Personality Survival

112:3.1Uran­tians gen­er­ally rec­og­nize only one kind of death, the phys­i­cal ces­sa­tion of life en­er­gies; but con­cern­ing per­son­al­ity sur­vival there are re­ally three kinds:

112:3.21. 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.

112:3.32. 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.

112:3.43. 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.

112:3.5Af­ter 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.

112:3.6For 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.

112:3.7Upon 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.