Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 109
RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO UNIVERSE CREATURES
1. Human existence constitutes a period of practice which is effectively utilized by the Adjusters in preparing for the increased responsibilities and the greater opportunities of a future life.
2. Actual living experience has no cosmic substitute ...it is the one thing which no amount of divine endowment can absolve you from the necessity of securing by actual living... Thought Adjusters must acquire experience ...The first stage of Adjuster evolution is attained in fusion with the surviving soul of a mortal being.
3. A self‑acting Adjuster is one who:
1. Has had certain requisite experience...Such a Monitor is either an advanced or a supreme Adjuster.
2. Has acquired the balance of spiritual power in a human who has made the third psychic circle
3. Has a subject who has made the supreme decision.
4. Has a subject who has been mustered into one of the reserve corps of destiny.
5. At some time, during human sleep, has been temporarily detached from the mind of mortal incarceration to perform some exploit .
6. Has served in the time of crisis.4. The Adjusters receive valuable training and acquire wonderful experience in transient association with primitive minds, and they are able subsequently to utilize this experience for the benefit of superior beings on other worlds. Nothing of survival value is ever lost in all the wide universe.
5. On worlds such as Urantia (the series three group) there is a real betrothal with the divine gifts, a life and death engagement. If you .survive, there is to be an eternal union, an everlasting fusion, the making of man and Adjuster one being.
6. On the two‑brain worlds, subsequent to the sojourn of a Paradise bestowal Son ...It is our belief that ...practically all Adjusters indwelling intelligent men and women of survival capacity belong to the advanced or to the supreme type.
7. The 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.
8. If the Adjusters indwelling the minds of the inhabitants of Urantia were to be withdrawn, the world would slowly return to many of the scenes and practices of the men of primitive times; the divine Monitors are one of the real potentials of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.
9. I have observed a Thought Adjuster indwelling a mind on Urantia who has, according to the records on Uversa, indwelt fifteen minds previously on Orvonton...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.
10. Supreme and self‑acting Adjusters are often able to contribute factors of spiritual import to the human mind when it flows freely in the liberated but controlled channels of creative imagination…Their work is not only interfered with by the innate natures of the mortal races, but this ministry is also greatly retarded by your own preconceived opinions, settled ideas, and long‑standing prejudices ...in scrutinizing mental situations safety lies only in the prompt recognition of each and every thought and experience for just what it actually and fundamentally is, disregarding entirely what it might have been,
11. The great problem of life is the adjustment of the ancestral tendencies of living to the demands of the spiritual urges initiated by the divine presence of the Mystery Monitor.
12. Heredity may interfere with the rate of personality conquest, but it does not prevent eventual consummation of the ascendant adventure.
13. Adjusters never fail; nothing worth surviving is ever lost; every meaningful value in every will creature is certain of survival, irrespective of the survival or nonsurvival of the meaning‑discovering or evaluating personality.
14. The activities of Adjusters in your local universe are directed by the Personalized Adjuster of Michael of Nebadon…This same Adjuster now reflects in the inscrutable nature of his mighty personality the prebaptismal humanity of Joshua ben Joseph, the eternal and living transcript of the eternal and living values which the greatest of all Urantians created out of the humble circumstances of a commonplace life.
15. Personalized Thought Adjusters are the untrammeled, unassigned, and sovereign stabilizers and compensators of the far‑flung universe of universes. They combine the Creator and creature experience—existential and experiential…Personalized Adjusters are the all-wise and powerful executives of the Architects of the Master Universe…They are the exclusive beings of the universes who embrace within their being all the known relationships of personality.
16. Personalized Adjusters perform a wide range of services for numerous orders of universe personalities ...These extraordinary human divinities are among the most remarkable personalities of the entire grand universe, and no one dares to predict what their future missions may be.
Discussion Questions1. Why is the activity of Adjusters primarily involved in rehearsing the realities of our future universe career?
2. What is unique about experience that cannot be duplicated by existential reality?
3. What might self-acting Adjusters be doing on our world?
4. How can we tell whether our abilities are primarily the result of Adjuster help or natural capacities?
5. How should we evaluate our ideas and motives to ascertain if they are harmonious with
Adjuster guidance?
6. How can we eliminate our preconceived opinions and prejudices?
7. What might have been the crisis on our world not long since when the Vorondadek observer assumed an emergency regency?
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