WILLIAM S. SADLER, JR.
23 July 1960
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
Part 2 of 11
Transcribed by Kristen Maaherra
Scanned by Christel Schmidt
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Audience: . . . and they have before waited a long, long time, where did they.In the near regions of Paradise. On their home world.
Audience: And how did they choose?
Well, you've asked a lot of questions now. Let's take 'em one at a time. Adjusters are from eternity. They are not time beings. So a long or a short wait would be utterly meaningless to a Thought Adjuster.
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
A Thought Adjuster is a fragment of God, which indwells human beings. Time has no meaning to an Adjuster. Space does. The Adjuster knows where he is, but the when is of supreme unimportance. The Adjuster has waited for all past eternity for this, so the wait is much longer than you figure. The Adjuster waits on the Adjuster's home world, which is in the near regions of Paradise. In the near regions of Omega. The Adjuster volunteers to come down here and live with you after the Adjuster has studied a working model of your mind. They pick up the gene pattern. They forecast what you could be. They forecast your intellectual potential, your spiritual potential, your capacity to unify mind and spirit -- to grow a soul -- and the Adjuster studies you as you are projected, just exactly the way an architect would draw the blueprint of a building-to-be. Do you follow me? So they project a human being to-be. Your Adjuster knew all about you before ever volunteering. And your Adjuster comes down with God's plan for your life. Which, I suspect, each of us proceeds to louse up almost beyond recognition. So every so often, the plan comes back, and there's a great big, "rework" tag hung on it. This won't work anymore because an essential part has been removed by the fatheaded decision of this human being. So now we reconstruct it. We can't have the 14-story skyscraper anymore. This would be a wonderful building. We're down now to a modest split-level ranch house.
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
No, not so long as there's a Chinaman's chance. They keep re-planning, re-working the plan. They never hang a "scrap" tag on it, a "rework" tag will get by. Question?
Audience: How do you account for the differences in the (Can't understand tape) ... between mortals?
They have different heredity. And unfortunately, people don't always breed wisely. And if two awfully slow thinkers get together to have a family, I'm afraid the chances are the I.Q.'s in that family will be rather low. And since they have free will, who's going to stop them? Conversely, if you have selected strains -- and the way you get selected strains is to kill off a lot of people -- then you get lots of ability.
Example: Let's contrast two islands. May we? Let's contrast Iceland and Newfoundland. Both settled by Northern Europeans. It was easy to settle in Newfoundland. They came late, there were fishermen, technology was pretty good, no great mortality. Iceland was settled 600 years before Newfoundland. The technology was very primitive. Iceland was settled in the 900's. They died like flies. Only the strong, only the wise, survived. The Icelander helped this along. I was shocked to read that a sheriff in Iceland in the Middle Ages had authority to emasculate any male who was a beggar. Stop the breeding. A priest had the authority to refuse to marry any couple if one or both of them were illiterate. If you were shipwrecked on the shores of Iceland, in let's say 1550, and you were a Frenchman, you would meet a sheepherder, and let's say you were a scholar, you would discover he could speak Latin. You could converse with him.
Newfoundland has been unable to balance its budget in recent years. It had to give up its status as a crown colony and appeal to London for help. Iceland has never asked for help from anyone. There are about 3 public libraries in Newfoundland; there are 50 in Iceland. There are just a few professional publications in Newfoundland; Iceland is prolific, with publications covering veterinary surgery, the medical arts, dentistry, architecture, music, writing, and what not. The percentage of names of Icelanders who appear in the Encyclopedia Britannia is all out of proportion to the population. This, I think, is how you get superior strains.
The same applies in New England, where the earlier strains and the mortality was frightening, fearful -- but the strong, the smart, survived. The later strains gradually grade down to the American average. The early strains had more progress, better Dunn and Bradstreet ratings, more college presidents, more members of the American Congress. And so on.
Audience: Now if there are no sizes in (Can't understand tape).
Well, the dumb folks have just as good a chance with God as the smart ones, but they don't make the same contribution to human civilization.
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
Ah, we're getting in deeper and deeper.
Audience: Laughter.
Are you satisfied with the answer?
Audience: Yes.
On brain power? It's breeding and natural selection, as nearly as I can determine.
The soul originates when this fragment of God invades the human mind sometime about the fifth year of life. This results in a conception; the human mind is the womb of the soul, the mother of the soul. The fragment of God is the father of the soul, and the soul is an embryonic reality, slowly growing within the womb of the mind, just as a child grows in its mother's womb. And if we live long enough, and we're civilized enough, we might die with mature souls, instead of having to go to these incubator worlds to complete the de-animalizing process.
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
Oh. I think the Adjuster's referred to as, "the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world". You know you derail me when you ask me to quote the Bible.
Audience: Laughter.
I do know it, but I have to shift gears. Question? How long are these people going to sit here, Clyde?
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
Well of course they never do. (Can't understand tape).
If you all aren't going to ask questions, then I'm going to read you one more passage in Cliff
Audience: I'd like to know how would you know whether or not, after you die, whether you're going to make it or not . assurance (Can't understand tape).
You've got to figure that out for yourself
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
I wanted to avoid that. All right. You don 't have that assurance. And if you did, that very assurance might ruin your chances. 'Cause you might get real smug, and high and mighty, and top-lofty, you know, like some Methodists.
Audience: Laughter.
That's right. Or some Presbyterians. If you believe in predestination, and you're predestined to survive, you can be socially frightful to your poor benighted associates.
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
No. But you're inspired to keep on trying. I'm not sure I'm gonna make it. But I sure am full of hope. I'm not in the least afraid, but I sure don't feel smug about it, either. I feel thoroughly challenged. I'm speaking for myself. That's the only person I can speak for with assurance. And I have no formula as to what is God's will. I've listened to people explain God's will to me. But they're often these Pollyanna's, you know -- you smile at people, and you're polite to people. That's manners, not religion.
Audience: Bill, what does the Book indicate that would give you a chance of survival? What are you actually supposed to do? (Can't understand tape). Could you give us a little more explanation on that? Are we to be altruistic?
God has extended an invitation to us. Now, we can come if we want.
... as Jesus so aptly pointed out, in the story of the marriage feast, you know, an invitation was extended. And some of those who felt pretty assured of their social acceptability in that household were too busy. So they didn't come to the marriage feast. And a lot of folks who never expected to be invited, got invited. I think it's a good thing that we don't know, or we might be like, you know, the guy who married a wife who can't come, I've got this piece of business to finish up, and I'm too busy, and so on and so on --
Audience: Well, that's not what I meant at all. I feel like if you're sincerely making an effort to do something, you have to have the feeling within yourself that you're accomplishing something or ...
I think I'm growing.
Audience: I beg your pardon?
I said I think I'm growing. Now, whether I'm growing fast enough is moot.
Audience: (Can't understand tape) .... sometime, along the way
I think you get these feelings.
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
I tell you, I've talked to some folks who "have it made." And they send such a chill through me, that I lean a little bit in the other direction. You follow me? I've talked to some folks who were "going to survive." They say so. I hope they're right.
Audience: Bill, if the mind is the womb in which the soul is born--
Is conceived.
Audience: Is conceived, by a fragment of God, then where does love, the cohesiveness, appear?
Where does love appear?
Audience: Yes, mind can't be love.
No, but personal mind can know love.
Audience: (Can't understand tape).
Sure, the Adjuster teaches. The Adjuster hails from the source of love.
Audience: Then this is the prerequisite though, actually, for development.
Well, this is the equipment we all have. As the Papers state, unless a divine lover lived in man, he could never altruistically love. ["Unless a divine lover lived in man, he could not unselfishly and spiritually love." (2094.last)]
Audience: Well then, does this little phrase then from the Bavada-Gita imply a reasonable truth, that "love is the root in which the Godspell lies to be awakened. "
No. "Love is the desire to do good to others." (648.last) That's love in action. Love is the product of a complete human being, who is a person, who has freewill, he has a mind, he has a growing soul, he's indwelt by God. And he looks out at his fellow man and he says, "They're God's children, too." And so he loves them. And when in turn he loves God, we call that worship. To me true worship is nothing but the love which a creature bears for the Creator. Worship asks nothing and expects nothing. Prayer, you're asking for something, wisely or unwisely.
The formula for survival, if I had to pick one, I'd pick the great commandment: "To love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength and your neighbor as yourself." (1805#7, 1809.3). If there is a formula, there it is. If this you do, you'll grow. You can't fail to grow. Because even if you're a fathead in the manifestation of your affection -- and God knows that many a do-gooder is an awful pain in the neck, you know. You'll learn, by mistakes. And you'll improve your techniques.
I'm going to read one more thing, and then I'm going to quit 'cause I'm getting tired.
Audience: Sure you are, Bill.
They had me working all day. I want to read you the introduction to Paper 1, because this comes as near telling you what this Book is about as any single --
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