Personality Survival
What God has created, let no man put asunder. Spiritual gravity is the attraction between
God-knowing souls and is the bridge to those individuals whose spirituality can be
awakened.
P.8 - §10 4. Soul. The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature
chooses to "do the will of the Father in heaven," so the indwelling spirit becomes the
father of a new reality in human experience. The mortal and material mind is the mother
of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor
spiritual -- it is morontial.
This is the reason reincarnation does not exist. Personality is a gift of God, Changeless.
The same personalities do not re-exist. Animals are not aware of any spirituality and do
not possess human-like personalities. Like and similar personalities exist, but not
identical.
P.9 - §1 Personality. The personality of mortal man is neither body, mind, nor spirit;
neither is it the soul. Personality is the one changeless reality in an otherwise ever-
changing creature experience; and it unifies all other associated factors of individuality.
The personality is the unique bestowal which the Universal Father makes upon the living
and associated energies of matter, mind, and spirit, and which survives with the survival
of the morontial soul.
You and I have a sense of being that is not time delineated. The reason most fear death
is that our sense of being or our existence will cease. We live as though life will never
end - - and it won’t..
P.24 - §1 The actuality of the existence of God is demonstrated in human experience by
the indwelling of the divine presence, the spirit Monitor sent from Paradise to live in the
mortal mind of man and there to assist in evolving the immortal soul of eternal survival.
The presence of this divine Adjuster in the human mind is disclosed by three experiential
phenomena:
P.24 - §2 1. The intellectual capacity for knowing God - -God-consciousness.
P.24 - §3 2. The spiritual urge to find God - -God-seeking.
P.24 - §4 3. The personality craving to be like God - -the wholehearted desire to do the
Father's will.
P.26 - §1 In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked
minds cannot survive mortal death. The technique of survival is embraced in those
adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such
a God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This
evolution of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the trans-
mutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the morontia realities of
the immortal soul. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly
material and consequently to suffer eventual personality extinction; mind yielded to spirit
is destined to become increasingly spiritual and ultimately to achieve oneness with the
surviving and guiding divine spirit and in this way to attain survival and eternity of
personality existence.
P.34 - §1 "There is but one God, the infinite Father, who is also a faithful Creator." "The
divine Creator is also the Universal Disposer, the source and destiny of souls. He is the
Supreme Soul, the Primal Mind, and the Unlimited Spirit of all creation." "The great
Controller makes no mistakes. He is resplendent in majesty and glory." "The Creator God
is wholly devoid of fear and enmity. He is immortal, eternal, self-existent, divine, and
bountiful." "How pure and beautiful, how deep and unfathomable is the supernal Ancestor
of all things!" "The Infinite is most excellent in that he imparts himself to men. He is the
beginning and the end, the Father of every good and perfect purpose." "With God all
things are possible; the eternal Creator is the cause of causes."
Everything divine which the human mind grasps and the human soul acquires is an
experiential attainment…
P.65 - §1 It is exceedingly difficult for the meagerly spiritualized, material mind of mortal
man to experience marked conscious-ness of the spirit activities of such divine entities as
the Paradise Adjusters. As the soul of joint mind and Adjuster creation becomes
increasingly existent, there also evolves a new phase of soul consciousness which is
capable of experiencing the presence, and of recognizing the spirit leadings and other
supermaterial activities, of the Mystery Monitors. The spiritual growth of the soul takes
place wholly independently of the intellectual self-consciousness.
P.84 - §2 The spiritual-gravity pull of the Eternal Son constitutes the inherent secret of
the Paradise ascension of surviving human souls. All genuine spirit values and all bona
fide spiritualized individuals are held within the unfailing grasp of the spiritual gravity of
the Eternal Son. The mortal mind, for example, initiates its career as a material
mechanism and is eventually mustered into the Corps of the Finality as a well-nigh
perfected spirit existence, becoming progressively less subject to material gravity and
correspondingly more responsive to the inward pulling urge of spirit gravity during this
entire experience. The spirit-gravity circuit literally pulls the soul of man Paradiseward.
(No reincarnation concept here.)
P.127 - §6 After all, to mortals the most important thing about eternal Paradise is the fact
that this perfect abode of the Universal Father is the real and far-distant destiny of the
immortal souls of the mortal and material sons of God, the ascending creatures of the
evolutionary worlds of time and space.
P.195 - §2 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 reactive to the constitutive recognition of the three basic mind
realities of the cosmos:
P.195 - §3 1. The mathematical or logical recognition of the uniformity of physical
causation.
P.195 - §4 2. The reasoned recognition of the obligation of moral conduct.
P.195 - §5 3. The faith-grasp of the fellowship worship of Deity, associated with the loving
service of humanity.
P.195 - §6 The full function of such a personality endowment is the beginning realization
of Deity kinship. Such a selfhood, indwelt by a 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
personality-gravity circuit of the Paradise Father of all personalities.
P.195 - §7 The cosmic-mind-endowed, Adjuster-indwelt, personal creature possesses
innate recognition-realization of energy reality, mind reality, and spirit reality. The will
creature is thus equipped to discern the fact, the law, and the love of God. Aside from
these three inalienables of human consciousness, all human experience is really
subjective except that intuitive realization of validity attaches to the unification of these
three universe reality responses of cosmic recognition.
P.195 - §8 The God-discerning mortal is able to sense the unification value of these three
cosmic qualities in the evolution of the surviving soul, man's supreme undertaking in the
physical tabernacle where the moral mind collaborates with the indwelling divine spirit to
dualize the immortal soul. From its earliest inception the soul is real; it has cosmic survival
qualities.
P 274 - 2 The higher or spirit groups are assigned selectively to the services of the
Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and to the work of the Seven Master Spirits. In large
numbers they are dispatched, from time to time, to serve on the study worlds encircling
the headquarters spheres of the seven superuniverses, the worlds devoted to the final
training and spiritual culture of the ascending souls of time who are preparing for
advancement to the circuits of Havona.
Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul's
contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt communion with
him.
P.341 - §1 2. Sleeping Survivors. All mortals of survival status, in the custody of personal
guardians of destiny, pass through the portals of natural death and, on the third period,
personalize on the mansion worlds. Those accredited beings who have, for any reason,
been unable to attain that level of intelligence mastery and endowment of spirituality
which would entitle them to personal guardians, cannot thus immediately and directly go
to the mansion worlds. Such surviving souls must rest in unconscious sleep until the
judgment day of a new epoch, a new dispensation, the coming of a Son of God to call the
rolls of the age and adjudicate the realm, and this is the general practice throughout all
Nebadon. It was said of Christ Michael that, when he ascended on high at the conclusion
of his work on earth, "He led a great multitude of captives." And these captives were the
sleeping survivors from the days of Adam to the day of the Master's resurrection on
Urantia.
P.346 - §1 The finaliters maintain their own headquarters on Paradise, in the
superuniverses, in the local universes, and on all the divisional capitals. They are a
separate order of evolutionary creation. We do not directly manage them or control them,
and yet they are absolutely loyal and always co-operative with all our plans. They are
indeed the accumulating tried and true souls of time and space--the evolutionary salt of
the universe--and they are forever proof against evil and secure against sin. ( Finaliters
are super-advanced mortals or expeiential souls of time.)
P.381 - §2 It is the presence of the divine Spirit, the water of life, that prevents the
consuming thirst of mortal discontent and that indescribable hunger of the unspiritualized
human mind. Spirit-motivated beings "never thirst, for this spiritual water shall be in them
a well of satisfaction springing up into life everlasting." Such divinely watered souls are all
but independent of material environment as regards the joys of living and the
satisfactions of earthly existence. They are spiritually illuminated and refreshed, morally
strengthened and endowed. (We discussed how unhappy the doctors at my neighbor’s
party seemed.)
P.447 - §4 As to the chances of mortal survival, let it be made forever clear: All souls of
every possible phase of mortal existence will survive provided they manifest willingness to
co-operate with their indwelling Adjusters and exhibit a desire to find God and to attain
divine perfection, even though these desires be but the first faint flickers of the primitive
comprehension of that "true light which lights every man who comes into the world."
P.1002 - §4 Words are irrelevant to prayer; they are merely the intellectual channel in
which the river of spiritual supplication may chance to flow. The word value of a prayer is
purely autosuggestive in private devotions and sociosuggestive in group devotions. God
answers the soul's attitude, not the words.
P.1107 - §3 True religion is an insight into reality, the faith-child of the moral
consciousness, and not a mere intellectual assent to any body of dogmatic doctrines.
True religion consists in the experience that "the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit
that we are the children of God." Religion consists not in theologic propositions but in
spiritual insight and the sublimity of the soul's trust.
P.1219 - §4 The mortal career, the soul's evolution, is not so much a probation as an
education.
P.1619 - §3 "Let me tell you the story of a certain judge who lived in a wicked city. This
judge feared not God nor had respect for man. Now there was a needy widow in that city
who came repeatedly to this unjust judge, saying, `Protect me from my adversary.' For
some time he would not give ear to her, but presently he said to himself: `Though I fear
not God nor have regard for man, yet because this widow ceases not to trouble me, I will
vindicate her lest she wear me out by her continual coming.' These stories I tell you to
encourage you to persist in praying and not to intimate that your petitions will change the
just and righteous Father above. Your persistence, however, is not to win favor with God
but to change your earth attitude and to enlarge your soul's capacity for spirit receptivity.
The soul's spiritual capacity for receptivity determines the quantity of heavenly blessings
which can be personally appropriated and consciously realized as an answer to prayer.
P.1739 - §7 Kingdom believers should possess an implicit faith, a whole-souled belief, in
the certain triumph of righteousness.
P.2077 - §3 The mechanistic naturalism of some supposedly educated men and the
thoughtless secularism of the man in the street are both exclusively concerned with
things; they are barren of all real values, sanctions, and satisfactions of a spiritual nature,
as well as being devoid of faith, hope, and eternal assurances. One of the great troubles
with modern life is that man thinks he is too busy to find time for spiritual meditation and
religious devotion.
P.2077 - §4 Materialism reduces man to a soulless automaton and constitutes him merely
an arithmetical symbol finding a helpless place in the mathematical formula of an
unromantic and mechanistic universe. But whence comes all this vast universe of
mathematics without a Master Mathematician? Science may expatiate on the conservation
of matter, but religion validates the conservation of men's souls--it concerns their
experience with spiritual realities and eternal values.
P.2077 - §5 The materialistic sociologist of today surveys a community, makes a report
thereon, and leaves the people as he found them. Nineteen hundred years ago,
unlearned Galileans surveyed Jesus giving his life as a spiritual contribution to man's
inner experience and then went out and turned the whole Roman Empire upside down.
P.2077 - §7 To say that mind "emerged" from matter explains nothing. If the universe
were merely a mechanism and mind were unapart from matter, we would never have two
differing interpretations of any observed phenomenon. The concepts of truth, beauty,
and goodness are not inherent in either physics or chemistry. A machine cannot know,
much less know truth, hunger for righteousness, and cherish goodness.