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Compendium: "personality & identity" |
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| From Part I - The Central and Superuniverses |
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| 0:5.4 | All subinfinite orders and phases of personality are associative attainables and are potentially cocreational. The prepersonal, the personal, and the superpersonal are all linked together by mutual potential of co-ordinate attainment, progressive achievement, and cocreational capacity. But never does the impersonal directly transmute to the personal. Personality is never spontaneous; it is the gift of the Paradise Father. Personality is superimposed upon energy, and it is associated only with living energy systems; identity can be associated with nonliving energy patterns. |
| 0:6.10 | PATTERN can be projected as material, spiritual, or mindal, or any combination of these energies. It can pervade personalities, identities, entities, or nonliving matter. But pattern is pattern and remains pattern; only copies are multiplied. |
| 0:6.12 | In contrast to the aspect of the total, pattern discloses the individual aspect of energy and of personality. Personality or identity forms are patterns resultant from energy (physical, spiritual, or mindal) but are not inherent therein. That quality of energy or of personality by virtue of which pattern is caused to appear may be attributed to God—Deity—to Paradise force endowment, to the coexistence of personality and power. |
| 1:7.4 | We cannot fully understand how God can be primal, changeless, all-powerful, and perfect, and at the same time be surrounded by an ever-changing and apparently law-limited universe, an evolving universe of relative imperfections. But we can know such a truth in our own personal experience since we all maintain identity of personality and unity of will in spite of the constant changing of both ourselves and our environment. |
| 1:7.6 | The higher concepts of universe personality imply: identity, self-consciousness, self-will, and possibility for self-revelation. And these characteristics further imply fellowship with other and equal personalities, such as exists in the personality associations of the Paradise Deities. And the absolute unity of these associations is so perfect that divinity becomes known by indivisibility, by oneness. "The Lord God is one." Indivisibility of personality does not interfere with God's bestowing his spirit to live in the hearts of mortal men. Indivisibility of a human father's personality does not prevent the reproduction of mortal sons and daughters. |
| 2:3.4 | When this sentence is finally confirmed, the sin-identified being instantly becomes as though he had not been. There is no resurrection from such a fate; it is everlasting and eternal. The living energy factors of identity are resolved by the transformations of time and the metamorphoses of space into the cosmic potentials whence they once emerged. As for the personality of the iniquitous one, it is deprived of a continuing life vehicle by the creature's failure to make those choices and final decisions which would have assured eternal life. When the continued embrace of sin by the associated mind culminates in complete self-identification with iniquity, then upon the cessation of life, upon cosmic dissolution, such an isolated personality is absorbed into the oversoul of creation, becoming a part of the evolving experience of the Supreme Being. Never again does it appear as a personality; its identity becomes as though it had never been. In the case of an Adjuster-indwelt personality, the experiential spirit values survive in the reality of the continuing Adjuster. |
| 5:6.7 |
The material self has personality and identity,
temporal identity; the prepersonal spirit Adjuster also has identity,
eternal identity. This material personality and this spirit prepersonality are capable of so uniting their creative attributes as to
bring into existence the surviving identity of the immortal soul. |
| 6:0.3 | The Eternal Son is the spiritual personalization of the Paradise Father's universal and infinite concept of divine reality, unqualified spirit, and absolute personality. And thereby does the Son constitute the divine revelation of the creator identity of the Universal Father. The perfect personality of the Son discloses that the Father is actually the eternal and universal source of all the meanings and values of the spiritual, the volitional, the purposeful, and the personal. |
| 6:8.1 |
Concerning identity, nature, and other
attributes of personality, the Eternal Son is the full equal, the
perfect complement, and the eternal counterpart of the Universal Father.
In the same sense that God is the Universal Father, the Son is the
Universal Mother. And all of us, high and low, constitute their
universal family. |
| 12:8.16 | The brighter the shining of the spiritualized personality (the Father in the universe, the fragment of potential spirit personality in the individual creature), the greater the shadow cast by the intervening mind upon its material investment. In time, man's body is just as real as mind or spirit, but in death, both mind (identity) and spirit survive while the body does not. A cosmic reality can be nonexistent in personality experience. And so your Greek figure of speech—the material as the shadow of the more real spirit substance—does have a philosophic significance. |
| 12:9.6 |
Mortal man has a spirit nucleus. The mind is a
personal-energy system existing around a divine spirit nucleus and
functioning in a material environment. Such a living relationship of
personal mind and spirit constitutes the universe potential of
eternal personality. Real trouble, lasting disappointment, serious
defeat, or inescapable death can come only after self-concepts presume
fully to displace the governing power of the central spirit nucleus,
thereby disrupting the cosmic scheme of personality identity. |
| 16:8.6 |
Self-consciousness consists in intellectual
awareness of personality actuality; it includes the ability to recognize
the reality of other personalities. It indicates capacity for
individualized experience in and with cosmic realities, equivalating to
the attainment of identity status in the personality relationships of the
universe. Self-consciousness connotes recognition of the actuality of
mind ministration and the realization of relative independence of
creative and determinative free will. |
| 16:9.3 |
If mortal man fails to survive natural death,
the real spiritual values of his human experience survive as a part of
the continuing experience of the Thought Adjuster. The
personality values
of such a nonsurvivor persist as a factor in the personality of the
actualizing Supreme Being. Such persisting qualities of personality are
deprived of identity but not of experiential values accumulated during
the mortal life in the flesh. The survival of identity is dependent on
the survival of the immortal soul of morontia status and increasingly
divine value. Personality identity survives in and by the survival of the
soul. |
| 21:1.1 |
When the fullness of absolute spiritual ideation
in the Eternal Son encounters the fullness of
absolute personality concept in the Universal Father, when such a
creative union is finally and fully attained, when such
absolute identity of spirit and such infinite oneness of
personality concept occur, then, right then and there, without the
loss of anything of personality or prerogative by either of the infinite
Deities, there flashes into full-fledged being a new and original
Creator Son, the only-begotten Son of the perfect ideal and the powerful
idea whose union produces this new creator personality of power and
perfection. |
| 23:4.1 |
The Solitary Messengers seem to
be personality co-ordinators for all types of spirit beings. Their
ministry helps to make all the personalities of the far-flung spiritual
world akin. They contribute much to the development, in all spirit
beings, of a consciousness of group identity. Every type of spirit being
is served by special groups of Solitary Messengers who foster the
ability of such beings to understand and fraternize with all other types
and orders, however dissimilar. |
| 30:4.15 |
The physical body of mortal flesh is not a part
of the reassembly of the sleeping survivor; the physical body has
returned to dust. The seraphim of assignment sponsors the new body, the
morontia form, as the new life vehicle for the immortal soul and for the
indwelling of the returned Adjuster. The Adjuster is the custodian of
the spirit transcript of the mind of the sleeping survivor. The assigned
seraphim is the keeper of the surviving identity—the immortal soul—as
far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Adjuster and the
seraphim, reunite their personality trusts, the new individual
constitutes the resurrection of the old personality, the survival of the
evolving morontia identity of the soul. Such a reassociation of soul and
Adjuster is quite properly called a resurrection, a reassembly
of personality factors; but even this does not entirely explain the
reappearance of the surviving personality. Though you will probably
never understand the fact of such an inexplicable transaction, you will
sometime experientially know the truth of it if you do not reject the
plan of mortal survival. |
| 30:4.20 |
Mortals acquire real spirit identity just before
they leave the local universe headquarters for the receiving worlds of
the minor sectors of the superuniverse. Passing from the final morontia
stage to the first or lowest spirit status is but a slight transition.
The mind, personality, and character are unchanged by such an advance;
only does the form undergo modification. But the spirit form is just as
real as the morontia body, and it is equally discernible. |
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| From Part II - The Local Universe | |
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| 32:2.6 |
Presently, the physical plan of a universe is
completed, and the Creator Son, in association with the Creative Spirit,
projects his plan of life creation; whereupon does this representation
of the Infinite Spirit begin her universe function as a distinct
creative personality. When this first creative act is formulated and
executed, there springs into being the Bright and Morning Star, the
personification of this initial creative concept of identity and ideal
of divinity. This is the chief executive of the universe, the personal
associate of the Creator Son, one like him in all aspects of character,
though markedly limited in the attributes of divinity. |
| 33:4.1 |
The Bright and Morning Star is the
personalization of the first concept of identity and ideal
of personality conceived by the Creator Son and the local universe
manifestation of the Infinite Spirit. Going back to the early days of
the local universe, before the union of the Creator Son and the Mother
Spirit in the bonds of creative association, back to the times before
the beginning of the creation of their versatile family of sons and
daughters, the first conjoint act of this early and free association of
these two divine persons results in the creation of the highest
spirit personality of the Son and the Spirit, the Bright and Morning
Star. |
| 36:6.5 |
The life bestowed upon plants and animals by the
Life Carriers does not return to the Life Carriers upon the death of
plant or animal. The departing life of such a living thing possesses
neither identity nor personality; it does not individually survive
death. During its existence and the time of its sojourn in the body of
matter, it has undergone a change; it has undergone energy evolution and
survives only as a part of the cosmic forces of the universe; it does
not survive as individual life. The survival of mortal creatures is
wholly predicated on the evolvement of an immortal soul within the
mortal mind. |
| 40:5.3 |
God the Father does not, cannot, thus downstep
himself to make such near personal contact with the almost limitless
number of ascending creatures throughout the universe of universes. But
the Father is not deprived of personal contact with his lowly creatures;
you are not without the divine presence. Although God the Father cannot
be with you by direct personality manifestation, he is in you and of you
in the identity of the indwelling Thought Adjusters, the divine
Monitors. Thus does the Father, who is the farthest from you in
personality and in spirit, draw the nearest to you in
the personality circuit and in the spirit touch of inner communion with
the very souls of his mortal sons and daughters. |
| 42:12.9 |
Mind is always creative. The mind endowment of
an individual animal, mortal, morontian, spirit ascender, or finality
attainer is always competent to produce a suitable and serviceable body
for the living creature identity. But the presence phenomenon of
a personality or the pattern of an identity, as such, is not a
manifestation of energy, either physical, mindal, or spiritual.
The personality form is the pattern aspect of a living being; it
connotes the arrangement of energies, and this, plus life and motion, is
the mechanism of creature existence. |
| 47:3.3 |
The mortal-mind transcripts and the active
creature-memory patterns as transformed from the material levels to the
spiritual are the individual possession of the detached Thought
Adjusters; these spiritized factors of mind, memory, and
creature personality are forever a part of such Adjusters. The creature
mind-matrix and the passive potentials of identity are present in the
morontia soul intrusted to the keeping of the seraphic destiny
guardians. And it is the reuniting of the morontia-soul trust of the
seraphim and the spirit-mind trust of the Adjuster that reassembles
creature personality and constitutes resurrection of a sleeping
survivor. |
| 48:4.20 |
The principles of Urantian play life are
philosophically sound and continue to apply on up through your ascending
life, through the circuits of Havona to the eternal shores of Paradise.
As ascendant beings you are in possession of personal memories of all
former and lower existences, and without such identity memories of the
past there would be no basis for the humor of the present, either mortal
laughter or morontia mirth. It is this recalling of past experiences
that provides the basis for present diversion and amusement. And so you
will enjoy the celestial equivalents of your earthly humor all the way
up through your long morontia, and then increasingly spiritual, careers.
And that part of God (the Adjuster) which becomes an eternal part of
the personality of an ascendant mortal contributes the overtones of
divinity to the joyous expressions, even spiritual laughter, of the
ascending creatures of time and space. |
| 49:6.5 |
The group guardians of assignment to the
sleeping survivors always function with the judgment Sons on their world
advents. "He shall send his angels, and they shall gather together his
elect from the four winds." With each seraphim of assignment to the
repersonalization of a sleeping mortal there functions the returned
Adjuster, the same immortal Father fragment that lived in him during the
days in the flesh, and thus is identity restored and
personality resurrected. During the sleep of their subjects these
waiting Adjusters serve on Divinington; they never indwell another
mortal mind in this interim. |
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| From Part III - The History of Urantia | |
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| 92:4.2 | But regardless of apparent connection or derivation, the religions of revelation are always characterized by a belief in some Deity of final value and in some concept of the survival of personality identity after death. |
| 104:1.13 |
Not since the times of Jesus has the factual identity of
the Paradise Trinity been known on Urantia (except by a few individuals
to whom it was especially revealed) until its presentation in these
revelatory disclosures. But though the Christian concept of the Trinity
erred in fact, it was practically true with respect to spiritual
relationships. Only in its philosophic implications and cosmological
consequences did this concept suffer embarrassment: It has been
difficult for many who are cosmic minded to believe that the Second
Person of Deity, the second member of an infinite Trinity, once dwelt on
Urantia; and while in spirit this is true, in actuality it is not a
fact. The Michael Creators fully embody the divinity of the Eternal Son,
but they are not the absolute personality. |
| 107:6.2 |
The Adjuster is man's eternity possibility; man is the Adjuster's personality possibility.
Your individual Adjusters work to spiritize you in the hope of
eternalizing your temporal identity.
The Adjusters are saturated with the beautiful and self-bestowing love
of the Father of spirits. They truly and divinely love you; they are the
prisoners of spirit hope confined within the minds of men. They long for
the divinity attainment of your mortal minds that their loneliness may
end, that they may be delivered with you from the limitations of
material investiture and the habiliments of time. |
| 110:1.6 | Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate identities the fusion partners—mortal man and divine Adjuster. |
| 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. |
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5. Personality, while devoid of identity,
can unify the identity of any living
energy system. |
| 112:0.15 |
13. Personality may survive mortal
death with identity in the surviving
soul. The Adjuster and the personality are
changeless; the relationship between them (in the soul) is nothing but
change, continuing evolution; and if this change (growth) ceased, the
soul would cease. |
| 112:1.13 |
Life is really a process which takes place between the organism
(selfhood) and its environment. The personality imparts
value of identity and meanings of continuity to this
organismal-environmental association. Thus it will be recognized that
the phenomenon of stimulus-response is not a mere mechanical process
since the personality functions as a
factor in the total situation. It is ever true that mechanisms are
innately passive; organisms, inherently active. |
| 112:1.19 |
In aggregations parts are added; in systems parts
are arranged. Systems are significant because of organization—positional
values. In a good system all factors are in cosmic position. In a bad
system something is either missing or displaced—deranged. In the human
system it is the personality which
unifies all activities and in turn imparts the qualities of identity and
creativity. |
| 112:2.20 | The material self, the ego-entity of human identity, is dependent during the physical life on the continuing function of the material life vehicle, on the continued existence of the unbalanced equilibrium of energies and intellect which, on Urantia, has been given the name life. But selfhood of survival value, selfhood that can transcend the experience of death, is only evolved by establishing a potential transfer of the seat of the identity of the evolving personality from the transient life vehicle—the material body—to the more enduring and immortal nature of the morontia soul and on beyond to those levels whereon the soul becomes infused with, and eventually attains the status of, spirit reality. This actual transfer from material association to morontia identification is effected by the sincerity, persistence, and steadfastness of the God-seeking decisions of the human creature. |
| 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 , 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 112:6.3 |
To a certain extent, the appearance of the material body-form is
responsive to the character of the personality identity;
the physical body does, to a limited degree, reflect something of the
inherent nature of the personality.
Still more so does the morontia form. In the physical life, mortals may
be outwardly beautiful though inwardly unlovely; in the morontia life,
and increasingly on its higher levels, the personality form
will vary directly in accordance with the nature of the inner person. On
the spiritual level, outward form and inner nature begin to approximate
complete identification, which grows more and more perfect on higher and
higher spirit levels. |
| 112:6.8 |
The persistence of memory is proof of the retention of the identity of
original selfhood; it is essential to complete self-consciousness of personality continuity
and expansion. Those mortals who ascend without Adjusters are dependent
on the instruction of seraphic associates for the reconstruction of
human memory; otherwise the morontia souls of the Spirit-fused mortals
are not limited. The pattern of memory persists in the soul, but this
pattern requires the presence of the former Adjuster to
become immediately self-realizable as continuing memory. Without the
Adjuster, it requires considerable time for the mortal survivor to
re-explore and relearn, to recapture, the memory consciousness of the
meanings and values of a former existence. |
| 113:6.1 |
Having told you something of the ministry of seraphim during natural
life, I will endeavor to inform you about the conduct of the guardians
of destiny at the time of the mortal dissolution of their human
associates. Upon your death, your records, identity specifications,
and the morontia entity of the human soul—conjointly evolved by the
ministry of mortal mind and the divine Adjuster—are faithfully conserved
by the destiny guardian together with all other values related to your
future existence, everything that constitutes you, the real you, except
the identity of continuing existence
represented by the departing Adjuster and the actuality of
personality. |
| 113:6.5 |
The guardian seraphim is the custodial trustee of the survival values
of mortal man's slumbering soul as the absent Adjuster is the identity of
such an immortal universe being. When these two collaborate in the
resurrection halls of mansonia in conjunction with the newly fabricated
morontia form, there occurs the reassembly of the constituent factors of
the personality of the mortal
ascender. |
| 113:7.4 | Before leaving the mansion worlds, all mortals will have permanent seraphic associates or guardians. And as you ascend the morontia spheres, eventually it is the seraphic guardians who witness and certify the decrees of your eternal union with the Thought Adjusters. Together they have established your personality identities as children of the flesh from the worlds of time. Then, with your attainment of the mature morontia estate, they accompany you through Jerusem and the associated worlds of system progress and culture. After that they go with you to Edentia and its seventy spheres of advanced socialization, and subsequently will they pilot you to the Melchizedeks and follow you through the superb career of the universe headquarters worlds. And when you have learned the wisdom and culture of the Melchizedeks, they will take you on to Salvington, where you will stand face to face with the Sovereign of all Nebadon. And still will these seraphic guides follow you through the minor and major sectors of the superuniverse and on to the receiving worlds of Uversa, remaining with you until you finally enseconaphim for the long Havona flight. |
| 116:7.3 |
Mind has been given to mortals wherewith they may become
self-conscious of identity and personality;
and mind—even a Supreme Mind—has been bestowed upon the totality of the
finite whereby the spirit of this emerging personality of
the cosmos ever strives for the mastery of energy-matter. |
| 119:4.4 |
Never, throughout the seven years of this assignment, was this
Trinity Teacher Son wholly persuaded as to the identity of
his seraphic associate. True, all seraphim during that age were regarded
with peculiar interest and scrutiny. Full well we all knew that our
beloved Sovereign was abroad in the universe, disguised as a seraphim,
but never could we be certain of his identity.
Never was he positively identified until the time of his attachment to
the bestowal mission of this Trinity Teacher Son. But always throughout
this era were the supreme seraphim regarded with special solicitude,
lest any of us should find that we had unawares been host to the
Sovereign of the universe on a mission of creature bestowal. And so it
has become forever true, concerning angels, that their Creator and Ruler
has been "in all points tried and tested in the likeness of seraphic personality." |
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| From Part IV - The Life and Teachings of Jesus | |
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| 120:3.10 |
"And now, may your Father and my Father, who has ever sustained us in
all past performances, guide and sustain you and be with you from the
moment you leave us and achieve the surrender of your consciousness
of personality, throughout your gradual return to recognition of your
divine identity incarnate in human
form, and then on through the whole of your bestowal experience on
Urantia until your deliverance from the flesh and your ascension to our
Father's right hand of sovereignty. When I shall again see you on
Salvington, we shall welcome your return to us as the supreme and
unconditional sovereign of this universe of your own making, serving,
and completed understanding. |
| 130:4.2 |
The source of universe reality is the Infinite. The material things
of finite creation are the time-space repercussions of the Paradise
Pattern and the Universal Mind of the eternal God. Causation in the
physical world, self-consciousness in the intellectual world, and
progressing selfhood in the spirit world—these realities, projected on a
universal scale, combined in eternal relatedness, and experienced with
perfection of quality and divinity of value—constitute the reality of
the Supreme. But in an ever-changing universe the Original
Personality of
causation, intelligence, and spirit experience is changeless, absolute.
All things, even in an eternal universe of limitless values and divine
qualities, may, and oftentimes do, change except the Absolutes and that
which has attained the physical status, intellectual embrace, or
spiritual identity which is absolute. |
| 130:4.6 |
Personality is that cosmic endowment, that phase of universal
reality, which can coexist with unlimited change and at the same time
retain its identity in the very
presence of all such changes, and forever afterward. |
| 132:3.6 |
Faith acts to release the superhuman activities of the divine spark,
the immortal germ, that lives within the mind of man, and which is the
potential of eternal survival. Plants and animals survive in time by the
technique of passing on from one generation to another identical
particles of themselves. The human soul (personality) of man survives
mortal death by identity association
with this indwelling spark of divinity, which is immortal, and which
functions to perpetuate the human personality upon a continuing and
higher level of progressive universe existence. The concealed seed of
the human soul is an immortal spirit. The second generation of the soul
is the first of a succession of personality manifestations of spiritual
and progressing existences, terminating only when this divine entity
attains the source of its existence, the personal source of all
existence, God, the Universal Father. |
| 184:4.6 |
These are the moments of the Master's greatest victories in all his
long and eventful career as maker, upholder, and savior of a vast and
far-flung universe. Having lived to the full a life of revealing God to
man, Jesus is now engaged in making a new and unprecedented revelation
of man to God. Jesus is now revealing to the worlds the final triumph
over all fears of creature personality isolation. The Son of Man has
finally achieved the realization of identity as
the Son of God. Jesus does not hesitate to assert that he and the Father
are one; and on the basis of the fact and truth of that supreme and
supernal experience, he admonishes every kingdom believer to become one
with him even as he and his Father are one. The living experience in the
religion of Jesus thus becomes the sure and certain technique whereby
the spiritually isolated and cosmically lonely mortals of earth are
enabled to escape personality isolation, with all its consequences of
fear and associated feelings of helplessness. In the fraternal realities
of the kingdom of heaven the faith sons of God find final deliverance
from the isolation of the self, both personal and planetary. The
God-knowing believer increasingly experiences the ecstasy and grandeur
of spiritual socialization on a universe scale—citizenship on high in
association with the eternal realization of the divine destiny of
perfection attainment. |
| 188:3.8 |
3. The acquired spirit identity of
the man of Nazareth which was built up during his lifetime in the flesh,
first, by the direct efforts of his Thought Adjuster, and later, by his
own perfect adjustment between the physical necessities and the
spiritual requirements of the ideal mortal existence, as it was effected
by his never-ceasing choice of the Father's will, must have been
consigned to the custody of the Paradise Father. Whether or not this
spirit reality returned to become a part of the resurrected personality,
we do not know, but we believe it did. But there are those in the
universe who hold that this soul-identity of
Jesus now reposes in the "bosom of the Father," to be subsequently
released for leadership of the Nebadon Corps of the Finality in their
undisclosed destiny in connection with the uncreated universes of the
unorganized realms of outer space. |
| Reference The Urantia Papers |
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| The words personality and
type or types occur
together in 53 paragraphs. The words personality and
identity occur
together in 55 paragraphs. Only one paragraph contains all three words
personality, type, and identity. These compendia of frequent phrases were assembled using: UB Search Online |
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