Paper 37 Overview: Personalities of the Local Universe

The Creator and Master Son, Michael, stands at the head of all personalities in the local universe of Nebadon, working with the Divine Minister of Salvington. Together, they are like the Father-Son and Spirit-Mother of all native creatures in Nebadon. This paper focuses on a group called the Universe Aids, while also mentioning higher spirits in Nebadon and orders of permanent citizens.

The local universe contains many types of personalities who help run and improve this huge organization. The Universe Aids assist in many ways, while permanent citizens provide stability. Other groups, like Spirit-fused mortals and special teaching groups, help with universe activities. Together, these diverse beings make the universe work smoothly as a training ground for the pilgrims of time.

At the head of all personality in Nebadon stands the Creator and Master Son, Michael, who is the local universe father and ruler. Working closely with him is the local universe Mother Spirit, the Divine Minister of Salvington. These creators are literally the Father-Son and Spirit-Mother of all native creatures in Nebadon.

Previous papers have discussed the created orders of sonship, and later papers will cover the ministering spirits and ascending orders of sonship. This paper mainly focuses on an in-between group called the Universe Aids, but it will also briefly discuss some higher spirits in Nebadon and some orders of permanent citizens in the local universe.

Many unique orders grouped in this category are not yet revealed, but as presented in these papers, the Universe Aids include seven orders: Bright and Morning Stars, Brilliant Evening Stars, Archangels, Most High Assistants, High Commissioners, Celestial Overseers, and Mansion World Teachers. Of the first order, the Bright and Morning Stars, there is only one in each local universe.

The Bright and Morning Star of our universe is called Gabriel of Salvington. He is the chief executive of all Nebadon and acts as the personal representative of the Sovereign Son and spokesman for his creative partner. During the early times of Nebadon, Gabriel worked almost alone with Michael and the Creative Spirit, but as the universe grew, he received personal assistants and eventually was supported by the Nebadon corps of Evening Stars.

These bright beings were planned by the Melchizedeks and then created by the Creator Son and Creative Spirit. They serve in many roles but mainly as liaison officers for Gabriel, the local universe chief executive. One or more of these beings act as his representatives at the capital of every constellation and system in Nebadon.

As chief executive of Nebadon, Gabriel is automatically the chairman of, or observer at, most Salvington meetings, and as many as one thousand of these are often happening at the same time. The Brilliant Evening Stars represent Gabriel on these occasions since he cannot be in two places at once. These superangels make up for this limitation and perform a similar service for the Trinity Teacher Sons.

Archangels are the children of the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit. They are the highest type of high spirit being produced in large numbers in a local universe, and at the time of the last count, there were almost eight hundred thousand in Nebadon. They are one of the few groups of local universe personalities who are not normally under Gabriel's authority.

The archangels are not involved in the routine administration of the universe but are dedicated to the work of creature survival and helping mortals on their ascending career. While not usually subject to the direction of the Bright and Morning Star, the archangels sometimes work under his authority. They also collaborate with other Universe Aids, such as the Evening Stars, as shown in the story of life transplantation on your world.

The Most High Assistants are a group of volunteering beings from outside the local universe who are temporarily assigned as central and superuniverse representatives to, or observers of, the local creations. Their number changes constantly but is always in the millions. The Most High Assistants serve in local universe and constellation roles but are not directly attached to system or planetary governments.

From time to time, Nebadon benefits from the service of Paradise-origin beings like Perfectors of Wisdom, Divine Counselors, Universal Censors, Inspired Trinity Spirits, Trinitized Sons, Solitary Messengers, and other helpful ministers. They stay in Nebadon to help the native personalities bring the local universe into greater harmony with the ideas of Orvonton and the ideals of Paradise.

The High Commissioners are Spirit-fused ascendant mortals, not Adjuster fused. You understand about the universe-ascension career of a mortal candidate for Adjuster fusion, which is the high destiny for all Urantia mortals since the bestowal of Christ Michael. But not all mortals in the pre-bestowal ages of worlds like yours are permanently indwelt by Thought Adjusters.

These Spirit-fused mortals achieve immortality by eternal fusion with an individualized fragment of the spirit of the local universe Mother Spirit. They are not a large group, at least not in Nebadon. On the mansion worlds, you will meet and work with these Spirit-fused mortals as they ascend the Paradise path with you as far as Salvington, where they stop. Some may later go to higher universe levels, but most will stay in service of the local universe.

The Nebadon educational system is jointly run by the Trinity Teacher Sons and the Melchizedek teaching corps, but much of the work to maintain and build it is done by the Celestial Overseers. These beings are a recruited corps including all types of individuals connected with educating and training ascending mortals. There are more than three million of them in Nebadon.

From their headquarters on the Salvington worlds of the Melchizedeks, these overseers travel throughout the local universe as inspectors of the Nebadon school technique designed to train the mind and educate the spirit of ascending creatures. This training of mind and education of spirit is carried out from the worlds of human origin through the system mansion worlds and other spheres of progress associated with Jerusem, up through the seventy socializing realms of Edentia and on to the four hundred and ninety spheres of spirit progress surrounding Salvington.

The Mansion World Teachers are recruited and glorified cherubim. Like most other instructors in Nebadon, they are commissioned by the Melchizedeks. They work in most of the educational projects of the morontia life, and their number is beyond what a mortal mind can understand.

As an attainment level of cherubim and sanobim, the Mansion World Teachers will be discussed further in the next paper. As teachers playing an important part in the morontia life, they will be more extensively covered in the paper about that subject.

Besides the power centers and physical controllers, certain higher-origin spirits of the Infinite Spirit family are permanently assigned to the local universe. Of the higher spirit orders of the Infinite Spirit family, seven such types are assigned to the local universe, including Solitary Messengers, Universe Circuit Supervisors, Census Directors, Associate Inspectors, Universal Conciliators, Technical Advisers, and Celestial Recorders.

Solitary Messengers, when attached to the local universe administration, provide invaluable service in overcoming the limitations of time and space. Even when not directly assigned, these unique beings are always willing to help with solving problems and carrying out commands. Andovontia is the name of the tertiary Universe Circuit Supervisor stationed in our local universe, concerned only with spirit and morontia circuits, not those under the power directors' control.

Like the super and central universes, the local universe has its orders of permanent citizenship. These include the following created types: Susatia, Univitatia, Material Sons, and Midway Creatures. These natives of the local creation, along with the Spirit-fused ascenders and the spironga (classified elsewhere), make up a relatively permanent citizenship. These beings are generally neither ascending nor descending.

The Susatia are marvelous beings who live and serve as permanent citizens on Salvington, the headquarters of the local universe. They are the brilliant offspring of the Creator Son and Creative Spirit. The Univitatia are the permanent population of the constellation headquarters worlds, living on a level between the Material Sons on the system headquarters and the more spiritual plane of the Spirit-fused mortals and the susatia of Salvington, though they are not morontia beings.

Besides the seraphic and mortal orders, which will be discussed in later papers, there are many additional beings involved in maintaining and perfecting such a gigantic organization as the universe of Nebadon, which now has more than three million inhabited worlds, with ten million more expected. The various Nebadon types of life are too numerous to list, but there are two unusual orders that work extensively on the architectural spheres of the local universe that can be mentioned.

The Spironga are the spirit offspring of the Bright and Morning Star and the Father Melchizedek. They are not subject to personality termination, but they are not evolutionary or ascending beings. They are the spirit helpers of the local universe, carrying out the routine spirit tasks of Nebadon. The Spornagia are physical creatures devoted to the care and culture of the material aspects of the headquarters worlds, from Jerusem to Salvington. They are neither spirits nor persons but are an animal order of existence.