Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters

108:1.1When Ad­justers are dis­patched for mor­tal ser­vice from Di­vin­ing­ton, they are iden­ti­cal in the en­dow­ment of ex­is­ten­tial di­vin­ity, but they vary in ex­pe­ri­en­tial qual­i­ties pro­por­tional to pre­vi­ous con­tact in and with evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. We can­not ex­plain the ba­sis of Ad­juster as­sign­ment, but we con­jec­ture that these di­vine gifts are be­stowed in ac­cor­dance with some wise and ef­fi­cient pol­icy of eter­nal fit­ness of adap­ta­tion to the in­dwelt per­son­al­ity. We do ob­serve that the more ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster is of­ten the in­dweller of the higher type of hu­man mind; hu­man in­her­i­tance must there­fore be a con­sid­er­able fac­tor in de­ter­min­ing se­lec­tion and as­sign­ment.

108:1.2Al­though we do not def­i­nitely know, we firmly be­lieve that all Thought Ad­justers are vol­un­teers. But be­fore ever they vol­un­teer, they are in pos­ses­sion of full data re­spect­ing the can­di­date for in­dwelling. The se­raphic drafts of an­ces­try and pro­jected pat­terns of life con­duct are trans­mit­ted via Par­a­dise to the re­serve corps of Ad­justers on Di­vin­ing­ton by the re­flec­tiv­ity tech­nique ex­tend­ing in­ward from the cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses. This fore­cast cov­ers not only the hered­i­tary an­tecedents of the mor­tal can­di­date but also the es­ti­mate of prob­a­ble in­tel­lec­tual en­dow­ment and spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity. The Ad­justers thus vol­un­teer to in­dwell minds of whose in­ti­mate na­tures they have been fully ap­prised.

108:1.3The vol­un­teer­ing Ad­juster is par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in three qual­i­fi­ca­tions of the hu­man can­di­date:

108:1.41. In­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity. Is the mind nor­mal? What is the in­tel­lec­tual po­ten­tial, the in­tel­li­gence ca­pac­ity? Can the in­di­vid­ual de­velop into a bona fide will crea­ture? Will wis­dom have an op­por­tu­nity to func­tion?

108:1.52. Spir­i­tual per­cep­tion. The prospects of rev­er­en­tial de­vel­op­ment, the birth and growth of the re­li­gious na­ture. What is the po­ten­tial of soul, the prob­a­ble spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity of re­cep­tiv­ity?

108:1.63. Com­bined in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual pow­ers. The de­gree to which these two en­dow­ments may pos­si­bly be as­so­ci­ated, com­bined, so as to pro­duce strength of hu­man char­ac­ter and con­tribute to the cer­tain evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul of sur­vival value.

108:1.7With these facts be­fore them, it is our be­lief that the Mon­i­tors freely vol­un­teer for as­sign­ment. Prob­a­bly more than one Ad­juster vol­un­teers; per­haps the super­vis­ing per­son­al­ized or­ders se­lect from this group of vol­un­teer­ing Ad­justers the one best suited to the task of spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing and eter­nal­iz­ing the per­son­al­ity of the mor­tal can­di­date. (In the as­sign­ment and ser­vice of the Ad­justers the sex of the crea­ture is of no con­sid­er­a­tion.)

108:1.8The short time in­ter­ven­ing be­tween the vol­un­teer­ing and the ac­tual dis­patch of the Ad­juster is pre­sum­ably spent in the Di­vin­ing­ton schools of the Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors where a work­ing pat­tern of the wait­ing mor­tal mind is uti­lized in in­struct­ing the as­signed Ad­juster as to the most ef­fec­tive plans for per­son­al­ity ap­proach and mind spir­i­ti­za­tion. This mind model is for­mu­lated through a com­bi­na­tion of data sup­plied by the super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice. At least this is our un­der­stand­ing, a be­lief which we hold as the re­sult of putting to­gether in­for­ma­tion se­cured by con­tact with many Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers through­out the long uni­verse ca­reers of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

108:1.9When once the Ad­justers are ac­tu­ally dis­patched from Di­vin­ing­ton, prac­ti­cally no time in­ter­venes be­tween that mo­ment and the hour of their ap­pear­ance in the minds of their cho­sen sub­jects. The av­er­age tran­sit time of an Ad­juster from Di­vin­ing­ton to Uran­tia is 117 hours, 42 min­utes, and 7 sec­onds. Vir­tu­ally all of this time is oc­cu­pied with reg­is­tra­tion on Uversa.