Nebadon

=Nebadon=



==Urantia Text [|PAPER 33]:[|6. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION] ==

33:6.1 [|Gabriel] is the chief [|executive] and actual [|administrator] of [|Nebadon]. [|Michael]'s [|absence] from [|Salvington] in no way [|interferes] with the orderly conduct of universe affairs. During the [|absence] of [|Michael], as recently on the mission of reunion of [|Orvonton] [|Master Sons] on [|Paradise], [|Gabriel] is the regent of the universe. At such times Gabriel always seeks the [|counsel] of [|Immanuel of Salvington] regarding all major problems.

33:6.2 The [|Father Melchizedek] is [|Gabriel]'s first assistant. When the [|Bright and Morning Star] is absent from [|Salvington], his [|responsibilities] are assumed by this [|original Melchizedek Son].

33:6.3 The various subadministrations of the [|universe] have assigned to them certain special domains of [|responsibility]. While, in general, a [|system] [|government] looks after the welfare of its [|planets], it is more particularly concerned with the [|physical] [|status] of living [|beings], with [|biologic] problems. In turn, the [|constellation rulers] pay especial [|attention] to the social and [|governmental] conditions prevailing on the [|different] [|planets] and [|systems]. A [|constellation] [|government] is chiefly exercised over unification and [|stabilization]. Still higher up, the universe rulers are more occupied with the [|spiritual] [|status] of the realms.

33:6.4 [|Ambassadors] are appointed by [|judicial] [|decree] and [|represent] [|universes] to other universes. Consuls are [|representatives] of [|constellations] to one another and to the [|universe] [|headquarters]; they are appointed by [|legislative] [|decree] and [|function] only within the confines of the [|local universe]. Observers are commissioned by [|executive] decree of a [|System Sovereign] to [|represent] that system to other systems and at the [|constellation] capital, and they, too, [|function] only within the confines of the [|local universe].

33:6.5 From [|Salvington], [|broadcasts] are [|simultaneously] directed to the [|constellation] [|headquarters], [|the system] [|headquarters], and to [|individual] [|planets]. All higher orders of [|celestial] [|beings] are able to utilize this [|service] for [|communication] with their fellows scattered throughout the [|universe]. The [|universe broadcast] is extended to all [|inhabited worlds] regardless of their [|spiritual] [|status]. Planetary intercommunication is denied only those worlds under [|spiritual] [|quarantine].

33:6.6 [|Constellation] [|broadcasts] are periodically sent out from the [|headquarters] of the constellation by the chief of the [|Constellation Fathers].

33:6.7 [|Chronology] is reckoned, computed, and rectified by a special [|group] of [|beings] on [|Salvington]. The [|standard] day of [|Nebadon] is [|equal] to eighteen days and six hours of [|Urantia] time, plus two and one-half minutes. The [|Nebadon] year consists of a segment of the [|time] of universe swing in [|relation] to the [|Uversa] [|circuit] and is [|equal] to one hundred days of standard universe time, about five years of [|Urantia] time.

33:6.8 [|Nebadon] time, [|broadcast] from [|Salvington], is the [|standard] for all [|constellations] and [|systems] in this local universe. Each [|constellation] conducts its affairs by [|Nebadon] [|time], but the systems maintain their own [|chronology], as do the [|individual] [|planets].

33:6.9 The day in [|Satania], as reckoned on [|Jerusem], is a little less (1 hour, 4 minutes, 15 seconds) than three days of [|Urantia] time. These times are generally known as [|Salvington] or universe time, and [|Satania] or system time. [|Standard] time is universe time.  ==Urantia Text [|PAPER 33]:[|7. THE COURTS OF NEBADON] ==

33:7.1 The [|Master Son], [|Michael], is supremely concerned with but [|three] [|things]: [|creation], [|sustenance], and [|ministry]. He does not [|personally] [|participate] in the [|judicial] [|work] of the [|universe]. [|Creators] never sit in [|judgment] on their [|creatures]; that is the exclusive [|function] of [|creatures] of high [|training] and [|actual] creature [|experience].

33:7.2 The entire [|judicial] [|mechanism] of [|Nebadon] is under the supervision of [|Gabriel]. The high [|courts], located on [|Salvington], are occupied with [|problems] of general [|universe] import and with the appellate cases coming up from[| the system] [|tribunals]. There are seventy branches of these universe [|courts], and they [|function] in seven divisions of ten sections each. In all matters of [|adjudication] there presides a dual magistracy consisting of one [|judge] of [|perfection] antecedents and one magistrate of [|ascendant] [|experience].

33:7.3 As regards [|jurisdiction], the [|local universe] [|courts] are [|limited] in the following matters:
 * 1. 33:7.4 1. The [|administration] of the [|local universe] is concerned with [|creation], [|evolution], [|maintenance], and [|ministry]. The universe [|tribunals] are, therefore, denied the right to pass upon those cases involving the question of [|eternal] life and [|death]. This has no [|reference] to [|natural] [|death] as it obtains on [|Urantia], but if the question of the right of continued [|existence], life [|eternal], comes up for [|adjudication], it must be referred to the [|tribunals] of [|Orvonton], and if decided adversely to the [|individual], all sentences of [|extinction] are carried out upon the orders, and through the [|agencies], of the [|rulers of the supergovernment].
 * 2. 33:7.5 2. The [|default] or defection of any of the [|Local Universe Sons of God] which jeopardizes their [|status] and [|authority] as Sons is never [|adjudicated] in the [|tribunals] of a Son; such a misunderstanding would be [|immediately] carried to the [|superuniverse courts].
 * 3. 33:7.6 3. The question of the readmission of any constituent part of a [|local universe]—such as a [|local system]—to the fellowship of full [|spiritual] [|status] in the local [|creation] subsequent to spiritual [|isolation] must be concurred in by the [|high assembly of the superuniverse].

33:7.7 In all other matters the [|courts] of [|Salvington] are final and [|supreme]. There is no appeal and no escape from their [|decisions] and [|decrees].

33:7.8 However unfairly [|human] [|contentions] may sometimes appear to be [|adjudicated] on [|Urantia], in the [|universe] [|justice] and [|divine] [|equity] do prevail. You are living in a well-ordered universe, and sooner or later you may depend upon being dealt with justly, even [|mercifully].  ==Urantia Text [|PAPER 33]:[|8. THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS] ==

33:8.1 On [|Salvington], the [|headquarters] of [|Nebadon], there are no true [|legislative bodies]. The [|universe] [|headquarters] worlds are concerned largely with [|adjudication]. The [|legislative assemblies] of the [|local universe] are located on the [|headquarters] of the one hundred [|constellations]. The [|systems] are chiefly concerned with the [|executive] and [|administrative] [|work] of the local creations. The [|System Sovereigns] and their [|associates] enforce the legislative [|mandates] of the [|constellation rulers] and execute the [|judicial] [|decrees] of the [|high courts] of the [|universe].

33:8.2 While true [|legislation] is not enacted at the [|universe] [|headquarters], there do [|function] on [|Salvington] a variety of [|advisory] and [|research] assemblies, variously [|constituted] and conducted in accordance with their scope and [|purpose]. Some are permanent; others disband upon the accomplishment of their objective.

33:8.3 The supreme council of the [|local universe] is made up of [|three] members from each [|system] and [|seven] [|representatives] from each [|constellation]. Systems in isolation do not have [|representation] in this assembly, but they are permitted to send [|observers] who attend and [|study] all its [|deliberations].

33:8.4 The one hundred councils of supreme sanction are also situated on [|Salvington]. The presidents of these councils [|constitute] the [|immediate] working [|cabinet] of [|Gabriel].

33:8.5 All findings of the high universe advisory councils are referred either to the [|Salvington] judicial bodies or to the legislative assemblies of the constellations. These high councils are without authority or power to enforce their recommendations. If their advice is founded on the [|fundamental] [|laws] of the [|universe], then will the [|Nebadon] [|courts] issue rulings of [|execution]; but if their recommendations have to do with local or emergency conditions, they must pass down to the legislative assemblies of the [|constellation] for deliberative enactment and then to [|the system] [|authorities] for [|execution]. These high councils are, in [|reality], the universe superlegislatures, but they [|function] without the [|authority] of enactment and without the [|power] of [|execution].

33:8.6 While we speak of [|universe] [|administration] in terms of " [|courts] " and " assemblies, " it should be [|understood] that these [|spiritual] [|transactions] are very [|different] from the more [|primitive] and [|material] [|activities] of [|Urantia] which bear corresponding [|names].