cosmic mind

• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

0:3.142. The mind forces are con­ver­gent in the In­fi­nite Spirit; the dif­fer­en­tial and di­ver­gent cos­mic mind in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the fac­tu­al­iz­ing mind of the Su­preme as a time-space ex­pe­ri­ence in Maj­es­ton.

• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

3:1.8The mind pres­ence of God is cor­re­lated with the ab­so­lute mind of the Con­joint Ac­tor, the In­fi­nite Spirit, but in the fi­nite cre­ations it is bet­ter dis­cerned in the ev­ery­where func­tion­ing of the cos­mic mind of the Par­a­dise Mas­ter Spir­its. Just as the First Source and Cen­ter is po­ten­tially pres­ent in the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor, so is he po­ten­tially pres­ent in the ten­sions of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. But mind of the hu­man or­der is a be­stowal of the Daugh­ters of the Con­joint Ac­tor, the Di­vine Min­is­ters of the evolv­ing uni­verses.

• sublime traits of divinity co-ordinated in

8:2.8The Con­joint Cre­ator in­her­its all the Fa­ther’s beauty of thought and char­ac­ter of truth. And these sub­lime traits of di­vin­ity are co-or­di­nated in the near-su­preme lev­els of the cos­mic mind in sub­or­di­na­tion to the in­fi­nite and eter­nal wis­dom of the un­con­di­tioned and lim­it­less mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

9:4.3The Con­joint Cre­ator is ab­so­lute only in the do­main of mind, in the realms of uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence. The mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter is in­fi­nite; it ut­terly tran­scends the ac­tive and func­tion­ing mind cir­cuits of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The mind en­dow­ment of the seven super­uni­verses is de­rived from the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the pri­mary per­son­al­i­ties of the Con­joint Cre­ator. These Mas­ter Spir­its dis­tribute mind to the grand uni­verse as the cos­mic mind, and your lo­cal uni­verse is per­vaded by the Neb­a­don vari­ant of the Or­von­ton type of cos­mic mind.

• defined as › time-space mind; co-ordinated in Supreme Being

9:4.4In­fi­nite mind ig­nores time, ul­ti­mate mind tran­scends time, cos­mic mind is con­di­tioned by time. And so with space: The In­fi­nite Mind is in­de­pen­dent of space, but as de­scent is made from the in­fi­nite to the ad­ju­tant lev­els of mind, in­tel­lect must in­creas­ingly reckon with the fact and lim­i­ta­tions of space.

• function › responds to spirit

9:4.5Cos­mic force re­sponds to mind even as cos­mic mind re­sponds to spirit. Spirit is di­vine pur­pose, and spirit mind is di­vine pur­pose in ac­tion. En­ergy is thing, mind is mean­ing, spirit is value. Even in time and space, mind es­tab­lishes those rel­a­tive re­la­tion­ships be­tween en­ergy and spirit which are sug­ges­tive of mu­tual kin­ship in eter­nity.

• human mind is circuit of
• Infinite Spirit is ancestor of

9:5.4Since the Third Per­son of De­ity is the source of mind, it is quite nat­u­ral that the evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures find it eas­ier to form com­pre­hen­si­ble con­cepts of the In­fi­nite Spirit than they do of ei­ther the Eter­nal Son or the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The re­al­ity of the Con­joint Cre­ator is dis­closed im­per­fectly in the very ex­is­tence of hu­man mind. The Con­joint Cre­ator is the an­ces­tor of the cos­mic mind, and the mind of man is an in­di­vid­u­al­ized cir­cuit, an im­per­sonal por­tion, of that cos­mic mind as it is be­stowed in a lo­cal uni­verse by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• defined as › pure mind

9:6.6Cos­mic mind, when not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther en­ergy or spirit, is sub­ject to the grav­ity de­mands of nei­ther ma­te­rial nor spir­i­tual cir­cuits. Pure mind is sub­ject only to the uni­ver­sal grav­ity grasp of the Con­joint Ac­tor. Pure mind is close of kin to in­fi­nite mind, and in­fi­nite mind (the the­o­ret­i­cal co-or­di­nate of the ab­so­lutes of spirit and en­ergy) is ap­par­ently a law in it­self.

• distributed by 7 Master Spirits
• function › circuits contain space reports
• Infinite Spirit is ancestor of
• operates under mind gravity of Infinite Spirit

9:7.3Much of the tech­nique of re­flec­tiv­ity we com­pre­hend, but there are many phases which truly baf­fle us. We know that the Con­joint Ac­tor is the uni­verse cen­ter of the mind cir­cuit, that he is the an­ces­tor of the cos­mic mind, and that cos­mic mind op­er­ates un­der the dom­i­nance of the ab­so­lute mind grav­ity of the Third Source and Cen­ter. We know fur­ther that the cir­cuits of the cos­mic mind in­flu­ence the in­tel­lec­tual lev­els of all known ex­is­tence; they con­tain the uni­ver­sal space re­ports, and just as cer­tainly they fo­cus in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its and con­verge in the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• Infinite Spirit is ancestor of

12:6.3The Third Source and Cen­ter as­sists in the main­te­nance of the equi­lib­rium and co-or­di­na­tion of the com­bined phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual en­er­gies and or­ga­ni­za­tions by the ab­so­lute­ness of his grasp of the cos­mic mind and by the ex­er­cise of his in­her­ent and uni­ver­sal phys­i­cal- and spir­i­tual-grav­ity com­ple­ments. When­ever and wher­ever there oc­curs a li­ai­son be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual, such a mind phe­nom­e­non is an act of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Mind alone can in­teras­so­ci­ate the phys­i­cal forces and en­er­gies of the ma­te­rial level with the spir­i­tual pow­ers and be­ings of the spirit level.

• function › co-ordinates matter and spirit

12:8.13The goal of ex­is­tence of all per­son­al­i­ties is spirit; ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions are rel­a­tive, and the cos­mic mind in­ter­venes be­tween these uni­ver­sal op­po­sites. The be­stowal of mind and the min­is­tra­tion of spirit are the work of the as­so­ciate per­sons of De­ity, the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Eter­nal Son. To­tal De­ity re­al­ity is not mind but spirit-mind—mind-spirit uni­fied by per­son­al­ity. Nev­er­the­less the ab­so­lutes of both the spirit and the thing con­verge in the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

13:4.3From these seven spe­cial spheres the Mas­ter Spir­its op­er­ate to equal­ize and sta­bi­lize the cos­mic-mind cir­cuits of the grand uni­verse. They also have to do with the dif­fer­en­tial spir­i­tual at­ti­tude and pres­ence of the De­i­ties through­out the grand uni­verse. Phys­i­cal re­ac­tions are uni­form, un­vary­ing, and al­ways in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic. But ex­pe­ri­en­tial spir­i­tual pres­ence is in ac­cor­dance with the un­der­ly­ing con­di­tions or states of spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity in­her­ent in the in­di­vid­ual minds of the realms.

• Havona was mind laboratory for

14:6.20The Ha­vona worlds are the mind lab­o­ra­tory of the cre­ators of the cos­mic mind and the min­is­ters to ev­ery crea­ture mind in ex­is­tence. Mind is dif­fer­ent on each Ha­vona world and serves as the pat­tern for all spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial crea­ture in­tel­lects.

14:6.21These per­fect worlds are the mind grad­u­ate schools for all be­ings des­tined for Par­a­dise so­ci­ety. They af­forded the Spirit abun­dant op­por­tu­nity to test out the tech­nique of mind min­istry on safe and ad­vi­sory per­son­al­i­ties.

• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

16:4.2The Mas­ter Spir­its are unique in that they func­tion on all uni­verse lev­els of re­al­ity ex­cept­ing the ab­so­lute. They are, there­fore, ef­fi­cient and per­fect super­vi­sors of all phases of ad­min­is­tra­tive af­fairs on all lev­els of super­uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties. It is dif­fi­cult for the mor­tal mind to un­der­stand very much about the Mas­ter Spir­its be­cause their work is so highly spe­cial­ized yet all-em­brac­ing, so ex­cep­tion­ally ma­te­rial and at the same time so ex­qui­sitely spir­i­tual. These ver­sa­tile cre­ators of the cos­mic mind are the an­ces­tors of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and are, them­selves, su­preme di­rec­tors of the vast and far-flung spirit-crea­ture cre­ation.

• defined as › infinite mind ministering in time
• defined as › intellectual potential of grand universe
• defined as › time-space mind; co-ordinated in Supreme Being

16:6.1The Mas­ter Spir­its are the sev­en­fold source of the cos­mic mind, the in­tel­lec­tual po­ten­tial of the grand uni­verse. This cos­mic mind is a sub­ab­so­lute man­i­fes­ta­tion of the mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter and, in cer­tain ways, is func­tion­ally re­lated to the mind of the evolv­ing Su­preme Be­ing.

16:6.2On a world like Uran­tia we do not en­counter the di­rect in­flu­ence of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its in the af­fairs of the hu­man races. You live un­der the im­me­di­ate in­flu­ence of the Cre­ative Spirit of Neb­a­don. Nev­er­the­less these same Mas­ter Spir­its dom­i­nate the ba­sic re­ac­tions of all crea­ture mind be­cause they are the ac­tual sources of the in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual po­ten­tials which have been spe­cial­ized in the lo­cal uni­verses for func­tion in the lives of those in­di­vid­u­als who in­habit the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space.

• explains kindred minds and spirits

16:6.3The fact of the cos­mic mind ex­plains the kin­ship of var­i­ous types of hu­man and super­hu­man minds. Not only are kin­dred spir­its at­tracted to each other, but kin­dred minds are also very fra­ter­nal and in­clined to­wards co-op­er­a­tion the one with the other. Hu­man minds are some­times ob­served to be run­ning in chan­nels of as­ton­ish­ing sim­i­lar­ity and in­ex­pli­ca­ble agree­ment.

16:6.4There ex­ists in all per­son­al­ity as­so­ci­a­tions of the cos­mic mind a qual­ity which might be de­nom­i­nated the “re­al­ity re­sponse.” It is this uni­ver­sal cos­mic en­dow­ment of will crea­tures which saves them from be­com­ing help­less vic­tims of the im­plied a pri­ori as­sump­tions of sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, and re­li­gion. This re­al­ity sen­si­tiv­ity of the cos­mic mind re­sponds to cer­tain phases of re­al­ity just as en­ergy-ma­te­rial re­sponds to grav­ity. It would be still more cor­rect to say that these super­ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties so re­spond to the mind of the cos­mos.

• function › endows innate scientific, moral, and spiritual insight

16:6.5The cos­mic mind un­fail­ingly re­sponds (rec­og­nizes re­sponse) on three lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity. These re­sponses are self-ev­i­dent to clear-rea­son­ing and deep-think­ing minds. These lev­els of re­al­ity are:

16:6.61. Cau­sa­tion—the re­al­ity do­main of the phys­i­cal senses, the sci­en­tific realms of log­i­cal uni­for­mity, the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the fac­tual and the non­fac­tual, re­flec­tive con­clu­sions based on cos­mic re­sponse. This is the math­e­mat­i­cal form of the cos­mic dis­crim­i­na­tion.

16:6.72. Duty—the re­al­ity do­main of morals in the philo­sophic realm, the arena of rea­son, the rec­og­ni­tion of rel­a­tive right and wrong. This is the ju­di­cial form of the cos­mic dis­crim­i­na­tion.

16:6.83. Wor­ship—the spir­i­tual do­main of the re­al­ity of re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, the per­sonal re­al­iza­tion of di­vine fel­low­ship, the rec­og­ni­tion of spirit val­ues, the as­sur­ance of eter­nal sur­vival, the as­cent from the sta­tus of ser­vants of God to the joy and lib­erty of the sons of God. This is the high­est in­sight of the cos­mic mind, the rev­er­en­tial and wor­ship­ful form of the cos­mic dis­crim­i­na­tion.

16:6.9These sci­en­tific, moral, and spir­i­tual in­sights, these cos­mic re­sponses, are in­nate in the cos­mic mind, which en­dows all will crea­tures. The ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing never fails to de­velop these three cos­mic in­tu­itions; they are con­sti­tu­tive in the self-con­scious­ness of re­flec­tive think­ing. But it is sad to re­cord that so few per­sons on Uran­tia take de­light in cul­ti­vat­ing these qual­i­ties of coura­geous and in­de­pen­dent cos­mic think­ing.

16:6.10In the lo­cal uni­verse mind be­stowals, these three in­sights of the cos­mic mind con­sti­tute the a pri­ori as­sump­tions which make it pos­si­ble for man to func­tion as a ra­tio­nal and self-con­scious per­son­al­ity in the realms of sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, and re­li­gion. Stated oth­er­wise, the rec­og­ni­tion of the re­al­ity of these three man­i­fes­ta­tions of the In­fi­nite is by a cos­mic tech­nique of self-rev­e­la­tion. Mat­ter-en­ergy is rec­og­nized by the math­e­mat­i­cal logic of the senses; mind-rea­son in­tu­itively knows its moral duty; spirit-faith (wor­ship) is the re­li­gion of the re­al­ity of spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. These three ba­sic fac­tors in re­flec­tive think­ing may be uni­fied and co-or­di­nated in per­son­al­ity de­vel­op­ment, or they may be­come dis­pro­por­tion­ate and vir­tu­ally un­re­lated in their re­spec­tive func­tions. But when they be­come uni­fied, they pro­duce a strong char­ac­ter con­sist­ing in the cor­re­la­tion of a fac­tual sci­ence, a moral phi­los­o­phy, and a gen­uine re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence. And it is these three cos­mic in­tu­itions that give ob­jec­tive va­lid­ity, re­al­ity, to man’s ex­pe­ri­ence in and with things, mean­ings, and val­ues.

16:6.11It is the pur­pose of ed­u­ca­tion to de­velop and sharpen these in­nate en­dow­ments of the hu­man mind; of civ­i­liza­tion to ex­press them; of life ex­pe­ri­ence to re­al­ize them; of re­li­gion to en­no­ble them; and of per­son­al­ity to unify them.

• function › endows innate scientific, moral, and spiritual insight

16:7.5When man fails to dis­crim­i­nate the ends of his mor­tal striv­ing, he finds him­self func­tion­ing on the an­i­mal level of ex­is­tence. He has failed to avail him­self of the su­pe­rior ad­van­tages of that ma­te­rial acu­men, moral dis­crim­i­na­tion, and spir­i­tual in­sight which are an in­te­gral part of his cos­mic-mind en­dow­ment as a per­sonal be­ing.

• function › endows innate scientific, moral, and spiritual insight

16:8.15The Uran­tia type of hu­man per­son­al­ity may be viewed as func­tion­ing in a phys­i­cal mech­a­nism con­sist­ing of the plan­e­tary mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the Neb­a­don type of or­gan­ism be­long­ing to the elec­tro­chem­i­cal or­der of life ac­ti­va­tion and en­dowed with the Neb­a­don or­der of the Or­von­ton se­ries of the cos­mic mind of pa­ren­tal re­pro­duc­tive pat­tern. The be­stowal of the di­vine gift of per­son­al­ity upon such a mind-en­dowed mor­tal mech­a­nism con­fers the dig­nity of cos­mic cit­i­zen­ship and en­ables such a mor­tal crea­ture forth­with to be­come re­ac­tive to the con­sti­tu­tive rec­og­ni­tion of the three ba­sic mind re­al­i­ties of the cos­mos:

16:8.161. The math­e­mat­i­cal or log­i­cal rec­og­ni­tion of the uni­for­mity of phys­i­cal cau­sa­tion.

16:8.172. The rea­soned rec­og­ni­tion of the obli­ga­tion of moral con­duct.

16:8.183. The faith-grasp of the fel­low­ship wor­ship of De­ity, as­so­ci­ated with the lov­ing ser­vice of hu­man­ity.

• function › attaches validity to experience
• function › endows innate scientific, moral, and spiritual insight
• validity attaches to unification of c.m. responses

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.

• morontia mind evolves by direct contact with; increasingly associates with

42:10.53. Evolv­ing mor­ontia minds—the ex­pand­ing con­scious­ness of evolv­ing per­son­al­i­ties in the lo­cal uni­verse as­cend­ing ca­reers. This is the be­stowal of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit in li­ai­son with the Cre­ator Son. This mind level con­notes the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the mor­ontia type of life ve­hi­cle, a syn­the­sis of the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual which is ef­fected by the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors of a lo­cal uni­verse. Mor­ontia mind func­tions dif­fer­en­tially in re­sponse to the 570 lev­els of mor­ontia life, dis­clos­ing in­creas­ing as­so­cia­tive ca­pac­ity with the cos­mic mind on the higher lev­els of at­tain­ment. This is the evo­lu­tion­ary course of mor­tal crea­tures, but mind of a non­moron­tia or­der is also be­stowed by a Uni­verse Son and a Uni­verse Spirit upon the non­moron­tia chil­dren of the lo­cal cre­ations.

• defined as › time-space mind; co-ordinated in Supreme Being
• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

42:10.6The cos­mic mind. This is the sev­en­fold di­ver­si­fied mind of time and space, one phase of which is min­is­tered by each of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its to one of the seven super­uni­verses. The cos­mic mind en­com­passes all fi­nite-mind lev­els and co-or­di­nates ex­pe­ri­en­tially with the evo­lu­tion­ary-de­ity lev­els of the Su­preme Mind and tran­scen­den­tally with the ex­is­ten­tial lev­els of ab­so­lute mind—the di­rect cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

• function › evolves human body with adjutant mind-spirits

42:12.11The li­ai­son of the cos­mic mind and the min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its evolve a suit­able phys­i­cal taber­na­cle for the evolv­ing hu­man be­ing. Like­wise does the mor­ontia mind in­di­vid­u­al­ize the mor­ontia form for all mor­tal sur­vivors. As the mor­tal body is per­sonal and char­ac­ter­is­tic for ev­ery hu­man be­ing, so will the mor­ontia form be highly in­di­vid­ual and ad­e­quately char­ac­ter­is­tic of the cre­ative mind which dom­i­nates it. No two mor­ontia forms are any more alike than any two hu­man bod­ies. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors spon­sor, and the at­tend­ing ser­a­phim pro­vide, the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated mor­ontia ma­te­rial where­with the mor­ontia life can be­gin to work. And af­ter the mor­ontia life it will be found that spirit forms are equally di­verse, per­sonal, and char­ac­ter­is­tic of their re­spec­tive spirit-mind in­dwellers.

• defined as › infinite mind ministering in time
• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

56:2.3This in­fi­nite and uni­ver­sal mind is min­is­tered in the uni­verses of time and space as the cos­mic mind; and though ex­tend­ing from the prim­i­tive min­istry of the ad­ju­tant spir­its up to the mag­nif­i­cent mind of the chief ex­ec­u­tive of a uni­verse, even this cos­mic mind is ad­e­quately uni­fied in the super­vi­sion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, who are in turn co-or­di­nated with the Su­preme Mind of time and space and per­fectly cor­re­lated with the all-em­brac­ing mind of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• function › endows innate scientific, moral, and spiritual insight

101:3.2Faith-in­sight, or spir­i­tual in­tu­ition, is the en­dow­ment of the cos­mic mind in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Thought Ad­juster, which is the Fa­ther’s gift to man. Spir­i­tual rea­son, soul in­tel­li­gence, is the en­dow­ment of the Holy Spirit, the Cre­ative Spirit’s gift to man. Spir­i­tual phi­los­o­phy, the wis­dom of spirit re­al­i­ties, is the en­dow­ment of the Spirit of Truth, the com­bined gift of the be­stowal Sons to the chil­dren of men. And the co-or­di­na­tion and in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of these spirit en­dow­ments con­sti­tute man a spirit per­son­al­ity in po­ten­tial des­tiny.

• morontia mind evolves by direct contact with; increasingly associates with

110:6.21The seven cir­cles em­brace mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence ex­tend­ing from the high­est purely an­i­mal level to the low­est ac­tual con­tac­tual mor­ontia level of self-con­scious­ness as a per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence. The mas­tery of the first cos­mic cir­cle sig­nal­izes the at­tain­ment of pre­moron­tia mor­tal ma­tu­rity and marks the ter­mi­na­tion of the con­joint min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its as an ex­clu­sive in­flu­ence of mind ac­tion in the hu­man per­son­al­ity. Be­yond the first cir­cle, mind be­comes in­creas­ingly akin to the in­tel­li­gence of the mor­ontia stage of evo­lu­tion, the con­joined min­istry of the cos­mic mind and the super­ad­ju­tant en­dow­ment of the Cre­ative Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse.

• human mind is circuit of

111:1.2There is a cos­mic unity in the sev­eral mind lev­els of the uni­verse of uni­verses. In­tel­lec­tual selves have their ori­gin in the cos­mic mind much as neb­u­lae take ori­gin in the cos­mic en­er­gies of uni­verse space. On the hu­man (hence per­sonal) level of in­tel­lec­tual selves the po­ten­tial of spirit evo­lu­tion be­comes dom­i­nant, with the as­sent of the mor­tal mind, be­cause of the spir­i­tual en­dow­ments of the hu­man per­son­al­ity to­gether with the cre­ative pres­ence of an en­tity-point of ab­so­lute value in such hu­man selves. But such a spirit dom­i­nance of the ma­te­rial mind is con­di­tioned upon two ex­pe­ri­ences: This mind must have evolved up through the min­istry of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, and the ma­te­rial (per­sonal) self must choose to co-op­er­ate with the in­dwelling Ad­juster in cre­at­ing and fos­ter­ing the mor­ontia self, the evo­lu­tion­ary and po­ten­tially im­mor­tal soul.

• survivors seize encircuited morontia phase of

112:5.20The fact of reper­son­al­iza­tion con­sists in the seizure of the en­cir­cuited mor­ontia phase of the newly seg­re­gated cos­mic mind by the awak­en­ing hu­man self. The phe­nom­e­non of per­son­al­ity is de­pen­dent on the per­sis­tence of the iden­tity of self­hood re­ac­tion to uni­verse en­vi­ron­ment; and this can only be ef­fected through the medium of mind. Self­hood per­sists in spite of a con­tin­u­ous change in all the fac­tor com­po­nents of self; in the phys­i­cal life the change is grad­ual; at death and upon reper­son­al­iza­tion the change is sud­den. The true re­al­ity of all self­hood (per­son­al­ity) is able to func­tion re­spon­sively to uni­verse con­di­tions by virtue of the un­ceas­ing chang­ing of its con­stituent parts; stag­na­tion ter­mi­nates in in­ev­i­ta­ble death. Hu­man life is an end­less change of the fac­tors of life uni­fied by the sta­bil­ity of the un­chang­ing per­son­al­ity.

• survivors seize encircuited morontia phase of

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.

• morontia mind evolves by direct contact with; increasingly associates with

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.

• cosmic mind

116:1.3Through­out the evo­lu­tion­ary ages the phys­i­cal power po­ten­tial of the Su­preme is vested in the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors, and the mind po­ten­tial re­poses in the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its. The In­fi­nite Mind is the func­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit; the cos­mic mind, the min­istry of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its; the Su­preme Mind is in pro­cess of ac­tu­al­iz­ing in the co-or­di­na­tion of the grand uni­verse and in func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion with the rev­e­la­tion and at­tain­ment of God the Sev­en­fold.

• defined as › time-space mind; co-ordinated in Supreme Being

116:1.4The time-space mind, the cos­mic mind, is dif­fer­ently func­tion­ing in the seven super­uni­verses, but it is co-or­di­nated by some un­known as­so­cia­tive tech­nique in the Su­preme Be­ing. The Al­mighty over­con­trol of the grand uni­verse is not ex­clu­sively phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual. In the seven super­uni­verses it is pri­mar­ily ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual, but there are also pres­ent phe­nom­ena of the Su­preme which are both in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual.

• distributed by 7 Master Spirits

116:4.3Early in the pro­jec­tion of the super­uni­verse scheme of cre­ation, the Mas­ter Spir­its joined with the an­ces­tral Trin­ity in the cocre­ation of the forty-nine Re­flec­tive Spir­its, and con­comi­tantly the Su­preme Be­ing func­tioned cre­atively as the cul­mi­na­tor of the con­joined acts of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and the cre­ative chil­dren of Par­a­dise De­ity. Maj­es­ton ap­peared and ever since has fo­cal­ized the cos­mic pres­ence of the Su­preme Mind, while the Mas­ter Spir­its con­tinue as source-cen­ters for the far-flung min­istry of the cos­mic mind.

• function › co-ordinates matter and spirit
• original appearance

116:5.10The bi­fur­ca­tion of en­ergy and spirit (stem­ming from the con­joint pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son and the Par­a­dise Isle) was sym­bol­ized in the super­uni­verse sense when the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its unit­edly en­gaged in their first act of col­lec­tive cre­ation. This episode wit­nessed the ap­pear­ance of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors. Con­comi­tant there­with the spir­i­tual cir­cuits of the Mas­ter Spir­its con­trastively dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties of power di­rec­tor super­vi­sion, and im­me­di­ately did the cos­mic mind ap­pear as a new fac­tor co-or­di­nat­ing mat­ter and spirit.

• human mind is circuit of

180:5.3In­tel­li­gence grows out of a ma­te­rial ex­is­tence which is il­lu­mi­nated by the pres­ence of the cos­mic mind. Wis­dom com­prises the con­scious­ness of knowl­edge el­e­vated to new lev­els of mean­ing and ac­ti­vated by the pres­ence of the uni­verse en­dow­ment of the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom. Truth is a spir­i­tual re­al­ity value ex­pe­ri­enced only by spirit-en­dowed be­ings who func­tion upon super­ma­te­rial lev­els of uni­verse con­scious­ness, and who, af­ter the re­al­iza­tion of truth, per­mit its spirit of ac­ti­va­tion to live and reign within their souls.

• defined as › spirit presence of Infinite Spirit
• explains kindred minds and spirits

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are:

• function › constantly injects spontaneity

195:6.15The fi­nite uni­verse of mat­ter would even­tu­ally be­come uni­form and de­ter­min­is­tic but for the com­bined pres­ence of mind and spirit. The in­flu­ence of the cos­mic mind con­stantly in­jects spon­tane­ity into even the ma­te­rial worlds.