mansion worlds

• similar to progressive evolutionary spheres

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.

• resurrection occurs on

47:3.2The very cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties on the first man­sion world is the res­ur­rec­tion hall, the enor­mous tem­ple of per­son­al­ity as­sem­bly. This gi­gan­tic struc­ture con­sists of the cen­tral ren­dezvous of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­i­ans, the Thought Ad­justers, and the arch­an­gels of the res­ur­rec­tion. The Life Car­ri­ers also func­tion with these ce­les­tial be­ings in the res­ur­rec­tion of the dead.

47:3.3The mor­tal-mind tran­scripts and the ac­tive crea­ture-mem­ory pat­terns as trans­formed from the ma­te­rial lev­els to the spir­i­tual are the in­di­vid­ual pos­ses­sion of the de­tached Thought Ad­justers; these spir­i­tized fac­tors of mind, mem­ory, and crea­ture per­son­al­ity are for­ever a part of such Ad­justers. The crea­ture mind-ma­trix and the pas­sive po­ten­tials of iden­tity are pres­ent in the mor­ontia soul in­trusted to the keep­ing of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­i­ans. And it is the re­unit­ing of the mor­ontia-soul trust of the ser­a­phim and the spirit-mind trust of the Ad­juster that re­assem­bles crea­ture per­son­al­ity and con­sti­tutes res­ur­rec­tion of a sleep­ing sur­vivor.

47:3.4If a tran­si­tory per­son­al­ity of mor­tal ori­gin should never be thus re­assem­bled, the spirit el­e­ments of the non­sur­viv­ing mor­tal crea­ture would for­ever con­tinue as an in­te­gral part of the in­di­vid­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial en­dow­ment of the one­time in­dwelling Ad­juster.

47:3.5From the Tem­ple of New Life there ex­tend seven ra­dial wings, the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the mor­tal races. Each of these struc­tures is de­voted to the as­sem­bly of one of the seven races of time. There are one hun­dred thou­sand per­sonal res­ur­rec­tion cham­bers in each of these seven wings ter­mi­nat­ing in the cir­cu­lar class as­sem­bly halls, which serve as the awak­en­ing cham­bers for as many as one mil­lion in­di­vid­u­als. These halls are sur­rounded by the per­son­al­ity as­sem­bly cham­bers of the blended races of the nor­mal post-Adamic worlds. Re­gard­less of the tech­nique which may be em­ployed on the in­di­vid­ual worlds of time in con­nec­tion with spe­cial or dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions, the real and con­scious re­assem­bly of ac­tual and com­plete per­son­al­ity takes place in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia num­ber one. Through­out all eter­nity you will re­call the pro­found mem­ory im­pres­sions of your first wit­ness­ing of these res­ur­rec­tion morn­ings.

• 10 days initial liberty on

47:3.6From the res­ur­rec­tion halls you pro­ceed to the Mel­chiz­e­dek sec­tor, where you are as­signed per­ma­nent res­i­dence. Then you en­ter upon ten days of per­sonal lib­erty. You are free to ex­plore the im­me­di­ate vicin­ity of your new home and to fa­mil­iar­ize your­self with the pro­gram which lies im­me­di­ately ahead. You also have time to grat­ify your de­sire to con­sult the reg­istry and call upon your loved ones and other earth friends who may have pre­ceded you to these worlds. At the end of your ten-day pe­riod of leisure you be­gin the sec­ond step in the Par­a­dise jour­ney, for the man­sion worlds are ac­tual train­ing spheres, not merely de­ten­tion plan­ets.

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.

• biological, sex, parental deficiencies largely made up on

47:3.8Al­most the en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence of man­sion world num­ber one per­tains to de­fi­ciency min­istry. Sur­vivors ar­riv­ing on this first of the de­ten­tion spheres pre­sent so many and such var­ied de­fects of crea­ture char­ac­ter and de­fi­cien­cies of mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence that the ma­jor ac­tiv­i­ties of the realm are oc­cu­pied with the cor­rec­tion and cure of these man­i­fold lega­cies of the life in the flesh on the ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space.

• designed to raise survivors to status of post-Adamic dispensation

47:3.9The so­journ on man­sion world num­ber one is de­signed to de­velop mor­tal sur­vivors at least up to the sta­tus of the post-Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion on the nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. Spir­i­tu­ally, of course, the man­sion world stu­dents are far in ad­vance of such a state of mere hu­man de­vel­op­ment.

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.

47:3.11The cen­ter of the seven ma­jor cir­cles of the first man­sion world ad­min­is­tra­tion is oc­cu­pied by the tem­ple of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions, the per­sonal guides as­signed to as­cend­ing mor­tals. These com­pan­ions are the off­spring of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, and there are sev­eral mil­lion of them on the mor­ontia worlds of Sa­ta­nia. Aside from those as­signed as group com­pan­ions, you will have much to do with the in­ter­preters and trans­la­tors, the build­ing cus­to­di­ans, and the ex­cur­sion super­vi­sors. And all of these com­pan­ions are most co-op­er­a­tive with those who have to do with de­vel­op­ing your per­son­al­ity fac­tors of mind and spirit within the mor­ontia body.

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.

• biological, sex, parental deficiencies largely made up on

47:4.7Bi­o­log­i­cal de­fi­cien­cies were largely made up on the first man­sion world. There de­fects in plan­e­tary ex­pe­ri­ences per­tain­ing to sex life, fam­ily as­so­ci­a­tion, and pa­ren­tal func­tion were ei­ther cor­rected or were pro­jected for fu­ture rec­ti­fi­ca­tion among the Ma­te­rial Son fam­i­lies on Je­ru­sem.

• study of morontia mota begins

47:4.8Man­so­nia num­ber two more specif­i­cally pro­vides for the re­moval of all phases of in­tel­lec­tual con­flict and for the cure of all va­ri­eties of men­tal dishar­mony. The ef­fort to mas­ter the sig­nif­i­cance of mor­ontia mota, be­gun on the first man­sion world, is here more earnestly con­tin­ued. The de­vel­op­ment on man­so­nia num­ber two com­pares with the in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus of the post-Mag­is­te­rial Son cul­ture of the ideal evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

• Morontia Companions will welcome us to

48:3.3The Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions main­tain ten thou­sand head­quar­ters in a lo­cal uni­verse—on each of the first man­sion worlds of the lo­cal sys­tems. They are al­most wholly a self-gov­ern­ing or­der and are, in gen­eral, an in­tel­li­gent and loyal group of be­ings; but ev­ery now and then, in con­nec­tion with cer­tain un­for­tu­nate ce­les­tial up­heavals, they have been known to go astray. Thou­sands of these use­ful crea­tures were lost dur­ing the times of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia. Your lo­cal sys­tem now has its full quota of these be­ings, the loss of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion hav­ing only re­cently been made up.

• Morontia Companions will welcome us to

48:3.82. Pil­grim Re­ceivers and Free As­so­ci­a­tors. These are the so­cial com­pan­ions of the new ar­rivals on the man­sion worlds. One of them will cer­tainly be on hand to wel­come you when you awaken on the ini­tial man­sion world from the first tran­sit sleep of time, when you ex­pe­ri­ence the res­ur­rec­tion from the death of the flesh into the mor­ontia life. And from the time you are thus for­mally wel­comed on awak­en­ing to that day when you leave the lo­cal uni­verse as a first-stage spirit, these Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions are ever with you.

• heaven as conceived by most prophets

48:6.23You should con­sider the state­ment about “heaven” and the “heaven of heav­ens.” The heaven con­ceived by most of your proph­ets was the first of the man­sion worlds of the lo­cal sys­tem. When the apos­tle spoke of be­ing “caught up to the third heaven,” he re­ferred to that ex­pe­ri­ence in which his Ad­juster was de­tached dur­ing sleep and in this un­usual state made a pro­jec­tion to the third of the seven man­sion worlds. Some of your wise men saw the vi­sion of the greater heaven, “the heaven of heav­ens,” of which the sev­en­fold man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence was but the first; the sec­ond be­ing Je­ru­sem; the third, Eden­tia and its satel­lites; the fourth, Sal­ving­ton and the sur­round­ing ed­u­ca­tional spheres; the fifth, Uversa; the sixth, Ha­vona; and the sev­enth, Par­a­dise.

• resurrection occurs on

49:6.7Thus are the sleep­ing sur­vivors of a plan­e­tary age reper­son­al­ized in the dis­pen­sa­tional roll calls. But with re­gard to the non­salv­able per­son­al­i­ties of a realm, no im­mor­tal spirit is pres­ent to func­tion with the group guard­i­ans of des­tiny, and this con­sti­tutes ces­sa­tion of crea­ture ex­is­tence. While some of your rec­ords have pic­tured these events as tak­ing place on the plan­ets of mor­tal death, they all re­ally oc­cur on the man­sion worlds.

• Andon and Fonta greet Urantia arrivals on

63:7.3An­don and Fonta, shortly af­ter their ar­rival on Je­ru­sem, re­ceived per­mis­sion from the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to re­turn to the first man­sion world to serve with the mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties who wel­come the pil­grims of time from Uran­tia to the heav­enly spheres. And they have been as­signed in­def­i­nitely to this ser­vice. They sought to send greet­ings to Uran­tia in con­nec­tion with these rev­e­la­tions, but this re­quest was wisely de­nied them.

• Gabriel sealed Michael Memorial on

188:3.11In the vast court of the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the first man­sion world of Sa­ta­nia, there may now be ob­served a mag­nif­i­cent ma­te­rial-mor­ontia struc­ture known as the “Mi­chael Memo­rial,” now bear­ing the seal of Ga­briel. This memo­rial was cre­ated shortly af­ter Mi­chael de­parted from this world, and it bears this in­scrip­tion: “In com­mem­o­ra­tion of the mor­tal tran­sit of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth on Uran­tia.”

• Gabriel sealed Michael Memorial on

189:1.93. He did come forth from this tomb of Joseph in the very like­ness of the mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties of those who, as res­ur­rected mor­ontia as­cen­dant be­ings, emerge from the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the first man­sion world of this lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. And the pres­ence of the Mi­chael memo­rial in the cen­ter of the vast court of the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia num­ber one leads us to con­jec­ture that the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia was in some way fos­tered on this, the first of the sys­tem man­sion worlds.

47:4.1It is on this sphere that you are more fully in­ducted into the man­so­nia life. The group­ings of the mor­ontia life be­gin to take form; work­ing groups and so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tions start to func­tion, com­mu­ni­ties take on for­mal pro­por­tions, and the ad­vanc­ing mor­tals in­au­gu­rate new so­cial or­ders and gov­ern­men­tal ar­range­ments.

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.

• sea of glass first appears on

47:4.3As you as­cend the man­sion worlds one by one, they be­come more crowded with the mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties of ad­vanc­ing sur­vivors. As you go for­ward, you will rec­og­nize more and more of the Je­ru­sem fea­tures added to the man­sion worlds. The sea of glass makes its ap­pear­ance on the sec­ond man­so­nia.

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.

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.

• all intellectual conflict and mental disharmony removed on

47:5.3Man­so­nia the third is a world of great per­sonal and so­cial achieve­ment for all who have not made the equiv­a­lent of these cir­cles of cul­ture prior to re­lease from the flesh on the mor­tal na­tiv­ity worlds. On this sphere more pos­i­tive ed­u­ca­tional work is be­gun. The train­ing of the first two man­sion worlds is mostly of a de­fi­ciency na­ture—neg­a­tive—in that it has to do with sup­ple­ment­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of the life in the flesh. On this third man­sion world the sur­vivors re­ally be­gin their pro­gres­sive mor­ontia cul­ture. The chief pur­pose of this train­ing is to en­hance the un­der­stand­ing of the cor­re­la­tion of mor­ontia mota and mor­tal logic, the co-or­di­na­tion of mor­ontia mota and hu­man phi­los­o­phy. Sur­viv­ing mor­tals now gain prac­ti­cal in­sight into true meta­physics. This is the real in­tro­duc­tion to the in­tel­li­gent com­pre­hen­sion of cos­mic mean­ings and uni­verse in­ter­re­la­tion­ships. The cul­ture of the third man­sion world par­takes of the na­ture of the postbestowal Son age of a nor­mal in­hab­ited planet.

• headquarters of Mansion World Teachers

47:5.1Man­so­nia the third is the head­quar­ters of the Man­sion World Teach­ers. Though they func­tion on all seven of the man­sion spheres, they main­tain their group head­quar­ters at the cen­ter of the school cir­cles of world num­ber three. There are mil­lions of these in­struc­tors on the man­sion and higher mor­ontia worlds. These ad­vanced and glo­ri­fied cheru­bim serve as mor­ontia teach­ers all the way up from the man­sion worlds to the last sphere of lo­cal uni­verse as­cen­dant train­ing. They will be among the last to bid you an af­fec­tion­ate adieu when the farewell time draws near, the time when you bid good-bye—at least for a few ages—to the uni­verse of your ori­gin, when you en­seraphim for tran­sit to the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the mi­nor sec­tor of the super­uni­verse.

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.

47:6.2On the fourth man­so­nia the in­di­vid­ual as­cender more fit­tingly finds his place in the group work­ing and class func­tions of the mor­ontia life. As­cend­ers here de­velop in­creased ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the broad­casts and other phases of lo­cal uni­verse cul­ture and prog­ress.

47:6.3It is dur­ing the pe­riod of train­ing on world num­ber four that the as­cend­ing mor­tals are re­ally first in­tro­duced to the de­mands and de­lights of the true so­cial life of mor­ontia crea­tures. And it is in­deed a new ex­pe­ri­ence for evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures to par­tic­i­pate in so­cial ac­tiv­i­ties which are pred­i­cated nei­ther on per­sonal ag­gran­dize­ment nor on self-seek­ing con­quest. A new so­cial or­der is be­ing in­tro­duced, one based on the un­der­stand­ing sym­pa­thy of mu­tual ap­pre­ci­a­tion, the un­selfish love of mu­tual ser­vice, and the over­mas­ter­ing mo­ti­va­tion of the re­al­iza­tion of a com­mon and su­preme des­tiny—the Par­a­dise goal of wor­ship­ful and di­vine per­fec­tion. As­cend­ers are all be­com­ing self-con­scious of God-know­ing, God-re­veal­ing, God-seek­ing, and God-find­ing.

• culture comparable to post-Teacher Son age

47:6.4The in­tel­lec­tual and so­cial cul­ture of this fourth man­sion world is com­pa­ra­ble to the men­tal and so­cial life of the post-Teacher Son age on the plan­ets of nor­mal evo­lu­tion. The spir­i­tual sta­tus is much in ad­vance of such a mor­tal dis­pen­sa­tion.

• survivors master local universe language on

47:7.2Hav­ing mas­tered the lo­cal uni­verse lan­guage be­fore leav­ing the fourth man­sion world, you now de­vote more time to the per­fec­tion of the tongue of Uversa to the end that you may be pro­fi­cient in both lan­guages be­fore ar­riv­ing on Je­ru­sem with res­i­den­tial sta­tus. All as­cend­ing mor­tals are bilin­gual from the sys­tem head­quar­ters up to Ha­vona. And then it is only nec­es­sary to en­large the super­uni­verse vo­cab­u­lary, still ad­di­tional en­large­ment be­ing re­quired for res­i­dence on Par­a­dise.

• culture corresponds to early 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.

47:7.3Upon 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.

• study begun of constellation matters

47:7.4On the fifth man­so­nia you be­gin to learn of the con­stel­la­tion study worlds. Here you meet the first of the in­struc­tors who be­gin to pre­pare you for the sub­se­quent con­stel­la­tion so­journ. More of this prepa­ra­tion con­tin­ues on worlds six and seven, while the fin­ish­ing touches are sup­plied in the sec­tor of the as­cend­ing mor­tals on Je­ru­sem.

• cosmic consciousness born on

47:7.5A real birth of cos­mic con­scious­ness takes place on man­so­nia num­ber five. You are be­com­ing uni­verse minded. This is in­deed a time of ex­pand­ing hori­zons. It is be­gin­ning to dawn upon the en­larg­ing minds of the as­cend­ing mor­tals that some stu­pen­dous and mag­nif­i­cent, some su­per­nal and di­vine, des­tiny awaits all who com­plete the pro­gres­sive Par­a­dise as­cen­sion, which has been so la­bo­ri­ously but so joy­fully and aus­pi­ciously be­gun. At about this point the av­er­age mor­tal as­cender be­gins to man­i­fest bona fide ex­pe­ri­en­tial en­thu­si­asm for the Ha­vona as­cent. Study is be­com­ing vol­un­tary, un­selfish ser­vice nat­u­ral, and wor­ship spon­ta­neous. A real mor­ontia char­ac­ter is bud­ding; a real mor­ontia crea­ture is evolv­ing.

• fusion often occurs on

47:8.3This is a bril­liant age for as­cend­ing mor­tals and usu­ally wit­nesses the per­fect fu­sion of the hu­man mind and the di­vine Ad­juster. In po­ten­tial, this fu­sion may have oc­curred pre­vi­ously, but the ac­tual work­ing iden­tity many times is not achieved un­til the time of the so­journ on the fifth man­sion world or even the sixth.

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.

47:8.2The as­sis­tant Sys­tem Sov­er­eign makes fre­quent vis­its to this world, and the ini­tial in­struc­tion is here be­gun in the tech­nique of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. The first lessons em­brac­ing the af­fairs of a whole uni­verse are now im­parted.

47:8.4The union of the evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul with the eter­nal and di­vine Ad­juster is sig­nal­ized by the se­raphic sum­mon­ing of the super­vis­ing super­an­gel for res­ur­rected sur­vivors and of the arch­an­gel of rec­ord for those go­ing to judg­ment on the third day; and then, in the pres­ence of such a sur­vivor’s mor­ontia as­so­ciates, these mes­sen­gers of con­fir­ma­tion speak: “This is a beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” This sim­ple cer­e­mony marks the en­trance of an as­cend­ing mor­tal upon the eter­nal ca­reer of Par­a­dise ser­vice.

47:8.5Im­me­di­ately upon the con­fir­ma­tion of Ad­juster fu­sion the new mor­ontia be­ing is in­tro­duced to his fel­lows for the first time by his new name and is granted the forty days of spir­i­tual re­tire­ment from all rou­tine ac­tiv­i­ties wherein to com­mune with him­self and to choose some one of the op­tional routes to Ha­vona and to se­lect from the dif­fer­en­tial tech­niques of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment.

• survivors still more or less material on

47:8.6But still are these bril­liant be­ings more or less ma­te­rial; they are far from be­ing true spir­its; they are more like super­mor­tals, spir­i­tu­ally speak­ing, still a lit­tle lower than the an­gels. But they are truly be­com­ing mar­velous crea­tures.

• status comparable with era beyond initial light and life

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.

• purge of unfortunate heredity, unwholesome environment, and unspiritual tendencies completed

47:9.1The ex­pe­ri­ence on this sphere is the crown­ing achieve­ment of the im­me­di­ate post­mor­tal ca­reer. Dur­ing your so­journ here you will re­ceive the in­struc­tion of many teach­ers, all of whom will co-op­er­ate in the task of prepar­ing you for res­i­dence on Je­ru­sem. Any dis­cern­i­ble dif­fer­ences be­tween those mor­tals hail­ing from the iso­lated and re­tarded worlds and those sur­vivors from the more ad­vanced and en­light­ened spheres are vir­tu­ally oblit­er­ated dur­ing the so­journ on the sev­enth man­sion world. Here you will be purged of all the rem­nants of un­for­tu­nate hered­ity, un­whole­some en­vi­ron­ment, and un­spir­i­tual plan­e­tary ten­den­cies. The last rem­nants of the “mark of the beast” are here erad­i­cated.

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.

47:9.3Now be­gins the for­ma­tion of classes for grad­u­a­tion to Je­ru­sem. You have gone from world to world as in­di­vid­u­als, but now you pre­pare to de­part for Je­ru­sem in groups, al­though, within cer­tain lim­its, an as­cender may elect to tarry on the sev­enth man­sion world for the pur­pose of en­abling a tardy mem­ber of his earthly or man­so­nia work­ing group to catch up with him.

47:9.4The per­son­nel of the sev­enth man­so­nia as­sem­ble on the sea of glass to wit­ness your de­par­ture for Je­ru­sem with res­i­den­tial sta­tus. Hun­dreds or thou­sands of times you may have vis­ited Je­ru­sem, but al­ways as a guest; never be­fore have you pro­ceeded to­ward the sys­tem cap­i­tal in the com­pany of a group of your fel­lows who were bid­ding an eter­nal farewell to the whole man­so­nia ca­reer as as­cend­ing mor­tals. You will soon be wel­comed on the re­ceiv­ing field of the head­quar­ters world as Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens.

47:9.5You will greatly en­joy your prog­ress through the seven de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing worlds; they are re­ally de­mor­tal­iz­ing spheres. You are mostly hu­man on the first man­sion world, just a mor­tal be­ing mi­nus a ma­te­rial body, a hu­man mind housed in a mor­ontia form—a ma­te­rial body of the mor­ontia world but not a mor­tal house of flesh and blood. You re­ally pass from the mor­tal state to the im­mor­tal sta­tus at the time of Ad­juster fu­sion, and by the time you have fin­ished the Je­ru­sem ca­reer, you will be full-fledged mor­ontians.

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.

45:0.2The seven man­sion worlds are the seven sub­satel­lites of tran­si­tion world num­ber one.

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

47:0.1The Cre­ator Son, when on Uran­tia, spoke of the “many man­sions in the Fa­ther’s uni­verse.” In a cer­tain sense, all fifty-six of the en­cir­cling worlds of Je­ru­sem are de­voted to the tran­si­tional cul­ture of as­cend­ing mor­tals, but the seven satel­lites of world num­ber one are more specif­i­cally known as the man­sion worlds.

48:1.2The mor­ontia spheres are the tran­si­tion phases of mor­tal as­cen­sion through the pro­gres­sion worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse. Only the seven worlds sur­round­ing the fi­nal­i­ters’ sphere of the lo­cal sys­tems are called man­sion worlds, but all fifty-six of the sys­tem tran­si­tion abodes, in com­mon with the higher spheres around the con­stel­la­tions and the uni­verse head­quar­ters, are called mor­ontia worlds. These cre­ations par­take of the phys­i­cal beauty and the mor­ontia grandeur of the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters spheres.

47:0.4The seven man­sion worlds are in charge of the mor­ontia super­vi­sors and the Mel­chiz­e­deks. There is an act­ing gov­er­nor on each world who is di­rectly re­spon­si­ble to the Je­ru­sem rulers. The Uversa con­cil­ia­tors main­tain head­quar­ters on each of the man­sion worlds, while ad­join­ing is the lo­cal ren­dezvous of the Tech­ni­cal Ad­vis­ers. The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors and ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans main­tain group head­quar­ters on each of these worlds. The spironga func­tion from man­sion world num­ber two on­ward, while all seven, in com­mon with the other tran­si­tional-cul­ture plan­ets and the head­quar­ters world, are abun­dantly pro­vided with sporna­gia of stan­dard cre­ation.

24:6.2I am not for­bid­den to un­der­take to tell you of the work of these Grad­u­ate Guides, but it is so ul­tra­spir­i­tual that I de­spair of be­ing able to ad­e­quately por­tray to the ma­te­rial mind a con­cept of their man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties. On the man­sion worlds, af­ter your vi­sion range is ex­tended and you are freed from the fet­ters of ma­te­rial com­par­isons, you can be­gin to com­pre­hend the mean­ing of those re­al­i­ties which “eye can­not see nor ear hear, and which have never en­tered the con­cept of hu­man minds,” even those things which “God has pre­pared for those who love such eter­nal ver­i­ties.” You are not al­ways to be so lim­ited in the range of your vi­sion and spir­i­tual com­pre­hen­sion.

46:5.101. Cir­cles of the Sons of God. Though the Sons of God pos­sess a so­cial planet of their own, one of the tran­si­tional-cul­ture worlds, they also oc­cupy these ex­ten­sive do­mains on Je­ru­sem. On their tran­si­tional-cul­ture world the as­cend­ing mor­tals freely min­gle with all or­ders of di­vine son­ship. There you will per­son­ally know and love these Sons, but their so­cial life is largely con­fined to this spe­cial world and its satel­lites. In the Je­ru­sem cir­cles, how­ever, these var­i­ous groups of son­ship may be ob­served at work. And since mor­ontia vi­sion is of enor­mous range, you can walk about on the Sons’ prom­e­nades and over­look the in­trigu­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of their nu­mer­ous or­ders.

46:2.7The man­u­fac­tur­ing or lab­o­ra­tory sec­tor of Je­ru­sem is an ex­ten­sive do­main, one which Uran­tians would hardly rec­og­nize since it has no smok­ing chim­neys; nev­er­the­less, there is an in­tri­cate ma­te­rial econ­omy as­so­ci­ated with these spe­cial worlds, and there is a per­fec­tion of me­chan­i­cal tech­nique and phys­i­cal achieve­ment which would as­ton­ish and even awe your most ex­pe­ri­enced chemists and in­ven­tors. Pause to con­sider that this first world of de­ten­tion in the Par­a­dise jour­ney is far more ma­te­rial than spir­i­tual. Through­out your stay on Je­ru­sem and its tran­si­tion worlds you are far nearer your earth life of ma­te­rial things than your later life of ad­vanc­ing spirit ex­is­tence.

39:4.73. In­ter­preters of Cos­mic Cit­i­zen­ship. When as­cend­ing mor­tals have com­pleted the man­sion world train­ing, the first stu­dent ap­pren­tice­ship in the uni­verse ca­reer, they are per­mit­ted to en­joy the tran­sient sat­is­fac­tions of rel­a­tive ma­tu­rity—cit­i­zen­ship on the sys­tem cap­i­tal. While the at­tain­ment of each as­cen­dant goal is a fac­tual achieve­ment, in the larger sense such goals are sim­ply mile­stones on the long as­cend­ing path to Par­a­dise. But how­ever rel­a­tive such suc­cesses may be, no evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture is ever de­nied the full though tran­sient sat­is­fac­tion of goal at­tain­ment. Ever and anon there is a pause in the Par­a­dise as­cent, a short breath­ing spell, dur­ing which uni­verse hori­zons stand still, crea­ture sta­tus is sta­tion­ary, and the per­son­al­ity tastes the sweet­ness of goal ful­fill­ment.

52:5.5On Uran­tia the es­tab­lish­ment of this “new and liv­ing way” was a mat­ter of fact as well as of truth. The iso­la­tion of Uran­tia in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion had sus­pended the pro­ce­dure whereby mor­tals can pass, upon death, di­rectly to the shores of the man­sion worlds. Be­fore the days of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia all souls slept on un­til the dis­pen­sa­tional or spe­cial mil­len­nial res­ur­rec­tions. Even Moses was not per­mit­ted to go over to the other side un­til the oc­ca­sion of a spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, the fallen Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia, con­test­ing such a de­liv­er­ance. But ever since the day of Pen­te­cost, Uran­tia mor­tals again may pro­ceed di­rectly to the mor­ontia spheres.

48:3.17As sys­tems and uni­verses are set­tled in light and life, the man­sion worlds in­creas­ingly cease to func­tion as tran­si­tion spheres of mor­ontia train­ing. More and more the fi­nal­i­ters in­sti­tute their new train­ing regime, which ap­pears to be de­signed to trans­late the cos­mic con­scious­ness from the pres­ent level of the grand uni­verse to that of the fu­ture outer uni­verses. The Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions are des­tined to func­tion in­creas­ingly in as­so­ci­a­tion with the fi­nal­i­ters and in nu­mer­ous other realms not at pres­ent re­vealed on Uran­tia.

48:6.21These ser­a­phim are also the evan­gels of the gospel of per­fec­tion at­tain­ment for the whole sys­tem as well as for the in­di­vid­ual as­cender. Even now in the young sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia their teach­ings and plans en­com­pass pro­vi­sions for the fu­ture ages when the man­sion worlds will no longer serve the mor­tal as­cend­ers as step­ping­stones to the spheres on high.

49:6.6While the older worlds of mor­tal ex­is­tence har­bor those highly de­vel­oped and ex­qui­sitely spir­i­tual types of hu­man be­ings who are vir­tu­ally ex­empt from the mor­ontia life, the ear­lier ages of the an­i­mal-ori­gin races are char­ac­ter­ized by prim­i­tive mor­tals who are so im­ma­ture that fu­sion with their Ad­justers is im­pos­si­ble. The reawak­en­ing of these mor­tals is ac­com­plished by the guard­ian ser­a­phim in con­junc­tion with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized por­tion of the im­mor­tal spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

55:2.8By the time a world at­tains the fourth stage of light and life, more than half the mor­tals leave the planet by trans­la­tion from among the liv­ing. Such di­min­ish­ment of death con­tin­ues on and on, but I know of no sys­tem whose in­hab­ited worlds, even though long set­tled in life, are en­tirely free from nat­u­ral death as the tech­nique of es­cape from the bonds of flesh. And un­til such a high state of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion is uni­formly at­tained, the mor­ontia-train­ing worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse must con­tinue in ser­vice as ed­u­ca­tional and cul­tural spheres for the evolv­ing mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. The elim­i­na­tion of death is the­o­ret­i­cally pos­si­ble, but it has not yet oc­curred ac­cord­ing to my ob­ser­va­tion. Per­haps such a sta­tus may be at­tained dur­ing the far­away stretches of the suc­ceed­ing epochs of the sev­enth stage of set­tled plan­e­tary life.

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.

55:2.10Could you but visit a planet in an ad­vanced stage of de­vel­op­ment, you would quickly grasp the rea­sons for pro­vid­ing for the dif­fer­en­tial re­cep­tion of as­cend­ing mor­tals on the man­sion and higher mor­ontia worlds. You would read­ily un­der­stand that be­ings pass­ing on from such highly evolved spheres are pre­pared to re­sume their Par­a­dise as­cent far in ad­vance of the av­er­age mor­tal ar­riv­ing from a dis­or­dered and back­ward world like Uran­tia.

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.

47:0.3When a sys­tem is set­tled in light and life, and as the man­sion worlds one by one cease to serve as mor­tal-train­ing sta­tions, they are taken over by the in­creas­ing fi­nal­i­ter pop­u­la­tion which ac­cu­mu­lates in these older and more highly per­fected sys­tems.

45:0.1The ad­min­is­tra­tive cen­ter of Sa­ta­nia con­sists of a clus­ter of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, fifty-seven in num­ber—Je­ru­sem it­self, the seven ma­jor satel­lites, and the forty-nine sub­satel­lites. Je­ru­sem, the sys­tem cap­i­tal, is al­most one hun­dred times the size of Uran­tia, al­though its grav­ity is a tri­fle less. Je­ru­sem’s ma­jor satel­lites are the seven tran­si­tion worlds, each of which is about ten times as large as Uran­tia, while the seven sub­satel­lites of these tran­si­tion spheres are just about the size of Uran­tia.

• brainedness differences eliminated on

40:5.17Se­ries three—mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial. All Fa­ther-fused mor­tals are of an­i­mal ori­gin, just like the Uran­tia races. They em­brace mor­tals of the one-brained, two-brained, and three-brained types of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial. Uran­tians are of the in­ter­me­di­ate or two-brained type, be­ing in many ways hu­manly su­pe­rior to the one-brained groups but def­i­nitely lim­ited in com­par­i­son with the three-brained or­ders. These three types of phys­i­cal-brain en­dow­ment are not fac­tors in Ad­juster be­stowal, in se­raphic ser­vice, or in any other phase of spirit min­istry. The in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual dif­fer­en­tial be­tween the three brain types char­ac­ter­izes in­di­vid­u­als who are oth­er­wise quite alike in mind en­dow­ment and spir­i­tual po­ten­tial, be­ing great­est in the tem­po­ral life and tend­ing to di­min­ish as the man­sion worlds are tra­versed one by one. From the sys­tem head­quar­ters on, the pro­gres­sion of these three types is the same, and their even­tual Par­a­dise des­tiny is iden­ti­cal.

• mortal deprivations and handicaps fully compensated for

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

• atone for sexual or parental deprivation by association with Material Sons, probationary nursery
• mortal deprivations and handicaps fully compensated for

45:6.3On the seven man­sion worlds as­cend­ing mor­tals are af­forded am­ple op­por­tu­ni­ties for com­pen­sat­ing any and all ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­pri­va­tions suf­fered on their worlds of ori­gin, whether due to in­her­i­tance, en­vi­ron­ment, or un­for­tu­nate pre­ma­ture ter­mi­na­tion of the ca­reer in the flesh. This is in ev­ery sense true ex­cept in the mor­tal sex life and its at­ten­dant ad­just­ments. Thou­sands of mor­tals reach the man­sion worlds with­out hav­ing ben­e­fited par­tic­u­larly from the dis­ci­plines de­rived from fairly av­er­age sex re­la­tions on their na­tive spheres. The man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence can pro­vide lit­tle op­por­tu­nity for com­pen­sat­ing these very per­sonal de­pri­va­tions. Sex ex­pe­ri­ence in a phys­i­cal sense is past for these as­cend­ers, but in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, both in­di­vid­u­ally and as mem­bers of their fam­i­lies, these sex-de­fi­cient mor­tals are en­abled to com­pen­sate the so­cial, in­tel­lec­tual, emo­tional, and spir­i­tual as­pects of their de­fi­ciency. Thus are all those hu­mans whom cir­cum­stances or bad judg­ment de­prived of the ben­e­fits of ad­van­ta­geous sex as­so­ci­a­tion on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, here on the sys­tem cap­i­tals af­forded full op­por­tu­nity to ac­quire these es­sen­tial mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ences in close and lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with the su­per­nal Adamic sex crea­tures of per­ma­nent res­i­dence on the sys­tem cap­i­tals.

45:6.4No sur­viv­ing mor­tal, mid­wayer, or ser­a­phim may as­cend to Par­a­dise, at­tain the Fa­ther, and be mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity with­out hav­ing passed through that sub­lime ex­pe­ri­ence of achiev­ing pa­ren­tal re­la­tion­ship to an evolv­ing child of the worlds or some other ex­pe­ri­ence anal­o­gous and equiv­a­lent thereto. The re­la­tion­ship of child and par­ent is fun­da­men­tal to the es­sen­tial con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his uni­verse chil­dren. There­fore does such an ex­pe­ri­ence be­come in­dis­pens­able to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing of all as­cend­ers.

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.

• serve individuals who failed to fuse in mortal life

45:7.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks are the di­rec­tors of that large corps of in­struc­tors—par­tially spir­i­tu­al­ized will crea­tures and oth­ers—who func­tion so ac­cept­ably on Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds but es­pe­cially on the seven man­sion worlds. These are the de­ten­tion plan­ets, where those mor­tals who fail to achieve fu­sion with their in­dwelling Ad­justers dur­ing the life in the flesh are re­ha­bil­i­tated in tran­sient form to re­ceive fur­ther help and to en­joy ex­tended op­por­tu­nity for con­tin­u­ing their striv­ings for spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, those very ef­forts which were pre­ma­turely in­ter­rupted by death. Or if, for any other rea­son of hered­i­tary hand­i­cap, un­fa­vor­able en­vi­ron­ment, or con­spir­acy of cir­cum­stances, this soul at­tain­ment was not com­pleted, no mat­ter what the rea­son, all who are true of pur­pose and wor­thy in spirit find them­selves, as them­selves, pres­ent on the con­tin­u­ing plan­ets, where they must learn to mas­ter the es­sen­tials of the eter­nal ca­reer, to pos­sess them­selves of traits which they could not, or did not, ac­quire dur­ing the life­time in the flesh.

48:6.222. Racial In­ter­preters. All races of mor­tal be­ings are not alike. True, there is a plan­e­tary pat­tern run­ning through the phys­i­cal, men­tal, and spir­i­tual na­tures and ten­den­cies of the var­i­ous races of a given world; but there are also dis­tinct racial types, and very def­i­nite so­cial ten­den­cies char­ac­ter­ize the off­spring of these dif­fer­ent ba­sic types of hu­man be­ings. On the worlds of time the se­raphic racial in­ter­preters fur­ther the ef­forts of the race com­mis­sion­ers to har­mo­nize the var­ied view­points of the races, and they con­tinue to func­tion on the man­sion worlds, where these same dif­fer­ences tend to per­sist in a mea­sure. On a con­fused planet, such as Uran­tia, these bril­liant be­ings have hardly had a fair op­por­tu­nity to func­tion, but they are the skill­ful so­ci­ol­o­gists and the wise eth­nic ad­vis­ers of the first heaven.

39:6.1As their name might sug­gest, ser­a­phim of tran­si­tional min­istry serve wher­ever they can con­tribute to crea­ture tran­si­tion from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual es­tate. These an­gels serve from the in­hab­ited worlds to the sys­tem cap­i­tals, but those in Sa­ta­nia at pres­ent di­rect their great­est ef­forts to­ward the ed­u­ca­tion of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals on the seven man­sion worlds. This min­istry is di­ver­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with the fol­low­ing seven or­ders of as­sign­ment:

39:6.21. Se­raphic Evan­gels.

39:6.32. Racial In­ter­preters.

39:6.43. Mind Plan­ners.

39:6.54. Mor­ontia Coun­selors.

39:6.65. Tech­ni­cians.

39:6.76. Re­corder-Teach­ers.

39:6.87. Min­is­ter­ing Re­serves.

39:6.9More about these se­raphic min­is­ters to tran­si­tional as­cend­ers you will learn in con­nec­tion with the nar­ra­tives deal­ing with the man­sion worlds and the mor­ontia life.

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.