mansion world students

47:3.12As you start out on the first man­sion world, one Mor­ontia Com­pan­ion is as­signed to each com­pany of one thou­sand as­cend­ing mor­tals, but you will en­counter larger num­bers as you pro­gress through the seven man­sion spheres. These beau­ti­ful and ver­sa­tile be­ings are com­pan­ion­able as­so­ciates and charm­ing guides. They are free to ac­com­pany in­di­vid­u­als or se­lected groups to any of the tran­si­tion-cul­ture spheres, in­clud­ing their satel­lite worlds. They are the ex­cur­sion guides and leisure as­so­ciates of all as­cend­ing mor­tals. They of­ten ac­com­pany sur­vivor groups on pe­ri­odic vis­its to Je­ru­sem, and on any day you are there, you can go to the reg­istry sec­tor of the sys­tem cap­i­tal and meet as­cend­ing mor­tals from all seven of the man­sion worlds since they freely jour­ney back and forth be­tween their res­i­den­tial abodes and the sys­tem head­quar­ters.

9:8.13Even you will be able to see your spir­i­tual as­so­ciates of the lower or­ders as soon as you are de­liv­ered from the lim­ited vi­sion of your pres­ent ma­te­rial eyes and have been en­dowed with a mor­ontia form with its en­larged sen­si­tiv­ity to the re­al­ity of spir­i­tual things.

47:4.4A newly de­vel­oped and suit­ably ad­justed mor­ontia body is ac­quired at the time of each ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other. You go to sleep with the se­raphic trans­port and awake with the new but un­de­vel­oped body in the res­ur­rec­tion halls, much as when you first ar­rived on man­sion world num­ber one ex­cept that the Thought Ad­juster does not leave you dur­ing these tran­sit sleeps be­tween the man­sion worlds. Your per­son­al­ity re­mains in­tact af­ter you once pass from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds to the ini­tial man­sion world.

47:4.5Your Ad­juster mem­ory re­mains fully in­tact as you as­cend the mor­ontia life. Those men­tal as­so­ci­a­tions that were purely an­i­mal­is­tic and wholly ma­te­rial nat­u­rally per­ished with the phys­i­cal brain, but ev­ery­thing in your men­tal life which was worth while, and which had sur­vival value, was coun­ter­parted by the Ad­juster and is re­tained as a part of per­sonal mem­ory all the way through the as­cen­dant ca­reer. You will be con­scious of all your worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences as you ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other and from one sec­tion of the uni­verse to an­other—even to Par­a­dise.

26:3.2The as­cend­ing pil­grims from the seven super­uni­verses pass through Ha­vona in the op­po­site di­rec­tion, en­ter­ing by way of the pi­lot world of the sev­enth cir­cuit and pro­ceed­ing in­ward. There is no time limit set on the prog­ress of the as­cend­ing crea­tures from world to world and from cir­cuit to cir­cuit, just as no fixed span of time is ar­bi­trar­ily as­signed to res­i­dence on the mor­ontia worlds. But, whereas ad­e­quately de­vel­oped in­di­vid­u­als may be ex­empted from so­journ on one or more of the lo­cal uni­verse train­ing worlds, no pil­grim may avoid pass­ing through all seven of the Ha­vona cir­cuits of pro­gres­sive spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion.

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.

49:6.10There are three groups of in­di­vid­ual as­cend­ers: The less ad­vanced land on the ini­tial or first man­sion world. The more ad­vanced group may take up the mor­ontia ca­reer on any of the in­ter­me­di­ate man­sion worlds in ac­cor­dance with pre­vi­ous plan­e­tary pro­gres­sion. The most ad­vanced of these or­ders re­ally be­gin their mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence on the sev­enth man­sion world.

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.

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.

49:6.185. Mor­tals of the pri­mary mod­i­fied or­der of as­cen­sion. These mor­tals be­long to the Ad­juster-fused type of evo­lu­tion­ary life, but they are most of­ten rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the fi­nal phases of hu­man de­vel­op­ment on an evolv­ing world. These glo­ri­fied be­ings are ex­empt from pass­ing through the por­tals of death; they are sub­mit­ted to Son seizure; they are trans­lated from among the liv­ing and ap­pear im­me­di­ately in the pres­ence of the Sov­er­eign Son on the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse.

49:6.19These are the mor­tals who fuse with their Ad­justers dur­ing mor­tal life, and such Ad­juster-fused per­son­al­i­ties tra­verse space freely be­fore be­ing clothed with mor­ontia forms. These fused souls go by di­rect Ad­juster tran­sit to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the higher mor­ontia spheres, where they re­ceive their ini­tial mor­ontia in­vesti­ture just as do all other mor­tals ar­riv­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

49:6.20This pri­mary mod­i­fied or­der of mor­tal as­cen­sion may ap­ply to in­di­vid­u­als in any of the plan­e­tary se­ries from the low­est to the high­est stages of the Ad­juster-fu­sion worlds, but it more fre­quently func­tions on the older of these spheres af­ter they have re­ceived the ben­e­fits of nu­mer­ous so­journs of the di­vine Sons.

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.

39:8.6Guard­i­ans of des­tiny are drawn from the ranks of the more ex­pe­ri­enced an­gelic per­son­al­i­ties of all or­ders of ser­a­phim who have qual­i­fied for this ser­vice. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion des­tiny have tem­po­rary guard­i­ans as­signed, and these as­so­ciates may be­come per­ma­nently at­tached when mor­tal sur­vivors at­tain the req­ui­site in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. Be­fore mor­tal as­cend­ers leave the man­sion worlds, they all have per­ma­nent se­raphic as­so­ciates. This group of min­is­ter­ing spir­its is dis­cussed in con­nec­tion with the Uran­tia nar­ra­tives.

30:4.101. Plan­e­tary Mor­tals. Mor­tals are all an­i­mal-ori­gin evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings of as­cen­dant po­ten­tial. In ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny these var­i­ous groups and types of hu­man be­ings are not wholly un­like the Uran­tia peo­ples. The hu­man races of each world re­ceive the same min­istry of the Sons of God and en­joy the pres­ence of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time. Af­ter nat­u­ral death all types of as­cend­ers frat­er­nize as one mor­ontia fam­ily on the man­sion worlds.

40:8.1While prac­ti­cally all sur­viv­ing mor­tals are fused with their Ad­justers on one of the man­sion worlds or im­me­di­ately upon their ar­rival on the higher mor­ontia spheres, there are cer­tain cases of de­layed fu­sion, some not ex­pe­ri­enc­ing this fi­nal surety of sur­vival un­til they reach the last ed­u­ca­tional worlds of the uni­verse head­quar­ters; and a few of these mor­tal can­di­dates for never-end­ing life ut­terly fail to at­tain iden­tity fu­sion with their faith­ful Ad­justers.

48:5.8One of the pur­poses of the mor­ontia ca­reer is to ef­fect the per­ma­nent erad­i­ca­tion from the mor­tal sur­vivors of such an­i­mal ves­ti­gial traits as pro­cras­ti­na­tion, equiv­o­ca­tion, in­sin­cer­ity, prob­lem avoid­ance, un­fair­ness, and ease seek­ing. The man­so­nia life early teaches the young mor­ontia pupils that post­pone­ment is in no sense avoid­ance. Af­ter the life in the flesh, time is no longer avail­able as a tech­nique of dodg­ing sit­u­a­tions or of cir­cum­vent­ing dis­agree­able obli­ga­tions.

30:4.17Some­times all train­ing worlds of mor­tal res­i­dence are called uni­verse “man­sions,” and it was to such spheres that Je­sus al­luded when he said: “In my Fa­ther’s house are many man­sions.” From here on, within a given group of spheres like the man­sion worlds, as­cend­ers will pro­gress in­di­vid­u­ally from one sphere to an­other and from one phase of life to an­other, but they will al­ways ad­vance from one stage of uni­verse study to an­other in class for­ma­tion.

110:6.16Per­haps these psy­chic cir­cles of mor­tal pro­gres­sion would be bet­ter de­nom­i­nated cos­mic lev­els—ac­tual mean­ing grasps and value re­al­iza­tions of pro­gres­sive ap­proach to the mor­ontia con­scious­ness of ini­tial re­la­tion­ship of the evo­lu­tion­ary soul with the emerg­ing Su­preme Be­ing. And it is this very re­la­tion­ship that makes it for­ever im­pos­si­ble fully to ex­plain the sig­nif­i­cance of the cos­mic cir­cles to the ma­te­rial mind. These cir­cle at­tain­ments are only rel­a­tively re­lated to God-con­scious­ness. A sev­enth or sixth cir­cler can be al­most as truly God-know­ing—son­ship con­scious—as a sec­ond or first cir­cler, but such lower cir­cle be­ings are far less con­scious of ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­la­tion to the Su­preme Be­ing, uni­verse cit­i­zen­ship. The at­tain­ment of these cos­mic cir­cles will be­come a part of the as­cend­ers’ ex­pe­ri­ence on the man­sion worlds if they fail of such achieve­ment be­fore nat­u­ral death.

47:2.4All chil­dren on the evolv­ing worlds who have Thought Ad­justers, but who be­fore death had not made a choice con­cern­ing the Par­a­dise ca­reer, are also reper­son­al­ized on the fi­nal­i­ter world of the sys­tem, where they like­wise grow up in the fam­i­lies of the Ma­te­rial Sons and their as­so­ciates as do those lit­tle ones who ar­rived with­out Ad­justers, but who will sub­se­quently re­ceive the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors af­ter at­tain­ing the req­ui­site age of moral choice.

47:2.5The Ad­juster-in­dwelt chil­dren and youths on the fi­nal­i­ter world are also reared in fam­i­lies of five, rang­ing in ages from six to four­teen; ap­prox­i­mately, these fam­i­lies con­sist of chil­dren whose ages are six, eight, ten, twelve, and four­teen. Any time af­ter six­teen, if fi­nal choice has been made, they trans­late to the first man­sion world and be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent. Some make a choice be­fore this age and go on to the as­cen­sion spheres, but very few chil­dren un­der six­teen years of age, as reck­oned by Uran­tia stan­dards, will be found on the man­sion worlds.

48:6.41. Se­raphic Evan­gels. The mo­ment you con­sciou­size on the man­sion worlds, you are clas­si­fied as evolv­ing spir­its in the rec­ords of the sys­tem. True, you are not yet spir­its in re­al­ity, but you are no longer mor­tal or ma­te­rial be­ings; you have em­barked upon the pre­spirit ca­reer and have been duly ad­mit­ted to the mor­ontia life.

22:2.9Mighty Mes­sen­gers are fully con­scious of their en­tire as­cen­dant ca­reers, and that is why they are such use­ful and sym­pa­thetic min­is­ters, un­der­stand­ing mes­sen­gers, for ser­vice on any world of space and to any crea­ture of time. As soon as you are de­liv­ered from the flesh, you will com­mu­ni­cate freely and un­der­stand­ingly with us since we spring from all the races on all the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space, that is, from those mor­tal races that are in­dwelt by, and sub­se­quently fused with, Thought Ad­justers.

110:7.7Ad­justers re­joice to make con­tact with the mor­tal mind; but they must be pa­tient through the long years of silent so­journ dur­ing which they are un­able to break through an­i­mal re­sis­tance and di­rectly com­mu­ni­cate with you. The higher the Thought Ad­justers as­cend in the scale of ser­vice, the more ef­fi­cient they be­come. But never can they greet you, in the flesh, with the same full, sym­pa­thetic, and ex­pres­sion­ful af­fec­tion as they will when you dis­cern them mind to mind on the man­sion worlds.

113:7.1It is in­deed an epoch in the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal, this first awak­en­ing on the shores of the man­sion world; there, for the first time, ac­tu­ally to see your long-loved and ever-pres­ent an­gelic com­pan­ions of earth days; there also to be­come truly con­scious of the iden­tity and pres­ence of the di­vine Mon­i­tor who so long in­dwelt your mind on earth. Such an ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tutes a glo­ri­ous awak­en­ing, a real res­ur­rec­tion.

45:1.4In pass­ing through the seven man­sion worlds, you will also pro­gress through these cul­tural and so­cial spheres of in­creas­ing mor­ontia con­tact. When you ad­vance from the first to the sec­ond man­sion world, you will be­come el­i­gi­ble for a vis­i­tor’s per­mit to tran­si­tional head­quar­ters num­ber two, the mor­ontia world, and so on. And when pres­ent on any one of these six cul­tural spheres, you may, on in­vi­ta­tion, be­come a vis­i­tor and ob­server on any of the seven sur­round­ing worlds of as­so­ci­ated group ac­tiv­i­ties.

47:5.2When so­journ­ing on the first man­sion world, you have per­mis­sion to visit the first of the tran­si­tion worlds, the head­quar­ters of the fi­nal­i­ters and the sys­tem pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery for the nur­ture of un­de­vel­oped evo­lu­tion­ary chil­dren. When you ar­rive on man­so­nia num­ber two, you re­ceive per­mis­sion pe­ri­od­i­cally to visit tran­si­tion world num­ber two, where are lo­cated the mor­ontia super­vi­sor head­quar­ters for all Sa­ta­nia and the train­ing schools for the var­i­ous mor­ontia or­ders. When you reach man­sion world num­ber three, you are im­me­di­ately granted a per­mit to visit the third tran­si­tion sphere, the head­quar­ters of the an­gelic or­ders and the home of their var­i­ous sys­tem train­ing schools. Vis­its to Je­ru­sem from this world are in­creas­ingly prof­itable and are of ever-height­en­ing in­ter­est to the ad­vanc­ing mor­tals.

47:6.1When you ar­rive on the fourth man­sion world, you have well en­tered upon the mor­ontia ca­reer; you have pro­gressed a long way from the ini­tial ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. Now are you given per­mis­sion to make vis­its to tran­si­tion world num­ber four, there to be­come fa­mil­iar with the head­quar­ters and train­ing schools of the super­an­gels, in­clud­ing the Bril­liant Evening Stars. Through the good of­fices of these super­an­gels of the fourth tran­si­tion world the mor­ontia vis­i­tors are en­abled to draw very close to the var­i­ous or­ders of the Sons of God dur­ing the pe­ri­odic vis­its to Je­ru­sem, for new sec­tors of the sys­tem cap­i­tal are grad­u­ally open­ing up to the ad­vanc­ing mor­tals as they make these re­peated vis­its to the head­quar­ters world. New grandeurs are pro­gres­sively un­fold­ing to the ex­pand­ing minds of these as­cend­ers.

47:7.3Upon ar­rival on man­so­nia num­ber five the pil­grim is given per­mis­sion to visit the tran­si­tion world of cor­re­spond­ing num­ber, the Sons’ head­quar­ters. Here the as­cen­dant mor­tal be­comes per­son­ally fa­mil­iar with the var­i­ous groups of di­vine son­ship. He has heard of these su­perb be­ings and has al­ready met them on Je­ru­sem, but now he comes re­ally to know them.

47:8.1So­journ­ers on this sphere are per­mit­ted to visit tran­si­tion world num­ber six, where they learn more about the high spir­its of the super­uni­verse, al­though they are not able to vi­su­al­ize many of these ce­les­tial be­ings. Here they also re­ceive their first lessons in the prospec­tive spirit ca­reer which so im­me­di­ately fol­lows grad­u­a­tion from the mor­ontia train­ing of the lo­cal uni­verse.

47:9.2While so­journ­ing on man­so­nia num­ber seven, per­mis­sion is granted to visit tran­si­tion world num­ber seven, the world of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Here you be­gin a new and more spir­i­tual wor­ship of the un­seen Fa­ther, a habit you will in­creas­ingly pur­sue all the way up through your long as­cend­ing ca­reer. You find the Fa­ther’s tem­ple on this world of tran­si­tional cul­ture, but you do not see the Fa­ther.

113:7.3The hu­man race was cre­ated just a lit­tle lower than the more sim­ple types of the an­gelic or­ders. There­fore will your first as­sign­ment of the mor­ontia life be as as­sis­tants to the ser­a­phim in the im­me­di­ate work await­ing at the time you at­tain per­son­al­ity con­scious­ness sub­se­quent to your lib­er­a­tion from the bonds of the flesh.

48:3.13You will not ac­quire new lan­guages au­to­mat­i­cally; you will learn a lan­guage over there much as you do down here, and these bril­liant be­ings will be your lan­guage teach­ers. The first study on the man­sion worlds will be the tongue of Sa­ta­nia and then the lan­guage of Neb­a­don. And while you are mas­ter­ing these new tongues, the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions will be your ef­fi­cient in­ter­preters and pa­tient trans­la­tors. You will never en­counter a vis­i­tor on any of these worlds but that some one of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions will be able to of­fi­ci­ate as in­ter­preter.

15:7.5Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, has its seven worlds of tran­si­tion cul­ture, each of which is en­cir­cled by seven satel­lites, among which are the seven man­sion worlds of mor­ontia de­ten­tion, man’s first post­mor­tal res­i­dence. As the term heaven has been used on Uran­tia, it has some­times meant these seven man­sion worlds, the first man­sion world be­ing de­nom­i­nated the first heaven, and so on to the sev­enth.

30:4.16The plan of ini­tial mor­tal de­ten­tion on seven worlds of pro­gres­sive train­ing is nearly uni­ver­sal in Or­von­ton. In each lo­cal sys­tem of ap­prox­i­mately one thou­sand in­hab­ited plan­ets there are seven man­sion worlds, usu­ally satel­lites or sub­satel­lites of the sys­tem cap­i­tal. They are the re­ceiv­ing worlds for the ma­jor­ity of as­cend­ing mor­tals.

30:4.184. Mor­ontia Pro­gres­sors. From the man­sion worlds on up through the spheres of the sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and the uni­verse, mor­tals are classed as mor­ontia pro­gres­sors; they are travers­ing the tran­si­tion spheres of mor­tal as­cen­sion. As the as­cend­ing mor­tals pro­gress from the lower to the higher of the mor­ontia worlds, they serve on count­less as­sign­ments in as­so­ci­a­tion with their teach­ers and in com­pany with their more ad­vanced and se­nior breth­ren.

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.

47:3.7On man­sion world num­ber one (or an­other in case of ad­vanced sta­tus) you will re­sume your in­tel­lec­tual train­ing and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment at the ex­act level whereon they were in­ter­rupted by death. Be­tween the time of plan­e­tary death or trans­la­tion and res­ur­rec­tion on the man­sion world, mor­tal man gains ab­so­lutely noth­ing aside from ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the fact of sur­vival. You be­gin over there right where you leave off down here.

53:7.10The as­cend­ing mor­tals were vul­ner­a­ble, but they with­stood the soph­ist­ries of re­bel­lion bet­ter than the lower spir­its. While many on the lower man­sion worlds, those who had not at­tained fi­nal fu­sion with their Ad­justers, fell, it is re­corded to the glory of the wis­dom of the as­cen­sion scheme that not a sin­gle mem­ber of the Sa­ta­nia as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship res­i­dent on Je­ru­sem par­tic­i­pated in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

45:6.5The as­cend­ing mid­way crea­tures and the evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim must pass through this par­ent­hood ex­pe­ri­ence in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters of the sys­tem head­quar­ters. Thus do such non­re­pro­duc­ing as­cend­ers ob­tain the ex­pe­ri­ence of par­ent­hood by as­sist­ing the Je­ru­sem Adams and Eves in rear­ing and train­ing their progeny.

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.

47:1.4On 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.

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.

47:2.2It is these same de­serted cheru­bim who, as Man­sion World Teach­ers, un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, main­tain such ex­ten­sive ed­u­ca­tional fa­cil­i­ties for the train­ing of the pro­ba­tion­ary wards of the fi­nal­i­ters. These wards of the fi­nal­i­ters, these in­fants of as­cend­ing mor­tals, are al­ways per­son­al­ized as of their ex­act phys­i­cal sta­tus at the time of death ex­cept for re­pro­duc­tive po­ten­tial. This awak­en­ing oc­curs at the ex­act time of the pa­ren­tal ar­rival on the first man­sion world. And then are these chil­dren given ev­ery op­por­tu­nity, as they are, to choose the heav­enly way just as they would have made such a choice on the worlds where death so un­timely ter­mi­nated their ca­reers.

47:2.3On the nurs­ery world, pro­ba­tion­ary crea­tures are grouped ac­cord­ing to whether or not they have Ad­justers, for the Ad­justers come to in­dwell these ma­te­rial chil­dren just as on the worlds of time. Chil­dren of pre-Ad­juster ages are cared for in fam­i­lies of five, rang­ing in ages from one year and un­der up to ap­prox­i­mately five years, or that age when the Ad­juster ar­rives.

47:2.6The guard­ian ser­a­phim at­tend these youths in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ter world just as they spir­i­tu­ally min­is­ter to mor­tals on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets, while the faith­ful sporna­gia min­is­ter to their phys­i­cal ne­ces­si­ties. And so do these chil­dren grow up on the tran­si­tion world un­til such time as they make their fi­nal choice.

47:2.7When ma­te­rial life has run its course, if no choice has been made for the as­cen­dant life, or if these chil­dren of time def­i­nitely de­cide against the Ha­vona ad­ven­ture, death au­to­mat­i­cally ter­mi­nates their pro­ba­tion­ary ca­reers. There is no ad­ju­di­ca­tion of such cases; there is no res­ur­rec­tion from such a sec­ond death. They sim­ply be­come as though they had not been.

47:2.8But if they choose the Par­a­dise path of per­fec­tion, they are im­me­di­ately made ready for trans­la­tion to the first man­sion world, where many of them ar­rive in time to join their par­ents in the Ha­vona as­cent. Af­ter pass­ing through Ha­vona and at­tain­ing the De­i­ties, these sal­vaged souls of mor­tal ori­gin con­sti­tute the per­ma­nent as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship of Par­a­dise. These chil­dren who have been de­prived of the valu­able and es­sen­tial evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence on the worlds of mor­tal na­tiv­ity are not mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

112:5.21And when you thus awaken on the man­sion worlds of Je­ru­sem, you will be so changed, the spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tion will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Ad­juster and the des­tiny guard­ian, who so fully con­nect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you would at first have dif­fi­culty in con­nect­ing the new mor­ontia con­scious­ness with the re­viv­ing mem­ory of your pre­vi­ous iden­tity. Not­with­stand­ing the con­ti­nu­ity of per­sonal self­hood, much of the mor­tal life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clar­ify many mor­tal as­so­ci­a­tions.

38:2.2Though ser­a­phim are very af­fec­tion­ate and sym­pa­thetic be­ings, they are not sex-emo­tion crea­tures. They are much as you will be on the man­sion worlds, where you will “nei­ther marry nor be given in mar­riage but will be as the an­gels of heaven.” For all who “shall be ac­counted wor­thy to at­tain the man­sion worlds nei­ther marry nor are given in mar­riage; nei­ther do they die any more, for they are equal to the an­gels.” Nev­er­the­less, in deal­ing with sex crea­tures it is our cus­tom to speak of those be­ings of more di­rect de­scent from the Fa­ther and the Son as the sons of God, while re­fer­ring to the chil­dren of the Spirit as the daugh­ters of God. An­gels are, there­fore, com­monly des­ig­nated by fem­i­nine pro­nouns on the sex plan­ets.

38:2.6In na­ture and per­son­al­ity en­dow­ment the ser­a­phim are just a tri­fle ahead of mor­tal races in the scale of crea­ture ex­is­tence. In­deed, when you are de­liv­ered from the flesh, you be­come very much like them. On the man­sion worlds you will be­gin to ap­pre­ci­ate the ser­a­phim, on the con­stel­la­tion spheres to en­joy them, while on Sal­ving­ton they will share their places of rest and wor­ship with you. Through­out the whole mor­ontia and sub­se­quent spirit as­cent, your fra­ter­nity with the ser­a­phim will be ideal; your com­pan­ion­ship will be su­perb.

43:9.2This en­tire so­journ on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds, cul­mi­nat­ing in Eden­tia cit­i­zen­ship, is a pe­riod of true and heav­enly bliss for the mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. Through­out your so­journ on the sys­tem worlds you were evolv­ing from a near-an­i­mal to a mor­ontia crea­ture; you were more ma­te­rial than spir­i­tual. On the Sal­ving­ton spheres you will be evolv­ing from a mor­ontia be­ing to the sta­tus of a true spirit; you will be more spir­i­tual than ma­te­rial. But on Eden­tia, as­cend­ers are mid­way be­tween their for­mer and their fu­ture es­tates, mid­way in their pas­sage from evo­lu­tion­ary an­i­mal to as­cend­ing spirit. Dur­ing your whole stay on Eden­tia and its worlds you are “as the an­gels”; you are con­stantly pro­gress­ing but all the while main­tain­ing a gen­eral and a typ­i­cal mor­ontia sta­tus.

47:4.6Though you have mor­ontia bod­ies, you con­tinue, through all seven of these worlds, to eat, drink, and rest. You par­take of the mor­ontia or­der of food, a king­dom of liv­ing en­ergy un­known on the ma­te­rial worlds. Both food and wa­ter are fully uti­lized in the mor­ontia body; there is no resid­ual waste. Pause to con­sider: Man­so­nia num­ber one is a very ma­te­rial sphere, pre­sent­ing the early be­gin­nings of the mor­ontia regime. You are still a near hu­man and not far re­moved from the lim­ited view­points of mor­tal life, but each world dis­closes def­i­nite prog­ress. From sphere to sphere you grow less ma­te­rial, more in­tel­lec­tual, and slightly more spir­i­tual. The spir­i­tual prog­ress is great­est on the last three of these seven pro­gres­sive worlds.

174:3.2Je­sus knew, and so did the peo­ple, that these Sad­ducees were not sin­cere in ask­ing this ques­tion be­cause it was not likely that such a case would re­ally oc­cur; and be­sides, this prac­tice of the broth­ers of a dead man seek­ing to beget chil­dren for him was prac­ti­cally a dead let­ter at this time among the Jews. Nev­er­the­less, Je­sus con­de­scended to re­ply to their mis­chievous ques­tion. He said: “You all do err in ask­ing such ques­tions be­cause you know nei­ther the Scrip­tures nor the liv­ing power of God. You know that the sons of this world can marry and are given in mar­riage, but you do not seem to un­der­stand that they who are ac­counted wor­thy to at­tain the worlds to come, through the res­ur­rec­tion of the righ­teous, nei­ther marry nor are given in mar­riage. Those who ex­pe­ri­ence the res­ur­rec­tion from the dead are more like the an­gels of heaven, and they never die. These res­ur­rected ones are eter­nally the sons of God; they are the chil­dren of light res­ur­rected into the prog­ress of eter­nal life. And even your Fa­ther Moses un­der­stood this, for, in con­nec­tion with his ex­pe­ri­ences at the burn­ing bush, he heard the Fa­ther say, ‘I am the God of Abra­ham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja­cob.’ And so, along with Moses, do I de­clare that my Fa­ther is not the God of the dead but of the liv­ing. In him you all do live, re­pro­duce, and pos­sess your mor­tal ex­is­tence.”

47:3.10If you are not to be de­tained on man­sion world num­ber one, at the end of ten days you will en­ter the trans­la­tion sleep and pro­ceed to world num­ber two, and ev­ery ten days there­after you will thus ad­vance un­til you ar­rive on the world of your as­sign­ment.

47:10.4Af­ter mor­tals have at­tained res­i­dence on the sys­tem head­quar­ters, no more lit­eral res­ur­rec­tions will be ex­pe­ri­enced. The mor­ontia form granted you on de­par­ture from the man­sion world ca­reer is such as will see you through to the end of the lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence. Changes will be made from time to time, but you will re­tain this same form un­til you bid it farewell when you emerge as first-stage spir­its prepara­tory for tran­sit to the super­uni­verse worlds of as­cend­ing cul­ture and spirit train­ing.

47:10.5Seven times do those mor­tals who pass through the en­tire man­so­nia ca­reer ex­pe­ri­ence the ad­just­ment sleep and the res­ur­rec­tion awak­en­ing. But the last res­ur­rec­tion hall, the fi­nal awak­en­ing cham­ber, was left be­hind on the sev­enth man­sion world. No more will a form-change ne­ces­si­tate the lapse of con­scious­ness or a break in the con­ti­nu­ity of per­sonal mem­ory.

48:2.17When man­sion world as­cend­ers pass from one sphere to an­other, they are de­liv­ered by the trans­port ser­a­phim to the re­ceivers of the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors on the ad­vanced world. Here in those unique tem­ples at the cen­ter of the sev­enty ra­di­at­ing wings wherein are the cham­bers of tran­si­tion sim­i­lar to the res­ur­rec­tion halls on the ini­tial world of re­cep­tion for earth-ori­gin mor­tals, the nec­es­sary changes in crea­ture form are skill­fully ef­fected by the sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors. These early mor­ontia-form changes re­quire about seven days of stan­dard time for their ac­com­plish­ment.

47:4.2Spirit-fused sur­vivors oc­cupy the man­sion worlds in com­mon with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ing mor­tals. While the var­i­ous or­ders of ce­les­tial life dif­fer, they are all friendly and fra­ter­nal. In all the worlds of as­cen­sion you will find noth­ing com­pa­ra­ble to hu­man in­tol­er­ance and the dis­crim­i­na­tions of in­con­sid­er­ate caste sys­tems.

48:2.183. Plan­e­tary Cus­to­di­ans. Each mor­ontia world, from the man­sion spheres up to the uni­verse head­quar­ters, is in the cus­tody—as re­gards mor­ontia af­fairs—of sev­enty guard­i­ans. They con­sti­tute the lo­cal plan­e­tary coun­cil of su­preme mor­ontia au­thor­ity. This coun­cil grants ma­te­rial for mor­ontia forms to all as­cend­ing crea­tures who land on the spheres and au­tho­rizes those changes in crea­ture form which make it pos­si­ble for an as­cender to pro­ceed to the suc­ceed­ing sphere. Af­ter the man­sion worlds have been tra­versed, you will trans­late from one phase of mor­ontia life to an­other with­out hav­ing to sur­ren­der con­scious­ness. Un­con­scious­ness at­tends only the ear­lier meta­mor­phoses and the later tran­si­tions from one uni­verse to an­other and from Ha­vona to Par­a­dise.

30:4.143. Man­sion World Stu­dents. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals who reawaken on the man­sion worlds be­long to this class.

43:8.4On the man­sion worlds you com­pleted the uni­fi­ca­tion of the evolv­ing mor­tal per­son­al­ity; on the sys­tem cap­i­tal you at­tained Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship and achieved the will­ing­ness to sub­mit the self to the dis­ci­plines of group ac­tiv­i­ties and co-or­di­nated un­der­tak­ings; but now on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds you are to achieve the real so­cial­iza­tion of your evolv­ing mor­ontia per­son­al­ity. This su­per­nal cul­tural ac­quire­ment con­sists in learn­ing how to:

112:6.1Just as a but­ter­fly emerges from the cater­pil­lar stage, so will the true per­son­al­i­ties of hu­man be­ings emerge on the man­sion worlds, for the first time re­vealed apart from their one­time en­shroud­ment in the ma­te­rial flesh. The mor­ontia ca­reer in the lo­cal uni­verse has to do with the con­tin­ued el­e­va­tion of the per­son­al­ity mech­a­nism from the be­gin­ning mor­ontia level of soul ex­is­tence up to the fi­nal mor­ontia level of pro­gres­sive spir­i­tu­al­ity.

112:5.22The Thought Ad­juster will re­call and re­hearse for you only those mem­o­ries and ex­pe­ri­ences which are a part of, and es­sen­tial to, your uni­verse ca­reer. If the Ad­juster has been a part­ner in the evo­lu­tion of aught in the hu­man mind, then will these worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences sur­vive in the eter­nal con­scious­ness of the Ad­juster. But much of your past life and its mem­o­ries, hav­ing nei­ther spir­i­tual mean­ing nor mor­ontia value, will per­ish with the ma­te­rial brain; much of ma­te­rial ex­pe­ri­ence will pass away as one­time scaf­fold­ing which, hav­ing bridged you over to the mor­ontia level, no longer serves a pur­pose in the uni­verse. But per­son­al­ity and the re­la­tion­ships be­tween per­son­al­i­ties are never scaf­fold­ing; mor­tal mem­ory of per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ships has cos­mic value and will per­sist. On the man­sion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will re­mem­ber, and be re­mem­bered by, your one­time as­so­ciates in the short but in­trigu­ing life on Uran­tia.