Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

110:3.1Ad­justers are play­ing the sa­cred and su­perb game of the ages; they are en­gaged in one of the su­preme ad­ven­tures of time in space. And how happy they are when your co-op­er­a­tion per­mits them to lend as­sis­tance in your short strug­gles of time as they con­tinue to pros­e­cute their larger tasks of eter­nity. But usu­ally, when your Ad­juster at­tempts to com­mu­ni­cate with you, the mes­sage is lost in the ma­te­rial cur­rents of the en­ergy streams of hu­man mind; only oc­ca­sion­ally do you catch an echo, a faint and dis­tant echo, of the di­vine voice.

110:3.2The suc­cess of your Ad­juster in the en­ter­prise of pi­lot­ing you through the mor­tal life and bring­ing about your sur­vival de­pends not so much on the the­o­ries of your be­liefs as upon your de­ci­sions, de­ter­mi­na­tions, and stead­fast faith. All these move­ments of per­son­al­ity growth be­come pow­er­ful in­flu­ences aid­ing in your ad­vance­ment be­cause they help you to co-op­er­ate with the Ad­juster; they as­sist you in ceas­ing to re­sist. Thought Ad­justers suc­ceed or ap­par­ently fail in their ter­res­trial un­der­tak­ings just in so far as mor­tals suc­ceed or fail to co-op­er­ate with the scheme whereby they are to be ad­vanced along the as­cend­ing path of per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. The se­cret of sur­vival is wrapped up in the su­preme hu­man de­sire to be God­like and in the as­so­ci­ated will­ing­ness to do and be any and all things which are es­sen­tial to the fi­nal at­tain­ment of that over­mas­ter­ing de­sire.

110:3.3When we speak of an Ad­juster’s suc­cess or fail­ure, we are speak­ing in terms of hu­man sur­vival. Ad­justers never fail; they are of the di­vine essence, and they al­ways emerge tri­umphant in each of their un­der­tak­ings.

110:3.4I can­not but ob­serve that so many of you spend so much time and thought on mere tri­fles of liv­ing, while you al­most wholly over­look the more es­sen­tial re­al­i­ties of ev­er­last­ing im­port, those very ac­com­plish­ments which are con­cerned with the de­vel­op­ment of a more har­mo­nious work­ing agree­ment be­tween you and your Ad­justers. The great goal of hu­man ex­is­tence is to at­tune to the di­vin­ity of the in­dwelling Ad­juster; the great achieve­ment of mor­tal life is the at­tain­ment of a true and un­der­stand­ing con­se­cra­tion to the eter­nal aims of the di­vine spirit who waits and works within your mind. But a de­voted and de­ter­mined ef­fort to re­al­ize eter­nal des­tiny is wholly com­pat­i­ble with a light­hearted and joy­ous life and with a suc­cess­ful and hon­or­able ca­reer on earth. Co-op­er­a­tion with the Thought Ad­juster does not en­tail self-tor­ture, mock piety, or hyp­o­crit­i­cal and os­ten­ta­tious self-abase­ment; the ideal life is one of lov­ing ser­vice rather than an ex­is­tence of fear­ful ap­pre­hen­sion.

110:3.5Con­fu­sion, be­ing puz­zled, even some­times dis­cour­aged and dis­tracted, does not nec­es­sar­ily sig­nify re­sis­tance to the lead­ings of the in­dwelling Ad­juster. Such at­ti­tudes may some­times con­note lack of ac­tive co-op­er­a­tion with the di­vine Mon­i­tor and may, there­fore, some­what de­lay spir­i­tual prog­ress, but such in­tel­lec­tual emo­tional dif­fi­cul­ties do not in the least in­ter­fere with the cer­tain sur­vival of the God-know­ing soul. Ig­no­rance alone can never pre­vent sur­vival; nei­ther can con­fu­sional doubts nor fear­ful un­cer­tainty. Only con­scious re­sis­tance to the Ad­juster’s lead­ing can pre­vent the sur­vival of the evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul.

110:3.6You must not re­gard co-op­er­a­tion with your Ad­juster as a par­tic­u­larly con­scious pro­cess, for it is not; but your mo­tives and your de­ci­sions, your faith­ful de­ter­mi­na­tions and your su­preme de­sires, do con­sti­tute real and ef­fec­tive co-op­er­a­tion. You can con­sciously aug­ment Ad­juster har­mony by:

110:3.71. Choos­ing to re­spond to di­vine lead­ing; sin­cerely bas­ing the hu­man life on the high­est con­scious­ness of truth, beauty, and good­ness, and then co-or­di­nat­ing these qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity through wis­dom, wor­ship, faith, and love.

110:3.82. Lov­ing God and de­sir­ing to be like him—gen­uine rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vine fa­ther­hood and lov­ing wor­ship of the heav­enly Par­ent.

110:3.93. Lov­ing man and sin­cerely de­sir­ing to serve him—whole­hearted rec­og­ni­tion of the broth­er­hood of man cou­pled with an in­tel­li­gent and wise af­fec­tion for each of your fel­low mor­tals.

110:3.104. Joy­ful ac­cep­tance of cos­mic citizen­ship—hon­est rec­og­ni­tion of your pro­gres­sive obli­ga­tions to the Su­preme Be­ing, aware­ness of the in­ter­de­pen­dence of evo­lu­tion­ary man and evolv­ing De­ity. This is the birth of cos­mic moral­ity and the dawn­ing re­al­iza­tion of uni­ver­sal duty.