The Seven Mansion Worlds

47:4.1It is on this sphere that you are more fully in­ducted into the man­so­nia life. The group­ings of the mor­ontia life be­gin to take form; work­ing groups and so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tions start to func­tion, com­mu­ni­ties take on for­mal pro­por­tions, and the ad­vanc­ing mor­tals in­au­gu­rate new so­cial or­ders and gov­ern­men­tal ar­range­ments.

47:4.2Spirit-fused sur­vivors oc­cupy the man­sion worlds in com­mon with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ing mor­tals. While the var­i­ous or­ders of ce­les­tial life dif­fer, they are all friendly and fra­ter­nal. In all the worlds of as­cen­sion you will find noth­ing com­pa­ra­ble to hu­man in­tol­er­ance and the dis­crim­i­na­tions of in­con­sid­er­ate caste sys­tems.

47:4.3As you as­cend the man­sion worlds one by one, they be­come more crowded with the mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties of ad­vanc­ing sur­vivors. As you go for­ward, you will rec­og­nize more and more of the Je­ru­sem fea­tures added to the man­sion worlds. The sea of glass makes its ap­pear­ance on the sec­ond man­so­nia.

47:4.4A newly de­vel­oped and suit­ably ad­justed mor­ontia body is ac­quired at the time of each ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other. You go to sleep with the se­raphic trans­port and awake with the new but un­de­vel­oped body in the res­ur­rec­tion halls, much as when you first ar­rived on man­sion world num­ber one ex­cept that the Thought Ad­juster does not leave you dur­ing these tran­sit sleeps be­tween the man­sion worlds. Your per­son­al­ity re­mains in­tact af­ter you once pass from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds to the ini­tial man­sion world.

47:4.5Your Ad­juster mem­ory re­mains fully in­tact as you as­cend the mor­ontia life. Those men­tal as­so­ci­a­tions that were purely an­i­mal­is­tic and wholly ma­te­rial nat­u­rally per­ished with the phys­i­cal brain, but ev­ery­thing in your men­tal life which was worth while, and which had sur­vival value, was coun­ter­parted by the Ad­juster and is re­tained as a part of per­sonal mem­ory all the way through the as­cen­dant ca­reer. You will be con­scious of all your worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences as you ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other and from one sec­tion of the uni­verse to an­other—even to Par­a­dise.

47:4.6Though you have mor­ontia bod­ies, you con­tinue, through all seven of these worlds, to eat, drink, and rest. You par­take of the mor­ontia or­der of food, a king­dom of liv­ing en­ergy un­known on the ma­te­rial worlds. Both food and wa­ter are fully uti­lized in the mor­ontia body; there is no resid­ual waste. Pause to con­sider: Man­so­nia num­ber one is a very ma­te­rial sphere, pre­sent­ing the early be­gin­nings of the mor­ontia regime. You are still a near hu­man and not far re­moved from the lim­ited view­points of mor­tal life, but each world dis­closes def­i­nite prog­ress. From sphere to sphere you grow less ma­te­rial, more in­tel­lec­tual, and slightly more spir­i­tual. The spir­i­tual prog­ress is great­est on the last three of these seven pro­gres­sive worlds.

47:4.7Bi­o­log­i­cal de­fi­cien­cies were largely made up on the first man­sion world. There de­fects in plan­e­tary ex­pe­ri­ences per­tain­ing to sex life, fam­ily as­so­ci­a­tion, and pa­ren­tal func­tion were ei­ther cor­rected or were pro­jected for fu­ture rec­ti­fi­ca­tion among the Ma­te­rial Son fam­i­lies on Je­ru­sem.

47:4.8Man­so­nia num­ber two more specif­i­cally pro­vides for the re­moval of all phases of in­tel­lec­tual con­flict and for the cure of all va­ri­eties of men­tal dishar­mony. The ef­fort to mas­ter the sig­nif­i­cance of mor­ontia mota, be­gun on the first man­sion world, is here more earnestly con­tin­ued. The de­vel­op­ment on man­so­nia num­ber two com­pares with the in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus of the post-Mag­is­te­rial Son cul­ture of the ideal evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.