In this class, Dr. Keislar reads from The Urantia Book, about the “Thought Adjusters”, or the presence of God within our hearts (substituting “Allah” for “the Universal Father”):
“Although Allah is personally resident on Paradise, at the very center of the universes, he is also actually present on the worlds of space in the minds of his countless children of time, for he indwells them as the Mystery Monitors. The eternal Allah is at one and the same time farthest removed from, and most intimately associated with, his planetary mortal sons.”
The proof that God loves us is the actual presence of the Thought Adjusters, or the Supersoul, within our hearts. This presence is also a promise that we can achieve perfection by learning to do the will of God, and will ultimately attain the direct presence of Allah. This is the ultimate perfection and purpose of our existence.
By partnership with the Thought Adjuster, God in our hearts, we will be drawn to God. Why do we have within us the desire to be like God, to attain God in Paradise?
“It is the Adjuster who creates within man that unquenchable yearning and incessant longing to be like God, to attain Paradise, and there before the actual person of Deity to worship the infinite source of the divine gift. The Adjuster is the living presence which actually links the mortal creature with Allah and draws him nearer and nearer to Allah. The Adjuster is our compensatory equalization of the enormous universe tension which is created by the distance of man’s removal from God and by the degree of his partiality in contrast with the universality of Allah.”
“The Adjuster, [agreeing to be “imprisoned” within the mind of a mortal] is man’s infallible cosmic compass, always and unerringly pointing the soul Godward.” The cooperation and union of the mortal and the Adjuster, divinity within the mortal’s heart, finally gives rise to “a new order of being”, the total union of the two.
The Origin of the Thought Adjusters
“Since Thought Adjusters are of the essence of original Deity, no one may presume to discourse authoritatively upon their nature and origin…. Though there are diverse opinions regarding the mode of the bestowal of Thought Adjusters, there exist no such differences concerning their origin; all are agreed that they proceed direct from the Allah, the First Source and Center. They are not created beings; they are fragmentized entities constituting the factual presence of the infinite God. Together with their many unrevealed associates, the Adjusters are undiluted and unmixed divinity, unqualified and unattenuated parts of Deity; they are of God, and as far as we are able to discern, they are God.”
A mystery is that although God is one, and the Adjusters are many, yet they are both God. Is there an infinite number of Adjusters?
“Although we do not know, we presume that Adjusters are being constantly individualized as the universe enlarges, and as the candidates for Adjuster fusion increase in numbers. But it may be equally possible that we are in error in attempting to assign a numerical magnitude to the Adjusters; like God himself, these fragments of his unfathomable nature may be existentially infinite.”
“The technique of the origin of the Thought Adjusters is one of the unrevealed functions of Allah.” But although we cannot understand how the Adjusters came into being from Allah, or what their relationship with Allah is as being both one with and separate from Allah, we can say that they are “pre-personal” and that their destiny is to become united with us, thereby attaining personality, as we attain divinity by becoming one with them.