handicaps

• overcome limitations through power of Father within

4:4.9The con­scious­ness of a vic­to­ri­ous hu­man life on earth is born of that crea­ture faith which dares to chal­lenge each re­cur­ring episode of ex­is­tence when con­fronted with the aw­ful spec­ta­cle of hu­man lim­i­ta­tions, by the un­fail­ing dec­la­ra­tion: Even if I can­not do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it, a part of the Fa­ther-Ab­so­lute of the uni­verse of uni­verses. And that is “the vic­tory which over­comes the world, even your faith.”

• cannot › prevent eventual spiritual achievement

5:1.7Man is spir­i­tu­ally in­dwelt by a sur­viv­ing Thought Ad­juster. If such a hu­man mind is sin­cerely and spir­i­tu­ally mo­ti­vated, if such a hu­man soul de­sires to know God and be­come like him, hon­estly wants to do the Fa­ther’s will, there ex­ists no neg­a­tive in­flu­ence of mor­tal de­pri­va­tion nor pos­i­tive power of pos­si­ble in­ter­fer­ence which can pre­vent such a di­vinely mo­ti­vated soul from se­curely as­cend­ing to the por­tals of Par­a­dise.

• cannot › invalidate presence of divine spirit

5:5.13Eter­nal sur­vival of per­son­al­ity is wholly de­pen­dent on the choos­ing of the mor­tal mind, whose de­ci­sions de­ter­mine the sur­vival po­ten­tial of the im­mor­tal soul. When the mind be­lieves God and the soul knows God, and when, with the fos­ter­ing Ad­juster, they all de­sire God, then is sur­vival as­sured. Lim­i­ta­tions of in­tel­lect, cur­tail­ment of ed­u­ca­tion, de­pri­va­tion of cul­ture, im­pov­er­ish­ment of so­cial sta­tus, even in­fe­ri­or­ity of the hu­man stan­dards of moral­ity re­sult­ing from the un­for­tu­nate lack of ed­u­ca­tional, cul­tural, and so­cial ad­van­tages, can­not in­val­i­date the pres­ence of the di­vine spirit in such un­for­tu­nate and hu­manly hand­i­capped but be­liev­ing in­di­vid­u­als. The in­dwelling of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor con­sti­tutes the in­cep­tion and in­sures the pos­si­bil­ity of the po­ten­tial of growth and sur­vival of the im­mor­tal soul.

• outer-spacers will lack finite experience

31:10.11We ven­ture the fore­cast of fu­ture and greater outer uni­verses of in­hab­ited worlds, new spheres peo­pled with new or­ders of ex­qui­site and unique be­ings, a ma­te­rial uni­verse sub­lime in its ul­ti­macy, a vast cre­ation lack­ing in only one im­por­tant de­tail—the pres­ence of ac­tual fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence in the uni­ver­sal life of as­cen­dant ex­is­tence. Such a uni­verse will come into be­ing un­der a tremen­dous ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap: the de­pri­va­tion of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the evo­lu­tion of the Al­mighty Su­preme. These outer uni­verses will all en­joy the match­less min­istry and su­per­nal over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing, but the very fact of his ac­tive pres­ence pre­cludes their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme De­ity.

• deficiencies are inevitable on all levels of existence

31:10.14These de­fi­cien­cies are in­ev­i­ta­ble on all lev­els of uni­verse ex­is­tence. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age we of the higher lev­els of spir­i­tual ex­is­tences now come down to ad­min­is­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and min­is­ter to the as­cend­ing mor­tals, thus en­deav­or­ing to atone for their de­fi­cien­cies in the re­al­i­ties of the higher spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

• no h. that morontia career will not wholly remove

44:8.3There is no caste in the ranks of spirit ar­ti­sans. No mat­ter how lowly your ori­gin, if you have abil­ity and the gift of ex­pres­sion, you will gain ad­e­quate rec­og­ni­tion and re­ceive due ap­pre­ci­a­tion as you as­cend up­ward in the scale of mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. There can be no hand­i­cap of hu­man hered­ity or de­pri­va­tion of mor­tal en­vi­ron­ment which the mor­ontia ca­reer will not fully com­pen­sate and wholly re­move. And all such sat­is­fac­tions of artis­tic achieve­ment and ex­pres­sion­ful self-re­al­iza­tion will be ef­fected by your own per­sonal ef­forts in pro­gres­sive ad­vance­ment. At last the as­pi­ra­tions of evo­lu­tion­ary medi­ocrity may be re­al­ized. While the Gods do not ar­bi­trar­ily be­stow tal­ents and abil­ity upon the chil­dren of time, they do pro­vide for the at­tain­ment of the sat­is­fac­tion of all their no­ble long­ings and for the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of all hu­man hunger for su­per­nal self-ex­pres­sion.

• no h. that morontia career will not wholly remove

45:6.3On the seven man­sion worlds as­cend­ing mor­tals are af­forded am­ple op­por­tu­ni­ties for com­pen­sat­ing any and all ex­pe­ri­en­tial de­pri­va­tions suf­fered on their worlds of ori­gin, whether due to in­her­i­tance, en­vi­ron­ment, or un­for­tu­nate pre­ma­ture ter­mi­na­tion of the ca­reer in the flesh. This is in ev­ery sense true ex­cept in the mor­tal sex life and its at­ten­dant ad­just­ments. Thou­sands of mor­tals reach the man­sion worlds with­out hav­ing ben­e­fited par­tic­u­larly from the dis­ci­plines de­rived from fairly av­er­age sex re­la­tions on their na­tive spheres. The man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence can pro­vide lit­tle op­por­tu­nity for com­pen­sat­ing these very per­sonal de­pri­va­tions. Sex ex­pe­ri­ence in a phys­i­cal sense is past for these as­cend­ers, but in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, both in­di­vid­u­ally and as mem­bers of their fam­i­lies, these sex-de­fi­cient mor­tals are en­abled to com­pen­sate the so­cial, in­tel­lec­tual, emo­tional, and spir­i­tual as­pects of their de­fi­ciency. Thus are all those hu­mans whom cir­cum­stances or bad judg­ment de­prived of the ben­e­fits of ad­van­ta­geous sex as­so­ci­a­tion on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, here on the sys­tem cap­i­tals af­forded full op­por­tu­nity to ac­quire these es­sen­tial mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ences in close and lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with the su­per­nal Adamic sex crea­tures of per­ma­nent res­i­dence on the sys­tem cap­i­tals.

• no h. that morontia career will not wholly remove

47:3.8Al­most the en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence of man­sion world num­ber one per­tains to de­fi­ciency min­istry. Sur­vivors ar­riv­ing on this first of the de­ten­tion spheres pre­sent so many and such var­ied de­fects of crea­ture char­ac­ter and de­fi­cien­cies of mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence that the ma­jor ac­tiv­i­ties of the realm are oc­cu­pied with the cor­rec­tion and cure of these man­i­fold lega­cies of the life in the flesh on the ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space.

47:9.1The ex­pe­ri­ence on this sphere is the crown­ing achieve­ment of the im­me­di­ate post­mor­tal ca­reer. Dur­ing your so­journ here you will re­ceive the in­struc­tion of many teach­ers, all of whom will co-op­er­ate in the task of prepar­ing you for res­i­dence on Je­ru­sem. Any dis­cern­i­ble dif­fer­ences be­tween those mor­tals hail­ing from the iso­lated and re­tarded worlds and those sur­vivors from the more ad­vanced and en­light­ened spheres are vir­tu­ally oblit­er­ated dur­ing the so­journ on the sev­enth man­sion world. Here you will be purged of all the rem­nants of un­for­tu­nate hered­ity, un­whole­some en­vi­ron­ment, and un­spir­i­tual plan­e­tary ten­den­cies. The last rem­nants of the “mark of the beast” are here erad­i­cated.

47:9.2While so­journ­ing on man­so­nia num­ber seven, per­mis­sion is granted to visit tran­si­tion world num­ber seven, the world of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Here you be­gin a new and more spir­i­tual wor­ship of the un­seen Fa­ther, a habit you will in­creas­ingly pur­sue all the way up through your long as­cend­ing ca­reer. You find the Fa­ther’s tem­ple on this world of tran­si­tional cul­ture, but you do not see the Fa­ther.

47:9.3Now be­gins the for­ma­tion of classes for grad­u­a­tion to Je­ru­sem. You have gone from world to world as in­di­vid­u­als, but now you pre­pare to de­part for Je­ru­sem in groups, al­though, within cer­tain lim­its, an as­cender may elect to tarry on the sev­enth man­sion world for the pur­pose of en­abling a tardy mem­ber of his earthly or man­so­nia work­ing group to catch up with him.

47:9.4The per­son­nel of the sev­enth man­so­nia as­sem­ble on the sea of glass to wit­ness your de­par­ture for Je­ru­sem with res­i­den­tial sta­tus. Hun­dreds or thou­sands of times you may have vis­ited Je­ru­sem, but al­ways as a guest; never be­fore have you pro­ceeded to­ward the sys­tem cap­i­tal in the com­pany of a group of your fel­lows who were bid­ding an eter­nal farewell to the whole man­so­nia ca­reer as as­cend­ing mor­tals. You will soon be wel­comed on the re­ceiv­ing field of the head­quar­ters world as Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens.

47:9.5You will greatly en­joy your prog­ress through the seven de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing worlds; they are re­ally de­mor­tal­iz­ing spheres. You are mostly hu­man on the first man­sion world, just a mor­tal be­ing mi­nus a ma­te­rial body, a hu­man mind housed in a mor­ontia form—a ma­te­rial body of the mor­ontia world but not a mor­tal house of flesh and blood. You re­ally pass from the mor­tal state to the im­mor­tal sta­tus at the time of Ad­juster fu­sion, and by the time you have fin­ished the Je­ru­sem ca­reer, you will be full-fledged mor­ontians.

• cannot › defeat whole-souled choice of will

65:8.5In the cos­mic evo­lu­tion­ary lab­o­ra­to­ries mind is al­ways dom­i­nant over mat­ter, and spirit is ever cor­re­lated with mind. Fail­ure of these di­verse en­dow­ments to syn­chro­nize and co-or­di­nate may cause time de­lays, but if the in­di­vid­ual re­ally knows God and de­sires to find him and be­come like him, then sur­vival is as­sured re­gard­less of the hand­i­caps of time. Phys­i­cal sta­tus may hand­i­cap mind, and men­tal per­ver­sity may de­lay spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, but none of these ob­sta­cles can de­feat the whole-souled choice of will.

• cannot › prevent eventual spiritual achievement

109:5.5While the hered­i­tary legacy of cere­bral en­dow­ment and that of elec­tro­chem­i­cal over­con­trol both op­er­ate to de­limit the sphere of ef­fi­cient Ad­juster ac­tiv­ity, no hered­i­tary hand­i­cap (in nor­mal minds) ever pre­vents even­tual spir­i­tual achieve­ment. Hered­ity may in­ter­fere with the rate of per­son­al­ity con­quest, but it does not pre­vent even­tual con­sum­ma­tion of the as­cen­dant ad­ven­ture. If you will co-op­er­ate with your Ad­juster, the di­vine gift will, sooner or later, evolve the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul and, sub­se­quent to fu­sion there­with, will pre­sent the new crea­ture to the sov­er­eign Mas­ter Son of the lo­cal uni­verse and even­tu­ally to the Fa­ther of Ad­justers on Par­a­dise.

• if psychic circles not attained due to unavoidable h., mansion world probation granted

112:5.6Though the cos­mic cir­cles of per­son­al­ity growth must even­tu­ally be at­tained, if, through no fault of your own, the ac­ci­dents of time and the hand­i­caps of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence pre­vent your mas­ter­ing these lev­els on your na­tive planet, if your in­ten­tions and de­sires are of sur­vival value, there are is­sued the de­crees of pro­ba­tion ex­ten­sion. You will be af­forded ad­di­tional time in which to prove your­self.