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Paper 110

Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

Solitary Messenger

2. Adjusters and Human Will

110:2.1When Thought Ad­justers in­dwell hu­man minds, they bring with them the model ca­reers, the ideal lives, as de­ter­mined and fore­or­dained by them­selves and the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers of Di­vin­ing­ton, which have been cer­ti­fied by the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Uran­tia. Thus they be­gin work with a def­i­nite and pre­de­ter­mined plan for the in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment of their hu­man sub­jects, but it is not in­cum­bent upon any hu­man be­ing to ac­cept this plan. You are all sub­jects of pre­des­ti­na­tion, but it is not fore­or­dained that you must ac­cept this di­vine pre­des­ti­na­tion; you are at full lib­erty to re­ject any part or all of the Thought Ad­justers’ pro­gram. It is their mis­sion to ef­fect such mind changes and to make such spir­i­tual ad­just­ments as you may will­ingly and in­tel­li­gently au­tho­rize, to the end that they may gain more in­flu­ence over the per­son­al­ity di­rec­tion­iza­tion; but un­der no cir­cum­stances do these di­vine Mon­i­tors ever take ad­van­tage of you or in any way ar­bi­trar­ily in­flu­ence you in your choices and de­ci­sions. The Ad­justers re­spect your sov­er­eignty of per­son­al­ity; they are al­ways sub­servient to your will.

110:2.2They are per­sis­tent, in­ge­nious, and per­fect in their meth­ods of work, but they never do vi­o­lence to the vo­li­tional self­hood of their hosts. No hu­man be­ing will ever be spir­i­tu­al­ized by a di­vine Mon­i­tor against his will; sur­vival is a gift of the Gods which must be de­sired by the crea­tures of time. In the fi­nal anal­y­sis, what­ever the Ad­juster has suc­ceeded in do­ing for you, the rec­ords will show that the trans­for­ma­tion has been ac­com­plished with your co-op­er­a­tive con­sent; you will have been a will­ing part­ner with the Ad­juster in the at­tain­ment of ev­ery step of the tremen­dous trans­for­ma­tion of the as­cen­sion ca­reer.

110:2.3The Ad­juster is not try­ing to con­trol your think­ing, as such, but rather to spir­i­tu­al­ize it, to eter­nal­ize it. Nei­ther an­gels nor Ad­justers are de­voted di­rectly to in­flu­enc­ing hu­man thought; that is your ex­clu­sive per­son­al­ity pre­rog­a­tive. The Ad­justers are ded­i­cated to im­prov­ing, mod­i­fy­ing, ad­just­ing, and co-or­di­nat­ing your think­ing pro­cesses; but more es­pe­cially and specif­i­cally they are de­voted to the work of build­ing up spir­i­tual coun­ter­parts of your ca­reers, mor­ontia tran­scripts of your true ad­vanc­ing selves, for sur­vival pur­poses.

110:2.4Ad­justers work in the spheres of the higher lev­els of the hu­man mind, un­ceas­ingly seek­ing to pro­duce mor­ontia du­pli­cates of ev­ery con­cept of the mor­tal in­tel­lect. There are, there­fore, two re­al­i­ties which im­pinge upon, and are cen­tered in, the hu­man mind cir­cuits: one, a mor­tal self evolved from the orig­i­nal plans of the Life Car­ri­ers, the other, an im­mor­tal en­tity from the high spheres of Di­vin­ing­ton, an in­dwelling gift from God. But the mor­tal self is also a per­sonal self; it has per­son­al­ity.

110:2.5You as a per­sonal crea­ture have mind and will. The Ad­juster as a preper­sonal crea­ture has pre­mind and prewill. If you so fully con­form to the Ad­juster’s mind that you see eye to eye, then your minds be­come one, and you re­ceive the re­in­force­ment of the Ad­juster’s mind. Sub­se­quently, if your will or­ders and en­forces the ex­e­cu­tion of the de­ci­sions of this new or com­bined mind, the Ad­juster’s preper­sonal will at­tains to per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion through your de­ci­sion, and as far as that par­tic­u­lar project is con­cerned, you and the Ad­juster are one. Your mind has at­tained to di­vin­ity at­tune­ment, and the Ad­juster’s will has achieved per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion.

110:2.6To the ex­tent that this iden­tity is re­al­ized, you are men­tally ap­proach­ing the mor­ontia or­der of ex­is­tence. Mor­ontia mind is a term sig­ni­fy­ing the sub­stance and sum to­tal of the co-op­er­at­ing minds of di­versely ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual na­tures. Mor­ontia in­tel­lect, there­fore, con­notes a dual mind in the lo­cal uni­verse dom­i­nated by one will. And with mor­tals this is a will, hu­man in ori­gin, which is be­com­ing di­vine through man’s iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the hu­man mind with the mind­ed­ness of God.