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4. THE ASCENDING MORTALS
While the mortal survivors of time and space are denominated ascending pilgrims
when accredited for the progressive ascent to Paradise, these evolutionary
creatures occupy such an important place in these narratives that we here
desire to present a synopsis of the following seven stages of the ascending
universe career:
1. Planetary Mortals.
2. Sleeping Survivors.
3. Mansion World Students.
4. Morontia Progressors.
5. Superuniverse Wards.
6. Havona Pilgrims.
7. Paradise Arrivals.
The following narrative presents the universe career of an Adjuster-indwelt
mortal. The Son- and Spirit-fused mortals share portions of this career, but we
have elected to tell this story as it pertains to the Adjuster-fused mortals,
for such a destiny may be anticipated by all of the human races of Urantia.
1. Planetary Mortals. Mortals are all animal-origin evolutionary beings of
ascendant potential. In origin, nature, and destiny these various groups and
types of human beings are not wholly unlike the Urantia peoples. The human
races of each world receive the same ministry of the Sons of God and enjoy the
presence of the ministering spirits of time. After natural death all types of
ascenders fraternize as one morontia family on the mansion worlds.
2. Sleeping Survivors. All mortals of survival status, in the custody of
personal guardians of destiny, pass through the portals of natural death and,
on the third period, personalize on the mansion worlds. Those accredited beings
who have, for any reason, been unable to attain that level of intelligence
mastery and endowment of spirituality which would entitle them to personal
guardians, cannot thus immediately and directly go to the mansion worlds. Such
surviving souls must rest in unconscious sleep until the judgment day of a new
epoch, a new dispensation, the coming of a Son of God to call the rolls of the
age and adjudicate the realm, and this is the general practice throughout all
Nebadon. It was said of Christ Michael that, when he ascended on high at the
conclusion of his work on earth, "He led a great multitude of captives." And
these captives were the sleeping survivors from the days of Adam to the day of
the Master's resurrection on Urantia.
The passing of time is of no moment to sleeping mortals; they are wholly
unconscious and oblivious to the length of their rest. On reassembly of
personality at the end of an age, those who have slept five thousand years will
react no differently than those who have rested five days. Aside from this time
delay these survivors pass on through the ascension regime identically with
those who avoid the longer or shorter sleep of death.
These dispensational classes of world pilgrims are utilized for group morontia
activities in the work of the local universes. There is a great advantage in
the mobilization of such enormous groups; they are thus kept together for long
periods of effective service.
3. Mansion World Students. All surviving mortals who reawaken on the mansion
worlds belong to this class.
The physical body of mortal flesh is not a part of the reassembly of the
sleeping survivor; the physical body has returned to dust. The seraphim of
assignment sponsors the new body, the morontia form, as the new life vehicle
for the immortal soul and for the indwelling of the returned Adjuster. The
Adjuster is the custodian of the spirit transcript of the mind of the sleeping
survivor. The assigned seraphim is the keeper of the surviving identity--the
immortal soul--as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Adjuster and
the seraphim, reunite their personality trusts, the new individual constitutes
the resurrection of the old personality, the survival of the evolving morontia
identity of the soul. Such a reassociation of soul and Adjuster is quite
properly called a resurrection, a reassembly of personality factors; but even
this does not entirely explain the reappearance of the surviving personality.
Though you will probably never understand the fact of such an inexplicable
transaction, you will sometime experientially know the truth of it if you do
not reject the plan of mortal survival.
The plan of initial mortal detention on seven worlds of progressive training is
nearly universal in Orvonton. In each local system of approximately one
thousand inhabited planets there are seven mansion worlds, usually satellites
or subsatellites of the system capital. They are the receiving worlds for the
majority of ascending mortals.
Sometimes all training worlds of mortal residence are called universe
"mansions," and it was to such spheres that Jesus alluded when he said: "In my
Father's house are many mansions." From here on, within a given group of
spheres like the mansion worlds, ascenders will progress individually from one
sphere to another and from one phase of life to another, but they will always
advance from one stage of universe study to another in class formation.
4. Morontia Progressors. From the mansion worlds on up through the spheres of
the system, constellation, and the universe, mortals are classed as morontia
progressors; they are traversing the transition spheres of mortal ascension. As
the ascending mortals progress from the lower to the higher of the morontia
worlds, they serve on countless assignments in association with their teachers
and in company with their more advanced and senior brethren.
Morontia progression pertains to continuing advancement of intellect, spirit,
and personality form. Survivors are still three-natured beings. Throughout the
entire morontia experience they are wards of the local universe. The regime of
the superuniverse does not function until the spirit career begins.
Mortals acquire real spirit identity just before they leave the local universe
headquarters for the receiving worlds of the minor sectors of the
superuniverse. Passing from the final morontia stage to the first or lowest
spirit status is but a slight transition. The mind, personality, and character
are unchanged by such an advance; only does the form undergo modification. But
the spirit form is just as real as the morontia body, and it is equally
discernible.
Before departing from their native local universes for the superuniverse
receiving worlds, the mortals of time are recipients of spirit confirmation
from the Creator Son and the local universe Mother Spirit. From this point on,
the status of the ascending mortal is forever settled. Superuniverse wards have
never been known to go astray. Ascending seraphim are also advanced in angelic
standing at the time of their departure from the local universes.
5. Superuniverse Wards. All ascenders arriving on the training worlds of the
superuniverses become the wards of the Ancients of Days; they have traversed
the morontia life of the local universe and are now accredited spirits. As
young spirits they begin the ascension of the superuniverse system of training
and culture, extending from the receiving spheres of their minor sector in
through the study worlds of the ten major sectors and on to the higher cultural
spheres of the superuniverse headquarters.
There are three orders of student spirits in accordance with their sojourn upon
the minor sector, major sectors, and the superuniverse headquarters worlds of
spirit progression. As morontia ascenders studied and worked on the worlds of
the local universe, so spirit ascenders continue to master new worlds while
they practice at giving out to others that which they have imbibed at the
experiential founts of wisdom. But going to school as a spirit being in the
superuniverse career is very unlike anything that has ever entered the
imaginative realms of the material mind of man.
Before leaving the superuniverse for Havona, these ascending spirits receive
the same thorough course in superuniverse management that they received during
their morontia experience in local universe supervision. Before spirit mortals
reach Havona, their chief study, but not exclusive occupation, is the mastery
of local and superuniverse administration. The reason for all of this
experience is not now fully apparent, but no doubt such training is wise and
necessary in view of their possible future destiny as members of the Corps of
the Finality.
The superuniverse regime is not the same for all ascending mortals. They
receive the same general education, but special groups and classes are carried
through special courses of instruction and are put through specific courses of
training.
6. Havona Pilgrims. When spirit development is complete, even though not
replete, then the surviving mortal prepares for the long flight to Havona, the
haven of evolutionary spirits. On earth you were a creature of flesh and blood;
through the local universe you were a morontia being; through the superuniverse
you were an evolving spirit; with your arrival on the receiving worlds of
Havona your spiritual education begins in reality and in earnest; your eventual
appearance on Paradise will be as a perfected spirit.
The journey from the superuniverse headquarters to the Havona receiving spheres
is always made alone. From now on no more class or group instruction will be
administered. You are through with the technical and administrative training of
the evolutionary worlds of time and space. Now begins your personal education,
your individual spiritual training. From first to last, throughout all Havona,
the instruction is personal and threefold in nature: intellectual, spiritual,
and experiential.
The first act of your Havona career will be to recognize and thank your
transport seconaphim for the long and safe journey. Then you are presented to
those beings who will sponsor your early Havona activities. Next you go to
register your arrival and prepare your message of thanksgiving and adoration
for dispatch to the Creator Son of your local universe, the universe Father who
made possible your sonship career. This concludes the formalities of the Havona
arrival; whereupon you are accorded a long period of leisure for free
observation, and this affords opportunity for looking up your friends, fellows,
and associates of the long ascension experience. You may also consult the
broadcasts to ascertain who of your fellow pilgrims have departed for Havona
since the time of your leaving Uversa.
The fact of your arrival on the receiving worlds of Havona will be duly
transmitted to the headquarters of your local universe and personally conveyed
to your seraphic guardian, wherever that seraphim may chance to be.
The ascendant mortals have been thoroughly trained in the affairs of the
evolutionary worlds of space; now they begin their long and profitable contact
with the created spheres of perfection. What a preparation for some future work
is afforded by this combined, unique, and extraordinary experience! But I
cannot tell you about Havona; you must see these worlds to appreciate their
glory or to understand their grandeur.
7. Paradise Arrivals. On reaching Paradise with residential status, you begin
the progressive course in divinity and absonity. Your residence on Paradise
signifies that you have found God, and that you are to be mustered into the
Mortal Corps of the Finality. Of all the creatures of the grand universe, only
those who are Father fused are mustered into the Mortal Corps of the Finality.
Only such individuals take the finaliter oath. Other beings of Paradise
perfection or attainment may be temporarily attached to this finality corps,
but they are not of eternal assignment to the unknown and unrevealed mission of
this accumulating host of the evolutionary and perfected veterans of time and
space.
Paradise arrivals are accorded a period of freedom, after which they begin
their associations with the seven groups of the primary supernaphim. They are
designated Paradise graduates when they have finished their course with the
conductors of worship and then, as finaliters, are assigned on observational
and co-operative service to the ends of the far-flung creation. As yet there seems
to be no specific or settled employment for the Mortal Corps of Finaliters,
though they serve in many capacities on worlds settled in light and life.
If there should be no future or unrevealed destiny for the Mortal Corps of the
Finality, the present assignment of these ascendant beings would be altogether
adequate and glorious. Their present destiny wholly justifies the universal
plan of evolutionary ascent. But the future ages of the evolution of the
spheres of outer space will undoubtedly further elaborate, and with more
repleteness divinely illuminate, the wisdom and loving-kindness of the Gods in
the execution of their divine plan of human survival and mortal ascension.
This narrative, together with what has been revealed to you and with what you
may acquire in connection with instruction respecting your own world, presents
an outline of the career of an ascending mortal. The story varies considerably
in the different superuniverses, but this recital affords a glimpse of the
average plan of mortal progression as it is operative in the local universe of
Nebadon and in the seventh segment of the grand universe, the superuniverse of
Orvonton.
[Sponsored by a Mighty Messenger from Uversa.]