MidiChlorian wrote: If a person died of old age here, do they proceed to the mansion world, as they left off in this world?
Excluding the material body, yes. See: (47:3.1) (112:4.3) (30:4.15) (49:6.7) , among many other references. We get a highly individualized morontia form made-to-order in the hall of resurrection on Mansonia when we get there. (42:12.11)
Mara, as per the links, to UB text, that you provided above, they would confirm the release of the “material body”, but that withstanding, it is the personal realization, conscious memories, of the preexistence, as related to the ability of that person to remember, relative to their mental ability, assuming long-lived age, or ageing, where I believe that the UB indicates this as “natural death”, although that would be assuming that everyone is to live life to a natural old age, where if this person were to retain that form of conscious realization in as noted, “(47:3.1) On the mansion worlds the resurrected mortal survivors resume their lives just where they left off when overtaken by death. [. . .]”, where it does not mention “natural death”, only “overtaken by death.” In that “overtaken” might refer to something different that “natural” – death.
Then there is your notation pointing to (49:6.7):
(49:6.7) Thus are the sleeping survivors of a planetary age repersonalized in the dispensational roll calls. But with regard to the nonsalvable personalities of a realm, no immortal spirit is present to function with the group guardians of destiny, and this constitutes cessation of creature existence. While some of your records have pictured these events as taking place on the planets of mortal death, they all really occur on the mansion worlds.
Really would not apply but, (49:6.9) would have more barring on the question.
(49:6.9)Throughout the earlier ages of an evolutionary world, few mortals go to judgment on the third day. But as the ages pass, more and more the personal guardians of destiny are assigned to the advancing mortals, and thus increasing numbers of these evolving creatures are repersonalized on the first mansion world on the third day after natural death. On such occasions the return of the Adjuster signalizes the awakening of the human soul, and this is the repersonalization of the dead just as literally as when the en masse roll is called at the end of a dispensation on the evolutionary worlds.
However, in the UB quote in between these two previous quotes, (49:6.8), it implied that only those mortals, who have a “personal guardian” assigned, would proceed to a mansion world. But, in many of these quotes, presented, the interim position of “Sleeping Survivors”, is between the death of “Planetary Mortals”, which would indicate a period of time, between the next stage of “Mansion World Students.” As per the following:
(340.3) 30:4.1 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:
(340.4) 30:4.2 1. Planetary Mortals.
(340.5) 30:4.3 2. Sleeping Survivors.
(340.6) 30:4.4 3. Mansion World Students.
(340.7) 30:4.5 4. Morontia Progressors.
(340.8) 30:4.6 5. Superuniverse Wards.
(340.9) 30:4.7 6. Havona Pilgrims.
(340.10) 30:4.8 7. Paradise Arrivals.
Where if there is any length of time, while in the “sleeping survivor” phase, of the progression, how would a persons consciousness relate to being able to “resume their lives”, especially if they were old and feeble, regardless of any assignment to another physically presumed form, which would be a seraphic host?
There are many references to mortals but, non that I am aware of, which combines the death from being a mortal in the flesh, without there being some other transformation. Therefore, it is assumed that when we die as mortals of the flesh, that there are several possibilities as to what may transition?
