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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 51
THE PLANETARY ADAMS
51:0.1
DURING the dispensation of a Planetary Prince, primitive
man reaches the limit of natural evolutionary
development, and this biologic attainment signals the
System Sovereign to dispatch to such a world the second
order of sonship, the biologic uplifters. These Sons,
for there are two of them -- the Material Son and
Daughter -- are usually known on a planet as Adam and
Eve. The original Material Son of Satania is Adam, and
those who go to the system worlds as biologic uplifters
always carry the name of this first and original Son of
their unique order.
51:0.2
These Sons are the material gift of the Creator Son to
the inhabited worlds. Together with the Planetary
Prince, they remain on their planet of assignment
throughout the evolutionary course of such a sphere.
Such an adventure on a world having a Planetary Prince
is not much of a hazard, but on an apostate planet, a
realm without a spiritual ruler and deprived of
interplanetary communication, such a mission is fraught
with grave danger.
51:0.3
Although you cannot hope to know all about the work of
these Sons on all the worlds of Satania and other
systems, other papers depict more fully the life and
experiences of the interesting pair, Adam and Eve, who
came from the corps of the biologic uplifters of Jerusem
to upstep the Urantia races. While there was a
miscarriage of the ideal plans for improving your native
races, still, Adam's mission was not in vain; Urantia
has profited immeasurably from the gift of Adam and Eve,
and among their fellows and in the councils on high
their work is not reckoned as a total loss.
1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE MATERIAL SONS OF GOD
51:1.1
The material or sex Sons and Daughters are the offspring
of the Creator Son; the Universe Mother Spirit does not
participate in the production of these beings who are
destined to function as physical uplifters on the
evolutionary worlds.
51:1.2
The material order of sonship is not uniform throughout
the local universe. The Creator Son produces only one
pair of these beings in each local system; these
original pairs are diverse in nature, being attuned to
the life pattern of their respective systems. This is a
necessary provision since otherwise the reproductive
potential of the Adams would be nonfunctional with that
of the evolving mortal beings of the worlds of any one
particular system. The Adam and Eve who came to Urantia
were descended from the original Satania pair of
Material Sons.
51:1.3
Material Sons vary in height from eight to ten feet, and
their bodies glow with the brilliance of radiant light
of a violet hue. While material blood circulates through
their material bodies, they are also surcharged with
divine energy and saturated with celestial light. These
Material Sons (the Adams) and Material Daughters (the
Eves) are equal to each other, differing only in
reproductive nature and in certain chemical endowments.
They are equal but differential, male and female --
hence complemental -- and are designed to serve on
almost all assignments in pairs.
51:1.4
The Material Sons enjoy a dual nutrition; they are
really dual in nature and constitution, partaking of
materialized energy much as do the physical beings of
the realm, while their immortal existence is fully
maintained by the direct and automatic intake of certain
sustaining cosmic energies. Should they fail on some
mission of assignment or even consciously and
deliberately rebel, this order of Sons becomes isolated,
cut off from connection with the universe source of
light and life. Thereupon they become practically
material beings, destined to take the course of material
life on the world of their assignment and compelled to
look to the universe magistrates for adjudication.
Material death will eventually terminate the planetary
career of such an unfortunate and unwise Material Son or
Daughter.
51:1.5
An original or directly created Adam and Eve are
immortal by inherent endowment just as are all other
orders of local universe sonship, but a diminution of
immortality potential characterizes their sons and
daughters. This original couple cannot transmit
unconditioned immortality to their procreated sons and
daughters. Their progeny are dependent for continuing
life on unbroken intellectual synchrony with the
mind-gravity circuit of the Spirit. Since the inception
of the system of Satania, thirteen Planetary Adams have
been lost in rebellion and default and 681,204 in the
subordinate positions of trust. Most of these defections
occurred at the time of the Lucifer rebellion.
51:1.6
While living as permanent citizens on the system
capitals, even when functioning on descending missions
to the evolutionary planets, the Material Sons do not
possess Thought Adjusters, but it is through these very
services that they acquire experiential capacity for
Adjuster indwellment and the Paradise ascension career.
These unique and wonderfully useful beings are the
connecting links between the spiritual and physical
worlds. They are concentrated on the system
headquarters, where they reproduce and carry on as
material citizens of the realm, and whence they are
dispatched to the evolutionary worlds.
51:1.7
Unlike the other created Sons of planetary service, the
material order of sonship is not, by nature, invisible
to material creatures like the inhabitants of Urantia.
These Sons of God can be seen, understood, and can, in
turn, actually mingle with the creatures of time, could
even procreate with them, though this role of biologic
upliftment usually falls to the progeny of the Planetary
Adams.
51:1.8
On Jerusem the loyal children of any Adam and Eve are
immortal, but the offspring of a Material Son and
Daughter procreated subsequent to their arrival on an
evolutionary planet are not thus immune to natural
death. There occurs a change in the life-transmitting
mechanism when these Sons are rematerialized for
reproductive function on an evolutionary world. The Life
Carriers designedly deprive the Planetary Adams and Eves
of the power of begetting undying sons and daughters. If
they do not default, an Adam and Eve on a planetary
mission can live on indefinitely, but within certain
limits their children experience decreasing longevity
with each succeeding generation.
2. TRANSIT OF THE PLANETARY ADAMS
51:2.1
Upon receipt of the news that another inhabited world
has attained the height of physical evolution, the
System Sovereign convenes the corps of Material Sons and
Daughters on the system capital; and following the
discussion of the needs of such an evolutionary world,
two of the volunteering group -- an Adam and an Eve of
the senior corps of Material Sons -- are selected to
undertake the adventure, to submit to the deep sleep
preparatory to being enseraphimed and transported from
their home of associated service to the new realm of new
opportunities and new dangers.
51:2.2
Adams and Eves are semimaterial creatures and, as such,
are not transportable by seraphim. They must undergo
dematerialization on the system capital before they can
be enseraphimed for transport to the world of
assignment. The transport seraphim are able to effect
such changes in the Material Sons and in other
semimaterial beings as enable them to be enseraphimed
and thus to be transported through space from one world
or system to another. About three days of standard time
are consumed in this transport preparation, and it
requires the co-operation of a Life Carrier to restore
such a dematerialized creature to normal existence upon
arrival at the end of the seraphic-transport journey.
51:2.3
While there is this dematerializing technique for
preparing the Adams for transit from Jerusem to the
evolutionary worlds, there is no equivalent method for
taking them away from such worlds unless the entire
planet is to be emptied, in which event emergency
installation of the dematerialization technique is made
for the entire salvable population. If some physical
catastrophe should doom the planetary residence of an
evolving race, the Melchizedeks and the Life Carriers
would install the technique of dematerialization for all
survivors, and by seraphic transport these beings would
be carried away to the new world prepared for their
continuing existence. The evolution of a human race,
once initiated on a world of space, must proceed quite
independently of the physical survival of that planet,
but during the evolutionary ages it is not otherwise
intended that a Planetary Adam or Eve shall leave their
chosen world.
51:2.4
Upon arrival at their planetary destination the Material
Son and Daughter are rematerialized under the direction
of the Life Carriers. This entire process takes ten to
twenty-eight days of Urantia time. The unconsciousness
of the seraphic slumber continues throughout this entire
period of reconstruction. When the reassembly of the
physical organism is completed, these Material Sons and
Daughters stand in their new homes and on their new
worlds to all intents and purposes just as they were
before submitting to the dematerializing process on
Jerusem.
3. THE ADAMIC MISSIONS
51:3.1
On the inhabited worlds the Material Sons and Daughters
construct their own garden homes, soon being assisted by
their own children. Usually the site of the garden has
been selected by the Planetary Prince, and his corporeal
staff do much of the preliminary work of preparation
with the help of many of the higher types of native
races.
51:3.2
These Gardens of Eden are so named in honor of Edentia,
the constellation capital, and because they are
patterned after the botanic grandeur of the headquarters
world of the Most High Fathers. Such garden homes are
usually located in a secluded section and in a
near-tropic zone. They are wonderful creations on an
average world. You can judge nothing of these beautiful
centers of culture by the fragmentary account of the
aborted development of such an undertaking on Urantia.
51:3.3
A Planetary Adam and Eve are, in potential, the full
gift of physical grace to the mortal races. The chief
business of such an imported pair is to multiply and to
uplift the children of time. But there is no immediate
interbreeding between the people of the garden and those
of the world; for many generations Adam and Eve remain
biologically segregated from the evolutionary mortals
while they build up a strong race of their order. This
is the origin of the violet race on the inhabited
worlds.
51:3.4
The plans for race upstepping are prepared by the
Planetary Prince and his staff and are executed by Adam
and Eve. And this was where your Material Son and his
companion were placed at great disadvantage when they
arrived on Urantia. Caligastia offered crafty and
effective opposition to the Adamic mission; and
notwithstanding that the Melchizedek receivers of
Urantia had duly warned both Adam and Eve concerning the
planetary dangers inherent in the presence of the
rebellious Planetary Prince, this archrebel, by a wily
stratagem, outmaneuvered the Edenic pair and entrapped
them into a violation of the covenant of their
trusteeship as the visible rulers of your world. The
traitorous Planetary Prince did succeed in compromising
your Adam and Eve, but he failed in his effort to
involve them in the Lucifer rebellion.
51:3.5
The fifth order of angels, the planetary helpers, are
attached to the Adamic mission, always accompanying the
Planetary Adams on their world adventures. The corps of
initial assignment is usually about one hundred
thousand. When the work of the Urantia Adam and Eve was
prematurely launched, when they departed from the
ordained plan, it was one of the seraphic Voices of the
Garden who remonstrated with them concerning their
reprehensible conduct. And your narrative of this
occurrence well illustrates the manner in which your
planetary traditions have tended to ascribe everything
supernatural to the Lord God. Because of this, Urantians
have often become confused concerning the nature of the
Universal Father since the words and acts of all his
associates and subordinates have been so generally
attributed to him. In the case of Adam and Eve, the
angel of the Garden was none other than the chief of the
planetary helpers then on duty. This seraphim, Solonia,
proclaimed the miscarriage of the divine plan and
requisitioned the return of the Melchizedek receivers to
Urantia.
51:3.6
The secondary midway creatures are indigenous to the
Adamic missions. As with the corporeal staff of the
Planetary Prince, the descendants of the Material Sons
and Daughters are of two orders: their physical children
and the secondary order of midway creatures. These
material but ordinarily invisible planetary ministers
contribute much to the advancement of civilization and
even to the subjection of insubordinate minorities who
may seek to subvert social development and spiritual
progress.
51:3.7
The secondary midwayers should not be confused with the
primary order, who date from the near times of the
arrival of the Planetary Prince. On Urantia a majority
of these earlier midway creatures went into rebellion
with Caligastia and have, since Pentecost, been
interned. Many of the Adamic group who did not remain
loyal to the planetary administration are likewise
interned.
51:3.8
On the day of Pentecost the loyal primary and the
secondary midwayers effected a voluntary union and have
functioned as one unit in world affairs ever since. They
serve under the leadership of loyal midwayers
alternately chosen from the two groups.
51:3.9
Your world has been visited by four orders of sonship:
Caligastia, the Planetary Prince; Adam and Eve of the
Material Sons of God; Machiventa Melchizedek, the "sage
of Salem" in the days of Abraham; and Christ Michael,
who came as the Paradise bestowal Son. How much more
effective and beautiful it would have been had Michael,
the supreme ruler of the universe of Nebadon, been
welcomed to your world by a loyal and efficient
Planetary Prince and a devoted and successful Material
Son, both of whom could have done so much to enhance the
lifework and mission of the bestowal Son! But not all
worlds have been so unfortunate as Urantia, neither has
the mission of the Planetary Adams always been so
difficult or so hazardous. When they are successful,
they contribute to the development of a great people,
continuing as the visible heads of planetary affairs
even far into the age when such a world is settled in
light and life.
4. THE SIX EVOLUTIONARY RACES
51:4.1
The race of dominance during the early ages of the
inhabited worlds is the red man, who ordinarily is the
first to attain human levels of development. But while
the red man is the senior race of the planets, the
succeeding colored peoples begin to make their
appearances very early in the age of mortal emergence.
51:4.2
The earlier races are somewhat superior to the later;
the red man stands far above the indigo -- black --
race. The Life Carriers impart the full bestowal of the
living energies to the initial or red race, and each
succeeding evolutionary manifestation of a distinct
group of mortals represents variation at the expense of
the original endowment. Even mortal stature tends to
decrease from the red man down to the indigo race,
although on Urantia unexpected strains of giantism
appeared among the green and orange peoples.
51:4.3
On those worlds having all six evolutionary races the
superior peoples are the first, third, and fifth races
-- the red, the yellow, and the blue. The evolutionary
races thus alternate in capacity for intellectual growth
and spiritual development, the second, fourth, and sixth
being somewhat less endowed. These secondary races are
the peoples that are missing on certain worlds; they are
the ones that have been exterminated on many others. It
is a misfortune on Urantia that you so largely lost your
superior blue men, except as they persist in your
amalgamated "white race." The loss of your orange and
green stocks is not of such serious concern.
51:4.4
The evolution of six -- or of three -- colored races,
while seeming to deteriorate the original endowment of
the red man, provides certain very desirable variations
in mortal types and affords an otherwise unattainable
expression of diverse human potentials. These
modifications are beneficial to the progress of mankind
as a whole provided they are subsequently upstepped by
the imported Adamic or violet race. On Urantia this
usual plan of amalgamation was not extensively carried
out, and this failure to execute the plan of race
evolution makes it impossible for you to understand very
much about the status of these peoples on an average
inhabited planet by observing the remnants of these
early races on your world.
51:4.5
In the early days of racial development there is a
slight tendency for the red, the yellow, and the blue
men to interbreed; there is a similar tendency for the
orange, green, and indigo races to intermingle.
51:4.6
The more backward humans are usually employed as
laborers by the more progressive races. This accounts
for the origin of slavery on the planets during the
early ages. The orange men are usually subdued by the
red and reduced to the status of servants -- sometimes
exterminated. The yellow and red men often fraternize,
but not always. The yellow race usually enslaves the
green, while the blue man subdues the indigo. These
races of primitive men think no more of utilizing the
services of their backward fellows in compulsory labor
than Urantians would of buying and selling horses and
cattle.
51:4.7
On most normal worlds involuntary servitude does not
survive the dispensation of the Planetary Prince,
although mental defectives and social delinquents are
often still compelled to perform involuntary labor. But
on all normal spheres this sort of primitive slavery is
abolished soon after the arrival of the imported violet
or Adamic race.
51:4.8
These six evolutionary races are destined to be blended
and exalted by amalgamation with the progeny of the
Adamic uplifters. But before these peoples are blended,
the inferior and unfit are largely eliminated. The
Planetary Prince and the Material Son, with other
suitable planetary authorities, pass upon the fitness of
the reproducing strains. The difficulty of executing
such a radical program on Urantia consists in the
absence of competent judges to pass upon the biologic
fitness or unfitness of the individuals of your world
races. Notwithstanding this obstacle, it seems that you
ought to be able to agree upon the biologic
disfellowshiping of your more markedly unfit, defective,
degenerate, and antisocial stocks.
5. RACIAL AMALGAMATION -- BESTOWAL OF THE ADAMIC BLOOD
51:5.1
When a Planetary Adam and Eve arrive on an inhabited
world, they have been fully instructed by their
superiors as to the best way to effect the improvement
of the existing races of intelligent beings. The plan of
procedure is not uniform; much is left to the judgment
of the ministering pair, and mistakes are not
infrequent, especially on disordered, insurrectionary
worlds, such as Urantia.
51:5.2
Usually the violet peoples do not begin to amalgamate
with the planetary natives until their own group numbers
over one million. But in the meantime the staff of the
Planetary Prince proclaims that the children of the Gods
have come down, as it were, to be one with the races of
men; and the people eagerly look forward to the day when
announcement will be made that those who have qualified
as belonging to the superior racial strains may proceed
to the Garden of Eden and be there chosen by the sons
and daughters of Adam as the evolutionary fathers and
mothers of the new and blended order of mankind.
51:5.3
On normal worlds the Planetary Adam and Eve never mate
with the evolutionary races. This work of biologic
betterment is a function of the Adamic progeny. But
these Adamites do not go out among the races; the
prince's staff bring to the Garden of Eden the superior
men and women for voluntary mating with the Adamic
offspring. And on most worlds it is considered the
highest honor to be selected as a candidate for mating
with the sons and daughters of the garden.
51:5.4
For the first time the racial wars and other tribal
struggles are diminished, while the world races
increasingly strive to qualify for recognition and
admission to the garden. You can at best have but a very
meager idea of how this competitive struggle comes to
occupy the center of all activities on a normal planet.
This whole scheme of race improvement was early wrecked
on Urantia.
51:5.5
The violet race is a monogamous people, and every
evolutionary man or woman uniting with the Adamic sons
and daughters pledges not to take other mates and to
instruct his or her children in single-matedness. The
children of each of these unions are educated and
trained in the schools of the Planetary Prince and then
are permitted to go forth to the race of their
evolutionary parent, there to marry among the selected
groups of superior mortals.
51:5.6
When this strain of the Material Sons is added to the
evolving races of the worlds, a new and greater era of
evolutionary progress is initiated. Following this
procreative outpouring of imported ability and
superevolutionary traits there ensues a succession of
rapid strides in civilization and racial development; in
one hundred thousand years more progress is made than in
a million years of former struggle. In your world, even
in the face of the miscarriage of the ordained plans,
great progress has been made since the gift to your
peoples of Adam's life plasm.
51:5.7
But while the pure-line children of a planetary Garden
of Eden can bestow themselves upon the superior members
of the evolutionary races and thereby upstep the
biologic level of mankind, it would not prove beneficial
for the higher strains of Urantia mortals to mate with
the lower races; such an unwise procedure would
jeopardize all civilization on your world. Having failed
to achieve race harmonization by the Adamic technique,
you must now work out your planetary problem of race
improvement by other and largely human methods of
adaptation and control.
6. THE EDENIC REGIME
51:6.1
On most of the inhabited worlds the Gardens of Eden
remain as superb cultural centers and continue to
function as the social patterns of planetary conduct and
usage age after age. Even in early times when the violet
peoples are relatively segregated, their schools receive
suitable candidates from among the world races, while
the industrial developments of the garden open up new
channels of commercial intercourse. Thus do the Adams
and Eves and their progeny contribute to the sudden
expansion of culture and to the rapid improvement of the
evolutionary races of their worlds. And all of these
relationships are augmented and sealed by the
amalgamation of the evolutionary races and the sons of
Adam, resulting in the immediate upstepping of biologic
status, the quickening of intellectual potential, and
the enhancement of spiritual receptivity.
51:6.2
On normal worlds the garden headquarters of the violet
race becomes the second center of world culture and,
jointly with the headquarters city of the Planetary
Prince, sets the pace for the development of
civilization. For centuries the city headquarters
schools of the Planetary Prince and the garden schools
of Adam and Eve are contemporary. They are usually not
very far apart, and they work together in harmonious
co-operation.
51:6.3
Think what it would mean on your world if somewhere in
the Levant there were a world center of civilization, a
great planetary university of culture, which had
functioned uninterruptedly for 37,000 years. And again,
pause to consider how the moral authority of even such
an ancient center would be reinforced were there
situated not far-distant still another and older
headquarters of celestial ministry whose traditions
would exert a cumulative force of 500,000 years of
integrated evolutionary influence. It is custom which
eventually spreads the ideals of Eden to a whole world.
51:6.4
The schools of the Planetary Prince are primarily
concerned with philosophy, religion, morals, and the
higher intellectual and artistic achievements. The
garden schools of Adam and Eve are usually devoted to
practical arts, fundamental intellectual training,
social culture, economic development, trade relations,
physical efficiency, and civil government. Eventually
these world centers amalgamate, but this actual
affiliation sometimes does not occur until the times of
the first Magisterial Son.
51:6.5
The continuing existence of the Planetary Adam and Eve,
together with the pure-line nucleus of the violet race,
imparts that stability of growth to Edenic culture by
virtue of which it comes to act upon the civilization of
a world with the compelling force of tradition. In these
immortal Material Sons and Daughters we encounter the
last and the indispensable link connecting God with man,
bridging the almost infinite gulf between the eternal
Creator and the lowest finite personalities of time.
Here is a being of high origin who is physical,
material, even a sex creature like Urantia mortals, one
who can see and comprehend the invisible Planetary
Prince and interpret him to the mortal creatures of the
realm, for the Material Sons and Daughters are able to
see all of the lower orders of spirit beings; they
visualize the Planetary Prince and his entire staff,
visible and invisible.
51:6.6
With the passing of centuries, through the amalgamation
of their progeny with the races of men, this same
Material Son and Daughter become accepted as the common
ancestors of mankind, the common parents of the now
blended descendants of the evolutionary races. It is
intended that mortals who start out from an inhabited
world have the experience of recognizing seven fathers:
1. The biologic father -- the father in the flesh.
2. The father of the realm -- the Planetary Adam.
3. The father of the spheres -- the System Sovereign.
4. The Most High Father -- the Constellation Father.
5. The universe Father -- the Creator Son and supreme
ruler of the local creations.
6. The super-Fathers -- the Ancients of Days who govern
the superuniverse.
7. The spirit or Havona Father -- the Universal Father,
who dwells on Paradise and bestows his spirit to live
and work in the minds of the lowly creatures who inhabit
the universe of universes.
7. UNITED ADMINISTRATION
51:7.1
From time to time the Avonal Sons of Paradise come to
the inhabited worlds for judicial actions, but the first
Avonal to arrive on a magisterial mission inaugurates
the fourth dispensation of an evolutionary world of time
and space. On some planets where this Magisterial Son is
universally accepted, he remains for one age; and thus
the planet prospers under the joint rulership of three
Sons: the Planetary Prince, the Material Son, and the
Magisterial Son, the latter two being visible to all the
inhabitants of the realm.
51:7.2
Before the first Magisterial Son concludes his mission
on a normal evolutionary world, there has been effected
the union of the educational and administrative work of
the Planetary Prince and the Material Son. This
amalgamation of the dual supervision of a planet brings
into existence a new and effective order of world
administration. Upon the retirement of the Magisterial
Son the Planetary Adam assumes the outward direction of
the sphere. The Material Son and Daughter thus act
jointly as planetary administrators until the settling
of the world in the era of light and life; whereupon the
Planetary Prince is elevated to the position of
Planetary Sovereign. During this age of advanced
evolution, Adam and Eve become what might be called
joint prime ministers of the glorified realm.
51:7.3
As soon as the new and consolidated capital of the
evolving world has become well established, and just as
fast as competent subordinate administrators can be
properly trained, subcapitals are founded on remote land
bodies and among the different peoples. Before the
arrival of another dispensational Son, from fifty to one
hundred of these subcenters will have been organized.
51:7.4
The Planetary Prince and his staff still foster the
spiritual and philosophic domains of activity. Adam and
Eve pay particular attention to the physical,
scientific, and economic status of the realm. Both
groups equally devote their energies to the promotion of
the arts, social relations, and intellectual
achievements.
51:7.5
By the time of the inauguration of the fifth
dispensation of world affairs, a magnificent
administration of planetary activities has been
achieved. Mortal existence on such a well-managed sphere
is indeed stimulating and profitable. And if Urantians
could only observe life on such a planet, they would
immediately appreciate the value of those things which
their world has lost through embracing evil and
participating in rebellion.
51:7.6
Presented by a Secondary Lanonandek Son of the Reserve
Corps.
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