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This relates to the Topical Study: Saints, Prophets, Seers, and Heralds because Mansant is a “saint of the Most Highs.”
Who is Mansant?
Sometimes the authors of The Urantia Book tell us things they are not allowed to tell us—by telling us that they are not allowed to tell us. Apparently, efforts to work around authoritative restrictions are alive and well above and below. A classic Urantia Book example is:
(63:7.3) Andon and Fonta, shortly after their arrival on Jerusem, received permission from the System Sovereign to return to the first mansion world to serve with the morontia personalities who welcome the pilgrims of time from Urantia to the heavenly spheres. And they have been assigned indefinitely to this service. They sought to send greetings to Urantia in connection with these revelations, but this request was wisely denied them.
This paragraph about Mansant is similar:
(64:6.29) From time to time all of these different peoples [races] experienced cultural and spiritual revivals. Mansant was a great teacher of the post-Planetary Prince days. But mention is made only of those outstanding leaders and teachers who markedly influenced and inspired a whole race. With the passing of time, many lesser teachers arose in different regions; and in the aggregate they contributed much to the sum total of those saving influences which prevented the total collapse of cultural civilization, especially during the long and dark ages between the Caligastia rebellion and the arrival of Adam.
Notably, “mention is made” of Mansant twice. This first mention of Mansant indicates that he must be a Nodite.
(45:4.2) These twenty-four counselors have been recruited from the eight Urantia races, and the last of this group were assembled at the time of the resurrection roll call of Michael, nineteen hundred years ago. This Urantia advisory council is made up of the following members: [Emphasis added.]
(45:4.3) 1. Onagar, the master mind of the pre-Planetary Prince age, who directed his fellows in the worship of “The Breath Giver.”
(45:4.4) 2. Mansant, the great teacher of the post-Planetary Prince age on Urantia, who pointed his fellows to the veneration of “The Great Light.”
(45:4.5) 3. Onamonalonton, a far-distant leader of the red man and the one who directed this race from the worship of many gods to the veneration of “The Great Spirit.”
(45:4.6) 4. Orlandof, a prince of the blue men and their leader in the recognition of the divinity of “The Supreme Chief.”
(45:4.7) 5. Porshunta, the oracle of the extinct orange race and the leader of this people in the worship of “The Great Teacher.”
(45:4.8) 6. Singlangton, the first of the yellow men to teach and lead his people in the worship of “One Truth” instead of many. Thousands of years ago the yellow man knew of the one God.
(45:4.9) 7. Fantad, the deliverer of the green men from darkness and their leader in the worship of “The One Source of Life.”
(45:4.10) 8. Orvonon, the enlightener of the indigo races and their leader in the onetime service of “The God of Gods.”
(45:4.11) 9. Adam, the discredited but rehabilitated planetary father of Urantia, a Material Son of God who was relegated to the likeness of mortal flesh, but who survived and was subsequently elevated to this position by the decree of Michael.
(45:4.12) 10. Eve, the mother of the violet race of Urantia, who suffered the penalty of default with her mate and was also rehabilitated with him and assigned to serve with this group of mortal survivors.
(45:4.13) 11. Enoch, the first of the mortals of Urantia to fuse with the Thought Adjuster during the mortal life in the flesh.
(45:4.14) 12. Moses, the emancipator of a remnant of the submerged violet race and the instigator of the revival of the worship of the Universal Father under the name of “The God of Israel.”
(45:4.15) 13. Elijah, a translated soul of brilliant spiritual achievement during the post-Material Son age.
(45:4.16) 14. Machiventa Melchizedek, the only Son of this order to bestow himself upon the Urantia races. While still numbered as a Melchizedek, he has become “forever a minister of the Most Highs,” eternally assuming the assignment of service as a mortal ascender, having sojourned on Urantia in the likeness of mortal flesh at Salem in the days of Abraham. This Melchizedek has latterly been proclaimed vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia with headquarters on Jerusem and authority to act in behalf of Michael, who is actually the Planetary Prince of the world whereon he experienced his terminal bestowal in human form. Notwithstanding this, Urantia is still supervised by successive resident governors general, members of the four and twenty counselors.
(45:4.17) 15. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Michael’s mission on Urantia and, in the flesh, distant cousin of the Son of Man.
The next passage comes from a section titled: The Nodites and the Amadonites. Reviewing the whole section is recommended. It explains why the Nodites were probably not sufficiently unified to have “leaders and teachers who markedly influenced and inspired a whole race.” Note that the number eight again goes with Urantia races in contrast to the nine world or human races. Is there something to be made of this?
(73:1.3) The Nodites were the descendants of the rebel members of the Prince’s staff, their name deriving from their first leader, Nod, onetime chairman of the Dalamatia commission on industry and trade. The Amadonites were the descendants of those Andonites who chose to remain loyal with Van and Amadon. “Amadonite” is more of a cultural and religious designation than a racial term; racially considered the Amadonites were essentially Andonites. “Nodite” is both a cultural and racial term, for the Nodites themselves constituted the eighth race of Urantia.
Note that Mansant could only be considered an Amadonite, if there was enough mix of Nodite genetics for Mansant to be consider Nodite.
(77:2.5) These mutant traits appearing in the first Nodite generation resulted from certain changes which had been wrought in the configuration and in the chemical constituents of the inheritance factors of the Andonic germ plasm. These changes were caused by the presence in the bodies of the staff members of the powerful life-maintenance circuits of the Satania system. These life circuits caused the chromosomes of the specialized Urantia pattern to reorganize more after the patterns of the standardized Satania specialization of the ordained Nebadon life manifestation. The technique of this germ plasm metamorphosis by the action of the system life currents is not unlike those procedures whereby Urantia scientists modify the germ plasm of plants and animals by the use of X rays.
(77:2.8) These two groups, embracing 104 individuals who carried the modified Andonite germ plasm, constitute the ancestry of the Nodites, the eighth race to appear on Urantia. And this new feature of human life on Urantia represents another phase of the outworking of the original plan of utilizing this planet as a life-modification world, except that this was one of the unforeseen developments.
(96:2.1) The Semites of the East were well-organized and well-led horsemen who invaded the eastern regions of the fertile crescent and there united with the Babylonians. The Chaldeans near Ur were among the most advanced of the eastern Semites. The Phoenicians were a superior and well-organized group of mixed Semites who held the western section of Palestine, along the Mediterranean coast. Racially the Semites were among the most blended of Urantia peoples, containing hereditary factors from almost all of the nine world races. [Emphasis added.]
(114:6.9) 5. The angels of the races. Those who work for the conservation of the evolutionary races of time, regardless of their political entanglements and religious groupings. On Urantia there are remnants of nine human races which have commingled and combined into the people of modern times. These seraphim are closely associated with the ministry of the race commissioners, and the group now on Urantia is the original corps assigned to the planet soon after the day of Pentecost. [Emphasis added.]
(76:4.1) Adam and Eve were the founders of the violet race of men, the ninth human race to appear on Urantia. Adam and his offspring had blue eyes, and the violet peoples were characterized by fair complexions and light hair color—yellow, red, and brown. [Emphasis added.]
Perhaps there is not too much to be made of the various uses of world, human, and Urantia because this list of the nine races, organized in five groupings, uses the designation Urantia races.
(81:4.3) Although these skull dimensions are serviceable in deciphering racial origins, the skeleton as a whole is far more dependable. In the early development of the Urantia races there were originally five distinct types of skeletal structure:
(81:4.4) 1. Andonic, Urantia aborigines.
(81:4.5) 2. Primary Sangik, red, yellow, and blue.
(81:4.6) 3. Secondary Sangik, orange, green, and indigo.
(81:4.7) 4. Nodites, descendants of the Dalamatians.
(81:4.8) 5. Adamites, the violet race.
In any case, Mansant seems to be Nodite. Perhaps because the race was split by the rebellion, Mansant could not be considered a leader of the whole race. Perhaps culturally, he was an Amadonite, a Nodite who mixed with the Amdonites. This sociological approach seems more directly related to the teachings than interpreting the mixed genetic origin of the Nodites as having something to do with why more could not be said about Mansant.
Etymology
Mansant: The man (Man) is a saint (sant) of the Most Highs.
man: means human.
sant: Bodhisattva (n.)”one of a class of beings in Mahayana Buddhism who have attained supreme wisdom,” 1828, from Sanskrit, literally “one whose essence is perfect knowledge,” from bodhi “perfect knowledge” (see Buddha) + sattva “reality, being,” from sat-, sant- “existing, true, virtuous,” from PIE root *es- “to be.”
Santa (n.)1893 as a shortened form of Santa Claus.