Thought Adjusters

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Thought Adjusters (Papers 107–112). See also ascending mortals; Divinington; fusion: Adjuster fusion; Personalized Adjusters; Thought Adjuster of Jesus
administered directly from Divinington (108:3.1)
arrival (108:1-2secs)
Adjuster has full data respecting candidate prior to volunteering (108:1.2-7)
assigned when children make first moral decision (103:2.5) (108:2.1) (133:6.5)
conditions associated with arrival prior to Spirit of Truth (20:5.3) (108:2.5-11)
creature’s sex of no consideration in assignment (108:1.7)
guardian seraphim arrive with planet’s first Adjusters (49:6.4)
human personality antecedent to Adjuster’s arrival (16:8.3)
increasingly bestowed upon post-Adamic men (52:3.2)
of Jesus’ (123:2.1) (196:1.7)
reach human subjects just prior to 6th birthday (108:2.1)
selection and assignment (108:1sec)
sent to all mortals after bestowal Son’s visitation (52:5.6) (120:2.6) (146:3.6)
sent to all normal morally conscious mortals (5:0.1)
sent without announcement or explanation (2:1.7)
Spirit of Truth prepares for planetary reception (34:5.5) (120:2.6) (194:2.3)
Supreme Being sometimes causes bestowal on nonfusion worlds (108:2.11)
avail themselves of reflectivity service (17:3.9)
better adapted secondary midwayers able to attain contact with (114:7.9)
communicate with Father by prepersonal circuits; spirit-gravity circuits (5:3.2) (15:9.6)
divine presence most fully discovered in communion with (5:2.3-4)
do not leave during transit sleeps between mansion worlds (47:4.4)
fusion with (112:7sec). See also fusion: Adjuster fusion
great days in individual careers (110:6.22)
historically
Adjuster of human being through whom Urantia Papers given (110:5.7)
Adjuster of Melchizedek and Jesus only one ever to serve twice on Urantia (93:2.7) (109:4.6)
Andon and Fonta made decisions which enabled Adjusters to indwell (63:1.4) (63:6.9) (65:4.9)
assembled Andonic counterparts for Prince’s staff (66:2.7)
Brahman philosophy very near realization of (94:3.6)
came in great numbers in days of Onagar (63:6.9)
clear Buddhist teaching of (94:11.5)
empowered Amadon to be loyal in rebellion (67:3.7)
indwelt Cain when he sought divine assistance (76:2.8)
Jesus achieved perfect synchrony with (136:2.2)
many great leaders exerted influence because of previous experience of their T.A. (109:4.3)
one of most useful T.A. on Urantia previously indwelt 15 minds in Orvonton (109:4.5)
plea to human subject (110:7.10)
human subjects often known by numbers of their T.A. (108:3.3)
if withdrawn, Urantia would return to barbarism (109:4.4)
known as
by name on Divinington (107:3.10)
difficulty finding appropriate name for (108:5.7)
divine spark, spark of infinity, immortal germ (4:4.9) (111:6.1) (132:3.6)
fragment of infinity (3:4.7)
Mystery Monitors (16:3.2) (50:1.1) (52:3.2) (52:4.7)
Thought Adjusters, when subjects are age 20 to 40 (107:0.7)
Thought Changers, until age 20 (107:0.7)
Thought Controllers, after 40 (107:0.7)
true lights which light every man (40:5.19) (52:1.7) (101:0.3) (113:6.2)
Master Spirit #1 is close associate of chief of (16:3.2)
mission and function of Thought Adjusters
Adjuster’s problem (111:7sec)
always participate in conflicts between what really is right or wrong (108:5.9)
always waiting to act decisively in accordance with human choice (107:7.3) (108:5.8) (110:2.2) (110:3.1)
attach feeling of reality to man’s spiritual insight (102:3.12)
bring along ideal plan for mortal career (110:2.1)
build spiritual counterparts of mortal careers, spiritually significant events (40:9.4) (47:4.5) (108:6.5) (110:2.3-4)
carry away everything of survival value from nonsurvivors (2:3.4) (109:6.2)
combine and spiritize human idea-decisions (101:6.7)
combine operations with Spirit of Truth (101:1.3)
concerned to make life reasonably difficult, so as to stimulate decisions (108:5.5)
create capacity for reciprocal contact with divinity (52:1.7)
create hunger and thirst for righteousness, craving for perfection (1:2.6) (101:2.14) (102:1.6) (107:0.5)
deeply interested in subjects’ temporal welfare and achievements (110:1.3-4) (110:3.1)
during sleep, sometimes arrest mental currents; effect deep spiritual transformations (109:5.1) (110:5.3-5)
equal partners with human mind in fostering soul (5:5.13) (30:1.99) (107:0.3) (108:5.4) (108:6.6) (109:1.4)
exceptionally efficient while subjects are in seraphic transport (39:2.11)
facilitate human communication (109:4.1-3)
Father draws nearest to mortals by (2:5.6) (12:7.13) (40:5.3)
gain experience indwelling primitive mortals (40:5.10)
go through experiences as a part of us – as us (44:0.19)
indwell midwayers in light and life (55:4.9)
indwell mind, not physical brain (34:5.6) (110:1.1) (133:3.7)
lead man to, and conduct, worship (5:3.7-8) (146:2.17) (146:3.6)
least active when seraphim are most active (113:4.5)
lure subjects upward toward future and better life (108:4.2)
make contact in spiritualized thinking, not by feelings or emotions (101:1.3) (110:4.3)
make discernible other spiritual influences (5:2.4)
manipulate but never dominate man’s mind against his will (66:8.6) (110:2.1-2) (111:1.8)
not much concerned with affairs of temporal life (108:5.5-6) (109:0.1)
only evolutionary will creatures are indwelt by T.A. (107:7.7)
overcome human limitations (4:4.9)
participate in every temporal struggle (118:1.10)
place slight preference upon altruistic impulses (103:2.7)
possess transcripts of sleeping survivor’s spiritized mind, memory, and personality (30:4.15) (47:3.3) (112:3.5)
receive and translate continuous stream of spiritual intelligences to material mind (108:5.1) (110:4.1)
register subjects’ adoration in presence of Father (5:3.2)
relation to other spiritual influences (8:5.4) (101:1.3) (108:4sec)
relation to planetary mortal types (40:5.8-11) (49:5.14) (109:3sec)
released if subjects finally reject survival, or if their brains are irreparably damaged (112:3.2-3)
repeatedly indwell mortals until one survives (40:4.1)
retain duplicates of entire life’s experiences (44:0.19)
retain spirit elements of nonsurviving mortals; Spirit-fusion subjects (16:9.3) (40:9.4) (47:3.4) (196:3.35)
serve as temporary guides for mortals destined for Son fusion or Spirit fusion; build up souls (37:5.1-3) (40:8.2) (40:9.2)
Seven Master Spirits have no involvement with (16:4.16)
some indwell Paradise Sons on bestowal missions (20:4.3)
somehow register hope and trust (101:2.5)
sometimes detached for contact with superhuman intelligences (48:6.23) (77:7.5)
temporary indwelling for primitives (52:1.6)
T.A. are identity of sleeping survivors (49:6.11) (113:6.5)
to be Father to mortals, elevate mortals to perfection (108:0.1) (145:2.9)
translate sense of duty into faith in revelation; transmute God-fear into God-love (86:7.6) (102:1.1)
unify evolving creatures with God on Paradise (116:3.4)
mortal co-operation with Adjusters
absolute oneness achieved only in eternity (110:7.4)
Adjuster-expression is manifestation of mortal’s real and better self (195:7.5)
agreement to survive is mortal’s 1st jubilee (27:7.8)
all who yield to T.A. eventually come to Jesus (153:2.11)
approach Adjusters through living faith, sincere worship, wholehearted and unselfish prayer (100:5.7)
augment harmony with T.A. by loving God, serving man, living by highest values, accepting cosmic citizenship (110:3.6-10)
contact facilitated by loving service (91:7.1)
do not look to Adjuster for selfish consolation (108:5.6)
evidences of Adjuster’s indwelling (196:3.6-16)
faith-insight is an Adjuster endowment (101:3.2)
faith releases Adjuster’s superhuman activities (132:3.6)
God’s presence determined by degree of co-operation (3:1.10-12)
impulse of altruism, mercy towards the weak and needy, derives from (26:11.5) (103:2.10) (103:5.1,3)
inescapable death results when self-concepts fully displace Adjuster governance (12:9.6)
is ceasing to resist – our steadfast faith (110:3.2)
man can evolve moral insight because of indwelling Adjuster (95:3.2)
man coheres in Father through Adjuster (2:7.7)
material handicaps to T.A.’ work (109:5sec) (110:4.1,5) (110:7.6)
may be unconscious (34:5.4)
mind endowed with Holy Spirit has capacity to choose T.A. (34:5.4)
mortal consciousness of Adjuster based on perceptions of truth and goodness; motivation to love (103:7.14)
mortal free will affords channel for liberation of Adjuster’s divine and infinite nature (112:7.10)
permit Adjusters to fight with us and for us (111:7.2)
personality attainment is identification with (132:2.5)
realizing presence of Adjuster lifts man out of and beyond himself (103:5.9)
spiritual status is measure of attunement with (100:2.5)
survival attested to by Adjuster’s answer at dispensational roll call (113:6.8)
survival dependent on choosing values selected by T.A. (132:2.2-3) (196:3.17)
T.A. augment qualitative manifestation of personality (16:8.3)
T.A. indwell men subject to human will (111:5.3)
T.A. is man’s infallible cosmic compass (107:0.3,6) (107:4.3)
T.A. is pilot, mind is ship, will is captain (111:1.9)
T.A. possessing special previous experience are source of mortal ability (44:8.1-2)
union with Adjuster confers eternal life (40:7sec)
we can be more certain of T.A. than of reality of our fellows (16:9.4)
we should cherish Adjusters more affectionately (110:1.2)
mortal communication with Adjusters
Adjuster influence is for the most part a superconscious experience (110:5.5) (133:4.9-10)
Adjusters constantly communicate with human subjects (108:6.7) (109:5.2) (110:1.1-2) (110:3.1) (110:4.1) (110:5.6) (110:7.9)
Adjusters register picturizations of destiny with augmenting vividness and conviction (110:6.5)
apparent voice of Adjuster is usually an emanation of intellect (110:3.1) (110:4.1-6) (110:5.6)
challenge is to achieve better communication with T.A. (196:3.34)
difficult for T.A. to engage in direct communication with material mind (101:1.2)
direct and immediate communication upon attaining 1st psychic circle (110:6.15,22)
erroneous concepts of Adjuster guidance (110:5sec)
ever-present possibility of immediate communion (5:1.3) (9:2.5)
heed Adjuster’s distant echo (111:7.2)
human mind almost deaf to (110:7.6,8)
improved in light and life (55:6.4)
in supreme decision, mortals may hear direct voice of (109:5.2-3) (110:7.9)
lack of consciousness of contact does not disprove (5:2.4)
little can be done when men shut off appeal of (149:3.2)
no intermediaries with human subjects (108:2.4) (108:4.1)
prayer attains contact with (91:2.6) (91:6.7)
sometimes possible to hear divine voice within (109:5.2)
soul capable of experiencing presence of (5:2.5)
superconscious is zone of immediate contact (100:5.6)
survivors discern Adjusters mind-to-mind on mansion worlds (110:7.7) (113:7.1)
T.A. have no special mechanism for self-expression (101:1.2)
T.A. rejoice to make contact with mortal mind (110:7.7)
when intellectual development proceeds faster than spiritual, communication dangerous (110:6.4)
mystery of divine indwelling (1:4.1,3) (124:6.17)
nature of Adjusters
absolute foundations upon which finaliter nature can be evolved (116:3.4)
actual fragment of highest and eternal reality, the original Father (5:0.1) (5:6.7) (8:5.2) (42:11.1) (117:3.9)
actuality of Father’s love incarnate in souls of men (2:5.10) (107:0.2) (107:6.2) (108:6.3) (110:0.2) (120:3.9) (136:2.5) (194:2.12) (196:3.21)
Adjusters are one with, of us, as finaliters (40:7.3) (110:7.4)
always subservient to human will (110:2.1-3)
are of God, from God, and are God (32:4.5) (48:1.6) (107:0.6) (107:1.2,5) (108:4.2) (111:1.4)
are to humans what Trinity is to Supreme Being (116:3.4)
are uniform in nature and divinity; function interchangeably (5:1.5) (16:8.3) (107:2.2) (108:1.1) (108:3.1)
can plan, work, and love (107:5.2)
carry valid proof of their existence (1:2.3) (1:6.4)
constitute a reservation by Father for direct and unlimited action and communication (3:1.6,9) (10:3.15) (107:7.6) (108:4.1)
cosmic windows by which we faith-glimpse Father (103:0.1)
divine pledge of future full spiritual stabilization (112:7.10)
do all their work upon intellectual foundation (111:1.1)
do not require energy intake – they are energy (107:6.4,7)
enjoy equivalent of human thinking, prepersonal will (6:6.3) (107:5.2) (107:7.3-4)
entirely outside mind circuits of Infinite Spirit (6:6.3)
essence of man’s eternal nature (113:4.2)
evil spirits are servile before (53:8.7)
exude flavor of divinity (103:1.6)
factors of pure energy are present (107:6.4)
fragmentations of Father on prepersonal absolute level prior to energy-spirit divergence (0:5.9) (1:3.6) (1:5.10) (2:1.11) (5:6.5-7) (16:8.19) (30:1.99-100) (32:4.5) (34:5.6) (40:4.2) (40:6.8) (49:6.5) (56:3.2) (103:1.6) (107:1.2) (107:4.7) (107:5.1-3) (107:6.6) (107:7sec) (108:3.9) (109:4.2)
free gifts by Father (1:2.8)
greatest evidence of love of God (2:5.5,10)
have affection for mortals (107:7.3)
have solitary and exclusive function; comparatively isolated (6:4.5) (32:4.6) (108:4.2)
heavenly helpers, tireless toilers (110:1.2)
image of God in man (1:3.1-2) (10:3.1)
in perfect synchrony with all spirit ministries (108:4.3)
indestructible regardless of mortal survival (117:4.3)
lonely for our companionship (107:6.2)
man is T.A.’s personality possibility (107:6.2) (110:2.5)
more experienced Adjusters indwell higher minds (108:1.1)
mortals’ path to Paradise (5:6.5-7) (40:10.2) (56:4.1) (108:5.1) (112:5.3)
mortals’ power, privilege, possibility of survival (108:6.4)
no limit to numbers of T.A. (2:1.7) (3:4.4)
nonpersonalized Adjusters visible only to Personalized Adjusters (107:4.4)
nonprogressive attitudes cannot last long because of presence of (196:3.17)
nonsurvival of mortal wards never due to neglect of (40:4.1) (107:4.3) (108:5.3) (109:6.1) (110:3.3) (110:4.4)
not identifiable apart from mortal after spirit level (107:5.5)
numbers stricken from records after fusion (108:3.2) (112:7.13)
perfect guides (112:0.1)
pledge of eternal life for seeking souls (132:3.9)
predictions of man’s future universe attainments (117:7.6)
realest and deepest thing in human minds (101:1.7)
respond to spiritual appeal of gospel (152:6.4)
secret of Divinington (13:1.5-6)
seek for divine unification; will return to Father (2:7.7) (149:6.9)
standard of personality survival (132:2.2)
T.A.’s prepersonal will attains personality expression through our decisions (110:2.5)
tormented by sordid and selfish thoughts (3:1.5) (108:6.2)
training of tremendous scope (107:3.9) (109:0.1) (109:1.1)
travel over instantaneous gravity circuits (107:6.4-6)
unlimited ability to communicate with each other (107:5.2)
will always be revealing wonder of God (107:4.7) (117:6.18)
will of God abroad in universes (1:3.6) (10:3.15) (32:3.4-9)
without form until after fusion (42:12.10)
no communication with attending seraphim (113:4.5) (113:5.1)
not examined when subjects fail to survive (108:5.10)
organization and administration (108:3sec)
origin (107:1sec)
pass into realization of identity transition before rejoining resurrected subjects (112:4.13)
proceed to Father upon death of subject (39:2.13)
serve on Divinington after subjects’ deaths until resurrection (40:4.1) (40:9.2) (49:6.5) (112:4sec) (112:4.4-11)
Solitary Messengers and Inspired Trinity Spirits can detect presence of (23:1.9) (107:4.4) (108:3.9)
spiritual beings must humanize to receive (55:4.25,31)
types of Adjusters (107:1.3) (107:2sec)
1. virgin Adjusters
elaborate training and development (109:0.1) (109:1.1)
less ability to communicate with fellows (107:5.2)
often indwell series 2 mortals or on primitive series 1 planets (40:5.13) (109:3.2,8)
seldom assigned to persons of unquestioned survival capacity (109:3.6,8)
serve on primitive worlds, series 1 planets (109:3.2,8)
serving initial assignment (107:2.2)
2. advanced Adjusters
have served on non-Adjuster-fusion worlds (107:2.3)
3. supreme Adjusters
can leave human body at will (109:2.10)
in quarantine, interplanetary communication can be had by liaison of (108:4.4) (109:2.9)
previous human partners declined survival (107:2.4)
4. vanished Adjusters
Monitors on detached assignments or with Father (107:2.5)
5. liberated Adjusters
eternally liberated from service of time (107:1.3) (107:2.1,6)
6. fused Adjusters (109:3.1). See also fusion
have become one with ascending creatures (107:2.7)
7. Personalized Adjusters. See also Personalized Adjusters
have served with incarnated Paradise Sons or otherwise achieved distinction (40:4sec) (107:2.8)
types of Adjusters, other classifications
detached Adjusters
Adjusters of Caligastia 100 were detached (66:4.9)
liaison Adjusters
Adjusters gain experience on loan planets (110:7.3)
loaned for subjects’ temporal lifetimes (109:3.1,3)
self-acting Adjusters (109:2sec)
can leave human body at will (109:2.6,10)
communicate with fellows in other realms (109:2.9)
fewer mortals function safely with (110:4.6)
have marked degree of will in all matters not involving subjects’ personalities (109:2.8)
have served in time of crisis (109:2.7)
in quarantine, interplanetary communication can be had by liaison of (108:4.4) (109:2.9)
progress to self-acting status independent of subject’s co-operation (110:6.2)
reservists have self-acting T.A. (114:7.2)
subjects achieved 3rd psychic circle; made supreme decision; are reservists (109:2.3-5) (110:6.22)

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