The Celestial Artisans

44:3.1There are cities “whose builder and maker is God.” In spirit coun­ter­part we have all that you mor­tals are fa­mil­iar with and in­ex­press­ibly more. We have homes, spirit com­forts, and mor­ontia ne­ces­si­ties. For ev­ery ma­te­rial sat­is­fac­tion which hu­mans are ca­pa­ble of en­joy­ing, we have thou­sands of spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties that serve to en­rich and en­large our ex­is­tence. The di­vine builders func­tion in seven groups:

44:3.21. The home de­sign­ers and builders—those who con­struct and re­model the abodes as­signed to in­di­vid­u­als and work­ing groups. These mor­ontia and spirit domi­ciles are real. They would be in­vis­i­ble to your short-range vi­sion, but they are very real and beau­ti­ful to us. To a cer­tain ex­tent, all spirit be­ings may share with the builders cer­tain de­tails of the plan­ning and cre­ation of their mor­ontia or spirit abodes. These homes are fit­ted up and em­bel­lished in ac­cor­dance with the needs of the mor­ontia or of the spirit crea­tures who are to in­habit them. There is abun­dant va­ri­ety and am­ple op­por­tu­nity for in­di­vid­ual ex­pres­sion in all these con­struc­tions.

44:3.32. The vo­ca­tion builders—those who func­tion in de­sign­ing and as­sem­bling the abodes of the reg­u­lar and rou­tine work­ers of the spirit and mor­ontia realms. These builders are com­pa­ra­ble to those who con­struct the Uran­tia work­shops and other in­dus­trial plants. The tran­si­tion worlds have a nec­es­sary econ­omy of mu­tual min­istry and spe­cial­ized di­vi­sion of la­bor. We do not all do ev­ery­thing; there is di­ver­sity of func­tion among mor­ontia be­ings and evolv­ing spir­its, and these vo­ca­tion builders not only build bet­ter work­shops but also con­tribute to the vo­ca­tional en­hance­ment of the worker.

44:3.43. The play builders. Enor­mous ed­i­fices are uti­lized dur­ing the sea­sons of rest, what mor­tals would call recre­ation and, in a cer­tain sense, play. Pro­vi­sion is made for a suit­able set­ting for the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, the hu­morists of the mor­ontia worlds, those tran­si­tion spheres whereon takes place the train­ing of as­cen­dant be­ings but re­cently re­moved from the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. Even the higher spir­its en­gage in a cer­tain form of rem­i­nis­cent hu­mor dur­ing their pe­ri­ods of spir­i­tual recharg­ing.

44:3.54. The wor­ship builders—the ex­pe­ri­enced ar­chi­tects of the spirit and the mor­ontia tem­ples. All the worlds of mor­tal as­cent have tem­ples of wor­ship, and they are the most ex­qui­site cre­ations of the mor­ontia realms and the spirit spheres.

44:3.65. The ed­u­ca­tion builders—those who build the head­quar­ters of mor­ontia train­ing and ad­vanced spirit learn­ing. Al­ways is the way open to ac­quire more knowl­edge, to gain ad­di­tional in­for­ma­tion re­spect­ing one’s pres­ent and fu­ture work as well as uni­ver­sal cul­tural knowl­edge, in­for­ma­tion de­signed to make as­cend­ing mor­tals more in­tel­li­gent and ef­fec­tive cit­i­zens of the mor­ontia and spirit worlds.

44:3.76. Mor­ontia plan­ners—those who build for the co-or­di­nate as­so­ci­a­tion of all the per­son­al­i­ties of all realms as they are at any one time pres­ent on any one sphere. These plan­ners col­lab­o­rate with the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors to en­rich the co-or­di­na­tion of the pro­gres­sive mor­ontia life.

44:3.87. The pub­lic builders—the ar­ti­sans who plan and con­struct the des­ig­nated places of as­sem­bly other than those of wor­ship. Great and mag­nif­i­cent are the places of com­mon as­sem­bly.

44:3.9While nei­ther these struc­tures nor their em­bel­lish­ment would be ex­actly real to the sen­sory com­pre­hen­sion of ma­te­rial mor­tals, they are very real to us. You would be un­able to see these tem­ples could you be there in the flesh; nev­er­the­less, all of these super­ma­te­rial cre­ations are ac­tu­ally there, and we clearly dis­cern them and just as fully en­joy them.