. . . . the “association” between fact and goodness is truth, truth being the super additive.
I don’t understand this and I can’t find anything like it in the Revelation. I thought truth is associated with beauty and goodness, which are all part of faith, value and relation. Facts are associated with things, science and reasoning. The third triad is that middle ground which includes philosophy, ideas and meanings which is supposed to bridge the gap between the two other triads.
There’s nothing superadditive about it that I can see, but to be honest, I still don’t know how you’re using that word. Truth is something that can only be discerned in the soul. Are you saying the soul is superadditive? If so, I agree. The soul is a qualitatively new reality created by the combination of two – totally unexpected like the creation of liquid water from the combination of gaseous atoms. But while the soul itself is superadditive, truth, beauty and goodness I think are exponential qualities.
But it’s not tangable, measurable and likely a bit different for all observers. Is it metaphysical?
The soul is not metaphysical. What the material mind does in its attempt to explain religious experiences in the soul can be twisted and turned by metaphysics in an attempt to jam it into physical reality so it appears to fit. And that, in my opinion, is because of the lack of the appreciation of the morontia level of reality which can only come with soul growth, circle progress, or death.
Metaphysics is what the material mind does in its attempt to understand the mysterious realm of spiritual experience within morontia reality which has no direct corollary in the material realm. It’s the material mind trying to create meanings out of what is experienced in the morontia mind (soul). The experience is real but the interpretation of the experience can be meta-morphed by the physics of material reality. Meta- means to change the order of something. Metaphysics changes the morontia order of reality into the physical order of reality, and in doing so, it naturally becomes distorted, or morphed. And in the human mind, morphing often includes myth.
what Adjutants tend to be more associative – or what Sangik lean more toward associativity ?
What is associativity? Are you talking about mathematical associative principles, about nonlinear thinking, or are you talking about associations with people/things ? It’s not clear to me. And isn’t the second adjutant, the spirit of understanding, the one responsible for automatic association of ideas? Incidentally, ideas are part of the middle triad of philosophy, morals, meanings, etc.
that the idea of “unity” or the Adjutants of courage and wisdom – courage tends to be in the moment, the here and now where wisdom is a long term thing.
Sorry, I’m not making any sense of that either. Why have you linked unity with adjutants 3 and 7? Isn’t personality the unifier? And wisdom is about past, present and future, right? This is what wisdom does: “. . . utilize the co-ordination of all their past experience and present opportunities for the acquisition of all of everything that all of the other six mental ministers can mobilize in the mind of the organism concerned.”(36:5.12) And isn’t courage about fidelity and stamina, which are long-term things designed to urge the personality to seek growth and progress?
(402.5) 36:5.8 3. The spirit of courage — the fidelity endowment — in personal beings, the basis of character acquirement and the intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery. When enlightened by facts and inspired by truth, this becomes the secret of the urge of evolutionary ascension by the channels of intelligent and conscientious self-direction.
But Orange must not be completely extinct.
The quote below uses the word extinct, but I agree, there must be remnants out there. We had an orange man as Speaker of the House not long ago.
(513.10) 45:4.7 5. Porshunta, the oracle of the extinct orange race and the leader of this people in the worship of “The Great Teacher.”
But none of this gets to my original question which is, what is it about race that influences religious experience enough to be carried through to the mansion worlds? My current thinking on the subject has to do with character. The soul is our morontia character and the mansion worlds are designed for continuing growth of character after death. But character, even material character inherited from our DNA, is more than just mind, or adjutants. TUB describes the character of the orange race in this way:
(723.9) 64:6.10 2. The orange man. The outstanding characteristic of this race was their peculiar urge to build, to build anything and everything, even to the piling up of vast mounds of stone just to see which tribe could build the largest mound.
What is it about the urge to build that influences religious experience? Or is it religious experience that influences the urge to build? I suppose it probably works both ways. And incidentally, there is no single adjutant responsible for the urge to build; not that I can find, that is. So it looks like the character of the orange race is not directly related to any one particular adjutant, right? Instead, I think it is a particular characteristic expression of life in its totality. Life is minded, but life is not mind and mind is not life.
