Material Sons of God

45:5.1The great di­vi­sions of ce­les­tial life have their head­quar­ters and im­mense pre­serves on Je­ru­sem, in­clud­ing the var­i­ous or­ders of di­vine Sons, high spir­its, super­an­gels, an­gels, and mid­way crea­tures. The cen­tral abode of this won­der­ful sec­tor is the chief tem­ple of the Ma­te­rial Sons.

45:5.2The do­main of the Adams is the cen­ter of at­trac­tion to all new ar­rivals on Je­ru­sem. It is an enor­mous area con­sist­ing of one thou­sand cen­ters, al­though each fam­ily of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters lives on an es­tate of its own up to the time of the de­par­ture of its mem­bers for ser­vice on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space or un­til their em­barka­tion upon the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer.

45:5.3These Ma­te­rial Sons are the high­est type of sex-re­pro­duc­ing be­ings to be found on the train­ing spheres of the evolv­ing uni­verses. And they are re­ally ma­te­rial; even the Plan­e­tary Adams and Eves are plainly vis­i­ble to the mor­tal races of the in­hab­ited worlds. These Ma­te­rial Sons are the last and phys­i­cal link in the chain of per­son­al­i­ties ex­tend­ing from di­vin­ity and per­fec­tion above down to hu­man­ity and ma­te­rial ex­is­tence be­low. These Sons pro­vide the in­hab­ited worlds with a mu­tu­ally con­tactable in­ter­me­di­ary be­tween the in­vis­i­ble Plan­e­tary Prince and the ma­te­rial crea­tures of the realms.

45:5.4At the last mil­len­nial reg­is­tra­tion on Sal­ving­ton there were of rec­ord in Neb­a­don 161,432,840 Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters of cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus on the lo­cal sys­tem cap­i­tals. The num­ber of Ma­te­rial Sons varies in the dif­fer­ent sys­tems, and their num­ber is be­ing con­stantly in­creased by nat­u­ral re­pro­duc­tion. In the ex­er­cise of their re­pro­duc­tive func­tions they are not guided wholly by the per­sonal de­sires of the con­tact­ing per­son­al­i­ties but also by the higher gov­ern­ing bod­ies and ad­vi­sory coun­cils.

45:5.5These Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are the per­ma­nent in­hab­i­tants of Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds. They oc­cupy vast es­tates on Je­ru­sem and par­tic­i­pate lib­er­ally in the lo­cal man­age­ment of the cap­i­tal sphere, ad­min­is­ter­ing prac­ti­cally all rou­tine af­fairs with the as­sis­tance of the mid­way­ers and the as­cend­ers.

45:5.6On Je­ru­sem these re­pro­duc­ing Sons are per­mit­ted to ex­per­i­ment with the ide­als of self-gov­ern­ment af­ter the man­ner of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and they are achiev­ing a very high type of so­ci­ety. The higher or­ders of son­ship re­serve the veto func­tions of the realm, but in nearly ev­ery re­spect the Je­ru­sem Adamites gov­ern them­selves by uni­ver­sal suf­frage and rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment. Some­time they hope to be granted vir­tu­ally com­plete au­ton­omy.

45:5.7The char­ac­ter of the ser­vice of the Ma­te­rial Sons is largely de­ter­mined by their ages. While they are not el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion to the Mel­chiz­e­dek Uni­ver­sity of Sal­ving­ton—be­ing ma­te­rial and or­di­nar­ily lim­ited to cer­tain plan­ets—nev­er­the­less, the Mel­chiz­e­deks main­tain strong fac­ul­ties of teach­ers on the head­quar­ters of each sys­tem for the in­struc­tion of the younger gen­er­a­tions of Ma­te­rial Sons. The ed­u­ca­tional and spir­i­tual train­ing sys­tems pro­vided for the de­vel­op­ment of the younger Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are the acme of per­fec­tion in scope, tech­nique, and prac­ti­ca­bil­ity.

40:2.1The Ma­te­rial Sons of God are cre­ated in the lo­cal uni­verse along with the Mel­chiz­e­deks and their as­so­ciates, who are all clas­si­fied as de­scend­ing Sons. And in­deed, the Plan­e­tary Adams—the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds—are de­scend­ing Sons, com­ing down to the in­hab­ited worlds from their spheres of ori­gin, the cap­i­tals of the lo­cal sys­tems.

40:2.2When such an Adam and Eve are wholly suc­cess­ful in their joint plan­e­tary mis­sion as bi­o­logic up­lifters, they share the des­tiny of the in­hab­i­tants of their world. When such a world is set­tled in the ad­vanced stages of light and life, this faith­ful Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are per­mit­ted to re­sign all plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties, and af­ter be­ing thus lib­er­ated from the de­scend­ing ad­ven­ture, they are per­mit­ted to reg­is­ter them­selves as per­fected Ma­te­rial Sons on the rec­ords of the lo­cal uni­verse. Like­wise, when plan­e­tary as­sign­ment is long de­layed, may the Ma­te­rial Sons of sta­tion­ary sta­tus—the cit­i­zens of the lo­cal sys­tems—with­draw from the ac­tiv­i­ties of their sta­tus spheres and sim­i­larly reg­is­ter as per­fected Ma­te­rial Sons. Af­ter these for­mal­i­ties such lib­er­ated Adams and Eves are ac­cred­ited as as­cend­ing Sons of God and may im­me­di­ately be­gin the long jour­ney to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise, start­ing at the ex­act point of their then pres­ent sta­tus and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. And they make this jour­ney in com­pany with the mor­tal and other as­cend­ing Sons, con­tin­u­ing un­til they have found God and have achieved the Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity in the eter­nal ser­vice of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties.

119:3.1The su­preme coun­cil on Sal­ving­ton had just fin­ished the con­sid­er­a­tion of the call of the Life Car­ri­ers on planet 217 in sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61 for the dis­patch to their as­sis­tance of a Ma­te­rial Son. Now this planet was sit­u­ated in a sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds where an­other Sys­tem Sov­er­eign had gone astray, the sec­ond such re­bel­lion in all Neb­a­don up to that time.

119:3.2Upon the re­quest of Mi­chael, ac­tion on the pe­ti­tion of the Life Car­ri­ers of this planet was de­ferred pend­ing its con­sid­er­a­tion by Im­manuel and his re­port thereon. This was an ir­reg­u­lar pro­ce­dure, and I well re­mem­ber how we all an­tic­i­pated some­thing un­usual, and we were not long held in sus­pense. Mi­chael pro­ceeded to place uni­verse di­rec­tion in the hands of Im­manuel, while he in­trusted com­mand of the ce­les­tial forces to Ga­briel, and hav­ing thus dis­posed of his ad­min­is­tra­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, he took leave of the Uni­verse Mother Spirit and van­ished from the dis­patch­ing field of Sal­ving­ton pre­cisely as he had done on two pre­vi­ous oc­ca­sions.

119:3.3And, as might have been ex­pected, on the third day there­after there ap­peared, unan­nounced, on the head­quar­ters world of sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61, a strange Ma­te­rial Son, ac­com­pa­nied by a lone se­con­a­phim, ac­cred­ited by the Uversa An­cients of Days, and cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. Im­me­di­ately the act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pointed this new and mys­te­ri­ous Ma­te­rial Son act­ing Plan­e­tary Prince of world 217, and this des­ig­na­tion was at once con­firmed by the Most Highs of con­stel­la­tion 61.

119:3.4Thus did this unique Ma­te­rial Son be­gin his dif­fi­cult ca­reer on a quar­an­tined world of se­ces­sion and re­bel­lion, lo­cated in a be­lea­guered sys­tem with­out any di­rect com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the out­side uni­verse, work­ing alone for one whole gen­er­a­tion of plan­e­tary time. This emer­gency Ma­te­rial Son ef­fected the re­pen­tance and recla­ma­tion of the de­fault­ing Plan­e­tary Prince and his en­tire staff and wit­nessed the restora­tion of the planet to the loyal ser­vice of the Par­a­dise rule as es­tab­lished in the lo­cal uni­verses. In due time a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter ar­rived on this re­ju­ve­nated and re­deemed world, and when they had been duly in­stalled as vis­i­ble plan­e­tary rulers, the tran­si­tory or emer­gency Plan­e­tary Prince took for­mal leave, dis­ap­pear­ing at noon one day. On the third day there­after, Mi­chael ap­peared in his ac­cus­tomed place on Sal­ving­ton, and very soon the super­uni­verse broad­casts car­ried the fourth procla­ma­tion of the An­cients of Days an­nounc­ing the fur­ther ad­vance­ment of the sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael in Neb­a­don.

119:3.5I re­gret that I do not have per­mis­sion to nar­rate the pa­tience, for­ti­tude, and skill with which this Ma­te­rial Son met the try­ing sit­u­a­tions on this con­fused planet. The recla­ma­tion of this iso­lated world is one of the most beau­ti­fully touch­ing chap­ters in the an­nals of sal­va­tion through­out Neb­a­don. By the end of this mis­sion it had be­come ev­i­dent to all Neb­a­don as to why their beloved ruler chose to en­gage in these re­peated be­stowals in the like­ness of some sub­or­di­nate or­der of in­tel­li­gent be­ing.

119:3.6The be­stowals of Mi­chael as a Mel­chiz­e­dek Son, then as a La­non­an­dek Son, and next as a Ma­te­rial Son are all equally mys­te­ri­ous and be­yond ex­pla­na­tion. In each in­stance he ap­peared sud­denly and as a fully de­vel­oped in­di­vid­ual of the be­stowal group. The mys­tery of such in­car­na­tions will never be known ex­cept to those who have ac­cess to the in­ner cir­cle of the rec­ords on the sa­cred sphere of Sonar­ing­ton.

119:3.7Never, since this mar­velous be­stowal as the Plan­e­tary Prince of a world in iso­la­tion and re­bel­lion, have any of the Ma­te­rial Sons or Daugh­ters in Neb­a­don been tempted to com­plain of their as­sign­ments or to find fault with the dif­fi­cul­ties of their plan­e­tary mis­sions. For all time the Ma­te­rial Sons know that in the Cre­ator Son of the uni­verse they have an un­der­stand­ing sov­er­eign and a sym­pa­thetic friend, one who has in “all points been tried and tested,” even as they must also be tried and tested.

119:3.8Each of these mis­sions was fol­lowed by an age of in­creas­ing ser­vice and loy­alty among all ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gences of uni­verse ori­gin, while each suc­ceed­ing be­stowal age was char­ac­ter­ized by ad­vance­ment and im­prove­ment in all meth­ods of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion and in all tech­niques of gov­ern­ment. Since this be­stowal no Ma­te­rial Son or Daugh­ter has ever know­ingly joined in re­bel­lion against Mi­chael; they love and honor him too de­vot­edly ever con­sciously to re­ject him. Only through de­cep­tion and soph­istry have the Adams of re­cent times been led astray by higher types of rebel per­son­al­i­ties.

21:4.3Though these seven be­stowals vary in the dif­fer­ent sec­tors and uni­verses, they al­ways em­brace the mor­tal-be­stowal ad­ven­ture. In the fi­nal be­stowal a Cre­ator Son ap­pears as a mem­ber of one of the higher mor­tal races on some in­hab­ited world, usu­ally as a mem­ber of that racial group which con­tains the largest hered­i­tary legacy of the Adamic stock which has pre­vi­ously been im­ported to up­step the phys­i­cal sta­tus of the an­i­mal-ori­gin peo­ples. Only once in his sev­en­fold ca­reer as a be­stowal Son is a Par­a­dise Mi­chael born of woman as you have the rec­ord of the babe of Beth­le­hem. Only once does he live and die as a mem­ber of the low­est or­der of evo­lu­tion­ary will crea­tures.

• become mortal upon failure or default

51:1.4The Ma­te­rial Sons en­joy a dual nu­tri­tion; they are re­ally dual in na­ture and con­sti­tu­tion, par­tak­ing of ma­te­ri­al­ized en­ergy much as do the phys­i­cal be­ings of the realm, while their im­mor­tal ex­is­tence is fully main­tained by the di­rect and au­to­matic in­take of cer­tain sus­tain­ing cos­mic en­er­gies. Should they fail on some mis­sion of as­sign­ment or even con­sciously and de­lib­er­ately rebel, this or­der of Sons be­comes iso­lated, cut off from con­nec­tion with the uni­verse source of light and life. There­upon they be­come prac­ti­cally ma­te­rial be­ings, des­tined to take the course of ma­te­rial life on the world of their as­sign­ment and com­pelled to look to the uni­verse mag­is­trates for ad­ju­di­ca­tion. Ma­te­rial death will even­tu­ally ter­mi­nate the plan­e­tary ca­reer of such an un­for­tu­nate and un­wise Ma­te­rial Son or Daugh­ter.

• 681,217 lost in rebellion in Satania, 95% in Lucifer rebellion

51:1.5An orig­i­nal or di­rectly cre­ated Adam and Eve are im­mor­tal by in­her­ent en­dow­ment just as are all other or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship, but a diminu­tion of im­mor­tal­ity po­ten­tial char­ac­ter­izes their sons and daugh­ters. This orig­i­nal cou­ple can­not trans­mit un­con­di­tioned im­mor­tal­ity to their pro­cre­ated sons and daugh­ters. Their progeny are de­pen­dent for con­tin­u­ing life on un­bro­ken in­tel­lec­tual syn­chrony with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. Since the in­cep­tion of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, thir­teen Plan­e­tary Adams have been lost in re­bel­lion and de­fault and 681,204 in the sub­or­di­nate po­si­tions of trust. Most of these de­fec­tions oc­curred at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• 681,217 lost in rebellion in Satania, 95% in Lucifer rebellion

53:7.8The great­est loss oc­curred in the an­gelic ranks, but most of the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gence were in­volved in dis­loy­alty. Of the 681,217 Ma­te­rial Sons lost in Sa­ta­nia, ninety-five per cent were ca­su­al­ties of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Large num­bers of mid­way crea­tures were lost on those in­di­vid­ual plan­ets whose Plan­e­tary Princes joined the Lu­cifer cause.

• hundreds involved in Lucifer rebellion have been rehabilitated

53:9.1Early in the days of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, sal­va­tion was of­fered all rebels by Mi­chael. To all who would show proof of sin­cere re­pen­tance, he of­fered, upon his at­tain­ment of com­plete uni­verse sov­er­eignty, for­give­ness and re­in­state­ment in some form of uni­verse ser­vice. None of the lead­ers ac­cepted this mer­ci­ful prof­fer. But thou­sands of the an­gels and the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, in­clud­ing hun­dreds of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, ac­cepted the mercy pro­claimed by the Panop­tians and were given re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion at the time of Je­sus’ res­ur­rec­tion nine­teen hun­dred years ago. These be­ings have since been trans­ferred to the Fa­ther’s world of Je­ru­sem, where they must be held, tech­ni­cally, un­til the Uversa courts hand down a de­ci­sion in the mat­ter of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer. But no one doubts that, when the an­ni­hi­la­tion ver­dict is is­sued, these re­pen­tant and sal­vaged per­son­al­i­ties will be ex­empted from the de­cree of ex­tinc­tion. These pro­ba­tion­ary souls now la­bor with the Panop­tians in the work of car­ing for the Fa­ther’s world.

• default on neighboring planet

72:0.3This planet, like Uran­tia, was led astray by the dis­loy­alty of its Plan­e­tary Prince in con­nec­tion with the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. It re­ceived a Ma­te­rial Son shortly af­ter Adam came to Uran­tia, and this Son also de­faulted, leav­ing the sphere iso­lated, since a Mag­is­te­rial Son has never been be­stowed upon its mor­tal races.

• may petition to become ascenders

31:5.1There is pro­vi­sion in the uni­verses of time and space whereby the Adamic cit­i­zens of the lo­cal sys­tems, when long de­layed in re­ceiv­ing plan­e­tary as­sign­ment, may ini­ti­ate a pe­ti­tion for re­lease from per­ma­nent-cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus. And if granted, they join the as­cend­ing pil­grims on the uni­verse cap­i­tals and thence pro­ceed on­ward to Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• some who defaulted enter Corps of Mortal Finaliters

31:5.2When an ad­vanced evo­lu­tion­ary world at­tains the later eras of the age of light and life, the Ma­te­rial Sons, the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve, may elect to hu­man­ize, re­ceive Ad­justers, and em­bark upon the evo­lu­tion­ary course of uni­verse as­cent lead­ing to the Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­i­ters. Cer­tain of these Ma­te­rial Sons have par­tially failed or tech­ni­cally de­faulted in their mis­sion as bi­o­logic ac­cel­er­a­tors, as Adam did on Uran­tia; and then are they com­pelled to take the nat­u­ral course of the peo­ples of the realm, re­ceive Ad­justers, pass through death, and pro­gress by faith through the as­cen­dant regime, sub­se­quently at­tain­ing Par­a­dise and the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

• finaliter-M.S. pairs far more successful in trinitizing

31:5.3These Ma­te­rial Sons are not to be found in many fi­nal­i­ter com­pa­nies. Their pres­ence lends great po­ten­tial to the pos­si­bil­i­ties of high ser­vice for such a group, and they are in­vari­ably cho­sen as its lead­ers. If both of the Edenic pair are at­tached to the same group, they are usu­ally per­mit­ted to func­tion jointly, as one per­son­al­ity. Such as­cen­dant pairs are far more suc­cess­ful in the ad­ven­ture of trini­tiz­ing than are the as­cen­dant mor­tals.

• remain on planet of assignment throughout its evolutionary course

51:0.2These Sons are the ma­te­rial gift of the Cre­ator Son to the in­hab­ited worlds. To­gether with the Plan­e­tary Prince, they re­main on their planet of as­sign­ment through­out the evo­lu­tion­ary course of such a sphere. Such an ad­ven­ture on a world hav­ing a Plan­e­tary Prince is not much of a haz­ard, but on an apos­tate planet, a realm with­out a spir­i­tual ruler and de­prived of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion, such a mis­sion is fraught with grave dan­ger.

• release from planetary duties in light and life; ascend to Paradise, Corps of Mortal Finaliters

51:3.9Your world has been vis­ited by four or­ders of son­ship: Cali­gas­tia, the Plan­e­tary Prince; Adam and Eve of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God; Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, the “sage of Salem” in the days of Abra­ham; and Christ Mi­chael, who came as the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. How much more ef­fec­tive and beau­ti­ful it would have been had Mi­chael, the su­preme ruler of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, been wel­comed to your world by a loyal and ef­fi­cient Plan­e­tary Prince and a de­voted and suc­cess­ful Ma­te­rial Son, both of whom could have done so much to en­hance the life­work and mis­sion of the be­stowal Son! But not all worlds have been so un­for­tu­nate as Uran­tia, nei­ther has the mis­sion of the Plan­e­tary Adams al­ways been so dif­fi­cult or so haz­ardous. When they are suc­cess­ful, they con­tribute to the de­vel­op­ment of a great peo­ple, con­tin­u­ing as the vis­i­ble heads of plan­e­tary af­fairs even far into the age when such a world is set­tled in light and life.

• release from planetary duties in light and life; ascend to Paradise, Corps of Mortal Finaliters

55:4.15Dur­ing this or the fol­low­ing age a Teacher Son, as­sisted by the min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tet, be­comes at­tached to the elec­tive mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, who now be­comes as­so­ci­ated with the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign as joint ad­min­is­tra­tor of world af­fairs. These mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tives serve for twenty-five years of plan­e­tary time, and it is this new de­vel­op­ment that makes it easy for the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve to se­cure re­lease from their world of long-time as­sign­ment dur­ing the fol­low­ing ages.

55:4.16The min­is­ter­ing-spirit quar­tets con­sist of: the se­raphic chief of the sphere, the super­uni­verse sec­o­raphic coun­selor, the arch­an­gel of trans­la­tions, and the om­niaphim who func­tions as the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the As­signed Sen­tinel sta­tioned on the sys­tem head­quar­ters. But these ad­vis­ers never prof­fer coun­sel un­less it is asked for.

55:4.174. The fourth stage of light and life. On these worlds the Trin­ity Teacher Sons ap­pear in new roles. As­sisted by the crea­ture-trini­tized sons so long as­so­ci­ated with their or­der, they now come to the worlds as vol­un­teer coun­selors and ad­vis­ers to the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign and his as­so­ciates. Such cou­ples—Par­adise-Ha­vona-trini­tized sons and as­cender-trini­tized sons—rep­re­sent dif­fer­ing uni­verse view­points and di­verse per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ences which are highly ser­vice­able to the plan­e­tary rulers.

55:4.18At any time af­ter this age the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve can pe­ti­tion the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son for re­lease from plan­e­tary du­ties in or­der to be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent; or they can re­main on the planet as di­rec­tors of the newly ap­pear­ing or­der of in­creas­ingly spir­i­tual so­ci­ety com­posed of ad­vanced mor­tals striv­ing to com­pre­hend the philo­sophic teach­ings of the fi­nal­i­ters por­trayed by the Bril­liant Evening Stars, who are now as­signed to these worlds to col­lab­o­rate in pairs with the se­con­a­phim from the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verse.

55:4.19The fi­nal­i­ters are chiefly en­gaged in ini­ti­at­ing the new and super­ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of so­ci­ety—so­cial, cul­tural, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual. As far as we can dis­cern, they will con­tinue this min­istry far into the sev­enth epoch of evo­lu­tion­ary sta­bil­ity, when, pos­si­bly, they may go forth to min­is­ter in outer space; where­upon we con­jec­ture their places may be taken by ab­so­nite be­ings from Par­a­dise.

55:4.205. The fifth stage of light and life. The read­just­ments of this stage of set­tled ex­is­tence per­tain al­most en­tirely to the phys­i­cal do­mains and are of pri­mary con­cern to the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

55:4.216. The sixth stage of light and life wit­nesses the de­vel­op­ment of new func­tions of the mind cir­cuits of the realm. Cos­mic wis­dom seems to be­come con­sti­tu­tive in the uni­verse min­istry of mind.

55:4.227. The sev­enth stage of light and life. Early in the sev­enth epoch the Trin­ity Teacher coun­selor of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign is joined by a vol­un­teer ad­viser sent by the An­cients of Days, and later on they will be aug­mented by a third coun­selor com­ing from the super­uni­verse Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive.

55:4.23Dur­ing this epoch, if not be­fore, Adam and Eve are al­ways re­lieved of plan­e­tary du­ties. If there is a Ma­te­rial Son in the fi­nal­i­ter corps, he may be­come as­so­ci­ated with the mor­tal chief ex­ec­u­tive, and some­times it is a Mel­chiz­e­dek who vol­un­teers to func­tion in this ca­pac­ity. If a mid­wayer is among the fi­nal­i­ters, all of that or­der re­main­ing on the planet are im­me­di­ately re­leased.

55:4.24Upon ob­tain­ing re­lease from their age­long as­sign­ment, a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may se­lect ca­reers as fol­lows:

• receive Thought Adjusters after planet of service is in light and life

55:4.251. They can se­cure plan­e­tary re­lease and from the uni­verse head­quar­ters start out im­me­di­ately on the Par­a­dise ca­reer, re­ceiv­ing Thought Ad­justers at the con­clu­sion of the mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence.

55:4.262. Very of­ten a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve will re­ceive Ad­justers while yet serv­ing on a world set­tled in light con­comi­tant with the re­ceiv­ing of Ad­justers by some of their im­ported pure-line chil­dren who have vol­un­teered for a term of plan­e­tary ser­vice. Sub­se­quently they may all go to uni­verse head­quar­ters and there be­gin the Par­a­dise ca­reer.

55:4.273. A Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve may elect—as do Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters from the sys­tem cap­i­tal—to go di­rect to the mid­sonite world for a brief so­journ, there to re­ceive their Ad­justers.

55:4.284. They may de­cide to re­turn to the sys­tem head­quar­ters, there for a time to oc­cupy seats on the su­preme court, af­ter which ser­vice they will re­ceive Ad­justers and be­gin the Par­a­dise as­cent.

55:4.295. They may choose to go from their ad­min­is­tra­tive du­ties back to their na­tive world to serve as teach­ers for a sea­son and to be­come Ad­juster in­dwelt at the time of trans­fer to the uni­verse head­quar­ters.

55:4.30Through­out all of these epochs the im­ported as­sist­ing Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters ex­ert a tremen­dous in­flu­ence on the pro­gress­ing so­cial and eco­nomic or­ders. They are po­ten­tially im­mor­tal, at least un­til such time as they elect to hu­man­ize, re­ceive Ad­justers, and start for Par­a­dise.

55:4.31On the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds a be­ing must hu­man­ize to re­ceive a Thought Ad­juster. All as­cen­dant mem­bers of the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters have been Ad­juster in­dwelt and fused ex­cept ser­a­phim, and they are Fa­ther in­dwelt by an­other type of spirit at the time of be­ing mus­tered into this corps.

51:1.6While liv­ing as per­ma­nent cit­i­zens on the sys­tem cap­i­tals, even when func­tion­ing on de­scend­ing mis­sions to the evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets, the Ma­te­rial Sons do not pos­sess Thought Ad­justers, but it is through these very ser­vices that they ac­quire ex­pe­ri­en­tial ca­pac­ity for Ad­juster in­dwell­ment and the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion ca­reer. These unique and won­der­fully use­ful be­ings are the con­nect­ing links be­tween the spir­i­tual and phys­i­cal worlds. They are con­cen­trated on the sys­tem head­quar­ters, where they re­pro­duce and carry on as ma­te­rial cit­i­zens of the realm, and whence they are dis­patched to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

52:3.2Thought Ad­justers are in­creas­ingly be­stowed upon the post-Adamic men, and in con­stantly aug­mented num­bers these mor­tals at­tain ca­pac­ity for sub­se­quent Ad­juster fu­sion. While func­tion­ing as de­scend­ing Sons, the Adams do not pos­sess Ad­justers, but their plan­e­tary off­spring—di­rect and mixed—be­come le­git­i­mate can­di­dates for the re­cep­tion, in due time, of the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. By the ter­mi­na­tion of the post-Adamic age the planet is in pos­ses­sion of its full quota of ce­les­tial min­is­ters; only the fu­sion Ad­justers are not yet uni­ver­sally be­stowed.

76:5.2Adam and Eve did not, as cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem, have Thought Ad­justers, nor were they Ad­juster in­dwelt when they func­tioned on Uran­tia in the first gar­den. But shortly af­ter their re­duc­tion to mor­tal sta­tus they be­came con­scious of a new pres­ence within them and awak­ened to the re­al­iza­tion that hu­man sta­tus cou­pled with sin­cere re­pen­tance had made it pos­si­ble for Ad­justers to in­dwell them. It was this knowl­edge of be­ing Ad­juster in­dwelt that greatly heart­ened Adam and Eve through­out the re­main­der of their lives; they knew that they had failed as Ma­te­rial Sons of Sa­ta­nia, but they also knew that the Par­a­dise ca­reer was still open to them as as­cend­ing sons of the uni­verse.

51:1.3Ma­te­rial Sons vary in height from eight to ten feet, and their bod­ies glow with the bril­liance of ra­di­ant light of a vi­o­let hue. While ma­te­rial blood cir­cu­lates through their ma­te­rial bod­ies, they are also sur­charged with di­vine en­ergy and sat­u­rated with ce­les­tial light. These Ma­te­rial Sons (the Adams) and Ma­te­rial Daugh­ters (the Eves) are equal to each other, dif­fer­ing only in re­pro­duc­tive na­ture and in cer­tain chem­i­cal en­dow­ments. They are equal but dif­fer­en­tial, male and fe­male—hence com­ple­men­tal—and are de­signed to serve on al­most all as­sign­ments in pairs.

74:0.1Adam and Eve ar­rived on Uran­tia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. It was in mid­sea­son when the Gar­den was in the height of bloom that they ar­rived. At high noon and unan­nounced, the two se­raphic trans­ports, ac­com­pa­nied by the Je­ru­sem per­son­nel in­trusted with the trans­porta­tion of the bi­o­logic up­lifters to Uran­tia, set­tled slowly to the sur­face of the re­volv­ing planet in the vicin­ity of the tem­ple of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. All the work of re­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing the bod­ies of Adam and Eve was car­ried on within the precincts of this newly cre­ated shrine. And from the time of their ar­rival ten days passed be­fore they were re-cre­ated in dual hu­man form for pre­sen­ta­tion as the world’s new rulers. They re­gained con­scious­ness si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters al­ways serve to­gether. It is the essence of their ser­vice at all times and in all places never to be sep­a­rated. They are de­signed to work in pairs; sel­dom do they func­tion alone.

30:1.662. As­cend­ing Ma­te­rial Sons.

30:2.515. As­cend­ing Ma­te­rial Sons.

30:2.1182. The Adamic Sons of the Sys­tems.

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.

• Creator Son produces only 1 pair in each local system; all others descend from them
• highest type of sex-reproducing beings
• permanent citizens of system capitals; dominant influence

37:9.9The Ma­te­rial Sons of God. When a cre­ative li­ai­son be­tween the Cre­ator Son and the uni­verse rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­fi­nite Spirit, the Uni­verse Mother Spirit, has com­pleted its cy­cle, when no more off­spring of the com­bined na­ture are forth­com­ing, then does the Cre­ator Son per­son­al­ize in dual form his last con­cept of be­ing, thus fi­nally con­firm­ing his own and orig­i­nal dual ori­gin. In and of him­self he then cre­ates the beau­ti­ful and su­perb Sons and Daugh­ters of the ma­te­rial or­der of uni­verse son­ship. This is the ori­gin of the orig­i­nal Adam and Eve of each lo­cal sys­tem of Neb­a­don. They are a re­pro­duc­ing or­der of son­ship, be­ing cre­ated male and fe­male. Their progeny func­tion as the rel­a­tively per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of a sys­tem cap­i­tal, though some are com­mis­sioned as Plan­e­tary Adams.

• original M.S. serves on Jerusem executive council

45:3.167. The orig­i­nal Adam of Sa­ta­nia, the super­vis­ing head of the Ma­te­rial Sons.

• sponsor survivors after attaining Jerusem citizenship

45:6.2Mor­tal sur­vivors spend much of their leisure on the sys­tem cap­i­tal ob­serv­ing and study­ing the life habits and con­duct of these su­pe­rior semi­phys­i­cal sex crea­tures, for these cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem are the im­me­di­ate spon­sors and men­tors of the mor­tal sur­vivors from the time they at­tain cit­i­zen­ship on the head­quar­ters world un­til they take leave for Eden­tia.

• probationary nursery supervised by 1000 couples of

45:6.9The pro­ba­tion nurs­ery it­self is super­vised by one thou­sand cou­ples of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, vol­un­teers from the Je­ru­sem colony of their or­der. They are im­me­di­ately as­sisted by about an equal num­ber of vol­un­teer mid­sonite pa­ren­tal groups who stop off here to ren­der this ser­vice on their way from the mid­sonite world of Sa­ta­nia to the un­re­vealed des­tiny on their spe­cial worlds of reser­va­tion among the fi­nal­i­ter spheres of Sal­ving­ton.

• travel at 500 miles/hour

46:2.4The trans­porta­tion sys­tem is al­lied with the cir­cu­la­tory streams of en­ergy move­ment, these main en­ergy cur­rents be­ing lo­cated at ten-mile in­ter­vals. By ad­just­ment of phys­i­cal mech­a­nisms the ma­te­rial be­ings of the planet can pro­ceed at a pace vary­ing from two to five hun­dred miles per hour. The trans­port birds fly at about one hun­dred miles an hour. The air mech­a­nisms of the Ma­te­rial Sons travel around five hun­dred miles per hour. Ma­te­rial and early mor­ontia be­ings must uti­lize these me­chan­i­cal means of trans­port, but spirit per­son­al­i­ties pro­ceed by li­ai­son with the su­pe­rior forces and spirit sources of en­ergy.

• each pair lives on vast and beautiful estate on Jerusem

46:4.7Our nar­ra­tive of these res­i­den­tial and ad­min­is­tra­tive ar­eas takes no ac­count of the vast and beau­ti­ful es­tates of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God, the per­ma­nent cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem, nei­ther do we men­tion nu­mer­ous other fas­ci­nat­ing or­ders of spirit and near-spirit crea­tures. For ex­am­ple: Je­ru­sem en­joys the ef­fi­cient ser­vices of the spironga of de­sign for sys­tem func­tion. These be­ings are de­voted to spir­i­tual min­istry in be­half of the super­ma­te­rial res­i­dents and vis­i­tors. They are a won­der­ful group of in­tel­li­gent and beau­ti­ful be­ings who are the tran­si­tion ser­vants of the higher mor­ontia crea­tures and of the mor­ontia helpers who la­bor for the up­keep and em­bel­lish­ment of all mor­ontia cre­ations. They are on Je­ru­sem what the mid­way crea­tures are on Uran­tia, mid­way helpers func­tion­ing be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual.

• permanent citizens of system capitals; dominant influence

46:5.14The third cir­cle is de­voted to the Mel­chiz­e­deks. Here the sys­tem chiefs re­side and super­vise the al­most end­less ac­tiv­i­ties of these ver­sa­tile Sons. From the first of the man­sion worlds on through all the Je­ru­sem ca­reer of as­cend­ing mor­tals, the Mel­chiz­e­deks are fos­ter fa­thers and ever-pres­ent ad­vis­ers. It would not be amiss to say that they are the dom­i­nant in­flu­ence on Je­ru­sem aside from the ever-pres­ent ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters.

• dematerializing sector on Jerusem

46:5.264. The cir­cles of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. The var­i­ous or­ders of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers are con­cen­tri­cally ar­ranged around the vast tem­ple of power, wherein pre­sides the power chief of the sys­tem in as­so­ci­a­tion with the chief of the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors. This tem­ple of power is one of two sec­tors on Je­ru­sem where as­cend­ing mor­tals and mid­way crea­tures are not per­mit­ted. The other one is the de­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing sec­tor in the area of the Ma­te­rial Sons, a se­ries of lab­o­ra­to­ries wherein the trans­port ser­a­phim trans­form ma­te­rial be­ings into a state quite like that of the mor­ontia or­der of ex­is­tence.

• survivors without parental experience qualify with

47:1.4On the first man­sion world all sur­vivors must pass the re­quire­ments of the pa­ren­tal com­mis­sion from their na­tive plan­ets. The pres­ent Uran­tia com­mis­sion con­sists of twelve pa­ren­tal cou­ples, re­cently ar­rived, who have had mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence in rear­ing three or more chil­dren to the pubescent age. Ser­vice on this com­mis­sion is ro­ta­tional and is for only ten years as a rule. All who fail to sat­isfy these com­mis­sion­ers as to their pa­ren­tal ex­pe­ri­ence must fur­ther qual­ify by ser­vice in the homes of the Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem or in part in the pro­ba­tion­ary nurs­ery on the fi­nal­i­ters’ world.

• children who die after receiving Adjusters but before age of spiritual choice live with M.S.

47:2.4All chil­dren on the evolv­ing worlds who have Thought Ad­justers, but who be­fore death had not made a choice con­cern­ing the Par­a­dise ca­reer, are also reper­son­al­ized on the fi­nal­i­ter world of the sys­tem, where they like­wise grow up in the fam­i­lies of the Ma­te­rial Sons and their as­so­ciates as do those lit­tle ones who ar­rived with­out Ad­justers, but who will sub­se­quently re­ceive the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors af­ter at­tain­ing the req­ui­site age of moral choice.

47:2.5The Ad­juster-in­dwelt chil­dren and youths on the fi­nal­i­ter world are also reared in fam­i­lies of five, rang­ing in ages from six to four­teen; ap­prox­i­mately, these fam­i­lies con­sist of chil­dren whose ages are six, eight, ten, twelve, and four­teen. Any time af­ter six­teen, if fi­nal choice has been made, they trans­late to the first man­sion world and be­gin their Par­a­dise as­cent. Some make a choice be­fore this age and go on to the as­cen­sion spheres, but very few chil­dren un­der six­teen years of age, as reck­oned by Uran­tia stan­dards, will be found on the man­sion worlds.

• Creator Son produces only 1 pair in each local system; all others descend from them

51:1.2The ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is not uni­form through­out the lo­cal uni­verse. The Cre­ator Son pro­duces only one pair of these be­ings in each lo­cal sys­tem; these orig­i­nal pairs are di­verse in na­ture, be­ing at­tuned to the life pat­tern of their re­spec­tive sys­tems. This is a nec­es­sary pro­vi­sion since oth­er­wise the re­pro­duc­tive po­ten­tial of the Adams would be non­func­tional with that of the evolv­ing mor­tal be­ings of the worlds of any one par­tic­u­lar sys­tem. The Adam and Eve who came to Uran­tia were de­scended from the orig­i­nal Sa­ta­nia pair of Ma­te­rial Sons.

• not dependent on trees of life

73:6.2The Ma­te­rial Sons on the sys­tem cap­i­tals do not re­quire the tree of life for sus­te­nance. Only in the plan­e­tary reper­son­al­iza­tion are they de­pen­dent on this ad­junct to phys­i­cal im­mor­tal­ity.

• portray ideals of marriage

83:8.5Nev­er­the­less, there is an ideal of mar­riage on the spheres on high. On the cap­i­tal of each lo­cal sys­tem the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters of God do por­tray the height of the ide­als of the union of man and woman in the bonds of mar­riage and for the pur­pose of pro­cre­at­ing and rear­ing off­spring. Af­ter all, the ideal mor­tal mar­riage is hu­manly sa­cred.

• dispatched and directed by System Sovereign

35:9.5The Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns are true to their names; they are well-nigh sov­er­eign in the lo­cal af­fairs of the in­hab­ited worlds. They are al­most pa­ter­nal in their di­rec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Princes, the Ma­te­rial Sons, and the min­is­ter­ing spir­its. The per­sonal grasp of the sov­er­eign is all but com­plete. These rulers are not super­vised by Trin­ity ob­servers from the cen­tral uni­verse. They are the ex­ec­u­tive di­vi­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse, and as cus­to­di­ans of the en­force­ment of leg­isla­tive man­dates and as ex­ec­u­tives for the ap­pli­ca­tion of ju­di­cial ver­dicts, they pre­sent the one place in all uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion where per­sonal dis­loy­alty to the will of the Mi­chael Son could most eas­ily and read­ily in­trench it­self and seek to as­sert it­self.

• become accepted as common ancestors of mankind

39:5.1These ser­a­phim main­tain head­quar­ters on the sys­tem cap­i­tals and, though closely as­so­ci­ated with the res­i­dent Adamic cit­i­zens, are pri­mar­ily as­signed to the ser­vice of the Plan­e­tary Adams, the bi­o­logic or phys­i­cal up­lifters of the ma­te­rial races on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. The min­is­ter­ing work of an­gels be­comes of in­creas­ing in­ter­est as it nears the in­hab­ited worlds, as it nears the ac­tual prob­lems faced by the men and women of time who are prepar­ing them­selves for the at­tempt to at­tain the goal of eter­nity.

39:5.2On Uran­tia the ma­jor­ity of the plan­e­tary helpers were re­moved upon the col­lapse of the Adamic regime, and the se­raphic super­vi­sion of your world de­volved to a greater ex­tent upon the ad­min­is­tra­tors, the tran­si­tion min­is­ters, and the guard­i­ans of des­tiny. But these se­raphic aids of your de­fault­ing Ma­te­rial Sons still serve Uran­tia in the fol­low­ing groups:

• contribute life plasm to evolving races
• dispatched when human biologic evolution attains highest level

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

39:5.42. The Spir­its of Broth­er­hood. It should be ap­par­ent that, when an Adam and Eve ar­rive on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, the task of achiev­ing racial har­mony and so­cial co-op­er­a­tion among its di­verse races is one of con­sid­er­able pro­por­tions. Sel­dom do these races of dif­fer­ent col­ors and var­ied na­tures take kindly to the plan of hu­man broth­er­hood. These prim­i­tive men only come to re­al­ize the wis­dom of peace­ful in­teras­so­ci­a­tion as a re­sult of ripened hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence and through the faith­ful min­istry of the se­raphic spir­its of broth­er­hood. With­out the work of these ser­a­phim the ef­forts of the Ma­te­rial Sons to har­mo­nize and ad­vance the races of an evolv­ing world would be greatly de­layed. And had your Adam ad­hered to the orig­i­nal plan for the ad­vance­ment of Uran­tia, by this time these spir­its of broth­er­hood would have worked un­be­liev­able trans­for­ma­tions in the hu­man race. In view of the Adamic de­fault, it is in­deed re­mark­able that these se­raphic or­ders have been able to fos­ter and bring to re­al­iza­tion even as much of broth­er­hood as you now have on Uran­tia.

39:5.53. The Souls of Peace. The early mil­len­ni­ums of the up­ward striv­ings of evo­lu­tion­ary men are marked by many a strug­gle. Peace is not the nat­u­ral state of the ma­te­rial realms. The worlds first re­al­ize “peace on earth and good will among men” through the min­istry of the se­raphic souls of peace. Al­though these an­gels were largely thwarted in their early ef­forts on Uran­tia, Vevona, chief of the souls of peace in Adam’s day, was left on Uran­tia and is now at­tached to the staff of the res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral. And it was this same Vevona who, when Mi­chael was born, her­alded to the worlds, as the leader of the an­gelic host, “Glory to God in Ha­vona and on earth peace and good will among men.”

39:5.6In the more ad­vanced epochs of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion these ser­a­phim are in­stru­men­tal in sup­plant­ing the atone­ment idea by the con­cept of di­vine at­tune­ment as a phi­los­o­phy of mor­tal sur­vival.

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

39:5.8This en­tire group of ser­a­phim was trans­ferred to the new regime af­ter the Adamic mis­car­riage, and they have ever since con­tin­ued their labors on Uran­tia. And they have not been wholly un­suc­cess­ful since a civ­i­liza­tion is now evolv­ing which em­bod­ies much of their ide­als of con­fi­dence and trust.

39:5.9In the more ad­vanced plan­e­tary ages these ser­a­phim en­hance man’s ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the truth that un­cer­tainty is the se­cret of con­tented con­ti­nu­ity. They help the mor­tal philoso­phers to re­al­ize that, when ig­no­rance is es­sen­tial to suc­cess, it would be a colos­sal blun­der for the crea­ture to know the fu­ture. They heighten man’s taste for the sweet­ness of un­cer­tainty, for the ro­mance and charm of the in­def­i­nite and un­known fu­ture.

39:5.105. The Trans­port­ers. The plan­e­tary trans­port­ers serve the in­di­vid­ual worlds. The ma­jor­ity of en­ser­a­phimed be­ings brought to this planet are in tran­sit; they merely stop over; they are in cus­tody of their own spe­cial se­raphic trans­port­ers; but there are a large num­ber of such ser­a­phim sta­tioned on Uran­tia. These are the trans­port per­son­al­i­ties op­er­at­ing from the lo­cal plan­ets, as from Uran­tia to Je­ru­sem.

39:5.11Your con­ven­tional idea of an­gels has been de­rived in the fol­low­ing way: Dur­ing mo­ments just prior to phys­i­cal death a re­flec­tive phe­nom­e­non some­times oc­curs in the hu­man mind, and this dim­ming con­scious­ness seems to vi­su­al­ize some­thing of the form of the at­tend­ing an­gel, and this is im­me­di­ately trans­lated into terms of the ha­bit­ual con­cept of an­gels held in that in­di­vid­ual’s mind.

39:5.12The er­ro­neous idea that an­gels pos­sess wings is not wholly due to olden no­tions that they must have wings to fly through the air. Hu­man be­ings have some­times been per­mit­ted to ob­serve ser­a­phim that were be­ing pre­pared for trans­port ser­vice, and the tra­di­tions of these ex­pe­ri­ences have largely de­ter­mined the Uran­tian con­cept of an­gels. In ob­serv­ing a trans­port ser­a­phim be­ing made ready to re­ceive a pas­sen­ger for in­ter­plan­e­tary tran­sit, there may be seen what are ap­par­ently dou­ble sets of wings ex­tend­ing from the head to the foot of the an­gel. In re­al­ity these wings are en­ergy in­su­la­tors—fric­tion shields.

39:5.13When ce­les­tial be­ings are to be en­ser­a­phimed for trans­fer from one world to an­other, they are brought to the head­quar­ters of the sphere and, af­ter due reg­istry, are in­ducted into the tran­sit sleep. Mean­time, the trans­port ser­a­phim moves into a hor­i­zon­tal po­si­tion im­me­di­ately above the uni­verse en­ergy pole of the planet. While the en­ergy shields are wide open, the sleep­ing per­son­al­ity is skill­fully de­posited, by the of­fi­ci­at­ing se­raphic as­sis­tants, di­rectly on top of the trans­port an­gel. Then both the up­per and lower pairs of shields are care­fully closed and ad­justed.

39:5.14And now, un­der the in­flu­ence of the trans­form­ers and the trans­mit­ters, a strange meta­mor­pho­sis be­gins as the ser­a­phim is made ready to swing into the en­ergy cur­rents of the uni­verse cir­cuits. To out­ward ap­pear­ance the ser­a­phim grows pointed at both ex­trem­i­ties and be­comes so en­shrouded in a queer light of am­ber hue that very soon it is im­pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish the en­ser­a­phimed per­son­al­ity. When all is in readi­ness for de­par­ture, the chief of trans­port makes the proper in­spec­tion of the car­riage of life, car­ries out the rou­tine tests to as­cer­tain whether or not the an­gel is prop­erly en­cir­cuited, and then an­nounces that the trav­eler is prop­erly en­ser­a­phimed, that the en­er­gies are ad­justed, that the an­gel is in­su­lated, and that ev­ery­thing is in readi­ness for the de­part­ing flash. The me­chan­i­cal con­trol­lers, two of them, next take their po­si­tions. By this time the trans­port ser­a­phim has be­come an al­most trans­par­ent, vi­brat­ing, tor­pedo-shaped out­line of glis­ten­ing lu­mi­nos­ity. Now the trans­port dis­patcher of the realm sum­mons the aux­il­iary bat­ter­ies of the liv­ing en­ergy trans­mit­ters, usu­ally one thou­sand in num­ber; as he an­nounces the des­ti­na­tion of the trans­port, he reaches out and touches the near point of the se­raphic car­riage, which shoots for­ward with light­ning­like speed, leav­ing a trail of ce­les­tial lu­mi­nos­ity as far as the plan­e­tary at­mo­spheric in­vest­ment ex­tends. In less than ten min­utes the mar­velous spec­ta­cle will be lost even to re­in­forced se­raphic vi­sion.

39:5.15While plan­e­tary space re­ports are re­ceived at noon at the merid­ian of the des­ig­nated spir­i­tual head­quar­ters, the trans­port­ers are dis­patched from this same place at mid­night. That is the most fa­vor­able time for de­par­ture and is the stan­dard hour when not oth­er­wise spec­i­fied.

39:5.166. The Re­cord­ers. These are the cus­to­di­ans of the ma­jor af­fairs of the planet as it func­tions as a part of the sys­tem, and as it is re­lated to, and con­cerned in, the uni­verse gov­ern­ment. They func­tion in the record­ing of plan­e­tary af­fairs but are not con­cerned with mat­ters of in­di­vid­ual life and ex­is­tence.

39:5.177. The Re­serves. The Sa­ta­nia re­serve corps of the plan­e­tary ser­a­phim is main­tained on Je­ru­sem in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the re­serves of the Ma­te­rial Sons. These abun­dant re­serves re­pletely pro­vide for ev­ery phase of the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of this se­raphic or­der. These an­gels are also the per­sonal mes­sage bear­ers of the lo­cal sys­tems. They serve tran­si­tion mor­tals, an­gels, and the Ma­te­rial Sons as well as oth­ers domi­ciled on the sys­tem head­quar­ters. While Uran­tia is, at pres­ent, out­side the spir­i­tual cir­cuits of Sa­ta­nia and Nor­la­ti­adek, you are oth­er­wise in in­ti­mate touch with in­ter­plan­e­tary af­fairs, for these mes­sen­gers from Je­ru­sem fre­quently come to this world as to all the other spheres of the sys­tem.

• promote sex equality

49:4.4Young are usu­ally born singly, mul­ti­ple births be­ing the ex­cep­tion, and the fam­ily life is fairly uni­form on all types of plan­ets. Sex equal­ity pre­vails on all ad­vanced worlds; male and fe­male are equal in mind en­dow­ment and spir­i­tual sta­tus. We do not re­gard a planet as hav­ing emerged from bar­barism so long as one sex seeks to tyr­an­nize over the other. This fea­ture of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence is al­ways greatly im­proved af­ter the ar­rival of a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter.

• dispatched and directed by System Sovereign

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

• engraft higher forms of life on primitive men

50:1.4But not of­ten do these world princes fail in their mis­sions of or­ga­niz­ing and ad­min­is­ter­ing the in­hab­ited spheres, and their suc­cess greatly fa­cil­i­tates the sub­se­quent mis­sions of the Ma­te­rial Sons, who come to en­graft the higher forms of crea­ture life on the prim­i­tive men of the worlds. Their rule also does much to pre­pare the plan­ets for the Par­a­dise Sons of God, who sub­se­quently come to judge the worlds and to in­au­gu­rate suc­ces­sive dis­pen­sa­tions.

• planetary children’s decreasing longevity

51:1.8On Je­ru­sem the loyal chil­dren of any Adam and Eve are im­mor­tal, but the off­spring of a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter pro­cre­ated sub­se­quent to their ar­rival on an evo­lu­tion­ary planet are not thus im­mune to nat­u­ral death. There oc­curs a change in the life-trans­mit­ting mech­a­nism when these Sons are re­ma­te­ri­al­ized for re­pro­duc­tive func­tion on an evo­lu­tion­ary world. The Life Car­ri­ers de­signedly de­prive the Plan­e­tary Adams and Eves of the power of beget­ting undy­ing sons and daugh­ters. If they do not de­fault, an Adam and Eve on a plan­e­tary mis­sion can live on in­def­i­nitely, but within cer­tain lim­its their chil­dren ex­pe­ri­ence de­creas­ing longevity with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.

• dematerialized for transport to assigned world
• dispatched and directed by System Sovereign

51:2.1Upon re­ceipt of the news that an­other in­hab­ited world has at­tained the height of phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign con­venes the corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters on the sys­tem cap­i­tal; and fol­low­ing the dis­cus­sion of the needs of such an evo­lu­tion­ary world, two of the vol­un­teer­ing group—an Adam and an Eve of the se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons—are se­lected to un­der­take the ad­ven­ture, to sub­mit to the deep sleep prepara­tory to be­ing en­ser­a­phimed and trans­ported from their home of as­so­ci­ated ser­vice to the new realm of new op­por­tu­ni­ties and new dan­gers.

• Life Carriers restore to life 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.

• no technique for leaving world during evolutionary ages

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

• Life Carriers restore to life 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.

51:3.1On the in­hab­ited worlds the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters con­struct their own gar­den homes, soon be­ing as­sisted by their own chil­dren. Usu­ally the site of the gar­den has been se­lected by the Plan­e­tary Prince, and his cor­po­real staff do much of the pre­lim­i­nary work of prepa­ra­tion with the help of many of the higher types of na­tive races.

51:3.2These Gar­dens of Eden are so named in honor of Eden­tia, the con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tal, and be­cause they are pat­terned af­ter the botanic grandeur of the head­quar­ters world of the Most High Fa­thers. Such gar­den homes are usu­ally lo­cated in a se­cluded sec­tion and in a near-tropic zone. They are won­der­ful cre­ations on an av­er­age world. You can judge noth­ing of these beau­ti­ful cen­ters of cul­ture by the frag­men­tary ac­count of the aborted de­vel­op­ment of such an un­der­tak­ing on Uran­tia.

• chief business is to multiply and biologically uplift children of time
• no immediate breeding of children with mortals

51:3.3A Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve are, in po­ten­tial, the full gift of phys­i­cal grace to the mor­tal races. The chief busi­ness of such an im­ported pair is to mul­ti­ply and to up­lift the chil­dren of time. But there is no im­me­di­ate in­ter­breed­ing be­tween the peo­ple of the gar­den and those of the world; for many gen­er­a­tions Adam and Eve re­main bi­o­log­i­cally seg­re­gated from the evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals while they build up a strong race of their or­der. This is the ori­gin of the vi­o­let race on the in­hab­ited worlds.

51:3.4The plans for race up­step­ping are pre­pared by the Plan­e­tary Prince and his staff and are ex­e­cuted by Adam and Eve. And this was where your Ma­te­rial Son and his com­pan­ion were placed at great dis­ad­van­tage when they ar­rived on Uran­tia. Cali­gas­tia of­fered crafty and ef­fec­tive op­po­si­tion to the Adamic mis­sion; and not­with­stand­ing that the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia had duly warned both Adam and Eve con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary dan­gers in­her­ent in the pres­ence of the re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince, this arch­re­bel, by a wily stratagem, out­ma­neu­vered the Edenic pair and en­trapped them into a vi­o­la­tion of the covenant of their trustee­ship as the vis­i­ble rulers of your world. The traitorous Plan­e­tary Prince did suc­ceed in com­pro­mis­ing your Adam and Eve, but he failed in his ef­fort to in­volve them in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• 100,000 angels initially accompany

51:3.5The fifth or­der of an­gels, the plan­e­tary helpers, are at­tached to the Adamic mis­sion, al­ways ac­com­pa­ny­ing the Plan­e­tary Adams on their world ad­ven­tures. The corps of ini­tial as­sign­ment is usu­ally about one hun­dred thou­sand. When the work of the Uran­tia Adam and Eve was pre­ma­turely launched, when they de­parted from the or­dained plan, it was one of the se­raphic Voices of the Gar­den who re­mon­strated with them con­cern­ing their rep­re­hen­si­ble con­duct. And your nar­ra­tive of this oc­cur­rence well il­lus­trates the man­ner in which your plan­e­tary tra­di­tions have tended to as­cribe ev­ery­thing super­nat­u­ral to the Lord God. Be­cause of this, Uran­tians have of­ten be­come con­fused con­cern­ing the na­ture of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther since the words and acts of all his as­so­ciates and sub­or­di­nates have been so gen­er­ally at­tributed to him. In the case of Adam and Eve, the an­gel of the Gar­den was none other than the chief of the plan­e­tary helpers then on duty. This ser­a­phim, Solo­nia, pro­claimed the mis­car­riage of the di­vine plan and req­ui­si­tioned the re­turn of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers to Uran­tia.

51:3.6The sec­ondary mid­way crea­tures are in­dige­nous to the Adamic mis­sions. As with the cor­po­real staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince, the de­scen­dants of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are of two or­ders: their phys­i­cal chil­dren and the sec­ondary or­der of mid­way crea­tures. These ma­te­rial but or­di­nar­ily in­vis­i­ble plan­e­tary min­is­ters con­tribute much to the ad­vance­ment of civ­i­liza­tion and even to the sub­jec­tion of in­sub­or­di­nate mi­nori­ties who may seek to sub­vert so­cial de­vel­op­ment and spir­i­tual prog­ress.

51:3.7The sec­ondary mid­way­ers should not be con­fused with the pri­mary or­der, who date from the near times of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince. On Uran­tia a ma­jor­ity of these ear­lier mid­way crea­tures went into re­bel­lion with Cali­gas­tia and have, since Pen­te­cost, been in­terned. Many of the Adamic group who did not re­main loyal to the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion are like­wise in­terned.

51:3.8On the day of Pen­te­cost the loyal pri­mary and the sec­ondary mid­way­ers ef­fected a vol­un­tary union and have func­tioned as one unit in world af­fairs ever since. They serve un­der the lead­er­ship of loyal mid­way­ers al­ter­nately cho­sen from the two groups.

• not intended personally to mate with humans; their progeny do

51:5.3On nor­mal worlds the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve never mate with the evo­lu­tion­ary races. This work of bi­o­logic bet­ter­ment is a func­tion of the Adamic progeny. But these Adamites do not go out among the races; the prince’s staff bring to the Gar­den of Eden the su­pe­rior men and women for vol­un­tary mat­ing with the Adamic off­spring. And on most worlds it is con­sid­ered the high­est honor to be se­lected as a can­di­date for mat­ing with the sons and daugh­ters of the gar­den.

• schools devoted to practical arts, economic development, government

51:6.4The schools of the Plan­e­tary Prince are pri­mar­ily con­cerned with phi­los­o­phy, re­li­gion, morals, and the higher in­tel­lec­tual and artis­tic achieve­ments. The gar­den schools of Adam and Eve are usu­ally de­voted to prac­ti­cal arts, fun­da­men­tal in­tel­lec­tual train­ing, so­cial cul­ture, eco­nomic de­vel­op­ment, trade re­la­tions, phys­i­cal ef­fi­ciency, and civil gov­ern­ment. Even­tu­ally these world cen­ters amal­ga­mate, but this ac­tual af­fil­i­a­tion some­times does not oc­cur un­til the times of the first Mag­is­te­rial Son.

• connecting links between spiritual and physical worlds

51:6.5The con­tin­u­ing ex­is­tence of the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve, to­gether with the pure-line nu­cleus of the vi­o­let race, im­parts that sta­bil­ity of growth to Edenic cul­ture by virtue of which it comes to act upon the civ­i­liza­tion of a world with the com­pelling force of tra­di­tion. In these im­mor­tal Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters we en­counter the last and the in­dis­pens­able link con­nect­ing God with man, bridg­ing the al­most in­fi­nite gulf be­tween the eter­nal Cre­ator and the low­est fi­nite per­son­al­i­ties of time. Here is a be­ing of high ori­gin who is phys­i­cal, ma­te­rial, even a sex crea­ture like Uran­tia mor­tals, one who can see and com­pre­hend the in­vis­i­ble Plan­e­tary Prince and in­ter­pret him to the mor­tal crea­tures of the realm, for the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters are able to see all of the lower or­ders of spirit be­ings; they vi­su­al­ize the Plan­e­tary Prince and his en­tire staff, vis­i­ble and in­vis­i­ble.

• become accepted as common ancestors of mankind

51:6.6With the pass­ing of cen­turies, through the amal­ga­ma­tion of their progeny with the races of men, this same Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter be­come ac­cepted as the com­mon an­ces­tors of man­kind, the com­mon par­ents of the now blended de­scen­dants of the evo­lu­tion­ary races. It is in­tended that mor­tals who start out from an in­hab­ited world have the ex­pe­ri­ence of rec­og­niz­ing seven fa­thers:

• united administration with Planetary Princes

51:7.2Be­fore the first Mag­is­te­rial Son con­cludes his mis­sion on a nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary world, there has been ef­fected the union of the ed­u­ca­tional and ad­min­is­tra­tive work of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the Ma­te­rial Son. This amal­ga­ma­tion of the dual super­vi­sion of a planet brings into ex­is­tence a new and ef­fec­tive or­der of world ad­min­is­tra­tion. Upon the re­tire­ment of the Mag­is­te­rial Son the Plan­e­tary Adam as­sumes the out­ward di­rec­tion of the sphere. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter thus act jointly as plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tors un­til the set­tling of the world in the era of light and life; where­upon the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the po­si­tion of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign. Dur­ing this age of ad­vanced evo­lu­tion, Adam and Eve be­come what might be called joint prime min­is­ters of the glo­ri­fied realm.

• dispatched when human biologic evolution attains highest level

52:3.1When the orig­i­nal im­pe­tus of evo­lu­tion­ary life has run its bi­o­logic course, when man has reached the apex of an­i­mal de­vel­op­ment, there ar­rives the sec­ond or­der of son­ship, and the sec­ond dis­pen­sa­tion of grace and min­istry is in­au­gu­rated. This is true on all evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. When the high­est pos­si­ble level of evo­lu­tion­ary life has been at­tained, when prim­i­tive man has as­cended as far as pos­si­ble in the bi­o­logic scale, a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter al­ways ap­pear on the planet, hav­ing been dis­patched by the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

52:3.3It is the prime pur­pose of the Adamic regime to in­flu­ence evolv­ing man to com­plete the tran­sit from the hunter and herder stage of civ­i­liza­tion to that of the agri­cul­tur­ist and hor­ti­cul­tur­ist, to be later sup­ple­mented by the ap­pear­ance of the ur­ban and in­dus­trial ad­juncts to civ­i­liza­tion. Ten thou­sand years of this dis­pen­sa­tion of the bi­o­logic up­lifters is suf­fi­cient to ef­fect a mar­velous trans­for­ma­tion. Twenty-five thou­sand years of such an ad­min­is­tra­tion of the con­joint wis­dom of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the Ma­te­rial Sons usu­ally ripens the sphere for the ad­vent of a Mag­is­te­rial Son.

52:3.4This age usu­ally wit­nesses the com­ple­tion of the elim­i­na­tion of the un­fit and the still fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the racial strains; on nor­mal worlds the de­fec­tive bes­tial ten­den­cies are very nearly elim­i­nated from the re­pro­duc­ing stocks of the realm.

• no immediate breeding of children with mortals
• not intended personally to mate with humans; their progeny do

52:3.5The Adamic progeny never amal­ga­mate with the in­fe­rior strains of the evo­lu­tion­ary races. Nei­ther is it the di­vine plan for the Plan­e­tary Adam or Eve to mate, per­son­ally, with the evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples. This race-im­prove­ment project is the task of their progeny. But the off­spring of the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter are mo­bi­lized for gen­er­a­tions be­fore the racial-amal­ga­ma­tion min­istry is in­au­gu­rated.

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.

52:3.7By the end of the Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion on a nor­mal planet the races are prac­ti­cally blended, so that it can be truly pro­claimed that “God has made of one blood all the na­tions,” and that his Son “has made of one color all peo­ples.” The color of such an amal­ga­mated race is some­what of an olive shade of the vi­o­let hue, the racial “white” of the spheres.

52:3.8Prim­i­tive man is for the most part car­niv­o­rous; the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters do not eat meat, but their off­spring within a few gen­er­a­tions usu­ally grav­i­tate to the om­niv­o­rous level, al­though whole groups of their de­scen­dants some­times re­main non­flesh eaters. This dou­ble ori­gin of the post-Adamic races ex­plains how such blended hu­man stocks ex­hibit an­a­tomic ves­tiges be­long­ing to both the her­biv­o­rous and car­niv­o­rous an­i­mal groups.

52:3.9Within ten thou­sand years of racial amal­ga­ma­tion the re­sul­tant stocks show vary­ing de­grees of an­a­tomic blend, some strains car­ry­ing more of the marks of the non­flesh-eat­ing an­ces­try, oth­ers ex­hibit­ing more of the dis­tin­guish­ing traits and phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of their car­niv­o­rous evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gen­i­tors. The ma­jor­ity of these world races soon be­come om­niv­o­rous, sub­sist­ing upon a wide range of viands from both the an­i­mal and veg­etable king­doms.

52:3.10The post-Adamic epoch is the dis­pen­sa­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al­ism. With the near com­ple­tion of the task of race blend­ing, na­tion­al­ism wanes, and the broth­er­hood of man re­ally be­gins to ma­te­ri­al­ize. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment be­gins to take the place of the monar­chial or pa­ter­nal form of ruler­ship. The ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem be­comes world-wide, and grad­u­ally the lan­guages of the races give way to the tongue of the vi­o­let peo­ple. Uni­ver­sal peace and co-op­er­a­tion are sel­dom at­tained un­til the races are fairly well blended, and un­til they speak a com­mon lan­guage.

52:3.11Dur­ing the clos­ing cen­turies of the post-Adamic age there de­vel­ops new in­ter­est in art, mu­sic, and lit­er­a­ture, and this world-wide awak­en­ing is the sig­nal for the ap­pear­ance of a Mag­is­te­rial Son. The crown­ing de­vel­op­ment of this era is the uni­ver­sal in­ter­est in in­tel­lec­tual re­al­i­ties, true phi­los­o­phy. Re­li­gion be­comes less na­tion­al­is­tic, be­comes more and more a plan­e­tary af­fair. New rev­e­la­tions of truth char­ac­ter­ize these ages, and the Most Highs of the con­stel­la­tions be­gin to rule in the af­fairs of men. Truth is re­vealed up to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the con­stel­la­tions.

52:3.12Great eth­i­cal ad­vance­ment char­ac­ter­izes this era; the broth­er­hood of man is the goal of its so­ci­ety. World-wide peace—the ces­sa­tion of race con­flict and na­tional an­i­mos­ity—is the in­di­ca­tor of plan­e­tary ripeness for the ad­vent of the third or­der of son­ship, the Mag­is­te­rial Son.

• young M.S. brought from system to assist ruling Adam and Eve in light and life

55:3.141. Young Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters brought from the sys­tem head­quar­ters to act as as­sis­tants to the rul­ing Adam and Eve.

• purge detrimental genetic potential

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.

• visible rulers of worlds settled in light and life

55:7.2To out­ward and vis­i­ble ap­pear­ances the ac­tual rulers, or di­rec­tors, of such a world set­tled in light and life are the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter, the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve. The fi­nal­i­ters are in­vis­i­ble, as also is the Prince-Sov­er­eign ex­cept when in the mor­ontia tem­ple. The ac­tual and lit­eral heads of the plan­e­tary regime are there­fore the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter. It is the knowl­edge of these ar­range­ments that has given pres­tige to the idea of kings and queens through­out the uni­verse realms. And kings and queens are a great suc­cess un­der these ideal cir­cum­stances, when a world can com­mand such high per­son­al­i­ties to act in be­half of still higher but in­vis­i­ble rulers.

• dispatched when human biologic evolution attains highest level

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

• dependent for continuing life on unbroken intellectual synchrony with cosmic energies, mind-gravity circuit

75:7.4Long be­fore Adam and Eve left Je­ru­sem, their in­struc­tors had fully ex­plained to them the con­se­quences of any vi­tal de­par­ture from the di­vine plans. I had per­son­ally and re­peat­edly warned them, both be­fore and af­ter they ar­rived on Uran­tia, that re­duc­tion to the sta­tus of mor­tal flesh would be the cer­tain re­sult, the sure penalty, which would un­fail­ingly at­tend de­fault in the ex­e­cu­tion of their plan­e­tary mis­sion. But a com­pre­hen­sion of the im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is es­sen­tial to a clear un­der­stand­ing of the con­se­quences at­ten­dant upon the de­fault of Adam and Eve.

75:7.51. Adam and Eve, like their fel­lows on Je­ru­sem, main­tained im­mor­tal sta­tus through in­tel­lec­tual as­so­ci­a­tion with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. When this vi­tal sus­te­nance is bro­ken by men­tal dis­junc­tion, then, re­gard­less of the spir­i­tual level of crea­ture ex­is­tence, im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus is lost. Mor­tal sta­tus fol­lowed by phys­i­cal dis­so­lu­tion was the in­ev­i­ta­ble con­se­quence of the in­tel­lec­tual de­fault of Adam and Eve.

• dual circulatory systems, from physical nature and from tree of life

75:7.62. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter of Uran­tia, be­ing also per­son­al­ized in the simil­i­tude of the mor­tal flesh of this world, were fur­ther de­pen­dent on the main­te­nance of a dual cir­cu­la­tory sys­tem, the one de­rived from their phys­i­cal na­tures, the other from the super­en­ergy stored in the fruit of the tree of life. Al­ways had the arch­an­gel cus­to­dian ad­mon­ished Adam and Eve that de­fault of trust would cul­mi­nate in degra­da­tion of sta­tus, and ac­cess to this source of en­ergy was de­nied them sub­se­quent to their de­fault.

51:1.1The ma­te­rial or sex Sons and Daugh­ters are the off­spring of the Cre­ator Son; the Uni­verse Mother Spirit does not par­tic­i­pate in the pro­duc­tion of these be­ings who are des­tined to func­tion as phys­i­cal up­lifters on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

51:1.7Un­like the other cre­ated Sons of plan­e­tary ser­vice, the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is not, by na­ture, in­vis­i­ble to ma­te­rial crea­tures like the in­hab­i­tants of Uran­tia. These Sons of God can be seen, un­der­stood, and can, in turn, ac­tu­ally min­gle with the crea­tures of time, could even pro­cre­ate with them, though this role of bi­o­logic up­lift­ment usu­ally falls to the progeny of the Plan­e­tary Adams.

34:7.1The flesh, the in­her­ent na­ture de­rived from the an­i­mal-ori­gin races, does not nat­u­rally bear the fruits of the di­vine Spirit. When the mor­tal na­ture has been up­stepped by the ad­di­tion of the na­ture of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God, as the Uran­tia races were in a mea­sure ad­vanced by the be­stowal of Adam, then is the way bet­ter pre­pared for the Spirit of Truth to co-op­er­ate with the in­dwelling Ad­juster to bring forth the beau­ti­ful har­vest of the char­ac­ter fruits of the spirit. If you do not re­ject this spirit, even though eter­nity may be re­quired to ful­fill the com­mis­sion, “he will guide you into all truth.”