Re: The benefits of reading the Urantia Book
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:06 am
Re: "This is the great age of racial dispersion, and it culminates in a period of intense nationalism. Color is the basis of tribal and national groupings, and the different races often develop separate languages." (52:2.5)
Skin color is probably the best clue about the UB's categorization of the nine world races ... and hints that ancient DNA might some day reveal when skin color differentiated humans. The subtlety of this color spectrum association (ROYGBI,V) seems that Urantia's life plasm (DNA?) for humans was coded to profit from the long separation of the newly evolving colored races. And skin color provided early humans with the visible means by which to align as distinct groups, alignment that was probably anticipated by the Life Carriers*.
While skin color in recent millennia is hardly indicative of the original nine races, it served the Life Carriers' purpose of isolating the nine races sufficiently long enough for DNA to select the preferred traits of those races ... which would then "compete/merge" during unending racial amalgamation thereafter.
* "The planetary life-planning laboratories are situated on the second satellite of this world number two. In these laboratories the Life Carriers and all their associates collaborate with the Melchizedeks in the effort to modify and possibly improve the life designed for implantation on the decimal planets of Nebadon. The life now evolving on Urantia was planned and partially worked out on this very world, for Urantia is a decimal planet, a life-experiment world. On one world in each ten a greater variance in the standard life designs is permitted than on the other (nonexperimental) worlds." (36:2.15)
Rod
Skin color is probably the best clue about the UB's categorization of the nine world races ... and hints that ancient DNA might some day reveal when skin color differentiated humans. The subtlety of this color spectrum association (ROYGBI,V) seems that Urantia's life plasm (DNA?) for humans was coded to profit from the long separation of the newly evolving colored races. And skin color provided early humans with the visible means by which to align as distinct groups, alignment that was probably anticipated by the Life Carriers*.
While skin color in recent millennia is hardly indicative of the original nine races, it served the Life Carriers' purpose of isolating the nine races sufficiently long enough for DNA to select the preferred traits of those races ... which would then "compete/merge" during unending racial amalgamation thereafter.
* "The planetary life-planning laboratories are situated on the second satellite of this world number two. In these laboratories the Life Carriers and all their associates collaborate with the Melchizedeks in the effort to modify and possibly improve the life designed for implantation on the decimal planets of Nebadon. The life now evolving on Urantia was planned and partially worked out on this very world, for Urantia is a decimal planet, a life-experiment world. On one world in each ten a greater variance in the standard life designs is permitted than on the other (nonexperimental) worlds." (36:2.15)
Rod