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PLANETARY LIFE The Evolution of Planetary
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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INTRODUCTION There are three distinct levels of mind
production in the evolution of life: 1. The realization of physical energy required
for organism mind capacity production. 2. The mind ministry of the adjutant
spirits acting upon teachable organism spirit capacity. 3. The spirit endowment of human mortal
organism culminating in its mind capacity for the
indwelling bestowal of the Thought Adjuster, the pre-personal I AM
spirit fragment of the
In the formulation of the
pre-mind planetary life Physical Controllers work in the conjunction with the life-impartation
ministry of the Seven Master Spirits through adjutant mind spirits, and
the active ministration of the ordained Life Carriers. As the result of this
threefold co-ordinate creative function there develops organism capacity for mind, i.e. mechanisms for
intelligent reaction to external environmental stimuli, and later on to internal spiritual
stimuli influences taking origin in the organism mind itself. It
was exactly the integrated functioning of the Life Carriers, the Physical
Controllers, and the Spirit Mind Adjutants that have conditioned the course of
organic evolution on the inhabited worlds, and that is why the process of evolution of the
planetary life is always purposeful and never accidental. PHYSICAL CONTROLLERS One
These system centers dispatch the power currents to the
inhabited worlds of time and space. They
co-ordinate the activities of the subordinate physical controllers to assure
the adequate distribution
of the energy power in the local system. Master
Physical Controllers receive the lines of energy current dispatched from the
power center
of their local system and efficiently co-ordinate its distribution to the
individual planetary
system under their control. The physical controllers are chiefly occupied in the
adjustment of basic energies and among them the mechanical physical controllers are experts in
the manipulation of 21 out of 30 physical energies of space, constituting the power charge
of a superuniverse. Ten of these controllers are presently stationed on
Urantia. The
mechanical or non-teachable levels of the elemental pre-mind response to the surrounding elemental matter and the energy-matter
response of the evolutionary organism to its surrounding environment is the formulation of the
Master Physical Controllers. In May, it was stated in Paper 6, that the physical
inorganic matter is forming from the descending 7-fold electronic current in the 3rd
sub-phase of the 3rd space energy “ether”. Physical ultimaton or the basic ultimate atom of the
physical realm, according to the clairvoyant theosophists, passes through seven
subdivisions, before it reaches the stages of chemical atoms or elements, and their gaseous, liquid,
and solid mineral states in the formation of the physical matter. The origin and the spatial- terrestrial evolution of the
planet Urantia was explained in details in Part III of the Urantia book. LIFE CARRIERS Life does not appear spontaneously on the planets and in
the universe in general. The Life Carriers must initiate life on barren planets,
and they are the carriers, disseminators and the guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary
worlds of space. The Life Carriers often carry actual life plasma from
their headquarters to a new world, however in case of Urantia, they have organized life
patterns after they have arrived on the planet and in accordance with the formulas previously
approved for a new life establishment on this planet. When in accordance with the approved formulas, the
physical patterns have been provided, then the Life Carriers do catalyze this lifeless material,
imparting through their persons the vital spirit spark, and forthwith the inert physical
patterns become living matter. The vital spark, the vital mystery of life, is bestowed
through the Life Carriers, not by them. The Life Carriers do formulate the life plasma and
supervise the life spark implantation itself, but it is the Local Universe Mother Spirit who supplies
the essential life spark to the lifeless cosmic plasma substance that evolves into living physical
patterns. The Local Universe Divine Minister or the Creative
Daughter of the delivers the energy spark which enlivens the body and
presages the mind. The Life Carriers at such times transmit the spark of life
and start the required revolutions of matter in accordance with the physical, chemical and
electrical specifications of the ordained patterns and plans. Therefore, as such, Life Carriers act
as living catalytic presences which agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise inert
elements of the material order of existence. Life Carriers of the planetary corps are given a certain
period in which to establish life on a new world, approximately 500,000 years of the time of that
planet. At the termination of this period, indicated by certain developmental attainments of
the planetary life, they cease implantation efforts. During the ages intervening between life establishment and
the emergence of human creatures of moral status, the Life Carriers are permitted
to manipulate the life environment and otherwise favorably direction the course of biologic evolution, which
they do for long periods of time. When the Life Carriers once succeed in producing on a new
world a being with will, with the power
of moral decision and spiritual choice to know God and the power of choosing
to worship
him, then and there their work is done. From this point forward the evolution of living beings of
free will must proceed in accordance with the endowment of the inherent nature and tendencies
which have been already imparted to and established in the planetary formulas and patterns. The Life Carriers are not permitted to interfere with free
will of the evolutionary creatures, and to dominate or arbitrarily influence moral choices of
the evolutionary beings. The Urantia book indicates that the life on earth could
not be initiated by Life Carriers before the climate and the geological changes on the planetary
sphere were ready for the initiation of the evolutionary cycle in order to support the physical
progress of life on this planet. Only after the ocean waters were sufficiently briny, the
Life Carriers could project the sodium chloride pattern of life in its waters. The Urantia type
of protoplasm can function only in a suitable salt-water solution. All Urantia’s ancestral
life, vegetable and animal, has evolved in a salt solution habitat. Today highly organized land
animals of this planet, all have the same essential salt solution, which circulates in their blood
streams and freely bathes every tiny living cell throughout their bodies. Human primitive ancestors freely circulated about in the
salty ocean, and today, this same ocean-like salty solution freely circulates about in human
bodies, bathing each cell with a chemical liquid, in all essentials comparable to the salt
water which has stimulated the first protoplasmic reactions of the first living cell to
function on the planet. 600 million years ago the planetary conditions finally
matured on Urantia with favorable spatial and terrestrial developments, in the physical
developments on earth and in the adjacent space regions, for the support of the initial
forms of the marine life and 550 million years ago the Life Carriers were able to plant
successfully the original life patterns for this planet in the hospitable bay waters of the
Urantia world. THE SEVEN ADJUTANT MIND-SPIRITS The
adjutant mind-spirits activate and regulate the adaptive mind potentials,
non-mechanical or
teachable types of mind, i.e. those capable of learning from experience. It is the presence of the seven adjutant mind-spirits on
the primitive worlds that condition the course of organic evolution; that explains why the
evolution is purposeful and never accidental. These adjutant spirits represent the function of the mind
ministry of the Infinite Spirit which is extended to the lower orders of intelligent life through
the operations of the local universe Mother Spirit. The adjutants are the children of the Mother Spirit and
constitute her personal ministry to the material minds of the realm. Wherever and whenever such
mind manifests on any world, it is because of the function of these adjutant spirits. The seven adjutant mind spirits are called by names of
their designated function, such as, adjutant mind spirit of- INTUITION, UNDERSTANDING,
COURAGE, KNOWLEDGE, COUNSEL, WORSHIP and WISDOM. These mind-spirits send forth their influence into all the
inhabited worlds as a differential urge, each seeking receptivity capacity for manifestation quite
apart from the degree to which the other of them function. The central lodgment of the adjutant spirits is on the
Life Carrier headquarters which provides the Life Carrier supervisors with the information
about the extent and quality of the mind function of the adjutants on any world and in any
given living intelligent organism. These life-mind emplacements are perfect indicators of the
living mind function for the first five adjutants. With regard to the sixth and seventh
adjutant spirits, i.e. worship and wisdom, their central lodgment records only their qualitative
function. Their quantitative activity is registered in the immediate
presence of the Divine Minister on Salvington, being the personal experience of the Local
Universe Mother Spirit. The seven adjutants are more like a subordinate circuits
or levels of consciousness of the Divine Minister, and they always accompany the Life
Carriers to a new planet. As the ministers of the lower levels of experiential minds
they are reflection of the order of the creatures evolutionary attainment, such as: 1.
The spirit of
INTUITION- primitive physical reflex instincts. 2.
The spirit of
UNDERSTANDING- spontaneous, coordinated association of ideas. 3.
The spirit of
COURAGE- intellectual root of moral stamina and spiritual bravery. 4.
The spirit of
KNOWLEDGE- useful and progressive path of growth of scientific spirit. 5.
The spirit of
COUNSEL- social urge for harmony and cooperation. 6.
The spirit of
WORSHIP- the religious impulse, separating the individualized soul of man, as the
spiritual-ascending candidate, from the animal group soul. 7.
The spirit of
WISDOM- inherent tendency of all moral beings toward harmonious and orderly
coordinated progressive evolutionary advancements. The 7th spirit adjutant is the highest and the
coordinator of the work of all other six adjutants. It maintains the creature survival effectiveness and
ascending progression of all evolutions. The adjutant mind-spirits are impersonal and they grow
experientially. The first five are involved in the function of the animal
evolutionary orders and are essential to the function of all seven in the human intellect. This animal relationship makes the adjutants more
practically effective as human mind; hence animals are to a certain extent indispensable to
man’s intellectual as well as to his physical evolution. These mind-adjutants of a local universe Mother Spirit (of
the Holy Spirit) are related to living evolutionary creature mind-intelligence status as are the
power centers and the physical controllers related to the universe reactive pre-mind
space energy-matter forces. Adjutants perform invaluable service in the mind circuits
on the inhabited worlds and work in collaboration with the Master Physical Controllers, which
also serve as the controllers and the directors of the pre-adjutant mind levels, the levels of
the non-teachable or mechanical minds. Living PRE-MIND, prior to the appearance of its capacity
to learn from the interaction with its environment, is the domain controlled through the
Master Physical Controllers ministry. Creature MIND, before acquiring the ability to recognize
divinity and worship Deity, is the exclusive domain of the adjutant spirits #1 to #5. With the appearance of the spiritual response of the
creatures intellect to the mind-adjutants #6 and #7, such created minds at once become SUPER-MINDed,
being instantly encircuited in the whole spirit cycles of the local universe Mother
Spirit, also known as the “Holy Spirit”. The adjutant mind- spirits are not, therefore, directly
related to the highly spiritual function of the personal presence of the Divine Minister “Holy
Spirit” of the inhabited worlds, but they are functionally antecedent to, and preparatory for,
the appearance of the Holy Spirit in the evolutionary man. The adjutants, therefore, afford
the local Universe Mother Spirit a varied contact with, and control over, the material living
creatures of the local universe. Mortal NON-SPIRITUAL MIND represents for these reasons
non-surviving either a living mortal spirit-energy manifestation of an “animated body”
without immortal candidacy or a non-living pre-mind physical- energy manifestation. Human personal mind, not qualified in its mind for
translation to morontial soul, apart from its identification in indwelling Father’s spirit,
therefore, has no immortal survival
qualities. Such evolutionary soul remains mortal until it “earns” its
status of immortality through spiritual perfection of its evolutionary mind. This spiritual perfecting
of mortal soul’s mind is achieved through the process of REINCARNATIONS of its mortal EGO. Therefore, mind is a divinity bestowal, but it is not
immortal when it functions without spiritual insight and devoid of the spiritual ability to worship God
and to crave eternal survival. “THE BREATH OF LIFE”- THE SPIRIT FORCE OF LIFE Life is both mechanistic and vitalistic, i.e. material and
spiritual. Ever will the Urantia scientists progress in their
understanding of the basic forms of life but never will they be able to produce living organism,
because life is different from all energy manifestations and is not inherent in matter. Material things may enjoy an independent existence, but
life springs only from life. Spirit takes origin only from its spirit ancestors,
therefore, mind can be derived only from the pre-existent mind. Humans or other creatures may produce only the “forms of
life”, but only a creator personality or a creative force can supply the activating living
spark. Life Carriers can organize the material forms, or physical
patterns of living beings, but only the Spirit of Universe Mother can provide the initial
spark of life and bestowal of the mind endowment in the living creature. Even the living forms of experimental life which the Life
Carriers initially organize on their Salvington worlds are always devoid of reproductive
powers. When the life formulas and the vital patterns are correctly assembled and properly
organized, the presence of a Life Carrier is sufficient to initiate life, but all such living
organisms are lacking in two essential attributes - mind endowment and reproductive powers. Animal mind and human mind are gifts of the local universe
Mother Spirit, functioning through the seven
adjutant mind-spirits, while creature ability to reproduce is the specific and personal impartation of the Universe Mother Spirit to
the ancestral life plasma inaugurated by the Life Carriers. When the Life Carriers have organized the energy systems
and designed the patterns of life, then the lifeless forms are vivified through the
impartation of the “BREATH OF LIFE”, the life impulse sent from the local universe Mother’s
Spirit life force. When the bestowed life cycle of the constructed material
form is exhausted, then the “life flame” is withdrawn and the material body becomes
again lifeless or “dead” matter. Therefore, a physical body, as the “visible” form of the
associated energy-matter of that creature, only serves as a transient vehicle for that
particular creature life endowment. The life bestowed upon plants and animals by the Life
Carriers does not return to them upon the death of PLANT or ANIMAL.The departing life of such a
living thing does not yet possess either the identity or the personality, being only part of
the GROUP SOUL, and as such does not individually survives death. During its group
existence and the time of its sojourn in the physical form or “body” it has undergone a change in the
energy evolution of its group soul and it survives only as a part of these cosmic group
forces until its mind evolves sufficiently to qualify for its individualization from a higher animal
into a human form. HUMAN mortal creature represents the individualized cosmic
life force, or INDIVIDUALIZED SOUL, which needs to “earn” its status as the immortality
candidate.This is wholly predicated upon the sufficient evolution of its mortal mind to begin
sufficiently to interact with its indwelling (The reader should not confuse the phenomena of “after
death” mortal soul TRANSITION from the planetary physical “visible“ realm into higher or
ASCENDING, humanly “invisible” (clairvoyantly visible), evolutionary mortal realms of the
3rd space blanket or “ether”, with the phenomena of TRANSLATION of the finally ascended mortal
soul from the MORTAL EVOLUTIONARY 3rd space energy realm (#1
sub-ether of # 3 ether), into the
“next above” IMMORTAL CREATED worlds of the morontial 2nd
space energy realms, or # 2 space “ether”). CONCLUSION We often speak of LIFE as “energy” and as “force” but in
reality it is neither. Space force-energy is mass gravity responsive, however,
life and its patterns are not. Life patterns are configurations of energies that have
already fulfilled all of its mass gravity response obligations of life, i.e. “ they have been there
and done that before”. Life, as such, constitutes the animation of some
pattern-configured or otherwise segregated system of energy, in either material, mindal or spiritual
realms. Life flows from Father through Son and to Spirit and from
the Infinite Spirit to the local universe Mother Spirit where it vitalizes the lifeless physical form
patterns and imparts through this physical form plasma the prerogatives necessary for the
organism reproduction. The evolution and differentiation of new souls of the
planted planetary life will be discussed in the upcoming papers. References: 1. The Urantia book, The Urantia Foundation
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