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This is your [[absolute]] reality, my [[children]].  This is the [[reality]] of who you are as you [[persist]] through [[time]].  All of [[creation]] is complete as it is [[moment]] by moment and within each moment because it is [[God]]’s [[creation]], yet this very completeness is capable of [[growth]].  Though that might seem to be some kind of [[science-fiction]] [[temporal]] [[paradox]], it is nevertheless the [[expression]] of both the [[potentiality]] and [[actuality]] of [[supreme]] [[reality]].  You too are complete in each [[moment]], but by God’s will there is something called [[universal]] [[time]] and [[change]], something of a [[universal]] [[development]] and [[evolution]] of which you are a part.  As your [[personality]] is the unchanging [[persistence]] of you, this [[growth]] of yours is what we call your [[soul]].  It is the complete [[story]] of your life as co-[[authored]] and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individual presence of God within you]].  The growing, evolving culmination of [[God]]’s [[awareness]] of every [[individual]] [[soul]] out here in [[space and time]] is what we call [[the Supreme Being]].  This is a [[facet]] of [[our Father]], of [[God]].  It is [[God]]’s [[experience]] of all the [[personal]] beings’ [[experience]] and it is [[growing]]--as time goes by as yet another aspect of His will.

This is your [[absolute]] reality, my [[children]].  This is the [[reality]] of who you are as you [[persist]] through [[time]].  All of [[creation]] is complete as it is [[moment]] by moment and within each moment because it is [[God]]’s [[creation]], yet this very completeness is capable of [[growth]].  Though that might seem to be some kind of [[science-fiction]] [[temporal]] [[paradox]], it is nevertheless the [[expression]] of both the [[potentiality]] and [[actuality]] of [[supreme]] [[reality]].  You too are complete in each [[moment]], but by God’s will there is something called [[universal]] [[time]] and [[change]], something of a [[universal]] [[development]] and [[evolution]] of which you are a part.  As your [[personality]] is the unchanging [[persistence]] of you, this [[growth]] of yours is what we call your [[soul]].  It is the complete [[story]] of your life as co-[[authored]] and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individual presence of God within you]].  The growing, evolving culmination of [[God]]’s [[awareness]] of every [[individual]] [[soul]] out here in [[space and time]] is what we call [[the Supreme Being]].  This is a [[facet]] of [[our Father]], of [[God]].  It is [[God]]’s [[experience]] of all the [[personal]] beings’ [[experience]] and it is [[growing]]--as time goes by as yet another aspect of His will.

===='''''[[Soul]]'''''====

===='''''[[Soul]]'''''====

As we said in our last few lessons, this [[soul]] [[reality]] of yours, my [[children]], is the fullness within your [[memories]].  The [[spiritual]] [[dimension]] of your [[personality]] makes [[reality]] for you, a [[co-creation]] along with the [[creation]] itself—your world.  You—your [[personality]] real-alizes what is happening.  Those of you who have known deep [[meditation]] and ''prayer'', or a kind of highly [[conscious]] [[reverie]]--not just day-dreaming but the [[opposite]]—a highly [[conscious]] [[appreciation]] of your life akin to [[worship]]--know there is no bottom or top or sides to your [[soul]].  Your own [[soul]] is a [[transcendent]] [[reality]] to your [[conscious]] awareness of it.  It’s part of the [[light]] you will come to know more and more, this special [[reality]] we call [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48 Morontia Reality], a combination of your [[personal]] [[experience]] as it is also [[being]] experienced and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]].   

As we said in our last few lessons, this [[soul]] [[reality]] of yours, my [[children]], is the fullness within your [[memories]].  The [[spiritual]] [[dimension]] of your [[personality]] makes [[reality]] for you, a [[co-creation]] along with the [[creation]] itself—your world.  You—your [[personality]] real-alizes what is happening.  Those of you who have known deep [[meditation]] and [[prayer]], or a kind of highly [[conscious]] [[reverie]]--not just day-dreaming but the [[opposite]]—a highly [[conscious]] [[appreciation]] of your life akin to [[worship]]--know there is no bottom or top or sides to your [[soul]].  Your own [[soul]] is a [[transcendent]] [[reality]] to your [[conscious]] awareness of it.  It’s part of the [[light]] you will come to know more and more, this special [[reality]] we call [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48 Morontia Reality], a combination of your [[personal]] [[experience]] as it is also [[being]] experienced and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]].   

   

   

These are the great [[facts]] of [[human]] [[existence]]: that there is a [[First Source and Center|single source and center]] of all [[creation]], and it is [[personal]].  [[Personality]] is real.  It is a [[persisting]] [[essence]] of ''selfhood'' by God’s will, [[enduring]] through another [[dimension]] of His will—[[time]].  Personality grows soulful [[experience]] and keeps building upon [[experience]] to the endless reaches of [[time]].  Since you have a [[soul]] co-authored by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]] making a [[transcendent]] [[record]] of your own life for the both of you, [[everything]] you do of [[spiritual]] significance in your life, no matter how you may look at it from [[moment]] to moment with a [[time]]-[[limited]] [[viewpoint]], this is your [[possession]].  You were created with the [[potential]] to become one--absolutely consciously [[united]]--with this [[soul]] of yours and its co-author.  This is another great [[cosmic]]/[[personal]] [[event]] you have to look forward to--becoming utterly united, [[Fusion|fused]] we say, with the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] within you that has been with you, and a part of you, from the beginning.

These are the great [[facts]] of [[human]] [[existence]]: that there is a [[First Source and Center|single source and center]] of all [[creation]], and it is [[personal]].  [[Personality]] is real.  It is a [[persisting]] [[essence]] of ''selfhood'' by God’s will, [[enduring]] through another [[dimension]] of His will—[[time]].  Personality grows soulful [[experience]] and keeps building upon [[experience]] to the endless reaches of [[time]].  Since you have a [[soul]] co-authored by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]] making a [[transcendent]] [[record]] of your own life for the both of you, [[everything]] you do of [[spiritual]] significance in your life, no matter how you may look at it from [[moment]] to moment with a [[time]]-[[limited]] [[viewpoint]], this is your [[possession]].  You were created with the [[potential]] to become one--absolutely consciously [[united]]--with this [[soul]] of yours and its co-author.  This is another great [[cosmic]]/[[personal]] [[event]] you have to look forward to--becoming utterly united, [[Fusion|fused]] we say, with the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] within you that has been with you, and a part of you, from the beginning.

   

   

You can [[experience]] this.  You can experience this depth and breadth of your own [[soul]] for, setting aside your ongoing experience of all that’s around you and in you in deep [[meditation]] and [[Reverence|revere]], you can re-experience previous [[moments]] of your life almost as when they first happened.  They are still there in a soulful [[embrace]], still [[transcendent]], still reassuring you that you are more, so infinitely more that what you can yet fully [[experience]] momentarily.  This brings up, then, the question--not that you need another one ([[Mother Spirit]] chuckles): but this does bring up the question: who and what is this [[self-conscious]] you?

You can [[experience]] this.  You can experience this depth and breadth of your own [[soul]] for, setting aside your ongoing experience of all that’s around you and in you in deep [[meditation]] and [[Reverence|revere]], you can re-experience previous [[moments]] of your life almost as when they first happened.  They are still there in a soulful [[embrace]], still [[transcendent]], still reassuring you that you are more, so infinitely more that what you can yet fully [[experience]] momentarily.  This brings up, then, the question--not that you need another one ([[Mother Spirit]] chuckles): but this does bring up the question: who and what is this [[self-conscious]] you?

===='''''[[Self]]''''', '''''[[Ego]]'''''====

===='''''[[Self]]''''', '''''[[Ego]]'''''====

Your [[personality]] is capable of identifying with self-made constructs we call your [[self-conscious]]-[[self]].  This is when you are [[aware]] of yourself.  This is what your [[psychology]] nominally calls [[ego]].  There have been thousands of [[books]] written on this construct and their [[definitions]] differ enormously from one psychology to another, even from one historical [[culture]] to another.  We liken it to your bathroom [[mirror]] which is very handy for shaving or putting on your makeup in the morning.  Your [[reflection]] is apparently [[three]] [[dimensional]], but limited to [[sight]] alone, and so your [[ego]] is a similar kind of construct/[[reflection]], but limited with respect to the [[God]]-created [[personality]] and [[soul]] of you.  It’s a socially [[necessary]] way of you [[being]] [[aware]] of yourself, for those who are not capable of creating such a [[self]] [[awareness]] have to be institutionalized.  There are some [[human beings]] who unfortunately live barely above the [[stage]] of an [[intelligent]] [[animal]] and for that very reason cannot [[function]] socially and have to be more or less taken care of.

Your [[personality]] is capable of identifying with self-made constructs we call your [[self-conscious]]-[[self]].  This is when you are [[aware]] of yourself.  This is what your [[psychology]] nominally calls [[ego]].  There have been thousands of [[books]] written on this construct and their [[definitions]] differ enormously from one psychology to another, even from one historical [[culture]] to another.  We liken it to your bathroom [[mirror]] which is very handy for shaving or putting on your makeup in the morning.  Your [[reflection]] is apparently [[three]] [[dimensional]], but limited to [[sight]] alone, and so your [[ego]] is a similar kind of construct/[[reflection]], but limited with respect to the [[God]]-created [[personality]] and [[soul]] of you.  It’s a socially [[necessary]] way of you [[being]] [[aware]] of yourself, for those who are not capable of creating such a [[self]] [[awareness]] have to be institutionalized.  There are some [[human beings]] who unfortunately live barely above the [[stage]] of an [[intelligent]] [[animal]] and for that very reason cannot [[function]] socially and have to be more or less taken care of.