The Urantia Book
PAPER 114
SERAPHIC PLANETARY GOVERNMENT
Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.
114:0.1 THE Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of
men through many celestial forces and agencies but chiefly
through the ministry of seraphim.
114:0.2 At noon today the roll call of
planetary angels, guardians, and others on Urantia was
501,234,619 pairs of seraphim. There were assigned to my command
two hundred seraphic hosts -- 597,196,800 pairs of seraphim, or
1,194,393,600 individual angels. The registry, however, shows
1,002,469,238 individuals; it follows therefore that 191,924,362
angels were absent from this world on transport, messenger, and
death duty. (On Urantia there are about the same number of
cherubim as seraphim, and they are similarly organized.)
114:0.3 Seraphim and their associated cherubim
have much to do with the details of the superhuman government of
a planet, especially of worlds which have been isolated by
rebellion. The angels, ably assisted by the midwayers, function
on Urantia as the actual supermaterial ministers who execute the
mandates of the resident governor general and all his associates
and subordinates. Seraphim as a class are occupied with many
assignments other than those of personal and group guardianship.
114:0.4 Urantia is not without proper and
effective supervision from the system, constellation, and
universe rulers. But the planetary government is unlike that of
any other world in the Satania system, even in all Nebadon. This
uniqueness in your plan of supervision is due to a number of
unusual circumstances:
114:0.5 1. The life modification status of
Urantia.
114:0.6 2. The exigencies of the Lucifer
rebellion.
114:0.7 3. The disruptions of the Adamic
default.
114:0.8 4. The irregularities growing out of
the fact that Urantia was one of the bestowal worlds of the
Universe Sovereign. Michael of Nebadon is the Planetary Prince
of Urantia.
114:0.9 5. The special function of the
twenty-four planetary directors.
114:0.10 6. The location on the planet of an
archangels' circuit.
114:0.11 7. The more recent designation of the
onetime incarnated Machiventa Melchizedek as vicegerent
Planetary Prince.
1. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF URANTIA
114:1.1 The original sovereignty of Urantia
was held in trust by the sovereign of the Satania system. It was
first delegated by him to a joint commission of Melchizedeks and
Life Carriers, and this group functioned on Urantia until the
arrival of a regularly constituted Planetary Prince. Subsequent
to the downfall of Prince Caligastia, at the time of the Lucifer
rebellion, Urantia had no sure and settled relationship with the
local universe and its administrative divisions until the
completion of Michael's bestowal in the flesh, when he was
proclaimed, by the Union of Days, Planetary Prince of Urantia.
Such a proclamation in surety and in principle forever settled
the status of your world, but in practice the Sovereign Creator
Son made no gesture of personal administration of the planet
aside from the establishment of the Jerusem commission of
twenty-four former Urantians with authority to represent him in
the government of Urantia and all other quarantined planets in
the system. One of this council is now always resident on
Urantia as resident governor general.
114:1.2 Vicegerent authority to act for
Michael as Planetary Prince has been recently vested in
Machiventa Melchizedek, but this Son of the local universe has
made not the slightest move toward modifying the present
planetary regime of the successive administrations of the
resident governors general.
114:1.3 There is little likelihood that any
marked change will be made in the government of Urantia during
the present dispensation unless the vicegerent Planetary Prince
should arrive to assume his titular responsibilities. It appears
to certain of our associates that at some time in the near
future the plan of sending one of the twenty-four counselors to
Urantia to act as governor general will be superseded by the
formal arrival of Machiventa Melchizedek with the vicegerent
mandate of the sovereignty of Urantia. As acting Planetary
Prince he would undoubtedly continue in charge of the planet
until the final adjudication of the Lucifer rebellion and
probably on into the distant future of planetary settlement in
light and life.
114:1.4 Some believe that Machiventa will not
come to take personal direction of Urantian affairs until the
end of the current dispensation. Others hold that the vicegerent
Prince may not come, as such, until Michael sometime returns to
Urantia as he promised when still in the flesh. Still others,
including this narrator, look for Melchizedek's appearance any
day or hour.
2. THE BOARD OF PLANETARY SUPERVISORS
114:2.1 Since the times of Michael's bestowal
on your world the general management of Urantia has been
intrusted to a special group on Jerusem of twenty-four onetime
Urantians. Qualification for membership on this commission is
unknown to us, but we have observed that those who have been
thus commissioned have all been contributors to the enlarging
sovereignty of the Supreme in the system of Satania. By nature
they were all real leaders when they functioned on Urantia, and
(excepting Machiventa Melchizedek) these qualities of leadership
have been further augmented by mansion world experience and
supplemented by the training of Jerusem citizenship. Members are
nominated to the twenty-four by the cabinet of Lanaforge,
seconded by the Most Highs of Edentia, approved by the Assigned
Sentinel of Jerusem, and appointed by Gabriel of Salvington in
accordance with the mandate of Michael. The temporary appointees
function just as fully as do the permanent members of this
commission of special supervisors.
114:2.2 This board of planetary directors is
especially concerned with the supervision of those activities on
this world which result from the fact that Michael here
experienced his terminal bestowal. They are kept in close and
immediate touch with Michael by the liaison activities of a
certain Brilliant Evening Star, the identical being who attended
upon Jesus throughout the mortal bestowal.
114:2.3 At the present time one John, known to
you as "the Baptist," is chairman of this council when it is in
session on Jerusem. But the ex officio head of this council is
the Assigned Sentinel of Satania, the direct and personal
representative of the Associate Inspector on Salvington and of
the Supreme Executive of Orvonton.
114:2.4 The members of this same commission of
former Urantians also act as advisory supervisors of the
thirty-six other rebellion-isolated worlds of the system; they
perform a very valuable service in keeping Lanaforge, the System
Sovereign, in close and sympathetic touch with the affairs of
these planets, which still remain more or less under the
overcontrol of the Constellation Fathers of Norlatiadek. These
twenty-four counselors make frequent trips as individuals to
each of the quarantined planets, especially to Urantia.
114:2.5 Each of the other isolated worlds is
advised by similar and varying sized commissions of its onetime
inhabitants, but these other commissions are subordinate to the
Urantian group of twenty-four. While the members of the latter
commission are thus actively interested in every phase of human
progress on each quarantined world in Satania, they are
especially and particularly concerned with the welfare and
advancement of the mortal races of Urantia, for they immediately
and directly supervise the affairs of none of the planets except
Urantia, and even here their authority is not complete excepting
in certain domains concerned with mortal survival.
114:2.6 No one knows how long these
twenty-four Urantia counselors will continue in their present
status, detached from the regular program of universe
activities. They will no doubt continue to serve in their
present capacities until some change in planetary status ensues,
such as the end of a dispensation, the assumption of full
authority by Machiventa Melchizedek, the final adjudication of
the Lucifer rebellion, or the reappearance of Michael on the
world of his final bestowal. The present resident governor
general of Urantia seems inclined to the opinion that all but
Machiventa may be released for Paradise ascension the moment the
system of Satania is restored to the constellation circuits. But
other opinions are also current.
3. THE RESIDENT GOVERNOR GENERAL
114:3.1 Every one hundred years of Urantia
time, the Jerusem corps of twenty-four planetary supervisors
designate one of their number to sojourn on your world to act as
their executive representative, as resident governor general.
During the times of the preparation of these narratives this
executive officer was changed, the nineteenth so to serve being
succeeded by the twentieth. The name of the current planetary
supervisor is withheld from you only because mortal man is so
prone to venerate, even to deify, his extraordinary compatriots
and superhuman superiors.
114:3.2 The resident governor general has no
actual personal authority in the management of world affairs
except as the representative of the twenty-four Jerusem
counselors. He acts as the co-ordinator of superhuman
administration and is the respected head and universally
recognized leader of the celestial beings functioning on
Urantia. All orders of angelic hosts regard him as their
co-ordinating director, while the united midwayers, since the
departure of 1-2-3 the first to become one of the twenty-four
counselors, really look upon the successive governors general as
their planetary fathers.
114:3.3 Although the governor general does not
possess actual and personal authority on the planet, he hands
down scores of rulings and decisions each day which are accepted
as final by all personalities concerned. He is much more of a
fatherly adviser than a technical ruler. In certain ways he
functions as would a Planetary Prince, but his administration
much more closely resembles that of the Material Sons.
114:3.4 The Urantia government is represented
in the councils of Jerusem in accordance with an arrangement
whereby the returning governor general sits as a temporary
member of the System Sovereign's cabinet of Planetary Princes.
It was expected, when Machiventa was designated vicegerent
Prince, that he would immediately assume his place in the
council of the Planetary Princes of Satania, but thus far he has
made no gesture in this direction.
114:3.5 The supermaterial government of
Urantia does not maintain a very close organic relationship with
the higher units of the local universe. In a way, the resident
governor general represents Salvington as well as Jerusem since
he acts on behalf of the twenty-four counselors, who are
directly representative of Michael and Gabriel. And being a
Jerusem citizen, the planetary governor can function as a
spokesman for the System Sovereign. The constellation
authorities are represented directly by a Vorondadek Son, the
Edentia observer.
4. THE MOST HIGH OBSERVER
114:4.1 The sovereignty of Urantia is further
complicated by the onetime arbitrary seizure of planetary
authority by the government of Norlatiadek shortly after the
planetary rebellion. There is still resident on Urantia a
Vorondadek Son, an observer for the Most Highs of Edentia and,
in the absence of direct action by Michael, trustee of planetary
sovereignty. The present Most High observer (and sometime
regent) is the twenty-third thus to serve on Urantia.
114:4.2 There are certain groups of planetary
problems which are still under the control of the Most Highs of
Edentia, jurisdiction over them having been seized at the time
of the Lucifer rebellion. Authority in these matters is
exercised by a Vorondadek Son, the Norlatiadek observer, who
maintains very close advisory relations with the planetary
supervisors. The race commissioners are very active on Urantia,
and their various group chiefs are informally attached to the
resident Vorondadek observer, who acts as their advisory
director.
114:4.3 In a crisis the actual and sovereign
head of the government, excepting in certain purely spiritual
matters, would be this Vorondadek Son of Edentia now on
observation duty. (In these exclusively spiritual problems and
in certain purely personal matters, the supreme authority seems
to be vested in the commanding archangel attached to the
divisional headquarters of that order which was recently
established on Urantia.)
114:4.4 A Most High observer is empowered, at
his discretion, to seize the planetary government in times of
grave planetary crises, and it is of record that this has
happened thirty-three times in the history of Urantia. At such
times the Most High observer functions as the Most High regent,
exercising unquestioned authority over all ministers and
administrators resident on the planet excepting only the
divisional organization of the archangels.
114:4.5 Vorondadek regencies are not peculiar
to rebellion-isolated planets, for the Most Highs may intervene
at any time in the affairs of the inhabited worlds, interposing
the superior wisdom of the constellation rulers in the affairs
of the kingdoms of men.
5. THE PLANETARY GOVERNMENT
114:5.1 The actual administration of Urantia
is indeed difficult to describe. There exists no formal
government along the lines of universe organization, such as
separate legislative, executive, and judicial departments. The
twenty-four counselors come the nearest to being the legislative
branch of the planetary government. The governor general is a
provisional and advisory chief executive with the veto power
resident in the Most High observer. And there are no absolutely
authoritative judicial powers operative on the planet -- only
the conciliating commissions.
114:5.2 A majority of the problems involving
seraphim and midwayers are, by mutual consent, decided by the
governor general. But except when voicing the mandates of the
twenty-four counselors, his rulings are all subject to appeal to
conciliating commissions, to local authorities constituted for
planetary function, or even to the System Sovereign of Satania.
114:5.3 The absence of the corporeal staff of
a Planetary Prince and the material regime of an Adamic Son and
Daughter is partially compensated by the special ministry of
seraphim and by the unusual services of the midway creatures.
The absence of the Planetary Prince is effectively compensated
by the triune presence of the archangels, the Most High
observer, and the governor general.
114:5.4 This rather loosely organized and
somewhat personally administered planetary government is more
than expectedly effective because of the timesaving assistance
of the archangels and their ever-ready circuit, which is so
frequently utilized in planetary emergencies and administrative
difficulties. Technically, the planet is still spiritually
isolated in the Norlatiadek circuits, but in an emergency this
handicap can now be circumvented through utilization of the
archangels' circuit. Planetary isolation is, of course, of
little concern to individual mortals since the pouring out of
the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh nineteen hundred years ago.
114:5.5 Each administrative day on Urantia
begins with a consultative conference, which is attended by the
governor general, the planetary chief of archangels, the Most
High observer, the supervising supernaphim, the chief of
resident Life Carriers, and invited guests from among the high
Sons of the universe or from among certain of the student
visitors who may chance to be sojourning on the planet.
114:5.6 The direct administrative cabinet of
the governor general consists of twelve seraphim, the acting
chiefs of the twelve groups of special angels functioning as the
immediate superhuman directors of planetary progress and
stability.
6. THE MASTER SERAPHIM OF PLANETARY
SUPERVISION
114:6.1 When the first governor general
arrived on Urantia, concurrent with the outpouring of the Spirit
of Truth, he was accompanied by twelve corps of special
seraphim, Seraphington graduates, who were immediately assigned
to certain special planetary services. These exalted angels are
known as the master seraphim of planetary supervision and are,
aside from the overcontrol of the planetary Most High observer,
under the immediate direction of the resident governor general.
114:6.2 These twelve groups of angels, while
functioning under the general supervision of the resident
governor general, are immediately directed by the seraphic
council of twelve, the acting chiefs of each group. This council
also serves as the volunteer cabinet of the resident governor
general.
114:6.3 As planetary chief of seraphim, I
preside over this council of seraphic chiefs, and I am a
volunteer supernaphim of the primary order serving on Urantia as
the successor of the onetime chief of the angelic hosts of the
planet who defaulted at the time of the Caligastia secession.
114:6.4 The twelve corps of the master
seraphim of planetary supervision are functional on Urantia as
follows:
114:6.5 1. The epochal angels. These
are the angels of the current age, the dispensational group.
These celestial ministers are intrusted with the oversight and
direction of the affairs of each generation as they are designed
to fit into the mosaic of the age in which they occur. The
present corps of epochal angels serving on Urantia is the third
group assigned to the planet during the current dispensation.
114:6.6 2. The progress angels. These
seraphim are intrusted with the task of initiating the
evolutionary progress of the successive social ages. They foster
the development of the inherent progressive trend of
evolutionary creatures; they labor incessantly to make things
what they ought to be. The group now on duty is the second to be
assigned to the planet.
114:6.7 3. The religious guardians.
These are the "angels of the churches," the earnest contenders
for that which is and has been. They endeavor to maintain the
ideals of that which has survived for the sake of the safe
transit of moral values from one epoch to another. They are the
checkmates of the angels of progress, all the while seeking to
translate from one generation to another the imperishable values
of the old and passing forms into the new and therefore less
stabilized patterns of thought and conduct. These angels do
contend for spiritual forms, but they are not the source of
ultrasectarianism and meaningless controversial divisions of
professed religionists. The corps now functioning on Urantia is
the fifth thus to serve.
114:6.8 4. The angels of nation life.
These are the "angels of the trumpets," directors of the
political performances of Urantia national life. The group now
functioning in the overcontrol of international relations is the
fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through
the ministry of this seraphic division that "the Most Highs rule
in the kingdoms of men."
114:6.9 5. The angels of the races.
Those who work for the conservation of the evolutionary races of
time, regardless of their political entanglements and religious
groupings. On Urantia there are remnants of nine human races
which have commingled and combined into the people of modern
times. These seraphim are closely associated with the ministry
of the race commissioners, and the group now on Urantia is the
original corps assigned to the planet soon after the day of
Pentecost.
114:6.10 6. The angels of the future.
These are the projection angels, who forecast a future age and
plan for the realization of the better things of a new and
advancing dispensation; they are the architects of the
successive eras. The group now on the planet has thus functioned
since the beginning of the current dispensation.
114:6.11 7. The angels of enlightenment.
Urantia is now receiving the help of the third corps of seraphim
dedicated to the fostering of planetary education. These angels
are occupied with mental and moral training as it concerns
individuals, families, groups, schools, communities, nations,
and whole races.
114:6.12 8. The angels of health. These
are the seraphic ministers assigned to the assistance of those
mortal agencies dedicated to the promotion of health and the
prevention of disease. The present corps is the sixth group to
serve during this dispensation.
114:6.13 9. The home seraphim. Urantia
now enjoys the services of the fifth group of angelic ministers
dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the home, the
basic institution of human civilization.
114:6.14 10. The angels of industry.
This seraphic group is concerned with fostering industrial
development and improving economic conditions among the Urantia
peoples. This corps has been seven times changed since the
bestowal of Michael.
114:6.15 11. The angels of diversion.
These are the seraphim who foster the values of play, humor, and
rest. They ever seek to uplift man's recreational diversions and
thus to promote the more profitable utilization of human
leisure. The present corps is the third of that order to
minister on Urantia.
114:6.16 12. The angels of superhuman
ministry. These are the angels of the angels, those seraphim
who are assigned to the ministry of all other superhuman life on
the planet, temporary or permanent. This corps has served since
the beginning of the current dispensation.
114:6.17 When these groups of master seraphim
disagree in matters of planetary policy or procedure, their
differences are usually composed by the governor general, but
all his rulings are subject to appeal in accordance with the
nature and gravity of the issues involved in the disagreement.
114:6.18 None of these angelic groups exercise
direct or arbitrary control over the domains of their
assignment. They cannot fully control the affairs of their
respective realms of action, but they can and do so manipulate
planetary conditions and so associate circumstances as favorably
to influence the spheres of human activity to which they are
attached.
114:6.19 The master seraphim of planetary
supervision utilize many agencies for the prosecution of their
missions. They function as ideational clearinghouses, mind
focalizers, and project promoters. While unable to inject new
and higher conceptions into human minds, they often act to
intensify some higher ideal which has already appeared within a
human intellect.
114:6.20 But aside from these many means of
positive action, the master seraphim insure planetary progress
against vital jeopardy through the mobilization, training, and
maintenance of the reserve corps of destiny. The chief function
of these reservists is to insure against breakdown of
evolutionary progress; they are the provisions which the
celestial forces have made against surprise; they are the
guarantees against disaster.
7. THE RESERVE CORPS OF DESTINY
114:7.1 The reserve corps of destiny consists
of living men and women who have been admitted to the special
service of the superhuman administration of world affairs. This
corps is made up of the men and women of each generation who are
chosen by the spirit directors of the realm to assist in the
conduct of the ministry of mercy and wisdom to the children of
time on the evolutionary worlds. It is the general practice in
the conduct of the affairs of the ascension plans to begin this
liaison utilization of mortal will creatures immediately they
are competent and trustworthy to assume such responsibilities.
Accordingly, as soon as men and women appear on the stage of
temporal action with sufficient mental capacity, adequate moral
status, and requisite spirituality, they are quickly assigned to
the appropriate celestial group of planetary personalities as
human liaisons, mortal assistants.
114:7.2 When human beings are chosen as
protectors of planetary destiny, when they become pivotal
individuals in the plans which the world administrators are
prosecuting, at that time the planetary chief of seraphim
confirms their temporal attachment to the seraphic corps and
appoints personal destiny guardians to serve with these mortal
reservists. All reservists have self-conscious Adjusters, and
most of them function in the higher cosmic circles of
intellectual achievement and spiritual attainment.
114:7.3 Mortals of the realm are chosen for
service in the reserve corps of destiny on the inhabited worlds
because of:
1. Special capacity for being
secretly rehearsed for numerous possible emergency missions in
the conduct of various activities of world affairs.
2. Wholehearted dedication to some
special social, economic, political, spiritual, or other cause,
coupled with willingness to serve without human recognition and
rewards.
3. The possession of a Thought
Adjuster of extraordinary versatility and probable pre-Urantia
experience in coping with planetary difficulties and contending
with impending world emergency situations.
114:7.4 Each division of planetary celestial
service is entitled to a liaison corps of these mortals of
destiny standing. The average inhabited world employs seventy
separate corps of destiny, which are intimately connected with
the superhuman current conduct of world affairs. On Urantia
there are twelve reserve corps of destiny, one for each of the
planetary groups of seraphic supervision.
114:7.5 The twelve groups of Urantia destiny
reservists are composed of mortal inhabitants of the sphere who
have been rehearsed for numerous crucial positions on earth and
are held in readiness to act in possible planetary emergencies.
This combined corps now consists of 962 persons. The smallest
corps numbers 41 and the largest 172. With the exception of less
than a score of contact personalities, the members of this
unique group are wholly unconscious of their preparation for
possible function in certain planetary crises. These mortal
reservists are chosen by the corps to which they are
respectively attached and are likewise trained and rehearsed in
the deep mind by the combined technique of Thought Adjuster and
seraphic guardian ministry. Many times numerous other celestial
personalities participate in this unconscious training, and in
all this special preparation the midwayers perform valuable and
indispensable services.
114:7.6 On many worlds the better adapted
secondary midway creatures are able to attain varying degrees of
contact with the Thought Adjusters of certain favorably
constituted mortals through the skillful penetration of the
minds of the latters' indwelling. (And it was by just such a
fortuitous combination of cosmic adjustments that these
revelations were materialized in the English language on
Urantia.) Such potential contact mortals of the evolutionary
worlds are mobilized in the numerous reserve corps, and it is,
to a certain extent, through these small groups of
forward-looking personalities that spiritual civilization is
advanced and the Most Highs are able to rule in the kingdoms of
men. The men and women of these reserve corps of destiny thus
have various degrees of contact with their Adjusters through the
intervening ministry of the midway creatures; but these same
mortals are little known to their fellows except in those rare
social emergencies and spiritual exigencies wherein these
reserve personalities function for the prevention of the
breakdown of evolutionary culture or the extinction of the light
of living truth. On Urantia these reservists of destiny have
seldom been emblazoned on the pages of human history.
114:7.7 The reservists unconsciously act as
conservators of essential planetary information. Many times,
upon the death of a reservist, a transfer of certain vital data
from the mind of the dying reservist to a younger successor is
made by a liaison of the two Thought Adjusters. The Adjusters
undoubtedly function in many other ways unknown to us, in
connection with these reserve corps.
114:7.8 On Urantia the reserve corps of
destiny, though having no permanent head, does have its own
permanent councils which constitute its governing organization.
These embrace the judiciary council, the historicity council,
the council on political sovereignty, and many others. From time
to time, in accordance with the corps organization, titular
(mortal) heads of the whole reserve corps have been commissioned
by these permanent councils for specific function. The tenure of
such reservist chiefs is usually a matter of a few hours'
duration, being limited to the accomplishment of some specific
task at hand.
114:7.9 The Urantia reserve corps had its
largest membership in the days of the Adamites and Andites,
steadily declining with the dilution of the violet blood and
reaching its low point around the time of Pentecost, since which
time reserve corps membership has steadily increased.
114:7.10 (The cosmic reserve corps of
universe-conscious citizens on Urantia now numbers over one
thousand mortals whose insight of cosmic citizenship far
transcends the sphere of their terrestrial abode, but I am
forbidden to reveal the real nature of the function of this
unique group of living human beings.)
114:7.11 Urantia mortals should not allow the
comparative spiritual isolation of their world from certain of
the local universe circuits to produce a feeling of cosmic
desertion or planetary orphanage. There is operative on the
planet a very definite and effective superhuman supervision of
world affairs and human destinies.
114:7.12 But it is true that you can have, at
best, only a meager idea of an ideal planetary government. Since
the early times of the Planetary Prince, Urantia has suffered
from the miscarriage of the divine plan of world growth and
racial development. The loyal inhabited worlds of Satania are
not governed as is Urantia. Nevertheless, compared with the
other isolated worlds, your planetary governments have not been
so inferior; only one or two worlds may be said to be worse, and
a few may be slightly better, but the majority are on a plane of
equality with you.
114:7.13 No one in the local universe seems to
know when the unsettled status of the planetary administration
will terminate. The Nebadon Melchizedeks are inclined to the
opinion that little change will occur in the planetary
government and administration until Michael's second personal
arrival on Urantia. Undoubtedly at this time, if not before,
sweeping changes will be effected in planetary management. But
as to the nature of such modifications of world administration,
no one seems to be able even to conjecture. There is no
precedent for such an episode in all the history of the
inhabited worlds of the universe of Nebadon. Among the many
things difficult to understand concerning the future government
of Urantia, a prominent one is the location on the planet of a
circuit and divisional headquarters of the archangels.
114:7.14 Your isolated world is not forgotten
in the counsels of the universe. Urantia is not a cosmic orphan
stigmatized by sin and shut away from divine watchcare by
rebellion. From Uversa to Salvington and on down to Jerusem,
even in Havona and on Paradise, they all know we are here; and
you mortals now dwelling on Urantia are just as lovingly
cherished and just as faithfully watched over as if the sphere
had never been betrayed by a faithless Planetary Prince, even
more so. It is eternally true, "the Father himself loves you."
114:7.15
Presented by the Chief of Seraphim stationed on Urantia.
