Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures

109:1.1There must be a com­pre­hen­sive and elab­o­rate plan for the train­ing and de­vel­op­ment of vir­gin Ad­justers be­fore they are sent forth from Di­vin­ing­ton, but we re­ally do not know very much about it. There un­doubt­edly also ex­ists an ex­ten­sive sys­tem for re­train­ing Ad­justers of in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ence be­fore they em­bark upon new mis­sions of mor­tal as­so­ci­a­tion, but, again, we do not ac­tu­ally know.

109:1.2I have been told by Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers that ev­ery time a Mon­i­tor-in­dwelt mor­tal fails of sur­vival, when the Ad­juster re­turns to Di­vin­ing­ton, an ex­tended course of train­ing is en­gaged in. This ad­di­tional train­ing is made pos­si­ble by the ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing in­dwelt a hu­man be­ing, and it is al­ways im­parted be­fore the Ad­juster is re­manded to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time.

109:1.3Ac­tual liv­ing ex­pe­ri­ence has no cos­mic sub­sti­tute. The per­fec­tion of the di­vin­ity of a newly formed Thought Ad­juster does not in any man­ner en­dow this Mys­tery Mon­i­tor with ex­pe­ri­enced min­is­tra­tive abil­ity. Ex­pe­ri­ence is in­sep­a­ra­ble from a liv­ing ex­is­tence; it is the one thing which no amount of di­vine en­dow­ment can ab­solve you from the ne­ces­sity of se­cur­ing by ac­tual liv­ing. There­fore, in com­mon with all be­ings liv­ing and func­tion­ing within the pres­ent sphere of the Su­preme, Thought Ad­justers must ac­quire ex­pe­ri­ence; they must evolve from the lower, in­ex­pe­ri­enced, to the higher, more ex­pe­ri­enced, groups.

109:1.4Ad­justers pass through a def­i­nite de­vel­op­men­tal ca­reer in the mor­tal mind; they achieve a re­al­ity of at­tain­ment which is eter­nally theirs. They pro­gres­sively ac­quire Ad­juster skill and abil­ity as a re­sult of any and all con­tacts with the ma­te­rial races, re­gard­less of the sur­vival or non­sur­vival of their par­tic­u­lar mor­tal sub­jects. They are also equal part­ners of the hu­man mind in fos­ter­ing the evo­lu­tion of the im­mor­tal soul of sur­vival ca­pac­ity.

109:1.5The first stage of Ad­juster evo­lu­tion is at­tained in fu­sion with the sur­viv­ing soul of a mor­tal be­ing. Thus, while you are in na­ture evolv­ing in­ward and up­ward from man to God, the Ad­justers are in na­ture evolv­ing out­ward and down­ward from God to man; and so will the fi­nal prod­uct of this union of di­vin­ity and hu­man­ity eter­nally be the son of man and the son of God.