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Urantia Book Paper 76 The Second Garden
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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Paper 76 The Second Garden
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Introduction
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WHEN Adam elected to leave the first garden to the Nodites unopposed, he and
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his followers could not go west, for the Edenites had no boats suitable for
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such a marine adventure. They could not go north; the northern Nodites were
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already on the march toward Eden. They feared to go south; the hills of that
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region were infested with hostile tribes. The only way open was to the east,
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and so they journeyed eastward toward the then pleasant regions between the
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Tigris and Euphrates rivers. And many of those who were left behind later
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journeyed eastward to join the Adamites in their new valley home.
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Cain and Sansa were both born before the Adamic caravan had reached its
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destination between the rivers in Mesopotamia. Laotta, the mother of Sansa,
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perished at the birth of her daughter; Eve suffered much but survived, owing to
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superior strength. Eve took Sansa, the child of Laotta, to her bosom, and she
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was reared along with Cain. Sansa grew up to be a woman of great ability. She
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became the wife of Sargan, the chief of the northern blue race, and contributed
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to the advancement of the blue men of those times.
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1. THE EDENITES ENTER MESOPOTAMIA
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It required almost a full year for the caravan of Adam to reach the Euphrates
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River. Finding it in flood tide, they remained camped on the plains west of the
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stream almost six weeks before they made their way across to the land between
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the rivers which was to become the second garden.
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When word had reached the dwellers in the land of the second garden that the
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king and high priest of the Garden of Eden was marching on them, they had fled
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in haste to the eastern mountains. Adam found all of the desired territory
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vacated when he arrived. And here in this new location Adam and his helpers set
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themselves to work to build new homes and establish a new center of culture and
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religion.
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This site was known to Adam as one of the three original selections of the
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committee assigned to choose possible locations for the Garden proposed by Van
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and Amadon. The two rivers themselves were a good natural defense in those
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days, and a short way north of the second garden the Euphrates and Tigris came
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close together so that a defense wall extending fifty-six miles could be built
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for the protection of the territory to the south and between the rivers.
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After getting settled in the new Eden, it became necessary to adopt crude
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methods of living; it seemed entirely true that the ground had been cursed.
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Nature was once again taking its course. Now were the Adamites compelled
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to wrest a living from unprepared soil and to cope with the realities of life
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in the face of the natural hostilities and incompatibilities of mortal
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existence. They found the first garden partially prepared for them, but the
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second had to be created by the labor of their own hands and in the "sweat of
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their faces."
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2. CAIN AND ABEL
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Less than two years after Cain's birth, Abel was born, the first child of Adam
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and Eve to be born in the second garden. When Abel grew up to the age of twelve
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years, he elected to be a herder; Cain had chosen to follow agriculture.
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Now, in those days it was customary to make offerings to the priesthood of the
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things at hand. Herders would bring of their flocks, farmers of the fruits of
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the fields; and in accordance with this custom, Cain and Abel likewise made
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periodic offerings to the priests. The two boys had many times argued about the
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relative merits of their vocations, and Abel was not slow to note that
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preference was shown for his animal sacrifices. In vain did Cain appeal to the
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traditions of the first Eden, to the former preference for the fruits of the
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fields. But this Abel would not allow, and he taunted his older brother in his
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discomfiture.
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In the days of the first Eden Adam had indeed sought to discourage the offering
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of animal sacrifice so that Cain had a justifiable precedent for his
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contentions. It was, however, difficult to organize the religious life of the
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second Eden. Adam was burdened with a thousand and one details associated with
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the work of building, defense, and agriculture. Being much depressed
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spiritually, he intrusted the organization of worship and education to those of
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Nodite extraction who had served in these capacities in the first garden; and
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in even so short a time the officiating Nodite priests were reverting to the
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standards and rulings of pre-Adamic times.
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The two boys never got along well, and this matter of sacrifices further
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contributed to the growing hatred between them. Abel knew he was the son of
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both Adam and Eve and never failed to impress upon Cain that Adam was not his
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father. Cain was not pure violet as his father was of the Nodite race later
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admixed with the blue and the red man and with the aboriginal Andonic stock.
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And all of this, with Cain's natural bellicose inheritance, caused him to
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nourish an ever-increasing hatred for his younger brother.
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The boys were respectively eighteen and twenty years of age when the tension
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between them was finally resolved, one day, when Abel's taunts so infuriated
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his bellicose brother that Cain turned upon him in wrath and slew him.
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The observation of Abel's conduct establishes the value of environment and
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education as factors in character development. Abel had an ideal inheritance,
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and heredity lies at the bottom of all character; but the influence of an
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inferior environment virtually neutralized this magnificent inheritance. Abel,
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especially during his younger years, was greatly influenced by his unfavorable
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surroundings. He would have become an entirely different person had he lived to
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be twenty-five or thirty; his superb inheritance would then have shown itself.
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While a good environment cannot contribute much toward really overcoming the
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character handicaps of a base heredity, a bad environment can very effectively
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spoil an excellent inheritance, at least during the younger years of life. Good
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social environment and proper education are indispensable soil and atmosphere
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for getting the most out of a good inheritance.
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The death of Abel became known to his parents when his dogs brought the flocks
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home without their master. To Adam and Eve, Cain was fast becoming the grim
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reminder of their folly, and they encouraged him in his decision to leave the
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garden.
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Cain's life in Mesopotamia had not been exactly happy since he was in such a
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peculiar way symbolic of the default. It was not that his associates were
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unkind to him, but he had not been unaware of their subconscious resentment of
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his presence. But Cain knew that, since he bore no tribal mark, he would be
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killed by the first neighboring tribesmen who might chance to meet him. Fear,
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and some remorse, led him to repent. Cain had never been indwelt by an
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Adjuster, had always been defiant of the family discipline and disdainful of
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his father's religion. But he now went to Eve, his mother, and asked for
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spiritual help and guidance, and when he honestly sought divine assistance, an
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Adjuster indwelt him. And this Adjuster, dwelling within and looking out, gave
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Cain a distinct advantage of superiority which classed him with the greatly
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feared tribe of Adam.
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And so Cain departed for the land of Nod, east of the second Eden. He became a
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great leader among one group of his father's people and did, to a certain
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degree, fulfill the predictions of Serapatatia, for he did promote peace
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between this division of the Nodites and the Adamites throughout his lifetime.
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Cain married Remona, his distant cousin, and their first son, Enoch, became the
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head of the Elamite Nodites. And for hundreds of years the Elamites and the
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Adamites continued to be at peace.
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3. LIFE IN MESOPOTAMIA
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As time passed in the second garden, the consequences of default became
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increasingly apparent. Adam and Eve greatly missed their former home of beauty
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and tranquillity as well as their children who had been deported to Edentia. It
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was indeed pathetic to observe this magnificent couple reduced to the status of
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the common flesh of the realm; but they bore their diminished estate with grace
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and fortitude.
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Adam wisely spent most of the time training his children and their associates
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in civil administration, educational methods, and religious devotions. Had it
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not been for this foresight, pandemonium would have broken loose upon his
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death. As it was, the death of Adam made little difference in the conduct of
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the affairs of his people. But long before Adam and Eve passed away, they
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recognized that their children and followers had gradually learned to forget
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the days of their glory in Eden. And it was better for the majority of their
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followers that they did forget the grandeur of Eden; they were not so likely to
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experience undue dissatisfaction with their less fortunate environment.
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The civil rulers of the Adamites were derived hereditarily from the sons of the
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first garden. Adam's first son, Adamson (Adam ben Adam), founded a secondary
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center of the violet race to the north of the second Eden. Adam's second son,
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Eveson, became a masterly leader and administrator; he was the great helper of
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his father. Eveson lived not quite so long as Adam, and his eldest son, Jansad,
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became the successor of Adam as the head of the Adamite tribes.
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The religious rulers, or priesthood, originated with Seth, the eldest surviving
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son of Adam and Eve born in the second garden. He was born one hundred and
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twenty-nine years after Adam's arrival on Urantia. Seth became absorbed in the
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work of improving the spiritual status of his father's people, becoming the
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head of the new priesthood of the second garden. His son, Enos, founded the new
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order of worship, and his grandson, Kenan, instituted the foreign missionary
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service to the surrounding tribes, near and far.
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The Sethite priesthood was a threefold undertaking, embracing religion, health,
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and education. The priests of this order were trained to officiate at religious
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ceremonies, to serve as physicians and sanitary inspectors, and to act as
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teachers in the schools of the garden.
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Adam's caravan had carried the seeds and bulbs of hundreds of plants and
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cereals of the first garden with them to the land between the rivers; they also
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had brought along extensive herds and some of all the domesticated animals.
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Because of this they possessed great advantages over the surrounding tribes.
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They enjoyed many of the benefits of the previous culture of the original
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Garden.
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Up to the time of leaving the first garden, Adam and his family had always
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subsisted on fruits, cereals, and nuts. On the way to Mesopotamia they had, for
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the first time, partaken of herbs and vegetables. The eating of meat was early
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introduced into the second garden, but Adam and Eve never partook of flesh as a
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part of their regular diet. Neither did Adamson nor Eveson nor the other
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children of the first generation of the first garden become flesh eaters.
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The Adamites greatly excelled the surrounding peoples in cultural achievement
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and intellectual development. They produced the third alphabet and otherwise
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laid the foundations for much that was the forerunner of modern art, science,
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and literature. Here in the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates they
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maintained the arts of writing, metalworking, pottery making, and weaving and
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produced a type of architecture that was not excelled in thousands of years.
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The home life of the violet peoples was, for their day and age, ideal. Children
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were subjected to courses of training in agriculture, craftsmanship, and animal
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husbandry or else were educated to perform the threefold duty of a Sethite: to
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be priest, physician, and teacher.
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And when thinking of the Sethite priesthood, do not confuse those high-minded
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and noble teachers of health and religion, those true educators, with the
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debased and commercial priesthoods of the later tribes and surrounding nations.
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Their religious concepts of Deity and the universe were advanced and more or
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less accurate, their health provisions were, for their time, excellent, and
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their methods of education have never since been surpassed.
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4. THE VIOLET RACE
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Adam and Eve were the founders of the violet race of men, the ninth human race
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to appear on Urantia. Adam and his offspring had blue eyes, and the violet
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peoples were characterized by fair complexions and light hair color--yellow,
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red, and brown.
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Eve did not suffer pain in childbirth; neither did the early evolutionary
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races. Only the mixed races produced by the union of evolutionary man with the
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Nodites and later with the Adamites suffered the severe pangs of childbirth.
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Adam and Eve, like their brethren on Jerusem, were energized by dual nutrition,
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subsisting on both food and light, supplemented by certain superphysical
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energies unrevealed on Urantia. Their Urantia offspring did not inherit the
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parental endowment of energy intake and light circulation. They had a single
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circulation, the human type of blood sustenance. They were designedly mortal
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though long-lived, albeit longevity gravitated toward the human norm with each
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succeeding generation.
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Adam and Eve and their first generation of children did not use the flesh of
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animals for food. They subsisted wholly upon "the fruits of the trees." After
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the first generation all of the descendants of Adam began to partake of dairy
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products, but many of them continued to follow a nonflesh diet. Many of the
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southern tribes with whom they later united were also nonflesh eaters. Later
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on, most of these vegetarian tribes migrated to the east and survived as now
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admixed in the peoples of India.
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Both the physical and spiritual visions of Adam and Eve were far superior to
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those of the present-day peoples. Their special senses were much more acute,
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and they were able to see the midwayers and the angelic hosts, the
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Melchizedeks, and the fallen Prince Caligastia, who several times came to
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confer with his noble successor. They retained the ability to see these
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celestial beings for over one hundred years after the default. These special
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senses were not so acutely present in their children and tended to diminish
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with each succeeding generation.
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The Adamic children were usually Adjuster indwelt since they all possessed
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undoubted survival capacity. These superior offspring were not so subject to
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fear as the children of evolution. So much of fear persists in the present-day
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races of Urantia because your ancestors received so little of Adam's life
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plasm, owing to the early miscarriage of the plans for racial physical uplift.
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The body cells of the Material Sons and their progeny are far more resistant to
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disease than are those of the evolutionary beings indigenous to the planet. The
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body cells of the native races are akin to the living disease-producing
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microscopic and ultramicroscopic organisms of the realm. These facts explain
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why the Urantia peoples must do so much by way of scientific effort to
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withstand so many physical disorders. You would be far more disease resistant
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if your races carried more of the Adamic life.
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After becoming established in the second garden on the Euphrates, Adam elected
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to leave behind as much of his life plasm as possible to benefit the world
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after his death. Accordingly, Eve was made the head of a commission of twelve
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on race improvement, and before Adam died this commission had selected 1,682 of
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the highest type of women on Urantia, and these women were impregnated with the
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Adamic life plasm. Their children all grew up to maturity except 112, so that
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the world, in this way, was benefited by the addition of 1,570 superior men and
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women. Though these candidate mothers were selected from all the surrounding
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tribes and represented most of the races on earth, the majority were chosen
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from the highest strains of the Nodites, and they constituted the early
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beginnings of the mighty Andite race. These children were born and reared in
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the tribal surroundings of their respective mothers.
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5. DEATH OF ADAM AND EVE
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Not long after the establishment of the second Eden, Adam and Eve were duly
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informed that their repentance was acceptable, and that, while they were
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doomed to suffer the fate of the mortals of their world, they should certainly
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become eligible for admission to the ranks of the sleeping survivors of
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Urantia. They fully believed this gospel of resurrection and rehabilitation
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which the Melchizedeks so touchingly proclaimed to them. Their transgression
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had been an error of judgment and not the sin of conscious and deliberate
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rebellion.
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Adam and Eve did not, as citizens of Jerusem, have Thought Adjusters, nor were
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they Adjuster indwelt when they functioned on Urantia in the first garden. But
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shortly after their reduction to mortal status they became conscious of a new
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presence within them and awakened to the realization that human status coupled
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with sincere repentance had made it possible for Adjusters to indwell them. It
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was this knowledge of being Adjuster indwelt that greatly heartened Adam and
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Eve throughout the remainder of their lives; they knew that they had failed as
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Material Sons of Satania, but they also knew that the Paradise career was still
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open to them as ascending sons of the universe.
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Adam knew about the dispensational resurrection which occurred simultaneously
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with his arrival on the planet, and he believed that he and his companion would
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probably be repersonalized in connection with the advent of the next order of
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sonship. He did not know that Michael, the sovereign of this universe was so
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soon to appear on Urantia; he expected that the next Son to arrive would be of
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the Avonal order. Even so, it was always a comfort to Adam and Eve, as well as
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something difficult for them to understand, to ponder the only personal message
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they ever received from Michael. This message, among other expressions of
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friendship and comfort, said: "I have given consideration to the circumstances
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of your default, I have remembered the desire of your hearts ever to be loyal
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to my Father's will, and you will be called from the embrace of mortal slumber
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when I come to Urantia if the subordinate Sons of my realm do not send for you
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before that time."
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And this was a great mystery to Adam and Eve. They could comprehend the veiled
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promise of a possible special resurrection in this message, and such a
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possibility greatly cheered them, but they could not grasp the meaning of the
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intimation that they might rest until the time of a resurrection associated
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with Michael's personal appearance on Urantia. And so the Edenic pair always
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proclaimed that a Son of God would sometime come, and they communicated to
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their loved ones the belief, at least the longing hope, that the world of their
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blunders and sorrows might possibly be the realm whereon the ruler of this
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universe would elect to function as the Paradise bestowal Son. It seemed too
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good to be true, but Adam did entertain the thought that strife-torn Urantia
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might, after all, turn out to be the most fortunate world in the system of
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Satania, the envied planet of all Nebadon.
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Adam lived for 530 years; he died of what might be termed old age. His physical
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mechanism simply wore out; the process of disintegration gradually gained on
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the process of repair, and the inevitable end came. Eve had died nineteen years
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previously of a weakened heart. They were both buried in the center of the
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temple of divine service which had been built in accordance with their plans
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soon after the wall of the colony had been completed. And this was the origin
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of the practice of burying noted and pious men and women under the floors of
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the places of worship.
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The supermaterial government of Urantia, under the direction of the
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Melchizedeks, continued, but direct physical contact with the evolutionary
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races had
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been severed. From the distant days of the arrival of the corporeal staff of
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the Planetary Prince, down through the times of Van and Amadon to the arrival
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of Adam and Eve, physical representatives of the universe government had been
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stationed on the planet. But with the Adamic default this regime, extending
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over a period of more than four hundred and fifty thousand years, came to an
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end. In the spiritual spheres, angelic helpers continued to struggle in
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conjunction with the Thought Adjusters, both working heroically for the salvage
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of the individual; but no comprehensive plan for far-reaching world welfare was
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promulgated to the mortals of earth until the arrival of Machiventa
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Melchizedek, in the times of Abraham, who, with the power, patience, and
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authority of a Son of God, did lay the foundations for the further uplift and
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spiritual rehabilitation of unfortunate Urantia.
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Misfortune has not, however, been the sole lot of Urantia; this planet has also
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been the most fortunate in the local universe of Nebadon. Urantians should
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count it all gain if the blunders of their ancestors and the mistakes of their
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early world rulers so plunged the planet into such a hopeless state of
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confusion, all the more confounded by evil and sin, that this very background
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of darkness should so appeal to Michael of Nebadon that he selected this world
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as the arena wherein to reveal the loving personality of the Father in heaven.
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It is not that Urantia needed a Creator Son to set its tangled affairs in
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order; it is rather that the evil and sin on Urantia afforded the Creator Son a
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more striking background against which to reveal the matchless love, mercy, and
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patience of the Paradise Father.
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6. SURVIVAL OF ADAM AND EVE
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Adam and Eve went to their mortal rest with strong faith in the promises made
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to them by the Melchizedeks that they would sometime awake from the sleep of
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death to resume life on the mansion worlds, worlds all so familiar to them in
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the days preceding their mission in the material flesh of the violet race on
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Urantia.
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They did not long rest in the oblivion of the unconscious sleep of the mortals
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of the realm. On the third day after Adam's death, the second following his
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reverent burial, the orders of Lanaforge, sustained by the acting Most High of
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Edentia and concurred in by the Union of Days on Salvington, acting for
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Michael, were placed in Gabriel's hands, directing the special roll call of the
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distinguished survivors of the Adamic default on Urantia. And in accordance
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with this mandate of special resurrection, number twenty-six of the Urantia
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series, Adam and Eve were repersonalized and reassembled in the resurrection
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halls of the mansion worlds of Satania together with 1,316 of their associates
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in the experience of the first garden. Many other loyal souls had already been
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translated at the time of Adam's arrival, which was attended by a
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dispensational adjudication of both the sleeping survivors and of the living
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qualified ascenders.
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Adam and Eve quickly passed through the worlds of progressive ascension until
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they attained citizenship on Jerusem, once again to be residents of the planet
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of their origin but this time as members of a different order of universe
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personalities. They left Jerusem as permanent citizens--Sons of God; they
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returned as ascendant citizens--sons of man. They were immediately attached to
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the Urantia service on the system capital, later being assigned membership
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among the four and twenty counselors who constitute the present
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advisory-control body of Urantia.
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And thus ends the story of the Planetary Adam and Eve of Urantia, a story of
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trial, tragedy, and triumph, at least personal triumph for your well-meaning
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but deluded Material Son and Daughter and undoubtedly, in the end, a story of
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ultimate triumph for their world and its rebellion-tossed and evil-harassed
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inhabitants. When all is summed up, Adam and Eve made a mighty contribution to
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the speedy civilization and accelerated biologic progress of the human race.
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They left a great culture on earth, but it was not possible for such an
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advanced civilization to survive in the face of the early dilution and the
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eventual submergence of the Adamic inheritance. It is the people who make a
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civilization; civilization does not make the people.
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[Presented by Solonia, the seraphic "voice in the Garden."]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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