The Dawn Races of Early Man

62:7.1We did not have to wait long. At noon, the day af­ter the run­away of the twins, there oc­curred the ini­tial test flash of the uni­verse cir­cuit sig­nals at the plan­e­tary re­cep­tion-fo­cus of Uran­tia. We were, of course, all astir with the re­al­iza­tion that a great event was im­pend­ing; but since this world was a life-ex­per­i­ment sta­tion, we had not the slight­est idea of just how we would be ap­prised of the rec­og­ni­tion of in­tel­li­gent life on the planet. But we were not long in sus­pense. On the third day af­ter the elope­ment of the twins, and be­fore the Life Car­rier corps de­parted, there ar­rived the Neb­a­don arch­an­gel of ini­tial plan­e­tary cir­cuit es­tab­lish­ment.

62:7.2It was an event­ful day on Uran­tia when our small group gath­ered about the plan­e­tary pole of space com­mu­ni­ca­tion and re­ceived the first mes­sage from Sal­ving­ton over the newly es­tab­lished mind cir­cuit of the planet. And this first mes­sage, dic­tated by the chief of the arch­an­gel corps, said:

62:7.3“To the Life Car­ri­ers on Uran­tia—Greet­ings! We trans­mit as­sur­ance of great plea­sure on Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem in honor of the reg­is­tra­tion on the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don of the sig­nal of the ex­is­tence on Uran­tia of mind of will dig­nity. The pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion of the twins to flee north­ward and seg­re­gate their off­spring from their in­fe­rior an­ces­tors has been noted. This is the first de­ci­sion of mind—the hu­man type of mind—on Uran­tia and au­to­mat­i­cally es­tab­lishes the cir­cuit of com­mu­ni­ca­tion over which this ini­tial mes­sage of ac­knowl­edg­ment is trans­mit­ting.”

62:7.4Next over this new cir­cuit came the greet­ings of the Most Highs of Eden­tia, con­tain­ing in­struc­tions for the res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers for­bid­ding us to in­ter­fere with the pat­tern of life we had es­tab­lished. We were di­rected not to in­ter­vene in the af­fairs of hu­man prog­ress. It should not be in­ferred that Life Car­ri­ers ever ar­bi­trar­ily and me­chan­i­cally in­ter­fere with the nat­u­ral out­work­ing of the plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion­ary plans, for we do not. But up to this time we had been per­mit­ted to ma­nip­u­late the en­vi­ron­ment and shield the life plasm in a spe­cial man­ner, and it was this ex­traor­di­nary, but wholly nat­u­ral, super­vi­sion that was to be dis­con­tin­ued.

62:7.5And no sooner had the Most Highs left off speak­ing than the beau­ti­ful mes­sage of Lu­cifer, then sov­er­eign of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem, be­gan to plan­e­tize. Now the Life Car­ri­ers heard the wel­come words of their own chief and re­ceived his per­mis­sion to re­turn to Je­ru­sem. This mes­sage from Lu­cifer con­tained the of­fi­cial ac­cep­tance of the Life Car­ri­ers’ work on Uran­tia and ab­solved us from all fu­ture crit­i­cism of any of our ef­forts to im­prove the life pat­terns of Neb­a­don as es­tab­lished in the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem.

62:7.6These mes­sages from Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem for­mally marked the ter­mi­na­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers’ age­long super­vi­sion of the planet. For ages we had been on duty, as­sisted only by the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. And now, will, the power of choos­ing to wor­ship and to as­cend, hav­ing ap­peared in the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of the planet, we re­al­ized that our work was fin­ished, and our group pre­pared to de­part. Uran­tia be­ing a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world, per­mis­sion was granted to leave be­hind two se­nior Life Car­ri­ers with twelve as­sis­tants, and I was cho­sen as one of this group and have ever since been on Uran­tia.

62:7.7It is just 993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934) that Uran­tia was for­mally rec­og­nized as a planet of hu­man habi­ta­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion had once again achieved the hu­man lev­els of will dig­nity; man had ar­rived on planet 606 of Sa­ta­nia.

62:7.8[Spon­sored by a Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don res­i­dent on Uran­tia.]