The Seven Master Spirits

16:9.1The cos­mic-mind-en­dowed, Ad­juster-in­dwelt, per­sonal crea­ture pos­sesses in­nate rec­og­ni­tion-re­al­iza­tion of en­ergy re­al­ity, mind re­al­ity, and spirit re­al­ity. The will crea­ture is thus equipped to dis­cern the fact, the law, and the love of God. Aside from these three in­alien­ables of hu­man con­scious­ness, all hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence is re­ally sub­jec­tive ex­cept that in­tu­itive re­al­iza­tion of va­lid­ity at­taches to the uni­fi­ca­tion of these three uni­verse re­al­ity re­sponses of cos­mic rec­og­ni­tion.

16:9.2The God-dis­cern­ing mor­tal is able to sense the uni­fi­ca­tion value of these three cos­mic qual­i­ties in the evo­lu­tion of the sur­viv­ing soul, man’s su­preme un­der­tak­ing in the phys­i­cal taber­na­cle where the moral mind col­lab­o­rates with the in­dwelling di­vine spirit to du­al­ize the im­mor­tal soul. From its ear­li­est in­cep­tion the soul is real; it has cos­mic sur­vival qual­i­ties.

16:9.3If mor­tal man fails to sur­vive nat­u­ral death, the real spir­i­tual val­ues of his hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence sur­vive as a part of the con­tin­u­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of the Thought Ad­juster. The per­son­al­ity val­ues of such a non­sur­vivor per­sist as a fac­tor in the per­son­al­ity of the ac­tu­al­iz­ing Su­preme Be­ing. Such per­sist­ing qual­i­ties of per­son­al­ity are de­prived of iden­tity but not of ex­pe­ri­en­tial val­ues ac­cu­mu­lated dur­ing the mor­tal life in the flesh. The sur­vival of iden­tity is de­pen­dent on the sur­vival of the im­mor­tal soul of mor­ontia sta­tus and in­creas­ingly di­vine value. Per­son­al­ity iden­tity sur­vives in and by the sur­vival of the soul.

16:9.4Hu­man self-con­scious­ness im­plies the rec­og­ni­tion of the re­al­ity of selves other than the con­scious self and fur­ther im­plies that such aware­ness is mu­tual; that the self is known as it knows. This is shown in a purely hu­man man­ner in man’s so­cial life. But you can­not be­come so ab­so­lutely cer­tain of a fel­low be­ing’s re­al­ity as you can of the re­al­ity of the pres­ence of God that lives within you. The so­cial con­scious­ness is not in­alien­able like the God-con­scious­ness; it is a cul­tural de­vel­op­ment and is de­pen­dent on knowl­edge, sym­bols, and the con­tri­bu­tions of the con­sti­tu­tive en­dow­ments of man—sci­ence, moral­ity, and re­li­gion. And these cos­mic gifts, so­cial­ized, con­sti­tute civ­i­liza­tion.

16:9.5Civ­i­liza­tions are un­sta­ble be­cause they are not cos­mic; they are not in­nate in the in­di­vid­u­als of the races. They must be nur­tured by the com­bined con­tri­bu­tions of the con­sti­tu­tive fac­tors of man—sci­ence, moral­ity, and re­li­gion. Civ­i­liza­tions come and go, but sci­ence, moral­ity, and re­li­gion al­ways sur­vive the crash.

16:9.6Je­sus not only re­vealed God to man, but he also made a new rev­e­la­tion of man to him­self and to other men. In the life of Je­sus you see man at his best. Man thus be­comes so beau­ti­fully real be­cause Je­sus had so much of God in his life, and the re­al­iza­tion (rec­og­ni­tion) of God is in­alien­able and con­sti­tu­tive in all men.

16:9.7Un­selfish­ness, aside from pa­ren­tal in­stinct, is not al­to­gether nat­u­ral; other per­sons are not nat­u­rally loved or so­cially served. It re­quires the en­light­en­ment of rea­son, moral­ity, and the urge of re­li­gion, God-know­ing­ness, to gen­er­ate an un­selfish and al­tru­is­tic so­cial or­der. Man’s own per­son­al­ity aware­ness, self-con­scious­ness, is also di­rectly de­pen­dent on this very fact of in­nate other-aware­ness, this in­nate abil­ity to rec­og­nize and grasp the re­al­ity of other per­son­al­ity, rang­ing from the hu­man to the di­vine.

16:9.8Un­selfish so­cial con­scious­ness must be, at bot­tom, a re­li­gious con­scious­ness; that is, if it is ob­jec­tive; oth­er­wise it is a purely sub­jec­tive philo­sophic ab­strac­tion and there­fore de­void of love. Only a God-know­ing in­di­vid­ual can love an­other per­son as he loves him­self.

16:9.9Self-con­scious­ness is in essence a com­mu­nal con­scious­ness: God and man, Fa­ther and son, Cre­ator and crea­ture. In hu­man self-con­scious­ness four uni­verse-re­al­ity re­al­iza­tions are la­tent and in­her­ent:

16:9.101. The quest for knowl­edge, the logic of sci­ence.

16:9.112. The quest for moral val­ues, the sense of duty.

16:9.123. The quest for spir­i­tual val­ues, the re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence.

16:9.134. The quest for per­son­al­ity val­ues, the abil­ity to rec­og­nize the re­al­ity of God as a per­son­al­ity and the con­cur­rent re­al­iza­tion of our fra­ter­nal re­la­tion­ship with fel­low per­son­al­i­ties.

16:9.14You be­come con­scious of man as your crea­ture brother be­cause you are al­ready con­scious of God as your Cre­ator Fa­ther. Fa­ther­hood is the re­la­tion­ship out of which we rea­son our­selves into the rec­og­ni­tion of broth­er­hood. And Fa­ther­hood be­comes, or may be­come, a uni­verse re­al­ity to all moral crea­tures be­cause the Fa­ther has him­self be­stowed per­son­al­ity upon all such be­ings and has en­cir­cuited them within the grasp of the uni­ver­sal per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. We wor­ship God, first, be­cause he is, then, be­cause he is in us, and last, be­cause we are in him.

16:9.15Is it strange that the cos­mic mind should be self-con­sciously aware of its own source, the in­fi­nite mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit, and at the same time con­scious of the phys­i­cal re­al­ity of the far-flung uni­verses, the spir­i­tual re­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son, and the per­son­al­ity re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther?

16:9.16[Spon­sored by a Uni­ver­sal Cen­sor from Uversa.]