evolution

• principle of evolution › process is under perfect control of universe Creators

3:2.2Within the bounds of that which is con­sis­tent with the di­vine na­ture, it is lit­er­ally true that “with God all things are pos­si­ble.” The long-drawn-out evo­lu­tion­ary pro­cesses of peo­ples, plan­ets, and uni­verses are un­der the per­fect con­trol of the uni­verse cre­ators and ad­min­is­tra­tors and un­fold in ac­cor­dance with the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, pro­ceed­ing in har­mony and or­der and in keep­ing with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one law­giver. He up­holds the worlds in space and swings the uni­verses around the end­less cir­cle of the eter­nal cir­cuit.

• principle of evolution › Providence works out evolutionary plan

4:1.2Can you not ad­vance in your con­cept of God’s deal­ing with man to that level where you rec­og­nize that the watch­word of the uni­verse is prog­ress? Through long ages the hu­man race has strug­gled to reach its pres­ent po­si­tion. Through­out all these mil­len­ni­ums Prov­i­dence has been work­ing out the plan of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion. The two thoughts are not op­posed in prac­tice, only in man’s mis­taken con­cepts. Di­vine prov­i­dence is never ar­rayed in op­po­si­tion to true hu­man prog­ress, ei­ther tem­po­ral or spir­i­tual. Prov­i­dence is al­ways con­sis­tent with the un­chang­ing and per­fect na­ture of the su­preme Law­maker.

• principle of evolution › modifies nature by augmenting Paradise perfection, diminishing evil, error, and disharmony

4:2.4Na­ture is the per­fec­tion of Par­a­dise di­vided by the in­com­ple­tion, evil, and sin of the un­fin­ished uni­verses. This quo­tient is thus ex­pres­sive of both the per­fect and the par­tial, of both the eter­nal and the tem­po­ral. Con­tin­u­ing evo­lu­tion mod­i­fies na­ture by aug­ment­ing the con­tent of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion and by di­min­ish­ing the con­tent of the evil, er­ror, and dishar­mony of rel­a­tive re­al­ity.

• principle of evolution › creation in time otherwise than by fiat of Deity
• principle of evolution › progressive creation in time

15:6.7With the ex­cep­tion of the ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, all space bod­ies have had an evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin, evo­lu­tion­ary in the sense that they have not been brought into be­ing by fiat of De­ity, evo­lu­tion­ary in the sense that the cre­ative acts of God have un­folded by a time-space tech­nique through the op­er­a­tion of many of the cre­ated and even­tu­ated in­tel­li­gences of De­ity.

• principle of evolution › Creators could have, but did not, choose to make local universes perfect

25:3.7The mo­ment the Cre­ators bring into ex­is­tence evolv­ing in­di­vid­u­als with the power of choice, that mo­ment a de­par­ture is made from the smooth work­ing of di­vine per­fec­tion; mis­un­der­stand­ings are cer­tain to arise, and pro­vi­sion for the fair ad­just­ment of these hon­est dif­fer­ences of view­point must be made. We should all re­mem­ber that the all-wise and all-pow­er­ful Cre­ators could have made the lo­cal uni­verses just as per­fect as Ha­vona. No con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sions need func­tion in the cen­tral uni­verse. But the Cre­ators did not choose in their all-wis­dom to do this. And while they have pro­duced uni­verses which abound in dif­fer­ences and teem with dif­fi­cul­ties, they have like­wise pro­vided the mech­a­nisms and the means for com­pos­ing all these dif­fer­ences and for har­mo­niz­ing all this seem­ing con­fu­sion.

• principle of evolution › gradual progressive development – physically, mentally, and spiritually

32:0.2These uni­verses of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary. The cre­ative plan of the Par­a­dise Mi­cha­els al­ways pro­ceeds along the path of grad­ual evolve­ment and pro­gres­sive de­vel­op­ment of the phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual na­tures and ca­pac­i­ties of the man­i­fold crea­tures who in­habit the var­ied or­ders of spheres com­pris­ing such a lo­cal uni­verse.

32:3.1The only cre­ation that is per­fectly set­tled is Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, which was made di­rectly by the thought of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the word of the Eter­nal Son. Ha­vona is an ex­is­ten­tial, per­fect, and re­plete uni­verse, sur­round­ing the home of the eter­nal De­i­ties, the cen­ter of all things. The cre­ations of the seven super­uni­verses are fi­nite, evo­lu­tion­ary, and con­sis­tently pro­gres­sive.

32:3.2The phys­i­cal sys­tems of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary in ori­gin. They are not even phys­i­cally sta­bi­lized un­til they are swung into the set­tled cir­cuits of their super­uni­verses. Nei­ther is a lo­cal uni­verse set­tled in light and life un­til its phys­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties of ex­pan­sion and de­vel­op­ment have been ex­hausted, and un­til the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all its in­hab­ited worlds has been for­ever set­tled and sta­bi­lized.

32:3.3Ex­cept in the cen­tral uni­verse, per­fec­tion is a pro­gres­sive at­tain­ment. In the cen­tral cre­ation we have a pat­tern of per­fec­tion, but all other realms must at­tain that per­fec­tion by the meth­ods es­tab­lished for the ad­vance­ment of those par­tic­u­lar worlds or uni­verses. And an al­most in­fi­nite va­ri­ety char­ac­ter­izes the plans of the Cre­ator Sons for or­ga­niz­ing, evolv­ing, dis­ci­plin­ing, and set­tling their re­spec­tive lo­cal uni­verses.

32:3.4With the ex­cep­tion of the de­ity pres­ence of the Fa­ther, ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse is, in a cer­tain sense, a du­pli­ca­tion of the ad­min­is­tra­tive or­ga­ni­za­tion of the cen­tral or pat­tern cre­ation. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent in the res­i­den­tial uni­verse, he does not in­dwell the minds of the be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in that uni­verse as he does lit­er­ally dwell with the souls of the mor­tals of time and space. There seems to be an all-wise com­pen­sa­tion in the ad­just­ment and reg­u­la­tion of the spir­i­tual af­fairs of the far-flung cre­ation. In the cen­tral uni­verse the Fa­ther is per­son­ally pres­ent as such but ab­sent in the minds of the chil­dren of that per­fect cre­ation; in the uni­verses of space the Fa­ther is ab­sent in per­son, be­ing rep­re­sented by his Sov­er­eign Sons, while he is in­ti­mately pres­ent in the minds of his mor­tal chil­dren, be­ing spir­i­tu­ally rep­re­sented by the preper­sonal pres­ence of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors that re­side in the minds of these will crea­tures.

32:3.5On the head­quar­ters of a lo­cal uni­verse there re­side all those cre­ator and cre­ative per­son­al­i­ties who rep­re­sent self-con­tained au­thor­ity and ad­min­is­tra­tive au­ton­omy ex­cept the per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. In the lo­cal uni­verse there are to be found some­thing of ev­ery­one and some­one of al­most ev­ery class of in­tel­li­gent be­ings ex­ist­ing in the cen­tral uni­verse ex­cept the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Al­though the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is not per­son­ally pres­ent in a lo­cal uni­verse, he is per­son­ally rep­re­sented by its Cre­ator Son, some­time vicegerent of God and sub­se­quently su­preme and sov­er­eign ruler in his own right.

32:3.6The far­ther down the scale of life we go, the more dif­fi­cult it be­comes to lo­cate, with the eye of faith, the in­vis­i­ble Fa­ther. The lower crea­tures—and some­times even the higher per­son­al­i­ties—find it dif­fi­cult al­ways to en­vis­age the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in his Cre­ator Sons. And so, pend­ing the time of their spir­i­tual ex­al­ta­tion, when per­fec­tion of de­vel­op­ment will en­able them to see God in per­son, they grow weary in pro­gres­sion, en­ter­tain spir­i­tual doubts, stum­ble into con­fu­sion, and thus iso­late them­selves from the pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual aims of their time and uni­verse. In this way they lose the abil­ity to see the Fa­ther when be­hold­ing the Cre­ator Son. The surest safe­guard for the crea­ture through­out the long strug­gle to at­tain the Fa­ther, dur­ing this time when in­her­ent con­di­tions make such at­tain­ment im­pos­si­ble, is tena­ciously to hold on to the truth-fact of the Fa­ther’s pres­ence in his Sons. Lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively, spir­i­tu­ally and per­son­ally, the Fa­ther and the Sons are one. It is a fact: He who has seen a Cre­ator Son has seen the Fa­ther.

32:3.7The per­son­al­i­ties of a given uni­verse are set­tled and de­pend­able, at the start, only in ac­cor­dance with their de­gree of kin­ship to De­ity. When crea­ture ori­gin de­parts suf­fi­ciently far from the orig­i­nal and di­vine Sources, whether we are deal­ing with the Sons of God or the crea­tures of min­istry be­long­ing to the In­fi­nite Spirit, there is an in­crease in the pos­si­bil­ity of dishar­mony, con­fu­sion, and some­times re­bel­lion—sin.

32:3.8Ex­cept­ing per­fect be­ings of De­ity ori­gin, all will crea­tures in the super­uni­verses are of evo­lu­tion­ary na­ture, be­gin­ning in lowly es­tate and climb­ing ever up­ward, in re­al­ity in­ward. Even highly spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties con­tinue to as­cend the scale of life by pro­gres­sive trans­la­tions from life to life and from sphere to sphere. And in the case of those who en­ter­tain the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors, there is in­deed no limit to the pos­si­ble heights of their spir­i­tual as­cent and uni­verse at­tain­ment.

32:3.9The per­fec­tion of the crea­tures of time, when fi­nally achieved, is wholly an ac­quire­ment, a bona fide per­son­al­ity pos­ses­sion. While the el­e­ments of grace are freely ad­mixed, nev­er­the­less, the crea­ture at­tain­ments are the re­sult of in­di­vid­ual ef­fort and ac­tual liv­ing, per­son­al­ity re­ac­tion to the ex­ist­ing en­vi­ron­ment.

• principle of evolution › cosmic complement to perfection

32:3.10The fact of an­i­mal evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin does not at­tach stigma to any per­son­al­ity in the sight of the uni­verse as that is the ex­clu­sive method of pro­duc­ing one of the two ba­sic types of fi­nite in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures. When the heights of per­fec­tion and eter­nity are at­tained, all the more honor to those who be­gan at the bot­tom and joy­fully climbed the lad­der of life, round by round, and who, when they do reach the heights of glory, will have gained a per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which em­bod­ies an ac­tual knowl­edge of ev­ery phase of life from the bot­tom to the top.

• principle of evolution › shows wisdom of Creators

32:3.11In all this is shown the wis­dom of the Cre­ators. It would be just as easy for the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to make all mor­tals per­fect be­ings, to im­part per­fec­tion by his di­vine word. But that would de­prive them of the won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence of the ad­ven­ture and train­ing as­so­ci­ated with the long and grad­ual in­ward climb, an ex­pe­ri­ence to be had only by those who are so for­tu­nate as to be­gin at the very bot­tom of liv­ing ex­is­tence.

32:3.12In the uni­verses en­cir­cling Ha­vona there are pro­vided only a suf­fi­cient num­ber of per­fect crea­tures to meet the need for pat­tern teacher guides for those who are as­cend­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary scale of life. The ex­pe­ri­en­tial na­ture of the evo­lu­tion­ary type of per­son­al­ity is the nat­u­ral cos­mic com­ple­ment of the ever-per­fect na­tures of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona crea­tures. In re­al­ity, both per­fect and per­fected crea­tures are in­com­plete as re­gards fi­nite to­tal­ity. But in the com­ple­men­tal as­so­ci­a­tion of the ex­is­ten­tially per­fect crea­tures of the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona sys­tem with the ex­pe­ri­en­tially per­fected fi­nal­i­ters as­cend­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses, both types find re­lease from in­her­ent lim­i­ta­tions and thus may con­jointly at­tempt to reach the sub­lime heights of the ul­ti­mate of crea­ture sta­tus.

32:3.13These crea­ture trans­ac­tions are the uni­verse reper­cus­sions of ac­tions and re­ac­tions within the Sev­en­fold De­ity, wherein the eter­nal di­vin­ity of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity is con­joined with the evolv­ing di­vin­ity of the Su­preme Cre­ators of the time-space uni­verses in, by, and through the power-ac­tu­al­iz­ing De­ity of the Su­preme Be­ing.

32:3.14The di­vinely per­fect crea­ture and the evo­lu­tion­ary per­fected crea­ture are equal in de­gree of di­vin­ity po­ten­tial, but they dif­fer in kind. Each must de­pend on the other to at­tain su­prem­acy of ser­vice. The evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses de­pend on per­fect Ha­vona to pro­vide the fi­nal train­ing for their as­cend­ing cit­i­zens, but so does the per­fect cen­tral uni­verse re­quire the ex­is­tence of the per­fect­ing super­uni­verses to pro­vide for the full de­vel­op­ment of its de­scend­ing in­hab­i­tants.

32:3.15The two prime man­i­fes­ta­tions of fi­nite re­al­ity, in­nate per­fec­tion and evolved per­fec­tion, be they per­son­al­i­ties or uni­verses, are co-or­di­nate, de­pen­dent, and in­te­grated. Each re­quires the other to achieve com­ple­tion of func­tion, ser­vice, and des­tiny.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › apparently useless by-products essential

36:2.17Sphere Num­ber Four and its trib­u­tary satel­lites are de­voted to the study of the evo­lu­tion of crea­ture life in gen­eral and to the evo­lu­tion­ary an­tecedents of any one life level in par­tic­u­lar. The orig­i­nal life plasm of an evo­lu­tion­ary world must con­tain the full po­ten­tial for all fu­ture de­vel­op­men­tal vari­a­tions and for all sub­se­quent evo­lu­tion­ary changes and mod­i­fi­ca­tions. The pro­vi­sion for such far-reach­ing projects of life meta­mor­pho­sis may re­quire the ap­pear­ance of many ap­par­ently use­less forms of an­i­mal and veg­etable life. Such by-prod­ucts of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion, fore­seen or un­fore­seen, ap­pear upon the stage of ac­tion only to dis­ap­pear, but in and through all this long pro­cess there runs the thread of the wise and in­tel­li­gent for­mu­la­tions of the orig­i­nal de­sign­ers of the plan­e­tary life plan and species scheme. The man­i­fold by-prod­ucts of bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion are all es­sen­tial to the fi­nal and full func­tion of the higher in­tel­li­gent forms of life, not­with­stand­ing that great out­ward dishar­mony may pre­vail from time to time in the long up­ward strug­gle of the higher crea­tures to ef­fect the mas­tery of the lower forms of life, many of which are some­times so an­tag­o­nis­tic to the peace and com­fort of the evolv­ing will crea­tures.

• biologic evolution › Life Carriers › manipulate environment prior to emergence of will

36:3.7Dur­ing the ages in­ter­ven­ing be­tween life es­tab­lish­ment and the emer­gence of hu­man crea­tures of moral sta­tus, the Life Car­ri­ers are per­mit­ted to ma­nip­u­late the life en­vi­ron­ment and oth­er­wise fa­vor­ably di­rec­tion­ize the course of bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion. And this they do for long pe­ri­ods of time.

36:3.8When the Life Car­ri­ers op­er­at­ing on a new world have once suc­ceeded in pro­duc­ing a be­ing with will, with the power of moral de­ci­sion and spir­i­tual choice, then and there their work ter­mi­nates—they are through; they may ma­nip­u­late the evolv­ing life no fur­ther. From this point for­ward the evo­lu­tion of liv­ing things must pro­ceed in ac­cor­dance with the en­dow­ment of the in­her­ent na­ture and ten­den­cies which have al­ready been im­parted to, and es­tab­lished in, the plan­e­tary life for­mu­las and pat­terns. The Life Car­ri­ers are not per­mit­ted to ex­per­i­ment or to in­ter­fere with will; they are not al­lowed to dom­i­nate or ar­bi­trar­ily in­flu­ence moral crea­tures.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › dependent on adjutant mind-spirits
• principle of evolution › always purposeful, never accidental

36:5.1It is the pres­ence of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its on the prim­i­tive worlds that con­di­tions the course of or­ganic evo­lu­tion; that ex­plains why evo­lu­tion is pur­pose­ful and not ac­ci­den­tal. These ad­ju­tants rep­re­sent that func­tion of the mind min­istry of the In­fi­nite Spirit which is ex­tended to the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gent life through the op­er­a­tions of a lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. The ad­ju­tants are the chil­dren of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and con­sti­tute her per­sonal min­istry to the ma­te­rial minds of the realms. Wher­ever and when­ever such mind is man­i­fest, these spir­its are var­i­ously func­tion­ing.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › Material Sons dispatched when human biologic evolution attains highest level

39:5.31. The Voices of the Gar­den. When the plan­e­tary course of hu­man evo­lu­tion is at­tain­ing its high­est bi­o­logic level, there al­ways ap­pear the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, the Adams and Eves, to aug­ment the fur­ther evo­lu­tion of the races by an ac­tual con­tri­bu­tion of their su­pe­rior life plasm. The plan­e­tary head­quar­ters of such an Adam and Eve is usu­ally de­nom­i­nated the Gar­den of Eden, and their per­sonal ser­a­phim are of­ten known as the “voices of the Gar­den.” These ser­a­phim are of in­valu­able ser­vice to the Plan­e­tary Adams in all their projects for the phys­i­cal and in­tel­lec­tual up­step­ping of the evo­lu­tion­ary races. Af­ter the Adamic de­fault on Uran­tia, some of these ser­a­phim were left on the planet and were as­signed to Adam’s suc­ces­sors in au­thor­ity.

• social evolution › survival struggles of primitives did not breed trust

39:5.74. The Spir­its of Trust. Sus­pi­cion is the in­her­ent re­ac­tion of prim­i­tive men; the sur­vival strug­gles of the early ages do not nat­u­rally breed trust. Trust is a new hu­man ac­qui­si­tion brought about by the min­istry of these plan­e­tary ser­a­phim of the Adamic regime. It is their mis­sion to in­cul­cate trust into the minds of evolv­ing men. The Gods are very trust­ful; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is will­ing freely to trust him­self—the Ad­juster—to man’s as­so­ci­a­tion.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality

42:10.1The end­less sweep of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­ity, from the ab­so­lute­ness of Par­a­dise monota to the ab­so­lute­ness of space po­tency, is sug­ges­tive of cer­tain evo­lu­tions of re­la­tion­ship in the non­spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the First Source and Cen­ter—those re­al­i­ties which are con­cealed in space po­tency, re­vealed in monota, and pro­vi­sion­ally dis­closed on in­ter­ven­ing cos­mic lev­els. This eter­nal cy­cle of en­ergy, be­ing cir­cuited in the Fa­ther of uni­verses, is ab­so­lute and, be­ing ab­so­lute, is ex­pan­sile in nei­ther fact nor value; nev­er­the­less the Pri­mal Fa­ther is even now—as al­ways—self-re­al­iz­ing of an ever-ex­pand­ing arena of time-space, and of time-space-tran­scended, mean­ings, an arena of chang­ing re­la­tion­ships wherein en­ergy-mat­ter is be­ing pro­gres­sively sub­jected to the over­con­trol of liv­ing and di­vine spirit through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial striv­ing of liv­ing and per­sonal mind.

• principle of evolution › evolutionary capacity of universe inexhaustible
• principle of evolution › progress toward harmonious unity

42:11.7Since mind co-or­di­nates the uni­verse, fix­ity of mech­a­nisms is nonex­is­tent. The phe­nom­e­non of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion as­so­ci­ated with cos­mic self-main­te­nance is uni­ver­sal. The evo­lu­tion­ary ca­pac­ity of the uni­verse is in­ex­haustible in the in­fin­ity of spon­tane­ity. Prog­ress to­wards har­mo­nious unity, a grow­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial syn­the­sis super­im­posed on an ever-in­creas­ing com­plex­ity of re­la­tion­ships, could be ef­fected only by a pur­po­sive and dom­i­nant mind.

• biologic evolution › no e. on Jerusem

46:2.5Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds are en­dowed with the ten stan­dard di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life char­ac­ter­is­tic of the ar­chi­tec­tural spheres of Neb­a­don. And since there is no or­ganic evo­lu­tion on Je­ru­sem, there are no con­flict­ing forms of life, no strug­gle for ex­is­tence, no sur­vival of the fittest. Rather is there a cre­ative adap­ta­tion which fore­shad­ows the beauty, the har­mony, and the per­fec­tion of the eter­nal worlds of the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse. And in all this cre­ative per­fec­tion there is the most amaz­ing in­ter­min­gling of phys­i­cal and of mor­ontia life, ar­tis­ti­cally con­trasted by the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and their fel­lows.

• principle of evolution › God does not transform animal creatures into perfected spirits by creative magic

48:0.1The Gods can­not—at least they do not—trans­form a crea­ture of gross an­i­mal na­ture into a per­fected spirit by some mys­te­ri­ous act of cre­ative magic. When the Cre­ators de­sire to pro­duce per­fect be­ings, they do so by di­rect and orig­i­nal cre­ation, but they never un­der­take to con­vert an­i­mal-ori­gin and ma­te­rial crea­tures into be­ings of per­fec­tion in a sin­gle step.

• principle of evolution › always purposeful, never accidental

49:1.1The uni­verses of time and space are grad­ual in de­vel­op­ment; the pro­gres­sion of life—ter­res­trial or ce­les­tial—is nei­ther ar­bi­trary nor mag­i­cal. Cos­mic evo­lu­tion may not al­ways be un­der­stand­able (pre­dictable), but it is strictly nonac­ci­den­tal.

49:1.2The bi­o­logic unit of ma­te­rial life is the pro­to­plas­mic cell, the com­mu­nal as­so­ci­a­tion of chem­i­cal, elec­tri­cal, and other ba­sic en­er­gies. The chem­i­cal for­mu­las dif­fer in each sys­tem, and the tech­nique of liv­ing cell re­pro­duc­tion is slightly dif­fer­ent in each lo­cal uni­verse, but the Life Car­ri­ers are al­ways the liv­ing cat­alyz­ers who ini­ti­ate the pri­mor­dial re­ac­tions of ma­te­rial life; they are the in­sti­ga­tors of the en­ergy cir­cuits of liv­ing mat­ter.

49:1.3All the worlds of a lo­cal sys­tem dis­close un­mis­tak­able phys­i­cal kin­ship; nev­er­the­less, each planet has its own scale of life, no two worlds be­ing ex­actly alike in plant and an­i­mal en­dow­ment. These plan­e­tary vari­a­tions in the sys­tem life types re­sult from the de­ci­sions of the Life Car­ri­ers. But these be­ings are nei­ther capri­cious nor whim­si­cal; the uni­verses are con­ducted in ac­cor­dance with law and or­der. The laws of Neb­a­don are the di­vine man­dates of Sal­ving­ton, and the evo­lu­tion­ary or­der of life in Sa­ta­nia is in con­so­nance with the evo­lu­tion­ary pat­tern of Neb­a­don.

• principle of evolution › process varies greatly but is orderly and controlled

49:1.4Evo­lu­tion is the rule of hu­man de­vel­op­ment, but the pro­cess it­self varies greatly on dif­fer­ent worlds. Life is some­times ini­ti­ated in one cen­ter, some­times in three, as it was on Uran­tia. On the at­mo­spheric worlds it usu­ally has a ma­rine ori­gin, but not al­ways; much de­pends on the phys­i­cal sta­tus of a planet. The Life Car­ri­ers have great lat­i­tude in their func­tion of life ini­ti­a­tion.

• biologic evolution › vegetable always proceeds animal

49:1.5In the de­vel­op­ment of plan­e­tary life the veg­etable form al­ways pre­cedes the an­i­mal and is quite fully de­vel­oped be­fore the an­i­mal pat­terns dif­fer­en­ti­ate. All an­i­mal types are de­vel­oped from the ba­sic pat­terns of the pre­ced­ing veg­etable king­dom of liv­ing things; they are not sep­a­rately or­ga­nized.

• biologic evolution › elephants evolve more rapidly than mice

49:1.6The early stages of life evo­lu­tion are not al­to­gether in con­for­mity with your pres­ent-day views. Mor­tal man is not an evo­lu­tion­ary ac­ci­dent. There is a pre­cise sys­tem, a uni­ver­sal law, which de­ter­mines the un­fold­ing of the plan­e­tary life plan on the spheres of space. Time and the pro­duc­tion of large num­bers of a species are not the con­trol­ling in­flu­ences. Mice re­pro­duce much more rapidly than ele­phants, yet ele­phants evolve more rapidly than mice.

• principle of evolution › process varies greatly but is orderly and controlled

49:1.7The pro­cess of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion is or­derly and con­trolled. The de­vel­op­ment of higher or­gan­isms from lower group­ings of life is not ac­ci­den­tal. Some­times evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress is tem­porar­ily de­layed by the de­struc­tion of cer­tain fa­vor­able lines of life plasm car­ried in a se­lected species. It of­ten re­quires ages upon ages to re­coup the dam­age oc­ca­sioned by the loss of a sin­gle su­pe­rior strain of hu­man hered­ity. These se­lected and su­pe­rior strains of liv­ing pro­to­plasm should be jeal­ously and in­tel­li­gently guarded when once they make their ap­pear­ance. And on most of the in­hab­ited worlds these su­pe­rior po­ten­tials of life are val­ued much more highly than on Uran­tia.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › Material Sons dispatched when human biologic evolution attains highest level

49:5.24On a nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary world, racial prog­ress at­tains its nat­u­ral bi­o­logic peak dur­ing the regime of the Plan­e­tary Prince, and shortly there­after the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign dis­patches a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter to that planet. These im­ported be­ings are of ser­vice as bi­o­logic up­lifters; their de­fault on Uran­tia fur­ther com­pli­cated your plan­e­tary his­tory.

• biologic evolution › Adam’s significant contribution

51:0.3Al­though you can­not hope to know all about the work of these Sons on all the worlds of Sa­ta­nia and other sys­tems, other pa­pers de­pict more fully the life and ex­pe­ri­ences of the in­ter­est­ing pair, Adam and Eve, who came from the corps of the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Je­ru­sem to up­step the Uran­tia races. While there was a mis­car­riage of the ideal plans for im­prov­ing your na­tive races, still, Adam’s mis­sion was not in vain; Uran­tia has prof­ited im­mea­sur­ably from the gift of Adam and Eve, and among their fel­lows and in the coun­cils on high their work is not reck­oned as a to­tal loss.

• principle of evolution › once initiated, planetary e. must proceed

51:2.3While there is this de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing tech­nique for prepar­ing the Adams for tran­sit from Je­ru­sem to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, there is no equiv­a­lent method for tak­ing them away from such worlds un­less the en­tire planet is to be emp­tied, in which event emer­gency in­stal­la­tion of the de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion tech­nique is made for the en­tire salv­able pop­u­la­tion. If some phys­i­cal catas­tro­phe should doom the plan­e­tary res­i­dence of an evolv­ing race, the Mel­chiz­e­deks and the Life Car­ri­ers would in­stall the tech­nique of de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion for all sur­vivors, and by se­raphic trans­port these be­ings would be car­ried away to the new world pre­pared for their con­tin­u­ing ex­is­tence. The evo­lu­tion of a hu­man race, once ini­ti­ated on a world of space, must pro­ceed quite in­de­pen­dently of the phys­i­cal sur­vival of that planet, but dur­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary ages it is not oth­er­wise in­tended that a Plan­e­tary Adam or Eve shall leave their cho­sen world.

• social evolution › unaided e. cannot achieve peace on isolated worlds

52:6.2Even on nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary worlds the re­al­iza­tion of the world-wide broth­er­hood of man is not an easy ac­com­plish­ment. On a con­fused and dis­or­dered planet like Uran­tia such an achieve­ment re­quires a much longer time and ne­ces­si­tates far greater ef­fort. Un­aided so­cial evo­lu­tion can hardly achieve such happy re­sults on a spir­i­tu­ally iso­lated sphere. Re­li­gious rev­e­la­tion is es­sen­tial to the re­al­iza­tion of broth­er­hood on Uran­tia. While Je­sus has shown the way to the im­me­di­ate at­tain­ment of spir­i­tual broth­er­hood, the re­al­iza­tion of so­cial broth­er­hood on your world de­pends much on the achieve­ment of the fol­low­ing per­sonal trans­for­ma­tions and plan­e­tary ad­just­ments:

• social evolution › accelerate e. by applying spiritual pressure from above

52:6.75. Spir­i­tual in­sight. The broth­er­hood of man is, af­ter all, pred­i­cated on the rec­og­ni­tion of the fa­ther­hood of God. The quick­est way to re­al­ize the broth­er­hood of man on Uran­tia is to ef­fect the spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tion of pres­ent-day hu­man­ity. The only tech­nique for ac­cel­er­at­ing the nat­u­ral trend of so­cial evo­lu­tion is that of ap­ply­ing spir­i­tual pres­sure from above, thus aug­ment­ing moral in­sight while en­hanc­ing the soul ca­pac­ity of ev­ery mor­tal to un­der­stand and love ev­ery other mor­tal. Mu­tual un­der­stand­ing and fra­ter­nal love are tran­scen­dent civ­i­liz­ers and mighty fac­tors in the world-wide re­al­iza­tion of the broth­er­hood of man.

• social evolution › superb attainments on settled worlds amply justify

55:6.9If the mor­tals of dis­traught Uran­tia could only view one of these more ad­vanced worlds long set­tled in light and life, they would nev­er­more ques­tion the wis­dom of the evo­lu­tion­ary scheme of cre­ation. Were there no fu­ture of eter­nal crea­ture pro­gres­sion, still the su­perb evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ments of the mor­tal races on such set­tled worlds of per­fected achieve­ment would am­ply jus­tify man’s cre­ation on the worlds of time and space.

• principle of evolution › summary of cycle

56:9.12The Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers go out into space and mo­bi­lize its en­er­gies to be­come grav­ity re­spon­sive to the Par­a­dise pull of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and sub­se­quently there come the Cre­ator Sons, who or­ga­nize these grav­ity-re­spond­ing forces into in­hab­ited uni­verses and therein evolve in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who re­ceive unto them­selves the spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and sub­se­quently as­cend to the Fa­ther to be­come like him in all pos­si­ble di­vin­ity at­tri­butes.

56:9.13The cease­less and ex­pand­ing march of the Par­a­dise cre­ative forces through space seems to presage the ever-ex­tend­ing do­main of the grav­ity grasp of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the never-end­ing mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of var­ied types of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who are able to love God and be loved by him, and who, by thus be­com­ing God-know­ing, may choose to be like him, may elect to at­tain Par­a­dise and find God.

• principle of evolution › indicates dominance of Supreme Mind

56:10.11The ex­is­tence of beauty im­plies the pres­ence of ap­pre­cia­tive crea­ture mind just as cer­tainly as the fact of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion in­di­cates the dom­i­nance of the Su­preme Mind. Beauty is the in­tel­lec­tual rec­og­ni­tion of the har­mo­nious time-space syn­the­sis of the far-flung di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of phe­nom­e­nal re­al­ity, all of which stems from pre-ex­is­tent and eter­nal one­ness.

• biologic evolution › inland seas were cradle of e.

57:8.24700,000,000 years ago Uran­tia was ap­proach­ing the ripen­ing of con­di­tions suit­able for the sup­port of life. The con­ti­nen­tal land drift con­tin­ued; in­creas­ingly the ocean pen­e­trated the land as long fin­ger­like seas pro­vid­ing those shal­low wa­ters and shel­tered bays which are so suit­able as a habi­tat for ma­rine life.

57:8.25650,000,000 years ago wit­nessed the fur­ther sep­a­ra­tion of the land masses and, in con­se­quence, a fur­ther ex­ten­sion of the con­ti­nen­tal seas. And these wa­ters were rapidly at­tain­ing that de­gree of salti­ness which was es­sen­tial to Uran­tia life.

57:8.26It was these seas and their suc­ces­sors that laid down the life rec­ords of Uran­tia, as sub­se­quently dis­cov­ered in well-pre­served stone pages, vol­ume upon vol­ume, as era suc­ceeded era and age grew upon age. These in­land seas of olden times were truly the cra­dle of evo­lu­tion.

• biologic evolution › inland seas were cradle of e.

58:1.7On a planet where life has a ma­rine ori­gin, the ideal con­di­tions for life im­plan­ta­tion are pro­vided by a large num­ber of in­land seas, by an ex­ten­sive shore line of shal­low wa­ters and shel­tered bays; and just such a dis­tri­bu­tion of the earth’s wa­ters was rapidly de­vel­op­ing. These an­cient in­land seas were sel­dom over five or six hun­dred feet deep, and sun­light can pen­e­trate ocean wa­ter for more than six hun­dred feet.

• biologic evolution › 50,000 facts prove e. nonaccidental
• principle of evolution › always purposeful, never accidental

58:2.3And yet some of the less imag­i­na­tive of your mor­tal mech­a­nists in­sist on view­ing ma­te­rial cre­ation and hu­man evo­lu­tion as an ac­ci­dent. The Uran­tia mid­way­ers have as­sem­bled over fifty thou­sand facts of physics and chem­istry which they deem to be in­com­pat­i­ble with the laws of ac­ci­den­tal chance, and which they con­tend un­mis­tak­ably demon­strate the pres­ence of in­tel­li­gent pur­pose in the ma­te­rial cre­ation. And all of this takes no ac­count of their cat­a­logue of more than one hun­dred thou­sand find­ings out­side the do­main of physics and chem­istry which they main­tain prove the pres­ence of mind in the plan­ning, cre­ation, and main­te­nance of the ma­te­rial cos­mos.

58:2.4Your sun pours forth a ver­i­ta­ble flood of death-deal­ing rays, and your pleas­ant life on Uran­tia is due to the “for­tu­itous” in­flu­ence of more than two-score ap­par­ently ac­ci­den­tal pro­tec­tive op­er­a­tions sim­i­lar to the ac­tion of this unique ozone layer.

58:2.5Were it not for the “blan­ket­ing” ef­fect of the at­mo­sphere at night, heat would be lost by ra­di­a­tion so rapidly that life would be im­pos­si­ble of main­te­nance ex­cept by ar­ti­fi­cial pro­vi­sion.

• biologic evolution › missing links never existed
• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

58:6.2Al­though the evo­lu­tion of veg­etable life can be traced into an­i­mal life, and though there have been found grad­u­ated se­ries of plants and an­i­mals which pro­gres­sively lead up from the most sim­ple to the most com­plex and ad­vanced or­gan­isms, you will not be able to find such con­nect­ing links be­tween the great di­vi­sions of the an­i­mal king­dom nor be­tween the high­est of the pre­hu­man an­i­mal types and the dawn men of the hu­man races. These so-called “miss­ing links” will for­ever re­main miss­ing, for the sim­ple rea­son that they never ex­isted.

58:6.3From era to era rad­i­cally new species of an­i­mal life arise. They do not evolve as the re­sult of the grad­ual ac­cu­mu­la­tion of small vari­a­tions; they ap­pear as full-fledged and new or­ders of life, and they ap­pear sud­denly.

58:6.4The sud­den ap­pear­ance of new species and di­ver­si­fied or­ders of liv­ing or­gan­isms is wholly bi­o­logic, strictly nat­u­ral. There is noth­ing super­nat­u­ral con­nected with these ge­netic mu­ta­tions.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › organisms accommodate themselves to never-ending fluctuations

58:6.6Study of the rock-em­braced fos­sils of ma­rine life re­veals the early ad­just­ment strug­gles of these prim­i­tive or­gan­isms. Plants and an­i­mals never cease to make these ad­just­ment ex­per­i­ments. Ever the en­vi­ron­ment is chang­ing, and al­ways are liv­ing or­gan­isms striv­ing to ac­com­mo­date them­selves to these never-end­ing fluc­tu­a­tions.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › only organisms attaining cosmic unity persist

58:6.8Through al­most end­less cy­cles of gains and losses, ad­just­ments and read­just­ments, all liv­ing or­gan­isms swing back and forth from age to age. Those that at­tain cos­mic unity per­sist, while those that fall short of this goal cease to ex­ist.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:1.4Sud­denly and with­out gra­da­tion an­ces­try the first mul­ti­cel­lu­lar an­i­mals make their ap­pear­ance. The trilo­bites have evolved, and for ages they dom­i­nate the seas. From the stand­point of ma­rine life this is the trilo­bite age.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:3.5The trilo­bites rapidly de­clined, and the cen­ter of the stage was oc­cu­pied by the larger mol­lusks, or ceph­a­lop­ods. These an­i­mals grew to be fif­teen feet long and one foot in di­am­e­ter and be­came mas­ters of the seas. This species of an­i­mal ap­peared sud­denly and as­sumed dom­i­nance of sea life.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:3.11To­ward the close of the fi­nal Sil­urian sub­mer­gence there is a great in­crease in the echin­o­derms—the stone lilies—as is ev­i­denced by the crinoid lime­stone de­posits. The trilo­bites have nearly dis­ap­peared, and the mol­lusks con­tinue monar­chs of the seas; coral-reef for­ma­tion in­creases greatly. Dur­ing this age, in the more fa­vor­able lo­ca­tions the prim­i­tive wa­ter scor­pi­ons first evolve. Soon there­after, and sud­denly, the true scor­pi­ons—ac­tual air breathers—make their ap­pear­ance.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:4.3The ma­rine life of this age was very di­verse due to the early species seg­re­ga­tion, but later on there was free com­min­gling and as­so­ci­a­tion of all these dif­fer­ent types. The bra­chiopods early reached their cli­max, be­ing suc­ceeded by the arthro­pods, and bar­na­cles made their first ap­pear­ance. But the great­est event of all was the sud­den ap­pear­ance of the fish fam­ily. This be­came the age of fishes, that pe­riod of the world’s his­tory char­ac­ter­ized by the ver­te­brate type of an­i­mal.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:4.10The arthro­pods, or crus­taceans, were the an­ces­tors of the first ver­te­brates. The fore­run­ners of the fish fam­ily were two mod­i­fied arthro­pod an­ces­tors; one had a long body con­nect­ing a head and tail, while the other was a back­bone­less, jaw­less pre­fish. But these pre­lim­i­nary types were quickly de­stroyed when the fishes, the first ver­te­brates of the an­i­mal world, made their sud­den ap­pear­ance from the north.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:4.13The earth was be­ing rapidly over­run by the new or­ders of land veg­e­ta­tion. Here­to­fore few plants grew on land ex­cept about the wa­ter’s edge. Now, and sud­denly, the pro­lific fern fam­ily ap­peared and quickly spread over the face of the rapidly ris­ing land in all parts of the world. Tree types, two feet thick and forty feet high, soon de­vel­oped; later on, leaves evolved, but these early va­ri­eties had only rudi­men­tary fo­liage. There were many smaller plants, but their fos­sils are not found since they were usu­ally de­stroyed by the still ear­lier ap­pear­ing bac­te­ria.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:5.5When the seas were at their height, a new evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment sud­denly oc­curred. Abruptly, the first of the land an­i­mals ap­peared. There were nu­mer­ous species of these an­i­mals that were able to live on land or in wa­ter. These air-breath­ing am­phib­ians de­vel­oped from the arthro­pods, whose swim blad­ders had evolved into lungs.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

59:5.23In gen­eral, these were the epochs of de­vel­op­ment for fresh-wa­ter or­gan­isms; lit­tle change oc­curred in the pre­vi­ous ma­rine life. But the im­por­tant char­ac­ter­is­tic of this pe­riod was the sud­den ap­pear­ance of the frogs and their many cousins. The life fea­tures of the coal age were ferns and frogs.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › eliminates all life without survival value

59:6.10160,000,000 years ago the land was largely cov­ered with veg­e­ta­tion adapted to sup­port land-an­i­mal life, and the at­mo­sphere had be­come ideal for an­i­mal res­pi­ra­tion. Thus ends the pe­riod of ma­rine-life cur­tail­ment and those test­ing times of bi­o­logic ad­ver­sity which elim­i­nated all forms of life ex­cept such as had sur­vival value, and which were there­fore en­ti­tled to func­tion as the an­ces­tors of the more rapidly de­vel­op­ing and highly dif­fer­en­ti­ated life of the en­su­ing ages of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

60:1.9140,000,000 years ago, sud­denly and with only the hint of the two pre­rep­til­ian an­ces­tors that de­vel­oped in Africa dur­ing the pre­ced­ing epoch, the rep­tiles ap­peared in full-fledged form. They de­vel­oped rapidly, soon yield­ing croc­o­diles, scaled rep­tiles, and even­tu­ally both sea ser­pents and fly­ing rep­tiles. Their tran­si­tion an­ces­tors speed­ily dis­ap­peared.

• biologic evolution › brains and agility replaced armor and size in survival

60:1.10These rapidly evolv­ing rep­til­ian di­no­saurs soon be­came the monar­chs of this age. They were egg lay­ers and are dis­tin­guished from all an­i­mals by their small brains, hav­ing brains weigh­ing less than one pound to con­trol bod­ies later weigh­ing as much as forty tons. But ear­lier rep­tiles were smaller, car­niv­o­rous, and walked kan­ga­roo­like on their hind legs. They had hol­low avian bones and sub­se­quently de­vel­oped only three toes on their hind feet, and many of their fos­sil foot­prints have been mis­taken for those of gi­ant birds. Later on, the her­biv­o­rous di­no­saurs evolved. They walked on all fours, and one branch of this group de­vel­oped a pro­tec­tive ar­mor.

• biologic evolution › some species progress; others gravitate backward

60:2.10This con­tin­ued to be, pre-em­i­nently, the age of the di­no­saurs. They so over­ran the land that two species had taken to the wa­ter for sus­te­nance dur­ing the pre­ced­ing pe­riod of sea en­croach­ment. These sea ser­pents rep­re­sent a back­ward step in evo­lu­tion. While some new species are pro­gress­ing, cer­tain strains re­main sta­tion­ary and oth­ers grav­i­tate back­ward, re­vert­ing to a for­mer state. And this is what hap­pened when these two types of rep­tiles for­sook the land.

• biologic evolution › brains and agility replaced armor and size in survival

60:2.11As time passed, the sea ser­pents grew to such size that they be­came very slug­gish and even­tu­ally per­ished be­cause they did not have brains large enough to af­ford pro­tec­tion for their im­mense bod­ies. Their brains weighed less than two ounces not­with­stand­ing the fact that these huge ichthyosaurs some­times grew to be fifty feet long, the ma­jor­ity be­ing over thirty-five feet in length. The ma­rine crocodil­ians were also a re­ver­sion from the land type of rep­tile, but un­like the sea ser­pents, these an­i­mals al­ways re­turned to the land to lay their eggs.

• biologic evolution › brains and agility replaced armor and size in survival

60:2.14One hun­dred mil­lion years ago the rep­til­ian age was draw­ing to a close. The di­no­saurs, for all their enor­mous mass, were all but brain­less an­i­mals, lack­ing the in­tel­li­gence to pro­vide suf­fi­cient food to nour­ish such enor­mous bod­ies. And so did these slug­gish land rep­tiles per­ish in ever-in­creas­ing num­bers. Hence­forth, evo­lu­tion will fol­low the growth of brains, not phys­i­cal bulk, and the de­vel­op­ment of brains will char­ac­ter­ize each suc­ceed­ing epoch of an­i­mal evo­lu­tion and plan­e­tary prog­ress.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

60:3.790,000,000 years ago the an­giosperms emerged from these early Cre­ta­ceous seas and soon over­ran the con­ti­nents. These land plants sud­denly ap­peared along with fig trees, mag­no­lias, and tulip trees. Soon af­ter this time fig trees, bread­fruit trees, and palms over­spread Eu­rope and the west­ern plains of North Amer­ica. No new land an­i­mals ap­peared.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

60:3.19Great plant-life evo­lu­tion was tak­ing place. Among the land plants the angio­sperms pre­dom­i­nated, and many pres­ent-day trees first ap­peared, in­clud­ing beech, birch, oak, wal­nut, sycamore, maple, and mod­ern palms. Fruits, grasses, and ce­re­als were abun­dant, and these seed-bear­ing grasses and trees were to the plant world what the an­ces­tors of man were to the an­i­mal world—they were sec­ond in evo­lu­tion­ary im­por­tance only to the ap­pear­ance of man him­self. Sud­denly and with­out pre­vi­ous gra­da­tion, the great fam­ily of flow­er­ing plants mu­tated. And this new flora soon over­spread the en­tire world.

• biologic evolution › brains and agility replaced armor and size in survival

60:3.21The wad­ing and swim­ming pre­birds of ear­lier ages had not been a suc­cess in the air, nor had the fly­ing di­no­saurs. They were a short-lived species, soon be­com­ing ex­tinct. They, too, were sub­ject to the di­no­saur doom, de­struc­tion, be­cause of hav­ing too lit­tle brain sub­stance in com­par­i­son with body size. This sec­ond at­tempt to pro­duce an­i­mals that could nav­i­gate the at­mo­sphere failed, as did the abortive at­tempt to pro­duce mam­mals dur­ing this and a pre­ced­ing age.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

60:3.2255,000,000 years ago the evo­lu­tion­ary march was marked by the sud­den ap­pear­ance of the first of the true birds, a small pi­geon­like crea­ture which was the an­ces­tor of all bird life. This was the third type of fly­ing crea­ture to ap­pear on earth, and it sprang di­rectly from the rep­til­ian group, not from the con­tem­po­rary fly­ing di­no­saurs nor from the ear­lier types of toothed land birds. And so this be­comes known as the age of birds as well as the de­clin­ing age of rep­tiles.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

61:1.2Early in this pe­riod and in North Amer­ica the pla­cen­tal type of mam­mals sud­denly ap­peared, and they con­sti­tuted the most im­por­tant evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment up to this time. Pre­vi­ous or­ders of non­pla­cen­tal mam­mals had ex­isted, but this new type sprang di­rectly and sud­denly from the pre-ex­is­tent rep­til­ian an­ces­tor whose de­scen­dants had per­sisted on down through the times of di­no­saur de­cline. The fa­ther of the pla­cen­tal mam­mals was a small, highly ac­tive, car­niv­o­rous, spring­ing type of di­no­saur.

• biologic evolution › brains and agility replaced armor and size in survival

61:2.5On land this was pre-em­i­nently the age of mam­malian ren­o­va­tion and ex­pan­sion. Of the ear­lier and more prim­i­tive mam­mals, over one hun­dred species were ex­tinct be­fore this pe­riod ended. Even the mam­mals of large size and small brain soon per­ished. Brains and agility had re­placed ar­mor and size in the prog­ress of an­i­mal sur­vival. And with the di­no­saur fam­ily on the de­cline, the mam­mals slowly as­sumed dom­i­na­tion of the earth, speed­ily and com­pletely de­stroy­ing the re­main­der of their rep­til­ian an­ces­tors.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

61:2.830,000,000 years ago the mod­ern types of mam­mals be­gan to make their ap­pear­ance. For­merly the mam­mals had lived for the greater part in the hills, be­ing of the moun­tain­ous types; sud­denly there be­gan the evo­lu­tion of the plains or hoofed type, the graz­ing species, as dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the clawed flesh eaters. These graz­ers sprang from an un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated an­ces­tor hav­ing five toes and forty-four teeth, which per­ished be­fore the end of the age. Toe evo­lu­tion did not pro­gress be­yond the three-toed stage through­out this pe­riod.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

61:6.1The great event of this glacial pe­riod was the evo­lu­tion of prim­i­tive man. Slightly to the west of In­dia, on land now un­der wa­ter and among the off­spring of Asi­atic mi­grants of the older North Amer­i­can lemur types, the dawn mam­mals sud­denly ap­peared. These small an­i­mals walked mostly on their hind legs, and they pos­sessed large brains in pro­por­tion to their size and in com­par­i­son with the brains of other an­i­mals. In the sev­en­ti­eth gen­er­a­tion of this or­der of life a new and higher group of an­i­mals sud­denly dif­fer­en­ti­ated. These new mid-mam­mals—al­most twice the size and height of their an­ces­tors and pos­sess­ing pro­por­tion­ately in­creased brain power—had only well es­tab­lished them­selves when the Pri­mates, the third vi­tal mu­ta­tion, sud­denly ap­peared. (At this same time, a ret­ro­grade de­vel­op­ment within the mid-mam­mal stock gave ori­gin to the simian an­ces­try; and from that day to this the hu­man branch has gone for­ward by pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion, while the simian tribes have re­mained sta­tion­ary or have ac­tu­ally ret­ro­gressed.)

61:6.21,000,000 years ago Uran­tia was reg­is­tered as an in­hab­ited world. A mu­ta­tion within the stock of the pro­gress­ing Pri­mates sud­denly pro­duced two prim­i­tive hu­man be­ings, the ac­tual an­ces­tors of man­kind.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

61:7.4500,000 years ago, dur­ing the fifth ad­vance of the ice, a new de­vel­op­ment ac­cel­er­ated the course of hu­man evo­lu­tion. Sud­denly and in one gen­er­a­tion the six col­ored races mu­tated from the abo­rig­i­nal hu­man stock. This is a dou­bly im­por­tant date since it also marks the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

62:2.1A lit­tle more than one mil­lion years ago the Mes­o­po­ta­mian dawn mam­mals, the di­rect de­scen­dants of the North Amer­i­can lemur type of pla­cen­tal mam­mal, sud­denly ap­peared. They were ac­tive lit­tle crea­tures, al­most three feet tall; and while they did not ha­bit­u­ally walk on their hind legs, they could eas­ily stand erect. They were hairy and ag­ile and chat­tered in mon­key­like fash­ion, but un­like the simian tribes, they were flesh eaters. They had a prim­i­tive op­pos­able thumb as well as a highly use­ful grasp­ing big toe. From this point on­ward the pre­hu­man species suc­ces­sively de­vel­oped the op­pos­able thumb while they pro­gres­sively lost the grasp­ing power of the great toe. The later ape tribes re­tained the grasp­ing big toe but never de­vel­oped the hu­man type of thumb.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

62:2.6These ag­gres­sive lit­tle an­i­mals mul­ti­plied and spread over the Mes­o­po­ta­mian penin­sula for more than one thou­sand years, con­stantly im­prov­ing in phys­i­cal type and gen­eral in­tel­li­gence. And it was just sev­enty gen­er­a­tions af­ter this new tribe had taken ori­gin from the high­est type of lemur an­ces­tor that the next epoch-mak­ing de­vel­op­ment oc­curred—the sud­den dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the an­ces­tors of the next vi­tal step in the evo­lu­tion of hu­man be­ings on Uran­tia.

• biologic evolution › narrow margins by which prehuman ancestors escaped extinction

62:3.9You can hardly re­al­ize by what nar­row mar­gins your pre­hu­man an­ces­tors missed ex­tinc­tion from time to time. Had the an­ces­tral frog of all hu­man­ity jumped two inches less on a cer­tain oc­ca­sion, the whole course of evo­lu­tion would have been markedly changed. The im­me­di­ate lemur­like mother of the dawn-mam­mal species es­caped death no less than five times by mere hair­breadth mar­gins be­fore she gave birth to the fa­ther of the new and higher mam­malian or­der. But the clos­est call of all was when light­ning struck the tree in which the prospec­tive mother of the Pri­mates twins was sleep­ing. Both of these mid-mam­mal par­ents were severely shocked and badly burned; three of their seven chil­dren were killed by this bolt from the skies. These evolv­ing an­i­mals were al­most su­per­sti­tious. This cou­ple whose tree­top home had been struck were re­ally the lead­ers of the more pro­gres­sive group of the mid-mam­mal species; and fol­low­ing their ex­am­ple, more than half the tribe, em­brac­ing the more in­tel­li­gent fam­i­lies, moved about two miles away from this lo­cal­ity and be­gan the con­struc­tion of new tree­top abodes and new ground shel­ters—their tran­sient re­treats in time of sud­den dan­ger.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

62:3.10Soon af­ter the com­ple­tion of their home, this cou­ple, vet­er­ans of so many strug­gles, found them­selves the proud par­ents of twins, the most in­ter­est­ing and im­por­tant an­i­mals ever to have been born into the world up to that time, for they were the first of the new species of Pri­mates con­sti­tut­ing the next vi­tal step in pre­hu­man evo­lu­tion.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

62:4.6And now, af­ter al­most nine hun­dred gen­er­a­tions of de­vel­op­ment, cov­er­ing about twenty-one thou­sand years from the ori­gin of the dawn mam­mals, the Pri­mates sud­denly gave birth to two re­mark­able crea­tures, the first true hu­man be­ings.

• social evolution › progress only in open, higher latitudes

64:1.3These An­don­ites avoided the forests in con­trast with the habits of their non­hu­man rel­a­tives. In the forests man has al­ways de­te­ri­o­rated; hu­man evo­lu­tion has made prog­ress only in the open and in the higher lat­i­tudes. The cold and hunger of the open lands stim­u­late ac­tion, in­ven­tion, and re­source­ful­ness. While these An­donic tribes were de­vel­op­ing the pi­o­neers of the pres­ent hu­man race amidst the hard­ships and pri­va­tions of these rugged north­ern climes, their back­ward cousins were lux­u­ri­at­ing in the south­ern trop­i­cal forests of the land of their early com­mon ori­gin.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

64:5.2And now, among these high­land Ba­don­ites there was a new and strange oc­cur­rence. A man and woman liv­ing in the north­east­ern part of the then in­hab­ited high­land re­gion be­gan sud­denly to pro­duce a fam­ily of un­usu­ally in­tel­li­gent chil­dren. This was the San­gik fam­ily, the an­ces­tors of all of the six col­ored races of Uran­tia.

• biologic evolution › 2 unique features on Urantia were appearance of Andonic race prior to colored peoples; appearance in a single family

64:6.1On an av­er­age evo­lu­tion­ary planet the six evo­lu­tion­ary races of color ap­pear one by one; the red man is the first to evolve, and for ages he roams the world be­fore the suc­ceed­ing col­ored races make their ap­pear­ance. The si­mul­ta­ne­ous emer­gence of all six races on Uran­tia, and in one fam­ily, was most un­usual.

64:6.2The ap­pear­ance of the ear­lier An­don­ites on Uran­tia was also some­thing new in Sa­ta­nia. On no other world in the lo­cal sys­tem has such a race of will crea­tures evolved in ad­vance of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of color.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › variety indispensable to natural selection

64:6.311. Va­ri­ety is in­dis­pens­able to op­por­tu­nity for the wide func­tion­ing of nat­u­ral se­lec­tion, dif­fer­en­tial sur­vival of su­pe­rior strains.

• biologic evolution › conditioned by integrated function of Life Carriers, physical controllers, and adjutant mind-spirits
• principle of evolution › always purposeful, never accidental

65:0.7It is the in­te­grated func­tion­ing of the Life Car­ri­ers, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and the spirit ad­ju­tants that con­di­tions the course of or­ganic evo­lu­tion on the in­hab­ited worlds. And this is why evo­lu­tion—on Uran­tia or else­where—is al­ways pur­pose­ful and never ac­ci­den­tal.

• biologic evolution › man ascended from seaweed

65:2.1The story of man’s as­cent from sea­weed to the lord­ship of earthly cre­ation is in­deed a ro­mance of bi­o­logic strug­gle and mind sur­vival. Man’s pri­mor­dial an­ces­tors were lit­er­ally the slime and ooze of the ocean bed in the slug­gish and warm-wa­ter bays and la­goons of the vast shore lines of the an­cient in­land seas, those very wa­ters in which the Life Car­ri­ers es­tab­lished the three in­de­pen­dent life im­plan­ta­tions on Uran­tia.

65:2.2Very few species of the early types of ma­rine veg­e­ta­tion that par­tic­i­pated in those ep­ochal changes which re­sulted in the an­i­mallike bor­der­land or­gan­isms are in ex­is­tence to­day. The sponges are the sur­vivors of one of these early mid­way types, those or­gan­isms through which the grad­ual tran­si­tion from the veg­etable to the an­i­mal took place. These early tran­si­tion forms, while not iden­ti­cal with mod­ern sponges, were much like them; they were true bor­der­line or­gan­isms—nei­ther veg­etable nor an­i­mal—but they even­tu­ally led to the de­vel­op­ment of the true an­i­mal forms of life.

65:2.3The bac­te­ria, sim­ple veg­etable or­gan­isms of a very prim­i­tive na­ture, are very lit­tle changed from the early dawn of life; they even ex­hibit a de­gree of ret­ro­gres­sion in their par­a­sitic be­hav­ior. Many of the fungi also rep­re­sent a ret­ro­grade move­ment in evo­lu­tion, be­ing plants which have lost their chloro­phyll-mak­ing abil­ity and have be­come more or less par­a­sitic. The ma­jor­ity of dis­ease-caus­ing bac­te­ria and their aux­il­iary virus bod­ies re­ally be­long to this group of rene­gade par­a­sitic fungi. Dur­ing the in­ter­ven­ing ages all of the vast king­dom of plant life has evolved from an­ces­tors from which the bac­te­ria have also de­scended.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes

65:2.4The higher pro­to­zoan type of an­i­mal life soon ap­peared, and ap­peared sud­denly. And from these far-dis­tant times the ameba, the typ­i­cal sin­gle-celled an­i­mal or­gan­ism, has come on down but lit­tle mod­i­fied. He dis­ports him­self to­day much as he did when he was the last and great­est achieve­ment in life evo­lu­tion. This minute crea­ture and his pro­to­zoan cousins are to the an­i­mal cre­ation what bac­te­ria are to the plant king­dom; they rep­re­sent the sur­vival of the first early evo­lu­tion­ary steps in life dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion to­gether with fail­ure of sub­se­quent de­vel­op­ment.

65:2.5Be­fore long the early sin­gle-celled an­i­mal types as­so­ci­ated them­selves in com­mu­ni­ties, first on the plan of the Volvox and pres­ently along the lines of the Hy­dra and jel­ly­fish. Still later there evolved the starfish, stone lilies, sea urchins, sea cu­cum­bers, cen­tipedes, in­sects, spi­ders, crus­taceans, and the closely re­lated groups of earth­worms and leeches, soon fol­lowed by the mol­lusks—the oys­ter, oc­to­pus, and snail. Hun­dreds upon hun­dreds of species in­ter­vened and per­ished; men­tion is made only of those which sur­vived the long, long strug­gle. Such non­pro­gres­sive spec­i­mens, to­gether with the later ap­pear­ing fish fam­ily, to­day rep­re­sent the sta­tion­ary types of early and lower an­i­mals, branches of the tree of life which failed to pro­gress.

65:2.6The stage was thus set for the ap­pear­ance of the first back­boned an­i­mals, the fishes. From this fish fam­ily there sprang two unique mod­i­fi­ca­tions, the frog and the sala­man­der. And it was the frog which be­gan that se­ries of pro­gres­sive dif­fer­en­ti­a­tions in an­i­mal life that fi­nally cul­mi­nated in man him­self.

65:2.7The frog is one of the ear­li­est of sur­viv­ing hu­man-race an­ces­tors, but it also failed to pro­gress, per­sist­ing to­day much as in those re­mote times. The frog is the only species an­ces­tor of the early dawn races now liv­ing on the face of the earth. The hu­man race has no sur­viv­ing an­ces­try be­tween the frog and the Es­kimo.

65:2.8The frogs gave rise to the Rep­tilia, a great an­i­mal fam­ily which is vir­tu­ally ex­tinct, but which, be­fore pass­ing out of ex­is­tence, gave ori­gin to the whole bird fam­ily and the nu­mer­ous or­ders of mam­mals.

65:2.9Prob­a­bly the great­est sin­gle leap of all pre­hu­man evo­lu­tion was ex­e­cuted when the rep­tile be­came a bird. The bird types of to­day—ea­gles, ducks, pi­geons, and os­triches—all de­scended from the enor­mous rep­tiles of long, long ago.

65:2.10The king­dom of rep­tiles, de­scended from the frog fam­ily, is to­day rep­re­sented by four sur­viv­ing di­vi­sions: two non­pro­gres­sive, snakes and lizards, to­gether with their cousins, al­li­ga­tors and tur­tles; one par­tially pro­gres­sive, the bird fam­ily, and the fourth, the an­ces­tors of mam­mals and the di­rect line of de­scent of the hu­man species. But though long de­parted, the mas­sive­ness of the pass­ing Rep­tilia found echo in the ele­phant and mastodon, while their pe­cu­liar forms were per­pet­u­ated in the leap­ing kan­ga­roos.

65:2.11Only four­teen phyla have ap­peared on Uran­tia, the fishes be­ing the last, and no new classes have de­vel­oped since birds and mam­mals.

65:2.12It was from an ag­ile lit­tle rep­til­ian di­no­saur of car­niv­o­rous habits but hav­ing a com­par­a­tively large brain that the pla­cen­tal mam­mals sud­denly sprang. These mam­mals de­vel­oped rapidly and in many dif­fer­ent ways, not only giv­ing rise to the com­mon mod­ern va­ri­eties but also evolv­ing into ma­rine types, such as whales and seals, and into air nav­i­ga­tors like the bat fam­ily.

• biologic evolution › human potentials of evolving animal species exhausted

65:2.13Man thus evolved from the higher mam­mals de­rived prin­ci­pally from the west­ern im­plan­ta­tion of life in the an­cient east-west shel­tered seas. The east­ern and cen­tral groups of liv­ing or­gan­isms were early pro­gress­ing fa­vor­ably to­ward the at­tain­ment of pre­hu­man lev­els of an­i­mal ex­is­tence. But as the ages passed, the east­ern fo­cus of life em­place­ment failed to at­tain a sat­is­fac­tory level of in­tel­li­gent pre­hu­man sta­tus, hav­ing suf­fered such re­peated and ir­re­triev­able losses of its high­est types of germ plasm that it was for­ever shorn of the power to re­ha­bil­i­tate hu­man po­ten­tial­i­ties.

65:2.14Since the qual­ity of the mind ca­pac­ity for de­vel­op­ment in this east­ern group was so def­i­nitely in­fe­rior to that of the other two groups, the Life Car­ri­ers, with the con­sent of their su­pe­ri­ors, so ma­nip­u­lated the en­vi­ron­ment as fur­ther to cir­cum­scribe these in­fe­rior pre­hu­man strains of evolv­ing life. To all out­ward ap­pear­ances the elim­i­na­tion of these in­fe­rior groups of crea­tures was ac­ci­den­tal, but in re­al­ity it was al­to­gether pur­pose­ful.

65:2.15Later in the evo­lu­tion­ary un­fold­ing of in­tel­li­gence, the lemur an­ces­tors of the hu­man species were far more ad­vanced in North Amer­ica than in other re­gions; and they were there­fore led to mi­grate from the arena of west­ern life im­plan­ta­tion over the Bering land bridge and down the coast to south­west­ern Asia, where they con­tin­ued to evolve and to ben­e­fit by the ad­di­tion of cer­tain strains of the cen­tral life group. Man thus evolved out of cer­tain west­ern and cen­tral life strains but in the cen­tral to near-east­ern re­gions.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › appearance of man in ice age by design

65:2.16In this way the life that was planted on Uran­tia evolved un­til the ice age, when man him­self first ap­peared and be­gan his event­ful plan­e­tary ca­reer. And this ap­pear­ance of prim­i­tive man on earth dur­ing the ice age was not just an ac­ci­dent; it was by de­sign. The rig­ors and cli­matic sever­ity of the glacial era were in ev­ery way adapted to the pur­pose of fos­ter­ing the pro­duc­tion of a hardy type of hu­man be­ing with tremen­dous sur­vival en­dow­ment.

• biologic evolution › Life Carriers › not allowed arbitrarily to interfere with life patterns once set in operation

65:3.1It will hardly be pos­si­ble to ex­plain to the pres­ent-day hu­man mind many of the queer and ap­par­ently grotesque oc­cur­rences of early evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress. A pur­pose­ful plan was func­tion­ing through­out all of these seem­ingly strange evo­lu­tions of liv­ing things, but we are not al­lowed ar­bi­trar­ily to in­ter­fere with the de­vel­op­ment of the life pat­terns af­ter they have once been set in op­er­a­tion.

65:3.2Life Car­ri­ers may em­ploy ev­ery pos­si­ble nat­u­ral re­source and may uti­lize any and all for­tu­itous cir­cum­stances which will en­hance the de­vel­op­men­tal prog­ress of the life ex­per­i­ment, but we are not per­mit­ted me­chan­i­cally to in­ter­vene in, or ar­bi­trar­ily to ma­nip­u­late the con­duct and course of, ei­ther plant or an­i­mal evo­lu­tion.

• biologic evolution › human potentials of evolving animal species exhausted

65:3.5Long be­fore the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter, the bi­o­logic up­lifters, ar­rive on a planet, the hu­man po­ten­tials of the evolv­ing an­i­mal species have been ex­hausted. This bi­o­logic sta­tus of an­i­mal life is dis­closed to the Life Car­ri­ers by the phe­nom­e­non of the third phase of ad­ju­tant spirit mo­bi­liza­tion, which au­to­mat­i­cally oc­curs con­comi­tantly with the ex­haus­tion of the ca­pac­ity of all an­i­mal life to give ori­gin to the mu­tant po­ten­tials of pre­hu­man in­di­vid­u­als.

65:3.6Man­kind on Uran­tia must solve its prob­lems of mor­tal de­vel­op­ment with the hu­man stocks it has—no more races will evolve from pre­hu­man sources through­out all fu­ture time. But this fact does not pre­clude the pos­si­bil­ity of the at­tain­ment of vastly higher lev­els of hu­man de­vel­op­ment through the in­tel­li­gent fos­ter­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tials still res­i­dent in the mor­tal races. That which we, the Life Car­ri­ers, do to­ward fos­ter­ing and con­serv­ing the life strains be­fore the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will, man must do for him­self af­ter such an event and sub­se­quent to our re­tire­ment from ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in evo­lu­tion. In a gen­eral way, man’s evo­lu­tion­ary des­tiny is in his own hands, and sci­en­tific in­tel­li­gence must sooner or later su­per­sede the ran­dom func­tion­ing of un­con­trolled nat­u­ral se­lec­tion and chance sur­vival.

• principle of evolution › always purposeful, never accidental

65:4.2But the es­tab­lish­ment of life on no world is ever ex­per­i­men­tal in the sense that some­thing un­tried and un­known is at­tempted. The evo­lu­tion of life is a tech­nique ever pro­gres­sive, dif­fer­en­tial, and vari­able, but never hap­haz­ard, un­con­trolled, nor wholly ex­per­i­men­tal, in the ac­ci­den­tal sense.

65:4.3Many fea­tures of hu­man life af­ford abun­dant ev­i­dence that the phe­nom­e­non of mor­tal ex­is­tence was in­tel­li­gently planned, that or­ganic evo­lu­tion is not a mere cos­mic ac­ci­dent. When a liv­ing cell is in­jured, it pos­sesses the abil­ity to elab­o­rate cer­tain chem­i­cal sub­stances which are em­pow­ered so to stim­u­late and ac­ti­vate the neigh­bor­ing nor­mal cells that they im­me­di­ately be­gin the se­cre­tion of cer­tain sub­stances which fa­cil­i­tate heal­ing pro­cesses in the wound; and at the same time these nor­mal and un­in­jured cells be­gin to pro­lif­er­ate—they ac­tu­ally start to work cre­at­ing new cells to re­place any fel­low cells which may have been de­stroyed by the ac­ci­dent.

• biologic evolution › 2 unique features on Urantia were appearance of Andonic race prior to colored peoples; appearance in a single family

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.

• biologic evolution › early manifestation of will on Urantia

65:4.11It was our in­ten­tion to pro­duce an early man­i­fes­ta­tion of will in the evo­lu­tion­ary life of Uran­tia, and we suc­ceeded. Or­di­nar­ily, will does not emerge un­til the col­ored races have long been in ex­is­tence, usu­ally first ap­pear­ing among the su­pe­rior types of the red man. Your world is the only planet in Sa­ta­nia where the hu­man type of will has ap­peared in a pre­col­ored race.

• biologic evolution › most important steps regarding plants were chlorophyll-making; seeds

65:6.3The most im­por­tant step in plant evo­lu­tion was the de­vel­op­ment of chloro­phyll-mak­ing abil­ity, and the sec­ond great­est ad­vance was the evo­lu­tion of the spore into the com­plex seed. The spore is most ef­fi­cient as a re­pro­duc­tive agent, but it lacks the po­ten­tials of va­ri­ety and ver­sa­til­ity in­her­ent in the seed.

• biologic evolution › still actively in progress

65:6.5The con­tin­u­a­tion of such bi­o­logic ad­just­ments is il­lus­trated by the evo­lu­tion of teeth in the higher Uran­tia mam­mals; these at­tained to thirty-six in man’s re­mote an­ces­tors, and then be­gan an adap­ta­tive read­just­ment to­ward thirty-two in the dawn man and his near rel­a­tives. Now the hu­man species is slowly grav­i­tat­ing to­ward twenty-eight. The pro­cess of evo­lu­tion is still ac­tively and adap­ta­tively in prog­ress on this planet.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › dependent on adjutant mind-spirits
• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › organisms accommodate themselves to never-ending fluctuations
• principle of evolution › superphysical adaptations

65:6.7The lower forms of plant life are wholly re­spon­sive to phys­i­cal, chem­i­cal, and elec­tri­cal en­vi­ron­ment. But as the scale of life as­cends, one by one the mind min­istries of the seven ad­ju­tant spir­its be­come op­er­a­tive, and the mind be­comes in­creas­ingly ad­jus­tive, cre­ative, co-or­di­na­tive, and dom­i­na­tive. The abil­ity of an­i­mals to adapt them­selves to air, wa­ter, and land is not a super­nat­u­ral en­dow­ment, but it is a super­phys­i­cal ad­just­ment.

• biologic evolution › man ascended from seaweed

65:6.8Physics and chem­istry alone can­not ex­plain how a hu­man be­ing evolved out of the primeval pro­to­plasm of the early seas. The abil­ity to learn, mem­ory and dif­fer­en­tial re­sponse to en­vi­ron­ment, is the en­dow­ment of mind. The laws of physics are not re­spon­sive to train­ing; they are im­mutable and un­chang­ing. The re­ac­tions of chem­istry are not mod­i­fied by ed­u­ca­tion; they are uni­form and de­pend­able. Aside from the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, elec­tri­cal and chem­i­cal re­ac­tions are pre­dictable. But mind can profit from ex­pe­ri­ence, can learn from re­ac­tive habits of be­hav­ior in re­sponse to rep­e­ti­tion of stim­uli.

65:6.9Prein­tel­li­gent or­gan­isms re­act to en­vi­ron­men­tal stim­uli, but those or­gan­isms which are re­ac­tive to mind min­istry can ad­just and ma­nip­u­late the en­vi­ron­ment it­self.

65:6.10The phys­i­cal brain with its as­so­ci­ated ner­vous sys­tem pos­sesses in­nate ca­pac­ity for re­sponse to mind min­istry just as the de­vel­op­ing mind of a per­son­al­ity pos­sesses a cer­tain in­nate ca­pac­ity for spirit re­cep­tiv­ity and there­fore con­tains the po­ten­tials of spir­i­tual prog­ress and at­tain­ment. In­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, moral, and spir­i­tual evo­lu­tion are de­pen­dent on the mind min­istry of the seven ad­ju­tant spir­its and their super­phys­i­cal as­so­ciates.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › cannot be accelerated beyond what planet permits

65:8.2If spend­ing so much time in ef­fect­ing the evo­lu­tion­ary changes of life de­vel­op­ment oc­ca­sions per­plex­ity, I would say that we can­not time the life pro­cesses to un­fold any faster than the phys­i­cal meta­mor­phoses of a planet will per­mit. We must wait upon the nat­u­ral, phys­i­cal de­vel­op­ment of a planet; we have ab­so­lutely no con­trol over ge­o­logic evo­lu­tion. If the phys­i­cal con­di­tions would al­low, we could ar­range for the com­pleted evo­lu­tion of life in con­sid­er­ably less than one mil­lion years. But we are all un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the Su­preme Rulers of Par­a­dise, and time is nonex­is­tent on Par­a­dise.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › subject to sudden changes
• social evolution › mental e. may occur suddenly

65:8.6When phys­i­cal con­di­tions are ripe, sud­den men­tal evo­lu­tions may take place; when mind sta­tus is pro­pi­tious, sud­den spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tions may oc­cur; when spir­i­tual val­ues re­ceive proper rec­og­ni­tion, then cos­mic mean­ings be­come dis­cern­i­ble, and in­creas­ingly the per­son­al­ity is re­leased from the hand­i­caps of time and de­liv­ered from the lim­i­ta­tions of space.

• social evolution › yields progress; revolution does not

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.

• principle of evolution › slow but unerringly effective

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.

• social evolution › Caligastia rebellion markedly modified

66:8.3From the ar­rival of Prince Cali­gas­tia, plan­e­tary civ­i­liza­tion pro­gressed in a fairly nor­mal man­ner for al­most three hun­dred thou­sand years. Aside from be­ing a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion sphere and there­fore sub­ject to nu­mer­ous ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties and un­usual episodes of evo­lu­tion­ary fluc­tu­a­tion, Uran­tia pro­gressed very sat­is­fac­to­rily in its plan­e­tary ca­reer up to the times of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and the con­cur­rent Cali­gas­tia be­trayal. All sub­se­quent his­tory has been def­i­nitely mod­i­fied by this catas­trophic blun­der as well as by the later fail­ure of Adam and Eve to ful­fill their plan­e­tary mis­sion.

• biologic evolution › sin, Caligastia rebellion, Adam’s default, did very little to delay
• social evolution › Caligastia rebellion markedly modified

67:0.1The prob­lems as­so­ci­ated with hu­man ex­is­tence on Uran­tia are im­pos­si­ble of un­der­stand­ing with­out a knowl­edge of cer­tain great epochs of the past, no­tably the oc­cur­rence and con­se­quences of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion. Al­though this up­heaval did not se­ri­ously in­ter­fere with the prog­ress of or­ganic evo­lu­tion, it did markedly mod­ify the course of so­cial evo­lu­tion and of spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. The en­tire super­phys­i­cal his­tory of the planet was pro­foundly in­flu­enced by this dev­as­tat­ing calamity.

• biologic evolution › Van and Amadon fostered

67:6.7Not­with­stand­ing the ter­ri­ble set­back of re­bel­lion there were many good strains of bi­o­logic prom­ise on earth. Un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, Van and Amadon con­tin­ued the work of fos­ter­ing the nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion of the hu­man race, car­ry­ing for­ward the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of man un­til it reached that cul­mi­nat­ing at­tain­ment which war­ranted the dis­patch of a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter to Uran­tia.

• biologic evolution › sin, Caligastia rebellion, Adam’s default, did very little to delay

67:7.6Sin on Uran­tia did very lit­tle to de­lay bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion, but it did op­er­ate to de­prive the mor­tal races of the full ben­e­fit of the Adamic in­her­i­tance. Sin enor­mously re­tards in­tel­lec­tual de­vel­op­ment, moral growth, so­cial prog­ress, and mass spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. But it does not pre­vent the high­est spir­i­tual achieve­ment by any in­di­vid­ual who chooses to know God and sin­cerely do his di­vine will.

• principle of evolution › produces advancing practical adjustment

71:2.8The mea­sure of the ad­vance of so­ci­ety is di­rectly de­ter­mined by the de­gree to which pub­lic opin­ion can con­trol per­sonal be­hav­ior and state reg­u­la­tion through non­vi­o­lent ex­pres­sion. The re­ally civ­i­lized gov­ern­ment had ar­rived when pub­lic opin­ion was clothed with the pow­ers of per­sonal fran­chise. Pop­u­lar elec­tions may not al­ways de­cide things rightly, but they rep­re­sent the right way even to do a wrong thing. Evo­lu­tion does not at once pro­duce su­perla­tive per­fec­tion but rather com­par­a­tive and ad­vanc­ing prac­ti­cal ad­just­ment.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › survival of the fittest

71:5.3Through­out the ear­lier ages of any world, com­pe­ti­tion is es­sen­tial to pro­gres­sive civ­i­liza­tion. As the evo­lu­tion of man pro­gresses, co-op­er­a­tion be­comes in­creas­ingly ef­fec­tive. In ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tions co-op­er­a­tion is more ef­fi­cient than com­pe­ti­tion. Early man is stim­u­lated by com­pe­ti­tion. Early evo­lu­tion is char­ac­ter­ized by the sur­vival of the bi­o­log­i­cally fit, but later civ­i­liza­tions are the bet­ter pro­moted by in­tel­li­gent co-op­er­a­tion, un­der­stand­ing fra­ter­nity, and spir­i­tual broth­er­hood.

• biologic evolution › sin, Caligastia rebellion, Adam’s default, did very little to delay

73:0.1The cul­tural deca­dence and spir­i­tual pov­erty re­sult­ing from the Cali­gas­tia down­fall and con­se­quent so­cial con­fu­sion had lit­tle ef­fect on the phys­i­cal or bi­o­logic sta­tus of the Uran­tia peo­ples. Or­ganic evo­lu­tion pro­ceeded apace, quite re­gard­less of the cul­tural and moral set­back which so swiftly fol­lowed the dis­af­fec­tion of Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia. And there came a time in the plan­e­tary his­tory, al­most forty thou­sand years ago, when the Life Car­ri­ers on duty took note that, from a purely bi­o­logic stand­point, the de­vel­op­men­tal prog­ress of the Uran­tia races was near­ing its apex. The Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, con­cur­ring in this opin­ion, read­ily agreed to join the Life Car­ri­ers in a pe­ti­tion to the Most Highs of Eden­tia ask­ing that Uran­tia be in­spected with a view to au­tho­riz­ing the dis­patch of bi­o­logic up­lifters, a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter.

• principle of evolution › progressive creation in time

74:8.4The ma­jor­ity of the world’s peo­ples have been in­flu­enced by the tra­di­tion that Adam and Eve had phys­i­cal forms cre­ated for them upon their ar­rival on Uran­tia. The be­lief in man’s hav­ing been cre­ated from clay was well-nigh uni­ver­sal in the East­ern Hemi­sphere; this tra­di­tion can be traced from the Philip­pine Is­lands around the world to Africa. And many groups ac­cepted this story of man’s clay ori­gin by some form of spe­cial cre­ation in the place of the ear­lier be­liefs in pro­gres­sive cre­ation—evo­lu­tion.

74:8.5Away from the in­flu­ences of Dala­ma­tia and Eden, man­kind tended to­ward the be­lief in the grad­ual as­cent of the hu­man race. The fact of evo­lu­tion is not a mod­ern dis­cov­ery; the an­cients un­der­stood the slow and evo­lu­tion­ary char­ac­ter of hu­man prog­ress. The early Greeks had clear ideas of this de­spite their prox­im­ity to Mes­o­po­ta­mia. Al­though the var­i­ous races of earth be­came sadly mixed up in their no­tions of evo­lu­tion, nev­er­the­less, many of the prim­i­tive tribes be­lieved and taught that they were the de­scen­dants of var­i­ous an­i­mals. Prim­i­tive peo­ples made a prac­tice of se­lect­ing for their “totems” the an­i­mals of their sup­posed an­ces­try. Cer­tain North Amer­i­can In­dian tribes be­lieved they orig­i­nated from beavers and coy­otes. Cer­tain African tribes teach that they are de­scended from the hyena, a Malay tribe from the lemur, a New Guinea group from the par­rot.

• biologic evolution › Adam’s significant contribution

75:8.1Adam and Eve did fall from their high es­tate of ma­te­rial son­ship down to the lowly sta­tus of mor­tal man. But that was not the fall of man. The hu­man race has been up­lifted de­spite the im­me­di­ate con­se­quences of the Adamic de­fault. Al­though the di­vine plan of giv­ing the vi­o­let race to the Uran­tia peo­ples mis­car­ried, the mor­tal races have prof­ited enor­mously from the lim­ited con­tri­bu­tion which Adam and his de­scen­dants made to the Uran­tia races.

75:8.2There has been no “fall of man.” The his­tory of the hu­man race is one of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion, and the Adamic be­stowal left the world peo­ples greatly im­proved over their pre­vi­ous bi­o­logic con­di­tion. The more su­pe­rior stocks of Uran­tia now con­tain in­her­i­tance fac­tors de­rived from as many as four sep­a­rate sources: An­don­ite, San­gik, Nod­ite, and Adamic.

• biologic evolution › Adam’s significant contribution
• biologic evolution › sin, Caligastia rebellion, Adam’s default, did very little to delay

78:1.1Al­though the minds and morals of the races were at a low level at the time of Adam’s ar­rival, phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion had gone on quite un­af­fected by the ex­i­gen­cies of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion. Adam’s con­tri­bu­tion to the bi­o­logic sta­tus of the races, not­with­stand­ing the par­tial fail­ure of the un­der­tak­ing, enor­mously up­stepped the peo­ple of Uran­tia.

• social evolution › man stands on shoulders of all who went before

79:8.122. Pool­ing of the ex­pe­ri­ence of more than one gen­er­a­tion.

• biologic evolution › sin, Caligastia rebellion, Adam’s default, did very little to delay
• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › can be delayed but cannot be stopped

81:0.1Re­gard­less of the ups and downs of the mis­car­riage of the plans for world bet­ter­ment pro­jected in the mis­sions of Cali­gas­tia and Adam, the ba­sic or­ganic evo­lu­tion of the hu­man species con­tin­ued to carry the races for­ward in the scale of hu­man prog­ress and racial de­vel­op­ment. Evo­lu­tion can be de­layed but it can­not be stopped.

• principle of evolution › slow but unerringly effective

81:1.3Cli­matic evo­lu­tion is now about to ac­com­plish what all other ef­forts had failed to do, that is, to com­pel Eurasian man to aban­don hunt­ing for the more ad­vanced call­ings of herd­ing and farm­ing. Evo­lu­tion may be slow, but it is ter­ri­bly ef­fec­tive.

• biologic evolution › may proceed unhindered in cultural decadence

81:5.1Bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion and cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion are not nec­es­sar­ily cor­re­lated; or­ganic evo­lu­tion in any age may pro­ceed un­hin­dered in the very midst of cul­tural deca­dence. But when lengthy pe­ri­ods of hu­man his­tory are sur­veyed, it will be ob­served that even­tu­ally evo­lu­tion and cul­ture be­come re­lated as cause and ef­fect. Evo­lu­tion may ad­vance in the ab­sence of cul­ture, but cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion does not flour­ish with­out an ad­e­quate back­ground of an­te­ced­ent racial pro­gres­sion. Adam and Eve in­tro­duced no art of civ­i­liza­tion for­eign to the prog­ress of hu­man so­ci­ety, but the Adamic blood did aug­ment the in­her­ent abil­ity of the races and did ac­cel­er­ate the pace of eco­nomic de­vel­op­ment and in­dus­trial pro­gres­sion. Adam’s be­stowal im­proved the brain power of the races, thereby greatly has­ten­ing the pro­cesses of nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion.

• principle of evolution › slow but unerringly effective

81:6.1While bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion has pro­ceeded ever up­ward, much of cul­tural evo­lu­tion went out from the Eu­phrates val­ley in waves, which suc­ces­sively weak­ened as time passed un­til fi­nally the whole of the pure-line Adamic pos­ter­ity had gone forth to en­rich the civ­i­liza­tions of Asia and Eu­rope. The races did not fully blend, but their civ­i­liza­tions did to a con­sid­er­able ex­tent mix. Cul­ture did slowly spread through­out the world. And this civ­i­liza­tion must be main­tained and fos­tered, for there ex­ist to­day no new sources of cul­ture, no And­ites to in­vig­o­rate and stim­u­late the slow prog­ress of the evo­lu­tion of civ­i­liza­tion.

• social evolution › progress only in open, higher latitudes

81:6.7Dur­ing prim­i­tive times life on Uran­tia was a se­ri­ous and sober busi­ness. And it was to es­cape this in­ces­sant strug­gle and in­ter­minable toil that man­kind con­stantly tended to drift to­ward the salu­bri­ous cli­mate of the trop­ics. While these warmer zones of habi­ta­tion af­forded some re­mis­sion from the in­tense strug­gle for ex­is­tence, the races and tribes who thus sought ease sel­dom uti­lized their un­earned leisure for the ad­vance­ment of civ­i­liza­tion. So­cial prog­ress has in­vari­ably come from the thoughts and plans of those races that have, by their in­tel­li­gent toil, learned how to wrest a liv­ing from the land with less­ened ef­fort and short­ened days of la­bor and thus have been able to en­joy a well-earned and prof­itable mar­gin of leisure.

• social evolution › by education of youth
• social evolution › man stands on shoulders of all who went before

81:6.238. Char­ac­ter of torch­bear­ers. So­cial in­her­i­tance en­ables man to stand on the shoul­ders of all who have pre­ceded him, and who have con­tributed aught to the sum of cul­ture and knowl­edge. In this work of pass­ing on the cul­tural torch to the next gen­er­a­tion, the home will ever be the ba­sic in­sti­tu­tion. The play and so­cial life comes next, with the school last but equally in­dis­pens­able in a com­plex and highly or­ga­nized so­ci­ety.

81:6.24In­sects are born fully ed­u­cated and equipped for life—in­deed, a very nar­row and purely in­stinc­tive ex­is­tence. The hu­man baby is born with­out an ed­u­ca­tion; there­fore man pos­sesses the power, by con­trol­ling the ed­u­ca­tional train­ing of the younger gen­er­a­tion, greatly to mod­ify the evo­lu­tion­ary course of civ­i­liza­tion.

• social evolution › man stands on shoulders of all who went before

81:6.25The great­est twen­ti­eth-cen­tury in­flu­ences con­tribut­ing to the fur­ther­ance of civ­i­liza­tion and the ad­vance­ment of cul­ture are the marked in­crease in world travel and the un­par­al­leled im­prove­ments in meth­ods of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. But the im­prove­ment in ed­u­ca­tion has not kept pace with the ex­pand­ing so­cial struc­ture; nei­ther has the mod­ern ap­pre­ci­a­tion of ethics de­vel­oped in cor­re­spon­dence with growth along more purely in­tel­lec­tual and sci­en­tific lines. And mod­ern civ­i­liza­tion is at a stand­still in spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment and the safe­guard­ing of the home in­sti­tu­tion.

• social evolution › society is product of ages of trial and error

81:6.4115. The pre­ven­tion of tran­si­tional break­down. So­ci­ety is the off­spring of age upon age of trial and er­ror; it is what sur­vived the se­lec­tive ad­just­ments and read­just­ments in the suc­ces­sive stages of man­kind’s age­long rise from an­i­mal to hu­man lev­els of plan­e­tary sta­tus. The great dan­ger to any civ­i­liza­tion—at any one mo­ment—is the threat of break­down dur­ing the time of tran­si­tion from the es­tab­lished meth­ods of the past to those new and bet­ter, but un­tried, pro­ce­dures of the fu­ture.

• social evolution › man stands on shoulders of all who went before
• social evolution › society is product of ages of trial and error

81:6.44This is the gist of the long, long strug­gle of the peo­ples of earth to es­tab­lish civ­i­liza­tion since the age of Adam. Pres­ent-day cul­ture is the net re­sult of this stren­u­ous evo­lu­tion. Be­fore the dis­cov­ery of print­ing, prog­ress was rel­a­tively slow since one gen­er­a­tion could not so rapidly ben­e­fit from the achieve­ments of its pre­de­ces­sors. But now hu­man so­ci­ety is plung­ing for­ward un­der the force of the ac­cu­mu­lated mo­men­tum of all the ages through which civ­i­liza­tion has strug­gled.

• social evolution › succeeds where even revelation fails

84:5.8These changes have tended to­ward woman’s lib­er­a­tion from do­mes­tic slav­ery and have brought about such a mod­i­fi­ca­tion of her sta­tus that she now en­joys a de­gree of per­sonal lib­erty and sex de­ter­mi­na­tion that prac­ti­cally equals man’s. Once a woman’s value con­sisted in her food-pro­duc­ing abil­ity, but in­ven­tion and wealth have en­abled her to cre­ate a new world in which to func­tion—spheres of grace and charm. Thus has in­dus­try won its un­con­scious and un­in­tended fight for woman’s so­cial and eco­nomic eman­ci­pa­tion. And again has evo­lu­tion suc­ceeded in do­ing what even rev­e­la­tion failed to ac­com­plish.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › individuals lacking parental instinct eliminate themselves from reproductive stream

84:7.74. The en­hance­ment of pa­ren­tal in­stinct—each gen­er­a­tion now tends to elim­i­nate from the re­pro­duc­tive stream of the race those in­di­vid­u­als in whom pa­ren­tal in­stinct is in­suf­fi­ciently strong to in­sure the pro­cre­ation of chil­dren, the prospec­tive par­ents of the next gen­er­a­tion.

• principle of evolution › slow but unerringly effective

86:7.6Prim­i­tive re­li­gion pre­pared the soil of the hu­man mind, by the pow­er­ful and awe­some force of false fear, for the be­stowal of a bona fide spir­i­tual force of super­nat­u­ral ori­gin, the Thought Ad­juster. And the di­vine Ad­justers have ever since la­bored to trans­mute God-fear into God-love. Evo­lu­tion may be slow, but it is unerringly ef­fec­tive.

• social evolution › man is gradually backing into the truth

88:4.5The ob­jects of sci­ence are iden­ti­cal with those of magic. Man­kind is pro­gress­ing from magic to sci­ence, not by med­i­ta­tion and rea­son, but rather through long ex­pe­ri­ence, grad­u­ally and painfully. Man is grad­u­ally back­ing into the truth, be­gin­ning in er­ror, pro­gress­ing in er­ror, and fi­nally at­tain­ing the thresh­old of truth. Only with the ar­rival of the sci­en­tific method has he faced for­ward. But prim­i­tive man had to ex­per­i­ment or per­ish.

• social evolution › olden practices expensive but marked progress

89:1.7There would, how­ever, be no civ­i­lized so­ci­ety to sit in crit­i­cism upon prim­i­tive man ex­cept for these far-flung and mul­ti­far­i­ous taboos, and the taboo would never have en­dured but for the up­hold­ing sanc­tions of prim­i­tive re­li­gion. Many of the es­sen­tial fac­tors in man’s evo­lu­tion have been highly ex­pen­sive, have cost vast trea­sure in ef­fort, sac­ri­fice, and self-de­nial, but these achieve­ments of self-con­trol were the real rungs on which man climbed civ­i­liza­tion’s as­cend­ing lad­der.

• principle of evolution › creates, then obliterates, scaffolding stages
• principle of evolution › slow but unerringly effective

90:3.10Evo­lu­tion unerringly achieves its end: It im­bues man with that su­per­sti­tious fear of the un­known and dread of the un­seen which is the scaf­fold­ing for the God con­cept. And hav­ing wit­nessed the birth of an ad­vanced com­pre­hen­sion of De­ity, through the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of rev­e­la­tion, this same tech­nique of evo­lu­tion then unerringly sets in mo­tion those forces of thought which will in­ex­orably oblit­er­ate the scaf­fold­ing, which has served its pur­pose.

• principle of evolution › slow but unerringly effective

95:1.8Mel­chiz­e­dek had warned his fol­low­ers to teach about the one God, the Fa­ther and Maker of all, and to preach only the gospel of di­vine fa­vor through faith alone. But it has of­ten been the er­ror of the teach­ers of new truth to at­tempt too much, to at­tempt to sup­plant slow evo­lu­tion by sud­den rev­o­lu­tion. The Mel­chiz­e­dek mis­sion­ar­ies in Mes­o­po­ta­mia raised a moral stan­dard too high for the peo­ple; they at­tempted too much, and their no­ble cause went down in de­feat. They had been com­mis­sioned to preach a def­i­nite gospel, to pro­claim the truth of the re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, but they be­came en­tan­gled in the ap­par­ently wor­thy cause of re­form­ing the mores, and thus was their great mis­sion side­tracked and vir­tu­ally lost in frus­tra­tion and obliv­ion.

• social evolution › better to reform than destroy religious ritual

97:10.7The Jew­ish re­li­gion per­sisted also be­cause of its in­sti­tu­tions. It is dif­fi­cult for re­li­gion to sur­vive as the pri­vate prac­tice of iso­lated in­di­vid­u­als. This has ever been the er­ror of the re­li­gious lead­ers: See­ing the evils of in­sti­tu­tion­al­ized re­li­gion, they seek to de­stroy the tech­nique of group func­tion­ing. In place of de­stroy­ing all rit­ual, they would do bet­ter to re­form it. In this re­spect Eze­kiel was wiser than his con­tem­po­raries; though he joined with them in in­sist­ing on per­sonal moral re­spon­si­bil­ity, he also set about to es­tab­lish the faith­ful ob­ser­vance of a su­pe­rior and pu­ri­fied rit­ual.

• social evolution › yields progress; revolution does not

99:2.5The in­sti­tu­tion­al­ized church may have ap­peared to serve so­ci­ety in the past by glo­ri­fy­ing the es­tab­lished po­lit­i­cal and eco­nomic or­ders, but it must speed­ily cease such ac­tion if it is to sur­vive. Its only proper at­ti­tude con­sists in the teach­ing of non­vi­o­lence, the doc­trine of peace­ful evo­lu­tion in the place of vi­o­lent rev­o­lu­tion—peace on earth and good will among all men.

• principle of evolution › cosmic technique of growth

100:3.7Man can­not cause growth, but he can sup­ply fa­vor­able con­di­tions. Growth is al­ways un­con­scious, be it phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, or spir­i­tual. Love thus grows; it can­not be cre­ated, man­u­fac­tured, or pur­chased; it must grow. Evo­lu­tion is a cos­mic tech­nique of growth. So­cial growth can­not be se­cured by leg­is­la­tion, and moral growth is not had by im­proved ad­min­is­tra­tion. Man may man­u­fac­ture a ma­chine, but its real value must be de­rived from hu­man cul­ture and per­sonal ap­pre­ci­a­tion. Man’s sole con­tri­bu­tion to growth is the mo­bi­liza­tion of the to­tal pow­ers of his per­son­al­ity—liv­ing faith.

• principle of evolution › always purposeful, never accidental

102:6.10Or­ganic evo­lu­tion is a fact; pur­po­sive or pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion is a truth which makes con­sis­tent the oth­er­wise con­tra­dic­tory phe­nom­ena of the ever-as­cend­ing achieve­ments of evo­lu­tion. The higher any sci­en­tist pro­gresses in his cho­sen sci­ence, the more will he aban­don the the­o­ries of ma­te­ri­al­is­tic fact in fa­vor of the cos­mic truth of the dom­i­nance of the Su­preme Mind. Ma­te­ri­al­ism cheap­ens hu­man life; the gospel of Je­sus tremen­dously en­hances and su­per­nally ex­alts ev­ery mor­tal. Mor­tal ex­is­tence must be vi­su­al­ized as con­sist­ing in the in­trigu­ing and fas­ci­nat­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of the re­al­iza­tion of the re­al­ity of the meet­ing of the hu­man up­reach and the di­vine and sav­ing down­reach.

• social evolution › celestial evolution transmutes temporal into eternal

103:7.2True sal­va­tion is the tech­nique of the di­vine evo­lu­tion of the mor­tal mind from mat­ter iden­ti­fi­ca­tion through the realms of mor­ontia li­ai­son to the high uni­verse sta­tus of spir­i­tual cor­re­la­tion. And as ma­te­rial in­tu­itive in­stinct pre­cedes the ap­pear­ance of rea­soned knowl­edge in ter­res­trial evo­lu­tion, so does the man­i­fes­ta­tion of spir­i­tual in­tu­itive in­sight presage the later ap­pear­ance of mor­ontia and spirit rea­son and ex­pe­ri­ence in the su­per­nal pro­gram of ce­les­tial evo­lu­tion, the busi­ness of trans­mut­ing the po­ten­tials of man the tem­po­ral into the ac­tu­al­ity and di­vin­ity of man the eter­nal, a Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter.

• principle of evolution › progressive creation in time

105:6.54. The di­vin­ity re­sponse to the im­per­fec­tion in­her­ent in the time lag of evo­lu­tion is dis­closed in the com­pen­sat­ing pres­ence of God the Sev­en­fold, by whose ac­tiv­i­ties that which is per­fect­ing is in­te­grated with both the per­fect and the per­fected. This time lag is in­sep­a­ra­ble from evo­lu­tion, which is cre­ativ­ity in time. Be­cause of it, as well as for other rea­sons, the al­mighty power of the Su­preme is pred­i­cated on the di­vin­ity suc­cesses of God the Sev­en­fold. This time lag makes pos­si­ble crea­ture par­tic­i­pa­tion in di­vine cre­ation by per­mit­ting crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties to be­come part­ners with De­ity in the at­tain­ment of max­i­mum de­vel­op­ment. Even the ma­te­rial mind of the mor­tal crea­ture thus be­comes part­ner with the di­vine Ad­juster in the du­al­iza­tion of the im­mor­tal soul. God the Sev­en­fold also pro­vides tech­niques of com­pen­sa­tion for the ex­pe­ri­en­tial lim­i­ta­tions of in­her­ent per­fec­tion as well as com­pen­sat­ing the preas­cen­sion lim­i­ta­tions of im­per­fec­tion.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality
• principle of evolution › evolution of dominance is expansion of control of oneself and one’s environment

112:2.15The pur­pose of cos­mic evo­lu­tion is to achieve unity of per­son­al­ity through in­creas­ing spirit dom­i­nance, vo­li­tional re­sponse to the teach­ing and lead­ing of the Thought Ad­juster. Per­son­al­ity, both hu­man and super­hu­man, is char­ac­ter­ized by an in­her­ent cos­mic qual­ity which may be called “the evo­lu­tion of dom­i­nance,” the ex­pan­sion of the con­trol of both it­self and its en­vi­ron­ment.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality

116:5.15The spirit strug­gles of time and space have to do with the evo­lu­tion of spirit dom­i­nance over mat­ter by the me­di­a­tion of (per­sonal) mind; the phys­i­cal (non­per­sonal) evo­lu­tion of the uni­verses has to do with bring­ing cos­mic en­ergy into har­mony with the equi­lib­rium con­cepts of mind sub­ject to the over­con­trol of spirit. The to­tal evo­lu­tion of the en­tire grand uni­verse is a mat­ter of the per­son­al­ity uni­fi­ca­tion of the en­ergy-con­trol­ling mind with the spirit-co-or­di­nated in­tel­lect and will be re­vealed in the full ap­pear­ance of the al­mighty power of the Su­preme.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality

116:6.1In the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses en­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nant ex­cept in per­son­al­ity, where spirit through the me­di­a­tion of mind is strug­gling for the mas­tery. The goal of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses is the sub­ju­ga­tion of en­ergy-mat­ter by mind, the co-or­di­na­tion of mind with spirit, and all of this by virtue of the cre­ative and uni­fy­ing pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. Thus, in re­la­tion to per­son­al­ity, do phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sub­or­di­nate; mind sys­tems, co-or­di­nate; and spirit sys­tems, di­rec­tive.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality

116:6.4That en­ergy can be di­rec­tion­ized by the ac­tion of con­trol­ler per­son­al­i­ties dis­closes the re­spon­sive­ness of en­ergy to mind ac­tion. That mass can be sta­bi­lized through the ac­tion of these same con­trol­ling en­ti­ties in­di­cates the re­spon­sive­ness of mass to the or­der-pro­duc­ing pres­ence of mind. And that spirit it­self in vo­li­tional per­son­al­ity can strive through mind for the mas­tery of en­ergy-mat­ter dis­closes the po­ten­tial unity of all fi­nite cre­ation.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality

117:2.1The Su­preme is God-in-time; his is the se­cret of crea­ture growth in time; his also is the con­quest of the in­com­plete pres­ent and the con­sum­ma­tion of the per­fect­ing fu­ture. And the fi­nal fruits of all fi­nite growth are: power con­trolled through mind by spirit by virtue of the uni­fy­ing and cre­ative pres­ence of per­son­al­ity. The cul­mi­nat­ing con­se­quence of all this growth is the Su­preme Be­ing.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality

117:3.2The Su­preme is the di­vine chan­nel through which flows the cre­ative in­fin­ity of the tri­odi­ties that crys­tal­lizes into the galac­tic pan­o­rama of space, against which takes place the mag­nif­i­cent per­son­al­ity drama of time: the spirit con­quest of en­ergy-mat­ter through the me­di­a­tion of mind.

• principle of evolution › controlling power through mind by spirit and personality

117:7.13The pres­ent goal of the super­uni­verses is to be­come, as they are and within their po­ten­tials, per­fect, even as is Ha­vona. This per­fec­tion per­tains to phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, even to ad­min­is­tra­tive, gov­ern­men­tal, and fra­ter­nal de­vel­op­ment. It is be­lieved that, in the ages to come, the pos­si­bil­i­ties for dishar­mony, mal­ad­just­ment, and mis­adap­ta­tion will be even­tu­ally ex­hausted in the super­uni­verses. The en­ergy cir­cuits will be in per­fect bal­ance and in com­plete sub­ju­ga­tion to mind, while spirit, in the pres­ence of per­son­al­ity, will have achieved the dom­i­nance of mind.

• biologic evolution › Life Carriers › evolution limited by potentials of original Life Carrier implantations

118:8.1In the time-space cre­ations, free will is hedged about with re­straints, with lim­i­ta­tions. Ma­te­rial-life evo­lu­tion is first me­chan­i­cal, then mind ac­ti­vated, and (af­ter the be­stowal of per­son­al­ity) it may be­come spirit di­rected. Or­ganic evo­lu­tion on the in­hab­ited worlds is phys­i­cally lim­ited by the po­ten­tials of the orig­i­nal phys­i­cal-life im­plan­ta­tions of the Life Car­ri­ers.

• biologic evolution › theory of biologic evolution › impossible for primitives to have self-restraint
• social evolution › external restraints of hunger and fear circumscribe subspiritual choice range

118:8.5The whole prin­ci­ple of bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion makes it im­pos­si­ble for prim­i­tive man to ap­pear on the in­hab­ited worlds with any large en­dow­ment of self-re­straint. There­fore does the same cre­ative de­sign which pur­posed evo­lu­tion like­wise pro­vide those ex­ter­nal re­straints of time and space, hunger and fear, which ef­fec­tively cir­cum­scribe the sub­spir­i­tual choice range of such un­cul­tured crea­tures. As man’s mind suc­cess­fully over­strides in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult bar­ri­ers, this same cre­ative de­sign has also pro­vided for the slow ac­cu­mu­la­tion of the racial her­itage of painfully gar­nered ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom—in other words, for the main­te­nance of a bal­ance be­tween the di­min­ish­ing ex­ter­nal re­straints and the aug­ment­ing in­ter­nal re­straints.

• social evolution › dangerous velocities of progress retarded by

118:8.6The slow­ness of evo­lu­tion, of hu­man cul­tural prog­ress, tes­ti­fies to the ef­fec­tive­ness of that brake—ma­te­rial in­er­tia—which so ef­fi­ciently op­er­ates to re­tard dan­ger­ous ve­loc­i­ties of prog­ress. Thus does time it­self cush­ion and dis­tribute the oth­er­wise lethal re­sults of pre­ma­ture es­cape from the next-en­com­pass­ing bar­ri­ers to hu­man ac­tion. For when cul­ture ad­vances over­fast, when ma­te­rial achieve­ment out­runs the evo­lu­tion of wor­ship-wis­dom, then does civ­i­liza­tion con­tain within it­self the seeds of ret­ro­gres­sion; and un­less but­tressed by the swift aug­men­ta­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom, such hu­man so­ci­eties will re­cede from high but pre­ma­ture lev­els of at­tain­ment, and the “dark ages” of the in­ter­reg­num of wis­dom will bear wit­ness to the in­ex­orable restora­tion of the im­bal­ance be­tween self-lib­erty and self-con­trol.

• biologic evolution › Jesus did not interfere with

120:3.5“4. Un­der no cir­cum­stances and not even in the least de­tail, should you in­ter­fere with the nor­mal and or­derly pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion of the Uran­tia races. But this pro­hi­bi­tion must not be in­ter­preted as lim­it­ing your ef­forts to leave be­hind you on Uran­tia an en­dur­ing and im­proved sys­tem of pos­i­tive re­li­gious ethics. As a dis­pen­sa­tional Son you are granted cer­tain priv­i­leges per­tain­ing to the ad­vance­ment of the spir­i­tual and re­li­gious sta­tus of the world peo­ples.

• principle of evolution › mindless causation cannot evolve the complex from the simple

130:4.5Mind­less cau­sa­tion can­not evolve the re­fined and com­plex from the crude and the sim­ple, nei­ther can spir­it­less ex­pe­ri­ence evolve the di­vine char­ac­ters of eter­nal sur­vival from the ma­te­rial minds of the mor­tals of time. The one at­tri­bute of the uni­verse which so ex­clu­sively char­ac­ter­izes the in­fi­nite De­ity is this un­end­ing cre­ative be­stowal of per­son­al­ity which can sur­vive in pro­gres­sive De­ity at­tain­ment.

• social evolution › Jesus was a progressive evolutionist

149:2.11Je­sus tran­scended all the teach­ings of his fore­bears when he boldly sub­sti­tuted clean hearts for clean hands as the mark of true re­li­gion. He put re­al­ity in the place of tra­di­tion and swept aside all pre­ten­sions of van­ity and hypocrisy. And yet this fear­less man of God did not give vent to de­struc­tive crit­i­cism or man­i­fest an ut­ter dis­re­gard of the re­li­gious, so­cial, eco­nomic, and po­lit­i­cal us­ages of his day. He was not a mil­i­tant rev­o­lu­tion­ist; he was a pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion­ist. He en­gaged in the de­struc­tion of that which was only when he si­mul­ta­ne­ously of­fered his fel­lows the su­pe­rior thing which ought to be.

• social evolution › man stands on shoulders of all who went before

160:2.3It is this abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate and share mean­ings that con­sti­tutes hu­man cul­ture and en­ables man, through so­cial as­so­ci­a­tions, to build civ­i­liza­tions. Knowl­edge and wis­dom be­come cu­mu­la­tive be­cause of man’s abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate these pos­ses­sions to suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tions. And thereby arise the cul­tural ac­tiv­i­ties of the race: art, sci­ence, re­li­gion, and phi­los­o­phy.

• social evolution › mental e. may occur suddenly

170:4.14This world has never se­ri­ously or sin­cerely or hon­estly tried out these dy­namic ideas and di­vine ide­als of Je­sus’ doc­trine of the king­dom of heaven. But you should not be­come dis­cour­aged by the ap­par­ently slow prog­ress of the king­dom idea on Uran­tia. Re­mem­ber that the or­der of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion is sub­jected to sud­den and un­ex­pected pe­ri­od­i­cal changes in both the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual worlds. The be­stowal of Je­sus as an in­car­nated Son was just such a strange and un­ex­pected event in the spir­i­tual life of the world. Nei­ther make the fa­tal mis­take, in look­ing for the age man­i­fes­ta­tion of the king­dom, of fail­ing to ef­fect its es­tab­lish­ment within your own souls.