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Paper 110

Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

Solitary Messenger

4. The Adjuster’s Work in the Mind

110:4.1Ad­justers are able to re­ceive the con­tin­u­ous stream of cos­mic in­tel­li­gence com­ing in over the mas­ter cir­cuits of time and space; they are in full touch with the spirit in­tel­li­gence and en­ergy of the uni­verses. But these mighty in­dwellers are un­able to trans­mit very much of this wealth of wis­dom and truth to the minds of their mor­tal sub­jects be­cause of the lack of com­mon­ness of na­ture and the ab­sence of re­spon­sive rec­og­ni­tion.

110:4.2The Thought Ad­juster is en­gaged in a con­stant ef­fort so to spir­i­tu­al­ize your mind as to evolve your mor­ontia soul; but you your­self are mostly un­con­scious of this in­ner min­istry. You are quite in­ca­pable of dis­tin­guish­ing the prod­uct of your own ma­te­rial in­tel­lect from that of the con­joint ac­tiv­i­ties of your soul and the Ad­juster.

110:4.3Cer­tain abrupt pre­sen­ta­tions of thoughts, con­clu­sions, and other pic­tures of mind are some­times the di­rect or in­di­rect work of the Ad­juster; but far more of­ten they are the sud­den emer­gence into con­scious­ness of ideas which have been group­ing them­selves to­gether in the sub­merged men­tal lev­els, nat­u­ral and ev­ery­day oc­cur­rences of nor­mal and or­di­nary psy­chic func­tion in­her­ent in the cir­cuits of the evolv­ing an­i­mal mind. (In con­trast with these sub­con­scious em­a­na­tions, the rev­e­la­tions of the Ad­juster ap­pear through the realms of the super­con­scious.)

110:4.4Trust all mat­ters of mind be­yond the dead level of con­scious­ness to the cus­tody of the Ad­justers. In due time, if not in this world then on the man­sion worlds, they will give good ac­count of their stew­ard­ship, and even­tu­ally will they bring forth those mean­ings and val­ues in­trusted to their care and keep­ing. They will res­ur­rect ev­ery wor­thy trea­sure of the mor­tal mind if you sur­vive.

110:4.5There ex­ists a vast gulf be­tween the hu­man and the di­vine, be­tween man and God. The Uran­tia races are so largely elec­tri­cally and chem­i­cally con­trolled, so highly an­i­mallike in their com­mon be­hav­ior, so emo­tional in their or­di­nary re­ac­tions, that it be­comes ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the Mon­i­tors to guide and di­rect them. You are so de­void of coura­geous de­ci­sions and con­se­crated co-op­er­a­tion that your in­dwelling Ad­justers find it next to im­pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate di­rectly with the hu­man mind. Even when they do find it pos­si­ble to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolv­ing mor­tal soul, this spir­i­tual rev­e­la­tion of­ten so blinds the crea­ture as to pre­cip­i­tate a con­vul­sion of fa­nati­cism or to ini­ti­ate some other in­tel­lec­tual up­heaval which re­sults dis­as­trously. Many a new re­li­gion and strange “ism” has arisen from the aborted, im­per­fect, mis­un­der­stood, and gar­bled com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the Thought Ad­justers.

110:4.6For many thou­sands of years, so the rec­ords of Je­ru­sem show, in each gen­er­a­tion there have lived fewer and fewer be­ings who could func­tion safely with self-act­ing Ad­justers. This is an alarm­ing pic­ture, and the super­vis­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Sa­ta­nia look with fa­vor upon the pro­pos­als of some of your more im­me­di­ate plan­e­tary super­vi­sors who ad­vo­cate the in­au­gu­ra­tion of mea­sures de­signed to fos­ter and con­serve the higher spir­i­tual types of the Uran­tia races.