Paper 110 Overview: Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals

Thought Adjusters manifest the most profound expression of divine love found in all creation: a touchingly sublime and divinely Fatherlike devotion to individual mortals. These prepersonal fragments of the Universal Father work assiduously within human minds to spiritualize thought patterns while meticulously respecting mortal free will. Their ministry involves creating morontia transcripts of mortal experience, establishing increasingly effective communion with their subjects as they progress through the seven psychic circles of cosmic achievement, and ultimately preparing for eternal fusion with the immortal soul.

The path of Adjuster ministry confronts numerous obstacles arising from the vast gulf between divine and human natures, yet these divine fragments patiently persist through years of silent sojourn. The evolutionary journey culminates in fusion, which is the eternal union of the immortal soul with its divine Monitor, creating a unique being that preserves both the experiential values of the human ascender and the divine attributes of the indwelling fragment of God. Although most mortals must await natural death for this transformation, some achieve fusion during mortal life when their spiritual attainment and willful surrender to divine purposes reach completion.

The endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship.

As far as I am conversant with the affairs of a universe, I regard the love and devotion of a Thought Adjuster as the most truly divine affection in all creation. The love of the Sons in their ministry to the races is superb, but the devotion of an Adjuster to the individual is touchingly sublime, divinely Fatherlike. The Paradise Father has apparently reserved this form of personal contact with his individual creatures as an exclusive Creator prerogative. And there is nothing in all the universe of universes exactly comparable to the marvelous ministry of these impersonal entities that so fascinatingly indwell the children of the evolutionary planets.

Thought Adjusters should not be conceptualized as organic components residing within the physical brain structure, but rather as divine presences indwelling the mortal mind itself. Indirectly and unrecognized, the Adjuster is constantly communicating with the human subject, especially during those sublime experiences of the worshipful contact of mind with spirit in the superconsciousness. These divine helpers operate as efficient ministers to the higher phases of human mind, functioning as wise and experienced manipulators of spiritual potential who pilot the God-conscious human consciousness away from the hazardous shoals of evil toward the divine harbors of perfection. Their primary purpose involves the safe guidance of the ascending soul toward the spiritual paradise goal of divine perfection.

The Adjusters demonstrate remarkable dedication to fostering mortal spiritual welfare while also maintaining genuine interest in temporal achievements that contribute to balanced development. They are delighted to contribute to health, happiness, and prosperity when these are not inimical to long-term spiritual progress, demonstrating interest in daily activities to the extent that these influence significant temporal choices and vital spiritual decisions. The Adjuster remains active during all disasters and illnesses that do not destroy mentality, though its work is severely hampered by physical poisons and even more significantly by mental poisons such as fear, anger, jealousy, and suspicion that interfere with spiritual progress. During this present life, humans experience the courtship phase of their relationship with the Adjuster, which—if the mortal proves faithful—will culminate in eternal union so complete that even experienced personalities cannot distinguish between the fusion partners.

Human minds possess widely varying receptivity to Adjuster guidance, with spiritual capacity directly influencing the degree of divine communication possible during physical life. Individual temperament and a multitude of mortal inclinations significantly affect how much of the Adjuster's spiritual program can be actualized during material existence. Materialistic tendencies, emotional instability, and erratic decision-making create substantial challenges to Adjuster ministry, while strong spiritual motivation and balanced personality development facilitate divine communion. The Adjuster's apparent success with a given mortal depends not only on the individual's spiritual receptivity but also on environmental factors, experiential opportunity, and the precise nature of the divine fragment assigned to that particular mortal consciousness.

When Thought Adjusters indwell human minds, they bring with them model careers and ideal lives that have been predetermined and foreordained by themselves and the Personalized Adjusters of Divinington, certified by the Personalized Adjuster of Urantia. Though humans are subjects of this divine predestination, they maintain complete freedom to accept or reject any aspect of the Adjusters' program, as the Monitors never take advantage or arbitrarily influence human choices and decisions. Their mission involves effecting mind changes and spiritual adjustments that humans willingly and intelligently authorize, thereby gaining greater influence over personality direction while invariably remaining subservient to human will. This respectful approach to human sovereignty forms the foundation of the eternal partnership, ensuring that spiritual growth proceeds from genuine free will choices rather than through compulsion or manipulation.

The Adjusters focus not on controlling human thinking but on spiritualizing, eternalizing, and coordinating thought processes to build morontia duplicates of every concept within the mortal intellect. This creates two realities centered within human mind circuits: the mortal self evolved according to Life Carrier plans, and the immortal entity from Divinington, both possessing distinct qualities of personhood. When a human fully aligns with the Adjuster's mind perspective, their minds become unified. When human will enforces decisions arising from this combined mind, the Adjuster's prepersonal will achieves personality expression through the human decision. This represents an approach to morontia consciousness, where diversely material and spiritual natures cooperate under one will—human in origin, yet becoming divine through identification with God's mindedness.

The delicate dance between the human will and Adjuster guidance is one of the most profound mysteries of personal existence, a relationship that grows increasingly intimate as spiritual development advances. Unlike external sources of guidance or instruction, the Adjuster works from within, subtly influencing thought patterns toward higher spiritual expression without ever violating the sovereignty of human choice. Every spiritual advancement results from a genuine human decision, freely chosen, though the Adjuster provides the cosmic context and spiritual significance that makes such choices meaningful beyond their immediate implications. The Adjuster's role resembles that of a master composer who suggests sublime harmonic patterns, yet leaves the performance decisions entirely to the human musician, rejoicing when the human partner freely chooses to express the divine melody through personal decision.

Adjusters engage in the sacred and superb game of the ages, participating in one of the supreme adventures of time-space as they guide their mortal subjects toward eternity. They experience joy when human cooperation permits assistance in the short, temporal struggles while simultaneously pursuing the larger tasks of eternity. Yet, their attempts to communicate are usually lost in the material currents of human mental energy, with only occasional faint echoes of the divine voice reaching consciousness. The success of Adjusters in piloting mortals through physical life toward survival depends less on theoretical beliefs than on concrete decisions, determinations, and steadfast faith that help the mortal cease resisting divine guidance. Their work proceeds with infinite patience through years of apparently fruitless effort, awaiting those moments when the human consciousness becomes receptive to spiritual input.

Humans can consciously augment their harmony with the indwelling Adjuster through several specific approaches: choosing to respond to divine leading by basing life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness; loving God and genuinely desiring divine likeness; loving fellow humans and sincerely serving them; and joyfully accepting cosmic citizenship with its progressive obligations to the Supreme Being. Confusion, puzzlement, or even discouragement does not necessarily indicate resistance to the Adjuster's leadings but may simply reflect a lack of active cooperation that temporarily delays spiritual progress without endangering survival. The great goal of human existence involves attunement to the indwelling divinity, a consecration that remains wholly compatible with a lighthearted, joyous life and successful earthly career, as the ideal life centers on loving service rather than fearful apprehension.

Adjuster cooperation flourishes particularly when the human mind regularly engages in genuine worship, which temporarily suspends material concerns and creates an inner environment conducive to spiritual communion. The practice of prayer, when elevated beyond mere supplication to include elements of sincere gratitude and spiritual aspiration, similarly creates favorable conditions for Adjuster activity. Material-mindedness and excessive preoccupation with temporal concerns effectively silence the Adjuster's voice, while thoughtful contemplation of cosmic realities and ethical decisions based on universal values enhance receptivity to divine guidance. The conscious effort to distinguish between selfish desires and spiritual leadings, coupled with wholehearted dedication to doing God's will, establishes the most favorable relationship with the indwelling Monitor, one characterized by mutual trust, spiritual confidence, and progressive fusion of purpose.

Thought Adjusters receive continuous streams of cosmic intelligence through the master circuits of time and space, maintaining full connection with the spirit intelligence and energy of the universes, yet they remain largely unable to transmit this wealth of wisdom to their mortal subjects due to the lack of commonness in nature and absence of responsive recognition. The Adjuster tirelessly works to spiritualize the human mind and evolve the morontia soul, though mortals remain largely unconscious of this interior ministry and cannot readily distinguish between their own material intellect and the conjoint activities of soul and Adjuster. Certain abrupt presentations of thoughts or conclusions may represent direct or indirect Adjuster work, but more frequently these are simply the natural emergence into consciousness of ideas grouped in submerged mental levels. These normal occurrences within the evolving animal mind should be distinguished from the genuine revelations of the Adjuster, which appear through superconscious realms. The Adjuster's most authentic work occurs in the deeper levels of consciousness, often beyond direct mortal awareness until periodic spiritual breakthroughs manifest in expanded cosmic understanding.

The vast gulf separating human and divine natures creates formidable obstacles to effective communication, as Urantia races are predominantly controlled by electrical and chemical forces, exhibiting highly animalistic common behaviors and emotional reactions. This material nature renders mortals so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated cooperation that Adjusters find it nearly impossible to communicate directly with the human mind. When they do manage to flash gleams of new truth to the evolving soul, these spiritual revelations often blindingly precipitate fanaticism or intellectual upheaval that leads to disastrous outcomes, with many new religions and strange "isms" arising from aborted, imperfect, or misunderstood Adjuster communications. The supervising personalities of Satania view with concern the diminishing numbers of beings who can function safely with self-acting Adjusters, leading to proposals from planetary supervisors for measures designed to foster and conserve the higher spiritual types among Urantia races.

The Adjuster's most productive work occurs through gradual transformation of thought patterns toward spiritualized concepts, imperceptibly elevating human thinking from material to spiritual planes over the course of years. This slow process permits the human personality to integrate spiritual insights without the disruption that might result from sudden revelations exceeding the mind's capacity to assimilate them. Through countless incremental adjustments to the moral decision-making apparatus and ethical framework of the mortal mind, the Adjuster establishes patterns of response that increasingly reflect universal values rather than merely personal or cultural preferences. The relationship between human and Adjuster develops according to cosmic law, not arbitrary intervention, with each moral victory and spiritual insight creating greater capacity for future communion. The Adjuster's supreme task involves preparing the human consciousness for continued existence beyond physical death, preserving those elements of mortal experience that possess eternal value while creating an immortal soul capable of fusion with the divine.

The mission and influence of the Thought Adjuster must not be confused with what is commonly called conscience, as these represent distinctly different phenomena without direct relationship. Conscience, while a valuable human psychic reaction that properly admonishes right action, differs fundamentally from the Adjuster's voice, which attempts to communicate what truly is right when the mortal can perceive such guidance. The disordered and disconnected parade of dream experiences demonstrates the Adjusters' inability to harmonize and associate the divergent factors of human and divine thinking within a single lifetime, showing that only in rare cases can they achieve sufficient coordination to permit translation to mansion worlds without the experience of death. Dream life primarily reflects physical and psychological processes rather than spiritual communications, with any genuine Adjuster influence typically becoming distorted beyond recognition through the chaotic dream mechanisms.

During sleep, the Adjuster attempts to register its creations in higher levels of material mind, but can only work with what the waking personality has previously approved through conscious decisions, operating in the superconscious realm where human and divine interrelate. The absurdities of dream life testify not only to unexpressed emotions but also to the distortion of spiritual concepts the Adjusters attempt to impart, as human passions and unexpressed desires transform divine messages. It proves especially dangerous to postulate the Adjuster content of dreams or to attempt differentiating between genuine Adjuster registry and ordinary conscience, as most new concepts originating in the human mind do not represent Adjuster dictation. Each person must settle these complex questions according to their natural wisdom and superhuman insight, exercising caution rather than enthusiastically attributing ordinary mental phenomena to divine sources.

The misguided tendency to attribute all novel or supposedly spiritual experiences to Adjuster activity seriously hampers genuine spiritual development by creating artificial distinctions between divine guidance and human decision. Excessive concern with identifying Adjuster communications paradoxically reduces receptivity to genuine spiritual influence by placing undue emphasis on the mechanics of contact rather than the substance of spiritual truth. Healthy spiritual development acknowledges the mystery inherent in divine-human communion while focusing primarily on progressive alignment with universal values, regardless of whether these values originate in human ethics or divine revelation. The Adjuster works most effectively with humans who make moral choices based on their best understanding of right and wrong, without constantly seeking extraordinary confirmation of divine approval, trusting that as spiritual development progresses, Adjuster guidance and human judgment will naturally harmonize through a gradual process of spiritual attunement rather than through dramatic interventions.

The sum total of personality realization on a material world encompasses the successive conquest of seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality, with entrance into the seventh circle marking the beginning of true human personality function and completion of the first circle denoting relative maturity. While traversing these circles does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, mastery of these levels represents achievement of preliminary steps toward this ultimate union. The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual or spiritual but involve the harmonious development of the entire personality—material, intellectual, and spiritual elements functioning in balanced coordination. When intellectual development outpaces spiritual growth, Adjuster communication becomes difficult and potentially dangerous, while excessive spiritual development can produce fanaticism; true progress requires the balanced integration of all personality aspects.

The circles cannot be precisely defined, though certain minimum and maximum limits can be suggested for these stages of maturity realization. The seventh circle marks the development of personal choice, moral responsibility, and spiritual individuality, coinciding with the functioning of all seven adjutant mind-spirits, the Holy Spirit, and the first operation of the Spirit of Truth, along with the reception of a Thought Adjuster. The third circle represents a crucial milestone, as the Adjuster becomes significantly more effective after the human receives a personal seraphic guardian, with unmistakable improvement in all phases of cosmic achievement and spiritual development. The first circle achievement enables more direct and immediate Adjuster communication, representing the highest possible realization of mind-Adjuster relationship prior to the liberation of the evolving morontia soul from its material vehicle.

Circle attainment relates to the quantitative growth of the morontia soul and comprehension of supreme meanings, but the qualitative status of the immortal soul depends entirely on grasping the fact-value that mortals are children of the eternal God. Faith transforms potentials to actuals in the spiritual realm, but in finite realms, potentials become actuals through choice-experience, particularly choosing to do God's will, which joins spiritual faith to material decisions in personality action. From the seventh to the third circle, the adjutant mind-spirits work intensively to wean the mortal mind from material dependencies before increasing introduction to morontia levels, with their influence progressively diminishing beyond the third circle as the mind becomes increasingly aligned with morontia intelligence. The pattern of progress through these circles varies widely among individuals, with developmental rates influenced by heredity, environment, and the unique qualities of the indwelling Adjuster, though the underlying principles of balanced personality integration remain constant regardless of individual circumstances.

The achievement of the seven cosmic circles, while significant, does not equate to Adjuster fusion, which depends on the complete attunement of mortal will with God's will as represented by the indwelling Monitor. When a human completes the circles and the final choosing of the mortal will permits the Adjuster to complete association with the morontial soul during physical life, fusion may occur immediately, resulting in the disappearance of the material body as the newly united being transitions to the mansion worlds. Many Adjusters who achieve fusion have gained valuable experience through previous indwellings, though not exclusively with mortals who failed to survive, as experience benefits advanced work regardless of the survival outcome of previous associations. The process of fusion represents the culmination of the divine-human partnership, transforming both entities into a single, unique being that possesses qualities neither could manifest independently.

Following fusion, the Adjuster and mortal become truly one entity, with each gaining all experiencible qualities of the other in a remarkable partnership. The combined being possesses both the experiential memory of the mortal's survival journey and the Adjuster's vast experience throughout all previous indwellings, though completely integrating the Adjuster's meanings and values from the eternity of the past will require an eternity of the future. For most Urantia mortals, however, the Adjuster must patiently await death to liberate the soul from material dominance, as the primary obstacle to deeper communion lies in humanity's material nature and insufficient mental development. The ear of human mind remains nearly deaf to spiritual pleas translated from universal broadcasts of divine love, yet Adjusters maintain their patient vigil through long years of silent sojourn, rejoicing in even minimal contact while awaiting the time when they will greet their partners mind to mind in a relationship unbounded by physical limitations.

The ultimate union of human and divine represents the most profound metamorphosis in all creation—the transformation of a finite, material being into an immortal finaliter destined for eternal service in the universe. This transformation synthesizes the best qualities of both beings: from the human partner, the experiential wealth of material struggle, moral choice, and personality development; from the divine fragment, the universal perspective, spiritual wisdom, and infinite potential of Paradise ancestry. What begins as a tenuous relationship between starkly different orders of reality culminates in the creation of a being representing a completely new order of universe citizenship. The divine-human partnership thus represents the most profound expression of cosmic evolution; the magnificent journey from animalistic origins through spiritual development to eternal union with divinity, fulfilling both the creature's highest aspirations and the Creator's deepest purposes for his finite children.