The Planetary Princes

50:4.1The prince’s cor­po­real staff early or­ga­nize the plan­e­tary schools of train­ing and cul­ture, wherein the cream of the evo­lu­tion­ary races are in­structed and then sent forth to teach these bet­ter ways to their peo­ple. These schools of the prince are lo­cated at the ma­te­rial head­quar­ters of the planet.

50:4.2Much of the phys­i­cal work con­nected with the es­tab­lish­ment of this head­quar­ters city is per­formed by the cor­po­real staff. Such head­quar­ters cities, or set­tle­ments, of the early times of the Plan­e­tary Prince are very dif­fer­ent from what a Uran­tia mor­tal might imag­ine. They are, in com­par­i­son with later ages, sim­ple, be­ing char­ac­ter­ized by min­eral em­bel­lish­ment and by rel­a­tively ad­vanced ma­te­rial con­struc­tion. And all of this stands in con­trast with the Adamic regime cen­ter­ing around a gar­den head­quar­ters, from which their work in be­half of the races is pros­e­cuted dur­ing the sec­ond dis­pen­sa­tion of the uni­verse Sons.

50:4.3In the head­quar­ters set­tle­ment on your world ev­ery hu­man habi­ta­tion was pro­vided with abun­dance of land. Al­though the re­mote tribes con­tin­ued in hunt­ing and food for­ag­ing, the stu­dents and teach­ers in the Prince’s schools were all agri­cul­tur­ists and hor­ti­cul­tur­ists. The time was about equally di­vided be­tween the fol­low­ing pur­suits:

50:4.41. Phys­i­cal la­bor. Cul­ti­va­tion of the soil, as­so­ci­ated with home build­ing and em­bel­lish­ment.

50:4.52. So­cial ac­tiv­i­ties. Play per­for­mances and cul­tural so­cial group­ings.

50:4.63. Ed­u­ca­tional ap­pli­ca­tion. In­di­vid­ual in­struc­tion in con­nec­tion with fam­ily-group teach­ing, sup­ple­mented by spe­cial­ized class train­ing.

50:4.74. Vo­ca­tional train­ing. Schools of mar­riage and home­mak­ing, the schools of art and craft train­ing, and the classes for the train­ing of teach­ers—sec­u­lar, cul­tural, and re­li­gious.

50:4.85. Spir­i­tual cul­ture. The teacher broth­er­hood, the en­light­en­ment of child­hood and youth groups, and the train­ing of adopted na­tive chil­dren as mis­sion­ar­ies to their peo­ple.

50:4.9A Plan­e­tary Prince is not vis­i­ble to mor­tal be­ings; it is a test of faith to be­lieve the rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the semi­ma­te­rial be­ings of his staff. But these schools of cul­ture and train­ing are well adapted to the needs of each planet, and there soon de­vel­ops a keen and lauda­tory ri­valry among the races of men in their ef­forts to gain en­trance to these var­i­ous in­sti­tu­tions of learn­ing.

50:4.10From such a world cen­ter of cul­ture and achieve­ment there grad­u­ally ra­di­ates to all peo­ples an up­lift­ing and civ­i­liz­ing in­flu­ence which slowly and cer­tainly trans­forms the evo­lu­tion­ary races. Mean­time the ed­u­cated and spir­i­tu­al­ized chil­dren of the sur­round­ing peo­ples who have been adopted and trained in the prince’s schools are re­turn­ing to their na­tive groups and, to the best of their abil­ity, are there es­tab­lish­ing new and po­tent cen­ters of learn­ing and cul­ture which they carry on ac­cord­ing to the plan of the prince’s schools.

50:4.11On Uran­tia these plans for plan­e­tary prog­ress and cul­tural ad­vance­ment were well un­der way, pro­ceed­ing most sat­is­fac­to­rily, when the whole en­ter­prise was brought to a rather sud­den and most in­glo­ri­ous end by Cali­gas­tia’s ad­her­ence to the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

50:4.12It was one of the most pro­foundly shock­ing episodes of this re­bel­lion for me to learn of the cal­lous per­fidy of one of my own or­der of son­ship, Cali­gas­tia, who, in de­lib­er­a­tion and with mal­ice afore­thought, sys­tem­at­i­cally per­verted the in­struc­tion and poi­soned the teach­ing pro­vided in all the Uran­tia plan­e­tary schools in op­er­a­tion at that time. The wreck of these schools was speedy and com­plete.

50:4.13Many of the off­spring of the as­cend­ers of the Prince’s ma­te­ri­al­ized staff re­mained loyal, de­sert­ing the ranks of Cali­gas­tia. These loy­al­ists were en­cour­aged by the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia, and in later times their de­scen­dants did much to up­hold the plan­e­tary con­cepts of truth and righ­teous­ness. The work of these loyal evan­gels helped to pre­vent the to­tal oblit­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual truth on Uran­tia. These coura­geous souls and their de­scen­dants kept alive some knowl­edge of the Fa­ther’s rule and pre­served for the world races the con­cept of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tions of the var­i­ous or­ders of di­vine Sons.