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Urantia Book Paper 51 The Planetary Adams
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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Paper 51 The Planetary Adams
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Introduction
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DURING the dispensation of a Planetary Prince, primitive man reaches the limit
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of natural evolutionary development, and this biologic attainment signals the
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System Sovereign to dispatch to such a world the second order of sonship, the
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biologic uplifters. These Sons, for there are two of them--the Material Son and
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Daughter--are usually known on a planet as Adam and Eve. The original Material
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Son of Satania is Adam, and those who go to the system worlds as biologic
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uplifters always carry the name of this first and original Son of their unique
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order.
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These Sons are the material gift of the Creator Son to the inhabited worlds.
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Together with the Planetary Prince, they remain on their planet of assignment
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throughout the evolutionary course of such a sphere. Such an adventure on a
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world having a Planetary Prince is not much of a hazard, but on an apostate
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planet, a realm without a spiritual ruler and deprived of interplanetary
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communication, such a mission is fraught with grave danger.
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Although you cannot hope to know all about the work of these Sons on all the
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worlds of Satania and other systems, other papers depict more fully the life
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and experiences of the interesting pair, Adam and Eve, who came from the corps
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of the biologic uplifters of Jerusem to upstep the Urantia races. While there
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was a miscarriage of the ideal plans for improving your native races, still,
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Adam's mission was not in vain; Urantia has profited immeasurably from the gift
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of Adam and Eve, and among their fellows and in the councils on high their work
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is not reckoned as a total loss.
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1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE MATERIAL SONS OF GOD
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The material or sex Sons and Daughters are the offspring of the Creator Son;
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the Universe Mother Spirit does not participate in the production of these
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beings who are destined to function as physical uplifters on the evolutionary
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worlds.
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The material order of sonship is not uniform throughout the local universe. The
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Creator Son produces only one pair of these beings in each local system; these
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original pairs are diverse in nature, being attuned to the life pattern of
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their respective systems. This is a necessary provision since otherwise the
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reproductive potential of the Adams would be nonfunctional with that of the
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evolving mortal beings of the worlds of any one particular system. The Adam and
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Eve who came to Urantia were descended from the original Satania pair of
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Material Sons.
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Material Sons vary in height from eight to ten feet, and their bodies glow with
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the brilliance of radiant light of a violet hue. While material blood circu-
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lates through their material bodies, they are also surcharged with divine
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energy and saturated with celestial light. These Material Sons (the Adams) and
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Material Daughters (the Eves) are equal to each other, differing only in
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reproductive nature and in certain chemical endowments. They are equal but
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differential, male and female--hence complemental--and are designed to serve on
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almost all assignments in pairs.
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The Material Sons enjoy a dual nutrition; they are really dual in nature and
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constitution, partaking of materialized energy much as do the physical beings
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of the realm, while their immortal existence is fully maintained by the direct
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and automatic intake of certain sustaining cosmic energies. Should they fail on
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some mission of assignment or even consciously and deliberately rebel, this
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order of Sons becomes isolated, cut off from connection with the universe
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source of light and life. Thereupon they become practically material beings,
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destined to take the course of material life on the world of their assignment
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and compelled to look to the universe magistrates for adjudication. Material
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death will eventually terminate the planetary career of such an unfortunate and
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unwise Material Son or Daughter.
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An original or directly created Adam and Eve are immortal by inherent endowment
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just as are all other orders of local universe sonship, but a diminution of
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immortality potential characterizes their sons and daughters. This original
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couple cannot transmit unconditioned immortality to their procreated sons and
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daughters. Their progeny are dependent for continuing life on unbroken
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intellectual synchrony with the mind-gravity circuit of the Spirit. Since the
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inception of the system of Satania, thirteen Planetary Adams have been lost in
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rebellion and default and 681,204 in the subordinate positions of trust. Most
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of these defections occurred at the time of the Lucifer rebellion.
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While living as permanent citizens on the system capitals, even when
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functioning on descending missions to the evolutionary planets, the Material
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Sons do not possess Thought Adjusters, but it is through these very services
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that they acquire experiential capacity for Adjuster indwellment and the
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Paradise ascension career. These unique and wonderfully useful beings are the
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connecting links between the spiritual and physical worlds. They are
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concentrated on the system headquarters, where they reproduce and carry on as
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material citizens of the realm, and whence they are dispatched to the
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evolutionary worlds.
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Unlike the other created Sons of planetary service, the material order of
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sonship is not, by nature, invisible to material creatures like the inhabitants
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of Urantia. These Sons of God can be seen, understood, and can, in turn,
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actually mingle with the creatures of time, could even procreate with them,
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though this role of biologic upliftment usually falls to the progeny of the
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Planetary Adams.
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On Jerusem the loyal children of any Adam and Eve are immortal, but the
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offspring of a Material Son and Daughter procreated subsequent to their arrival
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on an evolutionary planet are not thus immune to natural death. There occurs a
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change in the life-transmitting mechanism when these Sons are rematerialized
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for reproductive function on an evolutionary world. The Life Carriers
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designedly deprive the Planetary Adams and Eves of the power of begetting
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undying sons and daughters. If they do not default, an Adam and Eve on a
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planetary mission can live on indefinitely, but within certain limits their
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children experience decreasing longevity with each succeeding generation.
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2. TRANSIT OF THE PLANETARY ADAMS
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Upon receipt of the news that another inhabited world has attained the height
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of physical evolution, the System Sovereign convenes the corps of Material Sons
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and Daughters on the system capital; and following the discussion of the needs
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of such an evolutionary world, two of the volunteering group--an Adam and an
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Eve of the senior corps of Material Sons--are selected to undertake the
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adventure, to submit to the deep sleep preparatory to being enseraphimed and
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transported from their home of associated service to the new realm of new
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opportunities and new dangers.
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Adams and Eves are semimaterial creatures and, as such, are not transportable
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by seraphim. They must undergo dematerialization on the system capital before
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they can be enseraphimed for transport to the world of assignment. The
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transport seraphim are able to effect such changes in the Material Sons and in
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other semimaterial beings as enable them to be enseraphimed and thus to be
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transported through space from one world or system to another. About three days
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of standard time are consumed in this transport preparation, and it requires
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the co-operation of a Life Carrier to restore such a dematerialized creature to
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normal existence upon arrival at the end of the seraphic-transport journey.
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While there is this dematerializing technique for preparing the Adams for
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transit from Jerusem to the evolutionary worlds, there is no equivalent method
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for taking them away from such worlds unless the entire planet is to be
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emptied, in which event emergency installation of the dematerialization
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technique is made for the entire salvable population. If some physical
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catastrophe should doom the planetary residence of an evolving race, the
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Melchizedeks and the Life Carriers would install the technique of
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dematerialization for all survivors, and by seraphic transport these beings
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would be carried away to the new world prepared for their continuing existence.
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The evolution of a human race, once initiated on a world of space, must proceed
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quite independently of the physical survival of that planet, but during the
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evolutionary ages it is not otherwise intended that a Planetary Adam or Eve
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shall leave their chosen world.
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Upon arrival at their planetary destination the Material Son and Daughter are
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rematerialized under the direction of the Life Carriers. This entire process
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takes ten to twenty-eight days of Urantia time. The unconsciousness of the
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seraphic slumber continues throughout this entire period of reconstruction.
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When the reassembly of the physical organism is completed, these Material Sons
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and Daughters stand in their new homes and on their new worlds to all intents
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and purposes just as they were before submitting to the dematerializing process
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on Jerusem.
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3. THE ADAMIC MISSIONS
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On the inhabited worlds the Material Sons and Daughters construct their own
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garden homes, soon being assisted by their own children. Usually the site of
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the garden has been selected by the Planetary Prince, and his corporeal staff
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do much of the preliminary work of preparation with the help of many of the
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higher types of native races.
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These Gardens of Eden are so named in honor of Edentia, the constellation
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capital, and because they are patterned after the botanic grandeur of the
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headquarters world of the Most High Fathers. Such garden homes are usually
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located in a secluded section and in a near-tropic zone. They are wonderful
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creations on an average world. You can judge nothing of these beautiful centers
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of culture by the fragmentary account of the aborted development of such an
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undertaking on Urantia.
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A Planetary Adam and Eve are, in potential, the full gift of physical grace to
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the mortal races. The chief business of such an imported pair is to multiply
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and to uplift the children of time. But there is no immediate interbreeding
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between the people of the garden and those of the world; for many generations
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Adam and Eve remain biologically segregated from the evolutionary mortals while
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they build up a strong race of their order. This is the origin of the violet
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race on the inhabited worlds.
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The plans for race upstepping are prepared by the Planetary Prince and his
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staff and are executed by Adam and Eve. And this was where your Material Son
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and his companion were placed at great disadvantage when they arrived on
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Urantia. Caligastia offered crafty and effective opposition to the Adamic
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mission; and notwithstanding that the Melchizedek receivers of Urantia had duly
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warned both Adam and Eve concerning the planetary dangers inherent in the
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presence of the rebellious Planetary Prince, this archrebel, by a wily
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stratagem, outmaneuvered the Edenic pair and entrapped them into a violation of
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the covenant of their trusteeship as the visible rulers of your world. The
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traitorous Planetary Prince did succeed in compromising your Adam and Eve, but
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he failed in his effort to involve them in the Lucifer rebellion.
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The fifth order of angels, the planetary helpers, are attached to the Adamic
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mission, always accompanying the Planetary Adams on their world adventures. The
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corps of initial assignment is usually about one hundred thousand. When the
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work of the Urantia Adam and Eve was prematurely launched, when they departed
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from the ordained plan, it was one of the seraphic Voices of the Garden who
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remonstrated with them concerning their reprehensible conduct. And your
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narrative of this occurrence well illustrates the manner in which your
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planetary traditions have tended to ascribe everything supernatural to the Lord
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God. Because of this, Urantians have often become confused concerning the
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nature of the Universal Father since the words and acts of all his associates
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and subordinates have been so generally attributed to him. In the case of Adam
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and Eve, the angel of the Garden was none other than the chief of the planetary
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helpers then on duty. This seraphim, Solonia, proclaimed the miscarriage of the
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divine plan and requisitioned the return of the Melchizedek receivers to
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Urantia.
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The secondary midway creatures are indigenous to the Adamic missions. As with
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the corporeal staff of the Planetary Prince, the descendants of the Material
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Sons and Daughters are of two orders: their physical children and the secondary
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order of midway creatures. These material but ordinarily invisible planetary
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ministers contribute much to the advancement of civilization and even to the
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subjection of insubordinate minorities who may seek to subvert social
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development and spiritual progress.
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The secondary midwayers should not be confused with the primary order, who date
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from the near times of the arrival of the Planetary Prince. On Urantia a
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majority of these earlier midway creatures went into rebellion with Cali-
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gastia and have, since Pentecost, been interned. Many of the Adamic group who
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did not remain loyal to the planetary administration are likewise interned.
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On the day of Pentecost the loyal primary and the secondary midwayers effected
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a voluntary union and have functioned as one unit in world affairs ever since.
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They serve under the leadership of loyal midwayers alternately chosen from the
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two groups.
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Your world has been visited by four orders of sonship: Caligastia, the
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Planetary Prince; Adam and Eve of the Material Sons of God; Machiventa
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Melchizedek, the "sage of Salem" in the days of Abraham; and Christ Michael,
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who came as the Paradise bestowal Son. How much more effective and beautiful it
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would have been had Michael, the supreme ruler of the universe of Nebadon, been
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welcomed to your world by a loyal and efficient Planetary Prince and a devoted
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and successful Material Son, both of whom could have done so much to enhance
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the lifework and mission of the bestowal Son! But not all worlds have been so
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unfortunate as Urantia, neither has the mission of the Planetary Adams always
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been so difficult or so hazardous. When they are successful, they contribute to
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the development of a great people, continuing as the visible heads of planetary
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affairs even far into the age when such a world is settled in light and life.
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4. THE SIX EVOLUTIONARY RACES
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The race of dominance during the early ages of the inhabited worlds is the red
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man, who ordinarily is the first to attain human levels of development. But
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while the red man is the senior race of the planets, the succeeding colored
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peoples begin to make their appearances very early in the age of mortal
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emergence.
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The earlier races are somewhat superior to the later; the red man stands far
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above the indigo--black race. The Life Carriers impart the full bestowal of the
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living energies to the initial or red race, and each succeeding evolutionary
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manifestation of a distinct group of mortals represents variation at the
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expense of the original endowment. Even mortal stature tends to decrease from
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the red man down to the indigo race, although on Urantia unexpected strains of
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giantism appeared among the green and orange peoples.
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On those worlds having all six evolutionary races the superior peoples are the
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first, third, and fifth races--the red, the yellow, and the blue. The
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evolutionary races thus alternate in capacity for intellectual growth and
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spiritual development, the second, fourth, and sixth being somewhat less
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endowed. These secondary races are the peoples that are missing on certain
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worlds; they are the ones that have been exterminated on many others. It is a
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misfortune on Urantia that you so largely lost your superior blue men, except
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as they persist in your amalgamated "white race." The loss of your orange and
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green stocks is not of such serious concern.
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The evolution of six--or of three--colored races, while seeming to deteriorate
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the original endowment of the red man, provides certain very desirable
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variations in mortal types and affords an otherwise unattainable expression of
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diverse human potentials. These modifications are beneficial to the progress of
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mankind as a whole provided they are subsequently upstepped by the imported
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Adamic or violet race. On Urantia this usual plan of amalgamation was not
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extensively carried out, and this failure to execute the plan of race evolution
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makes it impossible for you to understand very much about the status of these
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peoples
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on an average inhabited planet by observing the remnants of these early races
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on your world.
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In the early days of racial development there is a slight tendency for the red,
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the yellow, and the blue men to interbreed; there is a similar tendency for the
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orange, green, and indigo races to intermingle.
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The more backward humans are usually employed as laborers by the more
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progressive races. This accounts for the origin of slavery on the planets
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during the early ages. The orange men are usually subdued by the red and
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reduced to the status of servants--sometimes exterminated. The yellow and red
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men often fraternize, but not always. The yellow race usually enslaves the
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green, while the blue man subdues the indigo. These races of primitive men
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think no more of utilizing the services of their backward fellows in compulsory
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labor than Urantians would of buying and selling horses and cattle.
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On most normal worlds involuntary servitude does not survive the dispensation
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of the Planetary Prince, although mental defectives and social delinquents are
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often still compelled to perform involuntary labor. But on all normal spheres
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this sort of primitive slavery is abolished soon after the arrival of the
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imported violet or Adamic race.
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These six evolutionary races are destined to be blended and exalted by
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amalgamation with the progeny of the Adamic uplifters. But before these peoples
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are blended, the inferior and unfit are largely eliminated. The Planetary
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Prince and the Material Son, with other suitable planetary authorities, pass
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upon the fitness of the reproducing strains. The difficulty of executing such a
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radical program on Urantia consists in the absence of competent judges to pass
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upon the biologic fitness or unfitness of the individuals of your world races.
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Notwithstanding this obstacle, it seems that you ought to be able to agree upon
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the biologic disfellowshiping of your more markedly unfit, defective,
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degenerate, and antisocial stocks.
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5. RACIAL AMALGAMATION--
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When a Planetary Adam and Eve arrive on an inhabited world, they have been
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fully instructed by their superiors as to the best way to effect the
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improvement of the existing races of intelligent beings. The plan of procedure
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is not uniform; much is left to the judgment of the ministering pair, and
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mistakes are not infrequent, especially on disordered, insurrectionary worlds,
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such as Urantia.
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Usually the violet peoples do not begin to amalgamate with the planetary
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natives until their own group numbers over one million. But in the meantime the
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staff of the Planetary Prince proclaims that the children of the Gods have come
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down, as it were, to be one with the races of men; and the people eagerly look
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forward to the day when announcement will be made that those who have qualified
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as belonging to the superior racial strains may proceed to the Garden of Eden
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and be there chosen by the sons and daughters of Adam as the evolutionary
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fathers and mothers of the new and blended order of mankind.
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On normal worlds the Planetary Adam and Eve never mate with the evolutionary
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races. This work of biologic betterment is a function of the Adamic progeny.
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But these Adamites do not go out among the races; the prince's staff bring to
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the Garden of Eden the superior men and women for voluntary mating
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with the Adamic offspring. And on most worlds it is considered the highest
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honor to be selected as a candidate for mating with the sons and daughters of
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the garden.
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For the first time the racial wars and other tribal struggles are diminished,
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while the world races increasingly strive to qualify for recognition and
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admission to the garden. You can at best have but a very meager idea of how
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this competitive struggle comes to occupy the center of all activities on a
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normal planet. This whole scheme of race improvement was early wrecked on
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Urantia.
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The violet race is a monogamous people, and every evolutionary man or woman
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uniting with the Adamic sons and daughters pledges not to take other mates and
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to instruct his or her children in single-matedness. The children of each of
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these unions are educated and trained in the schools of the Planetary Prince
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and then are permitted to go forth to the race of their evolutionary parent,
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there to marry among the selected groups of superior mortals.
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When this strain of the Material Sons is added to the evolving races of the
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worlds, a new and greater era of evolutionary progress is initiated. Following
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this procreative outpouring of imported ability and superevolutionary traits
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there ensues a succession of rapid strides in civilization and racial
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development; in one hundred thousand years more progress is made than in a
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million years of former struggle. In your world, even in the face of the
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miscarriage of the ordained plans, great progress has been made since the gift
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to your peoples of Adam's life plasm.
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But while the pure-line children of a planetary Garden of Eden can bestow
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themselves upon the superior members of the evolutionary races and thereby
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upstep the biologic level of mankind, it would not prove beneficial for the
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higher strains of Urantia mortals to mate with the lower races; such an unwise
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procedure would jeopardize all civilization on your world. Having failed to
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achieve race harmonization by the Adamic technique, you must now work out your
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planetary problem of race improvement by other and largely human methods of
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adaptation and control.
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6. THE EDENIC REGIME
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On most of the inhabited worlds the Gardens of Eden remain as superb cultural
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centers and continue to function as the social patterns of planetary conduct
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and usage age after age. Even in early times when the violet peoples are
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relatively segregated, their schools receive suitable candidates from among the
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world races, while the industrial developments of the garden open up new
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channels of commercial intercourse. Thus do the Adams and Eves and their
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progeny contribute to the sudden expansion of culture and to the rapid
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improvement of the evolutionary races of their worlds. And all of these
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relationships are augmented and sealed by the amalgamation of the evolutionary
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races and the sons of Adam, resulting in the immediate upstepping of biologic
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status, the quickening of intellectual potential, and the enhancement of
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spiritual receptivity.
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On normal worlds the garden headquarters of the violet race becomes the second
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center of world culture and, jointly with the headquarters city of the
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Planetary Prince, sets the pace for the development of civilization. For
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centuries the city headquarters schools of the Planetary Prince and the garden
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schools of Adam and Eve are contemporary. They are usually not very far apart,
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and they work together in harmonious co-operation.
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Think what it would mean on your world if somewhere in the Levant there were a
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world center of civilization, a great planetary university of culture, which
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had functioned uninterruptedly for 37,000 years. And again, pause to consider
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how the moral authority of even such an ancient center would be reinforced were
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there situated not far distant still another and older headquarters of
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celestial ministry whose traditions would exert a cumulative force of 500,000
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years of integrated evolutionary influence. It is custom which eventually
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spreads the ideals of Eden to a whole world.
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The schools of the Planetary Prince are primarily concerned with philosophy,
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religion, morals, and the higher intellectual and artistic achievements. The
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garden schools of Adam and Eve are usually devoted to practical arts,
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fundamental intellectual training, social culture, economic development, trade
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relations, physical efficiency, and civil government. Eventually these world
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centers amalgamate, but this actual affiliation sometimes does not occur until
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the times of the first Magisterial Son.
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The continuing existence of the Planetary Adam and Eve, together with the
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pure-line nucleus of the violet race, imparts that stability of growth to
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Edenic culture by virtue of which it comes to act upon the civilization of a
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world with the compelling force of tradition. In these immortal Material Sons
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and Daughters we encounter the last and the indispensable link connecting God
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with man, bridging the almost infinite gulf between the eternal Creator and the
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lowest finite personalities of time. Here is a being of high origin who is
|
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physical, material, even a sex creature like Urantia mortals, one who can see
|
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and comprehend the invisible Planetary Prince and interpret him to the mortal
|
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creatures of the realm, for the Material Sons and Daughters are able to see all
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of the lower orders of spirit beings; they visualize the Planetary Prince and
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his entire staff, visible and invisible.
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With the passing of centuries, through the amalgamation of their progeny with
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the races of men, this same Material Son and Daughter become accepted as the
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common ancestors of mankind, the common parents of the now blended descendants
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of the evolutionary races. It is intended that mortals who start out from an
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inhabited world have the experience of recognizing seven fathers:
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1. The biologic father--the father in the flesh.
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2. The father of the realm--the Planetary Adam.
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3. The father of the spheres--the System Sovereign.
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4. The Most High Father--the Constellation Father.
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5. The universe Father--the Creator Son and supreme ruler of the local
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creations.
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6. The super-Fathers--the Ancients of Days who govern the superuniverse.
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7. The spirit or Havona Father--the Universal Father, who dwells on Paradise
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and bestows his spirit to live and work in the minds of the lowly creatures who
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inhabit the universe of universes.
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7. UNITED ADMINISTRATION
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From time to time the Avonal Sons of Paradise come to the inhabited worlds for
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judicial actions, but the first Avonal to arrive on a magisterial mission
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inaug-
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urates the fourth dispensation of an evolutionary world of time and space. On
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some planets where this Magisterial Son is universally accepted, he remains for
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one age; and thus the planet prospers under the joint rulership of three Sons:
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the Planetary Prince, the Material Son, and the Magisterial Son, the latter two
|
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being visible to all the inhabitants of the realm.
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Before the first Magisterial Son concludes his mission on a normal evolutionary
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world, there has been effected the union of the educational and administrative
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work of the Planetary Prince and the Material Son. This amalgamation of the
|
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dual supervision of a planet brings into existence a new and effective order of
|
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|
world administration. Upon the retirement of the Magisterial Son the Planetary
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Adam assumes the outward direction of the sphere. The Material Son and Daughter
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thus act jointly as planetary administrators until the settling of the world in
|
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the era of light and life; whereupon the Planetary Prince is elevated to the
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position of Planetary Sovereign. During this age of advanced evolution, Adam
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and Eve become what might be called joint prime ministers of the glorified
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realm.
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As soon as the new and consolidated capital of the evolving world has become
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well established, and just as fast as competent subordinate administrators can
|
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be properly trained, subcapitals are founded on remote land bodies and among
|
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the different peoples. Before the arrival of another dispensational Son, from
|
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fifty to one hundred of these subcenters will have been organized.
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The Planetary Prince and his staff still foster the spiritual and philosophic
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domains of activity. Adam and Eve pay particular attention to the physical,
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scientific, and economic status of the realm. Both groups equally devote their
|
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energies to the promotion of the arts, social relations, and intellectual
|
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achievements.
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By the time of the inauguration of the fifth dispensation of world affairs, a
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|
magnificent administration of planetary activities has been achieved. Mortal
|
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existence on such a well-managed sphere is indeed stimulating and profitable.
|
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And if Urantians could only observe life on such a planet, they would
|
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|
immediately appreciate the value of those things which their world has lost
|
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through embracing evil and participating in rebellion.
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[Presented by a Secondary Lanonandek Son of the Reserve Corps.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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