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48:3.157. Area and Build­ing Cus­to­di­ans. Even the ma­te­rial and mor­ontia struc­tures in­crease in per­fec­tion and grandeur as you ad­vance in the man­so­nia ca­reer. As in­di­vid­u­als and as groups you are per­mit­ted to make cer­tain changes in the abodes as­signed as head­quar­ters for your so­journ on the dif­fer­ent man­sion worlds. Many of the ac­tiv­i­ties of these spheres take place in the open en­clo­sures of the var­i­ously des­ig­nated cir­cles, squares, and tri­an­gles. The ma­jor­ity of the man­sion world struc­tures are roof­less, be­ing en­clo­sures of mag­nif­i­cent con­struc­tion and ex­qui­site em­bel­lish­ment. The cli­matic and other phys­i­cal con­di­tions pre­vail­ing on the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds make roofs wholly un­nec­es­sary.

123:2.14Though Joseph was now as­sum­ing the di­rect re­spon­si­bil­ity for Je­sus’ in­tel­lec­tual and re­li­gious ed­u­ca­tion, his mother still in­ter­ested her­self in his home train­ing. She taught him to know and care for the vines and flow­ers grow­ing about the gar­den walls which com­pletely sur­rounded the home plot. She also pro­vided on the roof of the house (the sum­mer bed­room) shal­low boxes of sand in which Je­sus worked out maps and did much of his early prac­tice at writ­ing Ara­maic, Greek, and later on, He­brew, for in time he learned to read, write, and speak, flu­ently, all three lan­guages.

148:9.2While the house was thus thronged with peo­ple and en­tirely sur­rounded by ea­ger lis­ten­ers, a man long af­flicted with paral­y­sis was car­ried down from Ca­per­naum on a small couch by his friends. This par­a­lytic had heard that Je­sus was about to leave Beth­saida, and hav­ing talked with Aaron the stone ma­son, who had been so re­cently made whole, he re­solved to be car­ried into Je­sus’ pres­ence, where he could seek heal­ing. His friends tried to gain en­trance to Zeb­e­dee’s house by both the front and back doors, but too many peo­ple were crowded to­gether. But the par­a­lytic re­fused to ac­cept de­feat; he di­rected his friends to pro­cure lad­ders by which they as­cended to the roof of the room in which Je­sus was speak­ing, and af­ter loos­en­ing the tiles, they boldly low­ered the sick man on his couch by ropes un­til the af­flicted one rested on the floor im­me­di­ately in front of the Mas­ter. When Je­sus saw what they had done, he ceased speak­ing, while those who were with him in the room mar­veled at the per­se­ver­ance of the sick man and his friends. Said the par­a­lytic: “Mas­ter, I would not dis­turb your teach­ing, but I am de­ter­mined to be made whole. I am not like those who re­ceived heal­ing and im­me­di­ately for­got your teach­ing. I would be made whole that I might serve in the king­dom of heaven.” Now, not­with­stand­ing that this man’s af­flic­tion had been brought upon him by his own mis­spent life, Je­sus, see­ing his faith, said to the par­a­lytic: “Son, fear not; your sins are for­given. Your faith shall save you.”