Dalamatia

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.

66:4.10In 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.

67:5.2Very soon af­ter the re­bel­lion the en­tire staff of sedi­tion were en­gaged in en­er­getic de­fense of the city against the hordes of semi­sav­ages who be­sieged its walls as a re­sult of the doc­trines of lib­erty which had been pre­ma­turely taught them. And years be­fore the beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters went down be­neath the south­ern waves, the mis­led and mis­taught tribes of the Dala­ma­tia hin­ter­land had al­ready swept down in semi­sav­age as­sault on the splen­did city, driv­ing the se­ces­sion staff and their as­so­ciates north­ward.

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.

66:7.1The 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.

66:3.1The 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.

66:3.4The 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.

66:3.7Near 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.

67:5.1Great con­fu­sion reigned in Dala­ma­tia and there­about for al­most fifty years af­ter the in­sti­ga­tion of re­bel­lion. The com­plete and rad­i­cal re­or­ga­ni­za­tion of the whole world was at­tempted; rev­o­lu­tion dis­placed evo­lu­tion as the pol­icy of cul­tural ad­vance­ment and racial im­prove­ment. Among the su­pe­rior and par­tially trained so­journ­ers in and near Dala­ma­tia there ap­peared a sud­den ad­vance­ment in cul­tural sta­tus, but when these new and rad­i­cal meth­ods were at­tempted on the out­ly­ing peo­ples, in­de­scrib­able con­fu­sion and racial pan­de­mo­nium was the im­me­di­ate re­sult. Lib­erty was quickly trans­lated into li­cense by the half-evolved prim­i­tive men of those days.

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.

66:5.94. 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.”

66:7.4The 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.

66:7.17The 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.

68:1.7The mod­ern phrase, “back to na­ture,” is a delu­sion of ig­no­rance, a be­lief in the re­al­ity of the one­time fic­ti­tious “golden age.” The only ba­sis for the leg­end of the golden age is the his­toric fact of Dala­ma­tia and Eden. But these im­proved so­ci­eties were far from the re­al­iza­tion of utopian dreams.

77:3.1Af­ter the sub­mer­gence of Dala­ma­tia the Nod­ites moved north and east, pres­ently found­ing the new city of Dil­mun as their racial and cul­tural head­quar­ters. And about fifty thou­sand years af­ter the death of Nod, when the off­spring of the Prince’s staff had be­come too nu­mer­ous to find sub­sis­tence in the lands im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing their new city of Dil­mun, and af­ter they had reached out to in­ter­marry with the An­don­ite and San­gik tribes ad­join­ing their bor­ders, it oc­curred to their lead­ers that some­thing should be done to pre­serve their racial unity. Ac­cord­ingly a coun­cil of the tribes was called, and af­ter much de­lib­er­a­tion the plan of Bablot, a de­scen­dant of Nod, was en­dorsed.

77:3.2Bablot pro­posed to erect a pre­ten­tious tem­ple of racial glo­ri­fi­ca­tion at the cen­ter of their then oc­cu­pied ter­ri­tory. This tem­ple was to have a tower the like of which the world had never seen. It was to be a mon­u­men­tal memo­rial to their pass­ing great­ness. There were many who wished to have this mon­u­ment erected in Dil­mun, but oth­ers con­tended that such a great struc­ture should be placed a safe dis­tance from the dan­gers of the sea, re­mem­ber­ing the tra­di­tions of the en­gulf­ment of their first cap­i­tal, Dala­ma­tia.

• 7 commandments of D. were taboos

89:1.4The seven com­mand­ments of Dala­ma­tia and Eden, as well as the ten in­junc­tions of the He­brews, were def­i­nite taboos, all ex­pressed in the same neg­a­tive form as were the most an­cient pro­hi­bi­tions. But these newer codes were truly eman­ci­pat­ing in that they took the place of thou­sands of pre-ex­is­tent taboos. And more than this, these later com­mand­ments def­i­nitely prom­ised some­thing in re­turn for obe­di­ence.

• suddenly terminated after 300,000 years
• were 1st epochal revelation

92:4.51. The Dala­ma­tian teach­ings. The true con­cept of the First Source and Cen­ter was first pro­mul­gated on Uran­tia by the one hun­dred cor­po­real mem­bers of Prince Cali­gas­tia’s staff. This ex­pand­ing rev­e­la­tion of De­ity went on for more than three hun­dred thou­sand years un­til it was sud­denly ter­mi­nated by the plan­e­tary se­ces­sion and the dis­rup­tion of the teach­ing regime. Ex­cept for the work of Van, the in­flu­ence of the Dala­ma­tian rev­e­la­tion was prac­ti­cally lost to the whole world. Even the Nod­ites had for­got­ten this truth by the time of Adam’s ar­rival. Of all who re­ceived the teach­ings of the one hun­dred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy con­cept in Amerindian re­li­gion when con­tact with Chris­tian­ity greatly clar­i­fied and strength­ened it.

67:5.4One hun­dred and sixty-two years af­ter the re­bel­lion a tidal wave swept up over Dala­ma­tia, and the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters sank be­neath the wa­ters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge un­til al­most ev­ery ves­tige of the no­ble cul­ture of those splen­did ages had been oblit­er­ated.

77:4.7And all this ex­plains how the Sume­ri­ans ap­peared so sud­denly and mys­te­ri­ously on the stage of ac­tion in Mes­o­po­ta­mia. In­ves­ti­ga­tors will never be able to trace out and fol­low these tribes back to the be­gin­ning of the Sume­ri­ans, who had their ori­gin two hun­dred thou­sand years ago af­ter the sub­mer­gence of Dala­ma­tia. With­out a trace of ori­gin else­where in the world, these an­cient tribes sud­denly loom upon the hori­zon of civ­i­liza­tion with a full-grown and su­pe­rior cul­ture, em­brac­ing tem­ples, met­al­work, agri­cul­ture, an­i­mals, pot­tery, weav­ing, com­mer­cial law, civil codes, re­li­gious cer­e­mo­nial, and an old sys­tem of writ­ing. At the be­gin­ning of the his­tor­i­cal era they had long since lost the al­pha­bet of Dala­ma­tia, hav­ing adopted the pe­cu­liar writ­ing sys­tem orig­i­nat­ing in Dil­mun. The Sume­rian lan­guage, though vir­tu­ally lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in com­mon with the so-called Aryan tongues.

78:7.7The rem­nants of this, one of the old­est civ­i­liza­tions, are to be found in these re­gions of Mes­o­po­ta­mia and to the north­east and north­west. But still older ves­tiges of the days of Dala­ma­tia ex­ist un­der the wa­ters of the Per­sian Gulf, and the first Eden lies sub­merged un­der the east­ern end of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea.

64:6.28These were ages of in­tense strug­gles be­tween the var­i­ous races, but near the head­quar­ters of the Plan­e­tary Prince the more en­light­ened and more re­cently taught groups lived to­gether in com­par­a­tive har­mony, though no great cul­tural con­quest of the world races had been achieved up to the time of the se­ri­ous dis­rup­tion of this regime by the out­break of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.