The Second Garden

76:6.1Adam and Eve went to their mor­tal rest with strong faith in the promises made to them by the Mel­chiz­e­deks that they would some­time awake from the sleep of death to re­sume life on the man­sion worlds, worlds all so fa­mil­iar to them in the days pre­ced­ing their mis­sion in the ma­te­rial flesh of the vi­o­let race on Uran­tia.

76:6.2They did not long rest in the obliv­ion of the un­con­scious sleep of the mor­tals of the realm. On the third day af­ter Adam’s death, the sec­ond fol­low­ing his rev­er­ent burial, the or­ders of Lanaforge, sus­tained by the act­ing Most High of Eden­tia and con­curred in by the Union of Days on Sal­ving­ton, act­ing for Mi­chael, were placed in Ga­briel’s hands, di­rect­ing the spe­cial roll call of the dis­tin­guished sur­vivors of the Adamic de­fault on Uran­tia. And in ac­cor­dance with this man­date of spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, num­ber twenty-six of the Uran­tia se­ries, Adam and Eve were reper­son­al­ized and re­assem­bled in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the man­sion worlds of Sa­ta­nia to­gether with 1,316 of their as­so­ciates in the ex­pe­ri­ence of the first gar­den. Many other loyal souls had al­ready been trans­lated at the time of Adam’s ar­rival, which was at­tended by a dis­pen­sa­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tion of both the sleep­ing sur­vivors and of the liv­ing qual­i­fied as­cend­ers.

76:6.3Adam and Eve quickly passed through the worlds of pro­gres­sive as­cen­sion un­til they at­tained cit­i­zen­ship on Je­ru­sem, once again to be res­i­dents of the planet of their ori­gin but this time as mem­bers of a dif­fer­ent or­der of uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties. They left Je­ru­sem as per­ma­nent cit­i­zens—Sons of God; they re­turned as as­cen­dant cit­i­zens—sons of man. They were im­me­di­ately at­tached to the Uran­tia ser­vice on the sys­tem cap­i­tal, later be­ing as­signed mem­ber­ship among the four and twenty coun­selors who con­sti­tute the pres­ent ad­vi­sory-con­trol body of Uran­tia.

76:6.4And thus ends the story of the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve of Uran­tia, a story of trial, tragedy, and tri­umph, at least per­sonal tri­umph for your well-mean­ing but de­luded Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter and un­doubt­edly, in the end, a story of ul­ti­mate tri­umph for their world and its re­bel­lion-tossed and evil-ha­rassed in­hab­i­tants. When all is summed up, Adam and Eve made a mighty con­tri­bu­tion to the speedy civ­i­liza­tion and ac­cel­er­ated bi­o­logic prog­ress of the hu­man race. They left a great cul­ture on earth, but it was not pos­si­ble for such an ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tion to sur­vive in the face of the early di­lu­tion and the even­tual sub­mer­gence of the Adamic in­her­i­tance. It is the peo­ple who make a civ­i­liza­tion; civ­i­liza­tion does not make the peo­ple.

76:6.5[Pre­sented by Solo­nia, the se­raphic “voice in the Gar­den.”]