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Recently I’ve been rereading information about the adjutant mind-spirits and came across a few things I never noticed before. In the following quote there is reference to the third phase of adjutant spirit mobilization.
65:3.5 Long before the Material Son and Daughter, the biologic uplifters, arrive on a planet, the human potentials of the evolving animal species have been exhausted. This biologic status of animal life is disclosed to the Life Carriers by the phenomenon of the third phase of adjutant spirit mobilization, which automatically occurs concomitantly with the exhaustion of the capacity of all animal life to give origin to the mutant potentials of prehuman individuals.
I’m guessing that the second stage of adjutant spirit mobilization is indicated by this quote:
62:6.6 There was an immediate and new order of mobilization of the seven adjutant mind-spirits. We were alive with expectation; we realized that the long-waited-for hour was approaching; we knew we were upon the threshold of the realization of our protracted effort to evolve will creatures on Urantia.
And I’m also guessing that the first stage of adjutant spirit mobilization refers to their arrival on the planet with the Life Carriers to directionize biological evolution (36:2.18).
But what comes next? What is the fourth stage? Here again I am speculating and wondering if as we enter the stages of light and life, do the adjutants enter a new phase? We know humans gradually become weaned from them. We also know that the secondary midwayers are in contact with the 6th and 7th adjutants and that around the fourth stage of light and life they leave the planet, which might signify the beginning of another phase where the adjutants only function in the lower life forms. I don’t remember reading anything about this, so I’m essentially doing some creative thinking, but I’m curious if anyone else has thought about it.
So nobody thinks about this stuff but me. That’s okay.
I find it fascinating how closely linked mind is to life, or life to mind. Life is bestowed by the Creative Spirit (36:3.4), initiated by the Life Carriers (16:4.9) and activated by the adjutant mind-spirits (16:4.10), which happen to be part of the cosmic mind (56:2.3). It’s no wonder that the mind is “always competent to produce a suitable and serviceable body for the living creature identity” (42:12.9). Specifically, it’s the ” . . . liaison of the cosmic mind and the ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits . . . “ which “evolve a suitable physical tabernacle for the evolving human being” (42:12.11). That’s fascinating. Do you think the liaison of cosmic mind and adjutants are busy in the human womb working to evolve the body of an evolving human embryo? Sounds plausible to me, but then again I’m speculating.
I really can’t contribute much as my knowledge on adjutants is limited. I know the first five are encircuited into all animals but the upper two, wisdom and worship, reach only humans and midwayers, I think.
BB
The seven adjutant mind-spirits are the creation of the Creative Spirit and they are all similar in character because they all partake alike from the nature of their Creator (34:4.10). They are not the personality of the Creative Spirit, but they do have a character which is like her. They lead us toward higher and higher spiritual ideas and ideals. The sixth and seventh adjutants actually “cross the threshold” of spiritual ministry and involve the Holy Spirit, the supermind endowment of the soul (34:5.3).
I really do believe that when this system functions from the soul level to the material level, when everything falls into place with the Holy Spirit reaching down to the spirit of wisdom, which unifies all the other adjutants, there is the greatest function of mind, body and spirit. Perhaps this is the real meaning of the chakras which then unfortunately got distorted by evolutionary religion. I don’t know, it is speculation on my part. But I do know that when the system works, it works well and all is as it should be.
But what comes next? What is the fourth stage? Here again I am speculating and wondering if as we enter the stages of light and life, do the adjutants enter a new phase? We know humans gradually become weaned from them. We also know that the secondary midwayers are in contact with the 6th and 7th adjutants and that around the fourth stage of light and life they leave the planet, which might signify the beginning of another phase where the adjutants only function in the lower life forms. I don’t remember reading anything about this, so I’m essentially doing some creative thinking, but I’m curious if anyone else has thought about it.
It sounds like humanity becomes weaned from the adjutants. There is a stage of L&L where humans are even learning other languages of the system, etc. prior to translation. I think the more morontia-ized we become, the less the adjutants are engaged. But I assume, since even Jesus needed them as a child, that all children are fully encircuited still by the adjutants no matter what stage of L&L we reach….?? But they become morontia mind encircuited over time and experience in the spirit?
(630.7) 55:6.4 The 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 prespiritual stages of development the adjutant mind-spirits are still functioning. The Holy Spirit and the 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 seem to experience considerable conscious contact with the spirit presence of the Master Spirit of superuniverse jurisdiction, while the philosophy of such a world is focused upon the attempt to comprehend the new revelations of God the Supreme. More than one half of the human inhabitants on planets of this advanced status experience translation to the morontia state from among the living. Even so, “old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new.”
(631.1) 55:6.5 We conceive that physical evolution will have attained its full development by the end of the fifth epoch of the light-and-life era. We observe that the upper limits of spiritual development associated with evolving human mind are determined by the Adjuster-fusion level of conjoint morontia values and cosmic meanings. But concerning wisdom: While we do not really know, we conjecture that there can never be a limit to intellectual evolution and the attainment of wisdom. On a seventh-stage world, wisdom can exhaust the material potentials, enter upon mota insight, and eventually even taste of absonite grandeur.
Hi Bonita,
[Bonita]: “Perhaps this is the real meaning of the chakras… ”
Is this a case of humans trying to describe some discovery (chakras as “rhythmically pulsating centers…”) and revelation explaining that discovery: “the rhythmic pulsations of the adjutant mind-spirits” (1286.5, 117:5.7) ?
One thing that caught my attention about the adjutants was how they divide up into the more intellectual animations {intuition, knowledge, understanding}, and the more emotional {counsel, courage, worship}… which led to speculations about some “differential in response” to the adjutants playing a part in differentiating the primary and secondary Sangiks…?
Thanks for starting this exploration!
Nigel
One thing that caught my attention about the adjutants was how they divide up into the more intellectual animations {intuition, knowledge, understanding}, and the more emotional {counsel, courage, worship}… which led to speculations about some “differential in response” to the adjutants playing a part in differentiating the primary and secondary Sangiks…?
Would you mind explaining to me how you think race and adjutants are related? Personally, I see no connection at all, not even a smidgeon. And if there was a differential response of the adjutants according to race, why would it involve a division between intellectual and emotional? I’m not following that logic at all. I need more information, please. I’m really, really, really, really confused.
Just to make it easy on all of us, here is a description of each of the adjutants:
36:5.6 1. The spirit of intuition – quick perception, the primitive physical and inherent reflex instincts, the directional and other self-preservative endowments of all mind creations; the only one of the adjutants to function so largely in the lower orders of animal life and the only one to make extensive functional contact with the nonteachable levels of mechanical mind.
36:5.7 2. The spirit of understanding – the impulse of co-ordination, the spontaneous and apparently automatic association of ideas. This is the gift of the co-ordination of acquired knowledge, the phenomenon of quick reasoning, rapid judgment, and prompt decision.
36:5.8 3. The spirit of courage – the fidelity endowment – in personal beings, the basis of character acquirement and the intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery. When enlightened by facts and inspired by truth, this becomes the secret of the urge of evolutionary ascension by the channels of intelligent and conscientious self-direction.
36:5.9 4. The spirit of knowledge – the curiosity-mother of adventure and discovery, the scientific spirit; the guide and faithful associate of the spirits of courage and counsel; the urge to direct the endowments of courage into useful and progressive paths of growth.
36:5.10 5. The spirit of counsel – the social urge, the endowment of species co-operation; the ability of will creatures to harmonize with their fellows; the origin of the gregarious instinct among the more lowly creatures.
36:5.11 6. The spirit of worship – the religious impulse, the first differential urge separating mind creatures into the two basic classes of mortal existence. The spirit of worship forever distinguishes the animal of its association from the soulless creatures of mind endowment. Worship is the badge of spiritual-ascension candidacy.
36:5.12 7. The spirit of wisdom – the inherent tendency of all moral creatures towards orderly and progressive evolutionary advancement. This is the highest of the adjutants, the spirit co-ordinator and articulator of the work of all the others. This spirit is the secret of that inborn urge of mind creatures which initiates and maintains the practical and effective program of the ascending scale of existence; that gift of living things which accounts for their inexplicable ability to survive and, in survival, to utilize the co-ordination of all their past experience and present opportunities for the acquisition of all of everything that all of the other six mental ministers can mobilize in the mind of the organism concerned. Wisdom is the acme of intellectual performance. Wisdom is the goal of a purely mental and moral existence.
For instance, I’m not understanding why you think that the spirit of courage is emotional when the description says it is the intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery. Why isn’t the spirit of courage under your list of intellectual adjutants when the description says that it is the secret to ascension by the channels of intelligent self-direction? And how is worship emotional? I’m lost. Personally, I don’t see any division between emotional and intellectual at all. But, maybe you can enlighten me? Maybe I missed something. I’m really confused. Really, I am.
And what do you mean to say that each race responds differently to the adjutants? Is that what you’re saying or am I misunderstanding you? I haven’t come across anything like that, but maybe I missed it? Are you speculating? I mean, you’re free to do that. I’m doing it, so why not you? But I don’t understand why you would. Totally lost . . . .
I think the more morontia-ized we become, the less the adjutants are engaged. But I assume, since even Jesus needed them as a child, that all children are fully encircuited still by the adjutants no matter what stage of L&L we reach….??
Sounds about right, but I think they are engaged in a different way the closer we come to being weaned. I think that flesh and blood mortals will always need them to varying degrees. Certainly, as you say, the youth will need them. But even when identity has shifted to the soul the adjutants continue to function in the mind prior to fusion (see quote below). A first circler needs them, perhaps not as much as a seventh circler, to make sense of the material world. The spirit of wisdom is necessary to coordinate past experience with present opportunities, so as long as we’re on terra firma, I think we need them to some extent.
They say that from the third circle on, the mortal mind is weaned from its dependence on material mechanisms of experience and that the adjutant influence progressively diminishes giving way to morontia levels of experience (110:6.20). They also tell us that from the seventh to the third circle there is increasing unification of the seven adjutants. Increasing unification must mean that at some point, when everyone on the planet functions at the third or higher psychic circle, the adjutants must enter some new phase of increased unification. But I’m speculating.
As you know, first circlers don’t automatically fuse (110:6.1; 110:7.1; 134:8.4). There’s a lot to be done while in the first circle before complete attunement with the Adjuster. In the following quote it is explained that upon reaching the first circle there is a superimposed endowment of the morontia mind upon the adjutant mind which initiates the career of morontia progression. There are people on this planet with a superimposed endowment of the morontia mind, but it is superimposed, which means that the adjutants are still present even in a first circler. I find that pretty interesting.
112:6.9 The soul of survival value faithfully reflects both the qualitative and the quantitative actions and motivations of the material intellect, the former seat of the identity of selfhood. In the choosing of truth, beauty, and goodness, the mortal mind enters upon its premorontia universe career under the tutelage of the seven adjutant mind-spirits unified under the direction of the spirit of wisdom. Subsequently, upon the completion of the seven circles of premorontia attainment, the superimposition of the endowment of morontia mind upon adjutant mind initiates the prespiritual or morontia career of local universe progression.
Nigel: which led to speculations about some “differential in response” to the adjutants playing a part in differentiating the primary and secondary Sangiks…?
I think you are onto something here. I think there is a definitely a connection between the adjutants and the different races. I can’t say for sure that I know how exactly they relate to each other, but IMO the adjutants relate to the races in ways that are not identical. I think some differences in the races could be attributed to the way they connect to the adjutants.
Perhaps you are alluding to the law of correspondence, Nigel? I have wondered if one could correlate persons places and things based on the number associated with them. I know TUB correlates master spirits with the super universes based on corresponding numbers. For instance, Master Spirit Seven presides over the seventh super-universe. Interestingly, the Violet race, children of Adam and Eve, are the seventh race imported to Urantia, and is the ideal race in the seventh super-universe.
BB
46:7.5 Spornagia are the only creatures in all the universe of Nebadon who experience this or any other sort of reincarnation. They are only reactive to the first five of the adjutant mind-spirits; they are not responsive to the spirits of worship and wisdom. But the five-adjutant mind equivalates to a totality or sixth reality level, and it is this factor which persists as an experiential identity.
I find this quote fascinating in that it says responsiveness to all five adjutant mind-spirits equivalates to a sixth reality level which allows for persistence of experiential identity. I think that is fascinating. One has to wonder if any of the higher animals on earth are responsive to all five of the lower adjutant mind-spirits. I’m wondering why they didn’t elaborate more on this phenomenon.
“…any other sort of reincarnation. ”
Huh? *scratching head*
The mention of reincarnation, let alone, “other sort of reincarnation” leaves me stumped!
BB
Hi BB….the point of the posted text is in reference to the adjutants under discussion. The mention of reincarnation is to clarify to students that there is only one being that fits the definition. The spornagia age and their bodies die but, in this one instance only, the mind is transferred into a new body of the identical type and they remain on their world of origin. Not really topical here in and of itself though.
I too am fascinated by the animal kingdom’s mind/function capabilities. And also wonder how the adjutants affect all manner of behaviors and adaptations and evolution of species. From the single cell organisms to the high mammals. Fascinating!
Bradly wrote: Not really topical here in and of itself though.Thanks Bradly. I agree. I would really prefer not to have the topic of this thread changed. I do think the subject of reincarnation is worth discussing, but I think it should have its own thread.
But getting back to this sentence: “But the five-adjutant mind equivalates to a totality or sixth reality level, and it is this factor which persists as an experiential identity.” We know that when the spirit of wisdom makes contact with a mind that the adjutants organize themselves such that the spirit of wisdom is able to coordinate them all. The spirit of wisdom becomes, more or less, the leader and chief. Isn’t it interesting that the lower five have their own type of organization in minds that are unable to make contact with the 6th and 7th adjutants? When all five make contact a sixth reality level appears which allows persistence of experiential identity.Now this IS off topic, but I wonder what the difference is between the experiential identity of an animal and the experiential identity of a human? Do these Spornagia retain memory? They don’t have personality or freewill but they do have individuality and identity. One wonders if they are aware of their own existence on some level without actually having self-consciousness, a property of personality. It is really very interesting.
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