rest

• transition rest › transit through midspace to Paradise

12:5.4The rel­a­tively mo­tion­less midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise and sep­a­rat­ing per­vaded from un­per­vaded space are the tran­si­tion zones from time to eter­nity, hence the ne­ces­sity of Par­a­dise pil­grims be­com­ing un­con­scious dur­ing this tran­sit when it is to cul­mi­nate in Par­a­dise cit­i­zen­ship. Time-con­scious vis­i­tors can go to Par­a­dise with­out thus sleep­ing, but they re­main crea­tures of time.

• transition rest › terminal r. of time achieved before residential status on Paradise; replenishes energy losses and stores reserves of spirit for next stage

24:6.3The Grad­u­ate Guides are en­gaged in pi­lot­ing the pil­grims of time through the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona worlds. The guide who greets you upon your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing world of the outer Ha­vona cir­cuit will re­main with you through­out your en­tire ca­reer on the heav­enly cir­cuits. Though you will as­so­ciate with count­less other per­son­al­i­ties dur­ing your so­journ on a bil­lion worlds, your Grad­u­ate Guide will fol­low you to the end of your Ha­vona pro­gres­sion and will wit­ness your en­trance into the ter­mi­nal slum­ber of time, the sleep of eter­nity tran­sit to the Par­a­dise goal, where, upon awak­en­ing, you will be greeted by the Par­a­dise Com­pan­ion as­signed to wel­come you and per­haps to re­main with you un­til you are ini­ti­ated as a mem­ber of the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• always is there time for

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.

• transition rest › terminal r. of time achieved before residential status on Paradise; replenishes energy losses and stores reserves of spirit for next stage

26:7.4When an as­cen­dant soul ac­tu­ally starts for Par­a­dise, he is ac­com­pa­nied only by the tran­sit trio: the super­aphic cir­cle as­so­ciate, the Grad­u­ate Guide, and the ever-pres­ent servi­tal as­so­ciate of the lat­ter. These ex­cur­sions from the Ha­vona cir­cles to Par­a­dise are trial trips; the as­cend­ers are not yet of Par­a­dise sta­tus. They do not achieve res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Par­a­dise un­til they have passed through the ter­mi­nal rest of time sub­se­quent to the at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the fi­nal clear­ance of the Ha­vona cir­cuits. Not un­til af­ter the di­vine rest do they par­take of the “essence of di­vin­ity” and the “spirit of su­prem­acy” and thus re­ally be­gin to func­tion in the cir­cle of eter­nity and in the pres­ence of the Trin­ity.

• transition rest › terminal r. of time achieved before residential status on Paradise; replenishes energy losses and stores reserves of spirit for next stage

26:10.6But the traver­sal of the in­ner­most cir­cle lies just ahead, and soon there­after the last tran­sit sleep will ter­mi­nate, and the new ad­ven­ture of the eter­nal ca­reer will be­gin. The coun­selors and ad­vis­ers on the sec­ond cir­cle be­gin the prepa­ra­tion of their sub­jects for this great and fi­nal rest, the in­ev­i­ta­ble sleep which ever in­ter­venes be­tween the ep­ochal stages of the as­cen­dant ca­reer.

• transition rest › terminal r. of time achieved before residential status on Paradise; replenishes energy losses and stores reserves of spirit for next stage

26:11.6Near the end of the first-cir­cle so­journ the as­cend­ing pil­grims first meet the in­sti­ga­tors of rest of the pri­mary or­der of super­na­phim. These are the an­gels of Par­a­dise com­ing out to greet those who stand at the thresh­old of eter­nity and to com­plete their prepa­ra­tion for the tran­si­tion slum­ber of the last res­ur­rec­tion. You are not re­ally a child of Par­a­dise un­til you have tra­versed the in­ner cir­cle and have ex­pe­ri­enced the res­ur­rec­tion of eter­nity from the ter­mi­nal sleep of time. The per­fected pil­grims be­gin this rest, go to sleep, on the first cir­cle of Ha­vona, but they awaken on the shores of Par­a­dise. Of all who as­cend to the eter­nal Isle, only those who thus ar­rive are the chil­dren of eter­nity; the oth­ers go as vis­i­tors, as guests with­out res­i­den­tial sta­tus.

• transition rest › 1st was death; 2nd was ideal sleep; 3rd is true r., relaxation of the ages

26:11.8Your first tran­si­tion was in­deed death, the sec­ond an ideal sleep, and now the third meta­mor­pho­sis is the true rest, the re­lax­ation of the ages.

• divine rest › essential to enjoyment of Paradise
• transition rest › terminal r. of time achieved before residential status on Paradise; replenishes energy losses and stores reserves of spirit for next stage

27:1.1The in­sti­ga­tors of rest are the in­spec­tors of Par­a­dise who go forth from the cen­tral Isle to the in­ner cir­cuit of Ha­vona, there to col­lab­o­rate with their col­leagues, the com­ple­ments of rest of the sec­ondary or­der of super­na­phim. The one es­sen­tial to the en­joy­ment of Par­a­dise is rest, di­vine rest; and these in­sti­ga­tors of rest are the fi­nal in­struc­tors who make ready the pil­grims of time for their in­tro­duc­tion to eter­nity. They be­gin their work on the fi­nal at­tain­ment cir­cle of the cen­tral uni­verse and con­tinue it when the pil­grim awakes from the last tran­si­tion sleep, the slum­ber which grad­u­ates a crea­ture of space into the realm of the eter­nal.

• 7 types are sleep, play, discovery, worship, energy intake, transition sleep, and Paradise attainment

27:1.2Rest is of a sev­en­fold na­ture: There is the rest of sleep and of play in the lower life or­ders, dis­cov­ery in the higher be­ings, and wor­ship in the high­est type of spirit per­son­al­ity. There is also the nor­mal rest of en­ergy in­take, the recharg­ing of be­ings with phys­i­cal or with spir­i­tual en­ergy. And then there is the tran­sit sleep, the un­con­scious slum­ber when en­ser­a­phimed, when in pas­sage from one sphere to an­other. En­tirely dif­fer­ent from all of these is the deep sleep of meta­mor­pho­sis, the tran­si­tion rest from one stage of be­ing to an­other, from one life to an­other, from one state of ex­is­tence to an­other, the sleep which ever at­tends tran­si­tion from ac­tual uni­verse sta­tus in con­trast to evo­lu­tion through var­i­ous stages of any one sta­tus.

• transition rest › terminal r. of time achieved before residential status on Paradise; replenishes energy losses and stores reserves of spirit for next stage

27:1.3But the last meta­mor­phic sleep is some­thing more than those pre­vi­ous tran­si­tion slum­bers which have marked the suc­ces­sive sta­tus at­tain­ments of the as­cen­dant ca­reer; thereby do the crea­tures of time and space tra­verse the in­ner­most mar­gins of the tem­po­ral and the spa­tial to at­tain res­i­den­tial sta­tus in the time­less and space­less abodes of Par­a­dise. The in­sti­ga­tors and the com­ple­ments of rest are just as es­sen­tial to this tran­scend­ing meta­mor­pho­sis as are the ser­a­phim and as­so­ci­ated be­ings to the mor­tal crea­ture’s sur­vival of death.

27:1.4You en­ter the rest on the fi­nal Ha­vona cir­cuit and are eter­nally res­ur­rected on Par­a­dise. And as you there spir­i­tu­ally reper­son­al­ize, you will im­me­di­ately rec­og­nize the in­sti­ga­tor of rest who wel­comes you to the eter­nal shores as the very pri­mary super­na­phim who pro­duced the fi­nal sleep on the in­ner­most cir­cuit of Ha­vona; and you will re­call the last grand stretch of faith as you once again made ready to com­mend the keep­ing of your iden­tity into the hands of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

27:1.5The last rest of time has been en­joyed; the last tran­si­tion sleep has been ex­pe­ri­enced; now you awake to life ev­er­last­ing on the shores of the eter­nal abode. “And there shall be no more sleep. The pres­ence of God and his Son are be­fore you, and you are eter­nally his ser­vants; you have seen his face, and his name is your spirit. There shall be no night there; and they need no light of the sun, for the Great Source and Cen­ter gives them light; they shall live for­ever and ever. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nei­ther sor­row nor cry­ing, nei­ther shall there be any more pain, for the for­mer things have passed away.”

• transition rest › seraphic r. during seraphic transport

39:2.11The pro­cess of be­ing en­ser­a­phimed is not un­like the ex­pe­ri­ence of death or sleep ex­cept that there is an au­to­matic time el­e­ment in the tran­sit slum­ber. You are con­sciously un­con­scious dur­ing se­raphic rest. But the Thought Ad­juster is wholly and fully con­scious, in fact, ex­cep­tion­ally ef­fi­cient since you are un­able to op­pose, re­sist, or oth­er­wise hin­der cre­ative and trans­form­ing work.

• provision for r. on morontia worlds

44:3.43. The play builders. Enor­mous ed­i­fices are uti­lized dur­ing the sea­sons of rest, what mor­tals would call recre­ation and, in a cer­tain sense, play. Pro­vi­sion is made for a suit­able set­ting for the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, the hu­morists of the mor­ontia worlds, those tran­si­tion spheres whereon takes place the train­ing of as­cen­dant be­ings but re­cently re­moved from the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. Even the higher spir­its en­gage in a cer­tain form of rem­i­nis­cent hu­mor dur­ing their pe­ri­ods of spir­i­tual recharg­ing.

• divine rest › associated with spiritual-energy intake
• divine rest › essential to replenish energy losses; for effective use of space energies

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.

• transition rest › terminal r. of time achieved before residential status on Paradise; replenishes energy losses and stores reserves of spirit for next stage

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.

• transition rest › translation sleep of morontia progressors

47:3.10If you are not to be de­tained on man­sion world num­ber one, at the end of ten days you will en­ter the trans­la­tion sleep and pro­ceed to world num­ber two, and ev­ery ten days there­after you will thus ad­vance un­til you ar­rive on the world of your as­sign­ment.

• thought change helpful in recuperating depleted energies

48:4.9The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors them­selves are not a cre­ated group; they are a re­cruited corps em­brac­ing be­ings rang­ing from the Ha­vona na­tives down through the mes­sen­ger hosts of space and the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time to the mor­ontia pro­gres­sors from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. All are vol­un­teers, giv­ing them­selves to the work of as­sist­ing their fel­lows in the achieve­ment of thought change and mind rest, for such at­ti­tudes are most help­ful in re­cu­per­at­ing de­pleted en­er­gies.

• from reminiscences of earlier experiences

48:4.10When par­tially ex­hausted by the ef­forts of at­tain­ment, and while await­ing the re­cep­tion of new en­ergy charges, there is agree­able plea­sure in liv­ing over again the en­act­ments of other days and ages. The early ex­pe­ri­ences of the race or the or­der are rest­ful to rem­i­nisce. And that is ex­actly why these artists are called re­ver­sion di­rec­tors—they as­sist in re­vert­ing the mem­ory to a for­mer state of de­vel­op­ment or to a less ex­pe­ri­enced sta­tus of be­ing.

• from reminiscences of earlier experiences

48:4.12Most of us have come up through lower stages of ex­is­tence or through pro­gres­sive lev­els of our or­ders, and it is re­fresh­ing and in a mea­sure amus­ing to look back upon cer­tain episodes of our early ex­pe­ri­ence. There is a rest­ful­ness in the con­tem­pla­tion of that which is old to one’s or­der, and which lingers as a mem­ory pos­ses­sion of the mind. The fu­ture sig­ni­fies strug­gle and ad­vance­ment; it be­speaks work, ef­fort, and achieve­ment; but the past sa­vors of things al­ready mas­tered and achieved; con­tem­pla­tion of the past per­mits of re­lax­ation and such a care­free re­view as to pro­voke spirit mirth and a mor­ontia state of mind verg­ing on mer­ri­ment.

• transition rest › Princes’ corporeal staff enters transition r. when service completed

50:3.6At the end of the prince’s dis­pen­sa­tion, when the time comes for this “re­ver­sion staff” to be re­turned to the sys­tem head­quar­ters for the re­sump­tion of the Par­a­dise ca­reer, these as­cend­ers pre­sent them­selves to the Life Car­ri­ers for the pur­pose of yield­ing up their ma­te­rial bod­ies. They en­ter the tran­si­tion slum­ber and awaken de­liv­ered from their mor­tal in­vest­ment and clothed with mor­ontia forms, ready for se­raphic trans­porta­tion back to the sys­tem cap­i­tal, where their de­tached Ad­justers await them. They are a whole dis­pen­sa­tion be­hind their Je­ru­sem class, but they have gained a unique and ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence, a rare chap­ter in the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal.

• transition rest › seraphic r. during seraphic transport

66:2.7Ac­cord­ingly, fifty males and fifty fe­males of the An­don and Fonta pos­ter­ity, rep­re­sent­ing the sur­vival of the best strains of that unique race, were cho­sen by the Life Car­ri­ers. With one or two ex­cep­tions these An­don­ite con­trib­u­tors to the ad­vance­ment of the race were strangers to one an­other. They were as­sem­bled from widely sep­a­rated places by co-or­di­nated Thought Ad­juster di­rec­tion and se­raphic guid­ance at the thresh­old of the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters of the Prince. Here the one hun­dred hu­man sub­jects were given into the hands of the highly skilled vol­un­teer com­mis­sion from Avalon, who di­rected the ma­te­rial ex­trac­tion of a por­tion of the life plasm of these An­don de­scen­dants. This liv­ing ma­te­rial was then trans­ferred to the ma­te­rial bod­ies con­structed for the use of the one hun­dred Jerusemite mem­bers of the Prince’s staff. Mean­time, these newly ar­rived cit­i­zens of the sys­tem cap­i­tal were held in the sleep of se­raphic trans­port.

• celestial beings all enjoy

84:8.5Ad­vanc­ing ce­les­tial be­ings all en­joy rest and the min­istry of the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors. All ef­forts to ob­tain whole­some di­ver­sion and to en­gage in up­lift­ing play are sound; re­fresh­ing sleep, rest, recre­ation, and all pas­times which pre­vent the bore­dom of mo­not­ony are worth while. Com­pet­i­tive games, sto­ry­telling, and even the taste of good food may serve as forms of self-grat­i­fi­ca­tion. (When you use salt to sa­vor food, pause to con­sider that, for al­most a mil­lion years, man could ob­tain salt only by dip­ping his food in ashes.)

• seraphim recharge with life energy of universe circuits

113:2.10For pur­poses of rest and recharg­ing with the life en­ergy of the uni­verse cir­cuits, the guard­ian is pe­ri­od­i­cally re­lieved by her com­ple­ment, and dur­ing her ab­sence the as­so­ci­ated cheru­bim func­tions as the re­corder, as is also the case when the com­ple­men­tal ser­a­phim is sim­i­larly ab­sent.

• divine rest › those who enter kingdom shall enjoy

137:8.14“I have come to preach the glad tid­ings of the king­dom. I have not come to add to the heavy bur­dens of those who would en­ter this king­dom. I pro­claim the new and bet­ter way, and those who are able to en­ter the com­ing king­dom shall en­joy the di­vine rest. And what­ever it shall cost you in the things of the world, no mat­ter what price you may pay to en­ter the king­dom of heaven, you shall re­ceive many­fold more of joy and spir­i­tual prog­ress in this world, and in the age to come eter­nal life.

• Jesus established mid-week holiday for

138:6.2It was at this time that Je­sus es­tab­lished the mid-week hol­i­day for rest and recre­ation. And they pur­sued this plan of re­lax­ation for one day each week through­out the re­main­der of his ma­te­rial life. As a gen­eral rule, they never pros­e­cuted their reg­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties on Wednes­day. On this weekly hol­i­day Je­sus would usu­ally take him­self away from them, say­ing: “My chil­dren, go for a day of play. Rest your­selves from the ar­du­ous labors of the king­dom and en­joy the re­fresh­ment that comes from re­vert­ing to your for­mer vo­ca­tions or from dis­cov­er­ing new sorts of recre­ational ac­tiv­ity.” While Je­sus, at this pe­riod of his earth life, did not ac­tu­ally re­quire this day of rest, he con­formed to this plan be­cause he knew it was best for his hu­man as­so­ciates. Je­sus was the teacher—the Mas­ter; his as­so­ciates were his pupils—dis­ci­ples.