유란시아 책
III 부. 유란시아의 역사
Paper 112
Personality Survival
Personality Survival
진화하는 행성들은 인간이 기원{起源}되는 구체, 즉 상승하는 필사자 생애가 시작되는 세계다. 유란시아는 너의 출발지점이며;여기서 너와 너의 신성한 사고 섭리사가 일시적으로 합동하고 있다. 너는 완전한 안내자를 부여받았으며;따라서, 네가 시간의 경주를 진지하게 달려가고, 신앙의 최종 목표를 달성하면, 오랜 세월에 대한 보상은 너의 것이 될 것이며;너에게 내주하는 섭리사와 너는 영원히 결합할 것이다. 그렇게 되면, 너의 진짜 인생, 즉 상승하는 삶이 시작될 것이고, 너의 현 필사 상태는 거기에 이르는 접근로{接近路}에 지나지 않는다. 그러면 너의 앞에 펼쳐지는 영원 속에서, 너의 고귀하고 진취적인 사명이 완결성취자로서 시작될 것이다. 이 모든 연속되는 시대들 내내 그리고 진화 성장의 모든 단계에서, 전혀 변화되지 않은 한 부분이 너에게 남게 되는데, 그것이 --변화에 직면해서도 불변하는-- 인격이다.
112:0.1 (1225.1)
THE evolutionary planets are the spheres of human origin, the initial worlds of the ascending mortal career. Urantia is your starting point; here you and your divine Thought Adjuster are joined in temporary union. You have been endowed with a perfect guide; therefore, if you will sincerely run the race of time and gain the final goal of faith, the reward of the ages shall be yours; you will be eternally united with your indwelling Adjuster. Then will begin your real life, the ascending life, to which your present mortal state is but the vestibule. Then will begin your exalted and progressive mission as finaliters in the eternity which stretches out before you. And throughout all of these successive ages and stages of evolutionary growth, there is one part of you that remains absolutely unaltered, and that is personality—permanence in the presence of change.
112:0.12 (1225.12)
10. Personality is unique, absolutely unique: It is unique in time and space; it is unique in eternity and on Paradise; it is unique when bestowed—there are no duplicates; it is unique during every moment of existence; it is unique in relation to God—he is no respecter of persons, but neither does he add them together, for they are nonaddable—they are associable but nontotalable.
112:1.1 (1226.5)
Personality is bestowed by the Universal Father upon his creatures as a potentially eternal endowment. Such a divine gift is designed to function on numerous levels and in successive universe situations ranging from the lowly finite to the highest absonite, even to the borders of the absolute. Personality thus performs on three cosmic planes or in three universe phases:
112:1.9 (1226.13)
The type of personality bestowed upon Urantia mortals has a potentiality of seven dimensions of self-expression or person-realization. These dimensional phenomena are realizable as three on the finite level, three on the absonite level, and one on the absolute level. On subabsolute levels this seventh or totality dimension is experiencible as the fact of personality. This supreme dimension is an associable absolute and, while not infinite, is dimensionally potential for subinfinite penetration of the absolute.
112:1.11 (1227.1)
On the morontia level all of these finite dimensions of the material level are greatly enhanced, and certain new dimensional values are realizable. All these enlarged dimensional experiences of the morontia level are marvelously articulated with the supreme or personality dimension through the influence of mota and also because of the contribution of morontia mathematics.
112:1.13 (1227.3)
Life is really a process which takes place between the organism (selfhood) and its environment. The personality imparts value of identity and meanings of continuity to this organismal-environmental association. Thus it will be recognized that the phenomenon of stimulus-response is not a mere mechanical process since the personality functions as a factor in the total situation. It is ever true that mechanisms are innately passive; organisms, inherently active.
112:1.14 (1227.4)
Physical life is a process taking place not so much within the organism as between the organism and the environment. And every such process tends to create and establish organismal patterns of reaction to such an environment. And all such directive patterns are highly influential in goal choosing.
112:1.17 (1227.7)
But the concept of the personality as the meaning of the whole of the living and functioning creature means much more than the integration of relationships; it signifies the unification of all factors of reality as well as co-ordination of relationships. Relationships exist between two objects, but three or more objects eventuate a system, and such a system is much more than just an enlarged or complex relationship. This distinction is vital, for in a cosmic system the individual members are not connected with each other except in relation to the whole and through the individuality of the whole.
112:1.19 (1227.9)
In aggregations parts are added; in systems parts are arranged. Systems are significant because of organization—positional values. In a good system all factors are in cosmic position. In a bad system something is either missing or displaced—deranged. In the human system it is the personality which unifies all activities and in turn imparts the qualities of identity and creativity.
하나님께서 사람이 되시는 우주 사건이, 인간 인격의 모든 의미를 변화시켰고, 모든 가치를 영구히 바꿔버렸다. 단어의 참된 의미에서 사랑은, 인간의 경우든지 신의 경우든지, 아니면 인간의 경우인 동시에 신의 경우든지, 모든 인격체들의 상호 관심을 의미한다. 자아의 부분들은 여러 방법으로--곧 생각하기, 느끼기, 소망하기로-- 작용할지 모르지만, 전{全} 인격의 조화된 속성들은 오직 지성적 행동에 초점이 맞춰져있으며;이 모든 능력은, 인간이든지 신이든지 다른 존재를, 한 인간이 진심으로 그리고 이타심{利他心}으로 사랑할 때, 필사 정신의 영적 재능과 연합된다.
112:2.7 (1228.2)
The universe fact of God’s becoming man has forever changed all meanings and altered all values of human personality. In the true meaning of the word, love connotes mutual regard of whole personalities, whether human or divine or human and divine. Parts of the self may function in numerous ways—thinking, feeling, wishing—but only the co-ordinated attributes of the whole personality are focused in intelligent action; and all of these powers are associated with the spiritual endowment of the mortal mind when a human being sincerely and unselfishly loves another being, human or divine.
112:2.8 (1228.3)
All mortal concepts of reality are based on the assumption of the actuality of human personality; all concepts of superhuman realities are based on the experience of the human personality with and in the cosmic realities of certain associated spiritual entities and divine personalities. Everything nonspiritual in human experience, excepting personality, is a means to an end. Every true relationship of mortal man with other persons—human or divine—is an end in itself. And such fellowship with the personality of Deity is the eternal goal of universe ascension.
112:2.9 (1228.4)
The possession of personality identifies man as a spiritual being since the unity of selfhood and the self-consciousness of personality are endowments of the supermaterial world. The very fact that a mortal materialist can deny the existence of supermaterial realities in and of itself demonstrates the presence, and indicates the working, of spirit synthesis and cosmic consciousness in his human mind.
112:2.10 (1228.5)
There exists a great cosmic gulf between matter and thought, and this gulf is immeasurably greater between material mind and spiritual love. Consciousness, much less self-consciousness, cannot be explained by any theory of mechanistic electronic association or materialistic energy phenomena.
정신이 궁극적 분석에 이르기까지 실체를 추적할 때, 물질은 물질적 감각에서는 사라지지만, 정신에는 여전히 실재로서 남아있을 수 있다. 물질이 사라진 후에 남아있는 바로 그 실체를 영적 통찰력이 추적하고 궁극적 분석에 이르기까지 추구할 때, 실체는 정신에서 사라지지만, 영의 통찰력은 여전히 시공우주 실체들과 영적 본성의 최고 가치를 감지할 수 있다. 따라서 과학은 철학에게 길을 비켜주고, 한편 철학은 참된 영적 체험에 선천적으로 들어있는 결론에 굴복해야한다. 사색{思索}은 지혜에게 무릎을 꿇으며, 개화되고 사려 깊은 경배 속에서 지혜는 사라진다.
112:2.11 (1228.6)
As mind pursues reality to its ultimate analysis, matter vanishes to the material senses but may still remain real to mind. When spiritual insight pursues that reality which remains after the disappearance of matter and pursues it to an ultimate analysis, it vanishes to mind, but the insight of spirit can still perceive cosmic realities and supreme values of a spiritual nature. Accordingly does science give way to philosophy, while philosophy must surrender to the conclusions inherent in genuine spiritual experience. Thinking surrenders to wisdom, and wisdom is lost in enlightened and reflective worship.
112:2.12 (1228.7)
In science the human self observes the material world; philosophy is the observation of this observation of the material world; religion, true spiritual experience, is the experiential realization of the cosmic reality of the observation of the observation of all this relative synthesis of the energy materials of time and space. To build a philosophy of the universe on an exclusive materialism is to ignore the fact that all things material are initially conceived as real in the experience of human consciousness. The observer cannot be the thing observed; evaluation demands some degree of transcendence of the thing which is evaluated.
112:2.14 (1229.1)
The possibility of the unification of the evolving self is inherent in the qualities of its constitutive factors: the basic energies, the master tissues, the fundamental chemical overcontrol, the supreme ideas, the supreme motives, the supreme goals, and the divine spirit of Paradise bestowal—the secret of the self-consciousness of man’s spiritual nature.
112:2.15 (1229.2)
The purpose of cosmic evolution is to achieve unity of personality through increasing spirit dominance, volitional response to the teaching and leading of the Thought Adjuster. Personality, both human and superhuman, is characterized by an inherent cosmic quality which may be called “the evolution of dominance,” the expansion of the control of both itself and its environment.
물질적 자아 곧 인간 정체성의 자아-실재는, 육체로 사는 동안에 물질 생명을 운반하는 수단이 계속 작용하는 데 의존하고, 에너지와 지능의 불안정한 평형{平衡}이 계속 실존하는 데 의존하며, 유란시아에서는 이것을 생명이라고 불러 왔다. 그러나 생존할만한 가치가 있는 자아성, 즉 죽는 체험을 초월할 수 있는 자아성은, 오직 일시적 생명 운반체로부터--곧 물질적 육신으로부터-- 더 영구적이고 불멸적인 본성을 지닌 모론시아 혼에 이르기까지, 그리고 계속해서 혼이 영 실체로 주입되고 결국 영 실체 상태를 달성하는 그런 수준까지, 진화하는 인격 정체성의 자리를 이동할 수 있는 잠재성을 확립함으로써 겨우 진화된다. 물질적 연합으로부터 모론시아 정체성확인까지 이렇게 실제로 이동하는 것은, 인간 피조물이 하나님을-추구하려는, 성실하고 지속적이고 불변하는 결정을 내림으로써 이뤄진다.
112:2.20 (1229.7)
The 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.
1. 영적 죽음(곧 혼의 죽음). 만일 필사적 사람이 생존하기를 최종으로 거부하면, 생존하는 스라빔과 섭리사의 공동 견해에 따라서, 영적 파멸, 즉 모론시아 면에서 파산했다는 선고가 내려지고, 그런 일치된 권고가 우버사에 기록되고 나서, 검열관들 및 그들의 반사하는 동역자들이 이 조사 결과를 확인한 후에, 그 결과로 오르본톤 통치자들은 내주하는 관찰자를 즉시 해방시키라고 명령한다. 그러나 섭리사가 이렇게 해방되는 것은, 섭리사를-포기한 그 개인과 관련된 개인 스라빔 또는 집단 스라빔의 임무에 어떤 방법으로도 영향을 미치지 않는다. 이런 종류의 죽음은, 육체적 장치와 정신적 장치의 살아있는 에너지가 일시적으로 존속되는 것에 상관없이, 최종 의미를 갖는다. 시공우주 관점에서 그 필사자는 이미 죽었으며;계속되는 생명은, 다만 시공우주 에너지의 물질적 잔여 운동력이 지속됨을 의미할 뿐이다.
112:3.2 (1229.9)
1. Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, when he has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of the Adjuster and the surviving seraphim, when such co-ordinate advice has been recorded on Uversa, and after the Censors and their reflective associates have verified these findings, thereupon do the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of the indwelling Monitor. But this release of the Adjuster in no way affects the duties of the personal or group seraphim concerned with that Adjuster-abandoned individual. This kind of death is final in its significance irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living energies of the physical and mind mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is already dead; the continuing life merely indicates the persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies.
2. 지적 죽음(곧 정신의 죽음). 높은 보조 직무에 관련된 중대한 회로들이, 지능의 착란을 통하여, 또는 뇌의 구조 중에서 일부가 파괴됨으로 인하여 분열될 때, 그리고 이 상태가 회복 불가능한 어떤 한계점을 벗어나게 되면, 내주하는 섭리사는 즉시 해방되어 디비닝톤으로 떠난다. 우주 기록에 의하면, 인간 의지-작용의 본질적 정신 회로들이 파괴될 때에는 언제든지, 필사 인격체는 죽은 것으로 간주된다. 다시 말해서, 이것은 물질 육체의 생명 장치가 계속 기능을 발휘하느냐에 상관없이, 죽은 것이다. 의지가 작용하는 정신을 제외한 육체는 더 이상 인간이 아니지만, 그런 개인의 혼{魂}은, 인간 의지가 전에 결정한 바에 따라 생존할 수 있다.
112:3.3 (1230.1)
2. Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive.
112:3.4 (1230.2)
3. Physical (body and mind) death. When death overtakes a human being, the Adjuster remains in the citadel of the mind until it ceases to function as an intelligent mechanism, about the time that the measurable brain energies cease their rhythmic vital pulsations. Following this dissolution the Adjuster takes leave of the vanishing mind, just as unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and proceeds to Divinington by way of Uversa.
죽은 뒤에 물질적 육체는 그것이 유래됐던 원소계{元素界}로 돌아가지만, 생존하는 인격의 두 가지 비물질 요소는 존속하는데:선재{先在}하는 사고 섭리사는, 필사자 생애의 기억을 기록한 이력서와 함께 디비닝톤으로 나아가며;또한 죽은 인간의 불멸하는 모론시아 혼은 운명 수호자의 보호 속에 남는다. 혼의 이 국면과 형태, 즉 한때 활동적이었으나 이제는 정지된 정체성 형식은, 모론시아 세계에서 다시 인격화되는 데 필수이며;그 섭리사와 혼이 재결합함으로써, 생존하는 인격이 다시 조립되는데, 모론시아 부활 때에 너에게 의식이 돌아오도록 만든다.
112:3.5 (1230.3)
After death the material body returns to the elemental world from which it was derived, but two nonmaterial factors of surviving personality persist: The pre-existent Thought Adjuster, with the memory transcription of the mortal career, proceeds to Divinington; and there also remains, in the custody of the destiny guardian, the immortal morontia soul of the deceased human. These phases and forms of soul, these once kinetic but now static formulas of identity, are essential to repersonalization on the morontia worlds; and it is the reunion of the Adjuster and the soul that reassembles the surviving personality, that reconsciousizes you at the time of the morontia awakening.
사고 섭리사는 죽음과 함께 일시적으로 인격을 잃지만, 정체성은 잃지 않으며;인간 상대자는 일시적으로 정체성을 잃지만, 인격은 잃지 않으며;맨션 세계들에서 이 둘은 영원히 형태화되면서 재결합한다. 떠났던 사고 섭리사는 전에 내주했던 존재로서는 이 땅으로 결코 돌아오지 않으며;인격은 인간의 의지 없이 결코 나타나지 않으며;섭리사와-분리된 인간이 죽은 후에는 실제적인 정체성을 결코 나타내지 않고, 어떤 방법으로도 지구에 살아있는 존재들과 대화하지 않는다. 섭리사와-분리된 그런 혼은, 죽음 속에 길거나 짧게 잠들어있는 동안, 완전히 그리고 절대로 의식이 없다. 생존이 완성될 때까지, 다른 인격체들과 교통할 수 있는 어떤 종류의 인격이나 역량도 발휘될 수 없다. 맨션 세계로 가는 자는, 자신이 사랑하던 자들에게 거꾸로 소식을 보내는 것이 허용되지 않는다. 현 섭리시대 동안에는, 우주 전역에서 그런 소통이 정책상 금지돼있다.
112:3.7 (1230.5)
Upon death the Thought Adjuster temporarily loses personality, but not identity; the human subject temporarily loses identity, but not personality; on the mansion worlds both reunite in eternal manifestation. Never does a departed Thought Adjuster return to earth as the being of former indwelling; never is personality manifested without the human will; and never does a dis-Adjustered human being after death manifest active identity or in any manner establish communication with the living beings of earth. Such dis-Adjustered souls are wholly and absolutely unconscious during the long or short sleep of death. There can be no exhibition of any sort of personality or ability to engage in communications with other personalities until after completion of survival. Those who go to the mansion worlds are not permitted to send messages back to their loved ones. It is the policy throughout the universes to forbid such communication during the period of a current dispensation.
112:4.1 (1231.1)
When death of a material, intellectual, or spiritual nature occurs, the Adjuster bids farewell to the mortal host and departs for Divinington. From the headquarters of the local universe and the superuniverse a reflective contact is made with the supervisors of both governments, and the Monitor is registered out by the same number that recorded entry into the domains of time.
충분히 이해되지 않는 어떤 방법으로, 내주됐던 정신의 영적 가치와 모론시아 의미를 지닌 섭리사의 이중{二重} 사본에 담긴 대로, 우주 검열관들은 그 인간 생애의 개요{槪要}를 소유할 수 있다. 검열관들은, 죽은 인간의 생존하는 성품과 영적 특성에 관한 섭리사의 소견을 이용할 수 있으며, 이 모든 자료는, 스랍의 기록과 함께, 관련된 그 개인이 판결 받을 때 제시될 수 있다. 이 정보는 또한, 어떤 필사자가 죽은 후에 상승자로서 즉시 모론시아 생애를 시작하고, 행성의 섭리시대가 정식으로 종료되기 전에 맨션 세계들로 나아갈 수 있게 만드는, 연방우주 명령을 확인하는 데에도 활용된다.
112:4.2 (1231.2)
In some way not fully understood, the Universal Censors are able to gain possession of an epitome of the human life as it is embodied in the Adjuster’s duplicate transcription of the spiritual values and morontia meanings of the indwelt mind. The Censors are able to appropriate the Adjuster’s version of the deceased human’s survival character and spiritual qualities, and all this data, together with the seraphic records, is available for presentation at the time of the adjudication of the individual concerned. This information is also used to confirm those superuniverse mandates which make it possible for certain ascenders immediately to begin their morontia careers, upon mortal dissolution to proceed to the mansion worlds ahead of the formal termination of a planetary dispensation.
112:4.3 (1231.3)
Subsequent to physical death, except in individuals translated from among the living, the released Adjuster goes immediately to the home sphere of Divinington. The details of what transpires on that world during the time of awaiting the factual reappearance of the surviving mortal depend chiefly on whether the human being ascends to the mansion worlds in his own individual right or awaits a dispensational summoning of the sleeping survivors of a planetary age.
만약에, 죽음이 너에게 닥칠 때, 네가 셋째 궤도 또는 더 높은 영역을 달성했고, 그리하여 개인 운명 수호자가 너에게 배정돼있다면, 그리고 섭리사가 제출한 생존하는 성품에 대하여 요약한 최종 이력서를, 운명 수호자가 조건 없이 보증한다면--곧 스라빔과 섭리사가 그들이 작성한 생명 기록부와 추천서의 모든 항목에 근본적으로 동의한다면--, 우주 검열관들과 우버사에 있는 그들의 반사 동역자들이 이 자료를 확인하면서 얼버무리거나 보류함 없이 그렇게 한다면, 그런 경우에, 승진된 신분을 허락하는 명령을, 살빙톤으로 가는 통신 회로를 통하여, 태고 항존자들이 번개처럼 하달하며, 그렇게 발표되면, 생존하는 그 혼을 맨션 세계의 부활실까지 즉시 통과시키라고, 네바돈의 주권자 법정이 명령한다.
112:4.12 (1231.12)
If, when death overtakes you, you have attained the third circle or a higher realm and therefore have had assigned to you a personal guardian of destiny, and if the final transcript of the summary of survival character submitted by the Adjuster is unconditionally certified by the destiny guardian—if both seraphim and Adjuster essentially agree in every item of their life records and recommendations—if the Universal Censors and their reflective associates on Uversa confirm this data and do so without equivocation or reservation, in that event the Ancients of Days flash forth the mandate of advanced standing over the communication circuits to Salvington, and, thus released, the tribunals of the Sovereign of Nebadon will decree the immediate passage of the surviving soul to the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds.
112:4.13 (1232.1)
If the human individual survives without delay, the Adjuster, so I am instructed, registers at Divinington, proceeds to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father, returns immediately and is embraced by the Personalized Adjusters of the superuniverse and local universe of assignment, receives the recognition of the chief Personalized Monitor of Divinington, and then, at once, passes into the “realization of identity transition,” being summoned therefrom on the third period and on the mansion world in the actual personality form made ready for the reception of the surviving soul of the earth mortal as that form has been projected by the guardian of destiny.
112:5.1 (1232.2)
Selfhood is a cosmic reality whether material, morontial, or spiritual. The actuality of the personal is the bestowal of the Universal Father acting in and of himself or through his manifold universe agencies. To say that a being is personal is to recognize the relative individuation of such a being within the cosmic organism. The living cosmos is an all but infinitely integrated aggregation of real units, all of which are relatively subject to the destiny of the whole. But those that are personal have been endowed with the actual choice of destiny acceptance or of destiny rejection.
아버지로부터 오는 것은, 아버지께서 영원하신 것처럼 영원하며, 이것은 하나님의 실제 단편인 신성한 사고 섭리사의 경우에 참인 것처럼, 인격의 경우에도 똑같이 참인데, 하나님께서는 자신의 자유의지로 결정하여 인격을 주신다. 사람의 인격은 영원하지만, 정체성으로 본다면 조건적으로 영원한 실체다. 아버지 뜻에 응하여 나타났기 때문에, 인격은 신격 운명에 도달하겠으나, 사람은 그런 운명 달성에 참여할 것인지 아닌지 선택해야한다. 그런 선택이 이행되지 않을 경우에, 인격은 체험적 신격에 직접 도달하고, 지존하신 분의 한 부분이 된다. 그 순환은 운명으로 정해져있지만, 사람이 거기에 참여하는 것은 선택적이고, 개인적이고, 또한 체험적이다.
112:5.2 (1232.3)
That which comes from the Father is like the Father eternal, and this is just as true of personality, which God gives by his own freewill choice, as it is of the divine Thought Adjuster, an actual fragment of God. Man’s personality is eternal but with regard to identity a conditioned eternal reality. Having appeared in response to the Father’s will, personality will attain Deity destiny, but man must choose whether or not he will be present at the attainment of such destiny. In default of such choice, personality attains experiential Deity directly, becoming a part of the Supreme Being. The cycle is foreordained, but man’s participation therein is optional, personal, and experiential.
112:5.3 (1232.4)
Mortal identity is a transient time-life condition in the universe; it is real only in so far as the personality elects to become a continuing universe phenomenon. This is the essential difference between man and an energy system: The energy system must continue, it has no choice; but man has everything to do with determining his own destiny. The Adjuster is truly the path to Paradise, but man himself must pursue that path by his own deciding, his freewill choosing.
인간은 오직 물질적 의미에서만 정체성을 갖는다. 물질 정신이 지능의 에너지 체계 안에서 작용하는 대로, 물질 정신이 자아의 그런 특성을 표현한다. 사람이 정체성을 갖는다고 말할 때, 인간 인격이 행동하고 그 의지가 선택하는 데 복종하도록 놓인 정신 궤도를, 그가 소유했음이 인정된다. 그러나 태아가 일시적으로 모태에 붙어있는 단계인 것과 마찬가지로, 이것은 물질적이고 순전히 임시적인 형태화다. 시공우주 입장에서 본다면, 인간은 비교적 한 순간에 태어나고, 살다가, 죽으며;오래 지속되지 않는다. 그러나 필사자의 인격은, 자신의 선택을 통하여, 잠시 있는 물질-지능 체계로부터 더 높은 모론시아-혼 체계로, 그 정체성의 자리를 옮겨주는 능력을 지니는데, 그 혼은 사고 섭리사와 연합하여, 인격을 명백히 나타내는 새 운반체로서 창조된다.
112:5.4 (1232.5)
Human beings possess identity only in the material sense. Such qualities of the self are expressed by the material mind as it functions in the energy system of the intellect. When it is said that man has identity, it is recognized that he is in possession of a mind circuit which has been placed in subordination to the acts and choosing of the will of the human personality. But this is a material and purely temporary manifestation, just as the human embryo is a transient parasitic stage of human life. Human beings, from a cosmic perspective, are born, live, and die in a relative instant of time; they are not enduring. But mortal personality, through its own choosing, possesses the power of transferring its seat of identity from the passing material-intellect system to the higher morontia-soul system which, in association with the Thought Adjuster, is created as a new vehicle for personality manifestation.
112:5.5 (1233.1)
And it is this very power of choice, the universe insignia of freewill creaturehood, that constitutes man’s greatest opportunity and his supreme cosmic responsibility. Upon the integrity of the human volition depends the eternal destiny of the future finaliter; upon the sincerity of the mortal free will the divine Adjuster depends for eternal personality; upon the faithfulness of mortal choice the Universal Father depends for the realization of a new ascending son; upon the steadfastness and wisdom of decision-actions the Supreme Being depends for the actuality of experiential evolution.
112:5.6 (1233.2)
Though 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.
112:5.7 (1233.3)
If ever there is doubt as to the advisability of advancing a human identity to the mansion worlds, the universe governments invariably rule in the personal interests of that individual; they unhesitatingly advance such a soul to the status of a transitional being, while they continue their observations of the emerging morontia intent and spiritual purpose. Thus divine justice is certain of achievement, and divine mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its ministry.
112:5.8 (1233.4)
The governments of Orvonton and Nebadon do not claim absolute perfection for the detail working of the universal plan of mortal repersonalization, but they do claim to, and actually do, manifest patience, tolerance, understanding, and merciful sympathy. We had rather assume the risk of a system rebellion than to court the hazard of depriving one struggling mortal from any evolutionary world of the eternal joy of pursuing the ascending career.
112:5.9 (1233.5)
This does not mean that human beings are to enjoy a second opportunity in the face of the rejection of a first, not at all. But it does signify that all will creatures are to experience one true opportunity to make one undoubted, self-conscious, and final choice. The sovereign Judges of the universes will not deprive any being of personality status who has not finally and fully made the eternal choice; the soul of man must and will be given full and ample opportunity to reveal its true intent and real purpose.
112:5.10 (1233.6)
When the more spiritually and cosmically advanced mortals die, they proceed immediately to the mansion worlds; in general, this provision operates with those who have had assigned to them personal seraphic guardians. Other mortals may be detained until such time as the adjudication of their affairs has been completed, after which they may proceed to the mansion worlds, or they may be assigned to the ranks of the sleeping survivors who will be repersonalized en masse at the end of the current planetary dispensation.
죽음에 처한 너, 즉 떠나가는 섭리사와는 다른, 생존하는 너에게 다만 무엇이 일어나는가를 설명하려고 애쓰는 나를 훼방하는 두 가지 어려움이 있다. 그 가운데 하나는, 물리적 영역과 모론시아 영역의 경계지점에서 생기는 진행사항에 대하여, 네가 납득할 수 있는 수준으로 적절히 표현하기가 불가능한 데 있다. 다른 하나는, 유란시아의 하늘 통치 당국이, 진리 계시자로서의 내 위원회에 부과한 제한 때문에 생긴다. 보여줄 만한 흥미 있는 내용이 많이 있지만, 나는 너희의 직속 행성 감독관들의 충고에 따라서, 그것들을 제외한다. 그러나 나에게 허락된 범위 내에서 다음과 같은 정도는 말할 수 있다:
112:5.11 (1233.7)
There are two difficulties that hamper my efforts to explain just what happens to you in death, the surviving you which is distinct from the departing Adjuster. One of these consists in the impossibility of conveying to your level of comprehension an adequate description of a transaction on the borderland of the physical and morontia realms. The other is brought about by the restrictions placed upon my commission as a revelator of truth by the celestial governing authorities of Urantia. There are many interesting details which might be presented, but I withhold them upon the advice of your immediate planetary supervisors. But within the limits of my permission I can say this much:
112:5.12 (1234.1)
There is something real, something of human evolution, something additional to the Mystery Monitor, which survives death. This newly appearing entity is the soul, and it survives the death of both your physical body and your material mind. This entity is the conjoint child of the combined life and efforts of the human you in liaison with the divine you, the Adjuster. This child of human and divine parentage constitutes the surviving element of terrestrial origin; it is the morontia self, the immortal soul.
112:5.13 (1234.2)
This child of persisting meaning and surviving value is wholly unconscious during the period from death to repersonalization and is in the keeping of the seraphic destiny guardian throughout this season of waiting. You will not function as a conscious being, following death, until you attain the new consciousness of morontia on the mansion worlds of Satania.
112:5.14 (1234.3)
At death the functional identity associated with the human personality is disrupted through the cessation of vital motion. Human personality, while transcending its constituent parts, is dependent on them for functional identity. The stoppage of life destroys the physical brain patterns for mind endowment, and the disruption of mind terminates mortal consciousness. The consciousness of that creature cannot subsequently reappear until a cosmic situation has been arranged which will permit the same human personality again to function in relationship with living energy.
생존하는 필사자들이 기원된 세계에서 맨션 세계로 운반되는 동안에는, 그들이 셋째 기간에 인격의 재조립을 체험하든지 아니면 집단으로 부활할 때 상승하든지 상관없이, 인격의 본질에 대한 기록은, 천사장들이 특별하게 활동하는 세계들에서 그들 덕분에 정확하게 보존된다. 이 존재들은 (수호하는 스라빔이 혼의 보관자인 것처럼) 인격 보관자는 아니지만, 그럼에도 정체성을 확인할 수 있는 모든 인격 요소는, 필사자의 생존을 관리하는 믿을만한 이 보관자들의 보호를 받아서, 효과적으로 지켜지는 것이 사실이다. 죽음과 생존 사이에 개재돼있는 시간 동안에 필사자의 인격이 정확하게 어디 있는지, 우리는 알지 못한다.
112:5.15 (1234.4)
During the transit of surviving mortals from the world of origin to the mansion worlds, whether they experience personality reassembly on the third period or ascend at the time of a group resurrection, the record of personality constitution is faithfully preserved by the archangels on their worlds of special activities. These beings are not the custodians of personality (as the guardian seraphim are of the soul), but it is nonetheless true that every identifiable factor of personality is effectually safeguarded in the custody of these dependable trustees of mortal survival. As to the exact whereabouts of mortal personality during the time intervening between death and survival, we do not know.
112:5.16 (1234.5)
The situation which makes repersonalization possible is brought about in the resurrection halls of the morontia receiving planets of a local universe. Here in these life-assembly chambers the supervising authorities provide that relationship of universe energy—morontial, mindal, and spiritual—which makes possible the reconsciousizing of the sleeping survivor. The reassembly of the constituent parts of a onetime material personality involves:
112:5.18 (1234.7)
2. The return of the Adjuster to the waiting morontia creature. The Adjuster is the eternal custodian of your ascending identity; your Monitor is the absolute assurance that you yourself and not another will occupy the morontia form created for your personality awakening. And the Adjuster will be present at your personality reassembly to take up once more the role of Paradise guide to your surviving self.
112:5.19 (1235.1)
3. When these prerequisites of repersonalization have been assembled, the seraphic custodian of the potentialities of the slumbering immortal soul, with the assistance of numerous cosmic personalities, bestows this morontia entity upon and in the awaiting morontia mind-body form while committing this evolutionary child of the Supreme to eternal association with the waiting Adjuster. And this completes the repersonalization, reassembly of memory, insight, and consciousness—identity.
다시 인격화한다는 사실은, 깨어나는 인간 자아가 새롭게 분리된 시공우주 정신의 회로화된 모론시아 국면을 붙잡는 것이다. 인격이라는 현상은, 우주 환경에 대해 자아가 반응하는 정체성이 영속하는 데 의존하며;이것은 오직 정신이라는 매개체를 통해서만 이뤄질 수 있다. 자아성은, 자아의 구성 성분인 모든 요소가 계속 변화함에도 불구하고 지속되며;그 변화는 육신의 삶에서 점진적이며;그 변화는 죽었다가 다시 인격화될 때 돌연히 발생한다. 모든 자아성의 진정한 실체는(곧 인격은), 그 구성 요소들이 끊임없이 변하는 덕분으로, 우주 상황에 민감하게 활동할 수 있으며;정체 상태는 필연적 죽음에 이르러서 끝난다. 인간의 생명은, 불변하는 안정된 인격이 통합하는 생명 요소들의 끝없는 변화다.
112:5.20 (1235.2)
The fact of repersonalization consists in the seizure of the encircuited morontia phase of the newly segregated cosmic mind by the awakening human self. The phenomenon of personality is dependent on the persistence of the identity of selfhood reaction to universe environment; and this can only be effected through the medium of mind. Selfhood persists in spite of a continuous change in all the factor components of self; in the physical life the change is gradual; at death and upon repersonalization the change is sudden. The true reality of all selfhood (personality) is able to function responsively to universe conditions by virtue of the unceasing changing of its constituent parts; stagnation terminates in inevitable death. Human life is an endless change of the factors of life unified by the stability of the unchanging personality.
이처럼 네가 예루셈 맨션 세계에서 깨어날 때, 너는 몹시 변화돼있고, 영적 변형은 대단히 클 것이며, 그래서 너의 사고 섭리사와 운명 수호천사가, 새 세계들에서 너의 새 생활을, 첫 세계에서 있었던 옛 생활과 아주 충분히 연결시켜주는데, 만약 이들이 없다면, 너는 새 모론시아 의식을 너의 소생되는 예전 정체성에 대한 기억과 연결시키기에 처음에는 어려움을 겪을 것이다. 인격있는 자아성이 계속되는데도, 필사자 생애 가운데 대부분이, 처음에는 희미하고 몽롱한 꿈처럼 보일지 모른다. 그러나 시간이 지나면서 많은 필사자 관계가 명료해질 것이다.
112:5.21 (1235.3)
And when you thus awaken on the mansion worlds of Jerusem, you will be so changed, the spiritual transformation will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Adjuster and the destiny guardian, who so fully connect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you would at first have difficulty in connecting the new morontia consciousness with the reviving memory of your previous identity. Notwithstanding the continuity of personal selfhood, much of the mortal life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clarify many mortal associations.
사고 섭리사는, 오직 너의 우주 생애의 일부분이고 그 생애에 필수인 기억과 체험들만, 너를 위하여 다시 불러오고 숙달시킬 것이다. 인간 정신 속에 있는 무언가를 진화시키는 데 섭리사가 동반자였다면, 이 가치-있는 체험들은 그 섭리사의 영원한 의식 속에서 살아남을 것이다. 그러나 너의 과거 인생과 그 기억 가운데 많은 것은, 영적 의미도 없고 모론시아 가치도 없기 때문에, 물질 뇌와 함께 사라질 것이며;너를 모론시아 수준으로 가도록 다리 놨던 물질 체험 대부분은, 우주에서 어떤 목적에 더 이상 소용되지 않는 한 번의 발판으로 지나가버릴 것이다. 그러나 인격, 그리고 인격체들 간의 관계는, 결코 발판 역할이 아니며;인격체로서 가졌던 관계들에 대한 필사자의 기억은, 시공우주 가치가 있고 영속할 것이다. 맨션 세계에 가면, 짧지만 흥미로웠던 유란시아 생애 동안 한때 관계를 가졌던 동역자들을 네가 알아보고, 또한 그들도 너를 알 것이며, 더욱이 너는 그들을 기억하고, 그들도 너를 기억할 것이다.
112:5.22 (1235.4)
The Thought Adjuster will recall and rehearse for you only those memories and experiences which are a part of, and essential to, your universe career. If the Adjuster has been a partner in the evolution of aught in the human mind, then will these worth-while experiences survive in the eternal consciousness of the Adjuster. But much of your past life and its memories, having neither spiritual meaning nor morontia value, will perish with the material brain; much of material experience will pass away as onetime scaffolding which, having bridged you over to the morontia level, no longer serves a purpose in the universe. But personality and the relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist. On the mansion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will remember, and be remembered by, your onetime associates in the short but intriguing life on Urantia.
112:6.1 (1235.5)
Just as a butterfly emerges from the caterpillar stage, so will the true personalities of human beings emerge on the mansion worlds, for the first time revealed apart from their onetime enshroudment in the material flesh. The morontia career in the local universe has to do with the continued elevation of the personality mechanism from the beginning morontia level of soul existence up to the final morontia level of progressive spirituality.
112:6.2 (1235.6)
It is difficult to instruct you regarding your morontia personality forms for the local universe career. You will be endowed with morontia patterns of personality manifestability, and these are investments which, in the last analysis, are beyond your comprehension. Such forms, while entirely real, are not energy patterns of the material order which you now understand. They do, however, serve the same purpose on the local universe worlds as do your material bodies on the planets of human nativity.
112:6.3 (1236.1)
To a certain extent, the appearance of the material body-form is responsive to the character of the personality identity; the physical body does, to a limited degree, reflect something of the inherent nature of the personality. Still more so does the morontia form. In the physical life, mortals may be outwardly beautiful though inwardly unlovely; in the morontia life, and increasingly on its higher levels, the personality form will vary directly in accordance with the nature of the inner person. On the spiritual level, outward form and inner nature begin to approximate complete identification, which grows more and more perfect on higher and higher spirit levels.
모론시아 상태에서, 상승하는 필사자는, 오르본톤의 으뜸 영에 속하는 시공우주-정신 재능의 네바돈 개량형을 부여받는다. 필사자 지능은, 그 자체로서는 사라졌는데, 창조적 영의 분화되지 않은 정신 회로들에서 따로 떨어진, 한 집중된 우주 실재로서 존재하기를 멈췄다. 그러나 필사 정신에 있었던 의미와 가치는 소멸되지 않았다. 정신의 어떤 국면들은 생존하는 혼 속에서 이어지며;예전의 인간 정신 속에 있었던 어떤 체험적 가치는 섭리사로 인해 유지되며;상승하는 필사자를 최종 평가하는 데 관련된 수많은 존재는, 스라빔에서 우주 검열관에 이르기까지, 그리고 아마 이들을 지나서 지존자까지 그 범위가 연장되고, 이 존재들 안에 어떤 살아있는 기록과 함께, 인간 생명이 육체 속에 살았던 대로 그 인간의 생활 기록이 지방우주에 지속된다.
112:6.4 (1236.2)
In the morontia estate the ascending mortal is endowed with the Nebadon modification of the cosmic-mind endowment of the Master Spirit of Orvonton. The mortal intellect, as such, has perished, has ceased to exist as a focalized universe entity apart from the undifferentiated mind circuits of the Creative Spirit. But the meanings and values of the mortal mind have not perished. Certain phases of mind are continued in the surviving soul; certain experiential values of the former human mind are held by the Adjuster; and there persist in the local universe the records of the human life as it was lived in the flesh, together with certain living registrations in the numerous beings who are concerned with the final evaluation of the ascending mortal, beings extending in range from seraphim to Universal Censors and probably on beyond to the Supreme.
112:6.5 (1236.3)
Creature volition cannot exist without mind, but it does persist in spite of the loss of the material intellect. During the times immediately following survival, the ascending personality is in great measure guided by the character patterns inherited from the human life and by the newly appearing action of morontia mota. And these guides to mansonia conduct function acceptably in the early stages of the morontia life and prior to the emergence of morontia will as a full-fledged volitional expression of the ascending personality.
112:6.6 (1236.4)
There are no influences in the local universe career comparable to the seven adjutant mind-spirits of human existence. The morontia mind must evolve by direct contact with cosmic mind, as this cosmic mind has been modified and translated by the creative source of local universe intellect—the Divine Minister.
112:6.7 (1236.5)
Mortal mind, prior to death, is self-consciously independent of the Adjuster presence; adjutant mind needs only the associated material-energy pattern to enable it to operate. But the morontia soul, being superadjutant, does not retain self-consciousness without the Adjuster when deprived of the material-mind mechanism. This evolving soul does, however, possess a continuing character derived from the decisions of its former associated adjutant mind, and this character becomes active memory when the patterns thereof are energized by the returning Adjuster.
기억이 지속한다는 것은 원래 자아성의 정체성이 유지된다는 증거이며;인격이 연속되고 확장됨을 완벽하게 자아-의식하는 데 필수다. 섭리사 없이 상승하는 그런 필사자는, 인간의 기억을 되살리기 위하여 스랍 동역자들의 설명에 의존하며;그 외에 영과-융합된 필사자의 모론시아 혼은 제한받지 않는다. 기억 원형{原型}은 혼 속에 존속하지만, 이 원형은 계속되는 기억으로서 즉시 스스로-깨달을 수 있게 되기 위해, 예전의 섭리사 현존을 요청한다. 섭리사가 없는 경우에는, 생존하는 필사자가 이전{以前}의 실존에 속했던 의미와 가치를 기억하는 의식을, 다시 탐구하고 다시 배우고 다시 불러일으키는 데 상당한 시간이 요구된다.
112:6.8 (1236.6)
The persistence of memory is proof of the retention of the identity of original selfhood; it is essential to complete self-consciousness of personality continuity and expansion. Those mortals who ascend without Adjusters are dependent on the instruction of seraphic associates for the reconstruction of human memory; otherwise the morontia souls of the Spirit-fused mortals are not limited. The pattern of memory persists in the soul, but this pattern requires the presence of the former Adjuster to become immediately self-realizable as continuing memory. Without the Adjuster, it requires considerable time for the mortal survivor to re-explore and relearn, to recapture, the memory consciousness of the meanings and values of a former existence.
112:6.9 (1237.1)
The soul of survival value faithfully reflects both the qualitative and the quantitative actions and motivations of the material intellect, the former seat of the identity of selfhood. In the choosing of truth, beauty, and goodness, the mortal mind enters upon its premorontia universe career under the tutelage of the seven adjutant mind-spirits unified under the direction of the spirit of wisdom. Subsequently, upon the completion of the seven circles of premorontia attainment, the superimposition of the endowment of morontia mind upon adjutant mind initiates the prespiritual or morontia career of local universe progression.
112:6.10 (1237.2)
When a creature leaves his native planet, he leaves the adjutant ministry behind and becomes solely dependent on morontia intellect. When an ascender leaves the local universe, he has attained the spiritual level of existence, having passed beyond the morontia level. This newly appearing spirit entity then becomes attuned to the direct ministry of the cosmic mind of Orvonton.
112:7.2 (1237.4)
When your earthly course in temporary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a better world, and eventually you will be united with your faithful Adjuster in an eternal embrace. And this fusion constitutes the mystery of making God and man one, the mystery of finite creature evolution, but it is eternally true. Fusion is the secret of the sacred sphere of Ascendington, and no creature, save those who have experienced fusion with the spirit of Deity, can comprehend the true meaning of the actual values which are conjoined when the identity of a creature of time becomes eternally one with the spirit of Paradise Deity.
112:7.3 (1237.5)
Fusion with the Adjuster is usually effected while the ascender is resident within his local system. It may occur on the planet of nativity as a transcendence of natural death; it may take place on any one of the mansion worlds or on the headquarters of the system; it may even be delayed until the time of the constellation sojourn; or, in special instances, it may not be consummated until the ascender is on the local universe capital.
112:7.4 (1237.6)
When fusion with the Adjuster has been effected, there can be no future danger to the eternal career of such a personality. Celestial beings are tested throughout a long experience, but mortals pass through a relatively short and intensive testing on the evolutionary and morontia worlds.
112:7.5 (1237.7)
Fusion with the Adjuster never occurs until the mandates of the superuniverse have pronounced that the human nature has made a final and irrevocable choice for the eternal career. This is the at-onement authorization, which, when issued, constitutes the clearance authority for the fused personality eventually to leave the confines of the local universe to proceed sometime to the headquarters of the superuniverse, from which point the pilgrim of time will, in the distant future, enseconaphim for the long flight to the central universe of Havona and the Deity adventure.
자아성은, 진화 세계에서는 물질이며;우주에서는 한 사물이고, 그런 상태로 물질 실존 법칙에 종속된다. 자아성은 시간세계에서 하나의 사실이고 그 변천에 민감하다. 생존하려는 결정은 여기서 형성돼야한다. 모론시아 상태에서, 자아는 새롭고 더 영구적인 우주 실체가 됐고, 자아의 계속되는 성장은 우주들의 정신 회로와 영 회로에 더욱 맞춰짐에 따라 이뤄진다. 생존하려는 결정이 이제 확인되고 있다. 자아가 영적 수준에 도달할 때, 자아는 우주에서 확고한 가치가 됐고, 이 새로운 가치는 생존하려는 결정이 내려졌다는 사실에 입각하는데, 이 사실은 사고 섭리사와 영원히 융합함으로써 입증됐다. 그리고 참된 우주 가치를 지닌 신분을 획득했으므로, 그 피조물은 가장 높은 우주 가치를--곧 하나님을-- 찾기 위하여 해방되는 잠재력을 갖게 된다.
112:7.6 (1238.1)
On the evolutionary worlds, selfhood is material; it is a thing in the universe and as such is subject to the laws of material existence. It is a fact in time and is responsive to the vicissitudes thereof. Survival decisions must here be formulated. In the morontia state the self has become a new and more enduring universe reality, and its continuing growth is predicated on its increasing attunement to the mind and spirit circuits of the universes. Survival decisions are now being confirmed. When the self attains the spiritual level, it has become a secure value in the universe, and this new value is predicated upon the fact that survival decisions have been made, which fact has been witnessed by eternal fusion with the Thought Adjuster. And having achieved the status of a true universe value, the creature becomes liberated in potential for the seeking of the highest universe value—God.
그러나 융합된 개인은 정말로 한 인격이고, 한 존재인데, 이렇게 하나 된 것을 우주에서 어떤 지성체든지 분석하려고 해도, 시도조차 허용되지 않는다. 그래서, 지방우주 법정을 가장 낮은 곳부터 가장 높은 곳까지 거치면서, 그중에 어떤 것도, 사람 또는 섭리사를 서로 별개의 것으로서 확인할 수 없었으며, 마침내 너는, 지방우주 아버지이신 네바돈 주권자 앞으로 안내될 것이다. 그리고 너는 거기서, 창조하는 아버지 신분으로 이 시간 우주에서 너의 생명이라는 그 사실을 가능하게 했던 바로 그 존재의 손에서, 그 신임장을 수여 받을 것이고, 이것은 결국 우주 아버지를 찾는 너의 연방우주 생애로 나아갈 수 있는 자격을 너에게 준다.
112:7.8 (1238.3)
But the fused individual is really one personality, one being, whose unity defies all attempts at analysis by any intelligence of the universes. And so, having passed the tribunals of the local universe from the lowest to the highest, none of which have been able to identify man or Adjuster, the one apart from the other, you shall finally be taken before the Sovereign of Nebadon, your local universe Father. And there, at the hand of the very being whose creative fatherhood in this universe of time has made possible the fact of your life, you will be granted those credentials which entitle you eventually to proceed upon your superuniverse career in quest of the Universal Father.
승리한 섭리사가 인류에게 숭고하게 봉사함으로 인격을 획득했는가, 아니면 용맹스런 인간이 섭리사처럼 되고자 진정으로 수고함으로써 불멸성{不滅性}을 획득했는가? 둘 다 아니지만;그들은 지존자에게 속하는 상승하는 인격체들 중에서 한 독특한 계층의 회원으로서 함께 진화{進化}를 성취해왔고, 그는 쓸모 있고, 충실하고, 유능하다는 것이 언제라도 발견될 것이며, 그는 더욱 성장하고 발전할만한 후보자인데, 일곱 하보나 회로를 거치고, 한때 땅에서 기원된 혼이, 낙원에 계신 아버지의 실제 인격을 경건하게 인식하면서 서 있게 될 때까지, 언제나 위로 향하는 숭고한 상승을 멈추지 않는다.
112:7.9 (1238.4)
Has the triumphant Adjuster won personality by the magnificent service to humanity, or has the valiant human acquired immortality through sincere efforts to achieve Adjusterlikeness? It is neither; but they together have achieved the evolution of a member of one of the unique orders of the ascending personalities of the Supreme, one who will ever be found serviceable, faithful, and efficient, a candidate for further growth and development, ever ranging upward and never ceasing the supernal ascent until the seven circuits of Havona have been traversed and the onetime soul of earthly origin stands in worshipful recognition of the actual personality of the Father on Paradise.
112:7.10 (1238.5)
Throughout all this magnificent ascent the Thought Adjuster is the divine pledge of the future and full spiritual stabilization of the ascending mortal. Meanwhile the presence of the mortal free will affords the Adjuster an eternal channel for the liberation of the divine and infinite nature. Now have these two identities become one; no event of time or of eternity can ever separate man and Adjuster; they are inseparable, eternally fused.
112:7.11 (1238.6)
On the Adjuster-fusion worlds the destiny of the Mystery Monitor is identical with that of the ascending mortal—the Paradise Corps of the Finality. And neither Adjuster nor mortal can attain that unique goal without the full co-operation and faithful help of the other. This extraordinary partnership is one of the most engrossing and amazing of all the cosmic phenomena of this universe age.
112:7.12 (1239.1)
From the time of Adjuster fusion the status of the ascender is that of the evolutionary creature. The human member was the first to enjoy personality and, therefore, outranks the Adjuster in all matters concerned with the recognition of personality. The Paradise headquarters of this fused being is Ascendington, not Divinington, and this unique combination of God and man ranks as an ascending mortal all the way up to the Corps of the Finality.
112:7.13 (1239.2)
When once an Adjuster fuses with an ascending mortal, the number of that Adjuster is stricken from the records of the superuniverse. What happens on the records of Divinington, I do not know, but I surmise that the registry of that Adjuster is removed to the secret circles of the inner courts of Grandfanda, the acting head of the Corps of the Finality.
112:7.14 (1239.3)
With Adjuster fusion the Universal Father has completed his promise of the gift of himself to his material creatures; he has fulfilled the promise, and consummated the plan, of the eternal bestowal of divinity upon humanity. Now begins the human attempt to realize and to actualize the limitless possibilities that are inherent in the supernal partnership with God which has thus factualized.
112:7.15 (1239.4)
The present known destiny of surviving mortals is the Paradise Corps of the Finality; this is also the goal of destiny for all Thought Adjusters who become joined in eternal union with their mortal companions. At present the Paradise finaliters are working throughout the grand universe in many undertakings, but we all conjecture that they will have other and even more supernal tasks to perform in the distant future after the seven superuniverses have become settled in light and life, and when the finite God has finally emerged from the mystery which now surrounds this Supreme Deity.
중앙우주와 연방우주들 및 지방우주의 조직과 구성원에 대하여, 너희는 어느 범위까지 가르침을 받았으며;방대한 이 창조계를 지금 다스리고 있는 여러 인격체 가운데 어떤 이들의 특성과 기원에 관해 무언가 들었다. 또한 너희는, 광우주의 주변을 지나 멀리 바깥에, 첫 외부 공간 층에서, 우주들의 방대한 성단{星團}들이 조성되는 과정에 있음을 알게 됐다. 외부 공간에, 지금 지도가 그려지지 않은 이 지역들에서, 지존하신 분이, 계시되지 않은 제3의 활동을 나타내게 돼있음이, 본 진술들이 진행되는 과정 중에 또한 암시돼왔으며;너희는 또한, 낙원 단체의 완결성취자들이 지존자의 체험하는 자녀라고 알려주는 것을 들었다.
112:7.16 (1239.5)
You have been instructed to a certain extent about the organization and personnel of the central universe, the superuniverses, and the local universes; you have been told something about the character and origin of some of the various personalities who now rule these far-flung creations. You have also been informed that there are in process of organization vast galaxies of universes far out beyond the periphery of the grand universe, in the first outer space level. It has also been intimated in the course of these narratives that the Supreme Being is to disclose his unrevealed tertiary function in these now uncharted regions of outer space; and you have also been told that the finaliters of the Paradise corps are the experiential children of the Supreme.
112:7.17 (1239.6)
We believe that the mortals of Adjuster fusion, together with their finaliter associates, are destined to function in some manner in the administration of the universes of the first outer space level. We have not the slightest doubt that in due time these enormous galaxies will become inhabited universes. And we are equally convinced that among the administrators thereof will be found the Paradise finaliters whose natures are the cosmic consequence of the blending of creature and Creator.
얼마나 굉장한 모험인가! 얼마나 꿈같은 이야기인가! 지존자의 자녀들인, 인격화되고 인간화된 이 섭리사들과, 섭리사처럼 되고 영원한 존재가 된 이 필사자들, 즉 제1 근원 및 중심의 본질이 가장 높게 알려진 형태화와, 우주 아버지를 납득하고 달성할 능력이 있는 가장 낮은 형태의 지성 생명, 이 둘의 신비스런 조합이자 영원한 연합이, 하나의 거대한 창조계를 경영할 것이다. 우리는, 창조주와 피조물의 그런 조합, 그런 융합된 존재들이, 첫 외부 공간 층의 이 미래 우주 전역에서 실존하게 될지 모르는, 모든 형태의 지적 생명의 뛰어난 통치자, 비길 데 없는 경영인, 및 이해심 많고 동정심 많은 지휘자가 될 것이라고 생각한다.
112:7.18 (1239.7)
What an adventure! What a romance! A gigantic creation to be administered by the children of the Supreme, these personalized and humanized Adjusters, these Adjusterized and eternalized mortals, these mysterious combinations and eternal associations of the highest known manifestation of the essence of the First Source and Center and the lowest form of intelligent life capable of comprehending and attaining the Universal Father. We conceive that such amalgamated beings, such partnerships of Creator and creature, will become superb rulers, matchless administrators, and understanding and sympathetic directors of any and all forms of intelligent life which may come into existence throughout these future universes of the first outer space level.
112:7.19 (1240.1)
True it is, you mortals are of earthly, animal origin; your frame is indeed dust. But if you actually will, if you really desire, surely the heritage of the ages is yours, and you shall someday serve throughout the universes in your true characters—children of the Supreme God of experience and divine sons of the Paradise Father of all personalities.