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Paper 51

The Planetary Adams

Secondary Lanonandek

51:0.1Dur­ing the dis­pen­sa­tion of a Plan­e­tary Prince, prim­i­tive man reaches the limit of nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment, and this bi­o­logic at­tain­ment sig­nals the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to dis­patch to such a world the sec­ond or­der of son­ship, the bi­o­logic up­lifters. These Sons, for there are two of them—the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter—are usu­ally known on a planet as Adam and Eve. The orig­i­nal Ma­te­rial Son of Sa­ta­nia is Adam, and those who go to the sys­tem worlds as bi­o­logic up­lifters al­ways carry the name of this first and orig­i­nal Son of their unique or­der.

51:0.2These Sons are the ma­te­rial gift of the Cre­ator Son to the in­hab­ited worlds. To­gether with the Plan­e­tary Prince, they re­main on their planet of as­sign­ment through­out the evo­lu­tion­ary course of such a sphere. Such an ad­ven­ture on a world hav­ing a Plan­e­tary Prince is not much of a haz­ard, but on an apos­tate planet, a realm with­out a spir­i­tual ruler and de­prived of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion, such a mis­sion is fraught with grave dan­ger.

51:0.3Al­though you can­not hope to know all about the work of these Sons on all the worlds of Sa­ta­nia and other sys­tems, other pa­pers de­pict more fully the life and ex­pe­ri­ences of the in­ter­est­ing pair, Adam and Eve, who came from the corps of the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Je­ru­sem to up­step the Uran­tia races. While there was a mis­car­riage of the ideal plans for im­prov­ing your na­tive races, still, Adam’s mis­sion was not in vain; Uran­tia has prof­ited im­mea­sur­ably from the gift of Adam and Eve, and among their fel­lows and in the coun­cils on high their work is not reck­oned as a to­tal loss.