The Seven Mansion Worlds

47:2.1The in­fant-re­ceiv­ing schools of Sa­ta­nia are sit­u­ated on the fi­nal­i­ter world, the first of the Je­ru­sem tran­si­tion-cul­ture spheres. These in­fant-re­ceiv­ing schools are en­ter­prises de­voted to the nur­ture and train­ing of the chil­dren of time, in­clud­ing those who have died on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space be­fore the ac­quire­ment of in­di­vid­ual sta­tus on the uni­verse rec­ords. In the event of the sur­vival of ei­ther or both of such a child’s par­ents, the guard­ian of des­tiny dep­u­tizes her as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim as the cus­to­dian of the child’s po­ten­tial iden­tity, charg­ing the cheru­bim with the re­spon­si­bil­ity of de­liv­er­ing this un­de­vel­oped soul into the hands of the Man­sion World Teach­ers in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­eries of the mor­ontia worlds.

47:2.2It is these same de­serted cheru­bim who, as Man­sion World Teach­ers, un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, main­tain such ex­ten­sive ed­u­ca­tional fa­cil­i­ties for the train­ing of the pro­ba­tion­ary wards of the fi­nal­i­ters. These wards of the fi­nal­i­ters, these in­fants of as­cend­ing mor­tals, are al­ways per­son­al­ized as of their ex­act phys­i­cal sta­tus at the time of death ex­cept for re­pro­duc­tive po­ten­tial. This awak­en­ing oc­curs at the ex­act time of the pa­ren­tal ar­rival on the first man­sion world. And then are these chil­dren given ev­ery op­por­tu­nity, as they are, to choose the heav­enly way just as they would have made such a choice on the worlds where death so un­timely ter­mi­nated their ca­reers.

47:2.3On the nurs­ery world, pro­ba­tion­ary crea­tures are grouped ac­cord­ing to whether or not they have Ad­justers, for the Ad­justers come to in­dwell these ma­te­rial chil­dren just as on the worlds of time. Chil­dren of pre-Ad­juster ages are cared for in fam­i­lies of five, rang­ing in ages from one year and un­der up to ap­prox­i­mately five years, or that age when the Ad­juster ar­rives.

47:2.4All chil­dren on the evolv­ing worlds who have Thought Ad­justers, but who be­fore death had not made a choice con­cern­ing the Par­a­dise ca­reer, are also reper­son­al­ized on the fi­nal­i­ter world of the sys­tem, where they like­wise grow up in the fam­i­lies of the Ma­te­rial Sons and their as­so­ciates as do those lit­tle ones who ar­rived with­out Ad­justers, but who will sub­se­quently re­ceive the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors af­ter at­tain­ing the req­ui­site age of moral choice.

47:2.5The Ad­juster-in­dwelt chil­dren and youths on the fi­nal­i­ter world are also reared in fam­i­lies of five, rang­ing in ages from six to four­teen; ap­prox­i­mately, these fam­i­lies con­sist of chil­dren whose ages are six, eight, ten, twelve, and four­teen. Any time af­ter six­teen, if fi­nal choice has been made, they trans­late to the first man­sion world and be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent. Some make a choice be­fore this age and go on to the as­cen­sion spheres, but very few chil­dren un­der six­teen years of age, as reck­oned by Uran­tia stan­dards, will be found on the man­sion worlds.

47:2.6The guard­ian ser­a­phim at­tend these youths in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ter world just as they spir­i­tu­ally min­is­ter to mor­tals on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets, while the faith­ful sporna­gia min­is­ter to their phys­i­cal ne­ces­si­ties. And so do these chil­dren grow up on the tran­si­tion world un­til such time as they make their fi­nal choice.

47:2.7When ma­te­rial life has run its course, if no choice has been made for the as­cen­dant life, or if these chil­dren of time def­i­nitely de­cide against the Ha­vona ad­ven­ture, death au­to­mat­i­cally ter­mi­nates their pro­ba­tion­ary ca­reers. There is no ad­ju­di­ca­tion of such cases; there is no res­ur­rec­tion from such a sec­ond death. They sim­ply be­come as though they had not been.

47:2.8But if they choose the Par­a­dise path of per­fec­tion, they are im­me­di­ately made ready for trans­la­tion to the first man­sion world, where many of them ar­rive in time to join their par­ents in the Ha­vona as­cent. Af­ter pass­ing through Ha­vona and at­tain­ing the De­i­ties, these sal­vaged souls of mor­tal ori­gin con­sti­tute the per­ma­nent as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship of Par­a­dise. These chil­dren who have been de­prived of the valu­able and es­sen­tial evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence on the worlds of mor­tal na­tiv­ity are not mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.