supermen

85:6.2Early man re­garded all un­usual per­sons as super­hu­man, and he so feared such be­ings as to hold them in rev­er­en­tial awe; to some de­gree he lit­er­ally wor­shiped them. Even hav­ing twins was re­garded as be­ing ei­ther very lucky or very un­lucky. Lu­natics, epilep­tics, and the fee­ble-minded were of­ten wor­shiped by their nor­mal-minded fel­lows, who be­lieved that such ab­nor­mal be­ings were in­dwelt by the gods. Priests, kings, and proph­ets were wor­shiped; the holy men of old were looked upon as in­spired by the de­i­ties.

66:4.1The ar­rival of the Prince’s staff cre­ated a pro­found im­pres­sion. While it re­quired al­most a thou­sand years for the news to spread abroad, those tribes near the Mes­o­po­ta­mian head­quar­ters were tremen­dously in­flu­enced by the teach­ings and con­duct of the one hun­dred new so­journ­ers on Uran­tia. And much of your sub­se­quent mythol­ogy grew out of the gar­bled leg­ends of these early days when these mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were reper­son­al­ized on Uran­tia as super­men.

66:4.2The se­ri­ous ob­sta­cle to the good in­flu­ence of such ex­tra­plan­e­tary teach­ers is the ten­dency of mor­tals to re­gard them as gods, but aside from the tech­nique of their ap­pear­ance on earth the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred—fifty men and fifty women—did not re­sort to super­nat­u­ral meth­ods nor super­hu­man ma­nip­u­la­tions.

66:4.3But the cor­po­real staff were nonethe­less super­hu­man. They be­gan their mis­sion on Uran­tia as ex­traor­di­nary three­fold be­ings:

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

66:4.5These one hun­dred mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were di­vided equally as to sex and in ac­cor­dance with their pre­vi­ous mor­tal sta­tus. Each per­son of this group was ca­pa­ble of be­com­ing co­parental to some new or­der of phys­i­cal be­ing, but they had been care­fully in­structed to re­sort to par­ent­hood only un­der cer­tain con­di­tions. It is cus­tom­ary for the cor­po­real staff of a Plan­e­tary Prince to pro­cre­ate their suc­ces­sors some­time prior to re­tir­ing from spe­cial plan­e­tary ser­vice. Usu­ally this is at, or shortly af­ter, the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve.

66:4.6These spe­cial be­ings there­fore had lit­tle or no idea as to what type of ma­te­rial crea­ture would be pro­duced by their sex­ual union. And they never did know; be­fore the time for such a step in the pros­e­cu­tion of their world work the en­tire regime was up­set by re­bel­lion, and those who later func­tioned in the pa­ren­tal role had been iso­lated from the life cur­rents of the sys­tem.

66:4.7In skin color and lan­guage these ma­te­ri­al­ized mem­bers of Cali­gas­tia’s staff fol­lowed the An­donic race. They par­took of food as did the mor­tals of the realm with this dif­fer­ence: The re-cre­ated bod­ies of this group were fully sat­is­fied by a non­flesh diet. This was one of the con­sid­er­a­tions which de­ter­mined their res­i­dence in a warm re­gion abound­ing in fruits and nuts. The prac­tice of sub­sist­ing on a non­flesh diet dates from the times of the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred, for this cus­tom spread near and far to af­fect the eat­ing habits of many sur­round­ing tribes, groups of ori­gin in the once ex­clu­sively meat-eat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary races.

66:4.82. The one hun­dred were ma­te­rial but super­hu­man be­ings, hav­ing been re­con­sti­tuted on Uran­tia as unique men and women of a high and spe­cial or­der.

66:4.9This group, while en­joy­ing pro­vi­sional cit­i­zen­ship on Je­ru­sem, were as yet un­fused with their Thought Ad­justers; and when they vol­un­teered and were ac­cepted for plan­e­tary ser­vice in li­ai­son with the de­scend­ing or­ders of son­ship, their Ad­justers were de­tached. But these Jerusemites were super­hu­man be­ings—they pos­sessed souls of as­cen­dant growth. Dur­ing the mor­tal life in the flesh the soul is of em­bry­onic es­tate; it is born (res­ur­rected) in the mor­ontia life and ex­pe­ri­ences growth through the suc­ces­sive mor­ontia worlds. And the souls of the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred had thus ex­panded through the pro­gres­sive ex­pe­ri­ences of the seven man­sion worlds to cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus on Je­ru­sem.

66:4.10In con­for­mity to their in­struc­tions the staff did not en­gage in sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, but they did painstak­ingly study their per­sonal con­sti­tu­tions, and they care­fully ex­plored ev­ery imag­in­able phase of in­tel­lec­tual (mind) and mor­ontia (soul) li­ai­son. And it was dur­ing the thirty-third year of their so­journ in Dala­ma­tia, long be­fore the wall was com­pleted, that num­ber two and num­ber seven of the Dan­ite group ac­ci­den­tally dis­cov­ered a phe­nom­e­non at­ten­dant upon the li­ai­son of their mor­ontia selves (sup­pos­edly non­sex­ual and non­ma­te­rial); and the re­sult of this ad­ven­ture proved to be the first of the pri­mary mid­way crea­tures. This new be­ing was wholly vis­i­ble to the plan­e­tary staff and to their ce­les­tial as­so­ciates but was not vis­i­ble to the men and women of the var­i­ous hu­man tribes. Upon au­thor­ity of the Plan­e­tary Prince the en­tire cor­po­real staff un­der­took the pro­duc­tion of sim­i­lar be­ings, and all were suc­cess­ful, fol­low­ing the in­struc­tions of the pi­o­neer Dan­ite pair. Thus did the Prince’s staff even­tu­ally bring into be­ing the orig­i­nal corps of 50,000 pri­mary mid­way­ers.

66:4.11These mid-type crea­tures were of great ser­vice in car­ry­ing on the af­fairs of the world’s head­quar­ters. They were in­vis­i­ble to hu­man be­ings, but the prim­i­tive so­journ­ers at Dala­ma­tia were taught about these un­seen semispir­its, and for ages they con­sti­tuted the sum to­tal of the spirit world to these evolv­ing mor­tals.

66:4.123. The Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred were per­son­ally im­mor­tal, or undy­ing. There cir­cu­lated through their ma­te­rial forms the an­ti­do­tal com­ple­ments of the life cur­rents of the sys­tem; and had they not lost con­tact with the life cir­cuits through re­bel­lion, they would have lived on in­def­i­nitely un­til the ar­rival of a sub­se­quent Son of God, or un­til their some­time later re­lease to re­sume the in­ter­rupted jour­ney to Ha­vona and Par­a­dise.

66:4.13These an­ti­do­tal com­ple­ments of the Sa­ta­nia life cur­rents were de­rived from the fruit of the tree of life, a shrub of Eden­tia which was sent to Uran­tia by the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek at the time of Cali­gas­tia’s ar­rival. In the days of Dala­ma­tia this tree grew in the cen­tral court­yard of the tem­ple of the un­seen Fa­ther, and it was the fruit of the tree of life that en­abled the ma­te­rial and oth­er­wise mor­tal be­ings of the Prince’s staff to live on in­def­i­nitely as long as they had ac­cess to it.

66:4.14While of no value to the evo­lu­tion­ary races, this super­sus­te­nance was quite suf­fi­cient to con­fer con­tin­u­ous life upon the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred and also upon the one hun­dred mod­i­fied An­don­ites who were as­so­ci­ated with them.

66:4.15It should be ex­plained in this con­nec­tion that, at the time the one hun­dred An­don­ites con­tributed their hu­man germ plasm to the mem­bers of the Prince’s staff, the Life Car­ri­ers in­tro­duced into their mor­tal bod­ies the com­ple­ment of the sys­tem cir­cuits; and thus were they en­abled to live on con­cur­rently with the staff, cen­tury af­ter cen­tury, in de­fi­ance of phys­i­cal death.

66:4.16Even­tu­ally the one hun­dred An­don­ites were made aware of their con­tri­bu­tion to the new forms of their su­pe­ri­ors, and these same one hun­dred chil­dren of the An­don tribes were kept at head­quar­ters as the per­sonal at­ten­dants of the Prince’s cor­po­real staff.

66:6.6The Dala­ma­tia teach­ers sought to add con­scious so­cial se­lec­tion to the purely nat­u­ral se­lec­tion of bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion. They did not de­range hu­man so­ci­ety, but they did markedly ac­cel­er­ate its nor­mal and nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion. Their mo­tive was pro­gres­sion by evo­lu­tion and not rev­o­lu­tion by rev­e­la­tion. The hu­man race had spent ages in ac­quir­ing the lit­tle re­li­gion and morals it had, and these super­men knew bet­ter than to rob man­kind of these few ad­vances by the con­fu­sion and dis­may which al­ways re­sult when en­light­ened and su­pe­rior be­ings un­der­take to up­lift the back­ward races by overteach­ing and over­en­light­en­ment.

66:7.2The in­te­ri­ors of the cen­tral tem­ple of wor­ship and the ten coun­cil man­sions of the super­vis­ing groups of super­men were in­deed beau­ti­ful works of art. And while the res­i­den­tial build­ings were mod­els of neat­ness and clean­li­ness, ev­ery­thing was very sim­ple and al­to­gether prim­i­tive in com­par­i­son with later-day de­vel­op­ments. At this head­quar­ters of cul­ture no meth­ods were em­ployed which did not nat­u­rally be­long on Uran­tia.

66:7.4The def­i­nite or­der of fam­ily life and the liv­ing of one fam­ily to­gether in one res­i­dence of com­par­a­tively set­tled lo­ca­tion date from these times of Dala­ma­tia and were chiefly due to the ex­am­ple and teach­ings of the one hun­dred and their pupils. The home as a so­cial unit never be­came a suc­cess un­til the super­men and super­women of Dala­ma­tia led man­kind to love and plan for their grand­chil­dren and their grand­chil­dren’s chil­dren. Sav­age man loves his child, but civ­i­lized man loves also his grand­child.