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Paper 49 – The Inhabited Worlds

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BradlyParticipant
Apr 1, 2025, 12:48 PM
I hope you will all join me in a detailed study of Paper 49 – The Inhabited Worlds!

The Urantia Papers present such an incredible spectrum of new information about universe reality from Paradise to our own world. There is a vast and spectacular menagerie of life forms in the universe of universes, generally divided into 3 major and diverse groups – spirit, morontial, and material. There are significant interfacing and overlapping and common elements to all 3 major groups but there is also great diversity within each group! Paper 49 explores the many types of human beings or mortal beings or people (all the same thing) that exist on the evolutionary, material worlds of time and space who are created and evolved by the process and techniques described in Paper 36 – The Life Carriers (a most important supplemental pre-read and study for this topic!)

Humans are never created without the long, slow evolutionary process described in Paper 36. Urantia’s own detailed story is told in Papers 57 – 63. Every such world experiences the same process but in completely unique ways and results. Every world that receives the Life Carriers work and implants of life are organized by types and groups that are categorized by their similarities. But each world’s history, story, and results are a unique expression of both plan and chance due to the inherent nature and forces of evolution. Creationism is also filled with choices and responses and unexpected and even spontaneous results that are not predictable or expected or planned in their timing, sequence, function, result, or appearance. This marvelous process takes eons and ages of time for the actual results to be known to our creators and their agents and ministers of creation.

There are or will be 7 trillion such worlds in time and space in this generation of creation. Each one a unique story and outcome filled with drama and intrigue and serendipity and failure and surprise and achievement several million years in the making!! That story, when completed in all worlds being settled in Light and Life in the ages to come, will be followed by the next generation of creationism to follow in an area exponentially larger than the current time and space regions of reality! This cycle is speculated to be eternally endless by the UB authors. It is also expected that this time and space age is to train a countless Corps of experientially perfecting beings of immeasurable wisdom and skill for that next adventure to come!

But I get ahead of myself…and the story at hand! I invite you to bring your imagination to this study and consider the potentials of what we are about to read, study, and discuss. For the material here should stretch and challenge the more inventive and imaginative among us as we consider the variety of people who now inhabit time and space and those still to come as the Life Carriers and Adjutant Spirits finish their preliminary work on those final evolutionary spheres of the 7 trillion expected in this time and space age!

What an adventure!! I think even Trekkies may be surprised!!

Paper 49

The Inhabited Worlds

49:0.1 (559.1) ALL mortal-inhabited worlds are evolutionary in origin and nature. These spheres are the spawning ground, the evolutionary cradle, of the mortal races of time and space. Each unit of the ascendant life is a veritable training school for the stage of existence just ahead, and this is true of every stage of man’s progressive Paradise ascent; just as true of the initial mortal experience on an evolutionary planet as of the final universe headquarters school of the Melchizedeks, a school which is not attended by ascending mortals until just before their translation to the regime of the superuniverse and the attainment of first-stage spirit existence.

49:0.2 (559.2) All inhabited worlds are basically grouped for celestial administration into the local systems, and each of these local systems is limited to about one thousand evolutionary worlds. This limitation is by the decree of the Ancients of Days, and it pertains to actual evolutionary planets whereon mortals of survival status are living. Neither worlds finally settled in light and life nor planets in the prehuman stage of life development are reckoned in this group.

49:0.3 (559.3) Satania itself is an unfinished system containing only 619 inhabited worlds. Such planets are numbered serially in accordance with their registration as inhabited worlds, as worlds inhabited by will creatures. Thus was Urantia given the number 606 of Satania, meaning the 606th world in this local system on which the long evolutionary life process culminated in the appearance of human beings. There are thirty-six uninhabited planets nearing the life-endowment stage, and several are now being made ready for the Life Carriers. There are nearly two hundred spheres which are evolving so as to be ready for life implantation within the next few million years.

49:0.4 (559.4) Not all planets are suited to harbor mortal life. Small ones having a high rate of axial revolution are wholly unsuited for life habitats. In several of the physical systems of Satania the planets revolving around the central sun are too large for habitation, their great mass occasioning oppressive gravity. Many of these enormous spheres have satellites, sometimes a half dozen or more, and these moons are often in size very near that of Urantia, so that they are almost ideal for habitation.

49:0.5 (559.5) The oldest inhabited world of Satania, world number one, is Anova, one of the forty-four satellites revolving around an enormous dark planet but exposed to the differential light of three neighboring suns. Anova is in an advanced stage of progressive civilization.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 1, 2025, 12:51 PM
49:1.1 (559.6) The universes of time and space are gradual in development; the progression of life—terrestrial or celestial—is neither arbitrary nor magical. Cosmic evolution may not always be understandable (predictable), but it is strictly nonaccidental.

49:1.2 (560.1) The biologic unit of material life is the protoplasmic cell, the communal association of chemical, electrical, and other basic energies. The chemical formulas differ in each system, and the technique of living cell reproduction is slightly different in each local universe, but the Life Carriers are always the living catalyzers who initiate the primordial reactions of material life; they are the instigators of the energy circuits of living matter.

49:1.3 (560.2) All the worlds of a local system disclose unmistakable physical kinship; nevertheless, each planet has its own scale of life, no two worlds being exactly alike in plant and animal endowment. These planetary variations in the system life types result from the decisions of the Life Carriers. But these beings are neither capricious nor whimsical; the universes are conducted in accordance with law and order. The laws of Nebadon are the divine mandates of Salvington, and the evolutionary order of life in Satania is in consonance with the evolutionary pattern of Nebadon.

Me here: For those of us who cook and who garden, the above sounds familiar. Patterns, templates, recipes, sequences, seasons, temperatures, moisture, and light provide an amazing spectrum of outcomes with so very little variation in quantity. Take casseroles or cookies or breads. The number of potential ingredients is great and yet each utilizes 3-5 in common as the foundation. Cooking and gardening are also chemistry + energy + time. A formula is a recipe. Music also comes to mind as an analogy to 1.3 above. There are many keys and tempos and notes from which to choose for all kinds of music, but certain combinations and patterns create types of music. Such patterns are used in kinship/type arrangements in Systems and Local Universes to give each area or spatial territory its own flavor or palette or intonation and rhythm, etc. Some areas have more fruit and nuts, others more chocolate or vanilla, some chewier or crisper, etc.

The Life Carriers are the great scientists of the universes of time, charged with creating 7 trillion recipes that are unique and award winning successes!! Imagine such a task. They have quite the pantry of ingredients from which to choose and there are so many types of atmospheres and gravitational effects and solar radiational structures and intensities and surface temperatures and wet/dry conditions (and so much change and turmoil among all those on each world over time), all of which present very unique challenges to the life types and plans and management on every world. Much variety could be possible if all those variables were stable from world to world…but no, every inhabitable planet is a unique combination of host and incubator and womb and parent of life and its evolutionary progress over great time spans!!

36:0.1 (396.1) 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.

36:2.13 (397.13) 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.

36:2.14 (398.1) 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.

Bradly

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 1, 2025, 12:53 PM
49:1.4 (560.3) Evolution is the rule of human development, but the process itself varies greatly on different worlds. Life is sometimes initiated in one center, sometimes in three, as it was on Urantia. On the atmospheric worlds it usually has a marine origin, but not always; much depends on the physical status of a planet. The Life Carriers have great latitude in their function of life initiation.

49:1.5 (560.4) In the development of planetary life the vegetable form always precedes the animal and is quite fully developed before the animal patterns differentiate. All animal types are developed from the basic patterns of the preceding vegetable kingdom of living things; they are not separately organized.

49:1.6 (560.5) The early stages of life evolution are not altogether in conformity with your present-day views. Mortal man is not an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system, a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the planetary life plan on the spheres of space. Time and the production of large numbers of a species are not the controlling influences. Mice reproduce much more rapidly than elephants, yet elephants evolve more rapidly than mice.

49:1.7 (560.6) The process of planetary evolution is orderly and controlled. The development of higher organisms from lower groupings of life is not accidental. Sometimes evolutionary progress is temporarily delayed by the destruction of certain favorable lines of life plasm carried in a selected species. It often requires ages upon ages to recoup the damage occasioned by the loss of a single superior strain of human heredity. These selected and superior strains of living protoplasm should be jealously and intelligently guarded when once they make their appearance. And on most of the inhabited worlds these superior potentials of life are valued much more highly than on Urantia.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 1, 2025, 12:55 PM
There is a singular goal and purpose to all this patient work of the Life Carriers and the adjutants.

We are it and that purpose. It is not their goal to create kelp or carrots or fish or rabbits. Nope. Accidental mechanical evolution presumes humanity is an accidental result of an accidental process rather than the intentional result of a planned, organized, and managed process and infrastructure, also purposely designed and constructed to harbor, nurture, and sustain human life.

All of the force, energy, material, mass, elements, physics, and physical gravity, etc. and the creation of stars, planets, and galaxies is about the creation of mortals. The physical evolutionary universes are evolutionary people factories. There is only one other purpose I think.

These material and evolutionary universes are laboratories and classrooms for the preliminary process perfecting and skill development for the future creation adventure for Finaliters in the outer space levels.

And remember….only us people of time with souls receive the God Fragment.

Wow.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 1, 2025, 12:56 PM
So this is where the Trekkies and Star Wars and SciFi fans begin to relate to the variety of human life in the starry realms of time and space. For people, humans, mortals…all take many physical forms, although we are told we mostly all also share many similarities physically as well as in mind and in social culture and in destiny, both on planet and after death.

I’ve often wondered if we all awaken in the Mansion Worlds with similar forms that are “alien” to our original or if we will all awaken in new bodies which resemble our particular world species of human? If the second, then the Mansion Worlds will be like a Galactic Convention of Peoples in a spectrum of shapes and colors and traits – what a scene!!!

This is one of the great gifts of the authors and the Papers!! A glimpse of our fellow Pilgrims from time – other tadpoles from other ponds, all tadpoles though and destined for fusion and eternal adventure!!

2. Planetary Physical Types

49:2.1 (560.7) There is a standard and basic pattern of vegetable and animal life in each system. But the Life Carriers are oftentimes confronted with the necessity of modifying these basic patterns to conform to the varying physical conditions which confront them on numerous worlds of space. They foster a generalized system type of mortal creature, but there are seven distinct physical types as well as thousands upon thousands of minor variants of these seven outstanding differentiations:

49:2.2 (561.1) 1. Atmospheric types.
49:2.3 (561.2) 2. Elemental types.
49:2.4 (561.3) 3. Gravity types.
49:2.5 (561.4) 4. Temperature types.
49:2.6 (561.5) 5. Electric types.
49:2.7 (561.6) 6. Energizing types.
49:2.8 (561.7) 7. Unnamed types.

49:2.9 (561.8) The Satania system contains all of these types and numerous intermediate groups, although some are very sparingly represented.

49:2.10 (561.9) 1. The atmospheric types. The physical differences of the worlds of mortal habitation are chiefly determined by the nature of the atmosphere; other influences which contribute to the planetary differentiation of life are relatively minor.

49:2.11 (561.10) The present atmospheric status of Urantia is almost ideal for the support of the breathing type of man, but the human type can be so modified that it can live on both the superatmospheric and the subatmospheric planets. Such modifications also extend to the animal life, which differs greatly on the various inhabited spheres. There is a very great modification of animal orders on both the sub- and the superatmospheric worlds.

49:2.12 (561.11) Of the atmospheric types in Satania, about two and one-half per cent are subbreathers, about five per cent superbreathers, and over ninety-one per cent are mid-breathers, altogether accounting for ninety-eight and one-half per cent of the Satania worlds.

49:2.13 (561.12) Beings such as the Urantia races are classified as mid-breathers; you represent the average or typical breathing order of mortal existence. If intelligent creatures should exist on a planet with an atmosphere similar to that of your near neighbor, Venus, they would belong to the superbreather group, while those inhabiting a planet with an atmosphere as thin as that of your outer neighbor, Mars, would be denominated subbreathers.

49:2.14 (561.13) If mortals should inhabit a planet devoid of air, like your moon, they would belong to the separate order of nonbreathers. This type represents a radical or extreme adjustment to the planetary environment and is separately considered. Nonbreathers account for the remaining one and one-half per cent of Satania worlds.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 1, 2025, 12:57 PM

So…although we are a “decimal” world with significant allowances for Life Carrier experimentation, Urantia is in the normal or most common types for all 6 “types” of differentiators – we are midbreathers (91%) and we are of the land races (70%) and we are average height and planetary gravity with a Satania range of 4′ to 10′ tall and live in an average temperature range and we are average/median for the electric types designed to withstand differential energy and solar radiation and how we consume and process energy is common and primarily digestive. There’s a reason we are both so normal/typical and also an experimental world:

49:5.11 (565.12) Normal adjustments to planetary conditions follow the general physical patterns previously considered. The worlds of the nonbreathers typify the radical or extreme adjustment, but other types are also included in this group. Experimental worlds are usually ideally adapted to the typical life forms, and on these decimal planets the Life Carriers attempt to produce beneficial variations in the standard life designs. Since your world is an experimental planet, it differs markedly from its sister spheres in Satania; many forms of life have appeared on Urantia that are not found elsewhere; likewise are many common species absent from your planet.

36:2.15 (398.2) 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.

49:2.15 (561.14) 2. The elemental types. These differentiations have to do with the relation of mortals to water, air, and land, and there are four distinct species of intelligent life as they are related to these habitats. The Urantia races are of the land order.

49:2.16 (561.15) It is quite impossible for you to envisage the environment which prevails during the early ages of some worlds. These unusual conditions make it necessary for the evolving animal life to remain in its marine nursery habitat for longer periods than on those planets which very early provide a hospitable land-and-atmosphere environment. Conversely, on some worlds of the superbreathers, when the planet is not too large, it is sometimes expedient to provide for a mortal type which can readily negotiate atmospheric passage. These air navigators sometimes intervene between the water and land groups, and they always live in a measure upon the ground, eventually evolving into land dwellers. But on some worlds, for ages they continue to fly even after they have become land-type beings.

49:2.17 (562.1) It is both amazing and amusing to observe the early civilization of a primitive race of human beings taking shape, in one case, in the air and treetops and, in another, midst the shallow waters of sheltered tropic basins, as well as on the bottom, sides, and shores of these marine gardens of the dawn races of such extraordinary spheres. Even on Urantia there was a long age during which primitive man preserved himself and advanced his primitive civilization by living for the most part in the treetops as did his earlier arboreal ancestors. And on Urantia you still have a group of diminutive mammals (the bat family) that are air navigators, and your seals and whales, of marine habitat, are also of the mammalian order.

49:2.18 (562.2) In Satania, of the elemental types, seven per cent are water, ten per cent air, seventy per cent land, and thirteen per cent combined land-and-air types. But these modifications of early intelligent creatures are neither human fishes nor human birds. They are of the human and prehuman types, neither superfishes nor glorified birds but distinctly mortal.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 1, 2025, 2:03 PM
49:2.19 (562.3) 3. The gravity types. By modification of creative design, intelligent beings are so constructed that they can freely function on spheres both smaller and larger than Urantia, thus being, in measure, accommodated to the gravity of those planets which are not of ideal size and density.

49:2.20 (562.4) The various planetary types of mortals vary in height, the average in Nebadon being a trifle under seven feet. Some of the larger worlds are peopled with beings who are only about two and one-half feet in height. Mortal stature ranges from here on up through the average heights on the average-sized planets to around ten feet on the smaller inhabited spheres. In Satania there is only one race under four feet in height. Twenty per cent of the Satania inhabited worlds are peopled with mortals of the modified gravity types occupying the larger and the smaller planets.

49:2.21 (562.5) 4. The temperature types. It is possible to create living beings who can withstand temperatures both much higher and much lower than the life range of the Urantia races. There are five distinct orders of beings as they are classified with reference to heat-regulating mechanisms. In this scale the Urantia races are number three. Thirty per cent of Satania worlds are peopled with races of modified temperature types. Twelve per cent belong to the higher temperature ranges, eighteen per cent to the lower, as compared with Urantians, who function in the mid-temperature group.

49:2.22 (562.6) 5. The electric types. The electric, magnetic, and electronic behavior of the worlds varies greatly. There are ten designs of mortal life variously fashioned to withstand the differential energy of the spheres. These ten varieties also react in slightly different ways to the chemical rays of ordinary sunlight. But these slight physical variations in no way affect the intellectual or the spiritual life.

49:2.23 (562.7) Of the electric groupings of mortal life, almost twenty-three per cent belong to class number four, the Urantia type of existence. These types are distributed as follows: number 1, one per cent; number 2, two per cent; number 3, five per cent; number 4, twenty-three per cent; number 5, twenty-seven per cent; number 6, twenty-four per cent; number 7, eight per cent; number 8, five per cent; number 9, three per cent; number 10, two per cent—in whole percentages.

49:2.24 (563.1) 6. The energizing types. Not all worlds are alike in the manner of taking in energy. Not all inhabited worlds have an atmospheric ocean suited to respiratory exchange of gases, such as is present on Urantia. During the earlier and the later stages of many planets, beings of your present order could not exist; and when the respiratory factors of a planet are very high or very low, but when all other prerequisites to intelligent life are adequate, the Life Carriers often establish on such worlds a modified form of mortal existence, beings who are competent to effect their life-process exchanges directly by means of light-energy and the firsthand power transmutations of the Master Physical Controllers.

49:2.25 (563.2) There are six differing types of animal and mortal nutrition: The subbreathers employ the first type of nutrition, the marine dwellers the second, the mid-breathers the third, as on Urantia. The superbreathers employ the fourth type of energy intake, while the nonbreathers utilize the fifth order of nutrition and energy. The sixth technique of energizing is limited to the midway creatures.

49:2.26 (563.3) 7. The unnamed types. There are numerous additional physical variations in planetary life, but all of these differences are wholly matters of anatomical modification, physiologic differentiation, and electrochemical adjustment. Such distinctions do not concern the intellectual or the spiritual life.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
rhermenParticipant
Apr 2, 2025, 6:33 AM
Hi Bradly!

My name is Randy and I share your interest in paper 49. Before we start a discussion, a little bit about myself. I was nearly five years old on sept. 8, 1966 when Star Trek: The Original Series first aired. (Been a fan of Star Trek ever since!) On july 20, 1969, I was seven years old when my parents allowed me to stay up all night and watch Apollo 11 on TV land on the moon. (Been a fan of astronomy and anything related to space ever since!) These two events made a great impression on my younger self. Then in may of 2002, I found The Urantia Book. Or did it find me? It has also made a great impression on me. I have nearly completed four readings since then.

49:0.5 (559.5)
The oldest inhabited world of Satania, world number one, is
Anova, one of the forty-four satellites revolving around an enormous dark
planet but exposed to the differential light of three neighboring suns. Anova
is in an advanced stage of progressive civilization.

Let’s start with this quote. It certainly fires the imagination! There are few worlds besides ours actually named in TUB. But Anova is one. It seems Anova is a moon orbiting a gas giant planet which may be in a distant orbit around a trinary star. Where is this world in relation to ours? The quote doesn’t say. According to native astronomy, it would be very difficult for any planet to achieve a stable orbit around a trinary star.

What kind of life does Anova a have? Paper 49 describes many kinds as you have pointed out but this quote does not explicitly state which kind applies to Anova. And this would be necessary if we were to have some kind of base-line comparison since they mention Anova by name. It would have been helpful if The Life Carrier made reference to Anova as each kind of life is described in paper 49. For example, if the beings of Anova are non-breathers, the Life Carrier could have mentioned this in that section.

Does “advanced stage of progressive civilzation” mean it has achieved an age of light and life? IMO, it does not. Paper 49 gives us plenty of statistics, but The Urantia Book does not seem to reveal how many worlds in all of creation have actually achieved this.

Randy

Anyone with a mind has an opinion and that opinion is a reflection of that mind.
BradlyParticipant
Apr 2, 2025, 9:02 PM
Hey Randy!

Another fan of Star Trek. I was 9 when Kennedy announced the Moon mission and Glen made orbit!!

Rumor is Roddenberry was a UB reader! Also Norman Lear! Jimmy Hendrix too!

Appreciate your voice and look forward to more. I agree…the UB should be at least 5 times bigger!! So much more to find out.

But the authors are specific so I also doubt “advanced” means Light and Life, or that’s what it would say.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
rhermenParticipant
Apr 3, 2025, 6:32 AM
Bradly,

You wrote “For those of us who cook and who garden, the above sounds familiar. Patterns, templates, recipes, sequences, seasons, temperatures, moisture, and light provide an amazing spectrum of outcomes with so very little variation in quantity. Take casseroles or cookies or breads. The number of potential ingredients is great and yet each utilizes 3-5 in common as the foundation. Cooking and gardening are also chemistry + energy + time. A formula is a recipe. Music also comes to mind as an analogy to 1.3 above. There are many keys and tempos and notes from which to choose for all kinds of music, but certain combinations and patterns create types of music. Such patterns are used in kinship/type arrangements in Systems and Local Universes to give each area or spatial territory its own flavor or palette or intonation and rhythm, etc. Some areas have more fruit and nuts, others more chocolate or vanilla, some chewier or crisper, etc.

The Life Carriers are the great scientists of the universes of time, charged with creating 7 trillion recipes that are unique and award winning successes!! Imagine such a task. They have quite the pantry of ingredients from which to choose and there are so many types of atmospheres and gravitational effects and solar radiational structures and intensities and surface temperatures and wet/dry conditions (and so much change and turmoil among all those on each world over time), all of which present very unique challenges to the life types and plans and management on every world. Much variety could be possible if all those variables were stable from world to world…but no, every inhabitable planet is a unique combination of host and incubator and womb and parent of life and its evolutionary progress over great time spans!!

As someone who eats, I appreciate your comparison. But how would you explain this to beings who do not eat? A difficult challenge to say the least. In some ways, this explains why The Life Carrier chose to stick with statistics. It may also explain why The Urantia Book and the limitations of revelation leaves many things out which may have been helpful. In my opinion, knowledge which has been given is much different than knowledge which has been earned.

In terms of base-line comparison, the story of Andon and Fonta has been included in The FER. Very little of that story describes the “behind the scene” working of the Life Carriers. Only the result of the “experiment.”

you wrote: “There is a singular goal and purpose to all this patient work of the Life Carriers and the adjutants.”

As I understand it, the Life Carriers aren’t an order of being. They are more like a team of fourth dimensional beings (i.e. Citizens of Jerusem residing on the fourth floor of The Nebadon Suite of The Orvonton Hotel) who once had mortal lives anywhere in Nebadon. They share a common interest in the branches of science we call “physics, biology, chemistry, genetics, and bio-engineering.” Many are basically continuing the studies they began as mortal beings but are now morontial beings. At some point in the primordial history of our world they needed help with the experiment. So a team from “The Avalon Suite” in the Orvonton Hotel was brought in to help.

As I understand it, The Melchizedeks are beings of 5D status (i.e. Citizens of Edentia residing on The Fifth Floor of The Nebadon Suite of The Orvonton Hotel.) The Fifth Dimension is more about philosophy than science. And it also expands on the idea of “team effort” and “group participation.” So much so that there is very little done on an individual basis by beings who have ascended to The Constellation Level of Reality.

Also as I understand it, the universe looks completely different as beings ascend up to the next floor of our eternal careers. For this reason, I speculate we can’t actually see any worlds who have achieved an Age of Light and Life. They are almost morontial worlds and somewhat higher than our three dimensional status. However, there may be something we can see of this.

Probably far more speculation than is prudent, but I’m going try anyway.

According to native astrophysics, the sun in its normal stellar evolution will go “nova” [not to be confused with super-nova] about 5 billion years from now. It will cast off its outer layers, creating something called a “planetary nebula,” leaving behind its core of degenerate matter called a “white dwarf star.” There are many examples of this kind of star close to the sun (in inter-stellar terms.) All of this is scientific fact.

And now for some dreadfully over-the-top speculation:

These white dwarf stars are all we can see of solar systems with worlds who have achieved “An Age of Light and Life” or who are completely “settled” in terms of evolution and stabilization of universe circuits.

Randy

Anyone with a mind has an opinion and that opinion is a reflection of that mind.
MaraParticipant
Apr 4, 2025, 2:36 PM

rhermen wrote:

As I understand it, the Life Carriers aren’t an order of being. [. . . .] Many are basically continuing the studies they began as mortal beings but are now morontial beings. [. . . .]

For the record:

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.
BradlyParticipant
Apr 4, 2025, 4:21 PM
Greetings Randy! Many speculations offered to consider.

As students gathered to share and study the UB, our speculations, much like our preconceptions and prejudices and biases and universe reality perspective, must first be assessed by comparison to the reality perspective and information provided in the text we share and study here together.

The Life Carriers are a very distinctive “order of being” as described in Paper 36. And here:

^(223.6) ^20:1.1 All descending Sons of God have high and divine origins. They are dedicated to the descending ministry of service on the worlds and systems of time and space, there to facilitate the progress in the Paradise climb of the lowly creatures of evolutionary origin — the ascending sons of God. Of the numerous orders of descending Sons, seven will be depicted in these narratives. Those Sons who come forth from the Deities on the central Isle of Light and Life are called the Paradise Sons of God and embrace the following three orders:

^(223.7) ^20:1.2 1. Creator Sons — the Michaels.

^(223.8) ^20:1.3 2. Magisterial Sons — the Avonals.

^(223.9) ^20:1.4 3. Trinity Teacher Sons — the Daynals.

^(223.10) ^20:1.5 The remaining four orders of descending sonship are known as the Local Universe Sons of God:

^(223.11) ^20:1.6 4. Melchizedek Sons.

^(223.12) ^20:1.7 5. Vorondadek Sons.

^(223.13) ^20:1.8 6. Lanonandek Sons.

^(223.14) ^20:1.9 7. The Life Carriers.

^(223.15) ^20:1.10 Melchizedeks are the joint offspring of a local universe Creator Son, Creative Spirit, and Father Melchizedek. Both Vorondadeks and Lanonandeks are brought into being by a Creator Son and his Creative Spirit associate. Vorondadeks are best known as the Most Highs, the Constellation Fathers; Lanonandeks as System Sovereigns and as Planetary Princes. The threefold order of Life Carriers is brought into being by a Creator Son and Creative Spirit associated with one of the three Ancients of Days of the superuniverse of jurisdiction. But the natures and activities of these Local Universe Sons of God are more properly portrayed in those papers dealing with the affairs of the local creations.

Me here: Life Carriers are not mortals or ascending sons (and never were), but are, rather, a distinct order of descending Sons. I do seem to recall something about some mortals perhaps serving with Life Carriers in some capacity during our ascension or as Finaliters?? I will research such speculation (or false recall of my own : ) further!

As to Light and Life, I can find nothing in text which says or suggests that spiritual or social evolution changes the material characteristics of material realities. Morontial spheres are architectural worlds that are not formed by geological evolution or the astrophysics of material universe creation.

Material evolutionary worlds cannot change their physics by the spiritualization of the mortals living on that planet. Material worlds do not become “morontialized” by their eventual and inevitable destiny attainment of planetary Light and Life according to anything I have found in the Papers.

I do recall something about material forces becoming more stable or “settled” over evolutionary time cycles. Something else for further resesrch!

Neither can mortals become morontial prior to or without physical death and resurrection on the Mansion Worlds.

Your speculations would require some references for our mutual consideration and further discussion.

While there is much information about universe realities that are not provided in text, what is given is specific, even rather detailed and precise I have found. All of time and space is experientially evolving toward universal Light and Life by and within each and every segmentation of organization, from planetary to System to Constellation and Local Universe to the 7 Super Universes.

I have found nothing which suggests that material physics is affected by that evolutionary process.

“Light and Life”:

https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/search?keys=Loyal&op=SearchL

But I certainly welcome all questions and further speculations our studies may inspire!

Bradly

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 4, 2025, 5:13 PM
Randy, I wonder if you were thinking of the Adjutant Mind Spirits rather than the Life Carriers?

Papers 36 and 41 offer very relevant topical information for our studies here!

^(402.1) ^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.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 4, 2025, 8:05 PM
So…it appears the evolutionary time frames for material stabilization and the Light and Life expression/results of spiritualization share similar extended time frames for all of time and space creation. It also seems our Local Universe is quite young, relatively speaking, within time and space creation.

32:3.1 (360.3)The only creation that is perfectly settled is Havona, the central universe, which was made directly by the thought of the Universal Father and the word of the Eternal Son. Havona is an existential, perfect, and replete universe, surrounding the home of the eternal Deities, the center of all things. The creations of the seven superuniverses are finite, evolutionary, and consistently progressive.

32:3.2 (360.4) The physical systems of time and space are all evolutionary in origin. They are not even physically stabilized until they are swung into the “true” settled circuits of their superuniverses. Neither is a local universe settled in light and life until its physical possibilities of expansion and development have been exhausted, and until the spiritual status of all its inhabited worlds has been forever settled and stabilized.

32:3.3 (360.5) Except in the central universe, perfection is a progressive attainment. In the central creation we have a pattern of perfection, but all other realms must attain that perfection by the methods established for the advancement of those particular worlds or universes. And an almost infinite variety characterizes the plans of the Creator Sons for organizing, evolving, disciplining, and settling their respective local universes.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
rhermenParticipant
Apr 5, 2025, 5:19 AM
Perhaps I was thinking of “Star Students” instead of Life Carriers. I stand corrected.

Anyone with a mind has an opinion and that opinion is a reflection of that mind.
BradlyParticipant
Apr 5, 2025, 7:44 PM
No worries. I often stand in need of such recall “correction”. Continuous study helps but still does our recall and perception depend upon research and verification.

The UB teaches we should find new meanings in prior knowledge based on an ever expanding perspective, and that new meanings often arise only by conflict and the struggle to understand.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 6, 2025, 1:46 PM
So….material/physical systems stabilize over time by progressive and perfecting (or managed) creationism while social systems progressively evolve (perfecting) by experiential personality wisdom gained by freewill choices in a reality environment wherein all truth, beauty, and goodness survives eternally as both cause and effect, forever rippling and radiating throughout reality; while error, evil, sin, and suffering all fade by time and distance into temporal irrelevancy.

Progressive evolution is the functional foundation and process in the time-space universes. Of every aspect of the time-space universes!

Evolution is far more encompassing than most people think. Evolution of life on our world is barely the tip of the evolutionary ‘iceberg’!! There is far more to consider beyond this obvious example discussed here so far. The biological evolution of material life forms on material worlds slowly evolved over the eons to create habitat for the eventual formation and emergence of sentient life which is connected in mind to the Spirit is really an example of a much larger pattern of reality in time and space.

The Papers tell us the story of how civilization also evolves due to the spiritization of individual mortals and how social progress propels each mortal forward as well into the Mortal Epochs. As goes the parts, so goes the whole but as goes the whole so do the parts gain momentum and direction and collective progress too, generation by generation. The evolution of culture and society and planetary civilization is a form of evolution that is not accidental or mechanical. Experience and knowledge combine with truth and spiritual awareness and growth to deliver the progressive evolution which is our past and is also our future. But more importantly is also the inherent destiny of 7 trillion such worlds in time and space!!

But evolution is not just functional on the material worlds which host the achievements of the Life Carriers and the Adjutant Mind Spirits. The Systems of these worlds and the Local Universes of Systems and the Super Universes of Local Universes are also evolving. God has created free will beings who learn and grow and gain wisdom by the experience of choosing and learning and growing!! This takes evolution to a whole new dimension and generates entirely new and wondrous potentials.

There is that which is and those who are perfect. And then there is that which and who are perfecting. Perfecting by evolution and by experience and by the expression of that experience. And this evolutionary and experiential process endlessly creates more and more and greater and greater potential by every realization of prior potential and by every step of the perfecting process. Wisdom itself evolves by experience and by its expressions. Perfecting is evolutionary. It is not accidental. Evolution is not accidental either. It is a creation and a creative process that is managed.

But evolution and perfecting and wisdom and spiritualization are also entirely a function of personality with freewill. It is chosen. It is experienced and it is expressed by freewill personalities who seek and choose and learn and learn thereby to seek and choose more and more wisely. This is the very essence of evolution. It is not a function of manipulation but a result of freewill experience and expression in time and space!! There is law and order and leadership and management to be sure. But each being with freewill must choose for themselves either true liberty or false liberty, the economy of self importance or that of love and service.

That choice is not predetermined. It is not forced or required. It is not coerced. It is the results of this choice that is evolution. Evolution is the progress derived from experience and the wisdom acquired by that experience over time. Or so I understand “Evolution”.

4:1.2 (54.5) Can you not advance in your concept of God’s dealing with man to that level where you recognize that the watchword of the universe is progress? Through long ages the human race has struggled to reach its present position. Throughout all these millenniums Providence has been working out the plan of progressive evolution. The two thoughts are not opposed in practice, only in man’s mistaken concepts. Divine providence is never arrayed in opposition to true human progress, either temporal or spiritual. Providence is always consistent with the unchanging and perfect nature of the supreme Lawmaker.

4:2.4 (57.1) Nature is the perfection of Paradise divided by the incompletion, evil, and sin of the unfinished universes. This quotient is thus expressive of both the perfect and the partial, of both the eternal and the temporal. Continuing evolution modifies nature by augmenting the content of Paradise perfection and by diminishing the content of the evil, error, and disharmony of relative reality.

13:1.22 (147.3) The secrets of Ascendington include the mystery of the gradual and certain building up in the material and mortal mind of a spiritual and potentially immortal counterpart of character and identity. This phenomenon constitutes one of the most perplexing mysteries of the universes—the evolution of an immortal soul within the mind of a mortal and material creature.

18:3.9 (210.3) The Supreme Being is achieving the sovereignty of the seven superuniverses by experiential service just as a Creator Son experientially earns the sovereignty of his local universe. But during the present age of the unfinished evolution of the Supreme, the Ancients of Days provide the co-ordinated and perfect administrative overcontrol of the evolving universes of time and space. And the wisdom of originality and the initiative of individuality characterize all the decrees and rulings of the Ancients of Days.

23:4.6 (263.2) We incline to the belief that the eternal future will witness phenomena of universe evolution which will far transcend all that the eternal past has experienced. And we anticipate such tremendous adventures, even as you should, with keen relish and ever-heightening expectation.

42:11.7 (482.5) Since mind co-ordinates the universe, fixity of mechanisms is nonexistent. The phenomenon of progressive evolution associated with cosmic self-maintenance is universal. The evolutionary capacity of the universe is inexhaustible in the infinity of spontaneity. Progress towards harmonious unity, a growing experiential synthesis superimposed on an ever-increasing complexity of relationships, could be effected only by a purposive and dominant mind.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 6, 2025, 1:51 PM
So….universes, galaxies, stars, solar systems, planets…all evolve. Creation in time and space includes much and many that are a result of and continuation of evolution. Civilization evolves. Not only on each of the 7 trillion material and evolutionary worlds but also on the architectural spheres in time and space. Each System evolves uniquely from all others and all Local Universes evolve differently from one another. Each world and system and universe has many unique features and patterns. Just like each being with mind, personality, and freewill develops and progresses uniquely with a very different experience and expression of experience from all our fellow beings in time and space.

Religion evolves. Society and its institutions evolve. Even the Local Universe Creators and God the Supreme evolves. Even the existential Paradise Trinity is participating in evolution through God the Supreme. Indeed, what happens in the universes of time is an extraordinary reflection of the evolutionary and experiential realizations and expressions of what was once only potential. The Supreme gains in power. The Creator Sons gain wisdom and power. Evolution delivers increasing stability and less and less volatility as a function and result of evolutionary progress. This is true for the purely physical and material aspects of reality but also is true of the social and collective culture of the universes of time.

The UB claims of universal evolutionary progress is a stupendous and completely original concept in my own experience. I have not ever read, heard, or considered that evolution was a creative function beyond our world and the starry realms but also included the planetary destiny of civilization, religion itself, the creators, and all the angels and universe family of beings, but also God, and all of God’s creation also experiences evolutionary progress and the realization and actualization of potential and the creation of ever more potential by its realization and actualization.

This mechanism and organism of evolution is a perpetual and eternal engine of universe and personality perfection creating the perfecting universes of time and space, which experientially and ultimately affects and completes even those and that which are already perfect and replete in their perfection. Evolution is truly that relationship between the existentially perfect and the experientially perfecting aspects and beings of the entirety of reality…which is getting bigger and bigger all the time and is speculated by the authors of the Revelation to continue for all of eternity to come. WOW!

0:7.7 (11.1) God the Supreme in Havona is the personal spirit reflection of the triune Paradise Deity. This associative Deity relationship is now creatively expanding outward in God the Sevenfold and is synthesizing in the experiential power of the Almighty Supreme in the grand universe. Paradise Deity, existential as three persons, is thus experientially evolving in two phases of Supremacy, while these dual phases are power-personality unifying as one Lord, the Supreme Being.

0:9.5 (13.3) God the Supreme and God the Ultimate, now evolving in the experiential universes, are not existential—not past eternals, only future eternals, time-space-conditioned and transcendental-conditioned eternals. They are Deities of supreme, ultimate, and possibly supreme-ultimate endowments, but they have experienced historic universe origins. They will never have an end, but they do have personality beginnings. They are indeed actualizations of eternal and infinite Deity potentials, but they themselves are neither unqualifiedly eternal nor infinite.

0:12.5 (16.2) The two post-Havona Trinities, the Ultimate and the Absolute experiential Trinities, are not now fully manifest; they are in process of universe realization. These Deity associations may be described as follows:

0:12.6 (16.3) 1. The Ultimate Trinity, now evolving, will eventually consist of the Supreme Being, the Supreme Creator Personalities, and the absonite Architects of the Master Universe, those unique universe planners who are neither creators nor creatures. God the Ultimate will eventually and inevitably powerize and personalize as the Deity consequence of the unification of this experiential Ultimate Trinity in the expanding arena of the well-nigh limitless master universe.

0:12.7 (16.4) 2. The Absolute Trinity—the second experiential Trinity—now in process of actualization, will consist of God the Supreme, God the Ultimate, and the unrevealed Consummator of Universe Destiny. This Trinity functions on both personal and superpersonal levels, even to the borders of the nonpersonal, and its unification in universality would experientialize Absolute Deity.

1:7.4 (31.4) We cannot fully understand how God can be primal, changeless, all-powerful, and perfect, and at the same time be surrounded by an ever-changing and apparently law-limited universe, an evolving universe of relative imperfections. But we can know such a truth in our own personal experience since we all maintain identity of personality and unity of will in spite of the constant changing of both ourselves and our environment.

2:2.6 (36.4) God is eternally and infinitely perfect, he cannot personally know imperfection as his own experience, but he does share the consciousness of all the experience of imperfectness of all the struggling creatures of the evolutionary universes of all the Paradise Creator Sons. The personal and liberating touch of the God of perfection overshadows the hearts and encircuits the natures of all those mortal creatures who have ascended to the universe level of moral discernment. In this manner, as well as through the contacts of the divine presence, the Universal Father actually participates in the experience with immaturity and imperfection in the evolving career of every moral being of the entire universe. *

2:2.7 (36.5) Human limitations, potential evil, are not a part of the divine nature, but mortal experience with evil and all man’s relations thereto are most certainly a part of God’s ever-expanding self-realization in the children of time—creatures of moral responsibility who have been created or evolved by every Creator Son going out from Paradise.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 6, 2025, 1:53 PM
Biological evolution is definitely an engineering and chemistry process that is deliberate and well rehearsed. The Life Carriers spend much time in education and experiment prior to their work on the material, evolutionary worlds (read Paper 36). But in every case on all 7 trillion unique bio/chemical life evolutions do the Material Sons and Daughters contribute the violet blood upstep and stabilization infusion into the native aboriginal stock of mortals (read Paper 51).

Likewise is the mind of mortals uplifted by the Spirit ministry to mind, first by the Highest Adjutants of Worship and Wisdom, and later by the Holy Spirit, the God Fragment, and The Son’s Spirit of Truth. In both cases, the evolutionary is infused and endowed with those ministries of Divine creation and purification to provide the eternal destiny potential to us mortals, the lowest and most distant of all beings in time and space.

The evolution of spiritualization by religious experience is similar to biological evolution in that new phases and connections and progress can happen quickly and suddenly, including great leaps forward in progress and development. Evolution and wisdom alike are experiential and subject to adaptations and learned responses to situations and circumstances. Change is the inherent urge to survive and to improve and to perfect….which occurs in all life….and especially in the human life vehicle and mortal mind.

65:0.1 (730.1) BASIC evolutionary material life—premind life—is the formulation of the Master Physical Controllers and the life-impartation ministry of the Seven Master Spirits in conjunction with the active ministration of the ordained Life Carriers. As a result of the co-ordinate function of this threefold creativity there develops organismal physical capacity for mind—material mechanisms for intelligent reaction to external environmental stimuli and, later on, to internal stimuli, influences taking origin in the organismal mind itself.

65:2.1 (731.5) The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival. Man’s primordial ancestors were literally the slime and ooze of the ocean bed in the sluggish and warm-water bays and lagoons of the vast shore lines of the ancient inland seas, those very waters in which the Life Carriers established the three independent life implantations on Urantia.

65:2.16 (733.6) In this way the life that was planted on Urantia evolved until the ice age, when man himself first appeared and began his eventful planetary career. And this appearance of primitive man on earth during the ice age was not just an accident; it was by design. The rigors and climatic severity of the glacial era were in every way adapted to the purpose of fostering the production of a hardy type of human being with tremendous survival endowment.

65:3.5 (734.2) Long before the Material Son and Daughter, the biologic uplifters, arrive on a planet, the human potentials of the evolving animal species have been exhausted. This biologic status of animal life is disclosed to the Life Carriers by the phenomenon of the third phase of adjutant spirit mobilization, which automatically occurs concomitantly with the exhaustion of the capacity of all animal life to give origin to the mutant potentials of prehuman individuals.

65:4.1 (734.5) Do not overlook the fact that Urantia was assigned to us as a life-experiment world. On this planet we made our sixtieth attempt to modify and, if possible, improve the Satania adaptation of the Nebadon life designs, and it is of record that we achieved numerous beneficial modifications of the standard life patterns. To be specific, on Urantia we worked out and have satisfactorily demonstrated not less than twenty-eight features of life modification which will be of service to all Nebadon throughout all future time.

65:4.2 (735.1) But the establishment of life on no world is ever experimental in the sense that something untried and unknown is attempted. The evolution of life is a technique ever progressive, differential, and variable, but never haphazard, uncontrolled, nor wholly experimental, in the accidental sense.

65:4.10 (736.1) On Urantia the endeavors of the Life Carriers to improve the Satania life patterns necessarily resulted in the production of many apparently useless forms of transition life. But the gains already accrued are sufficient to justify the Urantia modifications of the standard life designs.

65:4.11 (736.2) It was our intention to produce an early manifestation of will in the evolutionary life of Urantia, and we succeeded. Ordinarily, will does not emerge until the colored races have long been in existence, usually first appearing among the superior types of the red man. Your world is the only planet in Satania where the human type of will has appeared in a precolored race.

65:5.4 (736.7) There are, of course, certain compensations for tribulation, such as Michael’s bestowal on Urantia. But irrespective of all such considerations, the later celestial supervisors of this planet express complete confidence in the ultimate evolutionary triumph of the human race and in the eventual vindication of our original plans and life patterns.

65:6.2 (737.2) There is original endowment of adaptation in living things and beings. In every living plant or animal cell, in every living organism—material or spiritual—there is an insatiable craving for the attainment of ever-increasing perfection of environmental adjustment, organismal adaptation, and augmented life realization. These interminable efforts of all living things evidence the existence within them of an innate striving for perfection.

65:8.4 (739.8) As mind evolution is dependent on, and delayed by, the slow development of physical conditions, so is spiritual progress dependent on mental expansion and unfailingly delayed by intellectual retardation. But this does not mean that spiritual evolution is dependent on education, culture, or wisdom. The soul may evolve regardless of mental culture but not in the absence of mental capacity and desire—the choice of survival and the decision to achieve ever-increasing perfection—to do the will of the Father in heaven. Although survival may not depend on the possession of knowledge and wisdom, progression most certainly does.

65:8.5 (740.1) In the cosmic evolutionary laboratories mind is always dominant over matter, and spirit is ever correlated with mind. Failure of these diverse endowments to synchronize and co-ordinate may cause time delays, but if the individual really knows God and desires to find him and become like him, then survival is assured regardless of the handicaps of time. Physical status may handicap mind, and mental perversity may delay spiritual attainment, but none of these obstacles can defeat the whole-souled choice of will.

65:8.6 (740.2) When physical conditions are ripe, sudden mental evolutions may take place; when mind status is propitious, sudden spiritual transformations may occur; when spiritual values receive proper recognition, then cosmic meanings become discernible, and increasingly the personality is released from the handicaps of time and delivered from the limitations of space.

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
BradlyParticipant
Apr 6, 2025, 1:54 PM
So…the fact and the function of evolution is based on certain realities and results in certain inevitabilities of noteworthy consideration.

Evolution must first of all originate in imperfection. That which is perfect is not evolving. It may be experiencing, but it is not evolving. Evolution is a process. A process of perfecting. We are told that life itself, even in its most basic forms is striving. Striving for perfection. All of life is thereby and therefor evolving…seeking new ways to thrive and survive and perpetuate itself. This is inherent in all life forms regardless of simplicity or complexity. It is the foundational urge upon which evolution depends and propagates its own process and reality. Life has its ministers and managers and creators…but life itself is imbued by this impulse to become perfect.

There is life which created in perfection and then there is life that seeks perfection. There is no other form of life. Except for one. Mortals may choose not to seek perfection. Our very cells in our bodies do still seek out perpetuation and survival and perfection at the cellular level of “life”. Our pets and other animals on the world and the plant life and all other forms of life, minded and pre-minded do still seek survival and adaptivity and perfecting. But mortals are given freewill and personality. We must choose. And we may choose either way…to strive for our potential or merely choose self indulgence. Mortal life is the first level of life in the universe with such choice! For we are the entry level will creatures of time and space.

Evolution therefore comes in two basic forms and flavors – unconscious and conscious! That’s right. The gods and creators do not trust us entry level will creatures to understand the opportunities and potentials we have upon birth. So they help us along with our evolutionary progress. How?

Well, first we are connected to the Higher Adjutants of Worship and Wisdom which deliver certain urges and connections to the Holy Spirit and the source of our personality. We feel connected. We feel connected to a Great Cause. An “I AM” within. We are given a nature that is gregarious, social, and altruistic – generous and helpful we are! As we respond to that inner nature and our personality begins making choices that reflect the inner voice and Spirit, we give birth to soul and new and greater Spirit connections and circuits are established. WE ARE NOW EVOLVING!! The process of perfecting has begun. It will continue according to our religious experience allows.

Our religious experience is not what most of us think of as a religious experience. See, we are having a religious experience without making any conscious commitments to or having any conscious awareness of such experience. Primitive minds and children have religious experience. Love, truth, beauty, and goodness are all elements of such a religious experience. Our expressions of those internal and external (social and material) realities are expressions of our religious experience. Love, truth, beauty, and goodness have only one source – God. The personality which can experience and express these realities also has only one source – God. So the person-ality who experiences and expresses love, truth, beauty, and goodness has found God within and the circuits of God – mind, personality, and spirit – and is actively having a very robust and deeply meaningful religious experience!!

This is the beginning of the evolution of the soul and the eternal adventure and the perfecting ascension of material born mortal beings as children of God in time!! It is also an all important element and method of evolving mortal society one generation after another. Society is evolved by the evolution of each mortal on each world. And each mortal on each world is also evolved and influenced in our personal progress by the evolutionary progress of the whole of society as we have already learned and studied here. Personal and social evolution are interdependent! Each is a cause and each is an effect of the other.

So….that which is and those who are perfect are created by the existential and original perfect Trinity of God; some or those and that which are imperfect are created by those who are created perfect. But then those imperfect beings are entrusted with further and lower levels of creation of imperfection. From Havona to the Super Universe levels to the Local Universe levels there is a decreasing level of perfection in the creation of life and more and more dependence upon the evolutionary forces of perfecting are set loose in time. Mortals are the lowest level of such imperfection that also has the potential for perfecting by evolution to enjoy the adventures of eternity to come.

Interestingly, the lowest level of evolutionary will personalities enjoy the greatest altitude gains potential!! The least born in this universe of evolutionary potential have the greatest adventure and reward possible of all other personalities. How so? Well, only those who begin at the very beginning and ascend to Paradise (or those few celestials who are “humanized” in their own ascension adventures) are endowed with a God Fragment and are the only ones who can coexist with and see and hear and associate directly with EVERY LEVEL OF BEING IN ALL THE UNIVERSE OF UNIVERSES!!! All other beings, even and especially perfect beings in Havona, are limited in associative relationships with some or many other beings. Why? Because only us tadpoles from time will experience every level of creature existence and materialization and spiritization between our birth and Paradise.

Those with the furthest to go have the greatest perfecting experience. But we are also the only beings in all the universe of universes (so far anyway) whose adventure into eternity and perfecting begins by faith and that unconscious religious experience of hearing the voice and feeling the presence within. We are the only ones so blinded to reality and so lacking in information and knowledge that we respond to our inner nature without knowing who or what that is we are responding to and yet we do respond, and receive assurance and the Divine paternal embrace, and we choose to experience and express love, truth, beauty, and goodness without knowing why or how.

Those poor dear ones created in perfection…the fun they miss and the joys of evolutionary experience only provided by freewill personality in the midst of uncertainty and the potential for error and TRIUMPH! that they will never have. Evolution delivers the perfecting experience only to the children and tadpoles of time. Only we are driven by curiosity and discovery and growth and change and only we can know of adventure through the doorway of uncertainty ahead!! What a gift! What a blessing!! What a joy!!!

These are some thoughts of mine recently about “Evolution”. They are only that. Opinions and thoughts based on my understanding of the teachings in the Urantia Book.

Cheers!!

3:5.5 (51.4) The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the universal sovereignty of God. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following:

3:5.6 (51.5) 1. Is courage—strength of character—desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.

3:5.7 (51.6) 2. Is altruism—service of one’s fellows—desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.

3:5.8 (51.7) 3. Is hope—the grandeur of trust—desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.

3:5.9 (51.8) 4. Is faith—the supreme assertion of human thought—desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.

3:5.10 (51.9) 5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.

3:5.11 (51.10) 6. Is idealism—the approaching concept of the divine—desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.

3:5.12 (51.11) 7. Is loyalty—devotion to highest duty—desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.

3:5.13 (51.12) 8. Is unselfishness—the spirit of self-forgetfulness—desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.

3:5.14 (51.13) 9. Is pleasure—the satisfaction of happiness—desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.

3:5.15 (52.1) Throughout the universe, every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and purpose of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect willingness to do the Father’s divine will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise judgment) would be a world without free intelligence. In the Havona universe there are a billion perfect worlds with their perfect inhabitants, but evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise. The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment.

3:5.16 (52.2) The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations. But all such perfect beings are, in moral nature and spiritual status, what they are by virtue of the fact of existence. They have experientially earned advancement only within their inherent status. Mortal man earns even his status as an ascension candidate by his own faith and hope. Everything divine which the human mind grasps and the human soul acquires is an experiential attainment; it is a reality of personal experience and is therefore a unique possession in contrast to the inherent goodness and righteousness of the inerrant personalities of Havona.

3:5.17 (52.3) The creatures of Havona are naturally brave, but they are not courageous in the human sense. They are innately kind and considerate, but hardly altruistic in the human way. They are expectant of a pleasant future, but not hopeful in the exquisite manner of the trusting mortal of the uncertain evolutionary spheres. They have faith in the stability of the universe, but they are utter strangers to that saving faith whereby mortal man climbs from the status of an animal up to the portals of Paradise. They love the truth, but they know nothing of its soul-saving qualities. They are idealists, but they were born that way; they are wholly ignorant of the ecstasy of becoming such by exhilarating choice. They are loyal, but they have never experienced the thrill of wholehearted and intelligent devotion to duty in the face of temptation to default. They are unselfish, but they never gained such levels of experience by the magnificent conquest of a belligerent self. They enjoy pleasure, but they do not comprehend the sweetness of the pleasure escape from the pain potential.

Consider the blessings of evolution and its uncertainties as well as its inevitabilities!!!

"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."

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