The Spheres of Light and Life

55:6.1As worlds ad­vance in the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, so­ci­ety be­comes in­creas­ingly peace­ful. The in­di­vid­ual, while no less in­de­pen­dent and de­voted to his fam­ily, has be­come more al­tru­is­tic and fra­ter­nal.

55:6.2On Uran­tia, and as you are, you can have lit­tle ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the ad­vanced sta­tus and pro­gres­sive na­ture of the en­light­ened races of these per­fected worlds. These peo­ple are the flow­er­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary races. But such be­ings are still mor­tal; they con­tinue to breathe, eat, sleep, and drink. This great evo­lu­tion is not heaven, but it is a sub­lime fore­shad­ow­ing of the di­vine worlds of the Par­a­dise as­cent.

55:6.3On a nor­mal world the bi­o­logic fit­ness of the mor­tal race was long since brought up to a high level dur­ing the post-Adamic epochs; and now, from age to age through­out the set­tled eras the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of man con­tin­ues. Both vi­sion and hear­ing are ex­tended. By now the pop­u­la­tion has be­come sta­tion­ary in num­bers. Re­pro­duc­tion is reg­u­lated in ac­cor­dance with plan­e­tary re­quire­ments and in­nate hered­i­tary en­dow­ments: The mor­tals on a planet dur­ing this age are di­vided into from five to ten groups, and the lower groups are per­mit­ted to pro­duce only one half as many chil­dren as the higher. The con­tin­ued im­prove­ment of such a mag­nif­i­cent race through­out the era of light and life is largely a mat­ter of the se­lec­tive re­pro­duc­tion of those racial strains which ex­hibit su­pe­rior qual­i­ties of a so­cial, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual na­ture.

55:6.4The Ad­justers con­tinue to come as in for­mer evo­lu­tion­ary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mor­tals are in­creas­ingly able to com­mune with the in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment. Dur­ing the em­bry­onic and prespir­i­tual stages of de­vel­op­ment the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are still func­tion­ing. The Holy Spirit and the min­istry of an­gels are even more ef­fec­tive as the suc­ces­sive epochs of set­tled life are ex­pe­ri­enced. In the fourth stage of light and life the ad­vanced mor­tals seem to ex­pe­ri­ence con­sid­er­able con­scious con­tact with the spirit pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, while the phi­los­o­phy of such a world is fo­cused upon the at­tempt to com­pre­hend the new rev­e­la­tions of God the Su­preme. More than one half of the hu­man in­hab­i­tants on plan­ets of this ad­vanced sta­tus ex­pe­ri­ence trans­la­tion to the mor­ontia state from among the liv­ing. Even so, “old things are pass­ing away; be­hold, all things are be­com­ing new.”

55:6.5We con­ceive that phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion will have at­tained its full de­vel­op­ment by the end of the fifth epoch of the light-and-life era. We ob­serve that the up­per lim­its of spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment as­so­ci­ated with evolv­ing hu­man mind are de­ter­mined by the Ad­juster-fu­sion level of con­joint mor­ontia val­ues and cos­mic mean­ings. But con­cern­ing wis­dom: While we do not re­ally know, we con­jec­ture that there can never be a limit to in­tel­lec­tual evo­lu­tion and the at­tain­ment of wis­dom. On a sev­enth-stage world, wis­dom can ex­haust the ma­te­rial po­ten­tials, en­ter upon mota in­sight, and even­tu­ally even taste of ab­so­nite grandeur.

55:6.6We ob­serve that on these highly evolved and long sev­enth-stage worlds hu­man be­ings fully learn the lo­cal uni­verse lan­guage be­fore they are trans­lated; and I have vis­ited a few very old plan­ets where aban­don­ters were teach­ing the older mor­tals the tongue of the super­uni­verse. And on these worlds I have ob­served the tech­nique whereby the ab­so­nite per­son­al­i­ties re­veal the pres­ence of the fi­nal­i­ters in the mor­ontia tem­ple.

55:6.7This is the story of the mag­nif­i­cent goal of mor­tal striv­ing on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds; and it all takes place even be­fore hu­man be­ings en­ter upon their mor­ontia ca­reers; all of this splen­did de­vel­op­ment is at­tain­able by ma­te­rial mor­tals on the in­hab­ited worlds, the very first stage of that end­less and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble ca­reer of Par­a­dise as­cen­sion and di­vin­ity at­tain­ment.

55:6.8But can you pos­si­bly imag­ine what sort of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are now com­ing up from worlds long ex­ist­ing in the sev­enth epoch of set­tled light and life? It is such as these who go on to the mor­ontia worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tal to be­gin their as­cen­sion ca­reers.

55:6.9If the mor­tals of dis­traught Uran­tia could only view one of these more ad­vanced worlds long set­tled in light and life, they would nev­er­more ques­tion the wis­dom of the evo­lu­tion­ary scheme of cre­ation. Were there no fu­ture of eter­nal crea­ture pro­gres­sion, still the su­perb evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ments of the mor­tal races on such set­tled worlds of per­fected achieve­ment would am­ply jus­tify man’s cre­ation on the worlds of time and space.

55:6.10We of­ten pon­der: If the grand uni­verse should be set­tled in light and life, would the as­cend­ing ex­qui­site mor­tals still be des­tined to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity? But we do not know.