Andite Expansion in the Occident

80:2.1The early ex­pan­sion of the vi­o­let race into Eu­rope was cut short by cer­tain rather sud­den cli­matic and ge­o­logic changes. With the re­treat of the north­ern ice fields the wa­ter-laden winds from the west shifted to the north, grad­u­ally turn­ing the great open pas­ture re­gions of Sa­hara into a bar­ren desert. This drought dis­persed the smaller-statured brunets, dark-eyed but long-headed dwellers of the great Sa­hara pla­teau.

80:2.2The purer in­digo el­e­ments moved south­ward to the forests of cen­tral Africa, where they have ever since re­mained. The more mixed groups spread out in three di­rec­tions: The su­pe­rior tribes to the west mi­grated to Spain and thence to ad­ja­cent parts of Eu­rope, form­ing the nu­cleus of the later Med­i­ter­ra­nean long-headed brunet races. The least pro­gres­sive di­vi­sion to the east of the Sa­hara pla­teau mi­grated to Ara­bia and thence through north­ern Mes­o­po­ta­mia and In­dia to far­away Cey­lon. The cen­tral group moved north and east to the Nile val­ley and into Pales­tine.

80:2.3It is this sec­ondary San­gik sub­stra­tum that sug­gests a cer­tain de­gree of kin­ship among the mod­ern peo­ples scat­tered from the Dec­can through Iran, Mes­o­po­ta­mia, and along both shores of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea.

80:2.4About the time of these cli­matic changes in Africa, Eng­land sep­a­rated from the con­ti­nent, and Den­mark arose from the sea, while the isth­mus of Gibral­tar, pro­tect­ing the west­ern basin of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean, gave way as the re­sult of an earth­quake, quickly rais­ing this in­land lake to the level of the At­lantic Ocean. Pres­ently the Si­cil­ian land bridge sub­merged, cre­at­ing one sea of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean and con­nect­ing it with the At­lantic Ocean. This cat­a­clysm of na­ture flooded scores of hu­man set­tle­ments and oc­ca­sioned the great­est loss of life by flood in all the world’s his­tory.

80:2.5This en­gulf­ment of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin im­me­di­ately cur­tailed the west­ward move­ments of the Adamites, while the great in­flux of Sa­ha­rans led them to seek out­lets for their in­creas­ing num­bers to the north and east of Eden. As the de­scen­dants of Adam jour­neyed north­ward from the val­leys of the Tigris and Eu­phrates, they en­coun­tered moun­tain­ous bar­ri­ers and the then ex­panded Caspian Sea. And for many gen­er­a­tions the Adamites hunted, herded, and tilled the soil around their set­tle­ments scat­tered through­out Tur­kes­tan. Slowly this mag­nif­i­cent peo­ple ex­tended their ter­ri­tory into Eu­rope. But now the Adamites en­ter Eu­rope from the east and find the cul­ture of the blue man thou­sands of years be­hind that of Asia since this re­gion has been al­most en­tirely out of touch with Mes­o­po­ta­mia.