THE Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men through many celestial forces and agencies but chiefly through the ministry of seraphim.

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:

1. The life modification status of Urantia.
2. The exigencies of the Lucifer rebellion.
3. The disruptions of the Adamic default.
4. The irregularities growing out of the fact that Urantia was one of the bestowal worlds of the Universe Sovereign. Michael of Nebadon is the Planetary Prince of Urantia.
5. The special function of the twenty-four planetary directors.
6. The location on the planet of an archangels’ circuit.
7. The more recent designation of the onetime incarnated Machiventa Melchizedek as vicegerent Planetary Prince.

114:6.4 The twelve corps of the master seraphim of planetary supervision are functional on Urantia as follows:

114:6.5 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 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.

114:6.7 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 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 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 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 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.

114:6.12 8. The angels of health. These are the seraphic ministers assigned to the assistance of those mortal agencies dedicated to the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. The present corps is the sixth group to serve during this dispensation.

114:6.13 9. The home seraphim. Urantia now enjoys the services of the fifth group of angelic ministers dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the home, the basic institution of human civilization.

114:6.14 10. The angels of industry. This seraphic group is concerned with fostering industrial development and improving economic conditions among the Urantia peoples. This corps has been seven times changed since the bestowal of Michael.

114:6.15 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.

114:6.16 12. The angels of superhuman ministry. These are the angels of the angels, those seraphim who are assigned to the ministry of all other superhuman life on the planet, temporary or permanent. This corps has served since the beginning of the current dispensation.

114:6.18 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.

First, lemme say that I'm at absolutely new reader of the Urantia Book (TUB).... so I ask that you forgive me for any missteps or erroneous statements. I am a fallen-away southern Baptist and "slowly fading" former agnostic, but after discovering (on Amazon) and reading The Untold Story of Jesus (which impelled me to get and begin reading TUB) I'm an embryonic believer.... Absolutely thrilled I am to find and be able to participate in this forum, and I have the same question as urantiangirl. However, meaning no disrespect to the two members who responded, unfortunately, I couldn't see how the responses answered the question. Here's what I mean: okay, so the "seraphim ministry" is the mechanism by which Urantian affairs are guided, ruled, or influenced, but what do the seraphim DO to guide, rule, influence, or whatever? Do they implant suggestions in subconscious minds of governing mortals? Do they communicate directly and consciously with governing mortals? I guess it's probably safe to say that they don't actually do anything physically, right? Is TUB silent on the specifics of how governance is accomplished?

Sorry to be so gloomy.....

No worries...we all can see the world and its problems. But keep reading. Eventualy, you will learn a lot about seeing the world in a new way. The meanings of lot of stuff will fall into place. And you might just get your optimism back!

Bottom line: we are iiving on an evolutionary planet. It has a long way to go, and we are here taking part in its progress. But we have help. We are part of a vast spiritual family. And when we know that, life gets better.

Happy for you, redryder!

The Urantia Papers certainly do present a clearly defined set of "parameters" or constraints for the repercussions of evil, sin, iniquity, and rebellion. There are two (as I understand the text): time and distance of effect.

Sin and evil effects are temporal and cannot survive time or penetrate eternity. Such effects are also constrained by geographic proximity, limiting the range of radial effects while those fade and diminish by time and the universe reality response to sin and evil/error.

So the effects of error and deliberate sin by freewill cannot persist or survive the freewill response of love, or truth, beauty, and goodness.

And here is where the UB contradicts the idea of freewill parameters and restraints. Every freewill experience and every freewill expression of love, or truth, beauty, and goodness is eternal in effect and has no boundaries of proximity effects. Those freewill choices are unconstrained. It is like osmosis (?)...a filter that allows some particles through but restrains the flow of others, which results in a concentration effect of the desirable particles. Crude analogy I know.

From a mortals perspective, temporal can be a difficult concept. Temporal effects can last a long time depending on the cause but cannot escape time nor resist the overwhelming love response of mercy ministry to the suffering experienced by the victims of the effects and repercussions of sin and evil.

According to the Papers, already there is over a thousand times more goodness from the response to the Satania rebellion than the suffering and repercussions of that freewill sin and evil.