Ratta

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.

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.

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.

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.