The Planetary Princes

50:3.1On go­ing to a young world, a Plan­e­tary Prince usu­ally takes with him a group of vol­un­teer as­cend­ing be­ings from the lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters. These as­cend­ers ac­com­pany the prince as ad­vis­ers and helpers in the work of early race im­prove­ment. This corps of ma­te­rial helpers con­sti­tutes the con­nect­ing link be­tween the prince and the world races. The Uran­tia Prince, Cali­gas­tia, had a corps of one hun­dred such helpers.

50:3.2Such vol­un­teer as­sis­tants are cit­i­zens of a sys­tem cap­i­tal, and none of them have fused with their in­dwelling Ad­justers. The sta­tus of the Ad­justers of such vol­un­teer servers re­mains as of the res­i­den­tial stand­ing on the sys­tem head­quar­ters while these mor­ontia pro­gres­sors tem­porar­ily re­vert to a for­mer ma­te­rial state.

50:3.3The Life Car­ri­ers, the ar­chi­tects of form, pro­vide such vol­un­teers with new phys­i­cal bod­ies, which they oc­cupy for the pe­ri­ods of their plan­e­tary so­journ. These per­son­al­ity forms, while ex­empt from the or­di­nary dis­eases of the realms, are, like the early mor­ontia bod­ies, sub­ject to cer­tain ac­ci­dents of a me­chan­i­cal na­ture.

50:3.4The prince’s cor­po­real staff are usu­ally re­moved from the planet in con­nec­tion with the next ad­ju­di­ca­tion at the time of the sec­ond Son’s ar­rival on the sphere. Be­fore leav­ing, they cus­tom­ar­ily as­sign their var­i­ous du­ties to their mu­tual off­spring and to cer­tain su­pe­rior na­tive vol­un­teers. On those worlds where these helpers of the prince have been per­mit­ted to mate with the su­pe­rior groups of the na­tive races, such off­spring usu­ally suc­ceed them.

50:3.5These as­sis­tants to the Plan­e­tary Prince sel­dom mate with the world races, but they do al­ways mate among them­selves. Two classes of be­ings re­sult from these unions: the pri­mary type of mid­way crea­tures and cer­tain high types of ma­te­rial be­ings who re­main at­tached to the prince’s staff af­ter their par­ents have been re­moved from the planet at the time of the ar­rival of Adam and Eve. These chil­dren do not mate with the mor­tal races ex­cept in cer­tain emer­gen­cies and then only by di­rec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince. In such an event, their chil­dren—the grand­chil­dren of the cor­po­real staff—are in sta­tus as of the su­pe­rior races of their day and gen­er­a­tion. All the off­spring of these semi­ma­te­rial as­sis­tants of the Plan­e­tary Prince are Ad­juster in­dwelt.

50:3.6At the end of the prince’s dis­pen­sa­tion, when the time comes for this “re­ver­sion staff” to be re­turned to the sys­tem head­quar­ters for the re­sump­tion of the Par­a­dise ca­reer, these as­cend­ers pre­sent them­selves to the Life Car­ri­ers for the pur­pose of yield­ing up their ma­te­rial bod­ies. They en­ter the tran­si­tion slum­ber and awaken de­liv­ered from their mor­tal in­vest­ment and clothed with mor­ontia forms, ready for se­raphic trans­porta­tion back to the sys­tem cap­i­tal, where their de­tached Ad­justers await them. They are a whole dis­pen­sa­tion be­hind their Je­ru­sem class, but they have gained a unique and ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence, a rare chap­ter in the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal.