corporeal staffs of Planetary Princes

50:3.1On go­ing to a young world, a Plan­e­tary Prince usu­ally takes with him a group of vol­un­teer as­cend­ing be­ings from the lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters. These as­cend­ers ac­com­pany the prince as ad­vis­ers and helpers in the work of early race im­prove­ment. This corps of ma­te­rial helpers con­sti­tutes the con­nect­ing link be­tween the prince and the world races. The Uran­tia Prince, Cali­gas­tia, had a corps of one hun­dred such helpers.

50:3.2Such vol­un­teer as­sis­tants are cit­i­zens of a sys­tem cap­i­tal, and none of them have fused with their in­dwelling Ad­justers. The sta­tus of the Ad­justers of such vol­un­teer servers re­mains as of the res­i­den­tial stand­ing on the sys­tem head­quar­ters while these mor­ontia pro­gres­sors tem­porar­ily re­vert to a for­mer ma­te­rial state.

50:3.3The Life Car­ri­ers, the ar­chi­tects of form, pro­vide such vol­un­teers with new phys­i­cal bod­ies, which they oc­cupy for the pe­ri­ods of their plan­e­tary so­journ. These per­son­al­ity forms, while ex­empt from the or­di­nary dis­eases of the realms, are, like the early mor­ontia bod­ies, sub­ject to cer­tain ac­ci­dents of a me­chan­i­cal na­ture.

50:3.4The prince’s cor­po­real staff are usu­ally re­moved from the planet in con­nec­tion with the next ad­ju­di­ca­tion at the time of the sec­ond Son’s ar­rival on the sphere. Be­fore leav­ing, they cus­tom­ar­ily as­sign their var­i­ous du­ties to their mu­tual off­spring and to cer­tain su­pe­rior na­tive vol­un­teers. On those worlds where these helpers of the prince have been per­mit­ted to mate with the su­pe­rior groups of the na­tive races, such off­spring usu­ally suc­ceed them.

50:3.5These as­sis­tants to the Plan­e­tary Prince sel­dom mate with the world races, but they do al­ways mate among them­selves. Two classes of be­ings re­sult from these unions: the pri­mary type of mid­way crea­tures and cer­tain high types of ma­te­rial be­ings who re­main at­tached to the prince’s staff af­ter their par­ents have been re­moved from the planet at the time of the ar­rival of Adam and Eve. These chil­dren do not mate with the mor­tal races ex­cept in cer­tain emer­gen­cies and then only by di­rec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince. In such an event, their chil­dren—the grand­chil­dren of the cor­po­real staff—are in sta­tus as of the su­pe­rior races of their day and gen­er­a­tion. All the off­spring of these semi­ma­te­rial as­sis­tants of the Plan­e­tary Prince are Ad­juster in­dwelt.

50:3.6At the end of the prince’s dis­pen­sa­tion, when the time comes for this “re­ver­sion staff” to be re­turned to the sys­tem head­quar­ters for the re­sump­tion of the Par­a­dise ca­reer, these as­cend­ers pre­sent them­selves to the Life Car­ri­ers for the pur­pose of yield­ing up their ma­te­rial bod­ies. They en­ter the tran­si­tion slum­ber and awaken de­liv­ered from their mor­tal in­vest­ment and clothed with mor­ontia forms, ready for se­raphic trans­porta­tion back to the sys­tem cap­i­tal, where their de­tached Ad­justers await them. They are a whole dis­pen­sa­tion be­hind their Je­ru­sem class, but they have gained a unique and ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence, a rare chap­ter in the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal.

50:4.1The prince’s cor­po­real staff early or­ga­nize the plan­e­tary schools of train­ing and cul­ture, wherein the cream of the evo­lu­tion­ary races are in­structed and then sent forth to teach these bet­ter ways to their peo­ple. These schools of the prince are lo­cated at the ma­te­rial head­quar­ters of the planet.

50:4.2Much of the phys­i­cal work con­nected with the es­tab­lish­ment of this head­quar­ters city is per­formed by the cor­po­real staff. Such head­quar­ters cities, or set­tle­ments, of the early times of the Plan­e­tary Prince are very dif­fer­ent from what a Uran­tia mor­tal might imag­ine. They are, in com­par­i­son with later ages, sim­ple, be­ing char­ac­ter­ized by min­eral em­bel­lish­ment and by rel­a­tively ad­vanced ma­te­rial con­struc­tion. And all of this stands in con­trast with the Adamic regime cen­ter­ing around a gar­den head­quar­ters, from which their work in be­half of the races is pros­e­cuted dur­ing the sec­ond dis­pen­sa­tion of the uni­verse Sons.

50:4.3In the head­quar­ters set­tle­ment on your world ev­ery hu­man habi­ta­tion was pro­vided with abun­dance of land. Al­though the re­mote tribes con­tin­ued in hunt­ing and food for­ag­ing, the stu­dents and teach­ers in the Prince’s schools were all agri­cul­tur­ists and hor­ti­cul­tur­ists. The time was about equally di­vided be­tween the fol­low­ing pur­suits:

50:4.41. Phys­i­cal la­bor. Cul­ti­va­tion of the soil, as­so­ci­ated with home build­ing and em­bel­lish­ment.

50:4.52. So­cial ac­tiv­i­ties. Play per­for­mances and cul­tural so­cial group­ings.

50:4.63. Ed­u­ca­tional ap­pli­ca­tion. In­di­vid­ual in­struc­tion in con­nec­tion with fam­ily-group teach­ing, sup­ple­mented by spe­cial­ized class train­ing.

50:4.74. Vo­ca­tional train­ing. Schools of mar­riage and home­mak­ing, the schools of art and craft train­ing, and the classes for the train­ing of teach­ers—sec­u­lar, cul­tural, and re­li­gious.

50:4.85. Spir­i­tual cul­ture. The teacher broth­er­hood, the en­light­en­ment of child­hood and youth groups, and the train­ing of adopted na­tive chil­dren as mis­sion­ar­ies to their peo­ple.

50:4.9A Plan­e­tary Prince is not vis­i­ble to mor­tal be­ings; it is a test of faith to be­lieve the rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the semi­ma­te­rial be­ings of his staff. But these schools of cul­ture and train­ing are well adapted to the needs of each planet, and there soon de­vel­ops a keen and lauda­tory ri­valry among the races of men in their ef­forts to gain en­trance to these var­i­ous in­sti­tu­tions of learn­ing.

50:4.10From such a world cen­ter of cul­ture and achieve­ment there grad­u­ally ra­di­ates to all peo­ples an up­lift­ing and civ­i­liz­ing in­flu­ence which slowly and cer­tainly trans­forms the evo­lu­tion­ary races. Mean­time the ed­u­cated and spir­i­tu­al­ized chil­dren of the sur­round­ing peo­ples who have been adopted and trained in the prince’s schools are re­turn­ing to their na­tive groups and, to the best of their abil­ity, are there es­tab­lish­ing new and po­tent cen­ters of learn­ing and cul­ture which they carry on ac­cord­ing to the plan of the prince’s schools.

50:4.11On Uran­tia these plans for plan­e­tary prog­ress and cul­tural ad­vance­ment were well un­der way, pro­ceed­ing most sat­is­fac­to­rily, when the whole en­ter­prise was brought to a rather sud­den and most in­glo­ri­ous end by Cali­gas­tia’s ad­her­ence to the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

50:4.12It was one of the most pro­foundly shock­ing episodes of this re­bel­lion for me to learn of the cal­lous per­fidy of one of my own or­der of son­ship, Cali­gas­tia, who, in de­lib­er­a­tion and with mal­ice afore­thought, sys­tem­at­i­cally per­verted the in­struc­tion and poi­soned the teach­ing pro­vided in all the Uran­tia plan­e­tary schools in op­er­a­tion at that time. The wreck of these schools was speedy and com­plete.

50:4.13Many of the off­spring of the as­cend­ers of the Prince’s ma­te­ri­al­ized staff re­mained loyal, de­sert­ing the ranks of Cali­gas­tia. These loy­al­ists were en­cour­aged by the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia, and in later times their de­scen­dants did much to up­hold the plan­e­tary con­cepts of truth and righ­teous­ness. The work of these loyal evan­gels helped to pre­vent the to­tal oblit­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual truth on Uran­tia. These coura­geous souls and their de­scen­dants kept alive some knowl­edge of the Fa­ther’s rule and pre­served for the world races the con­cept of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tions of the var­i­ous or­ders of di­vine Sons.

66:2.1The Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia was not sent out on his mis­sion alone but was ac­com­pa­nied by the usual corps of as­sis­tants and ad­min­is­tra­tive helpers.

66:2.2At the head of this group was Dali­gas­tia, the as­so­ciate-as­sis­tant of the Plan­e­tary Prince. Dali­gas­tia was also a sec­ondary La­non­an­dek Son, be­ing num­ber 319,407 of that or­der. He ranked as an as­sis­tant at the time of his as­sign­ment as Cali­gas­tia’s as­so­ciate.

66:2.3The plan­e­tary staff in­cluded a large num­ber of an­gelic co-op­er­a­tors and a host of other ce­les­tial be­ings as­signed to ad­vance the in­ter­ests and pro­mote the wel­fare of the hu­man races. But from your stand­point the most in­ter­est­ing group of all were the cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff—some­times re­ferred to as the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred.

66:2.4These one hun­dred re­ma­te­ri­al­ized mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were cho­sen by Cali­gas­tia from over 785,000 as­cen­dant cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem who vol­un­teered for em­barka­tion on the Uran­tia ad­ven­ture. Each one of the cho­sen one hun­dred was from a dif­fer­ent planet, and none of them were from Uran­tia.

66:2.5These Jerusemite vol­un­teers were brought by se­raphic trans­port di­rect from the sys­tem cap­i­tal to Uran­tia, and upon ar­rival they were held en­ser­a­phimed un­til they could be pro­vided with per­son­al­ity forms of the dual na­ture of spe­cial plan­e­tary ser­vice, lit­eral bod­ies con­sist­ing of flesh and blood but also at­tuned to the life cir­cuits of the sys­tem.

66:2.6Some­time be­fore the ar­rival of these one hun­dred Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens, the two super­vis­ing Life Car­ri­ers res­i­dent on Uran­tia, hav­ing pre­vi­ously per­fected their plans, pe­ti­tioned Je­ru­sem and Eden­tia for per­mis­sion to trans­plant the life plasm of one hun­dred se­lected sur­vivors of the An­don and Fonta stock into the ma­te­rial bod­ies to be pro­jected for the cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff. The re­quest was granted on Je­ru­sem and ap­proved on Eden­tia.

66:2.7Ac­cord­ingly, fifty males and fifty fe­males of the An­don and Fonta pos­ter­ity, rep­re­sent­ing the sur­vival of the best strains of that unique race, were cho­sen by the Life Car­ri­ers. With one or two ex­cep­tions these An­don­ite con­trib­u­tors to the ad­vance­ment of the race were strangers to one an­other. They were as­sem­bled from widely sep­a­rated places by co-or­di­nated Thought Ad­juster di­rec­tion and se­raphic guid­ance at the thresh­old of the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters of the Prince. Here the one hun­dred hu­man sub­jects were given into the hands of the highly skilled vol­un­teer com­mis­sion from Avalon, who di­rected the ma­te­rial ex­trac­tion of a por­tion of the life plasm of these An­don de­scen­dants. This liv­ing ma­te­rial was then trans­ferred to the ma­te­rial bod­ies con­structed for the use of the one hun­dred Jerusemite mem­bers of the Prince’s staff. Mean­time, these newly ar­rived cit­i­zens of the sys­tem cap­i­tal were held in the sleep of se­raphic trans­port.

66:2.8These trans­ac­tions, to­gether with the lit­eral cre­ation of spe­cial bod­ies for the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred, gave ori­gin to nu­mer­ous leg­ends, many of which sub­se­quently be­came con­fused with the later tra­di­tions con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary in­stal­la­tion of Adam and Eve.

66:2.9The en­tire trans­ac­tion of reper­son­al­iza­tion, from the time of the ar­rival of the se­raphic trans­ports bear­ing the one hun­dred Je­ru­sem vol­un­teers un­til they be­came con­scious, three­fold be­ings of the realm, con­sumed ex­actly ten days.

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.

66:4.1The ar­rival of the Prince’s staff cre­ated a pro­found im­pres­sion. While it re­quired al­most a thou­sand years for the news to spread abroad, those tribes near the Mes­o­po­ta­mian head­quar­ters were tremen­dously in­flu­enced by the teach­ings and con­duct of the one hun­dred new so­journ­ers on Uran­tia. And much of your sub­se­quent mythol­ogy grew out of the gar­bled leg­ends of these early days when these mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were reper­son­al­ized on Uran­tia as super­men.

66:4.2The se­ri­ous ob­sta­cle to the good in­flu­ence of such ex­tra­plan­e­tary teach­ers is the ten­dency of mor­tals to re­gard them as gods, but aside from the tech­nique of their ap­pear­ance on earth the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred—fifty men and fifty women—did not re­sort to super­nat­u­ral meth­ods nor super­hu­man ma­nip­u­la­tions.

66:4.3But the cor­po­real staff were nonethe­less super­hu­man. They be­gan their mis­sion on Uran­tia as ex­traor­di­nary three­fold be­ings:

66:4.41. They were cor­po­real and rel­a­tively hu­man, for they em­bod­ied the ac­tual life plasm of one of the hu­man races, the An­donic life plasm of Uran­tia.

66:4.5These one hun­dred mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were di­vided equally as to sex and in ac­cor­dance with their pre­vi­ous mor­tal sta­tus. Each per­son of this group was ca­pa­ble of be­com­ing co­parental to some new or­der of phys­i­cal be­ing, but they had been care­fully in­structed to re­sort to par­ent­hood only un­der cer­tain con­di­tions. It is cus­tom­ary for the cor­po­real staff of a Plan­e­tary Prince to pro­cre­ate their suc­ces­sors some­time prior to re­tir­ing from spe­cial plan­e­tary ser­vice. Usu­ally this is at, or shortly af­ter, the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve.

66:4.6These spe­cial be­ings there­fore had lit­tle or no idea as to what type of ma­te­rial crea­ture would be pro­duced by their sex­ual union. And they never did know; be­fore the time for such a step in the pros­e­cu­tion of their world work the en­tire regime was up­set by re­bel­lion, and those who later func­tioned in the pa­ren­tal role had been iso­lated from the life cur­rents of the sys­tem.

66:4.7In skin color and lan­guage these ma­te­ri­al­ized mem­bers of Cali­gas­tia’s staff fol­lowed the An­donic race. They par­took of food as did the mor­tals of the realm with this dif­fer­ence: The re-cre­ated bod­ies of this group were fully sat­is­fied by a non­flesh diet. This was one of the con­sid­er­a­tions which de­ter­mined their res­i­dence in a warm re­gion abound­ing in fruits and nuts. The prac­tice of sub­sist­ing on a non­flesh diet dates from the times of the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred, for this cus­tom spread near and far to af­fect the eat­ing habits of many sur­round­ing tribes, groups of ori­gin in the once ex­clu­sively meat-eat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary races.

66:4.82. The one hun­dred were ma­te­rial but super­hu­man be­ings, hav­ing been re­con­sti­tuted on Uran­tia as unique men and women of a high and spe­cial or­der.

66:4.9This group, while en­joy­ing pro­vi­sional cit­i­zen­ship on Je­ru­sem, were as yet un­fused with their Thought Ad­justers; and when they vol­un­teered and were ac­cepted for plan­e­tary ser­vice in li­ai­son with the de­scend­ing or­ders of son­ship, their Ad­justers were de­tached. But these Jerusemites were super­hu­man be­ings—they pos­sessed souls of as­cen­dant growth. Dur­ing the mor­tal life in the flesh the soul is of em­bry­onic es­tate; it is born (res­ur­rected) in the mor­ontia life and ex­pe­ri­ences growth through the suc­ces­sive mor­ontia worlds. And the souls of the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred had thus ex­panded through the pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ences of the seven man­sion worlds to cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus on Je­ru­sem.

66:4.10In con­for­mity to their in­struc­tions the staff did not en­gage in sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, but they did painstak­ingly study their per­sonal con­sti­tu­tions, and they care­fully ex­plored ev­ery imag­in­able phase of in­tel­lec­tual (mind) and mor­ontia (soul) li­ai­son. And it was dur­ing the thirty-third year of their so­journ in Dala­ma­tia, long be­fore the wall was com­pleted, that num­ber two and num­ber seven of the Dan­ite group ac­ci­den­tally dis­cov­ered a phe­nom­e­non at­ten­dant upon the li­ai­son of their mor­ontia selves (sup­pos­edly non­sex­ual and non­ma­te­rial); and the re­sult of this ad­ven­ture proved to be the first of the pri­mary mid­way crea­tures. This new be­ing was wholly vis­i­ble to the plan­e­tary staff and to their ce­les­tial as­so­ciates but was not vis­i­ble to the men and women of the var­i­ous hu­man tribes. Upon au­thor­ity of the Plan­e­tary Prince the en­tire cor­po­real staff un­der­took the pro­duc­tion of sim­i­lar be­ings, and all were suc­cess­ful, fol­low­ing the in­struc­tions of the pi­o­neer Dan­ite pair. Thus did the Prince’s staff even­tu­ally bring into be­ing the orig­i­nal corps of 50,000 pri­mary mid­way­ers.

66:4.11These mid-type crea­tures were of great ser­vice in car­ry­ing on the af­fairs of the world’s head­quar­ters. They were in­vis­i­ble to hu­man be­ings, but the prim­i­tive so­journ­ers at Dala­ma­tia were taught about these un­seen semispir­its, and for ages they con­sti­tuted the sum to­tal of the spirit world to these evolv­ing mor­tals.

66:4.123. The Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred were per­son­ally im­mor­tal, or undy­ing. There cir­cu­lated through their ma­te­rial forms the an­ti­do­tal com­ple­ments of the life cur­rents of the sys­tem; and had they not lost con­tact with the life cir­cuits through re­bel­lion, they would have lived on in­def­i­nitely un­til the ar­rival of a sub­se­quent Son of God, or un­til their some­time later re­lease to re­sume the in­ter­rupted jour­ney to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise.

66:4.13These an­ti­do­tal com­ple­ments of the Sa­ta­nia life cur­rents were de­rived from the fruit of the tree of life, a shrub of Eden­tia which was sent to Uran­tia by the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek at the time of Cali­gas­tia’s ar­rival. In the days of Dala­ma­tia this tree grew in the cen­tral court­yard of the tem­ple of the un­seen Fa­ther, and it was the fruit of the tree of life that en­abled the ma­te­rial and oth­er­wise mor­tal be­ings of the Prince’s staff to live on in­def­i­nitely as long as they had ac­cess to it.

66:4.14While of no value to the evo­lu­tion­ary races, this super­sus­te­nance was quite suf­fi­cient to con­fer con­tin­u­ous life upon the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred and also upon the one hun­dred mod­i­fied An­don­ites who were as­so­ci­ated with them.

66:4.15It should be ex­plained in this con­nec­tion that, at the time the one hun­dred An­don­ites con­tributed their hu­man germ plasm to the mem­bers of the Prince’s staff, the Life Car­ri­ers in­tro­duced into their mor­tal bod­ies the com­ple­ment of the sys­tem cir­cuits; and thus were they en­abled to live on con­cur­rently with the staff, cen­tury af­ter cen­tury, in de­fi­ance of phys­i­cal death.

66:4.16Even­tu­ally the one hun­dred An­don­ites were made aware of their con­tri­bu­tion to the new forms of their su­pe­ri­ors, and these same one hun­dred chil­dren of the An­don tribes were kept at head­quar­ters as the per­sonal at­ten­dants of the Prince’s cor­po­real staff.

66:5.1The one hun­dred were or­ga­nized for ser­vice in ten au­ton­o­mous coun­cils of ten mem­bers each. When two or more of these ten coun­cils met in joint ses­sion, such li­ai­son gath­er­ings were pre­sided over by Dali­gas­tia. These ten groups were con­sti­tuted as fol­lows:

66:5.21. The coun­cil on food and ma­te­rial wel­fare. This group was pre­sided over by Ang. Food, wa­ter, clothes, and the ma­te­rial ad­vance­ment of the hu­man species were fos­tered by this able corps. They taught well dig­ging, spring con­trol, and ir­ri­ga­tion. They taught those from the higher al­ti­tudes and from the north im­proved meth­ods of treat­ing skins for use as cloth­ing, and weav­ing was later in­tro­duced by the teach­ers of art and sci­ence.

66:5.3Great ad­vances were made in meth­ods of food stor­age. Food was pre­served by cook­ing, dry­ing, and smok­ing; it thus be­came the ear­li­est prop­erty. Man was taught to pro­vide for the haz­ards of famine, which pe­ri­od­i­cally dec­i­mated the world.

66:5.42. The board of an­i­mal do­mes­ti­ca­tion and uti­liza­tion. This coun­cil was ded­i­cated to the task of se­lect­ing and breed­ing those an­i­mals best adapted to help hu­man be­ings in bear­ing bur­dens and trans­port­ing them­selves, to sup­ply food, and later on to be of ser­vice in the cul­ti­va­tion of the soil. This able corps was di­rected by Bon.

66:5.5Sev­eral types of use­ful an­i­mals, now ex­tinct, were tamed, to­gether with some that have con­tin­ued as do­mes­ti­cated an­i­mals to the pres­ent day. Man had long lived with the dog, and the blue man had al­ready been suc­cess­ful in tam­ing the ele­phant. The cow was so im­proved by care­ful breed­ing as to be­come a valu­able source of food; but­ter and cheese be­came com­mon ar­ti­cles of hu­man diet. Men were taught to use oxen for bur­den bear­ing, but the horse was not do­mes­ti­cated un­til a later date. The mem­bers of this corps first taught men to use the wheel for the fa­cil­i­ta­tion of trac­tion.

66:5.6It was in these days that car­rier pi­geons were first used, be­ing taken on long jour­neys for the pur­pose of send­ing mes­sages or calls for help. Bon’s group were suc­cess­ful in train­ing the great fan­dors as pas­sen­ger birds, but they be­came ex­tinct more than thirty thou­sand years ago.

66:5.73. The ad­vis­ers re­gard­ing the con­quest of preda­tory an­i­mals. It was not enough that early man should try to do­mes­ti­cate cer­tain an­i­mals, but he must also learn how to pro­tect him­self from de­struc­tion by the re­main­der of the hos­tile an­i­mal world. This group was cap­tained by Dan.

66:5.8The pur­pose of an an­cient city wall was to pro­tect against fe­ro­cious beasts as well as to pre­vent sur­prise at­tacks by hos­tile hu­mans. Those liv­ing with­out the walls and in the for­est were de­pen­dent on tree dwellings, stone huts, and the main­te­nance of night fires. It was there­fore very nat­u­ral that these teach­ers should de­vote much time to in­struct­ing their pupils in the im­prove­ment of hu­man dwellings. By em­ploy­ing im­proved tech­niques and by the use of traps, great prog­ress was made in an­i­mal sub­ju­ga­tion.

66:5.94. The fac­ulty on dis­sem­i­na­tion and con­ser­va­tion of knowl­edge. This group or­ga­nized and di­rected the purely ed­u­ca­tional en­deav­ors of those early ages. It was pre­sided over by Fad. The ed­u­ca­tional meth­ods of Fad con­sisted in super­vi­sion of em­ploy­ment ac­com­pa­nied by in­struc­tion in im­proved meth­ods of la­bor. Fad for­mu­lated the first al­pha­bet and in­tro­duced a writ­ing sys­tem. This al­pha­bet con­tained twenty-five char­ac­ters. For writ­ing ma­te­rial these early peo­ples uti­lized tree barks, clay tablets, stone slabs, a form of parch­ment made of ham­mered hides, and a crude form of pa­per­like ma­te­rial made from wasps’ nests. The Dala­ma­tia li­brary, de­stroyed soon af­ter the Cali­gas­tia dis­af­fec­tion, com­prised more than two mil­lion sep­a­rate rec­ords and was known as the “house of Fad.”

66:5.10The blue man was par­tial to al­pha­bet writ­ing and made the great­est prog­ress along such lines. The red man pre­ferred pic­to­rial writ­ing, while the yel­low races drifted into the use of sym­bols for words and ideas, much like those they now em­ploy. But the al­pha­bet and much more was sub­se­quently lost to the world dur­ing the con­fu­sion at­ten­dant upon re­bel­lion. The Cali­gas­tia de­fec­tion de­stroyed the hope of the world for a uni­ver­sal lan­guage, at least for un­told ages.

66:5.115. The com­mis­sion on in­dus­try and trade. This coun­cil was em­ployed in fos­ter­ing in­dus­try within the tribes and in pro­mot­ing trade be­tween the var­i­ous peace groups. Its leader was Nod. Ev­ery form of prim­i­tive man­u­fac­ture was en­cour­aged by this corps. They con­tributed di­rectly to the el­e­va­tion of stan­dards of liv­ing by pro­vid­ing many new com­modi­ties to at­tract the fancy of prim­i­tive men. They greatly ex­panded the trade in the im­proved salt pro­duced by the coun­cil on sci­ence and art.

66:5.12It was among these en­light­ened groups ed­u­cated in the Dala­ma­tia schools that the first com­mer­cial credit was prac­ticed. From a cen­tral ex­change of cred­its they se­cured to­kens which were ac­cepted in lieu of the ac­tual ob­jects of barter. The world did not im­prove upon these busi­ness meth­ods for hun­dreds of thou­sands of years.

66:5.136. The col­lege of re­vealed re­li­gion. This body was slow in func­tion­ing. Uran­tia civ­i­liza­tion was lit­er­ally forged out be­tween the anvil of ne­ces­sity and the ham­mers of fear. But this group had made con­sid­er­able prog­ress in their at­tempt to sub­sti­tute Cre­ator fear for crea­ture fear (ghost wor­ship) be­fore their labors were in­ter­rupted by the later con­fu­sion at­ten­dant upon the se­ces­sion up­heaval. The head of this coun­cil was Hap.

66:5.14None of the Prince’s staff would pre­sent rev­e­la­tion to com­pli­cate evo­lu­tion; they pre­sented rev­e­la­tion only as the cli­max of their ex­haus­tion of the forces of evo­lu­tion. But Hap did yield to the de­sire of the in­hab­i­tants of the city for the es­tab­lish­ment of a form of re­li­gious ser­vice. His group pro­vided the Dala­ma­tians with the seven chants of wor­ship and also gave them the daily praise-phrase and even­tu­ally taught them “the Fa­ther’s prayer,” which was:

66:5.15“Fa­ther of all, whose Son we honor, look down upon us with fa­vor. De­liver us from the fear of all save you. Make us a plea­sure to our di­vine teach­ers and for­ever put truth on our lips. De­liver us from vi­o­lence and anger; give us re­spect for our el­ders and that which be­longs to our neigh­bors. Give us this sea­son green pas­tures and fruit­ful flocks to glad­den our hearts. We pray for the has­ten­ing of the com­ing of the prom­ised up­lifter, and we would do your will on this world as oth­ers do on worlds be­yond.”

66:5.16Al­though the Prince’s staff were lim­ited to nat­u­ral means and or­di­nary meth­ods of race im­prove­ment, they held out the prom­ise of the Adamic gift of a new race as the goal of sub­se­quent evo­lu­tion­ary growth upon the at­tain­ment of the height of bi­o­logic de­vel­op­ment.

66:5.177. The guard­i­ans of health and life. This coun­cil was con­cerned with the in­tro­duc­tion of san­i­ta­tion and the pro­mo­tion of prim­i­tive hy­giene and was led by Lut.

66:5.18Its mem­bers taught much that was lost dur­ing the con­fu­sion of sub­se­quent ages, never to be re­dis­cov­ered un­til the twen­ti­eth cen­tury. They taught man­kind that cook­ing, boil­ing and roast­ing, was a means of avoid­ing sick­ness; also that such cook­ing greatly re­duced in­fant mor­tal­ity and fa­cil­i­tated early wean­ing.

66:5.19Many of the early teach­ings of Lut’s guard­i­ans of health per­sisted among the tribes of earth on down to the days of Moses, even though they be­came much gar­bled and were greatly changed.

66:5.20The great ob­sta­cle in the way of pro­mot­ing hy­giene among these ig­no­rant peo­ples con­sisted in the fact that the real causes of many dis­eases were too small to be seen by the naked eye, and also be­cause they all held fire in su­per­sti­tious re­gard. It re­quired thou­sands of years to per­suade them to burn refuse. In the mean­time they were urged to bury their de­cay­ing rub­bish. The great san­i­tary ad­vance of this epoch came from the dis­sem­i­na­tion of knowl­edge re­gard­ing the health-giv­ing and dis­ease-de­stroy­ing prop­er­ties of sun­light.

66:5.21Be­fore the Prince’s ar­rival, bathing had been an ex­clu­sively re­li­gious cer­e­mo­nial. It was in­deed dif­fi­cult to per­suade prim­i­tive men to wash their bod­ies as a health prac­tice. Lut fi­nally in­duced the re­li­gious teach­ers to in­clude cleans­ing with wa­ter as a part of the pu­rifi­ca­tion cer­e­monies to be prac­ticed in con­nec­tion with the noon­time de­vo­tions, once a week, in the wor­ship of the Fa­ther of all.

66:5.22These guard­i­ans of health also sought to in­tro­duce hand­shak­ing in sub­sti­tu­tion for saliva ex­change or blood drink­ing as a seal of per­sonal friend­ship and as a to­ken of group loy­alty. But when out from un­der the com­pelling pres­sure of the teach­ings of their su­pe­rior lead­ers, these prim­i­tive peo­ples were not slow in re­vert­ing to their for­mer health-de­stroy­ing and dis­ease-breed­ing prac­tices of ig­no­rance and su­per­sti­tion.

66:5.238. The plan­e­tary coun­cil on art and sci­ence. This corps did much to im­prove the in­dus­trial tech­nique of early man and to el­e­vate his con­cepts of beauty. Their leader was Mek.

66:5.24Art and sci­ence were at a low ebb through­out the world, but the rudi­ments of physics and chem­istry were taught the Dala­ma­tians. Pot­tery was ad­vanced, dec­o­ra­tive arts were all im­proved, and the ide­als of hu­man beauty were greatly en­hanced. But mu­sic made lit­tle prog­ress un­til af­ter the ar­rival of the vi­o­let race.

66:5.25These prim­i­tive men would not con­sent to ex­per­i­ment with steam power, not­with­stand­ing the re­peated urg­ings of their teach­ers; never could they over­come their great fear of the ex­plo­sive power of con­fined steam. They were, how­ever, fi­nally per­suaded to work with met­als and fire, al­though a piece of red-hot metal was a ter­ror­iz­ing ob­ject to early man.

66:5.26Mek did a great deal to ad­vance the cul­ture of the An­don­ites and to im­prove the art of the blue man. A blend of the blue man with the An­don stock pro­duced an ar­tis­ti­cally gifted type, and many of them be­came mas­ter sculp­tors. They did not work in stone or mar­ble, but their works of clay, hard­ened by bak­ing, adorned the gar­dens of Dala­ma­tia.

66:5.27Great prog­ress was made in the home arts, most of which were lost in the long and dark ages of re­bel­lion, never to be re­dis­cov­ered un­til mod­ern times.

66:5.289. The gov­er­nors of ad­vanced tribal re­la­tions. This was the group in­trusted with the work of bring­ing hu­man so­ci­ety up to the level of state­hood. Their chief was Tut.

66:5.29These lead­ers con­tributed much to bring­ing about in­ter­tribal mar­riages. They fos­tered court­ship and mar­riage af­ter due de­lib­er­a­tion and full op­por­tu­nity to be­come ac­quainted. The purely mil­i­tary war dances were re­fined and made to serve valu­able so­cial ends. Many com­pet­i­tive games were in­tro­duced, but these an­cient folk were a se­ri­ous peo­ple; lit­tle hu­mor graced these early tribes. Few of these prac­tices sur­vived the sub­se­quent dis­in­te­gra­tion of plan­e­tary in­sur­rec­tion.

66:5.30Tut and his as­so­ciates la­bored to pro­mote group as­so­ci­a­tions of a peace­ful na­ture, to reg­u­late and hu­man­ize war­fare, to co-or­di­nate in­ter­tribal re­la­tions, and to im­prove tribal gov­ern­ments. In the vicin­ity of Dala­ma­tia there de­vel­oped a more ad­vanced cul­ture, and these im­proved so­cial re­la­tions were very help­ful in in­flu­enc­ing more re­mote tribes. But the pat­tern of civ­i­liza­tion pre­vail­ing at the Prince’s head­quar­ters was quite dif­fer­ent from the bar­baric so­ci­ety evolv­ing else­where, just as the twen­ti­eth-cen­tury so­ci­ety of Capetown, South Africa, is to­tally un­like the crude cul­ture of the diminu­tive Bush­men to the north.

66:5.3110. The su­preme court of tribal co-or­di­na­tion and racial co-op­er­a­tion. This su­preme coun­cil was di­rected by Van and was the court of ap­peals for all of the other nine spe­cial com­mis­sions charged with the super­vi­sion of hu­man af­fairs. This coun­cil was one of wide func­tion, be­ing in­trusted with all mat­ters of earthly con­cern which were not specif­i­cally as­signed to the other groups. This se­lected corps had been ap­proved by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Eden­tia be­fore they were au­tho­rized to as­sume the func­tions of the su­preme court of Uran­tia.

66:6.1The de­gree of a world’s cul­ture is mea­sured by the so­cial her­itage of its na­tive be­ings, and the rate of cul­tural ex­pan­sion is wholly de­ter­mined by the abil­ity of its in­hab­i­tants to com­pre­hend new and ad­vanced ideas.

66:6.2Slav­ery to tra­di­tion pro­duces sta­bil­ity and co-op­er­a­tion by sen­ti­men­tally link­ing the past with the pres­ent, but it like­wise sti­fles ini­tia­tive and en­slaves the cre­ative pow­ers of the per­son­al­ity. The whole world was caught in the stale­mate of tra­di­tion-bound mores when the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred ar­rived and be­gan the procla­ma­tion of the new gospel of in­di­vid­ual ini­tia­tive within the so­cial groups of that day. But this benef­i­cent rule was so soon in­ter­rupted that the races never have been wholly lib­er­ated from the slav­ery of cus­tom; fash­ion still un­duly dom­i­nates Uran­tia.

66:6.3The Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred—grad­u­ates of the Sa­ta­nia man­sion worlds—well knew the arts and cul­ture of Je­ru­sem, but such knowl­edge is nearly val­ue­less on a bar­baric planet pop­u­lated by prim­i­tive hu­mans. These wise be­ings knew bet­ter than to un­der­take the sud­den trans­for­ma­tion, or the en masse up­lift­ing, of the prim­i­tive races of that day. They well un­der­stood the slow evo­lu­tion of the hu­man species, and they wisely re­frained from any rad­i­cal at­tempts at mod­i­fy­ing man’s mode of life on earth.

66:6.4Each of the ten plan­e­tary com­mis­sions set about slowly and nat­u­rally to ad­vance the in­ter­ests in­trusted to them. Their plan con­sisted in at­tract­ing the best minds of the sur­round­ing tribes and, af­ter train­ing them, send­ing them back to their peo­ple as emis­saries of so­cial up­lift.

66:6.5For­eign emis­saries were never sent to a race ex­cept upon the spe­cific re­quest of that peo­ple. Those who la­bored for the up­lift and ad­vance­ment of a given tribe or race were al­ways na­tives of that tribe or race. The one hun­dred would not at­tempt to im­pose the habits and mores of even a su­pe­rior race upon an­other tribe. Al­ways they pa­tiently worked to up­lift and ad­vance the time-tried mores of each race. The sim­ple folk of Uran­tia brought their so­cial cus­toms to Dala­ma­tia, not to ex­change them for new and bet­ter prac­tices, but to have them up­lifted by con­tact with a higher cul­ture and by as­so­ci­a­tion with su­pe­rior minds. The pro­cess was slow but very ef­fec­tual.

66:6.6The Dala­ma­tia teach­ers sought to add con­scious so­cial se­lec­tion to the purely nat­u­ral se­lec­tion of bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion. They did not de­range hu­man so­ci­ety, but they did markedly ac­cel­er­ate its nor­mal and nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion. Their mo­tive was pro­gres­sion by evo­lu­tion and not rev­o­lu­tion by rev­e­la­tion. The hu­man race had spent ages in ac­quir­ing the lit­tle re­li­gion and morals it had, and these super­men knew bet­ter than to rob man­kind of these few ad­vances by the con­fu­sion and dis­may which al­ways re­sult when en­light­ened and su­pe­rior be­ings un­der­take to up­lift the back­ward races by overteach­ing and over­en­light­en­ment.

66:6.7When Chris­tian mis­sion­ar­ies go into the heart of Africa, where sons and daugh­ters are sup­posed to re­main un­der the con­trol and di­rec­tion of their par­ents through­out the life­time of the par­ents, they only bring about con­fu­sion and the break­down of all au­thor­ity when they seek, in a sin­gle gen­er­a­tion, to sup­plant this prac­tice by teach­ing that these chil­dren should be free from all pa­ren­tal re­straint af­ter they have at­tained the age of twenty-one.

66:7.1The Prince’s head­quar­ters, though ex­qui­sitely beau­ti­ful and de­signed to awe the prim­i­tive men of that age, was al­to­gether mod­est. The build­ings were not es­pe­cially large as it was the mo­tive of these im­ported teach­ers to en­cour­age the even­tual de­vel­op­ment of agri­cul­ture through the in­tro­duc­tion of an­i­mal hus­bandry. The land pro­vi­sion within the city walls was suf­fi­cient to pro­vide for pas­turage and gar­den­ing for the sup­port of a pop­u­la­tion of about twenty thou­sand.

66:7.2The in­te­ri­ors of the cen­tral tem­ple of wor­ship and the ten coun­cil man­sions of the super­vis­ing groups of super­men were in­deed beau­ti­ful works of art. And while the res­i­den­tial build­ings were mod­els of neat­ness and clean­li­ness, ev­ery­thing was very sim­ple and al­to­gether prim­i­tive in com­par­i­son with later-day de­vel­op­ments. At this head­quar­ters of cul­ture no meth­ods were em­ployed which did not nat­u­rally be­long on Uran­tia.

66:7.3The Prince’s cor­po­real staff pre­sided over sim­ple and ex­em­plary abodes which they main­tained as homes de­signed to in­spire and fa­vor­ably im­press the stu­dent ob­servers so­journ­ing at the world’s so­cial cen­ter and ed­u­ca­tional head­quar­ters.

66:7.4The def­i­nite or­der of fam­ily life and the liv­ing of one fam­ily to­gether in one res­i­dence of com­par­a­tively set­tled lo­ca­tion date from these times of Dala­ma­tia and were chiefly due to the ex­am­ple and teach­ings of the one hun­dred and their pupils. The home as a so­cial unit never be­came a suc­cess un­til the super­men and super­women of Dala­ma­tia led man­kind to love and plan for their grand­chil­dren and their grand­chil­dren’s chil­dren. Sav­age man loves his child, but civ­i­lized man loves also his grand­child.

66:7.5The Prince’s staff lived to­gether as fa­thers and moth­ers. True, they had no chil­dren of their own, but the fifty pat­tern homes of Dala­ma­tia never shel­tered less than five hun­dred adopted lit­tle ones as­sem­bled from the su­pe­rior fam­i­lies of the An­donic and San­gik races; many of these chil­dren were or­phans. They were fa­vored with the dis­ci­pline and train­ing of these super­par­ents; and then, af­ter three years in the schools of the Prince (they en­tered from thir­teen to fif­teen), they were el­i­gi­ble for mar­riage and ready to re­ceive their com­mis­sions as emis­saries of the Prince to the needy tribes of their re­spec­tive races.

66:7.6Fad spon­sored the Dala­ma­tia plan of teach­ing that was car­ried out as an in­dus­trial school in which the pupils learned by do­ing, and through which they worked their way by the daily per­for­mance of use­ful tasks. This plan of ed­u­ca­tion did not ig­nore think­ing and feel­ing in the de­vel­op­ment of char­ac­ter; but it gave first place to man­ual train­ing. The in­struc­tion was in­di­vid­ual and col­lec­tive. The pupils were taught by both men and women and by the two act­ing con­jointly. One half of this group in­struc­tion was by sexes; the other half was co­ed­u­ca­tional. Stu­dents were taught man­ual dex­ter­ity as in­di­vid­u­als and were so­cial­ized in groups or classes. They were trained to frat­er­nize with younger groups, older groups, and adults, as well as to do team­work with those of their own ages. They were also fa­mil­iar­ized with such as­so­ci­a­tions as fam­ily groups, play squads, and school classes.

66:7.7Among the later stu­dents trained in Mes­o­po­ta­mia for work with their re­spec­tive races were An­don­ites from the high­lands of west­ern In­dia to­gether with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the red men and the blue men; still later a small num­ber of the yel­low race were also re­ceived.

66:7.8Hap pre­sented the early races with a moral law. This code was known as “The Fa­ther’s Way” and con­sisted of the fol­low­ing seven com­mands:

66:7.91. You shall not fear nor serve any God but the Fa­ther of all.

66:7.102. You shall not dis­obey the Fa­ther’s Son, the world’s ruler, nor show dis­re­spect to his super­hu­man as­so­ciates.

66:7.113. You shall not speak a lie when called be­fore the judges of the peo­ple.

66:7.124. You shall not kill men, women, or chil­dren.

66:7.135. You shall not steal your neigh­bor’s goods or cat­tle.

66:7.146. You shall not touch your friend’s wife.

66:7.157. You shall not show dis­re­spect to your par­ents or to the el­ders of the tribe.

66:7.16This was the law of Dala­ma­tia for al­most three hun­dred thou­sand years. And many of the stones on which this law was in­scribed now lie be­neath the wa­ters off the shores of Mes­o­po­ta­mia and Per­sia. It be­came the cus­tom to hold one of these com­mands in mind for each day of the week, us­ing it for salu­ta­tions and meal­time thanks­giv­ing.

66:7.17The time mea­sure­ment of these days was the lu­nar month, this pe­riod be­ing reck­oned as twenty-eight days. That, with the ex­cep­tion of day and night, was the only time reck­on­ing known to the early peo­ples. The seven-day week was in­tro­duced by the Dala­ma­tia teach­ers and grew out of the fact that seven was one fourth of twenty-eight. The sig­nif­i­cance of the num­ber seven in the super­uni­verse un­doubt­edly af­forded them op­por­tu­nity to in­tro­duce a spir­i­tual re­minder into the com­mon reck­on­ing of time. But there is no nat­u­ral ori­gin for the weekly pe­riod.

66:7.18The coun­try around the city was quite well set­tled within a ra­dius of one hun­dred miles. Im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing the city, hun­dreds of grad­u­ates of the Prince’s schools en­gaged in an­i­mal hus­bandry and oth­er­wise car­ried out the in­struc­tion they had re­ceived from his staff and their nu­mer­ous hu­man helpers. A few en­gaged in agri­cul­ture and hor­ti­cul­ture.

66:7.19Man­kind was not con­signed to ag­ri­cul­tural toil as the penalty of sup­posed sin. “In the sweat of your face shall you eat the fruit of the fields” was not a sen­tence of pun­ish­ment pro­nounced be­cause of man’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in the fol­lies of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion un­der the lead­er­ship of the traitorous Cali­gas­tia. The cul­ti­va­tion of the soil is in­her­ent in the es­tab­lish­ment of an ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, and this in­junc­tion was the cen­ter of all teach­ing of the Plan­e­tary Prince and his staff through­out the three hun­dred thou­sand years which in­ter­vened be­tween their ar­rival on Uran­tia and those tragic days when Cali­gas­tia threw in his lot with the rebel Lu­cifer. Work with the soil is not a curse; rather is it the high­est bless­ing to all who are thus per­mit­ted to en­joy the most hu­man of all hu­man ac­tiv­i­ties.

66:7.20At the out­break of the re­bel­lion, Dala­ma­tia had a res­i­dent pop­u­la­tion of al­most six thou­sand. This num­ber in­cludes the reg­u­lar stu­dents but does not em­brace the vis­i­tors and ob­servers, who al­ways num­bered more than one thou­sand. But you can have lit­tle or no con­cept of the mar­velous prog­ress of those far­away times; prac­ti­cally all of the won­der­ful hu­man gains of those days were wiped out by the hor­ri­ble con­fu­sion and ab­ject spir­i­tual dark­ness which fol­lowed the Cali­gas­tia catas­tro­phe of de­cep­tion and sedi­tion.

73:6.4This super­plant stored up cer­tain space-en­er­gies which were an­ti­do­tal to the age-pro­duc­ing el­e­ments of an­i­mal ex­is­tence. The fruit of the tree of life was like a super­chem­i­cal stor­age bat­tery, mys­te­ri­ously re­leas­ing the life-ex­ten­sion force of the uni­verse when eaten. This form of sus­te­nance was wholly use­less to the or­di­nary evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings on Uran­tia, but specif­i­cally it was ser­vice­able to the one hun­dred ma­te­ri­al­ized mem­bers of Cali­gas­tia’s staff and to the one hun­dred mod­i­fied An­don­ites who had con­tributed of their life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and who, in re­turn, were made pos­ses­sors of that com­ple­ment of life which made it pos­si­ble for them to uti­lize the fruit of the tree of life for an in­def­i­nite ex­ten­sion of their oth­er­wise mor­tal ex­is­tence.

52:1.8Within one hun­dred thou­sand years from the time man ac­quires erect pos­ture, the Plan­e­tary Prince usu­ally ar­rives, hav­ing been dis­patched by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign upon the re­port of the Life Car­ri­ers that will is func­tion­ing, even though com­par­a­tively few in­di­vid­u­als have thus de­vel­oped. Prim­i­tive mor­tals usu­ally wel­come the Plan­e­tary Prince and his vis­i­ble staff; in fact, they of­ten look upon them with awe and rev­er­ence, al­most with wor­ship­ful­ness, if they are not re­strained.

55:3.152. The progeny of the semi­mor­tal staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince who were pro­cre­ated on cer­tain worlds for this and other sim­i­lar re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

67:4.5When the staff of one hun­dred came to Uran­tia, they were tem­porar­ily de­tached from their Thought Ad­justers. Im­me­di­ately upon the ar­rival of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers the loyal per­son­al­i­ties (ex­cept Van) were re­turned to Je­ru­sem and were re­united with their wait­ing Ad­justers. We know not the fate of the sixty staff rebels; their Ad­justers still tarry on Je­ru­sem. Mat­ters will un­doubt­edly rest as they now are un­til the en­tire Lu­cifer re­bel­lion is fi­nally ad­ju­di­cated and the fate of all par­tic­i­pants de­creed.