The Urantia Book
PAPER 43
THE CONSTELLATIONS
Sponsored by Malavatia Melchizedek.
43:0.1 URANTIA is commonly referred to as 606
of Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, meaning the six hundred
sixth inhabited world in the local system of Satania, situated
in the constellation of Norlatiadek, one of the one hundred
constellations of the local universe of Nebadon. Constellations
being the primary divisions of a local universe, their rulers
link the local systems of inhabited worlds to the central
administration of the local universe on Salvington and by
reflectivity to the superadministration of the Ancients of Days
on Uversa.
43:0.2 The government of your constellation is
situated in a cluster of 771 architectural spheres, the
centermost and largest of which is Edentia, the seat of the
administration of the Constellation Fathers, the Most Highs of
Norlatiadek. Edentia itself is approximately one hundred times
as large as your world. The seventy major spheres surrounding
Edentia are about ten times the size of Urantia, while the ten
satellites which revolve around each of these seventy worlds are
about the size of Urantia. These 771 architectural spheres are
quite comparable in size to those of other constellations.
43:0.3 Edentia time reckoning and distance
measurement are those of Salvington, and like the spheres of the
universe capital, the constellation headquarters worlds are
fully supplied with all orders of celestial intelligences. In
general, these personalities are not very different from those
described in connection with the universe administration.
43:0.4 The supervisor seraphim, the third
order of local universe angels, are assigned to the service of
the constellations. They make their headquarters on the capital
spheres and minister extensively to the encircling
morontia-training worlds. In Norlatiadek the seventy major
spheres, together with the seven hundred minor satellites, are
inhabited by the univitatia, the permanent citizens of the
constellation. All these architectural worlds are fully
administered by the various groups of native life, for the
greater part unrevealed but including the efficient spironga and
the beautiful spornagia. Being the mid-point in the
morontia-training regime, as you might suspect, the morontia
life of the constellations is both typical and ideal.
1. THE CONSTELLATION HEADQUARTERS
43:1.1 Edentia abounds in fascinating
highlands, extensive elevations of physical matter crowned with
morontia life and overspread with spiritual glory, but there are
no rugged mountain ranges such as appear on Urantia. There are
tens of thousands of sparkling lakes and thousands upon
thousands of interconnecting streams, but there are no great
oceans nor torrential rivers. Only the highlands are devoid of
these surface streams.
43:1.2 The water of Edentia and similar
architectural spheres is no different from the water of the
evolutionary planets. The water systems of such spheres are both
surface and subterranean, and the moisture is in constant
circulation. Edentia can be circumnavigated via these various
water routes, though the chief channel of transportation is the
atmosphere. Spirit beings would naturally travel above the
surface of the sphere, while the morontia and material beings
make use of material and semimaterial means to negotiate
atmospheric passage.
43:1.3 Edentia and its associated worlds have
a true atmosphere, the usual three-gas mixture which is
characteristic of such architectural creations, and which
embodies the two elements of Urantian atmosphere plus that
morontia gas suitable for the respiration of morontia creatures.
But while this atmosphere is both material and morontial, there
are no storms or hurricanes; neither is there summer nor winter.
This absence of atmospheric disturbances and of seasonal
variation makes it possible to embellish all outdoors on these
especially created worlds.
43:1.4 The Edentia highlands are magnificent
physical features, and their beauty is enhanced by the endless
profusion of life which abounds throughout their length and
breadth. Excepting a few rather isolated structures, these
highlands contain no work of creature hands. Material and
morontial ornamentations are limited to the dwelling areas. The
lesser elevations are the sites of special residences and are
beautifully embellished with both biologic and morontia art.
43:1.5 Situated on the summit of the seventh
highland range are the resurrection halls of Edentia, wherein
awaken the ascending mortals of the secondary modified order of
ascension. These chambers of creature reassembly are under the
supervision of the Melchizedeks. The first of the receiving
spheres of Edentia (like the planet Melchizedek near Salvington)
also has special resurrection halls, wherein the mortals of the
modified orders of ascension are reassembled.
43:1.6 The Melchizedeks also maintain two
special colleges on Edentia. One, the emergency school, is
devoted to the study of problems growing out of the Satania
rebellion. The other, the bestowal school, is dedicated to the
mastery of the new problems arising out of the fact that Michael
made his final bestowal on one of the worlds of Norlatiadek.
This latter college was established almost four thousand years
ago, immediately after the announcement by Michael that Urantia
had been selected as the world for his final bestowal.
43:1.7 The sea of glass, the receiving area of
Edentia, is near the administrative center and is encircled by
the headquarters amphitheater. Surrounding this area are the
governing centers for the seventy divisions of constellation
affairs. One half of Edentia is divided into seventy triangular
sections, whose boundaries converge at the headquarters
buildings of their respective sectors. The remainder of this
sphere is one vast natural park, the gardens of God.
43:1.8 During your periodic visits to Edentia,
though the entire planet is open to your inspection, most of
your time will be spent in that administrative triangle whose
number corresponds to that of your current residential world.
You will always be welcome as an observer in the legislative
assemblies.
43:1.9 The morontia area assigned to ascending
mortals resident on Edentia is located in the mid-zone of the
thirty-fifth triangle adjoining the headquarters of the
finaliters, situated in the thirty-sixth triangle. The general
headquarters of the univitatia occupies an enormous area in the
mid-region of the thirty-fourth triangle immediately adjoining
the residential reservation of the morontia citizens. From these
arrangements it may be seen that provision is made for the
accommodation of at least seventy major divisions of celestial
life, and also that each of these seventy triangular areas is
correlated with some one of the seventy major spheres of
morontia training.
43:1.10 The Edentia sea of glass is one
enormous circular crystal about one hundred miles in
circumference and about thirty miles in depth. This magnificent
crystal serves as the receiving field for all transport seraphim
and other beings arriving from points outside the sphere; such a
sea of glass greatly facilitates the landing of transport
seraphim.
43:1.11 A crystal field on this order is found
on almost all architectural worlds; and it serves many purposes
aside from its decorative value, being utilized for portraying
superuniverse reflectivity to assembled groups and as a factor
in the energy-transformation technique for modifying the
currents of space and for adapting other incoming
physical-energy streams.
2. THE CONSTELLATION GOVERNMENT
43:2.1 The constellations are the autonomous
units of a local universe, each constellation being administered
according to its own legislative enactments. When the courts of
Nebadon sit in judgment on universe affairs, all internal
matters are adjudicated in accordance with the laws prevailing
in the constellation concerned. These judicial decrees of
Salvington, together with the legislative enactments of the
constellations, are executed by the administrators of the local
systems.
43:2.2 Constellations thus function as the
legislative or lawmaking units, while the local systems serve as
the executive or enforcement units. The Salvington government is
the supreme judicial and co-ordinating authority.
43:2.3 While the supreme judicial function
rests with the central administration of a local universe, there
are two subsidiary but major tribunals at the headquarters of
each constellation, the Melchizedek council and the court of the
Most High.
43:2.4 All judicial problems are first
reviewed by the council of the Melchizedeks. Twelve of this
order who have had certain requisite experience on the
evolutionary planets and on the system headquarters worlds are
empowered to review evidence, digest pleas, and formulate
provisional verdicts, which are passed on to the court of the
Most High, the reigning Constellation Father. The mortal
division of this latter tribunal consists of seven judges, all
of whom are ascendant mortals. The higher you ascend in the
universe, the more certain you are to be judged by those of your
own kind.
43:2.5 The constellation legislative body is
divided into three groups. The legislative program of a
constellation originates in the lower house of ascenders, a
group presided over by a finaliter and consisting of one
thousand representative mortals. Each system nominates ten
members to sit in this deliberative assembly. On Edentia this
body is not fully recruited at the present time.
43:2.6 The mid-chamber of legislators is
composed of the seraphic hosts and their associates, other
children of the local universe Mother Spirit. This group numbers
one hundred and is nominated by the supervising personalities
who preside over the various activities of such beings as they
function within the constellation.
43:2.7 The advisory or highest body of
constellation legislators consists of the house of peers -- the
house of the divine Sons. This corps is chosen by the Most High
Fathers and numbers ten. Only Sons of special experience may
serve in this upper house. This is the fact-finding and
timesaving group which very effectively serves both of the lower
divisions of the legislative assembly.
43:2.8 The combined council of legislators
consists of three members from each of these separate branches
of the constellation deliberative assembly and is presided over
by the reigning junior Most High. This group sanctions the final
form of all enactments and authorizes their promulgation by the
broadcasters. The approval of this supreme commission renders
legislative enactments the law of the realm; their acts are
final. The legislative pronouncements of Edentia constitute the
fundamental law of all Norlatiadek.
3. THE MOST HIGHS OF NORLATIADEK
43:3.1 The rulers of the constellations are of
the Vorondadek order of local universe sonship. When
commissioned to active duty in the universe as constellation
rulers or otherwise, these Sons are known as the Most Highs
since they embody the highest administrative wisdom, coupled
with the most farseeing and intelligent loyalty, of all the
orders of the Local Universe Sons of God. Their personal
integrity and their group loyalty have never been questioned; no
disaffection of the Vorondadek Sons has ever occurred in
Nebadon.
43:3.2 At least three Vorondadek Sons are
commissioned by Gabriel as the Most Highs of each of the Nebadon
constellations. The presiding member of this trio is known as
the Constellation Father and his two associates as the
senior Most High and the junior Most High. A
Constellation Father reigns for ten thousand standard years
(about 50,000 Urantia years), having previously served as junior
associate and as senior associate for equal periods.
43:3.3 The Psalmist knew that Edentia was
ruled by three Constellation Fathers and accordingly spoke of
their abode in the plural: "There is a river, the streams
whereof shall make glad the city of God, the most holy place of
the tabernacles of the Most Highs."
43:3.4 Down through the ages there has been
great confusion on Urantia regarding the various universe
rulers. Many later teachers confused their vague and indefinite
tribal deities with the Most High Fathers. Still later, the
Hebrews merged all of these celestial rulers into a composite
Deity. One teacher understood that the Most Highs were not the
Supreme Rulers, for he said, "He who dwells in the secret place
of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."
In the Urantia records it is very difficult at times to know
exactly who is referred to by the term "Most High." But Daniel
fully understood these matters. He said, "The Most High rules in
the kingdom of men and gives it to whomsoever he will."
43:3.5 The Constellation Fathers are little
occupied with the individuals of an inhabited planet, but they
are closely associated with those legislative and lawmaking
functions of the constellations which so greatly concern every
mortal race and national group of the inhabited
worlds.
43:3.6 Although the constellation regime
stands between you and the universe administration, as
individuals you would ordinarily be little concerned with the
constellation government. Your great interest would normally
center in the local system, Satania; but temporarily, Urantia is
closely related to the constellation rulers because of certain
system and planetary conditions growing out of the Lucifer
rebellion.
43:3.7 The Edentia Most Highs seized certain
phases of planetary authority on the rebellious worlds at the
time of the Lucifer secession. They have continued to exercise
this power, and the Ancients of Days long since confirmed this
assumption of control over these wayward worlds. They will no
doubt continue to exercise this assumed jurisdiction as long as
Lucifer lives. Much of this authority would ordinarily, in a
loyal system, be invested in the System Sovereign.
43:3.8 But there is still another way in which
Urantia became peculiarly related to the Most Highs. When
Michael, the Creator Son, was on his terminal bestowal mission,
since the successor of Lucifer was not in full authority in the
local system, all Urantia affairs which concerned the Michael
bestowal were immediately supervised by the Most Highs of
Norlatiadek.
4. MOUNT ASSEMBLY -- THE FAITHFUL OF DAYS
43:4.1 The most holy mount of assembly is the
dwelling place of the Faithful of Days, the representative of
the Paradise Trinity who functions on Edentia.
43:4.2 This Faithful of Days is a Trinity Son
of Paradise and has been present on Edentia as the personal
representative of Immanuel since the creation of the
headquarters world. Ever the Faithful of Days stands at the
right hand of the Constellation Fathers to counsel them, but
never does he proffer advice unless it is asked for. The high
Sons of Paradise never participate in the conduct of the affairs
of a local universe except upon the petition of the acting
rulers of such domains. But all that a Union of Days is to a
Creator Son, a Faithful of Days is to the Most Highs of a
constellation.
43:4.3 The residence of the Edentia Faithful
of Days is the constellation center of the Paradise system of
extrauniverse communication and intelligence. These Trinity
Sons, with their staffs of Havona and Paradise personalities, in
liaison with the supervising Union of Days, are in direct and
constant communication with their order throughout all the
universes, even to Havona and Paradise.
43:4.4 The most holy mount is exquisitely
beautiful and marvelously appointed, but the actual residence of
the Paradise Son is modest in comparison with the central abode
of the Most Highs and the surrounding seventy structures
comprising the residential unit of the Vorondadek Sons. These
appointments are exclusively residential; they are entirely
separate from the extensive administrative headquarters
buildings wherein the affairs of the constellation are
transacted.
43:4.5 The residence of the Faithful of Days
on Edentia is located to the north of these residences of the
Most Highs and is known as the "mount of Paradise assembly." On
this consecrated highland the ascending mortals periodically
assemble to hear this Son of Paradise tell of the long and
intriguing journey of progressing mortals through the one
billion perfection worlds of Havona and on to the indescribable
delights of Paradise. And it is at these special gatherings on
Mount Assembly that the morontia mortals become more fully
acquainted with the various groups of personalities of origin in
the central universe.
43:4.6 The traitorous Lucifer, onetime
sovereign of Satania, in announcing his claims to increased
jurisdiction, sought to displace all superior orders of sonship
in the governmental plan of the local universe. He purposed in
his heart, saying: "I will exalt my throne above the Sons of
God; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the north; I will
be like the Most High."
43:4.7 The one hundred System Sovereigns come
periodically to the Edentia conclaves which deliberate on the
welfare of the constellation. After the Satania rebellion the
archrebels of Jerusem were wont to come up to these Edentia
councils just as they had on former occasions. And there was
found no way to stop this arrogant effrontery until after the
bestowal of Michael on Urantia and his subsequent assumption of
unlimited sovereignty throughout all Nebadon. Never, since that
day, have these instigators of sin been permitted to sit in the
Edentia councils of the loyal System Sovereigns.
43:4.8 That the teachers of olden times knew
of these things is shown by the record: "And there was a day
when the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Most
Highs, and Satan came also and presented himself among them."
And this is a statement of fact regardless of the connection in
which it chances to appear.
43:4.9 Since the triumph of Christ, all
Norlatiadek is being cleansed of sin and rebels. Sometime before
Michael's death in the flesh the fallen Lucifer's associate,
Satan, sought to attend such an Edentia conclave, but the
solidification of sentiment against the archrebels had reached
the point where the doors of sympathy were so well-nigh
universally closed that there could be found no standing ground
for the Satania adversaries. When there exists no open door for
the reception of evil, there exists no opportunity for the
entertainment of sin. The doors of the hearts of all Edentia
closed against Satan; he was unanimously rejected by the
assembled System Sovereigns, and it was at this time that the
Son of Man "beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven."
43:4.10 Since the Lucifer rebellion a new
structure has been provided near the residence of the Faithful
of Days. This temporary edifice is the headquarters of the Most
High liaison, who functions in close touch with the Paradise Son
as adviser to the constellation government in all matters
respecting the policy and attitude of the order of Days toward
sin and rebellion.
5. THE EDENTIA FATHERS SINCE THE LUCIFER
REBELLION
43:5.1 The rotation of the Most Highs on
Edentia was suspended at the time of the Lucifer rebellion. We
now have the same rulers who were on duty at that time. We infer
that no change in these rulers will be made until Lucifer and
his associates are finally disposed of.
43:5.2 The present government of the
constellation, however, has been expanded to include twelve Sons
of the Vorondadek order. These twelve are as follows:
43:5.3 1. The Constellation Father. The
present Most High ruler of Norlatiadek is number 617,318 of the
Vorondadek series of Nebadon. He saw service in many
constellations throughout our local universe before taking up
his Edentia responsibilities.
43:5.4 2. The senior Most High associate.
43:5.5 3. The junior Most High associate.
43:5.6 4. The Most High adviser, the personal
representative of Michael since his attainment of the status of
a Master Son.
43:5.7 5. The Most High executive, the
personal representative of Gabriel stationed on Edentia ever
since the Lucifer rebellion.
43:5.8 6. The Most High chief of planetary
observers, the director of the Vorondadek observers stationed on
the isolated worlds of Satania.
43:5.9 7. The Most High referee, the
Vorondadek Son intrusted with the duty of adjusting all
difficulties consequential to rebellion within the
constellation.
43:5.10 8. The Most High emergency
administrator, the Vorondadek Son charged with the task of
adapting the emergency enactments of the Norlatiadek legislature
to the rebellion-isolated worlds of Satania.
43:5.11 9. The Most High mediator, the
Vorondadek Son assigned to harmonize the special bestowal
adjustments on Urantia with the routine administration of the
constellation. The presence of certain archangel activities and
numerous other irregular ministrations on Urantia, together with
the special activities of the Brilliant Evening Stars on
Jerusem, necessitates the functioning of this Son.
43:5.12 10. The Most High judge-advocate, the
head of the emergency tribunal devoted to the adjustment of the
special problems of Norlatiadek growing out of the confusion
consequent upon the Satania rebellion.
43:5.13 11. The Most High liaison, the
Vorondadek Son attached to the Edentia rulers but commissioned
as a special counselor with the Faithful of Days regarding the
best course to pursue in the management of problems pertaining
to rebellion and creature disloyalty.
43:5.14 12. The Most High director, the
president of the emergency council of Edentia. All personalities
assigned to Norlatiadek because of the Satania upheaval
constitute the emergency council, and their presiding officer is
a Vorondadek Son of extraordinary experience.
43:5.15 And this takes no account of the
numerous Vorondadeks, envoys of Nebadon constellations, and
others who are also resident on Edentia.
43:5.16 Ever since the Lucifer rebellion the
Edentia Fathers have exercised a special care over Urantia and
the other isolated worlds of Satania. Long ago the prophet
recognized the controlling hand of the Constellation Fathers in
the affairs of nations. "When the Most High divided to the
nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam,
he set the bounds of the people."
43:5.17 Every quarantined or isolated world
has a Vorondadek Son acting as an observer. He does not
participate in planetary administration except when ordered by
the Constellation Father to intervene in the affairs of the
nations. Actually it is this Most High observer who "rules in
the kingdoms of men." Urantia is one of the isolated worlds of
Norlatiadek, and a Vorondadek observer has been stationed on the
planet ever since the Caligastia betrayal. When Machiventa
Melchizedek ministered in semimaterial form on Urantia, he paid
respectful homage to the Most High observer then on duty, as it
is written, "And Melchizedek, king of Salem, was the priest of
the Most High." Melchizedek revealed the relations of this Most
High observer to Abraham when he said, "And blessed be the Most
High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand."
6. THE GARDENS OF GOD
43:6.1 The system capitals are particularly
beautified with material and mineral constructions, while the
universe headquarters is more reflective of spiritual glory, but
the capitals of the constellations are the acme of morontia
activities and living embellishments. On the constellation
headquarters worlds living embellishment is more generally
utilized, and it is this preponderance of life -- botanic
artistry -- that causes these worlds to be called "the gardens
of God."
43:6.2 About one half of Edentia is devoted to
the exquisite gardens of the Most Highs, and these gardens are
among the most entrancing morontia creations of the local
universe. This explains why the extraordinarily beautiful places
on the inhabited worlds of Norlatiadek are so often called "the
garden of Eden."
43:6.3 Centrally located in this magnificent
garden is the worship shrine of the Most Highs. The Psalmist
must have known something about these things, for he wrote: "Who
shall ascend the hill of the Most Highs? Who shall stand in this
holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not
lifted up his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully." At this
shrine the Most Highs, on every tenth day of relaxation, lead
all Edentia in the worshipful contemplation of God the Supreme.
43:6.4 The architectural worlds enjoy ten
forms of life of the material order. On Urantia there is plant
and animal life, but on such a world as Edentia there are ten
divisions of the material orders of life. Were you to view these
ten divisions of Edentia life, you would quickly classify the
first three as vegetable and the last three as animal, but you
would be utterly unable to comprehend the nature of the
intervening four groups of prolific and fascinating forms of
life.
43:6.5 Even the distinctively animal life is
very different from that of the evolutionary worlds, so
different that it is quite impossible to portray to mortal minds
the unique character and affectionate nature of these
nonspeaking creatures. There are thousands upon thousands of
living creatures which your imagination could not possibly
picture. The whole animal creation is of an entirely different
order from the gross animal species of the evolutionary planets.
But all this animal life is most intelligent and exquisitely
serviceable, and all the various species are surprisingly gentle
and touchingly companionable. There are no carnivorous creatures
on such architectural worlds; there is nothing in all Edentia to
make any living being afraid.
43:6.6 The vegetable life is also very
different from that of Urantia, consisting of both material and
morontia varieties. The material growths have a characteristic
green coloration, but the morontia equivalents of vegetative
life have a violet or orchid tinge of varying hue and
reflection. Such morontia vegetation is purely an energy growth;
when eaten there is no residual portion.
43:6.7 Being endowed with ten divisions of
physical life, not to mention the morontia variations, these
architectural worlds provide tremendous possibilities for the
biologic beautification of the landscape and of the material and
the morontia structures. The celestial artisans direct the
native spornagia in this extensive work of botanic decoration
and biologic embellishment. Whereas your artists must resort to
inert paint and lifeless marble to portray their concepts, the
celestial artisans and the univitatia more frequently utilize
living materials to represent their ideas and to capture their
ideals.
43:6.8 If you enjoy the flowers, shrubs, and
trees of Urantia, then will you feast your eyes upon the
botanical beauty and the floral grandeur of the supernal gardens
of Edentia. But it is beyond my powers of description to
undertake to convey to the mortal mind an adequate concept of
these beauties of the heavenly worlds. Truly, eye has not seen
such glories as await your arrival on these worlds of the
mortal-ascension adventure.
7. THE UNIVITATIA
43:7.1 Univitatia are the permanent citizens
of Edentia and its associated worlds, all seven hundred seventy
worlds surrounding the constellation headquarters being under
their supervision. These children of the Creator Son and the
Creative Spirit are projected on a plane of existence in between
the material and the spiritual, but they are not morontia
creatures. The natives of each of the seventy major spheres of
Edentia possess different visible forms, and the morontia
mortals have their morontia forms attuned to correspond with the
ascending scale of the univitatia each time they change
residence from one Edentia sphere to another as they pass
successively from world number one to world number seventy.
43:7.2 Spiritually, the univitatia are alike;
intellectually, they vary as do mortals; in form, they much
resemble the morontia state of existence, and they are created
to function in seventy diverse orders of personality. Each of
these orders of univitatia exhibits ten major variations of
intellectual activity, and each of these varying intellectual
types presides over the special training and cultural schools of
progressive occupational or practical socialization on some one
of the ten satellites which swing around each of the major
Edentia worlds.
43:7.3 These seven hundred minor worlds are
technical spheres of practical education in the working of the
entire local universe and are open to all classes of intelligent
beings. These training schools of special skill and technical
knowledge are not conducted exclusively for ascending mortals,
although morontia students constitute by far the largest group
of all those who attend these courses of training. When you are
received on any one of the seventy major worlds of social
culture, you are immediately given clearance for each of the ten
surrounding satellites.
43:7.4 In the various courtesy colonies,
ascending morontia mortals predominate among the reversion
directors, but the univitatia represent the largest group
associated with the Nebadon corps of celestial artisans. In all
Orvonton no extra-Havona beings excepting the Uversa abandonters
can equal the univitatia in artistic skill, social adaptability,
and co-ordinating cleverness.
43:7.5 These citizens of the constellation are
not actually members of the artisan corps, but they freely work
with all groups and contribute much to making the constellation
worlds the chief spheres for the realization of the magnificent
artistic possibilities of transition culture. They do not
function beyond the confines of the constellation headquarters
worlds.
8. THE EDENTIA TRAINING WORLDS
43:8.1 The physical endowment of Edentia and
its surrounding spheres is well-nigh perfect; they could hardly
equal the spiritual grandeur of the spheres of Salvington, but
they far surpass the glories of the training worlds of Jerusem.
All these Edentia spheres are energized directly by the
universal space currents, and their enormous power systems, both
material and morontial, are expertly supervised and distributed
by the constellation centers, assisted by a competent corps of
Master Physical Controllers and Morontia Power Supervisors.
43:8.2 The time spent on the seventy training
worlds of transition morontia culture associated with the
Edentia age of mortal ascension, is the most settled period in
an ascending mortal's career up to the status of a finaliter;
this is really the typical morontia life. While you are rekeyed
each time you pass from one major cultural world to another, you
retain the same morontia body, and there are no periods of
personality unconsciousness.
43:8.3 Your sojourn on Edentia and its
associated spheres will be chiefly occupied with the mastery of
group ethics, the secret of pleasant and profitable
interrelationship between the various universe and superuniverse
orders of intelligent personalities.
43:8.4 On the mansion worlds you completed the
unification of the evolving mortal personality; on the system
capital you attained Jerusem citizenship and achieved the
willingness to submit the self to the disciplines of group
activities and co-ordinated undertakings; but now on the
constellation training worlds you are to achieve the real
socialization of your evolving morontia personality. This
supernal cultural acquirement consists in learning how to:
43:8.5 1. Live happily and work effectively
with ten diverse fellow morontians, while ten such groups are
associated in companies of one hundred and then federated in
corps of one thousand.
43:8.6 2. Abide joyfully and co-operate
heartily with ten univitatia, who, though similar intellectually
to morontia beings, are very different in every other way. And
then must you function with this group of ten as it co-ordinates
with ten other families, which are in turn confederated into a
corps of one thousand univitatia.
43:8.7 3. Achieve simultaneous adjustment to
both fellow morontians and these host univitatia. Acquire the
ability voluntarily and effectively to co-operate with your own
order of beings in close working association with a somewhat
dissimilar group of intelligent creatures.
43:8.8 4. While thus socially functioning with
beings like and unlike yourself, achieve intellectual harmony
with, and make vocational adjustment to, both groups of
associates.
43:8.9 5. While attaining satisfactory
socialization of the personality on intellectual and vocational
levels, further perfect the ability to live in intimate contact
with similar and slightly dissimilar beings with ever-lessening
irritability and ever-diminishing resentment. The reversion
directors contribute much to this latter attainment through
their group-play activities.
43:8.10 6. Adjust all of these various
socialization techniques to the furtherance of the progressive
co-ordination of the Paradise-ascension career; augment universe
insight by enhancing the ability to grasp the eternal
goal-meanings concealed within these seemingly insignificant
time-space activities.
43:8.11 7. And then, climax all of these
procedures of multisocialization with the concurrent enhancement
of spiritual insight as it pertains to the augmentation of all
phases of personal endowment through group spiritual association
and morontia co-ordination. Intellectually, socially, and
spiritually two moral creatures do not merely double their
personal potentials of universe achievement by partnership
technique; they more nearly quadruple their attainment and
accomplishment possibilities.
43:8.12 We have portrayed Edentia
socialization as an association of a morontia mortal with a
univitatia family group consisting of ten intellectually
dissimilar individuals concomitant with a similar association
with ten fellow morontians. But on the first seven major worlds
only one ascending mortal lives with ten univitatia. On the
second group of seven major worlds two mortals abide with each
native group of ten, and so on up until, on the last group of
seven major spheres, ten morontia beings are domiciled with ten
univitatia. As you learn how better to socialize with the
univitatia, you will practice such improved ethics in your
relations with your fellow morontia progressors.
43:8.13 As ascending mortals you will enjoy
your sojourn on the progress worlds of Edentia, but you will not
experience that personal thrill of satisfaction which
characterizes your initial contact with universe affairs on the
system headquarters or your farewell touch with these realities
on the final worlds of the universe capital.
9. CITIZENSHIP ON EDENTIA
43:9.1 After graduation from world number
seventy, ascending mortals take up residence on Edentia.
Ascenders now, for the first time, attend the "assemblies of
Paradise" and hear the story of their far-flung career as it is
depicted by the Faithful of Days, the first of the Supreme
Trinity-origin Personalities they have met.
43:9.2 This entire sojourn on the
constellation training worlds, culminating in Edentia
citizenship, is a period of true and heavenly bliss for the
morontia progressors. Throughout your sojourn on the system
worlds you were evolving from a near-animal to a morontia
creature; you were more material than spiritual. On the
Salvington spheres you will be evolving from a morontia being to
the status of a true spirit; you will be more spiritual than
material. But on Edentia, ascenders are midway between their
former and their future estates, midway in their passage from
evolutionary animal to ascending spirit. During your whole stay
on Edentia and its worlds you are "as the angels"; you are
constantly progressing but all the while maintaining a general
and a typical morontia status.
43:9.3 This constellation sojourn of an
ascending mortal is the most uniform and stabilized epoch in the
entire career of morontia progression. This experience
constitutes the prespirit socialization training of the
ascenders. It is analogous to the prefinaliter spiritual
experience of Havona and to the preabsonite training on
Paradise.
43:9.4 Ascending mortals on Edentia are
chiefly occupied with the assignments on the seventy progressive
univitatia worlds. They also serve in varied capacities on
Edentia itself, mainly in conjunction with the constellation
program concerned with group, racial, national, and planetary
welfare. The Most Highs are not so much engaged in fostering
individual advancement on the inhabited worlds; they rule in the
kingdoms of men rather than in the hearts of individuals.
43:9.5 And on that day when you are prepared
to leave Edentia for the Salvington career, you will pause and
look back on one of the most beautiful and most refreshing of
all your epochs of training this side of Paradise. But the glory
of it all augments as you ascend inward and achieve increased
capacity for enlarged appreciation of divine meanings and
spiritual values.
43:9.6
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