P70:2, 5:6.1 The Universal Father is the God
of personalities. The domain of universe personality, from the lowest mortal
and material creature of personality status to the highest persons of creator
dignity and divine status, has its center and circumference in the Universal
Father. God the Father is the bestower and the conservator of every personality.
And the Paradise Father is likewise the destiny of all those finite personalities
who wholeheartedly choose to do the divine will, those who love God and
long to be like him.
P70:3, 5:6.2 Personality
is one of the unsolved mysteries of the universes. We are able to form
adequate concepts of the factors entering into the make-up of various orders
and levels of personality, but we do not fully comprehend the real nature
of the personality itself. We clearly perceive the numerous factors which,
when put together, constitute the vehicle for human personality, but we
do not fully comprehend the nature and significance of such a finite personality.
P70:4, 5:6.3 Personality
is potential in all creatures who possess a mind endowment ranging from
the minimum of self-consciousness to the maximum of God-consciousness.
But mind endowment alone is not personality, neither is spirit nor physical
energy. Personality is that quality and value in cosmic reality which is
exclusively bestowed by God the Father upon these living systems of the
associated and co-ordinated energies of matter, mind, and spirit. Neither
is personality a progressive achievement. Personality may be material or
spiritual, but there either is personality or there is no personality.
The other-than-personal never attains the level of the personal except
by the direct act of the Paradise Father.
P70:5, 5:6.4 The bestowal of personality
is the exclusive function of the Universal Father, the personalization
of the living energy systems which he endows with the attributes of relative
creative consciousness and the freewill control thereof. There is no personality
apart from God the Father, and no personality exists except for God the
Father. The fundamental attributes of human selfhood, as well as the absolute
Adjuster nucleus of the human personality, are the bestowals of the Universal
Father, acting in his exclusively personal domain of cosmic ministry.
P70:6, 5:6.5 The Adjusters
of prepersonal status indwell numerous types of mortal creatures, thus
insuring that these same beings may survive mortal death to personalize
as morontia creatures with the potential of ultimate spirit attainment.
For, when such a creature mind of personality endowment is indwelt by a
fragment of the spirit of the eternal God, the prepersonal bestowal of
the personal Father, then does this finite personality possess the potential
of the divine and the eternal and aspire to a destiny akin to the Ultimate,
even reaching out for a realization of the Absolute.
P71:1, 5:6.6 Capacity
for divine personality is inherent in the prepersonal Adjuster; capacity
for human personality is potential in the cosmic-mind endowment of the
human being. But the experiential personality of mortal man is not observable
as an active and functional reality until after the material life vehicle
of the mortal creature has been touched by the liberating divinity of the
Universal Father, being thus launched upon the seas of experience as a
self-conscious and a (relatively) self-determinative and
self-creative
personality. The material self is truly and unqualifiedly personal.
P71:2, 5:6.7 The material
self has personality and identity, temporal identity; the prepersonal spirit
Adjuster also has identity, eternal identity. This material personality
and this spirit prepersonality are capable of so uniting their creative
attributes as to bring into existence the surviving identity of the immortal
soul.
P71:3, 5:6.8 Having thus
provided for the growth of the immortal soul and having liberated man's
inner self from the fetters of absolute dependence on antecedent causation,
the Father stands aside. Now, man having thus been liberated from the fetters
of causation response, at least as pertains to eternal destiny, and provision
having been made for the growth of the immortal self, the soul, it remains
for man himself to will the creation or to inhibit the creation of this
surviving and eternal self which is his for the choosing. No other being,
force, creator, or agency in all the wide universe of universes can interfere
to any degree with the absolute sovereignty of the mortal free will, as
it operates within the realms of choice, regarding the eternal destiny
of the personality of the choosing mortal. As pertains to eternal survival,
God has decreed the sovereignty of the material and mortal will, and that
decree is absolute.
P71:4, 5:6.9 The bestowal
of creature personality confers relative liberation from slavish response
to antecedent causation, and the personalities of all such moral beings,
evolutionary or otherwise, are centered in the personality of the Universal
Father. They are ever drawn towards his Paradise presence by that kinship
of being which constitutes the vast and universal family circle and fraternal
circuit of the eternal God. There is a kinship of divine spontaneity in
all personality.
P71:5, 5:6.10 The 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.
P71:6, 5:6.11 As 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.
P71:7, 5:6.12 Concerning
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.
P72:1, 5:6.13 And this
represents my efforts to present the relation of the living God to the
children of time. And when all is said and done, I can do nothing more
helpful than to reiterate that God is your universe Father, and that you
are all his planetary children.
P72:2, 5:6.14 [This is
the fifth and last of the series presenting the narrative of the Universal
Father by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]