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Urantia Book Paper 62 The Dawn Races Of Early Man
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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Paper 62 The Dawn Races Of Early Man
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Introduction
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ABOUT one million years ago the immediate ancestors of mankind made their
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appearance by three successive and sudden mutations stemming from early stock
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of the lemur type of placental mammal. The dominant factors of these early
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lemurs were derived from the western or later American group of the evolving
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life plasm. But before establishing the direct line of human ancestry, this
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strain was reinforced by contributions from the central life implantation
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evolved in Africa. The eastern life group contributed little or nothing to the
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actual production of the human species.
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1. THE EARLY LEMUR TYPES
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The early lemurs concerned in the ancestry of the human species were not
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directly related to the pre-existent tribes of gibbons and apes then living in
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Eurasia and northern Africa, whose progeny have survived to the present time.
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Neither were they the offspring of the modern type of lemur, though springing
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from an ancestor common to both but long since extinct.
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While these early lemurs evolved in the Western Hemisphere, the establishment
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of the direct mammalian ancestry of mankind took place in southwestern Asia, in
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the original area of the central life implantation but on the borders of the
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eastern regions. Several million years ago the North American type lemurs had
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migrated westward over the Bering land bridge and had slowly made their way
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southwestward along the Asiatic coast. These migrating tribes finally reached
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the salubrious region lying between the then expanded Mediterranean Sea and the
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elevating mountainous regions of the Indian peninsula. In these lands to the
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west of India they united with other and favorable strains, thus establishing
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the ancestry of the human race.
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With the passing of time the seacoast of India southwest of the mountains
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gradually submerged, completely isolating the life of this region. There was no
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avenue of approach to, or escape from, this Mesopotamian or Persian peninsula
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except to the north, and that was repeatedly cut off by the southern invasions
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of the glaciers. And it was in this then almost paradisiacal area, and from the
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superior descendants of this lemur type of mammal, that there sprang two great
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groups, the simian tribes of modern times and the present-day human species.
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2. THE DAWN MAMMALS
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A little more than one million years ago the Mesopotamian dawn mammals, the
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direct descendants of the North American lemur type of placental mammal,
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suddenly appeared. They were active little creatures, almost three feet tall;
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and while they did not habitually walk on their hind legs, they could easily
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stand erect. They were hairy and agile and chattered in monkeylike fashion, but
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unlike the simian tribes, they were flesh eaters. They had a primitive
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opposable thumb as well as a highly useful grasping big toe. From this point
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onward the prehuman species successively developed the opposable thumb while
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they progressively lost the grasping power of the great toe. The later ape
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tribes retained the grasping big toe but never developed the human type of
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thumb.
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These dawn mammals attained full growth when three or four years of age, having
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a potential life span, on the average, of about twenty years. As a rule
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offspring were born singly, although twins were occasional.
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The members of this new species had the largest brains for their size of any
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animal that had theretofore existed on earth. They experienced many of the
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emotions and shared numerous instincts which later characterized primitive man,
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being highly curious and exhibiting considerable elation when successful at any
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undertaking. Food hunger and sex craving were well developed, and a definite
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sex selection was manifested in a crude form of courtship and choice of mates.
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They would fight fiercely in defense of their kindred and were quite tender in
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family associations, possessing a sense of self-abasement bordering on shame
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and remorse. They were very affectionate and touchingly loyal to their mates,
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but if circumstances separated them, they would choose new partners.
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Being small of stature and having keen minds to realize the dangers of their
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forest habitat, they developed an extraordinary fear which led to those wise
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precautionary measures that so enormously contributed to survival, such as
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their construction of crude shelters in the high treetops which eliminated many
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of the perils of ground life. The beginning of the fear tendencies of mankind
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more specifically dates from these days.
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These dawn mammals developed more of a tribal spirit than had ever been
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previously exhibited. They were, indeed, highly gregarious but nevertheless
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exceedingly pugnacious when in any way disturbed in the ordinary pursuit of
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their routine life, and they displayed fiery tempers when their anger was fully
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aroused. Their bellicose natures, however, served a good purpose; superior
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groups did not hesitate to make war on their inferior neighbors, and thus, by
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selective survival, the species was progressively improved. They very soon
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dominated the life of the smaller creatures of this region, and very few of the
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older noncarnivorous monkeylike tribes survived.
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These aggressive little animals multiplied and spread over the Mesopotamian
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peninsula for more than one thousand years, constantly improving in physical
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type and general intelligence. And it was just seventy generations after this
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new tribe had taken origin from the highest type of lemur ancestor that the
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next epoch-making development occurred--the sudden differentiation of the
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ancestors of the next vital step in the evolution of human beings on Urantia.
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3. THE MID-MAMMALS
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Early in the career of the dawn mammals, in the treetop abode of a superior
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pair of these agile creatures, twins were born, one male and one female.
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Compared with their ancestors, they were really handsome little creatures. They
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had little hair on their bodies, but this was no disability as they lived in a
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warm and equable climate.
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These children grew to be a little over four feet in height. They were in every
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way larger than their parents, having longer legs and shorter arms. They had
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almost perfectly opposable thumbs, just about as well adapted for diversified
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work as the present human thumb. They walked upright, having feet almost as
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well suited for walking as those of the later human races.
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Their brains were inferior to, and smaller than, those of human beings but very
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superior to, and comparatively much larger than, those of their ancestors. The
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twins early displayed superior intelligence and were soon recognized as the
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heads of the whole tribe of dawn mammals, really instituting a primitive form
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of social organization and a crude economic division of labor. This brother and
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sister mated and soon enjoyed the society of twenty-one children much like
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themselves, all more than four feet tall and in every way superior to the
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ancestral species. This new group formed the nucleus of the mid-mammals.
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When the numbers of this new and superior group grew great, war, relentless
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war, broke out; and when the terrible struggle was over, not a single
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individual of the pre-existent and ancestral race of dawn mammals remained
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alive. The less numerous but more powerful and intelligent offshoot of the
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species had survived at the expense of their ancestors.
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And now, for almost fifteen thousand years (six hundred generations), this
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creature became the terror of this part of the world. All of the great and
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vicious animals of former times had perished. The large beasts native to these
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regions were not carnivorous, and the larger species of the cat family, lions
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and tigers, had not yet invaded this peculiarly sheltered nook of the earth's
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surface. Therefore did these mid-mammals wax valiant and subdue the whole of
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their corner of creation.
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Compared with the ancestral species, the mid-mammals were an improvement in
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every way. Even their potential life span was longer, being about twenty-five
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years. A number of rudimentary human traits appeared in this new species. In
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addition to the innate propensities exhibited by their ancestors, these
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mid-mammals were capable of showing disgust in certain repulsive situations.
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They further possessed a well-defined hoarding instinct; they would hide food
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for subsequent use and were greatly given to the collection of smooth round
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pebbles and certain types of round stones suitable for defensive and offensive
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ammunition.
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These mid-mammals were the first to exhibit a definite construction propensity,
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as shown in their rivalry in the building of both treetop homes and their
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many-tunneled subterranean retreats; they were the first species of mammals
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ever to provide for safety in both arboreal and underground shelters. They
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largely forsook the trees as places of abode, living on the ground during the
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day and sleeping in the treetops at night.
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As time passed, the natural increase in numbers eventually resulted in serious
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food competition and sex rivalry, all of which culminated in a series of
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internecine battles that nearly destroyed the entire species. These struggles
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continued until only one group of less than one hundred individuals was left
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alive. But peace once more prevailed, and this lone surviving tribe built anew
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its treetop bedrooms and once again resumed a normal and semipeaceful
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existence.
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You can hardly realize by what narrow margins your prehuman ancestors missed
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extinction from time to time. Had the ancestral frog of all humanity jumped two
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inches less on a certain occasion, the whole course of evolution
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would have been markedly changed. The immediate lemurlike mother of the
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dawn-mammal species escaped death no less than five times by mere hairbreadth
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margins before she gave birth to the father of the new and higher mammalian
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order. But the closest call of all was when lightning struck the tree in which
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the prospective mother of the Primates twins was sleeping. Both of these
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mid-mammal parents were severely shocked and badly burned; three of their seven
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children were killed by this bolt from the skies. These evolving animals were
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almost superstitious. This couple whose treetop home had been struck were
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really the leaders of the more progressive group of the mid-mammal species; and
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following their example, more than half the tribe, embracing the more
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intelligent families, moved about two miles away from this locality and began
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the construction of new treetop abodes and new ground shelters--their transient
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retreats in time of sudden danger.
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Soon after the completion of their home, this couple, veterans of so many
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struggles, found themselves the proud parents of twins, the most interesting
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and important animals ever to have been born into the world up to that time,
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for they were the first of the new species of Primates constituting the next
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vital step in prehuman evolution.
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Contemporaneously with the birth of these Primates twins, another couple--a
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peculiarly retarded male and female of the mid-mammal tribe, a couple that were
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both mentally and physically inferior--also gave birth to twins. These twins,
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one male and one female, were indifferent to conquest; they were concerned only
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with obtaining food and, since they would not eat flesh, soon lost all interest
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in seeking prey. These retarded twins became the founders of the modern simian
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tribes. Their descendants sought the warmer southern regions with their mild
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climates and an abundance of tropical fruits, where they have continued much as
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of that day except for those branches which mated with the earlier types of
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gibbons and apes and have greatly deteriorated in consequence.
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And so it may be readily seen that man and the ape are related only in that
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they sprang from the mid-mammals, a tribe in which there occurred the
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contemporaneous birth and subsequent segregation of two pairs of twins: the
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inferior pair destined to produce the modern types of monkey, baboon,
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chimpanzee, and gorilla; the superior pair destined to continue the line of
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ascent which evolved into man himself.
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Modern man and the simians did spring from the same tribe and species but not
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from the same parents. Man's ancestors are descended from the superior strains
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of the selected remnant of this mid-mammal tribe, whereas the modern simians
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(excepting certain pre-existent types of lemurs, gibbons, apes, and other
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monkeylike creatures) are the descendants of the most inferior couple of this
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mid-mammal group, a couple who only survived by hiding themselves in a
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subterranean food-storage retreat for more than two weeks during the last
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fierce battle of their tribe, emerging only after the hostilities were well
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over.
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4. THE PRIMATES
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Going back to the birth of the superior twins, one male and one female, to the
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two leading members of the mid-mammal tribe: These animal babies were of an
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unusual order; they had still less hair on their bodies than their parents
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and, when very young, insisted on walking upright. Their ancestors had always
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learned to walk on their hind legs, but these Primates twins stood erect from
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the beginning. They attained a height of over five feet, and their heads grew
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larger in comparison with others among the tribe. While early learning to
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communicate with each other by means of signs and sounds, they were never able
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to make their people understand these new symbols.
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When about fourteen years of age, they fled from the tribe, going west to raise
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their family and establish the new species of Primates. And these new creatures
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are very properly denominated Primates since they were the direct and immediate
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animal ancestors of the human family itself.
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Thus it was that the Primates came to occupy a region on the west coast of the
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Mesopotamian peninsula as it then projected into the southern sea, while the
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less intelligent and closely related tribes lived around the peninsula point
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and up the eastern shore line.
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The Primates were more human and less animal than their mid-mammal
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predecessors. The skeletal proportions of this new species were very similar to
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those of the primitive human races. The human type of hand and foot had fully
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developed, and these creatures could walk and even run as well as any of their
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later-day human descendants. They largely abandoned tree life, though
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continuing to resort to the treetops as a safety measure at night, for like
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their earlier ancestors, they were greatly subject to fear. The increased use
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of their hands did much to develop inherent brain power, but they did not yet
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possess minds that could really be called human.
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Although in emotional nature the Primates differed little from their forebears,
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they exhibited more of a human trend in all of their propensities. They were,
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indeed, splendid and superior animals, reaching maturity at about ten years of
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age and having a natural life span of about forty years. That is, they might
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have lived that long had they died natural deaths, but in those early days very
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few animals ever died a natural death; the struggle for existence was
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altogether too intense.
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And now, after almost nine hundred generations of development, covering about
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twenty-one thousand years from the origin of the dawn mammals, the Primates
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suddenly gave birth to two remarkable creatures, the first true human beings.
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Thus it was that the dawn mammals, springing from the North American lemur
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type, gave origin to the mid-mammals, and these mid-mammals in turn produced
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the superior Primates, who became the immediate ancestors of the primitive
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human race. The Primates tribes were the last vital link in the evolution of
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man, but in less than five thousand years not a single individual of these
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extraordinary tribes was left.
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5. THE FIRST HUMAN BEINGS
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From the year A.D. 1934 back to the birth of the first two human beings is just
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993,419 years.
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These two remarkable creatures were true human beings. They possessed perfect
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human thumbs, as had many of their ancestors, while they had just as perfect
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feet as the present-day human races. They were walkers and runners, not
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climbers; the grasping function of the big toe was absent, completely absent.
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When danger drove them to the treetops, they climbed just like the humans of
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today would. They would climb up the trunk of a tree like a bear and not as
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would a chimpanzee or a gorilla, swinging up by the branches.
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These first human beings (and their descendants) reached full maturity at
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twelve years of age and possessed a potential life span of about seventy-five
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years.
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Many new emotions early appeared in these human twins. They experienced
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admiration for both objects and other beings and exhibited considerable vanity.
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But the most remarkable advance in emotional development was the sudden
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appearance of a new group of really human feelings, the worshipful group,
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embracing awe, reverence, humility, and even a primitive form of gratitude.
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Fear, joined with ignorance of natural phenomena, is about to give birth to
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primitive religion.
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Not only were such human feelings manifested in these primitive humans, but
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many more highly evolved sentiments were also present in rudimentary form. They
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were mildly cognizant of pity, shame, and reproach and were acutely conscious
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of love, hate, and revenge, being also susceptible to marked feelings of
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jealousy.
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These first two humans--the twins--were a great trial to their Primates
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parents. They were so curious and adventurous that they nearly lost their lives
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on numerous occasions before they were eight years old. As it was, they were
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rather well scarred up by the time they were twelve.
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Very early they learned to engage in verbal communication; by the age of ten
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they had worked out an improved sign and word language of almost half a hundred
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ideas and had greatly improved and expanded the crude communicative technique
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of their ancestors. But try as hard as they might, they were able to teach only
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a few of their new signs and symbols to their parents.
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When about nine years of age, they journeyed off down the river one bright day
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and held a momentous conference. Every celestial intelligence stationed on
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Urantia, including myself, was present as an observer of the transactions of
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this noontide tryst. On this eventful day they arrived at an understanding to
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live with and for each other, and this was the first of a series of such
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agreements which finally culminated in the decision to flee from their inferior
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animal associates and to journey northward, little knowing that they were thus
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to found the human race.
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While we were all greatly concerned with what these two little savages were
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planning, we were powerless to control the working of their minds; we did
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not--could not--arbitrarily influence their decisions. But within the
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permissible limits of planetary function, we, the Life Carriers, together with
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our associates, all conspired to lead the human twins northward and far from
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their hairy and partially tree-dwelling people. And so, by reason of their own
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intelligent choice, the twins did migrate, and because of our supervision they
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migrated northward to a secluded region where they escaped the possibility of
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biologic degradation through admixture with their inferior relatives of the
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Primates tribes.
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Shortly before their departure from the home forests they lost their mother in
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a gibbon raid. While she did not possess their intelligence, she did have a
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worthy mammalian affection of a high order for her offspring, and she
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fearlessly gave her life in the attempt to save the wonderful pair. Nor was her
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sacrifice in vain, for she held off the enemy until the father arrived with
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reinforcements and put the invaders to rout.
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Soon after this young couple forsook their associates to found the human race,
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their Primates father became disconsolate--he was heartbroken. He refused to
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eat, even when food was brought to him by his other children. His brilliant
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offspring having been lost, life did not seem worth living among his ordinary
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fellows; so he wandered off into the forest, was set upon by hostile gibbons
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and beaten to death.
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6. EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN MIND
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We, the Life Carriers on Urantia, had passed through the long vigil of watchful
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waiting since the day we first planted the life plasm in the planetary waters,
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and naturally the appearance of the first really intelligent and volitional
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beings brought to us great joy and supreme satisfaction.
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We had been watching the twins develop mentally through our observation of the
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functioning of the seven adjutant mind-spirits assigned to Urantia at the time
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of our arrival on the planet. Throughout the long evolutionary development of
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planetary life, these tireless mind ministers had ever registered their
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increasing ability to contact with the successively expanding brain capacities
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of the progressively superior animal creatures.
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At first only the spirit of intuition could function in the instinctive and
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reflex behavior of the primordial animal life. With the differentiation of
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higher types, the spirit of understanding was able to endow such creatures with
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the gift of spontaneous association of ideas. Later on we observed the spirit
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of courage in operation; evolving animals really developed a crude form of
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protective self-consciousness. Subsequent to the appearance of the mammalian
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groups, we beheld the spirit of knowledge manifesting itself in increased
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measure. And the evolution of the higher mammals brought the function of the
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spirit of counsel, with the resulting growth of the herd instinct and the
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beginnings of primitive social development.
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Increasingly, on down through the dawn mammals, the mid-mammals, and the
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Primates, we had observed the augmented service of the first five adjutants.
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But never had the remaining two, the highest mind ministers, been able to
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function in the Urantia type of evolutionary mind.
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Imagine our joy one day--the twins were about ten years old--when the spirit of
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worship made its first contact with the mind of the female twin and shortly
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thereafter with the male. We knew that something closely akin to human mind was
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approaching culmination; and when, about a year later, they finally resolved,
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as a result of meditative thought and purposeful decision, to flee from home
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and journey north, then did the spirit of wisdom begin to function on Urantia
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and in these two now recognized human minds.
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There was an immediate and new order of mobilization of the seven adjutant
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mind-spirits. We were alive with expectation; we realized that the
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long-waited-for hour was approaching; we knew we were upon the threshold of the
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realization of our protracted effort to evolve will creatures on Urantia.
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7. RECOGNITION AS AN INHABITED WORLD
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We did not have to wait long. At noon, the day after the runaway of the twins,
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there occurred the initial test flash of the universe circuit signals at the
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planetary reception-focus of Urantia. We were, of course, all astir with the
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realization that a great event was impending; but since this world was a
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life-experiment station, we had not the slightest idea of just how we would be
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apprised of the recognition of intelligent life on the planet. But we were not
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long in suspense. On the third day after the elopement of the twins, and before
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the Life Carrier corps departed, there arrived the Nebadon archangel of initial
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planetary circuit establishment.
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It was an eventful day on Urantia when our small group gathered about the
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planetary pole of space communication and received the first message from
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Salvington over the newly established mind circuit of the planet. And this
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first message, dictated by the chief of the archangel corps, said:
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"To the Life Carriers on Urantia--Greetings! We transmit assurance of great
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pleasure on Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem in honor of the registration on
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the headquarters of Nebadon of the signal of the existence on Urantia of mind
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of will dignity. The purposeful decision of the twins to flee northward and
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segregate their offspring from their inferior ancestors has been noted. This is
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the first decision of mind--the human type of mind--on Urantia and
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automatically establishes the circuit of communication over which this initial
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message of acknowledgment is transmitting."
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Next over this new circuit came the greetings of the Most Highs of Edentia,
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containing instructions for the resident Life Carriers forbidding us to
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interfere with the pattern of life we had established. We were directed not to
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intervene in the affairs of human progress. It should not be inferred that Life
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Carriers ever arbitrarily and mechanically interfere with the natural
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outworking of the planetary evolutionary plans, for we do not. But up to this
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time we had been permitted to manipulate the environment and shield the life
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plasm in a special manner, and it was this extraordinary, but wholly natural,
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supervision that was to be discontinued.
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And no sooner had the Most Highs left off speaking than the beautiful message
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of Lucifer, then sovereign of the Satania system, began to planetize. Now the
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Life Carriers heard the welcome words of their own chief and received his
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permission to return to Jerusem. This message from Lucifer contained the
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official acceptance of the Life Carriers' work on Urantia and absolved us from
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all future criticism of any of our efforts to improve the life patterns of
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Nebadon as established in the Satania system.
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These messages from Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem formally marked the
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termination of the Life Carriers' agelong supervision of the planet. For ages
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we had been on duty, assisted only by the seven adjutant mind-spirits and the
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Master Physical Controllers. And now, will, the power of choosing to worship
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and to ascend, having appeared in the evolutionary creatures of the planet, we
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realized that our work was finished, and our group prepared to depart. Urantia
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being a life-modification world, permission was granted to leave behind two
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senior Life Carriers with twelve assistants, and I was chosen as one of this
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group and have ever since been on Urantia.
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It is just 993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934) that Urantia was
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formally recognized as a planet of human habitation in the universe of Nebadon.
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Biologic evolution had once again achieved the human levels of will dignity;
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man had arrived on planet 606 of Satania.
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[Sponsored by a Life Carrier of Nebadon resident on Urantia.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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