Eugene Delacroix’s painting of 1830 depicts the goddess warrior, Liberty, triumphantly leading the peasants of France in their revolt against the materialistic extravagances of the ruling classes.
Liberty symbolizes revolution against materialism in the same manner that all humans must revolt against materialism to salvage their souls and attain Heaven.
The current status of the world is firmly in the grip of materialistic chaos. Storming Heaven's Gate – Part One discussed the promise and the dilemma faced by both the individual and the world.
In Storming Heaven's Gate – Part Two, the current world crisis and the divine plan for recovery is presented.
Mortal creatures living on a sin-stricken, evil-dominated, self-seeking, isolated world, such as Earth, can hardly conceive of the physical perfection, the intellectual attainment, and the spiritual development that characterize the advanced epochs of evolution on a sinless sphere.
As worlds advance in the settled status of Light and Life, society becomes increasingly peaceful. The individual, while no less independent and devoted to his family, becomes more altruistic and fraternal.
Mortals on Earth can have little appreciation of the advanced status and progressive nature of the enlightened races of these perfected worlds. These people are the flowering of the evolutionary races. But such beings are still mortal; they continue to breathe, eat, sleep, and drink. This evolutionary ascendance is not heaven, but it is a foreshadowing of the divine worlds of the Paradise ascent.
At this point in evolution on a normal world, the biologic fitness of the mortal race was long since brought up to a high level. The population would have become stationary in numbers. Reproduction would be regulated in accordance with planetary requirements and innate hereditary endowments. The mortals on a planet during this age are divided into five to ten groups. The lower groups are permitted to produce only one half as many children as the higher. The continued improvement of such a race throughout the era of Light and Life is largely a matter of the selective reproduction of those racial strains that exhibit superior qualities of a social, philosophic, cosmic, and spiritual nature.
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The History of Evolution on Earth
The Enormity of Creation
The central universe is the creation of eternity [the existential gods]. The seven super universes are the creations of time [the experiential sons of the existential gods]. The four outer space levels are destined to eventuate-evolve the ultimacy [beyond time and space] of creation. There are theorists who maintain that the Infinite can never attain full expression short of infinity; and therefore they postulate an additional and unrevealed creation beyond the fourth and outermost space level, a possible ever-expanding, never-ending universe of infinity. In theory. We (the authors of The Book of Urantia) do not know how to limit either the infinity of the Creator or the potential infinity of creation, but as it now exists and is administered, we regard the master universe (all of creation) as having limitations, as being definitely limited and bounded.
All of the existing and the continually expanding creation is constructed from the basic ultimaton fragments of the Unqualified Absolute who is energy-matter. Ultimatons combine to eventually become atoms. In Time and Space such atoms eventually evolve into human forms during one phase of evolution. Each human form is composed of a "master" fragment of the Unqualified Absolute supported by multitudes of less evolved fragments comprising the assembly of body organs (each with their own master fragment). The term master is used in the same sense that the apostles called Jesus Master or the head of a household is called master.
The Domains of the Unqualified Absolute
When Urantia [Earth] astronomers peer through their increasingly powerful telescopes into the mysterious stretches of outer space and behold the amazing evolution of almost countless physical universes, they should realize that they are gazing upon the mighty outworking of the plans of the Architects of the Master Universe.
We (the authors) possess evidence that suggest the presence of certain Paradise personality influences throughout the vast energy manifestations now characteristic of the outer regions of creation, but from the larger viewpoint the space regions extending beyond the outer borders of the seven super universes are generally recognized as constituting the domains of the Unqualified Absolute [the non-person, non-deity ruler of energy and matter].
Although the unaided human eye can see only two or three nebulae beyond the borders of Earth's seventh super universe of Orvonton, your telescopes literally reveal millions upon millions of these physical universes in process of formation. Most of the starry realms visually exposed to the search of your present-day telescopes are within the seventh super universe of Orvonton, but with photographic technique the larger telescopes penetrate far beyond the borders of the grand universe. The grand universe is the sphere of the time-space descent of Paradise personalities in association with the time-space ascension of evolutionary creatures into the domains of outer space, where untold universes are in process of organization. There are other millions of universes beyond the range of your present instruments.
New Discoveries
In the not too distant future, newer orbiting telescopes will reveal to the wondering gaze of Earth's astronomers no less than 375 million new galaxies in the remote stretches of outer space. At the same time the more powerful telescopes will disclose that many of the island universes formerly believed to be in outer space are really a part of the galactic system of Orvonton [Earth's super universe].
The seven super universes are still growing; the periphery of each is gradually expanding; new nebulae are constantly being stabilized and organized; and some of the nebulae which Earth's astronomers regard as extra-galactic are actually on the fringe of Orvonton and are orbiting Paradise along with Earth.
Uversa [the capital of Overton, the seventh super universe] star students observe that the grand universe is surrounded by the ancestors of a series of star and planetary clusters that completely encircle the present inhabited creation as concentric rings of outer universes upon universes.
Monumental Amount of Energy and Matter
The physicists of Uversa calculate that the energy and matter of these outer and uncharted regions already equal many times the total material mass and energy charge embraced in all seven super universes.
We (the authors) are informed that the metamorphosis of cosmic force in these outer space levels is a function of the Paradise force organizers. We also know that these forces are ancestral to those physical energies which at present activate the grand universe. The Orvonton [Earth's super universe] power directors, however, have nothing to do with these far-distant realms, neither are the energy movements therein discernibly connected with the power circuits of the organized and inhabited creations.
We know very little of the significance of these tremendous phenomena of outer space. A greater creation of the future is in process of formation. We can observe its immensity, we can discern its extent and sense its majestic dimensions, but otherwise we know little more about these realms than do the astronomers of Earth. As far as we know, no material beings on the order of humans, no angels or other spirit creatures, exist in this outer ring of nebulae, suns, and planets. This distant domain is beyond the jurisdiction and administration of the super universe governments.
Throughout Orvonton, it is believed that a new type of creation is in process, an order of universes destined to become the scene of the future activities of the assembling Corps of the Finality [the goal of mortals]; and if our conjectures are correct, then the endless future may hold for all of you the same enthralling spectacles that the endless past has held for your predecessors.
The Long Path to Personality
Becoming a person is the apex of a long path of evolution through the physical energies and forms.
A person is the god of his own universe of evolved body cells and organs.
A person is a microscopic version of the Supreme who is seeking god status over all personalities in the universes of time and space.
From Ultimaton, to Matter, to Human Form
The ultimaton is the first measurable form of energy. It has Paradise as its nucleus. Ultimatonic matter consists of the energy particles that make up electrons. One hundred ultimatons are the equivalent of one electron.
The formation of all matter is analogous to the solar system. There is at the center of every minute universe of energy a relatively stable, comparatively stationary, nuclear portion of material existence. This central unit is endowed with a threefold possibility of manifestation [material, mindal, and spiritual].
Surrounding this energy center there whirl, in endless profusion but in fluctuating circuits, the energy units that are faintly comparable to the planets encircling the sun of some star group like Earth's solar system.
Within the atom the electrons revolve about the central proton with about the same comparative room the planets have as they revolve about the sun in the space of the atomic solar system. There is the same relative distance, in comparison with actual size, between the atomic nucleus and the inner electronic circuit as exists between the inner planet, Mercury, and the sun.
Metamorphic Stimulants
[Metamorphic: pertaining to or characterized by a change of form.]
The blazing suns can transform matter into various forms of energy, but the dark worlds and all outer space can slow down electronic and ultimatonic activity to the point of converting these energies into the matter of the realms.
Certain electronic associations of a close nature, as well as many of the basic associations of nuclear matter, are formed in the exceedingly low temperatures of open space, being later augmented by association with larger accretions of materializing energy.
Throughout all of the never-ending metamorphosis of energy and matter, we must consider the influence of gravity pressure and with the anti-gravity behavior of the ultimatonic energies under certain conditions of temperature, velocity, and revolution. Temperature, energy currents, distance, and the presence of the living force organizers and the power directors also have a bearing on all transmutation phenomena of energy and matter.
The Building Blocks of Matter
The basic building blocks of energy-matter are structured as follows:
1. Ultimaton
2. Neutrino
3. Quark
4. Electron
5. Neutron
6. Mesotron
7. Proton
8. Atom
All forms or materializations are aggregates of these particles that are present throughout the universes. There is no place in space that does not contain these central hubs (building blocks).
It is at this level that energy is converted into matter or back.
Above this level, only force and potential exist. Below this level are aggregations of such particles into the larger and larger forms ranging from atoms to super-galaxies.
All of these manifestations have one thing in common. They are all based on the universal building block of the ultimaton. These particles cluster together into the protons, neutrons, and electrons used to construct atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and super organisms in the relative cosmic reality of time and space.
The Role of the Life Carriers
Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life of the order and forms known on Earth arises with these Sons (the Life Carriers), though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Earth.
The corps of Life Carriers commissioned to plant life upon a new world usually consists of one hundred senior carriers, one hundred assistants, and one thousand custodians.
The Life Carriers often carry actual life plasm to a new world, but not always. They sometimes organize the life patterns after arriving on the planet of assignment in accordance with formulas previously approved for a new adventure in life establishment. Such was the origin of the planetary experimental life on Earth.
The Vital Spark of Life
When, in accordance with approved formulas, the physical patterns have been provided, then the Life Carriers catalyze this lifeless material, imparting through their persons the vital spirit spark; and suddenly, the inert patterns become living matter.
The vital spark - the mystery of life - is bestowed through the Life Carriers, not by them. They do indeed supervise such transactions; they formulate the life plasm itself. But it is the Universe Mother Spirit who supplies the essential factor of the living plasm which provides the energy spark that enlivens the body and heralds the mind.
In the bestowal of life the Life Carriers transmit nothing of their personal natures, not even on those spheres where new orders of life are projected. At such times they simply initiate and transmit the spark of life, start the required revolutions of matter in accordance with the physical, chemical, and electrical specifications of the ordained plans and patterns. Life Carriers are living catalytic presences that agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise inert elements of the material order of existence.
Alternate Scientific Theories Struggling to Explain the Origin of Life (Part 1)
Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor, March 24, 2016, 7 Theories on the Origin of Life.
Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time. But, how did the first organisms on the only known home to life in the universe develop from the primordial soup?
The following are two of the seven theories complied by the science daily Live Science, which suggest the origins of Life.
1. Electric Spark
Electric sparks can generate amino acids and sugars from an atmosphere loaded with water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen, as was shown in the famous Miller-Urey experiment reported in 1953, suggesting that lightning might have helped create the key building blocks of life on Earth in its early days. Over millions of years, larger and more complex molecules could form.
Although research since then has revealed the early atmosphere of Earth was actually hydrogen-poor, scientists have suggested that volcanic clouds in the early atmosphere might have held methane, ammonia and hydrogen and been filled with lightning as well.
2. Community Clay
The first molecules of life might have met on clay, according to an idea elaborated by organic chemist Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
These surfaces might not only have concentrated these organic compounds together, but also helped organize them into patterns much like our genes do now.
The main role of DNA is to store information on how other molecules should be arranged. Genetic sequences in DNA are essentially instructions on how amino acids should be arranged in proteins. Cairns-Smith suggests that mineral crystals in clay could have arranged organic molecules into organized patterns. After a while, organic molecules took over this job and organized themselves.
Science Struggles to Explain the Origin of Life (Part 2)
Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor, March 24, 2016, 7 Theories on the Origin of Life.
Here are two more scientific theories explaining the origin of life.
1. Deep-Sea Vents
The deep-sea vent theory suggests that life may have begun as submarine hydrothermal vents, spewing key hydrogen-rich molecules. Their rocky nooks could have concentrated these molecules together and provided mineral catalysts for critical reactions.
Even now, these vents, rich in chemical and thermal energy, sustain vibrant ecosystems.
2. Chilly Start
Ice might have covered the oceans 3 billion years ago, as the sun was about a third less luminous than it is now. This layer of ice, possibly hundreds of feet thick, might have protected fragile organic compounds in the water below from ultraviolet light and destruction from cosmic impacts. The cold might have also helped these molecules to survive longer, allowing key reactions to happen.
Science Struggles to Explain the Origin of Life (Part 3)
Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor, March 24, 2016, 7 Theories on the Origin of Life.
Here are the last three of the seven theories compiled by the science daily Live Science which suggest the origins of Life.
1. An RNA World
Nowadays DNA needs proteins in order to form, and proteins require DNA to form, so how could these have formed without each other? The answer may be RNA, which can store information like DNA, serve as an enzyme like proteins, and help create both DNA and proteins.
Later DNA and proteins succeeded this "RNA world," because they are more efficient. RNA still exists and performs several functions in organisms, including acting as an on-off switch for some genes. The question still remains how RNA got here in the first place. And while some scientists think the molecule could have spontaneously arisen on Earth, others say that was very unlikely to have happened.
Other nucleic acids other than RNA have been suggested as well, such as the more esoteric PNA or TNA. [RNA: ribonucleic acid, is a nucleic acid present in all living cells. Its principal role is to act as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins, although in some viruses RNA rather than DNA carries the genetic information. Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is an artificially synthesized polymer similar to DNA or RNA. TNA means "Total Nonstop Action," which seems to suggest the desperation for a scientific explanation for the origin of life.]
2. Simple Beginnings
Instead of developing from complex molecules such as RNA, life might have begun with smaller molecules interacting with each other in cycles of reactions. These might have been contained in simple capsules akin to cell membranes, and over time more complex molecules that performed these reactions better than the smaller ones could have evolved, scenarios dubbed "metabolism-first" models, as opposed to the "gene-first" model of the "RNA world" hypothesis.
2. Panspermia
Perhaps life did not begin on Earth at all, but was brought here from elsewhere in space, a notion known as panspermia. For instance, rocks regularly get blasted off Mars by cosmic impacts, and a number of Martian meteorites have been found on Earth that some researchers have controversially suggested brought microbes to Earth, potentially making us all Martians originally.
Other scientists have even suggested that life might have hitchhiked on comets from other star systems. However, even if this concept were true, the question of how life began on Earth would then only change to how life began elsewhere in space.
The Actual Evolutionary Panorama
The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is 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. These inland seas were the waters in which the Life Carriers established three independent life implantations on Earth.
Planetary Commission of Life Carriers
The Life Carriers of a planetary corps are given a certain period in which to establish life on a new world (approximately 500,000 years of the time of that planet). At the termination of this period, indicated by certain developmental attainments of the planetary life, they cease implantation efforts, and they may not subsequently add anything new or supplemental to the life of that planet.
During the ages intervening between life establishment and the emergence of human creatures of moral status, the Life Carriers are permitted to manipulate the life environment and otherwise favorably direct the course of biologic evolution.
When the Life Carriers operating on a new world have succeeded in producing a being with will, with the power of moral decision and spiritual choice, their work terminates. The Life Carriers are not permitted to experiment or to interfere with creatures of free will.
From this point forward the evolution of living things must proceed in accordance with the endowment of the inherent nature and tendencies that have already been imparted to, and established in, the planetary life formulas and patterns.
Activity of the Life Carriers on Earth
600,000,000 years ago the commission of Life Carriers sent out from Jerusem arrived on Earth and began the study of physical conditions preparatory to launching life on world number 606 (Earth) of the Satania system. [Jerusem is the headquarters of Satania, Earth's solar system.]
This was to be the six hundred and sixth experience with the initiation of the Nebadon life patterns in Satania and the sixtieth opportunity to make changes and institute modifications in the basic and standard life designs of the local universe. [The Nebadon life patterns are the expression of the unique and original idea of the Universal Father and Eternal Son in the bestowal of their Paradise Son (Michael) who designed, organized, and rules this local universe, Nebadon.]
993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934) Urantia (Earth) was formally recognized as a planet of human habitation in Earth's local universe of Nebadon. Biologic evolution had once again achieved the human levels of will dignity. Man had arrived on planet 606 (Earth) of Satania.
Motion Is Vital to Reality
The Reality of material existence attaches to energy unrecognized by humans as well as to visible matter.
When the energies of the universe are so slowed down that they acquire the requisite degree of motion, these energies become mass when conditions are favorable.
The fundamental cause of this universe of energy-mass, mind, and spirit, is eternal. It exists and consists in the nature and reactions of the Universal Father and his absolute associates.
Motion, Space, and Time
Just like space, time is a bestowal of Paradise, but only indirectly.
Time occurs by virtue of motion because mind is inherently aware of sequentiality. Therefore, from a practical viewpoint, motion is essential to time.
Space is not infinite, even though it takes origin from Paradise. It is not absolute, for it is pervaded [permeated] by the Unqualified non deity Absolute who is the totality of energy-matter with astronomic potential]. We do not know the absolute limits of space, but we do know that the absolute of time is eternity (within infinity).
Time and space are inseparable only in the time-space creations, (the seven super universes). Space without time theoretically exists, but the only truly non temporal place is the Paradise area.
The relatively motionless mid space zones impinging on Paradise and separating pervaded from unpervaded space are the transition zones from time to eternity. Consequently, it is necessary for Paradise pilgrims to be unconscious during any transit culminating in Paradise citizenship. Time-conscious visitors can go to Paradise without sleeping, but they remain creatures of time.
Evolutionary Striving
There is an original endowment of adaptation in living things and beings.
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, adaptation by organs, and augmented life realization.
The interminable efforts of all living things reveals the existence within them of an innate striving for perfection.
True Success in Life
Some lives are too great and noble to descend to the level of being merely “successful.”
The animal must adapt itself to the environment, but the religious man transcends his environment and in this way escapes the limitations of the present material world through his insight of divine love.
This concept of love generates in the soul of man the super-animal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness.
Evolutionary Strides
The most important step in plant evolution was the development of chlorophyll-making ability. The second greatest advance was the evolution of the spore into the complex seed. The spore is most efficient as a reproductive agent, but it lacks the potentials of variety and versatility inherent in the seed.
One of the most serviceable and complex episodes in the evolution of the higher types of animals consisted in the development of the ability of the iron in the circulating blood cells to perform in the double role of oxygen carrier and carbon dioxide remover. The performance of the red blood cells illustrates how evolving organisms are able to adapt their functions to varying or changing environment.
While the higher animals, including man, oxygenate their tissues by the action of the iron of the red blood cells, which carries oxygen to the living cells and just as efficiently removes the carbon dioxide, other metals can be made to serve the same purpose. The cuttlefish employs copper for this function, and the sea squirt utilizes vanadium.
The continuation of such biologic adjustments is illustrated by the evolution of teeth in the higher Earth mammals; these attained to thirty-six in man’s remote ancestors, and then began an adaptive readjustment toward thirty-two in the dawn man and his near relatives. Now the human species is slowly gravitating toward twenty-eight. The process of evolution is still actively and adaptively in progress on this planet.
Chemical Adjustments
Many seemingly mysterious adjustments of living organisms are purely chemical, wholly physical. At any moment of time, in the blood stream of any human being there exists the possibility of upward of 15,000,000 chemical reactions between the hormone output of a dozen ductless glands.
The lower forms of plant life are wholly responsive to the physical, chemical, and electrical environment. But as the scale of life ascends, one by one, the mind ministries of the seven adjutant spirits become operative, and the mind becomes increasingly adjustive, creative, coordinative, and controlling.
The ability of animals to adapt themselves to air, water, and land is not a supernatural endowment, but it is a super-physical adjustment.
Physics and chemistry alone cannot explain how a human being evolved out of the primeval protoplasm of the early seas. The ability to learn, memorize and respond differently to environment, is the endowment of mind.
The laws of physics are not responsive to training; they are immutable and unchanging. The reactions of chemistry are not modified by education; they are uniform and dependable. Aside from the presence of the Unqualified Absolute, electrical and chemical reactions are predictable. But mind can profit from experience, can learn from reactive habits of behavior in response to repetition of stimuli.
The Power of Mind
Pre-intelligent organisms react to environmental stimuli, but those organisms that are reactive to mind ministry can adjust and manipulate the environment itself.
The physical brain with its associated nervous system possesses innate capacity for response to mind ministry just as the developing mind of a personality possesses a certain innate capacity for spirit receptivity and therefore contains the potentials of spiritual progress and attainment.
Intellectual, social, moral, and spiritual evolution are dependent on the mind ministry of the seven adjutant spirits and their super-physical associates.
Observing the Work of the Seven Adjutant Spirits
Throughout the long evolutionary development of planetary life, the tireless mind ministers registered their increasing ability to contact the successively expanding brain capacities of the progressively superior animal creatures.
At first only the spirit of intuition could function in the instinctive and reflex behavior of the primordial animal life. With the differentiation of higher types of animals, the spirit of understanding was able to endow such creatures with the gift of spontaneous association of ideas. Later on we observed the spirit of courage in operation; evolving animals really developed a crude form of protective self-consciousness.
Subsequent to the appearance of the mammalian groups, we beheld the spirit of knowledge manifesting itself in increased measure. And the evolution of the higher mammals brought the function of the spirit of counsel, with the resulting growth of the herd instinct and the beginnings of primitive social development.
Increasingly, on down through the dawn mammals, the mid-mammals, and the Primates, we had observed the augmented service of the first five adjutants. But never had the remaining two, the highest mind ministers, been able to function in the Earth type of evolutionary mind.
Suddenly [a mutation], the progressing Primates produced two primitive human beings, the actual ancestors of mankind.
The twins [a boy and a girl] were about ten years old when the spirit of worship made its first contact with the mind of the female twin and shortly thereafter with the male. We (the Life Carriers) knew that something closely akin to human mind was approaching culmination; and when, about a year later, they finally resolved, as a result of meditative thought and purposeful decision, to flee from home and journey north, then did the spirit of wisdom begin to function on Earth and in these two now recognized human minds.
[The same seven stages of adjutant mind spirit contact are attempted / accomplished in the mind of every human lifespan.]
Life Carriers' Exhilaration
When the seventh spirit of wisdom began to function on Earth in the two now recognized human minds, there was an immediate and new order of mobilization of the seven adjutant mind-spirits. We were exultant. We realized that the long-waited-for hour was approaching. We knew we were upon the threshold of the realization of our protracted effort to evolve will creatures on Earth.
We did not have to wait long. At noon, the day after the runaway of the twins, there occurred the initial test flash of the universe circuit signals at the planetary reception-focus of Urantia [Earth]. We were, of course, all astir with the realization that a great event was impending; but since this world was a life-experiment station, we had not the slightest idea of just how we would be apprised of the recognition of intelligent life on the planet.
We were not long in suspense. On the third day after the elopement of the twins, and before the Life Carrier corps departed, the archangel of initial planetary circuit establishment arrived on Earth.
Recognition of Earth as an Inhabited World
It was an eventful day on Urantia (Earth) when our small group gathered about the planetary pole of space communication and received the first message from Salvington [the headquarters of our local universe, Nebadon] over the newly established mind circuit of the planet. And this first message, dictated by the chief of the archangel corps, said:
“To the Life Carriers on Urantia — Greetings! We transmit assurance of great pleasure on Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem in honor of the registration on the headquarters of Nebadon of the signal of the existence on Urantia [Earth] of mind of will dignity. The purposeful decision of the twins to flee northward and segregate their offspring from their inferior ancestors has been noted. This is the first decision of mind - the human type of mind - on Urantia and automatically establishes the circuit of communication over which this initial message of acknowledgment is transmitting.”
[Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem, are architectural spheres. They are lighted, heated, and energized by methods which make them quite independent of the suns of space. These spheres were constructed by the living power centers and physical controllers and were designed to exert a powerful influence over energy distribution.]
Admonition and Praise for Life Carriers
Next over the new circuit of planetary communications came the greetings of the Most Highs of Edentia [who rule in the lives of men], containing instructions for the resident Life Carriers forbidding us to interfere with the pattern of life we had established. (It should not be inferred that Life Carriers ever arbitrarily and mechanically interfere with the natural outworking of the planetary evolutionary plans, for we do not.) But up to this time we had been permitted to manipulate the environment and shield the life plasm in a special manner, and it was this extraordinary, but wholly natural, supervision that was to be discontinued.
And no sooner had the Most Highs left off speaking than the beautiful message of Lucifer, then sovereign of the Satania solar system began. This message from Lucifer contained the official acceptance of the Life Carriers’ work on Earth and absolved us from all future criticism of any of our efforts to improve the life patterns of Nebadon as established in the Satania system.
These messages from Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem formally marked the termination of the Life Carriers’ ages-long supervision of the planet. For ages we had been on duty, assisted only by the seven adjutant mind-spirits and the Master Physical Controllers. And now, will, the power of choosing to worship and to ascend, having appeared in the evolutionary creatures of the planet, we knew that our work was finished, and our group prepared to depart.
Earth being a life-modification world, permission was granted to leave behind two senior Life Carriers with twelve assistants, and I was chosen as one of this group and have been on Earth ever since.
It is just 993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934) that Earth was formally recognized as a planet of human habitation in the universe of Nebadon. Biologic evolution had once again achieved the human levels of will dignity. Man had arrived on planet 606 of Satania.
The Modern Evolutionary Landscape
Motion Triggers Evolution
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“This book shows how the need to move has shaped the living world.”
“Human locomotion is wonderfully amenable to personal exploration and experimentation, making us the ideal platform for learning the ropes of biological propulsion. As a species, we’re also surprisingly capable movers by the standards of our close ape relatives.
This is something we usually take for granted - when asked to say what makes us special, most people talk about our superior mental faculties. Yet I’d guess that a similar majority would grant far higher status to elite athletes than to Nobel Prize winners.”
The Evolutionary Narrative of Locomotion
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“In the first step on our historical journey, we explore how our tree-dwelling ancestors became two-legged and eventually left the forests behind. Then, we will briefly divert from our ancestral lineage, to turn our attention to the skies, and to the various origins of the lucky flying animals that now roam therein. Next, we will dive beneath the waves, to examine how natural selection for swimming caused the appearance of the vertebrate backbone. Moving on, we take a closer look at our fishy ancestors, who turned their fins into limbs and crawled onto the land.
As our journey takes us ever deeper, we will learn how the demands of locomotion shaped the fundamental anatomical blueprint of the animal kingdom, with its clearly defined fore-to-aft axis and left/right symmetry. Subsequently, we look into how animals ended up controlling the locomotory movements of their finely honed bodies, thanks to the origin of the nervous system.”
The Major Locomotory Transitions
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“Through the major locomotory transitions noted above, we learn how our ancestral lineage was forged and reforged by the demands of movement, and how biological locomotion works in different environments and on different scales.
Many aspects of the transitions of our evolutionary journey are very obviously related to locomotion - such as the origin of flight, of human two-leggedness, and the transformation of fins to limbs. Other changes have a relationship with movement that might seem a little more surprising. Our much-lauded opposable thumbs, for instance, originally had nothing to do with tool use - the digit’s realignment was a climbing adaptation.
The famous Cambrian explosion - the relatively rapid diversification of animal body types that began about 545 million years ago - was kick-started by crawling adaptations. Perhaps most striking of all, the brain and sensory organs were originally nothing more than a guidance system - a computer - to coordinate the body’s movements to and fro.”
[Cambrian pertains to the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.]
Lifestyles
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“The evolution of locomotion is about far more than legs, wings, and fins - indeed, the deeper we dig, the more apparent it will become that few if any aspects of an animal’s being aren’t related in some way to its present or past adaptations for movement.
By exploring the various occasions when locomotion was abandoned - or rather, ostensibly abandoned, for we’re going to find that the lifestyles of the static owe much to their history of motion. Indeed, I hope to convince you that, strange as it may seem, locomotion has actually dominated the evolution of plants almost as much as it has that of animals.
Although plants themselves usually can’t move around, their seeds and pollen must for the purposes of sexual reproduction and dispersal induce locomotion. These imperatives have impacted not only on the design of the dispersal agents (witness the helicopter-like fruit [seed] of maple trees), but also on the form of the stationary plant that releases them. Height is an obvious dispersal-assisting quality, and flowers are so good at ensuring pollen gets delivered exactly where it needs to go (via insect couriers) that one could regard them as indirect locomotory (relating to, or affecting locomotion) organs.”
Adaptations to Environment
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“A creature’s evolutionary history shouldn’t be regarded as a straitjacket. Adaptations can open doors to future possibility as well as close them, and this is never more likely than when those adaptations have a locomotory impact.
If a creature acquires a new way of moving, through its travels it may end up exposing itself to a whole new set of selective pressures: pressures that might push its descendants in an entirely unexpected evolutionary direction. After all, an organism must experience a new environment before it can adapt to it.”
Challenges of Size
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“The largest locomotory animal - the blue whale - is one thousand million million million times bigger than the smallest - a Mycoplasma bacterium.” [Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that lack a cell wall around their cell membrane.]
“The physical changes across so vast a size range have all kinds of locomotory consequences. An elephant cannot bound around, for instance, because its legs would need to be impractically thick to withstand the enormous forces involved. A mouse, on the other hand, rarely does anything but bound. Air, whose physical presence is barely noticeable to humans in most situations, is positively syrupy to the tiniest flying insects, so they can get away with wings that are just tufts of bristles.”
Complex Environments
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“Flight is a fantastically effective way to get around, but only those creatures that move in the complex world of the forest canopy are ever likely to stumble upon the selective pressures that might eventually make it possible. But the power of locomotion to unlock new ways of living doesn’t just apply to the colonization of new environments.
The adaptive refinement of locomotion in single-celled creatures laid the groundwork for the great multi cellular kingdoms that were to come, before we arrive at last at the most important locomotory transition of all: the beginning of locomotion itself.
Judged on its evolutionary consequences, this was undoubtedly the most significant transition in the history of life since its origin. Before locomotory powers evolved, life was little more than unusually complex chemistry. Once organisms started to move around, however, they began to encounter each other, opening the doors to predation, parasitism, sex, and symbiosis (cooperation). In other words, it was thanks to locomotion that life took on its essential character, and it has had the leading role in the unfolding drama of evolution ever since.”
Mind
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“We have locomotion to thank for more than our body alone. Our curiosity, our joy, even consciousness itself all owe their intangible existence to propulsion. This shaping of our mind by the dance of natural selection and locomotion gives added significance to our search for self-understanding.
We’ve been gifted with an insatiable desire for movement, but this wish has brought us to dangerous territory in recent years, with our locomotory technologies now threatening the health of both our bodies and our minds. Appreciating how we’ve been built by life’s dance is therefore no mere academic concern - it may in the end be our best chance of finding a way to live more healthy, meaningful, and fulfilling lives.”
Human Evolution – A Timeline of the Near and Far Future
http://futurism.com/images/human-evolution-a-timeline-of-the-near-and-far-future-infographic/
This link predicts how human evolution will materialize in stages from 100 years to 100 trillion years and beyond.
While this infographic presentation is interesting from a technological point of view, there is no acknowledgment of any supernatural role in this depiction of human evolution.
[The Urantia Book teaches that Adam and Eve were introduced on Earth as visible biological up-lifters of man following the rebellion of Lucifer and his lieutenants, Satan and Caligastia.
Michael, our local universe creator, who incarnated on Earth as Jesus appointed Machiventa Melchizedek to serve as his surrogate Prince of Urantia (replacing Caligastia). The Urantia Book authors suggest that Melchizedek will introduce a new Adam and Eve couple on Earth when the trial of the rebels and their accomplices is concluded and the quarantine on Earth and the other affected planets is rescinded. The objective of the evolution of man will be primarily spiritual.
Earlier, Melchizedek incarnated on Earth to lead Abraham and the Jews out of their spiritual darkness in preparation for the arrival of their promised Messiah, Michael/Jesus, whom they failed to recognize.]
The Catastrophic Failure of Adam and Eve's Mission
The Urantia (Earth) Problem
The Adamic mission on experimental, rebellion-seared, and isolated (quarantined) Urantia was a formidable undertaking. Nevertheless, Adam and Eve, the superhuman Material Son and Daughter, courageously volunteered for the Earth mission.
Normally, the first work of a Planetary Adam and Eve would be the coordination and blending of the races. But on Earth such a project appeared hopeless, for the human races, while biologically fit, had never been purged of their retarded and defective strains.
Adam and Eve found themselves on a world groping about in abject spiritual darkness and cursed with confusion caused by the miscarriage of the mission by the administration of the rebel Caligastia. Instead of beginning the task of effecting religious unity, they had to begin anew the work of converting the inhabitants to the most simple forms of religious belief. And, instead of finding one language, they were confronted by the world-wide confusion of hundreds upon hundreds of local dialects.
No Adamic pair of the planetary service were ever placed on a more difficult world.
Caligastia’s Plot to Sabotage the Adamic Mission
It must be remembered that Caligastia was still the titular Planetary Prince of Urantia (Earth). He was a misguided but nevertheless high Son of the local universe. (He was not finally deposed until the times of Christ Michael on Earth, as Jesus, (approximately 38,000 years after Adam and Eve's default).
Caligastia paid frequent visits to the Garden of Eden and held many conferences with Adam and Eve. They were adamantly opposed to all his suggestions of short-cut solutions to accomplishing their mission. The wretched conditions outside the garden provided effective immunity against any of his proposals. (Of course, neither Caligastia nor his associate Daligastia had the power to demand individual compliance against their will.)
The fallen Prince elected to try a shrewd assault on the dispirited Eve.
Eve never intended to do anything that would militate against Adam’s plans or jeopardize their planetary trust. Eve had been warned not to attempt any personal or secret methods of furthering the couples' mutual undertaking. Eve scrupulously carried out these instructions for more than one hundred years. It never occurred to her that any danger would attach to the increasingly private meetings she was enjoying with a Nodite leader named Serapatatia. The whole concept developed so gradually and naturally that she was oblivious to the dangers.
[The Nodites were the descendants of the rebel members of the Prince Caligastia's staff, their name deriving from their first leader, Nod, onetime chairman of the Dalamatia commission on industry and trade.]
Initiation of the Temptation of Eve
Adam had just finished his first one hundred years on earth when Serapatatia came into the leadership of the western or Syrian confederation of the Nodite tribes.
Serapatatia had made several visits to the Garden and had become deeply impressed with the righteousness of Adam’s cause. And shortly after assuming the leadership of the Syrian Nodites, he announced his intention of establishing an affiliation with the work of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Adam was cheered by the news that the most powerful and the most intelligent of all the neighboring tribes had decided to support his program for world improvement. Serapatatia became one of the most able and efficient of all of Adam’s lieutenants. He was entirely honest and thoroughly sincere in all of his activities. He was never aware that he was being used as an indirect tool of the wily rebel, Caligastia.
The Divine Biological Uplift Plan
The Divine Biological Uplift Plan called for the intermarriage of Adam and Eve's Children with superior humans. For this reason, Serapatatia held many conferences with Adam and Eve - especially with Eve - and they talked over many plans for improving their methods. One day, during a talk with Eve, it occurred to Serapatatia that it would be very helpful if, while awaiting the supply of large numbers of the violet race* through the birth and aging of Adam and Eve's children, something could be done in the meantime to advance the destitute waiting tribes.
Serapatatia contended that, if the Nodites, as the most progressive and cooperative race, could have a leader born to them of part origin in the violet stock, it would constitute a powerful tie binding these peoples more closely to the Garden. All of this was soberly and honestly considered to be for the good of the world since this potential child, reared and educated in the Garden, would exert a great influence for good over his people.
*[Material Sons vary in height from eight to ten feet, and their bodies glow with the brilliance of radiant light of a violet hue. While material blood circulates through their material bodies, they are also surcharged with divine energy and saturated with celestial light. These Material Sons (the Adams) and Material Daughters (the Eves) are equal to each other, differing only in reproductive nature and in certain chemical endowments. They are equal but diverse, male and female - hence complemental - and are designed to serve on almost all assignments in pairs.]
The Assignation of Cano and Eve
For more than five years the plans of Serapatatia and Eve matured. At last their plan had developed to the point where Eve consented to have a secret conference with Cano, the most brilliant mind and active spiritual leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nodites.
The fateful meeting occurred during the twilight hours of an autumn evening, not far from the home of Adam. Eve had never before met the beautiful and enthusiastic Cano. He was a magnificent specimen of the survival of the superior physique and outstanding intellect of his remote progenitors of the Prince’s staff. Cano also thoroughly believed in the righteousness of the Serapatatia project. (Outside of the Garden, multiple mating was a common practice.)
Influenced by flattery, enthusiasm, and great personal persuasion, Eve then and there consented to embark upon the much discussed enterprise, to add her own scheme of world-saving to the larger and more global divine plan. Eve hardly realized what was transpiring. The fatal step was taken. The metaphorical apple was eaten.
Consequences of Eve's Calamitous Indiscretion:
Loss of the Garden of Eden as a Model for Earth's Human Emulation
Loss of Earth's King and Queen
Desperate not to be separated from his wife, Adam immediately initiated a liaison with Laotta, a brilliant Nodite woman who was head of the western schools of the Garden. Adam with premeditation duplicated Eve's folly.
Adam's motive must not be misconstrued. Adam deliberately chose to share the fate of Eve. He loved his mate with a super mortal affection, and the thought of the possibility of a lonely vigil on Earth without her was more than he could endure.
The progeny of the Cano/Eve and Adam/Laotta assignations were Cain and Abel whose intolerance of each other lead to the sad resolution of their tragic lives. Cain murdered Abel.
Adam and Eve were reduced from superhuman to human status (with the accompanying death experience and the after human death judging and sorting process). Adam and Eve were resurrected after their deaths, absolved of any role in the rebellion, completed their mortal mansion world training. Presently, they serve on the commission of The Four and Twenty. [The Four and Twenty are former humans hailing from the evolutionary worlds, who provide expertise on planetary matters.]
Life Lesson
The lesson for humans to be gained from the Adam and Eve default is that never, in the ascent to Paradise, will ascenders gain anything by impatiently attempting to circumvent the established and divine plan through short cuts, personal inventions, or other strategies for improving on the way or means of perfection, to perfection, and for eternal perfection.
All in all, there probably never was a more disheartening miscarriage of wisdom on any planet in all our local universe of Nebadon. However, it is not surprising that these missteps occur in the affairs of the evolutionary universes. We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is not remarkable that everything does not work perfectly. Our universe was not created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not our origin.
The Role of Slavery in Spiritual Evolution
An Age-Old Concept
[A slave is a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another.]
Primitive man never hesitated to enslave his fellows. Woman was the first slave, a family slave.
Pastoral man (animal herders) enslaved woman as his inferior sex partner. This sort of sex slavery grew directly out of man’s decreased dependence upon woman for herders needed few laborers.
Conquered Peoples
Not too long ago, enslavement was the fate of those military captives who refused to accept the conqueror’s religion. In earlier times captives were either eaten, tortured to death, set to fighting each other, sacrificed to spirits, or enslaved.
Slavery was a great advancement for man over massacre and cannibalism.
Enslavement was a step forward in the merciful treatment of war captives. The ambush of the settlement of the Canaanite city of Ai by the Israelites recorded in the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, with the wholesale slaughter of men, women, and children, is a faithful picture of the barbaric slaughter practiced by even supposedly civilized peoples.
The Hebrew raid upon Og, the Amorite king of Bashan, was equally brutal and effective. The Hebrews “utterly destroyed” their enemies, taking all their property as spoils. They put all cities under tribute on pain of the “destruction of all males.”
Many of the contemporary tribes had begun to practice the adoption of superior captives.
Hunter Societies
The hunters, like the American red man, did not enslave. The American Indian either adopted or killed his captives (until the colonists arrived and purchased the captives from the Indians).
In war, the herders made a practice of killing all men captives and taking as slaves only the women and children. The Mosaic code contained specific directions for making wives of these women captives. If not satisfactory, they could be sent away, but the Hebrews were not allowed to sell such rejected consorts as slaves – even this was an advance in civilization. Though the social standards of the Hebrews were crude, they were far above those of the surrounding tribes.
The Herder Societies
The herders were the first capitalists; their herds represented capital, and they lived on the interest - the propagation. And they were not inclined to trust this wealth to the keeping of either slaves or women.
But later on they took male prisoners and forced them to cultivate the soil. This is the early origin of serfdom - man attached to the land. The Africans were taught to till the soil making them the great slave race.
An Essential Link
Slavery was an indispensable link in the chain of human civilization. It was the bridge over which society passed from chaos and indolence to order and civilized activities.
Slavery compelled backward peoples to work and thus provide wealth and leisure for the social advancement of their superiors.
The institution of slavery compelled man to invent the regulative mechanism of primitive society; it gave origin to the beginnings of government.
Enslavement of American Indians in Colonial America
Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans - they enslaved them, and encouraged Indian tribes to participate in the slave trade. In The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717, Alan Gallay writes that between 1670 and 1715, more Indians were exported into slavery through Charles Town (now Charleston, South Carolina) than Africans were imported. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean.
During the Pequot Indian War (1637), colonists declared the procurement of captives was one of their objectives to supplement their meager work force. The English army sent captured Pequot Indians to Boston and other cities for distribution.
The Movement Away from Slavery
Slavery was oppressive, but man learned industry in the schools of oppression. Eventually the slaves shared the blessings of a higher society that they had unwillingly helped create.
While it is necessary for early social evolution, slavery insidiously attacks society internally as the gravest of all destructive social maladies.
With the exception of female and child sex slave rings, modern mechanical invention has rendered slavery obsolete. Slavery, like polygamy, is passing because it does not pay for itself. But it has always proved disastrous to suddenly liberate great numbers of slaves. Less trouble ensues when they are emancipated gradually.
Today, men are not social slaves, but thousands allow ambition to enslave them to debt. Involuntary slavery has given way to a new and more subtle form of voluntary industrial servitude. This is the theme of Part Two of this book.
While the ideal of society is universal freedom, idleness should not be tolerated. All able-bodied persons should be required to do a self-sustaining amount of work.
Man came up from savagery by way of fire, animals, and slavery. Man is now seeking to wrest new secrets and sources of wealth and power from the elemental storehouse of nature.
Destined Developments for Modern Civilization
Radical Changes Coming
Already underway, a new social order will not settle down complacently for a millennium. The human race must become reconciled to a procession of changes, adjustments, and social disruptions. Mankind is marching toward a new planetary destiny.
Mechanical inventions and the rapid prolific dissemination of knowledge are rapidly modifying civilization. Consequently, economic adjustments and social changes are imperative if cultural disaster is to be avoided.
Despite the miscarriage of the plans for world betterment projected in the missions of Caligastia (former rebel Prince of Earth) and Adam, the basic biological evolution of the human species carried the races forward in the scale of human progress and racial development.
The influence of the violet race (introduced by Adam and Eve) though smaller in numbers than planned, produced an advance in civilization, which since the days of Adam, has far exceeded the progress of mankind throughout its entire prior existence of nearly a million years.
Planned evolution can be delayed but it cannot be stopped.
The Cradle of Civilization
For about thirty-five thousand years after the days of Adam, the cradle of civilization was in southwestern Asia, extending from the Nile valley eastward and slightly to the north across northern Arabia, through Mesopotamia, and on into west and central Asia. Climate was the decisive factor in the establishment of civilization in that area.
Climatic evolution accomplished what all other efforts had failed to do. It compelled Eurasian man to abandon hunting for the more advanced callings of herding and farming.
Since slaves were so generally employed by the earlier agriculturists, the farmer was formerly belittled by both the hunter and the herder. For ages it was considered menial to till the soil. Actually, working the soil is the greatest of all blessings.
Ordinarily, man evolved into a farmer from a hunter by transition through the era of the herder. The evolutionary coercion of climatic necessity caused whole tribes to pass directly from hunters to farmers. But this phenomenon of passing immediately from hunting to agriculture only occurred in those regions where there was a high degree of race mixture with the violet stock (the descendants of Adam and Eve).
Changes Earth Will Experience in the Coming 1000 Year Cycle
One Language
One Religion (an individual religion of Self)
One Race (accomplished through migration and intermarriage)
No Territorial Borders
World Government
World Law and Enforcement
All Citizens Will Share the Benefits of Earth's Resources
Purging of Defective Humans by Universe Administrators (The original plan was never implemented by Caligastia or Adam.)
Destined Developments for Modern Civilization
The Globalization Plan of the Most High
Every quarantined or isolated world (such as Earth) has a Vorondadek Son acting as an observer. (The rulers of the constellations are of the Vorondadek order of local universe son-ship.) When commissioned to active duty in the universe as constellation rulers or otherwise, these Sons are known as the Most Highs since they embody the highest administrative wisdom, coupled with the most farseeing and intelligent loyalty, of all the orders of the Local Universe Sons of God.
It is Earth's Most High observer who “rules in the kingdoms of men.” Earth's Most High observer has been stationed on Earth ever since the betrayal of Caligastia (Earth's deposed planetary prince).
The Most High observer and his staff support the actions of Earth's intellectual elite (the Reserve Corps of Destiny) in global evolutionary progress.
The Reserve Corps of Destiny
The Reserve Corps of Destiny consists of living mortals who have (unknown to them) been admitted to the special service of the superhuman administration of world affairs.
This corps is made up of the men and women of each generation who are chosen by the spirit directors of the realm to assist in the conduct of the ministry of mercy and wisdom to the “children of time” on the evolutionary worlds. It is the general practice in the conduct of the affairs of the ascension plans to begin this liaison utilization of mortal will creatures as soon as they are competent and trustworthy enough to assume such responsibilities.
Accordingly, as soon as men and women appear on the stage of temporal action with sufficient mental capacity, adequate moral status, and requisite spirituality, they are quickly assigned to the appropriate celestial group of planetary personalities as human liaisons.
The Invisible Hand of God
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis, pp. 56-57 and 205-206. (Edited)
The Road to Ruin is a secular unveiling of the plans of the world's elites for the financial management of the world.
Monetary elites are not a shadowy underground, but rather a specific group of individuals - finance ministers, central bankers, academics, journalists, and think tank people. They run wealth management firms from Boston to Beijing. They advise presidents and prime ministers.
True elites operate inside spheres of influence. These include finance, media, technology, the military, and politics. The people in each sphere have their favorite gathering times and places. Media elites gather each July at the Allen & Company Sun Valley conference in Idaho. Central bankers gather in August at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, conference. Military and intelligence elites gather at the Munich Security Conference in early February. Thought leaders and public intellectuals can take their pick from among the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, and the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Vancouver.
These super-elite venues are not industry conventions. They are by invitation only, or come with admission and sponsorship conditions that self-select for power elite participation. One encounters heads of state, cabinet officials, CEO's, and billionaires. The most exclusive gathering is the Bilderberg Meeting, held annually in various locations. Bilderberg has a core group of about forty regular attendees, and a larger group of about one hundred invitees who vary from year to year depending on topical urgency or political ascendancy. The core group are mostly financial and industrial elites; the broader group leans toward policymakers and public intellectuals.
The Agenda of the Elites
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 58). (Edited.)
Elite spear carriers remain influential for decades. The elite agenda is unchanging, pursued in past centuries by Caesar and Napoleon, and in the twentieth century by the Rockefeller, Roosevelt, and Bush dynasties. The agenda thrives today in institutions with innocuous sounding names like The United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.
The agenda of the elites is simple: world money, world taxation, and world order.
The Intellectual Elites
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 206). (Edited.)
Members of the American intellectual elites are graduates and professors of coastal schools such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and inland schools such as the University of Chicago.
The elites whirl from public to private platforms. They greet one another at private dinners on the sidelines at Davos (the World Economic Forum in Switzerland), which is the international organization for public-private cooperation; or in Aspen Colorado at the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, which is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues.
The elites also meet in conclaves in Switzerland at the Basel Institute, which is a multidisciplinary and international team that works around the world with partners in the public and private sector to counter corruption and other financial crimes, and to improve the quality of governance globally.
The intellectual elite control global finance and, by extension, global politics, because politics is constrained by finance.
The elites run the world [under the subtle inducement of the Most High].
The Birth and Waning of America
Epochal Changes
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (p. 320). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
The first industrial revolution (IR #1), based on the steam engine and its offshoots - particularly the railroad, steamships, and the shift from wood to iron and steel - resulted from inventions in the period 1770 to 1820 that were sufficiently important for their exploitation to require most of the nineteenth century.
The second industrial revolution (IR #2) reflected the effects of inventions of the late nineteenth century - particularly electricity and the internal combustion engine - and had its maximum effect on productivity in the half-century 1920 to 1970. Between 1940 and 1970, output per person and output per hour continued to increase rapidly, in part as a result of three of the most important subsidiary spin-offs of IR #2 - air conditioning, the interstate highway system, and commercial air transport - while the world of personal entertainment was forever altered by television.
The third industrial revolution (IR #3), associated with information and communication technology, began in 1960 and continues to this day. Like IR #2, it achieved revolutionary change but in a relatively narrower sphere of human activity. The domain of IR #2 covered virtually the entire span of human wants and needs, including food, clothing, housing, transportation, entertainment, communication, information, health, medicine, and working conditions. In contrast, only a few of these dimensions, in particular entertainment, communications, and information, were revolutionized by IR #3. This single fact, the narrowness of the effects of IR #3, is enough to explain why growth in output per person and output per hour began to slow down after 1970.
The Transformation Wave
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (p. 522). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
Throughout the different dimensions of the growth experience in the U.S. since the Civil War, the decades beyond 1940 do not exhibit the same uniformity of revolutionary change as occurred between 1870 and 1940. Instead, the year 1970 marks a distinct breaking point between faster and slower growth.
The inventions of the second industrial revolution (IR #2) gathered momentum between 1870 and 1920 and then between 1920 and 1970 created the most rapid period of growth in labor productivity experienced in American history, bringing a consummate change from 1870 in most dimensions of human life.
The inventions of the third industrial revolution (IR #3), - computers, the internet, and smart phones though revolutionary within their sphere of influence (entertainment, communication, and information technology) did not have the same effects on living standards as had electricity, the internal combustion engine, running water, improving life expectancy, and the other great inventions of IR #2, not to mention the improvement in the human condition as work hours declined from 60 to 40 per week.
American Economic Growth Peaked in 1970
Gordon, Robert J., The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
The great inventions of the late nineteenth century had already reached most urban households by 1928. Light was produced by electricity in cities and towns alike, and almost all urban housing units were connected not just to electricity, but also to gas, telephone, running water, and sewer lines. The motor vehicle had a more widespread effect than electricity, transforming not just urban but also rural America.
The high hourly wage, introduced on a huge scale in the middle of the last century, allowed masses of Americans with no more than high school education to move into the middle class. American productivity was imperative to fill the needs caused by the destruction of German and Japanese factories in World War II.
American growth slowed down after 1970 because the basic elements of a modern standard of living had by then already been achieved along so many dimensions, including food, clothing, housing, transportation, entertainment, communication, health, and working conditions.
Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the evolution in health and medicine had extended human life and lowered infant mortality.
Continued Deceleration of Growth
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
The 1994– 2004 decade found a marked slowing down, leading to the suggestion that the wave of innovation in the late 1990s may have been unique, unlikely to be repeated over our forecasting horizon of the next quarter-century.
The development of robots and artificial intelligence will provide a new surge of productivity growth at the cost of massive future job destruction, as robots replace large numbers of jobs, and as highly sophisticated computer algorithms eliminate analytical jobs ranging from legal searches to financial analysis.
However, if the job destruction by robots and artificial intelligence proceeds slowly, as it has over the past decade, the economy will be able to maintain relatively full employment as the fruits of computerization cause the composition of job types and categories to evolve slowly rather than swiftly.
Inequality and other Headwinds
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
Steadily rising inequality over the past four decades is just one of the headwinds blowing at gale force to slow the growth rate of the American standard of living. In addition to less education of its people, other headwinds slowing economic growth are racial demographics, government debt, globalization, global climate change, and environmental pollution.
Incomes within the top 1 percent will continue to advance attributable to the economics of superstars, executive compensation, and capital gains on real estate and the stock market.
Income stagnation for the bottom 90 percent of the population has a different set of causes, including the effect of automation in destroying middle-income jobs, an erosion of the strength of labor unions, the decline in the purchasing power of the minimum wage, the effect of imports in the shrinkage of the manufacturing sector, and the role of both high-skilled and low-skilled immigration.
The education headwind is important both by itself and as a source of growing inequality. Throughout the postwar years, starting with the GI Bill, which allowed World War II veterans to obtain a college education at the government’s expense, the United States was the leader among nations in the college completion rate of its youth. In the past two decades, the United States has stumbled, with its college completion rate now down to tenth or below world-wide. And the American youth who enter college, regardless of whether they complete it, now face a combined burden of outstanding debt of more than one trillion dollars.
Hidden Signs of Social Distress
The soup kitchens of the 1930 depression years were vivid signs of the nation's economic distress.
Soup kitchens served mostly soup and bread to the hungry unemployed Americans. Soup was economical because water could be added to serve more people. At the onset of the Great Depression, Al Capone, the notorious gangster from Chicago, established the first soup kitchen. By the mid-1930s, state and federal governments also were operating them.
The depression era social distress of the 1930's exists again today.
We have the same soup kitchens and high unemployment, but they are concealed through complex statistical reports.
The signs of soup kitchens and high unemployment are at the local supermarkets, where one in seven Americans spends food stamps.
The unemployment rate today is actually 22.8% when you calculate unemployment based on the numbers of people who want full time work, but cannot find it (the Trump voters).
Events Capable of Triggering a Financial Crash
Jim Rickards 30 “Snowflakes” That Could Trigger the Next Financial Avalanche www.agor afinancial.com strategic intelligence (Edited)
1. An ISIS Attack on the Vatican
The Islamic State has declared Pope Francis a target. An attack by ISIS on the pope could ignite a religious war between Catholics and Muslims with overtones of the medieval crusades and the original jihad of the Prophet Muhammad.
2. Major Natural Disasters: Earthquakes, Tsunamis or Volcanoes
An economic crash would be caused by a natural disaster that is orders of magnitude greater than recent experience. The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on December 26, 2004 had a magnitude of 9.1, and produced a tsunami 100 feet high. There have been only five earthquakes in recorded history with a magnitude of 9.0 or higher. Two of the five were in the past 12 years. A 9.5 earthquake in eastern China or the Western United States would cause a financial panic similar to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Back then, stocks fell 50% from their previous peak over a three-week period. Today, a natural disaster of that scale would devastate the economy and markets.
3. Unexpected Consequences of the United Kingdom or Others Leaving the European Union
The U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union triggered a small financial avalanche. Among other things, it caused the English pound to fall.
4. A Currency Crisis
Currency values fluctuate all the time, sometimes with big swings. The pound went from $1.50 to $1.29 in the aftermath of the June 23, 2016 Brexit vote; a 14% decline in just over one week. That is significant, but a real currency crisis is different. That is when the value of a currency goes into free fall, perhaps plunging 25% or more with no end in sight. Paper currency reserves are depleted and the IMF has to enter the picture with emergency reserves. In an extreme case, the G7 plus China will intervene directly in currency markets to prop up the currency in crisis, and the IMF may print some world money (called Special Drawing Rights or SDRs) to replenish reserves. The last time there were crises of that magnitude were 1997 in Asia, 1994 in Mexico, and 1992 in the United Kingdom.
5. If China Reveals Its Gigantic Gold Hoard
China officially says it has 1,838.5 metric tons of gold in its reserves as of late-2016 with small additions being reported every month. Evidence from various sources is that the real figure is 4,000 metric tons or more, but the Chinese will not admit this, because they wish to acquire more gold at cheap prices and do not want to upset the market price.
6. An EMP Weapon Is Set Off
EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse. It’s a weaponized burst of electromagnetic energy that when set off, shuts down all electronic and digital devices. This is not a remote possibility. North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia already have EMP weapons. Such an attack could instantly set the U.S. back over a century. Power grids would go offline. Telecommunications would shut down. Financial networks like stock exchanges and Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) would stop working.
7. A Nuclear Accident
A reactor meltdown larger or more deadly than Chernobyl could set off a panic in financial markets. The Fukushima meltdown was an example of how complexity causes ripple effects. In Japan, the Fukushima meltdown started as an undersea earthquake. The Earth’s tectonic plates snapped causing a tidal wave. The tidal wave hit a nuclear reactor. That, in turn, caused the Tokyo stock market to crash. Such a nuclear tragedy could be caused by a natural disaster or a deliberate attack.
8. A Major Power Grid Collapse and Blackout
Financial markets were never as large and interconnected and as dependent on digital channels of communication as they are today. Virtually all stock trading is now electronic. The world has no experience of a major blackout in an age of all electronic trading. Stock, bond, and commodities markets would be paralyzed.
9. If Iran Tests a Nuclear Weapon
The Iranian nuclear weapons development program is an open secret. The U.S. and Israel have been waging a secret war against the project for years using cyber-attacks such as the Stuxnet computer virus, financial weapons, sabotage and targeted assassinations of scientists. But Iran has not been deterred and continues on the path toward testing a nuclear device and deploying a nuclear weapon. Negotiations have satisfied the press and public that things are under control, but the negotiations are inconclusive. (An announced “agreement” has not been approved by Iran and can easily be rescinded by a new U.S. president). The U.S. has recently signaled that it will green light Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for Iranian help in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.
The next step is for Iran to test its device. Such an event could cause panics in the market as the U.S., Iran and their neighbors weigh their next moves.
10. Establishment of a Benchmark Oil Price in Chinese Yuan
An announcement of a new benchmark price for oil denominated in Chinese yuan rather than the dollar would upset world markets. China has become Saudi Arabia’s biggest customer for oil exports.
11. A September 11 Type Attack on U.S. Soil
A new September 11 type terrorist attack could happen at any moment. The first terror bombing of the World Trade Center in New York took place in 1993. A full eight years passed until the second bombing happened in 2001. This gives some idea of the patience and longtime horizons of the terrorists. With the Islamic State now including hundreds of British and U.S. passport holders who can travel freely around the world, and with the U.S. southern border a sieve, there are no obstacles to the most radical terrorists moving into U.S. cities. The San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack on December 2, 2015, may be a small sample of a coming terror wave. The next spectacular attack will surprise investors. Again.
12. A Failure to Deliver Physical Gold
A failure to deliver physical gold could cause a demand shock for gold around the world. It is no secret that the amount of “paper gold” in the form of Comex futures, ETFs, LBMA forward contracts and unallocated gold accounts at major banks may be as much as 100 times the amount of deliverable physical gold in the world. This system avoids collapse only because most contractual parties do not ask for delivery but are content to hold onto or roll over their paper contracts. But the physical supply available for delivery is shrinking because of Chinese demand that removes gold from the paper markets. It is only a matter of time before the physical supply is stretched too thin and a dealer defaults on a physical delivery. When word leaks out to the public, there will be a scramble for physical gold.
13. An Internet Backbone Collapse
The fiber-optic cables at the bottom of the sea comprise one of the most important “pipeline” networks in the world. More than 90% of all Internet traffic runs through undersea cables - they’re the backbone of the Internet. Damage to these cables would be highly disruptive to commerce.
14. Credit Collapse in China
China is in more of a credit bubble than the United States. If China's bubble bursts, the effects will be global.
15. A Flash Crash
Because of High-Frequency Trading On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones fell 1,000 points in minutes. It was called the “Flash Crash” - brought on by high-frequency trading (HFT). If this were to happen again, the result could be much worse. That’s because the use of margin debt to buy stocks is at record levels. A small correction in stocks could cascade into a much bigger downward movement.
16. Food Riots, Money Riots, and Social Breakdown
Social breakdown could include riots, strikes, sabotage and other dysfunctions. Social breakdown is distinct from social protest because disorder involves illegality, violence and property destruction. Such a situation could require a declaration of martial law using military force to quell the rioting. Under martial law, civilians are no longer entitled to their civil rights.
The United States has been under a state of emergency declared by President Bush in Proclamation 7463 on September 14, 2001. The state of emergency has been renewed annually since 2001 by each new president. The state of emergency grants the president extraordinary executive powers, including martial law. While statutes authorizing martial law were created with nuclear warfare in mind, they are not limited to that circumstance.
In addition to broad emergency powers applicable to any emergency, dictatorial powers have been given to the president by Congress to respond specifically to financial crises (money riots).
17. The Financial “Sleeper” Hedge Fund Weapon
China has more than $3 trillion in their sovereign reserves - which are a savings account for an entire country. Just like individuals can use their savings to buy a car, stock or bond, countries can use their savings to buy things as well. They set up what are known as sovereign wealth funds to invest their savings in liquid assets like stocks and bonds. Hypothetically, China could use that money to bankroll a hedge fund with layers of secretive Cayman Islands trusts, Maltese banks, and a team of unscrupulous bankers and lawyers. Theoretically, the fund could enter into the market and buy and sell stocks and bonds on a continual basis. With treacherous intentions the fund would not need to make money like a normal hedge fund. Instead of existing to turn a profit, it would exist to wage financial warfare on the U.S. It could build up its credit lines and credibility, create contacts with major banks, and then, one day, flood the market with sell orders in a particular stock. A sleeper fund like this would likely sell popular stocks like Google and Apple. To cause even more damage, it could sell on a day when stocks are already down 500 or 600 points and then pile on using options to create a panic. All of the profits would be electronically transferred safely back to Beijing during the chaos. The next day, the traders would be gone without a trace leaving the U.S. market in shambles.
This instantaneous loss of wealth does more damage to civilian morale than conventional bombing.
18. Rogue Robots
Robots with artificial intelligence can begin interacting in unexpected ways to produce unintended results, with limited ability to stop them. This scenario includes rogue trading computers, industrial robots or hacked drones. An example was the Knight Trading fiasco. On Aug. 1, 2012, a software error was responsible for a Knight Trading computer sending a deluge of phony buy orders to the New York Stock Exchange. In minutes, Knight got $7 billion of stock it never wanted and lost $440 million correcting the problems.
19. Congress Failing to Pass a Budget Bill or Not Raising the Debt Limit
If the federal government fails to fund the government leading to a shutdown, markets will react negatively.
20. China Wages a Territorial War
China has become more and more aggressive in its stance toward territorial claims made in the South China Sea. It is currently squabbling with the Philippines, Japan and Vietnam over ownership of small islands. A misunderstanding or a brazen military grab of these areas could spark a larger conflict. The U.S. would probably be engaged as it is allied with China’s neighbors.
21. A Fake Tweet
On April 23, 2013 the Dow plunged 143 points when the Associated Press’ Twitter account published a notice that there were explosions in the White House and the president was injured.
The AP had been hacked into. The losses in the stock market were quickly recouped. However, The incident demonstrates how damaging a relatively small hacker attack can be on financial markets.
22. A Prominent Suicide, Assassination or Death
News of any prominent figure, like the president of the United States, the Federal Reserve chairman or even a prominent investment banker, dying by means of suicide, assassination or death could set off panic selling in the markets.
23. More European Union Independence Referendums
Talk of independence referendums is spreading all over Europe. The failed Scotland vote was the most high profile. Though it was defeated, there could be a similar vote there again soon - especially in light of the Brexit and Italian votes. If one of these nations were to break away from the European Union, the uncertainty or new arrangements could cause market selloffs.
24. A Debt Crisis in Japan
Japan’s debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio stands at well over 220%. These levels are historically high and rising. The country has been on course for a sovereign debt crisis for some time. Since Japan’s debt to GDP has been on-going for some time, investors have discounted the possibility of a Japanese sovereign debt crisis. If Japan, the world’s third largest economy, entered such a crisis, however, most other developed governments overburdened with debt would be discredited as well.
25. Another U.S. Credit Downgrade
The U.S. was downgraded by Standard & Poors in August 2011. Despite our fiscal deficit marginally improving in recent years, none of the structural problems, addiction to debt or spending gluts has been reversed. If the U.S. were to be downgraded further or if another rating agency joined S&P’s downgrade, there would be a sell-off in financial markets.
26. If a Major OECD Member Announces It Will Begin Acquiring Gold
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a group of the world’s developed economies that join together to promote trade and growth. If a member country began acquiring gold, it wouldn’t necessarily establish a “gold standard” but rather an acknowledgment of the fact that gold is money. A move in that direction from someone not already doing so, such as Australia, South Korea or Singapore, would send a strong signal that major nations are questioning the integrity of the dollar and paper money. That could give rise to doubts about the dollar in the minds of investors.
27. A Major Bank Failure
If a bank failure on the level of Lehman Brothers or MF Global occurred, it could kick off a domino effect within the banking system. One financial institution after another could fall because of their interdependence. Depositors would worry about their money and make withdrawals, and stocks would drop worse than they did in 2008. People would sell what they could, not what they wanted to, sending stock prices for even unrelated companies lower.
28. An Extensive Cyberattack
In 2010, the U.S. and Israel attacked Iranian centrifuges with a computer worm called “Stuxnet.” Essentially, the attack told Iranian computers to spin the centrifuges so fast that they blew up. Attacks like this show that cyber warfare is occurring, and it is threatening. Other attacks that could cause major investor concern include a major attack on a stock exchange (there was never an explanation for why the NASDAQ closed for three hours in 2013) or an attack on a major financial institution, compromising personal information or crippling transactions networks.
29. A Pandemic Involving a Fatal Virus
If a major pandemic (such as the Ebola virus) started in the continental U.S., martial law might be imposed as in a social breakdown scenario. In that case, people’s movements and activities would be severely limited and monitored. Investors might sell their stocks as commercial activity and business productivity ground to a halt.
30. A Declaration of Independent Kurdistan
The Kurdish population has been striving for decades to have its own state. Roughly 30 million people in the Middle East are Kurds. They are probably the globe’s largest ethnic group without a state. If parts of Turkey or Iran decide to establish their own independent country of Kurds, it could fuel violence in the region - potentially upsetting oil production or dragging the already overextended U.S. into another geopolitical conflict.
Other Possible “Snowflakes”
Massive Gold Repatriation
Russia, China and the United States keep their gold safely stored on their home territories. But, about 50% of all the remaining official gold in the world is not stored in the owner’s country – it is stored at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England. If those countries lost confidence in New York and London and demanded their gold back it would be like a run on the bank. Except the banks in question are both central banks and the demand is not for cash, but for gold. This has already happened in a controlled way. Countries that have demanded some of their gold back in recent years include Germany, Austria, Venezuela, and Azerbaijan. If that list expands, the controlled withdrawals could turn into an out-of-control run on the vaults with ruinous financial results.
Still other factors acting as snowflakes include food shortages, crop failures, severe droughts or extreme weather that could severely impact the financial markets.
The Coming Decade of Financial Collapse
The metaphor of a snowflake causing an avalanche is useful to describe a financial collapse. Not every snowflake causes an avalanche. Markets can absorb shocks and rebound. Total financial collapse builds slowly.
When a snowflake falls from the sky onto a snow pack, it lands on other snowflakes that already there. As the snow accumulates, the snow may begin sliding. If it gathers enough momentum, it can bring down the side of a mountain.
It is the instability of the snow pack (or the financial system) as a whole that is the problem. Which snowflake triggers the avalanche doesn’t matter. The vast majority of all snowflakes fail to start a chain reaction. However, once a chain reaction begins, it expands exponentially. It can “go critical” (as in an atomic bomb), and release massive destructive energy.
In the end, it’s not about the snowflakes or neutrons, it’s about the initial critical state conditions that allow the possibility of an avalanche or chain reaction. Snowflake triggers can be hypothesized and observed at large scale, but the exact moment the chain reaction begins cannot be observed.
What matters is that if the financial system is unstable. At some point, it can tumble down seemingly without a warning.
The Cyclical Nature of War
Just like business or economic cycles, the waging of war within and between peoples has definite, identifiable rhythms. Research covering more than 5,000 years of war data reveals that there are three distinct cycles in wars. There are the 8.8 and 17.7 year cycles, which are sub-cycles of a larger cycle that is 53.5 years in duration.
The greater 53.5-year cycle is beginning now, as evidenced by recent events occurring around the globe.
These accumulative war events are:
Organized and spontaneous acts of terrorism (on going)
The civil war and breakup of Europe (beginning)
Massive civil unrest in the U.S. (beginning)
A war in the Middle East (already started in Syria and with ISIS)
Territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Senkaku (or Diaoyu) Islands, and between China and Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines over the Spratly Islands
Cyber warfare (on going)
Currency wars (on going). Currency war, also known as competitive devaluations, is a condition in international affairs where countries seek to gain a trade advantage over other countries by causing the exchange rate of their currency to fall in relation to other currencies
Capital controls (already in place in many countries in Europe). Capital control represents any measure taken by a government, central bank or other regulatory body to limit the flow of foreign capital in and out of the domestic economy. These controls include taxes, tariffs, outright legislation and volume restrictions, as well as market-based forces.
A Troublesome Paradox
Robots and their associated machinery are approximately four times more significant in the loss of manufacturing jobs than the off-shoring of jobs. But it is easier to blame China or Mexico than to protest against increased automation.
The real challenge confronting the U.S. and the rest of the developed world is how to create new jobs in the face of the automation challenge.
South Korea is 15 to 20% more productive than the U.S. in terms of costs, because they are pushing further and faster into the automation process. This trend will leave U.S. manufacturers and exporters (as well as those in Germany, Italy, and Japan) behind in the global business contest).
By not automating faster, jobs are lost by being noncompetitive. By automating, jobs disappear anyway.
Socially, we are programmed in our evolutionary DNA to value what we contribute to the community through our work. Newly created jobs must not be simply make-work tasks, but meaningful and fulfilling.
It is vital that welfare provides a way to protect personal self-esteem while contributing to the community.
The Cost of Under Employment
A new study by economists from Harvard and Princeton says that 94% of the 10 million jobs created after the great crash of 2008 were temporary contract positions or part-time jobs. They come without health care, retirement benefits, vacation time, sick leave or employer-paid Social Security and Medicare taxes.
Less than 1 in 5 of these jobs ever becomes permanent. Consequently, as the research by economists Lawrence Katz of Harvard and Alan Krueger at Princeton shows, the proportion of U.S. workers who were working in these kinds of temporary jobs increased from 10.7% of the population to 15.8% from mid-2010.
At the same time, the workforce participation rate has declined, meaning fewer people are working - with more depending on those who are working, even temporarily, to survive.
Finally, the long-term unemployment rate, which includes people who are working irregularly or who have given up looking for work, has tripled since 1990.
Capitalism repeatedly destabilizes the majority while massively enriching a tiny minority. The great political economists of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Adam Smith, were keenly aware of capitalism’s contradictory nature. Above all, they realized things that are good for profit-seeking individuals in the short term - like staffing a company with expendable temps - aren’t always good for society in the longer term, including the profit maximizing capitalists.
When almost all jobs created lack the basic features required for a stable life, workers are effectively a disposable commodity, not citizens of a country. People who know they are considered expendable tend to behave differently from those who are secure and stable, since they have no stake in the game.
As the proportion of “expendables” grows, they begin to prey on the rest of the population.
To keep the peace, the government is forced to provide an expensive system of welfare payments. The costs of not sustaining the unemployed or underemployed - in terms of crime, policing and bolting investors - would be even higher.
Surveillance
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 254) (Edited).
The loss of personal privacy caused by the explosion of digitized cloud storage and free media from Google and Facebook is now accepted. A user’s intimate secrets are routinely data-mined by these companies. The fact that some privacy policies preclude disclosure to third parties does not mean companies do not use the data themselves or reveal it to the government.
Google keeps a log of every website users have ever visited, regardless of whether they deleted it from their search history or not. The existence of a network of government and private web services and the application of massive processing power and big data algorithms to target citizens in real time is not widely understood or appreciated. Claims by Google, Apple, and Facebook that personal privacy is protected are ludicrous. The government has ample executive powers to require these companies to make data available in response to an emergency such as financial collapse.
Emergency access to private data by government agents takes only minutes. Most citizens would object to being fingerprinted every time they walk outside, yet the digital equivalent happens when closed circuit video cameras capture their images at malls, banks, and supermarkets. Video scanners are located in buildings, along highways, and on city streets. These scanners capture facial images, license plate numbers, and auto types and makes. And, digital facial recognition software is far more reliable than outdated fingerprint techniques.
Drivers like the convenience of E-ZPass automated systems on toll roads, but they may not realize that every tollbooth is a digital surveillance and interdiction point. The E-ZPass tag has a transmitter that broadcasts information that is read by a scanner installed overhead at a tollbooth. Meanwhile, all levels of government are installing scanners and cameras on roads everywhere to collect information.
Smartphones and credit cards use an RFID variant called near field communication (NFC) to broadcast your activities to scanners. Each time you use your credit card, a digital fingerprint of your location is recorded. Your smartphone GPS signals your whereabouts between points of purchase. This information is available to government using collection standards that do not adhere to Fourth Amendment requirements of reasonableness and probable cause.
On the horizon is the driver-less car. The driver-less car is not driver-less, it is just that the driver is not human. The real driver is a network of algorithms, GPS location devices, and robotics. Driver-less systems are subject to government supervision. In the future, governments may deliver “suspects” to detention centers by commandeering the software, locking the car doors, and conveying the car’s occupants into custody.
The Evolutionary Path – Capitalism to Socialism to Fascism
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 240). (Edited.)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (8 February 1883 to 8 January 1950) was an analyst of economics as a historical process. While Schumpeter had no preference for socialism; he said it would inevitably replace capitalism. It has to a great extent, although most have not noticed. In Schumpeter’s view, the final step in capitalism’s displacement by socialism is government control of capital. The next financial crisis will achieve that. Schumpeter then identified the slope by which socialism blends into fascism. Once government planning and control are entrenched, business and government are intertwined, and political parties are identical.
In time, fascism with a more enlightened and benevolent planetary leader will give the world the peace and guidance it desires. The political government and social administration of the races will continue to improve. The world will advance and honor only those leaders and rulers who are most fit to bear social and political responsibilities.
Secular Fascism – An Imperfect Tool
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (pp. 256-258.) (Edited.)
Fascism, a dominant force in the twentieth century, remains one of the least understood and most ill-defined political “isms.” This is because fascism is not ideological like communism or socialism. What matters to fascists is expanding the state control of civic life. The fascist state may allow private corporations and associations to exist, but only if they operate in accordance with state goals and submit to state surveillance.
Surprisingly, the primary definition of fascism comes from its intellectual father, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson wrote in his book, The State, “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.”
A fascist leader who applied Wilson’s writings was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. His motto was “Everything inside the state. Nothing outside the state.” Wilson and Mussolini created the template for the run of twentieth-century fascists including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Understanding fascism requires one to set aside distinctions like left-wing, right-wing, liberal, and conservative. Insight into fascism’s non-ideological nature was detailed by author Jonah Goldberg in his 2008 book Liberal Fascism.
Goldberg shows that fascist regimes may be quite unalike. Some are murderous such as those of Hitler and Stalin. Some are dictatorial such as those of Mussolini and Franco (in Spain). Some operate within democratic frameworks such as those of Wilson and FDR. What unites them is a shared view that the state is the exclusive mediator of human activity, and the ends justify the means. In 1913, his administration’s first year, Wilson signed legislation to create the Federal Reserve System and the federal income tax, two pillars of state power.
The primary platform for implementation of Wilson’s program for top-down state control was the First World War. Wilson set up the War Industries Board, which effectively nationalized broad segments of the U.S. economy. Wilson signed the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 to suppress free speech and squash dissent.
Goldberg says that Woodrow Wilson was the twentieth century’s first fascist dictator because more dissidents were arrested or jailed during Wilson's presidency than under Mussolini during the 1920s.
Hitler and Mussolini referred to Wilson with approval in their own writings and adopted his repressive tactics as part of Germany’s National Socialist movement and Italy’s fascist movement.
Spiritual Fascism
Spiritual Fascism is not a governmental system led by a brutal dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, and commerce while emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and racism. Rather, spiritual fascism is the will of those being governed with minimal government at the global level.
Cosmic View of the Evolution of Family to Fascism and to Global Sovereignty
The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind, lies in the resistance to change exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state.
Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty has always been hampered by the previous developments in political organization. This is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty that makes possible the evolution of the tribe makes difficult the evolution to the super tribe (the territorial state). And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.
Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it gained for more than a thousand years right on down to today, when an unfortunate retrograde movement has temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.
Today, as in 1914, we find the forces of globalism in retreat. The British people have voted themselves out of the European Union. The American people have voted Donald J. Trump into the White House. Nationalist, anti-globalization movements are surging in France, Italy, and elsewhere.
Many Europeans are concluding once again that they’re not citizens of the world or even citizens of Europe, but Frenchmen, Englishmen, Italians, and Germans.
The Price of Peace
Earth will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men - mankind government, internationalism, benevolent fascism.
Organizations such as the United Nations can never bring permanent peace to mankind.
World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of the world powers will withdraw from the confederation and declare war. Nations cannot be prevented from going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusion of national sovereignty.
Peace will not come to Earth until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. When all the peoples of Earth create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a global government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail, but not until then.
The Greater Plan for the World
The Racial Plan
Initially, there were six races of man on Earth. These were the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo men. The so-called white races of Earth are the descendants of the blue men as they were first modified by slight mixture with yellow and red, and as they were later greatly up-stepped by assimilating the greater portion of the violet race (the descendants of Adam and Eve).
It is impossible to induce primitive beings to live together very long in peace. Man is the descendant of fighting animals, and when closely associated, uncultured people irritate and offend each other. The Life Carriers know this tendency among evolutionary creatures and accordingly provide for the eventual separation of developing human beings into at least three, and more often six, distinct and separate races who must resolve their differences.
[All life of the order and forms known on Earth arises with the Life Carriers, though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Earth.]
Diversity Is Imperative
There are many reasons for the plan of evolving either three or six colored races on the worlds of space. Though Earth mortals may not be in a position fully to appreciate all of these reasons, the following are noted:
1. A variety of stock is necessary for the wide functioning of natural selection, and the survival of superior strains.
2. Stronger and better races are to be had from the interbreeding of diverse peoples when these different races are carriers of superior inheritance factors.
3. Competition is healthfully stimulated by a diversification of races.
4. Differences in status of the races and of groups within each race are essential to the development of human tolerance and altruism.
5. Homogeneity of the human race is not desirable until the peoples of an evolving world attain comparatively high levels of spiritual development.
The Yellow Race
Historically, the distinctive superiority of the yellow race was due to four factors:
1. Genetic. Unlike their cousins in Europe, both the red and yellow races had largely escaped mixture with depraved human stocks. The yellow race received an infusion of violet blood from the Andite missionaries. [The Andites were the direct descendants of Adam and Eve.]
2. Social. The yellow race early learned the value of peace amongst themselves. Their internal peacefulness so contributed to population increase as to insure the spread of their civilization among many millions. The yellow man was first to achieve a racial solidarity - the first to attain a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization.
The Chinese of 15,000 B.C. were aggressive militarists; and numbering less than twelve million, they formed a compact body speaking a common language. During this age they built up a real nation, much more united and homogeneous.
3. Spiritual. The Chinese have been among the more spiritual peoples of earth. Long adherence to the worship of the One Truth kept them ahead of most of the other races. The stimulus of a progressive and advanced religion is often a decisive factor in cultural development. As India languished, China forged ahead under the invigorating stimulus of a religion in which truth was enshrined as the supreme Deity.
This worship of truth provoked research and fearless exploration of the laws of nature and the potentials of mankind. The Chinese of even six thousand years ago were keen students and aggressive in their pursuit of truth.
4. Geographic. China is protected by the mountains to the west and the Pacific to the east. Only in the north is the way open to attack, and the north was not occupied by any aggressive race.
Modern Day China May be the Next Melting Pot for Earth's Races
China, with superior racial qualifications, may be the chosen country to lead the world in the changes Earth will experience as Earth enters the 1000 Year Cycle of transformation to:
One language
One religion (an individual religion of Self)
One race (accomplished through *migration, emigration, immigration, and selective intermarriage)
No territorial borders
World government
World law and enforcement
Citizens sharing benefits of Earth's resources
Purging of defective humans
[*Migration is to move from one place to another, generally to live in the new place for a while. Migrant workers travel around settling temporarily in different places where there is work. Emigration is to leave a country for a long time, or permanently. Immigrate is to enter a country to live there for a long time, or permanently.]
Essential Recognition of Divine Preeminence
Co-Existence of Organized Religions
The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God - God is love. God the Father divinely loves all of his children.
The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man.
If different earthly religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then all such religions will remain at peace. Only when one organized religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.
Peace between Religions and Each Other
Religious peace - brotherhood - can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender any notion of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign.
You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to a superhuman level, to God.
The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all thoughts of ecclesiastical authority.
God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. The relationship between the Father in each human mind (the Thought Adjuster) is the basis for the religion of Self. The connection with the Thought Adjuster is each person's personal religion.
The religion of Self is the relationship between Father and child.
Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups.
All creation is a brotherhood.
Recognition of a Super Sovereignty
The moment humans lose sight of the spirit sovereignty [dominance] of God the Father, some organized religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, dissensions, recriminations, and even religious wars begin.
Religious leaders who believe in free will and the spiritual equality of all sooner or later are tempted to gain power and authority over other persons, groups, and religions.
There can be no lasting religious peace on Earth until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty. Only when God the Father is acknowledged as supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth.
One Global Government
War on Earth will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty.
There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total - man and mankind.
Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.
The rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the over-controllers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.
Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind.
However, this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power - the family - and the final consummation of political growth - the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.
The Evolution of Government
Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into kindred clans that become united into tribal units (super consanguineous political groupings). By trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified into empires.
As sovereignty proceeds from smaller groups to larger groups, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nation’s wielding sovereignty become larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few and powerful, when these great synthetic sovereign nations touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then the stage is set for world-wide conflicts. So-called sovereign nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts resulting in war.
The loyalty (patriotism) that solidifies the nation level makes evolution to a government of all mankind (between races that look less like kin) extremely complex.
Micro and Macro Levels of Evolution
At the micro level of self-determinism, every present state of the self is a result of prior states of the self. The Thought Adjuster who is residing within each person (after approximately six years of age) guides the individual towards spiritual survival. Reciprocally, the thought adjusting fragment of the Father itself seeks personality in the potential fusion of Self and person.
At the macro-evolutionary level of self-determinism, political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings.
Similarly, each person will not achieve spiritual progress until he or she surrenders their self-determinism to the father spirit fragment within them (the Thought Adjuster).
A Government of All Mankind
Nations cannot be prevented from going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty.
An international police force such as the United Nations will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars - conflicts between the great military governments of earth.
As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, the opportunity and need for mankind government increases. When there are only a few really great sovereign powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or alternatively, by voluntarily surrendering certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they may create the essential nucleus of a super-national power that will serve as the beginning of the true sovereignty of all mankind.
Peace will not come to Earth until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. When all the peoples of Earth create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a global government Sovereign; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail.
A Working Model for Emulation
The fifty states of the United States of America have lived harmoniously for a long time. They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal government, and through the arbitrament of war (the power of absolute and final decision), they have abandoned all claims to the delusions of self-determination. While each state regulates its internal affairs, it is not concerned with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce. Neither do the individual states concern themselves with matters of citizenship. The fifty states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal government’s sovereignty is in jeopardy.
These fifty states, having abandoned the sophistries of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy peace and tranquility between the states. In the same manner, the nations of Earth will begin to enjoy peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands of a global government - the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men. In this world state the small nations will be as powerful as the great, just as the small state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the American Congress and just the same as the populous state of New York or the large state of Texas.
The limited sovereignty of the fifty states was created by men and for men. The super state (national) sovereignty of the United States government was created by the original thirteen of these states for their own benefit and for the benefit of men. At some point, the super national sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will also be created by nations for their own benefit and the benefit of all men.
Decay of American Ideals
As early as 1630, John Winthrop told his fellow Massachusetts-bound Puritans on their ship, the Arbella, “We shall be as a city upon a hill; the eyes of all people are upon us.” [Winthrop led the first large wave of immigrants from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies. (Wikipedia).]
Early Puritans like Winthrop believed God had made a covenant with Americans choosing them to provide a model community for the rest of the world.
By the time of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, this religious understanding had morphed into a radical political claim that the U.S. was “trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic of the world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self government, from hence it is to be lighted up in other regions of the earth.”
America's founders believed this “lighting up” role was meant to provide an example, but starting with the removal of those “pesky Indians,” and the Spanish-American War, America became increasingly willing to impose “freedom” on others by force.
Today, President Trump asserts the U.S. is in a state of decline and is willing to use force to make America great again.
Consequences of Deferring World Government
Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All lesser sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status.
Science may propel nations into global government for an unexpected reason. With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become racially suicidal.
The paramount question is, how many world wars must be fought and how many Leagues of Nations or United Nations must fail before men will be willing to establish a government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and to thrive in the tranquility of world-wide goodwill among men?
Liberty, Law and Harmony
If one man craves freedom (liberty), he must recognize that all other men long for freedom as well.
Nations or groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together peacefully without observing laws, rules, and regulations that will grant each person the same degree of freedom while safeguarding the equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals.
The relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of Law.
Religion makes it spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men. Nonetheless, it will require a government of all mankind to regulate the social, economic, and political problems associated with the objectives of human happiness and efficiency.
Unrealistic Beliefs
“There shall be wars and rumors of wars - nation will rise against nation” (Matthew 24:7, KJV) - just as long as the world’s political sovereignty is divided up and unjustly held by a group of nation-states.
England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them instead in the United Kingdom.
Global wars will go on until a government of mankind is created. Only global sovereignty will prevent global wars.
The fifty American Free states live together in peace. These Americans represent almost all of the nations and the religions and religious sects and cults of the whole world, and yet in North America they live together in relative peace. All this is made possible because these fifty states have surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of self-determination.
It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of conscription or voluntary military service enter into these problems of maintaining world-wide peace. If every form of modern mechanical armaments and all types of explosives were removed from strong nations, they would continue to fight with stones and clubs as long as they embraced the delusion of the right of national sovereignty.
A Mental Malady
War is not man’s great and terrible disease; war is merely a symptom. The real disease is the cancer of national sovereignty.
Earth nations have not possessed real sovereignty; they have never had a sovereignty that could protect them from the ravages and devastation of world wars.
In the creation of a global government of mankind, the nations would not be surrendering sovereignty as much as they would be establishing a genuine and lasting world sovereignty that will be able to protect all nations from all war.
When the “brain tumor” of national sovereignty is removed, local affairs will be handled by local governments; national affairs, by national governments; international affairs will be administered by global government.
Advantages of Global Government
World peace cannot be maintained by treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government - the sovereignty of all mankind.
The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively. Much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to consign their sovereignty regarding international affairs into the hands of a global government.
Under global government the national groups will be afforded a real opportunity to realize and enjoy the personal liberties of genuine democracy. The fallacy of self-determination will be ended.
With global regulation of money and trade will come the new era of world-wide peace. Soon thereafter, a global language may evolve, and there will be hope of sometime having a global religion - or religions with a global viewpoint.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Collective security will never afford peace until there is a oneness of nation-states that includes all mankind.
The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all men.
There is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be realized.
Family – The Core of Brotherhood
The Celestial Family
The love of the Father absolutely individualizes each personality as a unique child of the Universal Father, a child without duplicate in infinity, a will creature irreplaceable in all eternity.
The Father’s love glorifies each child of God, illuminating each member of the celestial family, sharply silhouetting the unique nature of each personal being against the impersonal levels that lie outside the fraternal circuit of the Father of all.
The love of God strikingly portrays the transcendent value of each will creature, unmistakably reveals the high value that the Universal Father has placed upon each and every one of his children from the highest creator personality of Paradise status to the lowest personality of will dignity among the savage tribes of men in the dawn of the human species on some evolutionary world of time and space.
The Law of Brotherhood
“What you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.” (Matthew 25:40.)
The love of God for each individual brings into being the divine family of all individuals, the universal brotherhood of the freewill children of the Paradise Father. And this brotherhood, being universal, is a relationship of the whole.
Brotherhood, when universal, discloses not the individual relationship, but the all relationship. Brotherhood is a reality of the total and therefore discloses qualities of the whole (Oneness) in contradistinction to qualities of the part.
Brotherhood constitutes a fact of relationship between every personality in universal existence. No person can escape the benefits or the penalties that may come as a result of relationship to other persons. The part profits or suffers in measure with the whole. The good effort of each man benefits all men; the error or evil of each man increases the tribulation of all men. (This fact makes the purging of degenerate humans understandable.)
As moves the part, so moves the whole. As the whole progresses, so the part progresses. The relative velocities of part and whole determine whether the part is retarded by the inertia of the whole or is carried forward by the momentum of the cosmic brotherhood.
The Universe of the Human Family
The typical family is a tiny “universe.” The father, mother, and children family universe is analogous to the local universe family of Michael and the Divine Minister (our local universe father and mother) and their created staff, and creatures.
Human civilization is directly dependent on the effective functioning of its foundation, the human family.
Filial devotion and family loyalty insure the building up of superior family relationships and of enduring family groups, all of which facilitate the preservation of civilization:
1. Conservation of property and wealth.
2. Pooling of the experience of successive generations.
3. Efficient education of children in the arts and sciences.
4. Development of a strong sense of duty, the enhancement of morality, and the augmentation of ethical sensitivity.
Conclusion
Transformations
Humans have evolved from seeds of force energy (ultimatons) that had no beginning and will have no end as unending transformations continue from an origin in pre-time (under the reign of Paradise and the Unqualified Absolute), through Time and Space (under the reign of the Supreme God), continuing in Transcendent Time and Space (under the reign of the Ultimate God), and then eventually evolving towards the absolute state as gods of mind during the reign of the Absolute God.
The evolution of the energy seeds from pre-existent life to eternal life is through the kingdoms of energy including pre-atomic, gaseous, solids, life, mindedness, vegetable, animal, human, and beyond in greatly transformed spiritual shapes.
The Urantia [Earth] Book reveals that personified souls traverse through 570 bodies just while transitioning from forms of flesh to the first stage spirit form during the morontia career (the schooling between flesh and spirit). This is a significant number of transformations, but it is a very tiny fragment of the number of existences of the total spent evolving from force (energy-matter) to person, to absolute spirit. (Incidentally, death is no longer necessary in the 570 morontian transformations as it is in the worlds of the flesh.)
The number of lives spent in human forms by our fragment of the Unqualified attempting to qualify for advancement to the worlds of Morontia depends upon the free will choices of the individual person.
Quieting the Sound and the Fury
The noise of living in the chaos of matter and the beast (with their seductive lures and temptations) can obliterate the whispered voice of man's spiritual destiny. It requires volition, concentration, and courage to rise above these distractions to hear the voice of the personal Thought Adjuster.
Having the presence of the Father fragment inside the mind may be compared to the intimacy of a wife having her husband inside her. It is the experience of love.
This discovery is realized by all happily married couples living in the relative hostilities of the world. The couples' lives take on a new quality just as do people who hear the voice of their mind-indwelling Father fragment.
The Urantia Book tells us that "Moral cowards never achieve high planes of philosophic thinking. It requires courage to invade new levels of experience and to attempt the exploration of unknown realms of intellectual living."
Amen.
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The Enormity of Creation
The central universe is the creation of eternity [the existential gods]. The seven super universes are the creations of time [the experiential sons of the existential gods]. The four outer space levels are destined to eventuate-evolve the ultimacy [beyond time and space] of creation. There are theorists who maintain that the Infinite can never attain full expression short of infinity; and therefore they postulate an additional and unrevealed creation beyond the fourth and outermost space level, a possible ever-expanding, never-ending universe of infinity. In theory. We (the authors of The Book of Urantia) do not know how to limit either the infinity of the Creator or the potential infinity of creation, but as it now exists and is administered, we regard the master universe (all of creation) as having limitations, as being definitely limited and bounded.
All of the existing and the continually expanding creation is constructed from the basic ultimaton fragments of the Unqualified Absolute who is energy-matter. Ultimatons combine to eventually become atoms. In Time and Space such atoms eventually evolve into human forms during one phase of evolution. Each human form is composed of a "master" fragment of the Unqualified Absolute supported by multitudes of less evolved fragments comprising the assembly of body organs (each with their own master fragment). The term master is used in the same sense that the apostles called Jesus Master or the head of a household is called master.
The Domains of the Unqualified Absolute
When Urantia [Earth] astronomers peer through their increasingly powerful telescopes into the mysterious stretches of outer space and behold the amazing evolution of almost countless physical universes, they should realize that they are gazing upon the mighty outworking of the plans of the Architects of the Master Universe.
We (the authors) possess evidence that suggest the presence of certain Paradise personality influences throughout the vast energy manifestations now characteristic of the outer regions of creation, but from the larger viewpoint the space regions extending beyond the outer borders of the seven super universes are generally recognized as constituting the domains of the Unqualified Absolute [the non-person, non-deity ruler of energy and matter].
Although the unaided human eye can see only two or three nebulae beyond the borders of Earth's seventh super universe of Orvonton, your telescopes literally reveal millions upon millions of these physical universes in process of formation. Most of the starry realms visually exposed to the search of your present-day telescopes are within the seventh super universe of Orvonton, but with photographic technique the larger telescopes penetrate far beyond the borders of the grand universe. The grand universe is the sphere of the time-space descent of Paradise personalities in association with the time-space ascension of evolutionary creatures into the domains of outer space, where untold universes are in process of organization. There are other millions of universes beyond the range of your present instruments.
New Discoveries
In the not too distant future, newer orbiting telescopes will reveal to the wondering gaze of Earth's astronomers no less than 375 million new galaxies in the remote stretches of outer space. At the same time the more powerful telescopes will disclose that many of the island universes formerly believed to be in outer space are really a part of the galactic system of Orvonton [Earth's super universe].
The seven super universes are still growing; the periphery of each is gradually expanding; new nebulae are constantly being stabilized and organized; and some of the nebulae which Earth's astronomers regard as extra-galactic are actually on the fringe of Orvonton and are orbiting Paradise along with Earth.
Uversa [the capital of Overton, the seventh super universe] star students observe that the grand universe is surrounded by the ancestors of a series of star and planetary clusters that completely encircle the present inhabited creation as concentric rings of outer universes upon universes.
Monumental Amount of Energy and Matter
The physicists of Uversa calculate that the energy and matter of these outer and uncharted regions already equal many times the total material mass and energy charge embraced in all seven super universes.
We (the authors) are informed that the metamorphosis of cosmic force in these outer space levels is a function of the Paradise force organizers. We also know that these forces are ancestral to those physical energies which at present activate the grand universe. The Orvonton [Earth's super universe] power directors, however, have nothing to do with these far-distant realms, neither are the energy movements therein discernibly connected with the power circuits of the organized and inhabited creations.
We know very little of the significance of these tremendous phenomena of outer space. A greater creation of the future is in process of formation. We can observe its immensity, we can discern its extent and sense its majestic dimensions, but otherwise we know little more about these realms than do the astronomers of Earth. As far as we know, no material beings on the order of humans, no angels or other spirit creatures, exist in this outer ring of nebulae, suns, and planets. This distant domain is beyond the jurisdiction and administration of the super universe governments.
Throughout Orvonton, it is believed that a new type of creation is in process, an order of universes destined to become the scene of the future activities of the assembling Corps of the Finality [the goal of mortals]; and if our conjectures are correct, then the endless future may hold for all of you the same enthralling spectacles that the endless past has held for your predecessors.
The Long Path to Personality
Becoming a person is the apex of a long path of evolution through the physical energies and forms.
A person is the god of his own universe of evolved body cells and organs.
A person is a microscopic version of the Supreme who is seeking god status over all personalities in the universes of time and space.
From Ultimaton, to Matter, to Human Form
The ultimaton is the first measurable form of energy. It has Paradise as its nucleus. Ultimatonic matter consists of the energy particles that make up electrons. One hundred ultimatons are the equivalent of one electron.
The formation of all matter is analogous to the solar system. There is at the center of every minute universe of energy a relatively stable, comparatively stationary, nuclear portion of material existence. This central unit is endowed with a threefold possibility of manifestation [material, mindal, and spiritual].
Surrounding this energy center there whirl, in endless profusion but in fluctuating circuits, the energy units that are faintly comparable to the planets encircling the sun of some star group like Earth's solar system.
Within the atom the electrons revolve about the central proton with about the same comparative room the planets have as they revolve about the sun in the space of the atomic solar system. There is the same relative distance, in comparison with actual size, between the atomic nucleus and the inner electronic circuit as exists between the inner planet, Mercury, and the sun.
Metamorphic Stimulants
[Metamorphic: pertaining to or characterized by a change of form.]
The blazing suns can transform matter into various forms of energy, but the dark worlds and all outer space can slow down electronic and ultimatonic activity to the point of converting these energies into the matter of the realms.
Certain electronic associations of a close nature, as well as many of the basic associations of nuclear matter, are formed in the exceedingly low temperatures of open space, being later augmented by association with larger accretions of materializing energy.
Throughout all of the never-ending metamorphosis of energy and matter, we must consider the influence of gravity pressure and with the anti-gravity behavior of the ultimatonic energies under certain conditions of temperature, velocity, and revolution. Temperature, energy currents, distance, and the presence of the living force organizers and the power directors also have a bearing on all transmutation phenomena of energy and matter.
The Building Blocks of Matter
The basic building blocks of energy-matter are structured as follows:
1. Ultimaton
2. Neutrino
3. Quark
4. Electron
5. Neutron
6. Mesotron
7. Proton
8. Atom
All forms or materializations are aggregates of these particles that are present throughout the universes. There is no place in space that does not contain these central hubs (building blocks).
It is at this level that energy is converted into matter or back.
Above this level, only force and potential exist. Below this level are aggregations of such particles into the larger and larger forms ranging from atoms to super-galaxies.
All of these manifestations have one thing in common. They are all based on the universal building block of the ultimaton. These particles cluster together into the protons, neutrons, and electrons used to construct atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and super organisms in the relative cosmic reality of time and space.
The Role of the Life Carriers
Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life of the order and forms known on Earth arises with these Sons (the Life Carriers), though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Earth.
The corps of Life Carriers commissioned to plant life upon a new world usually consists of one hundred senior carriers, one hundred assistants, and one thousand custodians.
The Life Carriers often carry actual life plasm to a new world, but not always. They sometimes organize the life patterns after arriving on the planet of assignment in accordance with formulas previously approved for a new adventure in life establishment. Such was the origin of the planetary experimental life on Earth.
The Vital Spark of Life
When, in accordance with approved formulas, the physical patterns have been provided, then the Life Carriers catalyze this lifeless material, imparting through their persons the vital spirit spark; and suddenly, the inert patterns become living matter.
The vital spark - the mystery of life - is bestowed through the Life Carriers, not by them. They do indeed supervise such transactions; they formulate the life plasm itself. But it is the Universe Mother Spirit who supplies the essential factor of the living plasm which provides the energy spark that enlivens the body and heralds the mind.
In the bestowal of life the Life Carriers transmit nothing of their personal natures, not even on those spheres where new orders of life are projected. At such times they simply initiate and transmit the spark of life, start the required revolutions of matter in accordance with the physical, chemical, and electrical specifications of the ordained plans and patterns. Life Carriers are living catalytic presences that agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise inert elements of the material order of existence.
Alternate Scientific Theories Struggling to Explain the Origin of Life (Part 1)
Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor, March 24, 2016, 7 Theories on the Origin of Life.
Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time. But, how did the first organisms on the only known home to life in the universe develop from the primordial soup?
The following are two of the seven theories complied by the science daily Live Science, which suggest the origins of Life.
1. Electric Spark
Electric sparks can generate amino acids and sugars from an atmosphere loaded with water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen, as was shown in the famous Miller-Urey experiment reported in 1953, suggesting that lightning might have helped create the key building blocks of life on Earth in its early days. Over millions of years, larger and more complex molecules could form.
Although research since then has revealed the early atmosphere of Earth was actually hydrogen-poor, scientists have suggested that volcanic clouds in the early atmosphere might have held methane, ammonia and hydrogen and been filled with lightning as well.
2. Community Clay
The first molecules of life might have met on clay, according to an idea elaborated by organic chemist Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
These surfaces might not only have concentrated these organic compounds together, but also helped organize them into patterns much like our genes do now.
The main role of DNA is to store information on how other molecules should be arranged. Genetic sequences in DNA are essentially instructions on how amino acids should be arranged in proteins. Cairns-Smith suggests that mineral crystals in clay could have arranged organic molecules into organized patterns. After a while, organic molecules took over this job and organized themselves.
Science Struggles to Explain the Origin of Life (Part 2)
Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor, March 24, 2016, 7 Theories on the Origin of Life.
Here are two more scientific theories explaining the origin of life.
1. Deep-Sea Vents
The deep-sea vent theory suggests that life may have begun as submarine hydrothermal vents, spewing key hydrogen-rich molecules. Their rocky nooks could have concentrated these molecules together and provided mineral catalysts for critical reactions.
Even now, these vents, rich in chemical and thermal energy, sustain vibrant ecosystems.
2. Chilly Start
Ice might have covered the oceans 3 billion years ago, as the sun was about a third less luminous than it is now. This layer of ice, possibly hundreds of feet thick, might have protected fragile organic compounds in the water below from ultraviolet light and destruction from cosmic impacts. The cold might have also helped these molecules to survive longer, allowing key reactions to happen.
Science Struggles to Explain the Origin of Life (Part 3)
Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor, March 24, 2016, 7 Theories on the Origin of Life.
Here are the last three of the seven theories compiled by the science daily Live Science which suggest the origins of Life.
1. An RNA World
Nowadays DNA needs proteins in order to form, and proteins require DNA to form, so how could these have formed without each other? The answer may be RNA, which can store information like DNA, serve as an enzyme like proteins, and help create both DNA and proteins.
Later DNA and proteins succeeded this "RNA world," because they are more efficient. RNA still exists and performs several functions in organisms, including acting as an on-off switch for some genes. The question still remains how RNA got here in the first place. And while some scientists think the molecule could have spontaneously arisen on Earth, others say that was very unlikely to have happened.
Other nucleic acids other than RNA have been suggested as well, such as the more esoteric PNA or TNA. [RNA: ribonucleic acid, is a nucleic acid present in all living cells. Its principal role is to act as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins, although in some viruses RNA rather than DNA carries the genetic information. Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is an artificially synthesized polymer similar to DNA or RNA. TNA means "Total Nonstop Action," which seems to suggest the desperation for a scientific explanation for the origin of life.]
2. Simple Beginnings
Instead of developing from complex molecules such as RNA, life might have begun with smaller molecules interacting with each other in cycles of reactions. These might have been contained in simple capsules akin to cell membranes, and over time more complex molecules that performed these reactions better than the smaller ones could have evolved, scenarios dubbed "metabolism-first" models, as opposed to the "gene-first" model of the "RNA world" hypothesis.
2. Panspermia
Perhaps life did not begin on Earth at all, but was brought here from elsewhere in space, a notion known as panspermia. For instance, rocks regularly get blasted off Mars by cosmic impacts, and a number of Martian meteorites have been found on Earth that some researchers have controversially suggested brought microbes to Earth, potentially making us all Martians originally.
Other scientists have even suggested that life might have hitchhiked on comets from other star systems. However, even if this concept were true, the question of how life began on Earth would then only change to how life began elsewhere in space.
The Actual Evolutionary Panorama
The story of man’s ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is 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. These inland seas were the waters in which the Life Carriers established three independent life implantations on Earth.
Planetary Commission of Life Carriers
The Life Carriers of a planetary corps are given a certain period in which to establish life on a new world (approximately 500,000 years of the time of that planet). At the termination of this period, indicated by certain developmental attainments of the planetary life, they cease implantation efforts, and they may not subsequently add anything new or supplemental to the life of that planet.
During the ages intervening between life establishment and the emergence of human creatures of moral status, the Life Carriers are permitted to manipulate the life environment and otherwise favorably direct the course of biologic evolution.
When the Life Carriers operating on a new world have succeeded in producing a being with will, with the power of moral decision and spiritual choice, their work terminates. The Life Carriers are not permitted to experiment or to interfere with creatures of free will.
From this point forward the evolution of living things must proceed in accordance with the endowment of the inherent nature and tendencies that have already been imparted to, and established in, the planetary life formulas and patterns.
Activity of the Life Carriers on Earth
600,000,000 years ago the commission of Life Carriers sent out from Jerusem arrived on Earth and began the study of physical conditions preparatory to launching life on world number 606 (Earth) of the Satania system. [Jerusem is the headquarters of Satania, Earth's solar system.]
This was to be the six hundred and sixth experience with the initiation of the Nebadon life patterns in Satania and the sixtieth opportunity to make changes and institute modifications in the basic and standard life designs of the local universe. [The Nebadon life patterns are the expression of the unique and original idea of the Universal Father and Eternal Son in the bestowal of their Paradise Son (Michael) who designed, organized, and rules this local universe, Nebadon.]
993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934) Urantia (Earth) was formally recognized as a planet of human habitation in Earth's local universe of Nebadon. Biologic evolution had once again achieved the human levels of will dignity. Man had arrived on planet 606 (Earth) of Satania.
Motion Is Vital to Reality
The Reality of material existence attaches to energy unrecognized by humans as well as to visible matter.
When the energies of the universe are so slowed down that they acquire the requisite degree of motion, these energies become mass when conditions are favorable.
The fundamental cause of this universe of energy-mass, mind, and spirit, is eternal. It exists and consists in the nature and reactions of the Universal Father and his absolute associates.
Motion, Space, and Time
Just like space, time is a bestowal of Paradise, but only indirectly.
Time occurs by virtue of motion because mind is inherently aware of sequentiality. Therefore, from a practical viewpoint, motion is essential to time.
Space is not infinite, even though it takes origin from Paradise. It is not absolute, for it is pervaded [permeated] by the Unqualified non deity Absolute who is the totality of energy-matter with astronomic potential]. We do not know the absolute limits of space, but we do know that the absolute of time is eternity (within infinity).
Time and space are inseparable only in the time-space creations, (the seven super universes). Space without time theoretically exists, but the only truly non temporal place is the Paradise area.
The relatively motionless mid space zones impinging on Paradise and separating pervaded from unpervaded space are the transition zones from time to eternity. Consequently, it is necessary for Paradise pilgrims to be unconscious during any transit culminating in Paradise citizenship. Time-conscious visitors can go to Paradise without sleeping, but they remain creatures of time.
Evolutionary Striving
There is an original endowment of adaptation in living things and beings.
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, adaptation by organs, and augmented life realization.
The interminable efforts of all living things reveals the existence within them of an innate striving for perfection.
True Success in Life
Some lives are too great and noble to descend to the level of being merely “successful.”
The animal must adapt itself to the environment, but the religious man transcends his environment and in this way escapes the limitations of the present material world through his insight of divine love.
This concept of love generates in the soul of man the super-animal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness.
Evolutionary Strides
The most important step in plant evolution was the development of chlorophyll-making ability. The second greatest advance was the evolution of the spore into the complex seed. The spore is most efficient as a reproductive agent, but it lacks the potentials of variety and versatility inherent in the seed.
One of the most serviceable and complex episodes in the evolution of the higher types of animals consisted in the development of the ability of the iron in the circulating blood cells to perform in the double role of oxygen carrier and carbon dioxide remover. The performance of the red blood cells illustrates how evolving organisms are able to adapt their functions to varying or changing environment.
While the higher animals, including man, oxygenate their tissues by the action of the iron of the red blood cells, which carries oxygen to the living cells and just as efficiently removes the carbon dioxide, other metals can be made to serve the same purpose. The cuttlefish employs copper for this function, and the sea squirt utilizes vanadium.
The continuation of such biologic adjustments is illustrated by the evolution of teeth in the higher Earth mammals; these attained to thirty-six in man’s remote ancestors, and then began an adaptive readjustment toward thirty-two in the dawn man and his near relatives. Now the human species is slowly gravitating toward twenty-eight. The process of evolution is still actively and adaptively in progress on this planet.
Chemical Adjustments
Many seemingly mysterious adjustments of living organisms are purely chemical, wholly physical. At any moment of time, in the blood stream of any human being there exists the possibility of upward of 15,000,000 chemical reactions between the hormone output of a dozen ductless glands.
The lower forms of plant life are wholly responsive to the physical, chemical, and electrical environment. But as the scale of life ascends, one by one, the mind ministries of the seven adjutant spirits become operative, and the mind becomes increasingly adjustive, creative, coordinative, and controlling.
The ability of animals to adapt themselves to air, water, and land is not a supernatural endowment, but it is a super-physical adjustment.
Physics and chemistry alone cannot explain how a human being evolved out of the primeval protoplasm of the early seas. The ability to learn, memorize and respond differently to environment, is the endowment of mind.
The laws of physics are not responsive to training; they are immutable and unchanging. The reactions of chemistry are not modified by education; they are uniform and dependable. Aside from the presence of the Unqualified Absolute, electrical and chemical reactions are predictable. But mind can profit from experience, can learn from reactive habits of behavior in response to repetition of stimuli.
The Power of Mind
Pre-intelligent organisms react to environmental stimuli, but those organisms that are reactive to mind ministry can adjust and manipulate the environment itself.
The physical brain with its associated nervous system possesses innate capacity for response to mind ministry just as the developing mind of a personality possesses a certain innate capacity for spirit receptivity and therefore contains the potentials of spiritual progress and attainment.
Intellectual, social, moral, and spiritual evolution are dependent on the mind ministry of the seven adjutant spirits and their super-physical associates.
Observing the Work of the Seven Adjutant Spirits
Throughout the long evolutionary development of planetary life, the tireless mind ministers registered their increasing ability to contact the successively expanding brain capacities of the progressively superior animal creatures.
At first only the spirit of intuition could function in the instinctive and reflex behavior of the primordial animal life. With the differentiation of higher types of animals, the spirit of understanding was able to endow such creatures with the gift of spontaneous association of ideas. Later on we observed the spirit of courage in operation; evolving animals really developed a crude form of protective self-consciousness.
Subsequent to the appearance of the mammalian groups, we beheld the spirit of knowledge manifesting itself in increased measure. And the evolution of the higher mammals brought the function of the spirit of counsel, with the resulting growth of the herd instinct and the beginnings of primitive social development.
Increasingly, on down through the dawn mammals, the mid-mammals, and the Primates, we had observed the augmented service of the first five adjutants. But never had the remaining two, the highest mind ministers, been able to function in the Earth type of evolutionary mind.
Suddenly [a mutation], the progressing Primates produced two primitive human beings, the actual ancestors of mankind.
The twins [a boy and a girl] were about ten years old when the spirit of worship made its first contact with the mind of the female twin and shortly thereafter with the male. We (the Life Carriers) knew that something closely akin to human mind was approaching culmination; and when, about a year later, they finally resolved, as a result of meditative thought and purposeful decision, to flee from home and journey north, then did the spirit of wisdom begin to function on Earth and in these two now recognized human minds.
[The same seven stages of adjutant mind spirit contact are attempted / accomplished in the mind of every human lifespan.]
Life Carriers' Exhilaration
When the seventh spirit of wisdom began to function on Earth in the two now recognized human minds, there was an immediate and new order of mobilization of the seven adjutant mind-spirits. We were exultant. We realized that the long-waited-for hour was approaching. We knew we were upon the threshold of the realization of our protracted effort to evolve will creatures on Earth.
We did not have to wait long. At noon, the day after the runaway of the twins, there occurred the initial test flash of the universe circuit signals at the planetary reception-focus of Urantia [Earth]. We were, of course, all astir with the realization that a great event was impending; but since this world was a life-experiment station, we had not the slightest idea of just how we would be apprised of the recognition of intelligent life on the planet.
We were not long in suspense. On the third day after the elopement of the twins, and before the Life Carrier corps departed, the archangel of initial planetary circuit establishment arrived on Earth.
Recognition of Earth as an Inhabited World
It was an eventful day on Urantia (Earth) when our small group gathered about the planetary pole of space communication and received the first message from Salvington [the headquarters of our local universe, Nebadon] over the newly established mind circuit of the planet. And this first message, dictated by the chief of the archangel corps, said:
“To the Life Carriers on Urantia — Greetings! We transmit assurance of great pleasure on Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem in honor of the registration on the headquarters of Nebadon of the signal of the existence on Urantia [Earth] of mind of will dignity. The purposeful decision of the twins to flee northward and segregate their offspring from their inferior ancestors has been noted. This is the first decision of mind - the human type of mind - on Urantia and automatically establishes the circuit of communication over which this initial message of acknowledgment is transmitting.”
[Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem, are architectural spheres. They are lighted, heated, and energized by methods which make them quite independent of the suns of space. These spheres were constructed by the living power centers and physical controllers and were designed to exert a powerful influence over energy distribution.]
Admonition and Praise for Life Carriers
Next over the new circuit of planetary communications came the greetings of the Most Highs of Edentia [who rule in the lives of men], containing instructions for the resident Life Carriers forbidding us to interfere with the pattern of life we had established. (It should not be inferred that Life Carriers ever arbitrarily and mechanically interfere with the natural outworking of the planetary evolutionary plans, for we do not.) But up to this time we had been permitted to manipulate the environment and shield the life plasm in a special manner, and it was this extraordinary, but wholly natural, supervision that was to be discontinued.
And no sooner had the Most Highs left off speaking than the beautiful message of Lucifer, then sovereign of the Satania solar system began. This message from Lucifer contained the official acceptance of the Life Carriers’ work on Earth and absolved us from all future criticism of any of our efforts to improve the life patterns of Nebadon as established in the Satania system.
These messages from Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem formally marked the termination of the Life Carriers’ ages-long supervision of the planet. For ages we had been on duty, assisted only by the seven adjutant mind-spirits and the Master Physical Controllers. And now, will, the power of choosing to worship and to ascend, having appeared in the evolutionary creatures of the planet, we knew that our work was finished, and our group prepared to depart.
Earth being a life-modification world, permission was granted to leave behind two senior Life Carriers with twelve assistants, and I was chosen as one of this group and have been on Earth ever since.
It is just 993,408 years ago (from the year A.D. 1934) that Earth was formally recognized as a planet of human habitation in the universe of Nebadon. Biologic evolution had once again achieved the human levels of will dignity. Man had arrived on planet 606 of Satania.
The Modern Evolutionary Landscape
Motion Triggers Evolution
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“This book shows how the need to move has shaped the living world.”
“Human locomotion is wonderfully amenable to personal exploration and experimentation, making us the ideal platform for learning the ropes of biological propulsion. As a species, we’re also surprisingly capable movers by the standards of our close ape relatives.
This is something we usually take for granted - when asked to say what makes us special, most people talk about our superior mental faculties. Yet I’d guess that a similar majority would grant far higher status to elite athletes than to Nobel Prize winners.”
The Evolutionary Narrative of Locomotion
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“In the first step on our historical journey, we explore how our tree-dwelling ancestors became two-legged and eventually left the forests behind. Then, we will briefly divert from our ancestral lineage, to turn our attention to the skies, and to the various origins of the lucky flying animals that now roam therein. Next, we will dive beneath the waves, to examine how natural selection for swimming caused the appearance of the vertebrate backbone. Moving on, we take a closer look at our fishy ancestors, who turned their fins into limbs and crawled onto the land.
As our journey takes us ever deeper, we will learn how the demands of locomotion shaped the fundamental anatomical blueprint of the animal kingdom, with its clearly defined fore-to-aft axis and left/right symmetry. Subsequently, we look into how animals ended up controlling the locomotory movements of their finely honed bodies, thanks to the origin of the nervous system.”
The Major Locomotory Transitions
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“Through the major locomotory transitions noted above, we learn how our ancestral lineage was forged and reforged by the demands of movement, and how biological locomotion works in different environments and on different scales.
Many aspects of the transitions of our evolutionary journey are very obviously related to locomotion - such as the origin of flight, of human two-leggedness, and the transformation of fins to limbs. Other changes have a relationship with movement that might seem a little more surprising. Our much-lauded opposable thumbs, for instance, originally had nothing to do with tool use - the digit’s realignment was a climbing adaptation.
The famous Cambrian explosion - the relatively rapid diversification of animal body types that began about 545 million years ago - was kick-started by crawling adaptations. Perhaps most striking of all, the brain and sensory organs were originally nothing more than a guidance system - a computer - to coordinate the body’s movements to and fro.”
[Cambrian pertains to the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.]
Lifestyles
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
“The evolution of locomotion is about far more than legs, wings, and fins - indeed, the deeper we dig, the more apparent it will become that few if any aspects of an animal’s being aren’t related in some way to its present or past adaptations for movement.
By exploring the various occasions when locomotion was abandoned - or rather, ostensibly abandoned, for we’re going to find that the lifestyles of the static owe much to their history of motion. Indeed, I hope to convince you that, strange as it may seem, locomotion has actually dominated the evolution of plants almost as much as it has that of animals.
Although plants themselves usually can’t move around, their seeds and pollen must for the purposes of sexual reproduction and dispersal induce locomotion. These imperatives have impacted not only on the design of the dispersal agents (witness the helicopter-like fruit [seed] of maple trees), but also on the form of the stationary plant that releases them. Height is an obvious dispersal-assisting quality, and flowers are so good at ensuring pollen gets delivered exactly where it needs to go (via insect couriers) that one could regard them as indirect locomotory (relating to, or affecting locomotion) organs.”
Adaptations to Environment
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“A creature’s evolutionary history shouldn’t be regarded as a straitjacket. Adaptations can open doors to future possibility as well as close them, and this is never more likely than when those adaptations have a locomotory impact.
If a creature acquires a new way of moving, through its travels it may end up exposing itself to a whole new set of selective pressures: pressures that might push its descendants in an entirely unexpected evolutionary direction. After all, an organism must experience a new environment before it can adapt to it.”
Challenges of Size
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“The largest locomotory animal - the blue whale - is one thousand million million million times bigger than the smallest - a Mycoplasma bacterium.” [Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that lack a cell wall around their cell membrane.]
“The physical changes across so vast a size range have all kinds of locomotory consequences. An elephant cannot bound around, for instance, because its legs would need to be impractically thick to withstand the enormous forces involved. A mouse, on the other hand, rarely does anything but bound. Air, whose physical presence is barely noticeable to humans in most situations, is positively syrupy to the tiniest flying insects, so they can get away with wings that are just tufts of bristles.”
Complex Environments
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“Flight is a fantastically effective way to get around, but only those creatures that move in the complex world of the forest canopy are ever likely to stumble upon the selective pressures that might eventually make it possible. But the power of locomotion to unlock new ways of living doesn’t just apply to the colonization of new environments.
The adaptive refinement of locomotion in single-celled creatures laid the groundwork for the great multi cellular kingdoms that were to come, before we arrive at last at the most important locomotory transition of all: the beginning of locomotion itself.
Judged on its evolutionary consequences, this was undoubtedly the most significant transition in the history of life since its origin. Before locomotory powers evolved, life was little more than unusually complex chemistry. Once organisms started to move around, however, they began to encounter each other, opening the doors to predation, parasitism, sex, and symbiosis (cooperation). In other words, it was thanks to locomotion that life took on its essential character, and it has had the leading role in the unfolding drama of evolution ever since.”
Mind
Wilkinson, Matt. Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements.
“We have locomotion to thank for more than our body alone. Our curiosity, our joy, even consciousness itself all owe their intangible existence to propulsion. This shaping of our mind by the dance of natural selection and locomotion gives added significance to our search for self-understanding.
We’ve been gifted with an insatiable desire for movement, but this wish has brought us to dangerous territory in recent years, with our locomotory technologies now threatening the health of both our bodies and our minds. Appreciating how we’ve been built by life’s dance is therefore no mere academic concern - it may in the end be our best chance of finding a way to live more healthy, meaningful, and fulfilling lives.”
Human Evolution – A Timeline of the Near and Far Future
http://futurism.com/images/human-evolution-a-timeline-of-the-near-and-far-future-infographic/
This link predicts how human evolution will materialize in stages from 100 years to 100 trillion years and beyond.
While this infographic presentation is interesting from a technological point of view, there is no acknowledgment of any supernatural role in this depiction of human evolution.
[The Urantia Book teaches that Adam and Eve were introduced on Earth as visible biological up-lifters of man following the rebellion of Lucifer and his lieutenants, Satan and Caligastia.
Michael, our local universe creator, who incarnated on Earth as Jesus appointed Machiventa Melchizedek to serve as his surrogate Prince of Urantia (replacing Caligastia). The Urantia Book authors suggest that Melchizedek will introduce a new Adam and Eve couple on Earth when the trial of the rebels and their accomplices is concluded and the quarantine on Earth and the other affected planets is rescinded. The objective of the evolution of man will be primarily spiritual.
Earlier, Melchizedek incarnated on Earth to lead Abraham and the Jews out of their spiritual darkness in preparation for the arrival of their promised Messiah, Michael/Jesus, whom they failed to recognize.]
The Catastrophic Failure of Adam and Eve's Mission
The Urantia (Earth) Problem
The Adamic mission on experimental, rebellion-seared, and isolated (quarantined) Urantia was a formidable undertaking. Nevertheless, Adam and Eve, the superhuman Material Son and Daughter, courageously volunteered for the Earth mission.
Normally, the first work of a Planetary Adam and Eve would be the coordination and blending of the races. But on Earth such a project appeared hopeless, for the human races, while biologically fit, had never been purged of their retarded and defective strains.
Adam and Eve found themselves on a world groping about in abject spiritual darkness and cursed with confusion caused by the miscarriage of the mission by the administration of the rebel Caligastia. Instead of beginning the task of effecting religious unity, they had to begin anew the work of converting the inhabitants to the most simple forms of religious belief. And, instead of finding one language, they were confronted by the world-wide confusion of hundreds upon hundreds of local dialects.
No Adamic pair of the planetary service were ever placed on a more difficult world.
Caligastia’s Plot to Sabotage the Adamic Mission
It must be remembered that Caligastia was still the titular Planetary Prince of Urantia (Earth). He was a misguided but nevertheless high Son of the local universe. (He was not finally deposed until the times of Christ Michael on Earth, as Jesus, (approximately 38,000 years after Adam and Eve's default).
Caligastia paid frequent visits to the Garden of Eden and held many conferences with Adam and Eve. They were adamantly opposed to all his suggestions of short-cut solutions to accomplishing their mission. The wretched conditions outside the garden provided effective immunity against any of his proposals. (Of course, neither Caligastia nor his associate Daligastia had the power to demand individual compliance against their will.)
The fallen Prince elected to try a shrewd assault on the dispirited Eve.
Eve never intended to do anything that would militate against Adam’s plans or jeopardize their planetary trust. Eve had been warned not to attempt any personal or secret methods of furthering the couples' mutual undertaking. Eve scrupulously carried out these instructions for more than one hundred years. It never occurred to her that any danger would attach to the increasingly private meetings she was enjoying with a Nodite leader named Serapatatia. The whole concept developed so gradually and naturally that she was oblivious to the dangers.
[The Nodites were the descendants of the rebel members of the Prince Caligastia's staff, their name deriving from their first leader, Nod, onetime chairman of the Dalamatia commission on industry and trade.]
Initiation of the Temptation of Eve
Adam had just finished his first one hundred years on earth when Serapatatia came into the leadership of the western or Syrian confederation of the Nodite tribes.
Serapatatia had made several visits to the Garden and had become deeply impressed with the righteousness of Adam’s cause. And shortly after assuming the leadership of the Syrian Nodites, he announced his intention of establishing an affiliation with the work of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Adam was cheered by the news that the most powerful and the most intelligent of all the neighboring tribes had decided to support his program for world improvement. Serapatatia became one of the most able and efficient of all of Adam’s lieutenants. He was entirely honest and thoroughly sincere in all of his activities. He was never aware that he was being used as an indirect tool of the wily rebel, Caligastia.
The Divine Biological Uplift Plan
The Divine Biological Uplift Plan called for the intermarriage of Adam and Eve's Children with superior humans. For this reason, Serapatatia held many conferences with Adam and Eve - especially with Eve - and they talked over many plans for improving their methods. One day, during a talk with Eve, it occurred to Serapatatia that it would be very helpful if, while awaiting the supply of large numbers of the violet race* through the birth and aging of Adam and Eve's children, something could be done in the meantime to advance the destitute waiting tribes.
Serapatatia contended that, if the Nodites, as the most progressive and cooperative race, could have a leader born to them of part origin in the violet stock, it would constitute a powerful tie binding these peoples more closely to the Garden. All of this was soberly and honestly considered to be for the good of the world since this potential child, reared and educated in the Garden, would exert a great influence for good over his people.
*[Material Sons vary in height from eight to ten feet, and their bodies glow with the brilliance of radiant light of a violet hue. While material blood circulates through their material bodies, they are also surcharged with divine energy and saturated with celestial light. These Material Sons (the Adams) and Material Daughters (the Eves) are equal to each other, differing only in reproductive nature and in certain chemical endowments. They are equal but diverse, male and female - hence complemental - and are designed to serve on almost all assignments in pairs.]
The Assignation of Cano and Eve
For more than five years the plans of Serapatatia and Eve matured. At last their plan had developed to the point where Eve consented to have a secret conference with Cano, the most brilliant mind and active spiritual leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nodites.
The fateful meeting occurred during the twilight hours of an autumn evening, not far from the home of Adam. Eve had never before met the beautiful and enthusiastic Cano. He was a magnificent specimen of the survival of the superior physique and outstanding intellect of his remote progenitors of the Prince’s staff. Cano also thoroughly believed in the righteousness of the Serapatatia project. (Outside of the Garden, multiple mating was a common practice.)
Influenced by flattery, enthusiasm, and great personal persuasion, Eve then and there consented to embark upon the much discussed enterprise, to add her own scheme of world-saving to the larger and more global divine plan. Eve hardly realized what was transpiring. The fatal step was taken. The metaphorical apple was eaten.
Consequences of Eve's Calamitous Indiscretion:
Loss of the Garden of Eden as a Model for Earth's Human Emulation
Loss of Earth's King and Queen
Desperate not to be separated from his wife, Adam immediately initiated a liaison with Laotta, a brilliant Nodite woman who was head of the western schools of the Garden. Adam with premeditation duplicated Eve's folly.
Adam's motive must not be misconstrued. Adam deliberately chose to share the fate of Eve. He loved his mate with a super mortal affection, and the thought of the possibility of a lonely vigil on Earth without her was more than he could endure.
The progeny of the Cano/Eve and Adam/Laotta assignations were Cain and Abel whose intolerance of each other lead to the sad resolution of their tragic lives. Cain murdered Abel.
Adam and Eve were reduced from superhuman to human status (with the accompanying death experience and the after human death judging and sorting process). Adam and Eve were resurrected after their deaths, absolved of any role in the rebellion, completed their mortal mansion world training. Presently, they serve on the commission of The Four and Twenty. [The Four and Twenty are former humans hailing from the evolutionary worlds, who provide expertise on planetary matters.]
Life Lesson
The lesson for humans to be gained from the Adam and Eve default is that never, in the ascent to Paradise, will ascenders gain anything by impatiently attempting to circumvent the established and divine plan through short cuts, personal inventions, or other strategies for improving on the way or means of perfection, to perfection, and for eternal perfection.
All in all, there probably never was a more disheartening miscarriage of wisdom on any planet in all our local universe of Nebadon. However, it is not surprising that these missteps occur in the affairs of the evolutionary universes. We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is not remarkable that everything does not work perfectly. Our universe was not created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not our origin.
The Role of Slavery in Spiritual Evolution
An Age-Old Concept
[A slave is a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another.]
Primitive man never hesitated to enslave his fellows. Woman was the first slave, a family slave.
Pastoral man (animal herders) enslaved woman as his inferior sex partner. This sort of sex slavery grew directly out of man’s decreased dependence upon woman for herders needed few laborers.
Conquered Peoples
Not too long ago, enslavement was the fate of those military captives who refused to accept the conqueror’s religion. In earlier times captives were either eaten, tortured to death, set to fighting each other, sacrificed to spirits, or enslaved.
Slavery was a great advancement for man over massacre and cannibalism.
Enslavement was a step forward in the merciful treatment of war captives. The ambush of the settlement of the Canaanite city of Ai by the Israelites recorded in the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, with the wholesale slaughter of men, women, and children, is a faithful picture of the barbaric slaughter practiced by even supposedly civilized peoples.
The Hebrew raid upon Og, the Amorite king of Bashan, was equally brutal and effective. The Hebrews “utterly destroyed” their enemies, taking all their property as spoils. They put all cities under tribute on pain of the “destruction of all males.”
Many of the contemporary tribes had begun to practice the adoption of superior captives.
Hunter Societies
The hunters, like the American red man, did not enslave. The American Indian either adopted or killed his captives (until the colonists arrived and purchased the captives from the Indians).
In war, the herders made a practice of killing all men captives and taking as slaves only the women and children. The Mosaic code contained specific directions for making wives of these women captives. If not satisfactory, they could be sent away, but the Hebrews were not allowed to sell such rejected consorts as slaves – even this was an advance in civilization. Though the social standards of the Hebrews were crude, they were far above those of the surrounding tribes.
The Herder Societies
The herders were the first capitalists; their herds represented capital, and they lived on the interest - the propagation. And they were not inclined to trust this wealth to the keeping of either slaves or women.
But later on they took male prisoners and forced them to cultivate the soil. This is the early origin of serfdom - man attached to the land. The Africans were taught to till the soil making them the great slave race.
An Essential Link
Slavery was an indispensable link in the chain of human civilization. It was the bridge over which society passed from chaos and indolence to order and civilized activities.
Slavery compelled backward peoples to work and thus provide wealth and leisure for the social advancement of their superiors.
The institution of slavery compelled man to invent the regulative mechanism of primitive society; it gave origin to the beginnings of government.
Enslavement of American Indians in Colonial America
Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans - they enslaved them, and encouraged Indian tribes to participate in the slave trade. In The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717, Alan Gallay writes that between 1670 and 1715, more Indians were exported into slavery through Charles Town (now Charleston, South Carolina) than Africans were imported. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean.
During the Pequot Indian War (1637), colonists declared the procurement of captives was one of their objectives to supplement their meager work force. The English army sent captured Pequot Indians to Boston and other cities for distribution.
The Movement Away from Slavery
Slavery was oppressive, but man learned industry in the schools of oppression. Eventually the slaves shared the blessings of a higher society that they had unwillingly helped create.
While it is necessary for early social evolution, slavery insidiously attacks society internally as the gravest of all destructive social maladies.
With the exception of female and child sex slave rings, modern mechanical invention has rendered slavery obsolete. Slavery, like polygamy, is passing because it does not pay for itself. But it has always proved disastrous to suddenly liberate great numbers of slaves. Less trouble ensues when they are emancipated gradually.
Today, men are not social slaves, but thousands allow ambition to enslave them to debt. Involuntary slavery has given way to a new and more subtle form of voluntary industrial servitude. This is the theme of Part Two of this book.
While the ideal of society is universal freedom, idleness should not be tolerated. All able-bodied persons should be required to do a self-sustaining amount of work.
Man came up from savagery by way of fire, animals, and slavery. Man is now seeking to wrest new secrets and sources of wealth and power from the elemental storehouse of nature.
Destined Developments for Modern Civilization
Radical Changes Coming
Already underway, a new social order will not settle down complacently for a millennium. The human race must become reconciled to a procession of changes, adjustments, and social disruptions. Mankind is marching toward a new planetary destiny.
Mechanical inventions and the rapid prolific dissemination of knowledge are rapidly modifying civilization. Consequently, economic adjustments and social changes are imperative if cultural disaster is to be avoided.
Despite the miscarriage of the plans for world betterment projected in the missions of Caligastia (former rebel Prince of Earth) and Adam, the basic biological evolution of the human species carried the races forward in the scale of human progress and racial development.
The influence of the violet race (introduced by Adam and Eve) though smaller in numbers than planned, produced an advance in civilization, which since the days of Adam, has far exceeded the progress of mankind throughout its entire prior existence of nearly a million years.
Planned evolution can be delayed but it cannot be stopped.
The Cradle of Civilization
For about thirty-five thousand years after the days of Adam, the cradle of civilization was in southwestern Asia, extending from the Nile valley eastward and slightly to the north across northern Arabia, through Mesopotamia, and on into west and central Asia. Climate was the decisive factor in the establishment of civilization in that area.
Climatic evolution accomplished what all other efforts had failed to do. It compelled Eurasian man to abandon hunting for the more advanced callings of herding and farming.
Since slaves were so generally employed by the earlier agriculturists, the farmer was formerly belittled by both the hunter and the herder. For ages it was considered menial to till the soil. Actually, working the soil is the greatest of all blessings.
Ordinarily, man evolved into a farmer from a hunter by transition through the era of the herder. The evolutionary coercion of climatic necessity caused whole tribes to pass directly from hunters to farmers. But this phenomenon of passing immediately from hunting to agriculture only occurred in those regions where there was a high degree of race mixture with the violet stock (the descendants of Adam and Eve).
Changes Earth Will Experience in the Coming 1000 Year Cycle
One Language
One Religion (an individual religion of Self)
One Race (accomplished through migration and intermarriage)
No Territorial Borders
World Government
World Law and Enforcement
All Citizens Will Share the Benefits of Earth's Resources
Purging of Defective Humans by Universe Administrators (The original plan was never implemented by Caligastia or Adam.)
Destined Developments for Modern Civilization
The Globalization Plan of the Most High
Every quarantined or isolated world (such as Earth) has a Vorondadek Son acting as an observer. (The rulers of the constellations are of the Vorondadek order of local universe son-ship.) When commissioned to active duty in the universe as constellation rulers or otherwise, these Sons are known as the Most Highs since they embody the highest administrative wisdom, coupled with the most farseeing and intelligent loyalty, of all the orders of the Local Universe Sons of God.
It is Earth's Most High observer who “rules in the kingdoms of men.” Earth's Most High observer has been stationed on Earth ever since the betrayal of Caligastia (Earth's deposed planetary prince).
The Most High observer and his staff support the actions of Earth's intellectual elite (the Reserve Corps of Destiny) in global evolutionary progress.
The Reserve Corps of Destiny
The Reserve Corps of Destiny consists of living mortals who have (unknown to them) been admitted to the special service of the superhuman administration of world affairs.
This corps is made up of the men and women of each generation who are chosen by the spirit directors of the realm to assist in the conduct of the ministry of mercy and wisdom to the “children of time” on the evolutionary worlds. It is the general practice in the conduct of the affairs of the ascension plans to begin this liaison utilization of mortal will creatures as soon as they are competent and trustworthy enough to assume such responsibilities.
Accordingly, as soon as men and women appear on the stage of temporal action with sufficient mental capacity, adequate moral status, and requisite spirituality, they are quickly assigned to the appropriate celestial group of planetary personalities as human liaisons.
The Invisible Hand of God
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis, pp. 56-57 and 205-206. (Edited)
The Road to Ruin is a secular unveiling of the plans of the world's elites for the financial management of the world.
Monetary elites are not a shadowy underground, but rather a specific group of individuals - finance ministers, central bankers, academics, journalists, and think tank people. They run wealth management firms from Boston to Beijing. They advise presidents and prime ministers.
True elites operate inside spheres of influence. These include finance, media, technology, the military, and politics. The people in each sphere have their favorite gathering times and places. Media elites gather each July at the Allen & Company Sun Valley conference in Idaho. Central bankers gather in August at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, conference. Military and intelligence elites gather at the Munich Security Conference in early February. Thought leaders and public intellectuals can take their pick from among the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, and the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Vancouver.
These super-elite venues are not industry conventions. They are by invitation only, or come with admission and sponsorship conditions that self-select for power elite participation. One encounters heads of state, cabinet officials, CEO's, and billionaires. The most exclusive gathering is the Bilderberg Meeting, held annually in various locations. Bilderberg has a core group of about forty regular attendees, and a larger group of about one hundred invitees who vary from year to year depending on topical urgency or political ascendancy. The core group are mostly financial and industrial elites; the broader group leans toward policymakers and public intellectuals.
The Agenda of the Elites
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 58). (Edited.)
Elite spear carriers remain influential for decades. The elite agenda is unchanging, pursued in past centuries by Caesar and Napoleon, and in the twentieth century by the Rockefeller, Roosevelt, and Bush dynasties. The agenda thrives today in institutions with innocuous sounding names like The United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.
The agenda of the elites is simple: world money, world taxation, and world order.
The Intellectual Elites
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 206). (Edited.)
Members of the American intellectual elites are graduates and professors of coastal schools such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and inland schools such as the University of Chicago.
The elites whirl from public to private platforms. They greet one another at private dinners on the sidelines at Davos (the World Economic Forum in Switzerland), which is the international organization for public-private cooperation; or in Aspen Colorado at the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, which is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues.
The elites also meet in conclaves in Switzerland at the Basel Institute, which is a multidisciplinary and international team that works around the world with partners in the public and private sector to counter corruption and other financial crimes, and to improve the quality of governance globally.
The intellectual elite control global finance and, by extension, global politics, because politics is constrained by finance.
The elites run the world [under the subtle inducement of the Most High].
The Birth and Waning of America
Epochal Changes
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (p. 320). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
The first industrial revolution (IR #1), based on the steam engine and its offshoots - particularly the railroad, steamships, and the shift from wood to iron and steel - resulted from inventions in the period 1770 to 1820 that were sufficiently important for their exploitation to require most of the nineteenth century.
The second industrial revolution (IR #2) reflected the effects of inventions of the late nineteenth century - particularly electricity and the internal combustion engine - and had its maximum effect on productivity in the half-century 1920 to 1970. Between 1940 and 1970, output per person and output per hour continued to increase rapidly, in part as a result of three of the most important subsidiary spin-offs of IR #2 - air conditioning, the interstate highway system, and commercial air transport - while the world of personal entertainment was forever altered by television.
The third industrial revolution (IR #3), associated with information and communication technology, began in 1960 and continues to this day. Like IR #2, it achieved revolutionary change but in a relatively narrower sphere of human activity. The domain of IR #2 covered virtually the entire span of human wants and needs, including food, clothing, housing, transportation, entertainment, communication, information, health, medicine, and working conditions. In contrast, only a few of these dimensions, in particular entertainment, communications, and information, were revolutionized by IR #3. This single fact, the narrowness of the effects of IR #3, is enough to explain why growth in output per person and output per hour began to slow down after 1970.
The Transformation Wave
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (p. 522). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
Throughout the different dimensions of the growth experience in the U.S. since the Civil War, the decades beyond 1940 do not exhibit the same uniformity of revolutionary change as occurred between 1870 and 1940. Instead, the year 1970 marks a distinct breaking point between faster and slower growth.
The inventions of the second industrial revolution (IR #2) gathered momentum between 1870 and 1920 and then between 1920 and 1970 created the most rapid period of growth in labor productivity experienced in American history, bringing a consummate change from 1870 in most dimensions of human life.
The inventions of the third industrial revolution (IR #3), - computers, the internet, and smart phones though revolutionary within their sphere of influence (entertainment, communication, and information technology) did not have the same effects on living standards as had electricity, the internal combustion engine, running water, improving life expectancy, and the other great inventions of IR #2, not to mention the improvement in the human condition as work hours declined from 60 to 40 per week.
American Economic Growth Peaked in 1970
Gordon, Robert J., The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
The great inventions of the late nineteenth century had already reached most urban households by 1928. Light was produced by electricity in cities and towns alike, and almost all urban housing units were connected not just to electricity, but also to gas, telephone, running water, and sewer lines. The motor vehicle had a more widespread effect than electricity, transforming not just urban but also rural America.
The high hourly wage, introduced on a huge scale in the middle of the last century, allowed masses of Americans with no more than high school education to move into the middle class. American productivity was imperative to fill the needs caused by the destruction of German and Japanese factories in World War II.
American growth slowed down after 1970 because the basic elements of a modern standard of living had by then already been achieved along so many dimensions, including food, clothing, housing, transportation, entertainment, communication, health, and working conditions.
Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the evolution in health and medicine had extended human life and lowered infant mortality.
Continued Deceleration of Growth
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
The 1994– 2004 decade found a marked slowing down, leading to the suggestion that the wave of innovation in the late 1990s may have been unique, unlikely to be repeated over our forecasting horizon of the next quarter-century.
The development of robots and artificial intelligence will provide a new surge of productivity growth at the cost of massive future job destruction, as robots replace large numbers of jobs, and as highly sophisticated computer algorithms eliminate analytical jobs ranging from legal searches to financial analysis.
However, if the job destruction by robots and artificial intelligence proceeds slowly, as it has over the past decade, the economy will be able to maintain relatively full employment as the fruits of computerization cause the composition of job types and categories to evolve slowly rather than swiftly.
Inequality and other Headwinds
Gordon, Robert J.. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). Princeton University Press. (Edited)
Steadily rising inequality over the past four decades is just one of the headwinds blowing at gale force to slow the growth rate of the American standard of living. In addition to less education of its people, other headwinds slowing economic growth are racial demographics, government debt, globalization, global climate change, and environmental pollution.
Incomes within the top 1 percent will continue to advance attributable to the economics of superstars, executive compensation, and capital gains on real estate and the stock market.
Income stagnation for the bottom 90 percent of the population has a different set of causes, including the effect of automation in destroying middle-income jobs, an erosion of the strength of labor unions, the decline in the purchasing power of the minimum wage, the effect of imports in the shrinkage of the manufacturing sector, and the role of both high-skilled and low-skilled immigration.
The education headwind is important both by itself and as a source of growing inequality. Throughout the postwar years, starting with the GI Bill, which allowed World War II veterans to obtain a college education at the government’s expense, the United States was the leader among nations in the college completion rate of its youth. In the past two decades, the United States has stumbled, with its college completion rate now down to tenth or below world-wide. And the American youth who enter college, regardless of whether they complete it, now face a combined burden of outstanding debt of more than one trillion dollars.
Hidden Signs of Social Distress
The soup kitchens of the 1930 depression years were vivid signs of the nation's economic distress.
Soup kitchens served mostly soup and bread to the hungry unemployed Americans. Soup was economical because water could be added to serve more people. At the onset of the Great Depression, Al Capone, the notorious gangster from Chicago, established the first soup kitchen. By the mid-1930s, state and federal governments also were operating them.
The depression era social distress of the 1930's exists again today.
We have the same soup kitchens and high unemployment, but they are concealed through complex statistical reports.
The signs of soup kitchens and high unemployment are at the local supermarkets, where one in seven Americans spends food stamps.
The unemployment rate today is actually 22.8% when you calculate unemployment based on the numbers of people who want full time work, but cannot find it (the Trump voters).
Events Capable of Triggering a Financial Crash
Jim Rickards 30 “Snowflakes” That Could Trigger the Next Financial Avalanche www.agor afinancial.com strategic intelligence (Edited)
1. An ISIS Attack on the Vatican
The Islamic State has declared Pope Francis a target. An attack by ISIS on the pope could ignite a religious war between Catholics and Muslims with overtones of the medieval crusades and the original jihad of the Prophet Muhammad.
2. Major Natural Disasters: Earthquakes, Tsunamis or Volcanoes
An economic crash would be caused by a natural disaster that is orders of magnitude greater than recent experience. The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on December 26, 2004 had a magnitude of 9.1, and produced a tsunami 100 feet high. There have been only five earthquakes in recorded history with a magnitude of 9.0 or higher. Two of the five were in the past 12 years. A 9.5 earthquake in eastern China or the Western United States would cause a financial panic similar to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Back then, stocks fell 50% from their previous peak over a three-week period. Today, a natural disaster of that scale would devastate the economy and markets.
3. Unexpected Consequences of the United Kingdom or Others Leaving the European Union
The U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union triggered a small financial avalanche. Among other things, it caused the English pound to fall.
4. A Currency Crisis
Currency values fluctuate all the time, sometimes with big swings. The pound went from $1.50 to $1.29 in the aftermath of the June 23, 2016 Brexit vote; a 14% decline in just over one week. That is significant, but a real currency crisis is different. That is when the value of a currency goes into free fall, perhaps plunging 25% or more with no end in sight. Paper currency reserves are depleted and the IMF has to enter the picture with emergency reserves. In an extreme case, the G7 plus China will intervene directly in currency markets to prop up the currency in crisis, and the IMF may print some world money (called Special Drawing Rights or SDRs) to replenish reserves. The last time there were crises of that magnitude were 1997 in Asia, 1994 in Mexico, and 1992 in the United Kingdom.
5. If China Reveals Its Gigantic Gold Hoard
China officially says it has 1,838.5 metric tons of gold in its reserves as of late-2016 with small additions being reported every month. Evidence from various sources is that the real figure is 4,000 metric tons or more, but the Chinese will not admit this, because they wish to acquire more gold at cheap prices and do not want to upset the market price.
6. An EMP Weapon Is Set Off
EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse. It’s a weaponized burst of electromagnetic energy that when set off, shuts down all electronic and digital devices. This is not a remote possibility. North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia already have EMP weapons. Such an attack could instantly set the U.S. back over a century. Power grids would go offline. Telecommunications would shut down. Financial networks like stock exchanges and Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) would stop working.
7. A Nuclear Accident
A reactor meltdown larger or more deadly than Chernobyl could set off a panic in financial markets. The Fukushima meltdown was an example of how complexity causes ripple effects. In Japan, the Fukushima meltdown started as an undersea earthquake. The Earth’s tectonic plates snapped causing a tidal wave. The tidal wave hit a nuclear reactor. That, in turn, caused the Tokyo stock market to crash. Such a nuclear tragedy could be caused by a natural disaster or a deliberate attack.
8. A Major Power Grid Collapse and Blackout
Financial markets were never as large and interconnected and as dependent on digital channels of communication as they are today. Virtually all stock trading is now electronic. The world has no experience of a major blackout in an age of all electronic trading. Stock, bond, and commodities markets would be paralyzed.
9. If Iran Tests a Nuclear Weapon
The Iranian nuclear weapons development program is an open secret. The U.S. and Israel have been waging a secret war against the project for years using cyber-attacks such as the Stuxnet computer virus, financial weapons, sabotage and targeted assassinations of scientists. But Iran has not been deterred and continues on the path toward testing a nuclear device and deploying a nuclear weapon. Negotiations have satisfied the press and public that things are under control, but the negotiations are inconclusive. (An announced “agreement” has not been approved by Iran and can easily be rescinded by a new U.S. president). The U.S. has recently signaled that it will green light Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for Iranian help in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.
The next step is for Iran to test its device. Such an event could cause panics in the market as the U.S., Iran and their neighbors weigh their next moves.
10. Establishment of a Benchmark Oil Price in Chinese Yuan
An announcement of a new benchmark price for oil denominated in Chinese yuan rather than the dollar would upset world markets. China has become Saudi Arabia’s biggest customer for oil exports.
11. A September 11 Type Attack on U.S. Soil
A new September 11 type terrorist attack could happen at any moment. The first terror bombing of the World Trade Center in New York took place in 1993. A full eight years passed until the second bombing happened in 2001. This gives some idea of the patience and longtime horizons of the terrorists. With the Islamic State now including hundreds of British and U.S. passport holders who can travel freely around the world, and with the U.S. southern border a sieve, there are no obstacles to the most radical terrorists moving into U.S. cities. The San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack on December 2, 2015, may be a small sample of a coming terror wave. The next spectacular attack will surprise investors. Again.
12. A Failure to Deliver Physical Gold
A failure to deliver physical gold could cause a demand shock for gold around the world. It is no secret that the amount of “paper gold” in the form of Comex futures, ETFs, LBMA forward contracts and unallocated gold accounts at major banks may be as much as 100 times the amount of deliverable physical gold in the world. This system avoids collapse only because most contractual parties do not ask for delivery but are content to hold onto or roll over their paper contracts. But the physical supply available for delivery is shrinking because of Chinese demand that removes gold from the paper markets. It is only a matter of time before the physical supply is stretched too thin and a dealer defaults on a physical delivery. When word leaks out to the public, there will be a scramble for physical gold.
13. An Internet Backbone Collapse
The fiber-optic cables at the bottom of the sea comprise one of the most important “pipeline” networks in the world. More than 90% of all Internet traffic runs through undersea cables - they’re the backbone of the Internet. Damage to these cables would be highly disruptive to commerce.
14. Credit Collapse in China
China is in more of a credit bubble than the United States. If China's bubble bursts, the effects will be global.
15. A Flash Crash
Because of High-Frequency Trading On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones fell 1,000 points in minutes. It was called the “Flash Crash” - brought on by high-frequency trading (HFT). If this were to happen again, the result could be much worse. That’s because the use of margin debt to buy stocks is at record levels. A small correction in stocks could cascade into a much bigger downward movement.
16. Food Riots, Money Riots, and Social Breakdown
Social breakdown could include riots, strikes, sabotage and other dysfunctions. Social breakdown is distinct from social protest because disorder involves illegality, violence and property destruction. Such a situation could require a declaration of martial law using military force to quell the rioting. Under martial law, civilians are no longer entitled to their civil rights.
The United States has been under a state of emergency declared by President Bush in Proclamation 7463 on September 14, 2001. The state of emergency has been renewed annually since 2001 by each new president. The state of emergency grants the president extraordinary executive powers, including martial law. While statutes authorizing martial law were created with nuclear warfare in mind, they are not limited to that circumstance.
In addition to broad emergency powers applicable to any emergency, dictatorial powers have been given to the president by Congress to respond specifically to financial crises (money riots).
17. The Financial “Sleeper” Hedge Fund Weapon
China has more than $3 trillion in their sovereign reserves - which are a savings account for an entire country. Just like individuals can use their savings to buy a car, stock or bond, countries can use their savings to buy things as well. They set up what are known as sovereign wealth funds to invest their savings in liquid assets like stocks and bonds. Hypothetically, China could use that money to bankroll a hedge fund with layers of secretive Cayman Islands trusts, Maltese banks, and a team of unscrupulous bankers and lawyers. Theoretically, the fund could enter into the market and buy and sell stocks and bonds on a continual basis. With treacherous intentions the fund would not need to make money like a normal hedge fund. Instead of existing to turn a profit, it would exist to wage financial warfare on the U.S. It could build up its credit lines and credibility, create contacts with major banks, and then, one day, flood the market with sell orders in a particular stock. A sleeper fund like this would likely sell popular stocks like Google and Apple. To cause even more damage, it could sell on a day when stocks are already down 500 or 600 points and then pile on using options to create a panic. All of the profits would be electronically transferred safely back to Beijing during the chaos. The next day, the traders would be gone without a trace leaving the U.S. market in shambles.
This instantaneous loss of wealth does more damage to civilian morale than conventional bombing.
18. Rogue Robots
Robots with artificial intelligence can begin interacting in unexpected ways to produce unintended results, with limited ability to stop them. This scenario includes rogue trading computers, industrial robots or hacked drones. An example was the Knight Trading fiasco. On Aug. 1, 2012, a software error was responsible for a Knight Trading computer sending a deluge of phony buy orders to the New York Stock Exchange. In minutes, Knight got $7 billion of stock it never wanted and lost $440 million correcting the problems.
19. Congress Failing to Pass a Budget Bill or Not Raising the Debt Limit
If the federal government fails to fund the government leading to a shutdown, markets will react negatively.
20. China Wages a Territorial War
China has become more and more aggressive in its stance toward territorial claims made in the South China Sea. It is currently squabbling with the Philippines, Japan and Vietnam over ownership of small islands. A misunderstanding or a brazen military grab of these areas could spark a larger conflict. The U.S. would probably be engaged as it is allied with China’s neighbors.
21. A Fake Tweet
On April 23, 2013 the Dow plunged 143 points when the Associated Press’ Twitter account published a notice that there were explosions in the White House and the president was injured.
The AP had been hacked into. The losses in the stock market were quickly recouped. However, The incident demonstrates how damaging a relatively small hacker attack can be on financial markets.
22. A Prominent Suicide, Assassination or Death
News of any prominent figure, like the president of the United States, the Federal Reserve chairman or even a prominent investment banker, dying by means of suicide, assassination or death could set off panic selling in the markets.
23. More European Union Independence Referendums
Talk of independence referendums is spreading all over Europe. The failed Scotland vote was the most high profile. Though it was defeated, there could be a similar vote there again soon - especially in light of the Brexit and Italian votes. If one of these nations were to break away from the European Union, the uncertainty or new arrangements could cause market selloffs.
24. A Debt Crisis in Japan
Japan’s debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio stands at well over 220%. These levels are historically high and rising. The country has been on course for a sovereign debt crisis for some time. Since Japan’s debt to GDP has been on-going for some time, investors have discounted the possibility of a Japanese sovereign debt crisis. If Japan, the world’s third largest economy, entered such a crisis, however, most other developed governments overburdened with debt would be discredited as well.
25. Another U.S. Credit Downgrade
The U.S. was downgraded by Standard & Poors in August 2011. Despite our fiscal deficit marginally improving in recent years, none of the structural problems, addiction to debt or spending gluts has been reversed. If the U.S. were to be downgraded further or if another rating agency joined S&P’s downgrade, there would be a sell-off in financial markets.
26. If a Major OECD Member Announces It Will Begin Acquiring Gold
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a group of the world’s developed economies that join together to promote trade and growth. If a member country began acquiring gold, it wouldn’t necessarily establish a “gold standard” but rather an acknowledgment of the fact that gold is money. A move in that direction from someone not already doing so, such as Australia, South Korea or Singapore, would send a strong signal that major nations are questioning the integrity of the dollar and paper money. That could give rise to doubts about the dollar in the minds of investors.
27. A Major Bank Failure
If a bank failure on the level of Lehman Brothers or MF Global occurred, it could kick off a domino effect within the banking system. One financial institution after another could fall because of their interdependence. Depositors would worry about their money and make withdrawals, and stocks would drop worse than they did in 2008. People would sell what they could, not what they wanted to, sending stock prices for even unrelated companies lower.
28. An Extensive Cyberattack
In 2010, the U.S. and Israel attacked Iranian centrifuges with a computer worm called “Stuxnet.” Essentially, the attack told Iranian computers to spin the centrifuges so fast that they blew up. Attacks like this show that cyber warfare is occurring, and it is threatening. Other attacks that could cause major investor concern include a major attack on a stock exchange (there was never an explanation for why the NASDAQ closed for three hours in 2013) or an attack on a major financial institution, compromising personal information or crippling transactions networks.
29. A Pandemic Involving a Fatal Virus
If a major pandemic (such as the Ebola virus) started in the continental U.S., martial law might be imposed as in a social breakdown scenario. In that case, people’s movements and activities would be severely limited and monitored. Investors might sell their stocks as commercial activity and business productivity ground to a halt.
30. A Declaration of Independent Kurdistan
The Kurdish population has been striving for decades to have its own state. Roughly 30 million people in the Middle East are Kurds. They are probably the globe’s largest ethnic group without a state. If parts of Turkey or Iran decide to establish their own independent country of Kurds, it could fuel violence in the region - potentially upsetting oil production or dragging the already overextended U.S. into another geopolitical conflict.
Other Possible “Snowflakes”
Massive Gold Repatriation
Russia, China and the United States keep their gold safely stored on their home territories. But, about 50% of all the remaining official gold in the world is not stored in the owner’s country – it is stored at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England. If those countries lost confidence in New York and London and demanded their gold back it would be like a run on the bank. Except the banks in question are both central banks and the demand is not for cash, but for gold. This has already happened in a controlled way. Countries that have demanded some of their gold back in recent years include Germany, Austria, Venezuela, and Azerbaijan. If that list expands, the controlled withdrawals could turn into an out-of-control run on the vaults with ruinous financial results.
Still other factors acting as snowflakes include food shortages, crop failures, severe droughts or extreme weather that could severely impact the financial markets.
The Coming Decade of Financial Collapse
The metaphor of a snowflake causing an avalanche is useful to describe a financial collapse. Not every snowflake causes an avalanche. Markets can absorb shocks and rebound. Total financial collapse builds slowly.
When a snowflake falls from the sky onto a snow pack, it lands on other snowflakes that already there. As the snow accumulates, the snow may begin sliding. If it gathers enough momentum, it can bring down the side of a mountain.
It is the instability of the snow pack (or the financial system) as a whole that is the problem. Which snowflake triggers the avalanche doesn’t matter. The vast majority of all snowflakes fail to start a chain reaction. However, once a chain reaction begins, it expands exponentially. It can “go critical” (as in an atomic bomb), and release massive destructive energy.
In the end, it’s not about the snowflakes or neutrons, it’s about the initial critical state conditions that allow the possibility of an avalanche or chain reaction. Snowflake triggers can be hypothesized and observed at large scale, but the exact moment the chain reaction begins cannot be observed.
What matters is that if the financial system is unstable. At some point, it can tumble down seemingly without a warning.
The Cyclical Nature of War
Just like business or economic cycles, the waging of war within and between peoples has definite, identifiable rhythms. Research covering more than 5,000 years of war data reveals that there are three distinct cycles in wars. There are the 8.8 and 17.7 year cycles, which are sub-cycles of a larger cycle that is 53.5 years in duration.
The greater 53.5-year cycle is beginning now, as evidenced by recent events occurring around the globe.
These accumulative war events are:
Organized and spontaneous acts of terrorism (on going)
The civil war and breakup of Europe (beginning)
Massive civil unrest in the U.S. (beginning)
A war in the Middle East (already started in Syria and with ISIS)
Territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Senkaku (or Diaoyu) Islands, and between China and Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines over the Spratly Islands
Cyber warfare (on going)
Currency wars (on going). Currency war, also known as competitive devaluations, is a condition in international affairs where countries seek to gain a trade advantage over other countries by causing the exchange rate of their currency to fall in relation to other currencies
Capital controls (already in place in many countries in Europe). Capital control represents any measure taken by a government, central bank or other regulatory body to limit the flow of foreign capital in and out of the domestic economy. These controls include taxes, tariffs, outright legislation and volume restrictions, as well as market-based forces.
A Troublesome Paradox
Robots and their associated machinery are approximately four times more significant in the loss of manufacturing jobs than the off-shoring of jobs. But it is easier to blame China or Mexico than to protest against increased automation.
The real challenge confronting the U.S. and the rest of the developed world is how to create new jobs in the face of the automation challenge.
South Korea is 15 to 20% more productive than the U.S. in terms of costs, because they are pushing further and faster into the automation process. This trend will leave U.S. manufacturers and exporters (as well as those in Germany, Italy, and Japan) behind in the global business contest).
By not automating faster, jobs are lost by being noncompetitive. By automating, jobs disappear anyway.
Socially, we are programmed in our evolutionary DNA to value what we contribute to the community through our work. Newly created jobs must not be simply make-work tasks, but meaningful and fulfilling.
It is vital that welfare provides a way to protect personal self-esteem while contributing to the community.
The Cost of Under Employment
A new study by economists from Harvard and Princeton says that 94% of the 10 million jobs created after the great crash of 2008 were temporary contract positions or part-time jobs. They come without health care, retirement benefits, vacation time, sick leave or employer-paid Social Security and Medicare taxes.
Less than 1 in 5 of these jobs ever becomes permanent. Consequently, as the research by economists Lawrence Katz of Harvard and Alan Krueger at Princeton shows, the proportion of U.S. workers who were working in these kinds of temporary jobs increased from 10.7% of the population to 15.8% from mid-2010.
At the same time, the workforce participation rate has declined, meaning fewer people are working - with more depending on those who are working, even temporarily, to survive.
Finally, the long-term unemployment rate, which includes people who are working irregularly or who have given up looking for work, has tripled since 1990.
Capitalism repeatedly destabilizes the majority while massively enriching a tiny minority. The great political economists of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Adam Smith, were keenly aware of capitalism’s contradictory nature. Above all, they realized things that are good for profit-seeking individuals in the short term - like staffing a company with expendable temps - aren’t always good for society in the longer term, including the profit maximizing capitalists.
When almost all jobs created lack the basic features required for a stable life, workers are effectively a disposable commodity, not citizens of a country. People who know they are considered expendable tend to behave differently from those who are secure and stable, since they have no stake in the game.
As the proportion of “expendables” grows, they begin to prey on the rest of the population.
To keep the peace, the government is forced to provide an expensive system of welfare payments. The costs of not sustaining the unemployed or underemployed - in terms of crime, policing and bolting investors - would be even higher.
Surveillance
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 254) (Edited).
The loss of personal privacy caused by the explosion of digitized cloud storage and free media from Google and Facebook is now accepted. A user’s intimate secrets are routinely data-mined by these companies. The fact that some privacy policies preclude disclosure to third parties does not mean companies do not use the data themselves or reveal it to the government.
Google keeps a log of every website users have ever visited, regardless of whether they deleted it from their search history or not. The existence of a network of government and private web services and the application of massive processing power and big data algorithms to target citizens in real time is not widely understood or appreciated. Claims by Google, Apple, and Facebook that personal privacy is protected are ludicrous. The government has ample executive powers to require these companies to make data available in response to an emergency such as financial collapse.
Emergency access to private data by government agents takes only minutes. Most citizens would object to being fingerprinted every time they walk outside, yet the digital equivalent happens when closed circuit video cameras capture their images at malls, banks, and supermarkets. Video scanners are located in buildings, along highways, and on city streets. These scanners capture facial images, license plate numbers, and auto types and makes. And, digital facial recognition software is far more reliable than outdated fingerprint techniques.
Drivers like the convenience of E-ZPass automated systems on toll roads, but they may not realize that every tollbooth is a digital surveillance and interdiction point. The E-ZPass tag has a transmitter that broadcasts information that is read by a scanner installed overhead at a tollbooth. Meanwhile, all levels of government are installing scanners and cameras on roads everywhere to collect information.
Smartphones and credit cards use an RFID variant called near field communication (NFC) to broadcast your activities to scanners. Each time you use your credit card, a digital fingerprint of your location is recorded. Your smartphone GPS signals your whereabouts between points of purchase. This information is available to government using collection standards that do not adhere to Fourth Amendment requirements of reasonableness and probable cause.
On the horizon is the driver-less car. The driver-less car is not driver-less, it is just that the driver is not human. The real driver is a network of algorithms, GPS location devices, and robotics. Driver-less systems are subject to government supervision. In the future, governments may deliver “suspects” to detention centers by commandeering the software, locking the car doors, and conveying the car’s occupants into custody.
The Evolutionary Path – Capitalism to Socialism to Fascism
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (p. 240). (Edited.)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (8 February 1883 to 8 January 1950) was an analyst of economics as a historical process. While Schumpeter had no preference for socialism; he said it would inevitably replace capitalism. It has to a great extent, although most have not noticed. In Schumpeter’s view, the final step in capitalism’s displacement by socialism is government control of capital. The next financial crisis will achieve that. Schumpeter then identified the slope by which socialism blends into fascism. Once government planning and control are entrenched, business and government are intertwined, and political parties are identical.
In time, fascism with a more enlightened and benevolent planetary leader will give the world the peace and guidance it desires. The political government and social administration of the races will continue to improve. The world will advance and honor only those leaders and rulers who are most fit to bear social and political responsibilities.
Secular Fascism – An Imperfect Tool
Rickards, James. The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis (pp. 256-258.) (Edited.)
Fascism, a dominant force in the twentieth century, remains one of the least understood and most ill-defined political “isms.” This is because fascism is not ideological like communism or socialism. What matters to fascists is expanding the state control of civic life. The fascist state may allow private corporations and associations to exist, but only if they operate in accordance with state goals and submit to state surveillance.
Surprisingly, the primary definition of fascism comes from its intellectual father, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson wrote in his book, The State, “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.”
A fascist leader who applied Wilson’s writings was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. His motto was “Everything inside the state. Nothing outside the state.” Wilson and Mussolini created the template for the run of twentieth-century fascists including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Understanding fascism requires one to set aside distinctions like left-wing, right-wing, liberal, and conservative. Insight into fascism’s non-ideological nature was detailed by author Jonah Goldberg in his 2008 book Liberal Fascism.
Goldberg shows that fascist regimes may be quite unalike. Some are murderous such as those of Hitler and Stalin. Some are dictatorial such as those of Mussolini and Franco (in Spain). Some operate within democratic frameworks such as those of Wilson and FDR. What unites them is a shared view that the state is the exclusive mediator of human activity, and the ends justify the means. In 1913, his administration’s first year, Wilson signed legislation to create the Federal Reserve System and the federal income tax, two pillars of state power.
The primary platform for implementation of Wilson’s program for top-down state control was the First World War. Wilson set up the War Industries Board, which effectively nationalized broad segments of the U.S. economy. Wilson signed the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 to suppress free speech and squash dissent.
Goldberg says that Woodrow Wilson was the twentieth century’s first fascist dictator because more dissidents were arrested or jailed during Wilson's presidency than under Mussolini during the 1920s.
Hitler and Mussolini referred to Wilson with approval in their own writings and adopted his repressive tactics as part of Germany’s National Socialist movement and Italy’s fascist movement.
Spiritual Fascism
Spiritual Fascism is not a governmental system led by a brutal dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, and commerce while emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and racism. Rather, spiritual fascism is the will of those being governed with minimal government at the global level.
Cosmic View of the Evolution of Family to Fascism and to Global Sovereignty
The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind, lies in the resistance to change exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state.
Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty has always been hampered by the previous developments in political organization. This is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty that makes possible the evolution of the tribe makes difficult the evolution to the super tribe (the territorial state). And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.
Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it gained for more than a thousand years right on down to today, when an unfortunate retrograde movement has temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.
Today, as in 1914, we find the forces of globalism in retreat. The British people have voted themselves out of the European Union. The American people have voted Donald J. Trump into the White House. Nationalist, anti-globalization movements are surging in France, Italy, and elsewhere.
Many Europeans are concluding once again that they’re not citizens of the world or even citizens of Europe, but Frenchmen, Englishmen, Italians, and Germans.
The Price of Peace
Earth will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men - mankind government, internationalism, benevolent fascism.
Organizations such as the United Nations can never bring permanent peace to mankind.
World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of the world powers will withdraw from the confederation and declare war. Nations cannot be prevented from going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusion of national sovereignty.
Peace will not come to Earth until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. When all the peoples of Earth create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a global government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail, but not until then.
The Greater Plan for the World
The Racial Plan
Initially, there were six races of man on Earth. These were the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and indigo men. The so-called white races of Earth are the descendants of the blue men as they were first modified by slight mixture with yellow and red, and as they were later greatly up-stepped by assimilating the greater portion of the violet race (the descendants of Adam and Eve).
It is impossible to induce primitive beings to live together very long in peace. Man is the descendant of fighting animals, and when closely associated, uncultured people irritate and offend each other. The Life Carriers know this tendency among evolutionary creatures and accordingly provide for the eventual separation of developing human beings into at least three, and more often six, distinct and separate races who must resolve their differences.
[All life of the order and forms known on Earth arises with the Life Carriers, though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Earth.]
Diversity Is Imperative
There are many reasons for the plan of evolving either three or six colored races on the worlds of space. Though Earth mortals may not be in a position fully to appreciate all of these reasons, the following are noted:
1. A variety of stock is necessary for the wide functioning of natural selection, and the survival of superior strains.
2. Stronger and better races are to be had from the interbreeding of diverse peoples when these different races are carriers of superior inheritance factors.
3. Competition is healthfully stimulated by a diversification of races.
4. Differences in status of the races and of groups within each race are essential to the development of human tolerance and altruism.
5. Homogeneity of the human race is not desirable until the peoples of an evolving world attain comparatively high levels of spiritual development.
The Yellow Race
Historically, the distinctive superiority of the yellow race was due to four factors:
1. Genetic. Unlike their cousins in Europe, both the red and yellow races had largely escaped mixture with depraved human stocks. The yellow race received an infusion of violet blood from the Andite missionaries. [The Andites were the direct descendants of Adam and Eve.]
2. Social. The yellow race early learned the value of peace amongst themselves. Their internal peacefulness so contributed to population increase as to insure the spread of their civilization among many millions. The yellow man was first to achieve a racial solidarity - the first to attain a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization.
The Chinese of 15,000 B.C. were aggressive militarists; and numbering less than twelve million, they formed a compact body speaking a common language. During this age they built up a real nation, much more united and homogeneous.
3. Spiritual. The Chinese have been among the more spiritual peoples of earth. Long adherence to the worship of the One Truth kept them ahead of most of the other races. The stimulus of a progressive and advanced religion is often a decisive factor in cultural development. As India languished, China forged ahead under the invigorating stimulus of a religion in which truth was enshrined as the supreme Deity.
This worship of truth provoked research and fearless exploration of the laws of nature and the potentials of mankind. The Chinese of even six thousand years ago were keen students and aggressive in their pursuit of truth.
4. Geographic. China is protected by the mountains to the west and the Pacific to the east. Only in the north is the way open to attack, and the north was not occupied by any aggressive race.
Modern Day China May be the Next Melting Pot for Earth's Races
China, with superior racial qualifications, may be the chosen country to lead the world in the changes Earth will experience as Earth enters the 1000 Year Cycle of transformation to:
One language
One religion (an individual religion of Self)
One race (accomplished through *migration, emigration, immigration, and selective intermarriage)
No territorial borders
World government
World law and enforcement
Citizens sharing benefits of Earth's resources
Purging of defective humans
[*Migration is to move from one place to another, generally to live in the new place for a while. Migrant workers travel around settling temporarily in different places where there is work. Emigration is to leave a country for a long time, or permanently. Immigrate is to enter a country to live there for a long time, or permanently.]
Essential Recognition of Divine Preeminence
Co-Existence of Organized Religions
The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God - God is love. God the Father divinely loves all of his children.
The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man.
If different earthly religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then all such religions will remain at peace. Only when one organized religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.
Peace between Religions and Each Other
Religious peace - brotherhood - can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender any notion of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign.
You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to a superhuman level, to God.
The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all thoughts of ecclesiastical authority.
God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. The relationship between the Father in each human mind (the Thought Adjuster) is the basis for the religion of Self. The connection with the Thought Adjuster is each person's personal religion.
The religion of Self is the relationship between Father and child.
Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups.
All creation is a brotherhood.
Recognition of a Super Sovereignty
The moment humans lose sight of the spirit sovereignty [dominance] of God the Father, some organized religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, dissensions, recriminations, and even religious wars begin.
Religious leaders who believe in free will and the spiritual equality of all sooner or later are tempted to gain power and authority over other persons, groups, and religions.
There can be no lasting religious peace on Earth until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty. Only when God the Father is acknowledged as supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth.
One Global Government
War on Earth will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty.
There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total - man and mankind.
Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.
The rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the over-controllers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.
Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind.
However, this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power - the family - and the final consummation of political growth - the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.
The Evolution of Government
Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into kindred clans that become united into tribal units (super consanguineous political groupings). By trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified into empires.
As sovereignty proceeds from smaller groups to larger groups, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nation’s wielding sovereignty become larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few and powerful, when these great synthetic sovereign nations touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then the stage is set for world-wide conflicts. So-called sovereign nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts resulting in war.
The loyalty (patriotism) that solidifies the nation level makes evolution to a government of all mankind (between races that look less like kin) extremely complex.
Micro and Macro Levels of Evolution
At the micro level of self-determinism, every present state of the self is a result of prior states of the self. The Thought Adjuster who is residing within each person (after approximately six years of age) guides the individual towards spiritual survival. Reciprocally, the thought adjusting fragment of the Father itself seeks personality in the potential fusion of Self and person.
At the macro-evolutionary level of self-determinism, political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings.
Similarly, each person will not achieve spiritual progress until he or she surrenders their self-determinism to the father spirit fragment within them (the Thought Adjuster).
A Government of All Mankind
Nations cannot be prevented from going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty.
An international police force such as the United Nations will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars - conflicts between the great military governments of earth.
As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, the opportunity and need for mankind government increases. When there are only a few really great sovereign powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or alternatively, by voluntarily surrendering certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they may create the essential nucleus of a super-national power that will serve as the beginning of the true sovereignty of all mankind.
Peace will not come to Earth until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. When all the peoples of Earth create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a global government Sovereign; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world’s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail.
A Working Model for Emulation
The fifty states of the United States of America have lived harmoniously for a long time. They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal government, and through the arbitrament of war (the power of absolute and final decision), they have abandoned all claims to the delusions of self-determination. While each state regulates its internal affairs, it is not concerned with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce. Neither do the individual states concern themselves with matters of citizenship. The fifty states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal government’s sovereignty is in jeopardy.
These fifty states, having abandoned the sophistries of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy peace and tranquility between the states. In the same manner, the nations of Earth will begin to enjoy peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands of a global government - the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men. In this world state the small nations will be as powerful as the great, just as the small state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the American Congress and just the same as the populous state of New York or the large state of Texas.
The limited sovereignty of the fifty states was created by men and for men. The super state (national) sovereignty of the United States government was created by the original thirteen of these states for their own benefit and for the benefit of men. At some point, the super national sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will also be created by nations for their own benefit and the benefit of all men.
Decay of American Ideals
As early as 1630, John Winthrop told his fellow Massachusetts-bound Puritans on their ship, the Arbella, “We shall be as a city upon a hill; the eyes of all people are upon us.” [Winthrop led the first large wave of immigrants from England in 1630 and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies. (Wikipedia).]
Early Puritans like Winthrop believed God had made a covenant with Americans choosing them to provide a model community for the rest of the world.
By the time of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, this religious understanding had morphed into a radical political claim that the U.S. was “trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic of the world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self government, from hence it is to be lighted up in other regions of the earth.”
America's founders believed this “lighting up” role was meant to provide an example, but starting with the removal of those “pesky Indians,” and the Spanish-American War, America became increasingly willing to impose “freedom” on others by force.
Today, President Trump asserts the U.S. is in a state of decline and is willing to use force to make America great again.
Consequences of Deferring World Government
Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All lesser sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status.
Science may propel nations into global government for an unexpected reason. With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become racially suicidal.
The paramount question is, how many world wars must be fought and how many Leagues of Nations or United Nations must fail before men will be willing to establish a government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and to thrive in the tranquility of world-wide goodwill among men?
Liberty, Law and Harmony
If one man craves freedom (liberty), he must recognize that all other men long for freedom as well.
Nations or groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together peacefully without observing laws, rules, and regulations that will grant each person the same degree of freedom while safeguarding the equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals.
The relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of Law.
Religion makes it spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men. Nonetheless, it will require a government of all mankind to regulate the social, economic, and political problems associated with the objectives of human happiness and efficiency.
Unrealistic Beliefs
“There shall be wars and rumors of wars - nation will rise against nation” (Matthew 24:7, KJV) - just as long as the world’s political sovereignty is divided up and unjustly held by a group of nation-states.
England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them instead in the United Kingdom.
Global wars will go on until a government of mankind is created. Only global sovereignty will prevent global wars.
The fifty American Free states live together in peace. These Americans represent almost all of the nations and the religions and religious sects and cults of the whole world, and yet in North America they live together in relative peace. All this is made possible because these fifty states have surrendered their sovereignty and have abandoned all notions of the supposed rights of self-determination.
It is not a question of armaments or disarmament. Neither does the question of conscription or voluntary military service enter into these problems of maintaining world-wide peace. If every form of modern mechanical armaments and all types of explosives were removed from strong nations, they would continue to fight with stones and clubs as long as they embraced the delusion of the right of national sovereignty.
A Mental Malady
War is not man’s great and terrible disease; war is merely a symptom. The real disease is the cancer of national sovereignty.
Earth nations have not possessed real sovereignty; they have never had a sovereignty that could protect them from the ravages and devastation of world wars.
In the creation of a global government of mankind, the nations would not be surrendering sovereignty as much as they would be establishing a genuine and lasting world sovereignty that will be able to protect all nations from all war.
When the “brain tumor” of national sovereignty is removed, local affairs will be handled by local governments; national affairs, by national governments; international affairs will be administered by global government.
Advantages of Global Government
World peace cannot be maintained by treaties, diplomacy, foreign policies, alliances, balances of power, or any other type of makeshift juggling with the sovereignties of nationalism. World law must come into being and must be enforced by world government - the sovereignty of all mankind.
The individual will enjoy far more liberty under world government. Today, the citizens of the great powers are taxed, regulated, and controlled almost oppressively. Much of this present interference with individual liberties will vanish when the national governments are willing to consign their sovereignty regarding international affairs into the hands of a global government.
Under global government the national groups will be afforded a real opportunity to realize and enjoy the personal liberties of genuine democracy. The fallacy of self-determination will be ended.
With global regulation of money and trade will come the new era of world-wide peace. Soon thereafter, a global language may evolve, and there will be hope of sometime having a global religion - or religions with a global viewpoint.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Collective security will never afford peace until there is a oneness of nation-states that includes all mankind.
The political sovereignty of representative mankind government will bring lasting peace on earth, and the spiritual brotherhood of man will forever insure good will among all men.
There is no other way whereby peace on earth and good will among men can be realized.
Family – The Core of Brotherhood
The Celestial Family
The love of the Father absolutely individualizes each personality as a unique child of the Universal Father, a child without duplicate in infinity, a will creature irreplaceable in all eternity.
The Father’s love glorifies each child of God, illuminating each member of the celestial family, sharply silhouetting the unique nature of each personal being against the impersonal levels that lie outside the fraternal circuit of the Father of all.
The love of God strikingly portrays the transcendent value of each will creature, unmistakably reveals the high value that the Universal Father has placed upon each and every one of his children from the highest creator personality of Paradise status to the lowest personality of will dignity among the savage tribes of men in the dawn of the human species on some evolutionary world of time and space.
The Law of Brotherhood
“What you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.” (Matthew 25:40.)
The love of God for each individual brings into being the divine family of all individuals, the universal brotherhood of the freewill children of the Paradise Father. And this brotherhood, being universal, is a relationship of the whole.
Brotherhood, when universal, discloses not the individual relationship, but the all relationship. Brotherhood is a reality of the total and therefore discloses qualities of the whole (Oneness) in contradistinction to qualities of the part.
Brotherhood constitutes a fact of relationship between every personality in universal existence. No person can escape the benefits or the penalties that may come as a result of relationship to other persons. The part profits or suffers in measure with the whole. The good effort of each man benefits all men; the error or evil of each man increases the tribulation of all men. (This fact makes the purging of degenerate humans understandable.)
As moves the part, so moves the whole. As the whole progresses, so the part progresses. The relative velocities of part and whole determine whether the part is retarded by the inertia of the whole or is carried forward by the momentum of the cosmic brotherhood.
The Universe of the Human Family
The typical family is a tiny “universe.” The father, mother, and children family universe is analogous to the local universe family of Michael and the Divine Minister (our local universe father and mother) and their created staff, and creatures.
Human civilization is directly dependent on the effective functioning of its foundation, the human family.
Filial devotion and family loyalty insure the building up of superior family relationships and of enduring family groups, all of which facilitate the preservation of civilization:
1. Conservation of property and wealth.
2. Pooling of the experience of successive generations.
3. Efficient education of children in the arts and sciences.
4. Development of a strong sense of duty, the enhancement of morality, and the augmentation of ethical sensitivity.
Conclusion
Transformations
Humans have evolved from seeds of force energy (ultimatons) that had no beginning and will have no end as unending transformations continue from an origin in pre-time (under the reign of Paradise and the Unqualified Absolute), through Time and Space (under the reign of the Supreme God), continuing in Transcendent Time and Space (under the reign of the Ultimate God), and then eventually evolving towards the absolute state as gods of mind during the reign of the Absolute God.
The evolution of the energy seeds from pre-existent life to eternal life is through the kingdoms of energy including pre-atomic, gaseous, solids, life, mindedness, vegetable, animal, human, and beyond in greatly transformed spiritual shapes.
The Urantia [Earth] Book reveals that personified souls traverse through 570 bodies just while transitioning from forms of flesh to the first stage spirit form during the morontia career (the schooling between flesh and spirit). This is a significant number of transformations, but it is a very tiny fragment of the number of existences of the total spent evolving from force (energy-matter) to person, to absolute spirit. (Incidentally, death is no longer necessary in the 570 morontian transformations as it is in the worlds of the flesh.)
The number of lives spent in human forms by our fragment of the Unqualified attempting to qualify for advancement to the worlds of Morontia depends upon the free will choices of the individual person.
Quieting the Sound and the Fury
The noise of living in the chaos of matter and the beast (with their seductive lures and temptations) can obliterate the whispered voice of man's spiritual destiny. It requires volition, concentration, and courage to rise above these distractions to hear the voice of the personal Thought Adjuster.
Having the presence of the Father fragment inside the mind may be compared to the intimacy of a wife having her husband inside her. It is the experience of love.
This discovery is realized by all happily married couples living in the relative hostilities of the world. The couples' lives take on a new quality just as do people who hear the voice of their mind-indwelling Father fragment.
The Urantia Book tells us that "Moral cowards never achieve high planes of philosophic thinking. It requires courage to invade new levels of experience and to attempt the exploration of unknown realms of intellectual living."
Amen.
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