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Paper 43

The Constellations

Malavatia Melchizedek

8. The Edentia Training Worlds

43:8.1The phys­i­cal en­dow­ment of Eden­tia and its sur­round­ing spheres is well-nigh per­fect; they could hardly equal the spir­i­tual grandeur of the spheres of Sal­ving­ton, but they far sur­pass the glo­ries of the train­ing worlds of Je­ru­sem. All these Eden­tia spheres are en­er­gized di­rectly by the uni­ver­sal space cur­rents, and their enor­mous power sys­tems, both ma­te­rial and mor­ontial, are ex­pertly super­vised and dis­tributed by the con­stel­la­tion cen­ters, as­sisted by a com­pe­tent corps of Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

43:8.2The time spent on the sev­enty train­ing worlds of tran­si­tion mor­ontia cul­ture as­so­ci­ated with the Eden­tia age of mor­tal as­cen­sion, is the most set­tled pe­riod in an as­cend­ing mor­tal’s ca­reer up to the sta­tus of a fi­nal­i­ter; this is re­ally the typ­i­cal mor­ontia life. While you are re-keyed each time you pass from one ma­jor cul­tural world to an­other, you re­tain the same mor­ontia body, and there are no pe­ri­ods of per­son­al­ity un­con­scious­ness.

43:8.3Your so­journ on Eden­tia and its as­so­ci­ated spheres will be chiefly oc­cu­pied with the mas­tery of group ethics, the se­cret of pleas­ant and prof­itable in­ter­re­la­tion­ship be­tween the var­i­ous uni­verse and super­uni­verse or­ders of in­tel­li­gent per­son­al­i­ties.

43:8.4On the man­sion worlds you com­pleted the uni­fi­ca­tion of the evolv­ing mor­tal per­son­al­ity; on the sys­tem cap­i­tal you at­tained Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship and achieved the will­ing­ness to sub­mit the self to the dis­ci­plines of group ac­tiv­i­ties and co-or­di­nated un­der­tak­ings; but now on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds you are to achieve the real so­cial­iza­tion of your evolv­ing mor­ontia per­son­al­ity. This su­per­nal cul­tural ac­quire­ment con­sists in learn­ing how to:

43:8.51. Live hap­pily and work ef­fec­tively with ten di­verse fel­low mor­ontians, while ten such groups are as­so­ci­ated in com­pa­nies of one hun­dred and then fed­er­ated in corps of one thou­sand.

43:8.62. Abide joy­fully and co-op­er­ate heart­ily with ten uni­v­i­ta­tia, who, though sim­i­lar in­tel­lec­tu­ally to mor­ontia be­ings, are very dif­fer­ent in ev­ery other way. And then must you func­tion with this group of ten as it co-or­di­nates with ten other fam­i­lies, which are in turn con­fed­er­ated into a corps of one thou­sand uni­v­i­ta­tia.

43:8.73. Achieve si­mul­ta­ne­ous ad­just­ment to both fel­low mor­ontians and these host uni­v­i­ta­tia. Ac­quire the abil­ity vol­un­tar­ily and ef­fec­tively to co-op­er­ate with your own or­der of be­ings in close work­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with a some­what dis­sim­i­lar group of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures.

43:8.84. While thus so­cially func­tion­ing with be­ings like and un­like your­self, achieve in­tel­lec­tual har­mony with, and make vo­ca­tional ad­just­ment to, both groups of as­so­ciates.

43:8.95. While at­tain­ing sat­is­fac­tory so­cial­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity on in­tel­lec­tual and vo­ca­tional lev­els, fur­ther per­fect the abil­ity to live in in­ti­mate con­tact with sim­i­lar and slightly dis­sim­i­lar be­ings with ever-less­en­ing ir­ri­tabil­ity and ever-di­min­ish­ing re­sent­ment. The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors con­tribute much to this lat­ter at­tain­ment through their group-play ac­tiv­i­ties.

43:8.106. Ad­just all of these var­i­ous so­cial­iza­tion tech­niques to the fur­ther­ance of the pro­gres­sive co-or­di­na­tion of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer; aug­ment uni­verse in­sight by en­hanc­ing the abil­ity to grasp the eter­nal goal-mean­ings con­cealed within these seem­ingly in­signif­i­cant time-space ac­tiv­i­ties.

43:8.117. And then, cli­max all of these pro­ce­dures of mul­ti­so­cial­iza­tion with the con­cur­rent en­hance­ment of spir­i­tual in­sight as it per­tains to the aug­men­ta­tion of all phases of per­sonal en­dow­ment through group spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion and mor­ontia co-or­di­na­tion. In­tel­lec­tu­ally, so­cially, and spir­i­tu­ally two moral crea­tures do not merely dou­ble their per­sonal po­ten­tials of uni­verse achieve­ment by part­ner­ship tech­nique; they more nearly quadru­ple their at­tain­ment and ac­com­plish­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties.

43:8.12We have por­trayed Eden­tia so­cial­iza­tion as an as­so­ci­a­tion of a mor­ontia mor­tal with a uni­v­i­ta­tia fam­ily group con­sist­ing of ten in­tel­lec­tu­ally dis­sim­i­lar in­di­vid­u­als con­comi­tant with a sim­i­lar as­so­ci­a­tion with ten fel­low mor­ontians. But on the first seven ma­jor worlds only one as­cend­ing mor­tal lives with ten uni­v­i­ta­tia. On the sec­ond group of seven ma­jor worlds two mor­tals abide with each na­tive group of ten, and so on up un­til, on the last group of seven ma­jor spheres, ten mor­ontia be­ings are domi­ciled with ten uni­v­i­ta­tia. As you learn how bet­ter to so­cial­ize with the uni­v­i­ta­tia, you will prac­tice such im­proved ethics in your re­la­tions with your fel­low mor­ontia pro­gres­sors.

43:8.13As as­cend­ing mor­tals you will en­joy your so­journ on the prog­ress worlds of Eden­tia, but you will not ex­pe­ri­ence that per­sonal thrill of sat­is­fac­tion which char­ac­ter­izes your ini­tial con­tact with uni­verse af­fairs on the sys­tem head­quar­ters or your farewell touch with these re­al­i­ties on the fi­nal worlds of the uni­verse cap­i­tal.

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