The Midway Creatures

77:5.1Hav­ing de­lin­eated the Nod­ite an­tecedents of the an­ces­try of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers, this nar­ra­tive should now give con­sid­er­a­tion to the Adamic half of their an­ces­try, for the sec­ondary mid­way­ers are also the grand­chil­dren of Adam­son, the first-born of the vi­o­let race of Uran­tia.

77:5.2Adam­son was among that group of the chil­dren of Adam and Eve who elected to re­main on earth with their fa­ther and mother. Now this el­dest son of Adam had of­ten heard from Van and Amadon the story of their high­land home in the north, and some­time af­ter the es­tab­lish­ment of the sec­ond gar­den he de­ter­mined to go in search of this land of his youth­ful dreams.

77:5.3Adam­son was 120 years old at this time and had been the fa­ther of thirty-two pure-line chil­dren of the first gar­den. He wanted to re­main with his par­ents and as­sist them in up­build­ing the sec­ond gar­den, but he was greatly dis­turbed by the loss of his mate and their chil­dren, who had all elected to go to Eden­tia along with those other Adamic chil­dren who chose to be­come wards of the Most Highs.

77:5.4Adam­son would not desert his par­ents on Uran­tia, he was dis­in­clined to flee from hard­ship or dan­ger, but he found the as­so­ci­a­tions of the sec­ond gar­den far from sat­is­fy­ing. He did much to for­ward the early ac­tiv­i­ties of de­fense and con­struc­tion but de­cided to leave for the north at the ear­li­est op­por­tu­nity. And though his de­par­ture was wholly pleas­ant, Adam and Eve were much grieved to lose their el­dest son, to have him go out into a strange and hos­tile world, as they feared, never to re­turn.

77:5.5A com­pany of twenty-seven fol­lowed Adam­son north­ward in quest of these peo­ple of his child­hood fan­tasies. In a lit­tle over three years Adam­son’s party ac­tu­ally found the ob­ject of their ad­ven­ture, and among these peo­ple he dis­cov­ered a won­der­ful and beau­ti­ful woman, twenty years old, who claimed to be the last pure-line de­scen­dant of the Prince’s staff. This woman, Ratta, said that her an­ces­tors were all de­scen­dants of two of the fallen staff of the Prince. She was the last of her race, hav­ing no liv­ing broth­ers or sis­ters. She had about de­cided not to mate, had about made up her mind to die with­out is­sue, but she lost her heart to the ma­jes­tic Adam­son. And when she heard the story of Eden, how the pre­dic­tions of Van and Amadon had re­ally come to pass, and as she lis­tened to the recital of the Gar­den de­fault, she was en­com­passed with but a sin­gle thought—to marry this son and heir of Adam. And quickly the idea grew upon Adam­son. In a lit­tle more than three months they were mar­ried.

77:5.6Adam­son and Ratta had a fam­ily of sixty-seven chil­dren. They gave ori­gin to a great line of the world’s lead­er­ship, but they did some­thing more. It should be re­mem­bered that both of these be­ings were re­ally super­hu­man. Ev­ery fourth child born to them was of a unique or­der. It was of­ten in­vis­i­ble. Never in the world’s his­tory had such a thing oc­curred. Ratta was greatly per­turbed—even su­per­sti­tious—but Adam­son well knew of the ex­is­tence of the pri­mary mid­way­ers, and he con­cluded that some­thing sim­i­lar was tran­spir­ing be­fore his eyes. When the sec­ond strangely be­hav­ing off­spring ar­rived, he de­cided to mate them, since one was male and the other fe­male, and this is the ori­gin of the sec­ondary or­der of mid­way­ers. Within one hun­dred years, be­fore this phe­nom­e­non ceased, al­most two thou­sand were brought into be­ing.

77:5.7Adam­son lived for 396 years. Many times he re­turned to visit his fa­ther and mother. Ev­ery seven years he and Ratta jour­neyed south to the sec­ond gar­den, and mean­while the mid­way­ers kept him in­formed re­gard­ing the wel­fare of his peo­ple. Dur­ing Adam­son’s life they did great ser­vice in up­build­ing a new and in­de­pen­dent world cen­ter for truth and righ­teous­ness.

77:5.8Adam­son and Ratta thus had at their com­mand this corps of mar­velous helpers, who la­bored with them through­out their long lives to as­sist in the prop­a­ga­tion of ad­vanced truth and in the spread of higher stan­dards of spir­i­tual, in­tel­lec­tual, and phys­i­cal liv­ing. And the re­sults of this ef­fort at world bet­ter­ment never did be­come fully ec­lipsed by sub­se­quent ret­ro­gres­sions.

77:5.9The Ad­am­son­ites main­tained a high cul­ture for al­most seven thou­sand years from the times of Adam­son and Ratta. Later on they be­came ad­mixed with the neigh­bor­ing Nod­ites and An­don­ites and were also in­cluded among the “mighty men of old.” And some of the ad­vances of that age per­sisted to be­come a la­tent part of the cul­tural po­ten­tial which later blos­somed into Eu­ro­pean civ­i­liza­tion.

77:5.10This cen­ter of civ­i­liza­tion was sit­u­ated in the re­gion east of the south­ern end of the Caspian Sea, near the Kopet Dagh. A short way up in the foothills of Tur­kes­tan are the ves­tiges of what was one­time the Ad­am­son­ite head­quar­ters of the vi­o­let race. In these high­land sites, sit­u­ated in a nar­row and an­cient fer­tile belt ly­ing in the lower foothills of the Kopet range, there suc­ces­sively arose at var­i­ous pe­ri­ods four di­verse cul­tures re­spec­tively fos­tered by four dif­fer­ent groups of Adam­son’s de­scen­dants. It was the sec­ond of these groups which mi­grated west­ward to Greece and the is­lands of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean. The residue of Adam­son’s de­scen­dants mi­grated north and west to en­ter Eu­rope with the blended stock of the last And­ite wave com­ing out of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, and they were also num­bered among the And­ite-Aryan in­vaders of In­dia.