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But when the sixty rebels of the staff, the followers of Nod, actually engaged in sexual reproduction, their children proved to be far superior in almost every way to both the Andonite and the Sangik peoples. This unexpected excellence characterized not only physical and intellectual qualities but also spiritual capacities.
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0857:01
The forty-four modified Andonites who followed the staff into rebellion also mated among themselves and made a great contribution to the better strains of the Nodite people.
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0857:04-05
These two groups, embracing 104 individuals who carried the modified Andonite germ plasm, constitute the ancestry of the Nodites, the eighth race to appear on Urantia.
The first revelation to our world, by the now fallen and deposed Prince Caligastia, was accompanied by one hundred corporeal beings who maintained immortality by eating of the tree of life. Caligastia chose this group from among mortal ascenders who were graduates of the mansion worlds and citizens of Jerusem, the headquarters world of our system. The Caligastia one hundred were mortal ascenders volunteering to descend from the Heavens for a mission to an evolutionary world.
To have the potential of procreating with the mortals of our world, the Caligastia one hundred needed the life plasm of our original race, the Andonites, the descendants of Andon and Fonta. Accordingly, there were one hundred Andonites chosen to contribute their life plasm to the Caligastia one hundred. This life plasm was modified so that both groups could utilize the tree of life to maintain immortality. At the level of their chromosomes, these two hundred corporeal beings were, in a very real sense, superhuman.
This helps explain why the rebels from both groups, from the Caligastia one hundred and the one hundred Andonite contributors, even when reduced to mortality and unable to utilize the tree of life, had such superior offspring. And the mists of legend begin to lift. The Amadonites are followers of Amadon, the Andonite contributor who was Van’s faithful associate.
Here, in the vicinity of Lake Van and the southern Caspian Sea region, the Nodites mingled and mixed with the Amadonites, and they were numbered among the ‘mighty men of old.’
Quote from The URANTIA Book, 0822:03
Ernest Clement
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