The Planetary Adams

51:3.1On the in­hab­ited worlds the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters con­struct their own gar­den homes, soon be­ing as­sisted by their own chil­dren. Usu­ally the site of the gar­den has been se­lected by the Plan­e­tary Prince, and his cor­po­real staff do much of the pre­lim­i­nary work of prepa­ra­tion with the help of many of the higher types of na­tive races.

51:3.2These Gar­dens of Eden are so named in honor of Eden­tia, the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tal, and be­cause they are pat­terned af­ter the botanic grandeur of the head­quar­ters world of the Most High Fa­thers. Such gar­den homes are usu­ally lo­cated in a se­cluded sec­tion and in a near-tropic zone. They are won­der­ful cre­ations on an av­er­age world. You can judge noth­ing of these beau­ti­ful cen­ters of cul­ture by the frag­men­tary ac­count of the aborted de­vel­op­ment of such an un­der­tak­ing on Uran­tia.

51:3.3A Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve are, in po­ten­tial, the full gift of phys­i­cal grace to the mor­tal races. The chief busi­ness of such an im­ported pair is to mul­ti­ply and to up­lift the chil­dren of time. But there is no im­me­di­ate in­ter­breed­ing be­tween the peo­ple of the gar­den and those of the world; for many gen­er­a­tions Adam and Eve re­main bi­o­log­i­cally seg­re­gated from the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals while they build up a strong race of their or­der. This is the ori­gin of the vi­o­let race on the in­hab­ited worlds.

51:3.4The plans for race up­step­ping are pre­pared by the Plan­e­tary Prince and his staff and are ex­e­cuted by Adam and Eve. And this was where your Ma­te­rial Son and his com­pan­ion were placed at great dis­ad­van­tage when they ar­rived on Uran­tia. Cali­gas­tia of­fered crafty and ef­fec­tive op­po­si­tion to the Adamic mis­sion; and not­with­stand­ing that the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia had duly warned both Adam and Eve con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary dan­gers in­her­ent in the pres­ence of the re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince, this arch­re­bel, by a wily stratagem, out­ma­neu­vered the Edenic pair and en­trapped them into a vi­o­la­tion of the covenant of their trustee­ship as the vis­i­ble rulers of your world. The traitorous Plan­e­tary Prince did suc­ceed in com­pro­mis­ing your Adam and Eve, but he failed in his ef­fort to in­volve them in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

51:3.5The fifth or­der of an­gels, the plan­e­tary helpers, are at­tached to the Adamic mis­sion, al­ways ac­com­pa­ny­ing the Plan­e­tary Adams on their world ad­ven­tures. The corps of ini­tial as­sign­ment is usu­ally about one hun­dred thou­sand. When the work of the Uran­tia Adam and Eve was pre­ma­turely launched, when they de­parted from the or­dained plan, it was one of the se­raphic Voices of the Gar­den who re­mon­strated with them con­cern­ing their rep­re­hen­si­ble con­duct. And your nar­ra­tive of this oc­cur­rence well il­lus­trates the man­ner in which your plan­e­tary tra­di­tions have tended to as­cribe ev­ery­thing super­nat­u­ral to the Lord God. Be­cause of this, Uran­tians have of­ten be­come con­fused con­cern­ing the na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther since the words and acts of all his as­so­ciates and sub­or­di­nates have been so gen­er­ally at­tributed to him. In the case of Adam and Eve, the an­gel of the Gar­den was none other than the chief of the plan­e­tary helpers then on duty. This ser­a­phim, Solo­nia, pro­claimed the mis­car­riage of the di­vine plan and req­ui­si­tioned the re­turn of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers to Uran­tia.

51:3.6The sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures are in­dige­nous to the Adamic mis­sions. As with the cor­po­real staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince, the de­scen­dants of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are of two or­ders: their phys­i­cal chil­dren and the sec­ondary or­der of mid­way crea­tures. These ma­te­rial but or­di­nar­ily in­vis­i­ble plan­e­tary min­is­ters con­tribute much to the ad­vance­ment of civ­i­liza­tion and even to the sub­jec­tion of in­sub­or­di­nate mi­nori­ties who may seek to sub­vert so­cial de­vel­op­ment and spir­i­tual prog­ress.

51:3.7The sec­ondary mid­way­ers should not be con­fused with the pri­mary or­der, who date from the near times of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. On Uran­tia a ma­jor­ity of these ear­lier mid­way crea­tures went into re­bel­lion with Cali­gas­tia and have, since Pen­te­cost, been in­terned. Many of the Adamic group who did not re­main loyal to the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion are like­wise in­terned.

51:3.8On the day of Pen­te­cost the loyal pri­mary and the sec­ondary mid­way­ers ef­fected a vol­un­tary union and have func­tioned as one unit in world af­fairs ever since. They serve un­der the lead­er­ship of loyal mid­way­ers al­ter­nately cho­sen from the two groups.

51:3.9Your world has been vis­ited by four or­ders of son­ship: Cali­gas­tia, the Plan­e­tary Prince; Adam and Eve of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God; Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, the “sage of Salem” in the days of Abra­ham; and Christ Mi­chael, who came as the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. How much more ef­fec­tive and beau­ti­ful it would have been had Mi­chael, the su­preme ruler of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, been wel­comed to your world by a loyal and ef­fi­cient Plan­e­tary Prince and a de­voted and suc­cess­ful Ma­te­rial Son, both of whom could have done so much to en­hance the life­work and mis­sion of the be­stowal Son! But not all worlds have been so un­for­tu­nate as Uran­tia, nei­ther has the mis­sion of the Plan­e­tary Adams al­ways been so dif­fi­cult or so haz­ardous. When they are suc­cess­ful, they con­tribute to the de­vel­op­ment of a great peo­ple, con­tin­u­ing as the vis­i­ble heads of plan­e­tary af­fairs even far into the age when such a world is set­tled in light and life.