Thought Adjusters

108:3.1As far as we know, Ad­justers are or­ga­nized as an in­de­pen­dent work­ing unit in the uni­verse of uni­verses and are ap­par­ently ad­min­is­tered di­rectly from Di­vin­ing­ton. They are uni­form through­out the seven super­uni­verses, all lo­cal uni­verses be­ing served by iden­ti­cal types of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. We do know from ob­ser­va­tion that there are nu­mer­ous se­ries of Ad­justers in­volv­ing a se­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion that ex­tends through races, over dis­pen­sa­tions, and to worlds, sys­tems, and uni­verses. It is, how­ever, ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult to keep track of these di­vine gifts since they func­tion in­ter­change­ably through­out the grand uni­verse.

• sent without announcement or explanation

2:1.7And all this ne­ces­si­tates such ar­range­ments for con­tact and com­mu­ni­ca­tion with his man­i­fold crea­tures as have been or­dained, first, in the per­son­al­i­ties of the Par­a­dise Sons of God, who, al­though per­fect in di­vin­ity, also of­ten par­take of the na­ture of the very flesh and blood of the plan­e­tary races, be­com­ing one of you and one with you; thus, as it were, God be­comes man, as oc­curred in the be­stowal of Mi­chael, who was called in­ter­change­ably the Son of God and the Son of Man. And sec­ond, there are the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the var­i­ous or­ders of the se­raphic hosts and other ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gences who draw near to the ma­te­rial be­ings of lowly ori­gin and in so many ways min­is­ter to them and serve them. And third, there are the im­per­sonal Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, Thought Ad­justers, the ac­tual gift of the great God him­self sent to in­dwell such as the hu­mans of Uran­tia, sent with­out an­nounce­ment and with­out ex­pla­na­tion. In end­less pro­fu­sion they de­scend from the heights of glory to grace and in­dwell the hum­ble minds of those mor­tals who pos­sess the ca­pac­ity for God-con­scious­ness or the po­ten­tial there­for.

• sent to all normal morally conscious mortals

5:0.1If the fi­nite mind of man is un­able to com­pre­hend how so great and so ma­jes­tic a God as the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can de­scend from his eter­nal abode in in­fi­nite per­fec­tion to frat­er­nize with the in­di­vid­ual hu­man crea­ture, then must such a fi­nite in­tel­lect rest as­sur­ance of di­vine fel­low­ship upon the truth of the fact that an ac­tual frag­ment of the liv­ing God re­sides within the in­tel­lect of ev­ery nor­mal-minded and morally con­scious Uran­tia mor­tal. The in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers are a part of the eter­nal De­ity of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. Man does not have to go far­ther than his own in­ner ex­pe­ri­ence of the soul’s con­tem­pla­tion of this spir­i­tual-re­al­ity pres­ence to find God and at­tempt com­mu­nion with him.

• cannot indwell until Infinite Spirit has prepared the way

9:5.2In the do­main of cre­ated mind the Third Per­son, with his co-or­di­nate and sub­or­di­nate as­so­ciates, rules su­preme. The realms of crea­ture mind are of ex­clu­sive ori­gin in the Third Source and Cen­ter; he is the be­stower of mind. Even the Fa­ther frag­ments find it im­pos­si­ble to in­dwell the minds of men un­til the way has been prop­erly pre­pared for them by the mind ac­tion and spir­i­tual func­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• human personality antecedent to Adjuster’s arrival

16:8.3Per­son­al­ity is a unique en­dow­ment of orig­i­nal na­ture whose ex­is­tence is in­de­pen­dent of, and an­te­ced­ent to, the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­juster. Nev­er­the­less, the pres­ence of the Ad­juster does aug­ment the qual­i­ta­tive man­i­fes­ta­tion of per­son­al­ity. Thought Ad­justers, when they come forth from the Fa­ther, are iden­ti­cal in na­ture, but per­son­al­ity is di­verse, orig­i­nal, and ex­clu­sive; and the man­i­fes­ta­tion of per­son­al­ity is fur­ther con­di­tioned and qual­i­fied by the na­ture and qual­i­ties of the as­so­ci­ated en­er­gies of a ma­te­rial, mindal, and spir­i­tual na­ture which con­sti­tute the or­gan­is­mal ve­hi­cle for per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion.

• conditions associated with arrival prior to Spirit of Truth

20:5.3Some or­der of Par­a­dise Son must be be­stowed upon each mor­tal-in­hab­ited world in or­der to make it pos­si­ble for Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell the minds of all nor­mal hu­man be­ings on that sphere, for the Ad­justers do not come to all bona fide hu­man be­ings un­til the Spirit of Truth has been poured out upon all flesh; and the send­ing of the Spirit of Truth is de­pen­dent upon the re­turn to uni­verse head­quar­ters of a Par­a­dise Son who has suc­cess­fully ex­e­cuted a mis­sion of mor­tal be­stowal upon an evolv­ing world.

• Spirit of Truth prepares for planetary reception

34:5.5Though the Spirit of Truth is poured out upon all flesh, this spirit of the Son is al­most wholly lim­ited in func­tion and power by man’s per­sonal re­cep­tion of that which con­sti­tutes the sum and sub­stance of the mis­sion of the be­stowal Son. The Holy Spirit is partly in­de­pen­dent of hu­man at­ti­tude and par­tially con­di­tioned by the de­ci­sions and co-op­er­a­tion of the will of man. Nev­er­the­less, the min­istry of the Holy Spirit be­comes in­creas­ingly ef­fec­tive in the sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of the in­ner life of those mor­tals who the more fully obey the di­vine lead­ings.

• guardian seraphim arrive with planet’s first Adjusters

49:6.41. Mor­tals of the dis­pen­sa­tional or group or­der of sur­vival. With the ar­rival of the first Ad­juster on an in­hab­ited world the guard­ian ser­a­phim also make their ap­pear­ance; they are in­dis­pens­able to ter­res­trial es­cape. Through­out the life-lapse pe­riod of the sleep­ing sur­vivors the spir­i­tual val­ues and eter­nal re­al­i­ties of their newly evolved and im­mor­tal souls are held as a sa­cred trust by the per­sonal or by the group guard­ian ser­a­phim.

• increasingly bestowed upon post-Adamic men

52:3.2Thought Ad­justers are in­creas­ingly be­stowed upon the post-Adamic men, and in con­stantly aug­mented num­bers these mor­tals at­tain ca­pac­ity for sub­se­quent Ad­juster fu­sion. While func­tion­ing as de­scend­ing Sons, the Adams do not pos­sess Ad­justers, but their plan­e­tary off­spring—di­rect and mixed—be­come le­git­i­mate can­di­dates for the re­cep­tion, in due time, of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. By the ter­mi­na­tion of the post-Adamic age the planet is in pos­ses­sion of its full quota of ce­les­tial min­is­ters; only the fu­sion Ad­justers are not yet uni­ver­sally be­stowed.

• sent to all mortals after bestowal Son’s visitation

52:5.6Upon the res­ur­rec­tion of a be­stowal Son, on the third day af­ter yield­ing up his in­car­nated life, he as­cends to the right hand of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­ceives the as­sur­ance of the ac­cep­tance of the be­stowal mis­sion, and re­turns to the Cre­ator Son at the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse. There­upon the be­stowal Avo­nal and the Cre­ator Mi­chael send their joint spirit, the Spirit of Truth, into the be­stowal world. This is the oc­ca­sion when the “spirit of the tri­umphant Son is poured out upon all flesh.” The Uni­verse Mother Spirit also par­tic­i­pates in this be­stowal of the Spirit of Truth, and con­comi­tant there­with there is­sues the be­stowal edict of the Thought Ad­justers. There­after all nor­mal-minded will crea­tures of that world will re­ceive Ad­justers as soon as they at­tain the age of moral re­spon­si­bil­ity, of spir­i­tual choice.

• assigned when children make first moral decision

103:2.5The psy­chol­ogy of a child is nat­u­rally pos­i­tive, not neg­a­tive. So many mor­tals are neg­a­tive be­cause they were so trained. When it is said that the child is pos­i­tive, ref­er­ence is made to his moral im­pulses, those pow­ers of mind whose emer­gence sig­nals the ar­rival of the Thought Ad­juster.

108:1.1When Ad­justers are dis­patched for mor­tal ser­vice from Di­vin­ing­ton, they are iden­ti­cal in the en­dow­ment of ex­is­ten­tial di­vin­ity, but they vary in ex­pe­ri­en­tial qual­i­ties pro­por­tional to pre­vi­ous con­tact in and with evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures. We can­not ex­plain the ba­sis of Ad­juster as­sign­ment, but we con­jec­ture that these di­vine gifts are be­stowed in ac­cor­dance with some wise and ef­fi­cient pol­icy of eter­nal fit­ness of adap­ta­tion to the in­dwelt per­son­al­ity. We do ob­serve that the more ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster is of­ten the in­dweller of the higher type of hu­man mind; hu­man in­her­i­tance must there­fore be a con­sid­er­able fac­tor in de­ter­min­ing se­lec­tion and as­sign­ment.

• Adjuster has full data respecting candidate prior to volunteering

108:1.2Al­though we do not def­i­nitely know, we firmly be­lieve that all Thought Ad­justers are vol­un­teers. But be­fore ever they vol­un­teer, they are in pos­ses­sion of full data re­spect­ing the can­di­date for in­dwelling. The se­raphic drafts of an­ces­try and pro­jected pat­terns of life con­duct are trans­mit­ted via Par­a­dise to the re­serve corps of Ad­justers on Di­vin­ing­ton by the re­flec­tiv­ity tech­nique ex­tend­ing in­ward from the cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses. This fore­cast cov­ers not only the hered­i­tary an­tecedents of the mor­tal can­di­date but also the es­ti­mate of prob­a­ble in­tel­lec­tual en­dow­ment and spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity. The Ad­justers thus vol­un­teer to in­dwell minds of whose in­ti­mate na­tures they have been fully ap­prised.

108:1.3The vol­un­teer­ing Ad­juster is par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in three qual­i­fi­ca­tions of the hu­man can­di­date:

108:1.41. In­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity. Is the mind nor­mal? What is the in­tel­lec­tual po­ten­tial, the in­tel­li­gence ca­pac­ity? Can the in­di­vid­ual de­velop into a bona fide will crea­ture? Will wis­dom have an op­por­tu­nity to func­tion?

108:1.52. Spir­i­tual per­cep­tion. The prospects of rev­er­en­tial de­vel­op­ment, the birth and growth of the re­li­gious na­ture. What is the po­ten­tial of soul, the prob­a­ble spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity of re­cep­tiv­ity?

108:1.63. Com­bined in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual pow­ers. The de­gree to which these two en­dow­ments may pos­si­bly be as­so­ci­ated, com­bined, so as to pro­duce strength of hu­man char­ac­ter and con­tribute to the cer­tain evo­lu­tion of an im­mor­tal soul of sur­vival value.

• creature’s sex of no consideration in assignment

108:1.7With these facts be­fore them, it is our be­lief that the Mon­i­tors freely vol­un­teer for as­sign­ment. Prob­a­bly more than one Ad­juster vol­un­teers; per­haps the super­vis­ing per­son­al­ized or­ders se­lect from this group of vol­un­teer­ing Ad­justers the one best suited to the task of spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing and eter­nal­iz­ing the per­son­al­ity of the mor­tal can­di­date. (In the as­sign­ment and ser­vice of the Ad­justers the sex of the crea­ture is of no con­sid­er­a­tion.)

108:1.8The short time in­ter­ven­ing be­tween the vol­un­teer­ing and the ac­tual dis­patch of the Ad­juster is pre­sum­ably spent in the Di­vin­ing­ton schools of the Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors where a work­ing pat­tern of the wait­ing mor­tal mind is uti­lized in in­struct­ing the as­signed Ad­juster as to the most ef­fec­tive plans for per­son­al­ity ap­proach and mind spir­i­ti­za­tion. This mind model is for­mu­lated through a com­bi­na­tion of data sup­plied by the super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice. At least this is our un­der­stand­ing, a be­lief which we hold as the re­sult of putting to­gether in­for­ma­tion se­cured by con­tact with many Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers through­out the long uni­verse ca­reers of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

108:1.9When once the Ad­justers are ac­tu­ally dis­patched from Di­vin­ing­ton, prac­ti­cally no time in­ter­venes be­tween that mo­ment and the hour of their ap­pear­ance in the minds of their cho­sen sub­jects. The av­er­age tran­sit time of an Ad­juster from Di­vin­ing­ton to Uran­tia is 117 hours, 42 min­utes, and 7 sec­onds. Vir­tu­ally all of this time is oc­cu­pied with reg­is­tra­tion on Uversa.

• assigned when children make first moral decision
• reach human subjects just prior to 6th birthday

108:2.1Though the Ad­justers vol­un­teer for ser­vice as soon as the per­son­al­ity fore­casts have been re­layed to Di­vin­ing­ton, they are not ac­tu­ally as­signed un­til the hu­man sub­jects make their first moral per­son­al­ity de­ci­sion. The first moral choice of the hu­man child is au­to­mat­i­cally in­di­cated in the sev­enth mind-ad­ju­tant and reg­is­ters in­stantly, by way of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, over the uni­ver­sal mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Con­joint Ac­tor in the pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, who forth­with dis­patches this in­tel­li­gence to Di­vin­ing­ton. Ad­justers reach their hu­man sub­jects on Uran­tia, on the av­er­age, just prior to the sixth birth­day. In the pres­ent gen­er­a­tion it is run­ning five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the 2,134^th day of ter­res­trial life.

108:2.2The Ad­justers can­not in­vade the mor­tal mind un­til it has been duly pre­pared by the in­dwelling min­istry of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and en­cir­cuited in the Holy Spirit. And it re­quires the co-or­di­nate func­tion of all seven ad­ju­tants to thus qual­ify the hu­man mind for the re­cep­tion of an Ad­juster. Crea­ture mind must ex­hibit the wor­ship out­reach and in­di­cate wis­dom func­tion by ex­hibit­ing the abil­ity to choose be­tween the emerg­ing val­ues of good and evil—moral choice.

108:2.3Thus is the stage of the hu­man mind set for the re­cep­tion of Ad­justers, but as a gen­eral rule they do not im­me­di­ately ap­pear to in­dwell such minds ex­cept on those worlds where the Spirit of Truth is func­tion­ing as a spir­i­tual co-or­di­na­tor of these dif­fer­ent spirit min­istries. If this spirit of the be­stowal Sons is pres­ent, the Ad­justers un­fail­ingly come the in­stant the sev­enth ad­ju­tant mind-spirit be­gins to func­tion and sig­nal­izes to the Uni­verse Mother Spirit that it has achieved in po­ten­tial the co-or­di­na­tion of the as­so­ci­ated six ad­ju­tants of prior min­istry to such a mor­tal in­tel­lect. There­fore have the di­vine Ad­justers been uni­ver­sally be­stowed upon all nor­mal minds of moral sta­tus on Uran­tia ever since the day of Pen­te­cost.

108:2.4Even with a Spirit of Truth en­dowed mind, the Ad­justers can­not ar­bi­trar­ily in­vade the mor­tal in­tel­lect prior to the ap­pear­ance of moral de­ci­sion. But when such a moral de­ci­sion has been made, this spirit helper as­sumes ju­ris­dic­tion di­rect from Di­vin­ing­ton. There are no in­ter­me­di­aries or other in­ter­ven­ing au­thor­i­ties or pow­ers func­tion­ing be­tween the di­vine Ad­justers and their hu­man sub­jects; God and man are di­rectly re­lated.

• conditions associated with arrival prior to Spirit of Truth

108:2.5Be­fore the times of the pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth upon the in­hab­i­tants of an evo­lu­tion­ary world, the Ad­justers’ be­stowal ap­pears to be de­ter­mined by many spirit in­flu­ences and per­son­al­ity at­ti­tudes. We do not fully com­pre­hend the laws gov­ern­ing such be­stowals; we do not un­der­stand just what de­ter­mines the re­lease of the Ad­justers who have vol­un­teered to in­dwell such evolv­ing minds. But we do ob­serve nu­mer­ous in­flu­ences and con­di­tions which ap­pear to be as­so­ci­ated with the ar­rival of the Ad­justers in such minds prior to the be­stowal of the Spirit of Truth, and they are:

108:2.61. The as­sign­ment of per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans. If a mor­tal has not been pre­vi­ously in­dwelt by an Ad­juster, the as­sign­ment of a per­sonal guard­ian brings the Ad­juster forth­with. There ex­ists some very def­i­nite but un­known re­la­tion be­tween the min­istry of Ad­justers and the min­istry of per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans.

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.

108:2.83. Upon the mak­ing of a su­preme de­ci­sion of un­usual spir­i­tual im­port. Such hu­man be­hav­ior in a per­sonal plan­e­tary cri­sis usu­ally is at­tended by the im­me­di­ate ar­rival of the wait­ing Ad­juster.

108:2.94. The spirit of broth­er­hood. Re­gard­less of the at­tain­ment of the psy­chic cir­cles and the as­sign­ment of per­sonal guard­i­ans—in the ab­sence of any­thing re­sem­bling a cri­sis de­ci­sion—when an evolv­ing mor­tal be­comes dom­i­nated by the love of his fel­lows and con­se­crated to un­selfish min­istry to his breth­ren in the flesh, the wait­ing Ad­juster un­vary­ingly de­scends to in­dwell the mind of such a mor­tal min­is­ter.

108:2.105. Dec­la­ra­tion of in­ten­tion to do the will of God. We ob­serve that many mor­tals on the worlds of space may be ap­par­ently in readi­ness to re­ceive Ad­justers, and yet the Mon­i­tors do not ap­pear. We go on watch­ing such crea­tures as they live from day to day, and pres­ently they qui­etly, al­most un­con­sciously, ar­rive at the de­ci­sion to be­gin the pur­suit of the do­ing of the will of the Fa­ther in heaven. And then we ob­serve the im­me­di­ate dis­patch of the Thought Ad­justers.

• Supreme Being sometimes causes bestowal on nonfusion worlds

108:2.116. In­flu­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing. On worlds where the Ad­justers do not fuse with the evolv­ing souls of the mor­tal in­hab­i­tants, we ob­serve Ad­justers some­times be­stowed in re­sponse to in­flu­ences which are wholly be­yond our com­pre­hen­sion. We con­jec­ture that such be­stowals are de­ter­mined by some cos­mic re­flex ac­tion orig­i­nat­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing. As to why these Ad­justers can not or do not fuse with these cer­tain types of evolv­ing mor­tal minds we do not know. Such trans­ac­tions have never been re­vealed to us.

• sent to all mortals after bestowal Son’s visitation
• Spirit of Truth prepares for planetary reception

120:2.6“6. On the planet of your be­stowal, set re­bel­lion-seg­re­gated man spir­i­tu­ally free. On Uran­tia, make a fur­ther con­tri­bu­tion to the sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme, thus ex­tend­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of this sov­er­eignty through­out the broad do­mains of your per­sonal cre­ation. In this, your ma­te­rial be­stowal in the like­ness of the flesh, you are about to ex­pe­ri­ence the fi­nal en­light­en­ment of a time-space Cre­ator, the dual ex­pe­ri­ence of work­ing within the na­ture of man with the will of your Par­a­dise Fa­ther. In your tem­po­ral life the will of the fi­nite crea­ture and the will of the in­fi­nite Cre­ator are to be­come as one, even as they are also unit­ing in the evolv­ing De­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing. Pour out upon the planet of your be­stowal the Spirit of Truth and thus make all nor­mal mor­tals on that iso­lated sphere im­me­di­ately and fully ac­ces­si­ble to the min­istry of the seg­re­gated pres­ence of our Par­a­dise Fa­ther, the Thought Ad­justers of the realms.

• of Jesus’

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.

• assigned when children make first moral decision

133:6.5“The soul is the self-re­flec­tive, truth-dis­cern­ing, and spirit-per­ceiv­ing part of man which for­ever el­e­vates the hu­man be­ing above the level of the an­i­mal world. Self-con­scious­ness, in and of it­self, is not the soul. Moral self-con­scious­ness is true hu­man self-re­al­iza­tion and con­sti­tutes the foun­da­tion of the hu­man soul, and the soul is that part of man which rep­re­sents the po­ten­tial sur­vival value of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. Moral choice and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, the abil­ity to know God and the urge to be like him, are the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the soul. The soul of man can­not ex­ist apart from moral think­ing and spir­i­tual ac­tiv­ity. A stag­nant soul is a dy­ing soul. But the soul of man is dis­tinct from the di­vine spirit which dwells within the mind. The di­vine spirit ar­rives si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the first moral ac­tiv­ity of the hu­man mind, and that is the oc­ca­sion of the birth of the soul.

• sent to all mortals after bestowal Son’s visitation

146:3.6“While you can­not ob­serve the di­vine spirit at work in your minds, there is a prac­ti­cal method of dis­cov­er­ing the de­gree to which you have yielded the con­trol of your soul pow­ers to the teach­ing and guid­ance of this in­dwelling spirit of the heav­enly Fa­ther, and that is the de­gree of your love for your fel­low men. This spirit of the Fa­ther par­takes of the love of the Fa­ther, and as it dom­i­nates man, it un­fail­ingly leads in the di­rec­tions of di­vine wor­ship and lov­ing re­gard for one’s fel­lows. At first you be­lieve that you are sons of God be­cause my teach­ing has made you more con­scious of the in­ner lead­ings of our Fa­ther’s in­dwelling pres­ence; but pres­ently the Spirit of Truth shall be poured out upon all flesh, and it will live among men and teach all men, even as I now live among you and speak to you the words of truth. And this Spirit of Truth, speak­ing for the spir­i­tual en­dow­ments of your souls, will help you to know that you are the sons of God. It will un­fail­ingly bear wit­ness with the Fa­ther’s in­dwelling pres­ence, your spirit, then dwell­ing in all men as it now dwells in some, telling you that you are in re­al­ity the sons of God.

• Spirit of Truth prepares for planetary reception

194:2.3This be­stowal of the Son’s spirit ef­fec­tively pre­pared all nor­mal men’s minds for the sub­se­quent uni­ver­sal be­stowal of the Fa­ther’s spirit (the Ad­juster) upon all man­kind. In a cer­tain sense, this Spirit of Truth is the spirit of both the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Cre­ator Son.

• of Jesus’

196:1.71. The ar­rival of the Thought Ad­juster.

17:3.9While Thought Ad­justers do not par­tic­i­pate in the op­er­a­tion of the uni­ver­sal re­flec­tiv­ity sys­tem, we have ev­ery rea­son to be­lieve that all Fa­ther frag­ments are fully cog­nizant of these trans­ac­tions and are able to avail them­selves of their con­tent.

114:7.9On many worlds the bet­ter adapted sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures are able to at­tain vary­ing de­grees of con­tact with the Thought Ad­justers of cer­tain fa­vor­ably con­sti­tuted mor­tals through the skill­ful pen­e­tra­tion of the minds of the lat­ters’ in­dwelling. (And it was by just such a for­tu­itous com­bi­na­tion of cos­mic ad­just­ments that these rev­e­la­tions were ma­te­ri­al­ized in the En­glish lan­guage on Uran­tia.) Such po­ten­tial con­tact mor­tals of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds are mo­bi­lized in the nu­mer­ous re­serve corps, and it is, to a cer­tain ex­tent, through these small groups of for­ward-look­ing per­son­al­i­ties that spir­i­tual civ­i­liza­tion is ad­vanced and the Most Highs are able to rule in the king­doms of men. The men and women of these re­serve corps of des­tiny thus have var­i­ous de­grees of con­tact with their Ad­justers through the in­ter­ven­ing min­istry of the mid­way crea­tures; but these same mor­tals are lit­tle known to their fel­lows ex­cept in those rare so­cial emer­gen­cies and spir­i­tual ex­i­gen­cies wherein these re­serve per­son­al­i­ties func­tion for the pre­ven­tion of the break­down of evo­lu­tion­ary cul­ture or the ex­tinc­tion of the light of liv­ing truth. On Uran­tia these re­servists of des­tiny have sel­dom been em­bla­zoned on the pages of hu­man his­tory.

5:3.2Sup­pli­ca­tions of all kinds be­long to the realm of the Eter­nal Son and the Son’s spir­i­tual or­ga­ni­za­tion. Prayers, all for­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tions, ev­ery­thing ex­cept ado­ra­tion and wor­ship of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, are mat­ters that con­cern a lo­cal uni­verse; they do not or­di­nar­ily pro­ceed out of the realm of the ju­ris­dic­tion of a Cre­ator Son. But wor­ship is un­doubt­edly en­cir­cuited and dis­patched to the per­son of the Cre­ator by the func­tion of the Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. We fur­ther be­lieve that such reg­istry of the homage of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt crea­ture is fa­cil­i­tated by the Fa­ther’s spirit pres­ence. There ex­ists a tremen­dous amount of ev­i­dence to sub­stan­ti­ate such a be­lief, and I know that all or­ders of Fa­ther frag­ments are em­pow­ered to reg­is­ter the bona fide ado­ra­tion of their sub­jects ac­cept­ably in the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Ad­justers un­doubt­edly also uti­lize di­rect preper­sonal chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion with God, and they are like­wise able to uti­lize the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son.

15:9.63. The se­cret cir­cuits of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, in some man­ner in­teras­so­ci­ated and routed by Di­vin­ing­ton to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

5:2.3The di­vine pres­ence can­not, how­ever, be dis­cov­ered any­where in na­ture or even in the lives of God-know­ing mor­tals so fully and so cer­tainly as in your at­tempted com­mu­nion with the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tor, the Par­a­dise Thought Ad­juster. What a mis­take to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther lives within your own mind!

5:2.4It is be­cause of this God frag­ment that in­dwells you that you can hope, as you pro­gress in har­mo­niz­ing with the Ad­juster’s spir­i­tual lead­ings, more fully to dis­cern the pres­ence and trans­form­ing power of those other spir­i­tual in­flu­ences that sur­round you and im­pinge upon you but do not func­tion as an in­te­gral part of you. The fact that you are not in­tel­lec­tu­ally con­scious of close and in­ti­mate con­tact with the in­dwelling Ad­juster does not in the least dis­prove such an ex­alted ex­pe­ri­ence. The proof of fra­ter­nity with the di­vine Ad­juster con­sists wholly in the na­ture and ex­tent of the fruits of the spirit which are yielded in the life ex­pe­ri­ence of the in­di­vid­ual be­liever. “By their fruits you shall know them.”

47:4.4A newly de­vel­oped and suit­ably ad­justed mor­ontia body is ac­quired at the time of each ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other. You go to sleep with the se­raphic trans­port and awake with the new but un­de­vel­oped body in the res­ur­rec­tion halls, much as when you first ar­rived on man­sion world num­ber one ex­cept that the Thought Ad­juster does not leave you dur­ing these tran­sit sleeps be­tween the man­sion worlds. Your per­son­al­ity re­mains in­tact af­ter you once pass from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds to the ini­tial man­sion world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

• Andon and Fonta made decisions which enabled Adjusters to indwell

63:1.4The de­ci­sion of An­don and Fonta to flee from the Pri­mates tribes im­plies a qual­ity of mind far above the baser in­tel­li­gence which char­ac­ter­ized so many of their later de­scen­dants who stooped to mate with their re­tarded cousins of the simian tribes. But their vague feel­ing of be­ing some­thing more than mere an­i­mals was due to the pos­ses­sion of per­son­al­ity and was aug­mented by the in­dwelling pres­ence of the Thought Ad­justers.

• Andon and Fonta made decisions which enabled Adjusters to indwell
• came in great numbers in days of Onagar

63:6.9Al­though both An­don and Fonta had re­ceived Thought Ad­justers, as had many of their de­scen­dants, it was not un­til the days of On­a­gar that the Ad­justers and guard­ian ser­a­phim came in great num­bers to Uran­tia. This was, in­deed, the golden age of prim­i­tive man.

• Andon and Fonta made decisions which enabled Adjusters to indwell

65:4.9On an or­di­nary in­hab­ited world a Plan­e­tary Prince would have been granted on the re­quest of the Life Car­ri­ers at, or some­time af­ter, the ap­pear­ance of An­don and Fonta. But Uran­tia hav­ing been des­ig­nated a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion planet, it was by prea­gree­ment that the Mel­chiz­e­dek ob­servers, twelve in num­ber, were sent as ad­vis­ers to the Life Car­ri­ers and as over­seers of the planet un­til the sub­se­quent ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. These Mel­chiz­e­deks came at the time An­don and Fonta made the de­ci­sions which en­abled Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell their mor­tal minds.

• assembled Andonic counterparts for Prince’s staff

66:2.7Ac­cord­ingly, fifty males and fifty fe­males of the An­don and Fonta pos­ter­ity, rep­re­sent­ing the sur­vival of the best strains of that unique race, were cho­sen by the Life Car­ri­ers. With one or two ex­cep­tions these An­don­ite con­trib­u­tors to the ad­vance­ment of the race were strangers to one an­other. They were as­sem­bled from widely sep­a­rated places by co-or­di­nated Thought Ad­juster di­rec­tion and se­raphic guid­ance at the thresh­old of the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters of the Prince. Here the one hun­dred hu­man sub­jects were given into the hands of the highly skilled vol­un­teer com­mis­sion from Avalon, who di­rected the ma­te­rial ex­trac­tion of a por­tion of the life plasm of these An­don de­scen­dants. This liv­ing ma­te­rial was then trans­ferred to the ma­te­rial bod­ies con­structed for the use of the one hun­dred Jerusemite mem­bers of the Prince’s staff. Mean­time, these newly ar­rived cit­i­zens of the sys­tem cap­i­tal were held in the sleep of se­raphic trans­port.

• empowered Amadon to be loyal in rebellion

67:3.7This seven years of wait­ing was a time of heart search­ing and soul dis­ci­pline. Such crises in the af­fairs of a uni­verse demon­strate the tremen­dous in­flu­ence of mind as a fac­tor in spir­i­tual choos­ing. Ed­u­ca­tion, train­ing, and ex­pe­ri­ence are fac­tors in most of the vi­tal de­ci­sions of all evo­lu­tion­ary moral crea­tures. But it is en­tirely pos­si­ble for the in­dwelling spirit to make di­rect con­tact with the de­ci­sion-de­ter­min­ing pow­ers of the hu­man per­son­al­ity so as to em­power the fully con­se­crated will of the crea­ture to per­form amaz­ing acts of loyal de­vo­tion to the will and the way of the Fa­ther in Par­a­dise. And this is just what oc­curred in the ex­pe­ri­ence of Amadon, the mod­i­fied hu­man as­so­ciate of Van.

• indwelt Cain when he sought divine assistance

76:2.8Cain’s life in Mes­o­po­ta­mia had not been ex­actly happy since he was in such a pe­cu­liar way sym­bolic of the de­fault. It was not that his as­so­ciates were un­kind to him, but he had not been un­aware of their sub­con­scious re­sent­ment of his pres­ence. But Cain knew that, since he bore no tribal mark, he would be killed by the first neigh­bor­ing tribes­men who might chance to meet him. Fear, and some re­morse, led him to re­pent. Cain had never been in­dwelt by an Ad­juster, had al­ways been de­fi­ant of the fam­ily dis­ci­pline and dis­dain­ful of his fa­ther’s re­li­gion. But he now went to Eve, his mother, and asked for spir­i­tual help and guid­ance, and when he hon­estly sought di­vine as­sis­tance, an Ad­juster in­dwelt him. And this Ad­juster, dwell­ing within and look­ing out, gave Cain a dis­tinct ad­van­tage of su­pe­ri­or­ity which classed him with the greatly feared tribe of Adam.

• Adjuster of Melchizedek and Jesus only one ever to serve twice on Urantia

93:2.7This in­car­nated Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceived a Thought Ad­juster, who in­dwelt his super­hu­man per­son­al­ity as the mon­i­tor of time and the men­tor of the flesh, thus gain­ing that ex­pe­ri­ence and prac­ti­cal in­tro­duc­tion to Uran­tian prob­lems and to the tech­nique of in­dwelling an in­car­nated Son which en­abled this spirit of the Fa­ther to func­tion so valiantly in the hu­man mind of the later Son of God, Mi­chael, when he ap­peared on earth in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh. And this is the only Thought Ad­juster who ever func­tioned in two minds on Uran­tia, but both minds were di­vine as well as hu­man.

• Brahman philosophy very near realization of

94:3.6The phi­los­o­phy of Brah­man­ism also came very near to the re­al­iza­tion of the in­dwelling of the Thought Ad­justers, only to be­come per­verted through the mis­con­cep­tion of truth. The teach­ing that the soul is the in­dwelling of the Brah­man would have paved the way for an ad­vanced re­li­gion had not this con­cept been com­pletely vi­ti­ated by the be­lief that there is no hu­man in­di­vid­u­al­ity apart from this in­dwelling of the Uni­ver­sal One.

• clear Buddhist teaching of

94:11.5This phi­los­o­phy also held that the Bud­dha (di­vine) na­ture resided in all men; that man, through his own en­deav­ors, could at­tain to the re­al­iza­tion of this in­ner di­vin­ity. And this teach­ing is one of the clear­est pre­sen­ta­tions of the truth of the in­dwelling Ad­justers ever to be made by a Uran­tian re­li­gion.

• many great leaders exerted influence because of previous experience of their T.A.

109:4.3The type of Ad­juster has much to do with the po­ten­tial for ex­pres­sion of the hu­man per­son­al­ity. On down through the ages, many of the great in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual lead­ers of Uran­tia have ex­erted their in­flu­ence chiefly be­cause of the su­pe­ri­or­ity and pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence of their in­dwelling Ad­justers.

• one of most useful T.A. on Urantia previously indwelt 15 minds in Orvonton

109:4.5I have ob­served a Thought Ad­juster in­dwelling a mind on Uran­tia who has, ac­cord­ing to the rec­ords on Uversa, in­dwelt fif­teen minds pre­vi­ously in Or­von­ton. We do not know whether this Mon­i­tor has had sim­i­lar ex­pe­ri­ences in other super­uni­verses, but I sus­pect so. This is a mar­velous Ad­juster and one of the most use­ful and po­tent forces on Uran­tia dur­ing this pres­ent age. What oth­ers have lost, in that they re­fused to sur­vive, this hu­man be­ing (and your whole world) now gains. From him who has not sur­vival qual­i­ties, shall be taken away even that ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster which he now has, while to him who has sur­vival prospects, shall be given even the pre-ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster of a sloth­ful de­serter.

• Adjuster of Melchizedek and Jesus only one ever to serve twice on Urantia

109:4.6In a sense the Ad­justers may be fos­ter­ing a cer­tain de­gree of plan­e­tary cross-fer­til­iza­tion in the do­mains of truth, beauty, and good­ness. But they are sel­dom given two in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ences on the same planet; there is no Ad­juster now serv­ing on Uran­tia who has been on this world pre­vi­ously. I know whereof I speak since we have their num­bers and rec­ords in the ar­chives of Uversa.

• Adjuster of human being through whom Urantia Papers given

110:5.7The Ad­juster of the hu­man be­ing through whom this com­mu­ni­ca­tion is be­ing made en­joys such a wide scope of ac­tiv­ity chiefly be­cause of this hu­man’s al­most com­plete in­dif­fer­ence to any out­ward man­i­fes­ta­tions of the Ad­juster’s in­ner pres­ence; it is in­deed for­tu­nate that he re­mains con­sciously quite un­con­cerned about the en­tire pro­ce­dure. He holds one of the highly ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­justers of his day and gen­er­a­tion, and yet his pas­sive re­ac­tion to, and in­ac­tive con­cern to­ward, the phe­nom­ena as­so­ci­ated with the pres­ence in his mind of this ver­sa­tile Ad­juster is pro­nounced by the guard­ian of des­tiny to be a rare and for­tu­itous re­ac­tion. And all this con­sti­tutes a fa­vor­able co-or­di­na­tion of in­flu­ences, fa­vor­able both to the Ad­juster in the higher sphere of ac­tion and to the hu­man part­ner from the stand­points of health, ef­fi­ciency, and tran­quil­lity.

• plea to human subject

110:7.10Dur­ing the mak­ing and break­ing of a con­tact be­tween the mor­tal mind of a des­tiny re­servist and the plan­e­tary super­vi­sors, some­times the in­dwelling Ad­juster is so sit­u­ated that it be­comes pos­si­ble to trans­mit a mes­sage to the mor­tal part­ner. Not long since, on Uran­tia, such a mes­sage was trans­mit­ted by a self-act­ing Ad­juster to the hu­man as­so­ciate, a mem­ber of the re­serve corps of des­tiny. This mes­sage was in­tro­duced by these words: “And now, with­out in­jury or jeop­ardy to the sub­ject of my so­lic­i­tous de­vo­tion and with­out in­tent to over­chas­tise or dis­cour­age, for me, make rec­ord of this my plea to him.” Then fol­lowed a beau­ti­fully touch­ing and ap­peal­ing ad­mo­ni­tion. Among other things, the Ad­juster pleaded “that he more faith­fully give me his sin­cere co-op­er­a­tion, more cheer­fully en­dure the tasks of my em­place­ment, more faith­fully carry out the pro­gram of my ar­range­ment, more pa­tiently go through the tri­als of my se­lec­tion, more per­sis­tently and cheer­fully tread the path of my choos­ing, more humbly re­ceive credit that may ac­crue as a re­sult of my cease­less en­deav­ors—thus trans­mit my ad­mo­ni­tion to the man of my in­dwelling. Upon him I be­stow the su­preme de­vo­tion and af­fec­tion of a di­vine spirit. And say fur­ther to my beloved sub­ject that I will func­tion with wis­dom and power un­til the very end, un­til the last earth strug­gle is over; I will be true to my per­son­al­ity trust. And I ex­hort him to sur­vival, not to dis­ap­point me, not to de­prive me of the re­ward of my pa­tient and in­tense strug­gle. On the hu­man will our achieve­ment of per­son­al­ity de­pends. Cir­cle by cir­cle I have pa­tiently as­cended this hu­man mind, and I have tes­ti­mony that I am meet­ing the ap­proval of the chief of my kind. Cir­cle by cir­cle I am pass­ing on to judg­ment. I await with plea­sure and with­out ap­pre­hen­sion the roll call of des­tiny; I am pre­pared to sub­mit all to the tri­bu­nals of the An­cients of Days.”

• Jesus achieved perfect synchrony with

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.

108:3.3Hu­man sub­jects are of­ten known by the num­bers of their Ad­justers; mor­tals do not re­ceive real uni­verse names un­til af­ter Ad­juster fu­sion, which union is sig­nal­ized by the be­stowal of the new name upon the new crea­ture by the des­tiny guard­ian.

109:4.4The in­dwelling Ad­justers have in no small mea­sure co-op­er­ated with other spir­i­tual in­flu­ences in trans­form­ing and hu­man­iz­ing the de­scen­dants of the prim­i­tive men of olden ages. If the Ad­justers in­dwelling the minds of the in­hab­i­tants of Uran­tia were to be with­drawn, the world would slowly re­turn to many of the scenes and prac­tices of the men of prim­i­tive times; the di­vine Mon­i­tors are one of the real po­ten­tials of ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion.

• fragment of infinity

3:4.7Fi­nite ap­pre­ci­a­tion of in­fi­nite qual­i­ties far tran­scends the log­i­cally lim­ited ca­pac­i­ties of the crea­ture be­cause of the fact that mor­tal man is made in the im­age of God—there lives within him a frag­ment of in­fin­ity. There­fore man’s near­est and dear­est ap­proach to God is by and through love, for God is love. And all of such a unique re­la­tion­ship is an ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in cos­mic so­ci­ol­ogy, the Cre­ator-crea­ture re­la­tion­ship—the Fa­ther-child af­fec­tion.

• divine spark, spark of infinity, immortal germ, part of Father-Absolute

4:4.9The con­scious­ness of a vic­to­ri­ous hu­man life on earth is born of that crea­ture faith which dares to chal­lenge each re­cur­ring episode of ex­is­tence when con­fronted with the aw­ful spec­ta­cle of hu­man lim­i­ta­tions, by the un­fail­ing dec­la­ra­tion: Even if I can­not do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it, a part of the Fa­ther-Ab­so­lute of the uni­verse of uni­verses. And that is “the vic­tory which over­comes the world, even your faith.”

• Mystery Monitors

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.

• true lights which light every man

40:5.19As to the chances of mor­tal sur­vival, let it be made for­ever clear: All souls of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase of mor­tal ex­is­tence will sur­vive pro­vided they man­i­fest will­ing­ness to co-op­er­ate with their in­dwelling Ad­justers and ex­hibit a de­sire to find God and to at­tain di­vine per­fec­tion, even though these de­sires be but the first faint flick­ers of the prim­i­tive com­pre­hen­sion of that “true light which lights ev­ery man who comes into the world.”

• Mystery Monitors

50:1.1The Plan­e­tary Prince and his as­sis­tant breth­ren rep­re­sent the near­est per­son­al­ized ap­proach (aside from in­car­na­tion) that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise can make to the lowly crea­tures of time and space. True, the Cre­ator Son touches the crea­tures of the realms through his spirit, but the Plan­e­tary Prince is the last of the or­ders of per­sonal Sons ex­tend­ing out from Par­a­dise to the chil­dren of men. The In­fi­nite Spirit comes very near in the per­sons of the guard­i­ans of des­tiny and other an­gelic be­ings; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther lives in man by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors; but the Plan­e­tary Prince rep­re­sents the last ef­fort of the Eter­nal Son and his Sons to draw near you. On a newly in­hab­ited world the Plan­e­tary Prince is the sole rep­re­sen­ta­tive of com­plete di­vin­ity, spring­ing from the Cre­ator Son (the off­spring of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son) and the Di­vine Min­is­ter (the uni­verse Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit).

• true lights which light every man

52:1.7All mor­tals who are in­dwelt by Thought Ad­justers are po­ten­tial wor­shipers; they have been “lighted by the true light,” and they pos­sess ca­pac­ity for seek­ing re­cip­ro­cal con­tact with di­vin­ity. Nev­er­the­less, the early or bi­o­logic re­li­gion of prim­i­tive man is largely a per­sis­tence of an­i­mal fear cou­pled with ig­no­rant awe and tribal su­per­sti­tion. The sur­vival of su­per­sti­tion in the Uran­tia races is hardly com­pli­men­tary to your evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment nor com­pat­i­ble with your oth­er­wise splen­did achieve­ments in ma­te­rial prog­ress. But this early fear re­li­gion serves a very valu­able pur­pose in sub­du­ing the fiery tem­pers of these prim­i­tive crea­tures. It is the fore­run­ner of civ­i­liza­tion and the soil for the sub­se­quent plant­ing of the seeds of re­vealed re­li­gion by the Plan­e­tary Prince and his min­is­ters.

• Mystery Monitors

52:4.7Dur­ing this epoch the ma­jor­ity of the world mor­tals are Ad­juster in­dwelt. But even yet the be­stowal of di­vine Mon­i­tors is not al­ways uni­ver­sal. The Ad­justers of fu­sion des­tiny are not yet be­stowed upon all plan­e­tary mor­tals; it is still nec­es­sary for the will crea­tures to choose the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

• true lights which light every man

101:0.3Re­li­gion, the con­vic­tion-faith of the per­son­al­ity, can al­ways tri­umph over the su­per­fi­cially con­tra­dic­tory logic of de­spair born in the un­be­liev­ing ma­te­rial mind. There re­ally is a true and gen­uine in­ner voice, that “true light which lights ev­ery man who comes into the world.” And this spirit lead­ing is dis­tinct from the eth­i­cal prompt­ing of hu­man con­science. The feel­ing of re­li­gious as­sur­ance is more than an emo­tional feel­ing. The as­sur­ance of re­li­gion tran­scends the rea­son of the mind, even the logic of phi­los­o­phy. Re­li­gion is faith, trust, and as­sur­ance.

• Thought Adjusters, when subjects are age 20 to 40
• Thought Changers, until age 20
• Thought Controllers, after 40

107:0.7On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, will crea­tures tra­verse three gen­eral de­vel­op­men­tal stages of be­ing: From the ar­rival of the Ad­juster to com­par­a­tive full growth, about twenty years of age on Uran­tia, the Mon­i­tors are some­times des­ig­nated Thought Chang­ers. From this time to the at­tain­ment of the age of dis­cre­tion, about forty years, the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are called Thought Ad­justers. From the at­tain­ment of dis­cre­tion to de­liv­er­ance from the flesh, they are of­ten re­ferred to as Thought Con­trol­lers. These three phases of mor­tal life have no con­nec­tion with the three stages of Ad­juster prog­ress in mind du­pli­ca­tion and soul evo­lu­tion.

• by name on Divinington

107:3.10We re­ally know very lit­tle about the non­per­son­al­ized Ad­justers; we only con­tact and com­mu­ni­cate with the per­son­al­ized or­ders. These are chris­tened on Di­vin­ing­ton and are al­ways known by name and not by num­ber. The Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are per­ma­nently domi­ciled on Di­vin­ing­ton; that sa­cred sphere is their home. They go out from that abode only by the will of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Very few are found in the do­mains of the lo­cal uni­verses, but larger num­bers are pres­ent in the cen­tral uni­verse.

• difficulty finding appropriate name for

108:5.7I doubt that I am able to ex­plain to you just what the Ad­justers do in your minds and for your souls. I do not know that I am fully cog­nizant of what is re­ally go­ing on in the cos­mic as­so­ci­a­tion of a di­vine Mon­i­tor and a hu­man mind. It is all some­what of a mys­tery to us, not as to the plan and pur­pose but as to the ac­tual mode of ac­com­plish­ment. And this is just why we are con­fronted with such dif­fi­culty in find­ing an ap­pro­pri­ate name for these su­per­nal gifts to mor­tal men.

• divine spark, spark of infinity, immortal germ, part of Father-Absolute

111:6.1Many of the tem­po­ral trou­bles of mor­tal man grow out of his two­fold re­la­tion to the cos­mos. Man is a part of na­ture—he ex­ists in na­ture—and yet he is able to tran­scend na­ture. Man is fi­nite, but he is in­dwelt by a spark of in­fin­ity. Such a dual sit­u­a­tion not only pro­vides the po­ten­tial for evil but also en­gen­ders many so­cial and moral sit­u­a­tions fraught with much un­cer­tainty and not a lit­tle anx­i­ety.

• true lights which light every man

113:6.2The in­stant the pi­lot light in the hu­man mind dis­ap­pears, the spirit lu­mi­nos­ity which ser­a­phim as­so­ciate with the pres­ence of the Ad­juster, the at­tend­ing an­gel re­ports in per­son to the com­mand­ing an­gels, suc­ces­sively, of the group, com­pany, bat­tal­ion, unit, le­gion, and host; and af­ter be­ing duly reg­is­tered for the fi­nal ad­ven­ture of time and space, such an an­gel re­ceives cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by the plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim for re­port­ing to the Evening Star (or other lieu­tenant of Ga­briel) in com­mand of the se­raphic army of this can­di­date for uni­verse as­cen­sion. And upon be­ing granted per­mis­sion from the com­man­der of this high­est or­ga­ni­za­tional unit, such a guard­ian of des­tiny pro­ceeds to the first man­sion world and there awaits the con­sciou­siz­ing of her for­mer ward in the flesh.

• divine spark, spark of infinity, immortal germ, part of Father-Absolute

132:3.6Faith acts to re­lease the super­hu­man ac­tiv­i­ties of the di­vine spark, the im­mor­tal germ, that lives within the mind of man, and which is the po­ten­tial of eter­nal sur­vival. Plants and an­i­mals sur­vive in time by the tech­nique of pass­ing on from one gen­er­a­tion to an­other iden­ti­cal par­ti­cles of them­selves. The hu­man soul (per­son­al­ity) of man sur­vives mor­tal death by iden­tity as­so­ci­a­tion with this in­dwelling spark of di­vin­ity, which is im­mor­tal, and which func­tions to per­pet­u­ate the hu­man per­son­al­ity upon a con­tin­u­ing and higher level of pro­gres­sive uni­verse ex­is­tence. The con­cealed seed of the hu­man soul is an im­mor­tal spirit. The sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of the soul is the first of a suc­ces­sion of per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions of spir­i­tual and pro­gress­ing ex­is­tences, ter­mi­nat­ing only when this di­vine en­tity at­tains the source of its ex­is­tence, the per­sonal source of all ex­is­tence, God, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• create hunger and thirst for righteousness, craving for perfection

1:2.63. The per­son­al­ity crav­ing to be like God—the whole­hearted de­sire to do the Fa­ther’s will.

• carry away everything of survival value from nonsurvivors

2:3.4When this sen­tence is fi­nally con­firmed, the sin-iden­ti­fied be­ing in­stantly be­comes as though he had not been. There is no res­ur­rec­tion from such a fate; it is ev­er­last­ing and eter­nal. The liv­ing en­ergy fac­tors of iden­tity are re­solved by the trans­for­ma­tions of time and the meta­mor­phoses of space into the cos­mic po­ten­tials whence they once emerged. As for the per­son­al­ity of the in­iq­ui­tous one, it is de­prived of a con­tin­u­ing life ve­hi­cle by the crea­ture’s fail­ure to make those choices and fi­nal de­ci­sions which would have as­sured eter­nal life. When the con­tin­ued em­brace of sin by the as­so­ci­ated mind cul­mi­nates in com­plete self-iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with in­iq­uity, then upon the ces­sa­tion of life, upon cos­mic dis­so­lu­tion, such an iso­lated per­son­al­ity is ab­sorbed into the over­soul of cre­ation, be­com­ing a part of the evolv­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing. Never again does it ap­pear as a per­son­al­ity; its iden­tity be­comes as though it had never been. In the case of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt per­son­al­ity, the ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit val­ues sur­vive in the re­al­ity of the con­tin­u­ing Ad­juster.

• Father draws nearest to mortals by

2:5.6How un­rea­son­able that you should not wor­ship God be­cause the lim­i­ta­tions of hu­man na­ture and the hand­i­caps of your ma­te­rial cre­ation make it im­pos­si­ble for you to see him. Be­tween you and God there is a tremen­dous dis­tance (phys­i­cal space) to be tra­versed. There like­wise ex­ists a great gulf of spir­i­tual dif­fer­en­tial which must be bridged; but not­with­stand­ing all that phys­i­cally and spir­i­tu­ally sep­a­rates you from the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of God, stop and pon­der the solemn fact that God lives within you; he has in his own way al­ready bridged the gulf. He has sent of him­self, his spirit, to live in you and to toil with you as you pur­sue your eter­nal uni­verse ca­reer.

• lead man to, and conduct, worship

5:3.7Sin­cere wor­ship con­notes the mo­bi­liza­tion of all the pow­ers of the hu­man per­son­al­ity un­der the dom­i­nance of the evolv­ing soul and sub­ject to the di­vine di­rec­tion­iza­tion of the as­so­ci­ated Thought Ad­juster. The mind of ma­te­rial lim­i­ta­tions can never be­come highly con­scious of the real sig­nif­i­cance of true wor­ship. Man’s re­al­iza­tion of the re­al­ity of the wor­ship ex­pe­ri­ence is chiefly de­ter­mined by the de­vel­op­men­tal sta­tus of his evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul. The spir­i­tual growth of the soul takes place wholly in­de­pen­dently of the in­tel­lec­tual self-con­scious­ness.

5:3.8The wor­ship ex­pe­ri­ence con­sists in the sub­lime at­tempt of the be­trothed Ad­juster to com­mu­ni­cate to the di­vine Fa­ther the in­ex­press­ible long­ings and the un­ut­ter­able as­pi­ra­tions of the hu­man soul—the con­joint cre­ation of the God-seek­ing mor­tal mind and the God-re­veal­ing im­mor­tal Ad­juster. Wor­ship is, there­fore, the act of the ma­te­rial mind’s as­sent­ing to the at­tempt of its spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing self, un­der the guid­ance of the as­so­ci­ated spirit, to com­mu­ni­cate with God as a faith son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The mor­tal mind con­sents to wor­ship; the im­mor­tal soul craves and ini­ti­ates wor­ship; the di­vine Ad­juster pres­ence con­ducts such wor­ship in be­half of the mor­tal mind and the evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul. True wor­ship, in the last anal­y­sis, be­comes an ex­pe­ri­ence re­al­ized on four cos­mic lev­els: the in­tel­lec­tual, the mor­ontial, the spir­i­tual, and the per­sonal—the con­scious­ness of mind, soul, and spirit, and their uni­fi­ca­tion in per­son­al­ity.

• equal partners with human mind in fostering soul

5:5.13Eter­nal sur­vival of per­son­al­ity is wholly de­pen­dent on the choos­ing of the mor­tal mind, whose de­ci­sions de­ter­mine the sur­vival po­ten­tial of the im­mor­tal soul. When the mind be­lieves God and the soul knows God, and when, with the fos­ter­ing Ad­juster, they all de­sire God, then is sur­vival as­sured. Lim­i­ta­tions of in­tel­lect, cur­tail­ment of ed­u­ca­tion, de­pri­va­tion of cul­ture, im­pov­er­ish­ment of so­cial sta­tus, even in­fe­ri­or­ity of the hu­man stan­dards of moral­ity re­sult­ing from the un­for­tu­nate lack of ed­u­ca­tional, cul­tural, and so­cial ad­van­tages, can­not in­val­i­date the pres­ence of the di­vine spirit in such un­for­tu­nate and hu­manly hand­i­capped but be­liev­ing in­di­vid­u­als. The in­dwelling of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor con­sti­tutes the in­cep­tion and in­sures the pos­si­bil­ity of the po­ten­tial of growth and sur­vival of the im­mor­tal soul.

• relation to other spiritual influences

8:5.4There are many spir­i­tual in­flu­ences, and they are all as one. Even the work of the Thought Ad­justers, though in­de­pen­dent of all other in­flu­ences, un­vary­ingly co­in­cides with the spirit min­istry of the com­bined in­flu­ences of the In­fi­nite Spirit and a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As these spir­i­tual pres­ences op­er­ate in the lives of Uran­tians, they can­not be seg­re­gated. In your minds and upon your souls they func­tion as one spirit, not­with­stand­ing their di­verse ori­gins. And as this united spir­i­tual min­is­tra­tion is ex­pe­ri­enced, it be­comes to you the in­flu­ence of the Su­preme, “who is ever able to keep you from fail­ing and to pre­sent you blame­less be­fore your Fa­ther on high.”

• Father draws nearest to mortals by

12:7.13Even though the Par­a­dise Fa­ther func­tions through his di­vine cre­ators and his crea­ture chil­dren, he also en­joys the most in­ti­mate in­ner con­tact with you, so sub­lime, so highly per­sonal, that it is even be­yond my com­pre­hen­sion—that mys­te­ri­ous com­mu­nion of the Fa­ther frag­ment with the hu­man soul and with the mor­tal mind of its ac­tual in­dwelling. Know­ing what you do of these gifts of God, you there­fore know that the Fa­ther is in in­ti­mate touch, not only with his di­vine as­so­ciates, but also with his evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal chil­dren of time. The Fa­ther in­deed abides on Par­a­dise, but his di­vine pres­ence also dwells in the minds of men.

• Seven Master Spirits have no involvement with

16:4.16Not­with­stand­ing our fail­ure ad­e­quately to com­pre­hend the man­i­fold work­ings of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, we are con­fi­dent there are two realms in the vast range of uni­verse ac­tiv­i­ties with which they have noth­ing what­ever to do: the be­stowal and min­istry of the Thought Ad­justers and the in­scrutable func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• retain spirit elements of nonsurviving mortals; Spirit-fusion subjects

16:9.3If mor­tal man fails to sur­vive nat­u­ral death, the real spir­i­tual val­ues of his hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence sur­vive as a part of the con­tin­u­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of the Thought Ad­juster. The per­son­al­ity val­ues of such a non­sur­vivor per­sist as a fac­tor in the per­son­al­ity of the ac­tu­al­iz­ing Su­preme Be­ing. Such per­sist­ing qual­i­ties of per­son­al­ity are de­prived of iden­tity but not of ex­pe­ri­en­tial val­ues ac­cu­mu­lated dur­ing the mor­tal life in the flesh. The sur­vival of iden­tity is de­pen­dent on the sur­vival of the im­mor­tal soul of mor­ontia sta­tus and in­creas­ingly di­vine value. Per­son­al­ity iden­tity sur­vives in and by the sur­vival of the soul.

• some indwell Paradise Sons on bestowal missions

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.

• equal partners with human mind in fostering soul

30:1.99God, as a super­per­son, even­tu­ates; God, as a per­son, cre­ates; God, as a preper­son, frag­ments; and such an Ad­juster frag­ment of him­self evolves the spirit soul upon the ma­te­rial and mor­tal mind in ac­cor­dance with the free­will choos­ing of the per­son­al­ity which has been be­stowed upon such a mor­tal crea­ture by the pa­ren­tal act of God as a Fa­ther.

• possess transcripts of sleeping survivor’s spiritized mind, memory, and personality

30:4.15The phys­i­cal body of mor­tal flesh is not a part of the re­assem­bly of the sleep­ing sur­vivor; the phys­i­cal body has re­turned to dust. The ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment spon­sors the new body, the mor­ontia form, as the new life ve­hi­cle for the im­mor­tal soul and for the in­dwelling of the re­turned Ad­juster. The Ad­juster is the cus­to­dian of the spirit tran­script of the mind of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The as­signed ser­a­phim is the keeper of the sur­viv­ing iden­tity—the im­mor­tal soul—as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Ad­juster and the ser­a­phim, re­unite their per­son­al­ity trusts, the new in­di­vid­ual con­sti­tutes the res­ur­rec­tion of the old per­son­al­ity, the sur­vival of the evolv­ing mor­ontia iden­tity of the soul. Such a re­as­so­ci­a­tion of soul and Ad­juster is quite prop­erly called a res­ur­rec­tion, a re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity fac­tors; but even this does not en­tirely ex­plain the reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity. Though you will prob­a­bly never un­der­stand the fact of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble trans­ac­tion, you will some­time ex­pe­ri­en­tially know the truth of it if you do not re­ject the plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

• indwell mind, not physical brain

34:5.6As in­di­vid­u­als you do not per­son­ally pos­sess a seg­re­gated por­tion or en­tity of the spirit of the Cre­ator Fa­ther-Son or the Cre­ative Mother Spirit; these min­istries do not con­tact with, nor in­dwell, the think­ing cen­ters of the in­di­vid­ual’s mind as do the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. Thought Ad­justers are def­i­nite in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tions of the preper­sonal re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, ac­tu­ally in­dwelling the mor­tal mind as a very part of that mind, and they ever work in per­fect har­mony with the com­bined spir­its of the Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit.

• serve as temporary guides for mortals destined for Son fusion or Spirit fusion; build up souls

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.”

• exceptionally efficient while subjects are in seraphic transport

39:2.11The pro­cess of be­ing en­ser­a­phimed is not un­like the ex­pe­ri­ence of death or sleep ex­cept that there is an au­to­matic time el­e­ment in the tran­sit slum­ber. You are con­sciously un­con­scious dur­ing se­raphic rest. But the Thought Ad­juster is wholly and fully con­scious, in fact, ex­cep­tion­ally ef­fi­cient since you are un­able to op­pose, re­sist, or oth­er­wise hin­der cre­ative and trans­form­ing work.

• repeatedly indwell mortals until one survives

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.

• Father draws nearest to mortals by

40:5.3God the Fa­ther does not, can­not, thus down­step him­self to make such near per­sonal con­tact with the al­most lim­it­less num­ber of as­cend­ing crea­tures through­out the uni­verse of uni­verses. But the Fa­ther is not de­prived of per­sonal con­tact with his lowly crea­tures; you are not with­out the di­vine pres­ence. Al­though God the Fa­ther can­not be with you by di­rect per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion, he is in you and of you in the iden­tity of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers, the di­vine Mon­i­tors. Thus does the Fa­ther, who is the far­thest from you in per­son­al­ity and in spirit, draw the near­est to you in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and in the spirit touch of in­ner com­mu­nion with the very souls of his mor­tal sons and daugh­ters.

• relation to planetary mortal types

40:5.8Se­ries one—mor­tals of the tran­sient or ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster so­journ. This se­ries des­ig­na­tion is tem­po­rary for any evolv­ing planet, be­ing used dur­ing the early stages of all in­hab­ited worlds ex­cept those of the sec­ond se­ries.

40:5.9Mor­tals of se­ries one in­habit the worlds of space dur­ing the ear­lier epochs of the evo­lu­tion of man­kind and em­brace the most prim­i­tive types of hu­man minds. On many worlds like pre-Adamic Uran­tia great num­bers of the higher and more ad­vanced types of prim­i­tive men ac­quire sur­vival ca­pac­ity but fail to at­tain Ad­juster fu­sion. For ages upon ages, be­fore man’s as­cent to the level of higher spir­i­tual vo­li­tion, the Ad­justers oc­cupy the minds of these strug­gling crea­tures dur­ing their short lives in the flesh, and the mo­ment such will crea­tures are in­dwelt by Ad­justers, the group guard­ian an­gels be­gin to func­tion. While these mor­tals of the first se­ries do not have per­sonal guard­i­ans, they do have group cus­to­di­ans.

• gain experience indwelling primitive mortals

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.

40:5.11The Gods who or­dained that mor­tal man should climb to higher lev­els of spir­i­tual in­tel­li­gence through long ages of evo­lu­tion­ary tri­als and tribu­la­tions, take note of his sta­tus and needs at ev­ery stage of the as­cent; and al­ways are they di­vinely fair and just, even charm­ingly mer­ci­ful, in the fi­nal judg­ments of these strug­gling mor­tals of the early days of the evolv­ing races.

• serve as temporary guides for mortals destined for Son fusion or Spirit fusion; build up souls

40:8.2Such mor­tals have been deemed wor­thy of sur­vival by the ad­ju­di­ca­tional au­thor­i­ties, and even their Ad­justers, by re­turn­ing from Di­vin­ing­ton, have con­curred in their as­cen­sion to the man­sion worlds. Such be­ings have as­cended through a sys­tem, a con­stel­la­tion, and through the ed­u­ca­tional worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit; they have en­joyed the “sev­enty times seven” op­por­tu­ni­ties for fu­sion and still have been un­able to at­tain one­ness with their Ad­justers.

• serve as temporary guides for mortals destined for Son fusion or Spirit fusion; build up souls

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.

• build spiritual counterparts of mortal careers, spiritually significant events
• retain spirit elements of nonsurviving mortals; Spirit-fusion subjects

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.

• go through experiences as a part of us – as us
• retain duplicates of entire life’s experiences

44:0.19All this is made pos­si­ble in the ex­pe­ri­ence of as­cend­ing mor­tals by the ac­tion of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers. Through their re­ten­tion of the du­pli­cates of your en­tire life’s ex­pe­ri­ences, you are as­sured of never los­ing any true at­tri­bute you once had; and these Ad­justers are go­ing through with you, as a part of you, in re­al­ity, as you.

• possess transcripts of sleeping survivor’s spiritized mind, memory, and personality

47:3.3The mor­tal-mind tran­scripts and the ac­tive crea­ture-mem­ory pat­terns as trans­formed from the ma­te­rial lev­els to the spir­i­tual are the in­di­vid­ual pos­ses­sion of the de­tached Thought Ad­justers; these spir­i­tized fac­tors of mind, mem­ory, and crea­ture per­son­al­ity are for­ever a part of such Ad­justers. The crea­ture mind-ma­trix and the pas­sive po­ten­tials of iden­tity are pres­ent in the mor­ontia soul in­trusted to the keep­ing of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­i­ans. And it is the re­unit­ing of the mor­ontia-soul trust of the ser­a­phim and the spirit-mind trust of the Ad­juster that re­assem­bles crea­ture per­son­al­ity and con­sti­tutes res­ur­rec­tion of a sleep­ing sur­vivor.

• retain spirit elements of nonsurviving mortals; Spirit-fusion subjects

47:3.4If a tran­si­tory per­son­al­ity of mor­tal ori­gin should never be thus re­assem­bled, the spirit el­e­ments of the non­sur­viv­ing mor­tal crea­ture would for­ever con­tinue as an in­te­gral part of the in­di­vid­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial en­dow­ment of the one­time in­dwelling Ad­juster.

• build spiritual counterparts of mortal careers, spiritually significant events

47:4.5Your Ad­juster mem­ory re­mains fully in­tact as you as­cend the mor­ontia life. Those men­tal as­so­ci­a­tions that were purely an­i­mal­is­tic and wholly ma­te­rial nat­u­rally per­ished with the phys­i­cal brain, but ev­ery­thing in your men­tal life which was worth while, and which had sur­vival value, was coun­ter­parted by the Ad­juster and is re­tained as a part of per­sonal mem­ory all the way through the as­cen­dant ca­reer. You will be con­scious of all your worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences as you ad­vance from one man­sion world to an­other and from one sec­tion of the uni­verse to an­other—even to Par­a­dise.

• sometimes detached for contact with superhuman intelligences

48:6.23You should con­sider the state­ment about “heaven” and the “heaven of heav­ens.” The heaven con­ceived by most of your proph­ets was the first of the man­sion worlds of the lo­cal sys­tem. When the apos­tle spoke of be­ing “caught up to the third heaven,” he re­ferred to that ex­pe­ri­ence in which his Ad­juster was de­tached dur­ing sleep and in this un­usual state made a pro­jec­tion to the third of the seven man­sion worlds. Some of your wise men saw the vi­sion of the greater heaven, “the heaven of heav­ens,” of which the sev­en­fold man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence was but the first; the sec­ond be­ing Je­ru­sem; the third, Eden­tia and its satel­lites; the fourth, Sal­ving­ton and the sur­round­ing ed­u­ca­tional spheres; the fifth, Uversa; the sixth, Ha­vona; and the sev­enth, Par­a­dise.

• relation to planetary mortal types

49:5.14From the two-hemi­sphere type of the Uran­tian cere­bral cor­tex you can, by anal­ogy, grasp some­thing of the one-brained type. The third brain of the three-brained or­ders is best con­ceived as an evolve­ment of your lower or rudi­men­tary form of brain, which is de­vel­oped to the point where it func­tions chiefly in con­trol of phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties, leav­ing the two su­pe­rior brains free for higher en­gage­ments: one for in­tel­lec­tual func­tions and the other for the spir­i­tual-coun­ter­part­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of the Thought Ad­juster.

• T.A. are identity of sleeping survivors

49:6.113. Mor­tals of the pro­ba­tion­ary-de­pen­dent or­ders of as­cen­sion. The ar­rival of an Ad­juster con­sti­tutes iden­tity in the eyes of the uni­verse, and all in­dwelt be­ings are on the roll calls of jus­tice. But tem­po­ral life on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds is un­cer­tain, and many die in youth be­fore choos­ing the Par­a­dise ca­reer. Such Ad­juster-in­dwelt chil­dren and youths fol­low the par­ent of most ad­vanced spir­i­tual sta­tus, thus go­ing to the sys­tem fi­nal­i­ter world (the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery) on the third day, at a spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, or at the reg­u­lar mil­len­nial and dis­pen­sa­tional roll calls.

• temporary indwelling for primitives

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.

• indwell midwayers in light and life

55:4.9The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign has au­thor­ity to re­lease mid­way crea­tures any time af­ter the first set­tled stage so that they may hu­man­ize in the mor­ontia by the aid of the Life Car­ri­ers and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and, af­ter re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers, start out on their Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

• manipulate but never dominate man’s mind against his will

66:8.6The doc­trine of a per­sonal devil on Uran­tia, though it had some foun­da­tion in the plan­e­tary pres­ence of the traitorous and in­iq­ui­tous Cali­gas­tia, was nev­er­the­less wholly fic­ti­tious in its teach­ings that such a “devil” could in­flu­ence the nor­mal hu­man mind against its free and nat­u­ral choos­ing. Even be­fore Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia, nei­ther Cali­gas­tia nor Dali­gas­tia was ever able to op­press mor­tals or to co­erce any nor­mal in­di­vid­ual into do­ing any­thing against the hu­man will. The free will of man is su­preme in moral af­fairs; even the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster re­fuses to com­pel man to think a sin­gle thought or to per­form a sin­gle act against the choos­ing of man’s own will.

• sometimes detached for contact with superhuman intelligences

77:7.5On no world can evil spir­its pos­sess any mor­tal mind sub­se­quent to the life of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. But be­fore the days of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia—be­fore the uni­ver­sal com­ing of the Thought Ad­justers and the pour­ing out of the Mas­ter’s spirit upon all flesh—these rebel mid­way­ers were ac­tu­ally able to in­flu­ence the minds of cer­tain in­fe­rior mor­tals and some­what to con­trol their ac­tions. This was ac­com­plished in much the same way as the loyal mid­way crea­tures func­tion when they serve as ef­fi­cient con­tact guard­i­ans of the hu­man minds of the Uran­tia re­serve corps of des­tiny at those times when the Ad­juster is, in ef­fect, de­tached from the per­son­al­ity dur­ing a sea­son of con­tact with super­hu­man in­tel­li­gences.

• translate sense of duty into faith in revelation; transmute God-fear into God-love

86:7.6Prim­i­tive re­li­gion pre­pared the soil of the hu­man mind, by the pow­er­ful and awe­some force of false fear, for the be­stowal of a bona fide spir­i­tual force of super­nat­u­ral ori­gin, the Thought Ad­juster. And the di­vine Ad­justers have ever since la­bored to trans­mute God-fear into God-love. Evo­lu­tion may be slow, but it is unerringly ef­fec­tive.

• combine operations with Spirit of Truth
• make contact in spiritualized thinking, not by feelings or emotions
• relation to other spiritual influences

101:1.3The di­vine spirit makes con­tact with mor­tal man, not by feel­ings or emo­tions, but in the realm of the high­est and most spir­i­tu­al­ized think­ing. It is your thoughts, not your feel­ings, that lead you God­ward. The di­vine na­ture may be per­ceived only with the eyes of the mind. But the mind that re­ally dis­cerns God, hears the in­dwelling Ad­juster, is the pure mind. “With­out ho­li­ness no man may see the Lord.” All such in­ner and spir­i­tual com­mu­nion is termed spir­i­tual in­sight. Such re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ences re­sult from the im­press made upon the mind of man by the com­bined op­er­a­tions of the Ad­juster and the Spirit of Truth as they func­tion amid and upon the ideas, ide­als, in­sights, and spirit striv­ings of the evolv­ing sons of God.

• somehow register hope and trust

101:2.51. Hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence, per­sonal as­sur­ance, the some­how reg­is­tered hope and trust ini­ti­ated by the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster.

• create hunger and thirst for righteousness, craving for perfection

101:2.14Your deep­est na­ture—the di­vine Ad­juster—cre­ates within you a hunger and thirst for righ­teous­ness, a cer­tain crav­ing for di­vine per­fec­tion. Re­li­gion is the faith act of the rec­og­ni­tion of this in­ner urge to di­vine at­tain­ment; and thus is brought about that soul trust and as­sur­ance of which you be­come con­scious as the way of sal­va­tion, the tech­nique of the sur­vival of per­son­al­ity and all those val­ues which you have come to look upon as be­ing true and good.

• combine and spiritize human idea-decisions

101:6.7Rev­e­la­tion teaches mor­tal man that, to start such a mag­nif­i­cent and in­trigu­ing ad­ven­ture through space by means of the pro­gres­sion of time, he should be­gin by the or­ga­ni­za­tion of knowl­edge into idea-de­ci­sions; next, man­date wis­dom to la­bor un­remit­tingly at its no­ble task of trans­form­ing self-pos­sessed ideas into in­creas­ingly prac­ti­cal but nonethe­less su­per­nal ide­als, even those con­cepts which are so rea­son­able as ideas and so log­i­cal as ide­als that the Ad­juster dares so to com­bine and spir­i­tize them as to ren­der them avail­able for such as­so­ci­a­tion in the fi­nite mind as will con­sti­tute them the ac­tual hu­man com­ple­ment thus made ready for the ac­tion of the Truth Spirit of the Sons, the time-space man­i­fes­ta­tions of Par­a­dise truth—uni­ver­sal truth. The co-or­di­na­tion of idea-de­ci­sions, log­i­cal ide­als, and di­vine truth con­sti­tutes the pos­ses­sion of a righ­teous char­ac­ter, the pre­req­ui­site for mor­tal ad­mis­sion to the ever-ex­pand­ing and in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the mor­ontia worlds.

• translate sense of duty into faith in revelation; transmute God-fear into God-love

102:1.1The work of the Thought Ad­juster con­sti­tutes the ex­pla­na­tion of the trans­la­tion of man’s prim­i­tive and evo­lu­tion­ary sense of duty into that higher and more cer­tain faith in the eter­nal re­al­i­ties of rev­e­la­tion. There must be per­fec­tion hunger in man’s heart to in­sure ca­pac­ity for com­pre­hend­ing the faith paths to su­preme at­tain­ment. If any man chooses to do the di­vine will, he shall know the way of truth. It is lit­er­ally true, “Hu­man things must be known in or­der to be loved, but di­vine things must be loved in or­der to be known.” But hon­est doubts and sin­cere ques­tion­ings are not sin; such at­ti­tudes merely spell de­lay in the pro­gres­sive jour­ney to­ward per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. Child­like trust se­cures man’s en­trance into the king­dom of heav­enly as­cent, but prog­ress is wholly de­pen­dent on the vig­or­ous ex­er­cise of the ro­bust and con­fi­dent faith of the full-grown man.

• create hunger and thirst for righteousness, craving for perfection

102:1.6The in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster un­fail­ingly arouses in man’s soul a true and search­ing hunger for per­fec­tion to­gether with a far-reach­ing cu­rios­ity which can be ad­e­quately sat­is­fied only by com­mu­nion with God, the di­vine source of that Ad­juster. The hun­gry soul of man re­fuses to be sat­is­fied with any­thing less than the per­sonal re­al­iza­tion of the liv­ing God. What­ever more God may be than a high and per­fect moral per­son­al­ity, he can­not, in our hun­gry and fi­nite con­cept, be any­thing less.

• attach feeling of reality to man’s spiritual insight

102:3.12The pur­suit of knowl­edge con­sti­tutes sci­ence; the search for wis­dom is phi­los­o­phy; the love for God is re­li­gion; the hunger for truth is a rev­e­la­tion. But it is the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster that at­taches the feel­ing of re­al­ity to man’s spir­i­tual in­sight into the cos­mos.

• place slight preference upon altruistic impulses

103:2.7Moral choos­ing is usu­ally ac­com­pa­nied by more or less moral con­flict. And this very first con­flict in the child mind is be­tween the urges of ego­ism and the im­pulses of al­tru­ism. The Thought Ad­juster does not dis­re­gard the per­son­al­ity val­ues of the ego­is­tic mo­tive but does op­er­ate to place a slight pref­er­ence upon the al­tru­is­tic im­pulse as lead­ing to the goal of hu­man hap­pi­ness and to the joys of the king­dom of heaven.

• equal partners with human mind in fostering soul

107:0.3God, hav­ing com­manded man to be per­fect, even as he is per­fect, has de­scended as the Ad­juster to be­come man’s ex­pe­ri­en­tial part­ner in the achieve­ment of the su­per­nal des­tiny which has been thus or­dained. The frag­ment of God which in­dwells the mind of man is the ab­so­lute and un­qual­i­fied as­sur­ance that man can find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in as­so­ci­a­tion with this di­vine Ad­juster, which came forth from God to find man and son­ship him even in the days of the flesh.

• create hunger and thirst for righteousness, craving for perfection

107:0.5It is the Ad­juster who cre­ates within man that un­quench­able yearn­ing and in­ces­sant long­ing to be like God, to at­tain Par­a­dise, and there be­fore the ac­tual per­son of De­ity to wor­ship the in­fi­nite source of the di­vine gift. The Ad­juster is the liv­ing pres­ence which ac­tu­ally links the mor­tal son with his Par­a­dise Fa­ther and draws him nearer and nearer to the Fa­ther. The Ad­juster is our com­pen­satory equal­iza­tion of the enor­mous uni­verse ten­sion which is cre­ated by the dis­tance of man’s re­moval from God and by the de­gree of his par­tial­ity in con­trast with the uni­ver­sal­ity of the eter­nal Fa­ther.

• always waiting to act decisively in accordance with human choice

107:7.3We have of­ten spec­u­lated that Thought Ad­justers must have vo­li­tion on all preper­sonal lev­els of choice. They vol­un­teer to in­dwell hu­man be­ings, they lay plans for man’s eter­nal ca­reer, they adapt, mod­ify, and sub­sti­tute in ac­cor­dance with cir­cum­stances, and these ac­tiv­i­ties con­note gen­uine vo­li­tion. They have af­fec­tion for mor­tals, they func­tion in uni­verse crises, they are al­ways wait­ing to act de­ci­sively in ac­cor­dance with hu­man choice, and all these are highly vo­li­tional re­ac­tions. In all sit­u­a­tions not con­cerned with the do­main of the hu­man will, they un­ques­tion­ably ex­hibit con­duct which be­to­kens the ex­er­cise of pow­ers in ev­ery sense the equiv­a­lent of will, max­i­mated de­ci­sion.

• only evolutionary will creatures are indwelt by T.A.

107:7.7There are no cre­ated be­ings that would not de­light to be hosts to the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, but no or­ders of be­ings are thus in­dwelt ex­cept­ing evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures of fi­nal­i­ter des­tiny.

• to be Father to mortals, elevate mortals to perfection

108:0.1The mis­sion of the Thought Ad­justers to the hu­man races is to rep­re­sent, to be, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the mor­tal crea­tures of time and space; that is the fun­da­men­tal work of the di­vine gifts. Their mis­sion is also that of el­e­vat­ing the mor­tal minds and of trans­lat­ing the im­mor­tal souls of men up to the di­vine heights and spir­i­tual lev­els of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion. And in the ex­pe­ri­ence of thus trans­form­ing the hu­man na­ture of the tem­po­ral crea­ture into the di­vine na­ture of the eter­nal fi­nal­i­ter, the Ad­justers bring into ex­is­tence a unique type of be­ing, a be­ing con­sist­ing in the eter­nal union of the per­fect Ad­juster and the per­fected crea­ture which it would be im­pos­si­ble to du­pli­cate by any other uni­verse tech­nique.

108:4.1Apart from pos­si­ble co-or­di­na­tion with other De­ity frag­ments, the Ad­justers are quite alone in their sphere of ac­tiv­ity in the mor­tal mind. The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors elo­quently be­speak the fact that, though the Fa­ther may have ap­par­ently re­signed the ex­er­cise of all di­rect per­sonal power and au­thor­ity through­out the grand uni­verse, not­with­stand­ing this act of ab­ne­ga­tion in be­half of the Su­preme Cre­ator chil­dren of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties, the Fa­ther has cer­tainly re­served to him­self the un­chal­lenge­able right to be pres­ent in the minds and souls of his evolv­ing crea­tures to the end that he may so act as to draw all crea­ture cre­ation to him­self, co-or­di­nately with the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Par­a­dise Sons. Said your Par­a­dise be­stowal Son when yet on Uran­tia, “I, if I am lifted up, will draw all men.” This spir­i­tual draw­ing power of the Par­a­dise Sons and their cre­ative as­so­ciates we rec­og­nize and un­der­stand, but we do not so fully com­pre­hend the meth­ods of the all-wise Fa­ther’s func­tion­ing in and through these Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that live and work so valiantly within the hu­man mind.

• lure subjects upward toward future and better life

108:4.2While not sub­or­di­nate to, co-or­di­nate with, or ap­par­ently re­lated to, the work of the uni­verse of uni­verses, though act­ing in­de­pen­dently in the minds of the chil­dren of men, un­ceas­ingly do these mys­te­ri­ous pres­ences urge the crea­tures of their in­dwelling to­ward di­vine ide­als, al­ways lur­ing them up­ward to­ward the pur­poses and aims of a fu­ture and bet­ter life. These Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are con­tin­u­ally as­sist­ing in the es­tab­lish­ment of the spir­i­tual do­min­ion of Mi­chael through­out the uni­verse of Neb­a­don while mys­te­ri­ously con­tribut­ing to the sta­bi­liza­tion of the sov­er­eignty of the An­cients of Days in Or­von­ton. The Ad­justers are the will of God, and since the Su­preme Cre­ator chil­dren of God also per­son­ally em­body that same will, it is in­ev­i­ta­ble that the ac­tions of Ad­justers and the sov­er­eignty of the uni­verse rulers should be mu­tu­ally in­ter­de­pen­dent. Though ap­par­ently un­con­nected, the Fa­ther pres­ence of the Ad­justers and the Fa­ther sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael of Neb­a­don must be di­verse man­i­fes­ta­tions of the same di­vin­ity.

108:4.3Thought Ad­justers ap­pear to come and go quite in­de­pen­dent of any and all other spir­i­tual pres­ences; they seem to func­tion in ac­cor­dance with uni­verse laws quite apart from those which gov­ern and con­trol the per­for­mances of all other spirit in­flu­ences. But re­gard­less of such ap­par­ent in­de­pen­dence, long-range ob­ser­va­tion un­ques­tion­ably dis­closes that they func­tion in the hu­man mind in per­fect syn­chrony and co-or­di­na­tion with all other spirit min­istries, in­clud­ing ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, and other in­flu­ences.

108:4.4When a world is iso­lated by re­bel­lion, when a planet is cut off from all out­side en­cir­cuited com­mu­ni­ca­tion, as was Uran­tia af­ter the Cali­gas­tia up­heaval, aside from per­sonal mes­sen­gers there re­mains but one pos­si­bil­ity of di­rect in­ter­plan­e­tary or uni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and that is through the li­ai­son of the Ad­justers of the spheres. No mat­ter what hap­pens on a world or in a uni­verse, the Ad­justers are never di­rectly con­cerned. The iso­la­tion of a planet in no way af­fects the Ad­justers and their abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate with any part of the lo­cal uni­verse, super­uni­verse, or the cen­tral uni­verse. And this is the rea­son why con­tacts with the su­preme and the self-act­ing Ad­justers of the re­serve corps of des­tiny are so fre­quently made on quar­an­tined worlds. Re­course is had to such a tech­nique as a means of cir­cum­vent­ing the hand­i­caps of plan­e­tary iso­la­tion. In re­cent years the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit has func­tioned on Uran­tia, but that means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion is largely lim­ited to the trans­ac­tions of the arch­an­gel corps it­self.

108:4.5We are cog­nizant of many spirit phe­nom­ena in the far-flung uni­verse which we are at a loss fully to un­der­stand. We are not yet mas­ters of all that is tran­spir­ing about us; and I be­lieve that much of this in­scrutable work is wrought by the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers and cer­tain types of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. I do not be­lieve that Ad­justers are de­voted solely to the re­mak­ing of mor­tal minds. I am per­suaded that the Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors and other or­ders of un­re­vealed preper­sonal spir­its are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s di­rect and un­ex­plained con­tact with the crea­tures of the realms.

• receive and translate continuous stream of spiritual intelligences to material mind

108:5.1The Ad­justers ac­cept a dif­fi­cult as­sign­ment when they vol­un­teer to in­dwell such com­pos­ite be­ings as live on Uran­tia. But they have as­sumed the task of ex­ist­ing in your minds, there to re­ceive the ad­mo­ni­tions of the spir­i­tual in­tel­li­gences of the realms and then to un­der­take to re­dic­tate or trans­late these spir­i­tual mes­sages to the ma­te­rial mind; they are in­dis­pens­able to the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

• equal partners with human mind in fostering soul

108:5.4Your Ad­juster is the po­ten­tial of your new and next or­der of ex­is­tence, the ad­vance be­stowal of your eter­nal son­ship with God. By and with the con­sent of your will, the Ad­juster has the power to sub­ject the crea­ture trends of the ma­te­rial mind to the trans­form­ing ac­tions of the mo­ti­va­tions and pur­poses of the emerg­ing mor­ontial soul.

• concerned to make life reasonably difficult, so as to stimulate decisions
• not much concerned with affairs of temporal life

108:5.5The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are not thought helpers; they are thought ad­justers. They la­bor with the ma­te­rial mind for the pur­pose of con­struct­ing, by ad­just­ment and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion, a new mind for the new worlds and the new name of your fu­ture ca­reer. Their mis­sion chiefly con­cerns the fu­ture life, not this life. They are called heav­enly helpers, not earthly helpers. They are not in­ter­ested in mak­ing the mor­tal ca­reer easy; rather are they con­cerned in mak­ing your life rea­son­ably dif­fi­cult and rugged, so that de­ci­sions will be stim­u­lated and mul­ti­plied. The pres­ence of a great Thought Ad­juster does not be­stow ease of liv­ing and free­dom from stren­u­ous think­ing, but such a di­vine gift should con­fer a sub­lime peace of mind and a su­perb tran­quil­lity of spirit.

108:5.6Your tran­sient and ever-chang­ing emo­tions of joy and sor­row are in the main purely hu­man and ma­te­rial re­ac­tions to your in­ter­nal psy­chic cli­mate and to your ex­ter­nal ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ment. Do not, there­fore, look to the Ad­juster for self­ish con­so­la­tion and mor­tal com­fort. It is the busi­ness of the Ad­juster to pre­pare you for the eter­nal ad­ven­ture, to as­sure your sur­vival. It is not the mis­sion of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor to smooth your ruf­fled feel­ings or to min­is­ter to your in­jured pride; it is the prepa­ra­tion of your soul for the long as­cend­ing ca­reer that en­gages the at­ten­tion and oc­cu­pies the time of the Ad­juster.

• always waiting to act decisively in accordance with human choice

108:5.8The Thought Ad­justers would like to change your feel­ings of fear to con­vic­tions of love and con­fi­dence; but they can­not me­chan­i­cally and ar­bi­trar­ily do such things; that is your task. In ex­e­cut­ing those de­ci­sions which de­liver you from the fet­ters of fear, you lit­er­ally sup­ply the psy­chic ful­crum on which the Ad­juster may sub­se­quently ap­ply a spir­i­tual lever of up­lift­ing and ad­vanc­ing il­lu­mi­na­tion.

• always participate in conflicts between what really is right or wrong

108:5.9When it comes to the sharp and well-de­fined con­flicts be­tween the higher and lower ten­den­cies of the races, be­tween what re­ally is right or wrong (not merely what you may call right and wrong), you can de­pend upon it that the Ad­juster will al­ways par­tic­i­pate in some def­i­nite and ac­tive man­ner in such ex­pe­ri­ences. The fact that such Ad­juster ac­tiv­ity may be un­con­scious to the hu­man part­ner does not in the least de­tract from its value and re­al­ity.

• build spiritual counterparts of mortal careers, spiritually significant events

108:6.5These faith­ful cus­to­di­ans of the fu­ture ca­reer un­fail­ingly du­pli­cate ev­ery men­tal cre­ation with a spir­i­tual coun­ter­part; they are thus slowly and surely re-cre­at­ing you as you re­ally are (only spir­i­tu­ally) for res­ur­rec­tion on the sur­vival worlds. And all of these ex­qui­site spirit re-cre­ations are be­ing pre­served in the emerg­ing re­al­ity of your evolv­ing and im­mor­tal soul, your mor­ontia self. These re­al­i­ties are ac­tu­ally there, not­with­stand­ing that the Ad­juster is sel­dom able to ex­alt these du­pli­cate cre­ations suf­fi­ciently to ex­hibit them to the light of con­scious­ness.

• equal partners with human mind in fostering soul

108:6.6And as you are the hu­man par­ent, so is the Ad­juster the di­vine par­ent of the real you, your higher and ad­vanc­ing self, your bet­ter mor­ontial and fu­ture spir­i­tual self. And it is this evolv­ing mor­ontial soul that the judges and cen­sors dis­cern when they de­cree your sur­vival and pass you up­ward to new worlds and never-end­ing ex­is­tence in eter­nal li­ai­son with your faith­ful part­ner—God, the Ad­juster.

• not much concerned with affairs of temporal life

109:0.1The Thought Ad­justers are the chil­dren of the uni­verse ca­reer, and in­deed the vir­gin Ad­justers must gain ex­pe­ri­ence while mor­tal crea­tures grow and de­velop. As the per­son­al­ity of the hu­man child ex­pands for the strug­gles of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­is­tence, so does the Ad­juster wax great in the re­hearsals of the next stage of as­cend­ing life. As the child ac­quires adap­ta­tive ver­sa­til­ity for his adult ac­tiv­i­ties through the so­cial and play life of early child­hood, so does the in­dwelling Ad­juster achieve skill for the next stage of cos­mic life by virtue of the pre­lim­i­nary mor­tal plan­ning and re­hears­ing of those ac­tiv­i­ties which have to do with the mor­ontia ca­reer. Hu­man ex­is­tence con­sti­tutes a pe­riod of prac­tice which is ef­fec­tively uti­lized by the Ad­juster in prepar­ing for the in­creased re­spon­si­bil­i­ties and the greater op­por­tu­ni­ties of a fu­ture life. But the Ad­juster’s ef­forts, while liv­ing within you, are not so much con­cerned with the af­fairs of tem­po­ral life and plan­e­tary ex­is­tence. To­day, the Thought Ad­justers are, as it were, re­hears­ing the re­al­i­ties of the uni­verse ca­reer in the evolv­ing minds of hu­man be­ings.

• equal partners with human mind in fostering soul

109:1.4Ad­justers pass through a def­i­nite de­vel­op­men­tal ca­reer in the mor­tal mind; they achieve a re­al­ity of at­tain­ment which is eter­nally theirs. They pro­gres­sively ac­quire Ad­juster skill and abil­ity as a re­sult of any and all con­tacts with the ma­te­rial races, re­gard­less of the sur­vival or non­sur­vival of their par­tic­u­lar mor­tal sub­jects. They are also equal part­ners of the hu­man mind in fos­ter­ing the evo­lu­tion of the im­mor­tal soul of sur­vival ca­pac­ity.

109:3.1The char­ac­ter of the de­tailed work of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors varies in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture of their as­sign­ments, as to whether or not they are li­ai­son or fu­sion Ad­justers. Some Ad­justers are merely loaned for the tem­po­ral life­times of their sub­jects; oth­ers are be­stowed as per­son­al­ity can­di­dates with per­mis­sion for ev­er­last­ing fu­sion if their sub­jects sur­vive. There is also a slight vari­a­tion in their work among the dif­fer­ent plan­e­tary types as well as in dif­fer­ent sys­tems and uni­verses. But, on the whole, their labors are re­mark­ably uni­form, more so than are the du­ties of any of the cre­ated or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings.

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.

109:3.4On worlds such as Uran­tia (the se­ries three group) there is a real be­trothal with the di­vine gifts, a life and death en­gage­ment. If you sur­vive, there is to be an eter­nal union, an ev­er­last­ing fu­sion, the mak­ing of man and Ad­juster one be­ing.

109:3.5In the three-brained mor­tals of this se­ries of worlds, the Ad­justers are able to gain far more ac­tual con­tact with their sub­jects dur­ing the tem­po­ral life than in the one- and two-brained types. But in the ca­reer af­ter death, the three-brained type pro­ceed just as do the one-brained type and the two-brained peo­ples—the Uran­tia races.

109:3.6On the two-brain worlds, sub­se­quent to the so­journ of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son, vir­gin Ad­justers are sel­dom as­signed to per­sons who have un­ques­tioned ca­pac­ity for sur­vival. It is our be­lief that on such worlds prac­ti­cally all Ad­justers in­dwelling in­tel­li­gent men and women of sur­vival ca­pac­ity be­long to the ad­vanced or to the su­preme type.

109:3.7In many of the early evo­lu­tion­ary races of Uran­tia, three groups of be­ings ex­isted. There were those who were so an­i­mal­is­tic that they were ut­terly lack­ing in Ad­juster ca­pac­ity. There were those who ex­hib­ited un­doubted ca­pac­ity for Ad­justers and promptly re­ceived them when the age of moral re­spon­si­bil­ity was at­tained. There was a third class who oc­cu­pied a bor­der­line po­si­tion; they had ca­pac­ity for Ad­juster re­cep­tion, but the Mon­i­tors could only in­dwell the mind on the per­sonal pe­ti­tion of the in­di­vid­ual.

109:3.8But with those be­ings who are vir­tu­ally dis­qual­i­fied for sur­vival by dis­in­her­i­tance through the agency of un­fit and in­fe­rior an­ces­tors, many a vir­gin Ad­juster has served a valu­able pre­lim­i­nary ex­pe­ri­ence in con­tact­ing evo­lu­tion­ary mind and thus has be­come bet­ter qual­i­fied for a sub­se­quent as­sign­ment to a higher type of mind on some other world.

• facilitate human communication

109:4.1The higher forms of in­tel­li­gent in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween hu­man be­ings are greatly helped by the in­dwelling Ad­justers. An­i­mals do have fel­low feel­ings, but they do not com­mu­ni­cate con­cepts to each other; they can ex­press emo­tions but not ideas and ide­als. Nei­ther do men of an­i­mal ori­gin ex­pe­ri­ence a high type of in­tel­lec­tual in­ter­course or spir­i­tual com­mu­nion with their fel­lows un­til the Thought Ad­justers have been be­stowed, al­beit, when such evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­velop speech, they are on the high­road to re­ceiv­ing Ad­justers.

109:4.2An­i­mals do, in a crude way, com­mu­ni­cate with each other, but there is lit­tle or no per­son­al­ity in such prim­i­tive con­tact. Ad­justers are not per­son­al­ity; they are preper­sonal be­ings. But they do hail from the source of per­son­al­ity, and their pres­ence does aug­ment the qual­i­ta­tive man­i­fes­ta­tions of hu­man per­son­al­ity; es­pe­cially is this true if the Ad­juster has had pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence.

• during sleep, sometimes arrest mental currents; effect deep spiritual transformations

109:5.1Su­preme and self-act­ing Ad­justers are of­ten able to con­tribute fac­tors of spir­i­tual im­port to the hu­man mind when it flows freely in the lib­er­ated but con­trolled chan­nels of cre­ative imag­i­na­tion. At such times, and some­times dur­ing sleep, the Ad­juster is able to ar­rest the men­tal cur­rents, to stay the flow, and then to di­vert the idea pro­ces­sion; and all this is done in or­der to ef­fect deep spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tions in the higher re­cesses of the super­con­scious­ness. Thus are the forces and en­er­gies of mind more fully ad­justed to the key of the con­tac­tual tones of the spir­i­tual level of the pres­ent and the fu­ture.

• carry away everything of survival value from nonsurvivors

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.

• indwell mind, not physical brain

110:1.1Ad­justers should not be thought of as liv­ing in the ma­te­rial brains of hu­man be­ings. They are not or­ganic parts of the phys­i­cal crea­tures of the realms. The Thought Ad­juster may more prop­erly be en­vis­aged as in­dwelling the mor­tal mind of man rather than as ex­ist­ing within the con­fines of a sin­gle phys­i­cal or­gan. And in­di­rectly and un­rec­og­nized the Ad­juster is con­stantly com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the hu­man sub­ject, es­pe­cially dur­ing those sub­lime ex­pe­ri­ences of the wor­ship­ful con­tact of mind with spirit in the super­con­scious­ness.

• deeply interested in subjects’ temporal welfare and achievements

110:1.3Al­though the di­vine in­dwellers are chiefly con­cerned with your spir­i­tual prepa­ra­tion for the next stage of the never-end­ing ex­is­tence, they are also deeply in­ter­ested in your tem­po­ral wel­fare and in your real achieve­ments on earth. They are de­lighted to con­tribute to your health, hap­pi­ness, and true pros­per­ity. They are not in­dif­fer­ent to your suc­cess in all mat­ters of plan­e­tary ad­vance­ment which are not in­im­i­cal to your fu­ture life of eter­nal prog­ress.

110:1.4Ad­justers are in­ter­ested in, and con­cerned with, your daily do­ings and the man­i­fold de­tails of your life just to the ex­tent that these are in­flu­en­tial in the de­ter­mi­na­tion of your sig­nif­i­cant tem­po­ral choices and vi­tal spir­i­tual de­ci­sions and, hence, are fac­tors in the so­lu­tion of your prob­lem of soul sur­vival and eter­nal prog­ress. The Ad­juster, while pas­sive re­gard­ing purely tem­po­ral wel­fare, is di­vinely ac­tive con­cern­ing all the af­fairs of your eter­nal fu­ture.

• bring along ideal plan for mortal career
• manipulate but never dominate man’s mind against his will

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.

• always waiting to act decisively in accordance with human choice

110:2.2They are per­sis­tent, in­ge­nious, and per­fect in their meth­ods of work, but they never do vi­o­lence to the vo­li­tional self­hood of their hosts. No hu­man be­ing will ever be spir­i­tu­al­ized by a di­vine Mon­i­tor against his will; sur­vival is a gift of the Gods which must be de­sired by the crea­tures of time. In the fi­nal anal­y­sis, what­ever the Ad­juster has suc­ceeded in do­ing for you, the rec­ords will show that the trans­for­ma­tion has been ac­com­plished with your co-op­er­a­tive con­sent; you will have been a will­ing part­ner with the Ad­juster in the at­tain­ment of ev­ery step of the tremen­dous trans­for­ma­tion of the as­cen­sion ca­reer.

• build spiritual counterparts of mortal careers, spiritually significant events

110:2.3The Ad­juster is not try­ing to con­trol your think­ing, as such, but rather to spir­i­tu­al­ize it, to eter­nal­ize it. Nei­ther an­gels nor Ad­justers are de­voted di­rectly to in­flu­enc­ing hu­man thought; that is your ex­clu­sive per­son­al­ity pre­rog­a­tive. The Ad­justers are ded­i­cated to im­prov­ing, mod­i­fy­ing, ad­just­ing, and co-or­di­nat­ing your think­ing pro­cesses; but more es­pe­cially and specif­i­cally they are de­voted to the work of build­ing up spir­i­tual coun­ter­parts of your ca­reers, mor­ontia tran­scripts of your true ad­vanc­ing selves, for sur­vival pur­poses.

110:2.4Ad­justers work in the spheres of the higher lev­els of the hu­man mind, un­ceas­ingly seek­ing to pro­duce mor­ontia du­pli­cates of ev­ery con­cept of the mor­tal in­tel­lect. There are, there­fore, two re­al­i­ties which im­pinge upon, and are cen­tered in, the hu­man mind cir­cuits: one, a mor­tal self evolved from the orig­i­nal plans of the Life Car­ri­ers, the other, an im­mor­tal en­tity from the high spheres of Di­vin­ing­ton, an in­dwelling gift from God. But the mor­tal self is also a per­sonal self; it has per­son­al­ity.

• always waiting to act decisively in accordance with human choice
• deeply interested in subjects’ temporal welfare and achievements

110:3.1Ad­justers are play­ing the sa­cred and su­perb game of the ages; they are en­gaged in one of the su­preme ad­ven­tures of time in space. And how happy they are when your co-op­er­a­tion per­mits them to lend as­sis­tance in your short strug­gles of time as they con­tinue to pros­e­cute their larger tasks of eter­nity. But usu­ally, when your Ad­juster at­tempts to com­mu­ni­cate with you, the mes­sage is lost in the ma­te­rial cur­rents of the en­ergy streams of hu­man mind; only oc­ca­sion­ally do you catch an echo, a faint and dis­tant echo, of the di­vine voice.

• receive and translate continuous stream of spiritual intelligences to material mind

110:4.1Ad­justers are able to re­ceive the con­tin­u­ous stream of cos­mic in­tel­li­gence com­ing in over the mas­ter cir­cuits of time and space; they are in full touch with the spirit in­tel­li­gence and en­ergy of the uni­verses. But these mighty in­dwellers are un­able to trans­mit very much of this wealth of wis­dom and truth to the minds of their mor­tal sub­jects be­cause of the lack of com­mon­ness of na­ture and the ab­sence of re­spon­sive rec­og­ni­tion.

• make contact in spiritualized thinking, not by feelings or emotions

110:4.3Cer­tain abrupt pre­sen­ta­tions of thoughts, con­clu­sions, and other pic­tures of mind are some­times the di­rect or in­di­rect work of the Ad­juster; but far more of­ten they are the sud­den emer­gence into con­scious­ness of ideas which have been group­ing them­selves to­gether in the sub­merged men­tal lev­els, nat­u­ral and ev­ery­day oc­cur­rences of nor­mal and or­di­nary psy­chic func­tion in­her­ent in the cir­cuits of the evolv­ing an­i­mal mind. (In con­trast with these sub­con­scious em­a­na­tions, the rev­e­la­tions of the Ad­juster ap­pear through the realms of the super­con­scious.)

• during sleep, sometimes arrest mental currents; effect deep spiritual transformations

110:5.3Dur­ing the slum­ber sea­son the Ad­juster at­tempts to achieve only that which the will of the in­dwelt per­son­al­ity has pre­vi­ously fully ap­proved by the de­ci­sions and choos­ings which were made dur­ing times of fully wake­ful con­scious­ness, and which have thereby be­come lodged in the realms of the super­mind, the li­ai­son do­main of hu­man and di­vine in­ter­re­la­tion­ship.

110:5.4While their mor­tal hosts are asleep, the Ad­justers try to reg­is­ter their cre­ations in the higher lev­els of the ma­te­rial mind, and some of your grotesque dreams in­di­cate their fail­ure to make ef­fi­cient con­tact. The ab­sur­di­ties of dream life not only tes­tify to pres­sure of un­ex­pressed emo­tions but also bear wit­ness to the hor­ri­ble dis­tor­tion of the rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the spir­i­tual con­cepts pre­sented by the Ad­justers. Your own pas­sions, urges, and other in­nate ten­den­cies trans­late them­selves into the pic­ture and sub­sti­tute their un­ex­pressed de­sires for the di­vine mes­sages which the in­dwellers are en­deav­or­ing to put into the psy­chic rec­ords dur­ing un­con­scious sleep.

110:5.5It is ex­tremely dan­ger­ous to pos­tu­late as to the Ad­juster con­tent of the dream life. The Ad­justers do work dur­ing sleep, but your or­di­nary dream ex­pe­ri­ences are purely phys­i­o­logic and psy­cho­logic phe­nom­ena. Like­wise, it is haz­ardous to at­tempt the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the Ad­justers’ con­cept reg­istry from the more or less con­tin­u­ous and con­scious re­cep­tion of the dic­ta­tions of mor­tal con­science. These are prob­lems which will have to be solved through in­di­vid­ual dis­crim­i­na­tion and per­sonal de­ci­sion. But a hu­man be­ing would do bet­ter to err in re­ject­ing an Ad­juster’s ex­pres­sion through be­liev­ing it to be a purely hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence than to blun­der into ex­alt­ing a re­ac­tion of the mor­tal mind to the sphere of di­vine dig­nity. Re­mem­ber, the in­flu­ence of a Thought Ad­juster is for the most part, though not wholly, a super­con­scious ex­pe­ri­ence.

• manipulate but never dominate man’s mind against his will

111:1.8But man does not pas­sively, slav­ishly, sur­ren­der his will to the Ad­juster. Rather does he ac­tively, pos­i­tively, and co-op­er­a­tively choose to fol­low the Ad­juster’s lead­ing when and as such lead­ing con­sciously dif­fers from the de­sires and im­pulses of the nat­u­ral mor­tal mind. The Ad­justers ma­nip­u­late but never dom­i­nate man’s mind against his will; to the Ad­justers the hu­man will is su­preme. And they so re­gard and re­spect it while they strive to achieve the spir­i­tual goals of thought ad­just­ment and char­ac­ter trans­for­ma­tion in the al­most lim­it­less arena of the evolv­ing hu­man in­tel­lect.

111:7.1Un­cer­tainty with se­cu­rity is the essence of the Par­a­dise ad­ven­ture—un­cer­tainty in time and in mind, un­cer­tainty as to the events of the un­fold­ing Par­a­dise as­cent; se­cu­rity in spirit and in eter­nity, se­cu­rity in the un­qual­i­fied trust of the crea­ture son in the di­vine com­pas­sion and in­fi­nite love of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; un­cer­tainty as an in­ex­pe­ri­enced cit­i­zen of the uni­verse; se­cu­rity as an as­cend­ing son in the uni­verse man­sions of an all-pow­er­ful, all-wise, and all-lov­ing Fa­ther.

111:7.2May I ad­mon­ish you to heed the dis­tant echo of the Ad­juster’s faith­ful call to your soul? The in­dwelling Ad­juster can­not stop or even ma­te­ri­ally al­ter your ca­reer strug­gle of time; the Ad­juster can­not lessen the hard­ships of life as you jour­ney on through this world of toil. The di­vine in­dweller can only pa­tiently for­bear while you fight the bat­tle of life as it is lived on your planet; but you could, if you only would—as you work and worry, as you fight and toil—per­mit the valiant Ad­juster to fight with you and for you. You could be so com­forted and in­spired, so en­thralled and in­trigued, if you would only al­low the Ad­juster con­stantly to bring forth the pic­tures of the real mo­tive, the fi­nal aim, and the eter­nal pur­pose of all this dif­fi­cult, up­hill strug­gle with the com­mon­place prob­lems of your pres­ent ma­te­rial world.

111:7.3Why do you not aid the Ad­juster in the task of show­ing you the spir­i­tual coun­ter­part of all these stren­u­ous ma­te­rial ef­forts? Why do you not al­low the Ad­juster to strengthen you with the spir­i­tual truths of cos­mic power while you wres­tle with the tem­po­ral dif­fi­cul­ties of crea­ture ex­is­tence? Why do you not en­cour­age the heav­enly helper to cheer you with the clear vi­sion of the eter­nal out­look of uni­ver­sal life as you gaze in per­plex­ity at the prob­lems of the pass­ing hour? Why do you refuse to be en­light­ened and in­spired by the uni­verse view­point while you toil amidst the hand­i­caps of time and floun­der in the maze of un­cer­tain­ties which be­set your mor­tal life jour­ney? Why not al­low the Ad­juster to spir­i­tu­al­ize your think­ing, even though your feet must tread the ma­te­rial paths of earthly en­deavor?

111:7.4The higher hu­man races of Uran­tia are com­plexly ad­mixed; they are a blend of many races and stocks of dif­fer­ent ori­gin. This com­pos­ite na­ture ren­ders it ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the Mon­i­tors to work ef­fi­ciently dur­ing life and adds def­i­nitely to the prob­lems of both the Ad­juster and the guard­ian ser­a­phim af­ter death. Not long since I was pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and heard a guard­ian of des­tiny pre­sent a for­mal state­ment in ex­ten­u­a­tion of the dif­fi­cul­ties of min­is­ter­ing to her mor­tal sub­ject. This ser­a­phim said:

111:7.5“Much of my dif­fi­culty was due to the un­end­ing con­flict be­tween the two na­tures of my sub­ject: the urge of am­bi­tion op­posed by an­i­mal in­do­lence; the ide­als of a su­pe­rior peo­ple crossed by the in­stincts of an in­fe­rior race; the high pur­poses of a great mind an­tag­o­nized by the urge of a prim­i­tive in­her­i­tance; the long-dis­tance view of a far-see­ing Mon­i­tor coun­ter­acted by the near­sight­ed­ness of a crea­ture of time; the pro­gres­sive plans of an as­cend­ing be­ing mod­i­fied by the de­sires and long­ings of a ma­te­rial na­ture; the flashes of uni­verse in­tel­li­gence can­celled by the chem­i­cal-en­ergy man­dates of the evolv­ing race; the urge of an­gels op­posed by the emo­tions of an an­i­mal; the train­ing of an in­tel­lect an­nulled by the ten­den­cies of in­stinct; the ex­pe­ri­ence of the in­di­vid­ual op­posed by the ac­cu­mu­lated propen­si­ties of the race; the aims of the best over­shad­owed by the drift of the worst; the flight of ge­nius neu­tral­ized by the grav­ity of medi­ocrity; the prog­ress of the good re­tarded by the in­er­tia of the bad; the art of the beau­ti­ful be­smirched by the pres­ence of evil; the buoy­ancy of health neu­tral­ized by the de­bil­ity of dis­ease; the foun­tain of faith pol­luted by the poi­sons of fear; the spring of joy em­bit­tered by the wa­ters of sor­row; the glad­ness of an­tic­i­pa­tion dis­il­lu­sioned by the bit­ter­ness of re­al­iza­tion; the joys of liv­ing ever threat­ened by the sor­rows of death. Such a life on such a planet! And yet, be­cause of the ever-pres­ent help and urge of the Thought Ad­juster, this soul did achieve a fair de­gree of hap­pi­ness and suc­cess and has even now as­cended to the judg­ment halls of man­so­nia.”

111:7.6[Pre­sented by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of Or­von­ton.]

• released if subjects finally reject survival, or if their brains are irreparably damaged

112:3.21. Spir­i­tual (soul) death. If and when mor­tal man has fi­nally re­jected sur­vival, when he has been pro­nounced spir­i­tu­ally in­sol­vent, mor­ontially bankrupt, in the con­joint opin­ion of the Ad­juster and the sur­viv­ing ser­a­phim, when such co-or­di­nate ad­vice has been re­corded on Uversa, and af­ter the Cen­sors and their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates have ver­i­fied these find­ings, there­upon do the rulers of Or­von­ton or­der the im­me­di­ate re­lease of the in­dwelling Mon­i­tor. But this re­lease of the Ad­juster in no way af­fects the du­ties of the per­sonal or group ser­a­phim con­cerned with that Ad­juster-aban­doned in­di­vid­ual. This kind of death is fi­nal in its sig­nif­i­cance ir­re­spec­tive of the tem­po­rary con­tin­u­a­tion of the liv­ing en­er­gies of the phys­i­cal and mind mech­a­nisms. From the cos­mic stand­point the mor­tal is al­ready dead; the con­tin­u­ing life merely in­di­cates the per­sis­tence of the ma­te­rial mo­men­tum of cos­mic en­er­gies.

112:3.32. In­tel­lec­tual (mind) death. When the vi­tal cir­cuits of higher ad­ju­tant min­istry are dis­rupted through the aber­ra­tions of in­tel­lect or be­cause of the par­tial de­struc­tion of the mech­a­nism of the brain, and if these con­di­tions pass a cer­tain crit­i­cal point of ir­repara­bil­ity, the in­dwelling Ad­juster is im­me­di­ately re­leased to de­part for Di­vin­ing­ton. On the uni­verse rec­ords a mor­tal per­son­al­ity is con­sid­ered to have met with death when­ever the es­sen­tial mind cir­cuits of hu­man will-ac­tion have been de­stroyed. And again, this is death, ir­re­spec­tive of the con­tin­u­ing func­tion of the liv­ing mech­a­nism of the phys­i­cal body. The body mi­nus the vo­li­tional mind is no longer hu­man, but ac­cord­ing to the prior choos­ing of the hu­man will, the soul of such an in­di­vid­ual may sur­vive.

• possess transcripts of sleeping survivor’s spiritized mind, memory, and personality

112:3.5Af­ter death the ma­te­rial body re­turns to the el­e­men­tal world from which it was de­rived, but two non­ma­te­rial fac­tors of sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity per­sist: The pre-ex­is­tent Thought Ad­juster, with the mem­ory tran­scrip­tion of the mor­tal ca­reer, pro­ceeds to Di­vin­ing­ton; and there also re­mains, in the cus­tody of the des­tiny guard­ian, the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul of the de­ceased hu­man. These phases and forms of soul, these once ki­netic but now static for­mu­las of iden­tity, are es­sen­tial to reper­son­al­iza­tion on the mor­ontia worlds; and it is the re­union of the Ad­juster and the soul that re­assem­bles the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity, that re­con­sciou­sizes you at the time of the mor­ontia awak­en­ing.

• least active when seraphim are most active

113:4.5While there is ap­par­ently no com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the in­dwelling Ad­justers and the en­com­pass­ing ser­a­phim, they al­ways seem to work in per­fect har­mony and ex­qui­site ac­cord. The guard­i­ans are most ac­tive at those times when the Ad­justers are least ac­tive, but their min­istry is in some man­ner strangely cor­re­lated. Such su­perb co-op­er­a­tion could hardly be ei­ther ac­ci­den­tal or in­ci­den­tal.

• T.A. are identity of sleeping survivors

113:6.5The guard­ian ser­a­phim is the cus­to­dial trus­tee of the sur­vival val­ues of mor­tal man’s slum­ber­ing soul as the ab­sent Ad­juster is the iden­tity of such an im­mor­tal uni­verse be­ing. When these two col­lab­o­rate in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia in con­junc­tion with the newly fab­ri­cated mor­ontia form, there oc­curs the re­assem­bly of the con­stituent fac­tors of the per­son­al­ity of the mor­tal as­cender.

• unify evolving creatures with God on Paradise

116:3.43. The in­dwelling pres­ences of the First Source and Cen­ter. Mind uni­fies spirit cau­sa­tions with en­ergy re­ac­tions; be­stowal min­istry uni­fies di­vin­ity de­scen­sions with crea­ture as­cen­sions; and the in­dwelling frag­ments of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther ac­tu­ally unify the evolv­ing crea­tures with God on Par­a­dise. There are many such pres­ences of the Fa­ther which in­dwell nu­mer­ous or­ders of per­son­al­i­ties, and in mor­tal man these di­vine frag­ments of God are the Thought Ad­justers. The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are to hu­man be­ings what the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is to the Su­preme Be­ing. The Ad­justers are ab­so­lute foun­da­tions, and upon ab­so­lute foun­da­tions free­will choice can cause to be evolved the di­vine re­al­ity of an eter­naliter na­ture, fi­nal­i­ter na­ture in the case of man, De­ity na­ture in God the Su­preme.

• participate in every temporal struggle

118:1.10On the ab­so­lute and eter­nal level, po­ten­tial re­al­ity is just as mean­ing­ful as ac­tual re­al­ity. Only on the fi­nite level and to time-bound crea­tures does there ap­pear to be such a vast dif­fer­ence. To God, as ab­so­lute, an as­cend­ing mor­tal who has made the eter­nal de­ci­sion is al­ready a Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter. But the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, through the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster, is not thus lim­ited in aware­ness but can also know of, and par­tic­i­pate in, ev­ery tem­po­ral strug­gle with the prob­lems of the crea­ture as­cent from an­i­mallike to God­like lev­els of ex­is­tence.

• indwell mind, not physical brain

133:3.7As they stood there in the moon­light, Je­sus went on to say: “There lives within ev­ery hu­man mind a di­vine spirit, the gift of the Fa­ther in heaven. This good spirit ever strives to lead us to God, to help us to find God and to know God; but also within mor­tals there are many nat­u­ral phys­i­cal ten­den­cies which the Cre­ator put there to serve the well-be­ing of the in­di­vid­ual and the race. Now, of­ten­times, men and women be­come con­fused in their ef­forts to un­der­stand them­selves and to grap­ple with the man­i­fold dif­fi­cul­ties of mak­ing a liv­ing in a world so largely dom­i­nated by self­ish­ness and sin. I per­ceive, Ga­nid, that nei­ther of these women is will­fully wicked. I can tell by their faces that they have ex­pe­ri­enced much sor­row; they have suf­fered much at the hands of an ap­par­ently cruel fate; they have not in­ten­tion­ally cho­sen this sort of life; they have, in dis­cour­age­ment bor­der­ing on de­spair, sur­ren­dered to the pres­sure of the hour and ac­cepted this dis­taste­ful means of ob­tain­ing a liveli­hood as the best way out of a sit­u­a­tion that to them ap­peared hope­less. Ga­nid, some peo­ple are re­ally wicked at heart; they de­lib­er­ately choose to do mean things, but, tell me, as you look into these now tear-stained faces, do you see any­thing bad or wicked?” And as Je­sus paused for his re­ply, Ga­nid’s voice choked up as he stam­mered out his an­swer: “No, Teacher, I do not. And I apol­o­gize for my rude­ness to them—I crave their for­give­ness.” Then said Je­sus: “And I be­speak for them that they have for­given you as I speak for my Fa­ther in heaven that he has for­given them. Now all of you come with me to a friend’s house where we will seek re­fresh­ment and plan for the new and bet­ter life ahead.” Up to this time the amazed women had not ut­tered a word; they looked at each other and silently fol­lowed as the men led the way.

• to be Father to mortals, elevate mortals to perfection

145:2.9Then the Mas­ter por­trayed that the Fa­ther in heaven, af­ter man dis­cerns this spir­i­tual free­dom, wills that his chil­dren on earth should be­gin that eter­nal as­cent of the Par­a­dise ca­reer which con­sists in the crea­ture’s con­scious re­sponse to the di­vine urge of the in­dwelling spirit to find the Cre­ator, to know God and to seek to be­come like him.

• lead man to, and conduct, worship

146:2.1716. Je­sus taught his fol­low­ers that, when they had made their prayers to the Fa­ther, they should re­main for a time in silent re­cep­tiv­ity to af­ford the in­dwelling spirit the bet­ter op­por­tu­nity to speak to the lis­ten­ing soul. The spirit of the Fa­ther speaks best to man when the hu­man mind is in an at­ti­tude of true wor­ship. We wor­ship God by the aid of the Fa­ther’s in­dwelling spirit and by the il­lu­mi­na­tion of the hu­man mind through the min­istry of truth. Wor­ship, taught Je­sus, makes one in­creas­ingly like the be­ing who is wor­shiped. Wor­ship is a trans­form­ing ex­pe­ri­ence whereby the fi­nite grad­u­ally ap­proaches and ul­ti­mately at­tains the pres­ence of the In­fi­nite.

• retain spirit elements of nonsurviving mortals; Spirit-fusion subjects

196:3.35And God-con­scious­ness is equiv­a­lent to the in­te­gra­tion of the self with the uni­verse, and on its high­est lev­els of spir­i­tual re­al­ity. Only the spirit con­tent of any value is im­per­ish­able. Even that which is true, beau­ti­ful, and good may not per­ish in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence. If man does not choose to sur­vive, then does the sur­viv­ing Ad­juster con­serve those re­al­i­ties born of love and nur­tured in ser­vice. And all these things are a part of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. The Fa­ther is liv­ing love, and this life of the Fa­ther is in his Sons. And the spirit of the Fa­ther is in his Sons’ sons—mor­tal men. When all is said and done, the Fa­ther idea is still the high­est hu­man con­cept of God.

• man coheres in Father through Adjuster

2:7.7The eter­nal quest is for uni­fi­ca­tion, for di­vine co­her­ence. The far-flung phys­i­cal uni­verse co­heres in the Isle of Par­a­dise; the in­tel­lec­tual uni­verse co­heres in the God of mind, the Con­joint Ac­tor; the spir­i­tual uni­verse is co­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son. But the iso­lated mor­tal of time and space co­heres in God the Fa­ther through the di­rect re­la­tion­ship be­tween the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Man’s Ad­juster is a frag­ment of God and ev­er­last­ingly seeks for di­vine uni­fi­ca­tion; it co­heres with, and in, the Par­a­dise De­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• God’s presence determined by degree of co-operation

3:1.11While the Fa­ther parentally en­cir­cuits all his sons—all per­son­al­i­ties—his in­flu­ence in them is lim­ited by the re­mote­ness of their ori­gin from the Sec­ond and the Third Per­sons of De­ity and aug­mented as their des­tiny at­tain­ment nears such lev­els. The fact of God’s pres­ence in crea­ture minds is de­ter­mined by whether or not they are in­dwelt by Fa­ther frag­ments, such as the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, but his ef­fec­tive pres­ence is de­ter­mined by the de­gree of co-op­er­a­tion ac­corded these in­dwelling Ad­justers by the minds of their so­journ.

3:1.12The fluc­tu­a­tions of the Fa­ther’s pres­ence are not due to the change­able­ness of God. The Fa­ther does not re­tire in seclu­sion be­cause he has been slighted; his af­fec­tions are not alien­ated be­cause of the crea­ture’s wrong­do­ing. Rather, hav­ing been en­dowed with the power of choice (con­cern­ing Him­self), his chil­dren, in the ex­er­cise of that choice, di­rectly de­ter­mine the de­gree and lim­i­ta­tions of the Fa­ther’s di­vine in­flu­ence in their own hearts and souls. The Fa­ther has freely be­stowed him­self upon us with­out limit and with­out fa­vor. He is no re­specter of per­sons, plan­ets, sys­tems, or uni­verses. In the sec­tors of time he con­fers dif­fer­en­tial honor only on the Par­a­dise per­son­al­i­ties of God the Sev­en­fold, the co-or­di­nate cre­ators of the fi­nite uni­verses.

• inescapable death results when self-concepts fully displace Adjuster governance

12:9.6Mor­tal man has a spirit nu­cleus. The mind is a per­sonal-en­ergy sys­tem ex­ist­ing around a di­vine spirit nu­cleus and func­tion­ing in a ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ment. Such a liv­ing re­la­tion­ship of per­sonal mind and spirit con­sti­tutes the uni­verse po­ten­tial of eter­nal per­son­al­ity. Real trou­ble, last­ing dis­ap­point­ment, se­ri­ous de­feat, or in­es­cap­able death can come only af­ter self-con­cepts pre­sume fully to dis­place the gov­ern­ing power of the cen­tral spirit nu­cleus, thereby dis­rupt­ing the cos­mic scheme of per­son­al­ity iden­tity.

• we can be more certain of T.A. than of reality of our fellows

16:9.4Hu­man self-con­scious­ness im­plies the rec­og­ni­tion of the re­al­ity of selves other than the con­scious self and fur­ther im­plies that such aware­ness is mu­tual; that the self is known as it knows. This is shown in a purely hu­man man­ner in man’s so­cial life. But you can­not be­come so ab­so­lutely cer­tain of a fel­low be­ing’s re­al­ity as you can of the re­al­ity of the pres­ence of God that lives within you. The so­cial con­scious­ness is not in­alien­able like the God-con­scious­ness; it is a cul­tural de­vel­op­ment and is de­pen­dent on knowl­edge, sym­bols, and the con­tri­bu­tions of the con­sti­tu­tive en­dow­ments of man—sci­ence, moral­ity, and re­li­gion. And these cos­mic gifts, so­cial­ized, con­sti­tute civ­i­liza­tion.

• impulse of altruism, mercy towards the weak and needy, derives from

26:11.5The mor­tal crea­ture must find God. The Cre­ator Son never stops un­til he finds man—the low­est will crea­ture. Be­yond doubt, the Cre­ator Sons and their mor­tal chil­dren are prepar­ing for some fu­ture and un­known uni­verse ser­vice. Both tra­verse the gamut of the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verse and so are ed­u­cated and trained for their eter­nal mis­sion. Through­out the uni­verses there is oc­cur­ring this unique blend­ing of the hu­man and the di­vine, the com­min­gling of crea­ture and Cre­ator. Un­think­ing mor­tals have re­ferred to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of di­vine mercy and ten­der­ness, es­pe­cially to­wards the weak and in be­half of the needy, as in­dica­tive of an an­thro­po­mor­phic God. What a mis­take! Rather should such man­i­fes­ta­tions of mercy and for­bear­ance by hu­man be­ings be taken as ev­i­dence that mor­tal man is in­dwelt by the spirit of the liv­ing God; that the crea­ture is, af­ter all, di­vin­ity mo­ti­vated.

• agreement to survive is mortal’s 1st jubilee

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

• may be unconscious
• mind endowed with Holy Spirit has capacity to choose T.A.

34:5.4When mind is thus en­dowed with the min­istry of the Holy Spirit, it pos­sesses the ca­pac­ity for (con­sciously or un­con­sciously) choos­ing the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther—the Thought Ad­juster. But it is not un­til a be­stowal Son has lib­er­ated the Spirit of Truth for plan­e­tary min­istry to all mor­tals that all nor­mal minds are au­to­mat­i­cally pre­pared for the re­cep­tion of the Thought Ad­justers. The Spirit of Truth works as one with the pres­ence of the spirit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter. This dual spirit li­ai­son hov­ers over the worlds, seek­ing to teach truth and to spir­i­tu­ally en­lighten the minds of men, to in­spire the souls of the crea­tures of the as­cend­ing races, and to lead the peo­ples dwell­ing on the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets ever to­wards their Par­a­dise goal of di­vine des­tiny.

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

40:7.2Your own races of sur­viv­ing mor­tals be­long to this group of the as­cend­ing Sons of God. You are now plan­e­tary sons, evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­rived from the Life Car­rier im­plan­ta­tions and mod­i­fied by the Adamic-life in­fu­sion, hardly yet as­cend­ing sons; but you are in­deed sons of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial—even to the high­est heights of glory and di­vin­ity at­tain­ment—and this spir­i­tual sta­tus of as­cend­ing son­ship you may at­tain by faith and by free­will co-op­er­a­tion with the spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of the in­dwelling Ad­juster. When you and your Ad­justers are fi­nally and for­ever fused, when you two are made one, even as in Christ Mi­chael the Son of God and the Son of Man are one, then in fact have you be­come the as­cend­ing sons of God.

40:7.3The de­tails of the Ad­juster ca­reer of in­dwelling min­istry on a pro­ba­tion­ary and evo­lu­tion­ary planet are not a part of my as­sign­ment; the elab­o­ra­tion of this great truth em­braces your whole ca­reer. I in­clude the men­tion of cer­tain Ad­juster func­tions in or­der to make a re­plete state­ment re­gard­ing Ad­juster-fused mor­tals. These in­dwelling frag­ments of God are with your or­der of be­ing from the early days of phys­i­cal ex­is­tence through all of the as­cend­ing ca­reer in Neb­a­don and Or­von­ton and on through Ha­vona to Par­a­dise it­self. There­after, in the eter­nal ad­ven­ture, this same Ad­juster is one with you and of you.

40:7.4These are the mor­tals who have been com­manded by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, “Be you per­fect, even as I am per­fect.” The Fa­ther has be­stowed him­self upon you, placed his own spirit within you; there­fore does he de­mand ul­ti­mate per­fec­tion of you. The nar­ra­tive of hu­man as­cent from the mor­tal spheres of time to the di­vine realms of eter­nity con­sti­tutes an in­trigu­ing recital not in­cluded in my as­sign­ment, but this su­per­nal ad­ven­ture should be the su­preme study of mor­tal man.

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

• T.A. possessing special previous experience are source of mortal ability

44:8.1Al­though ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans do not per­son­ally work on ma­te­rial plan­ets, such as Uran­tia, they do come, from time to time, from the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem to prof­fer help to the nat­u­rally gifted in­di­vid­u­als of the mor­tal races. When thus as­signed, these ar­ti­sans tem­porar­ily work un­der the super­vi­sion of the plan­e­tary an­gels of prog­ress. The se­raphic hosts co-op­er­ate with these ar­ti­sans in at­tempt­ing to as­sist those mor­tal artists who pos­sess in­her­ent en­dow­ments, and who also pos­sess Ad­justers of spe­cial and pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence.

44:8.2There are three pos­si­ble sources of spe­cial hu­man abil­ity: At the bot­tom al­ways there ex­ists the nat­u­ral or in­her­ent ap­ti­tude. Spe­cial abil­ity is never an ar­bi­trary gift of the Gods; there is al­ways an an­ces­tral foun­da­tion for ev­ery out­stand­ing tal­ent. In ad­di­tion to this nat­u­ral abil­ity, or rather sup­ple­men­tal thereto, there may be con­tributed the lead­ings of the Thought Ad­juster in those in­di­vid­u­als whose in­dwelling Ad­justers may have had ac­tual and bona fide ex­pe­ri­ences along such lines on other worlds and in other mor­tal crea­tures. In those cases where both the hu­man mind and the in­dwelling Ad­juster are un­usu­ally skill­ful, the spirit ar­ti­sans may be del­e­gated to act as har­mo­niz­ers of these tal­ents and oth­er­wise to as­sist and in­spire these mor­tals to seek for ever-per­fect­ing ide­als and to at­tempt their en­hanced por­trayal for the ed­i­fi­ca­tion of the realm.

• contact facilitated by loving service

91:7.1Mys­ti­cism, as the tech­nique of the cul­ti­va­tion of the con­scious­ness of the pres­ence of God, is al­to­gether praise­wor­thy, but when such prac­tices lead to so­cial iso­la­tion and cul­mi­nate in re­li­gious fa­nati­cism, they are all but rep­re­hen­si­ble. Al­to­gether too fre­quently that which the over­wrought mys­tic eval­u­ates as di­vine in­spi­ra­tion is the up­ris­ings of his own deep mind. The con­tact of the mor­tal mind with its in­dwelling Ad­juster, while of­ten fa­vored by de­voted med­i­ta­tion, is more fre­quently fa­cil­i­tated by whole­hearted and lov­ing ser­vice in un­selfish min­istry to one’s fel­low crea­tures.

• man can evolve moral insight because of indwelling Adjuster

95:3.2Moral evo­lu­tion is not wholly de­pen­dent on rev­e­la­tion. High moral con­cepts can be de­rived from man’s own ex­pe­ri­ence. Man can even evolve spir­i­tual val­ues and de­rive cos­mic in­sight from his per­sonal ex­pe­ri­en­tial liv­ing be­cause a di­vine spirit in­dwells him. Such nat­u­ral evo­lu­tions of con­science and char­ac­ter were also aug­mented by the pe­ri­odic ar­rival of teach­ers of truth, in an­cient times from the sec­ond Eden, later on from Mel­chiz­e­dek’s head­quar­ters at Salem.

• spiritual status is measure of attunement with

100:2.5Ac­tual spir­i­tual sta­tus is the mea­sure of De­ity at­tain­ment, Ad­juster at­tune­ment. The achieve­ment of fi­nal­ity of spir­i­tu­al­ity is equiv­a­lent to the at­tain­ment of the max­i­mum of re­al­ity, the max­i­mum of God­like­ness. Eter­nal life is the end­less quest for in­fi­nite val­ues.

• approach Adjusters through living faith, sincere worship, wholehearted and unselfish prayer

100:5.7In con­trast with con­ver­sion-seek­ing, the bet­ter ap­proach to the mor­ontia zones of pos­si­ble con­tact with the Thought Ad­juster would be through liv­ing faith and sin­cere wor­ship, whole­hearted and un­selfish prayer. Al­to­gether too much of the up­rush of the mem­o­ries of the un­con­scious lev­els of the hu­man mind has been mis­taken for di­vine rev­e­la­tions and spirit lead­ings.

• faith-insight is an Adjuster endowment

101:3.2Faith-in­sight, or spir­i­tual in­tu­ition, is the en­dow­ment of the cos­mic mind in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Thought Ad­juster, which is the Fa­ther’s gift to man. Spir­i­tual rea­son, soul in­tel­li­gence, is the en­dow­ment of the Holy Spirit, the Cre­ative Spirit’s gift to man. Spir­i­tual phi­los­o­phy, the wis­dom of spirit re­al­i­ties, is the en­dow­ment of the Spirit of Truth, the com­bined gift of the be­stowal Sons to the chil­dren of men. And the co-or­di­na­tion and in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of these spirit en­dow­ments con­sti­tute man a spirit per­son­al­ity in po­ten­tial des­tiny.

• impulse of altruism, mercy towards the weak and needy, derives from

103:2.10Man tends to iden­tify the urge to be self-serv­ing with his ego—him­self. In con­trast he is in­clined to iden­tify the will to be al­tru­is­tic with some in­flu­ence out­side him­self—God. And in­deed is such a judg­ment right, for all such non­self de­sires do ac­tu­ally have their ori­gin in the lead­ings of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster, and this Ad­juster is a frag­ment of God. The im­pulse of the spirit Mon­i­tor is re­al­ized in hu­man con­scious­ness as the urge to be al­tru­is­tic, fel­low-crea­ture minded. At least this is the early and fun­da­men­tal ex­pe­ri­ence of the child mind. When the grow­ing child fails of per­son­al­ity uni­fi­ca­tion, the al­tru­is­tic drive may be­come so overde­vel­oped as to work se­ri­ous in­jury to the wel­fare of the self. A mis­guided con­science can be­come re­spon­si­ble for much con­flict, worry, sor­row, and no end of hu­man un­hap­pi­ness.

• impulse of altruism, mercy towards the weak and needy, derives from

103:5.1The early evo­lu­tion­ary mind gives ori­gin to a feel­ing of so­cial duty and moral obli­ga­tion de­rived chiefly from emo­tional fear. The more pos­i­tive urge of so­cial ser­vice and the ide­al­ism of al­tru­ism are de­rived from the di­rect im­pulse of the di­vine spirit in­dwelling the hu­man mind.

• impulse of altruism, mercy towards the weak and needy, derives from

103:5.3All men rec­og­nize the moral­ity of this uni­ver­sal hu­man urge to be un­selfish and al­tru­is­tic. The hu­man­ist as­cribes the ori­gin of this urge to the nat­u­ral work­ing of the ma­te­rial mind; the re­li­gion­ist more cor­rectly rec­og­nizes that the truly un­selfish drive of mor­tal mind is in re­sponse to the in­ner spirit lead­ings of the Thought Ad­juster.

• realizing presence of Adjuster lifts man out of and beyond himself

103:5.9It lifts man out of him­self and be­yond him­self when he once fully re­al­izes that there lives and strives within him some­thing which is eter­nal and di­vine. And so it is that a liv­ing faith in the super­hu­man ori­gin of our ide­als val­i­dates our be­lief that we are the sons of God and makes real our al­tru­is­tic con­vic­tions, the feel­ings of the broth­er­hood of man.

• mortal consciousness of Adjuster based on perceptions of truth and goodness; motivation to love

103:7.14There is a real proof of spir­i­tual re­al­ity in the pres­ence of the Thought Ad­juster, but the va­lid­ity of this pres­ence is not demon­stra­ble to the ex­ter­nal world, only to the one who thus ex­pe­ri­ences the in­dwelling of God. The con­scious­ness of the Ad­juster is based on the in­tel­lec­tual re­cep­tion of truth, the super­mind per­cep­tion of good­ness, and the per­son­al­ity mo­ti­va­tion to love.

• T.A. is man’s infallible cosmic compass

107:0.6The Ad­juster is an ab­so­lute essence of an in­fi­nite be­ing im­pris­oned within the mind of a fi­nite crea­ture which, de­pend­ing on the choos­ing of such a mor­tal, can even­tu­ally con­sum­mate this tem­po­rary union of God and man and ver­i­ta­bly ac­tu­al­ize a new or­der of be­ing for un­end­ing uni­verse ser­vice. The Ad­juster is the di­vine uni­verse re­al­ity which fac­tu­al­izes the truth that God is man’s Fa­ther. The Ad­juster is man’s in­fal­li­ble cos­mic com­pass, al­ways and unerringly point­ing the soul God­ward.

• T.A. is man’s infallible cosmic compass

107:4.3No Ad­juster has ever been dis­loyal to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther; the lower or­ders of per­sonal crea­tures may some­times have to con­tend with dis­loyal fel­lows, but never the Ad­justers; they are su­preme and in­fal­li­ble in their su­per­nal sphere of crea­ture min­istry and uni­verse func­tion.

109:5.2It is some­times pos­si­ble to have the mind il­lu­mi­nated, to hear the di­vine voice that con­tin­u­ally speaks within you, so that you may be­come par­tially con­scious of the wis­dom, truth, good­ness, and beauty of the po­ten­tial per­son­al­ity con­stantly in­dwelling you.

109:5.3But your un­steady and rapidly shift­ing men­tal at­ti­tudes of­ten re­sult in thwart­ing the plans and in­ter­rupt­ing the work of the Ad­justers. Their work is not only in­ter­fered with by the in­nate na­tures of the mor­tal races, but this min­istry is also greatly re­tarded by your own pre­con­ceived opin­ions, set­tled ideas, and long-stand­ing prej­u­dices. Be­cause of these hand­i­caps, many times only their un­fin­ished cre­ations emerge into con­scious­ness, and con­fu­sion of con­cept is in­ev­i­ta­ble. There­fore, in scru­ti­niz­ing men­tal sit­u­a­tions, safety lies only in the prompt rec­og­ni­tion of each and ev­ery thought and ex­pe­ri­ence for just what it ac­tu­ally and fun­da­men­tally is, dis­re­gard­ing en­tirely what it might have been.

109:5.4The great prob­lem of life is the ad­just­ment of the an­ces­tral ten­den­cies of liv­ing to the de­mands of the spir­i­tual urges ini­ti­ated by the di­vine pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. While in the uni­verse and super­uni­verse ca­reers no man can serve two mas­ters, in the life you now live on Uran­tia ev­ery man must per­force serve two mas­ters. He must be­come adept in the art of a con­tin­u­ous hu­man tem­po­ral com­pro­mise while he yields spir­i­tual al­le­giance to but one mas­ter; and this is why so many fal­ter and fail, grow weary and suc­cumb to the stress of the evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle.

109:5.5While the hered­i­tary legacy of cere­bral en­dow­ment and that of elec­tro­chem­i­cal over­con­trol both op­er­ate to de­limit the sphere of ef­fi­cient Ad­juster ac­tiv­ity, no hered­i­tary hand­i­cap (in nor­mal minds) ever pre­vents even­tual spir­i­tual achieve­ment. Hered­ity may in­ter­fere with the rate of per­son­al­ity con­quest, but it does not pre­vent even­tual con­sum­ma­tion of the as­cen­dant ad­ven­ture. If you will co-op­er­ate with your Ad­juster, the di­vine gift will, sooner or later, evolve the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul and, sub­se­quent to fu­sion there­with, will pre­sent the new crea­ture to the sov­er­eign Mas­ter Son of the lo­cal uni­verse and even­tu­ally to the Fa­ther of Ad­justers on Par­a­dise.

• we should cherish Adjusters more affectionately

110:1.2I wish it were pos­si­ble for me to help evolv­ing mor­tals to achieve a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing and at­tain a fuller ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the un­selfish and su­perb work of the Ad­justers liv­ing within them, who are so de­voutly faith­ful to the task of fos­ter­ing man’s spir­i­tual wel­fare. These Mon­i­tors are ef­fi­cient min­is­ters to the higher phases of men’s minds; they are wise and ex­pe­ri­enced ma­nip­u­la­tors of the spir­i­tual po­ten­tial of the hu­man in­tel­lect. These heav­enly helpers are ded­i­cated to the stu­pen­dous task of guid­ing you safely in­ward and up­ward to the ce­les­tial haven of hap­pi­ness. These tire­less toil­ers are con­se­crated to the fu­ture per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the tri­umph of di­vine truth in your life ev­er­last­ing. They are the watch­ful work­ers who pi­lot the God-con­scious hu­man mind away from the shoals of evil while ex­pertly guid­ing the evolv­ing soul of man to­ward the di­vine har­bors of per­fec­tion on far-dis­tant and eter­nal shores. The Ad­justers are lov­ing lead­ers, your safe and sure guides through the dark and un­cer­tain mazes of your short earthly ca­reer; they are the pa­tient teach­ers who so con­stantly urge their sub­jects for­ward in the paths of pro­gres­sive per­fec­tion. They are the care­ful cus­to­di­ans of the sub­lime val­ues of crea­ture char­ac­ter. I wish you could love them more, co-op­er­ate with them more fully, and cher­ish them more af­fec­tion­ately.

• is ceasing to resist – our steadfast faith

110:3.2The suc­cess of your Ad­juster in the en­ter­prise of pi­lot­ing you through the mor­tal life and bring­ing about your sur­vival de­pends not so much on the the­o­ries of your be­liefs as upon your de­ci­sions, de­ter­mi­na­tions, and stead­fast faith. All these move­ments of per­son­al­ity growth be­come pow­er­ful in­flu­ences aid­ing in your ad­vance­ment be­cause they help you to co-op­er­ate with the Ad­juster; they as­sist you in ceas­ing to re­sist. Thought Ad­justers suc­ceed or ap­par­ently fail in their ter­res­trial un­der­tak­ings just in so far as mor­tals suc­ceed or fail to co-op­er­ate with the scheme whereby they are to be ad­vanced along the as­cend­ing path of per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. The se­cret of sur­vival is wrapped up in the su­preme hu­man de­sire to be God­like and in the as­so­ci­ated will­ing­ness to do and be any and all things which are es­sen­tial to the fi­nal at­tain­ment of that over­mas­ter­ing de­sire.

• augment harmony with T.A. by loving God, serving man, living by highest values, accepting cosmic citizenship

110:3.6You must not re­gard co-op­er­a­tion with your Ad­juster as a par­tic­u­larly con­scious pro­cess, for it is not; but your mo­tives and your de­ci­sions, your faith­ful de­ter­mi­na­tions and your su­preme de­sires, do con­sti­tute real and ef­fec­tive co-op­er­a­tion. You can con­sciously aug­ment Ad­juster har­mony by:

110:3.71. Choos­ing to re­spond to di­vine lead­ing; sin­cerely bas­ing the hu­man life on the high­est con­scious­ness of truth, beauty, and good­ness, and then co-or­di­nat­ing these qual­i­ties of di­vin­ity through wis­dom, wor­ship, faith, and love.

110:3.82. Lov­ing God and de­sir­ing to be like him—gen­uine rec­og­ni­tion of the di­vine fa­ther­hood and lov­ing wor­ship of the heav­enly Par­ent.

110:3.93. Lov­ing man and sin­cerely de­sir­ing to serve him—whole­hearted rec­og­ni­tion of the broth­er­hood of man cou­pled with an in­tel­li­gent and wise af­fec­tion for each of your fel­low mor­tals.

110:3.104. Joy­ful ac­cep­tance of cos­mic citizen­ship—hon­est rec­og­ni­tion of your pro­gres­sive obli­ga­tions to the Su­preme Be­ing, aware­ness of the in­ter­de­pen­dence of evo­lu­tion­ary man and evolv­ing De­ity. This is the birth of cos­mic moral­ity and the dawn­ing re­al­iza­tion of uni­ver­sal duty.

• material handicaps to T.A.’ work

110:4.5There ex­ists a vast gulf be­tween the hu­man and the di­vine, be­tween man and God. The Uran­tia races are so largely elec­tri­cally and chem­i­cally con­trolled, so highly an­i­mallike in their com­mon be­hav­ior, so emo­tional in their or­di­nary re­ac­tions, that it be­comes ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the Mon­i­tors to guide and di­rect them. You are so de­void of coura­geous de­ci­sions and con­se­crated co-op­er­a­tion that your in­dwelling Ad­justers find it next to im­pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate di­rectly with the hu­man mind. Even when they do find it pos­si­ble to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolv­ing mor­tal soul, this spir­i­tual rev­e­la­tion of­ten so blinds the crea­ture as to pre­cip­i­tate a con­vul­sion of fa­nati­cism or to ini­ti­ate some other in­tel­lec­tual up­heaval which re­sults dis­as­trously. Many a new re­li­gion and strange “ism” has arisen from the aborted, im­per­fect, mis­un­der­stood, and gar­bled com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the Thought Ad­justers.

• absolute oneness achieved only in eternity

110:7.4Sub­se­quent to mor­tal fu­sion the Ad­justers share your des­tiny and ex­pe­ri­ence; they are you. Af­ter the fu­sion of the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul and the as­so­ci­ated Ad­juster, all of the ex­pe­ri­ence and all of the val­ues of the one even­tu­ally be­come the pos­ses­sion of the other, so that the two are ac­tu­ally one en­tity. In a cer­tain sense, this new be­ing is of the eter­nal past as well as for the eter­nal fu­ture. All that was once hu­man in the sur­viv­ing soul and all that is ex­pe­ri­en­tially di­vine in the Ad­juster now be­come the ac­tual pos­ses­sion of the new and ever-as­cend­ing uni­verse per­son­al­ity. But on each uni­verse level the Ad­juster can en­dow the new crea­ture only with those at­tri­butes which are mean­ing­ful and of value on that level. An ab­so­lute one­ness with the di­vine Mon­i­tor, a com­plete ex­haus­tion of the en­dow­ment of an Ad­juster, can only be achieved in eter­nity sub­se­quent to the fi­nal at­tain­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Fa­ther of spir­its, ever the source of these di­vine gifts.

• material handicaps to T.A.’ work

110:7.6But with the vast ma­jor­ity of Uran­tians the Ad­juster must pa­tiently await the ar­rival of death de­liv­er­ance; must await the lib­er­a­tion of the emerg­ing soul from the well-nigh com­plete dom­i­na­tion of the en­ergy pat­terns and chem­i­cal forces in­her­ent in your ma­te­rial or­der of ex­is­tence. The chief dif­fi­culty you ex­pe­ri­ence in con­tact­ing with your Ad­justers con­sists in this very in­her­ent ma­te­rial na­ture. So few mor­tals are real thinkers; you do not spir­i­tu­ally de­velop and dis­ci­pline your minds to the point of fa­vor­able li­ai­son with the di­vine Ad­justers. The ear of the hu­man mind is al­most deaf to the spir­i­tual pleas which the Ad­juster trans­lates from the man­i­fold mes­sages of the uni­ver­sal broad­casts of love pro­ceed­ing from the Fa­ther of mer­cies. The Ad­juster finds it al­most im­pos­si­ble to reg­is­ter these in­spir­ing spirit lead­ings in an an­i­mal mind so com­pletely dom­i­nated by the chem­i­cal and elec­tri­cal forces in­her­ent in your phys­i­cal na­tures.

• T.A. is pilot, mind is ship, will is captain

111:1.9Mind is your ship, the Ad­juster is your pi­lot, the hu­man will is cap­tain. The mas­ter of the mor­tal ves­sel should have the wis­dom to trust the di­vine pi­lot to guide the as­cend­ing soul into the mor­ontia har­bors of eter­nal sur­vival. Only by self­ish­ness, sloth­ful­ness, and sin­ful­ness can the will of man re­ject the guid­ance of such a lov­ing pi­lot and even­tu­ally wreck the mor­tal ca­reer upon the evil shoals of re­jected mercy and upon the rocks of em­braced sin. With your con­sent, this faith­ful pi­lot will safely carry you across the bar­ri­ers of time and the hand­i­caps of space to the very source of the di­vine mind and on be­yond, even to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of Ad­justers.

• T.A. indwell men subject to human will

111:5.3Mor­tals live in God, and so God has willed to live in mor­tals. As men trust them­selves to him, so has he—and first—trusted a part of him­self to be with men; has con­sented to live in men and to in­dwell men sub­ject to the hu­man will.

• survival attested to by Adjuster’s answer at dispensational roll call

113:6.8The tech­nique of jus­tice de­mands that per­sonal or group guard­i­ans shall re­spond to the dis­pen­sa­tional roll call in be­half of all non­sur­viv­ing per­son­al­i­ties. The Ad­justers of such non­sur­vivors do not re­turn, and when the rolls are called, the ser­a­phim re­spond, but the Ad­justers make no an­swer. This con­sti­tutes the “res­ur­rec­tion of the un­just,” in re­al­ity the for­mal rec­og­ni­tion of the ces­sa­tion of crea­ture ex­is­tence. This roll call of jus­tice al­ways im­me­di­ately fol­lows the roll call of mercy, the res­ur­rec­tion of the sleep­ing sur­vivors. But these are mat­ters which are of con­cern to none but the su­preme and all-know­ing Judges of sur­vival val­ues. Such prob­lems of ad­ju­di­ca­tion do not re­ally con­cern us.

• survival dependent on choosing values selected by T.A.

132:2.2My brother, good and evil are merely words sym­bol­iz­ing rel­a­tive lev­els of hu­man com­pre­hen­sion of the ob­serv­able uni­verse. If you are eth­i­cally lazy and so­cially in­dif­fer­ent, you can take as your stan­dard of good the cur­rent so­cial us­ages. If you are spir­i­tu­ally in­do­lent and morally un­pro­gres­sive, you may take as your stan­dards of good the re­li­gious prac­tices and tra­di­tions of your con­tem­po­raries. But the soul that sur­vives time and emerges into eter­nity must make a liv­ing and per­sonal choice be­tween good and evil as they are de­ter­mined by the true val­ues of the spir­i­tual stan­dards es­tab­lished by the di­vine spirit which the Fa­ther in heaven has sent to dwell within the heart of man. This in­dwelling spirit is the stan­dard of per­son­al­ity sur­vival.

132:2.3Good­ness, like truth, is al­ways rel­a­tive and un­fail­ingly evil-con­trasted. It is the per­cep­tion of these qual­i­ties of good­ness and truth that en­ables the evolv­ing souls of men to make those per­sonal de­ci­sions of choice which are es­sen­tial to eter­nal sur­vival.

• personality attainment is identification with

132:2.5Good­ness is al­ways grow­ing to­ward new lev­els of the in­creas­ing lib­erty of moral self-re­al­iza­tion and spir­i­tual per­son­al­ity at­tain­ment—the dis­cov­ery of, and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with, the in­dwelling Ad­juster. An ex­pe­ri­ence is good when it height­ens the ap­pre­ci­a­tion of beauty, aug­ments the moral will, en­hances the dis­cern­ment of truth, en­larges the ca­pac­ity to love and serve one’s fel­lows, ex­alts the spir­i­tual ide­als, and uni­fies the su­preme hu­man mo­tives of time with the eter­nal plans of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, all of which lead di­rectly to an in­creased de­sire to do the Fa­ther’s will, thereby fos­ter­ing the di­vine pas­sion to find God and to be more like him.

• all who yield to T.A. eventually come to Jesus

153:2.11By this time there was much mur­mur­ing in the syn­a­gogue, and such a tu­mult was threat­ened that Je­sus stood up and said: “Let us be pa­tient; the truth never suf­fers from hon­est ex­am­i­na­tion. I am all that you say but more. The Fa­ther and I are one; the Son does only that which the Fa­ther teaches him, while all those who are given to the Son by the Fa­ther, the Son will re­ceive to him­self. You have read where it is writ­ten in the Proph­ets, ‘You shall all be taught by God,’ and that ‘Those whom the Fa­ther teaches will hear also his Son.’ Ev­ery one who yields to the teach­ing of the Fa­ther’s in­dwelling spirit will even­tu­ally come to me. Not that any man has seen the Fa­ther, but the Fa­ther’s spirit does live within man. And the Son who came down from heaven, he has surely seen the Fa­ther. And those who truly be­lieve this Son al­ready have eter­nal life.

• Adjuster-expression is manifestation of mortal’s real and better self

195:7.5The re­al­i­ties and val­ues of spir­i­tual prog­ress are not a “psy­cho­logic pro­jec­tion”—a mere glo­ri­fied day­dream of the ma­te­rial mind. Such things are the spir­i­tual fore­casts of the in­dwelling Ad­juster, the spirit of God liv­ing in the mind of man. And let not your dab­blings with the faintly glimpsed find­ings of “rel­a­tiv­ity” dis­turb your con­cepts of the eter­nity and in­fin­ity of God. And in all your so­lic­i­ta­tion con­cern­ing the ne­ces­sity for self-ex­pres­sion do not make the mis­take of fail­ing to pro­vide for Ad­juster-ex­pres­sion, the man­i­fes­ta­tion of your real and bet­ter self.

• evidences of Adjuster’s indwelling

196:3.6The mind of man can at­tain high lev­els of spir­i­tual in­sight and cor­re­spond­ing spheres of di­vin­ity of val­ues be­cause it is not wholly ma­te­rial. There is a spirit nu­cleus in the mind of man—the Ad­juster of the di­vine pres­ence. There are three sep­a­rate ev­i­dences of this spirit in­dwelling of the hu­man mind:

196:3.71. Hu­man­i­tar­ian fel­low­ship—love. The purely an­i­mal mind may be gre­gar­i­ous for self-pro­tec­tion, but only the spirit-in­dwelt in­tel­lect is un­selfishly al­tru­is­tic and un­con­di­tion­ally lov­ing.

196:3.82. In­ter­pre­ta­tion of the uni­verse—wis­dom. Only the spirit-in­dwelt mind can com­pre­hend that the uni­verse is friendly to the in­di­vid­ual.

196:3.93. Spir­i­tual eval­u­a­tion of life—wor­ship. Only the spirit-in­dwelt man can re­al­ize the di­vine pres­ence and seek to at­tain a fuller ex­pe­ri­ence in and with this fore­taste of di­vin­ity.

196:3.10The hu­man mind does not cre­ate real val­ues; hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence does not yield uni­verse in­sight. Con­cern­ing in­sight, the rec­og­ni­tion of moral val­ues and the dis­cern­ment of spir­i­tual mean­ings, all that the hu­man mind can do is to dis­cover, rec­og­nize, in­ter­pret, and choose.

196:3.11The moral val­ues of the uni­verse be­come in­tel­lec­tual pos­ses­sions by the ex­er­cise of the three ba­sic judg­ments, or choices, of the mor­tal mind:

196:3.121. Self-judg­ment—moral choice.

196:3.132. So­cial-judg­ment—eth­i­cal choice.

196:3.143. God-judg­ment—re­li­gious choice.

196:3.15Thus it ap­pears that all hu­man prog­ress is ef­fected by a tech­nique of con­joint rev­e­la­tional evo­lu­tion.

196:3.16Un­less a di­vine lover lived in man, he could not un­selfishly and spir­i­tu­ally love. Un­less an in­ter­preter lived in the mind, man could not truly re­al­ize the unity of the uni­verse. Un­less an eval­u­a­tor dwelt with man, he could not pos­si­bly ap­praise moral val­ues and rec­og­nize spir­i­tual mean­ings. And this lover hails from the very source of in­fi­nite love; this in­ter­preter is a part of Uni­ver­sal Unity; this eval­u­a­tor is the child of the Cen­ter and Source of all ab­so­lute val­ues of di­vine and eter­nal re­al­ity.

• survival dependent on choosing values selected by T.A.

196:3.17Moral eval­u­a­tion with a re­li­gious mean­ing—spir­i­tual in­sight—con­notes the in­di­vid­ual’s choice be­tween good and evil, truth and er­ror, ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual, hu­man and di­vine, time and eter­nity. Hu­man sur­vival is in great mea­sure de­pen­dent on con­se­crat­ing the hu­man will to the choos­ing of those val­ues se­lected by this spirit-value sorter—the in­dwelling in­ter­preter and uni­fier. Per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence con­sists in two phases: dis­cov­ery in the hu­man mind and rev­e­la­tion by the in­dwelling di­vine spirit. Through over­so­phis­ti­ca­tion or as a re­sult of the ir­re­li­gious con­duct of pro­fessed re­li­gion­ists, a man, or even a gen­er­a­tion of men, may elect to sus­pend their ef­forts to dis­cover the God who in­dwells them; they may fail to pro­gress in and at­tain the di­vine rev­e­la­tion. But such at­ti­tudes of spir­i­tual non­pro­gres­sion can­not long per­sist be­cause of the pres­ence and in­flu­ence of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­justers.

• ever-present possibility of immediate communion

5:1.3Al­though the ap­proach to the Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Fa­ther must await your at­tain­ment of the high­est fi­nite lev­els of spirit pro­gres­sion, you should re­joice in the rec­og­ni­tion of the ever-pres­ent pos­si­bil­ity of im­me­di­ate com­mu­nion with the be­stowal spirit of the Fa­ther so in­ti­mately as­so­ci­ated with your in­ner soul and your spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing self.

• soul capable of experiencing presence of

5:2.5It is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the mea­gerly spir­i­tu­al­ized, ma­te­rial mind of mor­tal man to ex­pe­ri­ence marked con­scious­ness of the spirit ac­tiv­i­ties of such di­vine en­ti­ties as the Par­a­dise Ad­justers. As the soul of joint mind and Ad­juster cre­ation be­comes in­creas­ingly ex­is­tent, there also evolves a new phase of soul con­scious­ness which is ca­pa­ble of ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the pres­ence, and of rec­og­niz­ing the spirit lead­ings and other super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties, of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

• ever-present possibility of immediate communion

9:2.5The pres­ence of the uni­ver­sal spirit of the Eter­nal Son we know—we can un­mis­tak­ably rec­og­nize it. The pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Third Per­son of De­ity, even mor­tal man may know, for ma­te­rial crea­tures can ac­tu­ally ex­pe­ri­ence the benef­i­cence of this di­vine in­flu­ence which func­tions as the Holy Spirit of lo­cal uni­verse be­stowal upon the races of man­kind. Hu­man be­ings can also in some de­gree be­come con­scious of the Ad­juster, the im­per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. These di­vine spir­its which work for man’s up­lift­ing and spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion all act in uni­son and in per­fect co-op­er­a­tion. They are as one in the spir­i­tual op­er­a­tion of the plans of mor­tal as­cen­sion and per­fec­tion at­tain­ment.

• improved in light and life

55:6.4The Ad­justers con­tinue to come as in for­mer evo­lu­tion­ary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mor­tals are in­creas­ingly able to com­mune with the in­dwelling Fa­ther frag­ment. Dur­ing the em­bry­onic and prespir­i­tual stages of de­vel­op­ment the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are still func­tion­ing. The Holy Spirit and the min­istry of an­gels are even more ef­fec­tive as the suc­ces­sive epochs of set­tled life are ex­pe­ri­enced. In the fourth stage of light and life the ad­vanced mor­tals seem to ex­pe­ri­ence con­sid­er­able con­scious con­tact with the spirit pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, while the phi­los­o­phy of such a world is fo­cused upon the at­tempt to com­pre­hend the new rev­e­la­tions of God the Su­preme. More than one half of the hu­man in­hab­i­tants on plan­ets of this ad­vanced sta­tus ex­pe­ri­ence trans­la­tion to the mor­ontia state from among the liv­ing. Even so, “old things are pass­ing away; be­hold, all things are be­com­ing new.”

• prayer attains contact with

91:2.6Dur­ing the ear­lier times of racial evo­lu­tion and even at the pres­ent time, in the day-by-day ex­pe­ri­ence of the av­er­age mor­tal, prayer is very much a phe­nom­e­non of man’s in­ter­course with his own sub­con­scious. But there is also a do­main of prayer wherein the in­tel­lec­tu­ally alert and spir­i­tu­ally pro­gress­ing in­di­vid­ual at­tains more or less con­tact with the super­con­scious lev­els of the hu­man mind, the do­main of the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster. In ad­di­tion, there is a def­i­nite spir­i­tual phase of true prayer which con­cerns its re­cep­tion and rec­og­ni­tion by the spir­i­tual forces of the uni­verse, and which is en­tirely dis­tinct from all hu­man and in­tel­lec­tual as­so­ci­a­tion.

• prayer attains contact with

91:6.7But the ef­fi­cacy of prayer in the per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of the one who prays is in no way de­pen­dent on such a wor­shiper’s in­tel­lec­tual un­der­stand­ing, philo­sophic acu­men, so­cial level, cul­tural sta­tus, or other mor­tal ac­quire­ments. The psy­chic and spir­i­tual con­comi­tants of the prayer of faith are im­me­di­ate, per­sonal, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. There is no other tech­nique whereby ev­ery man, re­gard­less of all other mor­tal ac­com­plish­ments, can so ef­fec­tively and im­me­di­ately ap­proach the thresh­old of that realm wherein he can com­mu­ni­cate with his Maker, where the crea­ture con­tacts with the re­al­ity of the Cre­ator, with the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster.

• superconscious is zone of immediate contact

100:5.6If one is dis­posed to rec­og­nize a the­o­ret­i­cal sub­con­scious mind as a prac­ti­cal work­ing hy­poth­e­sis in the oth­er­wise uni­fied in­tel­lec­tual life, then, to be con­sis­tent, one should pos­tu­late a sim­i­lar and cor­re­spond­ing realm of as­cend­ing in­tel­lec­tual ac­tiv­ity as the super­con­scious level, the zone of im­me­di­ate con­tact with the in­dwelling spirit en­tity, the Thought Ad­juster. The great dan­ger in all these psy­chic spec­u­la­tions is that vi­sions and other so-called mys­tic ex­pe­ri­ences, along with ex­traor­di­nary dreams, may be re­garded as di­vine com­mu­ni­ca­tions to the hu­man mind. In times past, di­vine be­ings have re­vealed them­selves to cer­tain God-know­ing per­sons, not be­cause of their mys­tic trances or mor­bid vi­sions, but in spite of all these phe­nom­ena.

• difficult for T.A. to engage in direct communication with material mind
• T.A. have no special mechanism for self-expression

101:1.2The Thought Ad­juster has no spe­cial mech­a­nism through which to gain self-ex­pres­sion; there is no mys­tic re­li­gious fac­ulty for the re­cep­tion or ex­pres­sion of re­li­gious emo­tions. These ex­pe­ri­ences are made avail­able through the nat­u­rally or­dained mech­a­nism of mor­tal mind. And therein lies one ex­pla­na­tion of the Ad­juster’s dif­fi­culty in en­gag­ing in di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the ma­te­rial mind of its con­stant in­dwelling.

• Adjusters constantly communicate with human subjects

108:6.7The Ad­justers are the eter­nal an­ces­tors, the di­vine orig­i­nals, of your evolv­ing im­mor­tal souls; they are the un­ceas­ing urge that leads man to at­tempt the mas­tery of the ma­te­rial and pres­ent ex­is­tence in the light of the spir­i­tual and fu­ture ca­reer. The Mon­i­tors are the pris­on­ers of undy­ing hope, the founts of ev­er­last­ing pro­gres­sion. And how they do en­joy com­mu­ni­cat­ing with their sub­jects in more or less di­rect chan­nels! How they re­joice when they can dis­pense with sym­bols and other meth­ods of in­di­rec­tion and flash their mes­sages straight to the in­tel­lects of their hu­man part­ners!

110:4.2The Thought Ad­juster is en­gaged in a con­stant ef­fort so to spir­i­tu­al­ize your mind as to evolve your mor­ontia soul; but you your­self are mostly un­con­scious of this in­ner min­istry. You are quite in­ca­pable of dis­tin­guish­ing the prod­uct of your own ma­te­rial in­tel­lect from that of the con­joint ac­tiv­i­ties of your soul and the Ad­juster.

110:4.4Trust all mat­ters of mind be­yond the dead level of con­scious­ness to the cus­tody of the Ad­justers. In due time, if not in this world then on the man­sion worlds, they will give good ac­count of their stew­ard­ship, and even­tu­ally will they bring forth those mean­ings and val­ues in­trusted to their care and keep­ing. They will res­ur­rect ev­ery wor­thy trea­sure of the mor­tal mind if you sur­vive.

110:4.6For many thou­sands of years, so the rec­ords of Je­ru­sem show, in each gen­er­a­tion there have lived fewer and fewer be­ings who could func­tion safely with self-act­ing Ad­justers. This is an alarm­ing pic­ture, and the super­vis­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Sa­ta­nia look with fa­vor upon the pro­pos­als of some of your more im­me­di­ate plan­e­tary super­vi­sors who ad­vo­cate the in­au­gu­ra­tion of mea­sures de­signed to fos­ter and con­serve the higher spir­i­tual types of the Uran­tia races.

110:5.1Do not con­fuse and con­found the mis­sion and in­flu­ence of the Ad­juster with what is com­monly called con­science; they are not di­rectly re­lated. Con­science is a hu­man and purely psy­chic re­ac­tion. It is not to be de­spised, but it is hardly the voice of God to the soul, which in­deed the Ad­juster’s would be if such a voice could be heard. Con­science, rightly, ad­mon­ishes you to do right; but the Ad­juster, in ad­di­tion, en­deav­ors to tell you what truly is right; that is, when and as you are able to per­ceive the Mon­i­tor’s lead­ing.

110:5.2Man’s dream ex­pe­ri­ences, that dis­or­dered and dis­con­nected pa­rade of the un-co-or­di­nated sleep­ing mind, pre­sent ad­e­quate proof of the fail­ure of the Ad­justers to har­mo­nize and as­so­ciate the di­ver­gent fac­tors of the mind of man. The Ad­justers sim­ply can­not, in a sin­gle life­time, ar­bi­trar­ily co-or­di­nate and syn­chro­nize two such un­like and di­verse types of think­ing as the hu­man and the di­vine. When they do, as they some­times have, such souls are trans­lated di­rectly to the man­sion worlds with­out the ne­ces­sity of pass­ing through the ex­pe­ri­ence of death.

• Adjusters constantly communicate with human subjects
• apparent voice of Adjuster is usually an emanation of intellect

110:5.6In vary­ing de­grees and in­creas­ingly as you as­cend the psy­chic cir­cles, some­times di­rectly, but more of­ten in­di­rectly, you do com­mu­ni­cate with your Ad­justers. But it is dan­ger­ous to en­ter­tain the idea that ev­ery new con­cept orig­i­nat­ing in the hu­man mind is the dic­ta­tion of the Ad­juster. More of­ten, in be­ings of your or­der, that which you ac­cept as the Ad­juster’s voice is in re­al­ity the em­a­na­tion of your own in­tel­lect. This is dan­ger­ous ground, and ev­ery hu­man be­ing must set­tle these prob­lems for him­self in ac­cor­dance with his nat­u­ral hu­man wis­dom and super­hu­man in­sight.

• when intellectual development proceeds faster than spiritual, communication dangerous

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.

• Adjusters register picturizations of destiny with augmenting vividness and conviction

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.

• direct and immediate communication upon attaining 1st psychic circle

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.

• survivors discern Adjusters mind-to-mind on mansion worlds
• T.A. rejoice to make contact with mortal mind

110:7.7Ad­justers re­joice to make con­tact with the mor­tal mind; but they must be pa­tient through the long years of silent so­journ dur­ing which they are un­able to break through an­i­mal re­sis­tance and di­rectly com­mu­ni­cate with you. The higher the Thought Ad­justers as­cend in the scale of ser­vice, the more ef­fi­cient they be­come. But never can they greet you, in the flesh, with the same full, sym­pa­thetic, and ex­pres­sion­ful af­fec­tion as they will when you dis­cern them mind to mind on the man­sion worlds.

• human mind almost deaf to

110:7.8Dur­ing mor­tal life the ma­te­rial body and mind sep­a­rate you from your Ad­juster and pre­vent free com­mu­ni­ca­tion; sub­se­quent to death, af­ter the eter­nal fu­sion, you and the Ad­juster are one—you are not dis­tin­guish­able as sep­a­rate be­ings—and thus there ex­ists no need for com­mu­ni­ca­tion as you would un­der­stand it.

• Adjusters constantly communicate with human subjects
• in supreme decision, mortals may hear direct voice of

110:7.9While the voice of the Ad­juster is ever within you, most of you will hear it sel­dom dur­ing a life­time. Hu­man be­ings be­low the third and sec­ond cir­cles of at­tain­ment rarely hear the Ad­juster’s di­rect voice ex­cept in mo­ments of su­preme de­sire, in a su­preme sit­u­a­tion, and con­se­quent upon a su­preme de­ci­sion.

• survivors discern Adjusters mind-to-mind on mansion worlds

113:7.1It is in­deed an epoch in the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal, this first awak­en­ing on the shores of the man­sion world; there, for the first time, ac­tu­ally to see your long-loved and ever-pres­ent an­gelic com­pan­ions of earth days; there also to be­come truly con­scious of the iden­tity and pres­ence of the di­vine Mon­i­tor who so long in­dwelt your mind on earth. Such an ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tutes a glo­ri­ous awak­en­ing, a real res­ur­rec­tion.

• Adjuster influence is for the most part a superconscious experience

133:4.9Je­sus had many vis­its with a Chi­nese mer­chant. In say­ing good-bye, he ad­mon­ished him: “Wor­ship only God, who is your true spirit an­ces­tor. Re­mem­ber that the Fa­ther’s spirit ever lives within you and al­ways points your soul-di­rec­tion heav­en­ward. If you fol­low the un­con­scious lead­ings of this im­mor­tal spirit, you are cer­tain to con­tinue on in the up­lifted way of find­ing God. And when you do at­tain the Fa­ther in heaven, it will be be­cause by seek­ing him you have be­come more and more like him. And so farewell, Chang, but only for a sea­son, for we shall meet again in the worlds of light where the Fa­ther of spirit souls has pro­vided many de­light­ful stop­ping-places for those who are Par­a­dise-bound.”

133:4.10To the trav­eler from Britain he said: “My brother, I per­ceive you are seek­ing for truth, and I sug­gest that the spirit of the Fa­ther of all truth may chance to dwell within you. Did you ever sin­cerely en­deavor to talk with the spirit of your own soul? Such a thing is in­deed dif­fi­cult and sel­dom yields con­scious­ness of suc­cess; but ev­ery hon­est at­tempt of the ma­te­rial mind to com­mu­ni­cate with its in­dwelling spirit meets with cer­tain suc­cess, not­with­stand­ing that the ma­jor­ity of all such mag­nif­i­cent hu­man ex­pe­ri­ences must long re­main as super­con­scious reg­is­tra­tions in the souls of such God-know­ing mor­tals.”

• little can be done when men shut off appeal of

149:3.2The re­li­gious lead­ers at Je­ru­sa­lem were be­com­ing well-nigh fran­tic as a re­sult of the re­cent con­ver­sion of young Abra­ham and by the de­ser­tion of the three spies who had been bap­tized by Pe­ter, and who were now out with the evan­ge­lists on this sec­ond preach­ing tour of Gal­i­lee. The Jew­ish lead­ers were in­creas­ingly blinded by fear and prej­u­dice, while their hearts were hard­ened by the con­tin­ued re­jec­tion of the ap­peal­ing truths of the gospel of the king­dom. When men shut off the ap­peal to the spirit that dwells within them, there is lit­tle that can be done to mod­ify their at­ti­tude.

• challenge is to achieve better communication with T.A.

196:3.34The great chal­lenge to mod­ern man is to achieve bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the di­vine Mon­i­tor that dwells within the hu­man mind. Man’s great­est ad­ven­ture in the flesh con­sists in the well-bal­anced and sane ef­fort to ad­vance the bor­ders of self-con­scious­ness out through the dim realms of em­bry­onic soul-con­scious­ness in a whole­hearted ef­fort to reach the bor­der­land of spirit-con­scious­ness—con­tact with the di­vine pres­ence. Such an ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tutes God-con­scious­ness, an ex­pe­ri­ence might­ily con­fir­ma­tive of the pre-ex­is­tent truth of the re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence of know­ing God. Such spirit-con­scious­ness is the equiv­a­lent of the knowl­edge of the ac­tu­al­ity of son­ship with God. Oth­er­wise, the as­sur­ance of son­ship is the ex­pe­ri­ence of faith.

1:4.1The in­fin­ity of the per­fec­tion of God is such that it eter­nally con­sti­tutes him mys­tery. And the great­est of all the un­fath­omable mys­ter­ies of God is the phe­nom­e­non of the di­vine in­dwelling of mor­tal minds. The man­ner in which the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther so­journs with the crea­tures of time is the most pro­found of all uni­verse mys­ter­ies; the di­vine pres­ence in the mind of man is the mys­tery of mys­ter­ies.

1:4.3When you are through down here, when your course has been run in tem­po­rary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is fin­ished, when the dust that com­poses the mor­tal taber­na­cle “re­turns to the earth whence it came”; then, it is re­vealed, the in­dwelling “Spirit shall re­turn to God who gave it.” There so­journs within each moral be­ing of this planet a frag­ment of God, a part and par­cel of di­vin­ity. It is not yet yours by right of pos­ses­sion, but it is de­signedly in­tended to be one with you if you sur­vive the mor­tal ex­is­tence.

124:6.17As time passed, the mys­tery of the in­car­na­tion be­came, to all of us, more and more un­fath­omable. We could hardly com­pre­hend that this lad of Naz­a­reth was the cre­ator of all Neb­a­don. Nei­ther do we nowa­days un­der­stand how the spirit of this same Cre­ator Son and the spirit of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther are as­so­ci­ated with the souls of man­kind. With the pass­ing of time, we could see that his hu­man mind was in­creas­ingly dis­cern­ing that, while he lived his life in the flesh, in spirit on his shoul­ders rested the re­spon­si­bil­ity of a uni­verse.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

0:5.93. Spirit. The di­vine spirit that in­dwells the mind of man—the Thought Ad­juster. This im­mor­tal spirit is preper­sonal—not a per­son­al­ity, though des­tined to be­come a part of the per­son­al­ity of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal crea­ture.

• carry valid proof of their existence

1:2.3The ac­tu­al­ity of the ex­is­tence of God is demon­strated in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence by the in­dwelling of the di­vine pres­ence, the spirit Mon­i­tor sent from Par­a­dise to live in the mor­tal mind of man and there to as­sist in evolv­ing the im­mor­tal soul of eter­nal sur­vival. The pres­ence of this di­vine Ad­juster in the hu­man mind is dis­closed by three ex­pe­ri­en­tial phe­nom­ena:

• presence disclosed by God-consciousness, God-seeking, desire to do Father’s will

1:2.41. The in­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity for know­ing God—God-con­scious­ness.

1:2.52. The spir­i­tual urge to find God—God-seek­ing.

• free gifts by Father

1:2.8Those who know God have ex­pe­ri­enced the fact of his pres­ence; such God-know­ing mor­tals hold in their per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence the only pos­i­tive proof of the ex­is­tence of the liv­ing God which one hu­man be­ing can of­fer to an­other. The ex­is­tence of God is ut­terly be­yond all pos­si­bil­ity of dem­on­stra­tion ex­cept for the con­tact be­tween the God-con­scious­ness of the hu­man mind and the God-pres­ence of the Thought Ad­juster that in­dwells the mor­tal in­tel­lect and is be­stowed upon man as the free gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• image of God in man

1:3.1“God is spirit.” He is a uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual pres­ence. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is an in­fi­nite spir­i­tual re­al­ity; he is “the sov­er­eign, eter­nal, im­mor­tal, in­vis­i­ble, and only true God.” Even though you are “the off­spring of God,” you ought not to think that the Fa­ther is like your­selves in form and physique be­cause you are said to be cre­ated “in his im­age”—in­dwelt by Mys­tery Mon­i­tors dis­patched from the cen­tral abode of his eter­nal pres­ence. Spirit be­ings are real, not­with­stand­ing they are in­vis­i­ble to hu­man eyes; even though they have not flesh and blood.

1:3.2Said the seer of old: “Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I per­ceive him not.” We may con­stantly ob­serve the works of God, we may be highly con­scious of the ma­te­rial ev­i­dences of his ma­jes­tic con­duct, but rarely may we gaze upon the vis­i­ble man­i­fes­ta­tion of his di­vin­ity, not even to be­hold the pres­ence of his del­e­gated spirit of hu­man in­dwelling.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence
• will of God abroad in universes

1:3.6In the uni­verses God the Fa­ther is, in po­ten­tial, the over­con­trol­ler of mat­ter, mind, and spirit. Only by means of his far-flung per­son­al­ity cir­cuit does God deal di­rectly with the per­son­al­i­ties of his vast cre­ation of will crea­tures, but he is con­tactable (out­side of Par­a­dise) only in the pres­ences of his frag­mented en­ti­ties, the will of God abroad in the uni­verses. This Par­a­dise spirit that in­dwells the minds of the mor­tals of time and there fos­ters the evo­lu­tion of the im­mor­tal soul of the sur­viv­ing crea­ture is of the na­ture and di­vin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But the minds of such evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures orig­i­nate in the lo­cal uni­verses and must gain di­vine per­fec­tion by achiev­ing those ex­pe­ri­en­tial trans­for­ma­tions of spir­i­tual at­tain­ment which are the in­ev­i­ta­ble re­sult of a crea­ture’s choos­ing to do the will of the Fa­ther in heaven.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

1:5.10The idea of the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is an en­larged and truer con­cept of God which has come to man­kind chiefly through rev­e­la­tion. Rea­son, wis­dom, and re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence all in­fer and im­ply the per­son­al­ity of God, but they do not al­to­gether val­i­date it. Even the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster is preper­sonal. The truth and ma­tu­rity of any re­li­gion is di­rectly pro­por­tional to its con­cept of the in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity of God and to its grasp of the ab­so­lute unity of De­ity. The idea of a per­sonal De­ity be­comes, then, the mea­sure of re­li­gious ma­tu­rity af­ter re­li­gion has first for­mu­lated the con­cept of the unity of God.

• carry valid proof of their existence

1:6.4The preper­sonal di­vine spirit which in­dwells the mor­tal mind car­ries, in its very pres­ence, the valid proof of its ac­tual ex­is­tence, but the con­cept of the di­vine per­son­al­ity can be grasped only by the spir­i­tual in­sight of gen­uine per­sonal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence. Any per­son, hu­man or di­vine, may be known and com­pre­hended quite apart from the ex­ter­nal re­ac­tions or the ma­te­rial pres­ence of that per­son.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

2:1.11Di­vin­ity and eter­nity the Fa­ther shares with large num­bers of the higher Par­a­dise be­ings, but we ques­tion whether in­fin­ity and con­se­quent uni­ver­sal pri­macy is fully shared with any save his co-or­di­nate as­so­ciates of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In­fin­ity of per­son­al­ity must, per­force, em­brace all fini­tude of per­son­al­ity; hence the truth—lit­eral truth—of the teach­ing which de­clares that “In Him we live and move and have our be­ing.” That frag­ment of the pure De­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther which in­dwells mor­tal man is a part of the in­fin­ity of the First Great Source and Cen­ter, the Fa­ther of Fa­thers.

• greatest evidence of love of God

2:5.5Af­ter all, the great­est ev­i­dence of the good­ness of God and the su­preme rea­son for lov­ing him is the in­dwelling gift of the Fa­ther—the Ad­juster who so pa­tiently awaits the hour when you both shall be eter­nally made one. Though you can­not find God by search­ing, if you will sub­mit to the lead­ing of the in­dwelling spirit, you will be unerringly guided, step by step, life by life, through uni­verse upon uni­verse, and age by age, un­til you fi­nally stand in the pres­ence of the Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men
• greatest evidence of love of God

2:5.10But the love of God is an in­tel­li­gent and farsee­ing pa­ren­tal af­fec­tion. The di­vine love func­tions in uni­fied as­so­ci­a­tion with di­vine wis­dom and all other in­fi­nite char­ac­ter­is­tics of the per­fect na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. God is love, but love is not God. The great­est man­i­fes­ta­tion of the di­vine love for mor­tal be­ings is ob­served in the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, but your great­est rev­e­la­tion of the Fa­ther’s love is seen in the be­stowal life of his Son Mi­chael as he lived on earth the ideal spir­i­tual life. It is the in­dwelling Ad­juster who in­di­vid­u­al­izes the love of God to each hu­man soul.

• tormented by sordid and selfish thoughts

3:1.5Truly of the hu­man race has it been said, “You are of God” be­cause “he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.” Even in wrong­do­ing you tor­ment the in­dwelling gift of God, for the Thought Ad­juster must needs go through the con­se­quences of evil think­ing with the hu­man mind of its in­car­cer­a­tion.

• constitute a reservation by Father for direct and unlimited action and communication

3:1.6The om­nipres­ence of God is in re­al­ity a part of his in­fi­nite na­ture; space con­sti­tutes no bar­rier to De­ity. God is, in per­fec­tion and with­out lim­i­ta­tion, dis­cernibly pres­ent only on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. He is not thus ob­serv­ably pres­ent in the cre­ations en­cir­cling Ha­vona, for God has lim­ited his di­rect and ac­tual pres­ence in rec­og­ni­tion of the sov­er­eignty and the di­vine pre­rog­a­tives of the co-or­di­nate cre­ators and rulers of the uni­verses of time and space. Hence must the con­cept of the di­vine pres­ence al­low for a wide range of both mode and chan­nel of man­i­fes­ta­tion em­brac­ing the pres­ence cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Isle of Par­a­dise. Nor is it al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ac­tions of his eter­nal co-or­di­nates and agen­cies, so per­fectly do they ful­fill all the in­fi­nite re­quire­ments of his un­chang­ing pur­pose. But not so with the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and the Ad­justers; here God acts uniquely, di­rectly, and ex­clu­sively.

• constitute a reservation by Father for direct and unlimited action and communication

3:1.9The ev­ery­where-pres­ent spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is co-or­di­nated with the func­tion of the uni­ver­sal spirit pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son and the ev­er­last­ing di­vine po­ten­tial of the De­ity Ab­so­lute. But nei­ther the spir­i­tual ac­tiv­ity of the Eter­nal Son and his Par­a­dise Sons nor the mind be­stowals of the In­fi­nite Spirit seem to ex­clude the di­rect ac­tion of the Thought Ad­justers, the in­dwelling frag­ments of God, in the hearts of his crea­ture chil­dren.

• no limit to numbers of T.A.

3:4.4The fact that he sends forth spirit mes­sen­gers from him­self to in­dwell the men and women of your world and other worlds in no wise lessens his abil­ity to func­tion as a di­vine and all-pow­er­ful spirit per­son­al­ity; and there is ab­so­lutely no limit to the ex­tent or num­ber of such spirit Mon­i­tors which he can and may send out. This giv­ing of him­self to his crea­tures cre­ates a bound­less, al­most in­con­ceiv­able fu­ture pos­si­bil­ity of pro­gres­sive and suc­ces­sive ex­is­tences for these di­vinely en­dowed mor­tals. And this prodi­gal dis­tri­bu­tion of him­self as these min­is­ter­ing spirit en­ti­ties in no man­ner di­min­ishes the wis­dom and per­fec­tion of truth and knowl­edge which re­pose in the per­son of the all-wise, all-know­ing, and all-pow­er­ful Fa­ther.

• are uniform in nature and divinity; function interchangeably

5:1.5How­ever Uran­tia mor­tals may dif­fer in their in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, eco­nomic, and even moral op­por­tu­ni­ties and en­dow­ments, for­get not that their spir­i­tual en­dow­ment is uni­form and unique. They all en­joy the same di­vine pres­ence of the gift from the Fa­ther, and they are all equally priv­i­leged to seek in­ti­mate per­sonal com­mu­nion with this in­dwelling spirit of di­vine ori­gin, while they may all equally choose to ac­cept the uni­form spir­i­tual lead­ing of these Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence
• mortals’ path to Paradise

5:6.5The Ad­justers of preper­sonal sta­tus in­dwell nu­mer­ous types of mor­tal crea­tures, thus in­sur­ing that these same be­ings may sur­vive mor­tal death to per­son­al­ize as mor­ontia crea­tures with the po­ten­tial of ul­ti­mate spirit at­tain­ment. For, when such a crea­ture mind of per­son­al­ity en­dow­ment is in­dwelt by a frag­ment of the spirit of the eter­nal God, the preper­sonal be­stowal of the per­sonal Fa­ther, then does this fi­nite per­son­al­ity pos­sess the po­ten­tial of the di­vine and the eter­nal and as­pire to a des­tiny akin to the Ul­ti­mate, even reach­ing out for a re­al­iza­tion of the Ab­so­lute.

5:6.6Ca­pac­ity for di­vine per­son­al­ity is in­her­ent in the preper­sonal Ad­juster; ca­pac­ity for hu­man per­son­al­ity is po­ten­tial in the cos­mic-mind en­dow­ment of the hu­man be­ing. But the ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­son­al­ity of mor­tal man is not ob­serv­able as an ac­tive and func­tional re­al­ity un­til af­ter the ma­te­rial life ve­hi­cle of the mor­tal crea­ture has been touched by the lib­er­at­ing di­vin­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, be­ing thus launched upon the seas of ex­pe­ri­ence as a self-con­scious and a (rel­a­tively) self-de­ter­mi­na­tive and self-cre­ative per­son­al­ity. The ma­te­rial self is truly and un­qual­i­fiedly per­sonal.

• actual fragment of highest and eternal reality, the original Father

5:6.7The ma­te­rial self has per­son­al­ity and iden­tity, tem­po­ral iden­tity; the preper­sonal spirit Ad­juster also has iden­tity, eter­nal iden­tity. This ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity and this spirit preper­son­al­ity are ca­pa­ble of so unit­ing their cre­ative at­tri­butes as to bring into ex­is­tence the sur­viv­ing iden­tity of the im­mor­tal soul.

• have solitary and exclusive function; comparatively isolated

6:4.5In his con­tact with per­son­al­ity, the Fa­ther acts in the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit. In his per­sonal and de­tectable con­tact with spir­i­tual cre­ation, he ap­pears in the frag­ments of the to­tal­ity of his De­ity, and these Fa­ther frag­ments have a soli­tary, unique, and ex­clu­sive func­tion wher­ever and when­ever they ap­pear in the uni­verses. In all such sit­u­a­tions the spirit of the Son is co-or­di­nate with the spir­i­tual func­tion of the frag­mented pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• enjoy equivalent of human thinking, prepersonal will
• entirely outside mind circuits of Infinite Spirit

6:6.3The mind of the Eter­nal Son is like that of the Fa­ther but un­like any other mind in the uni­verse, and with the mind of the Fa­ther it is an­ces­tor to the di­verse and far-flung minds of the Con­joint Cre­ator. The mind of the Fa­ther and the Son, that in­tel­lect which is an­ces­tral to the ab­so­lute mind of the Third Source and Cen­ter, is per­haps best il­lus­trated in the pre­mind of a Thought Ad­juster, for, though these Fa­ther frag­ments are en­tirely out­side of the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor, they have some form of pre­mind; they know as they are known; they en­joy the equiv­a­lent of hu­man think­ing.

• actual fragment of highest and eternal reality, the original Father

8:5.2The Fa­ther is in­fi­nite and is there­fore lim­ited only by vo­li­tion. In the be­stowal of Ad­justers and in the en­cir­cuit­ment of per­son­al­ity, the Fa­ther acts alone, but in the con­tact of spirit forces with in­tel­li­gent be­ings, he uti­lizes the spir­its and per­son­al­i­ties of the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit. He is at will spir­i­tu­ally pres­ent equally with the Son or with the Con­joint Ac­tor; he is pres­ent with the Son and in the Spirit. The Fa­ther is most cer­tainly ev­ery­where pres­ent, and we dis­cern his pres­ence by and through any and all of these di­verse but as­so­ci­ated forces, in­flu­ences, and pres­ences.

• image of God in man

10:3.1Not­with­stand­ing there is only one De­ity, there are three pos­i­tive and di­vine per­son­al­iza­tions of De­ity. Re­gard­ing the en­dow­ment of man with the di­vine Ad­justers, the Fa­ther said: “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” Re­peat­edly through­out the Uran­tian writ­ings there oc­curs this ref­er­ence to the acts and do­ings of plu­ral De­ity, clearly show­ing rec­og­ni­tion of the ex­is­tence and work­ing of the three Sources and Cen­ters.

• constitute a reservation by Father for direct and unlimited action and communication
• will of God abroad in universes

10:3.156. As a per­son, he acts di­rectly through­out cre­ation by his ex­clu­sive frag­ments—in mor­tal man by the Thought Ad­justers.

• secret of Divinington

13:1.5The se­crets of Di­vin­ing­ton in­clude the se­cret of the be­stowal and mis­sion of Thought Ad­justers. Their na­ture, ori­gin, and the tech­nique of their con­tact with the lowly crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds is a se­cret of this Par­a­dise sphere. These amaz­ing trans­ac­tions do not per­son­ally con­cern the rest of us, and there­fore do the De­i­ties deem it proper to with­hold cer­tain fea­tures of this great and di­vine min­istry from our full un­der­stand­ing. In so far as we come in con­tact with this phase of di­vine ac­tiv­ity, we are per­mit­ted full knowl­edge of these trans­ac­tions, but con­cern­ing the in­ti­mate de­tails of this great be­stowal we are not fully in­formed.

13:1.6This sphere also holds the se­crets of the na­ture, pur­pose, and ac­tiv­i­ties of all other forms of Fa­ther frag­ments, of the Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers, and of hosts of other be­ings un­re­vealed to you. It is highly prob­a­ble that those truths per­tain­ing to Di­vin­ing­ton which are with­held from me, if re­vealed, would merely con­fuse and hand­i­cap me in my pres­ent work, and still again, per­haps they are be­yond the con­cep­tual ca­pac­ity of my or­der of be­ing.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

16:8.19The full func­tion of such a per­son­al­ity en­dow­ment is the be­gin­ning re­al­iza­tion of De­ity kin­ship. Such a self­hood, in­dwelt by a preper­sonal frag­ment of God the Fa­ther, is in truth and in fact a spir­i­tual son of God. Such a crea­ture not only dis­closes ca­pac­ity for the re­cep­tion of the gift of the di­vine pres­ence but also ex­hibits re­ac­tive re­sponse to the per­son­al­ity-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of all per­son­al­i­ties.

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

• will of God abroad in universes

32:3.4With the ex­cep­tion of the de­ity pres­ence of the Fa­ther, ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, in a cer­tain sense, a du­pli­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral or pat­tern cre­ation. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse, he does not in­dwell the minds of the be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in that uni­verse as he does lit­er­ally dwell with the souls of the mor­tals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise com­pen­sa­tion in the ad­just­ment and reg­u­la­tion of the spir­i­tual af­fairs of the far-flung cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent as such but ab­sent in the minds of the chil­dren of that per­fect cre­ation; in the uni­verses of space the Fa­ther is ab­sent in per­son, be­ing rep­re­sented by his Sov­er­eign Sons, while he is in­ti­mately pres­ent in the minds of his mor­tal chil­dren, be­ing spir­i­tu­ally rep­re­sented by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that re­side in the minds of these will crea­tures.

32:3.5On the head­quar­ters of a lo­cal uni­verse there re­side all those cre­ator and cre­ative per­son­al­i­ties who rep­re­sent self-con­tained au­thor­ity and ad­min­is­tra­tive au­ton­omy ex­cept the per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In the lo­cal uni­verse there are to be found some­thing of ev­ery­one and some­one of al­most ev­ery class of in­tel­li­gent be­ings ex­ist­ing in the cen­tral uni­verse ex­cept the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not per­son­ally pres­ent in a lo­cal uni­verse, he is per­son­ally rep­re­sented by its Cre­ator Son, some­time vicegerent of God and sub­se­quently su­preme and sov­er­eign ruler in his own right.

32:3.6The far­ther down the scale of life we go, the more dif­fi­cult it be­comes to lo­cate, with the eye of faith, the in­vis­i­ble Fa­ther. The lower crea­tures—and some­times even the higher per­son­al­i­ties—find it dif­fi­cult al­ways to en­vis­age the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in his Cre­ator Sons. And so, pend­ing the time of their spir­i­tual ex­al­ta­tion, when per­fec­tion of de­vel­op­ment will en­able them to see God in per­son, they grow weary in pro­gres­sion, en­ter­tain spir­i­tual doubts, stum­ble into con­fu­sion, and thus iso­late them­selves from the pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual aims of their time and uni­verse. In this way they lose the abil­ity to see the Fa­ther when be­hold­ing the Cre­ator Son. The surest safe­guard for the crea­ture through­out the long strug­gle to at­tain the Fa­ther, dur­ing this time when in­her­ent con­di­tions make such at­tain­ment im­pos­si­ble, is tena­ciously to hold on to the truth-fact of the Fa­ther’s pres­ence in his Sons. Lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively, spir­i­tu­ally and per­son­ally, the Fa­ther and the Sons are one. It is a fact: He who has seen a Cre­ator Son has seen the Fa­ther.

32:3.7The per­son­al­i­ties of a given uni­verse are set­tled and de­pend­able, at the start, only in ac­cor­dance with their de­gree of kin­ship to De­ity. When crea­ture ori­gin de­parts suf­fi­ciently far from the orig­i­nal and di­vine Sources, whether we are deal­ing with the Sons of God or the crea­tures of min­istry be­long­ing to the In­fi­nite Spirit, there is an in­crease in the pos­si­bil­ity of dishar­mony, con­fu­sion, and some­times re­bel­lion—sin.

32:3.8Ex­cept­ing per­fect be­ings of De­ity ori­gin, all will crea­tures in the super­uni­verses are of evo­lu­tion­ary na­ture, be­gin­ning in lowly es­tate and climb­ing ever up­ward, in re­al­ity in­ward. Even highly spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties con­tinue to as­cend the scale of life by pro­gres­sive trans­la­tions from life to life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who en­ter­tain the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, there is in­deed no limit to the pos­si­ble heights of their spir­i­tual as­cent and uni­verse at­tain­ment.

32:3.9The per­fec­tion of the crea­tures of time, when fi­nally achieved, is wholly an ac­quire­ment, a bona fide per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion. While the el­e­ments of grace are freely ad­mixed, nev­er­the­less, the crea­ture at­tain­ments are the re­sult of in­di­vid­ual ef­fort and ac­tual liv­ing, per­son­al­ity re­ac­tion to the ex­ist­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

• are of God, from God, and are God
• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

32:4.5In the mor­tal will crea­tures the Fa­ther is ac­tu­ally pres­ent in the in­dwelling Ad­juster, a frag­ment of his preper­sonal spirit; and the Fa­ther is also the source of the per­son­al­ity of such a mor­tal will crea­ture.

• have solitary and exclusive function; comparatively isolated

32:4.6These Thought Ad­justers, the be­stowals of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, are com­par­a­tively iso­lated; they in­dwell hu­man minds but have no dis­cern­i­ble con­nec­tion with the eth­i­cal af­fairs of a lo­cal cre­ation. They are not di­rectly co-or­di­nated with the se­raphic ser­vice nor with the ad­min­is­tra­tion of sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, or a lo­cal uni­verse, not even with the rule of a Cre­ator Son, whose will is the su­preme law of his uni­verse.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

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.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

40:6.85. There dwells within you a frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and you are thus di­rectly re­lated to the di­vine Fa­ther of all the Sons of God.

• mortals’ path to Paradise

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.

• actual fragment of highest and eternal reality, the original Father

42:11.1In the eval­u­a­tion and rec­og­ni­tion of mind it should be re­mem­bered that the uni­verse is nei­ther me­chan­i­cal nor mag­i­cal; it is a cre­ation of mind and a mech­a­nism of law. But while in prac­ti­cal ap­pli­ca­tion the laws of na­ture op­er­ate in what seems to be the dual realms of the phys­i­cal and the spir­i­tual, in re­al­ity they are one. The First Source and Cen­ter is the pri­mal cause of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and at the same time the first and fi­nal Fa­ther of all spir­its. The Par­a­dise Fa­ther ap­pears per­son­ally in the ex­tra-Ha­vona uni­verses only as pure en­ergy and pure spirit—as the Thought Ad­justers and other sim­i­lar frag­men­ta­tions.

• without form until after fusion

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

• are of God, from God, and are God

48:1.6In the days of the mor­tal flesh the di­vine spirit in­dwells you, al­most as a thing apart—in re­al­ity an in­va­sion of man by the be­stowed spirit of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. But in the mor­ontia life the spirit will be­come a real part of your per­son­al­ity, and as you suc­ces­sively pass through the 570 pro­gres­sive trans­for­ma­tions, you as­cend from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual es­tate of crea­ture life.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

49:6.5The group guard­i­ans of as­sign­ment to the sleep­ing sur­vivors al­ways func­tion with the judg­ment Sons on their world ad­vents. “He shall send his an­gels, and they shall gather to­gether his elect from the four winds.” With each ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment to the reper­son­al­iza­tion of a sleep­ing mor­tal there func­tions the re­turned Ad­juster, the same im­mor­tal Fa­ther frag­ment that lived in him dur­ing the days in the flesh, and thus is iden­tity re­stored and per­son­al­ity res­ur­rected. Dur­ing the sleep of their sub­jects these wait­ing Ad­justers serve on Di­vin­ing­ton; they never in­dwell an­other mor­tal mind in this in­terim.

• evil spirits are servile before

53:8.7Be­fore the be­stowal of Mi­chael these rulers of dark­ness sought to main­tain their au­thor­ity on Uran­tia, and they per­sis­tently with­stood the mi­nor and sub­or­di­nate ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties. But since the day of Pen­te­cost this traitorous Cali­gas­tia and his equally con­temptible as­so­ciate, Dali­gas­tia, are servile be­fore the di­vine majesty of the Par­a­dise Thought Ad­justers and the pro­tec­tive Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael, which has been poured out upon all flesh.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

56:3.2Par­a­dise spirit re­al­i­ties are like­wise one, but in all time-space sit­u­a­tions and re­la­tions this sin­gle spirit is re­vealed in the dual phe­nom­ena of the spirit per­son­al­i­ties and em­a­na­tions of the Eter­nal Son and the spirit per­son­al­i­ties and in­flu­ences of the In­fi­nite Spirit and as­so­ci­ated cre­ations; and there is yet a third—pure-spirit frag­men­ta­tions—the Fa­ther’s be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers and other spirit en­ti­ties which are preper­sonal.

• mortals’ path to Paradise

56:4.1The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is a di­vinely uni­fied per­son­al­ity; hence will all his as­cen­dant chil­dren who are car­ried to Par­a­dise by the re­bound mo­men­tum of the Thought Ad­justers, who went forth from Par­a­dise to in­dwell ma­te­rial mor­tals in obe­di­ence to the Fa­ther’s man­date, like­wise be fully uni­fied per­son­al­i­ties ere they reach Ha­vona.

• realest and deepest thing in human minds

101:1.7Thus it may be seen that re­li­gious long­ings and spir­i­tual urges are not of such a na­ture as would merely lead men to want to be­lieve in God, but rather are they of such na­ture and power that men are pro­foundly im­pressed with the con­vic­tion that they ought to be­lieve in God. The sense of evo­lu­tion­ary duty and the obli­ga­tions con­se­quent upon the il­lu­mi­na­tion of rev­e­la­tion make such a pro­found im­pres­sion upon man’s moral na­ture that he fi­nally reaches that po­si­tion of mind and that at­ti­tude of soul where he con­cludes that he has no right not to be­lieve in God. The higher and super­phil­o­sophic wis­dom of such en­light­ened and dis­ci­plined in­di­vid­u­als ul­ti­mately in­structs them that to doubt God or dis­trust his good­ness would be to prove un­true to the realest and deep­est thing within the hu­man mind and soul—the di­vine Ad­juster.

• cosmic windows by which we faith-glimpse Father

103:0.1All of man’s truly re­li­gious re­ac­tions are spon­sored by the early min­istry of the ad­ju­tant of wor­ship and are cen­sored by the ad­ju­tant of wis­dom. Man’s first super­mind en­dow­ment is that of per­son­al­ity en­cir­cuit­ment in the Holy Spirit of the Uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit; and long be­fore ei­ther the be­stowals of the di­vine Sons or the uni­ver­sal be­stowal of the Ad­justers, this in­flu­ence func­tions to en­large man’s view­point of ethics, re­li­gion, and spir­i­tu­al­ity. Sub­se­quent to the be­stowals of the Par­a­dise Sons the lib­er­ated Spirit of Truth makes mighty con­tri­bu­tions to the en­large­ment of the hu­man ca­pac­ity to per­ceive re­li­gious truths. As evo­lu­tion ad­vances on an in­hab­ited world, the Thought Ad­justers in­creas­ingly par­tic­i­pate in the de­vel­op­ment of the higher types of hu­man re­li­gious in­sight. The Thought Ad­juster is the cos­mic win­dow through which the fi­nite crea­ture may faith-glimpse the cer­tain­ties and di­vini­ties of lim­it­less De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• exude flavor of divinity
• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

103:1.6The re­al­iza­tion of the rec­og­ni­tion of spir­i­tual val­ues is an ex­pe­ri­ence which is super­ide­a­tional. There is no word in any hu­man lan­guage which can be em­ployed to des­ig­nate this “sense,” “feel­ing,” “in­tu­ition,” or “ex­pe­ri­ence” which we have elected to call God-con­scious­ness. The spirit of God that dwells in man is not per­sonal—the Ad­juster is preper­sonal—but this Mon­i­tor pre­sents a value, ex­udes a fla­vor of di­vin­ity, which is per­sonal in the high­est and in­fi­nite sense. If God were not at least per­sonal, he could not be con­scious, and if not con­scious, then would he be in­frahu­man.

• actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men

107:0.2The Ad­justers are the ac­tu­al­ity of the Fa­ther’s love in­car­nate in the souls of men; they are the ver­i­ta­ble prom­ise of man’s eter­nal ca­reer im­pris­oned within the mor­tal mind; they are the essence of man’s per­fected fi­nal­i­ter per­son­al­ity, which he can fore­taste in time as he pro­gres­sively mas­ters the di­vine tech­nique of achiev­ing the liv­ing of the Fa­ther’s will, step by step, through the as­cen­sion of uni­verse upon uni­verse un­til he ac­tu­ally at­tains the di­vine pres­ence of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• are of God, from God, and are God
• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

107:1.2Though there are di­verse opin­ions re­gard­ing the mode of the be­stowal of Thought Ad­justers, there ex­ist no such dif­fer­ences con­cern­ing their ori­gin; all are agreed that they pro­ceed di­rect from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the First Source and Cen­ter. They are not cre­ated be­ings; they are frag­men­tized en­ti­ties con­sti­tut­ing the fac­tual pres­ence of the in­fi­nite God. To­gether with their many un­re­vealed as­so­ciates, the Ad­justers are undi­luted and un­mixed di­vin­ity, un­qual­i­fied and unat­ten­u­ated parts of De­ity; they are of God, and as far as we are able to dis­cern, they are God.

• are of God, from God, and are God

107:1.5The tech­nique of the ori­gin of the Thought Ad­justers is one of the un­re­vealed func­tions of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. We have ev­ery rea­son to be­lieve that none of the other ab­so­lute as­so­ciates of the First Source and Cen­ter have aught to do with the pro­duc­tion of Fa­ther frag­ments. Ad­justers are sim­ply and eter­nally the di­vine gifts; they are of God and from God, and they are like God.

• are uniform in nature and divinity; function interchangeably

107:2.21. Vir­gin Ad­justers, those serv­ing on their ini­tial as­sign­ment in the minds of evo­lu­tion­ary can­di­dates for eter­nal sur­vival. Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are eter­nally uni­form in di­vine na­ture. They are also uni­form in ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture as they first go out from Di­vin­ing­ton; sub­se­quent ex­pe­ri­en­tial dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion is the re­sult of ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in uni­verse min­istry.

• training of tremendous scope

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.

• nonpersonalized Adjusters visible only to Personalized Adjusters

107:4.4Non­per­son­al­ized Ad­justers are vis­i­ble only to Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers. My or­der, the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, to­gether with In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, can de­tect the pres­ence of Ad­justers by means of spir­i­tual re­ac­tive phe­nom­ena; and even ser­a­phim can some­times dis­cern the spirit lu­mi­nos­ity of sup­posed as­so­ci­a­tion with the pres­ence of Mon­i­tors in the ma­te­rial minds of men; but none of us are able ac­tu­ally to dis­cern the real pres­ence of Ad­justers, not un­less they have been per­son­al­ized, al­beit their na­tures are per­ceiv­able in union with the fused per­son­al­i­ties of the as­cend­ing mor­tals from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The uni­ver­sal in­vis­i­bil­ity of the Ad­justers is strongly sug­ges­tive of their high and ex­clu­sive di­vine ori­gin and na­ture.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence
• will always be revealing wonder of God

107:4.7Can you re­ally re­al­ize the true sig­nif­i­cance of the Ad­juster’s in­dwelling? Do you re­ally fathom what it means to have an ab­so­lute frag­ment of the ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, in­dwelling and fus­ing with your fi­nite mor­tal na­tures? When mor­tal man fuses with an ac­tual frag­ment of the ex­is­ten­tial Cause of the to­tal cos­mos, no limit can ever be placed upon the des­tiny of such an un­prece­dented and unimag­in­able part­ner­ship. In eter­nity, man will be dis­cov­er­ing not only the in­fin­ity of the ob­jec­tive De­ity but also the un­end­ing po­ten­tial­ity of the sub­jec­tive frag­ment of this same God. Al­ways will the Ad­juster be re­veal­ing to the mor­tal per­son­al­ity the won­der of God, and never can this su­per­nal rev­e­la­tion come to an end, for the Ad­juster is of God and as God to mor­tal man.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

107:5.1Evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals are prone to look upon mind as a cos­mic me­di­a­tion be­tween spirit and mat­ter, for that is in­deed the prin­ci­pal min­istry of mind as dis­cern­i­ble by you. Hence it is quite dif­fi­cult for hu­mans to per­ceive that Thought Ad­justers have minds, for Ad­justers are frag­men­ta­tions of God on an ab­so­lute level of re­al­ity which is not only preper­sonal but also prior to all en­ergy and spirit di­ver­gence. On a monis­tic level an­te­ced­ent to en­ergy and spirit dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion there could be no me­di­at­ing func­tion of mind, for there are no di­ver­gen­cies to be me­di­ated.

• can plan, work, and love
• enjoy equivalent of human thinking, prepersonal will
• unlimited ability to communicate with each other

107:5.2Since Ad­justers can plan, work, and love, they must have pow­ers of self­hood which are com­men­su­rate with mind. They are pos­sessed of un­lim­ited abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate with each other, that is, all forms of Mon­i­tors above the first or vir­gin groups. As to the na­ture and pur­port of their in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tions, we can re­veal very lit­tle, for we do not know. And we fur­ther know that they must be minded in some man­ner else they could never be per­son­al­ized.

107:5.3The mind­ed­ness of the Thought Ad­juster is like the mind­ed­ness of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son—that which is an­ces­tral to the minds of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

• not identifiable apart from mortal after spirit level

107:5.5When a Thought Ad­juster is fused with the evolv­ing im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul of the sur­viv­ing hu­man, the mind of the Ad­juster can only be iden­ti­fied as per­sist­ing apart from the crea­ture’s mind un­til the as­cend­ing mor­tal at­tains spirit lev­els of uni­verse pro­gres­sion.

• actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men
• lonely for our companionship
• man is T.A.’s personality possibility

107:6.2The Ad­juster is man’s eter­nity pos­si­bil­ity; man is the Ad­juster’s per­son­al­ity pos­si­bil­ity. Your in­di­vid­ual Ad­justers work to spir­i­tize you in the hope of eter­nal­iz­ing your tem­po­ral iden­tity. The Ad­justers are sat­u­rated with the beau­ti­ful and self-be­stow­ing love of the Fa­ther of spir­its. They truly and di­vinely love you; they are the pris­on­ers of spirit hope con­fined within the minds of men. They long for the di­vin­ity at­tain­ment of your mor­tal minds that their lone­li­ness may end, that they may be de­liv­ered with you from the lim­i­ta­tions of ma­te­rial in­vesti­ture and the ha­bil­i­ments of time.

• do not require energy intake – they are energy
• factors of pure energy are present
• travel over instantaneous gravity circuits

107:6.4We know that Thought Ad­justers are spir­its, pure spir­its, pre­sum­ably ab­so­lute spir­its. But the Ad­juster must also be some­thing more than ex­clu­sive spirit re­al­ity. In ad­di­tion to con­jec­tured mind­ed­ness, fac­tors of pure en­ergy are also pres­ent. If you will re­mem­ber that God is the source of pure en­ergy and of pure spirit, it will not be so dif­fi­cult to per­ceive that his frag­ments would be both. It is a fact that the Ad­justers tra­verse space over the in­stan­ta­neous and uni­ver­sal grav­ity cir­cuits of the Par­a­dise Isle.

107:6.5That the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are thus as­so­ci­ated with the ma­te­rial cir­cuits of the uni­verse of uni­verses is in­deed puz­zling. But it re­mains a fact that they flash through­out the en­tire grand uni­verse over the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuits. It is en­tirely pos­si­ble that they may even pen­e­trate the outer space lev­els; they cer­tainly could fol­low the grav­ity pres­ence of Par­a­dise into these re­gions, and though my or­der of per­son­al­ity can tra­verse the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor also be­yond the con­fines of the grand uni­verse, we have never been sure of de­tect­ing the pres­ence of Ad­justers in the un­charted re­gions of outer space.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

107:6.6And yet, while the Ad­justers uti­lize the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuits, they are not sub­ject thereto as is ma­te­rial cre­ation. The Ad­justers are frag­ments of the an­ces­tor of grav­ity, not the con­se­quen­tials of grav­ity; they have seg­men­tized on a uni­verse level of ex­is­tence which is hy­po­thet­i­cally an­te­ced­ent to grav­ity ap­pear­ance.

• do not require energy intake – they are energy

107:6.7Thought Ad­justers have no re­lax­ation from the time of their be­stowal un­til the day of their re­lease to start for Di­vin­ing­ton upon the nat­u­ral death of their mor­tal sub­jects. And those whose sub­jects do not pass through the por­tals of nat­u­ral death do not even ex­pe­ri­ence this tem­po­rary respite. Thought Ad­justers do not re­quire en­ergy in­take; they are en­ergy, en­ergy of the high­est and most di­vine or­der.

107:7.1Thought Ad­justers are not per­son­al­i­ties, but they are real en­ti­ties; they are truly and per­fectly in­di­vid­u­al­ized, al­though they are never, while in­dwelling mor­tals, ac­tu­ally per­son­al­ized. Thought Ad­justers are not true per­son­al­i­ties; they are true re­al­i­ties, re­al­i­ties of the purest or­der known in the uni­verse of uni­verses—they are the di­vine pres­ence. Though not per­sonal, these mar­velous frag­ments of the Fa­ther are com­monly re­ferred to as be­ings and some­times, in view of the spir­i­tual phases of their pres­ent min­istry to mor­tals, as spirit en­ti­ties.

107:7.2If Thought Ad­justers are not per­son­al­i­ties hav­ing pre­rog­a­tives of will and pow­ers of choice, how then can they se­lect mor­tal sub­jects and vol­un­teer to in­dwell these crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds? This is a ques­tion easy to ask, but prob­a­bly no be­ing in the uni­verse of uni­verses has ever found the ex­act an­swer. Even my or­der of per­son­al­ity, the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, does not fully un­der­stand the en­dow­ment of will, choice, and love in en­ti­ties that are not per­sonal.

107:7.4Why then, if Thought Ad­justers pos­sess vo­li­tion, are they sub­servient to the mor­tal will? We be­lieve it is be­cause Ad­juster vo­li­tion, though ab­so­lute in na­ture, is preper­sonal in man­i­fes­ta­tion. Hu­man will func­tions on the per­son­al­ity level of uni­verse re­al­ity, and through­out the cos­mos the im­per­sonal—the non­per­sonal, the sub­per­sonal, and the preper­sonal—is ever re­spon­sive to the will and acts of ex­is­tent per­son­al­ity.

107:7.5Through­out a uni­verse of cre­ated be­ings and non­per­sonal en­er­gies we do not ob­serve will, vo­li­tion, choice, and love man­i­fested apart from per­son­al­ity. Ex­cept in the Ad­justers and other sim­i­lar en­ti­ties we do not wit­ness these at­tri­butes of per­son­al­ity func­tion­ing in as­so­ci­a­tion with im­per­sonal re­al­i­ties. It would not be cor­rect to des­ig­nate an Ad­juster as sub­per­sonal, nei­ther would it be proper to al­lude to such an en­tity as super­per­sonal, but it would be en­tirely per­mis­si­ble to term such a be­ing preper­sonal.

• constitute a reservation by Father for direct and unlimited action and communication

107:7.6To our or­ders of be­ing these frag­ments of De­ity are known as the di­vine gifts. We rec­og­nize that the Ad­justers are di­vine in ori­gin, and that they con­sti­tute the prob­a­ble proof and dem­on­stra­tion of a reser­va­tion by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of the pos­si­bil­ity of di­rect and un­lim­ited com­mu­ni­ca­tion with any and all ma­te­rial crea­tures through­out his vir­tu­ally in­fi­nite realms, and all of this quite apart from his pres­ence in the per­son­al­i­ties of his Par­a­dise Sons or through his in­di­rect min­is­tra­tions in the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

107:7.8[Pre­sented by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger of Or­von­ton.]

• numbers stricken from records after fusion

108:3.2Ad­justers are of com­plete rec­ord (out­side of Di­vin­ing­ton) only on the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. The num­ber and or­der of each Ad­juster in­dwelling each as­cend­ing crea­ture are re­ported out by the Par­a­dise au­thor­i­ties to the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse, and from there are com­mu­ni­cated to the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse con­cerned and re­layed to the par­tic­u­lar planet in­volved. But the lo­cal uni­verse rec­ords do not dis­close the full num­ber of the Thought Ad­justers; the Neb­a­don rec­ords con­tain only the lo­cal uni­verse as­sign­ment num­ber as des­ig­nated by the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the An­cients of Days. The real sig­nif­i­cance of the Ad­juster’s com­plete num­ber is known only on Di­vin­ing­ton.

• fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence

108:3.9We are aware of the pres­ence of the Ad­justers, who are frag­ments of the preper­sonal De­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter. We sense the pres­ence of the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its, who are super­per­sonal ex­pres­sions of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. We like­wise un­fail­ingly de­tect the spirit pres­ence of cer­tain un­re­vealed or­ders spring­ing from the Eter­nal Son and the In­fi­nite Spirit. And we are not wholly un­re­spon­sive to still other en­ti­ties un­re­vealed to you.

• nonsurvival of mortal wards never due to neglect of

108:5.3One thing you can de­pend upon: The Ad­justers will never lose any­thing com­mit­ted to their care; never have we known these spirit helpers to de­fault. An­gels and other high types of spirit be­ings, not ex­cept­ing the lo­cal uni­verse type of Sons, may oc­ca­sion­ally em­brace evil, may some­times de­part from the di­vine way, but Ad­justers never fal­ter. They are ab­so­lutely de­pend­able, and this is equally true of all seven groups.

• tormented by sordid and selfish thoughts

108:6.2No mat­ter what the pre­vi­ous sta­tus of the in­hab­i­tants of a world, sub­se­quent to the be­stowal of a di­vine Son and af­ter the be­stowal of the Spirit of Truth upon all hu­mans, the Ad­justers flock to such a world to in­dwell the minds of all nor­mal will crea­tures. Fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the mis­sion of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son, these Mon­i­tors truly be­come the “king­dom of heaven within you.” Through the be­stowal of the di­vine gifts the Fa­ther makes the clos­est pos­si­ble ap­proach to sin and evil, for it is lit­er­ally true that the Ad­juster must co­ex­ist in the mor­tal mind even in the very midst of hu­man un­righ­teous­ness. The in­dwelling Ad­justers are par­tic­u­larly tor­mented by those thoughts which are purely sor­did and self­ish; they are dis­tressed by ir­rev­er­ence for that which is beau­ti­ful and di­vine, and they are vir­tu­ally thwarted in their work by many of man’s fool­ish an­i­mal fears and child­ish anx­i­eties.

• actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men

108:6.3The Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are un­doubt­edly the be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the re­flec­tion of the im­age of God abroad in the uni­verse. A great teacher once ad­mon­ished men that they should be re­newed in the spirit of their minds; that they be­come new men who, like God, are cre­ated in righ­teous­ness and in the com­ple­tion of truth. The Ad­juster is the mark of di­vin­ity, the pres­ence of God. The “im­age of God” does not re­fer to phys­i­cal like­ness nor to the cir­cum­scribed lim­i­ta­tions of ma­te­rial crea­ture en­dow­ment but rather to the gift of the spirit pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the su­per­nal be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers upon the hum­ble crea­tures of the uni­verses.

• mortals’ power, privilege, possibility of survival

108:6.4The Ad­juster is the well­spring of spir­i­tual at­tain­ment and the hope of di­vine char­ac­ter within you. He is the power, priv­i­lege, and the pos­si­bil­ity of sur­vival, which so fully and for­ever dis­tin­guishes you from mere an­i­mal crea­tures. He is the higher and truly in­ter­nal spir­i­tual stim­u­lus of thought in con­trast with the ex­ter­nal and phys­i­cal stim­u­lus, which reaches the mind over the nerve-en­ergy mech­a­nism of the ma­te­rial body.

• training of tremendous scope

109:1.1There must be a com­pre­hen­sive and elab­o­rate plan for the train­ing and de­vel­op­ment of vir­gin Ad­justers be­fore they are sent forth from Di­vin­ing­ton, but we re­ally do not know very much about it. There un­doubt­edly also ex­ists an ex­ten­sive sys­tem for re­train­ing Ad­justers of in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ence be­fore they em­bark upon new mis­sions of mor­tal as­so­ci­a­tion, but, again, we do not ac­tu­ally know.

• nonsurvival of mortal wards never due to neglect of

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.

• actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men

110:0.2As far as I am con­ver­sant with the af­fairs of a uni­verse, I re­gard the love and de­vo­tion of a Thought Ad­juster as the most truly di­vine af­fec­tion in all cre­ation. The love of the Sons in their min­istry to the races is su­perb, but the de­vo­tion of an Ad­juster to the in­di­vid­ual is touch­ingly sub­lime, di­vinely Fa­ther­like. The Par­a­dise Fa­ther has ap­par­ently re­served this form of per­sonal con­tact with his in­di­vid­ual crea­tures as an ex­clu­sive Cre­ator pre­rog­a­tive. And there is noth­ing in all the uni­verse of uni­verses ex­actly com­pa­ra­ble to the mar­velous min­istry of these im­per­sonal en­ti­ties that so fas­ci­nat­ingly in­dwell the chil­dren of the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets.

• man is T.A.’s personality possibility
• T.A.’s prepersonal will attains personality expression through our decisions

110:2.5You as a per­sonal crea­ture have mind and will. The Ad­juster as a preper­sonal crea­ture has pre­mind and prewill. If you so fully con­form to the Ad­juster’s mind that you see eye to eye, then your minds be­come one, and you re­ceive the re­in­force­ment of the Ad­juster’s mind. Sub­se­quently, if your will or­ders and en­forces the ex­e­cu­tion of the de­ci­sions of this new or com­bined mind, the Ad­juster’s preper­sonal will at­tains to per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion through your de­ci­sion, and as far as that par­tic­u­lar project is con­cerned, you and the Ad­juster are one. Your mind has at­tained to di­vin­ity at­tune­ment, and the Ad­juster’s will has achieved per­son­al­ity ex­pres­sion.

• nonsurvival of mortal wards never due to neglect of

110:3.3When we speak of an Ad­juster’s suc­cess or fail­ure, we are speak­ing in terms of hu­man sur­vival. Ad­justers never fail; they are of the di­vine essence, and they al­ways emerge tri­umphant in each of their un­der­tak­ings.

• do all their work upon intellectual foundation

111:1.1Though the work of Ad­justers is spir­i­tual in na­ture, they must, per­force, do all their work upon an in­tel­lec­tual foun­da­tion. Mind is the hu­man soil from which the spirit Mon­i­tor must evolve the mor­ontia soul with the co-op­er­a­tion of the in­dwelt per­son­al­ity.

• are of God, from God, and are God

111:1.4Ma­te­rial evo­lu­tion has pro­vided you a life ma­chine, your body; the Fa­ther him­self has en­dowed you with the purest spirit re­al­ity known in the uni­verse, your Thought Ad­juster. But into your hands, sub­ject to your own de­ci­sions, has been given mind, and it is by mind that you live or die. It is within this mind and with this mind that you make those moral de­ci­sions which en­able you to achieve Ad­juster­like­ness, and that is God­like­ness.

• perfect guides

112:0.1The evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets are the spheres of hu­man ori­gin, the ini­tial worlds of the as­cend­ing mor­tal ca­reer. Uran­tia is your start­ing point; here you and your di­vine Thought Ad­juster are joined in tem­po­rary union. You have been en­dowed with a per­fect guide; there­fore, if you will sin­cerely run the race of time and gain the fi­nal goal of faith, the re­ward of the ages shall be yours; you will be eter­nally united with your in­dwelling Ad­juster. Then will be­gin your real life, the as­cend­ing life, to which your pres­ent mor­tal state is but the vestibule. Then will be­gin your ex­alted and pro­gres­sive mis­sion as fi­nal­i­ters in the eter­nity which stretches out be­fore you. And through­out all of these suc­ces­sive ages and stages of evo­lu­tion­ary growth, there is one part of you that re­mains ab­so­lutely un­al­tered, and that is per­son­al­ity—per­ma­nence in the pres­ence of change.

• mortals’ path to Paradise

112:5.3Mor­tal iden­tity is a tran­sient time-life con­di­tion in the uni­verse; it is real only in so far as the per­son­al­ity elects to be­come a con­tin­u­ing uni­verse phe­nom­e­non. This is the es­sen­tial dif­fer­ence be­tween man and an en­ergy sys­tem: The en­ergy sys­tem must con­tinue, it has no choice; but man has ev­ery­thing to do with de­ter­min­ing his own des­tiny. The Ad­juster is truly the path to Par­a­dise, but man him­self must pur­sue that path by his own de­cid­ing, his free­will choos­ing.

• essence of man’s eternal nature

113:4.2Mor­tal man, sub­ject to Ad­juster lead­ing, is also amenable to se­raphic guid­ance. The Ad­juster is the essence of man’s eter­nal na­ture; the ser­a­phim is the teacher of man’s evolv­ing na­ture—in this life the mor­tal mind, in the next the mor­ontia soul. On the man­sion worlds you will be con­scious and aware of se­raphic in­struc­tors, but in the first life men are usu­ally un­aware of them.

• actual fragment of highest and eternal reality, the original Father

117:3.9De­ity is unity, ex­is­ten­tial in the Trin­ity, ex­pe­ri­en­tial in the Su­preme, and, in mor­tals, crea­ture-re­al­ized in Ad­juster fu­sion. The pres­ence of the Thought Ad­justers in mor­tal man re­veals the es­sen­tial unity of the uni­verse, for man, the low­est pos­si­ble type of uni­verse per­son­al­ity, con­tains within him­self an ac­tual frag­ment of the high­est and eter­nal re­al­ity, even the orig­i­nal Fa­ther of all per­son­al­i­ties.

• indestructible regardless of mortal survival

117:4.3God is so trust­ing, so lov­ing, that he gives a por­tion of his di­vine na­ture into the hands of even hu­man be­ings for safe­keep­ing and self-re­al­iza­tion. The Fa­ther na­ture, the Ad­juster pres­ence, is in­de­struc­tible re­gard­less of the choice of the mor­tal be­ing. The child of the Su­preme, the evolv­ing self, can be de­stroyed not­with­stand­ing that the po­ten­tially uni­fy­ing per­son­al­ity of such a mis­guided self will per­sist as a fac­tor of the De­ity of Su­prem­acy.

• will always be revealing wonder of God

117:6.18Man’s some­time at­tain­ment of the Su­preme is con­se­quent upon his fu­sion with the spirit of Par­a­dise De­ity. With Uran­tians this spirit is the Ad­juster pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and though the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor is from the Fa­ther and like the Fa­ther, we doubt that even such a di­vine gift can achieve the im­pos­si­ble task of re­veal­ing the na­ture of the in­fi­nite God to a fi­nite crea­ture. We sus­pect that what the Ad­justers will re­veal to fu­ture sev­enth-stage fi­nal­i­ters will be the di­vin­ity and na­ture of God the Su­preme. And this rev­e­la­tion will be to a fi­nite crea­ture what the rev­e­la­tion of the In­fi­nite would be to an ab­so­lute be­ing.

• predictions of man’s future universe attainments

117:7.6It may be that on the up­per lim­its of the fi­nite, where time con­joins tran­scended time, there is some sort of blur­ring and blend­ing of se­quence. It may be that the Su­preme is able to fore­cast his uni­verse pres­ence onto these super­time lev­els and then to a lim­ited de­gree an­tic­i­pate fu­ture evo­lu­tion by re­flect­ing this fu­ture fore­cast back to the cre­ated lev­els as the Im­ma­nence of the Pro­jected In­com­plete. Such phe­nom­ena may be ob­served wher­ever fi­nite makes con­tact with super­fi­nite, as in the ex­pe­ri­ences of hu­man be­ings who are in­dwelt by Thought Ad­justers that are ver­i­ta­ble pre­dic­tions of man’s fu­ture uni­verse at­tain­ments through­out all eter­nity.

• pledge of eternal life for seeking souls

132:3.9The pres­ence of the Par­a­dise spirit in the mind of man con­sti­tutes the rev­e­la­tion prom­ise and the faith pledge of an eter­nal ex­is­tence of di­vine pro­gres­sion for ev­ery soul seek­ing to achieve iden­tity with this im­mor­tal and in­dwelling spirit frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men

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.

• seek for divine unification; will return to Father

149:6.9“Out of your wrong con­cepts of the Fa­ther in heaven grow your false ideas of hu­mil­ity and springs much of your hypocrisy. Man may be a worm of the dust by na­ture and ori­gin, but when he be­comes in­dwelt by my Fa­ther’s spirit, that man be­comes di­vine in his des­tiny. The be­stowal spirit of my Fa­ther will surely re­turn to the di­vine source and uni­verse level of ori­gin, and the hu­man soul of mor­tal man which shall have be­come the re­born child of this in­dwelling spirit shall cer­tainly as­cend with the di­vine spirit to the very pres­ence of the eter­nal Fa­ther.

• respond to spiritual appeal of gospel

152:6.4Je­sus taught the ap­peal to the emo­tions as the tech­nique of ar­rest­ing and fo­cus­ing the in­tel­lec­tual at­ten­tion. He des­ig­nated the mind thus aroused and quick­ened as the gate­way to the soul, where there re­sides that spir­i­tual na­ture of man which must rec­og­nize truth and re­spond to the spir­i­tual ap­peal of the gospel in or­der to af­ford the per­ma­nent re­sults of true char­ac­ter trans­for­ma­tions.

• actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are:

113:5.1An­gels do not in­vade the sanc­tity of the hu­man mind; they do not ma­nip­u­late the will of mor­tals; nei­ther do they di­rectly con­tact with the in­dwelling Ad­justers. The guard­ian of des­tiny in­flu­ences you in ev­ery pos­si­ble man­ner con­sis­tent with the dig­nity of your per­son­al­ity; un­der no cir­cum­stances do these an­gels in­ter­fere with the free ac­tion of the hu­man will. Nei­ther an­gels nor any other or­der of uni­verse per­son­al­ity have power or au­thor­ity to cur­tail or abridge the pre­rog­a­tives of hu­man choos­ing.

108:5.10If you have a per­sonal guard­ian of des­tiny and should fail of sur­vival, that guard­ian an­gel must be ad­ju­di­cated in or­der to re­ceive vin­di­ca­tion as to the faith­ful ex­e­cu­tion of her trust. But Thought Ad­justers are not thus sub­jected to ex­am­i­na­tion when their sub­jects fail to sur­vive. We all know that, while an an­gel might pos­si­bly fall short of the per­fec­tion of min­istry, Thought Ad­justers work in the man­ner of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion; their min­istry is char­ac­ter­ized by a flaw­less tech­nique which is be­yond the pos­si­bil­ity of crit­i­cism by any be­ing out­side of Di­vin­ing­ton. You have per­fect guides; there­fore is the goal of per­fec­tion cer­tainly at­tain­able.

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.

108:3.5It is in­ter­est­ing to note that lo­cal uni­verse in­spec­tors al­ways ad­dress them­selves, when car­ry­ing out a plan­e­tary ex­am­i­na­tion, to the plan­e­tary chief of Thought Ad­justers, just as they de­liver charges to the chiefs of ser­a­phim and to the lead­ers of other or­ders of be­ings at­tached to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of an evolv­ing world. Not long since, Uran­tia un­der­went such a pe­ri­odic in­spec­tion by Taba­man­tia, the sov­er­eign super­vi­sor of all life-ex­per­i­ment plan­ets in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. And the rec­ords re­veal that, in ad­di­tion to his ad­mo­ni­tions and in­dict­ments de­liv­ered to the var­i­ous chiefs of super­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties, he also de­liv­ered the fol­low­ing ac­knowl­edg­ment to the chief of Ad­justers, whether lo­cated on the planet, on Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, or Di­vin­ing­ton, we do not def­i­nitely know, but he said:

108:3.6“Now to you, su­pe­ri­ors far above me, I come as one placed in tem­po­rary au­thor­ity over the ex­per­i­men­tal plan­e­tary se­ries; and I come to ex­press ad­mi­ra­tion and pro­found re­spect for this mag­nif­i­cent group of ce­les­tial min­is­ters, the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, who have vol­un­teered to serve on this ir­reg­u­lar sphere. No mat­ter how try­ing the crises, you never fal­ter. Not on the rec­ords of Neb­a­don nor be­fore the com­mis­sions of Or­von­ton has there ever been of­fered an in­dict­ment of a di­vine Ad­juster. You have been true to your trusts; you have been di­vinely faith­ful. You have helped to ad­just the mis­takes and to com­pen­sate for the short­com­ings of all who la­bor on this con­fused planet. You are mar­velous be­ings, guard­i­ans of the good in the souls of this back­ward realm. I pay you re­spect even while you are ap­par­ently un­der my ju­ris­dic­tion as vol­un­teer min­is­ters. I bow be­fore you in hum­ble rec­og­ni­tion of your ex­qui­site un­selfish­ness, your un­der­stand­ing min­istry, and your im­par­tial de­vo­tion. You de­serve the name of the God­like servers of the mor­tal in­hab­i­tants of this strife-torn, grief-stricken, and dis­ease-af­flicted world. I honor you! I all but wor­ship you!”

108:3.7As a re­sult of many sug­ges­tive lines of ev­i­dence, we be­lieve that the Ad­justers are thor­oughly or­ga­nized, that there ex­ists a pro­foundly in­tel­li­gent and ef­fi­cient di­rec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of these di­vine gifts from some far-dis­tant and cen­tral source, prob­a­bly Di­vin­ing­ton. We know that they come from Di­vin­ing­ton to the worlds, and un­doubt­edly they re­turn thereto upon the deaths of their sub­jects.

108:3.8Among the higher spirit or­ders it is ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult to dis­cover the mech­a­nisms of ad­min­is­tra­tion. My or­der of per­son­al­i­ties, while en­gaged in the pros­e­cu­tion of our spe­cific du­ties, is un­doubt­edly un­con­sciously par­tic­i­pat­ing with nu­mer­ous other per­sonal and im­per­sonal sub-De­ity groups who unit­edly are func­tion­ing as far-flung uni­verse cor­re­la­tors. We sus­pect that we are thus serv­ing be­cause we are the only group of per­son­al­ized crea­tures (aside from Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers) who are uni­formly con­scious of the pres­ence of nu­mer­ous or­ders of the preper­sonal en­ti­ties.

108:3.10The Mel­chiz­e­deks of Neb­a­don teach that the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are the per­son­al­ity co-or­di­na­tors of these var­i­ous in­flu­ences as they reg­is­ter in the ex­pand­ing De­ity of the evo­lu­tion­ary Su­preme Be­ing. It is very pos­si­ble that we may be par­tic­i­pants in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­fi­ca­tion of many of the un­ex­plained phe­nom­ena of time, but we are not con­sciously cer­tain of thus func­tion­ing.

107:1.1Since Thought Ad­justers are of the essence of orig­i­nal De­ity, no one may pre­sume to dis­course au­thor­i­ta­tively upon their na­ture and ori­gin; I can only im­part the tra­di­tions of Sal­ving­ton and the be­liefs of Uversa; I can only ex­plain how we re­gard these Mys­tery Mon­i­tors and their as­so­ci­ated en­ti­ties through­out the grand uni­verse.

107:1.3As to the time of their be­gin­ning sep­a­rate ex­is­tences apart from the ab­so­lute­ness of the First Source and Cen­ter, we do not know; nei­ther do we know their num­ber. We know very lit­tle con­cern­ing their ca­reers un­til they ar­rive on the plan­ets of time to in­dwell hu­man minds, but from that time on we are more or less fa­mil­iar with their cos­mic pro­gres­sions up to and in­clud­ing the con­sum­ma­tion of their tri­une des­tinies: at­tain­ment of per­son­al­ity by fu­sion with some mor­tal as­cender, at­tain­ment of per­son­al­ity by fiat of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, or lib­er­a­tion from the known as­sign­ments of Thought Ad­justers.

107:1.4Al­though we do not know, we pre­sume that Ad­justers are be­ing con­stantly in­di­vid­u­al­ized as the uni­verse en­larges, and as the can­di­dates for Ad­juster fu­sion in­crease in num­bers. But it may be equally pos­si­ble that we are in er­ror in at­tempt­ing to as­sign a nu­mer­i­cal mag­ni­tude to the Ad­justers; like God him­self, these frag­ments of his un­fath­omable na­ture may be ex­is­ten­tially in­fi­nite.

107:1.6In their re­la­tion­ship to fu­sion crea­tures they re­veal a su­per­nal love and spir­i­tual min­istry that is pro­foundly con­fir­ma­tive of the dec­la­ra­tion that God is spirit. But there is much that takes place in ad­di­tion to this tran­scen­dent min­istry that has never been re­vealed to Uran­tia mor­tals. Nei­ther do we fully un­der­stand just what re­ally tran­spires when the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther gives of him­self to be a part of the per­son­al­ity of a crea­ture of time. Nor has the as­cend­ing pro­gres­sion of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters as yet dis­closed the full pos­si­bil­i­ties in­her­ent in this su­per­nal part­ner­ship of man and God. In the last anal­y­sis, the Fa­ther frag­ments must be the gift of the ab­so­lute God to those crea­tures whose des­tiny en­com­passes the pos­si­bil­ity of the at­tain­ment of God as ab­so­lute.

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.

112:4.13If the hu­man in­di­vid­ual sur­vives with­out de­lay, the Ad­juster, so I am in­structed, reg­is­ters at Di­vin­ing­ton, pro­ceeds to the Par­a­dise pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, re­turns im­me­di­ately and is em­braced by the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers of the super­uni­verse and lo­cal uni­verse of as­sign­ment, re­ceives the rec­og­ni­tion of the chief Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tor of Di­vin­ing­ton, and then, at once, passes into the “re­al­iza­tion of iden­tity tran­si­tion,” be­ing sum­moned there­from on the third pe­riod and on the man­sion world in the ac­tual per­son­al­ity form made ready for the re­cep­tion of the sur­viv­ing soul of the earth mor­tal as that form has been pro­jected by the guard­ian of des­tiny.

39:2.13The an­gels can­not trans­port com­bus­tion bod­ies—flesh and blood—such as you now have, but they can trans­port all oth­ers, from the low­est mor­ontia to the higher spirit forms. They do not func­tion in the event of nat­u­ral death. When you fin­ish your earthly ca­reer, your body re­mains on this planet. Your Thought Ad­juster pro­ceeds to the bo­som of the Fa­ther, and these an­gels are not di­rectly con­cerned in your sub­se­quent per­son­al­ity re­assem­bly on the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion man­sion world. There your new body is a mor­ontia form, one that can en­seraphim. You “sow a mor­tal body” in the grave; you “reap a mor­ontia form” on the man­sion worlds.

112:4.1When death of a ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, or spir­i­tual na­ture oc­curs, the Ad­juster bids farewell to the mor­tal host and de­parts for Di­vin­ing­ton. From the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse a re­flec­tive con­tact is made with the super­vi­sors of both gov­ern­ments, and the Mon­i­tor is reg­is­tered out by the same num­ber that re­corded en­try into the do­mains of time.

112:4.2In some way not fully un­der­stood, the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors are able to gain pos­ses­sion of an epit­ome of the hu­man life as it is em­bod­ied in the Ad­juster’s du­pli­cate tran­scrip­tion of the spir­i­tual val­ues and mor­ontia mean­ings of the in­dwelt mind. The Cen­sors are able to ap­pro­pri­ate the Ad­juster’s ver­sion of the de­ceased hu­man’s sur­vival char­ac­ter and spir­i­tual qual­i­ties, and all this data, to­gether with the se­raphic rec­ords, is avail­able for pre­sen­ta­tion at the time of the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the in­di­vid­ual con­cerned. This in­for­ma­tion is also used to con­firm those super­uni­verse man­dates which make it pos­si­ble for cer­tain as­cend­ers im­me­di­ately to be­gin their mor­ontia ca­reers, upon mor­tal dis­so­lu­tion to pro­ceed to the man­sion worlds ahead of the for­mal ter­mi­na­tion of a plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion.

112:4.3Sub­se­quent to phys­i­cal death, ex­cept in in­di­vid­u­als trans­lated from among the liv­ing, the re­leased Ad­juster goes im­me­di­ately to the home sphere of Di­vin­ing­ton. The de­tails of what tran­spires on that world dur­ing the time of await­ing the fac­tual reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal de­pend chiefly on whether the hu­man be­ing as­cends to the man­sion worlds in his own in­di­vid­ual right or awaits a dis­pen­sa­tional sum­mon­ing of the sleep­ing sur­vivors of a plan­e­tary age.

112:4.4If the mor­tal as­so­ciate be­longs to a group that will be reper­son­al­ized at the end of a dis­pen­sa­tion, the Ad­juster will not im­me­di­ately re­turn to the man­sion world of the for­mer sys­tem of ser­vice but will, ac­cord­ing to choice, en­ter upon one of the fol­low­ing tem­po­rary as­sign­ments:

112:4.51. Be mus­tered into the ranks of van­ished Mon­i­tors for undis­closed ser­vice.

112:4.62. Be as­signed for a pe­riod to the ob­ser­va­tion of the Par­a­dise regime.

112:4.73. Be en­rolled in one of the many train­ing schools of Di­vin­ing­ton.

112:4.84. Be sta­tioned for a time as a stu­dent ob­server on one of the other six sa­cred spheres which con­sti­tute the Fa­ther’s cir­cuit of Par­a­dise worlds.

112:4.95. Be as­signed to the mes­sen­ger ser­vice of the Per­son­al­ized Ad­justers.

112:4.106. Be­come an as­so­ciate in­struc­tor in the Di­vin­ing­ton schools de­voted to the train­ing of Mon­i­tors be­long­ing to the vir­gin group.

112:4.117. Be as­signed to se­lect a group of pos­si­ble worlds on which to serve in the event that there is rea­son­able cause for be­liev­ing that the hu­man part­ner may have re­jected sur­vival.

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.

23:1.9There is a tech­ni­cal rea­son why these Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers must travel and work alone. For short pe­ri­ods and when sta­tion­ary, they can col­lab­o­rate in a group, but when thus en­sem­bled, they are al­to­gether cut off from the sus­te­nance and di­rec­tion of their Par­a­dise cir­cuit; they are wholly iso­lated. When in tran­sit, or when op­er­at­ing in the cir­cuits of space and the cur­rents of time, if two or more of this or­der are in close prox­im­ity, both or all are thrown out of li­ai­son with the higher cir­cu­lat­ing forces. They are “short cir­cuited” as you might de­scribe it in il­lus­tra­tive sym­bols. There­fore they have in­her­ent within them a power of au­to­matic alarm, a warn­ing sig­nal, which unerringly op­er­ates to ap­prise them of ap­proach­ing con­flicts and un­fail­ingly keeps them suf­fi­ciently sep­a­rated as not to in­ter­fere with their proper and ef­fec­tive func­tion­ing. They also pos­sess in­her­ent and au­to­matic pow­ers which de­tect and in­di­cate the prox­im­ity of both the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its and the di­vine Thought Ad­justers.

55:4.251. They can se­cure plan­e­tary re­lease and from the uni­verse head­quar­ters start out im­me­di­ately on the Par­a­dise ca­reer, re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers at the con­clu­sion of the mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence.

55:4.31On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds a be­ing must hu­man­ize to re­ceive a Thought Ad­juster. All as­cen­dant mem­bers of the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters have been Ad­juster in­dwelt and fused ex­cept ser­a­phim, and they are Fa­ther in­dwelt by an­other type of spirit at the time of be­ing mus­tered into this corps.

• 1. virgin Adjusters › often indwell series 2 mortals or on primitive series 1 planets

40:5.13Like se­ries num­ber one, each mem­ber of this group en­joys the min­istry of a sin­gle Ad­juster dur­ing life­time in the flesh. Dur­ing tem­po­ral life these Ad­justers do ev­ery­thing for their sub­jects of tem­po­rary in­dwelling that is done on other worlds where the mor­tals are of fu­sion po­ten­tial. The mor­tals of this sec­ond se­ries are of­ten in­dwelt by vir­gin Ad­justers, but the higher hu­man types are of­ten in li­ai­son with mas­ter­ful and ex­pe­ri­enced Mon­i­tors.

• 5. liberated Adjusters › eternally liberated from service of time

107:2.1Ad­justers are in­di­vid­u­ated as vir­gin en­ti­ties, and all are des­tined to be­come ei­ther lib­er­ated, fused, or Per­son­al­ized Mon­i­tors. We un­der­stand that there are seven or­ders of Thought Ad­justers, al­though we do not al­to­gether com­pre­hend these di­vi­sions. We of­ten re­fer to the dif­fer­ent or­ders as fol­lows:

• 2. advanced Adjusters › have served on non-Adjuster-fusion worlds

107:2.32. Ad­vanced Ad­justers, those who have served one or more sea­sons with will crea­tures on worlds where the fi­nal fu­sion takes place be­tween the iden­tity of the crea­ture of time and an in­di­vid­u­al­ized por­tion of the spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• 3. supreme Adjusters › previous human partners declined survival

107:2.43. Su­preme Ad­justers, those Mon­i­tors that have served in the ad­ven­ture of time on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, but whose hu­man part­ners for some rea­son de­clined eter­nal sur­vival, and those that have been sub­se­quently as­signed to other ad­ven­tures in other mor­tals on other evolv­ing worlds. A su­preme Ad­juster, though no more di­vine than a vir­gin Mon­i­tor, has had more ex­pe­ri­ence, can do things in the hu­man mind which a less ex­pe­ri­enced Ad­juster could not do.

• 4. vanished Adjusters › Monitors on detached assignments or with Father

107:2.54. Van­ished Ad­justers. Here oc­curs a break in our ef­forts to fol­low the ca­reers of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. There is a fourth stage of ser­vice about which we are not sure. The Mel­chiz­e­deks teach that the fourth-stage Ad­justers are on de­tached as­sign­ments, roam­ing the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers are in­clined to be­lieve that they are at one with the First Source and Cen­ter, en­joy­ing a pe­riod of re­fresh­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with the Fa­ther him­self. And it is en­tirely pos­si­ble that an Ad­juster could be roam­ing the mas­ter uni­verse si­mul­ta­ne­ously with be­ing at one with the om­ni­pres­ent Fa­ther.

• 5. liberated Adjusters › eternally liberated from service of time

107:2.65. Lib­er­ated Ad­justers, those Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that have been eter­nally lib­er­ated from the ser­vice of time for the mor­tals of the evolv­ing spheres. What func­tions may be theirs, we do not know.

• 6. fused Adjusters › have become one with ascending creatures

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

• 7. Personalized Adjusters › have served with incarnated Paradise Sons or otherwise achieved distinction

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.

107:2.9There are many ways in which these mys­te­ri­ous God frag­ments can be clas­si­fied: ac­cord­ing to uni­verse as­sign­ment, by the mea­sure of suc­cess in the in­dwelling of an in­di­vid­ual mor­tal, or even by the racial an­ces­try of the mor­tal can­di­date for fu­sion.

• 3. supreme Adjusters › in quarantine, interplanetary communication can be had by liaison of

109:2.9Un­doubt­edly these higher and more ex­pe­ri­enced types of Ad­justers can com­mu­ni­cate with those in other realms. But while self-act­ing Ad­justers do thus in­ter­com­mu­ni­cate, they do so only on the lev­els of their mu­tual work and for the pur­pose of pre­serv­ing cus­to­dial data es­sen­tial to the Ad­juster min­istry of the realms of their so­journ, though on oc­ca­sions they have been known to func­tion in in­ter­plan­e­tary mat­ters dur­ing times of cri­sis.

• 3. supreme Adjusters › can leave human body at will

109:2.10Su­preme and self-act­ing Ad­justers can leave the hu­man body at will. The in­dwellers are not an or­ganic or bi­o­logic part of mor­tal life; they are di­vine super­im­po­si­tions thereon. In the orig­i­nal life plans they were pro­vided for, but they are not in­dis­pens­able to ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. Nev­er­the­less it should be re­corded that they very rarely, even tem­porar­ily, leave their mor­tal taber­na­cles af­ter they once take up their in­dwelling.

• detached Adjusters › Adjusters of Caligastia 100 were detached

66:4.9This group, while en­joy­ing pro­vi­sional cit­i­zen­ship on Je­ru­sem, were as yet un­fused with their Thought Ad­justers; and when they vol­un­teered and were ac­cepted for plan­e­tary ser­vice in li­ai­son with the de­scend­ing or­ders of son­ship, their Ad­justers were de­tached. But these Jerusemites were super­hu­man be­ings—they pos­sessed souls of as­cen­dant growth. Dur­ing the mor­tal life in the flesh the soul is of em­bry­onic es­tate; it is born (res­ur­rected) in the mor­ontia life and ex­pe­ri­ences growth through the suc­ces­sive mor­ontia worlds. And the souls of the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred had thus ex­panded through the pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ences of the seven man­sion worlds to cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus on Je­ru­sem.

109:2.1You have been in­formed of the clas­si­fi­ca­tion of Ad­justers in re­la­tion to ex­pe­ri­ence—vir­gin, ad­vanced, and su­preme. You should also rec­og­nize a cer­tain func­tional clas­si­fi­ca­tion—the self-act­ing Ad­justers. A self-act­ing Ad­juster is one who:

109:2.21. Has had cer­tain req­ui­site ex­pe­ri­ence in the evolv­ing life of a will crea­ture, ei­ther as a tem­po­rary in­dweller on a type of world where Ad­justers are only loaned to mor­tal sub­jects or on an ac­tual fu­sion planet where the hu­man failed of sur­vival. Such a Mon­i­tor is ei­ther an ad­vanced or a su­preme Ad­juster.

• self-acting Adjusters › subjects achieved 3rd psychic circle; made supreme decision; are reservists

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.

109:2.43. Has a sub­ject who has made the su­preme de­ci­sion, has en­tered into a solemn and sin­cere be­trothal with the Ad­juster. The Ad­juster looks be­fore­hand to the time of ac­tual fu­sion and reck­ons the union as an event of fact.

109:2.54. Has a sub­ject who has been mus­tered into one of the re­serve corps of des­tiny on an evo­lu­tion­ary world of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

• self-acting Adjusters › can leave human body at will

109:2.65. At some time, dur­ing hu­man sleep, has been tem­porar­ily de­tached from the mind of mor­tal in­car­cer­a­tion to per­form some ex­ploit of li­ai­son, con­tact, rereg­is­tra­tion, or other ex­trahu­man ser­vice as­so­ci­ated with the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the world of as­sign­ment.

• self-acting Adjusters › have served in time of crisis

109:2.76. Has served in a time of cri­sis in the ex­pe­ri­ence of some hu­man be­ing who was the ma­te­rial com­ple­ment of a spirit per­son­al­ity in­trusted with the en­act­ment of some cos­mic achieve­ment es­sen­tial to the spir­i­tual econ­omy of the planet.

• self-acting Adjusters › have marked degree of will in all matters not involving subjects’ personalities

109:2.8Self-act­ing Ad­justers seem to pos­sess a marked de­gree of will in all mat­ters not in­volv­ing the hu­man per­son­al­i­ties of their im­me­di­ate in­dwelling, as is in­di­cated by their nu­mer­ous ex­ploits both within and with­out the mor­tal sub­jects of at­tach­ment. Such Ad­justers par­tic­i­pate in nu­mer­ous ac­tiv­i­ties of the realm, but more fre­quently they func­tion as un­de­tected in­dwellers of the earthly taber­na­cles of their own choos­ing.

109:2.11The super­act­ing Ad­justers are those who have achieved the con­quest of their in­trusted tasks and only await the dis­so­lu­tion of the ma­te­rial-life ve­hi­cle or the trans­la­tion of the im­mor­tal soul.

• self-acting Adjusters › progress to self-acting status independent of subject’s co-operation

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.

• liaison Adjusters › Adjusters gain experience on loan planets

110:7.3Most Ad­justers who have trans­lated their sub­jects from Uran­tia were highly ex­pe­ri­enced and of rec­ord as pre­vi­ous in­dwellers of nu­mer­ous mor­tals on other spheres. Re­mem­ber, Ad­justers gain valu­able in­dwelling ex­pe­ri­ence on plan­ets of the loan or­der; it does not fol­low that Ad­justers only gain ex­pe­ri­ence for ad­vanced work in those mor­tal sub­jects who fail to sur­vive.

• self-acting Adjusters › reservists have self-acting T.A.

114:7.2When hu­man be­ings are cho­sen as pro­tec­tors of plan­e­tary des­tiny, when they be­come piv­otal in­di­vid­u­als in the plans which the world ad­min­is­tra­tors are pros­e­cut­ing, at that time the plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim con­firms their tem­po­ral at­tach­ment to the se­raphic corps and ap­points per­sonal des­tiny guard­i­ans to serve with these mor­tal re­servists. All re­servists have self-con­scious Ad­justers, and most of them func­tion in the higher cos­mic cir­cles of in­tel­lec­tual achieve­ment and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment.