PAPER 109
RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO UNIVERSE
CREATURES
109:0.1 THE 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.
1. DEVELOPMENT OF ADJUSTERS
109:1.1 There 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.
109:1.2 I have been told by Personalized Adjusters
that every time a Monitor-indwelt mortal fails of survival, when the Adjuster
returns to Divinington, an extended course of training is engaged in. This
additional training is made possible by the experience of having indwelt a
human being, and it is always imparted before the Adjuster is remanded to the
evolutionary worlds of time.
109:1.3 Actual living experience has no cosmic
substitute. The perfection of the divinity of a newly formed Thought Adjuster
does not in any manner endow this Mystery Monitor with experienced
ministrative ability. Experience is inseparable from a living existence; it is
the one thing which no amount of divine endowment can absolve you from the
necessity of securing by actual living. Therefore, in common with all
beings living and functioning within the present sphere of the Supreme,
Thought Adjusters must acquire experience; they must evolve from the lower,
inexperienced, to the higher, more experienced, groups.
109:1.4 Adjusters 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.
109:1.5 The first stage of Adjuster evolution is
attained in fusion with the surviving soul of a mortal being. Thus, while you
are in nature evolving inward and upward from man to God, the Adjusters are in
nature evolving outward and downward from God to man; and so will the final
product of this union of divinity and humanity eternally be the son of man and
the son of God.
2. SELF-ACTING ADJUSTERS
109:2.1 You 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:
109:2.2 1. 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.
109:2.3 2. 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.
109:2.4 3. 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.
109:2.5 4. Has a subject who has been mustered into
one of the reserve corps of destiny on an evolutionary world of mortal
ascension.
109:2.6 5. 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.
109:2.7 6. 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.
109:2.8 Self-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.
109:2.9 Undoubtedly 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.
109:2.10 Supreme 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.
109:2.11 The 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.
3. RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO MORTAL
TYPES
109:3.1 The 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.
109:3.2 On 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.
109:3.3 On 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.
109:3.4 On 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.
109:3.5 In 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.
109:3.6 On 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.
109:3.7 In 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.
109:3.8 But 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.
4. ADJUSTERS AND HUMAN
PERSONALITY
109:4.1 The 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.
109:4.2 Animals 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.
109:4.3 The 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.
109:4.4 The 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.
109:4.5 I 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.
109:4.6 In 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.
5. MATERIAL HANDICAPS TO ADJUSTER
INDWELLING
109:5.1 Supreme 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.
109:5.2 It 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.
109:5.3 But 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.
109:5.4 The 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.
109:5.5 While 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.
6. THE PERSISTENCE OF TRUE
VALUES
109:6.1 Adjusters 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.
109:6.2 As 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.
109:6.3 When Adjusters of long universe experience
volunteer to indwell divine Sons on bestowal missions, they full well know
that personality attainment can never be achieved through this service. But
often does the Father of spirits grant personality to these volunteers and
establish them as directors of their kind. These are the personalities honored
with authority on Divinington. And their unique natures embody the mosaic
humanity of their multiple experiences of mortal indwelling and also the
spirit transcript of the human divinity of the Paradise bestowal Son of the
terminal indwelling experience.
109:6.4 The activities of Adjusters in your local
universe are directed by the Personalized Adjuster of Michael of Nebadon, that
very Monitor who guided him step by step when he lived his human life in the
flesh of Joshua ben Joseph. Faithful to his trust was this extraordinary
Adjuster, and wisely did this valiant Monitor direct the human nature, ever
guiding the mortal mind of the Paradise Son in the choosing of the path of the
Father's perfect will. This Adjuster had previously served with Machiventa
Melchizedek in the days of Abraham and had engaged in tremendous exploits both
previous to this indwelling and between these bestowal experiences.
109:6.5 This Adjuster did indeed triumph in Jesus'
human mind -- that mind which in each of life's recurring situations
maintained a consecrated dedication to the Father's will, saying, "Not my
will, but yours, be done." Such decisive consecration constitutes the true
passport from the limitations of human nature to the finality of divine
attainment.
109:6.6 This same Adjuster now reflects in the
inscrutable nature of his mighty personality the prebaptismal humanity of
Joshua ben Joseph, the eternal and living transcript of the eternal and living
values which the greatest of all Urantians created out of the humble
circumstances of a commonplace life as it was lived to the complete exhaustion
of the spiritual values attainable in mortal experience.
109:6.7 Everything of permanent value which is
intrusted to an Adjuster is assured eternal survival. In certain instances the
Monitor holds these possessions for bestowal on a mortal mind of future
indwelling; in others, and upon personalization, these surviving and conserved
realities are held in trust for future utilization in the service of the
Architects of the Master Universe.
7. DESTINY OF PERSONALIZED
ADJUSTERS
109:7.1 We cannot state whether or not non-Adjuster
Father fragments are personalizable, but you have been informed that
personality is the sovereign freewill bestowal of the Universal Father. As far
as we know, the Adjuster type of Father fragment attains personality only by
the acquirement of personal attributes through service-ministry to a personal
being. These Personalized Adjusters are at home on Divinington, where they
instruct and direct their prepersonal associates.
109:7.2 Personalized Thought Adjusters are the
untrammelled, unassigned, and sovereign stabilizers and compensators of the
far-flung universe of universes. They combine the Creator and creature
experience -- existential and experiential. They are conjoint time and
eternity beings. They associate the prepersonal and the personal in universe
administration.
109:7.3 Personalized Adjusters are the all-wise and
powerful executives of the Architects of the Master Universe. They are the
personal agents of the full ministry of the Universal Father -- personal,
prepersonal, and superpersonal. They are the personal ministers of the
extraordinary, the unusual, and the unexpected throughout all the realms of
the transcendental absonite spheres of the domain of God the Ultimate, even to
the levels of God the Absolute.
109:7.4 They are the exclusive beings of the
universes who embrace within their being all the known relationships of
personality; they are omnipersonal -- they are before personality, they are
personality, and they are after personality. They minister the personality of
the Universal Father as in the eternal past, the eternal present, and the
eternal future.
109:7.5 Existential personality on the order of the
infinite and absolute, the Father bestowed upon the Eternal Son, but he chose
to reserve for his own ministry the experiential personality of the type of
the Personalized Adjuster bestowed upon the existential prepersonal Adjuster;
and they are thus both destined to the future eternal superpersonality of the
transcendental ministry of the absonite realms of the Ultimate, the
Supreme-Ultimate, even to the levels of the Ultimate-Absolute.
109:7.6 Seldom are the Personalized Adjusters seen
at large in the universes. Occasionally they consult with the Ancients of
Days, and sometimes the Personalized Adjusters of the sevenfold Creator Sons
come to the headquarters worlds of the constellations to confer with the
Vorondadek rulers.
109:7.7 When the planetary Vorondadek observer of
Urantia -- the Most High custodian who not long since assumed an emergency
regency of your world -- asserted his authority in the presence of the
resident governor general, he began his emergency administration of Urantia
with a full staff of his own choosing. He immediately assigned to all his
associates and assistants their planetary duties. But he did not choose the
three Personalized Adjusters who appeared in his presence the instant he
assumed the regency. He did not even know they would thus appear, for they did
not so manifest their divine presence at the time of a previous regency. And
the Most High regent did not assign service or designate duties for these
volunteer Personalized Adjusters. Nevertheless, these three omnipersonal
beings were among the most active of the numerous orders of celestial beings
then serving on Urantia.
109:7.8 Personalized Adjusters perform a wide range
of services for numerous orders of universe personalities, but we are not
permitted to discuss these ministries with Adjuster-indwelt evolutionary
creatures. These extraordinary human divinities are among the most remarkable
personalities of the entire grand universe, and no one dares to predict what
their future missions may be.
109:7.9 Presented
by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
