Thought to Ponder From the Urantia Book

Ascension Sonship status for all Univitatia NOW...!!!

I realized that we've got a very long way to go and a short time to get there. It's gonna take many lifetimes to do this.

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book
"In his home and throughout his public-teaching career Jesus invariably employed the positive form of exhortation. Always and everywhere did he say, 'You shall do this-you ought to do that'...He refrained from placing emphasis on evil by forbidding it, while he exalted the good by commanding its performance."

(1401.2) 127:4.

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"...I have absolute confidence in my heavenly Father's overcare; I am consecrated to doing the will of my Father in heaven. I do not believe that real harm can befall me; I do not believe that my lifework can really be jeopardized by anything my enemies might wish to visit upon me, and surely we have no violence to fear from our friends. I am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me - this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a wholehearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary."

Jesus, (1469.3) 133:1.4

Sorry but;

" am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me - this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a wholehearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary."

"

You say Jesus said this? Why? The universe saw to it he was killed...dead!

I think you are quoting the book of "UrAssia"

Since his enemies reside in this universe, then said universe is not entirely friendly?

However you may have a very different definition of friendship?

I would say, he was right. His enemies and their violence didn't affect his life work at all. And you have to admit, his life work has had quite the effect, no? More than yours or mine ever will.....

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book
"In every age scientists and religionists must recognize that they are on trial before the bar of human need. They must eschew all warfare between themselves while they strive valiantly to justify their continued survival by enhanced devotion to the service of human progress. If the so-called science or religion of any age is false, then must it either purify its activities or pass away before the emergence of a material science or spiritual religion of a truer and more worthy order."

The Teachings of Jesus, (1456.7) 132:1.4


(If you can't comprehend anything that is being posted here, and it confuses you, just stop and think: Maybe there is something to this Book after all? It's not to hurt anybody, but to enlighten and that's why we are all here.
Aren't we? )

This is what I live by.

Alot of people cannot believe in those words because if it is not in the Bible, well, then it didn't happen or it's just not true. They cannot understand that this Book is possibly one of the best written records with real details of the life of Jesus and its' explanations are are meant to encourage, not tear a person down.

I get these sent to my inbox everyday, and since they are encouraging, I thought, why not post them up here and maybe someone else will get something positive out of these words?

Nope, Jeshua advanced forever by dying for a couple days. Just a tiny sacrifice to prove a big point

[link to www.urantia.org]

I like this topic. It explains alot but modern Christians need to read it to understand it more fully so that they can find a deeper meaning in the teachings.

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book

"Wise and Vigorous Leadership"

"In civilization much, very much, depends on an enthusiastic and effective load-pulling spirit. Ten men are of little more value than one in lifting a great load unless they lift together-all at the same moment. And such teamwork-social co-operation-is dependent on leadership. The cultural civilizations of the past and the present have been based upon the intelligent co-operation of the citizenry with wise and progressive leaders; and until man evolves to higher levels, civilization will continue to be dependent on wise and vigorous leadership."

(911.2) 81:6.37


And today just happens to be November 2nd. Go make those votes count!!! lol!

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book

"Ultimate universe reality cannot be grasped by mathematics, logic, or philosophy, only by personal experience in progressive conformity to the divine will of a personal God. Neither science, philosophy, nor theology can validate the personality of God. Only the personal experience of the faith sons of the heavenly Father can effect the actual spiritual realization of the personality of God."

(31.5) 1:7.5

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"At first the Lucifer upheaval appeared to be an unmitigated calamity to the system and to the universe. Gradually benefits began to accrue. With the passing of twenty-five thousand years of system time (twenty thousand years of Urantia time), the Melchizedeks began to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer's folly had come to equal the evil incurred...The Melchizedeks now teach that the good resulting from the Satania rebellion is more than a thousand times the sum of all the evil.

(619.3) 54:6.6

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book

"A Creator Son of God became one of you; he is your elder brother in fact; and if in spirit you become truly related brothers of Christ, the victorious Michael, then in spirit must you also be sons of that Father which you have in common - even the Universal Father of all."

(448.4) 40:6.5

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"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."

(2077.4) 195:6.8

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"Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul; it is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling spirit. The eternal salvation of this truth-discerning and beauty-loving soul is assured by that hunger and thirst for goodness which leads this mortal to develop a singleness of purpose to do the Father's will, to find God and to become like him."

Teachings of Jesus, (1459.4) 132:3.4

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"But the great problem of religious living consists in the task of unifying the soul powers of the personality by the dominance of LOVE. Health, mental efficiency, and happiness arise from the unification of physical systems, mind systems, and spirit systems. Of health and sanity man understands much, but of happiness he has truly realized very little. The highest happiness is indissolubly linked with spiritual progress. Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which passes all understanding."

(1097.7) 100:4.3


Maybe the Muslims can take a page from this and learn a thing or two.

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book


"Are your ideals sufficiently high to insure your eternal salvation while your ideas are so practical as to render you a useful citizen to function on earth in association with your mortal fellows? In the spirit, your citizenship is in heaven; in the flesh, you are still citizens of the earth kingdoms. Render to the Caesars the things which are material and to God those which are spiritual."

The Teachings of Jesus, (1740.3) 156:5.16

The Promoters of Oratory

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"This group of recorders are occupied with the task of preserving thought for reproduction by oratory. But in the language of Nebadon we could, in a half hour's address, cover the subject matter of the entire lifetime of a Urantia mortal. Your only hope of comprehending these transactions is to pause and consider the technique of your disordered and garbled dream life - how you can in a few seconds traverse years of experience in these fantasies of the night season."

(503.7) 44:4.7

A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book


"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.' "

(447.4) 40:5.19

Now that's interesting. When i read the Urantia book ( phew) I was unable to find anything that supported reincarnation. Can you point to where it discusses this?

It might take you a while to find the answer to my question, given the size of this book and that's OK.

In reality, this a book that the seeking heart will come across. However, it is not the end of the journey but rather, a stepping stone to higher truths. It is a highly mentalised account of events upon this plane and a gift from energies upon the mental plane, but not and this is important, the Divine Kingdom. There is still distortion in this book brought about by the limitations of it's source and the inevitable mistranslations that must occur when higher level information is transmitted down through the astral realm into this dense level of existence. It is not in the same vibrational category as say the Tao ti ching or the gospel of Buddha or indeed the Aquarian gospel of Jesus the Christ. None the less, good can result from pondering this text, but not liberation.

I'll look later and see what I can find on the subject. but it makes me feel better reading this and yes, it is quite alot and knowing that we still have a real chance at surviving the next life and moving onto something better.
Right now, I need to go get ready for work.
Thanks.

The Urantia Book is a great book, about the amazing history and structure of ALL creation.


Mary Baker Eddy, in the middle of the 19th century, finding herself alone and with a small child, decided to study the New Testament as carefully as she possibly could.

In fact she decided to ONLY read and STUDY what Jesus was reported to have said in it.
And then she tried to apply those PRINCIPLES, to see if she could duplicate what Jesus did.

BUT, ONLY WHAT HE SAID MATTERED TO HER.

By carefully studying what Jesus said, and applying it like a scientist, she found some methods and PRINCIPLES which can make healing happen.


She also started a news letter after her discovery which evolved into a following of people who were also interested in her discovery and it is still called Christian Science.

I believe her news letter may have been called The Christian Science monitor. (Its still called that, but instead has become one of the most respected Newspapers)

And practicing Christians Scientists DO NOT GO TO DOCTORS, THEY ASK THEIR PRACTITIONER (who are the HEALERS) FOR HELP WITH THEIR PROBLEMS. And the practitioners apply the methods that Jesus did, as reported in the New Testament.

Jesus also in 1965, gave us His OWN book, called A Course In Miracles, which is more than 1200 pages of ONLY His words, and thoughts. (no commentaries or words by anyone else)
That book REVEALS the actual PRINCIPLES OF MIRACLES which those who are ready can learn and apply to all problems.

God has sent us His MESSENGERS often throughout time, to help us learn Who we really are. And what we have to learn to be ALLOWED to pass onto the higher Spiritual Levels, where we all really belong.
And where we could be if we knew how to be in our RIGHT MIND.

If one carefully studied the Bhaggavad-Gita, they might also learn timeless lessons needed to find our way Home.


God knows how difficult it is in this world, and periodically sends us His Messengers to teach us and remind us Who we really are, to help us find our way back to Him.

..............

Well, I don't think it is very smart to not go to a dr. The only time I would refuse treatment is if it was a terminal illness. Just leave me alone, ya know.
I don't read the Bible it's been bastardized way too much.

Nice Hawk

We were sent the Holy Spirit, it teaches us

The Urantia Book
Paper 111
The Adjuster and the Soul
(1215.1) 111:0.1 THE presence of the divine Adjuster in the human mind makes it forever impossible for either
science or philosophy to attain a satisfactory comprehension of the evolving soul of the human personality.
The morontia soul is the child of the universe and may be really known only through cosmic insight and
spiritual discovery.
(1215.2) 111:0.2 The concept of a soul and of an indwelling spirit is not new to Urantia; it has frequently
appeared in the various systems of planetary beliefs. Many of the Oriental as well as some of the
Occidental faiths have perceived that man is divine in heritage as well as human in inheritance. The feeling
of the inner presence in addition to the external omnipresence of Deity has long formed a part of many
Urantian religions. Men have long believed that there is something growing within the human nature,
something vital that is destined to endure beyond the short span of temporal life.
(1215.3) 111:0.3 Before man realized that his evolving soul was fathered by a divine spirit, it was thought to
reside in different physical organs — the eye, liver, kidney, heart, and later, the brain. The savage
associated the soul with blood, breath, shadows and with reflections of the self in water.
(1215.4) 111:0.4 In the conception of the atman the Hindu teachers really approximated an appreciation of the
nature and presence of the Adjuster, but they failed to distinguish the copresence of the evolving and
potentially immortal soul. The Chinese, however, recognized two aspects of a human being, the yang and
the yin, the soul and the spirit. The Egyptians and many African tribes also believed in two factors, the ka
and the ba; the soul was not usually believed to be pre-existent, only the spirit. *
(1215.5) 111:0.5 The inhabitants of the Nile valley believed that each favored individual had bestowed upon him
at birth, or soon thereafter, a protecting spirit which they called the ka. They taught that this guardian
spirit remained with the mortal subject throughout life and passed before him into the future estate. On the
walls of a temple at Luxor, where is depicted the birth of Amenhotep III, the little prince is pictured on the
arm of the Nile god, and near him is another child, in appearance identical with the prince, which is a
symbol of that entity which the Egyptians called the ka. This sculpture was completed in the fifteenth
century before Christ.
(1215.6) 111:0.6 The ka was thought to be a superior spirit genius which desired to guide the associated mortal
soul into the better paths of temporal living but more especially to influence the fortunes of the human
subject in the hereafter. When an Egyptian of this period died, it was expected that his ka would be waiting
for him on the other side of the Great River. At first, only kings were supposed to have kas, but presently
all righteous men were believed to possess them. One Egyptian ruler, speaking of the ka within his heart,
said: “I did not disregard its speech; I feared to transgress its guidance. I prospered thereby greatly; I was
thus successful by reason of that which it caused me to do; I was distinguished by its guidance.” Many
believed that the ka was “an oracle from God in everybody.” Many believed that they were to “spend
eternity in gladness of heart in the favor of the God that is in you.”
(1216.1) 111:0.7 Every race of evolving Urantia mortals has a word equivalent to the concept of soul. Many
primitive peoples believed the soul looked out upon the world through human eyes; therefore did they so
cravenly fear the malevolence of the evil eye. They have long believed that “the spirit of man is the lamp
of the Lord.” The Rig-Veda says: “My mind speaks to my heart.”
1. The Mind Arena of Choice
(1216.2) 111:1.1 Though the work of Adjusters is spiritual in nature, they must, perforce, do all their work upon
an intellectual foundation. Mind is the human soil from which the spirit Monitor must evolve the morontia
soul with the co-operation of the indwelt personality.
(1216.3) 111:1.2 There is a cosmic unity in the several mind levels of the universe of universes. Intellectual
selves have their origin in the cosmic mind much as nebulae take origin in the cosmic energies of universe
space. On the human (hence personal) level of intellectual selves the potential of spirit evolution becomes
dominant, with the assent of the mortal mind, because of the spiritual endowments of the human
personality together with the creative presence of an entity-point of absolute value in such human selves.
But such a spirit dominance of the material mind is conditioned upon two experiences: This mind must
have evolved up through the ministry of the seven adjutant mind-spirits, and the material (personal) self
must choose to co-operate with the indwelling Adjuster in creating and fostering the morontia self, the
evolutionary and potentially immortal soul.
(1216.4) 111:1.3 Material mind is the arena in which human personalities live, are self-conscious, make decisions,
choose God or forsake him, eternalize or destroy themselves.
(1216.5) 111:1.4 Material evolution has provided you a life machine, your body; the Father himself has endowed
you with the purest spirit reality known in the universe, your Thought Adjuster. But into your hands,
subject to your own decisions, has been given mind, and it is by mind that you live or die. It is within this
mind and with this mind that you make those moral decisions which enable you to achieve
Adjusterlikeness, and that is Godlikeness.
(1216.6) 111:1.5 Mortal mind is a temporary intellect system loaned to human beings for use during a material
lifetime, and as they use this mind, they are either accepting or rejecting the potential of eternal existence.
Mind is about all you have of universe reality that is subject to your will, and the soul — the morontia self
— will faithfully portray the harvest of the temporal decisions which the mortal self is making. Human
consciousness rests gently upon the electrochemical mechanism below and delicately touches the spiritmorontia
energy system above. Of neither of these two systems is the human being ever completely
conscious in his mortal life; therefore must he work in mind, of which he is conscious. And it is not so
much what mind comprehends as what mind desires to comprehend that insures survival; it is not so much
what mind is like as what mind is striving to be like that constitutes spirit identification. It is not so much
that man is conscious of God as that man yearns for God that results in universe ascension. What you are
today is not so important as what you are becoming day by day and in eternity.
(1217.1) 111:1.6 Mind is the cosmic instrument on which the human will can play the discords of destruction, or
upon which this same human will can bring forth the exquisite melodies of God identification and
consequent eternal survival. The Adjuster bestowed upon man is, in the last analysis, impervious to evil
and incapable of sin, but mortal mind can actually be twisted, distorted, and rendered evil and ugly by the
sinful machinations of a perverse and self-seeking human will. Likewise can this mind be made noble,
beautiful, true, and good — actually great — in accordance with the spirit-illuminated will of a God-knowing
human being.
(1217.2) 111:1.7 Evolutionary mind is only fully stable and dependable when manifesting itself upon the two
extremes of cosmic intellectuality — the wholly mechanized and the entirely spiritualized. Between the
intellectual extremes of pure mechanical control and true spirit nature there intervenes that enormous
group of evolving and ascending minds whose stability and tranquillity are dependent upon personality
choice and spirit identification.
(1217.3) 111:1.8 But man does not passively, slavishly, surrender his will to the Adjuster. Rather does he
actively, positively, and co-operatively choose to follow the Adjuster’s leading when and as such leading
consciously differs from the desires and impulses of the natural mortal mind. The Adjusters manipulate but
never dominate man’s mind against his will; to the Adjusters the human will is supreme. And they so
regard and respect it while they strive to achieve the spiritual goals of thought adjustment and character
transformation in the almost limitless arena of the evolving human intellect.
(1217.4) 111:1.9 Mind is your ship, the Adjuster is your pilot, the human will is captain. The master of the mortal
vessel should have the wisdom to trust the divine pilot to guide the ascending soul into the morontia
harbors of eternal survival. Only by selfishness, slothfulness, and sinfulness can the will of man reject the
guidance of such a loving pilot and eventually wreck the mortal career upon the evil shoals of rejected
mercy and upon the rocks of embraced sin. With your consent, this faithful pilot will safely carry you across
the barriers of time and the handicaps of space to the very source of the divine mind and on beyond, even
to the Paradise Father of Adjusters.
2. Nature of the Soul
(1217.5) 111:2.1 Throughout the mind functions of cosmic intelligence, the totality of mind is dominant over the
parts of intellectual function. Mind, in its essence, is functional unity; therefore does mind never fail to
manifest this constitutive unity, even when hampered and hindered by the unwise actions and choices of a
misguided self. And this unity of mind invariably seeks for spirit co-ordination on all levels of its association
with selves of will dignity and ascension prerogatives.
(1217.6) 111:2.2 The material mind of mortal man is the cosmic loom that carries the morontia fabrics on which
the indwelling Thought Adjuster threads the spirit patterns of a universe character of enduring values and
divine meanings — a surviving soul of ultimate destiny and unending career, a potential finaliter.
(1218.1) 111:2.3 The human personality is identified with mind and spirit held together in functional relationship
by life in a material body. This functioning relationship of such mind and spirit does not result in some
combination of the qualities or attributes of mind and spirit but rather in an entirely new, original, and
unique universe value of potentially eternal endurance, the soul.
(1218.2) 111:2.4 There are three and not two factors in the evolutionary creation of such an immortal soul. These
three antecedents of the morontia human soul are:
(1218.3) 111:2.5 1. The human mind and all cosmic influences antecedent thereto and impinging
thereon.
(1218.4) 111:2.6 2. The divine spirit indwelling this human mind and all potentials inherent in such a
fragment of absolute spirituality together with all associated spiritual influences and factors in
human life.
(1218.5) 111:2.7 3. The relationship between material mind and divine spirit, which connotes a value
and carries a meaning not found in either of the contributing factors to such an association. The
reality of this unique relationship is neither material nor spiritual but morontial. It is the soul.
(1218.6) 111:2.8 The midway creatures have long denominated this evolving soul of man the mid-mind in
contradistinction to the lower or material mind and the higher or cosmic mind. This mid-mind is really a
morontia phenomenon since it exists in the realm between the material and the spiritual. The potential of
such a morontia evolution is inherent in the two universal urges of mind: the impulse of the finite mind of
the creature to know God and attain the divinity of the Creator, and the impulse of the infinite mind of the
Creator to know man and attain the experience of the creature.
(1218.7) 111:2.9 This supernal transaction of evolving the immortal soul is made possible because the mortal
mind is first personal and second is in contact with superanimal realities; it possesses a supermaterial
endowment of cosmic ministry which insures the evolution of a moral nature capable of making moral
decisions, thereby effecting a bona fide creative contact with the associated spiritual ministries and with the
indwelling Thought Adjuster.
(1218.8) 111:2.10 The inevitable result of such a contactual spiritualization of the human mind is the gradual birth
of a soul, the joint offspring of an adjutant mind dominated by a human will that craves to know God,
working in liaison with the spiritual forces of the universe which are under the overcontrol of an actual
fragment of the very God of all creation — the Mystery Monitor. And thus does the material and mortal
reality of the self transcend the temporal limitations of the physical-life machine and attain a new
expression and a new identification in the evolving vehicle for selfhood continuity, the morontia and
immortal soul.
3. The Evolving Soul
(1218.9) 111:3.1 The mistakes of mortal mind and the errors of human conduct may markedly delay the
evolution of the soul, although they cannot inhibit such a morontia phenomenon when once it has been
initiated by the indwelling Adjuster with the consent of the creature will. But at any time prior to mortal
death this same material and human will is empowered to rescind such a choice and to reject survival.
Even after survival the ascending mortal still retains this prerogative of choosing to reject eternal life; at
any time before fusion with the Adjuster the evolving and ascending creature can choose to forsake the will
of the Paradise Father. Fusion with the Adjuster signalizes the fact that the ascending mortal has eternally
and unreservedly chosen to do the Father’s will.
(1219.1) 111:3.2 During the life in the flesh the evolving soul is enabled to reinforce the supermaterial decisions
of the mortal mind. The soul, being supermaterial, does not of itself function on the material level of human
experience. Neither can this subspiritual soul, without the collaboration of some spirit of Deity, such as the
Adjuster, function above the morontia level. Neither does the soul make final decisions until death or
translation divorces it from material association with the mortal mind except when and as this material
mind delegates such authority freely and willingly to such a morontia soul of associated function. 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.
(1219.2) 111:3.3 This immortal soul is at first wholly morontia in nature, but it possesses such a capacity for
development that it invariably ascends to the true spirit levels of fusion value with the spirits of Deity,
usually with the same spirit of the Universal Father that initiated such a creative phenomenon in the
creature mind.
(1219.3) 111:3.4 Both the human mind and the divine Adjuster are conscious of the presence and differential
nature of the evolving soul — the Adjuster fully, the mind partially. The soul becomes increasingly
conscious of both the mind and the Adjuster as associated identities, proportional to its own evolutionary
growth. The soul partakes of the qualities of both the human mind and the divine spirit but persistently
evolves toward augmentation of spirit control and divine dominance through the fostering of a mind
function whose meanings seek to co-ordinate with true spirit value.
(1219.4) 111:3.5 The mortal career, the soul’s evolution, is not so much a probation as an education. Faith in the
survival of supreme values is the core of religion; genuine religious experience consists in the union of
supreme values and cosmic meanings as a realization of universal reality.
(1219.5) 111:3.6 Mind knows quantity, reality, meanings. But quality — values — is felt. That which feels is the
mutual creation of mind, which knows, and the associated spirit, which reality-izes.
(1219.6) 111:3.7 In so far as man’s evolving morontia soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness
as the value-realization of God-consciousness, such a resultant being becomes indestructible. If there is no
survival of eternal values in the evolving soul of man, then mortal existence is without meaning, and life
itself is a tragic illusion. But it is forever true: What you begin in time you will assuredly finish in eternity —
if it is worth finishing.

3. The Phenomenon of Death
(1229.8) 112:3.1 Urantians generally recognize only one kind of death, the physical cessation of life energies; but
concerning personality survival there are really three kinds:
(1229.9) 112:3.2 1. Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, when
he has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of
the Adjuster and the surviving seraphim, when such co-ordinate advice has been recorded on
Uversa, and after the Censors and their reflective associates have verified these findings,
thereupon do the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of the indwelling Monitor. But
this release of the Adjuster in no way affects the duties of the personal or group seraphim
concerned with that Adjuster-abandoned individual. This kind of death is final in its significance
irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living energies of the physical and mind
mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is already dead; the continuing life merely
indicates the persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies.
(1230.1) 112:3.3 2. Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are
disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the
mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the
indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a
mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of
human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing
function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no
longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an
individual may survive.
(1230.2) 112:3.4 3. Physical (body and mind) death. When death overtakes a human being, the
Adjuster remains in the citadel of the mind until it ceases to function as an intelligent
mechanism, about the time that the measurable brain energies cease their rhythmic vital
pulsations. Following this dissolution the Adjuster takes leave of the vanishing mind, just as
unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and proceeds to Divinington by way of
Uversa.
(1230.3) 112:3.5 After death the material body returns to the elemental world from which it was derived, but two
nonmaterial factors of surviving personality persist: The pre-existent Thought Adjuster, with the memory
transcription of the mortal career, proceeds to Divinington; and there also remains, in the custody of the
destiny guardian, the immortal morontia soul of the deceased human. These phases and forms of soul,
these once kinetic but now static formulas of identity, are essential to repersonalization on the morontia
worlds; and it is the reunion of the Adjuster and the soul that reassembles the surviving personality, that
reconsciousizes you at the time of the morontia awakening.
(1230.4) 112:3.6 For those who do not have personal seraphic guardians, the group custodians faithfully and
efficiently perform the same service of identity safekeeping and personality resurrection. The seraphim are
indispensable to the reassembly of personality.
(1230.5) 112:3.7 Upon death the Thought Adjuster temporarily loses personality, but not identity; the human
subject temporarily loses identity, but not personality; on the mansion worlds both reunite in eternal
manifestation. Never does a departed Thought Adjuster return to earth as the being of former indwelling;
never is personality manifested without the human will; and never does a dis-Adjustered human being after
death manifest active identity or in any manner establish communication with the living beings of earth.
Such dis-Adjustered souls are wholly and absolutely unconscious during the long or short sleep of death.
There can be no exhibition of any sort of personality or ability to engage in communications with other
personalities until after completion of survival. Those who go to the mansion worlds are not permitted to
send messages back to their loved ones. It is the policy throughout the universes to forbid such
communication during the period of a current dispensation.
4. Adjusters after Death
(1231.1) 112:4.1 When death of a material, intellectual, or spiritual nature occurs, the Adjuster bids farewell to
the mortal host and departs for Divinington. From the headquarters of the local universe and the
superuniverse a reflective contact is made with the supervisors of both governments, and the Monitor is
registered out by the same number that recorded entry into the domains of time.
(1231.2) 112:4.2 In some way not fully understood, the Universal Censors are able to gain possession of an
epitome of the human life as it is embodied in the Adjuster’s duplicate transcription of the spiritual values
and morontia meanings of the indwelt mind. The Censors are able to appropriate the Adjuster’s version of
the deceased human’s survival character and spiritual qualities, and all this data, together with the seraphic
records, is available for presentation at the time of the adjudication of the individual concerned. This
information is also used to confirm those superuniverse mandates which make it possible for certain
ascenders immediately to begin their morontia careers, upon mortal dissolution to proceed to the mansion
worlds ahead of the formal termination of a planetary dispensation.
(1231.3) 112:4.3 Subsequent to physical death, except in individuals translated from among the living, the
released Adjuster goes immediately to the home sphere of Divinington. The details of what transpires on
that world during the time of awaiting the factual reappearance of the surviving mortal depend chiefly on
whether the human being ascends to the mansion worlds in his own individual right or awaits a
dispensational summoning of the sleeping survivors of a planetary age.
(1231.4) 112:4.4 If the mortal associate belongs to a group that will be repersonalized at the end of a
dispensation, the Adjuster will not immediately return to the mansion world of the former system of service
but will, according to choice, enter upon one of the following temporary assignments:
(1231.5) 112:4.5 1. Be mustered into the ranks of vanished Monitors for undisclosed service.
(1231.6) 112:4.6 2. Be assigned for a period to the observation of the Paradise regime.
(1231.7) 112:4.7 3. Be enrolled in one of the many training schools of Divinington.
(1231.8) 112:4.8 4. Be stationed for a time as a student observer on one of the other six sacred
spheres which constitute the Father’s circuit of Paradise worlds.
(1231.9) 112:4.9 5. Be assigned to the messenger service of the Personalized Adjusters.
(1231.10) 112:4.10 6. Become an associate instructor in the Divinington schools devoted to the training
of Monitors belonging to the virgin group.
(1231.11) 112:4.11 7. Be assigned to select a group of possible worlds on which to serve in the event
that there is reasonable cause for believing that the human partner may have rejected survival.
(1231.12) 112:4.12 If, when death overtakes you, you have attained the third circle or a higher realm and
therefore have had assigned to you a personal guardian of destiny, and if the final transcript of the
summary of survival character submitted by the Adjuster is unconditionally certified by the destiny
guardian — if both seraphim and Adjuster essentially agree in every item of their life records and
recommendations — if the Universal Censors and their reflective associates on Uversa confirm this data and
do so without equivocation or reservation, in that event the Ancients of Days flash forth the mandate of
advanced standing over the communication circuits to Salvington, and, thus released, the tribunals of the
Sovereign of Nebadon will decree the immediate passage of the surviving soul to the resurrection halls of
the mansion worlds.
(1232.1) 112:4.13 If the human individual survives without delay, the Adjuster, so I am instructed, registers at
Divinington, proceeds to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father, returns immediately and is
embraced by the Personalized Adjusters of the superuniverse and local universe of assignment, receives the
recognition of the chief Personalized Monitor of Divinington, and then, at once, passes into the “realization
of identity transition,” being summoned therefrom on the third period and on the mansion world in the
actual personality form made ready for the reception of the surviving soul of the earth mortal as that form
has been projected by the guardian of destiny.
5. Survival of the Human Self
(1232.2) 112:5.1 Selfhood is a cosmic reality whether material, morontial, or spiritual. The actuality of the
personal is the bestowal of the Universal Father acting in and of himself or through his manifold universe
agencies. To say that a being is personal is to recognize the relative individuation of such a being within
the cosmic organism. The living cosmos is an all but infinitely integrated aggregation of real units, all of
which are relatively subject to the destiny of the whole. But those that are personal have been endowed
with the actual choice of destiny acceptance or of destiny rejection.
(1232.3) 112:5.2 That which comes from the Father is like the Father eternal, and this is just as true of
personality, which God gives by his own freewill choice, as it is of the divine Thought Adjuster, an actual
fragment of God. Man’s personality is eternal but with regard to identity a conditioned eternal reality.
Having appeared in response to the Father’s will, personality will attain Deity destiny, but man must choose
whether or not he will be present at the attainment of such destiny. In default of such choice, personality
attains experiential Deity directly, becoming a part of the Supreme Being. The cycle is foreordained, but
man’s participation therein is optional, personal, and experiential.
(1232.4) 112:5.3 Mortal identity is a transient time-life condition in the universe; it is real only in so far as the
personality elects to become a continuing universe phenomenon. This is the essential difference between
man and an energy system: The energy system must continue, it has no choice; but man has everything
to do with determining his own destiny. The Adjuster is truly the path to Paradise, but man himself must
pursue that path by his own deciding, his freewill choosing.
(1232.5) 112:5.4 Human beings possess identity only in the material sense. Such qualities of the self are
expressed by the material mind as it functions in the energy system of the intellect. When it is said that
man has identity, it is recognized that he is in possession of a mind circuit which has been placed in
subordination to the acts and choosing of the will of the human personality. But this is a material and
purely temporary manifestation, just as the human embryo is a transient parasitic stage of human life.
Human beings, from a cosmic perspective, are born, live, and die in a relative instant of time; they are not
enduring. But mortal personality, through its own choosing, possesses the power of transferring its seat of
identity from the passing material-intellect system to the higher morontia-soul system which, in association
with the Thought Adjuster, is created as a new vehicle for personality manifestation.
(1233.1) 112:5.5 And it is this very power of choice, the universe insignia of freewill creaturehood, that
constitutes man’s greatest opportunity and his supreme cosmic responsibility. Upon the integrity of the
human volition depends the eternal destiny of the future finaliter; upon the sincerity of the mortal free will
the divine Adjuster depends for eternal personality; upon the faithfulness of mortal choice the Universal
Father depends for the realization of a new ascending son; upon the steadfastness and wisdom of decisionactions
the Supreme Being depends for the actuality of experiential evolution.
(1233.2) 112:5.6 Though the cosmic circles of personality growth must eventually be attained, if, through no fault
of your own, the accidents of time and the handicaps of material existence prevent your mastering these
levels on your native planet, if your intentions and desires are of survival value, there are issued the
decrees of probation extension. You will be afforded additional time in which to prove yourself.
(1233.3) 112:5.7 If ever there is doubt as to the advisability of advancing a human identity to the mansion
worlds, the universe governments invariably rule in the personal interests of that individual; they
unhesitatingly advance such a soul to the status of a transitional being, while they continue their
observations of the emerging morontia intent and spiritual purpose. Thus divine justice is certain of
achievement, and divine mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its ministry.
(1233.4) 112:5.8 The governments of Orvonton and Nebadon do not claim absolute perfection for the detail
working of the universal plan of mortal repersonalization, but they do claim to, and actually do, manifest
patience, tolerance, understanding, and merciful sympathy. We had rather assume the risk of a system
rebellion than to court the hazard of depriving one struggling mortal from any evolutionary world of the
eternal joy of pursuing the ascending career.
(1233.5) 112:5.9 This does not mean that human beings are to enjoy a second opportunity in the face of the
rejection of a first, not at all. But it does signify that all will creatures are to experience one true
opportunity to make one undoubted, self-conscious, and final choice. The sovereign Judges of the universes
will not deprive any being of personality status who has not finally and fully made the eternal choice; the
soul of man must and will be given full and ample opportunity to reveal its true intent and real purpose.
(1233.6) 112:5.10 When the more spiritually and cosmically advanced mortals die, they proceed immediately to
the mansion worlds; in general, this provision operates with those who have had assigned to them personal
seraphic guardians. Other mortals may be detained until such time as the adjudication of their affairs has
been completed, after which they may proceed to the mansion worlds, or they may be assigned to the
ranks of the sleeping survivors who will be repersonalized en masse at the end of the current planetary
dispensation.
(1233.7) 112:5.11 There are two difficulties that hamper my efforts to explain just what happens to you in death,
the surviving you which is distinct from the departing Adjuster. One of these consists in the impossibility of
conveying to your level of comprehension an adequate description of a transaction on the borderland of the
physical and morontia realms. The other is brought about by the restrictions placed upon my commission
as a revelator of truth by the celestial governing authorities of Urantia. There are many interesting details
which might be presented, but I withhold them upon the advice of your immediate planetary supervisors.
But within the limits of my permission I can say this much:
(1234.1) 112:5.12 There is something real, something of human evolution, something additional to the Mystery
Monitor, which survives death. This newly appearing entity is the soul, and it survives the death of both
your physical body and your material mind. This entity is the conjoint child of the combined life and efforts
of the human you in liaison with the divine you, the Adjuster. This child of human and divine parentage
constitutes the surviving element of terrestrial origin; it is the morontia self, the immortal soul.
(1234.2) 112:5.13 This child of persisting meaning and surviving value is wholly unconscious during the period
from death to repersonalization and is in the keeping of the seraphic destiny guardian throughout this
season of waiting. You will not function as a conscious being, following death, until you attain the new
consciousness of morontia on the mansion worlds of Satania.
(1234.3) 112:5.14 At death the functional identity associated with the human personality is disrupted through the
cessation of vital motion. Human personality, while transcending its constituent parts, is dependent on
them for functional identity. The stoppage of life destroys the physical brain patterns for mind endowment,
and the disruption of mind terminates mortal consciousness. The consciousness of that creature cannot
subsequently reappear until a cosmic situation has been arranged which will permit the same human
personality again to function in relationship with living energy.
(1234.4) 112:5.15 During the transit of surviving mortals from the world of origin to the mansion worlds, whether
they experience personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at the time of a group resurrection,
the record of personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the archangels on their worlds of special
activities. These beings are not the custodians of personality (as the guardian seraphim are of the soul),
but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of personality is effectually safeguarded in the
custody of these dependable trustees of mortal survival. As to the exact whereabouts of mortal personality
during the time intervening between death and survival, we do not know.
(1234.5) 112:5.16 The situation which makes repersonalization possible is brought about in the resurrection halls
of the morontia receiving planets of a local universe. Here in these life-assembly chambers the supervising
authorities provide that relationship of universe energy — morontial, mindal, and spiritual — which makes
possible the reconsciousizing of the sleeping survivor. The reassembly of the constituent parts of a onetime
material personality involves:
(1234.6) 112:5.17 1. The fabrication of a suitable form, a morontia energy pattern, in which the new
survivor can make contact with nonspiritual reality, and within which the morontia variant of the
cosmic mind can be encircuited.
(1234.7) 112:5.18 2. The return of the Adjuster to the waiting morontia creature. The Adjuster is the
eternal custodian of your ascending identity; your Monitor is the absolute assurance that you
yourself and not another will occupy the morontia form created for your personality awakening.
And the Adjuster will be present at your personality reassembly to take up once more the role
of Paradise guide to your surviving self.
(1235.1) 112:5.19 3. When these prerequisites of repersonalization have been assembled, the seraphic
custodian of the potentialities of the slumbering immortal soul, with the assistance of numerous
cosmic personalities, bestows this morontia entity upon and in the awaiting morontia mind-body
form while committing this evolutionary child of the Supreme to eternal association with the
waiting Adjuster. And this completes the repersonalization, reassembly of memory, insight, and
consciousness — identity.
(1235.2) 112:5.20 The fact of repersonalization consists in the seizure of the encircuited morontia phase of the
newly segregated cosmic mind by the awakening human self. The phenomenon of personality is dependent
on the persistence of the identity of selfhood reaction to universe environment; and this can only be
effected through the medium of mind. Selfhood persists in spite of a continuous change in all the factor
components of self; in the physical life the change is gradual; at death and upon repersonalization the
change is sudden. The true reality of all selfhood (personality) is able to function responsively to universe
conditions by virtue of the unceasing changing of its constituent parts; stagnation terminates in inevitable
death. Human life is an endless change of the factors of life unified by the stability of the unchanging
personality.
(1235.3) 112:5.21 And when you thus awaken on the mansion worlds of Jerusem, you will be so changed, the
spiritual transformation will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Adjuster and the destiny
guardian, who so fully connect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you
would at first have difficulty in connecting the new morontia consciousness with the reviving memory of
your previous identity. Notwithstanding the continuity of personal selfhood, much of the mortal life would at
first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clarify many mortal associations.
(1235.4) 112:5.22 The Thought Adjuster will recall and rehearse for you only those memories and experiences
which are a part of, and essential to, your universe career. If the Adjuster has been a partner in the
evolution of aught in the human mind, then will these worth-while experiences survive in the eternal
consciousness of the Adjuster. But much of your past life and its memories, having neither spiritual
meaning nor morontia value, will perish with the material brain; much of material experience will pass away
as onetime scaffolding which, having bridged you over to the morontia level, no longer serves a purpose in
the universe. But personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal
memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist. On the mansion worlds you will know
and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short
but intriguing life on Urantia.