The 6th circuit, the spirit of worship, is the very beginning of that overlap I always speak of. This phenomenon is part of the description of the adjutant itself where we’re told that it is the first to separate creatures into two classes, animal and mortal. When this adjutant has made contact, the creature crosses the threshold from animal to potential full fledged human. Call it superanimal if you like.
36:5.11 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.
As soon as the sixth phase of adjutant ministry is experienced there occurs the inevitable phenomenon of overlapping ministries.
65:7.7 The adjutants function exclusively in the evolution of experiencing mind up to the level of the sixth phase, the spirit of worship. At this level there occurs that inevitable overlapping of ministry — the phenomenon of the higher reaching down to co-ordinate with the lower in anticipation of subsequent attainment of advanced levels of development.
What they are describing here is the very initial merging of the exclusively adjutant animal mind with the outskirts of the spiritual circuit of the Holy Spirit, which makes the mind superanimal with potential for full human functioning.
One of the things that is overlooked in the description of Andon and Fonta’s mind evolution is the fact that the 7th adjutant was in contact with both of them for at least a year before they made their decision. They would not have been able to make a wise decision without it. It was acting upon that wise decision that proved 7th adjutant functional contact which triggered a new alignment in adjutant ministry of the planet. This phenomenon is described in the rest of the quote 65:7.7 where the 7th adjutant is fully overlapped by spirit ministry, meaning the Holy Spirit. (And in post-Pentecost times, also the Spirit of Truth and the Adjuster.)
65:7.7 And still additional spirit ministry accompanies the action of the seventh and last adjutant, the spirit of wisdom. Throughout the ministry of the spirit world the individual never experiences abrupt transitions of spirit co-operation; always are these changes gradual and reciprocal.
This is when the announcement was made that Urantia was inhabited by bona fide human will-creatures. These are creatures who are no longer superanimal with full human potential, but full humans with superhuman potential. Their free-will, which initially began to respond to worship, finally arrived at a moral decision sponsored by the spirit of wisdom. Prior to that point, with only the spirit of worship actively functioning, the creature is mortal with potential human bona fides pending the birth of the soul which indicates to the universe, ” . . . moral responsibility, and the capacity for the attainment of spiritual individuality.” (110:6.13) The capacity for attainment of spiritual individuality is essentially the definition of superhuman, which requires a supermind, or a soul. The birth of the soul provides the creature, who was once merely superanimal and now fully human, the capacity to attain superhuman status, all within the gradual and reciprocal overlapping of ministry provided by the spirit world.
