finaliters’ world

45:1.2Num­ber 1. The Fi­nal­i­ter World. This is the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ter corps of the lo­cal sys­tem and is sur­rounded by the re­ceiv­ing worlds, the seven man­sion worlds, ded­i­cated so fully to the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion. The fi­nal­i­ter world is ac­ces­si­ble to the in­hab­i­tants of all seven man­sion worlds. Trans­port ser­a­phim carry as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties back and forth on these pil­grim­ages, which are de­signed to cul­ti­vate their faith in the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of tran­si­tion mor­tals. Al­though the fi­nal­i­ters and their struc­tures are not or­di­nar­ily per­cep­ti­ble to mor­ontia vi­sion, you will be more than thrilled, from time to time, when the en­ergy trans­form­ers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors en­able you mo­men­tar­ily to glimpse these high spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have ac­tu­ally com­pleted the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion, and who have re­turned to the very worlds where you are be­gin­ning this long jour­ney, as the pledge of as­sur­ance that you may and can com­plete the stu­pen­dous un­der­tak­ing. All man­sion world so­journ­ers go to the fi­nal­i­ter sphere at least once a year for these as­sem­blies of fi­nal­i­ter vi­su­al­iza­tion.

45:6.6All mor­tal sur­vivors who have not ex­pe­ri­enced par­ent­hood on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds must also ob­tain this nec­es­sary train­ing while so­journ­ing in the homes of the Je­ru­sem Ma­te­rial Sons and as pa­ren­tal as­so­ciates of these su­perb fa­thers and moth­ers. This is true ex­cept in so far as such mor­tals have been able to com­pen­sate their de­fi­cien­cies on the sys­tem nurs­ery lo­cated on the first tran­si­tional-cul­ture world of Je­ru­sem.

45:6.7This pro­ba­tion nurs­ery of Sa­ta­nia is main­tained by cer­tain mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties on the fi­nal­i­ters’ world, one half of the planet be­ing de­voted to this work of child rear­ing. Here are re­ceived and re­assem­bled cer­tain chil­dren of sur­viv­ing mor­tals, such as those off­spring who per­ished on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds be­fore ac­quir­ing spir­i­tual sta­tus as in­di­vid­u­als. The as­cen­sion of ei­ther of its nat­u­ral par­ents in­sures that such a mor­tal child of the realms will be ac­corded reper­son­al­iza­tion on the sys­tem fi­nal­i­ter planet and there be per­mit­ted to demon­strate by sub­se­quent free­will choice whether or not it elects to fol­low the pa­ren­tal path of mor­tal as­cen­sion. Chil­dren here ap­pear as on the na­tiv­ity world ex­cept for the ab­sence of sex dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion. There is no re­pro­duc­tion of mor­tal kind af­ter the life ex­pe­ri­ence on the in­hab­ited worlds.

45:6.8Man­sion world stu­dents who have one or more chil­dren in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ters’ world, and who are de­fi­cient in es­sen­tial pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence, may ap­ply for a Mel­chiz­e­dek per­mit which will ef­fect their tem­po­rary trans­fer from as­cen­sion du­ties on the man­sion worlds to the fi­nal­i­ter world, where they are granted op­por­tu­nity to func­tion as as­so­ciate par­ents to their own and other chil­dren. This ser­vice of pa­ren­tal min­istry may be later ac­cred­ited on Je­ru­sem as the ful­fill­ment of one half of the train­ing which such as­cend­ers are re­quired to un­dergo in the fam­i­lies of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters.

45:6.9The pro­ba­tion nurs­ery it­self is super­vised by one thou­sand cou­ples of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, vol­un­teers from the Je­ru­sem colony of their or­der. They are im­me­di­ately as­sisted by about an equal num­ber of vol­un­teer mid­sonite pa­ren­tal groups who stop off here to ren­der this ser­vice on their way from the mid­sonite world of Sa­ta­nia to the un­re­vealed des­tiny on their spe­cial worlds of reser­va­tion among the fi­nal­i­ter spheres of Sal­ving­ton.

47:2.1The in­fant-re­ceiv­ing schools of Sa­ta­nia are sit­u­ated on the fi­nal­i­ter world, the first of the Je­ru­sem tran­si­tion-cul­ture spheres. These in­fant-re­ceiv­ing schools are en­ter­prises de­voted to the nur­ture and train­ing of the chil­dren of time, in­clud­ing those who have died on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space be­fore the ac­quire­ment of in­di­vid­ual sta­tus on the uni­verse rec­ords. In the event of the sur­vival of ei­ther or both of such a child’s par­ents, the guard­ian of des­tiny dep­u­tizes her as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim as the cus­to­dian of the child’s po­ten­tial iden­tity, charg­ing the cheru­bim with the re­spon­si­bil­ity of de­liv­er­ing this un­de­vel­oped soul into the hands of the Man­sion World Teach­ers in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­eries of the mor­ontia worlds.

47:0.2Tran­si­tion world num­ber one it­self is quite ex­clu­sively de­voted to as­cen­dant ac­tiv­i­ties, be­ing the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ter corps as­signed to Sa­ta­nia. This world now serves as the head­quar­ters for more than one hun­dred thou­sand com­pa­nies of fi­nal­i­ters, and there are one thou­sand glo­ri­fied be­ings in each of these groups.

47:1.1Al­though only fi­nal­i­ters and cer­tain groups of sal­vaged chil­dren and their care­tak­ers are res­i­dent on tran­si­tional world num­ber one, pro­vi­sion is made for the en­ter­tain­ment of all classes of spirit be­ings, tran­si­tion mor­tals, and stu­dent vis­i­tors. The sporna­gia, who func­tion on all of these worlds, are hos­pitable hosts to all be­ings whom they can rec­og­nize. They have a vague feel­ing con­cern­ing the fi­nal­i­ters but can­not vi­su­al­ize them. They must re­gard them much as you do the an­gels in your pres­ent phys­i­cal state.

47:1.2Though the fi­nal­i­ter world is a sphere of ex­qui­site phys­i­cal beauty and ex­traor­di­nary mor­ontia em­bel­lish­ment, the great spirit abode lo­cated at the cen­ter of ac­tiv­i­ties, the tem­ple of the fi­nal­i­ters, is not vis­i­ble to the un­aided ma­te­rial or early mor­ontia vi­sion. But the en­ergy trans­form­ers are able to vi­su­al­ize many of these re­al­i­ties to as­cend­ing mor­tals, and from time to time they do thus func­tion, as on the oc­ca­sions of the class as­sem­blies of the man­sion world stu­dents on this cul­tural sphere.

47:1.3All through the man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence you are in a way spir­i­tu­ally aware of the pres­ence of your glo­ri­fied breth­ren of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment, but it is very re­fresh­ing, now and then, ac­tu­ally to per­ceive them as they func­tion in their head­quar­ters abodes. You will not spon­ta­neously vi­su­al­ize fi­nal­i­ters un­til you ac­quire true spirit vi­sion.

47:1.4On the first man­sion world all sur­vivors must pass the re­quire­ments of the pa­ren­tal com­mis­sion from their na­tive plan­ets. The pres­ent Uran­tia com­mis­sion con­sists of twelve pa­ren­tal cou­ples, re­cently ar­rived, who have had mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence in rear­ing three or more chil­dren to the pubescent age. Ser­vice on this com­mis­sion is ro­ta­tional and is for only ten years as a rule. All who fail to sat­isfy these com­mis­sion­ers as to their pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence must fur­ther qual­ify by ser­vice in the homes of the Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem or in part in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ters’ world.

47:1.5But ir­re­spec­tive of pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence, man­sion world par­ents who have grow­ing chil­dren in the pro­ba­tion nurs­ery are given ev­ery op­por­tu­nity to col­lab­o­rate with the mor­ontia cus­to­di­ans of such chil­dren re­gard­ing their in­struc­tion and train­ing. These par­ents are per­mit­ted to jour­ney there for vis­its as of­ten as four times a year. And it is one of the most touch­ingly beau­ti­ful scenes of all the as­cend­ing ca­reer to ob­serve the man­sion world par­ents em­brace their ma­te­rial off­spring on the oc­ca­sions of their pe­ri­odic pil­grim­ages to the fi­nal­i­ter world. While one or both par­ents may leave a man­sion world ahead of the child, they are quite of­ten con­tem­po­rary for a sea­son.

47:1.6No as­cend­ing mor­tal can es­cape the ex­pe­ri­ence of rear­ing chil­dren—their own or oth­ers—ei­ther on the ma­te­rial worlds or sub­se­quently on the fi­nal­i­ter world or on Je­ru­sem. Fa­thers must pass through this es­sen­tial ex­pe­ri­ence just as cer­tainly as moth­ers. It is an un­for­tu­nate and mis­taken no­tion of mod­ern peo­ples on Uran­tia that child cul­ture is largely the task of moth­ers. Chil­dren need fa­thers as well as moth­ers, and fa­thers need this pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence as much as do moth­ers.