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Paper 108

Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters

Solitary Messenger

108:0.1The mis­sion of the Thought Ad­justers to the hu­man races is to rep­re­sent, to be, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the mor­tal crea­tures of time and space; that is the fun­da­men­tal work of the di­vine gifts. Their mis­sion is also that of el­e­vat­ing the mor­tal minds and of trans­lat­ing the im­mor­tal souls of men up to the di­vine heights and spir­i­tual lev­els of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion. And in the ex­pe­ri­ence of thus trans­form­ing the hu­man na­ture of the tem­po­ral crea­ture into the di­vine na­ture of the eter­nal fi­nal­i­ter, the Ad­justers bring into ex­is­tence a unique type of be­ing, a be­ing con­sist­ing in the eter­nal union of the per­fect Ad­juster and the per­fected crea­ture which it would be im­pos­si­ble to du­pli­cate by any other uni­verse tech­nique.

108:0.2Noth­ing in the en­tire uni­verse can sub­sti­tute for the fact of ex­pe­ri­ence on nonex­is­ten­tial lev­els. The in­fi­nite God is, as al­ways, re­plete and com­plete, in­finitely in­clu­sive of all things ex­cept evil and crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. God can­not do wrong; he is in­fal­li­ble. God can­not ex­pe­ri­en­tially know what he has never per­son­ally ex­pe­ri­enced; God’s pre­knowl­edge is ex­is­ten­tial. There­fore does the spirit of the Fa­ther de­scend from Par­a­dise to par­tic­i­pate with fi­nite mor­tals in ev­ery bona fide ex­pe­ri­ence of the as­cend­ing ca­reer; it is only by such a method that the ex­is­ten­tial God could be­come in truth and in fact man’s ex­pe­ri­en­tial Fa­ther. The in­fin­ity of the eter­nal God en­com­passes the po­ten­tial for fi­nite ex­pe­ri­ence, which in­deed be­comes ac­tual in the min­istry of the Ad­juster frag­ments that ac­tu­ally share the life vi­cis­si­tude ex­pe­ri­ences of hu­man be­ings.