P195:7, 16:9.1
The
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.
P195:8, 16:9.2
The
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.
P195:9, 16:9.3
If 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.
P195:10, 16:9.4
Human self-consciousness implies the recognition of the reality of selves
other than the conscious self and further implies that such awareness is mutual;
that the self is known as it knows. This is shown in a purely human manner
in man's social life. But you cannot become so absolutely certain of a fellow
being's reality as you can of the reality of the presence of God that lives
within you. The social consciousness is not inalienable like the God-consciousness;
it is a cultural development and is dependent on knowledge, symbols, and the
contributions of the constitutive endowments of man -- science, morality,
and religion. And these cosmic gifts, socialized, constitute civilization.
P196:1, 16:9.5
Civilizations are unstable because they are not cosmic; they are not innate
in the individuals of the races. They must be nurtured by the combined contributions
of the constitutive factors of man -- science, morality, and religion. Civilizations
come and go, but science, morality, and religion always survive the crash.
P196:2, 16:9.6
Jesus not only revealed God to man, but he also made a new revelation of man
to himself and to other men. In the life of Jesus you see man at his best.
Man thus becomes so beautifully real because Jesus had so much of God in his
life, and the realization (recognition) of God is inalienable and constitutive
in all men.
P196:3, 16:9.7
Unselfishness, aside from parental instinct, is not altogether natural; other
persons are not naturally loved or socially served. It requires the enlightenment
of reason, morality, and the urge of religion, God-knowingness, to generate
an unselfish and altruistic social order. Man's own personality awareness,
self-consciousness, is also directly dependent on this very fact of innate
other-awareness, this innate ability to recognize and grasp the reality of
other personality, ranging from the human to the divine.
P196:4, 16:9.8
Unselfish social consciousness must be, at bottom, a religious consciousness;
that is, if it is objective; otherwise it is a purely subjective philosophic
abstraction and therefore devoid of love. Only a God-knowing individual can
love another person as he loves himself.
P196:5, 16:9.9
Self-consciousness is in essence a communal consciousness: God and man, Father
and son, Creator and creature. In human self-consciousness four
universe-reality
realizations are latent and inherent:
P196:12, 16:9.12
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