Satania

[|PAPER 45]: THE LOCAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
45:0.1 The [|administrative] [|center] of [|Satania] consists of a cluster of [|architectural spheres], fifty-seven in [|number]—[|Jerusem] itself, the [|seven] major [|satellites], and the forty-nine subsatellites. [|Jerusem], [|the system] capital, is almost one hundred times the size of [|Urantia], although its [|gravity] is a trifle less. [|Jerusem]'s major [|satellites] are the [|seven] [|transition] worlds, each of which is about [|ten] times as large as [|Urantia], while the [|seven] subsatellites of these [|transition] [|spheres] are just about the size of [|Urantia]. 45:0.2 The [|seven] [|mansion worlds] are the [|seven] subsatellites of [|transition] world [|number] one. 45:0.3 This entire [|system] of fifty-seven [|architectural worlds] is [|independently] [|lighted], [|heated], [|watered], and [|energized] by the [|co-ordination] of the [|Satania Power Center] and the [|Master Physical Controllers] in [|accordance] with the [|established] [|technique] of the [|physical] [|organization] and [|arrangement] of these specially [|created] [|spheres]. They are also [|physically] cared for and otherwise [|maintained] by the [|native] [|spornagia]. 

45:1. TRANSITIONAL CULTURE WORLDS
45:1.1 The [|seven] major worlds swinging around [|Jerusem] are generally known as the [|transitional] [|culture] [|spheres]. Their rulers are designated from time to time by the [|Jerusem] supreme [|executive] [|council]. These [|spheres] are [|numbered] and [|named] as follows: 45:1.2 //Number 1. The [|Finaliter] World//. This is the [|headquarters] of the [|finaliter corps] of the [|local system] and is surrounded by the receiving worlds, the [|seven] [|mansion worlds], [|dedicated] so fully to the [|scheme] of [|mortal] [|ascension]. The [|finaliter] world is [|accessible] to the [|inhabitants] of all [|seven] [|mansion worlds]. [|Transport] [|seraphim] carry [|ascending] [|personalities] back and forth on these [|pilgrimages], which are [|designed] to [|cultivate] their [|faith] in the [|ultimate] [|destiny] of [|transition] [|mortals]. Although the [|finaliters] and their [|structures] are not ordinarily [|perceptible] to [|morontia] [|vision], you will be more than thrilled, from time to time, when the [|energy transformers] and the [|Morontia Power Supervisors] enable you momentarily to glimpse these high [|spirit] [|personalities] who have actually completed the [|Paradise] [|ascension][|[1]], and who have returned to the very worlds where you are beginning this long [|journey], as the [|pledge] of [|assurance] that you may and can complete the stupendous undertaking. All [|mansion world] [|sojourners] go to the [|finaliter] [|sphere] at least once a year for these assemblies of finaliter [|visualization]. 45:1.3 //Number 2. The Morontia World//. This [|planet] is the [|headquarters] of the supervisors of [|morontia] life and is [|surrounded] by the [|seven] [|spheres] whereon the [|morontia] chiefs train their [|associates] and helpers, both morontia [|beings] and [|ascending mortals]. 45:1.4 In passing through the [|seven] [|mansion worlds], you will also [|progress] through these [|cultural] and [|social] [|spheres] of increasing [|morontia] [|contact]. When you [|advance] from the [|first] to the [|second mansion world], you will become eligible for a visitor's permit to [|transitional] [|headquarters] [|number] [|two], the [|morontia] world, and so on. And when present on any one of these six [|cultural] [|spheres], you may, on invitation, become a visitor and [|observer] on any of the [|seven] surrounding worlds of [|associated] [|group] [|activities]. 45:1.5 //Number 3. The Angelic World//. This is the [|headquarters] of all the [|seraphic hosts] engaged in [|system] [|activities] and is [|surrounded] by the [|seven] worlds of [|angelic] [|training] and [|instruction]. These are the [|seraphic] [|social] [|spheres]. 45:1.6 //Number 4. The Superangel World//. This [|sphere] is the [|Satania] [|home] of the [|Brilliant Evening Stars] and a vast [|concourse] of [|co-ordinate] and near-co-ordinate [|beings]. The [|seven] [|satellites] of this world are assigned to the [|seven] major [|groups] of these [|unnamed] [|celestial] [|beings]. 45:1.7 //Number 5. The World of the Sons//. This [|planet] is the [|headquarters] of the [|divine Sons] of all [|orders], including the [|creature-trinitized sons]. The [|surrounding] [|seven] worlds are [|devoted] to certain [|individual] groupings of these [|divinely] [|related] sons. 45:1.8 //Number 6. The World of the Spirit//. This [|sphere] serves as [|the system] [|rendezvous] of the [|high personalities of the Infinite Spirit]. Its [|seven] [|surrounding] [|satellites] are assigned to [|individual] [|groups] of these [|diverse] [|orders]. But on [|transition] world [|number] six there is no [|representation] of [|the Spirit], neither is such a [|presence] to be [|observed] on the [|system capitals]; the [|Divine Minister] of [|Salvington] is [|everywhere] in [|Nebadon]. 45:1.9 //Number 7. The World of the Father//. This is the [|silent] [|sphere] of [|the system]. No [|group] of [|beings] is domiciled on it. The great [|temple] of [|light] occupies a [|central] place, but no one can be [|discerned] therein. All [|beings] of all [|the system] worlds are [|welcomed] as [|worshipers]. 45:1.10 The [|seven] [|satellites] [|surrounding] [|the Father]'s world are variously utilized in the [|different] [|systems]. In [|Satania] they are now used as the [|detention] [|spheres] for the interned [|groups] of the [|Lucifer rebellion]. The [|constellation] [|capital], [|Edentia], has no [|analogous] [|prison] worlds; the few [|seraphim] and [|cherubim] who went over to the rebels in the [|Satania] [|rebellion] have been long since confined on these [|isolation] worlds of [|Jerusem]. 45:1.11 As a [|sojourner] on the [|seventh mansion world], you have [|access] to the seventh [|transition] world, the [|sphere] of the [|Universal Father], and are also permitted to visit the [|Satania] [|prison] worlds [|surrounding] this [|planet], whereon are now confined [|Lucifer] and the [|majority] of those [|personalities] who followed him in [|rebellion] against [|Michael]. And this sad [|spectacle] has been [|observable] during these recent [|ages] and will continue to serve as a [|solemn] [|warning] to all [|Nebadon] until the [|Ancients of Days] shall [|adjudicate] the [|sin] of [|Lucifer] and his fallen [|associates] who rejected the [|salvation] proffered by [|Michael], their [|universe] [|Father]. 

45:2. THE SYSTEM SOVEREIGN
45:2.1 The [|chief executive] of a [|local system] of [|inhabited worlds] is a primary [|Lanonandek] Son, the [|System Sovereign]. In our [|local universe] these [|sovereigns] are intrusted with large [|executive] [|responsibilities], unusual [|personal] [|prerogatives]. Not all [|universes], even in [|Orvonton], are so [|organized] as to permit the [|System Sovereigns] to [|exercise] such unusually wide [|powers] of [|personal] [|discretion] in the direction of [|system] affairs. But in all the [|history] of [|Nebadon] these untrammeled [|executives] have [|exhibited] disloyalty only [|three] times. The [|Lucifer rebellion] in [|the system] of [|Satania] was the last and the most widespread of all. 45:2.2 In [|Satania], even after this disastrous [|upheaval], absolutely no [|changes] have been made in the [|technique] of system [|administration]. The present [|System Sovereign] [|possesses] all the [|power] and [|exercises] all the [|authority] that were invested in his unworthy predecessor except for certain matters now under the supervision of the [|Constellation Fathers] which the [|Ancients of Days] have not yet fully restored to [|Lanaforge], the successor of [|Lucifer]. 45:2.3 The present head of [|Satania] is a [|gracious] and [|brilliant] ruler, and he is a [|rebellion]-tested [|sovereign]. When serving as an assistant [|System Sovereign], [|Lanaforge] was [|faithful] to [|Michael] in an earlier [|upheaval] in the [|universe] of [|Nebadon]. This mighty and [|brilliant] Lord of [|Satania] is a tried and tested [|administrator]. At the time of the second system [|rebellion] in [|Nebadon], when the [|System Sovereign] stumbled and fell into [|darkness], [|Lanaforge], the first assistant to the erring chief, seized the reins of [|government] and so conducted the affairs of [|the system] that [|comparatively] few [|personalities] were lost either on the [|headquarters worlds] or on the [|inhabited planets] of that unfortunate [|system]. [|Lanaforge] bears the distinction of being the only primary [|Lanonandek Son] in all [|Nebadon] who thus [|functioned] [|loyally] in the [|service] of [|Michael] and in the very [|presence] of the [|default] of his [|brother] of superior [|authority] and antecedent rank. [|Lanaforge] will probably not be removed from [|Jerusem] until all the results of the former [|folly] have been overcome and the [|products] of [|rebellion] removed from [|Satania]. 45:2.4 While all the affairs of the [|isolated] worlds of [|Satania] have not been returned to his [|jurisdiction], [|Lanaforge] discloses great interest in their [|welfare], and he is a frequent visitor on [|Urantia]. As in other and [|normal] [|systems], the [|Sovereign] presides over the system [|council] of world rulers, the [|Planetary Princes] and the [|resident governors general] of the [|isolated] worlds. This [|planetary] [|council] assembles from time to time on the [|headquarters] of [|the system]—"When the [|Sons of God] come [|together]."[|[2]][|[3]] 45:2.5 Once a week, every [|ten] days on [|Jerusem], [|the Sovereign] holds a [|conclave] with some one [|group] of the various [|orders] of [|personalities] domiciled on the [|headquarters world]. These are the charmingly [|informal] hours of [|Jerusem], and they are never-to-be-forgotten occasions. On [|Jerusem] there exists the utmost [|fraternity] between all the various [|orders] of [|beings] and between each of these [|groups] and the [|System Sovereign]. 45:2.6 These [|unique] assemblages occur on the [|sea of glass], the great gathering field of [|the system] [|capital]. They are [|purely] [|social] and [|spiritual] occasions; nothing pertaining to the [|planetary] [|administration] or even to the [|ascendant plan] is ever [|discussed]. [|Ascending mortals] come [|together] at these times merely to [|enjoy] themselves and to meet their fellow [|Jerusemites]. Those [|groups] which are not being [|entertained] by [|the Sovereign] at these weekly [|relaxations] meet at their own [|headquarters]. 

45:3. THE SYSTEM GOVERNMENT
45:3.1 The [|chief executive] of a [|local system], the [|System Sovereign], is always [|supported] by two or three [|Lanonandek Sons], who [|function] as first and second assistants. But at the [|present] time [|the system] of [|Satania] is [|administered] by a staff of [|seven] [|Lanonandeks]: 45:3.9 This [|executive] [|group] of [|seven] [|Lanonandeks] [|constitutes] the expanded [|emergency] [|administration] made [|necessary] by the exigencies of the [|Lucifer rebellion]. There are only minor [|courts] on [|Jerusem] since [|the system] is the [|unit] of [|administration], not [|adjudication], but the [|Lanonandek] [|administration] is [|supported] by the [|Jerusem] [|executive] [|council], the supreme advisory body of [|Satania]. This [|council] consists of twelve members: 45:3.10 This [|council] [|periodically] [|chooses] [|three] members to [|represent] the [|local system] on the [|supreme council] at [|universe headquarters], but this [|representation] is suspended by [|rebellion]. [|Satania] now has an [|observer] at the [|headquarters] of the [|local universe], but since the [|bestowal of Michael] [|the system] has resumed the [|election] of [|ten] members to the [|Edentia] [|legislature].
 * 1. 45:3.2 1. The [|System Sovereign] —//[|Lanaforge]//, number 2,709 of the primary order and [|successor] to the [|apostate] [|Lucifer].
 * 2. 45:3.3 2. The first assistant Sovereign —//Mansurotia//, number 17,841 of the tertiary [|Lanonandeks]. He was dispatched to [|Satania] along with [|Lanaforge].
 * 3. 45:3.4 3. The second assistant Sovereign —//Sadib//, number 271,402 of the tertiary order. Sadib also came to [|Satania] with [|Lanaforge].
 * 4. 45:3.5 4. The custodian of [|the system] —//Holdant//, number 19 of the tertiary corps, the holder and controller of all interned [|spirits] above the order of [|mortal] [|existence]. Holdant likewise came to [|Satania] with [|Lanaforge].
 * 5. 45:3.6 5. The system recorder —//Vilton//, [|secretary] of the [|Lanonandek] [|ministry] of [|Satania], number 374 of the third order. Vilton was a member of the [|original] [|Lanaforge] [|group].
 * 6. 45:3.7 6. The [|bestowal] director —//Fortant//, number 319,847 of the reserves of the secondary Lanonandeks and temporary director of all [|universe] [|activities] transplanted to [|Jerusem] since [|Michael's bestowal] on [|Urantia]. Fortant has been attached to the staff of [|Lanaforge] for nineteen hundred years of [|Urantia] [|time].
 * 7. 45:3.8 7. The high [|counselor] —//Hanavard//, number 67 of the primary Lanonandek Sons and a member of the high corps of [|universe] [|counselors] and [|co-ordinators]. He [|functions] as acting chairman of the [|executive] [|council] of [|Satania]. Hanavard is the twelfth of this order so to serve on [|Jerusem] since the [|Lucifer rebellion].
 * 1. //Hanavard//, the [|Lanonandek] chairman.
 * 2. //[|Lanaforge]//, the System Sovereign.
 * 3. //Mansurotia//, the first assistant Sovereign.
 * 4. The chief of [|Satania] [|Melchizedeks].
 * 5. The acting director of the [|Satania] [|Life Carriers].
 * 6. The chief of the [|Satania] [|finaliters].
 * 7. The [|original] [|Adam] of [|Satania], the supervising head of the [|Material Sons].
 * 8. The director of the [|Satania] [|seraphic hosts].
 * 9. The chief of the [|Satania] [|physical controllers].
 * 10. The director of [|the system] [|Morontia Power Supervisors].
 * 11. The acting director of system [|midway creatures].
 * 12. The acting head of the corps of [|ascending mortals].