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| | '''Personality''' is bestowed by the [[Universal Father]] upon his creatures as a potentially [[eternal]] endowment. Such a divine gift is designed to function on numerous levels and in successive universe situations ranging from the lowly finite to the highest [[absonite]], even to the borders of the [[absolute]]. Personality thus performs on three [[cosmic]] planes or in three [[universe]] phases: | | '''Personality''' is bestowed by the [[Universal Father]] upon his creatures as a potentially [[eternal]] endowment. Such a divine gift is designed to function on numerous levels and in successive universe situations ranging from the lowly finite to the highest [[absonite]], even to the borders of the [[absolute]]. Personality thus performs on three [[cosmic]] planes or in three [[universe]] phases: |
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| − | * Position status. Personality functions equally efficiently in the local universe, in the [[superuniverse]], and in the [[central universe]]. | + | * Position status. Personality functions equally efficiently in the local universe, in the [[superuniverse]], and in the [[Havona|central universe]]. |
| | * [[Meaning]] status. Personality performs effectively on the levels of the [[finite]], the [[absonite]], and even as impinging upon the [[absolute]]. | | * [[Meaning]] status. Personality performs effectively on the levels of the [[finite]], the [[absonite]], and even as impinging upon the [[absolute]]. |
| | * [[Value]] status. Personality can be experientially realized in the progressive realms of the [[material]], the [[morontial]], and the [[spiritual]]. | | * [[Value]] status. Personality can be experientially realized in the progressive realms of the [[material]], the [[morontial]], and the [[spiritual]]. |
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| | + | <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Personality]]''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Personality this link].</center> |
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| | Personality has a perfected range of cosmic dimensional performance. The dimensions of finite personality are three, and they are roughly functional as follows: | | Personality has a perfected range of cosmic dimensional performance. The dimensions of finite personality are three, and they are roughly functional as follows: |
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| | In aggregations parts are added; in systems parts are arranged. Systems are significant because of organization—positional values. In a good system all factors are in cosmic position. In a bad system something is either missing or displaced—deranged. In the human system it is the personality which unifies all activities and in turn imparts the qualities of identity and creativity. | | In aggregations parts are added; in systems parts are arranged. Systems are significant because of organization—positional values. In a good system all factors are in cosmic position. In a bad system something is either missing or displaced—deranged. In the human system it is the personality which unifies all activities and in turn imparts the qualities of identity and creativity. |
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| − | ==THE SELF== | + | *'''''[[Human Personality]]''''' |
| − | | + | *'''''[[1:6 Personality in the Universe|Personality in the Universe]]''''' |
| − | It would be helpful in the study of selfhood to remember:
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| − | * That [[physical]] systems are subordinate. | |
| − | * That [[intellectual]] systems are co-ordinate. | |
| − | * That [[personality]] is superordinate.
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| − | * That the indwelling [[spiritual]] force is potentially directive.
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| − | In all concepts of selfhood it should be recognized that the [[fact]] of life comes first, its evaluation or [[interpretation]] later. The human child first lives and subsequently thinks about his living. In the [[cosmic]] [[economy]] insight precedes foresight.
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| − | The universe fact of God's becoming man has forever changed all meanings and altered all values of human personality. In the true meaning of the word, love connotes mutual regard of whole personalities, whether human or [[divine]] or human and divine. Parts of the self may function in numerous ways—thinking, feeling, wishing—but only the co-ordinated attributes of the whole personality are focused in intelligent action; and all of these powers are associated with the spiritual endowment of the mortal [[mind]] when a human being sincerely and unselfishly loves another being, human or divine.
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| − | All mortal concepts of reality are based on the assumption of the actuality of human personality; all concepts of [[superhuman]] realities are based on the experience of the human personality with and in the cosmic realities of certain associated [[spiritual]] entities and divine personalities. <u>Everything nonspiritual in human experience, excepting personality, is a means to an end. Every true relationship of mortal man with other persons—human or divine—is an end in itself. And such fellowship with the personality of Deity is the eternal goal of universe ascension.</u>
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| − | The possession of personality identifies man as a spiritual being since the unity of selfhood and the self-consciousness of personality are endowments of the supermaterial world. The very fact that a mortal [[materialist]] can deny the existence of supermaterial realities in and of itself demonstrates the [[presence]], and indicates the working, of [[spirit]] [[synthesis]] and [[cosmic consciousness]] in his human mind.
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| − | There exists a great cosmic gulf between [[matter]] and thought, and this gulf is immeasurably greater between material mind and spiritual love. Consciousness, much less self-consciousness, cannot be explained by any theory of mechanistic electronic association or materialistic energy [[phenomena]].
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| − | As mind pursues reality to its ultimate [[analysis]], matter vanishes to the material senses but may still remain real to mind. When spiritual insight pursues that reality which remains after the disappearance of matter and pursues it to an ultimate analysis, it vanishes to mind, but the insight of spirit can still perceive cosmic realities and supreme values of a spiritual nature. Accordingly does [[science]] give way to [[philosophy]], while philosophy must surrender to the conclusions inherent in genuine [[spiritual]] [[experience]]. Thinking surrenders to [[wisdom]], and wisdom is lost in enlightened and reflective [[worship]].
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| − | In science the human self observes the material world; philosophy is the observation of this observation of the material world; religion, true spiritual experience, is the experiential realization of the cosmic reality of the observation of the observation of all this relative synthesis of the energy materials of [[time]] and [[space]]. To build a philosophy of the universe on an exclusive materialism is to ignore the fact that all things material are initially conceived as real in the experience of human consciousness. The observer cannot be the thing observed; evaluation demands some degree of [[transcendence]] of the thing which is evaluated.
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| − | <center>''In time, thinking leads to wisdom and wisdom leads to worship; in eternity, worship leads to wisdom, and wisdom eventuates in the finality of thought.''</center>
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| − | The possibility of the unification of the evolving self is inherent in the qualities of its constitutive factors: the basic energies, the master tissues, the fundamental chemical overcontrol, the supreme ideas, the supreme motives, the supreme goals, and the divine [[spirit]] of [[Paradise]] bestowal—the secret of the self-consciousness of man's spiritual nature.
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| − | The purpose of cosmic [[evolution]] is to achieve unity of personality through increasing spirit dominance, [[volition|volitional]] response to the teaching and leading of the [[Thought Adjuster]]. Personality, both human and superhuman, is characterized by an inherent cosmic quality which may be called " the evolution of dominance, " the expansion of the control of both itself and its environment.
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| − | An ascending onetime human personality passes through two great phases of increasing volitional dominance over the self and in the universe:
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| − | * The prefinaliter or God-seeking experience of augmenting the self-realization through a technique of identity expansion and actualization together with cosmic problem solving and consequent universe mastery.
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| − | * The postfinaliter or God-revealing experience of the creative expansion of self-realization through revealing the [[Supreme Being]] of experience to the God-seeking [[intelligence]]s who have not yet attained the divine levels of Godlikeness.
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| − | Descending personalities attain [[analogy|analogous]] experiences through their various [[universe]] adventures as they seek for enlarged capacity for ascertaining and executing the divine wills of the [[Supreme]], [[Ultimate]], and [[Absolute]] [[Deity|Deities]].
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| − | The material self, the [[ego]]-entity of human [[identity]], is dependent during the physical life on the continuing function of the material life vehicle, on the continued existence of the unbalanced equilibrium of energies and [[intellect]] which, on Urantia, has been given the name life. But selfhood of survival value, selfhood that can transcend the experience of death, is only evolved by establishing a potential transfer of the seat of the identity of the evolving personality from the transient life vehicle—the material body—to the more enduring and immortal nature of the morontia [[soul]] and on beyond to those levels whereon the soul becomes infused with, and eventually attains the status of, [[spirit]] reality. This actual transfer from material association to morontia identification is effected by the sincerity, persistence, and steadfastness of the God-seeking decisions of the human creature. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112_-_Personality_Survival#112:1._PERSONALITY_AND_REALITY] | |
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