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16:8.1 The [[Universal Father]] bestows [[personality]] upon numerous orders of [[beings]] as they [[function]] on [[diverse]] levels of [[universe]] [[actuality]]. [[Urantia]] [[human beings]] are endowed with personality of the [[finite]]-[[mortal]] type, functioning on the level of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending sons of God].
16:8.2 Though we can hardly undertake to define personality, we may attempt to [[narrate]] our [[understanding]] of the known factors which go to make up the ensemble of [[material]], [[mental]], and [[spiritual]] [[energies]] whose interassociation [[constitutes]] the [[mechanism]] wherein and whereon and wherewith the Universal Father causes his bestowed [[personality]] to [[function]].
16:8.3 [[Personality]] is a [[unique]] endowment of [[original]] [[nature]] whose [[existence]] is [[independent]] of, and antecedent to, the bestowal of the [[Thought Adjuster]]. Nevertheless, the [[presence]] of the Adjuster does augment the [[qualitative]] [[manifestation]] of personality. [[Thought Adjusters]], when they come forth from [[the Father]], are [[identical]] in nature, but [[personality]] is [[diverse]], [[original]], and exclusive; and the [[manifestation]] of personality is further conditioned and qualified by the [[nature]] and [[qualities]] of the [[associated]] [[energies]] of a [[material]], [[mindal]], and [[spiritual]] nature which constitute the [[organism]]al vehicle for [[personality]] [[manifestation]].
16:8.4 Personalities may be similar, but they are never the same. [[Persons]] of a given series, [[type]], order, or [[pattern]] may and do resemble one another, but they are never [[identical]]. Personality is that feature of an [[individual]] which we know, and which enables us to identify such a being at some [[future]] time regardless of the [[nature]] and extent of [[changes]] in [[form]], [[mind]], or [[spirit]] [[status]]. Personality is that part of any individual which enables us to recognize and positively identify that person as the one we have previously known, no matter how much he may have [[changed]] because of the modification of the vehicle of [[expression]] and manifestation of his personality.
16:8.5 [[Creature]] [[personality]] is distinguished by two self-manifesting and characteristic [[phenomena]] of mortal reactive behavior: self-[[consciousness]] and associated [[relative]] [[free will]].
16:8.6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness Self-consciousness] consists in [[intellectual]] [[awareness]] of [[personality]] [[actuality]]; it includes the ability to recognize the [[reality]] of other [[personalities]]. It indicates [[capacity]] for individualized [[experience]] in and with cosmic realities, equivalating to the [[attainment]] of [[identity]] [[status]] in the personality [[relationships]] of the universe. Self-consciousness connotes recognition of the [[actuality]] of mind ministration and the realization of relative independence of creative and determinative free will.
16:8.7 The [[relative]] [[free will]] which characterizes the self-consciousness of human [[personality]] is involved in:
*1. [[Moral]] [[decision]], highest [[wisdom]].
*2. [[Spiritual]] [[choice]], [[truth]] [[discernment]].
*3. Unselfish [[love]], [[brotherhood]] [[service]].
*4. [[Purpose]]ful [[co-operation]], group [[loyalty]].
*5. [[Cosmic]] [[insight]], the grasp of [[universe]] [[meanings]].
*6. [[Personality]] [[dedication]], wholehearted [[devotion]] to [[doing the Father's will]].
*7. [[Worship]], the [[sincere]] pursuit of [[divine]] [[values]] and the wholehearted [[love]] of the [[divine]] [[First Source and Center|Value-Giver]].
16:8.8 The [[Urantia]] [[type]] of [[human]] [[personality]] may be viewed as [[functioning]] in a [[physical]] [[mechanism]] consisting of the [[planetary]] modification of the [[Nebadon]] type of [[organism]] belonging to the electrochemical order of life activation and endowed with the Nebadon order of the [[Orvonton]] series of the cosmic [[mind]] of parental reproductive [[pattern]]. The bestowal of the [[divine]] gift of [[personality]] upon such a mind-endowed [[mortal]] [[mechanism]] confers the [[dignity]] of cosmic [[citizenship]] and enables such a mortal creature forthwith to become [[Reaction|reactive]] to the constitutive recognition of the three basic mind realities of the cosmos:
*1. The [[mathematical]] or [[logical]] recognition of the [[uniformity]] of [[physical]] [[causation]].
*2. The [[reason]]ed recognition of the obligation of [[moral]] [[Behavior|conduct]].
*3. The [[faith]]-grasp of the fellowship [[worship]] of [[Deity]], [[associated]] with the loving [[service]] of [[humanity]].
16:8.9 The full [[function]] of such a [[personality]] endowment is the beginning [[realization]] of [[Deity]] kinship. Such a selfhood, indwelt by a [[Thought Adjuster|prepersonal fragment]] of [[God the Father]], is in [[truth]] and in [[fact]] a [[spiritual]] son of God. Such a [[creature]] not only discloses capacity for the reception of the gift of the divine [[presence]] but also exhibits reactive [[response]] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:3._UNIVERSAL_GRAVITY personality-gravity circuit] of the [[Paradise]] [[Father]] of all [[personalities]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16 Go to Paper 16]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits]]
16:8.1 The [[Universal Father]] bestows [[personality]] upon numerous orders of [[beings]] as they [[function]] on [[diverse]] levels of [[universe]] [[actuality]]. [[Urantia]] [[human beings]] are endowed with personality of the [[finite]]-[[mortal]] type, functioning on the level of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending sons of God].
16:8.2 Though we can hardly undertake to define personality, we may attempt to [[narrate]] our [[understanding]] of the known factors which go to make up the ensemble of [[material]], [[mental]], and [[spiritual]] [[energies]] whose interassociation [[constitutes]] the [[mechanism]] wherein and whereon and wherewith the Universal Father causes his bestowed [[personality]] to [[function]].
16:8.3 [[Personality]] is a [[unique]] endowment of [[original]] [[nature]] whose [[existence]] is [[independent]] of, and antecedent to, the bestowal of the [[Thought Adjuster]]. Nevertheless, the [[presence]] of the Adjuster does augment the [[qualitative]] [[manifestation]] of personality. [[Thought Adjusters]], when they come forth from [[the Father]], are [[identical]] in nature, but [[personality]] is [[diverse]], [[original]], and exclusive; and the [[manifestation]] of personality is further conditioned and qualified by the [[nature]] and [[qualities]] of the [[associated]] [[energies]] of a [[material]], [[mindal]], and [[spiritual]] nature which constitute the [[organism]]al vehicle for [[personality]] [[manifestation]].
16:8.4 Personalities may be similar, but they are never the same. [[Persons]] of a given series, [[type]], order, or [[pattern]] may and do resemble one another, but they are never [[identical]]. Personality is that feature of an [[individual]] which we know, and which enables us to identify such a being at some [[future]] time regardless of the [[nature]] and extent of [[changes]] in [[form]], [[mind]], or [[spirit]] [[status]]. Personality is that part of any individual which enables us to recognize and positively identify that person as the one we have previously known, no matter how much he may have [[changed]] because of the modification of the vehicle of [[expression]] and manifestation of his personality.
16:8.5 [[Creature]] [[personality]] is distinguished by two self-manifesting and characteristic [[phenomena]] of mortal reactive behavior: self-[[consciousness]] and associated [[relative]] [[free will]].
16:8.6 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness Self-consciousness] consists in [[intellectual]] [[awareness]] of [[personality]] [[actuality]]; it includes the ability to recognize the [[reality]] of other [[personalities]]. It indicates [[capacity]] for individualized [[experience]] in and with cosmic realities, equivalating to the [[attainment]] of [[identity]] [[status]] in the personality [[relationships]] of the universe. Self-consciousness connotes recognition of the [[actuality]] of mind ministration and the realization of relative independence of creative and determinative free will.
16:8.7 The [[relative]] [[free will]] which characterizes the self-consciousness of human [[personality]] is involved in:
*1. [[Moral]] [[decision]], highest [[wisdom]].
*2. [[Spiritual]] [[choice]], [[truth]] [[discernment]].
*3. Unselfish [[love]], [[brotherhood]] [[service]].
*4. [[Purpose]]ful [[co-operation]], group [[loyalty]].
*5. [[Cosmic]] [[insight]], the grasp of [[universe]] [[meanings]].
*6. [[Personality]] [[dedication]], wholehearted [[devotion]] to [[doing the Father's will]].
*7. [[Worship]], the [[sincere]] pursuit of [[divine]] [[values]] and the wholehearted [[love]] of the [[divine]] [[First Source and Center|Value-Giver]].
16:8.8 The [[Urantia]] [[type]] of [[human]] [[personality]] may be viewed as [[functioning]] in a [[physical]] [[mechanism]] consisting of the [[planetary]] modification of the [[Nebadon]] type of [[organism]] belonging to the electrochemical order of life activation and endowed with the Nebadon order of the [[Orvonton]] series of the cosmic [[mind]] of parental reproductive [[pattern]]. The bestowal of the [[divine]] gift of [[personality]] upon such a mind-endowed [[mortal]] [[mechanism]] confers the [[dignity]] of cosmic [[citizenship]] and enables such a mortal creature forthwith to become [[Reaction|reactive]] to the constitutive recognition of the three basic mind realities of the cosmos:
*1. The [[mathematical]] or [[logical]] recognition of the [[uniformity]] of [[physical]] [[causation]].
*2. The [[reason]]ed recognition of the obligation of [[moral]] [[Behavior|conduct]].
*3. The [[faith]]-grasp of the fellowship [[worship]] of [[Deity]], [[associated]] with the loving [[service]] of [[humanity]].
16:8.9 The full [[function]] of such a [[personality]] endowment is the beginning [[realization]] of [[Deity]] kinship. Such a selfhood, indwelt by a [[Thought Adjuster|prepersonal fragment]] of [[God the Father]], is in [[truth]] and in [[fact]] a [[spiritual]] son of God. Such a [[creature]] not only discloses capacity for the reception of the gift of the divine [[presence]] but also exhibits reactive [[response]] to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:3._UNIVERSAL_GRAVITY personality-gravity circuit] of the [[Paradise]] [[Father]] of all [[personalities]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16 Go to Paper 16]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits]]
