LESSON 5: The Adjutant Mind Spirits & The Holy Spirit
Modern man is confronted with the task of making more readjustments of human values in one generation than have been made in 2000 years. And this all influences the social attitude toward religion, for religion is a way of living as well as a technique of thinking. Source: Urantia Book 92:7.14
Local universe spirit circuits
There are three distinct spirit circuits in the local universe of Nebadon:
- The bestowal spirit of the Creator Son, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth.
- The spirit circuit of the Divine Minister, the Holy Spirit.
- The intelligence-ministry circuit, including the more or less unified activities but diverse functioning of the seven adjutant mind-spirits. Urantia Book 34:4.1
The Spirit of Truth will be covered in LESSON 7.
We will now focus on the intelligence-ministry circuit, commonly referred to as the Adjutant Mind Spirits. These are the same 7 Spirits that John the revelator informed us about.
- Revelation 4:5, “From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.”
- Revelation 5:6, “Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.”
Notice that these 7 Spirits are sent out into all the earth. In other words they function in all human minds in accordance with its capacity of receptivity and can be described as:
| Designation | Description |
| 1. 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. 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. 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. 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. The spirit of counsel | The social urge, the endowment of species co-operation; the ability of will creatures to harmonize with their fellows; the origin of the gregarious instinct among the more lowly creatures. |
| 6. 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. 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. |
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
The domain of human personality
Personality always seeks unification. The relative free will which characterizes the self-consciousness of human personality is involved in:
- Moral decision, highest wisdom.
- Spiritual choice, truth discernment.
- Unselfish love, brotherhood service.
- Purposeful co-operation, group loyalty.
- Cosmic insight, the grasp of universe meanings.
- Personality dedication, wholehearted devotion to doing the Father’s will.
- Worship, the sincere pursuit of divine values and the wholehearted love of the divine Value-Giver.” Urantia Book 16:8.7
Personality is difficult to define — but it is recognized as functioning on diverse levels:
- Physical level — the physique.
- Intellectual level — the mind.
- Emotional level — temperament.
- Social level — ethical disposition.
- Moral level — the character.
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