When you depart, you finish your earth career is a concept taken from the Urantia Papers. In this writing we’re told, “after your earthly journey ends, your body remains while your spirit transition to the morontia realm, a world where you undergo spiritual training and cultural education on the path of ascension.”
The “Urantia Papers” is a spiritual and philosophical book said to have been given to us by celestial beings, providing insights into the mysteries of God, Jesus, humanity, world history and the universe, including perspectives on the afterlife.
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The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascending mortal career. Urantia (Earth) is your starting point.
Your subsequent personality [will be] reassemble on the […] identification mansion world. There your new body is a morontia form. You “sow a mortal body” in the grave; you “reap a morontia form” on the mansion worlds.
Morontia is a term designating a vast level intervening between the material and the spiritual. It may designate personal or impersonal realities, living or nonliving energies. The warp of morontia is spiritual; its woof is physical.
Mortal death is a technique of escape from the material life in the flesh. The mansonia experience of progressive life through seven worlds of corrective [spiritual] training and cultural education represents the introduction of mortal survivors to the morontia career, which is the transition life which intervenes between the evolutionary material existence and the higher spirit attainment of the ascenders[…]. You will greatly enjoy your progress through the seven de-materializing worlds; they are really de-mortalizing spheres.
You are just a mortal being minus a material body, a human mind housed in a morontia form, a material body of the morontia world but not a mortal house of flesh and blood.
Throughout your sojourn on the system worlds, you were evolving from a near-animal to a morontia creature; you were more material than spiritual. Ascending mortals gradually progress from the physical to the spiritual as they advance from one morontia world to another; hence the necessity for providing an ascending scale of morontia spheres and an ascending scale of morontia forms. As mansion world ascenders pass from one sphere to another, […] you will translate from one phase of morontia life to another without having to surrender consciousness.
Unconsciousness attends only the earlier metamorphoses and the later transitions from one universe to another and from Havona to Paradise. From the time of leaving the material worlds until you are constituted a first-stage spirit, you will undergo just 570 separate and ascending morontia changes. In these worlds you are “as the angels”; you are constantly progressing but all the while maintaining a general and a typical morontia status.
In the days of the mortal flesh the divine spirit indwells you, almost as a thing apart, in reality an invasion of man by the bestowed spirit of the Universal Father. But in the morontia life the spirit will become a real part of your personality, and as you successively pass through the 570 progressive transformations, you ascend from the material to the spiritual estate of creature life.
Mortals all resemble one another; at the same time each of you possesses a distinct and recognizable personality. Taken from “Urantia Papers” Also see, Angels are Our Transportation
