The Inhabited Worlds

49:4.1There 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.

49:4.2There 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.

49:4.3The 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.

49:4.4Young 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.

49:4.5Sea­sons 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.

49:4.6Mor­tals 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.

49:4.7Hu­man 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.

49:4.8Mind 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.

49:4.9But 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.