Most+High+Observer

THE MOST HIGH OBSERVER
== Urantia Book [|Paper 114]:[|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.