Planetary Mortal Epochs

52:7.1The Sons of the next or­der to ar­rive on the av­er­age evo­lu­tion­ary world are the Trin­ity Teacher Sons, the di­vine Sons of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. Again we find Uran­tia out of step with its sis­ter spheres in that your Je­sus has prom­ised to re­turn. That prom­ise he will cer­tainly ful­fill, but no one knows whether his sec­ond com­ing will pre­cede or fol­low the ap­pear­ances of Mag­is­te­rial or Teacher Sons on Uran­tia.

52:7.2The Teacher Sons come in groups to the spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing worlds. A plan­e­tary Teacher Son is as­sisted and sup­ported by sev­enty pri­mary Sons, twelve sec­ondary Sons, and three of the high­est and most ex­pe­ri­enced of the su­preme or­der of Day­nals. This corps will re­main for some time on the world, long enough to ef­fect the tran­si­tion from the evo­lu­tion­ary ages to the era of light and life—not less than one thou­sand years of plan­e­tary time and of­ten con­sid­er­ably longer. This mis­sion is a Trin­ity con­tri­bu­tion to the an­te­ced­ent ef­forts of all the di­vine per­son­al­i­ties who have min­is­tered to an in­hab­ited world.

52:7.3The rev­e­la­tion of truth is now ex­tended to the cen­tral uni­verse and to Par­a­dise. The races are be­com­ing highly spir­i­tual. A great peo­ple has evolved and a great age is ap­proach­ing. The ed­u­ca­tional, eco­nomic, and ad­min­is­tra­tive sys­tems of the planet are un­der­go­ing rad­i­cal trans­for­ma­tions. New val­ues and re­la­tion­ships are be­ing es­tab­lished. The king­dom of heaven is ap­pear­ing on earth, and the glory of God is be­ing shed abroad in the world.

52:7.4This is the dis­pen­sa­tion when many mor­tals are trans­lated from among the liv­ing. As the era of Trin­ity Teacher Sons pro­gresses, the spir­i­tual al­le­giance of the mor­tals of time be­comes more and more uni­ver­sal. Nat­u­ral death be­comes less fre­quent as the Ad­justers in­creas­ingly fuse with their sub­jects dur­ing the life­time in the flesh. The planet even­tu­ally is classed as of the pri­mary mod­i­fied or­der of mor­tal as­cen­sion.

52:7.5Life dur­ing this era is pleas­ant and prof­itable. De­gen­er­acy and the an­ti­so­cial end prod­ucts of the long evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle have been vir­tu­ally oblit­er­ated. The length of life ap­proaches five hun­dred Uran­tia years, and the re­pro­duc­tive rate of racial in­crease is in­tel­li­gently con­trolled. An en­tirely new or­der of so­ci­ety has ar­rived. There are still great dif­fer­ences among mor­tals, but the state of so­ci­ety more nearly ap­proaches the ide­als of so­cial broth­er­hood and spir­i­tual equal­ity. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment is van­ish­ing, and the world is pass­ing un­der the rule of in­di­vid­ual self-con­trol. The func­tion of gov­ern­ment is chiefly di­rected to col­lec­tive tasks of so­cial ad­min­is­tra­tion and eco­nomic co-or­di­na­tion. The golden age is com­ing on apace; the tem­po­ral goal of the long and in­tense plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle is in sight. The re­ward of the ages is soon to be re­al­ized; the wis­dom of the Gods is about to be man­i­fested.

52:7.6The phys­i­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion of a world dur­ing this age re­quires about one hour each day on the part of ev­ery adult in­di­vid­ual; that is, the equiv­a­lent of one Uran­tia hour. The planet is in close touch with uni­verse af­fairs, and its peo­ple scan the lat­est broad­casts with the same keen in­ter­est you now man­i­fest in the lat­est edi­tions of your daily news­pa­pers. These races are oc­cu­pied with a thou­sand things of in­ter­est un­known on your world.

52:7.7In­creas­ingly, true plan­e­tary al­le­giance to the Su­preme Be­ing grows. Gen­er­a­tion af­ter gen­er­a­tion, more and more of the race step into line with those who prac­tice jus­tice and live mercy. Slowly but surely the world is be­ing won to the joy­ous ser­vice of the Sons of God. The phys­i­cal dif­fi­cul­ties and ma­te­rial prob­lems have been largely solved; the planet is ripen­ing for ad­vanced life and a more set­tled ex­is­tence.

52:7.8From time to time through­out their dis­pen­sa­tion, Teacher Sons con­tinue to come to these peace­ful worlds. They do not leave a world un­til they ob­serve that the evo­lu­tion­ary plan, as it con­cerns that planet, is work­ing smoothly. A Mag­is­te­rial Son of judg­ment usu­ally ac­com­pa­nies the Teacher Sons on their suc­ces­sive mis­sions, while an­other such Son func­tions at the time of their de­par­ture, and these ju­di­cial ac­tions con­tinue from age to age through­out the du­ra­tion of the mor­tal regime of time and space.

52:7.9Each re­cur­ring mis­sion of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons suc­ces­sively ex­alts such a su­per­nal world to ever-as­cend­ing heights of wis­dom, spir­i­tu­al­ity, and cos­mic il­lu­mi­na­tion. But the no­ble na­tives of such a sphere are still fi­nite and mor­tal. Noth­ing is per­fect; nev­er­the­less, there is evolv­ing a qual­ity of near per­fec­tion in the op­er­a­tion of an im­per­fect world and in the lives of its hu­man in­hab­i­tants.

52:7.10The Trin­ity Teacher Sons may re­turn many times to the same world. But sooner or later, in con­nec­tion with the ter­mi­na­tion of one of their mis­sions, the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign, and the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pears to pro­claim the en­trance of such a world upon the era of light and life.

52:7.11It was of the con­clu­sion of the ter­mi­nal mis­sion of the Teacher Sons (at least that would be the chronol­ogy on a nor­mal world) that John wrote: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth and the new Je­ru­sa­lem com­ing down from God out of heaven, pre­pared as a princess adorned for the prince.”

52:7.12This is the same ren­o­vated earth, the ad­vanced plan­e­tary stage, that the olden seer en­vi­sioned when he wrote: “‘For, as the new heav­ens and the new earth, which I will make, shall re­main be­fore me, so shall you and your chil­dren sur­vive; and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to an­other and from one Sab­bath to an­other all flesh shall come to wor­ship be­fore me,’ says the Lord.”

52:7.13It is the mor­tals of such an age who are de­scribed as “a cho­sen gen­er­a­tion, a royal priest­hood, a holy na­tion, an ex­alted peo­ple; and you shall show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of dark­ness into this mar­velous light.”

52:7.14No mat­ter what the spe­cial nat­u­ral his­tory of an in­di­vid­ual planet may be, no dif­fer­ence whether a realm has been wholly loyal, tainted with evil, or cursed by sin—no mat­ter what the an­tecedents may be—sooner or later the grace of God and the min­istry of an­gels will usher in the day of the ad­vent of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons; and their de­par­ture, fol­low­ing their fi­nal mis­sion, will in­au­gu­rate this su­perb era of light and life.

52:7.15All the worlds of Sa­ta­nia can join in the hope of the one who wrote: “Nev­er­the­less we, ac­cord­ing to His prom­ise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwells righ­teous­ness. Where­fore, beloved, see­ing that you look for such things, be dili­gent that you may be found by Him in peace, with­out spot and blame­less.”

52:7.16The de­par­ture of the Teacher Son corps, at the end of their first or some sub­se­quent reign, ush­ers in the dawn of the era of light and life—the thresh­old of the tran­si­tion from time to the vestibule of eter­nity. The plan­e­tary re­al­iza­tion of this era of light and life far more than equals the fond­est ex­pec­ta­tions of Uran­tia mor­tals who have en­ter­tained no more farsee­ing con­cepts of the fu­ture life than those em­braced within re­li­gious be­liefs which de­pict heaven as the im­me­di­ate des­tiny and fi­nal dwell­ing place of sur­viv­ing mor­tals.

52:7.17[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger tem­porar­ily at­tached to the staff of Ga­briel.]