PAPER 110
- RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO INDIVIDUAL MORTALS
The endowment of imperfect
beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is
the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and
affectionately share these sufferings in loving
companionship.
As 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.
1. INDWELLING THE
MORTAL MIND
Adjusters 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.
I 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.
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Although 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.
Adjusters 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.
The Adjuster remains with
you in all disaster and through every sickness which does
not wholly destroy the mentality. But how unkind knowingly
to defile or otherwise deliberately to pollute the physical
body, which must serve as the earthly tabernacle of this
marvelous gift from God. All physical poisons greatly retard
the efforts of the Adjuster to exalt the material mind,
while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy,
suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere
with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul.
Today you are passing
through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if
you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the
divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union,
there will eventually ensue that morontia oneness, that
supernal harmony, that cosmic co-ordination, that divine
attunement, that celestial fusion, that never-ending
blending of identity, that oneness of being which is so
perfect and final that even the most experienced
personalities can never segregate or recognize as separate
identities the fusion partners--mortal man and divine
Adjuster.
2. ADJUSTERS AND
HUMAN WILL
When 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.
They 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,
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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.
The 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.
Adjusters 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.
You 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.
To the extent that this
identity is realized, you are mentally approaching the
morontia order of existence. Morontia mind is a term
signifying the substance and sum total of the co-operating
minds of diversely material and spiritual natures. Morontia
intellect, therefore, connotes a dual mind in the local
universe dominated by one will. And with mortals this is a
will, human in origin, which is becoming divine through
man's identification of the human mind with the mindedness
of God.
3. CO-OPERATION
WITH THE ADJUSTER
Adjusters 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.
The 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
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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.
When 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.
I cannot but observe that
so many of you spend so much time and thought on mere
trifles of living, while you almost wholly overlook the more
essential realities of everlasting import, those very
accomplishments which are concerned with the development of
a more harmonious working agreement between you and your
Adjusters. The great goal of human existence is to attune to
the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster; the great
achievement of mortal life is the attainment of a true and
understanding consecration to the eternal aims of the divine
spirit who waits and works within your mind. But a devoted
and determined effort to realize eternal destiny is wholly
compatible with a light-hearted and joyous life and with a
successful and honorable career on earth. Co-operation with
the Thought Adjuster does not entail self-torture, mock
piety, or hypocritical and ostentatious self-abasement; the
ideal life is one of loving service rather than an existence
of fearful apprehension.
Confusion, being puzzled,
even sometimes discouraged and distracted, does not
necessarily signify resistance to the leadings of the
indwelling Adjuster. Such attitudes may sometimes connote
lack of active co-operation with the divine Monitor and may,
therefore, somewhat delay spiritual progress, but such
intellectual emotional difficulties do not in the least
interfere with the certain survival of the God-knowing soul.
Ignorance alone can never prevent survival; neither can
confusional doubts nor fearful uncertainty. Only conscious
resistance to the Adjuster's leading can prevent the
survival of the evolving immortal soul.
You 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:
1. 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.
2. Loving God and desiring
to be like him--genuine recognition of the divine fatherhood
and loving worship of the heavenly Parent.
3. 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.
4. 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.
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4. THE ADJUSTER'S
WORK IN THE MIND
Adjusters 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.
The 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.
Certain 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.)
Trust 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.
There 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.
For 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.
5. ERRONEOUS
CONCEPTS OF ADJUSTER GUIDANCE
Do not confuse and
confound the mission and influence of the Adjuster with what
is commonly called conscience; they are not directly
related. Conscience
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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.
Man'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.
During 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.
While 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.
It 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.
In 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.
The 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
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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.
6. THE SEVEN
PSYCHIC CIRCLES
The sum total of
personality realization on a material world is contained
within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles
of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the seventh circle
marks the beginning of true human personality function.
Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity
of the mortal being. Though the traversal of the seven
circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the
Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment
of those steps which are preliminary to Adjuster fusion.
The 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.
The psychic circles are
not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly
morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind
attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The
successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious
functioning of the entire personality, not merely of
some one phase thereof. The growth of the parts does not
equal the true maturation of the whole; the parts really
grow in proportion to the expansion of the entire self--the
whole self--material, intellectual, and spiritual.
When 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.
The 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.
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Every decision you make
either impedes or facilitates the function of the Adjuster;
likewise do these very decisions determine your advancement
in the circles of human achievement. It is true that the
supremacy of a decision, its crisis relationship, has a
great deal to do with its circle-making influence;
nevertheless, numbers of decisions, frequent repetitions,
persistent repetitions, are also essential to the
habit-forming certainty of such reactions.
It is difficult precisely
to define the seven levels of human progression, for the
reason that these levels are personal; they are variable for
each individual and are apparently determined by the growth
capacity of each human being. The conquest of these levels
of cosmic evolution is reflected in three ways:
1. Adjuster attunement.
The spiritizing mind nears the Adjuster presence
proportional to circle attainment.
2. Soul evolution.
The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent and
depth of circle mastery.
3. Personality reality.
The degree of selfhood reality is directly determined by
circle conquest. Persons become more real as they ascend
from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence.
As the circles are
traversed, the child of material evolution is growing into
the mature human of immortal potentiality. The shadowy
reality of the embryonic nature of a seventh circler is
giving way to the clearer manifestation of the emerging
morontia nature of a local universe citizen.
While it is impossible
precisely to define the seven levels, or psychic circles, of
human growth, it is permissible to suggest the minimum and
maximum limits of these stages of maturity realization:
The seventh circle.
This level is entered when human beings develop the powers
of personal choice, individual decision, moral
responsibility, and the capacity for the attainment of
spiritual individuality. This signifies the united function
of the seven adjutant mind-spirits under the direction of
the spirit of wisdom, the encircuitment of the mortal
creature in the influence of the Holy Spirit, and, on
Urantia, the first functioning of the Spirit of Truth,
together with the reception of a Thought Adjuster in the
mortal mind. Entrance upon the seventh circle constitutes a
mortal creature a truly potential citizen of the local
universe.
The third circle.
The Adjuster's work is much more effective after the human
ascender attains the third circle and receives a personal
seraphic guardian of destiny. While there is no apparent
concert of effort between the Adjuster and the seraphic
guardian, nonetheless there is to be observed an
unmistakable improvement in all phases of cosmic achievement
and spiritual development subsequent to the assignment of
the personal seraphic attendant. When the third circle is
attained, the Adjuster endeavors to morontiaize the mind of
man during the remainder of the mortal life span, to make
the remaining circles, and achieve the final stage of the
divine-human association before natural death dissolves the
unique partnership.
The 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,
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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.
Perhaps these psychic
circles of mortal progression would be better denominated
cosmic levels--actual meaning grasps and value
realizations of progressive approach to the morontia
consciousness of initial relationship of the evolutionary
soul with the emerging Supreme Being. And it is this very
relationship that makes it forever impossible fully to
explain the significance of the cosmic circles to the
material mind. These circle attainments are only relatively
related to God-consciousness. A seventh or sixth circler can
be almost as truly God-knowing--sonship conscious--as a
second or first circler, but such lower circle beings are
far less conscious of experiential relation to the Supreme
Being, universe citizenship. The attainment of these cosmic
circles will become a part of the ascenders' experience on
the mansion worlds if they fail of such achievement before
natural death.
The motivation of faith
makes experiential the full realization of man's sonship
with God, but action, completion of decisions, is
essential to the evolutionary attainment of consciousness of
progressive kinship with the cosmic actuality of the
Supreme Being. Faith transmutes potentials to actuals in the
spiritual world, but potentials become actuals in the finite
realms of the Supreme only by and through the realization of
choice-experience. But choosing to do the will of God joins
spiritual faith to material decisions in personality action
and thus supplies a divine and spiritual fulcrum for the
more effective functioning of the human and material
leverage of God-hunger. Such a wise co-ordination of
material and spiritual forces greatly augments both cosmic
realization of the Supreme and morontia comprehension of the
Paradise Deities.
The mastery of the cosmic
circles is related to the quantitative growth of the
morontia soul, the comprehension of supreme meanings. But
the qualitative status of this immortal soul is wholly
dependent on the grasp of living faith upon the
Paradise-potential fact-value that mortal man is a son of
the eternal God. Therefore does a seventh circler go on to
the mansion worlds to attain further quantitative
realization of cosmic growth just as does a second or even a
first circler.
There is only an indirect
relation between cosmic-circle attainment and actual
spiritual religious experience; such attainments are
reciprocal and therefore mutually beneficial. Purely
spiritual development may have little to do with planetary
material prosperity, but circle attainment always augments
the potential of human success and mortal achievement.
From the seventh to the
third circle there occurs increased and unified action of
the seven adjutant mind-spirits in the task of weaning the
mortal mind from its dependence on the realities of the
material life mechanisms preparatory to increased
introduction to morontia levels of experience. From the
third circle onward the adjutant influence progressively
diminishes.
The seven circles embrace
mortal experience extending from the highest purely animal
level to the lowest actual contactual morontia level of
self-consciousness as a personality experience. The mastery
of the first cosmic circle signalizes the attainment of
premorontia mortal maturity and marks the termination of the
conjoint ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits as an
exclusive influence of mind action in the human personality.
Beyond the first circle, mind
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becomes increasingly akin to
the intelligence of the morontia stage of evolution, the
conjoined ministry of the cosmic mind and the superadjutant
endowment of the Creative Spirit of a local universe.
The 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.
7. THE ATTAINMENT
OF IMMORTALITY
The achievement of the
seven cosmic circles does not equal Adjuster fusion. There
are many mortals living on Urantia who have attained their
circles; but fusion depends on yet other greater and more
sublime spiritual achievements, upon the attainment of a
final and complete attunement of the mortal will with the
will of God as it is resident in the Thought Adjuster.
When a human being has
completed the circles of cosmic achievement, and further,
when the final choosing of the mortal will permits the
Adjuster to complete the association of human identity with
the morontial soul during evolutionary and physical life,
then do such consummated liaisons of soul and Adjuster go on
independently to the mansion worlds, and there is issued the
mandate from Uversa which provides for the immediate fusion
of the Adjuster and the morontial soul. This fusion during
physical life instantly consumes the material body; the
human beings who might witness such a spectacle would only
observe the translating mortal disappear "in chariots of
fire."
Most 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.
Subsequent 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.
When the evolving soul and
the divine Adjuster are finally and eternally fused, each
gains all of the experiencible qualities of the other. This
co-ordinate personality possesses all of the experiential
memory of survival once held by the ancestral mortal mind
and then resident in the morontia soul, and in addition
thereto this potential finaliter embraces all the
experiential memory of the
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Adjuster throughout the
mortal indwellings of all time. But it will require an
eternity of the future for an Adjuster ever completely to
endow the personality partnership with the meanings and
values which the divine Monitor carries forward from the
eternity of the past.
But 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.
Adjusters 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.
During 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.
While 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.
During 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.
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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."
[Presented by a Solitary
Messenger of Orvonton.] |