Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

107:2.1Ad­justers are in­di­vid­u­ated as vir­gin en­ti­ties, and all are des­tined to be­come ei­ther lib­er­ated, fused, or Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors. We un­der­stand that there are seven or­ders of Thought Ad­justers, al­though we do not al­to­gether com­pre­hend these di­vi­sions. We of­ten re­fer to the dif­fer­ent or­ders as fol­lows:

107:2.21. Vir­gin Ad­justers, those serv­ing on their ini­tial as­sign­ment in the minds of evo­lu­tion­ary can­di­dates for eter­nal sur­vival. Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are eter­nally uni­form in di­vine na­ture. They are also uni­form in ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture as they first go out from Di­vin­ing­ton; sub­se­quent ex­pe­ri­en­tial dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is the re­sult of ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in uni­verse min­istry.

107:2.32. Ad­vanced Ad­justers, those who have served one or more sea­sons with will crea­tures on worlds where the fi­nal fu­sion takes place be­tween the iden­tity of the crea­ture of time and an in­di­vid­u­al­ized por­tion of the spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

107:2.43. Su­preme Ad­justers, those Mon­i­tors that have served in the ad­ven­ture of time on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, but whose hu­man part­ners for some rea­son de­clined eter­nal sur­vival, and those that have been sub­se­quently as­signed to other ad­ven­tures in other mor­tals on other evolv­ing worlds. A su­preme Ad­juster, though no more di­vine than a vir­gin Mon­i­tor, has had more ex­pe­ri­ence, can do things in the hu­man mind which a less ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster could not do.

107:2.54. Van­ished Ad­justers. Here oc­curs a break in our ef­forts to fol­low the ca­reers of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. There is a fourth stage of ser­vice about which we are not sure. The Mel­chiz­e­deks teach that the fourth-stage Ad­justers are on de­tached as­sign­ments, roam­ing the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are in­clined to be­lieve that they are at one with the First Source and Cen­ter, en­joy­ing a pe­riod of re­fresh­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with the Fa­ther him­self. And it is en­tirely pos­si­ble that an Ad­juster could be roam­ing the mas­ter uni­verse si­mul­ta­ne­ously with be­ing at one with the om­ni­pres­ent Fa­ther.

107:2.65. Lib­er­ated Ad­justers, those Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that have been eter­nally lib­er­ated from the ser­vice of time for the mor­tals of the evolv­ing spheres. What func­tions may be theirs, we do not know.

107:2.76. Fused Ad­justers—fi­nal­i­ters—those who have be­come one with the as­cend­ing crea­tures of the super­uni­verses, the eter­nity part­ners of the time as­cend­ers of the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Thought Ad­justers or­di­nar­ily be­come fused with the as­cend­ing mor­tals of time, and with such sur­viv­ing mor­tals they are reg­is­tered in and out of As­cend­ing­ton; they fol­low the course of as­cen­dant be­ings. Upon fu­sion with the as­cend­ing evo­lu­tion­ary soul, it ap­pears that the Ad­juster trans­lates from the ab­so­lute ex­is­ten­tial level of the uni­verse to the fi­nite ex­pe­ri­en­tial level of func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion with an as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity. While re­tain­ing all of the char­ac­ter of the ex­is­ten­tial di­vine na­ture, a fused Ad­juster be­comes in­dis­sol­ubly linked with the as­cend­ing ca­reer of a sur­viv­ing mor­tal.

107:2.87. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers, those who have served with the in­car­nated Par­a­dise Sons, to­gether with many who have achieved un­usual dis­tinc­tion dur­ing the mor­tal in­dwelling, but whose sub­jects re­jected sur­vival. We have rea­sons for be­liev­ing that such Ad­justers are per­son­al­ized on the rec­om­men­da­tions of the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of their as­sign­ment.

107:2.9There are many ways in which these mys­te­ri­ous God frag­ments can be clas­si­fied: ac­cord­ing to uni­verse as­sign­ment, by the mea­sure of suc­cess in the in­dwelling of an in­di­vid­ual mor­tal, or even by the racial an­ces­try of the mor­tal can­di­date for fu­sion.