light and life

47:7.1Trans­port to the fifth man­sion world rep­re­sents a tremen­dous for­ward step in the life of a mor­ontia pro­gres­sor. The ex­pe­ri­ence on this world is a real fore­taste of Je­ru­sem life. Here you be­gin to re­al­ize the high des­tiny of the loyal evo­lu­tion­ary worlds since they may nor­mally pro­gress to this stage dur­ing their nat­u­ral plan­e­tary de­vel­op­ment. The cul­ture of this man­sion world cor­re­sponds in gen­eral to that of the early era of light and life on the plan­ets of nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress. And from this you can un­der­stand why it is so ar­ranged that the highly cul­tured and pro­gres­sive types of be­ings who some­times in­habit these ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary worlds are ex­empt from pass­ing through one or more, or even all, of the man­sion spheres.

47:8.7Dur­ing the so­journ on world num­ber six the man­sion world stu­dents achieve a sta­tus which is com­pa­ra­ble with the ex­alted de­vel­op­ment char­ac­ter­iz­ing those evo­lu­tion­ary worlds which have nor­mally pro­gressed be­yond the ini­tial stage of light and life. The or­ga­ni­za­tion of so­ci­ety on this man­so­nia is of a high or­der. The shadow of the mor­tal na­ture grows less and less as these worlds are as­cended one by one. You are be­com­ing more and more adorable as you leave be­hind the coarse ves­tiges of plan­e­tary an­i­mal ori­gin. “Com­ing up through great tribu­la­tion” serves to make glo­ri­fied mor­tals very kind and un­der­stand­ing, very sym­pa­thetic and tol­er­ant.

• local universe admission to superuniverse confederation upon physical stability, spiritual loyalty to Sovereign Son

15:9.15When there de­vel­ops such a spir­i­tual har­mony in a lo­cal uni­verse that its in­di­vid­ual and com­bined cir­cuits be­come in­dis­tin­guish­able from those of the super­uni­verse, when such iden­tity of func­tion and one­ness of min­istry ac­tu­ally pre­vail, then does the lo­cal uni­verse im­me­di­ately swing into the set­tled cir­cuits of light and life, be­com­ing at once el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion into the spir­i­tual con­fed­er­a­tion of the per­fected union of the super­cre­ation. The req­ui­sites for ad­mis­sion to the coun­cils of the An­cients of Days, mem­ber­ship in the super­uni­verse con­fed­er­a­tion, are:

15:9.161. Phys­i­cal Sta­bil­ity. The stars and plan­ets of a lo­cal uni­verse must be in equi­lib­rium; the pe­ri­ods of im­me­di­ate stel­lar meta­mor­pho­sis must be over. The uni­verse must be pro­ceed­ing on a clear track; its or­bit must be safely and fi­nally set­tled.

15:9.172. Spir­i­tual Loy­alty. There must ex­ist a state of uni­ver­sal rec­og­ni­tion of, and loy­alty to, the Sov­er­eign Son of God who pre­sides over the af­fairs of such a lo­cal uni­verse. There must have come into be­ing a state of har­mo­nious co-op­er­a­tion be­tween the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, sys­tems, and con­stel­la­tions of the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse.

15:9.18Your lo­cal uni­verse is not even reck­oned as be­long­ing to the set­tled phys­i­cal or­der of the super­uni­verse, much less as hold­ing mem­ber­ship in the rec­og­nized spir­i­tual fam­ily of the super­gov­ern­ment. Al­though Neb­a­don does not yet have rep­re­sen­ta­tion on Uversa, we of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment are dis­patched to its worlds on spe­cial mis­sions from time to time, even as I have come to Uran­tia di­rectly from Uversa. We lend ev­ery pos­si­ble as­sis­tance to your di­rec­tors and rulers in the so­lu­tion of their dif­fi­cult prob­lems; we are de­sirous of see­ing your uni­verse qual­i­fied for full ad­mis­sion into the as­so­ci­ated cre­ations of the super­uni­verse fam­ily.

55:0.4There are seven stages in the un­fold­ment of the era of light and life on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, and in this con­nec­tion it should be noted that the worlds of the Spirit-fused mor­tals evolve along lines iden­ti­cal with those of the Ad­juster-fu­sion se­ries. These seven stages of light and life are:

55:0.51. The first or plan­e­tary stage.

55:0.62. The sec­ond or sys­tem stage.

55:0.73. The third or con­stel­la­tion stage.

55:0.84. The fourth or lo­cal uni­verse stage.

55:0.95. The fifth or mi­nor sec­tor stage.

55:0.106. The sixth or ma­jor sec­tor stage.

55:0.117. The sev­enth or super­uni­verse stage.

55:4.41. The first stage of light and life. A world in this ini­tial set­tled stage is be­ing ad­min­is­tered by three rulers:

55:4.5a. The Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, pres­ently to be ad­vised by a coun­sel­ing Trin­ity Teacher Son, in all prob­a­bil­ity the chief of the ter­mi­nal corps of such Sons to func­tion on the planet.

55:4.6b. The chief of the plan­e­tary corps of fi­nal­i­ters.

55:4.7c. Adam and Eve, who func­tion jointly as the uni­fiers of the dual lead­er­ship of the Prince-Sov­er­eign and the chief of fi­nal­i­ters.

55:4.8Act­ing as in­ter­preters for the se­raphic guard­i­ans and the fi­nal­i­ters are the ex­alted and lib­er­ated mid­way crea­tures. One of the last acts of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons on their ter­mi­nal mis­sion is to lib­er­ate the mid­way­ers of the realm and to pro­mote (or re­store) them to ad­vanced plan­e­tary sta­tus, as­sign­ing them to re­spon­si­ble places in the new ad­min­is­tra­tion of the set­tled sphere. Such changes have al­ready been made in the range of hu­man vi­sion as en­able mor­tals to rec­og­nize these here­to­fore in­vis­i­ble cousins of the early Adamic regime. This is made pos­si­ble by the fi­nal dis­cov­er­ies of phys­i­cal sci­ence in li­ai­son with the en­larged plan­e­tary func­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

55:4.9The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign has au­thor­ity to re­lease mid­way crea­tures any time af­ter the first set­tled stage so that they may hu­man­ize in the mor­ontia by the aid of the Life Car­ri­ers and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and, af­ter re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers, start out on their Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

55:4.10In the third and sub­se­quent stages, some of the mid­way­ers are still func­tion­ing, chiefly as con­tact per­son­al­i­ties for the fi­nal­i­ters, but as each stage of light and life is en­tered, new or­ders of li­ai­son min­is­ters largely re­place the mid­way­ers; very few of them ever re­main be­yond the fourth stage of light. The sev­enth stage will wit­ness the com­ing of the first ab­so­nite min­is­ters from Par­a­dise to serve in the places of cer­tain uni­verse crea­tures.

55:4.112. The sec­ond stage of light and life. This epoch is sig­nal­ized on the worlds by the ar­rival of a Life Car­rier who be­comes the vol­un­teer ad­viser of the plan­e­tary rulers re­gard­ing the fur­ther ef­forts to pu­rify and sta­bi­lize the mor­tal race. Thus do the Life Car­ri­ers ac­tively par­tic­i­pate in the fur­ther evo­lu­tion of the hu­man race—phys­i­cally, so­cially, and eco­nom­i­cally. And then they ex­tend their super­vi­sion to the fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the mor­tal stock by the dras­tic elim­i­na­tion of the re­tarded and per­sist­ing rem­nants of in­fe­rior po­ten­tial of an in­tel­lec­tual, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Those who de­sign and plant life on an in­hab­ited world are fully com­pe­tent to ad­vise the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, who have full and un­ques­tioned au­thor­ity to purge the evolv­ing race of all detri­men­tal in­flu­ences.

55:4.12From the sec­ond stage on through­out the ca­reer of a set­tled planet the Teacher Sons serve as coun­selors to the fi­nal­i­ters. Dur­ing such mis­sions they serve as vol­un­teers and not by as­sign­ment; and they serve ex­clu­sively with the fi­nal­i­ter corps ex­cept that, upon the con­sent of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, they may be had as ad­vis­ers to the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve.

55:4.133. The third stage of light and life. Dur­ing this epoch the in­hab­ited worlds ar­rive at a new ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the An­cients of Days, the sec­ond phase of God the Sev­en­fold, and the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of these super­uni­verse rulers en­ter into new re­la­tion­ships with the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:4.14In each suc­ceed­ing age of set­tled ex­is­tence the fi­nal­i­ters func­tion in ever-in­creas­ing ca­pac­i­ties. There ex­ists a close work­ing con­nec­tion be­tween the fi­nal­i­ters, the Evening Stars (the super­an­gels), and the Trin­ity Teacher Sons.

55:4.15Dur­ing this or the fol­low­ing age a Teacher Son, as­sisted by the min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tet, be­comes at­tached to the elec­tive mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, who now be­comes as­so­ci­ated with the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign as joint ad­min­is­tra­tor of world af­fairs. These mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tives serve for twenty-five years of plan­e­tary time, and it is this new de­vel­op­ment that makes it easy for the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve to se­cure re­lease from their world of long-time as­sign­ment dur­ing the fol­low­ing ages.

55:4.16The min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tets con­sist of: the se­raphic chief of the sphere, the super­uni­verse sec­o­raphic coun­selor, the arch­an­gel of trans­la­tions, and the om­niaphim who func­tions as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the As­signed Sen­tinel sta­tioned on the sys­tem head­quar­ters. But these ad­vis­ers never prof­fer coun­sel un­less it is asked for.

55:4.174. The fourth stage of light and life. On these worlds the Trin­ity Teacher Sons ap­pear in new roles. As­sisted by the crea­ture-trini­tized sons so long as­so­ci­ated with their or­der, they now come to the worlds as vol­un­teer coun­selors and ad­vis­ers to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign and his as­so­ciates. Such cou­ples—Par­adise-Ha­vona-trini­tized sons and as­cender-trini­tized sons—rep­re­sent dif­fer­ing uni­verse view­points and di­verse per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences which are highly ser­vice­able to the plan­e­tary rulers.

55:4.18At any time af­ter this age the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve can pe­ti­tion the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son for re­lease from plan­e­tary du­ties in or­der to be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent; or they can re­main on the planet as di­rec­tors of the newly ap­pear­ing or­der of in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual so­ci­ety com­posed of ad­vanced mor­tals striv­ing to com­pre­hend the philo­sophic teach­ings of the fi­nal­i­ters por­trayed by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, who are now as­signed to these worlds to col­lab­o­rate in pairs with the se­con­a­phim from the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse.

55:4.19The fi­nal­i­ters are chiefly en­gaged in ini­ti­at­ing the new and super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of so­ci­ety—so­cial, cul­tural, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual. As far as we can dis­cern, they will con­tinue this min­istry far into the sev­enth epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary sta­bil­ity, when, pos­si­bly, they may go forth to min­is­ter in outer space; where­upon we con­jec­ture their places may be taken by ab­so­nite be­ings from Par­a­dise.

55:4.205. The fifth stage of light and life. The read­just­ments of this stage of set­tled ex­is­tence per­tain al­most en­tirely to the phys­i­cal do­mains and are of pri­mary con­cern to the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

55:4.216. The sixth stage of light and life wit­nesses the de­vel­op­ment of new func­tions of the mind cir­cuits of the realm. Cos­mic wis­dom seems to be­come con­sti­tu­tive in the uni­verse min­istry of mind.

55:4.227. The sev­enth stage of light and life. Early in the sev­enth epoch the Trin­ity Teacher coun­selor of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign is joined by a vol­un­teer ad­viser sent by the An­cients of Days, and later on they will be aug­mented by a third coun­selor com­ing from the super­uni­verse Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive.

55:4.23Dur­ing this epoch, if not be­fore, Adam and Eve are al­ways re­lieved of plan­e­tary du­ties. If there is a Ma­te­rial Son in the fi­nal­i­ter corps, he may be­come as­so­ci­ated with the mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, and some­times it is a Mel­chiz­e­dek who vol­un­teers to func­tion in this ca­pac­ity. If a mid­wayer is among the fi­nal­i­ters, all of that or­der re­main­ing on the planet are im­me­di­ately re­leased.

55:4.24Upon ob­tain­ing re­lease from their age­long as­sign­ment, a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may se­lect ca­reers as fol­lows:

55:4.251. They can se­cure plan­e­tary re­lease and from the uni­verse head­quar­ters start out im­me­di­ately on the Par­a­dise ca­reer, re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers at the con­clu­sion of the mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence.

55:4.262. Very of­ten a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve will re­ceive Ad­justers while yet serv­ing on a world set­tled in light con­comi­tant with the re­ceiv­ing of Ad­justers by some of their im­ported pure-line chil­dren who have vol­un­teered for a term of plan­e­tary ser­vice. Sub­se­quently they may all go to uni­verse head­quar­ters and there be­gin the Par­a­dise ca­reer.

55:4.273. A Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may elect—as do Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters from the sys­tem cap­i­tal—to go di­rect to the mid­sonite world for a brief so­journ, there to re­ceive their Ad­justers.

55:4.284. They may de­cide to re­turn to the sys­tem head­quar­ters, there for a time to oc­cupy seats on the su­preme court, af­ter which ser­vice they will re­ceive Ad­justers and be­gin the Par­a­dise as­cent.

55:4.295. They may choose to go from their ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties back to their na­tive world to serve as teach­ers for a sea­son and to be­come Ad­juster in­dwelt at the time of trans­fer to the uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:4.30Through­out all of these epochs the im­ported as­sist­ing Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters ex­ert a tremen­dous in­flu­ence on the pro­gress­ing so­cial and eco­nomic or­ders. They are po­ten­tially im­mor­tal, at least un­til such time as they elect to hu­man­ize, re­ceive Ad­justers, and start for Par­a­dise.

55:7.1This epoch ex­tends from the ap­pear­ance of the mor­ontia tem­ple at the new plan­e­tary head­quar­ters to the time of the set­tling of the en­tire sys­tem in light and life. This age is in­au­gu­rated by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons at the close of their suc­ces­sive world mis­sions when the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the sta­tus of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign by the man­date and per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of that sphere. Con­comi­tant there­with the fi­nal­i­ters in­au­gu­rate their ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in plan­e­tary af­fairs.

55:7.2To out­ward and vis­i­ble ap­pear­ances the ac­tual rulers, or di­rec­tors, of such a world set­tled in light and life are the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter, the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve. The fi­nal­i­ters are in­vis­i­ble, as also is the Prince-Sov­er­eign ex­cept when in the mor­ontia tem­ple. The ac­tual and lit­eral heads of the plan­e­tary regime are there­fore the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter. It is the knowl­edge of these ar­range­ments that has given pres­tige to the idea of kings and queens through­out the uni­verse realms. And kings and queens are a great suc­cess un­der these ideal cir­cum­stances, when a world can com­mand such high per­son­al­i­ties to act in be­half of still higher but in­vis­i­ble rulers.

55:7.3When such an era is at­tained on your world, no doubt Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, now the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, will oc­cupy the seat of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and it has long been con­jec­tured on Je­ru­sem that he will be ac­com­pa­nied by a son and daugh­ter of the Uran­tia Adam and Eve who are now held on Eden­tia as wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. These chil­dren of Adam might so serve on Uran­tia in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek-Sov­er­eign since they were de­prived of pro­cre­ative pow­ers al­most 37,000 years ago at the time they gave up their ma­te­rial bod­ies on Uran­tia in prepa­ra­tion for tran­sit to Eden­tia.

55:7.4This set­tled age con­tin­ues on and on un­til ev­ery in­hab­ited planet in the sys­tem at­tains the era of sta­bi­liza­tion; and then, when the young­est world—the last to achieve light and life—has ex­pe­ri­enced such set­tled­ness for one mil­len­nium of sys­tem time, the en­tire sys­tem en­ters the sta­bi­lized sta­tus, and the in­di­vid­ual worlds are ush­ered into the sys­tem epoch of the era of light and life.

55:8.1When an en­tire sys­tem be­comes set­tled in life, a new or­der of gov­ern­ment is in­au­gu­rated. The Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eigns be­come mem­bers of the sys­tem con­clave, and this new ad­min­is­tra­tive body, sub­ject to the veto of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, is su­preme in au­thor­ity. Such a sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds be­comes vir­tu­ally self-gov­ern­ing. The sys­tem leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly is con­sti­tuted on the head­quar­ters world, and each planet sends its ten rep­re­sen­ta­tives thereto. Courts are now es­tab­lished on the sys­tem cap­i­tals, and only ap­peals are taken to the uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:8.2With the set­tling of the sys­tem the As­signed Sen­tinel, rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the super­uni­verse Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive, be­comes the vol­un­teer ad­viser to the sys­tem su­preme court and ac­tual pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer of the new leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly.

55:8.3Af­ter the set­tling of an en­tire sys­tem in light and life the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns will no more come and go. Such a sov­er­eign re­mains per­pet­u­ally at the head of his sys­tem. The as­sis­tant sov­er­eigns con­tinue to change as in for­mer ages.

55:8.4Dur­ing this epoch of sta­bi­liza­tion, for the first time mid­soniters come from the uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds of their so­journ to act as coun­selors to the leg­isla­tive as­sem­blies and ad­vis­ers to the ad­ju­di­ca­tional tri­bu­nals. These mid­soniters also carry on cer­tain ef­forts to in­cul­cate new mota mean­ings of su­preme value into the teach­ing en­ter­prises which they spon­sor jointly with the fi­nal­i­ters. What the Ma­te­rial Sons did for the mor­tal races bi­o­log­i­cally, the mid­sonite crea­tures now do for these uni­fied and glo­ri­fied hu­mans in the ever-ad­vanc­ing realms of phi­los­o­phy and spir­i­tu­al­ized think­ing.

55:8.5On the in­hab­ited worlds the Teacher Sons be­come vol­un­tary col­lab­o­ra­tors with the fi­nal­i­ters, and these same Teacher Sons also ac­com­pany the fi­nal­i­ters to the man­sion worlds when those spheres are no longer to be uti­lized as dif­fer­en­tial re­ceiv­ing worlds af­ter an en­tire sys­tem is set­tled in light and life; at least this is true by the time the en­tire con­stel­la­tion has thus evolved. But there are no groups that far ad­vanced in Neb­a­don.

55:8.6We are not per­mit­ted to re­veal the na­ture of the work of the fi­nal­i­ters who will super­vise such reded­i­cated man­sion worlds. You have, how­ever, been in­formed that there are through­out the uni­verses var­i­ous types of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who have not been por­trayed in these nar­ra­tives.

55:8.7And now, as the sys­tems one by one be­come set­tled in light by virtue of the prog­ress of their com­po­nent worlds, the time comes when the last sys­tem in a given con­stel­la­tion at­tains sta­bi­liza­tion, and the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors—the Mas­ter Son, the Union of Days, and the Bright and Morn­ing Star—ar­rive on the cap­i­tal of the con­stel­la­tion to pro­claim the Most Highs the un­qual­i­fied rulers of the newly per­fected fam­ily of one hun­dred set­tled sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds.

55:9.1The uni­fi­ca­tion of a whole con­stel­la­tion of set­tled sys­tems is at­tended by new dis­tri­bu­tions of ex­ec­u­tive au­thor­ity and ad­di­tional read­just­ments of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. This epoch wit­nesses ad­vanced at­tain­ment on ev­ery in­hab­ited world but is par­tic­u­larly char­ac­ter­ized by read­just­ments on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, with marked mod­i­fi­ca­tion of re­la­tion­ships with both the sys­tem super­vi­sion and the lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment. Dur­ing this age many con­stel­la­tion and uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties are trans­ferred to the sys­tem cap­i­tals, and the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the super­uni­verse as­sume new and more in­ti­mate re­la­tions with the plan­e­tary, sys­tem, and uni­verse rulers. Con­comi­tant with these new as­so­ci­a­tions, cer­tain super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors es­tab­lish them­selves on the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tals as vol­un­teer ad­vis­ers to the Most High Fa­thers.

55:9.2When a con­stel­la­tion is thus set­tled in light, the leg­isla­tive func­tion ceases, and the house of Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, pre­sided over by the Most Highs, func­tions in­stead. Now, for the first time, such ad­min­is­tra­tive groups deal di­rectly with the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment in mat­ters per­tain­ing to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise re­la­tion­ships. Oth­er­wise the con­stel­la­tion re­mains re­lated to the lo­cal uni­verse as be­fore. From stage to stage in the set­tled life the uni­v­i­ta­tia con­tinue to ad­min­is­ter the con­stel­la­tion mor­ontia worlds.

55:9.3As the ages pass, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers take over more and more of the de­tailed ad­min­is­tra­tive or super­vis­ing func­tions which were for­merly cen­tered on the uni­verse head­quar­ters. By the at­tain­ment of the sixth stage of sta­bi­liza­tion these uni­fied con­stel­la­tions will have reached the po­si­tion of well-nigh com­plete au­ton­omy. En­trance upon the sev­enth stage of set­tled­ness will no doubt wit­ness the ex­al­ta­tion of these rulers to the true dig­nity sig­ni­fied by their names, the Most Highs. To all in­tents and pur­poses the con­stel­la­tions will then deal di­rectly with the super­uni­verse rulers, while the lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment will ex­pand to grasp the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of new grand uni­verse obli­ga­tions.

55:10.1When a uni­verse be­comes set­tled in light and life, it soon swings into the es­tab­lished super­uni­verse cir­cuits, and the An­cients of Days pro­claim the es­tab­lish­ment of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity. This new gov­ern­ing body con­sists of the one hun­dred Faith­fuls of Days, pre­sided over by the Union of Days, and the first act of this su­preme coun­cil is to ac­knowl­edge the con­tin­ued sov­er­eignty of the Mas­ter Cre­ator Son.

55:10.2The uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, as far as con­cerns Ga­briel and the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, is quite un­changed. This coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity is chiefly con­cerned with the new prob­lems and the new con­di­tions aris­ing out of the ad­vanced sta­tus of light and life.

55:10.3The As­so­ciate In­spec­tor now mo­bi­lizes all As­signed Sen­tinels to con­sti­tute the sta­bi­liza­tion corps of the lo­cal uni­verse and asks the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek to share its super­vi­sion with him. And now, for the first time, a corps of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are as­signed to the ser­vice of the Union of Days.

55:10.4The set­tling of an en­tire lo­cal uni­verse in light and life in­au­gu­rates pro­found read­just­ments in the en­tire scheme of ad­min­is­tra­tion, from the in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited worlds to the uni­verse head­quar­ters. New re­la­tion­ships ex­tend down to the con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. The lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit ex­pe­ri­ences new li­ai­son re­la­tions with the Mas­ter Spirit of the super­uni­verse, and Ga­briel es­tab­lishes di­rect con­tact with the An­cients of Days to be ef­fec­tive when and as the Mas­ter Son may be ab­sent from the head­quar­ters world.

55:10.5Dur­ing this and sub­se­quent ages the Mag­is­te­rial Sons con­tinue to func­tion as dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tors, while one hun­dred of these Avo­nal Sons of Par­a­dise con­sti­tute the new high coun­cil of the Bright and Morn­ing Star on the uni­verse cap­i­tal. Later on, and as re­quested by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, one of these Mag­is­te­rial Sons will be­come the su­preme coun­selor sta­tioned on the head­quar­ters world of each lo­cal sys­tem un­til the sev­enth stage of unity is at­tained.

55:10.6Dur­ing this epoch the Trin­ity Teacher Sons are vol­un­teer ad­vis­ers, not only to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eigns, but in groups of three they sim­i­larly serve the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. And at last these Sons find their place in the lo­cal uni­verse, for at this time they are re­moved from the ju­ris­dic­tion of the lo­cal cre­ation and are as­signed to the ser­vice of the su­preme coun­cil of un­lim­ited au­thor­ity.

55:10.7The fi­nal­i­ter corps now, for the first time, ac­knowl­edges the ju­ris­dic­tion of an ex­tra-Par­a­dise au­thor­ity, the su­preme coun­cil. Here­to­fore the fi­nal­i­ters have rec­og­nized no super­vi­sion this side of Par­a­dise.

55:10.8The Cre­ator Sons of such set­tled uni­verses spend much of their time on Par­a­dise and its as­so­ci­ated worlds and in coun­sel­ing the nu­mer­ous fi­nal­i­ter groups serv­ing through­out the lo­cal cre­ation. In this way the man of Mi­chael will find a fuller fra­ter­nity of as­so­ci­a­tion with the glo­ri­fied fi­nal­i­ter mor­tals.

55:10.9Spec­u­la­tion con­cern­ing the func­tion of these Cre­ator Sons in con­nec­tion with the outer uni­verses now in pro­cess of pre­lim­i­nary as­sem­bly is wholly fu­tile. But we all en­gage in such pos­tu­la­tions from time to time. On at­tain­ing this fourth stage of de­vel­op­ment the Cre­ator Son be­comes ad­min­is­tra­tively free; the Di­vine Min­is­ter is pro­gres­sively blend­ing her min­istry with that of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit and the In­fi­nite Spirit. There seems to be evolv­ing a new and sub­lime re­la­tion­ship be­tween the Cre­ator Son, the Cre­ative Spirit, the Evening Stars, the Teacher Sons, and the ever-in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter corps.

55:10.10If Mi­chael should ever leave Neb­a­don, Ga­briel would un­doubt­edly be­come chief ad­min­is­tra­tor with the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek as his as­so­ciate. At the same time new sta­tus would be im­parted to all or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship, such as Ma­te­rial Sons, uni­v­i­ta­tia, mid­soniters, susa­tia, and Spirit-fused mor­tals. But as long as evo­lu­tion con­tin­ues, the ser­a­phim and the arch­an­gels will be re­quired in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:10.11We are, how­ever, sat­is­fied re­gard­ing two fea­tures of our spec­u­la­tions: If the Cre­ator Sons are des­tined to the outer uni­verses, the Di­vine Min­is­ters will un­doubt­edly ac­com­pany them. We are equally sure that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are to re­main with the uni­verses of their ori­gin. We hold that the Mel­chiz­e­deks are des­tined to play ever-in­creas­ingly re­spon­si­ble parts in lo­cal uni­verse gov­ern­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

55:11.1Mi­nor and ma­jor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse do not fig­ure di­rectly in the plan of be­ing set­tled in light and life. Such an evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion per­tains pri­mar­ily to the lo­cal uni­verse as a unit and con­cerns only the com­po­nents of a lo­cal uni­verse. A super­uni­verse is set­tled in light and life when all of its com­po­nent lo­cal uni­verses are thus per­fected. But not one of the seven super­uni­verses has at­tained a level of pro­gres­sion even ap­proach­ing this.

55:11.2The mi­nor sec­tor age. As far as ob­ser­va­tions can pen­e­trate, the fifth or mi­nor sec­tor stage of sta­bi­liza­tion has ex­clu­sively to do with phys­i­cal sta­tus and with the co-or­di­nate set­tling of the one hun­dred as­so­ci­ated lo­cal uni­verses in the es­tab­lished cir­cuits of the super­uni­verse. Ap­par­ently none but the power cen­ters and their as­so­ciates are con­cerned in these re­align­ments of the ma­te­rial cre­ation.

• major sector stage has never occurred

55:11.3The ma­jor sec­tor age. Con­cern­ing the sixth stage, or ma­jor sec­tor sta­bi­liza­tion, we can only con­jec­ture since none of us have wit­nessed such an event. Nev­er­the­less, we can pos­tu­late much con­cern­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tive and other read­just­ments which would prob­a­bly ac­com­pany such an ad­vanced sta­tus of in­hab­ited worlds and their uni­verse group­ings.

55:11.4Since the mi­nor sec­tor sta­tus has to do with co-or­di­nate phys­i­cal equi­lib­rium, we in­fer that ma­jor sec­tor uni­fi­ca­tion will be con­cerned with cer­tain new in­tel­lec­tual lev­els of at­tain­ment, pos­si­bly some ad­vanced achieve­ments in the su­preme re­al­iza­tion of cos­mic wis­dom.

55:11.5We ar­rive at con­clu­sions re­gard­ing the read­just­ments which would prob­a­bly at­tend the re­al­iza­tion of hith­erto un­attained lev­els of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress by ob­serv­ing the re­sults of such achieve­ments on the in­di­vid­ual worlds and in the ex­pe­ri­ences of in­di­vid­ual mor­tals liv­ing on these older and highly de­vel­oped spheres.

55:11.6Let it be made clear that the ad­min­is­tra­tive mech­a­nisms and gov­ern­men­tal tech­niques of a uni­verse or a super­uni­verse can­not in any man­ner limit or re­tard the evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment or spir­i­tual prog­ress of an in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited planet or of any in­di­vid­ual mor­tal on such a sphere.

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.

55:11.8It is by ob­serv­ing what takes place on long-set­tled worlds that we ar­rive at fairly re­li­able con­clu­sions as to what will hap­pen when a whole super­uni­verse is set­tled in light, even if we can­not safely pos­tu­late the event of the sta­bi­liza­tion of the seven super­uni­verses.

55:12.1We can­not pos­i­tively fore­cast what would oc­cur when a super­uni­verse be­came set­tled in light be­cause such an event has never fac­tu­al­ized. From the teach­ings of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, which have never been con­tra­dicted, we in­fer that sweep­ing changes would be made in the en­tire or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of ev­ery unit of the cre­ations of time and space ex­tend­ing from the in­hab­ited worlds to the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:12.2It is gen­er­ally be­lieved that large num­bers of the oth­er­wise un­at­tached crea­ture-trin­i­tized sons are to be as­sem­bled on the head­quar­ters and di­vi­sional cap­i­tals of the set­tled super­uni­verses. This may be in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the some­time ar­rival of outer-spac­ers on their way in to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise; but we re­ally do not know.

55:12.3If and when a super­uni­verse should be set­tled in light and life, we be­lieve that the now ad­vi­sory Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme would be­come the high ad­min­is­tra­tive body on the head­quar­ters world of the super­uni­verse. These are the per­son­al­i­ties who are able to con­tact di­rectly with the ab­so­nite ad­min­is­tra­tors, who will forth­with be­come ac­tive in the set­tled super­uni­verse. Al­though these Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors have long func­tioned as ad­vis­ers and coun­selors in ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary units of cre­ation, they do not as­sume ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties un­til the au­thor­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing be­comes sov­er­eign.

55:12.4The Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme, who func­tion more ex­ten­sively dur­ing this epoch, are not fi­nite, ab­so­nite, ul­ti­mate, or in­fi­nite; they are su­prem­acy and only rep­re­sent God the Su­preme. They are the per­son­al­iza­tion of time-space su­prem­acy and there­fore do not func­tion in Ha­vona. They func­tion only as su­preme uni­fiers. They may pos­si­bly be in­volved in the tech­nique of uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity, but we are not cer­tain.

55:12.5None of us en­ter­tain a sat­is­fac­tory con­cept of what will hap­pen when the grand uni­verse (the seven super­uni­verses as de­pen­dent on Ha­vona) be­comes en­tirely set­tled in light and life. That event will un­doubt­edly be the most pro­found oc­cur­rence in the an­nals of eter­nity since the ap­pear­ance of the cen­tral uni­verse. There are those who hold that the Su­preme Be­ing him­self will emerge from the Ha­vona mys­tery en­shroud­ing his spirit per­son and will be­come res­i­den­tial on the head­quar­ters of the sev­enth super­uni­verse as the al­mighty and ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eign of the per­fected cre­ations of time and space. But we re­ally do not know.

55:12.6[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily as­signed to the Arch­an­gel Coun­cil on Uran­tia.]

56:10.1As the worlds set­tled in life and light pro­gress from the ini­tial stage to the sev­enth epoch, they suc­ces­sively grasp for the re­al­iza­tion of the re­al­ity of God the Sev­en­fold, rang­ing from the ado­ra­tion of the Cre­ator Son to the wor­ship of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Through­out the con­tin­u­ing sev­enth stage of such a world’s his­tory the ever-pro­gress­ing mor­tals grow in the knowl­edge of God the Su­preme, while they vaguely dis­cern the re­al­ity of the over­shad­ow­ing min­istry of God the Ul­ti­mate.

• when possibilities for development are exhausted

32:3.2The phys­i­cal sys­tems of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary in ori­gin. They are not even phys­i­cally sta­bi­lized un­til they are swung into the set­tled cir­cuits of their super­uni­verses. Nei­ther is a lo­cal uni­verse set­tled in light and life un­til its phys­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties of ex­pan­sion and de­vel­op­ment have been ex­hausted, and un­til the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all its in­hab­ited worlds has been for­ever set­tled and sta­bi­lized.

• when world religion evolves

71:8.1412. The world-wide vogue of the pur­suit of wis­dom—the ex­al­ta­tion of phi­los­o­phy. The evo­lu­tion of a world re­li­gion, which will presage the en­trance of the planet upon the ear­lier phases of set­tle­ment in light and life.

• after world government appears

72:12.5The pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth pro­vides the spir­i­tual foun­da­tion for the re­al­iza­tion of great achieve­ments in the in­ter­ests of the hu­man race of the be­stowal world. Uran­tia is there­fore far bet­ter pre­pared for the more im­me­di­ate re­al­iza­tion of a plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment with its laws, mech­a­nisms, sym­bols, con­ven­tions, and lan­guage—all of which could con­tribute so might­ily to the es­tab­lish­ment of world-wide peace un­der law and could lead to the some­time dawn­ing of a real age of spir­i­tual striv­ing; and such an age is the plan­e­tary thresh­old to the utopian ages of light and life.

• if all grand universers relatively achieve full living of will of God

117:0.2If all grand uni­versers should ever rel­a­tively achieve the full liv­ing of the will of God, then would the time-space cre­ations be set­tled in light and life, and then would the Al­mighty, the de­ity po­ten­tial of Su­prem­acy, be­come fac­tual in the emer­gence of the di­vine per­son­al­ity of God the Su­preme.

• when all creatures reveal love of Supreme

117:6.23Man can dis­cover the Fa­ther in his heart, but he will have to search for the Su­preme in the hearts of all other men; and when all crea­tures per­fectly re­veal the love of the Su­preme, then will he be­come a uni­verse ac­tu­al­ity to all crea­tures. And that is just an­other way of say­ing that the uni­verses will be set­tled in light and life.

• Mother Spirit enters new phase upon local universe light and life

17:6.96. The Ages of Light and Life. Upon the es­tab­lish­ment of the era of light and life the lo­cal uni­verse cosovereign en­ters upon the sixth phase of a Cre­ative Spirit’s ca­reer. But we may not por­tray the na­ture of this great ex­pe­ri­ence. Such things per­tain to a fu­ture stage of evo­lu­tion in Neb­a­don.

• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

20:9.1When the prog­ress of events on an evo­lu­tion­ary world in­di­cates that the time is ripe to ini­ti­ate a spir­i­tual age, the Trin­ity Teacher Sons al­ways vol­un­teer for this ser­vice. You are not fa­mil­iar with this or­der of son­ship be­cause Uran­tia has never ex­pe­ri­enced a spir­i­tual age, a mil­len­nium of cos­mic en­light­en­ment. But the Teacher Sons even now visit your world for the pur­pose of for­mu­lat­ing plans con­cern­ing their pro­jected so­journ on your sphere. They will be due to ap­pear on Uran­tia af­ter its in­hab­i­tants have gained com­par­a­tive de­liv­er­ance from the shack­les of an­i­mal­ism and from the fet­ters of ma­te­ri­al­ism.

• finaliters increasingly involved; celestial hosts withdraw
• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

20:9.4The Day­nals may re­turn many times to an in­hab­ited world, and fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion the planet will be ush­ered into the set­tled sta­tus of a sphere of light and life, the evo­lu­tion­ary goal of all the mor­tal-in­hab­ited worlds of the pres­ent uni­verse age. The Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity has much to do with the spheres set­tled in light and life, and their plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties touch upon those of the Teacher Sons. In­deed, the whole or­der of Day­nal son­ship is in­ti­mately con­nected with all phases of fi­nal­i­ter ac­tiv­i­ties in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations of time and space.

• midwayers, Adamic Son and Daughter, released for Paradise ascent

38:9.13Mid­way­ers re­main for long pe­ri­ods on an in­hab­ited world, but if faith­ful to their trust, they will even­tu­ally and most cer­tainly be rec­og­nized for their age­long ser­vice in main­tain­ing the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son; they will be duly re­warded for their pa­tient min­istry to the ma­te­rial mor­tals on their world of time and space. Sooner or later all ac­cred­ited mid­way crea­tures will be mus­tered into the ranks of the as­cend­ing Sons of God and will be duly ini­ti­ated into the long ad­ven­ture of the Par­a­dise as­cent in com­pany with those very mor­tals of an­i­mal ori­gin, their earth breth­ren, whom they so jeal­ously guarded and so ef­fec­tively served dur­ing the long plan­e­tary so­journ.

40:3.1Al­though de­prived of the im­me­di­ate ben­e­fits of the plan­e­tary be­stowals of the de­scend­ing Sons of God, though the Par­a­dise as­cent is long de­ferred, nev­er­the­less, soon af­ter an evo­lu­tion­ary planet has at­tained the in­ter­me­di­ate epochs of light and life (if not be­fore), both groups of mid­way crea­tures are re­leased from plan­e­tary duty. Some­times the ma­jor­ity of them are trans­lated, along with their hu­man cousins, on the day of the de­scent of the tem­ple of light and the el­e­va­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince to the dig­nity of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign. Upon be­ing re­lieved of plan­e­tary ser­vice, both or­ders are reg­is­tered in the lo­cal uni­verse as as­cend­ing Sons of God and im­me­di­ately be­gin the long Par­a­dise as­cent by the very routes or­dained for the pro­gres­sion of the mor­tal races of the ma­te­rial worlds. The pri­mary group are des­tined to var­i­ous fi­nal­i­ter corps, but the sec­ondary or Adamic mid­way­ers are all routed for en­roll­ment in the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­ity.

• finaliters increasingly involved; celestial hosts withdraw

40:10.11Fa­ther-fused mor­tals are po­ten­tial fi­nal­i­ters; their des­ti­na­tion is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and him they do at­tain, but within the purview of the pres­ent uni­verse age, fi­nal­i­ters, as such, are not des­tiny at­tain­ers. They re­main un­fin­ished crea­tures—sixth-stage spir­its—and hence non­ac­tive in the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains of pre­light-and-life sta­tus.

• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

49:5.27As a re­sult of the min­istry of all the suc­ces­sive or­ders of di­vine son­ship, the in­hab­ited worlds and their ad­vanc­ing races be­gin to ap­proach the apex of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion. Such worlds now be­come ripe for the cul­mi­nat­ing mis­sion, the ar­rival of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. This epoch of the Teacher Sons is the vestibule to the fi­nal plan­e­tary age—evo­lu­tion­ary utopia—the age of light and life.

• Planetary Prince elevated to Planetary Sovereign by System Sovereign in

50:5.11Af­ter serv­ing their spheres through suc­ces­sive dis­pen­sa­tions of world his­tory and the pro­gress­ing epochs of plan­e­tary prog­ress, the Plan­e­tary Princes are el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eigns upon the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the era of light and life.

• Planetary Prince elevated to Planetary Sovereign by System Sovereign in

51:7.2Be­fore the first Mag­is­te­rial Son con­cludes his mis­sion on a nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary world, there has been ef­fected the union of the ed­u­ca­tional and ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the Ma­te­rial Son. This amal­ga­ma­tion of the dual super­vi­sion of a planet brings into ex­is­tence a new and ef­fec­tive or­der of world ad­min­is­tra­tion. Upon the re­tire­ment of the Mag­is­te­rial Son the Plan­e­tary Adam as­sumes the out­ward di­rec­tion of the sphere. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter thus act jointly as plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tors un­til the set­tling of the world in the era of light and life; where­upon the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign. Dur­ing this age of ad­vanced evo­lu­tion, Adam and Eve be­come what might be called joint prime min­is­ters of the glo­ri­fied realm.

• Planetary Prince elevated to Planetary Sovereign by System Sovereign in
• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

52:7.10The Trin­ity Teacher Sons may re­turn many times to the same world. But sooner or later, in con­nec­tion with the ter­mi­na­tion of one of their mis­sions, the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, and the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pears to pro­claim the en­trance of such a world upon the era of light and life.

• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

52:7.14No mat­ter what the spe­cial nat­u­ral his­tory of an in­di­vid­ual planet may be, no dif­fer­ence whether a realm has been wholly loyal, tainted with evil, or cursed by sin—no mat­ter what the an­tecedents may be—sooner or later the grace of God and the min­istry of an­gels will usher in the day of the ad­vent of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons; and their de­par­ture, fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion, will in­au­gu­rate this su­perb era of light and life.

• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

52:7.16The de­par­ture of the Teacher Son corps, at the end of their first or some sub­se­quent reign, ush­ers in the dawn of the era of light and life—the thresh­old of the tran­si­tion from time to the vestibule of eter­nity. The plan­e­tary re­al­iza­tion of this era of light and life far more than equals the fond­est ex­pec­ta­tions of Uran­tia mor­tals who have en­ter­tained no more farsee­ing con­cepts of the fu­ture life than those em­braced within re­li­gious be­liefs which de­pict heaven as the im­me­di­ate des­tiny and fi­nal dwell­ing place of sur­viv­ing mor­tals.

• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

55:0.2This era of light and life, in­au­gu­rated by the Teacher Sons at the con­clu­sion of their fi­nal plan­e­tary mis­sion, con­tin­ues in­def­i­nitely on the in­hab­ited worlds. Each ad­vanc­ing stage of set­tled sta­tus may be seg­re­gated by the ju­di­cial ac­tions of the Mag­is­te­rial Sons into a suc­ces­sion of dis­pen­sa­tions; but all such ju­di­cial ac­tions are purely tech­ni­cal, in no way mod­i­fy­ing the course of plan­e­tary events.

• Planetary Prince elevated to Planetary Sovereign by System Sovereign in
• Trinity Teacher Sons prepare for l.a.l.; their departure inaugurates

55:1.1The pres­ence of a mor­ontia tem­ple at the cap­i­tal of an in­hab­ited world is the cer­tifi­cate of the ad­mis­sion of such a sphere to the set­tled ages of light and life. Be­fore the Teacher Sons leave a world at the con­clu­sion of their ter­mi­nal mis­sion, they in­au­gu­rate this fi­nal epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment; they pre­side on that day when the “holy tem­ple comes down upon earth.” This event, sig­nal­iz­ing the dawn of the era of light and life, is al­ways hon­ored by the per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of that planet, who comes to wit­ness this great day. There in this tem­ple of un­par­al­leled beauty, this be­stowal Son of Par­a­dise pro­claims the long-time Plan­e­tary Prince as the new Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign and in­vests such a faith­ful La­non­an­dek Son with new pow­ers and ex­tended au­thor­ity over plan­e­tary af­fairs. The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign is also pres­ent and speaks in con­fir­ma­tion of these pro­nounce­ments.

• finaliters increasingly involved; celestial hosts withdraw

55:4.1In the suc­ces­sive stages of set­tled ex­is­tence the in­hab­ited worlds make mar­velous prog­ress un­der the wise and sym­pa­thetic ad­min­is­tra­tion of the vol­un­teer Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, as­cend­ers of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment who have come back to min­is­ter to their breth­ren in the flesh. These fi­nal­i­ters are ac­tive in co-op­er­a­tion with the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, but they do not be­gin their real par­tic­i­pa­tion in world af­fairs un­til the mor­ontia tem­ple ap­pears on earth.

• finaliters increasingly involved; celestial hosts withdraw
• guardian seraphim continue ministry

55:4.2Upon the for­mal in­au­gu­ra­tion of the plan­e­tary min­istry of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the ma­jor­ity of the ce­les­tial hosts with­draw. But the se­raphic guard­i­ans of des­tiny con­tinue their per­sonal min­istry to the pro­gress­ing mor­tals in light; in­deed such an­gels come in ever-in­creas­ing num­bers through­out the set­tled ages since larger and larger groups of hu­man be­ings reach the third cos­mic cir­cle of co-or­di­nate mor­tal at­tain­ment dur­ing the plan­e­tary life span.

55:4.3This is merely the first of the suc­ces­sive ad­min­is­tra­tive ad­just­ments which at­tend the un­fold­ing of the suc­ces­sive ages of in­creas­ingly bril­liant at­tain­ment on the in­hab­ited worlds as they pass from the first to the sev­enth stage of set­tled ex­is­tence.

55:4.31On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds a be­ing must hu­man­ize to re­ceive a Thought Ad­juster. All as­cen­dant mem­bers of the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters have been Ad­juster in­dwelt and fused ex­cept ser­a­phim, and they are Fa­ther in­dwelt by an­other type of spirit at the time of be­ing mus­tered into this corps.

• 4th stage of existence for Life Carriers

65:1.9We look for­ward to a time when the uni­verse may be set­tled in light and life, to a pos­si­ble fourth stage of be­ing wherein we shall be wholly spir­i­tual, but it has never been re­vealed to us by what tech­nique we may at­tain this de­sir­able and ad­vanced es­tate.

• Unqualified Supervisors of Supreme exercise qualified supremacy in universes settled in

117:7.31. The Un­qual­i­fied Super­vi­sors of the Su­preme could hardly be deitized at any stage prior to his com­pleted evo­lu­tion, and yet these same super­vi­sors even now qual­i­fiedly ex­er­cise the sov­er­eignty of su­prem­acy con­cern­ing the uni­verses set­tled in light and life.

56:7.1The steady prog­ress of evo­lu­tion in the time-space uni­verses is ac­com­pa­nied by ever-en­larg­ing rev­e­la­tions of De­ity to all in­tel­li­gent crea­tures. The at­tain­ment of the height of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress on a world, in a sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, uni­verse, super­uni­verse, or in the grand uni­verse sig­nal­izes cor­re­spond­ing en­large­ments of de­ity func­tion to and in these pro­gres­sive units of cre­ation. And ev­ery such lo­cal en­hance­ment of di­vin­ity re­al­iza­tion is ac­com­pa­nied by cer­tain well-de­fined reper­cus­sions of en­larged de­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion to all other sec­tors of cre­ation. Ex­tend­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise, each new do­main of re­al­ized and at­tained evo­lu­tion con­sti­tutes a new and en­larged rev­e­la­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity to the uni­verse of uni­verses.

56:7.2As the com­po­nents of a lo­cal uni­verse are pro­gres­sively set­tled in light and life, God the Sev­en­fold is in­creas­ingly made man­i­fest. Time-space evo­lu­tion be­gins on a planet with the first ex­pres­sion of God the Sev­en­fold—the Cre­ator Son-Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­a­tion—in con­trol. With the set­tling of a sys­tem in light, this Son-Spirit li­ai­son at­tains the full­ness of func­tion; and when an en­tire con­stel­la­tion is thus set­tled, the sec­ond phase of God the Sev­en­fold be­comes more ac­tive through­out such a realm. The com­pleted ad­min­is­tra­tive evo­lu­tion of a lo­cal uni­verse is at­tended by new and more di­rect min­is­tra­tions of the super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spir­its; and at this point there also be­gins that ever-ex­pand­ing rev­e­la­tion and re­al­iza­tion of God the Su­preme which cul­mi­nates in the as­cender’s com­pre­hen­sion of the Su­preme Be­ing while pass­ing through the worlds of the sixth Ha­vona cir­cuit.

55:0.12At the con­clu­sion of this nar­ra­tive these stages of ad­vanc­ing de­vel­op­ment are de­scribed as they re­late to the uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion, but the plan­e­tary val­ues of any stage may be at­tained by any world quite in­de­pen­dent of the de­vel­op­ment of other worlds or of the super­plan­e­tary lev­els of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

• similar to 1st mansion world, except for material bodies

47:3.1On the man­sion worlds the res­ur­rected mor­tal sur­vivors re­sume their lives just where they left off when over­taken by death. When you go from Uran­tia to the first man­sion world, you will no­tice con­sid­er­able change, but if you had come from a more nor­mal and pro­gres­sive sphere of time, you would hardly no­tice the dif­fer­ence ex­cept for the fact that you were in pos­ses­sion of a dif­fer­ent body; the taber­na­cle of flesh and blood has been left be­hind on the world of na­tiv­ity.

• life spans up to 500 years

49:4.6Mor­tals all have the same gen­eral strug­gles with mi­cro­scopic foes in their early days, such as you now ex­pe­ri­ence on Uran­tia, though per­haps not so ex­ten­sive. The length of life varies on the dif­fer­ent plan­ets from twenty-five years on the prim­i­tive worlds to near five hun­dred on the more ad­vanced and older spheres.

• natural death decreasingly frequent

49:6.21With the es­tab­lish­ment of the plan­e­tary era of light and life, many go to the uni­verse mor­ontia worlds by the pri­mary mod­i­fied or­der of trans­la­tion. Fur­ther along in the ad­vanced stages of set­tled ex­is­tence, when the ma­jor­ity of the mor­tals leav­ing a realm are em­braced in this class, the planet is re­garded as be­long­ing to this se­ries. Nat­u­ral death be­comes de­creas­ingly fre­quent on these spheres long set­tled in light and life.

• final attainment of mortal planets

50:5.107. The era of light and life. This is the flow­er­ing of the suc­ces­sive ages of phys­i­cal se­cu­rity, in­tel­lec­tual ex­pan­sion, so­cial cul­ture, and spir­i­tual achieve­ment. These hu­man ac­com­plish­ments are now blended, as­so­ci­ated, and co-or­di­nated in cos­mic unity and un­selfish ser­vice. Within the lim­i­ta­tions of fi­nite na­ture and ma­te­rial en­dow­ments there are no bounds set upon the pos­si­bil­i­ties of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment by the ad­vanc­ing gen­er­a­tions who suc­ces­sively live upon these su­per­nal and set­tled worlds of time and space.

• daily work to sustain oneself is 1 hour

52:4.5Af­ter the ini­tial vis­i­ta­tion of a Mag­is­te­rial Son the races soon ef­fect their eco­nomic lib­er­a­tion. The daily work re­quired to sus­tain one’s in­de­pen­dence would be rep­re­sented by two and one-half hours of your time. It is per­fectly safe to lib­er­ate such eth­i­cal and in­tel­li­gent mor­tals. Such re­fined peo­ples well know how to uti­lize leisure for self-im­prove­ment and plan­e­tary ad­vance­ment. This age wit­nesses the fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the racial stocks by the re­stric­tion of re­pro­duc­tion among the less fit and poorly en­dowed in­di­vid­u­als.

• daily work to sustain oneself is 1 hour

52:7.6The phys­i­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion of a world dur­ing this age re­quires about one hour each day on the part of ev­ery adult in­di­vid­ual; that is, the equiv­a­lent of one Uran­tia hour. The planet is in close touch with uni­verse af­fairs, and its peo­ple scan the lat­est broad­casts with the same keen in­ter­est you now man­i­fest in the lat­est edi­tions of your daily news­pa­pers. These races are oc­cu­pied with a thou­sand things of in­ter­est un­known on your world.

• final attainment of mortal planets

55:0.1The age of light and life is the fi­nal evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of a world of time and space. From the early times of prim­i­tive man, such an in­hab­ited world has passed through the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary ages—the pre- and the post-Plan­e­tary Prince ages, the post-Adamic age, the post-Mag­is­te­rial Son age, and the postbestowal Son age. And then is such a world made ready for the cul­mi­nat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment, the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, by the min­istry of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary mis­sions of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons with their ever-ad­vanc­ing rev­e­la­tions of di­vine truth and cos­mic wis­dom. In these en­deav­ors the Teacher Sons en­joy the as­sis­tance of the Bril­liant Evening Stars al­ways, and the Mel­chiz­e­deks some­times, in es­tab­lish­ing the fi­nal plan­e­tary age.

55:1.2A mor­ontia tem­ple has three parts: Cen­ter­most is the sanc­tu­ary of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. On the right is the seat of the for­mer Plan­e­tary Prince, now Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and when pres­ent in the tem­ple, this La­non­an­dek Son is vis­i­ble to the more spir­i­tual in­di­vid­u­als of the realm. On the left is the seat of the act­ing chief of fi­nal­i­ters at­tached to the planet.

55:1.3Al­though the plan­e­tary tem­ples have been spo­ken of as “com­ing down from heaven,” in re­al­ity no ac­tual ma­te­rial is trans­ported from the sys­tem head­quar­ters. The ar­chi­tec­ture of each is worked out in minia­ture on the sys­tem cap­i­tal, and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors sub­se­quently bring these ap­proved plans to the planet. Here, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers, they pro­ceed to build the mor­ontia tem­ple ac­cord­ing to spec­i­fi­ca­tions.

55:1.4The av­er­age mor­ontia tem­ple seats about three hun­dred thou­sand spec­ta­tors. These ed­i­fices are not used for wor­ship, play, or for re­ceiv­ing broad­casts; they are de­voted to the spe­cial cer­e­monies of the planet, such as: com­mu­ni­ca­tions with the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign or with the Most Highs, spe­cial vi­su­al­iza­tion cer­e­monies de­signed to re­veal the per­son­al­ity pres­ence of spirit be­ings, and silent cos­mic con­tem­pla­tion. The schools of cos­mic phi­los­o­phy here con­duct their grad­u­a­tion ex­er­cises, and here also do the mor­tals of the realm re­ceive plan­e­tary rec­og­ni­tion for achieve­ments of high so­cial ser­vice and for other out­stand­ing at­tain­ments.

55:1.5Such a mor­ontia tem­ple also serves as the place of as­sem­bly for wit­ness­ing the trans­la­tion of liv­ing mor­tals to the mor­ontia ex­is­tence. It is be­cause the trans­la­tion tem­ple is com­posed of mor­ontia ma­te­rial that it is not de­stroyed by the blaz­ing glory of the con­sum­ing fire which so com­pletely oblit­er­ates the phys­i­cal bod­ies of those mor­tals who therein ex­pe­ri­ence fi­nal fu­sion with their di­vine Ad­justers. On a large world these de­par­ture flares are al­most con­tin­u­ous, and as the num­ber of trans­la­tions in­creases, sub­sidiary mor­ontia life shrines are pro­vided in dif­fer­ent ar­eas of the planet. Not long since I so­journed on a world in the far north whereon twenty-five mor­ontia shrines were func­tion­ing.

55:1.6On pre­set­tled worlds, plan­ets with­out mor­ontia tem­ples, these fu­sion flashes many times oc­cur in the plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere, where the ma­te­rial body of a trans­la­tion can­di­date is el­e­vated by the mid­way crea­tures and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers.

• natural death decreasingly frequent

55:2.1Nat­u­ral, phys­i­cal death is not a mor­tal in­evitabil­ity. The ma­jor­ity of ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings, cit­i­zens on worlds ex­ist­ing in the fi­nal era of light and life, do not die; they are trans­lated di­rectly from the life in the flesh to the mor­ontia ex­is­tence.

• one in four translated in era just before

55:2.2This ex­pe­ri­ence of trans­la­tion from the ma­te­rial life to the mor­ontia state—fu­sion of the im­mor­tal soul with the in­dwelling Ad­juster—in­creases in fre­quency com­men­su­rate with the evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress of the planet. At first only a few mor­tals in each age at­tain trans­la­tion lev­els of spir­i­tual prog­ress, but with the on­set of the suc­ces­sive ages of the Teacher Sons, more and more Ad­juster fu­sions oc­cur be­fore the ter­mi­na­tion of the length­en­ing lives of these pro­gress­ing mor­tals; and by the time of the ter­mi­nal mis­sion of the Teacher Sons, ap­prox­i­mately one quar­ter of these su­perb mor­tals are ex­empt from nat­u­ral death.

55:2.3Far­ther along in the era of light and life the mid­way crea­tures or their as­so­ciates sense the ap­proach­ing sta­tus of prob­a­ble soul-Ad­juster union and sig­nify this to the des­tiny guard­i­ans, who in turn com­mu­ni­cate these mat­ters to the fi­nal­i­ter group un­der whose ju­ris­dic­tion this mor­tal may be func­tion­ing; then there is is­sued the sum­mons of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign for such a mor­tal to re­sign all plan­e­tary du­ties, bid farewell to the world of his ori­gin, and re­pair to the in­ner tem­ple of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, there to await mor­ontia tran­sit, the trans­la­tion flash, from the ma­te­rial do­main of evo­lu­tion to the mor­ontia level of pre­spirit pro­gres­sion.

• plenty of evil still present

55:3.1Dur­ing this age of light and life the world in­creas­ingly pros­pers un­der the fa­therly rule of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign. By this time the worlds are pro­gress­ing un­der the mo­men­tum of one lan­guage, one re­li­gion, and, on nor­mal spheres, one race. But this age is not per­fect. These worlds still have well-ap­pointed hos­pi­tals, homes for the care of the sick. There still re­main the prob­lems of car­ing for ac­ci­den­tal in­juries and the in­es­cap­able in­fir­mi­ties at­ten­dant upon the de­crepi­tude of old age and the dis­or­ders of se­nil­ity. Dis­ease has not been en­tirely van­quished, nei­ther have the earth an­i­mals been sub­dued in per­fec­tion; but such worlds are like Par­a­dise in com­par­i­son with the early times of prim­i­tive man dur­ing the pre-Plan­e­tary Prince age. You would in­stinc­tively de­scribe such a realm—could you be sud­denly trans­ported to a planet in this stage of de­vel­op­ment—as heaven on earth.

• taxation by tithing

55:3.2Hu­man gov­ern­ment in the con­duct of ma­te­rial af­fairs con­tin­ues to func­tion through­out this age of rel­a­tive prog­ress and per­fec­tion. The pub­lic ac­tiv­i­ties of a world in the first stage of light and life which I re­cently vis­ited were fi­nanced by the tithing tech­nique. Ev­ery adult worker—and all able-bod­ied cit­i­zens worked at some­thing—paid ten per cent of his in­come or in­crease to the pub­lic trea­sury, and it was dis­bursed as fol­lows:

55:3.31. Three per cent was ex­pended in the pro­mo­tion of truth—sci­ence, ed­u­ca­tion, and phi­los­o­phy.

55:3.42. Three per cent was de­voted to beauty—play, so­cial leisure, and art.

55:3.53. Three per cent was ded­i­cated to good­ness—so­cial ser­vice, al­tru­ism, and re­li­gion.

55:3.64. One per cent was as­signed to the in­sur­ance re­serves against the risk of in­ca­pac­ity for la­bor re­sul­tant from ac­ci­dent, dis­ease, old age, or un­pre­ventable dis­as­ters.

• natural resources administered as social trust

55:3.7The nat­u­ral re­sources of this planet were ad­min­is­tered as so­cial pos­ses­sions, com­mu­nity prop­erty.

• order of “supreme service” conferred in temple

55:3.8On this world the high­est honor con­ferred upon a cit­i­zen was the or­der of “su­preme ser­vice,” be­ing the only de­gree of rec­og­ni­tion ever to be granted in the mor­ontia tem­ple. This rec­og­ni­tion was be­stowed upon those who had long dis­tin­guished them­selves in some phase of super­ma­te­rial dis­cov­ery or plan­e­tary so­cial ser­vice.

• posts held jointly by men and women

55:3.9The ma­jor­ity of so­cial and ad­min­is­tra­tive posts were held jointly by men and women. Most of the teach­ing was also done jointly; like­wise all ju­di­cial trusts were dis­charged by sim­i­lar as­so­ci­ated cou­ples.

• plenty of evil still present

55:3.10On these su­perb worlds the child­bear­ing pe­riod is not greatly pro­longed. It is not best for too many years to in­ter­vene be­tween the ages of a fam­ily of chil­dren. When close to­gether in age, chil­dren are able to con­tribute much more to their mu­tual train­ing. And on these worlds they are mag­nif­i­cently trained by the com­pet­i­tive sys­tems of keen striv­ing in the ad­vanced do­mains and di­vi­sions of di­verse achieve­ment in the mas­tery of truth, beauty, and good­ness. Never fear but that even such glo­ri­fied spheres pre­sent plenty of evil, real and po­ten­tial, which is stim­u­la­tive of the choos­ing be­tween truth and er­ror, good and evil, sin and righ­teous­ness.

• inevitable penalty attaches to mortal existence in

55:3.11Nev­er­the­less, there is a cer­tain, in­ev­i­ta­ble penalty at­tach­ing to mor­tal ex­is­tence on such ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. When a set­tled world pro­gresses be­yond the third stage of light and life, all as­cend­ers are des­tined, be­fore at­tain­ing the mi­nor sec­tor, to re­ceive some sort of tran­sient as­sign­ment on a planet pass­ing through the ear­lier stages of evo­lu­tion.

55:5.1Mor­tal crea­tures liv­ing on a sin-stricken, evil-dom­i­nated, self-seek­ing, iso­lated world, such as Uran­tia, can hardly con­ceive of the phys­i­cal per­fec­tion, the in­tel­lec­tual at­tain­ment, and the spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment which char­ac­ter­ize these ad­vanced epochs of evo­lu­tion on a sin­less sphere.

55:5.2The ad­vanced stages of a world set­tled in light and life rep­re­sent the acme of evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial de­vel­op­ment. On these cul­tured worlds, gone are the idle­ness and fric­tion of the ear­lier prim­i­tive ages. Pov­erty and so­cial in­equal­ity have all but van­ished, de­gen­er­acy has dis­ap­peared, and delin­quency is rarely ob­served. In­san­ity has prac­ti­cally ceased to ex­ist, and fee­ble-mind­ed­ness is a rar­ity.

55:5.3The eco­nomic, so­cial, and ad­min­is­tra­tive sta­tus of these worlds is of a high and per­fected or­der. Sci­ence, art, and in­dus­try flour­ish, and so­ci­ety is a smoothly work­ing mech­a­nism of high ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and cul­tural achieve­ment. In­dus­try has been largely di­verted to serv­ing the higher aims of such a su­perb civ­i­liza­tion. The eco­nomic life of such a world has be­come eth­i­cal.

• government disappears

55:5.4War has be­come a mat­ter of his­tory, and there are no more armies or po­lice forces. Gov­ern­ment is grad­u­ally dis­ap­pear­ing. Self-con­trol is slowly ren­der­ing laws of hu­man en­act­ment ob­so­lete. The ex­tent of civil gov­ern­ment and statu­tory reg­u­la­tion, in an in­ter­me­di­ate state of ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion, is in in­verse pro­por­tion to the moral­ity and spir­i­tu­al­ity of the cit­i­zen­ship.

55:5.5Schools are vastly im­proved and are de­voted to the train­ing of mind and the ex­pan­sion of soul. The art cen­ters are ex­qui­site and the mu­si­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions su­perb. The tem­ples of wor­ship with their as­so­ci­ated schools of phi­los­o­phy and ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­li­gion are cre­ations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air are­nas of wor­ship as­sem­bly are equally sub­lime in the sim­plic­ity of their artis­tic ap­point­ment.

• life refreshingly simple

55:5.6The pro­vi­sions for com­pet­i­tive play, hu­mor, and other phases of per­sonal and group achieve­ment are am­ple and ap­pro­pri­ate. A spe­cial fea­ture of the com­pet­i­tive ac­tiv­i­ties on such a highly cul­tured world con­cerns the ef­forts of in­di­vid­u­als and groups to ex­cel in the sci­ences and philoso­phies of cos­mol­ogy. Lit­er­a­ture and or­a­tory flour­ish, and lan­guage is so im­proved as to be sym­bolic of con­cepts as well as to be ex­pres­sive of ideas. Life is re­fresh­ingly sim­ple; man has at last co-or­di­nated a high state of me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ment with an in­spir­ing in­tel­lec­tual at­tain­ment and has over­shad­owed both with an ex­qui­site spir­i­tual achieve­ment. The pur­suit of hap­pi­ness is an ex­pe­ri­ence of joy and sat­is­fac­tion.

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.

• increased ability to commune with Adjuster

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.”

• mortal wisdom can enter upon mota and even absonite grandeur in

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.

• divisions of mankind largely effaced

70:8.1The men­tal and phys­i­cal in­equal­ity of hu­man be­ings in­sures that so­cial classes will ap­pear. The only worlds with­out so­cial strata are the most prim­i­tive and the most ad­vanced. A dawn­ing civ­i­liza­tion has not yet be­gun the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of so­cial lev­els, while a world set­tled in light and life has largely ef­faced these di­vi­sions of man­kind, which are so char­ac­ter­is­tic of all in­ter­me­di­ate evo­lu­tion­ary stages.

• description of life on planets in

118:10.142. Man’s in­creas­ing con­trol—the grad­ual ac­cu­mu­la­tion of the knowl­edge of the laws of the ma­te­rial world, the pur­poses of spir­i­tual ex­is­tence, and the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the philo­sophic co-or­di­na­tion of these two re­al­i­ties. Man, the sav­age, was help­less be­fore the on­slaughts of nat­u­ral forces, was slav­ish be­fore the cruel mas­tery of his own in­ner fears. Semi­civ­i­lized man is be­gin­ning to un­lock the store­house of the se­crets of the nat­u­ral realms, and his sci­ence is slowly but ef­fec­tively de­stroy­ing his su­per­sti­tions while at the same time pro­vid­ing a new and en­larged fac­tual ba­sis for the com­pre­hen­sion of the mean­ings of phi­los­o­phy and the val­ues of true spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. Man, the civ­i­lized, will some­day achieve rel­a­tive mas­tery of the phys­i­cal forces of his planet; the love of God in his heart will be ef­fec­tively out­poured as love for his fel­low men, while the val­ues of hu­man ex­is­tence will be near­ing the lim­its of mor­tal ca­pac­ity.

118:10.153. Man’s uni­verse in­te­gra­tion—the in­crease of hu­man in­sight plus the in­crease of hu­man ex­pe­ri­en­tial achieve­ment brings him into closer har­mony with the uni­fy­ing pres­ences of Su­prem­acy—Par­a­dise Trin­ity and Su­preme Be­ing. And this is what es­tab­lishes the sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme on the worlds long set­tled in light and life. Such ad­vanced plan­ets are in­deed po­ems of har­mony, pic­tures of the beauty of achieved good­ness at­tained through the pur­suit of cos­mic truth. And if such things can hap­pen to a planet, then even greater things can hap­pen to a sys­tem and the larger units of the grand uni­verse as they too achieve a set­tled­ness in­di­cat­ing the ex­haus­tion of the po­ten­tials for fi­nite growth.

118:10.16On a planet of this ad­vanced or­der, prov­i­dence has be­come an ac­tu­al­ity, the cir­cum­stances of life are cor­re­lated, but this is not only be­cause man has come to dom­i­nate the ma­te­rial prob­lems of his world; it is also be­cause he has be­gun to live ac­cord­ing to the trend of the uni­verses; he is fol­low­ing the path­way of Su­prem­acy to the at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

118:10.17The king­dom of God is in the hearts of men, and when this king­dom be­comes ac­tual in the heart of ev­ery in­di­vid­ual on a world, then God’s rule has be­come ac­tual on that planet; and this is the at­tained sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme Be­ing.

118:10.18To re­al­ize prov­i­dence in time, man must ac­com­plish the task of achiev­ing per­fec­tion. But man can even now fore­taste this prov­i­dence in its eter­nity mean­ings as he pon­ders the uni­verse fact that all things, be they good or evil, work to­gether for the ad­vance­ment of God-know­ing mor­tals in their quest for the Fa­ther of all.

• may become citizens of Havona

19:6.62. Fu­ture types of mor­tals who may be born on the in­hab­ited spheres of the super­uni­verses in the flow­er­ing of the ages of light and life.

• exempt from 1 or more mansion worlds

49:6.154. Mor­tals of the sec­ondary mod­i­fied or­ders of as­cen­sion. These are the pro­gres­sive hu­man be­ings of the in­ter­me­di­ate evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. As a rule they are not im­mune to nat­u­ral death, but they are ex­empt from pass­ing through the seven man­sion worlds.

49:6.16The less per­fected group reawaken on the head­quar­ters of their lo­cal sys­tem, pass­ing by only the man­sion worlds. The in­ter­me­di­ate group go to the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds; they pass by the en­tire mor­ontia regime of the lo­cal sys­tem. Still far­ther on in the plan­e­tary ages of spir­i­tual striv­ing, many sur­vivors awaken on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and there be­gin the Par­a­dise as­cent.

• go back as teachers to worlds they passed by

49:6.17But be­fore any of these groups may go for­ward, they must jour­ney back as in­struc­tors to the worlds they missed, gain­ing many ex­pe­ri­ences as teach­ers in those realms which they passed by as stu­dents. They all sub­se­quently pro­ceed to Par­a­dise by the or­dained routes of mor­tal pro­gres­sion.

• go back as teachers to worlds they passed by

55:2.9The trans­lated souls of the flow­er­ing ages of the set­tled spheres do not pass through the man­sion worlds. Nei­ther do they so­journ, as stu­dents, on the mor­ontia worlds of the sys­tem or con­stel­la­tion. They do not pass through any of the ear­lier phases of mor­ontia life. They are the only as­cend­ing mor­tals who so nearly es­cape the mor­ontia tran­si­tion from ma­te­rial ex­is­tence to semispirit sta­tus. The ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence of such Son-seized mor­tals in the as­cen­sion ca­reer is in the ser­vices of the pro­gres­sion worlds of the uni­verse head­quar­ters. And from these study worlds of Sal­ving­ton they go back as teach­ers to the very worlds they passed by, sub­se­quently go­ing on in­ward to Par­a­dise by the es­tab­lished route of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

15:8.6When mass be­comes over­ag­gre­gated and threat­ens to un­bal­ance en­ergy, to de­plete the phys­i­cal power cir­cuits, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers in­ter­vene un­less grav­ity’s own fur­ther ten­dency to over­ma­te­ri­al­ize en­ergy is de­feated by the oc­cur­rence of a col­li­sion among the dead gi­ants of space, thus in an in­stant com­pletely dis­si­pat­ing the cu­mu­la­tive col­lec­tions of grav­ity. In these col­li­sional episodes enor­mous masses of mat­ter are sud­denly con­verted into the rarest form of en­ergy, and the strug­gle for uni­ver­sal equi­lib­rium is be­gun anew. Even­tu­ally the larger phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sta­bi­lized, be­come phys­i­cally set­tled, and are swung into the bal­anced and es­tab­lished cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses. Sub­se­quent to this event no more col­li­sions or other dev­as­tat­ing catas­tro­phes will oc­cur in such es­tab­lished sys­tems.

55:0.3Only those plan­ets which at­tain ex­is­tence in the main cir­cuits of the super­uni­verse are as­sured of con­tin­u­ous sur­vival, but as far as we know, these worlds set­tled in light and life are des­tined to go on through­out the eter­nal ages of all fu­ture time.

116:5.16The dif­fi­culty in ar­riv­ing at a state of dy­namic equi­lib­rium is in­her­ent in the fact of the grow­ing cos­mos. The es­tab­lished cir­cuits of phys­i­cal cre­ation are be­ing con­tin­u­ally jeop­ar­dized by the ap­pear­ance of new en­ergy and new mass. A grow­ing uni­verse is an un­set­tled uni­verse; hence no part of the cos­mic whole can find real sta­bil­ity un­til the full­ness of time wit­nesses the ma­te­rial com­ple­tion of the seven super­uni­verses.

116:5.17In the set­tled uni­verses of light and life there are no un­ex­pected phys­i­cal events of ma­jor im­por­tance. Rel­a­tively com­plete con­trol over the ma­te­rial cre­ation has been achieved; still the prob­lems of the re­la­tion­ship of the set­tled uni­verses to the evolv­ing uni­verses con­tinue to chal­lenge the skill of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors. But these prob­lems will grad­u­ally van­ish with the diminu­tion of new cre­ative ac­tiv­ity as the grand uni­verse ap­proaches cul­mi­na­tion of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pres­sion.