Personality Survival

112:6.1Just 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.

112:6.2It 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.

112:6.3To 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.

112:6.4In 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.

112:6.5Crea­ture 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.

112:6.6There 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.

112:6.7Mor­tal 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.

112:6.8The 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.

112:6.9The 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.

112:6.10When 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.