but as I understand the details, creating the actual fibers of morontia stuff — out of which our morontia soul is made — requires the action of an Adjuster.
The Adjuster is not necessary to create morontia substance. Morontia substance is created by a combination of both the material and spiritual levels of reality (0:5.12). The spiritual substance can be provided by any spiritual source, and during pre-bestowal times, that spiritual source is the Holy Spirit – the initial morontia mind – provided by a personal level of the Creative Spirit who is part of the spiritual level of reality. The Holy Spirit alone can spiritualize (34:5.5). Even in post-bestowal ages the Holy Spirit provides the morontia fabric of the soul on which the Adjuster embroiders. In fact, without the Holy Spirit it’s not possible for a personality to even recognize the presence of the Adjuster since the Holy Spirit provides the mind level capable of actually “seeing” or feeling the Adjuster’s presence. (103:7.14)
One way to think of the birth of the soul is like this: The Holy Spirit is spiritual, the human mind is material. The material mind provides a spiritually pregnant moral decision with the help of the two higher adjutants at which point the spiritual Holy Spirit arrives as an overlapping ministry. She then reaches down and grabs the lower material mind’s spiritually directed activity and incorporates that living material event with her living spiritual substance to make a new living morontia entity to which her consciousness provides mind function. Life springs from life and mind can only come from pre-existing mind. We know the soul is alive because it is able to grow in and of itself. (117:3.6; 156:5.2) and we know the soul is minded because it has its own consciousness. (111:3.4)
The Adjuster indwells the mind, but he indwells the spiritual borderland of the supermind (117:3.6; 196:3.34), the superconscious level. So, the Adjuster cannot indwell without the Holy Spirit providing the morontia abode since he indwells a zone just above and overlapping it. The Adjuster reaches down from this zone into the soul, or supermind, where humans are able to consciously lodge their potentially spiritized thoughts. (110:5.3) Super-mind and super-consciousness is above material-mind and material-consciousness. But self-consciousness is something that belongs to personality (16:8.5) which has the potential to be conscious of all those levels. The personality is a necessary component to all of these activities.
The Holy Spirit provides the morontia fabric on which the co-creative activities of the personality and Adjuster embroider divine character traits. (111:2.2) The soul is referred to as the mind-matrix which holds personality potentials (47:3.3), and all of this requires mind, a supermind, which is the function of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit provides the conscious substance of the soul, which is mind, not unlike the adjutants provide the conscious substance of the material mind.
The Holy Spirit is another mind circuit, but one with personality presence, unlike the adjutants who do not have personality presence. (36:5.13) The Holy Spirit also exists and functions within a higher level of reality, the spirit level, whereas the adjutants only function on the material level of realty. The two higher adjutants are overlapped by the Holy Spirit and are therefore considered to cross the threshold of her spirit circuit. (34:5.3) As they reach up to the spirit level, the Holy Spirit reaches down. This is how we are able to lodge certain conscious, spiritually-pregnant ideas in the supermind, which is the Holy Spirit, the personal arena – a place of melding the personal material with the personal spiritual, ” . . . the liaison domain of human and divine interrelationship.” (110:5.3)
The soul is an entity with a mind but without a permanent personality until we either transfer our identity by fully identifying our personality with the Adjuster, or physically die. Regardless, the soul is personal because of the personality presence provided by the Holy Spirit. The mind of the soul, which is its working mechanism, is provided by the Holy Spirit, the supermind, or morontia mind. Remember character traits are housed in the mind and can evolve. The personality is not character and it does not evolve. (140:4.7) Human character traits are part of human material mind. Divine character traits, those gained for the personality by doing God’s will, are housed in the morontia mind/supermind of the soul which is provided by the Holy Spirit. Moreover, the Holy Spirit stays with us throughout our universe career, just as the Spirit of Truth stays with us, as an integral part of our morontia minds (117:5.9). The Spirit of Truth requires the Holy Spirit because he can’t be in two places at the same time.
The birth of the soul is the beginning, or first stage, of the morontia career (48:6.2) and is described as an evolving morontia mind. It can be thought of as our initial ongoing life vehicle which will grow and evolve, and will be provided with a series of bodies on the mansion worlds. We take the soul with us after death because it holds our life force along with our new mind (activated by the Adjuster), life and mind go hand in hand, and it’s up to us if we want our personalities to accompany it.
Sorry for jumping around in this post. I should probably edit it and make it more readable but I have limited time this morning. Just wanted to get an initial response out. I can always clarify things a little later if anyone is interested. There’s also more quotes, but this is all I have time for right now. Sorry.
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(9.2) 0:5.12 Morontia is a term designating a vast level intervening between the material and the spiritual. It may designate personal or impersonal realities, living or nonliving energies. The warp of morontia is spiritual; its woof is physical.
(95.6) 8:5.3 . . . The Holy Spirit is the spiritual circuit of this Creative Daughter of the Paradise Infinite Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a circuit indigenous to each local universe and is confined to the spiritual realm of that creation; but the Infinite Spirit is omnipresent.
16.8.5 Creature personality is distinguished by two self-manifesting and characteristic phenomena of mortal reactive behavior: self-consciousness and associated relative free will.
(378.1) 34:4.7 The Universe Mother Spirit acts as the universe focus and center of the Spirit of Truth as well as of her own personal influence, the Holy Spirit.
(379.3) 34:5.3 Mortal man first experiences the ministry of the Spirit in conjunction with mind when the purely animal mind of evolutionary creatures develops reception capacity for the adjutants of worship and of wisdom. This ministry of the sixth and seventh adjutants indicates mind evolution crossing the threshold of spiritual ministry. And immediately are such minds of worship- and wisdom-function included in the spiritual circuits of the Divine Minister.
(379.5) 34:5.5 Though the Spirit of Truth is poured out upon all flesh, this spirit of the Son is almost wholly limited in function and power by man’s personal reception of that which constitutes the sum and substance of the mission of the bestowal Son. The Holy Spirit is partly independent of human attitude and partially conditioned by the decisions and co-operation of the will of man. Nevertheless, the ministry of the Holy Spirit becomes increasingly effective in the sanctification and spiritualization of the inner life of those mortals who the more fully obey the divine leadings.
(403.1) 36:5.13 The adjutant mind-spirits experientially grow, but they never become personal. They evolve in function, and the function of the first five in the animal orders is to a certain extent essential to the function of all seven as human intellect. This animal relationship makes the adjutants more practically effective as human mind; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to man’s intellectual as well as to his physical evolution.
(403.4) 36:5.16 The adjutant mind-spirits are in no manner directly related to the diverse and highly spiritual function of the spirit of the personal presence of the Divine Minister, the Holy Spirit of the inhabited worlds; but they are functionally antecedent to, and preparatory for, the appearance of this very spirit in evolutionary man.
(403.7) 36:6.2 Things material may enjoy an independent existence, but life springs only from life. Mind can be derived only from pre-existent mind. Spirit takes origin only from spirit ancestors. The creature may produce the forms of life, but only a creator personality or a creative force can supply the activating living spark.
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.
48:6.2 You should understand that the morontia life of an ascending mortal is really initiated on the inhabited worlds at the conception of the soul, at that moment when the creature mind of moral status is indwelt by the spirit Adjuster. And from that moment on, the mortal soul has potential capacity for supermortal function, even for recognition on the higher levels of the morontia spheres of the local universe.
(1003.4) 92:0.4 3. The Holy Spirit — this is the initial supermind bestowal, and it unfailingly appears in all bona fide human personalities. This ministry to a worship-craving and wisdom-desiring mind creates the capacity to self-realize the postulate of human survival, both in theologic concept and as an actual and factual personality experience.
(1129.1) 103:0.1 ALL of man’s truly religious reactions are sponsored by the early ministry of the adjutant of worship and are censored by the adjutant of wisdom. Man’s first supermind endowment is that of personality encircuitment in the Holy Spirit of the Universe Creative Spirit; and long before either the bestowals of the divine Sons or the universal bestowal of the Adjusters, this influence functions to enlarge man’s viewpoint of ethics, religion, and spirituality. Subsequent to the bestowals of the Paradise Sons the liberated Spirit of Truth makes mighty contributions to the enlargement of the human capacity to perceive religious truths. As evolution advances on an inhabited world, the Thought Adjusters increasingly participate in the development of the higher types of human religious insight. The Thought Adjuster is the cosmic window through which the finite creature may faith-glimpse the certainties and divinities of limitless Deity, the Universal Father.
103:7.14 There is a real proof of spiritual reality in the presence of the Thought Adjuster, but the validity of this presence is not demonstrable to the external world, only to the one who thus experiences the indwelling of God. The consciousness of the Adjuster is based on the intellectual reception of truth, the supermind perception of goodness, and the personality motivation to love.
(1187.1) 108:2.2 The Adjusters cannot invade the mortal mind until it has been duly prepared by the indwelling ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits and encircuited in the Holy Spirit. And it requires the co-ordinate function of all seven adjutants to thus qualify the human mind for the reception of an Adjuster. Creature mind must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate wisdom function by exhibiting the ability to choose between the emerging values of good and evil — moral choice.
110:5.3 During the slumber season the Adjuster attempts to achieve only that which the will of the indwelt personality has previously fully approved by the decisions and choosings which were made during times of fully wakeful consciousness, and which have thereby become lodged in the realms of the supermind, the liaison domain of human and divine interrelationship.
(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.
(1219:3) 111:3.4 The soul becomes increasingly conscious of both the mind and the Adjuster as associated identities, proportional to its own evolutionary growth.
(1282:1) 117:3.6 Mortal man, being a creature, is not exactly like the Supreme Being, who is deity, but man’s evolution does in some ways resemble the growth of the Supreme. Man consciously grows from the material toward the spiritual by the strength, power, and persistency of his own decisions; he also grows as his Thought Adjuster develops new techniques for reaching down from the spiritual to the morontial soul levels; and once the soul comes into being, it begins to grow in and of itself.
(1286.7) 117:5.9 While such spiritual influences as the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Truth are local universe ministrations, their guidance is not wholly confined to the geographic limitations of a given local creation. As the ascending mortal passes beyond the boundaries of his local universe of origin, he is not entirely deprived of the ministry of the Spirit of Truth which has so constantly taught and guided him through the philosophic mazes of the material and morontial worlds, in every crisis of ascension unfailingly directing the Paradise pilgrim, ever saying: “This is the way.” When you leave the domains of the local universe, through the ministry of the spirit of the emerging Supreme Being and through the provisions of superuniverse reflectivity, you will still be guided in your Paradise ascent by the comforting directive spirit of the Paradise bestowal Sons of God.
| 140:4.7 By their fruits you shall know them.” Personality is basically changeless; that which changes — grows — is the moral character. |
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156:5.12 Let every man make sure that the intellectual and moral foundations of character are such as will adequately support the superstructure of the enlarging and ennobling spiritual nature, which is thus to transform the mortal mind and then, in association with that re-created mind, is to achieve the evolvement of the soul of immortal destiny. Your spirit nature — the jointly created soul — is a living growth, but the mind and morals of the individual are the soil from which these higher manifestations of human development and divine destiny must spring. The soil of the evolving soul is human and material, but the destiny of this combined creature of mind and spirit is spiritual and divine
196:3.34 The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spirit-consciousness — contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness, an experience mightily confirmative of the pre-existent truth of the religious experience of knowing God. Such spirit-consciousness is the equivalent of the knowledge of the actuality of sonship with God. Otherwise, the assurance of sonship is the experience of faith.
