Personalities of the Grand Universe

30:4.1While the mor­tal sur­vivors of time and space are de­nom­i­nated as­cend­ing pil­grims when ac­cred­ited for the pro­gres­sive as­cent to Par­a­dise, these evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures oc­cupy such an im­por­tant place in these nar­ra­tives that we here de­sire to pre­sent a syn­op­sis of the fol­low­ing seven stages of the as­cend­ing uni­verse ca­reer:

30:4.21. Plan­e­tary Mor­tals.

30:4.32. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors.

30:4.43. Man­sion World Stu­dents.

30:4.54. Mor­ontia Pro­gres­sors.

30:4.65. Super­uni­verse Wards.

30:4.76. Ha­vona Pil­grims.

30:4.87. Par­a­dise Ar­rivals.

30:4.9The fol­low­ing nar­ra­tive pre­sents the uni­verse ca­reer of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt mor­tal. The Son- and Spirit-fused mor­tals share por­tions of this ca­reer, but we have elected to tell this story as it per­tains to the Ad­juster-fused mor­tals, for such a des­tiny may be an­tic­i­pated by all of the hu­man races of Uran­tia.

30:4.101. Plan­e­tary Mor­tals. Mor­tals are all an­i­mal-ori­gin evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings of as­cen­dant po­ten­tial. In ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny these var­i­ous groups and types of hu­man be­ings are not wholly un­like the Uran­tia peo­ples. The hu­man races of each world re­ceive the same min­istry of the Sons of God and en­joy the pres­ence of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time. Af­ter nat­u­ral death all types of as­cend­ers frat­er­nize as one mor­ontia fam­ily on the man­sion worlds.

30:4.112. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors. All mor­tals of sur­vival sta­tus, in the cus­tody of per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny, pass through the por­tals of nat­u­ral death and, on the third pe­riod, per­son­al­ize on the man­sion worlds. Those ac­cred­ited be­ings who have, for any rea­son, been un­able to at­tain that level of in­tel­li­gence mas­tery and en­dow­ment of spir­i­tu­al­ity which would en­ti­tle them to per­sonal guard­i­ans, can­not thus im­me­di­ately and di­rectly go to the man­sion worlds. Such sur­viv­ing souls must rest in un­con­scious sleep un­til the judg­ment day of a new epoch, a new dis­pen­sa­tion, the com­ing of a Son of God to call the rolls of the age and ad­ju­di­cate the realm, and this is the gen­eral prac­tice through­out all Neb­a­don. It was said of Christ Mi­chael that, when he as­cended on high at the con­clu­sion of his work on earth, “He led a great mul­ti­tude of cap­tives.” And these cap­tives were the sleep­ing sur­vivors from the days of Adam to the day of the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia.

30:4.12The pass­ing of time is of no mo­ment to sleep­ing mor­tals; they are wholly un­con­scious and obliv­i­ous to the length of their rest. On re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity at the end of an age, those who have slept five thou­sand years will re­act no dif­fer­ently than those who have rested five days. Aside from this time de­lay these sur­vivors pass on through the as­cen­sion regime iden­ti­cally with those who avoid the longer or shorter sleep of death.

30:4.13These dis­pen­sa­tional classes of world pil­grims are uti­lized for group mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties in the work of the lo­cal uni­verses. There is a great ad­van­tage in the mo­bi­liza­tion of such enor­mous groups; they are thus kept to­gether for long pe­ri­ods of ef­fec­tive ser­vice.

30:4.143. Man­sion World Stu­dents. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals who reawaken on the man­sion worlds be­long to this class.

30:4.15The phys­i­cal body of mor­tal flesh is not a part of the re­assem­bly of the sleep­ing sur­vivor; the phys­i­cal body has re­turned to dust. The ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment spon­sors the new body, the mor­ontia form, as the new life ve­hi­cle for the im­mor­tal soul and for the in­dwelling of the re­turned Ad­juster. The Ad­juster is the cus­to­dian of the spirit tran­script of the mind of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The as­signed ser­a­phim is the keeper of the sur­viv­ing iden­tity—the im­mor­tal soul—as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Ad­juster and the ser­a­phim, re­unite their per­son­al­ity trusts, the new in­di­vid­ual con­sti­tutes the res­ur­rec­tion of the old per­son­al­ity, the sur­vival of the evolv­ing mor­ontia iden­tity of the soul. Such a re­as­so­ci­a­tion of soul and Ad­juster is quite prop­erly called a res­ur­rec­tion, a re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity fac­tors; but even this does not en­tirely ex­plain the reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity. Though you will prob­a­bly never un­der­stand the fact of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble trans­ac­tion, you will some­time ex­pe­ri­en­tially know the truth of it if you do not re­ject the plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

30:4.16The plan of ini­tial mor­tal de­ten­tion on seven worlds of pro­gres­sive train­ing is nearly uni­ver­sal in Or­von­ton. In each lo­cal sys­tem of ap­prox­i­mately one thou­sand in­hab­ited plan­ets there are seven man­sion worlds, usu­ally satel­lites or sub­satel­lites of the sys­tem cap­i­tal. They are the re­ceiv­ing worlds for the ma­jor­ity of as­cend­ing mor­tals.

30:4.17Some­times all train­ing worlds of mor­tal res­i­dence are called uni­verse “man­sions,” and it was to such spheres that Je­sus al­luded when he said: “In my Fa­ther’s house are many man­sions.” From here on, within a given group of spheres like the man­sion worlds, as­cend­ers will pro­gress in­di­vid­u­ally from one sphere to an­other and from one phase of life to an­other, but they will al­ways ad­vance from one stage of uni­verse study to an­other in class for­ma­tion.

30:4.184. Mor­ontia Pro­gres­sors. From the man­sion worlds on up through the spheres of the sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and the uni­verse, mor­tals are classed as mor­ontia pro­gres­sors; they are travers­ing the tran­si­tion spheres of mor­tal as­cen­sion. As the as­cend­ing mor­tals pro­gress from the lower to the higher of the mor­ontia worlds, they serve on count­less as­sign­ments in as­so­ci­a­tion with their teach­ers and in com­pany with their more ad­vanced and se­nior breth­ren.

30:4.19Mor­ontia pro­gres­sion per­tains to con­tin­u­ing ad­vance­ment of in­tel­lect, spirit, and per­son­al­ity form. Sur­vivors are still three-na­tured be­ings. Through­out the en­tire mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence they are wards of the lo­cal uni­verse. The regime of the super­uni­verse does not func­tion un­til the spirit ca­reer be­gins.

30:4.20Mor­tals ac­quire real spirit iden­tity just be­fore they leave the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters for the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the mi­nor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse. Pass­ing from the fi­nal mor­ontia stage to the first or low­est spirit sta­tus is but a slight tran­si­tion. The mind, per­son­al­ity, and char­ac­ter are un­changed by such an ad­vance; only does the form un­dergo mod­i­fi­ca­tion. But the spirit form is just as real as the mor­ontia body, and it is equally dis­cern­i­ble.

30:4.21Be­fore de­part­ing from their na­tive lo­cal uni­verses for the super­uni­verse re­ceiv­ing worlds, the mor­tals of time are re­cip­i­ents of spirit con­fir­ma­tion from the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. From this point on, the sta­tus of the as­cend­ing mor­tal is for­ever set­tled. Super­uni­verse wards have never been known to go astray. As­cend­ing ser­a­phim are also ad­vanced in an­gelic stand­ing at the time of their de­par­ture from the lo­cal uni­verses.

30:4.225. Super­uni­verse Wards. All as­cend­ers ar­riv­ing on the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verses be­come the wards of the An­cients of Days; they have tra­versed the mor­ontia life of the lo­cal uni­verse and are now ac­cred­ited spir­its. As young spir­its they be­gin the as­cen­sion of the super­uni­verse sys­tem of train­ing and cul­ture, ex­tend­ing from the re­ceiv­ing spheres of their mi­nor sec­tor in through the study worlds of the ten ma­jor sec­tors and on to the higher cul­tural spheres of the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

30:4.23There are three or­ders of stu­dent spir­its in ac­cor­dance with their so­journ upon the mi­nor sec­tor, ma­jor sec­tors, and the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds of spirit pro­gres­sion. As mor­ontia as­cend­ers stud­ied and worked on the worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse, so spirit as­cend­ers con­tinue to mas­ter new worlds while they prac­tice at giv­ing out to oth­ers that which they have im­bibed at the ex­pe­ri­en­tial founts of wis­dom. But go­ing to school as a spirit be­ing in the super­uni­verse ca­reer is very un­like any­thing that has ever en­tered the imag­i­na­tive realms of the ma­te­rial mind of man.

30:4.24Be­fore leav­ing the super­uni­verse for Ha­vona, these as­cend­ing spir­its re­ceive the same thor­ough course in super­uni­verse man­age­ment that they re­ceived dur­ing their mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence in lo­cal uni­verse super­vi­sion. Be­fore spirit mor­tals reach Ha­vona, their chief study, but not ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tion, is the mas­tery of lo­cal and super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. The rea­son for all of this ex­pe­ri­ence is not now fully ap­par­ent, but no doubt such train­ing is wise and nec­es­sary in view of their pos­si­ble fu­ture des­tiny as mem­bers of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

30:4.25The super­uni­verse regime is not the same for all as­cend­ing mor­tals. They re­ceive the same gen­eral ed­u­ca­tion, but spe­cial groups and classes are car­ried through spe­cial courses of in­struc­tion and are put through spe­cific courses of train­ing.

30:4.266. Ha­vona Pil­grims. When spirit de­vel­op­ment is com­plete, even though not re­plete, then the sur­viv­ing mor­tal pre­pares for the long flight to Ha­vona, the haven of evo­lu­tion­ary spir­its. On earth you were a crea­ture of flesh and blood; through the lo­cal uni­verse you were a mor­ontia be­ing; through the super­uni­verse you were an evolv­ing spirit; with your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona your spir­i­tual ed­u­ca­tion be­gins in re­al­ity and in earnest; your even­tual ap­pear­ance on Par­a­dise will be as a per­fected spirit.

30:4.27The jour­ney from the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters to the Ha­vona re­ceiv­ing spheres is al­ways made alone. From now on no more class or group in­struc­tion will be ad­min­is­tered. You are through with the tech­ni­cal and ad­min­is­tra­tive train­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. Now be­gins your per­sonal ed­u­ca­tion, your in­di­vid­ual spir­i­tual train­ing. From first to last, through­out all Ha­vona, the in­struc­tion is per­sonal and three­fold in na­ture: in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

30:4.28The first act of your Ha­vona ca­reer will be to rec­og­nize and thank your trans­port se­con­a­phim for the long and safe jour­ney. Then you are pre­sented to those be­ings who will spon­sor your early Ha­vona ac­tiv­i­ties. Next you go to reg­is­ter your ar­rival and pre­pare your mes­sage of thanks­giv­ing and ado­ra­tion for dis­patch to the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the uni­verse Fa­ther who made pos­si­ble your son­ship ca­reer. This con­cludes the for­mal­i­ties of the Ha­vona ar­rival; where­upon you are ac­corded a long pe­riod of leisure for free ob­ser­va­tion, and this af­fords op­por­tu­nity for look­ing up your friends, fel­lows, and as­so­ciates of the long as­cen­sion ex­pe­ri­ence. You may also con­sult the broad­casts to as­cer­tain who of your fel­low pil­grims have de­parted for Ha­vona since the time of your leav­ing Uversa.

30:4.29The fact of your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona will be duly trans­mit­ted to the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse and per­son­ally con­veyed to your se­raphic guard­ian, wher­ever that ser­a­phim may chance to be.

30:4.30The as­cen­dant mor­tals have been thor­oughly trained in the af­fairs of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space; now they be­gin their long and prof­itable con­tact with the cre­ated spheres of per­fec­tion. What a prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture work is af­forded by this com­bined, unique, and ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence! But I can­not tell you about Ha­vona; you must see these worlds to ap­pre­ci­ate their glory or to un­der­stand their grandeur.

30:4.317. Par­a­dise Ar­rivals. On reach­ing Par­a­dise with res­i­den­tial sta­tus, you be­gin the pro­gres­sive course in di­vin­ity and ab­sonity. Your res­i­dence on Par­a­dise sig­ni­fies that you have found God, and that you are to be mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Of all the crea­tures of the grand uni­verse, only those who are Fa­ther fused are mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Only such in­di­vid­u­als take the fi­nal­i­ter oath. Other be­ings of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion or at­tain­ment may be tem­porar­ily at­tached to this fi­nal­ity corps, but they are not of eter­nal as­sign­ment to the un­known and un­re­vealed mis­sion of this ac­cu­mu­lat­ing host of the evo­lu­tion­ary and per­fected vet­er­ans of time and space.

30:4.32Par­a­dise ar­rivals are ac­corded a pe­riod of free­dom, af­ter which they be­gin their as­so­ci­a­tions with the seven groups of the pri­mary super­na­phim. They are des­ig­nated Par­a­dise grad­u­ates when they have fin­ished their course with the con­duc­tors of wor­ship and then, as fi­nal­i­ters, are as­signed on ob­ser­va­tional and co-op­er­a­tive ser­vice to the ends of the far-flung cre­ation. As yet there seems to be no spe­cific or set­tled em­ploy­ment for the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters, though they serve in many ca­pac­i­ties on worlds set­tled in light and life.

30:4.33If there should be no fu­ture or un­re­vealed des­tiny for the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the pres­ent as­sign­ment of these as­cen­dant be­ings would be al­to­gether ad­e­quate and glo­ri­ous. Their pres­ent des­tiny wholly jus­ti­fies the uni­ver­sal plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. But the fu­ture ages of the evo­lu­tion of the spheres of outer space will un­doubt­edly fur­ther elab­o­rate, and with more re­plete­ness di­vinely il­lu­mi­nate, the wis­dom and lov­ing-kind­ness of the Gods in the ex­e­cu­tion of their di­vine plan of hu­man sur­vival and mor­tal as­cen­sion.

30:4.34This nar­ra­tive, to­gether with what has been re­vealed to you and with what you may ac­quire in con­nec­tion with in­struc­tion re­spect­ing your own world, pre­sents an out­line of the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal. The story varies con­sid­er­ably in the dif­fer­ent super­uni­verses, but this recital af­fords a glimpse of the av­er­age plan of mor­tal pro­gres­sion as it is op­er­a­tive in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don and in the sev­enth seg­ment of the grand uni­verse, the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton.

30:4.35[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa.]