LESSON 7: The Other Mansion Worlds

Explain how they mirror the 7 Psychic circles.

The 7 Mansion Worlds

They are the 7 worlds of corrective training and cultural education that introduce the transition which intervenes between material existence and spirit attainment.

LESSON 6 covered Mansonia #1 and it's major function as the primary resurrection center. Now let's take a look at the other 6 mansion worlds.

Mansonia #2 — The second Heaven

When you attain the second mansion world you will receive a new body; working groups and social organizations are formed, communities take on formal proportions. Here the removal of all phases of intellectual conflict and mental disharmony occurs. The physical aspects of this second world are more beautiful than those of the first world. Here the sea of glass, a broadcast receiving and transport receiving/dispatching area, is first encountered. Similar areas are associated with the following higher spheres.

You learn to live with Spirit-fused ascenders.
Social organization and community life progresses.
You continue to eat, drink, and sleep. There is no residual waste.
The chief business on this sphere is to get rid of intellectual conflicts and mental disharmony.
You begin to master morontia mota.
You get the harps of God.

Mansonia #3 — The third Heaven

Upon admission to the third mansion world you receive a new body. There you can visit the headquarters of the angelic orders and the home of their various training schools since you’ll have already begun to see and recognize them. This is the world of great personal and social achievement for all who have not made the
equivalent of these cultural achievements during their mortal life. More positive educational work is begun where in the previous two worlds the training was mostly of a deficiency nature, here you really begin to become part of the new culture. This is the real introduction to the intelligent comprehension of cosmic meanings and universe interrelationships. The physical aspects of this world are more beautiful than those of the previous two.

This is the headquarters of Mansion World Teachers—they go with you to the morontia finish.
On each mansion world you get permission to visit the corresponding satellite.
Visits to Jerusem continue.
More positive work begins. The first two worlds were largely negative — making up shortcomings.
If not attained before, the seven psychic circles are usually completed on this sphere.
Special work is done in the correalation of morontia mota and mortal logic.
One of the chief studies has to do with cosmic meanings and universe inter-relationships.

Mansonia #4 — The fourth Heaven

By the time you attain the fourth mansion world you are a long way from the initial material existence; you again receive a new body. Here you more fittingly find your place in the group, working, and class functions of this life, developing increased appreciation of the universe broadcasts and other phases of local universe culture and progress as you are being introduced to the demands and delights of the true social life of this new existence. A new social order is imparted, one based on the understanding sympathy of mutual appreciation, the unselfish love of mutual service, and the overmastering motivation of the realization of our common and supreme destiny. You are becoming self-conscious of God-knowing, God-revealing, God-seeking, and God-finding. Here, on this world more beautiful than the initial three, you will master the local universe language.

You get acquainted with the Brilliant Evening Stars and other superangels.
On Jerusem visits you learn more about the Sons of God.
There are more group projects.
You learn more from the universe broadcasts.
You are introduced to the demands and delights of true morontia social life.
A new social culture is based not on personal aggrandizement, but on:
a. Understanding sympathy of mutual appreciation.
b. Unselfish love of mutual service.
c. Realization of supreme destiny.
You become self-conscious of God-knowing, God-revealing, God-seeking, and God-finding.

Mansonia #5 — The fifth Heaven

Achieving the fifth mansion world again you receive a new body. You will begin perfecting the language of the system, becoming bilingual in the system and universe languages. You meet and participate in preparatory education for existence at the next higher levels. A real birth of cosmic consciousness occurs — you are becoming universe minded where it begins to dawn upon you that some stupendous and magnificent, some supernal and divine destiny awaits those who so laboriously but so joyfully and auspiciously participate. Study is becoming voluntary, unselfish service natural, and worship spontaneous. This world is even more beautiful than those before it.

There is a great advance in spiritual culture — a foretaste of Jerusem life.
The Uversa tongue is mastered.
There is a foretaste of the constellation study worlds.
The real birth of cosmic consciousness occurs. Horizons are extended.
Real enthusiasm for the Havona ascent is born.
Study becomes voluntary.
Worship is spontaneous.
A real morontia character is budding.

Mansonia #6 — The sixth Heaven

When you arrive at the sixth mansion world you will receive a new body — you still eat, drink, and rest. Initial instruction is here begun in the technique of universe administration. Lessons embracing the affairs of a whole universe are now imparted. Often at this point the divine spark of God (Thought Adjuster) which has accompanied you since the birth of your soul on Earth becomes an integral part of your personality (fusion) at which time you receive a new name signifying this union. You are still more or less a material being, still far from being a true spirit, still a little lower than the angels. The organization of society on this world is of a high order. The shadow of the mortal nature grows less and less. Your personality is becoming more and more spiritually appealing as you leave behind the vestiges of planetary animal origin. You are becoming more kind and understanding, more sympathetic and tolerant. This is the most beautiful world you have yet to reside on.

First lessons in the forthcoming spirit career take place.
You are introduced to universe administration.
Normally the perfect fusion of human mind and the divine Adjuster occurs here — actual working identity. (Fusion may have occurred previously.)
The archangel pronounces: “This is a beloved son in whom I am well pleased.”
Conferring of the ascender’s new name is followed by the 40 days of spiritual retirement.
You are divested of the coarse vestiges of animal origin.

Mansonia #7 — The seventh Heaven

The seventh mansion world is the most beautiful of the seven and once more you will receive a new body. You will be instructed by many teachers, preparing you for residence on the local system capital world (Jerusem). Here you are purged of any remnants of unfortunate mortal heredity, unwholesome environment, or unspiritual tendencies. You begin a new and more spiritual worship of the unseen Father, a habit you will increasingly pursue all the way up through the long ascending career before you. Now begins the formation of classes for graduation to the local system capital world of which these seven mansion worlds have been but satellites. You have gone from world to world as an individual, but now you prepare to depart for the capital in groups, bidding an eternal farewell to the whole previous career as an ascending mortal as you now become a system capital citizen.

Preparation begins for residence on Jerusem.
The purpose of the early morontia training is to eradicate vestigial animal tendencies, such as:
a. Procrastination.
b. Equivocation.
c. Insincerity.
d. Problem avoidance.
e. Unfairness.
f. Ease seeking.
Signs of differential origins are obliterated.
You are purged of all remnants of:
a. Unfortunate heredity.
b. Unwholesome environment.
c. Unspiritual tendencies.
The “mark of the beast” is eradicated.
You visit the world of the Father and attain new levels of worship.
Classes form for graduation to Jerusem.
Graduating classes depart from the sea of glass, with residential status.

Upon leaving the seventh world as a new class of graduates for citizenship on the system capital world the body you receive will, with periodic modification, see you through to the end of the local universe experience. You will experience a total of 570 changes as you progress through the local universe, but you will essentially retain this form until you bid it farewell when you emerge as a first-stage spirit-being in preparation for transit to the superuniverse worlds. At this point the adventure of true spirit progression has really just begun. The Local Universe administers 10,000,000 inhabited planets; the Superuniverse administers ten trillion inhabited worlds. There are seven Superuniverses in creation. God loves each individual as an individual child.

The concepts of the mansion worlds presented above were first introduced to humanity over 500,000 years ago and though confused and misunderstood they led not only to our present ethereal concepts of heaven but also to the ancient and now pervasive theory of reincarnation. What you’ve read here may sound far-fetched, science fictiony and outlandish since it’s not fully depicted anywhere but in this little known book. Why give
credibility to The Urantia Book? There are, after all, other descriptions of the afterlife such as the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Egyptian Book of the Dead, purgatory, and other notions about life continuing once life here is over and these notions are quite unlike what The Urantia Book teaches. The authenticity of the Urantia revelation is something every reader must judge for themselves by taking the time to read the book. For the reader of The Urantia Book the detailed cosmology can be proven to be scientifically and historically sound, it is philosophically consistent, it strikes the chords of spiritual truth.

Jesus’ resurrection and ascendance gives confirmation that death is not the end, that there is more than just what this life encompasses.