fusion

56:3.5Per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence can be at­tained, sus­tained, and eter­nal­ized by the fu­sion of self-con­scious mind with a frag­ment of the pre-Trin­ity spirit en­dow­ment of some one of the per­sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. The mor­tal mind is the cre­ation of the Sons and Daugh­ters of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit and, when fused with the Thought Ad­juster from the Fa­ther, par­takes of the three­fold spirit en­dow­ment of the evo­lu­tion­ary realms. But these three spirit ex­pres­sions be­come per­fectly uni­fied in the fi­nal­i­ters, even as they were in eter­nity so uni­fied in the Uni­ver­sal I AM ere he ever be­came the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• defined as › irrevocable choice for eternal career

5:1.11Mor­tal man may draw near God and may re­peat­edly for­sake the di­vine will so long as the power of choice re­mains. Man’s fi­nal doom is not sealed un­til he has lost the power to choose the Fa­ther’s will. There is never a clo­sure of the Fa­ther’s heart to the need and the pe­ti­tion of his chil­dren. Only do his off­spring close their hearts for­ever to the Fa­ther’s draw­ing power when they fi­nally and for­ever lose the de­sire to do his di­vine will—to know him and to be like him. Like­wise is man’s eter­nal des­tiny as­sured when Ad­juster fu­sion pro­claims to the uni­verse that such an as­cender has made the fi­nal and ir­re­vo­ca­ble choice to live the Fa­ther’s will.

• defined as › mortal’s 3rd jubilee

27:7.8Af­ter the at­tain­ment of the su­preme sat­is­fac­tion of the full­ness of wor­ship, you are qual­i­fied for ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. The as­cen­dant ca­reer is well-nigh fin­ished, and the sev­enth ju­bilee pre­pares for cel­e­bra­tion. The first ju­bilee marked the mor­tal agree­ment with the Thought Ad­juster when the pur­pose to sur­vive was sealed; the sec­ond was the awak­en­ing in the mor­ontia life; the third was the fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster; the fourth was the awak­en­ing in Ha­vona; the fifth cel­e­brated the find­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and the sixth ju­bilee was the oc­ca­sion of the Par­a­dise awak­en­ing from the fi­nal tran­sit slum­ber of time. The sev­enth ju­bilee marks en­trance into the mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter corps and the be­gin­ning of the eter­nity ser­vice. The at­tain­ment of the sev­enth stage of spirit re­al­iza­tion by a fi­nal­i­ter will prob­a­bly sig­nal­ize the cel­e­bra­tion of the first of the ju­bilees of eter­nity.

30:1.100V. FRAG­MENTED EN­TI­TIES OF DE­ITY. This or­der of liv­ing ex­is­tence, orig­i­nat­ing in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is best typ­i­fied by the Thought Ad­justers, though these en­ti­ties are by no means the only frag­men­ta­tions of the preper­sonal re­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. The func­tions of the other-than-Ad­juster frag­ments are man­i­fold and lit­tle known. Fu­sion with an Ad­juster or other such frag­ment con­sti­tutes the crea­ture a Fa­ther-fused be­ing.

• normally takes place on mansion worlds

30:4.20Mor­tals ac­quire real spirit iden­tity just be­fore they leave the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters for the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the mi­nor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse. Pass­ing from the fi­nal mor­ontia stage to the first or low­est spirit sta­tus is but a slight tran­si­tion. The mind, per­son­al­ity, and char­ac­ter are un­changed by such an ad­vance; only does the form un­dergo mod­i­fi­ca­tion. But the spirit form is just as real as the mor­ontia body, and it is equally dis­cern­i­ble.

30:4.21Be­fore de­part­ing from their na­tive lo­cal uni­verses for the super­uni­verse re­ceiv­ing worlds, the mor­tals of time are re­cip­i­ents of spirit con­fir­ma­tion from the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. From this point on, the sta­tus of the as­cend­ing mor­tal is for­ever set­tled. Super­uni­verse wards have never been known to go astray. As­cend­ing ser­a­phim are also ad­vanced in an­gelic stand­ing at the time of their de­par­ture from the lo­cal uni­verses.

• defined as › conferring oneness of soul with God; eternal life
• mortals denominated ascending sons after f.

40:6.1The mor­tal races stand as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the low­est or­der of in­tel­li­gent and per­sonal cre­ation. You mor­tals are di­vinely beloved, and ev­ery one of you may choose to ac­cept the cer­tain des­tiny of a glo­ri­ous ex­pe­ri­ence, but you are not yet by na­ture of the di­vine or­der; you are wholly mor­tal. You will be reck­oned as as­cend­ing sons the in­stant fu­sion takes place, but the sta­tus of the mor­tals of time and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the fi­nal amal­ga­ma­tion of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal soul with some type of eter­nal and im­mor­tal spirit.

• defined as › conferring oneness of soul with God; eternal life

40:7.1The send­ing of Ad­justers, their in­dwelling, is in­deed one of the un­fath­omable mys­ter­ies of God the Fa­ther. These frag­ments of the di­vine na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther carry with them the po­ten­tial of crea­ture im­mor­tal­ity. Ad­justers are im­mor­tal spir­its, and union with them con­fers eter­nal life upon the soul of the fused mor­tal.

• after fusion › no danger to ascender’s eternal career

40:7.5Fu­sion with a frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is equiv­a­lent to a di­vine val­i­da­tion of even­tual Par­a­dise at­tain­ment, and such Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are the only class of hu­man be­ings who all tra­verse the Ha­vona cir­cuits and find God on Par­a­dise. To the Ad­juster-fused mor­tal the ca­reer of uni­ver­sal ser­vice is wide open. What dig­nity of des­tiny and glory of at­tain­ment await ev­ery one of you! Do you fully ap­pre­ci­ate what has been done for you? Do you com­pre­hend the grandeur of the heights of eter­nal achieve­ment which are spread out be­fore you?—even you who now trudge on in the lowly path of life through your so-called “vale of tears”?

• normally takes place on mansion worlds

40:8.1While prac­ti­cally all sur­viv­ing mor­tals are fused with their Ad­justers on one of the man­sion worlds or im­me­di­ately upon their ar­rival on the higher mor­ontia spheres, there are cer­tain cases of de­layed fu­sion, some not ex­pe­ri­enc­ing this fi­nal surety of sur­vival un­til they reach the last ed­u­ca­tional worlds of the uni­verse head­quar­ters; and a few of these mor­tal can­di­dates for never-end­ing life ut­terly fail to at­tain iden­tity fu­sion with their faith­ful Ad­justers.

• some fail to fuse with Adjuster; become Son-fused

40:8.3When it be­comes ap­par­ent that some syn­chro­niz­ing dif­fi­culty is in­hibit­ing Fa­ther fu­sion, the sur­vival ref­er­ees of the Cre­ator Son are con­vened. And when this court of in­quiry, sanc­tioned by a per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the An­cients of Days, fi­nally de­ter­mines that the as­cend­ing mor­tal is not guilty of any dis­cov­er­able cause for fail­ure to at­tain fu­sion, they so cer­tify on the rec­ords of the lo­cal uni­verse and duly trans­mit this find­ing to the An­cients of Days. There­upon does the in­dwelling Ad­juster re­turn forth­with to Di­vin­ing­ton for con­fir­ma­tion by the Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors, and upon this leave-tak­ing the mor­ontia mor­tal is im­me­di­ately fused with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized gift of the spirit of the Cre­ator Son.

• after fusion › Adjusters are without form until after f.

42:12.10Even spirit be­ings have form, and these spirit forms (pat­terns) are real. Even the high­est type of spirit per­son­al­i­ties have forms—per­son­al­ity pres­ences in ev­ery sense anal­o­gous to Uran­tia mor­tal bod­ies. Nearly all be­ings en­coun­tered in the seven super­uni­verses are pos­sessed of forms. But there are a few ex­cep­tions to this gen­eral rule: Thought Ad­justers ap­pear to be with­out form un­til af­ter fu­sion with the sur­viv­ing souls of their mor­tal as­so­ciates. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, Per­sonal Aids of the In­fi­nite Spirit, Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers, and cer­tain oth­ers are also with­out dis­cov­er­able form. But these are typ­i­cal of the ex­cep­tional few; the great ma­jor­ity have bona fide per­son­al­ity forms, forms which are in­di­vid­u­ally char­ac­ter­is­tic, and which are rec­og­niz­able and per­son­ally dis­tin­guish­able.

• fusion during mortal life › Enoch was the first to fuse

45:4.1311. Enoch, the first of the mor­tals of Uran­tia to fuse with the Thought Ad­juster dur­ing the mor­tal life in the flesh.

• fusion during mortal life › Elijah fused

45:4.1513. Eli­jah, a trans­lated soul of bril­liant spir­i­tual achieve­ment dur­ing the post-Ma­te­rial Son age.

• defined as › union of soul with Adjuster
• simple ceremony marks

47:8.4The union of the evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul with the eter­nal and di­vine Ad­juster is sig­nal­ized by the se­raphic sum­mon­ing of the super­vis­ing super­an­gel for res­ur­rected sur­vivors and of the arch­an­gel of rec­ord for those go­ing to judg­ment on the third day; and then, in the pres­ence of such a sur­vivor’s mor­ontia as­so­ciates, these mes­sen­gers of con­fir­ma­tion speak: “This is a beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” This sim­ple cer­e­mony marks the en­trance of an as­cend­ing mor­tal upon the eter­nal ca­reer of Par­a­dise ser­vice.

• after fusion › ascender receives new name, 40 days’ retirement

47:8.5Im­me­di­ately upon the con­fir­ma­tion of Ad­juster fu­sion the new mor­ontia be­ing is in­tro­duced to his fel­lows for the first time by his new name and is granted the forty days of spir­i­tual re­tire­ment from all rou­tine ac­tiv­i­ties wherein to com­mune with him­self and to choose some one of the op­tional routes to Ha­vona and to se­lect from the dif­fer­en­tial tech­niques of Par­a­dise at­tain­ment.

• 90% of inhabited worlds of Nebadon intended for

49:5.316. Ad­juster-fu­sion se­ries. The spir­i­tual clas­si­fi­ca­tion or group­ing of all mor­tals dur­ing their pre­fu­sion ex­pe­ri­ence is wholly de­ter­mined by the re­la­tion of the per­son­al­ity sta­tus to the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. Al­most ninety per cent of the in­hab­ited worlds of Neb­a­don are peo­pled with Ad­juster-fu­sion mor­tals in con­trast with a near-by uni­verse where scarcely more than one half of the worlds har­bor be­ings who are Ad­juster-in­dwelt can­di­dates for eter­nal fu­sion.

• fusion during mortal life
• fusion during mortal life › Son seizure is translation from among the living

49:6.185. Mor­tals of the pri­mary mod­i­fied or­der of as­cen­sion. These mor­tals be­long to the Ad­juster-fused type of evo­lu­tion­ary life, but they are most of­ten rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the fi­nal phases of hu­man de­vel­op­ment on an evolv­ing world. These glo­ri­fied be­ings are ex­empt from pass­ing through the por­tals of death; they are sub­mit­ted to Son seizure; they are trans­lated from among the liv­ing and ap­pear im­me­di­ately in the pres­ence of the Sov­er­eign Son on the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse.

49:6.19These are the mor­tals who fuse with their Ad­justers dur­ing mor­tal life, and such Ad­juster-fused per­son­al­i­ties tra­verse space freely be­fore be­ing clothed with mor­ontia forms. These fused souls go by di­rect Ad­juster tran­sit to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the higher mor­ontia spheres, where they re­ceive their ini­tial mor­ontia in­vesti­ture just as do all other mor­tals ar­riv­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

49:6.20This pri­mary mod­i­fied or­der of mor­tal as­cen­sion may ap­ply to in­di­vid­u­als in any of the plan­e­tary se­ries from the low­est to the high­est stages of the Ad­juster-fu­sion worlds, but it more fre­quently func­tions on the older of these spheres af­ter they have re­ceived the ben­e­fits of nu­mer­ous so­journs of the di­vine Sons.

49:6.21With the es­tab­lish­ment of the plan­e­tary era of light and life, many go to the uni­verse mor­ontia worlds by the pri­mary mod­i­fied or­der of trans­la­tion. Fur­ther along in the ad­vanced stages of set­tled ex­is­tence, when the ma­jor­ity of the mor­tals leav­ing a realm are em­braced in this class, the planet is re­garded as be­long­ing to this se­ries. Nat­u­ral death be­comes de­creas­ingly fre­quent on these spheres long set­tled in light and life.

55:2.1Nat­u­ral, phys­i­cal death is not a mor­tal in­evitabil­ity. The ma­jor­ity of ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings, cit­i­zens on worlds ex­ist­ing in the fi­nal era of light and life, do not die; they are trans­lated di­rectly from the life in the flesh to the mor­ontia ex­is­tence.

• fusion during mortal life › translation from living in morontia temple

55:2.2This ex­pe­ri­ence of trans­la­tion from the ma­te­rial life to the mor­ontia state—fu­sion of the im­mor­tal soul with the in­dwelling Ad­juster—in­creases in fre­quency com­men­su­rate with the evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress of the planet. At first only a few mor­tals in each age at­tain trans­la­tion lev­els of spir­i­tual prog­ress, but with the on­set of the suc­ces­sive ages of the Teacher Sons, more and more Ad­juster fu­sions oc­cur be­fore the ter­mi­na­tion of the length­en­ing lives of these pro­gress­ing mor­tals; and by the time of the ter­mi­nal mis­sion of the Teacher Sons, ap­prox­i­mately one quar­ter of these su­perb mor­tals are ex­empt from nat­u­ral death.

55:2.3Far­ther along in the era of light and life the mid­way crea­tures or their as­so­ciates sense the ap­proach­ing sta­tus of prob­a­ble soul-Ad­juster union and sig­nify this to the des­tiny guard­i­ans, who in turn com­mu­ni­cate these mat­ters to the fi­nal­i­ter group un­der whose ju­ris­dic­tion this mor­tal may be func­tion­ing; then there is is­sued the sum­mons of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign for such a mor­tal to re­sign all plan­e­tary du­ties, bid farewell to the world of his ori­gin, and re­pair to the in­ner tem­ple of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, there to await mor­ontia tran­sit, the trans­la­tion flash, from the ma­te­rial do­main of evo­lu­tion to the mor­ontia level of pre­spirit pro­gres­sion.

55:2.4When the fam­ily, friends, and work­ing group of such a fu­sion can­di­date have for­gath­ered in the mor­ontia tem­ple, they are dis­tributed around the cen­tral stage whereon the fu­sion can­di­dates are rest­ing, mean­time freely con­vers­ing with their as­sem­bled friends. A cir­cle of in­ter­ven­ing ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties is ar­ranged to pro­tect the ma­te­rial mor­tals from the ac­tion of the en­er­gies man­i­fest at the in­stant of the “life flash” which de­liv­ers the as­cen­sion can­di­date from the bonds of ma­te­rial flesh, thereby do­ing for such an evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal ev­ery­thing that nat­u­ral death does for those who are thereby de­liv­ered from the flesh.

55:2.5Many fu­sion can­di­dates may be as­sem­bled in the spa­cious tem­ple at the same time. And what a beau­ti­ful oc­ca­sion when mor­tals thus for­gather to wit­ness the as­cen­sion of their loved ones in spir­i­tual flames, and what a con­trast to those ear­lier ages when mor­tals must com­mit their dead to the em­brace of the ter­res­trial el­e­ments! The scenes of weep­ing and wail­ing char­ac­ter­is­tic of ear­lier epochs of hu­man evo­lu­tion are now re­placed by ec­static joy and the sub­limest en­thu­si­asm as these God-know­ing mor­tals bid their loved ones a tran­sient farewell as they are re­moved from their ma­te­rial as­so­ci­a­tions by the spir­i­tual fires of con­sum­ing grandeur and as­cend­ing glory. On worlds set­tled in light and life, “fu­ner­als” are oc­ca­sions of su­preme joy, pro­found sat­is­fac­tion, and in­ex­press­ible hope.

55:2.6The souls of these pro­gress­ing mor­tals are in­creas­ingly filled with faith, hope, and as­sur­ance. The spirit per­me­at­ing those gath­ered around the trans­la­tion shrine re­sem­bles that of the joy­ful friends and rel­a­tives who might as­sem­ble at a grad­u­at­ing ex­er­cise for one of their group, or who might come to­gether to wit­ness the con­fer­ring of some great honor upon one of their num­ber. And it would be de­cid­edly help­ful if less ad­vanced mor­tals could only learn to view nat­u­ral death with some­thing of this same cheer­ful­ness and light­heart­ed­ness.

55:2.7Mor­tal ob­servers can see noth­ing of their trans­lated as­so­ciates sub­se­quent to the fu­sion flash. Such trans­lated souls pro­ceed by Ad­juster tran­sit di­rect to the res­ur­rec­tion hall of the ap­pro­pri­ate mor­ontia-train­ing world. These trans­ac­tions con­cerned with the trans­la­tion of liv­ing hu­man be­ings to the mor­ontia world are super­vised by an arch­an­gel who was as­signed to such a world on the day when it was first set­tled in light and life.

55:2.8By the time a world at­tains the fourth stage of light and life, more than half the mor­tals leave the planet by trans­la­tion from among the liv­ing. Such di­min­ish­ment of death con­tin­ues on and on, but I know of no sys­tem whose in­hab­ited worlds, even though long set­tled in life, are en­tirely free from nat­u­ral death as the tech­nique of es­cape from the bonds of flesh. And un­til such a high state of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion is uni­formly at­tained, the mor­ontia-train­ing worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse must con­tinue in ser­vice as ed­u­ca­tional and cul­tural spheres for the evolv­ing mor­ontia pro­gres­sors. The elim­i­na­tion of death is the­o­ret­i­cally pos­si­ble, but it has not yet oc­curred ac­cord­ing to my ob­ser­va­tion. Per­haps such a sta­tus may be at­tained dur­ing the far­away stretches of the suc­ceed­ing epochs of the sev­enth stage of set­tled plan­e­tary life.

• fusion during mortal life › Son seizure is translation from among the living

55:2.9The trans­lated souls of the flow­er­ing ages of the set­tled spheres do not pass through the man­sion worlds. Nei­ther do they so­journ, as stu­dents, on the mor­ontia worlds of the sys­tem or con­stel­la­tion. They do not pass through any of the ear­lier phases of mor­ontia life. They are the only as­cend­ing mor­tals who so nearly es­cape the mor­ontia tran­si­tion from ma­te­rial ex­is­tence to semispirit sta­tus. The ini­tial ex­pe­ri­ence of such Son-seized mor­tals in the as­cen­sion ca­reer is in the ser­vices of the pro­gres­sion worlds of the uni­verse head­quar­ters. And from these study worlds of Sal­ving­ton they go back as teach­ers to the very worlds they passed by, sub­se­quently go­ing on in­ward to Par­a­dise by the es­tab­lished route of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

55:2.10Could you but visit a planet in an ad­vanced stage of de­vel­op­ment, you would quickly grasp the rea­sons for pro­vid­ing for the dif­fer­en­tial re­cep­tion of as­cend­ing mor­tals on the man­sion and higher mor­ontia worlds. You would read­ily un­der­stand that be­ings pass­ing on from such highly evolved spheres are pre­pared to re­sume their Par­a­dise as­cent far in ad­vance of the av­er­age mor­tal ar­riv­ing from a dis­or­dered and back­ward world like Uran­tia.

55:2.11No mat­ter from what level of plan­e­tary at­tain­ment hu­man be­ings may as­cend to the mor­ontia worlds, the seven man­sion spheres af­ford them am­ple op­por­tu­nity to gain in ex­pe­ri­ence as teacher-stu­dents all of ev­ery­thing which they failed to pass through be­cause of the ad­vanced sta­tus of their na­tive plan­ets.

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.

• defined as › inner union with indwelling God fragment

101:6.6With man, the even­tual fu­sion and re­sul­tant one­ness with the in­dwelling Ad­juster—the per­son­al­ity syn­the­sis of man and the essence of God—con­sti­tute him, in po­ten­tial, a liv­ing part of the Su­preme and in­sure for such a one­time mor­tal be­ing the eter­nal birthright of the end­less pur­suit of fi­nal­ity of uni­verse ser­vice for and with the Su­preme.

• defined as › inner union with indwelling God fragment

107:0.4Any mor­tal who has seen a Cre­ator Son has seen the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and he who is in­dwelt by a di­vine Ad­juster is in­dwelt by the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Ev­ery mor­tal who is con­sciously or un­con­sciously fol­low­ing the lead­ing of his in­dwelling Ad­juster is liv­ing in ac­cor­dance with the will of God. Con­scious­ness of Ad­juster pres­ence is con­scious­ness of God’s pres­ence. Eter­nal fu­sion of the Ad­juster with the evo­lu­tion­ary soul of man is the fac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of eter­nal union with God as a uni­verse as­so­ciate of De­ity.

• defined as › conferring oneness of soul with God; eternal life

107:2.76. Fused Ad­justers—fi­nal­i­ters—those who have be­come one with the as­cend­ing crea­tures of the super­uni­verses, the eter­nity part­ners of the time as­cend­ers of the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Thought Ad­justers or­di­nar­ily be­come fused with the as­cend­ing mor­tals of time, and with such sur­viv­ing mor­tals they are reg­is­tered in and out of As­cend­ing­ton; they fol­low the course of as­cen­dant be­ings. Upon fu­sion with the as­cend­ing evo­lu­tion­ary soul, it ap­pears that the Ad­juster trans­lates from the ab­so­lute ex­is­ten­tial level of the uni­verse to the fi­nite ex­pe­ri­en­tial level of func­tional as­so­ci­a­tion with an as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity. While re­tain­ing all of the char­ac­ter of the ex­is­ten­tial di­vine na­ture, a fused Ad­juster be­comes in­dis­sol­ubly linked with the as­cend­ing ca­reer of a sur­viv­ing mor­tal.

• defined as › oneness so perfect that separate identities of man and Adjuster unrecognizable

110:1.6To­day you are pass­ing through the pe­riod of the court­ship of your Ad­juster; and if you only prove faith­ful to the trust re­posed in you by the di­vine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eter­nal union, there will even­tu­ally en­sue that mor­ontia one­ness, that su­per­nal har­mony, that cos­mic co-or­di­na­tion, that di­vine at­tune­ment, that ce­les­tial fu­sion, that never-end­ing blend­ing of iden­tity, that one­ness of be­ing which is so per­fect and fi­nal that even the most ex­pe­ri­enced per­son­al­i­ties can never seg­re­gate or rec­og­nize as sep­a­rate iden­ti­ties the fu­sion part­ners—mor­tal man and di­vine Ad­juster.

• defined as › irrevocable choice for eternal career

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.

• after fusion › Adjusters share our destiny and experience; they are us
• after fusion › mortal gains Adjuster’s memory of all previous mortal indwellings

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.

• after fusion › mortal gains Adjuster’s memory of all previous mortal indwellings

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.]

• defined as › irrevocable choice for eternal career

111:3.1The mis­takes of mor­tal mind and the er­rors of hu­man con­duct may markedly de­lay the evo­lu­tion of the soul, al­though they can­not in­hibit such a mor­ontia phe­nom­e­non when once it has been ini­ti­ated by the in­dwelling Ad­juster with the con­sent of the crea­ture will. But at any time prior to mor­tal death this same ma­te­rial and hu­man will is em­pow­ered to re­scind such a choice and to re­ject sur­vival. Even af­ter sur­vival the as­cend­ing mor­tal still re­tains this pre­rog­a­tive of choos­ing to re­ject eter­nal life; at any time be­fore fu­sion with the Ad­juster the evolv­ing and as­cend­ing crea­ture can choose to for­sake the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Fu­sion with the Ad­juster sig­nal­izes the fact that the as­cend­ing mor­tal has eter­nally and un­re­servedly cho­sen to do the Fa­ther’s will.

• defined as › inner union with indwelling God fragment

111:5.6This choos­ing of the Fa­ther’s will is the spir­i­tual find­ing of the spirit Fa­ther by mor­tal man, even though an age must pass be­fore the crea­ture son may ac­tu­ally stand in the fac­tual pres­ence of God on Par­a­dise. This choos­ing does not so much con­sist in the nega­tion of crea­ture will—“Not my will but yours be done”—as it con­sists in the crea­ture’s pos­i­tive af­fir­ma­tion: “It is my will that your will be done.” And if this choice is made, sooner or later will the God-choos­ing son find in­ner union (fu­sion) with the in­dwelling God frag­ment, while this same per­fect­ing son will find su­preme per­son­al­ity sat­is­fac­tion in the wor­ship com­mu­nion of the per­son­al­ity of man and the per­son­al­ity of his Maker, two per­son­al­i­ties whose cre­ative at­tri­butes have eter­nally joined in self-willed mu­tu­al­ity of ex­pres­sion—the birth of an­other eter­nal part­ner­ship of the will of man and the will of God.

• after fusion › mortal gains Adjuster’s memory of all previous mortal indwellings

112:7.1Thought Ad­juster fu­sion im­parts eter­nal ac­tu­al­i­ties to per­son­al­ity which were pre­vi­ously only po­ten­tial. Among these new en­dow­ments may be men­tioned: fix­a­tion of di­vin­ity qual­ity, past-eter­nity ex­pe­ri­ence and mem­ory, im­mor­tal­ity, and a phase of qual­i­fied po­ten­tial ab­so­lute­ness.

• defined as › secret of Ascendington

112:7.2When your earthly course in tem­po­rary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a bet­ter world, and even­tu­ally you will be united with your faith­ful Ad­juster in an eter­nal em­brace. And this fu­sion con­sti­tutes the mys­tery of mak­ing God and man one, the mys­tery of fi­nite crea­ture evo­lu­tion, but it is eter­nally true. Fu­sion is the se­cret of the sa­cred sphere of As­cend­ing­ton, and no crea­ture, save those who have ex­pe­ri­enced fu­sion with the spirit of De­ity, can com­pre­hend the true mean­ing of the ac­tual val­ues which are con­joined when the iden­tity of a crea­ture of time be­comes eter­nally one with the spirit of Par­a­dise De­ity.

• normally takes place on mansion worlds

112:7.3Fu­sion with the Ad­juster is usu­ally ef­fected while the as­cender is res­i­dent within his lo­cal sys­tem. It may oc­cur on the planet of na­tiv­ity as a tran­scen­dence of nat­u­ral death; it may take place on any one of the man­sion worlds or on the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem; it may even be de­layed un­til the time of the con­stel­la­tion so­journ; or, in spe­cial in­stances, it may not be con­sum­mated un­til the as­cender is on the lo­cal uni­verse cap­i­tal.

• after fusion › no danger to ascender’s eternal career

112:7.4When fu­sion with the Ad­juster has been ef­fected, there can be no fu­ture dan­ger to the eter­nal ca­reer of such a per­son­al­ity. Ce­les­tial be­ings are tested through­out a long ex­pe­ri­ence, but mor­tals pass through a rel­a­tively short and in­ten­sive test­ing on the evo­lu­tion­ary and mor­ontia worlds.

• defined as › irrevocable choice for eternal career

112:7.5Fu­sion with the Ad­juster never oc­curs un­til the man­dates of the super­uni­verse have pro­nounced that the hu­man na­ture has made a fi­nal and ir­re­vo­ca­ble choice for the eter­nal ca­reer. This is the at-one­ment au­tho­riza­tion, which, when is­sued, con­sti­tutes the clear­ance au­thor­ity for the fused per­son­al­ity even­tu­ally to leave the con­fines of the lo­cal uni­verse to pro­ceed some­time to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse, from which point the pil­grim of time will, in the dis­tant fu­ture, en­sec­onaphim for the long flight to the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona and the De­ity ad­ven­ture.

112:7.6On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, self­hood is ma­te­rial; it is a thing in the uni­verse and as such is sub­ject to the laws of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. It is a fact in time and is re­spon­sive to the vi­cis­si­tudes thereof. Sur­vival de­ci­sions must here be for­mu­lated. In the mor­ontia state the self has be­come a new and more en­dur­ing uni­verse re­al­ity, and its con­tin­u­ing growth is pred­i­cated on its in­creas­ing at­tune­ment to the mind and spirit cir­cuits of the uni­verses. Sur­vival de­ci­sions are now be­ing con­firmed. When the self at­tains the spir­i­tual level, it has be­come a se­cure value in the uni­verse, and this new value is pred­i­cated upon the fact that sur­vival de­ci­sions have been made, which fact has been wit­nessed by eter­nal fu­sion with the Thought Ad­juster. And hav­ing achieved the sta­tus of a true uni­verse value, the crea­ture be­comes lib­er­ated in po­ten­tial for the seek­ing of the high­est uni­verse value—God.

• after fusion › ascenders not unlike seraphim

112:7.7Such fused be­ings are two­fold in their uni­verse re­ac­tions: They are dis­crete mor­ontia in­di­vid­u­als not al­to­gether un­like ser­a­phim, and they are also be­ings in po­ten­tial on the or­der of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters.

• defined as › oneness so perfect that separate identities of man and Adjuster unrecognizable

112:7.8But the fused in­di­vid­ual is re­ally one per­son­al­ity, one be­ing, whose unity de­fies all at­tempts at anal­y­sis by any in­tel­li­gence of the uni­verses. And so, hav­ing passed the tri­bu­nals of the lo­cal uni­verse from the low­est to the high­est, none of which have been able to iden­tify man or Ad­juster, the one apart from the other, you shall fi­nally be taken be­fore the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse Fa­ther. And there, at the hand of the very be­ing whose cre­ative fa­ther­hood in this uni­verse of time has made pos­si­ble the fact of your life, you will be granted those cre­den­tials which en­ti­tle you even­tu­ally to pro­ceed upon your super­uni­verse ca­reer in quest of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

112:7.9Has the tri­umphant Ad­juster won per­son­al­ity by the mag­nif­i­cent ser­vice to hu­man­ity, or has the valiant hu­man ac­quired im­mor­tal­ity through sin­cere ef­forts to achieve Ad­juster­like­ness? It is nei­ther; but they to­gether have achieved the evo­lu­tion of a mem­ber of one of the unique or­ders of the as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties of the Su­preme, one who will ever be found ser­vice­able, faith­ful, and ef­fi­cient, a can­di­date for fur­ther growth and de­vel­op­ment, ever rang­ing up­ward and never ceas­ing the su­per­nal as­cent un­til the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona have been tra­versed and the one­time soul of earthly ori­gin stands in wor­ship­ful rec­og­ni­tion of the ac­tual per­son­al­ity of the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

• after fusion › Adjusters share our destiny and experience; they are us

112:7.10Through­out all this mag­nif­i­cent as­cent the Thought Ad­juster is the di­vine pledge of the fu­ture and full spir­i­tual sta­bi­liza­tion of the as­cend­ing mor­tal. Mean­while the pres­ence of the mor­tal free will af­fords the Ad­juster an eter­nal chan­nel for the lib­er­a­tion of the di­vine and in­fi­nite na­ture. Now have these two iden­ti­ties be­come one; no event of time or of eter­nity can ever sep­a­rate man and Ad­juster; they are in­sep­a­ra­ble, eter­nally fused.

112:7.11On the Ad­juster-fu­sion worlds the des­tiny of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor is iden­ti­cal with that of the as­cend­ing mor­tal—the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. And nei­ther Ad­juster nor mor­tal can at­tain that unique goal with­out the full co-op­er­a­tion and faith­ful help of the other. This ex­traor­di­nary part­ner­ship is one of the most en­gross­ing and amaz­ing of all the cos­mic phe­nom­ena of this uni­verse age.

112:7.12From the time of Ad­juster fu­sion the sta­tus of the as­cender is that of the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture. The hu­man mem­ber was the first to en­joy per­son­al­ity and, there­fore, out­ranks the Ad­juster in all mat­ters con­cerned with the rec­og­ni­tion of per­son­al­ity. The Par­a­dise head­quar­ters of this fused be­ing is As­cend­ing­ton, not Di­vin­ing­ton, and this unique com­bi­na­tion of God and man ranks as an as­cend­ing mor­tal all the way up to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

112:7.13When once an Ad­juster fuses with an as­cend­ing mor­tal, the num­ber of that Ad­juster is stricken from the rec­ords of the super­uni­verse. What hap­pens on the rec­ords of Di­vin­ing­ton, I do not know, but I sur­mise that the reg­istry of that Ad­juster is re­moved to the se­cret cir­cles of the in­ner courts of Grand­fanda, the act­ing head of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• after fusion › begins ascender’s attempt to actualize limitless possibilities of partnership with God

112:7.14With Ad­juster fu­sion the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has com­pleted his prom­ise of the gift of him­self to his ma­te­rial crea­tures; he has ful­filled the prom­ise, and con­sum­mated the plan, of the eter­nal be­stowal of di­vin­ity upon hu­man­ity. Now be­gins the hu­man at­tempt to re­al­ize and to ac­tu­al­ize the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties that are in­her­ent in the su­per­nal part­ner­ship with God which has thus fac­tu­al­ized.

112:7.15The pres­ent known des­tiny of sur­viv­ing mor­tals is the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; this is also the goal of des­tiny for all Thought Ad­justers who be­come joined in eter­nal union with their mor­tal com­pan­ions. At pres­ent the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are work­ing through­out the grand uni­verse in many un­der­tak­ings, but we all con­jec­ture that they will have other and even more su­per­nal tasks to per­form in the dis­tant fu­ture af­ter the seven super­uni­verses have be­come set­tled in light and life, and when the fi­nite God has fi­nally emerged from the mys­tery which now sur­rounds this Su­preme De­ity.

112:7.16You have been in­structed to a cer­tain ex­tent about the or­ga­ni­za­tion and per­son­nel of the cen­tral uni­verse, the super­uni­verses, and the lo­cal uni­verses; you have been told some­thing about the char­ac­ter and ori­gin of some of the var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties who now rule these far-flung cre­ations. You have also been in­formed that there are in pro­cess of or­ga­ni­za­tion vast galax­ies of uni­verses far out be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the grand uni­verse, in the first outer space level. It has also been in­ti­mated in the course of these nar­ra­tives that the Su­preme Be­ing is to dis­close his un­re­vealed ter­tiary func­tion in these now un­charted re­gions of outer space; and you have also been told that the fi­nal­i­ters of the Par­a­dise corps are the ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren of the Su­preme.

112:7.17We be­lieve that the mor­tals of Ad­juster fu­sion, to­gether with their fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates, are des­tined to func­tion in some man­ner in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verses of the first outer space level. We have not the slight­est doubt that in due time these enor­mous galax­ies will be­come in­hab­ited uni­verses. And we are equally con­vinced that among the ad­min­is­tra­tors thereof will be found the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters whose na­tures are the cos­mic con­se­quence of the blend­ing of crea­ture and Cre­ator.

112:7.18What an ad­ven­ture! What a ro­mance! A gi­gan­tic cre­ation to be ad­min­is­tered by the chil­dren of the Su­preme, these per­son­al­ized and hu­man­ized Ad­justers, these Ad­jus­ter­ized and eter­nal­ized mor­tals, these mys­te­ri­ous com­bi­na­tions and eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tions of the high­est known man­i­fes­ta­tion of the essence of the First Source and Cen­ter and the low­est form of in­tel­li­gent life ca­pa­ble of com­pre­hend­ing and at­tain­ing the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We con­ceive that such amal­ga­mated be­ings, such part­ner­ships of Cre­ator and crea­ture, will be­come su­perb rulers, match­less ad­min­is­tra­tors, and un­der­stand­ing and sym­pa­thetic di­rec­tors of any and all forms of in­tel­li­gent life which may come into ex­is­tence through­out these fu­ture uni­verses of the first outer space level.

112:7.19True it is, you mor­tals are of earthly, an­i­mal ori­gin; your frame is in­deed dust. But if you ac­tu­ally will, if you re­ally de­sire, surely the her­itage of the ages is yours, and you shall some­day serve through­out the uni­verses in your true char­ac­ters—chil­dren of the Su­preme God of ex­pe­ri­ence and di­vine sons of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all per­son­al­i­ties.

112:7.20[Pre­sented by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of Or­von­ton.]

• defined as › everlasting self-identification with total and indestructible reality

116:7.5Hu­man be­ings are ca­pa­ble of mak­ing an ev­er­last­ing self-iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with to­tal and in­de­struc­tible uni­verse re­al­ity—fu­sion with the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster. Like­wise does the Su­preme ev­er­last­ingly de­pend on the ab­so­lute sta­bil­ity of Orig­i­nal De­ity, the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

• defined as › breaking fetters of time

118:5.2In the be­gin­ning the Fa­ther does all, but as the pan­o­rama of eter­nity un­folds in re­sponse to the will and man­dates of the In­fi­nite, it be­comes in­creas­ingly ap­par­ent that crea­tures, even men, are to be­come God’s part­ners in the re­al­iza­tion of fi­nal­ity of des­tiny. And this is true even in the life in the flesh; when man and God en­ter into part­ner­ship, no lim­i­ta­tion can be placed upon the fu­ture pos­si­bil­i­ties of such a part­ner­ship. When man re­al­izes that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is his part­ner in eter­nal pro­gres­sion, when he fuses with the in­dwelling Fa­ther pres­ence, he has, in spirit, bro­ken the fet­ters of time and has al­ready en­tered upon the pro­gres­sions of eter­nity in the quest for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• Jesus attained perfect synchrony with Adjuster prior to baptism

136:2.2When Je­sus of Naz­a­reth went down into the Jor­dan to be bap­tized, he was a mor­tal of the realm who had at­tained the pin­na­cle of hu­man evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion in all mat­ters re­lated to the con­quest of mind and to self-iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with the spirit. He stood in the Jor­dan that day a per­fected mor­tal of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. Per­fect syn­chrony and full com­mu­ni­ca­tion had be­come es­tab­lished be­tween the mor­tal mind of Je­sus and the in­dwelling spirit Ad­juster, the di­vine gift of his Fa­ther in Par­a­dise. And just such an Ad­juster in­dwells all nor­mal be­ings liv­ing on Uran­tia since the as­cen­sion of Mi­chael to the head­ship of his uni­verse, ex­cept that Je­sus’ Ad­juster had been pre­vi­ously pre­pared for this spe­cial mis­sion by sim­i­larly in­dwelling an­other super­hu­man in­car­nated in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek.

• fusion during mortal life › preliminary spiritual elevation

136:2.3Or­di­nar­ily, when a mor­tal of the realm at­tains such high lev­els of per­son­al­ity per­fec­tion, there oc­cur those pre­lim­i­nary phe­nom­ena of spir­i­tual el­e­va­tion which ter­mi­nate in even­tual fu­sion of the ma­tured soul of the mor­tal with its as­so­ci­ated di­vine Ad­juster. And such a change was ap­par­ently due to take place in the per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth on that very day when he went down into the Jor­dan with his two broth­ers to be bap­tized by John. This cer­e­mony was the fi­nal act of his purely hu­man life on Uran­tia, and many super­hu­man ob­servers ex­pected to wit­ness the fu­sion of the Ad­juster with its in­dwelt mind, but they were all des­tined to suf­fer dis­ap­point­ment. Some­thing new and even greater oc­curred. As John laid his hands upon Je­sus to bap­tize him, the in­dwelling Ad­juster took fi­nal leave of the per­fected hu­man soul of Joshua ben Joseph. And in a few mo­ments this di­vine en­tity re­turned from Di­vin­ing­ton as a Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster and chief of his kind through­out the en­tire lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Thus did Je­sus ob­serve his own for­mer di­vine spirit de­scend­ing on its re­turn to him in per­son­al­ized form. And he heard this same spirit of Par­a­dise ori­gin now speak, say­ing, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” And John, with Je­sus’ two broth­ers, also heard these words. John’s dis­ci­ples, stand­ing by the wa­ter’s edge, did not hear these words, nei­ther did they see the ap­pari­tion of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster. Only the eyes of Je­sus be­held the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster.

136:2.4When the re­turned and now ex­alted Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster had thus spo­ken, all was si­lence. And while the four of them tar­ried in the wa­ter, Je­sus, look­ing up to the near-by Ad­juster, prayed: “My Fa­ther who reigns in heaven, hal­lowed be your name. Your king­dom come! Your will be done on earth, even as it is in heaven.” When he had prayed, the “heav­ens were opened,” and the Son of Man saw the vi­sion, pre­sented by the now Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, of him­self as a Son of God as he was be­fore he came to earth in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and as he would be when the in­car­nated life should be fin­ished. This heav­enly vi­sion was seen only by Je­sus.

136:2.5It was the voice of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster that John and Je­sus heard, speak­ing in be­half of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, for the Ad­juster is of, and as, the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Through­out the re­main­der of Je­sus’ earth life this Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster was as­so­ci­ated with him in all his labors; Je­sus was in con­stant com­mu­nion with this ex­alted Ad­juster.

• after fusion › ascender receives new name, 40 days’ retirement

136:2.6When Je­sus was bap­tized, he re­pented of no mis­deeds; he made no con­fes­sion of sin. His was the bap­tism of con­se­cra­tion to the per­for­mance of the will of the heav­enly Fa­ther. At his bap­tism he heard the un­mis­tak­able call of his Fa­ther, the fi­nal sum­mons to be about his Fa­ther’s busi­ness, and he went away into pri­vate seclu­sion for forty days to think over these man­i­fold prob­lems. In thus re­tir­ing for a sea­son from ac­tive per­son­al­ity con­tact with his earthly as­so­ciates, Je­sus, as he was and on Uran­tia, was fol­low­ing the very pro­ce­dure that ob­tains on the mor­ontia worlds when­ever an as­cend­ing mor­tal fuses with the in­ner pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

40:10.1Spirit-fused mor­tals are, gen­er­ally speak­ing, con­fined to a lo­cal uni­verse; Son-fused sur­vivors are re­stricted to a super­uni­verse; Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are des­tined to pen­e­trate the uni­verse of uni­verses. The spir­its of mor­tal fu­sion al­ways as­cend to the level of ori­gin; such spirit en­ti­ties un­fail­ingly re­turn to the sphere of pri­mal source.

37:5.1The High Com­mis­sion­ers are Spirit-fused as­cen­dant mor­tals; they are not Ad­juster fused. You quite well un­der­stand about the uni­verse-as­cen­sion ca­reer of a mor­tal can­di­date for Ad­juster fu­sion, that be­ing the high des­tiny in prospect for all Uran­tia mor­tals since the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael. But this is not the ex­clu­sive des­tiny of all mor­tals in the pre­be­stowal ages of worlds like yours, and there is an­other type of world whose in­hab­i­tants are never per­ma­nently in­dwelt by Thought Ad­justers. Such mor­tals are never per­ma­nently joined in union with a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor of Par­a­dise be­stowal; nev­er­the­less, the Ad­justers do tran­siently in­dwell them, serv­ing as guides and pat­terns for the du­ra­tion of the life in the flesh. Dur­ing this tem­po­rary so­journ they fos­ter the evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul just as in those be­ings with whom they hope to fuse, but when the mor­tal race is run, they take eter­nal leave of the crea­tures of tem­po­rary as­so­ci­a­tion.

40:9.1As­cend­ing Spirit-fused mor­tals are not Third Source per­son­al­i­ties; they are in­cluded in the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, but they have fused with in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter. Such Spirit fu­sion never oc­curs dur­ing the span of nat­u­ral life; it takes place only at the time of mor­tal reawak­en­ing in the mor­ontia ex­is­tence on the man­sion worlds. In the fu­sion ex­pe­ri­ence there is no over­lap­ping; the will crea­ture is ei­ther Spirit fused, Son fused, or Fa­ther fused. Those who are Ad­juster or Fa­ther fused are never Spirit or Son fused.