The Urantia Book Fellowship

Life on the Mansion Worlds and Jerusem

A Study presented at Urantia Brotherhood Summer Study Session
by Marian Rowley, August 7, 1965

Introduction

The theme of this whole series of meetings is “The Morontia Life”; so first in order are some definitions of the term “morontia”.

“Morontia” is a term designating a vast level intervening between the material and the spiritual.  It may designate personal or impersonal realities, living or non-living energies.  The warp of morontia is spiritual; its woof is physical.”  (Foreword, Page 9.)

“Unquestionably, when we encounter the functional activities of the various Morontia Power Supervisors, we are face to face with certain of the unrevealed activities of the Master Spirits.  Who, aside from these ancestors of both physical controllers and spirit ministers, could have contrived so to combine and associate material and spiritual energies as to produce a hitherto nonexistent phase of universe reality – morontia substance and morontia mind?”

“Much of the reality of the spiritual worlds is of the morontia order, a phase of universe reality wholly unknown on Urantia.   The goal of personality existence is spiritual, but the morontia creations always intervene, bridging the gulf between the material realms of mortal origin and the superuniverse spheres of advancing spiritual status.  It is in this realm that the Master Spirits make their great contribution to the plan of man’s Paradise ascension.”  (Page 189)

“Mortal death is a technique of escape from the material life in the flesh; and the mansonia experience of progressive life through seven worlds of corrective training and cultural education represents the introduction of mortal survivors to the morontia career, the transition life which intervenes between the evolutionary material existence and the higher spirit attainment of the ascenders of time who are destined to achieve the portals of eternity.”  (Page 540)

“The Gods cannot – at least they do not – transform a creature of gross animal nature into a perfected spirit by some mysterious act of creative magic.  When the Creators desire to produce perfect beings, they do so by direct and original creation, but they never undertake to convert animal-origin and material creatures into beings of perfection in a single step.”

“The morontia life, extending as it does over the various stages of the local universe career, is the only possible approach whereby material mortals could attain the threshold of the spirit world.  What magic could death, the natural dissolution of the material body, hold that such a simple step should instantly transform the mortal and material mind into an immortal and perfected spirit?  Such beliefs are but ignorant superstitions and pleasing fables.”

“Always this morontia transition intervenes between the mortal estate and the subsequent spirit status of surviving human beings…”

:The morontia realms are the local universe liaison spheres between the material and spiritual levels of creature existence…”

“The morontia spheres are the transition phases of mortal ascension through the progression worlds of the local universe.  Only the seven worlds surrounding the finaliters’ sphere of the local systems are called mansion worlds, but all fifty-six of the system transition abodes, in common with the higher spheres around the constellations and the universe headquarters, are called morontia worlds.  These creations partake of the physical beauty and the morontia grandeur of the local universe headquarters spheres.”  (Page 541)

“The narrative of human ascent from the mortal spheres of time to the divine realms of eternity constitutes an intriguing recital not included in my assignment (spoken by a Mighty Messenger), but this supernal adventure should be the supreme study of mortal man.”  (Page 449)

Note:  The following outline of our possible life on the mansion worlds is based on the facts given in The Urantia Book and page numbers are given as references for the material used.  In a few cases some speculation is ventured, but it always has some logical foundation in the book.

 


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