Life Carriers

• Master Spirits involved with L.C. in life initiation

16:4.91. The life-ini­ti­a­tion pro­ce­dures of the lo­cal uni­verse Life Car­ri­ers.

• local universe Sons of God

20:1.97. The Life Car­ri­ers.

• created by Creator Son, Mother Spirit, and 1 Ancient of Days

20:1.10Mel­chiz­e­deks are the joint off­spring of a lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ator Son, Cre­ative Spirit, and Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek. Both Voron­dadeks and La­non­an­deks are brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and his Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ciate. Voron­dadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers; La­non­an­deks as Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and as Plan­e­tary Princes. The three­fold or­der of Life Car­ri­ers is brought into be­ing by a Cre­ator Son and Cre­ative Spirit as­so­ci­ated with one of the three An­cients of Days of the super­uni­verse of ju­ris­dic­tion. But the na­tures and ac­tiv­i­ties of these Lo­cal Uni­verse Sons of God are more prop­erly por­trayed in those pa­pers deal­ing with the af­fairs of the lo­cal cre­ations.

• Technical Advisers aid

25:4.18These ex­ceed­ingly wise and prac­ti­cal be­ings are al­ways closely as­so­ci­ated with the ser­vice and work of the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors. The Mel­chiz­e­deks are pro­vided with an able corps. The rulers of the sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, uni­verses, and super­uni­verse sec­tors are all boun­ti­fully sup­plied with these tech­ni­cal or le­gal ref­er­ence minds of the spir­i­tual world. A spe­cial group act as law coun­selors to the Life Car­ri­ers, ad­vis­ing these Sons con­cern­ing the ex­tent of per­mis­si­ble de­par­ture from the es­tab­lished or­der of life prop­a­ga­tion and oth­er­wise in­struct­ing them re­spect­ing their pre­rog­a­tives and lat­i­tudes of func­tion. They are the ad­vis­ers of all classes of be­ings re­gard­ing the proper us­ages and tech­niques of all spirit-world trans­ac­tions. But they do not di­rectly and per­son­ally deal with the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the realms.

• in personality registers

30:1.4010. Life Car­ri­ers.

• in personality registers

30:2.457. Life Car­rier Sons.

• plan and initiate life › fabricate physical energies and particles into units of living existence

34:2.5In the cre­ation of a uni­verse of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures the Cre­ative Mother Spirit func­tions first in the sphere of uni­verse per­fec­tion, col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Son in the pro­duc­tion of the Bright and Morn­ing Star. Sub­se­quently the off­spring of the Spirit in­creas­ingly ap­proach the or­der of cre­ated be­ings on the plan­ets, even as the Sons grade down­ward from the Mel­chiz­e­deks to the Ma­te­rial Sons, who ac­tu­ally con­tact with the mor­tals of the realms. In the later evo­lu­tion of mor­tal crea­tures the Life Car­rier Sons pro­vide the phys­i­cal body, fab­ri­cated out of the ex­ist­ing or­ga­nized ma­te­rial of the realm, while the Uni­verse Spirit con­tributes the “breath of life.”

• plan and initiate life › carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life on planets

36:0.1Life does not orig­i­nate spon­ta­neously. Life is con­structed ac­cord­ing to plans for­mu­lated by the (un­re­vealed) Ar­chi­tects of Be­ing and ap­pears on the in­hab­ited plan­ets ei­ther by di­rect im­por­ta­tion or as a re­sult of the op­er­a­tions of the Life Car­ri­ers of the lo­cal uni­verses. These car­ri­ers of life are among the most in­ter­est­ing and ver­sa­tile of the di­verse fam­ily of uni­verse Sons. They are in­trusted with de­sign­ing and car­ry­ing crea­ture life to the plan­e­tary spheres. And af­ter plant­ing this life on such new worlds, they re­main there for long pe­ri­ods to fos­ter its de­vel­op­ment.

• created by Creator Son, Mother Spirit, and 1 Ancient of Days

36:1.1Though the Life Car­ri­ers be­long to the fam­ily of di­vine son­ship, they are a pe­cu­liar and dis­tinct type of uni­verse Sons, be­ing the only group of in­tel­li­gent life in a lo­cal uni­verse in whose cre­ation the rulers of a super­uni­verse par­tic­i­pate. The Life Car­ri­ers are the off­spring of three pre-ex­is­tent per­son­al­i­ties: the Cre­ator Son, the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, and, by des­ig­na­tion, one of the three An­cients of Days pre­sid­ing over the des­tinies of the super­uni­verse con­cerned. These An­cients of Days, who alone can de­cree the ex­tinc­tion of in­tel­li­gent life, par­tic­i­pate in the cre­ation of the Life Car­ri­ers, who are in­trusted with es­tab­lish­ing phys­i­cal life on the evolv­ing worlds.

• directed by Gabriel, Father Melchizedek, and Nambia
• number 100 million in Nebadon

36:1.2In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don we have on rec­ord the cre­ation of one hun­dred mil­lion Life Car­ri­ers. This ef­fi­cient corps of life dis­sem­i­na­tors is not a truly self-gov­ern­ing group. They are di­rected by the life-de­ter­min­ing trio, con­sist­ing of Ga­briel, the Fa­ther Mel­chiz­e­dek, and Nam­bia, the orig­i­nal and first-born Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don. But in all phases of their di­vi­sional ad­min­is­tra­tion they are self-gov­ern­ing.

• 3 divisions
• Melchizedeks always accompany

36:1.3Life Car­ri­ers are graded into three grand di­vi­sions: The first di­vi­sion is the se­nior Life Car­ri­ers, the sec­ond, as­sis­tants, and the third, cus­to­di­ans. The pri­mary di­vi­sion is sub­di­vided into twelve groups of spe­cial­ists in the var­i­ous forms of life man­i­fes­ta­tion. The seg­re­ga­tion of these three di­vi­sions was ef­fected by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, who con­ducted tests for such pur­poses on the Life Car­ri­ers’ head­quar­ters sphere. The Mel­chiz­e­deks have ever since been closely as­so­ci­ated with the Life Car­ri­ers and al­ways ac­com­pany them when they go forth to es­tab­lish life on a new planet.

• participate in human evolution in light and life

36:1.4When an evo­lu­tion­ary planet is fi­nally set­tled in light and life, the Life Car­ri­ers are or­ga­nized into the higher de­lib­er­a­tive bod­ies of ad­vi­sory ca­pac­ity to as­sist in the fur­ther ad­min­is­tra­tion and de­vel­op­ment of the world and its glo­ri­fied be­ings. In the later and set­tled ages of an evolv­ing uni­verse these Life Car­ri­ers are in­trusted with many new du­ties.

36:2.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks have the gen­eral over­sight of the fourth group of seven pri­mary spheres in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit. These worlds of the Life Car­ri­ers are des­ig­nated as fol­lows:

36:2.21. The Life Car­rier head­quar­ters.

36:2.32. The life-plan­ning sphere.

36:2.43. The life-con­ser­va­tion sphere.

36:2.54. The sphere of life evo­lu­tion.

36:2.65. The sphere of life as­so­ci­ated with mind.

36:2.76. The sphere of mind and spirit in liv­ing be­ings.

36:2.87. The sphere of un­re­vealed life.

36:2.9Each of these pri­mary spheres is sur­rounded by six satel­lites, on which the spe­cial phases of all the Life Car­rier ac­tiv­i­ties in the uni­verse are cen­tered.

36:2.10World Num­ber One, the head­quar­ters sphere, to­gether with its six trib­u­tary satel­lites, is de­voted to the study of uni­ver­sal life, life in all of its known phases of man­i­fes­ta­tion. Here is lo­cated the col­lege of life plan­ning, wherein func­tion teach­ers and ad­vis­ers from Uversa and Ha­vona, even from Par­a­dise. And I am per­mit­ted to re­veal that the seven cen­tral em­place­ments of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its are sit­u­ated on this world of the Life Car­ri­ers.

36:2.11The num­ber ten—the dec­i­mal sys­tem—is in­her­ent in the phys­i­cal uni­verse but not in the spir­i­tual. The do­main of life is char­ac­ter­ized by three, seven, and twelve or by mul­ti­ples and com­bi­na­tions of these ba­sic num­bers. There are three pri­mal and es­sen­tially dif­fer­ent life plans, af­ter the or­der of the three Par­a­dise Sources and Cen­ters, and in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don these three ba­sic forms of life are seg­re­gated on three dif­fer­ent types of plan­ets. There were, orig­i­nally, twelve dis­tinct and di­vine con­cepts of trans­mis­si­ble life. This num­ber twelve, with its sub­di­vi­sions and mul­ti­ples, runs through­out all ba­sic life pat­terns of all seven super­uni­verses. There are also seven ar­chi­tec­tural types of life de­sign, fun­da­men­tal ar­range­ments of the re­pro­duc­ing con­fig­u­ra­tions of liv­ing mat­ter. The Or­von­ton life pat­terns are con­fig­ured as twelve in­her­i­tance car­ri­ers. The dif­fer­ing or­ders of will crea­tures are con­fig­ured as 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, and 768. On Uran­tia there are forty-eight units of pat­tern con­trol—trait de­ter­min­ers—in the sex cells of hu­man re­pro­duc­tion.

36:2.12The Sec­ond World is the life-de­sign­ing sphere; here all new modes of life or­ga­ni­za­tion are worked out. While the orig­i­nal life de­signs are pro­vided by the Cre­ator Son, the ac­tual out­work­ing of these plans is in­trusted to the Life Car­ri­ers and their as­so­ciates. When the gen­eral life plans for a new world have been for­mu­lated, they are trans­mit­ted to the head­quar­ters sphere, where they are minutely scru­ti­nized by the su­preme coun­cil of the se­nior Life Car­ri­ers in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a corps of con­sult­ing Mel­chiz­e­deks. If the plans are a de­par­ture from pre­vi­ously ac­cepted for­mu­las, they must be passed upon, and en­dorsed by, the Cre­ator Son. The chief of Mel­chiz­e­deks of­ten rep­re­sents the Cre­ator Son in these de­lib­er­a­tions.

• plan and initiate life › constantly improve formulas of life

36:2.13Plan­e­tary life, there­fore, while sim­i­lar in some re­spects, dif­fers in many ways on each evo­lu­tion­ary world. Even in a uni­form life se­ries in a sin­gle fam­ily of worlds, life is not ex­actly the same on any two plan­ets; there is al­ways a plan­e­tary type, for the Life Car­ri­ers work con­stantly in an ef­fort to im­prove the vi­tal for­mu­las com­mit­ted to their keep­ing.

36:2.14There are over one mil­lion fun­da­men­tal or cos­mic chem­i­cal for­mu­las which con­sti­tute the par­ent pat­terns and the nu­mer­ous ba­sic func­tional vari­a­tions of life man­i­fes­ta­tions. Satel­lite num­ber one of the life-plan­ning sphere is the realm of the uni­verse physi­cists and elec­tro­chemists who serve as tech­ni­cal as­sis­tants to the Life Car­ri­ers in the work of cap­tur­ing, or­ga­niz­ing, and ma­nip­u­lat­ing the es­sen­tial units of en­ergy which are em­ployed in build­ing up the ma­te­rial ve­hi­cles of life trans­mis­sion, the so-called germ plasm.

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

• work on Urantia › work of 24 custodians

36:2.16World Num­ber Three is de­voted to the con­ser­va­tion of life. Here var­i­ous modes of life pro­tec­tion and preser­va­tion are stud­ied and de­vel­oped by the as­sis­tants and cus­to­di­ans of the Life Car­rier corps. The life plans for ev­ery new world al­ways pro­vide for the early es­tab­lish­ment of the life-con­ser­va­tion com­mis­sion, con­sist­ing of cus­to­dian spe­cial­ists in the ex­pert ma­nip­u­la­tion of the ba­sic life pat­terns. On Uran­tia there were twenty-four such cus­to­dian com­mis­sion­ers, two for each fun­da­men­tal or par­ent pat­tern of the ar­chi­tec­tural or­ga­ni­za­tion of the life ma­te­rial. On plan­ets such as yours the high­est form of life is re­pro­duced by a life-car­ry­ing bun­dle which pos­sesses twenty-four pat­tern units. (And since the in­tel­lec­tual life grows out of, and upon the foun­da­tion of, the phys­i­cal, there come into ex­is­tence the four and twenty ba­sic or­ders of psy­chic or­ga­ni­za­tion.)

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.

36:2.18Num­ber Five World is con­cerned wholly with life as­so­ci­ated with mind. Each of its satel­lites is de­voted to the study of a sin­gle phase of crea­ture mind cor­re­lated with crea­ture life. Mind such as man com­pre­hends is an en­dow­ment of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its super­im­posed on the non­teach­able or me­chan­i­cal lev­els of mind by the agen­cies of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The life pat­terns are var­i­ously re­spon­sive to these ad­ju­tants and to the dif­fer­ent spirit min­istries op­er­at­ing through­out the uni­verses of time and space. The ca­pac­ity of ma­te­rial crea­tures to ef­fect spirit re­sponse is en­tirely de­pen­dent on the as­so­ci­ated mind en­dow­ment, which, in turn, has di­rec­tion­ized the course of the bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion of these same mor­tal crea­tures.

36:2.19World Num­ber Six is ded­i­cated to the cor­re­la­tion of mind with spirit as they are as­so­ci­ated with liv­ing forms and or­gan­isms. This world and its six trib­u­taries em­brace the schools of crea­ture co-or­di­na­tion, wherein teach­ers from both the cen­tral uni­verse and the super­uni­verse col­lab­o­rate with the Neb­a­don in­struc­tors in pre­sent­ing the high­est lev­els of crea­ture at­tain­ment in time and space.

36:2.20The Sev­enth Sphere of the Life Car­ri­ers is ded­i­cated to the un­re­vealed do­mains of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture life as it is re­lated to the cos­mic phi­los­o­phy of the ex­pand­ing fac­tu­al­iza­tion of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• plan and initiate life › carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life on planets

36:3.1Life does not spon­ta­neously ap­pear in the uni­verses; the Life Car­ri­ers must ini­ti­ate it on the bar­ren plan­ets. They are the car­ri­ers, dis­sem­i­na­tors, and guard­i­ans of life as it ap­pears on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. All life of the or­der and forms known on Uran­tia arises with these Sons, though not all forms of plan­e­tary life are ex­is­tent on Uran­tia.

• plan and initiate life › often carry actual life plasm to new world
• plan and initiate life › staff of 1200 take life to planets
• work on Urantia › life implanted on 3 sites 550 million years ago
• work on Urantia › work of 24 custodians

36:3.2The corps of Life Car­ri­ers com­mis­sioned to plant life upon a new world usu­ally con­sists of one hun­dred se­nior car­ri­ers, one hun­dred as­sis­tants, and one thou­sand cus­to­di­ans. The Life Car­ri­ers of­ten carry ac­tual life plasm to a new world, but not al­ways. They some­times or­ga­nize the life pat­terns af­ter ar­riv­ing on the planet of as­sign­ment in ac­cor­dance with for­mu­las pre­vi­ously ap­proved for a new ad­ven­ture in life es­tab­lish­ment. Such was the ori­gin of the plan­e­tary life of Uran­tia.

• plan and initiate life › catalyze lifeless material with vital spirit spark

36:3.3When, in ac­cor­dance with ap­proved for­mu­las, the phys­i­cal pat­terns have been pro­vided, then do the Life Car­ri­ers cat­alyze this life­less ma­te­rial, im­part­ing through their per­sons the vi­tal spirit spark; and forth­with do the in­ert pat­terns be­come liv­ing mat­ter.

36:3.4The vi­tal spark—the mys­tery of life—is be­stowed through the Life Car­ri­ers, not by them. They do in­deed super­vise such trans­ac­tions, they for­mu­late the life plasm it­self, but it is the Uni­verse Mother Spirit who sup­plies the es­sen­tial fac­tor of the liv­ing plasm. From the Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit comes that en­ergy spark which en­livens the body and presages the mind.

36:3.5In the be­stowal of life the Life Car­ri­ers trans­mit noth­ing of their per­sonal na­tures, not even on those spheres where new or­ders of life are pro­jected. At such times they sim­ply ini­ti­ate and trans­mit the spark of life, start the re­quired rev­o­lu­tions of mat­ter in ac­cor­dance with the phys­i­cal, chem­i­cal, and elec­tri­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions of the or­dained plans and pat­terns. Life Car­ri­ers are liv­ing cat­alytic pres­ences which ag­i­tate, or­ga­nize, and vi­tal­ize the oth­er­wise in­ert el­e­ments of the ma­te­rial or­der of ex­is­tence.

• plan and initiate life › establish life in 500,000 years planetary time

36:3.6The Life Car­ri­ers of a plan­e­tary corps are given a cer­tain pe­riod in which to es­tab­lish life on a new world, ap­prox­i­mately one-half mil­lion years of the time of that planet. At the ter­mi­na­tion of this pe­riod, in­di­cated by cer­tain de­vel­op­men­tal at­tain­ments of the plan­e­tary life, they cease im­plan­ta­tion ef­forts, and they may not sub­se­quently add any­thing new or sup­ple­men­tal to the life of that planet.

• manipulate life environment before 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.

• do not interfere with will

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.

• work on Urantia › 14 now stationed on Urantia

36:3.9Upon the ar­rival of a Plan­e­tary Prince they pre­pare to leave, though two of the se­nior car­ri­ers and twelve cus­to­di­ans may vol­un­teer, by tak­ing tem­po­rary re­nun­ci­a­tion vows, to re­main in­def­i­nitely on the planet as ad­vis­ers in the mat­ter of the fur­ther de­vel­op­ment and con­ser­va­tion of the life plasm. Two such Sons and their twelve as­so­ciates are now serv­ing on Uran­tia.

36:4.1In ev­ery lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds through­out Neb­a­don there is a sin­gle sphere whereon the Mel­chiz­e­deks have func­tioned as life car­ri­ers. These abodes are known as the sys­tem mid­sonite worlds, and on each of them a ma­te­ri­ally mod­i­fied Mel­chiz­e­dek Son has mated with a se­lected Daugh­ter of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship. The Mother Eves of such mid­sonite worlds are dis­patched from the sys­tem head­quar­ters of ju­ris­dic­tion, hav­ing been cho­sen by the des­ig­nated Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­rier from among the nu­mer­ous vol­un­teers who re­spond to the call of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ad­dressed to the Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters of his sphere.

36:4.2The progeny of a Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­rier and a Ma­te­rial Daugh­ter are known as mid­soniters. The Mel­chiz­e­dek fa­ther of such a race of su­per­nal crea­tures even­tu­ally leaves the planet of his unique life func­tion, and the Mother Eve of this spe­cial or­der of uni­verse be­ings also de­parts upon the ap­pear­ance of the sev­enth gen­er­a­tion of plan­e­tary off­spring. The di­rec­tion of such a world then de­volves upon her el­dest son.

36:4.3The mid­sonite crea­tures live and func­tion as re­pro­duc­ing be­ings on their mag­nif­i­cent worlds un­til they are one thou­sand stan­dard years of age; where­upon they are trans­lated by se­raphic trans­port. Mid­soniters are non­re­pro­duc­ing be­ings there­after be­cause the tech­nique of de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion which they pass through in prepa­ra­tion for en­seraphim­ing for­ever de­prives them of re­pro­duc­tive pre­rog­a­tives.

36:4.4The pres­ent sta­tus of these be­ings can hardly be reck­oned as ei­ther mor­tal or im­mor­tal, nei­ther can they be def­i­nitely clas­si­fied as hu­man or di­vine. These crea­tures are not Ad­juster in­dwelt, hence hardly im­mor­tal. But nei­ther do they seem to be mor­tal; no mid­soniter has ex­pe­ri­enced death. All mid­soniters ever born in Neb­a­don are alive to­day, func­tion­ing on their na­tive worlds, on some in­ter­ven­ing sphere, or on the Sal­ving­ton mid­sonite sphere in the fi­nal­i­ters’ group of worlds.

36:4.5The Sal­ving­ton Worlds of the Fi­nal­i­ters. The Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers, as well as the as­so­ci­ated Mother Eves, go from the sys­tem mid­sonite spheres to the fi­nal­i­ters’ worlds of the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit, where their off­spring are also des­tined to for­gather.

36:4.6It should be ex­plained in this con­nec­tion that the fifth group of seven pri­mary worlds in the Sal­ving­ton cir­cuit are the Neb­a­don worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters. The chil­dren of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers and the Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters are domi­ciled on the sev­enth world of the fi­nal­i­ters, the Sal­ving­ton mid­sonite sphere.

36:4.7The satel­lites of the seven pri­mary worlds of the fi­nal­i­ters are the ren­dezvous of the per­son­al­i­ties of the su­per- and cen­tral uni­verses who may be ex­e­cut­ing as­sign­ments in Neb­a­don. While the as­cend­ing mor­tals go about freely on all of the cul­tural worlds and train­ing spheres of the 490 worlds com­pris­ing the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity, there are cer­tain spe­cial schools and nu­mer­ous re­stricted zones which they are not per­mit­ted to en­ter. This is es­pe­cially true of the forty-nine spheres un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of the fi­nal­i­ters.

36:4.8The pur­pose of the mid­sonite crea­tures is not at pres­ent known, but it would ap­pear that these per­son­al­i­ties are for­gath­er­ing on the sev­enth fi­nal­i­ter world in prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture even­tu­al­ity in uni­verse evo­lu­tion. Our in­quiries con­cern­ing the mid­sonite races are al­ways re­ferred to the fi­nal­i­ters, and al­ways do the fi­nal­i­ters de­cline to dis­cuss the des­tiny of their wards. Re­gard­less of our un­cer­tainty as to the fu­ture of the mid­soniters, we do know that ev­ery lo­cal uni­verse in Or­von­ton har­bors such an ac­cu­mu­lat­ing corps of these mys­te­ri­ous be­ings. It is the be­lief of the Mel­chiz­e­dek life car­ri­ers that their mid­sonite chil­dren will some day be en­dowed with the tran­scen­den­tal and eter­nal spirit of ab­sonity by God the Ul­ti­mate.

• plan and initiate life › fabricate physical energies and particles into units of living existence

36:6.3Life Car­ri­ers can or­ga­nize the ma­te­rial forms, or phys­i­cal pat­terns, of liv­ing be­ings, but the Spirit pro­vides the ini­tial spark of life and be­stows the en­dow­ment of mind. Even the liv­ing forms of ex­per­i­men­tal life which the Life Car­ri­ers or­ga­nize on their Sal­ving­ton worlds are al­ways de­void of re­pro­duc­tive pow­ers. When the life for­mu­las and the vi­tal pat­terns are cor­rectly as­sem­bled and prop­erly or­ga­nized, the pres­ence of a Life Car­rier is suf­fi­cient to ini­ti­ate life, but all such liv­ing or­gan­isms are lack­ing in two es­sen­tial at­tri­butes—mind en­dow­ment and re­pro­duc­tive pow­ers. An­i­mal mind and hu­man mind are gifts of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit, func­tion­ing through the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its, while crea­ture abil­ity to re­pro­duce is the spe­cific and per­sonal im­par­ta­tion of the Uni­verse Spirit to the an­ces­tral life plasm in­au­gu­rated by the Life Car­ri­ers.

• plan and initiate life

42:1.5The cre­ation of en­ergy and the be­stowal of life are the pre­rog­a­tives of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his as­so­ciate Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties. The river of en­ergy and life is a con­tin­u­ous out­pour­ing from the De­i­ties, the uni­ver­sal and united stream of Par­a­dise force go­ing forth to all space. This di­vine en­ergy per­vades all cre­ation. The force or­ga­niz­ers ini­ti­ate those changes and in­sti­tute those mod­i­fi­ca­tions of space-force which even­tu­ate in en­ergy; the power di­rec­tors trans­mute en­ergy into mat­ter; thus the ma­te­rial worlds are born. The Life Car­ri­ers ini­ti­ate those pro­cesses in dead mat­ter which we call life, ma­te­rial life. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors like­wise per­form through­out the tran­si­tion realms be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual worlds. The higher spirit Cre­ators in­au­gu­rate sim­i­lar pro­cesses in di­vine forms of en­ergy, and there en­sue the higher spirit forms of in­tel­li­gent life.

• chief serves on Jerusem executive council

45:3.145. The act­ing di­rec­tor of the Sa­ta­nia Life Car­ri­ers.

• residence in Jerusem circles

46:5.17The sixth cir­cle is the tar­ry­ing place of the sys­tem Life Car­ri­ers. All or­ders of these Sons are here as­sem­bled, and from here they go forth on their world as­sign­ments.

• fabricate new bodies for spornagia

46:7.4Al­though sporna­gia nei­ther pos­sess nor evolve sur­vival souls, though they do not have per­son­al­ity, nev­er­the­less, they do evolve an in­di­vid­u­al­ity which can ex­pe­ri­ence rein­car­na­tion. When, with the pass­ing of time, the phys­i­cal bod­ies of these unique crea­tures de­te­ri­o­rate from us­age and age, their cre­ators, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Life Car­ri­ers, fab­ri­cate new bod­ies in which the old sporna­gia re-es­tab­lish their res­i­dences.

• fabricate new bodies for spornagia

46:7.6I am quite with­out com­par­isons in un­der­tak­ing to de­scribe these use­ful and un­usual crea­tures as there are no an­i­mals on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds com­pa­ra­ble to them. They are not evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings, hav­ing been pro­jected by the Life Car­ri­ers in their pres­ent form and sta­tus. They are bi­sex­ual and pro­cre­ate as they are re­quired to meet the needs of a grow­ing pop­u­la­tion.

• function in resurrection of dead

47:3.2The very cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties on the first man­sion world is the res­ur­rec­tion hall, the enor­mous tem­ple of per­son­al­ity as­sem­bly. This gi­gan­tic struc­ture con­sists of the cen­tral ren­dezvous of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­i­ans, the Thought Ad­justers, and the arch­an­gels of the res­ur­rec­tion. The Life Car­ri­ers also func­tion with these ce­les­tial be­ings in the res­ur­rec­tion of the dead.

• plan and initiate life › catalyze lifeless material with vital spirit spark

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.

• plan and initiate life › enjoy great latitude in planning life

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.

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.

• plan and initiate life › enjoy great latitude in planning life

49:5.17While the three-brained peo­ples are ca­pa­ble of a slightly higher plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion than ei­ther the one- or two-brained or­ders, all have the same type of life plasm and carry on plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties in very sim­i­lar ways, much as do hu­man be­ings on Uran­tia. These three types of mor­tals are dis­tributed through­out the worlds of the lo­cal sys­tems. In the ma­jor­ity of cases plan­e­tary con­di­tions had very lit­tle to do with the de­ci­sions of the Life Car­ri­ers to project these var­ied or­ders of mor­tals on the dif­fer­ent worlds; it is a pre­rog­a­tive of the Life Car­ri­ers thus to plan and ex­e­cute.

• before leaving planet, L.C. install Planetary Prince
• plan and initiate life › catalyze lifeless material with vital spirit spark

49:5.22Life is ini­ti­ated on the plan­ets by the Life Car­ri­ers, who watch over its de­vel­op­ment un­til some­time af­ter the evo­lu­tion­ary ap­pear­ance of mor­tal man. Be­fore the Life Car­ri­ers leave a planet, they duly in­stall a Plan­e­tary Prince as ruler of the realm. With this ruler there ar­rives a full quota of sub­or­di­nate aux­il­iaries and min­is­ter­ing helpers, and the first ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the liv­ing and the dead is si­mul­ta­ne­ous with his ar­rival.

• request dispatch of Planetary Princes

50:0.2The sig­nal for a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to act in the mat­ter of as­sign­ing a ruler to a given planet is the re­cep­tion of a re­quest from the Life Car­ri­ers for the dis­patch of an ad­min­is­tra­tive head to func­tion on this planet whereon they have es­tab­lished life and de­vel­oped in­tel­li­gent evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings. All plan­ets which are in­hab­ited by evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal crea­tures have as­signed to them a plan­e­tary ruler of this or­der of son­ship.

• work on Urantia › provided Prince’s corporeal staff with new bodies

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

• restore Adams to normal existence upon arrival

51:2.2Adams and Eves are semi­ma­te­rial crea­tures and, as such, are not trans­portable by ser­a­phim. They must un­dergo de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion on the sys­tem cap­i­tal be­fore they can be en­ser­a­phimed for trans­port to the world of as­sign­ment. The trans­port ser­a­phim are able to ef­fect such changes in the Ma­te­rial Sons and in other semi­ma­te­rial be­ings as en­able them to be en­ser­a­phimed and thus to be trans­ported through space from one world or sys­tem to an­other. About three days of stan­dard time are con­sumed in this trans­port prepa­ra­tion, and it re­quires the co-op­er­a­tion of a Life Car­rier to re­store such a de­ma­te­ri­al­ized crea­ture to nor­mal ex­is­tence upon ar­rival at the end of the se­raphic-trans­port jour­ney.

• restore Adams to normal existence upon arrival

51:2.4Upon ar­rival at their plan­e­tary des­ti­na­tion the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are re­ma­te­ri­al­ized un­der the di­rec­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers. This en­tire pro­cess takes ten to twenty-eight days of Uran­tia time. The un­con­scious­ness of the se­raphic slum­ber con­tin­ues through­out this en­tire pe­riod of re­con­struc­tion. When the re­assem­bly of the phys­i­cal or­gan­ism is com­pleted, these Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters stand in their new homes and on their new worlds to all in­tents and pur­poses just as they were be­fore sub­mit­ting to the de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing pro­cess on Je­ru­sem.

• impart full bestowal of living energies to red race

51:4.2The ear­lier races are some­what su­pe­rior to the later; the red man stands far above the in­digo—black—race. The Life Car­ri­ers im­part the full be­stowal of the liv­ing en­er­gies to the ini­tial or red race, and each suc­ceed­ing evo­lu­tion­ary man­i­fes­ta­tion of a dis­tinct group of mor­tals rep­re­sents vari­a­tion at the ex­pense of the orig­i­nal en­dow­ment. Even mor­tal stature tends to de­crease from the red man down to the in­digo race, al­though on Uran­tia un­ex­pected strains of gi­antism ap­peared among the green and or­ange peo­ples.

• some influenced by Lucifer rebellion

53:7.4This was a La­non­an­dek re­bel­lion. The higher or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship did not join the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion, al­though a few of the Life Car­ri­ers sta­tioned on the rebel plan­ets were some­what in­flu­enced by the re­bel­lion of the dis­loyal princes. None of the Trin­i­tized Sons went astray. The Mel­chiz­e­deks, arch­an­gels, and the Bril­liant Evening Stars were all loyal to Mi­chael and, with Ga­briel, valiantly con­tended for the Fa­ther’s will and the Son’s rule.

• humanize midwayers in light and life

55:4.9The Sys­tem Sov­er­eign has au­thor­ity to re­lease mid­way crea­tures any time af­ter the first set­tled stage so that they may hu­man­ize in the mor­ontia by the aid of the Life Car­ri­ers and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and, af­ter re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers, start out on their Par­a­dise as­cen­sion.

• further efforts to purify mortal race in light and life

55:4.112. The sec­ond stage of light and life. This epoch is sig­nal­ized on the worlds by the ar­rival of a Life Car­rier who be­comes the vol­un­teer ad­viser of the plan­e­tary rulers re­gard­ing the fur­ther ef­forts to pu­rify and sta­bi­lize the mor­tal race. Thus do the Life Car­ri­ers ac­tively par­tic­i­pate in the fur­ther evo­lu­tion of the hu­man race—phys­i­cally, so­cially, and eco­nom­i­cally. And then they ex­tend their super­vi­sion to the fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the mor­tal stock by the dras­tic elim­i­na­tion of the re­tarded and per­sist­ing rem­nants of in­fe­rior po­ten­tial of an in­tel­lec­tual, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Those who de­sign and plant life on an in­hab­ited world are fully com­pe­tent to ad­vise the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, who have full and un­ques­tioned au­thor­ity to purge the evolv­ing race of all detri­men­tal in­flu­ences.

• wrote Papers 57–65

57:8.27[Pre­sented by a Life Car­rier, a mem­ber of the orig­i­nal Uran­tia Corps and now a res­i­dent ob­server.]

• work on Urantia › arrived 600 million years ago

58:1.1600,000,000 years ago the com­mis­sion of Life Car­ri­ers sent out from Je­ru­sem ar­rived on Uran­tia and be­gan the study of phys­i­cal con­di­tions prepara­tory to launch­ing life on world num­ber 606 of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. This was to be our six hun­dred and sixth ex­pe­ri­ence with the ini­ti­a­tion of the Neb­a­don life pat­terns in Sa­ta­nia and our six­ti­eth op­por­tu­nity to make changes and in­sti­tute mod­i­fi­ca­tions in the ba­sic and stan­dard life de­signs of the lo­cal uni­verse.

• plan and initiate life › conditions must be ripe

58:1.2It should be made clear that Life Car­ri­ers can­not ini­ti­ate life un­til a sphere is ripe for the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary cy­cle. Nei­ther can we pro­vide for a more rapid life de­vel­op­ment than can be sup­ported and ac­com­mo­dated by the phys­i­cal prog­ress of the planet.

• work on Urantia › sodium chloride pattern of life

58:1.3The Sa­ta­nia Life Car­ri­ers had pro­jected a sodium chlo­ride pat­tern of life; there­fore no steps could be taken to­ward plant­ing it un­til the ocean wa­ters had be­come suf­fi­ciently briny. The Uran­tia type of pro­to­plasm can func­tion only in a suit­able salt so­lu­tion. All an­ces­tral life—veg­etable and an­i­mal—evolved in a salt-so­lu­tion habi­tat. And even the more highly or­ga­nized land an­i­mals could not con­tinue to live did not this same es­sen­tial salt so­lu­tion cir­cu­late through­out their bod­ies in the blood stream which freely bathes, lit­er­ally sub­merses, ev­ery tiny liv­ing cell in this “briny deep.”

58:4.1That we are called Life Car­ri­ers should not con­fuse you. We can and do carry life to the plan­ets, but we brought no life to Uran­tia. Uran­tia life is unique, orig­i­nal with the planet. This sphere is a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world; all life ap­pear­ing hereon was for­mu­lated by us right here on the planet; and there is no other world in all Sa­ta­nia, even in all Neb­a­don, that has a life ex­is­tence just like that of Uran­tia.

58:4.2550,000,000 years ago the Life Car­rier corps re­turned to Uran­tia. In co-op­er­a­tion with spir­i­tual pow­ers and super­phys­i­cal forces we or­ga­nized and ini­ti­ated the orig­i­nal life pat­terns of this world and planted them in the hos­pitable wa­ters of the realm. All plan­e­tary life (aside from ex­tra­plan­e­tary per­son­al­i­ties) down to the days of Cali­gas­tia, the Plan­e­tary Prince, had its ori­gin in our three orig­i­nal, iden­ti­cal, and si­mul­ta­ne­ous ma­rine-life im­plan­ta­tions. These three life im­plan­ta­tions have been des­ig­nated as: the cen­tral or Eurasian-African, the east­ern or Aus­tralasian, and the west­ern, em­brac­ing Green­land and the Amer­i­cas.

58:4.3500,000,000 years ago prim­i­tive ma­rine veg­etable life was well es­tab­lished on Uran­tia. Green­land and the arc­tic land mass, to­gether with North and South Amer­ica, were be­gin­ning their long and slow west­ward drift. Africa moved slightly south, cre­at­ing an east and west trough, the Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin, be­tween it­self and the mother body. Antarc­tica, Aus­tralia, and the land in­di­cated by the is­lands of the Pa­cific broke away on the south and east and have drifted far away since that day.

58:4.4We had planted the prim­i­tive form of ma­rine life in the shel­tered tropic bays of the cen­tral seas of the east-west cleav­age of the break­ing-up con­ti­nen­tal land mass. Our pur­pose in mak­ing three ma­rine-life im­plan­ta­tions was to in­sure that each great land mass would carry this life with it, in its warm-wa­ter seas, as the land sub­se­quently sep­a­rated. We fore­saw that in the later era of the emer­gence of land life large oceans of wa­ter would sep­a­rate these drift­ing con­ti­nen­tal land masses.

• wrote Papers 57–65

58:7.13[Pre­sented by a mem­ber of the Uran­tia Life Car­rier Corps now res­i­dent on the planet.]

• wrote Papers 57–65

59:6.13[Pre­sented by a Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don, one of the orig­i­nal corps as­signed to Uran­tia.]

• work on Urantia › some experiments failed

60:1.11Sev­eral mil­lion years later the first mam­mals ap­peared. They were non­pla­cen­tal and proved a speedy fail­ure; none sur­vived. This was an ex­per­i­men­tal ef­fort to im­prove mam­malian types, but it did not suc­ceed on Uran­tia.

• work on Urantia › some experiments failed

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.

• wrote Papers 57–65

60:4.7[Pre­sented by a Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don as­signed to Sa­ta­nia and now func­tion­ing on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 57–65

61:7.20[Spon­sored by a Res­i­dent Life Car­rier.]

• work on Urantia › life implanted on 3 sites 550 million years ago

62:0.1About one mil­lion years ago the im­me­di­ate an­ces­tors of man­kind made their ap­pear­ance by three suc­ces­sive and sud­den mu­ta­tions stem­ming from early stock of the lemur type of pla­cen­tal mam­mal. The dom­i­nant fac­tors of these early lemurs were de­rived from the west­ern or later Amer­i­can group of the evolv­ing life plasm. But be­fore es­tab­lish­ing the di­rect line of hu­man an­ces­try, this strain was re­in­forced by con­tri­bu­tions from the cen­tral life im­plan­ta­tion evolved in Africa. The east­ern life group con­tributed lit­tle or noth­ing to the ac­tual pro­duc­tion of the hu­man species.

• do not interfere with will

62:5.9While we were all greatly con­cerned with what these two lit­tle sav­ages were plan­ning, we were pow­er­less to con­trol the work­ing of their minds; we did not—could not—ar­bi­trar­ily in­flu­ence their de­ci­sions. But within the per­mis­si­ble lim­its of plan­e­tary func­tion, we, the Life Car­ri­ers, to­gether with our as­so­ciates, all con­spired to lead the hu­man twins north­ward and far from their hairy and par­tially tree-dwell­ing peo­ple. And so, by rea­son of their own in­tel­li­gent choice, the twins did mi­grate, and be­cause of our super­vi­sion they mi­grated north­ward to a se­cluded re­gion where they es­caped the pos­si­bil­ity of bi­o­logic degra­da­tion through ad­mix­ture with their in­fe­rior rel­a­tives of the Pri­mates tribes.

62:6.1We, the Life Car­ri­ers on Uran­tia, had passed through the long vigil of watch­ful wait­ing since the day we first planted the life plasm in the plan­e­tary wa­ters, and nat­u­rally the ap­pear­ance of the first re­ally in­tel­li­gent and vo­li­tional be­ings brought to us great joy and su­preme sat­is­fac­tion.

62:6.2We had been watch­ing the twins de­velop men­tally through our ob­ser­va­tion of the func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its as­signed to Uran­tia at the time of our ar­rival on the planet. Through­out the long evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment of plan­e­tary life, these tire­less mind min­is­ters had ever reg­is­tered their in­creas­ing abil­ity to con­tact with the suc­ces­sively ex­pand­ing brain ca­pac­i­ties of the pro­gres­sively su­pe­rior an­i­mal crea­tures.

62:6.3At first only the spirit of in­tu­ition could func­tion in the in­stinc­tive and re­flex be­hav­ior of the pri­mor­dial an­i­mal life. With the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of higher types, the spirit of un­der­stand­ing was able to en­dow such crea­tures with the gift of spon­ta­neous as­so­ci­a­tion of ideas. Later on we ob­served the spirit of cour­age in op­er­a­tion; evolv­ing an­i­mals re­ally de­vel­oped a crude form of pro­tec­tive self-con­scious­ness. Sub­se­quent to the ap­pear­ance of the mam­malian groups, we be­held the spirit of knowl­edge man­i­fest­ing it­self in in­creased mea­sure. And the evo­lu­tion of the higher mam­mals brought the func­tion of the spirit of coun­sel, with the re­sult­ing growth of the herd in­stinct and the be­gin­nings of prim­i­tive so­cial de­vel­op­ment.

62:6.4In­creas­ingly, on down through the dawn mam­mals, the mid-mam­mals, and the Pri­mates, we had ob­served the aug­mented ser­vice of the first five ad­ju­tants. But never had the re­main­ing two, the high­est mind min­is­ters, been able to func­tion in the Uran­tia type of evo­lu­tion­ary mind.

62:6.5Imag­ine our joy one day—the twins were about ten years old—when the spirit of wor­ship made its first con­tact with the mind of the fe­male twin and shortly there­after with the male. We knew that some­thing closely akin to hu­man mind was ap­proach­ing cul­mi­na­tion; and when, about a year later, they fi­nally re­solved, as a re­sult of med­i­ta­tive thought and pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion, to flee from home and jour­ney north, then did the spirit of wis­dom be­gin to func­tion on Uran­tia and in these two now rec­og­nized hu­man minds.

62:6.6There was an im­me­di­ate and new or­der of mo­bi­liza­tion of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its. We were alive with ex­pec­ta­tion; we re­al­ized that the long-waited-for hour was ap­proach­ing; we knew we were upon the thresh­old of the re­al­iza­tion of our pro­tracted ef­fort to evolve will crea­tures on Uran­tia.

• work on Urantia › initial messages over Urantia planetary circuit

62:7.3“To the Life Car­ri­ers on Uran­tia—Greet­ings! We trans­mit as­sur­ance of great plea­sure on Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem in honor of the reg­is­tra­tion on the head­quar­ters of Neb­a­don of the sig­nal of the ex­is­tence on Uran­tia of mind of will dig­nity. The pur­pose­ful de­ci­sion of the twins to flee north­ward and seg­re­gate their off­spring from their in­fe­rior an­ces­tors has been noted. This is the first de­ci­sion of mind—the hu­man type of mind—on Uran­tia and au­to­mat­i­cally es­tab­lishes the cir­cuit of com­mu­ni­ca­tion over which this ini­tial mes­sage of ac­knowl­edg­ment is trans­mit­ting.”

• do not interfere with will

62:7.4Next over this new cir­cuit came the greet­ings of the Most Highs of Eden­tia, con­tain­ing in­struc­tions for the res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers for­bid­ding us to in­ter­fere with the pat­tern of life we had es­tab­lished. We were di­rected not to in­ter­vene in the af­fairs of hu­man prog­ress. It should not be in­ferred that Life Car­ri­ers ever ar­bi­trar­ily and me­chan­i­cally in­ter­fere with the nat­u­ral out­work­ing of the plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion­ary plans, for we do not. But up to this time we had been per­mit­ted to ma­nip­u­late the en­vi­ron­ment and shield the life plasm in a spe­cial man­ner, and it was this ex­traor­di­nary, but wholly nat­u­ral, super­vi­sion that was to be dis­con­tin­ued.

62:7.5And no sooner had the Most Highs left off speak­ing than the beau­ti­ful mes­sage of Lu­cifer, then sov­er­eign of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem, be­gan to plan­e­tize. Now the Life Car­ri­ers heard the wel­come words of their own chief and re­ceived his per­mis­sion to re­turn to Je­ru­sem. This mes­sage from Lu­cifer con­tained the of­fi­cial ac­cep­tance of the Life Car­ri­ers’ work on Uran­tia and ab­solved us from all fu­ture crit­i­cism of any of our ef­forts to im­prove the life pat­terns of Neb­a­don as es­tab­lished in the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem.

• assisted by adjutant mind-spirits and Master Physical Controllers
• work on Urantia › 14 remained on Urantia after appearance of will

62:7.6These mes­sages from Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem for­mally marked the ter­mi­na­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers’ age­long super­vi­sion of the planet. For ages we had been on duty, as­sisted only by the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. And now, will, the power of choos­ing to wor­ship and to as­cend, hav­ing ap­peared in the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures of the planet, we re­al­ized that our work was fin­ished, and our group pre­pared to de­part. Uran­tia be­ing a life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world, per­mis­sion was granted to leave be­hind two se­nior Life Car­ri­ers with twelve as­sis­tants, and I was cho­sen as one of this group and have ever since been on Uran­tia.

• wrote Papers 57–65

62:7.8[Spon­sored by a Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don res­i­dent on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 57–65

63:7.5[Pre­sented by a Life Car­rier res­i­dent on Uran­tia.]

• wrote Papers 57–65

64:7.21[Pre­sented by a Life Car­rier res­i­dent on Uran­tia.]

• manipulate life environment before emergence of will

65:0.6The me­chan­i­cal-non­teach­able lev­els of or­gan­is­mal en­vi­ron­men­tal re­sponse are the do­mains of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers. The ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its ac­ti­vate and reg­u­late the adap­ta­tive or non­me­chan­i­cal-teach­able types of mind—those re­sponse mech­a­nisms of or­gan­isms ca­pa­ble of learn­ing from ex­pe­ri­ence. And as the spirit ad­ju­tants thus ma­nip­u­late mind po­ten­tials, so do the Life Car­ri­ers ex­er­cise con­sid­er­able dis­cre­tionary con­trol over the en­vi­ron­men­tal as­pects of evo­lu­tion­ary pro­cesses right up to the time of the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will—the abil­ity to know God and the power of choos­ing to wor­ship him.

• mid-phase Sons
• plan and initiate life › fabricate physical energies and particles into units of living existence

65:1.1The Life Car­ri­ers are en­dowed with po­ten­tials of per­son­al­ity meta­mor­pho­sis which but few or­ders of crea­tures pos­sess. These Sons of the lo­cal uni­verse are ca­pa­ble of func­tion­ing in three di­verse phases of be­ing. They or­di­nar­ily per­form their du­ties as mid-phase Sons, that be­ing the state of their ori­gin. But a Life Car­rier in such a stage of ex­is­tence could not pos­si­bly func­tion in the elec­tro­chem­i­cal do­mains as a fab­ri­ca­tor of phys­i­cal en­er­gies and ma­te­rial par­ti­cles into units of liv­ing ex­is­tence.

• function on electrochemical, morontial, semispirit levels

65:1.2Life Car­ri­ers are able to func­tion and do func­tion on the fol­low­ing three lev­els:

65:1.31. The phys­i­cal level of elec­tro­chem­istry.

65:1.42. The usual mid-phase of quasi-mor­ontial ex­is­tence.

65:1.53. The ad­vanced semispir­i­tual level.

• archangel commission modifies L.C. for service

65:1.6When the Life Car­ri­ers make ready to en­gage in life im­plan­ta­tion, and af­ter they have se­lected the sites for such an un­der­tak­ing, they sum­mon the arch­an­gel com­mis­sion of Life Car­rier trans­mu­ta­tion. This group con­sists of ten or­ders of di­verse per­son­al­i­ties, in­clud­ing the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and their as­so­ciates, and is pre­sided over by the chief of arch­an­gels, who acts in this ca­pac­ity by the man­date of Ga­briel and with the per­mis­sion of the An­cients of Days. When these be­ings are prop­erly en­cir­cuited, they can ef­fect such mod­i­fi­ca­tions in the Life Car­ri­ers as will en­able them im­me­di­ately to func­tion on the phys­i­cal lev­els of elec­tro­chem­istry.

• plan and initiate life › after life patterns formulated, L.C. are shorn of ability to create new patterns

65:1.7Af­ter the life pat­terns have been for­mu­lated and the ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions have been duly com­pleted, the super­ma­te­rial forces con­cerned in life prop­a­ga­tion be­come forth­with ac­tive, and life is ex­is­tent. Where­upon the Life Car­ri­ers are im­me­di­ately re­turned to their nor­mal mid-phase of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence, in which es­tate they can ma­nip­u­late the liv­ing units and ma­neu­ver the evolv­ing or­gan­isms, even though they are shorn of all abil­ity to or­ga­nize—cre­ate—new pat­terns of liv­ing mat­ter.

• manipulate life environment before emergence of will
• possible 4th stage of existence in light and life

65:1.8Af­ter or­ganic evo­lu­tion has run a cer­tain course and free will of the hu­man type has ap­peared in the high­est evolv­ing or­gan­isms, the Life Car­ri­ers must ei­ther leave the planet or take re­nun­ci­a­tion vows; that is, they must pledge them­selves to re­frain from all at­tempts fur­ther to in­flu­ence the course of or­ganic evo­lu­tion. And when such vows are vol­un­tar­ily taken by those Life Car­ri­ers who choose to re­main on the planet as fu­ture ad­vis­ers to those who shall be in­trusted with the fos­ter­ing of the newly evolved will crea­tures, there is sum­moned a com­mis­sion of twelve, pre­sided over by the chief of the Evening Stars, act­ing by au­thor­ity of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and with per­mis­sion of Ga­briel; and forth­with these Life Car­ri­ers are trans­muted to the third phase of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence—the semispir­i­tual level of be­ing. And I have func­tioned on Uran­tia in this third phase of ex­is­tence ever since the times of An­don and Fonta.

65:1.9We look for­ward to a time when the uni­verse may be set­tled in light and life, to a pos­si­ble fourth stage of be­ing wherein we shall be wholly spir­i­tual, but it has never been re­vealed to us by what tech­nique we may at­tain this de­sir­able and ad­vanced es­tate.

• work on Urantia › life implanted on 3 sites 550 million years ago

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.

• manipulate life environment before emergence of will
• work on Urantia › eliminated inferior prehuman groups

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.

• not permitted mechanically to manipulate evolution

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.

• work on Urantia › simultaneously fostered many life strains

65:3.3You have been in­formed that Uran­tia mor­tals evolved by way of prim­i­tive frog de­vel­op­ment, and that this as­cend­ing strain, car­ried in po­ten­tial in a sin­gle frog, nar­rowly es­caped ex­tinc­tion on a cer­tain oc­ca­sion. But it should not be in­ferred that the evo­lu­tion of man­kind would have been ter­mi­nated by an ac­ci­dent at this junc­ture. At that very mo­ment we were ob­serv­ing and fos­ter­ing no less than one thou­sand dif­fer­ent and re­motely sit­u­ated mu­tat­ing strains of life which could have been di­rected into var­i­ous dif­fer­ent pat­terns of pre­hu­man de­vel­op­ment. This par­tic­u­lar an­ces­tral frog rep­re­sented our third se­lec­tion, the two prior life strains hav­ing per­ished in spite of all our ef­forts to­ward their con­ser­va­tion.

65:3.4Even the loss of An­don and Fonta be­fore they had off­spring, though de­lay­ing hu­man evo­lu­tion, would not have pre­vented it. Sub­se­quent to the ap­pear­ance of An­don and Fonta and be­fore the mu­tat­ing hu­man po­ten­tials of an­i­mal life were ex­hausted, there evolved no less than seven thou­sand fa­vor­able strains which could have achieved some sort of hu­man type of de­vel­op­ment. And many of these bet­ter stocks were sub­se­quently as­sim­i­lated by the var­i­ous branches of the ex­pand­ing hu­man species.

• ascending mortals sometimes attached to

65:3.7And in dis­cussing the fos­ter­ing of evo­lu­tion, it would not be amiss to point out that, in the long fu­ture ahead, when you may some­time be at­tached to a corps of Life Car­ri­ers, you will have abun­dant and am­ple op­por­tu­nity to of­fer sug­ges­tions and make any pos­si­ble im­prove­ments in the plans and tech­nique of life man­age­ment and trans­plan­ta­tion. Be pa­tient! If you have good ideas, if your minds are fer­tile with bet­ter meth­ods of ad­min­is­tra­tion for any part of the uni­ver­sal do­mains, you are cer­tainly go­ing to have an op­por­tu­nity to pre­sent them to your as­so­ciates and fel­low ad­min­is­tra­tors in the ages to come.

• work on Urantia › achieved 28 modifications of standard life patterns

65:4.1Do not over­look the fact that Uran­tia was as­signed to us as a life-ex­per­i­ment world. On this planet we made our six­ti­eth at­tempt to mod­ify and, if pos­si­ble, im­prove the Sa­ta­nia adap­ta­tion of the Neb­a­don life de­signs, and it is of rec­ord that we achieved nu­mer­ous ben­e­fi­cial mod­i­fi­ca­tions of the stan­dard life pat­terns. To be spe­cific, on Uran­tia we worked out and have sat­is­fac­to­rily demon­strated not less than twenty-eight fea­tures of life mod­i­fi­ca­tion which will be of ser­vice to all Neb­a­don through­out all fu­ture time.

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.

• plan and initiate life › formulas and experiments

65:4.4This chem­i­cal ac­tion and re­ac­tion con­cerned in wound heal­ing and cell re­pro­duc­tion rep­re­sents the choice of the Life Car­ri­ers of a for­mula em­brac­ing over one hun­dred thou­sand phases and fea­tures of pos­si­ble chem­i­cal re­ac­tions and bi­o­logic reper­cus­sions. More than half a mil­lion spe­cific ex­per­i­ments were made by the Life Car­ri­ers in their lab­o­ra­to­ries be­fore they fi­nally set­tled upon this for­mula for the Uran­tia life ex­per­i­ment.

65:4.5When Uran­tia sci­en­tists know more of these heal­ing chem­i­cals, they will be­come more ef­fi­cient in the treat­ment of in­juries, and in­di­rectly they will know more about con­trol­ling cer­tain se­ri­ous dis­eases.

65:4.6Since life was es­tab­lished on Uran­tia, the Life Car­ri­ers have im­proved this heal­ing tech­nique as it has been in­tro­duced on an­other Sa­ta­nia world, in that it af­fords more pain re­lief and ex­er­cises bet­ter con­trol over the pro­lif­er­a­tion ca­pac­ity of the as­so­ci­ated nor­mal cells.

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

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

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

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.

• work on Urantia › disappointed over reversion of parasitic bacteria

65:5.2But through­out all of this bi­o­logic ad­ven­ture our great­est dis­ap­point­ment grew out of the re­ver­sion of cer­tain prim­i­tive plant life to the prechloro­phyll lev­els of par­a­sitic bac­te­ria on such an ex­ten­sive and un­ex­pected scale. This even­tu­al­ity in plant-life evo­lu­tion caused many dis­tress­ful dis­eases in the higher mam­mals, par­tic­u­larly in the more vul­ner­a­ble hu­man species. When we were con­fronted with this per­plex­ing sit­u­a­tion, we some­what dis­counted the dif­fi­cul­ties in­volved be­cause we knew that the sub­se­quent ad­mix­ture of the Adamic life plasm would so re­in­force the re­sist­ing pow­ers of the re­sult­ing blended race as to make it prac­ti­cally im­mune to all dis­eases pro­duced by the veg­etable type of or­gan­ism. But our hopes were doomed to dis­ap­point­ment ow­ing to the mis­for­tune of the Adamic de­fault.

• plan and initiate life › cannot time life processes to unfold any faster than physical metamorphoses permit

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.

• wrote Papers 57–65

65:8.7[Spon­sored by a Life Car­rier of Neb­a­don res­i­dent on Uran­tia.]

• Caligastia had been adviser to L.C. on Jerusem

66:1.2Prior to the reign of Lu­cifer in Sa­ta­nia, Cali­gas­tia had been at­tached to the coun­cil of the Life Car­rier ad­vis­ers on Je­ru­sem. Lu­cifer el­e­vated Cali­gas­tia to a po­si­tion on his per­sonal staff, and he ac­cept­ably filled five suc­ces­sive as­sign­ments of honor and trust.

• work on Urantia › led Van’s council of 40

67:6.2Be­fore the ar­rival of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, Van placed the ad­min­is­tra­tion of hu­man af­fairs in the hands of ten com­mis­sions of four each, groups iden­ti­cal with those of the Prince’s regime. The se­nior res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers as­sumed tem­po­rary lead­er­ship of this coun­cil of forty, which func­tioned through­out the seven years of wait­ing. Sim­i­lar groups of Ama­don­ites as­sumed these re­spon­si­bil­i­ties when the thirty-nine loyal staff mem­bers re­turned to Je­ru­sem.

• work on Urantia › advised Melchizedek receivers after rebellion

67:6.5The af­fairs of Uran­tia were for a long time ad­min­is­tered by a coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers, twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks, con­firmed by the man­date of the se­nior con­stel­la­tion ruler, the Most High Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. As­so­ci­ated with the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers was an ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sist­ing of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers, a Trin­i­tized Son in ap­pren­tice­ship train­ing, a vol­un­teer Teacher Son, a Bril­liant Evening Star of Avalon (pe­ri­od­i­cally), the chiefs of ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, ad­vis­ers from two neigh­bor­ing plan­ets, the di­rec­tor gen­eral of sub­or­di­nate an­gelic life, and Van, the com­man­der in chief of the mid­way crea­tures. And thus was Uran­tia gov­erned and ad­min­is­tered un­til the ar­rival of Adam. It is not strange that the coura­geous and loyal Van was as­signed a place on the coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers which for so long ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs of Uran­tia.

• work on Urantia › petitioned Most Highs to dispatch biologic uplifters

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.

• work on Urantia › welcomed Adam

74:2.5Soon af­ter their awak­en­ing, Adam and Eve were es­corted to the for­mal re­cep­tion on the great mound to the north of the tem­ple. This nat­u­ral hill had been en­larged and made ready for the in­stal­la­tion of the world’s new rulers. Here, at noon, the Uran­tia re­cep­tion com­mit­tee wel­comed this Son and Daugh­ter of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Amadon was chair­man of this com­mit­tee, which con­sisted of twelve mem­bers em­brac­ing a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of each of the six San­gik races; the act­ing chief of the mid­way­ers; An­nan, a loyal daugh­ter and spokesman for the Nod­ites; Noah, the son of the ar­chi­tect and builder of the Gar­den and ex­ec­u­tive of his de­ceased fa­ther’s plans; and the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers.

• work on Urantia › planned new type of mortal by union of Prince’s corporeal staff with children of Adam; miscarried

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.

• metamorphic range of personality function

93:0.1The Mel­chiz­e­deks are widely known as emer­gency Sons, for they en­gage in an amaz­ing range of ac­tiv­i­ties on the worlds of a lo­cal uni­verse. When any ex­traor­di­nary prob­lem arises, or when some­thing un­usual is to be at­tempted, it is quite of­ten a Mel­chiz­e­dek who ac­cepts the as­sign­ment. The abil­ity of the Mel­chiz­e­dek Sons to func­tion in emer­gen­cies and on widely di­ver­gent lev­els of the uni­verse, even on the phys­i­cal level of per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion, is pe­cu­liar to their or­der. Only the Life Car­ri­ers share to any de­gree this meta­mor­phic range of per­son­al­ity func­tion.

• work on Urantia › involved in materialization of Melchizedek

93:1.3And it was in con­se­quence of hav­ing been thrown so com­pletely on their own re­sources that Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, one of the twelve plan­e­tary re­ceivers, vol­un­teered to do that which had been done only six times in all the his­tory of Neb­a­don: to per­son­al­ize on earth as a tem­po­rary man of the realm, to be­stow him­self as an emer­gency Son of world min­istry. Per­mis­sion was granted for this ad­ven­ture by the Sal­ving­ton au­thor­i­ties, and the ac­tual in­car­na­tion of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek was con­sum­mated near what was to be­come the city of Salem, in Pales­tine. The en­tire trans­ac­tion of the ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion of this Mel­chiz­e­dek Son was com­pleted by the plan­e­tary re­ceivers with the co-op­er­a­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers, cer­tain of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers, and other ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties res­i­dent on Uran­tia.

• work on Urantia › participated in healing at sundown

145:3.8A voice from the front yard ex­claimed: “Mas­ter, speak the word, re­store our health, heal our dis­eases, and save our souls.” No sooner had these words been ut­tered than a vast ret­inue of ser­a­phim, phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, Life Car­ri­ers, and mid­way­ers, such as al­ways at­tended this in­car­nated Cre­ator of a uni­verse, made them­selves ready to act with cre­ative power should their Sov­er­eign give the sig­nal. This was one of those mo­ments in the earth ca­reer of Je­sus in which di­vine wis­dom and hu­man com­pas­sion were so in­ter­locked in the judg­ment of the Son of Man that he sought refuge in ap­peal to his Fa­ther’s will.