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BOARD OF PLANETARY SUPERVISORS
 == Urantia Book [|Paper 114]:[|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.