adjutant mind-spirits

• adjutant mind-spirits

34:4.10The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are the cre­ation of the Di­vine Min­is­ter of a lo­cal uni­verse. These mind-spir­its are sim­i­lar in char­ac­ter but di­verse in power, and all par­take alike of the na­ture of the Uni­verse Spirit, al­though they are hardly re­garded as per­son­al­i­ties apart from their Mother Cre­ator. The seven ad­ju­tants have been given the fol­low­ing names: the spirit of wis­dom, the spirit of wor­ship, the spirit of coun­sel, the spirit of knowl­edge, the spirit of cour­age, the spirit of un­der­stand­ing, the spirit of in­tu­ition—of quick per­cep­tion.

36:5.1It is the pres­ence of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its on the prim­i­tive worlds that con­di­tions the course of or­ganic evo­lu­tion; that ex­plains why evo­lu­tion is pur­pose­ful and not ac­ci­den­tal. These ad­ju­tants rep­re­sent that func­tion of the mind min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit which is ex­tended to the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gent life through the op­er­a­tions of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. The ad­ju­tants are the chil­dren of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and con­sti­tute her per­sonal min­istry to the ma­te­rial minds of the realms. Wher­ever and when­ever such mind is man­i­fest, these spir­its are var­i­ously func­tion­ing.

36:5.2The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are called by names which are the equiv­a­lents of the fol­low­ing des­ig­na­tions: in­tu­ition, un­der­stand­ing, cour­age, knowl­edge, coun­sel, wor­ship, and wis­dom. These mind-spir­its send forth their in­flu­ence into all the in­hab­ited worlds as a dif­fer­en­tial urge, each seek­ing re­cep­tiv­ity ca­pac­ity for man­i­fes­ta­tion quite apart from the de­gree to which its fel­lows may find re­cep­tion and op­por­tu­nity for func­tion.

36:5.3The cen­tral lodg­ments of the ad­ju­tant spir­its on the Life Car­rier head­quar­ters world in­di­cate to the Life Car­rier super­vi­sors the ex­tent and qual­ity of the mind func­tion of the ad­ju­tants on any world and in any given liv­ing or­gan­ism of in­tel­lect sta­tus. These life-mind em­place­ments are per­fect in­di­ca­tors of liv­ing mind func­tion for the first five ad­ju­tants. But with re­gard to the sixth and sev­enth ad­ju­tant spir­its—wor­ship and wis­dom—these cen­tral lodg­ments re­cord only a qual­i­ta­tive func­tion. The quan­ti­ta­tive ac­tiv­ity of the ad­ju­tant of wor­ship and the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom is reg­is­tered in the im­me­di­ate pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter on Sal­ving­ton, be­ing a per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit.

36:5.4The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its al­ways ac­com­pany the Life Car­ri­ers to a new planet, but they should not be re­garded as en­ti­ties; they are more like cir­cuits. The spir­its of the seven uni­verse ad­ju­tants do not func­tion as per­son­al­i­ties apart from the uni­verse pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter; they are in fact a level of con­scious­ness of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and are al­ways sub­or­di­nate to the ac­tion and pres­ence of their cre­ative mother.

36:5.5We are hand­i­capped for words ad­e­quately to des­ig­nate these seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. They are min­is­ters of the lower lev­els of ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind, and they may be de­scribed, in the or­der of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment, as fol­lows:

36:5.61. The spirit of in­tu­ition—quick per­cep­tion, the prim­i­tive phys­i­cal and in­her­ent re­flex in­stincts, the di­rec­tional and other self-preser­va­tive en­dow­ments of all mind cre­ations; the only one of the ad­ju­tants to func­tion so largely in the lower or­ders of an­i­mal life and the only one to make ex­ten­sive func­tional con­tact with the non­teach­able lev­els of me­chan­i­cal mind.

36:5.72. The spirit of un­der­stand­ing—the im­pulse of co-or­di­na­tion, the spon­ta­neous and ap­par­ently au­to­matic as­so­ci­a­tion of ideas. This is the gift of the co-or­di­na­tion of ac­quired knowl­edge, the phe­nom­e­non of quick rea­son­ing, rapid judg­ment, and prompt de­ci­sion.

36:5.83. The spirit of cour­age—the fi­delity en­dow­ment—in per­sonal be­ings, the ba­sis of char­ac­ter ac­quire­ment and the in­tel­lec­tual root of moral stam­ina and spir­i­tual brav­ery. When en­light­ened by facts and in­spired by truth, this be­comes the se­cret of the urge of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion by the chan­nels of in­tel­li­gent and con­sci­en­tious self-di­rec­tion.

36:5.94. The spirit of knowl­edge—the cu­rios­ity-mother of ad­ven­ture and dis­cov­ery, the sci­en­tific spirit; the guide and faith­ful as­so­ciate of the spir­its of cour­age and coun­sel; the urge to di­rect the en­dow­ments of cour­age into use­ful and pro­gres­sive paths of growth.

36:5.105. The spirit of coun­sel—the so­cial urge, the en­dow­ment of species co-op­er­a­tion; the abil­ity of will crea­tures to har­mo­nize with their fel­lows; the ori­gin of the gre­gar­i­ous in­stinct among the more lowly crea­tures.

36:5.116. The spirit of wor­ship—the re­li­gious im­pulse, the first dif­fer­en­tial urge sep­a­rat­ing mind crea­tures into the two ba­sic classes of mor­tal ex­is­tence. The spirit of wor­ship for­ever dis­tin­guishes the an­i­mal of its as­so­ci­a­tion from the soul­less crea­tures of mind en­dow­ment. Wor­ship is the badge of spir­i­tual-as­cen­sion can­di­dacy.

36:5.127. The spirit of wis­dom—the in­her­ent ten­dency of all moral crea­tures to­wards or­derly and pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion­ary ad­vance­ment. This is the high­est of the ad­ju­tants, the spirit co-or­di­na­tor and ar­tic­u­la­tor of the work of all the oth­ers. This spirit is the se­cret of that in­born urge of mind crea­tures which ini­ti­ates and main­tains the prac­ti­cal and ef­fec­tive pro­gram of the as­cend­ing scale of ex­is­tence; that gift of liv­ing things which ac­counts for their in­ex­pli­ca­ble abil­ity to sur­vive and, in sur­vival, to uti­lize the co-or­di­na­tion of all their past ex­pe­ri­ence and pres­ent op­por­tu­ni­ties for the ac­qui­si­tion of all of ev­ery­thing that all of the other six men­tal min­is­ters can mo­bi­lize in the mind of the or­gan­ism con­cerned. Wis­dom is the acme of in­tel­lec­tual per­for­mance. Wis­dom is the goal of a purely men­tal and moral ex­is­tence.

36:5.13The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its ex­pe­ri­en­tially grow, but they never be­come per­sonal. They evolve in func­tion, and the func­tion of the first five in the an­i­mal or­ders is to a cer­tain ex­tent es­sen­tial to the func­tion of all seven as hu­man in­tel­lect. This an­i­mal re­la­tion­ship makes the ad­ju­tants more prac­ti­cally ef­fec­tive as hu­man mind; hence an­i­mals are to a cer­tain ex­tent in­dis­pens­able to man’s in­tel­lec­tual as well as to his phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion.

36:5.14These mind-ad­ju­tants of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit are re­lated to crea­ture life of in­tel­li­gence sta­tus much as the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are re­lated to the non­liv­ing forces of the uni­verse. They per­form in­valu­able ser­vice in the mind cir­cuits on the in­hab­ited worlds and are ef­fec­tive col­lab­o­ra­tors with the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers, who also serve as con­trol­lers and di­rec­tors of the pread­ju­tant mind lev­els, the lev­els of non­teach­able or me­chan­i­cal mind.

36:5.15Liv­ing mind, prior to the ap­pear­ance of ca­pac­ity to learn from ex­pe­ri­ence, is the min­istry do­main of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. Crea­ture mind, be­fore ac­quir­ing the abil­ity to rec­og­nize di­vin­ity and wor­ship De­ity, is the ex­clu­sive do­main of the ad­ju­tant spir­its. With the ap­pear­ance of the spir­i­tual re­sponse of the crea­ture in­tel­lect, such cre­ated minds at once be­come super­minded, be­ing in­stantly en­cir­cuited in the spirit cy­cles of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit.

36:5.16The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are in no man­ner di­rectly re­lated to the di­verse and highly spir­i­tual func­tion of the spirit of the per­sonal pres­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Holy Spirit of the in­hab­ited worlds; but they are func­tion­ally an­te­ced­ent to, and prepara­tory for, the ap­pear­ance of this very spirit in evo­lu­tion­ary man. The ad­ju­tants af­ford the Uni­verse Mother Spirit a var­ied con­tact with, and con­trol over, the ma­te­rial liv­ing crea­tures of a lo­cal uni­verse, but they do not reper­cuss in the Su­preme Be­ing when act­ing on preper­son­al­ity lev­els.

36:5.17Non­spir­i­tual mind is ei­ther a spirit-en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion or a phys­i­cal-en­ergy phe­nom­e­non. Even hu­man mind, per­sonal mind, has no sur­vival qual­i­ties apart from spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Mind is a di­vin­ity be­stowal, but it is not im­mor­tal when it func­tions with­out spirit in­sight, and when it is de­void of the abil­ity to wor­ship and crave sur­vival.

• adjutant mind-spirits

42:10.42. Ad­ju­tant-spirit minds. This is the min­istry of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit func­tion­ing through her seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its on the teach­able (non­me­chan­i­cal) level of ma­te­rial mind. On this level ma­te­rial mind is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing: as sub­hu­man (an­i­mal) in­tel­lect in the first five ad­ju­tants; as hu­man (moral) in­tel­lect in the seven ad­ju­tants; as super­hu­man (mid­wayer) in­tel­lect in the last two ad­ju­tants.

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.

• assists directional control beings

34:4.12But it was of Sal­ving­ton that John wrote: “And out of the throne pro­ceeded light­nings and thun­der­ings and voices”—the uni­verse broad­casts to the lo­cal sys­tems. He also en­vis­aged the di­rec­tional con­trol crea­tures of the lo­cal uni­verse, the liv­ing com­passes of the head­quar­ters world. This di­rec­tional con­trol in Neb­a­don is main­tained by the four con­trol crea­tures of Sal­ving­ton, who op­er­ate over the uni­verse cur­rents and are ably as­sisted by the first func­tion­ing mind-spirit, the ad­ju­tant of in­tu­ition, the spirit of “quick un­der­stand­ing.” But the de­scrip­tion of these four crea­tures—called beasts—has been sadly marred; they are of un­par­al­leled beauty and ex­qui­site form.

• source of instinctive behavior

62:6.3At first only the spirit of in­tu­ition could func­tion in the in­stinc­tive and re­flex be­hav­ior of the pri­mor­dial an­i­mal life. With the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of higher types, the spirit of un­der­stand­ing was able to en­dow such crea­tures with the gift of spon­ta­neous as­so­ci­a­tion of ideas. Later on we ob­served the spirit of cour­age in op­er­a­tion; evolv­ing an­i­mals re­ally de­vel­oped a crude form of pro­tec­tive self-con­scious­ness. Sub­se­quent to the ap­pear­ance of the mam­malian groups, we be­held the spirit of knowl­edge man­i­fest­ing it­self in in­creased mea­sure. And the evo­lu­tion of the higher mam­mals brought the func­tion of the spirit of coun­sel, with the re­sult­ing growth of the herd in­stinct and the be­gin­nings of prim­i­tive so­cial de­vel­op­ment.

62:6.4In­creas­ingly, on down through the dawn mam­mals, the mid-mam­mals, and the Pri­mates, we had ob­served the aug­mented ser­vice of the first five ad­ju­tants. But never had the re­main­ing two, the high­est mind min­is­ters, been able to func­tion in the Uran­tia type of evo­lu­tion­ary mind.

62:6.5Imag­ine our joy one day—the twins were about ten years old—when the spirit of wor­ship made its first con­tact with the mind of the fe­male twin and shortly there­after with the male. We knew that some­thing closely akin to hu­man mind was ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion; and when, about a year later, they fi­nally re­solved, as a re­sult of med­i­ta­tive thought and pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion, to flee from home and jour­ney north, then did the spirit of wis­dom be­gin to func­tion on Uran­tia and in these two now rec­og­nized hu­man minds.

62:6.6There was an im­me­di­ate and new or­der of mo­bi­liza­tion of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. We were alive with ex­pec­ta­tion; we re­al­ized that the long-waited-for hour was ap­proach­ing; we knew we were upon the thresh­old of the re­al­iza­tion of our pro­tracted ef­fort to evolve will crea­tures on Uran­tia.

• mobilizes upon exhaustion of animal life to give origin to prehumans

65:3.5Long be­fore the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter, the bi­o­logic up­lifters, ar­rive on a planet, the hu­man po­ten­tials of the evolv­ing an­i­mal species have been ex­hausted. This bi­o­logic sta­tus of an­i­mal life is dis­closed to the Life Car­ri­ers by the phe­nom­e­non of the third phase of ad­ju­tant spirit mo­bi­liza­tion, which au­to­mat­i­cally oc­curs con­comi­tantly with the ex­haus­tion of the ca­pac­ity of all an­i­mal life to give ori­gin to the mu­tant po­ten­tials of pre­hu­man in­di­vid­u­als.

• signifies inclusion in circuits of Mother Spirit

34:5.3Mor­tal man first ex­pe­ri­ences the min­istry of the Spirit in con­junc­tion with mind when the purely an­i­mal mind of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­vel­ops re­cep­tion ca­pac­ity for the ad­ju­tants of wor­ship and of wis­dom. This min­istry of the sixth and sev­enth ad­ju­tants in­di­cates mind evo­lu­tion cross­ing the thresh­old of spir­i­tual min­istry. And im­me­di­ately are such minds of wor­ship- and wis­dom-func­tion in­cluded in the spir­i­tual cir­cuits of the Di­vine Min­is­ter.

85:7.1Na­ture wor­ship may seem to have arisen nat­u­rally and spon­ta­neously in the minds of prim­i­tive men and women, and so it did; but there was op­er­at­ing all this time in these same prim­i­tive minds the sixth ad­ju­tant spirit, which had been be­stowed upon these peo­ples as a di­rect­ing in­flu­ence of this phase of hu­man evo­lu­tion. And this spirit was con­stantly stim­u­lat­ing the wor­ship urge of the hu­man species, no mat­ter how prim­i­tive its first man­i­fes­ta­tions might be. The spirit of wor­ship gave def­i­nite ori­gin to the hu­man im­pulse to wor­ship, not­with­stand­ing that an­i­mal fear mo­ti­vated the ex­pres­sion of wor­ship­ful­ness, and that its early prac­tice be­came cen­tered upon ob­jects of na­ture.

85:7.2You must re­mem­ber that feel­ing, not think­ing, was the guid­ing and con­trol­ling in­flu­ence in all evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment. To the prim­i­tive mind there is lit­tle dif­fer­ence be­tween fear­ing, shun­ning, hon­or­ing, and wor­ship­ing.

85:7.3When the wor­ship urge is ad­mon­ished and di­rected by wis­dom—med­i­ta­tive and ex­pe­ri­en­tial think­ing—it then be­gins to de­velop into the phe­nom­e­non of real re­li­gion. When the sev­enth ad­ju­tant spirit, the spirit of wis­dom, achieves ef­fec­tive min­is­tra­tion, then in wor­ship man be­gins to turn away from na­ture and nat­u­ral ob­jects to the God of na­ture and to the eter­nal Cre­ator of all things nat­u­ral.

85:7.4[Pre­sented by a Bril­liant Evening Star of Neb­a­don.]

• sponsors religious reactions

92:0.21. The ad­ju­tant of wor­ship—the ap­pear­ance in an­i­mal con­scious­ness of super­an­i­mal po­ten­tials for re­al­ity per­cep­tion. This might be termed the pri­mor­dial hu­man in­stinct for De­ity.

• sponsors religious reactions

103:0.1All of man’s truly re­li­gious re­ac­tions are spon­sored by the early min­istry of the ad­ju­tant of wor­ship and are cen­sored by the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom. Man’s first super­mind en­dow­ment is that of per­son­al­ity en­cir­cuit­ment in the Holy Spirit of the Uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit; and long be­fore ei­ther the be­stowals of the di­vine Sons or the uni­ver­sal be­stowal of the Ad­justers, this in­flu­ence func­tions to en­large man’s view­point of ethics, re­li­gion, and spir­i­tu­al­ity. Sub­se­quent to the be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons the lib­er­ated Spirit of Truth makes mighty con­tri­bu­tions to the en­large­ment of the hu­man ca­pac­ity to per­ceive re­li­gious truths. As evo­lu­tion ad­vances on an in­hab­ited world, the Thought Ad­justers in­creas­ingly par­tic­i­pate in the de­vel­op­ment of the higher types of hu­man re­li­gious in­sight. The Thought Ad­juster is the cos­mic win­dow through which the fi­nite crea­ture may faith-glimpse the cer­tain­ties and di­vini­ties of lim­it­less De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• Andon’s decision to flee was first use

62:7.3“To the Life Car­ri­ers on Uran­tia—Greet­ings! We trans­mit as­sur­ance of great plea­sure on Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem in honor of the reg­is­tra­tion on the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don of the sig­nal of the ex­is­tence on Uran­tia of mind of will dig­nity. The pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion of the twins to flee north­ward and seg­re­gate their off­spring from their in­fe­rior an­ces­tors has been noted. This is the first de­ci­sion of mind—the hu­man type of mind—on Uran­tia and au­to­mat­i­cally es­tab­lishes the cir­cuit of com­mu­ni­ca­tion over which this ini­tial mes­sage of ac­knowl­edg­ment is trans­mit­ting.”

• caused adoration in concepts of Deity

92:0.32. The ad­ju­tant of wis­dom—the man­i­fes­ta­tion in a wor­ship­ful mind of the ten­dency to di­rect its ado­ra­tion in higher chan­nels of ex­pres­sion and to­ward ever-ex­pand­ing con­cepts of De­ity re­al­ity.

• registers child’s first moral choice automatically

108:2.1Though the Ad­justers vol­un­teer for ser­vice as soon as the per­son­al­ity fore­casts have been re­layed to Di­vin­ing­ton, they are not ac­tu­ally as­signed un­til the hu­man sub­jects make their first moral per­son­al­ity de­ci­sion. The first moral choice of the hu­man child is au­to­mat­i­cally in­di­cated in the sev­enth mind-ad­ju­tant and reg­is­ters in­stantly, by way of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, over the uni­ver­sal mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Con­joint Ac­tor in the pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, who forth­with dis­patches this in­tel­li­gence to Di­vin­ing­ton. Ad­justers reach their hu­man sub­jects on Uran­tia, on the av­er­age, just prior to the sixth birth­day. In the pres­ent gen­er­a­tion it is run­ning five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the 2,134^th day of ter­res­trial life.

63:3.3These early An­don­ites evinced a very marked clan­nish spirit; they hunted in groups and never strayed very far from the home­site. They seemed to re­al­ize that they were an iso­lated and unique group of liv­ing be­ings and should there­fore avoid be­com­ing sep­a­rated. This feel­ing of in­ti­mate kin­ship was un­doubt­edly due to the en­hanced mind min­istry of the ad­ju­tant spir­its.

• on Life Carrier world #1

36:2.10World Num­ber One, the head­quar­ters sphere, to­gether with its six trib­u­tary satel­lites, is de­voted to the study of uni­ver­sal life, life in all of its known phases of man­i­fes­ta­tion. Here is lo­cated the col­lege of life plan­ning, wherein func­tion teach­ers and ad­vis­ers from Uversa and Ha­vona, even from Par­a­dise. And I am per­mit­ted to re­veal that the seven cen­tral em­place­ments of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are sit­u­ated on this world of the Life Car­ri­ers.

112:6.6There are no in­flu­ences in the lo­cal uni­verse ca­reer com­pa­ra­ble to the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of hu­man ex­is­tence. The mor­ontia mind must evolve by di­rect con­tact with cos­mic mind, as this cos­mic mind has been mod­i­fied and trans­lated by the cre­ative source of lo­cal uni­verse in­tel­lect—the Di­vine Min­is­ter.

112:6.10When a crea­ture leaves his na­tive planet, he leaves the ad­ju­tant min­istry be­hind and be­comes solely de­pen­dent on mor­ontia in­tel­lect. When an as­cender leaves the lo­cal uni­verse, he has at­tained the spir­i­tual level of ex­is­tence, hav­ing passed be­yond the mor­ontia level. This newly ap­pear­ing spirit en­tity then be­comes at­tuned to the di­rect min­istry of the cos­mic mind of Or­von­ton.

117:5.7The great cir­cuits of en­ergy, mind, and spirit are never the per­ma­nent pos­ses­sions of as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity; these min­istries re­main for­ever a part of Su­prem­acy. In the mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence the hu­man in­tel­lect re­sides in the rhyth­mic pul­sa­tions of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and ef­fects its de­ci­sions within the arena pro­duced by en­cir­cuit­ment within this min­istry. Upon mor­tal death the hu­man self is ev­er­last­ingly di­vorced from the ad­ju­tant cir­cuit. While these ad­ju­tants never seem to trans­mit ex­pe­ri­ence from one per­son­al­ity to an­other, they can and do trans­mit the im­per­sonal reper­cus­sions of de­ci­sion-ac­tion through God the Sev­en­fold to God the Su­preme. (At least this is true of the ad­ju­tants of wor­ship and wis­dom.)

• mind bestowal of Mother Spirit

15:9.143. The in­tel­li­gence-min­istry cir­cuit of a lo­cal uni­verse, in­clud­ing the di­versely func­tion­ing pres­ence of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its.

• mind bestowal of Mother Spirit

17:7.1These ad­ju­tant spir­its are the sev­en­fold mind be­stowal of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit upon the liv­ing crea­tures of the con­joint cre­ation of a Cre­ator Son and such a Cre­ative Spirit. This be­stowal be­comes pos­si­ble at the time of the Spirit’s el­e­va­tion to the sta­tus of per­son­al­ity pre­rog­a­tives. The nar­ra­tion of the na­ture and func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its be­longs more ap­pro­pri­ately to the story of your lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

• level of consciousness of Mother Spirit

117:5.10How do these man­i­fold cir­cuits of cos­mic min­istry reg­is­ter the mean­ings, val­ues, and facts of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­pe­ri­ence in the Su­preme? We are not ex­actly cer­tain, but we be­lieve that this reg­istry takes place through the per­sons of the Su­preme Cre­ators of Par­a­dise ori­gin who are the im­me­di­ate be­stow­ers of these cir­cuits of time and space. The mind-ex­pe­ri­ence ac­cu­mu­la­tions of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, in their min­istry to the phys­i­cal level of in­tel­lect, are a part of the lo­cal uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, and through this Cre­ative Spirit they prob­a­bly find reg­istry in the mind of Su­prem­acy. Like­wise are mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ences with the Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit prob­a­bly reg­is­tered by sim­i­lar tech­niques in the per­son of Su­prem­acy.

• level of consciousness of Mother Spirit

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are:

• level of consciousness of Mother Spirit

194:2.186. The mind-spirit of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit—the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse.

46:7.5Sporna­gia are the only crea­tures in all the uni­verse of Neb­a­don who ex­pe­ri­ence this or any other sort of rein­car­na­tion. They are only re­ac­tive to the first five of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its; they are not re­spon­sive to the spir­its of wor­ship and wis­dom. But the five-ad­ju­tant mind equiv­alates to a to­tal­ity or sixth re­al­ity level, and it is this fac­tor which per­sists as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial iden­tity.

• lead towards higher ideas and ideals
• Mother Spirits endow life through

34:5.2On the in­hab­ited worlds the Spirit be­gins the work of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gres­sion, start­ing with the life­less ma­te­rial of the realm, first en­dow­ing veg­etable life, then the an­i­mal or­gan­isms, then the first or­ders of hu­man ex­is­tence; and each suc­ceed­ing im­par­ta­tion con­tributes to the fur­ther un­fold­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial of plan­e­tary life from the ini­tial and prim­i­tive stages to the ap­pear­ance of will crea­tures. This la­bor of the Spirit is largely ef­fected through the seven ad­ju­tants, the spir­its of prom­ise, the uni­fy­ing and co-or­di­nat­ing spirit-mind of the evolv­ing plan­ets, ever and unit­edly lead­ing the races of men to­wards higher ideas and spir­i­tual ide­als.

• #6 and #7 only function with secondary midwayers; none with primary midwayers

38:9.6Pri­mary mid­way­ers are en­er­gized in­tel­lec­tu­ally and spir­i­tu­ally by the an­gelic tech­nique and are uni­form in in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus. The seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its make no con­tact with them; and only the sixth and the sev­enth, the spirit of wor­ship and the spirit of wis­dom, are able to min­is­ter to the sec­ondary group.

• evolve human body with cosmic mind

42:12.11The li­ai­son of the cos­mic mind and the min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its evolve a suit­able phys­i­cal taber­na­cle for the evolv­ing hu­man be­ing. Like­wise does the mor­ontia mind in­di­vid­u­al­ize the mor­ontia form for all mor­tal sur­vivors. As the mor­tal body is per­sonal and char­ac­ter­is­tic for ev­ery hu­man be­ing, so will the mor­ontia form be highly in­di­vid­ual and ad­e­quately char­ac­ter­is­tic of the cre­ative mind which dom­i­nates it. No two mor­ontia forms are any more alike than any two hu­man bod­ies. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors spon­sor, and the at­tend­ing ser­a­phim pro­vide, the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated mor­ontia ma­te­rial where­with the mor­ontia life can be­gin to work. And af­ter the mor­ontia life it will be found that spirit forms are equally di­verse, per­sonal, and char­ac­ter­is­tic of their re­spec­tive spirit-mind in­dwellers.

• in light and life

55:6.4The Ad­justers con­tinue to come as in for­mer evo­lu­tion­ary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mor­tals are in­creas­ingly able to com­mune with the in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment. Dur­ing the em­bry­onic and prespir­i­tual stages of de­vel­op­ment the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are still func­tion­ing. The Holy Spirit and the min­istry of an­gels are even more ef­fec­tive as the suc­ces­sive epochs of set­tled life are ex­pe­ri­enced. In the fourth stage of light and life the ad­vanced mor­tals seem to ex­pe­ri­ence con­sid­er­able con­scious con­tact with the spirit pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, while the phi­los­o­phy of such a world is fo­cused upon the at­tempt to com­pre­hend the new rev­e­la­tions of God the Su­preme. More than one half of the hu­man in­hab­i­tants on plan­ets of this ad­vanced sta­tus ex­pe­ri­ence trans­la­tion to the mor­ontia state from among the liv­ing. Even so, “old things are pass­ing away; be­hold, all things are be­com­ing new.”

• wholly dependent on brain capacity

58:6.7The phys­i­o­logic equip­ment and the an­a­tomic struc­ture of all new or­ders of life are in re­sponse to the ac­tion of phys­i­cal law, but the sub­se­quent en­dow­ment of mind is a be­stowal of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its in ac­cor­dance with in­nate brain ca­pac­ity. Mind, while not a phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion, is wholly de­pen­dent on the brain ca­pac­ity af­forded by purely phys­i­cal and evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ments.

• initial full function on Urantia

62:6.2We had been watch­ing the twins de­velop men­tally through our ob­ser­va­tion of the func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its as­signed to Uran­tia at the time of our ar­rival on the planet. Through­out the long evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment of plan­e­tary life, these tire­less mind min­is­ters had ever reg­is­tered their in­creas­ing abil­ity to con­tact with the suc­ces­sively ex­pand­ing brain ca­pac­i­ties of the pro­gres­sively su­pe­rior an­i­mal crea­tures.

• assist Life Carriers

62:7.6These mes­sages from Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem for­mally marked the ter­mi­na­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers’ age­long super­vi­sion of the planet. For ages we had been on duty, as­sisted only by the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. And now, will, the power of choos­ing to wor­ship and to as­cend, hav­ing ap­peared in the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of the planet, we re­al­ized that our work was fin­ished, and our group pre­pared to de­part. Uran­tia be­ing a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world, per­mis­sion was granted to leave be­hind two se­nior Life Car­ri­ers with twelve as­sis­tants, and I was cho­sen as one of this group and have ever since been on Uran­tia.

• regulate teachable mind; no contact with purely mechanical orders

65:0.6The me­chan­i­cal-non­teach­able lev­els of or­gan­is­mal en­vi­ron­men­tal re­sponse are the do­mains of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers. The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its ac­ti­vate and reg­u­late the adap­ta­tive or non­me­chan­i­cal-teach­able types of mind—those re­sponse mech­a­nisms of or­gan­isms ca­pa­ble of learn­ing from ex­pe­ri­ence. And as the spirit ad­ju­tants thus ma­nip­u­late mind po­ten­tials, so do the Life Car­ri­ers ex­er­cise con­sid­er­able dis­cre­tionary con­trol over the en­vi­ron­men­tal as­pects of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­cesses right up to the time of the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will—the abil­ity to know God and the power of choos­ing to wor­ship him.

• #1 to #5 in animal orders

65:6.7The lower forms of plant life are wholly re­spon­sive to phys­i­cal, chem­i­cal, and elec­tri­cal en­vi­ron­ment. But as the scale of life as­cends, one by one the mind min­istries of the seven ad­ju­tant spir­its be­come op­er­a­tive, and the mind be­comes in­creas­ingly ad­jus­tive, cre­ative, co-or­di­na­tive, and dom­i­na­tive. The abil­ity of an­i­mals to adapt them­selves to air, wa­ter, and land is not a super­nat­u­ral en­dow­ment, but it is a super­phys­i­cal ad­just­ment.

• mother love is instinctive endowment of

84:1.6A fam­ily of some sim­ple sort was in­sured by the fact that the re­pro­duc­tive func­tion en­tails the mother-child re­la­tion­ship. Mother love is in­stinc­tive; it did not orig­i­nate in the mores as did mar­riage. All mam­malian mother love is the in­her­ent en­dow­ment of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse and is in strength and de­vo­tion al­ways di­rectly pro­por­tional to the length of the help­less in­fancy of the species.

84:1.7The mother and child re­la­tion is nat­u­ral, strong, and in­stinc­tive, and one which, there­fore, con­strained prim­i­tive women to sub­mit to many strange con­di­tions and to en­dure un­told hard­ships. This com­pelling mother love is the hand­i­cap­ping emo­tion which has al­ways placed woman at such a tremen­dous dis­ad­van­tage in all her strug­gles with man. Even at that, ma­ter­nal in­stinct in the hu­man species is not over­pow­er­ing; it may be thwarted by am­bi­tion, self­ish­ness, and re­li­gious con­vic­tion.

• co-ordinate; qualify man for receiving Adjuster

108:2.2The Ad­justers can­not in­vade the mor­tal mind un­til it has been duly pre­pared by the in­dwelling min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and en­cir­cuited in the Holy Spirit. And it re­quires the co-or­di­nate func­tion of all seven ad­ju­tants to thus qual­ify the hu­man mind for the re­cep­tion of an Ad­juster. Crea­ture mind must ex­hibit the wor­ship out­reach and in­di­cate wis­dom func­tion by ex­hibit­ing the abil­ity to choose be­tween the emerg­ing val­ues of good and evil—moral choice.

108:2.3Thus is the stage of the hu­man mind set for the re­cep­tion of Ad­justers, but as a gen­eral rule they do not im­me­di­ately ap­pear to in­dwell such minds ex­cept on those worlds where the Spirit of Truth is func­tion­ing as a spir­i­tual co-or­di­na­tor of these dif­fer­ent spirit min­istries. If this spirit of the be­stowal Sons is pres­ent, the Ad­justers un­fail­ingly come the in­stant the sev­enth ad­ju­tant mind-spirit be­gins to func­tion and sig­nal­izes to the Uni­verse Mother Spirit that it has achieved in po­ten­tial the co-or­di­na­tion of the as­so­ci­ated six ad­ju­tants of prior min­istry to such a mor­tal in­tel­lect. There­fore have the di­vine Ad­justers been uni­ver­sally be­stowed upon all nor­mal minds of moral sta­tus on Uran­tia ever since the day of Pen­te­cost.

• influence diminishes after 3rd psychic circle

110:6.20From the sev­enth to the third cir­cle there oc­curs in­creased and uni­fied ac­tion of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its in the task of wean­ing the mor­tal mind from its de­pen­dence on the re­al­i­ties of the ma­te­rial life mech­a­nisms prepara­tory to in­creased in­tro­duc­tion to mor­ontia lev­els of ex­pe­ri­ence. From the third cir­cle on­ward the ad­ju­tant in­flu­ence pro­gres­sively di­min­ishes.

110:6.21The seven cir­cles em­brace mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence ex­tend­ing from the high­est purely an­i­mal level to the low­est ac­tual con­tac­tual mor­ontia level of self-con­scious­ness as a per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence. The mas­tery of the first cos­mic cir­cle sig­nal­izes the at­tain­ment of pre­moron­tia mor­tal ma­tu­rity and marks the ter­mi­na­tion of the con­joint min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its as an ex­clu­sive in­flu­ence of mind ac­tion in the hu­man per­son­al­ity. Be­yond the first cir­cle, mind be­comes in­creas­ingly akin to the in­tel­li­gence of the mor­ontia stage of evo­lu­tion, the con­joined min­istry of the cos­mic mind and the super­ad­ju­tant en­dow­ment of the Cre­ative Spirit of a lo­cal uni­verse.

• under direction of spirit of wisdom

112:6.9The soul of sur­vival value faith­fully re­flects both the qual­i­ta­tive and the quan­ti­ta­tive ac­tions and mo­ti­va­tions of the ma­te­rial in­tel­lect, the for­mer seat of the iden­tity of self­hood. In the choos­ing of truth, beauty, and good­ness, the mor­tal mind en­ters upon its pre­moron­tia uni­verse ca­reer un­der the tute­lage of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its uni­fied un­der the di­rec­tion of the spirit of wis­dom. Sub­se­quently, upon the com­ple­tion of the seven cir­cles of pre­moron­tia at­tain­ment, the super­im­po­si­tion of the en­dow­ment of mor­ontia mind upon ad­ju­tant mind ini­ti­ates the prespir­i­tual or mor­ontia ca­reer of lo­cal uni­verse pro­gres­sion.

• activate energy-matter

118:7.7Sub­per­sonal liv­ing things in­di­cate mind ac­ti­vat­ing en­ergy-mat­ter, first as phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and then as ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. Per­son­al­ity en­dow­ment comes from the Fa­ther and im­parts unique pre­rog­a­tives of choice to the liv­ing sys­tem. But if per­son­al­ity has the pre­rog­a­tive of ex­er­cis­ing vo­li­tional choice of re­al­ity iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and if this is a true and free choice, then must evolv­ing per­son­al­ity also have the pos­si­ble choice of be­com­ing self-con­fus­ing, self-dis­rupt­ing, and self-de­stroy­ing. The pos­si­bil­ity of cos­mic self-de­struc­tion can­not be avoided if the evolv­ing per­son­al­ity is to be truly free in the ex­er­cise of fi­nite will.

30:1.626. The Sev­en­fold Ad­ju­tant Mind-Spir­its.

30:2.217. Ad­ju­tant Mind-Spir­its.

9:5.3The unique fea­ture of mind is that it can be be­stowed upon such a wide range of life. Through his cre­ative and crea­ture as­so­ciates the Third Source and Cen­ter min­is­ters to all minds on all spheres. He min­is­ters to hu­man and sub­hu­man in­tel­lect through the ad­ju­tants of the lo­cal uni­verses and, through the agency of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, min­is­ters even to the low­est non­ex­pe­ri­enc­ing en­ti­ties of the most prim­i­tive types of liv­ing things. And al­ways is the di­rec­tion of mind a min­istry of mind-spirit or mind-en­ergy per­son­al­i­ties.

65:6.10The phys­i­cal brain with its as­so­ci­ated ner­vous sys­tem pos­sesses in­nate ca­pac­ity for re­sponse to mind min­istry just as the de­vel­op­ing mind of a per­son­al­ity pos­sesses a cer­tain in­nate ca­pac­ity for spirit re­cep­tiv­ity and there­fore con­tains the po­ten­tials of spir­i­tual prog­ress and at­tain­ment. In­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, moral, and spir­i­tual evo­lu­tion are de­pen­dent on the mind min­istry of the seven ad­ju­tant spir­its and their super­phys­i­cal as­so­ciates.

16:4.102. The life ac­ti­va­tions of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its be­stowed upon the worlds by a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit.

36:2.18Num­ber Five World is con­cerned wholly with life as­so­ci­ated with mind. Each of its satel­lites is de­voted to the study of a sin­gle phase of crea­ture mind cor­re­lated with crea­ture life. Mind such as man com­pre­hends is an en­dow­ment of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its super­im­posed on the non­teach­able or me­chan­i­cal lev­els of mind by the agen­cies of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The life pat­terns are var­i­ously re­spon­sive to these ad­ju­tants and to the dif­fer­ent spirit min­istries op­er­at­ing through­out the uni­verses of time and space. The ca­pac­ity of ma­te­rial crea­tures to ef­fect spirit re­sponse is en­tirely de­pen­dent on the as­so­ci­ated mind en­dow­ment, which, in turn, has di­rec­tion­ized the course of the bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion of these same mor­tal crea­tures.