Ahhh . . . and the real Seumas reveals himself. Gone are the lofty italicized and bracketed words that seem to come from elsewhere. Thank you for finally being your human self Seumas. I’m sorry you find it so disagreeable that people can disagree. I’m sorry you’re no longer gratified and no longer respect my position as a fellow human being. I’m also fascinated that you have such ancient dictionaries. They must be worth a bundle. I see you used the dated word inclose instead of enclose. I also noticed that you used a word in another post that is not familiar to me, the word en-wait; is that also from the ancient dictionaries? Sorry, I’m digressing. I have more questions:
You call yourself a composite being: “Spirit (Mystery monitor), Soul augmented by mind, character, individuality and tine.”
Are you saying that you are composed of “to kindle; to set fire; to shut or inclose; to fill; to Hut (whatever that is); to rage; to fight”? Or, are you saying that the soul is augmented by these things? It’s not clear.
You also said that “Tine is the potential within the soul itself.”
Are you saying that the potential within the soul is “to kindle; to set fire, to shut or inclose, to fill, to Hut (whatever that is) to rage; to fight?
TUB tells us that the potential within the soul is the Adjuster himself. I agree that the Adjuster attempts to kindle our desire for truth, beauty and goodness. The source of all spiritual urges are from the Adjuster. But I don’t think he kindles rage or fighting, nor does he shut or inclose. God is love and true love is outgoing.
101:6.2 Throughout all religious experience, from its earliest inception on the material level up to the time of the attainment of full spirit status, the Adjuster is the secret of the personal realization of the reality of the existence of the Supreme; and this same Adjuster also holds the secrets of your faith in the transcendental attainment of the Ultimate. The experiential personality of evolving man, united to the Adjuster essence of the existential God, constitutes the potential completion of supreme existence and is inherently the basis for the superfinite eventuation of transcendental personality.
107:4.1 To say that a Thought Adjuster is divine is merely to recognize the nature of origin. It is highly probable that such purity of divinity embraces the essence of the potential of all attributes of Deity which can be contained within such a fragment of the absolute essence of the universal presence of the eternal and infinite Paradise Father.
109:4.3 The type of Adjuster has much to do with the potential for expression of the human personality.
118.8.2 Mortal man is a machine, a living mechanism; his roots are truly in the physical world of energy. Many human reactions are mechanical in nature; much of life is machinelike. But man, a mechanism, is much more than a machine; he is mind endowed and spirit indwelt; and though he can never throughout his material life escape the chemical and electrical mechanics of his existence, he can increasingly learn how to subordinate this physical-life machine to the directive wisdom of experience by the process of consecrating the human mind to the execution of the spiritual urges of the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
109:5.4 The great problem of life is the adjustment of the ancestral tendencies of living to the demands of the spiritual urges initiated by the divine presence of the Mystery Monitor.
156:5.11 You are destined to live a narrow and mean life if you learn to love only those who love you. Human love may indeed be reciprocal, but divine love is outgoing in all its satisfaction-seeking. The less of love in any creature’s nature, the greater the love need, and the more does divine love seek to satisfy such need. Love is never self-seeking, and it cannot be self-bestowed. Divine love cannot be self-contained; it must be unselfishly bestowed.
Seumas wrote: The understanding is in relationship “To set on fire” or fulfill potential. Or otherwise “Inclose; to fill to fulfill potential.
Seumas wrote: Soul: immortal substance in man
Seumas wrote: The ‘morontial soul’ is developed from the embryonic ‘soul’ within the human experience. The human does not contain a ‘morontial soul’ it is matured from the embryonic ‘soul’ what are your thoughts?
You now tell me that the soul is an “immortal substance in man”. What would that substance be exactly? It cannot be material substance because we know for a fact that material substance is not immortal. However, we do know that morontia substance can be immortal.
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.
49:4.9 But mortal mind without immortal spirit cannot survive. The mind of man is mortal; only the bestowed spirit is immortal. Survival is dependent on spiritualization by the ministry of the Adjuster—on the birth and evolution of the immortal soul; at least, there must not have developed an antagonism towards the Adjuster’s mission of effecting the spiritual transformation of the material mind.
1:3.7 In the inner experience of man, mind is joined to matter. Such material-linked minds cannot survive mortal death. The technique of survival is embraced in those adjustments of the human will and those transformations in the mortal mind whereby such a God-conscious intellect gradually becomes spirit taught and eventually spirit led. This evolution of the human mind from matter association to spirit union results in the transmutation of the potentially spirit phases of the mortal mind into the morontia realities of the immortal soul. Mortal mind subservient to matter is destined to become increasingly material and consequently to suffer eventual personality extinction; mind yielded to spirit is destined to become increasingly spiritual and ultimately to achieve oneness with the surviving and guiding divine spirit and in this way to attain survival and eternity of personality existence.
Seumas wrote: If kindness and respect is kindled elsewhere then no need to convey any thoughts within this forum, learning of the Urantia material is lacking here.
I disagree that, “learning of the Urantia material is lacking here.” We are discussing TUB. At least I am. I provide quotes from the text then explain how I arrive at a meaning of those words. It’s the meaning I arrive at, which you can accept or reject. No problem. But, you have not provided any quotes or text from TUB, only from ancient dictionaries, as far as I can tell. You have given your opinion on many things, but now refuse to explain how you arrived at those opinions. Give us your logic. Show me the text that substantiates your ideas. How did you arrive at your conclusions? I ask my questions of you with sincerity, so there’s no need to be defensive. However, if you find more acceptance of your ideas elsewhere, a place that doesn’t demand evidence in TUB to back up your words, and you wish to go there instead, I certainly understand. No problem.


