In this class, Dr. Keislar reads from The Urantia Book and comments about the relationship of the human mind, the human soul and the divine Thought Adjuster (God in our heart). The mind is what we have been given to work with that is in our control. The soul is the result of the choices that we make with our mind; it becomes eternal when we accept and act upon the guidance of the Thought Adjuster. Quotations from The Urantia Book:
“Material mind is the arena in which human personalities live, are self-conscious, make decisions, choose God or forsake him, eternalize or destroy themselves.
“Material evolution has provided you a life machine, your body; Allah himself has endowed you with the purest spirit reality known in the universe, your Thought Adjuster. But into your hands, subject to your own decisions, has been given mind, and it is by mind that you live or die. It is within this mind and with this mind that you make those moral decisions which enable you to achieve Adjusterlikeness, and that is Godlikeness.
“Mortal mind is a temporary intellect system loaned to human beings for use during a material lifetime, and as they use this mind, they are either accepting or rejecting the potential of eternal existence. Mind is about all you have of universe reality that is subject to your will, and the soul … will faithfully portray the harvest of the temporal decisions which the mortal self is making.”
“The human personality is identified with mind and spirit held together in functional relationship by life in a material body. This functioning relationship of such mind and spirit does not result in some combination of the qualities or attributes of mind and spirit but rather in an entirely new, original, and unique universe value of potentially eternal endurance, the soul.”
Dr. Keislar explains that we always have our freedom to accept the guidance of God or to reject it. But once we achieve perfection (that is, once we become the new being who is both freewill creature and divine, as a result of fully surrendering to and merging with our Thought Adjuster) we will no longer ever make a choice to reject the guidance of God. The human soul is an amazing new reality resulting from the choice of the human personality to accept the guidance of the Thought Adjuster. Simlarly, the divine “spirit-soul” is a magnificent new reality resulting from the perfected surrender of the soul to that guidance of spirit, for there is no longer any separation between the two wills, the will of the Creator and the will of the creature.