Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters

108:5.1The Ad­justers ac­cept a dif­fi­cult as­sign­ment when they vol­un­teer to in­dwell such com­pos­ite be­ings as live on Uran­tia. But they have as­sumed the task of ex­ist­ing in your minds, there to re­ceive the ad­mo­ni­tions of the spir­i­tual in­tel­li­gences of the realms and then to un­der­take to re­dic­tate or trans­late these spir­i­tual mes­sages to the ma­te­rial mind; they are in­dis­pens­able to the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

108:5.2What the Thought Ad­juster can­not uti­lize in your pres­ent life, those truths which he can­not suc­cess­fully trans­mit to the man of his be­trothal, he will faith­fully pre­serve for use in the next stage of ex­is­tence, just as he now car­ries over from cir­cle to cir­cle those items which he fails to reg­is­ter in the ex­pe­ri­ence of the hu­man sub­ject, ow­ing to the crea­ture’s in­abil­ity, or fail­ure, to give a suf­fi­cient de­gree of co-op­er­a­tion.

108:5.3One thing you can de­pend upon: The Ad­justers will never lose any­thing com­mit­ted to their care; never have we known these spirit helpers to de­fault. An­gels and other high types of spirit be­ings, not ex­cept­ing the lo­cal uni­verse type of Sons, may oc­ca­sion­ally em­brace evil, may some­times de­part from the di­vine way, but Ad­justers never fal­ter. They are ab­so­lutely de­pend­able, and this is equally true of all seven groups.

108:5.4Your Ad­juster is the po­ten­tial of your new and next or­der of ex­is­tence, the ad­vance be­stowal of your eter­nal son­ship with God. By and with the con­sent of your will, the Ad­juster has the power to sub­ject the crea­ture trends of the ma­te­rial mind to the trans­form­ing ac­tions of the mo­ti­va­tions and pur­poses of the emerg­ing mor­ontial soul.

108:5.5The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are not thought helpers; they are thought ad­justers. They la­bor with the ma­te­rial mind for the pur­pose of con­struct­ing, by ad­just­ment and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion, a new mind for the new worlds and the new name of your fu­ture ca­reer. Their mis­sion chiefly con­cerns the fu­ture life, not this life. They are called heav­enly helpers, not earthly helpers. They are not in­ter­ested in mak­ing the mor­tal ca­reer easy; rather are they con­cerned in mak­ing your life rea­son­ably dif­fi­cult and rugged, so that de­ci­sions will be stim­u­lated and mul­ti­plied. The pres­ence of a great Thought Ad­juster does not be­stow ease of liv­ing and free­dom from stren­u­ous think­ing, but such a di­vine gift should con­fer a sub­lime peace of mind and a su­perb tran­quil­lity of spirit.

108:5.6Your tran­sient and ever-chang­ing emo­tions of joy and sor­row are in the main purely hu­man and ma­te­rial re­ac­tions to your in­ter­nal psy­chic cli­mate and to your ex­ter­nal ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ment. Do not, there­fore, look to the Ad­juster for self­ish con­so­la­tion and mor­tal com­fort. It is the busi­ness of the Ad­juster to pre­pare you for the eter­nal ad­ven­ture, to as­sure your sur­vival. It is not the mis­sion of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor to smooth your ruf­fled feel­ings or to min­is­ter to your in­jured pride; it is the prepa­ra­tion of your soul for the long as­cend­ing ca­reer that en­gages the at­ten­tion and oc­cu­pies the time of the Ad­juster.

108:5.7I doubt that I am able to ex­plain to you just what the Ad­justers do in your minds and for your souls. I do not know that I am fully cog­nizant of what is re­ally go­ing on in the cos­mic as­so­ci­a­tion of a di­vine Mon­i­tor and a hu­man mind. It is all some­what of a mys­tery to us, not as to the plan and pur­pose but as to the ac­tual mode of ac­com­plish­ment. And this is just why we are con­fronted with such dif­fi­culty in find­ing an ap­pro­pri­ate name for these su­per­nal gifts to mor­tal men.

108:5.8The Thought Ad­justers would like to change your feel­ings of fear to con­vic­tions of love and con­fi­dence; but they can­not me­chan­i­cally and ar­bi­trar­ily do such things; that is your task. In ex­e­cut­ing those de­ci­sions which de­liver you from the fet­ters of fear, you lit­er­ally sup­ply the psy­chic ful­crum on which the Ad­juster may sub­se­quently ap­ply a spir­i­tual lever of up­lift­ing and ad­vanc­ing il­lu­mi­na­tion.

108:5.9When it comes to the sharp and well-de­fined con­flicts be­tween the higher and lower ten­den­cies of the races, be­tween what re­ally is right or wrong (not merely what you may call right and wrong), you can de­pend upon it that the Ad­juster will al­ways par­tic­i­pate in some def­i­nite and ac­tive man­ner in such ex­pe­ri­ences. The fact that such Ad­juster ac­tiv­ity may be un­con­scious to the hu­man part­ner does not in the least de­tract from its value and re­al­ity.

108:5.10If you have a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny and should fail of sur­vival, that guard­ian an­gel must be ad­ju­di­cated in or­der to re­ceive vin­di­ca­tion as to the faith­ful ex­e­cu­tion of her trust. But Thought Ad­justers are not thus sub­jected to ex­am­i­na­tion when their sub­jects fail to sur­vive. We all know that, while an an­gel might pos­si­bly fall short of the per­fec­tion of min­istry, Thought Ad­justers work in the man­ner of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion; their min­istry is char­ac­ter­ized by a flaw­less tech­nique which is be­yond the pos­si­bil­ity of crit­i­cism by any be­ing out­side of Di­vin­ing­ton. You have per­fect guides; there­fore is the goal of per­fec­tion cer­tainly at­tain­able.