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Title: "Urantia Book - Paper 76 (The Second Garden)"
Transcript: "(00:02) paper 76 the second garden when adam elected to leave the first garden to the noddits unopposed he and his followers could not go west for the eden knights had no boat suitable for such a marine adventure they could not go north the northern nadites were already on the march toward eden they feared to go south the hills of that region were infested with hostile tribes the only way open was to the east and so they journeyed eastward toward the then pleasant regions between the tigris and euphrates rivers and many of those who were left behind (00:37) later journeyed eastward to join the adamites in their new valley home kane and sansa were both born before the adamic caravan had reached its destination between the rivers in mesopotamia leota the mother of sansa perished at the birth of her daughter eve suffered much but survived owing to superior strength eve took sansa the child of laota to her bosom and she was reared along with kane sansa grew up to be a woman of great ability she became the wife of sargan the chief of the northern blue races and contributed to the advancement of (01:13) the blue men of those times 1. the eden knights enter mesopotamia it required almost a full year for the caravan of adam to reach the euphrates river finding it in flood tide they remained camped on the plains west of the stream almost six weeks before they made their way across to the land between the rivers which was to become the second garden when word had reached the dwellers in the land of the second garden that the king and high priest of the garden of eden was marching on them they had fled in haste to the eastern (01:46) mountains adam found all of the desired territory vacated when he arrived and here in this new location adam and his helpers set themselves to work to build new homes and establish a new center of culture and religion this site was known to adam as one of the three original selections of the committee assigned to choose possible locations for the garden proposed by van and amadon the two rivers themselves were a good natural defense in those days and a short way north of the second garden the euphrates and tigris came (02:19) close together so that a defense wall extending 56 miles could be built for the protection of the territory to the south and between the rivers after getting settled in the new eden it became necessary to adopt crude methods of living it seemed entirely true that the ground had been cursed nature was once again taking its course now were the atomites compelled to rest a living from unprepared soil and to cope with the realities of life in the face of the natural hostilities and incompatibilities of mortal existence (02:53) they found the first garden partially prepared for them but the second had to be created by the labor of their own hands and in the sweat of their faces 2. cain and abel less than two years after cain's birth abel was born the first child of adam and eve to be born in the second garden when abel grew up to the age of 12 years he elected to be a herder kane had chosen to follow agriculture now in those days it was customary to make offerings to the priesthood of the things at hand murders would bring of their flocks (03:32) farmers of the fruits of the fields and in accordance with this custom cane and abel likewise made periodic offerings to the priests the two boys had many times argued about the relative merits of their vocations and abel was not slow to note that preference was shown for his animal sacrifices in vain did cain appeal to the traditions of the first eden to the former preference for the fruits of the fields but this abel would not allow and he taunted his older brother in his discomfort in the days of the first eden adam had (04:06) indeed sought to discourage the offering of animal sacrifice so that cain had a justifiable precedent for his contentions it was however difficult to organize the religious life of the second eden adam was burdened with a thousand and one details associated with the work of building defense and agriculture being much depressed spiritually he entrusted the organization of worship and education to those of nade extraction who had served in these capacities in the first garden and in even so short of time the officiating noddite priests (04:39) were reverting to the standards and rulings of pre-adamic times the two boys never got along well and this matter of sacrifices further contributed to the growing hatred between them abel knew he was the son of both adam and eve and never failed to impress upon cain that adam was not his father kane was not pure violet as his father was of the noddite race later admixed with the blue and the red man and with the aboriginal and donek stock and all of this with kane's natural bellicose inheritance caused him to nourish an ever-increasing (05:16) hatred for his younger brother the boys were respectively 18 and 20 years of age when the tension between them was finally resolved one day when abel's taunts so infuriated his bellicose brother that cain turned upon him in wrath and slew him the observation of abel's conduct establishes the value of environment and education as factors in character development able had an ideal inheritance and heredity lies at the bottom of all character but the influence of an inferior environment virtually neutralized this (05:51) magnificent inheritance abel especially during his younger years was greatly influenced by his unfavorable surroundings he would have become an entirely different person had he lived to be 25 or 30. his superb inheritance would then have shown itself while a good environment cannot contribute much toward really overcoming the character handicaps of a base heredity a bad environment can very effectively spoil an excellent inheritance at least during the younger years of life good social environment and proper education are indispensable soil and (06:27) atmosphere for getting the most out of a good inheritance the death of abel became known to his parents when his dogs brought the flocks home without their master to adam and eve cain was fast becoming the grim reminder of their folly and they encouraged him in his decision to leave the garden kane's life in mesopotamia had not been exactly happy since he was in such a peculiar way symbolic of the default it was not that his associates were unkind to him but he had not been unaware of their subconscious resentment (06:59) of his presence but cain knew that since he bore no tribal mark he would be killed by the first neighboring tribesmen who might chance to meet him fear and some remorse led him to repent cain had never been indwelt by an adjuster had always been defiant of the family discipline and disdainful of his father's religion but he now went to eve his mother and asked for spiritual help and guidance and when he honestly sought divine assistance an adjuster indwelled him and this adjuster dwelling within and looking out gave (07:36) cain a distinct advantage of superiority which classed him with the greatly feared tribe of adam and so cain departed for the land of nod east of the second eden he became a great leader among one group of his father's people and did to a certain degree fulfill the predictions of sarah pattacia for he did promote peace between this division of the noddits and the adamites throughout his lifetime cain married ramona his distant cousin and their first son enoch became the head of the elamite noddits and for hundreds of years the elamites (08:11) and the adamites continued to be at peace three life in mesopotamia as time passed in the second garden the consequences of default became increasingly apparent adam and eve greatly missed their former home of beauty and tranquility as well as their children who had been deported to edentia it was indeed pathetic to observe this magnificent couple reduced to the status of the common flesh of the realm but they bore their diminished estate with grace and fortitude adam wisely spent most of the time training his children and their (08:47) associates in civil administration educational methods and religious devotions had it not been for this foresight pandemonium would have broken loose upon his death as it was the death of adam made little difference in the conduct of the affairs of his people but long before adam and eve passed away they recognized that their children and followers had gradually learned to forget the days of their glory in eden and it was better for the majority of their followers that they did forget the grandeur of eden they were not so likely to experience (09:20) undue dissatisfaction with their less fortunate environment the civil rulers of the adamites were derived hereditarily from the sons of the first garden adam's first son adamson adam ben adam founded a secondary center of the violet race to the north of the second eden adam's second son evesyn became a masterly leader and administrator he was the great helper of his father eveson lived not quite so long as adam and his eldest son jansad became the successor of adam as the head of the adamite tribes the religious rulers or priesthood (09:59) originated with seth the eldest surviving son of adam and eve born in the second garden he was born 129 years after adam's arrival on urantia seth became absorbed in the work of improving the spiritual status of his father's people becoming the head of the new priesthood of the second garden his son enos founded the new order of worship and his grandson keenan instituted the foreign missionary service to the surrounding tribes near and far the sethite priesthood was a threefold undertaking embracing religion health and education (10:36) the priests of this order were trained to officiate at religious ceremonies to serve as physicians and sanitary inspectors and to act as teachers in the schools of the garden adam's caravan had carried the seeds and bulbs of hundreds of plants and cereals of the first garden with them to the land between the rivers they also had brought along extensive herds and some of all the domesticated animals because of this they possessed great advantages over the surrounding tribes they enjoyed many of the benefits of the (11:08) previous culture of the original garden up to the time of leaving the first garden adam and his family had always subsisted on fruits cereals and nuts on the way to mesopotamia they had for the first time partaken of herbs and vegetables the eating of meat was early introduced into the second garden but adam and eve never partook of flesh as a part of their regular diet neither did adamson nor eveson nor the other children of the first generation of the first garden become flesh eaters the adamites greatly excelled the (11:41) surrounding peoples in cultural achievement and intellectual development they produced the third alphabet and otherwise laid the foundations for much that was the forerunner of modern art science and literature here in the lands between the tigris and euphrates they maintained the arts of writing metalworking pottery making and weaving and produced a type of architecture that was not excelled in thousands of years the home life of the violet peoples was for their day and age ideal children were subjected to courses (12:14) of training in agriculture craftsmanship and animal husbandry or else were educated to perform the threefold duty of a sethite to be priest physician and teacher and when thinking of the setting priesthood do not confuse those high-minded and noble teachers of health and religion those true educators with the debased and commercial priesthoods of the later tribes and surrounding nations their religious concepts of deity and the universe were advanced and more or less accurate their health provisions were for their time (12:46) excellent and their methods of education have never since been surpassed 4. the violet race adam and eve were the founders of the violet race of men the ninth human race to appear on urantia adam and his offspring had blue eyes and the violet peoples were characterized by fair complexions and light hair color yellow red and brown eve did not suffer pain in childbirth neither did the early evolutionary races only the mixed races produced by the union of evolutionary man with the nadites and later with the adamites suffered the (13:25) severe pangs of childbirth adam and eve like their brethren on jerusalem were energized by dual nutrition subsisting on both food and light supplemented by certain super physical energies unrevealed on urantia their urantia offspring did not inherit the parental endowment of energy intake and light circulation they had a single circulation the human type of blood sustenance they were designedly mortal though long-lived albeit longevity gravitated toward the human norm with each succeeding generation adam and eve and their first generation (14:03) of children did not use the flesh of animals for food they subsisted wholly upon the fruits of the trees after the first generation all of the descendants of adam began to partake of dairy products but many of them continue to follow a non-flesh diet many of the southern tribes with whom they later united were also non-flesh eaters later on most of these vegetarian tribes migrated to the east and survived as now admixed in the peoples of india both the physical and spiritual visions of adam and eve were far superior to those of the present-day (14:39) peoples their special senses were much more acute and they were able to see the midwayers and the angelic hosts the melchizedeks and the fallen prince kalagastia who several times came to confer with his noble successor they retained the ability to see these celestial beings for over 100 years after the default these special senses were not so acutely present in their children and tended to diminish with each succeeding generation the adamic children were usually adjuster indwelt since they all possessed undoubted survival capacity (15:16) these superior offspring were not so subject to fear as the children of evolution so much of fear persists in the present day races of your rancher because your ancestors received so little of adam's life plasm owing to the early miscarriage of the plans for racial physical uplift the body cells of the material sons and their progeny are far more resistant to disease than are those of the evolutionary beings indigenous to the planet the body cells of the native races are akin to the living disease producing (15:46) microscopic and ultra microscopic organisms of the realm these facts explain why the urantia peoples must do so much by way of scientific effort to withstand so many physical disorders you would be far more disease resistant if your races carried more of the adamic life after becoming established in the second garden on the euphrates adam elected to leave behind as much of his life plasm as possible to benefit the world after his death accordingly eve was made the head of a commission of 12 on race improvement and before adam died (16:23) this commission had selected 1682 of the highest type of women on urantia and these women were impregnated with the adamic life plasm their children all grew up to maturity except one hundred twelve so that the world in this way was benefited by the addition of one thousand five hundred seventy superior men and women though these candidate mothers were selected from all the surrounding tribes and represented most of the races on earth the majority were chosen from the highest strains of the noddites and they constituted the early (16:58) beginnings of the mighty andite race these children were born and reared in the tribal surroundings of their respective mothers 5. death of adam and eve not long after the establishment of the second eden adam and eve were duly informed that their repentance was acceptable and that while they were doomed to suffer the fate of the mortals of their world they should certainly become eligible for admission to the ranks of the sleeping survivors of urantia they fully believed this gospel of resurrection and rehabilitation which (17:32) the melchizedek so touchingly proclaimed to them their transgression had been an error of judgment and not the sin of conscious and deliberate rebellion adam and eve did not as citizens of jerusalem have thought adjusters nor were they adjuster indwelt when they functioned on urantia in the first garden but shortly after their reduction to mortal status they became conscious of a new presence within them and awakened to the realization that human status coupled with sincere repentance had made it possible for adjusters to (18:05) indwell them it was this knowledge of being a just or indwelt that greatly heartened adam and eve throughout the remainder of their lives they knew that they had failed as material sons of satania but they also knew that the paradise career was still open to them as ascending sons of the universe adam knew about the dispensational resurrection which occurred simultaneously with his arrival on the planet and he believed that he and his companion would probably be re-personalized in connection with the advent of the next order of sonship (18:39) he did not know that michael the sovereign of this universe was so soon to appear on urantia he expected that the next son to arrive would be of the avenue order even so it was always a comfort to adam and eve as well as something difficult for them to understand to ponder the only personal message they ever received from michael this message among other expressions of friendship and comfort said i have given consideration to the circumstances of your default i have remembered the desire of your hearts ever to be loyal to my father's (19:14) will and you will be called from the embrace of mortal slumber when i come to your rancher if the subordinate sons of my realm do not send for you before that time and this was a great mystery to adam and eve they could comprehend the veiled promise of a possible special resurrection in this message and such a possibility greatly cheered them but they could not grasp the meaning of the intimation that they might rest until the time of a resurrection associated with michael's personal appearance on urantia and so the eudenic pair always (19:48) proclaimed that a son of god would sometime come and they communicated to their loved ones the belief at least the longing hope that the world of their blunders and sorrows might possibly be the realm where on the ruler of this universe would elect to function as the paradise bestowal sun it seemed too good to be true but adam did entertain the thought that stryfe torn urantia might after all turn out to be the most fortunate world in the system of satania the envied planet of all nebadon adam lived for 530 years (20:24) he died of what might be termed old age his physical mechanism simply wore out the process of disintegration gradually gained on the process of repair and the inevitable end came eve had died 19 years previously of a weakened heart they were both buried in the center of the temple of divine service which had been built in accordance with their plans soon after the wall of the colony had been completed and this was the origin of the practice of burying noted and pious men and women under the floors of the places of (20:57) worship the super material government of urantia under the direction of the melchizedek's continued but direct physical contact with the evolutionary races had been severed from the distant days of the arrival of the corporeal staff of the planetary prince down through the times of van and amadon to the arrival of adam and eve physical representatives of the universe government had been stationed on the planet but with the adamic default this regime extending over a period of more than four hundred and fifty thousand years (21:31) c"
