1. Morontia Materials

Morontia life has been known on Urantia since the days of the Planetary Prince, and the concept, in distorted form, is evident in present-day religions. The Apostle Paul learned of the existence of the morontia worlds and morontia materials, for he wrote, “They have in heaven a better and more enduring substance” (Hebrews 10:34).

In our local system of Satania, there are 56 morontia worlds. The constellations and the local universe also have morontia worlds, but only the seven worlds surrounding the finaliters’ sphere in a local system are called mansion worlds (see Paper 47).

The morontia worlds are architectural spheres, and each has double the number of elements found on the inhabited planets, including 100 physical elements as well as 100 forms of energy organization called morontia material, which is a creation of Master Physical Controllers and Morontia Power Supervisors.

The early morontia life in local systems is very much like that of our present material world, becoming less physical and more morontial as we ascend. Overall, the Morontia Power Supervisors will provide us with 570 morontia bodies, one for each phase of our progressive transformation, and as we advance to the spiritual level, the Thought Adjuster becomes truly integrated with our personalities.

2. Morontia Power Supervisors

Morontia Power Supervisors are the offspring of a local universe Mother Spirit and are concerned exclusively with the activities of spiritual and physical, or semi-material, energies of morontia progression. They make possible the transition environment for progressing morontia creatures (see also Paper 29). The first group of one thousand are produced when the first mortal survivor arrives on the first mansion worlds of a local universe.

These beings are classified in seven groups with various tasks, each relating to the coordination and regulation of physical, spiritual, and morontial energies. (See 48:2.13 - 48:2.26 for an expanded description of the work performed by these seven groups.)  As we progress from one morontia world to another, we must be “re-keyed,” and each change results in altered reactions to the morontia environment, including food requirements. The Power Supervisors convert morontia energy into morontia material and make the necessary changes required for us to proceed to the next morontia sphere. 

3. Morontia Companions

Morontia Companions are the offspring of a local universe Mother Spirit and are created in groups of one hundred thousand. They are trained by Melchizedeks and serve from the lowest mansion worlds of the systems to the highest study spheres of Salvington, but are seldom encountered on the inhabited worlds.

The Morontia Companions maintain headquarters on each of the first mansion worlds of the local systems. In general, they are an intelligent and loyal group, although thousands were lost during the Lucifer rebellion. Since then, however, Satania has attained its full quota of companions.

There are two distinct types of companions; one aggressive, the other retiring, but otherwise they are equal in status. They are affectionate and charming social beings with distinct personalities and are close to the human races—the midwayers are your nearest of kin, then the cherubim and, after them, the Morontia Companions. 

Some roles of Morontia Companions include being social companions to all morontia ascenders, instructing ascenders in social conduct and morontia progress, and acting as interpreters and translators. They also entertain student visitors and other celestials who visit the transition worlds, and they supervise all individual and group tours to the system worlds.

Overall, the companions are supreme in the management of morontia affairs. They were created for this work and, pending the factualization of the Supreme Being, they will always remain Morontia Companions.

As systems and universes become settled in light and life, the Morontia Companions are destined to function increasingly in association with the finaliters and in numerous other realms not presently revealed on Urantia.

4. The Reversion Directors

There is a morontial and a spiritual equivalent of relaxation and humor. While both are quite different from their human analogues, they accomplish much the same thing. The ascendant life is about equally divided between work and play. The Morontia Companions, supported by the reversion directors, are skillful play sponsors.

Unlike some humor on Urantia, spirit jest is never tinged with the misfortunes of the weak and erring. Neither is it blasphemous of the righteousness and glory of divinity. Instead, it derives humor from our past episodes and discovering the unimportance of our anxieties. We also find that humor comes from our faith in the loving overcare and stability of our Supreme administrators.

The directors are a recruited corps embracing beings from Havona to the evolutionary worlds. All are volunteers working to achieve thought change and mind rest, for such attitudes are helpful to recuperate depleted energies.

Early experiences 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. Celestial humor helps to avoid an overdevelopment of one’s self-importance. Humor is the divine antidote for exaltation of ego. Humor also functions as an automatic safety valve in the intense struggle for developmental progress. The higher the mortal species, the greater the stress and the greater the capacity for humor as well as the necessity for it.

The humor of Urantia serves a valuable purpose as health insurance, preventing injurious nervous tension and overserious self-contemplation. It is the recalling of our past experiences that provides the basis for diversion and amusement, while our Adjusters contribute the overtones of divinity to these joyous expressions.

5. The Mansion World Teachers

Mansion World Teachers are drawn from the corps of glorified cherubim and sanobim, an angelic order of ministering spirits of the grand universe. These beings serve as lieutenants to seraphim, the guardians of destiny of mortal ascenders. After the days of a mortal's existence, when the mortal begins the ascendant career accompanied by a personal or group seraphim, cherubim and sanobim are no longer needed as assistants to the ministering seraphim and often go forth to the system training spheres as Mansion World Teachers. They may even return to their former associative work with the ministering seraphim.

These advanced cherubim usually work in pairs as they did when attached to the seraphim. They are sympathetic and efficient teachers of ascending mortals and are very near the morontia type of existence.

Mansion World Teachers engage in individual, group, class, and mass teaching. Their schools are organized in three groups: the schools of thinking, feeling, and doing. When we reach the constellation, there are the schools of ethics, administration, and social adjustment. And on the local universe worlds, we enter the schools of philosophy, divinity, and pure spirituality.

Those things which you might have learned on earth, but which you failed to learn, must be acquired under the tutelage of these teachers. One purpose of the morontia career is to eradicate animal vestigial traits. There are no short cuts or easy paths to Paradise. 

Mansion World Teachers advance through the educational spheres of the systems to the constellations and up to the training worlds of Salvington. They are practical and sympathetic teachers, wise and understanding instructors, and able and efficient guides who are entirely familiar with the ascendant plans and thoroughly experienced in the initial phases of the progression career.

Many of those who have long served on the worlds of the Salvington circuit, are re-embraced by the Universe Mother Spirit, emerging with the status of seraphim.

6. Morontia World Seraphim—Transition Ministers

While all orders of angels minister on the morontia worlds, the transition ministers are more exclusively assigned to these activities. These angels are of the sixth order of seraphic servers (see Paper 39) and are devoted to the transit of mortal creatures from the life in the flesh to the early stages of morontia existence. But you will not be conscious of these seraphim until you attain the mansion worlds.

The morontia life is really initiated at the conception of the soul on earth, and from that moment on, the soul has the potential capacity for supermortal function.

There are seven divisions of these angels:

The transition ministers will help you to deal with disappointments, to suffer less through sorrow and disappointment, and to not take yourself too seriously. Nothing equals the importance of the work of the world in which you are actually living. But although the work is important, the self is not. It is the self element that exhausts—not the effort to achieve.

7. Morontia Mota

The lower planes of morontia mota join directly with the higher levels of human philosophy. On the first mansion world, it is the practice to teach the less advanced students by the parallel technique in which one column lists simple concepts of mota meanings while the opposite column lists analogous statements of human philosophy.

To illustrate this technique, this section lists twenty-eight statements of human philosophy (but not concepts of mota) which are designed to assist new mansion world students in their early efforts to grasp the significance and meaning of mota. To read all of these examples see 48:7.3 - 48:7.31.  A few of them are:

• Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.

• Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort.

• The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day’s work—do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God’s.

8. The Morontia Progressors

Morontia progressors are those who have graduated from the mansion worlds but have not yet attained spirit status. There is a definite and divine purpose in this scheme of mortal training and progression—it allows ascenders a graduated opportunity to master the operation and administration of the grand universe by participating in every step of the ascent.  

In your ascent to paradise, you will actually live the very life of every possible phase and stage of perfected creature existence within the limits of the present universe age. 

The furtherance of the scheme of mortal progression seems to be one of the chief businesses of the present organized universe, and the majority of created intelligences are either directly or indirectly engaged in advancing some phase of this progressive perfection plan.

Prepared by: Mark Blackham