The Garden of Eden

73:0.1The cul­tural deca­dence and spir­i­tual pov­erty re­sult­ing from the Cali­gas­tia down­fall and con­se­quent so­cial con­fu­sion had lit­tle ef­fect on the phys­i­cal or bi­o­logic sta­tus of the Uran­tia peo­ples. Or­ganic evo­lu­tion pro­ceeded apace, quite re­gard­less of the cul­tural and moral set­back which so swiftly fol­lowed the dis­af­fec­tion of Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia. And there came a time in the plan­e­tary his­tory, al­most forty thou­sand years ago, when the Life Car­ri­ers on duty took note that, from a purely bi­o­logic stand­point, the de­vel­op­men­tal prog­ress of the Uran­tia races was near­ing its apex. The Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, con­cur­ring in this opin­ion, read­ily agreed to join the Life Car­ri­ers in a pe­ti­tion to the Most Highs of Eden­tia ask­ing that Uran­tia be in­spected with a view to au­tho­riz­ing the dis­patch of bi­o­logic up­lifters, a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter.

73:0.2This re­quest was ad­dressed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia be­cause they had ex­er­cised di­rect ju­ris­dic­tion over many of Uran­tia’s af­fairs ever since Cali­gas­tia’s down­fall and the tem­po­rary va­ca­tion of au­thor­ity on Je­ru­sem.

73:0.3Taba­man­tia, sov­er­eign super­vi­sor of the se­ries of dec­i­mal or ex­per­i­men­tal worlds, came to in­spect the planet and, af­ter his sur­vey of racial prog­ress, duly rec­om­mended that Uran­tia be granted Ma­te­rial Sons. In a lit­tle less than one hun­dred years from the time of this in­spec­tion, Adam and Eve, a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter of the lo­cal sys­tem, ar­rived and be­gan the dif­fi­cult task of at­tempt­ing to un­tan­gle the con­fused af­fairs of a planet re­tarded by re­bel­lion and rest­ing un­der the ban of spir­i­tual iso­la­tion.