The Urantia Book
PAPER 47
THE SEVEN MANSION WORLDS
Sponsored by a Brilliant Evening Star.
47:0.1 THE Creator Son, when on Urantia, spoke
of the "many mansions in the Father's universe." In a certain
sense, all fifty-six of the encircling worlds of Jerusem are
devoted to the transitional culture of ascending mortals, but
the seven satellites of world number one are more specifically
known as the mansion worlds.
47:0.2 Transition world number one itself is
quite exclusively devoted to ascendant activities, being the
headquarters of the finaliter corps assigned to Satania This
world now serves as the headquarters for more than one hundred
thousand companies of finaliters, and there are one thousand
glorified beings in each of these groups.
47:0.3 When a system is settled in light and
life, and as the mansion worlds one by one cease to serve as
mortal-training stations, they are taken over by the increasing
finaliter population which accumulates in these older and more
highly perfected systems.
47:0.4 The seven mansion worlds are in charge
of the morontia supervisors and the Melchizedeks. There is an
acting governor on each world who is directly responsible to the
Jerusem rulers. The Uversa conciliators maintain headquarters on
each of the mansion worlds, while adjoining is the local
rendezvous of the Technical Advisers. The reversion directors
and celestial artisans maintain group headquarters on each of
these worlds. The spironga function from mansion world number
two onward, while all seven, in common with the other
transitional-culture planets and the headquarters world, are
abundantly provided with spornagia of standard creation.
1. THE FINALITERS' WORLD
47:1.1 Although only finaliters and certain
groups of salvaged children and their caretakers are resident on
transitional world number one, provision is made for the
entertainment of all classes of spirit beings, transition
mortals, and student visitors. The spornagia, who function on
all of these worlds, are hospitable hosts to all beings whom
they can recognize. They have a vague feeling concerning the
finaliters but cannot visualize them. They must regard them much
as you do the angels in your present physical state.
47:1.2 Though the finaliter world is a sphere
of exquisite physical beauty and extraordinary morontia
embellishment, the great spirit abode located at the center of
activities, the temple of the finaliters, is not visible to the
unaided material or early morontia vision. But the energy
transformers are able to visualize many of these realities to
ascending mortals, and from time to time they do thus function,
as on the occasions of the class assemblies of the mansion world
students on this cultural sphere.
47:1.3 All through the mansion world
experience you are in a way spiritually aware of the presence of
your glorified brethren of Paradise attainment, but it is very
refreshing, now and then, actually to perceive them as they
function in their headquarters abodes. You will not
spontaneously visualize finaliters until you acquire true spirit
vision.
47:1.4 On the first mansion world all
survivors must pass the requirements of the parental commission
from their native planets. The present Urantia commission
consists of twelve parental couples, recently arrived, who have
had mortal experience in rearing three or more children to the
pubescent age. Service on this commission is rotational and is
for only ten years as a rule. All who fail to satisfy these
commissioners as to their parental experience must further
qualify by service in the homes of the Material Sons on Jerusem
or in part in the probationary nursery on the finaliters' world.
47:1.5 But irrespective of parental
experience, mansion world parents who have growing children in
the probation nursery are given every opportunity to collaborate
with the morontia custodians of such children regarding their
instruction and training. These parents are permitted to journey
there for visits as often as four times a year. And it is one of
the most touchingly beautiful scenes of all the ascending career
to observe the mansion world parents embrace their material
offspring on the occasions of their periodic pilgrimages to the
finaliter world. While one or both parents may leave a mansion
world ahead of the child, they are quite often contemporary for
a season.
47:1.6 No ascending mortal can escape the
experience of rearing children -- their own or others -- either
on the material worlds or subsequently on the finaliter world or
on Jerusem. Fathers must pass through this essential experience
just as certainly as mothers. It is an unfortunate and mistaken
notion of modern peoples on Urantia that child culture is
largely the task of mothers. Children need fathers as well as
mothers, and fathers need this parental experience as much as do
mothers.
2. THE PROBATIONARY NURSERY
47:2.1 The infant-receiving schools of Satania
are situated on the finaliter world, the first of the Jerusem
transition-culture spheres. These infant-receiving schools are
enterprises devoted to the nurture and training of the children
of time, including those who have died on the evolutionary
worlds of space before the acquirement of individual status on
the universe records. In the event of the survival of either or
both of such a child's parents, the guardian of destiny
deputizes her associated cherubim as the custodian of the
child's potential identity, charging the cherubim with the
responsibility of delivering this undeveloped soul into the
hands of the Mansion World Teachers in the probationary
nurseries of the morontia worlds.
47:2.2 It is these same deserted cherubim who,
as Mansion World Teachers, under the supervision of the
Melchizedeks, maintain such extensive educational facilities for
the training of the probationary wards of the finaliters. These
wards of the finaliters, these infants of ascending mortals, are
always personalized as of their exact physical status at the
time of death except for reproductive potential. This awakening
occurs at the exact time of the parental arrival on the first
mansion world. And then are these children given every
opportunity, as they are, to choose the heavenly way just as
they would have made such a choice on the worlds where death so
untimely terminated their careers.
47:2.3 On the nursery world, probationary
creatures are grouped according to whether or not they have
Adjusters, for the Adjusters come to indwell these material
children just as on the worlds of time. Children of pre-Adjuster
ages are cared for in families of five, ranging in ages from one
year and under up to approximately five years, or that age when
the Adjuster arrives.
47:2.4 All children on the evolving worlds who
have Thought Adjusters, but who before death had not made a
choice concerning the Paradise career, are also repersonalized
on the finaliter world of the system, where they likewise grow
up in the families of the Material Sons and their associates as
do those little ones who arrived without Adjusters, but who will
subsequently receive the Mystery Monitors after attaining the
requisite age of moral choice.
47:2.5 The Adjuster-indwelt children and
youths on the finaliter world are also reared in families of
five, ranging in ages from six to fourteen; approximately, these
families consist of children whose ages are six, eight, ten,
twelve, and fourteen. Any time after sixteen, if final choice
has been made, they translate to the first mansion world and
begin their Paradise ascent. Some make a choice before this age
and go on to the ascension spheres, but very few children under
sixteen years of age, as reckoned by Urantia standards, will be
found on the mansion worlds.
47:2.6 The guardian seraphim attend these
youths in the probationary nursery on the finaliter world just
as they spiritually minister to mortals on the evolutionary
planets, while the faithful spornagia minister to their physical
necessities. And so do these children grow up on the transition
world until such time as they make their final choice.
47:2.7 When material life has run its course,
if no choice has been made for the ascendant life, or if these
children of time definitely decide against the Havona adventure,
death automatically terminates their probationary careers. There
is no adjudication of such cases; there is no resurrection from
such a second death. They simply become as though they had not
been.
47:2.8 But if they choose the Paradise path of
perfection, they are immediately made ready for translation to
the first mansion world, where many of them arrive in time to
join their parents in the Havona ascent. After passing through
Havona and attaining the Deities, these salvaged souls of mortal
origin constitute the permanent ascendant citizenship of
Paradise. These children who have been deprived of the valuable
and essential evolutionary experience on the worlds of mortal
nativity are not mustered into the Corps of the Finality.
3. THE FIRST MANSION WORLD
47:3.1 On the mansion worlds the resurrected
mortal survivors resume their lives just where they left off
when overtaken by death. When you go from Urantia to the first
mansion world, you will notice considerable change, but if you
had come from a more normal and progressive sphere of time, you
would hardly notice the difference except for the fact that you
were in possession of a different body; the tabernacle of flesh
and blood has been left behind on the world of nativity.
47:3.2 The 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.
47:3.3 The 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.
47:3.4 If a transitory personality of mortal
origin should never be thus reassembled, the spirit elements of
the nonsurviving mortal creature would forever continue as an
integral part of the individual experiential endowment of the
onetime indwelling Adjuster.
47:3.5 From the Temple of New Life there
extend seven radial wings, the resurrection halls of the mortal
races. Each of these structures is devoted to the assembly of
one of the seven races of time. There are one hundred thousand
personal resurrection chambers in each of these seven wings
terminating in the circular class assembly halls, which serve as
the awakening chambers for as many as one million individuals.
These halls are surrounded by the personality assembly chambers
of the blended races of the normal post-Adamic worlds.
Regardless of the technique which may be employed on the
individual worlds of time in connection with special or
dispensational resurrections, the real and conscious reassembly
of actual and complete personality takes place in the
resurrection halls of mansonia number one. Throughout all
eternity you will recall the profound memory impressions of your
first witnessing of these resurrection mornings.
47:3.6 From the resurrection halls you proceed
to the Melchizedek sector, where you are assigned permanent
residence. Then you enter upon ten days of personal liberty. You
are free to explore the immediate vicinity of your new home and
to familiarize yourself with the program which lies immediately
ahead. You also have time to gratify your desire to consult the
registry and call upon your loved ones and other earth friends
who may have preceded you to these worlds. At the end of your
ten-day period of leisure you begin the second step in the
Paradise journey, for the mansion worlds are actual training
spheres, not merely detention planets.
47:3.7 On mansion world number one (or another
in case of advanced status) you will resume your intellectual
training and spiritual development at the exact level whereon
they were interrupted by death. Between the time of planetary
death or translation and resurrection on the mansion world,
mortal man gains absolutely nothing aside from experiencing the
fact of survival. You begin over there right where you leave off
down here.
47:3.8 Almost the entire experience of mansion
world number one pertains to deficiency ministry. Survivors
arriving on this first of the detention spheres present so many
and such varied defects of creature character and deficiencies
of mortal experience that the major activities of the realm are
occupied with the correction and cure of these manifold legacies
of the life in the flesh on the material evolutionary worlds of
time and space.
47:3.9 The sojourn on mansion world number one
is designed to develop mortal survivors at least up to the
status of the post-Adamic dispensation on the normal
evolutionary worlds. Spiritually, of course, the mansion world
students are far in advance of such a state of mere human
development.
47:3.10 If 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.
47:3.11 The center of the seven major circles
of the first mansion world administration is occupied by the
temple of the Morontia Companions, the personal guides assigned
to ascending mortals. These companions are the offspring of the
local universe Mother Spirit, and there are several million of
them on the morontia worlds of Satania. Aside from those
assigned as group companions, you will have much to do with the
interpreters and translators, the building custodians, and the
excursion supervisors. And all of these companions are most
co-operative with those who have to do with developing your
personality factors of mind and spirit within the morontia body.
47:3.12 As you start out on the first mansion
world, one Morontia Companion is assigned to each company of one
thousand ascending mortals, but you will encounter larger
numbers as you progress through the seven mansion spheres. These
beautiful and versatile beings are companionable associates and
charming guides. They are free to accompany individuals or
selected groups to any of the transition-culture spheres,
including their satellite worlds. They are the excursion guides
and leisure associates of all ascending mortals. They often
accompany survivor groups on periodic visits to Jerusem, and on
any day you are there, you can go to the registry sector of the
system capital and meet ascending mortals from all seven of the
mansion worlds since they freely journey back and forth between
their residential abodes and the system headquarters.
4. THE SECOND MANSION WORLD
47:4.1 It is on this sphere that you are more
fully inducted into the mansonia life. The groupings of the
morontia life begin to take form; working groups and social
organizations start to function, communities take on formal
proportions, and the advancing mortals inaugurate new social
orders and governmental arrangements.
47:4.2 Spirit-fused survivors occupy the
mansion worlds in common with the Adjuster-fused ascending
mortals. While the various orders of celestial life differ, they
are all friendly and fraternal. In all the worlds of ascension
you will find nothing comparable to human intolerance and the
discriminations of inconsiderate caste systems.
47:4.3 As you ascend the mansion worlds one by
one, they become more crowded with the morontia activities of
advancing survivors. As you go forward, you will recognize more
and more of the Jerusem features added to the mansion worlds.
The sea of glass makes its appearance on the second mansonia.
47:4.4 A newly developed and suitably adjusted
morontia body is acquired at the time of each advance from one
mansion world to another. You go to sleep with the seraphic
transport and awake with the new but undeveloped body in the
resurrection halls, much as when you first arrived on mansion
world number one except that the Thought Adjuster does not leave
you during these transit sleeps between the mansion worlds. Your
personality remains intact after you once pass from the
evolutionary worlds to the initial mansion world.
47:4.5 Your Adjuster memory remains fully
intact as you ascend the morontia life. Those mental
associations that were purely animalistic and wholly material
naturally perished with the physical brain, but everything in
your mental life which was worth while, and which had survival
value, was counterparted by the Adjuster and is retained as a
part of personal memory all the way through the ascendant
career. You will be conscious of all your worth-while
experiences as you advance from one mansion world to another and
from one section of the universe to another -- even to Paradise.
47:4.6 Though you have morontia bodies, you
continue, through all seven of these worlds, to eat, drink, and
rest. You partake of the morontia order of food, a kingdom of
living energy unknown on the material worlds. Both food and
water are fully utilized in the morontia body; there is no
residual waste. Pause to consider: Mansonia number one is a very
material sphere, presenting the early beginnings of the morontia
regime. You are still a near human and not far removed from the
limited viewpoints of mortal life, but each world discloses
definite progress. From sphere to sphere you grow less material,
more intellectual, and slightly more spiritual. The spiritual
progress is greatest on the last three of these seven
progressive worlds.
47:4.7 Biological deficiencies were largely
made up on the first mansion world. There defects in planetary
experiences pertaining to sex life, family association, and
parental function were either corrected or were projected for
future rectification among the Material Son families on Jerusem.
47:4.8 Mansonia number two more specifically
provides for the removal of all phases of intellectual conflict
and for the cure of all varieties of mental disharmony. The
effort to master the significance of morontia mota, begun on the
first mansion world, is here more earnestly continued. The
development on mansonia number two compares with the
intellectual status of the post-Magisterial Son culture of the
ideal evolutionary worlds.
5. THE THIRD MANSION WORLD
47:5.1 Mansonia the third is the headquarters
of the Mansion World Teachers. Though they function on all seven
of the mansion spheres, they maintain their group headquarters
at the center of the school circles of world number three. There
are millions of these instructors on the mansion and higher
morontia worlds. These advanced and glorified cherubim serve as
morontia teachers all the way up from the mansion worlds to the
last sphere of local universe ascendant training. They will be
among the last to bid you an affectionate adieu when the
farewell time draws near, the time when you bid good-bye -- at
least for a few ages -- to the universe of your origin, when you
enseraphim for transit to the receiving worlds of the minor
sector of the superuniverse.
47:5.2 When sojourning on the first mansion
world, you have permission to visit the first of the transition
worlds, the headquarters of the finaliters and the system
probationary nursery for the nurture of undeveloped evolutionary
children. When you arrive on mansonia number two, you receive
permission periodically to visit transition world number two,
where are located the morontia supervisor headquarters for all
Satania and the training schools for the various morontia
orders. When you reach mansion world number three, you are
immediately granted a permit to visit the third transition
sphere, the headquarters of the angelic orders and the home of
their various system training schools. Visits to Jerusem from
this world are increasingly profitable and are of
ever-heightening interest to the advancing mortals.
47:5.3 Mansonia the third is a world of great
personal and social achievement for all who have not made the
equivalent of these circles of culture prior to release from the
flesh on the mortal nativity worlds. On this sphere more
positive educational work is begun. The training of the first
two mansion worlds is mostly of a deficiency nature -- negative
-- in that it has to do with supplementing the experience of the
life in the flesh. On this third mansion world the survivors
really begin their progressive morontia culture. The chief
purpose of this training is to enhance the understanding of the
correlation of morontia mota and mortal logic, the co-ordination
of morontia mota and human philosophy. Surviving mortals now
gain practical insight into true metaphysics. This is the real
introduction to the intelligent comprehension of cosmic meanings
and universe interrelationships. The culture of the third
mansion world partakes of the nature of the postbestowal Son age
of a normal inhabited planet.
6. THE FOURTH MANSION WORLD
47:6.1 When you arrive on the fourth mansion
world, you have well entered upon the morontia career; you have
progressed a long way from the initial material existence. Now
are you given permission to make visits to transition world
number four, there to become familiar with the headquarters and
training schools of the superangels, including the Brilliant
Evening Stars. Through the good offices of these superangels of
the fourth transition world the morontia visitors are enabled to
draw very close to the various orders of the Sons of God during
the periodic visits to Jerusem, for new sectors of the system
capital are gradually opening up to the advancing mortals as
they make these repeated visits to the headquarters world. New
grandeurs are progressively unfolding to the expanding minds of
these ascenders.
47:6.2 On the fourth mansonia the individual
ascender more fittingly finds his place in the group working and
class functions of the morontia life. Ascenders here develop
increased appreciation of the broadcasts and other phases of
local universe culture and progress.
47:6.3 It is during the period of training on
world number four that the ascending mortals are really first
introduced to the demands and delights of the true social life
of morontia creatures. And it is indeed a new experience for
evolutionary creatures to participate in social activities which
are predicated neither on personal aggrandizement nor on
self-seeking conquest. A new social order is being introduced,
one based on the understanding sympathy of mutual appreciation,
the unselfish love of mutual service, and the overmastering
motivation of the realization of a common and supreme destiny --
the Paradise goal of worshipful and divine perfection. Ascenders
are all becoming self-conscious of God-knowing, God-revealing,
God-seeking, and God-finding.
47:6.4 The intellectual and social culture of
this fourth mansion world is comparable to the mental and social
life of the post-Teacher Son age on the planets of normal
evolution. The spiritual status is much in advance of such a
mortal dispensation.
7. THE FIFTH MANSION WORLD
47:7.1 Transport to the fifth mansion world
represents a tremendous forward step in the life of a morontia
progressor. The experience on this world is a real foretaste of
Jerusem life. Here you begin to realize the high destiny of the
loyal evolutionary worlds since they may normally progress to
this stage during their natural planetary development. The
culture of this mansion world corresponds in general to that of
the early era of light and life on the planets of normal
evolutionary progress. And from this you can understand why it
is so arranged that the highly cultured and progressive types of
beings who sometimes inhabit these advanced evolutionary worlds
are exempt from passing through one or more, or even all, of the
mansion spheres.
47:7.2 Having mastered the local universe
language before leaving the fourth mansion world, you now devote
more time to the perfection of the tongue of Uversa to the end
that you may be proficient in both languages before arriving on
Jerusem with residential status. All ascending mortals are
bilingual from the system headquarters up to Havona. And then it
is only necessary to enlarge the superuniverse vocabulary, still
additional enlargement being required for residence on Paradise.
47:7.3 Upon arrival on mansonia number five
the pilgrim is given permission to visit the transition world of
corresponding number, the Sons' headquarters. Here the ascendant
mortal becomes personally familiar with the various groups of
divine sonship. He has heard of these superb beings and has
already met them on Jerusem, but now he comes really to know
them.
47:7.4 On the fifth mansonia you begin to
learn of the constellation study worlds. Here you meet the first
of the instructors who begin to prepare you for the subsequent
constellation sojourn. More of this preparation continues on
worlds six and seven, while the finishing touches are supplied
in the sector of the ascending mortals on Jerusem.
47:7.5 A real birth of cosmic consciousness
takes place on mansonia number five. You are becoming universe
minded. This is indeed a time of expanding horizons. It is
beginning to dawn upon the enlarging minds of the ascending
mortals that some stupendous and magnificent, some supernal and
divine, destiny awaits all who complete the progressive Paradise
ascension, which has been so laboriously but so joyfully and
auspiciously begun. At about this point the average mortal
ascender begins to manifest bona fide experiential enthusiasm
for the Havona ascent. Study is becoming voluntary, unselfish
service natural, and worship spontaneous. A real morontia
character is budding; a real morontia creature is evolving.
8. THE SIXTH MANSION WORLD
47:8.1 Sojourners on this sphere are permitted
to visit transition world number six, where they learn more
about the high spirits of the superuniverse, although they are
not able to visualize many of these celestial beings. Here they
also receive their first lessons in the prospective spirit
career which so immediately follows graduation from the morontia
training of the local universe.
47:8.2 The assistant System Sovereign makes
frequent visits to this world, and the initial instruction is
here begun in the technique of universe administration. The
first lessons embracing the affairs of a whole universe are now
imparted.
47:8.3 This is a brilliant age for ascending
mortals and usually witnesses the perfect fusion of the human
mind and the divine Adjuster. In potential, this fusion may have
occurred previously, but the actual working identity many times
is not achieved until the time of the sojourn on the fifth
mansion world or even the sixth.
47:8.4 The union of the evolving immortal soul
with the eternal and divine Adjuster is signalized by the
seraphic summoning of the supervising superangel for resurrected
survivors and of the archangel of record for those going to
judgment on the third day; and then, in the presence of such a
survivor's morontia associates, these messengers of confirmation
speak: "This is a beloved son in whom I am well pleased." This
simple ceremony marks the entrance of an ascending mortal upon
the eternal career of Paradise service.
47:8.5 Immediately upon the confirmation of
Adjuster fusion the new morontia being is introduced to his
fellows for the first time by his new name and is granted the
forty days of spiritual retirement from all routine activities
wherein to commune with himself and to choose some one of the
optional routes to Havona and to select from the differential
techniques of Paradise attainment.
47:8.6 But still are these brilliant beings
more or less material; they are far from being true spirits;
they are more like supermortals, spiritually speaking, still a
little lower than the angels. But they are truly becoming
marvelous creatures.
47:8.7 During the sojourn on world number six
the mansion world students achieve a status which is comparable
with the exalted development characterizing those evolutionary
worlds which have normally progressed beyond the initial stage
of light and life. The organization of society on this mansonia
is of a high order. The shadow of the mortal nature grows less
and less as these worlds are ascended one by one. You are
becoming more and more adorable as you leave behind the coarse
vestiges of planetary animal origin. "Coming up through great
tribulation" serves to make glorified mortals very kind and
understanding, very sympathetic and tolerant.
9. THE SEVENTH MANSION WORLD
47:9.1 The experience on this sphere is the
crowning achievement of the immediate postmortal career. During
your sojourn here you will receive the instruction of many
teachers, all of whom will co-operate in the task of preparing
you for residence on Jerusem. Any discernible differences
between those mortals hailing from the isolated and retarded
worlds and those survivors from the more advanced and
enlightened spheres are virtually obliterated during the sojourn
on the seventh mansion world. Here you will be purged of all the
remnants of unfortunate heredity, unwholesome environment, and
unspiritual planetary tendencies. The last remnants of the "mark
of the beast" are here eradicated.
47:9.2 While sojourning on mansonia number
seven, permission is granted to visit transition world number
seven, the world of the Universal Father. Here you begin a new
and more spiritual worship of the unseen Father, a habit you
will increasingly pursue all the way up through your long
ascending career. You find the Father's temple on this world of
transitional culture, but you do not see the Father.
47:9.3 Now begins the formation of classes for
graduation to Jerusem. You have gone from world to world as
individuals, but now you prepare to depart for Jerusem in
groups, although, within certain limits, an ascender may elect
to tarry on the seventh mansion world for the purpose of
enabling a tardy member of his earthly or mansonia working group
to catch up with him.
47:9.4 The personnel of the seventh mansonia
assemble on the sea of glass to witness your departure for
Jerusem with residential status. Hundreds or thousands of times
you may have visited Jerusem, but always as a guest; never
before have you proceeded toward the system capital in the
company of a group of your fellows who were bidding an eternal
farewell to the whole mansonia career as ascending mortals. You
will soon be welcomed on the receiving field of the headquarters
world as Jerusem citizens.
47:9.5 You will greatly enjoy your progress
through the seven dematerializing worlds; they are really
demortalizing spheres. You are mostly human on the first mansion
world, just a mortal being minus a material body, a human mind
housed in a morontia form -- a material body of the morontia
world but not a mortal house of flesh and blood. You really pass
from the mortal state to the immortal status at the time of
Adjuster fusion, and by the time you have finished the Jerusem
career, you will be full-fledged morontians.
10. JERUSEM CITIZENSHIP
47:10.1 The reception of a new class of
mansion world graduates is the signal for all Jerusem to
assemble as a committee of welcome. Even the spornagia enjoy the
arrival of these triumphant ascenders of evolutionary origin,
those who have run the planetary race and finished the mansion
world progression. Only the physical controllers and Morontia
Power Supervisors are absent from these occasions of rejoicing.
47:10.2 John the Revelator saw a vision of the
arrival of a class of advancing mortals from the seventh mansion
world to their first heaven, the glories of Jerusem. He
recorded: "And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with
fire; and those who had gained the victory over the beast that
was originally in them and over the image that persisted through
the mansion worlds and finally over the last mark and trace,
standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God, and
singing the song of deliverance from mortal fear and death."
(Perfected space communication is to be had on all these worlds;
and your anywhere reception of such communications is made
possible by carrying the "harp of God," a morontia contrivance
compensating for the inability to directly adjust the immature
morontia sensory mechanism to the reception of space
communications.)
47:10.3 Paul also had a view of the
ascendant-citizen corps of perfecting mortals on Jerusem, for he
wrote: "But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable
company of angels, to the grand assembly of Michael, and to the
spirits of just men being made perfect."
47:10.4 After 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.
47:10.5 Seven 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.
47:10.6 The mortal personality initiated on
the evolutionary worlds and tabernacled in the flesh -- indwelt
by the Mystery Monitors and invested by the Spirit of Truth --
is not fully mobilized, realized, and unified until that day
when such a Jerusem citizen is given clearance for Edentia and
proclaimed a true member of the morontia corps of Nebadon -- an
immortal survivor of Adjuster association, a Paradise ascender,
a personality of morontia status, and a true child of the Most
Highs.
47:10.7 Mortal death is a technique of escape
from the material life in the flesh; and the mansonia experience
of progressive life through seven worlds of corrective training
and cultural education represents the introduction of mortal
survivors to the morontia career, the transition life which
intervenes between the evolutionary material existence and the
higher spirit attainment of the ascenders of time who are
destined to achieve the portals of eternity.
47:10.8
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