The Urantia Book
PAPER 109
RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO UNIVERSE
CREATURES
Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
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.