morontia progressors

48:8.1From the time of grad­u­a­tion from the man­sion worlds to the at­tain­ment of spirit sta­tus in the super­uni­verse ca­reer, as­cend­ing mor­tals are de­nom­i­nated mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. Your pas­sage through this won­der­ful bor­der­land life will be an un­for­get­table ex­pe­ri­ence, a charm­ing mem­ory. It is the evo­lu­tion­ary por­tal to spirit life and the even­tual at­tain­ment of crea­ture per­fec­tion by which as­cend­ers achieve the goal of time—the find­ing of God on Par­a­dise.

48:8.2There is a def­i­nite and di­vine pur­pose in all this mor­ontia and sub­se­quent spirit scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion, this elab­o­rate uni­verse train­ing school for as­cend­ing crea­tures. It is the de­sign of the Cre­ators to af­ford the crea­tures of time a grad­u­ated op­por­tu­nity to mas­ter the de­tails of the op­er­a­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the grand uni­verse, and this long course of train­ing is best car­ried for­ward by hav­ing the sur­viv­ing mor­tal climb up grad­u­ally and by ac­tual par­tic­i­pa­tion in ev­ery step of the as­cent.

48:8.3The mor­tal-sur­vival plan has a prac­ti­cal and ser­vice­able ob­jec­tive; you are not the re­cip­i­ents of all this di­vine la­bor and painstak­ing train­ing only that you may sur­vive just to en­joy end­less bliss and eter­nal ease. There is a goal of tran­scen­dent ser­vice con­cealed be­yond the hori­zon of the pres­ent uni­verse age. If the Gods de­signed merely to take you on one long and eter­nal joy ex­cur­sion, they cer­tainly would not so largely turn the whole uni­verse into one vast and in­tri­cate prac­ti­cal train­ing school, req­ui­si­tion a sub­stan­tial part of the ce­les­tial cre­ation as teach­ers and in­struc­tors, and then spend ages upon ages pi­lot­ing you, one by one, through this gi­gan­tic uni­verse school of ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing. The fur­ther­ance of the scheme of mor­tal pro­gres­sion seems to be one of the chief busi­nesses of the pres­ent or­ga­nized uni­verse, and the ma­jor­ity of in­nu­mer­able or­ders of cre­ated in­tel­li­gences are ei­ther di­rectly or in­di­rectly en­gaged in ad­vanc­ing some phase of this pro­gres­sive per­fec­tion plan.

48:8.4In travers­ing the as­cend­ing scale of liv­ing ex­is­tence from mor­tal man to the De­ity em­brace, you ac­tu­ally live the very life of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase and stage of per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence within the lim­its of the pres­ent uni­verse age. From mor­tal man to Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter em­braces all that now can be—en­com­passes ev­ery­thing pres­ently pos­si­ble to the liv­ing or­ders of in­tel­li­gent, per­fected fi­nite crea­ture be­ings. If the fu­ture des­tiny of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters is ser­vice in new uni­verses now in the mak­ing, it is as­sured that in this new and fu­ture cre­ation there will be no cre­ated or­ders of ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­ings whose lives will be wholly dif­fer­ent from those which mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have lived on some world as a part of their as­cend­ing train­ing, as one of the stages of their age­long prog­ress from an­i­mal to an­gel and from an­gel to spirit and from spirit to God.

48:8.5[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel of Neb­a­don.]

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.

112:6.2It is dif­fi­cult to in­struct you re­gard­ing your mor­ontia per­son­al­ity forms for the lo­cal uni­verse ca­reer. You will be en­dowed with mor­ontia pat­terns of per­son­al­ity man­i­festa­bil­ity, and these are in­vest­ments which, in the last anal­y­sis, are be­yond your com­pre­hen­sion. Such forms, while en­tirely real, are not en­ergy pat­terns of the ma­te­rial or­der which you now un­der­stand. They do, how­ever, serve the same pur­pose on the lo­cal uni­verse worlds as do your ma­te­rial bod­ies on the plan­ets of hu­man na­tiv­ity.

112:6.3To a cer­tain ex­tent, the ap­pear­ance of the ma­te­rial body-form is re­spon­sive to the char­ac­ter of the per­son­al­ity iden­tity; the phys­i­cal body does, to a lim­ited de­gree, re­flect some­thing of the in­her­ent na­ture of the per­son­al­ity. Still more so does the mor­ontia form. In the phys­i­cal life, mor­tals may be out­wardly beau­ti­ful though in­wardly unlovely; in the mor­ontia life, and in­creas­ingly on its higher lev­els, the per­son­al­ity form will vary di­rectly in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture of the in­ner per­son. On the spir­i­tual level, out­ward form and in­ner na­ture be­gin to ap­prox­i­mate com­plete iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, which grows more and more per­fect on higher and higher spirit lev­els.

112:6.4In the mor­ontia es­tate the as­cend­ing mor­tal is en­dowed with the Neb­a­don mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the cos­mic-mind en­dow­ment of the Mas­ter Spirit of Or­von­ton. The mor­tal in­tel­lect, as such, has per­ished, has ceased to ex­ist as a fo­cal­ized uni­verse en­tity apart from the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated mind cir­cuits of the Cre­ative Spirit. But the mean­ings and val­ues of the mor­tal mind have not per­ished. Cer­tain phases of mind are con­tin­ued in the sur­viv­ing soul; cer­tain ex­pe­ri­en­tial val­ues of the for­mer hu­man mind are held by the Ad­juster; and there per­sist in the lo­cal uni­verse the rec­ords of the hu­man life as it was lived in the flesh, to­gether with cer­tain liv­ing reg­is­tra­tions in the nu­mer­ous be­ings who are con­cerned with the fi­nal eval­u­a­tion of the as­cend­ing mor­tal, be­ings ex­tend­ing in range from ser­a­phim to Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and prob­a­bly on be­yond to the Su­preme.

112:6.5Crea­ture vo­li­tion can­not ex­ist with­out mind, but it does per­sist in spite of the loss of the ma­te­rial in­tel­lect. Dur­ing the times im­me­di­ately fol­low­ing sur­vival, the as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity is in great mea­sure guided by the char­ac­ter pat­terns in­her­ited from the hu­man life and by the newly ap­pear­ing ac­tion of mor­ontia mota. And these guides to man­so­nia con­duct func­tion ac­cept­ably in the early stages of the mor­ontia life and prior to the emer­gence of mor­ontia will as a full-fledged vo­li­tional ex­pres­sion of the as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity.

112:6.6There are no in­flu­ences in the lo­cal uni­verse ca­reer com­pa­ra­ble to the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of hu­man ex­is­tence. The mor­ontia mind must evolve by di­rect con­tact with cos­mic mind, as this cos­mic mind has been mod­i­fied and trans­lated by the cre­ative source of lo­cal uni­verse in­tel­lect—the Di­vine Min­is­ter.

112:6.7Mor­tal mind, prior to death, is self-con­sciously in­de­pen­dent of the Ad­juster pres­ence; ad­ju­tant mind needs only the as­so­ci­ated ma­te­rial-en­ergy pat­tern to en­able it to op­er­ate. But the mor­ontia soul, be­ing super­ad­ju­tant, does not re­tain self-con­scious­ness with­out the Ad­juster when de­prived of the ma­te­rial-mind mech­a­nism. This evolv­ing soul does, how­ever, pos­sess a con­tin­u­ing char­ac­ter de­rived from the de­ci­sions of its for­mer as­so­ci­ated ad­ju­tant mind, and this char­ac­ter be­comes ac­tive mem­ory when the pat­terns thereof are en­er­gized by the re­turn­ing Ad­juster.

112:6.8The per­sis­tence of mem­ory is proof of the re­ten­tion of the iden­tity of orig­i­nal self­hood; it is es­sen­tial to com­plete self-con­scious­ness of per­son­al­ity con­ti­nu­ity and ex­pan­sion. Those mor­tals who as­cend with­out Ad­justers are de­pen­dent on the in­struc­tion of se­raphic as­so­ciates for the re­con­struc­tion of hu­man mem­ory; oth­er­wise the mor­ontia souls of the Spirit-fused mor­tals are not lim­ited. The pat­tern of mem­ory per­sists in the soul, but this pat­tern re­quires the pres­ence of the for­mer Ad­juster to be­come im­me­di­ately self-re­al­iz­able as con­tin­u­ing mem­ory. With­out the Ad­juster, it re­quires con­sid­er­able time for the mor­tal sur­vivor to re-ex­plore and re­learn, to re­cap­ture, the mem­ory con­scious­ness of the mean­ings and val­ues of a for­mer ex­is­tence.

112:6.9The soul of sur­vival value faith­fully re­flects both the qual­i­ta­tive and the quan­ti­ta­tive ac­tions and mo­ti­va­tions of the ma­te­rial in­tel­lect, the for­mer seat of the iden­tity of self­hood. In the choos­ing of truth, beauty, and good­ness, the mor­tal mind en­ters upon its pre­moron­tia uni­verse ca­reer un­der the tute­lage of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its uni­fied un­der the di­rec­tion of the spirit of wis­dom. Sub­se­quently, upon the com­ple­tion of the seven cir­cles of pre­moron­tia at­tain­ment, the super­im­po­si­tion of the en­dow­ment of mor­ontia mind upon ad­ju­tant mind ini­ti­ates the prespir­i­tual or mor­ontia ca­reer of lo­cal uni­verse pro­gres­sion.

112:6.10When a crea­ture leaves his na­tive planet, he leaves the ad­ju­tant min­istry be­hind and be­comes solely de­pen­dent on mor­ontia in­tel­lect. When an as­cender leaves the lo­cal uni­verse, he has at­tained the spir­i­tual level of ex­is­tence, hav­ing passed be­yond the mor­ontia level. This newly ap­pear­ing spirit en­tity then be­comes at­tuned to the di­rect min­istry of the cos­mic mind of Or­von­ton.

101:5.14In­creas­ingly through­out the mor­ontia pro­gres­sion the as­sur­ance of truth re­places the as­sur­ance of faith. When you are fi­nally mus­tered into the ac­tual spirit world, then will the as­sur­ances of pure spirit in­sight op­er­ate in the place of faith and truth or, rather, in con­junc­tion with, and super­im­posed upon, these for­mer tech­niques of per­son­al­ity as­sur­ance.

103:5.7The pur­suit of the ideal—the striv­ing to be God­like—is a con­tin­u­ous ef­fort be­fore death and af­ter. The life af­ter death is no dif­fer­ent in the es­sen­tials than the mor­tal ex­is­tence. Ev­ery­thing we do in this life which is good con­tributes di­rectly to the en­hance­ment of the fu­ture life. Real re­li­gion does not fos­ter moral in­do­lence and spir­i­tual lazi­ness by en­cour­ag­ing the vain hope of hav­ing all the virtues of a no­ble char­ac­ter be­stowed upon one as a re­sult of pass­ing through the por­tals of nat­u­ral death. True re­li­gion does not be­lit­tle man’s ef­forts to pro­gress dur­ing the mor­tal lease on life. Ev­ery mor­tal gain is a di­rect con­tri­bu­tion to the en­rich­ment of the first stages of the im­mor­tal sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence.

48:3.157. Area and Build­ing Cus­to­di­ans. Even the ma­te­rial and mor­ontia struc­tures in­crease in per­fec­tion and grandeur as you ad­vance in the man­so­nia ca­reer. As in­di­vid­u­als and as groups you are per­mit­ted to make cer­tain changes in the abodes as­signed as head­quar­ters for your so­journ on the dif­fer­ent man­sion worlds. Many of the ac­tiv­i­ties of these spheres take place in the open en­clo­sures of the var­i­ously des­ig­nated cir­cles, squares, and tri­an­gles. The ma­jor­ity of the man­sion world struc­tures are roof­less, be­ing en­clo­sures of mag­nif­i­cent con­struc­tion and ex­qui­site em­bel­lish­ment. The cli­matic and other phys­i­cal con­di­tions pre­vail­ing on the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds make roofs wholly un­nec­es­sary.

30:3.12Mor­ontia mor­tals are stu­dent vis­i­tors only within the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse of their ori­gin. They may visit in a super­uni­verse ca­pac­ity only af­ter they have at­tained spirit sta­tus. Fully one half of our vis­i­tor colony con­sists of “stopovers,” be­ings en route else­where who pause to visit the Or­von­ton cap­i­tal. These per­son­al­i­ties may be ex­e­cut­ing a uni­verse as­sign­ment, or they may be en­joy­ing a pe­riod of leisure—free­dom from as­sign­ment. The priv­i­lege of in­trau­ni­verse travel and ob­ser­va­tion is a part of the ca­reer of all as­cend­ing be­ings. The hu­man de­sire to travel and ob­serve new peo­ples and worlds will be fully grat­i­fied dur­ing the long and event­ful climb to Par­a­dise through the lo­cal, su­per-, and cen­tral uni­verses.

119:6.1Now that all Sal­ving­ton was fa­mil­iar with the pre­lim­i­nar­ies of an im­pend­ing be­stowal, Mi­chael called the so­journ­ers on the head­quar­ters planet to­gether and, for the first time, un­folded the re­main­der of the in­car­na­tion plan, an­nounc­ing that he was soon to leave Sal­ving­ton for the pur­pose of as­sum­ing the ca­reer of a mor­ontia mor­tal at the courts of the Most High Fa­thers on the head­quar­ters planet of the fifth con­stel­la­tion. And then we heard for the first time the an­nounce­ment that his sev­enth and fi­nal be­stowal would be made on some evo­lu­tion­ary world in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh.

119:6.2Be­fore leav­ing Sal­ving­ton for the sixth be­stowal, Mi­chael ad­dressed the as­sem­bled in­hab­i­tants of the sphere and de­parted in full view of ev­ery­one, ac­com­pa­nied by a lone ser­a­phim and the Bright and Morn­ing Star of Neb­a­don. While the di­rec­tion of the uni­verse had again been in­trusted to Im­manuel, there was a wider dis­tri­bu­tion of ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

119:6.3Mi­chael ap­peared on the head­quar­ters of con­stel­la­tion five as a full-fledged mor­ontia mor­tal of as­cend­ing sta­tus. I re­gret that I am for­bid­den to re­veal the de­tails of this un­num­bered mor­ontia mor­tal’s ca­reer, for it was one of the most ex­traor­di­nary and amaz­ing epochs in Mi­chael’s be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence, not even ex­cept­ing his dra­matic and tragic so­journ on Uran­tia. But among the many re­stric­tions im­posed upon me in ac­cept­ing this com­mis­sion is one which for­bids my un­der­tak­ing to un­fold the de­tails of this won­der­ful ca­reer of Mi­chael as the mor­ontia mor­tal of En­dan­tum.

119:6.4When Mi­chael re­turned from this mor­ontia be­stowal, it was ap­par­ent to all of us that our Cre­ator had be­come a fel­low crea­ture, that the Uni­verse Sov­er­eign was also the friend and sym­pa­thetic helper of even the low­est form of cre­ated in­tel­li­gence in his realms. We had noted this pro­gres­sive ac­quire­ment of the crea­ture’s view­point in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion be­fore this, for it had been grad­u­ally ap­pear­ing, but it be­came more ap­par­ent af­ter the com­ple­tion of the mor­ontia mor­tal be­stowal, even still more so af­ter his re­turn from the ca­reer of the car­pen­ter’s son on Uran­tia.

119:6.5We were in­formed in ad­vance by Ga­briel of the time of Mi­chael’s re­lease from the mor­ontia be­stowal, and ac­cord­ingly we ar­ranged a suit­able re­cep­tion on Sal­ving­ton. Mil­lions upon mil­lions of be­ings were as­sem­bled from the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds of Neb­a­don, and a ma­jor­ity of the so­journ­ers on the worlds ad­ja­cent to Sal­ving­ton were gath­ered to­gether to wel­come him back to the ruler­ship of his uni­verse. In re­sponse to our many ad­dresses of wel­come and ex­pres­sions of ap­pre­ci­a­tion of a Sov­er­eign so vi­tally in­ter­ested in his crea­tures, he only replied: “I have sim­ply been about my Fa­ther’s busi­ness. I am only do­ing the plea­sure of the Par­a­dise Sons who love and crave to un­der­stand their crea­tures.”

119:6.6But from that day down to the hour when Mi­chael em­barked upon his Uran­tia ad­ven­ture as the Son of Man, all Neb­a­don con­tin­ued to dis­cuss the many ex­ploits of their Sov­er­eign Ruler as he func­tioned on En­dan­tum as the be­stowal in­car­na­tion of a mor­ontia mor­tal of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion, be­ing in all points tested like his fel­lows as­sem­bled from the ma­te­rial worlds of the en­tire con­stel­la­tion of his so­journ.

• ascenders have 570 morontia bodies in course of morontia life

42:10.53. Evolv­ing mor­ontia minds—the ex­pand­ing con­scious­ness of evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties in the lo­cal uni­verse as­cend­ing ca­reers. This is the be­stowal of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit in li­ai­son with the Cre­ator Son. This mind level con­notes the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the mor­ontia type of life ve­hi­cle, a syn­the­sis of the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual which is ef­fected by the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors of a lo­cal uni­verse. Mor­ontia mind func­tions dif­fer­en­tially in re­sponse to the 570 lev­els of mor­ontia life, dis­clos­ing in­creas­ing as­so­cia­tive ca­pac­ity with the cos­mic mind on the higher lev­els of at­tain­ment. This is the evo­lu­tion­ary course of mor­tal crea­tures, but mind of a non­moron­tia or­der is also be­stowed by a Uni­verse Son and a Uni­verse Spirit upon the non­moron­tia chil­dren of the lo­cal cre­ations.

• highly individual; vary with nature of inner person
• individualized by the morontia mind

42:12.11The li­ai­son of the cos­mic mind and the min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its evolve a suit­able phys­i­cal taber­na­cle for the evolv­ing hu­man be­ing. Like­wise does the mor­ontia mind in­di­vid­u­al­ize the mor­ontia form for all mor­tal sur­vivors. As the mor­tal body is per­sonal and char­ac­ter­is­tic for ev­ery hu­man be­ing, so will the mor­ontia form be highly in­di­vid­ual and ad­e­quately char­ac­ter­is­tic of the cre­ative mind which dom­i­nates it. No two mor­ontia forms are any more alike than any two hu­man bod­ies. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors spon­sor, and the at­tend­ing ser­a­phim pro­vide, the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated mor­ontia ma­te­rial where­with the mor­ontia life can be­gin to work. And af­ter the mor­ontia life it will be found that spirit forms are equally di­verse, per­sonal, and char­ac­ter­is­tic of their re­spec­tive spirit-mind in­dwellers.

• require food and drink; no residual waste

43:6.6The veg­etable life is also very dif­fer­ent from that of Uran­tia, con­sist­ing of both ma­te­rial and mor­ontia va­ri­eties. The ma­te­rial growths have a char­ac­ter­is­tic green col­oration, but the mor­ontia equiv­a­lents of veg­e­ta­tive life have a vi­o­let or or­chid tinge of vary­ing hue and re­flec­tion. Such mor­ontia veg­e­ta­tion is purely an en­ergy growth; when eaten there is no resid­ual por­tion.

• morontia-form changes necessary for each successive sphere; re-keying performed by selective assorters

43:7.1Uni­v­i­ta­tia are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of Eden­tia and its as­so­ci­ated worlds, all seven hun­dred sev­enty worlds sur­round­ing the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters be­ing un­der their super­vi­sion. These chil­dren of the Cre­ator Son and the Cre­ative Spirit are pro­jected on a plane of ex­is­tence in be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual, but they are not mor­ontia crea­tures. The na­tives of each of the sev­enty ma­jor spheres of Eden­tia pos­sess dif­fer­ent vis­i­ble forms, and the mor­ontia mor­tals have their mor­ontia forms at­tuned to cor­re­spond with the as­cend­ing scale of the uni­v­i­ta­tia each time they change res­i­dence from one Eden­tia sphere to an­other as they pass suc­ces­sively from world num­ber one to world num­ber sev­enty.

• morontia-form changes necessary for each successive sphere; re-keying performed by selective assorters

43:8.2The time spent on the sev­enty train­ing worlds of tran­si­tion mor­ontia cul­ture as­so­ci­ated with the Eden­tia age of mor­tal as­cen­sion, is the most set­tled pe­riod in an as­cend­ing mor­tal’s ca­reer up to the sta­tus of a fi­nal­i­ter; this is re­ally the typ­i­cal mor­ontia life. While you are re-keyed each time you pass from one ma­jor cul­tural world to an­other, you re­tain the same mor­ontia body, and there are no pe­ri­ods of per­son­al­ity un­con­scious­ness.

• are like angels’

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.

• enormous range of vision

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.

• morontia-form changes necessary for each successive sphere; re-keying performed by selective assorters

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.

• require food and drink; no residual waste

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.

• retain same form until becoming first-stage spirits

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.

• ascenders have 570 morontia bodies in course of morontia life
• morontia-form changes necessary for each successive sphere; re-keying performed by selective assorters

48:1.5The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able to ef­fect a union of ma­te­rial and of spir­i­tual en­er­gies, thereby or­ga­niz­ing a mor­ontia form of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion which is re­cep­tive to the super­im­po­si­tion of a con­trol­ling spirit. When you tra­verse the mor­ontia life of Neb­a­don, these same pa­tient and skill­ful Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors will suc­ces­sively pro­vide you with 570 mor­ontia bod­ies, each one a phase of your pro­gres­sive trans­for­ma­tion. From the time of leav­ing the ma­te­rial worlds un­til you are con­sti­tuted a first-stage spirit on Sal­ving­ton, you will un­dergo just 570 sep­a­rate and as­cend­ing mor­ontia changes. Eight of these oc­cur in the sys­tem, sev­enty-one in the con­stel­la­tion, and 491 dur­ing the so­journ on the spheres of Sal­ving­ton.

48:1.6In the days of the mor­tal flesh the di­vine spirit in­dwells you, al­most as a thing apart—in re­al­ity an in­va­sion of man by the be­stowed spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But in the mor­ontia life the spirit will be­come a real part of your per­son­al­ity, and as you suc­ces­sively pass through the 570 pro­gres­sive trans­for­ma­tions, you as­cend from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual es­tate of crea­ture life.

• ascenders have 570 morontia bodies in course of morontia life
• morontia-form changes necessary for each successive sphere; re-keying performed by selective assorters

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.

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.

48:2.194. Com­bined Con­trol­lers. One of these highly me­chan­i­cal be­ings is al­ways sta­tioned at the cen­ter of each ad­min­is­tra­tive unit of a mor­ontia world. A com­bined con­trol­ler is sen­si­tive to, and func­tional with, phys­i­cal, spir­i­tual, and mor­ontial en­er­gies; and with this be­ing there are al­ways as­so­ci­ated two sys­tem co-or­di­na­tors, four cir­cuit reg­u­la­tors, one plan­e­tary cus­to­dian, one li­ai­son sta­bi­lizer, and ei­ther an as­so­ciate reg­is­trar or a se­lec­tive as­sorter.

48:2.205. Li­ai­son Sta­bi­liz­ers. These are the reg­u­la­tors of the mor­ontia en­ergy in as­so­ci­a­tion with the phys­i­cal and spirit forces of the realm. They make pos­si­ble the con­ver­sion of mor­ontia en­ergy into mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The whole mor­ontia or­ga­ni­za­tion of ex­is­tence is de­pen­dent on the sta­bi­liz­ers. They slow down the en­ergy rev­o­lu­tions to that point where phys­i­cal­iza­tion can oc­cur. But I have no terms with which I can com­pare or il­lus­trate the min­istry of such be­ings. It is quite be­yond hu­man imag­i­na­tion.

48:2.216. Se­lec­tive As­sorters. As you pro­gress from one class or phase of a mor­ontia world to an­other, you must be re-keyed or ad­vance-tuned, and it is the task of the se­lec­tive as­sorters to keep you in pro­gres­sive syn­chrony with the mor­ontia life.

48:2.22While the ba­sic mor­ontia forms of life and mat­ter are iden­ti­cal from the first man­sion world to the last uni­verse tran­si­tion sphere, there is a func­tional pro­gres­sion which grad­u­ally ex­tends from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual. Your adap­ta­tion to this ba­si­cally uni­form but suc­ces­sively ad­vanc­ing and spir­i­tiz­ing cre­ation is ef­fected by this se­lec­tive re-key­ing. Such an ad­just­ment in the mech­a­nism of per­son­al­ity is tan­ta­mount to a new cre­ation, not­with­stand­ing that you re­tain the same mor­ontia form.

• subject to certain accidents

50:3.3The Life Car­ri­ers, the ar­chi­tects of form, pro­vide such vol­un­teers with new phys­i­cal bod­ies, which they oc­cupy for the pe­ri­ods of their plan­e­tary so­journ. These per­son­al­ity forms, while ex­empt from the or­di­nary dis­eases of the realms, are, like the early mor­ontia bod­ies, sub­ject to cer­tain ac­ci­dents of a me­chan­i­cal na­ture.

• do not have circulating blood or eat ordinary food

190:0.3The mor­tals of the realms will arise in the morn­ing of the res­ur­rec­tion with the same type of tran­si­tion or mor­ontia body that Je­sus had when he arose from the tomb on this Sun­day morn­ing. These bod­ies do not have cir­cu­lat­ing blood, and such be­ings do not par­take of or­di­nary ma­te­rial food; nev­er­the­less, these mor­ontia forms are real. When the var­i­ous be­liev­ers saw Je­sus af­ter his res­ur­rec­tion, they re­ally saw him; they were not the self-de­ceived vic­tims of vi­sions or hal­lu­ci­na­tions.

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.

30:4.19Mor­ontia pro­gres­sion per­tains to con­tin­u­ing ad­vance­ment of in­tel­lect, spirit, and per­son­al­ity form. Sur­vivors are still three-na­tured be­ings. Through­out the en­tire mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence they are wards of the lo­cal uni­verse. The regime of the super­uni­verse does not func­tion un­til the spirit ca­reer be­gins.

30:4.20Mor­tals ac­quire real spirit iden­tity just be­fore they leave the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters for the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the mi­nor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse. Pass­ing from the fi­nal mor­ontia stage to the first or low­est spirit sta­tus is but a slight tran­si­tion. The mind, per­son­al­ity, and char­ac­ter are un­changed by such an ad­vance; only does the form un­dergo mod­i­fi­ca­tion. But the spirit form is just as real as the mor­ontia body, and it is equally dis­cern­i­ble.

30:4.21Be­fore de­part­ing from their na­tive lo­cal uni­verses for the super­uni­verse re­ceiv­ing worlds, the mor­tals of time are re­cip­i­ents of spirit con­fir­ma­tion from the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. From this point on, the sta­tus of the as­cend­ing mor­tal is for­ever set­tled. Super­uni­verse wards have never been known to go astray. As­cend­ing ser­a­phim are also ad­vanced in an­gelic stand­ing at the time of their de­par­ture from the lo­cal uni­verses.

30:4.266. Ha­vona Pil­grims. When spirit de­vel­op­ment is com­plete, even though not re­plete, then the sur­viv­ing mor­tal pre­pares for the long flight to Ha­vona, the haven of evo­lu­tion­ary spir­its. On earth you were a crea­ture of flesh and blood; through the lo­cal uni­verse you were a mor­ontia be­ing; through the super­uni­verse you were an evolv­ing spirit; with your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona your spir­i­tual ed­u­ca­tion be­gins in re­al­ity and in earnest; your even­tual ap­pear­ance on Par­a­dise will be as a per­fected spirit.

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.

48:0.2The mor­ontia life, ex­tend­ing as it does over the var­i­ous stages of the lo­cal uni­verse ca­reer, is the only pos­si­ble ap­proach whereby ma­te­rial mor­tals could at­tain the thresh­old of the spirit world. What magic could death, the nat­u­ral dis­so­lu­tion of the ma­te­rial body, hold that such a sim­ple step should in­stantly trans­form the mor­tal and ma­te­rial mind into an im­mor­tal and per­fected spirit? Such be­liefs are but ig­no­rant su­per­sti­tions and pleas­ing fa­bles.

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.

53:7.11Hour by hour and day by day the broad­cast sta­tions of all Neb­a­don were thronged by the anx­ious watch­ers of ev­ery imag­in­able class of ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gence, who in­tently pe­rused the bul­letins of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion and re­joiced as the re­ports con­tin­u­ously nar­rated the unswerv­ing loy­alty of the as­cend­ing mor­tals who, un­der their Mel­chiz­e­dek lead­er­ship, suc­cess­fully with­stood the com­bined and pro­tracted ef­forts of all the sub­tle evil forces which so swiftly gath­ered around the ban­ners of se­ces­sion and sin.

53:7.12It was over two years of sys­tem time from the be­gin­ning of the “war in heaven” un­til the in­stal­la­tion of Lu­cifer’s suc­ces­sor. But at last the new Sov­er­eign came, land­ing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the re­serves mo­bi­lized on Eden­tia by Ga­briel, and I well re­mem­ber the first mes­sage of Lanaforge to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. It read: “Not a sin­gle Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen was lost. Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal sur­vived the fiery trial and emerged from the cru­cial test tri­umphant and al­to­gether vic­to­ri­ous.” And on to Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, and Par­a­dise went this mes­sage of as­sur­ance that the sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal as­cen­sion is the great­est se­cu­rity against re­bel­lion and the surest safe­guard against sin. This no­ble Je­ru­sem band of faith­ful mor­tals num­bered just 187,432,811.

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.”

48:3.103. Hosts to Ce­les­tial Vis­i­tors. These gra­cious crea­tures are ded­i­cated to the en­ter­tain­ment of the super­hu­man groups of stu­dent vis­i­tors and other ce­les­tials who may chance to so­journ on the tran­si­tion worlds. You will have am­ple op­por­tu­nity to visit within any realm you have ex­pe­ri­en­tially at­tained. Stu­dent vis­i­tors are al­lowed on all in­hab­ited plan­ets, even those in iso­la­tion.

48:2.26All mor­ontia tran­si­tion realms are ac­ces­si­ble alike to ma­te­rial and spirit be­ings. As mor­ontia pro­gres­sors you will re­main in full con­tact with the ma­te­rial world and with ma­te­rial per­son­al­i­ties, while you will in­creas­ingly dis­cern and frat­er­nize with spirit be­ings; and by the time of de­par­ture from the mor­ontia regime, you will have seen all or­ders of spir­its with the ex­cep­tion of a few of the higher types, such as Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

44:0.18There is also here with me a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa, an as­cen­dant Ad­juster-fused, one­time mor­tal be­ing, and he per­ceives you as you are, and at the same time he vi­su­al­izes the Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, the super­na­phim, and other ce­les­tial be­ings pres­ent. Never in your long as­cen­dancy will you lose the power to rec­og­nize your as­so­ciates of for­mer ex­is­tences. Al­ways, as you as­cend in­ward in the scale of life, will you re­tain the abil­ity to rec­og­nize and frat­er­nize with the fel­low be­ings of your pre­vi­ous and lower lev­els of ex­pe­ri­ence. Each new trans­la­tion or res­ur­rec­tion will add one more group of spirit be­ings to your vi­sion range with­out in the least de­priv­ing you of the abil­ity to rec­og­nize your friends and fel­lows of for­mer es­tates.

• progressively more difficult tasks given to perform

25:7.2Though you will have earnest and pro­gres­sively dif­fi­cult tasks to per­form on the mor­ontia train­ing worlds of Neb­a­don, you will al­ways be pro­vided with reg­u­lar sea­sons of rest and re­ver­sion. Through­out the jour­ney to Par­a­dise there will al­ways be time for rest and spirit play; and in the ca­reer of light and life there is al­ways time for wor­ship and new achieve­ment.

• no time limit set for progression

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.

43:8.1The phys­i­cal en­dow­ment of Eden­tia and its sur­round­ing spheres is well-nigh per­fect; they could hardly equal the spir­i­tual grandeur of the spheres of Sal­ving­ton, but they far sur­pass the glo­ries of the train­ing worlds of Je­ru­sem. All these Eden­tia spheres are en­er­gized di­rectly by the uni­ver­sal space cur­rents, and their enor­mous power sys­tems, both ma­te­rial and mor­ontial, are ex­pertly super­vised and dis­tributed by the con­stel­la­tion cen­ters, as­sisted by a com­pe­tent corps of Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

43:8.3Your so­journ on Eden­tia and its as­so­ci­ated spheres will be chiefly oc­cu­pied with the mas­tery of group ethics, the se­cret of pleas­ant and prof­itable in­ter­re­la­tion­ship be­tween the var­i­ous uni­verse and super­uni­verse or­ders of in­tel­li­gent per­son­al­i­ties.

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:

43:8.51. Live hap­pily and work ef­fec­tively with ten di­verse fel­low mor­ontians, while ten such groups are as­so­ci­ated in com­pa­nies of one hun­dred and then fed­er­ated in corps of one thou­sand.

43:8.62. Abide joy­fully and co-op­er­ate heart­ily with ten uni­v­i­ta­tia, who, though sim­i­lar in­tel­lec­tu­ally to mor­ontia be­ings, are very dif­fer­ent in ev­ery other way. And then must you func­tion with this group of ten as it co-or­di­nates with ten other fam­i­lies, which are in turn con­fed­er­ated into a corps of one thou­sand uni­v­i­ta­tia.

43:8.73. Achieve si­mul­ta­ne­ous ad­just­ment to both fel­low mor­ontians and these host uni­v­i­ta­tia. Ac­quire the abil­ity vol­un­tar­ily and ef­fec­tively to co-op­er­ate with your own or­der of be­ings in close work­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with a some­what dis­sim­i­lar group of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures.

43:8.84. While thus so­cially func­tion­ing with be­ings like and un­like your­self, achieve in­tel­lec­tual har­mony with, and make vo­ca­tional ad­just­ment to, both groups of as­so­ciates.

43:8.95. While at­tain­ing sat­is­fac­tory so­cial­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity on in­tel­lec­tual and vo­ca­tional lev­els, fur­ther per­fect the abil­ity to live in in­ti­mate con­tact with sim­i­lar and slightly dis­sim­i­lar be­ings with ever-less­en­ing ir­ri­tabil­ity and ever-di­min­ish­ing re­sent­ment. The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors con­tribute much to this lat­ter at­tain­ment through their group-play ac­tiv­i­ties.

43:8.106. Ad­just all of these var­i­ous so­cial­iza­tion tech­niques to the fur­ther­ance of the pro­gres­sive co-or­di­na­tion of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer; aug­ment uni­verse in­sight by en­hanc­ing the abil­ity to grasp the eter­nal goal-mean­ings con­cealed within these seem­ingly in­signif­i­cant time-space ac­tiv­i­ties.

43:8.117. And then, cli­max all of these pro­ce­dures of mul­ti­so­cial­iza­tion with the con­cur­rent en­hance­ment of spir­i­tual in­sight as it per­tains to the aug­men­ta­tion of all phases of per­sonal en­dow­ment through group spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion and mor­ontia co-or­di­na­tion. In­tel­lec­tu­ally, so­cially, and spir­i­tu­ally two moral crea­tures do not merely dou­ble their per­sonal po­ten­tials of uni­verse achieve­ment by part­ner­ship tech­nique; they more nearly quadru­ple their at­tain­ment and ac­com­plish­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties.

43:8.12We have por­trayed Eden­tia so­cial­iza­tion as an as­so­ci­a­tion of a mor­ontia mor­tal with a uni­v­i­ta­tia fam­ily group con­sist­ing of ten in­tel­lec­tu­ally dis­sim­i­lar in­di­vid­u­als con­comi­tant with a sim­i­lar as­so­ci­a­tion with ten fel­low mor­ontians. But on the first seven ma­jor worlds only one as­cend­ing mor­tal lives with ten uni­v­i­ta­tia. On the sec­ond group of seven ma­jor worlds two mor­tals abide with each na­tive group of ten, and so on up un­til, on the last group of seven ma­jor spheres, ten mor­ontia be­ings are domi­ciled with ten uni­v­i­ta­tia. As you learn how bet­ter to so­cial­ize with the uni­v­i­ta­tia, you will prac­tice such im­proved ethics in your re­la­tions with your fel­low mor­ontia pro­gres­sors.

43:8.13As as­cend­ing mor­tals you will en­joy your so­journ on the prog­ress worlds of Eden­tia, but you will not ex­pe­ri­ence that per­sonal thrill of sat­is­fac­tion which char­ac­ter­izes your ini­tial con­tact with uni­verse af­fairs on the sys­tem head­quar­ters or your farewell touch with these re­al­i­ties on the fi­nal worlds of the uni­verse cap­i­tal.

45:6.1The Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, to­gether with their chil­dren, pre­sent an en­gag­ing spec­ta­cle which never fails to arouse the cu­rios­ity and in­trigue the at­ten­tion of all as­cend­ing mor­tals. They are so sim­i­lar to your own ma­te­rial sex races that you both find much of com­mon in­ter­est to en­gage your thoughts and oc­cupy your sea­sons of fra­ter­nal con­tact.

45:6.2Mor­tal sur­vivors spend much of their leisure on the sys­tem cap­i­tal ob­serv­ing and study­ing the life habits and con­duct of these su­pe­rior semi­phys­i­cal sex crea­tures, for these cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem are the im­me­di­ate spon­sors and men­tors of the mor­tal sur­vivors from the time they at­tain cit­i­zen­ship on the head­quar­ters world un­til they take leave for Eden­tia.

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.

• learn languages much as we do down here

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.

• career equally divided between work and play

48:4.1Joy­ful mirth and the smile-equiv­a­lent are as uni­ver­sal as mu­sic. There is a mor­ontial and a spir­i­tual equiv­a­lent of mirth and laugh­ter. The as­cen­dant life is about equally di­vided be­tween work and play—free­dom from as­sign­ment.

• divestment of erroneous ideas of God and spirit

102:4.4The el­e­ment of er­ror pres­ent in hu­man re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence is di­rectly pro­por­tional to the con­tent of ma­te­ri­al­ism which con­tam­i­nates the spir­i­tual con­cept of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Man’s pre­spirit pro­gres­sion in the uni­verse con­sists in the ex­pe­ri­ence of di­vest­ing him­self of these er­ro­neous ideas of the na­ture of God and of the re­al­ity of pure and true spirit. De­ity is more than spirit, but the spir­i­tual ap­proach is the only one pos­si­ble to as­cend­ing man.

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.

55:6.8But 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.

43:1.2The wa­ter of Eden­tia and sim­i­lar ar­chi­tec­tural spheres is no dif­fer­ent from the wa­ter of the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. The wa­ter sys­tems of such spheres are both sur­face and sub­ter­ranean, and the mois­ture is in con­stant cir­cu­la­tion. Eden­tia can be cir­cum­nav­i­gated via these var­i­ous wa­ter routes, though the chief chan­nel of trans­porta­tion is the at­mo­sphere. Spirit be­ings would nat­u­rally travel above the sur­face of the sphere, while the mor­ontia and ma­te­rial be­ings make use of ma­te­rial and semi­ma­te­rial means to ne­go­ti­ate at­mo­spheric pas­sage.