Father’s house

• Paradise

11:3.3The Holy Area, the out­ly­ing or res­i­den­tial re­gion, is di­vided into seven con­cen­tric zones. Par­a­dise is some­times called “the Fa­ther’s House” since it is his eter­nal res­i­dence, and these seven zones are of­ten des­ig­nated “the Fa­ther’s Par­a­dise man­sions.” The in­ner or first zone is oc­cu­pied by Par­a­dise Cit­i­zens and the na­tives of Ha­vona who may chance to be dwell­ing on Par­a­dise. The next or sec­ond zone is the res­i­den­tial area of the na­tives of the seven super­uni­verses of time and space. This sec­ond zone is in part sub­di­vided into seven im­mense di­vi­sions, the Par­a­dise home of the spirit be­ings and as­cen­dant crea­tures who hail from the uni­verses of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion. Each of these sec­tors is ex­clu­sively ded­i­cated to the wel­fare and ad­vance­ment of the per­son­al­i­ties of a sin­gle super­uni­verse, but these fa­cil­i­ties are al­most in­finitely be­yond the re­quire­ments of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses.

• Jerusalem temple

125:1.1Ev­ery­where Je­sus went through­out the tem­ple courts, he was shocked and sick­ened by the spirit of ir­rev­er­ence which he ob­served. He deemed the con­duct of the tem­ple throngs to be in­con­sis­tent with their pres­ence in “his Fa­ther’s house.” But he re­ceived the shock of his young life when his fa­ther es­corted him into the court of the gen­tiles with its noisy jar­gon, loud talk­ing and curs­ing, min­gled in­dis­crim­i­nately with the bleat­ing of sheep and the bab­ble of noises which be­trayed the pres­ence of the money-chang­ers and the ven­dors of sac­ri­fi­cial an­i­mals and sundry other com­mer­cial com­modi­ties.

• Jerusalem temple

125:6.7But the lad was equal to the oc­ca­sion. When you take into fair con­sid­er­a­tion all the fac­tors which com­bined to make up this sit­u­a­tion, you will be bet­ter pre­pared to fathom the wis­dom of the boy’s re­ply to his mother’s un­in­tended re­buke. Af­ter a mo­ment’s thought, Je­sus an­swered his mother, say­ing: “Why is it that you have so long sought me? Would you not ex­pect to find me in my Fa­ther’s house since the time has come when I should be about my Fa­ther’s busi­ness?”

• Jerusalem temple

171:4.7Then turn­ing to his apos­tles, Je­sus said: “From olden times the proph­ets have per­ished in Je­ru­sa­lem, and it is only be­fit­ting that the Son of Man should go up to the city of the Fa­ther’s house to be of­fered up as the price of hu­man big­otry and as the re­sult of re­li­gious prej­u­dice and spir­i­tual blind­ness. O Je­ru­sa­lem, Je­ru­sa­lem, which kills the proph­ets and stones the teach­ers of truth! How of­ten would I have gath­ered your chil­dren to­gether even as a hen gath­ers her own brood un­der her wings, but you would not let me do it! Be­hold, your house is about to be left to you des­o­late! You will many times de­sire to see me, but you shall not. You will then seek but not find me.” And when he had spo­ken, he turned to those around him and said: “Nev­er­the­less, let us go up to Je­ru­sa­lem to at­tend the Pass­over and do that which be­comes us in ful­fill­ing the will of the Fa­ther in heaven.”

• universe

181:1.2“When I have re­turned to live in you and work through you, I can the bet­ter lead you on through this life and guide you through the many abodes in the fu­ture life in the heaven of heav­ens. Life in the Fa­ther’s eter­nal cre­ation is not an end­less rest of idle­ness and self­ish ease but rather a cease­less pro­gres­sion in grace, truth, and glory. Each of the many, many sta­tions in my Fa­ther’s house is a stop­ping place, a life de­signed to pre­pare you for the next one ahead. And so will the chil­dren of light go on from glory to glory un­til they at­tain the di­vine es­tate wherein they are spir­i­tu­ally per­fected even as the Fa­ther is per­fect in all things.