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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 47
THE SEVEN MANSION WORLDS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.)
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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