The Urantia Book
PAPER 46
THE LOCAL SYSTEM HEADQUARTERS
Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.
46:0.1 JERUSEM, the headquarters of Satania,
is an average capital of a local system, and aside from numerous
irregularities occasioned by the Lucifer rebellion and the
bestowal of Michael on Urantia, it is typical of similar
spheres. Your local system has passed through some stormy
experiences, but it is at present being administered most
efficiently, and as the ages pass, the results of disharmony are
being slowly but surely eradicated. Order and good will are
being restored, and the conditions on Jerusem are more and more
approaching the heavenly status of your traditions, for the
system headquarters is truly the heaven visualized by the
majority of twentieth-century religious believers.
1. PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF JERUSEM
46:1.1 Jerusem is divided into one thousand
latitudinal sectors and ten thousand longitudinal zones. The
sphere has seven major capitals and seventy minor administrative
centers. The seven sectional capitals are concerned with diverse
activities, and the System Sovereign is present in each at least
once a year.
46:1.2 The standard mile of Jerusem is
equivalent to about seven Urantia miles. The standard weight,
the "gradant," is built up through the decimal system from the
mature ultimaton and represents almost exactly ten ounces of
your weight. The Satania day equals three days of Urantia time,
less one hour, four minutes, and fifteen seconds, that being the
time of the axial revolution of Jerusem. The system year
consists of one hundred Jerusem days. The time of the system is
broadcast by the master chronoldeks.
46:1.3 The energy of Jerusem is superbly
controlled and circulates about the sphere in the zone channels,
which are directly fed from the energy charges of space and
expertly administered by the Master Physical Controllers. The
natural resistance to the passage of these energies through the
physical channels of conduction yields the heat required for the
production of the equable temperature of Jerusem. The full-light
temperature is maintained at about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, while
during the period of light recession it falls to a little lower
than 50 degrees.
46:1.4 The lighting system of Jerusem should
not be so difficult for you to comprehend. There are no days and
nights, no seasons of heat and cold. The power transformers
maintain one hundred thousand centers from which rarefied
energies are projected upward through the planetary atmosphere,
undergoing certain changes, until they reach the electric
air-ceiling of the sphere; and then these energies are reflected
back and down as a gentle, sifting, and even light of about the
intensity of Urantia sunlight when the sun is shining overhead
at ten o'clock in the morning.
46:1.5 Under such conditions of lighting, the
light rays do not seem to come from one place; they just sift
out of the sky, emanating equally from all space directions.
This light is very similar to natural sunlight except that it
contains very much less heat. Thus it will be recognized that
such headquarters worlds are not luminous in space; if Jerusem
were very near Urantia, it would not be visible.
46:1.6 The gases which reflect this
light-energy from the Jerusem upper ionosphere back to the
ground are very similar to those in the Urantia upper air belts
which are concerned with the auroral phenomena of your so-called
northern lights, although these are produced by different
causes. On Urantia it is this same gas shield which prevents the
escape of the terrestrial broadcast waves, reflecting them
earthward when they strike this gas belt in their direct outward
flight. In this way broadcasts are held near the surface as they
journey through the air around your world.
46:1.7 This lighting of the sphere is
uniformly maintained for seventy-five per cent of the Jerusem
day, and then there is a gradual recession until, at the time of
minimum illumination, the light is about that of your full moon
on a clear night. This is the quiet hour for all Jerusem. Only
the broadcast-receiving stations are in operation during this
period of rest and rehabilitation.
46:1.8 Jerusem receives faint light from
several near-by suns -- a sort of brilliant starlight -- but it
is not dependent on them; worlds like Jerusem are not subject to
the vicissitudes of sun disturbances, neither are they
confronted with the problem of a cooling or dying sun.
46:1.9 The seven transitional study worlds and
their forty-nine satellites are heated, lighted, energized, and
watered by the Jerusem technique.
2. PHYSICAL FEATURES OF JERUSEM
46:2.1 On Jerusem you will miss the rugged
mountain ranges of Urantia and other evolved worlds since there
are neither earthquakes nor rainfalls, but you will enjoy the
beauteous highlands and other unique variations of topography
and landscape. Enormous areas of Jerusem are preserved in a
"natural state," and the grandeur of such districts is quite
beyond the powers of human imagination.
46:2.2 There are thousands upon thousands of
small lakes but no raging rivers nor expansive oceans. There is
no rainfall, neither storms nor blizzards, on any of the
architectural worlds, but there is the daily precipitation of
the condensation of moisture during the time of lowest
temperature attending the light recession. (The dew point is
higher on a three-gas world than on a two-gas planet like
Urantia.) The physical plant life and the morontia world of
living things both require moisture, but this is largely
supplied by the subsoil system of circulation which extends all
over the sphere, even up to the very tops of the highlands. This
water system is not entirely subsurface, for there are many
canals interconnecting the sparkling lakes of Jerusem.
46:2.3 The atmosphere of Jerusem is a
three-gas mixture. This air is very similar to that of Urantia
with the addition of a gas adapted to the respiration of the
morontia order of life. This third gas in no way unfits the air
for the respiration of animals or plants of the material orders.
46:2.4 The transportation system is allied
with the circulatory streams of energy movement, these main
energy currents being located at ten-mile intervals. By
adjustment of physical mechanisms the material beings of the
planet can proceed at a pace varying from two to five hundred
miles per hour. The transport birds fly at about one hundred
miles an hour. The air mechanisms of the Material Sons travel
around five hundred miles per hour. Material and early morontia
beings must utilize these mechanical means of transport, but
spirit personalities proceed by liaison with the superior forces
and spirit sources of energy.
46:2.5 Jerusem and its associated worlds are
endowed with the ten standard divisions of physical life
characteristic of the architectural spheres of Nebadon. And
since there is no organic evolution on Jerusem, there are no
conflicting forms of life, no struggle for existence, no
survival of the fittest. Rather is there a creative adaptation
which foreshadows the beauty, the harmony, and the perfection of
the eternal worlds of the central and divine universe. And in
all this creative perfection there is the most amazing
intermingling of physical and of morontia life, artistically
contrasted by the celestial artisans and their fellows.
46:2.6 Jerusem is indeed a foretaste of
paradisiacal glory and grandeur. But you can never hope to gain
an adequate idea of these glorious architectural worlds by any
attempted description. There is so little that can be compared
with aught on your world, and even then the things of Jerusem so
transcend the things of Urantia that the comparison is almost
grotesque. Until you actually arrive on Jerusem, you can hardly
entertain anything like a true concept of the heavenly worlds,
but that is not so long a time in the future when your coming
experience on the system capital is compared with your sometime
arrival on the more remote training spheres of the universe, the
superuniverse, and of Havona.
46:2.7 The manufacturing or laboratory sector
of Jerusem is an extensive domain, one which Urantians would
hardly recognize since it has no smoking chimneys; nevertheless,
there is an intricate material economy associated with these
special worlds, and there is a perfection of mechanical
technique and physical achievement which would astonish and even
awe your most experienced chemists and inventors. Pause to
consider that this first world of detention in the Paradise
journey is far more material than spiritual. Throughout your
stay on Jerusem and its transition worlds you are far nearer
your earth life of material things than your later life of
advancing spirit existence.
46:2.8 Mount Seraph is the highest elevation
on Jerusem, almost fifteen thousand feet, and is the point of
departure for all transport seraphim. Numerous mechanical
developments are used in providing initial energy for escaping
the planetary gravity and overcoming the air resistance. A
seraphic transport departs every three seconds of Urantia time
throughout the light period and, sometimes, far into the
recession. The transporters take off at about twenty-five
standard miles per second of Urantia time and do not attain
standard velocity until they are over two thousand miles away
from Jerusem.
46:2.9 Transports arrive on the crystal field,
the so-called sea of glass. Around this area are the receiving
stations for the various orders of beings who traverse space by
seraphic transport. Near the polar crystal receiving station for
student visitors you may ascend the pearly observatory and view
the immense relief map of the entire headquarters planet.
3. THE JERUSEM BROADCASTS
46:3.1 The superuniverse and Paradise-Havona
broadcasts are received on Jerusem in liaison with Salvington
and by a technique involving the polar crystal, the sea of
glass. In addition to provisions for the reception of these
extra-Nebadon communications, there are three distinct groups of
receiving stations. These separate but tricircular groups of
stations are adjusted to the reception of broadcasts from the
local worlds, from the constellation headquarters, and from the
capital of the local universe. All these broadcasts are
automatically displayed so as to be discernible by all types of
beings present in the central broadcast amphitheater; of all
preoccupations for an ascendant mortal on Jerusem, none is more
engaging and engrossing than that of listening in on the
never-ending stream of universe space reports.
46:3.2 This Jerusem broadcast-receiving
station is encircled by an enormous amphitheater, constructed of
scintillating materials largely unknown on Urantia and seating
over five billion beings -- material and morontia -- besides
accommodating innumerable spirit personalities. It is the
favorite diversion for all Jerusem to spend their leisure at the
broadcast station, there to learn of the welfare and state of
the universe. And this is the only planetary activity which is
not slowed down during the recession of light.
46:3.3 At this broadcast-receiving
amphitheater the Salvington messages are coming in continuously.
Near by, the Edentia word of the Most High Constellation Fathers
is received at least once a day. Periodically the regular and
special broadcasts of Uversa are relayed through Salvington, and
when Paradise messages are in reception, the entire population
is assembled around the sea of glass, and the Uversa friends add
the reflectivity phenomena to the technique of the Paradise
broadcast so that everything heard becomes visible. And it is in
this manner that continual foretastes of advancing beauty and
grandeur are afforded the mortal survivors as they journey
inward on the eternal adventure.
46:3.4 The Jerusem sending station is located
at the opposite pole of the sphere. All broadcasts to the
individual worlds are relayed from the system capitals except
the Michael messages, which sometimes go direct to their
destinations over the archangels' circuit.
4. RESIDENTIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS
46:4.1 Considerable portions of Jerusem are
assigned as residential areas, while other portions of the
system capital are given over to the necessary administrative
functions involving the supervision of the affairs of 619
inhabited spheres, 56 transitional-culture worlds, and the
system capital itself. On Jerusem and in Nebadon these
arrangements are designed as follows:
1. The circles -- the
nonnative residential areas.
2. The squares -- the system
executive-administrative areas.
3. The rectangles -- the
rendezvous of the lower native life.
4. The triangles -- the local
or Jerusem administrative areas.
46:4.2 This arrangement of the system
activities into circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles is
common to all the system capitals of Nebadon. In another
universe an entirely different arrangement might prevail. These
are matters determined by the diverse plans of the Creator Sons.
46:4.3 Our narrative of these residential and
administrative areas takes no account of the vast and beautiful
estates of the Material Sons of God, the permanent citizens of
Jerusem, neither do we mention numerous other fascinating orders
of spirit and near-spirit creatures. For example: Jerusem enjoys
the efficient services of the spironga of design for system
function. These beings are devoted to spiritual ministry in
behalf of the supermaterial residents and visitors. They are a
wonderful group of intelligent and beautiful beings who are the
transition servants of the higher morontia creatures and of the
morontia helpers who labor for the upkeep and embellishment of
all morontia creations. They are on Jerusem what the midway
creatures are on Urantia, midway helpers functioning between the
material and the spiritual.
46:4.4 The system capitals are unique in that
they are the only worlds which exhibit well-nigh perfectly all
three phases of universe existence: the material, the morontial,
and the spiritual. Whether you are a material, morontia, or
spirit personality, you will feel at home on Jerusem; so also do
the combined beings, such as the midway creatures and the
Material Sons.
46:4.5 Jerusem has great buildings of both
material and morontia types, while the embellishment of the
purely spiritual zones is no less exquisite and replete. If I
only had words to tell you of the morontia counterparts of the
marvelous physical equipment of Jerusem! If I could only go on
to portray the sublime grandeur and exquisite perfection of the
spiritual appointments of this headquarters world! Your most
imaginative concept of perfection of beauty and repleteness of
appointment would hardly approach these grandeurs. And Jerusem
is but the first step on the way to the supernal perfection of
Paradise beauty.
5. THE JERUSEM CIRCLES
46:5.1 The residential reservations assigned
to the major groups of universe life are designated the Jerusem
circles. Those circle groups which find mention in these
narratives are the following:
1. The circles of the Sons of God.
2. The circles of the angels and
higher spirits.
3. The circles of the Universe Aids,
including the creature-trinitized sons not assigned to the
Trinity Teacher Sons.
4. The circles of the Master
Physical Controllers.
5. The circles of the assigned
ascending mortals, including the midway creatures.
6. The circles of the courtesy
colonies.
7. The circles of the Corps of the
Finality.
46:5.2 Each of these residential groupings
consists of seven concentric and successively elevated circles.
They are all constructed along the same lines but are of
different sizes and are fashioned of differing materials. They
are all surrounded by far-reaching enclosures, which mount up to
form extensive promenades entirely encompassing every group of
seven concentric circles.
46:5.3 1. Circles of the Sons of God.
Though the Sons of God possess a social planet of their own, one
of the transitional-culture worlds, they also occupy these
extensive domains on Jerusem. On their transitional-culture
world the ascending mortals freely mingle with all orders of
divine sonship. There you will personally know and love these
Sons, but their social life is largely confined to this special
world and its satellites. In the Jerusem circles, however, these
various groups of sonship may be observed at work. And since
morontia vision is of enormous range, you can walk about on the
Sons' promenades and overlook the intriguing activities of their
numerous orders.
46:5.4 These seven circles of the Sons are
concentric and successively elevated so that each of the outer
and larger circles overlooks the inner and smaller ones, each
being surrounded by a public promenade wall. These walls are
constructed of crystal gems of gleaming brightness and are so
elevated as to overlook all of their respective residential
circles. The many gates -- from fifty to one hundred and fifty
thousand -- which penetrate each of these walls consist of
single pearly crystals.
46:5.5 The first circle of the domain of the
Sons is occupied by the Magisterial Sons and their personal
staffs. Here center all of the plans and immediate activities of
the bestowal and adjudicational services of these juridical
Sons. It is also through this center that the Avonals of the
system maintain contact with the universe.
46:5.6 The second circle is occupied by the
Trinity Teacher Sons. In this sacred domain the Daynals and
their associates carry forward the training of the newly arrived
primary Teacher Sons. And in all of this work they are ably
assisted by a division of certain co-ordinates of the Brilliant
Evening Stars. The creature-trinitized sons occupy a sector of
the Daynal circle. The Trinity Teacher Sons come the nearest to
being the personal representatives of the Universal Father in a
local system; they are at least Trinity-origin beings. This
second circle is a domain of extraordinary interest to all the
peoples of Jerusem.
46:5.7 The third circle is devoted to the
Melchizedeks. Here the system chiefs reside and supervise the
almost endless activities of these versatile Sons. From the
first of the mansion worlds on through all the Jerusem career of
ascending mortals, the Melchizedeks are foster fathers and
ever-present advisers. It would not be amiss to say that they
are the dominant influence on Jerusem aside from the
ever-present activities of the Material Sons and Daughters.
46:5.8 The fourth circle is the home of the
Vorondadeks and all other orders of the visiting and observer
Sons who are not otherwise provided for. The Most High
Constellation Fathers take up their abode in this circle when on
visits of inspection to the local system. Perfectors of Wisdom,
Divine Counselors, and Universal Censors all reside in this
circle when on duty in the system.
46:5.9 The fifth circle is the abode of the
Lanonandeks, the sonship order of the System Sovereigns and the
Planetary Princes. The three groups mingle as one when at home
in this domain. The system reserves are held in this circle,
while the System Sovereign has a temple situated at the center
of the governing group of structures on administration hill.
46:5.10 The sixth circle is the tarrying place
of the system Life Carriers. All orders of these Sons are here
assembled, and from here they go forth on their world
assignments.
46:5.11 The seventh circle is the rendezvous
of the ascending sons, those assigned mortals who may be
temporarily functioning on the system headquarters, together
with their seraphic consorts. All ex-mortals above the status of
Jerusem citizens and below that of finaliters are reckoned as
belonging to the group having its headquarters in this circle.
46:5.12 These circular reservations of the
Sons occupy an enormous area, and until nineteen hundred years
ago there existed a great open space at its center. This central
region is now occupied by the Michael memorial, completed some
five hundred years ago. Four hundred and ninety-five years ago,
when this temple was dedicated, Michael was present in person,
and all Jerusem heard the touching story of the Master Son's
bestowal on Urantia, the least of Satania. The Michael memorial
is now the center of all activities embraced in the modified
management of the system occasioned by Michael's bestowal,
including most of the more recently transplanted Salvington
activities. The memorial staff consists of over one million
personalities.
46:5.13 2. The circles of the angels.
Like the residential area of the Sons, these circles of the
angels consist of seven concentric and successively elevated
circles, each overlooking the inner areas.
46:5.14 The first circle of the angels is
occupied by the Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit who
may be stationed on the headquarters world -- Solitary
Messengers and their associates. The second circle is dedicated
to the messenger hosts, Technical Advisers, companions,
inspectors, and recorders as they may chance to function on
Jerusem from time to time. The third circle is held by the
ministering spirits of the higher orders and groupings.
46:5.15 The fourth circle is held by the
administrator seraphim, and the seraphim serving in a local
system like Satania are an "innumerable host of angels." The
fifth circle is occupied by the planetary seraphim, while the
sixth is the home of the transition ministers. The seventh
circle is the tarrying sphere of certain unrevealed orders of
seraphim. The recorders of all these groups of angels do not
sojourn with their fellows, being domiciled in the Jerusem
temple of records. All records are preserved in triplicate in
this threefold hall of archives. On a system headquarters,
records are always preserved in material, in morontia, and in
spirit form.
46:5.16 These seven circles are surrounded by
the exhibit panorama of Jerusem, five thousand standard miles in
circumference, which is devoted to the presentation of the
advancing status of the peopled worlds of Satania and is
constantly revised so as to truly represent up-to-date
conditions on the individual planets. I doubt not that this vast
promenade overlooking the circles of the angels will be the
first sight of Jerusem to claim your attention when you are
permitted extended leisure on your earlier visits.
46:5.17 These exhibits are in charge of the
native life of Jerusem, but they are assisted by the ascenders
from the various Satania worlds who are tarrying on Jerusem en
route to Edentia. The portrayal of planetary conditions and
world progress is effected by many methods, some known to you,
but mostly by techniques unknown on Urantia. These exhibits
occupy the outer edge of this vast wall. The remainder of the
promenade is almost entirely open, being highly and
magnificently embellished.
46:5.18 3. The circles of the Universe Aids
have the headquarters of the Evening Stars situated in the
enormous central space. Here is located the system headquarters
of Galantia, the associate head of this powerful group of
superangels, being the first commissioned of all the ascendant
Evening Stars. This is one of the most magnificent of all the
administrative sectors of Jerusem, even though it is among the
more recent constructions This center is fifty miles in
diameter. The Galantia headquarters is a monolithic cast
crystal, wholly transparent. These material-morontia crystals
are greatly appreciated by both morontia and material beings.
The created Evening Stars exert their influence all over
Jerusem, being possessed of such extrapersonality attributes.
The entire world has been rendered spiritually fragrant since so
many of their activities were transferred here from Salvington.
46:5.19 4. The circles of the Master
Physical Controllers. The various orders of the Master
Physical Controllers are concentrically arranged around the vast
temple of power, wherein presides the power chief of the system
in association with the chief of the Morontia Power Supervisors.
This temple of power is one of two sectors on Jerusem where
ascending mortals and midway creatures are not permitted. The
other one is the dematerializing sector in the area of the
Material Sons, a series of laboratories wherein the transport
seraphim transform material beings into a state quite like that
of the morontia order of existence.
46:5.20 5. The circles of the ascending
mortals. The central area of the circles of the ascending
mortals is occupied by a group of 619 planetary memorials
representative of the inhabited worlds of the system, and these
structures periodically undergo extensive changes. It is the
privilege of the mortals from each world to agree, from time to
time, upon certain of the alterations or additions to their
planetary memorials. Many changes are even now being made in the
Urantia structures. The center of these 619 temples is occupied
by a working model of Edentia and its many worlds of ascendant
culture. This model is forty miles in diameter and is an actual
reproduction of the Edentia system, true to the original in
every detail.
46:5.21 Ascenders enjoy their Jerusem services
and take pleasure in observing the techniques of other groups.
Everything done in these various circles is open to the full
observation of all Jerusem.
46:5.22 The activities of such a world are of
three distinct varieties: work, progress, and play. Stated
otherwise, they are: service, study, and relaxation. The
composite activities consist of social intercourse, group
entertainment, and divine worship. There is great educational
value in mingling with diverse groups of personalities, orders
very different from one's own fellows.
46:5.23 6. The circles of the courtesy
colonies. The seven circles of the courtesy colonies are
graced by three enormous structures: the vast astronomic
observatory of Jerusem, the gigantic art gallery of Satania, and
the immense assembly hall of the reversion directors, the
theater of morontia activities devoted to rest and recreation.
46:5.24 The celestial artisans direct the
spornagia and provide the host of creative decorations and
monumental memorials which abound in every place of public
assembly. The studios of these artisans are among the largest
and most beautiful of all the matchless structures of this
wonderful world. The other courtesy colonies maintain extensive
and beautiful headquarters. Many of these buildings are
constructed wholly of crystal gems. All the architectural worlds
abound in crystals and the so-called precious metals.
46:5.25 7. The circles of the finaliters
have a unique structure at the center. And this same vacant
temple is found on every system headquarters world throughout
Nebadon. This edifice on Jerusem is sealed with the insignia of
Michael, and it bears this inscription: "Undedicated to the
seventh stage of spirit -- to the eternal assignment." Gabriel
placed the seal on this temple of mystery, and none but Michael
can or may break the seal of sovereignty affixed by the Bright
and Morning Star. Some day you shall look upon this silent
temple, even though you may not penetrate its mystery.
46:5.26 Other Jerusem circles: In
addition to these residential circles there are on Jerusem
numerous additional designated abodes.
6. THE EXECUTIVE-ADMINISTRATIVE SQUARES
46:6.1 The executive-administrative divisions
of the system are located in the immense departmental squares,
one thousand in number. Each administrative unit is divided into
one hundred subdivisions of ten subgroups each. These one
thousand squares are clustered in ten grand divisions, thus
constituting the following ten administrative departments:
1. Physical maintenance and material
improvement, the domains of physical power and energy.
2. Arbitration, ethics, and
administrative adjudication.
3. Planetary and local affairs.
4. Constellation and universe
affairs.
5. Education and other Melchizedek
activities.
6. Planetary and system physical
progress, the scientific domains of Satania activities.
7. Morontia affairs.
8. Pure spirit activities and
ethics.
9. Ascendant ministry.
10. Grand universe philosophy.
46:6.2 These structures are transparent; hence
all system activities can be viewed even by student visitors.
7. THE RECTANGLES -- THE SPORNAGIA
46:7.1 The one thousand rectangles of
Jerusem are occupied by the lower native life of the
headquarters planet, and at their center is situated the vast
circular headquarters of the spornagia.
46:7.2 On Jerusem you will be amazed by the
agricultural achievements of the wonderful spornagia. There the
land is cultivated largely for aesthetic and ornamental effects.
The spornagia are the landscape gardeners of the headquarters
worlds, and they are both original and artistic in their
treatment of the open spaces of Jerusem. They utilize both
animals and numerous mechanical contrivances in the culture of
the soil. They are intelligently expert in the employment of the
power agencies of their realms as well as in the utilization of
numerous orders of their lesser brethren of the lower animal
creations, many of which are provided them on these special
worlds. This order of animal life is now largely directed by the
ascending midway creatures from the evolutionary spheres.
46:7.3 Spornagia are not Adjuster indwelt.
They do not possess survival souls, but they do enjoy long
lives, sometimes to the extent of forty to fifty thousand
standard years. Their number is legion, and they afford physical
ministry to all orders of universe personalities requiring
material service.
46:7.4 Although spornagia neither possess nor
evolve survival souls, though they do not have personality,
nevertheless, they do evolve an individuality which can
experience reincarnation. When, with the passing of time, the
physical bodies of these unique creatures deteriorate from usage
and age, their creators, in collaboration with the Life
Carriers, fabricate new bodies in which the old spornagia
re-establish their residences.
46:7.5 Spornagia are the only creatures in all
the universe of Nebadon who experience this or any other sort of
reincarnation. They are only reactive to the first five of the
adjutant mind-spirits; they are not responsive to the spirits of
worship and wisdom. But the five-adjutant mind equivalates to a
totality or sixth reality level, and it is this factor which
persists as an experiential identity.
46:7.6 I am quite without comparisons in
undertaking to describe these useful and unusual creatures as
there are no animals on the evolutionary worlds comparable to
them. They are not evolutionary beings, having been projected by
the Life Carriers in their present form and status. They are
bisexual and procreate as they are required to meet the needs of
a growing population.
46:7.7 Perhaps I can best suggest to Urantia
minds something of the nature of these beautiful and serviceable
creatures by saying that they embrace the combined traits of a
faithful horse and an affectionate dog and manifest an
intelligence exceeding that of the highest type of chimpanzee.
And they are very beautiful, as judged by the physical standards
of Urantia. They are most appreciative of the attentions shown
them by the material and semimaterial sojourners on these
architectural worlds. They have a vision which permits them to
recognize -- in addition to material beings -- the morontia
creations, the lower angelic orders, midway creatures, and some
of the lower orders of spirit personalities. They do not
comprehend worship of the Infinite, nor do they grasp the import
of the Eternal, but they do, through affection for their
masters, join in the outward spiritual devotions of their
realms.
46:7.8 There are those who believe that, in a
future universe age, these faithful spornagia will escape from
their animal level of existence and attain a worthy evolutional
destiny of progressive intellectual growth and even spiritual
achievement.
8. THE JERUSEM TRIANGLES
46:8.1 The purely local and routine affairs of
Jerusem are directed from the one hundred triangles.
These units are clustered around the ten marvelous structures
domiciling the local administration of Jerusem. The triangles
are surrounded by the panoramic depiction of the system
headquarters history. At present there is an erasure of over two
standard miles in this circular story. This sector will be
restored upon the readmission of Satania into the constellation
family. Every provision for this event has been made by the
decrees of Michael, but the tribunal of the Ancients of Days has
not yet finished the adjudication of the affairs of the Lucifer
rebellion. Satania may not come back into the full fellowship of
Norlatiadek so long as it harbors archrebels, high created
beings who have fallen from light into darkness.
46:8.2 When Satania can return to the
constellation fold, then will come up for consideration the
readmission of the isolated worlds into the system family of
inhabited planets, accompanied by their restoration to the
spiritual communion of the realms. But even if Urantia were
restored to the system circuits, you would still be embarrassed
by the fact that your whole system rests under a Norlatiadek
quarantine partially segregating it from all other systems.
46:8.3 But ere long, the adjudication of
Lucifer and his associates will restore the Satania system to
the Norlatiadek constellation, and subsequently, Urantia and the
other isolated spheres will be restored to the Satania circuits,
and again will such worlds enjoy the privileges of
interplanetary communication and intersystem communion.
46:8.4 There will come an end for rebels and
rebellion. The Supreme Rulers are merciful and patient, but the
law of deliberately nourished evil is universally and unerringly
executed. "The wages of sin is death" -- eternal obliteration.
46:8.5
Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.
