The Planetary Adams

51:5.1When a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve ar­rive on an in­hab­ited world, they have been fully in­structed by their su­pe­ri­ors as to the best way to ef­fect the im­prove­ment of the ex­ist­ing races of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. The plan of pro­ce­dure is not uni­form; much is left to the judg­ment of the min­is­ter­ing pair, and mis­takes are not in­fre­quent, es­pe­cially on dis­or­dered, in­sur­rec­tionary worlds, such as Uran­tia.

51:5.2Usu­ally the vi­o­let peo­ples do not be­gin to amal­ga­mate with the plan­e­tary na­tives un­til their own group num­bers over one mil­lion. But in the mean­time the staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince pro­claims that the chil­dren of the Gods have come down, as it were, to be one with the races of men; and the peo­ple ea­gerly look for­ward to the day when an­nounce­ment will be made that those who have qual­i­fied as be­long­ing to the su­pe­rior racial strains may pro­ceed to the Gar­den of Eden and be there cho­sen by the sons and daugh­ters of Adam as the evo­lu­tion­ary fa­thers and moth­ers of the new and blended or­der of man­kind.

51:5.3On nor­mal worlds the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve never mate with the evo­lu­tion­ary races. This work of bi­o­logic bet­ter­ment is a func­tion of the Adamic progeny. But these Adamites do not go out among the races; the prince’s staff bring to the Gar­den of Eden the su­pe­rior men and women for vol­un­tary mat­ing with the Adamic off­spring. And on most worlds it is con­sid­ered the high­est honor to be se­lected as a can­di­date for mat­ing with the sons and daugh­ters of the gar­den.

51:5.4For the first time the racial wars and other tribal strug­gles are di­min­ished, while the world races in­creas­ingly strive to qual­ify for rec­og­ni­tion and ad­mis­sion to the gar­den. You can at best have but a very mea­ger idea of how this com­pet­i­tive strug­gle comes to oc­cupy the cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties on a nor­mal planet. This whole scheme of race im­prove­ment was early wrecked on Uran­tia.

51:5.5The vi­o­let race is a monog­a­mous peo­ple, and ev­ery evo­lu­tion­ary man or woman unit­ing with the Adamic sons and daugh­ters pledges not to take other mates and to in­struct his or her chil­dren in sin­gle-mat­ed­ness. The chil­dren of each of these unions are ed­u­cated and trained in the schools of the Plan­e­tary Prince and then are per­mit­ted to go forth to the race of their evo­lu­tion­ary par­ent, there to marry among the se­lected groups of su­pe­rior mor­tals.

51:5.6When this strain of the Ma­te­rial Sons is added to the evolv­ing races of the worlds, a new and greater era of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress is ini­ti­ated. Fol­low­ing this pro­cre­ative out­pour­ing of im­ported abil­ity and super­evo­lu­tion­ary traits there en­sues a suc­ces­sion of rapid strides in civ­i­liza­tion and racial de­vel­op­ment; in one hun­dred thou­sand years more prog­ress is made than in a mil­lion years of for­mer strug­gle. On your world, even in the face of the mis­car­riage of the or­dained plans, great prog­ress has been made since the gift to your peo­ples of Adam’s life plasm.

51:5.7But while the pure-line chil­dren of a plan­e­tary Gar­den of Eden can be­stow them­selves upon the su­pe­rior mem­bers of the evo­lu­tion­ary races and thereby up­step the bi­o­logic level of man­kind, it would not prove ben­e­fi­cial for the higher strains of Uran­tia mor­tals to mate with the lower races; such an un­wise pro­ce­dure would jeop­ar­dize all civ­i­liza­tion on your world. Hav­ing failed to achieve race har­mo­niza­tion by the Adamic tech­nique, you must now work out your plan­e­tary prob­lem of race im­prove­ment by other and largely hu­man meth­ods of adap­ta­tion and con­trol.