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On the Meaning of Death
“Death is only the beginning of an endless career of adventure, an everlasting life of anticipation, an eternal voyage of discovery.” — Paper 14:5.10
“What you fail to attain in the lifetime of the flesh you will continue to pursue through the long, long ages ahead.” — Paper 47:2.8
“God’s sons have nothing to dread in death. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-ordered, understanding effort to transcend the boundaries of self-consciousness.” — Paper 112:7.13
“Death adds nothing to the intellectual possession or to the spiritual endowment, but it does add to the experiential status the consciousness of survival.” — Paper 47:3.7
“The mortal transit from this life to the next — the fusion of the immortal soul with the divine Adjuster — represents the authentic transfer from one universe condition to another.” — Paper 112:7.6
On Survival After Death
“The mortal career, the soul’s evolution, is not so much a probation as an education.” — Paper 112:5.9
“Eternal survival of personality is wholly dependent on the choosing of the mortal mind, whose decisions determine the survival potential of the immortal soul.” — Paper 112:5.5
“If there ever is a doubt as to the advisability of advancing a human identity to the mansion worlds, the universe governments invariably rule in the personal interests of that individual.” — Paper 112:5.7
“When the more spiritually and cosmically advanced mortals of the evolutionary worlds die, they proceed immediately to the mansion worlds.” — Paper 49:6.9
“There is something real, something of human evolution, something additional to the Mystery Monitor, which survives death. This newly appearing entity is the soul, and it survives the death of both your physical body and your material mind.” — Paper 112:5.12
On the Mansion Worlds
“The mansion world teachers begin to assist you in making the best use of your new morontia body.” — Paper 47:3.1
“On the mansion worlds the resurrected mortal survivors resume their lives just where they left off when overtaken by death.” — Paper 47:3.7
“The deficiency ministry of the mansion worlds is there to ensure that no survivor is deprived of aught that is essential to his ascension experience.” — Paper 47:3.8
“The mansion worlds are probationary spheres where the ascending mortals recover from the specific handicaps of their planetary existence.” — Paper 47:3.2
“Before leaving the mansion worlds, all survivors will have a fully matured morontia form, perfect in its adaptation to the next phase of the ascending life.” — Paper 47:8.6
On Eternal Life
“In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortal death. The technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby the God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught.” — Paper 1:3.7
“The goals of eternity are ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you!” — Paper 32:5.8
“Throughout all eternity you will be looking back on this sphere of mortal nativity as the place where life started, where you and your divine Adjuster first joined in partnership.” — Paper 47:10.2
“Time is the moving image of eternity, and life is an adventure to be lived, a gift from the Creator to the creature.” — Paper 32:5.1
“And this is the long trail to Paradise, but it is a trail that you can travel; it is a trail that you will travel if you so choose.” — Paper 34:6.9
Related Entities
Mansion Worlds
The seven transitional spheres where mortal survivors begin their ascension career after death.
Thought Adjusters
The divine fragments that preserve the soul’s identity through the transition of death.
Seraphim
The guardian angels who safeguard mortal identity and escort survivors to the mansion worlds.