The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 109
RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO UNIVERSE CREATURES
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THE Thought Adjusters are the children of the universe
career, and indeed the virgin Adjusters must gain
experience while mortal creatures grow and develop. As
the personality of the human child expands for the
struggles of evolutionary existence, so does the
Adjuster wax great in the rehearsals of the next stage
of ascending life. As the child acquires adaptative
versatility for his adult activities through the social
and play life of early childhood, so does the indwelling
Adjuster achieve skill for the next stage of cosmic life
by virtue of the preliminary mortal planning and
rehearsing of those activities which have to do with the
morontia career. Human existence constitutes a period of
practice which is effectively utilized by the Adjuster
in preparing for the increased responsibilities and the
greater opportunities of a future life. But the
Adjuster's efforts, while living within you, are not so
much concerned with the affairs of temporal life and
planetary existence. Today, the Thought Adjusters are,
as it were, rehearsing the realities of the universe
career in the evolving minds of human beings.
1. DEVELOPMENT OF ADJUSTERS
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There must be a comprehensive and elaborate plan for the
training and development of virgin Adjusters before they
are sent forth from Divinington, but we really do not
know very much about it. There undoubtedly also exists
an extensive system for retraining Adjusters of
indwelling experience before they embark upon new
missions of mortal association, but, again, we do not
actually know.
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I have been told by Personalized Adjusters that every
time a Monitor-indwelt mortal fails of survival, when
the Adjuster returns to Divinington, an extended course
of training is engaged in. This additional training is
made possible by the experience of having indwelt a
human being, and it is always imparted before the
Adjuster is remanded to the evolutionary worlds of time.
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Actual living experience has no cosmic substitute. The
perfection of the divinity of a newly formed Thought
Adjuster does not in any manner endow this Mystery
Monitor with experienced ministrative ability.
Experience is inseparable from a living existence; it is
the one thing which no amount of divine endowment can
absolve you from the necessity of securing by
actual living.
Therefore, in common with all beings living and
functioning within the present sphere of the Supreme,
Thought Adjusters must acquire experience; they must
evolve from the lower, inexperienced, to the higher,
more experienced, groups.
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Adjusters pass through a definite developmental career
in the mortal mind; they achieve a reality of attainment
which is eternally theirs. They progressively acquire
Adjuster skill and ability as a result of any and all
contacts with the material races, regardless of the
survival or nonsurvival of their particular mortal
subjects. They are also equal partners of the human mind
in fostering the evolution of the immortal soul of
survival capacity.
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The first stage of Adjuster evolution is attained in
fusion with the surviving soul of a mortal being. Thus,
while you are in nature evolving inward and upward from
man to God, the Adjusters are in nature evolving outward
and downward from God to man; and so will the final
product of this union of divinity and humanity eternally
be the son of man and the son of God.
2. SELF-ACTING ADJUSTERS
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You have been informed of the classification of
Adjusters in relation to experience -- virgin, advanced,
and supreme. You should also recognize a certain
functional classification -- the self-acting Adjusters.
A self-acting Adjuster is one who:
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1. Has had certain requisite experience in the evolving
life of a will creature, either as a temporary indweller
on a type of world where Adjusters are only loaned to
mortal subjects or on an actual fusion planet where the
human failed of survival. Such a Monitor is either an
advanced or a supreme Adjuster.
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2. Has acquired the balance of spiritual power in a
human who has made the third psychic circle and has had
assigned to him a personal seraphic guardian.
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3. Has a subject who has made the supreme decision, has
entered into a solemn and sincere betrothal with the
Adjuster. The Adjuster looks beforehand to the time of
actual fusion and reckons the union as an event of fact.
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4. Has a subject who has been mustered into one of the
reserve corps of destiny on an evolutionary world of
mortal ascension.
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5. At some time, during human sleep, has been
temporarily detached from the mind of mortal
incarceration to perform some exploit of liaison,
contact, reregistration, or other extrahuman service
associated with the spiritual administration of the
world of assignment.
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6. Has served in a time of crisis in the experience of
some human being who was the material complement of a
spirit personality intrusted with the enactment of some
cosmic achievement essential to the spiritual economy of
the planet.
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Self-acting Adjusters seem to possess a marked degree of
will in all matters not involving the human
personalities of their immediate indwelling, as is
indicated by their numerous exploits both within and
without the mortal subjects of attachment. Such
Adjusters participate in numerous activities of the
realm, but more frequently they function as undetected
indwellers of the earthly tabernacles of their own
choosing.
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Undoubtedly these higher and more experienced types of
Adjusters can communicate with those in other realms.
But while self-acting Adjusters do thus
intercommunicate, they do so only on the levels of their
mutual work and for the purpose of preserving custodial
data essential to the Adjuster ministry of the realms of
their sojourn, though on occasions they have been known
to function in interplanetary matters during times of
crisis.
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Supreme and self-acting Adjusters can leave the human
body at will. The indwellers are not an organic or
biologic part of mortal life; they are divine
superimpositions thereon. In the original life plans
they were provided for, but they are not indispensable
to material existence. Nevertheless it should be
recorded that they very rarely, even temporarily, leave
their mortal tabernacles after they once take up their
indwelling.
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The superacting Adjusters are those who have achieved
the conquest of their intrusted tasks and only await the
dissolution of the material-life vehicle or the
translation of the immortal soul.
3. RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO MORTAL TYPES
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The character of the detailed work of Mystery Monitors
varies in accordance with the nature of their
assignments, as to whether or not they are
liaison or
fusion
Adjusters. Some Adjusters are merely loaned for the
temporal lifetimes of their subjects; others are
bestowed as personality candidates with permission for
everlasting fusion if their subjects survive. There is
also a slight variation in their work among the
different planetary types as well as in different
systems and universes. But, on the whole, their labors
are remarkably uniform, more so than are the duties of
any of the created orders of celestial beings.
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On certain primitive worlds (the series one group) the
Adjuster indwells the mind of the creature as an
experiential training, chiefly for self-culture and
progressive development. Virgin Adjusters are usually
sent to such worlds during the earlier times when
primitive men are arriving in the valley of decision,
but when comparatively few will elect to ascend the
moral heights beyond the hills of self-mastery and
character acquirement to attain the higher levels of
emerging spirituality. (Many, however, who fail of
Adjuster fusion do survive as Spirit-fused ascenders.)
The Adjusters receive valuable training and acquire
wonderful experience in transient association with
primitive minds, and they are able subsequently to
utilize this experience for the benefit of superior
beings on other worlds.
Nothing of
survival value is ever lost in all the wide universe.
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On another type of world (the series two group) the
Adjusters are merely loaned to mortal beings. Here the
Monitors can never attain fusion personality through
such indwelling, but they do afford great help to their
human subjects during the mortal lifetime, far more than
they are able to give to Urantia mortals. The Adjusters
are here loaned to the mortal creatures for a single
life span as patterns for their higher spiritual
attainment, temporary helpers in the intriguing task of
perfecting a survival character. The Adjusters do not
return after natural death; these surviving mortals
attain eternal life through Spirit fusion.
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On worlds such as Urantia (the series three group) there
is a real betrothal with the divine gifts, a life and
death engagement. If you survive, there is to be an
eternal union, an everlasting fusion, the making of man
and Adjuster one being.
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In the three-brained mortals of this series of worlds,
the Adjusters are able to gain far more actual contact
with their subjects during the temporal life than in the
one- and two-brained types. But in the career after
death, the three-brained type proceed just as do the
one-brained type and the two-brained peoples -- the
Urantia races.
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On the two-brain worlds, subsequent to the sojourn of a
Paradise bestowal Son, virgin Adjusters are seldom
assigned to persons who have unquestioned capacity for
survival. It is our belief that on such worlds
practically all Adjusters indwelling intelligent men and
women of survival capacity belong to the advanced or to
the supreme type.
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In many of the early evolutionary races of Urantia,
three groups of beings existed. There were those who
were so animalistic that they were utterly lacking in
Adjuster capacity. There were those who exhibited
undoubted capacity for Adjusters and promptly received
them when the age of moral responsibility was attained.
There was a third class who occupied a borderline
position; they had capacity for Adjuster reception, but
the Monitors could only indwell the mind on the personal
petition of the individual.
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But with those beings who are virtually disqualified for
survival by disinheritance through the agency of unfit
and inferior ancestors, many a virgin Adjuster has
served a valuable preliminary experience in contacting
evolutionary mind and thus has become better qualified
for a subsequent assignment to a higher type of mind on
some other world.
4. ADJUSTERS AND HUMAN PERSONALITY
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The higher forms of intelligent intercommunication
between human beings are greatly helped by the
indwelling Adjusters. Animals do have fellow feelings,
but they do not communicate concepts to each other; they
can express emotions but not ideas and ideals. Neither
do men of animal origin experience a high type of
intellectual intercourse or spiritual communion with
their fellows until the Thought Adjusters have been
bestowed, albeit, when such evolutionary creatures
develop speech, they are on the highroad to receiving
Adjusters.
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Animals do, in a crude way, communicate with each other,
but there is little or no
personality
in such primitive contact. Adjusters are not
personality; they are prepersonal beings. But they do
hail from the source of personality, and their presence
does augment the qualitative manifestations of human
personality; especially is this true if the Adjuster has
had previous experience.
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The type of Adjuster has much to do with the potential
for expression of the human personality. On down through
the ages, many of the great intellectual and spiritual
leaders of Urantia have exerted their influence chiefly
because of the superiority and previous experience of
their indwelling Adjusters.
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The indwelling Adjusters have in no small measure
co-operated with other spiritual influences in
transforming and humanizing the descendants of the
primitive men of olden ages. If the Adjusters indwelling
the minds of the inhabitants of Urantia were to be
withdrawn, the world would slowly return to many of the
scenes and practices of the men of primitive times; the
divine Monitors are one of the real potentials of
advancing civilization.
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I have observed a Thought Adjuster indwelling a mind on
Urantia who has, according to the records on Uversa,
indwelt fifteen minds previously in Orvonton. We do not
know whether this Monitor has had similar experiences in
other superuniverses, but I suspect so. This is a
marvelous Adjuster and one of the most useful and potent
forces on Urantia during this present age. What others
have lost, in that they refused to survive, this human
being (and your whole world) now gains. From him who has
not survival qualities, shall be taken away even that
experienced Adjuster which he now has, while to him who
has survival prospects, shall be given even the
pre-experienced Adjuster of a slothful deserter.
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In a sense the Adjusters may be fostering a certain
degree of planetary cross-fertilization in the domains
of truth, beauty, and goodness. But they are seldom
given two indwelling experiences on the same planet;
there is no Adjuster now serving on Urantia who has been
on this world previously. I know whereof I speak since
we have their numbers and records in the archives of
Uversa.
5. MATERIAL HANDICAPS TO ADJUSTER INDWELLING
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Supreme and self-acting Adjusters are often able to
contribute factors of spiritual import to the human mind
when it flows freely in the liberated but controlled
channels of creative imagination. At such times, and
sometimes during sleep, the Adjuster is able to arrest
the mental currents, to stay the flow, and then to
divert the idea procession; and all this is done in
order to effect deep spiritual transformations in the
higher recesses of the superconsciousness. Thus are the
forces and energies of mind more fully adjusted to the
key of the contactual tones of the spiritual level of
the present and the future.
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It is sometimes possible to have the mind illuminated,
to hear the divine voice that continually speaks within
you, so that you may become partially conscious of the
wisdom, truth, goodness, and beauty of the potential
personality constantly indwelling you.
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But your unsteady and rapidly shifting mental attitudes
often result in thwarting the plans and interrupting the
work of the Adjusters. Their work is not only interfered
with by the innate natures of the mortal races, but this
ministry is also greatly retarded by your own
preconceived opinions, settled ideas, and long-standing
prejudices. Because of these handicaps, many times only
their unfinished creations emerge into consciousness,
and confusion of concept is inevitable. Therefore, in
scrutinizing mental situations, safety lies only in the
prompt recognition of each and every thought and
experience for just what it actually and fundamentally
is, disregarding entirely what it might have been.
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The great problem of life is the adjustment of the
ancestral tendencies of living to the demands of the
spiritual urges initiated by the divine presence of the
Mystery Monitor. While in the universe and superuniverse
careers no man can serve two masters, in the life you
now live on Urantia every man must perforce serve two
masters. He must become adept in the art of a continuous
human temporal compromise while he yields spiritual
allegiance to but one master; and this is why so many
falter and fail, grow weary and succumb to the stress of
the evolutionary struggle.
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While the hereditary legacy of cerebral endowment and
that of electrochemical overcontrol both operate to
delimit the sphere of efficient Adjuster activity, no
hereditary handicap (in normal minds) ever prevents
eventual spiritual achievement. Heredity may interfere
with the rate of personality conquest, but it does not
prevent eventual consummation of the ascendant
adventure. If you will co-operate with your Adjuster,
the divine gift will, sooner or later, evolve the
immortal morontia soul and, subsequent to fusion
therewith, will present the new creature to the
sovereign Master Son of the local universe and
eventually to the Father of Adjusters on Paradise.
6. THE PERSISTENCE OF TRUE VALUES
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Adjusters never fail; nothing worth surviving is ever
lost; every meaningful value in every will creature is
certain of survival, irrespective of the survival or
nonsurvival of the meaning-discovering or evaluating
personality. And so it is, a mortal creature may reject
survival; still the life experience is not wasted; the
eternal Adjuster carries the worth-while features of
such an apparent life of failure over into some other
world and there bestows these surviving meanings and
values upon some higher type of mortal mind, one of
survival capacity. No worth-while experience ever
happens in vain; no true meaning or real value ever
perishes.
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As related to fusion candidates, if a Mystery Monitor is
deserted by the mortal associate, if the human partner
declines to pursue the ascending career, when released
by natural death (or prior thereto), the Adjuster
carries away everything of survival value which has
evolved in the mind of that nonsurviving creature. If an
Adjuster should repeatedly fail to attain fusion
personality because of the nonsurvival of successive
human subjects, and if this Monitor should subsequently
be personalized, all the acquired experience of having
indwelt and mastered all these mortal minds would become
the actual possession of such a newly Personalized
Adjuster, an endowment to be enjoyed and utilized
throughout all future ages. A Personalized Adjuster of
this order is a composite assembly of all the survival
traits of all his former creature hosts.
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When Adjusters of long universe experience volunteer to
indwell divine Sons on bestowal missions, they full well
know that personality attainment can never be achieved
through this service. But often does the Father of
spirits grant personality to these volunteers and
establish them as directors of their kind. These are the
personalities honored with authority on Divinington. And
their unique natures embody the mosaic humanity of their
multiple experiences of mortal indwelling and also the
spirit transcript of the human divinity of the Paradise
bestowal Son of the terminal indwelling experience.
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The activities of Adjusters in your local universe are
directed by the Personalized Adjuster of Michael of
Nebadon, that very Monitor who guided him step by step
when he lived his human life in the flesh of Joshua ben
Joseph. Faithful to his trust was this extraordinary
Adjuster, and wisely did this valiant Monitor direct the
human nature, ever guiding the mortal mind of the
Paradise Son in the choosing of the path of the Father's
perfect will. This Adjuster had previously served with
Machiventa Melchizedek in the days of Abraham and had
engaged in tremendous exploits both previous to this
indwelling and between these bestowal experiences.
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This Adjuster did indeed triumph in Jesus' human mind --
that mind which in each of life's recurring situations
maintained a consecrated dedication to the Father's
will, saying, "Not my will, but yours, be done." Such
decisive consecration constitutes the true passport from
the limitations of human nature to the finality of
divine attainment.
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This same Adjuster now reflects in the inscrutable
nature of his mighty personality the prebaptismal
humanity of Joshua ben Joseph, the eternal and living
transcript of the eternal and living values which the
greatest of all Urantians created out of the humble
circumstances of a commonplace life as it was lived to
the complete exhaustion of the spiritual values
attainable in mortal experience.
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Everything of permanent value which is intrusted to an
Adjuster is assured eternal survival. In certain
instances the Monitor holds these possessions for
bestowal on a mortal mind of future indwelling; in
others, and upon personalization, these surviving and
conserved realities are held in trust for future
utilization in the service of the Architects of the
Master Universe.
7. DESTINY OF PERSONALIZED ADJUSTERS
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We cannot state whether or not non-Adjuster Father
fragments are personalizable, but you have been informed
that personality is the sovereign freewill bestowal of
the Universal Father. As far as we know, the Adjuster
type of Father fragment attains personality only by the
acquirement of personal attributes through
service-ministry to a personal being. These Personalized
Adjusters are at home on Divinington, where they
instruct and direct their prepersonal associates.
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Personalized Thought Adjusters are the untrammelled,
unassigned, and sovereign stabilizers and compensators
of the far-flung universe of universes. They combine the
Creator and creature experience -- existential and
experiential. They are conjoint time and eternity
beings. They associate the prepersonal and the personal
in universe administration.
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Personalized Adjusters are the all-wise and powerful
executives of the Architects of the Master Universe.
They are the personal agents of the full ministry of the
Universal Father -- personal, prepersonal, and
superpersonal. They are the personal ministers of the
extraordinary, the unusual, and the unexpected
throughout all the realms of the transcendental absonite
spheres of the domain of God the Ultimate, even to the
levels of God the Absolute.
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They are the exclusive beings of the universes who
embrace within their being all the known relationships
of personality; they are omnipersonal -- they are before
personality, they are personality, and they are after
personality. They minister the personality of the
Universal Father as in the eternal past, the eternal
present, and the eternal future.
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Existential personality on the order of the infinite and
absolute, the Father bestowed upon the Eternal Son, but
he chose to reserve for his own ministry the
experiential personality of the type of the Personalized
Adjuster bestowed upon the existential prepersonal
Adjuster; and they are thus both destined to the future
eternal superpersonality of the transcendental ministry
of the absonite realms of the Ultimate, the
Supreme-Ultimate, even to the levels of the
Ultimate-Absolute.
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Seldom are the Personalized Adjusters seen at large in
the universes. Occasionally they consult with the
Ancients of Days, and sometimes the Personalized
Adjusters of the sevenfold Creator Sons come to the
headquarters worlds of the constellations to confer with
the Vorondadek rulers.
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When the planetary Vorondadek observer of Urantia -- the
Most High custodian who not long since assumed an
emergency regency of your world -- asserted his
authority in the presence of the resident governor
general, he began his emergency administration of
Urantia with a full staff of his own choosing. He
immediately assigned to all his associates and
assistants their planetary duties. But he did not choose
the three Personalized Adjusters who appeared in his
presence the instant he assumed the regency. He did not
even know they would thus appear, for they did not so
manifest their divine presence at the time of a previous
regency. And the Most High regent did not assign service
or designate duties for these volunteer Personalized
Adjusters. Nevertheless, these three omnipersonal beings
were among the most active of the numerous orders of
celestial beings then serving on Urantia.
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Personalized Adjusters perform a wide range of services
for numerous orders of universe personalities, but we
are not permitted to discuss these ministries with
Adjuster-indwelt evolutionary creatures. These
extraordinary human divinities are among the most
remarkable personalities of the entire grand universe,
and no one dares to predict what their future missions
may be.
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Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.
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