Adam

• Adam

165:0.1On Tues­day, Jan­uary 3, A.D. 30, Ab­ner, the for­mer chief of the twelve apos­tles of John the Bap­tist, a Nazarite and one­time head of the Nazarite school at En­gedi, now chief of the sev­enty mes­sen­gers of the king­dom, called his as­so­ciates to­gether and gave them fi­nal in­struc­tions be­fore send­ing them on a mis­sion to all of the cities and vil­lages of Perea. This Perean mis­sion con­tin­ued for al­most three months and was the last min­istry of the Mas­ter. From these labors Je­sus went di­rectly to Je­ru­sa­lem to pass through his fi­nal ex­pe­ri­ences in the flesh. The sev­enty, sup­ple­mented by the pe­ri­odic labors of Je­sus and the twelve apos­tles, worked in the fol­low­ing cities and towns and some fifty ad­di­tional vil­lages: Za­phon, Gadara, Macad, Ar­bela, Ra­math, Edrei, Bosora, Caspin, Mis­peh, Gerasa, Ragaba, Suc­coth, Am­athus, Adam, Penuel, Capi­to­lias, Dion, Hatita, Gadda, Phil­a­del­phia, Jog­be­hah, Gilead, Beth-Nim­rah, Tyrus, Elealah, Livias, Hes­h­bon, Cal­lir­rhoe, Beth-Peor, Shit­tim, Sibmah, Medeba, Beth-Meon, Are­opo­lis, and Aroer.

92:5.6Many races have con­ceived of their lead­ers as be­ing born of vir­gins; their ca­reers are lib­er­ally sprin­kled with mirac­u­lous episodes, and their re­turn is al­ways ex­pected by their re­spec­tive groups. In cen­tral Asia the tribes­men still look for the re­turn of Genghis Khan; in Ti­bet, China, and In­dia it is Bud­dha; in Is­lam it is Mo­hammed; among the Amerinds it was Hes­unanin Ona­mo­na­lon­ton; with the He­brews it was, in gen­eral, Adam’s re­turn as a ma­te­rial ruler. In Baby­lon the god Mar­duk was a per­pet­u­a­tion of the Adam leg­end, the son-of-God idea, the con­nect­ing link be­tween man and God. Fol­low­ing the ap­pear­ance of Adam on earth, so-called sons of God were com­mon among the world races.

• default › deprived races of physical nature more consonant with spiritual aspirations

34:7.4The Uran­tia peo­ples are suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences of a dou­ble de­pri­va­tion of help in this task of pro­gres­sive plan­e­tary spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. The Cali­gas­tia up­heaval pre­cip­i­tated world-wide con­fu­sion and robbed all sub­se­quent gen­er­a­tions of the moral as­sis­tance which a well-or­dered so­ci­ety would have pro­vided. But even more dis­as­trous was the Adamic de­fault in that it de­prived the races of that su­pe­rior type of phys­i­cal na­ture which would have been more con­so­nant with spir­i­tual as­pi­ra­tions.

34:7.5Uran­tia mor­tals are com­pelled to un­dergo such marked strug­gling be­tween the spirit and the flesh be­cause their re­mote an­ces­tors were not more fully Adamized by the Edenic be­stowal. It was the di­vine plan that the mor­tal races of Uran­tia should have had phys­i­cal na­tures more nat­u­rally spirit re­spon­sive.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › bequeathed more humor than music or art

48:4.13Even mor­tal hu­mor be­comes most hearty when it de­picts episodes af­fect­ing those just a lit­tle be­neath one’s pres­ent de­vel­op­men­tal state, or when it por­trays one’s sup­posed su­pe­ri­ors falling vic­tim to the ex­pe­ri­ences which are com­monly as­so­ci­ated with sup­posed in­fe­ri­ors. You of Uran­tia have al­lowed much that is at once vul­gar and un­kind to be­come con­fused with your hu­mor, but on the whole, you are to be con­grat­u­lated on a com­par­a­tively keen sense of hu­mor. Some of your races have a rich vein of it and are greatly helped in their earthly ca­reers thereby. Ap­par­ently you re­ceived much in the way of hu­mor from your Adamic in­her­i­tance, much more than was se­cured of ei­ther mu­sic or art.

• default › tragedy for Urantia

50:6.5You should not for­get that for two hun­dred thou­sand years all the worlds of Sa­ta­nia have rested un­der the spir­i­tual ban of Nor­la­ti­adek in con­se­quence of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. And it will re­quire age upon age to re­trieve the re­sul­tant hand­i­caps of sin and se­ces­sion. Your world still con­tin­ues to pur­sue an ir­reg­u­lar and check­ered ca­reer as a re­sult of the dou­ble tragedy of a re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince and a de­fault­ing Ma­te­rial Son. Even the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia did not im­me­di­ately set aside the tem­po­ral con­se­quences of these se­ri­ous blun­ders in the ear­lier ad­min­is­tra­tion of the world.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › mission fraught with danger

51:0.2These Sons are the ma­te­rial gift of the Cre­ator Son to the in­hab­ited worlds. To­gether with the Plan­e­tary Prince, they re­main on their planet of as­sign­ment through­out the evo­lu­tion­ary course of such a sphere. Such an ad­ven­ture on a world hav­ing a Plan­e­tary Prince is not much of a haz­ard, but on an apos­tate planet, a realm with­out a spir­i­tual ruler and de­prived of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion, such a mis­sion is fraught with grave dan­ger.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › enormously upstepped peoples of Urantia

51:0.3Al­though you can­not hope to know all about the work of these Sons on all the worlds of Sa­ta­nia and other sys­tems, other pa­pers de­pict more fully the life and ex­pe­ri­ences of the in­ter­est­ing pair, Adam and Eve, who came from the corps of the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Je­ru­sem to up­step the Uran­tia races. While there was a mis­car­riage of the ideal plans for im­prov­ing your na­tive races, still, Adam’s mis­sion was not in vain; Uran­tia has prof­ited im­mea­sur­ably from the gift of Adam and Eve, and among their fel­lows and in the coun­cils on high their work is not reck­oned as a to­tal loss.

• default › A. defaulted, but did not become involved in Lucifer rebellion
• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › mission fraught with danger
• warned › exhaustively instructed regarding dangers of Urantia mission

51:3.4The plans for race up­step­ping are pre­pared by the Plan­e­tary Prince and his staff and are ex­e­cuted by Adam and Eve. And this was where your Ma­te­rial Son and his com­pan­ion were placed at great dis­ad­van­tage when they ar­rived on Uran­tia. Cali­gas­tia of­fered crafty and ef­fec­tive op­po­si­tion to the Adamic mis­sion; and not­with­stand­ing that the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia had duly warned both Adam and Eve con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary dan­gers in­her­ent in the pres­ence of the re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince, this arch­re­bel, by a wily stratagem, out­ma­neu­vered the Edenic pair and en­trapped them into a vi­o­la­tion of the covenant of their trustee­ship as the vis­i­ble rulers of your world. The traitorous Plan­e­tary Prince did suc­ceed in com­pro­mis­ing your Adam and Eve, but he failed in his ef­fort to in­volve them in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › enormously upstepped peoples of Urantia

51:5.6When this strain of the Ma­te­rial Sons is added to the evolv­ing races of the worlds, a new and greater era of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress is ini­ti­ated. Fol­low­ing this pro­cre­ative out­pour­ing of im­ported abil­ity and super­evo­lu­tion­ary traits there en­sues a suc­ces­sion of rapid strides in civ­i­liza­tion and racial de­vel­op­ment; in one hun­dred thou­sand years more prog­ress is made than in a mil­lion years of for­mer strug­gle. On your world, even in the face of the mis­car­riage of the or­dained plans, great prog­ress has been made since the gift to your peo­ples of Adam’s life plasm.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › enormously upstepped peoples of Urantia

51:6.1On most of the in­hab­ited worlds the Gar­dens of Eden re­main as su­perb cul­tural cen­ters and con­tinue to func­tion as the so­cial pat­terns of plan­e­tary con­duct and us­age age af­ter age. Even in early times when the vi­o­let peo­ples are rel­a­tively seg­re­gated, their schools re­ceive suit­able can­di­dates from among the world races, while the in­dus­trial de­vel­op­ments of the gar­den open up new chan­nels of com­mer­cial in­ter­course. Thus do the Adams and Eves and their progeny con­tribute to the sud­den ex­pan­sion of cul­ture and to the rapid im­prove­ment of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of their worlds. And all of these re­la­tion­ships are aug­mented and sealed by the amal­ga­ma­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary races and the sons of Adam, re­sult­ing in the im­me­di­ate up­step­ping of bi­o­logic sta­tus, the quick­en­ing of in­tel­lec­tual po­ten­tial, and the en­hance­ment of spir­i­tual re­cep­tiv­ity.

• children › on Edentia, deprived of procreative powers
• children › some day serve on Urantia?

55:7.3When such an era is at­tained on your world, no doubt Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, now the vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, will oc­cupy the seat of the Plan­e­tary Sov­er­eign; and it has long been con­jec­tured on Je­ru­sem that he will be ac­com­pa­nied by a son and daugh­ter of the Uran­tia Adam and Eve who are now held on Eden­tia as wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. These chil­dren of Adam might so serve on Uran­tia in as­so­ci­a­tion with the Mel­chiz­e­dek-Sov­er­eign since they were de­prived of pro­cre­ative pow­ers al­most 37,000 years ago at the time they gave up their ma­te­rial bod­ies on Uran­tia in prepa­ra­tion for tran­sit to Eden­tia.

• rematerialized on Urantia 37,848 years ago; 10-day process

61:7.1835,000 years ago marks the ter­mi­na­tion of the great ice age ex­cept­ing in the po­lar re­gions of the planet. This date is also sig­nif­i­cant in that it ap­prox­i­mates the ar­rival of a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter and the be­gin­ning of the Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion, roughly cor­re­spond­ing to the be­gin­ning of the Holocene or post­glacial pe­riod.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › creates immunity to disease

65:5.2But through­out all of this bi­o­logic ad­ven­ture our great­est dis­ap­point­ment grew out of the re­ver­sion of cer­tain prim­i­tive plant life to the prechloro­phyll lev­els of par­a­sitic bac­te­ria on such an ex­ten­sive and un­ex­pected scale. This even­tu­al­ity in plant-life evo­lu­tion caused many dis­tress­ful dis­eases in the higher mam­mals, par­tic­u­larly in the more vul­ner­a­ble hu­man species. When we were con­fronted with this per­plex­ing sit­u­a­tion, we some­what dis­counted the dif­fi­cul­ties in­volved be­cause we knew that the sub­se­quent ad­mix­ture of the Adamic life plasm would so re­in­force the re­sist­ing pow­ers of the re­sult­ing blended race as to make it prac­ti­cally im­mune to all dis­eases pro­duced by the veg­etable type of or­gan­ism. But our hopes were doomed to dis­ap­point­ment ow­ing to the mis­for­tune of the Adamic de­fault.

• teachings about Adam and Eve › legends confused with facts of Prince’s staff

66:2.8These trans­ac­tions, to­gether with the lit­eral cre­ation of spe­cial bod­ies for the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred, gave ori­gin to nu­mer­ous leg­ends, many of which sub­se­quently be­came con­fused with the later tra­di­tions con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary in­stal­la­tion of Adam and Eve.

• teachings about Adam and Eve › Prince’s staff held out promise of sometime arrival

66:5.16Al­though the Prince’s staff were lim­ited to nat­u­ral means and or­di­nary meth­ods of race im­prove­ment, they held out the prom­ise of the Adamic gift of a new race as the goal of sub­se­quent evo­lu­tion­ary growth upon the at­tain­ment of the height of bi­o­logic de­vel­op­ment.

• default › Caligastia contributed to

66:8.4The Prince of Uran­tia went into dark­ness at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, thus pre­cip­i­tat­ing the long con­fu­sion of the planet. He was sub­se­quently de­prived of sov­er­eign au­thor­ity by the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the con­stel­la­tion rulers and other uni­verse au­thor­i­ties. He shared the in­ev­i­ta­ble vi­cis­si­tudes of iso­lated Uran­tia down to the time of Adam’s so­journ on the planet and con­tributed some­thing to the mis­car­riage of the plan to up­lift the mor­tal races through the in­fu­sion of the lifeblood of the new vi­o­let race—the de­scen­dants of Adam and Eve.

• taught agriculture

68:5.94. The ag­ri­cul­tural stage. This era was brought about by the do­mes­ti­ca­tion of plants, and it rep­re­sents the high­est type of ma­te­rial civ­i­liza­tion. Both Cali­gas­tia and Adam en­deav­ored to teach hor­ti­cul­ture and agri­cul­ture. Adam and Eve were gar­den­ers, not shep­herds, and gar­den­ing was an ad­vanced cul­ture in those days. The grow­ing of plants ex­erts an en­nobling in­flu­ence on all races of man­kind.

• arrival authorized by Most Highs, Tabamantia

73:0.2This re­quest was ad­dressed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia be­cause they had ex­er­cised di­rect ju­ris­dic­tion over many of Uran­tia’s af­fairs ever since Cali­gas­tia’s down­fall and the tem­po­rary va­ca­tion of au­thor­ity on Je­ru­sem.

73:0.3Taba­man­tia, sov­er­eign super­vi­sor of the se­ries of dec­i­mal or ex­per­i­men­tal worlds, came to in­spect the planet and, af­ter his sur­vey of racial prog­ress, duly rec­om­mended that Uran­tia be granted Ma­te­rial Sons. In a lit­tle less than one hun­dred years from the time of this in­spec­tion, Adam and Eve, a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter of the lo­cal sys­tem, ar­rived and be­gan the dif­fi­cult task of at­tempt­ing to un­tan­gle the con­fused af­fairs of a planet re­tarded by re­bel­lion and rest­ing un­der the ban of spir­i­tual iso­la­tion.

• circulatory system from physical nature and tree of life

73:6.1In the cen­ter of the Gar­den tem­ple Van planted the long-guarded tree of life, whose leaves were for the “heal­ing of the na­tions,” and whose fruit had so long sus­tained him on earth. Van well knew that Adam and Eve would also be de­pen­dent on this gift of Eden­tia for their life main­te­nance af­ter they once ap­peared on Uran­tia in ma­te­rial form.

• circulatory system from physical nature and tree of life

73:6.6When Van and his as­so­ciates made ready the Gar­den for Adam and Eve, they trans­planted the Eden­tia tree to the Gar­den of Eden, where, once again, it grew in a cen­tral, cir­cu­lar court­yard of an­other tem­ple to the Fa­ther. And Adam and Eve pe­ri­od­i­cally par­took of its fruit for the main­te­nance of their dual form of phys­i­cal life.

• default › not permitted to remove tree of life after

73:6.7When the plans of the Ma­te­rial Son went astray, Adam and his fam­ily were not per­mit­ted to carry the core of the tree away from the Gar­den. When the Nod­ites in­vaded Eden, they were told that they would be­come as “gods if they par­took of the fruit of the tree.” Much to their sur­prise they found it un­guarded. They ate freely of the fruit for years, but it did noth­ing for them; they were all ma­te­rial mor­tals of the realm; they lacked that en­dow­ment which acted as a com­ple­ment to the fruit of the tree. They be­came en­raged at their in­abil­ity to ben­e­fit from the tree of life, and in con­nec­tion with one of their in­ter­nal wars, the tem­ple and the tree were both de­stroyed by fire; only the stone wall stood un­til the Gar­den was sub­se­quently sub­merged. This was the sec­ond tem­ple of the Fa­ther to per­ish.

• advised not to initiate racial uplift until family numbered 500,000; other instructions

73:7.3The Mel­chiz­e­deks coun­seled Adam not to ini­ti­ate the pro­gram of racial up­lift and blend­ing un­til his own fam­ily had num­bered one-half mil­lion. It was never in­tended that the Gar­den should be the per­ma­nent home of the Adamites. They were to be­come emis­saries of a new life to all the world; they were to mo­bi­lize for un­selfish be­stowal upon the needy races of earth.

73:7.4The in­struc­tions given Adam by the Mel­chiz­e­deks im­plied that he was to es­tab­lish racial, con­ti­nen­tal, and di­vi­sional head­quar­ters to be in charge of his im­me­di­ate sons and daugh­ters, while he and Eve were to di­vide their time be­tween these var­i­ous world cap­i­tals as ad­vis­ers and co-or­di­na­tors of the world-wide min­istry of bi­o­logic up­lift, in­tel­lec­tual ad­vance­ment, and moral re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.

• rematerialized on Urantia 37,848 years ago; 10-day process

74:0.1Adam and Eve ar­rived on Uran­tia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. It was in mid­sea­son when the Gar­den was in the height of bloom that they ar­rived. At high noon and unan­nounced, the two se­raphic trans­ports, ac­com­pa­nied by the Je­ru­sem per­son­nel in­trusted with the trans­porta­tion of the bi­o­logic up­lifters to Uran­tia, set­tled slowly to the sur­face of the re­volv­ing planet in the vicin­ity of the tem­ple of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. All the work of re­ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing the bod­ies of Adam and Eve was car­ried on within the precincts of this newly cre­ated shrine. And from the time of their ar­rival ten days passed be­fore they were re-cre­ated in dual hu­man form for pre­sen­ta­tion as the world’s new rulers. They re­gained con­scious­ness si­mul­ta­ne­ously. The Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters al­ways serve to­gether. It is the essence of their ser­vice at all times and in all places never to be sep­a­rated. They are de­signed to work in pairs; sel­dom do they func­tion alone.

• physical nature of Adam and Eve › 8 feet tall; bodies shimmered
• senior Material Sons #14,311

74:1.1The Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve of Uran­tia were mem­bers of the se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons on Je­ru­sem, be­ing jointly num­ber 14,311. They be­longed to the third phys­i­cal se­ries and were a lit­tle more than eight feet in height.

• on Jerusem › directors of experimental energy for living forms

74:1.2At the time Adam was cho­sen to come to Uran­tia, he was em­ployed, with his mate, in the trial-and-test­ing phys­i­cal lab­o­ra­to­ries of Je­ru­sem. For more than fif­teen thou­sand years they had been di­rec­tors of the di­vi­sion of ex­per­i­men­tal en­ergy as ap­plied to the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of liv­ing forms. Long be­fore this they had been teach­ers in the cit­i­zen­ship schools for new ar­rivals on Je­ru­sem. And all this should be borne in mind in con­nec­tion with the nar­ra­tion of their sub­se­quent con­duct on Uran­tia.

74:1.3When the procla­ma­tion was is­sued call­ing for vol­un­teers for the mis­sion of Adamic ad­ven­ture on Uran­tia, the en­tire se­nior corps of Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters vol­un­teered. The Mel­chiz­e­dek ex­am­in­ers, with the ap­proval of Lanaforge and the Most Highs of Eden­tia, fi­nally se­lected the Adam and Eve who sub­se­quently came to func­tion as the bi­o­logic up­lifters of Uran­tia.

• subject to Melchizedek receivers
• under oaths of allegiance to Most Highs, Michael
• warned › exhaustively instructed regarding dangers of Urantia mission

74:1.4Adam and Eve had re­mained loyal to Mi­chael dur­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion; nev­er­the­less, the pair were called be­fore the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign and his en­tire cab­i­net for ex­am­i­na­tion and in­struc­tion. The de­tails of Uran­tia af­fairs were fully pre­sented; they were ex­haus­tively in­structed as to the plans to be pur­sued in ac­cept­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of ruler­ship on such a strife-torn world. They were put un­der joint oaths of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Eden­tia and to Mi­chael of Sal­ving­ton. And they were duly ad­vised to re­gard them­selves as sub­ject to the Uran­tia corps of Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers un­til that gov­ern­ing body should see fit to re­lin­quish rule on the world of their as­sign­ment.

• on Jerusem › left behind 100 children

74:1.5This Je­ru­sem pair left be­hind them on the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia and else­where, one hun­dred off­spring—fifty sons and fifty daugh­ters—mag­nif­i­cent crea­tures who had es­caped the pit­falls of pro­gres­sion, and who were all in com­mis­sion as faith­ful stew­ards of uni­verse trust at the time of their par­ents’ de­par­ture for Uran­tia. And they were all pres­ent in the beau­ti­ful tem­ple of the Ma­te­rial Sons at­ten­dant upon the farewell ex­er­cises as­so­ci­ated with the last cer­e­monies of the be­stowal ac­cep­tance. These chil­dren ac­com­pa­nied their par­ents to the de­ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion head­quar­ters of their or­der and were the last to bid them farewell and di­vine speed as they fell asleep in the per­son­al­ity lapse of con­scious­ness which pre­cedes the prepa­ra­tion for se­raphic trans­port. The chil­dren spent some time to­gether at the fam­ily ren­dezvous re­joic­ing that their par­ents were soon to be­come the vis­i­ble heads, in re­al­ity the sole rulers, of planet 606 in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia.

• warned › exhaustively instructed regarding dangers of Urantia mission

74:1.6And thus did Adam and Eve leave Je­ru­sem amidst the ac­claim and well-wish­ing of its cit­i­zens. They went forth to their new re­spon­si­bil­i­ties ad­e­quately equipped and fully in­structed con­cern­ing ev­ery duty and dan­ger to be en­coun­tered on Uran­tia.

74:2.1Adam and Eve fell asleep on Je­ru­sem, and when they awak­ened in the Fa­ther’s tem­ple on Uran­tia in the pres­ence of the mighty throng as­sem­bled to wel­come them, they were face to face with two be­ings of whom they had heard much, Van and his faith­ful as­so­ciate Amadon. These two heroes of the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion were the first to wel­come them in their new gar­den home.

• spoke Andonic dialect

74:2.2The tongue of Eden was an An­donic di­alect as spo­ken by Amadon. Van and Amadon had markedly im­proved this lan­guage by cre­at­ing a new al­pha­bet of twenty-four let­ters, and they had hoped to see it be­come the tongue of Uran­tia as the Edenic cul­ture would spread through­out the world. Adam and Eve had fully mas­tered this hu­man di­alect be­fore they de­parted from Je­ru­sem so that this son of An­don heard the ex­alted ruler of his world ad­dress him in his own tongue.

74:2.3And on that day there was great ex­cite­ment and joy through­out Eden as the run­ners went in great haste to the ren­dezvous of the car­rier pi­geons as­sem­bled from near and far, shout­ing: “Let loose the birds; let them carry the word that the prom­ised Son has come.” Hun­dreds of be­liever set­tle­ments had faith­fully, year af­ter year, kept up the sup­ply of these home-reared pi­geons for just such an oc­ca­sion.

74:2.4As the news of Adam’s ar­rival spread abroad, thou­sands of the near-by tribes­men ac­cepted the teach­ings of Van and Amadon, while for months and months pil­grims con­tin­ued to pour into Eden to wel­come Adam and Eve and to do homage to their un­seen Fa­ther.

74:2.5Soon af­ter their awak­en­ing, Adam and Eve were es­corted to the for­mal re­cep­tion on the great mound to the north of the tem­ple. This nat­u­ral hill had been en­larged and made ready for the in­stal­la­tion of the world’s new rulers. Here, at noon, the Uran­tia re­cep­tion com­mit­tee wel­comed this Son and Daugh­ter of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Amadon was chair­man of this com­mit­tee, which con­sisted of twelve mem­bers em­brac­ing a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of each of the six San­gik races; the act­ing chief of the mid­way­ers; An­nan, a loyal daugh­ter and spokesman for the Nod­ites; Noah, the son of the ar­chi­tect and builder of the Gar­den and ex­ec­u­tive of his de­ceased fa­ther’s plans; and the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers.

74:2.6The next act was the de­liv­ery of the charge of plan­e­tary cus­tody to Adam and Eve by the se­nior Mel­chiz­e­dek, chief of the coun­cil of re­ceiver­ship on Uran­tia. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter took the oath of al­le­giance to the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek and to Mi­chael of Neb­a­don and were pro­claimed rulers of Uran­tia by Van, who thereby re­lin­quished the tit­u­lar au­thor­ity which for over one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years he had held by virtue of the ac­tion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers.

74:2.7And Adam and Eve were in­vested with kingly robes on this oc­ca­sion, the time of their for­mal in­duc­tion into world ruler­ship. Not all of the arts of Dala­ma­tia had been lost to the world; weav­ing was still prac­ticed in the days of Eden.

74:2.8Then was heard the arch­an­gels’ procla­ma­tion, and the broad­cast voice of Ga­briel de­creed the sec­ond judg­ment roll call of Uran­tia and the res­ur­rec­tion of the sleep­ing sur­vivors of the sec­ond dis­pen­sa­tion of grace and mercy on 606 of Sa­ta­nia. The dis­pen­sa­tion of the Prince has passed; the age of Adam, the third plan­e­tary epoch, opens amidst scenes of sim­ple grandeur; and the new rulers of Uran­tia start their reign un­der seem­ingly fa­vor­able con­di­tions, not­with­stand­ing the world-wide con­fu­sion oc­ca­sioned by lack of the co-op­er­a­tion of their pre­de­ces­sor in au­thor­ity on the planet.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › isolated, distressed, disheartened by sorry plight of world

74:3.1And now, af­ter their for­mal in­stal­la­tion, Adam and Eve be­came painfully aware of their plan­e­tary iso­la­tion. Silent were the fa­mil­iar broad­casts, and ab­sent were all the cir­cuits of ex­tra­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Their Je­ru­sem fel­lows had gone to worlds run­ning along smoothly with a well-es­tab­lished Plan­e­tary Prince and an ex­pe­ri­enced staff ready to re­ceive them and com­pe­tent to co-op­er­ate with them dur­ing their early ex­pe­ri­ence on such worlds. But on Uran­tia re­bel­lion had changed ev­ery­thing. Here the Plan­e­tary Prince was very much pres­ent, and though shorn of most of his power to work evil, he was still able to make the task of Adam and Eve dif­fi­cult and to some ex­tent haz­ardous. It was a se­ri­ous and dis­il­lu­sioned Son and Daugh­ter of Je­ru­sem who walked that night through the Gar­den un­der the shin­ing of the full moon, dis­cussing plans for the next day.

74:3.2Thus ended the first day of Adam and Eve on iso­lated Uran­tia, the con­fused planet of the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal; and they walked and talked far into the night, their first night on earth—and it was so lonely.

74:3.3Adam’s sec­ond day on earth was spent in ses­sion with the plan­e­tary re­ceivers and the ad­vi­sory coun­cil. From the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and their as­so­ciates, Adam and Eve learned more about the de­tails of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion and the re­sult of that up­heaval upon the world’s prog­ress. And it was, on the whole, a dis­heart­en­ing story, this long recital of the mis­man­age­ment of world af­fairs. They learned all the facts re­gard­ing the ut­ter col­lapse of the Cali­gas­tia scheme for ac­cel­er­at­ing the pro­cess of so­cial evo­lu­tion. They also ar­rived at a full re­al­iza­tion of the folly of at­tempt­ing to achieve plan­e­tary ad­vance­ment in­de­pen­dently of the di­vine plan of pro­gres­sion. And thus ended a sad but en­light­en­ing day—their sec­ond on Uran­tia.

• on Jerusem › expert anatomists

74:3.8It greatly sur­prised those who ac­com­pa­nied Adam on this trip to ob­serve how fully he un­der­stood the na­ture and func­tion of the thou­sands upon thou­sands of an­i­mals shown him. The in­stant he glanced at an an­i­mal, he would in­di­cate its na­ture and be­hav­ior. Adam could give names de­scrip­tive of the ori­gin, na­ture, and func­tion of all ma­te­rial crea­tures on sight. Those who con­ducted him on this tour of in­spec­tion did not know that the world’s new ruler was one of the most ex­pert anatomists of all Sa­ta­nia; and Eve was equally pro­fi­cient. Adam amazed his as­so­ciates by de­scrib­ing hosts of liv­ing things too small to be seen by hu­man eyes.

• refused worship of Garden dwellers

74:3.10But cir­cum­stances dic­tated oth­er­wise. The ex­pe­ri­ence of the day just past in which Adam had so in­tel­li­gently and so ex­haus­tively dis­cussed the an­i­mal life of Uran­tia, to­gether with his mas­terly in­au­gu­ral ad­dress and his charm­ing man­ner, had so won the hearts and over­come the in­tel­lects of the Gar­den dwellers that they were not only whole­heart­edly dis­posed to ac­cept the newly ar­rived Son and Daugh­ter of Je­ru­sem as rulers, but the ma­jor­ity were about ready to fall down and wor­ship them as gods.

74:4.1That night, the night fol­low­ing the sixth day, while Adam and Eve slum­bered, strange things were tran­spir­ing in the vicin­ity of the Fa­ther’s tem­ple in the cen­tral sec­tor of Eden. There, un­der the rays of the mel­low moon, hun­dreds of en­thu­si­as­tic and ex­cited men and women lis­tened for hours to the im­pas­sioned pleas of their lead­ers. They meant well, but they sim­ply could not un­der­stand the sim­plic­ity of the fra­ter­nal and demo­cratic man­ner of their new rulers. And long be­fore day­break the new and tem­po­rary ad­min­is­tra­tors of world af­fairs reached a vir­tu­ally unan­i­mous con­clu­sion that Adam and his mate were al­to­gether too mod­est and unas­sum­ing. They de­cided that Di­vin­ity had de­scended to earth in bod­ily form, that Adam and Eve were in re­al­ity gods or else so near such an es­tate as to be wor­thy of rev­er­ent wor­ship.

74:4.2The amaz­ing events of the first six days of Adam and Eve on earth were en­tirely too much for the un­pre­pared minds of even the world’s best men; their heads were in a whirl; they were swept along with the pro­posal to bring the no­ble pair up to the Fa­ther’s tem­ple at high noon in or­der that ev­ery­one might bow down in re­spect­ful wor­ship and pros­trate them­selves in hum­ble sub­mis­sion. And the Gar­den dwellers were re­ally sin­cere in all of this.

74:4.3Van protested. Amadon was ab­sent, be­ing in charge of the guard of honor which had re­mained be­hind with Adam and Eve overnight. But Van’s protest was swept aside. He was told that he was like­wise too mod­est, too unas­sum­ing; that he was not far from a god him­self, else how had he lived so long on earth, and how had he brought about such a great event as the ad­vent of Adam? And as the ex­cited Eden­ites were about to seize him and carry him up to the mount for ado­ra­tion, Van made his way out through the throng and, be­ing able to com­mu­ni­cate with the mid­way­ers, sent their leader in great haste to Adam.

74:4.4It was near the dawn of their sev­enth day on earth that Adam and Eve heard the startling news of the pro­posal of these well-mean­ing but mis­guided mor­tals; and then, even while the pas­sen­ger birds were swiftly wing­ing to bring them to the tem­ple, the mid­way­ers, be­ing able to do such things, trans­ported Adam and Eve to the Fa­ther’s tem­ple. It was early on the morn­ing of this sev­enth day and from the mount of their so re­cent re­cep­tion that Adam held forth in ex­pla­na­tion of the or­ders of di­vine son­ship and made clear to these earth minds that only the Fa­ther and those whom he des­ig­nates may be wor­shiped. Adam made it plain that he would ac­cept any honor and re­ceive all re­spect, but wor­ship never!

74:4.5It was a mo­men­tous day, and just be­fore noon, about the time of the ar­rival of the se­raphic mes­sen­ger bear­ing the Je­ru­sem ac­knowl­edg­ment of the in­stal­la­tion of the world’s rulers, Adam and Eve, mov­ing apart from the throng, pointed to the Fa­ther’s tem­ple and said: “Go you now to the ma­te­rial em­blem of the Fa­ther’s in­vis­i­ble pres­ence and bow down in wor­ship of him who made us all and who keeps us liv­ing. And let this act be the sin­cere pledge that you never will again be tempted to wor­ship any­one but God.” They all did as Adam di­rected. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter stood alone on the mount with bowed heads while the peo­ple pros­trated them­selves about the tem­ple.

74:4.6And this was the ori­gin of the Sab­bath-day tra­di­tion. Al­ways in Eden the sev­enth day was de­voted to the noon­tide as­sem­bly at the tem­ple; long it was the cus­tom to de­vote this day to self-cul­ture. The forenoon was de­voted to phys­i­cal im­prove­ment, the noon­time to spir­i­tual wor­ship, the af­ter­noon to mind cul­ture, while the evening was spent in so­cial re­joic­ing. This was never the law in Eden, but it was the cus­tom as long as the Adamic ad­min­is­tra­tion held sway on earth.

74:5.1For al­most seven years af­ter Adam’s ar­rival the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers re­mained on duty, but the time fi­nally came when they turned the ad­min­is­tra­tion of world af­fairs over to Adam and re­turned to Je­ru­sem.

• requested Melchizedek receivers to remain; they refused

74:5.2The farewell of the re­ceivers oc­cu­pied the whole of a day, and dur­ing the evening the in­di­vid­ual Mel­chiz­e­deks gave Adam and Eve their part­ing ad­vice and best wishes. Adam had sev­eral times re­quested his ad­vis­ers to re­main on earth with him, but al­ways were these pe­ti­tions de­nied. The time had come when the Ma­te­rial Sons must as­sume full re­spon­si­bil­ity for the con­duct of world af­fairs. And so, at mid­night, the se­raphic trans­ports of Sa­ta­nia left the planet with four­teen be­ings for Je­ru­sem, the trans­la­tion of Van and Amadon oc­cur­ring si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the de­par­ture of the twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks.

74:5.3All went fairly well for a time on Uran­tia, and it ap­peared that Adam would, even­tu­ally, be able to de­velop some plan for pro­mot­ing the grad­ual ex­ten­sion of the Edenic civ­i­liza­tion. Pur­suant to the ad­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, he be­gan to fos­ter the arts of man­u­fac­ture with the idea of de­vel­op­ing trade re­la­tions with the out­side world. When Eden was dis­rupted, there were over one hun­dred prim­i­tive man­u­fac­tur­ing plants in op­er­a­tion, and ex­ten­sive trade re­la­tions with the near-by tribes had been es­tab­lished.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › problem of establishing law and order

74:5.4For ages Adam and Eve had been in­structed in the tech­nique of im­prov­ing a world in readi­ness for their spe­cial­ized con­tri­bu­tions to the ad­vance­ment of evo­lu­tion­ary civ­i­liza­tion; but now they were face to face with press­ing prob­lems, such as the es­tab­lish­ment of law and or­der in a world of sav­ages, bar­bar­ians, and semi­civ­i­lized hu­man be­ings. Aside from the cream of the earth’s pop­u­la­tion, as­sem­bled in the Gar­den, only a few groups, here and there, were at all ready for the re­cep­tion of the Adamic cul­ture.

74:5.5Adam made a heroic and de­ter­mined ef­fort to es­tab­lish a world gov­ern­ment, but he met with stub­born re­sis­tance at ev­ery turn. Adam had al­ready put in op­er­a­tion a sys­tem of group con­trol through­out Eden and had fed­er­ated all of these com­pa­nies into the Edenic league. But trou­ble, se­ri­ous trou­ble, en­sued when he went out­side the Gar­den and sought to ap­ply these ideas to the out­ly­ing tribes. The mo­ment Adam’s as­so­ciates be­gan to work out­side the Gar­den, they met the di­rect and well-planned re­sis­tance of Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia. The fallen Prince had been de­posed as world ruler, but he had not been re­moved from the planet. He was still pres­ent on earth and able, at least to some ex­tent, to re­sist all of Adam’s plans for the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion of hu­man so­ci­ety. Adam tried to warn the races against Cali­gas­tia, but the task was made very dif­fi­cult be­cause his arch­en­emy was in­vis­i­ble to the eyes of mor­tals.

74:5.6Even among the Eden­ites there were those con­fused minds that leaned to­ward the Cali­gas­tia teach­ing of un­bri­dled per­sonal lib­erty; and they caused Adam no end of trou­ble; al­ways were they up­set­ting the best-laid plans for or­derly pro­gres­sion and sub­stan­tial de­vel­op­ment. He was fi­nally com­pelled to with­draw his pro­gram for im­me­di­ate so­cial­iza­tion; he fell back on Van’s method of or­ga­ni­za­tion, di­vid­ing the Eden­ites into com­pa­nies of one hun­dred with cap­tains over each and with lieu­tenants in charge of groups of ten.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › found no government worthy of name

74:5.7Adam and Eve had come to in­sti­tute rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment in the place of monar­chial, but they found no gov­ern­ment wor­thy of the name on the face of the whole earth. For the time be­ing Adam aban­doned all ef­fort to es­tab­lish rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment, and be­fore the col­lapse of the Edenic regime he suc­ceeded in es­tab­lish­ing al­most one hun­dred out­ly­ing trade and so­cial cen­ters where strong in­di­vid­u­als ruled in his name. Most of these cen­ters had been or­ga­nized afore­time by Van and Amadon.

74:5.8The send­ing of am­bas­sadors from one tribe to an­other dates from the times of Adam. This was a great for­ward step in the evo­lu­tion of gov­ern­ment.

• family grounds covered 5 square miles

74:6.1The Adamic fam­ily grounds em­braced a lit­tle over five square miles. Im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing this home­site, pro­vi­sion had been made for the care of more than three hun­dred thou­sand of the pure-line off­spring. But only the first unit of the pro­jected build­ings was ever con­structed. Be­fore the size of the Adamic fam­ily out­grew these early pro­vi­sions, the whole Edenic plan had been dis­rupted and the Gar­den va­cated.

• children › Adam and Eve bore 105 pure-line children
• family of 1647 pure-line descendants before default, 42 after default

74:6.2Adam­son was the first-born of the vi­o­let race of Uran­tia, be­ing fol­lowed by his sis­ter and Eve­son, the sec­ond son of Adam and Eve. Eve was the mother of five chil­dren be­fore the Mel­chiz­e­deks left—three sons and two daugh­ters. The next two were twins. She bore sixty-three chil­dren, thirty-two daugh­ters and thirty-one sons, be­fore the de­fault. When Adam and Eve left the Gar­den, their fam­ily con­sisted of four gen­er­a­tions num­ber­ing 1,647 pure-line de­scen­dants. They had forty-two chil­dren af­ter leav­ing the Gar­den be­sides the two off­spring of joint parent­age with the mor­tal stock of earth. And this does not in­clude the Adamic parent­age to the Nod­ite and evo­lu­tion­ary races.

• children › did not take milk from animals
• never ate meat in regular diet; no cooking in household

74:6.3The Adamic chil­dren did not take milk from an­i­mals when they ceased to nurse the mother’s breast at one year of age. Eve had ac­cess to the milk of a great va­ri­ety of nuts and to the juices of many fruits, and know­ing full well the chem­istry and en­ergy of these foods, she suit­ably com­bined them for the nour­ish­ment of her chil­dren un­til the ap­pear­ance of teeth.

• physical nature of Adam and Eve › imbibed light and energy from space

74:6.4While cook­ing was uni­ver­sally em­ployed out­side of the im­me­di­ate Adamic sec­tor of Eden, there was no cook­ing in Adam’s house­hold. They found their foods—fruits, nuts, and ce­re­als—ready pre­pared as they ripened. They ate once a day, shortly af­ter noon­time. Adam and Eve also im­bibed “light and en­ergy” di­rect from cer­tain space em­a­na­tions in con­junc­tion with the min­istry of the tree of life.

• physical nature of Adam and Eve › 8 feet tall; bodies shimmered

74:6.5The bod­ies of Adam and Eve gave forth a shim­mer of light, but they al­ways wore cloth­ing in con­for­mity with the cus­tom of their as­so­ciates. Though wear­ing very lit­tle dur­ing the day, at even­tide they donned night wraps. The ori­gin of the tra­di­tional halo en­cir­cling the heads of sup­posed pi­ous and holy men dates back to the days of Adam and Eve. Since the light em­a­na­tions of their bod­ies were so largely ob­scured by cloth­ing, only the ra­di­at­ing glow from their heads was dis­cern­i­ble. The de­scen­dants of Adam­son al­ways thus por­trayed their con­cept of in­di­vid­u­als be­lieved to be ex­traor­di­nary in spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment.

• sent and received thought oscillations 50 miles

74:6.6Adam and Eve could com­mu­ni­cate with each other and with their im­me­di­ate chil­dren over a dis­tance of about fifty miles. This thought ex­change was ef­fected by means of the del­i­cate gas cham­bers lo­cated in close prox­im­ity to their brain struc­tures. By this mech­a­nism they could send and re­ceive thought os­cil­la­tions. But this power was in­stantly sus­pended upon the mind’s sur­ren­der to the dis­cord and dis­rup­tion of evil.

• children › education

74:6.7The Adamic chil­dren at­tended their own schools un­til they were six­teen, the younger be­ing taught by the el­der. The lit­tle folks changed ac­tiv­i­ties ev­ery thirty min­utes, the older ev­ery hour. And it was cer­tainly a new sight on Uran­tia to ob­serve these chil­dren of Adam and Eve at play, joy­ous and ex­hil­a­rat­ing ac­tiv­ity just for the sheer fun of it. The play and hu­mor of the pres­ent-day races are largely de­rived from the Adamic stock. The Adamites all had a great ap­pre­ci­a­tion of mu­sic as well as a keen sense of hu­mor.

74:6.8The av­er­age age of be­trothal was eigh­teen, and these youths then en­tered upon a two years’ course of in­struc­tion in prepa­ra­tion for the as­sump­tion of mar­i­tal re­spon­si­bil­i­ties. At twenty they were el­i­gi­ble for mar­riage; and af­ter mar­riage they be­gan their life­work or en­tered upon spe­cial prepa­ra­tion there­for.

74:6.9The prac­tice of some sub­se­quent na­tions of per­mit­ting the royal fam­i­lies, sup­pos­edly de­scended from the gods, to marry brother to sis­ter, dates from the tra­di­tions of the Adamic off­spring—mat­ing, as they must needs, with one an­other. The mar­riage cer­e­monies of the first and sec­ond gen­er­a­tions of the Gar­den were al­ways per­formed by Adam and Eve.

• children › education

74:7.1The chil­dren of Adam, ex­cept for four years’ at­ten­dance at the west­ern schools, lived and worked in the “east of Eden.” They were trained in­tel­lec­tu­ally un­til they were six­teen in ac­cor­dance with the meth­ods of the Je­ru­sem schools. From six­teen to twenty they were taught in the Uran­tia schools at the other end of the Gar­den, serv­ing there also as teach­ers in the lower grades.

74:7.2The en­tire pur­pose of the west­ern school sys­tem of the Gar­den was so­cial­iza­tion. The forenoon pe­ri­ods of re­cess were de­voted to prac­ti­cal hor­ti­cul­ture and agri­cul­ture, the af­ter­noon pe­ri­ods to com­pet­i­tive play. The evenings were em­ployed in so­cial in­ter­course and the cul­ti­va­tion of per­sonal friend­ships. Re­li­gious and sex­ual train­ing were re­garded as the prov­ince of the home, the duty of par­ents.

74:7.3The teach­ing in these schools in­cluded in­struc­tion re­gard­ing:

74:7.41. Health and the care of the body.

74:7.52. The golden rule, the stan­dard of so­cial in­ter­course.

74:7.63. The re­la­tion of in­di­vid­ual rights to group rights and com­mu­nity obli­ga­tions.

74:7.74. His­tory and cul­ture of the var­i­ous earth races.

74:7.85. Meth­ods of ad­vanc­ing and im­prov­ing world trade.

74:7.96. Co-or­di­na­tion of con­flict­ing du­ties and emo­tions.

74:7.107. The cul­ti­va­tion of play, hu­mor, and com­pet­i­tive sub­sti­tutes for phys­i­cal fight­ing.

74:7.11The schools, in fact ev­ery ac­tiv­ity of the Gar­den, were al­ways open to vis­i­tors. Un­armed ob­servers were freely ad­mit­ted to Eden for short vis­its. To so­journ in the Gar­den a Uran­tian had to be “adopted.” He re­ceived in­struc­tions in the plan and pur­pose of the Adamic be­stowal, sig­ni­fied his in­ten­tion to ad­here to this mis­sion, and then made dec­la­ra­tion of loy­alty to the so­cial rule of Adam and the spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• default › after 117 years
• default › turning aside from the ordained way

74:8.14The “golden age” is a myth, but Eden was a fact, and the Gar­den civ­i­liza­tion was ac­tu­ally over­thrown. Adam and Eve car­ried on in the Gar­den for one hun­dred and sev­en­teen years when, through the im­pa­tience of Eve and the er­rors of judg­ment of Adam, they pre­sumed to turn aside from the or­dained way, speed­ily bring­ing dis­as­ter upon them­selves and ru­inous re­tar­da­tion upon the de­vel­op­men­tal pro­gres­sion of all Uran­tia.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › isolated, distressed, disheartened by sorry plight of world

75:0.1Af­ter more than one hun­dred years of ef­fort on Uran­tia, Adam was able to see very lit­tle prog­ress out­side the Gar­den; the world at large did not seem to be im­prov­ing much. The re­al­iza­tion of race bet­ter­ment ap­peared to be a long way off, and the sit­u­a­tion seemed so des­per­ate as to de­mand some­thing for re­lief not em­braced in the orig­i­nal plans. At least that is what of­ten passed through Adam’s mind, and he so ex­pressed him­self many times to Eve. Adam and his mate were loyal, but they were iso­lated from their kind, and they were sorely dis­tressed by the sorry plight of their world.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › isolated, distressed, disheartened by sorry plight of world

75:1.1The Adamic mis­sion on ex­per­i­men­tal, re­bel­lion-seared, and iso­lated Uran­tia was a formidable un­der­tak­ing. And the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter early be­came aware of the dif­fi­culty and com­plex­ity of their plan­e­tary as­sign­ment. Nev­er­the­less, they coura­geously set about the task of solv­ing their man­i­fold prob­lems. But when they ad­dressed them­selves to the all-im­por­tant work of elim­i­nat­ing the de­fec­tives and de­gen­er­ates from among the hu­man strains, they were quite dis­mayed. They could see no way out of the dilemma, and they could not take coun­sel with their su­pe­ri­ors on ei­ther Je­ru­sem or Eden­tia. Here they were, iso­lated and day by day con­fronted with some new and com­pli­cated tan­gle, some prob­lem that seemed to be un­solv­able.

75:1.2Un­der nor­mal con­di­tions the first work of a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve would be the co-or­di­na­tion and blend­ing of the races. But on Uran­tia such a project seemed just about hope­less, for the races, while bi­o­log­i­cally fit, had never been purged of their re­tarded and de­fec­tive strains.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › no Adam ever on a more difficult world

75:1.3Adam and Eve found them­selves on a sphere wholly un­pre­pared for the procla­ma­tion of the broth­er­hood of man, a world grop­ing about in ab­ject spir­i­tual dark­ness and cursed with con­fu­sion worse con­founded by the mis­car­riage of the mis­sion of the pre­ced­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion. Mind and morals were at a low level, and in­stead of be­gin­ning the task of ef­fect­ing re­li­gious unity, they must be­gin all anew the work of con­vert­ing the in­hab­i­tants to the most sim­ple forms of re­li­gious be­lief. In­stead of find­ing one lan­guage ready for adop­tion, they were con­fronted by the world-wide con­fu­sion of hun­dreds upon hun­dreds of lo­cal di­alects. No Adam of the plan­e­tary ser­vice was ever set down on a more dif­fi­cult world; the ob­sta­cles seemed in­su­per­a­ble and the prob­lems be­yond crea­ture so­lu­tion.

• requested Melchizedek receivers to remain; they refused
• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › isolated, distressed, disheartened by sorry plight of world

75:1.4They were iso­lated, and the tremen­dous sense of lone­li­ness which bore down upon them was all the more height­ened by the early de­par­ture of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers. Only in­di­rectly, by means of the an­gelic or­ders, could they com­mu­ni­cate with any be­ing off the planet. Slowly their cour­age weak­ened, their spir­its drooped, and some­times their faith al­most fal­tered.

75:1.5And this is the true pic­ture of the con­ster­na­tion of these two no­ble souls as they pon­dered the tasks which con­fronted them. They were both keenly aware of the enor­mous un­der­tak­ing in­volved in the ex­e­cu­tion of their plan­e­tary as­sign­ment.

• impatient; well-meaning but deluded
• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › no Adam ever on a more difficult world

75:1.6Prob­a­bly no Ma­te­rial Sons of Neb­a­don were ever faced with such a dif­fi­cult and seem­ingly hope­less task as con­fronted Adam and Eve in the sorry plight of Uran­tia. But they would have some­time met with suc­cess had they been more farsee­ing and pa­tient. Both of them, es­pe­cially Eve, were al­to­gether too im­pa­tient; they were not will­ing to set­tle down to the long, long en­durance test. They wanted to see some im­me­di­ate re­sults, and they did, but the re­sults thus se­cured proved most dis­as­trous both to them­selves and to their world.

• default › Caligastia held many conferences with A.

75:2.1Cali­gas­tia paid fre­quent vis­its to the Gar­den and held many con­fer­ences with Adam and Eve, but they were adamant to all his sug­ges­tions of com­pro­mise and short-cut ad­ven­tures. They had be­fore them enough of the re­sults of re­bel­lion to pro­duce ef­fec­tive im­mu­nity against all such in­sin­u­at­ing pro­pos­als. Even the young off­spring of Adam were un­in­flu­enced by the over­tures of Dali­gas­tia. And of course nei­ther Cali­gas­tia nor his as­so­ciate had power to in­flu­ence any in­di­vid­ual against his will, much less to per­suade the chil­dren of Adam to do wrong.

• plan was to build up strong reserve of violet race before beginning upstepping

75:3.6It should again be em­pha­sized that Ser­a­p­ata­tia was al­to­gether hon­est and wholly sin­cere in all that he pro­posed. He never once sus­pected that he was play­ing into the hands of Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia. Ser­a­p­ata­tia was en­tirely loyal to the plan of build­ing up a strong re­serve of the vi­o­let race be­fore at­tempt­ing the world-wide up­step­ping of the con­fused peo­ples of Uran­tia. But this would re­quire hun­dreds of years to con­sum­mate, and he was im­pa­tient; he wanted to see some im­me­di­ate re­sults—some­thing in his own life­time. He made it clear to Eve that Adam was of­ten­times dis­cour­aged by the lit­tle that had been ac­com­plished to­ward up­lift­ing the world.

75:4.1The ce­les­tial life of the planet was astir. Adam rec­og­nized that some­thing was wrong, and he asked Eve to come aside with him in the Gar­den. And now, for the first time, Adam heard the en­tire story of the long-nour­ished plan for ac­cel­er­at­ing world im­prove­ment by op­er­at­ing si­mul­ta­ne­ously in two di­rec­tions: the pros­e­cu­tion of the di­vine plan con­comi­tantly with the ex­e­cu­tion of the Ser­a­p­ata­tia en­ter­prise.

75:4.2And as the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter thus com­muned in the moon­lit Gar­den, “the voice in the Gar­den” re­proved them for dis­obe­di­ence. And that voice was none other than my own an­nounce­ment to the Edenic pair that they had trans­gressed the Gar­den covenant; that they had dis­obeyed the in­struc­tions of the Mel­chiz­e­deks; that they had de­faulted in the ex­e­cu­tion of their oaths of trust to the sov­er­eign of the uni­verse.

75:4.3Eve had con­sented to par­tic­i­pate in the prac­tice of good and evil. Good is the car­ry­ing out of the di­vine plans; sin is a de­lib­er­ate trans­gres­sion of the di­vine will; evil is the mis­adap­ta­tion of plans and the mal­ad­just­ment of tech­niques re­sult­ing in uni­verse dishar­mony and plan­e­tary con­fu­sion.

• warned › not to combine good and evil

75:4.4Ev­ery time the Gar­den pair had par­taken of the fruit of the tree of life, they had been warned by the arch­an­gel cus­to­dian to re­frain from yield­ing to the sug­ges­tions of Cali­gas­tia to com­bine good and evil. They had been thus ad­mon­ished: “In the day that you com­min­gle good and evil, you shall surely be­come as the mor­tals of the realm; you shall surely die.”

75:4.5Eve had told Cano of this oft-re­peated warn­ing on the fate­ful oc­ca­sion of their se­cret meet­ing, but Cano, not know­ing the im­port or sig­nif­i­cance of such ad­mo­ni­tions, had as­sured her that men and women with good mo­tives and true in­ten­tions could do no evil; that she should surely not die but rather live anew in the per­son of their off­spring, who would grow up to bless and sta­bi­lize the world.

75:4.6Even though this project of mod­i­fy­ing the di­vine plan had been con­ceived and ex­e­cuted with en­tire sin­cer­ity and with only the high­est mo­tives con­cern­ing the wel­fare of the world, it con­sti­tuted evil be­cause it rep­re­sented the wrong way to achieve righ­teous ends, be­cause it de­parted from the right way, the di­vine plan.

75:4.7True, Eve had found Cano pleas­ant to the eyes, and she re­al­ized all that her se­ducer prom­ised by way of “new and in­creased knowl­edge of hu­man af­fairs and quick­ened un­der­stand­ing of hu­man na­ture as sup­ple­men­tal to the com­pre­hen­sion of the Adamic na­ture.”

75:4.8I talked to the fa­ther and mother of the vi­o­let race that night in the Gar­den as be­came my duty un­der the sor­row­ful cir­cum­stances. I lis­tened fully to the recital of all that led up to the de­fault of Mother Eve and gave both of them ad­vice and coun­sel con­cern­ing the im­me­di­ate sit­u­a­tion. Some of this ad­vice they fol­lowed; some they dis­re­garded. This con­fer­ence ap­pears in your rec­ords as “the Lord God call­ing to Adam and Eve in the Gar­den and ask­ing, ‘Where are you?’” It was the prac­tice of later gen­er­a­tions to at­trib­ute ev­ery­thing un­usual and ex­traor­di­nary, whether nat­u­ral or spir­i­tual, di­rectly to the per­sonal in­ter­ven­tion of the Gods.

• default › A. had premeditated sex with Laotta after

75:5.2It was in the de­spair of the re­al­iza­tion of fail­ure that Adam, the day af­ter Eve’s mis­step, sought out Laotta, the bril­liant Nod­ite woman who was head of the west­ern schools of the Gar­den, and with pre­med­i­ta­tion com­mit­ted the folly of Eve. But do not mis­un­der­stand; Adam was not be­guiled; he knew ex­actly what he was about; he de­lib­er­ately chose to share the fate of Eve. He loved his mate with a super­mor­tal af­fec­tion, and the thought of the pos­si­bil­ity of a lonely vigil on Uran­tia with­out her was more than he could en­dure.

• default › A. wandered in solitude for 30 days

75:5.5The chil­dren of Adam sought to com­fort their dis­tracted mother while their fa­ther wan­dered in soli­tude for thirty days. At the end of that time judg­ment as­serted it­self, and Adam re­turned to his home and be­gan to plan for their fu­ture course of ac­tion.

75:5.6The con­se­quences of the fol­lies of mis­guided par­ents are so of­ten shared by their in­no­cent chil­dren. The up­right and no­ble sons and daugh­ters of Adam and Eve were over­whelmed by the in­ex­pli­ca­ble sor­row of the un­be­liev­able tragedy which had been so sud­denly and so ruth­lessly thrust upon them. Not in fifty years did the older of these chil­dren re­cover from the sor­row and sad­ness of those tragic days, es­pe­cially the ter­ror of that pe­riod of thirty days dur­ing which their fa­ther was ab­sent from home while their dis­tracted mother was in com­plete ig­no­rance of his where­abouts or fate.

75:5.7And those same thirty days were as long years of sor­row and suf­fer­ing to Eve. Never did this no­ble soul fully re­cover from the ef­fects of that ex­cru­ci­at­ing pe­riod of men­tal suf­fer­ing and spir­i­tual sor­row. No fea­ture of their sub­se­quent de­pri­va­tions and ma­te­rial hard­ships ever be­gan to com­pare in Eve’s mem­ory with those ter­ri­ble days and aw­ful nights of lone­li­ness and un­bear­able un­cer­tainty. She learned of the rash act of Ser­a­p­ata­tia and did not know whether her mate had in sor­row de­stroyed him­self or had been re­moved from the world in ret­ri­bu­tion for her mis­step. And when Adam re­turned, Eve ex­pe­ri­enced a sat­is­fac­tion of joy and grat­i­tude that never was ef­faced by their long and dif­fi­cult life part­ner­ship of toil­ing ser­vice.

• default › returned Melchizedek receivers refused to advise

75:6.1When Adam learned that the Nod­ites were on the march, he sought the coun­sel of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, but they re­fused to ad­vise him, only telling him to do as he thought best and promis­ing their friendly co-op­er­a­tion, as far as pos­si­ble, in any course he might de­cide upon. The Mel­chiz­e­deks had been for­bid­den to in­ter­fere with the per­sonal plans of Adam and Eve.

• default › left Garden of Eden to Nodites unopposed

75:6.2Adam knew that he and Eve had failed; the pres­ence of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers told him that, though he still knew noth­ing of their per­sonal sta­tus or fu­ture fate. He held an all-night con­fer­ence with some twelve hun­dred loyal fol­low­ers who pledged them­selves to fol­low their leader, and the next day at noon these pil­grims went forth from Eden in quest of new homes. Adam had no lik­ing for war and ac­cord­ingly elected to leave the first gar­den to the Nod­ites un­op­posed.

• children › after default, all under 20 removed to Edentia, plus 2/3 over 20 who chose to leave

75:6.3The Edenic car­a­van was halted on the third day out from the Gar­den by the ar­rival of the se­raphic trans­ports from Je­ru­sem. And for the first time Adam and Eve were in­formed of what was to be­come of their chil­dren. While the trans­ports stood by, those chil­dren who had ar­rived at the age of choice (twenty years) were given the op­tion of re­main­ing on Uran­tia with their par­ents or of be­com­ing wards of the Most Highs of Nor­la­ti­adek. Two thirds chose to go to Eden­tia; about one third elected to re­main with their par­ents. All chil­dren of pre­choice age were taken to Eden­tia. No one could have be­held the sor­row­ful part­ing of this Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter and their chil­dren with­out re­al­iz­ing that the way of the trans­gres­sor is hard. These off­spring of Adam and Eve are now on Eden­tia; we do not know what dis­po­si­tion is to be made of them.

75:6.4It was a sad, sad car­a­van that pre­pared to jour­ney on. Could any­thing have been more tragic! To have come to a world in such high hopes, to have been so aus­pi­ciously re­ceived, and then to go forth in dis­grace from Eden, only to lose more than three fourths of their chil­dren even be­fore find­ing a new abid­ing place!

• default › A. defaulted, but did not become involved in Lucifer rebellion
• default › Gabriel’s appearance to pronounce judgment

75:7.1It was while the Edenic car­a­van was halted that Adam and Eve were in­formed of the na­ture of their trans­gres­sions and ad­vised con­cern­ing their fate. Ga­briel ap­peared to pro­nounce judg­ment. And this was the ver­dict: The Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve of Uran­tia are ad­judged in de­fault; they have vi­o­lated the covenant of their trustee­ship as the rulers of this in­hab­ited world.

75:7.2While down­cast by the sense of guilt, Adam and Eve were greatly cheered by the an­nounce­ment that their judges on Sal­ving­ton had ab­solved them from all charges of stand­ing in “con­tempt of the uni­verse gov­ern­ment.” They had not been held guilty of re­bel­lion.

75:7.3The Edenic pair were in­formed that they had de­graded them­selves to the sta­tus of the mor­tals of the realm; that they must hence­forth con­duct them­selves as man and woman of Uran­tia, look­ing to the fu­ture of the world races for their fu­ture.

• warned › not to depart from divine plan

75:7.4Long be­fore Adam and Eve left Je­ru­sem, their in­struc­tors had fully ex­plained to them the con­se­quences of any vi­tal de­par­ture from the di­vine plans. I had per­son­ally and re­peat­edly warned them, both be­fore and af­ter they ar­rived on Uran­tia, that re­duc­tion to the sta­tus of mor­tal flesh would be the cer­tain re­sult, the sure penalty, which would un­fail­ingly at­tend de­fault in the ex­e­cu­tion of their plan­e­tary mis­sion. But a com­pre­hen­sion of the im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is es­sen­tial to a clear un­der­stand­ing of the con­se­quences at­ten­dant upon the de­fault of Adam and Eve.

75:7.51. Adam and Eve, like their fel­lows on Je­ru­sem, main­tained im­mor­tal sta­tus through in­tel­lec­tual as­so­ci­a­tion with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. When this vi­tal sus­te­nance is bro­ken by men­tal dis­junc­tion, then, re­gard­less of the spir­i­tual level of crea­ture ex­is­tence, im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus is lost. Mor­tal sta­tus fol­lowed by phys­i­cal dis­so­lu­tion was the in­ev­i­ta­ble con­se­quence of the in­tel­lec­tual de­fault of Adam and Eve.

• circulatory system from physical nature and tree of life

75:7.62. The Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter of Uran­tia, be­ing also per­son­al­ized in the simil­i­tude of the mor­tal flesh of this world, were fur­ther de­pen­dent on the main­te­nance of a dual cir­cu­la­tory sys­tem, the one de­rived from their phys­i­cal na­tures, the other from the super­en­ergy stored in the fruit of the tree of life. Al­ways had the arch­an­gel cus­to­dian ad­mon­ished Adam and Eve that de­fault of trust would cul­mi­nate in degra­da­tion of sta­tus, and ac­cess to this source of en­ergy was de­nied them sub­se­quent to their de­fault.

• default › A. defaulted, but did not become involved in Lucifer rebellion

75:7.7Cali­gas­tia did suc­ceed in trap­ping Adam and Eve, but he did not ac­com­plish his pur­pose of lead­ing them into open re­bel­lion against the uni­verse gov­ern­ment. What they had done was in­deed evil, but they were never guilty of con­tempt for truth, nei­ther did they know­ingly en­list in re­bel­lion against the righ­teous rule of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Cre­ator Son.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › enormously upstepped peoples of Urantia

75:8.1Adam and Eve did fall from their high es­tate of ma­te­rial son­ship down to the lowly sta­tus of mor­tal man. But that was not the fall of man. The hu­man race has been up­lifted de­spite the im­me­di­ate con­se­quences of the Adamic de­fault. Al­though the di­vine plan of giv­ing the vi­o­let race to the Uran­tia peo­ples mis­car­ried, the mor­tal races have prof­ited enor­mously from the lim­ited con­tri­bu­tion which Adam and his de­scen­dants made to the Uran­tia races.

75:8.2There has been no “fall of man.” The his­tory of the hu­man race is one of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion, and the Adamic be­stowal left the world peo­ples greatly im­proved over their pre­vi­ous bi­o­logic con­di­tion. The more su­pe­rior stocks of Uran­tia now con­tain in­her­i­tance fac­tors de­rived from as many as four sep­a­rate sources: An­don­ite, San­gik, Nod­ite, and Adamic.

• Urantia problem for Adam and Eve › isolated, distressed, disheartened by sorry plight of world

75:8.4In es­ti­mat­ing the re­sults of the Adamic mis­sion on your world, jus­tice de­mands the rec­og­ni­tion of the con­di­tion of the planet. Adam was con­fronted with a well-nigh hope­less task when, with his beau­ti­ful mate, he was trans­ported from Je­ru­sem to this dark and con­fused planet. But had they been guided by the coun­sel of the Mel­chiz­e­deks and their as­so­ciates, and had they been more pa­tient, they would have even­tu­ally met with suc­cess. But Eve lis­tened to the in­sid­i­ous pro­pa­ganda of per­sonal lib­erty and plan­e­tary free­dom of ac­tion. She was led to ex­per­i­ment with the life plasm of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship in that she al­lowed this life trust to be­come pre­ma­turely com­min­gled with that of the then mixed or­der of the orig­i­nal de­sign of the Life Car­ri­ers which had been pre­vi­ously com­bined with that of the re­pro­duc­ing be­ings once at­tached to the staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince.

• encouraged Cain to leave second garden

76:2.7The death of Abel be­came known to his par­ents when his dogs brought the flocks home with­out their mas­ter. To Adam and Eve, Cain was fast be­com­ing the grim re­minder of their folly, and they en­cour­aged him in his de­ci­sion to leave the gar­den.

• never ate meat in regular diet; no cooking in household

76:3.7Up to the time of leav­ing the first gar­den, Adam and his fam­ily had al­ways sub­sisted on fruits, ce­re­als, and nuts. On the way to Mes­o­po­ta­mia they had, for the first time, par­taken of herbs and veg­eta­bles. The eat­ing of meat was early in­tro­duced into the sec­ond gar­den, but Adam and Eve never par­took of flesh as a part of their reg­u­lar diet. Nei­ther did Adam­son nor Eve­son nor the other chil­dren of the first gen­er­a­tion of the first gar­den be­come flesh eaters.

• physical nature of Adam and Eve › imbibed light and energy from space

76:4.3Adam and Eve, like their breth­ren on Je­ru­sem, were en­er­gized by dual nu­tri­tion, sub­sist­ing on both food and light, sup­ple­mented by cer­tain super­phys­i­cal en­er­gies un­re­vealed on Uran­tia. Their Uran­tia off­spring did not in­herit the pa­ren­tal en­dow­ment of en­ergy in­take and light cir­cu­la­tion. They had a sin­gle cir­cu­la­tion, the hu­man type of blood sus­te­nance. They were de­signedly mor­tal though long-lived, al­beit longevity grav­i­tated to­ward the hu­man norm with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.

• never ate meat in regular diet; no cooking in household

76:4.4Adam and Eve and their first gen­er­a­tion of chil­dren did not use the flesh of an­i­mals for food. They sub­sisted wholly upon “the fruits of the trees.” Af­ter the first gen­er­a­tion all of the de­scen­dants of Adam be­gan to par­take of dairy prod­ucts, but many of them con­tin­ued to fol­low a non­flesh diet. Many of the south­ern tribes with whom they later united were also non­flesh eaters. Later on, most of these veg­e­tar­ian tribes mi­grated to the east and sur­vived as now ad­mixed in the peo­ples of In­dia.

• default › Caligastia held many conferences with A.
• physical nature of Adam and Eve › able to see midwayers, angels, Melchizedeks, Caligastia
• special senses not acutely present in their children

76:4.5Both the phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual vi­sions of Adam and Eve were far su­pe­rior to those of the pres­ent-day peo­ples. Their spe­cial senses were much more acute, and they were able to see the mid­way­ers and the an­gelic hosts, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and the fallen Prince Cali­gas­tia, who sev­eral times came to con­fer with his no­ble suc­ces­sor. They re­tained the abil­ity to see these ce­les­tial be­ings for over one hun­dred years af­ter the de­fault. These spe­cial senses were not so acutely pres­ent in their chil­dren and tended to di­min­ish with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.

• default › A. defaulted, but did not become involved in Lucifer rebellion
• default › transgression was error of judgment, not sin

76:5.1Not long af­ter the es­tab­lish­ment of the sec­ond Eden, Adam and Eve were duly in­formed that their re­pen­tance was ac­cept­able, and that, while they were doomed to suf­fer the fate of the mor­tals of their world, they should cer­tainly be­come el­i­gi­ble for ad­mis­sion to the ranks of the sleep­ing sur­vivors of Uran­tia. They fully be­lieved this gospel of res­ur­rec­tion and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion which the Mel­chiz­e­deks so touch­ingly pro­claimed to them. Their trans­gres­sion had been an er­ror of judg­ment and not the sin of con­scious and de­lib­er­ate re­bel­lion.

• default › received Adjusters after default

76:5.2Adam and Eve did not, as cit­i­zens of Je­ru­sem, have Thought Ad­justers, nor were they Ad­juster in­dwelt when they func­tioned on Uran­tia in the first gar­den. But shortly af­ter their re­duc­tion to mor­tal sta­tus they be­came con­scious of a new pres­ence within them and awak­ened to the re­al­iza­tion that hu­man sta­tus cou­pled with sin­cere re­pen­tance had made it pos­si­ble for Ad­justers to in­dwell them. It was this knowl­edge of be­ing Ad­juster in­dwelt that greatly heart­ened Adam and Eve through­out the re­main­der of their lives; they knew that they had failed as Ma­te­rial Sons of Sa­ta­nia, but they also knew that the Par­a­dise ca­reer was still open to them as as­cend­ing sons of the uni­verse.

• default › personal message from Michael after

76:5.3Adam knew about the dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tion which oc­curred si­mul­ta­ne­ously with his ar­rival on the planet, and he be­lieved that he and his com­pan­ion would prob­a­bly be reper­son­al­ized in con­nec­tion with the ad­vent of the next or­der of son­ship. He did not know that Mi­chael, the sov­er­eign of this uni­verse, was so soon to ap­pear on Uran­tia; he ex­pected that the next Son to ar­rive would be of the Avo­nal or­der. Even so, it was al­ways a com­fort to Adam and Eve, as well as some­thing dif­fi­cult for them to un­der­stand, to pon­der the only per­sonal mes­sage they ever re­ceived from Mi­chael. This mes­sage, among other ex­pres­sions of friend­ship and com­fort, said: “I have given con­sid­er­a­tion to the cir­cum­stances of your de­fault, I have re­mem­bered the de­sire of your hearts ever to be loyal to my Fa­ther’s will, and you will be called from the em­brace of mor­tal slum­ber when I come to Uran­tia if the sub­or­di­nate Sons of my realm do not send for you be­fore that time.”

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.

• impatient; well-meaning but deluded
• inheritance of Adam and Eve › enormously upstepped peoples 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.”]

• children › after default, all under 20 removed to Edentia, plus 2/3 over 20 who chose to leave

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.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › enormously upstepped peoples of Urantia

78:1.1Al­though the minds and morals of the races were at a low level at the time of Adam’s ar­rival, phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion had gone on quite un­af­fected by the ex­i­gen­cies of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion. Adam’s con­tri­bu­tion to the bi­o­logic sta­tus of the races, not­with­stand­ing the par­tial fail­ure of the un­der­tak­ing, enor­mously up­stepped the peo­ple of Uran­tia.

• teachings about Adam and Eve › Jews sought to trace origin to

78:7.3Al­most five thou­sand years later, as the He­brew priests in Baby­lo­nian cap­tiv­ity sought to trace the Jew­ish peo­ple back to Adam, they found great dif­fi­culty in piec­ing the story to­gether; and it oc­curred to one of them to aban­don the ef­fort, to let the whole world drown in its wicked­ness at the time of Noah’s flood, and thus to be in a bet­ter po­si­tion to trace Abra­ham right back to one of the three sur­viv­ing sons of Noah.

• plan was to upstep red race with 1 million pure-line descendants

79:5.9These civ­i­liza­tions were evo­lu­tion­ary prod­ucts of the San­giks, not­with­stand­ing that traces of And­ite blood reached Peru. Ex­cept­ing the Es­ki­mos in North Amer­ica and a few Poly­ne­sian And­ites in South Amer­ica, the peo­ples of the West­ern Hemi­sphere had no con­tact with the rest of the world un­til the end of the first mil­len­nium af­ter Christ. In the orig­i­nal Mel­chiz­e­dek plan for the im­prove­ment of the Uran­tia races it had been stip­u­lated that one mil­lion of the pure-line de­scen­dants of Adam should go to up­step the red men of the Amer­i­cas.

• default › did not impede biologic evolution

81:0.1Re­gard­less of the ups and downs of the mis­car­riage of the plans for world bet­ter­ment pro­jected in the mis­sions of Cali­gas­tia and Adam, the ba­sic or­ganic evo­lu­tion of the hu­man species con­tin­ued to carry the races for­ward in the scale of hu­man prog­ress and racial de­vel­op­ment. Evo­lu­tion can be de­layed but it can­not be stopped.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › stimulated adventure and exploration

81:3.8In­fu­sion of the Adamic stock into the hu­man races not only quick­ened the pace of civ­i­liza­tion, but it also greatly stim­u­lated their pro­cliv­i­ties to­ward ad­ven­ture and ex­plo­ration to the end that most of Eura­sia and north­ern Africa was pres­ently oc­cu­pied by the rapidly mul­ti­ply­ing mixed de­scen­dants of the And­ites.

• inheritance of Adam and Eve › improved brain power

81:5.1Bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion and cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion are not nec­es­sar­ily cor­re­lated; or­ganic evo­lu­tion in any age may pro­ceed un­hin­dered in the very midst of cul­tural deca­dence. But when lengthy pe­ri­ods of hu­man his­tory are sur­veyed, it will be ob­served that even­tu­ally evo­lu­tion and cul­ture be­come re­lated as cause and ef­fect. Evo­lu­tion may ad­vance in the ab­sence of cul­ture, but cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion does not flour­ish with­out an ad­e­quate back­ground of an­te­ced­ent racial pro­gres­sion. Adam and Eve in­tro­duced no art of civ­i­liza­tion for­eign to the prog­ress of hu­man so­ci­ety, but the Adamic blood did aug­ment the in­her­ent abil­ity of the races and did ac­cel­er­ate the pace of eco­nomic de­vel­op­ment and in­dus­trial pro­gres­sion. Adam’s be­stowal im­proved the brain power of the races, thereby greatly has­ten­ing the pro­cesses of nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion.

• sometime return to Urantia?

93:10.7We well un­der­stand how, by his tri­umph on Uran­tia, Mi­chael be­came the suc­ces­sor of both Cali­gas­tia and Adam; how he be­came the plan­e­tary Prince of Peace and the sec­ond Adam. And now we be­hold the con­fer­ring upon this Mel­chiz­e­dek of the ti­tle Vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. Will he also be con­sti­tuted Vicegerent Ma­te­rial Son of Uran­tia? Or is there a pos­si­bil­ity that an un­ex­pected and un­prece­dented event is to take place, the some­time re­turn to the planet of Adam and Eve or cer­tain of their progeny as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Mi­chael with the ti­tles vicegerents of the sec­ond Adam of Uran­tia?

• teachings about Adam and Eve › Paul’s doctrine of Christ as 2nd Adam

140:8.24Pe­ter grasped the idea that the gospel they were about to pro­claim was re­ally a fresh be­gin­ning for the whole hu­man race. He con­veyed this im­pres­sion sub­se­quently to Paul, who for­mu­lated there­from his doc­trine of Christ as “the sec­ond Adam.”

76:4.8Af­ter be­com­ing es­tab­lished in the sec­ond gar­den on the Eu­phrates, Adam elected to leave be­hind as much of his life plasm as pos­si­ble to ben­e­fit the world af­ter his death. Ac­cord­ingly, Eve was made the head of a com­mis­sion of twelve on race im­prove­ment, and be­fore Adam died this com­mis­sion had se­lected 1,682 of the high­est type of women on Uran­tia, and these women were im­preg­nated with the Adamic life plasm. Their chil­dren all grew up to ma­tu­rity ex­cept 112, so that the world, in this way, was ben­e­fited by the ad­di­tion of 1,570 su­pe­rior men and women. Though these can­di­date moth­ers were se­lected from all the sur­round­ing tribes and rep­re­sented most of the races on earth, the ma­jor­ity were cho­sen from the high­est strains of the Nod­ites, and they con­sti­tuted the early be­gin­nings of the mighty And­ite race. These chil­dren were born and reared in the tribal sur­round­ings of their re­spec­tive moth­ers.

76:2.3In the days of the first Eden, Adam had in­deed sought to dis­cour­age the of­fer­ing of an­i­mal sac­ri­fice so that Cain had a jus­ti­fi­able prece­dent for his con­tentions. It was, how­ever, dif­fi­cult to or­ga­nize the re­li­gious life of the sec­ond Eden. Adam was bur­dened with a thou­sand and one de­tails as­so­ci­ated with the work of build­ing, de­fense, and agri­cul­ture. Be­ing much de­pressed spir­i­tu­ally, he in­trusted the or­ga­ni­za­tion of wor­ship and ed­u­ca­tion to those of Nod­ite ex­trac­tion who had served in these ca­pac­i­ties in the first gar­den; and in even so short a time the of­fi­ci­at­ing Nod­ite priests were re­vert­ing to the stan­dards and rul­ings of pre-Adamic times.

76:5.5Adam lived for 530 years; he died of what might be termed old age. His phys­i­cal mech­a­nism sim­ply wore out; the pro­cess of dis­in­te­gra­tion grad­u­ally gained on the pro­cess of re­pair, and the in­ev­i­ta­ble end came. Eve had died nine­teen years pre­vi­ously of a weak­ened heart. They were both buried in the cen­ter of the tem­ple of di­vine ser­vice which had been built in ac­cor­dance with their plans soon af­ter the wall of the colony had been com­pleted. And this was the ori­gin of the prac­tice of bury­ing noted and pi­ous men and women un­der the floors of the places of wor­ship.

122:1.1Joseph, the hu­man fa­ther of Je­sus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a He­brew of the He­brews, al­beit he car­ried many non-Jew­ish racial strains which had been added to his an­ces­tral tree from time to time by the fe­male lines of his pro­gen­i­tors. The an­ces­try of the fa­ther of Je­sus went back to the days of Abra­ham and through this ven­er­a­ble pa­tri­arch to the ear­lier lines of in­her­i­tance lead­ing to the Sume­ri­ans and Nod­ites and, through the south­ern tribes of the an­cient blue man, to An­don and Fonta. David and Sol­o­mon were not in the di­rect line of Joseph’s an­ces­try, nei­ther did Joseph’s lin­eage go di­rectly back to Adam. Joseph’s im­me­di­ate an­ces­tors were me­chan­ics—builders, car­pen­ters, ma­sons, and smiths. Joseph him­self was a car­pen­ter and later a con­trac­tor. His fam­ily be­longed to a long and il­lus­tri­ous line of the no­bil­ity of the com­mon peo­ple, ac­cen­tu­ated ever and anon by the ap­pear­ance of un­usual in­di­vid­u­als who had dis­tin­guished them­selves in con­nec­tion with the evo­lu­tion of re­li­gion on Uran­tia.

45:4.119. Adam, the dis­cred­ited but re­ha­bil­i­tated plan­e­tary fa­ther of Uran­tia, a Ma­te­rial Son of God who was rel­e­gated to the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, but who sur­vived and was sub­se­quently el­e­vated to this po­si­tion by the de­cree of Mi­chael.