Adam and Eve

74:3.1And now, af­ter their for­mal in­stal­la­tion, Adam and Eve be­came painfully aware of their plan­e­tary iso­la­tion. Silent were the fa­mil­iar broad­casts, and ab­sent were all the cir­cuits of ex­tra­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Their Je­ru­sem fel­lows had gone to worlds run­ning along smoothly with a well-es­tab­lished Plan­e­tary Prince and an ex­pe­ri­enced staff ready to re­ceive them and com­pe­tent to co-op­er­ate with them dur­ing their early ex­pe­ri­ence on such worlds. But on Uran­tia re­bel­lion had changed ev­ery­thing. Here the Plan­e­tary Prince was very much pres­ent, and though shorn of most of his power to work evil, he was still able to make the task of Adam and Eve dif­fi­cult and to some ex­tent haz­ardous. It was a se­ri­ous and dis­il­lu­sioned Son and Daugh­ter of Je­ru­sem who walked that night through the Gar­den un­der the shin­ing of the full moon, dis­cussing plans for the next day.

74:3.2Thus ended the first day of Adam and Eve on iso­lated Uran­tia, the con­fused planet of the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal; and they walked and talked far into the night, their first night on earth—and it was so lonely.

74:3.3Adam’s sec­ond day on earth was spent in ses­sion with the plan­e­tary re­ceivers and the ad­vi­sory coun­cil. From the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and their as­so­ciates, Adam and Eve learned more about the de­tails of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion and the re­sult of that up­heaval upon the world’s prog­ress. And it was, on the whole, a dis­heart­en­ing story, this long recital of the mis­man­age­ment of world af­fairs. They learned all the facts re­gard­ing the ut­ter col­lapse of the Cali­gas­tia scheme for ac­cel­er­at­ing the pro­cess of so­cial evo­lu­tion. They also ar­rived at a full re­al­iza­tion of the folly of at­tempt­ing to achieve plan­e­tary ad­vance­ment in­de­pen­dently of the di­vine plan of pro­gres­sion. And thus ended a sad but en­light­en­ing day—their sec­ond on Uran­tia.

74:3.4The third day was de­voted to an in­spec­tion of the Gar­den. From the large pas­sen­ger birds—the fan­dors—Adam and Eve looked down upon the vast stretches of the Gar­den while be­ing car­ried through the air over this, the most beau­ti­ful spot on earth. This day of in­spec­tion ended with an enor­mous ban­quet in honor of all who had la­bored to cre­ate this gar­den of Edenic beauty and grandeur. And again, late into the night of their third day, the Son and his mate walked in the Gar­den and talked about the im­men­sity of their prob­lems.

74:3.5On the fourth day Adam and Eve ad­dressed the Gar­den as­sem­bly. From the in­au­gu­ral mount they spoke to the peo­ple con­cern­ing their plans for the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion of the world and out­lined the meth­ods whereby they would seek to re­deem the so­cial cul­ture of Uran­tia from the low lev­els to which it had fallen as a re­sult of sin and re­bel­lion. This was a great day, and it closed with a feast for the coun­cil of men and women who had been se­lected to as­sume re­spon­si­bil­i­ties in the new ad­min­is­tra­tion of world af­fairs. Take note! women as well as men were in this group, and that was the first time such a thing had oc­curred on earth since the days of Dala­ma­tia. It was an as­tound­ing in­no­va­tion to be­hold Eve, a woman, shar­ing the hon­ors and re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of world af­fairs with a man. And thus ended the fourth day on earth.

74:3.6The fifth day was oc­cu­pied with the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the tem­po­rary gov­ern­ment, the ad­min­is­tra­tion which was to func­tion un­til the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers should leave Uran­tia.

74:3.7The sixth day was de­voted to an in­spec­tion of the nu­mer­ous types of men and an­i­mals. Along the walls east­ward in Eden, Adam and Eve were es­corted all day, view­ing the an­i­mal life of the planet and ar­riv­ing at a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing as to what must be done to bring or­der out of the con­fu­sion of a world in­hab­ited by such a va­ri­ety of liv­ing crea­tures.

74:3.8It greatly sur­prised those who ac­com­pa­nied Adam on this trip to ob­serve how fully he un­der­stood the na­ture and func­tion of the thou­sands upon thou­sands of an­i­mals shown him. The in­stant he glanced at an an­i­mal, he would in­di­cate its na­ture and be­hav­ior. Adam could give names de­scrip­tive of the ori­gin, na­ture, and func­tion of all ma­te­rial crea­tures on sight. Those who con­ducted him on this tour of in­spec­tion did not know that the world’s new ruler was one of the most ex­pert anatomists of all Sa­ta­nia; and Eve was equally pro­fi­cient. Adam amazed his as­so­ciates by de­scrib­ing hosts of liv­ing things too small to be seen by hu­man eyes.

74:3.9When the sixth day of their so­journ on earth was over, Adam and Eve rested for the first time in their new home in “the east of Eden.” The first six days of the Uran­tia ad­ven­ture had been very busy, and they looked for­ward with great plea­sure to an en­tire day of free­dom from all ac­tiv­i­ties.

74:3.10But cir­cum­stances dic­tated oth­er­wise. The ex­pe­ri­ence of the day just past in which Adam had so in­tel­li­gently and so ex­haus­tively dis­cussed the an­i­mal life of Uran­tia, to­gether with his mas­terly in­au­gu­ral ad­dress and his charm­ing man­ner, had so won the hearts and over­come the in­tel­lects of the Gar­den dwellers that they were not only whole­heart­edly dis­posed to ac­cept the newly ar­rived Son and Daugh­ter of Je­ru­sem as rulers, but the ma­jor­ity were about ready to fall down and wor­ship them as gods.