Natural, physical death is not a
mortal inevitability. The majority of advanced evolutionary beings, citizens on
worlds existing in the final era of light and life, do not die; they are
translated directly from the life in the flesh to the morontia existence.
This experience of translation from
the material life to the morontia state — fusion of the immortal soul with the
indwelling Adjuster — increases in frequency commensurate with the evolutionary
progress of the planet. At first only a few mortals in each age attain
translation levels of spiritual progress, but with the onset of the successive
ages of the Teacher Sons, more and more Adjuster fusions occur before the
termination of the lengthening lives of these progressing mortals; and by the
time of the terminal mission of the Teacher Sons, approximately one quarter of
these superb mortals are exempt from natural death.
Farther along in the era of light
and life the midway creatures or their associates sense the approaching status
of probable soul-Adjuster union and signify this to the destiny guardians, who
in turn communicate these matters to the finaliter group under whose
jurisdiction this mortal may be functioning; then there is issued the summons
of the Planetary Sovereign for such a mortal to resign all planetary duties,
bid farewell to the world of his origin, and repair to the inner temple of the
Planetary Sovereign, there to await morontia transit, the translation flash,
from the material domain of evolution to the morontia level of prespirit
progression.
When the family, friends, and
working group of such a fusion candidate have forgathered in the morontia
temple, they are distributed around the central stage whereon the fusion
candidates are resting, meantime freely conversing with their assembled
friends. A circle of intervening celestial personalities is arranged to protect
the material mortals from the action of the energies manifest at the instant of
the “life flash” which delivers the ascension candidate from the bonds of
material flesh, thereby doing for such an evolutionary mortal everything that
natural death does for those who are thereby delivered from the flesh.
Many fusion candidates may be
assembled in the spacious temple at the same time. And what a beautiful
occasion when mortals thus forgather to witness the ascension of their loved
ones in spiritual flames, and what a contrast to those earlier ages when
mortals must commit their dead to the embrace of the terrestrial elements! The
scenes of weeping and wailing characteristic of earlier epochs of human
evolution are now replaced by ecstatic joy and the sublimest enthusiasm as
these God-knowing mortals bid their loved ones a transient farewell as they are
removed from their material associations by the spiritual fires of consuming
grandeur and ascending glory. On worlds settled in light and life, “funerals”
are occasions of supreme joy, profound satisfaction, and inexpressible hope.
The souls of these progressing
mortals are increasingly filled with faith, hope, and assurance. The spirit
permeating those gathered around the translation shrine resembles that of the
joyful friends and relatives who might assemble at a graduating exercise for
one of their group, or who might come together to witness the conferring of
some great honor upon one of their number. And it would be decidedly helpful if
less advanced mortals could only learn to view natural death with something of
this same cheerfulness and lightheartedness.
Mortal observers can see nothing of
their translated associates subsequent to the fusion flash. Such translated
souls proceed by Adjuster transit direct to the resurrection hall of the
appropriate morontia-training world. These transactions concerned with the
translation of living human beings to the morontia world are supervised by an
archangel who was assigned to such a world on the day when it was first settled
in light and life. Courtesy of
Urantia.org
~Sovrnty Society
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