The Midway Creatures

77:6.1While the pri­mary mid­way­ers had a well-nigh super­hu­man ori­gin, the sec­ondary or­der are the off­spring of the pure Adamic stock united with a hu­man­ized de­scen­dant of an­ces­tors com­mon to the parent­age of the se­nior corps.

77:6.2Among the chil­dren of Adam­son there were just six­teen of the pe­cu­liar pro­gen­i­tors of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers. These unique chil­dren were equally di­vided as re­gards sex, and each cou­ple was ca­pa­ble of pro­duc­ing a sec­ondary mid­wayer ev­ery sev­enty days by a com­bined tech­nique of sex and non­sex li­ai­son. And such a phe­nom­e­non was never pos­si­ble on earth be­fore that time, nor has it ever oc­curred since.

77:6.3These six­teen chil­dren lived and died (ex­cept for their pe­cu­liar­i­ties) as mor­tals of the realm, but their elec­tri­cally en­er­gized off­spring live on and on, not be­ing sub­ject to the lim­i­ta­tions of mor­tal flesh.

77:6.4Each of the eight cou­ples even­tu­ally pro­duced 248 mid­way­ers, and thus did the orig­i­nal sec­ondary corps—1,984 in num­ber—come into ex­is­tence. There are eight sub­groups of sec­ondary mid­way­ers. They are des­ig­nated as A-B-C the first, sec­ond, third, and so on. And then there are D-E-F the first, sec­ond, and so on.

77:6.5Af­ter the de­fault of Adam the pri­mary mid­way­ers re­turned to the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, while the sec­ondary group were at­tached to the Adam­son cen­ter un­til his death. Thirty-three of these sec­ondary mid­way­ers, the chiefs of their or­ga­ni­za­tion at the death of Adam­son, en­deav­ored to swing the whole or­der over to the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, thus ef­fect­ing a li­ai­son with the pri­mary corps. But fail­ing to ac­com­plish this, they de­serted their com­pan­ions and went over in a body to the ser­vice of the plan­e­tary re­ceivers.

77:6.6Af­ter the death of Adam­son the re­main­der of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers be­came a strange, un­or­ga­nized, and un­at­tached in­flu­ence on Uran­tia. From that time to the days of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek they led an ir­reg­u­lar and un­or­ga­nized ex­is­tence. They were par­tially brought un­der con­trol by this Mel­chiz­e­dek but were still pro­duc­tive of much mis­chief up to the days of Christ Mi­chael. And dur­ing his so­journ on earth they all made fi­nal de­ci­sions as to their fu­ture des­tiny, the loyal ma­jor­ity then en­list­ing un­der the lead­er­ship of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.