The Urantia Book
PAPER 45
THE LOCAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Presented by a Melchizedek of temporary assignment on Urantia.
45:0.1 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.
45:0.2 The seven mansion worlds are the seven
subsatellites of transition world number one.
45:0.3 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
45:1.1 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:
45:1.2 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.
45:1.3 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.
45:1.4 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.
45:1.5 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.
45:1.6 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.
45:1.7 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.
45:1.8 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.
45:1.9 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.
45:1.10 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.
45:1.11 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
45:2.1 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.
45:2.2 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.
45:2.3 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.
45:2.4 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."
45:2.5 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.
45:2.6 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
45:3.1 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:
45:3.2 1. The System Sovereign --
Lanaforge, number 2,709 of the primary order and successor to
the apostate Lucifer.
45:3.3 2. The first assistant Sovereign
-- Mansurotia, number 17,841 of the tertiary Lanonandeks. He was
dispatched to Satania along with Lanaforge.
45:3.4 3. The second assistant Sovereign
-- Sadib, number 271,402 of the tertiary order. Sadib also came
to Satania with Lanaforge.
45:3.5 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.
45:3.6 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.
45:3.7 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.
45:3.8 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.
45:3.9 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.
45:3.10 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
45:4.1 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.
45:4.2 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:
45:4.3 1. Onagar, the master mind of
the pre-Planetary Prince age, who directed his fellows in the
worship of "The Breath Giver."
45:4.4 2. Mansant, the great teacher of
the post-Planetary Prince age on Urantia, who pointed his
fellows to the veneration of "The Great Light."
45:4.5 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."
45:4.6 4. Orlandof, a prince of the
blue men and their leader in the recognition of the divinity of
"The Supreme Chief."
45:4.7 5. Porshunta, the oracle of the
extinct orange race and the leader of this people in the worship
of "The Great Teacher."
45:4.8 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.
45:4.9 7. Fantad, the deliverer of the
green men from darkness and their leader in the worship of "The
One Source of Life."
45:4.10 8. Orvonon, the enlightener of
the indigo races and their leader in the onetime service of "The
God of Gods."
45:4.11 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.
45:4.12 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.
45:4.13 11. Enoch, the first of the
mortals of Urantia to fuse with the Thought Adjuster during the
mortal life in the flesh.
45:4.14 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."
45:4.15 13. Elijah, a translated soul
of brilliant spiritual achievement during the post-Material Son
age.
45:4.16 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.
45:4.17 15. John the Baptist, the
forerunner of Michael's mission on Urantia and, in the flesh,
distant cousin of the Son of Man.
45:4.18 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.
45:4.19 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.
45:4.20 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.
45:4.21 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
45:5.1 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.
45:5.2 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.
45:5.3 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.
45:5.4 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.
45:5.5 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.
45:5.6 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.
45:5.7 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
45:6.1 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.
45:6.2 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.
45:6.3 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.
45:6.4 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.
45:6.5 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.
45:6.6 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.
45:6.7 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.
45:6.8 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.
45:6.9 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
45:7.1 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.
45:7.2 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.
45:7.3 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.
45:7.4 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.
45:7.5 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.
45:7.6 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.
45:7.7 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.
45:7.8 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.
