Is it normal for planets to receive a religious revelation exclusively authored by celestial beings? Is there a specific reason why the celestial beings choose to intervene in this way?
[print] [email] Thanks for this great question! On evolutionary planets, epochal revelation from celestial beings is part of the normal progression of events. Within one hundred years of man’s achieving an upright posture, the Planetary Prince arrives, bringing a “new dispensation.” “The prince and his staff make the first revelations of higher truth and universe organization” to the primitive races of man. Following this dispensation, which can last as long as 500,000 years, there comes the Adamic dispensation (Adam and Eve) who introduce agriculture and horticulture, and ultimately, the gift of their life plasm, which upsteps the races intellectually and accelerates spiritual progress. As you likely know, on Urantia, both of these dispensations met with at least partial failure – the Planetary Prince through the Lucifer Rebellion, and the Adamic dispensation by default of Adam and Eve in their stated mission. Since then, our world has been on an abnormal course, as it was plunged int
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