Personality Survival

112:7.1Thought Ad­juster fu­sion im­parts eter­nal ac­tu­al­i­ties to per­son­al­ity which were pre­vi­ously only po­ten­tial. Among these new en­dow­ments may be men­tioned: fix­a­tion of di­vin­ity qual­ity, past-eter­nity ex­pe­ri­ence and mem­ory, im­mor­tal­ity, and a phase of qual­i­fied po­ten­tial ab­so­lute­ness.

112:7.2When your earthly course in tem­po­rary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a bet­ter world, and even­tu­ally you will be united with your faith­ful Ad­juster in an eter­nal em­brace. And this fu­sion con­sti­tutes the mys­tery of mak­ing God and man one, the mys­tery of fi­nite crea­ture evo­lu­tion, but it is eter­nally true. Fu­sion is the se­cret of the sa­cred sphere of As­cend­ing­ton, and no crea­ture, save those who have ex­pe­ri­enced fu­sion with the spirit of De­ity, can com­pre­hend the true mean­ing of the ac­tual val­ues which are con­joined when the iden­tity of a crea­ture of time be­comes eter­nally one with the spirit of Par­a­dise De­ity.

112:7.3Fu­sion with the Ad­juster is usu­ally ef­fected while the as­cender is res­i­dent within his lo­cal sys­tem. It may oc­cur on the planet of na­tiv­ity as a tran­scen­dence of nat­u­ral death; it may take place on any one of the man­sion worlds or on the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem; it may even be de­layed un­til the time of the con­stel­la­tion so­journ; or, in spe­cial in­stances, it may not be con­sum­mated un­til the as­cender is on the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tal.

112:7.4When fu­sion with the Ad­juster has been ef­fected, there can be no fu­ture dan­ger to the eter­nal ca­reer of such a per­son­al­ity. Ce­les­tial be­ings are tested through­out a long ex­pe­ri­ence, but mor­tals pass through a rel­a­tively short and in­ten­sive test­ing on the evo­lu­tion­ary and mor­ontia worlds.

112:7.5Fu­sion with the Ad­juster never oc­curs un­til the man­dates of the super­uni­verse have pro­nounced that the hu­man na­ture has made a fi­nal and ir­re­vo­ca­ble choice for the eter­nal ca­reer. This is the at-one­ment au­tho­riza­tion, which, when is­sued, con­sti­tutes the clear­ance au­thor­ity for the fused per­son­al­ity even­tu­ally to leave the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse to pro­ceed some­time to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse, from which point the pil­grim of time will, in the dis­tant fu­ture, en­sec­onaphim for the long flight to the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona and the De­ity ad­ven­ture.

112:7.6On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, self­hood is ma­te­rial; it is a thing in the uni­verse and as such is sub­ject to the laws of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. It is a fact in time and is re­spon­sive to the vi­cis­si­tudes thereof. Sur­vival de­ci­sions must here be for­mu­lated. In the mor­ontia state the self has be­come a new and more en­dur­ing uni­verse re­al­ity, and its con­tin­u­ing growth is pred­i­cated on its in­creas­ing at­tune­ment to the mind and spirit cir­cuits of the uni­verses. Sur­vival de­ci­sions are now be­ing con­firmed. When the self at­tains the spir­i­tual level, it has be­come a se­cure value in the uni­verse, and this new value is pred­i­cated upon the fact that sur­vival de­ci­sions have been made, which fact has been wit­nessed by eter­nal fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster. And hav­ing achieved the sta­tus of a true uni­verse value, the crea­ture be­comes lib­er­ated in po­ten­tial for the seek­ing of the high­est uni­verse value—God.

112:7.7Such fused be­ings are two­fold in their uni­verse re­ac­tions: They are dis­crete mor­ontia in­di­vid­u­als not al­to­gether un­like ser­a­phim, and they are also be­ings in po­ten­tial on the or­der of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters.

112:7.8But the fused in­di­vid­ual is re­ally one per­son­al­ity, one be­ing, whose unity de­fies all at­tempts at anal­y­sis by any in­tel­li­gence of the uni­verses. And so, hav­ing passed the tri­bu­nals of the lo­cal uni­verse from the low­est to the high­est, none of which have been able to iden­tify man or Ad­juster, the one apart from the other, you shall fi­nally be taken be­fore the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse Fa­ther. And there, at the hand of the very be­ing whose cre­ative fa­ther­hood in this uni­verse of time has made pos­si­ble the fact of your life, you will be granted those cre­den­tials which en­ti­tle you even­tu­ally to pro­ceed upon your super­uni­verse ca­reer in quest of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

112:7.9Has the tri­umphant Ad­juster won per­son­al­ity by the mag­nif­i­cent ser­vice to hu­man­ity, or has the valiant hu­man ac­quired im­mor­tal­ity through sin­cere ef­forts to achieve Ad­juster­like­ness? It is nei­ther; but they to­gether have achieved the evo­lu­tion of a mem­ber of one of the unique or­ders of the as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the Su­preme, one who will ever be found ser­vice­able, faith­ful, and ef­fi­cient, a can­di­date for fur­ther growth and de­vel­op­ment, ever rang­ing up­ward and never ceas­ing the su­per­nal as­cent un­til the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona have been tra­versed and the one­time soul of earthly ori­gin stands in wor­ship­ful rec­og­ni­tion of the ac­tual per­son­al­ity of the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

112:7.10Through­out all this mag­nif­i­cent as­cent the Thought Ad­juster is the di­vine pledge of the fu­ture and full spir­i­tual sta­bi­liza­tion of the as­cend­ing mor­tal. Mean­while the pres­ence of the mor­tal free will af­fords the Ad­juster an eter­nal chan­nel for the lib­er­a­tion of the di­vine and in­fi­nite na­ture. Now have these two iden­ti­ties be­come one; no event of time or of eter­nity can ever sep­a­rate man and Ad­juster; they are in­sep­a­ra­ble, eter­nally fused.

112:7.11On the Ad­juster-fu­sion worlds the des­tiny of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor is iden­ti­cal with that of the as­cend­ing mor­tal—the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. And nei­ther Ad­juster nor mor­tal can at­tain that unique goal with­out the full co-op­er­a­tion and faith­ful help of the other. This ex­traor­di­nary part­ner­ship is one of the most en­gross­ing and amaz­ing of all the cos­mic phe­nom­ena of this uni­verse age.

112:7.12From the time of Ad­juster fu­sion the sta­tus of the as­cender is that of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture. The hu­man mem­ber was the first to en­joy per­son­al­ity and, there­fore, out­ranks the Ad­juster in all mat­ters con­cerned with the rec­og­ni­tion of per­son­al­ity. The Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of this fused be­ing is As­cend­ing­ton, not Di­vin­ing­ton, and this unique com­bi­na­tion of God and man ranks as an as­cend­ing mor­tal all the way up to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

112:7.13When once an Ad­juster fuses with an as­cend­ing mor­tal, the num­ber of that Ad­juster is stricken from the rec­ords of the super­uni­verse. What hap­pens on the rec­ords of Di­vin­ing­ton, I do not know, but I sur­mise that the reg­istry of that Ad­juster is re­moved to the se­cret cir­cles of the in­ner courts of Grand­fanda, the act­ing head of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

112:7.14With Ad­juster fu­sion the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has com­pleted his prom­ise of the gift of him­self to his ma­te­rial crea­tures; he has ful­filled the prom­ise, and con­sum­mated the plan, of the eter­nal be­stowal of di­vin­ity upon hu­man­ity. Now be­gins the hu­man at­tempt to re­al­ize and to ac­tu­al­ize the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties that are in­her­ent in the su­per­nal part­ner­ship with God which has thus fac­tu­al­ized.

112:7.15The pres­ent known des­tiny of sur­viv­ing mor­tals is the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; this is also the goal of des­tiny for all Thought Ad­justers who be­come joined in eter­nal union with their mor­tal com­pan­ions. At pres­ent the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are work­ing through­out the grand uni­verse in many un­der­tak­ings, but we all con­jec­ture that they will have other and even more su­per­nal tasks to per­form in the dis­tant fu­ture af­ter the seven super­uni­verses have be­come set­tled in light and life, and when the fi­nite God has fi­nally emerged from the mys­tery which now sur­rounds this Su­preme De­ity.

112:7.16You have been in­structed to a cer­tain ex­tent about the or­ga­ni­za­tion and per­son­nel of the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, and the lo­cal uni­verses; you have been told some­thing about the char­ac­ter and ori­gin of some of the var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties who now rule these far-flung cre­ations. You have also been in­formed that there are in pro­cess of or­ga­ni­za­tion vast galax­ies of uni­verses far out be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the grand uni­verse, in the first outer space level. It has also been in­ti­mated in the course of these nar­ra­tives that the Su­preme Be­ing is to dis­close his un­re­vealed ter­tiary func­tion in these now un­charted re­gions of outer space; and you have also been told that the fi­nal­i­ters of the Par­a­dise corps are the ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren of the Su­preme.

112:7.17We be­lieve that the mor­tals of Ad­juster fu­sion, to­gether with their fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates, are des­tined to func­tion in some man­ner in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses of the first outer space level. We have not the slight­est doubt that in due time these enor­mous galax­ies will be­come in­hab­ited uni­verses. And we are equally con­vinced that among the ad­min­is­tra­tors thereof will be found the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters whose na­tures are the cos­mic con­se­quence of the blend­ing of crea­ture and Cre­ator.

112:7.18What an ad­ven­ture! What a ro­mance! A gi­gan­tic cre­ation to be ad­min­is­tered by the chil­dren of the Su­preme, these per­son­al­ized and hu­man­ized Ad­justers, these Ad­jus­ter­ized and eter­nal­ized mor­tals, these mys­te­ri­ous com­bi­na­tions and eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tions of the high­est known man­i­fes­ta­tion of the essence of the First Source and Cen­ter and the low­est form of in­tel­li­gent life ca­pa­ble of com­pre­hend­ing and at­tain­ing the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We con­ceive that such amal­ga­mated be­ings, such part­ner­ships of Cre­ator and crea­ture, will be­come su­perb rulers, match­less ad­min­is­tra­tors, and un­der­stand­ing and sym­pa­thetic di­rec­tors of any and all forms of in­tel­li­gent life which may come into ex­is­tence through­out these fu­ture uni­verses of the first outer space level.

112:7.19True it is, you mor­tals are of earthly, an­i­mal ori­gin; your frame is in­deed dust. But if you ac­tu­ally will, if you re­ally de­sire, surely the her­itage of the ages is yours, and you shall some­day serve through­out the uni­verses in your true char­ac­ters—chil­dren of the Su­preme God of ex­pe­ri­ence and di­vine sons of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all per­son­al­i­ties.

112:7.20[Pre­sented by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of Or­von­ton.]