The Planetary Adams

51:2.1Upon re­ceipt of the news that an­other in­hab­ited world has at­tained the height of phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign con­venes the corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters on the sys­tem cap­i­tal; and fol­low­ing the dis­cus­sion of the needs of such an evo­lu­tion­ary world, two of the vol­un­teer­ing group—an Adam and an Eve of the se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons—are se­lected to un­der­take the ad­ven­ture, to sub­mit to the deep sleep prepara­tory to be­ing en­ser­a­phimed and trans­ported from their home of as­so­ci­ated ser­vice to the new realm of new op­por­tu­ni­ties and new dan­gers.

51:2.2Adams and Eves are semi­ma­te­rial crea­tures and, as such, are not trans­portable by ser­a­phim. They must un­dergo de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion on the sys­tem cap­i­tal be­fore they can be en­ser­a­phimed for trans­port to the world of as­sign­ment. The trans­port ser­a­phim are able to ef­fect such changes in the Ma­te­rial Sons and in other semi­ma­te­rial be­ings as en­able them to be en­ser­a­phimed and thus to be trans­ported through space from one world or sys­tem to an­other. About three days of stan­dard time are con­sumed in this trans­port prepa­ra­tion, and it re­quires the co-op­er­a­tion of a Life Car­rier to re­store such a de­ma­te­ri­al­ized crea­ture to nor­mal ex­is­tence upon ar­rival at the end of the se­raphic-trans­port jour­ney.

51:2.3While there is this de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing tech­nique for prepar­ing the Adams for tran­sit from Je­ru­sem to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, there is no equiv­a­lent method for tak­ing them away from such worlds un­less the en­tire planet is to be emp­tied, in which event emer­gency in­stal­la­tion of the de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion tech­nique is made for the en­tire salv­able pop­u­la­tion. If some phys­i­cal catas­tro­phe should doom the plan­e­tary res­i­dence of an evolv­ing race, the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the Life Car­ri­ers would in­stall the tech­nique of de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion for all sur­vivors, and by se­raphic trans­port these be­ings would be car­ried away to the new world pre­pared for their con­tin­u­ing ex­is­tence. The evo­lu­tion of a hu­man race, once ini­ti­ated on a world of space, must pro­ceed quite in­de­pen­dently of the phys­i­cal sur­vival of that planet, but dur­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary ages it is not oth­er­wise in­tended that a Plan­e­tary Adam or Eve shall leave their cho­sen world.

51:2.4Upon ar­rival at their plan­e­tary des­ti­na­tion the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are re­ma­te­ri­al­ized un­der the di­rec­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers. This en­tire pro­cess takes ten to twenty-eight days of Uran­tia time. The un­con­scious­ness of the se­raphic slum­ber con­tin­ues through­out this en­tire pe­riod of re­con­struc­tion. When the re­assem­bly of the phys­i­cal or­gan­ism is com­pleted, these Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters stand in their new homes and on their new worlds to all in­tents and pur­poses just as they were be­fore sub­mit­ting to the de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing pro­cess on Je­ru­sem.