Adam and Eve

74:6.1The Adamic fam­ily grounds em­braced a lit­tle over five square miles. Im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing this home­site, pro­vi­sion had been made for the care of more than three hun­dred thou­sand of the pure-line off­spring. But only the first unit of the pro­jected build­ings was ever con­structed. Be­fore the size of the Adamic fam­ily out­grew these early pro­vi­sions, the whole Edenic plan had been dis­rupted and the Gar­den va­cated.

74:6.2Adam­son was the first-born of the vi­o­let race of Uran­tia, be­ing fol­lowed by his sis­ter and Eve­son, the sec­ond son of Adam and Eve. Eve was the mother of five chil­dren be­fore the Mel­chiz­e­deks left—three sons and two daugh­ters. The next two were twins. She bore sixty-three chil­dren, thirty-two daugh­ters and thirty-one sons, be­fore the de­fault. When Adam and Eve left the Gar­den, their fam­ily con­sisted of four gen­er­a­tions num­ber­ing 1,647 pure-line de­scen­dants. They had forty-two chil­dren af­ter leav­ing the Gar­den be­sides the two off­spring of joint parent­age with the mor­tal stock of earth. And this does not in­clude the Adamic parent­age to the Nod­ite and evo­lu­tion­ary races.

74:6.3The Adamic chil­dren did not take milk from an­i­mals when they ceased to nurse the mother’s breast at one year of age. Eve had ac­cess to the milk of a great va­ri­ety of nuts and to the juices of many fruits, and know­ing full well the chem­istry and en­ergy of these foods, she suit­ably com­bined them for the nour­ish­ment of her chil­dren un­til the ap­pear­ance of teeth.

74:6.4While cook­ing was uni­ver­sally em­ployed out­side of the im­me­di­ate Adamic sec­tor of Eden, there was no cook­ing in Adam’s house­hold. They found their foods—fruits, nuts, and ce­re­als—ready pre­pared as they ripened. They ate once a day, shortly af­ter noon­time. Adam and Eve also im­bibed “light and en­ergy” di­rect from cer­tain space em­a­na­tions in con­junc­tion with the min­istry of the tree of life.

74:6.5The bod­ies of Adam and Eve gave forth a shim­mer of light, but they al­ways wore cloth­ing in con­for­mity with the cus­tom of their as­so­ciates. Though wear­ing very lit­tle dur­ing the day, at even­tide they donned night wraps. The ori­gin of the tra­di­tional halo en­cir­cling the heads of sup­posed pi­ous and holy men dates back to the days of Adam and Eve. Since the light em­a­na­tions of their bod­ies were so largely ob­scured by cloth­ing, only the ra­di­at­ing glow from their heads was dis­cern­i­ble. The de­scen­dants of Adam­son al­ways thus por­trayed their con­cept of in­di­vid­u­als be­lieved to be ex­traor­di­nary in spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment.

74:6.6Adam and Eve could com­mu­ni­cate with each other and with their im­me­di­ate chil­dren over a dis­tance of about fifty miles. This thought ex­change was ef­fected by means of the del­i­cate gas cham­bers lo­cated in close prox­im­ity to their brain struc­tures. By this mech­a­nism they could send and re­ceive thought os­cil­la­tions. But this power was in­stantly sus­pended upon the mind’s sur­ren­der to the dis­cord and dis­rup­tion of evil.

74:6.7The Adamic chil­dren at­tended their own schools un­til they were six­teen, the younger be­ing taught by the el­der. The lit­tle folks changed ac­tiv­i­ties ev­ery thirty min­utes, the older ev­ery hour. And it was cer­tainly a new sight on Uran­tia to ob­serve these chil­dren of Adam and Eve at play, joy­ous and ex­hil­a­rat­ing ac­tiv­ity just for the sheer fun of it. The play and hu­mor of the pres­ent-day races are largely de­rived from the Adamic stock. The Adamites all had a great ap­pre­ci­a­tion of mu­sic as well as a keen sense of hu­mor.

74:6.8The av­er­age age of be­trothal was eigh­teen, and these youths then en­tered upon a two years’ course of in­struc­tion in prepa­ra­tion for the as­sump­tion of mar­i­tal re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. At twenty they were el­i­gi­ble for mar­riage; and af­ter mar­riage they be­gan their life­work or en­tered upon spe­cial prepa­ra­tion there­for.

74:6.9The prac­tice of some sub­se­quent na­tions of per­mit­ting the royal fam­i­lies, sup­pos­edly de­scended from the gods, to marry brother to sis­ter, dates from the tra­di­tions of the Adamic off­spring—mat­ing, as they must needs, with one an­other. The mar­riage cer­e­monies of the first and sec­ond gen­er­a­tions of the Gar­den were al­ways per­formed by Adam and Eve.