environment

• some are exceptionally favorable to moral progress
• spiritual progress open to all regardless of

5:1.4The mor­tals of the realms of time and space may dif­fer greatly in in­nate abil­i­ties and in­tel­lec­tual en­dow­ment, they may en­joy en­vi­ron­ments ex­cep­tion­ally fa­vor­able to so­cial ad­vance­ment and moral prog­ress, or they may suf­fer from the lack of al­most ev­ery hu­man aid to cul­ture and sup­posed ad­vance­ment in the arts of civ­i­liza­tion; but the pos­si­bil­i­ties for spir­i­tual prog­ress in the as­cen­sion ca­reer are equal to all; in­creas­ing lev­els of spir­i­tual in­sight and cos­mic mean­ings are at­tained quite in­de­pen­dently of all such so­ciomoral dif­fer­en­tials of the di­ver­si­fied ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ments on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

5:1.5How­ever Uran­tia mor­tals may dif­fer in their in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, eco­nomic, and even moral op­por­tu­ni­ties and en­dow­ments, for­get not that their spir­i­tual en­dow­ment is uni­form and unique. They all en­joy the same di­vine pres­ence of the gift from the Fa­ther, and they are all equally priv­i­leged to seek in­ti­mate per­sonal com­mu­nion with this in­dwelling spirit of di­vine ori­gin, while they may all equally choose to ac­cept the uni­form spir­i­tual lead­ing of these Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

5:1.6If mor­tal man is whole­heart­edly spir­i­tu­ally mo­ti­vated, un­re­servedly con­se­crated to the do­ing of the Fa­ther’s will, then, since he is so cer­tainly and so ef­fec­tively spir­i­tu­ally en­dowed by the in­dwelling and di­vine Ad­juster, there can­not fail to ma­te­ri­al­ize in that in­di­vid­ual’s ex­pe­ri­ence the sub­lime con­scious­ness of know­ing God and the su­per­nal as­sur­ance of sur­viv­ing for the pur­pose of find­ing God by the pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ence of be­com­ing more and more like him.

5:1.7Man is spir­i­tu­ally in­dwelt by a sur­viv­ing Thought Ad­juster. If such a hu­man mind is sin­cerely and spir­i­tu­ally mo­ti­vated, if such a hu­man soul de­sires to know God and be­come like him, hon­estly wants to do the Fa­ther’s will, there ex­ists no neg­a­tive in­flu­ence of mor­tal de­pri­va­tion nor pos­i­tive power of pos­si­ble in­ter­fer­ence which can pre­vent such a di­vinely mo­ti­vated soul from se­curely as­cend­ing to the por­tals of Par­a­dise.

• divinely watered souls all but independent of material

34:6.8It is the pres­ence of the di­vine Spirit, the wa­ter of life, that pre­vents the con­sum­ing thirst of mor­tal dis­con­tent and that in­de­scrib­able hunger of the un­spir­i­tu­al­ized hu­man mind. Spirit-mo­ti­vated be­ings “never thirst, for this spir­i­tual wa­ter shall be in them a well of sat­is­fac­tion spring­ing up into life ev­er­last­ing.” Such di­vinely wa­tered souls are all but in­de­pen­dent of ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ment as re­gards the joys of liv­ing and the sat­is­fac­tions of earthly ex­is­tence. They are spir­i­tu­ally il­lu­mi­nated and re­freshed, morally strength­ened and en­dowed.

• no deprivation morontia career will not wholly remove

44:8.3There is no caste in the ranks of spirit ar­ti­sans. No mat­ter how lowly your ori­gin, if you have abil­ity and the gift of ex­pres­sion, you will gain ad­e­quate rec­og­ni­tion and re­ceive due ap­pre­ci­a­tion as you as­cend up­ward in the scale of mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. There can be no hand­i­cap of hu­man hered­ity or de­pri­va­tion of mor­tal en­vi­ron­ment which the mor­ontia ca­reer will not fully com­pen­sate and wholly re­move. And all such sat­is­fac­tions of artis­tic achieve­ment and ex­pres­sion­ful self-re­al­iza­tion will be ef­fected by your own per­sonal ef­forts in pro­gres­sive ad­vance­ment. At last the as­pi­ra­tions of evo­lu­tion­ary medi­ocrity may be re­al­ized. While the Gods do not ar­bi­trar­ily be­stow tal­ents and abil­ity upon the chil­dren of time, they do pro­vide for the at­tain­ment of the sat­is­fac­tion of all their no­ble long­ings and for the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of all hu­man hunger for su­per­nal self-ex­pres­sion.

• bad e. cannot thwart attainment of individual mortal

55:11.7In some of the older uni­verses we find worlds set­tled in the fifth and the sixth stages of light and life—even far ex­tended into the sev­enth epoch—whose lo­cal sys­tems are not yet set­tled in light. Younger plan­ets may de­lay sys­tem uni­fi­ca­tion, but this does not in the least hand­i­cap the prog­ress of an older and ad­vanced world. Nei­ther can en­vi­ron­men­tal lim­i­ta­tions, even on an iso­lated world, thwart the per­sonal at­tain­ment of the in­di­vid­ual mor­tal; Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, as a man among men, per­son­ally achieved the sta­tus of light and life over nine­teen hun­dred years ago on Uran­tia.

• Life Carriers manipulated e. to eliminate inferior prehuman strains

65:2.14Since the qual­ity of the mind ca­pac­ity for de­vel­op­ment in this east­ern group was so def­i­nitely in­fe­rior to that of the other two groups, the Life Car­ri­ers, with the con­sent of their su­pe­ri­ors, so ma­nip­u­lated the en­vi­ron­ment as fur­ther to cir­cum­scribe these in­fe­rior pre­hu­man strains of evolv­ing life. To all out­ward ap­pear­ances the elim­i­na­tion of these in­fe­rior groups of crea­tures was ac­ci­den­tal, but in re­al­ity it was al­to­gether pur­pose­ful.

65:2.15Later in the evo­lu­tion­ary un­fold­ing of in­tel­li­gence, the lemur an­ces­tors of the hu­man species were far more ad­vanced in North Amer­ica than in other re­gions; and they were there­fore led to mi­grate from the arena of west­ern life im­plan­ta­tion over the Bering land bridge and down the coast to south­west­ern Asia, where they con­tin­ued to evolve and to ben­e­fit by the ad­di­tion of cer­tain strains of the cen­tral life group. Man thus evolved out of cer­tain west­ern and cen­tral life strains but in the cen­tral to near-east­ern re­gions.

• religious experience markedly influenced by social

100:1.6Re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence is markedly in­flu­enced by phys­i­cal health, in­her­ited tem­per­a­ment, and so­cial en­vi­ron­ment. But these tem­po­ral con­di­tions do not in­hibit in­ner spir­i­tual prog­ress by a soul ded­i­cated to the do­ing of the will of the Fa­ther in heaven. There are pres­ent in all nor­mal mor­tals cer­tain in­nate drives to­ward growth and self-re­al­iza­tion which func­tion if they are not specif­i­cally in­hib­ited. The cer­tain tech­nique of fos­ter­ing this con­sti­tu­tive en­dow­ment of the po­ten­tial of spir­i­tual growth is to main­tain an at­ti­tude of whole­hearted de­vo­tion to su­preme val­ues.

• seraphim, Master Physical Controllers, and midwayers manipulate e.

113:3.5On the spir­i­tual level, ser­a­phim make per­sonal many oth­er­wise im­per­sonal and preper­sonal min­istries of the uni­verse; they are co-or­di­na­tors. On the in­tel­lec­tual level they are the cor­re­la­tors of mind and mor­ontia; they are in­ter­preters. And on the phys­i­cal level they ma­nip­u­late ter­res­trial en­vi­ron­ment through their li­ai­son with the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and through the co-op­er­a­tive min­istry of the mid­way crea­tures.

• seraphim, Master Physical Controllers, and midwayers manipulate e.

113:4.4The im­pulse of wor­ship largely orig­i­nates in the spirit prompt­ings of the higher mind ad­ju­tants, re­in­forced by the lead­ings of the Ad­juster. But the urge to pray so of­ten ex­pe­ri­enced by God-con­scious mor­tals very of­ten arises as the re­sult of se­raphic in­flu­ence. The guard­ing ser­a­phim is con­stantly ma­nip­u­lat­ing the mor­tal en­vi­ron­ment for the pur­pose of aug­ment­ing the cos­mic in­sight of the hu­man as­cender to the end that such a sur­vival can­di­date may ac­quire en­hanced re­al­iza­tion of the pres­ence of the in­dwelling Ad­juster and thus be en­abled to yield in­creased co-op­er­a­tion with the spir­i­tual mis­sion of the di­vine pres­ence.

• seraphim, Master Physical Controllers, and midwayers manipulate e.

114:6.18None of these an­gelic groups ex­er­cise di­rect or ar­bi­trary con­trol over the do­mains of their as­sign­ment. They can­not fully con­trol the af­fairs of their re­spec­tive realms of ac­tion, but they can and do so ma­nip­u­late plan­e­tary con­di­tions and so as­so­ciate cir­cum­stances as fa­vor­ably to in­flu­ence the spheres of hu­man ac­tiv­ity to which they are at­tached.