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Paper 80

Andite Expansion in the Occident

Archangel

7. Andites of the Mediterranean Isles

80:7.1Dur­ing the de­cline of cul­ture in Mes­o­po­ta­mia there per­sisted for some time a su­pe­rior civ­i­liza­tion on the is­lands of the east­ern Med­i­ter­ra­nean.

80:7.2About 12,000 B.C. a bril­liant tribe of And­ites mi­grated to Crete. This was the only is­land set­tled so early by such a su­pe­rior group, and it was al­most two thou­sand years be­fore the de­scen­dants of these mariners spread to the neigh­bor­ing isles. This group were the nar­row-headed, smaller-statured And­ites who had in­ter­mar­ried with the Van­ite di­vi­sion of the north­ern Nod­ites. They were all un­der six feet in height and had been lit­er­ally driven off the main­land by their larger and in­fe­rior fel­lows. These em­i­grants to Crete were highly skilled in tex­tiles, met­als, pot­tery, plumb­ing, and the use of stone for build­ing ma­te­rial. They en­gaged in writ­ing and car­ried on as herders and agri­cul­tur­ists.

80:7.3Al­most two thou­sand years af­ter the set­tle­ment of Crete a group of the tall de­scen­dants of Adam­son made their way over the north­ern is­lands to Greece, com­ing al­most di­rectly from their high­land home north of Mes­o­po­ta­mia. These pro­gen­i­tors of the Greeks were led west­ward by Sato, a di­rect de­scen­dant of Adam­son and Ratta.

80:7.4The group which fi­nally set­tled in Greece con­sisted of three hun­dred and sev­enty-five of the se­lected and su­pe­rior peo­ple com­pris­ing the end of the sec­ond civ­i­liza­tion of the Ad­am­son­ites. These later sons of Adam­son car­ried the then most valu­able strains of the emerg­ing white races. They were of a high in­tel­lec­tual or­der and, phys­i­cally re­garded, the most beau­ti­ful of men since the days of the first Eden.

80:7.5Pres­ently Greece and the Aegean Is­lands re­gion suc­ceeded Mes­o­po­ta­mia and Egypt as the Oc­ci­den­tal cen­ter of trade, art, and cul­ture. But as it was in Egypt, so again prac­ti­cally all of the art and sci­ence of the Aegean world was de­rived from Mes­o­po­ta­mia ex­cept for the cul­ture of the Ad­am­son­ite fore­run­ners of the Greeks. All the art and ge­nius of these lat­ter peo­ple is a di­rect legacy of the pos­ter­ity of Adam­son, the first son of Adam and Eve, and his ex­traor­di­nary sec­ond wife, a daugh­ter de­scended in an un­bro­ken line from the pure Nod­ite staff of Prince Cali­gas­tia. No won­der the Greeks had mytho­log­i­cal tra­di­tions that they were di­rectly de­scended from gods and super­hu­man be­ings.

80:7.6The Aegean re­gion passed through five dis­tinct cul­tural stages, each less spir­i­tual than the pre­ced­ing, and ere­long the last glo­ri­ous era of art per­ished be­neath the weight of the rapidly mul­ti­ply­ing mediocre de­scen­dants of the Danu­bian slaves who had been im­ported by the later gen­er­a­tions of Greeks.

80:7.7It was dur­ing this age in Crete that the mother cult of the de­scen­dants of Cain at­tained its great­est vogue. This cult glo­ri­fied Eve in the wor­ship of the “great mother.” Im­ages of Eve were ev­ery­where. Thou­sands of pub­lic shrines were erected through­out Crete and Asia Mi­nor. And this mother cult per­sisted on down to the times of Christ, be­com­ing later in­cor­po­rated in the early Chris­tian re­li­gion un­der the guise of the glo­ri­fi­ca­tion and wor­ship of Mary the earth mother of Je­sus.

80:7.8By about 6500 B.C. there had oc­curred a great de­cline in the spir­i­tual her­itage of the And­ites. The de­scen­dants of Adam were widespreadly dis­persed and had been vir­tu­ally swal­lowed up in the older and more nu­mer­ous hu­man races. And this deca­dence of And­ite civ­i­liza­tion, to­gether with the dis­ap­pear­ance of their re­li­gious stan­dards, left the spir­i­tu­ally im­pov­er­ished races of the world in a de­plorable con­di­tion.

80:7.9By 5000 B.C. the three purest strains of Adam’s de­scen­dants were in Sume­ria, north­ern Eu­rope, and Greece. The whole of Mes­o­po­ta­mia was be­ing slowly de­te­ri­o­rated by the stream of mixed and darker races which fil­tered in from Ara­bia. And the com­ing of these in­fe­rior peo­ples con­tributed fur­ther to the scat­ter­ing abroad of the bi­o­logic and cul­tural residue of the And­ites. From all over the fer­tile cres­cent the more ad­ven­tur­ous peo­ples poured west­ward to the is­lands. These mi­grants cul­ti­vated both grain and veg­eta­bles, and they brought do­mes­ti­cated an­i­mals with them.

80:7.10About 5000 B.C. a mighty host of pro­gres­sive Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans moved out of the Eu­phrates val­ley and set­tled upon the is­land of Cyprus; this civ­i­liza­tion was wiped out about two thou­sand years sub­se­quently by the bar­bar­ian hordes from the north.

80:7.11An­other great colony set­tled on the Med­i­ter­ra­nean near the later site of Carthage. And from north Africa large num­bers of And­ites en­tered Spain and later min­gled in Switzer­land with their breth­ren who had ear­lier come to Italy from the Aegean Is­lands.

80:7.12When Egypt fol­lowed Mes­o­po­ta­mia in cul­tural de­cline, many of the more able and ad­vanced fam­i­lies fled to Crete, thus greatly aug­ment­ing this al­ready ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tion. And when the ar­rival of in­fe­rior groups from Egypt later threat­ened the civ­i­liza­tion of Crete, the more cul­tured fam­i­lies moved on west to Greece.

80:7.13The Greeks were not only great teach­ers and artists, they were also the world’s great­est traders and col­o­niz­ers. Be­fore suc­cumb­ing to the flood of in­fe­ri­or­ity which even­tu­ally en­gulfed their art and com­merce, they suc­ceeded in plant­ing so many out­posts of cul­ture to the west that a great many of the ad­vances in early Greek civ­i­liza­tion per­sisted in the later peo­ples of south­ern Eu­rope, and many of the mixed de­scen­dants of these Ad­am­son­ites be­came in­cor­po­rated in the tribes of the ad­ja­cent main­lands.

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