The Overcontrol of Evolution

65:7.1The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are the ver­sa­tile mind min­is­ters to the lower in­tel­li­gent ex­is­tences of a lo­cal uni­verse. This or­der of mind is min­is­tered from the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters or from some world con­nected there­with, but there is in­flu­en­tial di­rec­tion of lower-mind func­tion from the sys­tem cap­i­tals.

65:7.2On an evo­lu­tion­ary world much, very much, de­pends on the work of these seven ad­ju­tants. But they are mind min­is­ters; they are not con­cerned in phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion, the do­main of the Life Car­ri­ers. Nev­er­the­less, the per­fect in­te­gra­tion of these spirit en­dow­ments with the or­dained and nat­u­ral pro­ce­dure of the un­fold­ing and in­her­ent regime of the Life Car­ri­ers is re­spon­si­ble for the mor­tal in­abil­ity to dis­cern, in the phe­nom­e­non of mind, aught but the hand of na­ture and the out­work­ing of nat­u­ral pro­cesses, al­beit you are oc­ca­sion­ally some­what per­plexed in ex­plain­ing all of ev­ery­thing con­nected with the nat­u­ral re­ac­tions of mind as it is as­so­ci­ated with mat­ter. And if Uran­tia were op­er­at­ing more in ac­cor­dance with the orig­i­nal plans, you would ob­serve even less to ar­rest your at­ten­tion in the phe­nom­e­non of mind.

65:7.3The seven ad­ju­tant spir­its are more cir­cuit­like than en­tity­like, and on or­di­nary worlds they are en­cir­cuited with other ad­ju­tant func­tion­ings through­out the lo­cal uni­verse. On life-ex­per­i­ment plan­ets, how­ever, they are rel­a­tively iso­lated. And on Uran­tia, ow­ing to the unique na­ture of the life pat­terns, the lower ad­ju­tants ex­pe­ri­enced far more dif­fi­culty in con­tact­ing with the evo­lu­tion­ary or­gan­isms than would have been the case in a more stan­dard­ized type of life en­dow­ment.

65:7.4Again, on an av­er­age evo­lu­tion­ary world the seven ad­ju­tant spir­its are far bet­ter syn­chro­nized with the ad­vanc­ing stages of an­i­mal de­vel­op­ment than they were on Uran­tia. With but a sin­gle ex­cep­tion, the ad­ju­tants ex­pe­ri­enced the great­est dif­fi­culty in con­tact­ing with the evolv­ing minds of Uran­tia or­gan­isms that they had ever had in all their func­tion­ing through­out the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. On this world there de­vel­oped many forms of bor­der phe­nom­ena—con­fu­sional com­bi­na­tions of the me­chan­i­cal-non­teach­able and the non­me­chan­i­cal-teach­able types of or­gan­is­mal re­sponse.

65:7.5The seven ad­ju­tant spir­its do not make con­tact with the purely me­chan­i­cal or­ders of or­gan­is­mal en­vi­ron­men­tal re­sponse. Such prein­tel­li­gent re­sponses of liv­ing or­gan­isms per­tain purely to the en­ergy do­mains of the power cen­ters, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and their as­so­ciates.

65:7.6The ac­qui­si­tion of the po­ten­tial of the abil­ity to learn from ex­pe­ri­ence marks the be­gin­ning of the func­tion­ing of the ad­ju­tant spir­its, and they func­tion from the lowli­est minds of prim­i­tive and in­vis­i­ble ex­is­tences up to the high­est types in the evo­lu­tion­ary scale of hu­man be­ings. They are the source and pat­tern for the oth­er­wise more or less mys­te­ri­ous be­hav­ior and in­com­pletely un­der­stood quick re­ac­tions of mind to the ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ment. Long must these faith­ful and al­ways de­pend­able in­flu­ences carry for­ward their pre­lim­i­nary min­istry be­fore the an­i­mal mind at­tains the hu­man lev­els of spirit re­cep­tiv­ity.

65:7.7The ad­ju­tants func­tion ex­clu­sively in the evo­lu­tion of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing mind up to the level of the sixth phase, the spirit of wor­ship. At this level there oc­curs that in­ev­i­ta­ble over­lap­ping of min­istry—the phe­nom­e­non of the higher reach­ing down to co-or­di­nate with the lower in an­tic­i­pa­tion of sub­se­quent at­tain­ment of ad­vanced lev­els of de­vel­op­ment. And still ad­di­tional spirit min­istry ac­com­pa­nies the ac­tion of the sev­enth and last ad­ju­tant, the spirit of wis­dom. Through­out the min­istry of the spirit world the in­di­vid­ual never ex­pe­ri­ences abrupt tran­si­tions of spirit co-op­er­a­tion; al­ways are these changes grad­ual and re­cip­ro­cal.

65:7.8Al­ways should the do­mains of the phys­i­cal (elec­tro­chem­i­cal) and the men­tal re­sponse to en­vi­ron­men­tal stim­uli be dif­fer­en­ti­ated, and in turn must they all be rec­og­nized as phe­nom­ena apart from spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties. The do­mains of phys­i­cal, men­tal, and spir­i­tual grav­ity are dis­tinct realms of cos­mic re­al­ity, not­with­stand­ing their in­ti­mate in­ter­re­la­tions.