P1252:5, 114:3.1 Every one hundred years of Urantia
time, the Jerusem corps of twenty-four planetary supervisors designate
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.
P1252:6, 114:3.2 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.
P1253:1, 114:3.3 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.
P1253:2, 114:3.4 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.
P1253:3, 114:3.5 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.