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111:3.1 The mistakes of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 mortal mind] and the errors of [[human]] [[conduct]] may markedly [[delay]] the [[evolution]] of the [[soul]], although they cannot inhibit such a [[morontia]] [[phenomenon]] when once it has been [[initiated]] by the indwelling [[Adjuster]] with the consent of the [[creature]] [[Free will|will]]. But at any time prior to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:3._THE_PHENOMENON_OF_DEATH mortal death] this same [[material]] and human will is empowered to rescind such a [[choice]] and to reject [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:5._SURVIVAL_OF_THE_HUMAN_SELF survival]. Even after [[survival]] the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] still retains this [[prerogative]] of [[choosing]] to reject [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110_-_Relation_of_Adjusters_to_Individual_Mortals#110:7._THE_ATTAINMENT_OF_IMMORTALITY eternal life]; at any time before [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:7._ADJUSTER_FUSION fusion] with the [[Adjuster]] the evolving and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:7._FATHER-FUSED_MORTALS ascending creature] can [[choose]] to forsake [[Doing the will of God|the will of the Paradise Father]]. [[Fusion]] with the [[Adjuster]] signalizes the [[fact]] that the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] has eternally and unreservedly [[chosen]] to [[do the Father's will]].
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111:3.1 The mistakes of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 mortal mind] and the errors of [[human]] [[conduct]] may markedly [[delay]] the [[evolution]] of the [[soul]], although they cannot inhibit such a [[morontia]] [[phenomenon]] when once it has been [[initiated]] by the indwelling [[Adjuster]] with the consent of the [[creature]] [[Free will|will]]. But at any time prior to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:3._THE_PHENOMENON_OF_DEATH mortal death] this same [[material]] and human will is empowered to rescind such a [[choice]] and to reject [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:5._SURVIVAL_OF_THE_HUMAN_SELF survival]. Even after [[survival]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] still retains this [[prerogative]] of [[choosing]] to reject [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110_-_Relation_of_Adjusters_to_Individual_Mortals#110:7._THE_ATTAINMENT_OF_IMMORTALITY eternal life]; at any time before [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:7._ADJUSTER_FUSION fusion] with the [[Adjuster]] the evolving and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:7._FATHER-FUSED_MORTALS ascending creature] can [[choose]] to forsake [[Doing the will of God|the will of the Paradise Father]]. [[Fusion]] with the [[Adjuster]] signalizes the [[fact]] that the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] has eternally and unreservedly [[chosen]] to [[do the Father's will]].
  
111:3.2 During the life in the [[flesh]] the ''evolving soul'' is enabled to reinforce the supermaterial [[decisions]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mortal mind]. The [[soul]], being supermaterial, does not of itself [[function]] on the [[material]] level of [[human]] [[experience]]. Neither can this subspiritual [[soul]], without the [[collaboration]] of some [[spirit]] of [[Deity]], such as the [[Adjuster]], [[function]] above the [[morontia]] level. Neither does the [[soul]] make final [[decisions]] until [[death]] or [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110_-_Relation_of_Adjusters_to_Individual_Mortals#110:7._THE_ATTAINMENT_OF_IMMORTALITY translation] [[divorces]] it from [[material]] [[association]] with the [[mortal]] [[mind]] except when and as this [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind] [[delegates]] such [[authority]] freely and willingly to such a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF morontia soul] of [[associated]] [[function]]. During life the mortal will, the [[personality]] [[power]] of decision-[[choice]], is resident in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind circuits]; as [[terrestrial]] [[mortal]] [[growth]] [[proceeds]], this [[self]], with its priceless [[powers]] of [[choice]], becomes increasingly identified with the [[emerging]] [[morontia]]-[[soul]] [[entity]]; after [[death]] and following the [[mansion world]] [[resurrection]], the [[human]] [[personality]] is completely identified with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF morontia self]. The [[soul]] is thus the [[embryo]] of the [[future]] [[morontia]] vehicle of [[personality]] [[identity]].
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111:3.2 During the life in the [[flesh]] the ''evolving soul'' is enabled to reinforce the supermaterial [[decisions]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mortal mind]. The [[soul]], being supermaterial, does not of itself [[function]] on the [[material]] level of [[human]] [[experience]]. Neither can this subspiritual [[soul]], without the [[collaboration]] of some [[spirit]] of [[Deity]], such as the [[Adjuster]], [[function]] above the [[morontia]] level. Neither does the [[soul]] make final [[decisions]] until [[death]] or [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110_-_Relation_of_Adjusters_to_Individual_Mortals#110:7._THE_ATTAINMENT_OF_IMMORTALITY translation] [[divorces]] it from [[material]] [[association]] with the [[mortal]] [[mind]] except when and as this [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind] [[delegates]] such [[authority]] freely and willingly to such a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF morontia soul] of [[associated]] [[function]]. During life the mortal will, the [[personality]] [[power]] of decision-[[choice]], is resident in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind circuits]; as [[terrestrial]] [[mortal]] [[growth]] [[proceeds]], this [[self]], with its priceless [[powers]] of [[choice]], becomes increasingly identified with the [[emerging]] [[morontia]]-[[soul]] [[entity]]; after [[death]] and following the [[mansion world]] [[resurrection]], the [[human]] [[personality]] is completely identified with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF morontia self]. The [[soul]] is thus the [[embryo]] of the [[future]] [[morontia]] vehicle of [[personality]] [[identity]].
  
111:3.3 This [[immortal]] [[soul]] is at first wholly [[morontia]] in [[nature]], but it [[possesses]] such a [[capacity]] for [[development]] that it invariably [[ascends]] to the true [[spirit]] [[levels]] of [[fusion]] [[value]] with the spirits of [[Deity]], usually with the same [[Thought Adjuster|spirit]] of the [[Universal Father]] that [[initiated]] such a [[creative]] [[phenomenon]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111_-_The_Adjuster_and_the_Soul#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE creature mind].
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111:3.3 This [[immortal]] [[soul]] is at first wholly [[morontia]] in [[nature]], but it [[possesses]] such a [[capacity]] for [[development]] that it invariably [[ascends]] to the true [[spirit]] [[levels]] of [[fusion]] [[value]] with the spirits of [[Deity]], usually with the same [[Thought Adjuster|spirit]] of the [[Universal Father]] that [[initiated]] such a [[creative]] [[phenomenon]] in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111_-_The_Adjuster_and_the_Soul#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE creature mind].
  
111:3.4 Both the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] and the [[divine]] [[Adjuster]] are [[conscious]] of the [[presence]] and differential nature of the ''evolving soul''—the [[Adjuster]] fully, the [[mind]] partially. The [[soul]] becomes increasingly [[conscious]] of both the [[mind]] and the [[Adjuster]] as [[associated]] [[identities]], [[proportional]] to its own evolutionary [[growth]]. The [[soul]] partakes of the [[qualities]] of both the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 human mind] and the [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]] but [[persistently]] evolves toward augmentation of [[spirit]] [[control]] and [[divine]] [[dominance]] through the fostering of a [[mind]] [[function]] whose [[meanings]] seek to [[co-ordinate]] with true [[spirit]] [[value]].
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111:3.4 Both the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] and the [[divine]] [[Adjuster]] are [[conscious]] of the [[presence]] and differential nature of the ''evolving soul''—the [[Adjuster]] fully, the [[mind]] partially. The [[soul]] becomes increasingly [[conscious]] of both the [[mind]] and the [[Adjuster]] as [[associated]] [[identities]], [[proportional]] to its own evolutionary [[growth]]. The [[soul]] partakes of the [[qualities]] of both the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 human mind] and the [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]] but [[persistently]] evolves toward augmentation of [[spirit]] [[control]] and [[divine]] [[dominance]] through the fostering of a [[mind]] [[function]] whose [[meanings]] seek to [[co-ordinate]] with true [[spirit]] [[value]].
  
 
111:3.5 The [[mortal]] [[career]], the ''soul's evolution'', is not so much a [[probation]] as an [[education]]. [[Faith]] in the [[survival]] of [[supreme]] [[values]] is the core of [[religion]]; genuine [[religious]] [[experience]] consists in the [[union]] of supreme [[values]] and cosmic [[meanings]] as a [[realization]] of [[universal]] [[reality]].
 
111:3.5 The [[mortal]] [[career]], the ''soul's evolution'', is not so much a [[probation]] as an [[education]]. [[Faith]] in the [[survival]] of [[supreme]] [[values]] is the core of [[religion]]; genuine [[religious]] [[experience]] consists in the [[union]] of supreme [[values]] and cosmic [[meanings]] as a [[realization]] of [[universal]] [[reality]].
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111:3.6 [[Mind]] knows [[quantity]], [[reality]], [[meanings]]. But [[quality]]—[[values]]—is felt. That which [[feels]] is the [[mutual]] [[creation]] of [[mind]], which knows, and the [[associated]] [[spirit]], which [[reality]]-izes.
 
111:3.6 [[Mind]] knows [[quantity]], [[reality]], [[meanings]]. But [[quality]]—[[values]]—is felt. That which [[feels]] is the [[mutual]] [[creation]] of [[mind]], which knows, and the [[associated]] [[spirit]], which [[reality]]-izes.
  
111:3.7 In so far as man's evolving [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF morontia soul] becomes permeated by [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness] as the [[value]]-[[realization]] of [[God-consciousness]], such a resultant [[being]] becomes indestructible. If there is no [[survival]] of [[eternal]] [[values]] in the ''evolving soul'' of man, then [[mortal]] [[existence]] is without [[meaning]], and life itself is a [[tragic]] [[illusion]]. But it is forever true: What you begin in [[time]] you will assuredly finish in [[eternity]]—if it is [[worth]] finishing.
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111:3.7 In so far as man's evolving [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF morontia soul] becomes permeated by [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness] as the [[value]]-[[realization]] of [[God-consciousness]], such a resultant [[being]] becomes indestructible. If there is no [[survival]] of [[eternal]] [[values]] in the ''evolving soul'' of man, then [[mortal]] [[existence]] is without [[meaning]], and life itself is a [[tragic]] [[illusion]]. But it is forever true: What you begin in [[time]] you will assuredly finish in [[eternity]]—if it is [[worth]] finishing.
  
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111:3.1 The mistakes of mortal mind and the errors of human conduct may markedly delay the evolution of the soul, although they cannot inhibit such a morontia phenomenon when once it has been initiated by the indwelling Adjuster with the consent of the creature will. But at any time prior to mortal death this same material and human will is empowered to rescind such a choice and to reject survival. Even after survival the ascending mortal still retains this prerogative of choosing to reject eternal life; at any time before fusion with the Adjuster the evolving and ascending creature can choose to forsake the will of the Paradise Father. Fusion with the Adjuster signalizes the fact that the ascending mortal has eternally and unreservedly chosen to do the Father's will.

111:3.2 During the life in the flesh the evolving soul is enabled to reinforce the supermaterial decisions of the mortal mind. The soul, being supermaterial, does not of itself function on the material level of human experience. Neither can this subspiritual soul, without the collaboration of some spirit of Deity, such as the Adjuster, function above the morontia level. Neither does the soul make final decisions until death or translation divorces it from material association with the mortal mind except when and as this material mind delegates such authority freely and willingly to such a morontia soul of associated function. During life the mortal will, the personality power of decision-choice, is resident in the material mind circuits; as terrestrial mortal growth proceeds, this self, with its priceless powers of choice, becomes increasingly identified with the emerging morontia-soul entity; after death and following the mansion world resurrection, the human personality is completely identified with the morontia self. The soul is thus the embryo of the future morontia vehicle of personality identity.

111:3.3 This immortal soul is at first wholly morontia in nature, but it possesses such a capacity for development that it invariably ascends to the true spirit levels of fusion value with the spirits of Deity, usually with the same spirit of the Universal Father that initiated such a creative phenomenon in the creature mind.

111:3.4 Both the human mind and the divine Adjuster are conscious of the presence and differential nature of the evolving soul—the Adjuster fully, the mind partially. The soul becomes increasingly conscious of both the mind and the Adjuster as associated identities, proportional to its own evolutionary growth. The soul partakes of the qualities of both the human mind and the divine spirit but persistently evolves toward augmentation of spirit control and divine dominance through the fostering of a mind function whose meanings seek to co-ordinate with true spirit value.

111:3.5 The mortal career, the soul's evolution, is not so much a probation as an education. Faith in the survival of supreme values is the core of religion; genuine religious experience consists in the union of supreme values and cosmic meanings as a realization of universal reality.

111:3.6 Mind knows quantity, reality, meanings. But qualityvalues—is felt. That which feels is the mutual creation of mind, which knows, and the associated spirit, which reality-izes.

111:3.7 In so far as man's evolving morontia soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness as the value-realization of God-consciousness, such a resultant being becomes indestructible. If there is no survival of eternal values in the evolving soul of man, then mortal existence is without meaning, and life itself is a tragic illusion. But it is forever true: What you begin in time you will assuredly finish in eternity—if it is worth finishing.

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