Eve

75:2.3But the fallen Prince was per­sis­tent and de­ter­mined. He soon gave up work­ing on Adam and de­cided to try a wily flank at­tack on Eve. The evil one con­cluded that the only hope for suc­cess lay in the adroit em­ploy­ment of suit­able per­sons be­long­ing to the up­per strata of the Nod­ite group, the de­scen­dants of his one­time cor­po­real-staff as­so­ciates. And the plans were ac­cord­ingly laid for en­trap­ping the mother of the vi­o­let race.

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.

75:4.3Eve 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.

75:3.7For more than five years these plans were se­cretly ma­tured. At last they had de­vel­oped to the point where Eve con­sented to have a se­cret con­fer­ence with Cano, the most bril­liant mind and ac­tive leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nod­ites. Cano was very sym­pa­thetic with the Adamic regime; in fact, he was the sin­cere spir­i­tual leader of those neigh­bor­ing Nod­ites who fa­vored friendly re­la­tions with the Gar­den.

75:3.9In­flu­enced by flat­tery, en­thu­si­asm, and great per­sonal per­sua­sion, Eve then and there con­sented to em­bark upon the much-dis­cussed en­ter­prise, to add her own lit­tle scheme of world sav­ing to the larger and more far-reach­ing di­vine plan. Be­fore she quite re­al­ized what was tran­spir­ing, the fa­tal step had been taken. It was done.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

75:2.4It was far­thest from Eve’s in­ten­tion ever to do any­thing which would mil­i­tate against Adam’s plans or jeop­ar­dize their plan­e­tary trust. Know­ing the ten­dency of woman to look upon im­me­di­ate re­sults rather than to plan far­sight­edly for more re­mote ef­fects, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, be­fore de­part­ing, had es­pe­cially en­joined Eve as to the pe­cu­liar dan­gers be­set­ting their iso­lated po­si­tion on the planet and had in par­tic­u­lar warned her never to stray from the side of her mate, that is, to at­tempt no per­sonal or se­cret meth­ods of fur­ther­ing their mu­tual un­der­tak­ings. Eve had most scrupu­lously car­ried out these in­struc­tions for more than one hun­dred years, and it did not oc­cur to her that any dan­ger would at­tach to the in­creas­ingly pri­vate and con­fi­den­tial vis­its she was en­joy­ing with a cer­tain Nod­ite leader named Ser­a­p­ata­tia. The whole af­fair de­vel­oped so grad­u­ally and nat­u­rally that she was taken un­awares.

84:4.4The sexes have had great dif­fi­culty in un­der­stand­ing each other. Man found it hard to un­der­stand woman, re­gard­ing her with a strange mix­ture of ig­no­rant mis­trust and fear­ful fas­ci­na­tion, if not with sus­pi­cion and con­tempt. Many tribal and racial tra­di­tions rel­e­gate trou­ble to Eve, Pan­dora, or some other rep­re­sen­ta­tive of wom­ankind. These nar­ra­tives were al­ways dis­torted so as to make it ap­pear that the woman brought evil upon man; and all this in­di­cates the one­time uni­ver­sal dis­trust of woman. Among the rea­sons cited in sup­port of a celi­bate priest­hood, the chief was the base­ness of woman. The fact that most sup­posed witches were women did not im­prove the olden rep­u­ta­tion of the sex.

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.

122:1.2Mary, the earth mother of Je­sus, was a de­scen­dant of a long line of unique an­ces­tors em­brac­ing many of the most re­mark­able women in the racial his­tory of Uran­tia. Al­though Mary was an av­er­age woman of her day and gen­er­a­tion, pos­sess­ing a fairly nor­mal tem­per­a­ment, she reck­oned among her an­ces­tors such well-known women as An­non, Tamar, Ruth, Bathsheba, An­sie, Cloa, Eve, Enta, and Ratta. No Jew­ish woman of that day had a more il­lus­tri­ous lin­eage of com­mon pro­gen­i­tors or one ex­tend­ing back to more aus­pi­cious be­gin­nings. Mary’s an­ces­try, like Joseph’s, was char­ac­ter­ized by the pre­dom­i­nance of strong but av­er­age in­di­vid­u­als, re­lieved now and then by nu­mer­ous out­stand­ing per­son­al­i­ties in the march of civ­i­liza­tion and the pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion of re­li­gion. Racially con­sid­ered, it is hardly proper to re­gard Mary as a Jew­ess. In cul­ture and be­lief she was a Jew, but in hered­i­tary en­dow­ment she was more a com­pos­ite of Syr­ian, Hit­tite, Phoeni­cian, Greek, and Egyp­tian stocks, her racial in­her­i­tance be­ing more gen­eral than that of Joseph.

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.

45:4.1210. Eve, the mother of the vi­o­let race of Uran­tia, who suf­fered the penalty of de­fault with her mate and was also re­ha­bil­i­tated with him and as­signed to serve with this group of mor­tal sur­vivors.

76:0.2Cain and Sansa were both born be­fore the Adamic car­a­van had reached its des­ti­na­tion be­tween the rivers in Mes­o­po­ta­mia. Laotta, the mother of Sansa, per­ished at the birth of her daugh­ter; Eve suf­fered much but sur­vived, ow­ing to su­pe­rior strength. Eve took Sansa, the child of Laotta, to her bo­som, and she was reared along with Cain. Sansa grew up to be a woman of great abil­ity. She be­came the wife of Sar­gan, the chief of the north­ern blue races, and con­tributed to the ad­vance­ment of the blue men of those times.

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.

75:3.1Adam had just fin­ished his first one hun­dred years on earth when Ser­a­p­ata­tia, upon the death of his fa­ther, came to the lead­er­ship of the west­ern or Syr­ian con­fed­er­a­tion of the Nod­ite tribes. Ser­a­p­ata­tia was a brown-tinted man, a bril­liant de­scen­dant of the one­time chief of the Dala­ma­tia com­mis­sion on health mated with one of the mas­ter fe­male minds of the blue race of those dis­tant days. All down through the ages this line had held au­thor­ity and wielded a great in­flu­ence among the west­ern Nod­ite tribes.

75:3.2Ser­a­p­ata­tia had made sev­eral vis­its to the Gar­den and had be­come deeply im­pressed with the righ­teous­ness of Adam’s cause. And shortly af­ter as­sum­ing the lead­er­ship of the Syr­ian Nod­ites, he an­nounced his in­ten­tion of es­tab­lish­ing an af­fil­i­a­tion with the work of Adam and Eve in the Gar­den. The ma­jor­ity of his peo­ple joined him in this pro­gram, and Adam was cheered by the news that the most pow­er­ful and the most in­tel­li­gent of all the neigh­bor­ing tribes had swung over al­most bod­ily to the sup­port of the pro­gram for world im­prove­ment; it was de­cid­edly heart­en­ing. And shortly af­ter this great event, Ser­a­p­ata­tia and his new staff were en­ter­tained by Adam and Eve in their own home.

75:3.3Ser­a­p­ata­tia be­came one of the most able and ef­fi­cient of all of Adam’s lieu­tenants. He was en­tirely hon­est and thor­oughly sin­cere in all of his ac­tiv­i­ties; he was never con­scious, even later on, that he was be­ing used as a cir­cum­stan­tial tool of the wily Cali­gas­tia.

75:3.4Pres­ently, Ser­a­p­ata­tia be­came the as­so­ciate chair­man of the Edenic com­mis­sion on tribal re­la­tions, and many plans were laid for the more vig­or­ous pros­e­cu­tion of the work of win­ning the re­mote tribes to the cause of the Gar­den.

75:3.5He held many con­fer­ences with Adam and Eve—es­pe­cially with Eve—and they talked over many plans for im­prov­ing their meth­ods. One day, dur­ing a talk with Eve, it oc­curred to Ser­a­p­ata­tia that it would be very help­ful if, while await­ing the re­cruit­ing of large num­bers of the vi­o­let race, some­thing could be done in the mean­time im­me­di­ately to ad­vance the needy wait­ing tribes. Ser­a­p­ata­tia con­tended that, if the Nod­ites, as the most pro­gres­sive and co-op­er­a­tive race, could have a leader born to them of part ori­gin in the vi­o­let stock, it would con­sti­tute a pow­er­ful tie bind­ing these peo­ples more closely to the Gar­den. And all of this was soberly and hon­estly con­sid­ered to be for the good of the world since this child, to be reared and ed­u­cated in the Gar­den, would ex­ert a great in­flu­ence for good over his fa­ther’s peo­ple.

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.

75:3.8The fate­ful meet­ing oc­curred dur­ing the twi­light hours of the au­tumn evening, not far from the home of Adam. Eve had never be­fore met the beau­ti­ful and en­thu­si­as­tic Cano—and he was a mag­nif­i­cent spec­i­men of the sur­vival of the su­pe­rior physique and out­stand­ing in­tel­lect of his re­mote pro­gen­i­tors of the Prince’s staff. And Cano also thor­oughly be­lieved in the righ­teous­ness of the Ser­a­p­ata­tia project. (Out­side of the Gar­den, mul­ti­ple mat­ing was a com­mon prac­tice.)