Adam and Eve

74:1.1The Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve of Uran­tia were mem­bers of the se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem, be­ing jointly num­ber 14,311. They be­longed to the third phys­i­cal se­ries and were a lit­tle more than eight feet in height.

74:1.2At the time Adam was cho­sen to come to Uran­tia, he was em­ployed, with his mate, in the trial-and-test­ing phys­i­cal lab­o­ra­to­ries of Je­ru­sem. For more than fif­teen thou­sand years they had been di­rec­tors of the di­vi­sion of ex­per­i­men­tal en­ergy as ap­plied to the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of liv­ing forms. Long be­fore this they had been teach­ers in the cit­i­zen­ship schools for new ar­rivals on Je­ru­sem. And all this should be borne in mind in con­nec­tion with the nar­ra­tion of their sub­se­quent con­duct on Uran­tia.

74:1.3When the procla­ma­tion was is­sued call­ing for vol­un­teers for the mis­sion of Adamic ad­ven­ture on Uran­tia, the en­tire se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters vol­un­teered. The Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, with the ap­proval of Lanaforge and the Most Highs of Eden­tia, fi­nally se­lected the Adam and Eve who sub­se­quently came to func­tion as the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Uran­tia.

74:1.4Adam and Eve had re­mained loyal to Mi­chael dur­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion; nev­er­the­less, the pair were called be­fore the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and his en­tire cab­i­net for ex­am­i­na­tion and in­struc­tion. The de­tails of Uran­tia af­fairs were fully pre­sented; they were ex­haus­tively in­structed as to the plans to be pur­sued in ac­cept­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of ruler­ship on such a strife-torn world. They were put un­der joint oaths of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Eden­tia and to Mi­chael of Sal­ving­ton. And they were duly ad­vised to re­gard them­selves as sub­ject to the Uran­tia corps of Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers un­til that gov­ern­ing body should see fit to re­lin­quish rule on the world of their as­sign­ment.

74:1.5This Je­ru­sem pair left be­hind them on the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia and else­where, one hun­dred off­spring—fifty sons and fifty daugh­ters—mag­nif­i­cent crea­tures who had es­caped the pit­falls of pro­gres­sion, and who were all in com­mis­sion as faith­ful stew­ards of uni­verse trust at the time of their par­ents’ de­par­ture for Uran­tia. And they were all pres­ent in the beau­ti­ful tem­ple of the Ma­te­rial Sons at­ten­dant upon the farewell ex­er­cises as­so­ci­ated with the last cer­e­monies of the be­stowal ac­cep­tance. These chil­dren ac­com­pa­nied their par­ents to the de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion head­quar­ters of their or­der and were the last to bid them farewell and di­vine speed as they fell asleep in the per­son­al­ity lapse of con­scious­ness which pre­cedes the prepa­ra­tion for se­raphic trans­port. The chil­dren spent some time to­gether at the fam­ily ren­dezvous re­joic­ing that their par­ents were soon to be­come the vis­i­ble heads, in re­al­ity the sole rulers, of planet 606 in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia.

74:1.6And thus did Adam and Eve leave Je­ru­sem amidst the ac­claim and well-wish­ing of its cit­i­zens. They went forth to their new re­spon­si­bil­i­ties ad­e­quately equipped and fully in­structed con­cern­ing ev­ery duty and dan­ger to be en­coun­tered on Uran­tia.