The Urantia Book Paper 111 - The Nature of the Soul

Along and breadth of mental functions of cosmic intelligence, the totality of mind is dominant over the parts of intellectual function. Mind, in essence, it is a functional unit; therefore the mind never fail to manifest this constitutive unity, even when hampered and hindered by the actions and choices of a silly astray. And this unity of mind invariably seeks coordination of the spirit at all levels of its association with selves of will dignity and ascension prerogatives.

The material mind of mortal man is the cosmic loom that carries the morontia fabrics on which the indwelling Thought Adjuster threads the spirit patterns of a universe character of enduring values ​​and divine meanings-a surviving soul of ultimate destiny and unending career a potential finalist.

 The human personality is identified with mind and spirit held together in functional relationship by life in a material body. This functional link mind and spirit does not result in a combination of the qualities or attributes of mind and spirit, but rather gives an entirely new, original and unique of potentially eternal endurance universal value: the  soul.

There are three and not two factors in the evolutionary creation of such an immortal soul. These three antecedents of the morontia human soul are:

1. The human mind and all cosmic influences antecedent thereto and impinging thereon.

2. The divine spirit indwelling this human mind and all potentials inherent in such a fragment of absolute spirituality together with all associated spiritual influences and factors in human life.

3. The relationship between material mind and divine spirit, which connotes a value and carries a meaning not found in either of the contributing factors that association. The reality of this unique relationship is neither material nor spiritual but morontial. It is the soul.

It has long been known midwayers this evolving soul of man the mid - mind in contradistinction to the material and lower and cosmic or higher mind mind. This mid - mind is really a morontia phenomenon since it exists in the realm between the material and the spiritual. The potential of such a morontia evolution is inherent in the two universal urges of mind: the impulse of the finite mind of the creature to know God and attain the divinity of the Creator, and the impulse of the infinite mind of the Creator to know man and achieve the  experience  of the creature.

This supernal transaction of evolving the immortal soul is made possible because the mortal mind is first personal and second is in contact with superanimal realities; supermaterial has a dowry of cosmic ministry which insures the evolution of a deadly nature capable of making moral decisions, thereby effecting one bona fide creative contact with the associated spiritual ministries and with the indwelling Thought Adjuster.

The inevitable result of such spiritualization by contacting the human mind is the gradual birth of a soul, the joint offspring of an adjutant mind dominated by a human will that craves to know God, working in liaison with the spiritual forces of the universe that are under control of an actual fragment of the very God of all creation Mystery Monitor. Thus, the material and mortal reality of the self transcend the temporal limitations of the physical life machine and attain a new expression and a new identification in the evolving vehicle for selfhood continuity, the morontia and immortal soul. 

Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton