probationary nursery

47:2.1The in­fant-re­ceiv­ing schools of Sa­ta­nia are sit­u­ated on the fi­nal­i­ter world, the first of the Je­ru­sem tran­si­tion-cul­ture spheres. These in­fant-re­ceiv­ing schools are en­ter­prises de­voted to the nur­ture and train­ing of the chil­dren of time, in­clud­ing those who have died on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space be­fore the ac­quire­ment of in­di­vid­ual sta­tus on the uni­verse rec­ords. In the event of the sur­vival of ei­ther or both of such a child’s par­ents, the guard­ian of des­tiny dep­u­tizes her as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim as the cus­to­dian of the child’s po­ten­tial iden­tity, charg­ing the cheru­bim with the re­spon­si­bil­ity of de­liv­er­ing this un­de­vel­oped soul into the hands of the Man­sion World Teach­ers in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­eries of the mor­ontia worlds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• probationary nursery

49:6.113. Mor­tals of the pro­ba­tion­ary-de­pen­dent or­ders of as­cen­sion. The ar­rival of an Ad­juster con­sti­tutes iden­tity in the eyes of the uni­verse, and all in­dwelt be­ings are on the roll calls of jus­tice. But tem­po­ral life on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds is un­cer­tain, and many die in youth be­fore choos­ing the Par­a­dise ca­reer. Such Ad­juster-in­dwelt chil­dren and youths fol­low the par­ent of most ad­vanced spir­i­tual sta­tus, thus go­ing to the sys­tem fi­nal­i­ter world (the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery) on the third day, at a spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, or at the reg­u­lar mil­len­nial and dis­pen­sa­tional roll calls.

49:6.12Chil­dren who die when too young to have Thought Ad­justers are reper­son­al­ized on the fi­nal­i­ter world of the lo­cal sys­tems con­comi­tant with the ar­rival of ei­ther par­ent on the man­sion worlds. A child ac­quires phys­i­cal en­tity at mor­tal birth, but in the mat­ter of sur­vival all Ad­juster­less chil­dren are reck­oned as still at­tached to their par­ents.

49:6.13In due course Thought Ad­justers come to in­dwell these lit­tle ones, while the se­raphic min­istry to both groups of the pro­ba­tion­ary-de­pen­dent or­ders of sur­vival is in gen­eral sim­i­lar to that of the more ad­vanced par­ent or is equiv­a­lent to that of the par­ent in case only one sur­vives. Those at­tain­ing the third cir­cle, re­gard­less of the sta­tus of their par­ents, are ac­corded per­sonal guard­i­ans.

49:6.14Sim­i­lar pro­ba­tion nurs­eries are main­tained on the fi­nal­i­ter spheres of the con­stel­la­tion and the uni­verse head­quar­ters for the Ad­juster­less chil­dren of the pri­mary and sec­ondary mod­i­fied or­ders of as­cend­ers.

• constitute permanent ascendant citizenship of Paradise

30:2.12812. Ad­juster-fused Mor­tal Cit­i­zens of Par­a­dise.

• repersonalized as of status at death except no sex differentiation

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.

47:1.1Al­though only fi­nal­i­ters and cer­tain groups of sal­vaged chil­dren and their care­tak­ers are res­i­dent on tran­si­tional world num­ber one, pro­vi­sion is made for the en­ter­tain­ment of all classes of spirit be­ings, tran­si­tion mor­tals, and stu­dent vis­i­tors. The sporna­gia, who func­tion on all of these worlds, are hos­pitable hosts to all be­ings whom they can rec­og­nize. They have a vague feel­ing con­cern­ing the fi­nal­i­ters but can­not vi­su­al­ize them. They must re­gard them much as you do the an­gels in your pres­ent phys­i­cal state.

53:7.9In many re­spects this re­bel­lion was the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous of all such oc­cur­rences in Neb­a­don. More per­son­al­i­ties were in­volved in this in­sur­rec­tion than in both of the oth­ers. And it is to their ev­er­last­ing dis­honor that the emis­saries of Lu­cifer and Sa­tan spared not the in­fant-train­ing schools on the fi­nal­i­ter cul­tural planet but rather sought to cor­rupt these de­vel­op­ing minds in mercy sal­vaged from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

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.

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.

45:6.8Man­sion 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.

47:1.4On the first man­sion world all sur­vivors must pass the re­quire­ments of the pa­ren­tal com­mis­sion from their na­tive plan­ets. The pres­ent Uran­tia com­mis­sion con­sists of twelve pa­ren­tal cou­ples, re­cently ar­rived, who have had mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence in rear­ing three or more chil­dren to the pubescent age. Ser­vice on this com­mis­sion is ro­ta­tional and is for only ten years as a rule. All who fail to sat­isfy these com­mis­sion­ers as to their pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence must fur­ther qual­ify by ser­vice in the homes of the Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem or in part in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ters’ world.

47:1.5But ir­re­spec­tive of pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence, man­sion world par­ents who have grow­ing chil­dren in the pro­ba­tion nurs­ery are given ev­ery op­por­tu­nity to col­lab­o­rate with the mor­ontia cus­to­di­ans of such chil­dren re­gard­ing their in­struc­tion and train­ing. These par­ents are per­mit­ted to jour­ney there for vis­its as of­ten as four times a year. And it is one of the most touch­ingly beau­ti­ful scenes of all the as­cend­ing ca­reer to ob­serve the man­sion world par­ents em­brace their ma­te­rial off­spring on the oc­ca­sions of their pe­ri­odic pil­grim­ages to the fi­nal­i­ter world. While one or both par­ents may leave a man­sion world ahead of the child, they are quite of­ten con­tem­po­rary for a sea­son.