Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters

108:3.1As far as we know, Ad­justers are or­ga­nized as an in­de­pen­dent work­ing unit in the uni­verse of uni­verses and are ap­par­ently ad­min­is­tered di­rectly from Di­vin­ing­ton. They are uni­form through­out the seven super­uni­verses, all lo­cal uni­verses be­ing served by iden­ti­cal types of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. We do know from ob­ser­va­tion that there are nu­mer­ous se­ries of Ad­justers in­volv­ing a se­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion that ex­tends through races, over dis­pen­sa­tions, and to worlds, sys­tems, and uni­verses. It is, how­ever, ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult to keep track of these di­vine gifts since they func­tion in­ter­change­ably through­out the grand uni­verse.

108:3.2Ad­justers are of com­plete rec­ord (out­side of Di­vin­ing­ton) only on the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. The num­ber and or­der of each Ad­juster in­dwelling each as­cend­ing crea­ture are re­ported out by the Par­a­dise au­thor­i­ties to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse, and from there are com­mu­ni­cated to the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse con­cerned and re­layed to the par­tic­u­lar planet in­volved. But the lo­cal uni­verse rec­ords do not dis­close the full num­ber of the Thought Ad­justers; the Neb­a­don rec­ords con­tain only the lo­cal uni­verse as­sign­ment num­ber as des­ig­nated by the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the An­cients of Days. The real sig­nif­i­cance of the Ad­juster’s com­plete num­ber is known only on Di­vin­ing­ton.

108:3.3Hu­man sub­jects are of­ten known by the num­bers of their Ad­justers; mor­tals do not re­ceive real uni­verse names un­til af­ter Ad­juster fu­sion, which union is sig­nal­ized by the be­stowal of the new name upon the new crea­ture by the des­tiny guard­ian.

108:3.4Though we have the rec­ords of Thought Ad­justers in Or­von­ton, and though we have ab­so­lutely no au­thor­ity over them or ad­min­is­tra­tive con­nec­tion with them, we firmly be­lieve that there is a very close ad­min­is­tra­tive con­nec­tion be­tween the in­di­vid­ual worlds of the lo­cal uni­verses and the cen­tral lodg­ment of the di­vine gifts on Di­vin­ing­ton. We do know that, fol­low­ing the ap­pear­ance of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son, an evo­lu­tion­ary world has a Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster as­signed to it as the plan­e­tary super­vi­sor of Ad­justers.

108:3.5It is in­ter­est­ing to note that lo­cal uni­verse in­spec­tors al­ways ad­dress them­selves, when car­ry­ing out a plan­e­tary ex­am­i­na­tion, to the plan­e­tary chief of Thought Ad­justers, just as they de­liver charges to the chiefs of ser­a­phim and to the lead­ers of other or­ders of be­ings at­tached to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of an evolv­ing world. Not long since, Uran­tia un­der­went such a pe­ri­odic in­spec­tion by Taba­man­tia, the sov­er­eign super­vi­sor of all life-ex­per­i­ment plan­ets in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. And the rec­ords re­veal that, in ad­di­tion to his ad­mo­ni­tions and in­dict­ments de­liv­ered to the var­i­ous chiefs of super­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties, he also de­liv­ered the fol­low­ing ac­knowl­edg­ment to the chief of Ad­justers, whether lo­cated on the planet, on Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, or Di­vin­ing­ton, we do not def­i­nitely know, but he said:

108:3.6“Now to you, su­pe­ri­ors far above me, I come as one placed in tem­po­rary au­thor­ity over the ex­per­i­men­tal plan­e­tary se­ries; and I come to ex­press ad­mi­ra­tion and pro­found re­spect for this mag­nif­i­cent group of ce­les­tial min­is­ters, the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, who have vol­un­teered to serve on this ir­reg­u­lar sphere. No mat­ter how try­ing the crises, you never fal­ter. Not on the rec­ords of Neb­a­don nor be­fore the com­mis­sions of Or­von­ton has there ever been of­fered an in­dict­ment of a di­vine Ad­juster. You have been true to your trusts; you have been di­vinely faith­ful. You have helped to ad­just the mis­takes and to com­pen­sate for the short­com­ings of all who la­bor on this con­fused planet. You are mar­velous be­ings, guard­i­ans of the good in the souls of this back­ward realm. I pay you re­spect even while you are ap­par­ently un­der my ju­ris­dic­tion as vol­un­teer min­is­ters. I bow be­fore you in hum­ble rec­og­ni­tion of your ex­qui­site un­selfish­ness, your un­der­stand­ing min­istry, and your im­par­tial de­vo­tion. You de­serve the name of the God­like servers of the mor­tal in­hab­i­tants of this strife-torn, grief-stricken, and dis­ease-af­flicted world. I honor you! I all but wor­ship you!”

108:3.7As a re­sult of many sug­ges­tive lines of ev­i­dence, we be­lieve that the Ad­justers are thor­oughly or­ga­nized, that there ex­ists a pro­foundly in­tel­li­gent and ef­fi­cient di­rec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of these di­vine gifts from some far-dis­tant and cen­tral source, prob­a­bly Di­vin­ing­ton. We know that they come from Di­vin­ing­ton to the worlds, and un­doubt­edly they re­turn thereto upon the deaths of their sub­jects.

108:3.8Among the higher spirit or­ders it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult to dis­cover the mech­a­nisms of ad­min­is­tra­tion. My or­der of per­son­al­i­ties, while en­gaged in the pros­e­cu­tion of our spe­cific du­ties, is un­doubt­edly un­con­sciously par­tic­i­pat­ing with nu­mer­ous other per­sonal and im­per­sonal sub-De­ity groups who unit­edly are func­tion­ing as far-flung uni­verse cor­re­la­tors. We sus­pect that we are thus serv­ing be­cause we are the only group of per­son­al­ized crea­tures (aside from Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers) who are uni­formly con­scious of the pres­ence of nu­mer­ous or­ders of the preper­sonal en­ti­ties.

108:3.9We are aware of the pres­ence of the Ad­justers, who are frag­ments of the preper­sonal De­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. We sense the pres­ence of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, who are super­per­sonal ex­pres­sions of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. We like­wise un­fail­ingly de­tect the spirit pres­ence of cer­tain un­re­vealed or­ders spring­ing from the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit. And we are not wholly un­re­spon­sive to still other en­ti­ties un­re­vealed to you.

108:3.10The Mel­chiz­e­deks of Neb­a­don teach that the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are the per­son­al­ity co-or­di­na­tors of these var­i­ous in­flu­ences as they reg­is­ter in the ex­pand­ing De­ity of the evo­lu­tion­ary Su­preme Be­ing. It is very pos­si­ble that we may be par­tic­i­pants in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of many of the un­ex­plained phe­nom­ena of time, but we are not con­sciously cer­tain of thus func­tion­ing.