The Adjuster and the Soul

111:3.1The mis­takes of mor­tal mind and the er­rors of hu­man con­duct may markedly de­lay the evo­lu­tion of the soul, al­though they can­not in­hibit such a mor­ontia phe­nom­e­non when once it has been ini­ti­ated by the in­dwelling Ad­juster with the con­sent of the crea­ture will. But at any time prior to mor­tal death this same ma­te­rial and hu­man will is em­pow­ered to re­scind such a choice and to re­ject sur­vival. Even af­ter sur­vival the as­cend­ing mor­tal still re­tains this pre­rog­a­tive of choos­ing to re­ject eter­nal life; at any time be­fore fu­sion with the Ad­juster the evolv­ing and as­cend­ing crea­ture can choose to for­sake the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Fu­sion with the Ad­juster sig­nal­izes the fact that the as­cend­ing mor­tal has eter­nally and un­re­servedly cho­sen to do the Fa­ther’s will.

111:3.2Dur­ing the life in the flesh the evolv­ing soul is en­abled to re­in­force the super­ma­te­rial de­ci­sions of the mor­tal mind. The soul, be­ing super­ma­te­rial, does not of it­self func­tion on the ma­te­rial level of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. Nei­ther can this sub­spir­i­tual soul, with­out the col­lab­o­ra­tion of some spirit of De­ity, such as the Ad­juster, func­tion above the mor­ontia level. Nei­ther does the soul make fi­nal de­ci­sions un­til death or trans­la­tion di­vorces it from ma­te­rial as­so­ci­a­tion with the mor­tal mind ex­cept when and as this ma­te­rial mind del­e­gates such au­thor­ity freely and will­ingly to such a mor­ontia soul of as­so­ci­ated func­tion. Dur­ing life the mor­tal will, the per­son­al­ity power of de­ci­sion-choice, is res­i­dent in the ma­te­rial mind cir­cuits; as ter­res­trial mor­tal growth pro­ceeds, this self, with its price­less pow­ers of choice, be­comes in­creas­ingly iden­ti­fied with the emerg­ing mor­ontia-soul en­tity; af­ter death and fol­low­ing the man­sion world res­ur­rec­tion, the hu­man per­son­al­ity is com­pletely iden­ti­fied with the mor­ontia self. The soul is thus the em­bryo of the fu­ture mor­ontia ve­hi­cle of per­son­al­ity iden­tity.

111:3.3This im­mor­tal soul is at first wholly mor­ontia in na­ture, but it pos­sesses such a ca­pac­ity for de­vel­op­ment that it in­vari­ably as­cends to the true spirit lev­els of fu­sion value with the spir­its of De­ity, usu­ally with the same spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther that ini­ti­ated such a cre­ative phe­nom­e­non in the crea­ture mind.

111:3.4Both the hu­man mind and the di­vine Ad­juster are con­scious of the pres­ence and dif­fer­en­tial na­ture of the evolv­ing soul—the Ad­juster fully, the mind par­tially. The soul be­comes in­creas­ingly con­scious of both the mind and the Ad­juster as as­so­ci­ated iden­ti­ties, pro­por­tional to its own evo­lu­tion­ary growth. The soul par­takes of the qual­i­ties of both the hu­man mind and the di­vine spirit but per­sis­tently evolves to­ward aug­men­ta­tion of spirit con­trol and di­vine dom­i­nance through the fos­ter­ing of a mind func­tion whose mean­ings seek to co-or­di­nate with true spirit value.

111:3.5The mor­tal ca­reer, the soul’s evo­lu­tion, is not so much a pro­ba­tion as an ed­u­ca­tion. Faith in the sur­vival of su­preme val­ues is the core of re­li­gion; gen­uine re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence con­sists in the union of su­preme val­ues and cos­mic mean­ings as a re­al­iza­tion of uni­ver­sal re­al­ity.

111:3.6Mind knows quan­tity, re­al­ity, mean­ings. But qual­ity—val­ues—is felt. That which feels is the mu­tual cre­ation of mind, which knows, and the as­so­ci­ated spirit, which re­al­ity-izes.

111:3.7In so far as man’s evolv­ing mor­ontia soul be­comes per­me­ated by truth, beauty, and good­ness as the value-re­al­iza­tion of God-con­scious­ness, such a re­sul­tant be­ing be­comes in­de­struc­tible. If there is no sur­vival of eter­nal val­ues in the evolv­ing soul of man, then mor­tal ex­is­tence is with­out mean­ing, and life it­self is a tragic il­lu­sion. But it is for­ever true: What you be­gin in time you will as­suredly fin­ish in eter­nity—if it is worth fin­ish­ing.