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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 110
RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO INDIVIDUAL MORTALS
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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2. Loving God and desiring to be like him -- genuine
recognition of the divine fatherhood and loving worship
of the heavenly Parent.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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1. Adjuster
attunement. The spiritizing mind nears the Adjuster
presence proportional to circle attainment.
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2. Soul evolution.
The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent
and depth of circle mastery.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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