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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 64
THE EVOLUTIONARY RACES OF COLOR
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THIS is the story of the evolutionary races of Urantia
from the days of Andon and Fonta, almost one million
years ago, down through the times of the Planetary
Prince to the end of the ice age.
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The human race is almost one million years old, and the
first half of its story roughly corresponds to the
pre-Planetary Prince days of Urantia. The latter half of
the history of mankind begins at the time of the arrival
of the Planetary Prince and the appearance of the six
colored races and roughly corresponds to the period
commonly regarded as the Old Stone Age.
1. THE ANDONIC ABORIGINES
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Primitive man made his evolutionary appearance on earth
a little less than one million years ago, and he had a
vigorous experience. He instinctively sought to escape
the danger of mingling with the inferior simian tribes.
But he could not migrate eastward because of the arid
Tibetan land elevations, 30,000 feet above sea level;
neither could he go south nor west because of the
expanded Mediterranean Sea, which then extended eastward
to the Indian Ocean; and as he went north, he
encountered the advancing ice. But even when further
migration was blocked by the ice, and though the
dispersing tribes became increasingly hostile, the more
intelligent groups never entertained the idea of going
southward to live among their hairy tree-dwelling
cousins of inferior intellect.
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Many of man's earliest religious emotions grew out of
his feeling of helplessness in the shut-in environment
of this geographic situation -- mountains to the right,
water to the left, and ice in front. But these
progressive Andonites would not turn back to their
inferior tree-dwelling relatives in the south.
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These Andonites avoided the forests in contrast with the
habits of their nonhuman relatives. In the forests man
has always deteriorated; human evolution has made
progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes.
The cold and hunger of the open lands stimulate action,
invention, and resourcefulness. While these Andonic
tribes were developing the pioneers of the present human
race amidst the hardships and privations of these rugged
northern climes, their backward cousins were luxuriating
in the southern tropical forests of the land of their
early common origin.
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These events occurred during the times of the third
glacier, the first according to the reckoning of
geologists. The first two glaciers were not extensive in
northern Europe.
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During most of the ice age England was connected by land
with France, while later on Africa was joined to Europe
by the Sicilian land bridge. At the time of the Andonic
migrations there was a continuous land path from England
in the west on through Europe and Asia to Java in the
east; but Australia was again isolated, which further
accentuated the development of its own peculiar fauna.
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950,000 years
ago the descendants of Andon and Fonta had migrated far
to the east and to the west. To the west they passed
over Europe to France and England. In later times they
penetrated eastward as far as Java, where their bones
were so recently found -- the so-called Java man -- and
then journeyed on to Tasmania.
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The groups going west became less contaminated with the
backward stocks of mutual ancestral origin than those
going east, who mingled so freely with their retarded
animal cousins. These unprogressive individuals drifted
southward and presently mated with the inferior tribes.
Later on, increasing numbers of their mongrel
descendants returned to the north to mate with the
rapidly expanding Andonic peoples, and such unfortunate
unions unfailingly deteriorated the superior stock.
Fewer and fewer of the primitive settlements maintained
the worship of the Breath Giver. This early dawn
civilization was threatened with extinction.
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And thus it has ever been on Urantia. Civilizations of
great promise have successively deteriorated and have
finally been extinguished by the folly of allowing the
superior freely to procreate with the inferior.
2. THE FOXHALL PEOPLES
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900,000 years
ago the arts of Andon and Fonta and the culture of
Onagar were vanishing from the face of the earth;
culture, religion, and even flintworking were at their
lowest ebb.
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These were the times when large numbers of inferior
mongrel groups were arriving in England from southern
France. These tribes were so largely mixed with the
forest apelike creatures that they were scarcely human.
They had no religion but were crude flintworkers and
possessed sufficient intelligence to kindle fire.
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They were followed in Europe by a somewhat superior and
prolific people, whose descendants soon spread over the
entire continent from the ice in the north to the Alps
and Mediterranean in the south. These tribes are the
so-called
Heidelberg race.
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During this long period of cultural decadence the
Foxhall peoples of England and the Badonan tribes
northwest of India continued to hold on to some of the
traditions of Andon and certain remnants of the culture
of Onagar.
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The Foxhall peoples were farthest west and succeeded in
retaining much of the Andonic culture; they also
preserved their knowledge of flintworking, which they
transmitted to their descendants, the ancient ancestors
of the Eskimos.
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Though the remains of the Foxhall peoples were the last
to be discovered in England, these Andonites were really
the first human beings to live in those regions. At that
time the land bridge still connected France with
England; and since most of the early settlements of the
Andon descendants were located along the rivers and
seashores of that early day, they are now under the
waters of the English Channel and the North Sea, but
some three or four are still above water on the English
coast.
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Many of the more intelligent and spiritual of the
Foxhall peoples maintained their racial superiority and
perpetuated their primitive religious customs. And these
people, as they were later admixed with subsequent
stocks, journeyed on west from England after a later ice
visitation and have survived as the present-day Eskimos.
3. THE BADONAN TRIBES
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Besides the Foxhall peoples in the west, another
struggling center of culture persisted in the east. This
group was located in the foothills of the northwestern
Indian highlands among the tribes of Badonan, a
great-great-grandson of Andon. These people were the
only descendants of Andon who never practiced human
sacrifice.
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These highland Badonites occupied an extensive plateau
surrounded by forests, traversed by streams, and
abounding in game. Like some of their cousins in Tibet,
they lived in crude stone huts, hillside grottoes, and
semiunderground passages.
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While the tribes of the north grew more and more to fear
the ice, those living near the homeland of their origin
became exceedingly fearful of the water. They observed
the Mesopotamian peninsula gradually sinking into the
ocean, and though it emerged several times, the
traditions of these primitive races grew up around the
dangers of the sea and the fear of periodic engulfment.
And this fear, together with their experience with river
floods, explains why they sought out the highlands as a
safe place in which to live.
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To the east of the Badonan peoples, in the Siwalik Hills
of northern India, may be found fossils that approach
nearer to transition types between man and the various
prehuman groups than any others on earth.
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850,000 years
ago the superior Badonan tribes began a warfare of
extermination directed against their inferior and
animalistic neighbors. In less than one thousand years
most of the borderland animal groups of these regions
had been either destroyed or driven back to the southern
forests. This campaign for the extermination of
inferiors brought about a slight improvement in the hill
tribes of that age. And the mixed descendants of this
improved Badonite stock appeared on the stage of action
as an apparently new people -- the
Neanderthal race.
4. THE NEANDERTHAL RACES
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The Neanderthalers were excellent fighters, and they
traveled extensively. They gradually spread from the
highland centers in northwest India to France on the
west, China on the east, and even down into northern
Africa. They dominated the world for almost half a
million years until the times of the migration of the
evolutionary races of color.
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800,000 years
ago game was abundant; many species of deer, as well as
elephants and hippopotamuses, roamed over Europe. Cattle
were plentiful; horses and wolves were everywhere. The
Neanderthalers were great hunters, and the tribes in
France were the first to adopt the practice of giving
the most successful hunters the choice of women for
wives.
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The reindeer was highly useful to these Neanderthal
peoples, serving as food, clothing, and for tools, since
they made various uses of the horns and bones. They had
little culture, but they greatly improved the work in
flint until it almost reached the levels of the days of
Andon. Large flints attached to wooden handles came back
into use and served as axes and picks.
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750,000 years
ago the fourth ice sheet was well on its way south. With
their improved implements the Neanderthalers made holes
in the ice covering the northern rivers and thus were
able to spear the fish which came up to these vents.
Ever these tribes retreated before the advancing ice,
which at this time made its most extensive invasion of
Europe.
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In these times the Siberian glacier was making its
southernmost march, compelling early man to move
southward, back toward the lands of his origin. But the
human species had so differentiated that the danger of
further mingling with its nonprogressive simian
relatives was greatly lessened.
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700,000 years
ago the fourth glacier, the greatest of all in Europe,
was in recession; men and animals were returning north.
The climate was cool and moist, and primitive man again
thrived in Europe and western Asia. Gradually the
forests spread north over land which had been so
recently covered by the glacier.
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Mammalian life had been little changed by the great
glacier. These animals persisted in that narrow belt of
land lying between the ice and the Alps and, upon the
retreat of the glacier, again rapidly spread out over
all Europe. There arrived from Africa, over the Sicilian
land bridge, straight-tusked elephants, broad-nosed
rhinoceroses, hyenas, and African lions, and these new
animals virtually exterminated the saber-toothed tigers
and the hippopotamuses.
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650,000 years
ago witnessed the continuation of the mild climate. By
the middle of the interglacial period it had become so
warm that the Alps were almost denuded of ice and snow.
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600,000 years
ago the ice had reached its then northernmost point of
retreat and, after a pause of a few thousand years,
started south again on its fifth excursion. But there
was little modification of climate for fifty thousand
years. Man and the animals of Europe were little
changed. The slight aridity of the former period
lessened, and the alpine glaciers descended far down the
river valleys.
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550,000 years
ago the advancing glacier again pushed man and the
animals south. But this time man had plenty of room in
the wide belt of land stretching northeast into Asia and
lying between the ice sheet and the then greatly
expanded Black Sea extension of the Mediterranean.
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These times of the fourth and fifth glaciers witnessed
the further spread of the crude culture of the
Neanderthal races. But there was so little progress that
it truly appeared as though the attempt to produce a new
and modified type of intelligent life on Urantia was
about to fail. For almost a quarter of a million years
these primitive peoples drifted on, hunting and
fighting, by spells improving in certain directions,
but, on the whole, steadily retrogressing as compared
with their superior Andonic ancestors.
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During these spiritually dark ages the culture of
superstitious mankind reached its lowest levels. The
Neanderthalers really had no religion beyond a shameful
superstition. They were deathly afraid of clouds, more
especially of mists and fogs. A primitive religion of
the fear of natural forces gradually developed, while
animal worship declined as improvement in tools, with
abundance of game, enabled these people to live with
lessened anxiety about food; the sex rewards of the
chase tended greatly to improve hunting skill. This new
religion of fear led to attempts to placate the
invisible forces behind these natural elements and
culminated, later on, in the sacrificing of humans to
appease these invisible and unknown physical forces. And
this terrible practice of human sacrifice has been
perpetuated by the more backward peoples of Urantia
right on down to the twentieth century.
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These early Neanderthalers could hardly be called sun
worshipers. They rather lived in fear of the dark; they
had a mortal dread of nightfall. As long as the moon
shone a little, they managed to get along, but in the
dark of the moon they grew panicky and began the
sacrifice of their best specimens of manhood and
womanhood in an effort to induce the moon again to
shine. The sun, they early learned, would regularly
return, but the moon they conjectured only returned
because they sacrificed their fellow tribesmen. As the
race advanced, the object and purpose of sacrifice
progressively changed, but the offering of human
sacrifice as a part of religious ceremonial long
persisted.
5. ORIGIN OF THE COLORED RACES
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500,000 years
ago the Badonan tribes of the northwestern highlands of
India became involved in another great racial struggle.
For more than one hundred years this relentless warfare
raged, and when the long fight was finished, only about
one hundred families were left. But these survivors were
the most intelligent and desirable of all the then
living descendants of Andon and Fonta.
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And now, among these highland Badonites there was a new
and strange occurrence. A man and woman living in the
northeastern part of the then inhabited highland region
began suddenly
to produce a family of unusually intelligent children.
This was the
Sangik family, the ancestors of all of the six
colored races of Urantia.
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These Sangik children, nineteen in number, were not only
intelligent above their fellows, but their skins
manifested a unique tendency to turn various colors upon
exposure to sunlight. Among these nineteen children were
five red, two orange, four yellow, two green, four blue,
and two indigo. These colors became more pronounced as
the children grew older, and when these youths later
mated with their fellow tribesmen, all of their
offspring tended toward the skin color of the Sangik
parent.
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And now I interrupt the chronological narrative, after
calling attention to the arrival of the Planetary Prince
at about this time, while we separately consider the six
Sangik races of Urantia.
6. THE SIX SANGIK RACES OF URANTIA
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On an average evolutionary planet the six evolutionary
races of color appear one by one; the red man is the
first to evolve, and for ages he roams the world before
the succeeding colored races make their appearance. The
simultaneous emergence of all six races on Urantia,
and in one
family, was most unusual.
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The appearance of the earlier Andonites on Urantia was
also something new in Satania. On no other world in the
local system has such a race of will creatures evolved
in advance of the evolutionary races of color.
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1. The red man.
These peoples were remarkable specimens of the human
race, in many ways superior to Andon and Fonta. They
were a most intelligent group and were the first of the
Sangik children to develop a tribal civilization and
government. They were always monogamous; even their
mixed descendants seldom practiced plural mating.
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In later times they had serious and prolonged trouble
with their yellow brethren in Asia. They were aided by
their early invention of the bow and arrow, but they had
unfortunately inherited much of the tendency of their
ancestors to fight among themselves, and this so
weakened them that the yellow tribes were able to drive
them off the Asiatic continent.
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About eighty-five thousand years ago the comparatively
pure remnants of the red race went en masse across to
North America, and shortly thereafter the Bering land
isthmus sank, thus isolating them. No red man ever
returned to Asia. But throughout Siberia, China, central
Asia, India, and Europe they left behind much of their
stock blended with the other colored races.
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When the red man crossed over into America, he brought
along much of the teachings and traditions of his early
origin. His immediate ancestors had been in touch with
the later activities of the world headquarters of the
Planetary Prince. But in a short time after reaching the
Americas, the red men began to lose sight of these
teachings, and there occurred a great decline in
intellectual and spiritual culture. Very soon these
people again fell to fighting so fiercely among
themselves that it appeared that these tribal wars would
result in the speedy extinction of this remnant of the
comparatively pure red race.
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Because of this great retrogression the red men seemed
doomed when, about sixty-five thousand years ago,
Onamonalonton appeared as their leader and spiritual
deliverer. He brought temporary peace among the American
red men and revived their worship of the "Great Spirit."
Onamonalonton lived to be ninety-six years of age and
maintained his headquarters among the great redwood
trees of California. Many of his later descendants have
come down to modern times among the Blackfoot Indians.
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As time passed, the teachings of Onamonalonton became
hazy traditions. Internecine wars were resumed, and
never after the days of this great teacher did another
leader succeed in bringing universal peace among them.
Increasingly the more intelligent strains perished in
these tribal struggles; otherwise a great civilization
would have been built upon the North American continent
by these able and intelligent red men.
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After crossing over to America from China, the northern
red man never again came in contact with other world
influences (except the Eskimo) until he was later
discovered by the white man. It was most unfortunate
that the red man almost completely missed his
opportunity of being upstepped by the admixture of the
later Adamic stock. As it was, the red man could not
rule the white man, and he would not willingly serve
him. In such a circumstance, if the two races do not
blend, one or the other is doomed.
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2. The orange man.
The outstanding characteristic of this race was their
peculiar urge to build, to build anything and
everything, even to the piling up of vast mounds of
stone just to see which tribe could build the largest
mound. Though they were not a progressive people, they
profited much from the schools of the Prince and sent
delegates there for instruction.
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The orange race was the first to follow the coast line
southward toward Africa as the Mediterranean Sea
withdrew to the west. But they never secured a favorable
footing in Africa and were wiped out of existence by the
later arriving green race.
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Before the end came, this people lost much cultural and
spiritual ground. But there was a great revival of
higher living as a result of the wise leadership of
Porshunta, the master mind of this unfortunate race, who
ministered to them when their headquarters was at
Armageddon some three hundred thousand years ago.
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The last great struggle between the orange and the green
men occurred in the region of the lower Nile valley in
Egypt. This long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost
one hundred years, and at its close very few of the
orange race were left alive. The shattered remnants of
these people were absorbed by the green and by the later
arriving indigo men. But as a race the orange man ceased
to exist about one hundred thousand years ago.
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3. The yellow man.
The primitive yellow tribes were the first to abandon
the chase, establish settled communities, and develop a
home life based on agriculture. Intellectually they were
somewhat inferior to the red man, but socially and
collectively they proved themselves superior to all of
the Sangik peoples in the matter of fostering racial
civilization. Because they developed a fraternal spirit,
the various tribes learning to live together in relative
peace, they were able to drive the red race before them
as they gradually expanded into Asia.
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They traveled far from the influences of the spiritual
headquarters of the world and drifted into great
darkness following the Caligastia apostasy; but there
occurred one brilliant age among this people when
Singlangton, about one hundred thousand years ago,
assumed the leadership of these tribes and proclaimed
the worship of the "One Truth."
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The survival of comparatively large numbers of the
yellow race is due to their intertribal peacefulness.
From the days of Singlangton to the times of modern
China, the yellow race has been numbered among the more
peaceful of the nations of Urantia. This race received a
small but potent legacy of the later imported Adamic
stock.
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4. The green man.
The green race was one of the less able groups of
primitive men, and they were greatly weakened by
extensive migrations in different directions. Before
their dispersion these tribes experienced a great
revival of culture under the leadership of Fantad, some
three hundred and fifty thousand years ago.
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The green race split into three major divisions: The
northern tribes were subdued, enslaved, and absorbed by
the yellow and blue races. The eastern group were
amalgamated with the Indian peoples of those days, and
remnants still persist among them. The southern nation
entered Africa, where they destroyed their almost
equally inferior orange cousins.
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In many ways both groups were evenly matched in this
struggle since each carried strains of the giant order,
many of their leaders being eight and nine feet in
height. These giant strains of the green man were mostly
confined to this southern or Egyptian nation.
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The remnants of the victorious green men were
subsequently absorbed by the indigo race, the last of
the colored peoples to develop and emigrate from the
original Sangik center of race dispersion.
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5. The blue man.
The blue men were a great people. They early invented
the spear and subsequently worked out the rudiments of
many of the arts of modern civilization. The blue man
had the brain power of the red man associated with the
soul and sentiment of the yellow man. The Adamic
descendants preferred them to all of the later
persisting colored races.
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The early blue men were responsive to the persuasions of
the teachers of Prince Caligastia's staff and were
thrown into great confusion by the subsequent perverted
teachings of those traitorous leaders. Like other
primitive races they never fully recovered from the
turmoil produced by the Caligastia betrayal, nor did
they ever completely overcome their tendency to fight
among themselves.
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About five hundred years after Caligastia's downfall a
widespread revival of learning and religion of a
primitive sort -- but none the less real and beneficial
-- occurred. Orlandof became a great teacher among the
blue race and led many of the tribes back to the worship
of the true God under the name of the "Supreme Chief."
This was the greatest advance of the blue man until
those later times when this race was so greatly
upstepped by the admixture of the Adamic stock.
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The European researches and explorations of the Old
Stone Age have largely to do with unearthing the tools,
bones, and artcraft of these ancient blue men, for they
persisted in Europe until recent times. The so-called
white races
of Urantia are the descendants of these blue men as they
were first modified by slight mixture with yellow and
red, and as they were later greatly upstepped by
assimilating the greater portion of the violet race.
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6. The indigo
race. As the red men were the most advanced of all
the Sangik peoples, so the black men were the least
progressive. They were the last to migrate from their
highland homes. They journeyed to Africa, taking
possession of the continent, and have ever since
remained there except when they have been forcibly taken
away, from age to age, as slaves.
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Isolated in Africa, the indigo peoples, like the red
man, received little or none of the race elevation which
would have been derived from the infusion of the Adamic
stock. Alone in Africa, the indigo race made little
advancement until the days of Orvonon, when they
experienced a great spiritual awakening. While they
later almost entirely forgot the "God of Gods"
proclaimed by Orvonon, they did not entirely lose the
desire to worship the Unknown; at least they maintained
a form of worship up to a few thousand years ago.
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Notwithstanding their backwardness, these indigo peoples
have exactly the same standing before the celestial
powers as any other earthly race.
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These were ages of intense struggles between the various
races, but near the headquarters of the Planetary Prince
the more enlightened and more recently taught groups
lived together in comparative harmony, though no great
cultural conquest of the world races had been achieved
up to the time of the serious disruption of this regime
by the outbreak of the Lucifer rebellion.
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From time to time all of these different peoples
experienced cultural and spiritual revivals. Mansant was
a great teacher of the post-Planetary Prince days. But
mention is made only of those outstanding leaders and
teachers who markedly influenced and inspired a whole
race. With the passing of time, many lesser teachers
arose in different regions; and in the aggregate they
contributed much to the sum total of those saving
influences which prevented the total collapse of
cultural civilization, especially during the long and
dark ages between the Caligastia rebellion and the
arrival of Adam.
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There are many good and sufficient reasons for the plan
of evolving either three or six colored races on the
worlds of space. Though Urantia mortals may not be in a
position fully to appreciate all of these reasons, we
would call attention to the following:
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1. Variety is indispensable to opportunity for the wide
functioning of natural selection, differential survival
of superior strains.
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2. Stronger and better races are to be had from the
interbreeding of diverse peoples when these different
races are carriers of superior inheritance factors. And
the Urantia races would have benefited by such an early
amalgamation provided such a conjoint people could have
been subsequently effectively upstepped by a
thoroughgoing admixture with the superior Adamic stock.
The attempt to execute such an experiment on Urantia
under present racial conditions would be highly
disastrous.
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3. Competition is healthfully stimulated by
diversification of races.
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4. Differences in status of the races and of groups
within each race are essential to the development of
human tolerance and altruism.
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5. Homogeneity of the human race is not desirable until
the peoples of an evolving world attain comparatively
high levels of spiritual development.
7. DISPERSION OF THE COLORED RACES
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When the colored descendants of the Sangik family began
to multiply, and as they sought opportunity for
expansion into adjacent territory, the fifth glacier,
the third of geologic count, was well advanced on its
southern drift over Europe and Asia. These early colored
races were extraordinarily tested by the rigors and
hardships of the glacial age of their origin. This
glacier was so extensive in Asia that for thousands of
years migration to eastern Asia was cut off. And not
until the later retreat of the Mediterranean Sea,
consequent upon the elevation of Arabia, was it possible
for them to reach Africa.
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Thus it was that for almost one hundred thousand years
these Sangik peoples spread out around the foothills and
mingled together more or less, notwithstanding the
peculiar but natural antipathy which early manifested
itself between the different races.
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Between the times of the Planetary Prince and Adam,
India became the home of the most cosmopolitan
population ever to be found on the face of the earth.
But it was unfortunate that this mixture came to contain
so much of the green, orange, and indigo races. These
secondary Sangik peoples found existence more easy and
agreeable in the southlands, and many of them
subsequently migrated to Africa. The primary Sangik
peoples, the superior races, avoided the tropics, the
red man going northeast to Asia, closely followed by the
yellow man, while the blue race moved northwest into
Europe.
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The red men early began to migrate to the northeast, on
the heels of the retreating ice, passing around the
highlands of India and occupying all of northeastern
Asia. They were closely followed by the yellow tribes,
who subsequently drove them out of Asia into North
America.
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When the relatively pure-line remnants of the red race
forsook Asia, there were eleven tribes, and they
numbered a little over seven thousand men, women, and
children. These tribes were accompanied by three small
groups of mixed ancestry, the largest of these being a
combination of the orange and blue races. These three
groups never fully fraternized with the red man and
early journeyed southward to Mexico and Central America,
where they were later joined by a small group of mixed
yellows and reds. These peoples all intermarried and
founded a new and amalgamated race, one which was much
less warlike than the pure-line red men. Within five
thousand years this amalgamated race broke up into three
groups, establishing the civilizations respectively of
Mexico, Central America, and South America. The South
American offshoot did receive a faint touch of the blood
of Adam.
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To a certain extent the early red and yellow men mingled
in Asia, and the offspring of this union journeyed on to
the east and along the southern seacoast and,
eventually, were driven by the rapidly increasing yellow
race onto the peninsulas and near-by islands of the sea.
They are the present-day brown men.
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The yellow race has continued to occupy the central
regions of eastern Asia. Of all the six colored races
they have survived in greatest numbers. While the yellow
men now and then engaged in racial war, they did not
carry on such incessant and relentless wars of
extermination as were waged by the red, green, and
orange men. These three races virtually destroyed
themselves before they were finally all but annihilated
by their enemies of other races.
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Since the fifth glacier did not extend so far south in
Europe, the way was partially open for these Sangik
peoples to migrate to the northwest; and upon the
retreat of the ice the blue men, together with a few
other small racial groups, migrated westward along the
old trails of the Andon tribes. They invaded Europe in
successive waves, occupying most of the continent.
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In Europe they soon encountered the Neanderthal
descendants of their early and common ancestor, Andon.
These older European Neanderthalers had been driven
south and east by the glacier and thus were in position
quickly to encounter and absorb their invading cousins
of the Sangik tribes.
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In general and to start with, the Sangik tribes were
more intelligent than, and in most ways far superior to,
the deteriorated descendants of the early Andonic
plainsmen; and the mingling of these Sangik tribes with
the Neanderthal peoples led to the immediate improvement
of the older race. It was this infusion of Sangik blood,
more especially that of the blue man, which produced
that marked improvement in the Neanderthal peoples
exhibited by the successive waves of increasingly
intelligent tribes that swept over Europe from the east.
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During the following interglacial period this new
Neanderthal race extended from England to India. The
remnant of the blue race left in the old Persian
peninsula later amalgamated with certain others,
primarily the yellow; and the resultant blend,
subsequently somewhat upstepped by the violet race of
Adam, has persisted as the swarthy nomadic tribes of
modern Arabs.
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All efforts to identify the Sangik ancestry of modern
peoples must take into account the later improvement of
the racial strains by the subsequent admixture of Adamic
blood.
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The superior races sought the northern or temperate
climes, while the orange, green, and indigo races
successively gravitated to Africa over the newly
elevated land bridge which separated the westward
retreating Mediterranean from the Indian Ocean.
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The last of the Sangik peoples to migrate from their
center of race origin was the indigo man. About the time
the green man was killing off the orange race in Egypt
and greatly weakening himself in so doing, the great
black exodus started south through Palestine along the
coast; and later, when these physically strong indigo
peoples overran Egypt, they wiped the green man out of
existence by sheer force of numbers. These indigo races
absorbed the remnants of the orange man and much of the
stock of the green man, and certain of the indigo tribes
were considerably improved by this racial amalgamation.
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And so it appears that Egypt was first dominated by the
orange man, then by the green, followed by the indigo
(black) man, and still later by a mongrel race of
indigo, blue, and modified green men. But long before
Adam arrived, the blue men of Europe and the mixed races
of Arabia had driven the indigo race out of Egypt and
far south on the African continent.
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As the Sangik migrations draw to a close, the green and
orange races are gone, the red man holds North America,
the yellow man eastern Asia, the blue man Europe, and
the indigo race has gravitated to Africa. India harbors
a blend of the secondary Sangik races, and the brown
man, a blend of the red and yellow, holds the islands
off the Asiatic coast. An amalgamated race of rather
superior potential occupies the highlands of South
America. The purer Andonites live in the extreme
northern regions of Europe and in Iceland, Greenland,
and northeastern North America.
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During the periods of farthest glacial advance the
westernmost of the Andon tribes came very near being
driven into the sea. They lived for years on a narrow
southern strip of the present island of England. And it
was the tradition of these repeated glacial advances
that drove them to take to the sea when the sixth and
last glacier finally appeared. They were the first
marine adventurers. They built boats and started in
search of new lands which they hoped might be free from
the terrifying ice invasions. And some of them reached
Iceland, others Greenland, but the vast majority
perished from hunger and thirst on the open sea.
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A little more than eighty thousand years ago, shortly
after the red man entered northwestern North America,
the freezing over of the north seas and the advance of
local ice fields on Greenland drove these Eskimo
descendants of the Urantia aborigines to seek a better
land, a new home; and they were successful, safely
crossing the narrow straits which then separated
Greenland from the northeastern land masses of North
America. They reached the continent about twenty-one
hundred years after the red man arrived in Alaska.
Subsequently some of the mixed stock of the blue man
journeyed westward and amalgamated with the later-day
Eskimos, and this union was slightly beneficial to the
Eskimo tribes.
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About five thousand years ago a chance meeting occurred
between an Indian tribe and a lone Eskimo group on the
southeastern shores of Hudson Bay. These two tribes
found it difficult to communicate with each other, but
very soon they intermarried with the result that these
Eskimos were eventually absorbed by the more numerous
red men. And this represents the only contact of the
North American red man with any other human stock down
to about one thousand years ago, when the white man
first chanced to land on the Atlantic coast.
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The struggles of these early ages were characterized by
courage, bravery, and even heroism. And we all regret
that so many of those sterling and rugged traits of your
early ancestors have been lost to the later-day races.
While we appreciate the value of many of the refinements
of advancing civilization, we miss the magnificent
persistency and superb devotion of your early ancestors,
which oftentimes bordered on grandeur and sublimity.
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Presented by a Life Carrier resident on Urantia.
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