morontia

• defined as › substance of soul

0:5.104. Soul. The soul of man is an ex­pe­ri­en­tial ac­quire­ment. As a mor­tal crea­ture chooses to “do the will of the Fa­ther in heaven,” so the in­dwelling spirit be­comes the fa­ther of a new re­al­ity in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. The mor­tal and ma­te­rial mind is the mother of this same emerg­ing re­al­ity. The sub­stance of this new re­al­ity is nei­ther ma­te­rial nor spir­i­tual—it is mor­ontial. This is the emerg­ing and im­mor­tal soul which is des­tined to sur­vive mor­tal death and be­gin the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual
• defined as › warp is spiritual; woof is physical

0:5.12Mor­ontia is a term des­ig­nat­ing a vast level in­ter­ven­ing be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual. It may des­ig­nate per­sonal or im­per­sonal re­al­i­ties, liv­ing or non­liv­ing en­er­gies. The warp of mor­ontia is spir­i­tual; its woof is phys­i­cal.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual
• morontia energy › substance and mind created by Morontia Power Supervisors

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?

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual

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.

• morontia energy › controlled by Universe Power Directors

24:1.1The vast power cur­rents of space and the cir­cuits of spirit en­ergy may seem to op­er­ate au­to­mat­i­cally; they may ap­pear to func­tion with­out let or hin­drance, but such is not the case. All these stu­pen­dous sys­tems of en­ergy are un­der con­trol; they are sub­ject to in­tel­li­gent super­vi­sion. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors are con­cerned, not with the realms of purely phys­i­cal or ma­te­rial en­ergy—the do­main of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors—but with the cir­cuits of rel­a­tive spir­i­tual en­ergy and with those mod­i­fied cir­cuits which are es­sen­tial to the main­te­nance of both the highly de­vel­oped spir­i­tual be­ings and the mor­ontia or tran­si­tion type of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures. The super­vi­sors do not give ori­gin to cir­cuits of en­ergy and super­es­sence of di­vin­ity, but in gen­eral they have to do with all higher spirit cir­cuits of time and eter­nity and with all rel­a­tive spirit cir­cuits con­cerned in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the com­po­nent parts of the grand uni­verse. They di­rect and ma­nip­u­late all such spirit-en­ergy cir­cuits out­side the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• morontia energy › substance and mind created by Morontia Power Supervisors

42:2.4The phe­nom­ena in­dige­nous to the nether side of Par­a­dise prob­a­bly em­brace three zones of ab­so­lute force pres­ence and per­for­mance: the ful­cral zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the zone of the Isle of Par­a­dise it­self, and the in­ter­ven­ing zone of cer­tain uniden­ti­fied equal­iz­ing and com­pen­sat­ing agen­cies or func­tions. These tri­con­cen­tric zones are the cen­trum of the Par­a­dise cy­cle of cos­mic re­al­ity.

• creatures of m. respirate m. gas

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.

• morontia energy › melody produced by management of m. energy

44:1.53. En­ergy im­pinge­ments—mel­ody pro­duced by the skill­ful man­age­ment of the mor­ontia and spirit en­er­gies.

• invisible to human vision

44:3.21. The home de­sign­ers and builders—those who con­struct and re­model the abodes as­signed to in­di­vid­u­als and work­ing groups. These mor­ontia and spirit domi­ciles are real. They would be in­vis­i­ble to your short-range vi­sion, but they are very real and beau­ti­ful to us. To a cer­tain ex­tent, all spirit be­ings may share with the builders cer­tain de­tails of the plan­ning and cre­ation of their mor­ontia or spirit abodes. These homes are fit­ted up and em­bel­lished in ac­cor­dance with the needs of the mor­ontia or of the spirit crea­tures who are to in­habit them. There is abun­dant va­ri­ety and am­ple op­por­tu­nity for in­di­vid­ual ex­pres­sion in all these con­struc­tions.

• morontia energy › must be replenished

44:5.87. The teach­ers of rest. Di­vine rest is as­so­ci­ated with the tech­nique of spir­i­tual-en­ergy in­take. Mor­ontia and spirit en­ergy must be re­plen­ished just as cer­tainly as phys­i­cal en­ergy, but not for the same rea­sons. I am, per­force, com­pelled to em­ploy crude il­lus­tra­tions in my at­tempts to en­lighten you; nev­er­the­less, we of the spirit world must stop our reg­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties pe­ri­od­i­cally and be­take our­selves to suit­able places of ren­dezvous where we en­ter the di­vine rest and thus re­cu­per­ate our de­plet­ing en­er­gies.

44:5.9You will re­ceive your first lessons in these mat­ters when you reach the man­sion worlds af­ter you have be­come mor­ontia be­ings and have be­gun to ex­pe­ri­ence the tech­nique of spirit af­fairs. You know of the in­ner­most cir­cle of Ha­vona and that, af­ter the pil­grims of space have tra­versed the pre­ced­ing cir­cles, they must be in­ducted into the long and re­viv­i­fy­ing rest of Par­a­dise. This is not only a tech­ni­cal re­quire­ment of tran­sit from the ca­reer of time to the ser­vice of eter­nity, but it is also a ne­ces­sity, a form of rest re­quired to re­plen­ish the en­ergy losses in­ci­dent to the fi­nal steps of the as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence and to store re­serves of spirit power for the next stage of the end­less ca­reer.

44:5.10These en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors also func­tion in hun­dreds of other ways too nu­mer­ous to cat­a­logue, such as coun­sel­ing with the ser­a­phim, cheru­bim, and sa­no­bim re­gard­ing the most ef­fi­cient modes of en­ergy in­take and as to the main­te­nance of the most help­ful bal­ances of di­ver­gent forces be­tween ac­tive cheru­bim and pas­sive sa­no­bim. In many other ways do these ex­perts lend as­sis­tance to mor­ontia and spirit crea­tures in their ef­forts to un­der­stand the di­vine rest, which is so es­sen­tial to the ef­fec­tive uti­liza­tion of the ba­sic en­er­gies of space.

• Melchizedeks certify attainment of m. wisdom

45:7.7From time to time Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens pre­sent them­selves to the Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, who cer­tify to their at­tain­ment of mor­ontia wis­dom. Then they go be­fore the ex­am­in­ing corps of the Bril­liant Evening Stars or their des­ig­nates, who as­cer­tain the de­gree of spirit in­sight. Next they ap­pear in the pres­ence of the four and twenty coun­selors and their as­so­ciates, who pass upon their sta­tus of ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment of so­cial­iza­tion. These three fac­tors are then car­ried to the cit­i­zen­ship reg­is­trars of rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment, who quickly com­pute the mota sta­tus and as­sign suf­frage qual­i­fi­ca­tions in ac­cor­dance there­with.

• mansion world students eat m. food; 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.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual

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.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual

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.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual
• known since early days of Planetary Prince

48:1.1The mor­ontia realms are the lo­cal uni­verse li­ai­son spheres be­tween the ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual lev­els of crea­ture ex­is­tence. This mor­ontia life has been known on Uran­tia since the early days of the Plan­e­tary Prince. From time to time this tran­si­tion state has been taught to mor­tals, and the con­cept, in dis­torted form, has found a place in pres­ent-day re­li­gions.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual

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.

• defined as › material created by modifying revolutions of primary units of matter
• morontia energy › substance and mind created by Morontia Power Supervisors

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.

• morontia energy › circuits distinct from physical and spiritual circuits

48:2.131. Cir­cuit Reg­u­la­tors. These are the unique be­ings who co-or­di­nate phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual en­ergy and reg­u­late its flow into the seg­re­gated chan­nels of the mor­ontia spheres, and these cir­cuits are ex­clu­sively plan­e­tary, lim­ited to a sin­gle world. The mor­ontia cir­cuits are dis­tinct from, and sup­ple­men­tary to, both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual cir­cuits on the tran­si­tion worlds, and it re­quires mil­lions of these reg­u­la­tors to en­er­gize even a sys­tem of man­sion worlds like that of Sa­ta­nia.

• morontia energy › plant life modified on each ascending sphere

48:2.152. Sys­tem Co-or­di­na­tors. Since each mor­ontia world has a sep­a­rate or­der of mor­ontia en­ergy, it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for hu­mans to vi­su­al­ize these spheres. But on each suc­ces­sive tran­si­tion sphere, mor­tals will find the plant life and ev­ery­thing else per­tain­ing to the mor­ontia ex­is­tence pro­gres­sively mod­i­fied to cor­re­spond with the ad­vanc­ing spir­i­ti­za­tion of the as­cend­ing sur­vivor. And since the en­ergy sys­tem of each world is thus in­di­vid­u­al­ized, these co-or­di­na­tors op­er­ate to har­mo­nize and blend such dif­fer­ing power sys­tems into a work­ing unit for the as­so­ci­ated spheres of any par­tic­u­lar group.

• morontia energy › substance and mind created by Morontia Power Supervisors

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.

• morontia energy › slowed down, becomes morontia material

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.

• morontia energy › plant life modified on each ascending sphere

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.

• m. life initiated at conception of soul

48:6.2You should un­der­stand that the mor­ontia life of an as­cend­ing mor­tal is re­ally ini­ti­ated on the in­hab­ited worlds at the con­cep­tion of the soul, at that mo­ment when the crea­ture mind of moral sta­tus is in­dwelt by the spirit Ad­juster. And from that mo­ment on, the mor­tal soul has po­ten­tial ca­pac­ity for super­mor­tal func­tion, even for rec­og­ni­tion on the higher lev­els of the mor­ontia spheres of the lo­cal uni­verse.

• life in m. entails real contact with real energies

48:6.295. Tech­ni­cians. These are the ser­a­phim who help new as­cend­ers ad­just them­selves to the new and com­par­a­tively strange en­vi­ron­ment of the mor­ontia spheres. Life on the tran­si­tion worlds en­tails real con­tact with the en­er­gies and ma­te­ri­als of both the phys­i­cal and mor­ontia lev­els and to a cer­tain ex­tent with spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties. As­cend­ers must ac­cli­ma­tize to ev­ery new mor­ontia level, and in all of this they are greatly helped by the se­raphic tech­ni­cians. These ser­a­phim act as li­aisons with the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors and with the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and func­tion ex­ten­sively as in­struc­tors of the as­cend­ing pil­grims con­cern­ing the na­ture of those en­er­gies which are uti­lized on the tran­si­tion spheres. They serve as emer­gency space tra­versers and per­form nu­mer­ous other reg­u­lar and spe­cial du­ties.

• good we do here contributes directly to m. life

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.

• m. mathematics articulates m. experiences

112:1.11On the mor­ontia level all of these fi­nite di­men­sions of the ma­te­rial level are greatly en­hanced, and cer­tain new di­men­sional val­ues are re­al­iz­able. All these en­larged di­men­sional ex­pe­ri­ences of the mor­ontia level are mar­velously ar­tic­u­lated with the su­preme or per­son­al­ity di­men­sion through the in­flu­ence of mota and also be­cause of the con­tri­bu­tion of mor­ontia math­e­mat­ics.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual

130:7.8The time-space con­cept of a mind of ma­te­rial ori­gin is des­tined to un­dergo suc­ces­sive en­large­ments as the con­scious and con­ceiv­ing per­son­al­ity as­cends the lev­els of the uni­verses. When man at­tains the mind in­ter­ven­ing be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual planes of ex­is­tence, his ideas of time-space will be enor­mously ex­panded both as to qual­ity of per­cep­tion and quan­tity of ex­pe­ri­ence. The en­larg­ing cos­mic con­cep­tions of an ad­vanc­ing spirit per­son­al­ity are due to aug­men­ta­tions of both depth of in­sight and scope of con­scious­ness. And as per­son­al­ity passes on, up­ward and in­ward, to the tran­scen­den­tal lev­els of De­ity-like­ness, the time-space con­cept will in­creas­ingly ap­prox­i­mate the time­less and space­less con­cepts of the Ab­so­lutes. Rel­a­tively, and in ac­cor­dance with tran­scen­den­tal at­tain­ment, these con­cepts of the ab­so­lute level are to be en­vi­sioned by the chil­dren of ul­ti­mate des­tiny.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual

133:5.9Mat­ter and spirit and the state in­ter­ven­ing be­tween them are three in­ter­re­lated and in­teras­so­ci­ated lev­els of the true unity of the real uni­verse. Re­gard­less of how di­ver­gent the uni­verse phe­nom­ena of fact and value may ap­pear to be, they are, af­ter all, uni­fied in the Su­preme.

• defined as › bridging gulf between material and spiritual

133:6.7“The hu­man soul, when ma­tured, en­no­bled, and spir­i­tu­al­ized, ap­proaches the heav­enly sta­tus in that it comes near to be­ing an en­tity in­ter­ven­ing be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual, the ma­te­rial self and the di­vine spirit. The evolv­ing soul of a hu­man be­ing is dif­fi­cult of de­scrip­tion and more dif­fi­cult of dem­on­stra­tion be­cause it is not dis­cov­er­able by the meth­ods of ei­ther ma­te­rial in­ves­ti­ga­tion or spir­i­tual prov­ing. Ma­te­rial sci­ence can­not demon­strate the ex­is­tence of a soul, nei­ther can pure spirit-test­ing. Not­with­stand­ing the fail­ure of both ma­te­rial sci­ence and spir­i­tual stan­dards to dis­cover the ex­is­tence of the hu­man soul, ev­ery morally con­scious mor­tal knows of the ex­is­tence of his soul as a real and ac­tual per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence.”

• defined as › reflected shadow of spirit; matter is skeleton

189:1.3Man­kind is slow to per­ceive that, in all that is per­sonal, mat­ter is the skele­ton of mor­ontia, and that both are the re­flected shadow of en­dur­ing spirit re­al­ity. How long be­fore you will re­gard time as the mov­ing im­age of eter­nity and space as the fleet­ing shadow of Par­a­dise re­al­i­ties?

• forms can be made indifferent to ordinary matter or contactable

189:2.3Af­ter the chief of arch­an­gels had been granted this re­quest, he sum­moned to his as­sis­tance many of his fel­lows, to­gether with a nu­mer­ous host of the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of all or­ders of ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties, and then, with the aid of the Uran­tia mid­way­ers, pro­ceeded to take pos­ses­sion of Je­sus’ phys­i­cal body. This body of death was a purely ma­te­rial cre­ation; it was phys­i­cal and lit­eral; it could not be re­moved from the tomb as the mor­ontia form of the res­ur­rec­tion had been able to es­cape the sealed sepul­chre. By the aid of cer­tain mor­ontia aux­il­iary per­son­al­i­ties, the mor­ontia form can be made at one time as of the spirit so that it can be­come in­dif­fer­ent to or­di­nary mat­ter, while at an­other time it can be­come dis­cern­i­ble and con­tactable to ma­te­rial be­ings, such as the mor­tals of the realm.

189:2.4As they made ready to re­move the body of Je­sus from the tomb prepara­tory to ac­cord­ing it the dig­ni­fied and rev­er­ent dis­posal of near-in­stan­ta­neous dis­so­lu­tion, it was as­signed the sec­ondary Uran­tia mid­way­ers to roll away the stones from the en­trance of the tomb. The larger of these two stones was a huge cir­cu­lar af­fair, much like a mill­stone, and it moved in a groove chis­eled out of the rock, so that it could be rolled back and forth to open or close the tomb. When the watch­ing Jew­ish guards and the Ro­man sol­diers, in the dim light of the morn­ing, saw this huge stone be­gin to roll away from the en­trance of the tomb, ap­par­ently of its own ac­cord—with­out any vis­i­ble means to ac­count for such mo­tion—they were seized with fear and panic, and they fled in haste from the scene. The Jews fled to their homes, af­ter­ward go­ing back to re­port these do­ings to their cap­tain at the tem­ple. The Ro­mans fled to the fortress of An­to­nia and re­ported what they had seen to the cen­tu­rion as soon as he ar­rived on duty.

• celestial beings enabled humans to see m. Jesus

189:4.11These hu­man eyes were en­abled to see the mor­ontia form of Je­sus be­cause of the spe­cial min­istry of the trans­form­ers and the mid­way­ers in as­so­ci­a­tion with cer­tain of the mor­ontia per­son­al­i­ties then ac­com­pa­ny­ing Je­sus.

• art is mortal m.

195:7.15Art proves that man is not mech­a­nis­tic, but it does not prove that he is spir­i­tu­ally im­mor­tal. Art is mor­tal mor­ontia, the in­ter­ven­ing field be­tween man, the ma­te­rial, and man, the spir­i­tual. Po­etry is an ef­fort to es­cape from ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties to spir­i­tual val­ues.

195:7.16In a high civ­i­liza­tion, art hu­man­izes sci­ence, while in turn it is spir­i­tu­al­ized by true re­li­gion—in­sight into spir­i­tual and eter­nal val­ues. Art rep­re­sents the hu­man and time-space eval­u­a­tion of re­al­ity. Re­li­gion is the di­vine em­brace of cos­mic val­ues and con­notes eter­nal pro­gres­sion in spir­i­tual as­cen­sion and ex­pan­sion. The art of time is dan­ger­ous only when it be­comes blind to the spirit stan­dards of the di­vine pat­terns which eter­nity re­flects as the re­al­ity shad­ows of time. True art is the ef­fec­tive ma­nip­u­la­tion of the ma­te­rial things of life; re­li­gion is the en­nobling trans­for­ma­tion of the ma­te­rial facts of life, and it never ceases in its spir­i­tual eval­u­a­tion of art.