The Planetary Adams

51:1.1The ma­te­rial or sex Sons and Daugh­ters are the off­spring of the Cre­ator Son; the Uni­verse Mother Spirit does not par­tic­i­pate in the pro­duc­tion of these be­ings who are des­tined to func­tion as phys­i­cal up­lifters on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

51:1.2The ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is not uni­form through­out the lo­cal uni­verse. The Cre­ator Son pro­duces only one pair of these be­ings in each lo­cal sys­tem; these orig­i­nal pairs are di­verse in na­ture, be­ing at­tuned to the life pat­tern of their re­spec­tive sys­tems. This is a nec­es­sary pro­vi­sion since oth­er­wise the re­pro­duc­tive po­ten­tial of the Adams would be non­func­tional with that of the evolv­ing mor­tal be­ings of the worlds of any one par­tic­u­lar sys­tem. The Adam and Eve who came to Uran­tia were de­scended from the orig­i­nal Sa­ta­nia pair of Ma­te­rial Sons.

51:1.3Ma­te­rial Sons vary in height from eight to ten feet, and their bod­ies glow with the bril­liance of ra­di­ant light of a vi­o­let hue. While ma­te­rial blood cir­cu­lates through their ma­te­rial bod­ies, they are also sur­charged with di­vine en­ergy and sat­u­rated with ce­les­tial light. These Ma­te­rial Sons (the Adams) and Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters (the Eves) are equal to each other, dif­fer­ing only in re­pro­duc­tive na­ture and in cer­tain chem­i­cal en­dow­ments. They are equal but dif­fer­en­tial, male and fe­male—hence com­ple­men­tal—and are de­signed to serve on al­most all as­sign­ments in pairs.

51:1.4The Ma­te­rial Sons en­joy a dual nu­tri­tion; they are re­ally dual in na­ture and con­sti­tu­tion, par­tak­ing of ma­te­ri­al­ized en­ergy much as do the phys­i­cal be­ings of the realm, while their im­mor­tal ex­is­tence is fully main­tained by the di­rect and au­to­matic in­take of cer­tain sus­tain­ing cos­mic en­er­gies. Should they fail on some mis­sion of as­sign­ment or even con­sciously and de­lib­er­ately rebel, this or­der of Sons be­comes iso­lated, cut off from con­nec­tion with the uni­verse source of light and life. There­upon they be­come prac­ti­cally ma­te­rial be­ings, des­tined to take the course of ma­te­rial life on the world of their as­sign­ment and com­pelled to look to the uni­verse mag­is­trates for ad­ju­di­ca­tion. Ma­te­rial death will even­tu­ally ter­mi­nate the plan­e­tary ca­reer of such an un­for­tu­nate and un­wise Ma­te­rial Son or Daugh­ter.

51:1.5An orig­i­nal or di­rectly cre­ated Adam and Eve are im­mor­tal by in­her­ent en­dow­ment just as are all other or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship, but a diminu­tion of im­mor­tal­ity po­ten­tial char­ac­ter­izes their sons and daugh­ters. This orig­i­nal cou­ple can­not trans­mit un­con­di­tioned im­mor­tal­ity to their pro­cre­ated sons and daugh­ters. Their progeny are de­pen­dent for con­tin­u­ing life on un­bro­ken in­tel­lec­tual syn­chrony with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. Since the in­cep­tion of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, thir­teen Plan­e­tary Adams have been lost in re­bel­lion and de­fault and 681,204 in the sub­or­di­nate po­si­tions of trust. Most of these de­fec­tions oc­curred at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

51:1.6While liv­ing as per­ma­nent cit­i­zens on the sys­tem cap­i­tals, even when func­tion­ing on de­scend­ing mis­sions to the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets, the Ma­te­rial Sons do not pos­sess Thought Ad­justers, but it is through these very ser­vices that they ac­quire ex­pe­ri­en­tial ca­pac­ity for Ad­juster in­dwell­ment and the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion ca­reer. These unique and won­der­fully use­ful be­ings are the con­nect­ing links be­tween the spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal worlds. They are con­cen­trated on the sys­tem head­quar­ters, where they re­pro­duce and carry on as ma­te­rial cit­i­zens of the realm, and whence they are dis­patched to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

51:1.7Un­like the other cre­ated Sons of plan­e­tary ser­vice, the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is not, by na­ture, in­vis­i­ble to ma­te­rial crea­tures like the in­hab­i­tants of Uran­tia. These Sons of God can be seen, un­der­stood, and can, in turn, ac­tu­ally min­gle with the crea­tures of time, could even pro­cre­ate with them, though this role of bi­o­logic up­lift­ment usu­ally falls to the progeny of the Plan­e­tary Adams.

51:1.8On Je­ru­sem the loyal chil­dren of any Adam and Eve are im­mor­tal, but the off­spring of a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter pro­cre­ated sub­se­quent to their ar­rival on an evo­lu­tion­ary planet are not thus im­mune to nat­u­ral death. There oc­curs a change in the life-trans­mit­ting mech­a­nism when these Sons are re­ma­te­ri­al­ized for re­pro­duc­tive func­tion on an evo­lu­tion­ary world. The Life Car­ri­ers de­signedly de­prive the Plan­e­tary Adams and Eves of the power of beget­ting undy­ing sons and daugh­ters. If they do not de­fault, an Adam and Eve on a plan­e­tary mis­sion can live on in­def­i­nitely, but within cer­tain lim­its their chil­dren ex­pe­ri­ence de­creas­ing longevity with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.