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Paper 66

The Planetary Prince of Urantia

Melchizedek

66:0.1The ad­vent of a La­non­an­dek Son on an av­er­age world sig­ni­fies that will, the abil­ity to choose the path of eter­nal sur­vival, has de­vel­oped in the mind of prim­i­tive man. But on Uran­tia the Plan­e­tary Prince ar­rived al­most half a mil­lion years af­ter the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will.

66:0.2About five hun­dred thou­sand years ago and con­cur­rent with the ap­pear­ance of the six col­ored or San­gik races, Cali­gas­tia, the Plan­e­tary Prince, ar­rived on Uran­tia. There were al­most one-half bil­lion prim­i­tive hu­man be­ings on earth at the time of the Prince’s ar­rival, and they were well scat­tered over Eu­rope, Asia, and Africa. The Prince’s head­quar­ters, es­tab­lished in Mes­o­po­ta­mia, was at about the cen­ter of world pop­u­la­tion.