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77:2.1 While this is the [[narrative]] of the [[origin]], [[nature]], and [[function]] of the ''[[Midwayers|midway creatures]]'' of [[Urantia]], the kinship between the two [[orders]]—[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:1._THE_PRIMARY_MIDWAYERS primary] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary]—makes it [[necessary]] to interrupt the [[story]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:1._THE_PRIMARY_MIDWAYERS primary midwayers] at this point in order to follow out the line of [[descent]] from the rebel members of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of Prince [[Caligastia]] from the days of the [[planetary rebellion]] to the times of [[Adam]]. It was this line of [[inheritance]] which, in the early days of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden], furnished one half of the [[ancestry]] for the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary order] of ''midway creatures''.

77:2.1 While this is the [[narrative]] of the [[origin]], [[nature]], and [[function]] of the ''[[Midwayers|midway creatures]]'' of [[Urantia]], the kinship between the two [[orders]]—[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:1._THE_PRIMARY_MIDWAYERS primary] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary]—makes it [[necessary]] to interrupt the [[story]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:1._THE_PRIMARY_MIDWAYERS primary midwayers] at this point in order to follow out the line of [[descent]] from the rebel members of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of Prince [[Caligastia]] from the days of the [[planetary rebellion]] to the times of [[Adam]]. It was this line of [[inheritance]] which, in the early days of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden], furnished one half of the [[ancestry]] for the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary order] of ''midway creatures''.

77:2.2 The [[physical]] members of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF Prince's staff] had been [[constituted]] [[sex]] [[creatures]] for the [[purpose]] of [[participating]] in the [[plan]] of [[procreating]] [[offspring]] embodying the combined [[qualities]] of their special order united with those of the selected stock of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:4._THE_ANDONIC_CLANS Andon tribes], and all of this was in [[anticipation]] of the subsequent [[appearance]] of [[Adam]]. The [[Life Carriers]] had planned a new [[type]] of [[mortal]] embracing the [[union]] of the conjoint [[offspring]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF Prince's staff] with the first-[[generation]] [[offspring]] of [[Adam and Eve]]. They had thus [[projected]] a [[plan]] envisioning a new order of [[planetary]] [[creatures]] whom they hoped would become the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king teacher-rulers] of [[human]] [[society]]. Such [[beings]] were [[designed]] for [[social]] [[sovereignty]], not [[civil]] sovereignty. But since this project almost completely miscarried, we shall never know what an [[aristocracy]] of benign [[leadership]] and matchless [[culture]] [[Urantia]] was thus deprived of. For when the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] later reproduced, it was subsequent to [[the rebellion]] and after they had been deprived of their [[connection]] with the life currents of [[the system]].

77:2.2 The [[physical]] members of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF Prince's staff] had been [[constituted]] [[sex]] [[creatures]] for the [[purpose]] of [[participating]] in the [[plan]] of [[procreating]] [[offspring]] embodying the combined [[qualities]] of their special order united with those of the selected stock of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:4._THE_ANDONIC_CLANS Andon tribes], and all of this was in [[anticipation]] of the subsequent [[appearance]] of [[Adam]]. The [[Life Carriers]] had planned a new [[type]] of [[mortal]] embracing the [[union]] of the conjoint [[offspring]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF Prince's staff] with the first-[[generation]] [[offspring]] of [[Adam and Eve]]. They had thus [[projected]] a [[plan]] envisioning a new order of [[planetary]] [[creatures]] whom they hoped would become the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king teacher-rulers] of [[human]] [[society]]. Such [[beings]] were [[designed]] for [[social]] [[sovereignty]], not [[civil]] sovereignty. But since this project almost completely miscarried, we shall never know what an [[aristocracy]] of benign [[leadership]] and matchless [[culture]] [[Urantia]] was thus deprived of. For when the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] later reproduced, it was subsequent to [[the rebellion]] and after they had been deprived of their [[connection]] with the life currents of [[the system]].

77:2.3 The postrebellion era on [[Urantia]] [[witnessed]] many [[unusual]] happenings. A great [[civilization]]—the [[culture]] of [[Dalamatia]]—was going to pieces. "The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim Nephilim] ([[Nodites]]) were on [[earth]] in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their [[children]] were the `mighty men of old,' the `men of renown.' "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.6] While hardly "sons of the gods," [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF the staff] and their early descendants were so regarded by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary mortals] of those distant days; [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bible/kjv.Deut.2.html?highlight=giants,#highlight even their stature] came to be [[magnified]] by [[tradition]]. This, then, is the [[origin]] of the well-nigh [[universal]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folk tale] of the [[gods]] who came down to [[earth]] and there with the daughters of men begot an [[ancient]] [[race]] of [[heroes]]. And all this [[legend]] became further [[confused]] with the race mixtures of the later appearing Adamites in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden].

77:2.3 The postrebellion era on [[Urantia]] [[witnessed]] many [[unusual]] happenings. A great [[civilization]]—the [[culture]] of [[Dalamatia]]—was going to pieces. "The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim Nephilim] ([[Nodites]]) were on [[earth]] in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their [[children]] were the `mighty men of old,' the `men of renown.' "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.6] While hardly "sons of the gods," [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF the staff] and their early descendants were so regarded by the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary mortals] of those distant days; [https://www.ccel.org/ccel/bible/kjv.Deut.2.html?highlight=giants,#highlight even their stature] came to be [[magnified]] by [[tradition]]. This, then, is the [[origin]] of the well-nigh [[universal]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folk tale] of the [[gods]] who came down to [[earth]] and there with the daughters of men begot an [[ancient]] [[race]] of [[heroes]]. And all this [[legend]] became further [[confused]] with the race mixtures of the later appearing Adamites in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden].

77:2.4 Since the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF one hundred corporeal members] of [[the Prince]]'s staff carried [[germ plasm]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:4._THE_ANDONIC_CLANS Andonic human strains], it would [[naturally]] be [[expected]] that, if they [[engaged]] in [[sexual]] [[reproduction]], their [[progeny]] would altogether resemble the [[offspring]] of other [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] [[parents]]. But when the sixty rebels of the staff, the followers of [[Nod]], actually engaged in [[sexual]] [[reproduction]], their [[children]] proved to be far superior in almost every way to both the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik peoples]. This unexpected excellence characterized not only [[physical]] and [[intellectual]] qualities but also [[spiritual]] capacities.

77:2.4 Since the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF one hundred corporeal members] of [[the Prince]]'s staff carried [[germ plasm]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:4._THE_ANDONIC_CLANS Andonic human strains], it would [[naturally]] be [[expected]] that, if they [[engaged]] in [[sexual]] [[reproduction]], their [[progeny]] would altogether resemble the [[offspring]] of other [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] [[parents]]. But when the sixty rebels of the staff, the followers of [[Nod]], actually engaged in [[sexual]] [[reproduction]], their [[children]] proved to be far superior in almost every way to both the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik peoples]. This unexpected excellence characterized not only [[physical]] and [[intellectual]] qualities but also [[spiritual]] capacities.

77:2.5 These [[mutant]] traits appearing in the first [[Nodite]] [[generation]] resulted from certain [[changes]] which had been wrought in the [[configuration]] and in the [[chemical]] constituents of the [[inheritance]] [[factors]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:1._THE_ANDONIC_ABORIGINES Andonic] [[germ plasm]]. These [[changes]] were caused by the [[presence]] in the [[bodies]] of the staff members of the powerful life-[[maintenance]] [[circuits]] of the [[Satania]] system. These life [[circuits]] caused the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome chromosomes] of the specialized [[Urantia]] [[pattern]] to reorganize more after the patterns of the standardized [[Satania]] specialization of the [[ordained]] [[Nebadon]] life [[manifestation]]. The [[technique]] of this [[germ plasm]] [[metamorphosis]] by the [[action]] of [[the system]] life currents is not unlike those [[procedures]] whereby [[Urantia]] [[scientists]] [[modify]] the [[germ plasm]] of [[plants]] and [[animals]] by the use of [[X rays]].

77:2.5 These [[mutant]] traits appearing in the first [[Nodite]] [[generation]] resulted from certain [[changes]] which had been wrought in the [[configuration]] and in the [[chemical]] constituents of the [[inheritance]] [[factors]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:1._THE_ANDONIC_ABORIGINES Andonic] [[germ plasm]]. These [[changes]] were caused by the [[presence]] in the [[bodies]] of the staff members of the powerful life-[[maintenance]] [[circuits]] of the [[Satania]] system. These life [[circuits]] caused the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome chromosomes] of the specialized [[Urantia]] [[pattern]] to reorganize more after the patterns of the standardized [[Satania]] specialization of the [[ordained]] [[Nebadon]] life [[manifestation]]. The [[technique]] of this [[germ plasm]] [[metamorphosis]] by the [[action]] of [[the system]] life currents is not unlike those [[procedures]] whereby [[Urantia]] [[scientists]] [[modify]] the [[germ plasm]] of [[plants]] and [[animals]] by the use of [[X rays]].

77:2.6 Thus did the [[Nodite]] peoples arise out of certain peculiar and unexpected [[modifications]] occurring in the [[life plasm]] which had been transferred from the [[bodies]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] contributors to those of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] members by the Avalon surgeons.

77:2.6 Thus did the [[Nodite]] peoples arise out of certain peculiar and unexpected [[modifications]] occurring in the [[life plasm]] which had been transferred from the [[bodies]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] contributors to those of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] members by the Avalon surgeons.

77:2.9 The [[pure]]-line [[Nodites]] were a [[magnificent]] [[race]], but they [[gradually]] mingled with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary peoples] of [[earth]], and before long great [[deterioration]] had occurred. Ten thousand years after [[the rebellion]] they had lost ground to the point where their [[average]] length of life was little more than that of the [[evolutionary races]].

77:2.9 The [[pure]]-line [[Nodites]] were a [[magnificent]] [[race]], but they [[gradually]] mingled with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary peoples] of [[earth]], and before long great [[deterioration]] had occurred. Ten thousand years after [[the rebellion]] they had lost ground to the point where their [[average]] length of life was little more than that of the [[evolutionary races]].

77:2.10 When [[archaeologists]] dig up the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet clay-tablet] [[records]] of the later-day [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerian] descendants of the [[Nodites]], they [[discover]] lists of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List Sumerian kings] running back for several thousand years; and as these [[records]] go further back, the reigns of the [[individual]] [[kings]] lengthen from around twenty-five or thirty years up to one hundred and fifty years and more. This lengthening of the reigns of these older kings signifies that some of the early [[Nodite]] rulers (immediate descendants of [[the Prince]]'s [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF staff]) did live longer than their later-day successors and also indicates an effort to stretch the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty dynasties] back to [[Dalamatia]].

77:2.10 When [[archaeologists]] dig up the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet clay-tablet] [[records]] of the later-day [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerian] descendants of the [[Nodites]], they [[discover]] lists of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List Sumerian kings] running back for several thousand years; and as these [[records]] go further back, the reigns of the [[individual]] [[kings]] lengthen from around twenty-five or thirty years up to one hundred and fifty years and more. This lengthening of the reigns of these older kings signifies that some of the early [[Nodite]] rulers (immediate descendants of [[the Prince]]'s [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF staff]) did live longer than their later-day successors and also indicates an effort to stretch the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty dynasties] back to [[Dalamatia]].

77:2.11 The [[records]] of such long-lived [[individuals]] are also due to the [[confusion]] of months and years as time periods. This may also be [[observed]] in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.5 Biblical genealogy of Abraham] and in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_emperors_family_tree_%28ancient%29 early records of the Chinese]. The [[confusion]] of the twenty-eight-day month, or season, with the later introduced year of more than three hundred and fifty days is [[responsible]] for the [[traditions]] of such long [[human]] lives. There are records of a man who lived over nine hundred " years. " This period represents not quite seventy years, and such lives were regarded for ages as very long, " threescore years and ten " as such a life span was later designated.

77:2.11 The [[records]] of such long-lived [[individuals]] are also due to the [[confusion]] of months and years as time periods. This may also be [[observed]] in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.5 Biblical genealogy of Abraham] and in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_emperors_family_tree_%28ancient%29 early records of the Chinese]. The [[confusion]] of the twenty-eight-day month, or season, with the later introduced year of more than three hundred and fifty days is [[responsible]] for the [[traditions]] of such long [[human]] lives. There are records of a man who lived over nine hundred " years. " This period represents not quite seventy years, and such lives were regarded for ages as very long, " threescore years and ten " as such a life span was later designated.

77:2.12 The reckoning of [[time]] by the twenty-eight-day month [[persisted]] long after the days of [[Adam]]. But when the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar Egyptians undertook to reform the calendar], about seven thousand years ago, they did it with great accuracy, introducing the year of 365 days.

77:2.12 The reckoning of [[time]] by the twenty-eight-day month [[persisted]] long after the days of [[Adam]]. But when the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_calendar Egyptians undertook to reform the calendar], about seven thousand years ago, they did it with great accuracy, introducing the year of 365 days.

==77:3. THE TOWER OF BABEL==

==77:3. THE TOWER OF BABEL==

77:3.1 After the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:5._IMMEDIATE_RESULTS_OF_REBELLION submergence] of [[Dalamatia]] the [[Nodites]] moved north and east, presently founding the new city of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun] as their [[racial]] and [[cultural]] [[headquarters]]. And about fifty thousand years after the [[death]] of [[Nod]], when the [[offspring]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF Prince's staff] had become too numerous to find subsistence in the [[land]]s [[immediately]] [[surrounding]] their new [[city]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun], and after they had reached out to intermarry with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik] [[tribes]] adjoining their borders, it occurred to their [[leaders]] that something should be done to preserve their [[racial]] [[unity]]. Accordingly a [[council]] of the [[tribes]] was called, and after much [[deliberation]] the [[plan]] of Bablot, a descendant of [[Nod]], was indorsed.

77:3.1 After the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:5._IMMEDIATE_RESULTS_OF_REBELLION submergence] of [[Dalamatia]] the [[Nodites]] moved north and east, presently founding the new city of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun] as their [[racial]] and [[cultural]] [[headquarters]]. And about fifty thousand years after the [[death]] of [[Nod]], when the [[offspring]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF Prince's staff] had become too numerous to find subsistence in the [[land]]s [[immediately]] [[surrounding]] their new [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun], and after they had reached out to intermarry with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik] [[tribes]] adjoining their borders, it occurred to their [[leaders]] that something should be done to preserve their [[racial]] [[unity]]. Accordingly a [[council]] of the [[tribes]] was called, and after much [[deliberation]] the [[plan]] of Bablot, a descendant of [[Nod]], was indorsed.

77:3.2 Bablot proposed to erect a pretentious [[temple]] of [[racial]] [[glorification]] at the [[center]] of their then occupied territory. This [[temple]] was to have a tower the like of which the world had never seen. It was to be a [[monumental]] [[memorial]] to their passing greatness. There were many who wished to have this [[monument]] erected in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun], but others contended that such a great [[structure]] should be placed a safe distance from the [[dangers]] of the [[sea]], remembering the [[traditions]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:5._IMMEDIATE_RESULTS_OF_REBELLION engulfment] of their first [[capital]], [[Dalamatia]].

77:3.2 Bablot proposed to erect a pretentious [[temple]] of [[racial]] [[glorification]] at the [[center]] of their then occupied territory. This [[temple]] was to have a tower the like of which the world had never seen. It was to be a [[monumental]] [[memorial]] to their passing greatness. There were many who wished to have this [[monument]] erected in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun], but others contended that such a great [[structure]] should be placed a safe distance from the [[dangers]] of the [[sea]], remembering the [[traditions]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:5._IMMEDIATE_RESULTS_OF_REBELLION engulfment] of their first [[capital]], [[Dalamatia]].

77:3.3 Bablot planned that the new buildings should become the [[nucleus]] of the [[future]] [[center]] of the [[Nodite]] [[culture]] and [[civilization]]. His [[counsel]] finally prevailed, and construction was started in [[accordance]] with his [[plans]]. The new [[city]] was to be named Bablot after the [[architect]] and builder of the tower. This location later became known as Bablod and eventually as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel Babel].

77:3.3 Bablot planned that the new buildings should become the [[nucleus]] of the [[future]] [[center]] of the [[Nodite]] [[culture]] and [[civilization]]. His [[counsel]] finally prevailed, and construction was started in [[accordance]] with his [[plans]]. The new [[city]] was to be named Bablot after the [[architect]] and builder of the tower. This location later became known as Bablod and eventually as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel Babel].

77:3.4 But the [[Nodites]] were still somewhat divided in sentiment as to the [[plans]] and [[purposes]] of this undertaking. Neither were their [[leaders]] altogether [[agreed]] concerning either construction [[plans]] or usage of the buildings after they should be completed. After four and one-half years of [[work]] a great [[dispute]] arose about the object and [[motive]] for the erection of the tower: The contentions became so bitter that all [[work]] stopped. The [[food]] carriers spread the news of the [[dissension]], and large numbers of the [[tribes]] began to forgather at the building site. Three [[differing]] views were propounded as to the [[purpose]] of building the tower:

77:3.4 But the [[Nodites]] were still somewhat divided in sentiment as to the [[plans]] and [[purposes]] of this undertaking. Neither were their [[leaders]] altogether [[agreed]] concerning either construction [[plans]] or usage of the buildings after they should be completed. After four and one-half years of [[work]] a great [[dispute]] arose about the object and [[motive]] for the erection of the tower: The contentions became so bitter that all [[work]] stopped. The [[food]] carriers spread the news of the [[dissension]], and large numbers of the [[tribes]] began to forgather at the building site. Three [[differing]] views were propounded as to the [[purpose]] of building the tower:

77:3.5 1. The largest [[group]], almost one half, [[desired]] to see the tower built as a [[memorial]] of [[Nodite]] [[history]] and racial superiority. They [[thought]] it ought to be a great and imposing [[structure]] which would [[challenge]] the [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/admiration admiration] of all [[future]] [[generations]].

77:3.5 1. The largest [[group]], almost one half, [[desired]] to see the tower built as a [[memorial]] of [[Nodite]] [[history]] and racial superiority. They [[thought]] it ought to be a great and imposing [[structure]] which would [[challenge]] the [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/admiration admiration] of all [[future]] [[generations]].

77:3.6 2. The next largest faction wanted the tower designed to commemorate the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun] [[culture]]. They foresaw that Bablot would become a great [[center]] of [[commerce]], [[art]], and [[manufacture]].

77:3.6 2. The next largest faction wanted the tower designed to commemorate the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun] [[culture]]. They foresaw that Bablot would become a great [[center]] of [[commerce]], [[art]], and [[manufacture]].

77:3.7 3. The smallest and minority contingent held that the erection of the tower presented an [[opportunity]] for making [[atonement]] for the [[folly]] of their progenitors in [[participating]] in the [[Caligastia]] [[rebellion]]. They [[maintained]] that the tower should be [[devoted]] to the [[worship]] of [[the Father]] of all, that the whole [[purpose]] of the new [[city]] should be to take the place of [[Dalamatia]]—to [[function]] as the cultural and religious [[center]] for the [[surrounding]] [[barbarians]].

77:3.7 3. The smallest and minority contingent held that the erection of the tower presented an [[opportunity]] for making [[atonement]] for the [[folly]] of their progenitors in [[participating]] in the [[Caligastia]] [[rebellion]]. They [[maintained]] that the tower should be [[devoted]] to the [[worship]] of [[the Father]] of all, that the whole [[purpose]] of the new [[city]] should be to take the place of [[Dalamatia]]—to [[function]] as the cultural and religious [[center]] for the [[surrounding]] [[barbarians]].

77:3.8 The [[religious]] [[group]] were promptly [[voted]] down. The [[majority]] rejected the [[teaching]] that their [[ancestors]] had been [[guilty]] of [[rebellion]]; they resented such a racial [[stigma]]. Having disposed of one of the [[three]] [[angles]] to the dispute and failing to settle the other two by [[debate]], they fell to fighting. The religionists, the noncombatants, fled to their [[homes]] in the south, while their fellows fought until well-nigh [[obliterated]].

77:3.8 The [[religious]] [[group]] were promptly [[voted]] down. The [[majority]] rejected the [[teaching]] that their [[ancestors]] had been [[guilty]] of [[rebellion]]; they resented such a racial [[stigma]]. Having disposed of one of the [[three]] [[angles]] to the dispute and failing to settle the other two by [[debate]], they fell to fighting. The religionists, the noncombatants, fled to their [[homes]] in the south, while their fellows fought until well-nigh [[obliterated]].

77:3.9 About twelve thousand years ago a second attempt to erect the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel tower of Babel] was made. The mixed [[races]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] ([[Nodites]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites]]) undertook to raise a new [[temple]] on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins ruins] of the first [[structure]], but there was not sufficient [[support]] for the [[enterprise]]; it fell of its own pretentious weight. This region was long known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel land of Babel].

77:3.9 About twelve thousand years ago a second attempt to erect the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel tower of Babel] was made. The mixed [[races]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] ([[Nodites]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites]]) undertook to raise a new [[temple]] on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins ruins] of the first [[structure]], but there was not sufficient [[support]] for the [[enterprise]]; it fell of its own pretentious weight. This region was long known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel land of Babel].

==77:4. NODITE CENTERS OF CIVILIZATION==

==77:4. NODITE CENTERS OF CIVILIZATION==

77:4.1 The [[dispersion]] of the [[Nodites]] was an [[immediate]] result of the [[internecine conflict]] over the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel tower of Babel]. This internal [[war]] greatly reduced the [[numbers]] of the [[purer]] [[Nodites]] and was in many ways [[responsible]] for their failure to [[establish]] a great pre-Adamic [[civilization]]. From this time on [[Nodite]] [[culture]] declined for over one hundred and twenty thousand years until it was upstepped by [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adamic infusion]. But even in the times of [[Adam]] the [[Nodites]] were still an able people. Many of their mixed descendants were numbered among [[the Garden]] builders, and several of [[Van]]'s group captains were [[Nodites]]. Some of the most capable [[minds]] serving on [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74#74:5._ADAM.27S_ADMINISTRATION Adam's staff] were of this [[race]].

77:4.1 The [[dispersion]] of the [[Nodites]] was an [[immediate]] result of the [[internecine conflict]] over the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel tower of Babel]. This internal [[war]] greatly reduced the [[numbers]] of the [[purer]] [[Nodites]] and was in many ways [[responsible]] for their failure to [[establish]] a great pre-Adamic [[civilization]]. From this time on [[Nodite]] [[culture]] declined for over one hundred and twenty thousand years until it was upstepped by [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adamic infusion]. But even in the times of [[Adam]] the [[Nodites]] were still an able people. Many of their mixed descendants were numbered among [[the Garden]] builders, and several of [[Van]]'s group captains were [[Nodites]]. Some of the most capable [[minds]] serving on [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74#74:5._ADAM.27S_ADMINISTRATION Adam's staff] were of this [[race]].

77:4.2 Three out of the four great [[Nodite]] [[centers]] were [[established]] immediately following the Bablot [[conflict]]:

77:4.2 Three out of the four great [[Nodite]] [[centers]] were [[established]] immediately following the Bablot [[conflict]]:

77:4.3 1. The western or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syrian Nodites]. The remnants of the [[nationalistic]] or racial [[memorial]]ists [[journeyed]] northward, uniting with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonites] to found the later [[Nodite]] [[centers]] to the northwest of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. This was the largest group of the dispersing Nodites, and they [[contributed]] much to the later appearing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyrian] stock.

77:4.3 1. The western or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria Syrian Nodites]. The remnants of the [[nationalistic]] or racial [[memorial]]ists [[journeyed]] northward, uniting with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonites] to found the later [[Nodite]] [[centers]] to the northwest of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. This was the largest group of the dispersing Nodites, and they [[contributed]] much to the later appearing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyrian] stock.

77:4.4 2. The eastern or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam Elamite Nodites]. The [[culture]] and [[commerce]] [[advocates]] [[migrated]] in large numbers eastward into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam Elam] and there united with the mixed [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik] tribes. The Elamites of thirty to forty thousand years ago had become largely [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik] in [[nature]], although they continued to [[maintain]] a [[civilization]] superior to that of the [[surrounding]] [[barbarians]].

77:4.4 2. The eastern or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam Elamite Nodites]. The [[culture]] and [[commerce]] [[advocates]] [[migrated]] in large numbers eastward into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam Elam] and there united with the mixed [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik] tribes. The Elamites of thirty to forty thousand years ago had become largely [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik] in [[nature]], although they continued to [[maintain]] a [[civilization]] superior to that of the [[surrounding]] [[barbarians]].

77:4.5 After the [[establishment]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden] it was [[custom]]ary to allude to this near-by [[Nodite]] settlement as "the land of Nod"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.4]; and during the long period of [[relative]] [[peace]] between this [[Nodite]] group and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites], the two [[races]] were greatly blended, for it became more and more the [[custom]] for the Sons of God (the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites]) to intermarry with the daughters of [[men]] (the [[Nodites]]).

77:4.5 After the [[establishment]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden] it was [[custom]]ary to allude to this near-by [[Nodite]] settlement as "the land of Nod"[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.4]; and during the long period of [[relative]] [[peace]] between this [[Nodite]] group and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites], the two [[races]] were greatly blended, for it became more and more the [[custom]] for the Sons of God (the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites]) to intermarry with the daughters of [[men]] (the [[Nodites]]).

77:4.6 3. The central or pre-[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerian Nodites]. A small group at the mouth of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates rivers] maintained more of their [[racial]] [[integrity]]. They [[persisted]] for thousands of years and [[eventually]] furnished the [[Nodite]] [[ancestry]] which blended with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:3._EARLY_EXPANSIONS_OF_THE_ADAMITES Adamites] to found the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer  Sumerian] peoples of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadians historic times].

77:4.6 3. The central or pre-[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerian Nodites]. A small group at the mouth of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris%E2%80%93Euphrates_river_system Tigris and Euphrates rivers] maintained more of their [[racial]] [[integrity]]. They [[persisted]] for thousands of years and [[eventually]] furnished the [[Nodite]] [[ancestry]] which blended with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:3._EARLY_EXPANSIONS_OF_THE_ADAMITES Adamites] to found the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer  Sumerian] peoples of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadians historic times].

77:4.7 And all this explains how the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] appeared so suddenly and [[mysteriously]] on the [[stage]] of [[action]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Investigators will never be able to trace out and follow these [[tribes]] back to the beginning of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians], who had their [[origin]] two hundred thousand years ago after the submergence of [[Dalamatia]]. Without a trace of [[origin]] elsewhere in the world, these [[ancient]] [[tribes]] suddenly loom upon the [[horizon]] of [[civilization]] with a full-[[grown]] and superior [[culture]], embracing [[temples]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy metalwork], [[agriculture]], animals, pottery, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaving], commercial [[law]], [[civil]] codes, [[religious]] [[ceremonial]], and an old [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Language_and_writing system of writing]. At the beginning of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Akkadian_Empire historical era] they had long since lost the [[alphabet]] of [[Dalamatia]], having [[adopted]] the peculiar [[writing]] system originating in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Language_and_writing Sumerian language], though virtually lost to the world, was not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic Semitic]; it had much in common with the so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Aryan tongues].

77:4.7 And all this explains how the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] appeared so suddenly and [[mysteriously]] on the [[stage]] of [[action]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Investigators will never be able to trace out and follow these [[tribes]] back to the beginning of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians], who had their [[origin]] two hundred thousand years ago after the submergence of [[Dalamatia]]. Without a trace of [[origin]] elsewhere in the world, these [[ancient]] [[tribes]] suddenly loom upon the [[horizon]] of [[civilization]] with a full-[[grown]] and superior [[culture]], embracing [[temples]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy metalwork], [[agriculture]], animals, pottery, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaving], commercial [[law]], [[civil]] codes, [[religious]] [[ceremonial]], and an old [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Language_and_writing system of writing]. At the beginning of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Akkadian_Empire historical era] they had long since lost the [[alphabet]] of [[Dalamatia]], having [[adopted]] the peculiar [[writing]] system originating in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Language_and_writing Sumerian language], though virtually lost to the world, was not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic Semitic]; it had much in common with the so-called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Aryan tongues].

77:4.8 The elaborate [[records]] left by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] describe the site of a remarkable settlement which was located on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf] near the earlier [[city]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egyptians] called this city of [[ancient]] [[glory]] ''Dilmat'', while the later Adamized Sumerians [[confused]] both the first and second Nodite cities with [[Dalamatia]] and called all three [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun]. And already have [[archaeologists]] found these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_literature ancient Sumerian clay tablets] which tell of this [[earthly]] [[paradise]] "where the Gods first [[blessed]] [[mankind]] with the example of civilized and [[cultured]] life." And [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/# these tablets], descriptive of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun], the [[paradise]] of [[men]] and [[God]], are now [[silently]] resting on the dusty shelves of many [[museums]].

77:4.8 The elaborate [[records]] left by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] describe the site of a remarkable settlement which was located on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf] near the earlier [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egyptians] called this city of [[ancient]] [[glory]] ''Dilmat'', while the later Adamized Sumerians [[confused]] both the first and second Nodite cities with [[Dalamatia]] and called all three [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun]. And already have [[archaeologists]] found these [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_literature ancient Sumerian clay tablets] which tell of this [[earthly]] [[paradise]] "where the Gods first [[blessed]] [[mankind]] with the example of civilized and [[cultured]] life." And [https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/# these tablets], descriptive of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun], the [[paradise]] of [[men]] and [[God]], are now [[silently]] resting on the dusty shelves of many [[museums]].

77:4.9 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] well knew of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second Edens] but, despite extensive intermarriage with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites], continued to regard the garden dwellers to the north as an [[alien]] [[race]]. Sumerian [[pride]] in the more [[ancient]] [[Nodite]] [[culture]] led them to ignore these later vistas of [[glory]] in [[favor]] of the grandeur and paradisiacal [[traditions]] of the city of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun].

77:4.9 The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] well knew of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second Edens] but, despite extensive intermarriage with the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:2._THE_ADAMITES_IN_THE_SECOND_GARDEN Adamites], continued to regard the garden dwellers to the north as an [[alien]] [[race]]. Sumerian [[pride]] in the more [[ancient]] [[Nodite]] [[culture]] led them to ignore these later vistas of [[glory]] in [[favor]] of the grandeur and paradisiacal [[traditions]] of the city of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Dilmun].

77:4.10 4. The northern [[Nodites]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:1._THE_EDENITES_ENTER_MESOPOTAMIA Amadonites]—the Vanites. This group arose prior to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:3._THE_TOWER_OF_BABEL Bablot conflict]. These northernmost [[Nodites]] were descendants of those who had forsaken the [[leadership]] of [[Nod]] and his successors for that of [[Van]] and [[Amadon]].

77:4.10 4. The northern [[Nodites]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:1._THE_EDENITES_ENTER_MESOPOTAMIA Amadonites]—the Vanites. This group arose prior to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:3._THE_TOWER_OF_BABEL Bablot conflict]. These northernmost [[Nodites]] were descendants of those who had forsaken the [[leadership]] of [[Nod]] and his successors for that of [[Van]] and [[Amadon]].

77:4.11 Some of the early [[associates]] of [[Van]] subsequently settled about the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_van shores of the lake which still bears his name], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu their traditions] grew up about this locality. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Ararat] became their [[sacred]] [[mountain]], having much the same [[meaning]] to later-day [[Van|Vanites]] that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Sinai Sinai] had to the [[Hebrews]]. Ten thousand years ago the [[Vanite]] [[ancestors]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyrians] taught that their [[moral]] [[law]] of seven commandments had been given to [[Van]] by the [[Gods]] upon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Mount Ararat]. They firmly believed that [[Van]] and his [[associate]] [[Amadon]] were taken alive from the [[planet]] while they were up on the [[mountain]] engaged in [[worship]].

77:4.11 Some of the early [[associates]] of [[Van]] subsequently settled about the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_van shores of the lake which still bears his name], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu their traditions] grew up about this locality. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Ararat] became their [[sacred]] [[mountain]], having much the same [[meaning]] to later-day [[Van|Vanites]] that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Sinai Sinai] had to the [[Hebrews]]. Ten thousand years ago the [[Vanite]] [[ancestors]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria Assyrians] taught that their [[moral]] [[law]] of seven commandments had been given to [[Van]] by the [[Gods]] upon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Mount Ararat]. They firmly believed that [[Van]] and his [[associate]] [[Amadon]] were taken alive from the [[planet]] while they were up on the [[mountain]] engaged in [[worship]].

77:4.12 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Mount Ararat] was the [[sacred]] [[mountain]] of northern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and since much of your [[tradition]] of these [[ancient]] times was acquired in connection with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth Babylonian story of the flood], it is not surprising that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Mount Ararat] and its region were woven into the later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Jewish story of Noah] and the universal flood.

77:4.12 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Mount Ararat] was the [[sacred]] [[mountain]] of northern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and since much of your [[tradition]] of these [[ancient]] times was acquired in connection with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth Babylonian story of the flood], it is not surprising that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat Mount Ararat] and its region were woven into the later [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Jewish story of Noah] and the universal flood.

77:4.13 About [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35,000_BC 35,000 B.C]. Adamson visited one of the easternmost of the old [[Van|Vanite]] settlements to found his [[center]] of [[civilization]].

77:4.13 About [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35,000_BC 35,000 B.C]. Adamson visited one of the easternmost of the old [[Van|Vanite]] settlements to found his [[center]] of [[civilization]].

==77:5. ADAMSON AND RATTA==

==77:5. ADAMSON AND RATTA==

77:5.1 Having delineated the [[Nodite]] antecedents of the [[ancestry]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary midwayers], this [[narrative]] should now give [[consideration]] to the Adamic half of their [[ancestry]], for the secondary midwayers are also the grandchildren of Adamson, the first-born of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] of [[Urantia]].

77:5.1 Having delineated the [[Nodite]] antecedents of the [[ancestry]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary midwayers], this [[narrative]] should now give [[consideration]] to the Adamic half of their [[ancestry]], for the secondary midwayers are also the grandchildren of Adamson, the first-born of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] of [[Urantia]].

77:5.2 Adamson was among that group of the [[children]] of [[Adam and Eve]] who elected to remain on [[earth]] with their [[father]] and [[mother]]. Now this eldest son of [[Adam]] had often heard from [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] the story of their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_van highland home] in the north, and sometime after the [[establishment]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden] he determined to go in search of this [[land]] of his [[youthful]] [[dreams]].

77:5.2 Adamson was among that group of the [[children]] of [[Adam and Eve]] who elected to remain on [[earth]] with their [[father]] and [[mother]]. Now this eldest son of [[Adam]] had often heard from [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] the story of their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_van highland home] in the north, and sometime after the [[establishment]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden] he determined to go in search of this [[land]] of his [[youthful]] [[dreams]].

77:5.3 Adamson was 120 years old at this time and had been the [[father]] of thirty-two [[pure]]-line [[children]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]. He wanted to remain with his [[parents]] and assist them in upbuilding the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden], but he was greatly disturbed by the loss of his [[mate]] and their [[children]], who had all elected to go to [[Edentia]] along with those other [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75#75:6._ADAM_AND_EVE_LEAVE_THE_GARDEN Adamic children] who chose to become wards of the [[Most Highs]].

77:5.3 Adamson was 120 years old at this time and had been the [[father]] of thirty-two [[pure]]-line [[children]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]. He wanted to remain with his [[parents]] and assist them in upbuilding the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 second garden], but he was greatly disturbed by the loss of his [[mate]] and their [[children]], who had all elected to go to [[Edentia]] along with those other [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75#75:6._ADAM_AND_EVE_LEAVE_THE_GARDEN Adamic children] who chose to become wards of the [[Most Highs]].

77:5.8 Adamson and Ratta thus had at their command this corps of [[marvelous]] helpers, who [[Work|labored]] with them throughout their long lives to [[assist]] in the [[propagation]] of advanced [[truth]] and in the spread of higher [[standards]] of [[spiritual]], [[intellectual]], and [[physical]] living. And the results of this [[effort]] at world betterment never did become fully [[eclipsed]] by subsequent [[retrogression]]s.

77:5.8 Adamson and Ratta thus had at their command this corps of [[marvelous]] helpers, who [[Work|labored]] with them throughout their long lives to [[assist]] in the [[propagation]] of advanced [[truth]] and in the spread of higher [[standards]] of [[spiritual]], [[intellectual]], and [[physical]] living. And the results of this [[effort]] at world betterment never did become fully [[eclipsed]] by subsequent [[retrogression]]s.

77:5.9 The ''Adamsonites'' [[maintained]] a high [[culture]] for almost seven thousand years from the times of Adamson and Ratta. Later on they became admixed with the neighboring [[Nodites]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonites] and were also included among the "mighty men of old."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.6] And some of the advances of that age [[persisted]] to become a latent part of the [[cultural]] [[potential]] which later blossomed into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe European civilization].

77:5.9 The ''Adamsonites'' [[maintained]] a high [[culture]] for almost seven thousand years from the times of Adamson and Ratta. Later on they became admixed with the neighboring [[Nodites]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonites] and were also included among the "mighty men of old."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.6] And some of the advances of that age [[persisted]] to become a latent part of the [[cultural]] [[potential]] which later blossomed into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe European civilization].

77:5.10 This [[center]] of [[civilization]] was situated in the region east of the southern end of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea Caspian Sea], near the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Dagh Kopet Dagh]. A short way up in the foothills of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan] are the vestiges of what was onetime the Adamsonite [[headquarters]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race]. In these highland sites, situated in a narrow and ancient fertile belt lying in the lower foothills of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Dagh Kopet range], there [[successively]] arose at various periods four [[diverse]] [[cultures]] respectively fostered by four [[different]] groups of Adamson's descendants. It was the second of these groups which migrated westward to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greece] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete islands of the Mediterranean]. The residue of Adamson's descendants migrated north and west to enter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] with the blended stock of the last [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] wave coming out of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and they were also numbered among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages Andite-Aryan invaders of India].

77:5.10 This [[center]] of [[civilization]] was situated in the region east of the southern end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea Caspian Sea], near the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Dagh Kopet Dagh]. A short way up in the foothills of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan Turkestan] are the vestiges of what was onetime the Adamsonite [[headquarters]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race]. In these highland sites, situated in a narrow and ancient fertile belt lying in the lower foothills of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopet_Dagh Kopet range], there [[successively]] arose at various periods four [[diverse]] [[cultures]] respectively fostered by four [[different]] groups of Adamson's descendants. It was the second of these groups which migrated westward to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greece] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete islands of the Mediterranean]. The residue of Adamson's descendants migrated north and west to enter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] with the blended stock of the last [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] wave coming out of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia], and they were also numbered among the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages Andite-Aryan invaders of India].

==77:6. THE SECONDARY MIDWAYERS==

==77:6. THE SECONDARY MIDWAYERS==

77:7.3 Both [[groups]] of [[rebel]] [[midwayers]] are now held in [[custody]] awaiting the final [[adjudication]] of the affairs of [[the system]] [[rebellion]]. But they did many [[strange]] things on [[earth]] prior to the [[inauguration]] of the present [[planetary]] [[dispensation]].

77:7.3 Both [[groups]] of [[rebel]] [[midwayers]] are now held in [[custody]] awaiting the final [[adjudication]] of the affairs of [[the system]] [[rebellion]]. But they did many [[strange]] things on [[earth]] prior to the [[inauguration]] of the present [[planetary]] [[dispensation]].

77:7.4 These disloyal [[midwayers]] were able to [[reveal]] themselves to [[mortal]] eyes under certain [[circumstances]], and especially was this true of the [[associates]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub Beelzebub], the [[leader]] of the [[apostate]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary midwayers]. But these [[unique]] [[creatures]] must not be [[confused]] with certain of the [[rebel]] [[cherubim]] and [[seraphim]] who also were on [[earth]] up to the time of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_187 Christ' s death] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_189 resurrection]. Some of the older [[writers]] designated these [[rebellious]] [[midway creatures]] as [[evil]] [[spirits]] and [[demon]]s, and the [[apostate]] [[seraphim]] as evil [[angels]].

77:7.4 These disloyal [[midwayers]] were able to [[reveal]] themselves to [[mortal]] eyes under certain [[circumstances]], and especially was this true of the [[associates]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub Beelzebub], the [[leader]] of the [[apostate]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77#77:6._THE_SECONDARY_MIDWAYERS secondary midwayers]. But these [[unique]] [[creatures]] must not be [[confused]] with certain of the [[rebel]] [[cherubim]] and [[seraphim]] who also were on [[earth]] up to the time of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_187 Christ' s death] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_189 resurrection]. Some of the older [[writers]] designated these [[rebellious]] [[midway creatures]] as [[evil]] [[spirits]] and [[demon]]s, and the [[apostate]] [[seraphim]] as evil [[angels]].

77:7.5 On no world can [[evil]] [[spirits]] [[possess]] any [[mortal]] [[mind]] subsequent to the life of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD Paradise bestowal Son]. But before the days of Christ [[Michael]] on [[Urantia]]—before the [[universal]] coming of the [[Thought Adjusters]] and the pouring out of the [[Spirit of Truth|Master's spirit upon all flesh]]—these [[rebel]] [[midwayers]] were actually able to [[influence]] the [[minds]] of certain inferior [[mortals]] and somewhat to [[control]] their [[actions]]. This was accomplished in much the same way as the loyal [[midway creatures]] [[function]] when they serve as efficient [[contact]] guardians of the [[human]] [[minds]] of the [[Urantia]] [[reserve corps of destiny]] at those times when the [[Adjuster]] is, in effect, detached from the [[personality]] during a season of contact with [[superhuman]] [[intelligences]].

77:7.5 On no world can [[evil]] [[spirits]] [[possess]] any [[mortal]] [[mind]] subsequent to the life of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD Paradise bestowal Son]. But before the days of Christ [[Michael]] on [[Urantia]]—before the [[universal]] coming of the [[Thought Adjusters]] and the pouring out of the [[Spirit of Truth|Master's spirit upon all flesh]]—these [[rebel]] [[midwayers]] were actually able to [[influence]] the [[minds]] of certain inferior [[mortals]] and somewhat to [[control]] their [[actions]]. This was accomplished in much the same way as the loyal [[midway creatures]] [[function]] when they serve as efficient [[contact]] guardians of the [[human]] [[minds]] of the [[Urantia]] [[reserve corps of destiny]] at those times when the [[Adjuster]] is, in effect, detached from the [[personality]] during a season of contact with [[superhuman]] [[intelligences]].

77:7.6 It is no mere [[figure of speech]] when the [[record]] states: " And they brought to Him all sorts of sick peoples, those who were possessed by devils and those who were lunatics."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_4] [[Jesus]] knew and [[recognized]] the [[difference]] between [[insanity]] and demoniacal [[possession]], although these states were greatly [[confused]] in the [[minds]] of those who lived in his day and [[generation]].

77:7.6 It is no mere [[figure of speech]] when the [[record]] states: " And they brought to Him all sorts of sick peoples, those who were possessed by devils and those who were lunatics."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_4] [[Jesus]] knew and [[recognized]] the [[difference]] between [[insanity]] and demoniacal [[possession]], although these states were greatly [[confused]] in the [[minds]] of those who lived in his day and [[generation]].

77:7.7 Even prior to [[Pentecost]] no [[rebel]] [[spirit]] could [[dominate]] a [[normal]] human [[mind]], and since that day even the weak minds of inferior mortals are free from such [[possibilities]]. The supposed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism casting out of devils] since the arrival of the [[Spirit of Truth]] has been a matter of confounding a [[belief]] in demoniacal [[possession]] with hysteria, insanity, and feeble-mindedness. But just because [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 Michael's bestowal] has forever [[liberated]] all [[human]] [[minds]] on [[Urantia]] from the [[possibility]] of demoniacal [[possession]], do not imagine that such was not a [[reality]] in former ages.

77:7.7 Even prior to [[Pentecost]] no [[rebel]] [[spirit]] could [[dominate]] a [[normal]] human [[mind]], and since that day even the weak minds of inferior mortals are free from such [[possibilities]]. The supposed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism casting out of devils] since the arrival of the [[Spirit of Truth]] has been a matter of confounding a [[belief]] in demoniacal [[possession]] with hysteria, insanity, and feeble-mindedness. But just because [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 Michael's bestowal] has forever [[liberated]] all [[human]] [[minds]] on [[Urantia]] from the [[possibility]] of demoniacal [[possession]], do not imagine that such was not a [[reality]] in former ages.

77:7.8 The entire [[group]] of [[rebel]] [[midwayers]] is at present held prisoner by order of the [[Most Highs]] of [[Edentia]]. No more do they roam this world on mischief bent. Regardless of the [[presence]] of the [[Thought Adjusters]], the pouring out of the [[Spirit of Truth]] upon all [[flesh]] forever made it impossible for [[Rebel|disloyal]] spirits of any sort or description ever again to [[invade]] even the most feeble of human minds. Since the day of [[Pentecost]] there never again can be such a thing as demoniacal [[possession]].

77:7.8 The entire [[group]] of [[rebel]] [[midwayers]] is at present held prisoner by order of the [[Most Highs]] of [[Edentia]]. No more do they roam this world on mischief bent. Regardless of the [[presence]] of the [[Thought Adjusters]], the pouring out of the [[Spirit of Truth]] upon all [[flesh]] forever made it impossible for [[Rebel|disloyal]] spirits of any sort or description ever again to [[invade]] even the most feeble of human minds. Since the day of [[Pentecost]] there never again can be such a thing as demoniacal [[possession]].