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This post is both a counter to the attempts to analyze the teachings intellectually as well as a comment regarding to effectiveness of this approach relative to the Revelation's intended purpose. I am repeatedly confused by representations which seem to imply or subtly represent a position counter to the intended meaning of the Revelation.
110:2.1 When Thought Adjusters indwell human minds, they bring with them the model careers, the ideal lives, as determined and foreordained by themselves and the Personalized Adjusters of Divinington, which have been certified by the Personalized Adjuster of Urantia. Thus they begin work with a definite and predetermined plan for the intellectual and spiritual development of their human subjects, but it is not incumbent upon any human being to accept this plan. You are all subjects of predestination, but it is not foreordained that you must accept this divine predestination; you are at full liberty to reject any part or all of the Thought Adjusters' program. It is their mission to effect such mind changes and to make such spiritual adjustments as you may willingly and intelligently authorize, to the end that they may gain more influence over the personality directionization; but under no circumstances do these divine Monitors ever take advantage of you or in any way arbitrarily influence you in your choices and decisions. The Adjusters respect your sovereignty of personality; they are always subservient to your will.
It is important that we not see the use of the term “predestination” in the same light and understanding as is postulated by Christian theology. The emphasis of predestination in Christian theology focuses on the soul’s salvation and who may or may not be included in God’s foreknowledge of such. Predestination as explained in the Fifth Epochal Revelation refers to a path to God which every individual has the choice to follow. The Thought Adjuster comes to the party with a perfect plan for each individual to proceed upon which will insure total success of the mission of living for that individual. It is entirely our choice to follow his plan or not. But, and there is a significant caveat here, the path the Thought Adjuster intends for each of us encounters each of the realizations we must experience for us to progress inward. Their path is the shortest distance between the two dissimilar points of existence known as material and spiritual. So that being said, any path we choose must encounter each of the same issues “projects, as they say” and must require each of us to master each issue and discover the experience within our personalities of “seeing eye to eye” with our Thought Adjuster. And this is a most important point; we are finite time bound creatures seeking to become eternal bordering on the infinite. The issues we must each encounter and master are also finite and therefore the path we must follow is limited to those issues; preordained issues that each of us will address eventually. So, simply put, we have the choice to follow the Thought Adjuster’s path or any path we choose, but we do not have the choice of what issues we must address; we must address all of them. Mansion World number 1 will help us experience the remediation of many of these issues which are seen as our “make-up” work, i.e., projects that they feel we could and possibly should have dealt with while fully material beings. The balance of the Mansion Worlds will address these same issues we would face once here we got the basics experienced, though probably in a more orderly manner; I presume that experiential path will be similar to the predestination path the Thought Adjuster intended in the beginning.
110:2.2 They are persistent, ingenious, and perfect in their methods of work, but they never do violence to the volitional selfhood of their hosts. No human being will ever be spiritualized by a divine Monitor against his will; survival is a gift of the Gods which must be desired by the creatures of time. In the final analysis, whatever the Adjuster has succeeded in doing for you, the records will show that the transformation has been accomplished with your co-operative consent; you will have been a willing partner with the Adjuster in the attainment of every step of the tremendous transformation of the ascension career.
Every path we follow leads us through the same issues because the only issues there are, are ours. Only the order and timing changes. We must experience the personal realization of being transformed from material, materially minded creatures to 1st stage spirits who are becoming spiritually minded. That transition is ours to do, however we do it. But, as it says, we will be a willing partner with the Thought Adjuster. This is the process of achieving mastery of the psychic circles.
110:2.3 The Adjuster is not trying to control your thinking, as such, but rather to spiritualize it, to eternalize it. Neither angels nor Adjusters are devoted directly to influencing human thought; that is your exclusive personality prerogative. The Adjusters are dedicated to improving, modifying, adjusting, and co-ordinating your thinking processes; but more especially and specifically they are devoted to the work of building up spiritual counterparts of your careers, morontia transcripts of your true advancing selves, for survival purposes.
It is these counterparts that are the sum and substance of our personal identity in this transition process. These personal identifications are the result of self-identification and conscious realization of our material-mindedness and, frankly, our own selfishness/self-centeredness. These issues are personal and, we wish, private; private, that is except for the fact that we must willingly share them with God, the most public of all persons. This sharing, the act of truly and deeply exposing ourselves openly with God, is what is known as confession. It is the embrace of God’s view of us through which we see “eye to eye” with our Thought Adjuster. This is repentance and acceptance. This experience cannot be avoided, only postponed. It is this process of transition which is the “severe test” Jesus refers to when he addresses those who would follow him in this quest.
110:2.4 Adjusters work in the spheres of the higher levels of the human mind, unceasingly seeking to produce morontia duplicates of every concept of the mortal intellect. There are, therefore, two realities which impinge upon, and are centered in, the human mind circuits: one, a mortal self evolved from the original plans of the Life Carriers, the other, an immortal entity from the high spheres of Divinington, an indwelling gift from God. But the mortal self is also a personal self; it has personality.
110:2.5 You as a personal creature have mind and will. The Adjuster as a prepersonal creature has premind and prewill. If you will your mind to so fully conform to the Adjuster's pre mind that you see eye to eye, then your minds become one on that issue or perception (project), and you personally experience the receipt of the reinforcement of the Adjuster’s mind. receive the reinforcement of the Adjuster's mind. Subsequently, if your will orders and enforces the execution of the decisions of this new or combined experience in your mind, the Adjuster's prepersonal will attains to personality expression through your decision, and as far as that particular project is concerned, you and the Adjuster are one. Your mind has attained to divinity attunement albeit, they are not saying “attainment”, and the Adjuster's will has achieved personality expression but, again, only as far as is consciously experienced by your personality and only relative to that specific project.
110:2.6 To the extent that this identity is realized consciously experienced by your personality as a fact, you are mentally approaching the morontia order of existence. Morontia mind is a term signifying the substance and sum total of the co-operating minds of diversely material and spiritual natures. Morontia intellect, therefore, connotes a dual mind in the local universe dominated by one will. And with mortals this is a will, human in origin, which is becoming divine through man's personal and willfully realized identification of the human mind with the mindedness of God.
I have often been accused of applying too much pressure on others here when I repeatedly implore all of us to address all of this. Many here share the view that since salvation is for all, there is no necessity to overwork ourselves and take this process too seriously. After all, we all go to heaven. Some have even said that it will be easier there anyway. Obviously I cannot say one way or the other as to whether or not it will be, but the Urantia Book is here. In 1954 I might have agreed that we were doing all we should. In 1955, the Nebadon administrators, whether personally or collectively, presented us with an update. That update, called the Fifth Epochal Revelation, is no different than the other Epochal Revelations wherein the transformation of reality was immediate even though the social and personal realization by each person or society segment is not. The expectation is that we apply the information discovered in these teachings as much as we can. Such an application as will quickly transform the world by our love and lives.
Arguing with everyone and contesting each, regarding an individual’s understanding of the words on these pages is both fruitless and embarrassing and reveals not a childlike willingness to discover reality but a childish and self-protecting refusal to allow God to reveal experiential truth to one’s soul.
Consequently, in this often repeated process, I see the potential of a deliberate attempt to thwart the real purpose of this magnificent presentation through a shallow minded misrepresentation of truth which confuses those who are just beginning to address the Revelation and I stand against it.
This book, this amazing Revelation is not intended to be seen merely as a book of knowledge of God and his Universe of Universes but a guide for each of us to personally experience God and his Universe of Universes. We cannot lessen the import of this merely because it is uncomfortable or because it will force us to make changes to our complacent lifestyles.
It is my hope and intent that we who have been reading and studying and hopefully applying the life principles contained herein, some for nearly a half century, will be willing to share the personal discoveries and experiences and relate them to the book in a way that proves the experiential reality of our newest presentation from heaven.
This is one of mine.
Jim
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