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40:5.18The un­num­bered se­ries. These nar­ra­tives can­not pos­si­bly em­brace all of the fas­ci­nat­ing vari­a­tions in the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. You know that ev­ery tenth world is a dec­i­mal or ex­per­i­men­tal planet, but you know noth­ing of the other vari­ables that punc­tu­ate the pro­ces­sional of the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres. There are dif­fer­ences too nu­mer­ous to nar­rate even be­tween the re­vealed or­ders of liv­ing crea­tures as be­tween plan­ets of the same group, but this pre­sen­ta­tion makes clear the es­sen­tial dif­fer­ences in re­la­tion to the as­cen­sion ca­reer. And the as­cen­sion ca­reer is the most im­por­tant fac­tor in any con­sid­er­a­tion of the mor­tals of time and space.

65:7.3The seven ad­ju­tant spir­its are more cir­cuit­like than en­tity­like, and on or­di­nary worlds they are en­cir­cuited with other ad­ju­tant func­tion­ings through­out the lo­cal uni­verse. On life-ex­per­i­ment plan­ets, how­ever, they are rel­a­tively iso­lated. And on Uran­tia, ow­ing to the unique na­ture of the life pat­terns, the lower ad­ju­tants ex­pe­ri­enced far more dif­fi­culty in con­tact­ing with the evo­lu­tion­ary or­gan­isms than would have been the case in a more stan­dard­ized type of life en­dow­ment.

38:9.2These unique crea­tures ap­pear on the ma­jor­ity of the in­hab­ited worlds and are al­ways found on the dec­i­mal or life-ex­per­i­ment plan­ets, such as Uran­tia. Mid­way­ers are of two types—pri­mary and sec­ondary—and they ap­pear by the fol­low­ing tech­niques:

57:8.7900,000,000 years ago wit­nessed the ar­rival on Uran­tia of the first Sa­ta­nia scout­ing party sent out from Je­ru­sem to ex­am­ine the planet and make a re­port on its adap­ta­tion for a life-ex­per­i­ment sta­tion. This com­mis­sion con­sisted of twenty-four mem­bers, em­brac­ing Life Car­ri­ers, La­non­an­dek Sons, Mel­chiz­e­deks, ser­a­phim, and other or­ders of ce­les­tial life hav­ing to do with the early days of plan­e­tary or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion.

57:8.8Af­ter mak­ing a painstak­ing sur­vey of the planet, this com­mis­sion re­turned to Je­ru­sem and re­ported fa­vor­ably to the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, rec­om­mend­ing that Uran­tia be placed on the life-ex­per­i­ment reg­istry. Your world was ac­cord­ingly reg­is­tered on Je­ru­sem as a dec­i­mal planet, and the Life Car­ri­ers were no­ti­fied that they would be granted per­mis­sion to in­sti­tute new pat­terns of me­chan­i­cal, chem­i­cal, and elec­tri­cal mo­bi­liza­tion at the time of their sub­se­quent ar­rival with life trans­plan­ta­tion and im­plan­ta­tion man­dates.

57:8.9In due course ar­range­ments for the plan­e­tary oc­cu­pa­tion were com­pleted by the mixed com­mis­sion of twelve on Je­ru­sem and ap­proved by the plan­e­tary com­mis­sion of sev­enty on Eden­tia. These plans, pro­posed by the ad­vi­sory coun­selors of the Life Car­ri­ers, were fi­nally ac­cepted on Sal­ving­ton. Soon there­after the Neb­a­don broad­casts car­ried the an­nounce­ment that Uran­tia would be­come the stage whereon the Life Car­ri­ers would ex­e­cute their six­ti­eth Sa­ta­nia ex­per­i­ment de­signed to am­plify and im­prove the Sa­ta­nia type of the Neb­a­don life pat­terns.

58:0.1In all Sa­ta­nia there are only sixty-one worlds sim­i­lar to Uran­tia, life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion plan­ets. The ma­jor­ity of in­hab­ited worlds are peo­pled in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished tech­niques; on such spheres the Life Car­ri­ers are af­forded lit­tle lee­way in their plans for life im­plan­ta­tion. But about one world in ten is des­ig­nated as a dec­i­mal planet and as­signed to the spe­cial reg­istry of the Life Car­ri­ers; and on such plan­ets we are per­mit­ted to un­der­take cer­tain life ex­per­i­ments in an ef­fort to mod­ify or pos­si­bly im­prove the stan­dard uni­verse types of liv­ing be­ings.

36:2.15The plan­e­tary life-plan­ning lab­o­ra­to­ries are sit­u­ated on the sec­ond satel­lite of this world num­ber two. In these lab­o­ra­to­ries the Life Car­ri­ers and all their as­so­ciates col­lab­o­rate with the Mel­chiz­e­deks in the ef­fort to mod­ify and pos­si­bly im­prove the life de­signed for im­plan­ta­tion on the dec­i­mal plan­ets of Neb­a­don. The life now evolv­ing on Uran­tia was planned and par­tially worked out on this very world, for Uran­tia is a dec­i­mal planet, a life-ex­per­i­ment world. On one world in each ten a greater vari­ance in the stan­dard life de­signs is per­mit­ted than on the other (non­ex­per­i­men­tal) worlds.

23:2.20They go forth to in­ves­ti­gate the clues fur­nished by the space con­tem­pla­tors of the realms. Un­doubt­edly the Par­a­dise De­i­ties know of the ex­is­tence of these undis­cov­ered en­ergy sys­tems of space, but they never di­vulge such in­for­ma­tion. If the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers did not ex­plore and chart these newly or­ga­niz­ing en­ergy cen­ters, such phe­nom­ena would long re­main un­no­ticed even by the in­tel­li­gences of ad­ja­cent realms. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, as a class, are highly sen­si­tive to grav­ity; ac­cord­ingly they can some­times de­tect the prob­a­ble pres­ence of very small dark plan­ets, the very worlds which are best adapted to life ex­per­i­ments.

49:5.11Nor­mal ad­just­ments to plan­e­tary con­di­tions fol­low the gen­eral phys­i­cal pat­terns pre­vi­ously con­sid­ered. The worlds of the non­breathers typ­ify the rad­i­cal or ex­treme ad­just­ment, but other types are also in­cluded in this group. Ex­per­i­men­tal worlds are usu­ally ide­ally adapted to the typ­i­cal life forms, and on these dec­i­mal plan­ets the Life Car­ri­ers at­tempt to pro­duce ben­e­fi­cial vari­a­tions in the stan­dard life de­signs. Since your world is an ex­per­i­men­tal planet, it dif­fers markedly from its sis­ter spheres in Sa­ta­nia; many forms of life have ap­peared on Uran­tia that are not found else­where; like­wise are many com­mon species ab­sent from your planet.

49:5.12In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, all the life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion worlds are se­ri­ally linked to­gether and con­sti­tute a spe­cial do­main of uni­verse af­fairs which is given at­ten­tion by des­ig­nated ad­min­is­tra­tors; and all of these ex­per­i­men­tal worlds are pe­ri­od­i­cally in­spected by a corps of uni­verse di­rec­tors whose chief is the vet­eran fi­nal­i­ter known in Sa­ta­nia as Taba­man­tia.

57:8.10Shortly af­ter Uran­tia was first rec­og­nized on the uni­verse broad­casts to all Neb­a­don, it was ac­corded full uni­verse sta­tus. Soon there­after it was reg­is­tered in the rec­ords of the mi­nor and the ma­jor sec­tor head­quar­ters plan­ets of the super­uni­verse; and be­fore this age was over, Uran­tia had found en­try on the plan­e­tary-life reg­istry of Uversa.

65:4.7There were many unique fea­tures of the Uran­tia life ex­per­i­ment, but the two out­stand­ing episodes were the ap­pear­ance of the An­donic race prior to the evo­lu­tion of the six col­ored peo­ples and the later si­mul­ta­ne­ous ap­pear­ance of the San­gik mu­tants in a sin­gle fam­ily. Uran­tia is the first world in Sa­ta­nia where the six col­ored races sprang from the same hu­man fam­ily. They or­di­nar­ily arise in di­ver­si­fied strains from in­de­pen­dent mu­ta­tions within the pre­hu­man an­i­mal stock and usu­ally ap­pear on earth one at a time and suc­ces­sively over long pe­ri­ods of time, be­gin­ning with the red man and pass­ing on down through the col­ors to in­digo.

65:4.8An­other out­stand­ing vari­a­tion of pro­ce­dure was the late ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. As a rule, the prince ap­pears on a planet about the time of will de­vel­op­ment; and if such a plan had been fol­lowed, Cali­gas­tia might have come to Uran­tia even dur­ing the life­times of An­don and Fonta in­stead of al­most five hun­dred thou­sand years later, si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ap­pear­ance of the six San­gik races.

65:4.9On an or­di­nary in­hab­ited world a Plan­e­tary Prince would have been granted on the re­quest of the Life Car­ri­ers at, or some­time af­ter, the ap­pear­ance of An­don and Fonta. But Uran­tia hav­ing been des­ig­nated a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion planet, it was by prea­gree­ment that the Mel­chiz­e­dek ob­servers, twelve in num­ber, were sent as ad­vis­ers to the Life Car­ri­ers and as over­seers of the planet un­til the sub­se­quent ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. These Mel­chiz­e­deks came at the time An­don and Fonta made the de­ci­sions which en­abled Thought Ad­justers to in­dwell their mor­tal minds.