planets

• suitability for life › all p. made to be eventually inhabited

1:0.2The myr­i­ads of plan­e­tary sys­tems were all made to be even­tu­ally in­hab­ited by many dif­fer­ent types of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures, be­ings who could know God, re­ceive the di­vine af­fec­tion, and love him in re­turn. The uni­verse of uni­verses is the work of God and the dwell­ing place of his di­verse crea­tures. “God cre­ated the heav­ens and formed the earth; he es­tab­lished the uni­verse and cre­ated this world not in vain; he formed it to be in­hab­ited.”

• God calls all p. by name

1:5.3God is not hid­ing from any of his crea­tures. He is un­ap­proach­able to so many or­ders of be­ings only be­cause he “dwells in a light which no ma­te­rial crea­ture can ap­proach.” The im­men­sity and grandeur of the di­vine per­son­al­ity is be­yond the grasp of the un­per­fected mind of evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals. He “mea­sures the wa­ters in the hol­low of his hand, mea­sures a uni­verse with the span of his hand. It is he who sits on the cir­cle of the earth, who stretches out the heav­ens as a cur­tain and spreads them out as a uni­verse to dwell in.” “Lift up your eyes on high and be­hold who has cre­ated all these things, who brings out their worlds by num­ber and calls them all by their names”; and so it is true that “the in­vis­i­ble things of God are par­tially un­der­stood by the things which are made.” To­day, and as you are, you must dis­cern the in­vis­i­ble Maker through his man­i­fold and di­verse cre­ation, as well as through the rev­e­la­tion and min­is­tra­tion of his Sons and their nu­mer­ous sub­or­di­nates.

• God calls all p. by name

3:3.1“God knows all things.” The di­vine mind is con­scious of, and con­ver­sant with, the thought of all cre­ation. His knowl­edge of events is uni­ver­sal and per­fect. The di­vine en­ti­ties go­ing out from him are a part of him; he who “bal­ances the clouds” is also “per­fect in knowl­edge.” “The eyes of the Lord are in ev­ery place.” Said your great teacher of the in­signif­i­cant spar­row, “One of them shall not fall to the ground with­out my Fa­ther’s knowl­edge,” and also, “The very hairs of your head are num­bered.” “He tells the num­ber of the stars; he calls them all by their names.”

3:3.2The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the only per­son­al­ity in all the uni­verse who does ac­tu­ally know the num­ber of the stars and plan­ets of space. All the worlds of ev­ery uni­verse are con­stantly within the con­scious­ness of God. He also says: “I have surely seen the af­flic­tion of my peo­ple, I have heard their cry, and I know their sor­rows.” For “the Lord looks from heaven; he be­holds all the sons of men; from the place of his habi­ta­tion he looks upon all the in­hab­i­tants of the earth.” Ev­ery crea­ture child may truly say: “He knows the way I take, and when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” “God knows our down­sit­tings and our up­ris­ings; he un­der­stands our thoughts afar off and is ac­quainted with all our ways.” “All things are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” And it should be a real com­fort to ev­ery hu­man be­ing to un­der­stand that “he knows your frame; he re­mem­bers that you are dust.” Je­sus, speak­ing of the liv­ing God, said, “Your Fa­ther knows what you have need of even be­fore you ask him.”

• all creatures inhabit material abodes

11:0.1Par­a­dise is the eter­nal cen­ter of the uni­verse of uni­verses and the abid­ing place of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and their di­vine co-or­di­nates and as­so­ciates. This cen­tral Isle is the most gi­gan­tic or­ga­nized body of cos­mic re­al­ity in all the mas­ter uni­verse. Par­a­dise is a ma­te­rial sphere as well as a spir­i­tual abode. All of the in­tel­li­gent cre­ation of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is domi­ciled on ma­te­rial abodes; hence must the ab­so­lute con­trol­ling cen­ter also be ma­te­rial, lit­eral. And again it should be re­it­er­ated that spirit things and spir­i­tual be­ings are real.

• all creatures inhabit material abodes

12:8.1“God is spirit,” but Par­a­dise is not. The ma­te­rial uni­verse is al­ways the arena wherein take place all spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties; spirit be­ings and spirit as­cend­ers live and work on phys­i­cal spheres of ma­te­rial re­al­ity.

• all creatures inhabit material abodes

14:2.1Spirit be­ings do not dwell in neb­u­lous space; they do not in­habit ethe­real worlds; they are domi­ciled on ac­tual spheres of a ma­te­rial na­ture, worlds just as real as those on which mor­tals live. The Ha­vona worlds are ac­tual and lit­eral, al­beit their lit­eral sub­stance dif­fers from the ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion of the plan­ets of the seven super­uni­verses.

• Havona has largest p. in grand universe

14:3.6The plan­e­tary con­struc­tion of the Ha­vona spheres is en­tirely un­like that of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds and sys­tems of space. Nowhere else in all the grand uni­verse is it con­ve­nient to uti­lize such enor­mous spheres as in­hab­ited worlds. Tri­ata phys­i­cal con­sti­tu­tion, cou­pled with the bal­anc­ing ef­fect of the im­mense dark grav­ity bod­ies, makes it pos­si­ble so per­fectly to equal­ize the phys­i­cal forces and so ex­qui­sitely to bal­ance the var­i­ous at­trac­tions of this tremen­dous cre­ation. Anti­grav­ity is also em­ployed in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial func­tions and the spir­i­tual ac­tiv­i­ties of these enor­mous worlds.

• all creatures inhabit material abodes

14:4.11The na­tives of Ha­vona live on the bil­lion spheres of the cen­tral uni­verse in the same sense that other or­ders of per­ma­nent cit­i­zen­ship dwell on their re­spec­tive spheres of na­tiv­ity. As the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship car­ries on the ma­te­rial, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual econ­omy of a bil­lion lo­cal sys­tems in a super­uni­verse, so, in a larger sense, do the Ha­vona na­tives live and func­tion on the bil­lion worlds of the cen­tral uni­verse. You might pos­si­bly re­gard these Havon­ers as ma­te­rial crea­tures in the sense that the word “ma­te­rial” could be ex­panded to de­scribe the phys­i­cal re­al­i­ties of the di­vine uni­verse.

• each evolutionary planet ruled over by a Planetary Prince

15:2.31. The Sys­tem. The ba­sic unit of the super­gov­ern­ment con­sists of about one thou­sand in­hab­ited or in­hab­it­able worlds. Blaz­ing suns, cold worlds, plan­ets too near the hot suns, and other spheres not suit­able for crea­ture habi­ta­tion are not in­cluded in this group. These one thou­sand worlds adapted to sup­port life are called a sys­tem, but in the younger sys­tems only a com­par­a­tively small num­ber of these worlds may be in­hab­ited. Each in­hab­ited planet is pre­sided over by a Plan­e­tary Prince, and each lo­cal sys­tem has an ar­chi­tec­tural sphere as its head­quar­ters and is ruled by a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

• origins › near approach of great mass to a sun

15:5.53. Grav­ity-ex­plo­sion Plan­ets. When a sun is born of a spi­ral or of a barred neb­ula, not in­fre­quently it is thrown out a con­sid­er­able dis­tance. Such a sun is highly gaseous, and sub­se­quently, af­ter it has some­what cooled and con­densed, it may chance to swing near some enor­mous mass of mat­ter, a gi­gan­tic sun or a dark is­land of space. Such an ap­proach may not be near enough to re­sult in col­li­sion but still near enough to al­low the grav­ity pull of the greater body to start tidal con­vul­sions in the lesser, thus ini­ti­at­ing a se­ries of tidal up­heavals which oc­cur si­mul­ta­ne­ously on op­po­site sides of the con­vulsed sun. At their height these ex­plo­sive erup­tions pro­duce a se­ries of vary­ing-sized ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter which may be pro­jected be­yond the grav­ity-recla­ma­tion zone of the erupt­ing sun, thus be­com­ing sta­bi­lized in or­bits of their own around one of the two bod­ies con­cerned in this episode. Later on the larger col­lec­tions of mat­ter unite and grad­u­ally draw the smaller bod­ies to them­selves. In this way many of the solid plan­ets of the lesser sys­tems are brought into ex­is­tence. Your own so­lar sys­tem had just such an ori­gin.

• origins › high rate of revolution of mother sun

15:5.64. Cen­trifu­gal Plan­e­tary Daugh­ters. Enor­mous suns, when in cer­tain stages of de­vel­op­ment, and if their rev­o­lu­tion­ary rate greatly ac­cel­er­ates, be­gin to throw off large quan­ti­ties of mat­ter which may sub­se­quently be as­sem­bled to form small worlds that con­tinue to en­cir­cle the par­ent sun.

• origins › sun fission

15:5.75. Grav­ity-de­fi­ciency Spheres. There is a crit­i­cal limit to the size of in­di­vid­ual stars. When a sun reaches this limit, un­less it slows down in rev­o­lu­tion­ary rate, it is doomed to split; sun fis­sion oc­curs, and a new dou­ble star of this va­ri­ety is born. Nu­mer­ous small plan­ets may be sub­se­quently formed as a by-prod­uct of this gi­gan­tic dis­rup­tion.

• origins › meteoric accretion

15:5.97. Cu­mu­la­tive Spheres. From the vast quan­tity of mat­ter cir­cu­lat­ing in space, small plan­ets may slowly ac­cu­mu­late. They grow by me­te­oric ac­cre­tion and by mi­nor col­li­sions. In cer­tain sec­tors of space, con­di­tions fa­vor such forms of plan­e­tary birth. Many an in­hab­ited world has had such an ori­gin.

• origins › collisions of dead suns

15:5.129. Col­li­sional Spheres. In those re­gions of thicker clus­ter­ing, col­li­sions are not un­com­mon. Such an as­tro­nomic read­just­ment is ac­com­pa­nied by tremen­dous en­ergy changes and mat­ter trans­mu­ta­tions. Col­li­sions in­volv­ing dead suns are pe­cu­liarly in­flu­en­tial in cre­at­ing wide­spread en­ergy fluc­tu­a­tions. Col­li­sional de­bris of­ten con­sti­tutes the ma­te­rial nu­cle­uses for the sub­se­quent for­ma­tion of plan­e­tary bod­ies adapted to mor­tal habi­ta­tion.

• cold accretion planets in good relationship to a sun are best for life
• suitability for life › not 1 in 40 suitable for habitation

15:6.14The Plan­ets. These are the larger ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter which fol­low an or­bit around a sun or some other space body; they range in size from plan­etes­i­mals to enor­mous gaseous, liq­uid, or solid spheres. The cold worlds which have been built up by the as­sem­blage of float­ing space ma­te­rial, when they hap­pen to be in proper re­la­tion to a near-by sun, are the more ideal plan­ets to har­bor in­tel­li­gent in­hab­i­tants. The dead suns are not, as a rule, suited to life; they are usu­ally too far away from a liv­ing, blaz­ing sun, and fur­ther, they are al­to­gether too mas­sive; grav­ity is tremen­dous at the sur­face.

15:6.15In your super­uni­verse not one cool planet in forty is hab­it­able by be­ings of your or­der. And, of course, the super­heated suns and the frigid out­ly­ing worlds are un­fit to har­bor higher life. In your so­lar sys­tem only three plan­ets are at pres­ent suited to har­bor life. Uran­tia, in size, den­sity, and lo­ca­tion, is in many re­spects ideal for hu­man habi­ta­tion.

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.

• only one bestowal Son serves on each

20:5.4Dur­ing the course of the long his­tory of an in­hab­ited planet, many dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tions will take place, and more than one mag­is­te­rial mis­sion may oc­cur, but or­di­nar­ily only once will a be­stowal Son serve on the sphere. It is only re­quired that each in­hab­ited world have one be­stowal Son come to live the full mor­tal life from birth to death. Sooner or later, re­gard­less of spir­i­tual sta­tus, ev­ery mor­tal-in­hab­ited world is des­tined to be­come host to a Mag­is­te­rial Son on a be­stowal mis­sion ex­cept the one planet in each lo­cal uni­verse whereon a Cre­ator Son elects to make his mor­tal be­stowal.

• suitability for life › small dark p. best suited to life experiments

23:2.20They go forth to in­ves­ti­gate the clues fur­nished by the space con­tem­pla­tors of the realms. Un­doubt­edly the Par­a­dise De­i­ties know of the ex­is­tence of these undis­cov­ered en­ergy sys­tems of space, but they never di­vulge such in­for­ma­tion. If the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers did not ex­plore and chart these newly or­ga­niz­ing en­ergy cen­ters, such phe­nom­ena would long re­main un­no­ticed even by the in­tel­li­gences of ad­ja­cent realms. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, as a class, are highly sen­si­tive to grav­ity; ac­cord­ingly they can some­times de­tect the prob­a­ble pres­ence of very small dark plan­ets, the very worlds which are best adapted to life ex­per­i­ments.

• system centers dispatch power to inhabited

29:2.186. Sys­tem Cen­ters. One Su­preme Power Cen­ter is per­ma­nently as­signed to each lo­cal sys­tem. These sys­tem cen­ters dis­patch the power cir­cuits to the in­hab­ited worlds of time and space. They co-or­di­nate the ac­tiv­i­ties of the sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and oth­er­wise func­tion to in­sure the sat­is­fac­tory dis­tri­bu­tion of power in the lo­cal sys­tem. The cir­cuit re­lay be­tween the plan­ets de­pends upon the per­fect co-or­di­na­tion of cer­tain ma­te­rial en­er­gies and upon the ef­fi­cient reg­u­la­tion of phys­i­cal power.

• energy transformers insulate planets against energy

29:4.24These trans­form­ers are pow­er­ful and ef­fec­tive liv­ing switches, be­ing able to dis­pose them­selves for or against a given power dis­po­si­tion or di­rec­tion­iza­tion. They are also skill­ful in their ef­forts to in­su­late the plan­ets against the pow­er­ful en­ergy streams pass­ing be­tween gi­gan­tic plan­e­tary and starry neigh­bors. Their en­ergy-trans­mu­tive at­tri­butes ren­der them most ser­vice­able in the im­por­tant task of main­tain­ing uni­ver­sal en­ergy bal­ance, or power equi­lib­rium. At one time they seem to con­sume or store en­ergy; at other times they ap­pear to ex­ude or lib­er­ate en­ergy. The trans­form­ers are able to in­crease or to di­min­ish the “stor­age-bat­tery” po­ten­tial of the liv­ing and dead en­er­gies of their re­spec­tive realms. But they deal only with phys­i­cal and semi­ma­te­rial en­er­gies, they do not di­rectly func­tion in the do­main of life, nei­ther do they change the forms of liv­ing be­ings.

• each evolutionary planet ruled over by a Planetary Prince

32:2.7And now that the right-hand helper and chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Cre­ator Son has been pro­vided, there en­sues the bring­ing into ex­is­tence of a vast and won­der­ful ar­ray of di­verse crea­tures. The sons and daugh­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse are forth­com­ing, and soon there­after the gov­ern­ment of such a cre­ation is pro­vided, ex­tend­ing from the su­preme coun­cils of the uni­verse to the fa­thers of the con­stel­la­tions and the sov­er­eigns of the lo­cal sys­tems—the ag­gre­ga­tions of those worlds which are de­signed sub­se­quently to be­come the homes of the var­ied mor­tal races of will crea­tures; and each of these worlds will be pre­sided over by a Plan­e­tary Prince.

• all mortal-inhabited planets are evolutionary

32:3.2The phys­i­cal sys­tems of time and space are all evo­lu­tion­ary in ori­gin. They are not even phys­i­cally sta­bi­lized un­til they are swung into the set­tled cir­cuits of their super­uni­verses. Nei­ther is a lo­cal uni­verse set­tled in light and life un­til its phys­i­cal pos­si­bil­i­ties of ex­pan­sion and de­vel­op­ment have been ex­hausted, and un­til the spir­i­tual sta­tus of all its in­hab­ited worlds has been for­ever set­tled and sta­bi­lized.

• mortals never return to native p. 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.

• mortals never return to native p. in same dispensation

40:9.5Such chil­dren of the lo­cal uni­verse are en­abled to re­pos­sess them­selves of much of their for­mer hu­man mem­ory ex­pe­ri­ence through hav­ing it re­told by the as­so­ci­ated ser­a­phim and cheru­bim and by con­sult­ing the rec­ords of the mor­tal ca­reer filed by the record­ing an­gels. This they can do with un­doubted as­sur­ance be­cause the sur­viv­ing soul, of ex­pe­ri­en­tial ori­gin in the ma­te­rial and mor­tal life, while hav­ing no mem­ory of mor­tal events, does have a resid­ual ex­pe­ri­en­tial-rec­og­ni­tion-re­sponse to these un­re­mem­bered events of past ex­pe­ri­ence.

• origins › near approach of great mass to a sun

41:10.1Some of the vari­able stars, in or near the state of max­i­mum pul­sa­tion, are in pro­cess of giv­ing ori­gin to sub­sidiary sys­tems, many of which will even­tu­ally be much like your own sun and its re­volv­ing plan­ets. Your sun was in just such a state of mighty pul­sa­tion when the mas­sive An­gona sys­tem swung into near ap­proach, and the outer sur­face of the sun be­gan to erupt ver­i­ta­ble streams—con­tin­u­ous sheets—of mat­ter. This kept up with ever-in­creas­ing vi­o­lence un­til near­est ap­po­si­tion, when the lim­its of so­lar co­he­sion were reached and a vast pin­na­cle of mat­ter, the an­ces­tor of the so­lar sys­tem, was dis­gorged. In sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances the clos­est ap­proach of the at­tract­ing body some­times draws off whole plan­ets, even a quar­ter or third of a sun. These ma­jor ex­tru­sions form cer­tain pe­cu­liar cloud-bound types of worlds, spheres much like Jupiter and Sat­urn.

41:10.2The ma­jor­ity of so­lar sys­tems, how­ever, had an ori­gin en­tirely dif­fer­ent from yours, and this is true even of those which were pro­duced by grav­ity-tidal tech­nique. But no mat­ter what tech­nique of world build­ing ob­tains, grav­ity al­ways pro­duces the so­lar sys­tem type of cre­ation; that is, a cen­tral sun or dark is­land with plan­ets, satel­lites, sub­satel­lites, and me­te­ors.

• origins › collisions of dead suns
• origins › gas-contraction
• origins › molten-split
• suitability for life › water and air on gas-contraction and solid-accretion p. in earlier life, if not too small

41:10.3The phys­i­cal as­pects of the in­di­vid­ual worlds are largely de­ter­mined by mode of ori­gin, as­tro­nom­i­cal sit­u­a­tion, and phys­i­cal en­vi­ron­ment. Age, size, rate of rev­o­lu­tion, and ve­loc­ity through space are also de­ter­min­ing fac­tors. Both the gas-con­trac­tion and the solid-ac­cre­tion worlds are char­ac­ter­ized by moun­tains and, dur­ing their ear­lier life, when not too small, by wa­ter and air. The molten-split and col­li­sional worlds are some­times with­out ex­ten­sive moun­tain ranges.

41:10.4Dur­ing the ear­lier ages of all these new worlds, earth­quakes are fre­quent, and they are all char­ac­ter­ized by great phys­i­cal dis­tur­bances; es­pe­cially is this true of the gas-con­trac­tion spheres, the worlds born of the im­mense neb­u­lar rings which are left be­hind in the wake of the early con­den­sa­tion and con­trac­tion of cer­tain in­di­vid­ual suns. Plan­ets hav­ing a dual ori­gin like Uran­tia pass through a less vi­o­lent and stormy youth­ful ca­reer. Even so, your world ex­pe­ri­enced an early phase of mighty up­heavals, char­ac­ter­ized by vol­ca­noes, earth­quakes, floods, and ter­rific storms.

41:10.5Uran­tia is com­par­a­tively iso­lated on the out­skirts of Sa­ta­nia, your so­lar sys­tem, with one ex­cep­tion, be­ing the far­thest re­moved from Je­ru­sem, while Sa­ta­nia it­self is next to the out­er­most sys­tem of Nor­la­ti­adek, and this con­stel­la­tion is now travers­ing the outer fringe of Neb­a­don. You were truly among the least of all cre­ation un­til Mi­chael’s be­stowal el­e­vated your planet to a po­si­tion of honor and great uni­verse in­ter­est. Some­times the last is first, while truly the least be­comes great­est.

41:10.6[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Chief of Neb­a­don Power Cen­ters.]

• all mortal-inhabited planets are evolutionary

49:0.1All mor­tal-in­hab­ited worlds are evo­lu­tion­ary in ori­gin and na­ture. These spheres are the spawn­ing ground, the evo­lu­tion­ary cra­dle, of the mor­tal races of time and space. Each unit of the as­cen­dant life is a ver­i­ta­ble train­ing school for the stage of ex­is­tence just ahead, and this is true of ev­ery stage of man’s pro­gres­sive Par­a­dise as­cent; just as true of the ini­tial mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence on an evo­lu­tion­ary planet as of the fi­nal uni­verse head­quar­ters school of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, a school which is not at­tended by as­cend­ing mor­tals un­til just be­fore their trans­la­tion to the regime of the super­uni­verse and the at­tain­ment of first-stage spirit ex­is­tence.

• suitability for life › not all p. suited to harbor mortal life

49:0.4Not all plan­ets are suited to har­bor mor­tal life. Small ones hav­ing a high rate of ax­ial rev­o­lu­tion are wholly un­suited for life habi­tats. In sev­eral of the phys­i­cal sys­tems of Sa­ta­nia the plan­ets re­volv­ing around the cen­tral sun are too large for habi­ta­tion, their great mass oc­ca­sion­ing op­pres­sive grav­ity. Many of these enor­mous spheres have satel­lites, some­times a half dozen or more, and these moons are of­ten in size very near that of Uran­tia, so that they are al­most ideal for habi­ta­tion.

• evolutionary processes vary greatly; no two exactly alike

49:1.3All the worlds of a lo­cal sys­tem dis­close un­mis­tak­able phys­i­cal kin­ship; nev­er­the­less, each planet has its own scale of life, no two worlds be­ing ex­actly alike in plant and an­i­mal en­dow­ment. These plan­e­tary vari­a­tions in the sys­tem life types re­sult from the de­ci­sions of the Life Car­ri­ers. But these be­ings are nei­ther capri­cious nor whim­si­cal; the uni­verses are con­ducted in ac­cor­dance with law and or­der. The laws of Neb­a­don are the di­vine man­dates of Sal­ving­ton, and the evo­lu­tion­ary or­der of life in Sa­ta­nia is in con­so­nance with the evo­lu­tion­ary pat­tern of Neb­a­don.

49:1.4Evo­lu­tion is the rule of hu­man de­vel­op­ment, but the pro­cess it­self varies greatly on dif­fer­ent worlds. Life is some­times ini­ti­ated in one cen­ter, some­times in three, as it was on Uran­tia. On the at­mo­spheric worlds it usu­ally has a ma­rine ori­gin, but not al­ways; much de­pends on the phys­i­cal sta­tus of a planet. The Life Car­ri­ers have great lat­i­tude in their func­tion of life ini­ti­a­tion.

• each evolutionary planet ruled over by a Planetary Prince

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

• emptied of salvable personalities if physical catastrophe dooms

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

• only those in main circuits of superuniverse assured of continuous survival

55:0.3Only those plan­ets which at­tain ex­is­tence in the main cir­cuits of the super­uni­verse are as­sured of con­tin­u­ous sur­vival, but as far as we know, these worlds set­tled in light and life are des­tined to go on through­out the eter­nal ages of all fu­ture time.

55:7.1This epoch ex­tends from the ap­pear­ance of the mor­ontia tem­ple at the new plan­e­tary head­quar­ters to the time of the set­tling of the en­tire sys­tem in light and life. This age is in­au­gu­rated by the Trin­ity Teacher Sons at the close of their suc­ces­sive world mis­sions when the Plan­e­tary Prince is el­e­vated to the sta­tus of Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign by the man­date and per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise be­stowal Son of that sphere. Con­comi­tant there­with the fi­nal­i­ters in­au­gu­rate their ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in plan­e­tary af­fairs.

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

55:7.3When such an era is at­tained on your world, no doubt Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, now the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, will oc­cupy the seat of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and it has long been con­jec­tured on Je­ru­sem that he will be ac­com­pa­nied by a son and daugh­ter of the Uran­tia Adam and Eve who are now held on Eden­tia as wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. These chil­dren of Adam might so serve on Uran­tia in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek-Sov­er­eign since they were de­prived of pro­cre­ative pow­ers al­most 37,000 years ago at the time they gave up their ma­te­rial bod­ies on Uran­tia in prepa­ra­tion for tran­sit to Eden­tia.

55:7.4This set­tled age con­tin­ues on and on un­til ev­ery in­hab­ited planet in the sys­tem at­tains the era of sta­bi­liza­tion; and then, when the young­est world—the last to achieve light and life—has ex­pe­ri­enced such set­tled­ness for one mil­len­nium of sys­tem time, the en­tire sys­tem en­ters the sta­bi­lized sta­tus, and the in­di­vid­ual worlds are ush­ered into the sys­tem epoch of the era of light and life.

• governmental techniques of universe cannot retard development of

55:11.6Let it be made clear that the ad­min­is­tra­tive mech­a­nisms and gov­ern­men­tal tech­niques of a uni­verse or a super­uni­verse can­not in any man­ner limit or re­tard the evo­lu­tion­ary de­vel­op­ment or spir­i­tual prog­ress of an in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited planet or of any in­di­vid­ual mor­tal on such a sphere.

57:5.15,000,000,000 years ago your sun was a com­par­a­tively iso­lated blaz­ing orb, hav­ing gath­ered to it­self most of the near-by cir­cu­lat­ing mat­ter of space, rem­nants of the re­cent up­heaval which at­tended its own birth.

57:5.2To­day, your sun has achieved rel­a­tive sta­bil­ity, but its eleven and one-half year sun­spot cy­cles be­tray that it was a vari­able star in its youth. In the early days of your sun the con­tin­ued con­trac­tion and con­se­quent grad­ual in­crease of tem­per­a­ture ini­ti­ated tremen­dous con­vul­sions on its sur­face. These ti­tanic heaves re­quired three and one-half days to com­plete a cy­cle of vary­ing bright­ness. This vari­able state, this pe­ri­odic pul­sa­tion, ren­dered your sun highly re­spon­sive to cer­tain out­side in­flu­ences which were to be shortly en­coun­tered.

57:5.3Thus was the stage of lo­cal space set for the unique ori­gin of Mon­ma­tia, that be­ing the name of your sun’s plan­e­tary fam­ily, the so­lar sys­tem to which your world be­longs. Less than one per cent of the plan­e­tary sys­tems of Or­von­ton have had a sim­i­lar ori­gin.

57:5.44,500,000,000 years ago the enor­mous An­gona sys­tem be­gan its ap­proach to the neigh­bor­hood of this soli­tary sun. The cen­ter of this great sys­tem was a dark gi­ant of space, solid, highly charged, and pos­sess­ing tremen­dous grav­ity pull.

57:5.5As An­gona more closely ap­proached the sun, at mo­ments of max­i­mum ex­pan­sion dur­ing so­lar pul­sa­tions, streams of gaseous ma­te­rial were shot out into space as gi­gan­tic so­lar tongues. At first these flam­ing gas tongues would in­vari­ably fall back into the sun, but as An­gona drew nearer and nearer, the grav­ity pull of the gi­gan­tic vis­i­tor be­came so great that these tongues of gas would break off at cer­tain points, the roots falling back into the sun while the outer sec­tions would be­come de­tached to form in­de­pen­dent bod­ies of mat­ter, so­lar me­te­orites, which im­me­di­ately started to re­volve about the sun in el­lip­ti­cal or­bits of their own.

57:5.6As the An­gona sys­tem drew nearer, the so­lar ex­tru­sions grew larger and larger; more and more mat­ter was drawn from the sun to be­come in­de­pen­dent cir­cu­lat­ing bod­ies in sur­round­ing space. This sit­u­a­tion de­vel­oped for about five hun­dred thou­sand years un­til An­gona made its clos­est ap­proach to the sun; where­upon the sun, in con­junc­tion with one of its pe­ri­odic in­ter­nal con­vul­sions, ex­pe­ri­enced a par­tial dis­rup­tion; from op­po­site sides and si­mul­ta­ne­ously, enor­mous vol­umes of mat­ter were dis­gorged. From the An­gona side there was drawn out a vast col­umn of so­lar gases, rather pointed at both ends and markedly bulging at the cen­ter, which be­came per­ma­nently de­tached from the im­me­di­ate grav­ity con­trol of the sun.

57:5.7This great col­umn of so­lar gases which was thus sep­a­rated from the sun sub­se­quently evolved into the twelve plan­ets of the so­lar sys­tem. The reper­cus­sional ejec­tion of gas from the op­po­site side of the sun in tidal sym­pa­thy with the ex­tru­sion of this gi­gan­tic so­lar sys­tem an­ces­tor, has since con­densed into the me­te­ors and space dust of the so­lar sys­tem, al­though much, very much, of this mat­ter was sub­se­quently re­cap­tured by so­lar grav­ity as the An­gona sys­tem re­ceded into re­mote space.

57:5.8Al­though An­gona suc­ceeded in draw­ing away the an­ces­tral ma­te­rial of the so­lar sys­tem plan­ets and the enor­mous vol­ume of mat­ter now cir­cu­lat­ing about the sun as as­ter­oids and me­te­ors, it did not se­cure for it­self any of this so­lar mat­ter. The vis­it­ing sys­tem did not come quite close enough to ac­tu­ally steal any of the sun’s sub­stance, but it did swing suf­fi­ciently close to draw off into the in­ter­ven­ing space all of the ma­te­rial com­pris­ing the pres­ent-day so­lar sys­tem.

57:5.9The five in­ner and five outer plan­ets soon formed in minia­ture from the cool­ing and con­dens­ing nu­cle­uses in the less mas­sive and ta­per­ing ends of the gi­gan­tic grav­ity bulge which An­gona had suc­ceeded in de­tach­ing from the sun, while Sat­urn and Jupiter were formed from the more mas­sive and bulging cen­tral por­tions. The pow­er­ful grav­ity pull of Jupiter and Sat­urn early cap­tured most of the ma­te­rial stolen from An­gona as the ret­ro­grade mo­tion of cer­tain of their satel­lites bears wit­ness.

57:5.10Jupiter and Sat­urn, be­ing de­rived from the very cen­ter of the enor­mous col­umn of super­heated so­lar gases, con­tained so much highly heated sun ma­te­rial that they shone with a bril­liant light and emit­ted enor­mous vol­umes of heat; they were in re­al­ity sec­ondary suns for a short pe­riod af­ter their for­ma­tion as sep­a­rate space bod­ies. These two largest of the so­lar sys­tem plan­ets have re­mained largely gaseous to this day, not even yet hav­ing cooled off to the point of com­plete con­den­sa­tion or so­lid­i­fi­ca­tion.

57:5.11The gas-con­trac­tion nu­cle­uses of the other ten plan­ets soon reached the stage of so­lid­i­fi­ca­tion and so be­gan to draw to them­selves in­creas­ing quan­ti­ties of the me­te­oric mat­ter cir­cu­lat­ing in near-by space. The worlds of the so­lar sys­tem thus had a dou­ble ori­gin: nu­cle­uses of gas con­den­sa­tion later on aug­mented by the cap­ture of enor­mous quan­ti­ties of me­te­ors. In­deed they still con­tinue to cap­ture me­te­ors, but in greatly less­ened num­bers.

57:5.12The plan­ets do not swing around the sun in the equa­to­rial plane of their so­lar mother, which they would do if they had been thrown off by so­lar rev­o­lu­tion. Rather, they travel in the plane of the An­gona so­lar ex­tru­sion, which ex­isted at a con­sid­er­able an­gle to the plane of the sun’s equa­tor.

57:5.13While An­gona was un­able to cap­ture any of the so­lar mass, your sun did add to its meta­mor­phos­ing plan­e­tary fam­ily some of the cir­cu­lat­ing space ma­te­rial of the vis­it­ing sys­tem. Due to the in­tense grav­ity field of An­gona, its trib­u­tary plan­e­tary fam­ily pur­sued or­bits of con­sid­er­able dis­tance from the dark gi­ant; and shortly af­ter the ex­tru­sion of the so­lar sys­tem an­ces­tral mass and while An­gona was yet in the vicin­ity of the sun, three of the ma­jor plan­ets of the An­gona sys­tem swung so near to the mas­sive so­lar sys­tem an­ces­tor that its grav­i­ta­tional pull, aug­mented by that of the sun, was suf­fi­cient to over­bal­ance the grav­ity grasp of An­gona and to per­ma­nently de­tach these three trib­u­taries of the ce­les­tial wan­derer.

• origins › retrograde motion always result of foreign space bodies

57:5.14All of the so­lar sys­tem ma­te­rial de­rived from the sun was orig­i­nally en­dowed with a ho­mo­ge­neous di­rec­tion of or­bital swing, and had it not been for the in­tru­sion of these three for­eign space bod­ies, all so­lar sys­tem ma­te­rial would still main­tain the same di­rec­tion of or­bital move­ment. As it was, the im­pact of the three An­gona trib­u­taries in­jected new and for­eign di­rec­tional forces into the emerg­ing so­lar sys­tem with the re­sul­tant ap­pear­ance of ret­ro­grade mo­tion. Ret­ro­grade mo­tion in any as­tro­nomic sys­tem is al­ways ac­ci­den­tal and al­ways ap­pears as a re­sult of the col­li­sional im­pact of for­eign space bod­ies. Such col­li­sions may not al­ways pro­duce ret­ro­grade mo­tion, but no ret­ro­grade ever ap­pears ex­cept in a sys­tem con­tain­ing masses which have di­verse ori­gins.

57:6.1Sub­se­quent to the birth of the so­lar sys­tem a pe­riod of di­min­ish­ing so­lar dis­gorge­ment en­sued. De­creas­ingly, for an­other five hun­dred thou­sand years, the sun con­tin­ued to pour forth di­min­ish­ing vol­umes of mat­ter into sur­round­ing space. But dur­ing these early times of er­ratic or­bits, when the sur­round­ing bod­ies made their near­est ap­proach to the sun, the so­lar par­ent was able to re­cap­ture a large por­tion of this me­te­oric ma­te­rial.

57:6.2The plan­ets near­est the sun were the first to have their rev­o­lu­tions slowed down by tidal fric­tion. Such grav­i­ta­tional in­flu­ences also con­tribute to the sta­bi­liza­tion of plan­e­tary or­bits while act­ing as a brake on the rate of plan­e­tary-ax­ial rev­o­lu­tion, caus­ing a planet to re­volve ever slower un­til ax­ial rev­o­lu­tion ceases, leav­ing one hemi­sphere of the planet al­ways turned to­ward the sun or larger body, as is il­lus­trated by the planet Mer­cury and by the moon, which al­ways turns the same face to­ward Uran­tia.

57:6.3When the tidal fric­tions of the moon and the earth be­come equal­ized, the earth will al­ways turn the same hemi­sphere to­ward the moon, and the day and month will be anal­o­gous—in length about forty-seven days. When such sta­bil­ity of or­bits is at­tained, tidal fric­tions will go into re­verse ac­tion, no longer driv­ing the moon far­ther away from the earth but grad­u­ally draw­ing the satel­lite to­ward the planet. And then, in that far-dis­tant fu­ture when the moon ap­proaches to within about eleven thou­sand miles of the earth, the grav­ity ac­tion of the lat­ter will cause the moon to dis­rupt, and this tidal-grav­ity ex­plo­sion will shat­ter the moon into small par­ti­cles, which may as­sem­ble about the world as rings of mat­ter re­sem­bling those of Sat­urn or may be grad­u­ally drawn into the earth as me­te­ors.

57:6.4If space bod­ies are sim­i­lar in size and den­sity, col­li­sions may oc­cur. But if two space bod­ies of sim­i­lar den­sity are rel­a­tively un­equal in size, then, if the smaller pro­gres­sively ap­proaches the larger, the dis­rup­tion of the smaller body will oc­cur when the ra­dius of its or­bit be­comes less than two and one-half times the ra­dius of the larger body. Col­li­sions among the gi­ants of space are rare in­deed, but these grav­ity-tidal ex­plo­sions of lesser bod­ies are quite com­mon.

57:6.5Shoot­ing stars oc­cur in swarms be­cause they are the frag­ments of larger bod­ies of mat­ter which have been dis­rupted by tidal grav­ity ex­erted by near-by and still larger space bod­ies. Sat­urn’s rings are the frag­ments of a dis­rupted satel­lite. One of the moons of Jupiter is now ap­proach­ing dan­ger­ously near the crit­i­cal zone of tidal dis­rup­tion and, within a few mil­lion years, will ei­ther be claimed by the planet or will un­dergo grav­ity-tidal dis­rup­tion. The fifth planet of the so­lar sys­tem of long, long ago tra­versed an ir­reg­u­lar or­bit, pe­ri­od­i­cally mak­ing closer and closer ap­proach to Jupiter un­til it en­tered the crit­i­cal zone of grav­ity-tidal dis­rup­tion, was swiftly frag­men­tized, and be­came the pres­ent-day clus­ter of as­ter­oids.

57:6.64,000,000,000 years ago wit­nessed the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Jupiter and Sat­urn sys­tems much as ob­served to­day ex­cept for their moons, which con­tin­ued to in­crease in size for sev­eral bil­lions of years. In fact, all of the plan­ets and satel­lites of the so­lar sys­tem are still grow­ing as the re­sult of con­tin­ued me­te­oric cap­tures.

57:6.73,500,000,000 years ago the con­den­sa­tion nu­cle­uses of the other ten plan­ets were well formed, and the cores of most of the moons were in­tact, though some of the smaller satel­lites later united to make the pres­ent-day larger moons. This age may be re­garded as the era of plan­e­tary as­sem­bly.

57:6.83,000,000,000 years ago the so­lar sys­tem was func­tion­ing much as it does to­day. Its mem­bers con­tin­ued to grow in size as space me­te­ors con­tin­ued to pour in upon the plan­ets and their satel­lites at a prodi­gious rate.

57:6.9About this time your so­lar sys­tem was placed on the phys­i­cal reg­istry of Neb­a­don and given its name, Mon­ma­tia.

57:6.102,500,000,000 years ago the plan­ets had grown im­mensely in size. Uran­tia was a well-de­vel­oped sphere about one tenth its pres­ent mass and was still grow­ing rapidly by me­te­oric ac­cre­tion.

57:6.11All of this tremen­dous ac­tiv­ity is a nor­mal part of the mak­ing of an evo­lu­tion­ary world on the or­der of Uran­tia and con­sti­tutes the as­tro­nomic pre­lim­i­nar­ies to the set­ting of the stage for the be­gin­ning of the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of such worlds of space in prepa­ra­tion for the life ad­ven­tures of time.

57:7.1Through­out these early times the space re­gions of the so­lar sys­tem were swarm­ing with small dis­rup­tive and con­den­sa­tion bod­ies, and in the ab­sence of a pro­tec­tive com­bus­tion at­mo­sphere such space bod­ies crashed di­rectly on the sur­face of Uran­tia. These in­ces­sant im­pacts kept the sur­face of the planet more or less heated, and this, to­gether with the in­creased ac­tion of grav­ity as the sphere grew larger, be­gan to set in op­er­a­tion those in­flu­ences which grad­u­ally caused the heav­ier el­e­ments, such as iron, to set­tle more and more to­ward the cen­ter of the planet.

57:7.22,000,000,000 years ago the earth be­gan de­cid­edly to gain on the moon. Al­ways had the planet been larger than its satel­lite, but there was not so much dif­fer­ence in size un­til about this time, when enor­mous space bod­ies were cap­tured by the earth. Uran­tia was then about one fifth its pres­ent size and had be­come large enough to hold the prim­i­tive at­mo­sphere which had be­gun to ap­pear as a re­sult of the in­ter­nal el­e­men­tal con­test be­tween the heated in­te­rior and the cool­ing crust.

57:7.3Def­i­nite vol­canic ac­tion dates from these times. The in­ter­nal heat of the earth con­tin­ued to be aug­mented by the deeper and deeper burial of the ra­dioac­tive or heav­ier el­e­ments brought in from space by the me­te­ors. The study of these ra­dioac­tive el­e­ments will re­veal that Uran­tia is more than one bil­lion years old on its sur­face. The ra­dium clock is your most re­li­able time­piece for mak­ing sci­en­tific es­ti­mates of the age of the planet, but all such es­ti­mates are too short be­cause the ra­dioac­tive ma­te­ri­als open to your scrutiny are all de­rived from the earth’s sur­face and hence rep­re­sent Uran­tia’s com­par­a­tively re­cent ac­quire­ments of these el­e­ments.

57:7.41,500,000,000 years ago the earth was two thirds its pres­ent size, while the moon was near­ing its pres­ent mass. Earth’s rapid gain over the moon in size en­abled it to be­gin the slow rob­bery of the lit­tle at­mo­sphere which its satel­lite orig­i­nally had.

57:7.5Vol­canic ac­tion is now at its height. The whole earth is a ver­i­ta­ble fiery in­ferno, the sur­face re­sem­bling its ear­lier molten state be­fore the heav­ier met­als grav­i­tated to­ward the cen­ter. This is the vol­canic age. Nev­er­the­less, a crust, con­sist­ing chiefly of the com­par­a­tively lighter gran­ite, is grad­u­ally form­ing. The stage is be­ing set for a planet which can some­day sup­port life.

57:7.6The prim­i­tive plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere is slowly evolv­ing, now con­tain­ing some wa­ter va­por, car­bon monox­ide, car­bon diox­ide, and hy­dro­gen chlo­ride, but there is lit­tle or no free ni­tro­gen or free oxy­gen. The at­mo­sphere of a world in the vol­canic age pre­sents a queer spec­ta­cle. In ad­di­tion to the gases enu­mer­ated it is heav­ily charged with nu­mer­ous vol­canic gases and, as the air belt ma­tures, with the com­bus­tion prod­ucts of the heavy me­te­oric show­ers which are con­stantly hurtling in upon the plan­e­tary sur­face. Such me­te­oric com­bus­tion keeps the at­mo­spheric oxy­gen very nearly ex­hausted, and the rate of me­te­oric bom­bard­ment is still tremen­dous.

57:7.7Pres­ently, the at­mo­sphere be­came more set­tled and cooled suf­fi­ciently to start pre­cip­i­ta­tion of rain on the hot rocky sur­face of the planet. For thou­sands of years Uran­tia was en­veloped in one vast and con­tin­u­ous blan­ket of steam. And dur­ing these ages the sun never shone upon the earth’s sur­face.

57:7.8Much of the car­bon of the at­mo­sphere was ab­stracted to form the car­bon­ates of the var­i­ous met­als which abounded in the su­per­fi­cial lay­ers of the planet. Later on, much greater quan­ti­ties of these car­bon gases were con­sumed by the early and pro­lific plant life.

57:7.9Even in the later pe­ri­ods the con­tin­u­ing lava flows and the in­com­ing me­te­ors kept the oxy­gen of the air al­most com­pletely used up. Even the early de­posits of the soon ap­pear­ing prim­i­tive ocean con­tain no col­ored stones or shales. And for a long time af­ter this ocean ap­peared, there was vir­tu­ally no free oxy­gen in the at­mo­sphere; and it did not ap­pear in sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ties un­til it was later gen­er­ated by the sea­weeds and other forms of veg­etable life.

57:7.10The prim­i­tive plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere of the vol­canic age af­fords lit­tle pro­tec­tion against the col­li­sional im­pacts of the me­te­oric swarms. Mil­lions upon mil­lions of me­te­ors are able to pen­e­trate such an air belt to smash against the plan­e­tary crust as solid bod­ies. But as time passes, fewer and fewer prove large enough to re­sist the ever-stronger fric­tion shield of the oxy­gen-en­rich­ing at­mo­sphere of the later eras.

• evolutionary p. are initial worlds of ascending mortal career

112:0.1The evo­lu­tion­ary plan­ets are the spheres of hu­man ori­gin, the ini­tial worlds of the as­cend­ing mor­tal ca­reer. Uran­tia is your start­ing point; here you and your di­vine Thought Ad­juster are joined in tem­po­rary union. You have been en­dowed with a per­fect guide; there­fore, if you will sin­cerely run the race of time and gain the fi­nal goal of faith, the re­ward of the ages shall be yours; you will be eter­nally united with your in­dwelling Ad­juster. Then will be­gin your real life, the as­cend­ing life, to which your pres­ent mor­tal state is but the vestibule. Then will be­gin your ex­alted and pro­gres­sive mis­sion as fi­nal­i­ters in the eter­nity which stretches out be­fore you. And through­out all of these suc­ces­sive ages and stages of evo­lu­tion­ary growth, there is one part of you that re­mains ab­so­lutely un­al­tered, and that is per­son­al­ity—per­ma­nence in the pres­ence of change.