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Cosmic Passages
Precepts
Mortals (evolved in creation from energy fragments of the Unqualified Absolute who is becoming deitized through experientialization) have reincarnated many times in their evolution from their leap from the animal kingdom to the human kingdom.
Eventually, a spiritualized mortal lives a life that qualifies that human personality for the even greater leap to the mansion worlds for additional education and spiritual evolution to successively higher cosmic levels.
Mortal persons qualifying for graduation to the mansion worlds are born to mortals possessing older souls. They in turn raise children who possess older souls who also attempt to qualify for advancement.
Mortals (evolved in creation from energy fragments of the Unqualified Absolute who is becoming deitized through experientialization) have reincarnated many times in their evolution from their leap from the animal kingdom to the human kingdom.
Eventually, a spiritualized mortal lives a life that qualifies that human personality for the even greater leap to the mansion worlds for additional education and spiritual evolution to successively higher cosmic levels.
Mortal persons qualifying for graduation to the mansion worlds are born to mortals possessing older souls. They in turn raise children who possess older souls who also attempt to qualify for advancement.
I. Science for the Layman
Reproduction of Species
(Quantum Lens (Douglas E. Richards), page 13, edited.)
One could possess an incredible combination of superior genes, but if one were not successful at mating, these superior genes die with their owner. Alternatively, if someone was good at finding mates and reproducing, and absolutely nothing else, his or her inferior genes would survive.
If genes needed to ensure that sex, and in some cases the insatiable drive for it, were so interwoven into the fabric of the psyche that mating could not be ignored, and was even critical for proper mental health and bodily functioning, they would do so. If genes needed to take over the mind, force one to pursue the opposite sex almost against one’s will, or destroy all rationality, they would do so with single-minded ruthlessness.
The Lake Wobegone Effect
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richards, page 14, edited.)
The Lake Wobegone Effect, is named after the fictional town popularized by Garrison Keillor, the radio personality. According to Keillor, this was a town where, “All the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.” While tongue-in-cheek, this statement was more insightful even than Keillor may have realized, as numerous studies have documented that humans had a clear tendency to overestimate themselves on almost every dimension. Ask a group of people if they were below average, average, or above average on anything - driving skills, productivity, intelligence, parenting, and so on - and seventy to ninety percent were convinced they were above average. So people were obviously good at fooling themselves, especially when it came to their own greatness.
Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richards, page 50, edited.)
Relativity works in the realm of the macro. It deals with gravity and mass and speed. Quantum mechanics deals with the very small (the micro), elementary particles. These minute particles are like electrons (or the smallest element of energy, the ultimatons, which form electrons.) Both theories paint a picture of a universe that seems absurd. For instance, relativity shows that as an object speeds up, time itself passes more and more slowly for it. At the speed of light, time stops altogether. This has been confirmed because Time moves at a different rate for our GPS satellites in orbit than it does on the earth's surface.
Einstein’s equations correct for this discrepancy. The reason this is so counterintuitive is that Earth would have to travel millions and millions of times faster than we do to notice it.
As for quantum effects, these are best experienced at the subatomic level. Another realm in which humans have no exposure or experience.
Quantum Theory Experiments
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richards, page 51, edited)
A brief explanation of Quantum theory is difficult. It doesn't make sense. Perhaps the most important experiment ever done in the field is the double slit experiment. Cut two slits side by side in a metal plate, and put a screen behind the plate. Send a stream of photons through the slits, and observe the light pattern you get on the screen. If the photons behaved like particles, you would expect to see two lines on the screen, right behind the two slits. If the photons behaved like waves, the peaks and troughs of the waves traveling through the two slits would interfere with each other, and create a pattern more like a barcode. This simple experiment was expected to yield a simple result.
It did not. It yielded an impossible result. If you did the experiment, you got a wave pattern. A barcode. But if you shot electrons through - or any other particles, for that matter - one at a time, you still got a wave pattern. How could photons interfere with each other if they were going through the slits single file? A single photon or electron couldn’t split, go through both slits as a wave, and interfere with itself. Yet it did.
Stranger still, if you tried to cheat by watching the slits to catch photons splitting and going through both, they didn’t anymore. Suddenly, you got the two-line pattern characteristic of particles. Nature seemed to know when you were looking.
Quantum Theory Experiments Continued
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richards, page 51, edited)
The strange behaviour described in the prior blog was only the beginning of the erratic effects of quantum mechanics. Particles could be joined, entangled, and have some kind of instantaneous metaphysical connection, even across the entire universe. Particles could be at an infinity of places at once, and popped into and out of existence randomly, creating a froth of particles and energy in the vacuum of space.
The longest-standing theory to account for this was that a particle could be anywhere until it was observed. When it was, it immediately collapsed to a discrete location.
On some level, the reality of the universe depended on conscious observers. The implications of this caused physicists great restlessness for over a century, and called into question humankind’s fundamental understanding of the nature of reality. If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn’t the universe require consciousness for the observer to even exist?
The God Theory
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, page 121, edited.)
The God Theory is a book written by Bernard Haisch. In 2006 Haisch published this popular book in which he attempted to reconcile modern scientific belief with traditional religious belief.
The God Theory discusses multi-universes, zero-point fields, with all of us being a part of God, and that we and creation are a result of subtraction rather than addition.
Everything around us is astonishing. Impossible. We live in a universe so finely tuned for complex chemistry and life that the odds against it happening fortuitously are greater than those of winning a thousand lotteries in a row. In a universe filled with exquisite microorganisms, voracious black holes, and trillions of stars (each of which can fit millions or more Earths inside). How can we possibly think that any view of God or creation can capture more than the tiniest hint of this reality?
What's Behind It All?
(The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All - Bernard Haisch, - pp 4 and 18., edited)
Haisch says he offers his book, not as a theological treatise, but as a short, readable exposition of a worldview that can bring sense and purpose into individual lives, and tolerance and peace to a planet whose future is in serious jeopardy - primarily because of the irrational dogmatism of both religion and science. He continues saying, "If I am correct, we are literally all one being (God) in many individual forms. Why, then, would we continue to harm one another?"
"One of the oldest of religious teachings is that, 'The One who became many is becoming one again.' That is what we are all doing right now."
Intimation of the Scope of Our Challenge
Each universe is a unique expression of the Trinity. The Father/Son conceive a Creator Son Who builds that unique universe concept in Time and Space.
The Creator Son is complemented by a totally compatible Mother Spirit who is created by the Infinite Spirit of the Trinity to assist in the expression of the original idea of the Father/Son.
Brotherhood amongst the races and classes of the planets in this universe pales in contemplation of the "brotherhood" requirements that lay ahead in terms of relating to the many hundreds of thousands of unique inhabitants of the other universes each of which is the expression of a separate infinite concept. No two universes are alike.
The Intolerant Biases of Science and Religion
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, page 121, edited.)
Many atheists are absolutely certain a creator doesn’t exist despite the impossibility of the self-creation of the cosmos. They consider the very notion of a creator as the height of absurdity. They are unable to imagine that they could be mistaken.
And many practitioners of organized religions are equally certain that their views are correct. That cows are sacred is self-evident, and who can imagine a cosmos where this isn’t true? And that Jesus was divine, refusing to allow for the tiniest possibility that the biblical accounts might not be absolutely accurate. At the same time, they ridicule the beliefs of other religionists.
Stoicisn of the Reductionists
(The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All - Bernard Haisch, - p. 24, edited)
Reductionists believe that complex things or processes can always be reduced to the actions of their parts. To them, consciousness is nothing more than brain chemistry. They claim that the job of science will be complete when the "ultimate equation" has explained the tiniest particle. In their view, there is nothing beyond the here-and-now; when your body dies, you are gone forever. If you suggest that this seems fundamentally unsatisfactory, their response is: “Get over it and move on.”
The stoicism of those who believe this and still manage to live good, decent lives without promise of reward in the hereafter is, perhaps, admirable. But even reductionism is preferable to a belief that slaughter and destruction in the name of a vengeful God will result in immediate passage to heaven with a bonus of virgins.
The Religion of Scientism
(The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All - Bernard Haisch, - p. 24, edited)
In its most rigid form, reductionism becomes essentially a matter of faith and simply another kind of orthodoxy that goes by the name of scientism.
Dogmatic science should be regarded as the religion of scientism.
While scientific orthodoxy boasts no churches, it is nonetheless a faith - a faith whose ritual is skepticism. Indeed those skeptics who scoff loudest at all things spiritual hold professional gatherings that bear an ironic resemblance to revival meetings, at which they pump up the faithful to go forth and combat anything that smacks of non-reductionism.
Haisch contends that a truly advanced civilization will not be classified on the basis of the physical energy it harnesses, but rather on its ability to understand and use the creative energy of divine consciousness, which is the fundamental nature of all living beings.
The Physical Universe Is a Work in Progress
(The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All - Bernard Haisch, page 43.)
The God Theory suggests that the imperfection of the world reflects that the physical universe is a work in progress, a creation in which novelty constrained by basic laws results, over time, in things that work, things that don't work, and things that sometimes work in the present, incomplete state of affairs.
Under the God Theory, an infinite intelligence turns potential into experience, actualizes the merely possible, lets things happen that otherwise would not, lets novelty arise. Under the God Theory, the universe is not a wind-it-up-and-let-it-run, prefabricated creation, but rather a dynamic experiment in which all sorts of amazing things are dynamically generated by rules that result in hospitable environments in which an astounding diversity of life forms can evolve.
Rather than pulling puppet strings, this deity voluntarily relinquishes control to its creatures so that new and autonomous things may arise. This enhances creation by bringing forth the unplanned, the unscripted, the random, the “other” that flows naturally from this act. In creating the universe, God deliberately relinquishes omnipotence over this realm so as not to interfere with the free will of creation's beings.
The Zero Point Field
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, pp 123 - 125, edited.)
One consequence of the Quantum Theory is the zero point field.
Quantum theory reveals that there really is no such thing as a vacuum. In a sane universe, if you removed all matter and energy from a portion of deep interstellar space, you would have a vacuum. But this isn’t the case. No matter what you do, there is always an underlying, seething froth of activity. Particles (energy) pop into and out of the void constantly. Randomly.
This is called the zero point field. And if you do the math, you find that there is an incomprehensibly large amount of energy in every cubic centimeter of space (zero point energy). Collectively, this zero point energy (consisting of the Unqualified Absolute) is basically infinite. It pervades the entire universe. It exists in interstellar space and in the empty spaces between atoms of our bodies. A cubic mile of space contains more energy than the lifetime output of our sun.
Zero Point Energy Potential
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, pp 123 - 125, edited.)
Unfortunately, there is no way to tap into the power of zero point energy. This energy flashes into and out of existence so quickly there is no way to capture it.
Physicists have tried to think of ways to tap into it, but have failed, and most have concluded it can’t be done. Still, because of the enormous potential of this energy source, NASA has been studying this area for years.
One NASA publication, "Interstellar Propulsion Society Newsletter," in July of 1995 stated: “If all the energy for all the possible frequencies is summed up, the result is an enormous energy density. In simplistic terms, there is enough energy in a cubic centimeter of empty vacuum to completely boil away all of the Earth's oceans.”
The Link Between Reality and Consciousness
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 125, edited.)
Quantum physics has shown for a century that reality requires a conscious observer. A particle can be anywhere until you look at it. Then its wave function collapses and it "chooses" where to be. In a sense, without consciousness, there is no "reality."
No one knows exactly why reality works this way. But it has frustrated scores of brilliant scientists (including Einstein).
A fairly recent concept is that we are living in the equivalent of a video game. In many of the virtual worlds that we’ve created for our computers, the reality only comes into being when a game character in the video world observes it. The programmers don’t waste computer power calculating and rendering images off screen. However, if the game player moves a character to the left, the landscape in this direction is instantly rendered, but not until the character looks in that direction. When the character looks left, the landscape is calculated, rendered seamlessly, and presented to the character.
Reality is only rendered when it is observed. Particles are everywhere, until someone peeks, and then the particles take a discrete location.
Superstrings and the Supernatural
(The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All - Bernard Haisch, p. 36, edited.)
It is acceptable and fashionable today to publish scientific papers that propound theories of invisible universes that may be adjacent to our own in other dimensions. Some papers have even postulated universes right on top of our own, interpenetrating the space we inhabit, supporting their claims with impressive mathematics that invoke, for example, opposite chirality particles and interactions.
(An object or a system is chiral if it is distinguishable from its mirror image; that is, it cannot be superposed onto it.)
These theories, called superstring and M-brane theories, are among the most exciting and prestigious frontiers of modern physics. They have served as foundation for many coveted reputations and many successful academic careers. If a religious person talks about transcendent spiritual realities, however, he or she is scoffed at. The eleven- or twenty-six-dimensional string worlds of scientific theory are plausible, but the supernatural realms of spiritual worlds are judged to be mere superstition.
(The Urantia Book (Earth) would interpret String Theory as describing the supernatural hierarchy of worlds and universes that extend from Earth to Paradise.)
Consciousness as a Quantum Effect
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 126, edited.)
Many physicists believe that consciousness itself is a quantum effect. The progress of artificial intelligence has begun extensive discussions on the concept of consciousness. Some scientists believe a machine could never become self-aware; that it could never truly marvel at the beauty of a sunset, create art, or take an intuitive leap. Because even if a computer could pass the Turing Test (fool someone into thinking it was human), it would simply be obeying a sophisticated set of programming, spitting out answers that could fool humans, but without true comprehension, and without freedom of choice.
One requirement of consciousness is that it be non-deterministic, non-algorithmic. And this is the very hallmark of the quantum realm, where inherent uncertainties and randomness rule. The question is: Did consciousness only arise when a collection of physical matter, like the human brain, became capable of harnessing quantum effects?
Sir Roger Penrose, a giant of physics and mathematics, was a chief proponent of this idea theorizing that this quantum orchestra was conducted by tiny structures within neurons called microtubules.
Defining Light
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 126, edited.)
What we commonly think of as light is just photons, the portion of this radiation that is in the visible frequency range of humans. But ultraviolet waves, radio waves, microwaves, X-rays, etc., are all forms of light - forms of electromagnetic radiation. And they are all carried on photons.
The sea of zero point fluctuations is electromagnetic in nature. This suggests that the zero point field is actually a sea of light not just light in the visible spectrum.
This sea of light with nearly infinite energy pervades all the universes. Some scientists believe it existed before the creation of our universe. The bible quoted God as saying: "let there be light." And there was light. God created light on the first day, but He didn't create the sun and the stars until the fourth day.
The Kabbalah, often called Jewish mysticism, explains this discrepancy by saying that the light created on the first day was different than that created on the fourth. Perhaps not the kind of light mortals can see, but the zero point field.
The Urantia Book would explain that the light "created" on the first day consisted of the the energy fragments of the Unqualified Absolute released into the arena of creation as construction materials.
Inedia
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 129, edited.)
Inedia (Latin for "fasting") or breatharianism is the belief that it is possible for a person to live without consuming food. Breatharians claim that food, and in some cases water, are not necessary for survival, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana, the vital life force in Hinduism.
It is possible that mystics and saints who claimed to be living off light were not living off sunlight, but from the zero point field.
Consciousness ties directly into quantum reality. A number of prominent scientists believe our minds are quantum instruments, and that consciousness itself is a quantum event.
Could the people undergoing prolonged fasts, without knowing it, be tapping into this infinite energy source with their minds?
The zero point field contains nearly infinite energy, and the energy blinks into and out of existence far too quickly for men to access it with machines or any technology known to science, but the mind is a quantum instrument. Nobel Laureate James Watson described the mind as, "the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."
Fasting plays a big role in many religions. In fact, the word Breatharianism was first used to describe a fast-based lifestyle within Catholicism. This belief is based on the idea that certain saints were able to survive extended fasts without visible sustenance. Both Moses and Jesus were both said to have survived fasts of forty days and nights. Being divine, Jesus certainly could tap into the zero point field just as his army of angels did in feeding and healing the multitudes.
Manna in the Old Testament
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 131, edited.)
According to the Passover story, after the Israelites, were freed from the Egyptian pharaoh, they wandered the desert for forty years. Supposedly, they were sustained by a substance called manna, which came from heaven.
Moses and his people called this mysterious sustenance, "bread from heaven."
Manna is thought to be derived from an Egyptian word meaning, "What is it?" Moses (or their supernatural overseers) could have tapped into the zero point field to preserve the Adamic bloodline of the Israelites for the future possible incarnation of the Christ on Earth.
The Miracle of Conception
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 141, edited.)
We are surrounded by miracles. Perhaps the greatest miracle of all is the creation of a human being from the union of a sperm and an egg. A single fertilized egg cell gives rise to many trillions of cells. That alone is impressive, but how do these trillions of cells know how to organize themselves into a human body with a human brain? How do the cells know where to be?
How does a single microscopic cell possibly transform into an entire, immensely complex human being? Not only do various cells need to know where to be, they need to know what to be. At first they’re all identical. Then, "miraculously," certain cells begin to change, as stretches of DNA are turned on and off differentially. Some become heart cells; others brain cells; still others blood cells, or bone cells, or liver cells, or neurons.
If a microscopic grain of sand were to reproduce madly, resulting in a trillion grains of sand, and these grains began specializing, ultimately constructing an entire computer spontaneously, we’d call it a miracle. But a fertilized egg manages a feat far more impressive than this with little fanfare.
The Urantia Book reveals the miracle of life on a planet is the role of the Life Carriers: " Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life of the order and forms known on Urantia [Earth] arises with these Sons, though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Urantia." (Paper 36.)
Energy and Wealth
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 161 - 163, edited.)
Energy is wealth. The two are one and the same. The world spends copious amounts of money each year on power. If men could control nearly infinite energies, there is almost nothing they couldn't do. They could direct energies to fill every power plant on earth for free. Imagine what it would do for the world economy if the money spent by individuals and corporations for power could be poured into other beneficial pursuits.
With unlimited energy, humans could create any climate they preferred.
Lately, the scientific establishment is beginning to recognize the true power of the mind to heal the body.What if having a subconscious that could tap into unlimited energy is all the mind needs to amplify the placebo effect?
Spirit Is Reality - Matter Is Illusion
(The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All - Bernard Haisch, p. 22, edited.)
The logical consequences of the God Theory lead us to some inevitable corollaries: The purpose of life is experience; God wishes to experience life through mortals. God desires our partnership, not our servility. If we choose to praise and worship God, it should be out of love not fear, and such worship is for our own benefit, not his. The consequence of our negative actions is negative things happening to us (though not necessarily immediately). In this view, we create our own hell - a selfish greed for the illusions of matter.
Ultimately, the consciousness of individuals will be fully reunited with the infinite consciousness of God.
Since the point of a created universe is to experience it, life is God made manifest. It is in our own best interest to live a life worthy of the spiritual creating intelligence, because that is the path to spiritual evolution and ultimate satisfaction.
The Urantia Book tells us that "to material beings the spirit world is more or less unreal; to spirit beings the material world is almost entirely unreal, being merely a shadow of the substance of spirit realities." (Paper 44.)
New Research Results on the Illusion of Matter
(Article taken from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, June 4 2015, edited)
Researchers working at the Australian National University (ANU) have conducted an experiment that helps bolster the ever-growing evidence surrounding the weird causal properties inherent in quantum theory. In short, they have shown that reality does not actually exist until it is measured – at atomic scales, at least.
The researchers conducted a version of John Archibald Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment – a variation of the classic double-slit experiment, where light is shown to display characteristics of both waves and particles – where an object moving through open space is provided the opportunity (some would say "a choice") to behave like a particle or a wave.
In this instance, however, the ANU team replicated Wheeler's experiment using multiple atoms, which was much more difficult to do than a test using photons. This extra difficulty is due to the fact that, as they have mass, atoms tend to interfere with each other, which can theoretically influence the results.
"An atom is a much more classical particle," Associate Professor Truscott said. "For the theory to hold with a single atom is significant because it proves that it works for particles with mass."
"The atoms did not travel from A to B. It was only when they were measured at the end of the journey that their wave-like or particle-like behavior was brought into existence," said Truscott. "It proves that measurement is everything. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it.”
The results of this research were recently published in the journal Nature Physics. II. Transformations
Who and What is Me?
Our true "selves" have no beginning and no ending.
"I" (as a person) am a mortal being who has advanced through evolution to birth in the human race and been given the status of a personality to gain volitional life experience.
The importance of personality cannot be overstated.
The Divinity of Personality
Our Universal Father is a divinely unified personality. Therefore, his ascendant children (mortals) are eventually carried to Paradise by the rebound momentum of the Thought Adjusters (actual spiritual fragments of the Universal Father), who come from Paradise to indwell the minds of material mortals.
The personality of mortal man, being a unique bestowal of the Universal Father possesses the potential of unifying all the constituent factors of the mortal creature (the vast inner self of the human form).
If the human personality qualifies as “perfect” (at the human level), that human personality will fuse with the soul (the gift of the Supreme God of Time and Space), and the mind monitoring Thought Adjusting fragment of the Universal Father to begin the multitudinous additional transformations required to reach the Central Universe and Paradise.
The Personality Circuit
The personality of the creature maintains direct and sustaining contact with the Father of all personality on Paradise through the Father's personality circuit.
The unifying creativity of creature personality is the birthmark of its high and exclusive source.
The successful personality is evidence of an unbroken contact with the Universal Father through the personality circuit through which every mortal thought is registered.
Pre-time and "Future" Existence
In our pre-time beginning, the potential personality of the "I" was an energy fragment (an ultimaton) of the Unqualified Absolute (total energy) seeking eternal unification with other fragments of the same non deity, the "Unqualified" Absolute of energy-matter. All the ultimaton fragments of the Unqualified Absolute are in the overcare of the Universal Absolute (the Infinite Spirit of the Paradise Trinity).
Each of us original ultimatons experience endless transformations in transitioning through existences in the gas, liquid, mineral, vegetable, animal, and human kingdoms.
Each of us original ultimatons merge, clot, assimilate or fuse with other fragments to evolve to human status in time and space and eventually back to the post time absolute level as spiritually unified deity.
The Importance of Experience
Each of us ultimatons gains experience as brothers in Time and Space while traversing through infinite numbers of forms through evolutionary transformations. Mortals have attained the apex of matter in the animal flesh of human beings. As humans, the new mission is to gain experience qualifiying each "me" as a personality worthy of further transformation in the morontial worlds (the Mansion Worlds) where the transition experience between matter and spirit takes place.
As an ultimaton particle in an existence where all is continuing transformation, there is no such thing as extinction - only postponement for any temporary failure.
To gain the privileged status as a continuing personality, mortals must live a qualifiying human experience. The qualification consists of doing the will of the Universal Father in Paradise.
The Mortal Goal
The remote distant mission is to unify with all fellow ultimaton particles to become unified with the Unqualified Absolute. Collectively, we transform from our initial non deified pure energy beginnings to personified oneness as our formerly fragmented selves unite in a deified Universal Absolute with all absolute deity.
There are countless intervening transformations to be accomplished in eternity just as there were countless intervening transformations in time.
The Caste System
A seven level caste system exists at all levels of creation. Uplifting or transformations through these levels occur through Power Directors or through evolution (before man) and through will and experience thereafter.
Since God is spirit and gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of each person, spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups.
All mortals are brethren.
Poetic Intimations of Man's Cosmic Passage
"...all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move." (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
"Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!" (Alexander Pope)
The Begetter - Who Is God?
God is the Father-Absolute (unconditional and unlimited) of all personalities in the universe of universes. The Father is personally absolute in freedom of action, but in the universes of time and space (made, in the making, and yet to be made), the Father is only discernibly absolute as Total Deity within the Paradise Trinity.
The Father Absolute (also referred to as the First Source and Center) functions outside of Havona (the Central Universe beyond the bounds of the nucleus of Paradise) in the tangible (discernable) universes as follows:
As creator, through the universe Creator Sons.
As controller, through the gravity center of Paradise.
As spirit, through the Eternal Son.
As mind, through the Conjoint Creator (the Infinite Spirit acting with the Eternal Son).
As a Father, he maintains parental contact with all creatures through his personality circuit.
As a person, he acts directly throughout creation by his exclusive fragments - in mortal man via the monitoring Thought Adjusters.
The Paradise Trinity
The Paradise Trinity of eternal Deities facilitates the Father’s "escape" from personality absolutism (isolation).
The Trinity perfectly facilitates the limitless expression of God’s infinite personal will with the totality of Deity.
The Trinity has seven facets. Each may act alone or in combinations of two or all three together.
The Eternal Son and the various Sons of divine origin, together with the Conjoint Actor (the Infinite Spirit acting with the Eternal Son) and his universe children (the creature Divine Ministers), effectively provide for the Father’s liberation from the limitations otherwise inherent in primacy, perfection, changelessness, eternity, universality, absoluteness, and infinity.
The Inevitability of the Paradise Trinity
The only inescapable inevitability in universe affairs is the Paradise Trinity.
In viewing the past, present, and future of time, nothing else in all the universe of universes appears to have been inevitable.
No other concept of creation approaches the ideal standards of the Trinity in terms of the completeness of the absoluteness of Deity unity combined with the completeness of volitional liberation inherent in the threefold personalization of Deity.
Mortals - Two Selves
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
Individuals exist as a "Vast Self" (I Am All) and a "Mini-Self " (I am one individual).
Individuality resides only at the surface level of reality.
The further "inside" the body or form of an individual one probes, the more the individual becomes everyone else.
At the ultimaton level of composition, all are all the same.
Net of Gems
The Buddhist Metaphor of the Net of Gems refers to the ultimaton level:
“Far away in the heavenly abode of the great God Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it streches out indefinitely in all directions.
In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel at the nets every node, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number.
There hang the jewels, glittering like stars of the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number.
Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that the process of reflection is infinite.”
(The Avatamsaka Sutra)
The Interconnectedness of All Things
When any jewel (ultimaton) in the net of gems is "stimulated," all other jewels in the node are affected. This speaks to the hidden interconnectedness and interdependency of everything and everyone in existence.
The Building Blocks of Matter
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
The basic building blocks of energy-matter are structured as follows:
1.Ultimaton
2.Neutrino
3.Quark
4.Electron
5.Neutron
6.Mesotron
7.Proton
8.Atom
Matter and Energy At or Below the Atomic Level
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
All forms or materializations are aggregates of the basic building blocks of matter. These particles are present throughout the universes. There is no place in space that does not contain these central "hubs."
It is at this level that energy is converted into matter or back into the desired energy.
Below this level, only force and potential exist. Above this level are aggregations of such particles into the larger and larger forms ranging from atoms to super galaxies.
All of these manifestations have one thing in common. They are all based on the universal building block of the ultimaton. These particles cluster together into the protons, neutrons, and electrons used to construct atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and super organisms in the relative cosmic reality of time and space.
An Analogy
The miracle of conception directed by the Life Carriers (discussed earlier) where the union of a sperm and an egg gives rise to many trillions of cells that organize themselves into an immensely complex human being with the various identical cells becoming heart cells, brain cells, blood cells, bone cells, liver cells, or neurons is analogous to the birth of cosmic universes that begin with basic identical ultimatons and grow under the direction of the Power Directors into galaxies.
The Seven Supreme Power Directors are stationed on peripheral Paradise, where their slowly circulating presences indicate the whereabouts of the force-focal headquarters of the Master Spirits of the seven Super Universes. These power directors function singly in the power-energy regulation of the super universes but collectively in the administration of the central creation. They operate from Paradise but maintain themselves as effective power centers in all divisions of the grand universe. The Supreme Power Directors are supported by a hierarchy of lesser energy directors.
The Location of Consciousness
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
The human body consists of many octaves of waveform energy due to the ultimatonic, electronic, atomic, molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and bodily orbits, pulsations, intersections, and movements.
Information is stored on the membranes that enclose the various repetitive levels of individuality and consciousness within the body.
The skin membrane of a body represents the outside boundary between all that is self and all that is not self.
This boundary is the location of consciousness, which explains why all sensory mechanisms like retinas, olfactory cells, eardrums, taste buds, and skin sensors evolve to the outside membrane. The skin is the largest organ of a body.
In a similar fashion, information is stored on the membrane surfaces of each resonant cavity within the body. In addition to the sheath of the entire body, the consciousness awareness of the organs, tissues, cells, molecules, atoms, electrons, and ultimatons are also on the outside surface of their enclosing membrane.
Super Organisms
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
As noted, the human body is a collection of organs, tissues, and cells constructed from ultimatons, electrons, atoms, and molecules. Such a collection of organs constitutes a super organism.
Compounds, molecules, atoms, electrons, and ultimatons are different forms of pure universal energy encircuited between the two great Universal Absolutes:
(The Unqualified Absolute upholds the physical universe, while the Deity Absolute motivates the exquisite overcontrol of all material reality. Both Absolutes are functionally unified by the Universal Absolute (the Infinite Spirit of the Paradise Trinity). This cohesive correlation of the material universes is best understood by the affirmation of the gravity response of all material reality to the gravity centering beneath Paradise.)
Each form consisting of an assemblage of organs and their components merges into the next in imperceptibly small increments.
Gravitation
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
The smallest indivisible particle, the ultimaton, responds to Paradise Gravity. Its nucleus is Paradise.
Individual conscious awareness exists on the surfaces of ultimatons, electrons, atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and super organisms like humans. This pattern continues on to larger and larger groupings such as planets, star systems, constellations, nebula, and galaxies.
The membrane of the planet is likely the atmosphere of the planet and the structures on the surface, such as plants, animals and humans.
Both physical and spiritual gravity provide the urge for all transformed ultimatons (super organisms) to return home to paradise. (Spiritual gravity attracts personalities.)
Occupied Space
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
There is no such thing as a void or empty space. The most remote locations of space are filled with the smallest super-conductive particles known, the ultimatons.
These ultimatons are smaller than neutrinos and may be the “Higgs-Bosons” currently sought by physicists. Tightly compacted, they touch each other and therefore any vibration traveling through them does so instantaneously heedless of time or space.
This is the definition of a super-conductive material. This material is approximately a billion times denser than steel, but so small as to not be observable to humans or their best instrumentation.
This super-conductive nature explains how time and space can be suspended inside a real world object. Any vibration traveling through the concentration of ultimatons in space does so instantaneously.
Known as the Law of Absoluteness, being still and instant is being everywhere at the same time.
Effects of Adjutant Mind Spirit Activity
A review of adjutant mind spirit activity can clarify the cycles of world history. The seven adjutants have left their mark upon mankind down through the ages. By including the activity of these mind rays, history can account for the creative ideas that have molded the race and established human destiny.
The circuits of the adjutant mind spirits are in constant movement and circulation. They demonstrate an activity that is progressive and cyclic. Independently, the mind spirits trigger major cycles. The interaction of the mind spirits causes minor cycles.
The qualities of a civilization, the type of forms, which make their appearance in the kingdoms of nature, and, the state of consciousness of the human beings carried into form life in a particular era, respond to the particular adjutant mind spirit making its presence felt at that particular time.
The lives in all four kingdoms respond to the unique vibration, quality, coloring and nature of the mind spirit or spirits’ activities. The mind spirits produce changes in the mind content and the emotional nature of man. Someday, when analyzed in connection with the mind spirits, scientists will develop new methods of investigating humanity and understanding individuals.
Vibration
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
Vibration and consciousness are the major principles that underlie the entire manifested universe.
The essence of vibration is the ability to move between the two opposite poles of universal absolute reality (the pole of Absolute Total Deity and the opposite pole of Absolute non deity energy-matter).
The extremes of the two polarities are absolute, but all points in between are relative.
Expanded bandwidth of consciousness is the answer to all universal disorder, because it leads one to both the analysis of impersonal manifestation and the experience of personal reality.
Total reality (the nature of the I-Am) consists of the Absolute; the tension between them (Relative); and the resolution of the tension through the spiritual hierarchy (Associative) realities.
Understanding this has application in all facets of life. Being able to see the world from different relative positions provides a flexibility to control the environment not available to those who observe reality from a limited, never changing, single focus viewpoint.
The freedom gained from seeing how everything in the universe is connected can radically change every aspect of modern life for the better.
Relationships and Correlations Between the Relative and the Absolute
(Excerpted from Harmonic Law - The Science of Vibration by Don W. Estes, Harmonic Law Publications. 2001.)
Parental Thought - The Universal Father
Child’s Expression - The Eternal Son
Conjoint Family Action - The Infinite Spirit
Manifestation of Home - Paradise
Unqualified Absolute (Impersonal Matter)
Universal Absolute (Mind)
Qualified (Personalized Spirit)
Supreme God of Time and Space (Evolved)
Ultimate God of Transcended Time and Space (Eventuated)
Absolute God (Completed Relativity)
The Significance of Sex
In human thinking, sex is the word used to denote the relation between men and women that results in the reproduction of the species. Today, in America and much of the world, sex often denotes the alluring satisfaction of the animal impulses at any cost and without regulation.
In reality, sex is an expression of duality, and of the separation of a unity into two halves. These two halves are spirit and matter, male and female, positive and negative. They are a return step upon the evolutionary ladder towards unity. This unity of sexuality or homosexuality is not related to the perversion called "homosexuality" today.
In this life, the spirit (male) must unite with matter (the female) in the unity of family to bring new potential sons and daughters of god into being.
Signs of a Crumbling Civilization
Sexual perversions occur when a civilization is crumbling. Such changes are cyclical. They happen when different combinations of the Seven Adjutant Mind Ministers (circuits or rays) impose their energies to force evolution along its path.
The word homosexuality now applies to a distorted attitude of mind that results in ancient unclean physical practices. Their antiquity contradicts the idea that these practices mark a step forward on the path of progress. Rather, they mark a point of retrogression.
The Adjutant Mind Spirit Circuits (Rays)
These circuits represent that function of the mind ministry of the Infinite Spirit extended to the lower orders of intelligent life through the local universe Mother Spirit, the personal Divine Minister.
The seven adjutant mind ministers (circuits or rays) are the spirits of:
1. Intuition
2. Understanding
3. Courage
4. Knowledge
5. Council
6. Worship
7. Wisdom
The Adjutant Mind Spirits afford the Universe Mother Spirit varied contact with, and control over, the material living creatures of the local universe.
Deliberately Induced Turbulence and Perversions
The impact of the Mind Spirit adjusted energies upon humanity awakens in man a desire for that which is, for his age, a new and untried field of expression. Weak minds and some strong experimenting souls fall victim to their lower natures. They experiment in wrong directions. Under the cadence of the new energies, there is forward progress into new and untried spiritual realms, while simultaneously there is regressive investigation into the realm of physical desire.
As the world of forms responds to the inflow of the higher energies from the Adjutant Mind Spirits, their effect is to stimulate all parts and aspects of form life. Temporary evil and lasting righteousness both emerge. By prostituting energy to material ends, such as the expression of physical plane sexual relations for purely material objectives, evil rather than the divine energy of brotherly love will result.
Sexual perversion in many men and women comes from an overly active imagination, a powerful sex nature, and a prurient curiosity. This accounts for many of the sodomites and lesbians. Such men and women must strive to exchange their physical impulses for spiritual energies.
Realizing Potential
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 165, edited.)
Our incomplete knowledge of physical reality enriches our human experiences by maintaining its novelty, its unanticipated outcomes, its newness. It allows us each to live our lives as a great adventure.
What sense of satisfaction could be derived from our quest if the laws of physics were all clearly revealed as part of the act of creation. What joy would there be in searching for buried treasure if one knew all along where it was hidden?
It is the mystery that gives meaning to the joys of discovery.
Creation By Limitation
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 220, edited.)
The only way for God to create a universe is to limit creation.
In creating the universe by limiting himself, God subtracts out bits and pieces of his infinite potential to achieve contrast or polarity.
The process of creation is the exact opposite of making something out of nothing. It is, on the contrary, a filtering process that makes a lesser something out of everything.
An infinite God really couldn’t experience anything, since he is everything. And a universe couldn’t be something in addition to God, since God encompasses all.
The central tenet of creating the universe is that it isn't made from nothing, it is subtracted from everything.
God Experiences His Creation
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 220, edited.)
God is experiencing himself, experiencing existence, through a "lens" that is the Grand Universe, and all the living intelligences in the universes. He is limiting himself by breaking himself into fragments.
Once the God of absolute potential limits himself, he achieves polarity, which is an absolute requirement for additional existences and experiences. The worlds can have every manner of polarity - tall and short, fast and slow, up and down.
By breaking himself up into limited fragments of His Mind, God has created a rich tapestry of experiences.
The Life Experience
(Quantum Lens, Douglas E. Richard, p. 220, edited.)
The physicist Freeman Dyson observed that the laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make living in the universe as interesting as possible. And at the end of our travels, each of us is reunited with the whole.
This belief system encompasses many of the tenets of different religions. And if this is true, if we are all part of God, existing to help God experience existence, there is no need for prayer. There is no need for organized religion. (Not that both aren’t welcome, but it is not a requirement.)
Good and evil are not equivalent because of the remarkable phenomenon of Karma. Being a part of God, any pain one inflicts on other beings is also inflicted on the self.
Compatibility of Darwin and God
The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All, Bernard Haisch, page 44, edited.
A universe in which a continuum of life forms and sentient beings spans the range from plants to animals to humans to even greater evolving beings is consistent with the experience seeking purpose behind the God Theory.
Darwinian science is not inextricably wedded to a scientific ideology devoid of a God and lacking any purpose. If the goal is actualizing potential, Darwin and God are quite compatible.
III. The Phenomenon of Death
Soul Death
If and when a mortal has rejected survival, and when the individual has been pronounced spiritually insolvent by the Thought Adjuster and the angelic guardians, the rulers of the Master Universe order the immediate release of the indwelling Monitor (Thought Adjuster).
This release of the Adjuster in no way affects the duties of the personal or group seraphim concerned with that Adjuster abandoned individual.
This kind of death is final in its significance irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living energies of the physical and mind mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is already dead. The continuing life merely indicates the persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies.
Mind Death
When the vital circuits of the higher adjutant ministry (the Thought Adjuster) are disrupted through an abnormality of intellect or because of the partial disruption of the physical mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart.
On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. This is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body.
The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive.
Death of the Material Body
Upon physical death the body returns to the elemental world from which it was derived, but two nonmaterial factors of surviving personality persist: The pre-existent Thought Adjuster, with the memory transcription of the mortal career, proceeds to Divinington (home of all Thought Adjusters).
The immortal portion of the deceased (the soul) remains, in the custody of the destiny guardian angel. The personality and now static formulas of identity are essential to repersonalization on the Mansion worlds.
On Mansion World # 1, the union of the Thought Adjuster and the soul reassemble the surviving personality, that restores the consciousness of the former mortal at the time of the Mansion World (morontia body) awakening.
For those who do not have personal seraphic guardians, the group custodian angels faithfully and efficiently perform the service of identity safekeeping and personality resurrection. The seraphim (a higher order of angels) are indispensable to the assembly of personality.
Certification of Survival Process
If, when death overtakes you, and you have attained the third circle or higher of spiritual progression (and therefore have been assigned a personal guardian of destiny), and if the final transcript of the summary of survival character submitted by the Thought Adjuster is unconditionally certified by the destiny guardian angel and the Universal Censors and their reflective associates on Uversa (the seat of government of our super universe) confirm this data and do so without equivocation or reservation, in that event the Ancients of Days flash forth the mandate of advanced standing over the communication circuits to Salvington (the headquarters of our local universe of Nebadon).
With these confirmations, the tribunals of the Sovereign of Nebadon (Earth's local universe) will decree the immediate passage of the surviving soul to the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds.
The attainment of the cosmic circles will become a part of the ascender experience on the mansion worlds, if they fail that achievement before natural death.
Medicine's Misinterpretation of the Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath is an oath historically taken by physicians and other healthcare professionals swearing to practice medicine ethically and honestly. Essentially, the oath states: "I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone."
There is a predilection in the human concept of medicine of "never doing harm to anyone" to interpret this as a mandate to prolong life.
Modern medical science toils to extend life in human forms that are diseased and defective. Doctors force the life essence back into the physical form at the moment nature would emancipate the life and dispose of the form.
Allowing the natural destruction of the form enables the evolving life to progress. Death is one of the fundamental methods in evolution.
Thought Adjuster Shares His Protoge's Eternal Identity as a Personality
If the human individual survives without progression delay:
1. the Thought Adjuster registers at Divinington (home planet of the Thought Adjusters);
2. the Thought Adjuster then proceeds to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father;
3. He returns immediately and is embraced by the Personalized Adjusters of the super universe and the local universe of assignment;
4. He receives the recognition of the chief Personalized Monitor of Divinington, and then, at once, passes into the "realization of identity transition;"
5. the newly personalized Thought Adjuster is then summoned on the third period to the mansion world in the actual personality form made ready for the reception of the surviving soul of the Earth mortal as that new form has been projected by the former mortal's guardian of destiny.
The Amazing Gift of Personal Volition
Human beings possess identity only in the material sense.
When it is said that man has identity, it is recognized that he is in possession of a mind circuit that has been placed in subordination to the acts and choosing of the will of the human personality.
However, this is a material and purely temporary manifestation (much like the human embryo is a transient parasitic stage of human life). Human beings, from a cosmic perspective, are born, live, and die in a relative instant of time. Alone, they are not enduring.
But, mortal personality, through its own choosing, possesses the power of transferring its seat of identity from the passing material-intellect system to the enduring higher morontia-soul system.
Leniency
If there is ever any doubt about the advisability of advancing a human identity to the mansion worlds, the universe governments invariably rule in the best interests of that individual. They unhesitatingly advance such a soul to the status of a transitional being, while they continue their observations of the emerging morontia intent and spiritual purpose.
Divine justice is thereby certain of achievement, and divine mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its ministry.
This leniency does not mean that human beings are to enjoy a second opportunity in the face of the rejection of an initial choice, but it does signify that all will creatures are to experience one true opportunity to make one undoubted, self-conscious, and final choice.
The sovereign Judges of the universes will not deprive any being of personality status who has not finally and fully made the eternal choice. The soul of man must and will be given full and ample opportunity to reveal its true intent and real purpose.
A Child Conceived By Spirit and Flesh
There is something real, something of human evolution, something additional to the Thought Adjuster (Mind Monitor), which survives death.
This newly appearing entity is the soul, and it survives the death of both man's physical body and man's material mind. The soul is the child of the combined life and efforts of the material human in liaison with the divine indwelling spirit, the Thought Adjuster.
Simply stated, the soul is parented by a human and that human's indwelling Thought Adjuster. This child is the immortal "morontia self." ("Morontia" is the quality between spirit and flesh.)
The human personality survives mortal death by preserving its identity in the surviving soul.
Deferred Resurrection
During the transit of surviving mortals from the world of origin to the mansion worlds, whether they experience personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at the time of a group resurrection, the record of personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the archangels on their worlds of special activities.
These archangels are not the custodians of personality (as the guardian seraphim are of the soul), but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of personality is effectually safeguarded in the custody of these dependable trustees of mortal survival.
The exact whereabouts of mortal personality during the time intervening between death and the deferred survival, has not been revealed.
Sleeping Survivors
Mortals of survival status, in the custody of personal guardians of destiny, pass through the portals of natural death quickly and, on the third period, personalize on the mansion worlds.
However, other accredited beings who have, for any reason, been unable to attain the level of intelligence mastery and endowment of spirituality that would entitle them to personal guardians, cannot go immediately and directly to the mansion worlds.
Such surviving souls must rest in unconscious sleep until the judgment day of a new epoch, the coming of a Son of God to call the rolls of the age and adjudicate the realm.
When Christ Michael ascended on high at the conclusion of his work on Earth, "He led a great multitude of 'captives'." These detainees were the sleeping survivors from the days of Adam to the day of the incarnated Master's (as Jesus of Nazareth) resurrection on Earth.
Reawakening of the Slumbering Souls
When the prerequisites (soul and mortal personality) of repersonalization have been assembled, the angel custodian of the potentialities of the slumbering immortal souls bestows the morontia mind-body form while committing these evolutionary children of the Supreme to eternal association with their waiting Adjusters.
This action completes the repersonalization, reassembly of memory, insight, and consciousness (identity).
Ceremony for the Dead
On more enlightened worlds, funerals are occasions of supreme joy, profound satisfaction, and inexpressible hope.
Elated friends and relatives gather as if at a graduating exercise for one of their group, or who might gather together to witness the conferring of some great honor upon one of their number.
It would be decidedly helpful if less advanced mortals could only learn to view natural death with something of this same cheerfulness and lightheartedness.
IV. Beginning Forevermore
Heaven
The headquarters of Earth’s local solar system has seven worlds for culture transitioning. Seven satellites encircle each of these worlds. Amongst these satellites are the seven mansion worlds, the first post-mortal residences of men.
As used on Earth, the term “heaven” sometimes refers to these seven mansion worlds. The first mansion world is the first heaven, and so on to the seventh.
It is not possible to venture into the heavenly spheres until one realizes one’s purpose on Earth. The reality of the mansion worlds will only be revealed to those who deal successfully with Earthly trials and conditions.
Michael, the Creator Son of this local universe (incarnated as Jesus on Earth) transitioned quickly through the seven mansion worlds after his death on Earth to experience the path of his subjects. He continued to make appearances to his followers on Earth in his progressive mansion world forms.
Realizing the Purpose of Life on Earth
The Mansion Worlds are achieved only by individuals who understand the value and meaning of pursuing truth, beauty, goodness, and brotherhood while experiencing their life on Earth.
(See other appropriately titled pages of this blog for an expanded treatment of these critical life pursuits.)
Form Transformations
A newly developed and suitably upgraded morontia body (always upgraded in the direction of pure spirit) is acquired at the time of each advance from one mansion world to another and as necessary from each transition world to another.
The ascender undergoes 570 separate morontia body changes from the time of leaving Earth until leaving the local universe.
The ascender receives 8 new bodies in the Satania Solar System, seventy-one in the constellation, and 491 during the sojourn on the spheres of Salvington (the capital of Earth's local universe).
Satania (Earth's Solar System)
Satania is an unfinished system containing only 619 inhabited worlds. Such planets are numbered serially in accordance with their registration as inhabited worlds (worlds inhabited by will creatures).
Urantia (Earth) was given the number 606 of Satania, meaning the 606th world in this local system on which the long evolutionary life process culminated in the appearance of human beings.
There are thirty-six uninhabited planets nearing the life-endowment stage, and several are now being made ready for the Life Carriers. There are nearly two hundred spheres which are evolving so as to be ready for life implantation within the next few million years.
Lucifer, the primary cause of Earth's retarded spiritual condition, was the the fallen and deposed Sovereign of Satania.
Resurrection and Resumption
On mansion world number one, mortals resume their intellectual training and spiritual development at the exact level where they were when interrupted by death.
Between the time of planetary death and resurrection on mansion world one, mortal man gains nothing except for experiencing the fact of soul and personality survival.
Survivors arriving on this first of the detention spheres present so many varied defects that the major activities of the realm are occupied with the correction and cure of the shortcomings of the life in the flesh.
Parenting Qualification
All detainees on mansion world one must pass the requirements of the parental commission from their native planets.
The Earth parental commission consists of twelve recently arrived parental couples who had the mortal experience of raising three or more children to pubescence (the age at which sex glands become functional).
All who fail to satisfy this commission regarding their parental experience must qualify by service in the homes of the Material Sons (future Adam and Eve couples) or in the probationary nursery. The Probationary Nursery is operated by Thought Adjuster fused mortals (finaliter’s) who oversee the care and upbringing of children who died before receiving Thought Adjusters (normally six years of age on Earth).
The High Value of Infants and Children
Mansion world number one is a sub satellite of Transition World Number One, which is the headquarters of the finaliters assigned to the Satania system.
(Finaliters are mortal personalities who have fused with their Thought Adjusters and completed their Paradise ascent.)
In Satania, there are over one hundred thousand companies of finaliters with one thousand finaliters
in each company.
It is no coincidence that the infant-receiving schools are situated near the momentous finaliters' world. The children are wards of the finaliters.
These infant-receiving schools are priority enterprises devoted to the nurture and training of the children who died on the evolutionary worlds before the acquirement of individual status, i.e. the assignment of a Thought Adjuster.
Untimely Death
The arrival of a mind indwelling Adjuster (upon the first moral decision by the individual) establishes the identity of that child in the universe.
All beings indwelt by a Thought Adjuster (mind monitor) are enrolled on the roll calls of justice, where human behavior (goodness and spiritual worthiness) is tracked and recorded.
However, with the uncertainty of life on the evolutionary worlds, many mortals die in their youth after receiving an Adjuster but before opting for the Paradise career.
These Adjuster-indwelt youths also go to the probationary nursery along with children who die prior to receiving a Thought Adjuster.
God Consciousness
Intuitively realizing the presence of the Thought Adjuster while still in a mortal body is akin to eventually recognizing the unseeable presence of the Trinity on Paradise (the Infinite Spirit, the Eternal Son, and the Universal Father in that order).
These are the first and final tests of the ascender before achieving finaliter status.
Travel on the Mansion Worlds
The transportation system on the mansion worlds is allied with the circulatory streams of energy.
The main energy currents are located at ten-mile intervals.
By adjustment of their physical bodies, the more material beings of the planet can move about at speeds ranging from two to five hundred miles per hour. (Morontia bodies become more abstract with each advancement. Less mass requires less mechanical space and transport accomodation.)
Lesser morontia beings must utilize more mechanical means of transport.
Intelligent transport birds fly at about one hundred miles an hour. "Air mechanisms" that are used by the Material Sons (Adams and Eves) travel at five hundred miles per hour.
Spirit personalities travel much faster through interface with superior forces and spirit sources of energy.
Satania Weather
The energy of Jerusem (capitol of the Satania Administrative worlds) is superbly controlled and circulates about the sphere in the zone channels, which are directly fed from the energy charges of space and expertly administered by the Master Physical Controllers.
The natural resistance to the passage of these energies through the physical channels of conduction yields the heat required for the production of the pleasant temperature of Jerusem. The "daytime" temperature is maintained at about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, while during the "night time" it falls to a little lower than 50 degrees.
Satania is not dependent upon a sun. The "planets" and their satellites are architectural spheres.
Energy Controllers
The physical energy controllers of Satania consists of a group of living entities who manipulate the physical energies of organized space.
LIFE has inherent capacity for the mobilization and transmutation of universal energy. Mortals are familiar with the action of vegetable life in transforming the material energy of light into the varied manifestations of the vegetable kingdom, but know practically nothing of the technique of the power directors and the physical controllers, who mobilize, transform, point in specific directions, and concentrate the many energies of space.
In a way the physical controllers are related to the pre-life manifestations of material energy just as the adjutant mind-spirits are concerned with the pre-spiritual functions of material mind.
The domains of physical, mental, and spiritual are distinct realms of cosmic reality, notwithstanding their intimate interrelations.
Resurrection and Beginning
On their first Day, new mansion world arrivals awaken in resurrection hall; meet their personal guardian angels who guided them on Earth; and are introduced to their new Morontia Companion. (The Morontia Companions are the excursion guides and leisure companions of all ascending mortals.)
The newly resurrected arrivals spend the day adjusting to their new morontia bodies; inspecting the resurrection hall; and are greeted by Andon and Fonta the first evolved humans from Earth (the original parents of all Earth humans).
Finally, the new arrivals visit the Melchizedek sector (location of the training schools) by traveling on morontial transport systems; they then register in Registry hall; and receive their room assignments.
The day in Satania is a little less (1 hour, 4 minutes, 15 seconds) than three days of Earth time.
Second Day
On the second day, the new mansion world citizens visit the great Panorama Exhibit to view the history and progress of the Satania System, and consult files in the Registry building to check for family and friends.
(The Panoramic Exhibit is a huge circular wall containing depictions of the history of Satania.)
The newcomers receive their first lesson in the Satania language.
Third Day
Still getting acquainted with the world of morontia, the new tourists visit a botanical park; take tests on diverse subjects such as parenting, money, and time.
(The spheres of the mansion worlds and the worlds beyond feature vast natural botanical parks, the gardens of God.)
The day is concluded enjoying a flight on a transport bird.
Fourth Day
The neophytes take more placement tests, and visit the headquarters of the Morontia Companions.
(The Morontia Companions and guides maintain ten thousand headquarters in a local universe - on each of the first mansion worlds of the local systems. These companions are touchingly affectionate and charmingly social beings with distinct personalities.)
Day Five
If test results are satisfactory, the new citizens will remain on mansion world one for just ten days.
All the new arrivals spend the fifth day visiting classes of mansion world one students.
If the new students are not to be detained on mansion world number one, at the end of ten days they will enter the translation sleep and proceed to mansion world number two, and every ten days thereafter they will thus advance until they arrive on the world of their assignment.
Itinerary for Days Six and Seven
The initiates visit the Finaliters’ World on Transition World One.
The Finaliter World is the headquarters of the finaliter corps of the local system, which is surrounded by the receiving worlds (the seven mansion worlds that are used as remedial schools for the isolated and quarantined worlds of inhabited planets, pending their restoration to the spiritual communion of the realms).
The finaliter world is accessible to the inhabitants of all seven mansion worlds. Transport seraphim carry ascending personalities back and forth on these pilgrimages. These visits are designed to cultivate faith in the ultimate destiny of transition mortals.
Although the finaliters and their structures are not ordinarily perceptible to morontia vision, visitors will be thrilled, from time to time, when the energy transformers and the Morontia Power Supervisors enable them to momentarily glimpse these high spirit personalities who have actually completed the Paradise ascension, and who have returned to the very worlds where aspirants are beginning their long journey, as the pledge of assurance that they too may and can complete the stupendous undertaking.
All mansion world sojourners go to the finaliter sphere at least once a year for these assemblies of finaliter visualization.
While on the Finaliters' World, the new trainees visit the probationary nursery, and stay overnight at the children’s school.
Eighth and Ninth Day
The novices visit more classrooms and other resurrection halls, and if proceeding to Mansion World Two, revisit the registry hall to check out.
The mortal-survival plan has a practical and serviceable objective. Successful mortals are not the recipients of all this divine labor and painstaking training so that they may survive just to enjoy endless bliss and eternal ease. There is a goal of transcendent service (beyond time and space) concealed over the horizon of the present universe age.
If the Gods planned merely to take mortals on a long excursion of eternal joy, they certainly would not turn much of the Grand Universe into a vast training school, requisition a substantial part of the celestial creation as teachers and instructors, and then spend ages upon ages piloting individuals through this gigantic universe school of experiential training.
Tenth Day
The more advanced students depart to Mansion World Two by seraphic transport. The remainder begin Mansion World One training.
The advancing ascenders go to sleep within the clasp of an individual seraphic transport and awaken with a new but undeveloped body in a resurrection hall, just as when they first arrived on mansion world number one.
The difference this time is the Thought Adjuster accompanies the person during transit sleeps after mansion world one.
The personality, soul, and spirit remain intact after once passing from the evolutionary worlds to the initial mansion world.
Mansion World Two
On Mansion World Two, students master morontia mota (knowledge) begun on the first mansion world. (The lower planes of mota connect directly with the higher levels of human philosophy.)
Primarily, mansonia number two provides for the removal of all phases of intellectual conflict and for the cure of mental disharmony (friction or dissension).
Mansion World Two ascenders are immersed more fully into mansonia life. The “groupings” of the morontia life takes form. Working groups and social organizations start to function, and communities take on formal proportions.
The advancing mortals inaugurate new social orders and government.
While the many orders of celestial life living on mansion world two differ, all are friendly and fraternal.
In all the ascension worlds, there is nothing comparable to the caste based human worlds of intolerance and discrimination.
The Rewards of Fortitude
It might appear that Earth and its associated quarantined worlds are most unfortunate in being deprived of the beneficent presence and influence of superhuman personalities such as a Planetary Prince and an Adam and Eve.
But the isolation of these spheres affords their races a unique opportunity for the exercise of faith and for the development of a unique quality of confidence in cosmic reliability. Such ascenders are very early entrusted with numerous special assignments to cosmic undertakings where unquestioned faith and sublime confidence are essential to achievement.
On the Satania capitol city of Jerusem, the ascenders from these isolated worlds occupy a residential sector by themselves and are known as the agondonters, which means evolutionary will creatures who can believe without seeing, persevere when isolated, and triumph over overwhelming difficulties even when alone.
Reward follows effort. Such tenacity sets the individual apart from the average, provides a differential of creature experience, and contributes to the versatility of ultimate performances in the collective body of the finaliters.
Rigorous Testing
Just as on Earth, the determination to succeed is tested in schooling and with rigorous task assignments. Prior to fusing with the Father spirit (the Thought Adjuster), the threat of flunking out or the option of quitting the program remains.
Fusion with one's Thought Adjuster may have occurred previously, but the actual working identity often is not achieved until the fifth or sixth mansion world.
Ultimately, ascendants must master every level of life from the level of Earth mortal to the level of a Central Universe pilgrim.
If an ascendant fails a test after fusion with the Thought Adjuster, he is returned for retraining at the appropriate level.
These seeming failures are regarded merely as delays pending additional retraining for the Deity adventure.
Temptation Persists
On Earth, men are all too often led into temptation by the urge of their own selfishness and by the inclinations of their animal natures.
When tempted, men must recognize temptation honestly and sincerely for what it is, and intelligently redirect the energies of spirit, mind, and body, which are seeking expression, into higher channels and toward more idealistic goals. In this way men may transform their temptations into the highest types of uplifting mortal ministry while avoiding these wasteful and weakening conflicts between the animal and spiritual natures.
On the mansion worlds the guardian angels who watched over you on Earth visibly attend and guide you.
Still, the courage required to effect the conquest of nature and to transcend one’s self might succumb to the temptations of self-pride. The mortal dilemma consists in the double fact that man is in bondage to nature while at the same time he possesses a unique liberty - freedom of spiritual choice and action.
The Paradox of Free Will and Temptation
The endowment of free will is inseparable from temptation, potential evil, and decisional errors. When self becomes proud and arrogant, sin may evolve.
It is only natural that mortal man should be harassed by feelings of insecurity as he views himself inextricably bound to nature while he possesses spiritual powers wholly transcendent to all things temporal and finite. Only religious confidence (living faith) can sustain man amid such difficult and perplexing problems.
Of all the dangers which beset man’s mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest. Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
Pride is deceitful, intoxicating, and sin-breeding whether found in an individual, a group, a race, or a nation.
Uncertainty Contending with Safeness
Uncertainty conflicting with security is the essence of the Paradise adventure (uncertainty in time and in mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise ascent). Uncertainty occurs with inexperience (not knowing what lies ahead) for a citizen of the universe.
Security is gained in the unqualified trust of the creature son in the divine compassion and infinite love of the Universal Father.
The mind indwelling Adjuster cannot stop or even materially alter man's career struggle of time; nor can the Adjuster lessen the hardships of life as one journeys through this world of toil.
The resolution of this dilemma is to recognize and trust the thought impulses given by the Thought Adjuster to your soul.
The Adjuster reveals the spiritual complement to all life's arduous material efforts in cognitive directives.
Memory
The memory of the ascender remains fully intact through the morontia ascensions.
The purely animalistic and wholly material mental associations that was part of the physical brain perished with mortal death, but everything in the mental life that was worth while, and had survival value, was copied by the Thought Adjuster and is retained as a part of personal memory.
Ascenders will be conscious of all their worth-while experiences as they advance from one mansion world to another and from one section of the universe to another, even to Paradise.
Living in Morontia Bodies
Ascenders, in their morontia bodies, continue to eat, drink and rest through all seven of the mansion worlds.
They 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 excremental waste.
Morontia bodies are upgraded on each new mansion world with enhanced and additional sensory organs to enable contact with the increasingly more abstract inhabitants and environments.
Morontia Growth
Relatively speaking, mansion world number one is a very material sphere. It is the primitive state
of the morontia regime.
Ascenders are still nearly human. They are not far removed from the limited viewpoints of mortal life, but each world discloses definite progress.
From sphere to sphere ascenders grow less material, more intellectual, and slightly more spiritual.
The spiritual progress is greatest on the last three of these seven progressive worlds.
Attitude Towards Service Versus Entitlement
The mantra of life in the brotherhood beyond Earth has been told to mortals in various contexts:
"He who is able to work, and unwilling, should not be fed" (2 Thessalonians 3:10).
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" (John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961).
Purging of Defectives
Due to the consequences of Lucifer's rebellion and the failed reign of Adam and Eve, Earth lacks large-scale techniques for purging defective mortals.
The people of Earth experience the first comprehensive filtering of undesirables at mortal death.
Following death on Earth, mortals are judged by the tribunals of the Ancients of Days (representatives speaking for the Paradise Trinity). This judgment purges all defective mortals upon death.
Effects of Judgment by the Ancients of Days
Souls of mortals judged worthy of salvation are transported directly to Mansion World One for resurrection in new bodies or to rest with the sleeping survivors (awaiting class advancement).
The souls of censored mortals are held in a hibernation-type sleep pending an opportunity for the rebirth of the souls at an appropriate level of rehabilitation in the chain of life.
Censored "recycled" souls eventually re-emerge as new mortal personalities acquiring new life experiences.
Thought Adjusters arrive to dwell in the mortal minds on the occasion of their first moral decision. (The Thought Adjusters preserve the records of human life experiences.)
The Final Ascender Test
The final test for all ascenders is to recognize the unseen presence of the absolute personalities of the Infinite Spirit, the Eternal Son, and the Universal Father, in that order.
Advancement is determined purely by the spirituality of the individual. No one but the Gods presumes to pass upon this capacity.
At the "gates of Paradise," candidates failing to discern the purely abstract personalities of the Paradise Trinity are returned to work in the realms of space for a period of not less than one millennium.
Ascenders never fail to recognize the deity of the Trinity on their second attempt.
After the attainment test of absolute deity recognition on Paradise, there are no more examinations.
Warning
Near the end of his life on Earth, Jesus told the Jewish religious and political leaders that, those who were not with him were against him.
He added that whoever blasphemed against God with deliberation and wicked intention would never obtain forgiveness.
The apostles were shocked by Jesus' irreverent treatment of their venerated Jewish leaders. Jesus explained he understood this sifting of the kingdom distressed them.
But, why, he asked, were they filled with fear and consternation when they saw the kingdom being divested of lukewarm multitudes and hypocrites?
Material success in this world does sway the judges who weigh spiritual survival.
Unseen Hands
The Universal Father is constantly updated on the thoughts of each mortal by his mind indwelling fragment, the Thought Adjuster.
Challenging life experiences, following a pattern by age, are tailored for each mortal by the Paradise Trinity as tests. The tests are forwarded by the Infinite Spirit to his daughters, the Divine Ministers in the respective universes, who direct their legions of angels such as the social engineers to arrange these life experience tests. Angels help implement bad mortal decisions as well, if the mortal choices elect evil.
Upon the death of each mortal, the Paradise Father (Justice) and the Eternal Mother-Son (Mercy) give a signal of survival or censor to the Infinite Spirit (the God of Action) who notifies the Ancients of Days who implement the judgment decision.
When this sentence is finally confirmed, the sin-identified being instantly becomes as though he had not been. Upon cosmic dissolution, personality is absorbed into the oversoul of creation, becoming a part of the evolving experience of the Supreme Being. In the case of an Adjuster-indwelt personality, the experiential spirit values survive in the reality of the continuing Adjuster.
Becoming Father-like
Sooner or later all universe personalities begin to realize that the final quest of eternity is the endless exploration of infinity, the never-ending voyage of discovery into absoluteness.
Mortals will sometime realize that success in the quest of the Infinite is directly proportional to the achievement of Father Likeness, and that in this universe age of time and space, the realities of the Father are revealed within the qualities of divinity. These qualities of divinity are personally appropriated by universe creatures in the experience of living divinely, which means to actually live the will of God.
Such a Father life is one predicated on truth, sensitive to beauty, and dominated by goodness. Such a God-knowing person is inwardly illuminated by worship and outwardly devoted to the wholehearted service of the universal brotherhood.
Discerning God
Initiating Spirituality (perceiving God in all of his aspects) is the never-ending goal of all ascenders.
The Universal Father reveals all of his divine self that can be discerned or comprehended by Spirit beings and mortal creatures at any given moment in their existence.
Augmenting the Divine Presence
The divine presence is limited only by the capacity of the being to receive and to discern spiritual qualities.
For mortal man, the spiritual finding of the spirit Father consists of consciously choosing to do the Father's will.
This choosing does not consist in the negation of creature will - "Not my will, but your will be done."
It consists in the creature's positive affirmation - "It is my will that Your will be done."
Life Altering Experience
When the positive affirmation of choice to do the Father's will is made ("It is my will that Your will be done"), the God-choosing mortal will find inner union (and eventual fusion) with the indwelling spiritual Father fragment, the Thought Adjuster.
The result is the birth of an eternal partnership of the will of man and the will of God.
Finding the Thought Adjuster is the experience of losing self and finding the spirit.
The experience is not one of emotion. It is an act of intelligent self-surrender and unreserved consecration.
Identities in Pursuit of Oneness
Pre-human identities progressing through the gaseous, mineral, and animal kingdoms as well as post-human identities are aided by trinities, triunities, and triodities in the ascent from the Unqualified Absolutes' energy fragments (ultimata) through Supremacy, Ultimacy, and Absolute personified spiritual deity.
The path to oneness begins in earnest in the animal kingdom with mating couples and progresses to family and groups in ever larger numbers in the human and spiritual kingdoms.
Finding the Finite God
It is not man's limitations alone that prevents him from finding the finite God. It is also the incompletion of the universe.
Even the incompletion of all creatures - past, present, and future - makes the finite Supreme (the God of Time and Space) inaccessible.
God the Father can be found by any individual who has attained the divine level of God Likeness, but God the Supreme will never be personally discovered by any one creature until the far-distant time when, through the universal attainment of perfection, all creatures will find him simultaneously.
Human Potential
Earthlings cannot begin to comprehend the meaning of absoluteness or their role in the great scheme of things.
Mortals on Earth are being tested as candidates to pursue the path to absoluteness.
As viewed by Earth's philosophers, determinism is the the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will. Humans live through predetermined events as part of the spiritual qualification test. Individual free will is simply the freedom to choose the actions that lead to spirit or nature (spiritual or material fulfillment).
The revelation of the absolute God must always be partial, relative, and progressive until His power becomes experientially infinite in the space potency of the Unqualified Absolute, i.e. until humans (the midpoint between energy and spirit), become unified in the personified deity of the Universal Absolute. (1)
Jesus noted the Universal Father's awareness of individual humans when he remarked, "when sparrows flit about in quest of their sustenance, not one of them exists without the knowledge of the Father....Know you not that the very hairs of your head are all numbered?"
(1) Note: The Father initiates and maintains Reality. The primal divisions of reality are the deified and the undeified (the Deity Absolute and the Unqualified Absolute). The primal relationship is the tension between them. This Father-initiated divinity-tension is perfectly resolved by, and eternalizes as, the Universal Absolute (oneness). Humans progress through the initial tests towards the Unqualified Absolute (undeified energy).
Finding Oneness
Mortal ascenders progressively discern God through the ministry of a hierarchy called God the Sevenfold.
On Paradise, mortals find God as a person. After Paradise, as finaliters, mortal ascenders continue their quest to know God as Supreme and as Ultimate.
After having attained the Ultimate, there is one more course to pursue - that is to begin the attempt to know God the Absolute.
Even if finaliters should be successful in finding God the Absolute, they will only be discovering the same God, the Paradise Father - the final Father of personalities manifesting himself on more nearly infinite and universal levels.
Immeasurable Waste and Delay
Throughout the grand universe, the Supreme God of Time and Space toils for personality appearance.
His divine evolution is dependent upon the wisdom achievements of every other personality in existence.
When a human being chooses eternal survival, he is co-creating destiny. In the life of an ascending mortal, the finite Supreme God finds an increased measure of personality self-realization and an enlargement of his experiential sovereignty.
If a mortal rejects the eternal career, that part of the Supreme that was dependent on that creature's choice experiences inescapable delay - a deprivation that must be compensated for by a sometime equivalent experience.
Living the Father's Will
To material, evolutionary, finite creatures, a life predicated on living the Father's will leads directly to the attainment of spirit supremacy in the personality arena.
Such a Father life is one built upon truth, sensitive to beauty, and dominated by goodness.
Such a God-knowing person is inwardly illuminated by worship and outwardly devoted to the wholehearted service of the universal brotherhood.
Guilty Feelings (Experienced as Depression)
The feeling of guilt (not the consciousness of sin) comes either from interrupted spiritual communion or from the lowering of one's moral ideals.
Deliverance from this dilemma comes with the realization that one's highest moral ideal is not necessarily synonymous with the will of God.
Man cannot hope to live up to his highest ideals.
However, he can be true to his purpose of finding God and becoming increasingly like Him.
The Architectural Spheres of Satania
The administrative center of Satania (the name of our solar system) consists of a cluster of fifty-seven Architectural spheres (space bodies specifically constructed for their purpose).
Jerusem, the capital of Satania, is one sphere. There are seven major satellites that swing around Jerusem. These are known as the Transitional Culture Worlds. Each of these transition worlds has seven sub-satellites for a total of forty-nine sub-satellites.
Jerusem is nearly one hundred times larger than Earth. The seven transition worlds are ten times larger than Earth. The seven sub-satellites of each of the transition spheres are about the same size as Earth.
This entire system of fifty-seven architectural worlds is independently lighted, heated, watered, and energized through techniques established for created spheres.
Mansion Worlds
Each local star system such as Satania consists of approximately one thousand inhabited planets. There are seven mansion worlds in each local system.
The mansion worlds of Satania are the receiving worlds for the ascending mortals tainted by Lucifer.
There are myriad types of ascenders from the many different worlds of Satania. All fraternize as one family.
Morontia Matter
The mansion worlds are also called the morontia worlds. This is because the architectural planets and life forms are fabricated of a synthesis of spiritual and ethereal matter of varying densities called "morontia."
Compared to earth life forms, the morontian type of life forms are nearly transparent.
Advanced Knowledge and Wisdom
On the mansion worlds, the survivor's range of vision is extended and freed.
In the morontial form, each new super mortal begins to comprehend the meaning of those realities "eye cannot see nor ear hear, and which have never entered the concept of human minds."
Work begins immediately to qualify each personality of this local universe for advancing service and improved function.
Accommodations
Homes for mortal ascenders from Earth in the local system of Satania are located in the “Jerusem circles” on morontia satellite worlds surrounding the capital of Jerusem.
Many groups of universe life occupy homes designated Jerusem circles.
The circles identify the level of spiritual growth attained by the residents.
Each of the circular residential groupings consists of seven concentric and successively elevated circles. The structures are all constructed along the same lines but are of different sizes and built of differing materials.
(Other types of mansion world citizens occupy living quarters in architectural configurations such as squares and triangles that are symbolic of their residents' occupation and spiritual status.)
Occupants of the Jerusem Circles
Some of the occupants of circle groupings are:
1. The Sons of God (former mortals)
2. The angels and higher spirits
3. The Universe Aids (These are primarily Mansion World Teachers who function in most of the educational enterprises of the morontia life. Their number is quite beyond the comprehension of mortal mind.
4. The Master Physical Controllers
5. Ascending mortals on assignments
6. Courtesy colony circles (visitors)
7. The Corps of the Finality (ex-mortals from all the Super Universes who have attained Paradise and are working in Satania on assignment).
All of the Jerusem circles contain seven rings housing millions of residents.
Circles of the Sons of God (Home of Many Ex-mortals)
Since the circles of the Sons of God will be the home for ascending mortals, they are of primary interest to humans.
The circles are concentric and successively elevated so that each of the outer and larger circles overlooks the inner and smaller ones.
Each circle is surrounded by a public promenade wall.
Morontia vision is of enormous range so ascending mortals may walk about on the promenades and observe the intriguing activities of the the other orders of Sons (angels, etal).
Design of the Circle Abodes
The architectural circles of the Sons are immense and elegant by earth standards. The walls are constructed of luminous crystal gems.
There are fifty gates in the smaller ring and one hundred and fifty thousand gates in the biggest ring.The gates are made of pearl-like crystal.
The space at the center of the Circles of the Sons is occupied by a memorial to Michael, the creator son of this local universe. Michael was present in person when his memorial temple was dedicated approximately five hundred years ago. All Jerusem heard the touching story of this creator son's attainment of Master Son status following his bestowal on Earth living as the human, Jesus.
The Michael memorial serves as the center for all management activities of the system of Satania. The staff of the center consists of more than one million personalities.
Socializing On the Mansion Worlds
Ascending mortals are introduced to the demands and delights of the true social life of morontial creatures on mansion world number four.
It is a novel experience for evolutionary creatures to participate in social activities not predicated on personal aggrandizement or self-seeking conquest.
A new social order is introduced based on the understanding sympathy of mutual appreciation, the unselfish love of mutual service and the realization of the common and supreme destiny, Paradise.
The Circles of Our Cherished Angels
Like the residential area of the Sons, the circles of the angels also consist of seven concentric and successively elevated circles, with each elevation overlooking the inner areas.
The first circle is occupied by the Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. The remaining circles are dedicated to other groupings of these ministering spirits.
The seven circles are surrounded by an exhibit panorama, five thousand standard miles in circumference.
The exhibit is constantly revised to represent up-to-date conditions on the individual planets of Satania.
The Spironga
Jerusem enjoys the efficient services of the spironga that are designed for specific system functions. These beings are devoted to spiritual ministry in behalf of the super material residents and visitors. They are a wonderful group of intelligent and beautiful beings who are the transition servants of the higher morontia creatures and of the morontia helpers who labor for the upkeep and embellishment of all the morontia creations.
The living spironga my be compared to the future labor force of robots here on Earth who will free humans for the leisure time required to pursue the spiritual goals of the planet.
Compensating for Deficiencies
Only physical sexual deficiencies cannot be compensated for on the seven mansion worlds. Otherwise, ascending mortals may realize all experience deprivations suffered on their worlds of origin due to inheritance, environment, or premature termination of their time in the flesh.
While opportunities for actual physical sex experience no longer exist for ascenders, close association with the Material Sons and Daughters (Adams and Eves), enable sex-deficient mortals to compensate for the social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual aspects of that deficiency.
Required Parenting Experience
Mortals on the mansion worlds who have children in the probationary nursery (children who died in the planetary life before reaching the age of sixteen), and who are deficient in essential parental experience, may apply for a temporary transfer from ascension duties on the mansion worlds to function as associate parents to their own and other children.
This service of parental ministry may be accredited as one half of the training such ascenders undergo in the families of the Material Sons and Daughters (Adams and Eves).
Mansion World Beauty
Mortals have a slim grasp of philosophy. Their understanding of divinity is somewhat better comprehended due to worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience.
Man’s concept and pursuit of beauty is limited to studying his own crude artistic endeavors. Beauty (art) is the unification of contrasts. Variety (experiential) is essential to the concept of beauty.
Supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the cosmic extremes between Creator and creature.
The creature becoming perfect like his Creator is the apex of cosmic art.
Fusion with Spirit (Mortal Graduation Day)
When the family, friends, and working group of a candidate scheduled for fusion with the Thought Adjuster have gathered in the morontia temple, they are distributed around a central stage where the fusion candidates are resting and conversing with their assembled friends.
A circle of intervening celestial personalities is arranged to protect the more material mortals from the action of the energies manifest at the instant of the "life flash" that delivers the ascension candidate from the bonds of matter.
The life flash for the evolutionary mortal does everything that natural death does for those delivered from mortal flesh.
A Historical Aberration
The large American middle class that was established following World War II on Earth is an anomaly in history. The bombed out infrastructure in Europe and Japan combined with full production of expanded factories and a huge labor force of men and women made the middle class in the United States possible. Subsequently however, the incessant demands of workers for more benefits, countered by a growing global labor market overwhelmed the American middle class caste.
Such egalitarian conditions will exist again only when all citizens of Earth agree to share the resources of the planet and work for the mutual benefit of all as on the morontia worlds.
Scaled Evolutionary Changes
Growth towards Reality is shaped to accommodate the conditions of the evolving universe ages.
The Central Universe (Havona) is experiencing progressive evolutionary changes in the present epochs of the super universe age.
These changes are induced by coordination with the evolutionary seven super universes. The evolving seven super universes, will sometime attain the growth limits of the present universe age.
The next age (the age of the Ultimate God in the first outer space level) will release the super universes from the destiny limitations of this age.
The Evolutional Arcs (Chords)
Spirit originates from one source – the Universal Father. Through the threefold expression of the Paradise Trinity, spirit attains a higher realization - final perfection, and comprehension, in the divine unification process experienced in finding God in eternity.
The eternal God is discovered through cosmic mind seeking the infinite expression of the Eternal Son's word (interpretation) and the Infinite Spirit's actions, which manifest the Father's universal thought.
New potentials are continually superimposed upon partial completions.
The Mystery of Life
Energy is matter that responds to gravity.
While humans think of life as energy, it is not.
Like pattern, life does not respond to gravity. Pattern (form templates) is a configuration of energies that have fulfilled all gravity-response obligations.
Life constitutes the animation of a pattern-configured and segregated system of energy - material, mindal, or spiritual. The foundation of the universe is material, but the essence of life is spirit.
Man’s Resurrection on the Mansion Worlds (Reassembly)
The reassembly of a surviving being takes place in the resurrection hall of the first mansion world. The resurrection hall serves as the rendezvous point for the guardian angels, the Thought Adjusters, the archangels of the resurrection, and the Life Carriers. (LIFE does not originate spontaneously. Life is constructed according to plans formulated by the Architects of Being and implemented through the operations of the Life Carriers.)
The first step in the reassembly of the constituent parts of the onetime material personality begins with the fabrication of a suitable form - a morontia energy pattern, which the guardian angel sponsors as the new life vehicle for the immortal soul and the indwelling of the returning Thought Adjuster.
Within this new suitable morontia form, the new survivor can make contact with nonspiritual reality and within which the morontia modification of the cosmic mind can be encircuited.
The Morontia Consciousness
The morontia mind individualizes the morontia form. It is the same creature mind-matrix and potentials of identity that were temporarily entrusted to the keeping of the guardian angels during the mortal's sleep following death.
Upon awakening, the surviving mortal sees for the first time the long-loved and ever-present angelic companions from his days on Earth.
The resurrected mortal is also keenly aware of the identity and presence of the divine Father fragment (the Thought Adjuster) who indwelt the mind of his mortal existences.
The mansion world rebirth is a spiritual transformation of such magnitude that only through the close and loving presence of the guardian angels and the Thought Adjuster can the reborn mortal effectively connect his new morontia consciousness with the memories of his prior identity on Earth.
Resurrection Hall
The resurrection hall is the center of all activities on the first mansion world. Seven radial wings extend from this Temple of New Life.
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 that terminate in circular class assembly halls.
Resurrected mortals will recall the profound memory impressions of witnessing their resurrection morning throughout all eternity.
Not for Everyone
The mansion worlds of Satania were created for the salvable, but disadvantaged under-evolved mortals.
More highly cultured and progressive types of beings of normal evolutionary progress are exempted from passing through one or more, or even all, of the mansion worlds.
The Sea of Glass
The sea of glass makes its appearance on the second mansion world and all subsequent worlds. Seraphic transports land with newly arriving ascenders on a field of crystal, called the Sea of Glass.
John the Revelator saw a vision of the arrival of a class of advancing mortals. "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."
Mansion Worlds Curriculum
Student training on the first two mansion worlds basically supplements the experiences of the life in the flesh. Mansonia the third is a world of great personal and social achievement for the surviving souls of mortals who did not achieve the equivalent of this circle of culture prior to release from the flesh on Earth. This is the introduction to the intelligent comprehension of cosmic meanings and universe interrelationships.
Arrival on the fourth mansion world launches the true morontia career. With the help of the Mind Planners and Social Architects, Ascenders develop increased appreciation of many new phases of local universe culture and progress. They are introduced to the demands and delights of the true social life of morontia creatures.
Having mastered the language of the local universe before leaving the fourth mansion world, ascenders on the fifth mansion world, devote more time to perfecting the language of Uversa - the capital of Orvonton, our super universe. In addition, a birth of cosmic consciousness occurs on mansonia number five. Study becomes voluntary, service unselfish, and worship spontaneous.
The purpose of training on Mansonia Six is to become more spiritual. Sojourners learn more about the high spirits of the super universe. The first lessons embracing the affairs of a whole universe are now taught. The organization of society on mansonia six is of a high order. Achievements attained through great tribulations make glorified mortals - very kind and understanding, very sympathetic and tolerant.
On the seventh mansion world, ascender training purges all the remnants of the "mark of the beast." The newly fused ascender is granted forty days of spiritual retirement from all routine activities to commune with himself and to choose one of the optional routes to Havona and to select one of the techniques of Paradise attainment. Even after fusion, the brilliant former mortals remain more or less material. Spiritually speaking, they are far from being true spirits. They are super mortals, still a little lower than the angels. Within certain limits, an ascender may elect to linger on the seventh mansion world to enable a delayed member of his earthly or mansonia working group to catch up.
The Harp of God
Perfected space communication is available to ascenders on the mansion worlds. Reception of universe communications is made possible by using the "harp of God," which is not a musical instrument.
Rather, it is a morontia device that compensates for the inability of new ascenders to adjust their immature morontia sensory forms to receive space communications.
Mansion World Education
Morontia mota is the name used to describe the technique for the teaching and content of education designed to enlarge the experiences of mansion world students.
It is through the blended medium of the light of knowledge (the light of the personality) and the light of wisdom (the light of the soul) that the Light of Mota is seen and grasped.
The light of mota saturates lesser lights through the radiance of its power.
The illumination that flows from the soul (whose nature is light) can irradiate not only ideals but life, circumstances and events, revealing the cause and the meaning of experience.
Equivalent of the Light of Mota on Earth
Even on Earth, as the psychic circles are traversed (by individuals and man collectively), those living the will of God in the world will replicate on the physical plane through morontia matter that which exists subjectively in their thoughts.
The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Thought Adjuster attunement.
Life Experience on the Mansion Worlds
The greatly extended lifetime experiences of ascenders on the transition worlds essentially follows the same pattern lived on Earth:
1. Education and training through the innocence of infancy and the difficult years of adolescence;
2. The maturing working years;
3. The grasping of the greater perspective in relative old age.
Cosmic Concern
On the mansion worlds, ascenders learn self-government for the benefit of all concerned.
Working with other and wiser beings, they learn cooperation - how to plan and work in common with commonly agreed upon goals and methods rather than working separately in competition.
Loyalty
Loyalty is the spiritual fruit of an intelligent appreciation of universe brotherhood. One cannot continue accepting so much and give nothing back.
As ascenders climb higher on the personality scale, they learn first to be loyal, then to love, then to be filial (fraternal). Then, they are free.
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." (Galatians 5:22-23)
Patience and Diligence
The personal guides assigned to ascending mortals teach the ascenders the fruitfulness of patience. Upward progress in the morontia and spirit worlds is slow and by gradual stages. (While stagnation is certain death, overly rapid growth is equally suicidal.)
Life on Earth is a single link in the long chain that stretches across universes and through the eternal ages. The work experiences gained in living each life are not nearly as important as the way in which an ascender does the work.
Wholeheartedness
Sincerity is the key to spiritual advancement.
Men advance in spiritual status through their decisions - by making the highest moral choices, always electing the highest possible value, and on all spheres in the universes, choosing to do the will of God.
If a man sincerely chooses to do the will of God, he is great, though he be the least of mortals on Earth or the humblest citizen on the mansion worlds.
Racial Interpreters
All races of mortal beings are not alike. Each reflects one of the composite relationships of the Paradise Trinity. (1. Father, 2. Eternal Son, 3, Infinite Spirit, 4. Father/Eternal Son, 5. Father/Infinite Spirit, 6. Eternal Son/ Infinite Spirt, and 7. Father/Eternal Son/Infinite Spirit.)
There is a planetary pattern running through the physical, mental, and spiritual natures and tendencies of the various races of a given world; but there are also distinct racial types, and very definite social tendencies characterize the offspring of these different basic types of human beings. On the worlds of time the seraphic racial interpreters further the efforts of the race commissioners to harmonize the varied viewpoints of the races, and they continue to function on the mansion worlds, where these same differences tend to persist.
On a confused planet, such as Earth, these brilliant beings have not had a fair opportunity to function, but they are the skillful sociologists and the wise ethnic advisers of the first heaven (the mansion worlds).
"Heaven" and the "Heaven of Heavens"
The heaven conceived by most of Earth's prophets was the first of the mansion worlds of the local system (Satania). Some of Earth's wise men saw the vision of the greater heaven, “the heaven of heavens,” of which the sevenfold mansion world experience was but the first; the second being Jerusem; the third, Edentia and its satellites; the fourth, Salvington and the surrounding educational spheres; the fifth, Uversa; the sixth, Havona; and the seventh, Paradise. (See the Appendix for clarification of these place names.)
Mind Planners
Mind Planners are seraphim who are devoted to the effective assembling of groups of morontia beings and to organizing their work as teams on the mansion worlds. They are the psychologists of the first heaven.
Mind planners do not scheme, manipulate, or otherwise take advantage of the ignorance or other limitations of mansion world students. They are wholly fair and eminently just. They respect the newborn morontia will; they regard ascenders as independent volitional beings, and they seek to encourage their speedy development and advancement.
The ascenders are face to face with true friends and understanding counselors, angels who are really able to help them to see themselves as others see them, and to know themselves as angels know them.
Love Without the Sexual Imperative or Competition
Their is an indescribable euphoria when an ascender experiences the love felt for friends and acquaintances on the morontial worlds.
The love for unassuming personalities emulates the love felt for one's fiance on Earth.
In addition, the collective good fellowship of working together on teams for mutual betterment without selfish motives is very gratifying.
The Descending Material Sons
The location of the material sons (the Adams and Eves), is a center of attraction to all new arrivals on Jerusem (the headquarters of Earth's local system of Satania).
It is an enormous area consisting of one thousand centers. Each family of Material Sons and Daughters lives on an estate of its own until the time of the departure of its members for service on the evolutionary worlds of space or until their embarkation upon the Paradise-ascension career.
Ascender Agenda
Ascender activities on Jerusem are of three distinct varieties: work (service); progress (study); and relaxation (play). These activities are embodied in social intercourse, group entertainment, and divine worship.
There is great educational value in simply mingling with the diverse groups of personalities - orders very different from one's own fellows.
Aesthetic Pleasures
Residents of Jerusem are often entertained by Celestial Musicians. With their limited range of hearing, mortals cannot imagine the beauty of morontia melodies.
There is even a material range of beautiful sound unrecognized by the human sense of hearing.
Spirit melodies are not material sound waves but spirit pulsations received by the spirits of celestial personalities. There is a vastness of range and a soul of expression, as well as a grandeur of execution, associated with the melody of the spheres,that is wholly beyond human comprehension.
Millions are held in sublime ecstasy while the melody of the realm rolls in upon the spirit energy of the celestial circuits.
Celestial Musicians
To produce their marvelous melodies, the Celestial Musicians create celestial harmony by manipulating seven levels of spirit communication:
1. Spiritual sound – by interrupting spirit electrical current;
2. Spiritual light – through control and intensification of the light of the morontia and spiritual realms;
3. Energy impingements – creating melodies by the skillful management of the morontia and spirit energies;
4. Color symphonies – making melodies of morontia color tones;
5. Harmony of associated spirits – produce majestic melodies by arranging and associating different orders of morontia and spirit beings;
6. Melody of thought – the thinking of spiritual thoughts are perfected to burst forth in the melodies of Havona (the Central Universe surrounding Paradise);
7. The music of space – by proper attunement, the melodies of other spheres are picked up on the universe broadcast circuits.
Types of Morontial Music
There are over one hundred thousand different modes of sound, color and energy manipulation.
The techniques are analogous to the human employment of musical instruments.
For Instance, the dance ensembles of Earth, are a relatively crude attempt by mortals to approach the celestial harmony of being placement and personality arrangement.
Most forms of morontia melody cannot be perceived by the senses of material bodies.
Harmony
Music, such as Earth mortals understand, attains its highest expression in the schools of Jerusem where the advanced mortals are taught the harmonies of sound.
Harmony, the music of the seven levels of melodious association, is the universal code of spirit communication. Harmony is the speech of the Central Universe (Havona). The expression of accord and serenity are spoken in a musical language.
The Quintessential Power of Music
The people of Earth have not progressed nearly as far musically as many neighboring planets in the system of Satania.
If Adam and Eve had survived, Earth would have had music in reality.
At some point in the future, a real musician will appear on Earth to enthrall all the planet's people.
One such human could forever change the course of the entire civilized world for it is literally true that, "Melody has power a whole world to transform."
Music will always be the universal language of men, angels, and spirits.
Music Enhances Lives
Music arouses the innermost emotions of the soul.
Its effect on the individual is proportionate to the degree of spiritual development of the individual.
While music is harmony, it also creates an atmosphere of harmony.
Just as great art reflects the numerical proportion of space, music reflects the numerical harmony of time.
Music of the Spheres
The music of the spheres is a living actuality.
Harmony is the very essence of the Cosmos. By "Music of the Spheres" is meant the harmonious interrelation of all spiritual planes.
Every unit in the universe is in perfect accord each with the other. All are functioning in perfect unison. Every Sun and every Planet responds to the law of harmony. The Cosmos as a whole is performing a Divine Symphony.
When man’s spiritual progress attains the degree of enfoldment (spiritual embrace) entitling him to possession of his Divine Heritage, then the sublime vibrations of the spheres will be a reality to him.
The Jerusem Triangles
The local routine affairs of Jerusem are directed from the One Hundred Triangles.
The triangle structures are surrounded by a panoramic depiction of the history of the system. At present, there is an erasure of over two standard miles in this circular presentation.
The erasure will be restored upon the readmission of the Satania System into the constellation family. Every provision for this event has been made by the decrees of Michael, our universe creator. However, the tribunal of the Ancients of Days has not finished the adjudication of the affairs of the Lucifer rebellion.
Satania may not return into the full fellowship of the constellation while it holds those high-created beings who fell from light into darkness in prison pending the decision of the Ancients of Days.
Jerusem Climate
The energy of Jerusem (the headquarters world of Satania and its satellite worlds) is superbly controlled. Energy circulates about the spheres in zone channels.
The zone channels are fed directly from the energy charges of space as administered by the Master Physical Controllers.
The natural resistance to the passage of these energies through the physical channels of conduction yields the heat required for the production of the equable temperature of Jerusem.
The “full-light” temperature is maintained at about 70 degrees. The temperature during the period of “light recession” falls to just below 50 degrees.
No Extremes
On Jerusem, there are no days and nights; no seasons of hot and cold. The power transformers maintain one hundred thousand centers from which rarefied energies are projected upward through the planetary atmosphere undergoing certain changes until they reach the electric air-ceiling of the sphere.
These energies are reflected backdown as a gentle even light of about the intensity of Earth sunlight when the sun is shining overhead at ten o'clock in the morning.
Under such conditions of lighting, the light rays do not seem to come from one place. They emanate equally from all directions.
While similar to natural sunlight, the light contains far less heat.
The headquarters worlds are not luminous in space. Even if Jerusem were very near Earth, it would not be visible.
Lighting the Spheres
The lighting of Jerusem is uniformly maintained for three-fourths of the Jerusem day.
Then there is a gradual recession until, at the time of minimum illumination, the light is about that of Earth's full moon on a clear night. This is the quiet hour for all Jerusem.
Only the broadcast receiving stations are in operation during this period of rest and rehabilitation.
Starlight
Jerusem receives faint light from several near-by suns that provide starlight.
Architectural worlds like Jerusem are not dependent upon suns.
Consequently, they are not subject to the vicissitudes of sun disturbances or the problems of cooling or dying suns. The seven transitional study worlds and the forty-nine satellites of Jerusem are heated, lighted, energized, and watered by undisclosed techniques.
Grandeur
Since there are no earthquakes on Jerusem, there are no mountain ranges.
Since there are no storms, there are no raging rivers or expansive oceans.
While the rugged natural features of the evolved worlds are missing, beauty is in abundance. Ascenders enjoy the exquisite highlands and other unique variations of topography and landscape.
Enormous areas of Jerusem are preserved in a natural undeveloped state. The grandeur of these districts exceeds human imagination.
Irrigating the Architectural SpheresBoth the physical plant life and the morontia world of living things require moisture.
This is supplied largely by a subsoil system of circulation that extends over the entire sphere, Including the highlands.
The water system is not entirely below the surface.
There are many canals interconnecting the sparkling lakes of Jerusem.
Atmosphere of the Architectural Spheres
The atmosphere of Jerusem is a three-gas mixture.
This air is very similar to that of Earth with the addition of a third gas adapted to the respiration of the morontia order of life.
The third gas in no way affects its suitability for the respiration of animals or plants of the material order of life.
Creative Adaptation
There is an endowment of adaptation in living things and beings. In every living plant or animal cell, in every living organism - material or spiritual - there is an insatiable craving for the attainment of ever-increasing perfection of environmental adjustment, organismal adaptation, and augmented life realization. This interminable effort by all living things is evidence that their exists within them an innate striving for perfection.
Since there is no organic evolution on Jerusem, there are no conflicting forms of life. There is no struggle for existence - no survival of the fittest.
Rather, there is creative adaptation (transformation) accomplished through the power of will (the tenacious desire to understand greater truths, to witness and create more beauty, and to achieve and share more goodness. Even on Earth, mortals may will their own passage into heaven.
Human creative adaptation on Earth foreshadows the beauty, the harmony, and the perfection of the eternal worlds of the central and divine universe.
Within this creative pursuit for perfection there is an amazing intermingling of physical and of morontia life on Jerusem.
Industry
Being an early milepost on the Paradise journey, the basis for life in Jerusem is still far more material than spiritual. The manufacturing or laboratory sector of Jerusem is extensive.
While it has no smoking chimneys, there is an intricate material economy associated with these special worlds. There is a perfection of mechanical technique and physical achievement that would awe Earth's most experienced chemists and inventors.
Transporter Departures and Arrivals
Departure for all transport seraphim occurs on Mount Seraph, which at nearly 15,000 feet, is the highest elevation on Jerusem.
Numerous mechanical developments are used to provide the initial energy for escaping the planetary gravity and overcoming air resistance.
The angelic transporters take off at a speed of nearly twenty-five miles per second. They do not attain standard velocity until they are over two thousand miles away from Jerusem.
A personal seraphic transport departs every three seconds of Earth time throughout the lighted period. Arriving seraphic transports land on a crystal field, known as the sea of glass.
Thrilling Transporter Launches
When a transport seraphim is being made ready to receive a passenger for interplanetary transit, the angel appears to have a double sets of wings extending from head to the foot. These "wings" are friction shields. (Angels do not have wings.)
The passenger, who is travelling from one world to another, is induced into a transit sleep. The transport seraphim moves into a horizontal position immediately above the universe energy pole of the planet. While the friction shields are open, the sleeping personality is deposited directly on top of the transport angel. Then both the upper and lower pairs of shields are closed.
Under the control of the energy transformers and the transmitters, an interesting metamorphosis begins as the seraphim is made ready to swing into the energy currents of the universe circuits. To outward appearance the seraphim grows pointed at both extremities and becomes enshrouded in a light of amber hue making it impossible to see the passenger. The chief of transport announces that the traveler is properly enseraphimed and that everything is ready for the departing flash.
At this point, the transport seraphim has become a nearly translucent, vibrating, torpedo-shaped outline of glistening luminosity. The transport dispatcher touches the seraphic carriage, which shoots forward with lightning-like speed, leaving a trail of radiance to the edge of the planetary atmosphere.
Cosmic Broadcasts
Super universe and Paradise-Havona broadcasts are received on Jerusem by a technique using the polar crystal, the sea of glass, which also serves as the transport landing field.
There are three additional groups of receiving stations adjusted for the reception of broadcasts from the local worlds, from the constellation headquarters and from the capital of the local universe.
All broadcasts are discernible by all types of beings present in the central broadcast amphitheater. The amphitheater seats over five billion material and morontia beings and innumerable spirit personalities.
All Jerusem spends much leisure time at the amphitheater to learn about the events of the universe. This is the only planetary activity that is not slowed down during the recession of light.
Concluding Ascender Experience on Jerusem
The mortal personality, initiated on the evolutionary worlds, tabernacled in the flesh, indwelt by the Thought Adjuster, and invested by the Spirit of Truth (the Spirit of the master creator sons) is finally fully mobilized, realized, and unified the day when as a Jerusem citizen the ascender is given clearance for Edentia (the constellation capital) and proclaimed a true member of the morontia corps of Nebadon.
The detention years in the mansion world schools designed to bring the deficient Satania mortals up to the initial standards of the universe have been completed.
Onward
On the mansion worlds and Jerusem, ascenders complete the unification of the evolving mortal personality. On the system capital, they attain Jerusem citizenship and achieve the willingness to submit the self to the disciplines of group activities and coordinated undertakings.
On the constellation training worlds, ascenders strive to achieve the real socialization of the evolving morontia personality.
This spiritual cultural acquirement consists in learning how to live happily and work effectively with ten very diverse fellow morontians.
Eventually, ten such groups are associated in companies of one hundred who abide joyfully and cooperate heartily while federated in corps of one thousand devoted brothers.
The Constellations Explained
Earth (Urantia) is commonly referred to as "606 of Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon." This means Earth is the six hundred sixth inhabited world in the local star system of Satania, situated in the constellation of Norlatiadek.Constellations are more than enchanted dots of light decorating the night sky. Constellations are the primary divisions of a local universe. One hundred systems (about 100,000 inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Rulers of constellations link the local systems of inhabited worlds to the central administration of the local universe and to the super administration of the Ancients of Days at the headquarters of the Super Universe. About 1,000,000,000,000 inhabitable planets constitute each of the seven superuniverses. Each of the seven super universes is is ruled by three Ancients of Days.
Some Unobservable Cosmic Geography
The government of Earth's constellation, Norlatiadek, is situated in a cluster of 771 architectural spheres (constructed and hidden from mortal observation).
The hub and largest of these architectural spheres is Edentia, which is the seat of the administration of the Constellation Fathers (“the Most Highs, who rule in the affairs of men”).
Edentia is approximately one hundred times larger than Earth. The seventy major spheres surrounding Edentia are about ten times the size of Earth.
The ten satellites that revolve around each of the seventy worlds are about the same size as Earth.
These 771 architectural spheres are comparable in size to those in other constellations.
The Provocative Ascender Schools at the Constellation Level
All seventy of the major spheres surrounding Edentia (our constellation capital) are involved in the training of morontia ascenders.
The schools engage in individual, group, class, and mass teaching.
The education of ascenders at the constellation level is divided into schools of thinking, feeling and doing (ethics, social adjustment, and administration).
Since "lifetimes" in morontia forms are greatly extended beyond the forms of flesh, training at each level may consume millenniums of time.
Ahead, on the universe headquarters worlds, ascenders will enter the schools of philosophy, divinity, and pure spirituality.
The Stimulating Ascender Training at the Local Universe Level
The Melchizedek Sons, known as "the teacher sons," occupy a world of their own near Salvington, (the headquarters of our local universe, Nebadon).
This sphere, appropriately called "Melchizedek," is the pilot world of the Salvington circuit of seventy primary spheres.
Each of the primary worlds is encircled by six tributary spheres devoted to specialized activities. These marvelous spheres - seventy primaries and 420 tributaries, are called, Melchizedek University.
Ascending mortals from all the constellations of Nebadon (our local universe) pass through training on all 490 worlds before acquiring citizenship status on the headquarters world of Salvington.
The Intensive and Comprehensive Schooling of the Ascenders Through the Local Universe
The 490 spheres of the Salvington circuit are divided into ten groups. Each group contains seven primary and forty-two tributary spheres. The first group is under the supervision of the Melchizedeks.
These Melchizedek worlds are: 1. The pilot world - the home world of the Melchizedek Sons; 2. The world of the physical-life schools and the laboratories of living energies; 3. The world of morontia life; 4. The sphere of initial spirit life; 5. The world of mid-spirit life' 6. The sphere of advancing spirit life; 7. The domain of coordinate and Supreme (the God of Time and Space) self-realization.
The six tributary worlds of each of these Melchizedek spheres are devoted to activities germane to the work practices of the associated primary sphere (proving learned theories).
Reflection on Accomplishments
One never forgets his fusion ceremony on the Mansion Worlds. The mortal ascender has enjoyed many successes before reaching this point, but fusion with a fragment of the Universal Father is transcendental.
Fusion makes God and man one.
Fusion of the human personality with the Thought Adjuster imparts eternal actualities to personality which were previously only potential. Among these new endowments may be mentioned: a stable quality of divinity, past-eternity experience and memory, immortality, and a phase of qualified potential absoluteness.
When fusion with the Adjuster has been effected, there can be no future danger to the eternal career of that personality.
Having achieved the status of a true universe value, the creature becomes liberated in potential for the seeking of the highest universe value - God.
A Formal Review of Learning
The activities of ascending mortals on the six satellite branch worlds of the Melchizedek sphere are devoted to the following:
Time on sphere number one is a review of the planetary life of the ascending mortals. Mortals from each planet pursue their experiential review together.
The special work of sphere number two consists of a review of the experiences on the mansion worlds.
The reviews of sphere three pertain to the sojourn on the capital of the local star system.
The fourth sphere is occupied reviewing the experiences of the seventy tributary worlds of the constellation and their associated spheres.
The fifth sphere conducts the review of the ascendants' experiences on the constellation headquarters world.
The time on sphere number six is devoted to correlating these five epochs and achieving coordination of experience preparatory to entering the Melchizedek primary schools of universe training.
Beyond the Local Universe
Far, far out, in the future, spiritualized mortal ascenders reach the educational facilities of the Minor and Major Sectors of Super Universe Number Seven.
The minor sector administration is concerned mainly with the physical control, unification, stabilization, and routine coordination of the administration of the component local universes.
Each minor sector embraces as many as one hundred local universes, ten thousand constellations, one million systems, consisting of about one billion inhabitable worlds.
Minor sector headquarters worlds are surrounded by seven instruction spheres that constitute the entrance schools of Super Universe Seven.
Major Sector Education
Umajor the fifth, the headquarters of Earth's major sector, Splandon, is surrounded by seventy spheres of advanced intellectual training.
Just as the magnificent satellites of the capital of Super Universe Seven, Uversa, are concerned with the ascender's final spiritual preparation for the Central Universe of Havona, so the seventy satellites of Umajor the fifth are devoted to the ascender's super universe intellectual training and development.
Wise beings gathered from all the Super Universe of Overton, labor untiringly to prepare the mortals of time for their further progress towards the career of eternity. (It is speculated that former mortals will govern the newly formed planets of the Age of the Transcendental Ultimate God.)
Ascender Education at the Super Universe Level
Master Spirit Number Seven personally sponsors the progress of the ascension candidates from the worlds of time in their attempt to achieve comprehension of the Deity of Supremacy.
This comprehension involves a grasp of the existential sovereignty of the Trinity of Supremacy coordinated with a concept of the growing experiential sovereignty of the Supreme Being, which constitutes a grasp of the unity of Supremacy for the creature ascender.
The Unity of Supremacy
The Supreme is the beauty of physical harmony, the truth of intellectual meaning, and the goodness of spiritual value. He is the oversoul of the grand universe, the consciousness of the finite cosmos, the completion of finite reality, and the personification of Creator-creature experience.
To mortal man, existence is equivalent to growth. This is also true in the larger universe sense, for spirit-led existence results in experiential growth - augmentation of status. This kind of growth is peculiar to the age of the growth of the Supreme, and it will terminate with the completion of the growth of the Supreme.
All soul-evolving humans are literally the evolutionary sons of God the Father and God the Mother, the Supreme Being.
The unity of supremacy will be realized when all of the effort and results of the spiritual transformation of the Age of Time and Space is completed.
Ascender Education in The Central Universe (Havona)
There is an exhilarating originality about the vast central creation. Beyond the physical organization of matter and the fundamental constitution of the basic orders of intelligent beings and other living things, there is nothing in common amongst the one billion worlds of Havona.
Every one of the one billion planets is an original, unique, and exclusive creation. Each planet is matchless, superb, and perfect.
This diversity of individuality extends to all features of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of Havona planetary existence.
Ascender education in the ages spent traversing the one billion worlds of Havona will in large part be meeting and learning the roles of the unique residents of Havona.
Graduate Guides for Ascenders on the Havona Worlds
The Graduate Guides, as a group, sponsor and conduct the high university of technical instruction and spiritual training, which is essential to mortal attainment of the goal of the ages: God, rest, and then an eternity of perfected service. They are exclusively devoted to the tasks of guiding the mortal graduates from the super universes of time through the Havona course of instruction and training that serves to prepare the ascending pilgrims for admission to Paradise and the Corps of the Finality.
The guide who greets you upon your arrival on the receiving world of the outer Havona circuit will remain with you throughout your entire career on the Havona circuits. Though you will associate with countless other personalities during your sojourn on the billion worlds, your Graduate Guide will follow you to the end of your Havona progression and will witness your entrance into the terminal slumber of time, the sleep of eternity transit to the Paradise goal, where, upon awakening, you will be greeted by the Paradise Companion assigned to welcome you and perhaps remain with you until you are initiated as a member of the Mortal Corps of the Finality.
Expectations for Ascenders
Ascenders, in their compelling reach for divine love, learn to feast upon uncertainty, grow with disappointment, be invigorated in the presence of difficulty, to exhibit courage in the face of immensity, and to exercise faith when confronted by challenge.
This preparation leads ascenders to the realization of the Master Spirit of Super Universe Seven, the Supreme Being, and the Paradise Hosts, in addition to the recognition of the Infinite Spirit, the Eternal Son, and the Universal Father. In their educational process, ascenders learn that nothing is impossible with God.
Ascender Education on Paradise
On Paradise, ascenders blissfully and enthusiastically learn the meaning of the activities of the Primary Supernaphim (the highest rank of angel).
These angels are: the Conductors of Worship, the Masters of Philosophy, the Custodians of Knowledge, the Directors of Conduct, the Interpreters of Ethics, the Chiefs of Assignment, and the Instigators of Rest.
The tutors spring from the Master Spirit of our own super universe, so they are especially qualified to understand, comfort, and assist us in all our efforts to attain Paradise perfection.
Glorified, Cognitive "Sex"
The ability of mortal parents to procreate is not predicated on their educational, cultural, social, or economic status. The union of the parental factors under natural conditions is quite sufficient to initiate offspring.
While the physical sex life for mortals ends with life in the flesh, procreation through thought, remains a possibility. If two mortal finaliters go before the Architects of the Master Universe and demonstrate that they have independently chosen an identical concept for trinitization, the Architects are empowered to issue mandates permitting these glorified mortal ascenders to extend their recess and move for a time to the trinitizing sector of Paradise.
At the end of this retreat, if the finaliter couple report that they have singly and jointly elected to make the paradisiacal effort to spiritualize, idealize, and actualize a being with the qualities of their selected and original concept, then Master Spirit Number Seven issues orders authorizing their extraordinary undertaking.
Mind "Sex"
Cognitive sex is the act of mind turning potential into actuality through the power of love, wisdom, and will.
Such cognitive sex first occurred when the Absolute Deity separated Himself into Mind and Energy - (Spirit and Matter).
This first act of cognitive sex was repeated in the Trinitization of the Father, Son and Infinite Spirit, Paradise, and creation.
Trinitization
Ascenders will never fully understand the phenomenon of trinitization unless, in the far-distant future of their glorified career, they should attempt and succeed in this adventure.
Trinitization is an authorization to act on behalf of the Gods.
Simultaneously with the appearance of a new creature-trinitized son, there occurs a functional spiritual union of the two parents.
The two trinitizing parents become one on the ultimate functional level.
The Future of Trinitization
God escaped from the limitations inherent in his infinity status by the technique of trinitization by dividing His Oneness into the Paradise Trinity.
In the Age of God the Absolute, we will encounter a similar situation, but with a difference: in eternity before the creation of time and space, God used trinitization to break out of his infinity; in the Age of God the Absolute, the perfected experiential Deities (the Supreme and the Ultimate) will use trinitization to break into eternity.
"TO INFINITY AND BEYOND"
Buzz Lightyear's funny line in Toy Story is actually a true proclamation.
(There are infinities beyond Time and Space.)
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