48:6.4 (552.2) 1.
48:6.5 (552.3) On the mansion worlds the seraphic evangels will help you to choose wisely among the optional routes to Edentia, Salvington, Uversa, and Havona. If there are a number of equally advisable routes, these will be put before you, and you will be permitted to select the one that most appeals to you. These seraphim then make recommendations to the four and twenty advisers on Jerusem concerning that course which would be most advantageous for each ascending soul.
48:6.6 (552.4) You are not given unrestricted choice as to your future course; but you may choose within the limits of that which the transition ministers and their superiors wisely determine to be most suitable for your future spirit attainment. The spirit world is governed on the principle of respecting your freewill choice provided the course you may choose is not detrimental to you or injurious to your fellows.
48:6.7 (552.5) These seraphic evangels are dedicated to the proclamation of the gospel of eternal progression, the triumph of perfection attainment. On the mansion worlds they proclaim the great law of the conservation and dominance of goodness: No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion to the divinity of its motivation.
48:6.8 (552.6) Even on Urantia they counsel the human teachers of truth and righteousness to adhere to the preaching of “the goodness of God, which leads to repentance,” to proclaim “the love of God, which casts out all fear.” Even so have these truths been declared on your world:
48:6.9 (552.7) The Gods are my caretakers; I shall not stray;
48:6.10 (552.8) Side by side they lead me in the beautiful paths and glorious refreshing of life everlasting.
48:6.11 (552.9) I shall not, in this Divine Presence, want for food nor thirst for water.
48:6.12 (552.10) Though I go down into the valley of uncertainty or ascend up into the worlds of doubt,
48:6.13 (552.11) Though I move in loneliness or with the fellows of my kind,
48:6.14 (552.12) Though I triumph in the choirs of light or falter in the solitary places of the spheres,
48:6.15 (552.13) Your good spirit shall minister to me, and your glorious angel will comfort me.
48:6.16 (552.14) Though I descend into the depths of darkness and death itself,
48:6.17 (552.15) I shall not doubt you nor fear you,
48:6.18 (552.16) For I know that in the fullness of time and the glory of your name
48:6.19 (552.17) You will raise me up to sit with you on the battlements on high.
48:6.20 (553.1) That is the story whispered in the night season to the shepherd boy. He could not retain it word for word, but to the best of his memory he gave it much as it is recorded today.
48:6.21 (553.2) These seraphim are also the evangels of the gospel of perfection attainment for the whole system as well as for the individual ascender. Even now in the young system of Satania their teachings and plans encompass provisions for the future ages when the mansion worlds will no longer serve the mortal ascenders as steppingstones to the spheres on high.
48:6.22 (553.3) 2.
