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Personalized Adjusters

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Every paragraph the index cites under Personalized Adjusters, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

16:3.2Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber One. In a spe­cial man­ner this Spirit is the di­rect rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. He is a pe­cu­liar and ef­fi­cient man­i­fes­ta­tion of the power, love, and wis­dom of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He is the close as­so­ciate and su­per­nal ad­viser of the chief of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, that be­ing who pre­sides over the Col­lege of Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers on Di­vin­ing­ton. In all as­so­ci­a­tions of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, it is al­ways Mas­ter Spirit Num­ber One who speaks for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

20:4.3When in­car­nated on ei­ther be­stowal or mag­is­te­rial mis­sions, the Par­a­dise Sons have ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­justers, and these Ad­justers are dif­fer­ent for each in­car­na­tion. The Ad­justers that oc­cupy the minds of the in­car­nated Sons of God can never hope for per­son­al­ity through fu­sion with the hu­man-di­vine be­ings of their in­dwelling, but they are of­ten per­son­al­ized by fiat of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Such Ad­justers form the su­preme Di­vin­ing­ton coun­cil of di­rec­tion for the ad­min­is­tra­tion, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, and dis­patch of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors to the in­hab­ited realms. They also re­ceive and ac­credit Ad­justers on their re­turn to the “bo­som of the Fa­ther” upon the mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion of their earthly taber­na­cles. In this way the faith­ful Ad­justers of the world judges be­come the ex­alted chiefs of their kind.

30:1.651. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

30:2.537. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

40:4.1When the mor­tals of time fail to achieve the eter­nal sur­vival of their souls in plan­e­tary as­so­ci­a­tion with the spirit gifts of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, such fail­ure is never in any way due to ne­glect of duty, min­istry, ser­vice, or de­vo­tion on the part of the Ad­juster. At mor­tal death, such de­serted Mon­i­tors re­turn to Di­vin­ing­ton, and sub­se­quently, fol­low­ing the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the non­sur­vivor, they may be re­as­signed to the worlds of time and space. Some­times, af­ter re­peated ser­vices of this sort or fol­low­ing some un­usual ex­pe­ri­ence, such as func­tion­ing as the in­dwelling Ad­juster of an in­car­nated be­stowal Son, these ef­fi­cient Ad­justers are per­son­al­ized by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

40:4.2Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are be­ings of a unique and un­fath­omable or­der. Orig­i­nally of ex­is­ten­tial preper­sonal sta­tus, they have ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ized by par­tic­i­pa­tion in the lives and ca­reers of the lowly mor­tals of the ma­te­rial worlds. And since the per­son­al­ity be­stowed upon these ex­pe­ri­enced Thought Ad­justers takes ori­gin, and has its well­spring, in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s per­sonal and con­tin­u­ing min­istry of the be­stowals of ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity upon his crea­ture cre­ation, these Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are clas­si­fied as as­cend­ing Sons of God, the high­est of all such or­ders of son­ship.

55:3.185. Mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion sta­tus who, upon their own pe­ti­tion, are tem­porar­ily ex­empted from trans­la­tion by the or­der of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of uni­verse chief­tain­ship in or­der that they may con­tinue on the planet in cer­tain im­por­tant ad­min­is­tra­tive posts.

107:2.87. Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers, those who have served with the in­car­nated Par­a­dise Sons, to­gether with many who have achieved un­usual dis­tinc­tion dur­ing the mor­tal in­dwelling, but whose sub­jects re­jected sur­vival. We have rea­sons for be­liev­ing that such Ad­justers are per­son­al­ized on the rec­om­men­da­tions of the An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of their as­sign­ment.

107:3.9The valor and wis­dom ex­hib­ited by Thought Ad­justers sug­gest that they have un­der­gone a train­ing of tremen­dous scope and range. Since they are not per­son­al­i­ties, this train­ing must be im­parted in the ed­u­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions of Di­vin­ing­ton. The unique Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers no doubt con­sti­tute the per­son­nel of the Ad­juster train­ing schools of Di­vin­ing­ton. And we do know that this cen­tral and super­vis­ing corps is pre­sided over by the now Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of the first Par­a­dise Son of the Mi­chael or­der to com­plete his sev­en­fold be­stowal upon the races and peo­ples of his uni­verse realms.

107:4.5There is a char­ac­ter­is­tic light, a spirit lu­mi­nos­ity, which ac­com­pa­nies this di­vine pres­ence, and which has be­come gen­er­ally as­so­ci­ated with Thought Ad­justers. In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don this Par­a­dise lu­mi­nos­ity is widespreadly known as the “pi­lot light”; on Uversa it is called the “light of life.” On Uran­tia this phe­nom­e­non has some­times been re­ferred to as that “true light which lights ev­ery man who comes into the world.”

108:3.4Though we have the rec­ords of Thought Ad­justers in Or­von­ton, and though we have ab­so­lutely no au­thor­ity over them or ad­min­is­tra­tive con­nec­tion with them, we firmly be­lieve that there is a very close ad­min­is­tra­tive con­nec­tion be­tween the in­di­vid­ual worlds of the lo­cal uni­verses and the cen­tral lodg­ment of the di­vine gifts on Di­vin­ing­ton. We do know that, fol­low­ing the ap­pear­ance of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son, an evo­lu­tion­ary world has a Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster as­signed to it as the plan­e­tary super­vi­sor of Ad­justers.

109:6.1Ad­justers never fail; noth­ing worth sur­viv­ing is ever lost; ev­ery mean­ing­ful value in ev­ery will crea­ture is cer­tain of sur­vival, ir­re­spec­tive of the sur­vival or non­sur­vival of the mean­ing-dis­cov­er­ing or eval­u­at­ing per­son­al­ity. And so it is, a mor­tal crea­ture may re­ject sur­vival; still the life ex­pe­ri­ence is not wasted; the eter­nal Ad­juster car­ries the worth-while fea­tures of such an ap­par­ent life of fail­ure over into some other world and there be­stows these sur­viv­ing mean­ings and val­ues upon some higher type of mor­tal mind, one of sur­vival ca­pac­ity. No worth-while ex­pe­ri­ence ever hap­pens in vain; no true mean­ing or real value ever per­ishes.

109:6.2As re­lated to fu­sion can­di­dates, if a Mys­tery Mon­i­tor is de­serted by the mor­tal as­so­ciate, if the hu­man part­ner de­clines to pur­sue the as­cend­ing ca­reer, when re­leased by nat­u­ral death (or prior thereto), the Ad­juster car­ries away ev­ery­thing of sur­vival value which has evolved in the mind of that non­sur­viv­ing crea­ture. If an Ad­juster should re­peat­edly fail to at­tain fu­sion per­son­al­ity be­cause of the non­sur­vival of suc­ces­sive hu­man sub­jects, and if this Mon­i­tor should sub­se­quently be per­son­al­ized, all the ac­quired ex­pe­ri­ence of hav­ing in­dwelt and mas­tered all these mor­tal minds would be­come the ac­tual pos­ses­sion of such a newly Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, an en­dow­ment to be en­joyed and uti­lized through­out all fu­ture ages. A Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of this or­der is a com­pos­ite as­sem­bly of all the sur­vival traits of all his for­mer crea­ture hosts.

109:6.3When Ad­justers of long uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence vol­un­teer to in­dwell di­vine Sons on be­stowal mis­sions, they full well know that per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment can never be achieved through this ser­vice. But of­ten does the Fa­ther of spir­its grant per­son­al­ity to these vol­un­teers and es­tab­lish them as di­rec­tors of their kind. These are the per­son­al­i­ties hon­ored with au­thor­ity on Di­vin­ing­ton. And their unique na­tures em­body the mo­saic hu­man­ity of their mul­ti­ple ex­pe­ri­ences of mor­tal in­dwelling and also the spirit tran­script of the hu­man di­vin­ity of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of the ter­mi­nal in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ence.

109:6.4The ac­tiv­i­ties of Ad­justers in your lo­cal uni­verse are di­rected by the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, that very Mon­i­tor who guided him step by step when he lived his hu­man life in the flesh of Joshua ben Joseph. Faith­ful to his trust was this ex­traor­di­nary Ad­juster, and wisely did this valiant Mon­i­tor di­rect the hu­man na­ture, ever guid­ing the mor­tal mind of the Par­a­dise Son in the choos­ing of the path of the Fa­ther’s per­fect will. This Ad­juster had pre­vi­ously served with Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek in the days of Abra­ham and had en­gaged in tremen­dous ex­ploits both pre­vi­ous to this in­dwelling and be­tween these be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ences.

109:6.5This Ad­juster did in­deed tri­umph in Je­sus’ hu­man mind—that mind which in each of life’s re­cur­ring sit­u­a­tions main­tained a con­se­crated ded­i­ca­tion to the Fa­ther’s will, say­ing, “Not my will, but yours, be done.” Such de­ci­sive con­se­cra­tion con­sti­tutes the true pass­port from the lim­i­ta­tions of hu­man na­ture to the fi­nal­ity of di­vine at­tain­ment.

109:6.6This same Ad­juster now re­flects in the in­scrutable na­ture of his mighty per­son­al­ity the pre­bap­tismal hu­man­ity of Joshua ben Joseph, the eter­nal and liv­ing tran­script of the eter­nal and liv­ing val­ues which the great­est of all Uran­tians cre­ated out of the hum­ble cir­cum­stances of a com­mon­place life as it was lived to the com­plete ex­haus­tion of the spir­i­tual val­ues at­tain­able in mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence.

109:6.7Ev­ery­thing of per­ma­nent value which is in­trusted to an Ad­juster is as­sured eter­nal sur­vival. In cer­tain in­stances the Mon­i­tor holds these pos­ses­sions for be­stowal on a mor­tal mind of fu­ture in­dwelling; in oth­ers, and upon per­son­al­iza­tion, these sur­viv­ing and con­served re­al­i­ties are held in trust for fu­ture uti­liza­tion in the ser­vice of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse.

109:7.1We can­not state whether or not non-Ad­juster Fa­ther frag­ments are per­son­al­iz­able, but you have been in­formed that per­son­al­ity is the sov­er­eign free­will be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. As far as we know, the Ad­juster type of Fa­ther frag­ment at­tains per­son­al­ity only by the ac­quire­ment of per­sonal at­tri­butes through ser­vice-min­istry to a per­sonal be­ing. These Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are at home on Di­vin­ing­ton, where they in­struct and di­rect their preper­sonal as­so­ciates.

109:7.2Per­son­al­ized Thought Ad­justers are the un­tram­meled, un­as­signed, and sov­er­eign sta­bi­liz­ers and com­pen­sators of the far-flung uni­verse of uni­verses. They com­bine the Cre­ator and crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence—ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. They are con­joint time and eter­nity be­ings. They as­so­ciate the preper­sonal and the per­sonal in uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion.

109:7.3Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are the all-wise and pow­er­ful ex­ec­u­tives of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. They are the per­sonal agents of the full min­istry of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther—per­sonal, preper­sonal, and super­per­sonal. They are the per­sonal min­is­ters of the ex­traor­di­nary, the un­usual, and the un­ex­pected through­out all the realms of the tran­scen­den­tal ab­so­nite spheres of the do­main of God the Ul­ti­mate, even to the lev­els of God the Ab­so­lute.

109:7.4They are the ex­clu­sive be­ings of the uni­verses who em­brace within their be­ing all the known re­la­tion­ships of per­son­al­ity; they are om­niper­sonal—they are be­fore per­son­al­ity, they are per­son­al­ity, and they are af­ter per­son­al­ity. They min­is­ter the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther as in the eter­nal past, the eter­nal pres­ent, and the eter­nal fu­ture.

109:7.5Ex­is­ten­tial per­son­al­ity on the or­der of the in­fi­nite and ab­so­lute, the Fa­ther be­stowed upon the Eter­nal Son, but he chose to re­serve for his own min­istry the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity of the type of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster be­stowed upon the ex­is­ten­tial preper­sonal Ad­juster; and they are thus both des­tined to the fu­ture eter­nal super­per­son­al­ity of the tran­scen­den­tal min­istry of the ab­so­nite realms of the Ul­ti­mate, the Su­preme-Ul­ti­mate, even to the lev­els of the Ul­ti­mate-Ab­so­lute.

109:7.6Sel­dom are the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers seen at large in the uni­verses. Oc­ca­sion­ally they con­sult with the An­cients of Days, and some­times the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers of the sev­en­fold Cre­ator Sons come to the head­quar­ters worlds of the con­stel­la­tions to con­fer with the Vo­ron­da­dek rulers.

109:7.7When the plan­e­tary Vo­ron­da­dek ob­server of Uran­tia—the Most High cus­to­dian who not long since as­sumed an emer­gency re­gency of your world—as­serted his au­thor­ity in the pres­ence of the res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral, he be­gan his emer­gency ad­min­is­tra­tion of Uran­tia with a full staff of his own choos­ing. He im­me­di­ately as­signed to all his as­so­ciates and as­sis­tants their plan­e­tary du­ties. But he did not choose the three Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers who ap­peared in his pres­ence the in­stant he as­sumed the re­gency. He did not even know they would thus ap­pear, for they did not so man­i­fest their di­vine pres­ence at the time of a pre­vi­ous re­gency. And the Most High re­gent did not as­sign ser­vice or des­ig­nate du­ties for these vol­un­teer Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers. Nev­er­the­less, these three om­niper­sonal be­ings were among the most ac­tive of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings then serv­ing on Uran­tia.

109:7.8Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers per­form a wide range of ser­vices for nu­mer­ous or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties, but we are not per­mit­ted to dis­cuss these min­istries with Ad­juster-in­dwelt evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. These ex­traor­di­nary hu­man di­vini­ties are among the most re­mark­able per­son­al­i­ties of the en­tire grand uni­verse, and no one dares to pre­dict what their fu­ture mis­sions may be.

109:7.9[Pre­sented by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of Or­von­ton.]

110:2.1When Thought Ad­justers in­dwell hu­man minds, they bring with them the model ca­reers, the ideal lives, as de­ter­mined and fore­or­dained by them­selves and the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers of Di­vin­ing­ton, which have been cer­ti­fied by the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Uran­tia. Thus they be­gin work with a def­i­nite and pre­de­ter­mined plan for the in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment of their hu­man sub­jects, but it is not in­cum­bent upon any hu­man be­ing to ac­cept this plan. You are all sub­jects of pre­des­ti­na­tion, but it is not fore­or­dained that you must ac­cept this di­vine pre­des­ti­na­tion; you are at full lib­erty to re­ject any part or all of the Thought Ad­justers’ pro­gram. It is their mis­sion to ef­fect such mind changes and to make such spir­i­tual ad­just­ments as you may will­ingly and in­tel­li­gently au­tho­rize, to the end that they may gain more in­flu­ence over the per­son­al­ity di­rec­tion­iza­tion; but un­der no cir­cum­stances do these di­vine Mon­i­tors ever take ad­van­tage of you or in any way ar­bi­trar­ily in­flu­ence you in your choices and de­ci­sions. The Ad­justers re­spect your sov­er­eignty of per­son­al­ity; they are al­ways sub­servient to your will.

136:5.4In ac­cept­ing this com­mand of the uni­verse hosts in at­ten­dance upon Christ Mi­chael, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster took great pains to point out to Je­sus that, while such an as­sem­bly of uni­verse crea­tures could be lim­ited in their space ac­tiv­i­ties by the del­e­gated au­thor­ity of their Cre­ator, such lim­i­ta­tions were not op­er­a­tive in con­nec­tion with their func­tion in time. And this lim­i­ta­tion was de­pen­dent on the fact that Ad­justers are non­time be­ings when once they are per­son­al­ized. Ac­cord­ingly was Je­sus ad­mon­ished that, while the Ad­juster’s con­trol of the liv­ing in­tel­li­gences placed un­der his com­mand would be com­plete and per­fect as to all mat­ters in­volv­ing space, there could be no such per­fect lim­i­ta­tions im­posed re­gard­ing time. Said the Ad­juster: “I will, as you have di­rected, en­join the em­ploy­ment of this at­ten­dant host of uni­verse in­tel­li­gences in any man­ner in con­nec­tion with your earth ca­reer ex­cept in those cases where the Par­a­dise Fa­ther di­rects me to re­lease such agen­cies in or­der that his di­vine will of your choos­ing may be ac­com­plished, and in those in­stances where you may en­gage in any choice or act of your di­vine-hu­man will which shall only in­volve de­par­tures from the nat­u­ral earth or­der as to time. In all such events I am pow­er­less, and your crea­tures here as­sem­bled in per­fec­tion and unity of power are like­wise help­less. If your united na­tures once en­ter­tain such de­sires, these man­dates of your choice will be forth­with ex­e­cuted. Your wish in all such mat­ters will con­sti­tute the abridg­ment of time, and the thing pro­jected is ex­is­tent. Un­der my com­mand this con­sti­tutes the fullest pos­si­ble lim­i­ta­tion which can be im­posed upon your po­ten­tial sov­er­eignty. In my self-con­scious­ness time is nonex­is­tent, and there­fore I can­not limit your crea­tures in any­thing re­lated thereto.”

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See also Thought Adjuster of Jesus; Thought Adjusters

Cited alongside: Thought Adjusters, Paradise Sons of God, Vorondadek Sons, Architects of the Master Universe, Divinington