter visualization.
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Number 2. The
Morontia World. This planet is the headquarters of
the supervisors of morontia life and is surrounded by
the seven spheres whereon the morontia chiefs train
their associates and helpers, both morontia beings and
ascending mortals.
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In passing through the seven mansion worlds, you will
also progress through these cultural and social spheres
of increasing morontia contact. When you advance from
the first to the second mansion world, you will become
eligible for a visitor's permit to transitional
headquarters number two, the morontia world, and so on.
And when present on any one of these six cultural
spheres, you may, on invitation, become a visitor and
observer on any of the seven surrounding worlds of
associated group activities.
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Number 3. The
Angelic World. This is the headquarters of all the
seraphic hosts engaged in system activities and is
surrounded by the seven worlds of angelic training and
instruction. These are the seraphic social spheres.
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Number 4. The
Superangel World. This sphere is the Satania home of
the Brilliant Evening Stars and a vast concourse of
co-ordinate and near-co-ordinate beings. The seven
satellites of this world are assigned to the seven major
groups of these unnamed celestial beings.
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Number 5. The
World of the Sons. This planet is the headquarters
of the divine Sons of all orders, including the
creature-trinitized sons. The surrounding seven worlds
are devoted to certain individual groupings of these
divinely related sons.
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Number 6. The
World of the Spirit. This sphere serves as the
system rendezvous of the high personalities of the
Infinite Spirit. Its seven surrounding satellites are
assigned to individual groups of these diverse orders.
But on transition world number six there is no
representation of the Spirit, neither is such a presence
to be observed on the system capitals; the Divine
Minister of Salvington is everywhere in Nebadon.
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Number 7. The
World of the Father. This is the silent sphere of
the system. No group of beings is domiciled on it. The
great temple of light occupies a central place, but no
one can be discerned therein. All beings of all the
system worlds are welcomed as worshipers.
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The seven satellites surrounding the Father's world are
variously utilized in the different systems. In Satania
they are now used as the detention spheres for the
interned groups of the Lucifer rebellion. The
constellation capital, Edentia, has no analogous prison
worlds; the few seraphim and cherubim who went over to
the rebels in the Satania rebellion have been long since
confined on these isolation worlds of Jerusem.
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As a sojourner on the seventh mansion world, you have
access to the seventh transition world, the sphere of
the Universal Father, and are also permitted to visit
the Satania prison worlds surrounding this planet,
whereon are now confined Lucifer and the majority of
those personalities who followed him in rebellion
against Michael. And this sad spectacle has been
observable during these recent ages and will continue to
serve as a solemn warning to all Nebadon until the
Ancients of Days shall adjudicate the sin of Lucifer and
his fallen associates who rejected the salvation
proffered by Michael, their universe Father.
2. THE SYSTEM SOVEREIGN
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The chief executive of a local system of inhabited
worlds is a primary Lanonandek Son, the System
Sovereign. In our local universe these sovereigns are
intrusted with large executive responsibilities, unusual
personal prerogatives. Not all universes, even in
Orvonton, are so organized as to permit the System
Sovereigns to exercise such unusually wide powers of
personal discretion in the direction of system affairs.
But in all the history of Nebadon these untrammeled
executives have exhibited disloyalty only three times.
The Lucifer rebellion in the system of Satania was the
last and the most widespread of all.
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In Satania, even after this disastrous upheaval,
absolutely no changes have been made in the technique of
system administration. The present System Sovereign
possesses all the power and exercises all the authority
that were invested in his unworthy predecessor except
for certain matters now under the supervision of the
Constellation Fathers which the Ancients of Days have
not yet fully restored to Lanaforge, the successor of
Lucifer.
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The present head of Satania is a gracious and brilliant
ruler, and he is a rebellion-tested sovereign. When
serving as an assistant System Sovereign, Lanaforge was
faithful to Michael in an earlier upheaval in the
universe of Nebadon. This mighty and brilliant Lord of
Satania is a tried and tested administrator. At the time
of the second system rebellion in Nebadon, when the
System Sovereign stumbled and fell into darkness,
Lanaforge, the first assistant to the erring chief,
seized the reins of government and so conducted the
affairs of the system that comparatively few
personalities were lost either on the headquarters
worlds or on the inhabited planets of that unfortunate
system. Lanaforge bears the distinction of being the
only primary Lanonandek Son in all Nebadon who thus
functioned loyally in the service of Michael and in the
very presence of the default of his brother of superior
authority and antecedent rank. Lanaforge will probably
not be removed from Jerusem until all the results of the
former folly have been overcome and the products of
rebellion removed from Satania.
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While all the affairs of the isolated worlds of Satania
have not been returned to his jurisdiction, Lanaforge
discloses great interest in their welfare, and he is a
frequent visitor on Urantia. As in other and normal
systems, the Sovereign presides over the system council
of world rulers, the Planetary Princes and the resident
governors general of the isolated worlds. This planetary
council assembles from time to time on the headquarters
of the system -- "When the Sons of God come together."
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Once a week, every ten days on Jerusem, the Sovereign
holds a conclave with some one group of the various
orders of personalities domiciled on the headquarters
world. These are the charmingly informal hours of
Jerusem, and they are never-to-be-forgotten occasions.
On Jerusem there exists the utmost fraternity between
all the various orders of beings and between each of
these groups and the System Sovereign.
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These unique assemblages occur on the sea of glass, the
great gathering field of the system capital. They are
purely social and spiritual occasions; nothing
pertaining to the planetary administration or even to
the ascendant plan is ever discussed. Ascending mortals
come together at these times merely to enjoy themselves
and to meet their fellow Jerusemites. Those groups which
are not being entertained by the Sovereign at these
weekly relaxations meet at their own headquarters.
3. THE SYSTEM GOVERNMENT
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The chief executive of a local system, the System
Sovereign, is always supported by two or three
Lanonandek Sons, who function as first and second
assistants. But at the present time the system of
Satania is administered by a staff of seven Lanonandeks:
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1. The System
Sovereign -- Lanaforge, number 2,709 of the primary
order and successor to the apostate Lucifer.
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2. The first
assistant Sovereign -- Mansurotia, number 17,841 of
the tertiary Lanonandeks. He was dispatched to Satania
along with Lanaforge.
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3. The second
assistant Sovereign -- Sadib, number 271,402 of the
tertiary order. Sadib also came to Satania with
Lanaforge.
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4. The custodian
of the system -- Holdant, number 19 of the tertiary
corps, the holder and controller of all interned spirits
above the order of mortal existence. Holdant likewise
came to Satania with Lanaforge.
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5. The system
recorder -- Vilton, secretary of the Lanonandek
ministry of Satania, number 374 of the third order.
Vilton was a member of the original Lanaforge group.
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6. The bestowal
director -- Fortant, number 319,847 of the reserves
of the secondary Lanonandeks and temporary director of
all universe activities transplanted to Jerusem since
Michael's bestowal on Urantia. Fortant has been attached
to the staff of Lanaforge for nineteen hundred years of
Urantia time.
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7. The high
counselor -- Hanavard, number 67 of the primary
Lanonandek Sons and a member of the high corps of
universe counselors and co-ordinators. He functions as
acting chairman of the executive council of Satania.
Hanavard is the twelfth of this order so to serve on
Jerusem since the Lucifer rebellion.
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This executive group of seven Lanonandeks constitutes
the expanded emergency administration made necessary by
the exigencies of the Lucifer rebellion. There are only
minor courts on Jerusem since the system is the unit of
administration, not adjudication, but the Lanonandek
administration is supported by the Jerusem executive
council, the supreme advisory body of Satania. This
council consists of twelve members:
1. Hanavard, the Lanonandek chairman.
2. Lanaforge, the System Sovereign.
3. Mansurotia, the first assistant Sovereign.
4. The chief of Satania Melchizedeks.
5. The acting director of the Satania Life Carriers.
6. The chief of the Satania finaliters.
7. The original Adam of Satania, the supervising head of
the Material Sons.
8. The director of the Satania seraphic hosts.
9. The chief of the Satania physical controllers.
10. The director of the system Morontia Power
Supervisors.
11. The acting director of system midway creatures.
12. The acting head of the corps of ascending mortals.
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This council periodically chooses three members to
represent the local system on the supreme council at
universe headquarters, but this representation is
suspended by rebellion. Satania now has an observer at
the headquarters of the local universe, but since the
bestowal of Michael the system has resumed the election
of ten members to the Edentia legislature.
4. THE FOUR AND TWENTY COUNSELORS
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At the center of the seven angelic residential circles
on Jerusem is located the headquarters of the Urantia
advisory council, the four and twenty counselors. John
the Revelator called them the four and twenty elders:
"And round about the throne were four and twenty seats,
and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting,
clothed in white raiment." The throne in the center of
this group is the judgment seat of the presiding
archangel, the throne of the resurrection roll call of
mercy and justice for all Satania. This judgment seat
has always been on Jerusem, but the twenty-four
surrounding seats were placed in position no more than
nineteen hundred years ago, soon after Christ Michael
was elevated to the full sovereignty of Nebadon. These
four and twenty counselors are his personal agents on
Jerusem, and they have authority to represent the Master
Son in all matters concerning the roll calls of Satania
and in many other phases of the scheme of mortal
ascension on the isolated worlds of the system. They are
the designated agents for executing the special requests
of Gabriel and the unusual mandates of Michael.
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These twenty-four counselors have been recruited from
the eight Urantia races, and the last of this group were
assembled at the time of the resurrection roll call of
Michael, nineteen hundred years ago. This Urantia
advisory council is made up of the following members:
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1.
Onagar,
the master mind of the pre-Planetary Prince age, who
directed his fellows in the worship of "The Breath
Giver."
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2.
Mansant,
the great teacher of the post-Planetary Prince age on
Urantia, who pointed his fellows to the veneration of
"The Great Light."
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3.
Onamonalonton,
a far-distant leader of the red man and the one who
directed this race from the worship of many gods to the
veneration of "The Great Spirit."
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4. Orlandof,
a prince of the blue men and their leader in the
recognition of the divinity of "The Supreme Chief."
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5.
Porshunta,
the oracle of the extinct orange race and the leader of
this people in the worship of "The Great Teacher."
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6.
Singlangton,
the first of the yellow men to teach and lead his people
in the worship of "One Truth" instead of many. Thousands
of years ago the yellow man knew of the one God.
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7.
Fantad,
the deliverer of the green men from darkness and their
leader in the worship of "The One Source of Life."
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8.
Orvonon,
the enlightener of the indigo races and their leader in
the onetime service of "The God of Gods."
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9.
Adam, the
discredited but rehabilitated planetary father of
Urantia, a Material Son of God who was relegated to the
likeness of mortal flesh, but who survived and was
subsequently elevated to this position by the decree of
Michael.
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10.
Eve, the
mother of the violet race of Urantia, who suffered the
penalty of default with her mate and was also
rehabilitated with him and assigned to serve with this
group of mortal survivors.
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11.
Enoch,
the first of the mortals of Urantia to fuse with the
Thought Adjuster during the mortal life in the flesh.
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12.
Moses,
the emancipator of a remnant of the submerged violet
race and the instigator of the revival of the worship of
the Universal Father under the name of "The God of
Israel."
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13.
Elijah, a
translated soul of brilliant spiritual achievement
during the post-Material Son age.
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14.
Machiventa
Melchizedek, the only Son of this order to bestow
himself upon the Urantia races. While still numbered as
a Melchizedek, he has become "forever a minister of the
Most Highs," eternally assuming the assignment of
service as a mortal ascender, having sojourned on
Urantia in the likeness of mortal flesh at Salem in the
days of Abraham. This Melchizedek has latterly been
proclaimed vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia with
headquarters on Jerusem and authority to act in behalf
of Michael, who is actually the Planetary Prince of the
world whereon he experienced his terminal bestowal in
human form. Notwithstanding this, Urantia is still
supervised by successive resident governors general,
members of the four and twenty counselors.
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15.
John the
Baptist, the forerunner of Michael's mission on
Urantia and, in the flesh, distant cousin of the Son of
Man.
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16.
1-2-3 the
First, the leader of the loyal midway creatures in
the service of Gabriel at the time of the Caligastia
betrayal, elevated to this position by Michael soon
after his entrance upon unconditioned sovereignty.
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These selected personalities are exempt from the
ascension regime for the time being, on Gabriel's
request, and we have no idea how long they may serve in
this capacity.
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Seats numbers 17, 18, 19, and 20 are not permanently
occupied. They are temporarily filled by the unanimous
consent of the sixteen permanent members, being kept
open for later assignment to ascending mortals from the
present postbestowal Son age on Urantia.
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Numbers 21, 22, 23, and 24 are likewise temporarily
filled while being held in reserve for the great
teachers of other and subsequent ages which undoubtedly
will follow the present age. Eras of the Magisterial
Sons and Teacher Sons and the ages of light and life are
to be anticipated on Urantia, regardless of unexpected
visitations of divine Sons which may or may not occur.
5. THE MATERIAL SONS
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The great divisions of celestial life have their
headquarters and immense preserves on Jerusem, including
the various orders of divine Sons, high spirits,
superangels, angels, and midway creatures. The central
abode of this wonderful sector is the chief temple of
the Material Sons.
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The domain of the Adams is the center of attraction to
all new arrivals on Jerusem. It is an enormous area
consisting of one thousand centers, although each family
of Material Sons and Daughters lives on an estate of its
own up to the time of the departure of its members for
service on the evolutionary worlds of space or until
their embarkation upon the Paradise-ascension career.
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These Material Sons are the highest type of
sex-reproducing beings to be found on the training
spheres of the evolving universes. And they are really
material; even the Planetary Adams and Eves are plainly
visible to the mortal races of the inhabited worlds.
These Material Sons are the last and physical link in
the chain of personalities extending from divinity and
perfection above down to humanity and material existence
below. These Sons provide the inhabited worlds with a
mutually contactable intermediary between the invisible
Planetary Prince and the material creatures of the
realms.
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At the last millennial registration on Salvington there
were of record in Nebadon 161,432,840 Material Sons and
Daughters of citizenship status on the local system
capitals. The number of Material Sons varies in the
different systems, and their number is being constantly
increased by natural reproduction. In the exercise of
their reproductive functions they are not guided wholly
by the personal desires of the contacting personalities
but also by the higher governing bodies and advisory
councils.
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These Material Sons and Daughters are the permanent
inhabitants of Jerusem and its associated worlds. They
occupy vast estates on Jerusem and participate liberally
in the local management of the capital sphere,
administering practically all routine affairs with the
assistance of the midwayers and the ascenders.
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On Jerusem these reproducing Sons are permitted to
experiment with the ideals of self-government after the
manner of the Melchizedeks, and they are achieving a
very high type of society. The higher orders of sonship
reserve the veto functions of the realm, but in nearly
every respect the Jerusem Adamites govern themselves by
universal suffrage and representative government. Some
time they hope to be granted virtually complete
autonomy.
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The character of the service of the Material Sons is
largely determined by their ages. While they are not
eligible for admission to the Melchizedek University of
Salvington -- being material and ordinarily limited to
certain planets -- nevertheless, the Melchizedeks
maintain strong faculties of teachers on the
headquarters of each system for the instruction of the
younger generations of Material Sons. The educational
and spiritual training systems provided for the
development of the younger Material Sons and Daughters
are the acme of perfection in scope, technique, and
practicability.
6. ADAMIC TRAINING OF ASCENDERS
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The Material Sons and Daughters, together with their
children, present an engaging spectacle which never
fails to arouse the curiosity and intrigue the attention
of all ascending mortals. They are so similar to your
own material sex races that you both find much of common
interest to engage your thoughts and occupy your seasons
of fraternal contact.
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Mortal survivors spend much of their leisure on the
system capital observing and studying the life habits
and conduct of these superior semiphysical sex
creatures, for these citizens of Jerusem are the
immediate sponsors and mentors of the mortal survivors
from the time they attain citizenship on the
headquarters world until they take leave for Edentia.
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On the seven mansion worlds ascending mortals are
afforded ample opportunities for compensating any and
all experiential deprivations suffered on their worlds
of origin, whether due to inheritance, environment, or
unfortunate premature termination of the career in the
flesh. This is in every sense true except in the mortal
sex life and its attendant adjustments. Thousands of
mortals reach the mansion worlds without having
benefited particularly from the disciplines derived from
fairly average sex relations on their native spheres.
The mansion world experience can provide little
opportunity for compensating these very personal
deprivations. Sex experience in a physical sense is past
for these ascenders, but in close association with the
Material Sons and Daughters, both individually and as
members of their families, these sex-deficient mortals
are enabled to compensate the social, intellectual,
emotional, and spiritual aspects of their deficiency.
Thus are all those humans whom circumstances or bad
judgment deprived of the benefits of advantageous sex
association on the evolutionary worlds, here on the
system capitals afforded full opportunity to acquire
these essential mortal experiences in close and loving
association with the supernal Adamic sex creatures of
permanent residence on the system capitals.
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No surviving mortal, midwayer, or seraphim may ascend to
Paradise, attain the Father, and be mustered into the
Corps of the Finality without having passed through that
sublime experience of achieving parental relationship to
an evolving child of the worlds or some other experience
analogous and equivalent thereto. The relationship of
child and parent is fundamental to the essential concept
of the Universal Father and his universe children.
Therefore does such an experience become indispensable
to the experiential training of all ascenders.
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The ascending midway creatures and the evolutionary
seraphim must pass through this parenthood experience in
association with the Material Sons and Daughters of the
system headquarters. Thus do such nonreproducing
ascenders obtain the experience of parenthood by
assisting the Jerusem Adams and Eves in rearing and
training their progeny.
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All mortal survivors who have not experienced parenthood
on the evolutionary worlds must also obtain this
necessary training while sojourning in the homes of the
Jerusem Material Sons and as parental associates of
these superb fathers and mothers. This is true except in
so far as such mortals have been able to compensate
their deficiencies on the system nursery located on the
first transitional-culture world of Jerusem.
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This probation nursery of Satania is maintained by
certain morontia personalities on the finaliters' world,
one half of the planet being devoted to this work of
child rearing. Here are received and reassembled certain
children of surviving mortals, such as those offspring
who perished on the evolutionary worlds before acquiring
spiritual status as individuals. The ascension of either
of its natural parents insures that such a mortal child
of the realms will be accorded repersonalization on the
system finaliter planet and there be permitted to
demonstrate by subsequent freewill choice whether or not
it elects to follow the parental path of mortal
ascension. Children here appear as on the nativity world
except for the absence of sex differentiation. There is
no reproduction of mortal kind after the life experience
on the inhabited worlds.
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Mansion world students who have one or more children in
the probationary nursery on the finaliters' world, and
who are deficient in essential parental experience, may
apply for a Melchizedek permit which will effect their
temporary transfer from ascension duties on the mansion
worlds to the finaliter world, where they are granted
opportunity to function as associate parents to their
own and other children. This service of parental
ministry may be later accredited on Jerusem as the
fulfillment of one half of the training which such
ascenders are required to undergo in the families of the
Material Sons and Daughters.
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The probation nursery itself is supervised by one
thousand couples of Material Sons and Daughters,
volunteers from the Jerusem colony of their order. They
are immediately assisted by about an equal number of
volunteer midsonite parental groups who stop off here to
render this service on their way from the midsonite
world of Satania to the unrevealed destiny on their
special worlds of reservation among the finaliter
spheres of Salvington.
7. THE MELCHIZEDEK SCHOOLS
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The Melchizedeks are the directors of that large corps
of instructors -- partially spiritualized will creatures
and others -- who function so acceptably on Jerusem and
its associated worlds but especially on the seven
mansion worlds. These are the detention planets, where
those mortals who fail to achieve fusion with their
indwelling Adjusters during the life in the flesh are
rehabilitated in transient form to receive further help
and to enjoy extended opportunity for continuing their
strivings for spiritual attainment, those very efforts
which were prematurely interrupted by death. Or if, for
any other reason of hereditary handicap, unfavorable
environment, or conspiracy of circumstances, this soul
attainment was not completed, no matter what the reason,
all who are true of purpose and worthy in spirit find
themselves, as themselves, present on the continuing
planets, where they must learn to master the essentials
of the eternal career, to possess themselves of traits
which they could not, or did not, acquire during the
lifetime in the flesh.
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The Brilliant Evening Stars (and their unnamed
co-ordinates) frequently serve as teachers in the
various educational enterprises of the universe,
including those sponsored by the Melchizedeks. Also do
the Trinity Teacher Sons collaborate, and they impart
the touches of Paradise perfection to these progressive
training schools. But all these activities are not
exclusively devoted to the advancement of ascending
mortals; many are equally occupied with the progressive
training of the native spirit personalities of Nebadon.
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The Melchizedek Sons conduct upward of thirty different
educational centers on Jerusem. These training schools
begin with the college of self-evaluation and end with
the schools of Jerusem citizenship, wherein the Material
Sons and Daughters join with the Melchizedeks and others
in their supreme effort to qualify the mortal survivors
for the assumption of the high responsibilities of
representative government. The entire universe is
organized and administered on the
representative
plan. Representative government is the divine ideal of
self-government among nonperfect beings.
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Every one hundred years of universe time each system
selects its ten representatives to sit in the
constellation legislature. They are chosen by the
Jerusem council of one thousand, an elective body
charged with the duty of representing the system groups
in all such delegated or appointive matters. All
representatives or other delegates are selected by the
council of one thousand electors, and they must be
graduates of the highest school of the Melchizedek
College of Administration, as also are all of those who
constitute this group of one thousand electors. This
school is fostered by the Melchizedeks, latterly
assisted by the finaliters.
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There are many elective bodies on Jerusem, and they are
voted into authority from time to time by three orders
of citizenship -- the Material Sons and Daughters, the
seraphim and their associates, including midway
creatures, and the ascending mortals. To receive
nomination for representative honor a candidate must
have gained requisite recognition from the Melchizedek
schools of administration.
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Suffrage is universal on Jerusem among these three
groups of citizenship, but the vote is differentially
cast in accordance with the recognized and duly
registered personal possession of mota -- morontia
wisdom. The vote cast at a Jerusem election by any one
personality has a value ranging from one up to one
thousand. Jerusem citizens are thus classified in
accordance with their mota achievement.
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From time to time Jerusem citizens present themselves to
the Melchizedek examiners, who certify to their
attainment of morontia wisdom. Then they go before the
examining corps of the Brilliant Evening Stars or their
designates, who ascertain the degree of spirit insight.
Next they appear in the presence of the four and twenty
counselors and their associates, who pass upon their
status of experiential attainment of socialization.
These three factors are then carried to the citizenship
registrars of representative government, who quickly
compute the mota status and assign suffrage
qualifications in accordance therewith.
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Under the supervision of the Melchizedeks the ascending
mortals, especially those who are tardy in their
personality unification on the new morontia levels, are
taken in hand by the Material Sons and are given
intensive training designed to rectify such
deficiencies. No ascending mortal leaves the system
headquarters for the more extensive and varied
socialization career of the constellation until these
Material Sons certify to the achievement of mota
personality -- an individuality combining the completed
mortal existence in experiential association with the
budding morontia career, both being duly blended by the
spiritual overcontrol of the Thought Adjuster.
45:7.9
Presented by a Melchizedek of temporary assignment on
Urantia.
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