The Urantia Book
PAPER 111
THE ADJUSTER AND THE SOUL
Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
111:0.1 THE presence of the divine Adjuster in
the human mind makes it forever impossible for either science or
philosophy to attain a satisfactory comprehension of the
evolving soul of the human personality. The morontia soul is the
child of the universe and may be really known only through
cosmic insight and spiritual discovery.
111:0.2 The concept of a soul and of an
indwelling spirit is not new to Urantia; it has frequently
appeared in the various systems of planetary beliefs. Many of
the Oriental as well as some of the Occidental faiths have
perceived that man is divine in heritage as well as human in
inheritance. The feeling of the inner presence in addition to
the external omnipresence of Deity has long formed a part of
many Urantian religions. Men have long believed that there is
something growing within the human nature, something vital that
is destined to endure beyond the short span of temporal life.
111:0.3 Before man realized that his evolving
soul was fathered by a divine spirit, it was thought to reside
in different physical organs -- the eye, liver, kidney, heart,
and later, the brain. The savage associated the soul with blood,
breath, shadows and with reflections of the self in water.
111:0.4 In the conception of the atman
the Hindu teachers really approximated an appreciation of the
nature and presence of the Adjuster, but they failed to
distinguish the copresence of the evolving and potentially
immortal soul. The Chinese, however, recognized two aspects of a
human being, the yang and the yin, the soul and
the spirit. The Egyptians and many African tribes also believed
in two factors, the ka and the ba; the soul was
not usually believed to be pre-existent, only the spirit.
111:0.5 The inhabitants of the Nile valley
believed that each favored individual had bestowed upon him at
birth, or soon thereafter, a protecting spirit which they called
the ka. They taught that this guardian spirit remained with the
mortal subject throughout life and passed before him into the
future estate. On the walls of a temple at Luxor, where is
depicted the birth of Amenhotep III, the little prince is
pictured on the arm of the Nile god, and near him is another
child, in appearance identical with the prince, which is a
symbol of that entity which the Egyptians called the ka. This
sculpture was completed in the fifteenth century before Christ.
111:0.6 The ka was thought to be a superior
spirit genius which desired to guide the associated mortal soul
into the better paths of temporal living but more especially to
influence the fortunes of the human subject in the hereafter.
When an Egyptian of this period died, it was expected that his
ka would be waiting for him on the other side of the Great
River. At first, only kings were supposed to have kas, but
presently all righteous men were believed to possess them. One
Egyptian ruler, speaking of the ka within his heart, said: "I
did not disregard its speech; I feared to transgress its
guidance. I prospered thereby greatly; I was thus successful by
reason of that which it caused me to do; I was distinguished by
its guidance." Many believed that the ka was "an oracle from God
in everybody." Many believed that they were to "spend eternity
in gladness of heart in the favor of the God that is in you."
111:0.7 Every race of evolving Urantia mortals
has a word equivalent to the concept of soul. Many primitive
peoples believed the soul looked out upon the world through
human eyes; therefore did they so cravenly fear the malevolence
of the evil eye. They have long believed that "the spirit of man
is the lamp of the Lord." The Rig-Veda says: "My mind speaks to
my heart."
1. THE MIND ARENA OF CHOICE
111:1.1 Though the work of Adjusters is
spiritual in nature, they must, perforce, do all their work upon
an intellectual foundation. Mind is the human soil from which
the spirit Monitor must evolve the morontia soul with the
co-operation of the indwelt personality.
111:1.2 There is a cosmic unity in the several
mind levels of the universe of universes. Intellectual selves
have their origin in the cosmic mind much as nebulae take origin
in the cosmic energies of universe space. On the human (hence
personal) level of intellectual selves the potential of spirit
evolution becomes dominant, with the assent of the mortal mind,
because of the spiritual endowments of the human personality
together with the creative presence of an entity-point of
absolute value in such human selves. But such a spirit dominance
of the material mind is conditioned upon two experiences: This
mind must have evolved up through the ministry of the seven
adjutant mind-spirits, and the material (personal) self must
choose to co-operate with the indwelling Adjuster in creating
and fostering the morontia self, the evolutionary and
potentially immortal soul.
111:1.3 Material mind is the arena in which
human personalities live, are self-conscious, make decisions,
choose God or forsake him, eternalize or destroy themselves.
111:1.4 Material evolution has provided you a
life machine, your body; the Father himself has endowed you with
the purest spirit reality known in the universe, your Thought
Adjuster. But into your hands, subject to your own decisions,
has been given mind, and it is by mind that you live or die. It
is within this mind and with this mind that you make those moral
decisions which enable you to achieve Adjusterlikeness, and that
is Godlikeness.
111:1.5 Mortal mind is a temporary intellect
system loaned to human beings for use during a material
lifetime, and as they use this mind, they are either accepting
or rejecting the potential of eternal existence. Mind is about
all you have of universe reality that is subject to your will,
and the soul -- the morontia self -- will faithfully portray the
harvest of the temporal decisions which the mortal self is
making. Human consciousness rests gently upon the
electrochemical mechanism below and delicately touches the
spirit-morontia energy system above. Of neither of these two
systems is the human being ever completely conscious in his
mortal life; therefore must he work in mind, of which he is
conscious. And it is not so much what mind comprehends as what
mind desires to comprehend that insures survival; it is not so
much what mind is like as what mind is striving to be like that
constitutes spirit identification. It is not so much that man is
conscious of God as that man yearns for God that results in
universe ascension. What you are today is not so important as
what you are becoming day by day and in eternity.
111:1.6 Mind is the cosmic instrument on which
the human will can play the discords of destruction, or upon
which this same human will can bring forth the exquisite
melodies of God identification and consequent eternal survival.
The Adjuster bestowed upon man is, in the last analysis,
impervious to evil and incapable of sin, but mortal mind can
actually be twisted, distorted, and rendered evil and ugly by
the sinful machinations of a perverse and self-seeking human
will. Likewise can this mind be made noble, beautiful, true, and
good -- actually great -- in accordance with the
spirit-illuminated will of a God-knowing human being.
111:1.7 Evolutionary mind is only fully stable
and dependable when manifesting itself upon the two extremes of
cosmic intellectuality -- the wholly mechanized and the entirely
spiritualized. Between the intellectual extremes of pure
mechanical control and true spirit nature there intervenes that
enormous group of evolving and ascending minds whose stability
and tranquillity are dependent upon personality choice and
spirit identification.
111:1.8 But man does not passively, slavishly,
surrender his will to the Adjuster. Rather does he actively,
positively, and co-operatively choose to follow the Adjuster's
leading when and as such leading consciously differs from the
desires and impulses of the natural mortal mind. The Adjusters
manipulate but never dominate man's mind against his will; to
the Adjusters the human will is supreme. And they so regard and
respect it while they strive to achieve the spiritual goals of
thought adjustment and character transformation in the almost
limitless arena of the evolving human intellect.
111:1.9 Mind is your ship, the Adjuster is
your pilot, the human will is captain. The master of the mortal
vessel should have the wisdom to trust the divine pilot to guide
the ascending soul into the morontia harbors of eternal
survival. Only by selfishness, slothfulness, and sinfulness can
the will of man reject the guidance of such a loving pilot and
eventually wreck the mortal career upon the evil shoals of
rejected mercy and upon the rocks of embraced sin. With your
consent, this faithful pilot will safely carry you across the
barriers of time and the handicaps of space to the very source
of the divine mind and on beyond, even to the Paradise Father of
Adjusters.
2. NATURE OF THE SOUL
111:2.1 Throughout the mind functions of
cosmic intelligence, the totality of mind is dominant over the
parts of intellectual function. Mind, in its essence, is
functional unity; therefore does mind never fail to manifest
this constitutive unity, even when hampered and hindered by the
unwise actions and choices of a misguided self. And this unity
of mind invariably seeks for spirit co-ordination on all levels
of its association with selves of will dignity and ascension
prerogatives.
111:2.2 The material mind of mortal man is the
cosmic loom that carries the morontia fabrics on which the
indwelling Thought Adjuster threads the spirit patterns of a
universe character of enduring values and divine meanings -- a
surviving soul of ultimate destiny and unending career, a
potential finaliter.
111:2.3 The human personality is identified
with mind and spirit held together in functional relationship by
life in a material body. This functioning relationship of such
mind and spirit does not result in some combination of the
qualities or attributes of mind and spirit but rather in an
entirely new, original, and unique universe value of potentially
eternal endurance, the soul.
111:2.4 There are three and not two factors in
the evolutionary creation of such an immortal soul. These three
antecedents of the morontia human soul are:
111:2.5 1. The human mind and all
cosmic influences antecedent thereto and impinging thereon.
111:2.6 2. The divine spirit indwelling
this human mind and all potentials inherent in such a fragment
of absolute spirituality together with all associated spiritual
influences and factors in human life.
111:2.7 3. The relationship between
material mind and divine spirit, which connotes a value and
carries a meaning not found in either of the contributing
factors to such an association. The reality of this unique
relationship is neither material nor spiritual but morontial. It
is the soul.
111:2.8 The midway creatures have long
denominated this evolving soul of man the mid-mind in
contradistinction to the lower or material mind and the higher
or cosmic mind. This mid-mind is really a morontia phenomenon
since it exists in the realm between the material and the
spiritual. The potential of such a morontia evolution is
inherent in the two universal urges of mind: the impulse of the
finite mind of the creature to know God and attain the divinity
of the Creator, and the impulse of the infinite mind of the
Creator to know man and attain the experience of the
creature.
111:2.9 This supernal transaction of evolving
the immortal soul is made possible because the mortal mind is
first personal and second is in contact with superanimal
realities; it possesses a supermaterial endowment of cosmic
ministry which insures the evolution of a moral nature capable
of making moral decisions, thereby effecting a bona fide
creative contact with the associated spiritual ministries and
with the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
111:2.10 The inevitable result of such a
contactual spiritualization of the human mind is the gradual
birth of a soul, the joint offspring of an adjutant mind
dominated by a human will that craves to know God, working in
liaison with the spiritual forces of the universe which are
under the overcontrol of an actual fragment of the very God of
all creation -- the Mystery Monitor. And thus does the material
and mortal reality of the self transcend the temporal
limitations of the physical-life machine and attain a new
expression and a new identification in the evolving vehicle for
selfhood continuity, the morontia and immortal soul.
3. THE EVOLVING SOUL
111:3.1 The mistakes of mortal mind and the
errors of human conduct may markedly delay the evolution of the
soul, although they cannot inhibit such a morontia phenomenon
when once it has been initiated by the indwelling Adjuster with
the consent of the creature will. But at any time prior to
mortal death this same material and human will is empowered to
rescind such a choice and to reject survival. Even after
survival the ascending mortal still retains this prerogative of
choosing to reject eternal life; at any time before fusion with
the Adjuster the evolving and ascending creature can choose to
forsake the will of the Paradise Father. Fusion with the
Adjuster signalizes the fact that the ascending mortal has
eternally and unreservedly chosen to do the Father's will.
111:3.2 During the life in the flesh the
evolving soul is enabled to reinforce the supermaterial
decisions of the mortal mind. The soul, being supermaterial,
does not of itself function on the material level of human
experience. Neither can this subspiritual soul, without the
collaboration of some spirit of Deity, such as the Adjuster,
function above the morontia level. Neither does the soul make
final decisions until death or translation divorces it from
material association with the mortal mind except when and as
this material mind delegates such authority freely and willingly
to such a morontia soul of associated function. During life the
mortal will, the personality power of decision-choice, is
resident in the material mind circuits; as terrestrial mortal
growth proceeds, this self, with its priceless powers of choice,
becomes increasingly identified with the emerging morontia-soul
entity; after death and following the mansion world
resurrection, the human personality is completely identified
with the morontia self. The soul is thus the embryo of the
future morontia vehicle of personality identity.
111:3.3 This immortal soul is at first wholly
morontia in nature, but it possesses such a capacity for
development that it invariably ascends to the true spirit levels
of fusion value with the spirits of Deity, usually with the same
spirit of the Universal Father that initiated such a creative
phenomenon in the creature mind.
111:3.4 Both the human mind and the divine
Adjuster are conscious of the presence and differential nature
of the evolving soul -- the Adjuster fully, the mind partially.
The soul becomes increasingly conscious of both the mind and the
Adjuster as associated identities, proportional to its own
evolutionary growth. The soul partakes of the qualities of both
the human mind and the divine spirit but persistently evolves
toward augmentation of spirit control and divine dominance
through the fostering of a mind function whose meanings seek to
co-ordinate with true spirit value.
111:3.5 The mortal career, the soul's
evolution, is not so much a probation as an education. Faith in
the survival of supreme values is the core of religion; genuine
religious experience consists in the union of supreme values and
cosmic meanings as a realization of universal reality.
111:3.6 Mind knows quantity, reality,
meanings. But quality -- values -- is felt. That which
feels is the mutual creation of mind, which knows, and the
associated spirit, which reality-izes.
111:3.7 In so far as man's evolving morontia
soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness as the
value-realization of God-consciousness, such a resultant being
becomes indestructible. If there is no survival of eternal
values in the evolving soul of man, then mortal existence is
without meaning, and life itself is a tragic illusion. But it is
forever true: What you begin in time you will assuredly finish
in eternity -- if it is worth finishing.
4. THE INNER LIFE
111:4.1 Recognition is the intellectual
process of fitting the sensory impressions received from the
external world into the memory patterns of the individual.
Understanding connotes that these recognized sensory impressions
and their associated memory patterns have become integrated or
organized into a dynamic network of principles.
111:4.2 Meanings are derived from a
combination of recognition and understanding. Meanings are
nonexistent in a wholly sensory or material world. Meanings and
values are only perceived in the inner or supermaterial spheres
of human experience.
111:4.3 The advances of true civilization are
all born in this inner world of mankind. It is only the inner
life that is truly creative. Civilization can hardly progress
when the majority of the youth of any generation devote their
interests and energies to the materialistic pursuits of the
sensory or outer world.
111:4.4 The inner and the outer worlds have a
different set of values. Any civilization is in jeopardy when
three quarters of its youth enter materialistic professions and
devote themselves to the pursuit of the sensory activities of
the outer world. Civilization is in danger when youth neglect to
interest themselves in ethics, sociology, eugenics, philosophy,
the fine arts, religion, and cosmology.
111:4.5 Only in the higher levels of the
superconscious mind as it impinges upon the spirit realm of
human experience can you find those higher concepts in
association with effective master patterns which will contribute
to the building of a better and more enduring civilization.
Personality is inherently creative, but it thus functions only
in the inner life of the individual.
111:4.6 Snow crystals are always hexagonal in
form, but no two are ever alike. Children conform to types, but
no two are exactly alike, even in the case of twins. Personality
follows types but is always unique.
111:4.7 Happiness and joy take origin in the
inner life. You cannot experience real joy all by yourself. A
solitary life is fatal to happiness. Even families and nations
will enjoy life more if they share it with others.
111:4.8 You cannot completely control the
external world -- environment. It is the creativity of the inner
world that is most subject to your direction because there your
personality is so largely liberated from the fetters of the laws
of antecedent causation. There is associated with personality a
limited sovereignty of will.
111:4.9 Since this inner life of man is truly
creative, there rests upon each person the responsibility of
choosing as to whether this creativity shall be spontaneous and
wholly haphazard or controlled, directed, and constructive. How
can a creative imagination produce worthy children when the
stage whereon it functions is already preoccupied by prejudice,
hate, fears, resentments, revenge, and bigotries?
111:4.10 Ideas may take origin in the stimuli
of the outer world, but ideals are born only in the creative
realms of the inner world. Today the nations of the world are
directed by men who have a superabundance of ideas, but they are
poverty-stricken in ideals. That is the explanation of poverty,
divorce, war, and racial hatreds.
111:4.11 This is the problem: If freewill man
is endowed with the powers of creativity in the inner man, then
must we recognize that freewill creativity embraces the
potential of freewill destructivity. And when creativity is
turned to destructivity, you are face to face with the
devastation of evil and sin -- oppression, war, and destruction.
Evil is a partiality of creativity which tends toward
disintegration and eventual destruction. All conflict is evil in
that it inhibits the creative function of the inner life -- it
is a species of civil war in the personality.
111:4.12 Inner creativity contributes to
ennoblement of character through personality integration and
selfhood unification. It is forever true: The past is
unchangeable; only the future can be changed by the ministry of
the present creativity of the inner self.
5. THE CONSECRATION OF CHOICE
111:5.1 The doing of the will of God is
nothing more or less than an exhibition of creature willingness
to share the inner life with God -- with the very God who has
made such a creature life of inner meaning-value possible.
Sharing is Godlike -- divine. God shares all with the Eternal
Son and the Infinite Spirit, while they, in turn, share all
things with the divine Sons and spirit Daughters of the
universes.
111:5.2 The imitation of God is the key to
perfection; the doing of his will is the secret of survival and
of perfection in survival.
111:5.3 Mortals live in God, and so God has
willed to live in mortals. As men trust themselves to him, so
has he -- and first -- trusted a part of himself to be with men;
has consented to live in men and to indwell men subject to the
human will.
111:5.4 Peace in this life, survival in death,
perfection in the next life, service in eternity -- all these
are achieved (in spirit) now when the creature
personality consents -- chooses -- to subject the creature will
to the Father's will. And already has the Father chosen to make
a fragment of himself subject to the will of the creature
personality.
111:5.5 Such a creature choice is not a
surrender of will. It is a consecration of will, an expansion of
will, a glorification of will, a perfecting of will; and such
choosing raises the creature will from the level of temporal
significance to that higher estate wherein the personality of
the creature son communes with the personality of the spirit
Father.
111:5.6 This choosing of the Father's will is
the spiritual finding of the spirit Father by mortal man, even
though an age must pass before the creature son may actually
stand in the factual presence of God on Paradise. This choosing
does not so much consist in the negation of creature will --
"Not my will but yours be done" -- as it consists in the
creature's positive affirmation: "It is my will that
your will be done." And if this choice is made, sooner or
later will the God-choosing son find inner union (fusion) with
the indwelling God fragment, while this same perfecting son will
find supreme personality satisfaction in the worship communion
of the personality of man and the personality of his Maker, two
personalities whose creative attributes have eternally joined in
self-willed mutuality of expression -- the birth of another
eternal partnership of the will of man and the will of God.
6. THE HUMAN PARADOX
111:6.1 Many of the temporal troubles of
mortal man grow out of his twofold relation to the cosmos. Man
is a part of nature -- he exists in nature -- and yet he is able
to transcend nature. Man is finite, but he is indwelt by a spark
of infinity. Such a dual situation not only provides the
potential for evil but also engenders many social and moral
situations fraught with much uncertainty and not a little
anxiety.
111:6.2 The courage required to effect the
conquest of nature and to transcend one's self is a courage that
might succumb to the temptations of self-pride. The mortal who
can transcend self might yield to the temptation to deify his
own self-consciousness. The mortal dilemma consists in the
double fact that man is in bondage to nature while at the same
time he possesses a unique liberty -- freedom of spiritual
choice and action. On material levels man finds himself
subservient to nature, while on spiritual levels he is
triumphant over nature and over all things temporal and finite.
Such a paradox is inseparable from temptation, potential evil,
decisional errors, and when self becomes proud and arrogant, sin
may evolve.
111:6.3 The problem of sin is not
self-existent in the finite world. The fact of finiteness is not
evil or sinful. The finite world was made by an infinite Creator
-- it is the handiwork of his divine Sons -- and therefore it
must be good. It is the misuse, distortion, and
perversion of the finite that gives origin to evil and sin.
111:6.4 The spirit can dominate mind; so mind
can control energy. But mind can control energy only through its
own intelligent manipulation of the metamorphic potentials
inherent in the mathematical level of the causes and effects of
the physical domains. Creature mind does not inherently control
energy; that is a Deity prerogative. But creature mind can and
does manipulate energy just in so far as it has become master of
the energy secrets of the physical universe.
111:6.5 When man wishes to modify physical
reality, be it himself or his environment, he succeeds to the
extent that he has discovered the ways and means of controlling
matter and directing energy. Unaided mind is impotent to
influence anything material save its own physical mechanism,
with which it is inescapably linked. But through the intelligent
use of the body mechanism, mind can create other mechanisms,
even energy relationships and living relationships, by the
utilization of which this mind can increasingly control and even
dominate its physical level in the universe.
111:6.6 Science is the source of facts, and
mind cannot operate without facts. They are the building blocks
in the construction of wisdom which are cemented together by
life experience. Man can find the love of God without facts, and
man can discover the laws of God without love, but man can never
begin to appreciate the infinite symmetry, the supernal harmony,
the exquisite repleteness of the all-inclusive nature of the
First Source and Center until he has found divine law and divine
love and has experientially unified these in his own evolving
cosmic philosophy.
111:6.7 The expansion of material knowledge
permits a greater intellectual appreciation of the meanings of
ideas and the values of ideals. A human being can find truth in
his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to
apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly
practical demands of everyday life.
111:6.8 It is only natural that mortal man
should be harassed by feelings of insecurity as he views himself
inextricably bound to nature while he possesses spiritual powers
wholly transcendent to all things temporal and finite. Only
religious confidence -- living faith -- can sustain man amid
such difficult and perplexing problems.
111:6.9 Of all the dangers which beset man's
mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is
the greatest. Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious
and suicidal. Reasonable self-confidence is not to be deplored.
Man's ability to transcend himself is the one thing which
distinguishes him from the animal kingdom.
111:6.10 Pride is deceitful, intoxicating, and
sin-breeding whether found in an individual, a group, a race, or
a nation. It is literally true, "Pride goes before a fall."
7. THE ADJUSTER'S PROBLEM
111:7.1 Uncertainty with security is the
essence of the Paradise adventure -- uncertainty in time and in
mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise
ascent; security in spirit and in eternity, security in the
unqualified trust of the creature son in the divine compassion
and infinite love of the Universal Father; uncertainty as an
inexperienced citizen of the universe; security as an ascending
son in the universe mansions of an all-powerful, all-wise, and
all-loving Father.
111:7.2 May I admonish you to heed the distant
echo of the Adjuster's faithful call to your soul? The
indwelling Adjuster cannot stop or even materially alter your
career struggle of time; the Adjuster cannot lessen the
hardships of life as you journey on through this world of toil.
The divine indweller can only patiently forbear while you fight
the battle of life as it is lived on your planet; but you could,
if you only would -- as you work and worry, as you fight and
toil -- permit the valiant Adjuster to fight with you and for
you. You could be so comforted and inspired, so enthralled and
intrigued, if you would only allow the Adjuster constantly to
bring forth the pictures of the real motive, the final aim, and
the eternal purpose of all this difficult, uphill struggle with
the commonplace problems of your present material world.
111:7.3 Why do you not aid the Adjuster in the
task of showing you the spiritual counterpart of all these
strenuous material efforts? Why do you not allow the Adjuster to
strengthen you with the spiritual truths of cosmic power while
you wrestle with the temporal difficulties of creature
existence? Why do you not encourage the heavenly helper to cheer
you with the clear vision of the eternal outlook of universal
life as you gaze in perplexity at the problems of the passing
hour? Why do you refuse to be enlightened and inspired by the
universe viewpoint while you toil amidst the handicaps of time
and flounder in the maze of uncertainties which beset your
mortal life journey? Why not allow the Adjuster to spiritualize
your thinking, even though your feet must tread the material
paths of earthly endeavor?
111:7.4 The higher human races of Urantia are
complexly admixed; they are a blend of many races and stocks of
different origin. This composite nature renders it exceedingly
difficult for the Monitors to work efficiently during life and
adds definitely to the problems of both the Adjuster and the
guardian seraphim after death. Not long since I was present on
Salvington and heard a guardian of destiny present a formal
statement in extenuation of the difficulties of ministering to
her mortal subject. This seraphim said:
111:7.5 "Much of my difficulty was due to the
unending conflict between the two natures of my subject: the
urge of ambition opposed by animal indolence; the ideals of a
superior people crossed by the instincts of an inferior race;
the high purposes of a great mind antagonized by the urge of a
primitive inheritance; the long-distance view of a far-seeing
Monitor counteracted by the nearsightedness of a creature of
time; the progressive plans of an ascending being modified by
the desires and longings of a material nature; the flashes of
universe intelligence cancelled by the chemical-energy mandates
of the evolving race; the urge of angels opposed by the emotions
of an animal; the training of an intellect annulled by the
tendencies of instinct; the experience of the individual opposed
by the accumulated propensities of the race; the aims of the
best overshadowed by the drift of the worst; the flight of
genius neutralized by the gravity of mediocrity; the progress of
the good retarded by the inertia of the bad; the art of the
beautiful besmirched by the presence of evil; the buoyancy of
health neutralized by the debility of disease; the fountain of
faith polluted by the poisons of fear; the spring of joy
embittered by the waters of sorrow; the gladness of anticipation
disillusioned by the bitterness of realization; the joys of
living ever threatened by the sorrows of death. Such a life on
such a planet! And yet, because of the ever-present help and
urge of the Thought Adjuster, this soul did achieve a fair
degree of happiness and success and has even now ascended to the
judgment halls of mansonia."
111:7.6
Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
