유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
48:0.1 (541.1)
THE Gods cannot—at least they do not—transform a creature of gross animal nature into a perfected spirit by some mysterious act of creative magic. When the Creators desire to produce perfect beings, they do so by direct and original creation, but they never undertake to convert animal-origin and material creatures into beings of perfection in a single step.
48:0.2 (541.2)
The morontia life, extending as it does over the various stages of the local universe career, is the only possible approach whereby material mortals could attain the threshold of the spirit world. What magic could death, the natural dissolution of the material body, hold that such a simple step should instantly transform the mortal and material mind into an immortal and perfected spirit? Such beliefs are but ignorant superstitions and pleasing fables.
48:0.3 (541.3)
Always this morontia transition intervenes between the mortal estate and the subsequent spirit status of surviving human beings. This intermediate state of universe progress differs markedly in the various local creations, but in intent and purpose they are all quite similar. The arrangement of the mansion and higher morontia worlds in Nebadon is fairly typical of the morontia transition regimes in this part of Orvonton.
48:1.1 (541.4)
The morontia realms are the local universe liaison spheres between the material and spiritual levels of creature existence. This morontia life has been known on Urantia since the early days of the Planetary Prince. From time to time this transition state has been taught to mortals, and the concept, in distorted form, has found a place in present-day religions.
48:1.2 (541.5)
The morontia spheres are the transition phases of mortal ascension through the progression worlds of the local universe. Only the seven worlds surrounding the finaliters’ sphere of the local systems are called mansion worlds, but all fifty-six of the system transition abodes, in common with the higher spheres around the constellations and the universe headquarters, are called morontia worlds. These creations partake of the physical beauty and the morontia grandeur of the local universe headquarters spheres.
48:1.3 (541.6)
All of these worlds are architectural spheres, and they have just double the number of elements of the evolved planets. Such made-to-order worlds not only abound in the heavy metals and crystals, having one hundred physical elements, but likewise have exactly one hundred forms of a unique energy organization called morontia material. The Master Physical Controllers and the Morontia Power Supervisors are able so to modify the revolutions of the primary units of matter and at the same time so to transform these associations of energy as to create this new substance.
모론시아 동력 감독관들은, 물질 에너지와 영적 에너지의 결합에 영향을 줄 수 있으며, 그렇게 함으로써, 통제하는 영이 겹쳐지도록 허용하는 물질화된 모론시아 형체를 갖춘다. 네가 네바돈에서 모론시아 생애를 거치는 동안, 끈기 있고 능숙한 이 모론시아 동력 감독관들이, 570가지 모론시아 몸을 너에게 연속으로 제공할 것이며, 각 모론시아 몸은 너의 점진적 변형의 한 국면이다. 네가 물질 세계를 떠날 때부터 살빙톤에서 첫-단계 영으로 구성될 때까지, 너는 별개의 상승하는 모론시아 변화를 정확하게 570번 겪을 것이다. 이것들 중에서 여덟 번은 체계에서, 일흔한 번은 성좌에서, 그리고 사백아흔한 번은 살빙톤 구체들에 머무는 동안에 일어난다.
48:1.5 (542.2)
The Morontia Power Supervisors are able to effect a union of material and of spiritual energies, thereby organizing a morontia form of materialization which is receptive to the superimposition of a controlling spirit. When you traverse the morontia life of Nebadon, these same patient and skillful Morontia Power Supervisors will successively provide you with 570 morontia bodies, each one a phase of your progressive transformation. From the time of leaving the material worlds until you are constituted a first-stage spirit on Salvington, you will undergo just 570 separate and ascending morontia changes. Eight of these occur in the system, seventy-one in the constellation, and 491 during the sojourn on the spheres of Salvington.
48:1.6 (542.3)
In the days of the mortal flesh the divine spirit indwells you, almost as a thing apart—in reality an invasion of man by the bestowed spirit of the Universal Father. But in the morontia life the spirit will become a real part of your personality, and as you successively pass through the 570 progressive transformations, you ascend from the material to the spiritual estate of creature life.
48:1.7 (542.4)
Paul learned of the existence of the morontia worlds and of the reality of morontia materials, for he wrote, “They have in heaven a better and more enduring substance.” And these morontia materials are real, literal, even as in “the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” And each of these marvelous spheres is “a better country, that is, a heavenly one.”
48:2.1 (542.5)
These unique beings are exclusively concerned with the supervision of those activities which represent a working combination of spiritual and physical or semimaterial energies. They are exclusively devoted to the ministry of morontia progression. Not that they so much minister to mortals during the transition experience, but they rather make possible the transition environment for the progressing morontia creatures. They are the channels of morontia power which sustain and energize the morontia phases of the transition worlds.
48:2.2 (542.6)
Morontia Power Supervisors are the offspring of a local universe Mother Spirit. They are fairly standard in design though differing slightly in nature in the various local creations. They are created for their specific function and require no training before entering upon their responsibilities.
48:2.11 (543.5)
The power supervisors always serve in their native universe. They are directed exclusively by the joint spirit activity of the Universe Son and the Universe Spirit but are otherwise a wholly self-governing group. They maintain headquarters on each of the first mansion worlds of the local systems, where they work in close association with both the physical controllers and the seraphim but function in a world of their own as regards energy manifestation and spirit application.
48:2.12 (543.6)
They also sometimes work in connection with supermaterial phenomena on the evolutionary worlds as ministers of temporary assignment. But they rarely serve on the inhabited planets; neither do they work on the higher training worlds of the superuniverse, being chiefly devoted to the transition regime of morontia progression in a local universe.
48:2.13 (543.7)
1. Circuit Regulators. These are the unique beings who co-ordinate physical and spiritual energy and regulate its flow into the segregated channels of the morontia spheres, and these circuits are exclusively planetary, limited to a single world. The morontia circuits are distinct from, and supplementary to, both physical and spiritual circuits on the transition worlds, and it requires millions of these regulators to energize even a system of mansion worlds like that of Satania.
48:2.14 (543.8)
Circuit regulators initiate those changes in material energies which render them subject to the control and regulation of their associates. These beings are morontia power generators as well as circuit regulators. Much as a dynamo apparently generates electricity out of the atmosphere, so do these living morontia dynamos seem to transform the everywhere energies of space into those materials which the morontia supervisors weave into the bodies and life activities of the ascending mortals.
48:2.15 (543.9)
2. System Co-ordinators. Since each morontia world has a separate order of morontia energy, it is exceedingly difficult for humans to visualize these spheres. But on each successive transition sphere, mortals will find the plant life and everything else pertaining to the morontia existence progressively modified to correspond with the advancing spiritization of the ascending survivor. And since the energy system of each world is thus individualized, these co-ordinators operate to harmonize and blend such differing power systems into a working unit for the associated spheres of any particular group.
48:2.17 (543.11)
When mansion world ascenders pass from one sphere to another, they are delivered by the transport seraphim to the receivers of the system co-ordinators on the advanced world. Here in those unique temples at the center of the seventy radiating wings wherein are the chambers of transition similar to the resurrection halls on the initial world of reception for earth-origin mortals, the necessary changes in creature form are skillfully effected by the system co-ordinators. These early morontia-form changes require about seven days of standard time for their accomplishment.
3. 행성 관리인. 맨션 구체들에서 우주 본부에 이르기까지, --모론시아 직무에 관해서 말하자면-- 각 모론시아 세계는 수호자 70명의 보호관리 속에 있다. 이들은 최고의 모론시아 권세를 갖는 지방 행성 협의회를 구성한다. 이 협의회는, 그 구체들에 착륙하는 모든 상승하는 피조물에게 모론시아 형체에 필요한 물질을 수여하고, 상승자가 그다음 구체로 진행할 수 있도록 만드는 그런 변화를 피조물 형체에 허락한다. 너희가 맨션 세계들을 통과한 후에는, 의식을 잃을 필요 없이 모론시아 생애의 한 국면에서 다른 국면으로 전환될 것이다. 무의식은 오직 초기 변질을 겪을 때, 그리고 나중에 한 우주에서 다른 우주로 하보나에서 낙원으로 전환될 때에만 수반된다.
48:2.18 (544.1)
3. Planetary Custodians. Each morontia world, from the mansion spheres up to the universe headquarters, is in the custody—as regards morontia affairs—of seventy guardians. They constitute the local planetary council of supreme morontia authority. This council grants material for morontia forms to all ascending creatures who land on the spheres and authorizes those changes in creature form which make it possible for an ascender to proceed to the succeeding sphere. After the mansion worlds have been traversed, you will translate from one phase of morontia life to another without having to surrender consciousness. Unconsciousness attends only the earlier metamorphoses and the later transitions from one universe to another and from Havona to Paradise.
48:2.19 (544.2)
4. Combined Controllers. One of these highly mechanical beings is always stationed at the center of each administrative unit of a morontia world. A combined controller is sensitive to, and functional with, physical, spiritual, and morontial energies; and with this being there are always associated two system co-ordinators, four circuit regulators, one planetary custodian, one liaison stabilizer, and either an associate registrar or a selective assorter.
48:2.20 (544.3)
5. Liaison Stabilizers. These are the regulators of the morontia energy in association with the physical and spirit forces of the realm. They make possible the conversion of morontia energy into morontia material. The whole morontia organization of existence is dependent on the stabilizers. They slow down the energy revolutions to that point where physicalization can occur. But I have no terms with which I can compare or illustrate the ministry of such beings. It is quite beyond human imagination.
48:2.22 (544.5)
While the basic morontia forms of life and matter are identical from the first mansion world to the last universe transition sphere, there is a functional progression which gradually extends from the material to the spiritual. Your adaptation to this basically uniform but successively advancing and spiritizing creation is effected by this selective re-keying. Such an adjustment in the mechanism of personality is tantamount to a new creation, notwithstanding that you retain the same morontia form.
48:2.23 (544.6)
You may repeatedly subject yourself to the test of these examiners, and as soon as you register adequate spiritual achievement, they will gladly certify you for advanced standing. These progressive changes result in altered reactions to the morontia environment, such as modifications in food requirements and numerous other personal practices.
48:2.26 (545.1)
All morontia transition realms are accessible alike to material and spirit beings. As morontia progressors you will remain in full contact with the material world and with material personalities, while you will increasingly discern and fraternize with spirit beings; and by the time of departure from the morontia regime, you will have seen all orders of spirits with the exception of a few of the higher types, such as Solitary Messengers.
48:3.2 (545.3)
Morontia Companions are trained for service by the Melchizedeks on a special planet near Salvington; they do not pass through the central Melchizedek schools. In service they range from the lowest mansion worlds of the systems to the highest study spheres of Salvington, but they are seldom encountered on the inhabited worlds. They serve under the general supervision of the Sons of God and under the immediate direction of the Melchizedeks.
48:3.3 (545.4)
The Morontia Companions maintain ten thousand headquarters in a local universe—on each of the first mansion worlds of the local systems. They are almost wholly a self-governing order and are, in general, an intelligent and loyal group of beings; but every now and then, in connection with certain unfortunate celestial upheavals, they have been known to go astray. Thousands of these useful creatures were lost during the times of the Lucifer rebellion in Satania. Your local system now has its full quota of these beings, the loss of the Lucifer rebellion having only recently been made up.
48:3.4 (545.5)
There are two distinct types of Morontia Companions; one type is aggressive, the other retiring, but otherwise they are equal in status. They are not sex creatures, but they manifest a touchingly beautiful affection for one another. And while they are hardly companionate in the material (human) sense, they are very close of kin to the human races in the order of creature existence. The midway creatures of the worlds are your nearest of kin; then come the morontia cherubim, and after them the Morontia Companions.
48:3.5 (545.6)
These companions are touchingly affectionate and charmingly social beings. They possess distinct personalities, and when you meet them on the mansion worlds, after learning to recognize them as a class, you will soon discern their individuality. Mortals all resemble one another; at the same time each of you possesses a distinct and recognizable personality.
48:3.8 (546.1)
2. Pilgrim Receivers and Free Associators. These are the social companions of the new arrivals on the mansion worlds. One of them will certainly be on hand to welcome you when you awaken on the initial mansion world from the first transit sleep of time, when you experience the resurrection from the death of the flesh into the morontia life. And from the time you are thus formally welcomed on awakening to that day when you leave the local universe as a first-stage spirit, these Morontia Companions are ever with you.
48:3.9 (546.1)
Companions are not assigned permanently to individuals. An ascending mortal on one of the mansion or higher worlds might have a different companion on each of several successive occasions and again might go for long periods without one. It would all depend on the requirements and also on the supply of companions available.
48:3.10 (546.1)
3. Hosts to Celestial Visitors. These gracious creatures are dedicated to the entertainment of the superhuman groups of student visitors and other celestials who may chance to sojourn on the transition worlds. You will have ample opportunity to visit within any realm you have experientially attained. Student visitors are allowed on all inhabited planets, even those in isolation.
4. 협조자 및 연락 지휘자. 이 동무들은, 모론시아 교제를 촉진시키기에, 그리고 혼란을 예방하기에 전념한다. 이들은 사회적 행실과 모론시아 진보를 가르치는 자인데, 상승하는 필사자들 가운데서 학습 시간 및 기타 집단 활동을 후원한다. 이들은 광대한 지역을 유지하며, 거기서 학생을 모으고 그들의 계획표를 꾸미기 위해 때때로 천상의 기능공과 회상 지휘자들을 소집한다. 너희가 진보함에 따라서, 이 동무들과 긴밀히 접촉할 것이고, 이 두 집단을 대단히 좋아하게 될 것이다. 너희가 적극적인 유형의 동무와 연합할 것인가, 또는 비사교적 유형의 동무와 연합할 것인가는, 우연의 문제다.
48:3.11 (546.1)
4. Co-ordinators and Liaison Directors. These companions are dedicated to the facilitation of morontia intercourse and to the prevention of confusion. They are the instructors of social conduct and morontia progress, sponsoring classes and other group activities among the ascending mortals. They maintain extensive areas wherein they assemble their pupils and from time to time make requisition on the celestial artisans and the reversion directors for the embellishment of their programs. As you progress, you will come in intimate contact with these companions, and you will grow exceedingly fond of both groups. It is a matter of chance as to whether you will be associated with an aggressive or a retiring type of companion.
48:3.13 (546.1)
You will not acquire new languages automatically; you will learn a language over there much as you do down here, and these brilliant beings will be your language teachers. The first study on the mansion worlds will be the tongue of Satania and then the language of Nebadon. And while you are mastering these new tongues, the Morontia Companions will be your efficient interpreters and patient translators. You will never encounter a visitor on any of these worlds but that some one of the Morontia Companions will be able to officiate as interpreter.
48:3.14 (546.1)
6. Excursion and Reversion Supervisors. These companions will accompany you on the longer trips to the headquarters sphere and to the surrounding worlds of transition culture. They plan, conduct, and supervise all such individual and group tours about the system worlds of training and culture.
7. 지역 및 건물 관리자. 너희가 맨소니아 생애에서 진보하는 동안에, 물질 구조와 모론시아 구조조차 더욱 완비되고 웅장해진다. 개인 또는 집단으로 다른 맨션 세계에 머무는 동안 본부로 지정된 거주지를, 너희는 어떤 방식으로 바꿀 수 있다. 이 여러 구체에서 대부분의 활동은, 다양하게 지정된 원형과 정사각형과 삼각형으로 된 열린 구역 울타리 안에서 이뤄진다. 대다수의 맨션 세계 구조물은 지붕이 없는데, 웅장하게 건축되고 절묘하게 장식된, 울타리 친 구역이다. 건축양식 세계들에 퍼져있는 기후 및 기타 물리적 환경으로 인해 지붕은 전혀 필요 없다.
48:3.15 (546.1)
7. Area and Building Custodians. Even the material and morontia structures increase in perfection and grandeur as you advance in the mansonia career. As individuals and as groups you are permitted to make certain changes in the abodes assigned as headquarters for your sojourn on the different mansion worlds. Many of the activities of these spheres take place in the open enclosures of the variously designated circles, squares, and triangles. The majority of the mansion world structures are roofless, being enclosures of magnificent construction and exquisite embellishment. The climatic and other physical conditions prevailing on the architectural worlds make roofs wholly unnecessary.
48:3.17 (547.2)
As systems and universes are settled in light and life, the mansion worlds increasingly cease to function as transition spheres of morontia training. More and more the finaliters institute their new training regime, which appears to be designed to translate the cosmic consciousness from the present level of the grand universe to that of the future outer universes. The Morontia Companions are destined to function increasingly in association with the finaliters and in numerous other realms not at present revealed on Urantia.
48:3.18 (547.3)
You can forecast that these beings are probably going to contribute much to your enjoyment of the mansion worlds, whether your sojourn is to be long or short. And you will continue to enjoy them all the way up to Salvington. They are not, technically, essential to any part of your survival experience. You could reach Salvington without them, but you would greatly miss them. They are the personality luxury of your ascending career in the local universe.
48:4.2 (547.5)
Celestial relaxation and superhuman humor are quite different from their human analogues, but we all actually indulge in a form of both; and they really accomplish for us, in our state, just about what ideal humor is able to do for you on Urantia. The Morontia Companions are skillful play sponsors, and they are most ably supported by the reversion directors.
48:4.3 (547.6)
You would probably best understand the work of the reversion directors if they were likened to the higher types of humorists on Urantia, though that would be an exceedingly crude and somewhat unfortunate way in which to try to convey an idea of the function of these directors of change and relaxation, these ministers of the exalted humor of the morontia and spirit realms.
48:4.4 (547.7)
In discussing spirit humor, first let me tell you what it is not. Spirit jest is never tinged with the accentuation of the misfortunes of the weak and erring. Neither is it ever blasphemous of the righteousness and glory of divinity. Our humor embraces three general levels of appreciation:
48:4.5 (547.8)
1. Reminiscent jests. Quips growing out of the memories of past episodes in one’s experience of combat, struggle, and sometimes fearfulness, and ofttimes foolish and childish anxiety. To us, this phase of humor derives from the deep-seated and abiding ability to draw upon the past for memory material with which pleasantly to flavor and otherwise lighten the heavy loads of the present.
48:4.6 (548.1)
2. Current humor. The senselessness of much that so often causes us serious concern, the joy at discovering the unimportance of much of our serious personal anxiety. We are most appreciative of this phase of humor when we are best able to discount the anxieties of the present in favor of the certainties of the future.
48:4.7 (548.2)
3. Prophetic joy. It will perhaps be difficult for mortals to envisage this phase of humor, but we do get a peculiar satisfaction out of the assurance “that all things work together for good”—for spirits and morontians as well as for mortals. This aspect of celestial humor grows out of our faith in the loving overcare of our superiors and in the divine stability of our Supreme Directors.
48:4.8 (548.3)
But the reversion directors of the realms are not concerned exclusively with depicting the high humor of the various orders of intelligent beings; they are also occupied with the leadership of diversion, spiritual recreation and morontia entertainment. And in this connection they have the hearty co-operation of the celestial artisans.
48:4.9 (548.4)
The reversion directors themselves are not a created group; they are a recruited corps embracing beings ranging from the Havona natives down through the messenger hosts of space and the ministering spirits of time to the morontia progressors from the evolutionary worlds. All are volunteers, giving themselves to the work of assisting their fellows in the achievement of thought change and mind rest, for such attitudes are most helpful in recuperating depleted energies.
48:4.10 (548.5)
When partially exhausted by the efforts of attainment, and while awaiting the reception of new energy charges, there is agreeable pleasure in living over again the enactments of other days and ages. The early experiences of the race or the order 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 of being.
모든 존재가 이런 종류의 기분전환을 즐기지만, 선천적 창조주 곧 자동으로 스스로-활력을-되찾는 자들, 그리고 고도로 특화된 유형의 피조물 곧 동력 중심 및 물리 통제관 같은 자들은 예외이며, 이들은 모든 반응에서 항상 그리고 영원히 철저하게 사무적이다. 기능적 의무감으로 인해 긴장했다가 이렇게 정기적으로 해제되는 것은, 온갖 우주 전역의 모든 세계에서 생애 가운데 정상적인 부분이지만, 낙원 섬에서는 그렇지 않다. 중앙 거주지의 토착 존재들은 지칠 수 없으므로 재-충전과 상관없다. 그리고 영원한 낙원 완벽성에 속하는 그런 존재들에게는, 그렇게 되돌아볼 진화 체험이 있을 수 없다.
48:4.11 (548.6)
All beings enjoy this sort of reversion except those who are inherent Creators, hence automatic self-rejuvenators, and certain highly specialized types of creatures, such as the power centers and the physical controllers, who are always and eternally thoroughly businesslike in all their reactions. These periodic releases from the tension of functional duty are a regular part of life on all worlds throughout the universe of universes but not on the Isle of Paradise. Beings indigenous to the central abode are incapable of depletion and are not, therefore, subject to re-energizing. And with such beings of eternal Paradise perfection there can be no such reversion to evolutionary experiences.
우리는 대부분 낮은 실존 단계를 통해서, 또는 우리 계층의 점진적인 여러 수준을 통해서 올라왔으며, 우리가 초기에 체험한 어떤 사건들을 되돌아보는 것은 상쾌한 일이고 어느 정도 즐거운 일이다. 자신의 계층에게 익숙한 것, 그리고 기억에 남을 만큼 정신이 소유한 것을 성찰하면 편안해진다. 앞날은 갈등과 발전을 의미하며;활동과 수고와 성취를 예시하지만;지난날은 이미 정복하고 성취한 것들의 향기를 풍기며;지난날을 성찰하는 것은, 그런 근심 없는 재음미와 휴양을 가능하게 하므로, 영 희락 그리고 흥겨움에 가까운 모론시아 정신 상태를 자극한다.
48:4.12 (548.7)
Most of us have come up through lower stages of existence or through progressive levels of our orders, and it is refreshing and in a measure amusing to look back upon certain episodes of our early experience. There is a restfulness in the contemplation of that which is old to one’s order, and which lingers as a memory possession of the mind. The future signifies struggle and advancement; it bespeaks work, effort, and achievement; but the past savors of things already mastered and achieved; contemplation of the past permits of relaxation and such a carefree review as to provoke spirit mirth and a morontia state of mind verging on merriment.
심지어 필사자의 유머도, 자신이 현재 도달한 발달 상태보다 바로 밑에 있는 자들에게 감동 주는 사건을 묘사할 때, 또는 자기보다 밑에 있다고 생각되는 자들이 흔히 겪는 체험을, 자기보다 높다고 생각되던 자들이 겪으면서 고생하는 것을 묘사할 때 가장 건전하다. 유란시아 출신인 너희는, 저속하고 고약한 많은 것을 너희의 유머라고 혼동하도록 내버려뒀지만, 비교적 예리한 유머 감각을 지니고 있다는 점에서, 대체로 축하 받을 만하다. 너희 인종들 가운데 일부는 풍부한 유머 기질을 지녔고, 이로 인해 이 세상에서 사는 동안 크게 도움 받는다. 너희는, 유머에 있어서 아담의 유산으로부터 많이, 음악이나 예술이 얻은 것보다는 훨씬 더 많이 물려받은 것처럼 보인다.
48:4.13 (548.8)
Even mortal humor becomes most hearty when it depicts episodes affecting those just a little beneath one’s present developmental state, or when it portrays one’s supposed superiors falling victim to the experiences which are commonly associated with supposed inferiors. You of Urantia have allowed much that is at once vulgar and unkind to become confused with your humor, but on the whole, you are to be congratulated on a comparatively keen sense of humor. Some of your races have a rich vein of it and are greatly helped in their earthly careers thereby. Apparently you received much in the way of humor from your Adamic inheritance, much more than was secured of either music or art.
48:4.14 (549.1)
All Satania, during times of play, those times when its inhabitants refreshingly resurrect the memories of a lower stage of existence, is edified by the pleasant humor of a corps of reversion directors from Urantia. The sense of celestial humor we have with us always, even when engaged in the most difficult of assignments. It helps to avoid an overdevelopment of the notion of one’s self-importance. But we do not give rein to it freely, as you might say, “have fun,” except when we are in recess from the serious assignments of our respective orders.
48:4.15 (549.2)
When we are tempted to magnify our self-importance, if we stop to contemplate the infinity of the greatness and grandeur of our Makers, our own self-glorification becomes sublimely ridiculous, even verging on the humorous. One of the functions of humor is to help all of us take ourselves less seriously. Humor is the divine antidote for exaltation of ego.
긴장을 완화하고 유머로 기분을 전환시킬 필요는 그런 상승 존재 계층에서 가장 큰데, 이들은 위로 올라가려고 애쓸 때 지속적인 긴장감에 휩싸인다. 양극단의 생애는 유머로 기분 전환할 필요가 거의 없다. 원시인은 유머를 수용할 능력이 없으며, 낙원에서 완비된 존재는 유머가 필요 없다. 하보나의 무리는 선천적으로 지극히 행복한 인격을 지닌, 유쾌하고 상쾌한 회중{會衆}이다. 경배의 우수성 때문에, 낙원에서는 회고 활동이 불필요하다. 그러나 낙원 완벽성이라는 목표에 훨씬 못 미치는 상태에서 생애를 시작하는 자들 가운데서는, 회상 지휘자들의 직무가 큰 역할을 한다.
48:4.16 (549.3)
The need for the relaxation and diversion of humor is greatest in those orders of ascendant beings who are subjected to sustained stress in their upward struggles. The two extremes of life have little need for humorous diversions. Primitive men have no capacity therefor, and beings of Paradise perfection have no need thereof. The hosts of Havona are naturally a joyous and exhilarating assemblage of supremely happy personalities. On Paradise the quality of worship obviates the necessity for reversion activities. But among those who start their careers far below the goal of Paradise perfection, there is a large place for the ministry of the reversion directors.
필사자 종족은 수준이 높을수록 압박감{stress}이 더 크고, 유머의 필요성뿐만 아니라 유머를 받아들이는 능력도 더 커진다. 영 세계에서는 정 반대인데:우리는 높이 올라갈수록 회고 체험으로 기분전환 할 필요가 점차 줄어든다. 그러나 영 생명체 등급이 낙원으로부터 스랍 무리에 이르기까지 낮아질수록, 희락에 잠기게 하는 사명과 명랑하게 만드는 직무가 더 필요해진다. 전에 체험했던 지적 상태를 이따금 회고함으로 원기를 회복하는 것이 가장 필요한 존재는 높은 유형의 인간 종족과 모론시아인과 천사 및 물질 아들들이며, 비슷한 유형의 모든 인격체도 마찬가지다.
48:4.17 (549.4)
The higher the mortal species, the greater the stress and the greater the capacity for humor as well as the necessity for it. In the spirit world the opposite is true: The higher we ascend, the less the need for the diversions of reversion experiences. But proceeding down the scale of spirit life from Paradise to the seraphic hosts, there is an increasing need for the mission of mirth and the ministry of merriment. Those beings who most need the refreshment of periodic reversion to the intellectual status of previous experiences are the higher types of the human species, the morontians, angels, and the Material Sons, together with all similar types of personality.
유머는, 발전적 진보와 고귀한 업적을 이루려는 격렬한 투쟁과 관련하여, 지속적으로 심각하게 자아를-성찰하는 단조로움 때문에 지나친 압박감이 조성되는 것을 방지하는 자동 안전장치로서 작용해야한다. 또한 유머는, 사실 또는 진리의 예기치 못한 영향, 즉 고정되고 유연성 없는 사실과 늘-생생하고 융통성 있는 진리가, 예기치 못하게 영향을 끼침으로 인한 충격을 감소시키는 역할을 한다. 필사 인격체는 다음에 무엇을 만나게 될지 확신할 수 없으므로, 그 본질이 사실이든지 또는 진실이든지, 유머를 통해서 그 상황을 신속하게 파악한다--즉 요점을 찾아내서 간파한다.
48:4.18 (549.5)
Humor should function as an automatic safety valve to prevent the building up of excessive pressures due to the monotony of sustained and serious self-contemplation in association with the intense struggle for developmental progress and noble achievement. Humor also functions to lessen the shock of the unexpected impact of fact or of truth, rigid unyielding fact and flexible ever-living truth. The mortal personality, never sure as to which will next be encountered, through humor swiftly grasps—sees the point and achieves insight—the unexpected nature of the situation be it fact or be it truth.
유란시아의 유머는 대단히 미숙하고 지극히 예술적이지 못하지만, 일종의 건강 보험으로서 그리고 감정적 압박감의 치료제로서 귀중한 목적에 이바지하고, 그리하여 해로운 신경과민과 지나치게 심각한 자아-성찰을 예방한다. 유머와 놀이는--곧 휴양은-- 진취적 노력에서 생기는 반응이 아니며;반드시 뒤를 돌아봄으로, 지난날을 회고함으로 생기는 반응이다. 유란시아에서도, 그리고 지금 너희가 그렇듯이, 너희가 더 새롭게 더 고상하게 지적으로 노력하는 수고를 잠시 멈추고, 너희 조상들이 하던 좀 더 단순한 일로 돌아갈 때 항상 활력을 되찾게 된다는 것을 너희는 깨닫는다.
48:4.19 (549.6)
While the humor of Urantia is exceedingly crude and most inartistic, it does serve a valuable purpose both as a health insurance and as a liberator of emotional pressure, thus preventing injurious nervous tension and overserious self-contemplation. Humor and play—relaxation—are never reactions of progressive exertion; always are they the echoes of a backward glance, a reminiscence of the past. Even on Urantia and as you now are, you always find it rejuvenating when for a short time you can suspend the exertions of the newer and higher intellectual efforts and revert to the more simple engagements of your ancestors.
유란시아인의 놀이 생활의 원칙은 철학적으로 건전하며, 너희의 상승하는 생애 내내, 하보나 회로들을 통해서 영원한 낙원 기슭에 이르기까지 계속 적용된다. 너희는 상승하는 존재로서, 과거에 낮은 실존이었을 때의 개인적 기억을 모두 간직하는데, 그런 지난날의 정체성을 기억하지 못한다면, 필사자의 웃음이든지 모론시아 희락이든지, 현재의 유머가 성립될 토대가 전혀 없을 것이다. 현재의 기분 전환과 오락이 성립될 수 있는 토대를 제공하는 것은, 과거의 체험에 대한 이 회상이다. 그리하여 너희의 긴 모론시아 생애와, 점점 영적으로 바뀌는 그다음 생애를 통해서 꼭대기까지, 너희는 이 세상의 유머에 해당하는 천상의 유머를 즐길 것이다. 그리고 상승하는 필사자 인격의 영원한 일부분이 되는, 하나님의 바로 그 부분은(곧 섭리사는), 시공간에서 상승하는 피조물의 즐거운 표현, 심지어 영적 웃음소리에 신성의 울림을 더해준다.
48:4.20 (550.1)
The principles of Urantian play life are philosophically sound and continue to apply on up through your ascending life, through the circuits of Havona to the eternal shores of Paradise. As ascendant beings you are in possession of personal memories of all former and lower existences, and without such identity memories of the past there would be no basis for the humor of the present, either mortal laughter or morontia mirth. It is this recalling of past experiences that provides the basis for present diversion and amusement. And so you will enjoy the celestial equivalents of your earthly humor all the way up through your long morontia, and then increasingly spiritual, careers. And that part of God (the Adjuster) which becomes an eternal part of the personality of an ascendant mortal contributes the overtones of divinity to the joyous expressions, even spiritual laughter, of the ascending creatures of time and space.
맨션 세계 교사는, 사람으로부터 떠났으나 영화롭게 된 체루빔과 사노빔의 단체다. 시간 순례자가 공간의 시험 세계로부터 맨션 세계 및 그에 관련된 모론시아 훈련 세계들로 나아갈 때, 그의 개인 또는 집단 스라빔 곧 운명 수호자가 그와 동행한다. 필사자가 실존하는 세계에서는, 스라빔이 체루빔과 사노빔의 훌륭한 도움을 받지만;필사 피보호자가 육신의 속박에서 해방되어 상승하는 생애를 시작할 때, 물질 이후의 인생 곧 모론시아 인생이 시작될 때에는, 동행하던 스라빔은 자신의 이전{以前} 부관{副官}인, 체루빔과 사노빔의 보살핌을 더 이상 필요로 하지 않는다.
48:5.1 (550.2)
The Mansion World Teachers are a corps of deserted but glorified cherubim and sanobim. When a pilgrim of time advances from a trial world of space to the mansion and associated worlds of morontia training, he is accompanied by his personal or group seraphim, the guardian of destiny. In the worlds of mortal existence the seraphim is ably assisted by cherubim and sanobim; but when her mortal ward is delivered from the bonds of the flesh and starts out on the ascendant career, when the postmaterial or morontia life begins, the attending seraphim has no further need of the ministrations of her former lieutenants, the cherubim and sanobim.
48:5.2 (550.3)
These deserted assistants of the ministering seraphim are often summoned to universe headquarters, where they pass into the intimate embrace of the Universe Mother Spirit and then go forth to the system training spheres as Mansion World Teachers. These teachers often visit the material worlds and function from the lowest mansion worlds on up to the highest of the educational spheres connected with the universe headquarters. Upon their own motion they may return to their former associative work with the ministering seraphim.
48:5.4 (550.5)
Mansion World Teachers, like most of the other instructors, are commissioned by the Melchizedeks. They are generally supervised by the Morontia Companions, but as individuals and as teachers they are supervised by the acting heads of the schools or spheres wherein they may be functioning as instructors.
48:5.5 (550.6)
These advanced cherubim usually work in pairs as they did when attached to the seraphim. They are by nature very near the morontia type of existence, and they are inherently sympathetic teachers of the ascending mortals and most efficiently conduct the program of the mansion world and morontia educational system.
48:5.6 (551.1)
In the schools of the morontia life these teachers engage in individual, group, class, and mass teaching. On the mansion worlds such schools are organized in three general groups of one hundred divisions each: the schools of thinking, the schools of feeling, and the schools of doing. When you reach the constellation, there are added the schools of ethics, the schools of administration, and the schools of social adjustment. On the universe headquarters worlds you will enter the schools of philosophy, divinity, and pure spirituality.
48:5.7 (551.2)
Those things which you might have learned on earth, but which you failed to learn, must be acquired under the tutelage of these faithful and patient teachers. There are no royal roads, short cuts, or easy paths to Paradise. Irrespective of the individual variations of the route, you master the lessons of one sphere before you proceed to another; at least this is true after you once leave the world of your nativity.
48:5.8 (551.3)
One of the purposes of the morontia career is to effect the permanent eradication from the mortal survivors of such animal vestigial traits as procrastination, equivocation, insincerity, problem avoidance, unfairness, and ease seeking. The mansonia life early teaches the young morontia pupils that postponement is in no sense avoidance. After the life in the flesh, time is no longer available as a technique of dodging situations or of circumventing disagreeable obligations.
맨션 세계 교사들은, 체류하는 구체 가운데 가장 낮은 곳에서 근무를 시작하고, 체계와 성좌의 교육 구체들을 거쳐서 살빙톤 훈련 세계들에 이르기까지, 체험함으로 진급한다. 우주 어머니 영의 품에 받아들여지기 전이나 후에, 어떤 특별한 교육도 받지 않는다. 맨션 세계에 체류하는 학생들의 출생지인 그 세계에서 스라빔의 동역자로서 근무하는 동안, 자신의 일을 위하여 이미 훈련 받았다. 인간거주 세계들에서 진보하는 이 필사자들과 함께 실제 체험을 겪었다. 그들은 실질적이고 동정심 많은 선생, 즉 현명하고 이해심 많은 교관, 유능하고 실력 있는 안내자다. 상승 계획에 대해 전반적으로 잘 알고 있고, 진행과정 생애의 초기 국면에서 철저히 체험했다.
48:5.9 (551.4)
Beginning service on the lowest of the tarrying spheres, the Mansion World Teachers advance, with experience, through the educational spheres of the system and the constellation to the training worlds of Salvington. They are subjected to no special discipline either before or after their embrace by the Universe Mother Spirit. They have already been trained for their work while serving as seraphic associates on the worlds native to their pupils of mansion world sojourn. They have had actual experience with these advancing mortals on the inhabited worlds. They are practical and sympathetic teachers, wise and understanding instructors, able and efficient guides. They are entirely familiar with the ascendant plans and thoroughly experienced in the initial phases of the progression career.
48:6.1 (551.6)
While all orders of angels, from the planetary helpers to the supreme seraphim, 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, and their ministry is devoted to facilitating the transit of material and mortal creatures from the temporal life in the flesh on into the early stages of morontia existence on the seven mansion worlds.
48:6.2 (551.7)
You should understand that the morontia life of an ascending mortal is really initiated on the inhabited worlds at the conception of the soul, at that moment when the creature mind of moral status is indwelt by the spirit Adjuster. And from that moment on, the mortal soul has potential capacity for supermortal function, even for recognition on the higher levels of the morontia spheres of the local universe.
48:6.4 (552.2)
1. Seraphic Evangels. The moment you consciousize on the mansion worlds, you are classified as evolving spirits in the records of the system. True, you are not yet spirits in reality, but you are no longer mortal or material beings; you have embarked upon the prespirit career and have been duly admitted to the morontia life.
48:6.5 (552.3)
On the mansion worlds the seraphic evangels will help you to choose wisely among the optional routes to Edentia, Salvington, Uversa, and Havona. If there are a number of equally advisable routes, these will be put before you, and you will be permitted to select the one that most appeals to you. These seraphim then make recommendations to the four and twenty advisers on Jerusem concerning that course which would be most advantageous for each ascending soul.
48:6.6 (552.4)
You are not given unrestricted choice as to your future course; but you may choose within the limits of that which the transition ministers and their superiors wisely determine to be most suitable for your future spirit attainment. The spirit world is governed on the principle of respecting your freewill choice provided the course you may choose is not detrimental to you or injurious to your fellows.
48:6.7 (552.5)
These seraphic evangels are dedicated to the proclamation of the gospel of eternal progression, the triumph of perfection attainment. On the mansion worlds they proclaim the great law of the conservation and dominance of goodness: No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion to the divinity of its motivation.
48:6.21 (553.2)
These seraphim are also the evangels of the gospel of perfection attainment for the whole system as well as for the individual ascender. Even now in the young system of Satania their teachings and plans encompass provisions for the future ages when the mansion worlds will no longer serve the mortal ascenders as steppingstones to the spheres on high.
2. 인종 해석자. 모든 인종의 필사 존재들은 똑같지 않다. 사실, 주어진 한 세계에서 다양한 인종의 육체적, 정신적, 및 영적 본성 전체에 통용되는 행성 원형{原型}이 있지만;뚜렷이 다른 인종 유형들도 있으며, 아주 명확한 사회적 성향이, 이런 다양한 인간 후손 기본 유형의 특성을 묘사한다. 시간 세계에서는, 인종을 해석하는 스라빔이 이 인종들의 잡다한 관점을 조화시키려고 인종 감독관들의 수고를 더 촉진시키며, 저희는 맨션 세계들에서 계속 활동하는데, 거기서도 동일한 이 차이점들이 다소 존속되는 경향이 있다. 유란시아 같은 혼란스런 행성에서는, 뛰어난 이 존재들이 활동할 수 있는 적절한 기회가 거의 주어지지 않았으나, 이들은 첫 하늘의 유능한 사회학자이고, 현명한 종족 충고자다.
48:6.22 (553.3)
2. Racial Interpreters. All races of mortal beings are not alike. True, there is a planetary pattern running through the physical, mental, and spiritual natures and tendencies of the various races of a given world; but there are also distinct racial types, and very definite social tendencies characterize the offspring of these different basic types of human beings. On the worlds of time the seraphic racial interpreters further the efforts of the race commissioners to harmonize the varied viewpoints of the races, and they continue to function on the mansion worlds, where these same differences tend to persist in a measure. On a confused planet, such as Urantia, these brilliant beings have hardly had a fair opportunity to function, but they are the skillful sociologists and the wise ethnic advisers of the first heaven.
너희는 “하늘”이라는 말과 “온갖 하늘”이라는 말을 검토해야한다. 너희 선지자 대부분이 감지했던 하늘은 지역 체계의 맨션세계들 가운데 첫째였다. “셋째 하늘로 올라갔었다”고 그 사도가 말했을 때, 그는 잠자는 동안 자신의 섭리사가 분리됐고, 이 유별난 상태에서 이 일곱 맨션 세계 가운데 셋째 세계에 투사됐던 체험을 말한 것이었다. 너희의 현자들 중에서 더러는 더 높은 하늘 곧 “온갖 하늘”에 대한 환상을 봤었는데, 칠중{七重} 맨션 세계에 대한 체험은 첫째에 불과했으며;둘째는 예루셈이며;셋째는 에덴시아와 그 위성들이며;넷째는 살빙톤과 그것을 둘러싼 교육 구체들이며;다섯째는 우버사;여섯째는 하보나;그리고 일곱째는 낙원이다.
48:6.23 (553.4)
You should consider the statement about “heaven” and the “heaven of heavens.” The heaven conceived by most of your prophets was the first of the mansion worlds of the local system. When the apostle spoke of being “caught up to the third heaven,” he referred to that experience in which his Adjuster was detached during sleep and in this unusual state made a projection to the third of the seven mansion worlds. Some of your wise men saw the vision of the greater heaven, “the heaven of heavens,” of which the sevenfold mansion world experience was but the first; the second being Jerusem; the third, Edentia and its satellites; the fourth, Salvington and the surrounding educational spheres; the fifth, Uversa; the sixth, Havona; and the seventh, Paradise.
48:6.24 (553.5)
3. Mind Planners. These seraphim are devoted to the effective grouping of morontia beings and to organizing their teamwork on the mansion worlds. They are the psychologists of the first heaven. The majority of this particular division of seraphic ministers have had previous experience as guardian angels to the children of time, but their wards, for some reason, failed to personalize on the mansion worlds or else survived by the technique of Spirit fusion.
맨션 세계들을 통해서 이동하는 섭리사 혼들의 본성과 체험과 상태를 연구하고, 업무 분담과 진급을 위하여 저희가 집단화 되도록 촉진시키는 일이, 정신 계획가들의 과제다. 그러나 이 정신 계획가들은, 맨션 세계 학생들의 무지함이나 기타 한계를 책동하거나 조종하거나 또는 달리 이용하지 않는다. 이들은 전적으로 공평하고 현저히 정확하다. 이들은 너의 새로 조성된 모론시아 의지를 존중하며;너를 독립된 자발적 존재로 간주하고, 네가 빨리 발달하고 진보하도록 북돋아주려고 애쓴다. 이때 너는 참된 친구와 이해심 많은 조언자들과 대면하는데, 이들은 네가 “남들이 너를 보는 것처럼 너 자신을 보도록”, 그리고 “천사들이 너를 아는 것처럼 너 자신을 알도록”, 너를 정말로 도울 수 있는 천사다.
48:6.25 (553.6)
It is the task of the mind planners to study the nature, experience, and status of the Adjuster souls in transit through the mansion worlds and to facilitate their grouping for assignment and advancement. But these mind planners do not scheme, manipulate, or otherwise take advantage of the ignorance or other limitations of mansion world students. They are wholly fair and eminently just. They respect your newborn morontia will; they regard you as independent volitional beings, and they seek to encourage your speedy development and advancement. Here you are face to face with true friends and understanding counselors, angels who are really able to help you “to see yourself as others see you” and “to know yourself as angels know you.”
48:6.27 (554.1)
4. Morontia Counselors. These ministers receive their name because they are assigned to teach, direct, and counsel the surviving mortals from the worlds of human origin, souls in transit to the higher schools of the system headquarters. They are the teachers of those who seek insight into the experiential unity of divergent life levels, those who are attempting the integration of meanings and the unification of values. This is the function of philosophy in mortal life, of mota on the morontia spheres.
모타는 뛰어난 철학 이상{以上}이며;비교하자면, 철학은 한 눈으로 보는 것과 같고, 모타는 두 눈으로 보는 것과 같으며;모타는 의미와 가치에 대해 두 눈으로 보는 효과를 갖는다. 물질적인 사람은, 말하자면, 한쪽 눈으로만--곧 평면으로-- 우주를 본다. 맨션 세계 학생들은, 육체적 인생에서 감지한 것 위에 모론시아 인생에서 감지한 것을 첨가함으로써, 시공우주 원근을--곧 깊이를-- 획득한다. 그리고 그들은, 주로 조언하는 스라빔의 지칠 줄 모르는 섬김을 통해서, 이 물질 관점과 모론시아 관점을 정확히 초점에 맞춰서 볼 수 있게 되며, 이 스라빔은 맨션 세계 학생과 모론시아 진보자들을 무척 끈기 있게 가르친다. 최고 스라빔 계층 중에서 많은 교육 상담자는, 시간세계에서 새로 해방된 필사자 혼에게 충고하는 자로서 생애를 시작했다.
48:6.28 (554.2)
Mota is more than a superior philosophy; it is to philosophy as two eyes are to one; it has a stereoscopic effect on meanings and values. Material man sees the universe, as it were, with but one eye—flat. Mansion world students achieve cosmic perspective—depth—by superimposing the perceptions of the morontia life upon the perceptions of the physical life. And they are enabled to bring these material and morontial viewpoints into true focus largely through the untiring ministry of their seraphic counselors, who so patiently teach the mansion world students and the morontia progressors. Many of the teaching counselors of the supreme order of seraphim began their careers as advisers of the newly liberated souls of the mortals of time.
5. 기술자. 이들은, 새롭고 비교적 낯선 여러 모론시아 구체 환경에 새 상승자가 적응하도록 돕는 스라빔이다. 과도기 세계에서 지내는 생애는, 물리 수준과 모론시아 수준, 이 두 수준의 에너지 및 물질과, 그리고 어느 정도는 영적 실체들과, 실제로 접촉할 필요가 있다. 상승자들은 모든 새 모론시아 수준에 적응해야하며, 이 모든 과정에서 스랍 기술자들의 도움을 크게 받는다. 이 스라빔은 모론시아 동력 감독관과 으뜸 물리 통제관들 사이에 연락원으로서 활동하고, 과도기 구체들에서 활용되는 에너지의 성질에 관하여, 상승 순례자들의 교관으로서 광범하게 활동한다. 이들은 응급 공간 횡단자로서 근무하고, 기타 정상 임무와 특별 의무를 수행한다.
48:6.29 (554.3)
5. Technicians. These are the seraphim who help new ascenders adjust themselves to the new and comparatively strange environment of the morontia spheres. Life on the transition worlds entails real contact with the energies and materials of both the physical and morontia levels and to a certain extent with spiritual realities. Ascenders must acclimatize to every new morontia level, and in all of this they are greatly helped by the seraphic technicians. These seraphim act as liaisons with the Morontia Power Supervisors and with the Master Physical Controllers and function extensively as instructors of the ascending pilgrims concerning the nature of those energies which are utilized on the transition spheres. They serve as emergency space traversers and perform numerous other regular and special duties.
48:6.30 (554.4)
6. Recorder-Teachers. These seraphim are the recorders of the borderland transactions of the spiritual and the physical, of the relationships of men and angels, of the morontia transactions of the lower universe realms. They also serve as instructors regarding the efficient and effective techniques of fact recording. There is an artistry in the intelligent assembly and co-ordination of related data, and this art is heightened in collaboration with the celestial artisans, and even the ascending mortals become thus affiliated with the recording seraphim.
48:6.31 (554.5)
The recorders of all the seraphic orders devote a certain amount of time to the education and training of the morontia progressors. These angelic custodians of the facts of time are the ideal instructors of all fact seekers. Before leaving Jerusem, you will become quite familiar with the history of Satania and its 619 inhabited worlds, and much of this story will be imparted by the seraphic recorders.
이 천사들은 모두, 시간세계의 사실과 영원성의 진리를 다루는 가장 낮은 관리인으로부터 가장 높은 관리인에 이르기까지 이어지는, 기록원들 계통에 속해있다. 언젠가 이들은 사실뿐만 아니라 진리를 추구하라고, 너희의 정신뿐만 아니라 혼을 키우라고 너희에게 가르칠 것이다. 지금이라도, 너희는 지식의 메마른 모래사장을 찾는 법뿐만 아니라, 자기 심성의 정원에 물을 주는 법도 배워야한다. 교훈을 배운 뒤에는 형식이 무가치하게 된다. 어떤 병아리도 껍데기 없이 태어나지 않으며, 어떤 껍데기든지 병아리가 부화된 후에는 무가치하다. 그러나 때로는 오류가 너무 심각해서, 계시로 교정하는 것은, 실책을 체험으로 정복하는 데 필수인 서서히 드러나는 진리에 치명적일 수 있다. 어린아이가 자신의 이상{理想}을 가질 때, 그것을 뭉개지 말고;자신이 키우도록 내버려둬라. 그리고 너희가 성인으로서 생각하는 방법을 배우는 동안, 너희 역시 어린아이처럼 간청하는 법을 배워야한다.
48:6.32 (554.6)
These angels are all in the chain of recorders extending from the lowest to the highest custodians of the facts of time and the truths of eternity. Some day they will teach you to seek truth as well as fact, to expand your soul as well as your mind. Even now you should learn to water the garden of your heart as well as to seek for the dry sands of knowledge. Forms are valueless when lessons are learned. No chick may be had without the shell, and no shell is of any worth after the chick is hatched. But sometimes error is so great that its rectification by revelation would be fatal to those slowly emerging truths which are essential to its experiential overthrow. When children have their ideals, do not dislodge them; let them grow. And while you are learning to think as men, you should also be learning to pray as children.
법은 생명 자체이고, 생명의 실행에 대한 규정이 아니다. 악이란, 생명에 관계되는 실행 규칙을 위반한 것이 아니라, 법을 어기는 것이며, 생명이 법이다. 거짓말은, 말하는 방법의 문제가 아니라, 진리를 왜곡시키는 고의적인 어떤 것이다. 옛 사실로부터 새로운 그림을 창조하는 것, 자손의 삶 속에 부모의 삶을 재현하는 것--이것이 바로 진리의 예술적 승리다. 진실이 아닌 목적을 미리 생각하여 태연한 척 하는 음침함, 원칙인 그것을 아주 약간 뒤틀거나 왜곡시킴-- 이것이 거짓이다. 그러나 사실에 입각한 진리 곧 화석화된 진리에 대한 맹목적 숭배, 소위 불변의 진리라는 쇠사슬, 이것이 사람을 눈멀게 하여 냉혹한 사실로 밀폐된 궤도 안에 붙잡아 둔다. 사실에 비춰서 원칙적으로는 옳은 것이, 진리 면에서는 영구히 틀렸을 수 있다.
48:6.33 (555.1)
Law is life itself and not the rules of its conduct. Evil is a transgression of law, not a violation of the rules of conduct pertaining to life, which is the law. Falsehood is not a matter of narration technique but something premeditated as a perversion of truth. The creation of new pictures out of old facts, the restatement of parental life in the lives of offspring—these are the artistic triumphs of truth. The shadow of a hair’s turning, premeditated for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is principle—these constitute falseness. But the fetish of factualized truth, fossilized truth, the iron band of so-called unchanging truth, holds one blindly in a closed circle of cold fact. One can be technically right as to fact and everlastingly wrong in the truth.
48:6.34 (555.2)
7. Ministering Reserves. A large corps of all orders of the transition seraphim is held on the first mansion world. Next to the destiny guardians, these transition ministers draw the nearest to humans of all orders of seraphim, and many of your leisure moments will be spent with them. Angels take delight in service and, when unassigned, often minister as volunteers. The soul of many an ascending mortal has for the first time been kindled by the divine fire of the will-to-service through personal friendship with the volunteer servers of the seraphic reserves.
48:6.35 (555.3)
From them you will learn to let pressure develop stability and certainty; to be faithful and earnest and, withal, cheerful; to accept challenges without complaint and to face difficulties and uncertainties without fear. They will ask: If you fail, will you rise indomitably to try anew? If you succeed, will you maintain a well-balanced poise—a stabilized and spiritualized attitude—throughout every effort in the long struggle to break the fetters of material inertia, to attain the freedom of spirit existence?
48:6.36 (555.4)
Even as mortals, so have these angels been father to many disappointments, and they will point out that sometimes your most disappointing disappointments have become your greatest blessings. Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity. And from them you will learn to suffer less through sorrow and disappointment, first, by making fewer personal plans concerning other personalities, and then, by accepting your lot when you have faithfully performed your duty.
너희는, 자신을 너무 심각하게 살피면 짐이 무거워지고 성공 가능성이 줄어든다는 것을 배울 것이다. 너의 신분 구체에서--곧 이 세상 또는 다음 세상에서-- 할 일보다 우선하는 것은 하나도 없다. 다음의 더 높은 구체를 위하여 준비하는 일도 무척 중요하지만, 아무 것도 네가 실제로 살고 있는 그 세계에서 할 일만큼 중요하지는 않다. 그러나 비록 그 일이 중요하더라도, 자아는 그렇지 않다. 네가 중요하다고 느낄 때, 너는 자아 품위가 손상될 만큼 에너지를 이미 낭비해서, 그 일을 할 에너지가 거의 남아있지 않다. 미성숙한 피조물을 지치게 만드는 것은, 업무를-중요시여김이 아니라 자신을-중요시여김이며;지치게 만드는 것은, 성취하려는 노력이 아니라 자아 요소다. 자신을-중요시하지 않으면, 너는 중요한 일을 할 수 있으며;너 자신을 빼버리면, 여러 일을 하나의 일을 하듯이 쉽게 할 수 있을 것이다. 다양성은 평안을 주며;단조로움은 초조하게 하고 지치게 한다. 매일 매일이 마찬가지다--바르게 살든지, 아니면 죽음이 있을 뿐이다.
48:6.37 (555.5)
You will learn that you increase your burdens and decrease the likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously. Nothing can take precedence over the work of your status sphere—this world or the next. Very important is the work of preparation for the next higher sphere, but nothing equals the importance of the work of the world in which you are actually living. But though the work is important, the self is not. When you feel important, you lose energy to the wear and tear of ego dignity so that there is little energy left to do the work. Self-importance, not work-importance, exhausts immature creatures; it is the self element that exhausts, not the effort to achieve. You can do important work if you do not become self-important; you can do several things as easily as one if you leave yourself out. Variety is restful; monotony is what wears and exhausts. Day after day is alike—just life or the alternative of death.
48:7.1 (556.1)
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; that is, in one column are presented the more simple concepts of mota meanings, and in the opposite column citation is made of analogous statements of mortal philosophy.
48:7.2 (556.2)
Not long since, while executing an assignment on the first mansion world of Satania, I had occasion to observe this method of teaching; and though I may not undertake to present the mota content of the lesson, I am permitted to record the twenty-eight statements of human philosophy which this morontia instructor was utilizing as illustrative material designed to assist these new mansion world sojourners in their early efforts to grasp the significance and meaning of mota. These illustrations of human philosophy were:
48:8.1 (557.16)
From the time of graduation from the mansion worlds to the attainment of spirit status in the superuniverse career, ascending mortals are denominated morontia progressors. Your passage through this wonderful borderland life will be an unforgettable experience, a charming memory. It is the evolutionary portal to spirit life and the eventual attainment of creature perfection by which ascenders achieve the goal of time—the finding of God on Paradise.
48:8.2 (557.17)
There is a definite and divine purpose in all this morontia and subsequent spirit scheme of mortal progression, this elaborate universe training school for ascending creatures. It is the design of the Creators to afford the creatures of time a graduated opportunity to master the details of the operation and administration of the grand universe, and this long course of training is best carried forward by having the surviving mortal climb up gradually and by actual participation in every step of the ascent.
필사자를-생존시키는 계획에는 실용적이고 유용한 목표가 있으며;너희를 생존시켜서 그저 끝없는 복과 영구적 편안함만 누리게 하려고, 이 모든 신성한 수고와 공들인 훈련에 너희를 참여시키는 것이 아니다. 현 우주 시대의 수평선 너머에, 초월 봉사라는 목표가 감춰져있다. 하나님들이, 겨우 하나의 길고도 영원한, 즐거운 소풍으로 너희를 데려가려고 계획했다면, 그분들은 분명히, 전체 우주를 하나의 광대하고 복잡한 실질적 훈련 학교가 되도록 그렇게 방대하게 전환시키고, 천상의 창조계 가운데 상당한 부분을 선생과 교관들로서 징발하고, 그다음에는 이 거대한 우주 체험 훈련 학교를 통해서 너희를 하나씩 안내하려고, 기나긴 세월을 보내시지 않았을 것이다. 필사자 진행 계획을 촉진시키는 것이, 조직돼있는 현 우주의 주요 사업 가운데 하나인 것처럼 보이며, 수많은 계층의 창조된 지성체 대부분은, 점진적으로 사람을 완비시키는 이 계획의 어떤 국면을 진행하는 것에, 직접 또는 간접으로 관여돼있다.
48:8.3 (558.1)
The mortal-survival plan has a practical and serviceable objective; you are not the recipients of all this divine labor and painstaking training only that you may survive just to enjoy endless bliss and eternal ease. There is a goal of transcendent service concealed beyond the horizon of the present universe age. If the Gods designed merely to take you on one long and eternal joy excursion, they certainly would not so largely turn the whole universe into one vast and intricate practical training school, requisition a substantial part of the celestial creation as teachers and instructors, and then spend ages upon ages piloting you, one by one, through this gigantic universe school of experiential training. 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 innumerable orders of created intelligences are either directly or indirectly engaged in advancing some phase of this progressive perfection plan.
필사적 사람으로 시작하여 신격에게 포용되기까지, 살아있는 실존의 상승하는 단계를 거치는 동안, 너희는 현 우주 시대의 한계 속에서, 완전하게 된 피조물 실존이 거치는 모든 가능한 국면과 단계의 바로 그 인생을 실제로 살고 있다. 필사적 사람으로부터 낙원에 도달한 완결성취자는, 지금 있을 수 있는 모든 것을 포용한다--살아있는 계층의 총명한, 완전하게 된 유한한 피조 존재에게 지금 가능한 모든 것을 완수{完遂}한다. 낙원 완결성취자의 미래 운명이, 지금 만들어지고 있는 새 우주들에서 봉사하는 것이라면, 이 새로운 미래 창조에서는, 필사 완결성취자의 일생과는 전적으로 다른 일생을 살아갈 그런 창조된 계층의 체험적 존재는 전혀 없으리라는 것이 확실한데, 이 완결성취자들은, 상승 훈련의 한 부분으로서, 동물로부터 천사까지, 천사로부터 영까지, 영으로부터 하나님께 이르기까지, 오랜 세월에 걸쳐 진보하는 여정들 가운데 하나로서, 어떤 세상에서 살아왔다.
48:8.4 (558.2)
In traversing the ascending scale of living existence from mortal man to the Deity embrace, you actually live the very life of every possible phase and stage of perfected creature existence within the limits of the present universe age. From mortal man to Paradise finaliter embraces all that now can be—encompasses everything presently possible to the living orders of intelligent, perfected finite creature beings. If the future destiny of the Paradise finaliters is service in new universes now in the making, it is assured that in this new and future creation there will be no created orders of experiential beings whose lives will be wholly different from those which mortal finaliters have lived on some world as a part of their ascending training, as one of the stages of their agelong progress from animal to angel and from angel to spirit and from spirit to God.