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, 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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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, 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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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.] |