Nod (Prince’s corporeal staff)

67:4.1When the fi­nal roll was called, the cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were found to have aligned them­selves as fol­lows: Van and his en­tire court of co-or­di­na­tion had re­mained loyal. Ang and three mem­bers of the food coun­cil had sur­vived. The board of an­i­mal hus­bandry were all swept into re­bel­lion as were all of the an­i­mal-con­quest ad­vis­ers. Fad and five mem­bers of the ed­u­ca­tional fac­ulty were saved. Nod and all of the com­mis­sion on in­dus­try and trade joined Cali­gas­tia. Hap and the en­tire col­lege of re­vealed re­li­gion re­mained loyal with Van and his no­ble band. Lut and the whole board of health were lost. The coun­cil of art and sci­ence re­mained loyal in its en­tirety, but Tut and the com­mis­sion on tribal gov­ern­ment all went astray. Thus were forty out of the one hun­dred saved, later to be trans­ferred to Je­ru­sem, where they re­sumed their Par­a­dise jour­ney.

66:5.115. The com­mis­sion on in­dus­try and trade. This coun­cil was em­ployed in fos­ter­ing in­dus­try within the tribes and in pro­mot­ing trade be­tween the var­i­ous peace groups. Its leader was Nod. Ev­ery form of prim­i­tive man­u­fac­ture was en­cour­aged by this corps. They con­tributed di­rectly to the el­e­va­tion of stan­dards of liv­ing by pro­vid­ing many new com­modi­ties to at­tract the fancy of prim­i­tive men. They greatly ex­panded the trade in the im­proved salt pro­duced by the coun­cil on sci­ence and art.

73:1.3The Nod­ites were the de­scen­dants of the rebel mem­bers of the Prince’s staff, their name de­riv­ing from their first leader, Nod, one­time chair­man of the Dala­ma­tia com­mis­sion on in­dus­try and trade. The Ama­don­ites were the de­scen­dants of those An­don­ites who chose to re­main loyal with Van and Amadon. “Amadonite” is more of a cul­tural and re­li­gious des­ig­na­tion than a racial term; racially con­sid­ered the Ama­don­ites were es­sen­tially An­don­ites. “Nod­ite” is both a cul­tural and racial term, for the Nod­ites them­selves con­sti­tuted the eighth race of Uran­tia.

67:4.2The sixty mem­bers of the plan­e­tary staff who went into re­bel­lion chose Nod as their leader. They worked whole­heart­edly for the rebel Prince but soon dis­cov­ered that they were de­prived of the sus­te­nance of the sys­tem life cir­cuits. They awak­ened to the fact that they had been de­graded to the sta­tus of mor­tal be­ings. They were in­deed super­hu­man but, at the same time, ma­te­rial and mor­tal. In an ef­fort to in­crease their num­bers, Dali­gas­tia or­dered im­me­di­ate re­sort to sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, know­ing full well that the orig­i­nal sixty and their forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates were doomed to suf­fer ex­tinc­tion by death, sooner or later. Af­ter the fall of Dala­ma­tia the dis­loyal staff mi­grated to the north and the east. Their de­scen­dants were long known as the Nod­ites, and their dwell­ing place as “the land of Nod.”