Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

107:7.1Thought Ad­justers are not per­son­al­i­ties, but they are real en­ti­ties; they are truly and per­fectly in­di­vid­u­al­ized, al­though they are never, while in­dwelling mor­tals, ac­tu­ally per­son­al­ized. Thought Ad­justers are not true per­son­al­i­ties; they are true re­al­i­ties, re­al­i­ties of the purest or­der known in the uni­verse of uni­verses—they are the di­vine pres­ence. Though not per­sonal, these mar­velous frag­ments of the Fa­ther are com­monly re­ferred to as be­ings and some­times, in view of the spir­i­tual phases of their pres­ent min­istry to mor­tals, as spirit en­ti­ties.

107:7.2If Thought Ad­justers are not per­son­al­i­ties hav­ing pre­rog­a­tives of will and pow­ers of choice, how then can they se­lect mor­tal sub­jects and vol­un­teer to in­dwell these crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds? This is a ques­tion easy to ask, but prob­a­bly no be­ing in the uni­verse of uni­verses has ever found the ex­act an­swer. Even my or­der of per­son­al­ity, the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, does not fully un­der­stand the en­dow­ment of will, choice, and love in en­ti­ties that are not per­sonal.

107:7.3We have of­ten spec­u­lated that Thought Ad­justers must have vo­li­tion on all preper­sonal lev­els of choice. They vol­un­teer to in­dwell hu­man be­ings, they lay plans for man’s eter­nal ca­reer, they adapt, mod­ify, and sub­sti­tute in ac­cor­dance with cir­cum­stances, and these ac­tiv­i­ties con­note gen­uine vo­li­tion. They have af­fec­tion for mor­tals, they func­tion in uni­verse crises, they are al­ways wait­ing to act de­ci­sively in ac­cor­dance with hu­man choice, and all these are highly vo­li­tional re­ac­tions. In all sit­u­a­tions not con­cerned with the do­main of the hu­man will, they un­ques­tion­ably ex­hibit con­duct which be­to­kens the ex­er­cise of pow­ers in ev­ery sense the equiv­a­lent of will, max­i­mated de­ci­sion.

107:7.4Why then, if Thought Ad­justers pos­sess vo­li­tion, are they sub­servient to the mor­tal will? We be­lieve it is be­cause Ad­juster vo­li­tion, though ab­so­lute in na­ture, is preper­sonal in man­i­fes­ta­tion. Hu­man will func­tions on the per­son­al­ity level of uni­verse re­al­ity, and through­out the cos­mos the im­per­sonal—the non­per­sonal, the sub­per­sonal, and the preper­sonal—is ever re­spon­sive to the will and acts of ex­is­tent per­son­al­ity.

107:7.5Through­out a uni­verse of cre­ated be­ings and non­per­sonal en­er­gies we do not ob­serve will, vo­li­tion, choice, and love man­i­fested apart from per­son­al­ity. Ex­cept in the Ad­justers and other sim­i­lar en­ti­ties we do not wit­ness these at­tri­butes of per­son­al­ity func­tion­ing in as­so­ci­a­tion with im­per­sonal re­al­i­ties. It would not be cor­rect to des­ig­nate an Ad­juster as sub­per­sonal, nei­ther would it be proper to al­lude to such an en­tity as super­per­sonal, but it would be en­tirely per­mis­si­ble to term such a be­ing preper­sonal.

107:7.6To our or­ders of be­ing these frag­ments of De­ity are known as the di­vine gifts. We rec­og­nize that the Ad­justers are di­vine in ori­gin, and that they con­sti­tute the prob­a­ble proof and dem­on­stra­tion of a reser­va­tion by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the pos­si­bil­ity of di­rect and un­lim­ited com­mu­ni­ca­tion with any and all ma­te­rial crea­tures through­out his vir­tu­ally in­fi­nite realms, and all of this quite apart from his pres­ence in the per­son­al­i­ties of his Par­a­dise Sons or through his in­di­rect min­is­tra­tions in the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

107:7.7There are no cre­ated be­ings that would not de­light to be hosts to the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, but no or­ders of be­ings are thus in­dwelt ex­cept­ing evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures of fi­nal­i­ter des­tiny.

107:7.8[Pre­sented by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of Or­von­ton.]