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36:5.1 It is the [[presence]] of the [[seven adjutant mind-spirits]] on the [[primitive]] worlds that conditions the [[course]] of [[organic]] [[evolution]]; that [[explains]] why evolution is [[purposeful]] and not [[accidental]]. These adjutants [[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]]. The adjutants are the [[children]] of the [[Universe Mother Spirit]] and [[constitute]] her [[personal]] ministry to the [[material]] minds of the realms. Wherever and whenever such [[mind]] is [[manifest]], these spirits are variously [[functioning]].
36:5.2 The ''seven adjutant mind-spirits'' are called by [[names]] which are the [[equivalents]] of the following designations: [[intuition]], [[understanding]], [[courage]], [[knowledge]], [[counsel]], [[worship]], and [[wisdom]]. These mind-spirits send forth their [[influence]] into all the [[inhabited worlds]] as a [[differential]] urge, each seeking [[receptivity]] [[capacity]] for [[manifestation]] quite apart from the [[degree]] to which its fellows may find [[reception]] and [[opportunity]] for [[function]].
36:5.3 The [[Focus|central lodgments]] of the adjutant spirits on the Life Carrier [[headquarters]] world indicate to the Life Carrier supervisors the extent and [[quality]] of the [[mind]] [[function]] of the adjutants on any world and in any given living [[organism]] of [[intellect]] [[status]]. These life-mind emplacements are [[perfect]] indicators of living [[mind]] [[function]] for the first five adjutants. But with regard to the sixth and seventh adjutant spirits—[[worship]] and [[wisdom]]—these central lodgments record only a [[qualitative]] [[function]]. The [[quantitative]] [[activity]] of the adjutant of worship and the adjutant of wisdom is registered in the [[immediate]] [[presence]] of the [[Divine Minister]] on [[Salvington]], being a [[personal]] [[experience]] of the [[Universe Mother Spirit]].
36:5.4 The ''seven adjutant mind-spirits'' always accompany the Life Carriers to a new [[planet]], but they should not be regarded as [[entities]]; they are more like [[circuits]]. The spirits of the seven universe adjutants do not [[function]] as [[personalities]] apart from the [[universe]] [[presence]] of the [[Divine Minister]]; they are in [[fact]] a level of [[consciousness]] of the Divine Minister and are always subordinate to the [[action]] and [[presence]] of their [[creative]] [[mother]].
36:5.5 We are [[handicapped]] for [[words]] adequately to designate these ''seven adjutant mind-spirits''. They are ministers of the lower levels of [[experiential]] [[mind]], and they may be described, in the order of evolutionary [[attainment]], as follows:
*1. 36:5.6 ''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]].
*2. 36:5.7 ''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]].
*3. 36:5.8 ''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.
*4. 36:5.9 ''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]].
*5. 36:5.10 ''The spirit of counsel'' —the [[social]] urge, the [[endowment]] of [[species]] [[co-operation]]; the [[ability]] of [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]] to [[harmonize]] with their fellows; the [[origin]] of the gregarious [[instinct]] among the more lowly [[creatures]].
*6. 36:5.11 ''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]].
*7. 36:5.12 ''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]].
36:5.13 The ''adjutant mind-spirits'' [[experientially]] [[grow]], but they never become [[personal]]. They evolve in [[function]], and the function of the first five in the [[animal]] orders is to a certain extent [[essential]] to the function of all [[seven]] as [[human]] [[intellect]]. This [[animal]] [[relationship]] makes the adjutants more [[practically]] [[effective]] as human [[mind]]; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to man's [[intellectual]] as well as to his [[physical]] [[evolution]].
36:5.14 These [[mind]]-adjutants of a [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirit]] are related to [[creature]] life of [[intelligence]] [[status]] much as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:3._THE_DOMAIN_OF_POWER_CENTERS power centers] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS physical controllers] are related to the nonliving [[forces]] of the [[universe]]. They [[perform]] invaluable [[service]] in the [[mind]] [[circuits]] on the [[inhabited worlds]] and are [[effective]] [[collaborators]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers], who also serve as controllers and directors of the preadjutant mind levels, the levels of nonteachable or [[mechanical]] [[mind]].
36:5.15 Living [[mind]], prior to the [[appearance]] of [[capacity]] to learn from [[experience]], is the [[ministry]] [[domain]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers]. [[Creature]] [[mind]], before acquiring the [[ability]] to [[recognize]] [[divinity]] and [[worship]] [[Deity]], is the exclusive [[domain]] of the ''adjutant spirits''. With the [[appearance]] of the [[spiritual]] [[response]] of the [[creature]] [[intellect]], such created minds at once become superminded, being instantly encircuited in the [[spirit]] [[cycles]] of the [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirit]].
36:5.16 The ''adjutant mind-spirits'' are in no [[manner]] directly related to the [[diverse]] and highly [[spiritual]] [[function]] of the [[Holy Spirit|spirit]] of the [[personal]] [[presence]] of the [[Divine Minister]], the [[Holy Spirit]] of the [[inhabited worlds]]; but they are functionally antecedent to, and [[preparatory]] for, the [[appearance]] of this very spirit in [[evolutionary]] [[man]]. The adjutants afford the [[Universe Mother Spirit]] a varied contact with, and [[control]] over, the [[material]] living [[creatures]] of a [[local universe]], but they do not repercuss in the [[Supreme Being]] when [[acting]] on prepersonality levels.
36:5.17 Nonspiritual mind is either a spirit-energy manifestation or a physical-energy phenomenon. Even human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification. Mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not immortal when it functions without spirit insight, and when it is devoid of the ability to worship and crave survival.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36 Go to Paper 36]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 36 - The Life Carriers]]
36:5.1 It is the [[presence]] of the [[seven adjutant mind-spirits]] on the [[primitive]] worlds that conditions the [[course]] of [[organic]] [[evolution]]; that [[explains]] why evolution is [[purposeful]] and not [[accidental]]. These adjutants [[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]]. The adjutants are the [[children]] of the [[Universe Mother Spirit]] and [[constitute]] her [[personal]] ministry to the [[material]] minds of the realms. Wherever and whenever such [[mind]] is [[manifest]], these spirits are variously [[functioning]].
36:5.2 The ''seven adjutant mind-spirits'' are called by [[names]] which are the [[equivalents]] of the following designations: [[intuition]], [[understanding]], [[courage]], [[knowledge]], [[counsel]], [[worship]], and [[wisdom]]. These mind-spirits send forth their [[influence]] into all the [[inhabited worlds]] as a [[differential]] urge, each seeking [[receptivity]] [[capacity]] for [[manifestation]] quite apart from the [[degree]] to which its fellows may find [[reception]] and [[opportunity]] for [[function]].
36:5.3 The [[Focus|central lodgments]] of the adjutant spirits on the Life Carrier [[headquarters]] world indicate to the Life Carrier supervisors the extent and [[quality]] of the [[mind]] [[function]] of the adjutants on any world and in any given living [[organism]] of [[intellect]] [[status]]. These life-mind emplacements are [[perfect]] indicators of living [[mind]] [[function]] for the first five adjutants. But with regard to the sixth and seventh adjutant spirits—[[worship]] and [[wisdom]]—these central lodgments record only a [[qualitative]] [[function]]. The [[quantitative]] [[activity]] of the adjutant of worship and the adjutant of wisdom is registered in the [[immediate]] [[presence]] of the [[Divine Minister]] on [[Salvington]], being a [[personal]] [[experience]] of the [[Universe Mother Spirit]].
36:5.4 The ''seven adjutant mind-spirits'' always accompany the Life Carriers to a new [[planet]], but they should not be regarded as [[entities]]; they are more like [[circuits]]. The spirits of the seven universe adjutants do not [[function]] as [[personalities]] apart from the [[universe]] [[presence]] of the [[Divine Minister]]; they are in [[fact]] a level of [[consciousness]] of the Divine Minister and are always subordinate to the [[action]] and [[presence]] of their [[creative]] [[mother]].
36:5.5 We are [[handicapped]] for [[words]] adequately to designate these ''seven adjutant mind-spirits''. They are ministers of the lower levels of [[experiential]] [[mind]], and they may be described, in the order of evolutionary [[attainment]], as follows:
*1. 36:5.6 ''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]].
*2. 36:5.7 ''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]].
*3. 36:5.8 ''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.
*4. 36:5.9 ''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]].
*5. 36:5.10 ''The spirit of counsel'' —the [[social]] urge, the [[endowment]] of [[species]] [[co-operation]]; the [[ability]] of [[Free will|will]] [[creatures]] to [[harmonize]] with their fellows; the [[origin]] of the gregarious [[instinct]] among the more lowly [[creatures]].
*6. 36:5.11 ''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]].
*7. 36:5.12 ''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]].
36:5.13 The ''adjutant mind-spirits'' [[experientially]] [[grow]], but they never become [[personal]]. They evolve in [[function]], and the function of the first five in the [[animal]] orders is to a certain extent [[essential]] to the function of all [[seven]] as [[human]] [[intellect]]. This [[animal]] [[relationship]] makes the adjutants more [[practically]] [[effective]] as human [[mind]]; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to man's [[intellectual]] as well as to his [[physical]] [[evolution]].
36:5.14 These [[mind]]-adjutants of a [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirit]] are related to [[creature]] life of [[intelligence]] [[status]] much as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:3._THE_DOMAIN_OF_POWER_CENTERS power centers] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS physical controllers] are related to the nonliving [[forces]] of the [[universe]]. They [[perform]] invaluable [[service]] in the [[mind]] [[circuits]] on the [[inhabited worlds]] and are [[effective]] [[collaborators]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers], who also serve as controllers and directors of the preadjutant mind levels, the levels of nonteachable or [[mechanical]] [[mind]].
36:5.15 Living [[mind]], prior to the [[appearance]] of [[capacity]] to learn from [[experience]], is the [[ministry]] [[domain]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers]. [[Creature]] [[mind]], before acquiring the [[ability]] to [[recognize]] [[divinity]] and [[worship]] [[Deity]], is the exclusive [[domain]] of the ''adjutant spirits''. With the [[appearance]] of the [[spiritual]] [[response]] of the [[creature]] [[intellect]], such created minds at once become superminded, being instantly encircuited in the [[spirit]] [[cycles]] of the [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirit]].
36:5.16 The ''adjutant mind-spirits'' are in no [[manner]] directly related to the [[diverse]] and highly [[spiritual]] [[function]] of the [[Holy Spirit|spirit]] of the [[personal]] [[presence]] of the [[Divine Minister]], the [[Holy Spirit]] of the [[inhabited worlds]]; but they are functionally antecedent to, and [[preparatory]] for, the [[appearance]] of this very spirit in [[evolutionary]] [[man]]. The adjutants afford the [[Universe Mother Spirit]] a varied contact with, and [[control]] over, the [[material]] living [[creatures]] of a [[local universe]], but they do not repercuss in the [[Supreme Being]] when [[acting]] on prepersonality levels.
36:5.17 Nonspiritual mind is either a spirit-energy manifestation or a physical-energy phenomenon. Even human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification. Mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not immortal when it functions without spirit insight, and when it is devoid of the ability to worship and crave survival.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36 Go to Paper 36]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 36 - The Life Carriers]]
