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50:6.1 The [[isolation]] of [[Urantia]] renders it impossible to undertake the [[presentation]] of many details of the life and [[environment]] of your [[Satania]] [[neighbors]]. In these presentations we are [[limited]] by the [[planetary]] [[quarantine]] and by [[the system]] [[isolation]]. We must be [[guided]] by these restrictions in all our [[efforts]] to [[enlighten]] [[Urantia]] [[mortals]], but in so far as is permissible, you have been instructed in the [[progress]] of an [[average]] [[evolutionary world]], and you are able to [[compare]] such a world's [[career]] with the [[present]] [[state]] of [[Urantia]].
50:6.2 The [[development]] of [[civilization]] on [[Urantia]] has not [[differed]] so greatly from that of other worlds which have [[sustained]] the misfortune of [[spiritual]] [[isolation]]. But when [[compared]] with the [[loyal]] worlds of the [[universe]], your [[planet]] seems most [[confused]] and greatly retarded in all [[phases]] of [[intellectual]] [[progress]] and [[spiritual]] [[attainment]].
50:6.3 Because of your [[planetary]] misfortunes, [[Urantia]]ns are prevented from [[understanding]] very much about the [[culture]] of [[normal]] worlds. But you should not [[envisage]] the [[evolutionary worlds]], even the most [[ideal]], as [[spheres]] whereon life is a flowery bed of [[Bliss|ease]]. The [[initial]] life of the [[mortal]] [[races]] is always attended by [[struggle]]. [[Effort]] and [[decision]] are an [[essential]] part of the acquirement of [[survival]] [[values]].
50:6.4 [[Culture]] [[presupposes]] [[quality]] of [[mind]]; [[culture]] cannot be enhanced unless [[mind]] is elevated. Superior [[intellect]] will seek a [[noble]] [[culture]] and find some way to [[attain]] such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest [[culture]] even when presented to them ready-made. Much depends, also, upon the [[successive]] [[Epochs|missions]] of the [[divine Sons]] and upon the extent to which [[enlightenment]] is [[received]] by the ages of their respective dispensations.
50:6.5 You should not [[forget]] that for two hundred thousand years all the worlds of [[Satania]] have rested under the [[spiritual]] [[Quarantine|ban]] of [[Norlatiadek]] in consequence of the [[Lucifer rebellion]]. And it will require age upon [[Aeon|age]] to retrieve the resultant [[handicaps]] of [[sin]] and [[Rebellion|secession]]. Your world still [[continues]] to pursue an [[Anomaly|irregular]] and checkered [[career]] as a result of the double [[tragedy]] of a [[rebellious]] Planetary Prince and a [[defaulting]] [[Material Son]]. Even the [[bestowal]] of Christ [[Michael]] on [[Urantia]] did not [[immediately]] set aside the [[temporal]] consequences of these serious blunders in the earlier [[administration]] of the world.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_50 Go to Paper 50]</center>
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[[Category:Paper 50 - The Planetary Princes]]
50:6.1 The [[isolation]] of [[Urantia]] renders it impossible to undertake the [[presentation]] of many details of the life and [[environment]] of your [[Satania]] [[neighbors]]. In these presentations we are [[limited]] by the [[planetary]] [[quarantine]] and by [[the system]] [[isolation]]. We must be [[guided]] by these restrictions in all our [[efforts]] to [[enlighten]] [[Urantia]] [[mortals]], but in so far as is permissible, you have been instructed in the [[progress]] of an [[average]] [[evolutionary world]], and you are able to [[compare]] such a world's [[career]] with the [[present]] [[state]] of [[Urantia]].
50:6.2 The [[development]] of [[civilization]] on [[Urantia]] has not [[differed]] so greatly from that of other worlds which have [[sustained]] the misfortune of [[spiritual]] [[isolation]]. But when [[compared]] with the [[loyal]] worlds of the [[universe]], your [[planet]] seems most [[confused]] and greatly retarded in all [[phases]] of [[intellectual]] [[progress]] and [[spiritual]] [[attainment]].
50:6.3 Because of your [[planetary]] misfortunes, [[Urantia]]ns are prevented from [[understanding]] very much about the [[culture]] of [[normal]] worlds. But you should not [[envisage]] the [[evolutionary worlds]], even the most [[ideal]], as [[spheres]] whereon life is a flowery bed of [[Bliss|ease]]. The [[initial]] life of the [[mortal]] [[races]] is always attended by [[struggle]]. [[Effort]] and [[decision]] are an [[essential]] part of the acquirement of [[survival]] [[values]].
50:6.4 [[Culture]] [[presupposes]] [[quality]] of [[mind]]; [[culture]] cannot be enhanced unless [[mind]] is elevated. Superior [[intellect]] will seek a [[noble]] [[culture]] and find some way to [[attain]] such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest [[culture]] even when presented to them ready-made. Much depends, also, upon the [[successive]] [[Epochs|missions]] of the [[divine Sons]] and upon the extent to which [[enlightenment]] is [[received]] by the ages of their respective dispensations.
50:6.5 You should not [[forget]] that for two hundred thousand years all the worlds of [[Satania]] have rested under the [[spiritual]] [[Quarantine|ban]] of [[Norlatiadek]] in consequence of the [[Lucifer rebellion]]. And it will require age upon [[Aeon|age]] to retrieve the resultant [[handicaps]] of [[sin]] and [[Rebellion|secession]]. Your world still [[continues]] to pursue an [[Anomaly|irregular]] and checkered [[career]] as a result of the double [[tragedy]] of a [[rebellious]] Planetary Prince and a [[defaulting]] [[Material Son]]. Even the [[bestowal]] of Christ [[Michael]] on [[Urantia]] did not [[immediately]] set aside the [[temporal]] consequences of these serious blunders in the earlier [[administration]] of the world.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_50 Go to Paper 50]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 50 - The Planetary Princes]]
