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50:5.1 The [[loyal]] princes of the [[inhabited worlds]] are [[permanently]] attached to the [[planets]] of their [[original]] assignment. [[Paradise Sons]] and their [[dispensations]] may come and go, but a successful ''Planetary Prince'' [[continues]] on as the ruler of his realm. His [[work]] is quite [[independent]] of the missions of the [[Divine Sons|higher Sons]], being [[designed]] to foster the [[development]] of [[planetary]] [[civilization]].
50:5.2 The [[progress]] of [[civilization]] is hardly alike on any [[two]] [[planets]]. The details of the [[unfoldment]] of [[mortal]] [[evolution]] are very [[different]] on numerous dissimilar worlds. Notwithstanding these many [[diversifications]] of [[planetary]] [[development]] along [[physical]], [[intellectual]], and [[social]] lines, all [[evolutionary spheres]] [[progress]] in certain well-defined [[Trend|directions]].
50:5.3 Under the [[Noble|benign]] rule of a ''Planetary Prince'', augmented by the [[Material Sons]] and punctuated by the [[periodic]] missions of the [[Paradise Sons]], the [[mortal]] [[races]] on an [[average]] world of [[time and space]] will [[successively]] pass through the following [[seven]] [[developmental]] [[epochs]]:
*1. 50:5.4 ''The nutrition epoch''. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59 prehuman creatures] and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62 dawn races] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 primitive man] are chiefly concerned with [[food]] [[problems]]. These [[evolving]] [[beings]] spend their [[waking]] hours either in seeking [[food]] or in fighting, offensively or defensively. The [[food]] quest is [[paramount]] in the [[minds]] of these early [[ancestors]] of subsequent [[civilization]].
*2. 50:5.5 ''The security age''. Just as soon as the [[primitive]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer hunter] can spare any [[time]] from the search for [[food]], he turns this [[leisure]] to augmenting his [[security]]. More and more [[attention]] is [[devoted]] to the [[technique]] of [[war]]. [[Homes]] are fortified, and the clans are solidified by [[mutual]] [[fear]] and by the inculcation of hate for foreign [[groups]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_69#69:1._BASIC_HUMAN_INSTITUTIONS Self-preservation] is a pursuit which always follows [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_69#69:1._BASIC_HUMAN_INSTITUTIONS self-maintenance].
*3. 50:5.6 ''The material-comfort era''. After [[food]] problems have been partially solved and some [[degree]] of [[security]] has been [[attained]], the additional [[leisure]] is utilized to promote [[personal]] comfort. [[Luxury]] vies with [[necessity]] in occupying the [[center]] of the [[stage]] of [[human]] [[activities]]. Such an [[age]] is all too often characterized by [[tyranny]], intolerance, gluttony, and drunkenness. The weaker elements of the [[races]] incline towards excesses and [[Barbarism|brutality]]. Gradually these [[pleasure]]-seeking weaklings are subjugated by the more strong and [[truth]]-loving elements of the advancing [[civilization]].
*4. 50:5.7 ''The quest for knowledge and wisdom''. [[Food]], [[security]], [[pleasure]], and [[leisure]] provide the [[foundation]] for the [[development]] of [[culture]] and the [[Dissemination|spread]] of [[knowledge]]. The [[effort]] to [[execute]] [[knowledge]] results in [[wisdom]], and when a [[culture]] has learned how to [[profit]] and improve by [[experience]], [[civilization]] has really arrived. [[Food]], [[security]], and [[material]] comfort still [[dominate]] [[society]], but many forward-looking [[individuals]] are hungering for [[knowledge]] and thirsting for [[wisdom]]. Every [[child]] is provided an [[opportunity]] to [[learn]] by [[doing]]; [[education]] is the watchword of these ages.
*5. 50:5.8 ''The epoch of philosophy and brotherhood''. When [[mortals]] learn to [[think]] and begin to [[profit]] by [[experience]], they become [[philosophical]]—they start out to [[reason]] within themselves and to [[exercise]] discriminative [[judgment]]. The [[society]] of this age becomes [[ethical]], and the [[mortals]] of such an era are truly becoming [[moral]] [[beings]]. [[Wise]] moral beings are capable of [[establishing]] [[human]] [[brotherhood]] on such a [[progressing]] world. [[Ethical]] and [[moral]] [[beings]] can learn how to live in [[accordance]] with the [[golden rule]].
*6. 50:5.9 ''The age of spiritual striving''. When evolving [[mortals]] have passed through the [[physical]], [[intellectual]], and [[social]] [[stages]] of [[development]], sooner or later they [[attain]] those [[levels]] of [[personal]] [[insight]] which impel them to seek for [[spiritual]] [[satisfactions]] and [[cosmic]] [[understandings]]. [[Religion]] is completing the [[ascent]] from the [[emotional]] domains of [[fear]] and [[superstition]] to the high [[levels]] of [[cosmic]] [[wisdom]] and [[personal]] [[spiritual]] [[experience]]. [[Education]] [[aspires]] to the [[attainment]] of [[meanings]], and [[culture]] grasps at [[cosmic]] [[relationships]] and true [[values]]. Such evolving [[mortals]] are genuinely [[cultured]], truly [[educated]], and exquisitely [[God]]-[[knowing]].
*7. 50:5.10 ''The era of light and life''. This is the flowering of the [[successive]] [[ages]] of [[physical]] [[security]], [[intellectual]] expansion, [[social]] [[culture]], and [[spiritual]] [[achievement]]. These [[human]] accomplishments are now blended, [[associated]], and [[co-ordinated]] in [[cosmic]] [[unity]] and [[unselfish]] [[service]]. Within the [[limitations]] of [[finite]] [[nature]] and [[material]] [[endowments]] there are no bounds set upon the [[possibilities]] of [[evolutionary]] [[attainment]] by the advancing [[generations]] who [[successively]] live upon these [[supernal]] and settled worlds of [[time and space]].
50:5.11 After serving their [[spheres]] through [[successive]] [[dispensations]] of world [[history]] and the progressing [[epochs]] of [[planetary]] [[progress]], the ''Planetary Princes'' are elevated to the position of ''Planetary Sovereigns'' upon the [[inauguration]] of the era of [[light and life]].
<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]]
50:5.1 The [[loyal]] princes of the [[inhabited worlds]] are [[permanently]] attached to the [[planets]] of their [[original]] assignment. [[Paradise Sons]] and their [[dispensations]] may come and go, but a successful ''Planetary Prince'' [[continues]] on as the ruler of his realm. His [[work]] is quite [[independent]] of the missions of the [[Divine Sons|higher Sons]], being [[designed]] to foster the [[development]] of [[planetary]] [[civilization]].
50:5.2 The [[progress]] of [[civilization]] is hardly alike on any [[two]] [[planets]]. The details of the [[unfoldment]] of [[mortal]] [[evolution]] are very [[different]] on numerous dissimilar worlds. Notwithstanding these many [[diversifications]] of [[planetary]] [[development]] along [[physical]], [[intellectual]], and [[social]] lines, all [[evolutionary spheres]] [[progress]] in certain well-defined [[Trend|directions]].
50:5.3 Under the [[Noble|benign]] rule of a ''Planetary Prince'', augmented by the [[Material Sons]] and punctuated by the [[periodic]] missions of the [[Paradise Sons]], the [[mortal]] [[races]] on an [[average]] world of [[time and space]] will [[successively]] pass through the following [[seven]] [[developmental]] [[epochs]]:
*1. 50:5.4 ''The nutrition epoch''. The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59 prehuman creatures] and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62 dawn races] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 primitive man] are chiefly concerned with [[food]] [[problems]]. These [[evolving]] [[beings]] spend their [[waking]] hours either in seeking [[food]] or in fighting, offensively or defensively. The [[food]] quest is [[paramount]] in the [[minds]] of these early [[ancestors]] of subsequent [[civilization]].
*2. 50:5.5 ''The security age''. Just as soon as the [[primitive]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer hunter] can spare any [[time]] from the search for [[food]], he turns this [[leisure]] to augmenting his [[security]]. More and more [[attention]] is [[devoted]] to the [[technique]] of [[war]]. [[Homes]] are fortified, and the clans are solidified by [[mutual]] [[fear]] and by the inculcation of hate for foreign [[groups]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_69#69:1._BASIC_HUMAN_INSTITUTIONS Self-preservation] is a pursuit which always follows [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_69#69:1._BASIC_HUMAN_INSTITUTIONS self-maintenance].
*3. 50:5.6 ''The material-comfort era''. After [[food]] problems have been partially solved and some [[degree]] of [[security]] has been [[attained]], the additional [[leisure]] is utilized to promote [[personal]] comfort. [[Luxury]] vies with [[necessity]] in occupying the [[center]] of the [[stage]] of [[human]] [[activities]]. Such an [[age]] is all too often characterized by [[tyranny]], intolerance, gluttony, and drunkenness. The weaker elements of the [[races]] incline towards excesses and [[Barbarism|brutality]]. Gradually these [[pleasure]]-seeking weaklings are subjugated by the more strong and [[truth]]-loving elements of the advancing [[civilization]].
*4. 50:5.7 ''The quest for knowledge and wisdom''. [[Food]], [[security]], [[pleasure]], and [[leisure]] provide the [[foundation]] for the [[development]] of [[culture]] and the [[Dissemination|spread]] of [[knowledge]]. The [[effort]] to [[execute]] [[knowledge]] results in [[wisdom]], and when a [[culture]] has learned how to [[profit]] and improve by [[experience]], [[civilization]] has really arrived. [[Food]], [[security]], and [[material]] comfort still [[dominate]] [[society]], but many forward-looking [[individuals]] are hungering for [[knowledge]] and thirsting for [[wisdom]]. Every [[child]] is provided an [[opportunity]] to [[learn]] by [[doing]]; [[education]] is the watchword of these ages.
*5. 50:5.8 ''The epoch of philosophy and brotherhood''. When [[mortals]] learn to [[think]] and begin to [[profit]] by [[experience]], they become [[philosophical]]—they start out to [[reason]] within themselves and to [[exercise]] discriminative [[judgment]]. The [[society]] of this age becomes [[ethical]], and the [[mortals]] of such an era are truly becoming [[moral]] [[beings]]. [[Wise]] moral beings are capable of [[establishing]] [[human]] [[brotherhood]] on such a [[progressing]] world. [[Ethical]] and [[moral]] [[beings]] can learn how to live in [[accordance]] with the [[golden rule]].
*6. 50:5.9 ''The age of spiritual striving''. When evolving [[mortals]] have passed through the [[physical]], [[intellectual]], and [[social]] [[stages]] of [[development]], sooner or later they [[attain]] those [[levels]] of [[personal]] [[insight]] which impel them to seek for [[spiritual]] [[satisfactions]] and [[cosmic]] [[understandings]]. [[Religion]] is completing the [[ascent]] from the [[emotional]] domains of [[fear]] and [[superstition]] to the high [[levels]] of [[cosmic]] [[wisdom]] and [[personal]] [[spiritual]] [[experience]]. [[Education]] [[aspires]] to the [[attainment]] of [[meanings]], and [[culture]] grasps at [[cosmic]] [[relationships]] and true [[values]]. Such evolving [[mortals]] are genuinely [[cultured]], truly [[educated]], and exquisitely [[God]]-[[knowing]].
*7. 50:5.10 ''The era of light and life''. This is the flowering of the [[successive]] [[ages]] of [[physical]] [[security]], [[intellectual]] expansion, [[social]] [[culture]], and [[spiritual]] [[achievement]]. These [[human]] accomplishments are now blended, [[associated]], and [[co-ordinated]] in [[cosmic]] [[unity]] and [[unselfish]] [[service]]. Within the [[limitations]] of [[finite]] [[nature]] and [[material]] [[endowments]] there are no bounds set upon the [[possibilities]] of [[evolutionary]] [[attainment]] by the advancing [[generations]] who [[successively]] live upon these [[supernal]] and settled worlds of [[time and space]].
50:5.11 After serving their [[spheres]] through [[successive]] [[dispensations]] of world [[history]] and the progressing [[epochs]] of [[planetary]] [[progress]], the ''Planetary Princes'' are elevated to the position of ''Planetary Sovereigns'' upon the [[inauguration]] of the era of [[light and life]].
<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]]