Symmetry of Soul Tuesdays

In every ''living'' plant or animal cell, in every ''living'' organism—material or spiritual—there is an insatiable craving for the attainment of ever-increasing perfection of environmental adjustment, organismal adaptation, and augmented life realization. These interminable efforts of all living things evidence the existence within them of an innate striving for perfection. The reading encompassed Paper 65:5-6, p. 736

Do not overlook the fact that Urantia was designated—prelife—as a life-experiment world. But the establishment of life on no world is ever experimental in the sense that something untried and unknown is attempted. The evolution of life is a technique ever progressive, differential, and variable, but never haphazard, uncontrolled, nor wholly experimental, in the accidental sense. The reading encompassed Paper 65:4, p. 734

Mankind on Urantia must solve its problems of mortal development with the human stocks it has—no more races will evolve from prehuman sources throughout all future time. But this fact does not preclude the possibility of the attainment of vastly higher levels of human development through the intelligent fostering of the evolutionary potentials still resident in the mortal races. The reading encompassed Paper 65:2.12-3.7, p. 733

The frog is one of the earliest of surviving human-race ancestors, and also one of the stationary types of early and lower animals, branches of the tree of life which failed to progress, persisting today much as in those remote times. The frog is the only species ancestor of the early dawn races now living on the face of the earth. The human race has no surviving ancestry between the frog and the Eskimo. The reading encompassed Paper 65:2.2-11, p. 731

The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival. Man’s primordial ancestors were literally the slime and ooze of the ocean bed in the sluggish and warm-water bays and lagoons of the vast shore lines of the ancient inland seas, those very waters in which the Life Carriers implanted evolutionary material life. The reading encompassed Paper 65:0.1-2.1, p. 730

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, European culture experienced a newfound opportunity for blending in the cosmopolitan population of North America; and the future of this continent will be determined by the quality of the racial factors which subsequently have been, and in the future will be, permitted to enter into its populations, as well as by the level of the social culture which is maintained. The reading encompassed Paper 80:9, p. 897

The Andites who finally settled in Greece consisted of three hundred and seventy-five of the selected and superior people comprising the end of the second civilization of the Adamsonites. These later sons of Adamson carried the then most valuable strains of the emerging white races. They were of a high intellectual order and, physically regarded, the most beautiful of men since the days of the first Eden. The reading encompassed Paper 80:7.3-8.5, p. 895

The Cro-Magnoid blue man constituted the biologic foundation for the modern European races, but they have survived only as absorbed by the later and virile conquerors of their homelands. The blue strain contributed many sturdy traits and much physical vigor to the white races of Europe, but the humor and imagination of the blended European peoples were derived from the Andites. The reading encompassed Paper 80:5.1-7.2, p. 893

The European civilization of the early post-Adamic period was a unique blend of the vigor and art of the racially diverse blue men with the creative imagination of the Adamites. The blue men were perfectly honest in all their dealings and were wholly free from the sexual vices of the mixed Adamites. They respected maidenhood, only practicing polygamy when war produced a shortage of males. The reading encompassed Paper 80:3-4, p. 891

Although the European blue man did not of himself achieve a great cultural civilization, he did supply the biologic foundation which, when its Adamized strains were blended with the later Andite invaders, produced one of the most potent stocks for the attainment of aggressive civilization ever to appear on Urantia since the times of the violet race and their Andite successors. The reading encompassed Paper 80:0-2, p. 889