유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
Paper 35
The Local Universe Sons of God
The Local Universe Sons of God
Sections
앞에서 소개한 하나님의 아들들은 낙원에서 기원됐다. 그들은 우주의 영토를 다스리는 신성한 통치자들의 자녀다. 아들신분을 지닌 첫 낙원 계층인 창조주 아들들 중에서, 우주 아버지요 주권자인 오직 한 명의 미가엘이 네바돈에 있다. 낙원의 아들신분을 지닌 둘째 계층에는 아보날 곧 집정관 아들이 있는데, 네바돈에는 할당된 숫자대로 -- 1,062명이 -- 모두 존재한다. 그리고 이 “작은 그리스도들”은 창조주인 으뜸 아들이 유란시아에서 그랬던 것처럼, 행성에 자신을 증여할 때 효과적이고 전능{全能}하다. 삼위일체에서 기원된 셋째 계층은 지방우주에 등록돼있지 않으나, 네바돈에는 피조물에서-삼위일체화된 9,642명의 보좌관을 제외하고 15,000 내지 20,000명의 삼위일체 교사{敎師} 아들이 존재하는 것으로 추정된다. 이 낙원 데이날들은 재판관도 경영자도 아니며;초특급선생이다.
35:0.1 (384.1)
THE Sons of God previously introduced have had a Paradise origin. They are the offspring of the divine Rulers of the universal domains. Of the first Paradise order of sonship, the Creator Sons, there is in Nebadon only one, Michael, the universe father and sovereign. Of the second order of Paradise sonship, the Avonal or Magisterial Sons, Nebadon has its full quota—1,062. And these “lesser Christs” are just as effective and all-powerful in their planetary bestowals as was the Creator and Master Son on Urantia. The third order, being of Trinity origin, do not register in a local universe, but I estimate there are in Nebadon between fifteen and twenty thousand Trinity Teacher Sons exclusive of 9,642 creature-trinitized assistants of record. These Paradise Daynals are neither magistrates nor administrators; they are superteachers.
35:0.7 (384.7)
Triune Paradise Deity functions for the creation of three orders of sonship: the Michaels, the Avonals, and the Daynals. Dual Deity in the local universe, the Son and the Spirit, also functions in the creation of three high orders of Sons: the Melchizedeks, the Vorondadeks, and the Lanonandeks; and having achieved this threefold expression, they collaborate with the next level of God the Sevenfold in the production of the versatile order of Life Carriers. These beings are classified with the descending Sons of God, but they are a unique and original form of universe life. Their consideration will occupy the whole of the next paper.
35:1.1 (384.4)
After bringing into existence the beings of personal aid, such as the Bright and Morning Star and other administrative personalities, in accordance with the divine purpose and creative plans of a given universe, there occurs a new form of creative union between the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit, the local universe Daughter of the Infinite Spirit. The personality offspring resulting from this creative partnership is the original Melchizedek—the Father Melchizedek—that unique being who subsequently collaborates with the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit to bring into existence the entire group of that name.
35:1.2 (385.1)
In the universe of Nebadon the Father Melchizedek acts as the first executive associate of the Bright and Morning Star. Gabriel is occupied more with universe policies, Melchizedek with practical procedures. Gabriel presides over the regularly constituted tribunals and councils of Nebadon, Melchizedek over the special, extraordinary, and emergency commissions and advisory bodies. Gabriel and the Father Melchizedek are never away from Salvington at the same time, for in Gabriel’s absence the Father Melchizedek functions as the chief executive of Nebadon.
창조주 아들과 창조적 영이 아버지 멜기세덱과 연합하여, 표준시간으로 1,000년 기간 내에, 우리 우주의 멜기세덱들을 모두 창조했다. 멜기세덱들은 그들 자체 동료 가운데 하나가 협조 창조자 역할을 하는 아들신분 계층이기 때문에, 어느 정도 자생적으로 구성되며, 그런 까닭에 숭고한 유형의 자체-정부 실현에 적합하다. 원조 멜기세덱이 어떤 선천적 공동부모 특권을 행사하더라도, 그들은 표준시간으로 7년에 해당하는 임기로 그들 자체의 경영 우두머리를 정기적으로 선출하고, 그 외에는 스스로-규제하는 계층으로서 활동한다. 이 아버지 멜기세덱은 때때로, 자기 계층 가운데 특정한 개인들을 지명하여, 유란시아에 지금까지 계시된 적이 없는 인간거주 행성 유형에 속하는 중간유한절대 세계들로 가는 특별 생명 운반자로서 활동하게 한다.
35:1.3 (385.2)
The Melchizedeks of our universe were all created within one millennial period of standard time by the Creator Son and the Creative Spirit in liaison with the Father Melchizedek. Being an order of sonship wherein one of their own number functioned as co-ordinate creator, Melchizedeks are in constitution partly of self-origin and therefore candidates for the realization of a supernal type of self-government. They periodically elect their own administrative chief for a term of seven years of standard time and otherwise function as a self-regulating order, though the original Melchizedek does exercise certain inherent coparental prerogatives. From time to time this Father Melchizedek designates certain individuals of his order to function as special Life Carriers to the midsonite worlds, a type of inhabited planet not heretofore revealed on Urantia.
35:1.4 (385.3)
The Melchizedeks do not function extensively outside the local universe except when they are called as witnesses in matters pending before the tribunals of the superuniverse, and when designated special ambassadors, as they sometimes are, representing one universe to another in the same superuniverse. The original or first-born Melchizedek of each universe is always at liberty to journey to the neighboring universes or to Paradise on missions having to do with the interests and duties of his order.
멜기세덱들은, 필사자를 향상시키는 직무에서 직접 활동할 수 있도록, 즉 육신화될 필요 없이 진화 인종들을 섬길 수 있도록 낮은 피조 생명체에 충분히 접근하는, 신의 아들들 중에서 첫 계층이다. 이 아들들은 하강하는 위대한 인격체 중에서 선천적으로 중간-지점에 있는데, 기원으로 볼 때, 가장 높은 신성{神性}과, 의지를 부여받은 가장 낮은 피조물 생명체 사이에서, 거의 중간에 있다. 따라서 이들은 높고 신성한 수준의 살아있는 실존과, 진화 세계에 있는 심지어 물질적인 낮은 생명체 형태 사이에, 타고난 중간매개체가 된다. 스랍 계층 곧 천사들은 멜기세덱들과 함께 일하기를 기쁘게 받아들이며;사실, 모든 형태의 지성 생명체는, 이 아들들이 이해심 많은 친구요 인정 많은 선생이요 현명한 조언자임을 발견한다.
35:2.1 (385.4)
The Melchizedeks are the first order of divine Sons to approach sufficiently near the lower creature life to be able to function directly in the ministry of mortal uplift, to serve the evolutionary races without the necessity of incarnation. These Sons are naturally at the mid-point of the great personality descent, by origin being just about midway between the highest Divinity and the lowest creature life of will endowment. They thus become the natural intermediaries between the higher and divine levels of living existence and the lower, even the material, forms of life on the evolutionary worlds. The seraphic orders, the angels, delight to work with the Melchizedeks; in fact, all forms of intelligent life find in these Sons understanding friends, sympathetic teachers, and wise counselors.
멜기세덱은 자치{自治}하는 계층이다. 독특한 이 집단에 관하여 우리는, 지방우주 존재 편에서 자체-결정하려는 첫 시도에 우연히 마주쳤고, 가장 높은 유형의 참된 자체-정부를 목격했다. 이 아들들은 자신의 집단과 고향-행성 경영을 위한 자체 기관뿐 아니라, 6개의 연합된 구체 및 그 종속 세계들을 위한 기관 역시 조직한다. 그리고 그들이 자신의 특권을 남용한 적 없다는 사실이 반드시 기록돼야 할 것이며;오르본톤 연방우주 전역에서, 이 멜기세덱 아들들은 그들의 신용을 한 번도 배신하지 않았다. 그들은 자체-정부를 염원하는 모든 우주 집단의 희망이며;네바돈의 모든 구체에게, 자체-정부의 원형{原型}이요 선생이다. 지성을 지닌 모든 계층의 존재는, 위로는 상관으로부터 아래로는 부하들에 이르기까지, 멜기세덱의 통치를 전심으로 찬양한다.
35:2.2 (385.5)
The Melchizedeks are a self-governing order. With this unique group we encounter the first attempt at self-determination on the part of local universe beings and observe the highest type of true self-government. These Sons organize their own machinery for their group and home-planet administration, as well as that for the six associated spheres and their tributary worlds. And it should be recorded that they have never abused their prerogatives; not once throughout all the superuniverse of Orvonton have these Melchizedek Sons ever betrayed their trust. They are the hope of every universe group which aspires to self-government; they are the pattern and the teachers of self-government to all the spheres of Nebadon. All orders of intelligent beings, superiors from above and subordinates from below, are wholehearted in their praise of the government of the Melchizedeks.
아들신분의 멜기세덱 계층은, 하나의 거대한 가족에서 최고 연장자 아들 자리를 차지하고 그 책임을 감당한다. 그들의 업무 대부분은 규칙적이고 어느 정도 일상적이지만, 많은 부분이 자발적이고, 전부 자기가-좋아서 한다. 때때로 살빙톤에 모이는 특별한 집회 대다수는, 멜기세덱들의 동의로 소집된다. 이 아들들은 자신이 출생한 우주를 주도권을 갖고 순찰한다. 이들은 우주 정보에 전념하는 자율 조직체를 유지하는데, 그 영역의 일상적 경영에 관계되는 정규 대행기관들을 통해서 우주 본부로 올라오는 모든 정보에 상관없이, 창조주 아들에게 정기적으로 보고한다. 태생적으로 편견 없는 참관인이며;모든 계층의 지성 존재로부터 온전한 신임을 받는다.
35:2.3 (386.1)
The Melchizedek order of sonship occupies the position, and assumes the responsibility, of the eldest son in a large family. Most of their work is regular and somewhat routine, but much of it is voluntary and altogether self-imposed. A majority of the special assemblies which, from time to time, convene on Salvington are called on motion of the Melchizedeks. On their own initiative these Sons patrol their native universe. They maintain an autonomous organization devoted to universe intelligence, making periodical reports to the Creator Son independent of all information coming up to universe headquarters through the regular agencies concerned with the routine administration of the realm. They are by nature unprejudiced observers; they have the full confidence of all classes of intelligent beings.
35:2.4 (386.2)
The Melchizedeks function as mobile and advisory review courts of the realms; these universe Sons go in small groups to the worlds to serve as advisory commissions, to take depositions, to receive suggestions, and to act as counselors, thus helping to compose the major difficulties and settle the serious differences which arise from time to time in the affairs of the evolutionary domains.
35:2.5 (386.3)
These eldest Sons of a universe are the chief aids of the Bright and Morning Star in carrying out the mandates of the Creator Son. When a Melchizedek goes to a remote world in the name of Gabriel, he may, for the purposes of that particular mission, be deputized in the name of the sender and in that event will appear on the planet of assignment with the full authority of the Bright and Morning Star. Especially is this true on those spheres where a higher Son has not yet appeared in the likeness of the creatures of the realm.
35:2.6 (386.4)
When a Creator Son enters upon the bestowal career on an evolutionary world, he goes alone; but when one of his Paradise brothers, an Avonal Son, enters upon a bestowal, he is accompanied by the Melchizedek supporters, twelve in number, who so efficiently contribute to the success of the bestowal mission. They also support the Paradise Avonals on magisterial missions to the inhabited worlds, and in these assignments the Melchizedeks are visible to mortal eyes if the Avonal Son is also thus manifest.
멜기세덱들은 지혜에서 거의 완전하지만, 판단에서 오류가 전혀 없지는 않다. 행성 직무에서 고립되고 홀로 있을 때, 그들은 때로 사소한 문제에서 잘못을 범하기도 하는데, 나중에 감독관들에게 인정받지 못할 어떤 일을 하려고 선택한 적이 있다. 그런 판단 착오는, 그가 살빙톤에 갈 때까지 일시적으로 멜기세덱 자격을 잃게 하고, 동료들과 불일치하도록 만든 부조화를 자신에게서 효과적으로 제거하라는 지침을 창조주 아들 앞에서 받으며;그렇게 되면, 교정을 위한 휴식이 있은 다음에, 셋째 날이 지나면서 근무로 복귀된다. 그러나 멜기세덱의 역할에서 이런 사소한 부적응은 네바돈에서 드물게 발생해왔다.
35:2.8 (386.6)
The Melchizedeks are well-nigh perfect in wisdom, but they are not infallible in judgment. When detached and alone on planetary missions, they have sometimes erred in minor matters, that is, they have elected to do certain things which their supervisors did not subsequently approve. Such an error of judgment temporarily disqualifies a Melchizedek until he goes to Salvington and, in audience with the Creator Son, receives that instruction which effectually purges him of the disharmony which caused disagreement with his fellows; and then, following the correctional rest, reinstatement to service ensues on the third day. But these minor misadaptations in Melchizedek function have rarely occurred in Nebadon.
멜기세덱들은 우주 본부인 살빙톤 근처에서 그들 고유의 세계를 차지하고 있다. 멜기세덱이라는 이름의 이 구체는, 70개의 주요 구체로 이뤄진 살빙톤 회로를 조종하는 세계인데, 이 구체들은 각각, 특화된 활동에 배정된 여섯 종속 구체로 둘러싸여있다. 경이로운 이 구체들은--곧 70개의 주요 구체와 420개의 종속 구체는-- 흔히 멜기세덱 대학이라고 불린다. 네바돈에 속한 모든 성좌에서 상승하는 필사자들은, 살빙톤에서 거주 신분을 획득하면서 490 세계 전체에서 훈련을 거치게 된다. 그러나 상승하는 자들의 교육은, 살빙톤 성단의 건축양식 구체들에서 발생되는 다양한 활동 가운데 겨우 한 국면에 해당될 뿐이다.
35:3.1 (387.2)
The Melchizedeks occupy a world of their own near Salvington, the universe headquarters. This sphere, by name Melchizedek, is the pilot world of the Salvington circuit of seventy primary spheres, each of which is encircled by six tributary spheres devoted to specialized activities. These marvelous spheres—seventy primaries and 420 tributaries—are often spoken of as the Melchizedek University. Ascending mortals from all the constellations of Nebadon pass through training on all 490 worlds in the acquirement of residential status on Salvington. But the education of ascenders is only one phase of the manifold activities taking place on the Salvington cluster of architectural spheres.
35:3.2 (387.3)
The 490 spheres of the Salvington circuit are divided into ten groups, each containing seven primary and forty-two tributary spheres. Each of these groups is under the general supervision of some one of the major orders of universe life. The first group, embracing the pilot world and the next six primary spheres in the encircling planetary procession, is under the supervision of the Melchizedeks. These Melchizedek worlds are:
35:3.11 (387.12)
The pilot world, the sphere Melchizedek, is the common meeting ground for all beings who are engaged in educating and spiritualizing the ascending mortals of time and space. To an ascender this world is probably the most interesting place in all Nebadon. All evolutionary mortals who graduate from their constellation training are destined to land on Melchizedek, where they are initiated into the regime of the disciplines and spirit progression of the Salvington educational system. And never will you forget your reactions to the first day of life on this unique world, not even after you have reached your Paradise destination.
35:3.12 (387.13)
Ascending mortals maintain residence on the Melchizedek world while pursuing their training on the six encircling planets of specialized education. And this same method is adhered to throughout their sojourn on the seventy cultural worlds, the primary spheres of the Salvington circuit.
35:3.20 (388.7)
The schools of universe administration and spiritual wisdom are located on the Melchizedek home world, where also are to be found those schools devoted to a single line of research, such as energy, matter, organization, communication, records, ethics, and comparative creature existence.
35:3.21 (388.8)
In the Melchizedek College of Spiritual Endowment all orders—even the Paradise orders—of the Sons of God co-operate with the Melchizedek and the seraphic teachers in training the hosts who go forth as evangels of destiny, proclaiming spiritual liberty and divine sonship even to the remote worlds of the universe. This particular school of the Melchizedek University is an exclusive universe institution; student visitors are not received from other realms.
우주 경영의 최고 훈련 과정을 멜기세덱들이 자신의 고향 세계에서 가르친다. 원조 아버지 멜기세덱이 이 고등 윤리 학부를 운영한다. 다양한 우주가 보내는 교환 학생들이 이 학교로 온다. 젊은 네바돈 우주는, 영적 성취와 높은 윤리적 발전 면에서 볼 때 우주들의 등급에서 낮은 지위에 있는데, 그럼에도 우리가 경영에 애쓴 덕분에, 다른 영역들로부터 학생 방문자와 참관인들이 멜기세덱 학부에 몰려들 만큼, 근처의 다른 창조계를 위한 방대한 상담소가 되도록 지방우주 전체가 변화돼왔다. 거대한 집단의 현지{現地} 등록자들 이외에, 멜기세덱 학교에 참여하는 외래{外來} 학생은 항상 10만 이상인데, 네바돈에서 멜기세덱 계층이 스프랜돈 전체에 잘 알려져 있기 때문이다.
35:3.22 (388.9)
The highest course of training in universe administration is given by the Melchizedeks on their home world. This College of High Ethics is presided over by the original Father Melchizedek. It is to these schools that the various universes send exchange students. While the young universe of Nebadon stands low in the scale of universes as regards spiritual achievement and high ethical development, nevertheless, our administrative troubles have so turned the whole universe into a vast clinic for other near-by creations that the Melchizedek colleges are thronged with student visitors and observers from other realms. Besides the immense group of local registrants there are always upward of one hundred thousand foreign students in attendance upon the Melchizedek schools, for the order of Melchizedeks in Nebadon is renowned throughout all Splandon.
35:4.1 (388.10)
A highly specialized branch of Melchizedek activities has to do with the supervision of the progressive morontia career of the ascending mortals. Much of this training is conducted by the patient and wise seraphic ministers, assisted by mortals who have ascended to relatively higher levels of universe attainment, but all of this educational work is under the general supervision of the Melchizedeks in association with the Trinity Teacher Sons.
멜기세덱 계층은, 지방우주의 방대한 교육 체계와 체험 훈련 체제에 주로 전념하는 한편, 색다른 환경에서 그리고 독특한 임무에서 활약하기도 한다. 언젠가는 약 1,000만 인간거주 세계를 포함할 진화 우주에, 평범하지 않은 많은 것이 발생하게 돼있고, 그런 응급 상황에서 멜기세덱들이 행동한다. 너희의 성좌 본부 에덴시아에서, 그들은 비상사태 아들로서 알려져 있다. 어떤 행성이든지, 어떤 체계든지, 어떤 성좌든지, 또는 어떤 우주에서든지, 모든 위급한 --물리적, 지적, 또는 영적-- 상황에서 일할 수 있도록 항상 준비돼있다. 특별한 도움이 필요하다면 언제 어느 곳에서든지, 너희는 멜기세덱 아들을 하나 이상 발견할 것이다.
35:4.2 (389.1)
While the Melchizedek orders are chiefly devoted to the vast educational system and experiential training regime of the local universe, they also function in unique assignments and in unusual circumstances. In an evolving universe eventually embracing approximately ten million inhabited worlds, many things out of the ordinary are destined to happen, and it is in such emergencies that the Melchizedeks act. On Edentia, your constellation headquarters, they are known as emergency Sons. They are always ready to serve in all exigencies—physical, intellectual, or spiritual—whether on a planet, in a system, in a constellation, or in the universe. Whenever and wherever special help is needed, there you will find one or more of the Melchizedek Sons.
의지를 지닌 피조물이 거주하는 모든 세계에서, 어떤 종류의 응급 상황이 일어나든지, 제일 먼저 멜기세덱들이 행동한다. 그들은 때때로 불안정한 행성에서 임시 관리인으로서 행동하는데, 직무에 태만한 행성 정부의 관재인{管財人}으로서 활약한다. 행성에 위기가 있을 때, 이 멜기세덱 아들들은 독특한 여러 역할로 일한다. 그런 아들은 자신을 필사 존재들에게 보이도록 하기가 쉬우며, 때로는 이 계층 가운데 하나가 필사자 육신을 닮은 모습으로 육신화하기도 했다. 네바돈에서는, 진화하는 세계에서 멜기세덱이 필사자 육신과 비슷한 모양으로 일곱 번이나 활동했으며, 수많은 경우에 이 아들들은 우주 피조물 가운데 다른 계층의 모습으로 나타났었다. 그들은 모든 계층의 우주 지성체에게, 그리고 어느 세계나 어느 체계의 세계에든지, 융통성 있고 자발적인 비상조치 사역자임이 사실이다.
35:4.4 (389.3)
The Melchizedeks are the first to act in all emergencies of whatever nature on all worlds where will creatures dwell. They sometimes act as temporary custodians on wayward planets, serving as receivers of a defaulting planetary government. In a planetary crisis these Melchizedek Sons serve in many unique capacities. It is easily possible for such a Son to make himself visible to mortal beings, and sometimes one of this order has even incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh. Seven times in Nebadon has a Melchizedek served on an evolutionary world in the similitude of mortal flesh, and on numerous occasions these Sons have appeared in the likeness of other orders of universe creatures. They are indeed the versatile and volunteer emergency ministers to all orders of universe intelligences and to all the worlds and systems of worlds.
35:4.5 (389.4)
The Melchizedek who lived on Urantia during the time of Abraham was locally known as Prince of Salem because he presided over a small colony of truth seekers residing at a place called Salem. He volunteered to incarnate in the likeness of mortal flesh and did so with the approval of the Melchizedek receivers of the planet, who feared that the light of life would become extinguished during that period of increasing spiritual darkness. And he did foster the truth of his day and safely pass it on to Abraham and his associates.
35:5.1 (389.5)
After the creation of the personal aids and the first group of the versatile Melchizedeks, the Creator Son and the local universe Creative Spirit planned for, and brought into existence, the second great and diverse order of universe sonship, the Vorondadeks. They are more generally known as Constellation Fathers because a Son of this order is uniformly found at the head of each constellation government in every local universe.
이 아들들은 여러 면에서 자치{自治} 단체를 구성하며;멜기세덱과 거의 마찬가지로 개인으로서 그리고 집단으로서, 심지어 전체로서, 대개 자체-결정을 하지만, 보론다덱들은 그런 넓은 활동 범위를 통해서 작용하지는 않는다. 이들은 훌륭한 융통성 면에서는 멜기세덱 형제를 따라가지 못하지만, 통치자로서 그리고 멀리 내다보는 행정관으로서 훨씬 더 믿음직스럽고 효율적이다. 또한 이들은 경영면에서, 부하인 라노난덱 체계 주권자보다는 조금 못하지만, 안정된 목적을 추구하는 면에서 그리고 신다운 심판을 내리는 면에서는, 모든 우주 아들신분 계층보다 뛰어나다.
35:5.3 (389.7)
In many respects these Sons are a self-governing body; as individuals and as groups, even as a whole, they are largely self-determinative, much as are the Melchizedeks, but Vorondadeks do not function through such a wide range of activities. They do not equal their Melchizedek brethren in brilliant versatility, but they are even more reliable and efficient as rulers and farseeing administrators. Neither are they quite the administrative peers of their subordinates, the Lanonandek System Sovereigns, but they excel all orders of universe sonship in stability of purpose and in divinity of judgment.
35:5.4 (390.1)
Although the decisions and rulings of this order of Sons are always in accordance with the spirit of divine sonship and in harmony with the policies of the Creator Son, they have been cited for error to the Creator Son, and in details of technique their decisions have sometimes been reversed on appeal to the superior tribunals of the universe. But these Sons rarely fall into error, and they have never gone into rebellion; never in all the history of Nebadon has a Vorondadek been found in contempt of the universe government.
35:5.5 (390.2)
The service of the Vorondadeks in the local universes is extensive and varied. They serve as ambassadors to other universes and as consuls representing constellations within their native universe. Of all orders of local universe sonship they are the most often intrusted with the full delegation of sovereign powers to be exercised in critical universe situations.
35:5.6 (390.3)
On those worlds segregated in spiritual darkness, those spheres which have, through rebellion and default, suffered planetary isolation, an observer Vorondadek is usually present pending the restoration of normal status. In certain emergencies this Most High observer could exercise absolute and arbitrary authority over every celestial being assigned to that planet. It is of record on Salvington that the Vorondadeks have sometimes exercised such authority as Most High regents of such planets. And this has also been true even of inhabited worlds that were untouched by rebellion.
35:5.7 (390.4)
Often a corps of twelve or more Vorondadek Sons sits en banc as a high court of review and appeal concerning special cases involving the status of a planet or a system. But their work more largely pertains to the legislative functions indigenous to the constellation governments. As a result of all these services, the Vorondadek Sons have become the historians of the local universes; they are personally familiar with all the political struggles and the social upheavals of the inhabited worlds.
적어도 세 보론다덱이, 한 지방우주에서 100개의 성좌{星座} 하나하나를 지배하도록 배정된다. 창조주 아들이 이 아들들을 선택하며, 10,000년--곧 표준 시간으로 10,000년, 유란시아 시간으로 약 50,000년-- 동안 성좌의 지고자로서 근무하도록 가브리엘이 임명한다. 통치하는 지고자 곧 성좌 아버지는, 상급자{上級者}와 하급자{下級者}, 두 동역자를 둔다. 경영진이 바뀔 때마다 상급 동역자가 그 정부의 우두머리가 되고, 하급자는 상급자의 임무를 이어받으며, 그동안 살빙톤 세계들에 거주하는 휴무{休務} 보론다덱들은 하급 동역자의 책임을 떠맡도록 선택될 후보자로서 그들의 동료 가운데 하나를 임명한다. 그리하여 통치하는 지고자는 각자 현행 정책에 따라서, 유란시아 시간으로 약 15만 년에 해당하는 3만 년 동안 성좌 본부에서 일정기간 근무한다.
35:6.1 (390.5)
At least three Vorondadeks are assigned to the rulership of each of the one hundred constellations of a local universe. These Sons are selected by the Creator Son and are commissioned by Gabriel as the Most Highs of the constellations for service during one dekamillennium—10,000 standard years, about 50,000 years of Urantia time. The reigning Most High, the Constellation Father, has two associates, a senior and a junior. At each change of administration the senior associate becomes the head of the government, the junior assumes the duties of the senior, while the unassigned Vorondadeks resident on the Salvington worlds nominate one of their number as candidate for selection to assume the responsibilities of junior associate. Thus each of the Most High rulers, in accordance with present policy, has a period of service on the headquarters of a constellation of three dekamillenniums, about 150,000 Urantia years.
35:6.2 (390.6)
The one hundred Constellation Fathers, the actual presiding heads of the constellation governments, constitute the supreme advisory cabinet of the Creator Son. This council is in frequent session at universe headquarters and is unlimited in the scope and range of its deliberations but is chiefly concerned with the welfare of the constellations and with the unification of the administration of the entire local universe.
35:6.3 (391.1)
When a Constellation Father is in attendance upon duties at the universe headquarters, as he frequently is, the senior associate becomes acting director of constellation affairs. The normal function of the senior associate is the oversight of spiritual affairs, while the junior associate is personally occupied with the physical welfare of the constellation. No major policy, however, is ever carried out in a constellation unless all three of the Most Highs are agreed upon all the details of its execution.
35:6.4 (391.2)
The entire mechanism of spirit intelligence and communication channels is at the disposal of the constellation Most Highs. They are in perfect touch with their superiors on Salvington and with their direct subordinates, the sovereigns of the local systems. They frequently convene in council with these System Sovereigns to deliberate upon the state of the constellation.
35:6.5 (391.3)
The Most Highs surround themselves with a corps of counselors, which varies in number and personnel from time to time in accordance with the presence of the various groups at constellation headquarters and also as the local requirements vary. During times of stress they may ask for, and will quickly receive, additional Sons of the Vorondadek order to assist with the administrative work. Norlatiadek, your own constellation, is at present administered by twelve Vorondadek Sons.
35:7.1 (391.4)
The second group of seven worlds in the circuit of seventy primary spheres surrounding Salvington comprise the Vorondadek planets. Each of these spheres, with its six encircling satellites, is devoted to a special phase of Vorondadek activities. On these forty-nine realms the ascending mortals secure the acme of their education respecting universe legislation.
35:7.2 (391.5)
The ascending mortals have observed the legislative assemblies as they functioned on the headquarters worlds of the constellations, but here on these Vorondadek worlds they participate in the enactment of the actual general legislation of the local universe under the tutelage of the senior Vorondadeks. Such enactments are designed to co-ordinate the varied pronouncements of the autonomous legislative assemblies of the one hundred constellations. The instruction to be had in the Vorondadek schools is unexcelled even on Uversa. This training is progressive, extending from the first sphere, with supplemental work on its six satellites, on up through the remaining six primary spheres and their associated satellite groups.
상승하는 순례자들은, 공부와 실질적 업무가 이뤄지는 이 세계들에서 수많은 새 활동에 입문할 것이다. 꿈에도 생각하지 않은 이 새로운 일들에 대해 밝히지 못하도록 금지되지는 않았으나, 우리는 필사 존재의 물질 정신에게 이 이행업무들을 묘사하기를 단념했다. 우리는 이 숭고한 활동의 의미를 전달할 만한 단어를 발견하지 못했으며, 상승하는 필사자들이 이 49 세계에서 연구하는 동안, 그들의 이런 새 직종에 대한 예증{例證}으로서 활용될만한 비슷한 인간 용무가 하나도 없다. 그리고 상승 체제의 일부분이 아닌 다른 많은 활동이, 살빙톤 회로에 속하는 이 보론다덱 세계들에 집중돼있다.
35:7.3 (391.6)
The ascending pilgrims will be introduced to numerous new activities on these worlds of study and practical work. We are not forbidden to undertake the revelation of these new and undreamed-of pursuits, but we despair of being able to portray these undertakings to the material mind of mortal beings. We are without words to convey the meanings of these supernal activities, and there are no analogous human engagements which might be utilized as illustrations of these new occupations of the ascending mortals as they pursue their studies on these forty-nine worlds. And many other activities, not a part of the ascendant regime, are centered on these Vorondadek worlds of the Salvington circuit.
35:8.1 (392.1)
After the creation of the Vorondadeks, the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit unite for the purpose of bringing into existence the third order of universe sonship, the Lanonandeks. Although occupied with varied tasks connected with the system administrations, they are best known as System Sovereigns, the rulers of the local systems, and as Planetary Princes, the administrative heads of the inhabited worlds.
35:8.2 (392.2)
Being a later and lower—as concerns divinity levels—order of sonship creation, these beings were required to pass through certain courses of training on the Melchizedek worlds in preparation for subsequent service. They were the first students in the Melchizedek University and were classified and certified by their Melchizedek teachers and examiners according to ability, personality, and attainment.
35:8.7 (392.7)
It is not possible, as it is with evolutionary beings, for these Sons to progress from one group to another. When subjected to the Melchizedek training, when once tested and classified, they serve continuously in the rank assigned. Neither do these Sons engage in reproduction; their number in the universe is stationary.
35:8.15 (392.15)
Since Lanonandeks are a somewhat lower order of sonship than the Melchizedeks and the Vorondadeks, they are of even greater service in the subordinate units of the universe, for they are capable of drawing nearer the lower creatures of the intelligent races. They also stand in greater danger of going astray, of departing from the acceptable technique of universe government. But these Lanonandeks, especially the primary order, are the most able and versatile of all local universe administrators. In executive ability they are excelled only by Gabriel and his unrevealed associates.
35:9.2 (393.2)
The System Sovereigns rule in commissions of two or three on the headquarters of each system of inhabited worlds. The Constellation Father names one of these Lanonandeks as chief every dekamillennium. Sometimes no change in the head of the trio is made, the matter being entirely optional with the constellation rulers. System governments do not suddenly change in personnel unless a tragedy of some sort occurs.
체계 주권자는 그 이름에 어긋나지 않으며;인간거주 세계의 국지적 직무에서 주권자나 다름없다. 행성 왕자와 물질 아들 그리고 보살피는 영들을 지휘할 때, 이들은 거의 아버지 같은 위치에 있다. 주권자의 개인적인 지배력은 거의 전반적이다. 이 통치자들은, 중앙우주로부터 온 삼위일체 참관인들의 감독을 받지 않는다. 이들은 지방우주의 행정 부서이며, 입법 명령을 집행하는 관리인으로서 그리고 사법 판결을 적용하는 행정관으로서, 미가엘 아들의 뜻에 대항하는 개인적 불충성이 아주 쉽게 재빨리 스스로를 고립시키고 자기 주장을 추구할 수 있는, 전체 우주 행정부에서 유일한 자리를 차지하고 있다.
35:9.5 (393.5)
The System Sovereigns are true to their names; they are well-nigh sovereign in the local affairs of the inhabited worlds. They are almost paternal in their direction of the Planetary Princes, the Material Sons, and the ministering spirits. The personal grasp of the sovereign is all but complete. These rulers are not supervised by Trinity observers from the central universe. They are the executive division of the local universe, and as custodians of the enforcement of legislative mandates and as executives for the application of judicial verdicts, they present the one place in all universe administration where personal disloyalty to the will of the Michael Son could most easily and readily intrench itself and seek to assert itself.
35:9.6 (393.6)
Our local universe has been unfortunate in that over seven hundred Sons of the Lanonandek order have rebelled against the universe government, thus precipitating confusion in several systems and on numerous planets. Of this entire number of failures only three were System Sovereigns; practically all of these Sons belonged to the second and third orders, Planetary Princes and tertiary Lanonandeks.
35:9.7 (393.7)
The large number of these Sons who have lapsed from integrity does not indicate any fault in creatorship. They could have been made divinely perfect, but they were so created that they might better understand, and draw near to, the evolutionary creatures dwelling on the worlds of time and space.
오르본톤에 있는 모든 지방우주 중에서, 헨셀론을 제외하면 우리 우주가 이 계층의 아들을 가장 많이 잃었다. 우버사에서는, 선택과 계획에서 우리 라노난덱 아들 계층이 개인적 자유를 크게 보장받도록 창조됐기 때문에 경영상 너무 많은 문제가 네바돈에 발생하고 있다는 의견이 지배적이다. 나는 비판하는 각도에서 이런 소견을 밝히는 것이 아니다. 우리 우주의 창조주는 이렇게 할 충분한 권세와 권능을 갖고 있다. 자유롭게 선택하는 그런 아들들이 초기 우주 시대에 과도한 재난을 일으키는 반면, 물체들이 온전하게 선별되고 마침내 안주됐을 때, 철저히 시험 받은 이 아들들 편에서 더 고귀하게 충성하고 더 온전히 자발적으로 봉사함으로써 얻는 이익이 초기의 혼돈과 시련을 보상하고도 남으리라는 것이, 우리의 높은 통치자들의 주장이다.
35:9.8 (393.8)
Of all the local universes in Orvonton, our universe has, with the exception of Henselon, lost the largest number of this order of Sons. On Uversa it is the consensus that we have had so much administrative trouble in Nebadon because our Sons of the Lanonandek order have been created with such a large degree of personal liberty in choosing and planning. I do not make this observation by way of criticism. The Creator of our universe has full authority and power to do this. It is the contention of our high rulers that, while such free-choosing Sons make excessive trouble in the earlier ages of the universe, when things are fully sifted and finally settled, the gains of higher loyalty and fuller volitional service on the part of these thoroughly tested Sons will far more than compensate for the confusion and tribulations of earlier times.
어떤 체계 본부에서 반역 사건이 발생한 경우에, 대개 한 명의 새 주권자가 비교적 짧은 시간 내에 임명되지만, 개별 행성의 경우에는 그렇지 않다. 행성은 물질 창조의 구성단위이며, 피조물의 자유 의지는 그런 모든 문제의 최종 판결에서 한 요인이 된다. 후임 행성 왕자는 격리된 세계, 즉 권세 있는 왕자가 타락해버린 그 행성을 위하여 지명되지만, 멜기세덱 및 돌보는 다른 인격체들이 채택한 교정 방책에 따라서 반란의 결과가 어느 정도 극복되고 제거되기 전에는, 그런 세계에 대한 능동적 통치권을 행사하지 않는다. 행성 왕자가 반역하면 그 행성은 즉시 격리되며;국지적인 영적 회로들이 즉각 단절된다. 오직 증여된 아들만이, 영적으로 격리된 그런 세계에서 행성 간 통신선을 복구시킬 수 있다.
35:9.9 (394.1)
In the event of rebellion on a system headquarters, a new sovereign is usually installed within a comparatively short time, but not so on the individual planets. They are the component units of the material creation, and creature free will is a factor in the final adjudication of all such problems. Successor Planetary Princes are designated for isolated worlds, planets whose princes of authority may have gone astray, but they do not assume active rulership of such worlds until the results of insurrection are partially overcome and removed by the remedial measures adopted by the Melchizedeks and other ministering personalities. Rebellion by a Planetary Prince instantly isolates his planet; the local spiritual circuits are immediately severed. Only a bestowal Son can re-establish interplanetary lines of communication on such a spiritually isolated world.
35:9.10 (394.2)
There exists a plan for saving these wayward and unwise Sons, and many have availed themselves of this merciful provision; but never again may they function in those positions wherein they defaulted. After rehabilitation they are assigned to custodial duties and to departments of physical administration.
35:10.1 (394.3)
The third group of seven worlds in the Salvington circuit of seventy planets, with their respective forty-two satellites, constitute the Lanonandek cluster of administrative spheres. On these realms the experienced Lanonandeks belonging to the ex-System Sovereign corps officiate as administrative teachers of the ascending pilgrims and the seraphic hosts. The evolutionary mortals observe the system administrators at work on the system capitals, but here they participate in the actual co-ordination of the administrative pronouncements of the ten thousand local systems.
35:10.3 (394.5)
While serving as training spheres for ascending mortals, the Lanonandek worlds are the centers for extensive undertakings having to do with the normal and routine administrative operations of the universe. All the way in to Paradise the ascending pilgrims pursue their studies in the practical schools of applied knowledge—actual training in really doing the things they are being taught. The universe educational system sponsored by the Melchizedeks is practical, progressive, meaningful, and experiential. It embraces training in things material, intellectual, morontial, and spiritual.
35:10.4 (394.6)
It is in connection with these administrative spheres of the Lanonandeks that most of the salvaged Sons of that order serve as custodians and directors of planetary affairs. And these defaulting Planetary Princes and their associates in rebellion who choose to accept the proffered rehabilitation will continue to serve in these routine capacities, at least until the universe of Nebadon is settled in light and life.
35:10.5 (394.7)
Many of the Lanonandek Sons in the older systems, however, have established wonderful records of service, administration, and spiritual achievement. They are a noble, faithful, and loyal group, notwithstanding their tendency to fall into error through fallacies of personal liberty and fictions of self-determination.