Adam and Eve

74:2.1Adam and Eve fell asleep on Je­ru­sem, and when they awak­ened in the Fa­ther’s tem­ple on Uran­tia in the pres­ence of the mighty throng as­sem­bled to wel­come them, they were face to face with two be­ings of whom they had heard much, Van and his faith­ful as­so­ciate Amadon. These two heroes of the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion were the first to wel­come them in their new gar­den home.

74:2.2The tongue of Eden was an An­donic di­alect as spo­ken by Amadon. Van and Amadon had markedly im­proved this lan­guage by cre­at­ing a new al­pha­bet of twenty-four let­ters, and they had hoped to see it be­come the tongue of Uran­tia as the Edenic cul­ture would spread through­out the world. Adam and Eve had fully mas­tered this hu­man di­alect be­fore they de­parted from Je­ru­sem so that this son of An­don heard the ex­alted ruler of his world ad­dress him in his own tongue.

74:2.3And on that day there was great ex­cite­ment and joy through­out Eden as the run­ners went in great haste to the ren­dezvous of the car­rier pi­geons as­sem­bled from near and far, shout­ing: “Let loose the birds; let them carry the word that the prom­ised Son has come.” Hun­dreds of be­liever set­tle­ments had faith­fully, year af­ter year, kept up the sup­ply of these home-reared pi­geons for just such an oc­ca­sion.

74:2.4As the news of Adam’s ar­rival spread abroad, thou­sands of the near-by tribes­men ac­cepted the teach­ings of Van and Amadon, while for months and months pil­grims con­tin­ued to pour into Eden to wel­come Adam and Eve and to do homage to their un­seen Fa­ther.

74:2.5Soon af­ter their awak­en­ing, Adam and Eve were es­corted to the for­mal re­cep­tion on the great mound to the north of the tem­ple. This nat­u­ral hill had been en­larged and made ready for the in­stal­la­tion of the world’s new rulers. Here, at noon, the Uran­tia re­cep­tion com­mit­tee wel­comed this Son and Daugh­ter of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Amadon was chair­man of this com­mit­tee, which con­sisted of twelve mem­bers em­brac­ing a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of each of the six San­gik races; the act­ing chief of the mid­way­ers; An­nan, a loyal daugh­ter and spokesman for the Nod­ites; Noah, the son of the ar­chi­tect and builder of the Gar­den and ex­ec­u­tive of his de­ceased fa­ther’s plans; and the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers.

74:2.6The next act was the de­liv­ery of the charge of plan­e­tary cus­tody to Adam and Eve by the se­nior Mel­chiz­e­dek, chief of the coun­cil of re­ceiver­ship on Uran­tia. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter took the oath of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek and to Mi­chael of Neb­a­don and were pro­claimed rulers of Uran­tia by Van, who thereby re­lin­quished the tit­u­lar au­thor­ity which for over one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years he had held by virtue of the ac­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers.

74:2.7And Adam and Eve were in­vested with kingly robes on this oc­ca­sion, the time of their for­mal in­duc­tion into world ruler­ship. Not all of the arts of Dala­ma­tia had been lost to the world; weav­ing was still prac­ticed in the days of Eden.

74:2.8Then was heard the arch­an­gels’ procla­ma­tion, and the broad­cast voice of Ga­briel de­creed the sec­ond judg­ment roll call of Uran­tia and the res­ur­rec­tion of the sleep­ing sur­vivors of the sec­ond dis­pen­sa­tion of grace and mercy on 606 of Sa­ta­nia. The dis­pen­sa­tion of the Prince has passed; the age of Adam, the third plan­e­tary epoch, opens amidst scenes of sim­ple grandeur; and the new rulers of Uran­tia start their reign un­der seem­ingly fa­vor­able con­di­tions, not­with­stand­ing the world-wide con­fu­sion oc­ca­sioned by lack of the co-op­er­a­tion of their pre­de­ces­sor in au­thor­ity on the planet.