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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 112
PERSONALITY SURVIVAL
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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.
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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:
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1. Personality is that quality in reality which is
bestowed by the Universal Father himself or by the
Conjoint Actor, acting for the Father.
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2. It may be bestowed upon any living energy system
which includes mind or spirit.
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3. It is not wholly subject to the fetters of antecedent
causation. It is relatively creative or cocreative.
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4. When bestowed upon evolutionary material creatures,
it causes spirit to strive for the mastery of
energy-matter through the mediation of mind.
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5. Personality, while devoid of identity, can unify the
identity of any living energy system.
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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.
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7. Personality is changeless in the presence of change.
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8. It can make a gift to God -- dedication of the free
will to the doing of the will of God.
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9. It is characterized by morality -- awareness of
relativity of relationship with other persons. It
discerns conduct levels and choosingly discriminates
between them.
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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.
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11. Personality responds directly to other-personality
presence.
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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.)
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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.
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14. Personality is uniquely conscious of time, and this
is something other than the time perception of mind or
spirit.
1. PERSONALITY AND REALITY
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Personality is bestowed by the Universal Father upon his
creatures as a potentially eternal endowment. Such a
divine gift is designed to function on numerous levels
and in successive universe situations ranging from the
lowly finite to the highest absonite, even to the
borders of the absolute. Personality thus performs on
three cosmic planes or in three universe phases:
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1. Position
status. Personality functions equally efficiently in
the local universe, in the superuniverse, and in the
central universe.
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2. Meaning status.
Personality performs effectively on the levels of the
finite, the absonite, and even as impinging upon the
absolute.
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3. Value status.
Personality can be experientially realized in the
progressive realms of the material, the morontial, and
the spiritual.
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Personality has a perfected range of cosmic dimensional
performance. The dimensions of finite personality are
three, and they are roughly functional as follows:
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1. Length
represents direction and nature of progression --
movement through space and according to time --
evolution.
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2. Vertical
depth embraces the organismal drives and attitudes, the
varying levels of self-realization and the general
phenomenon of reaction to environment.
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3. Breadth
embraces the domain of co-ordination, association, and
selfhood organization.
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The type of personality bestowed upon Urantia mortals
has a potentiality of seven dimensions of
self-expression or person-realization. These dimensional
phenomena are realizable as three on the finite level,
three on the absonite level, and one on the absolute
level. On subabsolute levels this seventh or totality
dimension is experiencible as the
fact of
personality. This supreme dimension is an associable
absolute and, while not infinite, is dimensionally
potential for subinfinite penetration of the absolute.
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The finite dimensions of personality have to do with
cosmic length, depth, and breadth. Length denotes
meaning; depth signifies value; breadth embraces insight
-- the capacity to experience unchallengeable
consciousness of cosmic reality.
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On the morontia level all of these finite dimensions of
the material level are greatly enhanced, and certain new
dimensional values are realizable. All these enlarged
dimensional experiences of the morontia level are
marvelously articulated with the supreme or personality
dimension through the influence of mota and also because
of the contribution of morontia mathematics.
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Much trouble experienced by mortals in their study of
human personality could be avoided if the finite
creature would remember that dimensional levels and
spiritual levels are not co-ordinated in experiential
personality realization.
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Life is really a process which takes place between the
organism (selfhood) and its environment. The personality
imparts value of identity and meanings of continuity to
this organismal-environmental association. Thus it will
be recognized that the phenomenon of stimulus-response
is not a mere mechanical process since the personality
functions as a factor in the total situation. It is ever
true that mechanisms are innately passive; organisms,
inherently active.
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Physical life is a process taking place not so much
within the organism as
between the
organism and the environment. And every such process
tends to create and establish organismal patterns of
reaction to such an environment. And all such
directive
patterns are highly influential in goal choosing.
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It is through the mediation of mind that the self and
the environment establish meaningful contact. The
ability and willingness of the organism to make such
significant contacts with environment (response to a
drive) represents the
attitude of
the whole personality.
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Personality cannot very well perform in isolation. Man
is innately a social creature; he is dominated by the
craving of belongingness. It is literally true, "No man
lives unto himself."
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But the concept of the personality as the meaning of the
whole of the living and functioning creature means much
more than the integration of relationships; it signifies
the unification
of all factors of reality as well as co-ordination of
relationships. Relationships exist between two objects,
but three or more objects eventuate a
system, and
such a system is much more than just an enlarged or
complex relationship. This distinction is vital, for in
a cosmic system the individual members are not connected
with each other except in relation to the whole and
through the individuality of the whole.
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In the human organism the summation of its parts
constitutes selfhood -- individuality -- but such a
process has nothing whatever to do with personality,
which is the unifier of all these factors as related to
cosmic realities.
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In aggregations parts are added; in systems parts are
arranged.
Systems are significant because of organization --
positional values. In a good system all factors are in
cosmic position. In a bad system something is either
missing or displaced -- deranged. In the human system it
is the personality which unifies all activities and in
turn imparts the qualities of identity and creativity.
2. THE SELF
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It would be helpful in the study of selfhood to
remember:
1. That physical systems are subordinate.
2. That intellectual systems are co-ordinate.
3. That personality is superordinate.
4. That the indwelling spiritual force is potentially
directive.
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In all concepts of selfhood it should be recognized that
the fact of life comes first, its evaluation or
interpretation later. The human child first
lives and
subsequently
thinks about his living. In the cosmic economy
insight precedes foresight.
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The universe fact of God's becoming man has forever
changed all meanings and altered all values of human
personality. In the true meaning of the word, love
connotes mutual regard of whole personalities, whether
human or divine or human
and divine.
Parts of the self may function in numerous ways --
thinking, feeling, wishing -- but only the co-ordinated
attributes of the whole personality are focused in
intelligent action; and all of these powers are
associated with the spiritual endowment of the mortal
mind when a human being sincerely and unselfishly loves
another being, human or divine.
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All mortal concepts of reality are based on the
assumption of the actuality of human personality; all
concepts of superhuman realities are based on the
experience of the human personality with and in the
cosmic realities of certain associated spiritual
entities and divine personalities. Everything
nonspiritual in human experience, excepting personality,
is a means to an end. Every true relationship of mortal
man with other persons -- human or divine -- is an end
in itself. And such fellowship with the personality of
Deity is the eternal goal of universe ascension.
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The possession of personality identifies man as a
spiritual being since the unity of selfhood and the
self-consciousness of personality are endowments of the
supermaterial world. The very fact that a mortal
materialist can deny the existence of supermaterial
realities in and of itself demonstrates the presence,
and indicates the working, of spirit synthesis and
cosmic consciousness in his human mind.
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There exists a great cosmic gulf between matter and
thought, and this gulf is immeasurably greater between
material mind and spiritual love. Consciousness, much
less self-consciousness, cannot be explained by any
theory of mechanistic electronic association or
materialistic energy phenomena.
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As mind pursues reality to its ultimate analysis, matter
vanishes to the material senses but may still remain
real to mind. When spiritual insight pursues that
reality which remains after the disappearance of matter
and pursues it to an ultimate analysis, it vanishes to
mind, but the insight of spirit can still perceive
cosmic realities and supreme values of a spiritual
nature. Accordingly does science give way to philosophy,
while philosophy must surrender to the conclusions
inherent in genuine spiritual experience. Thinking
surrenders to wisdom, and wisdom is lost in enlightened
and reflective worship.
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In science the human self observes the material world;
philosophy is the observation of this observation of the
material world; religion, true spiritual experience, is
the experiential realization of the cosmic reality of
the observation of the observation of all this relative
synthesis of the energy materials of time and space. To
build a philosophy of the universe on an exclusive
materialism is to ignore the fact that all things
material are initially conceived as real in the
experience of human consciousness. The observer cannot
be the thing observed; evaluation demands some degree of
transcendence of the thing which is evaluated.
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In time, thinking leads to wisdom and wisdom leads to
worship; in eternity, worship leads to wisdom, and
wisdom eventuates in the finality of thought.
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The possibility of the unification of the evolving self
is inherent in the qualities of its constitutive
factors: the basic energies, the master tissues, the
fundamental chemical overcontrol, the supreme ideas, the
supreme motives, the supreme goals, and the divine
spirit of Paradise bestowal -- the secret of the
self-consciousness of man's spiritual nature.
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The purpose of cosmic evolution is to achieve unity of
personality through increasing spirit dominance,
volitional response to the teaching and leading of the
Thought Adjuster. Personality, both human and
superhuman, is characterized by an inherent cosmic
quality which may be called "the evolution of
dominance," the expansion of the control of both itself
and its environment.
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An ascending onetime human personality passes through
two great phases of increasing volitional dominance over
the self and in the universe:
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1. The prefinaliter or God-seeking experience of
augmenting the self-realization through a technique of
identity expansion and actualization together with
cosmic problem solving and consequent universe mastery.
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2. The postfinaliter or God-revealing experience of the
creative expansion of self-realization through revealing
the Supreme Being of experience to the God-seeking
intelligences who have not yet attained the divine
levels of Godlikeness.
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Descending personalities attain analogous experiences
through their various universe adventures as they seek
for enlarged capacity for ascertaining and executing the
divine wills of the Supreme, Ultimate, and Absolute
Deities.
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The material self, the ego-entity of human identity, is
dependent during the physical life on the continuing
function of the material life vehicle, on the continued
existence of the unbalanced equilibrium of energies and
intellect which, on Urantia, has been given the name
life. But
selfhood of survival value, selfhood that can transcend
the experience of death, is only evolved by establishing
a potential transfer of the seat of the identity of the
evolving personality from the transient life vehicle --
the material body -- to the more enduring and immortal
nature of the morontia soul and on beyond to those
levels whereon the soul becomes infused with, and
eventually attains the status of, spirit reality. This
actual transfer from material association to morontia
identification is effected by the sincerity,
persistence, and steadfastness of the God-seeking
decisions of the human creature.
3. THE PHENOMENON OF DEATH
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Urantians generally recognize only one kind of death,
the physical cessation of life energies; but concerning
personality survival there are really three kinds:
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1. Spiritual
(soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally
rejected survival, when he has been pronounced
spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the
conjoint opinion of the Adjuster and the surviving
seraphim, when such co-ordinate advice has been recorded
on Uversa, and after the Censors and their reflective
associates have verified these findings, thereupon do
the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of
the indwelling Monitor. But this release of the Adjuster
in no way affects the duties of the personal or group
seraphim concerned with that Adjuster-abandoned
individual. This kind of death is final in its
significance irrespective of the temporary continuation
of the living energies of the physical and mind
mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is
already dead; the continuing life merely indicates the
persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies.
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2. Intellectual
(mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher
adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations
of intellect or because of the partial destruction of
the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass
a certain critical point of irreparability, the
indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart
for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal
personality is considered to have met with death
whenever the essential mind circuits of human
will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is
death, irrespective of the continuing function of the
living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus
the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to
the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such
an individual may survive.
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3. Physical (body
and mind) death. When death overtakes a human being,
the Adjuster remains in the citadel of the mind until it
ceases to function as an intelligent mechanism, about
the time that the measurable brain energies cease their
rhythmic vital pulsations. Following this dissolution
the Adjuster takes leave of the vanishing mind, just as
unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and
proceeds to Divinington by way of Uversa.
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After death the material body returns to the elemental
world from which it was derived, but two nonmaterial
factors of surviving personality persist: The
pre-existent Thought Adjuster, with the memory
transcription of the mortal career, proceeds to
Divinington; and there also remains, in the custody of
the destiny guardian, the immortal morontia soul of the
deceased human. These phases and forms of soul, these
once kinetic but now static formulas of identity, are
essential to repersonalization on the morontia worlds;
and it is the reunion of the Adjuster and the soul that
reassembles the surviving personality, that
reconsciousizes you at the time of the morontia
awakening.
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For those who do not have personal seraphic guardians,
the group custodians faithfully and efficiently perform
the same service of identity safekeeping and personality
resurrection. The seraphim are indispensable to the
reassembly of personality.
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Upon death the Thought Adjuster temporarily loses
personality, but not identity; the human subject
temporarily loses identity, but not personality; on the
mansion worlds both reunite in eternal manifestation.
Never does a departed Thought Adjuster return to earth
as the being of former indwelling; never is personality
manifested without the human will; and never does a
dis-Adjustered human being after death manifest active
identity or in any manner establish communication with
the living beings of earth. Such dis-Adjustered souls
are wholly and absolutely unconscious during the long or
short sleep of death. There can be no exhibition of any
sort of personality or ability to engage in
communications with other personalities until after
completion of survival. Those who go to the mansion
worlds are not permitted to send messages back to their
loved ones. It is the policy throughout the universes to
forbid such communication during the period of a current
dispensation.
4. ADJUSTERS AFTER DEATH
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When death of a material, intellectual, or spiritual
nature occurs, the Adjuster bids farewell to the mortal
host and departs for Divinington. From the headquarters
of the local universe and the superuniverse a reflective
contact is made with the supervisors of both
governments, and the Monitor is registered out by the
same number that recorded entry into the domains of
time.
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In some way not fully understood, the Universal Censors
are able to gain possession of an epitome of the human
life as it is embodied in the Adjuster's duplicate
transcription of the spiritual values and morontia
meanings of the indwelt mind. The Censors are able to
appropriate the Adjuster's version of the deceased
human's survival character and spiritual qualities, and
all this data, together with the seraphic records, is
available for presentation at the time of the
adjudication of the individual concerned. This
information is also used to confirm those superuniverse
mandates which make it possible for certain ascenders
immediately to begin their morontia careers, upon mortal
dissolution to proceed to the mansion worlds ahead of
the formal termination of a planetary dispensation.
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Subsequent to physical death, except in individuals
translated from among the living, the released Adjuster
goes immediately to the home sphere of Divinington. The
details of what transpires on that world during the time
of awaiting the factual reappearance of the surviving
mortal depend chiefly on whether the human being ascends
to the mansion worlds in his own individual right or
awaits a dispensational summoning of the sleeping
survivors of a planetary age.
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If the mortal associate belongs to a group that will be
repersonalized at the end of a dispensation, the
Adjuster will not immediately return to the mansion
world of the former system of service but will,
according to choice, enter upon one of the following
temporary assignments:
1. Be mustered into the ranks of vanished Monitors for
undisclosed service.
2. Be assigned for a period to the observation of the
Paradise regime.
3. Be enrolled in one of the many training schools of
Divinington.
4. Be stationed for a time as a student observer on one
of the other six sacred spheres which constitute the
Father's circuit of Paradise worlds.
5. Be assigned to the messenger service of the
Personalized Adjusters.
6. Become an associate instructor in the Divinington
schools devoted to the training of Monitors belonging to
the virgin group.
7. Be assigned to select a group of possible worlds on
which to serve in the event that there is reasonable
cause for believing that the human partner may have
rejected survival.
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If, when death overtakes you, you have attained the
third circle or a higher realm and therefore have had
assigned to you a personal guardian of destiny, and if
the final transcript of the summary of survival
character submitted by the Adjuster is unconditionally
certified by the destiny guardian -- if both seraphim
and Adjuster essentially agree in every item of their
life records and recommendations -- if the Universal
Censors and their reflective associates on Uversa
confirm this data and do so without equivocation or
reservation, in that event the Ancients of Days flash
forth the mandate of advanced standing over the
communication circuits to Salvington, and, thus
released, the tribunals of the Sovereign of Nebadon will
decree the immediate passage of the surviving soul to
the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds.
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If the human individual survives without delay, the
Adjuster, so I am instructed, registers at Divinington,
proceeds to the Paradise presence of the Universal
Father, returns immediately and is embraced by the
Personalized Adjusters of the superuniverse and local
universe of assignment, receives the recognition of the
chief Personalized Monitor of Divinington, and then, at
once, passes into the "realization of identity
transition," being summoned therefrom on the third
period and on the mansion world in the actual
personality form made ready for the reception of the
surviving soul of the earth mortal as that form has been
projected by the guardian of destiny.
5. SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN SELF
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Selfhood is a cosmic reality whether material,
morontial, or spiritual. The actuality of the
personal is
the bestowal of the Universal Father acting in and of
himself or through his manifold universe agencies. To
say that a being is personal is to recognize the
relative individuation of such a being within the cosmic
organism. The living cosmos is an all but infinitely
integrated aggregation of real units, all of which are
relatively subject to the destiny of the whole. But
those that are personal have been endowed with the
actual choice of destiny acceptance or of destiny
rejection.
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That which comes from the Father is like the Father
eternal, and this is just as true of personality, which
God gives by his own freewill choice, as it is of the
divine Thought Adjuster, an actual fragment of God.
Man's personality is eternal but with regard to identity
a conditioned eternal reality. Having appeared in
response to the Father's will, personality will attain
Deity destiny, but man must choose whether or not he
will be present at the attainment of such destiny. In
default of such choice, personality attains experiential
Deity directly, becoming a part of the Supreme Being.
The cycle is foreordained, but man's participation
therein is optional, personal, and experiential.
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Mortal identity is a transient time-life condition in
the universe; it is real only in so far as the
personality elects to become a continuing universe
phenomenon. This is the essential difference between man
and an energy system: The energy system must continue,
it has no choice; but man has everything to do with
determining his own destiny. The Adjuster is truly the
path to Paradise, but man himself must pursue that path
by his own deciding, his freewill choosing.
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Human beings possess identity only in the material
sense. Such qualities of the self are expressed by the
material mind as it functions in the energy system of
the intellect. When it is said that man has identity, it
is recognized that he is in possession of a mind circuit
which has been placed in subordination to the acts and
choosing of the will of the human personality. But this
is a material and purely temporary manifestation, just
as the human embryo is a transient parasitic stage of
human life. Human beings, from a cosmic perspective, are
born, live, and die in a relative instant of time; they
are not enduring. But mortal personality, through its
own choosing, possesses the power of transferring its
seat of identity from the passing material-intellect
system to the higher morontia-soul system which, in
association with the Thought Adjuster, is created as a
new vehicle for personality manifestation.
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And it is this very power of choice, the universe
insignia of freewill creaturehood, that constitutes
man's greatest opportunity and his supreme cosmic
responsibility. Upon the integrity of the human volition
depends the eternal destiny of the future finaliter;
upon the sincerity of the mortal free will the divine
Adjuster depends for eternal personality; upon the
faithfulness of mortal choice the Universal Father
depends for the realization of a new ascending son; upon
the steadfastness and wisdom of decision-actions the
Supreme Being depends for the actuality of experiential
evolution.
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Though the cosmic circles of personality growth must
eventually be attained, if, through no fault of your
own, the accidents of time and the handicaps of material
existence prevent your mastering these levels on your
native planet, if your intentions and desires are of
survival value, there are issued the decrees of
probation extension. You will be afforded additional
time in which to prove yourself.
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If ever there is doubt as to the advisability of
advancing a human identity to the mansion worlds, the
universe governments invariably rule in the personal
interests of that individual; they unhesitatingly
advance such a soul to the status of a transitional
being, while they continue their observations of the
emerging morontia intent and spiritual purpose. Thus
divine justice is certain of achievement, and divine
mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its
ministry.
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The governments of Orvonton and Nebadon do not claim
absolute perfection for the detail working of the
universal plan of mortal repersonalization, but they do
claim to, and actually do, manifest patience, tolerance,
understanding, and merciful sympathy. We had rather
assume the risk of a system rebellion than to court the
hazard of depriving one struggling mortal from any
evolutionary world of the eternal joy of pursuing the
ascending career.
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This does not mean that human beings are to enjoy a
second opportunity in the face of the rejection of a
first, not at all. But it does signify that all will
creatures are to experience one true opportunity to make
one undoubted, self-conscious, and final choice. The
sovereign Judges of the universes will not deprive any
being of personality status who has not finally and
fully made the eternal choice; the soul of man must and
will be given full and ample opportunity to reveal its
true intent and real purpose.
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When the more spiritually and cosmically advanced
mortals die, they proceed immediately to the mansion
worlds; in general, this provision operates with those
who have had assigned to them personal seraphic
guardians. Other mortals may be detained until such time
as the adjudication of their affairs has been completed,
after which they may proceed to the mansion worlds, or
they may be assigned to the ranks of the sleeping
survivors who will be repersonalized en masse at the end
of the current planetary dispensation.
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There are two difficulties that hamper my efforts to
explain just what happens to
you in death,
the surviving you
which is distinct from the departing Adjuster. One of
these consists in the impossibility of conveying to your
level of comprehension an adequate description of a
transaction on the borderland of the physical and
morontia realms. The other is brought about by the
restrictions placed upon my commission as a revelator of
truth by the celestial governing authorities of Urantia.
There are many interesting details which might be
presented, but I withhold them upon the advice of your
immediate planetary supervisors. But within the limits
of my permission I can say this much:
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There is something real, something of human evolution,
something additional to the Mystery Monitor, which
survives death. This newly appearing entity is the soul,
and it survives the death of both your physical body and
your material mind. This entity is the conjoint child of
the combined life and efforts of the human you in
liaison with the divine you, the Adjuster. This child of
human and divine parentage constitutes the surviving
element of terrestrial origin; it is the morontia self,
the immortal soul.
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This child of persisting meaning and surviving value is
wholly unconscious during the period from death to
repersonalization and is in the keeping of the seraphic
destiny guardian throughout this season of waiting. You
will not function as a conscious being, following death,
until you attain the new consciousness of morontia on
the mansion worlds of Satania.
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At death the functional identity associated with the
human personality is disrupted through the cessation of
vital motion. Human personality, while transcending its
constituent parts, is dependent on them for functional
identity. The stoppage of life destroys the physical
brain patterns for mind endowment, and the disruption of
mind terminates mortal consciousness. The consciousness
of that creature cannot subsequently reappear until a
cosmic situation has been arranged which will permit the
same human personality again to function in relationship
with living energy.
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During the transit of surviving mortals from the world
of origin to the mansion worlds, whether they experience
personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at
the time of a group resurrection, the record of
personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the
archangels on their worlds of special activities. These
beings are not the custodians of personality (as the
guardian seraphim are of the soul), but it is
nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of
personality is effectually safeguarded in the custody of
these dependable trustees of mortal survival. As to the
exact whereabouts of mortal personality during the time
intervening between death and survival, we do not know.
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The situation which makes repersonalization possible is
brought about in the resurrection halls of the morontia
receiving planets of a local universe. Here in these
life-assembly chambers the supervising authorities
provide that relationship of universe energy --
morontial, mindal, and spiritual -- which makes possible
the reconsciousizing of the sleeping survivor. The
reassembly of the constituent parts of a onetime
material personality involves:
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1. The fabrication of a suitable form, a morontia energy
pattern, in which the new survivor can make contact with
nonspiritual reality, and within which the morontia
variant of the cosmic mind can be encircuited.
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2. The return of the Adjuster to the waiting morontia
creature. The Adjuster is the eternal custodian of your
ascending identity; your Monitor is the absolute
assurance that you yourself and not another will occupy
the morontia form created for your personality
awakening. And the Adjuster will be present at your
personality reassembly to take up once more the role of
Paradise guide to your surviving self.
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3. When these prerequisites of repersonalization have
been assembled, the seraphic custodian of the
potentialities of the slumbering immortal soul, with the
assistance of numerous cosmic personalities, bestows
this morontia entity upon and in the awaiting morontia
mind-body form while committing this evolutionary child
of the Supreme to eternal association with the waiting
Adjuster. And this completes the repersonalization,
reassembly of memory, insight, and consciousness --
identity.
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The fact of repersonalization consists in the seizure of
the encircuited morontia phase of the newly segregated
cosmic mind by the awakening human self. The phenomenon
of personality is dependent on the persistence of the
identity of selfhood reaction to universe environment;
and this can only be effected through the medium of
mind. Selfhood persists in spite of a continuous change
in all the factor components of self; in the physical
life the change is gradual; at death and upon
repersonalization the change is sudden. The true reality
of all selfhood (personality) is able to function
responsively to universe conditions by virtue of the
unceasing changing of its constituent parts; stagnation
terminates in inevitable death. Human life is an endless
change of the factors of life unified by the stability
of the unchanging personality.
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And when you thus awaken on the mansion worlds of
Jerusem, you will be so changed, the spiritual
transformation will be so great that, were it not for
your Thought Adjuster and the destiny guardian, who so
fully connect up your new life in the new worlds with
your old life in the first world, you would at first
have difficulty in connecting the new morontia
consciousness with the reviving memory of your previous
identity. Notwithstanding the continuity of personal
selfhood, much of the mortal life would at first seem to
be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clarify many
mortal associations.
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The Thought Adjuster will recall and rehearse for you
only those memories and experiences which are a part of,
and essential to, your universe career. If the Adjuster
has been a partner in the evolution of aught in the
human mind, then will these worth-while experiences
survive in the eternal consciousness of the Adjuster.
But much of your past life and its memories, having
neither spiritual meaning nor morontia value, will
perish with the material brain; much of material
experience will pass away as onetime scaffolding which,
having bridged you over to the morontia level, no longer
serves a purpose in the universe. But personality and
the relationships between personalities are never
scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships
has cosmic value and will persist. On the mansion worlds
you will know and be known, and more, you will remember,
and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the
short but intriguing life on Urantia.
6. THE MORONTIA SELF
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Just as a butterfly emerges from the caterpillar stage,
so will the true personalities of human beings emerge on
the mansion worlds, for the first time revealed apart
from their onetime enshroudment in the material flesh.
The morontia career in the local universe has to do with
the continued elevation of the personality mechanism
from the beginning morontia level of soul existence up
to the final morontia level of progressive spirituality.
112:6.2
It is difficult to instruct you regarding your morontia
personality forms for the local universe career. You
will be endowed with morontia patterns of personality
manifestability, and these are investments which, in the
last analysis, are beyond your comprehension. Such
forms, while entirely real, are not energy patterns of
the material order which you now understand. They do,
however, serve the same purpose on the local universe
worlds as do your material bodies on the planets of
human nativity.
112:6.3
To a certain extent, the appearance of the material
body-form is responsive to the character of the
personality identity; the physical body does, to a
limited degree, reflect something of the inherent nature
of the personality. Still more so does the morontia
form. In the physical life, mortals may be outwardly
beautiful though inwardly unlovely; in the morontia
life, and increasingly on its higher levels, the
personality form will vary directly in accordance with
the nature of the inner person. On the spiritual level,
outward form and inner nature begin to approximate
complete identification, which grows more and more
perfect on higher and higher spirit levels.
112:6.4
In the morontia estate the ascending mortal is endowed
with the Nebadon modification of the cosmic-mind
endowment of the Master Spirit of Orvonton. The mortal
intellect, as such, has perished, has ceased to exist as
a focalized universe entity apart from the
undifferentiated mind circuits of the Creative Spirit.
But the meanings and values of the mortal mind have not
perished. Certain phases of mind are continued in the
surviving soul; certain experiential values of the
former human mind are held by the Adjuster; and there
persist in the local universe the records of the human
life as it was lived in the flesh, together with certain
living registrations in the numerous beings who are
concerned with the final evaluation of the ascending
mortal, beings extending in range from seraphim to
Universal Censors and probably on beyond to the Supreme.
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Creature volition cannot exist without mind, but it does
persist in spite of the loss of the material intellect.
During the times immediately following survival, the
ascending personality is in great measure guided by the
character patterns inherited from the human life and by
the newly appearing action of morontia mota. And these
guides to mansonia conduct function acceptably in the
early stages of the morontia life and prior to the
emergence of morontia will as a full-fledged volitional
expression of the ascending personality.
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There are no influences in the local universe career
comparable to the seven adjutant mind-spirits of human
existence. The morontia mind must evolve by direct
contact with cosmic mind, as this cosmic mind has been
modified and translated by the creative source of local
universe intellect -- the Divine Minister.
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Mortal mind, prior to death, is self-consciously
independent of the Adjuster presence; adjutant mind
needs only the associated material-energy pattern to
enable it to operate. But the morontia soul, being
superadjutant, does not retain self-consciousness
without the Adjuster when deprived of the material-mind
mechanism. This evolving soul does, however, possess a
continuing character derived from the decisions of its
former associated adjutant mind, and this character
becomes active memory when the patterns thereof are
energized by the returning Adjuster.
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The persistence of memory is proof of the retention of
the identity of original selfhood; it is essential to
complete self-consciousness of personality continuity
and expansion. Those mortals who ascend without
Adjusters are dependent on the instruction of seraphic
associates for the reconstruction of human memory;
otherwise the morontia souls of the Spirit-fused mortals
are not limited. The pattern of memory persists in the
soul, but this pattern requires the presence of the
former Adjuster to become
immediately
self-realizable as continuing memory. Without the
Adjuster, it requires considerable time for the mortal
survivor to re-explore and relearn, to recapture, the
memory consciousness of the meanings and values of a
former existence.
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The soul of survival value faithfully reflects both the
qualitative and the quantitative actions and motivations
of the material intellect, the former seat of the
identity of selfhood. In the choosing of truth, beauty,
and goodness, the mortal mind enters upon its
premorontia universe career under the tutelage of the
seven adjutant mind-spirits unified under the direction
of the spirit of wisdom. Subsequently, upon the
completion of the seven circles of premorontia
attainment, the superimposition of the endowment of
morontia mind upon adjutant mind initiates the
prespiritual or morontia career of local universe
progression.
112:6.10
When a creature leaves his native planet, he leaves the
adjutant ministry behind and becomes solely dependent on
morontia intellect. When an ascender leaves the local
universe, he has attained the spiritual level of
existence, having passed beyond the morontia level. This
newly appearing spirit entity then becomes attuned to
the direct ministry of the cosmic mind of Orvonton.
7. ADJUSTER FUSION
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Thought Adjuster fusion imparts eternal actualities to
personality which were previously only potential. Among
these new endowments may be mentioned: fixation of
divinity quality, past-eternity experience and memory,
immortality, and a phase of qualified potential
absoluteness.
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When your earthly course in temporary form has been run,
you are to awaken on the shores of a better world, and
eventually you will be united with your faithful
Adjuster in an eternal embrace. And this fusion
constitutes the mystery of making God and man one, the
mystery of finite creature evolution, but it is
eternally true. Fusion is the secret of the sacred
sphere of Ascendington, and no creature, save those who
have experienced fusion with the spirit of Deity, can
comprehend the true meaning of the actual values which
are conjoined when the identity of a creature of time
becomes eternally one with the spirit of Paradise Deity.
112:7.3
Fusion with the Adjuster is usually effected while the
ascender is resident within his local system. It may
occur on the planet of nativity as a transcendence of
natural death; it may take place on any one of the
mansion worlds or on the headquarters of the system; it
may even be delayed until the time of the constellation
sojourn; or, in special instances, it may not be
consummated until the ascender is on the local universe
capital.
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When fusion with the Adjuster has been effected, there
can be no future danger to the eternal career of such a
personality. Celestial beings are tested throughout a
long experience, but mortals pass through a relatively
short and intensive testing on the evolutionary and
morontia worlds.
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Fusion with the Adjuster never occurs until the mandates
of the superuniverse have pronounced that the human
nature has made a final and irrevocable choice for the
eternal career. This is the at-onement authorization,
which, when issued, constitutes the clearance authority
for the fused personality eventually to leave the
confines of the local universe to proceed sometime to
the headquarters of the superuniverse, from which point
the pilgrim of time will, in the distant future,
enseconaphim for the long flight to the central universe
of Havona and the Deity adventure.
112:7.6
On the evolutionary worlds, selfhood is material; it is
a thing in the universe and as such is subject to the
laws of material existence. It is a fact in time and is
responsive to the vicissitudes thereof.
Survival
decisions must here be formulated. In the morontia
state the self has become a new and more enduring
universe reality, and its continuing growth is
predicated on its increasing attunement to the mind and
spirit circuits of the universes.
Survival
decisions are now being confirmed. When the self
attains the spiritual level, it has become a secure
value in the universe, and this new value is predicated
upon the fact that
survival
decisions have been made, which fact has been
witnessed by eternal fusion with the Thought Adjuster.
And having achieved the status of a true universe value,
the creature becomes liberated in potential for the
seeking of the highest universe value -- God.
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Such fused beings are twofold in their universe
reactions: They are discrete morontia individuals not
altogether unlike seraphim, and they are also beings in
potential on the order of the Paradise finaliters.
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But the fused individual is really one personality, one
being, whose unity defies all attempts at analysis by
any intelligence of the universes. And so, having passed
the tribunals of the local universe from the lowest to
the highest, none of which have been able to identify
man or Adjuster, the one apart from the other, you shall
finally be taken before the Sovereign of Nebadon, your
local universe Father. And there, at the hand of the
very being whose creative fatherhood in this universe of
time has made possible the fact of your life, you will
be granted those credentials which entitle you
eventually to proceed upon your superuniverse career in
quest of the Universal Father.
112:7.9
Has the triumphant Adjuster won personality by the
magnificent service to humanity, or has the valiant
human acquired immortality through sincere efforts to
achieve Adjusterlikeness? It is neither; but they
together have achieved the evolution of a member of one
of the unique orders of the ascending personalities of
the Supreme, one who will ever be found serviceable,
faithful, and efficient, a candidate for further growth
and development, ever ranging upward and never ceasing
the supernal ascent until the seven circuits of Havona
have been traversed and the onetime soul of earthly
origin stands in worshipful recognition of the actual
personality of the Father on Paradise.
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Throughout all this magnificent ascent the Thought
Adjuster is the divine pledge of the future and full
spiritual stabilization of the ascending mortal.
Meanwhile the presence of the mortal free will affords
the Adjuster an eternal channel for the liberation of
the divine and infinite nature. Now have these two
identities become one; no event of time or of eternity
can ever separate man and Adjuster; they are
inseparable, eternally fused.
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On the Adjuster-fusion worlds the destiny of the Mystery
Monitor is identical with that of the ascending mortal
-- the Paradise Corps of the Finality. And neither
Adjuster nor mortal can attain that unique goal without
the full co-operation and faithful help of the other.
This extraordinary partnership is one of the most
engrossing and amazing of all the cosmic phenomena of
this universe age.
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From the time of Adjuster fusion the status of the
ascender is that of the evolutionary creature. The human
member was the first to enjoy personality and,
therefore, outranks the Adjuster in all matters
concerned with the recognition of personality. The
Paradise headquarters of this fused being is
Ascendington, not Divinington, and this unique
combination of God and man ranks as an ascending mortal
all the way up to the Corps of the Finality.
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When once an Adjuster fuses with an ascending mortal,
the number of that Adjuster is stricken from the records
of the superuniverse. What happens on the records of
Divinington, I do not know, but I surmise that the
registry of that Adjuster is removed to the secret
circles of the inner courts of Grandfanda, the acting
head of the Corps of the Finality.
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With Adjuster fusion the Universal Father has completed
his promise of the gift of himself to his material
creatures; he has fulfilled the promise, and consummated
the plan, of the eternal bestowal of divinity upon
humanity. Now begins the human attempt to realize and to
actualize the limitless possibilities that are inherent
in the supernal partnership with God which has thus
factualized.
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The present known destiny of surviving mortals is the
Paradise Corps of the Finality; this is also the goal of
destiny for all Thought Adjusters who become joined in
eternal union with their mortal companions. At present
the Paradise finaliters are working throughout the grand
universe in many undertakings, but we all conjecture
that they will have other and even more supernal tasks
to perform in the distant future after the seven
superuniverses have become settled in light and life,
and when the finite God has finally emerged from the
mystery which now surrounds this Supreme Deity.
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You have been instructed to a certain extent about the
organization and personnel of the central universe, the
superuniverses, and the local universes; you have been
told something about the character and origin of some of
the various personalities who now rule these far-flung
creations. You have also been informed that there are in
process of organization vast galaxies of universes far
out beyond the periphery of the grand universe, in the
first outer space level. It has also been intimated in
the course of these narratives that the Supreme Being is
to disclose his unrevealed tertiary function in these
now uncharted regions of outer space; and you have also
been told that the finaliters of the Paradise corps are
the experiential children of the Supreme.
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We believe that the mortals of Adjuster fusion, together
with their finaliter associates, are destined to
function in some manner in the administration of the
universes of the first outer space level. We have not
the slightest doubt that in due time these enormous
galaxies will become inhabited universes. And we are
equally convinced that among the administrators thereof
will be found the Paradise finaliters whose natures are
the cosmic consequence of the blending of creature and
Creator.
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What an adventure! What a romance! A gigantic creation
to be administered by the children of the Supreme, these
personalized and humanized Adjusters, these Adjusterized
and eternalized mortals, these mysterious combinations
and eternal associations of the highest known
manifestation of the essence of the First Source and
Center and the lowest form of intelligent life capable
of comprehending and attaining the Universal Father. We
conceive that such amalgamated beings, such partnerships
of Creator and creature, will become superb rulers,
matchless administrators, and understanding and
sympathetic directors of any and all forms of
intelligent life which may come into existence
throughout these future universes of the first outer
space level.
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True it is, you mortals are of earthly, animal origin;
your frame is indeed dust. But if you actually will, if
you really desire, surely the heritage of the ages is
yours, and you shall someday serve throughout the
universes in your true characters -- children of the
Supreme God of experience and divine sons of the
Paradise Father of all personalities.
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Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
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