PAPER 46
THE LOCAL SYSTEM HEADQUARTERS
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.
