Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

110:5.1Do not con­fuse and con­found the mis­sion and in­flu­ence of the Ad­juster with what is com­monly called con­science; they are not di­rectly re­lated. Con­science is a hu­man and purely psy­chic re­ac­tion. It is not to be de­spised, but it is hardly the voice of God to the soul, which in­deed the Ad­juster’s would be if such a voice could be heard. Con­science, rightly, ad­mon­ishes you to do right; but the Ad­juster, in ad­di­tion, en­deav­ors to tell you what truly is right; that is, when and as you are able to per­ceive the Mon­i­tor’s lead­ing.

110:5.2Man’s dream ex­pe­ri­ences, that dis­or­dered and dis­con­nected pa­rade of the un-co-or­di­nated sleep­ing mind, pre­sent ad­e­quate proof of the fail­ure of the Ad­justers to har­mo­nize and as­so­ciate the di­ver­gent fac­tors of the mind of man. The Ad­justers sim­ply can­not, in a sin­gle life­time, ar­bi­trar­ily co-or­di­nate and syn­chro­nize two such un­like and di­verse types of think­ing as the hu­man and the di­vine. When they do, as they some­times have, such souls are trans­lated di­rectly to the man­sion worlds with­out the ne­ces­sity of pass­ing through the ex­pe­ri­ence of death.

110:5.3Dur­ing the slum­ber sea­son the Ad­juster at­tempts to achieve only that which the will of the in­dwelt per­son­al­ity has pre­vi­ously fully ap­proved by the de­ci­sions and choos­ings which were made dur­ing times of fully wake­ful con­scious­ness, and which have thereby be­come lodged in the realms of the super­mind, the li­ai­son do­main of hu­man and di­vine in­ter­re­la­tion­ship.

110:5.4While their mor­tal hosts are asleep, the Ad­justers try to reg­is­ter their cre­ations in the higher lev­els of the ma­te­rial mind, and some of your grotesque dreams in­di­cate their fail­ure to make ef­fi­cient con­tact. The ab­sur­di­ties of dream life not only tes­tify to pres­sure of un­ex­pressed emo­tions but also bear wit­ness to the hor­ri­ble dis­tor­tion of the rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the spir­i­tual con­cepts pre­sented by the Ad­justers. Your own pas­sions, urges, and other in­nate ten­den­cies trans­late them­selves into the pic­ture and sub­sti­tute their un­ex­pressed de­sires for the di­vine mes­sages which the in­dwellers are en­deav­or­ing to put into the psy­chic rec­ords dur­ing un­con­scious sleep.

110:5.5It is ex­tremely dan­ger­ous to pos­tu­late as to the Ad­juster con­tent of the dream life. The Ad­justers do work dur­ing sleep, but your or­di­nary dream ex­pe­ri­ences are purely phys­i­o­logic and psy­cho­logic phe­nom­ena. Like­wise, it is haz­ardous to at­tempt the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Ad­justers’ con­cept reg­istry from the more or less con­tin­u­ous and con­scious re­cep­tion of the dic­ta­tions of mor­tal con­science. These are prob­lems which will have to be solved through in­di­vid­ual dis­crim­i­na­tion and per­sonal de­ci­sion. But a hu­man be­ing would do bet­ter to err in re­ject­ing an Ad­juster’s ex­pres­sion through be­liev­ing it to be a purely hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence than to blun­der into ex­alt­ing a re­ac­tion of the mor­tal mind to the sphere of di­vine dig­nity. Re­mem­ber, the in­flu­ence of a Thought Ad­juster is for the most part, though not wholly, a super­con­scious ex­pe­ri­ence.

110:5.6In vary­ing de­grees and in­creas­ingly as you as­cend the psy­chic cir­cles, some­times di­rectly, but more of­ten in­di­rectly, you do com­mu­ni­cate with your Ad­justers. But it is dan­ger­ous to en­ter­tain the idea that ev­ery new con­cept orig­i­nat­ing in the hu­man mind is the dic­ta­tion of the Ad­juster. More of­ten, in be­ings of your or­der, that which you ac­cept as the Ad­juster’s voice is in re­al­ity the em­a­na­tion of your own in­tel­lect. This is dan­ger­ous ground, and ev­ery hu­man be­ing must set­tle these prob­lems for him­self in ac­cor­dance with his nat­u­ral hu­man wis­dom and super­hu­man in­sight.

110:5.7The Ad­juster of the hu­man be­ing through whom this com­mu­ni­ca­tion is be­ing made en­joys such a wide scope of ac­tiv­ity chiefly be­cause of this hu­man’s al­most com­plete in­dif­fer­ence to any out­ward man­i­fes­ta­tions of the Ad­juster’s in­ner pres­ence; it is in­deed for­tu­nate that he re­mains con­sciously quite un­con­cerned about the en­tire pro­ce­dure. He holds one of the highly ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­justers of his day and gen­er­a­tion, and yet his pas­sive re­ac­tion to, and in­ac­tive con­cern to­ward, the phe­nom­ena as­so­ci­ated with the pres­ence in his mind of this ver­sa­tile Ad­juster is pro­nounced by the guard­ian of des­tiny to be a rare and for­tu­itous re­ac­tion. And all this con­sti­tutes a fa­vor­able co-or­di­na­tion of in­flu­ences, fa­vor­able both to the Ad­juster in the higher sphere of ac­tion and to the hu­man part­ner from the stand­points of health, ef­fi­ciency, and tran­quil­lity.