resurrection

30:4.112. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors. All mor­tals of sur­vival sta­tus, in the cus­tody of per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny, pass through the por­tals of nat­u­ral death and, on the third pe­riod, per­son­al­ize on the man­sion worlds. Those ac­cred­ited be­ings who have, for any rea­son, been un­able to at­tain that level of in­tel­li­gence mas­tery and en­dow­ment of spir­i­tu­al­ity which would en­ti­tle them to per­sonal guard­i­ans, can­not thus im­me­di­ately and di­rectly go to the man­sion worlds. Such sur­viv­ing souls must rest in un­con­scious sleep un­til the judg­ment day of a new epoch, a new dis­pen­sa­tion, the com­ing of a Son of God to call the rolls of the age and ad­ju­di­cate the realm, and this is the gen­eral prac­tice through­out all Neb­a­don. It was said of Christ Mi­chael that, when he as­cended on high at the con­clu­sion of his work on earth, “He led a great mul­ti­tude of cap­tives.” And these cap­tives were the sleep­ing sur­vivors from the days of Adam to the day of the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia.

49:6.82. Mor­tals of the in­di­vid­ual or­ders of as­cen­sion. The in­di­vid­ual prog­ress of hu­man be­ings is mea­sured by their suc­ces­sive at­tain­ment and traver­sal (mas­tery) of the seven cos­mic cir­cles. These cir­cles of mor­tal pro­gres­sion are lev­els of as­so­ci­ated in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, spir­i­tual, and cos­mic-in­sight val­ues. Start­ing out in the sev­enth cir­cle, mor­tals strive for the first, and all who have at­tained the third im­me­di­ately have per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny as­signed to them. These mor­tals may be reper­son­al­ized in the mor­ontia life in­de­pen­dent of dis­pen­sa­tional or other ad­ju­di­ca­tions.

49:6.9Through­out the ear­lier ages of an evo­lu­tion­ary world, few mor­tals go to judg­ment on the third day. But as the ages pass, more and more the per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny are as­signed to the ad­vanc­ing mor­tals, and thus in­creas­ing num­bers of these evolv­ing crea­tures are reper­son­al­ized on the first man­sion world on the third day af­ter nat­u­ral death. On such oc­ca­sions the re­turn of the Ad­juster sig­nal­izes the awak­en­ing of the hu­man soul, and this is the reper­son­al­iza­tion of the dead just as lit­er­ally as when the en masse roll is called at the end of a dis­pen­sa­tion on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

112:4.2In some way not fully un­der­stood, the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are able to gain pos­ses­sion of an epit­ome of the hu­man life as it is em­bod­ied in the Ad­juster’s du­pli­cate tran­scrip­tion of the spir­i­tual val­ues and mor­ontia mean­ings of the in­dwelt mind. The Cen­sors are able to ap­pro­pri­ate the Ad­juster’s ver­sion of the de­ceased hu­man’s sur­vival char­ac­ter and spir­i­tual qual­i­ties, and all this data, to­gether with the se­raphic rec­ords, is avail­able for pre­sen­ta­tion at the time of the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the in­di­vid­ual con­cerned. This in­for­ma­tion is also used to con­firm those super­uni­verse man­dates which make it pos­si­ble for cer­tain as­cend­ers im­me­di­ately to be­gin their mor­ontia ca­reers, upon mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion to pro­ceed to the man­sion worlds ahead of the for­mal ter­mi­na­tion of a plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion.

112:4.3Sub­se­quent to phys­i­cal death, ex­cept in in­di­vid­u­als trans­lated from among the liv­ing, the re­leased Ad­juster goes im­me­di­ately to the home sphere of Di­vin­ing­ton. The de­tails of what tran­spires on that world dur­ing the time of await­ing the fac­tual reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal de­pend chiefly on whether the hu­man be­ing as­cends to the man­sion worlds in his own in­di­vid­ual right or awaits a dis­pen­sa­tional sum­mon­ing of the sleep­ing sur­vivors of a plan­e­tary age.

112:4.4If the mor­tal as­so­ciate be­longs to a group that will be reper­son­al­ized at the end of a dis­pen­sa­tion, the Ad­juster will not im­me­di­ately re­turn to the man­sion world of the for­mer sys­tem of ser­vice but will, ac­cord­ing to choice, en­ter upon one of the fol­low­ing tem­po­rary as­sign­ments:

112:4.51. Be mus­tered into the ranks of van­ished Mon­i­tors for undis­closed ser­vice.

112:4.62. Be as­signed for a pe­riod to the ob­ser­va­tion of the Par­a­dise regime.

112:4.73. Be en­rolled in one of the many train­ing schools of Di­vin­ing­ton.

112:4.84. Be sta­tioned for a time as a stu­dent ob­server on one of the other six sa­cred spheres which con­sti­tute the Fa­ther’s cir­cuit of Par­a­dise worlds.

112:4.95. Be as­signed to the mes­sen­ger ser­vice of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

112:4.106. Be­come an as­so­ciate in­struc­tor in the Di­vin­ing­ton schools de­voted to the train­ing of Mon­i­tors be­long­ing to the vir­gin group.

112:4.117. Be as­signed to se­lect a group of pos­si­ble worlds on which to serve in the event that there is rea­son­able cause for be­liev­ing that the hu­man part­ner may have re­jected sur­vival.

112:4.12If, when death over­takes you, you have at­tained the third cir­cle or a higher realm and there­fore have had as­signed to you a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny, and if the fi­nal tran­script of the sum­mary of sur­vival char­ac­ter sub­mit­ted by the Ad­juster is un­con­di­tion­ally cer­ti­fied by the des­tiny guard­ian—if both ser­a­phim and Ad­juster es­sen­tially agree in ev­ery item of their life rec­ords and rec­om­men­da­tions—if the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa con­firm this data and do so with­out equiv­o­ca­tion or reser­va­tion, in that event the An­cients of Days flash forth the man­date of ad­vanced stand­ing over the com­mu­ni­ca­tion cir­cuits to Sal­ving­ton, and, thus re­leased, the tri­bu­nals of the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don will de­cree the im­me­di­ate pas­sage of the sur­viv­ing soul to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds.

47:10.5Seven times do those mor­tals who pass through the en­tire man­so­nia ca­reer ex­pe­ri­ence the ad­just­ment sleep and the res­ur­rec­tion awak­en­ing. But the last res­ur­rec­tion hall, the fi­nal awak­en­ing cham­ber, was left be­hind on the sev­enth man­sion world. No more will a form-change ne­ces­si­tate the lapse of con­scious­ness or a break in the con­ti­nu­ity of per­sonal mem­ory.

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.

112:5.21And when you thus awaken on the man­sion worlds of Je­ru­sem, you will be so changed, the spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tion will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Ad­juster and the des­tiny guard­ian, who so fully con­nect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you would at first have dif­fi­culty in con­nect­ing the new mor­ontia con­scious­ness with the re­viv­ing mem­ory of your pre­vi­ous iden­tity. Not­with­stand­ing the con­ti­nu­ity of per­sonal self­hood, much of the mor­tal life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clar­ify many mor­tal as­so­ci­a­tions.

33:4.6Ga­briel is the chief of­fi­cer of ex­e­cu­tion for super­uni­verse man­dates re­lat­ing to non­per­sonal af­fairs in the lo­cal uni­verse. Most mat­ters per­tain­ing to mass judg­ment and dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions, ad­ju­di­cated by the An­cients of Days, are also del­e­gated to Ga­briel and his staff for ex­e­cu­tion. Ga­briel is thus the com­bined chief ex­ec­u­tive of both the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse rulers. He has at his com­mand an able corps of ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tants, cre­ated for their spe­cial work, who are un­re­vealed to evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals. In ad­di­tion to these as­sis­tants, Ga­briel may em­ploy any and all of the or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings func­tion­ing in Neb­a­don, and he is also the com­man­der in chief of “the armies of heaven”—the ce­les­tial hosts.

37:3.6Two se­nior arch­an­gels are al­ways as­signed as the per­sonal aids of a Par­a­dise Avo­nal on all plan­e­tary mis­sions, whether in­volv­ing ju­di­cial ac­tions, mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, or be­stowal in­car­na­tions. When this Par­a­dise Son has fin­ished the judg­ment of a realm and the dead are called to rec­ord (the so-called res­ur­rec­tion), it is lit­er­ally true that the se­raphic guard­i­ans of the slum­ber­ing per­son­al­i­ties re­spond to “the voice of the arch­an­gel.” The roll call of a dis­pen­sa­tion ter­mi­na­tion is pro­mul­gated by an at­ten­dant arch­an­gel. This is the arch­an­gel of the res­ur­rec­tion, some­times re­ferred to as the “arch­an­gel of Mi­chael.”

189:0.1Soon af­ter the burial of Je­sus on Fri­day af­ter­noon, the chief of the arch­an­gels of Neb­a­don, then pres­ent on Uran­tia, sum­moned his coun­cil of the res­ur­rec­tion of sleep­ing will crea­tures and en­tered upon the con­sid­er­a­tion of a pos­si­ble tech­nique for the restora­tion of Je­sus. These as­sem­bled sons of the lo­cal uni­verse, the crea­tures of Mi­chael, did this on their own re­spon­si­bil­ity; Ga­briel had not as­sem­bled them. By mid­night they had ar­rived at the con­clu­sion that the crea­ture could do noth­ing to fa­cil­i­tate the res­ur­rec­tion of the Cre­ator. They were dis­posed to ac­cept the ad­vice of Ga­briel, who in­structed them that, since Mi­chael had “laid down his life of his own free will, he also had power to take it up again in ac­cor­dance with his own de­ter­mi­na­tion.” Shortly af­ter the ad­journ­ment of this coun­cil of the arch­an­gels, the Life Car­ri­ers, and their var­i­ous as­so­ciates in the work of crea­ture re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and mor­ontia cre­ation, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus, be­ing in per­sonal com­mand of the as­sem­bled ce­les­tial hosts then on Uran­tia, spoke these words to the anx­ious wait­ing watch­ers:

53:3.5He con­tended that the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days could be de­barred from func­tion­ing in the lo­cal sys­tems if the na­tive be­ings would only as­sert their in­de­pen­dence. He main­tained that im­mor­tal­ity was in­her­ent in the sys­tem per­son­al­i­ties, that res­ur­rec­tion was nat­u­ral and au­to­matic, and that all be­ings would live eter­nally ex­cept for the ar­bi­trary and un­just acts of the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days.

• Phrygian mystery cult celebrated Attis’s

97:4.4Amos pro­claimed Yah­weh the “God of all na­tions” and warned the Is­raelites that rit­ual must not take the place of righ­teous­ness. And be­fore this coura­geous teacher was stoned to death, he had spread enough leaven of truth to save the doc­trine of the su­preme Yah­weh; he had in­sured the fur­ther evo­lu­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek rev­e­la­tion.

• under Mithraism

98:5.4The ad­her­ents of this cult wor­shiped in caves and other se­cret places, chant­ing hymns, mum­bling magic, eat­ing the flesh of the sac­ri­fi­cial an­i­mals, and drink­ing the blood. Three times a day they wor­shiped, with spe­cial weekly cer­e­mo­ni­als on the day of the sun-god and with the most elab­o­rate ob­ser­vance of all on the an­nual fes­ti­val of Mithras, De­cem­ber twenty-fifth. It was be­lieved that the par­tak­ing of the sacra­ment en­sured eter­nal life, the im­me­di­ate pass­ing, af­ter death, to the bo­som of Mithras, there to tarry in bliss un­til the judg­ment day. On the judg­ment day the Mith­raic keys of heaven would un­lock the gates of Par­a­dise for the re­cep­tion of the faith­ful; where­upon all the un­bap­tized of the liv­ing and the dead would be an­ni­hi­lated upon the re­turn of Mithras to earth. It was taught that, when a man died, he went be­fore Mithras for judg­ment, and that at the end of the world Mithras would sum­mon all the dead from their graves to face the last judg­ment. The wicked would be de­stroyed by fire, and the righ­teous would reign with Mithras for­ever.

• Pharisees believed in physical
• Prophet Daniel believed in

137:7.6The scribes and rab­bis, taken to­gether, were called Phar­isees. They re­ferred to them­selves as the “as­so­ciates.” In many ways they were the pro­gres­sive group among the Jews, hav­ing adopted many teach­ings not clearly found in the He­brew scrip­tures, such as be­lief in the res­ur­rec­tion of the dead, a doc­trine only men­tioned by a later prophet, Daniel.

174:3.1Be­fore Je­sus could get started with his teach­ing, an­other group came for­ward to ques­tion him, this time a com­pany of the learned and crafty Sad­ducees. Their spokesman, draw­ing near to him, said: “Mas­ter, Moses said that if a mar­ried man should die, leav­ing no chil­dren, his brother should take the wife and raise up seed for the de­ceased brother. Now there oc­curred a case where a cer­tain man who had six broth­ers died child­less; his next brother took his wife but also soon died, leav­ing no chil­dren. Like­wise did the sec­ond brother take the wife, but he also died leav­ing no off­spring. And so on un­til all six of the broth­ers had had her, and all six of them passed on with­out leav­ing chil­dren. And then, af­ter them all, the woman her­self died. Now, what we would like to ask you is this: In the res­ur­rec­tion whose wife will she be since all seven of these broth­ers had her?”

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.”

174:3.3When Je­sus had fin­ished an­swer­ing these ques­tions, the Sad­ducees with­drew, and some of the Phar­isees so far for­got them­selves as to ex­claim, “True, true, Mas­ter, you have well an­swered these un­be­liev­ing Sad­ducees.” The Sad­ducees dared not ask him any more ques­tions, and the com­mon peo­ple mar­veled at the wis­dom of his teach­ing.

• Pharisees believed in physical

174:3.4Je­sus ap­pealed only to Moses in his en­counter with the Sad­ducees be­cause this re­li­gio-po­lit­i­cal sect ac­knowl­edged the va­lid­ity of only the five so-called Books of Moses; they did not al­low that the teach­ings of the proph­ets were ad­mis­si­ble as a ba­sis of doc­tri­nal dog­mas. The Mas­ter in his an­swer, though pos­i­tively af­firm­ing the fact of the sur­vival of mor­tal crea­tures by the tech­nique of the res­ur­rec­tion, did not in any sense speak ap­prov­ingly of the Phar­i­saic be­liefs in the res­ur­rec­tion of the lit­eral hu­man body. The point Je­sus wished to em­pha­size was: That the Fa­ther had said, “I am the God of Abra­ham, Isaac, and Ja­cob,” not I was their God.

174:3.5The Sad­ducees had thought to sub­ject Je­sus to the with­er­ing in­flu­ence of ridicule, know­ing full well that per­se­cu­tion in pub­lic would most cer­tainly cre­ate fur­ther sym­pa­thy for him in the minds of the mul­ti­tude.

30:4.15The phys­i­cal body of mor­tal flesh is not a part of the re­assem­bly of the sleep­ing sur­vivor; the phys­i­cal body has re­turned to dust. The ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment spon­sors the new body, the mor­ontia form, as the new life ve­hi­cle for the im­mor­tal soul and for the in­dwelling of the re­turned Ad­juster. The Ad­juster is the cus­to­dian of the spirit tran­script of the mind of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The as­signed ser­a­phim is the keeper of the sur­viv­ing iden­tity—the im­mor­tal soul—as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Ad­juster and the ser­a­phim, re­unite their per­son­al­ity trusts, the new in­di­vid­ual con­sti­tutes the res­ur­rec­tion of the old per­son­al­ity, the sur­vival of the evolv­ing mor­ontia iden­tity of the soul. Such a re­as­so­ci­a­tion of soul and Ad­juster is quite prop­erly called a res­ur­rec­tion, a re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity fac­tors; but even this does not en­tirely ex­plain the reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity. Though you will prob­a­bly never un­der­stand the fact of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble trans­ac­tion, you will some­time ex­pe­ri­en­tially know the truth of it if you do not re­ject the plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

47:3.3The mor­tal-mind tran­scripts and the ac­tive crea­ture-mem­ory pat­terns as trans­formed from the ma­te­rial lev­els to the spir­i­tual are the in­di­vid­ual pos­ses­sion of the de­tached Thought Ad­justers; these spir­i­tized fac­tors of mind, mem­ory, and crea­ture per­son­al­ity are for­ever a part of such Ad­justers. The crea­ture mind-ma­trix and the pas­sive po­ten­tials of iden­tity are pres­ent in the mor­ontia soul in­trusted to the keep­ing of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­i­ans. And it is the re­unit­ing of the mor­ontia-soul trust of the ser­a­phim and the spirit-mind trust of the Ad­juster that re­assem­bles crea­ture per­son­al­ity and con­sti­tutes res­ur­rec­tion of a sleep­ing sur­vivor.

49:6.5The group guard­i­ans of as­sign­ment to the sleep­ing sur­vivors al­ways func­tion with the judg­ment Sons on their world ad­vents. “He shall send his an­gels, and they shall gather to­gether his elect from the four winds.” With each ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment to the reper­son­al­iza­tion of a sleep­ing mor­tal there func­tions the re­turned Ad­juster, the same im­mor­tal Fa­ther frag­ment that lived in him dur­ing the days in the flesh, and thus is iden­tity re­stored and per­son­al­ity res­ur­rected. Dur­ing the sleep of their sub­jects these wait­ing Ad­justers serve on Di­vin­ing­ton; they never in­dwell an­other mor­tal mind in this in­terim.

112:3.5Af­ter death the ma­te­rial body re­turns to the el­e­men­tal world from which it was de­rived, but two non­ma­te­rial fac­tors of sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity per­sist: The pre-ex­is­tent Thought Ad­juster, with the mem­ory tran­scrip­tion of the mor­tal ca­reer, pro­ceeds to Di­vin­ing­ton; and there also re­mains, in the cus­tody of the des­tiny guard­ian, the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul of the de­ceased hu­man. These phases and forms of soul, these once ki­netic but now static for­mu­las of iden­tity, are es­sen­tial to reper­son­al­iza­tion on the mor­ontia worlds; and it is the re­union of the Ad­juster and the soul that re­assem­bles the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity, that re­con­sciou­sizes you at the time of the mor­ontia awak­en­ing.

113:6.6The Ad­juster will iden­tify you; the guard­ian ser­a­phim will reper­son­al­ize you and then re-pres­ent you to the faith­ful Mon­i­tor of your earth days.

112:5.16The sit­u­a­tion which makes reper­son­al­iza­tion pos­si­ble is brought about in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the mor­ontia re­ceiv­ing plan­ets of a lo­cal uni­verse. Here in these life-as­sem­bly cham­bers the super­vis­ing au­thor­i­ties pro­vide that re­la­tion­ship of uni­verse en­ergy—mor­ontial, mindal, and spir­i­tual—which makes pos­si­ble the re­con­sciou­siz­ing of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The re­assem­bly of the con­stituent parts of a one­time ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity in­volves:

112:5.171. The fab­ri­ca­tion of a suit­able form, a mor­ontia en­ergy pat­tern, in which the new sur­vivor can make con­tact with non­spir­i­tual re­al­ity, and within which the mor­ontia vari­ant of the cos­mic mind can be en­cir­cuited.

112:5.182. The re­turn of the Ad­juster to the wait­ing mor­ontia crea­ture. The Ad­juster is the eter­nal cus­to­dian of your as­cend­ing iden­tity; your Mon­i­tor is the ab­so­lute as­sur­ance that you your­self and not an­other will oc­cupy the mor­ontia form cre­ated for your per­son­al­ity awak­en­ing. And the Ad­juster will be pres­ent at your per­son­al­ity re­assem­bly to take up once more the role of Par­a­dise guide to your sur­viv­ing self.

112:5.193. When these pre­req­ui­sites of reper­son­al­iza­tion have been as­sem­bled, the se­raphic cus­to­dian of the po­ten­tial­i­ties of the slum­ber­ing im­mor­tal soul, with the as­sis­tance of nu­mer­ous cos­mic per­son­al­i­ties, be­stows this mor­ontia en­tity upon and in the await­ing mor­ontia mind-body form while com­mit­ting this evo­lu­tion­ary child of the Su­preme to eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion with the wait­ing Ad­juster. And this com­pletes the reper­son­al­iza­tion, re­assem­bly of mem­ory, in­sight, and con­scious­ness—iden­tity.

47:3.2The very cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties on the first man­sion world is the res­ur­rec­tion hall, the enor­mous tem­ple of per­son­al­ity as­sem­bly. This gi­gan­tic struc­ture con­sists of the cen­tral ren­dezvous of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­i­ans, the Thought Ad­justers, and the arch­an­gels of the res­ur­rec­tion. The Life Car­ri­ers also func­tion with these ce­les­tial be­ings in the res­ur­rec­tion of the dead.

189:3.2The cir­cuit of the arch­an­gels then op­er­ated for the first time from Uran­tia. Ga­briel and the arch­an­gel hosts moved to the place of the spir­i­tual po­lar­ity of the planet; and when Ga­briel gave the sig­nal, there flashed to the first of the sys­tem man­sion worlds the voice of Ga­briel, say­ing: “By the man­date of Mi­chael, let the dead of a Uran­tia dis­pen­sa­tion rise!” Then all the sur­vivors of the hu­man races of Uran­tia who had fallen asleep since the days of Adam, and who had not al­ready gone on to judg­ment, ap­peared in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia in readi­ness for mor­ontia in­vesti­ture. And in an in­stant of time the ser­a­phim and their as­so­ciates made ready to de­part for the man­sion worlds. Or­di­nar­ily these se­raphic guard­i­ans, one­time as­signed to the group cus­tody of these sur­viv­ing mor­tals, would have been pres­ent at the mo­ment of their awak­ing in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia, but they were on this world it­self at this time be­cause of the ne­ces­sity of Ga­briel’s pres­ence here in con­nec­tion with the mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus.

45:4.1At the cen­ter of the seven an­gelic res­i­den­tial cir­cles on Je­ru­sem is lo­cated the head­quar­ters of the Uran­tia ad­vi­sory coun­cil, the four and twenty coun­selors. John the Rev­e­la­tor called them the four and twenty el­ders: “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty el­ders sit­ting, clothed in white rai­ment.” The throne in the cen­ter of this group is the judg­ment seat of the pre­sid­ing arch­an­gel, the throne of the res­ur­rec­tion roll call of mercy and jus­tice for all Sa­ta­nia. This judg­ment seat has al­ways been on Je­ru­sem, but the twenty-four sur­round­ing seats were placed in po­si­tion no more than nine­teen hun­dred years ago, soon af­ter Christ Mi­chael was el­e­vated to the full sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don. These four and twenty coun­selors are his per­sonal agents on Je­ru­sem, and they have au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent the Mas­ter Son in all mat­ters con­cern­ing the roll calls of Sa­ta­nia and in many other phases of the scheme of mor­tal as­cen­sion on the iso­lated worlds of the sys­tem. They are the des­ig­nated agents for ex­e­cut­ing the spe­cial re­quests of Ga­briel and the un­usual man­dates of Mi­chael.

168:2.1As this com­pany of some forty-five mor­tals stood be­fore the tomb, they could dimly see the form of Laz­a­rus, wrapped in linen ban­dages, rest­ing on the right lower niche of the burial cave. While these earth crea­tures stood there in al­most breath­less si­lence, a vast host of ce­les­tial be­ings had swung into their places prepara­tory to an­swer­ing the sig­nal for ac­tion when it should be given by Ga­briel, their com­man­der.

168:2.2Je­sus lifted up his eyes and said: “Fa­ther, I am thank­ful that you heard and granted my re­quest. I know that you al­ways hear me, but be­cause of those who stand here with me, I thus speak with you, that they may be­lieve that you have sent me into the world, and that they may know that you are work­ing with me in that which we are about to do.” And when he had prayed, he cried with a loud voice, “Laz­a­rus, come forth!”

168:2.3Though these hu­man ob­servers re­mained mo­tion­less, the vast ce­les­tial host was all astir in uni­fied ac­tion in obe­di­ence to the Cre­ator’s word. In just twelve sec­onds of earth time the hith­erto life­less form of Laz­a­rus be­gan to move and pres­ently sat up on the edge of the stone shelf whereon it had rested. His body was bound about with grave cloths, and his face was cov­ered with a nap­kin. And as he stood up be­fore them—alive—Je­sus said, “Loose him and let him go.”

168:2.4All, save the apos­tles, with Martha and Mary, fled to the house. They were pale with fright and over­come with as­ton­ish­ment. While some tar­ried, many has­tened to their homes.

168:2.5Laz­a­rus greeted Je­sus and the apos­tles and asked the mean­ing of the grave cloths and why he had awak­ened in the gar­den. Je­sus and the apos­tles drew to one side while Martha told Laz­a­rus of his death, burial, and res­ur­rec­tion. She had to ex­plain to him that he had died on Sun­day and was now brought back to life on Thurs­day, inas­much as he had had no con­scious­ness of time since falling asleep in death.

168:2.6As Laz­a­rus came out of the tomb, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus, now chief of his kind in this lo­cal uni­verse, gave com­mand to the for­mer Ad­juster of Laz­a­rus, now in wait­ing, to re­sume abode in the mind and soul of the res­ur­rected man.

168:2.7Then went Laz­a­rus over to Je­sus and, with his sis­ters, knelt at the Mas­ter’s feet to give thanks and of­fer praise to God. Je­sus, tak­ing Laz­a­rus by the hand, lifted him up, say­ing: “My son, what has hap­pened to you will also be ex­pe­ri­enced by all who be­lieve this gospel ex­cept that they shall be res­ur­rected in a more glo­ri­ous form. You shall be a liv­ing wit­ness of the truth which I spoke—I am the res­ur­rec­tion and the life. But let us all now go into the house and par­take of nour­ish­ment for these phys­i­cal bod­ies.”

168:2.8As they walked to­ward the house, Ga­briel dis­missed the ex­tra groups of the as­sem­bled heav­enly host while he made rec­ord of the first in­stance on Uran­tia, and the last, where a mor­tal crea­ture had been res­ur­rected in the like­ness of the phys­i­cal body of death.

168:2.9Laz­a­rus could hardly com­pre­hend what had oc­curred. He knew he had been very sick, but he could re­call only that he had fallen asleep and been awak­ened. He was never able to tell any­thing about these four days in the tomb be­cause he was wholly un­con­scious. Time is nonex­is­tent to those who sleep the sleep of death.

168:2.10Though many be­lieved in Je­sus as a re­sult of this mighty work, oth­ers only hard­ened their hearts the more to re­ject him. By noon the next day this story had spread over all Je­ru­sa­lem. Scores of men and women went to Beth­any to look upon Laz­a­rus and talk with him, and the alarmed and dis­con­certed Phar­isees hastily called a meet­ing of the San­hedrin that they might de­ter­mine what should be done about these new de­vel­op­ments.

77:8.1At the last ad­ju­di­ca­tion of this world, when Mi­chael re­moved the slum­ber­ing sur­vivors of time, the mid­way crea­tures were left be­hind, left to as­sist in the spir­i­tual and semispir­i­tual work on the planet. They now func­tion as a sin­gle corps, em­brac­ing both or­ders and num­ber­ing 10,992. The United Mid­way­ers of Uran­tia are at pres­ent gov­erned al­ter­nately by the se­nior mem­ber of each or­der. This regime has ob­tained since their amal­ga­ma­tion into one group shortly af­ter Pen­te­cost.

48:3.82. Pil­grim Re­ceivers and Free As­so­ci­a­tors. These are the so­cial com­pan­ions of the new ar­rivals on the man­sion worlds. One of them will cer­tainly be on hand to wel­come you when you awaken on the ini­tial man­sion world from the first tran­sit sleep of time, when you ex­pe­ri­ence the res­ur­rec­tion from the death of the flesh into the mor­ontia life. And from the time you are thus for­mally wel­comed on awak­en­ing to that day when you leave the lo­cal uni­verse as a first-stage spirit, these Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions are ever with you.

27:7.8Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of the full­ness of wor­ship, you are qual­i­fied for ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. The as­cen­dant ca­reer is well-nigh fin­ished, and the sev­enth ju­bilee pre­pares for cel­e­bra­tion. The first ju­bilee marked the mor­tal agree­ment with the Thought Ad­juster when the pur­pose to sur­vive was sealed; the sec­ond was the awak­en­ing in the mor­ontia life; the third was the fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster; the fourth was the awak­en­ing in Ha­vona; the fifth cel­e­brated the find­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and the sixth ju­bilee was the oc­ca­sion of the Par­a­dise awak­en­ing from the fi­nal tran­sit slum­ber of time. The sev­enth ju­bilee marks en­trance into the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps and the be­gin­ning of the eter­nity ser­vice. The at­tain­ment of the sev­enth stage of spirit re­al­iza­tion by a fi­nal­i­ter will prob­a­bly sig­nal­ize the cel­e­bra­tion of the first of the ju­bilees of eter­nity.

49:6.3Through­out the ear­lier ages of an in­hab­ited world, many are called to the man­sion spheres at the spe­cial and the mil­len­nial res­ur­rec­tions, but most sur­vivors are reper­son­al­ized at the in­au­gu­ra­tion of a new dis­pen­sa­tion as­so­ci­ated with the ad­vent of a di­vine Son of plan­e­tary ser­vice.

49:6.7Thus are the sleep­ing sur­vivors of a plan­e­tary age reper­son­al­ized in the dis­pen­sa­tional roll calls. But with re­gard to the non­salv­able per­son­al­i­ties of a realm, no im­mor­tal spirit is pres­ent to func­tion with the group guard­i­ans of des­tiny, and this con­sti­tutes ces­sa­tion of crea­ture ex­is­tence. While some of your rec­ords have pic­tured these events as tak­ing place on the plan­ets of mor­tal death, they all re­ally oc­cur on the man­sion worlds.

39:2.13The an­gels can­not trans­port com­bus­tion bod­ies—flesh and blood—such as you now have, but they can trans­port all oth­ers, from the low­est mor­ontia to the higher spirit forms. They do not func­tion in the event of nat­u­ral death. When you fin­ish your earthly ca­reer, your body re­mains on this planet. Your Thought Ad­juster pro­ceeds to the bo­som of the Fa­ther, and these an­gels are not di­rectly con­cerned in your sub­se­quent per­son­al­ity re­assem­bly on the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion man­sion world. There your new body is a mor­ontia form, one that can en­seraphim. You “sow a mor­tal body” in the grave; you “reap a mor­ontia form” on the man­sion worlds.

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.

112:5.20The fact of reper­son­al­iza­tion con­sists in the seizure of the en­cir­cuited mor­ontia phase of the newly seg­re­gated cos­mic mind by the awak­en­ing hu­man self. The phe­nom­e­non of per­son­al­ity is de­pen­dent on the per­sis­tence of the iden­tity of self­hood re­ac­tion to uni­verse en­vi­ron­ment; and this can only be ef­fected through the medium of mind. Self­hood per­sists in spite of a con­tin­u­ous change in all the fac­tor com­po­nents of self; in the phys­i­cal life the change is grad­ual; at death and upon reper­son­al­iza­tion the change is sud­den. The true re­al­ity of all self­hood (per­son­al­ity) is able to func­tion re­spon­sively to uni­verse con­di­tions by virtue of the un­ceas­ing chang­ing of its con­stituent parts; stag­na­tion ter­mi­nates in in­ev­i­ta­ble death. Hu­man life is an end­less change of the fac­tors of life uni­fied by the sta­bil­ity of the un­chang­ing per­son­al­ity.

• of sleeping survivors occur at least every millennium of planetary time

49:6.2From time to time, on mo­tion of the plan­e­tary au­thor­i­ties or the sys­tem rulers, spe­cial res­ur­rec­tions of the sleep­ing sur­vivors are con­ducted. Such res­ur­rec­tions oc­cur at least ev­ery mil­len­nium of plan­e­tary time, when not all but “many of those who sleep in the dust awake.” These spe­cial res­ur­rec­tions are the oc­ca­sion for mo­bi­liz­ing spe­cial groups of as­cend­ers for spe­cific ser­vice in the lo­cal uni­verse plan of mor­tal as­cen­sion. There are both prac­ti­cal rea­sons and sen­ti­men­tal as­so­ci­a­tions con­nected with these spe­cial res­ur­rec­tions.

• Adamic r. was #26, 1318 resurrected
• at time of Adam’s arrival

76:6.2They did not long rest in the obliv­ion of the un­con­scious sleep of the mor­tals of the realm. On the third day af­ter Adam’s death, the sec­ond fol­low­ing his rev­er­ent burial, the or­ders of Lanaforge, sus­tained by the act­ing Most High of Eden­tia and con­curred in by the Union of Days on Sal­ving­ton, act­ing for Mi­chael, were placed in Ga­briel’s hands, di­rect­ing the spe­cial roll call of the dis­tin­guished sur­vivors of the Adamic de­fault on Uran­tia. And in ac­cor­dance with this man­date of spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, num­ber twenty-six of the Uran­tia se­ries, Adam and Eve were reper­son­al­ized and re­assem­bled in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia to­gether with 1,316 of their as­so­ciates in the ex­pe­ri­ence of the first gar­den. Many other loyal souls had al­ready been trans­lated at the time of Adam’s ar­rival, which was at­tended by a dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tion of both the sleep­ing sur­vivors and of the liv­ing qual­i­fied as­cend­ers.