tas wrote: They only need have “adequate” morals and “sufficient” mental capacity, and it’s not even necessary to have higher spiritual attainment.
“Adequate” and “sufficient” for the task. They don’t mean “just enough” or “nearly passable”. And the task is morontia task, not about helping your next door neighbor mow the grass which any adequate or sufficient person can do. It’s about cosmic trustworthiness, the fact that the celestials can be sure that the individual can be trusted with a cosmically important service task. (It’s about service)
28:6.13 4. The Solemnity of Trust. Trust is the crucial test of will creatures. Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character. These seconaphim accomplish a double purpose in the economy of the superuniverses: They portray to all will creatures the sense of the obligation, sacredness, and solemnity of trust. At the same time they unerringly reflect to the governing authorities the exact trustworthiness of any candidate for confidence or trust.
And of course it can’t be true that they don’t have to have higher spiritual attainment by the very quote you provided:
114:7.2 All reservists have self-conscious Adjusters, and most of them function in the higher cosmic circles of intellectual achievement and spiritual attainment.
Most function in the higher cosmic circles. What are the higher cosmic circles? Psychic circles 3 and above. And what does the word “most” mean? It means nearly all. We know that there are always exceptions, but nearly all means nearly all. Also, we know that self-conscious Adjusters, or self-acting Adjusters, are primarily provided to those who have achieved Psychic Circle 3 and above. Yes, there are exceptions to that too, but my guess is that the individual in such a situation has all the prerequisites for achieving a higher status, and this is taken for granted in terms of the ability grow into the role. Or, the individual is especially gifted in some area that is required by the corps.
tas wrote: Reservists have been specially chosen, but it seems to me that it’s not nearly so much because they are personally extraordinary and high functioning, and more because they are “good enough” and in the right place at the right time in history to fit into the bigger picture plans of the celestial higher ups.
Again, “good enough” to function on morontia levels of service. It’s all about service and the greatest of all is the server of all. So anyone who gets all puffed up about the possibility of being a reservist is functioning on a NOT “good enough” level and probably needs to do a little more soul growth and cosmic circle work in humility and sincerity. The tadpole thing.
I agree that the human definition of being “extraordinary” is not the same definition the celestials use. Look at the sleeping subject, he was essentially a nobody and the celestials deemed him to be extraordinary. Plus, we know that the reservists required to be willing to serve without recognition or reward:
114:7.5 2. Wholehearted dedication to some special social, economic, political, spiritual, or other cause, coupled with willingness to serve without human recognition and rewards.
It seems to me that most of the “so-called” self-proclaimed reservists in our community are striving desperately for recognition and reward. And that disqualifies them right then and there, in my opinion. I don’t think you can be willing to serve without recognition or reward unless you are “high functioning”, meaning capable of considerable self-discipline and able to take the “self” out of loving service to others. This indicates some psychic circe progress. Psychic circles are described in TUB in many ways. Here is a list compiled from several quotes:
- 1. Personality realization
- 2. Mortal potentiality
- 3. Cosmic growth
- 4. Comparative mortal maturity
- 5. Personality status, mind attainment, soul growth and Adjuster attunement
- 6. Balanced growth
- 7. Planetary progression
- 8. Human achievement
- 9. Self-understanding, self-conquest, and self-mastery
If it is a matter of being in the right place at the right time, then why all the deep mind training and rehearsing? Reservists are trained to be in the ready for potential disaster which will likely never happen. They will be put in the right place at the right time when needed. And, if they’re not needed, we’re told that all the info that was registered in their deep mind is often transferred to a new, younger reservist before they die.
114:7.10 The reservists unconsciously act as conservators of essential planetary information. Many times, upon the death of a reservist, a transfer of certain vital data from the mind of the dying reservist to a younger successor is made by a liaison of the two Thought Adjusters. The Adjusters undoubtedly function in many other ways unknown to us, in connection with these reserve corps.
Reservists are also “favorably constituted” for deep mind contact by midwayers. One might ask what makes one mind more favorably constituted over another. I would say it has something to do with mental balance and psychic poise, but that is opinion. Moreover, we are told that there are certain “spiritual types” that are capable of hosting self-acting Adjusters, and they are seriously on the wane. That means fewer third circlers and fewer reservists. We also know that reservists are considered “forward-looking”, meaning that they are growing and progressing individuals, which is more than just “good enough” at the “right time and right place”. These are individuals skilled enough to prevent the breakdown of culture and the extinction of the light of truth. That’s pretty lofty stuff.
114:7.9 On many worlds the better adapted secondary midway creatures are able to attain varying degrees of contact with the Thought Adjusters of certain favorably constituted mortals through the skillful penetration of the minds of the latters’ indwelling. (And it was by just such a fortuitous combination of cosmic adjustments that these revelations were materialized in the English language on Urantia.) Such potential contact mortals of the evolutionary worlds are mobilized in the numerous reserve corps, and it is, to a certain extent, through these small groups of forward-looking personalities that spiritual civilization is advanced and the Most Highs are able to rule in the kingdoms of men. The men and women of these reserve corps of destiny thus have various degrees of contact with their Adjusters through the intervening ministry of the midway creatures; but these same mortals are little known to their fellows except in those rare social emergencies and spiritual exigencies wherein these reserve personalities function for the prevention of the breakdown of evolutionary culture or the extinction of the light of living truth. On Urantia these reservists of destiny have seldom been emblazoned on the pages of human history.
110:4.6 For many thousands of years, so the records of Jerusem show, in each generation there have lived fewer and fewer beings who could function safely with self-acting Adjusters. This is an alarming picture, and the supervising personalities of Satania look with favor upon the proposals of some of your more immediate planetary supervisors who advocate the inauguration of measures designed to foster and conserve the higher spiritual types of the Urantia races.
