morontia worlds

43:1.3Eden­tia and its as­so­ci­ated worlds have a true at­mo­sphere, the usual three-gas mix­ture which is char­ac­ter­is­tic of such ar­chi­tec­tural cre­ations, and which em­bod­ies the two el­e­ments of Uran­tian at­mo­sphere plus that mor­ontia gas suit­able for the res­pi­ra­tion of mor­ontia crea­tures. But while this at­mo­sphere is both ma­te­rial and mor­ontial, there are no storms or hur­ri­canes; nei­ther is there sum­mer nor win­ter. This ab­sence of at­mo­spheric dis­tur­bances and of sea­sonal vari­a­tion makes it pos­si­ble to em­bel­lish all out­doors on these es­pe­cially cre­ated worlds.

46:2.2There are thou­sands upon thou­sands of small lakes but no rag­ing rivers nor ex­pan­sive oceans. There is no rain­fall, nei­ther storms nor bliz­zards, on any of the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds, but there is the daily pre­cip­i­ta­tion of the con­den­sa­tion of mois­ture dur­ing the time of low­est tem­per­a­ture at­tend­ing the light re­ces­sion. (The dew point is higher on a three-gas world than on a two-gas planet like Uran­tia.) The phys­i­cal plant life and the mor­ontia world of liv­ing things both re­quire mois­ture, but this is largely sup­plied by the sub­soil sys­tem of cir­cu­la­tion which ex­tends all over the sphere, even up to the very tops of the high­lands. This wa­ter sys­tem is not en­tirely sub­sur­face, for there are many canals in­ter­con­nect­ing the sparkling lakes of Je­ru­sem.

46:2.3The at­mo­sphere of Je­ru­sem is a three-gas mix­ture. This air is very sim­i­lar to that of Uran­tia with the ad­di­tion of a gas adapted to the res­pi­ra­tion of the mor­ontia or­der of life. This third gas in no way un­fits the air for the res­pi­ra­tion of an­i­mals or plants of the ma­te­rial or­ders.

43:6.4The ar­chi­tec­tural worlds en­joy ten forms of life of the ma­te­rial or­der. On Uran­tia there is plant and an­i­mal life, but on such a world as Eden­tia there are ten di­vi­sions of the ma­te­rial or­ders of life. Were you to view these ten di­vi­sions of Eden­tia life, you would quickly clas­sify the first three as veg­etable and the last three as an­i­mal, but you would be ut­terly un­able to com­pre­hend the na­ture of the in­ter­ven­ing four groups of pro­lific and fas­ci­nat­ing forms of life.

43:6.5Even the dis­tinc­tively an­i­mal life is very dif­fer­ent from that of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, so dif­fer­ent that it is quite im­pos­si­ble to por­tray to mor­tal minds the unique char­ac­ter and af­fec­tion­ate na­ture of these non­speak­ing crea­tures. There are thou­sands upon thou­sands of liv­ing crea­tures which your imag­i­na­tion could not pos­si­bly pic­ture. The whole an­i­mal cre­ation is of an en­tirely dif­fer­ent or­der from the gross an­i­mal species of the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. But all this an­i­mal life is most in­tel­li­gent and ex­qui­sitely ser­vice­able, and all the var­i­ous species are sur­pris­ingly gen­tle and touch­ingly com­pan­ion­able. There are no car­niv­o­rous crea­tures on such ar­chi­tec­tural worlds; there is noth­ing in all Eden­tia to make any liv­ing be­ing afraid.

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.

43:6.7Be­ing en­dowed with ten di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life, not to men­tion the mor­ontia vari­a­tions, these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds pro­vide tremen­dous pos­si­bil­i­ties for the bi­o­logic beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of the land­scape and of the ma­te­rial and the mor­ontia struc­tures. The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the na­tive sporna­gia in this ex­ten­sive work of botanic dec­o­ra­tion and bi­o­logic em­bel­lish­ment. Whereas your artists must re­sort to in­ert paint and life­less mar­ble to por­tray their con­cepts, the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and the uni­v­i­ta­tia more fre­quently uti­lize liv­ing ma­te­ri­als to rep­re­sent their ideas and to cap­ture their ide­als.

43:6.8If you en­joy the flow­ers, shrubs, and trees of Uran­tia, then will you feast your eyes upon the botan­i­cal beauty and the flo­ral grandeur of the su­per­nal gar­dens of Eden­tia. But it is be­yond my pow­ers of de­scrip­tion to un­der­take to con­vey to the mor­tal mind an ad­e­quate con­cept of these beau­ties of the heav­enly worlds. Truly, eye has not seen such glo­ries as await your ar­rival on these worlds of the mor­tal-as­cen­sion ad­ven­ture.

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.

48:1.3All of these worlds are ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, and they have just dou­ble the num­ber of el­e­ments of the evolved plan­ets. Such made-to-or­der worlds not only abound in the heavy met­als and crys­tals, hav­ing one hun­dred phys­i­cal el­e­ments, but like­wise have ex­actly one hun­dred forms of a unique en­ergy or­ga­ni­za­tion called mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able so to mod­ify the rev­o­lu­tions of the pri­mary units of mat­ter and at the same time so to trans­form these as­so­ci­a­tions of en­ergy as to cre­ate this new sub­stance.

43:6.1The sys­tem cap­i­tals are par­tic­u­larly beau­ti­fied with ma­te­rial and min­eral con­struc­tions, while the uni­verse head­quar­ters is more re­flec­tive of spir­i­tual glory, but the cap­i­tals of the con­stel­la­tions are the acme of mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties and liv­ing em­bel­lish­ments. On the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters worlds liv­ing em­bel­lish­ment is more gen­er­ally uti­lized, and it is this pre­pon­der­ance of life—botanic artistry—that causes these worlds to be called “the gar­dens of God.”

16:4.5Un­ques­tion­ably, when we en­counter the func­tional ac­tiv­i­ties of the var­i­ous Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors, we are face to face with cer­tain of the un­re­vealed ac­tiv­i­ties of the Mas­ter Spir­its. Who, aside from these an­ces­tors of both phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and spirit min­is­ters, could have con­trived so to com­bine and as­so­ciate ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual en­er­gies as to pro­duce a hith­erto nonex­is­tent phase of uni­verse re­al­ity—mor­ontia sub­stance and mor­ontia mind?

16:4.6Much of the re­al­ity of the spir­i­tual worlds is of the mor­ontia or­der, a phase of uni­verse re­al­ity wholly un­known on Uran­tia. The goal of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence is spir­i­tual, but the mor­ontia cre­ations al­ways in­ter­vene, bridg­ing the gulf be­tween the ma­te­rial realms of mor­tal ori­gin and the super­uni­verse spheres of ad­vanc­ing spir­i­tual sta­tus. It is in this realm that the Mas­ter Spir­its make their great con­tri­bu­tion to the plan of man’s Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

48:2.1These unique be­ings are ex­clu­sively con­cerned with the super­vi­sion of those ac­tiv­i­ties which rep­re­sent a work­ing com­bi­na­tion of spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal or semi­ma­te­rial en­er­gies. They are ex­clu­sively de­voted to the min­istry of mor­ontia pro­gres­sion. Not that they so much min­is­ter to mor­tals dur­ing the tran­si­tion ex­pe­ri­ence, but they rather make pos­si­ble the tran­si­tion en­vi­ron­ment for the pro­gress­ing mor­ontia crea­tures. They are the chan­nels of mor­ontia power which sus­tain and en­er­gize the mor­ontia phases of the tran­si­tion worlds.

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.

48:0.3Al­ways this mor­ontia tran­si­tion in­ter­venes be­tween the mor­tal es­tate and the sub­se­quent spirit sta­tus of sur­viv­ing hu­man be­ings. This in­ter­me­di­ate state of uni­verse prog­ress dif­fers markedly in the var­i­ous lo­cal cre­ations, but in in­tent and pur­pose they are all quite sim­i­lar. The ar­range­ment of the man­sion and higher mor­ontia worlds in Neb­a­don is fairly typ­i­cal of the mor­ontia tran­si­tion regimes in this part of Or­von­ton.

44:3.32. The vo­ca­tion builders—those who func­tion in de­sign­ing and as­sem­bling the abodes of the reg­u­lar and rou­tine work­ers of the spirit and mor­ontia realms. These builders are com­pa­ra­ble to those who con­struct the Uran­tia work­shops and other in­dus­trial plants. The tran­si­tion worlds have a nec­es­sary econ­omy of mu­tual min­istry and spe­cial­ized di­vi­sion of la­bor. We do not all do ev­ery­thing; there is di­ver­sity of func­tion among mor­ontia be­ings and evolv­ing spir­its, and these vo­ca­tion builders not only build bet­ter work­shops but also con­tribute to the vo­ca­tional en­hance­ment of the worker.

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.

43:7.2Spir­i­tu­ally, the uni­v­i­ta­tia are alike; in­tel­lec­tu­ally, they vary as do mor­tals; in form, they much re­sem­ble the mor­ontia state of ex­is­tence, and they are cre­ated to func­tion in sev­enty di­verse or­ders of per­son­al­ity. Each of these or­ders of uni­v­i­ta­tia ex­hibits ten ma­jor vari­a­tions of in­tel­lec­tual ac­tiv­ity, and each of these vary­ing in­tel­lec­tual types pre­sides over the spe­cial train­ing and cul­tural schools of pro­gres­sive oc­cu­pa­tional or prac­ti­cal so­cial­iza­tion on some one of the ten satel­lites which swing around each of the ma­jor Eden­tia worlds.

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