RESIDENT+GOVERNOR+GENERAL

== Urantia Book [|Paper 114]:[|3. THE RESIDENT GOVERNOR GENERAL] ==

114:3.1 Every one hundred years of [|Urantia] time, the [|Jerusem] corps of twenty-four planetary supervisors designate one of their number to [|sojourn] on your world to act as their [|executive] [|representative], as //resident governor general//. During the times of the [|preparation] of these [|narratives] this [|executive] officer was changed, the nineteenth so to serve being succeeded by the twentieth. The [|name] of the current planetary supervisor is withheld from you only because [|mortal] man is so prone to [|venerate], even to deify, his extraordinary compatriots and [|superhuman] superiors.

114:3.2 The //resident governor general// has no [|actual] [|personal] [|authority] in the [|management] of world affairs except as the [|representative] of the [|twenty-four Jerusem counselors]. He [|acts] as the [|co-ordinator] of [|superhuman] [|administration] and is the respected head and [|universally] recognized [|leader] of the [|celestial] [|beings] functioning on [|Urantia]. All orders of [|angelic hosts] regard him as their co-ordinating director, while the [|united midwayers], since the departure of 1-2-3 the first to become one of the twenty-four counselors, really look upon the [|successive] //governors general// as their [|planetary] [|fathers].

114:3.3 Although the //governor general// does not [|possess] [|actual] and [|personal] [|authority] on the planet, he hands down scores of rulings and [|decisions] each day which are accepted as final by all [|personalities] concerned. He is much more of a [|fatherly] adviser than a technical ruler. In certain ways he [|functions] as would a [|Planetary Prince], but his [|administration] much more closely resembles that of the [|Material Sons].

114:3.4 The [|Urantia] [|government] is represented in the [|councils] of [|Jerusem] in [|accordance] with an arrangement whereby the returning governor general sits as a temporary member of the [|System Sovereign]'s cabinet of [|Planetary Princes]. It was expected, when [|Machiventa] was designated vicegerent Prince, that he would [|immediately] assume his place in the [|council] of the Planetary Princes of [|Satania], but thus far he has made no [|gesture] in this direction.

114:3.5 The supermaterial [|government] of [|Urantia] does not maintain a very close [|organic] [|relationship] with the higher [|units] of the [|local universe]. In a way, the //resident governor general// represents [|Salvington] as well as [|Jerusem] since he acts on behalf of the [|twenty-four counselors], who are directly [|representative] of [|Michael] and [|Gabriel]. And being a [|Jerusem] [|citizen], the planetary governor can [|function] as a spokesman for the [|System Sovereign]. The [|constellation] [|authorities] are represented directly by a [|Vorondadek] Son, the [|Edentia] observer.