The Adjuster and the Soul

111:1.1Though the work of Ad­justers is spir­i­tual in na­ture, they must, per­force, do all their work upon an in­tel­lec­tual foun­da­tion. Mind is the hu­man soil from which the spirit Mon­i­tor must evolve the mor­ontia soul with the co-op­er­a­tion of the in­dwelt per­son­al­ity.

111:1.2There is a cos­mic unity in the sev­eral mind lev­els of the uni­verse of uni­verses. In­tel­lec­tual selves have their ori­gin in the cos­mic mind much as neb­u­lae take ori­gin in the cos­mic en­er­gies of uni­verse space. On the hu­man (hence per­sonal) level of in­tel­lec­tual selves the po­ten­tial of spirit evo­lu­tion be­comes dom­i­nant, with the as­sent of the mor­tal mind, be­cause of the spir­i­tual en­dow­ments of the hu­man per­son­al­ity to­gether with the cre­ative pres­ence of an en­tity-point of ab­so­lute value in such hu­man selves. But such a spirit dom­i­nance of the ma­te­rial mind is con­di­tioned upon two ex­pe­ri­ences: This mind must have evolved up through the min­istry of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, and the ma­te­rial (per­sonal) self must choose to co-op­er­ate with the in­dwelling Ad­juster in cre­at­ing and fos­ter­ing the mor­ontia self, the evo­lu­tion­ary and po­ten­tially im­mor­tal soul.

111:1.3Ma­te­rial mind is the arena in which hu­man per­son­al­i­ties live, are self-con­scious, make de­ci­sions, choose God or for­sake him, eter­nal­ize or de­stroy them­selves.

111:1.4Ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion has pro­vided you a life ma­chine, your body; the Fa­ther him­self has en­dowed you with the purest spirit re­al­ity known in the uni­verse, your Thought Ad­juster. But into your hands, sub­ject to your own de­ci­sions, has been given mind, and it is by mind that you live or die. It is within this mind and with this mind that you make those moral de­ci­sions which en­able you to achieve Ad­juster­like­ness, and that is God­like­ness.

111:1.5Mor­tal mind is a tem­po­rary in­tel­lect sys­tem loaned to hu­man be­ings for use dur­ing a ma­te­rial life­time, and as they use this mind, they are ei­ther ac­cept­ing or re­ject­ing the po­ten­tial of eter­nal ex­is­tence. Mind is about all you have of uni­verse re­al­ity that is sub­ject to your will, and the soul—the mor­ontia self—will faith­fully por­tray the har­vest of the tem­po­ral de­ci­sions which the mor­tal self is mak­ing. Hu­man con­scious­ness rests gen­tly upon the elec­tro­chem­i­cal mech­a­nism be­low and del­i­cately touches the spirit-mor­ontia en­ergy sys­tem above. Of nei­ther of these two sys­tems is the hu­man be­ing ever com­pletely con­scious in his mor­tal life; there­fore must he work in mind, of which he is con­scious. And it is not so much what mind com­pre­hends as what mind de­sires to com­pre­hend that in­sures sur­vival; it is not so much what mind is like as what mind is striv­ing to be like that con­sti­tutes spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. It is not so much that man is con­scious of God as that man yearns for God that re­sults in uni­verse as­cen­sion. What you are to­day is not so im­por­tant as what you are be­com­ing day by day and in eter­nity.

111:1.6Mind is the cos­mic in­stru­ment on which the hu­man will can play the dis­cords of de­struc­tion, or upon which this same hu­man will can bring forth the ex­qui­site mel­o­dies of God iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and con­se­quent eter­nal sur­vival. The Ad­juster be­stowed upon man is, in the last anal­y­sis, im­per­vi­ous to evil and in­ca­pable of sin, but mor­tal mind can ac­tu­ally be twisted, dis­torted, and ren­dered evil and ugly by the sin­ful machi­na­tions of a per­verse and self-seek­ing hu­man will. Like­wise can this mind be made no­ble, beau­ti­ful, true, and good—ac­tu­ally great—in ac­cor­dance with the spirit-il­lu­mi­nated will of a God-know­ing hu­man be­ing.

111:1.7Evo­lu­tion­ary mind is only fully sta­ble and de­pend­able when man­i­fest­ing it­self upon the two ex­tremes of cos­mic in­tel­lec­tu­al­ity—the wholly mech­a­nized and the en­tirely spir­i­tu­al­ized. Be­tween the in­tel­lec­tual ex­tremes of pure me­chan­i­cal con­trol and true spirit na­ture there in­ter­venes that enor­mous group of evolv­ing and as­cend­ing minds whose sta­bil­ity and tran­quil­lity are de­pen­dent upon per­son­al­ity choice and spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

111:1.8But man does not pas­sively, slav­ishly, sur­ren­der his will to the Ad­juster. Rather does he ac­tively, pos­i­tively, and co-op­er­a­tively choose to fol­low the Ad­juster’s lead­ing when and as such lead­ing con­sciously dif­fers from the de­sires and im­pulses of the nat­u­ral mor­tal mind. The Ad­justers ma­nip­u­late but never dom­i­nate man’s mind against his will; to the Ad­justers the hu­man will is su­preme. And they so re­gard and re­spect it while they strive to achieve the spir­i­tual goals of thought ad­just­ment and char­ac­ter trans­for­ma­tion in the al­most lim­it­less arena of the evolv­ing hu­man in­tel­lect.

111:1.9Mind is your ship, the Ad­juster is your pi­lot, the hu­man will is cap­tain. The mas­ter of the mor­tal ves­sel should have the wis­dom to trust the di­vine pi­lot to guide the as­cend­ing soul into the mor­ontia har­bors of eter­nal sur­vival. Only by self­ish­ness, sloth­ful­ness, and sin­ful­ness can the will of man re­ject the guid­ance of such a lov­ing pi­lot and even­tu­ally wreck the mor­tal ca­reer upon the evil shoals of re­jected mercy and upon the rocks of em­braced sin. With your con­sent, this faith­ful pi­lot will safely carry you across the bar­ri­ers of time and the hand­i­caps of space to the very source of the di­vine mind and on be­yond, even to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of Ad­justers.