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| − | '''Reversion Directors''' are the promoters of [[relaxation]] and [[humor]] — reversion to [[past]] [[memories]]. They are of great [[service]] in the [[practical]] operation of the [[ascending scheme]] of [[mortal]] [[progression]], especially during the earlier [[phases]] of [[morontia]] transition and [[spirit]] [[experience]]. They maintain a [[group]] [[headquarters]] on each of the [[mansion worlds]]. They are not a created group, but are a recruited corps embracing beings ranging from the Havona natives down through the messenger hosts of space and the ministering spirits of time to the morontia progressors from the evolutionary worlds. All are [[volunteers]], giving themselves to the [[work]] of assisting their fellows in the achievement of [[thought]] [[change]] and [[mind]] rest, for such [[attitudes]] are most helpful in recuperating depleted [[energies]]. When partially exhausted by the [[efforts]] of [[attainment]], and while awaiting the [[reception]] of new [[energy]] charges, there is agreeable [[pleasure]] in living over again the enactments of [[Past|other days and ages]]. The early [[experiences]] of the [[race]] or the order are restful to [[reminisce]]. And that is exactly why these artists are called ''reversion directors'' — they [[assist]] in reverting the [[memory]] to a former [[state]] of [[development]] or to a less experienced [[status]] of [[being]].
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| − | While [[celestial]] [[relaxation]] and superhuman [[humor]] are quite [[different]] from their [[human]] analogues, [[morontia]] [[culture]] indulges in a [[form]] of both; and the reversion directors really accomplish in the [[morontia]] state what ideal humor is able to do for [[human being]]s on [[Urantia]]. The [[work]] of the reversion directors is best [[understood]] by way of [[reference]] to the higher types of humorists on [[Urantia]], though this is an exceedingly crude and unfortunate way in which to try to convey an [[idea]] of the [[function]] of these directors of change and [[relaxation]], these ministers of the exalted [[humor]] of the [[morontia]] and spirit realms. But they are not concerned exclusively with depicting the high [[humor]] of the various orders of [[intelligent]] beings; they are also occupied with the [[leadership]] of diversion, [[spiritual]] [[recreation]] and [[morontia]] [[entertainment]].
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| − | ==Spirit Humor==
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| − | In discussing [[spirit]] humor, first let me tell you what it is not. Spirit jest is never tinged with the accentuation of the misfortunes of the weak and erring. Neither is it ever [[blasphemous]] of the [[righteousness]] and [[glory]] of [[divinity]]. Our humor [[embraces]] three general [[levels]] of [[appreciation]]:
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| − | * ''Reminiscent jests''. Quips [[growing]] out of the [[memories]] of [[past]] [[episodes]] in one's [[experience]] of combat, [[struggle]], and sometimes [[fearfulness]], and ofttimes foolish and childish [[anxiety]]. To us, this [[phase]] of humor derives from the deep-seated and abiding [[ability]] to draw upon the [[past]] for [[memory]] [[material]] with which [[pleasantly]] to flavor and otherwise lighten the heavy loads of the [[present]].
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| − | * ''Current humor''. The senselessness of much that so often causes us serious concern, the [[joy]] at [[discovering]] the unimportance of much of our serious [[personal]] [[anxiety]]. We are most [[appreciative]] of this phase of humor when we are best able to discount the anxieties of the [[present]] in favor of the [[certainties]] of the [[future]].
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| − | * ''Prophetic joy''. It will perhaps be [[difficult]] for [[mortals]] to envisage this [[phase]] of humor, but we do get a peculiar [[satisfaction]] out of the [[assurance]] "that all things work together for good"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_VIII]—for [[spirits]] and [[morontia]]ns as well as for [[mortals]]. This aspect of [[celestial]] humor grows out of our [[faith]] in the [[loving]] overcare of our superiors and in the [[divine]] [[stability]] of our [[Supreme Directors]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:4._THE_REVERSION_DIRECTORS]
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