Symmetry of Soul Tuesdays

Mankind on Urantia must solve its problems of mortal development with the human stocks it has—no more races will evolve from prehuman sources throughout all future time. But this fact does not preclude the possibility of the attainment of vastly higher levels of human development through the intelligent fostering of the evolutionary potentials still resident in the mortal races. The reading encomp...

The frog is one of the earliest of surviving human-race ancestors, and also one of the stationary types of early and lower animals, branches of the tree of life which failed to progress, persisting today much as in those remote times. The frog is the only species ancestor of the early dawn races now living on the face of the earth. The human race has no surviving ancestry between the frog and the...

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 implanted evolutionary material life. The...

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, European culture experienced a newfound opportunity for blending in the cosmopolitan population of North America; and the future of this continent will be determined by the quality of the racial factors which subsequently have been, and in the future will be, permitted to enter into its populations, as well as by the level of the social culture which is ma...

The Andites who finally settled in Greece consisted of three hundred and seventy-five of the selected and superior people comprising the end of the second civilization of the Adamsonites. These later sons of Adamson carried the then most valuable strains of the emerging white races. They were of a high intellectual order and, physically regarded, the most beautiful of men since the days of the fir...

The Cro-Magnoid blue man constituted the biologic foundation for the modern European races, but they have survived only as absorbed by the later and virile conquerors of their homelands. The blue strain contributed many sturdy traits and much physical vigor to the white races of Europe, but the humor and imagination of the blended European peoples were derived from the Andites. The reading encompa...

The European civilization of the early post-Adamic period was a unique blend of the vigor and art of the racially diverse blue men with the creative imagination of the Adamites. The blue men were perfectly honest in all their dealings and were wholly free from the sexual vices of the mixed Adamites. They respected maidenhood, only practicing polygamy when war produced a shortage of males. The read...

Although the European blue man did not of himself achieve a great cultural civilization, he did supply the biologic foundation which, when its Adamized strains were blended with the later Andite invaders, produced one of the most potent stocks for the attainment of aggressive civilization ever to appear on Urantia since the times of the violet race and their Andite successors. The reading encompas...

Subsequent to 4000 B.C., the belief in, and worship of, the “One Truth” as taught by Singlangton never entirely died out; but as time passed, the search for new and higher truth became overshadowed by a growing tendency to venerate that which was already established. Slowly the genius of the yellow race became diverted from the pursuit of the unknown to the preservation of the known. The reading e...

The internal peaceableness of the yellow race so contributed to population increase as to insure the spread of their civilization among many millions. From 25,000 to 5000 B.C. the highest mass civilization on Urantia was in central and northern China. The yellow man was first to achieve a racial solidarity—the first to attain a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization. The reading...

The spiritual awakening of the sixth century before Christ did not persist in India, having died out even before the Mohammedan invasion. Culture does rest on a biologic foundation, but caste alone could not perpetuate the Aryan culture, for religion, true religion, is the indispensable source of that higher energy which drives men to establish a superior civilization based on human brotherhood. T...

The superior culture and religious leanings of the peoples of India date from the early times of Dravidian domination and are due, in part, to the fact that so many of the Sethite priesthood entered India, both in the earlier Andite and in the later Aryan invasions. The thread of monotheism running through the religious history of India thus stems from the teachings of the Adamites in the second g...

From the highlands of Turkestan, the Andites infiltrated eastward.  Sinkiang and, to a lesser extent, Tibet were the ancient gateways through which these peoples of Mesopotamia penetrated the mountains to the northern lands of the yellow men.  The Andite infiltration of India proceeded from the Turkestan highlands into the Punjab and from the Iranian grazing lands through Baluchistan. The reading...

When the last Andite dispersion broke the biologic backbone of Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority of this superior race remained in their homeland near the mouths of the rivers. These were the Sumerians, and by 6000 B.C. they had become largely Andite in extraction, though their culture was more exclusively Nodite in character, and they clung to the ancient traditions of Dalamatia. The re...

The last three waves of Andites poured out of Mesopotamia between 8000 and 6000 B.C., after which the cultural age of the second garden was terminated by the increasing infiltration of the surrounding inferior stocks. Civilization moved westward to the Nile and the Mediterranean islands, where it continued to thrive and advance long after its fountainhead in Mesopotamia had deteriorated. The readi...

The Andite races were the primary blends of the pure-line violet race and the Nodites plus the evolutionary peoples. In general, Andites should be thought of as having a far greater percentage of Adamic blood than the modern races, even the northern white races. In the main, the term Andite is used to designate those peoples whose racial inheritance was from one-eighth to one-sixth violet. The rea...

For thousands of years the sons of Adam labored along the rivers of Mesopotamia. These splendid souls never wholly lost sight of the purpose of the Adamic mission, and therefore did they valiantly fight off the influences of the surrounding and inferior tribes while they willingly sent forth their choicest sons and daughters in a steady stream as emissaries to the races of earth. The reading encom...

The mingling of some of the migrating Sangik tribes with the Neanderthal peoples led to the immediate improvement of the older race. It was this infusion of Sangik blood, more especially that of the blue man, which produced that marked improvement in the Neanderthal peoples exhibited by the successive waves of increasingly intelligent tribes that swept over Europe from the east. The reading encomp...

The mingling of some of the migrating Sangik tribes with the Neanderthal peoples led to the immediate improvement of the older race. It was this infusion of Sangik blood, more especially that of the blue man, which produced that marked improvement in the Neanderthal peoples exhibited by the successive waves of increasingly intelligent tribes that swept over Europe from the east. The reading encomp...

There are many good and sufficient reasons for the plan of evolving either three or six colored races on the worlds of space. Urantia mortals may not be in a position fully to appreciate all of these reasons; however, for example, consider that homogeneity of the human race is not desirable until the peoples of an evolving world attain comparatively high levels of spiritual development. The readin...

Five hundred thousand years ago, among the Badonan tribes of the northwestern highlands of India, there was a new and strange occurrence. A man and woman living in the northeastern part of the then inhabited highland region began ''suddenly'' to produce a family of unusually intelligent children. This was the ''Sangik family'', the ancestors of all of the six colored races of Urantia. The reading...

Besides the Foxhall peoples in the west, another struggling center of culture persisted in the east. This group was located in the foothills of the northwestern Indian highlands among the tribes of Badonan, a great-great-grandson of Andon. Their campaign for the extermination of inferiors brought about an improved stock, appearing on the stage of action as an apparently new people—the ''Neandertha...

The human race is almost one million years old, and the first half of its story roughly corresponds to the pre-Planetary Prince days of Urantia. The latter half of the history of mankind begins at the time of the arrival of the Planetary Prince and the appearance of the six colored races and roughly corresponds to the period commonly regarded as the Old Stone Age, that is, the Paleolithic. The rea...

As the Andonic dispersion extended, the cultural and spiritual status of the clans retrogressed for nearly ten thousand years until the days of Onagar, who assumed the leadership of these tribes, brought peace among them, and for the first time, led all of them in the worship of the “Breath Giver to men and animals.” Onagar was born in 981,390 B.C., and he lived to be sixty-nine years of age. The...

Primitive man—the Andonites—had black eyes and a swarthy complexion, something of a cross between yellow and red. Melanin is a coloring substance which is found in the skins of all human beings. It is the original Andonic skin pigment. The Andonites were the first creatures to use the skins of animals as a protection against cold; they had little more hair on their bodies than present-day humans....