The Seven Mansion Worlds

47:6.1When you ar­rive on the fourth man­sion world, you have well en­tered upon the mor­ontia ca­reer; you have pro­gressed a long way from the ini­tial ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. Now are you given per­mis­sion to make vis­its to tran­si­tion world num­ber four, there to be­come fa­mil­iar with the head­quar­ters and train­ing schools of the super­an­gels, in­clud­ing the Bril­liant Evening Stars. Through the good of­fices of these super­an­gels of the fourth tran­si­tion world the mor­ontia vis­i­tors are en­abled to draw very close to the var­i­ous or­ders of the Sons of God dur­ing the pe­ri­odic vis­its to Je­ru­sem, for new sec­tors of the sys­tem cap­i­tal are grad­u­ally open­ing up to the ad­vanc­ing mor­tals as they make these re­peated vis­its to the head­quar­ters world. New grandeurs are pro­gres­sively un­fold­ing to the ex­pand­ing minds of these as­cend­ers.

47:6.2On the fourth man­so­nia the in­di­vid­ual as­cender more fit­tingly finds his place in the group work­ing and class func­tions of the mor­ontia life. As­cend­ers here de­velop in­creased ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the broad­casts and other phases of lo­cal uni­verse cul­ture and prog­ress.

47:6.3It is dur­ing the pe­riod of train­ing on world num­ber four that the as­cend­ing mor­tals are re­ally first in­tro­duced to the de­mands and de­lights of the true so­cial life of mor­ontia crea­tures. And it is in­deed a new ex­pe­ri­ence for evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures to par­tic­i­pate in so­cial ac­tiv­i­ties which are pred­i­cated nei­ther on per­sonal ag­gran­dize­ment nor on self-seek­ing con­quest. A new so­cial or­der is be­ing in­tro­duced, one based on the un­der­stand­ing sym­pa­thy of mu­tual ap­pre­ci­a­tion, the un­selfish love of mu­tual ser­vice, and the over­mas­ter­ing mo­ti­va­tion of the re­al­iza­tion of a com­mon and su­preme des­tiny—the Par­a­dise goal of wor­ship­ful and di­vine per­fec­tion. As­cend­ers are all be­com­ing self-con­scious of God-know­ing, God-re­veal­ing, God-seek­ing, and God-find­ing.

47:6.4The in­tel­lec­tual and so­cial cul­ture of this fourth man­sion world is com­pa­ra­ble to the men­tal and so­cial life of the post-Teacher Son age on the plan­ets of nor­mal evo­lu­tion. The spir­i­tual sta­tus is much in ad­vance of such a mor­tal dis­pen­sa­tion.