Government on a Neighboring Planet

72:12.1Al­though the so­ci­ety and gov­ern­ment of this unique peo­ple are in many re­spects su­pe­rior to those of the Uran­tia na­tions, it should be stated that on the other con­ti­nents (there are eleven on this planet) the gov­ern­ments are de­cid­edly in­fe­rior to the more ad­vanced na­tions of Uran­tia.

72:12.2Just now this su­pe­rior gov­ern­ment is plan­ning to es­tab­lish am­bas­sado­rial re­la­tions with the in­fe­rior peo­ples, and for the first time a great re­li­gious leader has arisen who ad­vo­cates the send­ing of mis­sion­ar­ies to these sur­round­ing na­tions. We fear they are about to make the mis­take that so many oth­ers have made when they have en­deav­ored to force a su­pe­rior cul­ture and re­li­gion upon other races. What a won­der­ful thing could be done on this world if this con­ti­nen­tal na­tion of ad­vanced cul­ture would only go out and bring to it­self the best of the neigh­bor­ing peo­ples and then, af­ter ed­u­cat­ing them, send them back as emis­saries of cul­ture to their be­nighted breth­ren! Of course, if a Mag­is­te­rial Son should soon come to this ad­vanced na­tion, great things could quickly hap­pen on this world.

72:12.3This recital of the af­fairs of a neigh­bor­ing planet is made by spe­cial per­mis­sion with the in­tent of ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion and aug­ment­ing gov­ern­men­tal evo­lu­tion on Uran­tia. Much more could be nar­rated that would no doubt in­ter­est and in­trigue Uran­tians, but this dis­clo­sure cov­ers the lim­its of our per­mis­sive man­date.

72:12.4Uran­tians should, how­ever, take note that their sis­ter sphere in the Sa­ta­nia fam­ily has ben­e­fited by nei­ther mag­is­te­rial nor be­stowal mis­sions of the Par­a­dise Sons. Nei­ther are the var­i­ous peo­ples of Uran­tia set off from each other by such dis­par­ity of cul­ture as sep­a­rates the con­ti­nen­tal na­tion from its plan­e­tary fel­lows.

72:12.5The pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth pro­vides the spir­i­tual foun­da­tion for the re­al­iza­tion of great achieve­ments in the in­ter­ests of the hu­man race of the be­stowal world. Uran­tia is there­fore far bet­ter pre­pared for the more im­me­di­ate re­al­iza­tion of a plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment with its laws, mech­a­nisms, sym­bols, con­ven­tions, and lan­guage—all of which could con­tribute so might­ily to the es­tab­lish­ment of world-wide peace un­der law and could lead to the some­time dawn­ing of a real age of spir­i­tual striv­ing; and such an age is the plan­e­tary thresh­old to the utopian ages of light and life.

72:12.6[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]