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