Ahhhhhh….Bonita….overflowing like a fountain….. or a spring of inspirational refreshment!
Looking forward to the new topic…and I appreciate your emphasis here on the friendly universe in which we live and how profound the change from the mortal life on the planet’s of birth and the mansion worlds! And thanks for pointing out that the personal repercussions of immaturity and mortal error do not make that journey so there is no carry-over of our suffering or mistakes….just more work to accomplish for some than for others in some ways but not all ways either….that’s why there’s 7 worlds of ministry, each with its particular ministries of personal progress!
An important point I think. Unlike the schools of our world, the education to come will be highly personalized. Like the mind/spirit ministers are for us here today….there are lessons all must learn and hold in common but the achievement of those is not uniform or as lineal perhaps as we might think. So, it appears obvious that errors do not carry over, no….except as those leave ‘gaps’ of education and spirit progress to be addressed more specifically o the Mansions….as is their purpose.
I am reminded that the Mansions tend to be utilized less and less as a System approaches L&L and less and less error attends the mortal survivors and as more and more find Adjuster fusion on the worlds of material birth. As worlds pass through the mortal epochs, more and more mortals need less and less ‘corrective’ education….but each soul has the ability in each life to make those choices and commitments to God and Spirit and identity transition, that no one soul of any generation is personally limited in our Circle Progress by the generational success or failure or by the mortal epoch of our own time.
If interested, one might wish to read Paper 55 to gain a better understanding of the reality in which we will awaken to on the Mansion Worlds….including the first one! There is a sad tendency to overlay our local material existence onto the worlds and existence to come, limiting our ability to appreciate how very different is the heavenly abode from our material lives. We taint that reality by our very limited time of struggle here…but our ministers and teachers and the orderliness and friendliness of the Mansion Worlds to come has almost nothing at all in common with a dark, confused, and isolated world early in the Mortal Epochs. What a glorious place we will find there!
55:3.1 (624.7) During this age of light and life the world increasingly prospers under the fatherly rule of the Planetary Sovereign. By this time the worlds are progressing under the momentum of one language, one religion, and, on normal spheres, one race. But this age is not perfect. These worlds still have well-appointed hospitals, homes for the care of the sick. There still remain the problems of caring for accidental injuries and the inescapable infirmities attendant upon the decrepitude of old age and the disorders of senility. Disease has not been entirely vanquished, neither have the earth animals been subdued in perfection; but such worlds are like Paradise in comparison with the early times of primitive man during the pre-Planetary Prince age. You would instinctively describe such a realm — could you be suddenly transported to a planet in this stage of development — as heaven on earth.
55:5.1 (629.10) Mortal creatures living on a sin-stricken, evil-dominated, self-seeking, isolated world, such as Urantia, can hardly conceive of the physical perfection, the intellectual attainment, and the spiritual development which characterize these advanced epochs of evolution on a sinless sphere.
55:5.2 (629.11) The advanced stages of a world settled in light and life represent the acme of evolutionary material development. On these cultured worlds, gone are the idleness and friction of the earlier primitive ages. Poverty and social inequality have all but vanished, degeneracy has disappeared, and delinquency is rarely observed. Insanity has practically ceased to exist, and feeble-mindedness is a rarity.
55:5.3 (629.12) The economic, social, and administrative status of these worlds is of a high and perfected order. Science, art, and industry flourish, and society is a smoothly working mechanism of high material, intellectual, and cultural achievement. Industry has been largely diverted to serving the higher aims of such a superb civilization. The economic life of such a world has become ethical.
55:5.4 (630.1) War has become a matter of history, and there are no more armies or police forces. Government is gradually disappearing. Self-control is slowly rendering laws of human enactment obsolete. The extent of civil government and statutory regulation, in an intermediate state of advancing civilization, is in inverse proportion to the morality and spirituality of the citizenship.
55:5.5 (630.2) Schools are vastly improved and are devoted to the training of mind and the expansion of soul. The art centers are exquisite and the musical organizations superb. The temples of worship with their associated schools of philosophy and experiential religion are creations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air arenas of worship assembly are equally sublime in the simplicity of their artistic appointment.
And this describes a mortal, material world….even from such a place, the Mansion Worlds are so much more and so much finer I am sure! Even L&L leaves us some challenges of suffering….who suffers I wonder in heaven?
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
