Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures

109:4.1The higher forms of in­tel­li­gent in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween hu­man be­ings are greatly helped by the in­dwelling Ad­justers. An­i­mals do have fel­low feel­ings, but they do not com­mu­ni­cate con­cepts to each other; they can ex­press emo­tions but not ideas and ide­als. Nei­ther do men of an­i­mal ori­gin ex­pe­ri­ence a high type of in­tel­lec­tual in­ter­course or spir­i­tual com­mu­nion with their fel­lows un­til the Thought Ad­justers have been be­stowed, al­beit, when such evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­velop speech, they are on the high­road to re­ceiv­ing Ad­justers.

109:4.2An­i­mals do, in a crude way, com­mu­ni­cate with each other, but there is lit­tle or no per­son­al­ity in such prim­i­tive con­tact. Ad­justers are not per­son­al­ity; they are preper­sonal be­ings. But they do hail from the source of per­son­al­ity, and their pres­ence does aug­ment the qual­i­ta­tive man­i­fes­ta­tions of hu­man per­son­al­ity; es­pe­cially is this true if the Ad­juster has had pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence.

109:4.3The type of Ad­juster has much to do with the po­ten­tial for ex­pres­sion of the hu­man per­son­al­ity. On down through the ages, many of the great in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual lead­ers of Uran­tia have ex­erted their in­flu­ence chiefly be­cause of the su­pe­ri­or­ity and pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence of their in­dwelling Ad­justers.

109:4.4The in­dwelling Ad­justers have in no small mea­sure co-op­er­ated with other spir­i­tual in­flu­ences in trans­form­ing and hu­man­iz­ing the de­scen­dants of the prim­i­tive men of olden ages. If the Ad­justers in­dwelling the minds of the in­hab­i­tants of Uran­tia were to be with­drawn, the world would slowly re­turn to many of the scenes and prac­tices of the men of prim­i­tive times; the di­vine Mon­i­tors are one of the real po­ten­tials of ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion.

109:4.5I have ob­served a Thought Ad­juster in­dwelling a mind on Uran­tia who has, ac­cord­ing to the rec­ords on Uversa, in­dwelt fif­teen minds pre­vi­ously in Or­von­ton. We do not know whether this Mon­i­tor has had sim­i­lar ex­pe­ri­ences in other super­uni­verses, but I sus­pect so. This is a mar­velous Ad­juster and one of the most use­ful and po­tent forces on Uran­tia dur­ing this pres­ent age. What oth­ers have lost, in that they re­fused to sur­vive, this hu­man be­ing (and your whole world) now gains. From him who has not sur­vival qual­i­ties, shall be taken away even that ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster which he now has, while to him who has sur­vival prospects, shall be given even the pre-ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster of a sloth­ful de­serter.

109:4.6In a sense the Ad­justers may be fos­ter­ing a cer­tain de­gree of plan­e­tary cross-fer­til­iza­tion in the do­mains of truth, beauty, and good­ness. But they are sel­dom given two in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ences on the same planet; there is no Ad­juster now serv­ing on Uran­tia who has been on this world pre­vi­ously. I know whereof I speak since we have their num­bers and rec­ords in the ar­chives of Uversa.