The Planetary Prince of Urantia

66:3.1The head­quar­ters of the Plan­e­tary Prince was sit­u­ated in the Per­sian Gulf re­gion of those days, in the dis­trict cor­re­spond­ing to later Mes­o­po­ta­mia.

66:3.2The cli­mate and land­scape in the Mes­o­po­ta­mia of those times were in ev­ery way fa­vor­able to the un­der­tak­ings of the Prince’s staff and their as­sis­tants, very dif­fer­ent from con­di­tions which have some­times since pre­vailed. It was nec­es­sary to have such a fa­vor­ing cli­mate as a part of the nat­u­ral en­vi­ron­ment de­signed to in­duce prim­i­tive Uran­tians to make cer­tain ini­tial ad­vances in cul­ture and civ­i­liza­tion. The one great task of those ages was to trans­form man from a hunter to a herder, with the hope that later on he would evolve into a peace-lov­ing, home-abid­ing farmer.

66:3.3The head­quar­ters of the Plan­e­tary Prince on Uran­tia was typ­i­cal of such sta­tions on a young and de­vel­op­ing sphere. The nu­cleus of the Prince’s set­tle­ment was a very sim­ple but beau­ti­ful city, en­closed within a wall forty feet high. This world cen­ter of cul­ture was named Dala­ma­tia in honor of Dali­gas­tia.

66:3.4The city was laid out in ten sub­di­vi­sions with the head­quar­ters man­sions of the ten coun­cils of the cor­po­real staff sit­u­ated at the cen­ters of these sub­di­vi­sions. Cen­ter­most in the city was the tem­ple of the un­seen Fa­ther. The ad­min­is­tra­tive head­quar­ters of the Prince and his as­so­ciates was ar­ranged in twelve cham­bers im­me­di­ately grouped about the tem­ple it­self.

66:3.5The build­ings of Dala­ma­tia were all one story ex­cept the coun­cil head­quar­ters, which were two sto­ries, and the cen­tral tem­ple of the Fa­ther of all, which was small but three sto­ries in height.

66:3.6The city rep­re­sented the best prac­tices of those early days in build­ing ma­te­rial—brick. Very lit­tle stone or wood was used. Home build­ing and vil­lage ar­chi­tec­ture among the sur­round­ing peo­ples were greatly im­proved by the Dala­ma­tian ex­am­ple.

66:3.7Near the Prince’s head­quar­ters there dwelt all col­ors and strata of hu­man be­ings. And it was from these near-by tribes that the first stu­dents of the Prince’s schools were re­cruited. Al­though these early schools of Dala­ma­tia were crude, they pro­vided all that could be done for the men and women of that prim­i­tive age.

66:3.8The Prince’s cor­po­real staff con­tin­u­ously gath­ered about them the su­pe­rior in­di­vid­u­als of the sur­round­ing tribes and, af­ter train­ing and in­spir­ing these stu­dents, sent them back as teach­ers and lead­ers of their re­spec­tive peo­ples.