Personality Survival

112:0.1The 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.

112:0.2While 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:

112:0.31. Per­son­al­ity is that qual­ity in re­al­ity which is be­stowed by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther him­self or by the Con­joint Ac­tor, act­ing for the Fa­ther.

112:0.42. It may be be­stowed upon any liv­ing en­ergy sys­tem which in­cludes mind or spirit.

112:0.53. It is not wholly sub­ject to the fet­ters of an­te­ced­ent cau­sa­tion. It is rel­a­tively cre­ative or cocre­ative.

112:0.64. When be­stowed upon evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial crea­tures, it causes spirit to strive for the mas­tery of en­ergy-mat­ter through the me­di­a­tion of mind.

112:0.75. Per­son­al­ity, while de­void of iden­tity, can unify the iden­tity of any liv­ing en­ergy sys­tem.

112:0.86. It dis­closes only qual­i­ta­tive re­sponse to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit in con­tradis­tinc­tion to the three en­er­gies which show both qual­i­ta­tive and quan­ti­ta­tive re­sponse to grav­ity.

112:0.97. Per­son­al­ity is change­less in the pres­ence of change.

112:0.108. It can make a gift to God—ded­i­ca­tion of the free will to the do­ing of the will of God.

112:0.119. It is char­ac­ter­ized by moral­ity—aware­ness of rel­a­tiv­ity of re­la­tion­ship with other per­sons. It dis­cerns con­duct lev­els and choos­ingly dis­crim­i­nates be­tween them.

112:0.1210. 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.

112:0.1311. Per­son­al­ity re­sponds di­rectly to other-per­son­al­ity pres­ence.

112:0.1412. 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.)

112:0.1513. 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.

112:0.1614. Per­son­al­ity is uniquely con­scious of time, and this is some­thing other than the time per­cep­tion of mind or spirit.