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30:4.15The phys­i­cal body of mor­tal flesh is not a part of the re­assem­bly of the sleep­ing sur­vivor; the phys­i­cal body has re­turned to dust. The ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment spon­sors the new body, the mor­ontia form, as the new life ve­hi­cle for the im­mor­tal soul and for the in­dwelling of the re­turned Ad­juster. The Ad­juster is the cus­to­dian of the spirit tran­script of the mind of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The as­signed ser­a­phim is the keeper of the sur­viv­ing iden­tity—the im­mor­tal soul—as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Ad­juster and the ser­a­phim, re­unite their per­son­al­ity trusts, the new in­di­vid­ual con­sti­tutes the res­ur­rec­tion of the old per­son­al­ity, the sur­vival of the evolv­ing mor­ontia iden­tity of the soul. Such a re­as­so­ci­a­tion of soul and Ad­juster is quite prop­erly called a res­ur­rec­tion, a re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity fac­tors; but even this does not en­tirely ex­plain the reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity. Though you will prob­a­bly never un­der­stand the fact of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble trans­ac­tion, you will some­time ex­pe­ri­en­tially know the truth of it if you do not re­ject the plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

39:2.13The an­gels can­not trans­port com­bus­tion bod­ies—flesh and blood—such as you now have, but they can trans­port all oth­ers, from the low­est mor­ontia to the higher spirit forms. They do not func­tion in the event of nat­u­ral death. When you fin­ish your earthly ca­reer, your body re­mains on this planet. Your Thought Ad­juster pro­ceeds to the bo­som of the Fa­ther, and these an­gels are not di­rectly con­cerned in your sub­se­quent per­son­al­ity re­assem­bly on the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion man­sion world. There your new body is a mor­ontia form, one that can en­seraphim. You “sow a mor­tal body” in the grave; you “reap a mor­ontia form” on the man­sion worlds.

189:1.2Af­ter the res­ur­rected Je­sus emerged from his burial tomb, the body of flesh in which he had lived and wrought on earth for al­most thirty-six years was still ly­ing there in the sepul­chre niche, undis­turbed and wrapped in the linen sheet, just as it had been laid to rest by Joseph and his as­so­ciates on Fri­day af­ter­noon. Nei­ther was the stone be­fore the en­trance of the tomb in any way dis­turbed; the seal of Pi­late was still un­bro­ken; the sol­diers were still on guard. The tem­ple guards had been on con­tin­u­ous duty; the Ro­man guard had been changed at mid­night. None of these watch­ers sus­pected that the ob­ject of their vigil had risen to a new and higher form of ex­is­tence, and that the body which they were guard­ing was now a dis­carded outer cov­er­ing which had no fur­ther con­nec­tion with the de­liv­ered and res­ur­rected mor­ontia per­son­al­ity of Je­sus.

66:2.7Ac­cord­ingly, fifty males and fifty fe­males of the An­don and Fonta pos­ter­ity, rep­re­sent­ing the sur­vival of the best strains of that unique race, were cho­sen by the Life Car­ri­ers. With one or two ex­cep­tions these An­don­ite con­trib­u­tors to the ad­vance­ment of the race were strangers to one an­other. They were as­sem­bled from widely sep­a­rated places by co-or­di­nated Thought Ad­juster di­rec­tion and se­raphic guid­ance at the thresh­old of the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters of the Prince. Here the one hun­dred hu­man sub­jects were given into the hands of the highly skilled vol­un­teer com­mis­sion from Avalon, who di­rected the ma­te­rial ex­trac­tion of a por­tion of the life plasm of these An­don de­scen­dants. This liv­ing ma­te­rial was then trans­ferred to the ma­te­rial bod­ies con­structed for the use of the one hun­dred Jerusemite mem­bers of the Prince’s staff. Mean­time, these newly ar­rived cit­i­zens of the sys­tem cap­i­tal were held in the sleep of se­raphic trans­port.

66:2.8These trans­ac­tions, to­gether with the lit­eral cre­ation of spe­cial bod­ies for the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred, gave ori­gin to nu­mer­ous leg­ends, many of which sub­se­quently be­came con­fused with the later tra­di­tions con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary in­stal­la­tion of Adam and Eve.

42:12.11The li­ai­son of the cos­mic mind and the min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its evolve a suit­able phys­i­cal taber­na­cle for the evolv­ing hu­man be­ing. Like­wise does the mor­ontia mind in­di­vid­u­al­ize the mor­ontia form for all mor­tal sur­vivors. As the mor­tal body is per­sonal and char­ac­ter­is­tic for ev­ery hu­man be­ing, so will the mor­ontia form be highly in­di­vid­ual and ad­e­quately char­ac­ter­is­tic of the cre­ative mind which dom­i­nates it. No two mor­ontia forms are any more alike than any two hu­man bod­ies. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors spon­sor, and the at­tend­ing ser­a­phim pro­vide, the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated mor­ontia ma­te­rial where­with the mor­ontia life can be­gin to work. And af­ter the mor­ontia life it will be found that spirit forms are equally di­verse, per­sonal, and char­ac­ter­is­tic of their re­spec­tive spirit-mind in­dwellers.

116:7.1The grand uni­verse is not only a ma­te­rial cre­ation of phys­i­cal grandeur, spirit sub­lim­ity, and in­tel­lec­tual mag­ni­tude, it is also a mag­nif­i­cent and re­spon­sive liv­ing or­gan­ism. There is ac­tual life pul­sat­ing through­out the mech­a­nism of the vast cre­ation of the vi­brant cos­mos. The phys­i­cal re­al­ity of the uni­verses is sym­bolic of the per­ceiv­able re­al­ity of the Al­mighty Su­preme; and this ma­te­rial and liv­ing or­gan­ism is pen­e­trated by in­tel­li­gence cir­cuits, even as the hu­man body is tra­versed by a net­work of neu­ral sen­sa­tion paths. This phys­i­cal uni­verse is per­me­ated by en­ergy lanes which ef­fec­tively ac­ti­vate ma­te­rial cre­ation, even as the hu­man body is nour­ished and en­er­gized by the cir­cu­la­tory dis­tri­bu­tion of the as­sim­i­l­able en­ergy prod­ucts of nour­ish­ment. The vast uni­verse is not with­out those co-or­di­nat­ing cen­ters of mag­nif­i­cent over­con­trol which might be com­pared to the del­i­cate chem­i­cal-con­trol sys­tem of the hu­man mech­a­nism. But if you only knew some­thing about the physique of a power cen­ter, we could, by anal­ogy, tell you so much more about the phys­i­cal uni­verse.

49:5.193. Spirit-re­cep­tion se­ries. There are three groups of mind de­sign as re­lated to con­tact with spirit af­fairs. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion does not re­fer to the one-, two-, and three-brained or­ders of mor­tals; it refers pri­mar­ily to gland chem­istry, more par­tic­u­larly to the or­ga­ni­za­tion of cer­tain glands com­pa­ra­ble to the pi­tu­itary bod­ies. The races on some worlds have one gland, on oth­ers two, as do Uran­tians, while on still other spheres the races have three of these unique bod­ies. The in­her­ent imag­i­na­tion and spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity is def­i­nitely in­flu­enced by this dif­fer­en­tial chem­i­cal en­dow­ment.

65:4.3Many fea­tures of hu­man life af­ford abun­dant ev­i­dence that the phe­nom­e­non of mor­tal ex­is­tence was in­tel­li­gently planned, that or­ganic evo­lu­tion is not a mere cos­mic ac­ci­dent. When a liv­ing cell is in­jured, it pos­sesses the abil­ity to elab­o­rate cer­tain chem­i­cal sub­stances which are em­pow­ered so to stim­u­late and ac­ti­vate the neigh­bor­ing nor­mal cells that they im­me­di­ately be­gin the se­cre­tion of cer­tain sub­stances which fa­cil­i­tate heal­ing pro­cesses in the wound; and at the same time these nor­mal and un­in­jured cells be­gin to pro­lif­er­ate—they ac­tu­ally start to work cre­at­ing new cells to re­place any fel­low cells which may have been de­stroyed by the ac­ci­dent.

65:4.4This chem­i­cal ac­tion and re­ac­tion con­cerned in wound heal­ing and cell re­pro­duc­tion rep­re­sents the choice of the Life Car­ri­ers of a for­mula em­brac­ing over one hun­dred thou­sand phases and fea­tures of pos­si­ble chem­i­cal re­ac­tions and bi­o­logic reper­cus­sions. More than half a mil­lion spe­cific ex­per­i­ments were made by the Life Car­ri­ers in their lab­o­ra­to­ries be­fore they fi­nally set­tled upon this for­mula for the Uran­tia life ex­per­i­ment.

65:4.5When Uran­tia sci­en­tists know more of these heal­ing chem­i­cals, they will be­come more ef­fi­cient in the treat­ment of in­juries, and in­di­rectly they will know more about con­trol­ling cer­tain se­ri­ous dis­eases.

65:4.6Since life was es­tab­lished on Uran­tia, the Life Car­ri­ers have im­proved this heal­ing tech­nique as it has been in­tro­duced on an­other Sa­ta­nia world, in that it af­fords more pain re­lief and ex­er­cises bet­ter con­trol over the pro­lif­er­a­tion ca­pac­ity of the as­so­ci­ated nor­mal cells.

76:4.7The body cells of the Ma­te­rial Sons and their progeny are far more re­sis­tant to dis­ease than are those of the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings in­dige­nous to the planet. The body cells of the na­tive races are akin to the liv­ing dis­ease-pro­duc­ing mi­cro­scopic and ul­tra­mi­cro­scopic or­gan­isms of the realm. These facts ex­plain why the Uran­tia peo­ples must do so much by way of sci­en­tific ef­fort to with­stand so many phys­i­cal dis­or­ders. You would be far more dis­ease re­sis­tant if your races car­ried more of the Adamic life.

0:5.71. Body. The ma­te­rial or phys­i­cal or­gan­ism of man. The liv­ing elec­tro­chem­i­cal mech­a­nism of an­i­mal na­ture and ori­gin.

112:6.3To a cer­tain ex­tent, the ap­pear­ance of the ma­te­rial body-form is re­spon­sive to the char­ac­ter of the per­son­al­ity iden­tity; the phys­i­cal body does, to a lim­ited de­gree, re­flect some­thing of the in­her­ent na­ture of the per­son­al­ity. Still more so does the mor­ontia form. In the phys­i­cal life, mor­tals may be out­wardly beau­ti­ful though in­wardly unlovely; in the mor­ontia life, and in­creas­ingly on its higher lev­els, the per­son­al­ity form will vary di­rectly in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture of the in­ner per­son. On the spir­i­tual level, out­ward form and in­ner na­ture be­gin to ap­prox­i­mate com­plete iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, which grows more and more per­fect on higher and higher spirit lev­els.

118:9.3The life mech­a­nism of the mor­tal per­son­al­ity, the hu­man body, is the prod­uct of super­mor­tal cre­ative de­sign; there­fore it can never be per­fectly con­trolled by man him­self. Only when as­cend­ing man, in li­ai­son with the fused Ad­juster, self-cre­ates the mech­a­nism for per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion, will he achieve per­fected con­trol thereof.

42:12.12On a ma­te­rial world you think of a body as hav­ing a spirit, but we re­gard the spirit as hav­ing a body. The ma­te­rial eyes are truly the win­dows of the spirit-born soul. The spirit is the ar­chi­tect, the mind is the builder, the body is the ma­te­rial build­ing.

1:4.2The phys­i­cal bod­ies of mor­tals are “the tem­ples of God.” Not­with­stand­ing that the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Sons come near the crea­tures of their in­hab­ited worlds and “draw all men to them­selves”; though they “stand at the door” of con­scious­ness “and knock” and de­light to come in to all who will “open the doors of their hearts”; al­though there does ex­ist this in­ti­mate per­sonal com­mu­nion be­tween the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal crea­tures, nev­er­the­less, mor­tal men have some­thing from God him­self which ac­tu­ally dwells within them; their bod­ies are the tem­ples thereof.

34:6.7Those who have re­ceived and rec­og­nized the in­dwelling of God have been born of the Spirit. “You are the tem­ple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you.” It is not enough that this spirit be poured out upon you; the di­vine Spirit must dom­i­nate and con­trol ev­ery phase of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

143:2.4“By the old way you seek to sup­press, obey, and con­form to the rules of liv­ing; by the new way you are first trans­formed by the Spirit of Truth and thereby strength­ened in your in­ner soul by the con­stant spir­i­tual re­new­ing of your mind, and so are you en­dowed with the power of the cer­tain and joy­ous per­for­mance of the gra­cious, ac­cept­able, and per­fect will of God. For­get not—it is your per­sonal faith in the ex­ceed­ingly great and pre­cious promises of God that en­sures your be­com­ing par­tak­ers of the di­vine na­ture. Thus by your faith and the spirit’s trans­for­ma­tion, you be­come in re­al­ity the tem­ples of God, and his spirit ac­tu­ally dwells within you. If, then, the spirit dwells within you, you are no longer bond­slaves of the flesh but free and lib­er­ated sons of the spirit. The new law of the spirit en­dows you with the lib­erty of self-mas­tery in place of the old law of the fear of self-bond­age and the slav­ery of self-de­nial.

160:4.9Even the phys­i­cal prob­lems of bod­ily health and ef­fi­ciency are best solved when they are viewed from the re­li­gious stand­point of our Mas­ter’s teach­ing: That the body and mind of man are the dwell­ing place of the gift of the Gods, the spirit of God be­com­ing the spirit of man. The mind of man thus be­comes the me­di­a­tor be­tween ma­te­rial things and spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties.

110:1.5The Ad­juster re­mains with you in all dis­as­ter and through ev­ery sick­ness which does not wholly de­stroy the men­tal­ity. But how un­kind know­ingly to de­file or oth­er­wise de­lib­er­ately to pol­lute the phys­i­cal body, which must serve as the earthly taber­na­cle of this mar­velous gift from God. All phys­i­cal poi­sons greatly re­tard the ef­forts of the Ad­juster to ex­alt the ma­te­rial mind, while the men­tal poi­sons of fear, anger, envy, jeal­ousy, sus­pi­cion, and in­tol­er­ance like­wise tremen­dously in­ter­fere with the spir­i­tual prog­ress of the evolv­ing soul.