North Idaho Teaching Mission Group
Topics:In the Father's House are Many Mansions
Teachers: Malvantra
October 13, 2002
* Malvantra (Jonathan TR): This is Malvantra; I am in your
company today.
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.
Evelyn: We were talking earlier about what constitutes a
“salvable” population. 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.
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.
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.
