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==PAPER 36 THE LIFE CARRIERS== | ==PAPER 36 THE LIFE CARRIERS== | ||
| − | 36:0.1 Life does not [[originate]] [[spontaneously]]. Life is constructed according to [[plans]] formulated by the (unrevealed) ''Architects of Being''[ | + | 36:0.1 Life does not [[originate]] [[spontaneously]]. Life is constructed according to [[plans]] formulated by the (unrevealed) ''Architects of Being'' ([[Architects of the Master Universe|?]]) and appears on the [[inhabited planets]] either by direct importation or as a result of the operations of the ''Life Carriers'' of the [[local universes]]. These carriers of life are among the most interesting and [[versatile]] of the [[diverse]] [[family]] of universe Sons. They are intrusted with designing and carrying [[creature]] life to the [[planetary]] [[spheres]]. And after planting this life on such new worlds, they remain there for long periods to foster its [[development]]. |
==36:1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE CARRIERS== | ==36:1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE CARRIERS== | ||
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36:1.2 In the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]] we have on [[record]] the [[creation]] of one hundred million Life Carriers. This [[efficient]] corps of life [[disseminators]] is not a truly [[self-governing]] group. They are directed by the life-determining trio, consisting of [[Gabriel]], the [[Father Melchizedek]], and ''Nambia'', the [[original]] and first-born Life Carrier of [[Nebadon]]. But in all [[phases]] of their divisional [[administration]] they are [[self-governing]]. | 36:1.2 In the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]] we have on [[record]] the [[creation]] of one hundred million Life Carriers. This [[efficient]] corps of life [[disseminators]] is not a truly [[self-governing]] group. They are directed by the life-determining trio, consisting of [[Gabriel]], the [[Father Melchizedek]], and ''Nambia'', the [[original]] and first-born Life Carrier of [[Nebadon]]. But in all [[phases]] of their divisional [[administration]] they are [[self-governing]]. | ||
| − | 36:1.3 Life Carriers are graded into three grand [[divisions]]: The first division is the senior Life Carriers, the second, assistants, and the third, custodians. The primary division is subdivided into [ | + | 36:1.3 Life Carriers are graded into three grand [[divisions]]: The first division is the senior Life Carriers, the second, assistants, and the third, custodians. The primary division is subdivided into [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve twelve] [[groups]] of specialists in the various [[forms]] of life [[manifestation]]. The [[segregation]] of these three divisions was [[effected]] by the [[Melchizedeks]], who conducted tests for such [[purposes]] on the Life Carriers' [[headquarters]] sphere. The [[Melchizedeks]] have ever since been closely [[associated]] with the Life Carriers and always accompany them when they go forth to establish life on a new [[planet]]. |
| − | 36:1.4 When an [[evolutionary planet]] is finally settled in [[light and life]], the Life Carriers are [[organized]] into the higher [[deliberative]] bodies of advisory capacity to [[assist]] in the further [[administration]] and [[development]] of the world and its [[glorified]] [[beings]]. In the [ | + | 36:1.4 When an [[evolutionary planet]] is finally settled in [[light and life]], the Life Carriers are [[organized]] into the higher [[deliberative]] bodies of advisory capacity to [[assist]] in the further [[administration]] and [[development]] of the world and its [[glorified]] [[beings]]. In the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_55#55:10._THE_FOURTH_OR_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_STAGE later and settled ages] of an evolving universe these Life Carriers are intrusted with many new [[duties]]. |
==36:2. THE LIFE CARRIER WORLDS== | ==36:2. THE LIFE CARRIER WORLDS== | ||
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36:2.3 ''World Number One'', the [[headquarters]] [[sphere]], together with its six tributary [[satellites]], is [[devoted]] to the study of [[universal]] life, life in all of its known [[phases]] of [[manifestation]]. Here is located the [[college]] of life planning, wherein [[function]] [[teachers]] and advisers from [[Uversa]] and [[Havona]], even from [[Paradise]]. And I am permitted to reveal that the seven central emplacements of the [[adjutant mind-spirits]] are situated on this world of the Life Carriers. | 36:2.3 ''World Number One'', the [[headquarters]] [[sphere]], together with its six tributary [[satellites]], is [[devoted]] to the study of [[universal]] life, life in all of its known [[phases]] of [[manifestation]]. Here is located the [[college]] of life planning, wherein [[function]] [[teachers]] and advisers from [[Uversa]] and [[Havona]], even from [[Paradise]]. And I am permitted to reveal that the seven central emplacements of the [[adjutant mind-spirits]] are situated on this world of the Life Carriers. | ||
| − | 36:2.4 The number [http;//www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten ten]—the decimal system—is [[inherent]] in the [[physical]] universe but not in the [[spiritual]]. The [[domain]] of life is characterized by [[three]], [[seven]], and [ | + | 36:2.4 The number [http;//www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten ten]—the decimal system—is [[inherent]] in the [[physical]] universe but not in the [[spiritual]]. The [[domain]] of life is characterized by [[three]], [[seven]], and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_(number) twelve] or by multiples and combinations of these basic [[numbers]]. There are [[three]] primal and [[essentially]] [[different]] life [[plans]], after the order of the three [[the Deities|Paradise Sources and Centers]], and in the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]] these three basic forms of life are [[segregated]] on three [[different]] [[types]] of [[planets]]. There were, originally, twelve distinct and [[divine]] [[concepts]] of transmissible life. This number twelve, with its subdivisions and multiples, runs throughout all basic life [[patterns]] of all [[seven superuniverses]]. There are also [[seven]] architectural types of life [[design]], [[fundamental]] arrangements of the [[reproducing]] configurations of living [[matter]]. The [[Orvonton]] life patterns are configured as twelve [[inheritance]] carriers. The differing orders of will [[creatures]] are configured as 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, and 768. On [[Urantia]] there are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomes#Karyotype forty-eight units] of [[pattern]] [[control]]—trait determiners—in the [[sex]] [[cells]] of [[human]] [[reproduction]]. |
36:2.5 ''The Second World'' is the life-[[designing]] [[sphere]]; here all new modes of life [[organization]] are worked out. While the [[original]] life [[designs]] are provided by the [[Creator Son]], the [[actual]] outworking of these [[plans]] is intrusted to the Life Carriers and their [[associates]]. When the general life plans for a new world have been formulated, they are [[transmitted]] to the [[headquarters]] sphere, where they are minutely scrutinized by the [[supreme]] [[council]] of the senior Life Carriers in [[collaboration]] with a corps of consulting [[Melchizedeks]]. If the [[plans]] are a departure from previously accepted [[formulas]], they must be passed upon, and endorsed by, the [[Creator Son]]. The chief of [[Melchizedeks]] often [[represents]] the Creator Son in these [[deliberations]]. | 36:2.5 ''The Second World'' is the life-[[designing]] [[sphere]]; here all new modes of life [[organization]] are worked out. While the [[original]] life [[designs]] are provided by the [[Creator Son]], the [[actual]] outworking of these [[plans]] is intrusted to the Life Carriers and their [[associates]]. When the general life plans for a new world have been formulated, they are [[transmitted]] to the [[headquarters]] sphere, where they are minutely scrutinized by the [[supreme]] [[council]] of the senior Life Carriers in [[collaboration]] with a corps of consulting [[Melchizedeks]]. If the [[plans]] are a departure from previously accepted [[formulas]], they must be passed upon, and endorsed by, the [[Creator Son]]. The chief of [[Melchizedeks]] often [[represents]] the Creator Son in these [[deliberations]]. | ||
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36:2.6 Planetary life, therefore, while similar in some respects, differs in many ways on each [[evolutionary world]]. Even in a [[uniform]] life series in a single [[family]] of worlds, life is not exactly the same on any two [[planets]]; there is always a [[planetary]] [[type]], for the Life Carriers [[work]] constantly in an [[effort]] to improve the [[vital]] [[formulas]] committed to their keeping. | 36:2.6 Planetary life, therefore, while similar in some respects, differs in many ways on each [[evolutionary world]]. Even in a [[uniform]] life series in a single [[family]] of worlds, life is not exactly the same on any two [[planets]]; there is always a [[planetary]] [[type]], for the Life Carriers [[work]] constantly in an [[effort]] to improve the [[vital]] [[formulas]] committed to their keeping. | ||
| − | 36:2.7 There are over one million [[fundamental]] or [[cosmic]] [[chemical]] [[formulas]] which [[constitute]] the [[parent]] [[patterns]] and the numerous basic [[functional]] variations of life [[manifestations]]. [[Satellite]] number one of the life-planning sphere is the realm of the [[universe]] [[physicists]] and [ | + | 36:2.7 There are over one million [[fundamental]] or [[cosmic]] [[chemical]] [[formulas]] which [[constitute]] the [[parent]] [[patterns]] and the numerous basic [[functional]] variations of life [[manifestations]]. [[Satellite]] number one of the life-planning sphere is the realm of the [[universe]] [[physicists]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemistry electrochemists] who serve as [[technical]] assistants to the Life Carriers in the [[work]] of capturing, [[organizing]], and [[manipulating]] the [[essential]] [[units]] of [[energy]] which are employed in building up the [[material]] vehicles of life transmission, the so-called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_plasm germ plasm]. |
| − | 36:2.8 The planetary life-planning [[laboratories]] are situated on the second [[satellite]] of this world number two. In these [[laboratories]] the Life Carriers and all their [[associates]] [[collaborate]] with the [[Melchizedeks]] in the effort to modify and possibly improve the life designed for implantation on the [ | + | 36:2.8 The planetary life-planning [[laboratories]] are situated on the second [[satellite]] of this world number two. In these [[laboratories]] the Life Carriers and all their [[associates]] [[collaborate]] with the [[Melchizedeks]] in the effort to modify and possibly improve the life designed for implantation on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA decimal planets] of [[Nebadon]]. The life now evolving on [[Urantia]] was [[planned]] and partially worked out on this very world, for Urantia is a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA decimal planet], a life-[[experiment]] world. On one world in each ten a greater variance in the [[standard]] life [[designs]] is permitted than on the other (nonexperimental) worlds. |
| − | 36:2.9 ''World Number Three'' is [[devoted]] to the [[conservation]] of life. Here various modes of life protection and [[preservation]] are [[studied]] and [[developed]] by the assistants and custodians of the Life Carrier corps. The life plans for every new world always provide for the early [[establishment]] of the life-conservation commission, consisting of custodian specialists in the expert [[manipulation]] of the basic life [[patterns]]. On [[Urantia]] there were twenty-four such custodian commissioners, two for each [[fundamental]] or [[parent]] [[pattern]] of the architectural [[organization]] of the life [[material]]. On [[planets]] such as yours the highest [[form]] of life is [[reproduced]] by a life-carrying bundle which [[possesses]] [ | + | 36:2.9 ''World Number Three'' is [[devoted]] to the [[conservation]] of life. Here various modes of life protection and [[preservation]] are [[studied]] and [[developed]] by the assistants and custodians of the Life Carrier corps. The life plans for every new world always provide for the early [[establishment]] of the life-conservation commission, consisting of custodian specialists in the expert [[manipulation]] of the basic life [[patterns]]. On [[Urantia]] there were twenty-four such custodian commissioners, two for each [[fundamental]] or [[parent]] [[pattern]] of the architectural [[organization]] of the life [[material]]. On [[planets]] such as yours the highest [[form]] of life is [[reproduced]] by a life-carrying bundle which [[possesses]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomes#Human_chromosomes twenty-four pattern units]. (And since the [[intellectual]] life [[grows]] out of, and upon the [[foundation]] of, the [[physical]], there come into [[existence]] the four and twenty basic orders of [[Mind|psychic]] [[organization]].) |
| − | 36:2.10 ''Sphere Number Four'' and its tributary [[satellites]] are [[devoted]] to the [[study]] of the [[evolution]] of [[creature]] life in general and to the evolutionary antecedents of any one life level in particular. The [[original]] [ | + | 36:2.10 ''Sphere Number Four'' and its tributary [[satellites]] are [[devoted]] to the [[study]] of the [[evolution]] of [[creature]] life in general and to the evolutionary antecedents of any one life level in particular. The [[original]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_plasm life plasm] of an [[evolutionary world]] must contain the full [[potential]] for all [[future]] [[developmental]] variations and for all subsequent evolutionary [[changes]] and modifications. The provision for such far-reaching [[projects]] of life [[metamorphosis]] may require the [[appearance]] of many [[apparently]] useless [[forms]] of [[animal]] and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable vegetable] life. Such by-products of [[planetary]] [[evolution]], foreseen or unforeseen, appear upon the [[stage]] of [[action]] only to disappear, but in and through all this long [[process]] there runs the thread of the [[wise]] and [[intelligent]] [[formulations]] of the [[original]] [[designers]] of the [[planetary]] life [[plan]] and [[species]] scheme. The manifold by-products of [[biologic]] [[evolution]] are all [[essential]] to the final and full [[function]] of the higher [[intelligent]] forms of life, notwithstanding that great outward [[Confusion|disharmony]] may prevail from time to time in the long upward [[struggle]] of the higher [[creatures]] to effect the mastery of the lower forms of life, many of which are sometimes so [[antagonistic]] to the [[peace]] and comfort of the evolving will [[creatures]]. |
36:2.11 ''Number Five World'' is concerned wholly with life [[associated]] with [[mind]]. Each of its [[satellites]] is [[devoted]] to the [[study]] of a single [[phase]] of [[creature]] [[mind]] correlated with creature life. Mind such as man [[comprehends]] is an [[endowment]] of the [[seven adjutant mind-spirits]] superimposed on the nonteachable or [[mechanical]] levels of mind by the [[agencies]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]]. The life [[patterns]] are variously [[responsive]] to these adjutants and to the [[different]] [[spirit]] ministries operating throughout the [[Grand Universe|universes]] of [[time and space]]. The [[capacity]] of [[material]] [[creatures]] to [[effect]] [[spirit]] [[response]] is entirely dependent on the [[associated]] [[mind]] [[endowment]], which, in turn, has directionized the [[course]] of the [[biologic]] [[evolution]] of these same [[mortal]] [[creatures]]. | 36:2.11 ''Number Five World'' is concerned wholly with life [[associated]] with [[mind]]. Each of its [[satellites]] is [[devoted]] to the [[study]] of a single [[phase]] of [[creature]] [[mind]] correlated with creature life. Mind such as man [[comprehends]] is an [[endowment]] of the [[seven adjutant mind-spirits]] superimposed on the nonteachable or [[mechanical]] levels of mind by the [[agencies]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]]. The life [[patterns]] are variously [[responsive]] to these adjutants and to the [[different]] [[spirit]] ministries operating throughout the [[Grand Universe|universes]] of [[time and space]]. The [[capacity]] of [[material]] [[creatures]] to [[effect]] [[spirit]] [[response]] is entirely dependent on the [[associated]] [[mind]] [[endowment]], which, in turn, has directionized the [[course]] of the [[biologic]] [[evolution]] of these same [[mortal]] [[creatures]]. | ||
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36:3.1 Life does not [[spontaneously]] appear in the [[universes]]; the Life Carriers must [[initiate]] it on the barren [[planets]]. They are the carriers, [[disseminators]], and guardians of life as it appears on the [[evolutionary worlds]] of [[space]]. All life of the order and [[forms]] known on [[Urantia]] arises with these Sons, though not all [[forms]] of planetary life are [[existent]] on [[Urantia]]. | 36:3.1 Life does not [[spontaneously]] appear in the [[universes]]; the Life Carriers must [[initiate]] it on the barren [[planets]]. They are the carriers, [[disseminators]], and guardians of life as it appears on the [[evolutionary worlds]] of [[space]]. All life of the order and [[forms]] known on [[Urantia]] arises with these Sons, though not all [[forms]] of planetary life are [[existent]] on [[Urantia]]. | ||
| − | 36:3.2 The corps of Life Carriers commissioned to plant life upon a new world usually consists of one hundred senior carriers, one hundred assistants, and one thousand custodians. The Life Carriers often carry [[actual]] [ | + | 36:3.2 The corps of Life Carriers commissioned to plant life upon a new world usually consists of one hundred senior carriers, one hundred assistants, and one thousand custodians. The Life Carriers often carry [[actual]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_plasm life plasm] to a new world, but not always. They sometimes [[organize]] the life [[patterns]] after arriving on the [[planet]] of assignment in accordance with [[formulas]] previously approved for a new [[adventure]] in life establishment. Such was the [[origin]] of the planetary life of [[Urantia]]. |
36:3.3 When, in accordance with approved [[formulas]], the [[physical]] [[patterns]] have been provided, then do the Life Carriers [[catalyze]] this lifeless [[material]], imparting through their [[persons]] the [[vital]] [[spirit]] [[spark]]; and forthwith do the inert [[patterns]] become living [[matter]]. | 36:3.3 When, in accordance with approved [[formulas]], the [[physical]] [[patterns]] have been provided, then do the Life Carriers [[catalyze]] this lifeless [[material]], imparting through their [[persons]] the [[vital]] [[spirit]] [[spark]]; and forthwith do the inert [[patterns]] become living [[matter]]. | ||
| − | 36:3.4 The [[vital]] [[spark]]—the [[mystery]] of life—is bestowed ''through'' the Life Carriers, not by them. They do indeed supervise such [[transactions]], they [[formulate]] the [ | + | 36:3.4 The [[vital]] [[spark]]—the [[mystery]] of life—is bestowed ''through'' the Life Carriers, not by them. They do indeed supervise such [[transactions]], they [[formulate]] the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_plasm life plasm] itself, but it is the [[Universe Mother Spirit]] who supplies the [[essential]] factor of the living plasm. From the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Daughter] of the [[Infinite Spirit]] comes that [[energy]] [[spark]] which enlivens the [[body]] and presages the [[mind]]. |
36:3.5 In the [[bestowal]] of life the Life Carriers [[transmit]] nothing of their [[personal]] [[natures]], not even on those [[spheres]] where new orders of life are [[projected]]. At such times they simply initiate and [[transmit]] the spark of life, start the required [[revolutions]] of [[matter]] in accordance with the [[physical]], [[chemical]], and [[electrical]] specifications of the [[ordained]] plans and patterns. Life Carriers are living [[catalytic]] [[presences]] which agitate, [[organize]], and vitalize the otherwise inert elements of the [[material]] order of [[existence]]. | 36:3.5 In the [[bestowal]] of life the Life Carriers [[transmit]] nothing of their [[personal]] [[natures]], not even on those [[spheres]] where new orders of life are [[projected]]. At such times they simply initiate and [[transmit]] the spark of life, start the required [[revolutions]] of [[matter]] in accordance with the [[physical]], [[chemical]], and [[electrical]] specifications of the [[ordained]] plans and patterns. Life Carriers are living [[catalytic]] [[presences]] which agitate, [[organize]], and vitalize the otherwise inert elements of the [[material]] order of [[existence]]. | ||
| − | 36:3.6 The Life Carriers of a [[planetary]] corps are given a certain period in which to [[establish]] life on a new world, approximately [ | + | 36:3.6 The Life Carriers of a [[planetary]] corps are given a certain period in which to [[establish]] life on a new world, approximately [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Geologic_Timescale one-half million years of the time of that planet]. At the termination of this period, indicated by certain [[developmental]] [[attainments]] of the planetary life, they cease implantation efforts, and they may not subsequently add any [[thing]] new or supplemental to the life of that [[planet]]. |
36:3.7 During the ages intervening between life [[establishment]] and the [[emergence]] of [[human]] [[creatures]] of [[moral]] [[status]], the Life Carriers are permitted to [[manipulate]] the life [[environment]] and otherwise favorably directionize the [[course]] of [[biologic]] [[evolution]]. And this they do for long periods of [[time]]. | 36:3.7 During the ages intervening between life [[establishment]] and the [[emergence]] of [[human]] [[creatures]] of [[moral]] [[status]], the Life Carriers are permitted to [[manipulate]] the life [[environment]] and otherwise favorably directionize the [[course]] of [[biologic]] [[evolution]]. And this they do for long periods of [[time]]. | ||
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==36:4. MELCHIZEDEK LIFE CARRIERS== | ==36:4. MELCHIZEDEK LIFE CARRIERS== | ||
| − | 36:4.1 In every [[local system]] of [[inhabited worlds]] throughout [[Nebadon]] there is a single [[sphere]] whereon the [[Melchizedeks]] have [[functioned]] as life carriers. These abodes are known as [[the system]] ''midsonite worlds'', and on each of them a [[materially]] modified [[Melchizedek]] Son has [[mated]] with a selected [ | + | 36:4.1 In every [[local system]] of [[inhabited worlds]] throughout [[Nebadon]] there is a single [[sphere]] whereon the [[Melchizedeks]] have [[functioned]] as life carriers. These abodes are known as [[the system]] ''midsonite worlds'', and on each of them a [[materially]] modified [[Melchizedek]] Son has [[mated]] with a selected [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_37#37:9._PERMANENT_CITIZENS_OF_THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE Daughter of the material order of sonship]. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Mother Eves] of such [[midsonite worlds]] are dispatched from [[the system]] headquarters of [[jurisdiction]], having been chosen by the designated [[Melchizedek]] life carrier from among the numerous [[volunteers]] who [[respond]] to the call of the [[System Sovereign]] addressed to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Material Daughters] of his [[sphere]]. |
| − | 36:4.2 The [[progeny]] of a [[Melchizedek]] life carrier and a [ | + | 36:4.2 The [[progeny]] of a [[Melchizedek]] life carrier and a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Material Daughter] are known as [[midsoniters]]. The Melchizedek [[father]] of such a [[race]] of [[supernal]] [[creatures]] [[eventually]] leaves the [[planet]] of his [[unique]] life [[function]], and the Mother Eve of this special order of universe beings also departs upon the [[appearance]] of the [[seventh]] [[generation]] of [[planetary]] [[offspring]]. The direction of such a world then devolves upon her eldest son. |
36:4.3 The [[midsonite]] [[creatures]] live and [[function]] as [[reproducing]] [[beings]] on their [[magnificent]] worlds until they are one thousand standard years of age; whereupon they are [[translated]] by [[seraphic transport]]. Midsoniters are nonreproducing beings thereafter because the [[technique]] of dematerialization which they pass through in [[preparation]] for [[enseraphiming]] forever deprives them of [[reproductive]] [[prerogatives]]. | 36:4.3 The [[midsonite]] [[creatures]] live and [[function]] as [[reproducing]] [[beings]] on their [[magnificent]] worlds until they are one thousand standard years of age; whereupon they are [[translated]] by [[seraphic transport]]. Midsoniters are nonreproducing beings thereafter because the [[technique]] of dematerialization which they pass through in [[preparation]] for [[enseraphiming]] forever deprives them of [[reproductive]] [[prerogatives]]. | ||
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36:4.4 The present [[status]] of these [[beings]] can hardly be reckoned as either [[mortal]] or [[immortal]], neither can they be definitely [[classified]] as [[human]] or [[divine]]. These [[creatures]] are not [[Adjuster]] indwelt, hence hardly [[immortal]]. But neither do they seem to be [[mortal]]; no midsoniter has experienced [[death]]. All [[midsoniters]] ever born in [[Nebadon]] are alive today, [[functioning]] on their [[native]] worlds, on some intervening sphere, or on the [[Salvington]] midsonite [[sphere]] in the [[finaliters]]' [[group]] of worlds. | 36:4.4 The present [[status]] of these [[beings]] can hardly be reckoned as either [[mortal]] or [[immortal]], neither can they be definitely [[classified]] as [[human]] or [[divine]]. These [[creatures]] are not [[Adjuster]] indwelt, hence hardly [[immortal]]. But neither do they seem to be [[mortal]]; no midsoniter has experienced [[death]]. All [[midsoniters]] ever born in [[Nebadon]] are alive today, [[functioning]] on their [[native]] worlds, on some intervening sphere, or on the [[Salvington]] midsonite [[sphere]] in the [[finaliters]]' [[group]] of worlds. | ||
| − | 36:4.5 ''The Salvington Worlds of the Finaliters''. The [[Melchizedek]] life carriers, as well as the [[associated]] [ | + | 36:4.5 ''The Salvington Worlds of the Finaliters''. The [[Melchizedek]] life carriers, as well as the [[associated]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Mother Eves], go from [[the system]] [[midsonite]] [[spheres]] to the [[finaliters]]' worlds of the [[Salvington]] [[circuit]], where their offspring are also [[destined]] to forgather. |
36:4.6 It should be [[explained]] in this [[connection]] that the fifth [[group]] of seven primary worlds in the [[Salvington]] circuit are the [[Nebadon]] worlds of the [[finaliters]]. The children of the [[Melchizedek]] life carriers and the Material Daughters are domiciled on the [[seventh]] world of the [[finaliters]], the Salvington midsonite sphere. | 36:4.6 It should be [[explained]] in this [[connection]] that the fifth [[group]] of seven primary worlds in the [[Salvington]] circuit are the [[Nebadon]] worlds of the [[finaliters]]. The children of the [[Melchizedek]] life carriers and the Material Daughters are domiciled on the [[seventh]] world of the [[finaliters]], the Salvington midsonite sphere. | ||
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36:4.7 The [[satellites]] of the seven primary worlds of the [[finaliters]] are the rendezvous of the [[personalities]] of the [[Superuniverse|super]]- and [[central universe]]s who may be executing assignments in [[Nebadon]]. While the [[ascending mortals]] go about freely on all of the cultural worlds and [[training]] [[spheres]] of the 490 worlds comprising the [[Melchizedek University]], there are certain special schools and numerous restricted zones which they are not permitted to enter. This is especially true of the forty-nine [[spheres]] under the jurisdiction of the [[finaliters]]. | 36:4.7 The [[satellites]] of the seven primary worlds of the [[finaliters]] are the rendezvous of the [[personalities]] of the [[Superuniverse|super]]- and [[central universe]]s who may be executing assignments in [[Nebadon]]. While the [[ascending mortals]] go about freely on all of the cultural worlds and [[training]] [[spheres]] of the 490 worlds comprising the [[Melchizedek University]], there are certain special schools and numerous restricted zones which they are not permitted to enter. This is especially true of the forty-nine [[spheres]] under the jurisdiction of the [[finaliters]]. | ||
| − | 36:4.8 The [[purpose]] of the [[midsonite]] [[creatures]] is not at present known, but it would appear that these [[personalities]] are forgathering on the [[seventh]] [[finaliter]] world in [[preparation]] for some [[future]] [[eventuality]] in universe [[evolution]]. Our [[inquiries]] concerning the [[midsonite]] [[races]] are always referred to the [[finaliters]], and always do the finaliters decline to [[discuss]] the [[destiny]] of their wards. Regardless of our [[uncertainty]] as to the [[future]] of the midsoniters, we do know that every [[local universe]] in [[Orvonton]] harbors such an accumulating corps of these [[mysterious]] [[beings]]. It is the [[belief]] of the [[Melchizedek]] life carriers that their midsonite [[children]] will some day be [[endowed]] with the [[transcendental]] and [[eternal]] [[spirit]] of [[absonity]] by [ | + | 36:4.8 The [[purpose]] of the [[midsonite]] [[creatures]] is not at present known, but it would appear that these [[personalities]] are forgathering on the [[seventh]] [[finaliter]] world in [[preparation]] for some [[future]] [[eventuality]] in universe [[evolution]]. Our [[inquiries]] concerning the [[midsonite]] [[races]] are always referred to the [[finaliters]], and always do the finaliters decline to [[discuss]] the [[destiny]] of their wards. Regardless of our [[uncertainty]] as to the [[future]] of the midsoniters, we do know that every [[local universe]] in [[Orvonton]] harbors such an accumulating corps of these [[mysterious]] [[beings]]. It is the [[belief]] of the [[Melchizedek]] life carriers that their midsonite [[children]] will some day be [[endowed]] with the [[transcendental]] and [[eternal]] [[spirit]] of [[absonity]] by [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword#IX._GOD_THE_ULTIMATE God the Ultimate]. |
==36:5. THE SEVEN ADJUTANT MIND-SPIRITS== | ==36:5. THE SEVEN ADJUTANT MIND-SPIRITS== | ||
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*7. 36:5.12 ''The spirit of wisdom'' —the [[inherent]] tendency of all [[moral]] [[creatures]] towards orderly and [[progressive]] [[evolutionary]] advancement. This is the highest of the adjutants, the spirit [[co-ordinator]] and articulator of the [[work]] of all the others. This spirit is the [[secret]] of that inborn urge of [[mind]] [[creatures]] which initiates and maintains the [[practical]] and [[effective]] program of the [[ascending]] [[scale]] of [[existence]]; that gift of living things which accounts for their inexplicable [[ability]] to [[survive]] and, in survival, to utilize the [[co-ordination]] of all their [[past]] [[experience]] and present [[opportunities]] for the acquisition of all of [[everything]] that all of the other six mental ministers can mobilize in the [[mind]] of the [[organism]] concerned. [[Wisdom]] is the [[acme]] of [[intellectual]] [[performance]]. [[Wisdom]] is the goal of a purely [[mental]] and [[moral]] [[existence]]. | *7. 36:5.12 ''The spirit of wisdom'' —the [[inherent]] tendency of all [[moral]] [[creatures]] towards orderly and [[progressive]] [[evolutionary]] advancement. This is the highest of the adjutants, the spirit [[co-ordinator]] and articulator of the [[work]] of all the others. This spirit is the [[secret]] of that inborn urge of [[mind]] [[creatures]] which initiates and maintains the [[practical]] and [[effective]] program of the [[ascending]] [[scale]] of [[existence]]; that gift of living things which accounts for their inexplicable [[ability]] to [[survive]] and, in survival, to utilize the [[co-ordination]] of all their [[past]] [[experience]] and present [[opportunities]] for the acquisition of all of [[everything]] that all of the other six mental ministers can mobilize in the [[mind]] of the [[organism]] concerned. [[Wisdom]] is the [[acme]] of [[intellectual]] [[performance]]. [[Wisdom]] is the goal of a purely [[mental]] and [[moral]] [[existence]]. | ||
| − | 36:5.13 The adjutant mind-spirits experientially grow, but they never become personal. They evolve in function, and the function of the first five in the animal orders is to a certain extent essential to the function of all seven as human intellect. This animal relationship makes the adjutants more practically effective as human mind; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to man's intellectual as well as to his physical evolution. | + | 36:5.13 The ''adjutant mind-spirits'' [[experientially]] [[grow]], but they never become [[personal]]. They evolve in [[function]], and the function of the first five in the [[animal]] orders is to a certain extent [[essential]] to the function of all [[seven]] as [[human]] [[intellect]]. This [[animal]] [[relationship]] makes the adjutants more [[practically]] [[effective]] as human [[mind]]; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to man's [[intellectual]] as well as to his [[physical]] [[evolution]]. |
| − | 36:5.14 These mind-adjutants of a local universe Mother Spirit are related to creature life of intelligence status much as the power centers and physical controllers are related to the nonliving forces of the universe. They perform invaluable service in the mind circuits on the inhabited worlds and are effective collaborators with the Master Physical Controllers, who also serve as controllers and directors of the preadjutant mind levels, the levels of nonteachable or mechanical mind. | + | 36:5.14 These [[mind]]-adjutants of a [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirit]] are related to [[creature]] life of [[intelligence]] [[status]] much as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:3._THE_DOMAIN_OF_POWER_CENTERS power centers] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS physical controllers] are related to the nonliving [[forces]] of the [[universe]]. They [[perform]] invaluable [[service]] in the [[mind]] [[circuits]] on the [[inhabited worlds]] and are [[effective]] [[collaborators]] with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers], who also serve as controllers and directors of the preadjutant mind levels, the levels of nonteachable or [[mechanical]] [[mind]]. |
| − | 36:5.15 Living mind, prior to the appearance of capacity to learn from experience, is the ministry domain of the Master Physical Controllers. Creature mind, before acquiring the ability to recognize divinity and worship Deity, is the exclusive domain of the adjutant spirits. With the appearance of the spiritual response of the creature intellect, such created minds at once become superminded, being instantly encircuited in the spirit cycles of the local universe Mother Spirit. | + | 36:5.15 Living [[mind]], prior to the [[appearance]] of [[capacity]] to learn from [[experience]], is the [[ministry]] [[domain]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS Master Physical Controllers]. [[Creature]] [[mind]], before acquiring the [[ability]] to [[recognize]] [[divinity]] and [[worship]] [[Deity]], is the exclusive [[domain]] of the ''adjutant spirits''. With the [[appearance]] of the [[spiritual]] [[response]] of the [[creature]] [[intellect]], such created minds at once become superminded, being instantly encircuited in the [[spirit]] [[cycles]] of the [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirit]]. |
| − | 36:5.16 The adjutant mind-spirits are in no manner directly related to the diverse and highly spiritual function of the spirit of the personal presence of the Divine Minister, the Holy Spirit of the inhabited worlds; but they are functionally antecedent to, and preparatory for, the appearance of this very spirit in evolutionary man. The adjutants afford the Universe Mother Spirit a varied contact with, and control over, the material living creatures of a local universe, but they do not repercuss in the Supreme Being when acting on prepersonality levels. | + | 36:5.16 The ''adjutant mind-spirits'' are in no [[manner]] directly related to the [[diverse]] and highly [[spiritual]] [[function]] of the [[Holy Spirit|spirit]] of the [[personal]] [[presence]] of the [[Divine Minister]], the [[Holy Spirit]] of the [[inhabited worlds]]; but they are functionally antecedent to, and [[preparatory]] for, the [[appearance]] of this very spirit in [[evolutionary]] [[man]]. The adjutants afford the [[Universe Mother Spirit]] a varied contact with, and [[control]] over, the [[material]] living [[creatures]] of a [[local universe]], but they do not repercuss in the [[Supreme Being]] when [[acting]] on prepersonality levels. |
36:5.17 Nonspiritual mind is either a spirit-energy manifestation or a physical-energy phenomenon. Even human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification. Mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not immortal when it functions without spirit insight, and when it is devoid of the ability to worship and crave survival. | 36:5.17 Nonspiritual mind is either a spirit-energy manifestation or a physical-energy phenomenon. Even human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification. Mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not immortal when it functions without spirit insight, and when it is devoid of the ability to worship and crave survival. | ||
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==36:6. LIVING FORCES== | ==36:6. LIVING FORCES== | ||
| − | 36:6.1 Life is both mechanistic and | + | 36:6.1 Life is both [[mechanistic]] and [[vitalistic]]—[[material]] and [[spiritual]]. Ever will [[Urantia]] [[physicists]] and [[chemists]] [[progress]] in their [[understanding]] of the protoplasmic [[forms]] of [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable vegetable] and [[animal]] life, but never will they be able to produce living [[organisms]]. Life is something [[different]] from all [[energy]] [[manifestations]]; even the [[material]] life of [[physical]] [[creatures]] is not [[inherent]] in [[matter]]. |
| − | 36:6.2 Things material may enjoy an independent existence, but life springs only from life. Mind can be derived only from pre-existent mind. Spirit takes origin only from spirit ancestors. The creature may produce the forms of life, but only a creator personality or a creative force can supply the activating living spark. | + | 36:6.2 [[Things]] [[material]] may [[enjoy]] an [[independent]] [[existence]], but life springs only from life. [[Mind]] can be derived only from pre-existent [[mind]]. [[Spirit]] takes [[origin]] only from [[spirit]] [[ancestors]]. The [[creature]] may produce the [[forms]] of life, but only a [[creator]] [[personality]] or a [[creative]] [[force]] can supply the [[Action|activating]] living [[spark]]. |
| − | 36:6.3 Life Carriers can organize the material forms, or physical patterns, of living beings, but the Spirit provides the initial spark of life and bestows the endowment of mind. Even the living forms of experimental life which the Life Carriers organize on their Salvington worlds are always devoid of reproductive powers. When the life formulas and the vital patterns are correctly assembled and properly organized, the presence of a Life Carrier is sufficient to initiate life, but all such living organisms are lacking in two essential | + | 36:6.3 ''Life Carriers'' can [[organize]] the [[material]] [[forms]], or [[physical]] [[patterns]], of living [[beings]], but [[the Spirit]] provides the [[initial]] [[spark]] of life and [[bestows]] the [[endowment]] of [[mind]]. Even the living [[forms]] of [[experimental]] life which the Life Carriers [[organize]] on their [[Salvington]] worlds are always devoid of [[reproductive]] [[powers]]. When the life [[formulas]] and the [[vital]] [[patterns]] are correctly assembled and properly [[organized]], the [[presence]] of a Life Carrier is sufficient to [[initiate]] life, but all such living [[organisms]] are lacking in two [[essential]] [[attributes]]—[[mind]] [[endowment]] and [[reproductive]] [[powers]]. [[Animal]] [[mind]] and [[human]] mind are gifts of the [[local universe]] [[Mother Spirit]], [[functioning]] through the [[seven adjutant mind-spirits]], while [[creature]] [[ability]] to [[reproduce]] is the specific and [[personal]] impartation of the [[Mother Spirit|Universe Spirit]] to the [[ancestral]] life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_plasm plasm] inaugurated by the ''Life Carriers''. |
| − | 36:6.4 When the Life Carriers have designed the patterns of life, after they have organized the energy systems, there must occur an additional phenomenon; the " breath of life " must be imparted to these lifeless forms. The Sons of God can construct the forms of life, but it is the Spirit of God who really contributes the vital spark. And when the life thus imparted is spent, then again the remaining material body becomes dead matter. When the bestowed life is exhausted, the body returns to the bosom of the material universe from which it was borrowed by the Life Carriers to serve as a transient vehicle for that life endowment which they conveyed to such a visible association of energy-matter. | + | 36:6.4 When the Life Carriers have [[designed]] the [[patterns]] of life, after they have [[organized]] the [[energy]] [[systems]], there must occur an additional [[phenomenon]]; the "breath of life" must be imparted to these lifeless [[forms]]. The [[Sons of God]] can construct the [[forms]] of life, but it is the [[Infinite Spirit|Spirit of God]] who really [[contributes]] the [[vital]] [[spark]]. And when the life thus imparted is spent, then again the remaining [[material]] [[body]] becomes [[dead]] [[matter]]. When the [[bestowed]] life is exhausted, the [[body]] returns to the [[bosom]] of the [[material]] [[universe]] from which it was borrowed by the Life Carriers to serve as a transient vehicle for that life [[endowment]] which they conveyed to such a [[visible]] [[association]] of [[energy]]-[[matter]]. |
| − | 36:6.5 The life bestowed upon plants and animals by the Life Carriers does not return to the Life Carriers upon the death of plant or animal. The departing life of such a living thing possesses neither identity nor personality; it does not individually survive death. During its existence and the time of its sojourn in the body of matter, it has undergone a change; it has undergone energy evolution and survives only as a part of the cosmic forces of the universe; it does not survive as individual life. The survival of mortal creatures is wholly predicated on the evolvement of an immortal soul within the mortal mind. | + | 36:6.5 The life [[bestowed]] upon [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant plants] and [[animals]] by the Life Carriers does not return to the Life Carriers upon the [[death]] of plant or animal. The departing life of such a living [[thing]] [[possesses]] neither [[identity]] nor [[personality]]; it does not [[individually]] [[survive]] [[death]]. During its [[existence]] and the [[time]] of its [[sojourn]] in the [[body]] of [[matter]], it has undergone a [[change]]; it has undergone [[energy]] [[evolution]] and [[survives]] only as a part of the [[cosmic]] [[forces]] of the [[universe]]; it does not [[survive]] as [[individual]] life. The [[survival]] of [[mortal]] [[creatures]] is wholly predicated on the evolvement of an [[immortal]] [[soul]] within the [[mortal]] [[mind]]. |
| − | 36:6.6 We speak of life as " energy " and as " force, " but it is really neither. Force-energy is variously gravity responsive; life is not. Pattern is also nonresponsive to gravity, being a configuration of energies that have already fulfilled all gravity-responsive obligations. Life, as such, constitutes the animation of some pattern-configured or otherwise segregated system of | + | 36:6.6 We speak of life as "[[energy]]" and as "[[force]]," but it is really neither. [[Force]]-[[energy]] is variously [[gravity]] [[responsive]]; life is not. [[Pattern]] is also nonresponsive to [[gravity]], being a [[configuration]] of [[energies]] that have already fulfilled all [[gravity]]-[[responsive]] [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligation obligations]. Life, as such, [[constitutes]] the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation animation] of some [[pattern]]-[[configured]] or otherwise [[segregated]] [[system]] of [[energy]]—[[material]], [[mindal]], or [[spiritual]]. |
| − | 36:6.7 There are some things connected with the elaboration of life on the evolutionary planets which are not altogether clear to us. We fully comprehend the physical organization of the electrochemical formulas of the Life Carriers, but we do not wholly understand the nature and source of the life-activation spark. We know that life flows from the Father through the Son and by the Spirit. It is more than possible that the Master Spirits are the sevenfold channel of the river of life which is poured out upon all creation. But we do not comprehend the technique whereby the supervising Master Spirit participates in the initial episode of life bestowal on a new planet. The Ancients of Days, we are confident, also have some part in this inauguration of life on a new world, but we are wholly ignorant of the nature thereof. We do know that the Universe Mother Spirit actually vitalizes the lifeless patterns and imparts to such activated plasm the prerogatives of organismal reproduction. We observe that these three are the levels of God the Sevenfold, sometimes designated as the Supreme Creators of time and space; but otherwise we know little more than Urantia | + | 36:6.7 There are some [[things]] [[connected]] with the elaboration of life on the [[evolutionary planets]] which are not altogether clear to us. We fully [[comprehend]] the [[physical]] [[organization]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical electrochemical] [[formulas]] of the Life Carriers, but we do not wholly [[understand]] the [[nature]] and [[source]] of the life-[[activation]] [[spark]]. We [[know]] that life [[flows]] from [[the Father]] through [[the Son]] and by[[ the Spirit]]. It is more than [[possible]] that the [[Master Spirits]] are the sevenfold [[channel]] of the river of life which is poured out upon all [[creation]]. But we do not [[comprehend]] the [[technique]] whereby the supervising [[Master Spirit]] [[participates]] in the [[initial]] [[episode]] of life [[bestowal]] on a new [[planet]]. The [[Ancients of Days]], we are [[confident]], also have some part in this inauguration of life on a new world, but we are wholly [[ignorant]] of the [[nature]] thereof. We do know that the [[Universe Mother Spirit]] [[actually]] [[vitalizes]] the lifeless [[patterns]] and imparts to such activated [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_plasm plasm] the [[prerogatives]] of [[organismal]] [[reproduction]]. We [[observe]] that these [[three]] are the levels of [[God the Sevenfold]], sometimes designated as the [[Supreme Creators]] of [[time and space]]; but otherwise we know little more than [[Urantia]] [[mortals]]—simply that [[concept]] is inherent in [[the Father]], [[expression]] in [[the Son]], and life [[realization]] in [[the Spirit]]. |
| − | 36:6.8 Indited by a [[Vorondadek Son]] stationed on [[Urantia]] as an observer and acting in this capacity by request of the [[Melchizedek]] Chief of the | + | 36:6.8 Indited by a [[Vorondadek Son]] stationed on [[Urantia]] as an observer and acting in this capacity by request of the [[Melchizedek]] Chief of the Supervising Revelatory Corps. |
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PAPER 36 THE LIFE CARRIERS
36:0.1 Life does not originate spontaneously. Life is constructed according to plans formulated by the (unrevealed) Architects of Being (?) and appears on the inhabited planets either by direct importation or as a result of the operations of the Life Carriers of the local universes. These carriers of life are among the most interesting and versatile of the diverse family of universe Sons. They are intrusted with designing and carrying creature life to the planetary spheres. And after planting this life on such new worlds, they remain there for long periods to foster its development.
36:1. ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE CARRIERS
36:1.1 Though the Life Carriers belong to the family of divine sonship, they are a peculiar and distinct type of universe Sons, being the only group of intelligent life in a local universe in whose creation the rulers of a superuniverse participate. The Life Carriers are the offspring of three pre-existent personalities: the Creator Son, the Universe Mother Spirit, and, by designation, one of the three Ancients of Days presiding over the destinies of the superuniverse concerned. These Ancients of Days, who alone can decree the extinction of intelligent life, participate in the creation of the Life Carriers, who are intrusted with establishing physical life on the evolving worlds.
36:1.2 In the universe of Nebadon we have on record the creation of one hundred million Life Carriers. This efficient corps of life disseminators is not a truly self-governing group. They are directed by the life-determining trio, consisting of Gabriel, the Father Melchizedek, and Nambia, the original and first-born Life Carrier of Nebadon. But in all phases of their divisional administration they are self-governing.
36:1.3 Life Carriers are graded into three grand divisions: The first division is the senior Life Carriers, the second, assistants, and the third, custodians. The primary division is subdivided into twelve groups of specialists in the various forms of life manifestation. The segregation of these three divisions was effected by the Melchizedeks, who conducted tests for such purposes on the Life Carriers' headquarters sphere. The Melchizedeks have ever since been closely associated with the Life Carriers and always accompany them when they go forth to establish life on a new planet.
36:1.4 When an evolutionary planet is finally settled in light and life, the Life Carriers are organized into the higher deliberative bodies of advisory capacity to assist in the further administration and development of the world and its glorified beings. In the later and settled ages of an evolving universe these Life Carriers are intrusted with many new duties.
36:2. THE LIFE CARRIER WORLDS
36:2.1 The Melchizedeks have the general oversight of the fourth group of seven primary spheres in the Salvington circuit. These worlds of the Life Carriers are designated as follows:
- 1. The Life Carrier headquarters.
- 2. The life-planning sphere.
- 3. The life-conservation sphere.
- 4. The sphere of life evolution.
- 5. The sphere of life associated with mind.
- 6. The sphere of mind and spirit in living beings.
- 7. The sphere of unrevealed life.
36:2.2 Each of these primary spheres is surrounded by six satellites, on which the special phases of all the Life Carrier activities in the universe are centered.
36:2.3 World Number One, the headquarters sphere, together with its six tributary satellites, is devoted to the study of universal life, life in all of its known phases of manifestation. Here is located the college of life planning, wherein function teachers and advisers from Uversa and Havona, even from Paradise. And I am permitted to reveal that the seven central emplacements of the adjutant mind-spirits are situated on this world of the Life Carriers.
36:2.4 The number [http;//www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten ten]—the decimal system—is inherent in the physical universe but not in the spiritual. The domain of life is characterized by three, seven, and twelve or by multiples and combinations of these basic numbers. There are three primal and essentially different life plans, after the order of the three Paradise Sources and Centers, and in the universe of Nebadon these three basic forms of life are segregated on three different types of planets. There were, originally, twelve distinct and divine concepts of transmissible life. This number twelve, with its subdivisions and multiples, runs throughout all basic life patterns of all seven superuniverses. There are also seven architectural types of life design, fundamental arrangements of the reproducing configurations of living matter. The Orvonton life patterns are configured as twelve inheritance carriers. The differing orders of will creatures are configured as 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, and 768. On Urantia there are forty-eight units of pattern control—trait determiners—in the sex cells of human reproduction.
36:2.5 The Second World is the life-designing sphere; here all new modes of life organization are worked out. While the original life designs are provided by the Creator Son, the actual outworking of these plans is intrusted to the Life Carriers and their associates. When the general life plans for a new world have been formulated, they are transmitted to the headquarters sphere, where they are minutely scrutinized by the supreme council of the senior Life Carriers in collaboration with a corps of consulting Melchizedeks. If the plans are a departure from previously accepted formulas, they must be passed upon, and endorsed by, the Creator Son. The chief of Melchizedeks often represents the Creator Son in these deliberations.
36:2.6 Planetary life, therefore, while similar in some respects, differs in many ways on each evolutionary world. Even in a uniform life series in a single family of worlds, life is not exactly the same on any two planets; there is always a planetary type, for the Life Carriers work constantly in an effort to improve the vital formulas committed to their keeping.
36:2.7 There are over one million fundamental or cosmic chemical formulas which constitute the parent patterns and the numerous basic functional variations of life manifestations. Satellite number one of the life-planning sphere is the realm of the universe physicists and electrochemists who serve as technical assistants to the Life Carriers in the work of capturing, organizing, and manipulating the essential units of energy which are employed in building up the material vehicles of life transmission, the so-called germ plasm.
36:2.8 The planetary life-planning laboratories are situated on the second satellite of this world number two. In these laboratories the Life Carriers and all their associates collaborate with the Melchizedeks in the effort to modify and possibly improve the life designed for implantation on the decimal planets of Nebadon. The life now evolving on Urantia was planned and partially worked out on this very world, for Urantia is a decimal planet, a life-experiment world. On one world in each ten a greater variance in the standard life designs is permitted than on the other (nonexperimental) worlds.
36:2.9 World Number Three is devoted to the conservation of life. Here various modes of life protection and preservation are studied and developed by the assistants and custodians of the Life Carrier corps. The life plans for every new world always provide for the early establishment of the life-conservation commission, consisting of custodian specialists in the expert manipulation of the basic life patterns. On Urantia there were twenty-four such custodian commissioners, two for each fundamental or parent pattern of the architectural organization of the life material. On planets such as yours the highest form of life is reproduced by a life-carrying bundle which possesses twenty-four pattern units. (And since the intellectual life grows out of, and upon the foundation of, the physical, there come into existence the four and twenty basic orders of psychic organization.)
36:2.10 Sphere Number Four and its tributary satellites are devoted to the study of the evolution of creature life in general and to the evolutionary antecedents of any one life level in particular. The original life plasm of an evolutionary world must contain the full potential for all future developmental variations and for all subsequent evolutionary changes and modifications. The provision for such far-reaching projects of life metamorphosis may require the appearance of many apparently useless forms of animal and vegetable life. Such by-products of planetary evolution, foreseen or unforeseen, appear upon the stage of action only to disappear, but in and through all this long process there runs the thread of the wise and intelligent formulations of the original designers of the planetary life plan and species scheme. The manifold by-products of biologic evolution are all essential to the final and full function of the higher intelligent forms of life, notwithstanding that great outward disharmony may prevail from time to time in the long upward struggle of the higher creatures to effect the mastery of the lower forms of life, many of which are sometimes so antagonistic to the peace and comfort of the evolving will creatures.
36:2.11 Number Five World is concerned wholly with life associated with mind. Each of its satellites is devoted to the study of a single phase of creature mind correlated with creature life. Mind such as man comprehends is an endowment of the seven adjutant mind-spirits superimposed on the nonteachable or mechanical levels of mind by the agencies of the Infinite Spirit. The life patterns are variously responsive to these adjutants and to the different spirit ministries operating throughout the universes of time and space. The capacity of material creatures to effect spirit response is entirely dependent on the associated mind endowment, which, in turn, has directionized the course of the biologic evolution of these same mortal creatures.
36:2.12 World Number Six is dedicated to the correlation of mind with spirit as they are associated with living forms and organisms. This world and its six tributaries embrace the schools of creature co-ordination, wherein teachers from both the central universe and the superuniverse collaborate with the Nebadon instructors in presenting the highest levels of creature attainment in time and space.
36:2.13 The Seventh Sphere of the Life Carriers is dedicated to the unrevealed domains of evolutionary creature life as it is related to the cosmic philosophy of the expanding factualization of the Supreme Being.
36:3. LIFE TRANSPLANTATION
36:3.1 Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life of the order and forms known on Urantia arises with these Sons, though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Urantia.
36:3.2 The corps of Life Carriers commissioned to plant life upon a new world usually consists of one hundred senior carriers, one hundred assistants, and one thousand custodians. The Life Carriers often carry actual life plasm to a new world, but not always. They sometimes organize the life patterns after arriving on the planet of assignment in accordance with formulas previously approved for a new adventure in life establishment. Such was the origin of the planetary life of Urantia.
36:3.3 When, in accordance with approved formulas, the physical patterns have been provided, then do the Life Carriers catalyze this lifeless material, imparting through their persons the vital spirit spark; and forthwith do the inert patterns become living matter.
36:3.4 The vital spark—the mystery of life—is bestowed through the Life Carriers, not by them. They do indeed supervise such transactions, they formulate the life plasm itself, but it is the Universe Mother Spirit who supplies the essential factor of the living plasm. From the Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit comes that energy spark which enlivens the body and presages the mind.
36:3.5 In the bestowal of life the Life Carriers transmit nothing of their personal natures, not even on those spheres where new orders of life are projected. At such times they simply initiate and transmit the spark of life, start the required revolutions of matter in accordance with the physical, chemical, and electrical specifications of the ordained plans and patterns. Life Carriers are living catalytic presences which agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise inert elements of the material order of existence.
36:3.6 The Life Carriers of a planetary corps are given a certain period in which to establish life on a new world, approximately one-half million years of the time of that planet. At the termination of this period, indicated by certain developmental attainments of the planetary life, they cease implantation efforts, and they may not subsequently add any thing new or supplemental to the life of that planet.
36:3.7 During the ages intervening between life establishment and the emergence of human creatures of moral status, the Life Carriers are permitted to manipulate the life environment and otherwise favorably directionize the course of biologic evolution. And this they do for long periods of time.
36:3.8 When the Life Carriers operating on a new world have once succeeded in producing a being with will, with the power of moral decision and spiritual choice, then and there their work terminates—they are through; they may manipulate the evolving life no further. From this point forward the evolution of living things must proceed in accordance with the endowment of the inherent nature and tendencies which have already been imparted to, and established in, the planetary life formulas and patterns. The Life Carriers are not permitted to experiment or to interfere with will; they are not allowed to dominate or arbitrarily influence moral creatures.
36:3.9 Upon the arrival of a Planetary Prince they prepare to leave, though two of the senior carriers and twelve custodians may volunteer, by taking temporary renunciation vows, to remain indefinitely on the planet as advisers in the matter of the further development and conservation of the life plasm. Two such Sons and their twelve associates are now serving on Urantia.
36:4. MELCHIZEDEK LIFE CARRIERS
36:4.1 In every local system of inhabited worlds throughout Nebadon there is a single sphere whereon the Melchizedeks have functioned as life carriers. These abodes are known as the system midsonite worlds, and on each of them a materially modified Melchizedek Son has mated with a selected Daughter of the material order of sonship. The Mother Eves of such midsonite worlds are dispatched from the system headquarters of jurisdiction, having been chosen by the designated Melchizedek life carrier from among the numerous volunteers who respond to the call of the System Sovereign addressed to the Material Daughters of his sphere.
36:4.2 The progeny of a Melchizedek life carrier and a Material Daughter are known as midsoniters. The Melchizedek father of such a race of supernal creatures eventually leaves the planet of his unique life function, and the Mother Eve of this special order of universe beings also departs upon the appearance of the seventh generation of planetary offspring. The direction of such a world then devolves upon her eldest son.
36:4.3 The midsonite creatures live and function as reproducing beings on their magnificent worlds until they are one thousand standard years of age; whereupon they are translated by seraphic transport. Midsoniters are nonreproducing beings thereafter because the technique of dematerialization which they pass through in preparation for enseraphiming forever deprives them of reproductive prerogatives.
36:4.4 The present status of these beings can hardly be reckoned as either mortal or immortal, neither can they be definitely classified as human or divine. These creatures are not Adjuster indwelt, hence hardly immortal. But neither do they seem to be mortal; no midsoniter has experienced death. All midsoniters ever born in Nebadon are alive today, functioning on their native worlds, on some intervening sphere, or on the Salvington midsonite sphere in the finaliters' group of worlds.
36:4.5 The Salvington Worlds of the Finaliters. The Melchizedek life carriers, as well as the associated Mother Eves, go from the system midsonite spheres to the finaliters' worlds of the Salvington circuit, where their offspring are also destined to forgather.
36:4.6 It should be explained in this connection that the fifth group of seven primary worlds in the Salvington circuit are the Nebadon worlds of the finaliters. The children of the Melchizedek life carriers and the Material Daughters are domiciled on the seventh world of the finaliters, the Salvington midsonite sphere.
36:4.7 The satellites of the seven primary worlds of the finaliters are the rendezvous of the personalities of the super- and central universes who may be executing assignments in Nebadon. While the ascending mortals go about freely on all of the cultural worlds and training spheres of the 490 worlds comprising the Melchizedek University, there are certain special schools and numerous restricted zones which they are not permitted to enter. This is especially true of the forty-nine spheres under the jurisdiction of the finaliters.
36:4.8 The purpose of the midsonite creatures is not at present known, but it would appear that these personalities are forgathering on the seventh finaliter world in preparation for some future eventuality in universe evolution. Our inquiries concerning the midsonite races are always referred to the finaliters, and always do the finaliters decline to discuss the destiny of their wards. Regardless of our uncertainty as to the future of the midsoniters, we do know that every local universe in Orvonton harbors such an accumulating corps of these mysterious beings. It is the belief of the Melchizedek life carriers that their midsonite children will some day be endowed with the transcendental and eternal spirit of absonity by God the Ultimate.
36:5. THE SEVEN ADJUTANT MIND-SPIRITS
36:5.1 It is the presence of the seven adjutant mind-spirits on the primitive worlds that conditions the course of organic evolution; that explains why evolution is purposeful and not accidental. These adjutants represent that function of the mind ministry of the Infinite Spirit which is extended to the lower orders of intelligent life through the operations of a local universe Mother Spirit. The adjutants are the children of the Universe Mother Spirit and constitute her personal ministry to the material minds of the realms. Wherever and whenever such mind is manifest, these spirits are variously functioning.
36:5.2 The seven adjutant mind-spirits are called by names which are the equivalents of the following designations: intuition, understanding, courage, knowledge, counsel, worship, and wisdom. These mind-spirits send forth their influence into all the inhabited worlds as a differential urge, each seeking receptivity capacity for manifestation quite apart from the degree to which its fellows may find reception and opportunity for function.
36:5.3 The central lodgments of the adjutant spirits on the Life Carrier headquarters world indicate to the Life Carrier supervisors the extent and quality of the mind function of the adjutants on any world and in any given living organism of intellect status. These life-mind emplacements are perfect indicators of living mind function for the first five adjutants. But with regard to the sixth and seventh adjutant spirits—worship and wisdom—these central lodgments record only a qualitative function. The quantitative activity of the adjutant of worship and the adjutant of wisdom is registered in the immediate presence of the Divine Minister on Salvington, being a personal experience of the Universe Mother Spirit.
36:5.4 The seven adjutant mind-spirits always accompany the Life Carriers to a new planet, but they should not be regarded as entities; they are more like circuits. The spirits of the seven universe adjutants do not function as personalities apart from the universe presence of the Divine Minister; they are in fact a level of consciousness of the Divine Minister and are always subordinate to the action and presence of their creative mother.
36:5.5 We are handicapped for words adequately to designate these seven adjutant mind-spirits. They are ministers of the lower levels of experiential mind, and they may be described, in the order of evolutionary attainment, as follows:
- 1. 36:5.6 The spirit of intuition —quick perception, the primitive physical and inherent reflex instincts, the directional and other self-preservative endowments of all mind creations; the only one of the adjutants to function so largely in the lower orders of animal life and the only one to make extensive functional contact with the nonteachable levels of mechanical mind.
- 2. 36:5.7 The spirit of understanding —the impulse of co-ordination, the spontaneous and apparently automatic association of ideas. This is the gift of the co-ordination of acquired knowledge, the phenomenon of quick reasoning, rapid judgment, and prompt decision.
- 3. 36:5.8 The spirit of courage —the fidelity endowment—in personal beings, the basis of character acquirement and the intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery. When enlightened by facts and inspired by truth, this becomes the secret of the urge of evolutionary ascension by the channels of intelligent and conscientious self-direction.
- 4. 36:5.9 The spirit of knowledge —the curiosity-mother of adventure and discovery, the scientific spirit; the guide and faithful associate of the spirits of courage and counsel; the urge to direct the endowments of courage into useful and progressive paths of growth.
- 5. 36:5.10 The spirit of counsel —the social urge, the endowment of species co-operation; the ability of will creatures to harmonize with their fellows; the origin of the gregarious instinct among the more lowly creatures.
- 6. 36:5.11 The spirit of worship —the religious impulse, the first differential urge separating mind creatures into the two basic classes of mortal existence. The spirit of worship forever distinguishes the animal of its association from the soulless creatures of mind endowment. Worship is the badge of spiritual-ascension candidacy.
- 7. 36:5.12 The spirit of wisdom —the inherent tendency of all moral creatures towards orderly and progressive evolutionary advancement. This is the highest of the adjutants, the spirit co-ordinator and articulator of the work of all the others. This spirit is the secret of that inborn urge of mind creatures which initiates and maintains the practical and effective program of the ascending scale of existence; that gift of living things which accounts for their inexplicable ability to survive and, in survival, to utilize the co-ordination of all their past experience and present opportunities for the acquisition of all of everything that all of the other six mental ministers can mobilize in the mind of the organism concerned. Wisdom is the acme of intellectual performance. Wisdom is the goal of a purely mental and moral existence.
36:5.13 The adjutant mind-spirits experientially grow, but they never become personal. They evolve in function, and the function of the first five in the animal orders is to a certain extent essential to the function of all seven as human intellect. This animal relationship makes the adjutants more practically effective as human mind; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to man's intellectual as well as to his physical evolution.
36:5.14 These mind-adjutants of a local universe Mother Spirit are related to creature life of intelligence status much as the power centers and physical controllers are related to the nonliving forces of the universe. They perform invaluable service in the mind circuits on the inhabited worlds and are effective collaborators with the Master Physical Controllers, who also serve as controllers and directors of the preadjutant mind levels, the levels of nonteachable or mechanical mind.
36:5.15 Living mind, prior to the appearance of capacity to learn from experience, is the ministry domain of the Master Physical Controllers. Creature mind, before acquiring the ability to recognize divinity and worship Deity, is the exclusive domain of the adjutant spirits. With the appearance of the spiritual response of the creature intellect, such created minds at once become superminded, being instantly encircuited in the spirit cycles of the local universe Mother Spirit.
36:5.16 The adjutant mind-spirits are in no manner directly related to the diverse and highly spiritual function of the spirit of the personal presence of the Divine Minister, the Holy Spirit of the inhabited worlds; but they are functionally antecedent to, and preparatory for, the appearance of this very spirit in evolutionary man. The adjutants afford the Universe Mother Spirit a varied contact with, and control over, the material living creatures of a local universe, but they do not repercuss in the Supreme Being when acting on prepersonality levels.
36:5.17 Nonspiritual mind is either a spirit-energy manifestation or a physical-energy phenomenon. Even human mind, personal mind, has no survival qualities apart from spirit identification. Mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not immortal when it functions without spirit insight, and when it is devoid of the ability to worship and crave survival.
36:6. LIVING FORCES
36:6.1 Life is both mechanistic and vitalistic—material and spiritual. Ever will Urantia physicists and chemists progress in their understanding of the protoplasmic forms of vegetable and animal life, but never will they be able to produce living organisms. Life is something different from all energy manifestations; even the material life of physical creatures is not inherent in matter.
36:6.2 Things material may enjoy an independent existence, but life springs only from life. Mind can be derived only from pre-existent mind. Spirit takes origin only from spirit ancestors. The creature may produce the forms of life, but only a creator personality or a creative force can supply the activating living spark.
36:6.3 Life Carriers can organize the material forms, or physical patterns, of living beings, but the Spirit provides the initial spark of life and bestows the endowment of mind. Even the living forms of experimental life which the Life Carriers organize on their Salvington worlds are always devoid of reproductive powers. When the life formulas and the vital patterns are correctly assembled and properly organized, the presence of a Life Carrier is sufficient to initiate life, but all such living organisms are lacking in two essential attributes—mind endowment and reproductive powers. Animal mind and human mind are gifts of the local universe Mother Spirit, functioning through the seven adjutant mind-spirits, while creature ability to reproduce is the specific and personal impartation of the Universe Spirit to the ancestral life plasm inaugurated by the Life Carriers.
36:6.4 When the Life Carriers have designed the patterns of life, after they have organized the energy systems, there must occur an additional phenomenon; the "breath of life" must be imparted to these lifeless forms. The Sons of God can construct the forms of life, but it is the Spirit of God who really contributes the vital spark. And when the life thus imparted is spent, then again the remaining material body becomes dead matter. When the bestowed life is exhausted, the body returns to the bosom of the material universe from which it was borrowed by the Life Carriers to serve as a transient vehicle for that life endowment which they conveyed to such a visible association of energy-matter.
36:6.5 The life bestowed upon plants and animals by the Life Carriers does not return to the Life Carriers upon the death of plant or animal. The departing life of such a living thing possesses neither identity nor personality; it does not individually survive death. During its existence and the time of its sojourn in the body of matter, it has undergone a change; it has undergone energy evolution and survives only as a part of the cosmic forces of the universe; it does not survive as individual life. The survival of mortal creatures is wholly predicated on the evolvement of an immortal soul within the mortal mind.
36:6.6 We speak of life as "energy" and as "force," but it is really neither. Force-energy is variously gravity responsive; life is not. Pattern is also nonresponsive to gravity, being a configuration of energies that have already fulfilled all gravity-responsive obligations. Life, as such, constitutes the animation of some pattern-configured or otherwise segregated system of energy—material, mindal, or spiritual.
36:6.7 There are some things connected with the elaboration of life on the evolutionary planets which are not altogether clear to us. We fully comprehend the physical organization of the electrochemical formulas of the Life Carriers, but we do not wholly understand the nature and source of the life-activation spark. We know that life flows from the Father through the Son and bythe Spirit. It is more than possible that the Master Spirits are the sevenfold channel of the river of life which is poured out upon all creation. But we do not comprehend the technique whereby the supervising Master Spirit participates in the initial episode of life bestowal on a new planet. The Ancients of Days, we are confident, also have some part in this inauguration of life on a new world, but we are wholly ignorant of the nature thereof. We do know that the Universe Mother Spirit actually vitalizes the lifeless patterns and imparts to such activated plasm the prerogatives of organismal reproduction. We observe that these three are the levels of God the Sevenfold, sometimes designated as the Supreme Creators of time and space; but otherwise we know little more than Urantia mortals—simply that concept is inherent in the Father, expression in the Son, and life realization in the Spirit.
36:6.8 Indited by a Vorondadek Son stationed on Urantia as an observer and acting in this capacity by request of the Melchizedek Chief of the Supervising Revelatory Corps.
