The Midway Creatures

77:1.1The pri­mary mid­way­ers have their gen­e­sis in a unique in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual on Uran­tia. We know of the ex­is­tence of sim­i­lar crea­tures on other worlds and in other sys­tems, but they orig­i­nated by dis­sim­i­lar tech­niques.

77:1.2It is well al­ways to bear in mind that the suc­ces­sive be­stowals of the Sons of God on an evolv­ing planet pro­duce marked changes in the spir­i­tual econ­omy of the realm and some­times so mod­ify the work­ings of the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of spir­i­tual and ma­te­rial agen­cies on a planet as to cre­ate sit­u­a­tions in­deed dif­fi­cult of un­der­stand­ing. The sta­tus of the one hun­dred cor­po­real mem­bers of Prince Cali­gas­tia’s staff il­lus­trates just such a unique in­teras­so­ci­a­tion: As as­cen­dant mor­ontia cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem they were super­ma­te­rial crea­tures with­out re­pro­duc­tive pre­rog­a­tives. As de­scen­dant plan­e­tary min­is­ters on Uran­tia they were ma­te­rial sex crea­tures ca­pa­ble of pro­cre­at­ing ma­te­rial off­spring (as some of them later did). What we can­not sat­is­fac­to­rily ex­plain is how these one hun­dred could func­tion in the pa­ren­tal role on a super­ma­te­rial level, but that is ex­actly what hap­pened. A super­ma­te­rial (non­sex­ual) li­ai­son of a male and a fe­male mem­ber of the cor­po­real staff re­sulted in the ap­pear­ance of the first-born of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.

77:1.3It was im­me­di­ately dis­cov­ered that a crea­ture of this or­der, mid­way be­tween the mor­tal and an­gelic lev­els, would be of great ser­vice in car­ry­ing on the af­fairs of the Prince’s head­quar­ters, and each cou­ple of the cor­po­real staff was ac­cord­ingly granted per­mis­sion to pro­duce a sim­i­lar be­ing. This ef­fort re­sulted in the first group of fifty mid­way crea­tures.

77:1.4Af­ter a year of ob­serv­ing the work of this unique group, the Plan­e­tary Prince au­tho­rized the re­pro­duc­tion of mid­way­ers with­out re­stric­tion. This plan was car­ried out as long as the power to cre­ate con­tin­ued, and the orig­i­nal corps of 50,000 was ac­cord­ingly brought into be­ing.

77:1.5A pe­riod of one-half year in­ter­vened be­tween the pro­duc­tion of each mid­wayer, and when one thou­sand such be­ings had been born to each cou­ple, no more were ever forth­com­ing. And there is no ex­pla­na­tion avail­able as to why this power was ex­hausted upon the ap­pear­ance of the one thou­sandth off­spring. No amount of fur­ther ex­per­i­men­ta­tion ever re­sulted in any­thing but fail­ure.

77:1.6These crea­tures con­sti­tuted the in­tel­li­gence corps of the Prince’s ad­min­is­tra­tion. They ranged far and wide, study­ing and ob­serv­ing the world races and ren­der­ing other in­valu­able ser­vices to the Prince and his staff in the work of in­flu­enc­ing hu­man so­ci­ety re­mote from the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters.

77:1.7This regime con­tin­ued un­til the tragic days of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion, which en­snared a lit­tle over four fifths of the pri­mary mid­way­ers. The loyal corps en­tered the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, func­tion­ing un­der the tit­u­lar lead­er­ship of Van un­til the days of Adam.