The Default of Adam and Eve

75:7.1It was while the Edenic car­a­van was halted that Adam and Eve were in­formed of the na­ture of their trans­gres­sions and ad­vised con­cern­ing their fate. Ga­briel ap­peared to pro­nounce judg­ment. And this was the ver­dict: The Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve of Uran­tia are ad­judged in de­fault; they have vi­o­lated the covenant of their trustee­ship as the rulers of this in­hab­ited world.

75:7.2While down­cast by the sense of guilt, Adam and Eve were greatly cheered by the an­nounce­ment that their judges on Sal­ving­ton had ab­solved them from all charges of stand­ing in “con­tempt of the uni­verse gov­ern­ment.” They had not been held guilty of re­bel­lion.

75:7.3The Edenic pair were in­formed that they had de­graded them­selves to the sta­tus of the mor­tals of the realm; that they must hence­forth con­duct them­selves as man and woman of Uran­tia, look­ing to the fu­ture of the world races for their fu­ture.

75:7.4Long be­fore Adam and Eve left Je­ru­sem, their in­struc­tors had fully ex­plained to them the con­se­quences of any vi­tal de­par­ture from the di­vine plans. I had per­son­ally and re­peat­edly warned them, both be­fore and af­ter they ar­rived on Uran­tia, that re­duc­tion to the sta­tus of mor­tal flesh would be the cer­tain re­sult, the sure penalty, which would un­fail­ingly at­tend de­fault in the ex­e­cu­tion of their plan­e­tary mis­sion. But a com­pre­hen­sion of the im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is es­sen­tial to a clear un­der­stand­ing of the con­se­quences at­ten­dant upon the de­fault of Adam and Eve.

75:7.51. Adam and Eve, like their fel­lows on Je­ru­sem, main­tained im­mor­tal sta­tus through in­tel­lec­tual as­so­ci­a­tion with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. When this vi­tal sus­te­nance is bro­ken by men­tal dis­junc­tion, then, re­gard­less of the spir­i­tual level of crea­ture ex­is­tence, im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus is lost. Mor­tal sta­tus fol­lowed by phys­i­cal dis­so­lu­tion was the in­ev­i­ta­ble con­se­quence of the in­tel­lec­tual de­fault of Adam and Eve.

75:7.62. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter of Uran­tia, be­ing also per­son­al­ized in the simil­i­tude of the mor­tal flesh of this world, were fur­ther de­pen­dent on the main­te­nance of a dual cir­cu­la­tory sys­tem, the one de­rived from their phys­i­cal na­tures, the other from the super­en­ergy stored in the fruit of the tree of life. Al­ways had the arch­an­gel cus­to­dian ad­mon­ished Adam and Eve that de­fault of trust would cul­mi­nate in degra­da­tion of sta­tus, and ac­cess to this source of en­ergy was de­nied them sub­se­quent to their de­fault.

75:7.7Cali­gas­tia did suc­ceed in trap­ping Adam and Eve, but he did not ac­com­plish his pur­pose of lead­ing them into open re­bel­lion against the uni­verse gov­ern­ment. What they had done was in­deed evil, but they were never guilty of con­tempt for truth, nei­ther did they know­ingly en­list in re­bel­lion against the righ­teous rule of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Cre­ator Son.