Paper 109 Overview: Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures

Thought Adjusters, despite their divine origin, undergo an evolutionary process of experiential growth through their indwelling of mortal minds. These divine fragments engage in a complementary developmental journey alongside their human partners, with mortals evolving inward toward God while Adjusters evolve outward from God to man. Their classifications, functions, and developmental trajectories vary across different planetary types and mortal associations, demonstrating their remarkable adaptation to diverse cosmic environments.

The complex relationship between Adjusters and mortal personality involves overcoming material impediments to their spiritual ministry while ensuring the persistence of true values that transcend even the nonsurvival of individual mortals. Personalized Adjusters represent a unique achievement, those who have attained personality through exceptional service, functioning as bridges between Creator and creature experience. These special beings serve as agents of the Universal Father throughout multifaceted domains of universe reality, exemplifying the symbiotic relationship wherein each partner contributes to the other's cosmic growth and ultimate destiny fulfillment.

Thought Adjusters are characterized as children of the universal career who must undergo their own developmental journey while simultaneously facilitating the spiritual evolution of their mortal hosts. Just as human children develop adaptability and versatility through early socialization and play experiences, the indwelling Adjusters similarly acquire essential skills for their future cosmic responsibilities through their partnership with evolving mortals. This preliminary rehearsal within the mortal mind constitutes a critical preparatory phase for the expanded responsibilities and enhanced opportunities that await these divine fragments in subsequent stages of universe existence.

The primary focus of Adjusters during mortal indwelling is not predominantly centered on temporal existence but rather on rehearsing for the realities of future universe career phases. This rehearsal takes place within the evolving minds of humans, where the Adjusters practice and refine those spiritual functions and cosmic relationships that will be actualized in their post-mortal service. The Adjuster's experiential development through mortal association thus represents a cosmic investment in preparation for the unfolding potentials of eternity, serving both the immediate spiritual needs of the mortal and the long-range objectives of universal administration.

A comprehensive and elaborate system must exist for the training and preparation of virgin Adjusters before their dispatch from Divinington, though the specifics of this preparatory programming remain largely unrevealed to universe creatures. Similarly, there operates an extensive retraining regimen for Adjusters returning from mortal indwelling experiences, particularly those whose human partners failed to achieve survival. This additional training, which incorporates the experiential insights gained during mortal association, constitutes a crucial phase in the Adjuster's developmental trajectory and enhances their effectiveness in subsequent assignments with other evolutionary beings.

The acquisition of actual living experience represents an indispensable component of Adjuster development that cannot be circumvented through divine endowment alone. Despite their inherent divine perfection, Adjusters must progressively evolve their ministrative capabilities through direct engagement with the creatures they serve, accumulating experiential wisdom that transcends their existential divinity. This developmental process proceeds regardless of the survival outcome of their mortal subjects, as the Adjusters are equal partners in fostering the evolution of the immortal soul.

The revelator notes a fascinating complementary pattern wherein humans evolve inward and upward toward God, while Adjusters simultaneously evolve outward and downward from God toward human experience. This bidirectional evolutionary process ultimately culminates in fusion, producing a hybrid entity that encompasses both the son of man and the son of God. Such fusion represents the perfect synthesis of material and divine attributes, wherein human experience becomes eternalized and divine qualities become personalized in a unique cosmic achievement.

Self-acting Adjusters represent a specialized functional classification that denotes enhanced autonomy and capability within the spectrum of Adjuster ministry. To qualify for this designation, an Adjuster must satisfy specific criteria: possession of requisite prior experience in evolving worlds; achievement of spiritual power balance in a human who has attained the third psychic circle; association with a mortal who has made the supreme decision to align with the Adjuster's guidance; assignment to a member of the reserve corps of destiny; temporary detachment from the mortal mind for liaison or other extrahuman service; or participation in crisis situations involving spirit personalities engaged in essential cosmic undertakings. These qualifications reflect significant milestones in an Adjuster's experiential development.

These advanced Monitors demonstrate a pronounced degree of volitional independence in matters not directly pertaining to their human subjects, as evidenced by their participation in numerous activities beyond routine indwelling. They possess the capacity for communication with other Adjusters, though this interaction is primarily limited to sharing information essential to their ministry on particular worlds. While technically capable of leaving their mortal hosts at will, these self-acting Adjusters rarely exercise this prerogative except in extraordinary circumstances.

The apex of this developmental trajectory is represented by "superacting Adjusters," who have effectively completed their assigned tasks and simply await the natural dissolution of their mortal partner's physical vehicle or the translation of the immortal soul. These highly evolved Adjusters have achieved everything possible within the context of their current assignment and represent the fullest expression of Adjuster capability prior to personality fusion or personalization. Their advanced state demonstrates the ultimate potential of Adjuster development within the constraints of mortal indwelling, marking the culmination of their current phase of service.

The specific nature of Adjuster ministry varies considerably according to their assignment parameters, particularly whether they function as liaison or fusion Adjusters, with some merely temporarily loaned for a single mortal lifetime while others are bestowed with the potential for eternal fusion with their subjects. The paper delineates three primary planetary categories with distinctive Adjuster-mortal relationships: "series one" worlds, where Adjusters indwell primarily for their own experiential training among primitive minds with limited spiritual receptivity; "series two" worlds, where Adjusters function as temporary patterns for spiritual attainment but cannot achieve fusion with their subjects; and "series three" worlds like Urantia, characterized by the possibility of eternal betrothal between Adjusters and mortals.

The effectiveness of Adjuster interaction also varies according to neurological complexity, with three-brained mortals enabling more direct contact during material life than the one- and two-brained types prevalent on Urantia. On two-brain worlds following a Paradise bestowal Son's visit, virgin Adjusters are rarely assigned to individuals with clear survival capacity, with most indwellers being of advanced or supreme types. The revelator notes that early evolutionary races on Urantia exhibited three distinct categories: those entirely lacking Adjuster capacity, those demonstrating clear receptivity who promptly received Adjusters upon reaching moral responsibility, and borderline cases who received Adjusters only upon personal petition.

Even for those disqualified from survival through unfortunate heredity, virgin Adjusters might gain valuable preliminary experience that enhances their effectiveness in future assignments to higher types of minds. This efficient utilization of experiential opportunities illustrates the cosmic economy operating within the Adjuster ministry, wherein no possibility for growth is wasted, regardless of the survival outcome of the mortal subject. The adaptive nature of Adjuster assignment ensures maximum developmental benefit for both the mortal and the divine Monitor, exemplifying the brilliant design of the Father's plan for the spiritual advancement of his universal children.

The indwelling Adjusters significantly enhance the intelligent intercommunication between human beings, facilitating the exchange of concepts, ideas, and ideals rather than merely emotions. While animals can express feelings, they do not communicate concepts to each other; they can express emotions but not ideas and ideals. Although Adjusters themselves are not personalities but prepersonal entities, their presence markedly augments the qualitative manifestations of human personality, especially when the indwelling Monitor possesses extensive prior experience with other mortal subjects.

The type and experiential background of an Adjuster substantially influences the expression potential of human personality, as evidenced by the extraordinary impact of superior and experienced Adjusters on many of Urantia's intellectual and spiritual leaders throughout history. These divine Monitors have collaboratively contributed to the progressive transformation and humanization of primitive humanity, serving as critical catalysts for advancing civilization to the extent that their withdrawal would precipitate a gradual regression toward primitive conditions. The revelator affirms that the Adjusters have been major contributors to the evolutionary perfecting of humanity and continue to function as indispensable partners in the spiritual advancement of the race.

The text describes an exceptional case of an Adjuster on Urantia who had previously indwelt fifteen other minds in Orvonton alone, noting that such pre-experienced Adjusters may be reassigned to humans with survival potential after their previous subjects rejected spiritual advancement. This strategic reassignment of experienced Adjusters illustrates the conservation and purposeful deployment of experiential resources in the divine economy, ensuring that valuable experience gained in previous indwellings contributes to subsequent assignments with greater potential for successful fusion. Such transfers of experiential wisdom across multiple mortal associations exemplify the brilliant administrative efficiency characterizing the Father's program for the spiritual advancement of his mortal children.

Supreme and self-acting Adjusters possess remarkable capabilities to contribute spiritually significant content to the human mind when it operates in the liberated yet controlled channels of creative imagination or during sleep states. During such receptive intervals, the Adjuster can temporarily modify the mental currents, redirecting idea procession to effectuate profound spiritual transformations in the superconsciousness. These interventions facilitate the progressive adjustment of mental forces and energies to better align with the contactual tones of spiritual levels, enhancing the integration between present material consciousness and future spiritual potentials.

The efficacy of Adjuster ministry is frequently impeded by the unstable and rapidly fluctuating mental attitudes characteristic of human consciousness. Their work is further obstructed by preconceived opinions, crystallized ideas, and entrenched prejudices that thwart their spiritual designs and often result in incomplete or distorted manifestations in consciousness. The revelator emphasizes that these limitations constitute "handicaps" to Adjuster function rather than absolute barriers, suggesting that patient and persistent spiritual pressure can eventually overcome even the most entrenched material obstacles.

The fundamental challenge of mortal existence involves harmonizing ancestral tendencies with the spiritual impulses initiated by the divine indweller—a perpetual balancing act between material evolutionary inheritance and transcendent spiritual aspiration. While hereditary factors may constrain the pace of spiritual attainment, they cannot ultimately prevent the eventual achievement of soul evolution for any mind that willingly collaborates with its Adjuster. The revelation affirms that no cosmically isolated human is ever deprived of the potential for spiritual achievement regardless of inherent limitations, as the Adjuster's patient ministry can eventually overcome all material impediments when met with genuine human cooperation and sincere spiritual aspiration.

The unfailing reliability of Adjuster ministry ensures that no genuinely significant value is ever lost in the cosmic economy, irrespective of the survival or nonsurvival of the individual mortal personality. When a human rejects the survival path, the indwelling Adjuster nevertheless preserves all meaningful aspects of that life experience, transferring these surviving meanings and values to future assignments where they benefit more receptive evolving minds. This conservation of experiential value represents a fundamental principle of universe efficiency wherein no true meaning or genuine value ever perishes from the cosmic record.

If an Adjuster repeatedly fails to achieve fusion personality due to the nonsurvival of successive human partners, all the accumulated experiential wisdom becomes the permanent possession of that Adjuster upon eventual personalization—a composite endowment of survival traits gathered from multiple creature hosts. The preservation of these values ensures that no worthy thought, noble motive, or spiritual insight is ever truly lost, even when the mortal personality that originated such values chooses not to continue in existence. This remarkable conservation of spiritual achievement underscores the perfect economy of the Father's universal plan, wherein nothing of genuine value is ever permitted to perish.

The most notable example is the Personalized Adjuster of Michael of Nebadon, who guided Jesus throughout his mortal incarnation with extraordinary wisdom and effectiveness. This remarkable Monitor had previously served with Machiventa Melchizedek during Abraham's era and engaged in numerous significant exploits both before and between these bestowals. The Adjuster's triumph in Jesus' consistently consecrated mind—exemplified by his unwavering commitment to the Father's will—now manifests as an eternal and living transcript of the spiritual values Jesus created during his unparalleled mortal existence. This Personalized Adjuster represents perhaps the most extraordinary example of value conservation and experiential accumulation in our local universe.

While uncertainty persists regarding the personalizability of non-Adjuster Father fragments, Thought Adjusters evidently attain personality only through the acquisition of personal attributes during service-ministry to personal beings. These Personalized Adjusters reside on Divinington, where they function as instructors and directors for their prepersonal associates. They represent a unique cosmic synthesis, combining Creator and creature experience as conjoint time-eternity beings that bridge the existential and experiential domains of universal reality.

These extraordinary beings serve as all-wise and powerful executives for the Architects of the Master Universe and function as the Universal Father's personal agents across the full spectrum of reality—personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal. They uniquely encompass all known relationships of personality: pre-personality, personality proper, and post-personality, thus ministering to the Father's purposes throughout all temporal phases of universal development. This multidimensional personality capacity enables them to function effectively in realms that would otherwise be inaccessible to purely personal or prepersonal beings, making them invaluable assets in universe administration.

When the planetary Vorondadek observer recently assumed emergency regency of Urantia, three Personalized Adjusters spontaneously appeared but received no formal assignments from the regent. These omnipersonal beings perform numerous services for various orders of universe personalities that remain largely unrevealed to Adjuster-indwelt evolutionary creatures. The revelation affirms that Personalized Adjusters represent some of the most remarkable personalities in the entire grand universe, combining the infinite perfection of existential divinity with the experiential wisdom gained through intimate association with evolutionary creatures, thereby embodying the perfect synthesis of divine absoluteness and creature relativity.