personality circuit

• personality responds to

0:6.1Any and all things re­spond­ing to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Fa­ther, we call per­sonal. Any and all things re­spond­ing to the spirit cir­cuit of the Son, we call spirit. Any and all that re­sponds to the mind cir­cuit of the Con­joint Ac­tor, we call mind, mind as an at­tri­bute of the In­fi­nite Spirit—mind in all its phases. Any and all that re­sponds to the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuit cen­ter­ing in nether Par­a­dise, we call mat­ter—en­ergy-mat­ter in all its meta­mor­phic states.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

1:3.6In the uni­verses God the Fa­ther is, in po­ten­tial, the over­con­trol­ler of mat­ter, mind, and spirit. Only by means of his far-flung per­son­al­ity cir­cuit does God deal di­rectly with the per­son­al­i­ties of his vast cre­ation of will crea­tures, but he is con­tactable (out­side of Par­a­dise) only in the pres­ences of his frag­mented en­ti­ties, the will of God abroad in the uni­verses. This Par­a­dise spirit that in­dwells the minds of the mor­tals of time and there fos­ters the evo­lu­tion of the im­mor­tal soul of the sur­viv­ing crea­ture is of the na­ture and di­vin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But the minds of such evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures orig­i­nate in the lo­cal uni­verses and must gain di­vine per­fec­tion by achiev­ing those ex­pe­ri­en­tial trans­for­ma­tions of spir­i­tual at­tain­ment which are the in­ev­i­ta­ble re­sult of a crea­ture’s choos­ing to do the will of the Fa­ther in heaven.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

3:1.6The om­nipres­ence of God is in re­al­ity a part of his in­fi­nite na­ture; space con­sti­tutes no bar­rier to De­ity. God is, in per­fec­tion and with­out lim­i­ta­tion, dis­cernibly pres­ent only on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. He is not thus ob­serv­ably pres­ent in the cre­ations en­cir­cling Ha­vona, for God has lim­ited his di­rect and ac­tual pres­ence in rec­og­ni­tion of the sov­er­eignty and the di­vine pre­rog­a­tives of the co-or­di­nate cre­ators and rulers of the uni­verses of time and space. Hence must the con­cept of the di­vine pres­ence al­low for a wide range of both mode and chan­nel of man­i­fes­ta­tion em­brac­ing the pres­ence cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Isle of Par­a­dise. Nor is it al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ac­tions of his eter­nal co-or­di­nates and agen­cies, so per­fectly do they ful­fill all the in­fi­nite re­quire­ments of his un­chang­ing pur­pose. But not so with the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and the Ad­justers; here God acts uniquely, di­rectly, and ex­clu­sively.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

3:3.3God is pos­sessed of un­lim­ited power to know all things; his con­scious­ness is uni­ver­sal. His per­sonal cir­cuit en­com­passes all per­son­al­i­ties, and his knowl­edge of even the lowly crea­tures is sup­ple­mented in­di­rectly through the de­scend­ing se­ries of di­vine Sons and di­rectly through the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers. And fur­ther­more, the In­fi­nite Spirit is all the time ev­ery­where pres­ent.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

5:0.2God has dis­tributed the in­fin­ity of his eter­nal na­ture through­out the ex­is­ten­tial re­al­i­ties of his six ab­so­lute co-or­di­nates, but he may, at any time, make di­rect per­sonal con­tact with any part or phase or kind of cre­ation through the agency of his preper­sonal frag­ments. And the eter­nal God has also re­served to him­self the pre­rog­a­tive of be­stow­ing per­son­al­ity upon the di­vine Cre­ators and the liv­ing crea­tures of the uni­verse of uni­verses, while he has fur­ther re­served the pre­rog­a­tive of main­tain­ing di­rect and pa­ren­tal con­tact with all these per­sonal be­ings through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit.

• bosom of Father

5:2.2God lives in ev­ery one of his spirit-born sons. The Par­a­dise Sons al­ways have ac­cess to the pres­ence of God, “the right hand of the Fa­ther,” and all of his crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties have ac­cess to the “bo­som of the Fa­ther.” This refers to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, when­ever, wher­ever, and how­ever con­tacted, or oth­er­wise en­tails per­sonal, self-con­scious con­tact and com­mu­nion with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, whether at the cen­tral abode or at some other des­ig­nated place, as on one of the seven sa­cred spheres of Par­a­dise.

• dispatches worship to Father

5:3.2Sup­pli­ca­tions of all kinds be­long to the realm of the Eter­nal Son and the Son’s spir­i­tual or­ga­ni­za­tion. Prayers, all for­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tions, ev­ery­thing ex­cept ado­ra­tion and wor­ship of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, are mat­ters that con­cern a lo­cal uni­verse; they do not or­di­nar­ily pro­ceed out of the realm of the ju­ris­dic­tion of a Cre­ator Son. But wor­ship is un­doubt­edly en­cir­cuited and dis­patched to the per­son of the Cre­ator by the func­tion of the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. We fur­ther be­lieve that such reg­istry of the homage of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt crea­ture is fa­cil­i­tated by the Fa­ther’s spirit pres­ence. There ex­ists a tremen­dous amount of ev­i­dence to sub­stan­ti­ate such a be­lief, and I know that all or­ders of Fa­ther frag­ments are em­pow­ered to reg­is­ter the bona fide ado­ra­tion of their sub­jects ac­cept­ably in the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Ad­justers un­doubt­edly also uti­lize di­rect preper­sonal chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with God, and they are like­wise able to uti­lize the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

5:6.10The per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the uni­verse of uni­verses is cen­tered in the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and the Par­a­dise Fa­ther is per­son­ally con­scious of, and in per­sonal touch with, all per­son­al­i­ties of all lev­els of self-con­scious ex­is­tence. And this per­son­al­ity con­scious­ness of all cre­ation ex­ists in­de­pen­dently of the mis­sion of the Thought Ad­justers.

• centered in Father
• dispatches worship to Father

5:6.11As all grav­ity is cir­cuited in the Isle of Par­a­dise, as all mind is cir­cuited in the Con­joint Ac­tor and all spirit in the Eter­nal Son, so is all per­son­al­ity cir­cuited in the per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this cir­cuit unerringly trans­mits the wor­ship of all per­son­al­i­ties to the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Per­son­al­ity.

• non-Adjuster-indwelt beings included in

5:6.12Con­cern­ing those per­son­al­i­ties who are not Ad­juster in­dwelt: The at­tri­bute of choice-lib­erty is also be­stowed by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and such per­sons are like­wise em­braced in the great cir­cuit of di­vine love, the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God pro­vides for the sov­er­eign choice of all true per­son­al­i­ties. No per­sonal crea­ture can be co­erced into the eter­nal ad­ven­ture; the por­tal of eter­nity opens only in re­sponse to the free­will choice of the free­will sons of the God of free will.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

6:4.5In his con­tact with per­son­al­ity, the Fa­ther acts in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. In his per­sonal and de­tectable con­tact with spir­i­tual cre­ation, he ap­pears in the frag­ments of the to­tal­ity of his De­ity, and these Fa­ther frag­ments have a soli­tary, unique, and ex­clu­sive func­tion wher­ever and when­ever they ap­pear in the uni­verses. In all such sit­u­a­tions the spirit of the Son is co-or­di­nate with the spir­i­tual func­tion of the frag­mented pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• non-Adjuster-indwelt beings included in

9:6.4Self­hood of per­son­al­ity dig­nity, hu­man or di­vine, im­mor­tal or po­ten­tially im­mor­tal, does not how­ever orig­i­nate in ei­ther spirit, mind, or mat­ter; it is the be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Nei­ther is the in­ter­ac­tion of spirit, mind, and ma­te­rial grav­ity a pre­req­ui­site to the ap­pear­ance of per­son­al­ity grav­ity. The Fa­ther’s cir­cuit may em­brace a mind-ma­te­rial be­ing who is un­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity, or it may in­clude a mind-spirit be­ing who is un­re­spon­sive to ma­te­rial grav­ity. The op­er­a­tion of per­son­al­ity grav­ity is al­ways a vo­li­tional act of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• Third Source personality beings are not in Father’s personality circuit

9:8.6The Third Source and Cen­ter is rep­re­sented in the grand uni­verse by a vast ar­ray of min­is­ter­ing spir­its, mes­sen­gers, teach­ers, ad­ju­di­ca­tors, helpers, and ad­vis­ers, to­gether with super­vi­sors of cer­tain cir­cuits of phys­i­cal, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Not all of these be­ings are per­son­al­i­ties in the strict mean­ing of the term. Per­son­al­ity of the fi­nite-crea­ture va­ri­ety is char­ac­ter­ized by:

9:8.71. Sub­jec­tive self-con­scious­ness.

• personality responds to

9:8.82. Ob­jec­tive re­sponse to the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit.

9:8.9There are cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties and crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties, and in ad­di­tion to these two fun­da­men­tal types there are per­son­al­i­ties of the Third Source and Cen­ter, be­ings who are per­sonal to the In­fi­nite Spirit, but who are not un­qual­i­fiedly per­sonal to crea­ture be­ings. These Third Source per­son­al­i­ties are not a part of the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. First Source per­son­al­ity and Third Source per­son­al­ity are mu­tu­ally con­tactable; all per­son­al­ity is con­tactable.

9:8.10The Fa­ther be­stows per­son­al­ity by his per­sonal free will. Why he does so we can only con­jec­ture; how he does so we do not know. Nei­ther do we know why the Third Source be­stows non-Fa­ther per­son­al­ity, but this the In­fi­nite Spirit does in his own be­half, in cre­ative con­junc­tion with the Eter­nal Son and in nu­mer­ous ways un­known to you. The In­fi­nite Spirit can also act for the Fa­ther in the be­stowal of First Source per­son­al­ity.

9:8.11There are nu­mer­ous types of Third Source per­son­al­i­ties. The In­fi­nite Spirit be­stows Third Source per­son­al­ity upon nu­mer­ous groups who are not in­cluded in the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, such as cer­tain of the power di­rec­tors. Like­wise does the In­fi­nite Spirit treat as per­son­al­i­ties nu­mer­ous groups of be­ings, such as the Cre­ative Spir­its, who are in a class by them­selves in their re­la­tions to en­cir­cuited crea­tures of the Fa­ther.

9:8.12Both First Source and Third Source per­son­al­i­ties are en­dowed with all and more than man as­so­ciates with the con­cept of per­son­al­ity; they have minds em­brac­ing mem­ory, rea­son, judg­ment, cre­ative imag­i­na­tion, idea as­so­ci­a­tion, de­ci­sion, choice, and nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional pow­ers of in­tel­lect wholly un­known to mor­tals. With few ex­cep­tions the or­ders re­vealed to you pos­sess form and dis­tinct in­di­vid­u­al­ity; they are real be­ings. A ma­jor­ity of them are vis­i­ble to all or­ders of spirit ex­is­tence.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

10:3.145. As a Fa­ther, he main­tains pa­ren­tal con­tact with all crea­tures through his per­son­al­ity cir­cuit.

• centered in Father

11:1.4The Fa­ther is al­ways to be found at this cen­tral lo­ca­tion. Did he move, uni­ver­sal pan­de­mo­nium would be pre­cip­i­tated, for there con­verge in him at this res­i­den­tial cen­ter the uni­ver­sal lines of grav­ity from the ends of cre­ation. Whether we trace the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit back through the uni­verses or fol­low the as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties as they jour­ney in­ward to the Fa­ther; whether we trace the lines of ma­te­rial grav­ity to nether Par­a­dise or fol­low the in­surg­ing cy­cles of cos­mic force; whether we trace the lines of spir­i­tual grav­ity to the Eter­nal Son or fol­low the in­ward pro­ces­sional of the Par­a­dise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind cir­cuits or fol­low the tril­lions upon tril­lions of ce­les­tial be­ings who spring from the In­fi­nite Spirit—by any of these ob­ser­va­tions or by all of them we are led di­rectly back to the Fa­ther’s pres­ence, to his cen­tral abode. Here is God per­son­ally, lit­er­ally, and ac­tu­ally pres­ent. And from his in­fi­nite be­ing there flow the flood-streams of life, en­ergy, and per­son­al­ity to all uni­verses.

• personality responds to

12:3.1All forms of force-en­ergy—ma­te­rial, mindal, or spir­i­tual—are alike sub­ject to those grasps, those uni­ver­sal pres­ences, which we call grav­ity. Per­son­al­ity also is re­spon­sive to grav­ity—to the Fa­ther’s ex­clu­sive cir­cuit; but though this cir­cuit is ex­clu­sive to the Fa­ther, he is not ex­cluded from the other cir­cuits; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is in­fi­nite and acts over all four ab­so­lute-grav­ity cir­cuits in the mas­ter uni­verse:

• personality gravity is noncomputable

12:3.12Per­son­al­ity Grav­ity is non­com­putable. We rec­og­nize the cir­cuit, but we can­not mea­sure ei­ther qual­i­ta­tive or quan­ti­ta­tive re­al­i­ties re­spon­sive thereto.

• personality responds to

16:8.19The full func­tion of such a per­son­al­ity en­dow­ment is the be­gin­ning re­al­iza­tion of De­ity kin­ship. Such a self­hood, in­dwelt by a preper­sonal frag­ment of God the Fa­ther, is in truth and in fact a spir­i­tual son of God. Such a crea­ture not only dis­closes ca­pac­ity for the re­cep­tion of the gift of the di­vine pres­ence but also ex­hibits re­ac­tive re­sponse to the per­son­al­ity-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all per­son­al­i­ties.

• personality responds to

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.

• personality responds to

30:1.113There are spir­its: spirit en­ti­ties, spirit pres­ences, per­sonal spir­its, preper­sonal spir­its, super­per­sonal spir­its, spirit ex­is­tences, spirit per­son­al­i­ties—but nei­ther mor­tal lan­guage nor mor­tal in­tel­lect are ad­e­quate. We may how­ever state that there are no per­son­al­i­ties of “pure mind”; no en­tity has per­son­al­ity un­less he is en­dowed with it by God who is spirit. Any mind en­tity that is not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther spir­i­tual or phys­i­cal en­ergy is not a per­son­al­ity. But in the same sense that there are spirit per­son­al­i­ties who have mind there are mind per­son­al­i­ties who have spirit. Maj­es­ton and his as­so­ciates are fairly good il­lus­tra­tions of mind-dom­i­nated be­ings, but there are bet­ter il­lus­tra­tions of this type of per­son­al­ity un­known to you. There are even whole un­re­vealed or­ders of such mind per­son­al­i­ties, but they are al­ways spirit as­so­ci­ated. Cer­tain other un­re­vealed crea­tures are what might be termed mindal- and phys­i­cal-en­ergy per­son­al­i­ties. This type of be­ing is non­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity but is nonethe­less a true per­son­al­ity—is within the Fa­ther’s cir­cuit.

• gives Father knowledge of thoughts of all beings

32:4.8We can see and un­der­stand the mech­a­nism whereby the Sons en­joy in­ti­mate and com­plete knowl­edge re­gard­ing the uni­verses of their ju­ris­dic­tion; but we can­not fully com­pre­hend the meth­ods whereby God is so fully and per­son­ally con­ver­sant with the de­tails of the uni­verse of uni­verses, al­though we at least can rec­og­nize the av­enue whereby the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can re­ceive in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing, and man­i­fest his pres­ence to, the be­ings of his im­mense cre­ation. Through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit the Fa­ther is cog­nizant—has per­sonal knowl­edge—of all the thoughts and acts of all the be­ings in all the sys­tems of all the uni­verses of all cre­ation. Though we can­not fully grasp this tech­nique of God’s com­mu­nion with his chil­dren, we can be strength­ened in the as­sur­ance that the “Lord knows his chil­dren,” and that of each one of us “he takes note where we were born.”

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of

40:5.3God the Fa­ther does not, can­not, thus down­step him­self to make such near per­sonal con­tact with the al­most lim­it­less num­ber of as­cend­ing crea­tures through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses. But the Fa­ther is not de­prived of per­sonal con­tact with his lowly crea­tures; you are not with­out the di­vine pres­ence. Al­though God the Fa­ther can­not be with you by di­rect per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion, he is in you and of you in the iden­tity of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers, the di­vine Mon­i­tors. Thus does the Fa­ther, who is the far­thest from you in per­son­al­ity and in spirit, draw the near­est to you in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and in the spirit touch of in­ner com­mu­nion with the very souls of his mor­tal sons and daugh­ters.

• Father maintains parental contact with all persons by means of
• perfectly unifies personality at all levels

56:4.2Per­son­al­ity in­her­ently reaches out to unify all con­stituent re­al­i­ties. The in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, uni­fies all seven con­stituent Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity; and the per­son­al­ity of mor­tal man, be­ing an ex­clu­sive and di­rect be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, like­wise pos­sesses the po­ten­tial of uni­fy­ing the con­stituent fac­tors of the mor­tal crea­ture. Such uni­fy­ing cre­ativ­ity of all crea­ture per­son­al­ity is a birth­mark of its high and ex­clu­sive source and is fur­ther ev­i­den­tial of its un­bro­ken con­tact with this same source through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, by means of which the per­son­al­ity of the crea­ture main­tains di­rect and sus­tain­ing con­tact with the Fa­ther of all per­son­al­ity on Par­a­dise.

56:4.3Not­with­stand­ing that God is man­i­fest from the do­mains of the Sev­en­fold up through su­prem­acy and ul­ti­macy to God the Ab­so­lute, the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, cen­ter­ing on Par­a­dise and in the per­son of God the Fa­ther, pro­vides for the com­plete and per­fect uni­fi­ca­tion of all these di­verse ex­pres­sions of di­vine per­son­al­ity so far as con­cerns all crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties on all lev­els of in­tel­li­gent ex­is­tence and in all the realms of the per­fect, per­fected, and per­fect­ing uni­verses.

• personality responds to

112:0.86. It dis­closes only qual­i­ta­tive re­sponse to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit in con­tradis­tinc­tion to the three en­er­gies which show both qual­i­ta­tive and quan­ti­ta­tive re­sponse to grav­ity.