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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 49
THE INHABITED WORLDS
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ALL mortal-inhabited worlds are evolutionary in origin
and nature. These spheres are the spawning ground, the
evolutionary cradle, of the mortal races of time and
space. Each unit of the ascendant life is a veritable
training school for the stage of existence just ahead,
and this is true of every stage of man's progressive
Paradise ascent; just as true of the initial mortal
experience on an evolutionary planet as of the final
universe headquarters school of the Melchizedeks, a
school which is not attended by ascending mortals until
just before their translation to the regime of the
superuniverse and the attainment of first-stage spirit
existence.
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All inhabited worlds are basically grouped for celestial
administration into the local systems, and each of these
local systems is limited to about one thousand
evolutionary worlds. This limitation is by the decree of
the Ancients of Days, and it pertains to actual
evolutionary planets whereon mortals of survival status
are living. Neither worlds finally settled in light and
life nor planets in the prehuman stage of life
development are reckoned in this group.
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Satania itself is an unfinished system containing only
619 inhabited worlds. Such planets are numbered serially
in accordance with their registration as inhabited
worlds, as worlds inhabited by will creatures. Thus was
Urantia given the number
606 of Satania,
meaning the 606th world in this local system on which
the long evolutionary life process culminated in the
appearance of human beings. There are thirty-six
uninhabited planets nearing the life-endowment stage,
and several are now being made ready for the Life
Carriers. There are nearly two hundred spheres which are
evolving so as to be ready for life implantation within
the next few million years.
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Not all planets are suited to harbor mortal life. Small
ones having a high rate of axial revolution are wholly
unsuited for life habitats. In several of the physical
systems of Satania the planets revolving around the
central sun are too large for habitation, their great
mass occasioning oppressive gravity. Many of these
enormous spheres have satellites, sometimes a half dozen
or more, and these moons are often in size very near
that of Urantia, so that they are almost ideal for
habitation.
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The oldest inhabited world of Satania, world number one,
is Anova, one of the forty-four satellites revolving
around an enormous dark planet but exposed to the
differential light of three neighboring suns. Anova is
in an advanced stage of progressive civilization.
1. THE PLANETARY LIFE
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The universes of time and space are gradual in
development; the progression of life -- terrestrial or
celestial -- is neither arbitrary nor magical. Cosmic
evolution may not always be understandable
(predictable), but it is strictly nonaccidental.
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The biologic unit of material life is the protoplasmic
cell, the communal association of chemical, electrical,
and other basic energies. The chemical formulas differ
in each system, and the technique of living cell
reproduction is slightly different in each local
universe, but the Life Carriers are always the living
catalyzers who initiate the primordial reactions of
material life; they are the instigators of the energy
circuits of living matter.
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All the worlds of a local system disclose unmistakable
physical kinship; nevertheless, each planet has its own
scale of life, no two worlds being exactly alike in
plant and animal endowment. These planetary variations
in the system life types result from the decisions of
the Life Carriers. But these beings are neither
capricious nor whimsical; the universes are conducted in
accordance with law and order. The laws of Nebadon are
the divine mandates of Salvington, and the evolutionary
order of life in Satania is in consonance with the
evolutionary pattern of Nebadon.
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Evolution is the rule of human development, but the
process itself varies greatly on different worlds. Life
is sometimes initiated in one center, sometimes in
three, as it was on Urantia. On the atmospheric worlds
it usually has a marine origin, but not always; much
depends on the physical status of a planet. The Life
Carriers have great latitude in their function of life
initiation.
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In the development of planetary life the vegetable form
always precedes the animal and is quite fully developed
before the animal patterns differentiate. All animal
types are developed from the basic patterns of the
preceding vegetable kingdom of living things; they are
not separately organized.
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The early stages of life evolution are not altogether in
conformity with your present-day views.
Mortal man is not
an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system,
a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the
planetary life plan on the spheres of space. Time and
the production of large numbers of a species are not the
controlling influences. Mice reproduce much more rapidly
than elephants, yet elephants evolve more rapidly than
mice.
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The process of planetary evolution is orderly and
controlled. The development of higher organisms from
lower groupings of life is not accidental. Sometimes
evolutionary progress is temporarily delayed by the
destruction of certain favorable lines of life plasm
carried in a selected species. It often requires ages
upon ages to recoup the damage occasioned by the loss of
a single superior strain of human heredity. These
selected and superior strains of living protoplasm
should be jealously and intelligently guarded when once
they make their appearance. And on most of the inhabited
worlds these superior potentials of life are valued much
more highly than on Urantia.
2. PLANETARY PHYSICAL TYPES
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There is a standard and basic pattern of vegetable and
animal life in each system. But the Life Carriers are
oftentimes confronted with the necessity of modifying
these basic patterns to conform to the varying physical
conditions which confront them on numerous worlds of
space. They foster a generalized system type of mortal
creature, but there are seven distinct physical types as
well as thousands upon thousands of minor variants of
these seven outstanding differentiations:
1. Atmospheric types.
2. Elemental types.
3. Gravity types.
4. Temperature types.
5. Electric types.
6. Energizing types.
7. Unnamed types.
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The Satania system contains all of these types and
numerous intermediate groups, although some are very
sparingly represented.
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1. The
atmospheric types. The physical differences of the
worlds of mortal habitation are chiefly determined by
the nature of the atmosphere; other influences which
contribute to the planetary differentiation of life are
relatively minor.
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The present atmospheric status of Urantia is almost
ideal for the support of the breathing type of man, but
the human type can be so modified that it can live on
both the superatmospheric and the subatmospheric
planets. Such modifications also extend to the animal
life, which differs greatly on the various inhabited
spheres. There is a very great modification of animal
orders on both the sub- and the superatmospheric worlds.
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Of the atmospheric types in Satania, about two and
one-half per cent are subbreathers, about five per cent
superbreathers, and over ninety-one per cent are
mid-breathers, altogether accounting for ninety-eight
and one-half per cent of the Satania worlds.
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Beings such as the Urantia races are classified as
mid-breathers; you represent the average or typical
breathing order of mortal existence. If intelligent
creatures should exist on a planet with an atmosphere
similar to that of your near neighbor, Venus, they would
belong to the superbreather group, while those
inhabiting a planet with an atmosphere as thin as that
of your outer neighbor, Mars, would be denominated
subbreathers.
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If mortals should inhabit a planet devoid of air, like
your moon, they would belong to the separate order of
nonbreathers. This type represents a radical or extreme
adjustment to the planetary environment and is
separately considered. Nonbreathers account for the
remaining one and one-half per cent of Satania worlds.
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2. The elemental
types. These differentiations have to do with the
relation of mortals to water, air, and land, and there
are four distinct species of intelligent life as they
are related to these habitats. The Urantia races are of
the land order.
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It is quite impossible for you to envisage the
environment which prevails during the early ages of some
worlds. These unusual conditions make it necessary for
the evolving animal life to remain in its marine nursery
habitat for longer periods than on those planets which
very early provide a hospitable land-and-atmosphere
environment. Conversely, on some worlds of the
superbreathers, when the planet is not too large, it is
sometimes expedient to provide for a mortal type which
can readily negotiate atmospheric passage. These air
navigators sometimes intervene between the water and
land groups, and they always live in a measure upon the
ground, eventually evolving into land dwellers. But on
some worlds, for ages they continue to fly even after
they have become land-type beings.
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It is both amazing and amusing to observe the early
civilization of a primitive race of human beings taking
shape, in one case, in the air and treetops and, in
another, midst the shallow waters of sheltered tropic
basins, as well as on the bottom, sides, and shores of
these marine gardens of the dawn races of such
extraordinary spheres. Even on Urantia there was a long
age during which primitive man preserved himself and
advanced his primitive civilization by living for the
most part in the treetops as did his earlier arboreal
ancestors. And on Urantia you still have a group of
diminutive mammals (the bat family) that are air
navigators, and your seals and whales, of marine
habitat, are also of the mammalian order.
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In Satania, of the elemental types, seven per cent are
water, ten per cent air, seventy per cent land, and
thirteen per cent combined land-and-air types. But these
modifications of early intelligent creatures are neither
human fishes nor human birds. They are of the human and
prehuman types, neither superfishes nor glorified birds
but distinctly mortal.
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3. The gravity
types. By modification of creative design,
intelligent beings are so constructed that they can
freely function on spheres both smaller and larger than
Urantia, thus being, in measure, accommodated to the
gravity of those planets which are not of ideal size and
density.
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The various planetary types of mortals vary in height,
the average in Nebadon being a trifle under seven feet.
Some of the larger worlds are peopled with beings who
are only about two and one-half feet in height. Mortal
stature ranges from here on up through the average
heights on the average-sized planets to around ten feet
on the smaller inhabited spheres. In Satania there is
only one race under four feet in height. Twenty per cent
of the Satania inhabited worlds are peopled with mortals
of the modified gravity types occupying the larger and
the smaller planets.
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4. The
temperature types. It is possible to create living
beings who can withstand temperatures both much higher
and much lower than the life range of the Urantia races.
There are five distinct orders of beings as they are
classified with reference to heat-regulating mechanisms.
In this scale the Urantia races are number three. Thirty
per cent of Satania worlds are peopled with races of
modified temperature types. Twelve per cent belong to
the higher temperature ranges, eighteen per cent to the
lower, as compared with Urantians, who function in the
mid-temperature group.
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5. The electric
types. The electric, magnetic, and electronic
behavior of the worlds varies greatly. There are ten
designs of mortal life variously fashioned to withstand
the differential energy of the spheres. These ten
varieties also react in slightly different ways to the
chemical rays of ordinary sunlight. But these slight
physical variations in no way affect the intellectual or
the spiritual life.
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Of the electric groupings of mortal life, almost
twenty-three per cent belong to class number four, the
Urantia type of existence. These types are distributed
as follows: number 1, one per cent; number 2, two per
cent; number 3, five per cent; number 4, twenty-three
per cent; number 5, twenty-seven per cent; number 6,
twenty-four per cent; number 7, eight per cent; number
8, five per cent; number 9, three per cent; number 10,
two per cent -- in whole percentages.
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6. The energizing
types. Not all worlds are alike in the manner of
taking in energy. Not all inhabited worlds have an
atmospheric ocean suited to respiratory exchange of
gases, such as is present on Urantia. During the earlier
and the later stages of many planets, beings of your
present order could not exist; and when the respiratory
factors of a planet are very high or very low, but when
all other prerequisites to intelligent life are
adequate, the Life Carriers often establish on such
worlds a modified form of mortal existence, beings who
are competent to effect their life-process exchanges
directly by means of light-energy and the firsthand
power transmutations of the Master Physical Controllers.
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There are six differing types of animal and mortal
nutrition: The subbreathers employ the first type of
nutrition, the marine dwellers the second, the
mid-breathers the third, as on Urantia. The
superbreathers employ the fourth type of energy intake,
while the nonbreathers utilize the fifth order of
nutrition and energy. The sixth technique of energizing
is limited to the midway creatures.
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7. The unnamed
types. There are numerous additional physical
variations in planetary life, but all of these
differences are wholly matters of anatomical
modification, physiologic differentiation, and
electrochemical adjustment. Such distinctions do not
concern the intellectual or the spiritual life.
3. WORLDS OF THE NONBREATHERS
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The majority of inhabited planets are peopled with the
breathing type of intelligent beings. But there are also
orders of mortals who are able to live on worlds with
little or no air. Of the Orvonton inhabited worlds this
type amounts to less than seven per cent. In Nebadon
this percentage is less than three. In all Satania there
are only nine such worlds.
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There are so very few of the nonbreather type of
inhabited worlds in Satania because this more recently
organized section of Norlatiadek still abounds in
meteoric space bodies; and worlds without a protective
friction atmosphere are subject to incessant bombardment
by these wanderers. Even some of the comets consist of
meteor swarms, but as a rule they are disrupted smaller
bodies of matter.
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Millions upon millions of meteorites enter the
atmosphere of Urantia daily, coming in at the rate of
almost two hundred miles a second. On the nonbreathing
worlds the advanced races must do much to protect
themselves from meteor damage by making electrical
installations which operate to consume or shunt the
meteors. Great danger confronts them when they venture
beyond these protected zones. These worlds are also
subject to disastrous electrical storms of a nature
unknown on Urantia. During such times of tremendous
energy fluctuation the inhabitants must take refuge in
their special structures of protective insulation.
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Life on the worlds of the nonbreathers is radically
different from what it is on Urantia. The nonbreathers
do not eat food or drink water as do the Urantia races.
The reactions of the nervous system, the heat-regulating
mechanism, and the metabolism of these specialized
peoples are radically different from such functions of
Urantia mortals. Almost every act of living, aside from
reproduction, differs, and even the methods of
procreation are somewhat different.
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On the nonbreathing worlds the animal species are
radically unlike those found on the atmospheric planets.
The nonbreathing plan of life varies from the technique
of existence on an atmospheric world; even in survival
their peoples differ, being candidates for Spirit
fusion. Nevertheless, these beings enjoy life and carry
forward the activities of the realm with the same
relative trials and joys that are experienced by the
mortals living on atmospheric worlds. In mind and
character the nonbreathers do not differ from other
mortal types.
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You would be more than interested in the planetary
conduct of this type of mortal because such a race of
beings inhabits a sphere in close proximity to Urantia.
4. EVOLUTIONARY WILL CREATURES
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There are great differences between the mortals of the
different worlds, even among those belonging to the same
intellectual and physical types, but all mortals of will
dignity are erect animals, bipeds.
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There are six basic evolutionary races: three primary --
red, yellow, and blue; and three secondary -- orange,
green, and indigo. Most inhabited worlds have all of
these races, but many of the three-brained planets
harbor only the three primary types. Some local systems
also have only these three races.
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The average special physical-sense endowment of human
beings is twelve, though the special senses of the
three-brained mortals are extended slightly beyond those
of the one- and two-brained types; they can see and hear
considerably more than the Urantia races.
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Young are usually born singly, multiple births being the
exception, and the family life is fairly uniform on all
types of planets. Sex equality prevails on all advanced
worlds; male and female are equal in mind endowment and
spiritual status. We do not regard a planet as having
emerged from barbarism so long as one sex seeks to
tyrannize over the other. This feature of creature
experience is always greatly improved after the arrival
of a Material Son and Daughter.
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Seasons and temperature variations occur on all
sunlighted and sun-heated planets. Agriculture is
universal on all atmospheric worlds; tilling the soil is
the one pursuit that is common to the advancing races of
all such planets.
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Mortals all have the same general struggles with
microscopic foes in their early days, such as you now
experience on Urantia, though perhaps not so extensive.
The length of life varies on the different planets from
twenty-five years on the primitive worlds to near five
hundred on the more advanced and older spheres.
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Human beings are all gregarious, both tribal and racial.
These group segregations are inherent in their origin
and constitution. Such tendencies can be modified only
by advancing civilization and by gradual
spiritualization. The social, economic, and governmental
problems of the inhabited worlds vary in accordance with
the age of the planets and the degree to which they have
been influenced by the successive sojourns of the divine
Sons.
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Mind is the bestowal of the Infinite Spirit and
functions quite the same in diverse environments. The
mind of mortals is akin, regardless of certain
structural and chemical differences which characterize
the physical natures of the will creatures of the local
systems. Regardless of personal or physical planetary
differences, the mental life of all these various orders
of mortals is very similar, and their immediate careers
after death are very much alike.
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But mortal mind without immortal spirit cannot survive.
The mind of man is mortal; only the bestowed spirit is
immortal. Survival is dependent on spiritualization by
the ministry of the Adjuster -- on the birth and
evolution of the immortal soul; at least, there must not
have developed an antagonism towards the Adjuster's
mission of effecting the spiritual transformation of the
material mind.
5. THE PLANETARY SERIES OF MORTALS
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It will be somewhat difficult to make an adequate
portrayal of the planetary series of mortals because you
know so little about them, and because there are so many
variations. Mortal creatures may, however, be studied
from numerous viewpoints, among which are the following:
1. Adjustment to planetary environment.
2. Brain-type series.
3. Spirit-reception series.
4. Planetary-mortal epochs.
5. Creature-kinship serials.
6. Adjuster-fusion series.
7. Techniques of terrestrial escape.
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The inhabited spheres of the seven superuniverses are
peopled with mortals who simultaneously classify in some
one or more categories of each of these seven
generalized classes of evolutionary creature life. But
even these general classifications make no provision for
such beings as midsoniters nor for certain other forms
of intelligent life. The inhabited worlds, as they have
been presented in these narratives, are peopled with
evolutionary mortal creatures, but there are other life
forms.
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1. Adjustment to
planetary environment. There are three general
groups of inhabited worlds from the standpoint of the
adjustment of creature life to the planetary
environment: the normal adjustment group, the radical
adjustment group, and the experimental group.
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Normal adjustments to planetary conditions follow the
general physical patterns previously considered. The
worlds of the nonbreathers typify the radical or extreme
adjustment, but other types are also included in this
group. Experimental worlds are usually ideally adapted
to the typical life forms, and on these decimal planets
the Life Carriers attempt to produce beneficial
variations in the standard life designs. Since your
world is an experimental planet, it differs markedly
from its sister spheres in Satania; many forms of life
have appeared on Urantia that are not found elsewhere;
likewise are many common species absent from your
planet.
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In the universe of Nebadon, all the life-modification
worlds are serially linked together and constitute a
special domain of universe affairs which is given
attention by designated administrators; and all of these
experimental worlds are periodically inspected by a
corps of universe directors whose chief is the veteran
finaliter known in Satania as Tabamantia.
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2. Brain-type
series. The one physical uniformity of mortals is
the brain and nervous system; nevertheless, there are
three basic organizations of the brain mechanism: the
one-, the two-, and the three-brained types. Urantians
are of the two-brained type, somewhat more imaginative,
adventurous, and philosophical than the one-brained
mortals but somewhat less spiritual, ethical, and
worshipful than the three-brained orders. These brain
differences characterize even the prehuman animal
existences.
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From the two-hemisphere type of the Urantian cerebral
cortex you can, by analogy, grasp something of the
one-brained type. The third brain of the three-brained
orders is best conceived as an evolvement of your lower
or rudimentary form of brain, which is developed to the
point where it functions chiefly in control of physical
activities, leaving the two superior brains free for
higher engagements: one for intellectual functions and
the other for the spiritual-counterparting activities of
the Thought Adjuster.
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While the terrestrial attainments of the one-brained
races are slightly limited in comparison with the
two-brained orders, the older planets of the
three-brained group exhibit civilizations that would
astound Urantians, and which would somewhat shame yours
by comparison. In mechanical development and material
civilization, even in intellectual progress, the
two-brained mortal worlds are able to equal the
three-brained spheres. But in the higher control of mind
and development of intellectual and spiritual
reciprocation, you are somewhat inferior.
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All such comparative estimates concerning the
intellectual progress or the spiritual attainments of
any world or group of worlds should in fairness
recognize planetary age; much, very much, depends on
age, the help of the biologic uplifters, and the
subsequent missions of the various orders of the divine
Sons.
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While the three-brained peoples are capable of a
slightly higher planetary evolution than either the one-
or two-brained orders, all have the same type of life
plasm and carry on planetary activities in very similar
ways, much as do human beings on Urantia. These three
types of mortals are distributed throughout the worlds
of the local systems. In the majority of cases planetary
conditions had very little to do with the decisions of
the Life Carriers to project these varied orders of
mortals on the different worlds; it is a prerogative of
the Life Carriers thus to plan and execute.
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These three orders stand on an equal footing in the
ascension career. Each must traverse the same
intellectual scale of development, and each must master
the same spiritual tests of progression. The system
administration and the constellation overcontrol of
these different worlds are uniformly free from
discrimination; even the regimes of the Planetary
Princes are identical.
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3.
Spirit-reception series. There are three groups of
mind design as related to contact with spirit affairs.
This classification does not refer to the one-, two-,
and three-brained orders of mortals; it refers primarily
to gland chemistry, more particularly to the
organization of certain glands comparable to the
pituitary bodies. The races on some worlds have one
gland, on others two, as do Urantians, while on still
other spheres the races have three of these unique
bodies. The inherent imagination and spiritual
receptivity is definitely influenced by this
differential chemical endowment.
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Of the spirit-reception types, sixty-five per cent are
of the second group, like the Urantia races. Twelve per
cent are of the first type, naturally less receptive,
while twenty-three per cent are more spiritually
inclined during terrestrial life. But such distinctions
do not survive natural death; all of these racial
differences pertain only to the life in the flesh.
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4.
Planetary-mortal epochs. This classification
recognizes the succession of temporal dispensations as
they affect man's terrestrial status and his reception
of celestial ministry.
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Life is initiated on the planets by the Life Carriers,
who watch over its development until sometime after the
evolutionary appearance of mortal man. Before the Life
Carriers leave a planet, they duly install a Planetary
Prince as ruler of the realm. With this ruler there
arrives a full quota of subordinate auxiliaries and
ministering helpers, and the first adjudication of the
living and the dead is simultaneous with his arrival.
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With the emergence of human groupings, this Planetary
Prince arrives to inaugurate human civilization and to
focalize human society. Your world of confusion is no
criterion of the early days of the reign of the
Planetary Princes, for it was near the beginning of such
an administration on Urantia that your Planetary Prince,
Caligastia, cast his lot with the rebellion of the
System Sovereign, Lucifer. Your planet has pursued a
stormy course ever since.
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On a normal evolutionary world, racial progress attains
its natural biologic peak during the regime of the
Planetary Prince, and shortly thereafter the System
Sovereign dispatches a Material Son and Daughter to that
planet. These imported beings are of service as biologic
uplifters; their default on Urantia further complicated
your planetary history.
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When the intellectual and ethical progress of a human
race has reached the limits of evolutionary development,
there comes an Avonal Son of Paradise on a magisterial
mission; and later on, when the spiritual status of such
a world is nearing its limit of natural attainment, the
planet is visited by a Paradise bestowal Son. The chief
mission of a bestowal Son is to establish the planetary
status, release the Spirit of Truth for planetary
function, and thus effect the universal coming of the
Thought Adjusters.
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Here, again, Urantia deviates: There has never been a
magisterial mission on your world, neither was your
bestowal Son of the Avonal order; your planet enjoyed
the signal honor of becoming the mortal home planet of
the Sovereign Son, Michael of Nebadon.
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As a result of the ministry of all the successive orders
of divine sonship, the inhabited worlds and their
advancing races begin to approach the apex of planetary
evolution. Such worlds now become ripe for the
culminating mission, the arrival of the Trinity Teacher
Sons. This epoch of the Teacher Sons is the vestibule to
the final planetary age -- evolutionary utopia -- the
age of light and life.
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This classification of human beings will receive
particular attention in a succeeding paper.
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5.
Creature-kinship serials. Planets are not only
organized vertically into systems, constellations, and
so on, but the universe administration also provides for
horizontal groupings according to type, series, and
other relationships. This lateral administration of the
universe pertains more particularly to the co-ordination
of activities of a kindred nature which have been
independently fostered on different spheres. These
related classes of universe creatures are periodically
inspected by certain composite corps of high
personalities presided over by long-experienced
finaliters.
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These kinship factors are manifest on all levels, for
kinship serials exist among nonhuman personalities as
well as among mortal creatures -- even between human and
superhuman orders. Intelligent beings are vertically
related in twelve great groups of seven major divisions
each. The co-ordination of these uniquely related groups
of living beings is probably effected by some not fully
comprehended technique of the Supreme Being.
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6.
Adjuster-fusion series. The spiritual classification
or grouping of all mortals during their prefusion
experience is wholly determined by the relation of the
personality status to the indwelling Mystery Monitor.
Almost ninety per cent of the inhabited worlds of
Nebadon are peopled with Adjuster-fusion mortals in
contrast with a near-by universe where scarcely more
than one half of the worlds harbor beings who are
Adjuster-indwelt candidates for eternal fusion.
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7. Techniques of
terrestrial escape. There is fundamentally only one
way in which individual human life can be initiated on
the inhabited worlds, and that is through creature
procreation and natural birth; but there are numerous
techniques whereby man escapes his terrestrial status
and gains access to the inward moving stream of Paradise
ascenders.
6. TERRESTRIAL ESCAPE
49:6.1
All of the differing physical types and planetary series
of mortals alike enjoy the ministry of Thought
Adjusters, guardian angels, and the various orders of
the messenger hosts of the Infinite Spirit. All alike
are liberated from the bonds of flesh by the
emancipation of natural death, and all alike go thence
to the morontia worlds of spiritual evolution and mind
progress.
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From time to time, on motion of the planetary
authorities or the system rulers, special resurrections
of the sleeping survivors are conducted. Such
resurrections occur at least every millennium of
planetary time, when not all but "many of those who
sleep in the dust awake." These special resurrections
are the occasion for mobilizing special groups of
ascenders for specific service in the local universe
plan of mortal ascension. There are both practical
reasons and sentimental associations connected with
these special resurrections.
49:6.3
Throughout the earlier ages of an inhabited world, many
are called to the mansion spheres at the special and the
millennial resurrections, but most survivors are
repersonalized at the inauguration of a new dispensation
associated with the advent of a divine Son of planetary
service.
49:6.4
1. Mortals of the
dispensational or group order of survival. With the
arrival of the first Adjuster on an inhabited world the
guardian seraphim also make their appearance; they are
indispensable to terrestrial escape. Throughout the
life-lapse period of the sleeping survivors the
spiritual values and eternal realities of their newly
evolved and immortal souls are held as a sacred trust by
the personal or by the group guardian seraphim.
49:6.5
The group guardians of assignment to the sleeping
survivors always function with the judgment Sons on
their world advents. "He shall send his angels, and they
shall gather together his elect from the four winds."
With each seraphim of assignment to the
repersonalization of a sleeping mortal there functions
the returned Adjuster, the same immortal Father fragment
that lived in him during the days in the flesh, and thus
is identity restored and personality resurrected. During
the sleep of their subjects these waiting Adjusters
serve on Divinington; they never indwell another mortal
mind in this interim.
49:6.6
While the older worlds of mortal existence harbor those
highly developed and exquisitely spiritual types of
human beings who are virtually exempt from the morontia
life, the earlier ages of the animal-origin races are
characterized by primitive mortals who are so immature
that fusion with their Adjusters is impossible. The
reawakening of these mortals is accomplished by the
guardian seraphim in conjunction with an individualized
portion of the immortal spirit of the Third Source and
Center.
49:6.7
Thus are the sleeping survivors of a planetary age
repersonalized in the dispensational roll calls. But
with regard to the nonsalvable personalities of a realm,
no immortal spirit is present to function with the group
guardians of destiny, and this constitutes cessation of
creature existence. While some of your records have
pictured these events as taking place on the planets of
mortal death, they all really occur on the mansion
worlds.
49:6.8
2. Mortals of the
individual orders of ascension. The individual
progress of human beings is measured by their successive
attainment and traversal (mastery) of the seven cosmic
circles. These circles of mortal progression are levels
of associated intellectual, social, spiritual, and
cosmic-insight values. Starting out in the seventh
circle, mortals strive for the first, and all who have
attained the third immediately have personal guardians
of destiny assigned to them. These mortals may be
repersonalized in the morontia life independent of
dispensational or other adjudications.
49:6.9
Throughout the earlier ages of an evolutionary world,
few mortals go to judgment on the third day. But as the
ages pass, more and more the personal guardians of
destiny are assigned to the advancing mortals, and thus
increasing numbers of these evolving creatures are
repersonalized on the first mansion world on the third
day after natural death. On such occasions the return of
the Adjuster signalizes the awakening of the human soul,
and this is the repersonalization of the dead just as
literally as when the en masse roll is called at the end
of a dispensation on the evolutionary worlds.
49:6.10
There are three groups of individual ascenders: The less
advanced land on the initial or first mansion world. The
more advanced group may take up the morontia career on
any of the intermediate mansion worlds in accordance
with previous planetary progression. The most advanced
of these orders really begin their morontia experience
on the seventh mansion world.
49:6.11
3. Mortals of the
probationary-dependent orders of ascension. The
arrival of an Adjuster constitutes identity in the eyes
of the universe, and all indwelt beings are on the roll
calls of justice. But temporal life on the evolutionary
worlds is uncertain, and many die in youth before
choosing the Paradise career. Such Adjuster-indwelt
children and youths follow the parent of most advanced
spiritual status, thus going to the system finaliter
world (the probationary nursery) on the third day, at a
special resurrection, or at the regular millennial and
dispensational roll calls.
49:6.12
Children who die when too young to have Thought
Adjusters are repersonalized on the finaliter world of
the local systems concomitant with the arrival of either
parent on the mansion worlds. A child acquires physical
entity at mortal birth, but in the matter of survival
all Adjusterless children are reckoned as still attached
to their parents.
49:6.13
In due course Thought Adjusters come to indwell these
little ones, while the seraphic ministry to both groups
of the probationary-dependent orders of survival is in
general similar to that of the more advanced parent or
is equivalent to that of the parent in case only one
survives. Those attaining the third circle, regardless
of the status of their parents, are accorded personal
guardians.
49:6.14
Similar probation nurseries are maintained on the
finaliter spheres of the constellation and the universe
headquarters for the Adjusterless children of the
primary and secondary modified orders of ascenders.
49:6.15
4. Mortals of the
secondary modified orders of ascension. These are
the progressive human beings of the intermediate
evolutionary worlds. As a rule they are not immune to
natural death, but they are exempt from passing through
the seven mansion worlds.
49:6.16
The less perfected group reawaken on the headquarters of
their local system, passing by only the mansion worlds.
The intermediate group go to the constellation training
worlds; they pass by the entire morontia regime of the
local system. Still farther on in the planetary ages of
spiritual striving, many survivors awaken on the
constellation headquarters and there begin the Paradise
ascent.
49:6.17
But before any of these groups may go forward, they must
journey back as instructors to the worlds they missed,
gaining many experiences as teachers in those realms
which they passed by as students. They all subsequently
proceed to Paradise by the ordained routes of mortal
progression.
49:6.18
5. Mortals of the
primary modified order of ascension. These mortals
belong to the Adjuster-fused type of evolutionary life,
but they are most often representative of the final
phases of human development on an evolving world. These
glorified beings are exempt from passing through the
portals of death; they are submitted to Son seizure;
they are translated from among the living and appear
immediately in the presence of the Sovereign Son on the
headquarters of the local universe.
49:6.19
These are the mortals who fuse with their Adjusters
during mortal life, and such Adjuster-fused
personalities traverse space freely before being clothed
with morontia forms. These fused souls go by direct
Adjuster transit to the resurrection halls of the higher
morontia spheres, where they receive their initial
morontia investiture just as do all other mortals
arriving from the evolutionary worlds.
49:6.20
This primary modified order of mortal ascension may
apply to individuals in any of the planetary series from
the lowest to the highest stages of the Adjuster-fusion
worlds, but it more frequently functions on the older of
these spheres after they have received the benefits of
numerous sojourns of the divine Sons.
49:6.21
With the establishment of the planetary era of light and
life, many go to the universe morontia worlds by the
primary modified order of translation. Further along in
the advanced stages of settled existence, when the
majority of the mortals leaving a realm are embraced in
this class, the planet is regarded as belonging to this
series. Natural death becomes decreasingly frequent on
these spheres long settled in light and life.
49:6.22
Presented by a Melchizedek of the Jerusem School of
Planetary Administration.
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