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Urantia Book Paper 108 Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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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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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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Paper 108 Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters
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Introduction
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THE mission of the Thought Adjusters to the human races is to represent, to be,
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the Universal Father to the mortal creatures of time and space; that is the
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fundamental work of the divine gifts. Their mission is also that of elevating
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the mortal minds and of translating the immortal souls of men up to the divine
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heights and spiritual levels of Paradise perfection. And in the experience of
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thus transforming the human nature of the temporal creature into the divine
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nature of the eternal finaliter, the Adjusters bring into existence a unique
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type of being, a being consisting in the eternal union of the perfect Adjuster
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and the perfected creature which it would be impossible to duplicate by any
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other universe technique.
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Nothing in the entire universe can substitute for the fact of experience on
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nonexistential levels. The infinite God is, as always, replete and complete,
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infinitely inclusive of all things except evil and creature experience. God
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cannot do wrong; he is infallible. God cannot experientially know what he has
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never personally experienced; God's preknowledge is existential. Therefore does
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the spirit of the Father descend from Paradise to participate with finite
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mortals in every bona fide experience of the ascending career; it is only by
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such a method that the existential God could become in truth and in fact man's
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experiential Father. The infinity of the eternal God encompasses the potential
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for finite experience, which indeed becomes actual in the ministry of the
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Adjuster fragments that actually share the life vicissitude experiences of
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human beings.
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1. SELECTION AND ASSIGNMENT
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When Adjusters are dispatched for mortal service from Divinington, they are
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identical in the endowment of existential divinity, but they vary in
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experiential qualities proportional to previous contact in and with
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evolutionary creatures. We cannot explain the basis of Adjuster assignment, but
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we conjecture that these divine gifts are bestowed in accordance with some wise
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and efficient policy of eternal fitness of adaptation to the indwelt
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personality. We do observe that the more experienced Adjuster is often the
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indweller of the higher type of human mind; human inheritance must therefore be
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a considerable factor in determining selection and assignment.
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Although we do not definitely know, we firmly believe that all Thought
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Adjusters are volunteers. But before ever they volunteer, they are in
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possession of full data respecting the candidate for indwelling. The seraphic
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drafts of ancestry and projected patterns of life conduct are transmitted via
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Paradise
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to the reserve corps of Adjusters on Divinington by the reflectivity technique
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extending inward from the capitals of the local universes to the headquarters
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of the superuniverses. This forecast covers not only the hereditary antecedents
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of the mortal candidate but also the estimate of probable intellectual
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endowment and spiritual capacity. The Adjusters thus volunteer to indwell minds
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of whose intimate natures they have been fully apprised.
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The volunteering Adjuster is particularly interested in three qualifications of
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the human candidate:
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1. Intellectual capacity. Is the mind normal? What is the intellectual
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potential, the intelligence capacity? Can the individual develop into a bona
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fide will creature? Will wisdom have an opportunity to function?
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2. Spiritual perception. The prospects of reverential development, the birth
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and growth of the religious nature. What is the potential of soul, the probable
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spiritual capacity of receptivity?
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3. Combined intellectual and spiritual powers. The degree to which these two
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endowments may possibly be associated, combined, so as to produce strength of
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human character and contribute to the certain evolution of an immortal soul of
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survival value.
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With these facts before them, it is our belief that the Monitors freely
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volunteer for assignment. Probably more than one Adjuster volunteers; perhaps
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the supervising personalized orders select from this group of volunteering
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Adjusters the one best suited to the task of spiritualizing and eternalizing
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the personality of the mortal candidate. (In the assignment and service of the
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Adjusters the sex of the creature is of no consideration.)
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The short time intervening between the volunteering and the actual dispatch of
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the Adjuster is presumably spent in the Divinington schools of the Personalized
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Monitors where a working pattern of the waiting mortal mind is utilized in
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instructing the assigned Adjuster as to the most effective plans for
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personality approach and mind spiritization. This mind model is formulated
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through a combination of data supplied by the superuniverse reflectivity
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service. At least this is our understanding, a belief which we hold as the
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result of putting together information secured by contact with many
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Personalized Adjusters throughout the long universe careers of the Solitary
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Messengers.
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When once the Adjusters are actually dispatched from Divinington, practically
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no time intervenes between that moment and the hour of their appearance in the
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minds of their chosen subjects. The average transit time of an Adjuster from
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Divinington to Urantia is 117 hours, 42 minutes, and 7 seconds. Virtually all
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of this time is occupied with registration on Uversa.
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2. PREREQUISITES OF ADJUSTER INDWELLING
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Though the Adjusters volunteer for service as soon as the personality forecasts
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have been relayed to Divinington, they are not actually assigned until the
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human subjects make their first moral personality decision. The first moral
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choice of the human child is automatically indicated in the seventh
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mind-adjutant and registers instantly, by way of the local universe Creative
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Spirit, over the universal mind-gravity circuit of the Conjoint Actor in the
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presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, who forthwith
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dispatches this intelligence to Divinington. Adjusters reach their human
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subjects on
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Urantia, on the average, just prior to the sixth birthday. In the present
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generation it is running five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the
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2,134th day of terrestrial life.
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The Adjusters cannot invade the mortal mind until it has been duly prepared by
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the indwelling ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits and encircuited in the
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Holy Spirit. And it requires the co-ordinate function of all seven adjutants to
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thus qualify the human mind for the reception of an Adjuster. Creature mind
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must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate wisdom function by exhibiting
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the ability to choose between the emerging values of good and evil--moral
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choice.
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Thus is the stage of the human mind set for the reception of Adjusters, but as
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a general rule they do not immediately appear to indwell such minds except on
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those worlds where the Spirit of Truth is functioning as a spiritual
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co-ordinator of these different spirit ministries. If this spirit of the
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bestowal Sons is present, the Adjusters unfailingly come the instant the
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seventh adjutant mind-spirit begins to function and signalizes to the Universe
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Mother Spirit that it has achieved in potential the co-ordination of the
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associated six adjutants of prior ministry to such a mortal intellect.
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Therefore have the divine Adjusters been universally bestowed upon all normal
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minds of moral status on Urantia ever since the day of Pentecost.
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Even with a Spirit of Truth endowed mind, the Adjusters cannot arbitrarily
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invade the mortal intellect prior to the appearance of moral decision. But when
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such a moral decision has been made, this spirit helper assumes jurisdiction
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direct from Divinington. There are no intermediaries or other intervening
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authorities or powers functioning between the divine Adjusters and their human
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subjects; God and man are directly related.
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Before the times of the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth upon the inhabitants
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of an evolutionary world, the Adjusters' bestowal appears to be determined by
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many spirit influences and personality attitudes. We do not fully comprehend
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the laws governing such bestowals; we do not understand just what determines
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the release of the Adjusters who have volunteered to indwell such evolving
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minds. But we do observe numerous influences and conditions which appear to be
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associated with the arrival of the Adjusters in such minds prior to the
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bestowal of the Spirit of Truth, and they are:
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1. The assignment of personal seraphic guardians. If a mortal has not been
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previously indwelt by an Adjuster, the assignment of a personal guardian brings
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the Adjuster forthwith. There exists some very definite but unknown relation
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between the ministry of Adjusters and the ministry of personal seraphic
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guardians.
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2. The attainment of the third circle of intellectual achievement and spiritual
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attainment. I have observed Adjusters arrive in mortal minds upon the conquest
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of the third circle even before such an accomplishment could be signalized to
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the local universe personalities concerned with such matters.
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3. Upon the making of a supreme decision of unusual spiritual import. Such
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human behavior in a personal planetary crisis usually is attended by the
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immediate arrival of the waiting Adjuster.
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4. The spirit of brotherhood. Regardless of the attainment of the psychic
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circles and the assignment of personal guardians--in the absence of anything
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resembling a crisis decision--when an evolving mortal becomes dominated by the
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love of his fellows and consecrated to unselfish ministry to his brethren in
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the flesh, the waiting Adjuster unvaryingly descends to indwell the mind of
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such a mortal minister.
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5. Declaration of intention to do the will of God. We observe that many mortals
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on the worlds of space may be apparently in readiness to receive Adjusters, and
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yet the Monitors do not appear. We go on watching such creatures as they live
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from day to day, and presently they quietly, almost unconsciously, arrive at
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the decision to begin the pursuit of the doing of the will of the Father in
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heaven. And then we observe the immediate dispatch of the Thought Adjusters.
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6. Influence of the Supreme Being. On worlds where the Adjusters do not fuse
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with the evolving souls of the mortal inhabitants, we observe Adjusters
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sometimes bestowed in response to influences which are wholly beyond our
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comprehension. We conjecture that such bestowals are determined by some cosmic
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reflex action originating in the Supreme Being. As to why these Adjusters can
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not or do not fuse with these certain types of evolving mortal minds we do not
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know. Such transactions have never been revealed to us.
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3. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
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As far as we know, Adjusters are organized as an independent working unit in
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the universe of universes and are apparently administered directly from
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Divinington. They are uniform throughout the seven superuniverses, all local
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universes being served by identical types of Mystery Monitors. We do know from
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observation that there are numerous series of Adjusters involving a serial
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organization that extends through races, over dispensations, and to worlds,
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systems, and universes. It is, however, exceedingly difficult to keep track of
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these divine gifts since they function interchangeably throughout the grand
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universe.
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Adjusters are of complete record (outside of Divinington) only on the
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headquarters of the seven superuniverses. The number and order of each Adjuster
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indwelling each ascending creature are reported out by the Paradise authorities
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to the headquarters of the superuniverse, and from there are communicated to
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the headquarters of the local universe concerned and relayed to the particular
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planet involved. But the local universe records do not disclose the full number
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of the Thought Adjusters; the Nebadon records contain only the local universe
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assignment number as designated by the representatives of the Ancients of Days.
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The real significance of the Adjuster's complete number is known only on
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Divinington.
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Human subjects are often known by the numbers of their Adjusters; mortals do
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not receive real universe names until after Adjuster fusion, which union is
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signalized by the bestowal of the new name upon the new creature by the destiny
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guardian.
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Though we have the records of Thought Adjusters in Orvonton, and though we have
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absolutely no authority over them or administrative connection with them, we
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firmly believe that there is a very close administrative connection between the
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individual worlds of the local universes and the central lodgment of the divine
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gifts on Divinington. We do know that, following the appearance
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of a Paradise bestowal Son, an evolutionary world has a Personalized Adjuster
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assigned to it as the planetary supervisor of Adjusters.
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It is interesting to note that local universe inspectors always address
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themselves, when carrying out a planetary examination, to the planetary chief
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of Thought Adjusters, just as they deliver charges to the chiefs of seraphim
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and to the leaders of other orders of beings attached to the administration of
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an evolving world. Not long since, Urantia underwent such a periodic inspection
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by Tabamantia, the sovereign supervisor of all life-experiment planets in the
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universe of Nebadon. And the records reveal that, in addition to his
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admonitions and indictments delivered to the various chiefs of superhuman
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personalities, he also delivered the following acknowledgment to the chief of
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Adjusters, whether located on the planet, on Salvington, Uversa, or
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Divinington, we do not definitely know, but he said:
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"Now to you, superiors far above me, I come as one placed in temporary
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authority over the experimental planetary series; and I come to express
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admiration and profound respect for this magnificent group of celestial
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ministers, the Mystery Monitors, who have volunteered to serve on this
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irregular sphere. No matter how trying the crises, you never falter. Not on the
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records of Nebadon nor before the commissions of Orvonton has there ever been
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offered an indictment of a divine Adjuster. You have been true to your trusts;
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you have been divinely faithful. You have helped to adjust the mistakes and to
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compensate for the shortcomings of all who labor on this confused planet. You
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are marvelous beings, guardians of the good in the souls of this backward
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realm. I pay you respect even while you are apparently under my jurisdiction as
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volunteer ministers. I bow before you in humble recognition of your exquisite
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unselfishness, your understanding ministry, and your impartial devotion. You
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deserve the name of the Godlike servers of the mortal inhabitants of this
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strife-torn, grief-stricken, and disease-afflicted world. I honor you! I all
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but worship you!"
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As a result of many suggestive lines of evidence, we believe that the Adjusters
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are thoroughly organized, that there exists a profoundly intelligent and
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efficient directive administration of these divine gifts from some far-distant
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and central source, probably Divinington. We know that they come from
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Divinington to the worlds, and undoubtedly they return thereto upon the deaths
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of their subjects.
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Among the higher spirit orders it is exceedingly difficult to discover the
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mechanisms of administration. My order of personalities, while engaged in the
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prosecution of our specific duties, is undoubtedly unconsciously participating
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with numerous other personal and impersonal sub-Deity groups who unitedly are
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functioning as far-flung universe correlators. We suspect that we are thus
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serving because we are the only group of personalized creatures (aside from
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Personalized Adjusters) who are uniformly conscious of the presence of numerous
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orders of the prepersonal entities.
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We are aware of the presence of the Adjusters, who are fragments of the
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prepersonal Deity of the First Source and Center. We sense the presence of the
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Inspired Trinity Spirits, who are superpersonal expressions of the Paradise
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Trinity. We likewise unfailingly detect the spirit presence of certain
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unrevealed orders springing from the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit. And
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we are not wholly unresponsive to still other entities unrevealed to you.
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The Melchizedeks of Nebadon teach that the Solitary Messengers are the
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personality co-ordinators of these various influences as they register in the
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expanding Deity of the evolutionary Supreme Being. It is very possible that we
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may be participants in the experiential unification of many of the unexplained
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phenomena of time, but we are not consciously certain of thus functioning.
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4. RELATION TO OTHER SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES
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Apart from possible co-ordination with other Deity fragments, the Adjusters are
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quite alone in their sphere of activity in the mortal mind. The Mystery
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Monitors eloquently bespeak the fact that, though the Father may have
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apparently resigned the exercise of all direct personal power and authority
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throughout the grand universe, notwithstanding this act of abnegation in behalf
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of the Supreme Creator children of the Paradise Deities, the Father has
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certainly reserved to himself the unchallengeable right to be present in the
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minds and souls of his evolving creatures to the end that he may so act as to
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draw all creature creation to himself, co-ordinately with the spiritual gravity
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of the Paradise Sons. Said your Paradise bestowal Son when yet on Urantia, "I,
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if I am lifted up, will draw all men." This spiritual drawing power of the
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Paradise Sons and their creative associates we recognize and understand, but we
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do not so fully comprehend the methods of the all-wise Father's functioning in
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and through these Mystery Monitors that live and work so valiantly within the
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human mind.
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While not subordinate to, co-ordinate with, or apparently related to, the work
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of the universe of universes, though acting independently in the minds of the
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children of men, unceasingly do these mysterious presences urge the creatures
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of their indwelling toward divine ideals, always luring them upward toward the
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purposes and aims of a future and better life. These Mystery Monitors are
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continually assisting in the establishment of the spiritual dominion of Michael
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throughout the universe of Nebadon while mysteriously contributing to the
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stabilization of the sovereignty of the Ancients of Days in Orvonton. The
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Adjusters are the will of God, and since the Supreme Creator children of God
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also personally embody that same will, it is inevitable that the actions of
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Adjusters and the sovereignty of the universe rulers should be mutually
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interdependent. Though apparently unconnected, the Father presence of the
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Adjusters and the Father sovereignty of Michael of Nebadon must be diverse
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manifestations of the same divinity.
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Thought Adjusters appear to come and go quite independent of any and all other
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spiritual presences; they seem to function in accordance with universe laws
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quite apart from those which govern and control the performances of all other
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spirit influences. But regardless of such apparent independence, long-range
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observation unquestionably discloses that they function in the human mind in
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perfect synchrony and co-ordination with all other spirit ministries, including
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adjutant mind-spirits, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, and other influences.
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When a world is isolated by rebellion, when a planet is cut off from all
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outside encircuited communication, as was Urantia after the Caligastia
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upheaval, aside from personal messengers there remains but one possibility of
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direct interplanetary or universe communication, and that is through the
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liaison
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of the Adjusters of the spheres. No matter what happens on a world or in a
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universe, the Adjusters are never directly concerned. The isolation of a planet
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in no way affects the Adjusters and their ability to communicate with any part
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of the local universe, superuniverse, or the central universe. And this is the
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reason why contacts with the supreme and the self-acting Adjusters of the
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reserve corps of destiny are so frequently made on quarantined worlds. Recourse
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is had to such a technique as a means of circumventing the handicaps of
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planetary isolation. In recent years the archangels' circuit has functioned on
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Urantia, but that means of communication is largely limited to the transactions
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of the archangel corps itself.
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We are cognizant of many spirit phenomena in the far-flung universe which we
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are at a loss fully to understand. We are not yet masters of all that is
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transpiring about us; and I believe that much of this inscrutable work is
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wrought by the Gravity Messengers and certain types of Mystery Monitors. I do
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not believe that Adjusters are devoted solely to the remaking of mortal minds.
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I am persuaded that the Personalized Monitors and other orders of unrevealed
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prepersonal spirits are representative of the Universal Father's direct and
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unexplained contact with the creatures of the realms.
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5. THE ADJUSTER'S MISSION
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The Adjusters accept a difficult assignment when they volunteer to indwell such
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composite beings as live on Urantia. But they have assumed the task of existing
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in your minds, there to receive the admonitions of the spiritual intelligences
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of the realms and then to undertake to redictate or translate these spiritual
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messages to the material mind; they are indispensable to the Paradise
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ascension.
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What the Thought Adjuster cannot utilize in your present life, those truths
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which he cannot successfully transmit to the man of his betrothal, he will
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faithfully preserve for use in the next stage of existence, just as he now
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carries over from circle to circle those items which he fails to register in
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the experience of the human subject, owing to the creature's inability, or
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failure, to give a sufficient degree of co-operation.
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One thing you can depend upon: The Adjusters will never lose anything committed
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to their care; never have we known these spirit helpers to default. Angels and
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other high types of spirit beings, not excepting the local universe type of
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Sons, may occasionally embrace evil, may sometimes depart from the divine way,
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but Adjusters never falter. They are absolutely dependable, and this is equally
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true of all seven groups.
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Your Adjuster is the potential of your new and next order of existence, the
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advance bestowal of your eternal sonship with God. By and with the consent of
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your will, the Adjuster has the power to subject the creature trends of the
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material mind to the transforming actions of the motivations and purposes of
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the emerging morontial soul.
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The Mystery Monitors are not thought helpers; they are thought adjusters. They
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labor with the material mind for the purpose of constructing, by adjustment and
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spiritualization, a new mind for the new worlds and the new name of your future
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career. Their mission chiefly concerns the future life, not this life. They are
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called heavenly helpers, not earthly helpers. They are not
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interested in making the mortal career easy; rather are they concerned in
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making your life reasonably difficult and rugged, so that decisions will be
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stimulated and multiplied. The presence of a great Thought Adjuster does not
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bestow ease of living and freedom from strenuous thinking, but such a divine
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gift should confer a sublime peace of mind and a superb tranquillity of spirit.
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Your transient and ever-changing emotions of joy and sorrow are in the main
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purely human and material reactions to your internal psychic climate and to
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your external material environment. Do not, therefore, look to the Adjuster for
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selfish consolation and mortal comfort. It is the business of the Adjuster to
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prepare you for the eternal adventure, to assure your survival. It is not the
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mission of the Mystery Monitor to smooth your ruffled feelings or to minister
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to your injured pride; it is the preparation of your soul for the long
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ascending career that engages the attention and occupies the time of the
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Adjuster.
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I doubt that I am able to explain to you just what the Adjusters do in your
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minds and for your souls. I do not know that I am fully cognizant of what is
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really going on in the cosmic association of a divine Monitor and a human mind.
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It is all somewhat of a mystery to us, not as to the plan and purpose but as to
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the actual mode of accomplishment. And this is just why we are confronted with
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such difficulty in finding an appropriate name for these supernal gifts to
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mortal men.
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The Thought Adjusters would like to change your feelings of fear to convictions
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of love and confidence; but they cannot mechanically and arbitrarily do such
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things; that is your task. In executing those decisions which deliver you from
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the fetters of fear, you literally supply the psychic fulcrum on which the
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Adjuster may subsequently apply a spiritual lever of uplifting and advancing
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illumination.
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When it comes to the sharp and well-defined conflicts between the higher and
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lower tendencies of the races, between what really is right or wrong (not
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merely what you may call right and wrong), you can depend upon it that the
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Adjuster will always participate in some definite and active manner in such
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experiences. The fact that such Adjuster activity may be unconscious to the
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human partner does not in the least detract from its value and reality.
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If you have a personal guardian of destiny and should fail of survival, that
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guardian angel must be adjudicated in order to receive vindication as to the
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faithful execution of her trust. But Thought Adjusters are not thus subjected
|
||
to examination when their subjects fail to survive. We all know that, while an
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angel might possibly fall short of the perfection of ministry, Thought
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Adjusters work in the manner of Paradise perfection; their ministry is
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characterized by a flawless technique which is beyond the possibility of
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criticism by any being outside of Divinington. You have perfect guides;
|
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therefore is the goal of perfection certainly attainable.
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6. GOD IN MAN
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It is indeed a marvel of divine condescension for the exalted and perfect
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Adjusters to offer themselves for actual existence in the minds of material
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creatures, such as the mortals of Urantia, really to consummate a probationary
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||
union with the animal-origin beings of earth.
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No matter what the previous status of the inhabitants of a world, subsequent to
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the bestowal of a divine Son and after the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth upon
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||
all humans, the Adjusters flock to such a world to indwell the minds of all
|
||
normal will creatures. Following the completion of the mission of a Paradise
|
||
bestowal Son, these Monitors truly become the "kingdom of heaven within you."
|
||
Through the bestowal of the divine gifts the Father makes the closest possible
|
||
approach to sin and evil, for it is literally true that the Adjuster must
|
||
coexist in the mortal mind even in the very midst of human unrighteousness. The
|
||
indwelling Adjusters are particularly tormented by those thoughts which are
|
||
purely sordid and selfish; they are distressed by irreverence for that which is
|
||
beautiful and divine, and they are virtually thwarted in their work by many of
|
||
man's foolish animal fears and childish anxieties.
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The Mystery Monitors are undoubtedly the bestowal of the Universal Father, the
|
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reflection of the image of God abroad in the universe. A great teacher once
|
||
admonished men that they should be renewed in the spirit of their minds; that
|
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they become new men who, like God, are created in righteousness and in the
|
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completion of truth. The Adjuster is the mark of divinity, the presence of God.
|
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The "image of God" does not refer to physical likeness nor to the circumscribed
|
||
limitations of material creature endowment but rather to the gift of the spirit
|
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presence of the Universal Father in the supernal bestowal of the Thought
|
||
Adjusters upon the humble creatures of the universes.
|
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|
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The Adjuster is the wellspring of spiritual attainment and the hope of divine
|
||
character within you. He is the power, privilege, and the possibility of
|
||
survival, which so fully and forever distinguishes you from mere animal
|
||
creatures. He is the higher and truly internal spiritual stimulus of thought in
|
||
contrast with the external and physical stimulus, which reaches the mind over
|
||
the nerve-energy mechanism of the material body.
|
||
|
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These faithful custodians of the future career unfailingly duplicate every
|
||
mental creation with a spiritual counterpart; they are thus slowly and surely
|
||
re-creating you as you really are (only spiritually) for resurrection on the
|
||
survival worlds. And all of these exquisite spirit re-creations are being
|
||
preserved in the emerging reality of your evolving and immortal soul, your
|
||
morontia self. These realities are actually there, notwithstanding that the
|
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Adjuster is seldom able to exalt these duplicate creations sufficiently to
|
||
exhibit them to the light of consciousness.
|
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|
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And as you are the human parent, so is the Adjuster the divine parent of the
|
||
real you, your higher and advancing self, your better morontial and future
|
||
spiritual self. And it is this evolving morontial soul that the judges and
|
||
censors discern when they decree your survival and pass you upward to new
|
||
worlds and never-ending existence in eternal liaison with your faithful
|
||
partner--God, the Adjuster.
|
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|
||
The Adjusters are the eternal ancestors, the divine originals, of your evolving
|
||
immortal souls; they are the unceasing urge that leads man to attempt the
|
||
mastery of the material and present existence in the light of the spiritual and
|
||
future career. The Monitors are the prisoners of undying hope, the founts of
|
||
everlasting progression. And how they do enjoy communicating with their
|
||
subjects in more or less direct channels! How they rejoice when they can
|
||
dispense with symbols and other methods of indirection and flash their messages
|
||
straight to the intellects of their human partners!
|
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You humans have begun an endless unfolding of an almost infinite panorama, a
|
||
limitless expanding of never-ending, ever-widening spheres of opportunity for
|
||
exhilarating service, matchless adventure, sublime uncertainty, and boundless
|
||
attainment. When the clouds gather overhead, your faith should accept the fact
|
||
of the presence of the indwelling Adjuster, and thus you should be able to look
|
||
beyond the mists of mortal uncertainty into the clear shining of the sun of
|
||
eternal righteousness on the beckoning heights of the mansion worlds of
|
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Satania.
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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
|
||
Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
|
||
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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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
|
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
|
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
|
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|
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
|
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Seraphic Planetary Government The Supreme Being The Almighty Supreme God The
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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