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==PAPER 76: THE SECOND GARDEN==

==PAPER 76: THE SECOND GARDEN==

76:0.1 When [[Adam]] elected to leave the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] to the [[Nodites]] unopposed, he and his followers could not go west, for the Edenites had no boats suitable for such a [[marine]] [[adventure]]. They could not go north; the northern [[Nodites]] were already on the march toward [[Eden]]. They feared to go south; the hills of that region were infested with [[Violence|hostile]] [[tribes]]. The only way open was to the east, and so they [[journeyed]] eastward toward the then [[pleasant]] regions between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates rivers]. And many of those who were left behind later [[journeyed]] eastward to join the Adamites in their new valley [[home]].

76:0.1 When [[Adam]] elected to leave the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] to the [[Nodites]] unopposed, he and his followers could not go west, for the Edenites had no boats suitable for such a [[marine]] [[adventure]]. They could not go north; the northern [[Nodites]] were already on the march toward [[Eden]]. They feared to go south; the hills of that region were infested with [[Violence|hostile]] [[tribes]]. The only way open was to the east, and so they [[journeyed]] eastward toward the then [[pleasant]] regions between the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates rivers]. And many of those who were left behind later [[journeyed]] eastward to join the Adamites in their new valley [[home]].

76:0.2 [[Cain]] and Sansa were both born before the Adamic [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caravan caravan] had reached its destination between the [[rivers]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 blue races], and contributed to the advancement of the blue men of those times.

76:0.2 [[Cain]] and Sansa were both born before the Adamic [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caravan caravan] had reached its destination between the [[rivers]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 blue races], and contributed to the advancement of the blue men of those times.

==76:1. THE EDENITES ENTER MESOPOTAMIA==

==76:1. THE EDENITES ENTER MESOPOTAMIA==

76:1.1 It required almost a full year for the caravan of [[Adam]] to reach the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Euphrates River]. Finding it in flood tide, they remained camped on the plains west of the [[stream]] almost six weeks before they made their way across to the [[land]] between the rivers which was to become the ''second garden''.

76:1.1 It required almost a full year for the caravan of [[Adam]] to reach the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Euphrates River]. Finding it in flood tide, they remained camped on the plains west of the [[stream]] almost six weeks before they made their way across to the [[land]] between the rivers which was to become the ''second garden''.

76:1.2 When [[word]] had reached the dwellers in the [[land]] of the ''second garden'' that the [[king]] and high [[priest]] of the [[Garden of Eden]] was marching on them, they had fled in haste to the eastern [[mountains]]. [[Adam]] found all of the desired territory vacated when he arrived. And here in this new location Adam and his helpers set themselves to [[work]] to build new [[homes]] and [[establish]] a new [[center]] of [[culture]] and [[religion]].

76:1.2 When [[word]] had reached the dwellers in the [[land]] of the ''second garden'' that the [[king]] and high [[priest]] of the [[Garden of Eden]] was marching on them, they had fled in haste to the eastern [[mountains]]. [[Adam]] found all of the desired territory vacated when he arrived. And here in this new location Adam and his helpers set themselves to [[work]] to build new [[homes]] and [[establish]] a new [[center]] of [[culture]] and [[religion]].

76:1.3 This site was known to [[Adam]] as one of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73#73:3._THE_GARDEN_SITE three original selections] of the committee assigned to [[choose]] [[possible]] locations for the Garden proposed by [[Van]] and [[Amadon]]. The two [[rivers]] themselves were a [[good]] [[natural]] [[defense]] in those days, and a short way north of the ''second garden'' the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Euphrates and Tigris] came close [[together]] so that a [[defense]] wall extending fifty-six miles could be built for the [[protection]] of the territory to the south and between the [[rivers]].

76:1.3 This site was known to [[Adam]] as one of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73#73:3._THE_GARDEN_SITE three original selections] of the committee assigned to [[choose]] [[possible]] locations for the Garden proposed by [[Van]] and [[Amadon]]. The two [[rivers]] themselves were a [[good]] [[natural]] [[defense]] in those days, and a short way north of the ''second garden'' the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Euphrates and Tigris] came close [[together]] so that a [[defense]] wall extending fifty-six miles could be built for the [[protection]] of the territory to the south and between the [[rivers]].

76:1.4 After getting settled in the new [[Eden]], it became [[necessary]] to adopt crude [[methods]] of living; it seemed entirely true that the ground had been [[cursed]]. [[Nature]] was once again taking its [[course]]. Now were the Adamites [[compelled]] to wrest a living from unprepared [[soil]] and to cope with the [[realities]] of life in the face of the [[natural]] hostilities and incompatibilities of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. They found the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] partially [[prepared]] for them, but the second had to be [[created]] by the [[labor]] of their own hands and in the "sweat of their faces."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.3]

76:1.4 After getting settled in the new [[Eden]], it became [[necessary]] to adopt crude [[methods]] of living; it seemed entirely true that the ground had been [[cursed]]. [[Nature]] was once again taking its [[course]]. Now were the Adamites [[compelled]] to wrest a living from unprepared [[soil]] and to cope with the [[realities]] of life in the face of the [[natural]] hostilities and incompatibilities of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. They found the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] partially [[prepared]] for them, but the second had to be [[created]] by the [[labor]] of their own hands and in the "sweat of their faces."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.3]

==76:2. CAIN AND ABEL==

==76:2. CAIN AND ABEL==

76:2.1 Less than two years after [[Cain]]'s [[birth]], [[Abel]] was born, the first child of [[Adam and Eve]] to be born in the ''second garden''. When Abel grew up to the age of twelve years, he elected to be a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder herder]; [[Cain]] had chosen to follow [[agriculture]].

76:2.1 Less than two years after [[Cain]]'s [[birth]], [[Abel]] was born, the first child of [[Adam and Eve]] to be born in the ''second garden''. When Abel grew up to the age of twelve years, he elected to be a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder herder]; [[Cain]] had chosen to follow [[agriculture]].

76:2.2 Now, in those days it was [[custom]]ary to make [[Sacrifice|offerings]] to the [[priesthood]] of the [[things]] at hand. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder Herders] would bring of their flocks, farmers of the [[Harvest|fruits]] of the fields; and in [[accordance]] with this [[custom]], Cain and Abel likewise made periodic offerings to the [[priests]]. The two boys had many times [[argued]] about the [[relative]] merits of their [[vocations]], and Abel was not slow to note that [[preference]] was shown for his [[animal]] [[sacrifices]]. In vain did [[Cain]] appeal to the [[traditions]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first Eden], to the former preference for the [[Harvest|fruits]] of the fields. But this Abel would not allow, and he taunted his older [[brother]] in his discomfiture.

76:2.2 Now, in those days it was [[custom]]ary to make [[Sacrifice|offerings]] to the [[priesthood]] of the [[things]] at hand. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder Herders] would bring of their flocks, farmers of the [[Harvest|fruits]] of the fields; and in [[accordance]] with this [[custom]], Cain and Abel likewise made periodic offerings to the [[priests]]. The two boys had many times [[argued]] about the [[relative]] merits of their [[vocations]], and Abel was not slow to note that [[preference]] was shown for his [[animal]] [[sacrifices]]. In vain did [[Cain]] appeal to the [[traditions]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first Eden], to the former preference for the [[Harvest|fruits]] of the fields. But this Abel would not allow, and he taunted his older [[brother]] in his discomfiture.

76:2.3 In the days of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first Eden] [[Adam]] had indeed sought to discourage the offering of [[animal]] [[sacrifice]] so that [[Cain]] had a justifiable precedent for his contentions. It was, however, [[difficult]] to [[organize]] the [[religious]] life of the ''second Eden''. [[Adam]] was burdened with a thousand and one details associated with the [[work]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction building], [[defense]], and [[agriculture]]. Being much [[depressed]] [[spiritually]], he intrusted the [[organization]] of [[worship]] and [[education]] to those of [[Nodite]] extraction who had served in these [[capacities]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]; and in even so short a time the officiating [[Nodite]] [[priests]] were reverting to the [[standards]] and rulings of pre-Adamic times.

76:2.3 In the days of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first Eden] [[Adam]] had indeed sought to discourage the offering of [[animal]] [[sacrifice]] so that [[Cain]] had a justifiable precedent for his contentions. It was, however, [[difficult]] to [[organize]] the [[religious]] life of the ''second Eden''. [[Adam]] was burdened with a thousand and one details associated with the [[work]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction building], [[defense]], and [[agriculture]]. Being much [[depressed]] [[spiritually]], he intrusted the [[organization]] of [[worship]] and [[education]] to those of [[Nodite]] extraction who had served in these [[capacities]] in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]; and in even so short a time the officiating [[Nodite]] [[priests]] were reverting to the [[standards]] and rulings of pre-Adamic times.

76:2.4 The two boys never got along well, and this matter of [[sacrifices]] further contributed to the growing [[hatred]] between them. Abel knew he was the son of both [[Adam and Eve]] and never failed to impress upon Cain that [[Adam]] was not his [[father]]. Cain was not pure [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet] as his [[father]] was of the [[Nodite]] race later admixed with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 blue and the red man] and with the [[aboriginal]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonic stock]. And all of this, with [[Cain]]'s [[natural]] [[bellicose]] [[inheritance]], caused him to nourish an ever-increasing [[hatred]] for his younger [[brother]].

76:2.4 The two boys never got along well, and this matter of [[sacrifices]] further contributed to the growing [[hatred]] between them. Abel knew he was the son of both [[Adam and Eve]] and never failed to impress upon Cain that [[Adam]] was not his [[father]]. Cain was not pure [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet] as his [[father]] was of the [[Nodite]] race later admixed with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 blue and the red man] and with the [[aboriginal]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonic stock]. And all of this, with [[Cain]]'s [[natural]] [[bellicose]] [[inheritance]], caused him to nourish an ever-increasing [[hatred]] for his younger [[brother]].

76:2.5 The boys were respectively eighteen and twenty years of age when the [[tension]] between them was finally resolved, one day, when [[Abel]]'s taunts so [[infuriated]] his [[bellicose]] brother that [[Cain]] turned upon him in wrath and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder slew] him.

76:2.5 The boys were respectively eighteen and twenty years of age when the [[tension]] between them was finally resolved, one day, when [[Abel]]'s taunts so [[infuriated]] his [[bellicose]] brother that [[Cain]] turned upon him in wrath and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder slew] him.

76:2.6 The [[observation]] of [[Abel]]'s [[conduct]] [[establishes]] the [[value]] of [[environment]] and [[education]] as [[factors]] in [[character]] [[development]]. Abel had an [[ideal]] [[inheritance]], and [[heredity]] lies at the bottom of all [[character]]; but the [[influence]] of an inferior [[environment]] virtually neutralized this [[magnificent]] inheritance. Abel, especially during his younger years, was greatly [[influenced]] by his unfavorable surroundings. He would have become an entirely [[different]] [[person]] had he lived to be twenty-five or thirty; his superb [[inheritance]] would then have shown itself. While a [[good]] [[environment]] cannot [[contribute]] much toward really overcoming the [[character]] [[handicaps]] of a base [[heredity]], a bad [[environment]] can very [[effectively]] spoil an [[excellent]] [[inheritance]], at least during the younger years of life. [[Good]] [[social]] [[environment]] and proper [[education]] are indispensable [[soil]] and [[atmosphere]] for getting the most out of a [[good]] [[inheritance]].

76:2.6 The [[observation]] of [[Abel]]'s [[conduct]] [[establishes]] the [[value]] of [[environment]] and [[education]] as [[factors]] in [[character]] [[development]]. Abel had an [[ideal]] [[inheritance]], and [[heredity]] lies at the bottom of all [[character]]; but the [[influence]] of an inferior [[environment]] virtually neutralized this [[magnificent]] inheritance. Abel, especially during his younger years, was greatly [[influenced]] by his unfavorable surroundings. He would have become an entirely [[different]] [[person]] had he lived to be twenty-five or thirty; his superb [[inheritance]] would then have shown itself. While a [[good]] [[environment]] cannot [[contribute]] much toward really overcoming the [[character]] [[handicaps]] of a base [[heredity]], a bad [[environment]] can very [[effectively]] spoil an [[excellent]] [[inheritance]], at least during the younger years of life. [[Good]] [[social]] [[environment]] and proper [[education]] are indispensable [[soil]] and [[atmosphere]] for getting the most out of a [[good]] [[inheritance]].

76:2.7 The [[death]] of [[Abel]] became known to his [[parents]] when his dogs brought the flocks home without their master. To [[Adam and Eve]], Cain was fast becoming the grim [[reminder]] of their [[folly]], and they [[encouraged]] him in his [[decision]] to leave [[the garden]].

76:2.7 The [[death]] of [[Abel]] became known to his [[parents]] when his dogs brought the flocks home without their master. To [[Adam and Eve]], Cain was fast becoming the grim [[reminder]] of their [[folly]], and they [[encouraged]] him in his [[decision]] to leave [[the garden]].

76:2.8 [[Cain]]'s life in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction Mesopotamia] had not been exactly [[happy]] since he was in such a peculiar way [[symbolic]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default]. It was not that his [[associates]] were unkind to him, but he had not been unaware of their [[subconscious]] resentment of his [[presence]]. But Cain knew that, since he bore no [[tribal]] mark, he would be killed by the first [[neighboring]] tribesmen who might [[chance]] to meet him. [[Fear]], and some remorse, led him to [[repent]]. Cain had never been indwelt by an [[Adjuster]], had always been defiant of the [[family]] [[discipline]] and disdainful of his [[father]]'s [[religion]]. But he now went to [[Eve]], his [[mother]], and asked for [[spiritual]] help and [[guidance]], and when he honestly sought [[divine]] [[assistance]], an [[Adjuster]] indwelt him. And this [[Adjuster]], dwelling within and looking out, gave [[Cain]] a distinct advantage of superiority which classed him with the greatly feared [[tribe]] of [[Adam]].

76:2.8 [[Cain]]'s life in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction Mesopotamia] had not been exactly [[happy]] since he was in such a peculiar way [[symbolic]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default]. It was not that his [[associates]] were unkind to him, but he had not been unaware of their [[subconscious]] resentment of his [[presence]]. But Cain knew that, since he bore no [[tribal]] mark, he would be killed by the first [[neighboring]] tribesmen who might [[chance]] to meet him. [[Fear]], and some remorse, led him to [[repent]]. Cain had never been indwelt by an [[Adjuster]], had always been defiant of the [[family]] [[discipline]] and disdainful of his [[father]]'s [[religion]]. But he now went to [[Eve]], his [[mother]], and asked for [[spiritual]] help and [[guidance]], and when he honestly sought [[divine]] [[assistance]], an [[Adjuster]] indwelt him. And this [[Adjuster]], dwelling within and looking out, gave [[Cain]] a distinct advantage of superiority which classed him with the greatly feared [[tribe]] of [[Adam]].

76:2.9 And so [[Cain]] departed for the land of [[Nod]], east of the ''second Eden''. He became a great [[leader]] among one [[group]] of his [[father]]'s people and did, to a certain [[degree]], fulfill the predictions of ''Serapatatia'', for he did promote [[peace]] between this division of the [[Nodites]] and the Adamites throughout his lifetime. Cain married Remona, his distant cousin, and their first son, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch Enoch], became the head of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elamites Elamite] Nodites. And for hundreds of years the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elamites Elamites] and the Adamites continued to be at [[peace]].

76:2.9 And so [[Cain]] departed for the land of [[Nod]], east of the ''second Eden''. He became a great [[leader]] among one [[group]] of his [[father]]'s people and did, to a certain [[degree]], fulfill the predictions of ''Serapatatia'', for he did promote [[peace]] between this division of the [[Nodites]] and the Adamites throughout his lifetime. Cain married Remona, his distant cousin, and their first son, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch Enoch], became the head of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elamites Elamite] Nodites. And for hundreds of years the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elamites Elamites] and the Adamites continued to be at [[peace]].

==76:3. LIFE IN MESOPOTAMIA==

==76:3. LIFE IN MESOPOTAMIA==

76:3.1 As [[time]] passed in the ''second garden'', the [[consequences]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 default] became increasingly apparent. [[Adam and Eve]] greatly missed their former [[home]] of [[beauty]] and tranquillity as well as their [[children]] who had been deported to [[Edentia]]. It was indeed pathetic to [[observe]] this magnificent couple reduced to the [[status]] of the [[Mortal|common flesh]] of the realm; but they bore their diminished estate with [[grace]] and [[fortitude]].

76:3.1 As [[time]] passed in the ''second garden'', the [[consequences]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 default] became increasingly apparent. [[Adam and Eve]] greatly missed their former [[home]] of [[beauty]] and tranquillity as well as their [[children]] who had been deported to [[Edentia]]. It was indeed pathetic to [[observe]] this magnificent couple reduced to the [[status]] of the [[Mortal|common flesh]] of the realm; but they bore their diminished estate with [[grace]] and [[fortitude]].

76:3.2 [[Adam]] wisely spent most of the [[time]] [[training]] his [[children]] and their [[associates]] in [[civil]] [[administration]], [[educational]] [[methods]], and [[religious]] [[devotion]]s. Had it not been for this [[foresight]], [[Chaos|pandemonium]] would have broken loose upon his [[death]]. As it was, the [[death]] of Adam made little [[difference]] in the [[conduct]] of the affairs of his people. But long before [[Adam and Eve]] passed away, they recognized that their [[children]] and followers had [[gradually]] learned to [[forget]] the days of their [[glory]] in [[Eden]]. And it was better for the [[majority]] of their followers that they did forget the grandeur of Eden; they were not so likely to [[experience]] undue dissatisfaction with their less fortunate [[environment]].

76:3.2 [[Adam]] wisely spent most of the [[time]] [[training]] his [[children]] and their [[associates]] in [[civil]] [[administration]], [[educational]] [[methods]], and [[religious]] [[devotion]]s. Had it not been for this [[foresight]], [[Chaos|pandemonium]] would have broken loose upon his [[death]]. As it was, the [[death]] of Adam made little [[difference]] in the [[conduct]] of the affairs of his people. But long before [[Adam and Eve]] passed away, they recognized that their [[children]] and followers had [[gradually]] learned to [[forget]] the days of their [[glory]] in [[Eden]]. And it was better for the [[majority]] of their followers that they did forget the grandeur of Eden; they were not so likely to [[experience]] undue dissatisfaction with their less fortunate [[environment]].

76:3.3 The [[civil]] rulers of the Adamites were derived hereditarily from the sons of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 the first garden]. Adam's first son, Adamson (Adam ben Adam), founded a secondary [[center]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] to the north of the ''second Eden''. Adam's second son, Eveson, became a masterly [[leader]] and [[administrator]]; he was the great helper of his [[father]]. Eveson lived not quite so long as [[Adam]], and his eldest son, Jansad, became the successor of Adam as the head of the Adamite tribes.

76:3.3 The [[civil]] rulers of the Adamites were derived hereditarily from the sons of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 the first garden]. Adam's first son, Adamson (Adam ben Adam), founded a secondary [[center]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] to the north of the ''second Eden''. Adam's second son, Eveson, became a masterly [[leader]] and [[administrator]]; he was the great helper of his [[father]]. Eveson lived not quite so long as [[Adam]], and his eldest son, Jansad, became the successor of Adam as the head of the Adamite tribes.

76:3.4 The religious rulers, or [[priesthood]], originated with ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethianism Seth]'', the eldest surviving son of [[Adam and Eve]] born in the ''second garden''. He was born one hundred and twenty-nine years after Adam's arrival on [[Urantia]]. Seth became absorbed in the [[work]] of improving the [[spiritual]] [[status]] of his [[father]]'s people, becoming the head of the new [[priesthood]] of the second garden. His son, Enos, founded the new order of [[worship]], and his grandson, Kenan, instituted the foreign missionary [[service]] to the surrounding [[tribes]], near and far.

76:3.4 The religious rulers, or [[priesthood]], originated with ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethianism Seth]'', the eldest surviving son of [[Adam and Eve]] born in the ''second garden''. He was born one hundred and twenty-nine years after Adam's arrival on [[Urantia]]. Seth became absorbed in the [[work]] of improving the [[spiritual]] [[status]] of his [[father]]'s people, becoming the head of the new [[priesthood]] of the second garden. His son, Enos, founded the new order of [[worship]], and his grandson, Kenan, instituted the foreign missionary [[service]] to the surrounding [[tribes]], near and far.

76:3.5 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethianism Sethite priesthood] was a threefold undertaking, embracing [[religion]], [[health]], and [[education]]. The [[priests]] of this order were [[trained]] to officiate at religious [[ceremonies]], to serve as physicians and sanitary inspectors, and to [[act]] as [[teachers]] in the schools of the garden.

76:3.5 The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethianism Sethite priesthood] was a threefold undertaking, embracing [[religion]], [[health]], and [[education]]. The [[priests]] of this order were [[trained]] to officiate at religious [[ceremonies]], to serve as physicians and sanitary inspectors, and to [[act]] as [[teachers]] in the schools of the garden.

76:3.6 [[Adam]]'s caravan had carried the seeds and bulbs of hundreds of [[plants]] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals cereals] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] with them to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system the land between the rivers]; they also had brought along extensive herds and some of all the [[domesticated]] [[animals]]. Because of this they possessed great advantages over the [[surrounding]] [[tribes]]. They enjoyed many of the benefits of the previous [[culture]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 original Garden].

76:3.6 [[Adam]]'s caravan had carried the seeds and bulbs of hundreds of [[plants]] and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals cereals] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] with them to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system the land between the rivers]; they also had brought along extensive herds and some of all the [[domesticated]] [[animals]]. Because of this they possessed great advantages over the [[surrounding]] [[tribes]]. They enjoyed many of the benefits of the previous [[culture]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 original Garden].

76:3.7 Up to the time of leaving the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden], [[Adam]] and his [[family]] had always subsisted on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruits fruits], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals cereals], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts nuts]. On the way to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] they had, for the first time, partaken of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbs herbs] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetables vegetables]. The eating of meat was early introduced into the ''second garden'', but [[Adam and Eve]] never partook of flesh as a part of their regular [[diet]]. Neither did Adamson nor Eveson nor the other [[children]] of the first [[generation]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] become [[Carnivorous|flesh eaters]].

76:3.7 Up to the time of leaving the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden], [[Adam]] and his [[family]] had always subsisted on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruits fruits], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereals cereals], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts nuts]. On the way to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] they had, for the first time, partaken of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbs herbs] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetables vegetables]. The eating of meat was early introduced into the ''second garden'', but [[Adam and Eve]] never partook of flesh as a part of their regular [[diet]]. Neither did Adamson nor Eveson nor the other [[children]] of the first [[generation]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden] become [[Carnivorous|flesh eaters]].

76:3.8 The Adamites greatly excelled the [[surrounding]] [[people]]s in [[cultural]] achievement and [[intellectual]] [[development]]. They produced the third [[alphabet]] and otherwise laid the [[foundations]] for much that was the forerunner of [[modern]] [[art]], [[science]], and [[literature]]. Here in the [[land]]s between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates] they maintained [[the arts]] of [[writing]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy metalworking], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery#History pottery making], and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaving] and produced a type of [[architecture]] that was not excelled in thousands of years.

76:3.8 The Adamites greatly excelled the [[surrounding]] [[people]]s in [[cultural]] achievement and [[intellectual]] [[development]]. They produced the third [[alphabet]] and otherwise laid the [[foundations]] for much that was the forerunner of [[modern]] [[art]], [[science]], and [[literature]]. Here in the [[land]]s between the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates] they maintained [[the arts]] of [[writing]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy metalworking], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery#History pottery making], and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaving] and produced a type of [[architecture]] that was not excelled in thousands of years.

76:3.9 The [[home]] life of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet peoples] was, for their day and age, [[ideal]]. [[Children]] were subjected to [[courses]] of [[training]] in [[agriculture]], craftsmanship, and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_husbandry animal husbandry] or else were [[educated]] to perform the threefold [[duty]] of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethianism Sethite]: to be [[priest]], physician, and [[teacher]].

76:3.9 The [[home]] life of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet peoples] was, for their day and age, [[ideal]]. [[Children]] were subjected to [[courses]] of [[training]] in [[agriculture]], craftsmanship, and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_husbandry animal husbandry] or else were [[educated]] to perform the threefold [[duty]] of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethianism Sethite]: to be [[priest]], physician, and [[teacher]].

76:3.10 And when [[thinking]] of the Sethite [[priesthood]], do not [[confuse]] those high-minded and [[noble]] [[teachers]] of [[health]] and [[religion]], those true educators, with the debased and [[commercial]] priesthoods of the later tribes and surrounding nations. Their religious [[concepts]] of [[Deity]] and the [[universe]] were advanced and more or less accurate, their [[health]] provisions were, for their time, excellent, and their [[methods]] of [[education]] have never since been surpassed.

76:3.10 And when [[thinking]] of the Sethite [[priesthood]], do not [[confuse]] those high-minded and [[noble]] [[teachers]] of [[health]] and [[religion]], those true educators, with the debased and [[commercial]] priesthoods of the later tribes and surrounding nations. Their religious [[concepts]] of [[Deity]] and the [[universe]] were advanced and more or less accurate, their [[health]] provisions were, for their time, excellent, and their [[methods]] of [[education]] have never since been surpassed.

==76:4. THE VIOLET RACE==

==76:4. THE VIOLET RACE==

76:4.1 [[Adam and Eve]] were the founders of the ''violet race'' of men, the ninth [[human]] [[race]] to appear on [[Urantia]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:5._ORIGIN_OF_THE_COLORED_RACES]. [[Adam]] and his [[offspring]] had blue eyes, and the violet peoples were characterized by fair complexions and light hair color—yellow, red, and brown.

76:4.1 [[Adam and Eve]] were the founders of the ''violet race'' of men, the ninth [[human]] [[race]] to appear on [[Urantia]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:5._ORIGIN_OF_THE_COLORED_RACES]. [[Adam]] and his [[offspring]] had blue eyes, and the violet peoples were characterized by fair complexions and light hair color—yellow, red, and brown.

76:4.2 [[Eve]] did not suffer [[pain]] in [[childbirth]]; neither did the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR early evolutionary races]. Only the mixed races produced by the [[union]] of evolutionary man with the [[Nodites]] and later with the Adamites [[suffer]]ed the severe pangs of [[childbirth]].

76:4.2 [[Eve]] did not suffer [[pain]] in [[childbirth]]; neither did the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#PAPER_64:_THE_EVOLUTIONARY_RACES_OF_COLOR early evolutionary races]. Only the mixed races produced by the [[union]] of evolutionary man with the [[Nodites]] and later with the Adamites [[suffer]]ed the severe pangs of [[childbirth]].

76:4.3 [[Adam and Eve]], like their brethren on [[Jerusem]], were energized by [[dual]] [[nutrition]], subsisting on both [[food]] and [[light]], supplemented by certain superphysical [[energies]] [[unrevealed]] on [[Urantia]]. Their Urantia [[offspring]] did not [[inherit]] the [[parental]] [[endowment]] of [[energy]] intake and [[light]] [[circulation]]. They had a single circulation, the [[human]] type of blood sustenance. They were designedly [[mortal]] though long-lived, albeit longevity gravitated toward the [[human]] [[norm]] with each succeeding [[generation]].

76:4.3 [[Adam and Eve]], like their brethren on [[Jerusem]], were energized by [[dual]] [[nutrition]], subsisting on both [[food]] and [[light]], supplemented by certain superphysical [[energies]] [[unrevealed]] on [[Urantia]]. Their Urantia [[offspring]] did not [[inherit]] the [[parental]] [[endowment]] of [[energy]] intake and [[light]] [[circulation]]. They had a single circulation, the [[human]] type of blood sustenance. They were designedly [[mortal]] though long-lived, albeit longevity gravitated toward the [[human]] [[norm]] with each succeeding [[generation]].

76:4.4 [[Adam and Eve]] and their first [[generation]] of [[children]] did not use the flesh of [[animals]] for [[food]]. They subsisted wholly upon "the fruits of the trees."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1] After the first [[generation]] all of the descendants of [[Adam]] began to partake of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy dairy products], but many of them continued to follow a [[Vegan|nonflesh diet]]. Many of the southern [[tribes]] with whom they later united were also nonflesh eaters. Later on, most of these [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian vegetarian] [[tribes]] migrated to the east and [[survived]] as now admixed in the peoples of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

76:4.4 [[Adam and Eve]] and their first [[generation]] of [[children]] did not use the flesh of [[animals]] for [[food]]. They subsisted wholly upon "the fruits of the trees."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1] After the first [[generation]] all of the descendants of [[Adam]] began to partake of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy dairy products], but many of them continued to follow a [[Vegan|nonflesh diet]]. Many of the southern [[tribes]] with whom they later united were also nonflesh eaters. Later on, most of these [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian vegetarian] [[tribes]] migrated to the east and [[survived]] as now admixed in the peoples of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India].

76:4.5 Both the [[physical]] and [[spiritual]] [[visions]] of [[Adam and Eve]] were far superior to those of the present-day peoples. Their special [[senses]] were much more acute, and they were able to see the [[midwayers]] and the [[angelic hosts]], the [[Melchizedeks]], and the fallen Prince [[Caligastia]], who several times came to confer with his [[noble]] successor. They retained the [[ability]] to see these [[celestial]] [[beings]] for over one hundred years after [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default]. These special [[senses]] were not so acutely present in their [[children]] and tended to diminish with each [[succeeding]] [[generation]].

76:4.5 Both the [[physical]] and [[spiritual]] [[visions]] of [[Adam and Eve]] were far superior to those of the present-day peoples. Their special [[senses]] were much more acute, and they were able to see the [[midwayers]] and the [[angelic hosts]], the [[Melchizedeks]], and the fallen Prince [[Caligastia]], who several times came to confer with his [[noble]] successor. They retained the [[ability]] to see these [[celestial]] [[beings]] for over one hundred years after [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default]. These special [[senses]] were not so acutely present in their [[children]] and tended to diminish with each [[succeeding]] [[generation]].

76:4.6 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adamic children] were usually [[Adjuster]] indwelt since they all possessed undoubted [[survival]] [[capacity]]. These superior [[offspring]] were not so subject to [[fear]] as the [[children]] of [[evolution]]. So much of [[fear]] [[persists]] in the present-day [[races]] of [[Urantia]] because your [[ancestors]] received so little of [[Adam]]'s [[life plasm]], owing to the early miscarriage of the [[plans]] for racial [[physical]] uplift.

76:4.6 The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adamic children] were usually [[Adjuster]] indwelt since they all possessed undoubted [[survival]] [[capacity]]. These superior [[offspring]] were not so subject to [[fear]] as the [[children]] of [[evolution]]. So much of [[fear]] [[persists]] in the present-day [[races]] of [[Urantia]] because your [[ancestors]] received so little of [[Adam]]'s [[life plasm]], owing to the early miscarriage of the [[plans]] for racial [[physical]] uplift.

76:4.7 The [[body]] [[cells]] of the [[Material Sons]] and their [[progeny]] are far more [[resistant]] to [[disease]] than are those of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary beings] [[indigenous]] to the [[planet]]. The [[body]] [[cells]] of the [[native]] races are akin to the living [[disease]]-producing microscopic and ultramicroscopic [[organisms]] of the realm. These [[facts]] explain why the [[Urantia]] [[peoples]] must do so much by way of [[scientific]] [[effort]] to withstand so many [[physical]] disorders. You would be far more [[disease]] resistant if your races carried more of the Adamic life.

76:4.7 The [[body]] [[cells]] of the [[Material Sons]] and their [[progeny]] are far more [[resistant]] to [[disease]] than are those of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary beings] [[indigenous]] to the [[planet]]. The [[body]] [[cells]] of the [[native]] races are akin to the living [[disease]]-producing microscopic and ultramicroscopic [[organisms]] of the realm. These [[facts]] explain why the [[Urantia]] [[peoples]] must do so much by way of [[scientific]] [[effort]] to withstand so many [[physical]] disorders. You would be far more [[disease]] resistant if your races carried more of the Adamic life.

76:4.8 After becoming [[established]] in the second garden on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impregnated 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite race]. These [[children]] were born and reared in the tribal [[surroundings]] of their respective [[mothers]].

76:4.8 After becoming [[established]] in the second garden on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impregnated 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite race]. These [[children]] were born and reared in the tribal [[surroundings]] of their respective [[mothers]].

==76:5. DEATH OF ADAM AND EVE==

==76:5. DEATH OF ADAM AND EVE==

76:5.1 Not long after the [[establishment]] of the ''second Eden'', [[Adam and Eve]] were duly informed that their [[repentance]] was [[acceptable]], and that, while they were [[doomed]] to [[suffer]] the [[fate]] of the [[mortals]] of their world, they should certainly become eligible for admission to the ranks of the [[sleeping survivors]] of [[Urantia]]. They fully believed this [[gospel]] of [[resurrection]] and [[rehabilitation]] which the [[Melchizedeks]] so touchingly proclaimed to them. Their transgression had been an [[error]] of [[judgment]] and not the [[sin]] of [[conscious]] and [[deliberate]] [[rebellion]].

76:5.1 Not long after the [[establishment]] of the ''second Eden'', [[Adam and Eve]] were duly informed that their [[repentance]] was [[acceptable]], and that, while they were [[doomed]] to [[suffer]] the [[fate]] of the [[mortals]] of their world, they should certainly become eligible for admission to the ranks of the [[sleeping survivors]] of [[Urantia]]. They fully believed this [[gospel]] of [[resurrection]] and [[rehabilitation]] which the [[Melchizedeks]] so touchingly proclaimed to them. Their transgression had been an [[error]] of [[judgment]] and not the [[sin]] of [[conscious]] and [[deliberate]] [[rebellion]].

76:5.2 [[Adam and Eve]] did not, as [[citizens]] of [[Jerusem]], have [[Thought Adjusters]], nor were they Adjuster indwelt when they functioned on [[Urantia]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]. But shortly after their reduction to [[mortal]] [[status]] they became [[conscious]] of a new [[presence]] within them and [[awakened]] to the [[realization]] that [[human]] [[status]] coupled with [[sincere]] [[repentance]] had made it possible for [[Adjusters]] to indwell them. It was this [[knowledge]] of being [[Adjuster]] indwelt that greatly [[Encourage|heartened]] [[Adam and Eve]] throughout the remainder of their lives; they knew that they had failed as [[Material Sons]] of [[Satania]], but they also knew that the [[Paradise career]] was still open to them as [[ascending sons]] of the [[universe]].

76:5.2 [[Adam and Eve]] did not, as [[citizens]] of [[Jerusem]], have [[Thought Adjusters]], nor were they Adjuster indwelt when they functioned on [[Urantia]] in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]. But shortly after their reduction to [[mortal]] [[status]] they became [[conscious]] of a new [[presence]] within them and [[awakened]] to the [[realization]] that [[human]] [[status]] coupled with [[sincere]] [[repentance]] had made it possible for [[Adjusters]] to indwell them. It was this [[knowledge]] of being [[Adjuster]] indwelt that greatly [[Encourage|heartened]] [[Adam and Eve]] throughout the remainder of their lives; they knew that they had failed as [[Material Sons]] of [[Satania]], but they also knew that the [[Paradise career]] was still open to them as [[ascending sons]] of the [[universe]].

76:5.3 [[Adam]] knew about the [[dispensation]]al [[resurrection]] which occurred [[simultaneously]] with his arrival on the [[planet]] and he believed that he and his companion would probably be [[repersonalized]] in connection with the [[advent]] of the next order of sonship. He did not know that [[Michael]], the [[sovereign]] of this [[universe]], was so soon to appear on [[Urantia]]; he expected that the next Son to arrive would be of the [[Avonal]] order. Even so, it was always a comfort to [[Adam and Eve]], as well as something [[difficult]] for them to [[understand]], to [[ponder]] the only [[personal]] [[message]] they ever received from [[Michael]]. This message, among other [[expressions]] of [[friendship]] and [[comfort]], said: "I have given [[consideration]] to the circumstances of your [[default]], I have [[remembered]] the [[desire]] of your [[hearts]] ever to be [[loyal]] to my [[Universal Father|Father]]'s will, and you will be called from the [[embrace]] of [[mortal]] [[slumber]] when I come to [[Urantia]] if the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20 subordinate Sons] of my realm do not send for you before that [[time]]."

76:5.3 [[Adam]] knew about the [[dispensation]]al [[resurrection]] which occurred [[simultaneously]] with his arrival on the [[planet]] and he believed that he and his companion would probably be [[repersonalized]] in connection with the [[advent]] of the next order of sonship. He did not know that [[Michael]], the [[sovereign]] of this [[universe]], was so soon to appear on [[Urantia]]; he expected that the next Son to arrive would be of the [[Avonal]] order. Even so, it was always a comfort to [[Adam and Eve]], as well as something [[difficult]] for them to [[understand]], to [[ponder]] the only [[personal]] [[message]] they ever received from [[Michael]]. This message, among other [[expressions]] of [[friendship]] and [[comfort]], said: "I have given [[consideration]] to the circumstances of your [[default]], I have [[remembered]] the [[desire]] of your [[hearts]] ever to be [[loyal]] to my [[Universal Father|Father]]'s will, and you will be called from the [[embrace]] of [[mortal]] [[slumber]] when I come to [[Urantia]] if the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20 subordinate Sons] of my realm do not send for you before that [[time]]."

76:5.4 And this was a great [[mystery]] to [[Adam and Eve]]. They could [[comprehend]] the veiled [[promise]] of a possible special [[resurrection]] in this [[message]], and such a possibility greatly [[cheered]] them, but they could not grasp the [[meaning]] of the intimation that they might [[rest]] until the time of a [[resurrection]] associated with [[Michael]]'s [[personal]] appearance on [[Urantia]]. And so the Edenic pair always proclaimed that a Son of God would sometime come, and they [[communicated]] to their loved ones the [[belief]], at least the longing [[hope]], that the world of their blunders and sorrows might possibly be the realm whereon the [[Creator Son|ruler of this universe]] would [[elect]] to [[function]] as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD Paradise bestowal Son]. It seemed too [[good]] to be [[true]], but [[Adam]] did entertain the [[thought]] that strife-torn [[Urantia]] might, after all, turn out to be the most fortunate world in [[the system]] of [[Satania]], the [[envied]] [[planet]] of all [[Nebadon]].

76:5.4 And this was a great [[mystery]] to [[Adam and Eve]]. They could [[comprehend]] the veiled [[promise]] of a possible special [[resurrection]] in this [[message]], and such a possibility greatly [[cheered]] them, but they could not grasp the [[meaning]] of the intimation that they might [[rest]] until the time of a [[resurrection]] associated with [[Michael]]'s [[personal]] appearance on [[Urantia]]. And so the Edenic pair always proclaimed that a Son of God would sometime come, and they [[communicated]] to their loved ones the [[belief]], at least the longing [[hope]], that the world of their blunders and sorrows might possibly be the realm whereon the [[Creator Son|ruler of this universe]] would [[elect]] to [[function]] as the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD Paradise bestowal Son]. It seemed too [[good]] to be [[true]], but [[Adam]] did entertain the [[thought]] that strife-torn [[Urantia]] might, after all, turn out to be the most fortunate world in [[the system]] of [[Satania]], the [[envied]] [[planet]] of all [[Nebadon]].

76:5.5 [[Adam]] 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]].

76:5.5 [[Adam]] 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]].

76:5.6 The supermaterial [[government]] of [[Urantia]], under the direction of the [[Melchizedeks]], continued, but direct [[physical]] [[contact]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary races] had been severed. From the distant days of the arrival of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]], down through the times of [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] to the arrival of [[Adam and Eve]], [[physical]] [[representatives]] of the [[universe]] [[government]] had been stationed on the [[planet]]. But with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Adamic default] this [[regime]], extending over a period of more than four hundred and fifty thousand years, came to an end. In the [[spiritual]] [[spheres]], [[angelic helpers]] continued to [[struggle]] in conjunction with the [[Thought Adjusters]], both working [[heroically]] for the salvage of the [[individual]]; but no comprehensive [[plan]] for far-reaching world [[welfare]] was promulgated to the [[mortals]] of [[earth]] until the arrival of [[Machiventa Melchizedek]], in the times of [[Abraham]], who, with the [[power]], [[patience]], and [[authority]] of a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD Son of God], did lay the [[foundations]] for the further uplift and [[spiritual]] [[rehabilitation]] of unfortunate [[Urantia]].

76:5.6 The supermaterial [[government]] of [[Urantia]], under the direction of the [[Melchizedeks]], continued, but direct [[physical]] [[contact]] with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary races] had been severed. From the distant days of the arrival of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]], down through the times of [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] to the arrival of [[Adam and Eve]], [[physical]] [[representatives]] of the [[universe]] [[government]] had been stationed on the [[planet]]. But with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Adamic default] this [[regime]], extending over a period of more than four hundred and fifty thousand years, came to an end. In the [[spiritual]] [[spheres]], [[angelic helpers]] continued to [[struggle]] in conjunction with the [[Thought Adjusters]], both working [[heroically]] for the salvage of the [[individual]]; but no comprehensive [[plan]] for far-reaching world [[welfare]] was promulgated to the [[mortals]] of [[earth]] until the arrival of [[Machiventa Melchizedek]], in the times of [[Abraham]], who, with the [[power]], [[patience]], and [[authority]] of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD Son of God], did lay the [[foundations]] for the further uplift and [[spiritual]] [[rehabilitation]] of unfortunate [[Urantia]].

76:5.7 Misfortune has not, however, been the sole lot of [[Urantia]]; this [[planet]] has also been the most fortunate in the [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. Urantians should count it all gain if the blunders of their [[ancestors]] and the mistakes of their early world rulers so plunged the [[planet]] into such a hopeless [[state]] of [[confusion]], all the more confounded by [[evil]] and [[sin]], that this very background of [[darkness]] should so [[appeal]] to [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] that he selected this world as the arena wherein to [[reveal]] the [[loving]] [[personality]] of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]]. It is not that [[Urantia]] needed a [[Creator Son]] to set its tangled affairs in order; it is rather that the [[evil]] and [[sin]] on [[Urantia]] afforded the [[Creator Son]] a more striking background against which to [[reveal]] the matchless [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[patience]] of the [[Paradise Father]].

76:5.7 Misfortune has not, however, been the sole lot of [[Urantia]]; this [[planet]] has also been the most fortunate in the [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. Urantians should count it all gain if the blunders of their [[ancestors]] and the mistakes of their early world rulers so plunged the [[planet]] into such a hopeless [[state]] of [[confusion]], all the more confounded by [[evil]] and [[sin]], that this very background of [[darkness]] should so [[appeal]] to [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] that he selected this world as the arena wherein to [[reveal]] the [[loving]] [[personality]] of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]]. It is not that [[Urantia]] needed a [[Creator Son]] to set its tangled affairs in order; it is rather that the [[evil]] and [[sin]] on [[Urantia]] afforded the [[Creator Son]] a more striking background against which to [[reveal]] the matchless [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[patience]] of the [[Paradise Father]].

==76:6. SURVIVAL OF ADAM AND EVE==

==76:6. SURVIVAL OF ADAM AND EVE==

76:6.1 Adam and Eve went to their mortal rest with strong faith in the promises made to them by the Melchizedeks that they would sometime awake from the sleep of death to resume life on the mansion worlds, worlds all so familiar to them in the days preceding their mission in the material flesh of the violet race on Urantia.

76:6.1 [[Adam and Eve]] went to their [[mortal]] [[rest]] with strong [[faith]] in the [[promises]] made to them by the [[Melchizedeks]] that they would sometime [[awake]] from the [[sleep]] of [[death]] to resume life on the [[mansion worlds]], worlds all so familiar to them in the days preceding their mission in the [[material]] [[flesh]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] on [[Urantia]].

76:6.2 They did not long rest in the oblivion of the unconscious sleep of the mortals of the realm. On the third day after Adam's death, the second following his reverent burial, the orders of Lanaforge, sustained by the acting Most High of Edentia and concurred in by the Union of Days on Salvington, acting for Michael, were placed in Gabriel' s hands, directing the special roll call of the distinguished survivors of the Adamic default on Urantia. And in accordance with this mandate of special resurrection, number twenty-six of the Urantia series, Adam and Eve were repersonalized and reassembled in the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds of Satania together with 1,316 of their associates in the experience of the first garden. Many other loyal souls had already been translated at the time of Adam's arrival, which was attended by a dispensational adjudication of both the sleeping survivors and of the living qualified ascenders.

76:6.2 They did not long rest in the [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oblivion oblivion] of the [[unconscious]] [[sleep]] of the [[mortals]] of the realm. On the third day after [[Adam]]'s [[death]], the second following his [[reverent]] [[burial]], the orders of [[Lanaforge]], sustained by the acting [[Most High]] of [[Edentia]] and concurred in by the [[Union of Days]] on [[Salvington]], acting for [[Michael]], were placed in [[Gabriel]]' s hands, directing the special roll call of the distinguished [[survivors]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Adamic default] on [[Urantia]]. And in [[accordance]] with this [[mandate]] of special [[resurrection]], number twenty-six of the [[Urantia]] series, [[Adam and Eve]] were [[repersonalized]] and reassembled in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD resurrection halls] of the [[mansion worlds]] of [[Satania]] [[together]] with 1,316 of their [[associates]] in the [[experience]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]. Many other [[loyal]] [[souls]] had already been [[translated]] at the time of Adam's arrival, which was attended by a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD dispensational adjudication (20:5.4)] of both the [[sleeping survivors]] and of the living qualified [[ascenders]].

76:6.3 Adam and Eve quickly passed through the worlds of progressive ascension until they attained citizenship on Jerusem, once again to be residents of the planet of their origin but this time as members of a different order of universe personalities. They left Jerusem as permanent citizens— Sons of God; they returned as ascendant citizens—sons of man. They were immediately attached to the Urantia service on the system capital, later being assigned membership among the four and twenty counselors who constitute the present advisory-control body of Urantia.

76:6.3 [[Adam and Eve]] quickly passed through the worlds of [[progressive]] [[ascension]] until they [[attained]] [[citizenship]] on [[Jerusem]], once again to be residents of the [[planet]] of their [[origin]] but this time as members of a [[different]] order of [[universe]] [[personalities]]. They left [[Jerusem]] as permanent [[citizens]]— [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Sons of God]; they returned as [[ascendant]] [[citizens]]—sons of man. They were [[immediately]] attached to the [[Urantia]] [[service]] on [[the system capital]], later being assigned membership among the [[four and twenty counselors]] who [[constitute]] the present advisory-control body of [[Urantia]].

76:6.4 And thus ends the story of the Planetary Adam and Eve of Urantia, a story of trial, tragedy, and triumph, at least personal triumph for your well-meaning but deluded Material Son and Daughter and undoubtedly, in the end, a story of ultimate triumph for their world and its rebellion-tossed and evil-harassed inhabitants. When all is summed up, Adam and Eve made a mighty contribution to the speedy civilization and accelerated biologic progress of the human race. They left a great culture on earth, but it was not possible for such an advanced civilization to survive in the face of the early dilution and the eventual submergence of the Adamic inheritance. It is the people who make a civilization; civilization does not make the people.

76:6.4 And thus ends the [[story]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Planetary Adam and Eve] of [[Urantia]], a [[story]] of [[trial]], [[tragedy]], and triumph, at least [[personal]] triumph for your well-[[meaning]] but deluded [[Material Son and Daughter]] and undoubtedly, in the end, a story of [[ultimate]] triumph for their world and its [[rebellion]]-tossed and [[evil]]-harassed [[inhabitants]]. When all is summed up, [[Adam and Eve]] made a mighty contribution to the speedy [[civilization]] and [[accelerated]] biologic [[progress]] of the [[human]] [[race]]. They left a great [[culture]] on [[earth]], but it was not possible for such an advanced [[civilization]] to [[survive]] in the face of the early dilution and the [[eventual]] submergence of the Adamic [[inheritance]]. It is the people who make a [[civilization]]; civilization does not make the people.

76:6.5 Presented by [[Solonia]], the seraphic " [[voice in the Garden]]. "

76:6.5 Presented by [[Solonia]], the seraphic " voice in the Garden. "

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