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Paper 109

Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures

Solitary Messenger

6. The Persistence of True Values

109:6.1Ad­justers never fail; noth­ing worth sur­viv­ing is ever lost; ev­ery mean­ing­ful value in ev­ery will crea­ture is cer­tain of sur­vival, ir­re­spec­tive of the sur­vival or non­sur­vival of the mean­ing-dis­cov­er­ing or eval­u­at­ing per­son­al­ity. And so it is, a mor­tal crea­ture may re­ject sur­vival; still the life ex­pe­ri­ence is not wasted; the eter­nal Ad­juster car­ries the worth-while fea­tures of such an ap­par­ent life of fail­ure over into some other world and there be­stows these sur­viv­ing mean­ings and val­ues upon some higher type of mor­tal mind, one of sur­vival ca­pac­ity. No worth-while ex­pe­ri­ence ever hap­pens in vain; no true mean­ing or real value ever per­ishes.

109:6.2As re­lated to fu­sion can­di­dates, if a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor is de­serted by the mor­tal as­so­ciate, if the hu­man part­ner de­clines to pur­sue the as­cend­ing ca­reer, when re­leased by nat­u­ral death (or prior thereto), the Ad­juster car­ries away ev­ery­thing of sur­vival value which has evolved in the mind of that non­sur­viv­ing crea­ture. If an Ad­juster should re­peat­edly fail to at­tain fu­sion per­son­al­ity be­cause of the non­sur­vival of suc­ces­sive hu­man sub­jects, and if this Mon­i­tor should sub­se­quently be per­son­al­ized, all the ac­quired ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing in­dwelt and mas­tered all these mor­tal minds would be­come the ac­tual pos­ses­sion of such a newly Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, an en­dow­ment to be en­joyed and uti­lized through­out all fu­ture ages. A Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of this or­der is a com­pos­ite as­sem­bly of all the sur­vival traits of all his for­mer crea­ture hosts.

109:6.3When Ad­justers of long uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence vol­un­teer to in­dwell di­vine Sons on be­stowal mis­sions, they full well know that per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment can never be achieved through this ser­vice. But of­ten does the Fa­ther of spir­its grant per­son­al­ity to these vol­un­teers and es­tab­lish them as di­rec­tors of their kind. These are the per­son­al­i­ties hon­ored with au­thor­ity on Di­vin­ing­ton. And their unique na­tures em­body the mo­saic hu­man­ity of their mul­ti­ple ex­pe­ri­ences of mor­tal in­dwelling and also the spirit tran­script of the hu­man di­vin­ity of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of the ter­mi­nal in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ence.

109:6.4The ac­tiv­i­ties of Ad­justers in your lo­cal uni­verse are di­rected by the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, that very Mon­i­tor who guided him step by step when he lived his hu­man life in the flesh of Joshua ben Joseph. Faith­ful to his trust was this ex­traor­di­nary Ad­juster, and wisely did this valiant Mon­i­tor di­rect the hu­man na­ture, ever guid­ing the mor­tal mind of the Par­a­dise Son in the choos­ing of the path of the Fa­ther’s per­fect will. This Ad­juster had pre­vi­ously served with Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek in the days of Abra­ham and had en­gaged in tremen­dous ex­ploits both pre­vi­ous to this in­dwelling and be­tween these be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences.

109:6.5This Ad­juster did in­deed tri­umph in Je­sus’ hu­man mind—that mind which in each of life’s re­cur­ring sit­u­a­tions main­tained a con­se­crated ded­i­ca­tion to the Fa­ther’s will, say­ing, “Not my will, but yours, be done.” Such de­ci­sive con­se­cra­tion con­sti­tutes the true pass­port from the lim­i­ta­tions of hu­man na­ture to the fi­nal­ity of di­vine at­tain­ment.

109:6.6This same Ad­juster now re­flects in the in­scrutable na­ture of his mighty per­son­al­ity the pre­bap­tismal hu­man­ity of Joshua ben Joseph, the eter­nal and liv­ing tran­script of the eter­nal and liv­ing val­ues which the great­est of all Uran­tians cre­ated out of the hum­ble cir­cum­stances of a com­mon­place life as it was lived to the com­plete ex­haus­tion of the spir­i­tual val­ues at­tain­able in mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence.

109:6.7Ev­ery­thing of per­ma­nent value which is in­trusted to an Ad­juster is as­sured eter­nal sur­vival. In cer­tain in­stances the Mon­i­tor holds these pos­ses­sions for be­stowal on a mor­tal mind of fu­ture in­dwelling; in oth­ers, and upon per­son­al­iza­tion, these sur­viv­ing and con­served re­al­i­ties are held in trust for fu­ture uti­liza­tion in the ser­vice of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.