PAPER 47
THE SEVEN MANSION WORLDS
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 Sponsored
by a Brilliant Evening Star.
