Paper 109
Relation of Adjusters to Universe Creatures
4. Adjusters and Human Personality
1The higher forms of intelligent intercommunication between human beings are greatly helped by the indwelling Adjusters. Animals do have fellow feelings, but they do not communicate concepts to each other; they can express emotions but not ideas and ideals. Neither do men of animal origin experience a high type of intellectual intercourse or spiritual communion with their fellows until the Thought Adjusters have been bestowed, albeit, when such evolutionary creatures develop speech, they are on the highroad to receiving Adjusters.
- animals › differences with respect to man › do not communicate concepts
- communication › Adjusters facilitate higher forms of
- language › development of language › development of speech coincident with acquiring will, receiving Adjusters
- Thought Adjusters › mission and function of Thought Adjusters › facilitate human communication
2Animals do, in a crude way, communicate with each other, but there is little or no personality in such primitive contact. Adjusters are not personality; they are prepersonal beings. But they do hail from the source of personality, and their presence does augment the qualitative manifestations of human personality; especially is this true if the Adjuster has had previous experience.
- animals › differences with respect to man › communicate in limited way, but with little or no personality
- animals › differences with respect to man › do not communicate concepts
- communication › Adjusters facilitate higher forms of
- personality › little or no p. in animal contact
- Thought Adjusters › mission and function of Thought Adjusters › facilitate human communication
- Thought Adjusters › nature of Adjusters › fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence
3The type of Adjuster has much to do with the potential for expression of the human personality. On down through the ages, many of the great intellectual and spiritual leaders of Urantia have exerted their influence chiefly because of the superiority and previous experience of their indwelling Adjusters.
- communication › Adjusters facilitate higher forms of
- religion › history of religion › great teachers and leaders › many exerted their influence because of previous experience of Adjusters
- Thought Adjusters › historically › many great leaders exerted influence because of previous experience of their T.A
- Thought Adjusters › mission and function of Thought Adjusters › facilitate human communication
4The indwelling Adjusters have in no small measure co-operated with other spiritual influences in transforming and humanizing the descendants of the primitive men of olden ages. If the Adjusters indwelling the minds of the inhabitants of Urantia were to be withdrawn, the world would slowly return to many of the scenes and practices of the men of primitive times; the divine Monitors are one of the real potentials of advancing civilization.
5I have observed a Thought Adjuster indwelling a mind on Urantia who has, according to the records on Uversa, indwelt fifteen minds previously in Orvonton. We do not know whether this Monitor has had similar experiences in other superuniverses, but I suspect so. This is a marvelous Adjuster and one of the most useful and potent forces on Urantia during this present age. What others have lost, in that they refused to survive, this human being (and your whole world) now gains. From him who has not survival qualities, shall be taken away even that experienced Adjuster which he now has, while to him who has survival prospects, shall be given even the pre-experienced Adjuster of a slothful deserter.
6In a sense the Adjusters may be fostering a certain degree of planetary cross-fertilization in the domains of truth, beauty, and goodness. But they are seldom given two indwelling experiences on the same planet; there is no Adjuster now serving on Urantia who has been on this world previously. I know whereof I speak since we have their numbers and records in the archives of Uversa.