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Questions and
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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“The Word of God is Love. The enactment of the Word of God
is service to your brothers and sisters.
Truly, if the Word of God is actively resident within your life, the Fruits
of Spirit are being
produced in your life through the Service of Love.” Solonia, tml 5/2004
*** SOLAR
MULTI-DIMENSIONALITIES ( XIV ) Cont. 2. “You” as
LOWER-SELF “ 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). 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 MANifestation)
of differentiated, and organized singular selfhood, a separate (yet
undeveloped primitive) INDIVIDUAL SOUL. THE
EVOLUTION OF SOLAR SELFHOOD – The Urantia Book First
primordial solar cells were simple and undifferentiated finite
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. It
has been previously stated in Papers
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 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 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 realISM) the summation of its
parts constitutes SELFHOOD, the living form
INDIVIDUALIZATION (INDIVIDUAL 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 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 body system as aggregate of all organs realization, there is the all organs
aggregation of all body
part 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.
(Healthy body system at EASE) In
a poorly functioning energy-matter system adequate solar-SELF
responses to the spiritual stimuli
are either displaced, deranged or missing in such materialized
body, resulting in an unhealthy 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 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 Thought
Adjusters actualizing divine eternal mind potential ). 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 influence,
and the dominance of spirit(ual) teaching upon
evolutionary mind of self, culminating
in the solar leading of 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 Thought Adjuster’s
spirit flame of
“I AM God” actualizing personality can totally dominate the solar lower-self
body system and
its form identity (its lower “I am self-hood”), to change it into the
ascending eternal “I
AM God”-like PERSONA-quaLITY. 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” morontial “I AM Self” identification is effected only
by the persistent, sincere, steadfast and moral faith
driven work of God-seeking soul of human evolutionary nature. CONCLUSION Physical
the
environment in which every process tends to create and establish organismal patterns of reaction to
such environment. All
such DIRECTIVE PATTERNS stemming from the solar ego-centric self and it’s
lines of force are
highly influential in the evolution of its goal choosing in its spiritual
ascension. It
is through the mediation of the physical ego-centric mind, that the living
solar-self and the environment
establish their meaningful harmony in the process of solar-self
organ-realization. The
ability and willingness of the living organism to make significant contacts
with surrounding
environment and spirit, as response to the outer or inner drive, represents
the spiritual
evolution of living soul’s ATTITUDE of its whole organismal
personality and identity which,
when manifested in the physical phase of the evolutionary development,
represents the creature’s
physical and spiritual evolutionary characteristics of it’s living
ego-centric self-Self. References:
1. The Urantia
book, The Urantia Foundation 2. Man Visible & Invisible, C.W. Leadbeater,
The Theosophical Publishing House
*** ”Let us behold the Light, that through
the forgiveness, finds its way into the great darkness of this
world. Perceive the Light in all your brothers and sisters by fully forgiving
each other, because
it is only then that you will see their Light, know the higher Truth, and
achieve the happiness of
Brotherhood.”
Michael of Nebadon, tml
5/2004 |
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