Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 107
ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THOUGHT ADJUSTERS
1. Although the Universal Father is personally resident on Paradise ...he is also actually present on the worlds of space in the minds of his countless children of time ...The eternal Father is at one and the same time farthest removed from, and most intimately associated with, his planetary mortal sons.
2. God, having commanded man to be perfect, even as he is perfect, has descended as the Adjuster to become man's experiential partner in the achievement of the supernal destiny which has been thus ordained.
3. The Adjuster is our compensatory equalization of the enormous universe tension which is created by the distance of man's removal from God and by the degree of his partiality in contrast with the universality of the eternal Father ...The Adjuster is man's infallible cosmic compass, always and unerringly pointing the soul Godward.
4. From the arrival of the Adjuster to comparative full growth ...the Monitors are sometimes designated Thought Changers. From this time to the attainment of the age of discretion ...Thought Adjusters. From the attainment of discretion to deliverance from the flesh ...Thought Controllers.
5. The Adjusters are undiluted and unmixed divinity, unqualified and unattenuated parts of Deity; they are of God, and as far as we are able to discern, they are God ...In the last analysis, the Father fragments must be the gift of the absolute God to those creatures whose destiny encompasses the possibility of the attainment of God as absolute,
6. Adjusters are individuated as virgin entities, and all are destined to become either liberated, fused, or Personalized Monitors. We understand that there are seven orders of Thought Adjusters ...l. Virgin Adjusters ...2. Advanced Adjusters...3. Supreme Adjusters...4. Vanished Adjusters... 5. Liberated Adjusters... 6. Fused Adjusters... 7. Personalized Adjusters.
7. All universe activities related to the dispatch, management, direction, and return of the Mystery Monitors from service in all of the seven superuniverses seem to be centered on the sacred sphere of Divinington...I have often reflected that it would be quite useless for me to go to Divinington...I am very sure there is nothing on Divinington of real value or profit to me, nothing essential to my growth and development, or I should not have been forbidden to go there.
8. The valor and wisdom exhibited by Thought Adjusters suggest that they have undergone a training of tremendous scope and range ...They are qualified as to universality but not as to nature; in extensiveness they are limited, but in intensiveness of meaning, value, and fact they are absolute…No Adjuster has ever been disloyal to the Paradise Father.
9. The universal invisibility of the Adjusters is strongly suggestive of their high and exclusive divine origin and nature. There is a characteristic light, a spirit luminosity, which accompanies this divine presence ...in...Nebadon...known as the "pilot light"; on Uversa it is called the "light ,, of life." On Urantia...that "true light which lights every man who comes into the world.”
10. Can you really realize the true significance of the Adjuster's indwelling?...When mortal man fuses with an actual fragment of the existential Cause of the total cosmos, no limit can ever be placed upon the destiny of such an unprecedented and unimaginable partnership.
11. The mindedness of the Thought Adjuster is like the mindedness of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son—that which is ancestral to the minds of the Conjoint Actor.
12. The Adjuster is man's eternity possibility; man is the Adjuster's personality possibility. Your individual Adjusters work to spiritize you in the hope of eternalizing your temporal identity ...They truly and divinely love you...They long for the divinity attainment of your mortal minds that their loneliness may end, that they may be delivered with you from the limitations of material investiture and the habiliments of time.
13. We know that Thought Adjusters are spirits, pure spirits, presumably absolute spirits. But the Adjuster must also be something more than exclusive spirit reality ...If you will remember that God is the source of pure energy and of pure spirit, it will not be so difficult to perceive that his fragments would be both...Thought Adjusters do not require energy intake; they are energy, energy of the highest and most divine order.
14. Why then, if Thought Adjusters possess volition, are they subservient to the mortal will? We believe it is because Adjuster volition, though absolute in nature, is prepersonal in manifestation. Human will functions on the personality level of universe reality, and throughout the cosmos the impersonal—the nonpersonal, the subpersonal, and the prepersonal—is ever responsive to the will and acts of existent personality.
15. There are no created beings that would not delight to be hosts to the Mystery Monitors, but no orders of beings are thus indwelt excepting evolutionary will creatures of finaliter destiny.
Discussion Questions1. Do Christians believe the the Spirit of God indwells human minds?
2. Why is the name “Mystery Monitors” given to Thought Adjusters?
3. Why do high spirit beings know less about Divinington than the other six secret spheres of Paradise?
4. What is the subjective effect of knowing that no limit can be placed on mortals who have fused with Adjusters?
5. Why are the Thought Adjusters able to use the material circuits of the grand universe?
6. What is the best explanation of the volitional ability of Thought Adjusters?
7. How does this view of fusion with the Spirit of God differ from the view of Christians concerning life after death?
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