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Paper 107

Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

Solitary Messenger

5. Adjuster Mindedness

107:5.1Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are prone to look upon mind as a cos­mic me­di­a­tion be­tween spirit and mat­ter, for that is in­deed the prin­ci­pal min­istry of mind as dis­cern­i­ble by you. Hence it is quite dif­fi­cult for hu­mans to per­ceive that Thought Ad­justers have minds, for Ad­justers are frag­men­ta­tions of God on an ab­so­lute level of re­al­ity which is not only preper­sonal but also prior to all en­ergy and spirit di­ver­gence. On a monis­tic level an­te­ced­ent to en­ergy and spirit dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion there could be no me­di­at­ing func­tion of mind, for there are no di­ver­gen­cies to be me­di­ated.

107:5.2Since Ad­justers can plan, work, and love, they must have pow­ers of self­hood which are com­men­su­rate with mind. They are pos­sessed of un­lim­ited abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate with each other, that is, all forms of Mon­i­tors above the first or vir­gin groups. As to the na­ture and pur­port of their in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tions, we can re­veal very lit­tle, for we do not know. And we fur­ther know that they must be minded in some man­ner else they could never be per­son­al­ized.

107:5.3The mind­ed­ness of the Thought Ad­juster is like the mind­ed­ness of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son—that which is an­ces­tral to the minds of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

107:5.4The type of mind pos­tu­lated in an Ad­juster must be sim­i­lar to the mind en­dow­ment of nu­mer­ous other or­ders of preper­sonal en­ti­ties which pre­sum­ably like­wise orig­i­nate in the First Source and Cen­ter. Though many of these or­ders have not been re­vealed on Uran­tia, they all dis­close minded qual­i­ties. It is also pos­si­ble for these in­di­vid­u­a­tions of orig­i­nal De­ity to be­come uni­fied with nu­mer­ous evolv­ing types of non­mor­tal be­ings and even with a lim­ited num­ber of nonevo­lu­tion­ary be­ings who have de­vel­oped ca­pac­ity for fu­sion with such De­ity frag­ments.

107:5.5When a Thought Ad­juster is fused with the evolv­ing im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul of the sur­viv­ing hu­man, the mind of the Ad­juster can only be iden­ti­fied as per­sist­ing apart from the crea­ture’s mind un­til the as­cend­ing mor­tal at­tains spirit lev­els of uni­verse pro­gres­sion.

107:5.6Upon the at­tain­ment of the fi­nal­i­ter lev­els of as­cen­dant ex­pe­ri­ence, these spir­its of the sixth stage ap­pear to trans­mute some mind fac­tor rep­re­sent­ing a union of cer­tain phases of the mor­tal and Ad­juster minds which had pre­vi­ously func­tioned as li­ai­son be­tween the di­vine and hu­man phases of such as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties. This ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind qual­ity prob­a­bly “suprema­cizes” and sub­se­quently aug­ments the ex­pe­ri­en­tial en­dow­ment of evo­lu­tion­ary De­ity—the Su­preme Be­ing.