[tmtranscripts] N. Idaho TeaM 10/13/02

[RickGiles]

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.
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