112:0.1 (1225.1) THE evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascending mortal career. Urantia is your starting point; here you and your divine Thought Adjuster are joined in temporary union. You have been endowed with a perfect guide; therefore, if you will sincerely run the race of time and gain the final goal of faith, the reward of the ages shall be yours; you will be eternally united with your indwelling Adjuster. Then will begin your real life, the ascending life, to which your present mortal state is but the vestibule. Then will begin your exalted and progressive mission as finaliters in the eternity which stretches out before you. And throughout all of these successive ages and stages of evolutionary growth, there is one part of you that remains absolutely unaltered, and that is personality — permanence in the presence of change.

112:0.2 (1225.2) While it would be presumptuous to attempt the definition of personality, it may prove helpful to recount some of the things which are known about personality:

112:0.3 (1225.3) 1●. Personality is that quality in reality which is bestowed by the Universal Father himself or by the Conjoint Actor, acting for the Father.

112:0.4 (1225.4) 2 ●. It may be bestowed upon any living energy system which includes mind or spirit.

112:0.5 (1225.5) 3 ●. It is not wholly subject to the fetters of antecedent causation. It is relatively creative or cocreative.

112:0.6 (1225.6) 4 ●. When bestowed upon evolutionary material creatures, it causes spirit to strive for the mastery of energy-matter through the mediation of mind.

112:0.7 (1225.7) 5 ●. Personality, while devoid of identity, can unify the identity of any living energy system.

112:0.8 (1225.8) 6 ●. It discloses only qualitative response to the personality circuit in contradistinction to the three energies which show both qualitative and quantitative response to gravity.

112:0.9 (1225.9) 7 ●. Personality is changeless in the presence of change.

112:0.10 (1225.10) 8 ●. It can make a gift to God — dedication of the free will to the doing of the will of God.

112:0.11 (1225.11) 9 ●. It is characterized by morality — awareness of relativity of relationship with other persons. It discerns conduct levels and choosingly discriminates between them.

112:0.12 (1225.12) 10 ●. Personality is unique, absolutely unique: It is unique in time and space; it is unique in eternity and on Paradise; it is unique when bestowed — there are no duplicates; it is unique during every moment of existence; it is unique in relation to God — he is no respecter of persons, but neither does he add them together, for they are nonaddable — they are associable but nontotalable.

112:0.13 (1226.1) 11 ●. Personality responds directly to other-personality presence.

112:0.14 (1226.2) 12 ●. It is one thing which can be added to spirit, thus illustrating the primacy of the Father in relation to the Son. (Mind does not have to be added to spirit.)

112:0.15 (1226.3) 13 ●. Personality may survive mortal death with identity in the surviving soul. The Adjuster and the personality are changeless; the relationship between them (in the soul) is nothing but change, continuing evolution; and if this change (growth) ceased, the soul would cease.

112:0.16 (1226.4) 14●. Personality is uniquely conscious of time, and this is something other than the time 

perception of mind or spirit.

 

It seems we are all trying our best to face this religious challenge, described in the quote from the Urantia Book below. It does take courage to stand up and stand firm in your beliefs -- and learned and earned personal Spiritual Values. It never seems easy, but it is the easiest of paths once you start out and get a few miles in that heart and mind we use to test the winds of Truth.

 

Love is the path, and it does take inner-strength to stand firm at times. At other times we share with anyone interested in our truths we find along the way.

 

I love to pass around the good energy of Spiritual values anytime I get a chance. Words are like seeds in the wind. They fly around in our minds and thoughts until they find that perfect place that is just right for growth. And they grow in the roots of our Being as Spiritual Values of Truth, Beauty and Goodness, manifested in real life as Love.

 

 

 

It seems that the process of Thinking is up to us, but we have the Spark of God (Mystery Monitor/Adjuster) and the Angels that spiritualize, improve, modify, and adjust our direction of thinking to eternalize it. We have the last say, the final word in how we go about our lives, but we have much help in how we make up that mind. In the end we personally take the action, make the decision and reap the rewards, one way or the other.

 

Just thinking about this gives me pause to be patient in the process of making decisions and taking actions in my life.

 

The Adjuster is not trying to control your thinking, as such, but rather to spiritualize it, to eternalize it. Neither 

angels nor Adjusters are devoted directly to influencing human thought; that is your exclusive personality 

prerogative. The Adjusters are dedicated to improving, modifying, adjusting, and coordinating your thinking 

processes; but more especially and specifically they are devoted to the work of building up spiritual counterparts of your careers, morontia transcripts of your true advancing selves, for survival purposes.

 

Jesus was the perfect balance in a human personality. He was all the things many of us aspire to be when we aim at that perfection in life's doings. A perfectly unified personality, and the perfect example of how each of us can become more and more balanced in our own lives.

 

 

 

 

 

Privilege is won by those with self-control. Liberty without license is born in those who have mastered their own selfish desires. Freedom born of Power is only for those who have stripped themselves of their self-pride, and steadfastly refuse to use that power for their own self-enhancement. These freedoms born of personal self-control and unselfish desires foster a strong and peaceful civilization.

Morontia Mota ~ #6

To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement — these are the marks of high civilization.