Caligastia ~The Rise and Fall of Earth's Planetary Prince~.

The Fifth Revelation Document 66

Caligastia The Planetary Prince

(741.1) 66:0.1 THE ADVENT of a Lanonandek Son to an ordinary world signifies that will, the capacity to choose the way of eternal survival, has developed in the mind of early man.

But the Planetary Prince arrived on Earth almost half a million years after the appearance of human will.

(741.2) 66:0.2 Caligastia, the Planetary Prince, arrived on earth about five hundred thousand years ago, which coincided with the appearance of the six colored races, that is, the Sangik races.

There were nearly five hundred million primitive human beings on earth at the time of the Prince's arrival, and they were well dispersed throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.

The Prince's headquarters was established in Mesopotamia, approximately in the center of the world's population.

1. Prince Caligastia

(741.3) 66:1.1 Caligastia was a Lanonandek Son, number 9,344 of the secondary order.

He was highly experienced in the general administration of local universe affairs and, later on, in the specific administration of the local Satania system in particular.

(741.4) 66:1.2 Prior to Lucifer's reign in Satania, Caligastia had been attached to the counsel of the advisers of the Life Carriers on Jerusem.

Lucifer promoted Caligastia to a position in his personal staff, and he successfully performed five successive missions of honor and trust.

(741.5) 66:1.3 Very early Caligastia requested an appointment to a position of Planetary Prince; but repeatedly, whenever his request was submitted for consideration by the constellation councils, he failed to receive the concurrence of the Constellation Fathers.

Caligastia seemed particularly desirous of being sent to a decimal planet or life-modifying world as a planetary ruler.

His request had been denied several times before he was finally assigned to Earth.

(741.6) 66:1.4 With admirable records of loyalty and dedication to the welfare of the universe of his origin and temporary residence, and notwithstanding a certain characteristic restlessness, together with a certain tendency to disagree with the established order in certain minor matters, Caligastia departed Jerusem, entrusted with the dominion of one world.

(66:1.5 I was on Jerusem when the brilliant Caligastia departed from the system capital.

No prince of the planets had ever embarked upon a career of world authority with richer preparatory experiences or better prospects than did Caligastia on that memorable day half a million years ago.

The truth is that, in executing the task assigned to me, that of broadcasting the narrative of that event on the local universe broadcasts, the thought never crossed my mind that this noble Lanonandek would, within so short a time, betray his sacred trust of planetary guardianship and so infamously besmirch the honored name of his exalted order of universe sonship.

I, indeed, considered Earth to be among the five or six most blessed planets in all Satania, since such an original, brilliant, and expert mind was to assume command of world affairs.

I did not comprehend at that time that Caligastia was insidiously falling in love with himself; at that time, I did not so thoroughly understand the subtleties of personality pride..

2. The Prince's Staff

(742.1) 66:2.1 The Planetary Prince of Earth was not sent on his mission alone, but he was accompanied by the usual corps of assistants and administrative aids.

(66:2.2 This group was headed by Daligastia, the associate assistant of the Planetary Prince.

Daligastia was also a Lanonandek secondary Son, number 319,407 of that order.

He held the rank of adjutant at the time of his assignment to the associate position of Caligastia.

(742.3) 66:2.3 The staff included a large number of co-operating angels and a multitude of other celestial entities who were assigned to advance the interests and promote the welfare of the human races.

But from your point of view, the most interesting group of all the Prince's staff was that of the corporeal members-sometimes referred to as the Caligastia one hundred.

(742.4) 66:2.4 Caligastia chose these one hundred rematerialized members for his organization from among more than 785,000 ascendant citizens of Jerusem who volunteered to embark on the adventure of improving and uplifting the races of earth.

Each of the one hundred chosen came from a different planet, and none of them were from Earth.

(66:2.5 These Jerusemite volunteers were brought directly from the system capital to Earth by seraphic transport; and, upon their arrival, they were kept enseraphimed until such time as they could be given the dual-nature personality form of special planetary service.

They were true bodies of flesh and blood which, at the same time, were attuned to the vital circuits of the system.

(742.6) 66:2.6 Prior to the arrival of these one hundred Jerusem citizens, the two supervising Life Carriers residing on earth, having perfected their plans, requested permission from Jerusem and Edentia to transplant the life plasm of one hundred selected survivors of the Andon and Fonta offspring into the material bodies intended for the corporeal members of the Prince.

Permission was granted on Jerusem and approved on Edentia.

(66:2.7 Accordingly did the Life Carriers select fifty males and fifty females from the posterity of Andon and Fonta, representing the survival of the best varieties of that unique race.

With one or two exceptions, these Andonites who contributed so much to the progress of the race did not know each other.

They came from places separated by great distances.

Through the coordinated direction of the Preceptors of Thought and seraphic guidance they came together at the threshold of the Prince's headquarters.

Here the one hundred human subjects were placed in charge of the commission of highly capable volunteers from Avalon who directed the material extraction of a portion of the life plasm of these Andonic descendants.

This living material, in turn, was transferred to the material bodies made for the use of the one hundred Jerusemite members of the Prince's staff.

In the meantime, these newly arrived citizens of the system capital remained in the sleep of seraphic transportation.

(742.8) 66:2.8 These events, together with the actual creation of the special corps for the Caligastia one hundred, gave rise to numerous legends, much of which later became confused with the later traditions concerning the planetary installation of Adam and Eve.

(66:2.9 The entire execution of the repersonalization lasted precisely ten days, from the time the seraphic transports carrying the one hundred volunteers arrived from Jerusem until they regained consciousness as triple beings of the realm.

3. Dalamatia - The City of the Prince

(743.2) 66:3.1 The headquarters of the Planetary Prince was located in the Persian Gulf region of those days, in the area corresponding to future Mesopotamia.

(743.3) 66:3.2 The climate and scenery in the Mesopotamia of those times were in every respect favorable to the initiatives of the Prince's staff and his assistants, very different from the conditions which have sometimes prevailed since.

It was necessary to have a favorable climate as part of the natural environment designed to induce the primitives of The Earth to make certain advances in culture and civilization.

The one great task of those ages was to transform man from hunter to herder, in the hope that he would eventually evolve into a peaceful and homely agriculturist.

(743.4) 66:3.3 The headquarters of the Planetary Prince on earth was characteristic of the stations on young developing spheres.

The nucleus of the Prince's settlement was a very simple but beautiful city enclosed by a wall twelve feet high.

This world center of culture was named Dalamatia in honor of Daligastia.

(66:3.4 The city was laid out in ten subdivisions, with the headquarters of the ten councils of the corporeal staff located in the center of each of these subdivisions.

At the center of the city was the temple of the invisible Father.

The administrative headquarters of the Prince and his associates was arranged in twelve chambers grouped contiguously around the temple itself.

(743.6) 66:3.5 All the buildings of Dalamatia were one-story, with the exception of the council headquarters, which was two stories high, and the central temple of the Father of all, which, though small, was three stories high.

(743.7) 66:3.6 The city represented the best of those early days in building material-brick.

Very little stone or wood was used.

The housing construction and architecture of the surrounding villages were greatly improved by virtue of the Dalamatian example.

(743.8) 66:3.7 Near the Prince's headquarters dwelt human beings of all colors and strata.

The first students of the Prince's schools were recruited from these nearby tribes.

Though these early schools of Dalamatia were crude, they afforded all that was possible for the benefit of the men and women of that primitive age.

(66:3.8 The Prince's corporeal staff incessantly assembled the superior elements of the surrounding tribes and, having trained and inspired these students, sent them back as teachers and leaders of their respective peoples.

4. The Early Days of the One Hundred

(743.10) 66:4.1 The arrival of the Prince's staff made a profound impression.

While it required nearly a thousand years for the tidings to spread abroad, the teachings and conduct of the one hundred new residents greatly influenced the tribes near the Mesopotamian headquarters.

And much of your subsequent mythology grew out of the misrepresented legends of these bygone days when these members of the Prince's staff repersonalized on earth as supermen.

(744.1) 66:4.2 The tendency of mortals to regard them as gods seriously hinders the good influence of such extraplanetary teachers; but, apart from the technique of their appearance on earth, the Caligastia one hundred-fifty men and fifty women-did not resort to supernatural methods or superhuman manipulations.

(66:4.3 The corporeal group, however, was superhuman.

 They began their mission on earth as extraordinary beings of a threefold nature:

(744.3) 66:4.4 1. They were corporeal and relatively human, for they embodied the very life plasm of one of the human races, the andonic life plasm of The Earth.

(66:4.5 These one hundred members of the Prince's staff were divided equally according to sex and according to their previous mortal status.

Each person in this group was capable of becoming a co-progenitor of some new order of physical being, but they had been exhorted not to resort to procreation except under certain circumstances.

The corporeal retinue of the Planetary Prince usually procreate their successors sometime prior to retirement from special planetary service.

It is usual for such an act to occur upon the arrival of the Planetary Adam and Eve or shortly thereafter.

(66:4.6 These extraordinary beings, therefore, had almost no idea of what type of material creature would be produced as a result of their sex union.

And, in fact, they never did; for, before they reached the time of such a step in the prosecution of their world work, the entire regime was disrupted by rebellion, and those who later played the role of progenitors were cut off from the life streams of the system.

(66:4.7 In skin color and language, these materialized members of the Caligastia staff followed the Andonic race.

They took food just as did the mortals of the realm with the following difference: The recreated bodies of this group were entirely satisfied with a meatless diet.

This was among the considerations that determined their residence in a warm region where fruits and nuts abounded.

The practice of subsisting on a nonmeat diet dates from the time of the Caligastia one hundred; for this custom spread far and wide, affecting the eating habits of many surrounding tribes, the descendant groups of the evolutionary races which had once been exclusively carnivorous.

(744.7) 66:4.8 2. The one hundred were material but superhuman beings, having reconstituted themselves on earth as unique men and women belonging to a higher and extraordinary order.

(66:4.9 Although this group had provisional citizenship on Jerusem, up to this time they had not yet fused with their Thought Preceptors; and when they volunteered and were accepted for planetary service in accordance with the descending orders of sonship, their Preceptors separated from them.

These Jerusemites, however, were superhuman beings-they had souls of ascending growth.

During mortal life in the flesh, the soul is of embryonic status; it is born (resurrected) in the morontia life and undergoes development through successive morontia worlds.

And the souls of the Caligastia one hundred thus expanded through the progressive experiences of the seven mansion worlds (celestial mansions) to the status of citizenship on Jerusem.

(66:4.10 In accordance with their instructions, the staff did not practice sex reproduction, although they did study with great care their personal constitution, and they thoroughly explored every conceivable phase of intellect (mind) and morontia (soul) union.)

During the thirty-third year of their sojourn on Dalamatia, long before the wall was completed, numbers two and seven of the Danite group discovered by chance a phenomenon resulting from the union of the morontia self (soul) of each of them (which, presumably, is nonsexual and nonmaterial); this adventure resulted in the first of the primary midway creatures.

This new being was entirely visible to the planetary entourage and their celestial associates and yet was not visible to the men and women of the various human tribes.

With the authorization of the Planetary Prince, the entire corporeal group undertook the production of similar beings, and all succeeded, following the instructions of the Danite forerunner pair.

Thus did the Prince's staff eventually beget the original corps of the 50,000 primary midwayers.

(745.1) 66:4.11 These midway-type creatures rendered great service in conducting the affairs of the world headquarters.

They were invisible to human beings, but the early temporary residents of Dalamatia were taught about these invisible semispirits, and for ages they constituted the totality of the spirit world for these evolving mortals.

(745.2) 66:4.12 3. The Caligastia one hundred were personally immortal, or incapable of death.

Through their material form circulated the antidotes of the vital currents of the system; and had they not lost contact with the circuits through rebellion, they would have continued to live indefinitely, until the next Divine Son should subsequently advent, or until their future liberation in order to resume the interrupted journey to Havona and Paradise.

(745.3) 66:4.13 These antidotal complements of the Satania lifestreams were derived from the fruit of the tree of life, an Edentia shrub which the Most Highs of Norlatiadek sent to earth at the arrival of Caligastia.

In Dalamatia times this tree was grown in the central courtyard of the temple of the invisible Father, and the fruit of the tree of life enabled material beings and, in other mortal respects, the Prince's staff, to continue to live indefinitely, provided they had access to it.

(745.4) 66:4.14 While of no use to the evolutionary races, this supersustenance was more than sufficient to afford continued life to the Caligastia one hundred and also to the one hundred modified Andonites who were associated with them.

(745.5) 66:4.15 It should be explained that, as the one hundred Andonites contributed their human germ plasm to the members of the Prince's staff, the Life Carriers introduced into their mortal bodies the complement of the system circuits; and thus they were able to continue to live with the staff, century after century, in defiance of physical death.

(66:4.16 In time the one hundred Andonites were made aware of their contribution to the new forms of their superiors, and these same one hundred sons of the Andon tribes were retained at headquarters as personal attendants of the Prince's corporeal staff.

5. Organization of the One Hundred

(66:5.1 The one hundred were organized for service in ten autonomous councils, each consisting of ten members.

When two or more than two of these ten councils met in joint session, such liaison conferences were presided over by Daligastia.

These ten groups were constituted as follows:

(745.8) 66:5.2 1. The council of food and material welfare. 

Ang presided over this group.

This able body fostered the procurement of food, water, clothing, and material progress of the human species.

They gave instruction in the digging of wells, the control of water sources and irrigation.

They taught those living at higher altitudes and in the northern areas better methods of treating animal skins for clothing; later masters of the arts and sciences introduced weaving.

(66:5.3 Great advances were made in methods of food storage.

Food was preserved by cooking, dehydration, and curing with smoke; thus food became the first property.

Man was taught to prepare for the dangers of scarcity which periodically decimated the world.

(746.2) 66:5.4 2. The board of domestication and utilization of animals. 

This board devoted itself to the work of selecting and breeding those animals best adapted to assist human beings in carrying burdens and transporting them, to provide sustenance, and later on, to render service in tilling the soil.

Bon led this competent corps.

(746.3) 66:5.5 Various kinds of useful animals were tamed, some now extinct, others perpetuated as domestic animals to the present day.

Man had long coexisted with the dog, and the blue man had already succeeded in taming the elephant.

The cow was improved by careful breeding to such a degree that it became a valuable source of food; butter and cheese became common items in the human diet.

Men learned to make use of oxen to carry their loads; the horse, however, was not domesticated until later.

The members of this corps taught men to make use of the wheel to facilitate traction.

(66:5.6 It was at this time that carrier pigeons were first used; they were carried on long journeys in order to send messages or pleas for help.

The Bon group succeeded in training the great fandors as transport birds, but they became extinct more than thirty thousand years ago.

(746.5) 66:5.7 3. Advisers on the dominion of animals of prey.

It was not enough for primitive man to try to domesticate certain animals, but he also had to learn to protect himself from the destruction which could be wrought by the hostile rest of the animal world.

Dan captained this group.

(66:5.8 The object of the walls surrounding the ancient cities was protection against ferocious beasts as well as against surprise attacks by hostile humans.

Those who lived in the forest, without the protection of a wall, depended on arboreal dwellings, stone shelters, and the maintenance of nightly campfires.

It was therefore quite natural that these masters devoted much time to instructing their pupils in the improvement of human dwellings.

Great progress was made in the subjugation of animals by employing traps and improved techniques.

(746.7) 66:5.9 4. The faculty for the dissemination and preservation of knowledge. 

This group organized and directed the purely didactic efforts of those early ages.

Fad presided over it.

Fad's didactic methods consisted of supervision of the employment system, accompanied by instruction in improved methods of work.

Fad formulated the first alphabet and introduced a writing system.

This alphabet contained twenty-five characters.

As writing material, these early peoples used tree bark, clay plates, stone slabs, a form of parchment made from cocked hides, and a crude type of paper-like material taken from wasps' nests.

The library of Dalamatia, destroyed soon after Caligastia's disloyalty, comprised more than two million separate records and was called "the house of Fad.

((746.8) 66:5.10 The blue man had a predilection for writing with the alphabet and made great progress in this respect.

The red man preferred pictography, while the yellow races tended toward the use of symbols for words and ideas, much as they do today.

But the alphabet and many other things were lost to the world during the confusion resulting from the rebellion.

The desertion of Caligastia destroyed the world's hope of a universal language, at least for long ages.

(747.1) 66:5.11 5. The commission on industry and commerce. 

This council was concerned with fostering industry within the tribes and promoting trade among the various peaceable groups.

Its guide was Nod.

This body encouraged all forms of manufacturing.

They contributed directly to the raising of the standard of living, providing many new commodities to attract primitive men.

They greatly expanded the trade in improved salt, produced by the council of the sciences and arts.

(747.2) 66:5.12 Commercial credit was first practiced among these enlightened groups who were trained in the schools of Dalamatia.

From a central credit exchange they obtained tokens, accepted in lieu of the barter objects themselves.

The world did not improve on these methods of trade for hundreds of thousands of years.

(747.3) ^66:5.13 6. The college of revealed religion. 

This corps was slow in functioning.

Civilization on earth was literally forged between the anvil of necessity and the hammers of fear.

But this group had made considerable progress in its effort to substitute creature fear for Creator fear (specter worship) before its labors were interrupted by the confusion resulting from the separatist uprising.

The head of this council was Hap.

(66:5.14 No one in the Prince's staff wished to present the revelation to complicate evolution; they presented the revelation only as a climax after the forces of evolution had been exhausted.

But Hap did yield to the desire of the city dwellers to establish a form of religious service.

His group gave the Dalamatians the seven songs of worship and also gave them the daily laudatory phrase; and subsequently, he taught them "the Father's prayer," which read:

(747.5) 66:5.15 "Father of all, whose Son we honor, look upon us with favor.

 Redeem us from all fear except the fear of you.

Cause us to please our divine teachers and put truth on our lips forever and ever.

Redeem us from violence and wrath; give us respect for our elders and for what belongs to our neighbor.

Give us in this season green pastures and fruitful flocks to gladden our hearts.

We pray for the speedy arrival of the promised uplifter, and we wish to do your will in this world as others do in the worlds beyond."

(747.6) 66:5.16 While the Prince's staff confined themselves to natural means and ordinary methods of race improvement, they were promised the Adamic gift of a new race as the goal of subsequent evolutionary development, when the summit of biologic development was reached.

(747.7) 66:5.16 7. The guardians of health and life. 

This council was concerned with teaching sanitation and promoting primitive measures of hygiene, and Lut directed it.

(747.8) 66:5.18 Much of what its members taught was lost during the confusion of subsequent ages, which was only rediscovered in the twentieth century.

They taught mankind that cooking, boiling, and roasting were means of preventing disease; also that such preparations greatly reduced infant mortality and facilitated early weaning.

(66:5.19 Many of the early teachings of Lut's guardians about health endured among the tribes of the land until the days of Moses, although they were much confused and considerably changed.

(66:5.20 The greatest obstacle to the teaching of the rules of hygiene to these ignorant peoples lay in the fact that the true causes of many diseases are too small to be seen with the naked eye; this was combined with the superstitious fear of fire of these primitive beings.

It took thousands of years to persuade them to incinerate garbage.

In the meantime, they were urged to bury rotting waste.

The great sanitary breakthrough of this era was the spread of information about the healing and health-promoting properties of sunlight.

(748.1) 66:5.20 The greatest obstacle to the teaching of hygienic rules to these ignorant peoples lay in the fact that the real causes of many diseases are too small to be seen with the naked eye; this was combined with the superstitious fear these primitive beings had of fire.

It took thousands of years to persuade them to incinerate garbage.

In the meantime, they were urged to bury rotting waste.

The great sanitary breakthrough of this era was the spread of information about the healing and health-promoting properties of sunlight.

(748.2) 66:5.21 Before the Prince's arrival, bathing was an exclusively religious ceremony.

Indeed, it was difficult to persuade primitive men to wash their bodies as a sanitary practice.

Finally, Lut induced the religious teachers to include ablutions in the purification ceremonies to be practiced in connection with noon devotions once a week in worship of the Father of all.

(748.3) 66:5.22 These health guards also tried to teach the handshake as a seal of friendship and as a symbol of group loyalty, replacing the practice of exchanging spittle or drinking each other's blood.

But when not pressed by the obligation of the teachings of their higher guides, these primitive peoples soon reverted to their former ignorant and superstitious practices which destroyed health and fostered disease.

(748.4) 66:5.23 8. The planetary council of the arts and sciences. 

This body contributed much to the improvement of primitive man's industrial technique and to the elevation of his concepts of beauty.

Its leader was Mek.

(748.5) 66:5.24 The arts and sciences were of very low status throughout the world; nevertheless, the Dalamatians were imparted the rudiments of physics and chemistry.

Pottery advanced, all the decorative arts improved, and the canons of human beauty were greatly enhanced.

But music made very little progress until after the arrival of the violet race.

(66:5.25 These primitive men did not consent to experiment with steam power, notwithstanding the repeated exhortations of their teachers; they could never overcome their great fear of the explosive power of confined steam.

Eventually they were persuaded to work metals and fire, although, to primitive man, a piece of red-hot metal was a terrifying object.

(66:5.26 Mek contributed much to the advancement of the culture of the Andonites and to the improvement of the art of the blue man.

A blending of the blue man with the Andon stock produced an artistically gifted type, and many among them became master sculptors.

They worked neither stone nor marble, but their kiln-hardened clay works adorned the gardens of Dalamatia.

(748.8) 66:5.27 Great progress was made in home economics, much of which was lost during the prolonged and obscure age of rebellion and was not rediscovered until modern times.

(748.9) ^66:5.28 9. The governors of the advanced tribal relationships. 

This was the group entrusted with the task of elevating human society to the level of statehood.

Their chief was Tut.

(748.10) 66:5.29 These leaders did much to encourage intermarriage between members of different tribes.

They advised a period of courtship, and marriage after due deliberation and full opportunity to become acquainted.

Dances of a purely military character were refined and modified to suit valuable social purposes.

Many competitive games were introduced, but these ancient people were serious; these primitive tribes were little distinguished for their humor.

Few of these practices survived the disintegration subsequent to the planetary insurrection.

(66:5.29 These leaders did much to encourage marriage between members of different tribes.

They advised a period of courtship, and marriage after due deliberation and full opportunity for acquaintance.

Dances of a purely military character were refined and modified to suit valuable social purposes.

Many competitive games were introduced, but these ancient people were serious; these primitive tribes were little distinguished for their humor.

Few of these practices survived the disintegration subsequent to the planetary insurrection.

(66:5.30 Tut and his associates endeavored to promote peaceable associate groups, to regulate and humanize warfare, to co-ordinate intertribal relations, and to improve tribal governments.

In the vicinity of Dalamatia a more advanced culture developed, and these improved social relations exerted a beneficial influence upon the more remote tribes.

But the pattern of civilization prevailing at the Prince's headquarters was very different from the barbaric society evolving elsewhere; just as the twentieth or twenty-first century society of Cape Town, South Africa, bears no resemblance to the crude culture of the diminutive bushmen of the north.

(749.2) ^66:5.31 10. The supreme court of tribal co-ordination and racial co-operation. 

Van headed this supreme council, which constituted the court of appeals for all the other nine commissions charged with the supervision of human affairs.

This council had broad functions, dealing with all matters of earthly concern that did not specifically pertain to the other groups.

This highly selected group had been approved by the Constellation Fathers of Edentia before it was authorized to assume functions of the supreme court of Earth.

6. The Prince's Reign

(749.3) 66:6.1 The level of culture of a world is measured by the social legacy of its native beings, and the degree of cultural expansion depends exclusively upon the ability of its inhabitants to comprehend new and advanced ideas.

(749.4) 66:6.2 Slavery to tradition produces stability and co-operation by sentimentally linking the past with the present; but, at the same time, it stifles initiative and fetters the creative powers of personality.

When the Caligastia Hundred arrived and began to proclaim this new creed of individual initiative within the social groups of those days, everyone participated in the morass of tradition-bound customs.

But this beneficent regime was discontinued after so short a time that the races were never completely freed from the bondage of custom; fashion is still on earth a force of undue domination.

(66:6.3 The Caligastia one hundred - graduates of the mansion worlds of Satania - were well acquainted with the arts and culture of Jerusem, but such knowledge is almost useless on a savage planet, populated by primitive humans.

These wise beings knew better than to undertake the sudden transformation, or massive uplift, of the primitive races of that age.

They well understood the slow evolution of the human species, and they prudently refrained from any radical attempt to modify man's mode of life on earth.

(66:6.4 Each of the ten planetary commissions slowly and naturally approached the furtherance of the interests with which they had been entrusted.

 Their plan was to attract the best intellects from the surrounding tribes and, having prepared them, to send them back to their respective people as emissaries of social uplift.

(66:6.5 Foreign emissaries were never sent to any race unless a specific request was made by the group itself.

Those who worked for the elevation and advancement of a given tribe or race were always natives of that tribe or race.

The Hundred did not wish to impose habits and customs on any tribe, not even those of a superior race.

They always managed patiently to elevate and advance the time-tested customs of each race.

The simple people of earth brought their social customs with them to Dalamatia, not to exchange them for better and new practices, but to cause them to be elevated by contact with a higher culture and by association with higher intellects.

The process was slow, but it had an effect.

(66:6.6 The Dalamatia teachers sought to add conscious social selection to the purely natural selection of biologic evolution.

They did not disrupt human society, but they did markedly accelerate its natural and normal evolution.

Their motive was progression by evolution and not revolution by revelation.

It had taken the human race many ages to acquire what little religion and moral principles it had, and these supermen knew better than to rob mankind of these few advances, for confusion and consternation ensue whenever enlightened higher beings undertake the uplifting of backward races in the form of excessive scholarship and enlightenment.

(66:6.7 When Christian missionaries go into the heart of Africa, where it is customary for children to remain under the control and direction of their parents as long as the latter are alive, they only cause confusion and the disintegration of all authority if, in a single generation, they attempt to supersede this practice by teaching that children are to be freed from all parental restraint upon attaining the age of twenty-one.

7. Life in Dalamatia

(750.3) 66:7.1 The headquarters of the Prince, though of exquisite beauty and designed to instill reverent awe in the primitive man of that age, was in reality modest.

The buildings were not particularly large, for the motive of these imported masters was to stimulate the further development of agriculture by the introduction of animal husbandry.

The land provision within the city walls was sufficient to supply the population of nearly twenty thousand by pasturing and horticulture.

(750.4) 66:7.2 The interiors of the central temple of worship and the ten mansions of the councils of the superhuman supervisory groups were indeed beautiful works of art.

And while the residential buildings were models of order and cleanliness, everything was very simple and altogether primitive in comparison with later development.

In this headquarters of culture no methods were employed which did not pertain to the natural order by using chiefly the material elements of the earth.

(750.5) 66:7.3 The Prince's corporeal staff was provided with simple and exemplary dwellings, homes designed to inspire and favorably impress the observing students who temporarily resided in the social center and educational headquarters of the world.

(66:7.4 The definite order of family life and single-family residence in a single dwelling of comparatively stable location dates from these Dalamatia times and is largely due to the example and teachings of the one hundred and their disciples.

The home as a social unit did not gain acceptance until the supermen and superwomen of Dalamatia induced mankind to love and plan for their grandchildren and their grandchildren's children.

Savage man loves his children, but civilized man loves his grandchildren also.

(66:7.5 The Prince's staff lived together as fathers and mothers.

 Though they had no children of their own, the fifty model homes of Dalamatia never harbored less than five hundred adopted little ones, selected from the superior families of the Andonic and Sangik races; many of these children were orphans.

They enjoyed the privilege of the discipline and teachings of these superparents; and then, at the end of three years in the Prince's schools (which they entered between the ages of thirteen and fifteen), they were candidates for marriage and for their commission as emissaries of the Prince to the less advanced tribes of their respective races.

(751.1) 66:7.6 Fad sponsored the Dalamatian plan of education, which was carried on as an industrial school, in which the pupils learned by doing, by performing useful tasks on a daily basis.

This educational plan did not neglect the area of thought and feeling to form character; but it gave the highest priority to manual training.

Instruction was individual and collective.

Both men and women, separately and together, gave instruction to the pupils.

Half of these group courses were segregated by sex; the other half were mixed.

Students were taught manual dexterity individually and were socialized in groups or collective classes.

They were taught to fraternize with younger groups, older groups and adults, as well as to work in teams with peers.

They were also familiarized with associations such as family groups, play teams, and school classes.

(751.2) 66:7.7 Among the latest students trained in Mesopotamia to work with their respective races were the Andonites of the western Indian highlands along with representatives of the red man and the blue man; still later on, a limited number of the yellow race were also taken in.

(751.3) 66:7.8 Hap presented the primitive races with a moral code.

This code was known by the name of "the Father's Way" and consisted of the following seven commandments:

(751.4) 66:7.9 1. Do not fear or serve any other God but the Father of all.

(751.5) 66:7.10 2. Do not disobey the Son of the Father, the world ruler, nor disrespect his superhuman associates.

(751.6) 66:7.11 3. Do not lie when appearing before the judges of the people.

(751.7) 66:7.12 4. Do not kill men, women, or children.

(751.8) 66:7.13 5. Do not steal your neighbor's property or livestock.

(751.9) 66:7.14 6. Do not touch your friend's wife.

(751.10) 66:7.15 7. Do not disrespect your parents or the elders of the tribe.

(66:7.16 This was the legal code of Dalamatia for nearly three hundred thousand years.

And much of the stones upon which this code was inscribed now lie beneath the waters off the coasts of Mesopotamia and Persia.

It became the custom to bring one of these commandments to mind each day of the week, using it as a greeting and as a thanksgiving at mealtimes.

(66:7.17 At this time time time was measured according to the lunar month, which was reckoned twenty-eight days.

This was, with the exception of day and night, the only measure of time known to these early peoples.

The Dalamatian teachers introduced the seven-day week which arose from the fact that the number seven is the fourth part of twenty-eight.

 The significance of the number seven in the superuniverse doubtless afforded them the opportunity to introduce spiritual elements into the ordinary consideration of time.

But the weekly period is not of natural origin.

(66:7.18 The countryside around the city was fairly well settled within a radius of one hundred and sixty miles.

In the vicinity of the city, hundreds of graduates of the Prince's schools practiced animal husbandry, or else they put into practice the instruction they had received from the Prince's staff and his numerous human assistants.

A few practiced agriculture and horticulture.

(751.14) 66:7.19 Mankind were not destined for the drudgery of agriculture as a punishment for supposed sin.

"In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat the fruit of the ground" was not the punishment for man's participation in the follies of Lucifer's rebellion under the leadership of the treacherous Caligastia.

The tilling of the soil is inherent in the establishment of a progressive civilization of the evolutionary worlds, and this precept was at the very heart of the teaching of the Planetary Prince and his retinue throughout the three hundred thousand years between their arrival on earth and those tragic days when Caligastia shared the fate of the rebel Lucifer.

 The tilling of the soil is not a curse; rather is it the highest blessing that can be bestowed upon all who can thus enjoy the most humane of all human activities.

(66:7.20 At the outbreak of the rebellion, Dalamatia had a resident population of nearly six thousand.

This figure includes ordinary students, but does not include visitors and observers, who always numbered over a thousand.

Nevertheless, of the little or no concept you may have, the prodigious progress of those far-off times; the terrible confusion and abject spiritual darkness which followed the Caligastia catastrophe of deception and sedition annihilated almost all the marvelous discoveries of the humans of those days.

8. Misfortunes of Caligastia

(752.2) 66:8.1 In recalling Caligastia's long career, we find but one feature of his conduct which might have attracted attention; he was exceedingly individualistic.

He had a propensity to side with almost any protest group and tended to sympathize with those who mildly expressed implicit criticism.

 We detected an early tendency to become impatient with higher authority and to slightly resent supervision.

Despite his incipient resentment of the advice of his superiors and his impatience with authority, whenever he was tested, he demonstrated his loyalty to the rulers of the universe and obeyed the commands of the Constellation Fathers.

Up to the time of his opprobrious betrayal of earth, in fact, no fault had been imputed to him.

(752.3) 66:8.2 It should be noted that Lucifer and Caligastia had been patiently informed and lovingly warned as to their critical tendencies and the subtle development of their self-pride and self-conceit.

 However, all these attempts to help had been interpreted by them as unfounded criticism and unwarranted intrusion into personal liberties.

According to Caligastia and Lucifer, their well-meaning advisers were acting according to the same reprehensible motives which were beginning to dominate their own distorted thinking and misguided plans.

They judged their generous advisers through their own increasingly selfish eyes.

(752.4) 66:8.3 From the arrival of Prince Caligastia onward, planetary civilization progressed quite normally for nearly three hundred thousand years.

Apart from being a sphere of life modification, and therefore prone to numerous irregularities and unusual episodes of evolutionary fluctuation, your planet Earth progressed very satisfactorily in its planetary trajectory up to the time of the Lucifer rebellion and the simultaneous betrayal of Caligastia.

This catastrophic blunder as well as the subsequent failure of Adam and Eve to fulfill their planetary mission modified the entire subsequent history of the planet.

(66:8.4 The Prince of Earth entered darkness at the time of the Lucifer rebellion, thus hastening the prolonged confusion of the planet.

He was subsequently deprived of his sovereign authority by the co-ordinated action of the constellation rulers and other universe authorities.

He shared in the inevitable vicissitudes of your isolated planet Earth up to the time of Adam's sojourn on the planet and contributed in part to the failure of the plan conceived to uplift the mortal races by the infusion of the lifeblood of the new violet race-the descendants of Adam and Eve.

(753.1) 66:8.5 In the days of Abraham, the power of the fallen Prince as a disturber of human affairs was greatly curtailed by the mortal incarnation of Machiventa Melchizedek; and later, during the life of Michael (Jesus) in the flesh, this traitorous Prince was, finally, stripped of all authority on earth.

(66:8.6 While the doctrine of a personal devil on earth had some foundation in the planetary presence of the perfidious and iniquitous Caligastia, it was, nevertheless, wholly fictitious in that it taught that such a "devil" could influence the normal human mind against its free and natural agency.

Even before the bestowal of Michael (Jesus) on earth, neither Caligastia nor Daligastia could ever oppress mortals or compel normal individuals to commit an action contrary to human will.

Man's free will is supreme in moral affairs; even the indwelling Thought Preceptor refuses to compel man to think a single thought or commit a single action contrary to man's free will.

(753.3) 66:8.7 And now, this rebel of the realm, stripped of all power to harm his former subjects, awaits the final sentence of the Ancients of Days of Uversa for all who participated in Lucifer's rebellion.

(753.4) 66:8.8 [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]