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Paper 107

Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

Solitary Messenger

4. Nature and Presence of Adjusters

107:4.1To say that a Thought Ad­juster is di­vine is merely to rec­og­nize the na­ture of ori­gin. It is highly prob­a­ble that such pu­rity of di­vin­ity em­braces the essence of the po­ten­tial of all at­tri­butes of De­ity which can be con­tained within such a frag­ment of the ab­so­lute essence of the uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the eter­nal and in­fi­nite Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

107:4.2The ac­tual source of the Ad­juster must be in­fi­nite, and be­fore fu­sion with the im­mor­tal soul of an evolv­ing mor­tal, the re­al­ity of the Ad­juster must bor­der on ab­so­lute­ness. Ad­justers are not ab­so­lutes in the uni­ver­sal sense, in the De­ity sense, but they are prob­a­bly true ab­so­lutes within the po­ten­tial­i­ties of their frag­mented na­ture. They are qual­i­fied as to uni­ver­sal­ity but not as to na­ture; in ex­ten­sive­ness they are lim­ited, but in in­ten­sive­ness of mean­ing, value, and fact they are ab­so­lute. For this rea­son we some­times de­nom­i­nate the di­vine gifts as the qual­i­fied ab­so­lute frag­ments of the Fa­ther.

107:4.3No Ad­juster has ever been dis­loyal to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther; the lower or­ders of per­sonal crea­tures may some­times have to con­tend with dis­loyal fel­lows, but never the Ad­justers; they are su­preme and in­fal­li­ble in their su­per­nal sphere of crea­ture min­istry and uni­verse func­tion.

107:4.4Non­per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are vis­i­ble only to Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers. My or­der, the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, to­gether with In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, can de­tect the pres­ence of Ad­justers by means of spir­i­tual re­ac­tive phe­nom­ena; and even ser­a­phim can some­times dis­cern the spirit lu­mi­nos­ity of sup­posed as­so­ci­a­tion with the pres­ence of Mon­i­tors in the ma­te­rial minds of men; but none of us are able ac­tu­ally to dis­cern the real pres­ence of Ad­justers, not un­less they have been per­son­al­ized, al­beit their na­tures are per­ceiv­able in union with the fused per­son­al­i­ties of the as­cend­ing mor­tals from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The uni­ver­sal in­vis­i­bil­ity of the Ad­justers is strongly sug­ges­tive of their high and ex­clu­sive di­vine ori­gin and na­ture.

107:4.5There is a char­ac­ter­is­tic light, a spirit lu­mi­nos­ity, which ac­com­pa­nies this di­vine pres­ence, and which has be­come gen­er­ally as­so­ci­ated with Thought Ad­justers. In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don this Par­a­dise lu­mi­nos­ity is widespreadly known as the “pi­lot light”; on Uversa it is called the “light of life.” On Uran­tia this phe­nom­e­non has some­times been re­ferred to as that “true light which lights ev­ery man who comes into the world.”

107:4.6To all be­ings who have at­tained the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Per­son­al­ized Thought Ad­justers are vis­i­ble. Ad­justers of all stages, to­gether with all other be­ings, en­ti­ties, spir­its, per­son­al­i­ties, and spirit man­i­fes­ta­tions, are al­ways dis­cern­i­ble by those Su­preme Cre­ator Per­son­al­i­ties who orig­i­nate in the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, and who pre­side over the ma­jor gov­ern­ments of the grand uni­verse.

107:4.7Can you re­ally re­al­ize the true sig­nif­i­cance of the Ad­juster’s in­dwelling? Do you re­ally fathom what it means to have an ab­so­lute frag­ment of the ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, in­dwelling and fus­ing with your fi­nite mor­tal na­tures? When mor­tal man fuses with an ac­tual frag­ment of the ex­is­ten­tial Cause of the to­tal cos­mos, no limit can ever be placed upon the des­tiny of such an un­prece­dented and unimag­in­able part­ner­ship. In eter­nity, man will be dis­cov­er­ing not only the in­fin­ity of the ob­jec­tive De­ity but also the un­end­ing po­ten­tial­ity of the sub­jec­tive frag­ment of this same God. Al­ways will the Ad­juster be re­veal­ing to the mor­tal per­son­al­ity the won­der of God, and never can this su­per­nal rev­e­la­tion come to an end, for the Ad­juster is of God and as God to mor­tal man.