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Urantia Book Paper 36 The Life Carriers
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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 36 The Life Carriers
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Introduction
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LIFE does not originate spontaneously. Life is constructed according to plans
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formulated by the (unrevealed) Architects of Being and appears on the inhabited
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planets either by direct importation or as a result of the operations of the
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Life Carriers of the local universes. These carriers of life are among the most
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interesting and versatile of the diverse family of universe Sons. They are
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intrusted with designing and carrying creature life to the planetary spheres.
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And after planting this life on such new worlds, they remain there for long
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periods to foster its development.
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1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE CARRIERS
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Though the Life Carriers belong to the family of divine sonship, they are a
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peculiar and distinct type of universe Sons, being the only group of
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intelligent life in a local universe in whose creation the rulers of a
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superuniverse participate. The Life Carriers are the offspring of three
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pre-existent personalities: the Creator Son, the Universe Mother Spirit, and,
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by designation, one of the three Ancients of Days presiding over the destinies
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of the superuniverse concerned. These Ancients of Days, who alone can decree
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the extinction of intelligent life, participate in the creation of the Life
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Carriers, who are intrusted with establishing physical life on the evolving
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worlds.
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In the universe of Nebadon we have on record the creation of one hundred
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million Life Carriers. This efficient corps of life disseminators is not a
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truly self-governing group. They are directed by the life-determining trio,
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consisting of Gabriel, the Father Melchizedek, and Nambia, the original and
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first-born Life Carrier of Nebadon. But in all phases of their divisional
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administration they are self-governing.
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Life Carriers are graded into three grand divisions: The first division is the
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senior Life Carriers, the second, assistants, and the third, custodians. The
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primary division is subdivided into twelve groups of specialists in the various
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forms of life manifestation. The segregation of these three divisions was
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effected by the Melchizedeks, who conducted tests for such purposes on the Life
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Carriers' headquarters sphere. The Melchizedeks have ever since been closely
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associated with the Life Carriers and always accompany them when they go forth
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to establish life on a new planet.
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When an evolutionary planet is finally settled in light and life, the Life
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Carriers are organized into the higher deliberative bodies of advisory capacity
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to assist in the further administration and development of the world and its
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glorified beings. In the later and settled ages of an evolving universe these
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Life Carriers are intrusted with many new duties.
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2. THE LIFE CARRIER WORLDS
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The Melchizedeks have the general oversight of the fourth group of seven
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primary spheres in the Salvington circuit. These worlds of the Life Carriers
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are designated as follows:
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1. The Life Carrier headquarters.
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2. The life-planning sphere.
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3. The life-conservation sphere.
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4. The sphere of life evolution.
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5. The sphere of life associated with mind.
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6. The sphere of mind and spirit in living beings.
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7. The sphere of unrevealed life.
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Each of these primary spheres is surrounded by six satellites, on which the
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special phases of all the Life Carrier activities in the universe are centered.
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World Number One, the headquarters sphere, together with its six tributary
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satellites, is devoted to the study of universal life, life in all of its known
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phases of manifestation. Here is located the college of life planning, wherein
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function teachers and advisers from Uversa and Havona, even from Paradise. And
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I am permitted to reveal that the seven central emplacements of the adjutant
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mind-spirits are situated on this world of the Life Carriers.
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The number ten--the decimal system--is inherent in the physical universe but
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not in the spiritual. The domain of life is characterized by three, seven, and
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twelve or by multiples and combinations of these basic numbers. There are three
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primal and essentially different life plans, after the order of the three
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Paradise Sources and Centers, and in the universe of Nebadon these three basic
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forms of life are segregated on three different types of planets. There were,
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originally, twelve distinct and divine concepts of transmissible life. This
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number twelve, with its subdivisions and multiples, runs throughout all basic
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life patterns of all seven superuniverses. There are also seven architectural
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types of life design, fundamental arrangements of the reproducing
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configurations of living matter. The Orvonton life patterns are configured as
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twelve inheritance carriers. The differing orders of will creatures are
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configured as 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, and 768. On Urantia there are
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forty-eight units of pattern control--trait determiners--in the sex cells of
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human reproduction.
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The Second World is the life-designing sphere; here all new modes of life
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organization are worked out. While the original life designs are provided by
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the Creator Son, the actual outworking of these plans is intrusted to the Life
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Carriers and their associates. When the general life plans for a new world have
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been formulated, they are transmitted to the headquarters sphere, where they
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are minutely scrutinized by the supreme council of the senior Life Carriers in
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collaboration with a corps of consulting Melchizedeks. If the plans are a
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departure from previously accepted formulas, they must be passed upon, and
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endorsed by, the Creator Son. The chief of Melchizedeks often represents the
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Creator Son in these deliberations.
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Planetary life, therefore, while similar in some respects, differs in many ways
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on each evolutionary world. Even in a uniform life series in a single family
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of worlds, life is not exactly the same on any two planets; there is always a
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planetary type, for the Life Carriers work constantly in an effort to improve
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the vital formulas committed to their keeping.
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There are over one million fundamental or cosmic chemical formulas which
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constitute the parent patterns and the numerous basic functional variations of
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life manifestations. Satellite number one of the life-planning sphere is the
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realm of the universe physicists and electrochemists who serve as technical
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assistants to the Life Carriers in the work of capturing, organizing, and
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manipulating the essential units of energy which are employed in building up
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the material vehicles of life transmission, the so-called germ plasm.
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The planetary life-planning laboratories are situated on the second satellite
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of this world number two. In these laboratories the Life Carriers and all their
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associates collaborate with the Melchizedeks in the effort to modify and
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possibly improve the life designed for implantation on the decimal planets of
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Nebadon. The life now evolving on Urantia was planned and partially worked out
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on this very world, for Urantia is a decimal planet, a life-experiment world.
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On one world in each ten a greater variance in the standard life designs is
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permitted than on the other (nonexperimental) worlds.
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World Number Three is devoted to the conservation of life. Here various modes
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of life protection and preservation are studied and developed by the assistants
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and custodians of the Life Carrier corps. The life plans for every new world
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always provide for the early establishment of the life-conservation commission,
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consisting of custodian specialists in the expert manipulation of the basic
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life patterns. On Urantia there were twenty-four such custodian commissioners,
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two for each fundamental or parent pattern of the architectural organization of
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the life material. On planets such as yours the highest form of life is
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reproduced by a life-carrying bundle which possesses twenty-four pattern units.
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(And since the intellectual life grows out of, and upon the foundation of, the
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physical, there come into existence the four and twenty basic orders of psychic
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organization.)
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Sphere Number Four and its tributary satellites are devoted to the study of the
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evolution of creature life in general and to the evolutionary antecedents of
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any one life level in particular. The original life plasm of an evolutionary
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world must contain the full potential for all future developmental variations
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and for all subsequent evolutionary changes and modifications. The provision
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for such far-reaching projects of life metamorphosis may require the appearance
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of many apparently useless forms of animal and vegetable life. Such by-products
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of planetary evolution, foreseen or unforeseen, appear upon the stage of action
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only to disappear, but in and through all this long process there runs the
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thread of the wise and intelligent formulations of the original designers of
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the planetary life plan and species scheme. The manifold by-products of
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biologic evolution are all essential to the final and full function of the
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higher intelligent forms of life, notwithstanding that great outward disharmony
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may prevail from time to time in the long upward struggle of the higher
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creatures to effect the mastery of the lower forms of life, many of which are
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sometimes so antagonistic to the peace and comfort of the evolving will
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creatures.
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Number Five World is concerned wholly with life associated with mind. Each of
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its satellites is devoted to the study of a single phase of creature mind
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correlated with creature life. Mind such as man comprehends is an endowment of
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the seven adjutant mind-spirits superimposed on the nonteachable or mechanical
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levels of mind by the agencies of the Infinite Spirit. The life patterns are
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variously responsive to these adjutants and to the different spirit ministries
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operating throughout the universes of time and space. The capacity of material
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creatures to effect spirit response is entirely dependent on the associated
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mind endowment, which, in turn, has directionized the course of the biologic
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evolution of these same mortal creatures.
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World Number Six is dedicated to the correlation of mind with spirit as they
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are associated with living forms and organisms. This world and its six
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tributaries embrace the schools of creature co-ordination, wherein teachers
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from both the central universe and the superuniverse collaborate with the
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Nebadon instructors in presenting the highest levels of creature attainment in
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time and space.
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The Seventh Sphere of the Life Carriers is dedicated to the unrevealed domains
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of evolutionary creature life as it is related to the cosmic philosophy of the
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expanding factualization of the Supreme Being.
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3. LIFE TRANSPLANTATION
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Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must
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initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and
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guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life
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of the order and forms known on Urantia arises with these Sons, though not all
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forms of planetary life are existent on Urantia.
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The corps of Life Carriers commissioned to plant life upon a new world usually
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consists of one hundred senior carriers, one hundred assistants, and one
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thousand custodians. The Life Carriers often carry actual life plasm to a new
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world, but not always. They sometimes organize the life patterns after arriving
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on the planet of assignment in accordance with formulas previously approved for
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a new adventure in life establishment. Such was the origin of the planetary
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life of Urantia.
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When, in accordance with approved formulas, the physical patterns have been
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provided, then do the Life Carriers catalyze this lifeless material, imparting
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through their persons the vital spirit spark; and forthwith do the inert
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patterns become living matter.
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The vital spark--the mystery of life--is bestowed through the Life Carriers,
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not by them. They do indeed supervise such transactions, they formulate the
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life plasm itself, but it is the Universe Mother Spirit who supplies the
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essential factor of the living plasm. From the Creative Daughter of the
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Infinite Spirit comes that energy spark which enlivens the body and presages
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the mind.
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In the bestowal of life the Life Carriers transmit nothing of their personal
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natures, not even on those spheres where new orders of life are projected. At
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such times they simply initiate and transmit the spark of life, start the
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required revolutions of matter in accordance with the physical, chemical, and
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electrical specifications of the ordained plans and patterns. Life Carriers are
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living catalytic presences which agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise
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inert elements of the material order of existence.
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The Life Carriers of a planetary corps are given a certain period in which to
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establish life on a new world, approximately one-half million years of the time
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of that planet. At the termination of this period, indicated by certain
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developmental attainments of the planetary life, they cease implantation
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efforts, and they may not subsequently add anything new or supplemental to the
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life of that planet.
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During the ages intervening between life establishment and the emergence of
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human creatures of moral status, the Life Carriers are permitted to manipulate
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the life environment and otherwise favorably directionize the course of
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biologic evolution. And this they do for long periods of time.
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When the Life Carriers operating on a new world have once succeeded in
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producing a being with will, with the power of moral decision and spiritual
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choice, then and there their work terminates--they are through; they may
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manipulate the evolving life no further. From this point forward the evolution
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of living things must proceed in accordance with the endowment of the inherent
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nature and tendencies which have already been imparted to, and established in,
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the planetary life formulas and patterns. The Life Carriers are not permitted
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to experiment or to interfere with will; they are not allowed to dominate or
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arbitrarily influence moral creatures.
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Upon the arrival of a Planetary Prince they prepare to leave, though two of the
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senior carriers and twelve custodians may volunteer, by taking temporary
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renunciation vows, to remain indefinitely on the planet as advisers in the
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matter of the further development and conservation of the life plasm. Two such
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Sons and their twelve associates are now serving on Urantia.
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4. MELCHIZEDEK LIFE CARRIERS
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In every local system of inhabited worlds throughout Nebadon there is a single
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sphere whereon the Melchizedeks have functioned as life carriers. These abodes
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are known as the system midsonite worlds, and on each of them a materially
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modified Melchizedek Son has mated with a selected Daughter of the material
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order of sonship. The Mother Eves of such midsonite worlds are dispatched from
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the system headquarters of jurisdiction, having been chosen by the designated
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Melchizedek life carrier from among the numerous volunteers who respond to the
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call of the System Sovereign addressed to the Material Daughters of his sphere.
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The progeny of a Melchizedek life carrier and a Material Daughter are known as
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midsoniters. The Melchizedek father of such a race of supernal creatures
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eventually leaves the planet of his unique life function, and the Mother Eve of
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this special order of universe beings also departs upon the appearance of the
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seventh generation of planetary offspring. The direction of such a world then
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devolves upon her eldest son.
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The midsonite creatures live and function as reproducing beings on their
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magnificent worlds until they are one thousand standard years of age; whereupon
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they are translated by seraphic transport. Midsoniters are nonreproducing
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beings thereafter because the technique of dematerialization which they pass
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through in preparation for enseraphiming forever deprives them of reproductive
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prerogatives.
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The present status of these beings can hardly be reckoned as either mortal or
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immortal, neither can they be definitely classified as human or divine. These
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creatures are not Adjuster indwelt, hence hardly immortal. But neither do they
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seem to be mortal; no midsoniter has experienced death. All midsoniters ever
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born in Nebadon are alive today, functioning on their native worlds, on some
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intervening sphere, or on the Salvington midsonite sphere in the finaliters'
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group of worlds.
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The Salvington Worlds of the Finaliters. The Melchizedek life carriers, as well
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as the associated Mother Eves, go from the system midsonite spheres to the
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finaliters' worlds of the Salvington circuit, where their offspring are also
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destined to forgather.
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It should be explained in this connection that the fifth group of seven primary
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worlds in the Salvington circuit are the Nebadon worlds of the finaliters. The
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children of the Melchizedek life carriers and the Material Daughters are
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domiciled on the seventh world of the finaliters, the Salvington midsonite
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sphere.
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The satellites of the seven primary worlds of the finaliters are the rendezvous
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of the personalities of the super- and central universes who may be executing
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assignments in Nebadon. While the ascending mortals go about freely on all of
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the cultural worlds and training spheres of the 490 worlds comprising the
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Melchizedek University, there are certain special schools and numerous
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restricted zones which they are not permitted to enter. This is especially true
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of the forty-nine spheres under the jurisdiction of the finaliters.
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The purpose of the midsonite creatures is not at present known, but it would
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appear that these personalities are forgathering on the seventh finaliter world
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in preparation for some future eventuality in universe evolution. Our inquiries
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concerning the midsonite races are always referred to the finaliters, and
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always do the finaliters decline to discuss the destiny of their wards.
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Regardless of our uncertainty as to the future of the midsoniters, we do know
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that every local universe in Orvonton harbors such an accumulating corps of
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these mysterious beings. It is the belief of the Melchizedek life carriers that
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their midsonite children will some day be endowed with the transcendental and
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eternal spirit of absonity by God the Ultimate.
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5. THE SEVEN ADJUTANT MIND-SPIRITS
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It is the presence of the seven adjutant mind-spirits on the primitive worlds
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that conditions the course of organic evolution; that explains why evolution is
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purposeful and not accidental. These adjutants represent that function of the
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mind ministry of the Infinite Spirit which is extended to the lower orders of
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intelligent life through the operations of a local universe Mother Spirit. The
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adjutants are the children of the Universe Mother Spirit and constitute her
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personal ministry to the material minds of the realms. Wherever and whenever
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such mind is manifest, these spirits are variously functioning.
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The seven adjutant mind-spirits are called by names which are the equivalents
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of the following designations: intuition, understanding, courage, knowledge,
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counsel, worship, and wisdom. These mind-spirits send forth their influence
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into all the inhabited worlds as a differential urge, each seeking receptivity
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capacity for manifestation quite apart from the degree to which its fellows may
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find reception and opportunity for function.
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The central lodgments of the adjutant spirits on the Life Carrier headquarters
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world indicate to the Life Carrier supervisors the extent and quality of
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the mind function of the adjutants on any world and in any given living
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organism of intellect status. These life-mind emplacements are perfect
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indicators of living mind function for the first five adjutants. But with
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regard to the sixth and seventh adjutant spirits--worship and wisdom--these
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central lodgments record only a qualitative function. The quantitative activity
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of the adjutant of worship and the adjutant of wisdom is registered in the
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immediate presence of the Divine Minister on Salvington, being a personal
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experience of the Universe Mother Spirit.
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The seven adjutant mind-spirits always accompany the Life Carriers to a new
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planet, but they should not be regarded as entities; they are more like
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circuits. The spirits of the seven universe adjutants do not function as
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personalities apart from the universe presence of the Divine Minister; they are
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in fact a level of consciousness of the Divine Minister and are always
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subordinate to the action and presence of their creative mother.
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We are handicapped for words adequately to designate these seven adjutant
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mind-spirits. They are ministers of the lower levels of experiential mind, and
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they may be described, in the order of evolutionary attainment, as follows:
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1. The spirit of intuition--quick perception, the primitive physical and
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inherent reflex instincts, the directional and other self-preservative
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endowments of all mind creations; the only one of the adjutants to function so
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largely in the lower orders of animal life and the only one to make extensive
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functional contact with the nonteachable levels of mechanical mind.
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2. The spirit of understanding--the impulse of co-ordination, the spontaneous
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and apparently automatic association of ideas. This is the gift of the
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co-ordination of acquired knowledge, the phenomenon of quick reasoning, rapid
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judgment, and prompt decision.
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3. The spirit of courage--the fidelity endowment--in personal beings, the basis
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of character acquirement and the intellectual root of moral stamina and
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spiritual bravery. When enlightened by facts and inspired by truth, this
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becomes the secret of the urge of evolutionary ascension by the channels of
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intelligent and conscientious self-direction.
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4. The spirit of knowledge--the curiosity-mother of adventure and discovery,
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the scientific spirit; the guide and faithful associate of the spirits of
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courage and counsel; the urge to direct the endowments of courage into useful
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and progressive paths of growth.
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5. The spirit of counsel--the social urge, the endowment of species
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co-operation; the ability of will creatures to harmonize with their fellows;
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the origin of the gregarious instinct among the more lowly creatures.
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6. The spirit of worship--the religious impulse, the first differential urge
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separating mind creatures into the two basic classes of mortal existence. The
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spirit of worship forever distinguishes the animal of its association from the
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soulless creatures of mind endowment. Worship is the badge of
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spiritual-ascension candidacy.
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7. The spirit of wisdom--the inherent tendency of all moral creatures towards
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orderly and progressive evolutionary advancement. This is the highest of the
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adjutants, the spirit co-ordinator and articulator of the work of all the
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others. This spirit is the secret of that inborn urge of mind creatures which
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initiates and maintains the practical and effective program of the ascending
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scale of existence; that gift of living things which accounts for their
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inexplicable ability to survive and, in survival, to utilize the co-ordination
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of all their past experience and present opportunities for the acquisition of
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all of everything that all of the other six mental ministers can mobilize in
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the mind of the organism concerned. Wisdom is the acme of intellectual
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performance. Wisdom is the goal of a purely mental and moral existence.
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The adjutant mind-spirits experientially grow, but they never become personal.
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They evolve in function, and the function of the first five in the animal
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orders is to a certain extent essential to the function of all seven as human
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intellect. This animal relationship makes the adjutants more practically
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effective as human mind; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to
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man's intellectual as well as to his physical evolution.
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These mind-adjutants of a local universe Mother Spirit are related to creature
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life of intelligence status much as the power centers and physical controllers
|
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are related to the nonliving forces of the universe. They perform invaluable
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service in the mind circuits on the inhabited worlds and are effective
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collaborators with the Master Physical Controllers, who also serve as
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controllers and directors of the preadjutant mind levels, the levels of
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nonteachable or mechanical mind.
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Living mind, prior to the appearance of capacity to learn from experience, is
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the ministry domain of the Master Physical Controllers. Creature mind, before
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acquiring the ability to recognize divinity and worship Deity, is the exclusive
|
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domain of the adjutant spirits. With the appearance of the spiritual response
|
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of the creature intellect, such created minds at once become superminded, being
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instantly encircuited in the spirit cycles of the local universe Mother Spirit.
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||
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The adjutant mind-spirits are in no manner directly related to the diverse and
|
||
highly spiritual function of the spirit of the personal presence of the Divine
|
||
Minister, the Holy Spirit of the inhabited worlds; but they are functionally
|
||
antecedent to, and preparatory for, the appearance of this very spirit in
|
||
evolutionary man. The adjutants afford the Universe Mother Spirit a varied
|
||
contact with, and control over, the material living creatures of a local
|
||
universe, but they do not repercuss in the Supreme Being when acting on
|
||
prepersonality levels.
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|
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Nonspiritual mind is either a spirit-energy manifestation or a physical-energy
|
||
phenomenon. Even human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart
|
||
from spirit identification. Mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not immortal
|
||
when it functions without spirit insight, and when it is devoid of the ability
|
||
to worship and crave survival.
|
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|
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6. LIVING FORCES
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|
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Life is both mechanistic and vitalistic--material and spiritual. Ever will
|
||
Urantia physicists and chemists progress in their understanding of the
|
||
protoplasmic forms of vegetable and animal life, but never will they be able to
|
||
produce living organisms. Life is something different from all energy
|
||
manifestations; even the material life of physical creatures is not inherent in
|
||
matter.
|
||
|
||
Things material may enjoy an independent existence, but life springs only from
|
||
life. Mind can be derived only from pre-existent mind. Spirit takes origin
|
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|
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only from spirit ancestors. The creature may produce the forms of life, but
|
||
only a creator personality or a creative force can supply the activating living
|
||
spark.
|
||
|
||
Life Carriers can organize the material forms, or physical patterns, of living
|
||
beings, but the Spirit provides the initial spark of life and bestows the
|
||
endowment of mind. Even the living forms of experimental life which the Life
|
||
Carriers organize on their Salvington worlds are always devoid of reproductive
|
||
powers. When the life formulas and the vital patterns are correctly assembled
|
||
and properly organized, the presence of a Life Carrier is sufficient to
|
||
initiate life, but all such living organisms are lacking in two essential
|
||
attributes--mind endowment and reproductive powers. Animal mind and human mind
|
||
are gifts of the local universe Mother Spirit, functioning through the seven
|
||
adjutant mind-spirits, while creature ability to reproduce is the specific and
|
||
personal impartation of the Universe Spirit to the ancestral life plasm
|
||
inaugurated by the Life Carriers.
|
||
|
||
When the Life Carriers have designed the patterns of life, after they have
|
||
organized the energy systems, there must occur an additional phenomenon; the
|
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"breath of life" must be imparted to these lifeless forms. The Sons of God can
|
||
construct the forms of life, but it is the Spirit of God who really contributes
|
||
the vital spark. And when the life thus imparted is spent, then again the
|
||
remaining material body becomes dead matter. When the bestowed life is
|
||
exhausted, the body returns to the bosom of the material universe from which it
|
||
was borrowed by the Life Carriers to serve as a transient vehicle for that life
|
||
endowment which they conveyed to such a visible association of energy-matter.
|
||
|
||
The life bestowed upon plants and animals by the Life Carriers does not return
|
||
to the Life Carriers upon the death of plant or animal. The departing life of
|
||
such a living thing possesses neither identity nor personality; it does not
|
||
individually survive death. During its existence and the time of its sojourn in
|
||
the body of matter, it has undergone a change; it has undergone energy
|
||
evolution and survives only as a part of the cosmic forces of the universe; it
|
||
does not survive as individual life. The survival of mortal creatures is wholly
|
||
predicated on the evolvement of an immortal soul within the mortal mind.
|
||
|
||
We speak of life as "energy" and as "force," but it is really neither.
|
||
Force-energy is variously gravity responsive; life is not. Pattern is also
|
||
nonresponsive to gravity, being a configuration of energies that have already
|
||
fulfilled all gravity-responsive obligations. Life, as such, constitutes the
|
||
animation of some pattern-configured or otherwise segregated system of
|
||
energy--material, mindal, or spiritual.
|
||
|
||
There are some things connected with the elaboration of life on the
|
||
evolutionary planets which are not altogether clear to us. We fully comprehend
|
||
the physical organization of the electrochemical formulas of the Life Carriers,
|
||
but we do not wholly understand the nature and source of the life-activation
|
||
spark. We know that life flows from the Father through the Son and by the
|
||
Spirit. It is more than possible that the Master Spirits are the sevenfold
|
||
channel of the river of life which is poured out upon all creation. But we do
|
||
not comprehend the technique whereby the supervising Master Spirit participates
|
||
in the initial episode of life bestowal on a new planet. The Ancients of Days,
|
||
we are confident, also have some part in this inauguration of life on a new
|
||
world, but we are wholly ignorant of the nature thereof. We do know that the
|
||
Universe Mother Spirit actually vitalizes the lifeless patterns and imparts to
|
||
such activated plasm the
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
||
prerogatives of organismal reproduction. We observe that these three are the
|
||
levels of God the Sevenfold, sometimes designated as the Supreme Creators of
|
||
time and space; but otherwise we know little more than Urantia mortals--simply
|
||
that concept is inherent in the Father, expression in the Son, and life
|
||
realization in the Spirit.
|
||
|
||
[Indited by a Vorondadek Son stationed on Urantia as an observer and acting in
|
||
this capacity by request of the Melchizedek Chief of the Supervising Revelatory
|
||
Corps.]
|
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|
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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
|
||
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
|
||
Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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|
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