The Constellations

43:9.1Af­ter grad­u­a­tion from world num­ber sev­enty, as­cend­ing mor­tals take up res­i­dence on Eden­tia. As­cend­ers now, for the first time, at­tend the “as­sem­blies of Par­a­dise” and hear the story of their far-flung ca­reer as it is de­picted by the Faith­ful of Days, the first of the Su­preme Trin­ity-ori­gin Per­son­al­i­ties they have met.

43:9.2This en­tire so­journ on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds, cul­mi­nat­ing in Eden­tia cit­i­zen­ship, is a pe­riod of true and heav­enly bliss for the mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. Through­out your so­journ on the sys­tem worlds you were evolv­ing from a near-an­i­mal to a mor­ontia crea­ture; you were more ma­te­rial than spir­i­tual. On the Sal­ving­ton spheres you will be evolv­ing from a mor­ontia be­ing to the sta­tus of a true spirit; you will be more spir­i­tual than ma­te­rial. But on Eden­tia, as­cend­ers are mid­way be­tween their for­mer and their fu­ture es­tates, mid­way in their pas­sage from evo­lu­tion­ary an­i­mal to as­cend­ing spirit. Dur­ing your whole stay on Eden­tia and its worlds you are “as the an­gels”; you are con­stantly pro­gress­ing but all the while main­tain­ing a gen­eral and a typ­i­cal mor­ontia sta­tus.

43:9.3This con­stel­la­tion so­journ of an as­cend­ing mor­tal is the most uni­form and sta­bi­lized epoch in the en­tire ca­reer of mor­ontia pro­gres­sion. This ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tutes the pre­spirit so­cial­iza­tion train­ing of the as­cend­ers. It is anal­o­gous to the pre­fi­naliter spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of Ha­vona and to the pre­ab­sonite train­ing on Par­a­dise.

43:9.4As­cend­ing mor­tals on Eden­tia are chiefly oc­cu­pied with the as­sign­ments on the sev­enty pro­gres­sive uni­v­i­ta­tia worlds. They also serve in var­ied ca­pac­i­ties on Eden­tia it­self, mainly in con­junc­tion with the con­stel­la­tion pro­gram con­cerned with group, racial, na­tional, and plan­e­tary wel­fare. The Most Highs are not so much en­gaged in fos­ter­ing in­di­vid­ual ad­vance­ment on the in­hab­ited worlds; they rule in the king­doms of men rather than in the hearts of in­di­vid­u­als.

43:9.5And on that day when you are pre­pared to leave Eden­tia for the Sal­ving­ton ca­reer, you will pause and look back on one of the most beau­ti­ful and most re­fresh­ing of all your epochs of train­ing this side of Par­a­dise. But the glory of it all aug­ments as you as­cend in­ward and achieve in­creased ca­pac­ity for en­larged ap­pre­ci­a­tion of di­vine mean­ings and spir­i­tual val­ues.

43:9.6[Spon­sored by Malava­tia Mel­chiz­e­dek.]