The Urantia Book Paper 110 - The seven circles Psychics

The sum total of personality realization on a material world is contained within the successive conquest of the seven psychic circles of mortal potentiality. Entry into the seventh circle marks the beginning of true human personality function. Completion of the first circle denotes the relative maturity of the mortal being. Although through the seven circles of cosmic growth does not equal fusion with the Adjuster, the mastery of these circles marks the attainment of those steps which are preliminary to the fusion with the Adjuster is your equal partner in the attainment of the seven circles - the achievement of comparative mortal maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the seventh to the first,

The psychic circles are not exclusively intellectual, neither are they wholly morontial; They have to do with personality status, achievement of mind, soul growth , and Adjuster attunement. The successful traversal of these levels demands the harmonious functioning of  the entire personality,  not merely of some phase of it. The growth of the parts not equal the true maturation of the whole; the parties actually grow in proportion to the expansion of the entire -all the material, intellectual and spiritual yo-.

When the development of the intellectual nature proceeds faster than the spiritual, this situation becomes both difficult and dangerous communication with the Thought Adjuster. Similarly, excessive spiritual development tends to produce a fanatical and perverted interpretation of the spiritual guidance of divine resident. Lack of spiritual capacity makes it difficult to transmit to such material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness. Is perfectly balanced mind, a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function-when the physical powers, mental and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development which can impart a maximum of light and truth with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being. Through this balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from seventh to first.

Adjusters are always near you and of you, but rarely can they speak directly, as another being. Circle by circle your intellectual decisions, moral choices and spiritual development add to the ability of the Adjuster to function in your mind; circle by circle you thereby ascend from the lower stages of association with the Adjuster and attunement of mind, so that the Adjuster is increasingly enabled to register his illustrations of destiny with augmenting vividness and conviction upon the evolving consciousness of this mind-soul in search of God.

Every decision you make either impedes or facilitates the function of the Adjuster; Similarly these same decisions determine your advancement in the circles of human achievement. It is true that the supremacy of a decision, his relationship with a crisis, has a lot to do with making influence circle; But also many essential decisions, frequent repetitions, persistent repetitions, for forming certainty of such reactions habits.

It is difficult precisely to define the seven levels of human progression, because these levels are personal; they are variable for each individual and are apparently determined by the growth capacity of each human being. the conquest of these levels of cosmic evolution is reflected in three ways:

1.  Timing Adjuster.  The mind that is becoming ever more spiritual approaches the Adjuster presence proportional to the achievement of the circles.

2.  Evolution of the soul. The emergence of the morontia soul indicates the extent and depth of circle mastery.

3.  Personality reality.  Courting circles directly determines the degree of reality of self. People become more real as they ascend from the seventh to the first level of mortal existence.

As the circles are traversed, the child of material evolution is growing into the mature human of immortal potentiality. The insubstantial reality of the embryonic nature of which is in the seventh circle is giving way to clearer picture of the emerging morontia nature of a citizen of the local universe manifestation.

Although it is impossible precisely to define the seven levels, or psychic circles, of human growth, it is permissible to suggest the minimum and maximum limits of these stages of maturity realization:

The seventh circle.  Humans come to this level when developing powers of personal choice, individual decision, moral responsibility, and the ability to achieve spiritual individuality. This means the united function of the seven adjutant mind under the guidance of the spirit of wisdom, admission of fatal circuits influence of the Holy Spirit creature and in Urantia, the initial operation of the Spirit of Truth, together with the reception of a Thought Adjuster in the mortal mind. Entry into the seventh circle constitutes a mortal creature a real potential citizen of the local universe.

The third circle.  Adjuster's work is much more effective after the human ascender attains the third circle and receives a personal seraphic guardian of destiny. Although there apparently exists a concordance of effort between the Adjuster and the seraphic guardian, however one can see a clear improvement in all phases of cosmic achievement and spiritual development subsequent to the assignment of personal seraphic attendant. When you reach the third circle, the Adjuster endeavors to morontiaize man's mind for the rest of mortal life, to reach the remaining circles , and achieve the final stage of the divine-human association before natural death dissolves the unique partnership .

The first circle.  Adjuster can not , ordinarily , speak directly and immediately with you until you reach the first and final circle of progressive mortal achievement. This level represents the highest possible realization of mind-Adjuster relationship in the human experience prior to the liberation of the evolving morontia soul from the shackles of the material body. As for the mind, emotions , and cosmic insight, this achievement of the first psychic circle is the latest possible approach of material mind and spirit Adjuster in human experience.

It might be better to call these psychic circles of mortal progression  cosmic levels - real understandings of meaning and value realizations of progressive approach to the morontia consciousness of initial relationship of the evolutionary soul with the emerging Supreme Being. And it is this very relationship that makes it forever impossible fully to explain the significance of the cosmic circles to the material mind. These achievements circle are only relatively related to God-consciousness. A being in the seventh or sixth circle can be almost as truly God-knowing, conscious of sonship as someone who is in the second or first circle, but these lower circles beings are far less conscious of experiential relation to the Supreme being, universal citizenship.

The motivation of faith makes experiential the full realization of man's sonship with God, but  action,  completion of decisions, is essential to the evolutionary attainment of consciousness of progressive kinship with the  cosmic actuality the Supreme Being. In the spiritual world faith transforms existing potentials, but potentials become actuals in the finite realms of the Supreme only by making the experience of the election. But choosing to do the will of God joins spiritual faith to material decisions in personality action and thus supplies a divine and spiritual fulcrum for the more effective functioning of human lever and material hunger for God. Such wise coordination of material and spiritual forces greatly augments both cosmic realization of the Supreme and morontia comprehension of the Paradise Deities.

The mastery of the cosmic circles is related to the quantitative growth of the morontia soul, the comprehension of supreme meanings. But the qualitative status of this immortal soul is  wholly  dependent on the grasp of living faith upon the fact-Paradise-potential value that mortal man is a son of the eternal God. So who is in the seventh circle will mansonia for additional quantitative understanding of cosmic growth just as does someone who is in the second or even the first circle.

There is only an indirect relationship between the achievement of cosmic circles and actual spiritual religious experience; these achievements are reciprocal and therefore mutually beneficial. Purely spiritual development may have little to do with planetary material prosperity, but the scope of the circles always increases the potential for human success and mortal achievement.

From the seventh to the third circle increased and unified action results from the seven spirits adjutant mind on the task of freeing the mortal mind in its dependence on the realities of the mechanisms of material life, in preparation for further introduction to morontia levels of experience. From the third cycle on, the adjutant decreases progressively.

The seven circles embrace mortal experience extending from the highest purely animal level to the lowest actual contactual morontia level of self-consciousness is a personality experience. Mastery of the first cosmic circle indicates the extent of premorontia mortal maturity and marks the completion of all the adjutant mind-spirits as an exclusive influence of mind action in the human personality ministry. Beyond the first circle, mind becomes increasingly akin to the intelligence of the morontia stage of evolution, the conjoined ministry of the cosmic mind and the superadjutant endowment of the Creative Spirit of a local universe.

The great days in the individual careers of Adjusters are: first, when the human subject reaches the third psychic circle, thus insuring the Monitor the extent of self - activity and a range of enhanced function (provided the indweller was not already self - acting ); then, when the human partner attains the first psychic circle, and enabled to intercommunicate, at least to some degree; and finally when they are finally and eternally fused. 

Presented by a Solitary Messenger of Orvonton