Spirit-fused mortals

• Spirit-fused mortals

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.

37:5.2Sur­viv­ing souls of this or­der at­tain im­mor­tal­ity by eter­nal fu­sion with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized frag­ment of the spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. They are not a nu­mer­ous group, at least not in Neb­a­don. On the man­sion worlds you will meet and frat­er­nize with these Spirit-fused mor­tals as they as­cend the Par­a­dise path with you as far as Sal­ving­ton, where they stop. Some of them may sub­se­quently as­cend to higher uni­verse lev­els, but the ma­jor­ity will for­ever re­main in the ser­vice of the lo­cal uni­verse; as a class they are not des­tined to at­tain Par­a­dise.

37:5.3Not be­ing Ad­juster fused, they never be­come fi­nal­i­ters, but they do even­tu­ally be­come en­rolled in the lo­cal uni­verse Corps of Per­fec­tion. They have in spirit obeyed the Fa­ther’s com­mand, “Be you per­fect.”

37:5.4Af­ter at­tain­ing the Neb­a­don Corps of Per­fec­tion, Spirit-fused as­cend­ers may ac­cept as­sign­ment as Uni­verse Aids, this be­ing one of the av­enues of con­tin­u­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial growth which is open to them. Thus do they be­come can­di­dates for com­mis­sions to the high ser­vice of in­ter­pret­ing the view­points of the evolv­ing crea­tures of the ma­te­rial worlds to the ce­les­tial au­thor­i­ties of the lo­cal uni­verse.

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.

40:9.2The fact that these types of mor­tal crea­tures are not Ad­juster-fu­sion can­di­dates does not pre­vent the Ad­justers from in­dwelling them dur­ing the life in the flesh. Ad­justers do work in the minds of such be­ings dur­ing the span of ma­te­rial life but never be­come ev­er­last­ingly one with their pupil souls. Dur­ing this tem­po­rary so­journ the Ad­justers ef­fec­tively build up the same spirit coun­ter­part of mor­tal na­ture—the soul—that they do in the can­di­dates for Ad­juster fu­sion. Up to the time of mor­tal death the work of the Ad­justers is wholly akin to their func­tion in your own races, but upon mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion the Ad­justers take eter­nal leave of these Spirit-fu­sion can­di­dates and, pro­ceed­ing di­rectly to Di­vin­ing­ton, the head­quar­ters of all di­vine Mon­i­tors, there await the new as­sign­ments of their or­der.

40:9.3When such sleep­ing sur­vivors are reper­son­al­ized on the man­sion worlds, the place of the de­parted Ad­juster is filled by an in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tion of the spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit in the lo­cal uni­verse con­cerned. This spirit in­fu­sion con­sti­tutes these sur­viv­ing crea­tures Spirit-fused mor­tals. Such be­ings are in ev­ery way your equals in mind and spirit; and they are in­deed your con­tem­po­raries, shar­ing the man­sion and mor­ontia spheres in com­mon with your or­der of fu­sion can­di­dates and with those who are to be Son fused.

40:9.4There is, how­ever, one par­tic­u­lar in which Spirit-fused mor­tals dif­fer from their as­cen­dant breth­ren: Mor­tal mem­ory of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence on the ma­te­rial worlds of ori­gin sur­vives death in the flesh be­cause the in­dwelling Ad­juster has ac­quired a spirit coun­ter­part, or tran­script, of those events of hu­man life which were of spir­i­tual sig­nif­i­cance. But with Spirit-fused mor­tals there ex­ists no such mech­a­nism whereby hu­man mem­ory may per­sist. The Ad­juster tran­scripts of mem­ory are full and in­tact, but these ac­qui­si­tions are ex­pe­ri­en­tial pos­ses­sions of the de­parted Ad­justers and are not avail­able to the crea­tures of their for­mer in­dwelling, who there­fore awaken in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the mor­ontia spheres of Neb­a­don as if they were newly cre­ated be­ings, crea­tures with­out con­scious­ness of for­mer ex­is­tence.

40:9.5Such chil­dren of the lo­cal uni­verse are en­abled to re­pos­sess them­selves of much of their for­mer hu­man mem­ory ex­pe­ri­ence through hav­ing it re­told by the as­so­ci­ated ser­a­phim and cheru­bim and by con­sult­ing the rec­ords of the mor­tal ca­reer filed by the record­ing an­gels. This they can do with un­doubted as­sur­ance be­cause the sur­viv­ing soul, of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ori­gin in the ma­te­rial and mor­tal life, while hav­ing no mem­ory of mor­tal events, does have a resid­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial-rec­og­ni­tion-re­sponse to these un­re­mem­bered events of past ex­pe­ri­ence.

40:9.6When a Spirit-fused mor­tal is told about the events of the un­re­mem­bered past ex­pe­ri­ence, there is an im­me­di­ate re­sponse of ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion within the soul (iden­tity) of such a sur­vivor which in­stantly in­vests the nar­rated event with the emo­tional tinge of re­al­ity and with the in­tel­lec­tual qual­ity of fact; and this dual re­sponse con­sti­tutes the re­con­struc­tion, rec­og­ni­tion, and val­i­da­tion of an un­re­mem­bered facet of mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence.

40:9.7Even with Ad­juster-fu­sion can­di­dates, only those hu­man ex­pe­ri­ences which were of spir­i­tual value are com­mon pos­ses­sions of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal and the re­turn­ing Ad­juster and hence are im­me­di­ately re­mem­bered sub­se­quent to mor­tal sur­vival. Con­cern­ing those hap­pen­ings which were not of spir­i­tual sig­nif­i­cance, even these Ad­juster-fusers must de­pend upon the at­tri­bute of rec­og­ni­tion-re­sponse in the sur­viv­ing soul. And since any one event may have a spir­i­tual con­no­ta­tion to one mor­tal but not to an­other, it be­comes pos­si­ble for a group of con­tem­po­rary as­cend­ers from the same planet to pool their store of Ad­juster-re­mem­bered events and thus to re­con­struct any ex­pe­ri­ence which they had in com­mon, and which was of spir­i­tual value in the life of any one of them.

40:9.8While we un­der­stand such tech­niques of mem­ory re­con­struc­tion fairly well, we do not grasp the tech­nique of per­son­al­ity rec­og­ni­tion. Per­son­al­i­ties of one­time as­so­ci­a­tion mu­tu­ally re­spond quite in­de­pen­dently of the op­er­a­tion of mem­ory, al­beit, mem­ory it­self and the tech­niques of its re­con­struc­tion are nec­es­sary to in­vest such mu­tual per­son­al­ity re­sponse with the full­ness of rec­og­ni­tion.

40:9.9A Spirit-fused sur­vivor is also able to learn much about the life he lived in the flesh by re­vis­it­ing his na­tiv­ity world sub­se­quent to the plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion in which he lived. Such chil­dren of Spirit fu­sion are en­abled to en­joy these op­por­tu­ni­ties for in­ves­ti­gat­ing their hu­man ca­reers since they are in gen­eral con­fined to the ser­vice of the lo­cal uni­verse. They do not share your high and ex­alted des­tiny in the Par­a­dise Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; only Ad­juster-fused mor­tals or other es­pe­cially em­braced as­cen­dant be­ings are mus­tered into the ranks of those who await the eter­nal De­ity ad­ven­ture. Spirit-fused mor­tals are the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses; they may as­pire to Par­a­dise des­tiny, but they can­not be sure of it. In Neb­a­don their uni­verse home is the eighth group of worlds en­cir­cling Sal­ving­ton, a des­tiny-heaven of na­ture and lo­ca­tion much like the one en­vi­sioned by the plan­e­tary tra­di­tions of Uran­tia.

22:9.4The Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans are the of­fi­cers of the courts of the An­cients of Days, func­tion­ing as court mes­sen­gers and as bear­ers of the sum­monses and de­ci­sions of the var­i­ous tri­bu­nals of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments. They are the ap­pre­hend­ing agents of the An­cients of Days; they go forth from Uversa to bring back be­ings whose pres­ence is re­quired be­fore the super­uni­verse judges; they ex­e­cute the man­dates for the de­ten­tion of any per­son­al­ity in the super­uni­verse. They also ac­com­pany Spirit-fused mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses when, for any rea­son, their pres­ence is re­quired on Uversa.

40:10.9While the ma­jor­ity of Spirit fusers serve per­ma­nently as cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verses, all do not. If some phase of their uni­verse min­istry should re­quire their per­sonal pres­ence in the super­uni­verse, then would such trans­for­ma­tions of be­ing be wrought in these cit­i­zens as would en­able them to as­cend to the higher uni­verse; and upon the ar­rival of the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans with or­ders to pre­sent such Spirit-fused mor­tals at the courts of the An­cients of Days, they would so as­cend, never to re­turn. They be­come wards of the super­uni­verse, serv­ing as as­sis­tants to the Ce­les­tial Guard­i­ans and per­ma­nently, save for those few who are in turn sum­moned to the ser­vice of Par­a­dise and Ha­vona.

112:6.8The per­sis­tence of mem­ory is proof of the re­ten­tion of the iden­tity of orig­i­nal self­hood; it is es­sen­tial to com­plete self-con­scious­ness of per­son­al­ity con­ti­nu­ity and ex­pan­sion. Those mor­tals who as­cend with­out Ad­justers are de­pen­dent on the in­struc­tion of se­raphic as­so­ciates for the re­con­struc­tion of hu­man mem­ory; oth­er­wise the mor­ontia souls of the Spirit-fused mor­tals are not lim­ited. The pat­tern of mem­ory per­sists in the soul, but this pat­tern re­quires the pres­ence of the for­mer Ad­juster to be­come im­me­di­ately self-re­al­iz­able as con­tin­u­ing mem­ory. With­out the Ad­juster, it re­quires con­sid­er­able time for the mor­tal sur­vivor to re-ex­plore and re­learn, to re­cap­ture, the mem­ory con­scious­ness of the mean­ings and val­ues of a for­mer ex­is­tence.

• may become › Trinitized Sons of Selection

22:1.11The Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion em­brace the Trin­i­tized Cus­to­di­ans and the Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors. They are re­cruited from cer­tain of the evo­lu­tion­ary ser­a­phim and trans­lated mid­way crea­tures who have tra­versed Ha­vona and have at­tained Par­a­dise, as well as from cer­tain of the Spirit-fused and the Son-fused mor­tals who have like­wise as­cended to the cen­tral Isle of Light and Life. Sub­se­quent to their em­brace by the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and af­ter a brief train­ing in Ha­vona, the Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion are as­signed to the courts of the An­cients of Days.

• may become › Trinitized Ambassadors

22:6.1Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors are the sec­ond or­der of the Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion and like their as­so­ciates, the Cus­to­di­ans, are re­cruited from two types of as­cen­dant crea­tures. Not all as­cend­ing mor­tals are Ad­juster or Fa­ther fused; some are Spirit fused, some are Son fused. Cer­tain of these Spirit- and Son-fused mor­tals reach Ha­vona and at­tain Par­a­dise. From among these Par­a­dise as­cend­ers, can­di­dates are se­lected for the Trin­ity em­brace, and from time to time they are trin­i­tized in classes of seven thou­sand. They are then com­mis­sioned in the super­uni­verses as Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors of the An­cients of Days. Al­most one-half bil­lion are reg­is­tered on Uversa.

• do not ordinarily attain Paradise or become finaliters

37:5.6Af­ter long ex­pe­ri­ence in prob­lem solv­ing on the in­hab­ited worlds, these race com­mis­sion­ers are ad­vanced to the higher lev­els of func­tion, even­tu­ally at­tain­ing the sta­tus of High Com­mis­sion­ers of and in the lo­cal uni­verse. The last reg­is­tra­tion re­corded slightly over one and one-half bil­lion of these High Com­mis­sion­ers in Neb­a­don. These be­ings are not fi­nal­i­ters, but they are as­cen­dant be­ings of long ex­pe­ri­ence and of great ser­vice to their na­tive realm.

• achieve unsurpassed wisdom regarding their local universe
• some are transformed and ascend to superuniverse or even Paradise

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.

• majority become permanent citizens of local universes

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.

40:10.2Spirit-fused mor­tals are of the lo­cal uni­verse; they do not, or­di­nar­ily, as­cend be­yond the con­fines of their na­tive realm, be­yond the bound­aries of the space range of the spirit that per­vades them. Son-fused as­cend­ers like­wise rise to the source of spirit en­dow­ment, for much as the Truth Spirit of a Cre­ator Son fo­cal­izes in the as­so­ci­ated Di­vine Min­is­ter, so is his “fu­sion spirit” im­ple­mented in the Re­flec­tive Spir­its of the higher uni­verses. Such spirit re­la­tion­ship be­tween the lo­cal and the super­uni­verse lev­els of God the Sev­en­fold may be dif­fi­cult of ex­pla­na­tion but not of dis­cern­ment, be­ing un­mis­tak­ably re­vealed in those chil­dren of the Re­flec­tive Spir­its—the sec­o­raphic Voices of the Cre­ator Sons. The Thought Ad­juster, hail­ing from the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise, never stops un­til the mor­tal son stands face to face with the eter­nal God.

• achieve unsurpassed wisdom regarding their local universe

40:10.6While the Ad­juster-fused fi­nal­i­ters ob­vi­ously en­joy the widest ser­vice op­por­tu­nity of all, the at­tain­ment of this goal au­to­mat­i­cally shuts them off from the chance to par­tic­i­pate in the age­long strug­gle of some one uni­verse or super­uni­verse, from the ear­lier and less set­tled epochs to the later and es­tab­lished eras of rel­a­tive per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. Fi­nal­i­ters ac­quire a mar­velous and far-flung ex­pe­ri­ence of tran­sient ser­vice in all seven seg­ments of the grand uni­verse, but they do not or­di­nar­ily ac­quire that in­ti­mate knowl­edge of any one uni­verse which even now char­ac­ter­izes the Spirit-fused vet­er­ans of the Neb­a­don Corps of Com­ple­tion. These in­di­vid­u­als en­joy an op­por­tu­nity to wit­ness the as­cend­ing pro­ces­sional of the plan­e­tary ages as they un­fold one by one on ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds. And in the faith­ful ser­vice of such lo­cal uni­verse cit­i­zens, ex­pe­ri­ence super­im­poses upon ex­pe­ri­ence un­til the full­ness of time ripens that high qual­ity of wis­dom which is en­gen­dered by fo­cal­ized ex­pe­ri­ence—au­thor­i­ta­tive wis­dom—and this in it­self is a vi­tal fac­tor in the set­tling of any lo­cal uni­verse.

• majority become permanent citizens of local universes

40:10.10Like their Spirit-fused breth­ren, the Son fusers nei­ther tra­verse Ha­vona nor at­tain Par­a­dise un­less they have un­der­gone cer­tain mod­i­fy­ing trans­for­ma­tions. For good and suf­fi­cient rea­sons, such changes have been wrought in cer­tain Son-fused sur­vivors, and these be­ings are to be en­coun­tered ever and anon on the seven cir­cuits of the cen­tral uni­verse. Thus it is that cer­tain num­bers of both the Son- and the Spirit-fused mor­tals do ac­tu­ally as­cend to Par­a­dise, do at­tain a goal in many ways equal to that which awaits the Fa­ther-fused mor­tals.

• may become › Trinitized Sons of Attainment
• may become › Trinitized Sons of Selection

40:10.12When a mor­tal fi­nal­i­ter is Trin­ity em­braced—be­comes a Trin­i­tized Son, such as a Mighty Mes­sen­ger—then has that fi­nal­i­ter at­tained des­tiny, at least for the pres­ent uni­verse age. Mighty Mes­sen­gers and their fel­lows may not in the ex­act sense be sev­enth-stage spir­its, but in ad­di­tion to other things the Trin­ity em­brace en­dows them with ev­ery­thing which a fi­nal­i­ter will some­time achieve as a sev­enth-stage spirit. Af­ter Spirit-fused or Son-fused mor­tals are trin­i­tized, they pass through the Par­a­dise ex­pe­ri­ence with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers, with whom they are then iden­ti­cal in all mat­ters per­tain­ing to super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. These Trin­i­tized Sons of Se­lec­tion or of At­tain­ment at least for now are fin­ished crea­tures, in con­trast to the fi­nal­i­ters, who are at pres­ent un­fin­ished crea­tures.

47:4.2Spirit-fused sur­vivors oc­cupy the man­sion worlds in com­mon with the Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ing mor­tals. While the var­i­ous or­ders of ce­les­tial life dif­fer, they are all friendly and fra­ter­nal. In all the worlds of as­cen­sion you will find noth­ing com­pa­ra­ble to hu­man in­tol­er­ance and the dis­crim­i­na­tions of in­con­sid­er­ate caste sys­tems.

48:6.243. Mind Plan­ners. These ser­a­phim are de­voted to the ef­fec­tive group­ing of mor­ontia be­ings and to or­ga­niz­ing their team­work on the man­sion worlds. They are the psy­chol­o­gists of the first heaven. The ma­jor­ity of this par­tic­u­lar di­vi­sion of se­raphic min­is­ters have had pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence as guard­ian an­gels to the chil­dren of time, but their wards, for some rea­son, failed to per­son­al­ize on the man­sion worlds or else sur­vived by the tech­nique of Spirit fu­sion.

37:5.10The Worlds of the Spirit-fused Mor­tals. The eighth group of seven pri­mary worlds and trib­u­tary satel­lites in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the ex­clu­sive pos­ses­sion of the Spirit-fused mor­tals of Neb­a­don. As­cend­ing Ad­juster-fused mor­tals are not con­cerned with these worlds ex­cept to en­joy many pleas­ant and prof­itable so­journs as the in­vited guests of the Spirit-fused res­i­dents.

30:1.523. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:1.101The frag­men­ta­tions of the pre­mind spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter, though hardly com­pa­ra­ble to the Fa­ther frag­ments, should be here re­corded. Such en­ti­ties dif­fer very greatly from Ad­justers; they do not as such dwell on Spir­it­ing­ton, nor do they as such tra­verse the mind-grav­ity cir­cuits; nei­ther do they in­dwell mor­tal crea­tures dur­ing the life in the flesh. They are not preper­sonal in the sense that the Ad­justers are, but such frag­ments of pre­mind spirit are be­stowed upon cer­tain of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals, and fu­sion there­with con­sti­tutes them Spirit-fused mor­tals in con­tradis­tinc­tion to Ad­juster-fused mor­tals.

30:2.493. Spirit-fused Mor­tals.

30:2.1215. Spirit-fused Mor­tals of the Lo­cal Uni­verses.

49:6.6While the older worlds of mor­tal ex­is­tence har­bor those highly de­vel­oped and ex­qui­sitely spir­i­tual types of hu­man be­ings who are vir­tu­ally ex­empt from the mor­ontia life, the ear­lier ages of the an­i­mal-ori­gin races are char­ac­ter­ized by prim­i­tive mor­tals who are so im­ma­ture that fu­sion with their Ad­justers is im­pos­si­ble. The reawak­en­ing of these mor­tals is ac­com­plished by the guard­ian ser­a­phim in con­junc­tion with an in­di­vid­u­al­ized por­tion of the im­mor­tal spirit of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• loaned Adjusters prepare subjects; build up their souls

40:5.10An ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster re­mains with a prim­i­tive hu­man be­ing through­out his en­tire life­time in the flesh. The Ad­justers con­tribute much to the ad­vance­ment of prim­i­tive men but are un­able to form eter­nal unions with such mor­tals. This tran­sient min­istry of the Ad­justers ac­com­plishes two things: First, they gain valu­able and ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the na­ture and work­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary in­tel­lect, an ex­pe­ri­ence which will be in­valu­able in con­nec­tion with later con­tacts on other worlds with be­ings of higher de­vel­op­ment. Sec­ond, the tran­sient so­journ of the Ad­justers con­tributes much to­wards prepar­ing their mor­tal sub­jects for pos­si­ble sub­se­quent Spirit fu­sion. All God-seek­ing souls of this type achieve eter­nal life through the spir­i­tual em­brace of the Mother Spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse, thus be­com­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verse regime. Many per­sons from pre-Adamic Uran­tia were thus ad­vanced to the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

• loaned Adjusters prepare subjects; build up their souls

40:5.14In the as­cen­dant plan for up­step­ping the an­i­mal-ori­gin crea­tures, these be­ings en­joy the same de­voted ser­vice of the Sons of God as is ex­tended to the Uran­tia type of mor­tals. Se­raphic co-op­er­a­tion with Ad­justers on the non­fu­sion plan­ets is just as fully pro­vided as on the worlds of fu­sion po­ten­tial; the guard­i­ans of des­tiny min­is­ter on such spheres just as on Uran­tia and sim­i­larly func­tion at the time of mor­tal sur­vival, at which time the sur­viv­ing soul be­comes Spirit fused.

• nonbreathers are candidates for Spirit fusion

49:3.5On the non­breath­ing worlds the an­i­mal species are rad­i­cally un­like those found on the at­mo­spheric plan­ets. The non­breath­ing plan of life varies from the tech­nique of ex­is­tence on an at­mo­spheric world; even in sur­vival their peo­ples dif­fer, be­ing can­di­dates for Spirit fu­sion. Nev­er­the­less, these be­ings en­joy life and carry for­ward the ac­tiv­i­ties of the realm with the same rel­a­tive tri­als and joys that are ex­pe­ri­enced by the mor­tals liv­ing on at­mo­spheric worlds. In mind and char­ac­ter the non­breathers do not dif­fer from other mor­tal types.

• primitive races undergo

52:1.6Man’s ac­quire­ment of eth­i­cal judg­ment, moral will, is usu­ally co­in­ci­dent with the ap­pear­ance of early lan­guage. Upon at­tain­ing the hu­man level, af­ter this emer­gence of mor­tal will, these be­ings be­come re­cep­tive to the tem­po­rary in­dwelling of the di­vine Ad­justers, and upon death many are duly elected as sur­vivors and sealed by the arch­an­gels for sub­se­quent res­ur­rec­tion and Spirit fu­sion. The arch­an­gels al­ways ac­com­pany the Plan­e­tary Princes, and a dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the realm is si­mul­ta­ne­ous with the prince’s ar­rival.

• Andon’s immediate descendants achieved

63:7.2On Je­ru­sem both An­don and Fonta were fused with their Thought Ad­justers, as also were sev­eral of their chil­dren, in­clud­ing Son­tad, but the ma­jor­ity of even their im­me­di­ate de­scen­dants only achieved Spirit fu­sion.

• fusion with premind of spirit of Infinite Spirit

107:1.7As the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther frag­men­tizes his preper­sonal De­ity, so does the In­fi­nite Spirit in­di­vid­u­ate por­tions of his pre­mind spirit to in­dwell and ac­tu­ally to fuse with the evo­lu­tion­ary souls of the sur­viv­ing mor­tals of the spirit-fu­sion se­ries. But the na­ture of the Eter­nal Son is not thus frag­mentable; the spirit of the Orig­i­nal Son is ei­ther dif­fuse or dis­cretely per­sonal. Son-fused crea­tures are united with in­di­vid­u­al­ized be­stowals of the spirit of the Cre­ator Sons of the Eter­nal Son.

• achieved on series 1 and series 2 planets

109:3.2On cer­tain prim­i­tive worlds (the se­ries one group) the Ad­juster in­dwells the mind of the crea­ture as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing, chiefly for self-cul­ture and pro­gres­sive de­vel­op­ment. Vir­gin Ad­justers are usu­ally sent to such worlds dur­ing the ear­lier times when prim­i­tive men are ar­riv­ing in the val­ley of de­ci­sion, but when com­par­a­tively few will elect to as­cend the moral heights be­yond the hills of self-mas­tery and char­ac­ter ac­quire­ment to at­tain the higher lev­els of emerg­ing spir­i­tu­al­ity. (Many, how­ever, who fail of Ad­juster fu­sion do sur­vive as Spirit-fused as­cend­ers.) The Ad­justers re­ceive valu­able train­ing and ac­quire won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence in tran­sient as­so­ci­a­tion with prim­i­tive minds, and they are able sub­se­quently to uti­lize this ex­pe­ri­ence for the ben­e­fit of su­pe­rior be­ings on other worlds. Noth­ing of sur­vival value is ever lost in all the wide uni­verse.

109:3.3On an­other type of world (the se­ries two group) the Ad­justers are merely loaned to mor­tal be­ings. Here the Mon­i­tors can never at­tain fu­sion per­son­al­ity through such in­dwelling, but they do af­ford great help to their hu­man sub­jects dur­ing the mor­tal life­time, far more than they are able to give to Uran­tia mor­tals. The Ad­justers are here loaned to the mor­tal crea­tures for a sin­gle life span as pat­terns for their higher spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, tem­po­rary helpers in the in­trigu­ing task of per­fect­ing a sur­vival char­ac­ter. The Ad­justers do not re­turn af­ter nat­u­ral death; these sur­viv­ing mor­tals at­tain eter­nal life through Spirit fu­sion.

37:9.7The Susa­tia. These mar­velous be­ings re­side and func­tion as per­ma­nent cit­i­zens on Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of this lo­cal uni­verse. They are the bril­liant off­spring of the Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit and are closely as­so­ci­ated with the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens of the lo­cal uni­verse, the Spirit-fused mor­tals of the Neb­a­don Corps of Per­fec­tion.

30:4.9The fol­low­ing nar­ra­tive pre­sents the uni­verse ca­reer of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt mor­tal. The Son- and Spirit-fused mor­tals share por­tions of this ca­reer, but we have elected to tell this story as it per­tains to the Ad­juster-fused mor­tals, for such a des­tiny may be an­tic­i­pated by all of the hu­man races of Uran­tia.

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?

40:10.5That mor­tal des­tinies do thus vary in no wise proves that one is nec­es­sar­ily greater or lesser than an­other, merely that they dif­fer. Ad­juster-fused as­cend­ers do in­deed have a grand and glo­ri­ous ca­reer as fi­nal­i­ters spread out be­fore them in the eter­nal fu­ture, but this does not mean that they are pre­ferred above their as­cen­dant breth­ren. There is no fa­voritism, noth­ing ar­bi­trary, in the se­lec­tive op­er­a­tion of the di­vine plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

40:10.7As it is with the Spirit fusers, so is it with those Son-fused mor­tals who have achieved res­i­den­tial sta­tus on Uversa. Some of these be­ings hail from the ear­li­est epochs of Or­von­ton, and they rep­re­sent a slowly ac­cu­mu­lat­ing body of in­sight-deep­en­ing wis­dom which is mak­ing ever-aug­ment­ing ser­vice con­tri­bu­tions to the wel­fare and even­tual set­tle­ment of the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

40:10.8What the ul­ti­mate des­tiny of these sta­tion­ary or­ders of lo­cal and of super­uni­verse cit­i­zen­ship will be we do not know, but it is quite pos­si­ble that, when the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters are pi­o­neer­ing the ex­pand­ing fron­tiers of di­vin­ity in the plan­e­tary sys­tems of the first outer space level, their Son- and Spirit-fused breth­ren of the as­cen­dant evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle will be ac­cept­ably con­tribut­ing to the main­te­nance of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial equi­lib­rium of the per­fected super­uni­verses while they stand ready to wel­come the in­com­ing stream of Par­a­dise pil­grims who may, at that dis­tant day, pour in through Or­von­ton and its sis­ter cre­ations as a vast spirit-quest­ing tor­rent from these now un­charted and un­in­hab­ited galax­ies of outer space.

40:10.11Fa­ther-fused mor­tals are po­ten­tial fi­nal­i­ters; their des­ti­na­tion is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and him they do at­tain, but within the purview of the pres­ent uni­verse age, fi­nal­i­ters, as such, are not des­tiny at­tain­ers. They re­main un­fin­ished crea­tures—sixth-stage spir­its—and hence non­ac­tive in the evo­lu­tion­ary do­mains of pre­light-and-life sta­tus.

40:10.13Thus, in the fi­nal anal­y­sis, it would be hardly proper to use the words “greater” or “lesser” in con­trast­ing the des­tinies of the as­cend­ing or­ders of son­ship. Ev­ery such son of God shares the fa­ther­hood of God, and God loves each of his crea­ture sons alike; he is no more a re­specter of as­cen­dant des­tinies than is he of the crea­tures who may at­tain such des­tinies. The Fa­ther loves each of his sons, and that af­fec­tion is not less than true, holy, di­vine, un­lim­ited, eter­nal, and unique—a love be­stowed upon this son and upon that son, in­di­vid­u­ally, per­son­ally, and ex­clu­sively. And such a love ut­terly eclipses all other facts. Son­ship is the su­preme re­la­tion­ship of the crea­ture to the Cre­ator.

40:10.14As mor­tals you can now rec­og­nize your place in the fam­ily of di­vine son­ship and be­gin to sense the obli­ga­tion to avail your­selves of the ad­van­tages so freely pro­vided in and by the Par­a­dise plan for mor­tal sur­vival, which plan has been so en­hanced and il­lu­mi­nated by the life ex­pe­ri­ence of a be­stowal Son. Ev­ery fa­cil­ity and all power have been pro­vided for in­sur­ing your ul­ti­mate at­tain­ment of the Par­a­dise goal of di­vine per­fec­tion.

40:10.15[Pre­sented by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the staff of Ga­briel of Sal­ving­ton.]

55:0.4There are seven stages in the un­fold­ment of the era of light and life on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, and in this con­nec­tion it should be noted that the worlds of the Spirit-fused mor­tals evolve along lines iden­ti­cal with those of the Ad­juster-fu­sion se­ries. These seven stages of light and life are: