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Paper 110

Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

Solitary Messenger

7. The Attainment of Immortality

110:7.1The achieve­ment of the seven cos­mic cir­cles does not equal Ad­juster fu­sion. There are many mor­tals liv­ing on Uran­tia who have at­tained their cir­cles; but fu­sion de­pends on yet other greater and more sub­lime spir­i­tual achieve­ments, upon the at­tain­ment of a fi­nal and com­plete at­tune­ment of the mor­tal will with the will of God as it is res­i­dent in the Thought Ad­juster.

110:7.2When a hu­man be­ing has com­pleted the cir­cles of cos­mic achieve­ment, and fur­ther, when the fi­nal choos­ing of the mor­tal will per­mits the Ad­juster to com­plete the as­so­ci­a­tion of hu­man iden­tity with the mor­ontial soul dur­ing evo­lu­tion­ary and phys­i­cal life, then do such con­sum­mated li­aisons of soul and Ad­juster go on in­de­pen­dently to the man­sion worlds, and there is is­sued the man­date from Uversa which pro­vides for the im­me­di­ate fu­sion of the Ad­juster and the mor­ontial soul. This fu­sion dur­ing phys­i­cal life in­stantly con­sumes the ma­te­rial body; the hu­man be­ings who might wit­ness such a spec­ta­cle would only ob­serve the trans­lat­ing mor­tal dis­ap­pear “in char­i­ots of fire.”

110:7.3Most Ad­justers who have trans­lated their sub­jects from Uran­tia were highly ex­pe­ri­enced and of rec­ord as pre­vi­ous in­dwellers of nu­mer­ous mor­tals on other spheres. Re­mem­ber, Ad­justers gain valu­able in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ence on plan­ets of the loan or­der; it does not fol­low that Ad­justers only gain ex­pe­ri­ence for ad­vanced work in those mor­tal sub­jects who fail to sur­vive.

110:7.4Sub­se­quent to mor­tal fu­sion the Ad­justers share your des­tiny and ex­pe­ri­ence; they are you. Af­ter the fu­sion of the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul and the as­so­ci­ated Ad­juster, all of the ex­pe­ri­ence and all of the val­ues of the one even­tu­ally be­come the pos­ses­sion of the other, so that the two are ac­tu­ally one en­tity. In a cer­tain sense, this new be­ing is of the eter­nal past as well as for the eter­nal fu­ture. All that was once hu­man in the sur­viv­ing soul and all that is ex­pe­ri­en­tially di­vine in the Ad­juster now be­come the ac­tual pos­ses­sion of the new and ever-as­cend­ing uni­verse per­son­al­ity. But on each uni­verse level the Ad­juster can en­dow the new crea­ture only with those at­tri­butes which are mean­ing­ful and of value on that level. An ab­so­lute one­ness with the di­vine Mon­i­tor, a com­plete ex­haus­tion of the en­dow­ment of an Ad­juster, can only be achieved in eter­nity sub­se­quent to the fi­nal at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Fa­ther of spir­its, ever the source of these di­vine gifts.

110:7.5When the evolv­ing soul and the di­vine Ad­juster are fi­nally and eter­nally fused, each gains all of the ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble qual­i­ties of the other. This co-or­di­nate per­son­al­ity pos­sesses all of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mem­ory of sur­vival once held by the an­ces­tral mor­tal mind and then res­i­dent in the mor­ontia soul, and in ad­di­tion thereto this po­ten­tial fi­nal­i­ter em­braces all the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mem­ory of the Ad­juster through­out the mor­tal in­dwellings of all time. But it will re­quire an eter­nity of the fu­ture for an Ad­juster ever com­pletely to en­dow the per­son­al­ity part­ner­ship with the mean­ings and val­ues which the di­vine Mon­i­tor car­ries for­ward from the eter­nity of the past.

110:7.6But with the vast ma­jor­ity of Uran­tians the Ad­juster must pa­tiently await the ar­rival of death de­liv­er­ance; must await the lib­er­a­tion of the emerg­ing soul from the well-nigh com­plete dom­i­na­tion of the en­ergy pat­terns and chem­i­cal forces in­her­ent in your ma­te­rial or­der of ex­is­tence. The chief dif­fi­culty you ex­pe­ri­ence in con­tact­ing with your Ad­justers con­sists in this very in­her­ent ma­te­rial na­ture. So few mor­tals are real thinkers; you do not spir­i­tu­ally de­velop and dis­ci­pline your minds to the point of fa­vor­able li­ai­son with the di­vine Ad­justers. The ear of the hu­man mind is al­most deaf to the spir­i­tual pleas which the Ad­juster trans­lates from the man­i­fold mes­sages of the uni­ver­sal broad­casts of love pro­ceed­ing from the Fa­ther of mer­cies. The Ad­juster finds it al­most im­pos­si­ble to reg­is­ter these in­spir­ing spirit lead­ings in an an­i­mal mind so com­pletely dom­i­nated by the chem­i­cal and elec­tri­cal forces in­her­ent in your phys­i­cal na­tures.

110:7.7Ad­justers re­joice to make con­tact with the mor­tal mind; but they must be pa­tient through the long years of silent so­journ dur­ing which they are un­able to break through an­i­mal re­sis­tance and di­rectly com­mu­ni­cate with you. The higher the Thought Ad­justers as­cend in the scale of ser­vice, the more ef­fi­cient they be­come. But never can they greet you, in the flesh, with the same full, sym­pa­thetic, and ex­pres­sion­ful af­fec­tion as they will when you dis­cern them mind to mind on the man­sion worlds.

110:7.8Dur­ing mor­tal life the ma­te­rial body and mind sep­a­rate you from your Ad­juster and pre­vent free com­mu­ni­ca­tion; sub­se­quent to death, af­ter the eter­nal fu­sion, you and the Ad­juster are one—you are not dis­tin­guish­able as sep­a­rate be­ings—and thus there ex­ists no need for com­mu­ni­ca­tion as you would un­der­stand it.

110:7.9While the voice of the Ad­juster is ever within you, most of you will hear it sel­dom dur­ing a life­time. Hu­man be­ings be­low the third and sec­ond cir­cles of at­tain­ment rarely hear the Ad­juster’s di­rect voice ex­cept in mo­ments of su­preme de­sire, in a su­preme sit­u­a­tion, and con­se­quent upon a su­preme de­ci­sion.

110:7.10Dur­ing the mak­ing and break­ing of a con­tact be­tween the mor­tal mind of a des­tiny re­servist and the plan­e­tary super­vi­sors, some­times the in­dwelling Ad­juster is so sit­u­ated that it be­comes pos­si­ble to trans­mit a mes­sage to the mor­tal part­ner. Not long since, on Uran­tia, such a mes­sage was trans­mit­ted by a self-act­ing Ad­juster to the hu­man as­so­ciate, a mem­ber of the re­serve corps of des­tiny. This mes­sage was in­tro­duced by these words: “And now, with­out in­jury or jeop­ardy to the sub­ject of my so­lic­i­tous de­vo­tion and with­out in­tent to over­chas­tise or dis­cour­age, for me, make rec­ord of this my plea to him.” Then fol­lowed a beau­ti­fully touch­ing and ap­peal­ing ad­mo­ni­tion. Among other things, the Ad­juster pleaded “that he more faith­fully give me his sin­cere co-op­er­a­tion, more cheer­fully en­dure the tasks of my em­place­ment, more faith­fully carry out the pro­gram of my ar­range­ment, more pa­tiently go through the tri­als of my se­lec­tion, more per­sis­tently and cheer­fully tread the path of my choos­ing, more humbly re­ceive credit that may ac­crue as a re­sult of my cease­less en­deav­ors—thus trans­mit my ad­mo­ni­tion to the man of my in­dwelling. Upon him I be­stow the su­preme de­vo­tion and af­fec­tion of a di­vine spirit. And say fur­ther to my beloved sub­ject that I will func­tion with wis­dom and power un­til the very end, un­til the last earth strug­gle is over; I will be true to my per­son­al­ity trust. And I ex­hort him to sur­vival, not to dis­ap­point me, not to de­prive me of the re­ward of my pa­tient and in­tense strug­gle. On the hu­man will our achieve­ment of per­son­al­ity de­pends. Cir­cle by cir­cle I have pa­tiently as­cended this hu­man mind, and I have tes­ti­mony that I am meet­ing the ap­proval of the chief of my kind. Cir­cle by cir­cle I am pass­ing on to judg­ment. I await with plea­sure and with­out ap­pre­hen­sion the roll call of des­tiny; I am pre­pared to sub­mit all to the tri­bu­nals of the An­cients of Days.”

110:7.11[Pre­sented by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of Or­von­ton.]