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Paper 80

Andite Expansion in the Occident

Archangel

1. The Adamites Enter Europe

80:1.1Be­fore the last And­ites were driven out of the Eu­phrates val­ley, many of their breth­ren had en­tered Eu­rope as ad­ven­tur­ers, teach­ers, traders, and war­riors. Dur­ing the ear­lier days of the vi­o­let race the Med­i­ter­ra­nean trough was pro­tected by the Gibral­tar isth­mus and the Si­cil­ian land bridge. Some of man’s very early mar­itime com­merce was es­tab­lished on these in­land lakes, where blue men from the north and the Sa­ha­rans from the south met Nod­ites and Adamites from the east.

80:1.2In the east­ern trough of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean the Nod­ites had es­tab­lished one of their most ex­ten­sive cul­tures and from these cen­ters had pen­e­trated some­what into south­ern Eu­rope but more es­pe­cially into north­ern Africa. The broad-headed Nod­ite-An­don­ite Syr­i­ans very early in­tro­duced pot­tery and agri­cul­ture in con­nec­tion with their set­tle­ments on the slowly ris­ing Nile delta. They also im­ported sheep, goats, cat­tle, and other do­mes­ti­cated an­i­mals and brought in greatly im­proved meth­ods of met­al­work­ing, Syria then be­ing the cen­ter of that in­dus­try.

80:1.3For more than thirty thou­sand years Egypt re­ceived a steady stream of Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans, who brought along their art and cul­ture to en­rich that of the Nile val­ley. But the ingress of large num­bers of the Sa­hara peo­ples greatly de­te­ri­o­rated the early civ­i­liza­tion along the Nile so that Egypt reached its low­est cul­tural level some fif­teen thou­sand years ago.

80:1.4But dur­ing ear­lier times there was lit­tle to hin­der the west­ward mi­gra­tion of the Adamites. The Sa­hara was an open graz­ing land over­spread by herders and agri­cul­tur­ists. These Sa­ha­rans never en­gaged in man­u­fac­ture, nor were they city builders. They were an in­digo-black group which car­ried ex­ten­sive strains of the ex­tinct green and or­ange races. But they re­ceived a very lim­ited amount of the vi­o­let in­her­i­tance be­fore the up­thrust of land and the shift­ing wa­ter-laden winds dis­persed the rem­nants of this pros­per­ous and peace­ful civ­i­liza­tion.

80:1.5Adam’s blood has been shared with most of the hu­man races, but some se­cured more than oth­ers. The mixed races of In­dia and the darker peo­ples of Africa were not at­trac­tive to the Adamites. They would have mixed freely with the red man had he not been far re­moved in the Amer­i­cas, and they were kindly dis­posed to­ward the yel­low man, but he was like­wise dif­fi­cult of ac­cess in far­away Asia. There­fore, when ac­tu­ated by ei­ther ad­ven­ture or al­tru­ism, or when driven out of the Eu­phrates val­ley, they very nat­u­rally chose union with the blue races of Eu­rope.

80:1.6The blue men, then dom­i­nant in Eu­rope, had no re­li­gious prac­tices which were re­pul­sive to the ear­lier mi­grat­ing Adamites, and there was great sex at­trac­tion be­tween the vi­o­let and the blue races. The best of the blue men deemed it a high honor to be per­mit­ted to mate with the Adamites. Ev­ery blue man en­ter­tained the am­bi­tion of be­com­ing so skill­ful and artis­tic as to win the af­fec­tion of some Adamite woman, and it was the high­est as­pi­ra­tion of a su­pe­rior blue woman to re­ceive the at­ten­tions of an Adamite.

80:1.7Slowly these mi­grat­ing sons of Eden united with the higher types of the blue race, in­vig­o­rat­ing their cul­tural prac­tices while ruth­lessly ex­ter­mi­nat­ing the lin­ger­ing strains of Ne­an­derthal stock. This tech­nique of race blend­ing, com­bined with the elim­i­na­tion of in­fe­rior strains, pro­duced a dozen or more vir­ile and pro­gres­sive groups of su­pe­rior blue men, one of which you have de­nom­i­nated the Cro-Magnons.

80:1.8For these and other rea­sons, not the least of which was more fa­vor­able paths of mi­gra­tion, the early waves of Mes­o­po­ta­mian cul­ture made their way al­most ex­clu­sively to Eu­rope. And it was these cir­cum­stances that de­ter­mined the an­tecedents of mod­ern Eu­ro­pean civ­i­liza­tion.