Life's Quest

Acknowledgement

The content of this blog is excerpted primarily from The Urantia Book unless credited to other authors. Some conclusions are interpretive. [Urantia is the cosmic name for Earth.]
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Introduction

“I” am a fragment of energy, a particle of the Unqualified Absolute, therefore, the absolute Universal Father.
As a fragment of the Unqualified Absolute. "I" began a quintessential quest for deity while lacking personality and all creator prerogatives. “I” is in quotes since “I” lack a personality.
As a fragment of the Unqualified Absolute "I" have been progressing for innumerable ages from the smallest particle of energy (the ultimaton) through countless programmed transformations (including metamorphic forces and life evolution - physical, chemical, and living forms).
[As an example of transformative forces, on the Mansion Worlds, living circuit regulators initiate changes in material energies that render the material energies subject to control and regulation. Much as a dynamo apparently generates electricity out of the atmosphere, these living dynamos seem to transform the energies of space into materials that the morontia energy regulators weave into the bodies and life activities of ascending mortals. Seven of the fifty-six transition spheres of mortal ascension are called “mansion worlds.”]
In my present human phase, “I” administer a human life form composed of myriads of less advanced brother fragments of the Unqualified Absolute. While indwelling the mind of my present personified human form, “I” must make the leap from physical energy matter to Mansion World mansonia (the midway form of energy between matter and spirit).
This transition can only be accomplished by the free will decisions of my human personality, which is a gift of the Universal Father, and our soul, which is a gift of the Supreme God of Time and Space.
The single requirement for the trinity of our personality, soul, and “I” is to sincerely cooperate to do the Father's will, which is to achieve full finaliter status in Paradise.
The soul (of my personality and “I”) is already composed of the energy matter of the Mansion World mansonia material. Our soul is the record of the free will life decisions of our personality, whom “I” attempt to counsel and for which my personality and “I” will be judged as worthy of salvation or not. If we are successful my personality and “I” will be fused together forever. If we are not successful, my present personality (the experience of this life) will cease to be, and “I” must await another human rebirth with a new personality experience.
Liberation to the higher dimension of the Mansion Worlds will release us (my personality that “I” counsel, and our soul) from this world's physical gravity and induce a greater grasp of spiritual and mind gravity.
The transformation of each individual fragment of the non-deity and non-personified Unqualified Absolute is partial fulfillment of the plan of the “I AM” to deify and personify the totality of the Unqualified Absolute energy/matter fragments into absolute Oneness (deified personality).
The Oneness Plan of the “I Am” entailed the fathering of the Paradise Trinity and genesis of the experiential creation creating a path through the experiential Supreme, Ultimate, and Absolute Gods from Experiential to Existential being for non-deity.
The uniting of all the personified fragments of the Unqualified Absolute will realize the quintessence of brotherhood.

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The God of Infinity
The Universal Father is the God of Infinity – the I Am.
The Universal Father harmonizes and unifies All – the Experiential Creation and the Existential Absolute.
The God of Infinity hears all, sees all, knows all and loves all. [Reflectivity is the unique and inexplicable power of the Supreme to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they transpire throughout the super universes. Reflectivity is enhanced by the gravity circuits of person, spirit, and mind.] It is the nature of the Father and the God of Infinity to love.

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Personality

Rudimentary Ideas about Personality
The human idea of personality is greatly misunderstood.
The dictionary definition of the term is ambiguous. Personality is defined as the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character. Synonyms include character, nature, disposition, temperament, makeup, persona, and psyche.
The concept of personality is far greater than the dictionary definition.
Personality is fundamental to human existence. Personality is our experience. It is experiential in the cosmic sense. Personality is a priceless gift. It is an individual's potential expression of Self – Oneness.

Potential Adventure
The evolutionary planets (like Earth) are the spheres of human origin - the initial worlds of the ascending personality's career. On Earth, every mortal beyond age six is joined with his or her divine mind monitor in a temporary union. This mind monitor is the person's guide to salvation.
If each human personality sincerely runs the race of time on Earth and gains the final goal of salvation, eternal union (fusion) with the mind indwelling fragment of the Unqualified Absolute is achieved.
When the human personality fuses with the mind monitor on the Mansion Worlds, then begins the former human's real life, the ascending life, to which the present mortal state is just the portal. Still later will begin the exalted and progressive mission as a spiritual “finaliter” in the eternity which stretches forever.
Throughout all of these successive ages and stages of evolutionary growth the personality remains absolutely unaltered. The personality of the ex-human is permanence in the presence of constant change.

The Essence of Personality
Notwithstanding that God is an eternal power, a majestic presence, a transcendent ideal, and a glorious spirit, he is a perfect Creator personality, a person who can “know and be known,” who can “love and be loved.”
As we beings see the Universal Father revealed throughout his universe; as we discern him indwelling his myriads of creatures; as we behold him in the persons of his ruling Sons; as we continue to sense his divine presence here and there, near and afar, we should not doubt nor question the primacy of his personality.
Notwithstanding all of the far-flung distributions of himself, he remains a true person and everlastingly maintains personal connection with the countless hosts (the imminent mind indwelling father fragments) of his creatures scattered throughout the universe of universes.

The Gods within the One God are Intimately Aware of Every Person
It is literally true: “In all your afflictions, he is afflicted.” “In all your triumphs, he triumphs in and with you.” His pre-personal divine spirit (the pre-Father Thought Monitor of the I Am) that indwells human minds) is a real part of each human personality.
The Isle of Paradise responds to all the physical metamorphoses of the universe of universes. The Eternal Son includes all the spirit impulses of all creation. The Conjoint Actor (the Infinite Spirit acting for the Universal Father and the Eternal Son) encompasses all the mind expression of the expanding cosmos.
The Universal Father realizes in the fullness (all of the Gods within God) of the divine consciousness all the individual experience of the progressive struggles of the expanding minds and the ascending spirits of every entity, being, and personality of the whole evolutionary creation of time and space.
This is literally true, for “in Him we all live and move and have our being.”

The Precious Human Personality is God's Shadow
The human personality is the time-space image-shadow cast by the divine Creator personality.
No actuality can ever be adequately comprehended by an examination of its shadow (humans). Shadows must be interpreted in terms of the true substance.
God is to science a cause, to philosophy an idea, to religion a person.
God is to the scientist a primal force, to the philosopher a hypothesis of unity, to the religionist a living spiritual experience - harmony.
Man’s incomplete concept of the personality of the Universal Father can only be augmented by man’s spiritual progress in the universe and will become truly adequate only when he finally attains the divine embrace of the living God on Paradise - oneness.

Polarity of Personality
Man must never lose sight of the reversed viewpoints of personality as it is conceived by man and God. Man views and comprehends personality, looking from the finite to the infinite. God looks from the infinite to the finite.
Man possesses the lowest type of personality; God, the highest - the supreme, ultimate, and absolute. Therefore, the elevated concepts of the divine personality had to await the enhanced ideas of human personality, especially the revelations provided in the Earth bestowal life of Michael (a.k.a. Jesus), the Creator of our Universe.
The concept of the divine personality can be grasped only by the spiritual insight of personal religious experience. Any person (human or divine) may be known and comprehended quite independent of the material appearance and presence of that person.

The Love of God Cannot be Tepid
Some degree of moral affinity (righteousness) and spiritual harmony (non temporal accord) is essential to friendship between two persons.
It is difficult for a loving personality to reveal himself to a loveless person.
All of man’s personality endowments must be wholly consecrated in the effort of knowing a divine personality. Halfhearted or partial devotion will be futile.
The more completely man understands himself and appreciates the personality values of his fellows, the more he will crave to know the Original Personality, and the more earnestly such a God-knowing human will strive to become like the Original Personality.
One can argue over opinions about God, but experience with him and in him exists above and beyond all human controversy and intellectual logic.

Experiencing The Universe
To assume that the universe can be known, that it is intelligible, is to realize that the universe is mind made and personality managed.
Man’s mind can only perceive (observe) the mind phenomena of other minds, be they human or superhuman.
If man’s personality can experience the universe (gain knowledge from what is observed), it is obvious that there is a divine mind and an actual personality concealed in that universe.

Experiencing Jesus
God is spirit - a spirit personality. Man is a potential spirit personality.
Jesus of Nazareth fully realized the potential of spirit personality during his human life experience. Accordingly, Jesus' life of doing and achieving the Father’s will became man’s most real and ideal revelation of the personality of God.
Even though the personality of the Universal Father can be grasped only in actual religious experience, in Jesus’ earth life we are inspired by the perfect demonstration of such a realization and revelation of the personality of God in an actual human experience.

Spiritual Value of the Personality

The Communion of Personalities
When Jesus talked about “the living God,” he referred to a personal Deity - the Father in heaven. The Deity personality concept facilitates fellowship; it supports intelligent worship; it promotes exhilarating trustfulness.
Interactions can be had between non personal things (such as animals), but not fellowship. Fellowship entails greater acquaintance, conversation, and affinity.
The fellowship relation of father and son, as between God and man, can only be enjoyed because both are persons. While only personalities can commune with each other, this personal communion is greatly facilitated by the presence of an impersonal entity, the Thought Adjuster.

Communion With God
Man does not achieve union with God like a drop of water unites with the sea.
Man attains divine union by progressive reciprocal spiritual communion, by personality intercourse with the personal God, by increasingly attaining the divine nature through wholehearted and intelligent conformity to the divine will.
Such a sublime relationship can exist only between personalities. Human personalities who fail to achieve communion with God or others through expressions of love will be severed from the brotherhood at death.

Knowing Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Divine mystery resides in the inherent differences that exist between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal, the time-space creature and the Absolute Universal Creator, the material and the spiritual, and the imperfection of man and the perfection of Paradise Deity.
Despite the significant differences, the God of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to every one of his creatures to the extent of that creature's capacity to spiritually grasp the qualities of divine truth, beauty, and goodness.
Divinity (Oneness) is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; reciprocally related in personality as love, mercy, and ministry. This is the experience of religion.

Personal Identity and Unwavering Will
The concepts of truth and beauty might exist without personality. The concept of divine goodness, however, is understandable only in relation to personality.
Only a person can love and be loved.
We cannot fully understand how God can be primal, changeless, all-powerful, and perfect, while surrounded by an ever-changing law-limited evolving universe of relative imperfections.
But we can know the truth of a perfect God in our own personal experience because of our individual self identity as a person and our unshakable determination to do the Father's will in the face of the constant changes of ourselves and our environment.

Indivisibility of Deity
Ultimate universe reality (transcendent of time and space) cannot be understood through mathematics, logic, or philosophy, but only by personal experience in progressive conformity to the divine will of a personal God.
Neither science, philosophy, nor theology can validate the personality of God. Only the personal faith experience of each son of the heavenly Father can effect the actual spiritual realization of the personality of God.
The higher concepts of universe personality entail: individual personal identity, self-consciousness, self-will, and the possibility for self-revelation of thoughts, emotions, or attitudes, intentionally or unintentionally. These characteristics further imply fellowship with other equal personalities, such as exists in the personality associations of the Paradise Deities.
The absolute unity reality of the Paradise Deity associations is so perfect that divinity becomes known by indivisibility, by oneness. Indivisibility of personality does not interfere with God’s bestowing his spirit fragment to live in the hearts of mortal men.

The Dimensions of the Task

The Oneness Plan
Even though it has been going on forever, the plan of the “I Am” (working as the Universal Father) to deify all of existence is still in its infancy. The execution of the plan will continue forever.
Mission Partners
I. The Unqualified Absolute and the Supreme God of Time and Space.
II. The Deity Absolute and the Ultimate God of Transcendent Time and Space.
III. The Qualified Absolute and the Absolute God of Potential Absolute Oneness.
Geographic Locations in Space
I. The Unqualified Absolute and the Supreme God of Time an Space – The present Seven Super Universes. (The Seven Super Universes are seven generations of progress that reflect the relationships of the Paradise Trinity).
II. The Deity Absolute and the Ultimate God of Transcendent Time and Space - The Outer Universes presently under construction.
III. The Qualified Absolute and the Absolute God of Potential Absolute Oneness - Future Planned Universes beyond the current Outer Universes.
When all of the Time and Space Super Universes achieve Light and Life status, their Creator Sons will lead the mission to realize the goals of the Ultimate God. The successful Thought Adjusters of Time and Space with their human personality finaliters will reign as the planetary gods in the new worlds of the Ultimate God.
All qualified forces and “agencies” constantly work together to achieve successive task objectives.

The Role of Thought Adjusters
Although the Universal Father is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of the universes, he is also actually present on the worlds of space in the minds of his countless children of time, for he indwells his children in the form of a spiritual fragment (the Thought Adjuster) of the Unqualified Absolute.
The Thought Adjuster is our father immanent. The Universal Father in Paradise is our father transcendent.
The Thought Adjusters are the immanent essence of man’s perfected finaliter personality, which he can foretaste in time as he progressively masters the divine technique of living the Father’s will through the ascension of universe upon universe until he actually attains the divine presence of his transcendent Father.
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 ethereal destiny that has been ordained.

Remembering the Goal
Cosmically, the plan of the Universal Father is in the process of execution. It always has been.
The transformation of each individual fragment of the non-deity and non-personified Unqualified Absolute is partial fulfillment of the plan of the absolute to deify and personify the totality of the Unqualified Absolute energy/matter fragments into absolute Oneness.
The Oneness Plan of the “I Am”/ Universal Father entailed the fathering of the Paradise Trinity and genesis of the experiential creation that created a path through the experiential Supreme, Ultimate, and Absolute Gods from Experiential to Existential being for non-deity.

The Creator Sons, Thought Adjusters, and the Paradise Father are Indivisible
Jesus told us that any mortal who has seen a Creator Son has seen the Universal Father. Likewise, anyone who is indwelt by a divine Adjuster is indwelt by the Paradise Father.
Every mortal who is consciously or unconsciously following the leading of his indwelling Adjuster is living in accordance with the will of God.
Consciousness of the Adjuster presence is consciousness of God’s presence.
Fusion of the Adjuster with the evolutionary soul of man is the experience of eternal union with God as a partner of Deity in the universes.

The Spiritual Compulsion and Connection
It is the Adjuster who creates within man the unquenchable yearning and incessant longing to be like God, to attain Paradise, and there before the actual person of Deity to joyfully worship the infinite source of his gift of the divine Thought Adjuster.
The Adjuster is the living presence that actually links the mortal son with the Paradise Father and draws him nearer and nearer to the Father.
The Thought Adjuster equalizes the enormous universe tension that is created by the distance of man’s removal from God.
The Adjuster is man’s infallible cosmic compass, always and unerringly pointing the soul towards God.

Life Passages
On the evolutionary worlds, will creatures traverse three general developmental stages of being.
From the arrival of the Adjuster in the child's mind to comparative full physical growth (about twenty years of age) the Monitors are sometimes designated Thought Changers.
From about twenty to the attainment of the age of discretion (about forty years), the Mystery Monitors are called Thought Adjusters.
From the attainment of mature discretion to deliverance from the flesh, they are often referred to as Thought Controllers.
There are also three stages of Adjuster progress in mind duplication (transcription) and soul evolution (experiences), but these three phases of mortal life have no connection with the three stages of being discussed above.
The evolving morontia-matter soul is fathered by the Thought Adjuster spiritually coupling with the human mind.

Origin of Thought Adjusters
The Adjusters proceed direct from the First Source and Center (the Universal Father) who commanded their deification.
The Adjusters are not created beings. They are fragmentized entities constituting the factual presence of the infinite God.
The Adjusters are undiluted and unmixed divinity, unqualified but not weakened or reduced in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value parts of Deity. They are of God, but lack personalities prior to their fusion with human souls.

Separation from Absoluteness
Existence separate from absoluteness was precipitated by the decision of the I Am to detach absolute Deity from Unqualified Absolute (non-deity) energy–matter. This action personified the Universal Father, and the Paradise Trinity to fulfill the Father's plan to deify the energy–matter of the Unqualified Absolute. This decision manifested creation, which required the functioning of the fragmented Unqualified Absolute Thought Adjusters in evolved human minds.
The proteges of the Trinities descended into the worlds of time to build the tiers of ascending steps for the planetary pilgrims.
Personality is not necessary in absolute beings because they have no need to experience. All is known in the Now. The Father and his Trinities are personalized to experience and monitor their experiential creations.

Thought Adjuster Separation
The beginning of the Thought Adjusters' existences separate and apart from absoluteness and their number count is unknown.
Little is known about the Adjusters' careers before their arrival on the planets of time to indwell human minds, but from that point on their cosmic progressions are known. Adjusters may achieve personality status in three ways: 1.) attainment of personality by fusion with a mortal ascender; 2.) attainment of personality by fiat of the Universal Father; or 3.) liberation from the known assignments of Thought Adjusters.
It is assumed that Adjusters are being constantly individualized (personified) as the universe enlarges, and as the candidates for Adjuster fusion increase in numbers. But it may be impossible to assign a numerical magnitude to the Adjusters because these fragments are probably existentially infinite.

Adjuster Training
The valor and wisdom exhibited by Thought Adjusters suggest that they have undergone a training of tremendous scope and range. Their training is imparted in the educational institutions of the Adjusters' home world, Divinington.
Unique Personalized Adjusters constitute the staff of the Adjuster training schools.
It is known that this fundamental supervising and teaching corps is presided over by the now Personalized Adjuster of the first Paradise Son of the Michael order to complete his seven-fold bestowal upon the races and peoples of his universe realms. Earth's Creator Son Michael's adjuster was also personalized after serving Jesus during his bestowal life on Earth.

Realizing the Significance of Adjuster Indwelling
Humans cannot truly fathom what it means to have an absolute fragment of the absolute and infinite God indwelling and fusing with their finite mortal nature.
When a mortal 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.
In eternity, man will be discovering not only the infinity of the objective Deity but also the unending potentiality of the subjective adjuster fragment of God.
The Adjuster will be revealing the wonder of God to the ex-mortal constantly, and this revelation will never end.

The Separation of Spirit from Energy
Rightly, evolutionary mortals look upon mind as a cosmic mediation between spirit and matter, for that is the principal ministry of mind as discernible by humans.
It is difficult for humans to perceive that Thought Adjusters have minds because Adjusters are fragmentation's of God on an absolute level of reality that is pre-personal and prior to the separation of spirit from energy. Prior to the separation of spirit from energy, there was no need for a personal God to effect the deification of energy (the Unqualified Absolute). The personified Universal Father is a facet of the I Am more recognizable to ascending Thought Adjuster fused human souls than the more abstract I Am may ever be.
At the monistic (Oneness) level prior to material creation (that is, the differentiation of energy and spirit) there could be no mediating (reconciling) function of mind, for there were no divergences or distinctions to be mediated. Following the separation of spirit from energy, distinctions such as beginnings and endings and potentials became necessary for understanding by temporal minds.

The I Am
The I AM is the Infinite as well as infinity. From the sequential, time viewpoint, all reality has its origin in the infinite I AM, whose solitary existence in past infinite eternity must be a finite creature’s primary philosophic postulate – the process of becoming.
[Infinite is an adjective. Infinity is a noun that means a quantity that is not fixed, bigger than any given quantity. Infinity is an idea that describes something growing without constraints. What is not finite is infinite.]
The concept of the I AM connotes unqualified infinity, the undifferentiated reality of all that could ever be in all of an infinite eternity. As an existential concept the I AM is neither deified nor undeified, neither actual nor potential, neither personal nor impersonal, neither static nor dynamic.
No qualification can be applied to the Infinite except to state that the I AM is.

Absolute Reality and the Unqualified Reality of the I Am
The absolute level or reality had no beginning. It is endless, timeless, and contains no space. The absolute transcends time and space (the Supreme), infinity, eternity, and the Ultimate.
Unqualified reality is beyond all description. Nothing can be said about unqualified reality because once described, it is qualified.
The infinite I AM freed himself from unqualified infinity energy through the exercise of absolute free will.
This decision caused the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and their conjoint actor, the Infinite Spirit, who acts for his "parents."

Selection and Assignment of Adjusters
When Adjusters are dispatched for mortal service from their home planet of Divinington, they are identical in their endowment of existential divinity, but they vary in experiential qualities proportional to previous indwelling experience in and with failed evolutionary creatures.
It is conjectured that these divine gifts are bestowed in accordance with some wise and efficient policy of eternal fitness of adaptation to the indwelt personality.
It is observed that the more experienced Adjuster often indwells the higher type of human mind.
Human inheritance is a big factor in determining selection and assignment.

Voluntary Service
It is believed that all Thought Adjusters are volunteers.
And, the Adjusters are fully apprised of the mortal minds they volunteer to indwell.
The seraphic drafts of ancestry and projected patterns of the human's life conduct are transmitted via Paradise to the reserve corps of Adjusters on Divinington by the reflectivity technique extending inward from the capitals of the local universes to the headquarters of the super universes.
[Reflectivity is the unique and inexplicable power of the Supreme to see, hear, sense, and know all things as they transpire throughout the super universes.]
This forecast covers not only the hereditary antecedents of the mortal candidate but also the estimate of probable intellectual endowment and spiritual capacity. The seraphim who project the human expectations are the highest order of angels.

Human Candidate Qualifications
Volunteer Adjusters are particularly interested in three qualifications of the human candidates:
1. Intellectual capacity - Is the mind normal? What is the intellectual potential, the intelligence capacity? Can the individual develop into a bona fide will creature? Will the adjutant mind spirit, Wisdom, have an opportunity to function in the mind of the candidate?
2. Spiritual perception - The prospects for the development of reverence, the birth and growth of the religious nature. What is the potential of soul, the probable spiritual capacity of receptivity?
3. Combined intellectual and spiritual powers - The degree to which the first two endowments of intellect and spirit may possibly be associated and combined, so as to produce strength of human character and contribute to the certain evolution of an immortal soul of survival value.

Prerequisites of Adjuster Indwelling
Though the Adjusters volunteer for service as soon as the personality forecasts have been relayed to Divinington, they are not actually assigned until the human subjects make their first moral personality decision.
The first moral choice of the human child is automatically indicated in the seventh mind-adjutant and registers instantly, by way of the local universe Creative Mother Spirit, over the universal mind-gravity circuit of the Conjoint Actor in the presence of the Master Spirit of super universe jurisdiction.
The Master Spirit immediately dispatches this intelligence to Divinington.
Adjusters normally reach their human subjects on Earth just prior to the sixth birthday of the child. At present, arrival of the adjuster is five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the 2,134th day of the child's terrestrial life.

Local Universe Prerequisites
The Adjusters cannot enter the mortal mind until it has been duly prepared by the indwelling ministry of the seven adjutant mind-spirits and put into the circuit of the Holy Spirit (the local universe mother spirit).
The coordinated functioning of all seven adjutant mind spirits is required to qualify the human mind for the reception of an Adjuster.
Creature mind must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate the functioning of wisdom by exhibiting the ability to choose between good and evil - moral decision.
To what ever extent Earth mortals may differ in their intellectual, social, economic, and even moral opportunities and endowments, their spiritual endowment is uniform, equal, and unique.
All mortals may enjoy the same divine presence of the gift from the Father, and they are all equally privileged to seek intimate personal communion with this indwelling spirit of divine origin.
All mortals may choose equally to accept the uniform spiritual leading of the Mystery Monitors.

Salvation Assured, If
Since he is endowed by the divine indwelling Adjuster, if mortal man is wholeheartedly spiritually motivated, and unreservedly consecrated to doing the Father’s will, materialization of the sublime consciousness of knowing God cannot fail. Man is assured of surviving for the purpose of finding God by the progressive experience of becoming more and more like God.
There is no mortal deprivation or possible interference that can prevent a divinely motivated soul from ascending to the portals of Paradise.
The forces of divine love and the ways and means of divine administration are all interlocked to facilitate the advancement of every worthy intelligence of every universe to the Paradise presence of the Universal Father.

Never Doubt
A vast amount of time is involved in the attainment of the presence and personality of the Infinite.
The ascension of ex-humans is a part of the circuit of the seven super universes, and though you swing around the orbit of the Central Universe and the nuclear island of Paradise countless times, you are always swinging inward in spirit and in status.
You will be translated from sphere to sphere, from the outer circuits ever nearer the inner center. And do not doubt, that some day, you shall stand in the divine (oneness) and eternal presence and see the Universal Father visage of the I Am face to face (figuratively speaking).
It is simply a matter of the attainment of actual and literal spiritual levels; and these spiritual levels are attainable by any being who has been indwelt by and subsequently forever fused (blended) with a Thought Adjuster.

Don't Act Foolish
Born into a materialistic environment, the human personality is prone to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. The Father welcomes anyone who wants to reexamine and amend these short-sighted decisions at any time.
While the Father is not in spiritual hiding, many of his creatures have hidden themselves away in the fog of their own willful decisions and have separated themselves from communion with his spiritual guide by choosing their own perverse ways and indulging the self-assertiveness of their intolerant minds and materialistic natures.
Mortal man may draw nearer God or repeatedly forsake the divine will as long as the power of choice remains. Man’s final doom is not sealed until he has lost the power to choose the Father’s will. The Father’s heart is never closed to the need and the petition of his children.Man’s eternal destiny is assured when Adjuster fusion proclaims to the universe that an ascender has made the final and irrevocable choice to live the Father’s will.
Upon fusion with the Adjuster, God has embarked upon an eternal adventure with man.
Only a fool would not enlist for the greatest adventure known to God and man.

The Omnipresence of God
The Infinite is physically present in the material universe.
God lives in every one of his spirit-born (Adjuster indwelt) sons. All of his creature personalities have access to the Father whenever, wherever, and however contacted.
The spiritual presence of Divinity is limited only by the spiritual capacity of receptivity and by the degree of the consecration of the creature’s will to doing the divine will.
The divine presence cannot, however, be discovered anywhere in nature or even in the lives of God-knowing mortals as fully and certainly as in the individual's own attempted communion with the indwelling Mystery Monitor, the Thought Adjuster.
It is a mistake to dream of God as far off in the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within our minds.

Proof of Adjuster Intimacy
It is because of the God fragment that indwells us that we can hope, as we progress in harmonizing with the Adjuster’s spiritual leading, to more fully discern the presence and transforming power of the other spiritual influences that surround us and impinge upon us but do not function as an integral part of us (such as the angels, who social engineer our experiences).
The fact that we are not intellectually conscious of close and intimate contact with the indwelling Adjuster does not invalidate this exalted experience in the least. The proof of fraternity with the divine Adjuster consists wholly in the nature and extent of the fruits of the spirit (deeds) that are yielded in the life experience of the individual believer.

Growing Awareness of Adjuster Pulses
It is difficult for the meagerly spiritualized (enlightened), material mind of mortal man to experience pronounced consciousness of the spiritual activities of divine entities such as the Adjusters.
As the soul of the joined human mind and Adjuster creation becomes increasingly actualized, there evolves a new phase of soul consciousness that is capable of experiencing the presence, and of recognizing the spirit guiding and other super material activities of the Mystery Monitors.
The entire experience of Adjuster communion is one involving moral status, mental motivation, and spiritual experience. The realization of communion with the Adjuster is primarily, but not limited to the realms of soul consciousness. Proof of Adjuster communion is in the manifestation of the fruits of the spirit in the lives of everyone with inner spirit contact.

Soul

Mind - The Arena of Choice
Though the work of Adjusters is spiritual in nature, they must do their work on the mental level. Mind is the human soil in which the spirit Adjuster must evolve the morontia matter soul in conjunction with the cooperation of the indwelt personality. (The morontia matter composition of the soul is necessary as a soul composed of flesh would burn up in transport to the Mansion Worlds.)
[Regarding the use of “soil” as a metaphor for mind - soil is literally burgeoning with creative potential that is waiting to effect awakened life under the right conditions.]
There is a cosmic unity in the several mind levels of the universe of universes. Intellectual selves originate in the cosmic mind in the same manner as nebulae originate in the cosmic energies of universe space.
The potential of spirit evolution becomes dominant, with the assent of the mortal mind together with the creative presence of the Thought Adjuster (an entity of absolute value) in human selves.
Spirit dominance of the material mind depends upon two conditions: 1.) The human mind must have evolved up through the ministry of the seven adjutant mind-spirits, and 2.) the material (personal) self must choose to cooperate with the indwelling Adjuster in creating and fostering the morontia self (the evolutionary and potentially immortal soul).

Intellectual Self Oriigin Parallel Physical Nebula Origins
The origin of an intellectual self is not a small task. The Urantia Book says the origin of intellectual selves in cosmic mind occurs in the same manner in which nebulae take their origin in the cosmic energies of universe space. The analogy of individual mind origin to individual planet origin is explained as follows.
The spiral and other nebulae, the mother wheels of the spheres of space, are initiated by Paradise force organizers. Following nebular evolution of gravity response, the Paradise force organizers are superseded in super universe function by the power centers and physical controllers.
Upon the arrival of the Creator Son, the physical supervision of the pre-universe is immediately coordinated with his plan for universe organization. Within the space domain of the Creator Son of God, the Supreme Power Centers and the Master Physical Controllers collaborate with the later appearing Morontia Power Supervisors and others to produce the vast complex of communication lines, energy circuits, and power lanes that firmly bind the manifold space bodies of the local universe into one integrated administrative unit.
Analogously, mind origin and evolution is under the direction of the local universe Creative Mother Spirit, companion of the Creator Son, and daughter of the Infinite Spirit (the God of Mind). The Creative Mother Spirit controls the seven adjutant mind ministers that govern the evolution of each human mind.
[The seven adjutant mind spirits initially work closely with the Life Carriers, who are entrusted with establishing evolving physical life on the evolving worlds.]

Eternity or Eradication
Material mind is the arena in which human personalities live, are self-conscious (have knowledge of one's own existence), make decisions, choose God or forsake him, eternalize or destroy themselves.
Material evolution provides life machines (human bodies). The Father himself endows humans with the purest spirit reality known in the universe (the Thought Adjuster).
Then, into each human's hands, subject to each human's own decisions, is given mind. And it is by mind that each human lives or dies. It is with the mind and within the mind that each human makes moral decisions that enable him or her to achieve Adjuster-likeness, which is God-likeness.

Human Mind Merely a Loan
Mortal mind is a temporary intellect system loaned to human beings for use during their material lifetime.
As humans use their temporary mind, they are accepting or rejecting the potential of eternal existence. Their temporary mind is all humans have of universe reality that is subject to their personal will. The soul (the morontia self) faithfully portrays the harvest of the moral and ethical decisions that the mortal self makes.
Human consciousness rests gently upon the electrochemical mechanism of the brain below and delicately touches the spirit-morontia (Adjuster and soul) energy system above. The human being is never completely conscious of either of the two spirit-morontia systems during mortal life. Therefore, each human must work in the mind, of which he or she is conscious.
It is not what mind comprehends as what the mind desires to comprehend that insures survival. It is not what mind is like as what mind is striving to be like that constitutes spirit identification (status).
It is not so important that man is conscious of God as that man yearns for God that results in universe ascension. What you are today is not as important as what you are becoming day by day in time and in eternity.

Lesser Shades of Matter
All matter is evolving and transforming into Absolute Abstraction – the bodiless thought of total Oneness, the “I Am.”
The smallest particles of non-deity energy-matter are being combined in creation to ascend to pure spiritual deity.
Great works of art and thoughts in literature, music, architecture, engineering, science, mathematics, philosophy, and religion are shadows of the progression of matter to abstraction.

A Cosmic Instrument
Mind is the cosmic instrument on which the human will can play a cacophony of destruction, or upon which the human will can bring forth the exquisite melodies of God identification and eternal survival.
The Adjuster bestowed upon man is impervious to evil and incapable of sin, but the mortal mind can be twisted, distorted, and rendered evil and ugly by the sinful maneuvers of a perverse and self-serving human will. Or, this mind can be made true, beautiful, and good (actually noble and great) in accordance with the spirit-illuminated will of a God-knowing and spiritually yearning human being.
Man does not surrender his will to the Adjuster. Rather he actively, positively, and cooperatively chooses to follow the Adjuster’s leading when the Adjuster's leading consciously differs from the desires and impulses of man's natural mortal mind. The Adjuster attempts to influence but never dominate man’s mind against his will. To the Adjusters the human will is supreme. Adjusters regard and respect human will while they strive to achieve the spiritual goals of thought adjustment and character transformation within the nearly limitless arena of the evolving human intellect.

Functioning of Mind
Throughout the mind functions of cosmic intelligence, the totality of mind is dominant over the intellectual functioning of individual members.
Mind, in its essence, is functional unity. All of the parts of a functional unity system have to be integrated to meet the needs of the system. Mind never fails to manifest this elemental unity, even when hampered and hindered by the unwise actions and choices of misguided dysfunctional selves.
The wholeness of mind always seeks spirit coordination on all levels of its affiliation with selves of will dignity and ascension rights and privileges.
The material mind of mortal man is a loom upon which the indwelling Thought Adjuster threads the spirit patterns of a universe character of enduring values and divine meanings - a surviving soul of ultimate destiny and unending career, a potential finaliter.

Destiny of the Finaliters
Every God-conscious mortal craves to be a finaliter.
Paradise is the home, and Havona (the Central Universe of one billion unique and perfect worlds) is the workshop and playground of the finaliters.
Havona serves as the experiential training universe for all past, present, or future types of created beings. It is also the buffer zone between absolute Paradise and finite creations.
The central universe (Havona) is man’s established destiny, but it is also the starting place of the eternal career of the finaliters when the age of Time and Space ends and the finaliters begin their adventure in the experience of exploring the infinity of the Universal Father.

The Synchronizing Soul
The human personality is identified with mind and spirit held together in a functional relationship by life in a material body. This functioning relationship of mind and spirit does not result in some combination of the qualities or attributes of mind and spirit but rather in an entirely new, original, and unique universe value of potentially eternal endurance, the soul.
There are three factors in the evolutionary creation of an immortal soul. These three predecessors of the morontia human soul are:
1.The human mind and the many antecedent cosmic influences impinging upon the human mind. [An antecedent cosmic influence stimulates the human mind to perform a learned behavior.]
2. The divine spirit (the Adjuster) indwelling the human mind and all potentials inherent in this fragment of absolute spirituality together with the many ministerial spiritual influences and factors attending to human life.
3. The relationship between material mind and divine spirit (the soul), which connotes a value and carries a meaning not found in either the material mind or the Adjuster. The reality of this unique relationship is neither material nor spiritual but morontial (midway between spirit and human).

Soul Is Midmind
The midway creatures call the evolving soul of man the “midmind” to distinguish it from the lower or material mind and the higher or cosmic mind. The mid-mind is really extraordinary since it exists in the realm between the material and the spiritual. It is the synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis.
The potential of a morontia mind evolution is inherent in the two universal urges of mind: 1.) the impulse of the finite mind of the creature to know God and attain the divinity of the Creator, and 2.) the impulse of the infinite mind of the Creator to know man and attain the experience of the creature.
[The midway creatures inhabit most of the inhabited worlds of Nebadon (Earth's local universe). These unique beings exist at a life-functioning level about midway between those of mortals and the angelic orders. This is the reason they are called midway creatures. It was the midwayers (invisible to human eyes) who rolled away the stones revealing the empty tomb at dawn on the first Easter morning. The sight of the stones rolling panicked the 20 Jewish guards and Roman soldiers who were guarding the tomb causing them to flee.]

The Evolving Soul
The mistakes of mortal mind and the errors of human conduct may delay the evolution of the soul, but human mistakes cannot obstruct the appearance of the morontia soul once it has been initiated by the indwelling Adjuster with the consent of the mortal's will.
However, any time prior to mortal death the material and human will is empowered to reject survival. Even after survival and ascension to the Mansion Worlds. The ascending mortal retains the prerogative of rejecting eternal life prior to fusion with the Adjuster. Fusion with the Adjuster signals the fact that the ascending mortal has eternally and unreservedly chosen to do the Father’s will.
During the life in the flesh the evolving soul is empowered to reinforce the super material decisions of the mortal mind. The soul, being super material, does not function on the material level of human experience. However, with the collaboration of the Adjuster, the sub-spiritual soul is privileged to function above the morontia level.
During planetary life the mortal will, the personality power of decision-choice, resides in the material mind circuits.
But, even prior to mortal death, the soul can make final decisions if the material mind delegates such authority freely and willingly to the morontia soul.
After death, following the mansion world resurrection, the human personality and the morontia soul have the same identity.

The Relativity of Relationships
Personality is the record of the mortal life experience. Personality is characterized by morality, which is the awareness of the relativity of relationship with other persons. (The significance of this relationship is analogous to physical relativity, which is the relationship between space and time).
Personality discerns levels of conduct and discriminates between them by making choices.
Good choices involve loving, embracing, and forgiving other persons.
The measure of human strength of character is the ability to resist holding grudges and the capacity to withstand brooding in the face of deep sorrow.
Tact is the fulcrum of social leverage (influencing people), and tolerance is the earmark of a great soul. Unnecessary social misunderstandings must be avoided.
Jesus never ceased to warn his disciples against the evil practice of retaliation. Holding grudges is toxic to soul survival.

Processing of the Surviving Mortal Personality
After death the material body returns to the elemental world from which it was derived.
Two non material factors of personality survive:
1.) The spiritual Thought Adjuster temporarily takes the memory transcription of the mortal career along as he reports in at Divinington (the Adjuster's planetary home).
2.) The immortal morontia soul of the deceased human remains in the custody of the destiny guardian angel.
These two formulas of soul identity) are essential to re-personalization on the morontia worlds. It is the reunion of the Adjuster and the soul that reassembles the surviving personality, restoring the consciousness of the ex-mortal at the time of the awakening on Mansion World Number One.

Independent Soul Option
This immortal soul is initially wholly morontia in nature. It possesses such a capacity for development that it invariably ascends to the true spirit level of fusion value. The soul (a morontia replica of the mortal personality) may elect fusion even if the mortal finds the prospect of everlasting fusion too daunting. The soul may fuse with the same spirit of the Universal Father that initiated the soul phenomenon in the creature mind or with another Adjuster.
Both the human mind and the divine Adjuster are conscious of the presence and separate nature of the evolving soul - the Adjuster fully, the mind partially. The soul becomes increasingly conscious of both the human mind and the Adjuster as associated identities, proportional to its own evolutionary growth.
The soul partakes of the qualities of both the human mind and the divine spirit. The soul persistently evolves toward enhancement of spirit control and divine dominance through the cultivation of a mind function whose meanings seek to coordinate with true spirit value.

Mortal Religious Education
Mind knows quantity, reality, and meanings, but quality (values) is felt as right or wrong.
The mortal career (which is the soul's evolution) is not a probation, but an education. Faith in the values of the Supreme is the core of mortal religious education.
Genuine religious experience consists of a union of cosmic meanings (quantity) and supreme values (quality) recognized and understood as cosmic reality.
That which feels is the mutual creation of mind, which knows, and the Adjuster spirit, which establishes the reality of goodness as the value realization of God-consciousness. The resulting being (the soul) becomes indestructible.
Jesus said: “I am the living way.” He is the living way from the material level of self-consciousness to the spiritual level of God-consciousness. Just as Jesus is the living way of ascension from the self to God, the Supreme is the living way from finite consciousness to transcendence of consciousness, and even to the insight of absonity (the Ultimate God).
If there are no eternal values in the evolving soul of man, then mortal existence is without meaning, and life is a tragic illusion.

The Inner and Outer Worlds

Examination of the Inner Life
The intellectual process of fitting the sensory impressions received from the external world into the memory patterns of the individual is termed recognition.
Understanding indicates that these recognized sensory impressions and their associated memory patterns have become integrated and organized into a dynamic network of principles.
Meanings are derived from a combination of recognition and understanding. Meanings are nonexistent in a wholly sensory or material world. Meanings and values are only perceived in the inner spheres of human experience.
Man's personality (the link to the inner worlds) functions equally efficiently in the local universe, in the super universe, and in the central universe. Personality can be experientially realized in the progressive realms of the material, the morontial, and the spiritual. Personality performs effectively on the levels of the finite, the absonite, and even impinges upon the absolute. The advances of true civilization (Light and Life) are all born in the inner world of mankind.
It is only the inner life that is truly creative. Civilization cannot progress when the majority of the youth of any generation devote their interests and energies to the materialistic pursuits of the sensory or outer world.

Beware the Vanities
The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis Thomas. Edited. [Thomas à Kempis, (1380 – 25 July 1471) was a German who became a canon regular (a priest in the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. His book, The Imitation of Christ, is one of the most popular and best known Christian books on devotion.]
It is vanity to seek after, and to trust in, riches that shall perish. It is vanity, too, to covet honors, and to elevate one's self. It is vanity to follow the desires of the flesh and be led by them, for this shall bring misery in the end. It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life. It is vanity to take thought only for the present life, and to not look forward to the things that shall be hereafter. It is vanity to love that which quickly passes away, and to not hasten to where eternal joy abides.
Strive to turn the heart away from the love of the things that are seen, and set it upon the things that are not seen. They who follow after their own lusts of the flesh defile the conscience and destroy the grace of God.

The Macro Effect
The inner (spiritual) worlds and the outer (material) worlds have different sets of values.
Any civilization is in jeopardy when three quarters of its youth enter materialistic professions and devote themselves to the pursuit of the sensory activities of the outer world.
Civilization is in danger when youth neglect to interest themselves in ethics, sociology, eugenics, philosophy, the fine arts, religion, and cosmology.
Only in the upper levels of the super conscious mind where it touches the spirit realm of human experience can be found the higher concepts that merge with master patterns that will contribute to the building of a better and more enduring civilization. [The super conscious area of the mind is where intellectually alert and spiritually progressing individuals attain contact with the indwelling Thought Adjuster.]
Personality is inherently creative, but its creativity functions only in the inner life of the individual.

Personality is Unique
Personality follows types but every personality is unique.
Humans cannot completely control the external world (environment). The creativity of the inner world is most subject to human direction because in the inner world personality is largely liberated from the laws of antecedent causation. In the inner world, the personality has some autonomy of will.
Since the inner life of man is truly creative, each person is responsible for choosing whether this creativity shall be spontaneous and haphazard or controlled, directed, and constructive. The creative imagination cannot produce worthy children if its functions are preoccupied by the historically inherited causations such as prejudice, hate, fears, resentments, revenge, and bigotries.
The personality links the worlds of the inner (subjective mind) and the outer (objective experience). The indwelling Adjuster fragment of the Universal Father is the energy-matter of the Unqualified Absolute – the non-personified, non-deity content of the I Am of Absolute Oneness, which being infinite exists beyond the experiential creations.

Antecedent Causation
In the Outer World, history dominates as the antecedent causation of the present.
Destiny dominates in the Inner Worlds.
The physical relation of man to the Supreme God of Time and Space is the foundation for cosmic morality, the universal sensitivity to, and acceptance of, duty.
Cosmic morality transcends the materialistic sense of relative right and wrong. Duty to the Supreme God is a morality directly predicated on the self-conscious creature’s appreciation of the experiential obligation to experiential Deity.
Mortal man and all other finite creatures are created out of the living potential of energy, mind, and spirit existent in the Supreme Being (excluding the Adjuster). It is out of the very reality of the Supreme that the Adjuster, with the consent of the human will, weaves the patterns of the eternal nature of an ascending son of God.

Ideas and Ideals
Ideas may take origin in the stimuli of the outer world, but ideals are born only in the creative realms of the inner world.
Today the nations of the world are directed by men who have an excess of ideas, but they are bankrupt in ideals. This is the cause of poverty, divorce, war, and racial hatreds.
If freewill man is endowed with the powers of creativity in the inner man, then it must be realized that freewill creativity also embraces the potential of freewill destruction. And when creativity is turned to destructivity, one is confronted with the devastation of evil and sin - oppression, war, and wreckage. Evil tends toward disintegration and eventual destruction. All conflict is evil in that it inhibits the creative function of the inner life - it is a species of civil war in the personality.
Inner creativity contributes to the ennoblement of character through personality unification of the mind, spirit, and soul. While the past is unchangeable, the future can be altered with the guidance of the creativity of the inner self.

The Ordination of Choice
Doing the will of God is simply exhibiting a willingness to share the inner life with God who has made the creature life of inner meaning-value possible. Sharing is Godlike – oneness. God shares everything with the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit, and they share all things with the divine Creator Sons and Spirit Daughters of the universes.
The imitation of God is the key to perfection. The doing of God's will is the secret of survival and of perfection in survival.
Mortals live in God, and God lives in mortals. As men trust themselves to him, so he has trusted a part of himself to be with men. God has consented to live in men and to indwell men subject to the human will.
Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, and service in eternity - all these are achieved now (in spirit) when the creature personality chooses to subject the creature will to the Father’s will.
“It is my will that your will be done.” When a mortal makes this decision, the God-choosing son will someday find inner union (fusion) with the indwelling God fragment and the Supreme God of Time and Space. Fusion with the Adjuster is the birth of an eternal partnership of the will of man and the will of God.

The Human Paradox
Many of mortal man's troubles grow out of his twofold relation to the cosmos: 1.) Man is a part of nature - he exists in nature; and 2.) he is able to transcend nature. Man is finite, but he is indwelt by a spark of infinity. This duality creates uncertainty and anxiety in social and moral situations.
On material levels man finds himself subservient to nature, while on spiritual levels he is triumphant over nature and over all things temporal and finite.
However, the courage required to conquer nature and to transcend one’s self spawns another problem for man. The mortal who can transcend his/her self is susceptible to the sin of pride - the temptation to deify his or her self.
Just as Lucifer discovered, sin may evolve when self becomes proud and arrogant. Pride is inseparable from temptation, potential evil, and decisional errors.

The Greatest Killer
Pride is the greatest killer of all the dangers that plague man’s mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity.
Reasonable self-confidence is not to be deplored. Courage is heroic, but egotism is suicidal. Man’s ability to transcend himself is the one thing which distinguishes him from the animal kingdom.
Pride is deceitful, intoxicating, and sin-breeding whether found in an individual, a group, a race, or a nation. It is literally true, “Pride goes before a fall.”

Sex Appeal
Males and females are different personality types. Notwithstanding the personality gulf between men and women, the sex urge is sufficient to insure their coming together for the reproduction of the species. This instinct operated effectively long before humans experienced much of what was later called love, devotion, and marital loyalty.
The all-absorbing sex passion of the more highly civilized peoples is chiefly due to race mixtures, especially where the evolutionary nature has been uplifted by the imagination and beauty appreciation gained through human inheritance from the children of Adam and Eve.

Sexual Causation
The mating instinct is one of the dominant physical driving forces of human beings. The sex urge, in the guise of individual gratification, effectively tricks selfish man into putting race welfare and perpetuation above individual ease and personal freedom from responsibility. Generally speaking, the sex urge is more enduring and persistent in males. When male hormones erupt in young males, they don't fully understand why they want sex with females. They simply know they do. Afterward, they may ask themselves why they wanted it, but more importantly, how can I ensure a regular supply?
Females are equally desirous of mating with males until they have children. After that, they may feel the real importance of sex for them is to ensure protection by the male for themselves and their children.
The continuance of the evolving human species is promoted by the presence of the mating impulse. The biological sex urge becomes the focal point for many physical, intellectual, moral, and social related instincts, emotions, and usages.

Social Regulation of Sex
The impelling motivation for the savage was the supply of food. When civilization insures plentiful food, the sex urge becomes the dominant impulse.
Having no morals, Nature is only concerned about the reproduction of the species. While it compellingly insists on reproduction, it is indifferent to any consequent problems. The social issues created by the sex urge present an unending war between basic instincts and evolving ethics for evolutionary mankind.
No human emotion or impulse, when unbridled and overindulged, can produce as much harm and sorrow as the sex urge.
Intelligent submission to the regulations of society regarding the sex impulse is the supreme test of any civilization. Self-control is the ever-increasing demand of advancing mankind.

The Role of Marriage
Marriage grows out of bisexuality. Marriage is the basis of all social evolution and is therefore certain of continued existence in some form. Marriage has given mankind the home, and the home is the crowning glory of the long and arduous evolutionary struggle.
The evolution of marriage is simply the history of sex control through the pressure of social, religious, and civil restrictions.
Marriage, the family, and the home are vital as an educational institution for man.

Society Requires Families
Marriage (home building) is necessary for the evolution of society. Society is the aggregation of family units.
Individuals are very temporary as planetary factors. Only families are continuing agencies in social evolution.
Because of the sex urge, selfish man is lured into making something better than an animal out of himself. Sex is the unrecognized and unsuspected civilizer of the savage. The sex impulse automatically and unerringly compels man to think and eventually leads him to love. The family, which grows out of marriage, along with property conventions, is itself a stabilizer of the marriage institution. Other important factors in the stability of evolving marriage are pride, vanity, chivalry, duty, and religious convictions. The family is the channel through which the river of culture and knowledge flows from one generation to another.
The human family, however, is only a human institution, an evolutionary development. Beyond life on Earth, all who “shall be accounted worthy to attain the mansion worlds neither marry nor are given in marriage; neither do they die any more, for they are equal to the angels.”

Parenting Requisite
Parenting experience is required for soul survival.
If parenting experience is not acquired in the life on Earth, survivors must spend time in the foster care of children on the Mansion Worlds.
A parent's duty on Earth is to achieve the temporal and spiritual survival of his or her family.

Mortal (Creature) Mind Causation
Sin is not self-existent in the finite world, and finiteness is not evil or sinful.
The finite world was made by an infinite Creator - it is the handiwork of his divine Sons - and therefore it must be good. It is the misuse, distortion, and perversion of the finite that gives origin to evil and sin.
The spirit can dominate mind, so mind can control energy. But mind can control energy only through its own intelligent manipulation of the metamorphic potentials (physical changes) inherent in the mathematical level of the causes and effects (the algorithms of causation) of the physical domains.
Creature mind does not inherently control energy - that is a Deity prerogative. But creature mind can and does manipulate energy to the extent that it has mastered the energy secrets of the physical universe.
Through the intelligent use of the body, mind can create other mechanisms (energy relationships and human and animal relationships), through which the mind can increasingly control its physical level in the universe.

The Building Blocks of Wisdom
Science is the source of facts, and mind cannot operate without facts. Facts are the building blocks in the construction of wisdom that are bonded together by life experience.
Man cannot begin to appreciate the infinite symmetry, the celestial harmony, the exquisite repleteness of the all-inclusive nature of the Universal Father of creation until he has found divine law and divine love and has experientially unified these in his own evolving cosmic philosophy.
The augmentation of material knowledge permits a greater intellectual appreciation of the meanings of ideas and the values of ideals. A human can find truth in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life.
It is natural that mortal man should be harassed by feelings of insecurity as he views himself inextricably bound to nature while he possesses spiritual powers wholly transcendent to all things temporal and finite. Only religious confidence (faith in God) can sustain man amid such difficult and perplexing problems.

Formulating an Inner Life and Escaping the Allure of Matter

Concern is Normal
Uncertainty with security (soul preservation) is the essence of the Paradise adventure - uncertainty in time and in mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise ascent; uncertainty as an inexperienced citizen of the universe; but with security as an ascending son in the universe mansions of an all-powerful, all-wise, and all-loving Father.
The remedy for uncertainty is to heed the distant echo of the Adjuster’s call to your soul. The indwelling Adjuster cannot prevent or even materially lessen the hardships of life as you journey on through this world of toil.
But as you work and worry, you will be comforted and inspired if you will permit the Adjuster to constantly bring forth the pictures of the real motive and the eternal purpose of this difficult, uphill struggle with the commonplace problems of your present material world.
Allow the Adjuster to strengthen you with the spiritual truths of cosmic power while you wrestle with the temporal difficulties of creature existence.

Life on Earth
Mortals experience an unending conflict between their two natures: the urge of ambition opposed by animal indolence; the long-distance view of a far-seeing Adjuster offset by the nearsightedness of a creature of time; the progressive plans of an ascending being modified by the desires and longings of a material nature; the flashes of universe intelligence canceled by the chemical-energy mandates of the evolving race; the urges of angels opposed by the emotions of an animal; the art of the beautiful besmirched by the presence of evil; the buoyancy of health neutralized by the debility of disease; the fountain of faith polluted by the poisons of fear; the gladness of anticipation disillusioned by the bitterness of realization; the joys of living threatened by the sorrows of death.
Such is life on planet Earth, which has been quarantined to prevent the contagion of other normal planets from the evil of Lucifer's betrayal of those over whom he had dominion in this solar system.

Worship, Prayer, and Service
Worship (contemplation of the spiritual) must alternate with service (beneficial interface with material reality). Work should alternate with play; religion should be balanced by humor. Profound philosophy should be relieved by rhythmic poetry. The strain of living - the time tension of personality - should be relaxed by the restfulness of worship.
The feelings of insecurity arising from the fear of personality isolation in the universe should be remedied by the faith contemplation of the Father and by the attempted realization of the Supreme God of Time and Space (through active service to ourselves). The Supreme is the collective Godhead of all of us.
Prayer is designed to make man less thinking but more realizing; it is not designed to increase knowledge but rather to expand insight. Worship is the technique of looking to the One for the inspiration of service to the many. Prayer is self-reminding - sublime thinking. Worship is self-forgetting. Worship is the act of a part identifying itself with the Whole; the finite with the Infinite; the son with the Father; time in lockstep with eternity.

Expanding Personality Types
The ceaseless expansion of the Paradise creative forces through space intimates an ever-extending domain of the gravity grasp of the Universal Father and the never-ending multiplication of varied types of intelligent personalities.
The universe of universes is altogether unified. God is one in power and personality. There is coordination of all levels of energy and all phases of personality. Philosophically and experientially, in concept and in reality, all things and beings center in the Paradise Father. God is all and in all, and no things or beings exist without him.
Consequently, each personality type must expand its own capacity to love every other type of personality as brothers. This is not only the challenge of life on Earth, it is the challenge of the Ages.

Worship Transforms the Worshipper
Jesus taught his followers that, when they made their prayers to the Father, they should remain for a time in silent receptivity to afford their indwelling spirit the opportunity to speak to the listening soul.
The spirit of the Father (the Adjuster) speaks best to man when the human mind is in an attitude of true worship. We worship God with the aid of the Father’s indwelling spirit and by the illumination of the human mind through the ministry of truth (the Spirit of Truth of the Creator Sons).
Jesus taught that worship makes one increasingly like the being who is worshiped. Worship is a transforming experience whereby the finite gradually approaches and ultimately attains the presence of the Infinite.

Advice of Jesus Regarding Temptation
“If you would be truly triumphant over the temptations of the lesser and lower nature, you must come to that place of spiritual advantage where you have really and truly developed an actual interest in, and love for, those higher and more idealistic forms of conduct which your mind is desirous of substituting for these lower and less idealistic habits of behavior that you recognize as temptation.
You will in this way be delivered through spiritual transformation rather than be increasingly overburdened with the deceptive suppression of mortal desires. The old and the inferior will be forgotten in the love for the new and the superior.
Beauty is always triumphant over ugliness in the hearts of all who are illuminated by the love of truth. There is mighty power in the expulsive energy of a new and sincere spiritual affection.
And again I say to you, be not overcome by evil but rather overcome evil with good.”

Responses
From the universe standpoint, the Paradise Deities (the Trinity) are as one, but in their spiritual relations with such beings as inhabit Earth, they are three distinct and separate persons. There is a difference between the Godheads in the matter of personal appeals, communion, and other intimate relations.
In the highest sense, we worship only the Universal Father. We can and do worship the Father as he is manifested in his Creator Sons, but it is the Father, directly or indirectly, who is worshiped and adored.
Supplications of all kinds belong to the realm of the Eternal Son and the Son’s spiritual organization.
Prayers, all formal communications, everything except adoration and worship of the Universal Father, are matters that concern a local universe. Prayers do not ordinarily proceed out of the realm of the jurisdiction of a Creator Son.

Lines of Communication
Worship is encircuited and dispatched to the Father through the Father’s personality circuit. Registry of the worship homage is facilitated by the indwelling Thought Adjuster. The Adjusters utilize direct infinite (pre-personal) channels of communication with God the Father, and they are also able to utilize the spirit-gravity circuits of the Eternal Son.
The great difference between prayer and worship is prayer embodies a self or creature-interest element.
Worship is for its own sake.
There is absolutely no element of personal interest in true worship. Worship asks nothing and expects nothing for the worshiper. We do not worship the Father because of anything we may derive from such veneration. We render such devotion as a natural and spontaneous reaction to the ineffable and thrilling attributes of the Father.

Redirection of Communications
The moment the element of self-interest intrudes upon worship, devotion instantly translates from worship to prayer and is directed to the person of the Eternal Son or the Creator Son. But in practical religious experience there exists no reason why prayer should not be addressed to God the Father as a part of true worship.
When dealing with the practical affairs of your daily life, you are in the hands of the spirit personalities cooperating with the agencies of the Conjoint Actor (primarily the local universe Creative Mother Spirit and her angels).
And so it is. You worship the Universal Father; pray to, and commune with, the Eternal Son; and work out the details of your earthly sojourn in connection with the intelligence's of the Infinite Spirit operating on your world and throughout your local universe.

Over-control
The Creator Sons who preside over the destinies of the local universes stand in the place of both the Universal Father and the Eternal Son of Paradise. These local Universe Sons receive, in the name of the Father, the adoration of worship and listen to the pleas of their petitioning subjects throughout their respective creations. To the children of a local universe the Creator Son is God. He is the local universe personification of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Infinite Spirit maintains personal contact with the children of these realms through the Universe Creative Mother Spirits, the administrative and creative companions and associates of the Creator Sons.
Sincere worship connotes the mobilization of all the powers of the human personality under the dominance of the evolving soul and subject to the divine direction of their Thought Adjuster. The mind of material limitations can never become highly conscious of the real significance of true worship. Man’s realization of the reality of the worship experience is chiefly determined by the developmental status of his evolving immortal soul. The spiritual growth of the soul takes place independently of the intellectual self-consciousness of the personality.

The Rapture of Worship
There is an intensity in worship that increases exponentially the closer an ascendant son gets to Paradise. It is inconceivably far beyond the thrill of climax that Earthly males and females experience in their mutual embrace of sex (where in the background, Nature is coercing the male to relieve pressure and pain like an unmilked cow while nudging the female to reproduce).
The worship of the Father is more akin to the dawning love-adoration felt by older married couples who have experienced the trials and problems of life together while feeling the delight of one-anther's companionship.
The God-knowing believer increasingly experiences the ecstasy and grandeur of spiritual socialization on a universe scale - the eternal realization of the divine destiny of perfection attainment through exhilarating choice originally shepherded by the Mind Spirit of Wisdom.

Conductors of Worship
The act of worship becomes increasingly all-encompassing until it eventually attains the glory of the highest experiential delight and the most exquisite pleasure known to created beings.
While the Isle of Paradise contains certain places of worship, it is essentially one vast sanctuary of divine service. Worship is the first and dominant passion of all who have learned enough of God to attain his presence. Circle by circle, during the inward journey through Havona, worship is a growing passion until on Paradise it becomes necessary to direct and control its expression.
The periodic, spontaneous, group, and other special outbursts of supreme adoration and spiritual praise enjoyed on Paradise is under the direction of conductors of worship. The homage achieves the creature goal of supreme pleasure and attains the heights of the perfection of sublime self-expression and personal enjoyment. All ascendant beings would enjoy remaining forever in the attitude of worship if the chiefs of assignment didn't periodically disperse these assemblages. But no ascendant being is ever required to enter upon the assignments of eternal service until he has attained full satisfaction in worship.

The Art of Worship
It is the task of the conductors of worship to teach the ascendant creatures how to worship so they may be enabled to gain the satisfaction of self-expression and at the same time be able to give attention to the essential governing activities of Paradise.
Without improvement in the technique of worship, it would require hundreds of years for the average mortal who reaches Paradise to give full and satisfactory expression to his emotions of intelligent appreciation and ascendant gratitude. The conductors of worship open up new avenues of expression so that the children of the womb of space and the travail of time are enabled to gain the full satisfactions of worship in much less time.
All the arts of all the beings of the Seven Super Universes and Havona that are capable of intensifying and exalting the abilities of self-expression and the conveyance of appreciation are taught to assist the ascenders in the worship of the Paradise Deities.

Worship Summation
The worship experience consists in the sublime attempt of the mind-indwelling Thought Adjuster to communicate to the divine Father the inexpressible longings and the unutterable aspirations of the human soul (the conjoint creation of the God-seeking mortal mind and the God-revealing immortal Adjuster).
Worship is, therefore, the act of the material mind’s assenting to the attempt of its spiritualizing self to communicate with God. The mortal mind consents to worship; the immortal soul craves and initiates worship; the divine Adjuster conducts such worship in behalf of the mortal mind and the evolving immortal soul. In the final analysis, true worship becomes an experience realized on four cosmic levels: the intellectual, the morontial, the spiritual, and the personal - the consciousness of mind, soul, and spirit, with their unification in personality. A person becomes what he worships either outer world materialism (stunting the evolution of the soul) or the inner world spirit. The irony is that the angels must assist you in pursuing whichever choice of free will you make.

Ancestry Summation
The pure energy (of the Unqualified Absolute) is the ancestor of all relative (depending upon some variable factor such as environment), non spirit functional realities, while pure spirit is the potential of the divine over-control of all basic energy systems.
These realities, so diverse as manifested throughout space and as observed in the motions of time, are both centered in the person of the Paradise Father. In him they must be unified because God is one. The Father’s personality is absolutely unified.
Therefore, all of the non spirit, non personality fragments of pure energy (the Thought Adjusters) must become spiritually unified within the Father's personality.

Functional Realities
The present grand universe and the emerging master universe are made up of many forms and phases of reality which, in turn, are existent on several levels of functional activity. The functional realities are categorized as:
1. Incomplete finites. This is the present status of the ascending creatures of the grand universe, the present status of Earth mortals.
2. Maximum finites. This is the present status of all experiential creatures who have attained destiny.
3. Transcendentals. This super finite level follows finite progression. Much of Paradise-Havona consists of this transcendental order of Ultimates.
4. Ultimates. This level encompasses that which is of master universe significance and impinges on the destiny level of the completed master universe.
5. Coabsolutes. This level implies the projection of experientials upon a super master universe field of creative expression.
6. Absolutes. This level connotes the eternity presence of the seven existential Absolutes.
7. Infinity. This level is pre-existential and post experiential. The unqualified unity of infinity is a hypothetical reality before all beginnings and after all destinies. It is the past, present, and future NOW.

Comment on Incomplete finites.
As noted above, “incomplete finites” is the present status of Earth mortals. This level embraces creature existence from planetary humans up to, but not including, destiny attainers (finaliters). It pertains to universes from early physical beginnings up to, but not including, settlement in light and life.
The incomplete finite level constitutes the present boundary of creative activity in time and space. Creative activity is moving outward from Paradise. The closing of this present universe age of the Supreme God of Time and Space will witness the grand universe attainment of light and life and will see the appearance of a new order of developmental growth in the first outer space level – the transcendence of Time and Space.

Destiny Summation
Every Paradise Son (Local Universe Creator Son) conceived by the Universal Father and the Eternal Son is an original thought for a personality. This unique thought is articulated by each individual Creator Son in the creation of his local universe. The many facets of the Creator Sons' personalities are disclosed in the personalities of the unique individual ascendant sons (mortals) who seek to return to the Paradise Trinity after having fused the pure energy of the Adjuster and the potential of pure spirit (the personified soul).
The individual mortal personalities sum upward to the fulfillment of the original thoughts of the Creator Sons conceived by the Universal Father and the Eternal Son.
Eventually, all of the Creator Sons of all the local universes and all of their ascendant sons together with the Supreme God of Time and Space will attempt the conquest of Ultimacy (the Transcendence of Time and Space). In turn, following the conquest of Ultimacy, all forces will be assembled to pursue the goal of realizing the Absolute, which is the portal to the infinite absolute.

Absolute Infinity

The Infinite Absolute
The I AM is the Infinite. The I AM is also infinity. And, the I AM is pure absolute mind.
The concept of the I AM connotes unqualified infinity, the undifferentiated reality of all that could ever be in all of an infinite eternity.
The philosophers of the universes attribute Absolute primal causation in infinity to the Universal Father functioning as the infinite, the eternal, and the absolute I AM.
As an existential concept the I AM is neither deified nor undeified, neither actual nor potential, neither personal nor impersonal, neither static nor dynamic. No qualification can be applied to the Infinite except to state that the I AM IS.

Hypothetically Speaking for Human Comprehension
At some infinitely distant, hypothetical moment in past-eternity, the I AM may be conceived as both thing and no thing, as both cause and effect, as both volition and response. At this hypothetical eternity moment, there is no differentiation throughout all infinity. Infinity is filled by the Infinite; the Infinite encompasses infinity.
This is the hypothetical static moment of eternity; actuals are still contained within their potentials,and potentials have not yet appeared within the infinity of the I AM. But self-will exists.
The Universal Father emerges from the I Am. Time and Space begin.

The Genesis of Absolute Reality
In considering the genesis of absolute reality, be mindful that all absolute reality is from eternity and is without beginning of existence. Absolute reality consists of the three existential persons of Deity (the Universal Father (person), the Eternal Son (spirit), and the Infinite Spirit (mind); the Isle of Paradise (home of spiritual deity and the pattern for energy-matter); and the absolutes of potentials – the Universal Absolute of spirit and energy-matter, the Deity Absolute of spirit only, and the Unqualified Absolute of energy-matter). These seven realities are equally eternal, not withstanding that we use the language of time-space in presenting their origins to human beings as sequential.
In following a chronological portrayal of the origins of reality, there must be a postulated theoretical moment of “first” volitional expression and “first” repercussional reaction within the I AM. In any attempt to portray the genesis and generation of reality, this stage may be conceived as the self-differentiation of The Infinite One from The Infinitude.
The genesis of absolute reality described here is not to be confused with the “reality” created out of potential through evolution in Time and Space, which is the state or quality of having existence in substance.

A Minuscule Foreshadowing of the Infinite
The universe of universes, with its innumerable array of inhabiting personalities, is a vast and complex organism, but the First Source and Center (the Universal Father) is infinitely more complex than the universes and personalities that have become real in response to his willed mandates.
When you stand in awe of the magnitude of the master universe, consider that even this inconceivable creation can be no more than a partial revelation of the Infinite.
Infinity is very remote from the experience level of mortal comprehension, but even in this age on Earth our concepts of infinity are growing, and they will continue to grow throughout our endless careers stretching onward into future eternity.
But mortals must realize that their comprehension of the Universal Father is a growing personal experience.

The Sevenfold Self-Relationship of the I AM
The three I Am Absolutes of Potential
1. The Universal Absolute – Mind
2. The Deity Absolute – Spirit
3. The Unqualified Absolute – Energy-matter

The Harmonizing Level Between the Three Absolutes of Potential and the Three Absolute Actuals is
4. The First Source and Center - the Universal Father – who came forth from the I AM – Person

The three Absolute actuals coming forth from the I AM (“after” the Father)
5. The Eternal Son - Spirit – A Person (Actualization of the Deity Absolute)
6. The Isle of Paradise – Matter – A Minded Non Person (Actualization of the Unqualified Absolute)
7. The Infinite Spirit (Conjoint Actor for the Father and Son) – Mind – A Person (Actualization of the Universal Absolute).

Human Evolution in Time and Space
Knowing the Father is a personal experience – potential being realized.
The mortal person, the soul, and the indwelling pre-personal fragment of the Unqualified Absolute are a shadow image of the Paradise Trinity within the Supreme.
The fused person, soul, and fragment of the Unqualified Absolute finalize in the Age of the Supreme.
The mind of the ex-mortal evolves into Cosmic Mind.

Actualization of the Absolutes
The Unqualified Absolute (matter) actualizes all potential in the Age of the Supreme God.
The Deity Absolute (spirit) actualizes all potential in the Age of the Ultimate God.
The Universal Absolute (mind) actualizes all potential in the Age of the Absolute God (the Age Prior to Infinity).
The Evolution of the Experiential and the Metamorphosis of the Existential
The actualized potential of the Supreme actualizes and personifies the Unqualified Absolute and Paradise (matter). The matter of each subsequent age becomes more abstract.
The actualized potential of the Ultimate actualizes and personifies the Deity Absolute – the reciprocal of the Eternal Son (spirit).
The actualized potential of the Experiential Absolute actualizes through the Universal Father (person).
The potential of the mortal, cosmic, and absolute minds actualize through the Conjoint Actor (mind).
Deified and personified matter and all the above will be absorbed by the I Am (Infinity).

Individual and Planetary Spiritual Progress

The Seven Psychic Circles
The sum total of personality realization on a material world is measured by the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entrance upon the lowest seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being. Though the traversal of the seven circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment of those steps that are preliminary to Adjuster fusion.
The Adjuster is an equal partner in the attainment of the seven circles - the achievement of comparative mortal maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the seventh to the first but progresses to the status of supremacy and self-activity independent of the active cooperation of the mortal mind.
The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; they have to do with personality status, mind attainment, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement (harmony).
The successful traversal of the seven levels demands the harmonious functioning of the entire personality. The growth of the parts does not equal the true maturation of the whole; the parts grow in proportion to the expansion of the whole self - material, intellectual, and spiritual.

Individual Achievement of the 7 Psychic Levels
The individual personality progress of human beings is measured by the successive attainment and traversal (mastery) of the seven psychic levels or cosmic circles.
These circles of mortal progression are levels of associated intellectual, social, spiritual, and cosmic-insight values. Starting out in the seventh circle, mortals strive to achieve the first circle. All who attain the third circle have personal guardians of destiny (guardian angels) assigned to them.
What ever circle is achieved on Earth determines placement on the mansion worlds. There are three groups of individual ascenders. The less advanced begin their morontial training on the initial or first mansion world. The more advanced group may take up the morontia career on any of the intermediate mansion worlds in accordance with their prior planetary progression. The most advanced pilgrims begin their morontia experience on the seventh (highest) mansion world.

Discord
When the development of the intellectual nature proceeds faster than that of the spiritual, the situation renders communication with the Thought Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, over spiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spirit leading of the divine mind indweller. Lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to transmit to such a material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher super consciousness.
It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function - when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development - that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the survival welfare of a being. Only through a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first.

Enhanced Adjuster Contact
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 choices, 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. The “supremacy” of a decision, or a decision made in a “crisis” condition, awakens higher values and meanings that have a great deal to do with its circle-making influence. Numbers of decisions, frequent repetitions, and persistent repetitions, are essential to the habit-forming certainty of such reactions.

Unique to Each Person
It is difficult to define the seven levels of human progression precisely because the levels are personal. They vary for each individual and are determined by the growth capacity of each human being. The conquest of these levels of cosmic evolution is reflected in three ways:
1. Adjuster attunement (harmony). The spiritizing human mind draws closer to the Adjuster's presence proportional to circle attainment.
2. Soul evolution. The emergence of the morontia (mansion world level) soul mirrors the dimensions of personality circle mastery.
3. Personality reality. The degree of self-hood reality (actuality) is directly determined by circle conquest. Persons become more “real” as they ascend from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence.
As the circles are traversed, the human child of material evolution is growing into the mature person of immortal potentiality. The shadowy reality of the embryonic nature of a seventh circler is giving way to the manifestation of the emerging morontia nature of a local universe citizen.

Entrance to the Lowest Seventh Circle
This lowest seventh circle level is entered when human beings develop the powers of personal choice, individual decision, moral responsibility, and the capacity for the attainment of spiritual individuality.
The seventh circle signifies the united functioning of the seven adjutant mind-spirits under the direction of the spirit of wisdom, the encircuitment of the mortal creature into the influence of the Holy Spirit (the Local Universe Mother Spirit) and, on Earth, the first functioning of the Spirit of Truth (the consciousness of Michael, the local universe creator) together with the reception of impulses from the Thought Adjuster in the mortal mind.
Entrance upon the seventh circle constitutes a mortal creature as a truly potential citizen of the local universe – the beginning of wisdom and the love of God.

The Third Circle
The Thought Adjuster’s work is far more effective after the human ascender attains the third circle and receives personal seraphic guardians of destiny. There is an unmistakable improvement in all phases of cosmic achievement and spiritual development after the assignment of the personal seraphic attendants.
When the third circle is attained, the Adjuster endeavors to “morontiaize” the mind of man (advance the mind to the soul level between matter and spirit). The Adjuster concentrates upon achieving the remaining two circles, the final stages of the divine-human association before natural death.

The First and Final Psychic Circle
The Adjuster cannot, ordinarily, speak directly and instantly with his person until the first and final psychic circle is achieved.
This level represents the highest possible realization of mind-Adjuster relationship in the human experience prior to the liberation of the evolving morontia soul from the material body.
Concerning mind, emotions, and cosmic insight, the achievement of the first psychic circle is the nearest possible approach of material mind and the spirit Adjuster in human experience.

Finding the Supreme
The seven psychic circles of mortal progression might be better designated cosmic levels – the realization of meanings and values of the evolutionary soul's consciousness of its progressive approach to the emerging Supreme Being.
The circle attainments are only relatively related to God-consciousness. A seventh or sixth circler can be nearly as God-knowing (son-ship conscious) as a second or first circler, but lower circle beings are far less conscious of their experiential relation to the Supreme Being. Attainment of the seven cosmic circles will be a part of the ascender experience on the mansion worlds if not achieved before natural death.

Planetary Progression (Light and Life)
The stages of Light and Life are the measurement of the global concern of people for the well-being of others than themselves. Light and Life is an earned classification for planets with high ethics, wisdom, worship, and spiritual gravitation (mutual attraction).
As with the seven psychic circles for individuals, there are seven successive ages of increasingly brilliant attainment on the inhabited worlds as they pass from the seventh stage of settled light and life existence to the first.

Pre-Light and Life
Capitalism is a necessary midway level of evolution below light and life levels. Capitalism's lack of concern for fellow citizens may be seen in the profit motive and the indifference of companies and stock holders in their efforts to monetize the misfortune of victims of addiction, war, poverty, and suffering.
Desecration and defoliation of the planet is enabled by unfettered capitalism and individualism. The abuse of Earth is evidenced in the devastation caused by unrestricted population growth and by the power of nation states to exploit the environment within their borders. (Defoliation upsets the balance between air breathers of oxygen, animals and humans, and carbon dioxide users, plants in photosynthesis.)
Mortal creatures living on a sin-stricken, evil-dominated, self-seeking, isolated world, such as Earth, can hardly conceive of the physical perfection, the intellectual attainment, and the spiritual development that characterize the advanced epochs of evolution on a sinless planetary organism.

The Acme of Material Development
The advanced stages of a world settled in light and life represent the peak of evolutionary material development. On these cultured worlds, the idleness and friction of the earlier primitive ages are gone. Poverty and social inequality have nearly vanished, degeneracy has disappeared, and delinquency is rare. Insanity barely exists, and feeble-mindedness is unusual.
The economic, social, and administrative status of these worlds is of a high and perfected order. Science, art, and industry flourish, and society is a smoothly working mechanism of high material, intellectual, and cultural achievement. Industry has been largely diverted to serving the higher aims of a superb civilization. The economic life of such a world has become ethical.

Minimal Administration
War has become a study of history on advanced light and life planets. There are no more armies or police forces. Government is gradually disappearing. Self-control is slowly rendering laws of human enactment obsolete. The extent of civil government and statutory regulation exists in inverse proportion to the morality and spirituality of the citizenship.
Schools are vastly improved and are devoted to the training of mind and the expansion of soul. The art centers are exquisite and the musical organizations superb. The temples of worship with their associated schools of philosophy and experiential religion are creations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air arenas of worship assembly are equally sublime in the simplicity of their artistic appointment.

No Contact Sports
The provisions for competitive play, humor, and other phases of personal and group achievement are ample and appropriate on light and life worlds. A special feature of the competitive activities on a highly cultured world concerns the efforts of individuals and groups to excel in the sciences, music, and philosophies of cosmology.
Literature and oratory flourish, and language is so improved as to be symbolic of concepts as well as to be expressive of ideas. Life is refreshingly simple. Man has coordinated a high state of mechanical development with an inspiring intellectual attainment and has overshadowed both with exquisite spiritual achievement.
The pursuit of happiness is an experience of joy and satisfaction.

Individual Mortals
As worlds advance in the settled status of light and life, society becomes increasingly peaceful. The individual, while no less independent and devoted to his family, has become more altruistic and fraternal.
On Earth, at present levels, mortals can have little appreciation of the advanced status and progressive nature of the enlightened races of the perfecting worlds. These people are the flowering of the evolutionary races. But such beings are still mortal; they continue to breathe, eat, sleep, and drink. This great evolution is not heaven, but it is a sublime foreshadowing of the divine worlds of the Paradise ascent.
On a normal world the biologic fitness of the mortal race was long since brought up to a high level during the post-Adamic epochs; and now, from age to age throughout the settled eras the physical evolution of man continues. Vision and hearing are greatly extended.

Population Controlled
The population has become stationary in numbers. Reproduction is regulated in accordance with planetary requirements and innate hereditary endowments. The mortals on a planet during this age are divided into five to ten groups, and the lower groups are permitted to produce only one half as many children as the higher groups.
The avarice and greed of businessmen and the corruption and graft of politicians without morality and ethics no longer exists. Past injustices to ancestors no longer validates revengeful practices.
The continued improvement of a magnificent race throughout the era of light and life is largely a matter of the selective reproduction of those racial strains that exhibit superior qualities of a social, philosophic, cosmic, and spiritual nature.

Intimacy with Guardians
The Thought Adjusters continue to come as in former evolutionary eras, and as the epochs pass, these mortals are increasingly able to commune with the indwelling Father fragment.During the embryonic and pre-spiritual stages of development, the adjutant mind-spirits of the Local Universe Mother Spirit (the Holy Spirit) are still functioning. Her ministry of angels are even more effective as the successive epochs of settled life are experienced.
In the fourth stage of light and life the advanced mortals experience considerable conscious contact with the spirit presence of the Master Spirit of super universe jurisdiction. The philosophy of such a world is focused upon the attempt to comprehend the new revelations of God the Supreme.
More than half of the human inhabitants on planets of this advanced status experience translation to the morontia state from among the living without death.

Till Then
In today's world of competition between nations, constant economic advantage is sought by each sovereignty. Countries with too much debt and too little growth (productivity and employment), resort first to currency wars, then to trade wars (tariffs and sanctions) and finally to shooting wars to appropriate resources and capture markets from geopolitical rivals.
Eventually, the globalization plan of the Most High (the Exalted One who rules in the lives of men) will be given more consideration. The plan of the Most High for Earth is:
1. One Global Government;
2. Brotherhood.
The most contentious problems of mortal society are caused by differences in race; gender; religion; and ownership of property.
These problems will be resolved only when mankind achieves the goals of one race, gender equality, one language, one religion, one global government, the shared distribution of wealth from Earth's resources, and the segregation or elimination of inferior humans (at all levels of intelligence) until the gene pool is purged of defectives.
Realization of these goals will require millenniums of growth in man's reach for brotherhood.

Gravities Reveal Presence of Absolutes

Science's Explanation of Gravity
Gravity is a force of attraction that exists between any two masses, any two bodies, and any two particles. Gravity is not just the attraction between objects and the Earth. It is an attraction that exists between all objects everywhere in the universe.
The Urantia Book reveals that in addition to physical linear gravity recognized by Earth's physicists, there are circuits that exercise a gravitational pull upon mind, spirit, and personality between the Paradise deities and their creatures.
These magnetic circuits are neither force, energy, nor power circuits. They are absolute presence circuits, and like God they are independent of time and space.

Energy Is the Substructure of Matter
Matter is the foundation of the universe in the way that energy is the basis of all existence. Pure energy is controlled by the Universal Father.
Force (energy in space) is an everlasting monument (structure) demonstrating and proving the existence, presence, and potential of the Universal Absolute. (The Universal Absolute may be viewed as the equivalent of the Father in the “trinity of the absolutes” (reflective of the Paradise Trinity) along with the Deity Absolute and the Unqualified Absolute. (The latter is the non-deity source of energy.)
The vast stream of energy proceeding from the Paradise Trinity (who are aspects of the I Am) has never lapsed.
The manipulation of universe energy is always in accordance with the personal will and the all-wise mandates of the Universal Father (who is expressing the potential of the Universal Absolute). The Father's personal control of manifested power and circulating energy is modified by the coordinate acts and decisions of the Eternal Son, as well as by the united purposes of the Son and the Father executed by the Conjoint Actor (the Infinite Spirit). These divine beings also function in the persons and powers of an almost unlimited number of subordinates.
Recognize that the underlying purpose of material creation is to deify and personify energy – the Unqualified Absolute.

Paradise Forces and Energies
While the foundation of the universe is material, the essence of life is spirit. The Father of spirit is not only the ancestor of universes, but also the eternal Father of the Original Son (spirit) and the eternity source of the original pattern, Paradise.
Matter and energy are diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality. Matter may appear to manifest inherent energy, but it is the lines of gravity involved in the energies from which all these physical phenomena are derived that accounts for the marvelous manifestations and displays of matter. The ultimaton, the first measurable form of energy, has Paradise as its nucleus.
Within matter and present in universal space, there is a form of energy unknown on Earth. When this form of energy is discovered, physicists will feel that they have solved the mystery of matter.
Yet even after Earth has advanced immeasurably in comparison with its present knowledge, scientists will still not be able to add life to matter.
Paradise controls matter through gravity. The Father adds life to matter through the local universes' Creative Daughters of the Infinite Spirit (the Conjoint Actor).

The Creation of Matter and Life
The creation of energy and the bestowal of life are the prerogatives of the Universal Father and his associate Creator personalities.
The river of energy and life is a continuous outpouring from the Deities - the universal and united stream of Paradise force going forth to all space. This divine energy spreads through all creation.
The force organizers initiate the changes and institute the modifications of space-force that ensue in energy; the power directors transmute energy into matter enabling the birth of the material worlds.
Following the life flash of the local universe Creative Mother Spirit, the Life Carriers initiate those processes in matter that are called material life. The Morontia Power Supervisors perform similarly throughout the transition realms between the material and the spiritual worlds. The higher spirit Creators (Michaels) inaugurate similar processes in divine forms of energy, and there follows the higher spirit forms of intelligent life (the administrators).
To summarize, energy proceeds from Paradise, fashioned after the divine order. Energy - pure energy - partakes of the nature of the divine organization (the force organizers and power directors). Energy is sculpted simulating the three Gods embraced in one (the Paradise Trinity). All force circuited in Paradise comes from the Paradise Presences and returns to them. It is in essence a manifestation of the uncaused Cause - the Universal Father. Without the Father nothing that exists would exist.

Gravity Unification
Gravity unification is universal and unvarying. The response of pure-energy to gravity is universal and inescapable.
Pure energy (primordial force) and pure spirit are wholly pre-responsive to gravity. These primal forces, inhering in the Absolutes (the Universal Absolute, the Deity Absolute, and the Unqualified Absolute), are personally controlled by the Universal Father.
All gravity is concentrated and unified in the personal presence of the Paradise Father of pure energy and pure spirit in his super-material abode of Paradise.

Paradise Gravity
The inescapable pull of gravity effectively grips all the worlds of all the universes of all space. Gravity is the all-powerful grasp of the physical presence of Paradise. Gravity is the omnipotent strand on which are strung the gleaming stars, blazing suns, and whirling spheres which constitute the universal physical adornment of the eternal God, who is all things, fills all things, and in whom all things consist.
The center and focal point of absolute material gravity is the Isle of Paradise, complemented by the dark gravity bodies encircling Havona (the Central Universe) and equilibrated by the upper and nether space reservoirs. All known emanations of nether Paradise invariably and unerringly respond to the central gravity pull operating upon the endless circuits of the elliptical space levels of the master universe.
Every known form of cosmic reality has the bend of the ages, the trend of the circle, the swing of the great ellipse.

Space Counterbalances Gravity
Space is non responsive to gravity, but it acts as a counterbalancing force on gravity. Without the space cushion, explosive action would jerk surrounding space bodies.
Pervaded (impregnated) space also exerts an anti-gravity influence upon physical or linear gravity. Space can actually neutralize such gravity action even though it cannot delay it.
Absolute gravity is Paradise gravity. Local or linear gravity pertains to the electrical stage of energy or matter operating within the central, the seven super universes, and the outer universes, wherever suitable materialization has taken place.

The Relationship of the Infinite Spirit to Paradise
The universe of universes is permeated by the power-control creatures of the Third Source and Center: physical controllers, power directors, power centers, and other representatives of the God of Action who have to do with the regulation and stabilization of physical energies. These unique creatures of physical function all possess varying attributes of power control, such as anti-gravity, which they utilize in their efforts to establish the physical equilibrium of the matter and energies of the grand universe.
The material activities of the God of Action appear to relate to the Isle of Paradise. His agencies of power are all considerate of, even dependent on, the absoluteness of Paradise. But the Conjoint Actor does not act for, or in response to, Paradise. He acts, personally, for the Father and the Son. Paradise is not a person.
Paradise is the pattern of infinity, the I Am. The God of Action (the Infinite Spirit) is the activator of that pattern. Paradise is the material fulcrum of infinity; the agencies of the Third Source and Center (the Infinite Spirit) are the levers of intelligence that motivate the material level and inject spontaneity into the mechanism of the physical creation.