The Morontia Life

48:2.1These unique be­ings are ex­clu­sively con­cerned with the super­vi­sion of those ac­tiv­i­ties which rep­re­sent a work­ing com­bi­na­tion of spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal or semi­ma­te­rial en­er­gies. They are ex­clu­sively de­voted to the min­istry of mor­ontia pro­gres­sion. Not that they so much min­is­ter to mor­tals dur­ing the tran­si­tion ex­pe­ri­ence, but they rather make pos­si­ble the tran­si­tion en­vi­ron­ment for the pro­gress­ing mor­ontia crea­tures. They are the chan­nels of mor­ontia power which sus­tain and en­er­gize the mor­ontia phases of the tran­si­tion worlds.

48:2.2Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are the off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are fairly stan­dard in de­sign though dif­fer­ing slightly in na­ture in the var­i­ous lo­cal cre­ations. They are cre­ated for their spe­cific func­tion and re­quire no train­ing be­fore en­ter­ing upon their re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

48:2.3The cre­ation of the first Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors is si­mul­ta­ne­ous with the ar­rival of the first mor­tal sur­vivor on the shores of some one of the first man­sion worlds in a lo­cal uni­verse. They are cre­ated in groups of one thou­sand, clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

48:2.41. Cir­cuit Reg­u­la­tors 400

48:2.52. Sys­tem Co-or­di­na­tors 200

48:2.63. Plan­e­tary Cus­to­di­ans 100

48:2.74. Com­bined Con­trol­lers 100

48:2.85. Li­ai­son Sta­bi­liz­ers 100

48:2.96. Se­lec­tive As­sorters 50

48:2.107. As­so­ciate Reg­is­trars 50

48:2.11The power super­vi­sors al­ways serve in their na­tive uni­verse. They are di­rected ex­clu­sively by the joint spirit ac­tiv­ity of the Uni­verse Son and the Uni­verse Spirit but are oth­er­wise a wholly self-gov­ern­ing group. They main­tain head­quar­ters on each of the first man­sion worlds of the lo­cal sys­tems, where they work in close as­so­ci­a­tion with both the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and the ser­a­phim but func­tion in a world of their own as re­gards en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion and spirit ap­pli­ca­tion.

48:2.12They also some­times work in con­nec­tion with super­ma­te­rial phe­nom­ena on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds as min­is­ters of tem­po­rary as­sign­ment. But they rarely serve on the in­hab­ited plan­ets; nei­ther do they work on the higher train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse, be­ing chiefly de­voted to the tran­si­tion regime of mor­ontia pro­gres­sion in a lo­cal uni­verse.

48:2.131. Cir­cuit Reg­u­la­tors. These are the unique be­ings who co-or­di­nate phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual en­ergy and reg­u­late its flow into the seg­re­gated chan­nels of the mor­ontia spheres, and these cir­cuits are ex­clu­sively plan­e­tary, lim­ited to a sin­gle world. The mor­ontia cir­cuits are dis­tinct from, and sup­ple­men­tary to, both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual cir­cuits on the tran­si­tion worlds, and it re­quires mil­lions of these reg­u­la­tors to en­er­gize even a sys­tem of man­sion worlds like that of Sa­ta­nia.

48:2.14Cir­cuit reg­u­la­tors ini­ti­ate those changes in ma­te­rial en­er­gies which ren­der them sub­ject to the con­trol and reg­u­la­tion of their as­so­ciates. These be­ings are mor­ontia power gen­er­a­tors as well as cir­cuit reg­u­la­tors. Much as a dy­namo ap­par­ently gen­er­ates elec­tric­ity out of the at­mo­sphere, so do these liv­ing mor­ontia dy­namos seem to trans­form the ev­ery­where en­er­gies of space into those ma­te­ri­als which the mor­ontia super­vi­sors weave into the bod­ies and life ac­tiv­i­ties of the as­cend­ing mor­tals.

48:2.152. Sys­tem Co-or­di­na­tors. Since each mor­ontia world has a sep­a­rate or­der of mor­ontia en­ergy, it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for hu­mans to vi­su­al­ize these spheres. But on each suc­ces­sive tran­si­tion sphere, mor­tals will find the plant life and ev­ery­thing else per­tain­ing to the mor­ontia ex­is­tence pro­gres­sively mod­i­fied to cor­re­spond with the ad­vanc­ing spir­i­ti­za­tion of the as­cend­ing sur­vivor. And since the en­ergy sys­tem of each world is thus in­di­vid­u­al­ized, these co-or­di­na­tors op­er­ate to har­mo­nize and blend such dif­fer­ing power sys­tems into a work­ing unit for the as­so­ci­ated spheres of any par­tic­u­lar group.

48:2.16As­cend­ing mor­tals grad­u­ally pro­gress from the phys­i­cal to the spir­i­tual as they ad­vance from one mor­ontia world to an­other; hence the ne­ces­sity for pro­vid­ing an as­cend­ing scale of mor­ontia spheres and an as­cend­ing scale of mor­ontia forms.

48:2.17When man­sion world as­cend­ers pass from one sphere to an­other, they are de­liv­ered by the trans­port ser­a­phim to the re­ceivers of the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors on the ad­vanced world. Here in those unique tem­ples at the cen­ter of the sev­enty ra­di­at­ing wings wherein are the cham­bers of tran­si­tion sim­i­lar to the res­ur­rec­tion halls on the ini­tial world of re­cep­tion for earth-ori­gin mor­tals, the nec­es­sary changes in crea­ture form are skill­fully ef­fected by the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors. These early mor­ontia-form changes re­quire about seven days of stan­dard time for their ac­com­plish­ment.

48:2.183. Plan­e­tary Cus­to­di­ans. Each mor­ontia world, from the man­sion spheres up to the uni­verse head­quar­ters, is in the cus­tody—as re­gards mor­ontia af­fairs—of sev­enty guard­i­ans. They con­sti­tute the lo­cal plan­e­tary coun­cil of su­preme mor­ontia au­thor­ity. This coun­cil grants ma­te­rial for mor­ontia forms to all as­cend­ing crea­tures who land on the spheres and au­tho­rizes those changes in crea­ture form which make it pos­si­ble for an as­cender to pro­ceed to the suc­ceed­ing sphere. Af­ter the man­sion worlds have been tra­versed, you will trans­late from one phase of mor­ontia life to an­other with­out hav­ing to sur­ren­der con­scious­ness. Un­con­scious­ness at­tends only the ear­lier meta­mor­phoses and the later tran­si­tions from one uni­verse to an­other and from Ha­vona to Par­a­dise.

48:2.194. Com­bined Con­trol­lers. One of these highly me­chan­i­cal be­ings is al­ways sta­tioned at the cen­ter of each ad­min­is­tra­tive unit of a mor­ontia world. A com­bined con­trol­ler is sen­si­tive to, and func­tional with, phys­i­cal, spir­i­tual, and mor­ontial en­er­gies; and with this be­ing there are al­ways as­so­ci­ated two sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors, four cir­cuit reg­u­la­tors, one plan­e­tary cus­to­dian, one li­ai­son sta­bi­lizer, and ei­ther an as­so­ciate reg­is­trar or a se­lec­tive as­sorter.

48:2.205. Li­ai­son Sta­bi­liz­ers. These are the reg­u­la­tors of the mor­ontia en­ergy in as­so­ci­a­tion with the phys­i­cal and spirit forces of the realm. They make pos­si­ble the con­ver­sion of mor­ontia en­ergy into mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The whole mor­ontia or­ga­ni­za­tion of ex­is­tence is de­pen­dent on the sta­bi­liz­ers. They slow down the en­ergy rev­o­lu­tions to that point where phys­i­cal­iza­tion can oc­cur. But I have no terms with which I can com­pare or il­lus­trate the min­istry of such be­ings. It is quite be­yond hu­man imag­i­na­tion.

48:2.216. Se­lec­tive As­sorters. As you pro­gress from one class or phase of a mor­ontia world to an­other, you must be re-keyed or ad­vance-tuned, and it is the task of the se­lec­tive as­sorters to keep you in pro­gres­sive syn­chrony with the mor­ontia life.

48:2.22While the ba­sic mor­ontia forms of life and mat­ter are iden­ti­cal from the first man­sion world to the last uni­verse tran­si­tion sphere, there is a func­tional pro­gres­sion which grad­u­ally ex­tends from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual. Your adap­ta­tion to this ba­si­cally uni­form but suc­ces­sively ad­vanc­ing and spir­i­tiz­ing cre­ation is ef­fected by this se­lec­tive re-key­ing. Such an ad­just­ment in the mech­a­nism of per­son­al­ity is tan­ta­mount to a new cre­ation, not­with­stand­ing that you re­tain the same mor­ontia form.

48:2.23You may re­peat­edly sub­ject your­self to the test of these ex­am­in­ers, and as soon as you reg­is­ter ad­e­quate spir­i­tual achieve­ment, they will gladly cer­tify you for ad­vanced stand­ing. These pro­gres­sive changes re­sult in al­tered re­ac­tions to the mor­ontia en­vi­ron­ment, such as mod­i­fi­ca­tions in food re­quire­ments and nu­mer­ous other per­sonal prac­tices.

48:2.24The se­lec­tive as­sorters are also of great ser­vice in the group­ing of mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties for pur­poses of study, teach­ing, and other projects. They nat­u­rally in­di­cate those who will best func­tion in tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion.

48:2.257. As­so­ciate Reg­is­trars. The mor­ontia world has its own re­cord­ers, who serve in as­so­ci­a­tion with the spirit re­cord­ers in the super­vi­sion and cus­tody of the rec­ords and other data in­dige­nous to the mor­ontia cre­ations. The mor­ontia rec­ords are avail­able to all or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties.

48:2.26All mor­ontia tran­si­tion realms are ac­ces­si­ble alike to ma­te­rial and spirit be­ings. As mor­ontia pro­gres­sors you will re­main in full con­tact with the ma­te­rial world and with ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties, while you will in­creas­ingly dis­cern and frat­er­nize with spirit be­ings; and by the time of de­par­ture from the mor­ontia regime, you will have seen all or­ders of spir­its with the ex­cep­tion of a few of the higher types, such as Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.