Glossary Archive

System Sovereigns are the chief executives of the local systems of inhabited worlds. They are primary Lanonandek Sons. In our local system of Satania, these sovereigns are entrusted with large executive responsibilities and unusual personal prerogatives. The present head of Satania is Lanaforge, a rebellion-tested sovereign.

Local system time (LST) is the same as Jerusem time or Satania time. One day of LST is almost 3 days of Earth time. One year of LST equals 100 days, which is close to 0.8 Earth years (less than 10 months). See Papers 33.6.9 and 46.1.2. Also see Time Reckoning.

Tabamantia is the sovereign supervisor of all life-experiment worlds in Nebadon. He is an agondonter of finaliter status, having survived from one of the quarantined spheres involved in the first rebellion ever to take place in the universes of time and space.

In Roman times, the city of Tarsus was located in the region of Cilicia, which is roughly the same as the modern province of Mersin in Turkyie. It is one of the oldest continually inhabited urban centers in the world, dating back to the Neolithic Period. Tarsus was an important trade center for most of...

Teaching Counselors are supreme seraphim who serve as secretaries to all orders of teachers, from the Melchizedeks and the Trinity Teacher Sons down to morontia mortals. We will encounter these angels on the mansion worlds. Jesus' fourth bestowal was as a teaching counselor.

Technical Advisers are the legal and technical minds of the spirit world. Supernaphim and omniaphim form the nucleus of this group, but subsequent advisers are recruited from an array of beings, from supernaphim to ascending mortals. They serve in groups of seven and are dedicated to the work of preventing delay, facilitating progress, and counseling...

Tertiaphim, like seconaphim and omniaphim, are angels of the superuniverses. They are children of the Infinite Spirit who are assigned to work with a Creator Son in early universe organization. Later, after the personalization of the Bright and Morning Star, they act as liaison ministers between the Creator Son and the Ancients of Days. Technically,...

Tertiary seconaphim are superuniverse angels assigned to the services of the Trinity-origin associates of the Ancients of Days—Perfectors of Wisdom, Divine Counselors, and Universal Censors. They are reflective angels in touch with Paradise-Havona supernaphim, such as the Custodians of Knowledge and Masters of Philosophy. They are not the same as Tertiaphim.

Tertiary supernaphim are offspring of the Spirits of the Circuits and serve in the seven circuits of Havona. They are wise and sympathetic promoters of fraternal association between ascending beings and descending pilgrims. They are not the same as Tertiaphim, who are angels serving in the superuniverses.

This is a quote from The Gods by Robert G. Ingersoll (1878), which is a scathing critique of Judeo-Christian literature and theology, as well as an exposé of Christian hypocrisy in the 19th century. While some of his critique has merit, his zeal is excessive. He was a self-proclaimed agnostic and humanist who concludes his...