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16:9.1 The [[cosmic]]-[[mind]]-endowed, [[Thought Adjuster|Adjuster]]-indwelt, [[personal]] [[creature]] possesses innate recognition-[[realization]] of [[energy]] [[reality]], [[mind]] reality, and [[spirit]] [[reality]]. The [[will]] [[creature]] is thus equipped to [[discern]] the [[fact]], the [[law]], and the [[love]] of [[God]]. Aside from these three inalienables of human [[consciousness]], all human [[experience]] is really [[subjective]] except that [[intuitive]] [[realization]] of [[validity]] attaches to the [[unification]] of these three universe [[reality]] [[responses]] of cosmic recognition.
16:9.2 The [[God]]-[[discerning]] [[mortal]] is able to sense the [[unification]] [[value]] of these three cosmic [[qualities]] in the [[evolution]] of the surviving [[soul]], man's supreme undertaking in the [[physical]] [[Body|tabernacle]] where the [[moral]] [[mind]] collaborates with the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling divine spirit]] to dualize the [[immortal]] [[soul]]. From its earliest inception the [[soul]] is real; it has cosmic [[survival]] qualities.
16:9.3 If [[mortal]] man fails to [[survive]] [[natural]] death, the real [[spiritual]] [[values]] of his human [[experience]] survive as a part of the continuing experience of the [[Thought Adjuster]]. The [[personality]] [[values]] of such a nonsurvivor persist as a factor in the personality of the actualizing [[Supreme Being]]. Such persisting qualities of personality are deprived of [[identity]] but not of experiential [[values]] accumulated during the mortal life in the [[flesh]]. The survival of [[identity]] is dependent on the survival of the [[immortal]] [[soul]] of [[morontia]] [[status]] and increasingly [[divine]] [[value]]. [[Personality]] [[identity]] survives in and by the survival of the [[soul]].
16:9.4 Human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness self-consciousness] implies the recognition of the [[reality]] of selves other than the conscious self and further implies that such awareness is [[Shared|mutual]]; that the self is known as it knows. This is shown in a purely human [[manner]] in man's social life. But you cannot become so [[absolute]]ly certain of a fellow [[being]]'s [[reality]] as you can of the reality of the [[presence]] of [[God]] that lives within you. The social [[consciousness]] is not inalienable like the [[God-consciousness]]; it is a [[cultural]] development and is dependent on [[knowledge]], [[symbols]], and the contributions of the constitutive endowments of man—[[science]], [[morality]], and [[religion]]. And these cosmic gifts, socialized, constitute [[civilization]].
16:9.5 [[Civilization]]s are unstable because they are not [[cosmic]]; they are not innate in the [[individuals]] of the races. They must be nurtured by the combined contributions of the constitutive factors of man—[[science]], [[morality]], and [[religion]]. Civilizations come and go, but science, morality, and religion always [[survive]] the crash.
16:9.6 [[Jesus]] not only revealed [[God]] to man, but he also made a new [[revelation]] of man to himself and to other men. In the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus life of Jesus] you see man at his best. Man thus becomes so [[beautifully]] real because Jesus had so much of [[God]] in his life, and the [[realization]] (recognition) of God is inalienable and constitutive in all men.
16:9.7 [[Altruism|Unselfishness]], aside from [[parental]] [[instinct]], is not altogether [[natural]]; other persons are not naturally loved or socially served. It requires the [[enlightenment]] of [[reason]], [[morality]], and the urge of [[religion]], God-knowingness, to generate an unselfish and [[altruistic]] social order. Man's own [[personality]] awareness, self-consciousness, is also directly dependent on this very fact of innate other-awareness, this [[innate]] ability to recognize and grasp the [[reality]] of other [[personality]], ranging from the [[human]] to the [[divine]].
16:9.8 [[Altruism|Unselfish]] social consciousness must be, at bottom, a [[religious]] [[consciousness]]; that is, if it is objective; otherwise it is a [[purely]] subjective philosophic [[abstraction]] and therefore devoid of [[love]]. Only a God-knowing [[individual]] can [[love]] another person as he loves himself.
16:9.9 Self-consciousness is in [[essence]] a [[Communion|communal]] consciousness: God and man, Father and son, [[Creator]] and [[creature]]. In human self-consciousness four universe-[[reality]] [[realizations]] are latent and [[inherent]]:
*1. The quest for [[knowledge]], the [[logic]] of [[science]].
*2. The quest for [[moral]] [[values]], the sense of [[duty]].
*3. The quest for [[spiritual]] values, the religious [[experience]].
*4. The quest for [[personality]] values, the ability to recognize the [[reality]] of [[God]] as a [[personality]] and the concurrent [[realization]] of our fraternal [[relationship]] with fellow personalities.
16:9.10 You become conscious of man as your [[creature]] [[brother]] because you are already conscious of [[God]] as your [[Creator]] Father. [[Fatherhood]] is the [[relationship]] out of which we [[reason]] ourselves into the recognition of [[brotherhood]]. And Fatherhood becomes, or may become, a universe [[reality]] to all [[moral]] [[creatures]] because the Father has himself bestowed [[personality]] upon all such [[beings]] and has encircuited them within the grasp of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:9._CIRCUITS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES universal personality circuit]. We [[worship]] [[God]], first, because he is, then, because he is in us, and last, because we are in him.
16:9.11 Is it strange that the cosmic [[mind]] should be self-consciously aware of its own [[source]], the [[infinite]] mind of the [[Infinite Spirit]], and at the same time conscious of the [[physical]] [[reality]] of the [[Cosmos|far-flung universes]], the [[spiritual]] [[reality]] of the [[Eternal Son]], and the [[personality]] [[reality]] of the [[Universal Father]]?
16:9.12 Sponsored by a [[Universal Censor]] from [[Uversa]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16 Go to Paper 16]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits]]
16:9.1 The [[cosmic]]-[[mind]]-endowed, [[Thought Adjuster|Adjuster]]-indwelt, [[personal]] [[creature]] possesses innate recognition-[[realization]] of [[energy]] [[reality]], [[mind]] reality, and [[spirit]] [[reality]]. The [[will]] [[creature]] is thus equipped to [[discern]] the [[fact]], the [[law]], and the [[love]] of [[God]]. Aside from these three inalienables of human [[consciousness]], all human [[experience]] is really [[subjective]] except that [[intuitive]] [[realization]] of [[validity]] attaches to the [[unification]] of these three universe [[reality]] [[responses]] of cosmic recognition.
16:9.2 The [[God]]-[[discerning]] [[mortal]] is able to sense the [[unification]] [[value]] of these three cosmic [[qualities]] in the [[evolution]] of the surviving [[soul]], man's supreme undertaking in the [[physical]] [[Body|tabernacle]] where the [[moral]] [[mind]] collaborates with the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling divine spirit]] to dualize the [[immortal]] [[soul]]. From its earliest inception the [[soul]] is real; it has cosmic [[survival]] qualities.
16:9.3 If [[mortal]] man fails to [[survive]] [[natural]] death, the real [[spiritual]] [[values]] of his human [[experience]] survive as a part of the continuing experience of the [[Thought Adjuster]]. The [[personality]] [[values]] of such a nonsurvivor persist as a factor in the personality of the actualizing [[Supreme Being]]. Such persisting qualities of personality are deprived of [[identity]] but not of experiential [[values]] accumulated during the mortal life in the [[flesh]]. The survival of [[identity]] is dependent on the survival of the [[immortal]] [[soul]] of [[morontia]] [[status]] and increasingly [[divine]] [[value]]. [[Personality]] [[identity]] survives in and by the survival of the [[soul]].
16:9.4 Human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness self-consciousness] implies the recognition of the [[reality]] of selves other than the conscious self and further implies that such awareness is [[Shared|mutual]]; that the self is known as it knows. This is shown in a purely human [[manner]] in man's social life. But you cannot become so [[absolute]]ly certain of a fellow [[being]]'s [[reality]] as you can of the reality of the [[presence]] of [[God]] that lives within you. The social [[consciousness]] is not inalienable like the [[God-consciousness]]; it is a [[cultural]] development and is dependent on [[knowledge]], [[symbols]], and the contributions of the constitutive endowments of man—[[science]], [[morality]], and [[religion]]. And these cosmic gifts, socialized, constitute [[civilization]].
16:9.5 [[Civilization]]s are unstable because they are not [[cosmic]]; they are not innate in the [[individuals]] of the races. They must be nurtured by the combined contributions of the constitutive factors of man—[[science]], [[morality]], and [[religion]]. Civilizations come and go, but science, morality, and religion always [[survive]] the crash.
16:9.6 [[Jesus]] not only revealed [[God]] to man, but he also made a new [[revelation]] of man to himself and to other men. In the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus life of Jesus] you see man at his best. Man thus becomes so [[beautifully]] real because Jesus had so much of [[God]] in his life, and the [[realization]] (recognition) of God is inalienable and constitutive in all men.
16:9.7 [[Altruism|Unselfishness]], aside from [[parental]] [[instinct]], is not altogether [[natural]]; other persons are not naturally loved or socially served. It requires the [[enlightenment]] of [[reason]], [[morality]], and the urge of [[religion]], God-knowingness, to generate an unselfish and [[altruistic]] social order. Man's own [[personality]] awareness, self-consciousness, is also directly dependent on this very fact of innate other-awareness, this [[innate]] ability to recognize and grasp the [[reality]] of other [[personality]], ranging from the [[human]] to the [[divine]].
16:9.8 [[Altruism|Unselfish]] social consciousness must be, at bottom, a [[religious]] [[consciousness]]; that is, if it is objective; otherwise it is a [[purely]] subjective philosophic [[abstraction]] and therefore devoid of [[love]]. Only a God-knowing [[individual]] can [[love]] another person as he loves himself.
16:9.9 Self-consciousness is in [[essence]] a [[Communion|communal]] consciousness: God and man, Father and son, [[Creator]] and [[creature]]. In human self-consciousness four universe-[[reality]] [[realizations]] are latent and [[inherent]]:
*1. The quest for [[knowledge]], the [[logic]] of [[science]].
*2. The quest for [[moral]] [[values]], the sense of [[duty]].
*3. The quest for [[spiritual]] values, the religious [[experience]].
*4. The quest for [[personality]] values, the ability to recognize the [[reality]] of [[God]] as a [[personality]] and the concurrent [[realization]] of our fraternal [[relationship]] with fellow personalities.
16:9.10 You become conscious of man as your [[creature]] [[brother]] because you are already conscious of [[God]] as your [[Creator]] Father. [[Fatherhood]] is the [[relationship]] out of which we [[reason]] ourselves into the recognition of [[brotherhood]]. And Fatherhood becomes, or may become, a universe [[reality]] to all [[moral]] [[creatures]] because the Father has himself bestowed [[personality]] upon all such [[beings]] and has encircuited them within the grasp of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:9._CIRCUITS_OF_THE_SUPERUNIVERSES universal personality circuit]. We [[worship]] [[God]], first, because he is, then, because he is in us, and last, because we are in him.
16:9.11 Is it strange that the cosmic [[mind]] should be self-consciously aware of its own [[source]], the [[infinite]] mind of the [[Infinite Spirit]], and at the same time conscious of the [[physical]] [[reality]] of the [[Cosmos|far-flung universes]], the [[spiritual]] [[reality]] of the [[Eternal Son]], and the [[personality]] [[reality]] of the [[Universal Father]]?
16:9.12 Sponsored by a [[Universal Censor]] from [[Uversa]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16 Go to Paper 16]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits]]