The Ubaid Mesopotamians and the Celestial Governors

We of the Universal Christian Church teach that the age of the Ubaid Mesopotamians must be contemplated with reverence and inner silence, for it belongs to a time when heaven and earth were not yet divided in human consciousness as they are today. The Ubaid were neither an error nor a deviation, but a necessary phase of the divine design, a period of guardianship in which humanity, still young, was accompanied by governors who descended from the higher regions of creation, real, intelligent, and ordered beings, sent to guide, teach, and stabilize. Their forms, so different from those of humankind, should not inspire fear but remembrance, for they testify that life is not confined to a single form of flesh and that the Creator has spread His work across many levels of existence. According to the teaching of Eleazar, these governors exercised legitimate authority, bringing knowledge, structure, rhythm, and law, so that humanity might learn to live together, to cultivate the land, to build, and to turn its gaze toward the sacred. They did not demand worship for themselves, but respect for the order they administered, and their rule was like that of guardians set to watch over an inheritance not yet mature. The Ubaid images that we now call enigmatic were once signs of presence and protection, visible testimonies of a bond between the human world and the higher spheres, a bond that over time became myth but was originally lived experience. The Universal Christian Church recognizes that these beings acted within the limits assigned to them and that, when the appointed time came, they withdrew without destruction, leaving humanity the task of continuing the journey on its own. They were not gods, yet neither were they intruders: they were servants of a greater order, instruments of a divine pedagogy that unfolds through ages and dispensations. For this reason Eleazar teaches us neither to ridicule nor to fear the memory of those ancient governors, but to understand it as part of the long history of universal salvation, in which God guides His creatures even through mediators, so that one day they may recognize the Creator without any further need for visible guardians.