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Paper 52

Planetary Mortal Epochs

Mighty Messenger

52:0.1From the in­cep­tion of life on an evo­lu­tion­ary planet to the time of its fi­nal flow­er­ing in the era of light and life, there ap­pear upon the stage of world ac­tion at least seven epochs of hu­man life. These suc­ces­sive ages are de­ter­mined by the plan­e­tary mis­sions of the di­vine Sons, and on an av­er­age in­hab­ited world these epochs ap­pear in the fol­low­ing or­der:

52:0.21. Pre-Plan­e­tary Prince Man.

52:0.32. Post-Plan­e­tary Prince Man.

52:0.43. Post-Adamic Man.

52:0.54. Post-Mag­is­te­rial Son Man.

52:0.65. Post-Be­stowal Son Man.

52:0.76. Post-Teacher Son Man.

52:0.87. The Era of Light and Life.

52:0.9The worlds of space, as soon as they are phys­i­cally suit­able for life, are placed on the reg­istry of the Life Car­ri­ers, and in due time these Sons are dis­patched to such plan­ets for the pur­pose of ini­ti­at­ing life. The en­tire pe­riod from life ini­ti­a­tion to the ap­pear­ance of man is des­ig­nated the pre­hu­man era and pre­cedes the suc­ces­sive mor­tal epochs con­sid­ered in this nar­ra­tive.