P530:5, 47:1.1
Although only finaliters and certain groups of salvaged children and their
caretakers are resident on transitional world number one, provision is made
for the entertainment of all classes of spirit beings, transition mortals,
and student visitors. The spornagia, who function on all of these worlds,
are hospitable hosts to all beings whom they can recognize. They have a vague
feeling concerning the finaliters but cannot visualize them. They must regard
them much as you do the angels in your present physical state.
P530:6, 47:1.2
Though the finaliter world is a sphere of exquisite physical beauty and extraordinary
morontia embellishment, the great spirit abode located at the center of activities,
the temple of the finaliters, is not visible to the unaided material or early
morontia vision. But the energy transformers are able to visualize many of
these realities to ascending mortals, and from time to time they do thus function,
as on the occasions of the class assemblies of the mansion world students
on this cultural sphere.
P531:1, 47:1.3
All through the mansion world experience you are in a way spiritually aware
of the presence of your glorified brethren of Paradise attainment, but it
is very refreshing, now and then, actually to perceive them as they function
in their headquarters abodes. You will not spontaneously visualize finaliters
until you acquire true spirit vision.
P531:2, 47:1.4
On the first mansion world all survivors must pass the requirements of the
parental commission from their native planets. The present Urantia commission
consists of twelve parental couples, recently arrived, who have had mortal
experience in rearing three or more children to the
pubescent age. Service
on this commission is rotational and is for only ten years as a rule. All
who fail to satisfy these commissioners as to their parental experience must
further qualify by service in the homes of the Material Sons on Jerusem or
in part in the probationary nursery on the finaliters' world.
P531:3, 47:1.5
But irrespective of parental experience, mansion world parents who have growing
children in the probation nursery are given every opportunity to collaborate
with the morontia custodians of such children regarding their instruction
and training. These parents are permitted to journey there for visits as often
as four times a year. And it is one of the most touchingly beautiful scenes
of all the ascending career to observe the mansion world parents embrace their
material offspring on the occasions of their periodic pilgrimages to the finaliter
world. While one or both parents may leave a mansion world ahead of the child,
they are quite often contemporary for a season.
P531:4, 47:1.6
No ascending mortal can escape the experience of rearing children -- their
own or others -- either on the material worlds or subsequently on the finaliter
world or on Jerusem. Fathers must pass through this essential experience just
as certainly as mothers. It is an unfortunate and mistaken notion of modern
peoples on Urantia that child culture is largely the task of mothers. Children
need fathers as well as mothers, and fathers need this parental experience
as much as do mothers.