The Morontia Life

48:1.1The mor­ontia realms are the lo­cal uni­verse li­ai­son spheres be­tween the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual lev­els of crea­ture ex­is­tence. This mor­ontia life has been known on Uran­tia since the early days of the Plan­e­tary Prince. From time to time this tran­si­tion state has been taught to mor­tals, and the con­cept, in dis­torted form, has found a place in pres­ent-day re­li­gions.

48:1.2The mor­ontia spheres are the tran­si­tion phases of mor­tal as­cen­sion through the pro­gres­sion worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse. Only the seven worlds sur­round­ing the fi­nal­i­ters’ sphere of the lo­cal sys­tems are called man­sion worlds, but all fifty-six of the sys­tem tran­si­tion abodes, in com­mon with the higher spheres around the con­stel­la­tions and the uni­verse head­quar­ters, are called mor­ontia worlds. These cre­ations par­take of the phys­i­cal beauty and the mor­ontia grandeur of the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters spheres.

48:1.3All of these worlds are ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, and they have just dou­ble the num­ber of el­e­ments of the evolved plan­ets. Such made-to-or­der worlds not only abound in the heavy met­als and crys­tals, hav­ing one hun­dred phys­i­cal el­e­ments, but like­wise have ex­actly one hun­dred forms of a unique en­ergy or­ga­ni­za­tion called mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able so to mod­ify the rev­o­lu­tions of the pri­mary units of mat­ter and at the same time so to trans­form these as­so­ci­a­tions of en­ergy as to cre­ate this new sub­stance.

48:1.4The early mor­ontia life in the lo­cal sys­tems is very much like that of your pres­ent ma­te­rial world, be­com­ing less phys­i­cal and more truly mor­ontial on the con­stel­la­tion study worlds. And as you ad­vance to the Sal­ving­ton spheres, you in­creas­ingly at­tain spir­i­tual lev­els.

48:1.5The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able to ef­fect a union of ma­te­rial and of spir­i­tual en­er­gies, thereby or­ga­niz­ing a mor­ontia form of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion which is re­cep­tive to the super­im­po­si­tion of a con­trol­ling spirit. When you tra­verse the mor­ontia life of Neb­a­don, these same pa­tient and skill­ful Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors will suc­ces­sively pro­vide you with 570 mor­ontia bod­ies, each one a phase of your pro­gres­sive trans­for­ma­tion. From the time of leav­ing the ma­te­rial worlds un­til you are con­sti­tuted a first-stage spirit on Sal­ving­ton, you will un­dergo just 570 sep­a­rate and as­cend­ing mor­ontia changes. Eight of these oc­cur in the sys­tem, sev­enty-one in the con­stel­la­tion, and 491 dur­ing the so­journ on the spheres of Sal­ving­ton.

48:1.6In the days of the mor­tal flesh the di­vine spirit in­dwells you, al­most as a thing apart—in re­al­ity an in­va­sion of man by the be­stowed spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But in the mor­ontia life the spirit will be­come a real part of your per­son­al­ity, and as you suc­ces­sively pass through the 570 pro­gres­sive trans­for­ma­tions, you as­cend from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual es­tate of crea­ture life.

48:1.7Paul learned of the ex­is­tence of the mor­ontia worlds and of the re­al­ity of mor­ontia ma­te­ri­als, for he wrote, “They have in heaven a bet­ter and more en­dur­ing sub­stance.” And these mor­ontia ma­te­ri­als are real, lit­eral, even as in “the city which has foun­da­tions, whose builder and maker is God.” And each of these mar­velous spheres is “a bet­ter coun­try, that is, a heav­enly one.”