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