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