life plasm

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.

66:2.5These Jerusemite vol­un­teers were brought by se­raphic trans­port di­rect from the sys­tem cap­i­tal to Uran­tia, and upon ar­rival they were held en­ser­a­phimed un­til they could be pro­vided with per­son­al­ity forms of the dual na­ture of spe­cial plan­e­tary ser­vice, lit­eral bod­ies con­sist­ing of flesh and blood but also at­tuned to the life cir­cuits of the sys­tem.

66:2.6Some­time be­fore the ar­rival of these one hun­dred Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens, the two super­vis­ing Life Car­ri­ers res­i­dent on Uran­tia, hav­ing pre­vi­ously per­fected their plans, pe­ti­tioned Je­ru­sem and Eden­tia for per­mis­sion to trans­plant the life plasm of one hun­dred se­lected sur­vivors of the An­don and Fonta stock into the ma­te­rial bod­ies to be pro­jected for the cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff. The re­quest was granted on Je­ru­sem and ap­proved on Eden­tia.

66:4.41. They were cor­po­real and rel­a­tively hu­man, for they em­bod­ied the ac­tual life plasm of one of the hu­man races, the An­donic life plasm of Uran­tia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

36:6.2Things ma­te­rial may en­joy an in­de­pen­dent ex­is­tence, but life springs only from life. Mind can be de­rived only from pre-ex­is­tent mind. Spirit takes ori­gin only from spirit an­ces­tors. The crea­ture may pro­duce the forms of life, but only a cre­ator per­son­al­ity or a cre­ative force can sup­ply the ac­ti­vat­ing liv­ing spark.

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.

36:6.4When the Life Car­ri­ers have de­signed the pat­terns of life, af­ter they have or­ga­nized the en­ergy sys­tems, there must oc­cur an ad­di­tional phe­nom­e­non; the “breath of life” must be im­parted to these life­less forms. The Sons of God can con­struct the forms of life, but it is the Spirit of God who re­ally con­tributes the vi­tal spark. And when the life thus im­parted is spent, then again the re­main­ing ma­te­rial body be­comes dead mat­ter. When the be­stowed life is ex­hausted, the body re­turns to the bo­som of the ma­te­rial uni­verse from which it was bor­rowed by the Life Car­ri­ers to serve as a tran­sient ve­hi­cle for that life en­dow­ment which they con­veyed to such a vis­i­ble as­so­ci­a­tion of en­ergy-mat­ter.