Patterns
The question arises that planet earth is the only inhabited planet. The U-Book tells us there are 1 trillion
inhabited planets.
But let’s look at the question another way. A leading astrophysicist gives her students matter and tells them to
do with it whatever comes to mind. They all arrange their “matter” into patterns. Patterning is a mindal
function. Note that molecules, atoms, quarks, and all matter is part of a larger pattern which is again part of a
larger pattern. It makes sense that our inhabited planet is part of a pattern of inhabited planets. As far as I can
tell, no pattern stands alone.
*P.1154 - §5 2. The Universal Controller I AM cause of eternal Paradise. This is the primal impersonal
relationship of actualities, the original nonspiritual association. The Universal Father is God-as-love; the
Universal Controller is God-as-pattern. This relationship establishes the potential of form--configuration--and
determines the master pattern of impersonal and nonspiritual relationship--the master pattern from which all
copies are made.
*P.1236 - §5 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.
*P.1237 - §0 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.
Baker Jordan
* Excerpted from the Urantia Book