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55:2.1 [[Natural]], [[physical]] [[death]] is not a [[mortal]] [[inevitability]]. The [[majority]] of advanced [[evolutionary]] [[beings]], [[citizens]] on worlds existing in the final era of [[light and life]], do not die; they are [[translated]] directly from the life in the [[flesh]] to the [[morontia]] [[existence]].
55:2.2 This [[experience]] of [[translation]] from the [[material]] life to the [[morontia]] [[state]]— [[fusion]] of the [[immortal]] [[soul]] with the indwelling [[Adjuster]]—increases in [[frequency]] commensurate with the [[evolutionary]] [[progress]] of the [[planet]]. At first only a few [[mortals]] in each [[age]] [[attain]] [[translation]] [[levels]] of [[spiritual]] [[progress]], but with the onset of the [[successive]] ages of the [[Teacher Sons]], more and more [[Adjuster]] [[fusions]] occur before the termination of the lengthening lives of these [[progressing]] [[mortals]]; and by the [[time]] of the terminal mission of the [[Teacher Sons]], approximately one quarter of these superb [[mortals]] are exempt from [[natural]] [[death]].
55:2.3 Farther along in the era of [[light and life]] the [[midway creatures]] or their [[associates]] sense the approaching [[status]] of probable [[soul]]-[[Adjuster]] [[union]] and signify this to the [[destiny guardians]], who in turn [[communicate]] these matters to the [[finaliter]] [[group]] under whose [[jurisdiction]] this [[mortal]] may be [[functioning]]; then there is issued the summons of the [[Planetary Sovereign]] for such a [[mortal]] to resign all [[planetary]] [[duties]], bid [[farewell]] to the world of his [[origin]], and repair to the inner [[temple]] of the Planetary Sovereign, there to await [[morontia]] [[transit]], the [[translation]] flash, from the [[material]] [[domain]] of [[evolution]] to the [[morontia]] level of prespirit [[progression]].
55:2.4 When the [[family]], [[friends]], and working [[group]] of such a [[fusion]] [[candidate]] have forgathered in the [[morontia temple]], they are [[distributed]] around the central stage whereon the [[fusion]] [[candidates]] are resting, meantime freely [[conversing]] with their assembled [[friends]]. A [[circle]] of [[intervening]] [[celestial]] [[personalities]] is arranged to protect the [[material]] [[mortals]] from the [[action]] of the [[energies]] [[manifest]] at the instant of the "life flash" which delivers the [[ascension]] [[candidate]] from the bonds of [[material]] [[flesh]], thereby doing for such an [[evolutionary]] [[mortal]] everything that [[natural]] [[death]] does for those who are thereby delivered from the [[flesh]].
55:2.5 Many [[fusion]] [[candidates]] may be assembled in the spacious [[temple]] at the [[same time]]. And what a [[beautiful]] occasion when [[mortals]] thus forgather to [[witness]] the [[ascension]] of their loved ones in [[spiritual]] [[flames]], and what a [[contrast]] to those earlier ages when [[mortals]] must commit their dead to the [[embrace]] of the [[terrestrial]] elements! The scenes of weeping and wailing characteristic of earlier [[epochs]] of [[human]] [[evolution]] are now replaced by [[ecstatic]] [[joy]] and the [[sublimest]] [[enthusiasm]] as these [[God]]-[[knowing]] [[mortals]] bid their loved ones a transient [[farewell]] as they are removed from their [[material]] [[associations]] by the [[spiritual]] [[fires]] of consuming grandeur and [[ascending]] [[glory]]. On worlds settled in [[light and life]], "funerals" are occasions of supreme [[joy]], [[profound]] [[satisfaction]], and inexpressible [[hope]].
55:2.6 The [[souls]] of these [[progressing]] [[mortals]] are increasingly filled with [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[assurance]]. The [[spirit]] permeating those gathered around the [[translation]] [[shrine]] resembles that of the [[joyful]] [[friends]] and relatives who might assemble at a [[graduating]] exercise for one of their [[group]], or who might come [[together]] to [[witness]] the conferring of some great [[honor]] upon one of their number. And it would be decidedly helpful if less advanced [[mortals]] could only learn to view [[natural]] [[death]] with something of this same cheerfulness and lightheartedness.
55:2.7 [[Mortal]] [[observers]] can see nothing of their [[translated]] [[associates]] subsequent to the [[fusion]] flash. Such [[translated]] [[souls]] proceed by [[Adjuster]] [[transit]] direct to the [[resurrection]] hall of the appropriate [[morontia]]-[[training]] world. These [[transactions]] concerned with the [[translation]] of living [[human]] [[beings]] to the [[morontia]] world are supervised by an [[archangel]] who was assigned to such a world on the day when it was first settled in [[light and life]].
55:2.8 By the time a world attains the fourth [[stage]] of [[light and life]], more than half the [[mortals]] leave the [[planet]] by [[translation]] from among the living. Such diminishment of [[death]] continues on and on, but I know of no [[the System|system]] whose [[inhabited worlds]], even though long settled in life, are entirely [[free]] from [[natural]] [[death]] as the [[technique]] of [[escape]] from the bonds of [[flesh]]. And until such a high [[state]] of [[planetary]] [[evolution]] is [[uniformly]] [[attained]], the [[morontia]]-[[training]] worlds of the [[local universe]] must [[continue]] in [[service]] as [[educational]] and [[cultural]] [[spheres]] for the evolving [[morontia]] progressors. The elimination of [[death]] is theoretically possible, but it has not yet occurred according to my [[observation]]. Perhaps such a [[status]] may be [[attained]] during the faraway stretches of the succeeding [[epochs]] of the seventh [[stage]] of settled [[planetary]] life.
55:2.9 The [[translated]] [[souls]] of the flowering ages of the settled [[spheres]] do not pass through the [[mansion worlds]]. Neither do they [[sojourn]], as [[students]], on the [[morontia]] worlds of [[the system]] or [[constellation]]. They do not pass through any of the earlier [[phases]] of [[morontia]] life. They are the only [[ascending]] [[mortals]] who so nearly [[escape]] the [[morontia]] [[transition]] from [[material]] [[existence]] to semispirit status. The initial [[experience]] of such Son-seized [[mortals]] in the [[ascension career]] is in the [[services]] of the [[progression]] worlds of the [[universe]] [[headquarters]]. And from these [[study]] worlds of [[Salvington]] they go back as [[teachers]] to the very worlds they passed by, subsequently going on inward to [[Paradise]] by the [[established]] route of [[mortal]] [[ascension]].
55:2.10 Could you but [[visit]] a [[planet]] in an advanced stage of [[development]], you would quickly grasp the reasons for providing for the [[differential]] [[reception]] of [[ascending mortals]] on the [[Mansion Worlds|mansion]] and higher [[morontia]] worlds. You would readily [[understand]] that [[beings]] passing on from such highly evolved [[spheres]] are [[prepared]] to resume their [[Paradise]] [[ascent]] far in advance of the [[average]] [[mortal]] arriving from a disordered and backward world like [[Urantia]].
55:2.11 No matter from what [[level]] of [[planetary]] [[attainment]] [[human beings]] may [[ascend]] to the [[morontia]] worlds, the [[seven]] [[mansion spheres]] afford them ample [[opportunity]] to gain in [[experience]] as teacher-students all of [[everything]] which they failed to pass through because of the advanced [[status]] of their [[native]] [[planets]].
55:2.12 The [[universe]] is unfailing in the [[application]] of these [[equalizing]] [[techniques]] [[designed]] to insure that no [[ascender]] shall be deprived of aught which is [[essential]] to his [[ascension]] [[experience]].
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55:2.1 [[Natural]], [[physical]] [[death]] is not a [[mortal]] [[inevitability]]. The [[majority]] of advanced [[evolutionary]] [[beings]], [[citizens]] on worlds existing in the final era of [[light and life]], do not die; they are [[translated]] directly from the life in the [[flesh]] to the [[morontia]] [[existence]].
55:2.2 This [[experience]] of [[translation]] from the [[material]] life to the [[morontia]] [[state]]— [[fusion]] of the [[immortal]] [[soul]] with the indwelling [[Adjuster]]—increases in [[frequency]] commensurate with the [[evolutionary]] [[progress]] of the [[planet]]. At first only a few [[mortals]] in each [[age]] [[attain]] [[translation]] [[levels]] of [[spiritual]] [[progress]], but with the onset of the [[successive]] ages of the [[Teacher Sons]], more and more [[Adjuster]] [[fusions]] occur before the termination of the lengthening lives of these [[progressing]] [[mortals]]; and by the [[time]] of the terminal mission of the [[Teacher Sons]], approximately one quarter of these superb [[mortals]] are exempt from [[natural]] [[death]].
55:2.3 Farther along in the era of [[light and life]] the [[midway creatures]] or their [[associates]] sense the approaching [[status]] of probable [[soul]]-[[Adjuster]] [[union]] and signify this to the [[destiny guardians]], who in turn [[communicate]] these matters to the [[finaliter]] [[group]] under whose [[jurisdiction]] this [[mortal]] may be [[functioning]]; then there is issued the summons of the [[Planetary Sovereign]] for such a [[mortal]] to resign all [[planetary]] [[duties]], bid [[farewell]] to the world of his [[origin]], and repair to the inner [[temple]] of the Planetary Sovereign, there to await [[morontia]] [[transit]], the [[translation]] flash, from the [[material]] [[domain]] of [[evolution]] to the [[morontia]] level of prespirit [[progression]].
55:2.4 When the [[family]], [[friends]], and working [[group]] of such a [[fusion]] [[candidate]] have forgathered in the [[morontia temple]], they are [[distributed]] around the central stage whereon the [[fusion]] [[candidates]] are resting, meantime freely [[conversing]] with their assembled [[friends]]. A [[circle]] of [[intervening]] [[celestial]] [[personalities]] is arranged to protect the [[material]] [[mortals]] from the [[action]] of the [[energies]] [[manifest]] at the instant of the "life flash" which delivers the [[ascension]] [[candidate]] from the bonds of [[material]] [[flesh]], thereby doing for such an [[evolutionary]] [[mortal]] everything that [[natural]] [[death]] does for those who are thereby delivered from the [[flesh]].
55:2.5 Many [[fusion]] [[candidates]] may be assembled in the spacious [[temple]] at the [[same time]]. And what a [[beautiful]] occasion when [[mortals]] thus forgather to [[witness]] the [[ascension]] of their loved ones in [[spiritual]] [[flames]], and what a [[contrast]] to those earlier ages when [[mortals]] must commit their dead to the [[embrace]] of the [[terrestrial]] elements! The scenes of weeping and wailing characteristic of earlier [[epochs]] of [[human]] [[evolution]] are now replaced by [[ecstatic]] [[joy]] and the [[sublimest]] [[enthusiasm]] as these [[God]]-[[knowing]] [[mortals]] bid their loved ones a transient [[farewell]] as they are removed from their [[material]] [[associations]] by the [[spiritual]] [[fires]] of consuming grandeur and [[ascending]] [[glory]]. On worlds settled in [[light and life]], "funerals" are occasions of supreme [[joy]], [[profound]] [[satisfaction]], and inexpressible [[hope]].
55:2.6 The [[souls]] of these [[progressing]] [[mortals]] are increasingly filled with [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[assurance]]. The [[spirit]] permeating those gathered around the [[translation]] [[shrine]] resembles that of the [[joyful]] [[friends]] and relatives who might assemble at a [[graduating]] exercise for one of their [[group]], or who might come [[together]] to [[witness]] the conferring of some great [[honor]] upon one of their number. And it would be decidedly helpful if less advanced [[mortals]] could only learn to view [[natural]] [[death]] with something of this same cheerfulness and lightheartedness.
55:2.7 [[Mortal]] [[observers]] can see nothing of their [[translated]] [[associates]] subsequent to the [[fusion]] flash. Such [[translated]] [[souls]] proceed by [[Adjuster]] [[transit]] direct to the [[resurrection]] hall of the appropriate [[morontia]]-[[training]] world. These [[transactions]] concerned with the [[translation]] of living [[human]] [[beings]] to the [[morontia]] world are supervised by an [[archangel]] who was assigned to such a world on the day when it was first settled in [[light and life]].
55:2.8 By the time a world attains the fourth [[stage]] of [[light and life]], more than half the [[mortals]] leave the [[planet]] by [[translation]] from among the living. Such diminishment of [[death]] continues on and on, but I know of no [[the System|system]] whose [[inhabited worlds]], even though long settled in life, are entirely [[free]] from [[natural]] [[death]] as the [[technique]] of [[escape]] from the bonds of [[flesh]]. And until such a high [[state]] of [[planetary]] [[evolution]] is [[uniformly]] [[attained]], the [[morontia]]-[[training]] worlds of the [[local universe]] must [[continue]] in [[service]] as [[educational]] and [[cultural]] [[spheres]] for the evolving [[morontia]] progressors. The elimination of [[death]] is theoretically possible, but it has not yet occurred according to my [[observation]]. Perhaps such a [[status]] may be [[attained]] during the faraway stretches of the succeeding [[epochs]] of the seventh [[stage]] of settled [[planetary]] life.
55:2.9 The [[translated]] [[souls]] of the flowering ages of the settled [[spheres]] do not pass through the [[mansion worlds]]. Neither do they [[sojourn]], as [[students]], on the [[morontia]] worlds of [[the system]] or [[constellation]]. They do not pass through any of the earlier [[phases]] of [[morontia]] life. They are the only [[ascending]] [[mortals]] who so nearly [[escape]] the [[morontia]] [[transition]] from [[material]] [[existence]] to semispirit status. The initial [[experience]] of such Son-seized [[mortals]] in the [[ascension career]] is in the [[services]] of the [[progression]] worlds of the [[universe]] [[headquarters]]. And from these [[study]] worlds of [[Salvington]] they go back as [[teachers]] to the very worlds they passed by, subsequently going on inward to [[Paradise]] by the [[established]] route of [[mortal]] [[ascension]].
55:2.10 Could you but [[visit]] a [[planet]] in an advanced stage of [[development]], you would quickly grasp the reasons for providing for the [[differential]] [[reception]] of [[ascending mortals]] on the [[Mansion Worlds|mansion]] and higher [[morontia]] worlds. You would readily [[understand]] that [[beings]] passing on from such highly evolved [[spheres]] are [[prepared]] to resume their [[Paradise]] [[ascent]] far in advance of the [[average]] [[mortal]] arriving from a disordered and backward world like [[Urantia]].
55:2.11 No matter from what [[level]] of [[planetary]] [[attainment]] [[human beings]] may [[ascend]] to the [[morontia]] worlds, the [[seven]] [[mansion spheres]] afford them ample [[opportunity]] to gain in [[experience]] as teacher-students all of [[everything]] which they failed to pass through because of the advanced [[status]] of their [[native]] [[planets]].
55:2.12 The [[universe]] is unfailing in the [[application]] of these [[equalizing]] [[techniques]] [[designed]] to insure that no [[ascender]] shall be deprived of aught which is [[essential]] to his [[ascension]] [[experience]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_55 Go to Paper 55]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 55 - The Spheres of Light and Life]]