The Dawn Races of Early Man

62:6.1We, the Life Car­ri­ers on Uran­tia, had passed through the long vigil of watch­ful wait­ing since the day we first planted the life plasm in the plan­e­tary wa­ters, and nat­u­rally the ap­pear­ance of the first re­ally in­tel­li­gent and vo­li­tional be­ings brought to us great joy and su­preme sat­is­fac­tion.

62:6.2We had been watch­ing the twins de­velop men­tally through our ob­ser­va­tion of the func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its as­signed to Uran­tia at the time of our ar­rival on the planet. Through­out the long evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment of plan­e­tary life, these tire­less mind min­is­ters had ever reg­is­tered their in­creas­ing abil­ity to con­tact with the suc­ces­sively ex­pand­ing brain ca­pac­i­ties of the pro­gres­sively su­pe­rior an­i­mal crea­tures.

62:6.3At first only the spirit of in­tu­ition could func­tion in the in­stinc­tive and re­flex be­hav­ior of the pri­mor­dial an­i­mal life. With the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of higher types, the spirit of un­der­stand­ing was able to en­dow such crea­tures with the gift of spon­ta­neous as­so­ci­a­tion of ideas. Later on we ob­served the spirit of cour­age in op­er­a­tion; evolv­ing an­i­mals re­ally de­vel­oped a crude form of pro­tec­tive self-con­scious­ness. Sub­se­quent to the ap­pear­ance of the mam­malian groups, we be­held the spirit of knowl­edge man­i­fest­ing it­self in in­creased mea­sure. And the evo­lu­tion of the higher mam­mals brought the func­tion of the spirit of coun­sel, with the re­sult­ing growth of the herd in­stinct and the be­gin­nings of prim­i­tive so­cial de­vel­op­ment.

62:6.4In­creas­ingly, on down through the dawn mam­mals, the mid-mam­mals, and the Pri­mates, we had ob­served the aug­mented ser­vice of the first five ad­ju­tants. But never had the re­main­ing two, the high­est mind min­is­ters, been able to func­tion in the Uran­tia type of evo­lu­tion­ary mind.

62:6.5Imag­ine our joy one day—the twins were about ten years old—when the spirit of wor­ship made its first con­tact with the mind of the fe­male twin and shortly there­after with the male. We knew that some­thing closely akin to hu­man mind was ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion; and when, about a year later, they fi­nally re­solved, as a re­sult of med­i­ta­tive thought and pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion, to flee from home and jour­ney north, then did the spirit of wis­dom be­gin to func­tion on Uran­tia and in these two now rec­og­nized hu­man minds.

62:6.6There was an im­me­di­ate and new or­der of mo­bi­liza­tion of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. We were alive with ex­pec­ta­tion; we re­al­ized that the long-waited-for hour was ap­proach­ing; we knew we were upon the thresh­old of the re­al­iza­tion of our pro­tracted ef­fort to evolve will crea­tures on Uran­tia.