PAPER 43
THE CONSTELLATIONS
43:0.1 URANTIA is commonly referred to as 606 of
Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, meaning the six hundred sixth inhabited
world in the local system of Satania, situated in the constellation of
Norlatiadek, one of the one hundred constellations of the local universe of
Nebadon. Constellations being the primary divisions of a local universe, their
rulers link the local systems of inhabited worlds to the central
administration of the local universe on Salvington and by reflectivity to the
superadministration of the Ancients of Days on Uversa.
43:0.2 The government of your constellation is
situated in a cluster of 771 architectural spheres, the centermost and largest
of which is Edentia, the seat of the administration of the Constellation
Fathers, the Most Highs of Norlatiadek. Edentia itself is approximately one
hundred times as large as your world. The seventy major spheres surrounding
Edentia are about ten times the size of Urantia, while the ten satellites
which revolve around each of these seventy worlds are about the size of
Urantia. These 771 architectural spheres are quite comparable in size to those
of other constellations.
43:0.3 Edentia time reckoning and distance
measurement are those of Salvington, and like the spheres of the universe
capital, the constellation headquarters worlds are fully supplied with all
orders of celestial intelligences. In general, these personalities are not
very different from those described in connection with the universe
administration.
43:0.4 The supervisor seraphim, the third order of
local universe angels, are assigned to the service of the constellations. They
make their headquarters on the capital spheres and minister extensively to the
encircling morontia-training worlds. In Norlatiadek the seventy major spheres,
together with the seven hundred minor satellites, are inhabited by the
univitatia, the permanent citizens of the constellation. All these
architectural worlds are fully administered by the various groups of native
life, for the greater part unrevealed but including the efficient spironga and
the beautiful spornagia. Being the mid-point in the morontia-training regime,
as you might suspect, the morontia life of the constellations is both typical
and ideal.
1. THE CONSTELLATION HEADQUARTERS
43:1.1 Edentia abounds in fascinating highlands,
extensive elevations of physical matter crowned with morontia life and
overspread with spiritual glory, but there are no rugged mountain ranges such
as appear on Urantia. There are tens of thousands of sparkling lakes and
thousands upon thousands of interconnecting streams, but there are no great
oceans nor torrential rivers. Only the highlands are devoid of these surface
streams.
43:1.2 The water of Edentia and similar
architectural spheres is no different from the water of the evolutionary
planets. The water systems of such spheres are both surface and subterranean,
and the moisture is in constant circulation. Edentia can be circumnavigated
via these various water routes, though the chief channel of transportation is
the atmosphere. Spirit beings would naturally travel above the surface of the
sphere, while the morontia and material beings make use of material and
semimaterial means to negotiate atmospheric passage.
43:1.3 Edentia and its associated worlds have a true
atmosphere, the usual three-gas mixture which is characteristic of such
architectural creations, and which embodies the two elements of Urantian
atmosphere plus that morontia gas suitable for the respiration of morontia
creatures. But while this atmosphere is both material and morontial, there are
no storms or hurricanes; neither is there summer nor winter. This absence of
atmospheric disturbances and of seasonal variation makes it possible to
embellish all outdoors on these especially created worlds.
43:1.4 The Edentia highlands are magnificent
physical features, and their beauty is enhanced by the endless profusion of
life which abounds throughout their length and breadth. Excepting a few rather
isolated structures, these highlands contain no work of creature hands.
Material and morontial ornamentations are limited to the dwelling areas. The
lesser elevations are the sites of special residences and are beautifully
embellished with both biologic and morontia art.
43:1.5 Situated on the summit of the seventh
highland range are the resurrection halls of Edentia, wherein awaken the
ascending mortals of the secondary modified order of ascension. These chambers
of creature reassembly are under the supervision of the Melchizedeks. The
first of the receiving spheres of Edentia (like the planet Melchizedek near
Salvington) also has special resurrection halls, wherein the mortals of the
modified orders of ascension are reassembled.
43:1.6 The Melchizedeks also maintain two special
colleges on Edentia. One, the emergency school, is devoted to the study of
problems growing out of the Satania rebellion. The other, the bestowal school,
is dedicated to the mastery of the new problems arising out of the fact that
Michael made his final bestowal on one of the worlds of Norlatiadek. This
latter college was established almost four thousand years ago, immediately
after the announcement by Michael that Urantia had been selected as the world
for his final bestowal.
43:1.7 The sea of glass, the receiving area of
Edentia, is near the administrative center and is encircled by the
headquarters amphitheater. Surrounding this area are the governing centers for
the seventy divisions of constellation affairs. One half of Edentia is divided
into seventy triangular sections, whose boundaries converge at the
headquarters buildings of their respective sectors. The remainder of this
sphere is one vast natural park, the gardens of God.
43:1.8 During your periodic visits to Edentia,
though the entire planet is open to your inspection, most of your time will be
spent in that administrative triangle whose number corresponds to that of your
current residential world. You will always be welcome as an observer in the
legislative assemblies.
43:1.9 The morontia area assigned to ascending
mortals resident on Edentia is located in the mid-zone of the thirty-fifth
triangle adjoining the headquarters of the finaliters, situated in the
thirty-sixth triangle. The general headquarters of the univitatia occupies an
enormous area in the mid-region of the thirty-fourth triangle immediately
adjoining the residential reservation of the morontia citizens. From these
arrangements it may be seen that provision is made for the accommodation of at
least seventy major divisions of celestial life, and also that each of these
seventy triangular areas is correlated with some one of the seventy major
spheres of morontia training.
43:1.10 The Edentia sea of glass is one enormous
circular crystal about one hundred miles in circumference and about thirty
miles in depth. This magnificent crystal serves as the receiving field for all
transport seraphim and other beings arriving from points outside the sphere;
such a sea of glass greatly facilitates the landing of transport
seraphim.
43:1.11 A crystal field on this order is found on
almost all architectural worlds; and it serves many purposes aside from its
decorative value, being utilized for portraying superuniverse reflectivity to
assembled groups and as a factor in the energy-transformation technique for
modifying the currents of space and for adapting other incoming
physical-energy streams.
2. THE CONSTELLATION GOVERNMENT
43:2.1 The constellations are the autonomous units
of a local universe, each constellation being administered according to its
own legislative enactments. When the courts of Nebadon sit in judgment on
universe affairs, all internal matters are adjudicated in accordance with the
laws prevailing in the constellation concerned. These judicial decrees of
Salvington, together with the legislative enactments of the constellations,
are executed by the administrators of the local systems.
43:2.2 Constellations thus function as the
legislative or lawmaking units, while the local systems serve as the executive
or enforcement units. The Salvington government is the supreme judicial and
co-ordinating authority.
43:2.3 While the supreme judicial function rests
with the central administration of a local universe, there are two subsidiary
but major tribunals at the headquarters of each constellation, the Melchizedek
council and the court of the Most High.
43:2.4 All judicial problems are first reviewed by
the council of the Melchizedeks. Twelve of this order who have had certain
requisite experience on the evolutionary planets and on the system
headquarters worlds are empowered to review evidence, digest pleas, and
formulate provisional verdicts, which are passed on to the court of the Most
High, the reigning Constellation Father. The mortal division of this latter
tribunal consists of seven judges, all of whom are ascendant mortals. The
higher you ascend in the universe, the more certain you are to be judged by
those of your own kind.
43:2.5 The constellation legislative body is divided
into three groups. The legislative program of a constellation originates in
the lower house of ascenders, a group presided over by a finaliter and
consisting of one thousand representative mortals. Each system nominates ten
members to sit in this deliberative assembly. On Edentia this body is not
fully recruited at the present time.
43:2.6 The mid-chamber of legislators is composed of
the seraphic hosts and their associates, other children of the local universe
Mother Spirit. This group numbers one hundred and is nominated by the
supervising personalities who preside over the various activities of such
beings as they function within the constellation.
43:2.7 The advisory or highest body of constellation
legislators consists of the house of peers -- the house of the divine Sons.
This corps is chosen by the Most High Fathers and numbers ten. Only Sons of
special experience may serve in this upper house. This is the fact-finding and
timesaving group which very effectively serves both of the lower divisions of
the legislative assembly.
43:2.8 The combined council of legislators consists
of three members from each of these separate branches of the constellation
deliberative assembly and is presided over by the reigning junior Most High.
This group sanctions the final form of all enactments and authorizes their
promulgation by the broadcasters. The approval of this supreme commission
renders legislative enactments the law of the realm; their acts are final. The
legislative pronouncements of Edentia constitute the fundamental law of all
Norlatiadek.
3. THE MOST HIGHS OF NORLATIADEK
43:3.1 The rulers of the constellations are of the
Vorondadek order of local universe sonship. When commissioned to active duty
in the universe as constellation rulers or otherwise, these Sons are known as
the Most Highs since they embody the highest administrative wisdom,
coupled with the most farseeing and intelligent loyalty, of all the orders of
the Local Universe Sons of God. Their personal integrity and their group
loyalty have never been questioned; no disaffection of the Vorondadek Sons has
ever occurred in Nebadon.
43:3.2 At least three Vorondadek Sons are
commissioned by Gabriel as the Most Highs of each of the Nebadon
constellations. The presiding member of this trio is known as the
Constellation Father and his two associates as the senior Most
High and the junior Most High. A Constellation Father reigns for
ten thousand standard years (about 50,000 Urantia years), having previously
served as junior associate and as senior associate for equal
periods.
43:3.3 The Psalmist knew that Edentia was ruled by
three Constellation Fathers and accordingly spoke of their abode in the
plural: "There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of
God, the most holy place of the tabernacles of the Most Highs."
43:3.4 Down through the ages there has been great
confusion on Urantia regarding the various universe rulers. Many later
teachers confused their vague and indefinite tribal deities with the Most High
Fathers. Still later, the Hebrews merged all of these celestial rulers into a
composite Deity. One teacher understood that the Most Highs were not the
Supreme Rulers, for he said, "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." In the Urantia records it
is very difficult at times to know exactly who is referred to by the term
"Most High." But Daniel fully understood these matters. He said, "The Most
High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomsoever he will."
43:3.5 The Constellation Fathers are little occupied
with the individuals of an inhabited planet, but they are closely associated
with those legislative and lawmaking functions of the constellations which so
greatly concern every mortal race and national group of the
inhabited worlds.
43:3.6 Although the constellation regime stands
between you and the universe administration, as individuals you would
ordinarily be little concerned with the constellation government. Your great
interest would normally center in the local system, Satania; but temporarily,
Urantia is closely related to the constellation rulers because of certain
system and planetary conditions growing out of the Lucifer
rebellion.
43:3.7 The Edentia Most Highs seized certain phases
of planetary authority on the rebellious worlds at the time of the Lucifer
secession. They have continued to exercise this power, and the Ancients of
Days long since confirmed this assumption of control over these wayward
worlds. They will no doubt continue to exercise this assumed jurisdiction as
long as Lucifer lives. Much of this authority would ordinarily, in a loyal
system, be invested in the System Sovereign.
43:3.8 But there is still another way in which
Urantia became peculiarly related to the Most Highs. When Michael, the Creator
Son, was on his terminal bestowal mission, since the successor of Lucifer was
not in full authority in the local system, all Urantia affairs which concerned
the Michael bestowal were immediately supervised by the Most Highs of
Norlatiadek.
4. MOUNT ASSEMBLY -- THE FAITHFUL OF DAYS
43:4.1 The most holy mount of assembly is the
dwelling place of the Faithful of Days, the representative of the Paradise
Trinity who functions on Edentia.
43:4.2 This Faithful of Days is a Trinity Son of
Paradise and has been present on Edentia as the personal representative of
Immanuel since the creation of the headquarters world. Ever the Faithful of
Days stands at the right hand of the Constellation Fathers to counsel them,
but never does he proffer advice unless it is asked for. The high Sons of
Paradise never participate in the conduct of the affairs of a local universe
except upon the petition of the acting rulers of such domains. But all that a
Union of Days is to a Creator Son, a Faithful of Days is to the Most Highs of
a constellation.
43:4.3 The residence of the Edentia Faithful of Days
is the constellation center of the Paradise system of extrauniverse
communication and intelligence. These Trinity Sons, with their staffs of
Havona and Paradise personalities, in liaison with the supervising Union of
Days, are in direct and constant communication with their order throughout all
the universes, even to Havona and Paradise.
43:4.4 The most holy mount is exquisitely beautiful
and marvelously appointed, but the actual residence of the Paradise Son is
modest in comparison with the central abode of the Most Highs and the
surrounding seventy structures comprising the residential unit of the
Vorondadek Sons. These appointments are exclusively residential; they are
entirely separate from the extensive administrative headquarters buildings
wherein the affairs of the constellation are transacted.
43:4.5 The residence of the Faithful of Days on
Edentia is located to the north of these residences of the Most Highs and is
known as the "mount of Paradise assembly." On this consecrated highland the
ascending mortals periodically assemble to hear this Son of Paradise tell of
the long and intriguing journey of progressing mortals through the one billion
perfection worlds of Havona and on to the indescribable delights of Paradise.
And it is at these special gatherings on Mount Assembly that the morontia
mortals become more fully acquainted with the various groups of personalities
of origin in the central universe.
43:4.6 The traitorous Lucifer, onetime sovereign of
Satania, in announcing his claims to increased jurisdiction, sought to
displace all superior orders of sonship in the governmental plan of the local
universe. He purposed in his heart, saying: "I will exalt my throne above the
Sons of God; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the north; I will be
like the Most High."
43:4.7 The one hundred System Sovereigns come
periodically to the Edentia conclaves which deliberate on the welfare of the
constellation. After the Satania rebellion the archrebels of Jerusem were wont
to come up to these Edentia councils just as they had on former occasions. And
there was found no way to stop this arrogant effrontery until after the
bestowal of Michael on Urantia and his subsequent assumption of unlimited
sovereignty throughout all Nebadon. Never, since that day, have these
instigators of sin been permitted to sit in the Edentia councils of the loyal
System Sovereigns.
43:4.8 That the teachers of olden times knew of
these things is shown by the record: "And there was a day when the Sons of God
came to present themselves before the Most Highs, and Satan came also and
presented himself among them." And this is a statement of fact regardless of
the connection in which it chances to appear.
43:4.9 Since the triumph of Christ, all Norlatiadek
is being cleansed of sin and rebels. Sometime before Michael's death in the
flesh the fallen Lucifer's associate, Satan, sought to attend such an Edentia
conclave, but the solidification of sentiment against the archrebels had
reached the point where the doors of sympathy were so well-nigh universally
closed that there could be found no standing ground for the Satania
adversaries. When there exists no open door for the reception of evil, there
exists no opportunity for the entertainment of sin. The doors of the hearts of
all Edentia closed against Satan; he was unanimously rejected by the assembled
System Sovereigns, and it was at this time that the Son of Man "beheld Satan
fall as lightning from heaven."
43:4.10 Since the Lucifer rebellion a new structure
has been provided near the residence of the Faithful of Days. This temporary
edifice is the headquarters of the Most High liaison, who functions in close
touch with the Paradise Son as adviser to the constellation government in all
matters respecting the policy and attitude of the order of Days toward sin and
rebellion.
5. THE EDENTIA FATHERS SINCE THE LUCIFER REBELLION
43:5.1 The rotation of the Most Highs on Edentia was
suspended at the time of the Lucifer rebellion. We now have the same rulers
who were on duty at that time. We infer that no change in these rulers will be
made until Lucifer and his associates are finally disposed of.
43:5.2 The present government of the constellation,
however, has been expanded to include twelve Sons of the Vorondadek order.
These twelve are as follows:
43:5.3 1. The Constellation Father. The present Most
High ruler of Norlatiadek is number 617,318 of the Vorondadek series of
Nebadon. He saw service in many constellations throughout our local universe
before taking up his Edentia responsibilities.
43:5.4 2. The senior Most High associate.
43:5.5 3. The junior Most High associate.
43:5.6 4. The Most High adviser, the personal
representative of Michael since his attainment of the status of a Master
Son.
43:5.7 5. The Most High executive, the personal
representative of Gabriel stationed on Edentia ever since the Lucifer
rebellion.
43:5.8 6. The Most High chief of planetary
observers, the director of the Vorondadek observers stationed on the isolated
worlds of Satania.
43:5.9 7. The Most High referee, the Vorondadek Son
intrusted with the duty of adjusting all difficulties consequential to
rebellion within the constellation.
43:5.10 8. The Most High emergency administrator,
the Vorondadek Son charged with the task of adapting the emergency enactments
of the Norlatiadek legislature to the rebellion-isolated worlds of
Satania.
43:5.11 9. The Most High mediator, the Vorondadek
Son assigned to harmonize the special bestowal adjustments on Urantia with the
routine administration of the constellation. The presence of certain archangel
activities and numerous other irregular ministrations on Urantia, together
with the special activities of the Brilliant Evening Stars on Jerusem,
necessitates the functioning of this Son.
43:5.12 10. The Most High judge-advocate, the head
of the emergency tribunal devoted to the adjustment of the special problems of
Norlatiadek growing out of the confusion consequent upon the Satania
rebellion.
43:5.13 11. The Most High liaison, the Vorondadek
Son attached to the Edentia rulers but commissioned as a special counselor
with the Faithful of Days regarding the best course to pursue in the
management of problems pertaining to rebellion and creature
disloyalty.
43:5.14 12. The Most High director, the president of
the emergency council of Edentia. All personalities assigned to Norlatiadek
because of the Satania upheaval constitute the emergency council, and their
presiding officer is a Vorondadek Son of extraordinary experience.
43:5.15 And this takes no account of the numerous
Vorondadeks, envoys of Nebadon constellations, and others who are also
resident on Edentia.
43:5.16 Ever since the Lucifer rebellion the Edentia
Fathers have exercised a special care over Urantia and the other isolated
worlds of Satania. Long ago the prophet recognized the controlling hand of the
Constellation Fathers in the affairs of nations. "When the Most High divided
to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set
the bounds of the people."
43:5.17 Every quarantined or isolated world has a
Vorondadek Son acting as an observer. He does not participate in planetary
administration except when ordered by the Constellation Father to intervene in
the affairs of the nations. Actually it is this Most High observer who "rules
in the kingdoms of men." Urantia is one of the isolated worlds of Norlatiadek,
and a Vorondadek observer has been stationed on the planet ever since the
Caligastia betrayal. When Machiventa Melchizedek ministered in semimaterial
form on Urantia, he paid respectful homage to the Most High observer then on
duty, as it is written, "And Melchizedek, king of Salem, was the priest of the
Most High." Melchizedek revealed the relations of this Most High observer to
Abraham when he said, "And blessed be the Most High, who has delivered your
enemies into your hand."
6. THE GARDENS OF GOD
43:6.1 The system capitals are particularly
beautified with material and mineral constructions, while the universe
headquarters is more reflective of spiritual glory, but the capitals of the
constellations are the acme of morontia activities and living embellishments.
On the constellation headquarters worlds living embellishment is more
generally utilized, and it is this preponderance of life -- botanic artistry
-- that causes these worlds to be called "the gardens of God."
43:6.2 About one half of Edentia is devoted to the
exquisite gardens of the Most Highs, and these gardens are among the most
entrancing morontia creations of the local universe. This explains why the
extraordinarily beautiful places on the inhabited worlds of Norlatiadek are so
often called "the garden of Eden."
43:6.3 Centrally located in this magnificent garden
is the worship shrine of the Most Highs. The Psalmist must have known
something about these things, for he wrote: "Who shall ascend the hill of the
Most Highs? Who shall stand in this holy place? He who has clean hands and a
pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully."
At this shrine the Most Highs, on every tenth day of relaxation, lead all
Edentia in the worshipful contemplation of God the Supreme.
43:6.4 The architectural worlds enjoy ten forms of
life of the material order. On Urantia there is plant and animal life, but on
such a world as Edentia there are ten divisions of the material orders of
life. Were you to view these ten divisions of Edentia life, you would quickly
classify the first three as vegetable and the last three as animal, but you
would be utterly unable to comprehend the nature of the intervening four
groups of prolific and fascinating forms of life.
43:6.5 Even the distinctively animal life is very
different from that of the evolutionary worlds, so different that it is quite
impossible to portray to mortal minds the unique character and affectionate
nature of these nonspeaking creatures. There are thousands upon thousands of
living creatures which your imagination could not possibly picture. The whole
animal creation is of an entirely different order from the gross animal
species of the evolutionary planets. But all this animal life is most
intelligent and exquisitely serviceable, and all the various species are
surprisingly gentle and touchingly companionable. There are no carnivorous
creatures on such architectural worlds; there is nothing in all Edentia to
make any living being afraid.
43:6.6 The vegetable life is also very different
from that of Urantia, consisting of both material and morontia varieties. The
material growths have a characteristic green coloration, but the morontia
equivalents of vegetative life have a violet or orchid tinge of varying hue
and reflection. Such morontia vegetation is purely an energy growth; when
eaten there is no residual portion.
43:6.7 Being endowed with ten divisions of physical
life, not to mention the morontia variations, these architectural worlds
provide tremendous possibilities for the biologic beautification of the
landscape and of the material and the morontia structures. The celestial
artisans direct the native spornagia in this extensive work of botanic
decoration and biologic embellishment. Whereas your artists must resort to
inert paint and lifeless marble to portray their concepts, the celestial
artisans and the univitatia more frequently utilize living materials to
represent their ideas and to capture their ideals.
43:6.8 If you enjoy the flowers, shrubs, and trees
of Urantia, then will you feast your eyes upon the botanical beauty and the
floral grandeur of the supernal gardens of Edentia. But it is beyond my powers
of description to undertake to convey to the mortal mind an adequate concept
of these beauties of the heavenly worlds. Truly, eye has not seen such glories
as await your arrival on these worlds of the mortal-ascension adventure.
7. THE UNIVITATIA
43:7.1 Univitatia are the permanent citizens of
Edentia and its associated worlds, all seven hundred seventy worlds
surrounding the constellation headquarters being under their supervision.
These children of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit are projected on a
plane of existence in between the material and the spiritual, but they are not
morontia creatures. The natives of each of the seventy major spheres of
Edentia possess different visible forms, and the morontia mortals have their
morontia forms attuned to correspond with the ascending scale of the
univitatia each time they change residence from one Edentia sphere to another
as they pass successively from world number one to world number
seventy.
43:7.2 Spiritually, the univitatia are alike;
intellectually, they vary as do mortals; in form, they much resemble the
morontia state of existence, and they are created to function in seventy
diverse orders of personality. Each of these orders of univitatia exhibits ten
major variations of intellectual activity, and each of these varying
intellectual types presides over the special training and cultural schools of
progressive occupational or practical socialization on some one of the ten
satellites which swing around each of the major Edentia worlds.
43:7.3 These seven hundred minor worlds are
technical spheres of practical education in the working of the entire local
universe and are open to all classes of intelligent beings. These training
schools of special skill and technical knowledge are not conducted exclusively
for ascending mortals, although morontia students constitute by far the
largest group of all those who attend these courses of training. When you are
received on any one of the seventy major worlds of social culture, you are
immediately given clearance for each of the ten surrounding
satellites.
43:7.4 In the various courtesy colonies, ascending
morontia mortals predominate among the reversion directors, but the univitatia
represent the largest group associated with the Nebadon corps of celestial
artisans. In all Orvonton no extra-Havona beings excepting the Uversa
abandonters can equal the univitatia in artistic skill, social adaptability,
and co-ordinating cleverness.
43:7.5 These citizens of the constellation are not
actually members of the artisan corps, but they freely work with all groups
and contribute much to making the constellation worlds the chief spheres for
the realization of the magnificent artistic possibilities of transition
culture. They do not function beyond the confines of the constellation
headquarters worlds.
8. THE EDENTIA TRAINING WORLDS
43:8.1 The physical endowment of Edentia and its
surrounding spheres is well-nigh perfect; they could hardly equal the
spiritual grandeur of the spheres of Salvington, but they far surpass the
glories of the training worlds of Jerusem. All these Edentia spheres are
energized directly by the universal space currents, and their enormous power
systems, both material and morontial, are expertly supervised and distributed
by the constellation centers, assisted by a competent corps of Master Physical
Controllers and Morontia Power Supervisors.
43:8.2 The time spent on the seventy training worlds
of transition morontia culture associated with the Edentia age of mortal
ascension, is the most settled period in an ascending mortal's career up to
the status of a finaliter; this is really the typical morontia life. While you
are rekeyed each time you pass from one major cultural world to another, you
retain the same morontia body, and there are no periods of personality
unconsciousness.
43:8.3 Your sojourn on Edentia and its associated
spheres will be chiefly occupied with the mastery of group ethics, the secret
of pleasant and profitable interrelationship between the various universe and
superuniverse orders of intelligent personalities.
43:8.4 On the mansion worlds you completed the
unification of the evolving mortal personality; on the system capital you
attained Jerusem citizenship and achieved the willingness to submit the self
to the disciplines of group activities and co-ordinated undertakings; but now
on the constellation training worlds you are to achieve the real socialization
of your evolving morontia personality. This supernal cultural acquirement
consists in learning how to:
43:8.5 1. Live happily and work effectively with ten
diverse fellow morontians, while ten such groups are associated in companies
of one hundred and then federated in corps of one thousand.
43:8.6 2. Abide joyfully and co-operate heartily
with ten univitatia, who, though similar intellectually to morontia beings,
are very different in every other way. And then must you function with this
group of ten as it co-ordinates with ten other families, which are in turn
confederated into a corps of one thousand univitatia.
43:8.7 3. Achieve simultaneous adjustment to both
fellow morontians and these host univitatia. Acquire the ability voluntarily
and effectively to co-operate with your own order of beings in close working
association with a somewhat dissimilar group of intelligent
creatures.
43:8.8 4. While thus socially functioning with
beings like and unlike yourself, achieve intellectual harmony with, and make
vocational adjustment to, both groups of associates.
43:8.9 5. While attaining satisfactory socialization
of the personality on intellectual and vocational levels, further perfect the
ability to live in intimate contact with similar and slightly dissimilar
beings with ever-lessening irritability and ever-diminishing resentment. The
reversion directors contribute much to this latter attainment through their
group-play activities.
43:8.10 6. Adjust all of these various socialization
techniques to the furtherance of the progressive co-ordination of the
Paradise-ascension career; augment universe insight by enhancing the ability
to grasp the eternal goal-meanings concealed within these seemingly
insignificant time-space activities.
43:8.11 7. And then, climax all of these procedures
of multisocialization with the concurrent enhancement of spiritual insight as
it pertains to the augmentation of all phases of personal endowment through
group spiritual association and morontia co-ordination. Intellectually,
socially, and spiritually two moral creatures do not merely double their
personal potentials of universe achievement by partnership technique; they
more nearly quadruple their attainment and accomplishment
possibilities.
43:8.12 We have portrayed Edentia socialization as
an association of a morontia mortal with a univitatia family group consisting
of ten intellectually dissimilar individuals concomitant with a similar
association with ten fellow morontians. But on the first seven major worlds
only one ascending mortal lives with ten univitatia. On the second group of
seven major worlds two mortals abide with each native group of ten, and so on
up until, on the last group of seven major spheres, ten morontia beings are
domiciled with ten univitatia. As you learn how better to socialize with the
univitatia, you will practice such improved ethics in your relations with your
fellow morontia progressors.
43:8.13 As ascending mortals you will enjoy your
sojourn on the progress worlds of Edentia, but you will not experience that
personal thrill of satisfaction which characterizes your initial contact with
universe affairs on the system headquarters or your farewell touch with these
realities on the final worlds of the universe capital.
9. CITIZENSHIP ON EDENTIA
43:9.1 After graduation from world number seventy,
ascending mortals take up residence on Edentia. Ascenders now, for the first
time, attend the "assemblies of Paradise" and hear the story of their
far-flung career as it is depicted by the Faithful of Days, the first of the
Supreme Trinity-origin Personalities they have met.
43:9.2 This entire sojourn on the constellation
training worlds, culminating in Edentia citizenship, is a period of true and
heavenly bliss for the morontia progressors. Throughout your sojourn on the
system worlds you were evolving from a near-animal to a morontia creature; you
were more material than spiritual. On the Salvington spheres you will be
evolving from a morontia being to the status of a true spirit; you will be
more spiritual than material. But on Edentia, ascenders are midway between
their former and their future estates, midway in their passage from
evolutionary animal to ascending spirit. During your whole stay on Edentia and
its worlds you are "as the angels"; you are constantly progressing but all the
while maintaining a general and a typical morontia status.
43:9.3 This constellation sojourn of an ascending
mortal is the most uniform and stabilized epoch in the entire career of
morontia progression. This experience constitutes the prespirit socialization
training of the ascenders. It is analogous to the prefinaliter spiritual
experience of Havona and to the preabsonite training on Paradise.
43:9.4 Ascending mortals on Edentia are chiefly
occupied with the assignments on the seventy progressive univitatia worlds.
They also serve in varied capacities on Edentia itself, mainly in conjunction
with the constellation program concerned with group, racial, national, and
planetary welfare. The Most Highs are not so much engaged in fostering
individual advancement on the inhabited worlds; they rule in the kingdoms of
men rather than in the hearts of individuals.
43:9.5 And on that day when you are prepared to
leave Edentia for the Salvington career, you will pause and look back on one
of the most beautiful and most refreshing of all your epochs of training this
side of Paradise. But the glory of it all augments as you ascend inward and
achieve increased capacity for enlarged appreciation of divine meanings and
spiritual values.
43:9.6 Sponsored by
Malavatia Melchizedek.
