Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 51
THE PLANETARY ADAMS
1. During the dispensation if a Planetary Prince, primitive man reaches the limit of natural evolutionary development, and this biologic attainment signals the System Sovereign to dispatch to such a world the second order of sonship, the biologic uplifters.
2. The material or sex Sons and Daughters are the offspring if the Creator Son...The material order of sonship is not uniform throughout the local universe. The Creator Son produces only one pair of these beings in each local system; these original pairs are diverse in nature, being attuned to the life pattern of their respective systems.
3. Material Sons vary in height from eight to ten feet, and their bodies glow with the brilliance if radiant light of a violet hue. While material blood circulates through their material bodies, they are also surcharged with divine energy and saturated with celestial light ...The Material Sons enjoy a dual nutrition. ... Should they fail on some mission of assignment or even consciously and deliberately rebel, this order of Sons become isolated, cut off from connection with the universe source of light and life. Thereupon they become practically material beings.
4. Since the inception of the system if Satania, thirteen Planetary Adams have been lost in rebellion and default and 681,204 in the subordinate positions if trust. Most of these defections occurred at the time of the Lucifer rebellion.
5. These unique and wonderfully useful beings are the connecting links between the spiritual and physical worlds...Unlike the other created Sons of planetary service, the material order of sonship is not, by nature, invisible to material creatures like the inhabitants of Urantia. These Sons of God can be seen, understood, and can, in turn, actually mingle with the creatures of time, could even procreate with them, though this role of biologic upliftment usually falls to the progeny if the Planetary Adams.
6. On Jerusem the loyal children of any Adam and Eve are immortal, but the offspring of a Material Son and Daughter procreated subsequent to their arrival on an evolutionary planet are not thus immune to natural death. There occurs a change in the life transmitting mechanism when these Sons are rematerialized for reproductive function on an evolutionary world.
7. Adams and Eves are semimaterial creatures and, as such, are not transportable by seraphim. They must undergo dematerialization on the system capital before they can be enseraphimed for transport to the world of assignment ...About three days of standard time are consumed in this transport preparation.
8. 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.
9. Upon arrival at their planetary destination the Material Son and Daughter are rematerialized under the direction if the Life Carriers. This entire process takes ten to twenty‑eight days of Urantia time.
10. On the inhabited worlds the Material Sons and Daughters construct their own garden homes, soon being assisted by their own children...Such garden homes are usually located in a secluded section and in a near‑tropic zone...The chief business of such an imported pair is to multiply and to uplift the children of time ...for many generations Adam and Eve remain biologically segregated from the evolutionary mortals while they build up a strong race of their order.
11. Caligastia offered crafty and effective opposition to the Adamic mission ...The traitorous Planetary Prince did succeed in compromising your Adam and Eve, but he failed in his effort to involve them in the Lucifer rebellion.
12. The fifth order of angels, the planetary helpers, are attached to the Adamic mission, always accompanying the Planetary Adams on their world adventures. The corps of initial assignment is usually about one hundred thousand. ..In the case of Adam and Eve, the angel of the Garden was none other than the chief of the planetary helpers then on duty. This seraphim, Solonia, proclaimed the miscarriage of the divine plan and requisitioned the return of the Melchizedek receivers to Urantia.
13. The secondary midway creatures are indigenous to the Adamic missions…Those material but ordinarily invisible planetary ministers contribute much to the advancement of civilization and even to the subjection of insubordinate minorities who may seek to subvert social development and spiritual progress.
14. On the day of Pentecost the loyal primary and. the secondary midwayers effected a voluntary union and have functioned as one unit in world affairs ever since. They serve under the leadership of loyal midwayers alternately chosen from the two groups.
15. How much more effective and beautiful it would have been had Michael, the supreme ruler of the universe of Nebadon, been welcomed to your world by a loyal and efficient Planetary Prince and a devoted and successful Material Son, both of whom could have done so much to enhance the lifework and mission of the bestowal Son!
16. The race of dominance during the early ages of the inhabited worlds is the red man, who ordinarily is the first to attain human levels of development...The earlier races are somewhat superior to the later; the red man stands far above the indigo—black—race ...On those worlds having all six evolutionary races the superior peoples are the first, third, and fifth races—the red., the yellow, and the blue ...It is a misfortune on Urantia that you so largely lost your superior blue men, except as they persist in your amalgamated "white race."
17. On most normal worlds involuntary servitude does not survive the dispensation of the Planetary Prince, although mental defectives and social delinquents are often still compelled to perform involuntary labor. But on all normal spheres this sort of primitive slavery is abolished soon after the arrival of the imported violet or Adamic race.
18. The Planetary Prince and the Material Son, with other suitable planetary authorities, pass upon the fitness of the reproducing strains. The difficulty of executing such a radical program on Urantia consists in the absence of competent judges to pass upon the biologic fitness or unfitness of the individuals of your world races. Notwithstanding this obstacle, it seems that you ought to be able to agree upon the biologic disfellowshiping of your more markedly unfit, defective, degenerate, and antisocial stocks.
19. Usually the violet peoples do not begin to amalgamate with the planetary natives until their own group numbers over one million ...the prince’s staff bring to the Garden of Eden the superior men and. women for voluntary mating with the Adamic offspring. And on most worlds it is considered the highest honor to be selected as a candidate for mating with the sons and. daughters of the garden ...The violet race is a monogamous people, and every evolutionary man or woman uniting with the Adamic sons and daughters pledges not to take other mates and to instruct his or her children in single‑matedness.
20. When this strain of the Material Sons is added to the evolving races of the worlds, a new and greater era of evolutionary progress is initiated ...in one hundred thousand years more progress is made than in a million years of former struggle. In your world...great progress has been made since the gift to your peoples of Adam's life plasm.
21. It would. not prove beneficial for the higher strains of Urantia mortals to mate with the lower races; such an unwise procedure would jeopardize all civilization on your world. Having failed to achieve race harmonization by the Adamic technique, you must now work out your planetary problem of race improvement by other and largely human methods of adaptation and control.
22. On normal worlds the garden headquarters of the violet race becomes the second center of world culture and, jointly with the headquarters city of the Planetary Prince, sets the pace for the development of civilization.
23. Think what it would mean on your world if somewhere, in the Levant there were a world center of civilization, a great planetary university of culture, which had. functioned uninterruptedly for 37,000 years. And...situated not far‑distant still another and older headquarters of celestial ministry whose traditions would exert a cumulative force of 500,000 years of integrated evolutionary influence. It is custom which eventually spreads the ideals of Eden to a whole world.
24. The schools of the Planetary Prince are primarily concerned with philosophy, religion, morals, and the higher intellectual and artistic achievements. The garden schools of Adam and Eve are usually devoted to practical arts, fundamental intellectual training, social culture, economic development, trade relations, physical efficiency, and civil government. Eventually these world centers amalgamate, but this actual affiliation sometimes does not occur until the times of the first Magisterial Son.
25. It is intended that mortals who start out from an inhabited world have the experience of recognizing seven fathers:
1. The biologic father—the father in the flesh.
2. The father of the realm—the Planetary Adam.
3. The father of the spheres—the System Sovereign.
4. The Most High Father—the Constellation Father.
5. The universe Father—the Creator Son and supreme ruler of the local creations.
6. The super‑Fathers —the Ancients of Days who govern the superuniverse.
7. The spirit or Havona Father—the Universal Father.
26. By the time of the inauguration of the fifth dispensation of world affairs, a magnificent administration of planetary activities has been achieved ...And if Urantians could only observe life on such a planet, they would immediately appreciate the value of those things which their world has lost through embracing evil and participating in rebellion.
Discussion Questions
1. What might 100,000 planetary helper angels who accompanied Adam and Eve do on our world?
2. What might the secondary midwayers now be doing on our world?
3. How will the unusual nature of the Urantia Synopsis of Papers compensate for the Lucifer rebellion and the failure of Adam and Eve?
4. Will the description of superior and inferior races add to the racial problems on our world?
5. How do you think we will be able to improve our racial quality?
6. Will we eventually establish a world center of culture and education?
7. How might a Magisterial Son change our planetary life?
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