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==PAPER 112: PERSONALITY SURVIVAL==
 
==PAPER 112: PERSONALITY SURVIVAL==
  
112:0.1 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planets] are the [[spheres]] of [[human]] [[origin]], the initial worlds of the [[Ascension Career|ascending mortal career]]. [[Urantia]] is your starting point; here you and your [[divine]] [[Thought Adjuster]] are joined in temporary [[union]]. You have been [[endowed]] with a [[perfect]] guide; therefore, if you will [[sincerely]] run the race of [[time]] and gain the final goal of [[faith]], the reward of the ages shall be yours; you will be [[eternally]] united with your indwelling [[Adjuster]]. Then will begin your real life, the [[Ascension Career|ascending life]], to which your present [[mortal]] [[state]] is but the [[vestibule]]. Then will begin your exalted and [[progressive]] mission as [[finaliters]] in the [[eternity]] which stretches out before you. And throughout all of these [[successive]] [[ages]] and [[stages]] of [[evolutionary]] [[growth]], there is one part of you that remains [[absolutely]] unaltered, and that is [[personality]]—[[permanence]] in the [[presence]] of [[change]].
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112:0.1 The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planets] are the [[spheres]] of [[human]] [[origin]], the initial worlds of the [[Ascension Career|ascending mortal career]]. [[Urantia]] is your starting point; here you and your [[divine]] [[Thought Adjuster]] are joined in temporary [[union]]. You have been [[endowed]] with a [[perfect]] guide; therefore, if you will [[sincerely]] run the race of [[time]] and gain the final goal of [[faith]], the reward of the ages shall be yours; you will be [[eternally]] united with your indwelling [[Adjuster]]. Then will begin your real life, the [[Ascension Career|ascending life]], to which your present [[mortal]] [[state]] is but the [[vestibule]]. Then will begin your exalted and [[progressive]] mission as [[finaliters]] in the [[eternity]] which stretches out before you. And throughout all of these [[successive]] [[ages]] and [[stages]] of [[evolutionary]] [[growth]], there is one part of you that remains [[absolutely]] unaltered, and that is [[personality]]—[[permanence]] in the [[presence]] of [[change]].
  
 
112:0.2 While it would be [[presumptuous]] to attempt the [[definition]] of [[personality]], it may prove helpful to recount some of the [[things]] which are known about [[personality]]:
 
112:0.2 While it would be [[presumptuous]] to attempt the [[definition]] of [[personality]], it may prove helpful to recount some of the [[things]] which are known about [[personality]]:
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*2. 112:0.4 It may be bestowed upon any living [[energy]] [[system]] which includes [[mind]] or [[spirit]].
 
*2. 112:0.4 It may be bestowed upon any living [[energy]] [[system]] which includes [[mind]] or [[spirit]].
 
*3. 112:0.5 It is not wholly subject to the fetters of antecedent [[causation]]. It is [[relatively]] [[creative]] or cocreative.
 
*3. 112:0.5 It is not wholly subject to the fetters of antecedent [[causation]]. It is [[relatively]] [[creative]] or cocreative.
*4. 112:0.6 When bestowed upon [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolutionary material creatures], it causes [[spirit]] to strive for the mastery of [[energy]]-[[matter]] through the [[mediation]] of [[mind]].
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*4. 112:0.6 When bestowed upon [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE evolutionary material creatures], it causes [[spirit]] to strive for the mastery of [[energy]]-[[matter]] through the [[mediation]] of [[mind]].
 
*5. 112:0.7 [[Personality]], while devoid of [[identity]], can unify the identity of any living [[energy]] [[system]].
 
*5. 112:0.7 [[Personality]], while devoid of [[identity]], can unify the identity of any living [[energy]] [[system]].
 
*6. 112:0.8 It discloses only [[qualitative]] [[response]] to the [[personality]] [[circuit]] in contradistinction to the [[three]] [[energies]] which show both [[qualitative]] and [[quantitative]] [[response]] to [[gravity]].
 
*6. 112:0.8 It discloses only [[qualitative]] [[response]] to the [[personality]] [[circuit]] in contradistinction to the [[three]] [[energies]] which show both [[qualitative]] and [[quantitative]] [[response]] to [[gravity]].
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112:1.9 The [[type]] of [[personality]] bestowed upon [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] has a [[potentiality]] of [[seven]] [[dimensions]] of [[self]]-[[expression]] or [[person]]-[[realization]]. These dimensional [[phenomena]] are realizable as three on the [[finite]] level, three on the [[absonite]] level, and one on the [[absolute]] level. On subabsolute levels this [[seventh]] or [[totality]] dimension is experiencible as the [[fact]] of [[personality]]. This [[supreme]] [[dimension]] is an [[associable]] [[absolute]] and, while not [[infinite]], is dimensionally [[potential]] for subinfinite penetration of the absolute.
 
112:1.9 The [[type]] of [[personality]] bestowed upon [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] has a [[potentiality]] of [[seven]] [[dimensions]] of [[self]]-[[expression]] or [[person]]-[[realization]]. These dimensional [[phenomena]] are realizable as three on the [[finite]] level, three on the [[absonite]] level, and one on the [[absolute]] level. On subabsolute levels this [[seventh]] or [[totality]] dimension is experiencible as the [[fact]] of [[personality]]. This [[supreme]] [[dimension]] is an [[associable]] [[absolute]] and, while not [[infinite]], is dimensionally [[potential]] for subinfinite penetration of the absolute.
  
112:1.10 The [[finite]] [[dimensions]] of [[personality]] have to do with [[cosmic]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length length], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth depth], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth breadth]. Length denotes [[meaning]]; depth signifies [[value]]; breadth embraces [[insight]]—the [[capacity]] to [[experience]] unchallengeable [[consciousness]] of [[cosmic]] [[reality]].
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112:1.10 The [[finite]] [[dimensions]] of [[personality]] have to do with [[cosmic]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length length], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth depth], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth breadth]. Length denotes [[meaning]]; depth signifies [[value]]; breadth embraces [[insight]]—the [[capacity]] to [[experience]] unchallengeable [[consciousness]] of [[cosmic]] [[reality]].
  
112:1.11 On the [[morontia]] level all of these [[finite]] [[dimensions]] of the [[material]] level are greatly enhanced, and certain new dimensional [[values]] are realizable. All these enlarged dimensional [[experiences]] of the [[morontia]] level are marvelously articulated with the [[supreme]] or [[personality]] dimension through the [[influence]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:7._MORONTIA_MOTA mota] and also because of the contribution of [[morontia]] [[mathematics]].
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112:1.11 On the [[morontia]] level all of these [[finite]] [[dimensions]] of the [[material]] level are greatly enhanced, and certain new dimensional [[values]] are realizable. All these enlarged dimensional [[experiences]] of the [[morontia]] level are marvelously articulated with the [[supreme]] or [[personality]] dimension through the [[influence]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:7._MORONTIA_MOTA mota] and also because of the contribution of [[morontia]] [[mathematics]].
  
 
112:1.12 Much trouble [[experienced]] by [[mortals]] in their [[study]] of [[human]] [[personality]] could be avoided if the [[finite]] [[creature]] would remember that [[dimensional]] levels and [[spiritual]] levels are not [[co-ordinated]] in experiential [[personality]] [[realization]].
 
112:1.12 Much trouble [[experienced]] by [[mortals]] in their [[study]] of [[human]] [[personality]] could be avoided if the [[finite]] [[creature]] would remember that [[dimensional]] levels and [[spiritual]] levels are not [[co-ordinated]] in experiential [[personality]] [[realization]].
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112:1.14 [[Physical]] life is a [[process]] taking place not so much within the [[organism]] as between the organism and the [[environment]]. And every such [[process]] tends to [[create]] and [[establish]] organismal [[patterns]] of [[reaction]] to such an [[environment]]. And all such directive [[patterns]] are highly [[influential]] in goal choosing.
 
112:1.14 [[Physical]] life is a [[process]] taking place not so much within the [[organism]] as between the organism and the [[environment]]. And every such [[process]] tends to [[create]] and [[establish]] organismal [[patterns]] of [[reaction]] to such an [[environment]]. And all such directive [[patterns]] are highly [[influential]] in goal choosing.
  
112:1.15 It is through the [[mediation]] of [[mind]] that [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF the self] and the [[environment]] establish [[meaningful]] [[contact]]. The [[ability]] and willingness of the [[organism]] to make such significant [[contacts]] with [[environment]] ([[response]] to a drive) [[represents]] the [[attitude]] of the whole [[personality]].
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112:1.15 It is through the [[mediation]] of [[mind]] that [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:2._THE_SELF the self] and the [[environment]] establish [[meaningful]] [[contact]]. The [[ability]] and willingness of the [[organism]] to make such significant [[contacts]] with [[environment]] ([[response]] to a drive) [[represents]] the [[attitude]] of the whole [[personality]].
  
112:1.16 [[Personality]] cannot very well perform in [[isolation]]. Man is innately a [[social]] [[creature]]; he is dominated by the craving of belongingness. It is [[literally]] true, "No man lives unto himself."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_XIV]
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112:1.16 [[Personality]] cannot very well perform in [[isolation]]. Man is innately a [[social]] [[creature]]; he is dominated by the craving of belongingness. It is [[literally]] true, "No man lives unto himself."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_XIV]
  
112:1.17 But the [[concept]] of the [[personality]] as the [[meaning]] of the [[whole]] of the living and [[functioning]] [[creature]] means much more than the [[integration]] of [[relationships]]; it [[signifies]] the [[unification]] of all [[factors]] of [[reality]] as well as [[co-ordination]] of [[relationships]]. Relationships exist between two objects, but [[three]] or more objects [[eventuate]] a [[system]], and such a system is much more than just an enlarged or [[complex]] [[relationship]]. This distinction is [[vital]], for in a [[cosmic]] system the [[individual]] members are not [[connected]] with each other except in [[relation]] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE whole] and through the [[individuality]] of the whole.
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112:1.17 But the [[concept]] of the [[personality]] as the [[meaning]] of the [[whole]] of the living and [[functioning]] [[creature]] means much more than the [[integration]] of [[relationships]]; it [[signifies]] the [[unification]] of all [[factors]] of [[reality]] as well as [[co-ordination]] of [[relationships]]. Relationships exist between two objects, but [[three]] or more objects [[eventuate]] a [[system]], and such a system is much more than just an enlarged or [[complex]] [[relationship]]. This distinction is [[vital]], for in a [[cosmic]] system the [[individual]] members are not [[connected]] with each other except in [[relation]] to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE whole] and through the [[individuality]] of the whole.
  
 
112:1.18 In the [[human]] [[organism]] the [[summation]] of its [[parts]] constitutes [[selfhood]]—[[individuality]]—but such a [[process]] has nothing whatever to do with [[personality]], which is the unifier of all these [[factors]] as related to [[cosmic]] [[realities]].
 
112:1.18 In the [[human]] [[organism]] the [[summation]] of its [[parts]] constitutes [[selfhood]]—[[individuality]]—but such a [[process]] has nothing whatever to do with [[personality]], which is the unifier of all these [[factors]] as related to [[cosmic]] [[realities]].
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112:2.2 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]].
 
112:2.2 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]].
  
112:2.3 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mortal mind] when a [[human being]] [[sincerely]] and [[unselfishly]] [[loves]] another [[being]], [[human]] or [[divine]].
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112:2.3 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mortal mind] when a [[human being]] [[sincerely]] and [[unselfishly]] [[loves]] another [[being]], [[human]] or [[divine]].
  
 
112:2.4 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]]. [[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]].
 
112:2.4 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]]. [[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]].
  
112:2.5 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 human mind].
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112:2.5 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 human mind].
  
112:2.6 There exists a great [[cosmic]] gulf between [[matter]] and [[thought]], and this gulf is immeasurably greater between [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 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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112:2.6 There exists a great [[cosmic]] gulf between [[matter]] and [[thought]], and this gulf is immeasurably greater between [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind] and [[spiritual]] [[love]]. [[Consciousness]], much less [[self-consciousness]], cannot be [[explained]] by any [[theory]] of [[mechanistic]] [[electronic]] [[association]] or [[materialistic]] [[energy]] [[phenomena]].
  
 
112:2.7 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]].
 
112:2.7 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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112:2.9 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]].
 
112:2.9 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]].
  
112:2.10 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]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol], the [[supreme]] [[ideas]], the supreme [[motives]], the supreme goals, and the [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]] of [[Paradise]] [[bestowal]]—the [[secret]] of the [[self-consciousness]] of man's [[spiritual]] [[nature]].
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112:2.10 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]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL overcontrol], the [[supreme]] [[ideas]], the supreme [[motives]], the supreme goals, and the [[Thought Adjuster|divine spirit]] of [[Paradise]] [[bestowal]]—the [[secret]] of the [[self-consciousness]] of man's [[spiritual]] [[nature]].
  
112:2.11 The [[purpose]] of [[cosmic]] [[evolution]] is to achieve [[unity]] of [[personality]] through increasing [[spirit]] [[dominance]], 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,"[http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/Talks/Dominance/Dominance.html]  the expansion of the [[control]] of both itself and its [[environment]].
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112:2.11 The [[purpose]] of [[cosmic]] [[evolution]] is to achieve [[unity]] of [[personality]] through increasing [[spirit]] [[dominance]], 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,"[https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/Talks/Dominance/Dominance.html]  the expansion of the [[control]] of both itself and its [[environment]].
  
 
112:2.12 An [[ascending]] onetime [[human]] [[personality]] passes through [[two]] great [[phases]] of increasing [[volitional]] [[dominance]] over the [[self]] and in the [[universe]]:
 
112:2.12 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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*2. 112:2.14 ''The postfinaliter'' or God-revealing experience of the [[creative]] expansion of self-realization through [[revealing]] the [[Supreme Being]] of [[experience]] to the God-seeking [[intelligences]] who have not yet [[attained]] the [[divine]] levels of Godlikeness.
 
*2. 112:2.14 ''The postfinaliter'' or God-revealing experience of the [[creative]] expansion of self-realization through [[revealing]] the [[Supreme Being]] of [[experience]] to the God-seeking [[intelligences]] who have not yet [[attained]] the [[divine]] levels of Godlikeness.
  
112:2.15 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD Descending personalities] [[attain]] [[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]] Deities.
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112:2.15 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD Descending personalities] [[attain]] [[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]] Deities.
  
112:2.16 The [[material]] [[self]], the [[ego]]-[[entity]] of [[human]] [[identity]], is dependent during the [[physical]] life on the continuing [[function]] of the material life [[Body|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, [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF 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]].
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112:2.16 The [[material]] [[self]], the [[ego]]-[[entity]] of [[human]] [[identity]], is dependent during the [[physical]] life on the continuing [[function]] of the material life [[Body|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, [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF 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]].
  
 
==112:3. THE PHENOMENON OF DEATH==
 
==112:3. THE PHENOMENON OF DEATH==
  
112:3.1 Urantians generally recognize only one kind of death, the physical cessation of life energies; but concerning personality survival there are really three kinds:
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112:3.1 [[Urantia]]ns generally [[recognize]] only one kind of [[death]], the [[physical]] cessation of life [[energies]]; but concerning [[personality]] [[survival]] there are really [[three]] kinds:
  
*1. 112:3.2 Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, when he has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of the Adjuster and the surviving seraphim, when such co-ordinate advice has been recorded on Uversa, and after the Censors and their reflective associates have verified these findings, thereupon do the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of the indwelling Monitor. But this release of the Adjuster in no way affects the duties of the personal or group seraphim concerned with that Adjuster-abandoned individual. This kind of death is final in its significance irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living energies of the physical and mind mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is already dead; the continuing life merely indicates the persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies.
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*1. 112:3.2 ''Spiritual ([[soul]]) death''. If and when [[mortal]] man has finally rejected [[survival]], when he has been pronounced [[spiritually]] insolvent, [[morontia]]lly [[bankrupt]], in the conjoint [[opinion]] of the Adjuster and the surviving [[seraphim]], when such [[co-ordinate]] advice has been [[record]]ed on [[Uversa]], and after the [[Universal Censors|Censors]] and their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:5._THE_SECONDARY_SECONAPHIM reflective associates] have verified these findings, thereupon do the [[Ancients of Days|rulers]] of [[Orvonton]] order the immediate release of the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling Monitor]]. But this release of the Adjuster in no way affects the [[duties]] of the personal or group [[seraphim]] concerned with that [[Adjuster]]-abandoned [[individual]]. This kind of [[death]] is final in its significance irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living [[energies]] of the [[physical]] and [[mind]] [[mechanisms]]. From the [[cosmic]] [[standpoint]] the [[mortal]] is already dead; the continuing life merely indicates the [[persistence]] of the [[material]] [[momentum]] of cosmic energies.
*2. 112:3.3 Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive.
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*2. 112:3.3 ''Intellectual ([[mind]]) death''. When the [[vital]] [[circuits]] of higher [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|adjutant ministry]] are disrupted through the aberrations of [[intellect]] or because of the partial destruction of the [[mechanism]] of the [[brain]], and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling [[Adjuster]] is immediately released to depart for [[Divinington]]. On the [[universe]] [[records]] a [[mortal]] [[personality]] is considered to have met with [[death]] whenever the [[essential]] [[mind]] [[circuits]] of human [[Free will|will]]-[[action]] have been destroyed. And again, this is [[death]], irrespective of the continuing [[function]] of the living [[mechanism]] of the physical [[body]]. The body minus the [[volitional]] [[mind]] is no longer [[human]], but according to the prior [[choosing]] of the human will, the [[soul]] of such an [[individual]] may [[survive]].
*3. 112:3.4 Physical (body and mind) death. When death overtakes a human being, the Adjuster remains in the <u>citadel of the mind</u> until it ceases to function as an intelligent mechanism, about the time that the measurable brain energies cease their rhythmic vital pulsations. Following this dissolution the Adjuster takes leave of the vanishing mind, just as unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and proceeds to Divinington by way of Uversa.
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*3. 112:3.4 ''Physical ([[body]] and mind) death''. When [[death]] overtakes a [[human being]], the [[Adjuster]] remains in the [[citadel]] of the [[mind]] until it ceases to [[function]] as an [[intelligent]] [[mechanism]], about the time that the measurable [[brain]] energies cease their [[rhythmic]] vital [[pulsations]]. Following this dissolution the [[Adjuster]] takes leave of the vanishing [[mind]], just as unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and proceeds to [[Divinington]] by way of [[Uversa]].
  
112:3.5 After death the material body returns to the elemental world from which it was derived, but two nonmaterial factors of surviving personality persist: The pre-existent Thought Adjuster, with the memory transcription of the mortal career, proceeds to Divinington; and there also remains, in the custody of the destiny guardian, the immortal morontia soul of the deceased human. These phases and forms of soul, these once kinetic but now static formulas of identity, are essential to repersonalization on the morontia worlds; and it is the reunion of the Adjuster and the soul that reassembles the surviving personality, that reconsciousizes you at the time of the morontia awakening.
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112:3.5 After [[death]] the [[material]] [[body]] returns to the elemental world from which it was derived, but two nonmaterial [[factors]] of surviving [[personality]] [[persist]]: The pre-existent [[Thought Adjuster]], with the [[memory]] [[transcription]] of the [[mortal]] [[career]], proceeds to [[Divinington]]; and there also remains, in the [[custody]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS destiny guardian], the [[immortal]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:3._THE_EVOLVING_SOUL morontia soul] of the deceased [[human]]. These [[phases]] and [[forms]] of [[soul]], these once [[kinetic]] but now [[static]] [[formulas]] of [[identity]], are [[essential]] to [[repersonalization]] on the [[morontia worlds]]; and it is the reunion of the [[Adjuster]] and the [[soul]] that reassembles the [[surviving]] [[personality]], that reconsciousizes you at the [[time]] of the [[morontia]] [[awakening]].
  
112:3.6 For those who do not have personal seraphic guardians, the group custodians faithfully and efficiently perform the same service of identity safekeeping and personality resurrection. The seraphim are indispensable to the reassembly of personality.
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112:3.6 For those who do not have [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS personal seraphic guardians], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:1._THE_GUARDIAN_ANGELS group custodians] [[faithfully]] and [[efficiently]] [[perform]] the same [[service]] of [[identity]] safekeeping and [[personality]] [[resurrection]]. The [[seraphim]] are indispensable to the reassembly of [[personality]].
  
112:3.7 Upon death the Thought Adjuster temporarily loses personality, but not identity; the human subject temporarily loses identity, but not personality; on the mansion worlds both reunite in eternal manifestation. Never does a departed Thought Adjuster return to earth as the being of former indwelling; never is personality manifested without the human will; and never does a dis-Adjustered human being after death manifest active identity or in any manner establish communication with the living beings of earth. Such dis-Adjustered souls are wholly and absolutely unconscious during the long or short sleep of death. There can be no exhibition of any sort of personality or ability to engage in communications with other personalities until after completion of survival. Those who go to the mansion worlds are not permitted to send messages back to their loved ones. It is the policy throughout the universes to forbid such communication during the period of a current dispensation.
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112:3.7 Upon [[death]] the [[Thought Adjuster]] temporarily loses [[personality]], but not [[identity]]; the human subject temporarily loses [[identity]], but not [[personality]]; on the [[mansion worlds]] both reunite in [[eternal]] [[manifestation]]. Never does a departed [[Thought Adjuster]] return to [[earth]] as the [[being]] of former indwelling; never is [[personality]] manifested without the human [[Free will|will]]; and never does a dis-Adjustered human being after [[death]] [[manifest]] active [[identity]] or in any [[manner]] [[establish]] [[communication]] with the living [[beings]] of [[earth]]. Such dis-Adjustered [[souls]] are wholly and absolutely [[unconscious]] during the long or short [[sleep]] of [[death]]. There can be no [[exhibition]] of any sort of [[personality]] or [[ability]] to [[engage]] in [[communications]] with other [[personalities]] until after completion of [[survival]]. Those who go to the [[mansion worlds]] are not permitted to send [[messages]] back to their loved ones. It is the [[policy]] throughout the [[universes]] to forbid such [[communication]] during the period of a current [[dispensation]].
  
 
==112:4. ADJUSTERS AFTER DEATH==
 
==112:4. ADJUSTERS AFTER DEATH==
  
112:4.1 When death of a material, intellectual, or spiritual nature occurs, the Adjuster bids farewell to the mortal host and departs for Divinington. From the headquarters of the local universe and the superuniverse a reflective contact is made with the supervisors of both governments, and the Monitor is registered out by the same number that recorded entry into the domains of time.
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112:4.1 When [[death]] of a [[material]], [[intellectual]], or [[spiritual]] [[nature]] occurs, the [[Adjuster]] bids [[farewell]] to the [[mortal]] host and departs for [[Divinington]]. From the [[headquarters]] of the [[local universe]] and the [[superuniverse]] a [[Reflectivity|reflective]] [[contact]] is made with the supervisors of both [[governments]], and the Monitor is registered out by the same [[number]] that recorded entry into the [[domains]] of [[time]].
  
112:4.2 In some way not fully understood, the Universal Censors are able to gain possession of an epitome of the human life as it is embodied in the Adjuster's duplicate transcription of the spiritual values and morontia meanings of the indwelt mind. The Censors are able to appropriate the Adjuster's version of the deceased human's survival character and spiritual qualities, and all this data, together with the seraphic records, is available for presentation at the time of the adjudication of the individual concerned. This information is also used to confirm those superuniverse mandates which make it possible for certain ascenders immediately to begin their morontia careers, upon mortal dissolution to proceed to the mansion worlds ahead of the formal termination of a planetary dispensation.
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112:4.2 In some way not fully [[understood]], the [[Universal Censors]] are able to gain [[possession]] of an [[epitome]] of the human life as it is embodied in the [[Adjuster]]'s duplicate [[transcription]] of the [[spiritual]] [[values]] and [[morontia]] [[meanings]] of the indwelt [[mind]]. The [[Universal Censors|Censors]] are able to appropriate the [[Adjuster]]'s version of the deceased [[human]]'s [[survival]] [[character]] and [[spiritual]] [[qualities]], and all this [[data]], together with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS seraphic records], is available for presentation at the [[time]] of the [[adjudication]] of the [[individual]] concerned. This [[information]] is also used to [[confirm]] those [[superuniverse]] [[mandates]] which make it possible for certain ascenders [[immediately]] to begin their [[morontia]] [[careers]], upon [[mortal]] [[Death|dissolution]] to proceed to the [[mansion worlds]] ahead of the [[formal]] termination of a [[planetary]] [[dispensation]].
  
112:4.3 Subsequent to physical death, except in individuals translated from among the living, the released Adjuster goes immediately to the home sphere of Divinington. The details of what transpires on that world during the time of awaiting the factual reappearance of the surviving mortal depend chiefly on whether the human being ascends to the mansion worlds in his own individual right or awaits a dispensational summoning of the sleeping survivors of a planetary age.
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112:4.3 Subsequent to [[physical]] [[death]], except in [[individuals]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:7._ADJUSTER_FUSION translated from among the living], the released [[Adjuster]] goes immediately to the [[home]] sphere of [[Divinington]]. The details of what transpires on that world during the time of awaiting the factual reappearance of the [[surviving]] [[mortal]] depend chiefly on whether the [[human being]] ascends to the [[mansion worlds]] in his own [[individual]] [[right]] or awaits a [[dispensation]]al summoning of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:4._THE_ASCENDING_MORTALS sleeping survivors] of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#PAPER_52:_PLANETARY_MORTAL_EPOCHS planetary age].
  
112:4.4 If the mortal associate belongs to a group that will be repersonalized at the end of a dispensation, the Adjuster will not immediately return to the mansion world of the former system of service but will, according to choice, enter upon one of the following temporary assignments:
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112:4.4 If the [[mortal]] [[associate]] belongs to a [[group]] that will be [[repersonalized]] at the end of a [[dispensation]], the [[Adjuster]] will not [[immediately]] return to the [[mansion world]] of the former [[the System|system]] of [[service]] but will, according to [[choice]], enter upon one of the following temporary assignments:
  
*1. Be mustered into the ranks of vanished Monitors for undisclosed service.
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*1. Be mustered into the ranks of vanished [[Monitors]] for undisclosed [[service]].
*2. Be assigned for a period to the observation of the Paradise regime.
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*2. Be assigned for a period to the [[observation]] of the [[Paradise]] [[regime]].
*3. Be enrolled in one of the many training schools of Divinington.
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*3. Be enrolled in one of the many [[training]] schools of [[Divinington]].
*4. Be stationed for a time as a student observer on one of the other six sacred spheres which constitute the Father's circuit of Paradise worlds.
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*4. Be stationed for a time as a [[student]] [[observer]] on one of the other six [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:1._THE_SEVEN_SACRED_WORLDS_OF_THE_FATHER sacred spheres] which constitute [[the Father]]'s circuit of [[Paradise]] worlds.
*5. Be assigned to the messenger service of the Personalized Adjusters.
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*5. Be assigned to the [[messenger]] service of the [[Personalized Adjusters]].
*6. Become an associate instructor in the Divinington schools devoted to the training of Monitors belonging to the virgin group.
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*6. Become an [[associate]] instructor in the [[Divinington]] schools [[devoted]] to the [[training]] of [[Monitors]] belonging to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_107#107:2._CLASSIFICATION_OF_ADJUSTERS virgin group].
*7. Be assigned to select a group of possible worlds on which to serve in the event that there is reasonable cause for believing that the human partner may have rejected survival.
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*7. Be assigned to select a [[group]] of possible worlds on which to serve in the [[event]] that there is reasonable [[cause]] for believing that the [[human]] [[partner]] may have rejected [[survival]].
  
112:4.5 If, when death overtakes you, you have attained the third circle or a higher realm and therefore have had assigned to you a personal guardian of destiny, and if the final transcript of the summary of survival character submitted by the Adjuster is unconditionally certified by the destiny guardian—if both seraphim and Adjuster essentially agree in every item of their life records and recommendations—if the Universal Censors and their reflective associates on Uversa confirm this data and do so without equivocation or reservation, in that event the Ancients of Days flash forth the mandate of advanced standing over the communication circuits to Salvington, and, thus released, the tribunals of the Sovereign of Nebadon will decree the immediate passage of the surviving soul to the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds.
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112:4.5 If, when [[death]] overtakes you, you have [[attained]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110_-_Relation_of_Adjusters_to_Individual_Mortals#110:6._THE_SEVEN_PSYCHIC_CIRCLES third circle] or a higher realm and therefore have had assigned to you a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS personal guardian of destiny], and if the final [[transcript]] of the summary of [[survival]] [[character]] submitted by the [[Adjuster]] is unconditionally certified by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS destiny guardian]—if both [[seraphim]] and [[Adjuster]] [[essentially]] [[agree]] in every item of their life [[records]] and recommendations—if the [[Universal Censors]] and their [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:5._THE_SECONDARY_SECONAPHIM reflective associates] on [[Uversa]] [[confirm]] this [[data]] and do so without equivocation or reservation, in that event the [[Ancients of Days]] flash forth the [[mandate]] of advanced standing over the [[communication]] [[circuits]] to [[Salvington]], and, thus released, the [[tribunals]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:7._THE_COURTS_OF_NEBADON Sovereign of Nebadon] will [[decree]] the immediate passage of the [[surviving]] [[soul]] to the [[resurrection]] halls of the [[mansion worlds]].
  
112:4.6 If the human individual survives without delay, the Adjuster, so I am instructed, registers at Divinington, proceeds to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father, returns immediately and is embraced by the Personalized Adjusters of the superuniverse and local universe of assignment, receives the recognition of the chief Personalized Monitor of Divinington, and then, at once, passes into the " realization of identity transition, " being summoned therefrom on the third period and on the mansion world in the actual personality form made ready for the reception of the surviving soul of the earth mortal as that form has been projected by the guardian of destiny.
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112:4.6 If the [[human]] [[individual]] [[survives]] without delay, the [[Adjuster]], so I am instructed, registers at [[Divinington]], proceeds to the [[Paradise]] [[presence]] of the [[Universal Father]], returns [[immediately]] and is [[embraced]] by the [[Personalized Adjusters]] of the [[superuniverse]] and [[local universe]] of assignment, receives the [[recognition]] of the chief [[Personalized Monitor]] of [[Divinington]], and then, at once, passes into the "[[realization]] of [[identity]] [[transition]]," being summoned therefrom on the third period and on the [[mansion world]] in the [[actual]] [[personality]] form made ready for the [[reception]] of the [[surviving]] [[soul]] of the [[earth]] [[mortal]] as that form has been projected by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS guardian of destiny].
  
 
==112:5. SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN SELF==
 
==112:5. SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN SELF==
  
112:5.1 Selfhood is a cosmic reality whether material, morontial, or spiritual. The actuality of the personal is the bestowal of the Universal Father acting in and of himself or through his manifold universe agencies. To say that a being is personal is to recognize the relative individuation of such a being within the cosmic organism. The living cosmos is an all but infinitely integrated aggregation of real units, all of which are relatively subject to the destiny of the whole. But those that are personal have been endowed with the actual choice of destiny acceptance or of destiny rejection.
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112:5.1 [[Selfhood]] is a [[cosmic]] [[reality]] whether [[material]], [[morontial]], or [[spiritual]]. The [[actuality]] of the [[personal]] is the [[bestowal]] of the [[Universal Father]] [[acting]] in and of himself or through his manifold [[universe]] [[agencies]]. To say that a [[being]] is [[personal]] is to [[recognize]] the [[relative]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individuation individuation] of such a [[being]] within the [[cosmic]] [[organism]]. The living [[cosmos]] is an all but infinitely [[integrated]] [[aggregation]] of real [[units]], all of which are [[relatively]] subject to the [[destiny]] of the [[whole]]. But those that are [[personal]] have been [[endowed]] with the [[actual]] [[choice]] of [[destiny]] [[acceptance]] or of destiny rejection.
  
112:5.2 That which comes from the Father is like the Father eternal, and this is just as true of personality, which God gives by his own freewill choice, as it is of the divine Thought Adjuster, an actual fragment of God. Man's personality is eternal but with regard to identity a conditioned eternal reality. Having appeared in response to the Father's will, personality will attain Deity destiny, but man must choose whether or not he will be present at the attainment of such destiny. In default of such choice, personality attains experiential Deity directly, becoming a part of the Supreme Being. The cycle is foreordained, but man's participation therein is optional, personal, and experiential.
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112:5.2 That which comes from [[the Father]] is like the [[Father]] [[eternal]], and this is just as true of [[personality]], which [[God]] gives by his own [[freewill]] choice, as it is of the [[divine]] [[Thought Adjuster]], an actual [[fragment]] of [[God]]. Man's [[personality]] is [[eternal]] but with regard to [[identity]] a conditioned [[eternal]] [[reality]]. Having appeared in [[response]] to [[the Father]]'s will, [[personality]] will [[attain]] [[Deity]] [[destiny]], but man must [[choose]] whether or not he will be present at the [[attainment]] of such [[destiny]]. In [[default]] of such [[choice]], [[personality]] [[attains]] [[Supreme|experiential Deity]] directly, becoming a part of the [[Supreme Being]]. The [[cycle]] is foreordained, but man's [[participation]] therein is [[optional]], [[personal]], and experiential.
  
112:5.3 Mortal identity is a transient time-life condition in the universe; it is real only in so far as the personality elects to become a continuing universe phenomenon. This is the essential difference between man and an energy system: The energy system must continue, it has no choice; but man has everything to do with determining his own destiny. The Adjuster is truly the path to Paradise, but man himself must pursue that path by his own deciding, his freewill choosing.
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112:5.3 [[Mortal]] [[identity]] is a transient [[time]]-life condition in the [[universe]]; it is [[real]] only in so far as the [[personality]] elects to become a continuing [[universe]] [[phenomenon]]. This is the [[essential]] [[difference]] between man and an [[energy]] [[system]]: The energy system must continue, it has no [[choice]]; but man has everything to do with determining his own [[destiny]]. The [[Adjuster]] is truly the [[path]] to [[Paradise]], but man himself must pursue that [[path]] by his own deciding, his [[freewill]] choosing.
  
112:5.4 Human beings possess identity only in the material sense. Such qualities of the self are expressed by the material mind as it functions in the energy system of the intellect. When it is said that man has identity, it is recognized that he is in possession of a mind circuit which has been placed in subordination to the acts and choosing of the will of the human personality. But this is a material and purely temporary manifestation, just as the human embryo is a transient parasitic stage of human life. Human beings, from a cosmic perspective, are born, live, and die in a relative instant of time; they are not enduring. But mortal personality, through its own choosing, possesses the power of transferring its seat of identity from the passing material-intellect system to the higher morontia-soul system which, in association with the Thought Adjuster, is created as a new vehicle for personality manifestation.
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112:5.4 [[Human beings]] [[possess]] [[identity]] only in the [[material]] sense. Such [[qualities]] of the [[self]] are [[expressed]] by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind] as it [[functions]] in the [[energy]] [[system]] of the [[intellect]]. When it is said that man has [[identity]], it is recognized that he is in [[possession]] of a [[mind]] [[circuit]] which has been placed in subordination to the [[acts]] and choosing of the will of the [[human]] [[personality]]. But this is a [[material]] and purely temporary [[manifestation]], just as the [[human]] [[embryo]] is a transient [[parasitic]] [[stage]] of human life. [[Human beings]], from a [[cosmic]] [[perspective]], are born, live, and die in a [[relative]] instant of time; they are not [[enduring]]. But [[mortal]] [[personality]], through its own [[choosing]], possesses the power of [[transferring]] its seat of [[identity]] from the passing [[material]]-[[intellect]] [[system]] to the higher [[morontia]]-[[soul]] system which, in [[association]] with the [[Thought Adjuster]], is created as a new vehicle for [[personality]] [[manifestation]].
  
112:5.5 And it is this very power of choice, the universe insignia of freewill creaturehood, that constitutes man's greatest opportunity and his supreme cosmic responsibility. Upon the integrity of the human volition depends the eternal destiny of the future finaliter; upon the sincerity of the mortal free will the divine Adjuster depends for eternal personality; upon the faithfulness of mortal choice the Universal Father depends for the realization of a new ascending son; upon the steadfastness and wisdom of decision-actions the Supreme Being depends for the actuality of experiential evolution.
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112:5.5 And it is this very [[power]] of [[choice]], the [[universe]] insignia of [[freewill]] creaturehood, that [[constitutes]] man's greatest [[opportunity]] and his [[supreme]] [[cosmic]] [[responsibility]]. Upon the [[integrity]] of the [[human]] [[volition]] depends the [[eternal]] [[destiny]] of the [[future]] [[finaliter]]; upon the [[sincerity]] of the [[mortal]] [[free will]] the [[divine]] [[Adjuster]] depends for [[eternal]] [[personality]]; upon the [[faithfulness]] of [[mortal]] [[choice]] the [[Universal Father]] depends for the [[realization]] of a new [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending son]; upon the [[steadfastness]] and [[wisdom]] of [[decision]]-[[actions]] the [[Supreme Being]] depends for the [[actuality]] of experiential [[evolution]].
  
112:5.6 Though the cosmic circles of personality growth must eventually be attained, if, through no fault of your own, the accidents of time and the handicaps of material existence prevent your mastering these levels on your native planet, if your intentions and desires are of survival value, there are issued the decrees of probation extension. You will be afforded additional time in which to prove yourself.
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112:5.6 Though the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110_-_Relation_of_Adjusters_to_Individual_Mortals#110:6._THE_SEVEN_PSYCHIC_CIRCLES cosmic circles] of [[personality]] [[growth]] must [[eventually]] be [[attained]], if, through no fault of your own, the [[accidents]] of time and the [[handicaps]] of [[material]] [[existence]] prevent your mastering these [[levels]] on your [[Birth|native]] [[planet]], if your [[intentions]] and [[desires]] are of [[survival]] [[value]], there are issued the [[decrees]] of [[probation]] extension. You will be afforded additional [[time]] in which to [[prove]] yourself.
  
112:5.7 If ever there is doubt as to the advisability of advancing a human identity to the mansion worlds, the universe governments invariably rule in the personal interests of that individual; they unhesitatingly advance such a soul to the status of a transitional being, while they continue their observations of the emerging morontia intent and spiritual purpose. Thus divine justice is certain of achievement, and divine mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its ministry.
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112:5.7 If ever there is [[doubt]] as to the advisability of advancing a [[human]] [[identity]] to the [[mansion worlds]], the [[universe]] [[governments]] invariably rule in the [[personal]] interests of that [[individual]]; they unhesitatingly advance such a [[soul]] to the [[status]] of a [[transitional]] [[being]], while they continue their [[observations]] of the [[emerging]] [[morontia]] [[intent]] and [[spiritual]] [[purpose]]. Thus [[divine]] [[justice]] is certain of [[achievement]], and divine [[mercy]] is accorded further [[opportunity]] for extending its [[ministry]].
  
112:5.8 The governments of Orvonton and Nebadon do not claim absolute perfection for the detail working of the universal plan of mortal repersonalization, but they do claim to, and actually do, manifest patience, tolerance, understanding, and merciful sympathy. We had rather assume the risk of a system rebellion than to court the hazard of depriving one struggling mortal from any evolutionary world of the eternal joy of pursuing the ascending career.
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112:5.8 The [[governments]] of [[Orvonton]] and [[Nebadon]] do not claim [[absolute]] [[perfection]] for the detail working of the [[universal]] [[plan]] of [[mortal]] [[repersonalization]], but they do claim to, and actually do, [[manifest]] [[patience]], [[tolerance]], [[understanding]], and merciful [[sympathy]]. We had rather assume the [[risk]] of a [[the System|system]] [[rebellion]] than to court the hazard of depriving one [[struggling]] [[mortal]] from any [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary world] of the [[eternal]] [[joy]] of pursuing the [[ascending career]].
  
112:5.9 This does not mean that human beings are to enjoy a second opportunity in the face of the rejection of a first, not at all. But it does signify that all will creatures are to experience one true opportunity to make one undoubted, self-conscious, and final choice. The sovereign Judges of the universes will not deprive any being of personality status who has not finally and fully made the eternal choice; the soul of man must and will be given full and ample opportunity to reveal its true intent and real purpose.
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112:5.9 This does not mean that [[human being]]s are to enjoy a second [[opportunity]] in the face of the rejection of a first, not at all. But it does [[signify]] that all [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]] are to [[experience]] one true [[opportunity]] to make one undoubted, [[self-conscious]], and final [[choice]]. The [[Ancients of Days|sovereign Judges]] of the [[universes]] will not deprive any being of [[personality]] [[status]] who has not finally and fully made the [[eternal]] [[choice]]; the [[soul]] of man must and will be given full and ample [[opportunity]] to reveal its true [[intent]] and real [[purpose]].
  
112:5.10 When the more spiritually and cosmically advanced mortals die, they proceed immediately to the mansion worlds; in general, this provision operates with those who have had assigned to them personal seraphic guardians. Other mortals may be detained until such time as the adjudication of their affairs has been completed, after which they may proceed to the mansion worlds, or they may be assigned to the ranks of the sleeping survivors who will be repersonalized en masse at the end of the current planetary dispensation.
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112:5.10 When the more [[spiritually]] and cosmically advanced [[mortals]] die, they proceed [[immediately]] to the [[mansion worlds]]; in general, this provision operates with those who have had assigned to them [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS personal seraphic guardians]. Other [[mortals]] may be detained until such time as the [[adjudication]] of their affairs has been completed, after which they may [[proceed]] to the [[mansion worlds]], or they may be assigned to the ranks of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:4._THE_ASCENDING_MORTALS sleeping survivors] who will be [[repersonalized]] en masse at the end of the current [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52 planetary dispensation].
  
112:5.11 There are two difficulties that hamper my efforts to explain just what happens to you in death, the surviving you which is distinct from the departing Adjuster. One of these consists in the impossibility of conveying to your level of comprehension an adequate description of a transaction on the borderland of the physical and morontia realms. The other is brought about by the restrictions placed upon my commission as a revelator of truth by the celestial governing authorities of Urantia. There are many interesting details which might be presented, but I withhold them upon the advice of your immediate planetary supervisors. But within the limits of my permission I can say this much:
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112:5.11 There are two [[difficulties]] that hamper my efforts to [[explain]] just what happens to you in [[death]], the surviving you which is distinct from the departing [[Adjuster]]. One of these consists in the impossibility of conveying to your [[level]] of [[comprehension]] an adequate description of a [[transaction]] on the borderland of the [[physical]] and [[morontia]] realms. The other is brought about by the restrictions placed upon my commission as a [[revelator]] of [[truth]] by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_114 celestial governing authorities] of [[Urantia]]. There are many interesting details which might be presented, but I withhold them upon the advice of your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_114 immediate planetary supervisors]. But within the limits of my permission I can say this much:
  
112:5.12 There is something real, something of human evolution, something additional to the Mystery Monitor, which survives death. This newly appearing entity is the soul, and it survives the death of both your physical body and your material mind. This entity is the conjoint child of the combined life and efforts of the human you in liaison with the divine you, the Adjuster. This child of human and divine parentage constitutes the surviving element of terrestrial origin; it is the morontia self, the immortal soul.
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112:5.12 There is something real, something of [[human]] [[evolution]], something additional to the [[Mystery Monitor]], which [[survives]] [[death]]. This newly appearing [[entity]] is the [[soul]], and it [[survives]] the [[death]] of both your [[physical]] [[body]] and your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material mind]. This [[entity]] is the conjoint child of the combined life and [[efforts]] of the [[human]] you in [[liaison]] with the [[divine]] you, the [[Adjuster]]. This child of human and divine [[parent]]age constitutes the [[surviving]] element of [[terrestrial]] [[origin]]; it is the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112#112:6._THE_MORONTIA_SELF morontia self], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:2._NATURE_OF_THE_SOUL immortal soul].
  
112:5.13 This child of persisting meaning and surviving value is wholly unconscious during the period from death to repersonalization and is in the keeping of the seraphic destiny guardian throughout this season of waiting. You will not function as a conscious being, following death, until you attain the new consciousness of morontia on the mansion worlds of Satania.
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112:5.13 This [[child]] of [[persisting]] [[meaning]] and surviving [[value]] is wholly [[unconscious]] during the period from [[death]] to [[repersonalization]] and is in the keeping of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS seraphic destiny guardian] throughout this [[season]] of waiting. You will not [[function]] as a [[conscious]] [[being]], following [[death]], until you [[attain]] the new [[consciousness]] of [[morontia]] on the [[mansion worlds]] of [[Satania]].
  
112:5.14 At death the functional identity associated with the human personality is disrupted through the cessation of vital motion. Human personality, while transcending its constituent parts, is dependent on them for functional identity. The stoppage of life destroys the physical brain patterns for mind endowment, and the disruption of mind terminates mortal consciousness. The consciousness of that creature cannot subsequently reappear until a cosmic situation has been arranged which will permit the same human personality again to function in relationship with living energy.
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112:5.14 At [[death]] the [[functional]] [[identity]] [[associated]] with the [[human]] [[personality]] is disrupted through the cessation of [[vital]] [[motion]]. [[Human]] [[personality]], while [[transcending]] its constituent [[parts]], is dependent on them for [[functional]] [[identity]]. The stoppage of life destroys the [[physical]] [[brain]] [[patterns]] for [[mind]] [[endowment]], and the disruption of [[mind]] terminates [[mortal]] [[consciousness]]. The [[consciousness]] of that [[creature]] cannot subsequently reappear until a [[cosmic]] situation has been arranged which will permit the same human [[personality]] again to [[function]] in [[relationship]] with living [[energy]].
  
112:5.15 During the transit of surviving mortals from the world of origin to the mansion worlds, whether they experience personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at the time of a group resurrection, the record of personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the archangels on their worlds of special activities. These beings are not the custodians of personality (as the guardian seraphim are of the soul), but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of personality is effectually safeguarded in the custody of these dependable trustees of mortal survival. As to the exact whereabouts of mortal personality during the time intervening between death and survival, we do not know.
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112:5.15 During the [[transit]] of [[surviving]] [[mortals]] from the world of [[origin]] to the [[mansion worlds]], whether they [[experience]] [[personality]] reassembly on the third period or [[ascend]] at the time of a [[group]] [[resurrection]], the [[record]] of [[personality]] [[constitution]] is [[faithfully]] preserved by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_37#37:3._THE_ARCHANGELS archangels] on their worlds of special [[activities]]. These [[beings]] are not the custodians of [[personality]] (as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS guardian seraphim] are of the [[soul]]), but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable [[factor]] of [[personality]] is effectually safeguarded in the [[custody]] of these dependable trustees of [[mortal]] [[survival]]. As to the exact whereabouts of [[mortal]] [[personality]] during the time intervening between [[death]] and [[survival]], we do not know.
  
112:5.16 The situation which makes repersonalization possible is brought about in the resurrection halls of the morontia receiving planets of a local universe. Here in these life-assembly chambers the supervising authorities provide that relationship of universe energy—morontial, mindal, and spiritual—which makes possible the reconsciousizing of the sleeping survivor. The reassembly of the constituent parts of a onetime material personality involves:
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112:5.16 The situation which makes [[repersonalization]] possible is brought about in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47_-_The_Seven_Mansion_Worlds#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD resurrection halls] of the [[morontia]] receiving planets of a [[local universe]]. Here in these life-assembly chambers the supervising [[authorities]] provide that [[relationship]] of universe energy—[[morontial]], [[mindal]], and [[spiritual]]—which makes possible the reconsciousizing of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30#30:4._THE_ASCENDING_MORTALS sleeping survivor]. The reassembly of the constituent [[parts]] of a onetime [[material]] [[personality]] involves:
  
*1. 112:5.17 The fabrication of a suitable form, a morontia energy pattern, in which the new survivor can make contact with nonspiritual reality, and within which the morontia variant of the cosmic mind can be encircuited.
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*1. 112:5.17 The fabrication of a suitable [[form]], a [[morontia]] [[energy]] [[pattern]], in which the new [[survivor]] can make [[contact]] with nonspiritual [[reality]], and within which the [[morontia]] variant of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16#16:6._THE_COSMIC_MIND cosmic mind] can be encircuited.
*2. 112:5.18 The return of the Adjuster to the waiting morontia creature. The Adjuster is the eternal custodian of your ascending identity; your Monitor is the absolute assurance that you yourself and not another will occupy the morontia form created for your personality awakening. And the Adjuster will be present at your personality reassembly to take up once more the role of Paradise guide to your surviving self.
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*2. 112:5.18 The return of the [[Adjuster]] to the waiting [[morontia]] creature. The [[Adjuster]] is the [[eternal]] custodian of your [[ascending]] [[identity]]; your Monitor is the [[absolute]] [[assurance]] that you yourself and not another will occupy the [[morontia]] form created for your [[personality]] [[awakening]]. And the [[Adjuster]] will be present at your [[personality]] reassembly to take up once more the role of [[Paradise]] [[guide]] to your [[surviving]] [[self]].
*3. 112:5.19 When these prerequisites of repersonalization have been assembled, the seraphic custodian of the potentialities of the slumbering immortal soul, with the assistance of numerous cosmic personalities, bestows this morontia entity upon and in the awaiting morontia mind-body form while committing this evolutionary child of the Supreme to eternal association with the waiting Adjuster. And this completes the repersonalization, reassembly of memory, insight, and consciousness—identity.
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*3. 112:5.19 When these prerequisites of [[repersonalization]] have been assembled, the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS seraphic custodian] of the [[potentialities]] of the slumbering [[immortal]] [[soul]], with the [[assistance]] of numerous [[cosmic]] [[personalities]], bestows this [[morontia]] [[entity]] upon and in the awaiting [[morontia]] [[mind]]-[[body]] form while committing this evolutionary [[child]] of [[the Supreme]] to [[eternal]] [[association]] with the waiting [[Adjuster]]. And this completes the [[repersonalization]], reassembly of [[memory]], [[insight]], and [[consciousness]]—[[identity]].
  
112:5.20 The fact of repersonalization consists in the seizure of the encircuited morontia phase of the newly segregated cosmic mind by the awakening human self. The phenomenon of personality is dependent on the persistence of the identity of selfhood reaction to universe environment; and this can only be effected through the medium of mind. Selfhood persists in spite of a continuous change in all the factor components of self; in the physical life the change is gradual; at death and upon repersonalization the change is sudden. The true reality of all selfhood (personality) is able to function responsively to universe conditions by virtue of the unceasing changing of its constituent parts; stagnation terminates in inevitable death. Human life is an endless change of the factors of life unified by the stability of the unchanging personality.
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112:5.20 The [[fact]] of [[repersonalization]] consists in the seizure of the encircuited [[morontia]] [[phase]] of the newly segregated [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16#16:6._THE_COSMIC_MIND cosmic mind] by the [[awakening]] [[human]] [[self]]. The [[phenomenon]] of [[personality]] is dependent on the [[persistence]] of the [[identity]] of [[selfhood]] [[reaction]] to [[universe]] [[environment]]; and this can only be effected through the [[medium]] of [[mind]]. [[Selfhood]] [[persists]] in spite of a [[continuous]] [[change]] in all the factor components of [[self]]; in the [[physical]] life the [[change]] is [[gradual]]; at [[death]] and upon [[repersonalization]] the [[change]] is [[Drama|sudden]]. The true [[reality]] of all [[selfhood]] ([[personality]]) is able to [[function]] responsively to [[universe]] conditions by [[virtue]] of the unceasing changing of its constituent [[parts]]; stagnation terminates in [[inevitable]] [[death]]. [[Human]] life is an endless [[change]] of the [[factors]] of life unified by the [[stability]] of the unchanging [[personality]].
  
112:5.21 And when you thus awaken on the mansion worlds of Jerusem, you will be so changed, the spiritual transformation will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Adjuster and the destiny guardian, who so fully connect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you would at first have difficulty in connecting the new morontia consciousness with the reviving memory of your previous identity. Notwithstanding the continuity of personal selfhood, much of the mortal life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clarify many mortal associations.
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112:5.21 And when you thus [[awaken]] on the [[mansion worlds]] of [[Jerusem]], you will be so changed, the [[spiritual]] [[transformation]] will be so great that, were it not for your [[Thought Adjuster]] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_113#113:2._THE_DESTINY_GUARDIANS destiny guardian], who so fully [[connect]] up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you would at first have [[difficulty]] in connecting the new [[morontia]] [[consciousness]] with the reviving [[memory]] of your previous [[identity]]. Notwithstanding the [[continuity]] of [[personal]] [[selfhood]], much of the [[mortal]] life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy [[dream]]. But time will [[clarify]] many [[mortal]] [[associations]].
  
112:5.22 The Thought Adjuster will recall and rehearse for you only those memories and experiences which are a part of, and essential to, your universe career. If the Adjuster has been a partner in the evolution of aught in the human mind, then will these worth-while experiences survive in the eternal consciousness of the Adjuster. But much of your past life and its memories, having neither spiritual meaning nor morontia value, will perish with the material brain; much of material experience will pass away as onetime scaffolding which, having bridged you over to the morontia level, no longer serves a purpose in the universe. But personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist. On the mansion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short but intriguing life on Urantia.
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112:5.22 The [[Thought Adjuster]] will recall and [[rehearse]] for you only those [[memories]] and [[experiences]] which are a part of, and [[essential]] to, your [[universe career]]. If the [[Adjuster]] has been a [[partner]] in the [[evolution]] of aught in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_110_-_Relation_of_Adjusters_to_Individual_Mortals#110:1._INDWELLING_THE_MORTAL_MIND human mind], then will these [[worth]]-while [[experiences]] [[survive]] in the [[eternal]] [[consciousness]] of the [[Adjuster]]. But much of your [[past]] life and its [[memories]], having neither [[spiritual]] [[meaning]] nor [[morontia]] [[value]], will perish with the [[material]] [[brain]]; much of [[material]] [[experience]] will pass away as onetime [[scaffolding]] which, having bridged you over to the [[morontia]] level, no longer serves a [[purpose]] in the [[universe]]. But [[personality]] and the [[relationships]] between [[personalities]] are never [[scaffolding]]; [[mortal]] [[memory]] of [[personality]] [[relationships]] has [[cosmic]] [[value]] and will [[persist]]. On the [[mansion worlds]] you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime [[associates]] in the short but [[intriguing]] life on [[Urantia]].
  
 
==112:6. THE MORONTIA SELF==
 
==112:6. THE MORONTIA SELF==
  
112:6.1 Just as a butterfly emerges from the caterpillar stage, so will the true personalities of human beings emerge on the mansion worlds, for the first time revealed apart from their onetime enshroudment in the material flesh. The morontia career in the local universe has to do with the continued elevation of the personality mechanism from the beginning morontia level of soul existence up to the final morontia level of progressive spirituality.
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112:6.1 Just as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupa butterfly emerges from the caterpillar stage], so will the true [[personalities]] of [[human beings]] [[emerge]] on the [[mansion worlds]]. for the first time [[revealed]] apart from their onetime enshroudment in the [[material]] [[flesh]]. The [[morontia]] [[career]] in the [[local universe]] has to do with the continued elevation of the [[personality]] [[mechanism]] from the beginning [[morontia]] level of [[soul]] [[existence]] up to the final [[morontia]] level of [[progressive]] [[spirituality]].
  
112:6.2 It is difficult to instruct you regarding your morontia personality forms for the local universe career. You will be endowed with morontia patterns of personality manifestability, and these are investments which, in the last analysis, are beyond your comprehension. Such forms, while entirely real, are not energy patterns of the material order which you now understand. They do, however, serve the same purpose on the local universe worlds as do your material bodies on the planets of human nativity.
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112:6.2 It is [[difficult]] to instruct you regarding your [[morontia]] [[personality]] forms for the [[local universe]] career. You will be [[endowed]] with [[morontia]] [[patterns]] of [[personality]] manifestability, and these are investments which, in the last [[analysis]], are beyond your [[comprehension]]. Such [[forms]], while entirely real, are not [[energy]] patterns of the [[material]] order which you now [[understand]]. They do, however, serve the same [[purpose]] on the [[local universe]] worlds as do your [[material]] [[bodies]] on the [[planets]] of human [[nativity]].
  
112:6.3 To a certain extent, the appearance of the material body-form is responsive to the character of the personality identity; the physical body does, to a limited degree, reflect something of the inherent nature of the personality. Still more so does the morontia form. In the physical life, mortals may be outwardly beautiful though inwardly unlovely; in the morontia life, and increasingly on its higher levels, the personality form will vary directly in accordance with the nature of the inner person. On the spiritual level, outward form and inner nature begin to approximate complete identification, which grows more and more perfect on higher and higher spirit levels.
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112:6.3 To a certain extent, the [[appearance]] of the material [[body]]-[[form]] is responsive to the [[character]] of the [[personality]] [[identity]]; the physical body does, to a limited [[degree]], [[reflect]] something of the [[inherent]] [[nature]] of the [[personality]]. Still more so does the [[morontia]] form. In the [[physical]] life, mortals may be outwardly [[beautiful]] though inwardly [[Grotesque|unlovely]]; in the [[morontia]] life, and increasingly on its higher levels, the [[personality]] form will vary directly in [[accordance]] with the [[nature]] of the inner person. On the [[spiritual]] level, outward [[form]] and inner [[nature]] begin to approximate complete [[identification]], which grows more and more [[perfect]] on higher and higher [[spirit]] [[levels]].
  
112:6.4 In the morontia estate the ascending mortal is endowed with the Nebadon modification of the cosmic-mind endowment of the Master Spirit of Orvonton. The mortal intellect, as such, has perished, has ceased to exist as a focalized universe entity apart from the undifferentiated mind circuits of the Creative Spirit. But the meanings and values of the mortal mind have not perished. Certain phases of mind are continued in the surviving soul; certain experiential values of the former human mind are held by the Adjuster; and there persist in the local universe the records of the human life as it was lived in the flesh, together with certain living registrations in the numerous beings who are concerned with the final evaluation of the ascending mortal, beings extending in range from seraphim to Universal Censors and probably on beyond to the Supreme.
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112:6.4 In the [[morontia]] estate the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] is [[endowed]] with the [[Nebadon]] modification of the [[cosmic]]-[[mind]] [[endowment]] of the [[Master Spirit]] of [[Orvonton]]. The [[mortal]] [[intellect]], as such, has perished, has ceased to exist as a [[focalized]] [[universe]] [[entity]] apart from the undifferentiated [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_9#9:6._THE_MIND-GRAVITY_CIRCUIT mind circuits] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Spirit]. But the [[meanings]] and [[values]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 mortal mind] have not perished. Certain [[phases]] of [[mind]] are continued in the [[surviving]] [[soul]]; certain experiential [[values]] of the former [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] are held by the [[Adjuster]]; and there [[persist]] in the [[local universe]] the [[records]] of the human life as it was lived in the [[flesh]], together with certain living registrations in the numerous [[beings]] who are concerned with the final [[evaluation]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal], [[beings]] extending in range from [[seraphim]] to [[Universal Censors]] and probably on beyond to [[the Supreme]].
  
112:6.5 Creature volition cannot exist without mind, but it does persist in spite of the loss of the material intellect. During the times immediately following survival, the ascending personality is in great measure guided by the character patterns inherited from the human life and by the newly appearing action of morontia mota. And these guides to mansonia conduct function acceptably in the early stages of the morontia life and prior to the emergence of morontia will as a full-fledged volitional expression of the ascending personality.
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112:6.5 [[Creature]] [[volition]] cannot exist without [[mind]], but it does [[persist]] in spite of the loss of the [[material]] [[intellect]]. During the times [[immediately]] following [[survival]], the [[ascending]] [[personality]] is in great [[measure]] guided by the [[character]] [[patterns]] [[inherited]] from the human life and by the newly appearing [[action]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:7._MORONTIA_MOTA morontia mota]. And these guides to [[mansonia]] conduct [[function]] acceptably in the early [[stages]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#PAPER_48:_THE_MORONTIA_LIFE morontia life] and prior to the [[emergence]] of morontia [[Free will|will]] as a full-fledged volitional [[expression]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending personality].
  
112:6.6 There are no influences in the local universe career comparable to the seven adjutant mind-spirits of human existence. The morontia mind must evolve by direct contact with cosmic mind, as this cosmic mind has been modified and translated by the creative source of local universe intellect—the Divine Minister.
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112:6.6 There are no [[influences]] in the [[local universe]] career comparable to the [[seven adjutant mind-spirits]] of [[human]] [[existence]]. The [[morontia]] [[mind]] must evolve by direct [[contact]] with [[cosmic mind]], as this cosmic mind has been [[modified]] and [[translated]] by the [[creative]] source of [[local universe]] [[intellect]]—the [[Divine Minister]].
  
112:6.7 Mortal mind, prior to death, is self-consciously independent of the Adjuster presence; adjutant mind needs only the associated material-energy pattern to enable it to operate. But the morontia soul, being superadjutant, does not retain self-consciousness without the Adjuster when deprived of the material-mind mechanism. This evolving soul does, however, possess a continuing character derived from the decisions of its former associated adjutant mind, and this character becomes active memory when the patterns thereof are energized by the returning Adjuster.
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112:6.7 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42_-_Energy_-_Mind_and_Matter#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 Mortal mind], prior to [[death]], is [[self-conscious]]ly [[independent]] of the [[Adjuster]] [[presence]]; [[adjutant mind]] needs only the [[associated]] [[material]]-[[energy]] pattern to enable it to operate. But the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:2._NATURE_OF_THE_SOUL morontia soul], being superadjutant, does not retain [[self-consciousness]] without the [[Adjuster]] when deprived of the material-mind [[mechanism]]. This [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:3._THE_EVOLVING_SOUL evolving soul] does, however, [[possess]] a continuing [[character]] derived from the [[decisions]] of its former associated [[adjutant mind]], and this [[character]] becomes [[active]] [[memory]] when the [[patterns]] thereof are energized by the returning [[Adjuster]].
  
112:6.8 The persistence of memory is proof of the retention of the identity of original selfhood; it is essential to complete self-consciousness of personality continuity and expansion. Those mortals who ascend without Adjusters are dependent on the instruction of seraphic associates for the reconstruction of human memory; otherwise the morontia souls of the Spirit-fused mortals are not limited. The pattern of memory persists in the soul, but this pattern requires the presence of the former Adjuster to become immediately self-realizable as continuing memory. Without the Adjuster, it requires considerable time for the mortal survivor to re-explore and relearn, to recapture, the memory consciousness of the meanings and values of a former existence.
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112:6.8 The [[persistence]] of [[memory]] is [[proof]] of the retention of the [[identity]] of original [[selfhood]]; it is [[essential]] to complete [[self-consciousness]] of [[personality]] [[continuity]] and expansion. Those [[mortals]] who [[ascend]] without [[Adjusters]] are dependent on the instruction of [[seraphic]] [[associates]] for the reconstruction of human [[memory]]; otherwise the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:2._NATURE_OF_THE_SOUL morontia souls] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:9._SPIRIT-FUSED_MORTALS Spirit-fused mortals] are not limited. The [[pattern]] of [[memory]] persists in the [[soul]], but this [[pattern]] requires the [[presence]] of the former [[Adjuster]] to become [[immediately]] self-realizable as continuing [[memory]]. Without the [[Adjuster]], it requires considerable [[time]] for the [[mortal]] [[survivor]] to re-explore and relearn, to recapture, the [[memory]] [[consciousness]] of the [[meanings]] and [[values]] of a former [[existence]].
  
112:6.9 The soul of survival value faithfully reflects both the qualitative and the quantitative actions and motivations of the material intellect, the former seat of the identity of selfhood. In the choosing of truth, beauty, and goodness, the mortal mind enters upon its premorontia universe career under the tutelage of the seven adjutant mind-spirits unified under the direction of the spirit of wisdom. Subsequently, upon the completion of the seven circles of premorontia attainment, the superimposition of the endowment of morontia mind upon adjutant mind initiates the prespiritual or morontia career of local universe progression.
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112:6.9 The [[soul]] of [[survival]] [[value]] [[faithfully]] [[reflects]] both the [[qualitative]] and the [[quantitative]] [[actions]] and [[motivations]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 material intellect], the former seat of the [[identity]] of [[selfhood]]. In the choosing of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS truth, beauty, and goodness], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mortal mind] enters upon its premorontia [[universe career]] under the [[tutelage]] of the [[seven adjutant mind-spirits]] unified under the direction of the ''spirit of wisdom''. Subsequently, upon the completion of the [[Seven Psychic Circles|seven circles of premorontia attainment]], the [[superimposition]] of the [[endowment]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#10._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28MATERIAL_MIND_SYSTEMS.29 morontia mind] upon [[adjutant mind]] initiates the prespiritual or [[morontia]] career of [[local universe]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:8._THE_MORONTIA_PROGRESSORS progression].
  
112:6.10 When a creature leaves his native planet, he leaves the adjutant ministry behind and becomes solely dependent on morontia intellect. When an ascender leaves the local universe, he has attained the spiritual level of existence, having passed beyond the morontia level. This newly appearing spirit entity then becomes attuned to the direct ministry of the cosmic mind of Orvonton.
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112:6.10 When a [[creature]] leaves his [[native]] [[planet]], he leaves the adjutant ministry behind and becomes solely dependent on [[morontia]] [[intellect]]. When an ascender leaves the [[local universe]], he has [[attained]] the spiritual level of [[existence]], having passed beyond the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#PAPER_48:_THE_MORONTIA_LIFE morontia level]. This newly appearing [[spirit]] [[entity]] then becomes [[attuned]] to the direct [[ministry]] of the [[cosmic mind]] of [[Orvonton]].
  
 
==112:7. ADJUSTER FUSION==
 
==112:7. ADJUSTER FUSION==
  
112:7.1 Thought Adjuster fusion imparts eternal actualities to personality which were previously only potential. Among these new endowments may be mentioned: fixation of divinity quality, past-eternity experience and memory, immortality, and a phase of qualified potential absoluteness.
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112:7.1 [[Thought Adjuster]] [[fusion]] imparts [[eternal]] actualities to [[personality]] which were previously only [[potential]]. Among these new [[endowments]] may be mentioned: fixation of [[divinity]] [[quality]], [[past]]-[[eternity]] [[experience]] and [[memory]], [[immortality]], and a [[phase]] of qualified potential [[absoluteness]].
  
112:7.2 When your earthly course in temporary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a better world, and eventually you will be united with your faithful Adjuster in an eternal embrace. And this fusion constitutes the mystery of making God and man one, the mystery of finite creature evolution, but it is eternally true. Fusion is the secret of the sacred sphere of Ascendington, and no creature, save those who have experienced fusion with the spirit of Deity, can comprehend the true meaning of the actual values which are conjoined when the identity of a creature of time becomes eternally one with the spirit of Paradise Deity.
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112:7.2 When your [[earthly]] [[course]] in temporary [[form]] has been run, you are to [[awaken]] on the shores of a better world, and [[eventually]] you will be united with your [[faithful]] [[Adjuster]] in an [[eternal]] [[embrace]]. And this [[fusion]] constitutes the [[mystery]] of making [[God]] and [[man]] one, the [[mystery]] of [[finite]] [[creature]] [[evolution]], but it is [[eternally]] true. [[Fusion]] is the [[secret]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#PAPER_13:_THE_SACRED_SPHERES_OF_PARADISE sacred sphere] of [[Ascendington]], and no [[creature]], save those who have [[experienced]] [[fusion]] with the [[spirit]] of [[Deity]], can [[comprehend]] the true [[meaning]] of the [[actual]] [[values]] which are conjoined when the [[identity]] of a [[creature]] of [[time]] becomes eternally one with the [[spirit]] of [[Paradise Deity]].
  
112:7.3 Fusion with the Adjuster is usually effected while the ascender is resident within his local system. It may occur on the planet of nativity as a transcendence of natural death; it may take place on any one of the mansion worlds or on the headquarters of the system; it may even be delayed until the time of the constellation sojourn; or, in special instances, it may not be consummated until the ascender is on the local universe capital.
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112:7.3 [[Fusion]] with the [[Adjuster]] is usually effected while the [[ascender]] is resident within his [[local system]]. It may occur on the [[planet]] of [[nativity]] as a [[transcendence]] of [[natural]] [[death]]; it may take place on any one of the [[mansion worlds]] or on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46_-_The_Local_System_Headquarters headquarters of the system]; it may even be delayed until the time of the [[constellation]] [[sojourn]]; or, in special instances, it may not be [[consummated]] until the ascender is on the [[Salvington|local universe capital]].
  
112:7.4 When fusion with the Adjuster has been effected, there can be no future danger to the eternal career of such a personality. Celestial beings are tested throughout a long experience, but mortals pass through a relatively short and intensive testing on the evolutionary and morontia worlds.
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112:7.4 When [[fusion]] with the [[Adjuster]] has been effected, there can be no [[future]] [[danger]] to the [[eternal career]] of such a [[personality]]. [[Celestial]] [[beings]] are tested throughout a long [[experience]], but [[mortals]] pass through a [[relatively]] short and [[intensive]] testing on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary] and [[morontia worlds]].
  
112:7.5 Fusion with the Adjuster never occurs until the mandates of the superuniverse have pronounced that the human nature has made a final and irrevocable choice for the eternal career. This is the at-onement authorization, which, when issued, constitutes the clearance authority for the fused personality eventually to leave the confines of the local universe to proceed sometime to the headquarters of the superuniverse, from which point the pilgrim of time will, in the distant future, enseconaphim for the long flight to the central universe of Havona and the Deity adventure.
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112:7.5 [[Fusion]] with the [[Adjuster]] never occurs until the [[mandates]] of the [[superuniverse]] have pronounced that the [[human]] [[nature]] has made a final and irrevocable [[choice]] for the [[eternal career]]. This is the [[at-onement]] authorization, which, when issued, [[constitutes]] the clearance [[authority]] for the fused [[personality]] [[eventually]] to leave the confines of the [[local universe]] to proceed sometime to the [[Uversa|headquarters]] of the [[superuniverse]], from which point the [[pilgrim]] of time will, in the distant [[future]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:3._THE_SECONAPHIM enseconaphim] for the long flight to the [[central universe]] of Havona and the [[Deity]] [[adventure]].
  
112:7.6 On the evolutionary worlds, selfhood is material; it is a thing in the universe and as such is subject to the laws of material existence. It is a fact in time and is responsive to the vicissitudes thereof. Survival decisions must here be formulated. In the morontia state the self has become a new and more enduring universe reality, and its continuing growth is predicated on its increasing attunement to the mind and spirit circuits of the universes. Survival decisions are now being confirmed. When the self attains the spiritual level, it has become a secure value in the universe, and this new value is predicated upon the fact that survival decisions have been made, which fact has been witnessed by eternal fusion with the Thought Adjuster. And having achieved the status of a true universe value, the creature becomes liberated in potential for the seeking of the highest universe value—God.
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112:7.6 On the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds], [[selfhood]] is [[material]]; it is a [[thing]] in the [[universe]] and as such is subject to the [[laws]] of [[material]] [[existence]]. It is a [[fact]] in time and is [[responsive]] to the [[vicissitudes]] thereof. [[Survival]] [[decisions]] must here be [[formulated]]. In the [[morontia]] state the [[self]] has become a new and more [[enduring]] [[universe]] [[reality]], and its continuing [[growth]] is predicated on its increasing [[attunement]] to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#VI._ENERGY_AND_PATTERN mind and spirit circuits] of the [[universes]]. [[Survival]] [[decisions]] are now being [[confirmed]]. When the [[self]] [[attains]] the [[spiritual]] level, it has become a [[secure]] [[value]] in the [[universe]], and this new [[value]] is predicated upon the [[fact]] that [[survival]] decisions have been made, which [[fact]] has been [[witnessed]] by [[eternal]] [[fusion]] with the [[Thought Adjuster]]. And having achieved the [[status]] of a true [[universe]] [[value]], the [[creature]] becomes [[liberated]] in [[potential]] for the seeking of the highest [[universe]] [[value]]—[[God]].
  
112:7.7 Such fused beings are twofold in their universe reactions: They are discrete morontia individuals not altogether unlike seraphim, and they are also beings in potential on the order of the Paradise finaliters.
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112:7.7 Such [[fused]] [[beings]] are twofold in their [[universe]] [[reactions]]: They are [[discrete]] [[morontia]] [[individuals]] not altogether unlike [[seraphim]], and they are also [[beings]] in [[potential]] on the order of the [[Paradise]] [[finaliters]].
  
112:7.8 But the fused individual is really one personality, one being, whose unity defies all attempts at analysis by any intelligence of the universes. And so, having passed the tribunals of the local universe from the lowest to the highest, none of which have been able to identify man or Adjuster, the one apart from the other, you shall finally be taken before the Sovereign of Nebadon, your local universe Father. And there, at the hand of the very being whose creative fatherhood in this universe of time has made possible the fact of your life, you will be granted those credentials which entitle you eventually to proceed upon your superuniverse career in quest of the Universal Father.
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112:7.8 But the fused [[individual]] is really one [[personality]], one being, whose [[unity]] defies all attempts at [[analysis]] by any [[intelligence]] of the [[universes]]. And so, having passed the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:7._THE_COURTS_OF_NEBADON tribunals of the local universe] from the lowest to the highest, none of which have been able to [[identify]] man or [[Adjuster]], the one apart from the other, you shall finally be taken before the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:2._THE_SOVEREIGN_OF_NEBADON Sovereign of Nebadon], your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_33#33:1._MICHAEL_OF_NEBADON local universe Father]. And there, at the hand of the very [[being]] whose [[creative]] [[fatherhood]] in this [[universe]] of ''time'' has made possible the [[fact]] of your life, you will be granted those [[credentials]] which entitle you [[eventually]] to [[proceed]] upon your [[superuniverse]] [[career]] in [[quest]] of the [[Universal Father]].
  
112:7.9 Has the triumphant Adjuster won personality by the magnificent service to humanity, or has the valiant human acquired immortality through sincere efforts to achieve Adjusterlikeness? It is neither; but they together have achieved the evolution of a member of one of the unique orders of the ascending personalities of the Supreme, one who will ever be found serviceable, faithful, and efficient, a candidate for further growth and development, ever ranging upward and never ceasing the supernal ascent until the seven circuits of Havona have been traversed and the onetime soul of earthly origin stands in worshipful recognition of the actual personality of the Father on Paradise.
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112:7.9 Has the triumphant [[Adjuster]] won [[personality]] by the magnificent [[service]] to [[humanity]], or has the [[valiant]] [[human]] acquired [[immortality]] through [[sincere]] [[efforts]] to [[achieve]] Adjusterlikeness? It is neither; but they [[together]] have achieved the [[evolution]] of a member of one of the [[unique]] orders of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:7._FATHER-FUSED_MORTALS ascending personalities] of the [[Supreme]], one who will ever be found serviceable, [[faithful]], and [[efficient]], a [[candidate]] for further [[growth]] and development, ever ranging upward and never ceasing the [[supernal]] [[ascent]] until the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14#14:1._THE_PARADISE-HAVONA_SYSTEM seven circuits of Havona] have been [[traversed]] and the onetime [[soul]] of [[earthly]] [[origin]] stands in [[worshipful]] [[recognition]] of the [[actual]] [[personality]] of [[the Father]] on [[Paradise]].
  
112:7.10 Throughout all this magnificent ascent the Thought Adjuster is the divine pledge of the future and full spiritual stabilization of the ascending mortal. Meanwhile the presence of the mortal free will affords the Adjuster an eternal channel for the liberation of the divine and infinite nature. Now have these two identities become one; no event of time or of eternity can ever separate man and Adjuster; they are inseparable, eternally fused.
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112:7.10 Throughout all this [[magnificent]] [[ascent]] the [[Thought Adjuster]] is the [[divine]] [[pledge]] of the [[future]] and full [[spiritual]] [[stabilization]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal]. Meanwhile the [[presence]] of the [[mortal]] [[free will]] affords the [[Adjuster]] an [[eternal]] [[channel]] for the [[liberation]] of the [[divine]] and [[infinite]] [[nature]]. Now have these [[two]] [[identities]] become [[one]]; no [[event]] of [[time]] or of [[eternity]] can ever separate man and [[Adjuster]]; they are inseparable, eternally [[fused]].
  
112:7.11 On the Adjuster-fusion worlds the destiny of the Mystery Monitor is identical with that of the ascending mortal—the Paradise Corps of the Finality. And neither Adjuster nor mortal can attain that unique goal without the full co-operation and faithful help of the other. This extraordinary partnership is one of the most engrossing and amazing of all the cosmic phenomena of this universe age.
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112:7.11 On the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49#49:5._THE_PLANETARY_SERIES_OF_MORTALS Adjuster-fusion worlds] the [[destiny]] of the [[Mystery Monitor]] is [[identical]] with that of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal]—the [[Paradise]] [[Corps of the Finality]]. And neither [[Adjuster]] nor [[mortal]] can [[attain]] that [[unique]] goal without the full [[co-operation]] and [[faithful]] help of the other. This extraordinary [[partnership]] is one of the most engrossing and [[amazing]] of all the [[cosmic]] [[phenomena]] of this [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2:_The_Evolutionary_Antithesis universe age].
  
112:7.12 From the time of Adjuster fusion the status of the ascender is that of the evolutionary creature. The human member was the first to enjoy personality and, therefore, outranks the Adjuster in all matters concerned with the recognition of personality. The Paradise headquarters of this fused being is Ascendington, not Divinington, and this unique combination of God and man ranks as an ascending mortal all the way up to the Corps of the Finality.
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112:7.12 From the time of ''Adjuster fusion'' the [[status]] of the [[ascender]] is that of the [[evolutionary]] [[creature]]. The [[human]] member was the first to [[enjoy]] [[personality]] and, therefore, outranks the [[Adjuster]] in all matters concerned with the [[recognition]] of [[personality]]. The [[Paradise]] [[headquarters]] of this fused [[being]] is [[Ascendington]], not [[Divinington]], and this [[unique]] combination of [[God]] and man ranks as an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:6._THE_FAITH_SONS_OF_GOD ascending mortal] all the way up to the [[Corps of the Finality]].
  
112:7.13 When once an Adjuster fuses with an ascending mortal, the number of that Adjuster is stricken from the records of the superuniverse. What happens on the records of Divinington, I do not know, but I surmise that the registry of that Adjuster is removed to the secret circles of the inner courts of Grandfanda, the acting head of the Corps of the Finality.
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112:7.13 When once an [[Adjuster]] fuses with an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:6._THE_FAITH_SONS_OF_GOD ascending mortal], the [[number]] of that [[Adjuster]] is stricken from the [[records]] of the [[superuniverse]]. What happens on the [[records]] of [[Divinington]], I do not know, but I surmise that the registry of that [[Adjuster]] is removed to the [[secret]] circles of the inner courts of [[Grandfanda]], the acting head of the [[Corps of the Finality]].
  
112:7.14 With Adjuster fusion the Universal Father has completed his promise of the gift of himself to his material creatures; he has fulfilled the promise, and consummated the plan, of the eternal bestowal of divinity upon humanity. Now begins the human attempt to realize and to actualize the limitless possibilities that are inherent in the supernal partnership with God which has thus factualized.
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112:7.14 With ''Adjuster fusion'' the [[Universal Father]] has completed his [[promise]] of the [[gift]] of himself to his [[material]] [[creatures]]; he has fulfilled the [[promise]], and [[consummated]] the [[plan]], of the [[eternal]] [[bestowal]] of [[divinity]] upon [[humanity]]. Now begins the [[human]] attempt to [[realize]] and to [[actualize]] the limitless [[possibilities]] that are [[inherent]] in the [[supernal]] [[partnership]] with [[God]] which has thus factualized.
  
112:7.15 The present known destiny of surviving mortals is the Paradise Corps of the Finality; this is also the goal of destiny for all Thought Adjusters who become joined in eternal union with their mortal companions. At present the Paradise finaliters are working throughout the grand universe in many undertakings, but we all conjecture that they will have other and even more supernal tasks to perform in the distant future after the seven superuniverses have become settled in light and life, and when the finite God has finally emerged from the mystery which now surrounds this Supreme Deity.
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112:7.15 The present known [[destiny]] of [[surviving]] [[mortals]] is the [[Paradise]][[ Corps of the Finality]]; this is also the goal of [[destiny]] for all [[Thought Adjusters]] who become joined in [[eternal]] [[union]] with their [[mortal]] [[companions]]. At present the [[Paradise]] [[finaliters]] are working throughout the [[grand universe]] in many undertakings, but we all conjecture that they will have other and even more [[supernal]] tasks to [[perform]] in the distant [[future]] after the [[seven superuniverses]] have become [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3:_First_Synthesis:_God_the_Supreme settled in light and life], and when the [[the Supreme|finite God]] has finally [[emerged]] from the [[mystery]] which now [[surrounds]] this [[Supreme]] Deity.
  
112:7.16 You have been instructed to a certain extent about the organization and personnel of the central universe, the superuniverses, and the local universes; you have been told something about the character and origin of some of the various personalities who now rule these far-flung creations. You have also been informed that there are in process of organization vast galaxies of universes far out beyond the periphery of the grand universe, in the first outer space level. It has also been intimated in the course of these narratives that the Supreme Being is to disclose his unrevealed tertiary function in these now uncharted regions of outer space; and you have also been told that the finaliters of the Paradise corps are the experiential children of the Supreme.
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112:7.16 You have been instructed to a certain extent about the [[organization]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_14#14:4._CREATURES_OF_THE_CENTRAL_UNIVERSE personnel of the central universe], [[the superuniverses]], and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_32 local universes]; you have been told something about the [[character]] and [[origin]] of some of the various [[personalities]] who now rule these far-flung [[creations]]. You have also been informed that there are in [[process]] of [[organization]] vast [[Outer Space|galaxies of universes]] far out beyond the [[periphery]] of the [[grand universe]], in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6:_The_Second_Creative_Thesis first outer space level]. It has also been intimated in the [[course]] of these [[narratives]] that the [[Supreme Being]] is to disclose his unrevealed tertiary [[function]] in these now uncharted regions of [[outer space]]; and you have also been told that the [[finaliters]] of the [[Paradise]] corps are the [[experiential]] [[children]] of the [[Supreme]].
  
112:7.17 We believe that the mortals of Adjuster fusion, together with their finaliter associates, are destined to function in some manner in the administration of the universes of the first outer space level. We have not the slightest doubt that in due time these enormous galaxies will become inhabited universes. And we are equally convinced that among the administrators thereof will be found the Paradise finaliters whose natures are the cosmic consequence of the blending of creature and Creator.
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112:7.17 We believe that the [[mortals]] of ''Adjuster fusion'', together with their [[finaliter]] [[associates]], are [[destined]] to [[function]] in some [[manner]] in the [[administration]] of the [[universes]] of the first [[outer space]] level. We have not the slightest [[doubt]] that in due time these enormous [[galaxies]] will become [[inhabited]] [[universes]]. And we are equally convinced that among the [[administrators]] thereof will be found the [[Paradise]] [[finaliters]] whose [[natures]] are the [[cosmic]] consequence of the blending of [[creature]] and [[Creator]].
  
112:7.18 What an adventure! What a romance! A gigantic creation to be administered by the children of the Supreme, these personalized and humanized Adjusters, these Adjusterized and eternalized mortals, these mysterious combinations and eternal associations of the highest known manifestation of the essence of the First Source and Center and the lowest form of intelligent life capable of comprehending and attaining the Universal Father. We conceive that such amalgamated beings, such partnerships of Creator and creature, will become superb rulers, matchless administrators, and understanding and sympathetic directors of any and all forms of intelligent life which may come into existence throughout these future universes of the first outer space level.
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112:7.18 What an [[adventure]]! What a [[romance]]! A gigantic [[creation]] to be [[administered]] by the [[children]] of [[the Supreme]], these personalized and humanized [[Adjusters]], these Adjusterized and eternalized [[mortals]], these [[mysterious]] combinations and [[eternal]] [[associations]] of the highest known [[manifestation]] of the of the [[First Source and Center]] and the lowest form of [[intelligent]] life capable of [[comprehending]] and [[attaining]] the [[Universal Father]]. We conceive that such [[amalgamated]] [[beings]], such [[partnerships]] of [[Creator]] and [[creature]], will become superb rulers, matchless [[administrators]], and [[understanding]] and sympathetic directors of any and all [[forms]] of [[intelligent]] life which may come into [[existence]] throughout these [[future]] [[universes]] of the first [[outer space]] level.
  
112:7.19 True it is, you mortals are of earthly, animal origin; your frame is indeed dust. But if you actually will, if you really desire, surely the heritage of the ages is yours, and you shall someday serve throughout the universes in your true characters—children of the Supreme God of experience and divine sons of the Paradise Father of all personalities.
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112:7.19 True it is, you [[mortals]] are of [[earthly]], [[animal]] [[origin]]; your frame is indeed dust. But if you [[actually]] [[Free will|will]], if you really [[desire]], surely the [[heritage]] of the ages is yours, and you shall someday serve throughout [[Master Universe|the universes]] in your true [[characters]]—[[children]] of the [[Supreme]] [[God]] of [[experience]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:10._ASCENDANT_DESTINIES divine sons] of the [[Paradise Father]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30 all personalities]].
  
 
112:7.20 Presented by a [[Solitary Messenger]] of [[Orvonton]].
 
112:7.20 Presented by a [[Solitary Messenger]] of [[Orvonton]].
  
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PAPER 112: PERSONALITY SURVIVAL

112:0.1 The evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascending mortal career. Urantia is your starting point; here you and your divine Thought Adjuster are joined in temporary union. You have been endowed with a perfect guide; therefore, if you will sincerely run the race of time and gain the final goal of faith, the reward of the ages shall be yours; you will be eternally united with your indwelling Adjuster. Then will begin your real life, the ascending life, to which your present mortal state is but the vestibule. Then will begin your exalted and progressive mission as finaliters in the eternity which stretches out before you. And throughout all of these successive ages and stages of evolutionary growth, there is one part of you that remains absolutely unaltered, and that is personalitypermanence in the presence of change.

112:0.2 While it would be presumptuous to attempt the definition of personality, it may prove helpful to recount some of the things which are known about personality:

112:1. PERSONALITY AND REALITY

112:1.1 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:

112:1.5 Personality has a perfected range of cosmic dimensional performance. The dimensions of finite personality are three, and they are roughly functional as follows:

112:1.9 The type of personality bestowed upon Urantia mortals has a potentiality of seven dimensions of self-expression or person-realization. These dimensional phenomena are realizable as three on the finite level, three on the absonite level, and one on the absolute level. On subabsolute levels this seventh or totality dimension is experiencible as the fact of personality. This supreme dimension is an associable absolute and, while not infinite, is dimensionally potential for subinfinite penetration of the absolute.

112:1.10 The finite dimensions of personality have to do with cosmic length, depth, and breadth. Length denotes meaning; depth signifies value; breadth embraces insight—the capacity to experience unchallengeable consciousness of cosmic reality.

112:1.11 On the morontia level all of these finite dimensions of the material level are greatly enhanced, and certain new dimensional values are realizable. All these enlarged dimensional experiences of the morontia level are marvelously articulated with the supreme or personality dimension through the influence of mota and also because of the contribution of morontia mathematics.

112:1.12 Much trouble experienced by mortals in their study of human personality could be avoided if the finite creature would remember that dimensional levels and spiritual levels are not co-ordinated in experiential personality realization.

112:1.13 Life is really a process which takes place between the organism (selfhood) and its environment. The personality imparts value of identity and meanings of continuity to this organismal-environmental association. Thus it will be recognized that the phenomenon of stimulus-response is not a mere mechanical process since the personality functions as a factor in the total situation. It is ever true that mechanisms are innately passive; organisms, inherently active.

112:1.14 Physical life is a process taking place not so much within the organism as between the organism and the environment. And every such process tends to create and establish organismal patterns of reaction to such an environment. And all such directive patterns are highly influential in goal choosing.

112:1.15 It is through the mediation of mind that the self and the environment establish meaningful contact. The ability and willingness of the organism to make such significant contacts with environment (response to a drive) represents the attitude of the whole personality.

112:1.16 Personality cannot very well perform in isolation. Man is innately a social creature; he is dominated by the craving of belongingness. It is literally true, "No man lives unto himself."[1]

112:1.17 But the concept of the personality as the meaning of the whole of the living and functioning creature means much more than the integration of relationships; it signifies the unification of all factors of reality as well as co-ordination of relationships. Relationships exist between two objects, but three or more objects eventuate a system, and such a system is much more than just an enlarged or complex relationship. This distinction is vital, for in a cosmic system the individual members are not connected with each other except in relation to the whole and through the individuality of the whole.

112:1.18 In the human organism the summation of its parts constitutes selfhoodindividuality—but such a process has nothing whatever to do with personality, which is the unifier of all these factors as related to cosmic realities.

112:1.19 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.

112:2. THE SELF

112:2.1 It would be helpful in the study of selfhood to remember:

112:2.2 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.

112:2.3 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.

112:2.4 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. Everything nonspiritual in human experience, excepting personality, is a means to an end. Every true relationship of mortal man with other personshuman or divine—is an end in itself. And such fellowship with the personality of Deity is the eternal goal of universe ascension.

112:2.5 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.

112:2.6 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.

112:2.7 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.

112:2.8 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.

112:2.9 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.

112:2.10 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.

112:2.11 The purpose of cosmic evolution is to achieve unity of personality through increasing spirit dominance, 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,"[2] the expansion of the control of both itself and its environment.

112:2.12 An ascending onetime human personality passes through two great phases of increasing volitional dominance over the self and in the universe:

112:2.15 Descending personalities attain 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 Deities.

112:2.16 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.

112:3. THE PHENOMENON OF DEATH

112:3.1 Urantians generally recognize only one kind of death, the physical cessation of life energies; but concerning personality survival there are really three kinds:

112:3.5 After death the material body returns to the elemental world from which it was derived, but two nonmaterial factors of surviving personality persist: The pre-existent Thought Adjuster, with the memory transcription of the mortal career, proceeds to Divinington; and there also remains, in the custody of the destiny guardian, the immortal morontia soul of the deceased human. These phases and forms of soul, these once kinetic but now static formulas of identity, are essential to repersonalization on the morontia worlds; and it is the reunion of the Adjuster and the soul that reassembles the surviving personality, that reconsciousizes you at the time of the morontia awakening.

112:3.6 For those who do not have personal seraphic guardians, the group custodians faithfully and efficiently perform the same service of identity safekeeping and personality resurrection. The seraphim are indispensable to the reassembly of personality.

112:3.7 Upon death the Thought Adjuster temporarily loses personality, but not identity; the human subject temporarily loses identity, but not personality; on the mansion worlds both reunite in eternal manifestation. Never does a departed Thought Adjuster return to earth as the being of former indwelling; never is personality manifested without the human will; and never does a dis-Adjustered human being after death manifest active identity or in any manner establish communication with the living beings of earth. Such dis-Adjustered souls are wholly and absolutely unconscious during the long or short sleep of death. There can be no exhibition of any sort of personality or ability to engage in communications with other personalities until after completion of survival. Those who go to the mansion worlds are not permitted to send messages back to their loved ones. It is the policy throughout the universes to forbid such communication during the period of a current dispensation.

112:4. ADJUSTERS AFTER DEATH

112:4.1 When death of a material, intellectual, or spiritual nature occurs, the Adjuster bids farewell to the mortal host and departs for Divinington. From the headquarters of the local universe and the superuniverse a reflective contact is made with the supervisors of both governments, and the Monitor is registered out by the same number that recorded entry into the domains of time.

112:4.2 In some way not fully understood, the Universal Censors are able to gain possession of an epitome of the human life as it is embodied in the Adjuster's duplicate transcription of the spiritual values and morontia meanings of the indwelt mind. The Censors are able to appropriate the Adjuster's version of the deceased human's survival character and spiritual qualities, and all this data, together with the seraphic records, is available for presentation at the time of the adjudication of the individual concerned. This information is also used to confirm those superuniverse mandates which make it possible for certain ascenders immediately to begin their morontia careers, upon mortal dissolution to proceed to the mansion worlds ahead of the formal termination of a planetary dispensation.

112:4.3 Subsequent to physical death, except in individuals translated from among the living, the released Adjuster goes immediately to the home sphere of Divinington. The details of what transpires on that world during the time of awaiting the factual reappearance of the surviving mortal depend chiefly on whether the human being ascends to the mansion worlds in his own individual right or awaits a dispensational summoning of the sleeping survivors of a planetary age.

112:4.4 If the mortal associate belongs to a group that will be repersonalized at the end of a dispensation, the Adjuster will not immediately return to the mansion world of the former system of service but will, according to choice, enter upon one of the following temporary assignments:

112:4.5 If, when death overtakes you, you have attained the third circle or a higher realm and therefore have had assigned to you a personal guardian of destiny, and if the final transcript of the summary of survival character submitted by the Adjuster is unconditionally certified by the destiny guardian—if both seraphim and Adjuster essentially agree in every item of their life records and recommendations—if the Universal Censors and their reflective associates on Uversa confirm this data and do so without equivocation or reservation, in that event the Ancients of Days flash forth the mandate of advanced standing over the communication circuits to Salvington, and, thus released, the tribunals of the Sovereign of Nebadon will decree the immediate passage of the surviving soul to the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds.

112:4.6 If the human individual survives without delay, the Adjuster, so I am instructed, registers at Divinington, proceeds to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father, returns immediately and is embraced by the Personalized Adjusters of the superuniverse and local universe of assignment, receives the recognition of the chief Personalized Monitor of Divinington, and then, at once, passes into the "realization of identity transition," being summoned therefrom on the third period and on the mansion world in the actual personality form made ready for the reception of the surviving soul of the earth mortal as that form has been projected by the guardian of destiny.

112:5. SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN SELF

112:5.1 Selfhood is a cosmic reality whether material, morontial, or spiritual. The actuality of the personal is the bestowal of the Universal Father acting in and of himself or through his manifold universe agencies. To say that a being is personal is to recognize the relative individuation of such a being within the cosmic organism. The living cosmos is an all but infinitely integrated aggregation of real units, all of which are relatively subject to the destiny of the whole. But those that are personal have been endowed with the actual choice of destiny acceptance or of destiny rejection.

112:5.2 That which comes from the Father is like the Father eternal, and this is just as true of personality, which God gives by his own freewill choice, as it is of the divine Thought Adjuster, an actual fragment of God. Man's personality is eternal but with regard to identity a conditioned eternal reality. Having appeared in response to the Father's will, personality will attain Deity destiny, but man must choose whether or not he will be present at the attainment of such destiny. In default of such choice, personality attains experiential Deity directly, becoming a part of the Supreme Being. The cycle is foreordained, but man's participation therein is optional, personal, and experiential.

112:5.3 Mortal identity is a transient time-life condition in the universe; it is real only in so far as the personality elects to become a continuing universe phenomenon. This is the essential difference between man and an energy system: The energy system must continue, it has no choice; but man has everything to do with determining his own destiny. The Adjuster is truly the path to Paradise, but man himself must pursue that path by his own deciding, his freewill choosing.

112:5.4 Human beings possess identity only in the material sense. Such qualities of the self are expressed by the material mind as it functions in the energy system of the intellect. When it is said that man has identity, it is recognized that he is in possession of a mind circuit which has been placed in subordination to the acts and choosing of the will of the human personality. But this is a material and purely temporary manifestation, just as the human embryo is a transient parasitic stage of human life. Human beings, from a cosmic perspective, are born, live, and die in a relative instant of time; they are not enduring. But mortal personality, through its own choosing, possesses the power of transferring its seat of identity from the passing material-intellect system to the higher morontia-soul system which, in association with the Thought Adjuster, is created as a new vehicle for personality manifestation.

112:5.5 And it is this very power of choice, the universe insignia of freewill creaturehood, that constitutes man's greatest opportunity and his supreme cosmic responsibility. Upon the integrity of the human volition depends the eternal destiny of the future finaliter; upon the sincerity of the mortal free will the divine Adjuster depends for eternal personality; upon the faithfulness of mortal choice the Universal Father depends for the realization of a new ascending son; upon the steadfastness and wisdom of decision-actions the Supreme Being depends for the actuality of experiential evolution.

112:5.6 Though the cosmic circles of personality growth must eventually be attained, if, through no fault of your own, the accidents of time and the handicaps of material existence prevent your mastering these levels on your native planet, if your intentions and desires are of survival value, there are issued the decrees of probation extension. You will be afforded additional time in which to prove yourself.

112:5.7 If ever there is doubt as to the advisability of advancing a human identity to the mansion worlds, the universe governments invariably rule in the personal interests of that individual; they unhesitatingly advance such a soul to the status of a transitional being, while they continue their observations of the emerging morontia intent and spiritual purpose. Thus divine justice is certain of achievement, and divine mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its ministry.

112:5.8 The governments of Orvonton and Nebadon do not claim absolute perfection for the detail working of the universal plan of mortal repersonalization, but they do claim to, and actually do, manifest patience, tolerance, understanding, and merciful sympathy. We had rather assume the risk of a system rebellion than to court the hazard of depriving one struggling mortal from any evolutionary world of the eternal joy of pursuing the ascending career.

112:5.9 This does not mean that human beings are to enjoy a second opportunity in the face of the rejection of a first, not at all. But it does signify that all will creatures are to experience one true opportunity to make one undoubted, self-conscious, and final choice. The sovereign Judges of the universes will not deprive any being of personality status who has not finally and fully made the eternal choice; the soul of man must and will be given full and ample opportunity to reveal its true intent and real purpose.

112:5.10 When the more spiritually and cosmically advanced mortals die, they proceed immediately to the mansion worlds; in general, this provision operates with those who have had assigned to them personal seraphic guardians. Other mortals may be detained until such time as the adjudication of their affairs has been completed, after which they may proceed to the mansion worlds, or they may be assigned to the ranks of the sleeping survivors who will be repersonalized en masse at the end of the current planetary dispensation.

112:5.11 There are two difficulties that hamper my efforts to explain just what happens to you in death, the surviving you which is distinct from the departing Adjuster. One of these consists in the impossibility of conveying to your level of comprehension an adequate description of a transaction on the borderland of the physical and morontia realms. The other is brought about by the restrictions placed upon my commission as a revelator of truth by the celestial governing authorities of Urantia. There are many interesting details which might be presented, but I withhold them upon the advice of your immediate planetary supervisors. But within the limits of my permission I can say this much:

112:5.12 There is something real, something of human evolution, something additional to the Mystery Monitor, which survives death. This newly appearing entity is the soul, and it survives the death of both your physical body and your material mind. This entity is the conjoint child of the combined life and efforts of the human you in liaison with the divine you, the Adjuster. This child of human and divine parentage constitutes the surviving element of terrestrial origin; it is the morontia self, the immortal soul.

112:5.13 This child of persisting meaning and surviving value is wholly unconscious during the period from death to repersonalization and is in the keeping of the seraphic destiny guardian throughout this season of waiting. You will not function as a conscious being, following death, until you attain the new consciousness of morontia on the mansion worlds of Satania.

112:5.14 At death the functional identity associated with the human personality is disrupted through the cessation of vital motion. Human personality, while transcending its constituent parts, is dependent on them for functional identity. The stoppage of life destroys the physical brain patterns for mind endowment, and the disruption of mind terminates mortal consciousness. The consciousness of that creature cannot subsequently reappear until a cosmic situation has been arranged which will permit the same human personality again to function in relationship with living energy.

112:5.15 During the transit of surviving mortals from the world of origin to the mansion worlds, whether they experience personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at the time of a group resurrection, the record of personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the archangels on their worlds of special activities. These beings are not the custodians of personality (as the guardian seraphim are of the soul), but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of personality is effectually safeguarded in the custody of these dependable trustees of mortal survival. As to the exact whereabouts of mortal personality during the time intervening between death and survival, we do not know.

112:5.16 The situation which makes repersonalization possible is brought about in the resurrection halls of the morontia receiving planets of a local universe. Here in these life-assembly chambers the supervising authorities provide that relationship of universe energy—morontial, mindal, and spiritual—which makes possible the reconsciousizing of the sleeping survivor. The reassembly of the constituent parts of a onetime material personality involves:

112:5.20 The fact of repersonalization consists in the seizure of the encircuited morontia phase of the newly segregated cosmic mind by the awakening human self. The phenomenon of personality is dependent on the persistence of the identity of selfhood reaction to universe environment; and this can only be effected through the medium of mind. Selfhood persists in spite of a continuous change in all the factor components of self; in the physical life the change is gradual; at death and upon repersonalization the change is sudden. The true reality of all selfhood (personality) is able to function responsively to universe conditions by virtue of the unceasing changing of its constituent parts; stagnation terminates in inevitable death. Human life is an endless change of the factors of life unified by the stability of the unchanging personality.

112:5.21 And when you thus awaken on the mansion worlds of Jerusem, you will be so changed, the spiritual transformation will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Adjuster and the destiny guardian, who so fully connect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you would at first have difficulty in connecting the new morontia consciousness with the reviving memory of your previous identity. Notwithstanding the continuity of personal selfhood, much of the mortal life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clarify many mortal associations.

112:5.22 The Thought Adjuster will recall and rehearse for you only those memories and experiences which are a part of, and essential to, your universe career. If the Adjuster has been a partner in the evolution of aught in the human mind, then will these worth-while experiences survive in the eternal consciousness of the Adjuster. But much of your past life and its memories, having neither spiritual meaning nor morontia value, will perish with the material brain; much of material experience will pass away as onetime scaffolding which, having bridged you over to the morontia level, no longer serves a purpose in the universe. But personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist. On the mansion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short but intriguing life on Urantia.

112:6. THE MORONTIA SELF

112:6.1 Just as a butterfly emerges from the caterpillar stage, so will the true personalities of human beings emerge on the mansion worlds. for the first time revealed apart from their onetime enshroudment in the material flesh. The morontia career in the local universe has to do with the continued elevation of the personality mechanism from the beginning morontia level of soul existence up to the final morontia level of progressive spirituality.

112:6.2 It is difficult to instruct you regarding your morontia personality forms for the local universe career. You will be endowed with morontia patterns of personality manifestability, and these are investments which, in the last analysis, are beyond your comprehension. Such forms, while entirely real, are not energy patterns of the material order which you now understand. They do, however, serve the same purpose on the local universe worlds as do your material bodies on the planets of human nativity.

112:6.3 To a certain extent, the appearance of the material body-form is responsive to the character of the personality identity; the physical body does, to a limited degree, reflect something of the inherent nature of the personality. Still more so does the morontia form. In the physical life, mortals may be outwardly beautiful though inwardly unlovely; in the morontia life, and increasingly on its higher levels, the personality form will vary directly in accordance with the nature of the inner person. On the spiritual level, outward form and inner nature begin to approximate complete identification, which grows more and more perfect on higher and higher spirit levels.

112:6.4 In the morontia estate the ascending mortal is endowed with the Nebadon modification of the cosmic-mind endowment of the Master Spirit of Orvonton. The mortal intellect, as such, has perished, has ceased to exist as a focalized universe entity apart from the undifferentiated mind circuits of the Creative Spirit. But the meanings and values of the mortal mind have not perished. Certain phases of mind are continued in the surviving soul; certain experiential values of the former human mind are held by the Adjuster; and there persist in the local universe the records of the human life as it was lived in the flesh, together with certain living registrations in the numerous beings who are concerned with the final evaluation of the ascending mortal, beings extending in range from seraphim to Universal Censors and probably on beyond to the Supreme.

112:6.5 Creature volition cannot exist without mind, but it does persist in spite of the loss of the material intellect. During the times immediately following survival, the ascending personality is in great measure guided by the character patterns inherited from the human life and by the newly appearing action of morontia mota. And these guides to mansonia conduct function acceptably in the early stages of the morontia life and prior to the emergence of morontia will as a full-fledged volitional expression of the ascending personality.

112:6.6 There are no influences in the local universe career comparable to the seven adjutant mind-spirits of human existence. The morontia mind must evolve by direct contact with cosmic mind, as this cosmic mind has been modified and translated by the creative source of local universe intellect—the Divine Minister.

112:6.7 Mortal mind, prior to death, is self-consciously independent of the Adjuster presence; adjutant mind needs only the associated material-energy pattern to enable it to operate. But the morontia soul, being superadjutant, does not retain self-consciousness without the Adjuster when deprived of the material-mind mechanism. This evolving soul does, however, possess a continuing character derived from the decisions of its former associated adjutant mind, and this character becomes active memory when the patterns thereof are energized by the returning Adjuster.

112:6.8 The persistence of memory is proof of the retention of the identity of original selfhood; it is essential to complete self-consciousness of personality continuity and expansion. Those mortals who ascend without Adjusters are dependent on the instruction of seraphic associates for the reconstruction of human memory; otherwise the morontia souls of the Spirit-fused mortals are not limited. The pattern of memory persists in the soul, but this pattern requires the presence of the former Adjuster to become immediately self-realizable as continuing memory. Without the Adjuster, it requires considerable time for the mortal survivor to re-explore and relearn, to recapture, the memory consciousness of the meanings and values of a former existence.

112:6.9 The soul of survival value faithfully reflects both the qualitative and the quantitative actions and motivations of the material intellect, the former seat of the identity of selfhood. In the choosing of truth, beauty, and goodness, the mortal mind enters upon its premorontia universe career under the tutelage of the seven adjutant mind-spirits unified under the direction of the spirit of wisdom. Subsequently, upon the completion of the seven circles of premorontia attainment, the superimposition of the endowment of morontia mind upon adjutant mind initiates the prespiritual or morontia career of local universe progression.

112:6.10 When a creature leaves his native planet, he leaves the adjutant ministry behind and becomes solely dependent on morontia intellect. When an ascender leaves the local universe, he has attained the spiritual level of existence, having passed beyond the morontia level. This newly appearing spirit entity then becomes attuned to the direct ministry of the cosmic mind of Orvonton.

112:7. ADJUSTER FUSION

112:7.1 Thought Adjuster fusion imparts eternal actualities to personality which were previously only potential. Among these new endowments may be mentioned: fixation of divinity quality, past-eternity experience and memory, immortality, and a phase of qualified potential absoluteness.

112:7.2 When your earthly course in temporary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a better world, and eventually you will be united with your faithful Adjuster in an eternal embrace. And this fusion constitutes the mystery of making God and man one, the mystery of finite creature evolution, but it is eternally true. Fusion is the secret of the sacred sphere of Ascendington, and no creature, save those who have experienced fusion with the spirit of Deity, can comprehend the true meaning of the actual values which are conjoined when the identity of a creature of time becomes eternally one with the spirit of Paradise Deity.

112:7.3 Fusion with the Adjuster is usually effected while the ascender is resident within his local system. It may occur on the planet of nativity as a transcendence of natural death; it may take place on any one of the mansion worlds or on the headquarters of the system; it may even be delayed until the time of the constellation sojourn; or, in special instances, it may not be consummated until the ascender is on the local universe capital.

112:7.4 When fusion with the Adjuster has been effected, there can be no future danger to the eternal career of such a personality. Celestial beings are tested throughout a long experience, but mortals pass through a relatively short and intensive testing on the evolutionary and morontia worlds.

112:7.5 Fusion with the Adjuster never occurs until the mandates of the superuniverse have pronounced that the human nature has made a final and irrevocable choice for the eternal career. This is the at-onement authorization, which, when issued, constitutes the clearance authority for the fused personality eventually to leave the confines of the local universe to proceed sometime to the headquarters of the superuniverse, from which point the pilgrim of time will, in the distant future, enseconaphim for the long flight to the central universe of Havona and the Deity adventure.

112:7.6 On the evolutionary worlds, selfhood is material; it is a thing in the universe and as such is subject to the laws of material existence. It is a fact in time and is responsive to the vicissitudes thereof. Survival decisions must here be formulated. In the morontia state the self has become a new and more enduring universe reality, and its continuing growth is predicated on its increasing attunement to the mind and spirit circuits of the universes. Survival decisions are now being confirmed. When the self attains the spiritual level, it has become a secure value in the universe, and this new value is predicated upon the fact that survival decisions have been made, which fact has been witnessed by eternal fusion with the Thought Adjuster. And having achieved the status of a true universe value, the creature becomes liberated in potential for the seeking of the highest universe valueGod.

112:7.7 Such fused beings are twofold in their universe reactions: They are discrete morontia individuals not altogether unlike seraphim, and they are also beings in potential on the order of the Paradise finaliters.

112:7.8 But the fused individual is really one personality, one being, whose unity defies all attempts at analysis by any intelligence of the universes. And so, having passed the tribunals of the local universe from the lowest to the highest, none of which have been able to identify man or Adjuster, the one apart from the other, you shall finally be taken before the Sovereign of Nebadon, your local universe Father. And there, at the hand of the very being whose creative fatherhood in this universe of time has made possible the fact of your life, you will be granted those credentials which entitle you eventually to proceed upon your superuniverse career in quest of the Universal Father.

112:7.9 Has the triumphant Adjuster won personality by the magnificent service to humanity, or has the valiant human acquired immortality through sincere efforts to achieve Adjusterlikeness? It is neither; but they together have achieved the evolution of a member of one of the unique orders of the ascending personalities of the Supreme, one who will ever be found serviceable, faithful, and efficient, a candidate for further growth and development, ever ranging upward and never ceasing the supernal ascent until the seven circuits of Havona have been traversed and the onetime soul of earthly origin stands in worshipful recognition of the actual personality of the Father on Paradise.

112:7.10 Throughout all this magnificent ascent the Thought Adjuster is the divine pledge of the future and full spiritual stabilization of the ascending mortal. Meanwhile the presence of the mortal free will affords the Adjuster an eternal channel for the liberation of the divine and infinite nature. Now have these two identities become one; no event of time or of eternity can ever separate man and Adjuster; they are inseparable, eternally fused.

112:7.11 On the Adjuster-fusion worlds the destiny of the Mystery Monitor is identical with that of the ascending mortal—the Paradise Corps of the Finality. And neither Adjuster nor mortal can attain that unique goal without the full co-operation and faithful help of the other. This extraordinary partnership is one of the most engrossing and amazing of all the cosmic phenomena of this universe age.

112:7.12 From the time of Adjuster fusion the status of the ascender is that of the evolutionary creature. The human member was the first to enjoy personality and, therefore, outranks the Adjuster in all matters concerned with the recognition of personality. The Paradise headquarters of this fused being is Ascendington, not Divinington, and this unique combination of God and man ranks as an ascending mortal all the way up to the Corps of the Finality.

112:7.13 When once an Adjuster fuses with an ascending mortal, the number of that Adjuster is stricken from the records of the superuniverse. What happens on the records of Divinington, I do not know, but I surmise that the registry of that Adjuster is removed to the secret circles of the inner courts of Grandfanda, the acting head of the Corps of the Finality.

112:7.14 With Adjuster fusion the Universal Father has completed his promise of the gift of himself to his material creatures; he has fulfilled the promise, and consummated the plan, of the eternal bestowal of divinity upon humanity. Now begins the human attempt to realize and to actualize the limitless possibilities that are inherent in the supernal partnership with God which has thus factualized.

112:7.15 The present known destiny of surviving mortals is the ParadiseCorps of the Finality; this is also the goal of destiny for all Thought Adjusters who become joined in eternal union with their mortal companions. At present the Paradise finaliters are working throughout the grand universe in many undertakings, but we all conjecture that they will have other and even more supernal tasks to perform in the distant future after the seven superuniverses have become settled in light and life, and when the finite God has finally emerged from the mystery which now surrounds this Supreme Deity.

112:7.16 You have been instructed to a certain extent about the organization and personnel of the central universe, the superuniverses, and the local universes; you have been told something about the character and origin of some of the various personalities who now rule these far-flung creations. You have also been informed that there are in process of organization vast galaxies of universes far out beyond the periphery of the grand universe, in the first outer space level. It has also been intimated in the course of these narratives that the Supreme Being is to disclose his unrevealed tertiary function in these now uncharted regions of outer space; and you have also been told that the finaliters of the Paradise corps are the experiential children of the Supreme.

112:7.17 We believe that the mortals of Adjuster fusion, together with their finaliter associates, are destined to function in some manner in the administration of the universes of the first outer space level. We have not the slightest doubt that in due time these enormous galaxies will become inhabited universes. And we are equally convinced that among the administrators thereof will be found the Paradise finaliters whose natures are the cosmic consequence of the blending of creature and Creator.

112:7.18 What an adventure! What a romance! A gigantic creation to be administered by the children of the Supreme, these personalized and humanized Adjusters, these Adjusterized and eternalized mortals, these mysterious combinations and eternal associations of the highest known manifestation of the of the First Source and Center and the lowest form of intelligent life capable of comprehending and attaining the Universal Father. We conceive that such amalgamated beings, such partnerships of Creator and creature, will become superb rulers, matchless administrators, and understanding and sympathetic directors of any and all forms of intelligent life which may come into existence throughout these future universes of the first outer space level.

112:7.19 True it is, you mortals are of earthly, animal origin; your frame is indeed dust. But if you actually will, if you really desire, surely the heritage of the ages is yours, and you shall someday serve throughout the universes in your true characterschildren of the Supreme God of experience and divine sons of the Paradise Father of all personalities].

112:7.20 Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.

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