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118:8.1 In the [[time-space]] [[creations]], [[free will]] is hedged about with restraints, with [[limitations]]. [[Material]]-life [[evolution]] is first [[mechanical]], then [[mind]] [[activated]], and (after the [[bestowal]] of [[personality]]) it may become [[spirit]] directed. [[Organic]] [[evolution]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] is [[physically]] [[limited]] by the [[potentials]] of the [[original]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:3._LIFE_TRANSPLANTATION physical-life implantations] of the [[Life Carriers]].
118:8.2 [[Mortal]] man is a [[machine]], a living [[mechanism]]; his [[roots]] are truly in the [[physical]] world of [[energy]]. Many human [[reactions]] are [[mechanical]] in [[nature]]; much of life is machinelike. But man, a [[mechanism]], is much more than a machine; he is [[mind]] [[endowed]] and [[spirit]] indwelt; and though he can never throughout his [[material]] life [[escape]] the [[chemical]] and [[electrical]] [[mechanics]] of his [[existence]], he can increasingly learn how to subordinate this [[physical]]-life [[machine]] to the directive [[wisdom]] of [[experience]] by the [[process]] of [[consecrating]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] to the [[execution]] of the [[spiritual]] urges of the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]].
118:8.3 The [[spirit]] [[liberates]], and the [[mechanism]] [[limits]], the [[function]] of will. Imperfect [[choice]], uncontrolled by [[mechanism]], unidentified with [[spirit]], is [[dangerous]] and unstable. [[Mechanical]] [[dominance]] insures [[stability]] at the expense of [[progress]]; [[spirit]] [[alliance]] [[liberates]] [[choice]] from the [[physical]] level and at the [[same time]] [[assures]] the [[divine]] [[stability]] produced by augmented [[universe]] [[insight]] and increased [[cosmic]] [[comprehension]].
118:8.4 The great [[danger]] that besets the [[creature]] is that, in achieving [[liberation]] from the fetters of the life [[mechanism]], he will fail to [[compensate]] this loss of [[stability]] by effecting a [[harmonious]] working [[liaison]] with [[spirit]]. [[Creature]] [[choice]], when [[relatively]] [[liberated]] from [[mechanical]] [[stability]], may attempt further [[self]]-[[liberation]] [[independent]] of greater [[spirit]] [[identification]].
118:8.5 The [[whole]] [[principle]] of [[biologic]] [[evolution]] makes it impossible for [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive man] to [[appear]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] with any large [[endowment]] of [[self]]-[[restraint]]. Therefore does the same [[creative]] [[design]] which [[purposed]] [[evolution]] likewise provide those external restraints of [[time and space]], [[hunger]] and [[fear]], which effectively [[circumscribe]] the subspiritual [[choice]] range of such uncultured [[creatures]]. As man's mind successfully overstrides increasingly [[difficult]] barriers, this same [[creative]] [[design]] has also provided for the slow accumulation of the [[racial]] [[heritage]] of painfully garnered [[experiential]] [[wisdom]]—in other [[words]], for the [[maintenance]] of a [[balance]] between the diminishing external restraints and the augmenting internal restraints.
118:8.6 The slowness of [[evolution]], of [[human]] [[cultural]] [[progress]], testifies to the effectiveness of that brake—material [[inertia]]—which so [[efficiently]] operates to retard [[dangerous]] [[velocities]] of [[progress]]. Thus does time itself cushion and [[distribute]] the otherwise lethal results of premature [[escape]] from the next-[[encompassing]] barriers to [[human]] [[action]]. For when [[culture]] advances overfast, when [[material]] achievement outruns the [[evolution]] of [[worship]]-[[wisdom]], then does civilization contain within itself the [[seeds]] of [[retrogression]]; and unless buttressed by the swift [[augmentation]] of [[experiential]] [[wisdom]], such human [[societies]] will recede from high but premature levels of [[attainment]], and the "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ages dark ages]" of the interregnum of [[wisdom]] will bear [[witness]] to the inexorable restoration of the imbalance between [[self]]-[[liberty]] and [[self]]-[[control]].
118:8.7 The [[iniquity]] of [[Caligastia]] was the by-passing of the [[time]] governor of [[progressive]] [[human]] [[liberation]]—the gratuitous destruction of restraining barriers, barriers which the [[mortal]] [[minds]] of those times had not experientially overridden.
118:8.8 That [[mind]] which can [[effect]] a partial abridgment of [[time and space]], by this very [[act]] [[proves]] itself [[possessed]] of the [[seeds]] of [[wisdom]] which can effectively serve in lieu of the [[transcended]] barrier of [[restraint]].
118:8.9 [[Lucifer]] similarly sought to disrupt the [[time]] governor operating in restraint of the premature [[attainment]] of certain liberties in the [[local system]]. A local system settled in [[light and life]] has experientially [[achieved]] those [[viewpoints]] and [[insights]] which make feasible the operation of many [[techniques]] that would be disruptive and destructive in the presettled eras of that very realm.
118:8.10 As [[man]] shakes off the shackles of [[fear]], as he bridges [[continents]] and [[oceans]] with his [[machines]], [[generations]] and centuries with his [[records]], he must substitute for each [[transcended]] [[restraint]] a new and voluntarily assumed restraint in [[accordance]] with the [[moral]] [[dictates]] of [[expanding]] human [[wisdom]]. These self-imposed restraints are at once the most [[powerful]] and the most [[tenuous]] of all the [[factors]] of human [[civilization]]—[[concepts]] of [[justice]] and [[ideals]] of [[brotherhood]]. Man even qualifies himself for the restraining [[garments]] of [[mercy]] when he [[dare]]s to [[love]] his fellow men, while he [[achieves]] the beginnings of [[spiritual]] [[brotherhood]] when he [[elects]] to mete out to them that treatment which he himself would be accorded, even that treatment which he [[conceives]] that [[God]] would accord them.
118:8.11 An [[automatic]] [[universe]] [[reaction]] is [[stable]] and, in some [[form]], continuing in the [[cosmos]]. A [[personality]] who [[know]]s [[God]] and [[desires]] [[to do his will]], who has [[spirit]] [[insight]], is [[divinely]] [[stable]] and eternally existent. Man's great [[universe]] [[adventure]] consists in the [[transit]] of his [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 mortal mind] from the [[stability]] of [[mechanical]] [[statics]] to the [[divinity]] of [[spiritual]] [[dynamics]], and he achieves this [[transformation]] by the [[force]] and constancy of his own [[personality]] [[decisions]], in each of life's situations declaring, "It is my will that your will be done."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_12]
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