All Planetary Princes seek counsel from a varied staff, including Melchizedeks and four and twenty counselors. [1] Planetary Princes, assigned to all planets inhabited by mortals, govern diverse creatures in a vast and wonderful creation. [2]
Planetary Princes, belonging to the order of Lanonandek Sons, are specialized in service and commonly regarded as a distinct group among Local Universe Sons of God. [3]
Planetary Princes are commissioned by System Sovereigns upon Life Carrier report that will is functioning, serving as rulers with almost complete personal grasp and acting as custodians of legislative mandates and judicial verdicts in the local affairs of inhabited worlds. [4]
The controllers and transformers collaborate with angels and other celestial beings to render Planetary Princes visible to mortals for communication and guidance. [5] During their early rule, Planetary Princes organize assistants and form a supreme council, governing autocratically. [6]
The staff of a planetary prince typically consists of 1000 personalities, including beings from the Infinite Spirit and higher evolved mortals, with the potential to expand to 100,000 or more upon request to System Sovereigns. [7]
Upon the inauguration of the era of light and life, the Planetary Princes are elevated to Planetary Sovereigns in recognition of their service and leadership through the epochs of planetary progress. [8]
The Planetary Princes, invisible to mortals, serve as intermediary beings between the divine and the material worlds, providing a crucial link in the chain of evolving personalities. [9] The Planetary Prince and his assistant brethren offer the closest personal connection to the Eternal Son for the beings of time and space. [10] No high trust deemed more sacred than that reposed in a Planetary Prince for the welfare and guidance of evolving mortals on a newly inhabited world. [11]
The successful Planetary Princes, permanently attached to planets of original assignment, independently govern their realms to foster planetary civilization despite the coming and going of Paradise Sons and their dispensations. [12]
In the ascension career, all three orders face the same intellectual and spiritual challenges with equal treatment under system administration and constellation overcontrol, where even the regimes of Planetary Princes are identical. [13] There are 10,234,601 secondary Lanonandeks in Nebadon, assigned as Planetary Princes. [14]
The prince's corporeal staff organizes planetary schools at simple headquarters for the cream of evolutionary races to teach better ways to their people. [15] The Planetary Prince and his assistant brethren embody the closest earthly connection to the Eternal Son and Mother Spirit. [16] Planetary Princes are under Gabriel's jurisdiction and follow System Sovereign mandates. [17] Sympathetic rulership for planetary princes increases the risk of being led astray by the exaltation of their own minds. [18] During the time of Jesus' tomb, a personality likely sat in the seat of Caligastia in the system council of Planetary Princes on Jerusem. [19] Planetary princes' tribunals exhibit a highly fatherly and discretionary attitude in adjudicating matters across their domains. [20]
The united administrations with Planetary Adams create a new and effective order of world administration before the first Magisterial Son concludes his mission. [21]
Life is initiated on planets by Life Carriers, who install Planetary Princes as rulers with auxiliaries and helpers, overseeing until mortal man's appearance and the first judgment of the living and the dead. [22]
The late arrival of the Planetary Prince on Urantia postponed the development of will on the planet by almost half a million years, in contrast to the usual timing of such arrivals. [23]
The delayed arrival of the Planetary Prince on Urantia hindered the development of will in primitive man, occurring almost five hundred thousand years after the potential timeline established during the lifetimes of Andon and Fonta. [24]
The Planetary Prince typically arrives within 100,000 years of man achieving an upright posture, sent by the System Sovereign upon the Life Carriers' report of functioning will, despite few individuals having developed, and is often welcomed with reverence and awe by primitive mortals, almost to the point of worship. [25]
The mission of the Planetary Prince and his assistant brethren is to represent the closest approach the Eternal Son can make to the creatures of time and space, providing divinity on newly inhabited worlds and preparing them for higher forms of life. [26]
When the Planetary Prince arrives on a primitive world, they make first revelations of higher truth and universe organization, guiding the inhabitants towards spiritual advancement. [27]
The Planetary Prince's schools focus on philosophy, religion, morals, and higher intellectual and artistic achievements, while the garden schools of Adam and Eve emphasize practical arts, intellectual training, social culture, economic development, trade relations, physical efficiency, and civil government, eventually merging before the arrival of the first Magisterial Son. [28]
Planetary Princes are the sole representatives of divinity on individual planets, directing the destinies of evolutionary spheres in the vast domains of the Father, despite facing severe tests of faith and loyalty due to their unique position in the universe organization. [29] Planetary Princes work independently to foster planetary civilization, ruling their realms indefinitely. [30]
Rebellion by Planetary Princes in Nebadon has led to confusion and tribulations, requiring remedial measures to overcome the consequences of their actions. [31]
Planetary Princes' rebellion leads to immediate isolation of their planet, requiring remedial measures by celestial beings for re-establishment of communication. [32] Thirty-seven Planetary Princes seceded in the system-wide Lucifer rebellion, with only the Panoptian Prince failing to carry his people with him. [33] Lucifer's rebellion advocated for the self-rule of Planetary Princes as supreme executives, emphasizing equality and decentralization of government. [34]
The neighboring planet, like Urantia, was led astray by the disloyalty of its Planetary Prince during the Lucifer rebellion, causing it to be left isolated after its Material Son also defaulted. [35]
Successor Planetary Princes are designated for isolated worlds, where rebellion instantly isolates the planet and only a bestowal Son can re-establish interplanetary lines of communication. [36] Michael, as an emergency Material Son, successfully restored a quarantined world in rebellion by effecting repentance of defaulting Planetary Princes. [37]
See also: UB 50; UB 35:9; UB 134:8.6; UB 136:3.1; UB 189:3.3.