planetary epochs

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planetary epochs (Paper 52) (49:5.21-28)
1st – pre-Planetary Prince era (52:1sec). See also mortals: primitive mortals
6 colored races appear; language develops (52:1.1-2)
emergence from animal level; lasts from 150,000 to 1,000,000 years (52:1.1)
long, dark, and bloody chapter (52:1.4)
religion is fear, awe, and superstition (52:1.7)
Urantia’s ended with 1st dispensational roll call at arrival of Prince (49:5.22) (176:2.3) (189:3.3)
Urantia’s lasted 1,000,000 to 500,000 years ago (64:0.1-2)
2nd – post-Planetary Prince era (52:2sec)
Adjusters arriving in increasing numbers (52:2.2)
agriculture appears (52:2.8)
government appears (52:2.1)
Mansant was great teacher of (64:6.29)
races brought to physical perfection (51:0.1) (52:2.9-12) (52:3.1)
racial dispersion and intense nationalism (52:2.5)
Urantia’s began with appearance of colored races; regarded as Old Stone Age (64:0.1-2)
Urantia’s ended with 2nd dispensational roll call at arrival of Adam and Eve (74:2.8) (176:2.3) (189:3.3)
usually lasts 500,000 years (52:2.2)
3rd – post-Adamic era (52:3sec)
1st mansonia designed to develop up to (47:3.9)
Adamic life plasm immediately upsteps man’s intellectual capacity (52:3.6)
Adjusters increasingly bestowed (52:3.2)
age of invention and exploration (52:3.6) (73:1.1)
dispensation of internationalism (52:3.10)
hunters and herders to agriculture (52:3.3)
Jesus perceived end of (174:5.6)
races are practically blended to olive shade of violet (52:3.7)
Urantia’s last; ended with 3rd roll call upon resurrection of Jesus (77:8.1) (120:2.4) (176:2.3) (189:3.1,3)
usually lasts 25,000 years (52:3.3)
usually witnesses elimination of the unfit (52:3.4)
4th – post-Magisterial Son era (52:4sec)
2nd mansonia compares with (47:4.8)
flowering of art, music, and higher learning (52:4.8)
fusion Adjusters not yet universal (52:4.7)
lasts 25,000 to 50,000 years (52:4.10)
many Avonal visits may take place (52:4.9)
races blended and fit (52:4.1)
races effect economic liberation (52:4.5)
return to more simplified living (52:4.8)
sciences reach height of development (52:4.8)
world-wide spiritual enlightenment (52:4.8)
5th – postbestowal Son era (52:5-6secs)
3rd mansonia compares with (47:5.3)
average life span climbs above 300 years (52:5.9)
disease and delinquency virtually eliminated (52:5.9)
lasts 10,000 to 100,000 years (52:5.8)
man is of one race, language, and religion (52:5.10)
Michael’s bestowal on Urantia (52:5.2)
on Urantia (52:6sec)
world-wide pursuit of moral culture, spiritual truth (52:5.3)
6th – post-Teacher Son era (52:7sec). See also light and life
4th mansonia comparable to (47:6.4)
conclusion of Teacher Sons’ missions mark entrance upon light and life (52:7.10,14)
government vanishes (52:7.5)
lasts more than 1000 years (52:7.2)
life span approaches 500 years (52:7.5)
many mortals translated (52:7.4)
Planetary Prince elevated to Planetary Sovereign (52:7.10)
Teacher Sons may repeatedly return to same world (52:7.10)
dispensations
determined by missions of divine Sons; listed (20:3.4) (30:4.11) (49:6.3,7) (50:1.4) (52:0.1-8) (52:1.6) (52:4.9) (55:0.2)
Magisterial Sons adjudicate to close (20:2.5-7) (20:3.1)
Magisterial Sons reassign celestial beings for tasks of each new dispensation (20:3.1)
Son-Spirit minister supreme seraphim assist (39:1.3)
Universal Censors are organic part of all dispensational adjudications (19:4.3)
each p.e. provides immediate destiny for all preceding stages (118:0.13)
epochs of planetary development (50:5.3-11)
1st – nutrition; food quest paramount (50:5.4)
2nd – security; attention devoted to war (50:5.5)
3rd – material comfort; luxury vies with necessity (50:5.6)
4th – knowledge and wisdom (50:5.7)
5th – philosophy and brotherhood (50:5.8)
6th – spiritual striving (50:5.9)
7th – light and life (50:5.10)
Father will send another bestowal at end of dispensation (176:2.5)
light and life. See light and life
no arbitrary time limits regarding (52:5.8)
practice to send forth advance groups to prepare way for subsequent epochs (56:7.5)
sleeping survivors enter upon eternal ascent at end of each dispensation (30:4.11) (193:0.5)
Urantia’s normal sequence deranged by Michael’s incarnation (20:4.4-5)

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