Adjutant mind-spirits

In the Urantia Book

Defined as

• they are more like circuits, not entities 36:5.4 65:7.3
• they do not function as personalities apart from Divine Minister, they are a level of consciousness of Mother Spirit 36:5.3-4 117:5.10 (194:2.12,18)
• they are the sevenfold mind bestowal of Mother Spirit 15:9.14 17:7.1 34:4.10 36:5.1 42:10.4
• represent that function of the mind ministry of the Infinite Spirit which is extended to the lower orders of intelligent life through the operations of a local universe Mother Spirit 36:5.1
• The seven adjutants have been given the following names: the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of worship, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of courage, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of intuition—of quick perception. 34:4.10
• The adjutant mind-spirits experientially grow, but they never become personal 36:5.13
• adjutants of Mother Spirits are regarded as personalities, but with difficulties 34:4.10 36:5.4
• they are Master Spirit’s influence 16:4.10
• they appear in personality registers 30:1.62 30:2.21

Spirit #1 – Intuition

• adjutant of quick perception, primitive reflex instincts; self-preservation 34:4.10 36:5.6 65:7.6
• assists the four directional control beings of Salvington 34:4.12
• it is the only one to make extensive functional contact with the nonteachable levels of mechanical mind 36:5.6
• ministers to subhuman mind 42:10.4
• at first, primordial animal life only had the function of the spirit of intuition in the instinctive an reflex behavior 62:6.3-6

Spirit #2 – Understanding

• this is he phenomenon of quick reasoning, rapid judgment, and prompt decision 34:4.10 36:5.7 65:7.6
• the gift of spontaneous association of ideas 36:5.7 62:6.3-6
• ministers to subhuman mind 42:10.4

Spirit #3 – Courage

• mobilizes upon exhaustion of the capacity of animal life to give origin to prehuman individuals 65:3.5
• allow animals to develop a crude form of protective self-consciousness 62:6.3-6
• it is the source of moral stamina and spiritual bravery 36:5.8
• ministers to subhuman mind 42:10.4

Spirit #4 – Knowledge (62:6.3-6)

• it is the adjutant of curiosity, adventure, and discovery 36:5.9
• ministers to subhuman mind 42:10.4

Spirit #5 – Counsel

• adjutant of social co-operation and harmony 36:5.10
• source of herd instinct 62:6.3-6
• ministers to subhuman mind 42:10.4

Spirit #6 – Worship (62:6.3-6) (65:7.7) (85:7)

• Worship is the badge of spiritual-ascension candidacy. 36:5.11
• central lodgments of the adjutant spirits indicate the extent and quality of the mind function of the adjutants in worlds and individuals 36:5.3
• minds capable of spirit of worship are inmediately included in spiritual circuits of Mother Spirit 34:5.3
• sponsors truly religious reactions of man 36:5.11 92:0.2 103:0.1
• ministers to midwayer mind 42:10.4

Spirit #7 – Wisdom (65:7.7) (85:7)

• it is the adjutant of orderly and progressive eveolutionary advancement 36:5.12
• Andon’s decision to flee was first use of the spirit of wisdom 62:6.5-6 62:7.3
• manifests in worshipful mind the tendency to direct adoration in ever-expanding concepts of Deity 92:0.3
• censors man’s religious reactions 103:0.1
• central lodgments of the adjutant spirits indicate the extent and quality of the mind function of the adjutants in worlds and individuals 36:5.3
• it is who coordinates all other adjutants 36:5.12
• registers child’s first moral choice automatically 108:2.1
• minds capable of spirit of wisdom are inmediately included in spiritual circuits of Mother Spirit 34:5.3
• ministers to midwayer mind 42:10.4

Their ministry

• Andonites’ feeling of intimate kinship was due to the enhanced ministry of the adjutant spirits 63:3.3
• death everlastingly divorces man from the seven adjutant spirits; they do not function on mansion worlds and onwards (112:6.6,10) 117:5.7
• they do never transmit one person’s experience to another 117:5.7
• on an average evolutionary world the seven adjutant spirits are far better synchronized with the advancing stages of animal development than they were on Urantia 65:7.3-4
• a five-adjutant mind equivalates to sixth reality level, and it is a factor with persistence capability 46:7.5
• In the mortal experience the human intellect resides in the rhythmic pulsations of the adjutant mind-spirits 117:5.7
• Infinite Spirit ministers to mind through the adjutants of the local universes 9:5.3
• the presence of the seven adjutant mind-spirits is what makes evolution purposeful, to be intentional and not accidental 36:5.1 (65:6.7,10)
• Mind is an endowment of the seven adjutant mind-spirits 36:2.18
• very much depends on the work of the seven adjutants, but they are not concerned in physical evolution, that is the domain of Life Carriers 65:7.2

Headquarters

• adjutant mind-spirits have a central emplacement from local universe headquarters and system capitals 65:7.1
• central lodgments of the adjutant spirits indicate the extent and quality of the mind function of the adjutants in worlds and individuals 36:5.3
• the seven central emplacements of the adjutant mind-spirits are situated on the world #1 of the Life Carriers 36:2.10 36:5.3 65:7.1

Function

• spirits from #1 to #5 function in animal orders 36:5.13 42:10.4 65:6.7
• spirits from #1 to #5 function in spornagia 46:7.5
• spirits from #1 to #7 function as moral intellect in humans 42:10.4
• spirits from #6 and #7 only function with secondary midwayers; none with primary midwayers 38:9.6 42:10.4
• adjutant spirits activate energy-matter 118:7.7
• assist Life Carriers in their long work in loneliless 62:7.6
• co-ordinate and qualify man for receiving Adjuster 108:2.2-3
• collaborate with Master Physical Controllers; adjutants are for intelligent criatures what Controllers are for nonliving forces 36:5.14-15
• adjutants evolve a new human body in their union with cosmic mind, the morontial body 42:12.11
• they still operate even in light and life stages 55:6.4
• each adjutant independently seek receptivity capacity no matter if their fellows have achieved it 36:5.2
• their influence diminishes after the third psychic circle 110:6.20-21
• their initial full function on Urantia did not started until the notable day of the Andon and Fonta flight 62:6.2-5
• lead races of men towards higher ideas and ideals 34:5.2
• mother love is instinctive endowment of adjutant mind-spirits 84:1.6-7
• Mother Spirits endow life through the seven adjutants 34:5.2
• The mechanical-nonteachable levels of organismal environmental response are the domains of the physical controllers. They do not make contact with the purely mechanical orders of organismal environmental response 65:0.6 65:7.5
• they are unified under direction of spirit of wisdom 112:6.9
• Mind bestowal of adjutants, while not a physical evolution, is wholly dependent on the brain capacity afforded by purely physical and evolutionary developments. 58:6.7

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Adjutant Mind Spirits 34:4.10 — Is 11:2-3.
• Out of the throne, lightnings 34:4.12 — Rev 4:5-6a.
• Quick understanding 34:4.12 — Is 11:3.
• Four “beasts” 34:4.12 — Rev 4:6b-9; Rev 5:8,14.
• Spirit of understanding 36:5.7 — Ex 31:3; Ex 35:31; Job 32:8; Sir 1:4; Is 11:2; Dn 5:11-12,14.
• Spirit of knowledge 36:5.9 — Ex 31:3; Ex 35:31; Is 11:2; Eph 1:17.
• Spirit of counsel 36:5.10 — Is 11:2.
• Spirit of worship 36:5.11 — Is 11:2.
• Spirit of wisdom 36:5.12 — Ex 31:3; Ex 35:31; Sir 1:4ff; Wis 1:6ff; Is 11:2; Lk 2:40; Eph 1:17.

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Adjutant mind-spirits is linked in 45 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

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