Part 5: Fundamentals Concerning Soul

The Soul: Origin, Evolution and Destiny

1. Hereditary legacy of cerebral endowment together with the electro-chemical overcontrol -- both operate to limit efficient Adjuster activity. No hereditary handicap (in normal minds) ever prevents eventual spiritual achievement. It can only slow the rate of personality conquest. (see 69; LP -- limitations in relation to survival of soul)

The great problem of life is the adjustment of ancestral tendencies of living to the demands of spiritual urges. In the morontial and spiritual (superuniverse) careers no man can serve two masters. But on Urantia, every man must perforce serve two masters. He must become adept in the art of a continuous human temporal compromise -- while he yields allegiance to but one master.

Unsteady and rapidly shifting mental attitudes often thwart the plans and interrupt the work of Adjusters. This ministry is greatly retarded by your innate natures, pre-conceived opinions, settled ideas, and long standing prejudices. Because of these handicaps, confusion of concept is inevitable.

Safety lies only in the prompt recognition of each and every thought and experience for just what it actually and fundamentally is -- disregarding entirely what we think it might have been.

This is the real search for truth -- a desire for synchrony with the Adjuster. If you will co-operate with your Adjuster the divine gift will sooner or later evolve the soul, and after fusion, will present you (the new creature) to Michael, the sovereign Master Son of the local universe and eventually to the Father of adjusters on Paradise. (1199; #5)

2. The measure of spiritual capacity of soul and human strength of character: (Please read 1740;1 to NL) Every day a true believer lives, he finds it easier to do the right thing.

3. Three factors in the creation of soul

1. The human mind

2. The divine spirit (Thought Adjuster)

3. The relationship between mind and divine spirit, a two-way impulse -- man desiring to know God, and God desiring to know man and his experiences. This is a gradual birth of a soul, a joint offspring of an adjutant mind working with the spiritual forces of the universe, while the Mystery Monitor -- (the Adjuster) is acting over-controller. (read 1218;2 to #3)

4. Soul is an experiential acquirement, a new entity. See 'morontia level'. (9;3)

5. Soul is initiated by the consent of the creature will. (1218; LP)

6. Soul is the embryo of the future morontia vehicle. At first it is wholly morontia in nature. It has capacity for ascension to spirit levels of fusion value.

The mind and the adjuster are conscious of the soul. Soul becomes increasingly conscious of the mind and the Adjuster. (1219;2,3,4) Morontia soul is the child of the universe, known only through cosmic insight and spiritual discovery. This entity is the conjoint child of the human you and the Adjuster; it is the surviving element of terrestrial origin, the morontia self. (1234;2)

When the mind becomes dominated by the leadings of purposive spirit, the result is the production of a new child of the Supreme. (1275; #6,5)

7. The problem: Freewill creativity embraces the potential of freewill destructivity. (1220;LP) The human will determines the destiny. (1217;2) Truly free finite will can cause cosmic self destruction. (1301;5)

Said Jesus, "The soul is the reflective, truth discerning, and spirit-perceiving part of man." "A stagnant soul is a dying soul". (1478;5)

Soul death: If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of the adjuster and the 'surviving' seraphim, and the Censors have verified these findings, the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of the indwelling monitor. (1229;LP)

"From him who has not survival qualities, shall be taken away even that experienced adjuster which he now has, while to him who has survival prospects, shall be given even the pre-experienced Adjuster of a slothful deserter." (1199;1)

The folly of being a half-heart could be perilous to the soul:

(a) The Divine Minister issued a proclamation that nothing be done to half-cure the half-hearted or doubt stricken creatures. She ordered a full disclosure and unlimited opportunity for sin expression, as the quickest technique for achieving the final cure of the plague of evil and sin. (617; NL & LP)

(b) Said Jesus, "...when you see the kingdom being divested of these lukewarm and half-hearted disciples..." (1715; #5,3) "Tradition is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and half-hearted souls who instinctively shun the spirit struggles and mental uncertainties." (1729;NL)

(c) What is wrong with most of us is that we are only half-hearted. We do not love the Master as he loves us. (1923; #3,2 Nathaniel)

8. Soul Survival

1. "And with mortal man, only that mind which freely submits itself to the spirit direction can hope to survive the mortal time-space existence as an immortal child of the eternal spirit world of the Supreme." (484;LP)

2. But mortal mind without immortal spirit cannot survive. (565;2)

3. Survival decisions must here be formulated... Survival decisions are now being confirmed.. When the self attains the spiritual level, it is secure because survival decisions have been made and witnessed by eternal fusion with the adjuster. (1238;2)

4. The secret of survival is wrapped up in the supreme human desire to be God-like and in the associated willingness to do and be any and all things which are essential to the final attainment of that overmastering desire. (1206;1) (Desire: 1216; LP and 69; LP)

5. "Morality is not necessarily spiritual. It may be wholly and purely human..." "Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values." (2096;4 Please read this full page 2096; #2 to LP)

6. "Human survival is in great measure dependent on consecrating the human will to the choosing of those values selected by this spirit-value sorter -- the indwelling interpreter and unifier." (2095;1)

7. "The soul of survival value faithfully reflects both the qualitative and quantitative actions and motivations of the material intellect." (1237; #2) (see below)

9. Enhancing our Concept of Soul

We may enhance our concepts of soul by observing that it is not a spirit circuit, but rather, individualized morontia substance which remains with each individual personality, it is not the personality. It is an acquirement attained by faith that you are a son of God, and by the consciousness of truth. "Truth transcends purely material levels. It consorts with wisdom and embraces human spiritual experiences. Truth originates in the religious experience of spiritual living." (1459;2)

Soul expands and transforms with spirit growth; it abides with the personality as the real self throughout eternity. It is morontial in the earthly life, and in the morontia life it slowly transforms to spirit substance as the mind is spiritized in the ascension toward Paradise.

Soul is not the mind, but it is minded (intelligent); it is distinct from the in-dwelling divine spirit; it is a new entity, an embryo. It is the surviving element -- a conjoint child of mortal mind and the indwelling divine spirit. It is indestructible after fusion. It functions as your spiritualized mind when the Supreme actualizes! Soul is not a static thing; it is your real self. It is alive. It partakes of both material mind and the divine spirit -- hence, soul is morontial. It fosters a function in the mind whose meanings seek to co-ordinate with true Spirit value, thereby evolving toward augmentation of spirit control. It is the pearl of the universe.

As it progresses in truth, beauty, and goodness, and the personality (through mind) unifies energy and spirit more and more, the soul goes on and on becoming more powerful, eventually harmonizing with, and becoming more like an image of the Supreme. And then on to God the Ultimate, and hopefully to the realization of the attainment goal of God the Absolute. It is impossible to comprehend lowly mortals ascending to such universe stature, but this is the purpose of soul.

Next: Qualitative and Quantitative Soul Growth

A service of
The Urantia Book Fellowship
Serving the Readership since 1955