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The realization of race betterment appeared to be a long way off, and the situation seemed so desperate as to demand something for relief not embraced in the original plans. At least that is what often passed through Adam’s mind, and he so expressed himself many times to Eve. Adam and his mate were loyal, but they were isolated from their kind, and they were sorely distressed by the sorry plight of their world.
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0839:01
“The ‘golden age’ is a myth, but Eden was a fact, and the Garden civilization was actually overthrown. Adam and Eve carried on in the Garden for one hundred and seventeen years when, through the impatience of Eva and the errors of judgment of Adam, they presumed to turn aside from the ordained way, speedily bringing disaster upon themselves and ruinous retardation upon the developmental progression of all Urantia” (0838:06).
By that time their family numbered 1,647 pure-line descendants in four generations. Included in this number were 63 children born to Adam and Eve in the first Garden—32 daughters and 31 sons. Their first-born was Adamson, who will figure prominently a little later in this history.
For being so utterly isolated on our spiritually abject and confused world, Adam and Eve were understandably discouraged, which was the soil in which Eve’s impatience flowered. She allowed herself to be drawn into a private understanding with Serapatatia, the leader of the western or Syrian Nodite tribes, who proposed that a child born by Eve to a leader of the Nodite tribes “would constitute a powerful tie binding these peoples more closely to the Garden” (0841:05).
Serapatatia was altogether sincere and “never once suspected that he was playing into the hands of Caligastia and Daligastia” (0841:06) to subvert the divine plan for uplifting the races. For more than five years, without Adam’s knowledge, Eve entertained plans for the Serapatatia project, until finally she agreed to meet privately with a young man whom she had never met: “Cano, the most brilliant mind and active leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nodites” (0842:00). You can guess the rest. The child to be born of this union would be Cain: the only child Eve would ever have whose father would not be Adam.
Sensing something had gone wrong, Adam sought out Eve and heard from her the sorrow of what had transpired. And then, not the voice of the “Lord God” of Genesis, but the chief of planetary helpers then on duty, “Solonia, the seraphic ‘voice in the Garden’” (0827:04), remonstrated with both Adam and Eve, “that they had defaulted in the execution of their oaths of trust to the sovereign of the universe” (0842:04). In The URANTIA Book, the author of the four papers on Adam and Eve is this same Solonia. A celestial authority whose knowledge is more personal or intimate we cannot imagine.
Adam could not bear the thought of possibly being left alone without his beloved Eve. On the next day “he deliberately chose to share the fate of Eve” (0843:04), committing the same folly as Eve with a superior Nodite woman named Laotta, who died giving birth to Sansa: the first child of Adam whose mother would not be Eve.
In the new Eden established between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, Eve raised Sansa at her breast along with Cain. As you would expect of a child of Adam nursed by Eve, Sansa grew to be a very able woman: “She became the wife of Sargan, the chief of the northern blue races, and contributed to the advancement of the blue men of those times” (0847:02).
Ernest Clement
What would you do in their predicament? The true story of Adam and Eve continues in “Part 25—The Edenic Caravan.” Click on Block 4 below. Or you may return to the >> Table of Essays.