nonsurvivors

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.

47:3.4If a tran­si­tory per­son­al­ity of mor­tal ori­gin should never be thus re­assem­bled, the spirit el­e­ments of the non­sur­viv­ing mor­tal crea­ture would for­ever con­tinue as an in­te­gral part of the in­di­vid­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial en­dow­ment of the one­time in­dwelling Ad­juster.

196:3.35And God-con­scious­ness is equiv­a­lent to the in­te­gra­tion of the self with the uni­verse, and on its high­est lev­els of spir­i­tual re­al­ity. Only the spirit con­tent of any value is im­per­ish­able. Even that which is true, beau­ti­ful, and good may not per­ish in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. If man does not choose to sur­vive, then does the sur­viv­ing Ad­juster con­serve those re­al­i­ties born of love and nur­tured in ser­vice. And all these things are a part of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Fa­ther is liv­ing love, and this life of the Fa­ther is in his Sons. And the spirit of the Fa­ther is in his Sons’ sons—mor­tal men. When all is said and done, the Fa­ther idea is still the high­est hu­man con­cept of God.

117:4.11The great strug­gle of this uni­verse age is be­tween the po­ten­tial and the ac­tual—the seek­ing for ac­tu­al­iza­tion by all that is as yet un­ex­pressed. If mor­tal man pro­ceeds upon the Par­a­dise ad­ven­ture, he is fol­low­ing the mo­tions of time, which flow as cur­rents within the stream of eter­nity; if mor­tal man re­jects the eter­nal ca­reer, he is mov­ing counter to the stream of events in the fi­nite uni­verses. The me­chan­i­cal cre­ation moves on in­ex­orably in ac­cor­dance with the un­fold­ing pur­pose of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, but the vo­li­tional cre­ation has the choice of ac­cept­ing or of re­ject­ing the role of per­son­al­ity par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ad­ven­ture of eter­nity. Mor­tal man can­not de­stroy the su­preme val­ues of hu­man ex­is­tence, but he can very def­i­nitely pre­vent the evo­lu­tion of these val­ues in his own per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence. To the ex­tent that the hu­man self thus re­fuses to take part in the Par­a­dise as­cent, to just that ex­tent is the Su­preme de­layed in achiev­ing di­vin­ity ex­pres­sion in the grand uni­verse.

47:2.7When ma­te­rial life has run its course, if no choice has been made for the as­cen­dant life, or if these chil­dren of time def­i­nitely de­cide against the Ha­vona ad­ven­ture, death au­to­mat­i­cally ter­mi­nates their pro­ba­tion­ary ca­reers. There is no ad­ju­di­ca­tion of such cases; there is no res­ur­rec­tion from such a sec­ond death. They sim­ply be­come as though they had not been.

117:4.2Through­out the grand uni­verse the Su­preme strug­gles for ex­pres­sion. His di­vine evo­lu­tion is in mea­sure pred­i­cated on the wis­dom-ac­tion of ev­ery per­son­al­ity in ex­is­tence. When a hu­man be­ing chooses eter­nal sur­vival, he is cocre­at­ing des­tiny; and in the life of this as­cend­ing mor­tal the fi­nite God finds an in­creased mea­sure of per­son­al­ity self-re­al­iza­tion and an en­large­ment of ex­pe­ri­en­tial sov­er­eignty. But if a crea­ture re­jects the eter­nal ca­reer, that part of the Su­preme which was de­pen­dent on this crea­ture’s choice ex­pe­ri­ences in­es­cap­able de­lay, a de­pri­va­tion which must be com­pen­sated by sub­sti­tu­tional or col­lat­eral ex­pe­ri­ence; as for the per­son­al­ity of the non­sur­vivor, it is ab­sorbed into the over­soul of cre­ation, be­com­ing a part of the De­ity of the Su­preme.

117:4.12Into the keep­ing of mor­tal man has been given not only the Ad­juster pres­ence of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther but also con­trol over the des­tiny of an in­finites­i­mal frac­tion of the fu­ture of the Su­preme. For as man at­tains hu­man des­tiny, so does the Su­preme achieve des­tiny on de­ity lev­els.

117:4.13And so the de­ci­sion awaits each of you as it once awaited each of us: Will you fail the God of time, who is so de­pen­dent upon the de­ci­sions of the fi­nite mind? will you fail the Su­preme per­son­al­ity of the uni­verses by the sloth­ful­ness of an­i­mal­is­tic ret­ro­gres­sion? will you fail the great brother of all crea­tures, who is so de­pen­dent on each crea­ture? can you al­low your­self to pass into the realm of the un­re­al­ized when be­fore you lies the en­chant­ing vista of the uni­verse ca­reer—the di­vine dis­cov­ery of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and the di­vine par­tic­i­pa­tion in the search for, and the evo­lu­tion of, the God of Su­prem­acy?

40:4.1When the mor­tals of time fail to achieve the eter­nal sur­vival of their souls in plan­e­tary as­so­ci­a­tion with the spirit gifts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, such fail­ure is never in any way due to ne­glect of duty, min­istry, ser­vice, or de­vo­tion on the part of the Ad­juster. At mor­tal death, such de­serted Mon­i­tors re­turn to Di­vin­ing­ton, and sub­se­quently, fol­low­ing the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the non­sur­vivor, they may be re­as­signed to the worlds of time and space. Some­times, af­ter re­peated ser­vices of this sort or fol­low­ing some un­usual ex­pe­ri­ence, such as func­tion­ing as the in­dwelling Ad­juster of an in­car­nated be­stowal Son, these ef­fi­cient Ad­justers are per­son­al­ized by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

130:4.8Mis­adap­ta­tion of self-con­scious life to the uni­verse re­sults in cos­mic dishar­mony. Fi­nal di­ver­gence of per­son­al­ity will from the trend of the uni­verses ter­mi­nates in in­tel­lec­tual iso­la­tion, per­son­al­ity seg­re­ga­tion. Loss of the in­dwelling spirit pi­lot super­venes in spir­i­tual ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence. In­tel­li­gent and pro­gress­ing life be­comes then, in and of it­self, an in­con­tro­vert­ible proof of the ex­is­tence of a pur­pose­ful uni­verse ex­press­ing the will of a di­vine Cre­ator. And this life, in the ag­gre­gate, strug­gles to­ward higher val­ues, hav­ing for its fi­nal goal the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

49:6.7Thus are the sleep­ing sur­vivors of a plan­e­tary age reper­son­al­ized in the dis­pen­sa­tional roll calls. But with re­gard to the non­salv­able per­son­al­i­ties of a realm, no im­mor­tal spirit is pres­ent to func­tion with the group guard­i­ans of des­tiny, and this con­sti­tutes ces­sa­tion of crea­ture ex­is­tence. While some of your rec­ords have pic­tured these events as tak­ing place on the plan­ets of mor­tal death, they all re­ally oc­cur on the man­sion worlds.

113:6.8The tech­nique of jus­tice de­mands that per­sonal or group guard­i­ans shall re­spond to the dis­pen­sa­tional roll call in be­half of all non­sur­viv­ing per­son­al­i­ties. The Ad­justers of such non­sur­vivors do not re­turn, and when the rolls are called, the ser­a­phim re­spond, but the Ad­justers make no an­swer. This con­sti­tutes the “res­ur­rec­tion of the un­just,” in re­al­ity the for­mal rec­og­ni­tion of the ces­sa­tion of crea­ture ex­is­tence. This roll call of jus­tice al­ways im­me­di­ately fol­lows the roll call of mercy, the res­ur­rec­tion of the sleep­ing sur­vivors. But these are mat­ters which are of con­cern to none but the su­preme and all-know­ing Judges of sur­vival val­ues. Such prob­lems of ad­ju­di­ca­tion do not re­ally con­cern us.

2:3.4When this sen­tence is fi­nally con­firmed, the sin-iden­ti­fied be­ing in­stantly be­comes as though he had not been. There is no res­ur­rec­tion from such a fate; it is ev­er­last­ing and eter­nal. The liv­ing en­ergy fac­tors of iden­tity are re­solved by the trans­for­ma­tions of time and the meta­mor­phoses of space into the cos­mic po­ten­tials whence they once emerged. As for the per­son­al­ity of the in­iq­ui­tous one, it is de­prived of a con­tin­u­ing life ve­hi­cle by the crea­ture’s fail­ure to make those choices and fi­nal de­ci­sions which would have as­sured eter­nal life. When the con­tin­ued em­brace of sin by the as­so­ci­ated mind cul­mi­nates in com­plete self-iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with in­iq­uity, then upon the ces­sa­tion of life, upon cos­mic dis­so­lu­tion, such an iso­lated per­son­al­ity is ab­sorbed into the over­soul of cre­ation, be­com­ing a part of the evolv­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing. Never again does it ap­pear as a per­son­al­ity; its iden­tity be­comes as though it had never been. In the case of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt per­son­al­ity, the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit val­ues sur­vive in the re­al­ity of the con­tin­u­ing Ad­juster.

117:4.4The hu­man per­son­al­ity can truly de­stroy in­di­vid­u­al­ity of crea­ture­hood, and though all that was worth while in the life of such a cos­mic sui­cide will per­sist, these qual­i­ties will not per­sist as an in­di­vid­ual crea­ture. The Su­preme will again find ex­pres­sion in the crea­tures of the uni­verses but never again as that par­tic­u­lar per­son; the unique per­son­al­ity of a nonascen­der re­turns to the Su­preme as a drop of wa­ter re­turns to the sea.

118:7.7Sub­per­sonal liv­ing things in­di­cate mind ac­ti­vat­ing en­ergy-mat­ter, first as phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and then as ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. Per­son­al­ity en­dow­ment comes from the Fa­ther and im­parts unique pre­rog­a­tives of choice to the liv­ing sys­tem. But if per­son­al­ity has the pre­rog­a­tive of ex­er­cis­ing vo­li­tional choice of re­al­ity iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and if this is a true and free choice, then must evolv­ing per­son­al­ity also have the pos­si­ble choice of be­com­ing self-con­fus­ing, self-dis­rupt­ing, and self-de­stroy­ing. The pos­si­bil­ity of cos­mic self-de­struc­tion can­not be avoided if the evolv­ing per­son­al­ity is to be truly free in the ex­er­cise of fi­nite will.

54:3.2Al­though con­scious and whole­hearted iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with evil (sin) is the equiv­a­lent of nonex­is­tence (an­ni­hi­la­tion), there must al­ways in­ter­vene be­tween the time of such per­sonal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with sin and the ex­e­cu­tion of the penalty—the au­to­matic re­sult of such a will­ful em­brace of evil—a pe­riod of time of suf­fi­cient length to al­low for such an ad­ju­di­ca­tion of such an in­di­vid­ual’s uni­verse sta­tus as will prove en­tirely sat­is­fac­tory to all re­lated uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, and which will be so fair and just as to win the ap­proval of the sin­ner him­self.

117:4.14God’s gifts—his be­stowal of re­al­ity—are not di­vorce­ments from him­self; he does not alien­ate cre­ation from him­self, but he has set up ten­sions in the cre­ations cir­cling Par­a­dise. God first loves man and con­fers upon him the po­ten­tial of im­mor­tal­ity—eter­nal re­al­ity. And as man loves God, so does man be­come eter­nal in ac­tu­al­ity. And here is mys­tery: The more closely man ap­proaches God through love, the greater the re­al­ity—ac­tu­al­ity—of that man. The more man with­draws from God, the more nearly he ap­proaches non­re­al­ity—ces­sa­tion of ex­is­tence. When man con­se­crates his will to the do­ing of the Fa­ther’s will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.