The Default of Adam and Eve

75:2.1Cali­gas­tia paid fre­quent vis­its to the Gar­den and held many con­fer­ences with Adam and Eve, but they were adamant to all his sug­ges­tions of com­pro­mise and short-cut ad­ven­tures. They had be­fore them enough of the re­sults of re­bel­lion to pro­duce ef­fec­tive im­mu­nity against all such in­sin­u­at­ing pro­pos­als. Even the young off­spring of Adam were un­in­flu­enced by the over­tures of Dali­gas­tia. And of course nei­ther Cali­gas­tia nor his as­so­ciate had power to in­flu­ence any in­di­vid­ual against his will, much less to per­suade the chil­dren of Adam to do wrong.

75:2.2It must be re­mem­bered that Cali­gas­tia was still the tit­u­lar Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, a mis­guided but nev­er­the­less high Son of the lo­cal uni­verse. He was not fi­nally de­posed un­til the times of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

75:2.3But the fallen Prince was per­sis­tent and de­ter­mined. He soon gave up work­ing on Adam and de­cided to try a wily flank at­tack on Eve. The evil one con­cluded that the only hope for suc­cess lay in the adroit em­ploy­ment of suit­able per­sons be­long­ing to the up­per strata of the Nod­ite group, the de­scen­dants of his one­time cor­po­real-staff as­so­ciates. And the plans were ac­cord­ingly laid for en­trap­ping the mother of the vi­o­let race.

75:2.4It was far­thest from Eve’s in­ten­tion ever to do any­thing which would mil­i­tate against Adam’s plans or jeop­ar­dize their plan­e­tary trust. Know­ing the ten­dency of woman to look upon im­me­di­ate re­sults rather than to plan far­sight­edly for more re­mote ef­fects, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, be­fore de­part­ing, had es­pe­cially en­joined Eve as to the pe­cu­liar dan­gers be­set­ting their iso­lated po­si­tion on the planet and had in par­tic­u­lar warned her never to stray from the side of her mate, that is, to at­tempt no per­sonal or se­cret meth­ods of fur­ther­ing their mu­tual un­der­tak­ings. Eve had most scrupu­lously car­ried out these in­struc­tions for more than one hun­dred years, and it did not oc­cur to her that any dan­ger would at­tach to the in­creas­ingly pri­vate and con­fi­den­tial vis­its she was en­joy­ing with a cer­tain Nod­ite leader named Ser­a­p­ata­tia. The whole af­fair de­vel­oped so grad­u­ally and nat­u­rally that she was taken un­awares.

75:2.5The Gar­den dwellers had been in con­tact with the Nod­ites since the early days of Eden. From these mixed de­scen­dants of the de­fault­ing mem­bers of Cali­gas­tia’s staff they had re­ceived much valu­able help and co-op­er­a­tion, and through them the Edenic regime was now to meet its com­plete un­do­ing and fi­nal over­throw.