The Adjuster and the Soul

111:2.1Through­out the mind func­tions of cos­mic in­tel­li­gence, the to­tal­ity of mind is dom­i­nant over the parts of in­tel­lec­tual func­tion. Mind, in its essence, is func­tional unity; there­fore does mind never fail to man­i­fest this con­sti­tu­tive unity, even when ham­pered and hin­dered by the un­wise ac­tions and choices of a mis­guided self. And this unity of mind in­vari­ably seeks for spirit co-or­di­na­tion on all lev­els of its as­so­ci­a­tion with selves of will dig­nity and as­cen­sion pre­rog­a­tives.

111:2.2The 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.

111:2.3The hu­man per­son­al­ity is iden­ti­fied with mind and spirit held to­gether in func­tional re­la­tion­ship by life in a ma­te­rial body. This func­tion­ing re­la­tion­ship of such mind and spirit does not re­sult in some com­bi­na­tion of the qual­i­ties or at­tri­butes of mind and spirit but rather in an en­tirely new, orig­i­nal, and unique uni­verse value of po­ten­tially eter­nal en­durance, the soul.

111:2.4There are three and not two fac­tors in the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation of such an im­mor­tal soul. These three an­tecedents of the mor­ontia hu­man soul are:

111:2.51. The hu­man mind and all cos­mic in­flu­ences an­te­ced­ent thereto and im­ping­ing thereon.

111:2.62. The di­vine spirit in­dwelling this hu­man mind and all po­ten­tials in­her­ent in such a frag­ment of ab­so­lute spir­i­tu­al­ity to­gether with all as­so­ci­ated spir­i­tual in­flu­ences and fac­tors in hu­man life.

111:2.73. The re­la­tion­ship be­tween ma­te­rial mind and di­vine spirit, which con­notes a value and car­ries a mean­ing not found in ei­ther of the con­tribut­ing fac­tors to such an as­so­ci­a­tion. The re­al­ity of this unique re­la­tion­ship is nei­ther ma­te­rial nor spir­i­tual but mor­ontial. It is the soul.

111:2.8The mid­way crea­tures have long de­nom­i­nated this evolv­ing soul of man the mid-mind in con­tradis­tinc­tion to the lower or ma­te­rial mind and the higher or cos­mic mind. This mid-mind is re­ally a mor­ontia phe­nom­e­non since it ex­ists in the realm be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual. The po­ten­tial of such a mor­ontia evo­lu­tion is in­her­ent in the two uni­ver­sal urges of mind: the im­pulse of the fi­nite mind of the crea­ture to know God and at­tain the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator, and the im­pulse of the in­fi­nite mind of the Cre­ator to know man and at­tain the ex­pe­ri­ence of the crea­ture.

111:2.9This su­per­nal trans­ac­tion of evolv­ing the im­mor­tal soul is made pos­si­ble be­cause the mor­tal mind is first per­sonal and sec­ond is in con­tact with super­an­i­mal re­al­i­ties; it pos­sesses a super­ma­te­rial en­dow­ment of cos­mic min­istry which in­sures the evo­lu­tion of a moral na­ture ca­pa­ble of mak­ing moral de­ci­sions, thereby ef­fect­ing a bona fide cre­ative con­tact with the as­so­ci­ated spir­i­tual min­istries and with the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster.

111:2.10The in­ev­i­ta­ble re­sult of such a con­tac­tual spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of the hu­man mind is the grad­ual birth of a soul, the joint off­spring of an ad­ju­tant mind dom­i­nated by a hu­man will that craves to know God, work­ing in li­ai­son with the spir­i­tual forces of the uni­verse which are un­der the over­con­trol of an ac­tual frag­ment of the very God of all cre­ation—the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. And thus does the ma­te­rial and mor­tal re­al­ity of the self tran­scend the tem­po­ral lim­i­ta­tions of the phys­i­cal-life ma­chine and at­tain a new ex­pres­sion and a new iden­ti­fi­ca­tion in the evolv­ing ve­hi­cle for self­hood con­ti­nu­ity, the mor­ontia and im­mor­tal soul.