travel

• desire for t. will be satisfied

30:3.12Mor­ontia mor­tals are stu­dent vis­i­tors only within the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse of their ori­gin. They may visit in a super­uni­verse ca­pac­ity only af­ter they have at­tained spirit sta­tus. Fully one half of our vis­i­tor colony con­sists of “stopovers,” be­ings en route else­where who pause to visit the Or­von­ton cap­i­tal. These per­son­al­i­ties may be ex­e­cut­ing a uni­verse as­sign­ment, or they may be en­joy­ing a pe­riod of leisure—free­dom from as­sign­ment. The priv­i­lege of in­trau­ni­verse travel and ob­ser­va­tion is a part of the ca­reer of all as­cend­ing be­ings. The hu­man de­sire to travel and ob­serve new peo­ples and worlds will be fully grat­i­fied dur­ing the long and event­ful climb to Par­a­dise through the lo­cal, su­per-, and cen­tral uni­verses.

• dead never return to native planet in same dispensation

39:4.155. The Trans­port­ers. These are the trans­port ser­a­phim who func­tion in the lo­cal sys­tems. In Sa­ta­nia, your sys­tem, they carry pas­sen­gers back and forth from Je­ru­sem and oth­er­wise serve as in­ter­plan­e­tary trans­port­ers. Sel­dom does a day pass in which a trans­port ser­a­phim of Sa­ta­nia does not de­posit some stu­dent vis­i­tor or some other trav­eler of spirit or semispirit na­ture on the shores of Uran­tia. These very space tra­versers will some­time carry you to and from the var­i­ous worlds of the sys­tem head­quar­ters group, and when you have fin­ished the Je­ru­sem as­sign­ment, they will carry you for­ward to Eden­tia. But un­der no cir­cum­stances will they carry you back­ward to the world of hu­man ori­gin. A mor­tal never re­turns to his na­tive planet dur­ing the dis­pen­sa­tion of his tem­po­ral ex­is­tence, and if he should re­turn dur­ing a sub­se­quent dis­pen­sa­tion, he would be es­corted by a trans­port ser­a­phim of the uni­verse head­quar­ters group.

• ascenders may visit any realm experientially attained

48:3.103. Hosts to Ce­les­tial Vis­i­tors. These gra­cious crea­tures are ded­i­cated to the en­ter­tain­ment of the super­hu­man groups of stu­dent vis­i­tors and other ce­les­tials who may chance to so­journ on the tran­si­tion worlds. You will have am­ple op­por­tu­nity to visit within any realm you have ex­pe­ri­en­tially at­tained. Stu­dent vis­i­tors are al­lowed on all in­hab­ited plan­ets, even those in iso­la­tion.

• greatly furthers civilization, brotherhood

52:6.31. So­cial fra­ter­nity. Mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of in­ter­na­tional and in­ter­ra­cial so­cial con­tacts and fra­ter­nal as­so­ci­a­tions through travel, com­merce, and com­pet­i­tive play. De­vel­op­ment of a com­mon lan­guage and the mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of mul­ti­lin­guists. The racial and na­tional in­ter­change of stu­dents, teach­ers, in­dus­tri­al­ists, and re­li­gious philoso­phers.

• olden wars promoted

70:2.9War has had a cer­tain evo­lu­tion­ary and se­lec­tive value, but like slav­ery, it must some­time be aban­doned as civ­i­liza­tion slowly ad­vances. Olden wars pro­moted travel and cul­tural in­ter­course; these ends are now bet­ter served by mod­ern meth­ods of trans­port and com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Olden wars strength­ened na­tions, but mod­ern strug­gles dis­rupt civ­i­lized cul­ture. An­cient war­fare re­sulted in the dec­i­ma­tion of in­fe­rior peo­ples; the net re­sult of mod­ern con­flict is the se­lec­tive de­struc­tion of the best hu­man stocks. Early wars pro­moted or­ga­ni­za­tion and ef­fi­ciency, but these have now be­come the aims of mod­ern in­dus­try. Dur­ing past ages war was a so­cial fer­ment which pushed civ­i­liza­tion for­ward; this re­sult is now bet­ter at­tained by am­bi­tion and in­ven­tion. An­cient war­fare sup­ported the con­cept of a God of bat­tles, but mod­ern man has been told that God is love. War has served many valu­able pur­poses in the past, it has been an in­dis­pens­able scaf­fold­ing in the build­ing of civ­i­liza­tion, but it is rapidly be­com­ing cul­tur­ally bankrupt—in­ca­pable of pro­duc­ing div­i­dends of so­cial gain in any way com­men­su­rate with the ter­ri­ble losses at­ten­dant upon its in­vo­ca­tion.

• greatly furthers civilization, brotherhood

81:6.25The great­est twen­ti­eth-cen­tury in­flu­ences con­tribut­ing to the fur­ther­ance of civ­i­liza­tion and the ad­vance­ment of cul­ture are the marked in­crease in world travel and the un­par­al­leled im­prove­ments in meth­ods of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. But the im­prove­ment in ed­u­ca­tion has not kept pace with the ex­pand­ing so­cial struc­ture; nei­ther has the mod­ern ap­pre­ci­a­tion of ethics de­vel­oped in cor­re­spon­dence with growth along more purely in­tel­lec­tual and sci­en­tific lines. And mod­ern civ­i­liza­tion is at a stand­still in spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment and the safe­guard­ing of the home in­sti­tu­tion.

• dead never return to native planet in same dispensation

112:3.7Upon death the Thought Ad­juster tem­porar­ily loses per­son­al­ity, but not iden­tity; the hu­man sub­ject tem­porar­ily loses iden­tity, but not per­son­al­ity; on the man­sion worlds both re­unite in eter­nal man­i­fes­ta­tion. Never does a de­parted Thought Ad­juster re­turn to earth as the be­ing of for­mer in­dwelling; never is per­son­al­ity man­i­fested with­out the hu­man will; and never does a dis-Ad­jus­tered hu­man be­ing af­ter death man­i­fest ac­tive iden­tity or in any man­ner es­tab­lish com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the liv­ing be­ings of earth. Such dis-Ad­jus­tered souls are wholly and ab­so­lutely un­con­scious dur­ing the long or short sleep of death. There can be no ex­hi­bi­tion of any sort of per­son­al­ity or abil­ity to en­gage in com­mu­ni­ca­tions with other per­son­al­i­ties un­til af­ter com­ple­tion of sur­vival. Those who go to the man­sion worlds are not per­mit­ted to send mes­sages back to their loved ones. It is the pol­icy through­out the uni­verses to for­bid such com­mu­ni­ca­tion dur­ing the pe­riod of a cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion.

• dead never return to native planet in same dispensation

146:7.2Je­sus fur­ther ex­plained to his apos­tles that the spir­its of de­parted hu­man be­ings do not come back to the world of their ori­gin to com­mu­ni­cate with their liv­ing fel­lows. Only af­ter the pass­ing of a dis­pen­sa­tional age would it be pos­si­ble for the ad­vanc­ing spirit of mor­tal man to re­turn to earth and then only in ex­cep­tional cases and as a part of the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the planet.

• dead never return to native planet in same dispensation

150:3.53. The spir­its of the dead do not come back to com­mu­ni­cate with their fam­i­lies or their one­time friends among the liv­ing.