48.6.26 You will learn that you increase your
burdens and decrease the likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously. Nothing can
take precedence over the work of your status sphere — this world or the next. Very important is the work of preparation
for the next higher sphere, but nothing equals the importance of the work of the world in which you are actually living.
But though the work is important, the self is not. When you feel important, you lose energy to the wear
and tear of ego dignity so that there is little energy left to do the work. Self-importance, not work-importance, exhausts
immature creatures; it is the self element that exhausts, not the effort to achieve. You can do important work if you do not
become self-important; you can do several things as easily as one if you leave yourself out. Variety is restful; monotony
is what wears and exhausts. Day after day is alike — just life or the alternative of death.
39.2.13The angels cannot transport combustion bodies — flesh and blood — such as you now have,
but they can transport all others, from the lowest morontia to the higher spirit forms.They do not function in the event of natural death. When you finish your earthly career, your body remains on
this planet. Your Thought Adjuster proceeds to the bosom of the Father, and these angels are not
directly concerned in your subsequent personality reassembly on the identification mansion world. There your new body is a
morontia form, one that can enseraphim. You “sow a mortal body” in the grave; you “reap a morontia form”
on the mansion worlds.
