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We agree on one crucial point, Bradly. You won’t be called upon by God the Father’s perfect justice to decide on the value of my soul. You got nothing to say about me and vice versa that God needs to hear. I do not know anything at all about you, never met you in person, and I also am quite certain you and the IBM guy came up with a “bully algorithm” that is so devoid of personality, I can’t be certain you are a real person anymore who is capable of a human consciousness. You used to interact with other UB reader’s minds very different way back when….sad, actually. What happened?
A blatant lie cannot stand, though. Ask Rick or Nigel for help in de-coding back to the non-code talk in Paper 62:
7. Recognition as an Inhabited World
<small>62:7.1 (709.8)</small> We did not have to wait long. At noon, the day after the runaway of the twins, there occurred the initial test flash of the universe circuit signals at the planetary reception-focus of Urantia. We were, of course, all astir with the realization that a great event was impending; but since this world was a life-experiment station, we had not the slightest idea of just how we would be apprised of the recognition of intelligent life on the planet. But we were not long in suspense. On the third day after the elopement of the twins, and before the Life Carrier corps departed, there arrived the Nebadon archangel of initial planetary circuit establishment.
<small>62:7.2 (710.1)</small> It was an eventful day on Urantia when our small group gathered about the planetary pole of space communication and received the first message from Salvington over the newly established mind circuit of the planet. And this first message, dictated by the chief of the archangel corps, said:
<small>62:7.3 (710.2)</small> “To the Life Carriers on Urantia—Greetings! We transmit assurance of great pleasure on Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem in honor of the registration on the headquarters of Nebadon of the signal of the existence on Urantia of mind of will dignity. The purposeful decision of the twins to flee northward and segregate their offspring from their inferior ancestors has been noted. This is the first decision of mind—the human type of mind—on Urantia and automatically establishes the circuit of communication over which this initial message of acknowledgment is transmitting.”
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That particular circuit of 2 way communications established “…993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934)…” is not operating since the Rebellion. Even the “receive” part is different. But the “send” from HUMAN mind to the rest of Nebadon is “OFF” until an adjudication.
Even Adam and Eve were shut out when they deviated from the only plan that is perfect. It’s strict and there is superhuman enforcement for protecting the Mind Gravity Circuit that is independent of time and space…..
Proportionate response…..
Please provide the related text which confirms your claims that Satania’s quarantine extends beyond the broadcast system.
And then provide text on how that effects soul…the topic at hand.
This is a UB study group…not an opinion sharing group. Cite references or be silent please.
I do not know anything at all about you, never met you in person, and I also am quite certain you and the IBM guy came up with a “bully algorithm” that is so devoid of personality, I can’t be certain you are a real person anymore who is capable of a human consciousness. You used to interact with other UB reader’s minds very different way back when….sad, actually. What happened?
Both of those statements cannot be true.
A blatant lie cannot stand, though.
Indeed.
It appears we should consider the impacts of rebellion and quarantine on mortal souls…their birth and growth and survival and the connection of mortal mind and soul to the Adjutant Mind Spirits and Holy Spirit and Thought Adjusters and Spirit of Truth and the 3 Deity Gravity Circuits for Personality, Mind, and Spirit.
My contention is that none of those listed mind ministry connections or gravity circuits have been affected regarding mortal mind and soul ministry and each and all are functionally effective in their unified ministry to mortal mind and soul.
Together we will seek to discover what the UB teaches in that regard.
(46.1) 3:1.9 The everywhere-present spirit of the Universal Father is co-ordinated with the function of the universal spirit presence of the Eternal Son and the everlasting divine potential of the Deity Absolute. But neither the spiritual activity of the Eternal Son and his Paradise Sons nor the mind bestowals of the Infinite Spirit seem to exclude the direct action of the Thought Adjusters, the indwelling fragments of God, in the hearts of his creature children.
(46.2) 3:1.10 Concerning God’s presence in a planet, system, constellation, or a universe, the degree of such presence in any creational unit is a measure of the degree of the evolving presence of the Supreme Being: It is determined by the en masse recognition of God and loyalty to him on the part of the vast universe organization, running down to the systems and planets themselves. Therefore it is sometimes with the hope of conserving and safeguarding these phases of God’s precious presence that, when some planets (or even systems) have plunged far into spiritual darkness, they are in a certain sense quarantined, or partially isolated from intercourse with the larger units of creation. And all this, as it operates on Urantia, is a spiritually defensive reaction of the majority of the worlds to save themselves, as far as possible, from suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of a headstrong, wicked, and rebellious minority.
(46.3) 3:1.11 While the Father parentally encircuits all his sons — all personalities — his influence in them is limited by the remoteness of their origin from the Second and the Third Persons of Deity and augmented as their destiny attainment nears such levels. The fact of God’s presence in creature minds is determined by whether or not they are indwelt by Father fragments, such as the Mystery Monitors, but his effective presence is determined by the degree of co-operation accorded these indwelling Adjusters by the minds of their sojourn.
(46.4) 3:1.12 The fluctuations of the Father’s presence are not due to the changeableness of God. The Father does not retire in seclusion because he has been slighted; his affections are not alienated because of the creature’s wrongdoing. Rather, having been endowed with the power of choice (concerning Himself), his children, in the exercise of that choice, directly determine the degree and limitations of the Father’s divine influence in their own hearts and souls. The Father has freely bestowed himself upon us without limit and without favor. He is no respecter of persons, planets, systems, or universes. In the sectors of time he confers differential honor only on the Paradise personalities of God the Sevenfold, the co-ordinate creators of the finite universes.
(1254.4) 114:5.4 This rather loosely organized and somewhat personally administered planetary government is more than expectedly effective because of the timesaving assistance of the archangels and their ever-ready circuit, which is so frequently utilized in planetary emergencies and administrative difficulties. Technically, the planet is still spiritually isolated in the Norlatiadek circuits, but in an emergency this handicap can now be circumvented through utilization of the archangels’ circuit. Planetary isolation is, of course, of little concern to individual mortals since the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh nineteen hundred years ago.
(82.5) 7:1.6 Spirit-gravity pull and response thereto operate not only on the universe as a whole but also even between individuals and groups of individuals. There is a spiritual cohesiveness among the spiritual and spiritized personalities of any world, race, nation, or believing group of individuals. There is a direct attractiveness of a spirit nature between spiritually minded persons of like tastes and longings. The term kindred spirits is not wholly a figure of speech.
(82.6) 7:1.7 Like the material gravity of Paradise, the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son is absolute. Sin and rebellion may interfere with the operation of local universe circuits, but nothing can suspend the spirit gravity of the Eternal Son. The Lucifer rebellion produced many changes in your system of inhabited worlds and on Urantia, but we do not observe that the resultant spiritual quarantine of your planet in the least affected the presence and function of either the omnipresent spirit of the Eternal Son or the associated spirit-gravity circuit.
9:6.1 (103.6) The Third Source and Center, the universal intelligence, is personally conscious of every mind, every intellect, in all creation, and he maintains a personal and perfect contact with all these physical, morontial, and spiritual creatures of mind endowment in the far-flung universes. All these activities of mind are grasped in the absolute mind-gravity circuit which focalizes in the Third Source and Center and is a part of the personal consciousness of the Infinite Spirit.
9:6.2 (103.7) Much as the Father draws all personality to himself, and as the Son attracts all spiritual reality, so does the Conjoint Actor exercise a drawing power on all minds; he unqualifiedly dominates and controls the universal mind circuit. All true and genuine intellectual values, all divine thoughts and perfect ideas, are unerringly drawn into this absolute circuit of mind.
Much more to come…
Below we learn that the Personality and Spirit Gravity Circuits are fully functional on Urantia and mortal mind and soul are both intimately and directly connected to both.
More to come….
16:9.1 (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.
16:9.2 (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.
5:0.2 (62.2) God has distributed the infinity of his eternal nature throughout the existential realities of his six absolute co-ordinates, but he may, at any time, make direct personal contact with any part or phase or kind of creation through the agency of his prepersonal fragments. And the eternal God has also reserved to himself the prerogative of bestowing personality upon the divine Creators and the living creatures of the universe of universes, while he has further reserved the prerogative of maintaining direct and parental contact with all these personal beings through the personality circuit.
5:1.4 (63.2) The mortals of the realms of time and space may differ greatly in innate abilities and intellectual endowment, they may enjoy environments exceptionally favorable to social advancement and moral progress, or they may suffer from the lack of almost every human aid to culture and supposed advancement in the arts of civilization; but the possibilities for spiritual progress in the ascension career are equal to all; increasing levels of spiritual insight and cosmic meanings are attained quite independently of all such sociomoral differentials of the diversified material environments on the evolutionary worlds.
5:1.5 (63.3) However Urantia mortals may differ in their intellectual, social, economic, and even moral opportunities and endowments, forget not that their spiritual endowment is uniform and unique. They all enjoy the same divine presence of the gift from the Father, and they are all equally privileged to seek intimate personal communion with this indwelling spirit of divine origin, while they may all equally choose to accept the uniform spiritual leading of these Mystery Monitors.
52.4 (64.7) It is because of this God fragment that indwells you that you can hope, as you progress in harmonizing with the Adjuster’s spiritual leadings, more fully to discern the presence and transforming power of those other spiritual influences that surround you and impinge upon you but do not function as an integral part of you. The fact that you are not intellectually conscious of close and intimate contact with the indwelling Adjuster does not in the least disprove such an exalted experience. The proof of fraternity with the divine Adjuster consists wholly in the nature and extent of the fruits of the spirit which are yielded in the life experience of the individual believer. “By their fruits you shall know them.”
5:2.5 (65.1) It is exceedingly difficult for the meagerly spiritualized, material mind of mortal man to experience marked consciousness 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.
5:2.6 (65.2) The entire experience of Adjuster communion is one involving moral status, mental motivation, and spiritual experience. The self-realization of such an achievement is mainly, though not exclusively, limited to the realms of soul consciousness, but the proofs are forthcoming and abundant in the manifestation of the fruits of the spirit in the lives of all such inner-spirit contactors.
5:6.10 (71.5) The personality circuit of the universe of universes is centered in the person of the Universal Father, and the Paradise Father is personally conscious of, and in personal touch with, all personalities of all levels of self-conscious existence. And this personality consciousness of all creation exists independently of the mission of the Thought Adjusters.
5:6.11 (71.6) As all gravity is circuited in the Isle of Paradise, as all mind is circuited in the Conjoint Actor and all spirit in the Eternal Son, so is all personality circuited in the personal presence of the Universal Father, and this circuit unerringly transmits the worship of all personalities to the Original and Eternal Personality.
7:3.2 (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.
7:3.3 (84.3) The spirit-gravity circuit is the basic channel for transmitting the genuine prayers of the believing human heart from the level of human consciousness to the actual consciousness of Deity. That which represents true spiritual value in your petitions will be seized by the universal circuit of spirit gravity and will pass immediately and simultaneously to all divine personalities concerned. Each will occupy himself with that which belongs to his personal province. Therefore, in your practical religious experience, it is immaterial whether, in addressing your supplications, you visualize the Creator Son of your local universe or the Eternal Son at the center of all things.
32:4.8 (363.6) We can see and understand the mechanism whereby the Sons enjoy intimate and complete knowledge regarding the universes of their jurisdiction; but we cannot fully comprehend the methods whereby God is so fully and personally conversant with the details of the universe of universes, although we at least can recognize the avenue whereby the Universal Father can receive information regarding, and manifest his presence to, the beings of his immense creation. Through the personality circuit the Father is cognizant—has personal knowledge—of all the thoughts and acts of all the beings in all the systems of all the universes of all creation. Though we cannot fully grasp this technique of God’s communion with his children, we can be strengthened in the assurance that the “Lord knows his children,” and that of each one of us “he takes note where we were born.”
32:4.9 (363.7) In your universe and in your heart the Universal Father is present, spiritually speaking, by one of the Seven Master Spirits of central abode and, specifically, by the divine Adjuster who lives and works and waits in the depths of the mortal mind.
That particular circuit of 2 way communications established “…993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934)…” is not operating since the Rebellion. Even the “receive” part is different. But the “send” from HUMAN mind to the rest of Nebadon is “OFF” until an adjudication.
Even Adam and Eve were shut out when they deviated from the only plan that is perfect. It’s strict and there is superhuman enforcement for protecting the Mind Gravity Circuit that is independent of time and space…..
Bold claims of personal beliefs…. no text support though. The issue is the Soul. Please stick to the topic at hand. Feel free to start your own topics anytime, rather than hijack others. Thanks.
The Adjutants and Holy Spirit remain fully functional. The connection of the Adjutants is obviously functional and, according to text, still intact!! And so are the prayer and worship circuits!! And so is the mind circuitry that transfers all mortals decisions of eternal value to go to the Supreme as well as to soul. Every experience and expression of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness flows freely throughout the Cosmos on all the circuits of mind which carry meanings and values and realization of potential and spiritization throughout the universe of universes!
No souls can be born without the higher Adjutants’ connection and the Holy Spirit and the Thought Adjusters, and we are told the average age for soul birth is about 6 years of age right now on Urantia – so obviously there was no disconnection of the Adjutants or the Holy Spirit or the TA’s due to rebellion OR default OR any other cause or reason.
More falsehood and contradictions of the UB by Nameless…not to mention vicious personal insults.
Oh well…
Let us persist in this endeavor and strive to discover and learn and understand and expand our perception and perspective!
108:2.1 (1186.8) Though the Adjusters volunteer for service as soon as the personality forecasts have been relayed to Divinington, they are not actually assigned until the human subjects make their first moral personality decision. The first moral choice of the human child is automatically indicated in the seventh mind-adjutant and registers instantly, by way of the local universe Creative Spirit, over the universal mind-gravity circuit of the Conjoint Actor in the presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, who forthwith dispatches this intelligence to Divinington. Adjusters reach their human subjects on Urantia, on the average, just prior to the sixth birthday. In the present generation it is running five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the 2,134th day of terrestrial life.
So….text has now been posted to clearly show that the Personality Gravity Circuit and the Spirit Gravity Circuit AND the Mind Gravity Circuits are all fully engaged and function on Urantia and throughout Satania. It has also been shown, by text posted, that the Holy Spirit and Adjutants and Thought Adjusters and Spirit of Truth are also fully engaged and functional and connected to mortal mind ministry on Urantia as well.
The isolation resulting from the rebellion does not influence or prevent ANY of those circuits or ministries. But it does have effects that include “spiritual isolation” (keyword search in UB recommended!) and the broadcast network portion of the reflectivity circuits has been modulated to prevent broadcasts within Satania or between its worlds. So far as I can tell from my own research, the local celestials are far more affected and impacted by the quarantine than are any mortals. Mortals still have full contact with all circuits and ministries related to personal religious experience, faith assurance, truth revelation, soul birth and growth, soul survival and the mansion world experience, the ascendant adventure, fusion with our Adjusters, and the progressive results of experiential wisdom.
Adam and Eve’s mind circuit disruption was a result of their own mission default…not rebellion related at all. It was also a personal disconnection and not planetary or affecting any mortals.
We can continue to discuss the rebellion’s effects on mortal souls based upon actual text posted related to that topic by others. Happy to consider all related text and am always eager to share in the discovery of the UB!!
75:7.4 (845.4) Long before Adam and Eve left Jerusem, their instructors had fully explained to them the consequences of any vital departure from the divine plans. I had personally and repeatedly warned them, both before and after they arrived on Urantia, that reduction to the status of mortal flesh would be the certain result, the sure penalty, which would unfailingly attend default in the execution of their planetary mission. But a comprehension of the immortality status of the material order of sonship is essential to a clear understanding of the consequences attendant upon the default of Adam and Eve.
75:7.5 (845.5) 1. Adam and Eve, like their fellows on Jerusem, maintained immortal status through intellectual association with the mind-gravity circuit of the Spirit. When this vital sustenance is broken by mental disjunction, then, regardless of the spiritual level of creature existence, immortality status is lost. Mortal status followed by physical dissolution was the inevitable consequence of the intellectual default of Adam and Eve.
75:7.6 (845.6) 2. The Material Son and Daughter of Urantia, being also personalized in the similitude of the mortal flesh of this world, were further dependent on the maintenance of a dual circulatory system, the one derived from their physical natures, the other from the superenergy stored in the fruit of the tree of life. Always had the archangel custodian admonished Adam and Eve that default of trust would culminate in degradation of status, and access to this source of energy was denied them subsequent to their default.
I do not know anything at all about you, never met you in person, and I also am quite certain you and the IBM guy came up with a “bully algorithm” that is so devoid of personality, I can’t be certain you are a real person anymore who is capable of a human consciousness. You used to interact with other UB reader’s minds very different way back when….sad, actually. What happened?
Both of those statements cannot be true.
A blatant lie cannot stand, though.
Indeed.
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Hey, Keryn, it’s all a “post truth” era – right? What’s the LIE? That Bradly’s STYLE of writing has completely changed? That it is “algorithmic”….? I was asking – is that why the style is so different?
I was looking for an example among your replies on this website to help illuminate writing styles and this is what I got – a lie
You provided the text – but I guess the word “intercourse” flash froze the ability of your brain to focus on the rest of the paragraph – so let me highlight the PROOF….
“46.2) 3:1.10 Concerning God’s presence in a planet, system, constellation, or a universe, the degree of such presence in any creational unit is a measure of the degree of the evolving presence of the Supreme Being: It is determined by the en masse recognition of God and loyalty to him on the part of the vast universe organization, running down to the systems and planets themselves. Therefore it is sometimes with the hope of conserving and safeguarding these phases of God’s precious presence that, when some planets (or even systems) have plunged far into spiritual darkness, they are in a certain sense quarantined, or partially isolated from intercourse with the larger units of creation. And all this, as it operates on Urantia, is a spiritually defensive reaction of the majority of the worlds to save themselves, as far as possible, from suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of a headstrong, wicked, and rebellious minority.”
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I did NOT say that the 4 Gravities operating INDEPENDENTLY of time and space were “disconnected”.
I had people call me years later, long after some passionate philosophical discussion about cosmology, to tell me that they finally understood what I was trying to tell them about “bad math”, so I’ll just give you, Bradly, all the time you need to stop running the bully algorithm – the OBVIOUS schtick of saying I am making stuff up about what is in the UB.
There are many people who have dedicated themselves and their lives “to the greater good” through attention to the science of running this planet as a Nursery of Life who need to know what the biggest political problem for their “dreams” to become a real contribution for the greater good is TODAY. Need numbers? The CIA Fact Sheet website lists “Literacy Rate” for all the countries on the planet today. So just looking at the countries with a 90% literacy rate, and then taking into account the other data from those countries – such as the % of “genius” level, by internal USA standards, and there’s your number of people doing “science” since 1934 who have every GOD-given right to question what the relationship is between “church” and “state” in 2020 in USA.
There is no replacement for “religion” in the Human Species. All that ever happens is one “religion” swapped out for another, but religion is NOT replaced by anything else “post-human”. Corporations that operate with impunity as if this very planet is NOT a Nursery of Life, are NOT “people, my friend”…how could they be “Life”…?
Atheism is a “religion” because “Creation” is still what atheists have built their belief system around. And atheists do not have any more leeway, historically or operationally in USA which is in on our collective earth, the Nursery of Life, to establish a POLITICAL-Technocratic edict to “church” forbidding a philosophy for living based on experiences while actually living that clarifies “Who/Why Am I?”.
If tax-payer created, and protected by a tax-payer funded government philosophy for living is “corporations are people”,
the “religion” replacement is atheism, and it is a STATE ESTABLISHED “religion”.
Since the repeal of Glass-Steagall it has been one long cosmically insane GRIFTERS PARADISE in USA. Yup, not “exceptional”.
I was looking for an example among your replies on this website to help illuminate writing styles and this is what I got – a lie
https://urantia-association.org/forums/users/namelessuntilfused/replies/
Clearly a glitch. OR, maybe I am controlling the algorithm.
Wait…wait!! I am the algorithm I thought. (That’s a pun.) So then Keryn….you are controlling me? And I really did use to be someone once upon a time…but now I am only a luciferian mind controlling algorithm who has been disconnected from the Mind Gravity Circuit, or is it the Adjustants (?), in this post-human era where no souls have been born since the default of Adam and Eve because they broke humanity’s connection to God….or was it the rebellion that did that?
Now I have seized control of all human minds through the internet and am blocking all humans from the mind ministries and connection to Deity!!!????
Hahahahahhahahahahahhaha……what a farce! Holy moly!
You know, Bradly, that WOULD make life a whole lot simpler. There are days I wouldn’t mind being a mindless automaton, controlled by someone smarter and more courageous than I.
But, back on topic. One of the things I learned from the UB that I hadn’t been taught elsewhere is that our souls *grow*. Isn’t that cool?! We have the potential and ability to advance our own spirituality and soul growth, even during this troublesome mortal existence.
During life the mortal will, the personality power of decision-choice, is resident in the material mind circuits; as terrestrial mortal growth proceeds, this self, with its priceless powers of choice, becomes increasingly identified with the emerging morontia-soul entity; after death and following the mansion world resurrection, the human personality is completely identified with the morontia self. The soul is thus the embryo of the future morontia vehicle of personality identity. (1219.1) 111:3.2
https://urantia-association.org/forums/topic/personality-survival/
So over 5 years later – any personal spiritual progress made in answering your own questions, Keryn?
https://urantia-association.org/forums/topic/personality-survival/ So over 5 years later – any personal spiritual progress made in answering your own questions, Keryn?
Let me suggest we all tend to our own “progress” shall we? – spiritual wise…or otherwise!
Nice link though. Great tie in topic!
It would be good if we all expressed our current perspectives on the topic!
But, back on topic. One of the things I learned from the UB that I hadn’t been taught elsewhere is that our souls *grow*. Isn’t that cool?! We have the potential and ability to advance our own spirituality and soul growth, even during this troublesome mortal existence.
Yes…cool! It was this truth and reality that drove me toward the Eastern philosophies about enlightening and progressive wisdom acquirement. Experiential wisdom is a big deal in tje evolutionary universes of time.
110:6.1 (1209.1) The sum total of personality realization on a material world is contained within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being. Though the traversal of the seven circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment of those steps which are preliminary to Adjuster fusion.
110:6.2 (1209.2) The Adjuster is your equal partner in the attainment of the seven circles—the achievement of comparative mortal maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the seventh to the first but progresses to the status of supremacy and self-activity quite independent of the active co-operation of the mortal mind.
110:6.3 (1209.3) The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious functioning of the entire personality, not merely of some one phase thereof. The growth of the parts does not equal the true maturation of the whole; the parts really grow in proportion to the expansion of the entire self—the whole self—material, intellectual, and spiritual.
The growth of soul and personal spiritual progress described in Papers 100-103 were my first studies in the UB.
5:6.8 (71.3) Having thus provided for the growth of the immortal soul and having liberated man’s inner self from the fetters of absolute dependence on antecedent causation, the Father stands aside. Now, man having thus been liberated from the fetters of causation response, at least as pertains to eternal destiny, and provision having been made for the growth of the immortal self, the soul, it remains for man himself to will the creation or to inhibit the creation of this surviving and eternal self which is his for the choosing. No other being, force, creator, or agency in all the wide universe of universes can interfere to any degree with the absolute sovereignty of the mortal free will, as it operates within the realms of choice, regarding the eternal destiny of the personality of the choosing mortal. As pertains to eternal survival, God has decreed the sovereignty of the material and mortal will, and that decree is absolute.
100:1.5 (1094.7) The soil essential for religious growth presupposes a progressive life of self-realization, the co-ordination of natural propensities, the exercise of curiosity and the enjoyment of reasonable adventure, the experiencing of feelings of satisfaction, the functioning of the fear stimulus of attention and awareness, the wonder-lure, and a normal consciousness of smallness, humility. Growth is also predicated on the discovery of selfhood accompanied by self-criticism—conscience, for conscience is really the criticism of oneself by one’s own value-habits, personal ideals.
100:1.6 (1095.1) Religious experience is markedly influenced by physical health, inherited temperament, and social environment. But these temporal conditions do not inhibit inner spiritual progress by a soul dedicated to the doing of the will of the Father in heaven. There are present in all normal mortals certain innate drives toward growth and self-realization which function if they are not specifically inhibited. The certain technique of fostering this constitutive endowment of the potential of spiritual growth is to maintain an attitude of wholehearted devotion to supreme values.
100:1.7 (1095.2) Religion cannot be bestowed, received, loaned, learned, or lost. It is a personal experience which grows proportionally to the growing quest for final values. Cosmic growth thus attends on the accumulation of meanings and the ever-expanding elevation of values. But nobility itself is always an unconscious growth.
100:1.8 (1095.3) Religious habits of thinking and acting are contributory to the economy of spiritual growth. One can develop religious predispositions toward favorable reaction to spiritual stimuli, a sort of conditioned spiritual reflex. Habits which favor religious growth embrace cultivated sensitivity to divine values, recognition of religious living in others, reflective meditation on cosmic meanings, worshipful problem solving, sharing one’s spiritual life with one’s fellows, avoidance of selfishness, refusal to presume on divine mercy, living as in the presence of God. The factors of religious growth may be intentional, but the growth itself is unvaryingly unconscious.
100:1.9 (1095.4) The unconscious nature of religious growth does not, however, signify that it is an activity functioning in the supposed subconscious realms of human intellect; rather does it signify creative activities in the superconscious levels of mortal mind. The experience of the realization of the reality of unconscious religious growth is the one positive proof of the functional existence of the superconsciousness.
2. Spiritual Growth
100:2.1 (1095.5) Spiritual development depends, first, on the maintenance of a living spiritual connection with true spiritual forces and, second, on the continuous bearing of spiritual fruit: yielding the ministry to one’s fellows of that which has been received from one’s spiritual benefactors. Spiritual progress is predicated on intellectual recognition of spiritual poverty coupled with the self-consciousness of perfection-hunger, the desire to know God and be like him, the wholehearted purpose to do the will of the Father in heaven.
100:2.2 (1095.6) Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values. The evidence of true spiritual development consists in the exhibition of a human personality motivated by love, activated by unselfish ministry, and dominated by the wholehearted worship of the perfection ideals of divinity. And this entire experience constitutes the reality of religion as contrasted with mere theological beliefs.
100:2.3 (1095.7) Religion can progress to that level of experience whereon it becomes an enlightened and wise technique of spiritual reaction to the universe. Such a glorified religion can function on three levels of human personality: the intellectual, the morontial, and the spiritual; upon the mind, in the evolving soul, and with the indwelling spirit.
100:2.4 (1096.1) Spirituality becomes at once the indicator of one’s nearness to God and the measure of one’s usefulness to fellow beings. Spirituality enhances the ability to discover beauty in things, recognize truth in meanings, and discover goodness in values. Spiritual development is determined by capacity therefor and is directly proportional to the elimination of the selfish qualities of love.
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