2002-10-13-Many Mansions

Session

Opening

Malvantra (Jonathan TR): This is Malvantra; I am in your company today.

Lesson

Soul

It was said by our Creator Son at one time on your world that in the Father’s house there are many mansions. This line creates a perspective that at first appears reversed or inverted. To many of you a mansion is quite large while a house is considerably smaller. Most of you function quite comfortably with a few rooms. Your house is equipped with basic needs and functions, and you dwell therein quite well. Is it not the view that a mansion exceeds what is provided by a house? At what point, if you were to add rooms, facilities, and increase the functions of your house does it warrant being called a mansion? Is it the entryway? Is it the banisters and balconies? Leaded windows? View towers? Resplendent grounds? To some ten quarters within a house is a mansion. To others it is not a mansion until it sprawls over acres. I bring this up to illustrate that these mansions are places of the realization of fulfillment.

Each of you strives to attain higher levels of spirit being. Each of you is making progress at your own pace, adopting character traits, living habits, that you consider contributory to your spiritual well- being. And you are all making good effort at deepening your contact with the divine through prayer, through energy incircuitment, through service, and through response to what life and the Father’s Indwelling Presence steers your way. Are these not the balconies, the leaded windows, grand entryway, or marble pillars of a mansion?

When Michael spoke of these mansions, these locations of fulfillment, he also said he goes to prepare a place for you. What is it that he prepares that you may realize fulfillment? And this fulfillment is not simply your satisfaction but a resplendence of satisfaction, for, as I have stated, a house can be much less in stature than a mansion. Your fulfillment as you seek the ideals of spiritual reality will likewise be more than your ability to conceive it to be.

For now you are adding rooms to your house of spirit living, and as you do so you occupy only the room that you are working on. Yet the mansion emerges. While engaged you are unable to step back and view the entire structure. Likewise your morontia soul is expanding as you build your mansion. While you take delight in a perceived attainment in your spiritual work, while you rejoice over effectively acting according to your ideals, you are only perceiving the work of one room: your freshly laid carpet, the new chandelier. This does give you an inkling of the mansion that is emerging. This preparation that Michael spoke of is his engagement of his administrators in orchestrating potentials throughout Nebadon that foster your growth.

While it is often thought that Jesus prepares a mansion wherein you may dwell as you pass from this life into“ heaven ”, I emphasize today that you are building this mansion, and that the place he prepares is the real estate upon which you build your mansion, and this place is the morontia realm of Nebadon, so that you have a location whereon your mansion may stand. You have a body of divinely connected souls who together are emerging as a city of mansions. Michael provides the real estate. Each one of his children is building the mansions; they are your souls.

But let us return to the question of the mansions within the house. What is the Father’s house that holds these mansions which are upon the place, the real estate, that Michael has prepared? I present to you the notion that the Father’s house is the vast realm of potential experience, that reservoir wherein you draw your materials, the hardware store in the sky, the lumber yard. Where it does appear odd to speak of a house containing mansions, it is not perplexing to view the transformation of a house into a mansion. All houses are potential mansions. The Father's house is the realm of potential wherein each of you builds that mansion. Your Creator Son seeks to accommodate your emergence as a soul. Out of the house of potential of the Father you spiritualize your mansion/soul. And Michael has provided an actual location for this soul that has come from the Father’s potential.

I spoke earlier of at what point does a house become a mansion. What significant item is added to redefine it from house to mansion? You might consider that the change in status depends on the occupant. To one who has been reared in a single room dwelling, two rooms are mansion- like. So, while this quote of the master speaks of the life beyond this world, I attempt today to bring it home to your daily experience that this day in the Father’s house there are many mansions. Michael does prepare a place for you. When you rise and begin your day, an array of potentials lie in wait to be experienced. Michael goes with you preparing the place wherein, when you experience a new truth, it may root. You are not alone in your mansion building. While you go over to your storehouse of potentials, if we continue in this metaphor of dwellings, pick up your lumber pile to begin or to continue your construction. Michael is clearing the grounds, removing the debris, making it ready for your assembly. That is the“ preparing ” he spoke of.

It is true that all that blesses your life is a bestowal of the Father, a gift from the Son. But these mansions are also a part of your doing. The Father expresses His acceptance of your work, for it is in His house that your mansion resides. Jesus is also supportive and approving of your work, for he goes ahead of you and prepares the place, the location.

Today you will finish your activities and go to your rest. A little more of your mansion will have emerged. You will awake to another day, and your ideals will draw you toward more mansion building. One time you will awaken in the morontia realm and your mansion will be far more visible than it is today, but today you can sit back and enjoy the completion relatively speaking, of your construction project.

I wind up my discourse with one more thought, and that is regarding struggle. Struggling encases the sense that other things are working against you, things which you must confront to put aside, to overcome to accomplish your desire. While no one, myself included, could ever alleviate the obstacles, you can relieve the sense of struggle if you remind yourself that it is in the Father’s house that you are working, and that Michael goes before you to prepare the place. Building requires work. It entails exhaustion but yields the mansion. Dwelling upon this mechanism can remove the uncomfortable emotional element involved in struggle.

I am willing to engage with you in dialogue at this time.

Dialogue

Catastrophism

Evelyn: We were talking earlier about what constitutes a“salvable ” population. (51:2.3) What ingredients make up a salvable person in the instance of a planet being no longer fit for habitation? As a Melchizedek you would be involved in moving a population to a different place. I was starting to think it might be a stage of soul growth that would constitute a salvable person, someone who had already made the decision that might otherwise be offered to them after resurrecting, of whether to continue ascending or not. Can you add to what we read on that?

Malvantra: Human beings who have initiated soul growth and human beings who are well under way in the growth of soul are of great consideration when a Melchizedek corps engages with the Life Carriers in such a transfer of population from a world no longer inhabitable to another, for while it is desirable -- and many beings work for the goal of Light and Life -- of greater value is the birth of any soul and its growth and its reaching to the attainment of Paradise. Therefore what falls short of soul contribution may be struck from the entry list for transfer. But regarding the intricacies of an evolutionary world such as yours there is a delicate balance that must be maintained in order to foster the growth of souls and the attainment of a planet in Light and Life, for as we are speaking now, the attainment of a civilized population of beings no matter what planet in Light in Life, we must include many elements which are interconnected to bring growth and to bring Light and Life. As example, there are factions on your world who would consider the salvageable population to be strictly their skin color, the rest being disposable. The Father has created many races because the conflict between your races brings greater spiritual realization, heightens your sensitivity of brotherhood and the truth of the Father’s love for all. Without the contrast and the comparison, it would take not so much more time to realize brotherly love but to realize a brotherly love where you thought it not existed. So a salvageable population may entail some genetic disorders, a cross- section of racial types and personality types such that the ecology of peoples is maintained. It is not the selection of an elect group; it is a balanced assembly of a broad range of contributing factors through many peoples that is salvageable. But this reference you speak of is in the context of a world that must be emptied. So, more simply stated, the canvas of those to go to the new world is done over those still on the world, the rest having been, through one form or another in the disaster, already transferred to the survivor chambers of the mansion worlds. What is left must be assembled in balance and transferred.

Never would we reject the volunteering of any individual in a circumstance like that who would desire to go, but we would provide counsel that perhaps rather than being transferred to another physical world like Urantia to continue the evolution towards Light and Life that this individual has an alternate route of beginning the ascent of the mansion worlds. In that counsel that individual can make an enlightened decision as to whether their contribution to the further growth of a civilization would be worth the undertaking.

Every soul is worthy of being salvaged when on the brink of destruction. It is illustrated in Michael’s parable of leaving the ninety nine sheep for the one lost. When it comes to projects such as Urantia wherein life is begun on a sphere and Light and Life is a hoped- for outcome, selectivity is important, and parameters define what is contributing and what is disrupting the progress. A disaster of the magnitude you speak of wherein a world must be evacuated illustrates that even if the orb itself distracts from the attainment of Light and Life, celestial administration is prepared to remove the distraction, to transfer the population, and continue the project. All the while every soul is sought after by the Father, is cared for and loved.

I hope this has contributed to your considerations of this potential event.

Kirk: You cleared up a lot for me, thank you.

Malvantra: You are welcome.

Evelyn: Today many of us see a massive war being a likely cause of unleashing some agent that perhaps could cause the world to be uninhabitable. Poison gas or some biological agent. I’m hearing you say that a lot of people would die first and then the remaining would be shuffled off to another world. It wouldn’t be like seeing the cloud coming and quick whisk us out from under it.

Malvantra: No, because of the supremacy of free will we would be unable to intervene. That is why that term “salvageable” sticks out so boldly as you consider this quotation from the Urantia text. It isn’t said“ preservable ” which would imply combing through the population and grabbing the valuable elements first. Salvageable implies going through afterwards in order to make the best of what remains.

Melchizedeks, Free will

However, I must also state that we Melchizedeks are given the authority to intervene in planetary affairs, and we can seize control of the world. However our controlling factors even then are unable to interfere with your free will. Since humankind is far more greatly uneducated than your midway cousins and the angelic hosts also upon this world, we are less capable of providing the information you would need to not make those disastrous freewill decisions. We can seize a world, portray to the celestial beings here the potential implications, and they in their fortuitous situation would make adjustments of their own free will and contribute to bringing the world back to balance.

One day the veil will be drawn back between the celestial and the terrestrial, and you human beings will have better access to such counsel as us Melchizedeks. While you may wish that that could happen today, it is not the Father’s plan, for in the divine wisdom it is known that your grappling with such weighty issues as the ability of the human race to destroy the world will instill values deeper than if you had a celestial overlord prevent you from that possibility.

Another factor for consideration regarding your question of the selection of the salvageable for transfer to another world would be, as you discussed, what if your sun was to become depleted of its solar energies and was no longer useful as a source of life energy to this civilization on this planet. Then the salvageable is a far greater population base from which we would draw, and far more individuals would go. Since free will is supreme, we do not take everyone; we take those willing to go. Through education every individual would have the opportunity to either transfer worlds, remain with this world and experience its fate, or undergo a special early departure for the mansion worlds not unlike the departure of Adam and Eve’s children as they left the first garden and were on their way to the second.

I hope this helps.

Closing

Mansion Worlds

I would draw a close to our meeting today and finish by pointing out that it was not a mistake of The Urantia Book revelators to speak of the first seven worlds that you visit after your death here as mansion worlds, for these seven worlds are the spheres upon which you finish the soul building you have begun here. These are the construction platforms better suited for you to level, plumb, and square your soul, for you know that sometimes on a world like Urantia it is very difficult to find level ground on which to build a solid foundation. These mansion worlds are suited for you to complete your project and be ready for the journey across the rest of Nebadon.

Farewell.