The universe is intelligible because man's mind can only perceive mind phenomena of other minds, suggesting a divine mind and personality concealed within it. [1] Ideas and concepts of Jesus' life and teachings originating in mortal mind are more acceptable and helpful to all human minds. [2]
The mortal mind can achieve spiritual insight and divine values through the evidence of spirit indwelling manifested in humanitarian fellowship, interpretation of the universe, and spiritual evaluation of life. [3] The evolution of mortal mind on Urantia brought great joy and supreme satisfaction to the Life Carriers. [4] The immeasurable gulf between material mind and spiritual love cannot be explained by any mechanistic theory. [5] In Jesus, mortal mind was transformed into the mind of God, leading to a period of reflection on the entire history of humanity on Earth. [6]
The quality of mind determines the reception of culture; higher intellects pursue noble culture while inferior minds reject even the highest offerings. [7]
The Father bestows human personality, while the Infinite Spirit is the absolute source of mortal mind, leading to a deeper understanding of the Eternal Son's spiritual personality. [8] Your mind is the ship, the Adjuster is the pilot, and your will is the captain guiding your soul towards eternal survival. [9] Jesus delivered discourse on mortal mind at Cyprus, revealing the potential of human self-consciousness and unity with the divine spirit. [10] Jesus enters mortal mind to unify, elevate, transform, and transfigure, bringing about a new creation within. [11]
The moral nature of humanity is only comprehensible when acknowledging the existence of the Universal Father, as the source of higher orders of thought and purposeful will in a unified universe ruled by one God. [12]
Children first learn to think out loud and converse with imaginary companions, a technique that carries into adulthood where much thinking is done in conversational form. [13]
The pure mind discerns God through spiritual insight, not emotions or feelings, leading man Godward in the realm of highest and most spiritualized thinking. [14] The reflective powers deepened by worship illuminate destiny more than prayer in religious experience. [15]
Through the transformations of indwelling spirit, you are empowered to embody the perfect will of God, becoming liberated sons of the spirit with the divine nature dwelling within you. [16] Through the mediation of mind, the self and environment establish meaningful contact, reflecting the attitude of the whole personality. [17]
After physical death, the mortal mind's meanings and values persist in the morontia estate alongside the ascended soul, held by the Adjuster and recorded in the local universe. [18]
Man's inner spirit relies on mortal mind for expression and self-realization, while material reality is shaped by the mind's consciousness. [19] There exists a vast gulf between mortal minds and divine guidance, making direct communication nearly impossible. [20] The Thought Adjuster lacks a specialized mechanism for self-expression in mortal mind, hindering direct communication with material mind. [21] The Thought Adjuster indwells mortal mind, not a single physical organ, communicating with the human subject in worshipful contact with spirit. [22]
A personalized model of mortal mind, formulated on Divinington, guides the assigned Adjuster in effective plans for personality approach and mind spiritization. [23] By seeing eye to eye with the Adjuster, mortals receive the reinforcement of Adjuster's mind and achieve divinity attunement. [24]
The mortal mind is structured according to the 24 orders of psychic organization found in the life patterns of World Number Three. [25] Material mind is the arena in which human personalities live, choose God or forsake him, eternalize or destroy themselves. [26] The mortal mind reflects the bestowal of the Infinite Spirit and the local universe Mother Spirit, functioning similarly in diverse environments. [27] Man cannot operate without facts, which are the building blocks of wisdom that science provides. [28] Mortal mind, subservient to matter, is destined for personality extinction without spirit insight and spiritual transformation. [29] Real significance of worship eludes mortal mind, necessitating the integration of evolving soul and divine directionization in sincere devotion. [30]
To truly understand reality, one must start by mastering the concept of the child-parent relationship and then enlarging it to embrace the family as a whole, eventually expanding to encompass the universe and beyond. [31] Mind can control energy only through intelligent manipulation of the metamorphic potentials in the physical domains. [32] Man's inner and outer human experiences are always correlated by the mind, which is the harmonizer and conditioner of mortal experience. [33]
The mortal mind is the cosmic loom on which the Adjuster threads spirit patterns, evolving the morontia soul with divine meanings in a universe of enduring values. [34]
The cosmic mind endowment of innate recognition of things, meanings, and values allows will creatures to respond to reality on three levels of universe reality, ensuring they are not victims of a priori assumptions; this reality sensitivity of the cosmic mind essentially saves them from becoming helpless victims, providing them with the objective validity they need to discern fact, law, and love of God. [35] To approach cosmology from the simple to the complex is a path that does not lead to spiritual wisdom. [36]
The mortal mind struggles with the conflict of double allegiance, leading to soul strain and potential disruption, but true peace is found in unyielding dedication to serving good and overcoming evil. [37] The mortal mind serves as the mediator between material things and spiritual realities, as the dwelling place of the spirit of God. [38] When endowed with the Holy Spirit, mortal mind can choose the Adjuster. [39]
Each phase of creature mind on Number Five World is endowed with adjutant mind-spirits superimposed upon mechanical mind by the Infinite Spirit, directing biologic evolution. [40] Exchange mortal mind for the mind of Jesus to be guided by the consciousness of God and embody the selfless humility exemplified by Christ on Urantia. [41] Faith expands mortal minds, ennoble souls, and enhances love. [42]
The mind, when aroused and quickened, serves as the gateway to the soul, where spiritual transformation occurs through recognizing truth and responding to the gospel. [43] The cosmic mind unites human and superhuman minds, fostering fraternal cooperation and inexplicable agreement in shared channels. [44] In death, the spirit and identity survive while the body does not, illustrating the shadow cast by the mortal mind on its material investment. [45] The mortal mind is incapable of grasping the meaning of semispirit activities, as the celestial artisans' work defies comprehension and language. [46]
Human minds find it easier to form comprehensible concepts of the Infinite Spirit because they are individualized circuits of the cosmic mind bestowed by a Creative Daughter of the Third Source and Center. [47]
Due to the limitations of mortal mind, the concept of reality is presented in a partial, sequential, and shadowy manner, comprehended in finite terms but encompassing antecedent, superfinite, and eternal realities ancestral to the Supreme Being. [48]
The living relationship of personal mind and spirit forms the universe potential of eternal personality, disrupted only when self-concepts attempt to displace the central spirit nucleus. [49]
Mortal mind, loaned for use during material lifetime, determines the potential of eternal existence as human beings accept or reject it through their temporal decisions, striving towards spirit identification and universe ascension by yearning for God and working in consciousness. [50] Spiritual advancement diminishes the influence of physical gravity on the mortal mind. [51] The lowest mind of all, the human, struggles to discover the creative spirit-mind of the higher universe minds. [52]
The unifying personality brings about growth in spirit, mind, and energy through the power of volition, transmuting the values of spirit into intellectual meanings. [53]
Mortal mind, often marred by insincerity and unrighteousness, is a compromise between thought perfection and evolving human nature, far from its divine origin and destiny. [54]
The personal-energy system surrounding the spirit nucleus of mortal man functions in a material environment, forming the universe potential of eternal personality, but trouble arises when self-concepts attempt to displace the governing power of the central spirit nucleus. [55]
The human will can shape mortal mind to be evil and ugly or noble and good, playing destructive discords or exquisite melodies on the cosmic instrument of Mind. [56] Psychic conflict and spiritual agitation are necessary for growth, as the mortal mind protests against weaning from nonspirit energies. [57] The mortal mind operates similarly on all planets, despite variations in physical characteristics. [58] Stable and dependable only when wholly mechanized or. Only when the mortal mind is entirely spiritualized can it achieve stability and dependability in its evolution. [59] Human personality's power to transfer identity from material to morontia-soul is subordinate to choosing of human personality, defining mortal mind. [60]
The human mind, not wholly material, can attain high levels of spiritual insight because it early begins to manifest supermaterial qualities and is not altogether bound by time. [61] The mortal mind is the technique through which spirit realities become experiential to creature personalities. [62] Imagining unseen things in terms of seen things, the belief in a future existence originated in dreams, counteracting the fear of death. [63] Mind-perceived time—consciousness of sequence, motion, and a sense of duration. [64]
The mortal mind encompasses the thinking, perceiving, and feeling mechanism of the human organism, combining total conscious and unconscious experiences to reach the spirit level through worship and wisdom. [65]
Mortal mind, wholly dependent on brain capacity, must evolve from material association to spirit union to attain survival and eternity of personality existence. [66] Human survival is not ensured by what mortal mind comprehends, but by what it desires to comprehend. [67]
Man's belief in what is best for him tends to be influenced by self-interest, obscuring logic, with the difference between savage and civilized minds lying more in content than nature. [68] The savage mind, though lacking facts, was logical in its simplistic understanding of cause and effect. [69]
The primitive mind, neither logical nor consistent, engaged in pseudospiritual practices like consuming enemies for revenge and inbreeding to accentuate tribal solidarity. [70]
Abrupt presentations of thought often are ideas grouped together in the subconscious, while revelations of the Adjuster come from the superconscious. [71]
Judas’s subconscious resentment and disappointment, stemming from his criticism of Jesus since John the Baptist's death, were well organized in his mortal mind, ready to engulf him when he separated from his brethren and exposed himself to enemies' influence. [72] The mystical state's diffusion of consciousness gravitates toward the subconscious, not the superconscious, leading to abnormal mental manifestations. [73] The uprisings of the mortal mind lead to misguided mystic inspiration, rather than true divine guidance. [74] Prayer is a powerful technique for elevating the ego and tapping into the unconscious reservoir of mortal experience. [75] Trust Adjusters for all matters in resurrecting every worthy treasure of the mortal mind beyond the dead level of consciousness. [76]
Adjuster revelations spiritualize the mind to evolve the morontia soul, often emerging as abrupt presentations of thoughts from the superconscious. [77] Supreme Adjusters effect deep spiritual transformations in the liberated channels of creative imagination. [78] Produce morontia duplicates of every concept of mortal. Adjusters seek to duplicate mortal intellect concepts in the higher levels of the human mind, bridging two realities: mortal self and immortal entity. [79]
Professions of loyalty to supreme ideals may be a gradual growth or sudden experience, with true conversion involving total mental mobilization towards spirit attainment and synchronized purpose of the superconscious mind, in contact with the Adjuster. [80]
Inspiration from the superconscious or subconscious can make augmentations of consciousness appear foreign to the mortal mind. [81]
Man's higher level of mind allows for superconsciousness, a consciousness of consciousness, not attainable by animals limited to awareness of the objective universe. [82]
Effective master patterns for building better civilization are found in the higher levels of the superconscious mind, impinging upon the spirit realm of human experience. [83] The development of spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness is hindered when intellectual growth outpaces spiritual growth. [84] The proof of superconscious existence lies in the realization of unconscious spiritual growth. [85]