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Urantia Book Paper 48 The Morontia Life
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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Paper 48 The Morontia Life
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Introduction
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THE Gods cannot--at least they do not--transform a creature of gross animal
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nature into a perfected spirit by some mysterious act of creative magic. When
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the Creators desire to produce perfect beings, they do so by direct and
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original creation, but they never undertake to convert animal-origin and
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material creatures into beings of perfection in a single step.
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The morontia life, extending as it does over the various stages of the local
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universe career, is the only possible approach whereby material mortals could
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attain the threshold of the spirit world. What magic could death, the natural
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dissolution of the material body, hold that such a simple step should instantly
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transform the mortal and material mind into an immortal and perfected spirit?
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Such beliefs are but ignorant superstitions and pleasing fables.
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Always this morontia transition intervenes between the mortal estate and the
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subsequent spirit status of surviving human beings. This intermediate state of
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universe progress differs markedly in the various local creations, but in
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intent and purpose they are all quite similar. The arrangement of the mansion
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and higher morontia worlds in Nebadon is fairly typical of the morontia
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transition regimes in this part of Orvonton.
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1. MORONTIA MATERIALS
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The morontia realms are the local universe liaison spheres between the material
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and spiritual levels of creature existence. This morontia life has been known
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on Urantia since the early days of the Planetary Prince. From time to time this
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transition state has been taught to mortals, and the concept, in distorted
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form, has found a place in present-day religions.
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The morontia spheres are the transition phases of mortal ascension through the
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progression worlds of the local universe. Only the seven worlds surrounding the
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finaliters' sphere of the local systems are called mansion worlds, but all
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fifty-six of the system transition abodes, in common with the higher spheres
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around the constellations and the universe headquarters, are called morontia
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worlds. These creations partake of the physical beauty and the morontia
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grandeur of the local universe headquarters spheres.
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All of these worlds are architectural spheres, and they have just double the
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number of elements of the evolved planets. Such made-to-order worlds not only
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abound in the heavy metals and crystals, having one hundred physical elements,
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but likewise have exactly one hundred forms of a unique energy organization
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called morontia material. The Master Physical Controllers and the Morontia
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Power Supervisors are able so to modify the revolutions of the primary units
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of matter and at the same time so to transform these associations of energy as
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to create this new substance.
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The early morontia life in the local systems is very much like that of your
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present material world, becoming less physical and more truly morontial on the
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constellation study worlds. And as you advance to the Salvington spheres, you
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increasingly attain spiritual levels.
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The Morontia Power Supervisors are able to effect a union of material and of
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spiritual energies, thereby organizing a morontia form of materialization which
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is receptive to the superimposition of a controlling spirit. When you traverse
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the morontia life of Nebadon, these same patient and skillful Morontia Power
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Supervisors will successively provide you with 570 morontia bodies, each one a
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phase of your progressive transformation. From the time of leaving the material
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worlds until you are constituted a first-stage spirit on Salvington, you will
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undergo just 570 separate and ascending morontia changes. Eight of these occur
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in the system, seventy-one in the constellation, and 491 during the sojourn on
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the spheres of Salvington.
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In the days of the mortal flesh the divine spirit indwells you, almost as a
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thing apart--in reality an invasion of man by the bestowed spirit of the
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Universal Father. But in the morontia life the spirit will become a real part
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of your personality, and as you successively pass through the 570 progressive
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transformations, you ascend from the material to the spiritual estate of
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creature life.
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Paul learned of the existence of the morontia worlds and of the reality of
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morontia materials, for he wrote, "They have in heaven a better and more
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enduring substance." And these morontia materials are real, literal, even as in
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"the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God." And each of
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these marvelous spheres is "a better country, that is, a heavenly one."
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2. MORONTIA POWER SUPERVISORS
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These unique beings are exclusively concerned with the supervision of those
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activities which represent a working combination of spiritual and physical or
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semimaterial energies. They are exclusively devoted to the ministry of morontia
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progression. Not that they so much minister to mortals during the transition
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experience, but they rather make possible the transition environment for the
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progressing morontia creatures. They are the channels of morontia power which
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sustain and energize the morontia phases of the transition worlds.
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Morontia Power Supervisors are the offspring of a local universe Mother Spirit.
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They are fairly standard in design though differing slightly in nature in the
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various local creations. They are created for their specific function and
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require no training before entering upon their responsibilities.
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The creation of the first Morontia Power Supervisors is simultaneous with the
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arrival of the first mortal survivor on the shores of some one of the first
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mansion worlds in a local universe. They are created in groups of one thousand,
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classified as follows:
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1. Circuit Regulators 400
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2. System Co-ordinators 200
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3. Planetary Custodians 100
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4. Combined Controllers 100
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5. Liaison Stabilizers 100
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6. Selective Assorters 50
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7. Associate Registrars 50
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The power supervisors always serve in their native universe. They are directed
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exclusively by the joint spirit activity of the Universe Son and the Universe
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Spirit but are otherwise a wholly self-governing group. They maintain
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headquarters on each of the first mansion worlds of the local systems, where
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they work in close association with both the physical controllers and the
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seraphim but function in a world of their own as regards energy manifestation
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and spirit application.
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They also sometimes work in connection with supermaterial phenomena on the
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evolutionary worlds as ministers of temporary assignment. But they rarely serve
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on the inhabited planets; neither do they work on the higher training worlds of
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the superuniverse, being chiefly devoted to the transition regime of morontia
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progression in a local universe.
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1. Circuit Regulators. These are the unique beings who co-ordinate physical and
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spiritual energy and regulate its flow into the segregated channels of the
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morontia spheres, and these circuits are exclusively planetary, limited to a
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single world. The morontia circuits are distinct from, and supplementary to,
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both physical and spiritual circuits on the transition worlds, and it requires
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millions of these regulators to energize even a system of mansion worlds like
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that of Satania.
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Circuit regulators initiate those changes in material energies which render
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them subject to the control and regulation of their associates. These beings
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are morontia power generators as well as circuit regulators. Much as a dynamo
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apparently generates electricity out of the atmosphere, so do these living
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morontia dynamos seem to transform the everywhere energies of space into those
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materials which the morontia supervisors weave into the bodies and life
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activities of the ascending mortals.
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2. System Co-ordinators. Since each morontia world has a separate order of
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morontia energy, it is exceedingly difficult for humans to visualize these
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spheres. But on each successive transition sphere, mortals will find the plant
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life and everything else pertaining to the morontia existence progressively
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modified to correspond with the advancing spiritization of the ascending
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survivor. And since the energy system of each world is thus individualized,
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these co-ordinators operate to harmonize and blend such differing power systems
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into a working unit for the associated spheres of any particular group.
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Ascending mortals gradually progress from the physical to the spiritual as they
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advance from one morontia world to another; hence the necessity for providing
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an ascending scale of morontia spheres and an ascending scale of morontia
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forms.
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When mansion world ascenders pass from one sphere to another, they are
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delivered by the transport seraphim to the receivers of the system
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co-ordinators on the advanced world. Here in those unique temples at the center
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of the seventy radiating wings wherein are the chambers of transition similar
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to the resurrection halls on the initial world of reception for earth-origin
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mortals, the necessary changes in creature form are skillfully effected by the
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system co-ordinators.
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These early morontia-form changes require about seven days of standard time for
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their accomplishment.
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3. Planetary Custodians. Each morontia world, from the mansion spheres up to
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the universe headquarters, is in the custody--as regards morontia affairs--of
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seventy guardians. They constitute the local planetary council of supreme
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morontia authority. This council grants material for morontia forms to all
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ascending creatures who land on the spheres and authorizes those changes in
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creature form which make it possible for an ascender to proceed to the
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succeeding sphere. After the mansion worlds have been traversed, you will
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translate from one phase of morontia life to another without having to
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surrender consciousness. Unconsciousness attends only the earlier metamorphoses
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and the later transitions from one universe to another and from Havona to
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Paradise.
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4. Combined Controllers. One of these highly mechanical beings is always
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stationed at the center of each administrative unit of a morontia world. A
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combined controller is sensitive to, and functional with, physical, spiritual,
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and morontial energies; and with this being there are always associated two
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system co-ordinators, four circuit regulators, one planetary custodian, one
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liaison stabilizer, and either an associate registrar or a selective assorter.
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5. Liaison Stabilizers. These are the regulators of the morontia energy in
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association with the physical and spirit forces of the realm. They make
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possible the conversion of morontia energy into morontia material. The whole
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morontia organization of existence is dependent on the stabilizers. They slow
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down the energy revolutions to that point where physicalization can occur. But
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I have no terms with which I can compare or illustrate the ministry of such
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beings. It is quite beyond human imagination.
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6. Selective Assorters. As you progress from one class or phase of a morontia
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world to another, you must be re-keyed or advance-tuned, and it is the task of
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the selective assorters to keep you in progressive synchrony with the morontia
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life.
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While the basic morontia forms of life and matter are identical from the first
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mansion world to the last universe transition sphere, there is a functional
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progression which gradually extends from the material to the spiritual. Your
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adaptation to this basically uniform but successively advancing and spiritizing
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creation is effected by this selective re-keying. Such an adjustment in the
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mechanism of personality is tantamount to a new creation, notwithstanding that
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you retain the same morontia form.
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You may repeatedly subject yourself to the test of these examiners, and as soon
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as you register adequate spiritual achievement, they will gladly certify you
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for advanced standing. These progressive changes result in altered reactions to
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the morontia environment, such as modifications in food requirements and
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numerous other personal practices.
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The selective assorters are also of great service in the grouping of morontia
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personalities for purposes of study, teaching, and other projects. They
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naturally indicate those who will best function in temporary association.
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7. Associate Registrars. The morontia world has its own recorders, who serve in
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association with the spirit recorders in the supervision and custody of
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the records and other data indigenous to the morontia creations. The morontia
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records are available to all orders of personalities.
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All morontia transition realms are accessible alike to material and spirit
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beings. As morontia progressors you will remain in full contact with the
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material world and with material personalities, while you will increasingly
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discern and fraternize with spirit beings; and by the time of departure from
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the morontia regime, you will have seen all orders of spirits with the
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exception of a few of the higher types, such as Solitary Messengers.
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3. MORONTIA COMPANIONS
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These hosts of the mansion and morontia worlds are the offspring of a local
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universe Mother Spirit. They are created from age to age in groups of one
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hundred thousand, and in Nebadon there are at present over seventy billion of
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these unique beings.
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Morontia Companions are trained for service by the Melchizedeks on a special
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planet near Salvington; they do not pass through the central Melchizedek
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schools. In service they range from the lowest mansion worlds of the systems to
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the highest study spheres of Salvington, but they are seldom encountered on the
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inhabited worlds. They serve under the general supervision of the Sons of God
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and under the immediate direction of the Melchizedeks.
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The Morontia Companions maintain ten thousand headquarters in a local
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universe--on each of the first mansion worlds of the local systems. They are
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almost wholly a self-governing order and are, in general, an intelligent and
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loyal group of beings; but every now and then, in connection with certain
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unfortunate celestial upheavals, they have been known to go astray. Thousands
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of these useful creatures were lost during the times of the Lucifer rebellion
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in Satania. Your local system now has its full quota of these beings, the loss
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of the Lucifer rebellion having only recently been made up.
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There are two distinct types of Morontia Companions; one type is aggressive,
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the other retiring, but otherwise they are equal in status. They are not sex
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creatures, but they manifest a touchingly beautiful affection for one another.
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And while they are hardly companionate in the material (human) sense, they are
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very close of kin to the human races in the order of creature existence. The
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midway creatures of the worlds are your nearest of kin; then come the morontia
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cherubim, and after them the Morontia Companions.
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These companions are touchingly affectionate and charmingly social beings. They
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possess distinct personalities, and when you meet them on the mansion worlds,
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after learning to recognize them as a class, you will soon discern their
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individuality. Mortals all resemble one another; at the same time each of you
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possesses a distinct and recognizable personality.
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Something of an idea of the nature of the work of these Morontia Companions may
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be derived from the following classification of their activities in a local
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system:
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1. Pilgrim Guardians are not assigned to specific duties in their association
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with the morontia progressors. These companions are responsible for the whole
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of the morontia career and are therefore the co-ordinators of the work of all
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other morontia and transition ministers.
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2. Pilgrim Receivers and Free Associators. These are the social companions of
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the new arrivals on the mansion worlds. One of them will certainly be on hand
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to welcome you when you awaken on the initial mansion world from the first
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transit sleep of time, when you experience the resurrection from the death of
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the flesh into the morontia life. And from the time you are thus formally
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welcomed on awakening to that day when you leave the local universe as a
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first-stage spirit, these Morontia Companions are ever with you.
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Companions are not assigned permanently to individuals. An ascending mortal on
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one of the mansion or higher worlds might have a different companion on each of
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several successive occasions and again might go for long periods without one.
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It would all depend on the requirements and also on the supply of companions
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available.
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3. Hosts to Celestial Visitors. These gracious creatures are dedicated to the
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entertainment of the superhuman groups of student visitors and other celestials
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who may chance to sojourn on the transition worlds. You will have ample
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opportunity to visit within any realm you have experientially attained. Student
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visitors are allowed on all inhabited planets, even those in isolation.
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4. Co-ordinators and Liaison Directors. These companions are dedicated to the
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facilitation of morontia intercourse and to the prevention of confusion. They
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are the instructors of social conduct and morontia progress, sponsoring classes
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and other group activities among the ascending mortals. They maintain extensive
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areas wherein they assemble their pupils and from time to time make requisition
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on the celestial artisans and the reversion directors for the embellishment of
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their programs. As you progress, you will come in intimate contact with these
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companions, and you will grow exceedingly fond of both groups. It is a matter
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of chance as to whether you will be associated with an aggressive or a retiring
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type of companion.
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5. Interpreters and Translators. During the early mansonia career you will have
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frequent recourse to the interpreters and the translators. They know and speak
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all the tongues of a local universe; they are the linguists of the realms.
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You will not acquire new languages automatically; you will learn a language
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over there much as you do down here, and these brilliant beings will be your
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language teachers. The first study on the mansion worlds will be the tongue of
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Satania and then the language of Nebadon. And while you are mastering these new
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tongues, the Morontia Companions will be your efficient interpreters and
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patient translators. You will never encounter a visitor on any of these worlds
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but that some one of the Morontia Companions will be able to officiate as
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interpreter.
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6. Excursion and Reversion Supervisors. These companions will accompany you on
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the longer trips to the headquarters sphere and to the surrounding worlds of
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transition culture. They plan, conduct, and supervise all such individual and
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group tours about the system worlds of training and culture.
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7. Area and Building Custodians. Even the material and morontia structures
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increase in perfection and grandeur as you advance in the mansonia career. As
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individuals and as groups you are permitted to make certain changes in the
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abodes assigned as headquarters for your sojourn on the different mansion
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worlds. Many of the activities of these spheres take place in the open
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enclosures of the variously designated circles, squares, and triangles. The
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majority of the mansion world structures are roofless, being enclosures of
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magnificent construction and exquisite embellishment. The climatic and other
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physical conditions prevailing on the architectural worlds make roofs wholly
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unnecessary.
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These custodians of the transition phases of ascendant life are supreme in the
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management of morontia affairs. They were created for this work, and pending
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the factualization of the Supreme Being, always will they remain Morontia
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Companions; never do they perform other duties.
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As systems and universes are settled in light and life, the mansion worlds
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increasingly cease to function as transition spheres of morontia training. More
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and more the finaliters institute their new training regime, which appears to
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be designed to translate the cosmic consciousness from the present level of the
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grand universe to that of the future outer universes. The Morontia Companions
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are destined to function increasingly in association with the finaliters and in
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numerous other realms not at present revealed on Urantia.
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You can forecast that these beings are probably going to contribute much to
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your enjoyment of the mansion worlds, whether your sojourn is to be long or
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short. And you will continue to enjoy them all the way up to Salvington. They
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are not, technically, essential to any part of your survival experience. You
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could reach Salvington without them, but you would greatly miss them. They are
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the personality luxury of your ascending career in the local universe.
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4. THE REVERSION DIRECTORS
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Joyful mirth and the smile-equivalent are as universal as music. There is a
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morontial and a spiritual equivalent of mirth and laughter. The ascendant life
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is about equally divided between work and play--freedom from assignment.
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Celestial relaxation and superhuman humor are quite different from their human
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analogues, but we all actually indulge in a form of both; and they really
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accomplish for us, in our state, just about what ideal humor is able to do for
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you on Urantia. The Morontia Companions are skillful play sponsors, and they
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are most ably supported by the reversion directors.
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You would probably best understand the work of the reversion directors if they
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were likened to the higher types of humorists on Urantia, though that would be
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an exceedingly crude and somewhat unfortunate way in which to try to convey an
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idea of the function of these directors of change and relaxation, these
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ministers of the exalted humor of the morontia and spirit realms.
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In discussing spirit humor, first let me tell you what it is not. Spirit jest
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is never tinged with the accentuation of the misfortunes of the weak and
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erring. Neither is it ever blasphemous of the righteousness and glory of
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divinity. Our humor embraces three general levels of appreciation:
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1. Reminiscent jests. Quips growing out of the memories of past episodes in
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one's experience of combat, struggle, and sometimes fearfulness, and ofttimes
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foolish and childish anxiety. To us, this phase of humor derives from the
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deep-seated and abiding ability to draw upon the past for memory material with
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which pleasantly to flavor and otherwise lighten the heavy loads of the
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present.
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2. Current humor. The senselessness of much that so often causes us serious
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concern, the joy at discovering the unimportance of much of our serious
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personal anxiety. We are most appreciative of this phase of humor when we are
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best able to discount the anxieties of the present in favor of the certainties
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of the future.
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3. Prophetic joy. It will perhaps be difficult for mortals to envisage this
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phase of humor, but we do get a peculiar satisfaction out of the assurance
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"that all things work together for good"--for spirits and morontians as well as
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for mortals. This aspect of celestial humor grows out of our faith in the
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loving overcare of our superiors and in the divine stability of our Supreme
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Directors.
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But the reversion directors of the realms are not concerned exclusively with
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depicting the high humor of the various orders of intelligent beings; they are
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also occupied with the leadership of diversion, spiritual recreation and
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morontia entertainment. And in this connection they have the hearty
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co-operation of the celestial artisans.
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The reversion directors themselves are not a created group; they are a
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recruited corps embracing beings ranging from the Havona natives down through
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the messenger hosts of space and the ministering spirits of time to the
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morontia progressors from the evolutionary worlds. All are volunteers, giving
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themselves to the work of assisting their fellows in the achievement of thought
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change and mind rest, for such attitudes are most helpful in recuperating
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depleted energies.
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When partially exhausted by the efforts of attainment, and while awaiting the
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reception of new energy charges, there is agreeable pleasure in living over
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again the enactments of other days and ages. The early experiences of the race
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or the order are restful to reminisce. And that is exactly why these artists
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are called reversion directors--they assist in reverting the memory to a former
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state of development or to a less experienced status of being.
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All beings enjoy this sort of reversion except those who are inherent Creators,
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hence automatic self-rejuvenators, and certain highly specialized types of
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creatures, such as the power centers and the physical controllers, who are
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always and eternally thoroughly businesslike in all their reactions. These
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periodic releases from the tension of functional duty are a regular part of
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life on all worlds throughout the universe of universes but not on the Isle of
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Paradise. Beings indigenous to the central abode are incapable of depletion and
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are not, therefore, subject to re-energizing. And with such beings of eternal
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Paradise perfection there can be no such reversion to evolutionary experiences.
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Most of us have come up through lower stages of existence or through
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progressive levels of our orders, and it is refreshing and in a measure amusing
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to look back upon certain episodes of our early experience. There is a
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restfulness in the contemplation of that which is old to one's order, and which
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lingers as a memory possession of the mind. The future signifies struggle and
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advancement; it bespeaks work, effort, and achievement; but the past savors of
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things already mastered and achieved; contemplation of the past permits of
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relaxation and such a carefree review as to provoke spirit mirth and a morontia
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state of mind verging on merriment.
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Even mortal humor becomes most hearty when it depicts episodes affecting those
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just a little beneath one's present developmental state, or when it portrays
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one's supposed superiors falling victim to the experiences which are commonly
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associated with supposed inferiors. You of Urantia have allowed much that is at
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once vulgar and unkind to become confused with your humor, but on the whole,
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you are to be congratulated on a comparatively keen sense of humor. Some of
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your races have a rich vein of it and are greatly helped in their earthly
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careers thereby. Apparently you received much in the way of humor from your
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Adamic inheritance, much more than was secured of either music or art.
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All Satania, during times of play, those times when its inhabitants
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refreshingly resurrect the memories of a lower stage of existence, is edified
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by the pleasant humor of a corps of reversion directors from Urantia. The sense
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of celestial humor we have with us always, even when engaged in the most
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difficult of assignments. It helps to avoid an overdevelopment of the notion of
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one's self-importance. But we do not give rein to it freely, as you might say,
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"have fun," except when we are in recess from the serious assignments of our
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respective orders.
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When we are tempted to magnify our self-importance, if we stop to contemplate
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the infinity of the greatness and grandeur of our Makers, our own
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self-glorification becomes sublimely ridiculous, even verging on the humorous.
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One of the functions of humor is to help all of us take ourselves less
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seriously. Humor is the divine antidote for exaltation of ego.
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The need for the relaxation and diversion of humor is greatest in those orders
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of ascendant beings who are subjected to sustained stress in their upward
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struggles. The two extremes of life have little need for humorous diversions.
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Primitive men have no capacity therefor, and beings of Paradise perfection have
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no need thereof. The hosts of Havona are naturally a joyous and exhilarating
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assemblage of supremely happy personalities. On Paradise the quality of worship
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obviates the necessity for reversion activities. But among those who start
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their careers far below the goal of Paradise perfection, there is a large place
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for the ministry of the reversion directors.
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The higher the mortal species, the greater the stress and the greater the
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capacity for humor as well as the necessity for it. In the spirit world the
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opposite is true: The higher we ascend, the less the need for the diversions of
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reversion experiences. But proceeding down the scale of spirit life from
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Paradise to the seraphic hosts, there is an increasing need for the mission of
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mirth and the ministry of merriment. Those beings who most need the refreshment
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of periodic reversion to the intellectual status of previous experiences are
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the higher types of the human species, the morontians, angels, and the Material
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Sons, together with all similar types of personality.
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Humor should function as an automatic safety valve to prevent the building up
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of excessive pressures due to the monotony of sustained and serious
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self-contemplation in association with the intense struggle for developmental
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progress and noble achievement. Humor also functions to lessen the shock of the
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unexpected impact of fact or of truth, rigid unyielding fact and flexible
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ever-living truth. The mortal personality, never sure as to which will next be
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encountered, through humor swiftly grasps--sees the point and achieves
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insight--the unexpected nature of the situation be it fact or be it truth.
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While the humor of Urantia is exceedingly crude and most inartistic, it does
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serve a valuable purpose both as a health insurance and as a liberator of
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emotional pressure, thus preventing injurious nervous tension and overserious
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self-contemplation. Humor and play--relaxation--are never reactions of progres-
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sive exertion; always are they the echoes of a backward glance, a reminiscence
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of the past. Even on Urantia and as you now are, you always find it
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rejuvenating when for a short time you can suspend the exertions of the newer
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and higher intellectual efforts and revert to the more simple engagements of
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your ancestors.
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The principles of Urantian play life are philosophically sound and continue to
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apply on up through your ascending life, through the circuits of Havona to the
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eternal shores of Paradise. As ascendant beings you are in possession of
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personal memories of all former and lower existences, and without such identity
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memories of the past there would be no basis for the humor of the present,
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either mortal laughter or morontia mirth. It is this recalling of past
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experiences that provides the basis for present diversion and amusement. And so
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you will enjoy the celestial equivalents of your earthly humor all the way up
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through your long morontia, and then increasingly spiritual, careers. And that
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part of God (the Adjuster) which becomes an eternal part of the personality of
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an ascendant mortal contributes the overtones of divinity to the joyous
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expressions, even spiritual laughter, of the ascending creatures of time and
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space.
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5. THE MANSION WORLD TEACHERS
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The Mansion World Teachers are a corps of deserted but glorified cherubim and
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sanobim. When a pilgrim of time advances from a trial world of space to the
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mansion and associated worlds of morontia training, he is accompanied by his
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personal or group seraphim, the guardian of destiny. In the worlds of mortal
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existence the seraphim is ably assisted by cherubim and sanobim; but when her
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mortal ward is delivered from the bonds of the flesh and starts out on the
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ascendant career, when the postmaterial or morontia life begins, the attending
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seraphim has no further need of the ministrations of her former lieutenants,
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the cherubim and sanobim.
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These deserted assistants of the ministering seraphim are often summoned to
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universe headquarters, where they pass into the intimate embrace of the
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Universe Mother Spirit and then go forth to the system training spheres as
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Mansion World Teachers. These teachers often visit the material worlds and
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function from the lowest mansion worlds on up to the highest of the educational
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spheres connected with the universe headquarters. Upon their own motion they
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may return to their former associative work with the ministering seraphim.
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There are billions upon billions of these teachers in Satania, and their
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numbers constantly increase because, in the majority of instances, when a
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seraphim proceeds inward with an Adjuster-fused mortal, both a cherubim and a
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sanobim are left behind.
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Mansion World Teachers, like most of the other instructors, are commissioned by
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the Melchizedeks. They are generally supervised by the Morontia Companions, but
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as individuals and as teachers they are supervised by the acting heads of the
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schools or spheres wherein they may be functioning as instructors.
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These advanced cherubim usually work in pairs as they did when attached to the
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seraphim. They are by nature very near the morontia type of existence, and they
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are inherently sympathetic teachers of the ascending mortals and most
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efficiently conduct the program of the mansion world and morontia educational
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system.
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In the schools of the morontia life these teachers engage in individual, group,
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class, and mass teaching. On the mansion worlds such schools are organized in
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three general groups of one hundred divisions each: the schools of thinking,
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the schools of feeling, and the schools of doing. When you reach the
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constellation, there are added the schools of ethics, the schools of
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administration, and the schools of social adjustment. On the universe
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headquarters worlds you will enter the schools of philosophy, divinity, and
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pure spirituality.
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Those things which you might have learned on earth, but which you failed to
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learn, must be acquired under the tutelage of these faithful and patient
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teachers. There are no royal roads, short cuts, or easy paths to Paradise.
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Irrespective of the individual variations of the route, you master the lessons
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of one sphere before you proceed to another; at least this is true after you
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once leave the world of your nativity.
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One of the purposes of the morontia career is to effect the permanent
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eradication from the mortal survivors of such animal vestigial traits as
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procrastination, equivocation, insincerity, problem avoidance, unfairness, and
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ease seeking. The mansonia life early teaches the young morontia pupils that
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postponement is in no sense avoidance. After the life in the flesh, time is no
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longer available as a technique of dodging situations or of circumventing
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disagreeable obligations.
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Beginning service on the lowest of the tarrying spheres, the Mansion World
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Teachers advance, with experience, through the educational spheres of the
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system and the constellation to the training worlds of Salvington. They are
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subjected to no special discipline either before or after their embrace by the
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Universe Mother Spirit. They have already been trained for their work while
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serving as seraphic associates on the worlds native to their pupils of mansion
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world sojourn. They have had actual experience with these advancing mortals on
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the inhabited worlds. They are practical and sympathetic teachers, wise and
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understanding instructors, able and efficient guides. They are entirely
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familiar with the ascendant plans and thoroughly experienced in the initial
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phases of the progression career.
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Many of the older of these teachers, those who have long served on the worlds
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of the Salvington circuit, are re-embraced by the Universe Mother Spirit, and
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from this second embrace these cherubim and sanobim emerge with the status of
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seraphim.
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6. MORONTIA WORLD SERAPHIM--TRANSITION MINISTERS
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While all orders of angels, from the planetary helpers to the supreme seraphim,
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minister on the morontia worlds, the transition ministers are more exclusively
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assigned to these activities. These angels are of the sixth order of seraphic
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servers, and their ministry is devoted to facilitating the transit of material
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and mortal creatures from the temporal life in the flesh on into the early
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stages of morontia existence on the seven mansion worlds.
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You should understand that the morontia life of an ascending mortal is really
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initiated on the inhabited worlds at the conception of the soul, at that moment
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when the creature mind of moral status is indwelt by the spirit Adjuster. And
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from that moment on, the mortal soul has potential capacity for supermortal
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function, even for recognition on the higher levels of the morontia spheres of
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the local universe.
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You will not, however, be conscious of the ministry of the transition seraphim
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until you attain the mansion worlds, where they labor untiringly for the
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advancement of their mortal pupils, being assigned for service in the following
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seven divisions:
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1. Seraphic Evangels. The moment you consciousize on the mansion worlds, you
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are classified as evolving spirits in the records of the system. True, you are
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not yet spirits in reality, but you are no longer mortal or material beings;
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you have embarked upon the prespirit career and have been duly admitted to the
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morontia life.
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On the mansion worlds the seraphic evangels will help you to choose wisely
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among the optional routes to Edentia, Salvington, Uversa, and Havona. If there
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are a number of equally advisable routes, these will be put before you, and you
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will be permitted to select the one that most appeals to you. These seraphim
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then make recommendations to the four and twenty advisers on Jerusem concerning
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that course which would be most advantageous for each ascending soul.
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You are not given unrestricted choice as to your future course; but you may
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choose within the limits of that which the transition ministers and their
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superiors wisely determine to be most suitable for your future spirit
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attainment. The spirit world is governed on the principle of respecting your
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freewill choice provided the course you may choose is not detrimental to you or
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injurious to your fellows.
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These seraphic evangels are dedicated to the proclamation of the gospel of
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eternal progression, the triumph of perfection attainment. On the mansion
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worlds they proclaim the great law of the conservation and dominance of
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goodness: No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never
|
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wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion to the divinity of
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its motivation.
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Even on Urantia they counsel the human teachers of truth and righteousness to
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adhere to the preaching of "the goodness of God, which leads to repentance," to
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proclaim "the love of God, which casts out all fear." Even so have these truths
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been declared on your world:
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The Gods are my caretakers; I shall not stray;
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Side by side they lead me in the beautiful paths and glorious refreshing of
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life everlasting.
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I shall not, in this Divine Presence, want for food nor thirst for water.
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Though I go down into the valley of uncertainty or ascend up into the worlds of
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doubt,
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Though I move in loneliness or with the fellows of my kind,
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Though I triumph in the choirs of light or falter in the solitary places of the
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spheres,
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Your good spirit shall minister to me, and your glorious angel will comfort me.
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Though I descend into the depths of darkness and death itself,
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I shall not doubt you nor fear you,
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For I know that in the fullness of time and the glory of your name
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You will raise me up to sit with you on the battlements on high.
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That is the story whispered in the night season to the shepherd boy. He could
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not retain it word for word, but to the best of his memory he gave it much as
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it is recorded today.
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These seraphim are also the evangels of the gospel of perfection attainment for
|
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the whole system as well as for the individual ascender. Even now in the young
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system of Satania their teachings and plans encompass provisions for the future
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ages when the mansion worlds will no longer serve the mortal ascenders as
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steppingstones to the spheres on high.
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2. Racial Interpreters. All races of mortal beings are not alike. True, there
|
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is a planetary pattern running through the physical, mental, and spiritual
|
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natures and tendencies of the various races of a given world; but there are
|
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also distinct racial types, and very definite social tendencies characterize
|
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the offspring of these different basic types of human beings. On the worlds of
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time the seraphic racial interpreters further the efforts of the race
|
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commissioners to harmonize the varied viewpoints of the races, and they
|
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continue to function on the mansion worlds, where these same differences tend
|
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to persist in a measure. On a confused planet, such as Urantia, these brilliant
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beings have hardly had a fair opportunity to function, but they are the
|
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skillful sociologists and the wise ethnic advisers of the first heaven.
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You should consider the statement about "heaven" and the "heaven of heavens."
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The heaven conceived by most of your prophets was the first of the mansion
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worlds of the local system. When the apostle spoke of being "caught up to the
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third heaven," he referred to that experience in which his Adjuster was
|
|
detached during sleep and in this unusual state made a projection to the third
|
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of the seven mansion worlds. Some of your wise men saw the vision of the
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greater heaven, "the heaven of heavens," of which the sevenfold mansion world
|
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experience was but the first; the second being Jerusem; the third, Edentia and
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its satellites; the fourth, Salvington and the surrounding educational spheres;
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the fifth, Uversa; the sixth, Havona; and the seventh, Paradise.
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3. Mind Planners. These seraphim are devoted to the effective grouping of
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morontia beings and to organizing their teamwork on the mansion worlds. They
|
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are the psychologists of the first heaven. The majority of this particular
|
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division of seraphic ministers have had previous experience as guardian angels
|
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to the children of time, but their wards, for some reason, failed to
|
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personalize on the mansion worlds or else survived by the technique of Spirit
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fusion.
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It is the task of the mind planners to study the nature, experience, and status
|
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of the Adjuster souls in transit through the mansion worlds and to facilitate
|
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their grouping for assignment and advancement. But these mind planners do not
|
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scheme, manipulate, or otherwise take advantage of the ignorance or other
|
|
limitations of mansion world students. They are wholly fair and eminently just.
|
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They respect your newborn morontia will; they regard you as independent
|
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volitional beings, and they seek to encourage your speedy development and
|
|
advancement. Here you are face to face with true friends and understanding
|
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counselors, angels who are really able to help you "to see yourself as others
|
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see you" and "to know yourself as angels know you."
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Even on Urantia, these seraphim teach the everlasting truth: If your own mind
|
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does not serve you well, you can exchange it for the mind of Jesus of Nazareth,
|
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who always serves you well.
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4. Morontia Counselors. These ministers receive their name because they are
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assigned to teach, direct, and counsel the surviving mortals from the worlds of
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human origin, souls in transit to the higher schools of the system
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headquarters. They are the teachers of those who seek insight into the
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experiential unity of divergent life levels, those who are attempting the
|
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integration of meanings and the unification of values. This is the function of
|
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philosophy in mortal life, of mota on the morontia spheres.
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Mota is more than a superior philosophy; it is to philosophy as two eyes are to
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one; it has a stereoscopic effect on meanings and values. Material man sees the
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universe, as it were, with but one eye--flat. Mansion world students achieve
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cosmic perspective depth--by superimposing the perceptions of the morontia life
|
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upon the perceptions of the physical life. And they are enabled to bring these
|
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material and morontial viewpoints into true focus largely through the untiring
|
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ministry of their seraphic counselors, who so patiently teach the mansion world
|
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students and the morontia progressors. Many of the teaching counselors of the
|
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supreme order of seraphim began their careers as advisers of the newly
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liberated souls of the mortals of time.
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5. Technicians. These are the seraphim who help new ascenders adjust themselves
|
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to the new and comparatively strange environment of the morontia spheres. Life
|
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on the transition worlds entails real contact with the energies and materials
|
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of both the physical and morontia levels and to a certain extent with spiritual
|
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realities. Ascenders must acclimatize to every new morontia level, and in all
|
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of this they are greatly helped by the seraphic technicians. These seraphim act
|
|
as liaisons with the Morontia Power Supervisors and with the Master Physical
|
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Controllers and function extensively as instructors of the ascending pilgrims
|
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concerning the nature of those energies which are utilized on the transition
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spheres. They serve as emergency space traversers and perform numerous other
|
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regular and special duties.
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6. Recorder-Teachers. These seraphim are the recorders of the borderland
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transactions of the spiritual and the physical, of the relationships of men and
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angels, of the morontia transactions of the lower universe realms. They also
|
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serve as instructors regarding the efficient and effective techniques of fact
|
|
recording. There is an artistry in the intelligent assembly and co-ordination
|
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of related data, and this art is heightened in collaboration with the celestial
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artisans, and even the ascending mortals become thus affiliated with the
|
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recording seraphim.
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The recorders of all the seraphic orders devote a certain amount of time to the
|
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education and training of the morontia progressors. These angelic custodians of
|
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the facts of time are the ideal instructors of all fact seekers. Before leaving
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Jerusem, you will become quite familiar with the history of Satania and its 619
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inhabited worlds, and much of this story will be imparted by the seraphic
|
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recorders.
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These angels are all in the chain of recorders extending from the lowest to the
|
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highest custodians of the facts of time and the truths of eternity. Some day
|
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they will teach you to seek truth as well as fact, to expand your soul as well
|
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as your mind. Even now you should learn to water the garden of your heart as
|
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well as to seek for the dry sands of knowledge. Forms are valueless when
|
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lessons are learned. No chick may be had without the shell, and no shell is of
|
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any worth after the chick is hatched. But sometimes error is so great that its
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fication by revelation would be fatal to those slowly emerging truths which are
|
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essential to its experiential overthrow. When children have their ideals, do
|
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not dislodge them; let them grow. And while you are learning to think as men,
|
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you should also be learning to pray as children.
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Law is life itself and not the rules of its conduct. Evil is a transgression of
|
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law, not a violation of the rules of conduct pertaining to life, which is the
|
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law. Falsehood is not a matter of narration technique but something
|
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premeditated as a perversion of truth. The creation of new pictures out of old
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facts, the restatement of parental life in the lives of offspring--these are
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the artistic triumphs of truth. The shadow of a hair's turning, premeditated
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for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is
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principle--these constitute falseness. But the fetish of factualized truth,
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fossilized truth, the iron band of so-called unchanging truth, holds one
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blindly in a closed circle of cold fact. One can be technically right as to
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fact and everlastingly wrong in the truth.
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7. Ministering Reserves. A large corps of all orders of the transition seraphim
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is held on the first mansion world. Next to the destiny guardians, these
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transition ministers draw the nearest to humans of all orders of seraphim, and
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many of your leisure moments will be spent with them. Angels take delight in
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service and, when unassigned, often minister as volunteers. The soul of many an
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ascending mortal has for the first time been kindled by the divine fire of the
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will-to-service through personal friendship with the volunteer servers of the
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seraphic reserves.
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From them you will learn to let pressure develop stability and certainty; to be
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faithful and earnest and, withal, cheerful; to accept challenges without
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complaint and to face difficulties and uncertainties without fear. They will
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ask: If you fail, will you rise indomitably to try anew? If you succeed, will
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you maintain a well-balanced poise--a stabilized and spiritualized
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attitude--throughout every effort in the long struggle to break the fetters of
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material inertia, to attain the freedom of spirit existence?
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Even as mortals, so have these angels been father to many disappointments, and
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they will point out that sometimes your most disappointing disappointments have
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become your greatest blessings. Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates
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its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the
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fruits of new life and new opportunity. And from them you will learn to suffer
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less through sorrow and disappointment, first, by making fewer personal plans
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concerning other personalities, and then, by accepting your lot when you have
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faithfully performed your duty.
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You will learn that you increase your burdens and decrease the likelihood of
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success by taking yourself too seriously. Nothing can take precedence over the
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work of your status sphere--this world or the next. Very important is the work
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of preparation for the next higher sphere, but nothing equals the importance of
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the work of the world in which you are actually living. But though the work is
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important, the self is not. When you feel important, you lose energy to the
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wear and tear of ego dignity so that there is little energy left to do the
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work. Self-importance, not work-importance, exhausts immature creatures; it is
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the self element that exhausts, not the effort to achieve. You can do important
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work if you do not become self-important; you can do several things as easily
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as one if you leave yourself out. Variety is restful; monotony is what wears
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and exhausts. Day after day is alike--just life or the alternative of death.
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7. MORONTIA MOTA
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The lower planes of morontia mota join directly with the higher levels of human
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philosophy. On the first mansion world it is the practice to teach the less
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advanced students by the parallel technique; that is, in one column are
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presented the more simple concepts of mota meanings, and in the opposite column
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citation is made of analogous statements of mortal philosophy.
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Not long since, while executing an assignment on the first mansion world of
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Satania, I had occasion to observe this method of teaching; and though I may
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not undertake to present the mota content of the lesson, I am permitted to
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record the twenty-eight statements of human philosophy which this morontia
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instructor was utilizing as illustrative material designed to assist these new
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mansion world sojourners in their early efforts to grasp the significance and
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meaning of mota. These illustrations of human philosophy were:
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1. A display of specialized skill does not signify possession of spiritual
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capacity. Cleverness is not a substitute for true character.
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2. Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is
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a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.
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3. Inherent capacities cannot be exceeded; a pint can never hold a quart. The
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spirit concept cannot be mechanically forced into the material memory mold.
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4. Few mortals ever dare to draw anything like the sum of personality credits
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established by the combined ministries of nature and grace. The majority of
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impoverished souls are truly rich, but they refuse to believe it.
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5. Difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only
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stimulate the true children of the Most Highs.
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6. To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to
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possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement--these
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are the marks of high civilization.
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7. Blind and unforeseen accidents do not occur in the cosmos. Neither do the
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celestial beings assist the lower being who refuses to act upon his light of
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truth.
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8. Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without
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intelligent effort.
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9. Action achieves strength; moderation eventuates in charm.
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10. Righteousness strikes the harmony chords of truth, and the melody vibrates
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throughout the cosmos, even to the recognition of the Infinite.
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11. The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day's
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work--do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God's.
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12. The greatest affliction of the cosmos is never to have been afflicted.
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Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation.
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13. Stars are best discerned from the lonely isolation of experiential depths,
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not from the illuminated and ecstatic mountain tops.
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14. Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when it
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is asked for.
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15. Affectation is the ridiculous effort of the ignorant to appear wise, the
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attempt of the barren soul to appear rich.
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16. You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and
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many truths are not really felt except in adversity.
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17. Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly
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acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it.
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18. Impatience is a spirit poison; anger is like a stone hurled into a hornet's
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nest.
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19. Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those
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which never come.
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20. Only a poet can discern poetry in the commonplace prose of routine
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existence.
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21. The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher
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universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of
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eternity.
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22. The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it
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strives to do.
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23. Death added nothing to the intellectual possession or to the spiritual
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endowment, but it did add to the experiential status the consciousness of
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survival.
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24. The destiny of eternity is determined moment by moment by the achievements
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of the day by day living. The acts of today are the destiny of tomorrow.
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25. Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and
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divine use of such strength.
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26. Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and
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socialized by love.
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27. Progress demands development of individuality; mediocrity seeks
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perpetuation in standardization.
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28. The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to
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the truth contained.
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Such is the work of the beginners on the first mansion world while the more
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advanced pupils on the later worlds are mastering the higher levels of cosmic
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insight and morontia mota.
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8. THE MORONTIA PROGRESSORS
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From the time of graduation from the mansion worlds to the attainment of spirit
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status in the superuniverse career, ascending mortals are denominated morontia
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|
progressors. Your passage through this wonderful borderland life will be an
|
|
unforgettable experience, a charming memory. It is the evolutionary portal to
|
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spirit life and the eventual attainment of creature perfection by which
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|
ascenders achieve the goal of time--the finding of God on Paradise.
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There is a definite and divine purpose in all this morontia and subsequent
|
|
spirit scheme of mortal progression, this elaborate universe training school
|
|
for ascending creatures. It is the design of the Creators to afford the
|
|
creatures of time a graduated opportunity to master the details of the
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operation and adminis-
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tration of the grand universe, and this long course of training is best carried
|
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forward by having the surviving mortal climb up gradually and by actual
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|
participation in every step of the ascent.
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The mortal-survival plan has a practical and serviceable objective; you are not
|
|
the recipients of all this divine labor and painstaking training only that you
|
|
may survive just to enjoy endless bliss and eternal ease. There is a goal of
|
|
transcendent service concealed beyond the horizon of the present universe age.
|
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If the Gods designed merely to take you on one long and eternal joy excursion,
|
|
they certainly would not so largely turn the whole universe into one vast and
|
|
intricate practical training school, requisition a substantial part of the
|
|
celestial creation as teachers and instructors, and then spend ages upon ages
|
|
piloting you, one by one, through this gigantic universe school of experiential
|
|
training. The furtherance of the scheme of mortal progression seems to be one
|
|
of the chief businesses of the present organized universe, and the majority of
|
|
innumerable orders of created intelligences are either directly or indirectly
|
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engaged in advancing some phase of this progressive perfection plan.
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In traversing the ascending scale of living existence from mortal man to the
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Deity embrace, you actually live the very life of every possible phase and
|
|
stage of perfected creature existence within the limits of the present universe
|
|
age. From mortal man to Paradise finaliter embraces all that now can
|
|
be--encompasses everything presently possible to the living orders of
|
|
intelligent, perfected finite creature beings. If the future destiny of the
|
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Paradise finaliters is service in new universes now in the making, it is
|
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assured that in this new and future creation there will be no created orders of
|
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experiential beings whose lives will be wholly different from those which
|
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mortal finaliters have lived on some world as a part of their ascending
|
|
training, as one of the stages of their agelong progress from animal to angel
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and from angel to spirit and from spirit to God.
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[Presented by an Archangel of Nebadon.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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