유란시아 책
II 부. 지방우주
50:0.1 (572.1)
WHILE belonging to the order of Lanonandek Sons, the Planetary Princes are so specialized in service that they are commonly regarded as a distinct group. After their Melchizedek certification as secondary Lanonandeks, these local universe Sons are assigned to the reserves of their order on the constellation headquarters. From here they are assigned to various duties by the System Sovereign and eventually commissioned as Planetary Princes and sent forth to rule the evolving inhabited worlds.
50:0.2 (572.2)
The signal for a System Sovereign to act in the matter of assigning a ruler to a given planet is the reception of a request from the Life Carriers for the dispatch of an administrative head to function on this planet whereon they have established life and developed intelligent evolutionary beings. All planets which are inhabited by evolutionary mortal creatures have assigned to them a planetary ruler of this order of sonship.
행성 왕자와 그 보좌관 형제들은, 낙원의 영원 아들이 인격화되어 시공간 하위 피조물에게 (육신화를 제외하고) 가장 가까이 접근할 수 있는 방식이다. 사실, 창조주 아들은 자신의 영{靈}을 통해서 그 영역의 피조물과 접촉하지만, 행성 왕자는 낙원으로부터 사람의 자녀들에게 베푸는, 인격있는 아들 계층들 중에서 마지막 계층이다. 무한 영은 운명 수호자 및 다른 천사 존재들의 인격자 안에서 아주 가까이 접근하며;우주 아버지는 신비 관찰자들의 인격이전{人格以前} 현존으로서 사람 안에 거하지만;행성 왕자는, 영원 아들과 그 아들들이 너희에게 다가가려는 마지막 수고를 대표한다. 행성 왕자는 새롭게 인간이 거주하게 된 세계에서, 완성된 신성{神性}을 유일하게 표현하는 자인데, (우주 아버지와 영원 아들의 자손인) 창조주 아들과 (무한 영의 우주 딸인) 신성한 사역자로부터 태어난다.
50:1.1 (572.3)
The Planetary Prince and his assistant brethren represent the nearest personalized approach (aside from incarnation) that the Eternal Son of Paradise can make to the lowly creatures of time and space. True, the Creator Son touches the creatures of the realms through his spirit, but the Planetary Prince is the last of the orders of personal Sons extending out from Paradise to the children of men. The Infinite Spirit comes very near in the persons of the guardians of destiny and other angelic beings; the Universal Father lives in man by the prepersonal presence of the Mystery Monitors; but the Planetary Prince represents the last effort of the Eternal Son and his Sons to draw near you. On a newly inhabited world the Planetary Prince is the sole representative of complete divinity, springing from the Creator Son (the offspring of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son) and the Divine Minister (the universe Daughter of the Infinite Spirit).
50:1.2 (572.4)
The prince of a newly inhabited world is surrounded by a loyal corps of helpers and assistants and by large numbers of the ministering spirits. But the directing corps of such new worlds must be of the lower orders of the administrators of a system in order to be innately sympathetic with, and understanding of, the planetary problems and difficulties. And all of this effort to provide sympathetic rulership for the evolutionary worlds entails the increased liability that these near-human personalities may be led astray by the exaltation of their own minds over and above the will of the Supreme Rulers.
이 아들들은, 개별 행성에 신성을 표현하는 자로서 아주 외롭게 있으므로 엄중한 시험을 받으며, 네바돈은 몇 차례 반역이 발발하는 불운을 겪어왔다. 체계 주권자와 행성 왕자들을 창조할 때, 우주 아버지와 영원 아들로부터 더욱 멀어지는 개념 인격화가 발생하며, 그리하여 한 개인이 자신을-중요시여김에 대한 균형 감각을 잃을 위험성이 점점 증대되고, 수많은 계층의 신성한 존재들의 가치기준과 관계, 그리고 단계적으로 얻는 그들의 권한을 제대로 파악하지 못할 가능성이 더욱 커진다. 아버지가 지방우주에 몸소 현존하지 않는다는 사실은 또한, 이 아들들 모두에게 신앙과 충성심에 대한 어떤 시험이 된다.
50:1.3 (572.5)
Being quite alone as representatives of divinity on the individual planets, these Sons are tested severely, and Nebadon has suffered the misfortune of several rebellions. In the creation of the System Sovereigns and the Planetary Princes there occurs the personalization of a concept that has been getting farther and farther away from the Universal Father and the Eternal Son, and there is an increasing danger of losing the sense of proportion as to one’s self-importance and a greater likelihood of failure to keep a proper grasp of the values and relationships of the numerous orders of divine beings and their gradations of authority. That the Father is not personally present in the local universe also imposes a certain test of faith and loyalty on all these Sons.
50:1.4 (573.1)
But not often do these world princes fail in their missions of organizing and administering the inhabited spheres, and their success greatly facilitates the subsequent missions of the Material Sons, who come to engraft the higher forms of creature life on the primitive men of the worlds. Their rule also does much to prepare the planets for the Paradise Sons of God, who subsequently come to judge the worlds and to inaugurate successive dispensations.
50:2.2 (573.3)
The Planetary Princes may at any time seek the counsel of the Melchizedeks, their former instructors and sponsors, but they are not arbitrarily required to ask for such assistance, and if such aid is not voluntarily requested, the Melchizedeks do not interfere with the planetary administration. These world rulers may also avail themselves of the advice of the four and twenty counselors, assembled from the bestowal worlds of the system. In Satania these counselors are at present all natives of Urantia. And there is an analogous council of seventy at the constellation headquarters also selected from the evolutionary beings of the realms.
50:2.3 (573.4)
The rule of the evolutionary planets in their early and unsettled careers is largely autocratic. The Planetary Princes organize their specialized groups of assistants from among their corps of planetary aids. They usually surround themselves with a supreme council of twelve, but this is variously chosen and diversely constituted on the different worlds. A Planetary Prince may also have as assistants one or more of the third order of his own group of sonship and sometimes, on certain worlds, one of his own order, a secondary Lanonandek associate.
50:2.4 (573.5)
The entire staff of a world ruler consists of personalities of the Infinite Spirit and certain types of higher evolved beings and ascending mortals from other worlds. Such a staff averages about one thousand, and as the planet progresses, this corps of helpers may be increased up to one hundred thousand or more. At any time need is felt for more helpers, the Planetary Princes have only to make request of their brothers, the System Sovereigns, and the petition is granted forthwith.
50:2.5 (573.6)
Planets vary greatly in nature and organization and in administration, but all provide for tribunals of justice. The judicial system of the local universe has its beginnings in the tribunals of a Planetary Prince, which are presided over by a member of his personal staff; the decrees of such courts reflect a highly fatherly and discretionary attitude. All problems involving more than the regulation of the planetary inhabitants are subject to appeal to the higher tribunals, but the affairs of his world domain are largely adjusted in accordance with the personal discretion of the prince.
50:2.6 (574.1)
The roving commissions of conciliators serve and supplement the planetary tribunals, and both spirit and physical controllers are subject to the findings of these conciliators. But no arbitrary execution is ever carried out without the consent of the Constellation Father, for the “Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.”
50:2.7 (574.2)
The controllers and transformers of planetary assignment are also able to collaborate with angels and other orders of celestial beings in rendering these latter personalities visible to mortal creatures. On special occasions the seraphic helpers and even the Melchizedeks can and do make themselves visible to the inhabitants of the evolutionary worlds. The principal reason for bringing mortal ascenders from the system capital as a part of the staff of the Planetary Prince is to facilitate communication with the inhabitants of the realm.
50:3.1 (574.3)
On going to a young world, a Planetary Prince usually takes with him a group of volunteer ascending beings from the local system headquarters. These ascenders accompany the prince as advisers and helpers in the work of early race improvement. This corps of material helpers constitutes the connecting link between the prince and the world races. The Urantia Prince, Caligastia, had a corps of one hundred such helpers.
50:3.2 (574.4)
Such volunteer assistants are citizens of a system capital, and none of them have fused with their indwelling Adjusters. The status of the Adjusters of such volunteer servers remains as of the residential standing on the system headquarters while these morontia progressors temporarily revert to a former material state.
50:3.3 (574.5)
The Life Carriers, the architects of form, provide such volunteers with new physical bodies, which they occupy for the periods of their planetary sojourn. These personality forms, while exempt from the ordinary diseases of the realms, are, like the early morontia bodies, subject to certain accidents of a mechanical nature.
50:3.4 (574.6)
The prince’s corporeal staff are usually removed from the planet in connection with the next adjudication at the time of the second Son’s arrival on the sphere. Before leaving, they customarily assign their various duties to their mutual offspring and to certain superior native volunteers. On those worlds where these helpers of the prince have been permitted to mate with the superior groups of the native races, such offspring usually succeed them.
행성 왕자의 이 보좌관들은, 그 세계의 인종들과 짝짓는 일이 거의 없지만, 반드시 자기들끼리 짝짓는다. 이 결합에서 두 부류의 존재가 생겨나는데:1차 유형의 중도 피조물과, 어떤 고귀한 유형의 물질 존재가 그들이며, 후자는 아담과 이브가 도착하면서 그들의 부모가 그 행성으로부터 옮겨진 후에, 왕자의 참모진에 계속 배속된다. 이 자녀들은 특정한 응급 상황 이외에는 필사자 종족들과 짝짓지 않으며, 그럴 때에도 오직 행성 왕자의 지시에 따라서만 이뤄진다. 그런 경우에 그들의 자녀는--곧 육체전환 참모진의 손주들은-- 그들의 시대와 세대{世代}에서 우수한 인종과 동일한 신분을 갖는다. 행성 왕자의 반{半}물질적인 이 조력자들의 모든 자손에게는 섭리사가 내주한다.
50:3.5 (574.7)
These assistants to the Planetary Prince seldom mate with the world races, but they do always mate among themselves. Two classes of beings result from these unions: the primary type of midway creatures and certain high types of material beings who remain attached to the prince’s staff after their parents have been removed from the planet at the time of the arrival of Adam and Eve. These children do not mate with the mortal races except in certain emergencies and then only by direction of the Planetary Prince. In such an event, their children—the grandchildren of the corporeal staff—are in status as of the superior races of their day and generation. All the offspring of these semimaterial assistants of the Planetary Prince are Adjuster indwelt.
왕자의 섭리시대가 끝날 때, 이 “되돌아온 참모진”이 낙원 생애를 재개하기 위해 체계 본부로 복귀할 때가 되면, 이 상승자들은 물질 육신을 돌려줄 목적으로 생명 운반자들에게 온다. 이들은 전환 수면 상태에 들어가고, 자신의 필사의 옷을 벗고 모론시아 형체를 입은 채로 깨어나서, 체계 본부로 돌아가는 스랍 운송을 위해 준비를 갖추며, 분리돼있던 그 섭리사들이 거기서 이들을 기다리고 있다. 이들은 자신이 속한 예루셈 계층보다 온전히 한 섭리시대를 뒤처졌지만 독특하고 이례적인 체험을 했으며, 이것은 상승하는 필사자 생애에서 희귀한 일련의 사건이다.
50:3.6 (575.1)
At the end of the prince’s dispensation, when the time comes for this “reversion staff” to be returned to the system headquarters for the resumption of the Paradise career, these ascenders present themselves to the Life Carriers for the purpose of yielding up their material bodies. They enter the transition slumber and awaken delivered from their mortal investment and clothed with morontia forms, ready for seraphic transportation back to the system capital, where their detached Adjusters await them. They are a whole dispensation behind their Jerusem class, but they have gained a unique and extraordinary experience, a rare chapter in the career of an ascending mortal.
50:4.1 (575.2)
The prince’s corporeal staff early organize the planetary schools of training and culture, wherein the cream of the evolutionary races are instructed and then sent forth to teach these better ways to their people. These schools of the prince are located at the material headquarters of the planet.
50:4.2 (575.3)
Much of the physical work connected with the establishment of this headquarters city is performed by the corporeal staff. Such headquarters cities, or settlements, of the early times of the Planetary Prince are very different from what a Urantia mortal might imagine. They are, in comparison with later ages, simple, being characterized by mineral embellishment and by relatively advanced material construction. And all of this stands in contrast with the Adamic regime centering around a garden headquarters, from which their work in behalf of the races is prosecuted during the second dispensation of the universe Sons.
50:4.3 (575.4)
In the headquarters settlement on your world every human habitation was provided with abundance of land. Although the remote tribes continued in hunting and food foraging, the students and teachers in the Prince’s schools were all agriculturists and horticulturists. The time was about equally divided between the following pursuits:
50:4.9 (575.10)
A Planetary Prince is not visible to mortal beings; it is a test of faith to believe the representations of the semimaterial beings of his staff. But these schools of culture and training are well adapted to the needs of each planet, and there soon develops a keen and laudatory rivalry among the races of men in their efforts to gain entrance to these various institutions of learning.
50:4.10 (575.11)
From such a world center of culture and achievement there gradually radiates to all peoples an uplifting and civilizing influence which slowly and certainly transforms the evolutionary races. Meantime the educated and spiritualized children of the surrounding peoples who have been adopted and trained in the prince’s schools are returning to their native groups and, to the best of their ability, are there establishing new and potent centers of learning and culture which they carry on according to the plan of the prince’s schools.
50:4.12 (576.2)
It was one of the most profoundly shocking episodes of this rebellion for me to learn of the callous perfidy of one of my own order of sonship, Caligastia, who, in deliberation and with malice aforethought, systematically perverted the instruction and poisoned the teaching provided in all the Urantia planetary schools in operation at that time. The wreck of these schools was speedy and complete.
왕자의 물질화된 참모진과 관련된 상승자들의 자손 중에서 상당수는 캘리개스챠의 반열에서 탈퇴하여 계속 충성했다. 충성스런 이 존재들은 유란시아의 멜기세덱 관재인들의 격려를 받았고, 저희 후손은 후일에 진리와 정의에 대한 행성 개념들을 유지하는 데 큰 역할을 했다. 충성스런 이 복음전도자들의 활동은, 유란시아에서 영적 진리 전체가 소멸되는 것을 막는 데 도움이 됐다. 이 용감한 혼들과 그 후손은, 아버지의 통치에 대한 지식이 살아남도록 지켰고, 여러 계층의 신성한 아들들이 행성에서 다스린다는 연속적인 섭리시대 개념을 세계 인종들을 위해 보존했다.
50:4.13 (576.3)
Many of the offspring of the ascenders of the Prince’s materialized staff remained loyal, deserting the ranks of Caligastia. These loyalists were encouraged by the Melchizedek receivers of Urantia, and in later times their descendants did much to uphold the planetary concepts of truth and righteousness. The work of these loyal evangels helped to prevent the total obliteration of spiritual truth on Urantia. These courageous souls and their descendants kept alive some knowledge of the Father’s rule and preserved for the world races the concept of the successive planetary dispensations of the various orders of divine Sons.
50:5.1 (576.4)
The loyal princes of the inhabited worlds are permanently attached to the planets of their original assignment. Paradise Sons and their dispensations may come and go, but a successful Planetary Prince continues on as the ruler of his realm. His work is quite independent of the missions of the higher Sons, being designed to foster the development of planetary civilization.
50:5.2 (576.5)
The progress of civilization is hardly alike on any two planets. The details of the unfoldment of mortal evolution are very different on numerous dissimilar worlds. Notwithstanding these many diversifications of planetary development along physical, intellectual, and social lines, all evolutionary spheres progress in certain well-defined directions.
50:5.4 (576.7)
1. The nutrition epoch. The prehuman creatures and the dawn races of primitive man are chiefly concerned with food problems. These evolving beings spend their waking hours either in seeking food or in fighting, offensively or defensively. The food quest is paramount in the minds of these early ancestors of subsequent civilization.
50:5.5 (576.8)
2. The security age. Just as soon as the primitive hunter can spare any time from the search for food, he turns this leisure to augmenting his security. More and more attention is devoted to the technique of war. Homes are fortified, and the clans are solidified by mutual fear and by the inculcation of hate for foreign groups. Self-preservation is a pursuit which always follows self-maintenance.
50:5.6 (577.1)
3. The material-comfort era. After food problems have been partially solved and some degree of security has been attained, the additional leisure is utilized to promote personal comfort. Luxury vies with necessity in occupying the center of the stage of human activities. Such an age is all too often characterized by tyranny, intolerance, gluttony, and drunkenness. The weaker elements of the races incline towards excesses and brutality. Gradually these pleasure-seeking weaklings are subjugated by the more strong and truth-loving elements of the advancing civilization.
50:5.7 (577.2)
4. The quest for knowledge and wisdom. Food, security, pleasure, and leisure provide the foundation for the development of culture and the spread of knowledge. The effort to execute knowledge results in wisdom, and when a culture has learned how to profit and improve by experience, civilization has really arrived. Food, security, and material comfort still dominate society, but many forward-looking individuals are hungering for knowledge and thirsting for wisdom. Every child is provided an opportunity to learn by doing; education is the watchword of these ages.
50:5.8 (577.3)
5. The epoch of philosophy and brotherhood. When mortals learn to think and begin to profit by experience, they become philosophical—they start out to reason within themselves and to exercise discriminative judgment. The society of this age becomes ethical, and the mortals of such an era are truly becoming moral beings. Wise moral beings are capable of establishing human brotherhood on such a progressing world. Ethical and moral beings can learn how to live in accordance with the golden rule.
50:5.9 (577.4)
6. The age of spiritual striving. When evolving mortals have passed through the physical, intellectual, and social stages of development, sooner or later they attain those levels of personal insight which impel them to seek for spiritual satisfactions and cosmic understandings. Religion is completing the ascent from the emotional domains of fear and superstition to the high levels of cosmic wisdom and personal spiritual experience. Education aspires to the attainment of meanings, and culture grasps at cosmic relationships and true values. Such evolving mortals are genuinely cultured, truly educated, and exquisitely God-knowing.
50:5.10 (577.5)
7. The era of light and life. This is the flowering of the successive ages of physical security, intellectual expansion, social culture, and spiritual achievement. These human accomplishments are now blended, associated, and co-ordinated in cosmic unity and unselfish service. Within the limitations of finite nature and material endowments there are no bounds set upon the possibilities of evolutionary attainment by the advancing generations who successively live upon these supernal and settled worlds of time and space.
50:6.1 (578.1)
The isolation of Urantia renders it impossible to undertake the presentation of many details of the life and environment of your Satania neighbors. In these presentations we are limited by the planetary quarantine and by the system isolation. We must be guided by these restrictions in all our efforts to enlighten Urantia mortals, but in so far as is permissible, you have been instructed in the progress of an average evolutionary world, and you are able to compare such a world’s career with the present state of Urantia.
50:6.2 (578.2)
The development of civilization on Urantia has not differed so greatly from that of other worlds which have sustained the misfortune of spiritual isolation. But when compared with the loyal worlds of the universe, your planet seems most confused and greatly retarded in all phases of intellectual progress and spiritual attainment.
50:6.3 (578.3)
Because of your planetary misfortunes, Urantians are prevented from understanding very much about the culture of normal worlds. But you should not envisage the evolutionary worlds, even the most ideal, as spheres whereon life is a flowery bed of ease. The initial life of the mortal races is always attended by struggle. Effort and decision are an essential part of the acquirement of survival values.
50:6.4 (578.4)
Culture presupposes quality of mind; culture cannot be enhanced unless mind is elevated. Superior intellect will seek a noble culture and find some way to attain such a goal. Inferior minds will spurn the highest culture even when presented to them ready-made. Much depends, also, upon the successive missions of the divine Sons and upon the extent to which enlightenment is received by the ages of their respective dispensations.
50:6.5 (578.5)
You should not forget that for two hundred thousand years all the worlds of Satania have rested under the spiritual ban of Norlatiadek in consequence of the Lucifer rebellion. And it will require age upon age to retrieve the resultant handicaps of sin and secession. Your world still continues to pursue an irregular and checkered career as a result of the double tragedy of a rebellious Planetary Prince and a defaulting Material Son. Even the bestowal of Christ Michael on Urantia did not immediately set aside the temporal consequences of these serious blunders in the earlier administration of the world.
언뜻 생각하기에는, 행성 왕자와 물질 아들 및 딸 같은 그런 초인적 인격체들의 유익한 현존과 영향력을 빼앗겼다는 점에서, 유란시아 및 관련된 격리된 세계들이 가장 불행한 것처럼 보인다. 그러나 이러한 구체들의 격리는, 그 인종들에게 신앙을 실천하도록, 그리고 눈으로 보거나 어떤 다른 물질적 이유에 의존하지 않는 시공우주 신빙성에 대하여 특이한 성질의 확신을 개발하도록, 독특한 기회를 제공한다. 결국, 반역의 결과로 고립된 세계들에서 태어난 필사 피조물이 지극히 운 좋다는 것이 입증될 수도 있다. 우리는, 시공우주 이행업무에 배정되는 수많은 특별 임무가, 그런 상승자들에게 아주 일찍부터 맡겨진다는 것을 발견해왔는데, 그 이행업무의 성취에는 명백한 신념과 탁월한 확신이 필수다.
50:7.1 (578.6)
On first thought it might appear that Urantia and its associated isolated worlds are most unfortunate in being deprived of the beneficent presence and influence of such superhuman personalities as a Planetary Prince and a Material Son and Daughter. But isolation of these spheres affords their races a unique opportunity for the exercise of faith and for the development of a peculiar quality of confidence in cosmic reliability which is not dependent on sight or any other material consideration. It may turn out, eventually, that mortal creatures hailing from the worlds quarantined in consequence of rebellion are extremely fortunate. We have discovered that such ascenders are very early intrusted with numerous special assignments to cosmic undertakings where unquestioned faith and sublime confidence are essential to achievement.
이런 격리된 세계에서 온 상승자들은, 예루셈에서 자기들끼리 하나의 거주 지역을 차지하고, 아곤돈터로서 알려져있는데, 이것은 보지 않아도 믿을 수 있고, 격리됐을 때 견디고, 홀로 있을 때에도 극복하기 어려운 문제를 이겨내는, 의지를 지닌 진화하는 피조물을 의미한다. 아곤돈터라는 이 기능적 분류는, 지방우주에서 상승하고 연방우주를 통과하는 동안 내내 지속되며;하보나에 머무는 동안에는 사라지지만, 낙원에 도착할 때 즉시 다시 나타나고, 필사 완결성취 단체에서 분명하게 지속된다. 타바만시아는 완결성취자 신분을 갖는 아곤돈터인데, 시공간의 우주들에서 처음 일어난 반역에 말려든, 어느 고립된 구체에서 생존했다.
50:7.2 (579.1)
On Jerusem the ascenders from these isolated worlds occupy a residential sector by themselves and are known as the agondonters, meaning evolutionary will creatures who can believe without seeing, persevere when isolated, and triumph over insuperable difficulties even when alone. This functional grouping of the agondonters persists throughout the ascension of the local universe and the traversal of the superuniverse; it disappears during the sojourn in Havona but promptly reappears upon the attainment of Paradise and definitely persists in the Corps of the Mortal Finality. Tabamantia is an agondonter of finaliter status, having survived from one of the quarantined spheres involved in the first rebellion ever to take place in the universes of time and space.