Subject: What is The Name Of This World? Part 2. Oct. 11, 2008.
Another name for this Earth in Sol-3. This is because our sun is
called Sol and we are the third planet from the sun.
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But on some worlds, for ages they continue to fly even after they
have become land-type beings.
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.
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.
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.
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 r-ce 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.
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 ra-es. 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 rac-s 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.
5. The electric types. The electric, magnetic, and electronic
behavior of the worlds varies greatly. There are ten designs of mortal
life variously fa****oned 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 s-iritual life.
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;
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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.
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.
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.
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 spi-itual life.
"3. WORLDS OF THE NONBREATHERS"
The majority of inhabited planets are peopled with the breathing
type of intelligent beings. But there are also orders of mortals who
are able to live on worlds with little or no air. Of the Orvonton
inhabited worlds this type amounts to less than seven per cent. In
Nebadon this percentage is less than three. In all Satania there are
only nine such worlds.
There are so very few of the nonbreather type of inhabited worlds in
Satania because this more recently organized section of Norlatiadek
still abounds in meteoric space bodies; and worlds without a
protective friction atmosphere are subject to incessant bombardment by
these wanderers. Even some of the comets consist of meteor swarms, but
as a rule they are disrupted smaller bodies of matter.
Millions upon millions of meteorites enter the atmosphere of Urantia
daily, coming in at the rate of almost two hundred miles a second. On
the nonbreathing worlds the advanced ra-es must do much to protect
themselves from meteor damage by making electrical installations which
operate to consume or shunt the meteors. Great danger confronts them
when they venture beyond these protected zones. These worlds are also
subject to disastrous electrical storms of a nature unknown on
Urantia. During such times of tremendous energy fluctuation the
inhabitants must take refuge in their special structures of protective
insulation.
Life on the worlds of the nonbreathers is radically different from
what it is on Urantia. The nonbreathers do not eat food or drink water
as do the Urantia rac-s. The reactions of the nervous system, the
heat-regulating mechanism, and the metabolism of these specialized
peoples are radically different from such
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functions of Urantia mortals. Almost every act of living, aside from
reproduction, differs, and even the methods of procreation are somewhat
different.
On the nonbreathing worlds the animal species are radically unlike
those found on the atmospheric planets. The nonbreathing plan of life
varies from the technique of existence on an atmospheric world; even
in survival their peoples differ, being candidates for Sp-rit fusion.
Nevertheless, these beings enjoy life and carry forward the activities
of the realm with the same relative trials and joys that are
experienced by the mortals living on atmospheric worlds. In mind and
character the nonbreathers do not differ from other mortal types.
You would be more than interested in the planetary conduct of this
type of mortal because such a r-ce of beings inhabits a sphere in
close proximity to Urantia.
"4. EVOLUTIONARY WILL CREATURES"
There are great differences between the mortals of the different
worlds, even among those belonging to the same intellectual and
physical types, but all mortals of will dignity are erect animals,
bipeds.
There are six basic evo-utionary races: three primary--red, yellow,
and blue; and three secondary--orange, green, and indigo. Most
inhabited worlds have all of these -aces, but many of the
three-brained planets harbor only the three primary types. Some local
systems also have only these three ra-es.
The average special physical-sense endowment of human beings is
twelve, though the special senses of the three-brained mortals are
extended slightly beyond those of the one- and two-brained types; they
can see and hear considerably more than the Urantia races.
Young are usually born singly, multiple births being the exception,
and the family life is fairly uniform on all types of planets. S-x
equality prevails on all advanced worlds; male and female are equal in
mind endowment and spi-itual status. We do not regard a planet as
having emerged from barbarism so long as one se- seeks to tyrannize
over the other. This feature of creature experience is always greatly
improved after the arrival of a Material Son and Daughter.
Seasons and temperature variations occur on all sunlighted and
sun-heated planets. Agriculture is universal on all atmospheric
worlds; tilling the soil is the one pursuit that is common to the
advancing ra-es of all such planets.
Part 1.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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