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Paper 110

Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

Solitary Messenger

1. Indwelling the Mortal Mind

110:1.1Ad­justers should not be thought of as liv­ing in the ma­te­rial brains of hu­man be­ings. They are not or­ganic parts of the phys­i­cal crea­tures of the realms. The Thought Ad­juster may more prop­erly be en­vis­aged as in­dwelling the mor­tal mind of man rather than as ex­ist­ing within the con­fines of a sin­gle phys­i­cal or­gan. And in­di­rectly and un­rec­og­nized the Ad­juster is con­stantly com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the hu­man sub­ject, es­pe­cially dur­ing those sub­lime ex­pe­ri­ences of the wor­ship­ful con­tact of mind with spirit in the super­con­scious­ness.

110:1.2I wish it were pos­si­ble for me to help evolv­ing mor­tals to achieve a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing and at­tain a fuller ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the un­selfish and su­perb work of the Ad­justers liv­ing within them, who are so de­voutly faith­ful to the task of fos­ter­ing man’s spir­i­tual wel­fare. These Mon­i­tors are ef­fi­cient min­is­ters to the higher phases of men’s minds; they are wise and ex­pe­ri­enced ma­nip­u­la­tors of the spir­i­tual po­ten­tial of the hu­man in­tel­lect. These heav­enly helpers are ded­i­cated to the stu­pen­dous task of guid­ing you safely in­ward and up­ward to the ce­les­tial haven of hap­pi­ness. These tire­less toil­ers are con­se­crated to the fu­ture per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the tri­umph of di­vine truth in your life ev­er­last­ing. They are the watch­ful work­ers who pi­lot the God-con­scious hu­man mind away from the shoals of evil while ex­pertly guid­ing the evolv­ing soul of man to­ward the di­vine har­bors of per­fec­tion on far-dis­tant and eter­nal shores. The Ad­justers are lov­ing lead­ers, your safe and sure guides through the dark and un­cer­tain mazes of your short earthly ca­reer; they are the pa­tient teach­ers who so con­stantly urge their sub­jects for­ward in the paths of pro­gres­sive per­fec­tion. They are the care­ful cus­to­di­ans of the sub­lime val­ues of crea­ture char­ac­ter. I wish you could love them more, co-op­er­ate with them more fully, and cher­ish them more af­fec­tion­ately.

110:1.3Al­though the di­vine in­dwellers are chiefly con­cerned with your spir­i­tual prepa­ra­tion for the next stage of the never-end­ing ex­is­tence, they are also deeply in­ter­ested in your tem­po­ral wel­fare and in your real achieve­ments on earth. They are de­lighted to con­tribute to your health, hap­pi­ness, and true pros­per­ity. They are not in­dif­fer­ent to your suc­cess in all mat­ters of plan­e­tary ad­vance­ment which are not in­im­i­cal to your fu­ture life of eter­nal prog­ress.

110:1.4Ad­justers are in­ter­ested in, and con­cerned with, your daily do­ings and the man­i­fold de­tails of your life just to the ex­tent that these are in­flu­en­tial in the de­ter­mi­na­tion of your sig­nif­i­cant tem­po­ral choices and vi­tal spir­i­tual de­ci­sions and, hence, are fac­tors in the so­lu­tion of your prob­lem of soul sur­vival and eter­nal prog­ress. The Ad­juster, while pas­sive re­gard­ing purely tem­po­ral wel­fare, is di­vinely ac­tive con­cern­ing all the af­fairs of your eter­nal fu­ture.

110:1.5The Ad­juster re­mains with you in all dis­as­ter and through ev­ery sick­ness which does not wholly de­stroy the men­tal­ity. But how un­kind know­ingly to de­file or oth­er­wise de­lib­er­ately to pol­lute the phys­i­cal body, which must serve as the earthly taber­na­cle of this mar­velous gift from God. All phys­i­cal poi­sons greatly re­tard the ef­forts of the Ad­juster to ex­alt the ma­te­rial mind, while the men­tal poi­sons of fear, anger, envy, jeal­ousy, sus­pi­cion, and in­tol­er­ance like­wise tremen­dously in­ter­fere with the spir­i­tual prog­ress of the evolv­ing soul.

110:1.6To­day you are pass­ing through the pe­riod of the court­ship of your Ad­juster; and if you only prove faith­ful to the trust re­posed in you by the di­vine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eter­nal union, there will even­tu­ally en­sue that mor­ontia one­ness, that su­per­nal har­mony, that cos­mic co-or­di­na­tion, that di­vine at­tune­ment, that ce­les­tial fu­sion, that never-end­ing blend­ing of iden­tity, that one­ness of be­ing which is so per­fect and fi­nal that even the most ex­pe­ri­enced per­son­al­i­ties can never seg­re­gate or rec­og­nize as sep­a­rate iden­ti­ties the fu­sion part­ners—mor­tal man and di­vine Ad­juster.