The Urantia Book
PAPER 110
RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO INDIVIDUAL
MORTALS
Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
110:0.1 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.
110:0.2 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
110:1.1 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.
110:1.2 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.
110:1.3 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.
110:1.4 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.
110:1.5 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.
110:1.6 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
110:2.1 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.
110:2.2 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.
110:2.3 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.
110:2.4 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.
110:2.5 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.
110:2.6 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
110:3.1 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.
110:3.2 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.
110:3.3 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.
110:3.4 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.
110:3.5 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.
110:3.6 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:
110:3.7 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.
110:3.8 2. Loving God and desiring to be like
him -- genuine recognition of the divine fatherhood and loving
worship of the heavenly Parent.
110:3.9 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.
110:3.10 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.
4. THE ADJUSTER'S WORK IN THE MIND
110:4.1 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.
110:4.2 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.
110:4.3 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.)
110:4.4 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.
110:4.5 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.
110:4.6 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
110:5.1 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.
110:5.2 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.
110:5.3 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.
110:5.4 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.
110:5.5 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.
110:5.6 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.
110:5.7 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.
6. THE SEVEN PSYCHIC CIRCLES
110:6.1 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.
110:6.2 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.
110:6.3 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.
110:6.4 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.
110:6.5 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.
110:6.6 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.
110:6.7 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:
110:6.8 1. Adjuster attunement. The
spiritizing mind nears the Adjuster presence proportional to
circle attainment.
110:6.9 2. Soul evolution. The
emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent and depth of
circle mastery.
110:6.10 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.
110:6.11 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.
110:6.12 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:
110:6.13 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.
110:6.14 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.
110:6.15 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.
110:6.16 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.
110:6.17 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.
110:6.18 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.
110:6.19 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.
110:6.20 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.
110:6.21 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.
110:6.22 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
110:7.1 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.
110:7.2 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."
110:7.3 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.
110:7.4 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.
110:7.5 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.
110:7.6 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.
110:7.7 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.
110:7.8 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.
110:7.9 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.
110:7.10 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. 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."
110:7.11
Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
