genetics

• genetic handicaps cannot invalidate presence of Adjuster

5:1.4The mor­tals of the realms of time and space may dif­fer greatly in in­nate abil­i­ties and in­tel­lec­tual en­dow­ment, they may en­joy en­vi­ron­ments ex­cep­tion­ally fa­vor­able to so­cial ad­vance­ment and moral prog­ress, or they may suf­fer from the lack of al­most ev­ery hu­man aid to cul­ture and sup­posed ad­vance­ment in the arts of civ­i­liza­tion; but the pos­si­bil­i­ties for spir­i­tual prog­ress in the as­cen­sion ca­reer are equal to all; in­creas­ing lev­els of spir­i­tual in­sight and cos­mic mean­ings are at­tained quite in­de­pen­dently of all such so­ciomoral dif­fer­en­tials of the di­ver­si­fied ma­te­rial en­vi­ron­ments on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

5:1.5How­ever Uran­tia mor­tals may dif­fer in their in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, eco­nomic, and even moral op­por­tu­ni­ties and en­dow­ments, for­get not that their spir­i­tual en­dow­ment is uni­form and unique. They all en­joy the same di­vine pres­ence of the gift from the Fa­ther, and they are all equally priv­i­leged to seek in­ti­mate per­sonal com­mu­nion with this in­dwelling spirit of di­vine ori­gin, while they may all equally choose to ac­cept the uni­form spir­i­tual lead­ing of these Mys­tery Mon­i­tors.

5:1.6If mor­tal man is whole­heart­edly spir­i­tu­ally mo­ti­vated, un­re­servedly con­se­crated to the do­ing of the Fa­ther’s will, then, since he is so cer­tainly and so ef­fec­tively spir­i­tu­ally en­dowed by the in­dwelling and di­vine Ad­juster, there can­not fail to ma­te­ri­al­ize in that in­di­vid­ual’s ex­pe­ri­ence the sub­lime con­scious­ness of know­ing God and the su­per­nal as­sur­ance of sur­viv­ing for the pur­pose of find­ing God by the pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ence of be­com­ing more and more like him.

5:1.7Man is spir­i­tu­ally in­dwelt by a sur­viv­ing Thought Ad­juster. If such a hu­man mind is sin­cerely and spir­i­tu­ally mo­ti­vated, if such a hu­man soul de­sires to know God and be­come like him, hon­estly wants to do the Fa­ther’s will, there ex­ists no neg­a­tive in­flu­ence of mor­tal de­pri­va­tion nor pos­i­tive power of pos­si­ble in­ter­fer­ence which can pre­vent such a di­vinely mo­ti­vated soul from se­curely as­cend­ing to the por­tals of Par­a­dise.

• genetic handicaps cannot invalidate presence of Adjuster

5:5.13Eter­nal sur­vival of per­son­al­ity is wholly de­pen­dent on the choos­ing of the mor­tal mind, whose de­ci­sions de­ter­mine the sur­vival po­ten­tial of the im­mor­tal soul. When the mind be­lieves God and the soul knows God, and when, with the fos­ter­ing Ad­juster, they all de­sire God, then is sur­vival as­sured. Lim­i­ta­tions of in­tel­lect, cur­tail­ment of ed­u­ca­tion, de­pri­va­tion of cul­ture, im­pov­er­ish­ment of so­cial sta­tus, even in­fe­ri­or­ity of the hu­man stan­dards of moral­ity re­sult­ing from the un­for­tu­nate lack of ed­u­ca­tional, cul­tural, and so­cial ad­van­tages, can­not in­val­i­date the pres­ence of the di­vine spirit in such un­for­tu­nate and hu­manly hand­i­capped but be­liev­ing in­di­vid­u­als. The in­dwelling of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor con­sti­tutes the in­cep­tion and in­sures the pos­si­bil­ity of the po­ten­tial of growth and sur­vival of the im­mor­tal soul.

5:5.14The abil­ity of mor­tal par­ents to pro­cre­ate is not pred­i­cated on their ed­u­ca­tional, cul­tural, so­cial, or eco­nomic sta­tus. The union of the pa­ren­tal fac­tors un­der nat­u­ral con­di­tions is quite suf­fi­cient to ini­ti­ate off­spring. A hu­man mind dis­cern­ing right and wrong and pos­sess­ing the ca­pac­ity to wor­ship God, in union with a di­vine Ad­juster, is all that is re­quired in that mor­tal to ini­ti­ate and fos­ter the pro­duc­tion of his im­mor­tal soul of sur­vival qual­i­ties if such a spirit-en­dowed in­di­vid­ual seeks God and sin­cerely de­sires to be­come like him, hon­estly elects to do the will of the Fa­ther in heaven.

• genetics underlies all ability, all character

44:8.2There are three pos­si­ble sources of spe­cial hu­man abil­ity: At the bot­tom al­ways there ex­ists the nat­u­ral or in­her­ent ap­ti­tude. Spe­cial abil­ity is never an ar­bi­trary gift of the Gods; there is al­ways an an­ces­tral foun­da­tion for ev­ery out­stand­ing tal­ent. In ad­di­tion to this nat­u­ral abil­ity, or rather sup­ple­men­tal thereto, there may be con­tributed the lead­ings of the Thought Ad­juster in those in­di­vid­u­als whose in­dwelling Ad­justers may have had ac­tual and bona fide ex­pe­ri­ences along such lines on other worlds and in other mor­tal crea­tures. In those cases where both the hu­man mind and the in­dwelling Ad­juster are un­usu­ally skill­ful, the spirit ar­ti­sans may be del­e­gated to act as har­mo­niz­ers of these tal­ents and oth­er­wise to as­sist and in­spire these mor­tals to seek for ever-per­fect­ing ide­als and to at­tempt their en­hanced por­trayal for the ed­i­fi­ca­tion of the realm.

• morontia life removes all genetic handicaps

44:8.3There is no caste in the ranks of spirit ar­ti­sans. No mat­ter how lowly your ori­gin, if you have abil­ity and the gift of ex­pres­sion, you will gain ad­e­quate rec­og­ni­tion and re­ceive due ap­pre­ci­a­tion as you as­cend up­ward in the scale of mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. There can be no hand­i­cap of hu­man hered­ity or de­pri­va­tion of mor­tal en­vi­ron­ment which the mor­ontia ca­reer will not fully com­pen­sate and wholly re­move. And all such sat­is­fac­tions of artis­tic achieve­ment and ex­pres­sion­ful self-re­al­iza­tion will be ef­fected by your own per­sonal ef­forts in pro­gres­sive ad­vance­ment. At last the as­pi­ra­tions of evo­lu­tion­ary medi­ocrity may be re­al­ized. While the Gods do not ar­bi­trar­ily be­stow tal­ents and abil­ity upon the chil­dren of time, they do pro­vide for the at­tain­ment of the sat­is­fac­tion of all their no­ble long­ings and for the grat­i­fi­ca­tion of all hu­man hunger for su­per­nal self-ex­pres­sion.

• historically › tremendous gains from small amount of violet blood

48:4.13Even mor­tal hu­mor be­comes most hearty when it de­picts episodes af­fect­ing those just a lit­tle be­neath one’s pres­ent de­vel­op­men­tal state, or when it por­trays one’s sup­posed su­pe­ri­ors falling vic­tim to the ex­pe­ri­ences which are com­monly as­so­ci­ated with sup­posed in­fe­ri­ors. You of Uran­tia have al­lowed much that is at once vul­gar and un­kind to be­come con­fused with your hu­mor, but on the whole, you are to be con­grat­u­lated on a com­par­a­tively keen sense of hu­mor. Some of your races have a rich vein of it and are greatly helped in their earthly ca­reers thereby. Ap­par­ently you re­ceived much in the way of hu­mor from your Adamic in­her­i­tance, much more than was se­cured of ei­ther mu­sic or art.

• historically › tremendous gains from small amount of violet blood

48:4.17The higher the mor­tal species, the greater the stress and the greater the ca­pac­ity for hu­mor as well as the ne­ces­sity for it. In the spirit world the op­po­site is true: The higher we as­cend, the less the need for the di­ver­sions of re­ver­sion ex­pe­ri­ences. But pro­ceed­ing down the scale of spirit life from Par­a­dise to the se­raphic hosts, there is an in­creas­ing need for the mis­sion of mirth and the min­istry of mer­ri­ment. Those be­ings who most need the re­fresh­ment of pe­ri­odic re­ver­sion to the in­tel­lec­tual sta­tus of pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ences are the higher types of the hu­man species, the mor­ontians, an­gels, and the Ma­te­rial Sons, to­gether with all sim­i­lar types of per­son­al­ity.

• jealously guard superior human strains
• often requires ages to recoup loss of single superior strain of human heredity

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.

• gland chemistry influences imagination, spiritual receptivity

49:5.193. Spirit-re­cep­tion se­ries. There are three groups of mind de­sign as re­lated to con­tact with spirit af­fairs. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion does not re­fer to the one-, two-, and three-brained or­ders of mor­tals; it refers pri­mar­ily to gland chem­istry, more par­tic­u­larly to the or­ga­ni­za­tion of cer­tain glands com­pa­ra­ble to the pi­tu­itary bod­ies. The races on some worlds have one gland, on oth­ers two, as do Uran­tians, while on still other spheres the races have three of these unique bod­ies. The in­her­ent imag­i­na­tion and spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity is def­i­nitely in­flu­enced by this dif­fer­en­tial chem­i­cal en­dow­ment.

• historically › tremendous gains from small amount of violet blood

52:3.6The re­sult of the gift of the Adamic life plasm to the mor­tal races is an im­me­di­ate up­step­ping of in­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity and an ac­cel­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual prog­ress. There is usu­ally some phys­i­cal im­prove­ment also. On an av­er­age world the post-Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion is an age of great in­ven­tion, en­ergy con­trol, and me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ment. This is the era of the ap­pear­ance of mul­ti­form man­u­fac­ture and the con­trol of nat­u­ral forces; it is the golden age of ex­plo­ration and the fi­nal sub­du­ing of the planet. Much of the ma­te­rial prog­ress of a world oc­curs dur­ing this time of the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the de­vel­op­ment of the phys­i­cal sci­ences, just such an epoch as Uran­tia is now ex­pe­ri­enc­ing. Your world is a full dis­pen­sa­tion and more be­hind the av­er­age plan­e­tary sched­ule.

• historically › 70 generations between dawn mammals and mid-mammals

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.)

• historically › 70 generations between dawn mammals and mid-mammals

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.

• historically › some early irreparable genetic losses due to wars

63:4.8Fam­ily feuds in­creased, tribal wars broke out, and se­ri­ous losses were sus­tained among the very best el­e­ments of the more able and ad­vanced groups. Some of these losses were ir­repara­ble; some of the most valu­able strains of abil­ity and in­tel­li­gence were for­ever lost to the world. This early race and its prim­i­tive civ­i­liza­tion were threat­ened with ex­tinc­tion by this in­ces­sant war­fare of the clans.

• evolution produced many apparently useless forms of transition life

65:4.10On Uran­tia the en­deav­ors of the Life Car­ri­ers to im­prove the Sa­ta­nia life pat­terns nec­es­sar­ily re­sulted in the pro­duc­tion of many ap­par­ently use­less forms of tran­si­tion life. But the gains al­ready ac­crued are suf­fi­cient to jus­tify the Uran­tia mod­i­fi­ca­tions of the stan­dard life de­signs.

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.

65:4.12But in our ef­fort to pro­vide for that com­bi­na­tion and as­so­ci­a­tion of in­her­i­tance fac­tors which fi­nally gave rise to the mam­malian an­ces­tors of the hu­man race, we were con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of per­mit­ting hun­dreds and thou­sands of other and com­par­a­tively use­less com­bi­na­tions and as­so­ci­a­tions of in­her­i­tance fac­tors to take place. Many of these seem­ingly strange by-prod­ucts of our ef­forts are cer­tain to meet your gaze as you dig back into the plan­e­tary past, and I can well un­der­stand how puz­zling some of these things must be to the lim­ited hu­man view­point.

• historically › Caligastia 100 taught selective animal breeding

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

• mortals differ in innate endowments

69:3.85. Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion based on di­verse phys­i­cal and men­tal en­dow­ments. Fur­ther di­vi­sions of la­bor were fa­vored by the in­her­ent dif­fer­ences in men; all hu­man be­ings are not born equal.

• mortals differ in innate endowments

70:8.1The men­tal and phys­i­cal in­equal­ity of hu­man be­ings in­sures that so­cial classes will ap­pear. The only worlds with­out so­cial strata are the most prim­i­tive and the most ad­vanced. A dawn­ing civ­i­liza­tion has not yet be­gun the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of so­cial lev­els, while a world set­tled in light and life has largely ef­faced these di­vi­sions of man­kind, which are so char­ac­ter­is­tic of all in­ter­me­di­ate evo­lu­tion­ary stages.

• religion powerless apart from sound and normal g.

70:8.18But these mea­sures can bear their true fruits only in the dis­tant mil­len­ni­ums of the fu­ture, al­though much so­cial im­prove­ment will im­me­di­ately re­sult from the in­tel­li­gent, wise, and pa­tient ma­nip­u­la­tion of these ac­cel­er­a­tion fac­tors of cul­tural prog­ress. Re­li­gion is the mighty lever that lifts civ­i­liza­tion from chaos, but it is pow­er­less apart from the ful­crum of sound and nor­mal mind rest­ing se­curely on sound and nor­mal hered­ity.

• play, humor, music largely derived from Adamites

74:6.7The Adamic chil­dren at­tended their own schools un­til they were six­teen, the younger be­ing taught by the el­der. The lit­tle folks changed ac­tiv­i­ties ev­ery thirty min­utes, the older ev­ery hour. And it was cer­tainly a new sight on Uran­tia to ob­serve these chil­dren of Adam and Eve at play, joy­ous and ex­hil­a­rat­ing ac­tiv­ity just for the sheer fun of it. The play and hu­mor of the pres­ent-day races are largely de­rived from the Adamic stock. The Adamites all had a great ap­pre­ci­a­tion of mu­sic as well as a keen sense of hu­mor.

• historically › tremendous gains from small amount of violet blood

74:7.23Adam taught his con­tem­po­raries all they could com­pre­hend, but that was not very much, com­par­a­tively speak­ing. Nev­er­the­less, the more in­tel­li­gent of the races of earth looked for­ward ea­gerly to the time when they would be per­mit­ted to in­ter­marry with the su­pe­rior chil­dren of the vi­o­let race. And what a dif­fer­ent world Uran­tia would have be­come if this great plan of up­lift­ing the races had been car­ried out! Even as it was, tremen­dous gains re­sulted from the small amount of the blood of this im­ported race which the evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples in­ci­den­tally se­cured.

• genetics underlies all ability, all character
• good environment cannot overcome character handicaps of base heredity

76:2.6The ob­ser­va­tion of Abel’s con­duct es­tab­lishes the value of en­vi­ron­ment and ed­u­ca­tion as fac­tors in char­ac­ter de­vel­op­ment. Abel had an ideal in­her­i­tance, and hered­ity lies at the bot­tom of all char­ac­ter; but the in­flu­ence of an in­fe­rior en­vi­ron­ment vir­tu­ally neu­tral­ized this mag­nif­i­cent in­her­i­tance. Abel, es­pe­cially dur­ing his younger years, was greatly in­flu­enced by his un­fa­vor­able sur­round­ings. He would have be­come an en­tirely dif­fer­ent per­son had he lived to be twenty-five or thirty; his su­perb in­her­i­tance would then have shown it­self. While a good en­vi­ron­ment can­not con­tribute much to­ward re­ally over­com­ing the char­ac­ter hand­i­caps of a base hered­ity, a bad en­vi­ron­ment can very ef­fec­tively spoil an ex­cel­lent in­her­i­tance, at least dur­ing the younger years of life. Good so­cial en­vi­ron­ment and proper ed­u­ca­tion are in­dis­pens­able soil and at­mo­sphere for get­ting the most out of a good in­her­i­tance.

• historically › chromosomes on Prince’s staff reorganized by life circuits

77:2.2The phys­i­cal mem­bers of the Prince’s staff had been con­sti­tuted sex crea­tures for the pur­pose of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the plan of pro­cre­at­ing off­spring em­body­ing the com­bined qual­i­ties of their spe­cial or­der united with those of the se­lected stock of the An­don tribes, and all of this was in an­tic­i­pa­tion of the sub­se­quent ap­pear­ance of Adam. The Life Car­ri­ers had planned a new type of mor­tal em­brac­ing the union of the con­joint off­spring of the Prince’s staff with the first-gen­er­a­tion off­spring of Adam and Eve. They had thus pro­jected a plan en­vi­sion­ing a new or­der of plan­e­tary crea­tures whom they hoped would be­come the teacher-rulers of hu­man so­ci­ety. Such be­ings were de­signed for so­cial sov­er­eignty, not civil sov­er­eignty. But since this project al­most com­pletely mis­car­ried, we shall never know what an aris­toc­racy of be­nign lead­er­ship and match­less cul­ture Uran­tia was thus de­prived of. For when the cor­po­real staff later re­pro­duced, it was sub­se­quent to the re­bel­lion and af­ter they had been de­prived of their con­nec­tion with the life cur­rents of the sys­tem.

• historically › chromosomes on Prince’s staff reorganized by life circuits

77:2.5These mu­tant traits ap­pear­ing in the first Nod­ite gen­er­a­tion re­sulted from cer­tain changes which had been wrought in the con­fig­u­ra­tion and in the chem­i­cal con­stituents of the in­her­i­tance fac­tors of the An­donic germ plasm. These changes were caused by the pres­ence in the bod­ies of the staff mem­bers of the pow­er­ful life-main­te­nance cir­cuits of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. These life cir­cuits caused the chro­mo­somes of the spe­cial­ized Uran­tia pat­tern to re­or­ga­nize more af­ter the pat­terns of the stan­dard­ized Sa­ta­nia spe­cial­iza­tion of the or­dained Neb­a­don life man­i­fes­ta­tion. The tech­nique of this germ plasm meta­mor­pho­sis by the ac­tion of the sys­tem life cur­rents is not un­like those pro­ce­dures whereby Uran­tia sci­en­tists mod­ify the germ plasm of plants and an­i­mals by the use of X rays.

• historically › Andite strain stimulated innately able yellow race

79:6.71. Ge­netic. Un­like their blue cousins in Eu­rope, both the red and yel­low races had largely es­caped mix­ture with de­based hu­man stocks. The north­ern Chi­nese, al­ready strength­ened by small amounts of the su­pe­rior red and An­donic strains, were soon to ben­e­fit by a con­sid­er­able in­flux of And­ite blood. The south­ern Chi­nese did not fare so well in this re­gard, and they had long suf­fered from ab­sorp­tion of the green race, while later on they were to be fur­ther weak­ened by the in­fil­tra­tion of the swarms of in­fe­rior peo­ples crowded out of In­dia by the Dra­vid­ian-And­ite in­va­sion. And to­day in China there is a def­i­nite dif­fer­ence be­tween the north­ern and south­ern races.

• historically › Andite strain stimulated innately able yellow race

79:7.3It was not that there were so many of the And­ites, nor that their cul­ture was so su­pe­rior, but amal­ga­ma­tion with them pro­duced a more ver­sa­tile stock. The north­ern Chi­nese re­ceived just enough of the And­ite strain to mildly stim­u­late their in­nately able minds but not enough to fire them with the rest­less, ex­ploratory cu­rios­ity so char­ac­ter­is­tic of the north­ern white races. This more lim­ited in­fu­sion of And­ite in­her­i­tance was less dis­turb­ing to the in­nate sta­bil­ity of the San­gik type.

• historically › race is decisive factor in evolution of culture

81:6.4At the open­ing of the And­ite era there were only two ex­ten­sive and fer­tile open hunt­ing ar­eas in all the world. One was in North Amer­ica and was over­spread by the Amerinds; the other was to the north of Tur­kes­tan and was partly oc­cu­pied by an An­donic-yel­low race. The de­ci­sive fac­tors in the evo­lu­tion of a su­pe­rior cul­ture in south­west­ern Asia were race and cli­mate. The And­ites were a great peo­ple, but the cru­cial fac­tor in de­ter­min­ing the course of their civ­i­liza­tion was the in­creas­ing arid­ity of Iran, Tur­kes­tan, and Sinkiang, which forced them to in­vent and adopt new and ad­vanced meth­ods of wrest­ing a liveli­hood from their de­creas­ingly fer­tile lands.

• dominant gene normally improves hybrid

82:6.7As long as pres­ent-day races are so over­loaded with in­fe­rior and de­gen­er­ate strains, race in­ter­min­gling on a large scale would be most detri­men­tal, but most of the ob­jec­tions to such ex­per­i­ments rest on so­cial and cul­tural prej­u­dices rather than on bi­o­log­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions. Even among in­fe­rior stocks, hy­brids of­ten are an im­prove­ment on their an­ces­tors. Hy­bridiza­tion makes for species im­prove­ment be­cause of the role of the dom­i­nant genes. Racial in­ter­mix­ture in­creases the like­li­hood of a larger num­ber of the de­sir­able dom­i­nants be­ing pres­ent in the hy­brid.

• individuals lacking parental instinct eliminated 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.

• historically › Abraham arrived in expected generation

93:5.3For some time the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers had been ob­serv­ing the an­ces­tors of Abra­ham, and they con­fi­dently ex­pected off­spring in a cer­tain gen­er­a­tion who would be char­ac­ter­ized by in­tel­li­gence, ini­tia­tive, sagac­ity, and sin­cer­ity. The chil­dren of Terah, the fa­ther of Abra­ham, in ev­ery way met these ex­pec­ta­tions. It was this pos­si­bil­ity of con­tact with these ver­sa­tile chil­dren of Terah that had con­sid­er­able to do with the ap­pear­ance of Ma­chi­venta at Salem, rather than in Egypt, China, In­dia, or among the north­ern tribes.

• historically › Moses’ unusual versatility and adaptability derived from mixed ancestry

96:3.1The be­gin­ning of the evo­lu­tion of the He­braic con­cepts and ide­als of a Su­preme Cre­ator dates from the de­par­ture of the Semites from Egypt un­der that great leader, teacher, and or­ga­nizer, Moses. His mother was of the royal fam­ily of Egypt; his fa­ther was a Semitic li­ai­son of­fi­cer be­tween the gov­ern­ment and the Bed­ouin cap­tives. Moses thus pos­sessed qual­i­ties de­rived from su­pe­rior racial sources; his an­ces­try was so highly blended that it is im­pos­si­ble to clas­sify him in any one racial group. Had he not been of this mixed type, he would never have dis­played that un­usual ver­sa­til­ity and adapt­abil­ity which en­abled him to man­age the di­ver­si­fied horde which even­tu­ally be­came as­so­ci­ated with those Bed­ouin Semites who fled from Egypt to the Ara­bian Desert un­der his lead­er­ship.

• religious experience markedly influenced by

100:1.6Re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence is markedly in­flu­enced by phys­i­cal health, in­her­ited tem­per­a­ment, and so­cial en­vi­ron­ment. But these tem­po­ral con­di­tions do not in­hibit in­ner spir­i­tual prog­ress by a soul ded­i­cated to the do­ing of the will of the Fa­ther in heaven. There are pres­ent in all nor­mal mor­tals cer­tain in­nate drives to­ward growth and self-re­al­iza­tion which func­tion if they are not specif­i­cally in­hib­ited. The cer­tain tech­nique of fos­ter­ing this con­sti­tu­tive en­dow­ment of the po­ten­tial of spir­i­tual growth is to main­tain an at­ti­tude of whole­hearted de­vo­tion to su­preme val­ues.

• mortals differ in innate endowments

100:7.8He loved men as broth­ers, at the same time rec­og­niz­ing how they dif­fered in in­nate en­dow­ments and ac­quired qual­i­ties. “He went about do­ing good.”

• morontia life removes all genetic handicaps

109:5.5While the hered­i­tary legacy of cere­bral en­dow­ment and that of elec­tro­chem­i­cal over­con­trol both op­er­ate to de­limit the sphere of ef­fi­cient Ad­juster ac­tiv­ity, no hered­i­tary hand­i­cap (in nor­mal minds) ever pre­vents even­tual spir­i­tual achieve­ment. Hered­ity may in­ter­fere with the rate of per­son­al­ity con­quest, but it does not pre­vent even­tual con­sum­ma­tion of the as­cen­dant ad­ven­ture. If you will co-op­er­ate with your Ad­juster, the di­vine gift will, sooner or later, evolve the im­mor­tal mor­ontia soul and, sub­se­quent to fu­sion there­with, will pre­sent the new crea­ture to the sov­er­eign Mas­ter Son of the lo­cal uni­verse and even­tu­ally to the Fa­ther of Ad­justers on Par­a­dise.

• historically › Jesus did not interfere with biologic evolution

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.

• historically › Jesus did not interfere with biologic evolution

120:3.8“7. While you will live the nor­mal and av­er­age so­cial life of the planet, be­ing a nor­mal in­di­vid­ual of the male sex, you will prob­a­bly not en­ter the mar­riage re­la­tion, which re­la­tion would be wholly hon­or­able and con­sis­tent with your be­stowal; but I must re­mind you that one of the in­car­na­tion man­dates of Sonar­ing­ton for­bids the leav­ing of hu­man off­spring be­hind on any planet by a be­stowal Son of Par­a­dise ori­gin.

• historically › racial deterioration contributed to Roman decline

133:0.2Gonod and Ga­nid had pur­chased so many things in Alexan­dria and Rome that they sent all their be­long­ings on ahead by pack train to Tar­en­tum, while the three trav­el­ers walked leisurely across Italy over the great Ap­pian Way. On this jour­ney they en­coun­tered all sorts of hu­man be­ings. Many no­ble Ro­man cit­i­zens and Greek colonists lived along this road, but al­ready the progeny of great num­bers of in­fe­rior slaves were be­gin­ning to make their ap­pear­ance.

• inherited urges cannot be fundamentally modified; responses can

140:4.8An ef­fec­tive phi­los­o­phy of liv­ing is formed by a com­bi­na­tion of cos­mic in­sight and the to­tal of one’s emo­tional re­ac­tions to the so­cial and eco­nomic en­vi­ron­ment. Re­mem­ber: While in­her­ited urges can­not be fun­da­men­tally mod­i­fied, emo­tional re­sponses to such urges can be changed; there­fore the moral na­ture can be mod­i­fied, char­ac­ter can be im­proved. In the strong char­ac­ter emo­tional re­sponses are in­te­grated and co-or­di­nated, and thus is pro­duced a uni­fied per­son­al­ity. De­fi­cient uni­fi­ca­tion weak­ens the moral na­ture and en­gen­ders un­hap­pi­ness.

• historically › racial deterioration contributed to Roman decline

195:3.8The spir­i­tual im­pe­tus of nom­i­nally ac­cept­ing Hel­le­nized Chris­tian­ity came to Rome too late to pre­vent the well-started moral de­cline or to com­pen­sate for the al­ready well-es­tab­lished and in­creas­ing racial de­te­ri­o­ra­tion. This new re­li­gion was a cul­tural ne­ces­sity for im­pe­rial Rome, and it is ex­ceed­ingly un­for­tu­nate that it did not be­come a means of spir­i­tual sal­va­tion in a larger sense.

195:3.9Even a good re­li­gion could not save a great em­pire from the sure re­sults of lack of in­di­vid­ual par­tic­i­pa­tion in the af­fairs of gov­ern­ment, from over­much pa­ter­nal­ism, over­tax­a­tion and gross col­lec­tion abuses, un­bal­anced trade with the Lev­ant which drained away the gold, amuse­ment mad­ness, Ro­man stan­dard­iza­tion, the degra­da­tion of woman, slav­ery and race deca­dence, phys­i­cal plagues, and a state church which be­came in­sti­tu­tion­al­ized nearly to the point of spir­i­tual bar­ren­ness.