The Second Garden

76:4.1Adam and Eve were the found­ers of the vi­o­let race of men, the ninth hu­man race to ap­pear on Uran­tia. Adam and his off­spring had blue eyes, and the vi­o­let peo­ples were char­ac­ter­ized by fair com­plex­ions and light hair color—yel­low, red, and brown.

76:4.2Eve did not suf­fer pain in child­birth; nei­ther did the early evo­lu­tion­ary races. Only the mixed races pro­duced by the union of evo­lu­tion­ary man with the Nod­ites and later with the Adamites suf­fered the se­vere pangs of child­birth.

76:4.3Adam and Eve, like their breth­ren on Je­ru­sem, were en­er­gized by dual nu­tri­tion, sub­sist­ing on both food and light, sup­ple­mented by cer­tain super­phys­i­cal en­er­gies un­re­vealed on Uran­tia. Their Uran­tia off­spring did not in­herit the pa­ren­tal en­dow­ment of en­ergy in­take and light cir­cu­la­tion. They had a sin­gle cir­cu­la­tion, the hu­man type of blood sus­te­nance. They were de­signedly mor­tal though long-lived, al­beit longevity grav­i­tated to­ward the hu­man norm with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.

76:4.4Adam and Eve and their first gen­er­a­tion of chil­dren did not use the flesh of an­i­mals for food. They sub­sisted wholly upon “the fruits of the trees.” Af­ter the first gen­er­a­tion all of the de­scen­dants of Adam be­gan to par­take of dairy prod­ucts, but many of them con­tin­ued to fol­low a non­flesh diet. Many of the south­ern tribes with whom they later united were also non­flesh eaters. Later on, most of these veg­e­tar­ian tribes mi­grated to the east and sur­vived as now ad­mixed in the peo­ples of In­dia.

76:4.5Both the phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual vi­sions of Adam and Eve were far su­pe­rior to those of the pres­ent-day peo­ples. Their spe­cial senses were much more acute, and they were able to see the mid­way­ers and the an­gelic hosts, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and the fallen Prince Cali­gas­tia, who sev­eral times came to con­fer with his no­ble suc­ces­sor. They re­tained the abil­ity to see these ce­les­tial be­ings for over one hun­dred years af­ter the de­fault. These spe­cial senses were not so acutely pres­ent in their chil­dren and tended to di­min­ish with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.

76:4.6The Adamic chil­dren were usu­ally Ad­juster in­dwelt since they all pos­sessed un­doubted sur­vival ca­pac­ity. These su­pe­rior off­spring were not so sub­ject to fear as the chil­dren of evo­lu­tion. So much of fear per­sists in the pres­ent-day races of Uran­tia be­cause your an­ces­tors re­ceived so lit­tle of Adam’s life plasm, ow­ing to the early mis­car­riage of the plans for racial phys­i­cal up­lift.

76:4.7The body cells of the Ma­te­rial Sons and their progeny are far more re­sis­tant to dis­ease than are those of the evo­lu­tion­ary be­ings in­dige­nous to the planet. The body cells of the na­tive races are akin to the liv­ing dis­ease-pro­duc­ing mi­cro­scopic and ul­tra­mi­cro­scopic or­gan­isms of the realm. These facts ex­plain why the Uran­tia peo­ples must do so much by way of sci­en­tific ef­fort to with­stand so many phys­i­cal dis­or­ders. You would be far more dis­ease re­sis­tant if your races car­ried more of the Adamic life.

76:4.8Af­ter be­com­ing es­tab­lished in the sec­ond gar­den on the Eu­phrates, Adam elected to leave be­hind as much of his life plasm as pos­si­ble to ben­e­fit the world af­ter his death. Ac­cord­ingly, Eve was made the head of a com­mis­sion of twelve on race im­prove­ment, and be­fore Adam died this com­mis­sion had se­lected 1,682 of the high­est type of women on Uran­tia, and these women were im­preg­nated with the Adamic life plasm. Their chil­dren all grew up to ma­tu­rity ex­cept 112, so that the world, in this way, was ben­e­fited by the ad­di­tion of 1,570 su­pe­rior men and women. Though these can­di­date moth­ers were se­lected from all the sur­round­ing tribes and rep­re­sented most of the races on earth, the ma­jor­ity were cho­sen from the high­est strains of the Nod­ites, and they con­sti­tuted the early be­gin­nings of the mighty And­ite race. These chil­dren were born and reared in the tribal sur­round­ings of their re­spec­tive moth­ers.