Adamson

• Adam’s first son

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.

• Adam’s first son

76:3.3The civil rulers of the Adamites were de­rived hered­i­tar­ily from the sons of the first gar­den. Adam’s first son, Adam­son (Adam ben Adam), founded a sec­ondary cen­ter of the vi­o­let race to the north of the sec­ond Eden. Adam’s sec­ond son, Eve­son, be­came a mas­terly leader and ad­min­is­tra­tor; he was the great helper of his fa­ther. Eve­son lived not quite so long as Adam, and his el­dest son, Jansad, be­came the suc­ces­sor of Adam as the head of the Adamite tribes.

• founded civilization about 35,000 B.C.

77:4.13About 35,000 B.C. Adam­son vis­ited one of the east­ern­most of the old Van­ite set­tle­ments to found his cen­ter of civ­i­liza­tion.

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

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

• first wife, 32 children left for Edentia after the default

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

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

• company of 27 followed A. northward from garden

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

• and Ratta › 67 children; every 4th often invisible
• and Ratta › grandparents of 2000 secondary midwayers

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

• lived 396 years

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

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

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

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

77:6.1While the pri­mary mid­way­ers had a well-nigh super­hu­man ori­gin, the sec­ondary or­der are the off­spring of the pure Adamic stock united with a hu­man­ized de­scen­dant of an­ces­tors com­mon to the parent­age of the se­nior corps.

77:6.2Among the chil­dren of Adam­son there were just six­teen of the pe­cu­liar pro­gen­i­tors of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers. These unique chil­dren were equally di­vided as re­gards sex, and each cou­ple was ca­pa­ble of pro­duc­ing a sec­ondary mid­wayer ev­ery sev­enty days by a com­bined tech­nique of sex and non­sex li­ai­son. And such a phe­nom­e­non was never pos­si­ble on earth be­fore that time, nor has it ever oc­curred since.

• and Ratta › 67 children; every 4th often invisible

77:6.3These six­teen chil­dren lived and died (ex­cept for their pe­cu­liar­i­ties) as mor­tals of the realm, but their elec­tri­cally en­er­gized off­spring live on and on, not be­ing sub­ject to the lim­i­ta­tions of mor­tal flesh.

77:6.4Each of the eight cou­ples even­tu­ally pro­duced 248 mid­way­ers, and thus did the orig­i­nal sec­ondary corps—1,984 in num­ber—come into ex­is­tence. There are eight sub­groups of sec­ondary mid­way­ers. They are des­ig­nated as A-B-C the first, sec­ond, third, and so on. And then there are D-E-F the first, sec­ond, and so on.

77:6.5Af­ter the de­fault of Adam the pri­mary mid­way­ers re­turned to the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, while the sec­ondary group were at­tached to the Adam­son cen­ter un­til his death. Thirty-three of these sec­ondary mid­way­ers, the chiefs of their or­ga­ni­za­tion at the death of Adam­son, en­deav­ored to swing the whole or­der over to the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, thus ef­fect­ing a li­ai­son with the pri­mary corps. But fail­ing to ac­com­plish this, they de­serted their com­pan­ions and went over in a body to the ser­vice of the plan­e­tary re­ceivers.

77:6.6Af­ter the death of Adam­son the re­main­der of the sec­ondary mid­way­ers be­came a strange, un­or­ga­nized, and un­at­tached in­flu­ence on Uran­tia. From that time to the days of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek they led an ir­reg­u­lar and un­or­ga­nized ex­is­tence. They were par­tially brought un­der con­trol by this Mel­chiz­e­dek but were still pro­duc­tive of much mis­chief up to the days of Christ Mi­chael. And dur­ing his so­journ on earth they all made fi­nal de­ci­sions as to their fu­ture des­tiny, the loyal ma­jor­ity then en­list­ing un­der the lead­er­ship of the pri­mary mid­way­ers.

• and Ratta › Sato was a direct descendant of

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.

• Adam’s first son

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.

• grew wheat and barley

81:1.7For thou­sands of years the de­scen­dants of Adam had grown wheat and bar­ley, as im­proved in the Gar­den, through­out the high­lands of the up­per bor­der of Mes­o­po­ta­mia. The de­scen­dants of Adam and Adam­son here met, traded, and so­cially min­gled.

• survival of traditions about A. in Greece

98:1.1The Salem mis­sion­ar­ies might have built up a great re­li­gious struc­ture among the Greeks had it not been for their strict in­ter­pre­ta­tion of their oath of or­di­na­tion, a pledge im­posed by Ma­chi­venta which for­bade the or­ga­ni­za­tion of ex­clu­sive con­gre­ga­tions for wor­ship, and which ex­acted the prom­ise of each teacher never to func­tion as a priest, never to re­ceive fees for re­li­gious ser­vice, only food, cloth­ing, and shel­ter. When the Mel­chiz­e­dek teach­ers pen­e­trated to pre-Hel­lenic Greece, they found a peo­ple who still fos­tered the tra­di­tions of Adam­son and the days of the And­ites, but these teach­ings had be­come greatly adul­ter­ated with the no­tions and be­liefs of the hordes of in­fe­rior slaves that had been brought to the Greek shores in in­creas­ing num­bers. This adul­ter­ation pro­duced a re­ver­sion to a crude an­i­mism with bloody rites, the lower classes even mak­ing cer­e­mo­nial out of the ex­e­cu­tion of con­demned crim­i­nals.