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Urantia Book Paper 111 The Adjuster And The Soul
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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The Adjuster And The Soul
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Paper 111 The Adjuster And The Soul
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Introduction
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THE presence of the divine Adjuster in the human mind makes it forever
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impossible for either science or philosophy to attain a satisfactory
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comprehension of the evolving soul of the human personality. The morontia soul
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is the child of the universe and may be really known only through cosmic
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insight and spiritual discovery.
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The concept of a soul and of an indwelling spirit is not new to Urantia; it has
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frequently appeared in the various systems of planetary beliefs. Many of the
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Oriental as well as some of the Occidental faiths have perceived that man is
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divine in heritage as well as human in inheritance. The feeling of the inner
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presence in addition to the external omnipresence of Deity has long formed a
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part of many Urantian religions. Men have long believed that there is something
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growing within the human nature, something vital that is destined to endure
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beyond the short span of temporal life.
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Before man realized that his evolving soul was fathered by a divine spirit, it
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was thought to reside in different physical organs--the eye, liver, kidney,
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heart, and later, the brain. The savage associated the soul with blood, breath,
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shadows and with reflections of the self in water.
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In the conception of the atman the Hindu teachers really approximated an
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appreciation of the nature and presence of the Adjuster, but they failed to
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distinguish the copresence of the evolving and potentially immortal soul. The
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Chinese, however, recognized two aspects of a human being, the yang and the
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yin, the soul and the spirit. The Egyptians and many African tribes also
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believed in two factors, the ka and the ba; the soul was not usually believed
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to be pre-existent, only the spirit.
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The inhabitants of the Nile valley believed that each favored individual had
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bestowed upon him at birth, or soon thereafter, a protecting spirit which they
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called the ka. They taught that this guardian spirit remained with the mortal
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subject throughout life and passed before him into the future estate. On the
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walls of a temple at Luxor, where is depicted the birth of Amenhotep III, the
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little prince is pictured on the arm of the Nile god, and near him is another
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child, in appearance identical with the prince, which is a symbol of that
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entity which the Egyptians called the ka. This sculpture was completed in the
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fifteenth century before Christ.
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The ka was thought to be a superior spirit genius which desired to guide the
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associated mortal soul into the better paths of temporal living but more
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especially to influence the fortunes of the human subject in the hereafter.
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When an Egyptian of this period died, it was expected that his ka would be
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waiting for him on the other side of the Great River. At first, only kings were
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supposed to have kas, but presently all righteous men were believed to possess
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them.
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One Egyptian ruler, speaking of the ka within his heart, said: "I did not
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disregard its speech; I feared to transgress its guidance. I prospered thereby
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greatly; I was thus successful by reason of that which it caused me to do; I
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was distinguished by its guidance." Many believed that the ka was "an oracle
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from God in everybody." Many believed that they were to "spend eternity in
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gladness of heart in the favor of the God that is in you."
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Every race of evolving Urantia mortals has a word equivalent to the concept of
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soul. Many primitive peoples believed the soul looked out upon the world
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through human eyes; therefore did they so cravenly fear the malevolence of the
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evil eye. They have long believed that "the spirit of man is the lamp of the
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Lord." The Rig-Veda says: "My mind speaks to my heart."
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1. THE MIND ARENA OF CHOICE
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Though the work of Adjusters is spiritual in nature, they must, perforce, do
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all their work upon an intellectual foundation. Mind is the human soil from
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which the spirit Monitor must evolve the morontia soul with the co-operation of
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the indwelt personality.
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There is a cosmic unity in the several mind levels of the universe of
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universes. Intellectual selves have their origin in the cosmic mind much as
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nebulae take origin in the cosmic energies of universe space. On the human
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(hence personal) level of intellectual selves the potential of spirit evolution
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becomes dominant, with the assent of the mortal mind, because of the spiritual
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endowments of the human personality together with the creative presence of an
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entity-point of absolute value in such human selves. But such a spirit
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dominance of the material mind is conditioned upon two experiences: This mind
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must have evolved up through the ministry of the seven adjutant mind-spirits,
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and the material (personal) self must choose to co-operate with the indwelling
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Adjuster in creating and fostering the morontia self, the evolutionary and
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potentially immortal soul.
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Material mind is the arena in which human personalities live, are
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self-conscious, make decisions, choose God or forsake him, eternalize or
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destroy themselves.
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Material evolution has provided you a life machine, your body; the Father
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himself has endowed you with the purest spirit reality known in the universe,
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your Thought Adjuster. But into your hands, subject to your own decisions, has
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been given mind, and it is by mind that you live or die. It is within this mind
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and with this mind that you make those moral decisions which enable you to
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achieve Adjusterlikeness, and that is Godlikeness.
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Mortal mind is a temporary intellect system loaned to human beings for use
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during a material lifetime, and as they use this mind, they are either
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accepting or rejecting the potential of eternal existence. Mind is about all
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you have of universe reality that is subject to your will, and the soul--the
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morontia self--will faithfully portray the harvest of the temporal decisions
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which the mortal self is making. Human consciousness rests gently upon the
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electrochemical mechanism below and delicately touches the spirit-morontia
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energy system above. Of neither of these two systems is the human being ever
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completely conscious in his mortal life; therefore must he work in mind, of
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which he is conscious. And it is not so much what mind comprehends as what mind
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desires to comprehend that insures survival; it is not so much what mind is
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like as what mind is striving to be like that constitutes spirit
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identification. It is not so much that man is conscious of God as that man
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yearns for God that results in universe ascension. What you are today is not so
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important as what you are becoming day by day and in eternity.
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Mind is the cosmic instrument on which the human will can play the discords of
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destruction, or upon which this same human will can bring forth the exquisite
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melodies of God identification and consequent eternal survival. The Adjuster
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bestowed upon man is, in the last analysis, impervious to evil and incapable of
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sin, but mortal mind can actually be twisted, distorted, and rendered evil and
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ugly by the sinful machinations of a perverse and self-seeking human will.
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Likewise can this mind be made noble, beautiful, true, and good--actually
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great--in accordance with the spirit-illuminated will of a God-knowing human
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being.
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Evolutionary mind is only fully stable and dependable when manifesting itself
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upon the two extremes of cosmic intellectuality--the wholly mechanized and the
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entirely spiritualized. Between the intellectual extremes of pure mechanical
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control and true spirit nature there intervenes that enormous group of evolving
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and ascending minds whose stability and tranquillity are dependent upon
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personality choice and spirit identification.
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But man does not passively, slavishly, surrender his will to the Adjuster.
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Rather does he actively, positively, and co-operatively choose to follow the
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Adjuster's leading when and as such leading consciously differs from the
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desires and impulses of the natural mortal mind. The Adjusters manipulate but
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never dominate man's mind against his will; to the Adjusters the human will is
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supreme. And they so regard and respect it while they strive to achieve the
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spiritual goals of thought adjustment and character transformation in the
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almost limitless arena of the evolving human intellect.
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Mind is your ship, the Adjuster is your pilot, the human will is captain. The
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master of the mortal vessel should have the wisdom to trust the divine pilot to
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guide the ascending soul into the morontia harbors of eternal survival. Only by
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selfishness, slothfulness, and sinfulness can the will of man reject the
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guidance of such a loving pilot and eventually wreck the mortal career upon the
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evil shoals of rejected mercy and upon the rocks of embraced sin. With your
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consent, this faithful pilot will safely carry you across the barriers of time
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and the handicaps of space to the very source of the divine mind and on beyond,
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even to the Paradise Father of Adjusters.
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2. NATURE OF THE SOUL
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Throughout the mind functions of cosmic intelligence, the totality of mind is
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dominant over the parts of intellectual function. Mind, in its essence, is
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functional unity; therefore does mind never fail to manifest this constitutive
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unity, even when hampered and hindered by the unwise actions and choices of a
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misguided self. And this unity of mind invariably seeks for spirit
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co-ordination on all levels of its association with selves of will dignity and
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ascension prerogatives.
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The material mind of mortal man is the cosmic loom that carries the morontia
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fabrics on which the indwelling Thought Adjuster threads the spirit patterns
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of a universe character of enduring values and divine meanings--a surviving
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soul of ultimate destiny and unending career, a potential finaliter.
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The human personality is identified with mind and spirit held together in
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functional relationship by life in a material body. This functioning
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relationship of such mind and spirit does not result in some combination of the
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qualities or attributes of mind and spirit but rather in an entirely new,
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original, and unique universe value of potentially eternal endurance, the soul.
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There are three and not two factors in the evolutionary creation of such an
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immortal soul. These three antecedents of the morontia human soul are:
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1. The human mind and all cosmic influences antecedent thereto and impinging
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thereon.
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2. The divine spirit indwelling this human mind and all potentials inherent in
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such a fragment of absolute spirituality together with all associated spiritual
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influences and factors in human life.
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3. The relationship between material mind and divine spirit, which connotes a
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value and carries a meaning not found in either of the contributing factors to
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such an association. The reality of this unique relationship is neither
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material nor spiritual but morontial. It is the soul.
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The midway creatures have long denominated this evolving soul of man the
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mid-mind in contradistinction to the lower or material mind and the higher or
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cosmic mind. This mid-mind is really a morontia phenomenon since it exists in
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the realm between the material and the spiritual. The potential of such a
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morontia evolution is inherent in the two universal urges of mind: the impulse
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of the finite mind of the creature to know God and attain the divinity of the
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Creator, and the impulse of the infinite mind of the Creator to know man and
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attain the experience of the creature.
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This supernal transaction of evolving the immortal soul is made possible
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because the mortal mind is first personal and second is in contact with
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superanimal realities; it possesses a supermaterial endowment of cosmic
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ministry which insures the evolution of a moral nature capable of making moral
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decisions, thereby effecting a bona fide creative contact with the associated
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spiritual ministries and with the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
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The inevitable result of such a contactual spiritualization of the human mind
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is the gradual birth of a soul, the joint offspring of an adjutant mind
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dominated by a human will that craves to know God, working in liaison with the
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spiritual forces of the universe which are under the overcontrol of an actual
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fragment of the very God of all creation--the Mystery Monitor. And thus does
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the material and mortal reality of the self transcend the temporal limitations
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of the physical-life machine and attain a new expression and a new
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identification in the evolving vehicle for selfhood continuity, the morontia
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and immortal soul.
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3. THE EVOLVING SOUL
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The mistakes of mortal mind and the errors of human conduct may markedly delay
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the evolution of the soul, although they cannot inhibit such a morontia
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phenomenon when once it has been initiated by the indwelling Adjuster with the
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consent of the creature will. But at any time prior to mortal death this same
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material and human will is empowered to rescind such a choice and to reject
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survival. Even after survival the ascending mortal still retains this
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prerogative
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of choosing to reject eternal life; at any time before fusion with the Adjuster
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the evolving and ascending creature can choose to forsake the will of the
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Paradise Father. Fusion with the Adjuster signalizes the fact that the
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ascending mortal has eternally and unreservedly chosen to do the Father's will.
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During the life in the flesh the evolving soul is enabled to reinforce the
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supermaterial decisions of the mortal mind. The soul, being supermaterial, does
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not of itself function on the material level of human experience. Neither can
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this subspiritual soul, without the collaboration of some spirit of Deity, such
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as the Adjuster, function above the morontia level. Neither does the soul make
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final decisions until death or translation divorces it from material
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association with the mortal mind except when and as this material mind
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delegates such authority freely and willingly to such a morontia soul of
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associated function. During life the mortal will, the personality power of
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decision-choice, is resident in the material mind circuits; as terrestrial
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mortal growth proceeds, this self, with its priceless powers of choice, becomes
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increasingly identified with the emerging morontia-soul entity; after death and
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following the mansion world resurrection, the human personality is completely
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identified with the morontia self. The soul is thus the embryo of the future
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morontia vehicle of personality identity.
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This immortal soul is at first wholly morontia in nature, but it possesses such
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a capacity for development that it invariably ascends to the true spirit levels
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of fusion value with the spirits of Deity, usually with the same spirit of the
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Universal Father that initiated such a creative phenomenon in the creature
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mind.
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Both the human mind and the divine Adjuster are conscious of the presence and
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differential nature of the evolving soul--the Adjuster fully, the mind
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partially. The soul becomes increasingly conscious of both the mind and the
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Adjuster as associated identities, proportional to its own evolutionary growth.
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The soul partakes of the qualities of both the human mind and the divine spirit
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but persistently evolves toward augmentation of spirit control and divine
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dominance through the fostering of a mind function whose meanings seek to
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co-ordinate with true spirit value.
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The mortal career, the soul's evolution, is not so much a probation as an
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education. Faith in the survival of supreme values is the core of religion;
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genuine religious experience consists in the union of supreme values and cosmic
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meanings as a realization of universal reality.
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Mind knows quantity, reality, meanings. But quality--values--is felt. That
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which feels is the mutual creation of mind, which knows, and the associated
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spirit, which reality-izes.
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In so far as man's evolving morontia soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty,
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and goodness as the value-realization of God-consciousness, such a resultant
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being becomes indestructible. If there is no survival of eternal values in the
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evolving soul of man, then mortal existence is without meaning, and life itself
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is a tragic illusion. But it is forever true: What you begin in time you will
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assuredly finish in eternity--if it is worth finishing.
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4. THE INNER LIFE
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Recognition is the intellectual process of fitting the sensory impressions
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received from the external world into the memory patterns of the individual.
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Understanding connotes that these recognized sensory impressions and their
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associated memory patterns have become integrated or organized into a dynamic
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network of principles.
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Meanings are derived from a combination of recognition and understanding.
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Meanings are nonexistent in a wholly sensory or material world. Meanings and
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values are only perceived in the inner or supermaterial spheres of human
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experience.
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The advances of true civilization are all born in this inner world of mankind.
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It is only the inner life that is truly creative. Civilization can hardly
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progress when the majority of the youth of any generation devote their
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interests and energies to the materialistic pursuits of the sensory or outer
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world.
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The inner and the outer worlds have a different set of values. Any civilization
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is in jeopardy when three quarters of its youth enter materialistic professions
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and devote themselves to the pursuit of the sensory activities of the outer
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world. Civilization is in danger when youth neglect to interest themselves in
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ethics, sociology, eugenics, philosophy, the fine arts, religion, and
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cosmology.
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Only in the higher levels of the superconscious mind as it impinges upon the
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spirit realm of human experience can you find those higher concepts in
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association with effective master patterns which will contribute to the
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building of a better and more enduring civilization. Personality is inherently
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creative, but it thus functions only in the inner life of the individual.
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Snow crystals are always hexagonal in form, but no two are ever alike. Children
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conform to types, but no two are exactly alike, even in the case of twins.
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Personality follows types but is always unique.
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Happiness and joy take origin in the inner life. You cannot experience real joy
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all by yourself. A solitary life is fatal to happiness. Even families and
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nations will enjoy life more if they share it with others.
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You cannot completely control the external world--environment. It is the
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creativity of the inner world that is most subject to your direction because
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there your personality is so largely liberated from the fetters of the laws of
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antecedent causation. There is associated with personality a limited
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sovereignty of will.
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Since this inner life of man is truly creative, there rests upon each person
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the responsibility of choosing as to whether this creativity shall be
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spontaneous and wholly haphazard or controlled, directed, and constructive. How
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can a creative imagination produce worthy children when the stage whereon it
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functions is already preoccupied by prejudice, hate, fears, resentments,
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revenge, and bigotries?
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Ideas may take origin in the stimuli of the outer world, but ideals are born
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only in the creative realms of the inner world. Today the nations of the world
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are directed by men who have a superabundance of ideas, but they are
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poverty-stricken in ideals. That is the explanation of poverty, divorce, war,
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and racial hatreds.
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This is the problem: If freewill man is endowed with the powers of creativity
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in the inner man, then must we recognize that freewill creativity embraces the
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potential of freewill destructivity. And when creativity is turned to
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destructivity, you are face to face with the devastation of evil and
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sin--oppression, war, and destruction. Evil is a partiality of creativity which
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tends toward
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disintegration and eventual destruction. All conflict is evil in that it
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inhibits the creative function of the inner life--it is a species of civil war
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in the personality.
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Inner creativity contributes to ennoblement of character through personality
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integration and selfhood unification. It is forever true: The past is
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unchangeable; only the future can be changed by the ministry of the present
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creativity of the inner self.
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5. THE CONSECRATION OF CHOICE
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The doing of the will of God is nothing more or less than an exhibition of
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creature willingness to share the inner life with God--with the very God who
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has made such a creature life of inner meaning-value possible. Sharing is
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Godlike--divine. God shares all with the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit,
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while they, in turn, share all things with the divine Sons and spirit Daughters
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of the universes.
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The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the doing of his will is the
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secret of survival and of perfection in survival.
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Mortals live in God, and so God has willed to live in mortals. As men trust
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themselves to him, so has he--and first--trusted a part of himself to be with
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men; has consented to live in men and to indwell men subject to the human will.
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Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, service in
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eternity--all these are achieved (in spirit) now when the creature personality
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consents--chooses--to subject the creature will to the Father's will. And
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already has the Father chosen to make a fragment of himself subject to the will
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of the creature personality.
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Such a creature choice is not a surrender of will. It is a consecration of
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will, an expansion of will, a glorification of will, a perfecting of will; and
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such choosing raises the creature will from the level of temporal significance
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to that higher estate wherein the personality of the creature son communes with
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the personality of the spirit Father.
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This choosing of the Father's will is the spiritual finding of the spirit
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Father by mortal man, even though an age must pass before the creature son may
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actually stand in the factual presence of God on Paradise. This choosing does
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not so much consist in the negation of creature will--"Not my will but yours be
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done"--as it consists in the creature's positive affirmation: "It is my will
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that your will be done." And if this choice is made, sooner or later will the
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God-choosing son find inner union (fusion) with the indwelling God fragment,
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while this same perfecting son will find supreme personality satisfaction in
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the worship communion of the personality of man and the personality of his
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Maker, two personalities whose creative attributes have eternally joined in
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self-willed mutuality of expression--the birth of another eternal partnership
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of the will of man and the will of God.
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6. THE HUMAN PARADOX
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Many of the temporal troubles of mortal man grow out of his twofold relation to
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the cosmos. Man is a part of nature--he exists in nature--and yet he is able to
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transcend nature. Man is finite, but he is indwelt by a spark of infinity. Such
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a dual situation not only provides the potential for evil but also engenders
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many social and moral situations fraught with much uncertainty and not a little
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anxiety.
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The courage required to effect the conquest of nature and to transcend one's
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self is a courage that might succumb to the temptations of self-pride. The
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mortal who can transcend self might yield to the temptation to deify his own
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self-consciousness. The mortal dilemma consists in the double fact that man is
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in bondage to nature while at the same time he possesses a unique
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liberty--freedom of spiritual choice and action. On material levels man finds
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himself subservient to nature, while on spiritual levels he is triumphant over
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nature and over all things temporal and finite. Such a paradox is inseparable
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from temptation, potential evil, decisional errors, and when self becomes proud
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and arrogant, sin may evolve.
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The problem of sin is not self-existent in the finite world. The fact of
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finiteness is not evil or sinful. The finite world was made by an infinite
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Creator--it is the handiwork of his divine Sons--and therefore it must be good.
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It is the misuse, distortion, and perversion of the finite that gives origin to
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evil and sin.
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The spirit can dominate mind; so mind can control energy. But mind can control
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energy only through its own intelligent manipulation of the metamorphic
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potentials inherent in the mathematical level of the causes and effects of the
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physical domains. Creature mind does not inherently control energy; that is a
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Deity prerogative. But creature mind can and does manipulate energy just in so
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far as it has become master of the energy secrets of the physical universe.
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When man wishes to modify physical reality, be it himself or his environment,
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he succeeds to the extent that he has discovered the ways and means of
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controlling matter and directing energy. Unaided mind is impotent to influence
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anything material save its own physical mechanism, with which it is inescapably
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linked. But through the intelligent use of the body mechanism, mind can create
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other mechanisms, even energy relationships and living relationships, by the
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utilization of which this mind can increasingly control and even dominate its
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physical level in the universe.
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Science is the source of facts, and mind cannot operate without facts. They are
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the building blocks in the construction of wisdom which are cemented together
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by life experience. Man can find the love of God without facts, and man can
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discover the laws of God without love, but man can never begin to appreciate
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the infinite symmetry, the supernal harmony, the exquisite repleteness of the
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all-inclusive nature of the First Source and Center until he has found divine
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law and divine love and has experientially unified these in his own evolving
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cosmic philosophy.
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The expansion of material knowledge permits a greater intellectual appreciation
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of the meanings of ideas and the values of ideals. A human being can find truth
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in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his
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personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday
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life.
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It is only natural that mortal man should be harassed by feelings of insecurity
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as he views himself inextricably bound to nature while he possesses spiritual
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powers wholly transcendent to all things temporal and finite. Only religious
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confidence--living faith--can sustain man amid such difficult and perplexing
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problems.
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Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual
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integrity, pride is the greatest. Courage is valorous, but egotism is
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vainglorious and suicidal. Reasonable self-confidence is not to be deplored.
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Man's ability to transcend himself is the one thing which distinguishes him
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from the animal kingdom.
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Pride is deceitful, intoxicating, and sin-breeding whether found in an
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individual, a group, a race, or a nation. It is literally true, "Pride goes
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before a fall."
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7. THE ADJUSTER'S PROBLEM
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Uncertainty with security is the essence of the Paradise adventure--uncertainty
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in time and in mind, uncertainty as to the events of the unfolding Paradise
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ascent; security in spirit and in eternity, security in the unqualified trust
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of the creature son in the divine compassion and infinite love of the Universal
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Father; uncertainty as an inexperienced citizen of the universe; security as an
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ascending son in the universe mansions of an all-powerful, all-wise, and
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all-loving Father.
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May I admonish you to heed the distant echo of the Adjuster's faithful call to
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your soul? The indwelling Adjuster cannot stop or even materially alter your
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career struggle of time; the Adjuster cannot lessen the hardships of life as
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you journey on through this world of toil. The divine indweller can only
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patiently forbear while you fight the battle of life as it is lived on your
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planet; but you could, if you only would--as you work and worry, as you fight
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and toil--permit the valiant Adjuster to fight with you and for you. You could
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be so comforted and inspired, so enthralled and intrigued, if you would only
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allow the Adjuster constantly to bring forth the pictures of the real motive,
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the final aim, and the eternal purpose of all this difficult, uphill struggle
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with the commonplace problems of your present material world.
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Why do you not aid the Adjuster in the task of showing you the spiritual
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counterpart of all these strenuous material efforts? Why do you not allow the
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Adjuster to strengthen you with the spiritual truths of cosmic power while you
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wrestle with the temporal difficulties of creature existence? Why do you not
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encourage the heavenly helper to cheer you with the clear vision of the eternal
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outlook of universal life as you gaze in perplexity at the problems of the
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passing hour? Why do you refuse to be enlightened and inspired by the universe
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viewpoint while you toil amidst the handicaps of time and flounder in the maze
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of uncertainties which beset your mortal life journey? Why not allow the
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Adjuster to spiritualize your thinking, even though your feet must tread the
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material paths of earthly endeavor?
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The higher human races of Urantia are complexly admixed; they are a blend of
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many races and stocks of different origin. This composite nature renders it
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exceedingly difficult for the Monitors to work efficiently during life and adds
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definitely to the problems of both the Adjuster and the guardian seraphim after
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death. Not long since I was present on Salvington and heard a guardian of
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destiny present a formal statement in extenuation of the difficulties of
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ministering to her mortal subject. This seraphim said:
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"Much of my difficulty was due to the unending conflict between the two natures
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of my subject: the urge of ambition opposed by animal indolence;
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the ideals of a superior people crossed by the instincts of an inferior race;
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the high purposes of a great mind antagonized by the urge of a primitive
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inheritance; the long-distance view of a far-seeing Monitor counteracted by the
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nearsightedness of a creature of time; the progressive plans of an ascending
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being modified by the desires and longings of a material nature; the flashes of
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universe intelligence cancelled by the chemical-energy mandates of the evolving
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race; the urge of angels opposed by the emotions of an animal; the training of
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an intellect annulled by the tendencies of instinct; the experience of the
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individual opposed by the accumulated propensities of the race; the aims of the
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best overshadowed by the drift of the worst; the flight of genius neutralized
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by the gravity of mediocrity; the progress of the good retarded by the inertia
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of the bad; the art of the beautiful besmirched by the presence of evil; the
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buoyancy of health neutralized by the debility of disease; the fountain of
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faith polluted by the poisons of fear; the spring of joy embittered by the
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waters of sorrow; the gladness of anticipation disillusioned by the bitterness
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of realization; the joys of living ever threatened by the sorrows of death.
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Such a life on such a planet! And yet, because of the ever-present help and
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urge of the Thought Adjuster, this soul did achieve a fair degree of happiness
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and success and has even now ascended to the judgment halls of mansonia."
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[Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Seraphic Planetary Government The Supreme Being The Almighty Supreme God The
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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