유란시아 책
III 부. 유란시아의 역사
제114편
행성의 스랍 정부
행성의 스랍 정부
Paper 114
Seraphic Planetary Government
Seraphic Planetary Government
114:0.2 (1250.2)
At noon today the roll call of planetary angels, guardians, and others on Urantia was 501,234,619 pairs of seraphim. There were assigned to my command two hundred seraphic hosts—597,196,800 pairs of seraphim, or 1,194,393,600 individual angels. The registry, however, shows 1,002,469,238 individuals; it follows therefore that 191,924,362 angels were absent from this world on transport, messenger, and death duty. (On Urantia there are about the same number of cherubim as seraphim, and they are similarly organized.)
114:0.3 (1250.3)
Seraphim and their associated cherubim have much to do with the details of the superhuman government of a planet, especially of worlds which have been isolated by rebellion. The angels, ably assisted by the midwayers, function on Urantia as the actual supermaterial ministers who execute the mandates of the resident governor general and all his associates and subordinates. Seraphim as a class are occupied with many assignments other than those of personal and group guardianship.
114:0.4 (1250.4)
Urantia is not without proper and effective supervision from the system, constellation, and universe rulers. But the planetary government is unlike that of any other world in the Satania system, even in all Nebadon. This uniqueness in your plan of supervision is due to a number of unusual circumstances:
유란시아의 원래 주권은 사타니아 체계 주권자에게 맡겨졌다. 그는 이를 멜기세덱들과 생명 운반자들의 연합 위원단에 처음 위임했으며, 이 집단은, 정식으로 임명된 행성 통치자가 도착할 때까지 유란시아에서 활동했다. 루시퍼 반역이 일어났을 당시 캘리개스챠 통치자가 몰락한 후, 유란시아는 육신을 입은 미가엘의 증여가 완료되어 합동 항존자들에 의해 유란시아의 행성 통치자로 선포될 때까지, 지방우주 및 그 경영 부서들과 확실하고 안정된 관계를 유지하지 못했다. 보증과 원칙에 따른 그런 선포는 너희 세계의 지취를 영원히 확정지었으나, 실제로는 주권자 창조주 아들은 예루셈에 옛 유란시아인 24명으로 구성된 위원단을 설립하여 유란시아 그리고 체계 내에서 격리된 다른 모든 행성들의 정부에서 자신을 대변할 권한을 부여한 것 외에는 행성을 친히 경영하려는 어떤 태도도 보이지 않았다. 이 협의회 가운데 한 명이 지금 주재{駐在}하는 총독으로서 유란시아에 상주하고 있다.
114:1.1 (1250.12)
The original sovereignty of Urantia was held in trust by the sovereign of the Satania system. It was first delegated by him to a joint commission of Melchizedeks and Life Carriers, and this group functioned on Urantia until the arrival of a regularly constituted Planetary Prince. Subsequent to the downfall of Prince Caligastia, at the time of the Lucifer rebellion, Urantia had no sure and settled relationship with the local universe and its administrative divisions until the completion of Michael’s bestowal in the flesh, when he was proclaimed, by the Union of Days, Planetary Prince of Urantia. Such a proclamation in surety and in principle forever settled the status of your world, but in practice the Sovereign Creator Son made no gesture of personal administration of the planet aside from the establishment of the Jerusem commission of twenty-four former Urantians with authority to represent him in the government of Urantia and all other quarantined planets in the system. One of this council is now always resident on Urantia as resident governor general.
114:1.2 (1251.1)
Vicegerent authority to act for Michael as Planetary Prince has been recently vested in Machiventa Melchizedek, but this Son of the local universe has made not the slightest move toward modifying the present planetary regime of the successive administrations of the resident governors general.
대리 행성 통치자가 그 직함에 어울리는 책임을 맡으려고 도래하지 않는다면, 현 섭리시대 동안 유란시아 정부에서 어떤 현저한 변화든지 일어날 가능성이 거의 없다. 우리 동역자들 중에서 더러는, 언젠가 가까운 장래에, 24 조언자 가운데 하나를 유란시아에 보내 총독으로서 활동하게 하는 계획을, 유란시아 주권에 대한 대리 통치권을 가진 마키벤타 멜기세덱이 공식적으로 도래함으로써 대체할 것이라 생각하고 있다. 의심할 여지없이, 루시퍼 반역에 대한 최종 판결이 있을 때까지 그리고 아마 행성이 빛과 생명에 정착할 먼 훗날까지 줄곧, 그가 대리 행성 통치자로서 행성을 책임질 것이다.
114:1.3 (1251.2)
There is little likelihood that any marked change will be made in the government of Urantia during the present dispensation unless the vicegerent Planetary Prince should arrive to assume his titular responsibilities. It appears to certain of our associates that at some time in the near future the plan of sending one of the twenty-four counselors to Urantia to act as governor general will be superseded by the formal arrival of Machiventa Melchizedek with the vicegerent mandate of the sovereignty of Urantia. As acting Planetary Prince he would undoubtedly continue in charge of the planet until the final adjudication of the Lucifer rebellion and probably on into the distant future of planetary settlement in light and life.
114:1.4 (1251.3)
Some believe that Machiventa will not come to take personal direction of Urantian affairs until the end of the current dispensation. Others hold that the vicegerent Prince may not come, as such, until Michael sometime returns to Urantia as he promised when still in the flesh. Still others, including this narrator, look for Melchizedek’s appearance any day or hour.
너희 세계에 미가엘이 증여되었던 시절 이후로, 유란시아에 대한 전반적 관리는, 한때 유란시아인이었던 24명으로 구성된 특별 예루셈 집단에게 위탁되어왔다. 이 위원단의 단원이 되기 위한 자격조건은 우리에게 알려지지 않았으나, 우리가 보건대, 그렇게 임명된 자는 모두, 사타니아 체계에서 확장하는 지존자 주권에 공헌한 사람들이었다. 본래 그들은 모두 유란시아에서 활동했을 때 참된 지도자였으며, (마키벤타 멜기세덱을 제외하고) 이 우수한 지도력은 맨션 세계에서 겪은 체험으로 인해 더욱 확대되었고, 예루셈 시민이 되기 위한 훈련으로 증대되었다. 위원들은 라나훠지 내각{內閣}에 의해 그 24인 집단에 지명되었고, 에덴시아의 지고자들이 재청했고, 예루셈의 배정된 파수꾼이 승인했고, 미가엘의 명령에 따라 살빙톤의 가브리엘이 임명했다. 임시로 임명받는 자들은, 이 특별 감독관 위원단의 영구 단원과 똑같이 활동한다.
114:2.1 (1251.4)
Since the times of Michael’s bestowal on your world the general management of Urantia has been intrusted to a special group on Jerusem of twenty-four onetime Urantians. Qualification for membership on this commission is unknown to us, but we have observed that those who have been thus commissioned have all been contributors to the enlarging sovereignty of the Supreme in the system of Satania. By nature they were all real leaders when they functioned on Urantia, and (excepting Machiventa Melchizedek) these qualities of leadership have been further augmented by mansion world experience and supplemented by the training of Jerusem citizenship. Members are nominated to the twenty-four by the cabinet of Lanaforge, seconded by the Most Highs of Edentia, approved by the Assigned Sentinel of Jerusem, and appointed by Gabriel of Salvington in accordance with the mandate of Michael. The temporary appointees function just as fully as do the permanent members of this commission of special supervisors.
114:2.2 (1251.5)
This board of planetary directors is especially concerned with the supervision of those activities on this world which result from the fact that Michael here experienced his terminal bestowal. They are kept in close and immediate touch with Michael by the liaison activities of a certain Brilliant Evening Star, the identical being who attended upon Jesus throughout the mortal bestowal.
114:2.3 (1252.1)
At the present time one John, known to you as “the Baptist,” is chairman of this council when it is in session on Jerusem. But the ex officio head of this council is the Assigned Sentinel of Satania, the direct and personal representative of the Associate Inspector on Salvington and of the Supreme Executive of Orvonton.
114:2.4 (1252.2)
The members of this same commission of former Urantians also act as advisory supervisors of the thirty-six other rebellion-isolated worlds of the system; they perform a very valuable service in keeping Lanaforge, the System Sovereign, in close and sympathetic touch with the affairs of these planets, which still remain more or less under the overcontrol of the Constellation Fathers of Norlatiadek. These twenty-four counselors make frequent trips as individuals to each of the quarantined planets, especially to Urantia.
격리된 다른 세계들은, 각각 한때 거기에 거주했던 자들로 구성된, 비슷하면서도 크기가 다양한 여러 위원단의 자문을 받지만, 이 기타 위원단들은 24명의 유란시아 집단에 종속되어있다. 유란시아 위원단의 단원들은, 사타니아의 격리된 각 세계에서 인간이 진보하는 모든 국면에 그렇게 적극적으로 관심을 기울이는 한편, 특히 유란시아 필사자 인종들의 복지와 진흥에 각별히 관심을 기울이는데, 이는 유란시아를 제외한 그 어떤 행성의 직무도 즉각적으로 직접 감독하지 않으며, 심지어 유란시아에서도 필사자 생존과 관련된 특정 영역 이외에서는 그들의 권위가 완성되지 않았기 때문이다.
114:2.5 (1252.3)
Each of the other isolated worlds is advised by similar and varying sized commissions of its onetime inhabitants, but these other commissions are subordinate to the Urantian group of twenty-four. While the members of the latter commission are thus actively interested in every phase of human progress on each quarantined world in Satania, they are especially and particularly concerned with the welfare and advancement of the mortal races of Urantia, for they immediately and directly supervise the affairs of none of the planets except Urantia, and even here their authority is not complete excepting in certain domains concerned with mortal survival.
유란시아의 이 24 조언자가, 우주 활동의 정규 계획표에서 벗어난 채로, 얼마나 오랫동안 자신의 현 신분을 유지하게 되는지 아무도 모른다. 그들은 한 섭리시대가 끝나거나, 마키벤타 멜기세덱이 온전한 권위를 인수{引受}하거나, 루시퍼 반역에 대한 최종 판결이 내려지거나, 또는 미가엘이 마지막으로 증여되었던 이 세상에 재림하는 것 같은 어떤 행성 변화가 발생할 때까지, 현 자격으로 계속 근무할 것임에 틀림없다. 현재 유란시아에 상주하고 있는 총독은, 사타니아 체계가 성좌 궤도로 환원되는 즉시, 마키벤타를 제외한 모든 이들이 낙원으로 상승하기 위해 거의 자유롭게 되리라는 견해를 갖고 있는 듯하다. 그러나 그 밖의 다른 견해들도 널리 퍼져 있다.
114:2.6 (1252.4)
No one knows how long these twenty-four Urantia counselors will continue in their present status, detached from the regular program of universe activities. They will no doubt continue to serve in their present capacities until some change in planetary status ensues, such as the end of a dispensation, the assumption of full authority by Machiventa Melchizedek, the final adjudication of the Lucifer rebellion, or the reappearance of Michael on the world of his final bestowal. The present resident governor general of Urantia seems inclined to the opinion that all but Machiventa may be released for Paradise ascension the moment the system of Satania is restored to the constellation circuits. But other opinions are also current.
114:3.1 (1252.5)
Every one hundred years of Urantia time, the Jerusem corps of twenty-four planetary supervisors designates 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 (1252.6)
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 (1253.1)
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 (1253.2)
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 (1253.3)
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.
114:4.1 (1253.4)
The sovereignty of Urantia is further complicated by the onetime arbitrary seizure of planetary authority by the government of Norlatiadek shortly after the planetary rebellion. There is still resident on Urantia a Vorondadek Son, an observer for the Most Highs of Edentia and, in the absence of direct action by Michael, trustee of planetary sovereignty. The present Most High observer (and sometime regent) is the twenty-third thus to serve on Urantia.
114:4.2 (1253.5)
There are certain groups of planetary problems which are still under the control of the Most Highs of Edentia, jurisdiction over them having been seized at the time of the Lucifer rebellion. Authority in these matters is exercised by a Vorondadek Son, the Norlatiadek observer, who maintains very close advisory relations with the planetary supervisors. The race commissioners are very active on Urantia, and their various group chiefs are informally attached to the resident Vorondadek observer, who acts as their advisory director.
114:4.3 (1253.6)
In a crisis the actual and sovereign head of the government, excepting in certain purely spiritual matters, would be this Vorondadek Son of Edentia now on observation duty. (In these exclusively spiritual problems and in certain purely personal matters, the supreme authority seems to be vested in the commanding archangel attached to the divisional headquarters of that order which was recently established on Urantia.)
114:4.4 (1253.7)
A Most High observer is empowered, at his discretion, to seize the planetary government in times of grave planetary crises, and it is of record that this has happened thirty-three times in the history of Urantia. At such times the Most High observer functions as the Most High regent, exercising unquestioned authority over all ministers and administrators resident on the planet excepting only the divisional organization of the archangels.
114:5.1 (1254.1)
The actual administration of Urantia is indeed difficult to describe. There exists no formal government along the lines of universe organization, such as separate legislative, executive, and judicial departments. The twenty-four counselors come the nearest to being the legislative branch of the planetary government. The governor general is a provisional and advisory chief executive with the veto power resident in the Most High observer. And there are no absolutely authoritative judicial powers operative on the planet—only the conciliating commissions.
114:5.2 (1254.2)
A majority of the problems involving seraphim and midwayers are, by mutual consent, decided by the governor general. But except when voicing the mandates of the twenty-four counselors, his rulings are all subject to appeal to conciliating commissions, to local authorities constituted for planetary function, or even to the System Sovereign of Satania.
114:5.3 (1254.3)
The absence of the corporeal staff of a Planetary Prince and the material regime of an Adamic Son and Daughter is partially compensated by the special ministry of seraphim and by the unusual services of the midway creatures. The absence of the Planetary Prince is effectively compensated by the triune presence of the archangels, the Most High observer, and the governor general.
다소 느슨하게 조직되고 어느 정도 직접 경영되는 이 행성 정부는 기대하는 것보다 효과적인데, 이는 천사장들이 베푸는, 시간을 절약하는 도움과 그들의 항상-준비된 회로 때문이고, 이는 행성이 위험에 처할 때 또는 경영상 어려움이 있을 때 무척 자주 활용된다. 엄밀히 말하면, 이 행성은 여전히 노라티아덱 궤도에서 영적{靈的}으로 고립되어있으나, 비상시에는 천사장 회로를 활용함으로써 이런 불리한 조건을 회피할 수 있게 되었다. 물론, 1,900년 전 진리의 영이 모든 육신에 부어진 후, 행성 고립은 개별 필사자에게 별다른 문제가 되지 않는다.
114:5.4 (1254.4)
This rather loosely organized and somewhat personally administered planetary government is more than expectedly effective because of the timesaving assistance of the archangels and their ever-ready circuit, which is so frequently utilized in planetary emergencies and administrative difficulties. Technically, the planet is still spiritually isolated in the Norlatiadek circuits, but in an emergency this handicap can now be circumvented through utilization of the archangels’ circuit. Planetary isolation is, of course, of little concern to individual mortals since the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh nineteen hundred years ago.
114:5.5 (1254.5)
Each administrative day on Urantia begins with a consultative conference, which is attended by the governor general, the planetary chief of archangels, the Most High observer, the supervising supernaphim, the chief of resident Life Carriers, and invited guests from among the high Sons of the universe or from among certain of the student visitors who may chance to be sojourning on the planet.
114:6.1 (1254.7)
When the first governor general arrived on Urantia, concurrent with the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth, he was accompanied by twelve corps of special seraphim, Seraphington graduates, who were immediately assigned to certain special planetary services. These exalted angels are known as the master seraphim of planetary supervision and are, aside from the overcontrol of the planetary Most High observer, under the immediate direction of the resident governor general.
114:6.2 (1255.1)
These twelve groups of angels, while functioning under the general supervision of the resident governor general, are immediately directed by the seraphic council of twelve, the acting chiefs of each group. This council also serves as the volunteer cabinet of the resident governor general.
114:6.5 (1255.4)
1. The epochal angels. These are the angels of the current age, the dispensational group. These celestial ministers are intrusted with the oversight and direction of the affairs of each generation as they are designed to fit into the mosaic of the age in which they occur. The present corps of epochal angels serving on Urantia is the third group assigned to the planet during the current dispensation.
114:6.6 (1255.5)
2. The progress angels. These seraphim are intrusted with the task of initiating the evolutionary progress of the successive social ages. They foster the development of the inherent progressive trend of evolutionary creatures; they labor incessantly to make things what they ought to be. The group now on duty is the second to be assigned to the planet.
3. 종교 수호자. 이들은 “교회의 천사들”, 즉 지금 있고 지금까지 존재해온 것을 위하여 열심히 싸우는 존재다. 이들은 도덕적 가치관을 한 시기에서 다음 시기로 안전하게 전달하기 위하여, 살아남은 이상{理想}을 유지시키려 애쓴다. 이들은 진보 천사들과 반대되는 입장에 있는데, 한 세대에서 다음 세대로, 오래되고 일시적인 형태들에 담긴 불멸의 가치를, 새로운, 그래서 덜 고정된 양식{樣式}의 사고{思考}와 행동으로 바뀌게 하려고 늘 애쓴다. 이 천사들은 영적 형식을 놓고 경쟁하지만, 종교인이라고 자처하는 극단적 분파주의, 또는 무의미한 논쟁으로 발생하는 분열의 근원은 아니다. 지금 유란시아에서 활동하고 있는 단체는 그렇게 근무하는 다섯 번째 단체다.
114:6.7 (1255.6)
3. The religious guardians. These are the “angels of the churches,” the earnest contenders for that which is and has been. They endeavor to maintain the ideals of that which has survived for the sake of the safe transit of moral values from one epoch to another. They are the checkmates of the angels of progress, all the while seeking to translate from one generation to another the imperishable values of the old and passing forms into the new and therefore less stabilized patterns of thought and conduct. These angels do contend for spiritual forms, but they are not the source of ultrasectarianism and meaningless controversial divisions of professed religionists. The corps now functioning on Urantia is the fifth thus to serve.
114:6.8 (1255.7)
4. The angels of nation life. These are the “angels of the trumpets,” directors of the political performances of Urantia national life. The group now functioning in the overcontrol of international relations is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through the ministry of this seraphic division that “the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.”
114:6.9 (1255.8)
5. The angels of the races. Those who work for the conservation of the evolutionary races of time, regardless of their political entanglements and religious groupings. On Urantia there are remnants of nine human races which have commingled and combined into the people of modern times. These seraphim are closely associated with the ministry of the race commissioners, and the group now on Urantia is the original corps assigned to the planet soon after the day of Pentecost.
114:6.10 (1255.9)
6. The angels of the future. These are the projection angels, who forecast a future age and plan for the realization of the better things of a new and advancing dispensation; they are the architects of the successive eras. The group now on the planet has thus functioned since the beginning of the current dispensation.
114:6.11 (1256.1)
7. The angels of enlightenment. Urantia is now receiving the help of the third corps of seraphim dedicated to the fostering of planetary education. These angels are occupied with mental and moral training as it concerns individuals, families, groups, schools, communities, nations, and whole races.
114:6.15 (1256.5)
11. The angels of diversion. These are the seraphim who foster the values of play, humor, and rest. They ever seek to uplift man’s recreational diversions and thus to promote the more profitable utilization of human leisure. The present corps is the third of that order to minister on Urantia.
114:6.17 (1256.7)
When these groups of master seraphim disagree in matters of planetary policy or procedure, their differences are usually composed by the governor general, but all his rulings are subject to appeal in accordance with the nature and gravity of the issues involved in the disagreement.
114:6.18 (1256.8)
None of these angelic groups exercise direct or arbitrary control over the domains of their assignment. They cannot fully control the affairs of their respective realms of action, but they can and do so manipulate planetary conditions and so associate circumstances as favorably to influence the spheres of human activity to which they are attached.
114:6.19 (1256.9)
The master seraphim of planetary supervision utilize many agencies for the prosecution of their missions. They function as ideational clearinghouses, mind focalizers, and project promoters. While unable to inject new and higher conceptions into human minds, they often act to intensify some higher ideal which has already appeared within a human intellect.
114:6.20 (1256.10)
But aside from these many means of positive action, the master seraphim insure planetary progress against vital jeopardy through the mobilization, training, and maintenance of the reserve corps of destiny. The chief function of these reservists is to insure against breakdown of evolutionary progress; they are the provisions which the celestial forces have made against surprise; they are the guarantees against disaster.
운명 예비 단체는, 세계의 상황을 다루는 초인간 행정부의 특별 봉사에 참여하게 된, 살아있는 남녀들로 구성된다. 이 단체는, 진화하는 세상에서 시간세계 자녀들에게 자비와 지혜를 잘 베풀도록 돕기 위하여, 그 영역의 영 지휘자들이 각 세대에서 선택한 남녀들로 이뤄진다. 상승 계획의 상황을 처리함에 있어서, 의지를 지닌 필사 피조물이 그런 책임을 수행할 능력이 있고 신용할 만하면, 즉시 그들을 이처럼 접촉하고 활용하기 시작하는 것이 일반 관행이다. 따라서, 남녀가 충분한 정신적 수용력, 적절한 도덕적 상태, 및 필수 영성{靈性}을 지니고 현세의 행동 무대에 나타나자마자, 그들은 곧 필사 보좌관으로서, 적절한 천상{天上} 행성 인격체 집단에 즉시 배치된다.
114:7.1 (1257.1)
The reserve corps of destiny consists of living men and women who have been admitted to the special service of the superhuman administration of world affairs. This corps is made up of the men and women of each generation who are chosen by the spirit directors of the realm to assist in the conduct of the ministry of mercy and wisdom to the children of time on the evolutionary worlds. It is the general practice in the conduct of the affairs of the ascension plans to begin this liaison utilization of mortal will creatures immediately they are competent and trustworthy to assume such responsibilities. Accordingly, as soon as men and women appear on the stage of temporal action with sufficient mental capacity, adequate moral status, and requisite spirituality, they are quickly assigned to the appropriate celestial group of planetary personalities as human liaisons, mortal assistants.
114:7.2 (1257.2)
When human beings are chosen as protectors of planetary destiny, when they become pivotal individuals in the plans which the world administrators are prosecuting, at that time the planetary chief of seraphim confirms their temporal attachment to the seraphic corps and appoints personal destiny guardians to serve with these mortal reservists. All reservists have self-conscious Adjusters, and most of them function in the higher cosmic circles of intellectual achievement and spiritual attainment.
114:7.7 (1257.7)
Each division of planetary celestial service is entitled to a liaison corps of these mortals of destiny standing. The average inhabited world employs seventy separate corps of destiny, which are intimately connected with the superhuman current conduct of world affairs. On Urantia there are twelve reserve corps of destiny, one for each of the planetary groups of seraphic supervision.
열두 집단의 유란시아 운명 예비군은, 땅에서 수많은 중대한 직책을 위해 미리 연습하고, 가능성 있는 행성 비상사태에 행동할 준비가 되어있는, 이 구체의 필사 거주자로 구성된다. 연합된 이 단체는 현재 962명으로 구성되어있다. 가장 작은 단체는 41명이고, 가장 큰 것은 172명이다. 20명 미만의 접촉 인격체를 제외하고, 독특한 이 집단의 구성원은, 특정 행성 위기가 있을 때 활동할 가능성을 위하여 자신이 준비되고 있음을 전혀 의식하지 못한다. 이 필사자 예비군은, 각자 자신이 배속되어있는 그 단체의 선택을 받고, 사고 조절자와 스랍 수호자가 섬기는 통합된 기법에 따라, 정신 속 깊은 곳에서 마찬가지로 훈련받고 숙달된다. 무의식중에 받는 이 훈련에 수많은 다른 천상의 인격체가 여러 차례 참여하며, 이 모든 특별한 준비를 하는 동안 중도자들이 귀중하고 필수적인 봉사를 수행한다.
114:7.8 (1257.8)
The twelve groups of Urantia destiny reservists are composed of mortal inhabitants of the sphere who have been rehearsed for numerous crucial positions on earth and are held in readiness to act in possible planetary emergencies. This combined corps now consists of 962 persons. The smallest corps numbers 41 and the largest 172. With the exception of less than a score of contact personalities, the members of this unique group are wholly unconscious of their preparation for possible function in certain planetary crises. These mortal reservists are chosen by the corps to which they are respectively attached and are likewise trained and rehearsed in the deep mind by the combined technique of Thought Adjuster and seraphic guardian ministry. Many times numerous other celestial personalities participate in this unconscious training, and in all this special preparation the midwayers perform valuable and indispensable services.
많은 세계에서는 비교적 잘 적응된 2차 중도 피조물이, 사고 조절자가 내주{內住}하는 정신에 능숙하게 침투함으로써 확실히 알맞게 구성된 어떤 필사자의 그 사고 조절자와 다양한 정도로 접촉할 수 있다. (그리고 시공우주 조절이 바로 그렇게 우연히 조합되어, 본 계시가 유란시아에서 영어로 물질화되었다.) 진화 세계의 그런 잠재적{潛在的} 접촉 필사자들은 여러 예비 단체에 집결하며, 영적 문명이 증진되고 지고자들이 사람의 나라들에서 통치력을 발휘할 수 있는 것은, 어느 정도는, 앞을 내다보는 작은 집단의 이 인격체들을 통해서다. 이처럼 이 운명 예비 단체에 소속된 남녀들은, 개입하는 중도 피조물의 섬김을 통해서 자신의 조절자와 다양한 정도로 접촉하지만;바로 이 필사자들은, 진화 중인 문화가 몰락하거나 또는 살아있는 진리의 빛이 소멸되는 것을 방지하기 위해 이 예비 인격체들이 활동하는, 그런 드문 사회적 비상사태와 영적 위급상황 이외에는, 동료들에게 거의 알려지지 않는다. 유란시아에서는 이 운명 예비군이 인간 역사의 장을 드물게 장식해 왔다.
114:7.9 (1258.1)
On many worlds the better adapted secondary midway creatures are able to attain varying degrees of contact with the Thought Adjusters of certain favorably constituted mortals through the skillful penetration of the minds of the latters’ indwelling. (And it was by just such a fortuitous combination of cosmic adjustments that these revelations were materialized in the English language on Urantia.) Such potential contact mortals of the evolutionary worlds are mobilized in the numerous reserve corps, and it is, to a certain extent, through these small groups of forward-looking personalities that spiritual civilization is advanced and the Most Highs are able to rule in the kingdoms of men. The men and women of these reserve corps of destiny thus have various degrees of contact with their Adjusters through the intervening ministry of the midway creatures; but these same mortals are little known to their fellows except in those rare social emergencies and spiritual exigencies wherein these reserve personalities function for the prevention of the breakdown of evolutionary culture or the extinction of the light of living truth. On Urantia these reservists of destiny have seldom been emblazoned on the pages of human history.
114:7.10 (1258.2)
The reservists unconsciously act as conservators of essential planetary information. Many times, upon the death of a reservist, a transfer of certain vital data from the mind of the dying reservist to a younger successor is made by a liaison of the two Thought Adjusters. The Adjusters undoubtedly function in many other ways unknown to us, in connection with these reserve corps.
114:7.11 (1258.3)
On Urantia the reserve corps of destiny, though having no permanent head, does have its own permanent councils which constitute its governing organization. These embrace the judiciary council, the historicity council, the council on political sovereignty, and many others. From time to time, in accordance with the corps organization, titular (mortal) heads of the whole reserve corps have been commissioned by these permanent councils for specific function. The tenure of such reservist chiefs is usually a matter of a few hours’ duration, being limited to the accomplishment of some specific task at hand.
114:7.13 (1258.5)
(The cosmic reserve corps of universe-conscious citizens on Urantia now numbers over one thousand mortals whose insight of cosmic citizenship far transcends the sphere of their terrestrial abode, but I am forbidden to reveal the real nature of the function of this unique group of living human beings.)
114:7.14 (1258.6)
Urantia mortals should not allow the comparative spiritual isolation of their world from certain of the local universe circuits to produce a feeling of cosmic desertion or planetary orphanage. There is operative on the planet a very definite and effective superhuman supervision of world affairs and human destinies.
114:7.15 (1258.7)
But it is true that you can have, at best, only a meager idea of an ideal planetary government. Since the early times of the Planetary Prince, Urantia has suffered from the miscarriage of the divine plan of world growth and racial development. The loyal inhabited worlds of Satania are not governed as is Urantia. Nevertheless, compared with the other isolated worlds, your planetary governments have not been so inferior; only one or two worlds may be said to be worse, and a few may be slightly better, but the majority are on a plane of equality with you.
지방우주에서는, 불안정한 행성 경영 상태가 언제 끝나게 될지, 아무도 모르는 것 같다. 네바돈의 멜기세덱들은, 미가엘이 유란시아에 친히 다시 도착할 때까지, 행성 정부와 경영에 거의 변화가 없으리라는 견해를 취하려는 경향이 있다. 이전부터는 아닐지라도 바로 이 시기에, 의심할 여지없이 행성 관리 체제에 전면적 변화가 단행될 것이다. 그러나 이런 세계 경영의 변경이 지닌 본질에 대해서는, 아무도 추측할 수조차 없는 것처럼 보인다. 네바돈 우주의 인간거주 세계들의 전체 역사에서, 이런 사건이 일어난 전례가 없다. 유란시아의 미래 정부와 관련하여 이해하기 어려운 많은 것 가운데 두드러진 한 가지는, 천사장 회로와 분야별 본부가 이 행성에 있다는 점이다.
114:7.16 (1259.1)
No one in the local universe seems to know when the unsettled status of the planetary administration will terminate. The Nebadon Melchizedeks are inclined to the opinion that little change will occur in the planetary government and administration until Michael’s second personal arrival on Urantia. Undoubtedly at this time, if not before, sweeping changes will be effected in planetary management. But as to the nature of such modifications of world administration, no one seems to be able even to conjecture. There is no precedent for such an episode in all the history of the inhabited worlds of the universe of Nebadon. Among the many things difficult to understand concerning the future government of Urantia, a prominent one is the location on the planet of a circuit and divisional headquarters of the archangels.
우주 협의회들은 고립된 너희 세계를 잊지 않고 있다. 유란시아는, 죄로 인해 비난받고 반역으로 인해 신성한 보호에서 떨어져나간, 시공우주 고아가 아니다. 우버사에서 살빙톤을 거쳐 예루셈에 이르기까지, 심지어 하보나와 낙원에서도, 그들은 모두 우리가 여기 있음을 알고 있으며;유란시아에 지금 거주하고 있는 너희 필사자들은, 이 구체가 신의를 저버린 행성 통치자에게 한 번도 배신당하지 않았던 것처럼, 아니 그 이상으로 똑같이 사랑스럽게 소중히 여겨지고 있으며, 똑같이 충실하게 보살핌 받고 있다. “아버지께서 친히 너희를 사랑하신다”는 말씀은 영원히 참말이다.
114:7.17 (1259.2)
Your isolated world is not forgotten in the counsels of the universe. Urantia is not a cosmic orphan stigmatized by sin and shut away from divine watchcare by rebellion. From Uversa to Salvington and on down to Jerusem, even in Havona and on Paradise, they all know we are here; and you mortals now dwelling on Urantia are just as lovingly cherished and just as faithfully watched over as if the sphere had never been betrayed by a faithless Planetary Prince, even more so. It is eternally true, “the Father himself loves you.”