PAPER 36: Section 3.
Life Transplantation
P399:3, 36:3.1 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 Urantia arises with these Sons, though not all forms of planetary life
are existent on Urantia.
P399:4, 36:3.2 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
life of Urantia.
P399:5, 36:3.3 When, in
accordance with approved formulas, the physical patterns have been provided,
then do the Life Carriers catalyze this lifeless material, imparting through
their persons the vital spirit spark; and forthwith do the inert patterns
become living matter.
P399:6, 36:3.4 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. From the Creative Daughter of
the Infinite Spirit comes that energy spark which
enlivens the body and
presages the mind.
P399:7, 36:3.5 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 which agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise
inert elements of the material order of existence.
P400:1, 36:3.6 
The Life
Carriers of a planetary corps are given a certain period in which to establish
life on a new world, approximately one-half million 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.
P400:2, 36:3.7 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 directionize the course of biologic evolution.
And this they do for long periods of time.
P400:3, 36:3.8 When the
Life Carriers operating on a new world have once succeeded in producing
a being with will, with the power of moral decision and spiritual choice,
then and there their work terminates -- they are through; they may manipulate
the evolving life no further. From this point forward the evolution of
living things must proceed in accordance with the endowment of the inherent
nature and tendencies which have already been imparted to, and established
in, the planetary life formulas and patterns. The Life Carriers are not
permitted to experiment or to interfere with will; they are not allowed
to dominate or arbitrarily influence moral creatures.
P400:4, 36:3.9 Upon the
arrival of a Planetary Prince they prepare to leave, though two of the
senior carriers and twelve custodians may volunteer, by taking temporary
renunciation vows, to remain indefinitely on the planet as advisers in
the matter of the further development and conservation of the life plasm.
Two such Sons and their twelve associates are now serving on Urantia.