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| 73:2.1 For almost one hundred years prior to [[Tabamantia]]'s inspection, [[Van]] and his associates, from their highland [[headquarters]] of world [[ethics]] and [[culture]], had been preaching the [[advent]] of a promised Son of God, a racial uplifter, a [[teacher]] of [[truth]], and the worthy successor of the traitorous [[Caligastia]]. Though the [[majority]] of the world's [[inhabitants]] of those days exhibited little or no interest in such a [[prediction]], those who were in [[immediate]] contact with [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] took such teaching seriously and began to plan for the [[actual]] [[reception]] of the promised Son. | | 73:2.1 For almost one hundred years prior to [[Tabamantia]]'s inspection, [[Van]] and his associates, from their highland [[headquarters]] of world [[ethics]] and [[culture]], had been preaching the [[advent]] of a promised Son of God, a racial uplifter, a [[teacher]] of [[truth]], and the worthy successor of the traitorous [[Caligastia]]. Though the [[majority]] of the world's [[inhabitants]] of those days exhibited little or no interest in such a [[prediction]], those who were in [[immediate]] contact with [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] took such teaching seriously and began to plan for the [[actual]] [[reception]] of the promised Son. |
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− | 73:2.2 [[Van]] told his nearest associates the story of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Material Sons] on [[Jerusem]]; what he had known of them before ever he came to [[Urantia]]. He well knew that these [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Adamic Sons] always lived in [[simple]] but [[charming]] [[garden]] [[homes]] and proposed, eighty-three years before the arrival of [[Adam and Eve]], that they [[devote]] themselves to the [[proclamation]] of their [[advent]] and to the [[preparation]] of a [[garden]] [[home]] for their [[reception]]. | + | 73:2.2 [[Van]] told his nearest associates the story of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Material Sons] on [[Jerusem]]; what he had known of them before ever he came to [[Urantia]]. He well knew that these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 Adamic Sons] always lived in [[simple]] but [[charming]] [[garden]] [[homes]] and proposed, eighty-three years before the arrival of [[Adam and Eve]], that they [[devote]] themselves to the [[proclamation]] of their [[advent]] and to the [[preparation]] of a [[garden]] [[home]] for their [[reception]]. |
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| 73:2.3 From their highland [[headquarters]] and from sixty-one far-scattered settlements, [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] recruited a corps of over three thousand willing and [[enthusiastic]] workers who, in [[solemn]] assembly, [[dedicated]] themselves to this mission of [[preparing]] for the promised—at least expected—Son. | | 73:2.3 From their highland [[headquarters]] and from sixty-one far-scattered settlements, [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] recruited a corps of over three thousand willing and [[enthusiastic]] workers who, in [[solemn]] assembly, [[dedicated]] themselves to this mission of [[preparing]] for the promised—at least expected—Son. |
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| 73:2.5 Although [[Caligastia]] and [[Daligastia]] had been deprived of much of their [[power]] for [[evil]], they did everything possible to frustrate and hamper the [[work]] of preparing [[the Garden]]. But their [[evil]] machinations were largely offset by the [[faithful]] [[activities]] of the almost ten thousand [[loyal]] [[midway creatures]] who so tirelessly labored to advance the [[enterprise]]. | | 73:2.5 Although [[Caligastia]] and [[Daligastia]] had been deprived of much of their [[power]] for [[evil]], they did everything possible to frustrate and hamper the [[work]] of preparing [[the Garden]]. But their [[evil]] machinations were largely offset by the [[faithful]] [[activities]] of the almost ten thousand [[loyal]] [[midway creatures]] who so tirelessly labored to advance the [[enterprise]]. |
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