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Rest encompasses sleep, play, discovery, worship, energy intake, transition sleep, and Paradise attainment, manifesting in various forms across different life orders and states of existence. 27:1.2

There is always time for rest and worship, even amidst earnest tasks and spiritual progress. 25:7.2

Reversion directors guide us to reminisce about earlier experiences, providing a restful escape from the efforts of current attainment and allowing for carefree contemplation of the past. (48:4.10,12)

Jesus established a mid-week holiday for rest and recreation, which his disciples followed throughout his material life. 138:6.2

Recruited beings assisting in thought change and mind rest to recuperate depleted energies are known as reversion directors. 48:4.9-10

In the Urantia Book

Transition rest

  • Your first transition was indeed death, the second an ideal sleep, and now the third metamorphosis is the true rest, the relaxation of the ages. 26:11.8
  • After completing their service, princes' corporeal staff enter a transition rest before returning to the system headquarters for their Paradise career. 50:3.6
  • During seraphic transport, there is a serene and restful state where unconsciousness allows for transformative work to take place. 39:2.11 66:2.7
  • The final metamorphic sleep attends transition from universe status into eternity, guided by the instigators of divine rest. 27:1
  • The terminal rest before residential status on Paradise replenishes energy losses and reserves of spirit for the next stage of the eternal journey guided by the Graduate Guides. 24:6.3 26:7.4 26:10.6 26:11.6 (27:1.1,3) 44:5.9
  • Moving through midspace to Paradise requires a transition from time to eternity, resulting in unconsciousness for Paradise pilgrims seeking citizenship. 12:5.4
  • Translation sleep on mansion worlds facilitates the progress of morontia progressors as they move from one world to another every ten days until reaching their designated assignment. 47:3.10

Divine rest

  • Advancing celestial beings all enjoy wholesome diversion, uplifting play, refreshing sleep, and the ministry of reversion directors. 84:8.5
  • Rest on morontia worlds includes provision for recreation and play, with enormous edifices utilized for the seasons of rest and suitable settings for reversion directors and humorists. 44:3.4
  • Guardians are relieved by their complements for rest and recharging, during which the associated cherubim serves as the recorder in their absence. 113:2.10
  • Rest in the spirit world is essential for the replenishment of morontia and spirit energy, associated with spiritual-energy intake. 44:5.8
  • Rest, essential to the enjoyment of Paradise, is orchestrated by the instigators who collaborate with their colleagues to prepare pilgrims for eternity. 27:1.1
  • Divine rest is essential for replenishing energy losses and for effectively utilizing space energies. 44:5.8-10
  • Those who enter the kingdom shall enjoy divine rest and receive abundant joy and spiritual progress in this world and the age to come. 137:8.14

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

See also

ExhaustionFatigue
Categories: Concepts and teachings