Babylonians

• immediate contact with remnants of Adamites
• taught man descended directly from gods

74:8.6The Baby­lo­ni­ans, be­cause of im­me­di­ate con­tact with the rem­nants of the civ­i­liza­tion of the Adamites, en­larged and em­bel­lished the story of man’s cre­ation; they taught that he had de­scended di­rectly from the gods. They held to an aris­to­cratic ori­gin for the race which was in­com­pat­i­ble with even the doc­trine of cre­ation out of clay.

• triad gods

104:0.3As a con­se­quence of these nat­u­ral as­so­ci­a­tions in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence, the triad made its ap­pear­ance in re­li­gion, and this long be­fore the Par­a­dise Trin­ity of De­i­ties, or even any of their rep­re­sen­ta­tives, had been re­vealed to man­kind. Later on, the Per­sians, Hin­dus, Greeks, Egyp­tians, Baby­lo­ni­ans, Ro­mans, and Scan­di­na­vians all had triad gods, but these were still not true trin­i­ties. Triad de­i­ties all had a nat­u­ral ori­gin and have ap­peared at one time or an­other among most of the in­tel­li­gent peo­ples of Uran­tia. Some­times the con­cept of an evo­lu­tion­ary triad has be­come mixed with that of a re­vealed Trin­ity; in these in­stances it is of­ten im­pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish one from the other.

• part of older Semitic race which included Jews

121:2.1The Jews were a part of the older Semitic race, which also in­cluded the Baby­lo­ni­ans, the Phoeni­cians, and the more re­cent en­e­mies of Rome, the Carthagini­ans. Dur­ing the fore part of the first cen­tury af­ter Christ, the Jews were the most in­flu­en­tial group of the Semitic peo­ples, and they hap­pened to oc­cupy a pe­cu­liarly strate­gic ge­o­graphic po­si­tion in the world as it was at that time ruled and or­ga­nized for trade.