Childbirth was not a painful or distressing ordeal to Fonta and her immediate progeny.
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Andon and Fonta had 19 children and lived to the age of 42, when both were killed in an earthquake. Their first child, Sontad, assisted by his wife, his eldest sister, assumed leadership of this original Andonic clan, which held together for 20 generations. Andon and Fonta were about 13 when their first child was born. If Fonta was still having children at the time of her death, this gives us some idea of their procreativity.
Meanwhile, to see how truly remarkable Andon and Fonta were, let us step back and look at the big picture. In the Heavens, beyond the planetary level, the lowest level of administration and organization is designated a system. We live in the system of Satania, which will eventually consist of 1,000 inhabited worlds. Our world, Urantia, is number 606 of Satania.
Systems are aggregated into constellations, and constellations into local universes. A constellation consists of 100 systems, and a local universe consists of 100 constellations. We live on the planet of Urantia, in the system of Satania, in the constellation of Norlatiadek, in the local universe of Nebadon.
None of these names are crucially important to remember right now, but to understand our history it is crucial to gain a general sense of where we are in the universe of universes. With 100 constellations in a local universe, each constellation consisting of 100 systems, each system destined for 1,000 inhabited worlds, after all the multiplying, there will be 10 million inhabited worlds just in our local universe—our little corner of the universe of universes.
There are 700,000 of these local universes in store; by the end of this universe age, there will be 7 trillion inhabited worlds—each world, just like our world, intimating the vastness of eternity.
Our local universe has a Sovereign whose bestowal of himself as a mortal will be an epochal event, the single-most-defining event, of our history.
When we say “Sovereign,” we are referring to our Creator Son. Time and space are now under his control. Literally. No exaggeration. We live in a universe of miracles. Literally. Our Creator Son has our situation in hand—no exceptions, no “ifs” or “ands” or “buts.” And when we say “in hand,” we mean as if in the Hand of the Universal Father. Literally, and actually.
Every tenth planet, every decimal planet, is designated a life-experiment world, and Urantia is a decimal world. On our world, the Life Carriers were permitted to attempt an improvement in the standard life designs.
The appearance of this aboriginal race of Andon and Fonta, the Andonites, was part of the experiment of the Life Carriers and their superiors. Our world is the only world thus far in our system where an aboriginal race appeared before the appearance of the colored races.
And these Andonites, our original race, were left here to make their way on a savage world, without any direct celestial supervision, for half a million years—once again, part of the experiment.
These Andonites were fierce flesh-eating fighting animals, but human, and not one whit less fierce, or human, than we. To appreciate how supremely stubborn we humans can be, we can start by considering our origins.
Ernest Clement
Hats off to our ancestors!!
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