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THE
LOCAL UNIVERSE LIFE
Solar Self-hood (Part I)
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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INTRODUCTION Life
is a process which takes place between the cellular organism (organization, organ
realization)
of the individualizing selfhood and the environment. The
solar personality imparts value of identity and meanings of continuity to
this organism- environmental
association known as the phenomenon of STIMULUS and RESPONSE. This
is not a mere mechanical process since personality functions as a factor in
the total situation,
and it is ever true that non-living energy-matter mechanisms are innately
passive/ reactive
and living energy-matter organisms are inherently creative/active.
THE
EVOLUTION OF SOLAR SELFHOOD – Theosophy C.W.Leadbeater
has stated in his book(2,edit.): “(The spirit-energy)… is called monadic essence…only
when clothed in the ultimate matter of the various planes…When it is immersed
in a physical matter…energizing or ensouling the mineral kingdom… it is
called “the
mineral monad”, (the plants)…”the vegetable monad”, (the animals)…”the animal
monad”. (The
physical) monadic essence …is not one monad, but many…of many parallel life-streams,
each possessing characteristics of its own. The whole scheme tends
increasingly toward
(self) differentiation,…to divide and subdivide (cellular organization of
self). (So)
In the VEGETABLE kingdom, for example, we do not have a soul for one plant,
but one GROUP-SOUL
for an enormous number of plants,…in the ANIMAL kingdom…we have comparatively
smaller number of physical forms (as)
expression of one GROUP-SOUL,… and
finally (we have monadic essence) divided into (differentiated self
organized) individualities, (from
group soul now) each MAN being now (monadic essence MANifestation) of differentiated,
and
organized singular selfhood, a separate (yet undeveloped primitive)
INDIVIDUAL SOUL. THE
EVOLUTION OF SOLAR SELFHOOD- The Urantia First
primordial cells were simple and undifferentiated electrochemical circuits,
established only
from the reactive inorganic atomic-molecular components into which the life
plasma was introduced. The
first organic unit of material life created was the protoplasmic cell which
communally associated
various chemical, electrical and other basic energies. In
the development of any planetary life the vegetable always precedes animal
and develops fully
before animal patterns appear and begin to differentiate. All animal types
always develop from
the basic patterns of the preceding vegetable kingdom; they are not
separately organized as
we could see from the narrative of this paper. In
Paper 15 has been stated that each cell has also its own evolving living
elemental soul and mind
animated though its vital principles. SOUL
as such is the animating, vital principle of the unit form of life, and is
the carrier of its evolutionary mind, which is the result of its choosing
between inner and outer stimuli. The
name SOUL is the derivation of root SOL (SUN) hence its SOLAR name. The
soul represents the conscious learning aspect of the living form of life.
This separates the
consciousness of the living soul from the non-living reactive consciousness
of the evolutionary
energy-matter, which some also call conscious elemental soul. Living
soul has the spark of life and life plasma, necessary for the evolution of a
teachable mind,
able to learn under the influence of the seven adjutant mind spirits assisted
by the Life
Carriers and the seraphic host, while the mechanical matter-nature has only
reactive vibratory
sympathetic non-teachable consciousness which is influenced, manipulated and controlled
by the physical controllers of the planetary realms. THE
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUALITY OF SELFHOOD PERSONALITY
is the spiritual quality of actualizing blueprint of Selfhood bestowed upon the
life form by the Universal Father, and ministered to it by the Spirit of the Conjoint Actor of
the Third Source and Center, acting for the Father upon any living energy
system which evolves
its mind under the spirit influence. When
bestowed upon evolutionary material creatures, it causes the spirit to strive
for the mastery
of such energy-matter life form through the mediation of its mind. The
actualized spirit of the individualized personality is always unique,
changeless, moral and
dedicated to the will of God, the creator of its bestowed and actualized
personality. Personality,
while devoid of identity, can unify the identity of any living energy system.
Personality
responds directly to other personality presence and it can not perform very well
in isolation because the man is innately a social creature craving for
belong-ness. It
is literally true “No soul-man lives unto itself”. The
concept of the personality as the meaning of the whole, living, and
functioning creature
means much more than the integration of relationships within form; it
signifies the
unification of all form factors of one’s reality as well as the co-ordination
of relationships. Relationships
exist between two cell objects, but three or more cellular objects eventuate a
cellular SYSTEM where individual members are related through such system to
the whole. In
the organism (organ realization) the summation of its parts constitutes
SELFHOOD, the
living form INDIVIDUALIZATION ( in-divide-dual realization of
spirit and energy-matter). In
a human individual the personality is the unifier of all of its spiritual
qualities, as related to cosmic
actual absolute realities, and realized in the potentials of the
energy-matter form acted upon,
developing solar form IDENTITY (InDividual ENTITY). In
a CELL AGGREGATION the various parts are added in the AGGREGate realizATION, and
in the SYSTEM ORGANIZATION, synonymous with the body ORGAN real-IZATION, they
become arranged as organs in a body of the life form system. In
a system organization of body organs aggregate-realization, there is the
aggregation of all body
parts (organs) according to their organizational positional values and
meanings. In
a good functioning system of well organized materialized energies, all
organ-factors are arranged
according to a meaningful system of solar-SELF response to the inner
spiritual stimuli. In
a poorly functioning energy-matter system adequate solar-SELF
responses to the spiritual stimuli
are either displaced, deranged or missing in such DIS(functionally)-ORGANIZED
materialized
body, resulting in a DIS(functional)-EASE of such solar energy system. In
spirit-mind-energy systems it is the spiritual personality that unifies all
of its evolutionary activities
and imparts all spiritual qualities to such personal form, i.e. well
organized and well- harmonized
energy-body organization of such solar form-identity and spirit-creativity. The
possibility of the unification of the evolving self-Self is inherent in the
qualities of its constitutive
factors: the basic energies, the master tissues, the fundamental chemical over-control,
the one’s ideas, goals and the spiritual bestowal, i.e. the secret of self-
Self conscious
spiritual nature of the body-form individualization (spirit realization in
matter). The
evolutionary lower solar material self, the PUMA ego-centric self, is
dependent during its
physical life upon the continuing harmonized function of its material vehicle
potential in maintaining
the balanced equilibrium between its physical energies and its intellect,
i.e. its physical
“NATURE”elements and its solar PUMA-self mind. (as compared to the
actualizing “SPIRITUAL” LIFE blueprint or personality DHARMA). As
the creature ascends and finally individualizes, it seeks the selfhood of
survival value that can
transcend the experience of death. This can be achieved, however, only
through unification of
PUMA-self mind with its one-Self personality through the increased spirit
influence, and the dominance of spirit(ual) teaching upon evolutionary mind
of self, culminating in the solar leading of
PUMA self-Self by the personalizing “I AM” Fathers spirit Divine Thought
Adjuster, resulting in
mortal solar qualification for the eternal life of the immortal
morontial Solar I AM- Selfhood . Only
through the total spirit over-control of solar Self, the spirit flame of “I
AM God” actualizing personality blueprint can totally dominate the solar
lower-self body system and its form identity (its
lower “I am self-hood”), to change it into the ascended “I AM God”ly
PERSONA-(qua)LITY. With
achieved selfhood of survival value, the self-Self reaches the potential for transfer of its
seat of identity of its soul’s evolving personality from its transient
evolutionary vehicle, the
physical body of “I am self”, to the more enduring morontial body of its now
immortal “I
AM Self” morontial soul. The actual transfer from the material solar “I am”
PUMA self-Self association
to the morontial “I AM Self”
identification is effected only by the persistent, sincere, and
steadfast faith driven work of God-seeking soul of human evolutionary nature. CONCLUSION The
endowment of the evolutionary organic planetary solar cellular life and its
mind with ability
to learn, the cellular memory and its differential responses, is the result
of its cellular
ego-centric nuclear response, selecting between the “inner” influences of the
adjutant
mind spiritual ministry, and the “outer” influences of the surrounding
planetary material
environment gradually “molding” its cellular organism’s personality and
identity. Pre-intelligent
organisms can only react to environmental stimuli, but more intelligent organisms
which are reactive to spirit mind ministry can adjust and manipulate the environment
itself through the adaptation of their advancing mind. Organismal
mind, therefore, learns from it’s cellular experiential exposures and from
it’s reactive
behavioral habits developed in response to the “inner and outer” stimuli. The
evolving lower life intellect with it’s functional physical brain and its
associated nervous system
has the innate capacity to respond to adjutant spirit mind ministry, and the
evolving minds
of higher organic life possesses an innate receptivity capacity for higher
spirits. Through
it’s plasma cell content, the evolutionary organism has all the necessary
ascending potentials
for it’s intellectual, social, moral, and spiritual progress and attainment
requiring it’s
appropriate responses and choices choosing between the mind ministry of
adjutant spirits, and
later, their higher super-physical associates, and the influences of the
outer surrounding material
environment and its planetary life, if it desires to survive and evolutionary
ascend. Once
individualized into human form, the same principles apply to evolutionary
human soul. Man’s
soul has to free-willingly choose, through the spiritual evolutionary
survival strives of it’s
faith and wisdom, to better understand the God as the creator of the universe
and life, and the
God’s universe laws, if it desires the ascension of its solar “I am”
PUMA-selfhood of the planetary realms, and the salvation by translation into
the immortal morontial solar “I AM” Selfhood
of the eternal “Kingdom of Heaven”. References: 1. The Urantia book, The
Urantia Foundation 2. Man Visible &
Invisible,C.W.Leadbeater, The Theosophical Publishing House |
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