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 twelve on race improvement, and before Adam died this commission had selected 1,682 of the highest type of women on Urantia, and these women were impregnated with the Adamic life plasm. Their children all grew up to maturity except 112, so that the world, in this way, was benefited by the addition of 1,570 superior men and women. Though these candidate mothers were selected from all the surrounding tribes and represented most of the races on earth, the majority were chosen from the highest strains of the Nodites, and they constituted the early beginnings of the mighty Andite race. These children were born and reared in the tribal surroundings of their respective mothers.
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0851:06
“Now I think Michael of Nebadon has another plan.” I have been looking forward to what I believe will be his plan for those children of Adam and Eve who were translated to the Heavens as wards of the Most Highs of Edentia, our Constellation Fathers. Since his terminal bestowal of himself, Michael has succeeded the traitorous Caligastia and is now the Planetary Prince of Urantia.
Let us enumerate the direct offspring of either Adam or Eve: “Adamson was the first-born of the violet race of Urantia, being followed by his sister and Eveson, the second son of Adam and Eve. Eve was the mother of five children before the Melchizedeks left—three sons and two daughters. The next two were twins. She bore sixty-three children, thirty-two daughters and thirty-one sons, before the default. When Adam and Eve left the Garden, their family consisted of four generations numbering 1,647 pure-line descendants. They had forty-two children after leaving the Garden besides the two offspring of joint parentage with the mortal stock of earth [Cain and Sansa]. And this does not include the Adamic parentage to the Nodite and evolutionary races [the 1,570 surviving children referenced in the quote introducing this essay]” (0834:04). Adamson chose to stay on our world and will figure prominently in this history.
The biblical story of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4) refers to real people. Abel was the first pure-line descendant of Adam and Eve born in the second garden. Cain, a child of Eve by mortal stock, was naturally bellicose by half his inheritance. Abel would taunt Cain for being a half-breed, and Cain was so driven to anger that he rose against Abel, his half brother, and killed him.
Strictly speaking, there never has been a “mighty Andite race.” There have been only nine races on Urantia: the aboriginal race of Andon and Fonta: the Andonites; the six Sangik races of color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo (orange, green, and blue extinct); the Nodites; and the violet race, the race of Adam and Eve: the Adamites.
But directly descending as they were from Adam, these “Andites” were indeed mighty. Many traces of our history, even to historic times, are from the Andites: Genghis Khan, for instance, is identified as an exemplar of the “submerged military genius of the central Asiatic Andites” (0879:06).
Ernest Clement
You know that humans are hard to round up; so this summary ranging over thousands of years would be a bit complex. So it is!
The point is that awesome races of people have shown up despite the default of Adam and Eve’s larger plan.
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