Seminar 12
The seven psychic circles
The culmination of immortality
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VI. The seven psychic circles
110:6.1 (1209.1) Total personality realization on a material world is encompassed in the conquest of the seven successive circles of mortal potentiality. Entry into the seventh circle marks the initial functioning of the true human personality. The mastery of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal. Although passing through the seven circles of cosmic growth is not the equivalent of Adjuster fusion, the mastery of these circles marks the passing of the preliminary steps to such Adjuster fusion.
110:6.2 (1209.2) The Adjuster is your equal partner in passing through the seven circles — in relative mortal maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the seventh to the first, but progresses to the status of self-activity and supremacy quite apart from the active co-operation of mortal mind.
110:6.3 (1209.3) The psychic circles are neither exclusively intellectual nor entirely morontia; they concern personality status, mental attainments, soul growth, and Adjuster attunement. The successful crossing of these levels requires the harmonious functioning of the whole personality, and not just one of its phases. The growth of the parts does not equal true maturation at all; in reality, the parts grow in proportion to the expansion of the whole self—the whole self—material, intellectual, and spiritual.
110:6.4 (1209.4) When the development of the intellectual nature anticipates the spiritual, the situation makes communications with the Thought Adjuster both difficult and dangerous. Likewise, an excess of spiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spiritual directives of the divine indweller. The lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to convey to such a material intellect the spiritual truths located in the higher superconscious. It is to a perfectly balanced mind, lodged in a body of sound habits, stabilized nerve energies and balanced chemical functions — when the physical, mental and spiritual powers develop in triune harmony — that a maximum of light and truth can be communicated with a minimum of temporal danger and risk to the true well-being of such a being. It is through this balanced growth that man ascends the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first.
110:6.5 (1209.5) The Adjusters are always near you and within you, but seldom can they speak to you directly as another being would speak to you. Circle after circle your intellectual decisions, moral choices, and spiritual development make the Adjuster more apt to function in your mind. Circle by circle you thus emerge from the lower stages of association and mental attunement with the Adjuster, so that he can better and better register his images of destiny, with increasing clarity and conviction on the consciousness. evolution of this mind-soul which seeks God.
110:6.6 (1210.1) Every decision you make has the effect of either hindering or facilitating the function of the Adjuster. At the same time, these decisions, themselves, determine your advancement in the circles of human achievement. It is true that the supremacy of a decision, its relation to a crisis, has much to do with its influence to cross circles; however the number of decisions, the frequent and persistent repetitions, are also essential to be sure that these reactions will form habits.
110:6.7 (1210.2) It is difficult to define precisely the seven levels of human progression, because these levels are personal. They vary for each individual and are apparently determined by each human being’s capacity for growth. The conquest of these levels of cosmic evolution is reflected in three ways:
110:6.8 (1210.3) 1. Adjuster agreement. By spiritualizing the mind approaches the presence of the Adjuster in proportion to the passing of the circles.
110:6.9 (1210.4) 2. Soul evolution. The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the breadth and depth of circle mastery.
110:6.10 (1210.5) 3. Personality Reality. The degree of reality of individuality is directly determined by the conquest of circles. Persons become more real as they rise from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence.
110:6.11 (1210.6) As the child of material evolution passes through the circles, it grows into the mature man of immortal potentiality. The dark reality of the embryonic nature of a seventh circle stage man gives way to the clearer manifestation of the emerging morontia nature of a local universe citizen.
110:6.12 (1210.7) It is impossible to precisely define the seven levels, or psychic circles, of human growth, but it is permissible to suggest the minimum and maximum limits of these stages of maturity achievement:
110:6.13 (1210.8) The seventh circle. Human beings enter this level when they develop their powers of personal choice, individual decision, moral responsibility and their ability to attain spiritual individuality. This denotes the unified functioning of the seven adjutant mind-spirits under the direction of the spirit of wisdom, the circuiting of the human creature into the influence of the Holy Spirit, and, on Urantia, the initial functioning of the Spirit of Truth together with the receipt of a Thought Adjuster into the mortal mind. Entry into the seventh circle makes a mortal creature a true potential citizen of the local universe.
110:6.14 (1210.9) The third circle. The work of the Adjuster is much more effective after the human ascendant has reached the third circle and personally received a seraphic guardian of destiny. Although there is apparently no concerted effort between the Adjuster and the seraphic guardian, one can nevertheless observe, after the assignment of the personal seraphic attendant, an unmistakable improvement in all phases of cosmic attainment can be observed. and spiritual development. When the third circle is reached, the Adjuster strives to morontia the mind of man for the remainder of his mortal life, to pass through the remaining circles, and to attain the final stage of divine-human association. before natural death dissolves this exceptional association.
110:6.15 (1210.10) The first circle. Generally the Adjuster cannot speak directly and immediately with you until you have reached the first circle, the final circle of progressive mortal attainment. This level represents the greatest possible realization of mind-Adjuster relationships in human experience before the evolving morontia soul has been released from its material bodily support. With respect to mind, emotions, and cosmic insight, the attainment of the first psychic circle represents the greatest possible rapprochement between the material mind and the spiritual Adjuster in human experience.
110:6.16 (1211.1) Perhaps these psychic circles of mortal progression might best be called cosmic levels: levels where we actually grasp the meanings and realize the values of a progressive approach to morontia consciousness of existence. of an initial relationship between the evolutionary soul and the emergent Supreme Being. It is precisely this relationship which makes it eternally impossible to fully explain the significance of the cosmic circles to the material mind. These crossings of circles have only relative relations with the fact of being aware of God. One in the seventh or sixth circle can know God—be aware of his sonship—almost as well as one in the second or first circle, but beings in the lower circles are much less aware of their experiential relationship with God. ‘Supreme Being, of their universal citizenship. The crossing of these cosmic circles will become part of the experience of the ascenders on the mansion worlds if they do not achieve this achievement before natural death.
110:6.17 (1211.2) The motivation of faith transforms into experience the full realization of man’s sonship with God, but action, the execution of decisions, is essential to the evolutionary attainment of cognate consciousness progressive with the cosmic actualization of the Supreme Being. Faith transmutes potentials into actuals in the spirit world, but potentials only become actuals in the finite realms of the Supreme through and through the attainment of the experience of choice. Choosing to do the will of God unites, in an act of personality, spiritual faith and material decisions, and thus provides a divine and spiritual point of support allowing the human and material lever of the thirst for God to act more effectively. . This wise co-ordination of material and spiritual forces greatly increases both the cosmic realization of the Supreme and the morontia understanding of the Paradise Deities.
110:6.18 (1211.3) The mastery of the cosmic circles is connected with the quantitative growth of the morontia soul, with the comprehension of the supreme meanings. But the qualitative status of this immortal soul depends entirely on the degree to which it grasps, by living faith, the value of the fact, having Paradise potential, that mortal man is a son of the eternal God. Therefore he who is in the seventh circle goes upon the mansion worlds to pursue the realization of his quantitative cosmic growth just like that of the second circle, or even the first.
110:6.19 (1211.4) There is only an indirect relation between the crossing of cosmic circles and actual spiritual religious experience; such outcomes are reciprocal and therefore mutually beneficial. Purely spiritual development may remain almost unaffected by planetary material prosperity, but the crossing of the circles always increases the potential for human achievement and mortal achievement.
110:6.20 (1211.5) From the seventh circle through the third circle, the seven adjutant mind-spirits exert an increased and unified action to wean the human mind from its dependence upon the realities of the mechanisms of material life, thereby preparing it for better penetrate the morontia levels of experience. From the third circle, the influence of the adjutants gradually diminishes.
110:6.21 (1211.6) The seven circles embrace mortal experience extending from the highest purely animal level down to the lowest level of effective morontia contact of self-consciousness as experience of the personality. Mastery of the first cosmic circle denotes the attainment of pre-morontia mortal maturity, and marks the termination of the joint ministry of the adjutant spirits as the exclusive influence of mind action in the human personality. Beyond the first circle, mind becomes more and more akin to the intelligence of the morontial stage of evolution, the co-ministry of the cosmic mind and the superadjuvate endowment of the Creative Spirit of a local universe.
110:6.22 (1212.1) The high days in the individual career of the Adjusters are these: first, when their human subject bursts into the third psychic circle, which secures the self-activity of the Monitor and an increased range of (if the Adjuster was not already self-contained). Then when their human partner reaches the first psychic circle, which makes reciprocal communication between them possible, at least to some extent. And, finally, when they are permanently and eternally merged.
The culmination of immortality
110:7.1 (1212.2) The crossing of the seven cosmic circles is not equivalent to Adjuster fusion. Many mortals living on Urantia have passed through these circles, but merging still depends upon greater and more sublime spiritual attainment; it is necessary to come to harmonize in a final and complete manner the human will with the will of God, as it resides in the Thought Adjuster.
110:7.2 (1212.3) When a human being has completed the circles of cosmic attainment, and then the final choice of mortal will enables the Thought Adjuster to complete the association of human identity with morontia soul during physical evolutionary life, then these consummated liaisons of soul and Adjuster travel independently to the mansion worlds. A command from Uversa stipulates the immediate fusion of the Adjuster and the morontia soul. If this merging takes place during physical life, the material body is instantaneously consumed, and human beings witnessing this spectacle would simply observe that the transferee mortal disappears “in chariots of fire.”
110:7.3 (1212.4) Most of the Adjusters who transferred their subjects off Urantia were very experienced and known to have previously inhabited many mortals on other spheres. It must be remembered that the Adjusters gain valuable indwelling experience on planets to which they are but loaned; it does not follow that the Adjusters merely acquire the experience necessary for advanced work with mortal subjects who fail to survive.
110:7.4 (1212.5) As a result of his fusion with you, your Adjuster shares your destiny and your experience; he is you. After the fusion of the immortal morontia soul with the associated Adjuster, all of the experience and all of the values of the one eventually become the property of the other, so that the two are effectively one entity. In a certain sense, this new being belongs to the eternal past and exists for the eternal future. All that was once human in the surviving soul and all that was experientially divine in the Adjuster now become the effective possession of the new and ever ascending universe personality. However, on each level of the universe the Adjuster can only endow the creature with those attributes which have meaning and value on that level. Absolute oneness with the divine Monitor, complete exhaustion of an Adjuster’s endowment, can only be accomplished in eternity, after one has finally attained the Universal Father, the Father of spirits, the permanent source of these divine gifts.
110:7.5 (1212.6) When the evolving soul and the divine Adjuster are finally and eternally fused, each acquires all the qualities that can be acquired from the other. This co-ordinate personality possesses all the experiential survival memory once held by the mortal ancestral mind and now by the morontia soul. Further, the potential finaliter encompasses all of the Adjuster’s experiential memory during his timeless sojourns among mortals. However, the Adjuster will need eternity future to fully endow this personality association with the meanings and values which this divine Monitor brings from eternity past.
110:7.6 (1213.1) But with the great majority of Urantians the Adjuster must patiently await the death deliverance of his subject, wait for the emerging soul to free itself from the more or less complete domination of energy patterns and chemical forces inherent in your material order of existence. The main difficulty you have in coming into contact with your Adjuster is this material nature that is so ingrained. Very few mortals are really thinkers. You are not developing and disciplining your mind to the point favorable for liaison with the divine Adjusters. The human mind almost turns a deaf ear to the spiritual arguments which the Adjuster translates from the manifold messages of the universal love telecasts from the Father of mercies. The Adjuster finds the near impossibility of registering these inspiring spiritual directives in an animal mind so completely dominated by the chemical and electrical forces inherent in your physical nature.
110:7.7 (1213.2) The Adjusters rejoice in making contact with the human mind, but they must be patient during the long years of silent sojourn during which they are powerless to overcome your animal resistance and to communicate directly with YOU. The higher the Thought Adjusters rise in the scale of service, the more effective they become; but, during your sojourn in the flesh, they can never approach you with the same affront. The higher the Thought Adjusters rise in the scale of service, the more effective they become; but during your sojourn in the flesh they can never approach you with the same full, sympathetic, and expressive affection as you discern them, mind to mind, on the mansion worlds.
110:7.8 (1213.3) During mortal life the material body and mind separate you from your Adjuster and prevent free communication with him. After death and eternal fusion, you are one with your Adjuster — you are indistinguishable as separate beings — and thus there is no longer any need to communicate as you understand it.
110:7.9 (1213.4) Although the voice of the Adjuster is always within you, most of you seldom hear it in your lifetime. Human beings who have not attained the third and second circle seldom hear the direct voice of the Adjuster except in moments of supreme desire, in supreme situation, and in consequence of some supreme decision.
110:7.10 (1213.5) At the time of making or breaking contact between the human mind of a destiny retainer and the planetary supervisors, the indwelling Adjuster sometimes finds himself placed in such a way that he becomes possible to convey a message to his mortal partner. Quite recently on Urantia a self-governing Adjuster transmitted a message of this order to his human associate, a member of the reserve corps of destiny. This message began with these words: “And now, without wounding or endangering the subject of my earnest devotion, and, as for me, without intending to inflict undue chastisement on him or to discourage him, register the supplication which I address to him. There followed a beautifully touching and touching exhortation in which the Adjuster requested, among other things, that the subject “give me more faithfully his sincere cooperation, bear more cheerfully the obligations which I have put in place, carry out more faithfully the program which I have arranged, pass more patiently through the trials which I have chosen, follow with more perseverance and spirit the path which I have traced, receive more humbly the credit which may be attributed to it as a result of my incessant efforts — thus transmit my remonstrances to the man I inhabit. I bestow on him the supreme affection and devotion of a divine spirit. Tell my beloved subject also that I will act with wisdom and power to the end, until his last earthly battle is over. I will be faithful to the personality entrusted to me. I urge him to survive and not to disappoint me, not to deprive me of the reward of my persevering and intense struggle. To attain personality, we depend on the human will. I patiently advanced this human mind, circle after circle, and the head of my order gave me his approval. Circle after circle, I go on until judgment. I await with pleasure and without apprehension the roll call of destiny. I am ready to submit everything to the tribunals of the Ancients of Days. »
110:7.11 (1214.1) [Presented by a Solitary Messenger from Orvonton
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