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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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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. 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.
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:
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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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.