survival value

109:6.1Ad­justers never fail; noth­ing worth sur­viv­ing is ever lost; ev­ery mean­ing­ful value in ev­ery will crea­ture is cer­tain of sur­vival, ir­re­spec­tive of the sur­vival or non­sur­vival of the mean­ing-dis­cov­er­ing or eval­u­at­ing per­son­al­ity. And so it is, a mor­tal crea­ture may re­ject sur­vival; still the life ex­pe­ri­ence is not wasted; the eter­nal Ad­juster car­ries the worth-while fea­tures of such an ap­par­ent life of fail­ure over into some other world and there be­stows these sur­viv­ing mean­ings and val­ues upon some higher type of mor­tal mind, one of sur­vival ca­pac­ity. No worth-while ex­pe­ri­ence ever hap­pens in vain; no true mean­ing or real value ever per­ishes.

109:6.7Ev­ery­thing of per­ma­nent value which is in­trusted to an Ad­juster is as­sured eter­nal sur­vival. In cer­tain in­stances the Mon­i­tor holds these pos­ses­sions for be­stowal on a mor­tal mind of fu­ture in­dwelling; in oth­ers, and upon per­son­al­iza­tion, these sur­viv­ing and con­served re­al­i­ties are held in trust for fu­ture uti­liza­tion in the ser­vice of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

47:4.5Your Ad­juster mem­ory re­mains fully in­tact as you as­cend the mor­ontia life. Those men­tal as­so­ci­a­tions that were purely an­i­mal­is­tic and wholly ma­te­rial nat­u­rally per­ished with the phys­i­cal brain, but ev­ery­thing in your men­tal life which was worth while, and which had sur­vival value, was coun­ter­parted by the Ad­juster and is re­tained as a part of per­sonal mem­ory all the way through the as­cen­dant ca­reer. You will be con­scious of all your worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences as you ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other and from one sec­tion of the uni­verse to an­other—even to Par­a­dise.

59:6.10160,000,000 years ago the land was largely cov­ered with veg­e­ta­tion adapted to sup­port land-an­i­mal life, and the at­mo­sphere had be­come ideal for an­i­mal res­pi­ra­tion. Thus ends the pe­riod of ma­rine-life cur­tail­ment and those test­ing times of bi­o­logic ad­ver­sity which elim­i­nated all forms of life ex­cept such as had sur­vival value, and which were there­fore en­ti­tled to func­tion as the an­ces­tors of the more rapidly de­vel­op­ing and highly dif­fer­en­ti­ated life of the en­su­ing ages of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion.

102:7.4True, many ap­par­ently re­li­gious traits can grow out of non­re­li­gious roots. Man can, in­tel­lec­tu­ally, deny God and yet be morally good, loyal, fil­ial, hon­est, and even ide­al­is­tic. Man may graft many purely hu­man­is­tic branches onto his ba­sic spir­i­tual na­ture and thus ap­par­ently prove his con­tentions in be­half of a god­less re­li­gion, but such an ex­pe­ri­ence is de­void of sur­vival val­ues, God-know­ing­ness and God-as­cen­sion. In such a mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence only so­cial fruits are forth­com­ing, not spir­i­tual. The graft de­ter­mines the na­ture of the fruit, not­with­stand­ing that the liv­ing sus­te­nance is drawn from the roots of orig­i­nal di­vine en­dow­ment of both mind and spirit.

70:0.3Gov­ern­ment is an un­con­scious de­vel­op­ment; it evolves by trial and er­ror. It does have sur­vival value; there­fore it be­comes tra­di­tional. An­ar­chy aug­mented mis­ery; there­fore gov­ern­ment, com­par­a­tive law and or­der, slowly emerged or is emerg­ing. The co­er­cive de­mands of the strug­gle for ex­is­tence lit­er­ally drove the hu­man race along the pro­gres­sive road to civ­i­liza­tion.

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.

68:1.5The peo­ples who thus early or­ga­nized them­selves into a prim­i­tive so­ci­ety be­came more suc­cess­ful in their at­tacks on na­ture as well as in de­fense against their fel­lows; they pos­sessed greater sur­vival pos­si­bil­i­ties; hence has civ­i­liza­tion steadily pro­gressed on Uran­tia, not­with­stand­ing its many set­backs. And it is only be­cause of the en­hance­ment of sur­vival value in as­so­ci­a­tion that man’s many blun­ders have thus far failed to stop or de­stroy hu­man civ­i­liza­tion.

84:7.10Love of off­spring is al­most uni­ver­sal and is of dis­tinct sur­vival value. The an­cients al­ways sac­ri­ficed the mother’s in­ter­ests for the wel­fare of the child; an Es­kimo mother even yet licks her baby in lieu of wash­ing. But prim­i­tive moth­ers only nour­ished and cared for their chil­dren when very young; like the an­i­mals, they dis­carded them as soon as they grew up. En­dur­ing and con­tin­u­ous hu­man as­so­ci­a­tions have never been founded on bi­o­logic af­fec­tion alone. The an­i­mals love their chil­dren; man—civ­i­lized man—loves his chil­dren’s chil­dren. The higher the civ­i­liza­tion, the greater the joy of par­ents in the chil­dren’s ad­vance­ment and suc­cess; thus the new and higher re­al­iza­tion of name pride comes into ex­is­tence.

109:3.2On cer­tain prim­i­tive worlds (the se­ries one group) the Ad­juster in­dwells the mind of the crea­ture as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing, chiefly for self-cul­ture and pro­gres­sive de­vel­op­ment. Vir­gin Ad­justers are usu­ally sent to such worlds dur­ing the ear­lier times when prim­i­tive men are ar­riv­ing in the val­ley of de­ci­sion, but when com­par­a­tively few will elect to as­cend the moral heights be­yond the hills of self-mas­tery and char­ac­ter ac­quire­ment to at­tain the higher lev­els of emerg­ing spir­i­tu­al­ity. (Many, how­ever, who fail of Ad­juster fu­sion do sur­vive as Spirit-fused as­cend­ers.) The Ad­justers re­ceive valu­able train­ing and ac­quire won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence in tran­sient as­so­ci­a­tion with prim­i­tive minds, and they are able sub­se­quently to uti­lize this ex­pe­ri­ence for the ben­e­fit of su­pe­rior be­ings on other worlds. Noth­ing of sur­vival value is ever lost in all the wide uni­verse.

112:2.20The ma­te­rial self, the ego-en­tity of hu­man iden­tity, is de­pen­dent dur­ing the phys­i­cal life on the con­tin­u­ing func­tion of the ma­te­rial life ve­hi­cle, on the con­tin­ued ex­is­tence of the un­bal­anced equi­lib­rium of en­er­gies and in­tel­lect which, on Uran­tia, has been given the name life. But self­hood of sur­vival value, self­hood that can tran­scend the ex­pe­ri­ence of death, is only evolved by es­tab­lish­ing a po­ten­tial trans­fer of the seat of the iden­tity of the evolv­ing per­son­al­ity from the tran­sient life ve­hi­cle—the ma­te­rial body—to the more en­dur­ing and im­mor­tal na­ture of the mor­ontia soul and on be­yond to those lev­els whereon the soul be­comes in­fused with, and even­tu­ally at­tains the sta­tus of, spirit re­al­ity. This ac­tual trans­fer from ma­te­rial as­so­ci­a­tion to mor­ontia iden­ti­fi­ca­tion is ef­fected by the sin­cer­ity, per­sis­tence, and stead­fast­ness of the God-seek­ing de­ci­sions of the hu­man crea­ture.

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.

108:1.63. Com­bined in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual pow­ers. The de­gree to which these two en­dow­ments may pos­si­bly be as­so­ci­ated, com­bined, so as to pro­duce strength of hu­man char­ac­ter and con­tribute to the cer­tain evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul of sur­vival value.

133:6.5“The soul is the self-re­flec­tive, truth-dis­cern­ing, and spirit-per­ceiv­ing part of man which for­ever el­e­vates the hu­man be­ing above the level of the an­i­mal world. Self-con­scious­ness, in and of it­self, is not the soul. Moral self-con­scious­ness is true hu­man self-re­al­iza­tion and con­sti­tutes the foun­da­tion of the hu­man soul, and the soul is that part of man which rep­re­sents the po­ten­tial sur­vival value of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. Moral choice and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, the abil­ity to know God and the urge to be like him, are the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the soul. The soul of man can­not ex­ist apart from moral think­ing and spir­i­tual ac­tiv­ity. A stag­nant soul is a dy­ing soul. But the soul of man is dis­tinct from the di­vine spirit which dwells within the mind. The di­vine spirit ar­rives si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the first moral ac­tiv­ity of the hu­man mind, and that is the oc­ca­sion of the birth of the soul.

133:6.6“The sav­ing or los­ing of a soul has to do with whether or not the moral con­scious­ness at­tains sur­vival sta­tus through eter­nal al­liance with its as­so­ci­ated im­mor­tal spirit en­dow­ment. Sal­va­tion is the spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of the self-re­al­iza­tion of the moral con­scious­ness, which thereby be­comes pos­sessed of sur­vival value. All forms of soul con­flict con­sist in the lack of har­mony be­tween the moral, or spir­i­tual, self-con­scious­ness and the purely in­tel­lec­tual self-con­scious­ness.