The Seven Mansion Worlds

47:1.1Al­though only fi­nal­i­ters and cer­tain groups of sal­vaged chil­dren and their care­tak­ers are res­i­dent on tran­si­tional world num­ber one, pro­vi­sion is made for the en­ter­tain­ment of all classes of spirit be­ings, tran­si­tion mor­tals, and stu­dent vis­i­tors. The sporna­gia, who func­tion on all of these worlds, are hos­pitable hosts to all be­ings whom they can rec­og­nize. They have a vague feel­ing con­cern­ing the fi­nal­i­ters but can­not vi­su­al­ize them. They must re­gard them much as you do the an­gels in your pres­ent phys­i­cal state.

47:1.2Though the fi­nal­i­ter world is a sphere of ex­qui­site phys­i­cal beauty and ex­traor­di­nary mor­ontia em­bel­lish­ment, the great spirit abode lo­cated at the cen­ter of ac­tiv­i­ties, the tem­ple of the fi­nal­i­ters, is not vis­i­ble to the un­aided ma­te­rial or early mor­ontia vi­sion. But the en­ergy trans­form­ers are able to vi­su­al­ize many of these re­al­i­ties to as­cend­ing mor­tals, and from time to time they do thus func­tion, as on the oc­ca­sions of the class as­sem­blies of the man­sion world stu­dents on this cul­tural sphere.

47:1.3All through the man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence you are in a way spir­i­tu­ally aware of the pres­ence of your glo­ri­fied breth­ren of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment, but it is very re­fresh­ing, now and then, ac­tu­ally to per­ceive them as they func­tion in their head­quar­ters abodes. You will not spon­ta­neously vi­su­al­ize fi­nal­i­ters un­til you ac­quire true spirit vi­sion.

47:1.4On the first man­sion world all sur­vivors must pass the re­quire­ments of the pa­ren­tal com­mis­sion from their na­tive plan­ets. The pres­ent Uran­tia com­mis­sion con­sists of twelve pa­ren­tal cou­ples, re­cently ar­rived, who have had mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence in rear­ing three or more chil­dren to the pubescent age. Ser­vice on this com­mis­sion is ro­ta­tional and is for only ten years as a rule. All who fail to sat­isfy these com­mis­sion­ers as to their pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence must fur­ther qual­ify by ser­vice in the homes of the Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem or in part in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ters’ world.

47:1.5But ir­re­spec­tive of pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence, man­sion world par­ents who have grow­ing chil­dren in the pro­ba­tion nurs­ery are given ev­ery op­por­tu­nity to col­lab­o­rate with the mor­ontia cus­to­di­ans of such chil­dren re­gard­ing their in­struc­tion and train­ing. These par­ents are per­mit­ted to jour­ney there for vis­its as of­ten as four times a year. And it is one of the most touch­ingly beau­ti­ful scenes of all the as­cend­ing ca­reer to ob­serve the man­sion world par­ents em­brace their ma­te­rial off­spring on the oc­ca­sions of their pe­ri­odic pil­grim­ages to the fi­nal­i­ter world. While one or both par­ents may leave a man­sion world ahead of the child, they are quite of­ten con­tem­po­rary for a sea­son.

47:1.6No as­cend­ing mor­tal can es­cape the ex­pe­ri­ence of rear­ing chil­dren—their own or oth­ers—ei­ther on the ma­te­rial worlds or sub­se­quently on the fi­nal­i­ter world or on Je­ru­sem. Fa­thers must pass through this es­sen­tial ex­pe­ri­ence just as cer­tainly as moth­ers. It is an un­for­tu­nate and mis­taken no­tion of mod­ern peo­ples on Uran­tia that child cul­ture is largely the task of moth­ers. Chil­dren need fa­thers as well as moth­ers, and fa­thers need this pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence as much as do moth­ers.