Life Establishment on Urantia

58:3.1Dur­ing the ear­lier times of uni­verse ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion the space re­gions are in­ter­spersed with vast hy­dro­gen clouds, just such as­tro­nomic dust clus­ters as now char­ac­ter­ize many re­gions through­out re­mote space. Much of the or­ga­nized mat­ter which the blaz­ing suns break down and dis­perse as ra­di­ant en­ergy was orig­i­nally built up in these early ap­pear­ing hy­dro­gen clouds of space. Un­der cer­tain un­usual con­di­tions atom dis­rup­tion also oc­curs at the nu­cleus of the larger hy­dro­gen masses. And all of these phe­nom­ena of atom build­ing and atom dis­so­lu­tion, as in the highly heated neb­u­lae, are at­tended by the emer­gence of flood tides of short space rays of ra­di­ant en­ergy. Ac­com­pa­ny­ing these di­verse ra­di­a­tions is a form of space-en­ergy un­known on Uran­tia.

58:3.2This short-ray en­ergy charge of uni­verse space is four hun­dred times greater than all other forms of ra­di­ant en­ergy ex­ist­ing in the or­ga­nized space do­mains. The out­put of short space rays, whether com­ing from the blaz­ing neb­u­lae, tense elec­tric fields, outer space, or the vast hy­dro­gen dust clouds, is mod­i­fied qual­i­ta­tively and quan­ti­ta­tively by fluc­tu­a­tions of, and sud­den ten­sion changes in, tem­per­a­ture, grav­ity, and elec­tronic pres­sures.

58:3.3These even­tu­al­i­ties in the ori­gin of the space rays are de­ter­mined by many cos­mic oc­cur­rences as well as by the or­bits of cir­cu­lat­ing mat­ter, which vary from mod­i­fied cir­cles to ex­treme el­lipses. Phys­i­cal con­di­tions may also be greatly al­tered be­cause the elec­tron spin is some­times in the op­po­site di­rec­tion from that of the grosser mat­ter be­hav­ior, even in the same phys­i­cal zone.

58:3.4The vast hy­dro­gen clouds are ver­i­ta­ble cos­mic chem­i­cal lab­o­ra­to­ries, har­bor­ing all phases of evolv­ing en­ergy and meta­mor­phos­ing mat­ter. Great en­ergy ac­tions also oc­cur in the marginal gases of the great bi­nary stars which so fre­quently over­lap and hence ex­ten­sively com­min­gle. But none of these tremen­dous and far-flung en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of space ex­erts the least in­flu­ence upon the phe­nom­ena of or­ga­nized life—the germ plasm of liv­ing things and be­ings. These en­ergy con­di­tions of space are ger­mane to the es­sen­tial en­vi­ron­ment of life es­tab­lish­ment, but they are not ef­fec­tive in the sub­se­quent mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the in­her­i­tance fac­tors of the germ plasm as are some of the longer rays of ra­di­ant en­ergy. The im­planted life of the Life Car­ri­ers is fully re­sis­tant to all of this amaz­ing flood of the short space rays of uni­verse en­ergy.

58:3.5All of these es­sen­tial cos­mic con­di­tions had to evolve to a fa­vor­able sta­tus be­fore the Life Car­ri­ers could ac­tu­ally be­gin the es­tab­lish­ment of life on Uran­tia.