The Urantia Book
PAPER 107
ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THOUGHT
ADJUSTERS
Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
107:0.1 ALTHOUGH the Universal Father is
personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of the
universes, he is also actually present on the worlds of space in
the minds of his countless children of time, for he indwells
them as the Mystery Monitors. The eternal Father is at one and
the same time farthest removed from, and most intimately
associated with, his planetary mortal sons.
107:0.2 The Adjusters are the actuality of the
Father's love incarnate in the souls of men; they are the
veritable promise of man's eternal career imprisoned within the
mortal mind; they are the essence of man's perfected finaliter
personality, which he can foretaste in time as he progressively
masters the divine technique of achieving the living of the
Father's will, step by step, through the ascension of universe
upon universe until he actually attains the divine presence of
his Paradise Father.
107:0.3 God, having commanded man to be
perfect, even as he is perfect, has descended as the Adjuster to
become man's experiential partner in the achievement of the
supernal destiny which has been thus ordained. The fragment of
God which indwells the mind of man is the absolute and
unqualified assurance that man can find the Universal Father in
association with this divine Adjuster, which came forth from God
to find man and sonship him even in the days of the flesh.
107:0.4 Any mortal who has seen a Creator Son
has seen the Universal Father, and he who is indwelt by a divine
Adjuster is indwelt by the Paradise Father. Every mortal who is
consciously or unconsciously following the leading of his
indwelling Adjuster is living in accordance with the will of
God. Consciousness of Adjuster presence is consciousness of
God's presence. Eternal fusion of the Adjuster with the
evolutionary soul of man is the factual experience of eternal
union with God as a universe associate of Deity.
107:0.5 It is the Adjuster who creates within
man that unquenchable yearning and incessant longing to be like
God, to attain Paradise, and there before the actual person of
Deity to worship the infinite source of the divine gift. The
Adjuster is the living presence which actually links the mortal
son with his Paradise Father and draws him nearer and nearer to
the Father. The Adjuster is our compensatory equalization of the
enormous universe tension which is created by the distance of
man's removal from God and by the degree of his partiality in
contrast with the universality of the eternal Father.
107:0.6 The Adjuster is an absolute essence of
an infinite being imprisoned within the mind of a finite
creature which, depending on the choosing of such a mortal, can
eventually consummate this temporary union of God and man and
veritably actualize a new order of being for unending universe
service. The Adjuster is the divine universe reality which
factualizes the truth that God is man's Father. The Adjuster is
man's infallible cosmic compass, always and unerringly pointing
the soul Godward.
107:0.7 On the evolutionary worlds, will
creatures traverse three general developmental stages of being:
From the arrival of the Adjuster to comparative full growth,
about twenty years of age on Urantia, the Monitors are sometimes
designated Thought Changers. From this time to the attainment of
the age of discretion, about forty years, the Mystery Monitors
are called Thought Adjusters. From the attainment of discretion
to deliverance from the flesh, they are often referred to as
Thought Controllers. These three phases of mortal life have no
connection with the three stages of Adjuster progress in mind
duplication and soul evolution.
1. ORIGIN OF THOUGHT ADJUSTERS
107:1.1 Since Thought Adjusters are of the
essence of original Deity, no one may presume to discourse
authoritatively upon their nature and origin; I can only impart
the traditions of Salvington and the beliefs of Uversa; I can
only explain how we regard these Mystery Monitors and their
associated entities throughout the grand universe.
107:1.2 Though there are diverse opinions
regarding the mode of the bestowal of Thought Adjusters, there
exist no such differences concerning their origin; all are
agreed that they proceed direct from the Universal Father, the
First Source and Center. They are not created beings; they are
fragmentized entities constituting the factual presence of the
infinite God. Together with their many unrevealed associates,
the Adjusters are undiluted and unmixed divinity, unqualified
and unattenuated parts of Deity; they are of God, and as far as
we are able to discern, they are God.
107:1.3 As to the time of their beginning
separate existences apart from the absoluteness of the First
Source and Center, we do not know; neither do we know their
number. We know very little concerning their careers until they
arrive on the planets of time to indwell human minds, but from
that time on we are more or less familiar with their cosmic
progressions up to and including the consummation of their
triune destinies: attainment of personality by fusion with some
mortal ascender, attainment of personality by fiat of the
Universal Father, or liberation from the known assignments of
Thought Adjusters.
107:1.4 Although we do not know, we presume
that Adjusters are being constantly individualized as the
universe enlarges, and as the candidates for Adjuster fusion
increase in numbers. But it may be equally possible that we are
in error in attempting to assign a numerical magnitude to the
Adjusters; like God himself, these fragments of his unfathomable
nature may be existentially infinite.
107:1.5 The technique of the origin of the
Thought Adjusters is one of the unrevealed functions of the
Universal Father. We have every reason to believe that none of
the other absolute associates of the First Source and Center
have aught to do with the production of Father fragments.
Adjusters are simply and eternally the divine gifts; they are of
God and from God, and they are like God.
107:1.6 In their relationship to fusion
creatures they reveal a supernal love and spiritual ministry
that is profoundly confirmative of the declaration that God is
spirit. But there is much that takes place in addition to this
transcendent ministry that has never been revealed to Urantia
mortals. Neither do we fully understand just what really
transpires when the Universal Father gives of himself to be a
part of the personality of a creature of time. Nor has the
ascending progression of the Paradise finaliters as yet
disclosed the full possibilities inherent in this supernal
partnership of man and God. In the last analysis, the Father
fragments must be the gift of the absolute God to those
creatures whose destiny encompasses the possibility of the
attainment of God as absolute.
107:1.7 As the Universal Father fragmentizes
his prepersonal Deity, so does the Infinite Spirit individuate
portions of his premind spirit to indwell and actually to fuse
with the evolutionary souls of the surviving mortals of the
spirit-fusion series. But the nature of the Eternal Son is not
thus fragmentable; the spirit of the Original Son is either
diffuse or discretely personal. Son-fused creatures are united
with individualized bestowals of the spirit of the Creator Sons
of the Eternal Son.
2. CLASSIFICATION OF ADJUSTERS
107:2.1 Adjusters are individuated as virgin
entities, and all are destined to become either liberated,
fused, or Personalized Monitors. We understand that there are
seven orders of Thought Adjusters, although we do not altogether
comprehend these divisions. We often refer to the different
orders as follows:
107:2.2 1. Virgin Adjusters, those
serving on their initial assignment in the minds of evolutionary
candidates for eternal survival. Mystery Monitors are eternally
uniform in divine nature. They are also uniform in experiential
nature as they first go out from Divinington; subsequent
experiential differentiation is the result of actual experience
in universe ministry.
107:2.3 2. Advanced Adjusters, those
who have served one or more seasons with will creatures on
worlds where the final fusion takes place between the identity
of the creature of time and an individualized portion of the
spirit of the local universe manifestation of the Third Source
and Center.
107:2.4 3. Supreme Adjusters, those
Monitors that have served in the adventure of time on the
evolutionary worlds, but whose human partners for some reason
declined eternal survival, and those that have been subsequently
assigned to other adventures in other mortals on other evolving
worlds. A supreme Adjuster, though no more divine than a virgin
Monitor, has had more experience, can do things in the human
mind which a less experienced Adjuster could not do.
107:2.5 4. Vanished Adjusters. Here
occurs a break in our efforts to follow the careers of the
Mystery Monitors. There is a fourth stage of service about which
we are not sure. The Melchizedeks teach that the fourth-stage
Adjusters are on detached assignments, roaming the universe of
universes. The Solitary Messengers are inclined to believe that
they are at one with the First Source and Center, enjoying a
period of refreshing association with the Father himself. And it
is entirely possible that an Adjuster could be roaming the
master universe simultaneously with being at one with the
omnipresent Father.
107:2.6 5. Liberated Adjusters, those
Mystery Monitors that have been eternally liberated from the
service of time for the mortals of the evolving spheres. What
functions may be theirs, we do not know.
107:2.7 6. Fused Adjusters --
finaliters -- those who have become one with the ascending
creatures of the superuniverses, the eternity partners of the
time ascenders of the Paradise Corps of the Finality. Thought
Adjusters ordinarily become fused with the ascending mortals of
time, and with such surviving mortals they are registered in and
out of Ascendington; they follow the course of ascendant beings.
Upon fusion with the ascending evolutionary soul, it appears
that the Adjuster translates from the absolute existential level
of the universe to the finite experiential level of functional
association with an ascending personality. While retaining all
of the character of the existential divine nature, a fused
Adjuster becomes indissolubly linked with the ascending career
of a surviving mortal.
107:2.8 7. Personalized Adjusters,
those who have served with the incarnated Paradise Sons,
together with many who have achieved unusual distinction during
the mortal indwelling, but whose subjects rejected survival. We
have reasons for believing that such Adjusters are personalized
on the recommendations of the Ancients of Days of the
superuniverse of their assignment.
107:2.9 There are many ways in which these
mysterious God fragments can be classified: according to
universe assignment, by the measure of success in the indwelling
of an individual mortal, or even by the racial ancestry of the
mortal candidate for fusion.
3. THE DIVININGTON HOME OF ADJUSTERS
107:3.1 All universe activities related to the
dispatch, management, direction, and return of the Mystery
Monitors from service in all of the seven superuniverses seem to
be centered on the sacred sphere of Divinington. As far as I
know, none but Adjusters and other entities of the Father have
been on that sphere. It seems likely that numerous unrevealed
prepersonal entities share Divinington as a home sphere with the
Adjusters. We conjecture that these fellow entities may in some
manner be associated with the present and future ministry of the
Mystery Monitors. But we really do not know.
107:3.2 When Thought Adjusters return to the
Father, they go back to the realm of supposed origin,
Divinington; and probably as a part of this experience, there is
actual contact with the Father's Paradise personality as well as
with the specialized manifestation of the Father's divinity
which is reported to be situated on this secret sphere.
107:3.3 Although we know something of all the
seven secret spheres of Paradise, we know less of Divinington
than of the others. Beings of high spiritual orders receive only
three divine injunctions, and they are:
1. Always to show adequate respect
for the experience and endowments of their seniors and
superiors.
2. Always to be considerate of the
limitations and inexperience of their juniors and subordinates.
3. Never to attempt a landing on the
shores of Divinington.
107:3.4 I have often reflected that it would
be quite useless for me to go to Divinington; I probably should
be unable to see any resident beings except such as the
Personalized Adjusters, and I have seen them elsewhere. I am
very sure there is nothing on Divinington of real value or
profit to me, nothing essential to my growth and development, or
I should not have been forbidden to go there.
107:3.5 Since we can learn little or nothing
of the nature and origin of Adjusters from Divinington, we are
compelled to gather information from a thousand and one
different sources, and it is necessary to assemble, associate,
and correlate this accumulated data in order that such knowledge
may be informative.
107:3.6 The valor and wisdom exhibited by
Thought Adjusters suggest that they have undergone a training of
tremendous scope and range. Since they are not personalities,
this training must be imparted in the educational institutions
of Divinington. The unique Personalized Adjusters no doubt
constitute the personnel of the Adjuster training schools of
Divinington. And we do know that this central and supervising
corps is presided over by the now Personalized Adjuster of the
first Paradise Son of the Michael order to complete his
sevenfold bestowal upon the races and peoples of his universe
realms.
107:3.7 We really know very little about the
nonpersonalized Adjusters; we only contact and communicate with
the personalized orders. These are christened on Divinington and
are always known by name and not by number. The Personalized
Adjusters are permanently domiciled on Divinington; that sacred
sphere is their home. They go out from that abode only by the
will of the Universal Father. Very few are found in the domains
of the local universes, but larger numbers are present in the
central universe.
4. NATURE AND PRESENCE OF ADJUSTERS
107:4.1 To say that a Thought Adjuster is
divine is merely to recognize the nature of origin. It is highly
probable that such purity of divinity embraces the essence of
the potential of all attributes of Deity which can be contained
within such a fragment of the absolute essence of the universal
presence of the eternal and infinite Paradise Father.
107:4.2 The actual source of the Adjuster must
be infinite, and before fusion with the immortal soul of an
evolving mortal, the reality of the Adjuster must border on
absoluteness. Adjusters are not absolutes in the universal
sense, in the Deity sense, but they are probably true absolutes
within the potentialities of their fragmented nature. They are
qualified as to universality but not as to nature; in
extensiveness they are limited, but in intensiveness of meaning,
value, and fact they are absolute. For this reason we
sometimes denominate the divine gifts as the qualified absolute
fragments of the Father.
107:4.3 No Adjuster has ever been disloyal to
the Paradise Father; the lower orders of personal creatures may
sometimes have to contend with disloyal fellows, but never the
Adjusters; they are supreme and infallible in their supernal
sphere of creature ministry and universe function.
107:4.4 Nonpersonalized Adjusters are visible
only to Personalized Adjusters. My order, the Solitary
Messengers, together with Inspired Trinity Spirits, can detect
the presence of Adjusters by means of spiritual reactive
phenomena; and even seraphim can sometimes discern the spirit
luminosity of supposed association with the presence of Monitors
in the material minds of men; but none of us are able actually
to discern the real presence of Adjusters, not unless they have
been personalized, albeit their natures are perceivable in union
with the fused personalities of the ascending mortals from the
evolutionary worlds. The universal invisibility of the Adjusters
is strongly suggestive of their high and exclusive divine origin
and nature.
107:4.5 There is a characteristic light, a
spirit luminosity, which accompanies this divine presence, and
which has become generally associated with Thought Adjusters. In
the universe of Nebadon this Paradise luminosity is widespreadly
known as the "pilot light"; on Uversa it is called the "light of
life." On Urantia this phenomenon has sometimes been referred to
as that "true light which lights every man who comes into the
world."
107:4.6 To all beings who have attained the
Universal Father, the Personalized Thought Adjusters are
visible. Adjusters of all stages, together with all other
beings, entities, spirits, personalities, and spirit
manifestations, are always discernible by those Supreme Creator
Personalities who originate in the Paradise Deities, and who
preside over the major governments of the grand universe.
107:4.7 Can you really realize the true
significance of the Adjuster's indwelling? Do you really fathom
what it means to have an absolute fragment of the absolute and
infinite Deity, the Universal Father, indwelling and fusing with
your finite mortal natures? When mortal man fuses with an actual
fragment of the existential Cause of the total cosmos, no limit
can ever be placed upon the destiny of such an unprecedented and
unimaginable partnership. In eternity, man will be discovering
not only the infinity of the objective Deity but also the
unending potentiality of the subjective fragment of this same
God. Always will the Adjuster be revealing to the mortal
personality the wonder of God, and never can this supernal
revelation come to an end, for the Adjuster is of God and as God
to mortal man.
5. ADJUSTER MINDEDNESS
107:5.1 Evolutionary mortals are prone to look
upon mind as a cosmic mediation between spirit and matter, for
that is indeed the principal ministry of mind as discernible by
you. Hence it is quite difficult for humans to perceive that
Thought Adjusters have minds, for Adjusters are fragmentations
of God on an absolute level of reality which is not only
prepersonal but also prior to all energy and spirit divergence.
On a monistic level antecedent to energy and spirit
differentiation there could be no mediating function of mind,
for there are no divergencies to be mediated.
107:5.2 Since Adjusters can plan, work, and
love, they must have powers of selfhood which are commensurate
with mind. They are possessed of unlimited ability to
communicate with each other, that is, all forms of Monitors
above the first or virgin groups. As to the nature and purport
of their intercommunications, we can reveal very little, for we
do not know. And we further know that they must be minded in
some manner else they could never be personalized.
107:5.3 The mindedness of the Thought Adjuster
is like the mindedness of the Universal Father and the
Eternal Son -- that which is ancestral to the minds of
the Conjoint Actor.
107:5.4 The type of mind postulated in an
Adjuster must be similar to the mind endowment of numerous other
orders of prepersonal entities which presumably likewise
originate in the First Source and Center. Though many of these
orders have not been revealed on Urantia, they all disclose
minded qualities. It is also possible for these individuations
of original Deity to become unified with numerous evolving types
of nonmortal beings and even with a limited number of
nonevolutionary beings who have developed capacity for fusion
with such Deity fragments.
107:5.5 When a Thought Adjuster is fused with
the evolving immortal morontia soul of the surviving human, the
mind of the Adjuster can only be identified as persisting apart
from the creature's mind until the ascending mortal attains
spirit levels of universe progression.
107:5.6 Upon the attainment of the finaliter
levels of ascendant experience, these spirits of the sixth stage
appear to transmute some mind factor representing a union of
certain phases of the mortal and Adjuster minds which had
previously functioned as liaison between the divine and human
phases of such ascending personalities. This experiential mind
quality probably "supremacizes" and subsequently augments the
experiential endowment of evolutionary Deity -- the Supreme
Being.
6. ADJUSTERS AS PURE SPIRITS
107:6.1 As Thought Adjusters are encountered
in creature experience, they disclose the presence and leading
of a spirit influence. The Adjuster is indeed a spirit, pure
spirit, but spirit plus. We have never been able satisfactorily
to classify Mystery Monitors; all that can certainly be said of
them is that they are truly Godlike.
107:6.2
The Adjuster is man's eternity
possibility; man is the Adjuster's personality possibility. Your
individual Adjusters work to spiritize you in the hope of
eternalizing your temporal identity. The Adjusters are saturated
with the beautiful and self-bestowing love of the Father of
spirits. They truly and divinely love you; they are the
prisoners of spirit hope confined within the minds of men. They
long for the divinity attainment of your mortal minds that their
loneliness may end, that they may be delivered with you from the
limitations of material investiture and the habiliments of time.
107:6.3 Your path to Paradise is the path of
spirit attainment, and the Adjuster nature will faithfully
unfold the revelation of the spiritual nature of the Universal
Father. Beyond the Paradise ascent and in the postfinaliter
stages of the eternity career, the Adjuster may possibly contact
with the onetime human partner in other than spirit ministry;
but the Paradise ascent and the finaliter career are the
partnership between the God-knowing spiritualizing mortal and
the spiritual ministry of the God-revealing Adjuster.
107:6.4 We know that Thought Adjusters are
spirits, pure spirits, presumably absolute spirits. But the
Adjuster must also be something more than exclusive spirit
reality. In addition to conjectured mindedness, factors of pure
energy are also present. If you will remember that God is the
source of pure energy and of pure spirit, it will not be so
difficult to perceive that his fragments would be both. It is a
fact that the Adjusters traverse space over the instantaneous
and universal gravity circuits of the Paradise Isle.
107:6.5 That the Mystery Monitors are thus
associated with the material circuits of the universe of
universes is indeed puzzling. But it remains a fact that they
flash throughout the entire grand universe over the
material-gravity circuits. It is entirely possible that they may
even penetrate the outer space levels; they certainly could
follow the gravity presence of Paradise into these regions, and
though my order of personality can traverse the mind circuits of
the Conjoint Actor also beyond the confines of the grand
universe, we have never been sure of detecting the presence of
Adjusters in the uncharted regions of outer space.
107:6.6 And yet, while the Adjusters utilize
the material-gravity circuits, they are not subject thereto as
is material creation. The Adjusters are fragments of the
ancestor of gravity, not the consequentials of gravity; they
have segmentized on a universe level of existence which is
hypothetically antecedent to gravity appearance.
107:6.7 Thought Adjusters have no relaxation
from the time of their bestowal until the day of their release
to start for Divinington upon the natural death of their mortal
subjects. And those whose subjects do not pass through the
portals of natural death do not even experience this temporary
respite. Thought Adjusters do not require energy intake; they
are energy, energy of the highest and most divine order.
7. ADJUSTERS AND PERSONALITY
107:7.1 Thought Adjusters are not
personalities, but they are real entities; they are truly and
perfectly individualized, although they are never, while
indwelling mortals, actually personalized. Thought Adjusters are
not true personalities; they are true realities,
realities of the purest order known in the universe of universes
-- they are the divine presence. Though not personal, these
marvelous fragments of the Father are commonly referred to as
beings and sometimes, in view of the spiritual phases of their
present ministry to mortals, as spirit entities.
107:7.2 If Thought Adjusters are not
personalities having prerogatives of will and powers of choice,
how then can they select mortal subjects and volunteer to
indwell these creatures of the evolutionary worlds? This is a
question easy to ask, but probably no being in the universe of
universes has ever found the exact answer. Even my order of
personality, the Solitary Messengers, does not fully understand
the endowment of will, choice, and love in entities that are not
personal.
107:7.3 We have often speculated that Thought
Adjusters must have volition on all prepersonal levels of
choice. They volunteer to indwell human beings, they lay plans
for man's eternal career, they adapt, modify, and substitute in
accordance with circumstances, and these activities connote
genuine volition. They have affection for mortals, they function
in universe crises, they are always waiting to act decisively in
accordance with human choice, and all these are highly
volitional reactions. In all situations not concerned with the
domain of the human will, they unquestionably exhibit conduct
which betokens the exercise of powers in every sense the
equivalent of will, maximated decision.
107:7.4 Why then, if Thought Adjusters possess
volition, are they subservient to the mortal will? We believe it
is because Adjuster volition, though absolute in nature, is
prepersonal in manifestation. Human will functions on the
personality level of universe reality, and throughout the cosmos
the impersonal -- the nonpersonal, the subpersonal, and the
prepersonal -- is ever responsive to the will and acts of
existent personality.
107:7.5 Throughout a universe of created
beings and nonpersonal energies we do not observe will,
volition, choice, and love manifested apart from personality.
Except in the Adjusters and other similar entities we do not
witness these attributes of personality functioning in
association with impersonal realities. It would not be correct
to designate an Adjuster as subpersonal, neither would it be
proper to allude to such an entity as superpersonal, but it
would be entirely permissible to term such a being prepersonal.
107:7.6 To our orders of being these fragments
of Deity are known as the divine gifts. We recognize that the
Adjusters are divine in origin, and that they constitute the
probable proof and demonstration of a reservation by the
Universal Father of the possibility of direct and unlimited
communication with any and all material creatures throughout his
virtually infinite realms, and all of this quite apart from his
presence in the personalities of his Paradise Sons or through
his indirect ministrations in the personalities of the Infinite
Spirit.
107:7.7 There are no created beings that would
not delight to be hosts to the Mystery Monitors, but no orders
of beings are thus indwelt excepting evolutionary will creatures
of finaliter destiny.
107:7.8
Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
