psychic circles

110:6.1The sum to­tal of per­son­al­ity re­al­iza­tion on a ma­te­rial world is con­tained within the suc­ces­sive con­quest of the seven psy­chic cir­cles of mor­tal po­ten­tial­ity. En­trance upon the sev­enth cir­cle marks the be­gin­ning of true hu­man per­son­al­ity func­tion. Com­ple­tion of the first cir­cle de­notes the rel­a­tive ma­tu­rity of the mor­tal be­ing. Though the traver­sal of the seven cir­cles of cos­mic growth does not equal fu­sion with the Ad­juster, the mas­tery of these cir­cles marks the at­tain­ment of those steps which are pre­lim­i­nary to Ad­juster fu­sion.

110:6.2The Ad­juster is your equal part­ner in the at­tain­ment of the seven cir­cles—the achieve­ment of com­par­a­tive mor­tal ma­tu­rity. The Ad­juster as­cends the cir­cles with you from the sev­enth to the first but pro­gresses to the sta­tus of su­prem­acy and self-ac­tiv­ity quite in­de­pen­dent of the ac­tive co-op­er­a­tion of the mor­tal mind.

110:6.3The psy­chic cir­cles are not ex­clu­sively in­tel­lec­tual, nei­ther are they wholly mor­ontial; they have to do with per­son­al­ity sta­tus, mind at­tain­ment, soul growth, and Ad­juster at­tune­ment. The suc­cess­ful traver­sal of these lev­els de­mands the har­mo­nious func­tion­ing of the en­tire per­son­al­ity, not merely of some one phase thereof. The growth of the parts does not equal the true mat­u­ra­tion of the whole; the parts re­ally grow in pro­por­tion to the ex­pan­sion of the en­tire self—the whole self—ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual.

110:6.4When the de­vel­op­ment of the in­tel­lec­tual na­ture pro­ceeds faster than that of the spir­i­tual, such a sit­u­a­tion ren­ders com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Thought Ad­juster both dif­fi­cult and dan­ger­ous. Like­wise, over­spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment tends to pro­duce a fa­nat­i­cal and per­verted in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the spirit lead­ings of the di­vine in­dweller. Lack of spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity makes it very dif­fi­cult to trans­mit to such a ma­te­rial in­tel­lect the spir­i­tual truths res­i­dent in the higher super­con­scious­ness. It is to the mind of per­fect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, sta­bi­lized neu­ral en­er­gies, and bal­anced chem­i­cal func­tion—when the phys­i­cal, men­tal, and spir­i­tual pow­ers are in tri­une har­mony of de­vel­op­ment—that a max­i­mum of light and truth can be im­parted with a min­i­mum of tem­po­ral dan­ger or risk to the real wel­fare of such a be­ing. By such a bal­anced growth does man as­cend the cir­cles of plan­e­tary pro­gres­sion one by one, from the sev­enth to the first.

110:6.5The Ad­justers are al­ways near you and of you, but rarely can they speak di­rectly, as an­other be­ing, to you. Cir­cle by cir­cle your in­tel­lec­tual de­ci­sions, moral choos­ings, and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment add to the abil­ity of the Ad­juster to func­tion in your mind; cir­cle by cir­cle you thereby as­cend from the lower stages of Ad­juster as­so­ci­a­tion and mind at­tune­ment, so that the Ad­juster is in­creas­ingly en­abled to reg­is­ter his pic­tur­iza­tions of des­tiny with aug­ment­ing vivid­ness and con­vic­tion upon the evolv­ing con­scious­ness of this God-seek­ing mind-soul.

110:6.6Ev­ery de­ci­sion you make ei­ther im­pedes or fa­cil­i­tates the func­tion of the Ad­juster; like­wise do these very de­ci­sions de­ter­mine your ad­vance­ment in the cir­cles of hu­man achieve­ment. It is true that the su­prem­acy of a de­ci­sion, its cri­sis re­la­tion­ship, has a great deal to do with its cir­cle-mak­ing in­flu­ence; nev­er­the­less, num­bers of de­ci­sions, fre­quent rep­e­ti­tions, per­sis­tent rep­e­ti­tions, are also es­sen­tial to the habit-form­ing cer­tainty of such re­ac­tions.

110:6.7It is dif­fi­cult pre­cisely to de­fine the seven lev­els of hu­man pro­gres­sion, for the rea­son that these lev­els are per­sonal; they are vari­able for each in­di­vid­ual and are ap­par­ently de­ter­mined by the growth ca­pac­ity of each hu­man be­ing. The con­quest of these lev­els of cos­mic evo­lu­tion is re­flected in three ways:

110:6.81. Ad­juster at­tune­ment. The spir­i­tiz­ing mind nears the Ad­juster pres­ence pro­por­tional to cir­cle at­tain­ment.

110:6.92. Soul evo­lu­tion. The emer­gence of the mor­ontia soul in­di­cates the ex­tent and depth of cir­cle mas­tery.

110:6.103. Per­son­al­ity re­al­ity. The de­gree of self­hood re­al­ity is di­rectly de­ter­mined by cir­cle con­quest. Per­sons be­come more real as they as­cend from the sev­enth to the first level of mor­tal ex­is­tence.

110:6.11As the cir­cles are tra­versed, the child of ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion is grow­ing into the ma­ture hu­man of im­mor­tal po­ten­tial­ity. The shad­owy re­al­ity of the em­bry­onic na­ture of a sev­enth cir­cler is giv­ing way to the clearer man­i­fes­ta­tion of the emerg­ing mor­ontia na­ture of a lo­cal uni­verse cit­i­zen.

110:6.12While it is im­pos­si­ble pre­cisely to de­fine the seven lev­els, or psy­chic cir­cles, of hu­man growth, it is per­mis­si­ble to sug­gest the min­i­mum and max­i­mum lim­its of these stages of ma­tu­rity re­al­iza­tion:

110:6.13The sev­enth cir­cle. This level is en­tered when hu­man be­ings de­velop the pow­ers of per­sonal choice, in­di­vid­ual de­ci­sion, moral re­spon­si­bil­ity, and the ca­pac­ity for the at­tain­ment of spir­i­tual in­di­vid­u­al­ity. This sig­ni­fies the united func­tion of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its un­der the di­rec­tion of the spirit of wis­dom, the en­cir­cuit­ment of the mor­tal crea­ture in the in­flu­ence of the Holy Spirit, and, on Uran­tia, the first func­tion­ing of the Spirit of Truth, to­gether with the re­cep­tion of a Thought Ad­juster in the mor­tal mind. En­trance upon the sev­enth cir­cle con­sti­tutes a mor­tal crea­ture a truly po­ten­tial cit­i­zen of the lo­cal uni­verse.

110:6.14The third cir­cle. The Ad­juster’s work is much more ef­fec­tive af­ter the hu­man as­cender at­tains the third cir­cle and re­ceives a per­sonal se­raphic guard­ian of des­tiny. While there is no ap­par­ent con­cert of ef­fort be­tween the Ad­juster and the se­raphic guard­ian, nonethe­less there is to be ob­served an un­mis­tak­able im­prove­ment in all phases of cos­mic achieve­ment and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment sub­se­quent to the as­sign­ment of the per­sonal se­raphic at­ten­dant. When the third cir­cle is at­tained, the Ad­juster en­deav­ors to mor­ontiaize the mind of man dur­ing the re­main­der of the mor­tal life span, to make the re­main­ing cir­cles, and achieve the fi­nal stage of the di­vine-hu­man as­so­ci­a­tion be­fore nat­u­ral death dis­solves the unique part­ner­ship.

110:6.15The first cir­cle. The Ad­juster can­not, or­di­nar­ily, speak di­rectly and im­me­di­ately with you un­til you at­tain the first and fi­nal cir­cle of pro­gres­sive mor­tal achieve­ment. This level rep­re­sents the high­est pos­si­ble re­al­iza­tion of mind-Ad­juster re­la­tion­ship in the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence prior to the lib­er­a­tion of the evolv­ing mor­ontia soul from the ha­bil­i­ments of the ma­te­rial body. Con­cern­ing mind, emo­tions, and cos­mic in­sight, this achieve­ment of the first psy­chic cir­cle is the near­est pos­si­ble ap­proach of ma­te­rial mind and spirit Ad­juster in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

110:6.16Per­haps these psy­chic cir­cles of mor­tal pro­gres­sion would be bet­ter de­nom­i­nated cos­mic lev­els—ac­tual mean­ing grasps and value re­al­iza­tions of pro­gres­sive ap­proach to the mor­ontia con­scious­ness of ini­tial re­la­tion­ship of the evo­lu­tion­ary soul with the emerg­ing Su­preme Be­ing. And it is this very re­la­tion­ship that makes it for­ever im­pos­si­ble fully to ex­plain the sig­nif­i­cance of the cos­mic cir­cles to the ma­te­rial mind. These cir­cle at­tain­ments are only rel­a­tively re­lated to God-con­scious­ness. A sev­enth or sixth cir­cler can be al­most as truly God-know­ing—son­ship con­scious—as a sec­ond or first cir­cler, but such lower cir­cle be­ings are far less con­scious of ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­la­tion to the Su­preme Be­ing, uni­verse cit­i­zen­ship. The at­tain­ment of these cos­mic cir­cles will be­come a part of the as­cend­ers’ ex­pe­ri­ence on the man­sion worlds if they fail of such achieve­ment be­fore nat­u­ral death.

110:6.17The mo­ti­va­tion of faith makes ex­pe­ri­en­tial the full re­al­iza­tion of man’s son­ship with God, but ac­tion, com­ple­tion of de­ci­sions, is es­sen­tial to the evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment of con­scious­ness of pro­gres­sive kin­ship with the cos­mic ac­tu­al­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. Faith trans­mutes po­ten­tials to ac­tu­als in the spir­i­tual world, but po­ten­tials be­come ac­tu­als in the fi­nite realms of the Su­preme only by and through the re­al­iza­tion of choice-ex­pe­ri­ence. But choos­ing to do the will of God joins spir­i­tual faith to ma­te­rial de­ci­sions in per­son­al­ity ac­tion and thus sup­plies a di­vine and spir­i­tual ful­crum for the more ef­fec­tive func­tion­ing of the hu­man and ma­te­rial lever­age of God-hunger. Such a wise co-or­di­na­tion of ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual forces greatly aug­ments both cos­mic re­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme and mor­ontia com­pre­hen­sion of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

110:6.18The mas­tery of the cos­mic cir­cles is re­lated to the quan­ti­ta­tive growth of the mor­ontia soul, the com­pre­hen­sion of su­preme mean­ings. But the qual­i­ta­tive sta­tus of this im­mor­tal soul is wholly de­pen­dent on the grasp of liv­ing faith upon the Par­a­dise-po­ten­tial fact-value that mor­tal man is a son of the eter­nal God. There­fore does a sev­enth cir­cler go on to the man­sion worlds to at­tain fur­ther quan­ti­ta­tive re­al­iza­tion of cos­mic growth just as does a sec­ond or even a first cir­cler.

110:6.19There is only an in­di­rect re­la­tion be­tween cos­mic-cir­cle at­tain­ment and ac­tual spir­i­tual re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence; such at­tain­ments are re­cip­ro­cal and there­fore mu­tu­ally ben­e­fi­cial. Purely spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment may have lit­tle to do with plan­e­tary ma­te­rial pros­per­ity, but cir­cle at­tain­ment al­ways aug­ments the po­ten­tial of hu­man suc­cess and mor­tal achieve­ment.

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.

110:6.22The great days in the in­di­vid­ual ca­reers of Ad­justers are: first, when the hu­man sub­ject breaks through into the third psy­chic cir­cle, thus in­sur­ing the Mon­i­tor’s self-ac­tiv­ity and in­creased range of func­tion (pro­vided the in­dweller was not al­ready self-act­ing); then, when the hu­man part­ner at­tains the first psy­chic cir­cle, and they are thereby en­abled to in­ter­com­mu­ni­cate, at least to some de­gree; and last, when they are fi­nally and eter­nally fused.

• 1 pair of seraphic guardians for 1000 mortals

113:1.7Hu­man be­ings in the ini­tial or sev­enth cir­cle have one guard­ian an­gel with one com­pany of as­sist­ing cheru­bim as­signed to the watch­care and cus­tody of one thou­sand mor­tals. In the sixth cir­cle, a se­raphic pair with one com­pany of cheru­bim is as­signed to guide these as­cend­ing mor­tals in groups of five hun­dred. When the fifth cir­cle is at­tained, hu­man be­ings are grouped in com­pa­nies of ap­prox­i­mately one hun­dred, and a pair of guard­ian ser­a­phim with a group of cheru­bim is placed in charge. Upon at­tain­ment of the fourth cir­cle, mor­tal be­ings are as­sem­bled in groups of ten, and again charge is given to a pair of ser­a­phim, as­sisted by one com­pany of cheru­bim.

• 1 pair of seraphic guardians for each mortal

49:6.82. Mor­tals of the in­di­vid­ual or­ders of as­cen­sion. The in­di­vid­ual prog­ress of hu­man be­ings is mea­sured by their suc­ces­sive at­tain­ment and traver­sal (mas­tery) of the seven cos­mic cir­cles. These cir­cles of mor­tal pro­gres­sion are lev­els of as­so­ci­ated in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, spir­i­tual, and cos­mic-in­sight val­ues. Start­ing out in the sev­enth cir­cle, mor­tals strive for the first, and all who have at­tained the third im­me­di­ately have per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny as­signed to them. These mor­tals may be reper­son­al­ized in the mor­ontia life in­de­pen­dent of dis­pen­sa­tional or other ad­ju­di­ca­tions.

• 1 pair of seraphic guardians for each mortal

49:6.13In due course Thought Ad­justers come to in­dwell these lit­tle ones, while the se­raphic min­istry to both groups of the pro­ba­tion­ary-de­pen­dent or­ders of sur­vival is in gen­eral sim­i­lar to that of the more ad­vanced par­ent or is equiv­a­lent to that of the par­ent in case only one sur­vives. Those at­tain­ing the third cir­cle, re­gard­less of the sta­tus of their par­ents, are ac­corded per­sonal guard­i­ans.

• 1 pair of seraphic guardians for each mortal

55:4.2Upon the for­mal in­au­gu­ra­tion of the plan­e­tary min­istry of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the ma­jor­ity of the ce­les­tial hosts with­draw. But the se­raphic guard­i­ans of des­tiny con­tinue their per­sonal min­istry to the pro­gress­ing mor­tals in light; in­deed such an­gels come in ever-in­creas­ing num­bers through­out the set­tled ages since larger and larger groups of hu­man be­ings reach the third cos­mic cir­cle of co-or­di­nate mor­tal at­tain­ment dur­ing the plan­e­tary life span.

• achievement of 3rd circle brought Adjuster prior to Spirit of Truth

108:2.72. The at­tain­ment of the third cir­cle of in­tel­lec­tual achieve­ment and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. I have ob­served Ad­justers ar­rive in mor­tal minds upon the con­quest of the third cir­cle even be­fore such an ac­com­plish­ment could be sig­nal­ized to the lo­cal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned with such mat­ters.

• subject must attain for Adjuster’s self-activity

109:2.32. Has ac­quired the bal­ance of spir­i­tual power in a hu­man who has made the third psy­chic cir­cle and has had as­signed to him a per­sonal se­raphic guard­ian.

• possible immediate resurrection for those attaining

112:4.12If, when death over­takes you, you have at­tained the third cir­cle or a higher realm and there­fore have had as­signed to you a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny, and if the fi­nal tran­script of the sum­mary of sur­vival char­ac­ter sub­mit­ted by the Ad­juster is un­con­di­tion­ally cer­ti­fied by the des­tiny guard­ian—if both ser­a­phim and Ad­juster es­sen­tially agree in ev­ery item of their life rec­ords and rec­om­men­da­tions—if the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors and their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates on Uversa con­firm this data and do so with­out equiv­o­ca­tion or reser­va­tion, in that event the An­cients of Days flash forth the man­date of ad­vanced stand­ing over the com­mu­ni­ca­tion cir­cuits to Sal­ving­ton, and, thus re­leased, the tri­bu­nals of the Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don will de­cree the im­me­di­ate pas­sage of the sur­viv­ing soul to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds.

• 1 pair of seraphic guardians for each mortal

113:1.8When a mor­tal mind breaks through the in­er­tia of an­i­mal legacy and at­tains the third cir­cle of hu­man in­tel­lec­tu­al­ity and ac­quired spir­i­tu­al­ity, a per­sonal an­gel (in re­al­ity two) will hence­forth be wholly and ex­clu­sively de­voted to this as­cend­ing mor­tal. And thus these hu­man souls, in ad­di­tion to the ever-pres­ent and in­creas­ingly ef­fi­cient in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers, re­ceive the un­di­vided as­sis­tance of these per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny in all their ef­forts to fin­ish the third cir­cle, tra­verse the sec­ond, and at­tain the first.

• 1 pair of seraphic guardians for each mortal

113:2.1Ser­a­phim are not known as guard­i­ans of des­tiny un­til such time as they are as­signed to the as­so­ci­a­tion of a hu­man soul who has re­al­ized one or more of three achieve­ments: has made a su­preme de­ci­sion to be­come God­like, has en­tered the third cir­cle, or has been mus­tered into one of the re­serve corps of des­tiny.

• Adjuster can speak directly and immediately with subject

113:1.6In the min­istry to so-called nor­mal be­ings, se­raphic as­sign­ments are made in ac­cor­dance with the hu­man at­tain­ment of the cir­cles of in­tel­lec­tu­al­ity and spir­i­tu­al­ity. You start out in your mind of mor­tal in­vest­ment in the sev­enth cir­cle and jour­ney in­ward in the task of self-un­der­stand­ing, self-con­quest, and self-mas­tery; and cir­cle by cir­cle you ad­vance un­til (if nat­u­ral death does not ter­mi­nate your ca­reer and trans­fer your strug­gles to the man­sion worlds) you reach the first or in­ner cir­cle of rel­a­tive con­tact and com­mu­nion with the in­dwelling Ad­juster.

• does not equate to Adjuster fusion

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.

• additional time for, afforded on mansion worlds

112:5.6Though the cos­mic cir­cles of per­son­al­ity growth must even­tu­ally be at­tained, if, through no fault of your own, the ac­ci­dents of time and the hand­i­caps of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence pre­vent your mas­ter­ing these lev­els on your na­tive planet, if your in­ten­tions and de­sires are of sur­vival value, there are is­sued the de­crees of pro­ba­tion ex­ten­sion. You will be af­forded ad­di­tional time in which to prove your­self.

134:8.4Je­sus spent the last three weeks of Au­gust and the first three weeks of Septem­ber on Mount Her­mon. Dur­ing these weeks he fin­ished the mor­tal task of achiev­ing the cir­cles of mind-un­der­stand­ing and per­son­al­ity-con­trol. Through­out this pe­riod of com­mu­nion with his heav­enly Fa­ther the in­dwelling Ad­juster also com­pleted the as­signed ser­vices. The mor­tal goal of this earth crea­ture was there at­tained. Only the fi­nal phase of mind and Ad­juster at­tune­ment re­mained to be con­sum­mated.

14:5.4When in­tel­li­gent be­ings first at­tain the cen­tral uni­verse, they are re­ceived and domi­ciled on the pi­lot world of the sev­enth Ha­vona cir­cuit. As the new ar­rivals pro­gress spir­i­tu­ally, at­tain iden­tity com­pre­hen­sion of their super­uni­verse Mas­ter Spirit, they are trans­ferred to the sixth cir­cle. (It is from these ar­range­ments in the cen­tral uni­verse that the cir­cles of prog­ress in the hu­man mind have been des­ig­nated.) Af­ter as­cend­ers have at­tained a re­al­iza­tion of Su­prem­acy and are thereby pre­pared for the De­ity ad­ven­ture, they are taken to the fifth cir­cuit; and af­ter at­tain­ing the In­fi­nite Spirit, they are trans­ferred to the fourth. Fol­low­ing the at­tain­ment of the Eter­nal Son, they are re­moved to the third; and when they have rec­og­nized the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, they go to so­journ on the sec­ond cir­cuit of worlds, where they be­come more fa­mil­iar with the Par­a­dise hosts. Ar­rival on the first cir­cuit of Ha­vona sig­ni­fies the ac­cep­tance of the can­di­dates of time into the ser­vice of Par­a­dise. In­def­i­nitely, ac­cord­ing to the length and na­ture of the crea­ture as­cen­sion, they will tarry on the in­ner cir­cuit of pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. From this in­ner cir­cuit the as­cend­ing pil­grims pass in­ward to Par­a­dise res­i­dence and ad­mis­sion to the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.