유란시아 책
III 부. 유란시아의 역사
제77편
중도 피조물
중도 피조물
Paper 77
The Midway Creatures
The Midway Creatures
77:0.1 (855.1)
MOST of the inhabited worlds of Nebadon harbor one or more groups of unique beings existing on a life-functioning level about midway between those of the mortals of the realms and of the angelic orders; hence are they called midway creatures. They appear to be an accident of time, but they occur so widespreadly and are so valuable as helpers that we have all long since accepted them as one of the essential orders of our combined planetary ministry.
진화 행성에서 이뤄지는, 하나님의 아들들의 이어지는 증여는, 그 영역의 영적 질서에 현저한 변화를 초래하고, 때로는 한 행성에서 영적 매개체와 물질적 매개체의 상호 연합 작용을 변경시켜서, 정말로 이해하기 힘든 상황을 초래한다는 사실을 반드시 기억하는 것이 좋다. 캘리개스챠 통치자의 참모진 가운데 육체전환 요원 1백 인의 신분이 바로 그런 독특한 상호연합을 나타내는데:그들은 예루셈의 상승한 모론시아 시민으로서, 번식 특권이 없는 초물질 피조물이었다. 유란시아에서 그들은, 하강하는 행성 사역자로서, (그들 가운데 일부가 나중에 그렇게 했던 것처럼) 물질 자손을 낳을 수 있고, 남녀 구별이 있는 물질 피조물이었다. 우리는 이 1백 인이 초물질 수준에서 어떻게 부모 역할을 할 수 있었는지 만족스럽게 설명할 수 없지만, 그런 일이 그렇게 일어났다. 육체전환 참모진의 남성과 여성 요원이, (성교{性交}가 아니라) 초물질적으로 접촉함으로써, 1차 중도자 가운데 첫-태생이 출현하도록 만들었다.
77:1.2 (855.4)
It is well always to bear in mind that the successive bestowals of the Sons of God on an evolving planet produce marked changes in the spiritual economy of the realm and sometimes so modify the workings of the interassociation of spiritual and material agencies on a planet as to create situations indeed difficult of understanding. The status of the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia’s staff illustrates just such a unique interassociation: As ascendant morontia citizens of Jerusem they were supermaterial creatures without reproductive prerogatives. As descendant planetary ministers on Urantia they were material sex creatures capable of procreating material offspring (as some of them later did). What we cannot satisfactorily explain is how these one hundred could function in the parental role on a supermaterial level, but that is exactly what happened. A supermaterial (nonsexual) liaison of a male and a female member of the corporeal staff resulted in the appearance of the first-born of the primary midwayers.
77:1.3 (855.5)
It was immediately discovered that a creature of this order, midway between the mortal and angelic levels, would be of great service in carrying on the affairs of the Prince’s headquarters, and each couple of the corporeal staff was accordingly granted permission to produce a similar being. This effort resulted in the first group of fifty midway creatures.
77:1.5 (856.1)
A period of one-half year intervened between the production of each midwayer, and when one thousand such beings had been born to each couple, no more were ever forthcoming. And there is no explanation available as to why this power was exhausted upon the appearance of the one thousandth offspring. No amount of further experimentation ever resulted in anything but failure.
77:1.6 (856.2)
These creatures constituted the intelligence corps of the Prince’s administration. They ranged far and wide, studying and observing the world races and rendering other invaluable services to the Prince and his staff in the work of influencing human society remote from the planetary headquarters.
77:2.1 (856.4)
While this is the narrative of the origin, nature, and function of the midway creatures of Urantia, the kinship between the two orders—primary and secondary—makes it necessary to interrupt the story of the primary midwayers at this point in order to follow out the line of descent from the rebel members of the corporeal staff of Prince Caligastia from the days of the planetary rebellion to the times of Adam. It was this line of inheritance which, in the early days of the second garden, furnished one half of the ancestry for the secondary order of midway creatures.
통치자의 참모진 중에서 육신을 지닌 요원들은, 안돈 부족에서 선택된 혈통의 자질과 결합된, 특별 계층의 통합 자질을 지닌 자손을 낳는 계획에 참여할 목적으로, 남자와 여자로 구성되어있었고, 이는 모두 나중에 아담이 출현할 것을 예상해서였다. 생명 운반자들은, 통치자의 참모진의 공동 자손과, 아담과 이브의 첫 세대 자손의 결합을 포함하는, 새 유형의 필사자를 계획했었다. 그들은 이렇게 새 행성 계층 피조물을 예상하여 계획을 입안해 놨었고, 이 사람들이 인간 사회에서 선생이자-통치권자가 되기를 희망했다. 그런 존재들은, 일반시민을 다스리기 위해서가 아니라, 사회를 다스리기 위해서 고안되었다. 그러나 이런 계획사업이 거의 철저하게 실패했으므로, 유란시아가 얼마나 자비로운 지도력과 비길 데 없는 문화를 가진 어떤 귀족사회를 그렇게 잃어버리게 되었는지, 우리는 결코 알 수 없을 것이다. 왜냐하면, 육체전환 참모진이 나중에 번식되었을 때는 이미 반역이 일어난 후였고, 그들이 그 체계의 생명 흐름과 연결된 상태에서 이미 끊어진 뒤였기 때문이다.
77:2.2 (856.5)
The physical members of the Prince’s staff had been constituted sex creatures for the purpose of participating in the plan of procreating offspring embodying the combined qualities of their special order united with those of the selected stock of the Andon tribes, and all of this was in anticipation of the subsequent appearance of Adam. The Life Carriers had planned a new type of mortal embracing the union of the conjoint offspring of the Prince’s staff with the first-generation offspring of Adam and Eve. They had thus projected a plan envisioning a new order of planetary creatures whom they hoped would become the teacher-rulers of human society. Such beings were designed for social sovereignty, not civil sovereignty. But since this project almost completely miscarried, we shall never know what an aristocracy of benign leadership and matchless culture Urantia was thus deprived of. For when the corporeal staff later reproduced, it was subsequent to the rebellion and after they had been deprived of their connection with the life currents of the system.
반역 이후 시대에 색다른 일이 유란시아에 많이 일어났다. 위대한 문명--곧 달라마시아 문명--이 무너지고 있었다. “네피림(놋족속)이 그 시대에 땅에 있었고, 이 신들의 아들들이 사람의 딸들과 결합한 결과로 그들이 탄생했고, 이 자녀들은, ‘옛 용사들’, 즉 ‘유명한 사람들’이었다.” 그 참모진과 그들의 초기 자손은, 도저히 “신들의 아들들”이라 할 수 없음에도, 그런 아득한 시절에 진화하는 필사자들은 이들을 그렇게 여겼으며;전승에 따르면 그들의 키조차 과장되었다. 그 후, 이것이 거의 보편적인 민간설화의 기원이 되었는데, 신들이 땅으로 내려와서 인간의 딸들과 관계를 가졌고, 영웅적인 옛 인종을 탄생시켰다는 내용이었다. 그리고 이런 모든 전설은, 두 번째 동산에서 후대에 나타난 아담족속의 인종 혼합과 더욱 혼동되었다.
77:2.3 (856.6)
The postrebellion era on Urantia witnessed many unusual happenings. A great civilization—the culture of Dalamatia—was going to pieces. “The Nephilim (Nodites) were on earth in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their children were the ‘mighty men of old,’ the ‘men of renown.’” While hardly “sons of the gods,” the staff and their early descendants were so regarded by the evolutionary mortals of those distant days; even their stature came to be magnified by tradition. This, then, is the origin of the well-nigh universal folk tale of the gods who came down to earth and there with the daughters of men begot an ancient race of heroes. And all this legend became further confused with the race mixtures of the later appearing Adamites in the second garden.
77:2.4 (857.1)
Since the one hundred corporeal members of the Prince’s staff carried germ plasm of the Andonic human strains, it would naturally be expected that, if they engaged in sexual reproduction, their progeny would altogether resemble the offspring of other Andonite parents. But when the sixty rebels of the staff, the followers of Nod, actually engaged in sexual reproduction, their children proved to be far superior in almost every way to both the Andonite and the Sangik peoples. This unexpected excellence characterized not only physical and intellectual qualities but also spiritual capacities.
첫 세대 놋족속에서 나타난 돌연변이의 이 특징은, 안돈 세포 원형질의 유전 인자 배열과 화학적 구성요소에서 일어난 어떤 변화를 통해 생겨났다. 이런 변화는, 사타니아 체계의 강력한 생명-유지 회로가 참모진 요원의 육신 속에 현존함으로 인해 발생되었다. 이 생명 회로는, 특화된 유란시아 원형{原型}의 염색체로 하여금, 규정된 네바돈 생명체 형태화 중에서, 표준화된 사타니아 특화 원형과 비슷하게 다시 조직하도록 만들었다. 체계 생명 흐름의 작용으로 생식세포 원형질을 변질시키는 이런 기법은, 유란시아 과학자들이 X 광선을 이용하여 식물과 동물의 세포 원형질을 변경시키는 과정과 다르지 않다.
77:2.5 (857.2)
These mutant traits appearing in the first Nodite generation resulted from certain changes which had been wrought in the configuration and in the chemical constituents of the inheritance factors of the Andonic germ plasm. These changes were caused by the presence in the bodies of the staff members of the powerful life-maintenance circuits of the Satania system. These life circuits caused the chromosomes of the specialized Urantia pattern to reorganize more after the patterns of the standardized Satania specialization of the ordained Nebadon life manifestation. The technique of this germ plasm metamorphosis by the action of the system life currents is not unlike those procedures whereby Urantia scientists modify the germ plasm of plants and animals by the use of X rays.
77:2.7 (857.4)
It will be recalled that the one hundred Andonite germ plasm contributors were in turn made possessors of the organic complement of the tree of life so that the Satania life currents likewise invested their bodies. The forty-four modified Andonites who followed the staff into rebellion also mated among themselves and made a great contribution to the better strains of the Nodite people.
77:2.8 (857.5)
These two groups, embracing 104 individuals who carried the modified Andonite germ plasm, constitute the ancestry of the Nodites, the eighth race to appear on Urantia. And this new feature of human life on Urantia represents another phase of the outworking of the original plan of utilizing this planet as a life-modification world, except that this was one of the unforeseen developments.
77:2.9 (857.6)
The pure-line Nodites were a magnificent race, but they gradually mingled with the evolutionary peoples of earth, and before long great deterioration had occurred. Ten thousand years after the rebellion they had lost ground to the point where their average length of life was little more than that of the evolutionary races.
77:2.10 (857.7)
When archaeologists dig up the clay-tablet records of the later-day Sumerian descendants of the Nodites, they discover lists of Sumerian kings running back for several thousand years; and as these records go further back, the reigns of the individual kings lengthen from around twenty-five or thirty years up to one hundred and fifty years and more. This lengthening of the reigns of these older kings signifies that some of the early Nodite rulers (immediate descendants of the Prince’s staff) did live longer than their later-day successors and also indicates an effort to stretch the dynasties back to Dalamatia.
그렇게 오래-살았던 개인들에 대한 기록은, 시간 계산에서 달{月}과 해{年}를 혼돈한 것 때문이기도 했다. 또한 이는 아브라함에 관한 성서의 계보에서, 그리고 중국의 초기 기록에서도 나타난다. 28일로 되어있는 한 달 또는 계절이, 후대에 소개된 350일이 조금 넘는 1년과 혼돈을 일으킨 것이, 그런 긴 인간 수명 전승을 만들게 했다. 900“년” 이상 살았다는 어떤 사람에 대한 기록도 있다. 이는 70년 조금 못되는 기간에 해당되었고, 그런 연수{年數}는 매우 긴 기간으로 간주되었는데, “인생은 70”이라는 표현이 나중에 나타났다.
77:2.11 (857.8)
The records of such long-lived individuals are also due to the confusion of months and years as time periods. This may also be observed in the Biblical genealogy of Abraham and in the early records of the Chinese. The confusion of the twenty-eight-day month, or season, with the later introduced year of more than three hundred and fifty days is responsible for the traditions of such long human lives. There are records of a man who lived over nine hundred “years.” This period represents not quite seventy years, and such lives were regarded for ages as very long, “threescore years and ten” as such a life span was later designated.
달라마시아가 물 밑으로 가라앉은 후, 놋족속은 북동쪽으로 이동하여, 마침내 자신의 인종 및 문화 본부로서 딜문이라는 새 도시를 설립했다. 그리고 놋이 죽은 후 약 5만 년이 지나자, 통치자의 참모진의 자손이 너무 많아져서, 그들의 새 도시 딜문을 둘러싸고 있는 가까운 지역의 땅에서 생활할 수 없게 되었고, 그들이 이미 멀리 퍼져서 접경 지역의 안돈족속 및 상익 부족과 서로 결혼하기에 이르자, 그 지도자들은 자신의 인종적 통일성을 유지시킬만한 어떤 일을 할 수밖에 없다고 생각했다. 따라서 부족들의 협의회가 소집되었고, 놋의 후손인 배브롯의 계획이 심사숙고 끝에 승인되었다.
77:3.1 (858.2)
After the submergence of Dalamatia the Nodites moved north and east, presently founding the new city of Dilmun as their racial and cultural headquarters. And about fifty thousand years after the death of Nod, when the offspring of the Prince’s staff had become too numerous to find subsistence in the lands immediately surrounding their new city of Dilmun, and after they had reached out to intermarry with the Andonite and Sangik tribes adjoining their borders, it occurred to their leaders that something should be done to preserve their racial unity. Accordingly a council of the tribes was called, and after much deliberation the plan of Bablot, a descendant of Nod, was endorsed.
77:3.2 (858.3)
Bablot proposed to erect a pretentious temple of racial glorification at the center of their then occupied territory. This temple was to have a tower the like of which the world had never seen. It was to be a monumental memorial to their passing greatness. There were many who wished to have this monument erected in Dilmun, but others contended that such a great structure should be placed a safe distance from the dangers of the sea, remembering the traditions of the engulfment of their first capital, Dalamatia.
77:3.3 (858.4)
Bablot planned that the new buildings should become the nucleus of the future center of the Nodite culture and civilization. His counsel finally prevailed, and construction was started in accordance with his plans. The new city was to be named Bablot after the architect and builder of the tower. This location later became known as Bablod and eventually as Babel.
77:3.4 (858.5)
But the Nodites were still somewhat divided in sentiment as to the plans and purposes of this undertaking. Neither were their leaders altogether agreed concerning either construction plans or usage of the buildings after they should be completed. After four and one-half years of work a great dispute arose about the object and motive for the erection of the tower. The contentions became so bitter that all work stopped. The food carriers spread the news of the dissension, and large numbers of the tribes began to forgather at the building site. Three differing views were propounded as to the purpose of building the tower:
77:3.7 (859.1)
3. The smallest and minority contingent held that the erection of the tower presented an opportunity for making atonement for the folly of their progenitors in participating in the Caligastia rebellion. They maintained that the tower should be devoted to the worship of the Father of all, that the whole purpose of the new city should be to take the place of Dalamatia—to function as the cultural and religious center for the surrounding barbarians.
77:3.8 (859.2)
The religious group were promptly voted down. The majority rejected the teaching that their ancestors had been guilty of rebellion; they resented such a racial stigma. Having disposed of one of the three angles to the dispute and failing to settle the other two by debate, they fell to fighting. The religionists, the noncombatants, fled to their homes in the south, while their fellows fought until well-nigh obliterated.
77:3.9 (859.3)
About twelve thousand years ago a second attempt to erect the tower of Babel was made. The mixed races of the Andites (Nodites and Adamites) undertook to raise a new temple on the ruins of the first structure, but there was not sufficient support for the enterprise; it fell of its own pretentious weight. This region was long known as the land of Babel.
놋족속의 분산은 바벨탑을 둘러싼 상호 파괴적인 갈등의 직접적인 결과였다. 이 내란{內亂}은 순수한 혈통의 놋족속 숫자를 크게 줄였고, 여러 면에서 그들이 아담-이전의 위대한 문명 건설에 실패하는 요인이 되었다. 이때부터 놋족속 문화는, 아담의 피가 주입{注入}되어 개량될 때까지 12만 년 이상 계속 퇴보했다. 그러나 심지어 아담 시대에도, 놋족속은 여전히 유능한 민족이었다. 그들의 혼합된 후손 중에서 많은 사람이 동산 건축자로 합류했고, 반 집단에서 지도자 가운데 몇 사람은 놋족속이었다. 아담의 참모진에서 일하던 가장 유능한 사람 가운데 일부도 이 인종이었다.
77:4.1 (859.4)
The dispersion of the Nodites was an immediate result of the internecine conflict over the tower of Babel. This internal war greatly reduced the numbers of the purer Nodites and was in many ways responsible for their failure to establish a great pre-Adamic civilization. From this time on Nodite culture declined for over one hundred and twenty thousand years until it was upstepped by Adamic infusion. But even in the times of Adam the Nodites were still an able people. Many of their mixed descendants were numbered among the Garden builders, and several of Van’s group captains were Nodites. Some of the most capable minds serving on Adam’s staff were of this race.
77:4.3 (859.6)
1. The western or Syrian Nodites. The remnants of the nationalistic or racial memorialists journeyed northward, uniting with the Andonites to found the later Nodite centers to the northwest of Mesopotamia. This was the largest group of the dispersing Nodites, and they contributed much to the later appearing Assyrian stock.
77:4.4 (859.7)
2. The eastern or Elamite Nodites. The culture and commerce advocates migrated in large numbers eastward into Elam and there united with the mixed Sangik tribes. The Elamites of thirty to forty thousand years ago had become largely Sangik in nature, although they continued to maintain a civilization superior to that of the surrounding barbarians.
77:4.5 (859.8)
After the establishment of the second garden it was customary to allude to this near-by Nodite settlement as “the land of Nod”; and during the long period of relative peace between this Nodite group and the Adamites, the two races were greatly blended, for it became more and more the custom for the Sons of God (the Adamites) to intermarry with the daughters of men (the Nodites).
77:4.6 (860.1)
3. The central or pre-Sumerian Nodites. A small group at the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers maintained more of their racial integrity. They persisted for thousands of years and eventually furnished the Nodite ancestry which blended with the Adamites to found the Sumerian peoples of historic times.
수메르인이 어떻게 그토록 갑자기 신비롭게 메소포타미아에서 활동 무대에 나타났는지를, 이 모든 것이 설명해준다. 너희는 아무리 조사해도 수메르인의 시초까지 거슬러 올라가지 못할 것인데, 그들은 달라마시아가 물에 잠긴 후인, 20만 년 전에 기원되었다. 이 세상의 어떤 지역에서도 그들의 기원을 추적할 수 없지만, 이 고대 부족들은, 충분히-성숙되고 우수한 문화를 간직한 채 문명의 지평선에 갑자기 나타났으며, 신전, 금속 기술, 농업, 동물, 질그릇 만들기, 천짜기, 상법{商法}, 시민사회 규범, 종교 예식절차, 및 옛 글씨 체계를 갖고 있었다. 역사 시대가 시작될 무렵, 그들은 오래 전부터 달라마시아 알파벳을 잃어버린 상태였으며, 딜문에서 시작된 독특한 글씨 체계를 사용하고 있었다. 수메르인의 언어는, 비록 세상에 실제 영향을 주지는 못했으나, 셈 계통이 아니었으며;소위 아리아 방언과 공통점이 많았다.
77:4.7 (860.2)
And all this explains how the Sumerians appeared so suddenly and mysteriously on the stage of action in Mesopotamia. Investigators will never be able to trace out and follow these tribes back to the beginning of the Sumerians, who had their origin two hundred thousand years ago after the submergence of Dalamatia. Without a trace of origin elsewhere in the world, these ancient tribes suddenly loom upon the horizon of civilization with a full-grown and superior culture, embracing temples, metalwork, agriculture, animals, pottery, weaving, commercial law, civil codes, religious ceremonial, and an old system of writing. At the beginning of the historical era they had long since lost the alphabet of Dalamatia, having adopted the peculiar writing system originating in Dilmun. The Sumerian language, though virtually lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in common with the so-called Aryan tongues.
수메르인이 남긴 정교한 기록이, 딜문이라는 초기 도시 근처의 페르시아만에 자리잡은, 주목할 만한 정착 지역을 묘사한다. 이집트인은 이 도시를 고대의 영광스런 딜맛이라고 불렀으며, 한편 아담의 피가 섞인 후대 수메르인은, 첫 번째와 두 번째 놋족속 도시와 달라마시아를 혼동하여, 이 세 지역을 모두 딜문이라 불렀다. 그리고 고고학자들은 고대 수메르인의 토판{土版} 문서를 발견했었는데, 이 토판은, 초기의 “하나님들이 문명화되고 문화화된 생활에 대한 표본으로 인류를 축복한 곳”이라고, 이 세상 낙원에 대해서 언급했다. 그리고 딜문 곧 인간과 하나님의 낙원을 설명하는 이 토판들은 지금, 여러 박물관 선반 위에 먼지로 뒤덮인 채 조용히 잠들어있다.
77:4.8 (860.3)
The elaborate records left by the Sumerians describe the site of a remarkable settlement which was located on the Persian Gulf near the earlier city of Dilmun. The Egyptians called this city of ancient glory Dilmat, while the later Adamized Sumerians confused both the first and second Nodite cities with Dalamatia and called all three Dilmun. And already have archaeologists found these ancient Sumerian clay tablets which tell of this earthly paradise “where the Gods first blessed mankind with the example of civilized and cultured life.” And these tablets, descriptive of Dilmun, the paradise of men and God, are now silently resting on the dusty shelves of many museums.
77:4.9 (860.4)
The Sumerians well knew of the first and second Edens but, despite extensive intermarriage with the Adamites, continued to regard the garden dwellers to the north as an alien race. Sumerian pride in the more ancient Nodite culture led them to ignore these later vistas of glory in favor of the grandeur and paradisiacal traditions of the city of Dilmun.
77:4.11 (860.6)
Some of the early associates of Van subsequently settled about the shores of the lake which still bears his name, and their traditions grew up about this locality. Ararat became their sacred mountain, having much the same meaning to later-day Vanites that Sinai had to the Hebrews. Ten thousand years ago the Vanite ancestors of the Assyrians taught that their moral law of seven commandments had been given to Van by the Gods upon Mount Ararat. They firmly believed that Van and his associate Amadon were taken alive from the planet while they were up on the mountain engaged in worship.
77:4.12 (860.7)
Mount Ararat was the sacred mountain of northern Mesopotamia, and since much of your tradition of these ancient times was acquired in connection with the Babylonian story of the flood, it is not surprising that Mount Ararat and its region were woven into the later Jewish story of Noah and the universal flood.
77:5.2 (861.2)
Adamson was among that group of the children of Adam and Eve who elected to remain on earth with their father and mother. Now this eldest son of Adam had often heard from Van and Amadon the story of their highland home in the north, and sometime after the establishment of the second garden he determined to go in search of this land of his youthful dreams.
77:5.3 (861.3)
Adamson was 120 years old at this time and had been the father of thirty-two pure-line children of the first garden. He wanted to remain with his parents and assist them in upbuilding the second garden, but he was greatly disturbed by the loss of his mate and their children, who had all elected to go to Edentia along with those other Adamic children who chose to become wards of the Most Highs.
77:5.4 (861.4)
Adamson would not desert his parents on Urantia, he was disinclined to flee from hardship or danger, but he found the associations of the second garden far from satisfying. He did much to forward the early activities of defense and construction but decided to leave for the north at the earliest opportunity. And though his departure was wholly pleasant, Adam and Eve were much grieved to lose their eldest son, to have him go out into a strange and hostile world, as they feared, never to return.
아담선은 어렸을 때 상상하던 이 사람들을 찾아 북쪽으로 갔고, 27명의 무리가 그를 따라갔다. 3년이 조금 지난 후, 아담선 무리는 자신들의 모험 대상이던 그 목적지를 실제로 발견했고, 그는 그 사람들 가운데서 훌륭하고 아름다운 20세의 한 여자를 발견했는데, 이 여자는 통치자 참모진의 순수한-핏줄을 지닌 마지막 후손이라고 주장했다. 라타라는 이름의 이 여자는, 자기 조상은 모두 통치자의 몰락한 참모진 중 두 사람의 후손이라고 했다. 이 여자는 그 종족에서 마지막 사람이었고, 형제자매가 아무도 없었다. 이 여자는 결혼하지 않겠다고 결심했고, 자식 없이 죽기로 마음을 굳히고 있었지만, 위엄 있는 아담선을 만나고 나서 마음을 빼앗겼다. 에덴에 관한 이야기, 즉 반과 아마돈의 예언이 어떻게 정말로 이뤄졌는지 듣게 되자, 그리고 동산의 태만에 관한 이야기를 경청하면서, 오직 한 가지--곧 아담의 자손이자 아들인 이 사람과 결혼하려는-- 생각에 사로잡혔다. 그리고 그런 생각이 곧 아담선에게도 생겼다. 이들은 3개월 정도 지난 후 결혼했다.
77:5.5 (861.5)
A company of twenty-seven followed Adamson northward in quest of these people of his childhood fantasies. In a little over three years Adamson’s party actually found the object of their adventure, and among these people he discovered a wonderful and beautiful woman, twenty years old, who claimed to be the last pure-line descendant of the Prince’s staff. This woman, Ratta, said that her ancestors were all descendants of two of the fallen staff of the Prince. She was the last of her race, having no living brothers or sisters. She had about decided not to mate, had about made up her mind to die without issue, but she lost her heart to the majestic Adamson. And when she heard the story of Eden, how the predictions of Van and Amadon had really come to pass, and as she listened to the recital of the Garden default, she was encompassed with but a single thought—to marry this son and heir of Adam. And quickly the idea grew upon Adamson. In a little more than three months they were married.
아담선과 라타는 자녀 67명을 가족으로 거느렸다. 그들은 위대한 혈통을 지닌 이 세상 지도자들을 낳았으나, 그 이상의 일을 이룩했다. 이 두 존재 모두 진정으로 초인간이었음을 기억해야 한다. 새로 태어나는 아이들 중에서 네 번째마다 독특한 계층에 속했다. 종종 눈에 보이지 않았다. 이 세상 역사에서 그런 일은 발생된 적 없었다. 라타는 무척 당황했지만--심지어 미신에 사로잡히기도 했지만, 아담선은 1차 중도자의 실존을 잘 알고 있었으며, 비슷한 어떤 일이 자기 눈앞에서도 일어나고 있다고 결론 내렸다. 두 번째로 이상한 자녀가 태어나자 그들을 따로 짝져 주기로 결정했는데, 하나는 남자이고 다른 하나는 여자였기 때문이며, 2차 계층의 중도자가 이렇게 기원되었다. 이런 현상이 멈출 때까지, 100년 동안 거의 2,000명이 태어났다.
77:5.6 (861.6)
Adamson and Ratta had a family of sixty-seven children. They gave origin to a great line of the world’s leadership, but they did something more. It should be remembered that both of these beings were really superhuman. Every fourth child born to them was of a unique order. It was often invisible. Never in the world’s history had such a thing occurred. Ratta was greatly perturbed—even superstitious—but Adamson well knew of the existence of the primary midwayers, and he concluded that something similar was transpiring before his eyes. When the second strangely behaving offspring arrived, he decided to mate them, since one was male and the other female, and this is the origin of the secondary order of midwayers. Within one hundred years, before this phenomenon ceased, almost two thousand were brought into being.
77:5.7 (862.1)
Adamson lived for 396 years. Many times he returned to visit his father and mother. Every seven years he and Ratta journeyed south to the second garden, and meanwhile the midwayers kept him informed regarding the welfare of his people. During Adamson’s life they did great service in upbuilding a new and independent world center for truth and righteousness.
77:5.8 (862.2)
Adamson and Ratta thus had at their command this corps of marvelous helpers, who labored with them throughout their long lives to assist in the propagation of advanced truth and in the spread of higher standards of spiritual, intellectual, and physical living. And the results of this effort at world betterment never did become fully eclipsed by subsequent retrogressions.
77:5.9 (862.3)
The Adamsonites maintained a high culture for almost seven thousand years from the times of Adamson and Ratta. Later on they became admixed with the neighboring Nodites and Andonites and were also included among the “mighty men of old.” And some of the advances of that age persisted to become a latent part of the cultural potential which later blossomed into European civilization.
이 문명 중심지는 코펫 다그 근처, 카스피 해 남쪽 끝 부분의 동쪽 지역에 위치했다. 투르케스탄의 약간 위쪽 구릉지대에는, 한때 보라색 인종의 아담선족속 본부였던 흔적이 남아있다. 코펫 산맥의 낮은 구릉지대에서 좁고 오래된 비옥한 띠 모양의 땅에 자리잡은 이런 고원지대에서는, 서로 다른 네 집단의 아담선 후손이 각각 조성한, 네 개의 다양한 문화가 여러 기간에 걸쳐서 연달아 나타났다. 이 무리들 가운데 두 번째 무리가 서쪽으로 이동하여, 그리스 지역과 지중해 섬들로 이주했다. 나머지 아담선 후예는 북쪽과 서쪽으로 이주하여 유럽으로 들어갔고, 메소포타미아에서 나온 마지막 안드족속 인파를 이룬 혼혈 혈통의 사람들이 따라갔고, 그들 역시 인도의 안드족속-아리아인 침입자에 포함되었다.
77:5.10 (862.4)
This center of civilization was situated in the region east of the southern end of the Caspian Sea, near the Kopet Dagh. A short way up in the foothills of Turkestan are the vestiges of what was onetime the Adamsonite headquarters of the violet race. In these highland sites, situated in a narrow and ancient fertile belt lying in the lower foothills of the Kopet range, there successively arose at various periods four diverse cultures respectively fostered by four different groups of Adamson’s descendants. It was the second of these groups which migrated westward to Greece and the islands of the Mediterranean. The residue of Adamson’s descendants migrated north and west to enter Europe with the blended stock of the last Andite wave coming out of Mesopotamia, and they were also numbered among the Andite-Aryan invaders of India.
77:6.2 (862.6)
Among the children of Adamson there were just sixteen of the peculiar progenitors of the secondary midwayers. These unique children were equally divided as regards sex, and each couple was capable of producing a secondary midwayer every seventy days by a combined technique of sex and nonsex liaison. And such a phenomenon was never possible on earth before that time, nor has it ever occurred since.
77:6.4 (862.8)
Each of the eight couples eventually produced 248 midwayers, and thus did the original secondary corps—1,984 in number—come into existence. There are eight subgroups of secondary midwayers. They are designated as A-B-C the first, second, third, and so on. And then there are D-E-F the first, second, and so on.
77:6.5 (862.9)
After the default of Adam the primary midwayers returned to the service of the Melchizedek receivers, while the secondary group were attached to the Adamson center until his death. Thirty-three of these secondary midwayers, the chiefs of their organization at the death of Adamson, endeavored to swing the whole order over to the service of the Melchizedeks, thus effecting a liaison with the primary corps. But failing to accomplish this, they deserted their companions and went over in a body to the service of the planetary receivers.
77:6.6 (863.1)
After the death of Adamson the remainder of the secondary midwayers became a strange, unorganized, and unattached influence on Urantia. From that time to the days of Machiventa Melchizedek they led an irregular and unorganized existence. They were partially brought under control by this Melchizedek but were still productive of much mischief up to the days of Christ Michael. And during his sojourn on earth they all made final decisions as to their future destiny, the loyal majority then enlisting under the leadership of the primary midwayers.
77:7.2 (863.3)
The original number of secondary midwayers was 1,984, and of these 873 failed to align themselves with the rule of Michael and were duly interned in connection with the planetary adjudication of Urantia on the day of Pentecost. No one can forecast the future of these fallen creatures.
77:7.4 (863.5)
These disloyal midwayers were able to reveal themselves to mortal eyes under certain circumstances, and especially was this true of the associates of Beelzebub, the leader of the apostate secondary midwayers. But these unique creatures must not be confused with certain of the rebel cherubim and seraphim who also were on earth up to the time of Christ’s death and resurrection. Some of the older writers designated these rebellious midway creatures as evil spirits and demons, and the apostate seraphim as evil angels.
증여된 낙원 아들의 생애가 끝난 후에는, 어느 세상에서든지 악한 영이 어떤 필사 정신도 사로잡을 수 없다. 그러나 그리스도 미가엘이 유란시아에 오기 전--곧 사고 조절자가 보편적으로 도래하기 전, 그리고 주님의 영이 모든 육신에 부어지기 전--에는 반역에 가담한 이 중도자들이 실제로 일부 열등한 필사자 정신에 영향을 줄 수 있었고, 그들의 행위를 어느 정도 통제할 수 있었다. 조절자가 초인간 지성체들과 접촉하는 시기 내내, 사실상 그 인격으로부터 분리되어있는 동안, 충성스런 중도자가 유란시아 운명 예비 단체의 인간 정신과 접촉하는 유능한 보호자로서 봉사할 때 작용하는 방식과 아주 비슷하게, 이것이 이뤄졌다.
77:7.5 (863.6)
On no world can evil spirits possess any mortal mind subsequent to the life of a Paradise bestowal Son. But before the days of Christ Michael on Urantia—before the universal coming of the Thought Adjusters and the pouring out of the Master’s spirit upon all flesh—these rebel midwayers were actually able to influence the minds of certain inferior mortals and somewhat to control their actions. This was accomplished in much the same way as the loyal midway creatures function when they serve as efficient contact guardians of the human minds of the Urantia reserve corps of destiny at those times when the Adjuster is, in effect, detached from the personality during a season of contact with superhuman intelligences.
77:7.6 (863.7)
It is no mere figure of speech when the record states: “And they brought to Him all sorts of sick people, those who were possessed by devils and those who were lunatics.” Jesus knew and recognized the difference between insanity and demoniacal possession, although these states were greatly confused in the minds of those who lived in his day and generation.
77:7.7 (863.8)
Even prior to Pentecost no rebel spirit could dominate a normal human mind, and since that day even the weak minds of inferior mortals are free from such possibilities. The supposed casting out of devils since the arrival of the Spirit of Truth has been a matter of confounding a belief in demoniacal possession with hysteria, insanity, and feeble-mindedness. But just because Michael’s bestowal has forever liberated all human minds on Urantia from the possibility of demoniacal possession, do not imagine that such was not a reality in former ages.
77:7.8 (864.1)
The entire group of rebel midwayers is at present held prisoner by order of the Most Highs of Edentia. No more do they roam this world on mischief bent. Regardless of the presence of the Thought Adjusters, the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh forever made it impossible for disloyal spirits of any sort or description ever again to invade even the most feeble of human minds. Since the day of Pentecost there never again can be such a thing as demoniacal possession.
77:8.1 (864.2)
At the last adjudication of this world, when Michael removed the slumbering survivors of time, the midway creatures were left behind, left to assist in the spiritual and semispiritual work on the planet. They now function as a single corps, embracing both orders and numbering 10,992. The United Midwayers of Urantia are at present governed alternately by the senior member of each order. This regime has obtained since their amalgamation into one group shortly after Pentecost.
77:8.2 (864.3)
The members of the older or primary order are generally known by numerals; they are often given names such as 1-2-3 the first, 4-5-6 the first, and so on. On Urantia the Adamic midwayers are designated alphabetically in order to distinguish them from the numerical designation of the primary midwayers.
77:8.3 (864.4)
Both orders are nonmaterial beings as regards nutrition and energy intake, but they partake of many human traits and are able to enjoy and follow your humor as well as your worship. When attached to mortals, they enter into the spirit of human work, rest, and play. But midwayers do not sleep, neither do they possess powers of procreation. In a certain sense the secondary group are differentiated along the lines of maleness and femaleness, often being spoken of as “he” or “she.” They often work together in such pairs.
77:8.4 (864.5)
Midwayers are not men, neither are they angels, but secondary midwayers are, in nature, nearer man than angel; they are, in a way, of your races and are, therefore, very understanding and sympathetic in their contact with human beings; they are invaluable to the seraphim in their work for and with the various races of mankind, and both orders are indispensable to the seraphim who serve as personal guardians to mortals.
77:8.7 (864.8)
2. Planetary sentinels. Midwayers are the guardians, the sentinels, of the worlds of space. They perform the important duties of observers for all the numerous phenomena and types of communication which are of import to the supernatural beings of the realm. They patrol the invisible spirit realm of the planet.
77:8.8 (865.1)
3. Contact personalities. In the contacts made with the mortal beings of the material worlds, such as with the subject through whom these communications were transmitted, the midway creatures are always employed. They are an essential factor in such liaisons of the spiritual and the material levels.
77:8.10 (865.3)
Midwayers vary greatly in their abilities to make contact with the seraphim above and with their human cousins below. It is exceedingly difficult, for instance, for the primary midwayers to make direct contact with material agencies. They are considerably nearer the angelic type of being and are therefore usually assigned to working with, and ministering to, the spiritual forces resident on the planet. They act as companions and guides for celestial visitors and student sojourners, whereas the secondary creatures are almost exclusively attached to the ministry of the material beings of the realm.
77:8.11 (865.4)
The 1,111 loyal secondary midwayers are engaged in important missions on earth. As compared with their primary associates, they are decidedly material. They exist just outside the range of mortal vision and possess sufficient latitude of adaptation to make, at will, physical contact with what humans call “material things.” These unique creatures have certain definite powers over the things of time and space, not excepting the beasts of the realm.
77:8.12 (865.5)
Many of the more literal phenomena ascribed to angels have been performed by the secondary midway creatures. When the early teachers of the gospel of Jesus were thrown into prison by the ignorant religious leaders of that day, an actual “angel of the Lord” “by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth.” But in the case of Peter’s deliverance after the killing of James by Herod’s order, it was a secondary midwayer who performed the work ascribed to an angel.
오늘날 그들의 주된 업무는, 행성의 운명 예비 단체를 구성하는 남녀에게, 눈에 띄지 않은 채 몸소-연락하는 동료로서 하는 업무다. 1차 단체 중 일부의 훌륭한 후원을 받은 이 2차 집단의 작용 덕분에, 유란시아에서 인격체들 및 환경이 조화를 이루게 되었고, 이로 인해 마침내 천상{天上}의 행성 감독관들이 여러 청원{請願}을 제기하게 되었으며, 그 결과 본 발표문이 그 일부를 이루고 있는 일련의 계시가 가능하도록 만든 명령이 내려지게 되었다. 그러나 분명히 할 것은, 중도 피조물은 대개 “심령술”로 알려진 그런 상황 아래서 자행되는 지저분한 연기{演技}에는 관여하지 않는다는 점이다. 유란시아에 현존하는 중도자는, 존경받을만한 상태를 그들 전체가 유지하고 있는데, 소위 “영매{靈媒}”라 불리는 현상과는 관계없으며;그들은 대개, 인간의 감각으로 인지되는 바와 같이, 때때로 불가피한 물리적 활동이나 물질세계와의 기타 접촉을 하더라도, 인간이 구경하도록 허용하지는 않는다.
77:8.13 (865.6)
Their chief work today is that of unperceived personal-liaison associates of those men and women who constitute the planetary reserve corps of destiny. It was the work of this secondary group, ably seconded by certain of the primary corps, that brought about the co-ordination of personalities and circumstances on Urantia which finally induced the planetary celestial supervisors to initiate those petitions that resulted in the granting of the mandates making possible the series of revelations of which this presentation is a part. But it should be made clear that the midway creatures are not involved in the sordid performances taking place under the general designation of “spiritualism.” The midwayers at present on Urantia, all of whom are of honorable standing, are not connected with the phenomena of so-called “mediumship”; and they do not, ordinarily, permit humans to witness their sometimes necessary physical activities or other contacts with the material world, as they are perceived by human senses.
77:9.1 (865.7)
Midwayers may be regarded as the first group of the permanent inhabitants to be found on the various orders of worlds throughout the universes in contrast with evolutionary ascenders like the mortal creatures and the angelic hosts. Such permanent citizens are encountered at various points in the Paradise ascent.
77:9.2 (866.1)
Unlike the various orders of celestial beings who are assigned to minister on a planet, the midwayers live on an inhabited world. The seraphim come and go, but the midway creatures remain and will remain, albeit they are nonetheless ministers for being natives of the planet, and they provide the one continuing regime which harmonizes and connects the changing administrations of the seraphic hosts.
77:9.3 (866.2)
As actual citizens of Urantia, the midwayers have a kinship interest in the destiny of this sphere. They are a determined association, persistently working for the progress of their native planet. Their determination is suggested by the motto of their order: “What the United Midwayers undertake, the United Midwayers do.”
77:9.4 (866.3)
Although their ability to traverse the energy circuits makes planetary departure feasible to any midwayer, they have individually pledged themselves not to leave the planet prior to their sometime release by the universe authorities. Midwayers are anchored on a planet until the ages of settled light and life. With the exception of 1-2-3 the first, no loyal midway creatures have ever departed from Urantia.
77:9.5 (866.4)
1-2-3 the first, the eldest of the primary order, was released from immediate planetary duties shortly after Pentecost. This noble midwayer stood steadfast with Van and Amadon during the tragic days of the planetary rebellion, and his fearless leadership was instrumental in reducing the casualties in his order. He serves at present on Jerusem as a member of the twenty-four counselors, having already functioned as governor general of Urantia once since Pentecost.
77:9.6 (866.5)
Midwayers are planet bound, but much as mortals talk with travelers from afar and thus learn about remote places on the planet, so do midwayers converse with celestial travelers to learn about the far places of the universe. So do they become conversant with this system and universe, even with Orvonton and its sister creations, and so do they prepare themselves for citizenship on the higher levels of creature existence.
77:9.7 (866.6)
While the midwayers were brought into existence fully developed—experiencing no period of growth or development from immaturity—they never cease to grow in wisdom and experience. Like mortals they are evolutionary creatures, and they have a culture which is a bona fide evolutionary attainment. There are many great minds and mighty spirits among the Urantia midway corps.
77:9.8 (866.7)
In the larger aspect the civilization of Urantia is the joint product of the Urantia mortals and the Urantia midwayers, and this is true despite the present differential between the two levels of culture, a differential which will not be compensated prior to the ages of light and life.
77:9.9 (866.8)
The midway culture, being the product of an immortal planetary citizenry, is relatively immune to those temporal vicissitudes which beset human civilization. The generations of men forget; the corps of midwayers remembers, and that memory is the treasure house of the traditions of your inhabited world. Thus does the culture of a planet remain ever present on that planet, and in proper circumstances such treasured memories of past events are made available, even as the story of the life and teachings of Jesus has been given by the midwayers of Urantia to their cousins in the flesh.
77:9.10 (867.1)
Midwayers are the skillful ministers who compensate that gap between the material and spiritual affairs of Urantia which appeared upon the death of Adam and Eve. They are likewise your elder brethren, comrades in the long struggle to attain a settled status of light and life on Urantia. The United Midwayers are a rebellion-tested corps, and they will faithfully enact their part in planetary evolution until this world attains the goal of the ages, until that distant day when in fact peace does reign on earth and in truth is there good will in the hearts of men.
77:9.12 (867.3)
The entire organization of high spirits, angelic hosts, and midway fellows is enthusiastically devoted to the furtherance of the Paradise plan for the progressive ascension and perfection attainment of evolutionary mortals, one of the supernal businesses of the universe—the superb survival plan of bringing God down to man and then, by a sublime sort of partnership, carrying man up to God and on to eternity of service and divinity of attainment—alike for mortal and midwayer.