The Spheres of Light and Life

55:1.1The pres­ence of a mor­ontia tem­ple at the cap­i­tal of an in­hab­ited world is the cer­tifi­cate of the ad­mis­sion of such a sphere to the set­tled ages of light and life. Be­fore the Teacher Sons leave a world at the con­clu­sion of their ter­mi­nal mis­sion, they in­au­gu­rate this fi­nal epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment; they pre­side on that day when the “holy tem­ple comes down upon earth.” This event, sig­nal­iz­ing the dawn of the era of light and life, is al­ways hon­ored by the per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of that planet, who comes to wit­ness this great day. There in this tem­ple of un­par­al­leled beauty, this be­stowal Son of Par­a­dise pro­claims the long-time Plan­e­tary Prince as the new Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign and in­vests such a faith­ful La­non­an­dek Son with new pow­ers and ex­tended au­thor­ity over plan­e­tary af­fairs. The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign is also pres­ent and speaks in con­fir­ma­tion of these pro­nounce­ments.

55:1.2A mor­ontia tem­ple has three parts: Cen­ter­most is the sanc­tu­ary of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. On the right is the seat of the for­mer Plan­e­tary Prince, now Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and when pres­ent in the tem­ple, this La­non­an­dek Son is vis­i­ble to the more spir­i­tual in­di­vid­u­als of the realm. On the left is the seat of the act­ing chief of fi­nal­i­ters at­tached to the planet.

55:1.3Al­though the plan­e­tary tem­ples have been spo­ken of as “com­ing down from heaven,” in re­al­ity no ac­tual ma­te­rial is trans­ported from the sys­tem head­quar­ters. The ar­chi­tec­ture of each is worked out in minia­ture on the sys­tem cap­i­tal, and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors sub­se­quently bring these ap­proved plans to the planet. Here, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers, they pro­ceed to build the mor­ontia tem­ple ac­cord­ing to spec­i­fi­ca­tions.

55:1.4The av­er­age mor­ontia tem­ple seats about three hun­dred thou­sand spec­ta­tors. These ed­i­fices are not used for wor­ship, play, or for re­ceiv­ing broad­casts; they are de­voted to the spe­cial cer­e­monies of the planet, such as: com­mu­ni­ca­tions with the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign or with the Most Highs, spe­cial vi­su­al­iza­tion cer­e­monies de­signed to re­veal the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of spirit be­ings, and silent cos­mic con­tem­pla­tion. The schools of cos­mic phi­los­o­phy here con­duct their grad­u­a­tion ex­er­cises, and here also do the mor­tals of the realm re­ceive plan­e­tary rec­og­ni­tion for achieve­ments of high so­cial ser­vice and for other out­stand­ing at­tain­ments.

55:1.5Such a mor­ontia tem­ple also serves as the place of as­sem­bly for wit­ness­ing the trans­la­tion of liv­ing mor­tals to the mor­ontia ex­is­tence. It is be­cause the trans­la­tion tem­ple is com­posed of mor­ontia ma­te­rial that it is not de­stroyed by the blaz­ing glory of the con­sum­ing fire which so com­pletely oblit­er­ates the phys­i­cal bod­ies of those mor­tals who therein ex­pe­ri­ence fi­nal fu­sion with their di­vine Ad­justers. On a large world these de­par­ture flares are al­most con­tin­u­ous, and as the num­ber of trans­la­tions in­creases, sub­sidiary mor­ontia life shrines are pro­vided in dif­fer­ent ar­eas of the planet. Not long since I so­journed on a world in the far north whereon twenty-five mor­ontia shrines were func­tion­ing.

55:1.6On pre­set­tled worlds, plan­ets with­out mor­ontia tem­ples, these fu­sion flashes many times oc­cur in the plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere, where the ma­te­rial body of a trans­la­tion can­di­date is el­e­vated by the mid­way crea­tures and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers.