Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 110
RELATION OF ADJUSTERS TO INDIVIDUAL MORTALS
1. The endowment of imperfect beings with freedom entails inevitable tragedy, and it is the nature of the perfect ancestral Deity to universally and affectionately share these sufferings in loving companionship. As far as I am conversant with the affairs of a universe, I regard the love and devotion of a Thought Adjuster as the most truly divine affection in all creation.
2. The Adjusters are loving leaders, your safe and sure guides through the dark and uncertain mazes of your short earthly career; they are the patient teachers who so constantly urge their subjects forward in the paths of progressive perfection. They are the careful custodians of the sublime values of creature character. I wish you could love them more, co‑operate with them more fully, and cherish them more affectionately.
3. They are delighted to contribute to your health, happiness, and true prosperity. They are not indifferent to your success in all matters of planetary advancement which are not inimical to your future life of eternal progress ...The Adjuster remains with you in all disaster and through every sickness which does not wholly destroy the mentality. But how unkind knowingly to defile or otherwise deliberately to pollute the physical body, which must serve as the earthly tabernacle of this marvelous gift from God. All physical poisons greatly retard the efforts of the Adjuster to exalt the material mind, while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul.
4. Today you are passing through the period of the courtship of your Adjuster; and if you only prove faithful to the trust reposed in you by the divine spirit who seeks your mind and soul in eternal union, there will eventually ensue...that oneness of being which is so perfect and final that even the most experienced personalities can never segregate as separate identities the fusion partners—mortal man and divine Adjuster.
5. When Thought Adjusters indwell human minds... they begin work with a definite and predetermined plan for the intellectual and spiritual development of their human subjects, but it is not incumbent upon any human being to accept this plan ...The Adjusters respect your sovereignty of personality; they are always subservient to your will.
6. The Adjusters are dedicated to improving, modifying, adjusting, and co‑ordinating your thinking processes; but more especially and specifically they are devoted to the work of building up spiritual counterparts of your careers, morontia transcripts of your true advancing selves, for survival purposes.
7. You as a personal creature have mind and will. The Adjuster as a prepersonal creature has premind and prewill. If you so fully conform to the Adjuster's mind that you see eye to eye, then your minds become one, and you receive the reinforcement of the Adjuster's mind ...To the extent that this identity is realized, you are mentally approaching the morontia order of existence ...Morontia intellect, therefore, connotes a dual mind in the local universe dominated by one will.
8. The success of your Adjuster is the enterprise of piloting you through the mortal life and bringing about your survival depends not so much on the theories of your beliefs as upon your decisions, determinations, and steadfast faith…The secret of survival is wrapped up in the supreme human desire to be Godlike and in the associated willingness to do and be any and all things which are essential to the final attainment of that over‑mastering desire.
9. I cannot but observe that so many of you spend so much time and thought on mere trifles of living, while you almost wholly overlook the more essential realities of everlasting import...The great goal of human existence is to attune to the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster...But a devoted and determined effort to realize eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a light‑hearted and joyous life and with a successful and honorable career on earth.
10. Confusion, being puzzled, even sometimes discouraged and distracted, does not necessarily signify resistance to the leadings of the indwelling Adjuster ...Ignorance alone can never prevent survival; neither can confusional doubts nor fearful uncertainty. Only conscious resistance to the Adjuster's leading can prevent the survival of the evolving immortal soul.
11. You must not regard co‑operation with your Adjuster as a particularly conscious process, for it is not; but your motives and your decisions, your faithful determinations and your supreme desires, do constitute real and effective co‑operation. You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by:
1. Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness.
2. Loving God and desiring to be like him.
3. Loving man and sincerely desiring to serve him.
4. Joyful acceptance of cosmic citizenship.12. The Thought Adjuster is engaged in a constant effort so to spiritualize your mind as to evolve your morontia soul; but you yourself are mostly unconscious of this inner ministry. You are quite incapable of distinguishing the product of your own material intellect from that of the conjoint activities of your soul and the Adjuster.
13. There exists a vast gulf between the human and the divine...You are so devoid of courageous decisions and consecrated co‑operation that your indwelling Adjusters find it next to impossible to communicate directly with the human mind. Even when they do find it possible to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolving mortal soul, this spiritual revelation often so blinds the creature as to precipitate a convulsion of fanaticism or to initiate some other intellectual upheaval which results disastrously. Many a new religion and strange "ism" has arisen from the aborted, imperfect, misunderstood, and garbled communication of the Thought Adjusters.
14. Do not confuse and confound the mission and influence of the Adjuster with what is commonly called conscience; they are not directly related. Conscience is a human and purely psychic reaction.
15. The Adjusters simply cannot, in a single lifetime, arbitrarily co‑ordinate and synchronize two such unlike and diverse types of thinking as the human and the divine. When they do, as they sometimes have, such souls are translated directly to the mansion worlds without the necessity of passing through the experience of death.
16. It is extremely dangerous to postulate as to the Adjuster content of the dream life... a human being would do better to err in rejecting an Adjuster's expression through believing it to be a purely human experience than to blunder into exalting a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine dignity ...every human being must settle these problems for himself in accordance with his natural human wisdom and superhuman insight.
17. The Adjuster of the human being through whom this communication is being made enjoys such a wide scope of activity chiefly because of this human's almost complete indifference to any outward manifestations of the Adjuster's inner presence ...And all this constitutes a favorable co‑ordination of influences, favorable both to the Adjuster in the higher sphere of action and to the human partner from the standpoints of health, efficiency, and tranquility.
18. The sum total of personality realization on a material world is contained within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being ...The psychic circles...have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious functioning of the entire personality.
19. When the development of the intellectual nature proceeds faster than that of the spiritual, such a situation renders communication with the Thought Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, overspiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spirit leadings of the divine indweller... It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function... that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being
20. The Adjusters are always near you and of you, but rarely can they speak directly, as another being, to you. Circle by circle your intellectual decisions, moral choosings, and spiritual development add to the ability of the Adjuster to function in your mind... Every decision you make either impedes or facilitates the function of the Adjuster.
21. It is difficult precisely to define the seven levels of human progression ...The conquest of these levels of cosmic evolution is reflected, in three ways:
1. Adjuster attunement. The spiritizing mind nears the Adjuster presence proportional to circle attainment.
2. Soul evolution. The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent and depth of circle mastery.
3. Personality reality. The degree of selfhood reality is directly determined by circle conquest. Persons become more real as they ascend from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence.
22. These circle attainments are only relatively related to God‑consciousness. A seventh or sixth circler can be almost as truly God‑knowing—sonship conscious—as a second or first circler, but such lower circle beings are far less conscious of experiential relation to the Supreme Being, universe citizenship ...The motivation of faith makes experiential the full realization of man's sonship with God, but action, completion of decisions, is essential to the evolutionary attainment of consciousness of progressive kinship with the cosmic actuality of the Supreme Being.
23. The mastery of the cosmic circles is related to the quantitative growth of the morontia soul ...But the qualitative status of this immortal soul is wholly dependent on the grasp of living faith ...that mortal man is a son of the eternal God.
24. There is only an indirect relation between cosmic‑circle attainment and actual spiritual religious experience ...Purely spiritual development may have little to do with planetary material prosperity, but circle attainment always augments the potential of human success and mortal achievement.
25. The achievement of the seven cosmic circles does not equal Adjuster fusion. There are many mortals living on Urantia who have attained their circles; but fusion depends on yet other greater and more sublime spiritual achievements, upon the attainment of a final and complete attunement of the mortal will with the will of God as it is resident in the Thought Adjuster.
26. When the evolving soul and the divine Adjuster are finally and eternally fused, each gains all of the experiencible qualities of the other...But it will require an eternity of the future for an Adjuster ever completely to endow the personality partnership with the meanings and values which the divine Monitor carries forward from the eternity of the past.
27. So few mortals are real thinkers; you do not spiritually develop and discipline your minds to the point of favorable liaison with the divine Adjusters. The ear of the human mind is almost deaf to the spiritual pleas which the Adjuster translates from the manifold messages of the universal broadcasts of love proceeding from the Father of mercies.
28. Not long since, on Urantia...a message was transmitted by a self‑acting Adjuster to the human associate... "that he more faithfully give me his sincere co‑operation, more cheerfully endure the tasks of my emplacement, more faithfully carry out the program of my arrangement, more patiently go through the trials of my selection, more persistently and cheerfully tread the path of my choosing, more humbly receive credit that may accrue as a result of my ceaseless endeavors…”
Discussion Questions
1. How can we develop a consciousness of partnership with God?
2. How do the mental poisons of fear, anger, and negative emotions interfere with the Adjuster’s influence?
3. How do we discover the Adjuster’s ideal plan for our lives?
4. How can we tell if our will is harmonious with the will of our Adjuster?
5. How can we guard against mistaking our purely human ideas from the guidance of the Adjuster?
6. Are the “trifles of living” primarily related to material concerns?
7. How does one facilitate psychic circle growth by the development of our entire personality?
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