The Seven Mansion Worlds

47:8.1So­journ­ers on this sphere are per­mit­ted to visit tran­si­tion world num­ber six, where they learn more about the high spir­its of the super­uni­verse, al­though they are not able to vi­su­al­ize many of these ce­les­tial be­ings. Here they also re­ceive their first lessons in the prospec­tive spirit ca­reer which so im­me­di­ately fol­lows grad­u­a­tion from the mor­ontia train­ing of the lo­cal uni­verse.

47:8.2The as­sis­tant Sys­tem Sov­er­eign makes fre­quent vis­its to this world, and the ini­tial in­struc­tion is here be­gun in the tech­nique of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. The first lessons em­brac­ing the af­fairs of a whole uni­verse are now im­parted.

47:8.3This is a bril­liant age for as­cend­ing mor­tals and usu­ally wit­nesses the per­fect fu­sion of the hu­man mind and the di­vine Ad­juster. In po­ten­tial, this fu­sion may have oc­curred pre­vi­ously, but the ac­tual work­ing iden­tity many times is not achieved un­til the time of the so­journ on the fifth man­sion world or even the sixth.

47:8.4The union of the evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul with the eter­nal and di­vine Ad­juster is sig­nal­ized by the se­raphic sum­mon­ing of the super­vis­ing super­an­gel for res­ur­rected sur­vivors and of the arch­an­gel of rec­ord for those go­ing to judg­ment on the third day; and then, in the pres­ence of such a sur­vivor’s mor­ontia as­so­ciates, these mes­sen­gers of con­fir­ma­tion speak: “This is a beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” This sim­ple cer­e­mony marks the en­trance of an as­cend­ing mor­tal upon the eter­nal ca­reer of Par­a­dise ser­vice.

47:8.5Im­me­di­ately upon the con­fir­ma­tion of Ad­juster fu­sion the new mor­ontia be­ing is in­tro­duced to his fel­lows for the first time by his new name and is granted the forty days of spir­i­tual re­tire­ment from all rou­tine ac­tiv­i­ties wherein to com­mune with him­self and to choose some one of the op­tional routes to Ha­vona and to se­lect from the dif­fer­en­tial tech­niques of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment.

47:8.6But still are these bril­liant be­ings more or less ma­te­rial; they are far from be­ing true spir­its; they are more like super­mor­tals, spir­i­tu­ally speak­ing, still a lit­tle lower than the an­gels. But they are truly be­com­ing mar­velous crea­tures.

47:8.7Dur­ing the so­journ on world num­ber six the man­sion world stu­dents achieve a sta­tus which is com­pa­ra­ble with the ex­alted de­vel­op­ment char­ac­ter­iz­ing those evo­lu­tion­ary worlds which have nor­mally pro­gressed be­yond the ini­tial stage of light and life. The or­ga­ni­za­tion of so­ci­ety on this man­so­nia is of a high or­der. The shadow of the mor­tal na­ture grows less and less as these worlds are as­cended one by one. You are be­com­ing more and more adorable as you leave be­hind the coarse ves­tiges of plan­e­tary an­i­mal ori­gin. “Com­ing up through great tribu­la­tion” serves to make glo­ri­fied mor­tals very kind and un­der­stand­ing, very sym­pa­thetic and tol­er­ant.