Planetary Mortal Epochs

52:3.1When the orig­i­nal im­pe­tus of evo­lu­tion­ary life has run its bi­o­logic course, when man has reached the apex of an­i­mal de­vel­op­ment, there ar­rives the sec­ond or­der of son­ship, and the sec­ond dis­pen­sa­tion of grace and min­istry is in­au­gu­rated. This is true on all evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. When the high­est pos­si­ble level of evo­lu­tion­ary life has been at­tained, when prim­i­tive man has as­cended as far as pos­si­ble in the bi­o­logic scale, a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter al­ways ap­pear on the planet, hav­ing been dis­patched by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

52:3.2Thought Ad­justers are in­creas­ingly be­stowed upon the post-Adamic men, and in con­stantly aug­mented num­bers these mor­tals at­tain ca­pac­ity for sub­se­quent Ad­juster fu­sion. While func­tion­ing as de­scend­ing Sons, the Adams do not pos­sess Ad­justers, but their plan­e­tary off­spring—di­rect and mixed—be­come le­git­i­mate can­di­dates for the re­cep­tion, in due time, of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. By the ter­mi­na­tion of the post-Adamic age the planet is in pos­ses­sion of its full quota of ce­les­tial min­is­ters; only the fu­sion Ad­justers are not yet uni­ver­sally be­stowed.

52:3.3It is the prime pur­pose of the Adamic regime to in­flu­ence evolv­ing man to com­plete the tran­sit from the hunter and herder stage of civ­i­liza­tion to that of the agri­cul­tur­ist and hor­ti­cul­tur­ist, to be later sup­ple­mented by the ap­pear­ance of the ur­ban and in­dus­trial ad­juncts to civ­i­liza­tion. Ten thou­sand years of this dis­pen­sa­tion of the bi­o­logic up­lifters is suf­fi­cient to ef­fect a mar­velous trans­for­ma­tion. Twenty-five thou­sand years of such an ad­min­is­tra­tion of the con­joint wis­dom of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the Ma­te­rial Sons usu­ally ripens the sphere for the ad­vent of a Mag­is­te­rial Son.

52:3.4This age usu­ally wit­nesses the com­ple­tion of the elim­i­na­tion of the un­fit and the still fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the racial strains; on nor­mal worlds the de­fec­tive bes­tial ten­den­cies are very nearly elim­i­nated from the re­pro­duc­ing stocks of the realm.

52:3.5The Adamic progeny never amal­ga­mate with the in­fe­rior strains of the evo­lu­tion­ary races. Nei­ther is it the di­vine plan for the Plan­e­tary Adam or Eve to mate, per­son­ally, with the evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples. This race-im­prove­ment project is the task of their progeny. But the off­spring of the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are mo­bi­lized for gen­er­a­tions be­fore the racial-amal­ga­ma­tion min­istry is in­au­gu­rated.

52:3.6The re­sult of the gift of the Adamic life plasm to the mor­tal races is an im­me­di­ate up­step­ping of in­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity and an ac­cel­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual prog­ress. There is usu­ally some phys­i­cal im­prove­ment also. On an av­er­age world the post-Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion is an age of great in­ven­tion, en­ergy con­trol, and me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ment. This is the era of the ap­pear­ance of mul­ti­form man­u­fac­ture and the con­trol of nat­u­ral forces; it is the golden age of ex­plo­ration and the fi­nal sub­du­ing of the planet. Much of the ma­te­rial prog­ress of a world oc­curs dur­ing this time of the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the de­vel­op­ment of the phys­i­cal sci­ences, just such an epoch as Uran­tia is now ex­pe­ri­enc­ing. Your world is a full dis­pen­sa­tion and more be­hind the av­er­age plan­e­tary sched­ule.

52:3.7By the end of the Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion on a nor­mal planet the races are prac­ti­cally blended, so that it can be truly pro­claimed that “God has made of one blood all the na­tions,” and that his Son “has made of one color all peo­ples.” The color of such an amal­ga­mated race is some­what of an olive shade of the vi­o­let hue, the racial “white” of the spheres.

52:3.8Prim­i­tive man is for the most part car­niv­o­rous; the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters do not eat meat, but their off­spring within a few gen­er­a­tions usu­ally grav­i­tate to the om­niv­o­rous level, al­though whole groups of their de­scen­dants some­times re­main non­flesh eaters. This dou­ble ori­gin of the post-Adamic races ex­plains how such blended hu­man stocks ex­hibit an­a­tomic ves­tiges be­long­ing to both the her­biv­o­rous and car­niv­o­rous an­i­mal groups.

52:3.9Within ten thou­sand years of racial amal­ga­ma­tion the re­sul­tant stocks show vary­ing de­grees of an­a­tomic blend, some strains car­ry­ing more of the marks of the non­flesh-eat­ing an­ces­try, oth­ers ex­hibit­ing more of the dis­tin­guish­ing traits and phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of their car­niv­o­rous evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gen­i­tors. The ma­jor­ity of these world races soon be­come om­niv­o­rous, sub­sist­ing upon a wide range of viands from both the an­i­mal and veg­etable king­doms.

52:3.10The post-Adamic epoch is the dis­pen­sa­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al­ism. With the near com­ple­tion of the task of race blend­ing, na­tion­al­ism wanes, and the broth­er­hood of man re­ally be­gins to ma­te­ri­al­ize. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment be­gins to take the place of the monar­chial or pa­ter­nal form of ruler­ship. The ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem be­comes world-wide, and grad­u­ally the lan­guages of the races give way to the tongue of the vi­o­let peo­ple. Uni­ver­sal peace and co-op­er­a­tion are sel­dom at­tained un­til the races are fairly well blended, and un­til they speak a com­mon lan­guage.

52:3.11Dur­ing the clos­ing cen­turies of the post-Adamic age there de­vel­ops new in­ter­est in art, mu­sic, and lit­er­a­ture, and this world-wide awak­en­ing is the sig­nal for the ap­pear­ance of a Mag­is­te­rial Son. The crown­ing de­vel­op­ment of this era is the uni­ver­sal in­ter­est in in­tel­lec­tual re­al­i­ties, true phi­los­o­phy. Re­li­gion be­comes less na­tion­al­is­tic, be­comes more and more a plan­e­tary af­fair. New rev­e­la­tions of truth char­ac­ter­ize these ages, and the Most Highs of the con­stel­la­tions be­gin to rule in the af­fairs of men. Truth is re­vealed up to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the con­stel­la­tions.

52:3.12Great eth­i­cal ad­vance­ment char­ac­ter­izes this era; the broth­er­hood of man is the goal of its so­ci­ety. World-wide peace—the ces­sa­tion of race con­flict and na­tional an­i­mos­ity—is the in­di­ca­tor of plan­e­tary ripeness for the ad­vent of the third or­der of son­ship, the Mag­is­te­rial Son.