On our planet, most mortals did not receive a TA until after Pentecost and the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth (108.2.3).
(1187.2) 108:2.3 Thus is the stage of the human mind set for the reception of Adjusters, but as a general rule they do not immediately appear to indwell such minds except on those worlds where the Spirit of Truth is functioning as a spiritual co-ordinator of these different spirit ministries. If this spirit of the bestowal Sons is present, the Adjusters unfailingly come the instant the seventh adjutant mind-spirit begins to function and signalizes to the Universe Mother Spirit that it has achieved in potential the co-ordination of the associated six adjutants of prior ministry to such a mortal intellect. Therefore have the divine Adjusters been universally bestowed upon all normal minds of moral status on Urantia ever since the day of Pentecost.
The quote says TA’s didn’t immediately indwell prior to the presence of the SOT. It is not mentioned anywhere that TA’s either NEVER or RARELY EVER indwelled under such circumstances. It was just not an event automatic with entry into the 7th psychic circle, as it is now. I don’t think you can extrapolate, as you did, that most mortals did not receive TA’s prior to the arrival of the SOT.
Indeed Bonita (and George!)!!
The very first humans had TA’s (as did many of their progeny)!! Enoch and Elijah even translated in this brief life here! Many people received their TA’s prior to Pentecost. The list of the 24 Counselors includes others but not just the holiest or most enlightened humans did so….it was not uncommon at all!
63:6.9 (717.1) Although both Andon and Fonta had received Thought Adjusters, as had many of their descendants, it was not until the days of Onagar that the Adjusters and guardian seraphim came in great numbers to Urantia. This was, indeed, the golden age of primitive man.
45:4.13 (514.3) 11. Enoch, the first of the mortals of Urantia to fuse with the Thought Adjuster during the mortal life in the flesh.
45:4.14 (514.4) 12. Moses, the emancipator of a remnant of the submerged violet race and the instigator of the revival of the worship of the Universal Father under the name of “The God of Israel.”
45:4.15 (514.5) 13. Elijah, a translated soul of brilliant spiritual achievement during the post-Material Son age.
What follows is a stark assessment. Perhaps most important is what is the upshot of this (?): 133.0.3 There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God: those who desire to do his will and those who do not.
Another point of clarification: this quote above does not describe humans on their native planet exclusively. It’s my understanding that the term “mortal” follows all mortal-born ascenders to the very shores of Paradise!
Such misunderstandings that have been posted here seem to be causing great confusion for some:
1. That which is required for fusion is not required for survival.
2. TA’s are widely available and present long before the Mortal Epoch which delivers the Son’s Spirit.
3. That the term mortal only describes beings prior to mortality is still another misstatement/misunderstanding of the text.
Ahhhhh…..the very point and purpose of such a study group. Orientation, perspective by triangulation, paradigm shifts, relinquishing personal misconception and prejudice….such great fruit for the feasting!
If 200 million persons is an average mansion-morontia world population for Jerusem and this number is extrapolated to each of the 49 worlds, the system typically holds about 10 billion persons in “active process”. The population for the sleeping survivor population at any time is difficult to evaluate. IF this population is 100 billion (10X the 49 morontia world population)….and the total living population of the 619 worlds is on the order of 2 trillion persons, we have an initial survival rate in the ballpark area of 5%.
If by “initial survival rate” you mean 3rd Circlers, then I would suggest your short on your factor by a factor of close to 20 sleeping, slumbering survivors. Do you mean to propose that Urantia has as many 3rds as sleepers? Doubt it. And don’t forget that many who are 3rds and fuse prior to Jerusem do not tarry there long as citizens…another wild card and there are many to consider. I fear you/we cannot do more than consider such calculations as more than mere speculation. The real point here is the perspective of the speculator and the proposition or conclusion they hope to confirm by such speculation. Your inference is clear but your factors are not aligned with any degree of accuracy with the text itself….which distorts your speculations as well as your proposition that survival is rare.
Have you read yet the topics I provided links for? Some very informative text on the definitions (and there are many) of ‘faith’ and its expressions and the difficult topic of love response as well. All love comes from God…all love response and the giving of it to another is an expression of faith….blind faith perhaps but faith nonetheless. Personal religious experience is not confined to or defined by beliefs or understandings of the mind so much as this love response and the tender feelings of little children or primitives or barbarians for others regardless of whether the TA is present or not. TA’s are not required for religious experience and there are so many forms and flavors of that!
Regarding perspective, I am reminded of this from one of my favorite papers – Religion in Human Experience:
100:4.5 (1098.2) In the mind’s eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times — a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only, in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them. *
Behold the noble mortal portrayed in the UB. Primitives with ghost fears and fetishes are described lovingly in the UB as true religionists. We must be willing to expand our perspectives of religion, faith, love, and survival potential as much as our view of the grand universe of universes. This, we are taught, is a friendly universe and whose Creator loves each and every being and gives us patience and mercy along with this profound love.
We are not to measure any other being’s religious life or experience or status by our own. Those who fear a small survival rate and those who believe in a great success rate offer very contrasting views not only of humanity but also of all the ministering spirits of the Father, Son, and Mother and their mercy ministry and patience and the ascension plan itself. Let us trust them to their good work.
Sorry if I sound even the least bit scolding. But if the 4th was the Good News, the 5th is even better and far more Good News. It is not a warning but a celebration of our planetary evolutionary progress and the wondrous victory of the Spirit of Truth on our world today. Or so I believe. Yahoo and Yipee!!
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
