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Urantia Book Paper 75 The Default Of Adam And Eve
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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Paper 75 The Default Of Adam And Eve
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Introduction
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AFTER more than one hundred years of effort on Urantia, Adam was able to see
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very little progress outside the Garden; the world at large did not seem to be
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improving much. The realization of race betterment appeared to be a long way
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off, and the situation seemed so desperate as to demand something for relief
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not embraced in the original plans. At least that is what often passed through
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Adam's mind, and he so expressed himself many times to Eve. Adam and his mate
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were loyal, but they were isolated from their kind, and they were sorely
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distressed by the sorry plight of their world.
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1. THE URANTIA PROBLEM
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The Adamic mission on experimental, rebellion-seared, and isolated Urantia was
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a formidable undertaking. And the Material Son and Daughter early became aware
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of the difficulty and complexity of their planetary assignment. Nevertheless,
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they courageously set about the task of solving their manifold problems. But
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when they addressed themselves to the all-important work of eliminating the
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defectives and degenerates from among the human strains, they were quite
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dismayed. They could see no way out of the dilemma, and they could not take
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counsel with their superiors on either Jerusem or Edentia. Here they were,
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isolated and day by day confronted with some new and complicated tangle, some
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problem that seemed to be unsolvable.
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Under normal conditions the first work of a Planetary Adam and Eve would be the
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co-ordination and blending of the races. But on Urantia such a project seemed
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just about hopeless, for the races, while biologically fit, had never been
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purged of their retarded and defective strains.
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Adam and Eve found themselves on a sphere wholly unprepared for the
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proclamation of the brotherhood of man, a world groping about in abject
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spiritual darkness and cursed with confusion worse confounded by the
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miscarriage of the mission of the preceding administration. Mind and morals
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were at a low level, and instead of beginning the task of effecting religious
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unity, they must begin all anew the work of converting the inhabitants to the
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most simple forms of religious belief. Instead of finding one language ready
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for adoption, they were confronted by the world-wide confusion of hundreds upon
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hundreds of local dialects. No Adam of the planetary service was ever set down
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on a more difficult world; the obstacles seemed insuperable and the problems
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beyond creature solution.
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They were isolated, and the tremendous sense of loneliness which bore down upon
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them was all the more heightened by the early departure of the Melchizedek
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receivers. Only indirectly, by means of the angelic orders, could they communi-
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cate with any being off the planet. Slowly their courage weakened, their
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spirits drooped, and sometimes their faith almost faltered.
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And this is the true picture of the consternation of these two noble souls as
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they pondered the tasks which confronted them. They were both keenly aware of
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the enormous undertaking involved in the execution of their planetary
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assignment.
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Probably no Material Sons of Nebadon were ever faced with such a difficult and
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seemingly hopeless task as confronted Adam and Eve in the sorry plight of
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Urantia. But they would have sometime met with success had they been more
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farseeing and patient. Both of them, especially Eve, were altogether too
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impatient; they were not willing to settle down to the long, long endurance
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test. They wanted to see some immediate results, and they did, but the results
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thus secured proved most disastrous both to themselves and to their world.
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2. CALIGASTIA'S PLOT
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Caligastia paid frequent visits to the Garden and held many conferences with
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Adam and Eve, but they were adamant to all his suggestions of compromise and
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short-cut adventures. They had before them enough of the results of rebellion
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to produce effective immunity against all such insinuating proposals. Even the
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young offspring of Adam were uninfluenced by the overtures of Daligastia. And
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of course neither Caligastia nor his associate had power to influence any
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individual against his will, much less to persuade the children of Adam to do
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wrong.
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It must be remembered that Caligastia was still the titular Planetary Prince of
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Urantia, a misguided but nevertheless high Son of the local universe. He was
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not finally deposed until the times of Christ Michael on Urantia.
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But the fallen Prince was persistent and determined. He soon gave up working on
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Adam and decided to try a wily flank attack on Eve. The evil one concluded that
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the only hope for success lay in the adroit employment of suitable persons
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belonging to the upper strata of the Nodite group, the descendants of his
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onetime corporeal-staff associates. And the plans were accordingly laid for
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entrapping the mother of the violet race.
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It was farthest from Eve's intention ever to do anything which would militate
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against Adam's plans or jeopardize their planetary trust. Knowing the tendency
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of woman to look upon immediate results rather than to plan farsightedly for
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more remote effects, the Melchizedeks, before departing, had especially
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enjoined Eve as to the peculiar dangers besetting their isolated position on
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the planet and had in particular warned her never to stray from the side of her
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mate, that is, to attempt no personal or secret methods of furthering their
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mutual undertakings. Eve had most scrupulously carried out these instructions
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for more than one hundred years, and it did not occur to her that any danger
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would attach to the increasingly private and confidential visits she was
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enjoying with a certain Nodite leader named Serapatatia. The whole affair
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developed so gradually and naturally that she was taken unawares.
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The Garden dwellers had been in contact with the Nodites since the early days
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of Eden. From these mixed descendants of the defaulting members of Caligastia's
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staff they had received much valuable help and co-operation, and through them
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the Edenic regime was now to meet its complete undoing and final overthrow.
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3. THE TEMPTATION OF EVE
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Adam had just finished his first one hundred years on earth when Serapatatia,
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upon the death of his father, came to the leadership of the western or Syrian
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confederation of the Nodite tribes. Serapatatia was a brown-tinted man, a
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brilliant descendant of the onetime chief of the Dalamatia commission on health
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mated with one of the master female minds of the blue race of those distant
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days. All down through the ages this line had held authority and wielded a
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great influence among the western Nodite tribes.
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Serapatatia had made several visits to the Garden and had become deeply
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impressed with the righteousness of Adam's cause. And shortly after assuming
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the leadership of the Syrian Nodites, he announced his intention of
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establishing an affiliation with the work of Adam and Eve in the Garden. The
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majority of his people joined him in this program, and Adam was cheered by the
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news that the most powerful and the most intelligent of all the neighboring
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tribes had swung over almost bodily to the support of the program for world
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improvement; it was decidedly heartening. And shortly after this great event,
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Serapatatia and his new staff were entertained by Adam and Eve in their own
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home.
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Serapatatia became one of the most able and efficient of all of Adam's
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lieutenants. He was entirely honest and thoroughly sincere in all of his
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activities; he was never conscious, even later on, that he was being used as a
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circumstantial tool of the wily Caligastia.
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Presently, Serapatatia became the associate chairman of the Edenic commission
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on tribal relations, and many plans were laid for the more vigorous prosecution
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of the work of winning the remote tribes to the cause of the Garden.
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He held many conferences with Adam and Eve--especially with Eve--and they
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talked over many plans for improving their methods. One day, during a talk with
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Eve, it occurred to Serapatatia that it would be very helpful if, while
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awaiting the recruiting of large numbers of the violet race, something could be
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done in the meantime immediately to advance the needy waiting tribes.
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Serapatatia contended that, if the Nodites, as the most progressive and
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co-operative race, could have a leader born to them of part origin in the
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violet stock, it would constitute a powerful tie binding these peoples more
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closely to the Garden. And all of this was soberly and honestly considered to
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be for the good of the world since this child, to be reared and educated in the
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Garden, would exert a great influence for good over his father's people.
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It should again be emphasized that Serapatatia was altogether honest and wholly
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sincere in all that he proposed. He never once suspected that he was playing
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into the hands of Caligastia and Daligastia. Serapatatia was entirely loyal to
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the plan of building up a strong reserve of the violet race before attempting
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the world-wide upstepping of the confused peoples of Urantia. But this would
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require hundreds of years to consummate, and he was impatient; he wanted to see
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some immediate results--something in his own lifetime. He made it clear to Eve
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that Adam was oftentimes discouraged by the little that had been accomplished
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toward uplifting the world.
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For more than five years these plans were secretly matured. At last they had
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developed to the point where Eve consented to have a secret conference with
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Cano, the most brilliant mind and active leader of the near-by colony of
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friendly Nodites. Cano was very sympathetic with the Adamic regime; in fact, he
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was the sincere spiritual leader of those neighboring Nodites who favored
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friendly relations with the Garden.
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The fateful meeting occurred during the twilight hours of the autumn evening,
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not far from the home of Adam. Eve had never before met the beautiful and
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enthusiastic Cano--and he was a magnificent specimen of the survival of the
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superior physique and outstanding intellect of his remote progenitors of the
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Prince's staff. And Cano also thoroughly believed in the righteousness of the
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Serapatatia project. (Outside of the Garden, multiple mating was a common
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practice.)
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Influenced by flattery, enthusiasm, and great personal persuasion, Eve then and
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there consented to embark upon the much-discussed enterprise, to add her own
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little scheme of world saving to the larger and more far-reaching divine plan.
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Before she quite realized what was transpiring, the fatal step had been taken.
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It was done.
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4. THE REALIZATION OF DEFAULT
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The celestial life of the planet was astir. Adam recognized that something was
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wrong, and he asked Eve to come aside with him in the Garden. And now, for the
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first time, Adam heard the entire story of the long-nourished plan for
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accelerating world improvement by operating simultaneously in two directions:
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the prosecution of the divine plan concomitantly with the execution of the
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Serapatatia enterprise.
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And as the Material Son and Daughter thus communed in the moonlit Garden, "the
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voice in the Garden" reproved them for disobedience. And that voice was none
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other than my own announcement to the Edenic pair that they had transgressed
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the Garden covenant; that they had disobeyed the instructions of the
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Melchizedeks; that they had defaulted in the execution of their oaths of trust
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to the sovereign of the universe.
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Eve had consented to participate in the practice of good and evil. Good is the
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carrying out of the divine plans; sin is a deliberate transgression of the
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divine will; evil is the misadaptation of plans and the maladjustment of
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techniques resulting in universe disharmony and planetary confusion.
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Every time the Garden pair had partaken of the fruit of the tree of life, they
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had been warned by the archangel custodian to refrain from yielding to the
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suggestions of Caligastia to combine good and evil. They had been thus
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admonished: "In the day that you commingle good and evil, you shall surely
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become as the mortals of the realm; you shall surely die."
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Eve had told Cano of this oft-repeated warning on the fateful occasion of their
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secret meeting, but Cano, not knowing the import or significance of such
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admonitions, had assured her that men and women with good motives and true
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intentions could do no evil; that she should surely not die but rather live
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anew in the person of their offspring, who would grow up to bless and stabilize
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the world.
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Even though this project of modifying the divine plan had been conceived and
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executed with entire sincerity and with only the highest motives concerning the
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welfare of the world, it constituted evil because it represented the wrong way
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to achieve righteous ends, because it departed from the right way, the divine
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plan.
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True, Eve had found Cano pleasant to the eyes, and she realized all that her
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seducer promised by way of "new and increased knowledge of human affairs and
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quickened understanding of human nature as supplemental to the comprehension of
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the Adamic nature."
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I talked to the father and mother of the violet race that night in the Garden
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as became my duty under the sorrowful circumstances. I listened fully to the
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recital of all that led up to the default of Mother Eve and gave both of them
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advice and counsel concerning the immediate situation. Some of this advice they
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followed; some they disregarded. This conference appears in your records as
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"the Lord God calling to Adam and Eve in the Garden and asking, `Where are
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you?'" It was the practice of later generations to attribute everything unusual
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and extraordinary, whether natural or spiritual, directly to the personal
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intervention of the Gods.
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5. REPERCUSSIONS OF DEFAULT
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Eve's disillusionment was truly pathetic. Adam discerned the whole predicament
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and, while heartbroken and dejected, entertained only pity and sympathy for his
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erring mate.
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It was in the despair of the realization of failure that Adam, the day after
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Eve's misstep, sought out Laotta, the brilliant Nodite woman who was head of
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the western schools of the Garden, and with premeditation committed the folly
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of Eve. But do not misunderstand; Adam was not beguiled; he knew exactly what
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he was about; he deliberately chose to share the fate of Eve. He loved his mate
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with a supermortal affection, and the thought of the possibility of a lonely
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vigil on Urantia without her was more than he could endure.
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When they learned what had happened to Eve, the infuriated inhabitants of the
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Garden became unmanageable; they declared war on the near-by Nodite settlement.
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They swept out through the gates of Eden and down upon these unprepared people,
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utterly destroying them--not a man, woman, or child was spared. And Cano, the
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father of Cain yet unborn, also perished.
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Upon the realization of what had happened, Serapatatia was overcome with
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consternation and beside himself with fear and remorse. The next day he drowned
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himself in the great river.
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The children of Adam sought to comfort their distracted mother while their
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father wandered in solitude for thirty days. At the end of that time judgment
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asserted itself, and Adam returned to his home and began to plan for their
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future course of action.
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The consequences of the follies of misguided parents are so often shared by
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their innocent children. The upright and noble sons and daughters of Adam and
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Eve were overwhelmed by the inexplicable sorrow of the unbelievable tragedy
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which had been so suddenly and so ruthlessly thrust upon them. Not in fifty
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years did the older of these children recover from the sorrow and sadness of
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those tragic days, especially the terror of that period of thirty days during
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which their father was absent from home while their distracted mother was in
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complete ignorance of his whereabouts or fate.
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And those same thirty days were as long years of sorrow and suffering to Eve.
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Never did this noble soul fully recover from the effects of that excruciating
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period of mental suffering and spiritual sorrow. No feature of their subsequent
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deprivations and material hardships ever began to compare in Eve's memory
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with those terrible days and awful nights of loneliness and unbearable
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uncertainty. She learned of the rash act of Serapatatia and did not know
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whether her mate had in sorrow destroyed himself or had been removed from the
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world in retribution for her misstep. And when Adam returned, Eve experienced a
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satisfaction of joy and gratitude that never was effaced by their long and
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difficult life partnership of toiling service.
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Time passed, but Adam was not certain of the nature of their offense until
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seventy days after the default of Eve, when the Melchizedek receivers returned
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to Urantia and assumed jurisdiction over world affairs. And then he knew they
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had failed.
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But still more trouble was brewing: The news of the annihilation of the Nodite
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settlement near Eden was not slow in reaching the home tribes of Serapatatia to
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the north, and presently a great host was assembling to march on the Garden.
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And this was the beginning of a long and bitter warfare between the Adamites
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and the Nodites, for these hostilities kept up long after Adam and his
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followers emigrated to the second garden in the Euphrates valley. There was
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intense and lasting "enmity between that man and the woman, between his seed
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and her seed."
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6. ADAM AND EVE LEAVE THE GARDEN
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When Adam learned that the Nodites were on the march, he sought the counsel of
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the Melchizedeks, but they refused to advise him, only telling him to do as he
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thought best and promising their friendly co-operation, as far as possible, in
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any course he might decide upon. The Melchizedeks had been forbidden to
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interfere with the personal plans of Adam and Eve.
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Adam knew that he and Eve had failed; the presence of the Melchizedek receivers
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told him that, though he still knew nothing of their personal status or future
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fate. He held an all-night conference with some twelve hundred loyal followers
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who pledged themselves to follow their leader, and the next day at noon these
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pilgrims went forth from Eden in quest of new homes. Adam had no liking for war
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and accordingly elected to leave the first garden to the Nodites unopposed.
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The Edenic caravan was halted on the third day out from the Garden by the
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arrival of the seraphic transports from Jerusem. And for the first time Adam
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and Eve were informed of what was to become of their children. While the
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transports stood by, those children who had arrived at the age of choice
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(twenty years) were given the option of remaining on Urantia with their parents
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or of becoming wards of the Most Highs of Norlatiadek. Two thirds chose to go
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to Edentia; about one third elected to remain with their parents. All children
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of prechoice age were taken to Edentia. No one could have beheld the sorrowful
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parting of this Material Son and Daughter and their children without realizing
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that the way of the transgressor is hard. These offspring of Adam and Eve are
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now on Edentia; we do not know what disposition is to be made of them.
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It was a sad, sad caravan that prepared to journey on. Could anything have been
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more tragic! To have come to a world in such high hopes, to have been so
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auspiciously received, and then to go forth in disgrace from Eden, only to lose
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more than three fourths of their children even before finding a new abiding
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place!
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7. DEGRADATION OF ADAM AND EVE
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It was while the Edenic caravan was halted that Adam and Eve were informed of
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the nature of their transgressions and advised concerning their fate. Gabriel
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appeared to pronounce judgment. And this was the verdict: The Planetary Adam
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and Eve of Urantia are adjudged in default; they have violated the covenant of
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their trusteeship as the rulers of this inhabited world.
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While downcast by the sense of guilt, Adam and Eve were greatly cheered by the
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announcement that their judges on Salvington had absolved them from all charges
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of standing in "contempt of the universe government." They had not been held
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guilty of rebellion.
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The Edenic pair were informed that they had degraded themselves to the status
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of the mortals of the realm; that they must henceforth conduct themselves as
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man and woman of Urantia, looking to the future of the world races for their
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future.
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Long before Adam and Eve left Jerusem, their instructors had fully explained to
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them the consequences of any vital departure from the divine plans. I had
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personally and repeatedly warned them, both before and after they arrived on
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Urantia, that reduction to the status of mortal flesh would be the certain
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result, the sure penalty, which would unfailingly attend default in the
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execution of their planetary mission. But a comprehension of the immortality
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status of the material order of sonship is essential to a clear understanding
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of the consequences attendant upon the default of Adam and Eve.
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1. Adam and Eve, like their fellows on Jerusem, maintained immortal status
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through intellectual association with the mind-gravity circuit of the Spirit.
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When this vital sustenance is broken by mental disjunction, then, regardless of
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the spiritual level of creature existence, immortality status is lost. Mortal
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status followed by physical dissolution was the inevitable consequence of the
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intellectual default of Adam and Eve.
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2. The Material Son and Daughter of Urantia, being also personalized in the
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similitude of the mortal flesh of this world, were further dependent on the
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maintenance of a dual circulatory system, the one derived from their physical
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natures, the other from the superenergy stored in the fruit of the tree of
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life. Always had the archangel custodian admonished Adam and Eve that default
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of trust would culminate in degradation of status, and access to this source of
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energy was denied them subsequent to their default.
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Caligastia did succeed in trapping Adam and Eve, but he did not accomplish his
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purpose of leading them into open rebellion against the universe government.
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What they had done was indeed evil, but they were never guilty of contempt for
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truth, neither did they knowingly enlist in rebellion against the righteous
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rule of the Universal Father and his Creator Son.
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8. THE SO-CALLED FALL OF MAN
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Adam and Eve did fall from their high estate of material sonship down to the
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lowly status of mortal man. But that was not the fall of man. The human race
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has been uplifted despite the immediate consequences of the Adamic default.
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Although the divine plan of giving the violet race to the Urantia peoples
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miscarried, the mortal races have profited enormously from the limited
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contribution which Adam and his descendants made to the Urantia races.
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There has been no "fall of man." The history of the human race is one of
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progressive evolution, and the Adamic bestowal left the world peoples greatly
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improved over their previous biologic condition. The more superior stocks of
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Urantia now contain inheritance factors derived from as many as four separate
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sources: Andonite, Sangik, Nodite, and Adamic.
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Adam should not be regarded as the cause of a curse on the human race. While he
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did fail in carrying forward the divine plan, while he did transgress his
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covenant with Deity, while he and his mate were most certainly degraded in
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creature status, notwithstanding all this, their contribution to the human race
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did much to advance civilization on Urantia.
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In estimating the results of the Adamic mission on your world, justice demands
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the recognition of the condition of the planet. Adam was confronted with a
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well-nigh hopeless task when, with his beautiful mate, he was transported from
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Jerusem to this dark and confused planet. But had they been guided by the
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counsel of the Melchizedeks and their associates, and had they been more
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patient, they would have eventually met with success. But Eve listened to the
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insidious propaganda of personal liberty and planetary freedom of action. She
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was led to experiment with the life plasm of the material order of sonship in
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that she allowed this life trust to become prematurely commingled with that of
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the then mixed order of the original design of the Life Carriers which had been
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previously combined with that of the reproducing beings once attached to the
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staff of the Planetary Prince.
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Never, in all your ascent to Paradise, will you gain anything by impatiently
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attempting to circumvent the established and divine plan by short cuts,
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personal inventions, or other devices for improving on the way of perfection,
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to perfection, and for eternal perfection.
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All in all, there probably never was a more disheartening miscarriage of wisdom
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on any planet in all Nebadon. But it is not surprising that these missteps
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occur in the affairs of the evolutionary universes. We are a part of a gigantic
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creation, and it is not strange that everything does not work in perfection;
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our universe was not created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not
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our origin.
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If this were a mechanistic universe, if the First Great Source and Center were
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only a force and not also a personality, if all creation were a vast
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aggregation of physical matter dominated by precise laws characterized by
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unvarying energy actions, then might perfection obtain, even despite the
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incompleteness of universe status. There would be no disagreement; there would
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be no friction. But in our evolving universe of relative perfection and
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imperfection we rejoice that disagreement and misunderstanding are possible,
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for thereby is evidenced the fact and the act of personality in the universe.
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And if our creation is an existence dominated by personality, then can you be
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assured of the possibilities of personality survival, advancement, and
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achievement; we can be confident of personality growth, experience, and
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adventure. What a glorious universe, in that it is personal and progressive,
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not merely mechanical or even passively perfect!
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[Presented by Solonia, the seraphic "voice in the Garden."]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Seraphic Planetary Government The Supreme Being The Almighty Supreme God The
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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