The Morontia Life

48:5.1The Man­sion World Teach­ers are a corps of de­serted but glo­ri­fied cheru­bim and sa­no­bim. When a pil­grim of time ad­vances from a trial world of space to the man­sion and as­so­ci­ated worlds of mor­ontia train­ing, he is ac­com­pa­nied by his per­sonal or group ser­a­phim, the guard­ian of des­tiny. In the worlds of mor­tal ex­is­tence the ser­a­phim is ably as­sisted by cheru­bim and sa­no­bim; but when her mor­tal ward is de­liv­ered from the bonds of the flesh and starts out on the as­cen­dant ca­reer, when the post­ma­te­rial or mor­ontia life be­gins, the at­tend­ing ser­a­phim has no fur­ther need of the min­is­tra­tions of her for­mer lieu­tenants, the cheru­bim and sa­no­bim.

48:5.2These de­serted as­sis­tants of the min­is­ter­ing ser­a­phim are of­ten sum­moned to uni­verse head­quar­ters, where they pass into the in­ti­mate em­brace of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and then go forth to the sys­tem train­ing spheres as Man­sion World Teach­ers. These teach­ers of­ten visit the ma­te­rial worlds and func­tion from the low­est man­sion worlds on up to the high­est of the ed­u­ca­tional spheres con­nected with the uni­verse head­quar­ters. Upon their own mo­tion they may re­turn to their for­mer as­so­cia­tive work with the min­is­ter­ing ser­a­phim.

48:5.3There are bil­lions upon bil­lions of these teach­ers in Sa­ta­nia, and their num­bers con­stantly in­crease be­cause, in the ma­jor­ity of in­stances, when a ser­a­phim pro­ceeds in­ward with an Ad­juster-fused mor­tal, both a cheru­bim and a sa­no­bim are left be­hind.

48:5.4Man­sion World Teach­ers, like most of the other in­struc­tors, are com­mis­sioned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks. They are gen­er­ally super­vised by the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions, but as in­di­vid­u­als and as teach­ers they are super­vised by the act­ing heads of the schools or spheres wherein they may be func­tion­ing as in­struc­tors.

48:5.5These ad­vanced cheru­bim usu­ally work in pairs as they did when at­tached to the ser­a­phim. They are by na­ture very near the mor­ontia type of ex­is­tence, and they are in­her­ently sym­pa­thetic teach­ers of the as­cend­ing mor­tals and most ef­fi­ciently con­duct the pro­gram of the man­sion world and mor­ontia ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem.

48:5.6In the schools of the mor­ontia life these teach­ers en­gage in in­di­vid­ual, group, class, and mass teach­ing. On the man­sion worlds such schools are or­ga­nized in three gen­eral groups of one hun­dred di­vi­sions each: the schools of think­ing, the schools of feel­ing, and the schools of do­ing. When you reach the con­stel­la­tion, there are added the schools of ethics, the schools of ad­min­is­tra­tion, and the schools of so­cial ad­just­ment. On the uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds you will en­ter the schools of phi­los­o­phy, di­vin­ity, and pure spir­i­tu­al­ity.

48:5.7Those things which you might have learned on earth, but which you failed to learn, must be ac­quired un­der the tute­lage of these faith­ful and pa­tient teach­ers. There are no royal roads, short cuts, or easy paths to Par­a­dise. Ir­re­spec­tive of the in­di­vid­ual vari­a­tions of the route, you mas­ter the lessons of one sphere be­fore you pro­ceed to an­other; at least this is true af­ter you once leave the world of your na­tiv­ity.

48:5.8One of the pur­poses of the mor­ontia ca­reer is to ef­fect the per­ma­nent erad­i­ca­tion from the mor­tal sur­vivors of such an­i­mal ves­ti­gial traits as pro­cras­ti­na­tion, equiv­o­ca­tion, in­sin­cer­ity, prob­lem avoid­ance, un­fair­ness, and ease seek­ing. The man­so­nia life early teaches the young mor­ontia pupils that post­pone­ment is in no sense avoid­ance. Af­ter the life in the flesh, time is no longer avail­able as a tech­nique of dodg­ing sit­u­a­tions or of cir­cum­vent­ing dis­agree­able obli­ga­tions.

48:5.9Be­gin­ning ser­vice on the low­est of the tar­ry­ing spheres, the Man­sion World Teach­ers ad­vance, with ex­pe­ri­ence, through the ed­u­ca­tional spheres of the sys­tem and the con­stel­la­tion to the train­ing worlds of Sal­ving­ton. They are sub­jected to no spe­cial dis­ci­pline ei­ther be­fore or af­ter their em­brace by the Uni­verse Mother Spirit. They have al­ready been trained for their work while serv­ing as se­raphic as­so­ciates on the worlds na­tive to their pupils of man­sion world so­journ. They have had ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence with these ad­vanc­ing mor­tals on the in­hab­ited worlds. They are prac­ti­cal and sym­pa­thetic teach­ers, wise and un­der­stand­ing in­struc­tors, able and ef­fi­cient guides. They are en­tirely fa­mil­iar with the as­cen­dant plans and thor­oughly ex­pe­ri­enced in the ini­tial phases of the pro­gres­sion ca­reer.

48:5.10Many of the older of these teach­ers, those who have long served on the worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit, are re-em­braced by the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, and from this sec­ond em­brace these cheru­bim and sa­no­bim emerge with the sta­tus of ser­a­phim.