Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 43
THE CONSTELLATIONS
1. Urantia is commonly referred to as 606 of Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon...The government of your constellation is situated in a cluster of 771 architectural spheres, the centermost and largest of which is Edentia, the seat of the administration of the Constellation Fathers, the Most Highs of Norlatiadek.
2. Edentia abounds in fascinating highlands, extensive elevations of physical matter crowned with morontia life ...There are tens of thousands of sparkling lakes and thousands upon thousands of interconnecting streams... The water of Edentia and similar architectural spheres is no different from the water of the evolutionary planets ...Edentia and its associated worlds have a true atmosphere ...But while this atmosphere is both material and morontial, there are no storms or hurricanes; neither is there summer nor winter.
3. The Melchizedeks...maintain two special colleges on Edentia. One, the emergency school, is devoted to the study of problems growing out of the Satania rebellion. The other, the bestowal school, is dedicated to the mastery of the new problems arising out of the fact that Michael made his final bestowal on one of the worlds of Norlatiadek.
4. The Edentia sea of glass is one enormous circular crystal about one hundred miles in circumference and about thirty miles in depth. This magnificent crystal serves as the receiving field for all transport seraphim and other beings arriving from points outside the sphere; such a sea of glass greatly facilitates the landing of transport seraphim.
5. The constellations are the autonomous units of a local universe ...Constellations.. function as the legislative or lawmaking units, while the local systems serve as the executive or enforcement units. The Salvington government is the supreme judicial and co‑ordinating authority ...The higher you ascend in the universe, the more certain you are to be judged by those of your own kind.
6. The constellation legislative body is divided into three groups. The legislative program of a constellation originates in the lower house of ascenders .... The mid‑chamber of legislators is composed of the seraphic hosts and their associates....The advisory or highest body of constellation legislators consists of the house of peers—the house of the divine Sons.
7. The combined council of legislators consists of three members from each of these separate branches of the constellation deliberative assembly and is presided over by the reigning junior Most High.. This group sanctions the final form of all enactments and authorizes their promulgation by the broadcasters. The approval of this supreme commission renders legislative enactments the law of the realm; their acts are final. The legislative pronouncements of Edentia constitute the fundamental law of all Norlatiadek.
8. The rulers of the constellations are of the Vorondadek order of local universe sonship... At least three Vorondadek Sons are commissioned by Gabriel as the Most Highs of each of the Nebadon constellations. The presiding member of this trio is known as the Constellation Father and his two associates as the senior Most High and the junior Most High.
9. Down through the ages there has been great confusion on Urantia regarding the various universe rulers ...As individuals you would ordinarily be little concerned with the constellation government ...but temporarily, Urantia is closely related to the constellation rulers because of certain system and planetary conditions growing out of the Lucifer rebellion ...all Urantia affairs which concerned the Michael bestowal were immediately supervised by the Most Highs of Norlatiadek.
10. The most holy mount of assembly is the dwelling place of the Faithful of Days, the representative of the Paradise Trinity who functions on Edentia...Ever the Faithful of Days stands at the right hand of the Constellation Fathers to counsel them, but never does he proffer advice unless it is asked for ...The most holy mount is exquisitely beautiful and marvelously appointed, but the actual residence of the Paradise Son is modest in comparison with the central abode of the Most Highs.
11. On this consecrated highland the ascending mortals periodically assemble to hear this Son of Paradise tell of the long and intriguing journey of progressing mortals through the one billion perfection worlds of Havona and on to the indescribable delights of Paradise.
12. Since the triumph of Christ all Norlatiadek is being cleansed of sin and rebels. Sometime before Michael's death in the flesh the fallen Lucifer's associate, Satan, sought to attend ...an Edentia conclave, but ...The doors of the hearts of all Edentia closed against Satan; he was unanimously rejected by the assembled System Sovereigns, and it was at this time that the Son of Man "beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven."
13. The rotation of the Most Highs on Edentia was suspended at the time of the Lucifer rebellion ...The present government of the constellation, however, has been expanded to include twelve Sons of the Vorondadek order.
14. Ever since the Lucifer rebellion the Edentia Fathers have exercised a special care over Urantia and the other isolated worlds of Satania...Every quarantined or isolated world has a Vorondadek Son acting as an observer. He does not participate in planetary administration except when ordered by the Constellation Father to intervene in the affairs of the nations. Actually it is this Most High observer who "rules in the kingdoms of men."
15. About one half of Edentia is devoted to the exquisite gardens of the Most Highs. .This explains why the extraordinarily beautiful places on the inhabited worlds of Norlatiadek are so often called "the garden of Eden." Centrally located in this magnificent garden is the worship shrine of the Most Highs ...At this shrine the Most Highs, on every tenth day of relaxation, lead all Edentia in the worshipful contemplation of God the Supreme.
16. The architectural worlds enjoy ten forms of life of the material order...Were you to view these ten divisions of Edentia 1ife, you would. quickly classify the first three as vegetable and the last three as animal, but you would be utterly unable to comprehend the nature of the intervening four groups of prolific and fascinating forms of life... There are thousands upon thousands of living creatures which your imagination could not possibly picture ...The vegetable life is also very different from that of Urantia.
17. If you enjoy the flowers, shrubs, and trees of Urantia, then will you feast your eyes upon the botanical beauty and the floral grandeur of the supernal gardens of Edentia. But it is beyond my powers of description to undertake to convey to the mortal mind, an adequate concept of these beauties of the heavenly worlds. Truly, eye has not seen such glories as await your arrival on these worlds of the mortal‑ascension adventure.
18. Univitatia are the permanent citizens of Edentia and its associated worlds ... These children of the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit are projected on a plane of existence in between the material and the spiritual, but they are not morontia creatures...Spiritually, the univitatia are alike; intellectually, they vary as do mortals; in form, they much resemble the morontia state of existence, and they are created to function in seventy diverse orders of personality...In all Orvonton no extra‑Havona beings excepting the Uversa abandonters can equal the univitatia in artistic skill, social adaptability, and co‑ordinating cleverness.
19. The time spent on the seventy training worlds of transition morontia culture associated with the Edentia age of mortal ascension, is the most settled period in an ascending mortal's career up to the status of a finaliter.
20. On the mansion worlds you completed the unification of the evolving mortal personality; on the system capital you attained Jerusem citizenship and achieved the willingness to submit the self to the disciplines of group activities and co‑ordinated undertakings; but now on the constellation training worlds you are to achieve the real socialization of your evolving morontia personality.
21. Intellectually, socially, and spiritually two moral creatures do not merely double their personal potentials of universe achievement by partnership technique; they more nearly quadruple their attainment and accomplishment possibilities.
22. This entire sojourn on the constellation training worlds, culminating in Edentia citizenship, is a period of true and heavenly bliss for the morontia progressors...This experience constitutes the prespirit socialization training of the ascenders. It is analogous to the prefinaliter spiritual experience of Havona and to the preabsonite training on Paradise.
Discussion Questions
1. What is most appealing about the physical-morontial description of Edentia?
2. How much do you suppose the laws of different constellations differ?
3. What could we learn from the stratified legislation of Edentia with its final combined council in shaping laws?
4. How important is the cosmology of the universe to our spiritual development?
5. Why do you think the Faithful of Days on Edentia never give advice unless it is asked for?
6. Do you think that the Urantia Synopsis of Papers are a part of the elaborate changes initiated in our system and constellation as a result of the Lucifer rebellion?
7. How can we promote socialization among different races, cultures, and religions on our world?
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