Subject: What is The Name Of This World? Oct. 11, 2008.
As most of you know this world is called Earth by us but other people
call it a different name. Please don't take the following information
as being too literal. It's just one way of explaining something.
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THE URANTIA BOOK
PART II - THE LOCAL UNIVERSE
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PAPER 49 - THE INHABITED WORLDS
All mortal-inhabited worlds are evolutionary in origin and nature.
These spheres are the spawning ground, the e-olutionary cradle, of the
mortal r-ces 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 P-radise 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 s-irit existence.
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 ev-lutionary worlds. This limitation
is by the decree of the Ancients of Days, and it pertains to actual
evo-utionary 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.
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 evolu-tionary
lilfe 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.
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.
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.
"1. THE PLANETARY LIFE".
The universes of time and space are gradual in development; the
progression of life--terrestrial or celestial--is neither arbitrary nor
magical.
Cosmic
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Evolution may not always be understandable (predictable), but it is
strictly nonaccidental.
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.
All the worlds of a local system disclose unmistakable physical
kin****p; 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 d-vine mandates of Salvington, and
the evoluti-nary order of life in Satania is in consonance with the
evoluti-ry pattern of Nebadon.
Evolut-on 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.
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.
The early stages of life evoluti-n are not altogether in conformity
with your present-day views. Mortal man is not an evolut-onary
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.
The process of planetary e-olution is orderly and controlled. The
development of higher organisms from lower groupings of life is not
accidental. Sometimes ev-lutionary progress is tem****arily 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.
"2. PLANETARY PHYSICAL TYPES"
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:
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1. Atmospheric types.
2. Elemental types.
3. Gravity types.
4. Temperature types.
5. Electric types.
6. Energizing types.
7. Unnamed types.
The Satania system contains all of these types and numerous
intermediate groups, although some are very sparingly represented.
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.
The present atmospheric status of Urantia is almost ideal for the
sup****t 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.
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.
Beings such as the Urantia r-es 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.
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.
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 ra-s are of the land order.
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.
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JOhn Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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