Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

107:1.1Since Thought Ad­justers are of the essence of orig­i­nal De­ity, no one may pre­sume to dis­course au­thor­i­ta­tively upon their na­ture and ori­gin; I can only im­part the tra­di­tions of Sal­ving­ton and the be­liefs of Uversa; I can only ex­plain how we re­gard these Mys­tery Mon­i­tors and their as­so­ci­ated en­ti­ties through­out the grand uni­verse.

107:1.2Though there are di­verse opin­ions re­gard­ing the mode of the be­stowal of Thought Ad­justers, there ex­ist no such dif­fer­ences con­cern­ing their ori­gin; all are agreed that they pro­ceed di­rect from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the First Source and Cen­ter. They are not cre­ated be­ings; they are frag­men­tized en­ti­ties con­sti­tut­ing the fac­tual pres­ence of the in­fi­nite God. To­gether with their many un­re­vealed as­so­ciates, the Ad­justers are undi­luted and un­mixed di­vin­ity, un­qual­i­fied and unat­ten­u­ated parts of De­ity; they are of God, and as far as we are able to dis­cern, they are God.

107:1.3As to the time of their be­gin­ning sep­a­rate ex­is­tences apart from the ab­so­lute­ness of the First Source and Cen­ter, we do not know; nei­ther do we know their num­ber. We know very lit­tle con­cern­ing their ca­reers un­til they ar­rive on the plan­ets of time to in­dwell hu­man minds, but from that time on we are more or less fa­mil­iar with their cos­mic pro­gres­sions up to and in­clud­ing the con­sum­ma­tion of their tri­une des­tinies: at­tain­ment of per­son­al­ity by fu­sion with some mor­tal as­cender, at­tain­ment of per­son­al­ity by fiat of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, or lib­er­a­tion from the known as­sign­ments of Thought Ad­justers.

107:1.4Al­though we do not know, we pre­sume that Ad­justers are be­ing con­stantly in­di­vid­u­al­ized as the uni­verse en­larges, and as the can­di­dates for Ad­juster fu­sion in­crease in num­bers. But it may be equally pos­si­ble that we are in er­ror in at­tempt­ing to as­sign a nu­mer­i­cal mag­ni­tude to the Ad­justers; like God him­self, these frag­ments of his un­fath­omable na­ture may be ex­is­ten­tially in­fi­nite.

107:1.5The tech­nique of the ori­gin of the Thought Ad­justers is one of the un­re­vealed func­tions of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We have ev­ery rea­son to be­lieve that none of the other ab­so­lute as­so­ciates of the First Source and Cen­ter have aught to do with the pro­duc­tion of Fa­ther frag­ments. Ad­justers are sim­ply and eter­nally the di­vine gifts; they are of God and from God, and they are like God.

107:1.6In their re­la­tion­ship to fu­sion crea­tures they re­veal a su­per­nal love and spir­i­tual min­istry that is pro­foundly con­fir­ma­tive of the dec­la­ra­tion that God is spirit. But there is much that takes place in ad­di­tion to this tran­scen­dent min­istry that has never been re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals. Nei­ther do we fully un­der­stand just what re­ally tran­spires when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther gives of him­self to be a part of the per­son­al­ity of a crea­ture of time. Nor has the as­cend­ing pro­gres­sion of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters as yet dis­closed the full pos­si­bil­i­ties in­her­ent in this su­per­nal part­ner­ship of man and God. In the last anal­y­sis, the Fa­ther frag­ments must be the gift of the ab­so­lute God to those crea­tures whose des­tiny en­com­passes the pos­si­bil­ity of the at­tain­ment of God as ab­so­lute.

107:1.7As the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther frag­men­tizes his preper­sonal De­ity, so does the In­fi­nite Spirit in­di­vid­u­ate por­tions of his pre­mind spirit to in­dwell and ac­tu­ally to fuse with the evo­lu­tion­ary souls of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals of the spirit-fu­sion se­ries. But the na­ture of the Eter­nal Son is not thus frag­mentable; the spirit of the Orig­i­nal Son is ei­ther dif­fuse or dis­cretely per­sonal. Son-fused crea­tures are united with in­di­vid­u­al­ized be­stowals of the spirit of the Cre­ator Sons of the Eter­nal Son.