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It would be helpful in the [[study]] of '''selfhood''' to remember:
* 1. That [[physical]] systems are subordinate.
* 2. That [[intellectual]] systems are co-ordinate.
* 3. That [[personality]] is superordinate.
* 4. That the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling spiritual]] [[force]] is potentially directive.
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]].
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.
All [[mortal]] [[concepts]] of [[reality]] are based on the [[assumption]] of the [[actuality]] of human [[personality]]; all [[concepts]] of superhuman [[realities]] are based on the [[experience]] of the human [[personality]] with and in the [[cosmic]] realities of certain [[associated]] [[spiritual]] [[entities]] and [[divine]] [[personalities]]. <u>Everything nonspiritual in human [[experience]], excepting [[personality]], is a means to an end. Every true [[relationship]] of mortal man with other [[persons]]—human or divine—is an end in itself.</u> And such [[fellowship]] with the [[personality]] of [[Deity]] is the [[eternal]] goal of [[Ascension career|universe ascension]].
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 [[Superconsciousness|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]].
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]].
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]].
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; [[Self Evaluation|evaluation]] demands some [[degree]] of [[transcendence]] of the thing which is evaluated.
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.
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]].
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," the [[expansion]] of the [[control]] of both itself and its [[environment]].
An [[ascending]] onetime [[human]] [[personality]] passes through two great [[phases]] of increasing [[volitional]] dominance over the self and in the universe:
* 1. The prefinaliter or God-seeking [[experience]] of augmenting the [[self-realization]] through a [[technique]] of [[identity]] expansion and [[actualization]] together with cosmic [[problem]] solving and consequent universe mastery.
* 2. 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.
[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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#III._THE_FIRST_SOURCE_AND_CENTER Absolute Deities].
The [[material]] self, the [[ego]]-[[entity]] of human [[identity]], is dependent during the [[physical]] life on the continuing [[function]] of the [[Body|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]].
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Cosmology]]
It would be helpful in the [[study]] of '''selfhood''' to remember:
* 1. That [[physical]] systems are subordinate.
* 2. That [[intellectual]] systems are co-ordinate.
* 3. That [[personality]] is superordinate.
* 4. That the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling spiritual]] [[force]] is potentially directive.
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]].
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.
All [[mortal]] [[concepts]] of [[reality]] are based on the [[assumption]] of the [[actuality]] of human [[personality]]; all [[concepts]] of superhuman [[realities]] are based on the [[experience]] of the human [[personality]] with and in the [[cosmic]] realities of certain [[associated]] [[spiritual]] [[entities]] and [[divine]] [[personalities]]. <u>Everything nonspiritual in human [[experience]], excepting [[personality]], is a means to an end. Every true [[relationship]] of mortal man with other [[persons]]—human or divine—is an end in itself.</u> And such [[fellowship]] with the [[personality]] of [[Deity]] is the [[eternal]] goal of [[Ascension career|universe ascension]].
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 [[Superconsciousness|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]].
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]].
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]].
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; [[Self Evaluation|evaluation]] demands some [[degree]] of [[transcendence]] of the thing which is evaluated.
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.
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]].
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," the [[expansion]] of the [[control]] of both itself and its [[environment]].
An [[ascending]] onetime [[human]] [[personality]] passes through two great [[phases]] of increasing [[volitional]] dominance over the self and in the universe:
* 1. The prefinaliter or God-seeking [[experience]] of augmenting the [[self-realization]] through a [[technique]] of [[identity]] expansion and [[actualization]] together with cosmic [[problem]] solving and consequent universe mastery.
* 2. 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.
[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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#III._THE_FIRST_SOURCE_AND_CENTER Absolute Deities].
The [[material]] self, the [[ego]]-[[entity]] of human [[identity]], is dependent during the [[physical]] life on the continuing [[function]] of the [[Body|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]].
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Cosmology]]