compensations

107:0.5It is the Ad­juster who cre­ates within man that un­quench­able yearn­ing and in­ces­sant long­ing to be like God, to at­tain Par­a­dise, and there be­fore the ac­tual per­son of De­ity to wor­ship the in­fi­nite source of the di­vine gift. The Ad­juster is the liv­ing pres­ence which ac­tu­ally links the mor­tal son with his Par­a­dise Fa­ther and draws him nearer and nearer to the Fa­ther. The Ad­juster is our com­pen­satory equal­iza­tion of the enor­mous uni­verse ten­sion which is cre­ated by the dis­tance of man’s re­moval from God and by the de­gree of his par­tial­ity in con­trast with the uni­ver­sal­ity of the eter­nal Fa­ther.

50:7.1On first thought it might ap­pear that Uran­tia and its as­so­ci­ated iso­lated worlds are most un­for­tu­nate in be­ing de­prived of the benef­i­cent pres­ence and in­flu­ence of such super­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties as a Plan­e­tary Prince and a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter. But iso­la­tion of these spheres af­fords their races a unique op­por­tu­nity for the ex­er­cise of faith and for the de­vel­op­ment of a pe­cu­liar qual­ity of con­fi­dence in cos­mic re­li­a­bil­ity which is not de­pen­dent on sight or any other ma­te­rial con­sid­er­a­tion. It may turn out, even­tu­ally, that mor­tal crea­tures hail­ing from the worlds quar­an­tined in con­se­quence of re­bel­lion are ex­tremely for­tu­nate. We have dis­cov­ered that such as­cend­ers are very early in­trusted with nu­mer­ous spe­cial as­sign­ments to cos­mic un­der­tak­ings where un­ques­tioned faith and sub­lime con­fi­dence are es­sen­tial to achieve­ment.

54:6.5And there is com­pen­sa­tion for these tri­als, de­lays, and dis­ap­point­ments which in­vari­ably ac­com­pany the sin of re­bel­lion. Of the many valu­able reper­cus­sions of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion which might be named, I will only call at­ten­tion to the en­hanced ca­reers of those mor­tal as­cend­ers, the Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens, who, by with­stand­ing the soph­ist­ries of sin, placed them­selves in line for be­com­ing fu­ture Mighty Mes­sen­gers, fel­lows of my own or­der. Ev­ery be­ing who stood the test of that evil episode thereby im­me­di­ately ad­vanced his ad­min­is­tra­tive sta­tus and en­hanced his spir­i­tual worth.

32:3.4With the ex­cep­tion of the de­ity pres­ence of the Fa­ther, ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, in a cer­tain sense, a du­pli­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral or pat­tern cre­ation. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse, he does not in­dwell the minds of the be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in that uni­verse as he does lit­er­ally dwell with the souls of the mor­tals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise com­pen­sa­tion in the ad­just­ment and reg­u­la­tion of the spir­i­tual af­fairs of the far-flung cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent as such but ab­sent in the minds of the chil­dren of that per­fect cre­ation; in the uni­verses of space the Fa­ther is ab­sent in per­son, be­ing rep­re­sented by his Sov­er­eign Sons, while he is in­ti­mately pres­ent in the minds of his mor­tal chil­dren, be­ing spir­i­tu­ally rep­re­sented by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that re­side in the minds of these will crea­tures.

65:5.4There are, of course, cer­tain com­pen­sa­tions for tribu­la­tion, such as Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. But ir­re­spec­tive of all such con­sid­er­a­tions, the later ce­les­tial super­vi­sors of this planet ex­press com­plete con­fi­dence in the ul­ti­mate evo­lu­tion­ary tri­umph of the hu­man race and in the even­tual vin­di­ca­tion of our orig­i­nal plans and life pat­terns.

35:9.8Of all the lo­cal uni­verses in Or­von­ton, our uni­verse has, with the ex­cep­tion of Henselon, lost the largest num­ber of this or­der of Sons. On Uversa it is the con­sen­sus that we have had so much ad­min­is­tra­tive trou­ble in Neb­a­don be­cause our Sons of the La­non­an­dek or­der have been cre­ated with such a large de­gree of per­sonal lib­erty in choos­ing and plan­ning. I do not make this ob­ser­va­tion by way of crit­i­cism. The Cre­ator of our uni­verse has full au­thor­ity and power to do this. It is the con­tention of our high rulers that, while such free-choos­ing Sons make ex­ces­sive trou­ble in the ear­lier ages of the uni­verse, when things are fully sifted and fi­nally set­tled, the gains of higher loy­alty and fuller vo­li­tional ser­vice on the part of these thor­oughly tested Sons will far more than com­pen­sate for the con­fu­sion and tribu­la­tions of ear­lier times.

40:5.11The Gods who or­dained that mor­tal man should climb to higher lev­els of spir­i­tual in­tel­li­gence through long ages of evo­lu­tion­ary tri­als and tribu­la­tions, take note of his sta­tus and needs at ev­ery stage of the as­cent; and al­ways are they di­vinely fair and just, even charm­ingly mer­ci­ful, in the fi­nal judg­ments of these strug­gling mor­tals of the early days of the evolv­ing races.

31:10.14These de­fi­cien­cies are in­ev­i­ta­ble on all lev­els of uni­verse ex­is­tence. Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age we of the higher lev­els of spir­i­tual ex­is­tences now come down to ad­min­is­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses and min­is­ter to the as­cend­ing mor­tals, thus en­deav­or­ing to atone for their de­fi­cien­cies in the re­al­i­ties of the higher spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

117:2.6There will come an end some­time to the growth of the Su­preme; his sta­tus will achieve com­ple­tion (in the en­ergy-spirit sense). This ter­mi­na­tion of the evo­lu­tion of the Su­preme will also wit­ness the end­ing of crea­ture evo­lu­tion as a part of Su­prem­acy. What kind of growth may char­ac­ter­ize the uni­verses of outer space, we do not know. But we are very sure that it will be some­thing very dif­fer­ent from any­thing that has been seen in the pres­ent age of the evo­lu­tion of the seven super­uni­verses. It will un­doubt­edly be the func­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary cit­i­zens of the grand uni­verse to com­pen­sate the outer-spac­ers for this de­pri­va­tion of the growth of Su­prem­acy.

55:3.11Nev­er­the­less, there is a cer­tain, in­ev­i­ta­ble penalty at­tach­ing to mor­tal ex­is­tence on such ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets. When a set­tled world pro­gresses be­yond the third stage of light and life, all as­cend­ers are des­tined, be­fore at­tain­ing the mi­nor sec­tor, to re­ceive some sort of tran­sient as­sign­ment on a planet pass­ing through the ear­lier stages of evo­lu­tion.

116:6.7On Par­a­dise, monota and spirit are as one—in­dis­tin­guish­able ex­cept by name. In Ha­vona, mat­ter and spirit, while dis­tin­guish­ably dif­fer­ent, are at the same time in­nately har­mo­nious. In the seven super­uni­verses, how­ever, there is great di­ver­gence; there is a wide gulf be­tween cos­mic en­ergy and di­vine spirit; there­fore is there a greater ex­pe­ri­en­tial po­ten­tial for mind ac­tion in har­mo­niz­ing and even­tu­ally uni­fy­ing phys­i­cal pat­tern with spir­i­tual pur­poses. In the time-evolv­ing uni­verses of space there is greater di­vin­ity at­ten­u­a­tion, more dif­fi­cult prob­lems to be solved, and larger op­por­tu­nity to ac­quire ex­pe­ri­ence in their so­lu­tion. And this en­tire super­uni­verse sit­u­a­tion brings into be­ing a larger arena of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­is­tence in which the pos­si­bil­ity of cos­mic ex­pe­ri­ence is made avail­able alike to crea­ture and Cre­ator—even to Su­preme De­ity.

35:3.22The high­est course of train­ing in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion is given by the Mel­chiz­e­deks on their home world. This Col­lege of High Ethics is pre­sided over by the orig­i­nal Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. It is to these schools that the var­i­ous uni­verses send ex­change stu­dents. While the young uni­verse of Neb­a­don stands low in the scale of uni­verses as re­gards spir­i­tual achieve­ment and high eth­i­cal de­vel­op­ment, nev­er­the­less, our ad­min­is­tra­tive trou­bles have so turned the whole uni­verse into a vast clinic for other near-by cre­ations that the Mel­chiz­e­dek col­leges are thronged with stu­dent vis­i­tors and ob­servers from other realms. Be­sides the im­mense group of lo­cal reg­is­trants there are al­ways up­ward of one hun­dred thou­sand for­eign stu­dents in at­ten­dance upon the Mel­chiz­e­dek schools, for the or­der of Mel­chiz­e­deks in Neb­a­don is renowned through­out all Splan­don.

19:6.2Dur­ing your long so­journ on the bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona cul­ture you will de­velop an eter­nal friend­ship for these su­perb be­ings. And how deep is that friend­ship which grows up be­tween the low­est per­sonal crea­ture from the worlds of space and these high per­sonal be­ings na­tive to the per­fect spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse! As­cend­ing mor­tals, in their long and lov­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with the Ha­vona na­tives, do much to com­pen­sate for the spir­i­tual im­pov­er­ish­ment of the ear­lier stages of mor­tal pro­gres­sion. At the same time, through their con­tacts with as­cend­ing pil­grims, the Havon­ers gain an ex­pe­ri­ence which to no small ex­tent over­comes the ex­pe­ri­en­tial hand­i­cap of hav­ing al­ways lived a life of di­vine per­fec­tion. The good to both as­cend­ing mor­tal and Ha­vona na­tive is great and mu­tual.

40:10.3The mys­te­ri­ous vari­able in as­so­cia­tive tech­nique whereby a mor­tal be­ing does not or can­not be­come eter­nally fused with the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster may seem to dis­close a flaw in the as­cen­sion scheme; Son and Spirit fu­sion do, su­per­fi­cially, re­sem­ble com­pen­sa­tions of un­ex­plained fail­ures in some de­tail of the Par­a­dise-at­tain­ment plan; but all such con­clu­sions stand in er­ror; we are taught that all these hap­pen­ings un­fold in obe­di­ence to the es­tab­lished laws of the Su­preme Uni­verse Rulers.

40:10.4We have an­a­lyzed this prob­lem and have reached the un­doubted con­clu­sion that the con­sign­ment of all mor­tals to an ul­ti­mate Par­a­dise des­tiny would be un­fair to the time-space uni­verses inas­much as the courts of the Cre­ator Sons and of the An­cients of Days would then be wholly de­pen­dent on the ser­vices of those who were in tran­sit to higher realms. And it does seem to be no more than fit­ting that the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments should each be pro­vided with a per­ma­nent group of as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship; that the func­tions of these ad­min­is­tra­tions should be en­riched by the ef­forts of cer­tain groups of glo­ri­fied mor­tals who are of per­ma­nent sta­tus, evo­lu­tion­ary com­ple­ments of the aban­don­ters and of the susa­tia. Now it is quite ob­vi­ous that the pres­ent as­cen­sion scheme ef­fec­tively pro­vides the time-space ad­min­is­tra­tions with just such groups of as­cen­dant crea­tures; and we have many times won­dered: Does all this rep­re­sent an in­tended part of the all-wise plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse de­signed to pro­vide the Cre­ator Sons and the An­cients of Days with a per­ma­nent as­cen­dant pop­u­la­tion? with evolved or­ders of cit­i­zen­ship that will be­come in­creas­ingly com­pe­tent to carry for­ward the af­fairs of these realms in the uni­verse ages to come?

37:5.11Ex­cept for those few who at­tain Uversa and Par­a­dise, these worlds are the per­ma­nent res­i­dence of the Spirit-fused sur­vivors. Such de­signed lim­i­ta­tion of mor­tal as­cent re­acts to the good of the lo­cal uni­verses by in­sur­ing the re­ten­tion of a per­ma­nent evolved pop­u­la­tion whose aug­ment­ing ex­pe­ri­ence will con­tinue to en­hance the fu­ture sta­bi­liza­tion and di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These be­ings may not at­tain Par­a­dise, but they achieve an ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom in the mas­tery of Neb­a­don prob­lems that ut­terly sur­passes any­thing at­tained by the tran­sient as­cend­ers. And these sur­viv­ing souls con­tinue as unique com­bi­na­tions of the hu­man and the di­vine, be­ing in­creas­ingly able to unite the view­points of these two widely sep­a­rate lev­els and to pre­sent such a dual view­point with ever-height­en­ing wis­dom.

117:5.14The evolv­ing Su­preme will even­tu­ally com­pen­sate fi­nite crea­tures for their in­abil­ity ever to achieve more than lim­ited ex­pe­ri­ence con­tact with the uni­verse of uni­verses. Crea­tures can at­tain the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, but their evo­lu­tion­ary minds, be­ing fi­nite, are in­ca­pable of re­ally un­der­stand­ing the in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute Fa­ther. But since all crea­ture ex­pe­ri­enc­ing reg­is­ters in, and is a part of, the Su­preme, when all crea­tures at­tain the fi­nal level of fi­nite ex­is­tence, and af­ter to­tal uni­verse de­vel­op­ment makes pos­si­ble their at­tain­ment of God the Su­preme as an ac­tual di­vin­ity pres­ence, then, in­her­ent in the fact of such con­tact, is con­tact with to­tal ex­pe­ri­ence. The fi­nite of time con­tains within it­self the seeds of eter­nity; and we are taught that, when the full­ness of evo­lu­tion wit­nesses the ex­haus­tion of the ca­pac­ity for cos­mic growth, the to­tal fi­nite will em­bark upon the ab­so­nite phases of the eter­nal ca­reer in quest of the Fa­ther as Ul­ti­mate.

116:4.11The lo­cal uni­verse is the start­ing place for those per­son­al­i­ties who are far­thest from God, and who can there­fore ex­pe­ri­ence the great­est de­gree of spir­i­tual as­cent in the uni­verse, can achieve the max­i­mum of ex­pe­ri­en­tial par­tic­i­pa­tion in the cocre­ation of them­selves. These same lo­cal uni­verses like­wise pro­vide the great­est pos­si­ble depth of ex­pe­ri­ence for the de­scend­ing per­son­al­i­ties, who thereby achieve some­thing which is to them just as mean­ing­ful as the Par­a­dise as­cent is to an evolv­ing crea­ture.

55:2.12The uni­verse is un­fail­ing in the ap­pli­ca­tion of these equal­iz­ing tech­niques de­signed to in­sure that no as­cender shall be de­prived of aught which is es­sen­tial to his as­cen­sion ex­pe­ri­ence.