I don’t get the confusion but I might as well add my own analogies for further confusion anyway. The mortal body does not make the trip and neither does mortal mind. The Adjutants re-create the material mind of self into the spirit mind of self. Is the weaver the cloth? Thanks for sharing everyone.
I used the building analogy scenario, as the building of the individual person, where the construction method, of the person can be hidden within its makeup but all the parts are there, even if one does not remember everything it took to make the finished product or potential finished personality.
Where the bridge is not the person but, as you indicate Bradly, a method, or path built between to sides, which under normal circumstances would connect two sides, not much different than upper- and nether- paradise. For what ever reason, this bridge once existed between these two sides but now has been made impassible, and from the UB we know that there is a stationary point which aligns the two sides and both sides rotating in opposite direction one clockwise the other counter-clockwise.
Let us assume that the souls is on one side and the spirit of the soul is on the other, and that the gulf which needs to be bridged, is spirit in nature, where the adjutants are the method of circuitry used but still not compatible with both sides. This is where mind comes into play, in that mind is the common factor between the material world and the spiritual world. The morontia world is the bridge which connects the spirit world with the material world, where the soul is dead and the spirit is eternal. The human material body is a vessel being used to reactivate the soul’s mind with the spirit mind, though this vessel and being are being helped by the circuits of the adjutants. Once the first five adjutants are established and rooted, or circuited they can now have an opportunity to establish the 6th., and connect with the 7th. The first five and the sixth are in essence working as one, and with the joining of the seventh which would constitute the building up of all seven through experiential understanding of the mortal life or existence. This experience takes time to understand which eventual becomes wisdom, where now there is one entity which is inclusive of all seven adjutants. But where to go from there, where the seventh adjutant stage is the equivalent of the seventh circle phase which may take place on a material or morontia world, where from the seventh circle, one may progress back inward to the first circle, which is more spiritual than the seventh circle.
As one ascends inward they may need to pause and even go forward and backward, in order to pick up pieces of time past which the soul had experienced prior to sleep. These experiences acquired are made possible through the seven adjutants which are imbedded, even though they are associated to a physical body, they are needed for the morontia body to realize its reality while in transition over the bridge from one side to the other. In all of these transition segments the mind is the constant factor which is an actual in all realms, whereby the mind uses all of the features of the adjutants to make the experience as realistic as possible, regardless of whether the individual actually has a body or not. It must have had the experience of having had a body in order to pass through from the material, morontia and spirit worlds. Even though one might think that something is left behind, it has not because they are personality patterns which make up the entire eternal soul person.
Besides in military tactics, once you have crossed a bridge, you protect it should you need to cross it again while you retreat, and if your retreat is because of a failed effort, you may burn that bridge in order to keep the opposition from gaining easy access to home. But sometimes bridges can be burned for reasons which cannot be predicted or helped.
These “biologically inherited” tendencies and capacities are the psychological foundation upon which our mind arena of choice sits. This is Square 1, from which we set out on that priceless journey of discovering, recognising, interpreting and choosing.
