mortals

• in God we live and move and have our being

1:1.2The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never im­poses any form of ar­bi­trary rec­og­ni­tion, for­mal wor­ship, or slav­ish ser­vice upon the in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures of the uni­verses. The evo­lu­tion­ary in­hab­i­tants of the worlds of time and space must of them­selves—in their own hearts—rec­og­nize, love, and vol­un­tar­ily wor­ship him. The Cre­ator re­fuses to co­erce or com­pel the sub­mis­sion of the spir­i­tual free wills of his ma­te­rial crea­tures. The af­fec­tion­ate ded­i­ca­tion of the hu­man will to the do­ing of the Fa­ther’s will is man’s choic­est gift to God; in fact, such a con­se­cra­tion of crea­ture will con­sti­tutes man’s only pos­si­ble gift of true value to the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. In God, man lives, moves, and has his be­ing; there is noth­ing which man can give to God ex­cept this choos­ing to abide by the Fa­ther’s will, and such de­ci­sions, ef­fected by the in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures of the uni­verses, con­sti­tute the re­al­ity of that true wor­ship which is so sat­is­fy­ing to the love-dom­i­nated na­ture of the Cre­ator Fa­ther.

• created › in image of God

1:3.1“God is spirit.” He is a uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual pres­ence. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is an in­fi­nite spir­i­tual re­al­ity; he is “the sov­er­eign, eter­nal, im­mor­tal, in­vis­i­ble, and only true God.” Even though you are “the off­spring of God,” you ought not to think that the Fa­ther is like your­selves in form and physique be­cause you are said to be cre­ated “in his im­age”—in­dwelt by Mys­tery Mon­i­tors dis­patched from the cen­tral abode of his eter­nal pres­ence. Spirit be­ings are real, not­with­stand­ing they are in­vis­i­ble to hu­man eyes; even though they have not flesh and blood.

• God is no respecter of persons

1:4.6To ev­ery spirit be­ing and to ev­ery mor­tal crea­ture in ev­ery sphere and on ev­ery world of the uni­verse of uni­verses, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther re­veals all of his gra­cious and di­vine self that can be dis­cerned or com­pre­hended by such spirit be­ings and by such mor­tal crea­tures. God is no re­specter of per­sons, ei­ther spir­i­tual or ma­te­rial. The di­vine pres­ence which any child of the uni­verse en­joys at any given mo­ment is lim­ited only by the ca­pac­ity of such a crea­ture to re­ceive and to dis­cern the spirit ac­tu­al­i­ties of the super­ma­te­rial world.

• in God we live and move and have our being

1:5.16It is lit­er­ally true: “In all your af­flic­tions he is af­flicted.” “In all your tri­umphs he tri­umphs in and with you.” His preper­sonal di­vine spirit is a real part of you. The Isle of Par­a­dise re­sponds to all the phys­i­cal meta­mor­phoses of the uni­verse of uni­verses; the Eter­nal Son in­cludes all the spirit im­pulses of all cre­ation; the Con­joint Ac­tor en­com­passes all the mind ex­pres­sion of the ex­pand­ing cos­mos. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther re­al­izes in the full­ness of the di­vine con­scious­ness all the in­di­vid­ual ex­pe­ri­ence of the pro­gres­sive strug­gles of the ex­pand­ing minds and the as­cend­ing spir­its of ev­ery en­tity, be­ing, and per­son­al­ity of the whole evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ation of time and space. And all this is lit­er­ally true, for “in Him we all live and move and have our be­ing.”

• created › as potential spirit personalities

1:6.8God is spirit—spirit per­son­al­ity; man is also a spirit—po­ten­tial spirit per­son­al­ity. Je­sus of Naz­a­reth at­tained the full re­al­iza­tion of this po­ten­tial of spirit per­son­al­ity in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence; there­fore his life of achiev­ing the Fa­ther’s will be­comes man’s most real and ideal rev­e­la­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God. Even though the per­son­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can be grasped only in ac­tual re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, in Je­sus’ earth life we are in­spired by the per­fect dem­on­stra­tion of such a re­al­iza­tion and rev­e­la­tion of the per­son­al­ity of God in a truly hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence.

• in God we live and move and have our being

2:1.11Di­vin­ity and eter­nity the Fa­ther shares with large num­bers of the higher Par­a­dise be­ings, but we ques­tion whether in­fin­ity and con­se­quent uni­ver­sal pri­macy is fully shared with any save his co-or­di­nate as­so­ciates of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity. In­fin­ity of per­son­al­ity must, per­force, em­brace all fini­tude of per­son­al­ity; hence the truth—lit­eral truth—of the teach­ing which de­clares that “In Him we live and move and have our be­ing.” That frag­ment of the pure De­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther which in­dwells mor­tal man is a part of the in­fin­ity of the First Great Source and Cen­ter, the Fa­ther of Fa­thers.

• God is no respecter of persons

2:3.1God is righ­teous; there­fore is he just. “The Lord is righ­teous in all his ways.” “‘I have not done with­out cause all that I have done,’ says the Lord.” “The judg­ments of the Lord are true and righ­teous al­to­gether.” The jus­tice of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther can­not be in­flu­enced by the acts and per­for­mances of his crea­tures, “for there is no in­iq­uity with the Lord our God, no re­spect of per­sons, no tak­ing of gifts.”

• sons of God

2:5.4God is di­vinely kind to sin­ners. When rebels re­turn to righ­teous­ness, they are mer­ci­fully re­ceived, “for our God will abun­dantly par­don.” “I am he who blots out your trans­gres­sions for my own sake, and I will not re­mem­ber your sins.” “Be­hold what man­ner of love the Fa­ther has be­stowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.”

• cohere in Father through Adjusters

2:7.7The eter­nal quest is for uni­fi­ca­tion, for di­vine co­her­ence. The far-flung phys­i­cal uni­verse co­heres in the Isle of Par­a­dise; the in­tel­lec­tual uni­verse co­heres in the God of mind, the Con­joint Ac­tor; the spir­i­tual uni­verse is co­her­ent in the per­son­al­ity of the Eter­nal Son. But the iso­lated mor­tal of time and space co­heres in God the Fa­ther through the di­rect re­la­tion­ship be­tween the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster and the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Man’s Ad­juster is a frag­ment of God and ev­er­last­ingly seeks for di­vine uni­fi­ca­tion; it co­heres with, and in, the Par­a­dise De­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter.

• Creator Sons are God to

3:0.1God is ev­ery­where pres­ent; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther rules the cir­cle of eter­nity. But he rules in the lo­cal uni­verses in the per­sons of his Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons, even as he be­stows life through these Sons. “God has given us eter­nal life, and this life is in his Sons.” These Cre­ator Sons of God are the per­sonal ex­pres­sion of him­self in the sec­tors of time and to the chil­dren of the whirling plan­ets of the evolv­ing uni­verses of space.

• in God we live and move and have our being

3:1.4The crea­ture not only ex­ists in God, but God also lives in the crea­ture. “We know we dwell in him be­cause he lives in us; he has given us his spirit. This gift from the Par­a­dise Fa­ther is man’s in­sep­a­ra­ble com­pan­ion.” “He is the ever-pres­ent and all-per­vad­ing God.” “The spirit of the ev­er­last­ing Fa­ther is con­cealed in the mind of ev­ery mor­tal child.” “Man goes forth search­ing for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart.” “The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us.” “The Fa­ther lives in the child. God is al­ways with us. He is the guid­ing spirit of eter­nal des­tiny.”

• can feel undiminished impact of Father’s love

3:4.6Mor­tal man can­not pos­si­bly know the in­fini­tude of the heav­enly Fa­ther. Fi­nite mind can­not think through such an ab­so­lute truth or fact. But this same fi­nite hu­man be­ing can ac­tu­ally feel—lit­er­ally ex­pe­ri­ence—the full and undi­min­ished im­pact of such an in­fi­nite Fa­ther’s LOVE. Such a love can be truly ex­pe­ri­enced, al­beit while qual­ity of ex­pe­ri­ence is un­lim­ited, quan­tity of such an ex­pe­ri­ence is strictly lim­ited by the hu­man ca­pac­ity for spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity and by the as­so­ci­ated ca­pac­ity to love the Fa­ther in re­turn.

• created › in image of God

3:4.7Fi­nite ap­pre­ci­a­tion of in­fi­nite qual­i­ties far tran­scends the log­i­cally lim­ited ca­pac­i­ties of the crea­ture be­cause of the fact that mor­tal man is made in the im­age of God—there lives within him a frag­ment of in­fin­ity. There­fore man’s near­est and dear­est ap­proach to God is by and through love, for God is love. And all of such a unique re­la­tion­ship is an ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in cos­mic so­ci­ol­ogy, the Cre­ator-crea­ture re­la­tion­ship—the Fa­ther-child af­fec­tion.

• earn status by faith and hope

3:5.16The full ap­pre­ci­a­tion of truth, beauty, and good­ness is in­her­ent in the per­fec­tion of the di­vine uni­verse. The in­hab­i­tants of the Ha­vona worlds do not re­quire the po­ten­tial of rel­a­tive value lev­els as a choice stim­u­lus; such per­fect be­ings are able to iden­tify and choose the good in the ab­sence of all con­trastive and thought-com­pelling moral sit­u­a­tions. But all such per­fect be­ings are, in moral na­ture and spir­i­tual sta­tus, what they are by virtue of the fact of ex­is­tence. They have ex­pe­ri­en­tially earned ad­vance­ment only within their in­her­ent sta­tus. Mor­tal man earns even his sta­tus as an as­cen­sion can­di­date by his own faith and hope. Ev­ery­thing di­vine which the hu­man mind grasps and the hu­man soul ac­quires is an ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment; it is a re­al­ity of per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence and is there­fore a unique pos­ses­sion in con­trast to the in­her­ent good­ness and righ­teous­ness of the in­errant per­son­al­i­ties of Ha­vona.

• created › to be masterpiece of planetary creation

4:3.1All too long has man thought of God as one like him­self. God is not, never was, and never will be jeal­ous of man or any other be­ing in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Know­ing that the Cre­ator Son in­tended man to be the mas­ter­piece of the plan­e­tary cre­ation, to be the ruler of all the earth, the sight of his be­ing dom­i­nated by his own baser pas­sions, the spec­ta­cle of his bow­ing down be­fore idols of wood, stone, gold, and self­ish am­bi­tion—these sor­did scenes stir God and his Sons to be jeal­ous for man, but never of him.

• Creator Sons are God to

5:3.6The Cre­ator or Sov­er­eign Sons who pre­side over the des­tinies of the lo­cal uni­verses stand in the place of both the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise. These Uni­verse Sons re­ceive, in the name of the Fa­ther, the ado­ra­tion of wor­ship and give ear to the pleas of their pe­ti­tion­ing sub­jects through­out their re­spec­tive cre­ations. To the chil­dren of a lo­cal uni­verse a Mi­chael Son is, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, God. He is the lo­cal uni­verse per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son. The In­fi­nite Spirit main­tains per­sonal con­tact with the chil­dren of these realms through the Uni­verse Spir­its, the ad­min­is­tra­tive and cre­ative as­so­ciates of the Par­a­dise Cre­ator Sons.

• created › in image of God

6:5.7Though the Eter­nal Son can­not per­son­ally par­tic­i­pate in the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, he did sit in coun­cil with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther in the eter­nal past, ap­prov­ing the plan and pledg­ing end­less co-op­er­a­tion, when the Fa­ther, in pro­ject­ing the be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers, pro­posed to the Son, “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” And as the spirit frag­ment of the Fa­ther dwells within you, so does the spirit pres­ence of the Son en­velop you, while these two for­ever work as one for your spir­i­tual ad­vance­ment.

• created › in image of God

7:4.41. The Plan of Pro­gres­sive At­tain­ment. This is the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther’s plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cen­sion, a pro­gram un­re­servedly ac­cepted by the Eter­nal Son when he con­curred in the Fa­ther’s pro­posal, “Let us make mor­tal crea­tures in our own im­age.” This pro­vi­sion for up­step­ping the crea­tures of time in­volves the Fa­ther’s be­stowal of the Thought Ad­justers and the en­dow­ing of ma­te­rial crea­tures with the pre­rog­a­tives of per­son­al­ity.

• created › in image of God

10:3.1Not­with­stand­ing there is only one De­ity, there are three pos­i­tive and di­vine per­son­al­iza­tions of De­ity. Re­gard­ing the en­dow­ment of man with the di­vine Ad­justers, the Fa­ther said: “Let us make mor­tal man in our own im­age.” Re­peat­edly through­out the Uran­tian writ­ings there oc­curs this ref­er­ence to the acts and do­ings of plu­ral De­ity, clearly show­ing rec­og­ni­tion of the ex­is­tence and work­ing of the three Sources and Cen­ters.

• human nature › almost wholly material

11:3.1On up­per Par­a­dise there are three grand spheres of ac­tiv­ity, the De­ity pres­ence, the Most Holy Sphere, and the Holy Area. The vast re­gion im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing the pres­ence of the De­i­ties is set aside as the Most Holy Sphere and is re­served for the func­tions of wor­ship, trin­i­ti­za­tion, and high spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. There are no ma­te­rial struc­tures nor purely in­tel­lec­tual cre­ations in this zone; they could not ex­ist there. It is use­less for me to un­der­take to por­tray to the hu­man mind the di­vine na­ture and the beau­teous grandeur of the Most Holy Sphere of Par­a­dise. This realm is wholly spir­i­tual, and you are al­most wholly ma­te­rial. A purely spir­i­tual re­al­ity is, to a purely ma­te­rial be­ing, ap­par­ently nonex­is­tent.

• God is no respecter of persons

12:7.1There is op­er­a­tive through­out all time and space and with re­gard to all re­al­ity of what­ever na­ture an in­ex­orable and im­per­sonal law which is equiv­a­lent to the func­tion of a cos­mic prov­i­dence. Mercy char­ac­ter­izes God’s at­ti­tude of love for the in­di­vid­ual; im­par­tial­ity mo­ti­vates God’s at­ti­tude to­ward the to­tal. The will of God does not nec­es­sar­ily pre­vail in the part—the heart of any one per­son­al­ity—but his will does ac­tu­ally rule the whole, the uni­verse of uni­verses.

• God is no respecter of persons

12:7.8The Fa­ther­hood of God and the broth­er­hood of man pre­sent the para­dox of the part and the whole on the level of per­son­al­ity. God loves each in­di­vid­ual as an in­di­vid­ual child in the heav­enly fam­ily. Yet God thus loves ev­ery in­di­vid­ual; he is no re­specter of per­sons, and the uni­ver­sal­ity of his love brings into be­ing a re­la­tion­ship of the whole, the uni­ver­sal broth­er­hood.

• Father’s love individualizes each

12:7.9The love of the Fa­ther ab­so­lutely in­di­vid­u­al­izes each per­son­al­ity as a unique child of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, a child with­out du­pli­cate in in­fin­ity, a will crea­ture ir­re­place­able in all eter­nity. The Fa­ther’s love glo­ri­fies each child of God, il­lu­mi­nat­ing each mem­ber of the ce­les­tial fam­ily, sharply sil­hou­et­ting the unique na­ture of each per­sonal be­ing against the im­per­sonal lev­els that lie out­side the fra­ter­nal cir­cuit of the Fa­ther of all. The love of God strik­ingly por­trays the tran­scen­dent value of each will crea­ture, un­mis­tak­ably re­veals the high value which the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has placed upon each and ev­ery one of his chil­dren from the high­est cre­ator per­son­al­ity of Par­a­dise sta­tus to the low­est per­son­al­ity of will dig­nity among the sav­age tribes of men in the dawn of the hu­man species on some evo­lu­tion­ary world of time and space.

• in God we live and move and have our being

12:7.12It is a mys­tery that God is a highly per­sonal self-con­scious be­ing with res­i­den­tial head­quar­ters, and at the same time per­son­ally pres­ent in such a vast uni­verse and per­son­ally in con­tact with such a well-nigh in­fi­nite num­ber of be­ings. That such a phe­nom­e­non is a mys­tery be­yond hu­man com­pre­hen­sion should not in the least lessen your faith. Do not al­low the mag­ni­tude of the in­fin­ity, the im­men­sity of the eter­nity, and the grandeur and glory of the match­less char­ac­ter of God to over­awe, stag­ger, or dis­cour­age you; for the Fa­ther is not very far from any one of you; he dwells within you, and in him do we all lit­er­ally move, ac­tu­ally live, and ver­i­ta­bly have our be­ing.

• Father has given part of himself to be man’s eternal self

12:7.14Even though the spirit of a Son be poured out upon all flesh, even though a Son once dwelt with you in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, even though the ser­a­phim per­son­ally guard and guide you, how can any of these di­vine be­ings of the Sec­ond and Third Cen­ters ever hope to come as near to you or to un­der­stand you as fully as the Fa­ther, who has given a part of him­self to be in you, to be your real and di­vine, even your eter­nal, self?

• pass through short and intense test

14:5.1On Uran­tia you pass through a short and in­tense test dur­ing your ini­tial life of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. On the man­sion worlds and up through your sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and lo­cal uni­verse, you tra­verse the mor­ontia phases of as­cen­sion. On the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse you pass through the true spirit stages of pro­gres­sion and are pre­pared for even­tual tran­sit to Ha­vona. On the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona your at­tain­ment is in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial. And there is a def­i­nite task to be achieved on each of the worlds of each of these cir­cuits.

• planetary types

15:6.16The laws of phys­i­cal-en­ergy be­hav­ior are ba­si­cally uni­ver­sal, but lo­cal in­flu­ences have much to do with the phys­i­cal con­di­tions which pre­vail on in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and in lo­cal sys­tems. An al­most end­less va­ri­ety of crea­ture life and other liv­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions char­ac­ter­izes the count­less worlds of space. There are, how­ever, cer­tain points of sim­i­lar­ity in a group of worlds as­so­ci­ated in a given sys­tem, while there also is a uni­verse pat­tern of in­tel­li­gent life. There are phys­i­cal re­la­tion­ships among those plan­e­tary sys­tems which be­long to the same phys­i­cal cir­cuit, and which closely fol­low each other in the end­less swing around the cir­cle of uni­verses.

• differences with animals
• human nature › cosmic mind inalienables of moral intuition, scientific curiosity, and spiritual insight

16:7.1In­tel­li­gence alone can­not ex­plain the moral na­ture. Moral­ity, virtue, is in­dige­nous to hu­man per­son­al­ity. Moral in­tu­ition, the re­al­iza­tion of duty, is a com­po­nent of hu­man mind en­dow­ment and is as­so­ci­ated with the other in­alien­ables of hu­man na­ture: sci­en­tific cu­rios­ity and spir­i­tual in­sight. Man’s men­tal­ity far tran­scends that of his an­i­mal cousins, but it is his moral and re­li­gious na­tures that es­pe­cially dis­tin­guish him from the an­i­mal world.

16:7.2The se­lec­tive re­sponse of an an­i­mal is lim­ited to the mo­tor level of be­hav­ior. The sup­posed in­sight of the higher an­i­mals is on a mo­tor level and usu­ally ap­pears only af­ter the ex­pe­ri­ence of mo­tor trial and er­ror. Man is able to ex­er­cise sci­en­tific, moral, and spir­i­tual in­sight prior to all ex­plo­ration or ex­per­i­men­ta­tion.

16:7.3Only a per­son­al­ity can know what it is do­ing be­fore it does it; only per­son­al­i­ties pos­sess in­sight in ad­vance of ex­pe­ri­ence. A per­son­al­ity can look be­fore it leaps and can there­fore learn from look­ing as well as from leap­ing. A non­per­sonal an­i­mal or­di­nar­ily learns only by leap­ing.

16:7.4As a re­sult of ex­pe­ri­ence an an­i­mal be­comes able to ex­am­ine the dif­fer­ent ways of at­tain­ing a goal and to se­lect an ap­proach based on ac­cu­mu­lated ex­pe­ri­ence. But a per­son­al­ity can also ex­am­ine the goal it­self and pass judg­ment on its worth-while­ness, its value. In­tel­li­gence alone can dis­crim­i­nate as to the best means of at­tain­ing in­dis­crim­i­nate ends, but a moral be­ing pos­sesses an in­sight which en­ables him to dis­crim­i­nate be­tween ends as well as be­tween means. And a moral be­ing in choos­ing virtue is nonethe­less in­tel­li­gent. He knows what he is do­ing, why he is do­ing it, where he is go­ing, and how he will get there.

• Creator Sons are God to

21:2.2When a Cre­ator Son de­parts from Par­a­dise to em­bark upon the ad­ven­ture of uni­verse mak­ing, to be­come the head—vir­tu­ally the God—of the lo­cal uni­verse of his own or­ga­ni­za­tion, then, for the first time, he finds him­self in in­ti­mate con­tact with, and in many re­spects de­pen­dent upon, the Third Source and Cen­ter. The In­fi­nite Spirit, though abid­ing with the Fa­ther and the Son at the cen­ter of all things, is des­tined to func­tion as the ac­tual and ef­fec­tive helper of each Cre­ator Son. There­fore is each Cre­ator Son ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit, that be­ing who is des­tined to be­come the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Mother Spirit of the new lo­cal uni­verse.

• human nature › man should not bemoan lowly origin

21:4.6Cre­ator Sons, sub­se­quent to the com­ple­tion of their be­stowal ca­reers, are reck­oned as a sep­a­rate or­der, sev­en­fold Mas­ter Sons. In per­son the Mas­ter Sons are iden­ti­cal with the Cre­ator Sons, but they have un­der­gone such a unique be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence that they are com­monly re­garded as a dif­fer­ent or­der. When a Cre­ator deigns to ef­fect a be­stowal, a real and per­ma­nent change is des­tined to take place. True, the be­stowal Son is still and none the less a Cre­ator, but he has added to his na­ture the ex­pe­ri­ence of a crea­ture, which for­ever re­moves him from the di­vine level of a Cre­ator Son and el­e­vates him to the ex­pe­ri­en­tial plane of a Mas­ter Son, one who has fully earned the right to rule a uni­verse and ad­min­is­ter its worlds. Such be­ings em­body all that can be se­cured from di­vine parent­age and em­brace ev­ery­thing to be de­rived from per­fected-crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence. Why should man be­moan his lowly ori­gin and en­forced evo­lu­tion­ary ca­reer when the very Gods must pass through an equiv­a­lent ex­pe­ri­ence be­fore they are ac­counted ex­pe­ri­en­tially wor­thy and com­pe­tent fi­nally and fully to rule over their uni­verse do­mains!

• planetary types › series 1 mortals › Trinitized Ambassadors help administer affairs
• planetary types › series 2 mortals › Trinitized Ambassadors help administer

22:6.2Trin­i­tized Am­bas­sadors are se­lected for the Trin­ity em­brace upon the ad­vices of their Ha­vona teach­ers. They rep­re­sent the su­pe­rior minds of their re­spec­tive groups and are, there­fore, best qual­i­fied to as­sist the super­uni­verse rulers in un­der­stand­ing and in ad­min­is­ter­ing the in­ter­ests of those worlds from which the Spirit-fused mor­tals hail. The Son-fused Am­bas­sadors are of great as­sis­tance in our deal­ings with prob­lems in­volv­ing the Son-fused or­der of per­son­al­ity.

• human nature › man should not bemoan lowly origin

22:9.6These twice-trin­i­tized sons are mar­velous be­ings, but they are nei­ther as ver­sa­tile nor de­pend­able as their as­cen­dant as­so­ciates; they lack that tremen­dous and pro­found per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence which the rest of the sons be­long­ing to this group have ac­quired by ac­tu­ally climb­ing up to glory from the dark do­mains of space. We of the as­cen­dant ca­reer love them and do all in our power to com­pen­sate their de­fi­cien­cies, but they make us ever grate­ful for our lowly ori­gin and our ca­pac­ity for ex­pe­ri­ence. Their will­ing­ness to rec­og­nize and ac­knowl­edge their de­fi­cien­cies in the ex­pe­ri­en­ci­ble re­al­i­ties of uni­verse as­cen­sion is tran­scen­dently beau­ti­ful and some­times most touch­ingly pa­thetic.

• human nature › man should not bemoan lowly origin

22:9.8On the man­sion worlds I have of­ten seen these dig­ni­fied of­fi­cers of the high courts of the super­uni­verse look so long­ingly and ap­peal­ingly at even the re­cent ar­rivals from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space that one could not help re­al­iz­ing that these pos­ses­sors of non­ex­pe­ri­en­tial trin­i­ti­za­tion re­ally en­vied their sup­pos­edly less for­tu­nate breth­ren who as­cend the uni­ver­sal path by steps of bona fide ex­pe­ri­ence and ac­tual liv­ing. Not­with­stand­ing their hand­i­caps and lim­i­ta­tions they are a won­der­fully use­ful and ever-will­ing corps of work­ers when it comes to the ex­e­cu­tion of the com­plex ad­min­is­tra­tive plans of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

• human nature › m. innately social; not good to be alone

25:8.4Mor­tals come from races that are very so­cial. The Cre­ators well know that it is “not good for man to be alone,” and pro­vi­sion is ac­cord­ingly made for com­pan­ion­ship, even on Par­a­dise.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › energy transmitters integral to life

29:4.31These be­ings, to­gether with the en­ergy trans­form­ers, are in­dis­pens­able to the main­te­nance of mor­tal ex­is­tence on those worlds hav­ing an im­pov­er­ished at­mo­sphere, and they are an in­te­gral part of the tech­nique of life on the non­breath­ing plan­ets.

• after death › denominated “ascending sons” after fusion

30:4.1While the mor­tal sur­vivors of time and space are de­nom­i­nated as­cend­ing pil­grims when ac­cred­ited for the pro­gres­sive as­cent to Par­a­dise, these evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures oc­cupy such an im­por­tant place in these nar­ra­tives that we here de­sire to pre­sent a syn­op­sis of the fol­low­ing seven stages of the as­cend­ing uni­verse ca­reer:

30:4.21. Plan­e­tary Mor­tals.

30:4.32. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors.

30:4.43. Man­sion World Stu­dents.

30:4.54. Mor­ontia Pro­gres­sors.

30:4.65. Super­uni­verse Wards.

30:4.76. Ha­vona Pil­grims.

30:4.87. Par­a­dise Ar­rivals.

30:4.9The fol­low­ing nar­ra­tive pre­sents the uni­verse ca­reer of an Ad­juster-in­dwelt mor­tal. The Son- and Spirit-fused mor­tals share por­tions of this ca­reer, but we have elected to tell this story as it per­tains to the Ad­juster-fused mor­tals, for such a des­tiny may be an­tic­i­pated by all of the hu­man races of Uran­tia.

• all are of animal origin, not wholly unlike Urantians
• planetary types › all types fraternize on mansion worlds

30:4.101. Plan­e­tary Mor­tals. Mor­tals are all an­i­mal-ori­gin evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings of as­cen­dant po­ten­tial. In ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny these var­i­ous groups and types of hu­man be­ings are not wholly un­like the Uran­tia peo­ples. The hu­man races of each world re­ceive the same min­istry of the Sons of God and en­joy the pres­ence of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time. Af­ter nat­u­ral death all types of as­cend­ers frat­er­nize as one mor­ontia fam­ily on the man­sion worlds.

30:4.112. Sleep­ing Sur­vivors. All mor­tals of sur­vival sta­tus, in the cus­tody of per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny, pass through the por­tals of nat­u­ral death and, on the third pe­riod, per­son­al­ize on the man­sion worlds. Those ac­cred­ited be­ings who have, for any rea­son, been un­able to at­tain that level of in­tel­li­gence mas­tery and en­dow­ment of spir­i­tu­al­ity which would en­ti­tle them to per­sonal guard­i­ans, can­not thus im­me­di­ately and di­rectly go to the man­sion worlds. Such sur­viv­ing souls must rest in un­con­scious sleep un­til the judg­ment day of a new epoch, a new dis­pen­sa­tion, the com­ing of a Son of God to call the rolls of the age and ad­ju­di­cate the realm, and this is the gen­eral prac­tice through­out all Neb­a­don. It was said of Christ Mi­chael that, when he as­cended on high at the con­clu­sion of his work on earth, “He led a great mul­ti­tude of cap­tives.” And these cap­tives were the sleep­ing sur­vivors from the days of Adam to the day of the Mas­ter’s res­ur­rec­tion on Uran­tia.

30:4.12The pass­ing of time is of no mo­ment to sleep­ing mor­tals; they are wholly un­con­scious and obliv­i­ous to the length of their rest. On re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity at the end of an age, those who have slept five thou­sand years will re­act no dif­fer­ently than those who have rested five days. Aside from this time de­lay these sur­vivors pass on through the as­cen­sion regime iden­ti­cally with those who avoid the longer or shorter sleep of death.

30:4.13These dis­pen­sa­tional classes of world pil­grims are uti­lized for group mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties in the work of the lo­cal uni­verses. There is a great ad­van­tage in the mo­bi­liza­tion of such enor­mous groups; they are thus kept to­gether for long pe­ri­ods of ef­fec­tive ser­vice.

30:4.143. Man­sion World Stu­dents. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals who reawaken on the man­sion worlds be­long to this class.

30:4.15The phys­i­cal body of mor­tal flesh is not a part of the re­assem­bly of the sleep­ing sur­vivor; the phys­i­cal body has re­turned to dust. The ser­a­phim of as­sign­ment spon­sors the new body, the mor­ontia form, as the new life ve­hi­cle for the im­mor­tal soul and for the in­dwelling of the re­turned Ad­juster. The Ad­juster is the cus­to­dian of the spirit tran­script of the mind of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The as­signed ser­a­phim is the keeper of the sur­viv­ing iden­tity—the im­mor­tal soul—as far as it has evolved. And when these two, the Ad­juster and the ser­a­phim, re­unite their per­son­al­ity trusts, the new in­di­vid­ual con­sti­tutes the res­ur­rec­tion of the old per­son­al­ity, the sur­vival of the evolv­ing mor­ontia iden­tity of the soul. Such a re­as­so­ci­a­tion of soul and Ad­juster is quite prop­erly called a res­ur­rec­tion, a re­assem­bly of per­son­al­ity fac­tors; but even this does not en­tirely ex­plain the reap­pear­ance of the sur­viv­ing per­son­al­ity. Though you will prob­a­bly never un­der­stand the fact of such an in­ex­pli­ca­ble trans­ac­tion, you will some­time ex­pe­ri­en­tially know the truth of it if you do not re­ject the plan of mor­tal sur­vival.

30:4.16The plan of ini­tial mor­tal de­ten­tion on seven worlds of pro­gres­sive train­ing is nearly uni­ver­sal in Or­von­ton. In each lo­cal sys­tem of ap­prox­i­mately one thou­sand in­hab­ited plan­ets there are seven man­sion worlds, usu­ally satel­lites or sub­satel­lites of the sys­tem cap­i­tal. They are the re­ceiv­ing worlds for the ma­jor­ity of as­cend­ing mor­tals.

30:4.17Some­times all train­ing worlds of mor­tal res­i­dence are called uni­verse “man­sions,” and it was to such spheres that Je­sus al­luded when he said: “In my Fa­ther’s house are many man­sions.” From here on, within a given group of spheres like the man­sion worlds, as­cend­ers will pro­gress in­di­vid­u­ally from one sphere to an­other and from one phase of life to an­other, but they will al­ways ad­vance from one stage of uni­verse study to an­other in class for­ma­tion.

30:4.184. Mor­ontia Pro­gres­sors. From the man­sion worlds on up through the spheres of the sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, and the uni­verse, mor­tals are classed as mor­ontia pro­gres­sors; they are travers­ing the tran­si­tion spheres of mor­tal as­cen­sion. As the as­cend­ing mor­tals pro­gress from the lower to the higher of the mor­ontia worlds, they serve on count­less as­sign­ments in as­so­ci­a­tion with their teach­ers and in com­pany with their more ad­vanced and se­nior breth­ren.

30:4.19Mor­ontia pro­gres­sion per­tains to con­tin­u­ing ad­vance­ment of in­tel­lect, spirit, and per­son­al­ity form. Sur­vivors are still three-na­tured be­ings. Through­out the en­tire mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence they are wards of the lo­cal uni­verse. The regime of the super­uni­verse does not func­tion un­til the spirit ca­reer be­gins.

30:4.20Mor­tals ac­quire real spirit iden­tity just be­fore they leave the lo­cal uni­verse head­quar­ters for the re­ceiv­ing worlds of the mi­nor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse. Pass­ing from the fi­nal mor­ontia stage to the first or low­est spirit sta­tus is but a slight tran­si­tion. The mind, per­son­al­ity, and char­ac­ter are un­changed by such an ad­vance; only does the form un­dergo mod­i­fi­ca­tion. But the spirit form is just as real as the mor­ontia body, and it is equally dis­cern­i­ble.

30:4.21Be­fore de­part­ing from their na­tive lo­cal uni­verses for the super­uni­verse re­ceiv­ing worlds, the mor­tals of time are re­cip­i­ents of spirit con­fir­ma­tion from the Cre­ator Son and the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. From this point on, the sta­tus of the as­cend­ing mor­tal is for­ever set­tled. Super­uni­verse wards have never been known to go astray. As­cend­ing ser­a­phim are also ad­vanced in an­gelic stand­ing at the time of their de­par­ture from the lo­cal uni­verses.

30:4.225. Super­uni­verse Wards. All as­cend­ers ar­riv­ing on the train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verses be­come the wards of the An­cients of Days; they have tra­versed the mor­ontia life of the lo­cal uni­verse and are now ac­cred­ited spir­its. As young spir­its they be­gin the as­cen­sion of the super­uni­verse sys­tem of train­ing and cul­ture, ex­tend­ing from the re­ceiv­ing spheres of their mi­nor sec­tor in through the study worlds of the ten ma­jor sec­tors and on to the higher cul­tural spheres of the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters.

30:4.23There are three or­ders of stu­dent spir­its in ac­cor­dance with their so­journ upon the mi­nor sec­tor, ma­jor sec­tors, and the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds of spirit pro­gres­sion. As mor­ontia as­cend­ers stud­ied and worked on the worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse, so spirit as­cend­ers con­tinue to mas­ter new worlds while they prac­tice at giv­ing out to oth­ers that which they have im­bibed at the ex­pe­ri­en­tial founts of wis­dom. But go­ing to school as a spirit be­ing in the super­uni­verse ca­reer is very un­like any­thing that has ever en­tered the imag­i­na­tive realms of the ma­te­rial mind of man.

30:4.24Be­fore leav­ing the super­uni­verse for Ha­vona, these as­cend­ing spir­its re­ceive the same thor­ough course in super­uni­verse man­age­ment that they re­ceived dur­ing their mor­ontia ex­pe­ri­ence in lo­cal uni­verse super­vi­sion. Be­fore spirit mor­tals reach Ha­vona, their chief study, but not ex­clu­sive oc­cu­pa­tion, is the mas­tery of lo­cal and super­uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. The rea­son for all of this ex­pe­ri­ence is not now fully ap­par­ent, but no doubt such train­ing is wise and nec­es­sary in view of their pos­si­ble fu­ture des­tiny as mem­bers of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

30:4.25The super­uni­verse regime is not the same for all as­cend­ing mor­tals. They re­ceive the same gen­eral ed­u­ca­tion, but spe­cial groups and classes are car­ried through spe­cial courses of in­struc­tion and are put through spe­cific courses of train­ing.

30:4.266. Ha­vona Pil­grims. When spirit de­vel­op­ment is com­plete, even though not re­plete, then the sur­viv­ing mor­tal pre­pares for the long flight to Ha­vona, the haven of evo­lu­tion­ary spir­its. On earth you were a crea­ture of flesh and blood; through the lo­cal uni­verse you were a mor­ontia be­ing; through the super­uni­verse you were an evolv­ing spirit; with your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona your spir­i­tual ed­u­ca­tion be­gins in re­al­ity and in earnest; your even­tual ap­pear­ance on Par­a­dise will be as a per­fected spirit.

30:4.27The jour­ney from the super­uni­verse head­quar­ters to the Ha­vona re­ceiv­ing spheres is al­ways made alone. From now on no more class or group in­struc­tion will be ad­min­is­tered. You are through with the tech­ni­cal and ad­min­is­tra­tive train­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. Now be­gins your per­sonal ed­u­ca­tion, your in­di­vid­ual spir­i­tual train­ing. From first to last, through­out all Ha­vona, the in­struc­tion is per­sonal and three­fold in na­ture: in­tel­lec­tual, spir­i­tual, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

30:4.28The first act of your Ha­vona ca­reer will be to rec­og­nize and thank your trans­port se­con­a­phim for the long and safe jour­ney. Then you are pre­sented to those be­ings who will spon­sor your early Ha­vona ac­tiv­i­ties. Next you go to reg­is­ter your ar­rival and pre­pare your mes­sage of thanks­giv­ing and ado­ra­tion for dis­patch to the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse, the uni­verse Fa­ther who made pos­si­ble your son­ship ca­reer. This con­cludes the for­mal­i­ties of the Ha­vona ar­rival; where­upon you are ac­corded a long pe­riod of leisure for free ob­ser­va­tion, and this af­fords op­por­tu­nity for look­ing up your friends, fel­lows, and as­so­ciates of the long as­cen­sion ex­pe­ri­ence. You may also con­sult the broad­casts to as­cer­tain who of your fel­low pil­grims have de­parted for Ha­vona since the time of your leav­ing Uversa.

30:4.29The fact of your ar­rival on the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Ha­vona will be duly trans­mit­ted to the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse and per­son­ally con­veyed to your se­raphic guard­ian, wher­ever that ser­a­phim may chance to be.

30:4.30The as­cen­dant mor­tals have been thor­oughly trained in the af­fairs of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space; now they be­gin their long and prof­itable con­tact with the cre­ated spheres of per­fec­tion. What a prepa­ra­tion for some fu­ture work is af­forded by this com­bined, unique, and ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence! But I can­not tell you about Ha­vona; you must see these worlds to ap­pre­ci­ate their glory or to un­der­stand their grandeur.

30:4.317. Par­a­dise Ar­rivals. On reach­ing Par­a­dise with res­i­den­tial sta­tus, you be­gin the pro­gres­sive course in di­vin­ity and ab­sonity. Your res­i­dence on Par­a­dise sig­ni­fies that you have found God, and that you are to be mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Of all the crea­tures of the grand uni­verse, only those who are Fa­ther fused are mus­tered into the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity. Only such in­di­vid­u­als take the fi­nal­i­ter oath. Other be­ings of Par­a­dise per­fec­tion or at­tain­ment may be tem­porar­ily at­tached to this fi­nal­ity corps, but they are not of eter­nal as­sign­ment to the un­known and un­re­vealed mis­sion of this ac­cu­mu­lat­ing host of the evo­lu­tion­ary and per­fected vet­er­ans of time and space.

30:4.32Par­a­dise ar­rivals are ac­corded a pe­riod of free­dom, af­ter which they be­gin their as­so­ci­a­tions with the seven groups of the pri­mary super­na­phim. They are des­ig­nated Par­a­dise grad­u­ates when they have fin­ished their course with the con­duc­tors of wor­ship and then, as fi­nal­i­ters, are as­signed on ob­ser­va­tional and co-op­er­a­tive ser­vice to the ends of the far-flung cre­ation. As yet there seems to be no spe­cific or set­tled em­ploy­ment for the Mor­tal Corps of Fi­nal­i­ters, though they serve in many ca­pac­i­ties on worlds set­tled in light and life.

30:4.33If there should be no fu­ture or un­re­vealed des­tiny for the Mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, the pres­ent as­sign­ment of these as­cen­dant be­ings would be al­to­gether ad­e­quate and glo­ri­ous. Their pres­ent des­tiny wholly jus­ti­fies the uni­ver­sal plan of evo­lu­tion­ary as­cent. But the fu­ture ages of the evo­lu­tion of the spheres of outer space will un­doubt­edly fur­ther elab­o­rate, and with more re­plete­ness di­vinely il­lu­mi­nate, the wis­dom and lov­ing-kind­ness of the Gods in the ex­e­cu­tion of their di­vine plan of hu­man sur­vival and mor­tal as­cen­sion.

30:4.34This nar­ra­tive, to­gether with what has been re­vealed to you and with what you may ac­quire in con­nec­tion with in­struc­tion re­spect­ing your own world, pre­sents an out­line of the ca­reer of an as­cend­ing mor­tal. The story varies con­sid­er­ably in the dif­fer­ent super­uni­verses, but this recital af­fords a glimpse of the av­er­age plan of mor­tal pro­gres­sion as it is op­er­a­tive in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don and in the sev­enth seg­ment of the grand uni­verse, the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton.

30:4.35[Spon­sored by a Mighty Mes­sen­ger from Uversa.]

• after death › stages of existence

31:3.41. We know from the rec­ords that mor­tals are spir­its of the first or­der dur­ing their so­journ in the mi­nor sec­tors, and that they ad­vance to the sec­ond or­der when trans­lated to the ma­jor sec­tors, and to the third when they go for­ward to the cen­tral train­ing worlds of the super­uni­verse. Mor­tals be­come quar­tan or grad­u­ate spir­its af­ter reach­ing the sixth cir­cle of Ha­vona and be­come spir­its of the fifth or­der when they find the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. They sub­se­quently at­tain the sixth stage of spirit ex­is­tence upon tak­ing the oath that musters them for­ever into the eter­nity as­sign­ment of the Corps of the Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity.

• created › in image of God

32:2.8And then, when such a uni­verse has been so com­pletely or­ga­nized and so re­pletely manned, does the Cre­ator Son en­ter into the Fa­ther’s pro­posal to cre­ate mor­tal man in their di­vine im­age.

• created › by Creator Sons and Mother Spirits

33:1.4The Cre­ator Son is the vicegerent per­son­al­iza­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the di­vin­ity co-or­di­nate of the Eter­nal Son, and the cre­ative as­so­ciate of the In­fi­nite Spirit. To our uni­verse and all its in­hab­ited worlds the Sov­er­eign Son is, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, God. He per­son­i­fies all of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties which evolv­ing mor­tals can dis­cern­ingly com­pre­hend. This Son and his Spirit as­so­ciate are your cre­ator par­ents. To you, Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Son, is the su­preme per­son­al­ity; to you, the Eter­nal Son is super­su­preme—an in­fi­nite De­ity per­son­al­ity.

• human nature › dual natures seldom fully reconciled

34:6.9In ev­ery mor­tal there ex­ists a dual na­ture: the in­her­i­tance of an­i­mal ten­den­cies and the high urge of spirit en­dow­ment. Dur­ing the short life you live on Uran­tia, these two di­verse and op­pos­ing urges can sel­dom be fully rec­on­ciled; they can hardly be har­mo­nized and uni­fied; but through­out your life­time the com­bined Spirit ever min­is­ters to as­sist you in sub­ject­ing the flesh more and more to the lead­ing of the Spirit. Even though you must live your ma­te­rial life through, even though you can­not es­cape the body and its ne­ces­si­ties, nonethe­less, in pur­pose and ide­als you are em­pow­ered in­creas­ingly to sub­ject the an­i­mal na­ture to the mas­tery of the Spirit. There truly ex­ists within you a con­spir­acy of spir­i­tual forces, a con­fed­er­a­tion of di­vine pow­ers, whose ex­clu­sive pur­pose is to ef­fect your fi­nal de­liv­er­ance from ma­te­rial bond­age and fi­nite hand­i­caps.

• from normal worlds do not experience constant warfare between flesh and spirit

34:7.3The mor­tals of a nor­mal world do not ex­pe­ri­ence con­stant war­fare be­tween their phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual na­tures. They are con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of climb­ing up from the an­i­mal lev­els of ex­is­tence to the higher planes of spir­i­tual liv­ing, but this as­cent is more like un­der­go­ing an ed­u­ca­tional train­ing when com­pared with the in­tense con­flicts of Uran­tia mor­tals in this realm of the di­ver­gent ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual na­tures.

• after death › do not return to planet of nativity in same dispensation

39:4.155. The Trans­port­ers. These are the trans­port ser­a­phim who func­tion in the lo­cal sys­tems. In Sa­ta­nia, your sys­tem, they carry pas­sen­gers back and forth from Je­ru­sem and oth­er­wise serve as in­ter­plan­e­tary trans­port­ers. Sel­dom does a day pass in which a trans­port ser­a­phim of Sa­ta­nia does not de­posit some stu­dent vis­i­tor or some other trav­eler of spirit or semispirit na­ture on the shores of Uran­tia. These very space tra­versers will some­time carry you to and from the var­i­ous worlds of the sys­tem head­quar­ters group, and when you have fin­ished the Je­ru­sem as­sign­ment, they will carry you for­ward to Eden­tia. But un­der no cir­cum­stances will they carry you back­ward to the world of hu­man ori­gin. A mor­tal never re­turns to his na­tive planet dur­ing the dis­pen­sa­tion of his tem­po­ral ex­is­tence, and if he should re­turn dur­ing a sub­se­quent dis­pen­sa­tion, he would be es­corted by a trans­port ser­a­phim of the uni­verse head­quar­ters group.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › individualistic, suspicious, quarrelsome

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.

• all surviving m. are assigned guardians of destiny

39:8.6Guard­i­ans of des­tiny are drawn from the ranks of the more ex­pe­ri­enced an­gelic per­son­al­i­ties of all or­ders of ser­a­phim who have qual­i­fied for this ser­vice. All sur­viv­ing mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion des­tiny have tem­po­rary guard­i­ans as­signed, and these as­so­ciates may be­come per­ma­nently at­tached when mor­tal sur­vivors at­tain the req­ui­site in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. Be­fore mor­tal as­cend­ers leave the man­sion worlds, they all have per­ma­nent se­raphic as­so­ciates. This group of min­is­ter­ing spir­its is dis­cussed in con­nec­tion with the Uran­tia nar­ra­tives.

• created › a little lower than the angels
• created › as lowest order of intelligent personal creation

39:8.7It is not pos­si­ble for an­gels to at­tain God from the hu­man level of ori­gin, for they are cre­ated a “lit­tle higher than you”; but it has been wisely ar­ranged that, while they can­not pos­si­bly start up from the very bot­tom, the spir­i­tual low­lands of mor­tal ex­is­tence, they may go down to those who do start from the bot­tom and pi­lot such crea­tures, step by step, world by world, to the por­tals of Ha­vona. When mor­tal as­cend­ers leave Uversa to be­gin the cir­cles of Ha­vona, those guard­i­ans of at­tach­ment sub­se­quent to the life in the flesh will bid their pil­grim as­so­ciates a tem­po­rary farewell while they jour­ney to Seraph­ing­ton, the an­gelic des­ti­na­tion of the grand uni­verse. Here will these guard­i­ans at­tempt, and un­doubt­edly achieve, the seven cir­cles of se­raphic light.

• created › a little lower than the angels

40:5.2Like­wise does the Orig­i­nal and In­fi­nite Spirit, by a long se­ries of de­creas­ingly di­vine and in­creas­ingly hu­man or­ders, draw nearer and nearer to the strug­gling crea­tures of the realms, reach­ing the limit of ex­pres­sion in the an­gels—than whom you were cre­ated but a lit­tle lower—who per­son­ally guard and guide you in the life jour­ney of the mor­tal ca­reer of time.

• planetary types › planetary series › 6. Adjuster-fusion series

40:5.4Spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion con­sti­tutes the se­cret of per­sonal sur­vival and de­ter­mines the des­tiny of spir­i­tual as­cen­sion. And since the Thought Ad­justers are the only spir­its of fu­sion po­ten­tial to be iden­ti­fied with man dur­ing the life in the flesh, the mor­tals of time and space are pri­mar­ily clas­si­fied in ac­cor­dance with their re­la­tion to these di­vine gifts, the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tors. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion is as fol­lows:

40:5.51. Mor­tals of the tran­sient or ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster so­journ.

40:5.62. Mor­tals of the non-Ad­juster-fu­sion types.

40:5.73. Mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial.

• planetary types › series 1 mortals › Adjusters loaned to
• primitive mortals › Adjusters loaned to

40:5.8Se­ries one—mor­tals of the tran­sient or ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster so­journ. This se­ries des­ig­na­tion is tem­po­rary for any evolv­ing planet, be­ing used dur­ing the early stages of all in­hab­ited worlds ex­cept those of the sec­ond se­ries.

• planetary types › series 1 mortals › have group but not personal seraphic guardians

40:5.9Mor­tals of se­ries one in­habit the worlds of space dur­ing the ear­lier epochs of the evo­lu­tion of man­kind and em­brace the most prim­i­tive types of hu­man minds. On many worlds like pre-Adamic Uran­tia great num­bers of the higher and more ad­vanced types of prim­i­tive men ac­quire sur­vival ca­pac­ity but fail to at­tain Ad­juster fu­sion. For ages upon ages, be­fore man’s as­cent to the level of higher spir­i­tual vo­li­tion, the Ad­justers oc­cupy the minds of these strug­gling crea­tures dur­ing their short lives in the flesh, and the mo­ment such will crea­tures are in­dwelt by Ad­justers, the group guard­ian an­gels be­gin to func­tion. While these mor­tals of the first se­ries do not have per­sonal guard­i­ans, they do have group cus­to­di­ans.

• planetary types › series 1 mortals › survive through embrace of Mother Spirit

40:5.10An ex­pe­ri­en­tial Ad­juster re­mains with a prim­i­tive hu­man be­ing through­out his en­tire life­time in the flesh. The Ad­justers con­tribute much to the ad­vance­ment of prim­i­tive men but are un­able to form eter­nal unions with such mor­tals. This tran­sient min­istry of the Ad­justers ac­com­plishes two things: First, they gain valu­able and ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence in the na­ture and work­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary in­tel­lect, an ex­pe­ri­ence which will be in­valu­able in con­nec­tion with later con­tacts on other worlds with be­ings of higher de­vel­op­ment. Sec­ond, the tran­sient so­journ of the Ad­justers con­tributes much to­wards prepar­ing their mor­tal sub­jects for pos­si­ble sub­se­quent Spirit fu­sion. All God-seek­ing souls of this type achieve eter­nal life through the spir­i­tual em­brace of the Mother Spirit of the lo­cal uni­verse, thus be­com­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals of the lo­cal uni­verse regime. Many per­sons from pre-Adamic Uran­tia were thus ad­vanced to the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

40:5.11The Gods who or­dained that mor­tal man should climb to higher lev­els of spir­i­tual in­tel­li­gence through long ages of evo­lu­tion­ary tri­als and tribu­la­tions, take note of his sta­tus and needs at ev­ery stage of the as­cent; and al­ways are they di­vinely fair and just, even charm­ingly mer­ci­ful, in the fi­nal judg­ments of these strug­gling mor­tals of the early days of the evolv­ing races.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › do not fuse with Adjusters
• planetary types › series 2 mortals › Adjusters loaned to; afford far more help than they give Urantia mortals
• planetary types › series 2 mortals › nonbreathers are

40:5.12Se­ries two—mor­tals of the non-Ad­juster-fu­sion types. These are spe­cial­ized types of hu­man be­ings who are not able to ef­fect eter­nal union with their in­dwelling Ad­justers. Type clas­si­fi­ca­tion among the one-, two-, and three-brained races is not a fac­tor in Ad­juster fu­sion; all such mor­tals are akin, but these non-Ad­juster-fu­sion types are a wholly dif­fer­ent and markedly mod­i­fied or­der of will crea­tures. Many of the non­breathers be­long to this se­ries, and there are nu­mer­ous other groups who do not or­di­nar­ily fuse with Ad­justers.

• planetary types › series 2 mortals › often indwelt by virgin Adjusters

40:5.13Like se­ries num­ber one, each mem­ber of this group en­joys the min­istry of a sin­gle Ad­juster dur­ing life­time in the flesh. Dur­ing tem­po­ral life these Ad­justers do ev­ery­thing for their sub­jects of tem­po­rary in­dwelling that is done on other worlds where the mor­tals are of fu­sion po­ten­tial. The mor­tals of this sec­ond se­ries are of­ten in­dwelt by vir­gin Ad­justers, but the higher hu­man types are of­ten in li­ai­son with mas­ter­ful and ex­pe­ri­enced Mon­i­tors.

• planetary types › series 2 mortals › enjoy same devoted seraphic service as we do
• planetary types › series 2 mortals › surviving souls become Spirit-fused

40:5.14In the as­cen­dant plan for up­step­ping the an­i­mal-ori­gin crea­tures, these be­ings en­joy the same de­voted ser­vice of the Sons of God as is ex­tended to the Uran­tia type of mor­tals. Se­raphic co-op­er­a­tion with Ad­justers on the non­fu­sion plan­ets is just as fully pro­vided as on the worlds of fu­sion po­ten­tial; the guard­i­ans of des­tiny min­is­ter on such spheres just as on Uran­tia and sim­i­larly func­tion at the time of mor­tal sur­vival, at which time the sur­viv­ing soul be­comes Spirit fused.

• planetary types › series 2 mortals › on mansion worlds, speak system language by modified technique; physically different

40:5.15When you en­counter these mod­i­fied mor­tal types on the man­sion worlds, you will find no dif­fi­culty in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with them. There they speak the same sys­tem lan­guage but by a mod­i­fied tech­nique. These be­ings are iden­ti­cal with your or­der of crea­ture life in spirit and per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tions, dif­fer­ing only in cer­tain phys­i­cal fea­tures and in the fact that they are non­fusible with Thought Ad­justers.

• planetary types › series 2 mortals › unknown why they cannot fuse with Adjusters

40:5.16As to just why this type of crea­ture is never able to fuse with the Ad­justers of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, I am un­able to say. Some of us in­cline to the be­lief that the Life Car­ri­ers, in their ef­forts to for­mu­late be­ings ca­pa­ble of main­tain­ing ex­is­tence in an un­usual plan­e­tary en­vi­ron­ment, are con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of mak­ing such rad­i­cal mod­i­fi­ca­tions in the uni­verse plan of in­tel­li­gent will crea­tures that it be­comes in­her­ently im­pos­si­ble to bring about per­ma­nent union with the Ad­justers. Of­ten have we asked: Is this an in­tended or an un­in­tended part of the as­cen­sion plan? but we have not found the an­swer.

• planetary types › planetary series › 2. brain-type series
• planetary types › series 3 mortals › 1-, 2-, and 3-brained types
• planetary types › series 3 mortals › Adjuster-fusion potential

40:5.17Se­ries three—mor­tals of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial. All Fa­ther-fused mor­tals are of an­i­mal ori­gin, just like the Uran­tia races. They em­brace mor­tals of the one-brained, two-brained, and three-brained types of Ad­juster-fu­sion po­ten­tial. Uran­tians are of the in­ter­me­di­ate or two-brained type, be­ing in many ways hu­manly su­pe­rior to the one-brained groups but def­i­nitely lim­ited in com­par­i­son with the three-brained or­ders. These three types of phys­i­cal-brain en­dow­ment are not fac­tors in Ad­juster be­stowal, in se­raphic ser­vice, or in any other phase of spirit min­istry. The in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual dif­fer­en­tial be­tween the three brain types char­ac­ter­izes in­di­vid­u­als who are oth­er­wise quite alike in mind en­dow­ment and spir­i­tual po­ten­tial, be­ing great­est in the tem­po­ral life and tend­ing to di­min­ish as the man­sion worlds are tra­versed one by one. From the sys­tem head­quar­ters on, the pro­gres­sion of these three types is the same, and their even­tual Par­a­dise des­tiny is iden­ti­cal.

40:5.18The un­num­bered se­ries. These nar­ra­tives can­not pos­si­bly em­brace all of the fas­ci­nat­ing vari­a­tions in the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds. You know that ev­ery tenth world is a dec­i­mal or ex­per­i­men­tal planet, but you know noth­ing of the other vari­ables that punc­tu­ate the pro­ces­sional of the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres. There are dif­fer­ences too nu­mer­ous to nar­rate even be­tween the re­vealed or­ders of liv­ing crea­tures as be­tween plan­ets of the same group, but this pre­sen­ta­tion makes clear the es­sen­tial dif­fer­ences in re­la­tion to the as­cen­sion ca­reer. And the as­cen­sion ca­reer is the most im­por­tant fac­tor in any con­sid­er­a­tion of the mor­tals of time and space.

• after death › denominated “ascending sons” after fusion
• after death › denominated “faith sons” prior to fusion
• created › as lowest order of intelligent personal creation

40:6.1The mor­tal races stand as the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the low­est or­der of in­tel­li­gent and per­sonal cre­ation. You mor­tals are di­vinely beloved, and ev­ery one of you may choose to ac­cept the cer­tain des­tiny of a glo­ri­ous ex­pe­ri­ence, but you are not yet by na­ture of the di­vine or­der; you are wholly mor­tal. You will be reck­oned as as­cend­ing sons the in­stant fu­sion takes place, but the sta­tus of the mor­tals of time and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the fi­nal amal­ga­ma­tion of the sur­viv­ing mor­tal soul with some type of eter­nal and im­mor­tal spirit.

40:6.2It is a solemn and su­per­nal fact that such lowly and ma­te­rial crea­tures as Uran­tia hu­man be­ings are the sons of God, faith chil­dren of the High­est. “Be­hold, what man­ner of love the Fa­ther has be­stowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.” “As many as re­ceived him, to them gave he the power to rec­og­nize that they are the sons of God.” While “it does not yet ap­pear what you shall be,” even now “you are the faith sons of God”; “for you have not re­ceived the spirit of bond­age again to fear, but you have re­ceived the spirit of son­ship, whereby you cry, ‘our Fa­ther.’” Spoke the prophet of old in the name of the eter­nal God: “Even to them will I give in my house a place and a name bet­ter than sons; I will give them an ev­er­last­ing name, one that shall not be cut off.” “And be­cause you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts.”

40:6.3All evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of mor­tal habi­ta­tion har­bor these faith sons of God, sons of grace and mercy, mor­tal be­ings be­long­ing to the di­vine fam­ily and ac­cord­ingly called the sons of God. Uran­tia mor­tals are en­ti­tled to re­gard them­selves as be­ing the sons of God be­cause:

40:6.41. You are sons of spir­i­tual prom­ise, faith sons; you have ac­cepted the sta­tus of son­ship. You be­lieve in the re­al­ity of your son­ship, and thus does your son­ship with God be­come eter­nally real.

40:6.52. A Cre­ator Son of God be­came one of you; he is your el­der brother in fact; and if in spirit you be­come truly re­lated broth­ers of Christ, the vic­to­ri­ous Mi­chael, then in spirit must you also be sons of that Fa­ther which you have in com­mon—even the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther of all.

40:6.63. You are sons be­cause the spirit of a Son has been poured out upon you, has been freely and cer­tainly be­stowed upon all Uran­tia races. This spirit ever draws you to­ward the di­vine Son, who is its source, and to­ward the Par­a­dise Fa­ther, who is the source of that di­vine Son.

40:6.74. Of his di­vine free-will­ness, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther has given you your crea­ture per­son­al­i­ties. You have been en­dowed with a mea­sure of that di­vine spon­tane­ity of free­will ac­tion which God shares with all who may be­come his sons.

40:6.85. There dwells within you a frag­ment of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and you are thus di­rectly re­lated to the di­vine Fa­ther of all the Sons of God.

• after death › denominated “faith sons” prior to fusion

40:7.2Your own races of sur­viv­ing mor­tals be­long to this group of the as­cend­ing Sons of God. You are now plan­e­tary sons, evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures de­rived from the Life Car­rier im­plan­ta­tions and mod­i­fied by the Adamic-life in­fu­sion, hardly yet as­cend­ing sons; but you are in­deed sons of as­cen­sion po­ten­tial—even to the high­est heights of glory and di­vin­ity at­tain­ment—and this spir­i­tual sta­tus of as­cend­ing son­ship you may at­tain by faith and by free­will co-op­er­a­tion with the spir­i­tu­al­iz­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of the in­dwelling Ad­juster. When you and your Ad­justers are fi­nally and for­ever fused, when you two are made one, even as in Christ Mi­chael the Son of God and the Son of Man are one, then in fact have you be­come the as­cend­ing sons of God.

• God is no respecter of persons

40:10.13Thus, in the fi­nal anal­y­sis, it would be hardly proper to use the words “greater” or “lesser” in con­trast­ing the des­tinies of the as­cend­ing or­ders of son­ship. Ev­ery such son of God shares the fa­ther­hood of God, and God loves each of his crea­ture sons alike; he is no more a re­specter of as­cen­dant des­tinies than is he of the crea­tures who may at­tain such des­tinies. The Fa­ther loves each of his sons, and that af­fec­tion is not less than true, holy, di­vine, un­lim­ited, eter­nal, and unique—a love be­stowed upon this son and upon that son, in­di­vid­u­ally, per­son­ally, and ex­clu­sively. And such a love ut­terly eclipses all other facts. Son­ship is the su­preme re­la­tion­ship of the crea­ture to the Cre­ator.

• planetary types › series 2 mortals › resurrection halls on Edentia, Melchizedek sphere

43:1.5Sit­u­ated on the sum­mit of the sev­enth high­land range are the res­ur­rec­tion halls of Eden­tia, wherein awaken the as­cend­ing mor­tals of the sec­ondary mod­i­fied or­der of as­cen­sion. These cham­bers of crea­ture re­assem­bly are un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­deks. The first of the re­ceiv­ing spheres of Eden­tia (like the planet Mel­chiz­e­dek near Sal­ving­ton) also has spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion halls, wherein the mor­tals of the mod­i­fied or­ders of as­cen­sion are re­assem­bled.

• after death › summary of ascension career

43:8.4On the man­sion worlds you com­pleted the uni­fi­ca­tion of the evolv­ing mor­tal per­son­al­ity; on the sys­tem cap­i­tal you at­tained Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship and achieved the will­ing­ness to sub­mit the self to the dis­ci­plines of group ac­tiv­i­ties and co-or­di­nated un­der­tak­ings; but now on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds you are to achieve the real so­cial­iza­tion of your evolv­ing mor­ontia per­son­al­ity. This su­per­nal cul­tural ac­quire­ment con­sists in learn­ing how to:

• celestial artisans sometimes help gifted individuals

44:8.1Al­though ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans do not per­son­ally work on ma­te­rial plan­ets, such as Uran­tia, they do come, from time to time, from the head­quar­ters of the sys­tem to prof­fer help to the nat­u­rally gifted in­di­vid­u­als of the mor­tal races. When thus as­signed, these ar­ti­sans tem­porar­ily work un­der the super­vi­sion of the plan­e­tary an­gels of prog­ress. The se­raphic hosts co-op­er­ate with these ar­ti­sans in at­tempt­ing to as­sist those mor­tal artists who pos­sess in­her­ent en­dow­ments, and who also pos­sess Ad­justers of spe­cial and pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence.

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

• pass through short and intense test

48:7.1311. The weak in­dulge in res­o­lu­tions, but the strong act. Life is but a day’s work—do it well. The act is ours; the con­se­quences God’s.

• after death › summary of ascension career

48:8.4In travers­ing the as­cend­ing scale of liv­ing ex­is­tence from mor­tal man to the De­ity em­brace, you ac­tu­ally live the very life of ev­ery pos­si­ble phase and stage of per­fected crea­ture ex­is­tence within the lim­its of the pres­ent uni­verse age. From mor­tal man to Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ter em­braces all that now can be—en­com­passes ev­ery­thing pres­ently pos­si­ble to the liv­ing or­ders of in­tel­li­gent, per­fected fi­nite crea­ture be­ings. If the fu­ture des­tiny of the Par­a­dise fi­nal­i­ters is ser­vice in new uni­verses now in the mak­ing, it is as­sured that in this new and fu­ture cre­ation there will be no cre­ated or­ders of ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­ings whose lives will be wholly dif­fer­ent from those which mor­tal fi­nal­i­ters have lived on some world as a part of their as­cend­ing train­ing, as one of the stages of their age­long prog­ress from an­i­mal to an­gel and from an­gel to spirit and from spirit to God.

49:2.1There is a stan­dard and ba­sic pat­tern of veg­etable and an­i­mal life in each sys­tem. But the Life Car­ri­ers are of­ten­times con­fronted with the ne­ces­sity of mod­i­fy­ing these ba­sic pat­terns to con­form to the vary­ing phys­i­cal con­di­tions which con­front them on nu­mer­ous worlds of space. They fos­ter a gen­er­al­ized sys­tem type of mor­tal crea­ture, but there are seven dis­tinct phys­i­cal types as well as thou­sands upon thou­sands of mi­nor vari­ants of these seven out­stand­ing dif­fer­en­ti­a­tions:

49:2.21. At­mo­spheric types.

49:2.32. El­e­men­tal types.

49:2.43. Grav­ity types.

49:2.54. Tem­per­a­ture types.

49:2.65. Elec­tric types.

49:2.76. En­er­giz­ing types.

49:2.87. Un­named types.

49:2.9The Sa­ta­nia sys­tem con­tains all of these types and nu­mer­ous in­ter­me­di­ate groups, al­though some are very spar­ingly rep­re­sented.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types

49:2.101. The at­mo­spheric types. The phys­i­cal dif­fer­ences of the worlds of mor­tal habi­ta­tion are chiefly de­ter­mined by the na­ture of the at­mo­sphere; other in­flu­ences which con­tribute to the plan­e­tary dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of life are rel­a­tively mi­nor.

49:2.11The pres­ent at­mo­spheric sta­tus of Uran­tia is al­most ideal for the sup­port of the breath­ing type of man, but the hu­man type can be so mod­i­fied that it can live on both the super­at­mo­spheric and the sub­at­mo­spheric plan­ets. Such mod­i­fi­ca­tions also ex­tend to the an­i­mal life, which dif­fers greatly on the var­i­ous in­hab­ited spheres. There is a very great mod­i­fi­ca­tion of an­i­mal or­ders on both the sub- and the super­at­mo­spheric worlds.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › a.) subbreathers › 2-1/2% in Satania; Martians would be
• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › b.) mid-breathers › 91% in Satania; Urantians are
• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › c.) superbreathers › 5% in Satania; beings on Venus would be

49:2.12Of the at­mo­spheric types in Sa­ta­nia, about two and one-half per cent are sub­breathers, about five per cent super­breathers, and over ninety-one per cent are mid-breathers, al­to­gether ac­count­ing for ninety-eight and one-half per cent of the Sa­ta­nia worlds.

49:2.13Be­ings such as the Uran­tia races are clas­si­fied as mid-breathers; you rep­re­sent the av­er­age or typ­i­cal breath­ing or­der of mor­tal ex­is­tence. If in­tel­li­gent crea­tures should ex­ist on a planet with an at­mo­sphere sim­i­lar to that of your near neigh­bor, Venus, they would be­long to the super­breather group, while those in­hab­it­ing a planet with an at­mo­sphere as thin as that of your outer neigh­bor, Mars, would be de­nom­i­nated sub­breathers.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › 1-1/2% in Satania; beings on moon would be

49:2.14If mor­tals should in­habit a planet de­void of air, like your moon, they would be­long to the sep­a­rate or­der of non­breathers. This type rep­re­sents a rad­i­cal or ex­treme ad­just­ment to the plan­e­tary en­vi­ron­ment and is sep­a­rately con­sid­ered. Non­breathers ac­count for the re­main­ing one and one-half per cent of Sa­ta­nia worlds.

• planetary types › 2. elemental types
• planetary types › 2. elemental types › b.) land types; 70% in Satania
• planetary types › 2. elemental types › c.) water types; 7% in Satania

49:2.152. The el­e­men­tal types. These dif­fer­en­ti­a­tions have to do with the re­la­tion of mor­tals to wa­ter, air, and land, and there are four dis­tinct species of in­tel­li­gent life as they are re­lated to these habi­tats. The Uran­tia races are of the land or­der.

• planetary types › 2. elemental types › a.) air navigating; 10% in Satania

49:2.16It is quite im­pos­si­ble for you to en­vis­age the en­vi­ron­ment which pre­vails dur­ing the early ages of some worlds. These un­usual con­di­tions make it nec­es­sary for the evolv­ing an­i­mal life to re­main in its ma­rine nurs­ery habi­tat for longer pe­ri­ods than on those plan­ets which very early pro­vide a hos­pitable land-and-at­mo­sphere en­vi­ron­ment. Con­versely, on some worlds of the super­breathers, when the planet is not too large, it is some­times ex­pe­di­ent to pro­vide for a mor­tal type which can read­ily ne­go­ti­ate at­mo­spheric pas­sage. These air nav­i­ga­tors some­times in­ter­vene be­tween the wa­ter and land groups, and they al­ways live in a mea­sure upon the ground, even­tu­ally evolv­ing into land dwellers. But on some worlds, for ages they con­tinue to fly even af­ter they have be­come land-type be­ings.

49:2.17It is both amaz­ing and amus­ing to ob­serve the early civ­i­liza­tion of a prim­i­tive race of hu­man be­ings tak­ing shape, in one case, in the air and tree­tops and, in an­other, midst the shal­low wa­ters of shel­tered tropic basins, as well as on the bot­tom, sides, and shores of these ma­rine gar­dens of the dawn races of such ex­traor­di­nary spheres. Even on Uran­tia there was a long age dur­ing which prim­i­tive man pre­served him­self and ad­vanced his prim­i­tive civ­i­liza­tion by liv­ing for the most part in the tree­tops as did his ear­lier ar­bo­real an­ces­tors. And on Uran­tia you still have a group of diminu­tive mam­mals (the bat fam­ily) that are air nav­i­ga­tors, and your seals and whales, of ma­rine habi­tat, are also of the mam­malian or­der.

49:2.18In Sa­ta­nia, of the el­e­men­tal types, seven per cent are wa­ter, ten per cent air, sev­enty per cent land, and thir­teen per cent com­bined land-and-air types. But these mod­i­fi­ca­tions of early in­tel­li­gent crea­tures are nei­ther hu­man fishes nor hu­man birds. They are of the hu­man and pre­hu­man types, nei­ther super­fishes nor glo­ri­fied birds but dis­tinctly mor­tal.

• planetary types › 3. gravity types

49:2.193. The grav­ity types. By mod­i­fi­ca­tion of cre­ative de­sign, in­tel­li­gent be­ings are so con­structed that they can freely func­tion on spheres both smaller and larger than Uran­tia, thus be­ing, in mea­sure, ac­com­mo­dated to the grav­ity of those plan­ets which are not of ideal size and den­sity.

49:2.20The var­i­ous plan­e­tary types of mor­tals vary in height, the av­er­age in Neb­a­don be­ing a tri­fle un­der seven feet. Some of the larger worlds are peo­pled with be­ings who are only about two and one-half feet in height. Mor­tal stature ranges from here on up through the av­er­age heights on the av­er­age-sized plan­ets to around ten feet on the smaller in­hab­ited spheres. In Sa­ta­nia there is only one race un­der four feet in height. Twenty per cent of the Sa­ta­nia in­hab­ited worlds are peo­pled with mor­tals of the mod­i­fied grav­ity types oc­cu­py­ing the larger and the smaller plan­ets.

• planetary types › 4. temperature types

49:2.214. The tem­per­a­ture types. It is pos­si­ble to cre­ate liv­ing be­ings who can with­stand tem­per­a­tures both much higher and much lower than the life range of the Uran­tia races. There are five dis­tinct or­ders of be­ings as they are clas­si­fied with ref­er­ence to heat-reg­u­lat­ing mech­a­nisms. In this scale the Uran­tia races are num­ber three. Thirty per cent of Sa­ta­nia worlds are peo­pled with races of mod­i­fied tem­per­a­ture types. Twelve per cent be­long to the higher tem­per­a­ture ranges, eigh­teen per cent to the lower, as com­pared with Uran­tians, who func­tion in the mid-tem­per­a­ture group.

• planetary types › 5. electric types

49:2.225. The elec­tric types. The elec­tric, mag­netic, and elec­tronic be­hav­ior of the worlds varies greatly. There are ten de­signs of mor­tal life var­i­ously fash­ioned to with­stand the dif­fer­en­tial en­ergy of the spheres. These ten va­ri­eties also re­act in slightly dif­fer­ent ways to the chem­i­cal rays of or­di­nary sun­light. But these slight phys­i­cal vari­a­tions in no way af­fect the in­tel­lec­tual or the spir­i­tual life.

49:2.23Of the elec­tric group­ings of mor­tal life, al­most twenty-three per cent be­long to class num­ber four, the Uran­tia type of ex­is­tence. These types are dis­tributed as fol­lows: num­ber 1, one per cent; num­ber 2, two per cent; num­ber 3, five per cent; num­ber 4, twenty-three per cent; num­ber 5, twenty-seven per cent; num­ber 6, twenty-four per cent; num­ber 7, eight per cent; num­ber 8, five per cent; num­ber 9, three per cent; num­ber 10, two per cent—in whole per­cent­ages.

• planetary types › 6. energizing types

49:2.246. The en­er­giz­ing types. Not all worlds are alike in the man­ner of tak­ing in en­ergy. Not all in­hab­ited worlds have an at­mo­spheric ocean suited to res­pi­ra­tory ex­change of gases, such as is pres­ent on Uran­tia. Dur­ing the ear­lier and the later stages of many plan­ets, be­ings of your pres­ent or­der could not ex­ist; and when the res­pi­ra­tory fac­tors of a planet are very high or very low, but when all other pre­req­ui­sites to in­tel­li­gent life are ad­e­quate, the Life Car­ri­ers of­ten es­tab­lish on such worlds a mod­i­fied form of mor­tal ex­is­tence, be­ings who are com­pe­tent to ef­fect their life-pro­cess ex­changes di­rectly by means of light-en­ergy and the first­hand power trans­mu­ta­tions of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

49:2.25There are six dif­fer­ing types of an­i­mal and mor­tal nu­tri­tion: The sub­breathers em­ploy the first type of nu­tri­tion, the ma­rine dwellers the sec­ond, the mid-breathers the third, as on Uran­tia. The super­breathers em­ploy the fourth type of en­ergy in­take, while the non­breathers uti­lize the fifth or­der of nu­tri­tion and en­ergy. The sixth tech­nique of en­er­giz­ing is lim­ited to the mid­way crea­tures.

• planetary types › 7. unnamed types

49:2.267. The un­named types. There are nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional phys­i­cal vari­a­tions in plan­e­tary life, but all of these dif­fer­ences are wholly mat­ters of anatom­i­cal mod­i­fi­ca­tion, phys­i­o­logic dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion, and elec­tro­chem­i­cal ad­just­ment. Such dis­tinc­tions do not con­cern the in­tel­lec­tual or the spir­i­tual life.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › worlds have little or no air; 7% in Orvonton

49:3.1The ma­jor­ity of in­hab­ited plan­ets are peo­pled with the breath­ing type of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. But there are also or­ders of mor­tals who are able to live on worlds with lit­tle or no air. Of the Or­von­ton in­hab­ited worlds this type amounts to less than seven per cent. In Neb­a­don this per­cent­age is less than three. In all Sa­ta­nia there are only nine such worlds.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › worlds have incessant meteor bombardment, disastrous electrical storms

49:3.2There are so very few of the non­breather type of in­hab­ited worlds in Sa­ta­nia be­cause this more re­cently or­ga­nized sec­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek still abounds in me­te­oric space bod­ies; and worlds with­out a pro­tec­tive fric­tion at­mo­sphere are sub­ject to in­ces­sant bom­bard­ment by these wan­der­ers. Even some of the comets con­sist of me­teor swarms, but as a rule they are dis­rupted smaller bod­ies of mat­ter.

49:3.3Mil­lions upon mil­lions of me­te­orites en­ter the at­mo­sphere of Uran­tia daily, com­ing in at the rate of al­most two hun­dred miles a sec­ond. On the non­breath­ing worlds the ad­vanced races must do much to pro­tect them­selves from me­teor dam­age by mak­ing elec­tri­cal in­stal­la­tions which op­er­ate to con­sume or shunt the me­te­ors. Great dan­ger con­fronts them when they ven­ture be­yond these pro­tected zones. These worlds are also sub­ject to dis­as­trous elec­tri­cal storms of a na­ture un­known on Uran­tia. Dur­ing such times of tremen­dous en­ergy fluc­tu­a­tion the in­hab­i­tants must take refuge in their spe­cial struc­tures of pro­tec­tive in­su­la­tion.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › do not eat food or drink water

49:3.4Life on the worlds of the non­breathers is rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent from what it is on Uran­tia. The non­breathers do not eat food or drink wa­ter as do the Uran­tia races. The re­ac­tions of the ner­vous sys­tem, the heat-reg­u­lat­ing mech­a­nism, and the metabolism of these spe­cial­ized peo­ples are rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent from such func­tions of Uran­tia mor­tals. Al­most ev­ery act of liv­ing, aside from re­pro­duc­tion, dif­fers, and even the meth­ods of pro­cre­ation are some­what dif­fer­ent.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › candidates for Spirit fusion

49:3.5On the non­breath­ing worlds the an­i­mal species are rad­i­cally un­like those found on the at­mo­spheric plan­ets. The non­breath­ing plan of life varies from the tech­nique of ex­is­tence on an at­mo­spheric world; even in sur­vival their peo­ples dif­fer, be­ing can­di­dates for Spirit fu­sion. Nev­er­the­less, these be­ings en­joy life and carry for­ward the ac­tiv­i­ties of the realm with the same rel­a­tive tri­als and joys that are ex­pe­ri­enced by the mor­tals liv­ing on at­mo­spheric worlds. In mind and char­ac­ter the non­breathers do not dif­fer from other mor­tal types.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › inhabit sphere close to Urantia

49:3.6You would be more than in­ter­ested in the plan­e­tary con­duct of this type of mor­tal be­cause such a race of be­ings in­hab­its a sphere in close prox­im­ity to Uran­tia.

• all are bipeds

49:4.1There are great dif­fer­ences be­tween the mor­tals of the dif­fer­ent worlds, even among those be­long­ing to the same in­tel­lec­tual and phys­i­cal types, but all mor­tals of will dig­nity are erect an­i­mals, bipeds.

• planetary types › planetary series › 2. brain-type series
• planetary types › series 3 mortals › 1-, 2-, and 3-brained types

49:4.2There are six ba­sic evo­lu­tion­ary races: three pri­mary—red, yel­low, and blue; and three sec­ondary—or­ange, green, and in­digo. Most in­hab­ited worlds have all of these races, but many of the three-brained plan­ets har­bor only the three pri­mary types. Some lo­cal sys­tems also have only these three races.

• endowed with 12 senses

49:4.3The av­er­age spe­cial phys­i­cal-sense en­dow­ment of hu­man be­ings is twelve, though the spe­cial senses of the three-brained mor­tals are ex­tended slightly be­yond those of the one- and two-brained types; they can see and hear con­sid­er­ably more than the Uran­tia races.

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.

49:4.5Sea­sons and tem­per­a­ture vari­a­tions oc­cur on all sun­lighted and sun-heated plan­ets. Agri­cul­ture is uni­ver­sal on all at­mo­spheric worlds; till­ing the soil is the one pur­suit that is com­mon to the ad­vanc­ing races of all such plan­ets.

• planetary types › life-spans from 25 to 500 years

49:4.6Mor­tals all have the same gen­eral strug­gles with mi­cro­scopic foes in their early days, such as you now ex­pe­ri­ence on Uran­tia, though per­haps not so ex­ten­sive. The length of life varies on the dif­fer­ent plan­ets from twenty-five years on the prim­i­tive worlds to near five hun­dred on the more ad­vanced and older spheres.

• human nature › m. innately social; not good to be alone

49:4.7Hu­man be­ings are all gre­gar­i­ous, both tribal and racial. These group seg­re­ga­tions are in­her­ent in their ori­gin and con­sti­tu­tion. Such ten­den­cies can be mod­i­fied only by ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion and by grad­ual spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion. The so­cial, eco­nomic, and gov­ern­men­tal prob­lems of the in­hab­ited worlds vary in ac­cor­dance with the age of the plan­ets and the de­gree to which they have been in­flu­enced by the suc­ces­sive so­journs of the di­vine Sons.

• after death › afterlives of all types very similar

49:4.8Mind is the be­stowal of the In­fi­nite Spirit and func­tions quite the same in di­verse en­vi­ron­ments. The mind of mor­tals is akin, re­gard­less of cer­tain struc­tural and chem­i­cal dif­fer­ences which char­ac­ter­ize the phys­i­cal na­tures of the will crea­tures of the lo­cal sys­tems. Re­gard­less of per­sonal or phys­i­cal plan­e­tary dif­fer­ences, the men­tal life of all these var­i­ous or­ders of mor­tals is very sim­i­lar, and their im­me­di­ate ca­reers af­ter death are very much alike.

49:4.9But mor­tal mind with­out im­mor­tal spirit can­not sur­vive. The mind of man is mor­tal; only the be­stowed spirit is im­mor­tal. Sur­vival is de­pen­dent on spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion by the min­istry of the Ad­juster—on the birth and evo­lu­tion of the im­mor­tal soul; at least, there must not have de­vel­oped an an­tag­o­nism to­wards the Ad­juster’s mis­sion of ef­fect­ing the spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tion of the ma­te­rial mind.

49:5.1It will be some­what dif­fi­cult to make an ad­e­quate por­trayal of the plan­e­tary se­ries of mor­tals be­cause you know so lit­tle about them, and be­cause there are so many vari­a­tions. Mor­tal crea­tures may, how­ever, be stud­ied from nu­mer­ous view­points, among which are the fol­low­ing:

49:5.21. Ad­just­ment to plan­e­tary en­vi­ron­ment.

49:5.32. Brain-type se­ries.

49:5.43. Spirit-re­cep­tion se­ries.

49:5.54. Plan­e­tary-mor­tal epochs.

49:5.65. Crea­ture-kin­ship se­ri­als.

49:5.76. Ad­juster-fu­sion se­ries.

49:5.87. Tech­niques of ter­res­trial es­cape.

49:5.9The in­hab­ited spheres of the seven super­uni­verses are peo­pled with mor­tals who si­mul­ta­ne­ously clas­sify in some one or more cat­e­gories of each of these seven gen­er­al­ized classes of evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture life. But even these gen­eral clas­si­fi­ca­tions make no pro­vi­sion for such be­ings as mid­soniters nor for cer­tain other forms of in­tel­li­gent life. The in­hab­ited worlds, as they have been pre­sented in these nar­ra­tives, are peo­pled with evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tal crea­tures, but there are other life forms.

• planetary types › planetary series › 1. adjustment to planetary environment

49:5.101. Ad­just­ment to plan­e­tary en­vi­ron­ment. There are three gen­eral groups of in­hab­ited worlds from the stand­point of the ad­just­ment of crea­ture life to the plan­e­tary en­vi­ron­ment: the nor­mal ad­just­ment group, the rad­i­cal ad­just­ment group, and the ex­per­i­men­tal group.

• planetary types › 1. atmospheric types › d.) nonbreathers › radical adjustment to planetary conditions

49:5.11Nor­mal ad­just­ments to plan­e­tary con­di­tions fol­low the gen­eral phys­i­cal pat­terns pre­vi­ously con­sid­ered. The worlds of the non­breathers typ­ify the rad­i­cal or ex­treme ad­just­ment, but other types are also in­cluded in this group. Ex­per­i­men­tal worlds are usu­ally ide­ally adapted to the typ­i­cal life forms, and on these dec­i­mal plan­ets the Life Car­ri­ers at­tempt to pro­duce ben­e­fi­cial vari­a­tions in the stan­dard life de­signs. Since your world is an ex­per­i­men­tal planet, it dif­fers markedly from its sis­ter spheres in Sa­ta­nia; many forms of life have ap­peared on Uran­tia that are not found else­where; like­wise are many com­mon species ab­sent from your planet.

49:5.12In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, all the life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion worlds are se­ri­ally linked to­gether and con­sti­tute a spe­cial do­main of uni­verse af­fairs which is given at­ten­tion by des­ig­nated ad­min­is­tra­tors; and all of these ex­per­i­men­tal worlds are pe­ri­od­i­cally in­spected by a corps of uni­verse di­rec­tors whose chief is the vet­eran fi­nal­i­ter known in Sa­ta­nia as Taba­man­tia.

• planetary types › planetary series › 2. brain-type series
• planetary types › series 3 mortals › 1-, 2-, and 3-brained types
• planetary types › series 3 mortals › Urantians are 2-brained

49:5.132. Brain-type se­ries. The one phys­i­cal uni­for­mity of mor­tals is the brain and ner­vous sys­tem; nev­er­the­less, there are three ba­sic or­ga­ni­za­tions of the brain mech­a­nism: the one-, the two-, and the three-brained types. Uran­tians are of the two-brained type, some­what more imag­i­na­tive, ad­ven­tur­ous, and phil­o­soph­i­cal than the one-brained mor­tals but some­what less spir­i­tual, eth­i­cal, and wor­ship­ful than the three-brained or­ders. These brain dif­fer­ences char­ac­ter­ize even the pre­hu­man an­i­mal ex­is­tences.

49:5.14From the two-hemi­sphere type of the Uran­tian cere­bral cor­tex you can, by anal­ogy, grasp some­thing of the one-brained type. The third brain of the three-brained or­ders is best con­ceived as an evolve­ment of your lower or rudi­men­tary form of brain, which is de­vel­oped to the point where it func­tions chiefly in con­trol of phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties, leav­ing the two su­pe­rior brains free for higher en­gage­ments: one for in­tel­lec­tual func­tions and the other for the spir­i­tual-coun­ter­part­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of the Thought Ad­juster.

49:5.15While the ter­res­trial at­tain­ments of the one-brained races are slightly lim­ited in com­par­i­son with the two-brained or­ders, the older plan­ets of the three-brained group ex­hibit civ­i­liza­tions that would as­tound Uran­tians, and which would some­what shame yours by com­par­i­son. In me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ment and ma­te­rial civ­i­liza­tion, even in in­tel­lec­tual prog­ress, the two-brained mor­tal worlds are able to equal the three-brained spheres. But in the higher con­trol of mind and de­vel­op­ment of in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual re­cip­ro­ca­tion, you are some­what in­fe­rior.

49:5.16All such com­par­a­tive es­ti­mates con­cern­ing the in­tel­lec­tual prog­ress or the spir­i­tual at­tain­ments of any world or group of worlds should in fair­ness rec­og­nize plan­e­tary age; much, very much, de­pends on age, the help of the bi­o­logic up­lifters, and the sub­se­quent mis­sions of the var­i­ous or­ders of the di­vine Sons.

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.

49:5.18These three or­ders stand on an equal foot­ing in the as­cen­sion ca­reer. Each must tra­verse the same in­tel­lec­tual scale of de­vel­op­ment, and each must mas­ter the same spir­i­tual tests of pro­gres­sion. The sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion and the con­stel­la­tion over­con­trol of these dif­fer­ent worlds are uni­formly free from dis­crim­i­na­tion; even the regimes of the Plan­e­tary Princes are iden­ti­cal.

• gland chemistry influences imagination, spiritual receptivity
• planetary types › planetary series › 3. Spirit-reception series

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

• after death › afterlives of all types very similar
• planetary types › all types fraternize on mansion worlds

49:5.20Of the spirit-re­cep­tion types, sixty-five per cent are of the sec­ond group, like the Uran­tia races. Twelve per cent are of the first type, nat­u­rally less re­cep­tive, while twenty-three per cent are more spir­i­tu­ally in­clined dur­ing ter­res­trial life. But such dis­tinc­tions do not sur­vive nat­u­ral death; all of these racial dif­fer­ences per­tain only to the life in the flesh.

• planetary types › planetary series › 4. planetary mortal epochs

49:5.214. Plan­e­tary-mor­tal epochs. This clas­si­fi­ca­tion rec­og­nizes the suc­ces­sion of tem­po­ral dis­pen­sa­tions as they af­fect man’s ter­res­trial sta­tus and his re­cep­tion of ce­les­tial min­istry.

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.

49:5.23With the emer­gence of hu­man group­ings, this Plan­e­tary Prince ar­rives to in­au­gu­rate hu­man civ­i­liza­tion and to fo­cal­ize hu­man so­ci­ety. Your world of con­fu­sion is no cri­te­rion of the early days of the reign of the Plan­e­tary Princes, for it was near the be­gin­ning of such an ad­min­is­tra­tion on Uran­tia that your Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia, cast his lot with the re­bel­lion of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lu­cifer. Your planet has pur­sued a stormy course ever since.

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.

49:5.25When the in­tel­lec­tual and eth­i­cal prog­ress of a hu­man race has reached the lim­its of evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment, there comes an Avo­nal Son of Par­a­dise on a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion; and later on, when the spir­i­tual sta­tus of such a world is near­ing its limit of nat­u­ral at­tain­ment, the planet is vis­ited by a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. The chief mis­sion of a be­stowal Son is to es­tab­lish the plan­e­tary sta­tus, re­lease the Spirit of Truth for plan­e­tary func­tion, and thus ef­fect the uni­ver­sal com­ing of the Thought Ad­justers.

49:5.26Here, again, Uran­tia de­vi­ates: There has never been a mag­is­te­rial mis­sion on your world, nei­ther was your be­stowal Son of the Avo­nal or­der; your planet en­joyed the sig­nal honor of be­com­ing the mor­tal home planet of the Sov­er­eign Son, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don.

49:5.27As a re­sult of the min­istry of all the suc­ces­sive or­ders of di­vine son­ship, the in­hab­ited worlds and their ad­vanc­ing races be­gin to ap­proach the apex of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion. Such worlds now be­come ripe for the cul­mi­nat­ing mis­sion, the ar­rival of the Trin­ity Teacher Sons. This epoch of the Teacher Sons is the vestibule to the fi­nal plan­e­tary age—evo­lu­tion­ary utopia—the age of light and life.

49:5.28This clas­si­fi­ca­tion of hu­man be­ings will re­ceive par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion in a suc­ceed­ing pa­per.

• planetary types › planetary series › 5. creature-kinship series

49:5.295. Crea­ture-kin­ship se­ri­als. Plan­ets are not only or­ga­nized ver­ti­cally into sys­tems, con­stel­la­tions, and so on, but the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion also pro­vides for hor­i­zon­tal group­ings ac­cord­ing to type, se­ries, and other re­la­tion­ships. This lat­eral ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse per­tains more par­tic­u­larly to the co-or­di­na­tion of ac­tiv­i­ties of a kin­dred na­ture which have been in­de­pen­dently fos­tered on dif­fer­ent spheres. These re­lated classes of uni­verse crea­tures are pe­ri­od­i­cally in­spected by cer­tain com­pos­ite corps of high per­son­al­i­ties pre­sided over by long-ex­pe­ri­enced fi­nal­i­ters.

49:5.30These kin­ship fac­tors are man­i­fest on all lev­els, for kin­ship se­ri­als ex­ist among non­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties as well as among mor­tal crea­tures—even be­tween hu­man and super­hu­man or­ders. In­tel­li­gent be­ings are ver­ti­cally re­lated in twelve great groups of seven ma­jor di­vi­sions each. The co-or­di­na­tion of these uniquely re­lated groups of liv­ing be­ings is prob­a­bly ef­fected by some not fully com­pre­hended tech­nique of the Su­preme Be­ing.

• planetary types › planetary series › 6. Adjuster-fusion series

49:5.316. Ad­juster-fu­sion se­ries. The spir­i­tual clas­si­fi­ca­tion or group­ing of all mor­tals dur­ing their pre­fu­sion ex­pe­ri­ence is wholly de­ter­mined by the re­la­tion of the per­son­al­ity sta­tus to the in­dwelling Mys­tery Mon­i­tor. Al­most ninety per cent of the in­hab­ited worlds of Neb­a­don are peo­pled with Ad­juster-fu­sion mor­tals in con­trast with a near-by uni­verse where scarcely more than one half of the worlds har­bor be­ings who are Ad­juster-in­dwelt can­di­dates for eter­nal fu­sion.

• planetary types › planetary series › 7. techniques of terrestrial escape

49:5.327. Tech­niques of ter­res­trial es­cape. There is fun­da­men­tally only one way in which in­di­vid­ual hu­man life can be ini­ti­ated on the in­hab­ited worlds, and that is through crea­ture pro­cre­ation and nat­u­ral birth; but there are nu­mer­ous tech­niques whereby man es­capes his ter­res­trial sta­tus and gains ac­cess to the in­ward mov­ing stream of Par­a­dise as­cend­ers.

• after death › afterlives of all types very similar

49:6.1All of the dif­fer­ing phys­i­cal types and plan­e­tary se­ries of mor­tals alike en­joy the min­istry of Thought Ad­justers, guard­ian an­gels, and the var­i­ous or­ders of the mes­sen­ger hosts of the In­fi­nite Spirit. All alike are lib­er­ated from the bonds of flesh by the eman­ci­pa­tion of nat­u­ral death, and all alike go thence to the mor­ontia worlds of spir­i­tual evo­lu­tion and mind prog­ress.

• after death › those with personal guardians may be repersonalized independent of dispensational adjudications

49:6.82. Mor­tals of the in­di­vid­ual or­ders of as­cen­sion. The in­di­vid­ual prog­ress of hu­man be­ings is mea­sured by their suc­ces­sive at­tain­ment and traver­sal (mas­tery) of the seven cos­mic cir­cles. These cir­cles of mor­tal pro­gres­sion are lev­els of as­so­ci­ated in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, spir­i­tual, and cos­mic-in­sight val­ues. Start­ing out in the sev­enth cir­cle, mor­tals strive for the first, and all who have at­tained the third im­me­di­ately have per­sonal guard­i­ans of des­tiny as­signed to them. These mor­tals may be reper­son­al­ized in the mor­ontia life in­de­pen­dent of dis­pen­sa­tional or other ad­ju­di­ca­tions.

• initial life always attended by struggle

50:6.3Be­cause of your plan­e­tary mis­for­tunes, Uran­tians are pre­vented from un­der­stand­ing very much about the cul­ture of nor­mal worlds. But you should not en­vis­age the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, even the most ideal, as spheres whereon life is a flow­ery bed of ease. The ini­tial life of the mor­tal races is al­ways at­tended by strug­gle. Ef­fort and de­ci­sion are an es­sen­tial part of the ac­quire­ment of sur­vival val­ues.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › emerged from animal level when able to worship the Creator

52:1.1From the time of man’s emer­gence from the an­i­mal level—when he can choose to wor­ship the Cre­ator—to the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince, mor­tal will crea­tures are called prim­i­tive men. There are six ba­sic types or races of prim­i­tive men, and these early peo­ples suc­ces­sively ap­pear in the or­der of the spec­trum col­ors, be­gin­ning with the red. The length of time con­sumed in this early life evo­lu­tion varies greatly on the dif­fer­ent worlds, rang­ing from one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years to over one mil­lion years of Uran­tia time.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › mighty hunters and fierce fighters; most heroic chapter
• primitive mortals › wholly tribal government

52:1.3Prim­i­tive men are mighty hunters and fierce fight­ers. The law of this age is the phys­i­cal sur­vival of the fittest; the gov­ern­ment of these times is wholly tribal. Dur­ing the early racial strug­gles on many worlds some of the evo­lu­tion­ary races are oblit­er­ated, as oc­curred on Uran­tia. Those who sur­vive are usu­ally sub­se­quently blended with the later im­ported vi­o­let race, the Adamic peo­ples.

• primitive mortals › era is long, dark, and bloody chapter

52:1.4In the light of sub­se­quent civ­i­liza­tion, this era of prim­i­tive man is a long, dark, and bloody chap­ter. The ethics of the jun­gle and the morals of the primeval forests are not in keep­ing with the stan­dards of later dis­pen­sa­tions of re­vealed re­li­gion and higher spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. On nor­mal and non­ex­per­i­men­tal worlds this epoch is very dif­fer­ent from the pro­longed and ex­traor­di­nar­ily bru­tal strug­gles which char­ac­ter­ized this age on Uran­tia. When you have emerged from your first world ex­pe­ri­ence, you will be­gin to see why this long and painful strug­gle on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds oc­curs, and as you go for­ward in the Par­a­dise path, you will in­creas­ingly un­der­stand the wis­dom of these ap­par­ently strange do­ings. But not­with­stand­ing all the vi­cis­si­tudes of the early ages of hu­man emer­gence, the per­for­mances of prim­i­tive man rep­re­sent a splen­did, even a heroic, chap­ter in the an­nals of an evo­lu­tion­ary world of time and space.

• primitive mortals › discovered fire, tools; vanquished larger animals
• primitive mortals › lived in caves, cliffs, and trees
• primitive mortals › used passenger birds

52:1.5Early evo­lu­tion­ary man is not a col­or­ful crea­ture. In gen­eral, these prim­i­tive mor­tals are cave dwellers or cliff res­i­dents. They also build crude huts in the large trees. Be­fore they ac­quire a high or­der of in­tel­li­gence, the plan­ets are some­times over­run with the larger types of an­i­mals. But early in this era mor­tals learn to kin­dle and main­tain fire, and with the in­crease of in­ven­tive imag­i­na­tion and the im­prove­ment in tools, evolv­ing man soon van­quishes the larger and more un­wieldy an­i­mals. The early races also make ex­ten­sive use of the larger fly­ing an­i­mals. These enor­mous birds are able to carry one or two av­er­age-sized men for a non­stop flight of over five hun­dred miles. On some plan­ets these birds are of great ser­vice since they pos­sess a high or­der of in­tel­li­gence, of­ten be­ing able to speak many words of the lan­guages of the realm. These birds are most in­tel­li­gent, very obe­di­ent, and un­be­liev­ably af­fec­tion­ate. Such pas­sen­ger birds have been long ex­tinct on Uran­tia, but your early an­ces­tors en­joyed their ser­vices.

• personalities are in unbroken contact with Father through personality circuit

56:4.2Per­son­al­ity in­her­ently reaches out to unify all con­stituent re­al­i­ties. The in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, uni­fies all seven con­stituent Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity; and the per­son­al­ity of mor­tal man, be­ing an ex­clu­sive and di­rect be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, like­wise pos­sesses the po­ten­tial of uni­fy­ing the con­stituent fac­tors of the mor­tal crea­ture. Such uni­fy­ing cre­ativ­ity of all crea­ture per­son­al­ity is a birth­mark of its high and ex­clu­sive source and is fur­ther ev­i­den­tial of its un­bro­ken con­tact with this same source through the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit, by means of which the per­son­al­ity of the crea­ture main­tains di­rect and sus­tain­ing con­tact with the Fa­ther of all per­son­al­ity on Par­a­dise.

• no surviving ancestry between frog and Eskimo

61:2.6Along with the dis­ap­pear­ance of the di­no­saurs, other and great changes oc­curred in the var­i­ous branches of the saurian fam­ily. The sur­viv­ing mem­bers of the early rep­til­ian fam­i­lies are tur­tles, snakes, and croc­o­diles, to­gether with the ven­er­a­ble frog, the only re­main­ing group rep­re­sen­ta­tive of man’s ear­lier an­ces­tors.

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

• primitive mortals › Andon and Fonta appeared 993,419 years ago

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

61:6.3This event oc­curred at about the time of the be­gin­ning of the third glacial ad­vance; thus it may be seen that your early an­ces­tors were born and bred in a stim­u­lat­ing, in­vig­o­rat­ing, and dif­fi­cult en­vi­ron­ment. And the sole sur­vivors of these Uran­tia abo­rig­ines, the Es­ki­mos, even now pre­fer to dwell in frigid north­ern climes.

61:6.4Hu­man be­ings were not pres­ent in the West­ern Hemi­sphere un­til near the close of the ice age. But dur­ing the in­ter­glacial epochs they passed west­ward around the Med­i­ter­ra­nean and soon over­ran the con­ti­nent of Eu­rope. In the caves of west­ern Eu­rope may be found hu­man bones min­gled with the re­mains of both tropic and arc­tic an­i­mals, tes­ti­fy­ing that man lived in these re­gions through­out the later epochs of the ad­vanc­ing and re­treat­ing glaciers.

• primitive mortals › ancestry is lemurs, dawn mammals, mid-mammals, Primates; man not descended from apes

62:3.11Con­tem­po­ra­ne­ously with the birth of these Pri­mates twins, an­other cou­ple—a pe­cu­liarly re­tarded male and fe­male of the mid-mam­mal tribe, a cou­ple that were both men­tally and phys­i­cally in­fe­rior—also gave birth to twins. These twins, one male and one fe­male, were in­dif­fer­ent to con­quest; they were con­cerned only with ob­tain­ing food and, since they would not eat flesh, soon lost all in­ter­est in seek­ing prey. These re­tarded twins be­came the found­ers of the mod­ern simian tribes. Their de­scen­dants sought the warmer south­ern re­gions with their mild cli­mates and an abun­dance of trop­i­cal fruits, where they have con­tin­ued much as of that day ex­cept for those branches which mated with the ear­lier types of gib­bons and apes and have greatly de­te­ri­o­rated in con­se­quence.

62:3.12And so it may be read­ily seen that man and the ape are re­lated only in that they sprang from the mid-mam­mals, a tribe in which there oc­curred the con­tem­po­ra­ne­ous birth and sub­se­quent seg­re­ga­tion of two pairs of twins: the in­fe­rior pair des­tined to pro­duce the mod­ern types of mon­key, ba­boon, chim­panzee, and go­rilla; the su­pe­rior pair des­tined to con­tinue the line of as­cent which evolved into man him­self.

62:3.13Mod­ern man and the simi­ans did spring from the same tribe and species but not from the same par­ents. Man’s an­ces­tors are de­scended from the su­pe­rior strains of the se­lected rem­nant of this mid-mam­mal tribe, whereas the mod­ern simi­ans (ex­cept­ing cer­tain pre-ex­is­tent types of lemurs, gib­bons, apes, and other mon­key­like crea­tures) are the de­scen­dants of the most in­fe­rior cou­ple of this mid-mam­mal group, a cou­ple who only sur­vived by hid­ing them­selves in a sub­ter­ranean food-stor­age re­treat for more than two weeks dur­ing the last fierce bat­tle of their tribe, emerg­ing only af­ter the hos­til­i­ties were well over.

• primitive mortals › ancestry is lemurs, dawn mammals, mid-mammals, Primates; man not descended from apes

62:4.7Thus it was that the dawn mam­mals, spring­ing from the North Amer­i­can lemur type, gave ori­gin to the mid-mam­mals, and these mid-mam­mals in turn pro­duced the su­pe­rior Pri­mates, who be­came the im­me­di­ate an­ces­tors of the prim­i­tive hu­man race. The Pri­mates tribes were the last vi­tal link in the evo­lu­tion of man, but in less than five thou­sand years not a sin­gle in­di­vid­ual of these ex­traor­di­nary tribes was left.

62:5.1From the year A.D. 1934 back to the birth of the first two hu­man be­ings is just 993,419 years.

• primitive mortals › physical characteristics

62:5.2These two re­mark­able crea­tures were true hu­man be­ings. They pos­sessed per­fect hu­man thumbs, as had many of their an­ces­tors, while they had just as per­fect feet as the pres­ent-day hu­man races. They were walk­ers and run­ners, not climbers; the grasp­ing func­tion of the big toe was ab­sent, com­pletely ab­sent. When dan­ger drove them to the tree­tops, they climbed just like the hu­mans of to­day would. They would climb up the trunk of a tree like a bear and not as would a chim­panzee or a go­rilla, swing­ing up by the branches.

62:5.3These first hu­man be­ings (and their de­scen­dants) reached full ma­tu­rity at twelve years of age and pos­sessed a po­ten­tial life span of about sev­enty-five years.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › emotions

62:5.4Many new emo­tions early ap­peared in these hu­man twins. They ex­pe­ri­enced ad­mi­ra­tion for both ob­jects and other be­ings and ex­hib­ited con­sid­er­able van­ity. But the most re­mark­able ad­vance in emo­tional de­vel­op­ment was the sud­den ap­pear­ance of a new group of re­ally hu­man feel­ings, the wor­ship­ful group, em­brac­ing awe, rev­er­ence, hu­mil­ity, and even a prim­i­tive form of grat­i­tude. Fear, joined with ig­no­rance of nat­u­ral phe­nom­ena, is about to give birth to prim­i­tive re­li­gion.

62:5.5Not only were such hu­man feel­ings man­i­fested in these prim­i­tive hu­mans, but many more highly evolved sen­ti­ments were also pres­ent in rudi­men­tary form. They were mildly cog­nizant of pity, shame, and re­proach and were acutely con­scious of love, hate, and re­venge, be­ing also sus­cep­ti­ble to marked feel­ings of jeal­ousy.

62:5.6These first two hu­mans—the twins—were a great trial to their Pri­mates par­ents. They were so cu­ri­ous and ad­ven­tur­ous that they nearly lost their lives on nu­mer­ous oc­ca­sions be­fore they were eight years old. As it was, they were rather well scarred up by the time they were twelve.

62:5.7Very early they learned to en­gage in ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion; by the age of ten they had worked out an im­proved sign and word lan­guage of al­most half a hun­dred ideas and had greatly im­proved and ex­panded the crude com­mu­nica­tive tech­nique of their an­ces­tors. But try as hard as they might, they were able to teach only a few of their new signs and sym­bols to their par­ents.

62:5.8When about nine years of age, they jour­neyed off down the river one bright day and held a mo­men­tous con­fer­ence. Ev­ery ce­les­tial in­tel­li­gence sta­tioned on Uran­tia, in­clud­ing my­self, was pres­ent as an ob­server of the trans­ac­tions of this noon­tide tryst. On this event­ful day they ar­rived at an un­der­stand­ing to live with and for each other, and this was the first of a se­ries of such agree­ments which fi­nally cul­mi­nated in the de­ci­sion to flee from their in­fe­rior an­i­mal as­so­ciates and to jour­ney north­ward, lit­tle know­ing that they were thus to found the hu­man race.

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.

62:5.10Shortly be­fore their de­par­ture from the home forests they lost their mother in a gib­bon raid. While she did not pos­sess their in­tel­li­gence, she did have a wor­thy mam­malian af­fec­tion of a high or­der for her off­spring, and she fear­lessly gave her life in the at­tempt to save the won­der­ful pair. Nor was her sac­ri­fice in vain, for she held off the en­emy un­til the fa­ther ar­rived with re­in­force­ments and put the in­vaders to rout.

62:5.11Soon af­ter this young cou­ple for­sook their as­so­ciates to found the hu­man race, their Pri­mates fa­ther be­came dis­con­so­late—he was heart­bro­ken. He re­fused to eat, even when food was brought to him by his other chil­dren. His bril­liant off­spring hav­ing been lost, life did not seem worth liv­ing among his or­di­nary fel­lows; so he wan­dered off into the for­est, was set upon by hos­tile gib­bons and beaten to death.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › would die defending their children

63:4.3They were a won­der­ful tribe. The males would fight hero­ically for the safety of their mates and their off­spring; the fe­males were af­fec­tion­ately de­voted to their chil­dren. But their pa­tri­o­tism was wholly lim­ited to the im­me­di­ate clan. They were very loyal to their fam­i­lies; they would die with­out ques­tion in de­fense of their chil­dren, but they were not able to grasp the idea of try­ing to make the world a bet­ter place for their grand­chil­dren. Al­tru­ism was as yet un­born in the hu­man heart, not­with­stand­ing that all of the emo­tions es­sen­tial to the birth of re­li­gion were al­ready pres­ent in these Uran­tia abo­rig­ines.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › descendants of fighting animals; enjoyed fighting; could not long live in peace

63:4.9It is im­pos­si­ble to in­duce such prim­i­tive be­ings long to live to­gether in peace. Man is the de­scen­dant of fight­ing an­i­mals, and when closely as­so­ci­ated, un­cul­tured peo­ple ir­ri­tate and of­fend each other. The Life Car­ri­ers know this ten­dency among evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures and ac­cord­ingly make pro­vi­sion for the even­tual sep­a­ra­tion of de­vel­op­ing hu­man be­ings into at least three, and more of­ten six, dis­tinct and sep­a­rate races.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › mighty hunters and fierce fighters; most heroic chapter

63:7.4And this is the recital of the most heroic and fas­ci­nat­ing chap­ter in all the his­tory of Uran­tia, the story of the evo­lu­tion, life strug­gles, death, and eter­nal sur­vival of the unique par­ents of all man­kind.

• primitive mortals › Andon and Fonta appeared 993,419 years ago

64:0.1This is the story of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of Uran­tia from the days of An­don and Fonta, al­most one mil­lion years ago, down through the times of the Plan­e­tary Prince to the end of the ice age.

64:0.2The hu­man race is al­most one mil­lion years old, and the first half of its story roughly cor­re­sponds to the pre-Plan­e­tary Prince days of Uran­tia. The lat­ter half of the his­tory of man­kind be­gins at the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the ap­pear­ance of the six col­ored races and roughly cor­re­sponds to the pe­riod com­monly re­garded as the Old Stone Age.

• primitive mortals › always deteriorated in forests, tropics; progressed only in open, in higher latitudes

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

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › mighty hunters and fierce fighters; most heroic chapter

64:7.20The strug­gles of these early ages were char­ac­ter­ized by cour­age, brav­ery, and even hero­ism. And we all re­gret that so many of those ster­ling and rugged traits of your early an­ces­tors have been lost to the later-day races. While we ap­pre­ci­ate the value of many of the re­fine­ments of ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion, we miss the mag­nif­i­cent per­sis­tency and su­perb de­vo­tion of your early an­ces­tors, which of­ten­times bor­dered on grandeur and sub­lim­ity.

• ascended from seaweed

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

• no surviving ancestry between frog and Eskimo

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

• no more races will evolve from animals

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.

• no more races will evolve from animals

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

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

• primitive mortals › Planetary Prince usually arrives about time of will development; late on Urantia

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.

• ascended from seaweed

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

• primitive mortals › numbered 500 million 500,000 years ago

66:0.2About five hun­dred thou­sand years ago and con­cur­rent with the ap­pear­ance of the six col­ored or San­gik races, Cali­gas­tia, the Plan­e­tary Prince, ar­rived on Uran­tia. There were al­most one-half bil­lion prim­i­tive hu­man be­ings on earth at the time of the Prince’s ar­rival, and they were well scat­tered over Eu­rope, Asia, and Africa. The Prince’s head­quar­ters, es­tab­lished in Mes­o­po­ta­mia, was at about the cen­ter of world pop­u­la­tion.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › individualistic, suspicious, quarrelsome

68:1.1When brought closely to­gether, men of­ten learn to like one an­other, but prim­i­tive man was not nat­u­rally over­flow­ing with the spirit of broth­erly feel­ing and the de­sire for so­cial con­tact with his fel­lows. Rather did the early races learn by sad ex­pe­ri­ence that “in union there is strength”; and it is this lack of nat­u­ral broth­erly at­trac­tion that now stands in the way of im­me­di­ate re­al­iza­tion of the broth­er­hood of man on Uran­tia.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › individualistic, suspicious, quarrelsome

68:1.6That con­tem­po­rary cul­tural so­ci­ety is a rather re­cent phe­nom­e­non is well shown by the pres­ent-day sur­vival of such prim­i­tive so­cial con­di­tions as char­ac­ter­ize the Aus­tralian na­tives and the Bush­men and Pyg­mies of Africa. Among these back­ward peo­ples may be ob­served some­thing of the early group hos­til­ity, per­sonal sus­pi­cion, and other highly an­ti­so­cial traits which were so char­ac­ter­is­tic of all prim­i­tive races. These mis­er­able rem­nants of the nonso­cial peo­ples of an­cient times bear elo­quent tes­ti­mony to the fact that the nat­u­ral in­di­vid­u­al­is­tic ten­dency of man can­not suc­cess­fully com­pete with the more po­tent and pow­er­ful or­ga­ni­za­tions and as­so­ci­a­tions of so­cial pro­gres­sion. These back­ward and sus­pi­cious an­ti­so­cial races that speak a dif­fer­ent di­alect ev­ery forty or fifty miles il­lus­trate what a world you might now be liv­ing in but for the com­bined teach­ing of the cor­po­real staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the later labors of the Adamic group of racial up­lifters.

• human nature › m. innately social; not good to be alone

68:2.4The herd in­stinct in nat­u­ral man is hardly suf­fi­cient to ac­count for the de­vel­op­ment of such a so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tion as now ex­ists on Uran­tia. Though this in­nate gre­gar­i­ous propen­sity lies at the bot­tom of hu­man so­ci­ety, much of man’s so­cia­bil­ity is an ac­quire­ment. Two great in­flu­ences which con­tributed to the early as­so­ci­a­tion of hu­man be­ings were food hunger and sex love; these in­stinc­tive urges man shares with the an­i­mal world. Two other emo­tions which drove hu­man be­ings to­gether and held them to­gether were van­ity and fear, more par­tic­u­larly ghost fear.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › only thought when hungry

68:2.5His­tory is but the rec­ord of man’s age­long food strug­gle. Prim­i­tive man only thought when he was hun­gry; food sav­ing was his first self-de­nial, self-dis­ci­pline. With the growth of so­ci­ety, food hunger ceased to be the only in­cen­tive for mu­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. Nu­mer­ous other sorts of hunger, the re­al­iza­tion of var­i­ous needs, all led to the closer as­so­ci­a­tion of man­kind. But to­day so­ci­ety is top-heavy with the over­growth of sup­posed hu­man needs. Oc­ci­den­tal civ­i­liza­tion of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury groans wearily un­der the tremen­dous over­load of lux­ury and the in­or­di­nate mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of hu­man de­sires and long­ings. Mod­ern so­ci­ety is en­dur­ing the strain of one of its most dan­ger­ous phases of far-flung in­teras­so­ci­a­tion and highly com­pli­cated in­ter­de­pen­dence.

• primitive mortals › helpless victims of mores and ceremonials

68:4.4Prior to the lib­er­at­ing and lib­er­al­iz­ing in­struc­tion of the Dala­ma­tia teach­ers, an­cient man was held a help­less vic­tim of the rit­ual of the mores; the prim­i­tive sav­age was hedged about by an end­less cer­e­mo­nial. Ev­ery­thing he did from the time of awak­en­ing in the morn­ing to the mo­ment he fell asleep in his cave at night had to be done just so—in ac­cor­dance with the folk­ways of the tribe. He was a slave to the tyranny of us­age; his life con­tained noth­ing free, spon­ta­neous, or orig­i­nal. There was no nat­u­ral prog­ress to­ward a higher men­tal, moral, or so­cial ex­is­tence.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › disliked hard work

69:2.3Prim­i­tive man was not slow to rec­og­nize the ad­van­tages of as­so­ci­a­tion. As­so­ci­a­tion led to or­ga­ni­za­tion, and the first re­sult of or­ga­ni­za­tion was di­vi­sion of la­bor, with its im­me­di­ate sav­ing of time and ma­te­ri­als. These spe­cial­iza­tions of la­bor arose by adap­ta­tion to pres­sure—pur­su­ing the paths of less­ened re­sis­tance. Prim­i­tive sav­ages never did any real work cheer­fully or will­ingly. With them con­for­mity was due to the co­er­cion of ne­ces­sity.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › would not hurry

69:2.4Prim­i­tive man dis­liked hard work, and he would not hurry un­less con­fronted by grave dan­ger. The time el­e­ment in la­bor, the idea of do­ing a given task within a cer­tain time limit, is en­tirely a mod­ern no­tion. The an­cients were never rushed. It was the dou­ble de­mands of the in­tense strug­gle for ex­is­tence and of the ever-ad­vanc­ing stan­dards of liv­ing that drove the nat­u­rally in­ac­tive races of early man into av­enues of in­dus­try.

• differ in innate endowments and acquired qualities

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

• human nature › technique varies but disposition remains unchanged
• primitive mortals › would burn up accumulated wealth to create impression

69:5.13Ac­cu­mu­la­tions of wealth early be­came the badge of so­cial dis­tinc­tion. In­di­vid­u­als in cer­tain tribes would ac­cu­mu­late prop­erty for years just to cre­ate an im­pres­sion by burn­ing it up on some hol­i­day or by freely dis­tribut­ing it to fel­low tribes­men. This made them great men. Even mod­ern peo­ples revel in the lav­ish dis­tri­bu­tion of Christ­mas gifts, while rich men en­dow great in­sti­tu­tions of phi­lan­thropy and learn­ing. Man’s tech­nique varies, but his dis­po­si­tion re­mains quite un­changed.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › individualistic, suspicious, quarrelsome

70:1.1War is the nat­u­ral state and her­itage of evolv­ing man; peace is the so­cial yard­stick mea­sur­ing civ­i­liza­tion’s ad­vance­ment. Be­fore the par­tial so­cial­iza­tion of the ad­vanc­ing races man was ex­ceed­ingly in­di­vid­u­al­is­tic, ex­tremely sus­pi­cious, and un­be­liev­ably quar­rel­some. Vi­o­lence is the law of na­ture, hos­til­ity the au­to­matic re­ac­tion of the chil­dren of na­ture, while war is but these same ac­tiv­i­ties car­ried on col­lec­tively. And wher­ever and when­ever the fab­ric of civ­i­liza­tion be­comes stressed by the com­pli­ca­tions of so­ci­ety’s ad­vance­ment, there is al­ways an im­me­di­ate and ru­inous re­ver­sion to these early meth­ods of vi­o­lent ad­just­ment of the ir­ri­ta­tions of hu­man in­teras­so­ci­a­tions.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › descendants of fighting animals; enjoyed fighting; could not long live in peace

70:1.6But even this did not work at first. When the early chiefs would try to iron out mis­un­der­stand­ings, they of­ten found it nec­es­sary, at least once a year, to per­mit the tribal stone fights. The clan would di­vide up into two groups and en­gage in an all-day bat­tle. And this for no other rea­son than just the fun of it; they re­ally en­joyed fight­ing.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › respected knowledge, rewarded wisdom

70:5.2With the grad­ual emer­gence of the fam­ily units the foun­da­tions of gov­ern­ment were es­tab­lished in the clan or­ga­ni­za­tion, the group­ing of con­san­guineous fam­i­lies. The first real gov­ern­men­tal body was the coun­cil of the el­ders. This reg­u­la­tive group was com­posed of old men who had dis­tin­guished them­selves in some ef­fi­cient man­ner. Wis­dom and ex­pe­ri­ence were early ap­pre­ci­ated even by bar­baric man, and there en­sued a long age of the dom­i­na­tion of the el­ders. This reign of the oli­garchy of age grad­u­ally grew into the pa­tri­ar­chal idea.

• differ in innate endowments and acquired qualities

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

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › did not hold life very dear

70:10.10Sui­cide was a com­mon mode of re­tal­i­a­tion. If one were un­able to avenge him­self in life, he died en­ter­tain­ing the be­lief that, as a ghost, he could re­turn and visit wrath upon his en­emy. And since this be­lief was very gen­eral, the threat of sui­cide on an en­emy’s doorstep was usu­ally suf­fi­cient to bring him to terms. Prim­i­tive man did not hold life very dear; sui­cide over tri­fles was com­mon, but the teach­ings of the Dala­ma­tians greatly less­ened this cus­tom, while in more re­cent times leisure, com­forts, re­li­gion, and phi­los­o­phy have united to make life sweeter and more de­sir­able. Hunger strikes are, how­ever, a mod­ern ana­logue of this old-time method of re­tal­i­a­tion.

• created › in image of God

74:7.20The moral law of Eden was lit­tle dif­fer­ent from the seven com­mand­ments of Dala­ma­tia. But the Adamites taught many ad­di­tional rea­sons for these com­mands; for in­stance, re­gard­ing the in­junc­tion against mur­der, the in­dwelling of the Thought Ad­juster was pre­sented as an ad­di­tional rea­son for not de­stroy­ing hu­man life. They taught that “whoso sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the im­age of God made he man.”

• received so little of Adam’s life plasm

76:4.6The Adamic chil­dren were usu­ally Ad­juster in­dwelt since they all pos­sessed un­doubted sur­vival ca­pac­ity. These su­pe­rior off­spring were not so sub­ject to fear as the chil­dren of evo­lu­tion. So much of fear per­sists in the pres­ent-day races of Uran­tia be­cause your an­ces­tors re­ceived so lit­tle of Adam’s life plasm, ow­ing to the early mis­car­riage of the plans for racial phys­i­cal up­lift.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › sought supernatural explanation for all natural phenomena

81:2.8While fire, the first great dis­cov­ery, even­tu­ally un­locked the doors of the sci­en­tific world, it was of lit­tle value in this re­gard to prim­i­tive man. He re­fused to rec­og­nize nat­u­ral causes as ex­pla­na­tions for com­mon­place phe­nom­ena.

81:2.9When asked where fire came from, the sim­ple story of An­don and the flint was soon re­placed by the leg­end of how some Prometheus stole it from heaven. The an­cients sought a super­nat­u­ral ex­pla­na­tion for all nat­u­ral phe­nom­ena not within the range of their per­sonal com­pre­hen­sion; and many mod­erns con­tinue to do this. The de­per­son­al­iza­tion of so-called nat­u­ral phe­nom­ena has re­quired ages, and it is not yet com­pleted. But the frank, hon­est, and fear­less search for true causes gave birth to mod­ern sci­ence: It turned as­trol­ogy into as­tron­omy, alchemy into chem­istry, and magic into med­i­cine.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › not overly neat and clean

81:3.3About twelve thou­sand years ago the era of the in­de­pen­dent cities was dawn­ing. And these prim­i­tive trad­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing cities were al­ways sur­rounded by zones of agri­cul­ture and cat­tle rais­ing. While it is true that in­dus­try was pro­moted by the el­e­va­tion of the stan­dards of liv­ing, you should have no mis­con­cep­tion re­gard­ing the re­fine­ments of early ur­ban life. The early races were not overly neat and clean, and the av­er­age prim­i­tive com­mu­nity rose from one to two feet ev­ery twenty-five years as the re­sult of the mere ac­cu­mu­la­tion of dirt and trash. Cer­tain of these olden cities also rose above the sur­round­ing ground very quickly be­cause their un­baked mud huts were short-lived, and it was the cus­tom to build new dwellings di­rectly on top of the ru­ins of the old.

• primitive mortals › lived in terrible and antisocial conditions

81:5.4So­cial as­so­ci­a­tion is a form of sur­vival in­sur­ance which hu­man be­ings have learned is prof­itable; there­fore are most in­di­vid­u­als will­ing to pay those pre­mi­ums of self-sac­ri­fice and per­sonal-lib­erty cur­tail­ment which so­ci­ety ex­acts from its mem­bers in re­turn for this en­hanced group pro­tec­tion. In short, the pres­ent-day so­cial mech­a­nism is a trial-and-er­ror in­sur­ance plan de­signed to af­ford some de­gree of as­sur­ance and pro­tec­tion against a re­turn to the ter­ri­ble and an­ti­so­cial con­di­tions which char­ac­ter­ized the early ex­pe­ri­ences of the hu­man race.

• primitive mortals › always deteriorated in forests, tropics; progressed only in open, in higher latitudes
• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › life was a serious and sober business for

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

• necessity for producing large numbers

81:6.12You are some­times shocked at the rav­ages of war, but you should rec­og­nize the ne­ces­sity for pro­duc­ing large num­bers of mor­tals so as to af­ford am­ple op­por­tu­nity for so­cial and moral de­vel­op­ment; with such plan­e­tary fer­til­ity there soon oc­curs the se­ri­ous prob­lem of over­pop­u­la­tion. Most of the in­hab­ited worlds are small. Uran­tia is av­er­age, per­haps a tri­fle un­der­sized. The op­ti­mum sta­bi­liza­tion of na­tional pop­u­la­tion en­hances cul­ture and pre­vents war. And it is a wise na­tion which knows when to cease grow­ing.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › judge according to their enlightenment

82:2.2Among the early races there was lit­tle or no reg­u­la­tion of the re­la­tions of the sexes. Be­cause of this sex li­cense, no pros­ti­tu­tion ex­isted. To­day, the Pyg­mies and other back­ward groups have no mar­riage in­sti­tu­tion; a study of these peo­ples re­veals the sim­ple mat­ing cus­toms fol­lowed by prim­i­tive races. But all an­cient peo­ples should al­ways be stud­ied and judged in the light of the moral stan­dards of the mores of their own times.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › men shunned working soil

84:3.6The herds­man looked to his flocks for sus­te­nance, but through­out these pas­toral ages woman must still pro­vide the veg­etable food. Prim­i­tive man shunned the soil; it was al­to­gether too peace­ful, too un­ad­ven­ture­some. There was also an old su­per­sti­tion that women could raise bet­ter plants; they were moth­ers. In many back­ward tribes to­day, the men cook the meat, the women the veg­eta­bles, and when the prim­i­tive tribes of Aus­tralia are on the march, the women never at­tack game, while a man would not stoop to dig a root.

• primitive mortals › use of cow’s and goat’s milk reduced infant mortality

84:3.9The pro­vi­sion of milk for the young led to ear­lier wean­ing of ba­bies, hence to the bear­ing of more chil­dren by the moth­ers thus re­lieved of their some­times tem­po­rary bar­ren­ness, while the use of cow’s milk and goat’s milk greatly re­duced in­fant mor­tal­ity. Be­fore the herd­ing stage of so­ci­ety, moth­ers used to nurse their ba­bies un­til they were four and five years old.

• primitive mortals › lived constantly on ragged edge of a precarious and harassed existence

86:1.1Aside from the nat­u­ral wor­ship urge, early evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gion had its roots of ori­gin in the hu­man ex­pe­ri­ences of chance—so-called luck, com­mon­place hap­pen­ings. Prim­i­tive man was a food hunter. The re­sults of hunt­ing must ever vary, and this gives cer­tain ori­gin to those ex­pe­ri­ences which man in­ter­prets as good luck and bad luck. Mis­chance was a great fac­tor in the lives of men and women who lived con­stantly on the ragged edge of a pre­car­i­ous and ha­rassed ex­is­tence.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › could not grasp concept of natural death

88:4.7Magic gained such a strong hold upon the sav­age be­cause he could not grasp the con­cept of nat­u­ral death. The later idea of orig­i­nal sin helped much to weaken the grip of magic on the race in that it ac­counted for nat­u­ral death. It was at one time not at all un­com­mon for ten in­no­cent per­sons to be put to death be­cause of sup­posed re­spon­si­bil­ity for one nat­u­ral death. This is one rea­son why an­cient peo­ples did not in­crease faster, and it is still true of some African tribes. The ac­cused in­di­vid­ual usu­ally con­fessed guilt, even when fac­ing death.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › respected knowledge, rewarded wisdom

90:2.13Prim­i­tive man re­garded the shaman as a nec­es­sary evil; he feared him but did not love him. Early man re­spected knowl­edge; he hon­ored and re­warded wis­dom. The shaman was mostly fraud, but the ven­er­a­tion for shaman­ism well il­lus­trates the pre­mium put upon wis­dom in the evo­lu­tion of the race.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › prayed in dire need or when jubilant

91:8.1There is a truly spon­ta­neous as­pect to prayer, for prim­i­tive man found him­self pray­ing long be­fore he had any clear con­cept of a God. Early man was wont to pray in two di­verse sit­u­a­tions: When in dire need, he ex­pe­ri­enced the im­pulse to reach out for help; and when ju­bi­lant, he in­dulged the im­pul­sive ex­pres­sion of joy.

• created › in image of God

92:5.1In evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gion, the gods are con­ceived to ex­ist in the like­ness of man’s im­age; in rev­e­la­tory re­li­gion, men are taught that they are God’s sons—even fash­ioned in the fi­nite im­age of di­vin­ity; in the syn­the­sized be­liefs com­pounded from the teach­ings of rev­e­la­tion and the prod­ucts of evo­lu­tion, the God con­cept is a blend of:

• human nature › m. innately social; not good to be alone

99:5.1While re­li­gion is ex­clu­sively a per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence—know­ing God as a Fa­ther—the corol­lary of this ex­pe­ri­ence—know­ing man as a brother—en­tails the ad­just­ment of the self to other selves, and that in­volves the so­cial or group as­pect of re­li­gious life. Re­li­gion is first an in­ner or per­sonal ad­just­ment, and then it be­comes a mat­ter of so­cial ser­vice or group ad­just­ment. The fact of man’s gre­gar­i­ous­ness per­force de­ter­mines that re­li­gious groups will come into ex­is­tence. What hap­pens to these re­li­gious groups de­pends very much on in­tel­li­gent lead­er­ship. In prim­i­tive so­ci­ety the re­li­gious group is not al­ways very dif­fer­ent from eco­nomic or po­lit­i­cal groups. Re­li­gion has al­ways been a con­ser­va­tor of morals and a sta­bi­lizer of so­ci­ety. And this is still true, not­with­stand­ing the con­trary teach­ing of many mod­ern so­cial­ists and hu­man­ists.

• sons of God

99:5.5The doc­trine of the to­tal de­prav­ity of man de­stroyed much of the po­ten­tial of re­li­gion for ef­fect­ing so­cial reper­cus­sions of an up­lift­ing na­ture and of in­spi­ra­tional value. Je­sus sought to re­store man’s dig­nity when he de­clared that all men are the chil­dren of God.

• differ in innate endowments and acquired qualities

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

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › judge according to their enlightenment

101:9.1No pro­fessed rev­e­la­tion of re­li­gion could be re­garded as au­then­tic if it failed to rec­og­nize the duty de­mands of eth­i­cal obli­ga­tion which had been cre­ated and fos­tered by pre­ced­ing evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gion. Rev­e­la­tion un­fail­ingly en­larges the eth­i­cal hori­zon of evolved re­li­gion while it si­mul­ta­ne­ously and un­fail­ingly ex­pands the moral obli­ga­tions of all prior rev­e­la­tions.

• primitive mortals › personal attitudes › disliked hard work

102:2.7Evo­lu­tion­ary man does not nat­u­rally rel­ish hard work. To keep pace in his life ex­pe­ri­ence with the im­pelling de­mands and the com­pelling urges of a grow­ing re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence means in­ces­sant ac­tiv­ity in spir­i­tual growth, in­tel­lec­tual ex­pan­sion, fac­tual en­large­ment, and so­cial ser­vice. There is no real re­li­gion apart from a highly ac­tive per­son­al­ity. There­fore do the more in­do­lent of men of­ten seek to es­cape the rig­ors of truly re­li­gious ac­tiv­i­ties by a species of in­ge­nious self-de­cep­tion through re­sort­ing to a re­treat to the false shel­ter of stereo­typed re­li­gious doc­trines and dog­mas. But true re­li­gion is alive. In­tel­lec­tual crys­tal­liza­tion of re­li­gious con­cepts is the equiv­a­lent of spir­i­tual death. You can­not con­ceive of re­li­gion with­out ideas, but when re­li­gion once be­comes re­duced only to an idea, it is no longer re­li­gion; it has be­come merely a species of hu­man phi­los­o­phy.

• human nature › m. endowed with strong self-preservation instinct

102:8.1The high­est ev­i­dence of the re­al­ity and ef­fi­cacy of re­li­gion con­sists in the fact of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence; namely, that man, nat­u­rally fear­ful and sus­pi­cious, in­nately en­dowed with a strong in­stinct of self-preser­va­tion and crav­ing sur­vival af­ter death, is will­ing fully to trust the deep­est in­ter­ests of his pres­ent and fu­ture to the keep­ing and di­rec­tion of that power and per­son des­ig­nated by his faith as God. That is the one cen­tral truth of all re­li­gion. As to what that power or per­son re­quires of man in re­turn for this watch­care and fi­nal sal­va­tion, no two re­li­gions agree; in fact, they all more or less dis­agree.

• architects of their own eternal destiny

103:5.10Man, in his spir­i­tual do­main, does have a free will. Mor­tal man is nei­ther a help­less slave of the in­flex­i­ble sov­er­eignty of an all-pow­er­ful God nor the vic­tim of the hope­less fa­tal­ity of a mech­a­nis­tic cos­mic de­ter­min­ism. Man is most truly the ar­chi­tect of his own eter­nal des­tiny.

• Adjusters assigned just prior to 6th birthday

108:2.1Though the Ad­justers vol­un­teer for ser­vice as soon as the per­son­al­ity fore­casts have been re­layed to Di­vin­ing­ton, they are not ac­tu­ally as­signed un­til the hu­man sub­jects make their first moral per­son­al­ity de­ci­sion. The first moral choice of the hu­man child is au­to­mat­i­cally in­di­cated in the sev­enth mind-ad­ju­tant and reg­is­ters in­stantly, by way of the lo­cal uni­verse Cre­ative Spirit, over the uni­ver­sal mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Con­joint Ac­tor in the pres­ence of the Mas­ter Spirit of super­uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion, who forth­with dis­patches this in­tel­li­gence to Di­vin­ing­ton. Ad­justers reach their hu­man sub­jects on Uran­tia, on the av­er­age, just prior to the sixth birth­day. In the pres­ent gen­er­a­tion it is run­ning five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the 2,134^th day of ter­res­trial life.

• planetary types › series 2 mortals › Supreme Being sometimes causes Adjuster bestowal

108:2.116. In­flu­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing. On worlds where the Ad­justers do not fuse with the evolv­ing souls of the mor­tal in­hab­i­tants, we ob­serve Ad­justers some­times be­stowed in re­sponse to in­flu­ences which are wholly be­yond our com­pre­hen­sion. We con­jec­ture that such be­stowals are de­ter­mined by some cos­mic re­flex ac­tion orig­i­nat­ing in the Su­preme Be­ing. As to why these Ad­justers can not or do not fuse with these cer­tain types of evolv­ing mor­tal minds we do not know. Such trans­ac­tions have never been re­vealed to us.

109:3.1The char­ac­ter of the de­tailed work of Mys­tery Mon­i­tors varies in ac­cor­dance with the na­ture of their as­sign­ments, as to whether or not they are li­ai­son or fu­sion Ad­justers. Some Ad­justers are merely loaned for the tem­po­ral life­times of their sub­jects; oth­ers are be­stowed as per­son­al­ity can­di­dates with per­mis­sion for ev­er­last­ing fu­sion if their sub­jects sur­vive. There is also a slight vari­a­tion in their work among the dif­fer­ent plan­e­tary types as well as in dif­fer­ent sys­tems and uni­verses. But, on the whole, their labors are re­mark­ably uni­form, more so than are the du­ties of any of the cre­ated or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings.

• planetary types › series 1 mortals › Adjusters loaned to

109:3.2On cer­tain prim­i­tive worlds (the se­ries one group) the Ad­juster in­dwells the mind of the crea­ture as an ex­pe­ri­en­tial train­ing, chiefly for self-cul­ture and pro­gres­sive de­vel­op­ment. Vir­gin Ad­justers are usu­ally sent to such worlds dur­ing the ear­lier times when prim­i­tive men are ar­riv­ing in the val­ley of de­ci­sion, but when com­par­a­tively few will elect to as­cend the moral heights be­yond the hills of self-mas­tery and char­ac­ter ac­quire­ment to at­tain the higher lev­els of emerg­ing spir­i­tu­al­ity. (Many, how­ever, who fail of Ad­juster fu­sion do sur­vive as Spirit-fused as­cend­ers.) The Ad­justers re­ceive valu­able train­ing and ac­quire won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence in tran­sient as­so­ci­a­tion with prim­i­tive minds, and they are able sub­se­quently to uti­lize this ex­pe­ri­ence for the ben­e­fit of su­pe­rior be­ings on other worlds. Noth­ing of sur­vival value is ever lost in all the wide uni­verse.

• planetary types › series 2 mortals › Adjusters loaned to; afford far more help than they give Urantia mortals
• planetary types › series 2 mortals › surviving souls become Spirit-fused

109:3.3On an­other type of world (the se­ries two group) the Ad­justers are merely loaned to mor­tal be­ings. Here the Mon­i­tors can never at­tain fu­sion per­son­al­ity through such in­dwelling, but they do af­ford great help to their hu­man sub­jects dur­ing the mor­tal life­time, far more than they are able to give to Uran­tia mor­tals. The Ad­justers are here loaned to the mor­tal crea­tures for a sin­gle life span as pat­terns for their higher spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, tem­po­rary helpers in the in­trigu­ing task of per­fect­ing a sur­vival char­ac­ter. The Ad­justers do not re­turn af­ter nat­u­ral death; these sur­viv­ing mor­tals at­tain eter­nal life through Spirit fu­sion.

• planetary types › series 3 mortals › Adjuster-fusion potential
• planetary types › series 3 mortals › Urantians are 2-brained

109:3.4On worlds such as Uran­tia (the se­ries three group) there is a real be­trothal with the di­vine gifts, a life and death en­gage­ment. If you sur­vive, there is to be an eter­nal union, an ev­er­last­ing fu­sion, the mak­ing of man and Ad­juster one be­ing.

• planetary types › series 3 mortals › Adjusters gain far more contact with 3-brained

109:3.5In the three-brained mor­tals of this se­ries of worlds, the Ad­justers are able to gain far more ac­tual con­tact with their sub­jects dur­ing the tem­po­ral life than in the one- and two-brained types. But in the ca­reer af­ter death, the three-brained type pro­ceed just as do the one-brained type and the two-brained peo­ples—the Uran­tia races.

• virgin Adjusters seldom assigned to persons of unquestioned survival capacity

109:3.6On the two-brain worlds, sub­se­quent to the so­journ of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son, vir­gin Ad­justers are sel­dom as­signed to per­sons who have un­ques­tioned ca­pac­ity for sur­vival. It is our be­lief that on such worlds prac­ti­cally all Ad­justers in­dwelling in­tel­li­gent men and women of sur­vival ca­pac­ity be­long to the ad­vanced or to the su­preme type.

109:3.7In many of the early evo­lu­tion­ary races of Uran­tia, three groups of be­ings ex­isted. There were those who were so an­i­mal­is­tic that they were ut­terly lack­ing in Ad­juster ca­pac­ity. There were those who ex­hib­ited un­doubted ca­pac­ity for Ad­justers and promptly re­ceived them when the age of moral re­spon­si­bil­ity was at­tained. There was a third class who oc­cu­pied a bor­der­line po­si­tion; they had ca­pac­ity for Ad­juster re­cep­tion, but the Mon­i­tors could only in­dwell the mind on the per­sonal pe­ti­tion of the in­di­vid­ual.

109:3.8But with those be­ings who are vir­tu­ally dis­qual­i­fied for sur­vival by dis­in­her­i­tance through the agency of un­fit and in­fe­rior an­ces­tors, many a vir­gin Ad­juster has served a valu­able pre­lim­i­nary ex­pe­ri­ence in con­tact­ing evo­lu­tion­ary mind and thus has be­come bet­ter qual­i­fied for a sub­se­quent as­sign­ment to a higher type of mind on some other world.

• human nature › so electrically and chemically controlled, so animallike in behavior, so emotional in reactions

110:4.5There ex­ists a vast gulf be­tween the hu­man and the di­vine, be­tween man and God. The Uran­tia races are so largely elec­tri­cally and chem­i­cally con­trolled, so highly an­i­mallike in their com­mon be­hav­ior, so emo­tional in their or­di­nary re­ac­tions, that it be­comes ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the Mon­i­tors to guide and di­rect them. You are so de­void of coura­geous de­ci­sions and con­se­crated co-op­er­a­tion that your in­dwelling Ad­justers find it next to im­pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate di­rectly with the hu­man mind. Even when they do find it pos­si­ble to flash a gleam of new truth to the evolv­ing mor­tal soul, this spir­i­tual rev­e­la­tion of­ten so blinds the crea­ture as to pre­cip­i­tate a con­vul­sion of fa­nati­cism or to ini­ti­ate some other in­tel­lec­tual up­heaval which re­sults dis­as­trously. Many a new re­li­gion and strange “ism” has arisen from the aborted, im­per­fect, mis­un­der­stood, and gar­bled com­mu­ni­ca­tions of the Thought Ad­justers.

• fewer function safely with self-acting Adjusters

110:4.6For many thou­sands of years, so the rec­ords of Je­ru­sem show, in each gen­er­a­tion there have lived fewer and fewer be­ings who could func­tion safely with self-act­ing Ad­justers. This is an alarm­ing pic­ture, and the super­vis­ing per­son­al­i­ties of Sa­ta­nia look with fa­vor upon the pro­pos­als of some of your more im­me­di­ate plan­e­tary super­vi­sors who ad­vo­cate the in­au­gu­ra­tion of mea­sures de­signed to fos­ter and con­serve the higher spir­i­tual types of the Uran­tia races.

• human nature › few m. are real thinkers
• human nature › so electrically and chemically controlled, so animallike in behavior, so emotional in reactions

110:7.6But with the vast ma­jor­ity of Uran­tians the Ad­juster must pa­tiently await the ar­rival of death de­liv­er­ance; must await the lib­er­a­tion of the emerg­ing soul from the well-nigh com­plete dom­i­na­tion of the en­ergy pat­terns and chem­i­cal forces in­her­ent in your ma­te­rial or­der of ex­is­tence. The chief dif­fi­culty you ex­pe­ri­ence in con­tact­ing with your Ad­justers con­sists in this very in­her­ent ma­te­rial na­ture. So few mor­tals are real thinkers; you do not spir­i­tu­ally de­velop and dis­ci­pline your minds to the point of fa­vor­able li­ai­son with the di­vine Ad­justers. The ear of the hu­man mind is al­most deaf to the spir­i­tual pleas which the Ad­juster trans­lates from the man­i­fold mes­sages of the uni­ver­sal broad­casts of love pro­ceed­ing from the Fa­ther of mer­cies. The Ad­juster finds it al­most im­pos­si­ble to reg­is­ter these in­spir­ing spirit lead­ings in an an­i­mal mind so com­pletely dom­i­nated by the chem­i­cal and elec­tri­cal forces in­her­ent in your phys­i­cal na­tures.

• in God we live and move and have our being

111:5.2The im­i­ta­tion of God is the key to per­fec­tion; the do­ing of his will is the se­cret of sur­vival and of per­fec­tion in sur­vival.

• God is no respecter of persons

112:0.1210. Per­son­al­ity is unique, ab­so­lutely unique: It is unique in time and space; it is unique in eter­nity and on Par­a­dise; it is unique when be­stowed—there are no du­pli­cates; it is unique dur­ing ev­ery mo­ment of ex­is­tence; it is unique in re­la­tion to God—he is no re­specter of per­sons, but nei­ther does he add them to­gether, for they are non­addable—they are as­so­cia­ble but non­to­ta­l­able.

• human nature › m. innately social; not good to be alone

112:1.16Per­son­al­ity can­not very well per­form in iso­la­tion. Man is in­nately a so­cial crea­ture; he is dom­i­nated by the crav­ing of be­long­ing­ness. It is lit­er­ally true, “No man lives unto him­self.”

112:2.1It would be help­ful in the study of self­hood to re­mem­ber:

112:2.21. That phys­i­cal sys­tems are sub­or­di­nate.

112:2.32. That in­tel­lec­tual sys­tems are co-or­di­nate.

112:2.43. That per­son­al­ity is super­or­di­nate.

112:2.54. That the in­dwelling spir­i­tual force is po­ten­tially di­rec­tive.

112:2.6In all con­cepts of self­hood it should be rec­og­nized that the fact of life comes first, its eval­u­a­tion or in­ter­pre­ta­tion later. The hu­man child first lives and sub­se­quently thinks about his liv­ing. In the cos­mic econ­omy in­sight pre­cedes fore­sight.

112:2.7The uni­verse fact of God’s be­com­ing man has for­ever changed all mean­ings and al­tered all val­ues of hu­man per­son­al­ity. In the true mean­ing of the word, love con­notes mu­tual re­gard of whole per­son­al­i­ties, whether hu­man or di­vine or hu­man and di­vine. Parts of the self may func­tion in nu­mer­ous ways—think­ing, feel­ing, wish­ing—but only the co-or­di­nated at­tri­butes of the whole per­son­al­ity are fo­cused in in­tel­li­gent ac­tion; and all of these pow­ers are as­so­ci­ated with the spir­i­tual en­dow­ment of the mor­tal mind when a hu­man be­ing sin­cerely and un­selfishly loves an­other be­ing, hu­man or di­vine.

112:2.8All mor­tal con­cepts of re­al­ity are based on the as­sump­tion of the ac­tu­al­ity of hu­man per­son­al­ity; all con­cepts of super­hu­man re­al­i­ties are based on the ex­pe­ri­ence of the hu­man per­son­al­ity with and in the cos­mic re­al­i­ties of cer­tain as­so­ci­ated spir­i­tual en­ti­ties and di­vine per­son­al­i­ties. Ev­ery­thing non­spir­i­tual in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence, ex­cept­ing per­son­al­ity, is a means to an end. Ev­ery true re­la­tion­ship of mor­tal man with other per­sons—hu­man or di­vine—is an end in it­self. And such fel­low­ship with the per­son­al­ity of De­ity is the eter­nal goal of uni­verse as­cen­sion.

112:2.9The pos­ses­sion of per­son­al­ity iden­ti­fies man as a spir­i­tual be­ing since the unity of self­hood and the self-con­scious­ness of per­son­al­ity are en­dow­ments of the super­ma­te­rial world. The very fact that a mor­tal ma­te­ri­al­ist can deny the ex­is­tence of super­ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties in and of it­self demon­strates the pres­ence, and in­di­cates the work­ing, of spirit syn­the­sis and cos­mic con­scious­ness in his hu­man mind.

112:2.10There ex­ists a great cos­mic gulf be­tween mat­ter and thought, and this gulf is im­mea­sur­ably greater be­tween ma­te­rial mind and spir­i­tual love. Con­scious­ness, much less self-con­scious­ness, can­not be ex­plained by any the­ory of mech­a­nis­tic elec­tronic as­so­ci­a­tion or ma­te­ri­al­is­tic en­ergy phe­nom­ena.

112:2.11As mind pur­sues re­al­ity to its ul­ti­mate anal­y­sis, mat­ter van­ishes to the ma­te­rial senses but may still re­main real to mind. When spir­i­tual in­sight pur­sues that re­al­ity which re­mains af­ter the dis­ap­pear­ance of mat­ter and pur­sues it to an ul­ti­mate anal­y­sis, it van­ishes to mind, but the in­sight of spirit can still per­ceive cos­mic re­al­i­ties and su­preme val­ues of a spir­i­tual na­ture. Ac­cord­ingly does sci­ence give way to phi­los­o­phy, while phi­los­o­phy must sur­ren­der to the con­clu­sions in­her­ent in gen­uine spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. Think­ing sur­ren­ders to wis­dom, and wis­dom is lost in en­light­ened and re­flec­tive wor­ship.

112:2.12In sci­ence the hu­man self ob­serves the ma­te­rial world; phi­los­o­phy is the ob­ser­va­tion of this ob­ser­va­tion of the ma­te­rial world; re­li­gion, true spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence, is the ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­iza­tion of the cos­mic re­al­ity of the ob­ser­va­tion of the ob­ser­va­tion of all this rel­a­tive syn­the­sis of the en­ergy ma­te­ri­als of time and space. To build a phi­los­o­phy of the uni­verse on an ex­clu­sive ma­te­ri­al­ism is to ig­nore the fact that all things ma­te­rial are ini­tially con­ceived as real in the ex­pe­ri­ence of hu­man con­scious­ness. The ob­server can­not be the thing ob­served; eval­u­a­tion de­mands some de­gree of tran­scen­dence of the thing which is eval­u­ated.

112:2.13In time, think­ing leads to wis­dom and wis­dom leads to wor­ship; in eter­nity, wor­ship leads to wis­dom, and wis­dom even­tu­ates in the fi­nal­ity of thought.

112:2.14The pos­si­bil­ity of the uni­fi­ca­tion of the evolv­ing self is in­her­ent in the qual­i­ties of its con­sti­tu­tive fac­tors: the ba­sic en­er­gies, the mas­ter tis­sues, the fun­da­men­tal chem­i­cal over­con­trol, the su­preme ideas, the su­preme mo­tives, the su­preme goals, and the di­vine spirit of Par­a­dise be­stowal—the se­cret of the self-con­scious­ness of man’s spir­i­tual na­ture.

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

112:2.16An as­cend­ing one­time hu­man per­son­al­ity passes through two great phases of in­creas­ing vo­li­tional dom­i­nance over the self and in the uni­verse:

112:2.171. The pre­fi­naliter or God-seek­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of aug­ment­ing the self-re­al­iza­tion through a tech­nique of iden­tity ex­pan­sion and ac­tu­al­iza­tion to­gether with cos­mic prob­lem solv­ing and con­se­quent uni­verse mas­tery.

112:2.182. The post­fi­naliter or God-re­veal­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of the cre­ative ex­pan­sion of self-re­al­iza­tion through re­veal­ing the Su­preme Be­ing of ex­pe­ri­ence to the God-seek­ing in­tel­li­gences who have not yet at­tained the di­vine lev­els of God­like­ness.

112:2.19De­scend­ing per­son­al­i­ties at­tain anal­o­gous ex­pe­ri­ences through their var­i­ous uni­verse ad­ven­tures as they seek for en­larged ca­pac­ity for as­cer­tain­ing and ex­e­cut­ing the di­vine wills of the Su­preme, Ul­ti­mate, and Ab­so­lute De­i­ties.

112:2.20The ma­te­rial self, the ego-en­tity of hu­man iden­tity, is de­pen­dent dur­ing the phys­i­cal life on the con­tin­u­ing func­tion of the ma­te­rial life ve­hi­cle, on the con­tin­ued ex­is­tence of the un­bal­anced equi­lib­rium of en­er­gies and in­tel­lect which, on Uran­tia, has been given the name life. But self­hood of sur­vival value, self­hood that can tran­scend the ex­pe­ri­ence of death, is only evolved by es­tab­lish­ing a po­ten­tial trans­fer of the seat of the iden­tity of the evolv­ing per­son­al­ity from the tran­sient life ve­hi­cle—the ma­te­rial body—to the more en­dur­ing and im­mor­tal na­ture of the mor­ontia soul and on be­yond to those lev­els whereon the soul be­comes in­fused with, and even­tu­ally at­tains the sta­tus of, spirit re­al­ity. This ac­tual trans­fer from ma­te­rial as­so­ci­a­tion to mor­ontia iden­ti­fi­ca­tion is ef­fected by the sin­cer­ity, per­sis­tence, and stead­fast­ness of the God-seek­ing de­ci­sions of the hu­man crea­ture.

• after death › do not return to planet of nativity in same dispensation

112:3.7Upon death the Thought Ad­juster tem­porar­ily loses per­son­al­ity, but not iden­tity; the hu­man sub­ject tem­porar­ily loses iden­tity, but not per­son­al­ity; on the man­sion worlds both re­unite in eter­nal man­i­fes­ta­tion. Never does a de­parted Thought Ad­juster re­turn to earth as the be­ing of for­mer in­dwelling; never is per­son­al­ity man­i­fested with­out the hu­man will; and never does a dis-Ad­jus­tered hu­man be­ing af­ter death man­i­fest ac­tive iden­tity or in any man­ner es­tab­lish com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the liv­ing be­ings of earth. Such dis-Ad­jus­tered souls are wholly and ab­so­lutely un­con­scious dur­ing the long or short sleep of death. There can be no ex­hi­bi­tion of any sort of per­son­al­ity or abil­ity to en­gage in com­mu­ni­ca­tions with other per­son­al­i­ties un­til af­ter com­ple­tion of sur­vival. Those who go to the man­sion worlds are not per­mit­ted to send mes­sages back to their loved ones. It is the pol­icy through­out the uni­verses to for­bid such com­mu­ni­ca­tion dur­ing the pe­riod of a cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion.

112:5.1Self­hood is a cos­mic re­al­ity whether ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, or spir­i­tual. The ac­tu­al­ity of the per­sonal is the be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther act­ing in and of him­self or through his man­i­fold uni­verse agen­cies. To say that a be­ing is per­sonal is to rec­og­nize the rel­a­tive in­di­vid­u­a­tion of such a be­ing within the cos­mic or­gan­ism. The liv­ing cos­mos is an all but in­finitely in­te­grated ag­gre­ga­tion of real units, all of which are rel­a­tively sub­ject to the des­tiny of the whole. But those that are per­sonal have been en­dowed with the ac­tual choice of des­tiny ac­cep­tance or of des­tiny re­jec­tion.

112:5.2That which comes from the Fa­ther is like the Fa­ther eter­nal, and this is just as true of per­son­al­ity, which God gives by his own free­will choice, as it is of the di­vine Thought Ad­juster, an ac­tual frag­ment of God. Man’s per­son­al­ity is eter­nal but with re­gard to iden­tity a con­di­tioned eter­nal re­al­ity. Hav­ing ap­peared in re­sponse to the Fa­ther’s will, per­son­al­ity will at­tain De­ity des­tiny, but man must choose whether or not he will be pres­ent at the at­tain­ment of such des­tiny. In de­fault of such choice, per­son­al­ity at­tains ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity di­rectly, be­com­ing a part of the Su­preme Be­ing. The cy­cle is fore­or­dained, but man’s par­tic­i­pa­tion therein is op­tional, per­sonal, and ex­pe­ri­en­tial.

112:5.3Mor­tal iden­tity is a tran­sient time-life con­di­tion in the uni­verse; it is real only in so far as the per­son­al­ity elects to be­come a con­tin­u­ing uni­verse phe­nom­e­non. This is the es­sen­tial dif­fer­ence be­tween man and an en­ergy sys­tem: The en­ergy sys­tem must con­tinue, it has no choice; but man has ev­ery­thing to do with de­ter­min­ing his own des­tiny. The Ad­juster is truly the path to Par­a­dise, but man him­self must pur­sue that path by his own de­cid­ing, his free­will choos­ing.

112:5.4Hu­man be­ings pos­sess iden­tity only in the ma­te­rial sense. Such qual­i­ties of the self are ex­pressed by the ma­te­rial mind as it func­tions in the en­ergy sys­tem of the in­tel­lect. When it is said that man has iden­tity, it is rec­og­nized that he is in pos­ses­sion of a mind cir­cuit which has been placed in sub­or­di­na­tion to the acts and choos­ing of the will of the hu­man per­son­al­ity. But this is a ma­te­rial and purely tem­po­rary man­i­fes­ta­tion, just as the hu­man em­bryo is a tran­sient par­a­sitic stage of hu­man life. Hu­man be­ings, from a cos­mic per­spec­tive, are born, live, and die in a rel­a­tive in­stant of time; they are not en­dur­ing. But mor­tal per­son­al­ity, through its own choos­ing, pos­sesses the power of trans­fer­ring its seat of iden­tity from the pass­ing ma­te­rial-in­tel­lect sys­tem to the higher mor­ontia-soul sys­tem which, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Thought Ad­juster, is cre­ated as a new ve­hi­cle for per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion.

112:5.5And it is this very power of choice, the uni­verse in­signia of free­will crea­ture­hood, that con­sti­tutes man’s great­est op­por­tu­nity and his su­preme cos­mic re­spon­si­bil­ity. Upon the in­tegrity of the hu­man vo­li­tion de­pends the eter­nal des­tiny of the fu­ture fi­nal­i­ter; upon the sin­cer­ity of the mor­tal free will the di­vine Ad­juster de­pends for eter­nal per­son­al­ity; upon the faith­ful­ness of mor­tal choice the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther de­pends for the re­al­iza­tion of a new as­cend­ing son; upon the stead­fast­ness and wis­dom of de­ci­sion-ac­tions the Su­preme Be­ing de­pends for the ac­tu­al­ity of ex­pe­ri­en­tial evo­lu­tion.

112:5.6Though the cos­mic cir­cles of per­son­al­ity growth must even­tu­ally be at­tained, if, through no fault of your own, the ac­ci­dents of time and the hand­i­caps of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence pre­vent your mas­ter­ing these lev­els on your na­tive planet, if your in­ten­tions and de­sires are of sur­vival value, there are is­sued the de­crees of pro­ba­tion ex­ten­sion. You will be af­forded ad­di­tional time in which to prove your­self.

112:5.7If ever there is doubt as to the ad­vis­abil­ity of ad­vanc­ing a hu­man iden­tity to the man­sion worlds, the uni­verse gov­ern­ments in­vari­ably rule in the per­sonal in­ter­ests of that in­di­vid­ual; they un­hesi­tat­ingly ad­vance such a soul to the sta­tus of a tran­si­tional be­ing, while they con­tinue their ob­ser­va­tions of the emerg­ing mor­ontia in­tent and spir­i­tual pur­pose. Thus di­vine jus­tice is cer­tain of achieve­ment, and di­vine mercy is ac­corded fur­ther op­por­tu­nity for ex­tend­ing its min­istry.

112:5.8The gov­ern­ments of Or­von­ton and Neb­a­don do not claim ab­so­lute per­fec­tion for the de­tail work­ing of the uni­ver­sal plan of mor­tal reper­son­al­iza­tion, but they do claim to, and ac­tu­ally do, man­i­fest pa­tience, tol­er­ance, un­der­stand­ing, and mer­ci­ful sym­pa­thy. We had rather as­sume the risk of a sys­tem re­bel­lion than to court the haz­ard of de­priv­ing one strug­gling mor­tal from any evo­lu­tion­ary world of the eter­nal joy of pur­su­ing the as­cend­ing ca­reer.

112:5.9This does not mean that hu­man be­ings are to en­joy a sec­ond op­por­tu­nity in the face of the re­jec­tion of a first, not at all. But it does sig­nify that all will crea­tures are to ex­pe­ri­ence one true op­por­tu­nity to make one un­doubted, self-con­scious, and fi­nal choice. The sov­er­eign Judges of the uni­verses will not de­prive any be­ing of per­son­al­ity sta­tus who has not fi­nally and fully made the eter­nal choice; the soul of man must and will be given full and am­ple op­por­tu­nity to re­veal its true in­tent and real pur­pose.

112:5.10When the more spir­i­tu­ally and cos­mi­cally ad­vanced mor­tals die, they pro­ceed im­me­di­ately to the man­sion worlds; in gen­eral, this pro­vi­sion op­er­ates with those who have had as­signed to them per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans. Other mor­tals may be de­tained un­til such time as the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of their af­fairs has been com­pleted, af­ter which they may pro­ceed to the man­sion worlds, or they may be as­signed to the ranks of the sleep­ing sur­vivors who will be reper­son­al­ized en masse at the end of the cur­rent plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion.

112:5.11There are two dif­fi­cul­ties that ham­per my ef­forts to ex­plain just what hap­pens to you in death, the sur­viv­ing you which is dis­tinct from the de­part­ing Ad­juster. One of these con­sists in the im­pos­si­bil­ity of con­vey­ing to your level of com­pre­hen­sion an ad­e­quate de­scrip­tion of a trans­ac­tion on the bor­der­land of the phys­i­cal and mor­ontia realms. The other is brought about by the re­stric­tions placed upon my com­mis­sion as a rev­e­la­tor of truth by the ce­les­tial gov­ern­ing au­thor­i­ties of Uran­tia. There are many in­ter­est­ing de­tails which might be pre­sented, but I with­hold them upon the ad­vice of your im­me­di­ate plan­e­tary super­vi­sors. But within the lim­its of my per­mis­sion I can say this much:

112:5.12There is some­thing real, some­thing of hu­man evo­lu­tion, some­thing ad­di­tional to the Mys­tery Mon­i­tor, which sur­vives death. This newly ap­pear­ing en­tity is the soul, and it sur­vives the death of both your phys­i­cal body and your ma­te­rial mind. This en­tity is the con­joint child of the com­bined life and ef­forts of the hu­man you in li­ai­son with the di­vine you, the Ad­juster. This child of hu­man and di­vine parent­age con­sti­tutes the sur­viv­ing el­e­ment of ter­res­trial ori­gin; it is the mor­ontia self, the im­mor­tal soul.

112:5.13This child of per­sist­ing mean­ing and sur­viv­ing value is wholly un­con­scious dur­ing the pe­riod from death to reper­son­al­iza­tion and is in the keep­ing of the se­raphic des­tiny guard­ian through­out this sea­son of wait­ing. You will not func­tion as a con­scious be­ing, fol­low­ing death, un­til you at­tain the new con­scious­ness of mor­ontia on the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

112:5.14At death the func­tional iden­tity as­so­ci­ated with the hu­man per­son­al­ity is dis­rupted through the ces­sa­tion of vi­tal mo­tion. Hu­man per­son­al­ity, while tran­scend­ing its con­stituent parts, is de­pen­dent on them for func­tional iden­tity. The stop­page of life de­stroys the phys­i­cal brain pat­terns for mind en­dow­ment, and the dis­rup­tion of mind ter­mi­nates mor­tal con­scious­ness. The con­scious­ness of that crea­ture can­not sub­se­quently reap­pear un­til a cos­mic sit­u­a­tion has been ar­ranged which will per­mit the same hu­man per­son­al­ity again to func­tion in re­la­tion­ship with liv­ing en­ergy.

112:5.15Dur­ing the tran­sit of sur­viv­ing mor­tals from the world of ori­gin to the man­sion worlds, whether they ex­pe­ri­ence per­son­al­ity re­assem­bly on the third pe­riod or as­cend at the time of a group res­ur­rec­tion, the rec­ord of per­son­al­ity con­sti­tu­tion is faith­fully pre­served by the arch­an­gels on their worlds of spe­cial ac­tiv­i­ties. These be­ings are not the cus­to­di­ans of per­son­al­ity (as the guard­ian ser­a­phim are of the soul), but it is nonethe­less true that ev­ery iden­ti­fi­able fac­tor of per­son­al­ity is ef­fec­tu­ally safe­guarded in the cus­tody of these de­pend­able trustees of mor­tal sur­vival. As to the ex­act where­abouts of mor­tal per­son­al­ity dur­ing the time in­ter­ven­ing be­tween death and sur­vival, we do not know.

112:5.16The sit­u­a­tion which makes reper­son­al­iza­tion pos­si­ble is brought about in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the mor­ontia re­ceiv­ing plan­ets of a lo­cal uni­verse. Here in these life-as­sem­bly cham­bers the super­vis­ing au­thor­i­ties pro­vide that re­la­tion­ship of uni­verse en­ergy—mor­ontial, mindal, and spir­i­tual—which makes pos­si­ble the re­con­sciou­siz­ing of the sleep­ing sur­vivor. The re­assem­bly of the con­stituent parts of a one­time ma­te­rial per­son­al­ity in­volves:

112:5.171. The fab­ri­ca­tion of a suit­able form, a mor­ontia en­ergy pat­tern, in which the new sur­vivor can make con­tact with non­spir­i­tual re­al­ity, and within which the mor­ontia vari­ant of the cos­mic mind can be en­cir­cuited.

112:5.182. The re­turn of the Ad­juster to the wait­ing mor­ontia crea­ture. The Ad­juster is the eter­nal cus­to­dian of your as­cend­ing iden­tity; your Mon­i­tor is the ab­so­lute as­sur­ance that you your­self and not an­other will oc­cupy the mor­ontia form cre­ated for your per­son­al­ity awak­en­ing. And the Ad­juster will be pres­ent at your per­son­al­ity re­assem­bly to take up once more the role of Par­a­dise guide to your sur­viv­ing self.

112:5.193. When these pre­req­ui­sites of reper­son­al­iza­tion have been as­sem­bled, the se­raphic cus­to­dian of the po­ten­tial­i­ties of the slum­ber­ing im­mor­tal soul, with the as­sis­tance of nu­mer­ous cos­mic per­son­al­i­ties, be­stows this mor­ontia en­tity upon and in the await­ing mor­ontia mind-body form while com­mit­ting this evo­lu­tion­ary child of the Su­preme to eter­nal as­so­ci­a­tion with the wait­ing Ad­juster. And this com­pletes the reper­son­al­iza­tion, re­assem­bly of mem­ory, in­sight, and con­scious­ness—iden­tity.

112:5.20The fact of reper­son­al­iza­tion con­sists in the seizure of the en­cir­cuited mor­ontia phase of the newly seg­re­gated cos­mic mind by the awak­en­ing hu­man self. The phe­nom­e­non of per­son­al­ity is de­pen­dent on the per­sis­tence of the iden­tity of self­hood re­ac­tion to uni­verse en­vi­ron­ment; and this can only be ef­fected through the medium of mind. Self­hood per­sists in spite of a con­tin­u­ous change in all the fac­tor com­po­nents of self; in the phys­i­cal life the change is grad­ual; at death and upon reper­son­al­iza­tion the change is sud­den. The true re­al­ity of all self­hood (per­son­al­ity) is able to func­tion re­spon­sively to uni­verse con­di­tions by virtue of the un­ceas­ing chang­ing of its con­stituent parts; stag­na­tion ter­mi­nates in in­ev­i­ta­ble death. Hu­man life is an end­less change of the fac­tors of life uni­fied by the sta­bil­ity of the un­chang­ing per­son­al­ity.

112:5.21And when you thus awaken on the man­sion worlds of Je­ru­sem, you will be so changed, the spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tion will be so great that, were it not for your Thought Ad­juster and the des­tiny guard­ian, who so fully con­nect up your new life in the new worlds with your old life in the first world, you would at first have dif­fi­culty in con­nect­ing the new mor­ontia con­scious­ness with the re­viv­ing mem­ory of your pre­vi­ous iden­tity. Not­with­stand­ing the con­ti­nu­ity of per­sonal self­hood, much of the mor­tal life would at first seem to be a vague and hazy dream. But time will clar­ify many mor­tal as­so­ci­a­tions.

112:5.22The Thought Ad­juster will re­call and re­hearse for you only those mem­o­ries and ex­pe­ri­ences which are a part of, and es­sen­tial to, your uni­verse ca­reer. If the Ad­juster has been a part­ner in the evo­lu­tion of aught in the hu­man mind, then will these worth-while ex­pe­ri­ences sur­vive in the eter­nal con­scious­ness of the Ad­juster. But much of your past life and its mem­o­ries, hav­ing nei­ther spir­i­tual mean­ing nor mor­ontia value, will per­ish with the ma­te­rial brain; much of ma­te­rial ex­pe­ri­ence will pass away as one­time scaf­fold­ing which, hav­ing bridged you over to the mor­ontia level, no longer serves a pur­pose in the uni­verse. But per­son­al­ity and the re­la­tion­ships be­tween per­son­al­i­ties are never scaf­fold­ing; mor­tal mem­ory of per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ships has cos­mic value and will per­sist. On the man­sion worlds you will know and be known, and more, you will re­mem­ber, and be re­mem­bered by, your one­time as­so­ciates in the short but in­trigu­ing life on Uran­tia.

• pass through short and intense test

112:7.4When fu­sion with the Ad­juster has been ef­fected, there can be no fu­ture dan­ger to the eter­nal ca­reer of such a per­son­al­ity. Ce­les­tial be­ings are tested through­out a long ex­pe­ri­ence, but mor­tals pass through a rel­a­tively short and in­ten­sive test­ing on the evo­lu­tion­ary and mor­ontia worlds.

• intellectually, m. divide into subnormal, normal, and supernormal

113:1.2Orig­i­nally, the ser­a­phim were def­i­nitely as­signed to the sep­a­rate Uran­tia races. But since the be­stowal of Mi­chael, they are as­signed in ac­cor­dance with hu­man in­tel­li­gence, spir­i­tu­al­ity, and des­tiny. In­tel­lec­tu­ally, man­kind is di­vided into three classes:

• some lack capacity for intelligent worship of Deity

113:1.31. The sub­nor­mal minded—those who do not ex­er­cise nor­mal will power; those who do not make av­er­age de­ci­sions. This class em­braces those who can­not com­pre­hend God; they lack ca­pac­ity for the in­tel­li­gent wor­ship of De­ity. The sub­nor­mal be­ings of Uran­tia have a corps of ser­a­phim, one com­pany, with one bat­tal­ion of cheru­bim, as­signed to min­is­ter to them and to wit­ness that jus­tice and mercy are ex­tended to them in the life strug­gles of the sphere.

113:1.42. The av­er­age, nor­mal type of hu­man mind. From the stand­point of se­raphic min­istry, most men and women are grouped in seven classes in ac­cor­dance with their sta­tus in mak­ing the cir­cles of hu­man prog­ress and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment.

113:1.53. The super­nor­mal minded—those of great de­ci­sion and un­doubted po­ten­tial of spir­i­tual achieve­ment; men and women who en­joy more or less con­tact with their in­dwelling Ad­justers; mem­bers of the var­i­ous re­serve corps of des­tiny. No mat­ter in what cir­cle a hu­man hap­pens to be, if such an in­di­vid­ual be­comes en­rolled in any of the sev­eral re­serve corps of des­tiny, right then and there, per­sonal ser­a­phim are as­signed, and from that time un­til the earthly ca­reer is fin­ished, that mor­tal will en­joy the con­tin­u­ous min­istry and un­ceas­ing watch­care of a guard­ian an­gel. Also, when any hu­man be­ing makes the su­preme de­ci­sion, when there is a real be­trothal with the Ad­juster, a per­sonal guard­ian is im­me­di­ately as­signed to that soul.

• created › a little lower than the angels

113:7.3The hu­man race was cre­ated just a lit­tle lower than the more sim­ple types of the an­gelic or­ders. There­fore will your first as­sign­ment of the mor­ontia life be as as­sis­tants to the ser­a­phim in the im­me­di­ate work await­ing at the time you at­tain per­son­al­ity con­scious­ness sub­se­quent to your lib­er­a­tion from the bonds of the flesh.

• after death › summary of ascension career

113:7.4Be­fore leav­ing the man­sion worlds, all mor­tals will have per­ma­nent se­raphic as­so­ciates or guard­i­ans. And as you as­cend the mor­ontia spheres, even­tu­ally it is the se­raphic guard­i­ans who wit­ness and cer­tify the de­crees of your eter­nal union with the Thought Ad­justers. To­gether they have es­tab­lished your per­son­al­ity iden­ti­ties as chil­dren of the flesh from the worlds of time. Then, with your at­tain­ment of the ma­ture mor­ontia es­tate, they ac­com­pany you through Je­ru­sem and the as­so­ci­ated worlds of sys­tem prog­ress and cul­ture. Af­ter that they go with you to Eden­tia and its sev­enty spheres of ad­vanced so­cial­iza­tion, and sub­se­quently will they pi­lot you to the Mel­chiz­e­deks and fol­low you through the su­perb ca­reer of the uni­verse head­quar­ters worlds. And when you have learned the wis­dom and cul­ture of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, they will take you on to Sal­ving­ton, where you will stand face to face with the Sov­er­eign of all Neb­a­don. And still will these se­raphic guides fol­low you through the mi­nor and ma­jor sec­tors of the super­uni­verse and on to the re­ceiv­ing worlds of Uversa, re­main­ing with you un­til you fi­nally en­sec­onaphim for the long Ha­vona flight.

113:7.5Some of the des­tiny guard­i­ans of at­tach­ment dur­ing the mor­tal ca­reer fol­low the course of the as­cend­ing pil­grims through Ha­vona. The oth­ers bid their long-time mor­tal as­so­ciates a tem­po­rary farewell, and then, while these mor­tals tra­verse the cir­cles of the cen­tral uni­verse, these guard­i­ans of des­tiny achieve the cir­cles of Seraph­ing­ton. And they will be in wait­ing on the shores of Par­a­dise when their mor­tal as­so­ciates awaken from the last tran­sit sleep of time into the new ex­pe­ri­ences of eter­nity. Such as­cend­ing ser­a­phim sub­se­quently en­ter upon di­ver­gent ser­vices in the fi­nal­i­ter corps and in the Se­raphic Corps of Com­ple­tion.

113:7.6Man and an­gel may or may not be re­united in eter­nal ser­vice, but wher­ever se­raphic as­sign­ment may take them, the ser­a­phim are al­ways in com­mu­ni­ca­tion with their for­mer wards of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, the as­cen­dant mor­tals of time. The in­ti­mate as­so­ci­a­tions and the af­fec­tion­ate at­tach­ments of the realms of hu­man ori­gin are never for­got­ten nor ever com­pletely sev­ered. In the eter­nal ages men and an­gels will co-op­er­ate in the di­vine ser­vice as they did in the ca­reer of time.

113:7.7For ser­a­phim, the surest way of achiev­ing the Par­a­dise De­i­ties is by suc­cess­fully guid­ing a soul of evo­lu­tion­ary ori­gin to the por­tals of Par­a­dise. There­fore is the as­sign­ment of guard­ian of des­tiny the most highly prized se­raphic duty.

113:7.8Only des­tiny guard­i­ans are mus­tered into the pri­mary or mor­tal Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, and such pairs have en­gaged in the su­preme ad­ven­ture of iden­tity at-one­ness; the two be­ings have achieved spir­i­tual bi-uni­fi­ca­tion on Seraph­ing­ton prior to their re­cep­tion into the fi­nal­i­ter corps. In this ex­pe­ri­ence the two an­gelic na­tures, so com­ple­men­tal in all uni­verse func­tions, achieve ul­ti­mate spirit two-in-one­ness, reper­cussing in a new ca­pac­ity for the re­cep­tion of, and fu­sion with, a non-Ad­juster frag­ment of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. And so do some of your lov­ing se­raphic as­so­ciates in time also be­come your fi­nal­i­ter as­so­ciates in eter­nity, chil­dren of the Su­preme and per­fected sons of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.

• necessary to full function of God the Sevenfold

116:4.12Mor­tal man ap­pears to be nec­es­sary to the full func­tion of God the Sev­en­fold as this di­vin­ity group­ing cul­mi­nates in the ac­tu­al­iz­ing Su­preme. There are many other or­ders of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties who are equally nec­es­sary to the evo­lu­tion of the al­mighty power of the Su­preme, but this por­trayal is pre­sented for the ed­i­fi­ca­tion of hu­man be­ings, hence is largely lim­ited to those fac­tors op­er­at­ing in the evo­lu­tion of God the Sev­en­fold which are re­lated to mor­tal man.

• created › in image of God
• evolution as individuals resembles growth of the Supreme

117:3.5Mor­tal man is more than fig­u­ra­tively made in the im­age of God. From a phys­i­cal stand­point this state­ment is hardly true, but with ref­er­ence to cer­tain uni­verse po­ten­tial­i­ties it is an ac­tual fact. In the hu­man race, some­thing of the same drama of evo­lu­tion­ary at­tain­ment is be­ing un­folded as takes place, on a vastly larger scale, in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Man, a vo­li­tional per­son­al­ity, be­comes cre­ative in li­ai­son with an Ad­juster, an im­per­sonal en­tity, in the pres­ence of the fi­nite po­ten­tial­i­ties of the Su­preme, and the re­sult is the flow­er­ing of an im­mor­tal soul. In the uni­verses the Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties of time and space func­tion in li­ai­son with the im­per­sonal spirit of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity and be­come thereby cre­ative of a new power po­ten­tial of De­ity re­al­ity.

117:3.6Mor­tal man, be­ing a crea­ture, is not ex­actly like the Su­preme Be­ing, who is de­ity, but man’s evo­lu­tion does in some ways re­sem­ble the growth of the Su­preme. Man con­sciously grows from the ma­te­rial to­ward the spir­i­tual by the strength, power, and per­sis­tency of his own de­ci­sions; he also grows as his Thought Ad­juster de­vel­ops new tech­niques for reach­ing down from the spir­i­tual to the mor­ontial soul lev­els; and once the soul comes into be­ing, it be­gins to grow in and of it­self.

• created › out of the living potentials of Supreme

117:3.12The Su­preme Be­ing did not cre­ate man, but man was lit­er­ally cre­ated out of, his very life was de­rived from, the po­ten­tial­ity of the Su­preme. Nor does he evolve man; yet is the Su­preme him­self the very essence of evo­lu­tion. From the fi­nite stand­point, we ac­tu­ally live, move, and have our be­ing within the im­ma­nence of the Su­preme.

• created › out of the living potentials of Supreme

117:4.8The tem­po­ral re­la­tion of man to the Su­preme is the foun­da­tion for cos­mic moral­ity, the uni­ver­sal sen­si­tiv­ity to, and ac­cep­tance of, duty. This is a moral­ity which tran­scends the tem­po­ral sense of rel­a­tive right and wrong; it is a moral­ity di­rectly pred­i­cated on the self-con­scious crea­ture’s ap­pre­ci­a­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tial obli­ga­tion to ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­ity. Mor­tal man and all other fi­nite crea­tures are cre­ated out of the liv­ing po­ten­tial of en­ergy, mind, and spirit ex­is­tent in the Su­preme. It is upon the Su­preme that the Ad­juster-mor­tal as­cender draws for the cre­ation of the im­mor­tal and di­vine char­ac­ter of a fi­nal­i­ter. It is out of the very re­al­ity of the Su­preme that the Ad­juster, with the con­sent of the hu­man will, weaves the pat­terns of the eter­nal na­ture of an as­cend­ing son of God.

• God is no respecter of persons

117:6.22The Fa­ther is no re­specter of per­sons; he treats each of his as­cend­ing sons as cos­mic in­di­vid­u­als. The Su­preme like­wise is no re­specter of per­sons; he treats his ex­pe­ri­en­tial chil­dren as a sin­gle cos­mic to­tal.

• God-identification makes real

118:7.5In­iq­uity in the fi­nite do­mains re­veals the tran­sient re­al­ity of all God-uniden­ti­fied self­hood. Only as a crea­ture be­comes God iden­ti­fied, does he be­come truly real in the uni­verses. Fi­nite per­son­al­ity is not self-cre­ated, but in the super­uni­verse arena of choice it does self-de­ter­mine des­tiny.

• time and space enable m. to coexist with the Infinite

118:9.1Time and space are a con­joined mech­a­nism of the mas­ter uni­verse. They are the de­vices whereby fi­nite crea­tures are en­abled to co­ex­ist in the cos­mos with the In­fi­nite. Fi­nite crea­tures are ef­fec­tively in­su­lated from the ab­so­lute lev­els by time and space. But these in­su­lat­ing me­dia, with­out which no mor­tal could ex­ist, op­er­ate di­rectly to limit the range of fi­nite ac­tion. With­out them no crea­ture could act, but by them the acts of ev­ery crea­ture are def­i­nitely lim­ited.

• differences with animals

130:2.8That af­ter­noon Je­sus and Ga­nid had both en­joyed play­ing with a very in­tel­li­gent shep­herd dog, and Ga­nid wanted to know whether the dog had a soul, whether it had a will, and in re­sponse to his ques­tions Je­sus said: “The dog has a mind which can know ma­te­rial man, his mas­ter, but can­not know God, who is spirit; there­fore the dog does not pos­sess a spir­i­tual na­ture and can­not en­joy a spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. The dog may have a will de­rived from na­ture and aug­mented by train­ing, but such a power of mind is not a spir­i­tual force, nei­ther is it com­pa­ra­ble to the hu­man will, inas­much as it is not re­flec­tive—it is not the re­sult of dis­crim­i­nat­ing higher and moral mean­ings or choos­ing spir­i­tual and eter­nal val­ues. It is the pos­ses­sion of such pow­ers of spir­i­tual dis­crim­i­na­tion and truth choos­ing that makes mor­tal man a moral be­ing, a crea­ture en­dowed with the at­tri­butes of spir­i­tual re­spon­si­bil­ity and the po­ten­tial of eter­nal sur­vival.” Je­sus went on to ex­plain that it is the ab­sence of such men­tal pow­ers in the an­i­mal which makes it for­ever im­pos­si­ble for the an­i­mal world to de­velop lan­guage in time or to ex­pe­ri­ence any­thing equiv­a­lent to per­son­al­ity sur­vival in eter­nity. As a re­sult of this day’s in­struc­tion Ga­nid never again en­ter­tained be­lief in the trans­mi­gra­tion of the souls of men into the bod­ies of an­i­mals.

• those with no capacity for sonship reckoned with animals

130:8.4At last they reached Naples and felt they were not far from their des­ti­na­tion, Rome. Gonod had much busi­ness to trans­act in Naples, and aside from the time Je­sus was re­quired as in­ter­preter, he and Ga­nid spent their leisure vis­it­ing and ex­plor­ing the city. Ga­nid was be­com­ing adept at sight­ing those who ap­peared to be in need. They found much pov­erty in this city and dis­tributed many alms. But Ga­nid never un­der­stood the mean­ing of Je­sus’ words when, af­ter he had given a coin to a street beg­gar, he re­fused to pause and speak com­fort­ingly to the man. Said Je­sus: “Why waste words upon one who can­not per­ceive the mean­ing of what you say? The spirit of the Fa­ther can­not teach and save one who has no ca­pac­ity for son­ship.” What Je­sus meant was that the man was not of nor­mal mind; that he lacked the abil­ity to re­spond to spirit lead­ing.

• God is no respecter of persons
• only distinction between m. in God’s eyes is whether desire exists to do his will
• those with no capacity for sonship reckoned with animals

133:0.3One day while rest­ing at lunch, about half­way to Tar­en­tum, Ga­nid asked Je­sus a di­rect ques­tion as to what he thought of In­dia’s caste sys­tem. Said Je­sus: “Though hu­man be­ings dif­fer in many ways, the one from an­other, be­fore God and in the spir­i­tual world all mor­tals stand on an equal foot­ing. There are only two groups of mor­tals in the eyes of God: those who de­sire to do his will and those who do not. As the uni­verse looks upon an in­hab­ited world, it like­wise dis­cerns two great classes: those who know God and those who do not. Those who can­not know God are reck­oned among the an­i­mals of any given realm. Man­kind can ap­pro­pri­ately be di­vided into many classes in ac­cor­dance with dif­fer­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions, as they may be viewed phys­i­cally, men­tally, so­cially, vo­ca­tion­ally, or morally, but as these dif­fer­ent classes of mor­tals ap­pear be­fore the judg­ment bar of God, they stand on an equal foot­ing; God is truly no re­specter of per­sons. Al­though you can­not es­cape the rec­og­ni­tion of dif­fer­en­tial hu­man abil­i­ties and en­dow­ments in mat­ters in­tel­lec­tual, so­cial, and moral, you should make no such dis­tinc­tions in the spir­i­tual broth­er­hood of men when as­sem­bled for wor­ship in the pres­ence of God.”

• spiritually equal before God

134:4.7God is spirit, and God gives a frag­ment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spir­i­tu­ally, all men are equal. The king­dom of heaven is free from castes, classes, so­cial lev­els, and eco­nomic groups. You are all breth­ren.

• God is no respecter of persons

137:8.6“I have come to pro­claim the es­tab­lish­ment of the Fa­ther’s king­dom. And this king­dom shall in­clude the wor­ship­ing souls of Jew and gen­tile, rich and poor, free and bond, for my Fa­ther is no re­specter of per­sons; his love and his mercy are over all.

• God is no respecter of persons

138:8.2Je­sus taught them to preach the for­give­ness of sin through faith in God with­out pen­ance or sac­ri­fice, and that the Fa­ther in heaven loves all his chil­dren with the same eter­nal love. He en­joined his apos­tles to re­frain from dis­cussing:

• God is no respecter of persons

140:3.16“Your Fa­ther in heaven makes the sun to shine on the evil as well as upon the good; like­wise he sends rain on the just and the un­just. You are the sons of God; even more, you are now the am­bas­sadors of my Fa­ther’s king­dom. Be mer­ci­ful, even as God is mer­ci­ful, and in the eter­nal fu­ture of the king­dom you shall be per­fect, even as your heav­enly Fa­ther is per­fect.

• in God we live and move and have our being

141:2.1The night be­fore they left Pella, Je­sus gave the apos­tles some fur­ther in­struc­tion with re­gard to the new king­dom. Said the Mas­ter: “You have been taught to look for the com­ing of the king­dom of God, and now I come an­nounc­ing that this long-looked-for king­dom is near at hand, even that it is al­ready here and in our midst. In ev­ery king­dom there must be a king seated upon his throne and de­cree­ing the laws of the realm. And so have you de­vel­oped a con­cept of the king­dom of heaven as a glo­ri­fied rule of the Jew­ish peo­ple over all the peo­ples of the earth with Mes­siah sit­ting on David’s throne and from this place of mirac­u­lous power pro­mul­gat­ing the laws of all the world. But, my chil­dren, you see not with the eye of faith, and you hear not with the un­der­stand­ing of the spirit. I de­clare that the king­dom of heaven is the re­al­iza­tion and ac­knowl­edg­ment of God’s rule within the hearts of men. True, there is a King in this king­dom, and that King is my Fa­ther and your Fa­ther. We are in­deed his loyal sub­jects, but far tran­scend­ing that fact is the trans­form­ing truth that we are his sons. In my life this truth is to be­come man­i­fest to all. Our Fa­ther also sits upon a throne, but not one made with hands. The throne of the In­fi­nite is the eter­nal dwell­ing place of the Fa­ther in the heaven of heav­ens; he fills all things and pro­claims his laws to uni­verses upon uni­verses. And the Fa­ther also rules within the hearts of his chil­dren on earth by the spirit which he has sent to live within the souls of mor­tal men.

• God is no respecter of persons

143:1.5“But who told you that my gospel was in­tended only for slaves and weak­lings? Do you, my cho­sen apos­tles, re­sem­ble weak­lings? Did John look like a weak­ling? Do you ob­serve that I am en­slaved by fear? True, the poor and op­pressed of this gen­er­a­tion have the gospel preached to them. The re­li­gions of this world have ne­glected the poor, but my Fa­ther is no re­specter of per­sons. Be­sides, the poor of this day are the first to heed the call to re­pen­tance and ac­cep­tance of son­ship. The gospel of the king­dom is to be preached to all men—Jew and gen­tile, Greek and Ro­man, rich and poor, free and bond—and equally to young and old, male and fe­male.

• after death › do not return to planet of nativity in same dispensation

146:7.2Je­sus fur­ther ex­plained to his apos­tles that the spir­its of de­parted hu­man be­ings do not come back to the world of their ori­gin to com­mu­ni­cate with their liv­ing fel­lows. Only af­ter the pass­ing of a dis­pen­sa­tional age would it be pos­si­ble for the ad­vanc­ing spirit of mor­tal man to re­turn to earth and then only in ex­cep­tional cases and as a part of the spir­i­tual ad­min­is­tra­tion of the planet.

• human nature › evil brutality lurks in

148:4.6“By na­ture, be­fore the re­birth of the spirit, mor­tal man is sub­ject to in­her­ent evil ten­den­cies, but such nat­u­ral im­per­fec­tions of be­hav­ior are nei­ther sin nor in­iq­uity. Mor­tal man is just be­gin­ning his long as­cent to the per­fec­tion of the Fa­ther in Par­a­dise. To be im­per­fect or par­tial in nat­u­ral en­dow­ment is not sin­ful. Man is in­deed sub­ject to evil, but he is in no sense the child of the evil one un­less he has know­ingly and de­lib­er­ately cho­sen the paths of sin and the life of in­iq­uity. Evil is in­her­ent in the nat­u­ral or­der of this world, but sin is an at­ti­tude of con­scious re­bel­lion which was brought to this world by those who fell from spir­i­tual light into gross dark­ness.

• God is no respecter of persons

148:6.2“My son, you do not com­pre­hend the mean­ing of ad­ver­sity or the mis­sion of suf­fer­ing. Have you not read that mas­ter­piece of Semitic lit­er­a­ture—the Scrip­ture story of the af­flic­tions of Job? Do you not re­call how this won­der­ful para­ble be­gins with the recital of the ma­te­rial pros­per­ity of the Lord’s ser­vant? You well re­mem­ber that Job was blessed with chil­dren, wealth, dig­nity, po­si­tion, health, and ev­ery­thing else which men value in this tem­po­ral life. Ac­cord­ing to the time-hon­ored teach­ings of the chil­dren of Abra­ham such ma­te­rial pros­per­ity was all-suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence of di­vine fa­vor. But such ma­te­rial pos­ses­sions and such tem­po­ral pros­per­ity do not in­di­cate God’s fa­vor. My Fa­ther in heaven loves the poor just as much as the rich; he is no re­specter of per­sons.

• human nature › worms of dust by nature, but divine in destiny

149:6.9“Out of your wrong con­cepts of the Fa­ther in heaven grow your false ideas of hu­mil­ity and springs much of your hypocrisy. Man may be a worm of the dust by na­ture and ori­gin, but when he be­comes in­dwelt by my Fa­ther’s spirit, that man be­comes di­vine in his des­tiny. The be­stowal spirit of my Fa­ther will surely re­turn to the di­vine source and uni­verse level of ori­gin, and the hu­man soul of mor­tal man which shall have be­come the re­born child of this in­dwelling spirit shall cer­tainly as­cend with the di­vine spirit to the very pres­ence of the eter­nal Fa­ther.

• after death › do not return to planet of nativity in same dispensation

150:3.53. The spir­its of the dead do not come back to com­mu­ni­cate with their fam­i­lies or their one­time friends among the liv­ing.

• human nature › m. do not progress favorably in ease

154:2.5Uni­verse dif­fi­cul­ties must be met and plan­e­tary ob­sta­cles must be en­coun­tered as a part of the ex­pe­ri­ence train­ing pro­vided for the growth and de­vel­op­ment, the pro­gres­sive per­fec­tion, of the evolv­ing souls of mor­tal crea­tures. The spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of the hu­man soul re­quires in­ti­mate ex­pe­ri­ence with the ed­u­ca­tional solv­ing of a wide range of real uni­verse prob­lems. The an­i­mal na­ture and the lower forms of will crea­tures do not pro­gress fa­vor­ably in en­vi­ron­men­tal ease. Prob­lem­atic sit­u­a­tions, cou­pled with ex­er­tion stim­uli, con­spire to pro­duce those ac­tiv­i­ties of mind, soul, and spirit which con­tribute might­ily to the achieve­ment of wor­thy goals of mor­tal pro­gres­sion and to the at­tain­ment of higher lev­els of spirit des­tiny.

• look for possibilities in time and eternity

155:3.4In­creas­ingly they learned from Je­sus to look upon hu­man per­son­al­i­ties in terms of their pos­si­bil­i­ties in time and in eter­nity. They learned that many souls can best be led to love the un­seen God by be­ing first taught to love their breth­ren whom they can see. And it was in this con­nec­tion that new mean­ing be­came at­tached to the Mas­ter’s pro­nounce­ment con­cern­ing un­selfish ser­vice for one’s fel­lows: “Inas­much as you did it to one of the least of my breth­ren, you did it to me.”

• God is no respecter of persons

155:6.2You have come out from among those of your fel­lows who choose to re­main sat­is­fied with a re­li­gion of mind, who crave se­cu­rity and pre­fer con­for­mity. You have elected to ex­change your feel­ings of au­thor­i­ta­tive cer­tainty for the as­sur­ances of the spirit of ad­ven­tur­ous and pro­gres­sive faith. You have dared to protest against the gru­el­ing bond­age of in­sti­tu­tional re­li­gion and to re­ject the au­thor­ity of the tra­di­tions of rec­ord which are now re­garded as the word of God. Our Fa­ther did in­deed speak through Moses, Eli­jah, Isa­iah, Amos, and Hosea, but he did not cease to min­is­ter words of truth to the world when these proph­ets of old made an end of their ut­ter­ances. My Fa­ther is no re­specter of races or gen­er­a­tions in that the word of truth is vouch­safed one age and with­held from an­other. Com­mit not the folly of call­ing that di­vine which is wholly hu­man, and fail not to dis­cern the words of truth which come not through the tra­di­tional or­a­cles of sup­posed in­spi­ra­tion.

• God is no respecter of persons

156:2.4In many ways these gen­tile be­liev­ers ap­pre­ci­ated Je­sus’ teach­ings more fully than the Jews. Many of these Greek-speak­ing Sy­rophoeni­cians came to know not only that Je­sus was like God but also that God was like Je­sus. These so-called hea­then achieved a good un­der­stand­ing of the Mas­ter’s teach­ings about the uni­for­mity of the laws of this world and the en­tire uni­verse. They grasped the teach­ing that God is no re­specter of per­sons, races, or na­tions; that there is no fa­voritism with the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; that the uni­verse is wholly and ever law-abid­ing and un­fail­ingly de­pend­able. These gen­tiles were not afraid of Je­sus; they dared to ac­cept his mes­sage. All down through the ages men have not been un­able to com­pre­hend Je­sus; they have been afraid to.

• human nature › be not discouraged by discovery you are human

156:5.8Do not be­come dis­cour­aged by the dis­cov­ery that you are hu­man. Hu­man na­ture may tend to­ward evil, but it is not in­her­ently sin­ful. Be not down­cast by your fail­ure wholly to for­get some of your re­gret­table ex­pe­ri­ences. The mis­takes which you fail to for­get in time will be for­got­ten in eter­nity. Lighten your bur­dens of soul by speed­ily ac­quir­ing a long-dis­tance view of your des­tiny, a uni­verse ex­pan­sion of your ca­reer.

• nothing infallible which humans have touched

159:4.8“Mark you well my words, Na­than­iel, noth­ing which hu­man na­ture has touched can be re­garded as in­fal­li­ble. Through the mind of man di­vine truth may in­deed shine forth, but al­ways of rel­a­tive pu­rity and par­tial di­vin­ity. The crea­ture may crave in­fal­li­bil­ity, but only the Cre­ators pos­sess it.

• God is no respecter of persons

166:4.11“The Fa­ther’s hu­man chil­dren have equal ca­pac­ity for the re­cep­tion of ma­te­rial bless­ings; there­fore does he be­stow things phys­i­cal upon the chil­dren of men with­out dis­crim­i­na­tion. When it comes to the be­stowal of spir­i­tual gifts, the Fa­ther is lim­ited by man’s ca­pac­ity for re­ceiv­ing these di­vine en­dow­ments. Al­though the Fa­ther is no re­specter of per­sons, in the be­stowal of spir­i­tual gifts he is lim­ited by man’s faith and by his will­ing­ness al­ways to abide by the Fa­ther’s will.”

• in God we live and move and have our being

174:3.2Je­sus knew, and so did the peo­ple, that these Sad­ducees were not sin­cere in ask­ing this ques­tion be­cause it was not likely that such a case would re­ally oc­cur; and be­sides, this prac­tice of the broth­ers of a dead man seek­ing to beget chil­dren for him was prac­ti­cally a dead let­ter at this time among the Jews. Nev­er­the­less, Je­sus con­de­scended to re­ply to their mis­chievous ques­tion. He said: “You all do err in ask­ing such ques­tions be­cause you know nei­ther the Scrip­tures nor the liv­ing power of God. You know that the sons of this world can marry and are given in mar­riage, but you do not seem to un­der­stand that they who are ac­counted wor­thy to at­tain the worlds to come, through the res­ur­rec­tion of the righ­teous, nei­ther marry nor are given in mar­riage. Those who ex­pe­ri­ence the res­ur­rec­tion from the dead are more like the an­gels of heaven, and they never die. These res­ur­rected ones are eter­nally the sons of God; they are the chil­dren of light res­ur­rected into the prog­ress of eter­nal life. And even your Fa­ther Moses un­der­stood this, for, in con­nec­tion with his ex­pe­ri­ences at the burn­ing bush, he heard the Fa­ther say, ‘I am the God of Abra­ham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja­cob.’ And so, along with Moses, do I de­clare that my Fa­ther is not the God of the dead but of the liv­ing. In him you all do live, re­pro­duce, and pos­sess your mor­tal ex­is­tence.”

• God is no respecter of persons

175:2.1The fact that the spir­i­tual lead­ers and the re­li­gious teach­ers of the Jew­ish na­tion one­time re­jected the teach­ings of Je­sus and con­spired to bring about his cruel death, does not in any man­ner af­fect the sta­tus of any in­di­vid­ual Jew in his stand­ing be­fore God. And it should not cause those who pro­fess to be fol­low­ers of the Christ to be prej­u­diced against the Jew as a fel­low mor­tal. The Jews, as a na­tion, as a so­ciopo­lit­i­cal group, paid in full the ter­ri­ble price of re­ject­ing the Prince of Peace. Long since they ceased to be the spir­i­tual torch­bear­ers of di­vine truth to the races of man­kind, but this con­sti­tutes no valid rea­son why the in­di­vid­ual de­scen­dants of these long-ago Jews should be made to suf­fer the per­se­cu­tions which have been vis­ited upon them by in­tol­er­ant, un­wor­thy, and big­oted pro­fessed fol­low­ers of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth, who was, him­self, a Jew by nat­u­ral birth.

175:2.2Many times has this un­rea­son­ing and un-Christ­like ha­tred and per­se­cu­tion of mod­ern Jews ter­mi­nated in the suf­fer­ing and death of some in­no­cent and un­of­fend­ing Jew­ish in­di­vid­ual whose very an­ces­tors, in the times of Je­sus, heart­ily ac­cepted his gospel and pres­ently died un­flinch­ingly for that truth which they so whole­heart­edly be­lieved. What a shud­der of hor­ror passes over the on­look­ing ce­les­tial be­ings as they be­hold the pro­fessed fol­low­ers of Je­sus in­dulge them­selves in per­se­cut­ing, ha­rass­ing, and even mur­der­ing the later-day de­scen­dants of Pe­ter, Philip, Mat­thew, and oth­ers of the Pales­tinian Jews who so glo­ri­ously yielded up their lives as the first mar­tyrs of the gospel of the heav­enly king­dom!

175:2.3How cruel and un­rea­son­ing to com­pel in­no­cent chil­dren to suf­fer for the sins of their pro­gen­i­tors, mis­deeds of which they are wholly ig­no­rant, and for which they could in no way be re­spon­si­ble! And to do such wicked deeds in the name of one who taught his dis­ci­ples to love even their en­e­mies! It has be­come nec­es­sary, in this recital of the life of Je­sus, to por­tray the man­ner in which cer­tain of his fel­low Jews re­jected him and con­spired to bring about his ig­no­min­ious death; but we would warn all who read this nar­ra­tive that the pre­sen­ta­tion of such a his­tor­i­cal recital in no way jus­ti­fies the un­just ha­tred, nor con­dones the un­fair at­ti­tude of mind, which so many pro­fessed Chris­tians have main­tained to­ward in­di­vid­ual Jews for many cen­turies. King­dom be­liev­ers, those who fol­low the teach­ings of Je­sus, must cease to mis­treat the in­di­vid­ual Jew as one who is guilty of the re­jec­tion and cru­ci­fix­ion of Je­sus. The Fa­ther and his Cre­ator Son have never ceased to love the Jews. God is no re­specter of per­sons, and sal­va­tion is for the Jew as well as for the gen­tile.

• God is no respecter of persons

181:2.14“Levi, I know much about your anx­i­eties, sac­ri­fices, and labors to keep the trea­sury re­plen­ished which your breth­ren do not know, and I am re­joiced that, though he who car­ried the bag is ab­sent, the pub­li­can am­bas­sador is here at my farewell gath­er­ing with the mes­sen­gers of the king­dom. I pray that you may dis­cern the mean­ing of my teach­ing with the eyes of the spirit. And when the new teacher comes into your heart, fol­low on as he will lead you and let your breth­ren see—even all the world—what the Fa­ther can do for a hated tax-gath­erer who dared to fol­low the Son of Man and to be­lieve the gospel of the king­dom. Even from the first, Levi, I loved you as I did these other Galileans. Know­ing then so well that nei­ther the Fa­ther nor the Son has re­spect of per­sons, see to it that you make no such dis­tinc­tions among those who be­come be­liev­ers in the gospel through your min­istry. And so, Mat­thew, ded­i­cate your whole fu­ture life ser­vice to show­ing all men that God is no re­specter of per­sons; that, in the sight of God and in the fel­low­ship of the king­dom, all men are equal, all be­liev­ers are the sons of God.”

• human nature › evil brutality lurks in

184:4.5What is this trait of the an­i­mal in man which leads him to want to in­sult and phys­i­cally as­sault that which he can­not spir­i­tu­ally at­tain or in­tel­lec­tu­ally achieve? In the half-civ­i­lized man there still lurks an evil bru­tal­ity which seeks to vent it­self upon those who are su­pe­rior in wis­dom and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. Wit­ness the evil coarse­ness and the bru­tal fe­roc­ity of these sup­pos­edly civ­i­lized men as they de­rived a cer­tain form of an­i­mal plea­sure from this phys­i­cal at­tack upon the un­re­sist­ing Son of Man. As these in­sults, taunts, and blows fell upon Je­sus, he was un­de­fend­ing but not de­fense­less. Je­sus was not van­quished, merely un­con­tend­ing in the ma­te­rial sense.

• God is no respecter of persons

192:2.2Je­sus then turned to­ward Pe­ter and asked, “Pe­ter, do you love me?” Pe­ter an­swered, “Lord, you know I love you with all my soul.” Then said Je­sus: “If you love me, Pe­ter, feed my lambs. Do not ne­glect to min­is­ter to the weak, the poor, and the young. Preach the gospel with­out fear or fa­vor; re­mem­ber al­ways that God is no re­specter of per­sons. Serve your fel­low men even as I have served you; for­give your fel­low mor­tals even as I have for­given you. Let ex­pe­ri­ence teach you the value of med­i­ta­tion and the power of in­tel­li­gent re­flec­tion.”

• God is no respecter of persons

193:0.3“And now you should give ear to my words lest you again make the mis­take of hear­ing my teach­ing with the mind while in your hearts you fail to com­pre­hend the mean­ing. From the be­gin­ning of my so­journ as one of you, I taught you that my one pur­pose was to re­veal my Fa­ther in heaven to his chil­dren on earth. I have lived the God-re­veal­ing be­stowal that you might ex­pe­ri­ence the God-know­ing ca­reer. I have re­vealed God as your Fa­ther in heaven; I have re­vealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact be­comes an eter­nal and liv­ing truth in your hearts. When, by liv­ing faith, you be­come di­vinely God-con­scious, you are then born of the spirit as chil­dren of light and life, even the eter­nal life where­with you shall as­cend the uni­verse of uni­verses and at­tain the ex­pe­ri­ence of find­ing God the Fa­ther on Par­a­dise.

• 7 higher spirit influences

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are:

• human nature › Jesus saw most m. as weak, not wicked

196:2.9Je­sus led men to feel at home in the world; he de­liv­ered them from the slav­ery of taboo and taught them that the world was not fun­da­men­tally evil. He did not long to es­cape from his earthly life; he mas­tered a tech­nique of ac­cept­ably do­ing the Fa­ther’s will while in the flesh. He at­tained an ide­al­is­tic re­li­gious life in the very midst of a re­al­is­tic world. Je­sus did not share Paul’s pes­simistic view of hu­mankind. The Mas­ter looked upon men as the sons of God and fore­saw a mag­nif­i­cent and eter­nal fu­ture for those who chose sur­vival. He was not a moral skep­tic; he viewed man pos­i­tively, not neg­a­tively. He saw most men as weak rather than wicked, more dis­traught than de­praved. But no mat­ter what their sta­tus, they were all God’s chil­dren and his breth­ren.