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PICTURE an orchestra. God is the conductor.
God has composed a beautiful symphony, but unless there are
instruments there will be no music. So, he gets a piano. Now he
hears a strain, but it sounds rather monotonous. He adds a violin,
bass, and drums; they learn to get in tune with each other and
produce a sound that is pleasant but limited. He adds more and more
instruments—cellos, harps, guitars, oboes, flutes, trumpets,
trombones, saxophones, horns, clarinets, cymbals, and xylophones. At
first they all hit wrong notes, but as each finds his key and learns
to harmonize with the others together they produce a much richer,
deeper and more beautiful sound than the four basic instruments
alone. Now God really has something to conduct!
Each instrument alone falls short compared with how
it sounds in concert with all the others. Each instrument is unique;
an oboe can never sound like a flute, a trumpet will never be an
xylophone. And how dull to have an orchestra composed entirely of
pianos, all playing the same note at the same time!
And so it is with race on our planet. We have
all the components of the orchestra but we have not yet learned how
to play together, let alone to allow God in as the conductor. The
violin complains that he is not a piano; the oboe believes he is
inferior to the harp. Yet if each individual in each race took the
time to find his unique form of expression, to discover where he
fits into the whole, the world would soon be making beautiful music.
When the Urantia Book talks about race, many are
offended that it casually mentions superior versus
inferior races. A person falling into the “inferior“ category
may feel he has gotten a bad deal. “I just don’t understand why God
wouldn’t create everyone equal,” he grumbles. Or, “Why do I have to
be green, or orange, or indigo, and go through life in a secondary
Sangik body?” When we read that on some worlds there are only
primary Sangiks, we might say, “Then why would God purposely
create—or permit the creation of—inferior people, and why do I have
to be one of them?”
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P. 584: The evolution of
six—or
of three—colored
races, while seeming to deteriorate the original
endowment of the red man, provides certain very
desirable variations in mortal types and affords an
otherwise unattainable expression of diverse human
potentials. These modifications are beneficial to the
progress of mankind as a whole provided they are
subsequently upstepped by the imported Adamic or violet
race. |
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P. 919: Of the six colored
Sangik races, three were primary and three were
secondary. Though the primary races—blue, red, and
yellow—were in many respects superior to the three
secondary peoples, it should be remembered that these
secondary races had many desirable traits which would
have considerably enhanced the primary peoples if their
better strains could have been absorbed. |
Here is one example of how this might work: The Urantia Book tells
us that the outstanding characteristic of the orange race was “their
peculiar urge to build, to build anything and everything, even to
the piling up of vast mounds of stone just to see which tribe could
build the largest mound.” It also says that “a blend of the blue man
with the Andon stock produced an artistically gifted type.” So,
let’s pair up an orange woman with a blue/Andonite man—their
descendants might produce vast, artistic mounds of stone. Now if we
inject these people with a dose of violet blood, which would
accelerate their creative imaginations, they could very well build
the pyramids of Giza, or cities such as the Inca Macchu Picchu in
Peru.
In tracing the racial migrations I have concluded
that it was exactly this racial blend that produced these great
stone-structure-based civilizations. The violets on their own could
not have achieved it, neither could the blues nor the oranges—they
needed their particular inherent traits and essences to be bought
together. It’s like the ingredients in a recipe: depending on what
you combine you will wind up with either a fruitcake or a meatloaf.
The plan was for the different qualities of each
race to be mingled for more versatility, well in advance of Adam and
Eve’s mission as biologic uplifters. By then the races would have
reached “the apex of biologic evolution,” and would have been ready
for upstepping. Due to the failure of the Planetary Prince to
execute his mission, thereby causing widespread chaos among the
evolutionary races, the plans for blending the races went awry,
leaving some individuals with comparatively high doses of “superior”
genes and others with little or none, stranded in a secondary Sangik
body. And the subsequent default of Adam and Eve left some pockets
of humanity abundantly upstepped, while others not at all.
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586: Having
failed to achieve race harmonization by the Adamic
technique, you must now work out your planetary problem
of race improvement by other and largely human methods
of adaptation and control. |
The above statement is a fact. While for some, race is a touchy
subject that they would rather the book had not gone into, these
Politically Incorrect Papers are extremely informative as they
clearly show us how we got into today’s global mess. We are not
advised to weed out the “inferior” races but the “defectives and
degenerates”—those who can never know God—who are to be found
in all the races. We can’t bury our heads in the sand to hide
the problem—it is with us whether we like it or not, and eventually
it must be dealt with.
Our bodies are all different, but the spirit within
is the same—our bodies are merely vehicles to give that spirit a way
to express itself. If God wanted us all alike he would have created
us so. Part of our mission in life is to discover who we are and how
we can contribute to the whole. The colors of our skins have nothing
to do with it. One day the world will awaken to the fact that we
are not our bodies—we are what is inside our bodies. When
that day comes, we will finally begin to take our first steps out of
the darkness and start edging our way into light and life.
One might say, “What does all this have to do with
my search for God, with my spiritual growth?” We can look for God
and find him anyway. However, as the universe is not only spiritual
but also physical and morontial, the more diverse qualities we can
assimilate and incorporate into our beings the more interesting we
will be to the Father when we finally stand before him billions of
years from now, as well as to the fellow travelers we meet along the
way.
And while we are still on this planet, learning to
deal with those who are different teaches us spiritual
realities—tolerance, patience, acceptance, love, kindness,
compassion, altruism. If we can’t learn those things here, just
imagine what awaits us on the mansion worlds and beyond when we are
confronted with beings from other planets and universes! Let’s at
least become brothers and sisters under the skin while we are on
Urantia so we can face those really strange critters from other
planets as one united family. What would they think of us if we were
divided against each other?
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P. 1468:
“Though human beings differ in many ways, the one from
another, before God and in the spiritual world all
mortals stand on an equal footing. There are only two
groups of mortals in the eyes of God: those who desire
to do his will and those who do not. As the universe
looks upon an inhabited world, it likewise discerns two
great classes: those who know God and those who do not. |
So, let’s all tune up our instruments
and learn to play in God’s symphony orchestra!
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