The Default of Adam and Eve

75:5.1Eve’s dis­il­lu­sion­ment was truly pa­thetic. Adam dis­cerned the whole predica­ment and, while heart­bro­ken and de­jected, en­ter­tained only pity and sym­pa­thy for his erring mate.

75:5.2It was in the de­spair of the re­al­iza­tion of fail­ure that Adam, the day af­ter Eve’s mis­step, sought out Laotta, the bril­liant Nod­ite woman who was head of the west­ern schools of the Gar­den, and with pre­med­i­ta­tion com­mit­ted the folly of Eve. But do not mis­un­der­stand; Adam was not be­guiled; he knew ex­actly what he was about; he de­lib­er­ately chose to share the fate of Eve. He loved his mate with a super­mor­tal af­fec­tion, and the thought of the pos­si­bil­ity of a lonely vigil on Uran­tia with­out her was more than he could en­dure.

75:5.3When they learned what had hap­pened to Eve, the in­fu­ri­ated in­hab­i­tants of the Gar­den be­came un­man­age­able; they de­clared war on the near-by Nod­ite set­tle­ment. They swept out through the gates of Eden and down upon these un­pre­pared peo­ple, ut­terly de­stroy­ing them—not a man, woman, or child was spared. And Cano, the fa­ther of Cain yet un­born, also per­ished.

75:5.4Upon the re­al­iza­tion of what had hap­pened, Ser­a­p­ata­tia was over­come with con­ster­na­tion and be­side him­self with fear and re­morse. The next day he drowned him­self in the great river.

75:5.5The chil­dren of Adam sought to com­fort their dis­tracted mother while their fa­ther wan­dered in soli­tude for thirty days. At the end of that time judg­ment as­serted it­self, and Adam re­turned to his home and be­gan to plan for their fu­ture course of ac­tion.

75:5.6The con­se­quences of the fol­lies of mis­guided par­ents are so of­ten shared by their in­no­cent chil­dren. The up­right and no­ble sons and daugh­ters of Adam and Eve were over­whelmed by the in­ex­pli­ca­ble sor­row of the un­be­liev­able tragedy which had been so sud­denly and so ruth­lessly thrust upon them. Not in fifty years did the older of these chil­dren re­cover from the sor­row and sad­ness of those tragic days, es­pe­cially the ter­ror of that pe­riod of thirty days dur­ing which their fa­ther was ab­sent from home while their dis­tracted mother was in com­plete ig­no­rance of his where­abouts or fate.

75:5.7And those same thirty days were as long years of sor­row and suf­fer­ing to Eve. Never did this no­ble soul fully re­cover from the ef­fects of that ex­cru­ci­at­ing pe­riod of men­tal suf­fer­ing and spir­i­tual sor­row. No fea­ture of their sub­se­quent de­pri­va­tions and ma­te­rial hard­ships ever be­gan to com­pare in Eve’s mem­ory with those ter­ri­ble days and aw­ful nights of lone­li­ness and un­bear­able un­cer­tainty. She learned of the rash act of Ser­a­p­ata­tia and did not know whether her mate had in sor­row de­stroyed him­self or had been re­moved from the world in ret­ri­bu­tion for her mis­step. And when Adam re­turned, Eve ex­pe­ri­enced a sat­is­fac­tion of joy and grat­i­tude that never was ef­faced by their long and dif­fi­cult life part­ner­ship of toil­ing ser­vice.

75:5.8Time passed, but Adam was not cer­tain of the na­ture of their of­fense un­til sev­enty days af­ter the de­fault of Eve, when the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers re­turned to Uran­tia and as­sumed ju­ris­dic­tion over world af­fairs. And then he knew they had failed.

75:5.9But still more trou­ble was brew­ing: The news of the an­ni­hi­la­tion of the Nod­ite set­tle­ment near Eden was not slow in reach­ing the home tribes of Ser­a­p­ata­tia to the north, and pres­ently a great host was as­sem­bling to march on the Gar­den. And this was the be­gin­ning of a long and bit­ter war­fare be­tween the Adamites and the Nod­ites, for these hos­til­i­ties kept up long af­ter Adam and his fol­low­ers em­i­grated to the sec­ond gar­den in the Eu­phrates val­ley. There was in­tense and last­ing “en­mity be­tween that man and the woman, be­tween his seed and her seed.”