The Default of Adam and Eve

75:6.1When Adam learned that the Nod­ites were on the march, he sought the coun­sel of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, but they re­fused to ad­vise him, only telling him to do as he thought best and promis­ing their friendly co-op­er­a­tion, as far as pos­si­ble, in any course he might de­cide upon. The Mel­chiz­e­deks had been for­bid­den to in­ter­fere with the per­sonal plans of Adam and Eve.

75:6.2Adam knew that he and Eve had failed; the pres­ence of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers told him that, though he still knew noth­ing of their per­sonal sta­tus or fu­ture fate. He held an all-night con­fer­ence with some twelve hun­dred loyal fol­low­ers who pledged them­selves to fol­low their leader, and the next day at noon these pil­grims went forth from Eden in quest of new homes. Adam had no lik­ing for war and ac­cord­ingly elected to leave the first gar­den to the Nod­ites un­op­posed.

75:6.3The Edenic car­a­van was halted on the third day out from the Gar­den by the ar­rival of the se­raphic trans­ports from Je­ru­sem. And for the first time Adam and Eve were in­formed of what was to be­come of their chil­dren. While the trans­ports stood by, those chil­dren who had ar­rived at the age of choice (twenty years) were given the op­tion of re­main­ing on Uran­tia with their par­ents or of be­com­ing wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. Two thirds chose to go to Eden­tia; about one third elected to re­main with their par­ents. All chil­dren of pre­choice age were taken to Eden­tia. No one could have be­held the sor­row­ful part­ing of this Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter and their chil­dren with­out re­al­iz­ing that the way of the trans­gres­sor is hard. These off­spring of Adam and Eve are now on Eden­tia; we do not know what dis­po­si­tion is to be made of them.

75:6.4It was a sad, sad car­a­van that pre­pared to jour­ney on. Could any­thing have been more tragic! To have come to a world in such high hopes, to have been so aus­pi­ciously re­ceived, and then to go forth in dis­grace from Eden, only to lose more than three fourths of their chil­dren even be­fore find­ing a new abid­ing place!