Paper 107 Overview: Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters

Thought Adjusters represent the Universal Father's direct and personal participation in the evolutionary process of mortal spiritualization, constituting the most profound connection between the infinite Creator and his finite creations. These divine fragments actualize the Father's love through intimate association with the mortal mind, serving as both the promise and the mechanism of eternal survival through their eventual fusion with the evolving morontia soul. The Adjuster's presence ensures that every mortal possesses the potential for achieving divinity attainment while simultaneously providing the Father with experiential knowledge of the finite condition, thereby establishing a reciprocal relationship of transcendent significance.

The Mystery Monitors operate within the mortal intellect as spiritual catalysts, continuously endeavoring to transform human consciousness toward higher spiritual awareness while preserving the essential volitional nature of personality. Their operation traverses three developmental phases in human experience: from Thought Changers in youth, to Thought Adjusters in adulthood, to Thought Controllers in maturity, reflecting their progressive influence on mortal consciousness. Despite their unfathomable divine origin and prepersonal nature, Adjusters demonstrate remarkable adaptability to temporal conditions, effectively bridging the divide between finite and infinite reality through their patient, loving ministry to evolutionally ascending personalities destined for eternal universe service.

The Universal Father, while residing at the absolute center of all creation on Paradise, simultaneously establishes direct contact with his countless mortal children through the Mystery Monitors that indwell their minds. This divine paradox of being simultaneously transcendent and immanent permits the otherwise unreachable Paradise Father to be intimately associated with the evolutionary ascent of mortal consciousness. The Adjusters constitute the actuality of the Father's love incarnate within human souls, serving as the veritable promise of eternal career potential imprisoned within the mortal mind, and representing the essence of humanity's perfected finaliter personality that can be progressively experienced through mastery of the divine will.

God, having issued the supreme command for mortals to achieve perfection comparable to his own, has descended in fragmentary form as the Adjuster to become humanity's experiential partner in the arduous journey toward this supernal destiny. The indwelling divine fragment provides absolute assurance that every mortal can discover the Universal Father through cooperative partnership with this gift of pure divinity. Consciousness of the Adjuster's presence constitutes awareness of God's presence, and the Mystery Monitor creates within the human heart an unquenchable yearning for Paradise attainment and divine worship. Functioning as an absolute essence imprisoned within finite mind, the Adjuster represents the cosmic compensation for humanity's removal from God's direct presence, serving as an infallible spiritual compass perpetually orienting the soul toward its divine source and ultimate destiny.

The nature and origin of Thought Adjusters transcend the comprehensive understanding of even the highest celestial personalities, rendering authoritative discourse on these divine enigmas impossible. The available information derives primarily from the traditions maintained on Salvington and the cosmological postulates of Uversa, providing only tentative insights into these sublime mysteries. Despite this limitation, universal consensus affirms that Adjusters proceed directly from the Universal Father as the First Source and Center, arriving not as created beings but as fragmentized entities constituting the factual presence of the infinite God himself. Their status as undiluted and unmixed divinity, unqualified and unattenuated parts of Deity, establishes them in the most literal sense as "of God" and, insofar as discernible, as "God" actualized within the finite realm.

The temporal origin of Adjusters as separate existences apart from the absoluteness of the First Source remains shrouded in mystery, as does their total number throughout the grand universe. Knowledge concerning their careers prior to planetary assignment remains similarly limited, though their subsequent activities become increasingly comprehensible upon their arrival to indwell human minds. Speculation suggests that new Adjusters are continuously individualized as the universe expands and as potential fusion candidates increase in number, though this attempt to assign numerical magnitude to potentially infinite entities may constitute a fundamental conceptual error. The mechanistic technique of Adjuster origin represents one of the unrevealed functions of the Universal Father, with no evidence suggesting participation by other absolute associates in their production, establishing these divine gifts as pure and direct bestowals from God and identical to his nature.

The relationship between Adjusters and their fusion creatures reveals supernal love and spiritual ministry that profoundly confirm the Fatherhood of God. However, much remains unrevealed concerning additional functions these divine fragments may perform beyond their role in mortal spiritualization. The full implications of the Father giving himself to become part of mortal personality transcend current comprehension, as does the complete significance of the ascending finaliters' progression with their indwelling fragments of absolute Deity. The fragment nature of the Adjuster bestowals distinguishes the Father's pattern of self-distribution from that of the other Paradise Deities—while the Infinite Spirit individualizes portions of premind spirit to eventually fuse with surviving mortals of the spirit-fusion series, the Eternal Son's spirit is neither fragmentable nor diffuse but always discretely personal.

Thought Adjusters emerge from Divinington as individualized entities destined to fulfill one of three cosmic trajectories: liberated, fused, or personalized status. Celestial intelligence recognizes seven distinct orders of Mystery Monitors, though a comprehensive understanding of these classifications remains elusive to even high spiritual authorities. Virgin Adjusters embark on their initial assignments to evolutionary candidates for survival, beginning with complete uniformity in divine nature but subsequently differentiating through experiential ministry. Advanced Adjusters have served at least one developmental season with will creatures on worlds where the final fusion occurs between mortal identity and an individualized portion of the local universe manifestation of the Third Source and Center, acquiring valuable experience that enhances their subsequent effectiveness.

Supreme Adjusters have participated in temporal adventures with evolutionary mortals who declined eternal survival, gaining experiential knowledge that enables them to perform functions in human minds impossible for less experienced Monitors. Vanished Adjusters enter a mysterious fourth stage of service that may involve either detached assignments throughout the universe of universes or a period of refreshing communion with the First Source and Center himself. The higher classifications include Liberated Adjusters eternally released from mortal service, Fused Adjusters who have become eternally united with ascending mortals as finaliters, and Personalized Adjusters who have attained the extraordinary status of personality through service with incarnated Paradise Sons or through other exceptional distinctions. This complex classification system intersects with numerous other taxonomies based on universe assignment, indwelling success rates, and racial ancestries of mortal candidates.

Liberated Adjusters have been eternally freed from the service of time for evolving mortals, though their subsequent functions remain largely unrevealed. Fused Adjusters, finaliters, have achieved eternal union with ascending mortals from evolutionary worlds, transitioning from an absolute existential level to a finite experiential level of functional association while retaining all aspects of their divine nature. This transformation represents one of the most profound shifts in cosmic reality as existential divinity embraces experiential identity. The most enigmatic category, Personalized Adjusters, comprises those who have served with incarnated Paradise Sons or achieved unusual distinction during mortal indwelling but whose subjects rejected survival opportunity. These exceptional entities receive personality by the recommendation of the Ancients of Days of their superuniverse assignment, transcending the typical limitations of prepersonal existence to become unique hybrid beings embodying both the absolute qualities of divinity and the volitional capacities of personality.

All universal operations concerning the dispatch, management, direction, and return of Mystery Monitors appear to be centralized on the sacred sphere of Divinington, which functions as their administrative headquarters and training center. Access to this sanctified realm remains strictly limited to Adjusters and other unrevealed entities of the Father, suggesting the highly specialized and exclusive nature of its cosmic function. Evidence indicates that numerous unrevealed prepersonal entities likely share Divinington as a home sphere with the Adjusters, potentially collaborating in some manner with their present and future ministry. The return of Thought Adjusters to the Father involves not merely reintegration with Divinington's administrative functions but apparently includes actual contact with the Father's Paradise personality and with a specialized manifestation of his divinity situated on this secret sphere.

High spiritual orders throughout the grand universe receive only three inviolable divine injunctions: to show adequate respect for the experience of their seniors, to demonstrate consideration for the limitations of their juniors, and never to attempt landing on the shores of Divinington. This absolute prohibition against unauthorized visitation, even by beings otherwise capable of such travel, underscores the sacred and exclusive nature of this realm within the Paradise scheme of universal administration. In the absence of direct access to Divinington, knowledge about Adjusters must be painstakingly assembled from thousands of disparate sources distributed throughout creation, a process requiring careful correlation and synthesis of fragmentary information. The Personalized Adjusters constitute the core faculty of Divinington's educational institutions, with special significance attributed to the Monitor who indwelt the first Paradise Son of the Michael order to complete his sevenfold bestowal upon the races of his universe realms, now serving as the supervising administrative head of all Adjusters throughout creation.

The severely limited knowledge of nonpersonalized Adjusters stands in contrast to the somewhat greater understanding of personalized orders, who are eternally christened on Divinington and subsequently known by name rather than numerical designation. These exceptional beings establish permanent residence on Divinington, departing only by direct mandate of the Universal Father himself. While relatively few of these personalized entities serve in local universes, considerably larger numbers function within the central universe, suggesting their specialized involvement with administrative coordination between Divinington and the various sectors of the grand universe. This limited but specialized distribution of personalized Adjusters indicates their function as liaison agents between the otherwise invisible army of prepersonal divine fragments and the personalized administrative hierarchies of the evolving superuniverses.

To designate a Thought Adjuster as divine constitutes more than metaphorical attribution—it recognizes their direct derivation from Deity as literal fragments of the Universal Father. This purity of divinity logically encompasses the essence of all potential attributes of Deity that could be contained within such a segregated portion of the universal presence of the infinite Paradise Father. The actual origin of the Adjuster must be infinite in nature, and prior to fusion with an evolutionary soul, the Adjuster's reality approaches absolute status within the circumscribed parameters of its fragmented existence. While demonstrably limited in extensiveness (being confined to specific spatiotemporal locations), Adjusters manifest absolute intensiveness of meaning, value, and spiritual factuality, justifying their occasional designation as "qualified absolute fragments" of the Father.

Throughout universal history, no Adjuster has ever demonstrated disloyalty to the Paradise Father, establishing a perfect record of divine fidelity that distinguishes them from all other orders of cosmic beings, even the highest personal entities who occasionally falter in their devotion. Nonpersonalized Adjusters remain imperceptible to most beings except Personalized Adjusters, though certain specialized orders like Solitary Messengers and Inspired Trinity Spirits can detect their presence through distinctive spiritual reactive phenomena. A characteristic spirit luminosity, variously termed the "pilot light" or the "light of life" in different sectors of creation, accompanies the divine presence but remains generally undetectable to material beings and most intermediary spiritual orders. Only beings who have attained the Universal Father can directly perceive Personalized Thought Adjusters, who themselves function as visible manifestations of an otherwise invisible divine presence permeating the cosmic consciousness.

The profound metaphysical significance of the Adjuster's indwelling transcends mortal comprehension, constituting a genuine fragment of the existential Cause of the total cosmos taking up residence within the finite mind. This unprecedented partnership establishes potentially unlimited destiny horizons for the mortal personality, as no boundaries can circumscribe the future possibilities of such a divine-human association. The infinite wonder of God becomes progressively revealed to the mortal personality through the Adjuster's ministry, with this supernal revelation continuing throughout eternity as the divine fragment perpetually discloses new aspects of Deity to its partner personality. This continuous revelation establishes a dynamic rather than static relationship between the finite being and infinite reality, ensuring that the ascension journey maintains perpetual novelty and discovery rather than reaching a terminal point of complete comprehension, since the Adjuster is not merely of God but functions as God to the mortal partner within the limitations of temporal consciousness.

The concept of Thought Adjuster mindedness presents a profound metaphysical challenge to human understanding, as evolutionary mortals naturally conceptualize mind as a mediating phenomenon between spirit and matter based on their experiential observation of universe function. This interpretive framework fails when applied to Adjusters, who exist as fragmentations of God on an absolute level of reality that is not merely prepersonal but antecedent to the very divergence of energy and spirit. On this monistic level, where energy and spirit remain undifferentiated, no mediating function could exist since there are no divergent realities requiring reconciliation. Nevertheless, the observable ability of Adjusters to plan, work, and love necessitates the possession of selfhood powers functionally equivalent to mind, even if the nature of such faculties transcends mortal comprehension.

Adjusters demonstrate unlimited intercommunication capabilities among all forms above the virgin groups, suggesting a sophisticated form of cognitive function despite their non-personal nature. The mindedness of Thought Adjusters bears fundamental similarity to that of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son, constituting the ancestral pattern of the mind endowment of the Conjoint Actor rather than deriving from it. This relationship indicates that Adjuster mind represents a primordial form of consciousness rather than a derivative manifestation of the cosmic mind circuits established by the Third Source and Center. When a Thought Adjuster fuses with an evolving immortal morontia soul, the distinct mind of the Adjuster becomes indistinguishable from the creature's consciousness until the ascending mortal attains the spirit levels of universe progression, at which point certain aspects of both minds appear to transmute into a unique hybrid consciousness that may contribute to the experiential endowment of evolving Deity—specifically the Supreme Being.

The mindedness of Adjusters likely shares fundamental characteristics with numerous other orders of prepersonal entities originating from the First Source and Center, establishing an entire category of pre-mind consciousness distinct from both the personal mind of volitional beings and the impersonal mind circuits of the cosmic intellect. This pre-mind or proto-mind demonstrates capacity for unification with diverse evolutionary and non-evolutionary beings, suggesting its fundamental adaptability as a connecting link between absolute and relative realities. Upon the attainment of finaliter levels of ascendant experience, spirits of the sixth stage appear to undergo a profound transmutation wherein certain factors of both mortal and Adjuster minds merge into a novel consciousness that serves as liaison between divine and human phases of personality. This experiential mind quality "supremacizes" and subsequently augments the experiential endowment of evolutionary Deity, suggesting that Adjuster mindedness ultimately contributes to the progressive actualization of potentials within the Supreme Being.

In the experiential domain of creature encounter, Thought Adjusters manifest primarily as spiritual presences and guiding influences within mortal consciousness. While fundamentally constituted as pure spirit entities, they simultaneously transcend exclusive spirit categorization, leading to their frequently employed designation as "spirit plus." The impossible task of comprehensive classification reflects their unique status that defies conventional categories within the cosmic order. For the evolutionary mortal, the Adjuster represents an eternity possibility, the divine mechanism enabling temporal personality to achieve perpetual existence; conversely, the human partner constitutes the Adjuster's personality possibility, the means by which prepersonal divinity may achieve expression through volitional selfhood in the experiential realm.

Divine fragments labor ceaselessly to spiritualize mortal minds with the ultimate objective of eternalizing temporal identity, driven by their profound devotion to their human partners. This spiritual affection transcends mere functional relationship, manifesting as authentic love directed toward potentializing human personality for permanent existence. The Adjuster experiences a form of cosmic isolation while confined within the limited mortal intellect, longing for the eventual liberation that will come through successful fusion with its evolving partner. Beyond their spiritual nature, Adjusters also encompass factors of pure energy, explaining their paradoxical ability to traverse space via the instantaneous and universal gravity circuits of Paradise Isle. This mysterious association with material circuits, while not subjecting them to material limitations, reveals their status as fragments of the ancestor of gravity rather than its consequentials, having segmentized on a universe level hypothetically antecedent to gravity's appearance.

The Paradise ascent and finaliter career represent the partnership between the God-knowing spiritualizing mortal and the spiritual ministry of the God-revealing Adjuster, establishing a functional relationship that transcends mere companionship. Throughout the temporal life span, from bestowal until natural death, Thought Adjusters experience no relaxation or respite from their spiritualizing mission. Unlike nearly all other cosmic entities who require renewal through rest and energetic replenishment, Adjusters themselves constitute energy of the highest divine order, requiring no sustenance beyond their own intrinsic divine nature. This tireless dedication to their mortal subjects reveals their absolute commitment to the evolutionary process as the Father's chosen mechanism for experiential universe development. Their capacity to traverse the material-gravity circuits of the grand universe, potentially extending even into outer space levels, demonstrates their unique ability to transcend the conventional limitations that separate material, mindal, and spiritual realities.

Thought Adjusters, though not personalities, are perfectly individualized, real entities of the highest spiritual order, representing the indwelling divine presence. They are fragments of the Universal Father, often described as spirit entities due to the spiritual aspects of their ministry to mortals. Despite lacking personality, Adjusters are referred to as beings and are universally acknowledged as the divine presence within evolutionary creatures. The mystery of how such nonpersonal entities can make volitional choices, such as selecting and indwelling mortal beings, remains unanswered throughout the universe of universes.

Thought Adjusters demonstrate behaviors that reflect genuine volition. They volunteer for indwelling, plan the eternal futures of mortals, and adapt their approach according to changing circumstances. Their actions during crises and their readiness to respond to human choice further support the presence of a will-like capacity. In matters outside the domain of human will, their behavior consistently reflects maximized decision-making, equivalent in essence to the exercise of will. This apparent paradox, possessing volition yet remaining subordinate to mortal will, may be explained by the distinction between personality and prepersonality: the will of personality takes precedence, while prepersonal volition remains responsive.

Adjusters are neither subpersonal nor superpersonal; they are best understood as prepersonal, a term that acknowledges their unique status. Throughout the cosmos, will, love, and choice are rarely observed apart from personality, except in the case of Adjusters and similar entities. These divine gifts are recognized as the Universal Father's personal way of maintaining direct and unmediated contact with his material creatures, apart from the presence of Paradise Sons or the Infinite Spirit. All orders of beings regard the Mystery Monitors with awe, but only evolutionary will creatures destined for finaliter status are granted the profound experience of being indwelt by them.