THE PROBATIONARY NURSERY
Destiny of Children Who Die Young
What About the Rest of Us?
Many children die on earth before acquiring individual spiritual status on the universe records. These children of surviving mortals are received and reassembled on one of the worlds in Jerusem-- the Finaliters’ World. The probationary nursery is supervised by volunteer Material Sons and Daughters and other celestial volunteers who nurture and train these children. The survival of either of a child’s natural parents insures that it will be repersonalized on this world.
Some mortal survivors who have one or more children in the probationary nursery may be permitted to join their children in the nursery there to function as associate parents to their own and other children. But all mansion world parents of children in the probationary nursery may participate in their children’s instruction and training. Also, all parents may obtain permission to visit their children as often as four times per year.
Children are repersonalized as of their exact physical status at the time of death but without the sex differentiation as there is no reproduction of the mortal kind after mortals leave their native world. This awakening occurs at the exact time of the parental arrival on the first mansion world. And then are these children given every opportunity, as they are, to choose the heavenly way just as they would have made such a choice on the worlds where death so untimely terminated their careers.
Any time after sixteen, if final choice has been made, they translate to the first mansion world and begin their Paradise ascent. A few children make their choice to enter the Paradise path of perfection before age sixteen and are translated to the first mansion world to continue their universe training.
Not all children choose to enter the mortal ascension program. When material life has run its course, if no choice has been made for the ascendant life, or if these children of time definitely decide against the Havona [and Paradise] adventure, death automatically terminates their probationary careers. There is no adjudication of such cases; there is no resurrection from such a second death. They simply become as though they had not been.
Upon attaining Paradise and the Deities, these salvaged souls of mortal origin constitute the permanent ascendant citizenship of Paradise. These children who have been deprived of the valuable and essential evolutionary experience on the worlds of mortal nativity are not mustered into the Corps of the Finality. [The Corps of the Finality is the destination of most mortals who complete the age-long training course in universe administration.] [45:6:7-9] [47:1:4,6] [47:2:1-8]
WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF US?
The
probationary nursery is the immediate destination for children whose life
experience has been cut short by death. But what about persons who acquire the
requisite evolutionary experience before death? What determines whether they
will be resurrected in heaven [Mansion World Number One]?
God has provided generously for the survival
of all mortals irrespective of their age. But the survival of mortal creatures
is wholly predicated on the evolvement of an immortal soul within the mortal
mind. The soul is born with the first moral activity of the human mind. At
that instant a divine spirit, the Adjuster [Indwelling Spirit], arrives to
indwell the mind of the mortal to foster the development of the soul. A moral
person can cooperate with the Adjuster, either consciously or unconsciously,
by making decisions based on a knowledge of right and
wrong.
Working together, the mortal and the
Adjuster create a soul with survival qualities. But at any time prior to
mortal death a person can choose to reject survival. Even after resurrection
on Mansion World Number One an ascending mortal can decide against the
Paradise Ascension Program. However, fusion with the indwelling Adjuster
signifies that the ascending mortal has eternally and unreservedly chosen to
do the Father’s will. [5:5:14] [36:6:5] [111:3:1] [133:6:5]
Many persons make little effort to
distinguish between right and wrong. Their decisions are based primarily on
self-interest: What action will advance my career; increase my wealth; give me
power over more people. Such persons are in mortal danger of joining the ranks
of the non-survivors--persons whose universe career ends at death: "they .
. . shall utterly perish in their own corruption . . ."
[Psalms
1:6] [2 Peter 2:12] [The King James Study Bible, Thomas Nelson
Publishers, Nashville TN]
We can be grateful that God’s love and mercy
are from everlasting to everlasting: "God is inherently kind, naturally
compassionate, and everlastingly merciful." [2:4:2] [Jeremiah 33:11] [Isaiah
54:8]
"He is not willing that any should
perish." [2:5:2] [2 Peter 3:9]
When in doubt as to whether a mortal should
be resurrected in heaven, celestial rulers invariably rule in the personal
interests of that individual; they unhesitatingly advance the soul to the
Mansion Worlds while they continue to observe the mortal’s intent and
spiritual purpose. Thus divine justice is certain of achievement, and divine
mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its
ministry.
Celestial governments do not claim
absolute perfection for the detail working of the universal plan of mortal
repersonalization, but they do claim to, and actually do, manifest patience,
tolerance, understanding, and merciful sympathy. They had rather assume the
risk of a system rebellion than to court the hazard of depriving one
struggling mortal from any evolutionary world of the eternal joy of pursuing
the ascending career. The sovereign Judges of the universes will not deprive
any being of personality status who has not finally and fully made the eternal
choice; the soul of man must and will be given full and ample opportunity to
reveal its true intent and real purpose. [112:5:7,9]
The mortals of the realms will arise in the morning of the resurrection with the same type of transition or morontia body that Jesus had when he arose from the tomb on this Sunday morning. These bodies do not have circulating blood, and such beings do not partake of ordinary material food; nevertheless, these morontia forms are real. When the various believers saw Jesus after his resurrection, they really saw him; they were not the self-deceived victims of visions or hallucinations. [ 190:0:3]
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