The Soul: Origin, Evolution and Destiny
Part 2: The Seven Adjutant Mind Spirits
The Adjutant Mind-Circuits
These circuits represent that function of the mind ministry of the Infinite Spirit extended to the lower orders of intelligent life through the local universe Mother Spirit, the personal Divine Minister.
The seven adjutant mind circuits are the spirits of:
- 1. Intuition
- 2. Understanding
- 3. Courage
- 4. Knowledge
- 5. Council
- 6. Worship
- 7. Wisdom
Adjutants are not personalities and they are not entities. They are a level of consciousness of the Divine Minister, the local universe Mother Spirit. They are more like circuits and are referred to as the 'children' of the Mother Spirit. They are always subordinate to her and constitute her Personal Ministry to the material minds of the realms. Adjutants afford the Universe Mother Spirit varied contact with, and control over, the material living creatures of the local universe.
Beginning in early childhood the first five adjutants function in any given living organism of intellect status. In mortal mind they work to progress the child to a level of consciousness so that the last two adjutants of worship and wisdom may function with the previous five. Mortal mind is adjutant mind.
With the appearance of spiritual response of creature intellect, such minds become super-minded. All seven adjutants' circuits are then functioning in the mind. Under the direction of the adjutant mind-spirit of wisdom the mortal mind is instantly encircuited in the spirit cycles of the local universe Mother Spirit -- the highly spiritual function of the spirit of the personal presence of the Divine Minister, the Holy Spirit of the inhabited worlds. (401;5) (Please read 948; #7 -- The Adjutants of Worship and Wisdom)
The great circuits of energy, mind, and spirit are never the permanent possessions of ascending personality. These ministries remain forever a part of Supremacy. In the mortal experience the human intellect resides in the rhythmic pulsations of the adjutant mind spirits and affects its decisions within the arena produced by encircuitment within this ministry. Upon mortal death the human self is everlastingly divorced from the adjutant circuit. (l286;6)
These adjutant mind-spirits (circuits) are centrally lodged on the Life Carrier worlds at Salvington. They send forth their influence into all the inhabited worlds, each individually seeking receptivity capacity for manifesting. Each functions in various degrees according to reception in mortal personality -- receptivity capacity.
The first five adjutant are perfect 'indicators' of the receptivity capacity of the mind. They indicate to the Life Carrier supervisors the extent and quality of the mind function of the adjutants. But the last two adjutants of worship and wisdom record this qualitative function -- the God-consciousness quality of the mind. The quantitative activity (the realization of universe citizenship) -- the relation to the Supreme Being -- is registered in the immediate presence of the Divine Minister on Salvington as a personal experience of the local universe Mother Spirit.
Remember: The qualitative activity of mind function is the God-consciousness. The quantitative activity of the function of mind is the universe consciousness.
Prerequisites for Adjuster Indwelling
(a)When purely animal mind of evolutionary creatures develops reception capacity for spirit (the adjutants of worship and wisdom) -- immediately are such minds of worship and wisdom function included in the spiritual circuits of the Divine Minister -- the Holy Spirit. It then possesses the capacity for choosing the spiritual presence of the Universal Father, the Thought Adjuster (choosing, moral choice, desire).
But it is not until a bestowal Son has liberated the Spirit of Truth for planetary ministry to all mortals that all normal minds are automatically prepared for the reception of the thought Adjuster. This spirit of the Son is almost wholly limited in function and power by man's personal reception. (see 62;1 -- normal minded and morally conscious).
This dual spirit liaison hovers over the worlds, seeking to teach truth and spiritually enlighten the minds of men and lead them to their Paradise goal of divine destiny. The ministry of the Holy Spirit becomes increasingly effective in the inner life of those mortals who the more fully obey the divine leadings. (379; #5)
(b) Adjusters cannot invade mortal mind until it has been duly prepared by the indwelling ministry of the seven adjutant mind-spirits and encircuited in the Holy Spirit. It requires the coordinate function of all seven adjutants to thus qualify the human mind for the reception of an adjuster. Creature mind must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate wisdom function -- by exhibiting the ability to choose between the emerging values of good and evil -- moral choice. (Good and evil defined: 842; #4,3; 1660;2-6)
Thus is the stage of the human mind set for the reception of the Adjusters. But as a general rule they do not immediately appear to indwell such minds except on those worlds where the Spirit of Truth is functioning as a spiritual coordinator of these different spirit ministries.
Even with the Spirit of Truth endowed mind the Adjusters cannot invade the mortal intellect prior to the making of a moral decision. But when such a moral decision has been made, the Adjuster assumes jurisdiction direct from Divinington. (1187;2,3,4)
(c) Human inheritance is a considerable factor in determining selection and assignment of an adjuster. All Adjusters are volunteers. But before volunteering they are in possession of full data of the candidate. (1185; #1)
They are apprised of records of:
- 1. Seraphic drafts of ancestry
- 2. projected patterns of life conduct
These records are sent from the capitals of the local universes to the headquarters of the superuniverses and transmitted via Paradise to the reserve corps of Adjusters on Divinington by the reflectivity technique.
Human Forecasts cover:
- 1. Hereditary antecedents
- 2. Estimate of probable intellectual endowment
- 3. Spiritual capacity of receptivity, and degree of consecration of will to the doing of the Father's will
Volunteering adjusters are particularly interested in three qualifications:
- 1. Intellectual capacity (normal intellectual potential? can wisdom function?)
- 2. Spiritual perception (receptivity?)
- 3. Combined intellectual and spiritual powers (degree these can be combined to develop strength of character and contribute to the assurance of survival value). Sex is of no consideration.
A "working Pattern" of the waiting mortal's mind is used to instruct the assigned Adjuster as to the most effective plans for personality approach and mind spiritization. These mind models are formulated by data supplied by the superuniverse reflectivity service, information put together through contact with Solitary Messengers -- the first and senior order of the Higher Personalities of the Infinite Spirit. (1185; #5) (Concerning Solitary Messengers see 256)
Please read the following: Significance of the origin of any individual, race, or world. (314;2-4) Spirit-reception affected by gland chemistry. Also note that the spiritual imagination is affected by chemical endowment (566; NL-no.3). Also note the risk of cramping "spiritual imagination" by formalized religion (1942;3,4).
Mortals are embraced by the Supreme
It should be noted here that:
"Creatures and universes, high and low are evolving within the Supreme, and as they evolve, there is appearing a unified summation of the entire finite activity of this universe age." (1281;3)
"If you truly desire to find God, you cannot help having born in your minds the consciousness of the Supreme. As God is your divine Father, so is the Supreme your divine mother, in whom you are nurtured throughout your lives as universe creatures."
"What Michael is to Nebadon" in the morontia level, the Supreme is to the finite cosmos" -- (the living way, from Nebadon throughout spirit existence). He is the great avenue through which finite creatures pass inward in their quest of the Father who is love. Even Thought Adjusters are related to him; in original nature and divinity they are like the Father, but when they experience the transactions of time in the universes of space, they become like the Supreme", (1288;2,3)
The unremitting and exacting function of the Supreme Being in our lives becomes increasingly powerful throughout our destiny. (This relationship is described more fully in Part 7 of this series. And the dramatic climax of synchrony, through supremacizing which must be attained, is explained in Part 12 .)
Next: Adjuster Arrival and Initiation of the Soul
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