The Planetary Princes

50:7.1On first thought it might ap­pear that Uran­tia and its as­so­ci­ated iso­lated worlds are most un­for­tu­nate in be­ing de­prived of the benef­i­cent pres­ence and in­flu­ence of such super­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties as a Plan­e­tary Prince and a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter. But iso­la­tion of these spheres af­fords their races a unique op­por­tu­nity for the ex­er­cise of faith and for the de­vel­op­ment of a pe­cu­liar qual­ity of con­fi­dence in cos­mic re­li­a­bil­ity which is not de­pen­dent on sight or any other ma­te­rial con­sid­er­a­tion. It may turn out, even­tu­ally, that mor­tal crea­tures hail­ing from the worlds quar­an­tined in con­se­quence of re­bel­lion are ex­tremely for­tu­nate. We have dis­cov­ered that such as­cend­ers are very early in­trusted with nu­mer­ous spe­cial as­sign­ments to cos­mic un­der­tak­ings where un­ques­tioned faith and sub­lime con­fi­dence are es­sen­tial to achieve­ment.

50:7.2On Je­ru­sem the as­cend­ers from these iso­lated worlds oc­cupy a res­i­den­tial sec­tor by them­selves and are known as the agon­don­ters, mean­ing evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures who can be­lieve with­out see­ing, per­se­vere when iso­lated, and tri­umph over in­su­per­a­ble dif­fi­cul­ties even when alone. This func­tional group­ing of the agon­don­ters per­sists through­out the as­cen­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse and the traver­sal of the super­uni­verse; it dis­ap­pears dur­ing the so­journ in Ha­vona but promptly reap­pears upon the at­tain­ment of Par­a­dise and def­i­nitely per­sists in the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity. Taba­man­tia is an agon­don­ter of fi­nal­i­ter sta­tus, hav­ing sur­vived from one of the quar­an­tined spheres in­volved in the first re­bel­lion ever to take place in the uni­verses of time and space.

50:7.3All through the Par­a­dise ca­reer, re­ward fol­lows ef­fort as the re­sult of causes. Such re­wards set off the in­di­vid­ual from the av­er­age, pro­vide a dif­fer­en­tial of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, and con­tribute to the ver­sa­til­ity of ul­ti­mate per­for­mances in the col­lec­tive body of the fi­nal­i­ters.

50:7.4[Pre­sented by a Sec­ondary La­non­an­dek Son of the Re­serve Corps.]