Thought Adjuster of Jesus

• at Jesus’ baptism › Personalized after Jesus’ baptism
• chief of his kind in Nebadon
• previously served with Machiventa Melchizedek

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.

• collaborated in creation of Part IV

121:8.1As far as pos­si­ble, con­sis­tent with our man­date, we have en­deav­ored to uti­lize and to some ex­tent co-or­di­nate the ex­ist­ing rec­ords hav­ing to do with the life of Je­sus on Uran­tia. Al­though we have en­joyed ac­cess to the lost rec­ord of the Apos­tle An­drew and have ben­e­fited from the col­lab­o­ra­tion of a vast host of ce­les­tial be­ings who were on earth dur­ing the times of Mi­chael’s be­stowal (no­tably his now Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster), it has been our pur­pose also to make use of the so-called Gospels of Mat­thew, Mark, Luke, and John.

• arrival
• previously served with Machiventa Melchizedek

123:2.1In some­thing more than a year af­ter the re­turn to Naz­a­reth the boy Je­sus ar­rived at the age of his first per­sonal and whole­hearted moral de­ci­sion; and there came to abide with him a Thought Ad­juster, a di­vine gift of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, which had afore­time served with Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, thus gain­ing the ex­pe­ri­ence of func­tion­ing in con­nec­tion with the in­car­na­tion of a super­mor­tal be­ing liv­ing in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. This event oc­curred on Febru­ary 11, 2 B.C. Je­sus was no more aware of the com­ing of the di­vine Mon­i­tor than are the mil­lions upon mil­lions of other chil­dren who, be­fore and since that day, have like­wise re­ceived these Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell their minds and work for the ul­ti­mate spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of these minds and the eter­nal sur­vival of their evolv­ing im­mor­tal souls.

• spoke › at baptism of Jesus

135:8.6There was a tone of fi­nal­ity and au­thor­ity in Je­sus’ voice. John was atrem­ble with emo­tion as he made ready to bap­tize Je­sus of Naz­a­reth in the Jor­dan at noon on Mon­day, Jan­uary 14, A.D. 26. Thus did John bap­tize Je­sus and his two broth­ers James and Jude. And when John had bap­tized these three, he dis­missed the oth­ers for the day, an­nounc­ing that he would re­sume bap­tisms at noon the next day. As the peo­ple were de­part­ing, the four men still stand­ing in the wa­ter heard a strange sound, and pres­ently there ap­peared for a mo­ment an ap­pari­tion im­me­di­ately over the head of Je­sus, and they heard a voice say­ing, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” A great change came over the coun­te­nance of Je­sus, and com­ing up out of the wa­ter in si­lence he took leave of them, go­ing to­ward the hills to the east. And no man saw Je­sus again for forty days.

• spoke › at baptism of Jesus

135:9.7It was early on the morn­ing of Sab­bath, Febru­ary 23, that the com­pany of John, en­gaged in eat­ing their morn­ing meal, looked up to­ward the north and be­held Je­sus com­ing to them. As he ap­proached them, John stood upon a large rock and, lift­ing up his sonorous voice, said: “Be­hold the Son of God, the de­liv­erer of the world! This is he of whom I have said, ‘Af­ter me there will come one who is pre­ferred be­fore me be­cause he was be­fore me.’ For this cause came I out of the wilder­ness to preach re­pen­tance and to bap­tize with wa­ter, pro­claim­ing that the king­dom of heaven is at hand. And now comes one who shall bap­tize you with the Holy Spirit. And I be­held the di­vine spirit de­scend­ing upon this man, and I heard the voice of God de­clare, ‘This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’”

• Jesus achieved perfect synchrony with
• previously served with Machiventa Melchizedek

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.

• at Jesus’ baptism › only Jesus saw
• at Jesus’ baptism › Personalized after Jesus’ baptism
• chief of his kind in Nebadon
• spoke › at baptism of Jesus

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.

• at Jesus’ baptism › Jesus in constant communication with, after
• chief of his kind in Nebadon

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.

• commanded celestial hosts

136:5.2Je­sus de­cided that he would not uti­lize a sin­gle per­son­al­ity of this vast as­sem­blage un­less it should be­come ev­i­dent that this was his Fa­ther’s will. Not­with­stand­ing this gen­eral de­ci­sion, this vast host re­mained with him through­out the bal­ance of his earth life, al­ways in readi­ness to obey the least ex­pres­sion of their Sov­er­eign’s will. Al­though Je­sus did not con­stantly be­hold these at­ten­dant per­son­al­i­ties with his hu­man eyes, his as­so­ci­ated Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster did con­stantly be­hold, and could com­mu­ni­cate with, all of them.

• spoke › on Mount Hermon

136:5.3Be­fore com­ing down from the forty days’ re­treat in the hills, Je­sus as­signed the im­me­di­ate com­mand of this at­ten­dant host of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties to his re­cently Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, and for more than four years of Uran­tia time did these se­lected per­son­al­i­ties from ev­ery di­vi­sion of uni­verse in­tel­li­gences obe­di­ently and re­spect­fully func­tion un­der the wise guid­ance of this ex­alted and ex­pe­ri­enced Per­son­al­ized Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. In as­sum­ing com­mand of this mighty as­sem­bly, the Ad­juster, be­ing a one­time part and essence of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, as­sured Je­sus that in no case would these super­hu­man agen­cies be per­mit­ted to serve, or man­i­fest them­selves in con­nec­tion with, or in be­half of, his earth ca­reer un­less it should de­velop that the Fa­ther willed such in­ter­ven­tion. Thus by one great de­ci­sion Je­sus vol­un­tar­ily de­prived him­self of all super­hu­man co-op­er­a­tion in all mat­ters hav­ing to do with the re­main­der of his mor­tal ca­reer un­less the Fa­ther might in­de­pen­dently choose to par­tic­i­pate in some cer­tain act or episode of the Son’s earth labors.

• could not limit Jesus’ Creator prerogatives with respect to time

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.”

• could not limit Jesus’ Creator prerogatives with respect to time

136:7.3Un­der­stand­ing all of this and know­ing that the Mas­ter re­fused to work in de­fi­ance of his es­tab­lished laws of na­ture in so far as his per­sonal con­duct was con­cerned, you know of a cer­tainty that he never walked on the wa­ter nor did any­thing else which was an out­rage to his ma­te­rial or­der of ad­min­is­ter­ing the world; al­ways, of course, bear­ing in mind that there had, as yet, been found no way whereby he could be wholly de­liv­ered from the lack of con­trol over the el­e­ment of time in con­nec­tion with those mat­ters put un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster.

• could not limit Jesus’ Creator prerogatives with respect to time
• permitted water to be turned into wine

137:4.12It was grad­u­ally dawn­ing upon Je­sus what had hap­pened. Of all per­sons pres­ent at the mar­riage feast of Cana, Je­sus was the most sur­prised. Oth­ers had ex­pected him to work a won­der, but that was just what he had pur­posed not to do. And then the Son of Man re­called the ad­mo­ni­tion of his Per­son­al­ized Thought Ad­juster in the hills. He re­counted how the Ad­juster had warned him about the in­abil­ity of any power or per­son­al­ity to de­prive him of the cre­ator pre­rog­a­tive of in­de­pen­dence of time. On this oc­ca­sion power trans­form­ers, mid­way­ers, and all other re­quired per­son­al­i­ties were as­sem­bled near the wa­ter and other nec­es­sary el­e­ments, and in the face of the ex­pressed wish of the Uni­verse Cre­ator Sov­er­eign, there was no es­cap­ing the in­stan­ta­neous ap­pear­ance of wine. And this oc­cur­rence was made dou­bly cer­tain since the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster had sig­ni­fied that the ex­e­cu­tion of the Son’s de­sire was in no way a con­tra­ven­tion of the Fa­ther’s will.

137:4.13But this was in no sense a mir­a­cle. No law of na­ture was mod­i­fied, ab­ro­gated, or even tran­scended. Noth­ing hap­pened but the ab­ro­ga­tion of time in as­so­ci­a­tion with the ce­les­tial as­sem­bly of the chem­i­cal el­e­ments req­ui­site for the elab­o­ra­tion of the wine. At Cana on this oc­ca­sion the agents of the Cre­ator made wine just as they do by the or­di­nary nat­u­ral pro­cesses ex­cept that they did it in­de­pen­dently of time and with the in­ter­ven­tion of super­hu­man agen­cies in the mat­ter of the space as­sem­bly of the nec­es­sary chem­i­cal in­gre­di­ents.

137:4.14Fur­ther­more it was ev­i­dent that the en­act­ment of this so-called mir­a­cle was not con­trary to the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, else it would not have tran­spired, since Je­sus had al­ready sub­jected him­self in all things to the Fa­ther’s will.

• at healing at sundown

145:3.10Je­sus had passed the re­spon­si­bil­ity of this heal­ing de­ci­sion to the rul­ing of his Fa­ther. Ev­i­dently the Fa­ther’s will in­ter­posed no ob­jec­tion, for the words of the Mas­ter had scarcely been ut­tered when the as­sem­bly of ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties serv­ing un­der the com­mand of Je­sus’ Per­son­al­ized Thought Ad­juster was might­ily astir. The vast ret­inue de­scended into the midst of this mot­ley throng of af­flicted mor­tals, and in a mo­ment of time 683 men, women, and chil­dren were made whole, were per­fectly healed of all their phys­i­cal dis­eases and other ma­te­rial dis­or­ders. Such a scene was never wit­nessed on earth be­fore that day, nor since. And for those of us who were pres­ent to be­hold this cre­ative wave of heal­ing, it was in­deed a thrilling spec­ta­cle.

145:3.11But of all the be­ings who were as­ton­ished at this sud­den and un­ex­pected out­break of super­nat­u­ral heal­ing, Je­sus was the most sur­prised. In a mo­ment when his hu­man in­ter­ests and sym­pa­thies were fo­cused upon the scene of suf­fer­ing and af­flic­tion there spread out be­fore him, he ne­glected to bear in his hu­man mind the ad­mon­i­tory warn­ings of his Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster re­gard­ing the im­pos­si­bil­ity of lim­it­ing the time el­e­ment of the cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives of a Cre­ator Son un­der cer­tain con­di­tions and in cer­tain cir­cum­stances. Je­sus de­sired to see these suf­fer­ing mor­tals made whole if his Fa­ther’s will would not thereby be vi­o­lated. The Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus in­stantly ruled that such an act of cre­ative en­ergy at that time would not transgress the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, and by such a de­ci­sion—in view of Je­sus’ pre­ced­ing ex­pres­sion of heal­ing de­sire—the cre­ative act was. What a Cre­ator Son de­sires and his Fa­ther wills IS. Not in all of Je­sus’ sub­se­quent earth life did an­other such en masse phys­i­cal heal­ing of mor­tals take place.

• spoke › at transfiguration from silvery cloud

158:1.10While Pe­ter was yet speak­ing, a sil­very cloud drew near and over­shad­owed the four of them. The apos­tles now be­came greatly fright­ened, and as they fell down on their faces to wor­ship, they heard a voice, the same that had spo­ken on the oc­ca­sion of Je­sus’ bap­tism, say: “This is my beloved Son; give heed to him.” And when the cloud van­ished, again was Je­sus alone with the three, and he reached down and touched them, say­ing: “Arise and be not afraid; you shall see greater things than this.” But the apos­tles were truly afraid; they were a silent and thought­ful trio as they made ready to de­scend the moun­tain shortly be­fore mid­night.

• spoke › at transfiguration from silvery cloud

158:3.4Je­sus wel­comed this tes­ti­mony re­gard­ing the suc­cess of his earth mis­sion pre­sented by the mes­sen­gers of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit, but he noted that his Fa­ther did not in­di­cate that the Uran­tia be­stowal was fin­ished; only did the un­seen pres­ence of the Fa­ther bear wit­ness through Je­sus’ Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, say­ing, “This is my beloved Son; give heed to him.” And this was spo­ken in words to be heard also by the three apos­tles.

• collaborated in creation of Part IV

168:1.2It is dif­fi­cult to ex­plain to hu­man minds just why Je­sus wept. While we have ac­cess to the reg­is­tra­tion of the com­bined hu­man emo­tions and di­vine thoughts, as of rec­ord in the mind of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, we are not al­to­gether cer­tain about the real cause of these emo­tional man­i­fes­ta­tions. We are in­clined to be­lieve that Je­sus wept be­cause of a num­ber of thoughts and feel­ings which were go­ing through his mind at this time, such as:

• detained Lazarus’s Adjuster

168:1.6And now we may re­late an in­ter­est­ing and in­struc­tive fact: Al­though this nar­ra­tive un­folds as an ap­par­ently nat­u­ral and nor­mal event in hu­man af­fairs, it has some very in­ter­est­ing side lights. While the mes­sen­ger went to Je­sus on Sun­day, telling him of Laz­a­rus’s ill­ness, and while Je­sus sent word that it was “not to the death,” at the same time he went in per­son up to Beth­any and even asked the sis­ters, “Where have you laid him?” Even though all of this seems to in­di­cate that the Mas­ter was pro­ceed­ing af­ter the man­ner of this life and in ac­cor­dance with the lim­ited knowl­edge of the hu­man mind, nev­er­the­less, the rec­ords of the uni­verse re­veal that Je­sus’ Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster is­sued or­ders for the in­def­i­nite de­ten­tion of Laz­a­rus’s Thought Ad­juster on the planet sub­se­quent to Laz­a­rus’s death, and that this or­der was made of rec­ord just fif­teen min­utes be­fore Laz­a­rus breathed his last.

• chief of his kind in Nebadon

168:2.6As Laz­a­rus came out of the tomb, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus, now chief of his kind in this lo­cal uni­verse, gave com­mand to the for­mer Ad­juster of Laz­a­rus, now in wait­ing, to re­sume abode in the mind and soul of the res­ur­rected man.

• spoke › in Gethsemane

174:5.10When Je­sus had thus spo­ken, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of his in­dwelling dur­ing pre­bap­tismal times ap­peared be­fore him, and as he paused no­tice­ably, this now mighty spirit of the Fa­ther’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion spoke to Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, say­ing: “I have glo­ri­fied my name in your be­stowals many times, and I will glo­rify it once more.”

• commanded celestial hosts

182:3.8The as­sem­bled hosts of a vast cre­ation are now hov­ered over this scene un­der the tran­sient joint com­mand of Ga­briel and the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus. The di­vi­sion com­man­ders of these armies of heaven have re­peat­edly been warned not to in­ter­fere with these trans­ac­tions on earth un­less Je­sus him­self should or­der them to in­ter­vene.

• present after crucifixion

188:3.4We are not able fully to ex­plain just what hap­pened to Je­sus of Naz­a­reth dur­ing this pe­riod of a day and a half when he was sup­posed to be rest­ing in Joseph’s new tomb. Ap­par­ently he died the same nat­u­ral death on the cross as would any other mor­tal in the same cir­cum­stances. We heard him say, “Fa­ther, into your hands I com­mend my spirit.” We do not fully un­der­stand the mean­ing of such a state­ment inas­much as his Thought Ad­juster had long since been per­son­al­ized and so main­tained an ex­is­tence apart from Je­sus’ mor­tal be­ing. The Mas­ter’s Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster could in no sense be af­fected by his phys­i­cal death on the cross. That which Je­sus put in the Fa­ther’s hands for the time be­ing must have been the spirit coun­ter­part of the Ad­juster’s early work in spir­i­tiz­ing the mor­tal mind so as to pro­vide for the trans­fer of the tran­script of the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence to the man­sion worlds. There must have been some spir­i­tual re­al­ity in the ex­pe­ri­ence of Je­sus which was anal­o­gous to the spirit na­ture, or soul, of the faith-grow­ing mor­tals of the spheres. But this is merely our opin­ion—we do not re­ally know what Je­sus com­mended to his Fa­ther.

• present after crucifixion

188:3.72. The for­mer Thought Ad­juster of Je­sus we know to have been pres­ent on earth dur­ing this pe­riod and in per­sonal com­mand of the as­sem­bled ce­les­tial hosts.

• advice regarding resurrection of Jesus

189:0.1Soon af­ter the burial of Je­sus on Fri­day af­ter­noon, the chief of the arch­an­gels of Neb­a­don, then pres­ent on Uran­tia, sum­moned his coun­cil of the res­ur­rec­tion of sleep­ing will crea­tures and en­tered upon the con­sid­er­a­tion of a pos­si­ble tech­nique for the restora­tion of Je­sus. These as­sem­bled sons of the lo­cal uni­verse, the crea­tures of Mi­chael, did this on their own re­spon­si­bil­ity; Ga­briel had not as­sem­bled them. By mid­night they had ar­rived at the con­clu­sion that the crea­ture could do noth­ing to fa­cil­i­tate the res­ur­rec­tion of the Cre­ator. They were dis­posed to ac­cept the ad­vice of Ga­briel, who in­structed them that, since Mi­chael had “laid down his life of his own free will, he also had power to take it up again in ac­cor­dance with his own de­ter­mi­na­tion.” Shortly af­ter the ad­journ­ment of this coun­cil of the arch­an­gels, the Life Car­ri­ers, and their var­i­ous as­so­ciates in the work of crea­ture re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and mor­ontia cre­ation, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of Je­sus, be­ing in per­sonal com­mand of the as­sem­bled ce­les­tial hosts then on Uran­tia, spoke these words to the anx­ious wait­ing watch­ers:

189:0.2“Not one of you can do aught to as­sist your Cre­ator-fa­ther in the re­turn to life. As a mor­tal of the realm he has ex­pe­ri­enced mor­tal death; as the Sov­er­eign of a uni­verse he still lives. That which you ob­serve is the mor­tal tran­sit of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth from life in the flesh to life in the mor­ontia. The spirit tran­sit of this Je­sus was com­pleted at the time I sep­a­rated my­self from his per­son­al­ity and be­came your tem­po­rary di­rec­tor. Your Cre­ator-fa­ther has elected to pass through the whole of the ex­pe­ri­ence of his mor­tal crea­tures, from birth on the ma­te­rial worlds, on through nat­u­ral death and the res­ur­rec­tion of the mor­ontia, into the sta­tus of true spirit ex­is­tence. A cer­tain phase of this ex­pe­ri­ence you are about to ob­serve, but you may not par­tic­i­pate in it. Those things which you or­di­nar­ily do for the crea­ture, you may not do for the Cre­ator. A Cre­ator Son has within him­self the power to be­stow him­self in the like­ness of any of his cre­ated sons; he has within him­self the power to lay down his ob­serv­able life and to take it up again; and he has this power be­cause of the di­rect com­mand of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, and I know whereof I speak.”

189:0.3When they heard the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster so speak, they all as­sumed the at­ti­tude of anx­ious ex­pectancy, from Ga­briel down to the most hum­ble cheru­bim. They saw the mor­tal body of Je­sus in the tomb; they de­tected ev­i­dences of the uni­verse ac­tiv­ity of their beloved Sov­er­eign; and not un­der­stand­ing such phe­nom­ena, they waited pa­tiently for de­vel­op­ments.

• commanded celestial hosts

189:1.11Af­ter Je­sus had spo­ken, he sig­naled to the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster, and all uni­verse in­tel­li­gences who had been as­sem­bled on Uran­tia to wit­ness the res­ur­rec­tion were im­me­di­ately dis­patched to their re­spec­tive uni­verse as­sign­ments.

• commanded celestial hosts

189:3.4When the sig­nal of the plan­e­tary res­ur­rec­tion had been re­ceived by the chief of arch­an­gels, the Per­son­al­ized Ad­juster of the Son of Man re­lin­quished his au­thor­ity over the ce­les­tial hosts as­sem­bled on Uran­tia, turn­ing all these sons of the lo­cal uni­verse back to the ju­ris­dic­tion of their re­spec­tive com­man­ders. And when he had done this, he de­parted for Sal­ving­ton to reg­is­ter with Im­manuel the com­ple­tion of the mor­tal tran­sit of Mi­chael. And he was im­me­di­ately fol­lowed by all the ce­les­tial host not re­quired for duty on Uran­tia. But Ga­briel re­mained on Uran­tia with the mor­ontia Je­sus.

• arrival

196:1.71. The ar­rival of the Thought Ad­juster.