Subject: What We Studied At Ralph's Home.  Part 3 of 3.       Jan. 9, 2011.

  This states that The Garden Of Eden is now submerged, that is, under
water.

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This superplant stored up certain space-energies which were antidotal
to the age-producing elements of animal existence. The fruit of the tree
of life was like a superchemical storage battery, mysteriously releasing
the life-extension force of the universe when eaten. This form of
sustenance was wholly useless to the ordinary e-olutionary beings
on Urantia, but specifically it was serviceable to the one hundred
materialized members of Caligastia's staff and to the one hundred
modified Andonites who had contributed of their life plasm to the
Prince's staff, and who, in return, were made possessors of that
complement of life which made it possible for them to utilize the fruit
of the tree of life for an indefinite extension of their otherwise mortal
existence.
During the days of the Prince's rule the tree was growing from the
earth in the central and circular courtyard of the Father's temple.
Upon the outbreak of the rebellion it was regrown from the central
core by Van and his associates in their temporary camp. This Edentia
shrub was subsequently taken to their highland retreat, where it
served  both Van and Amadon for more than one hundred and fifty
thousand years.

73:6.6 When Van and his associates made ready the Garden for
Adam and Eve, they transplanted the Edentia tree to the Garden of
Eden, where, once again, it grew in a central, circular courtyard
of another temple to the Father. And Adam and Eve periodically
partook of its fruit for the maintenance of their dual form of physical
life.
73:6.7 When the plans of the Material Son went astray, Adam and
his family were not permitted to carry the core of the tree away
from the Garden. When the Nodites invaded Eden, they were told
that they would become as " g-ds if they partook of the fruit of
the tree. "
Much to their surprise they found it unguarded. They ate freely
of the fruit for years, but it did nothing for them; they were all
material mortals of the realm; they lacked that endowment which
acted as a complement to the fruit of the tree. They became
enraged at their inability to benefit from the tree of life, and
in connection with one of their internal w-rs, the temple and the
tree were both destroyed by fire; only the stone wall stood until
the Garden was subsequently submerged. This was the second
temple of the Father to perish.
And now must all flesh on Urantia take the natural course of
life and de-th.
Adam, Eve, their children, and their children's children, together
with their associates, all perished in the course of time, thus
becoming subject to the ascension scheme of the local universe
wherein mansion world resurrection follows material dea-h.
http://urantiabook.org/newbook/papers/Paramony/pmny073_6.html
THE FATE OF EDEN
http://urantiabook.org/audio/uversa_press_dvd/p073_07.m3u
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After the first garden was vacated by Adam, it was occupied variously
by the Nodites, Cutites, and the Suntites. It later became the
dwelling place of the northern Nodites who opposed co-operation
with the Adamites.
The peninsula had been overrun by these lower-grade Nodites
for almost four thousand years after Adam left the Garden when,
in connection with the violent activity of the surrounding volcanoes
and the submergence of the Sicilian land bridge to Africa, the
eastern floor of the Mediterranean Sea sank, carrying down
beneath the waters the whole of the Edenic peninsula.
Concomitant with this vast submergence the coast line of the eastern
Mediterranean was greatly elevated.
And this was the end of the most beautiful natural creation
that Urantia has ever harbored. The sinking was not sudden,
several hundred years being required completely to submerge the
entire peninsula.
We cannot regard this disappearance of the Garden as being in
any way a result of the miscarriage of the divine plans or as a result
of the mistakes of Adam and Eve.
We do not regard the submergence of Eden as anything but a natural
occurrence, but it does seem to us that the sinking of the Garden
was timed to occur at just about the date of the accumulation of
the reserves of the violet race for undertaking the work of
rehabilitating the world peoples.

The Melchizedeks counseled Adam not to initiate the program of
racial uplift and blending until his own family had numbered one-half
million. It was never intended that the Garden should be the
permanent home of the Adamites. They were to become emissaries
of a new life to all the world; they were to mobilize for unselfish
bestowal upon the needy races of earth.

The instructions given Adam by the Melchizedeks implied that he was
to establish racial, continental, and divisional headquarters to be in
the charge of his immediate sons and daughters, while he and Eve
were to divide their time between these various world capitals
as advisers and co-ordinators of the world-wide ministry of biologic
uplift, intellectual advancement, and moral rehabilitation.
[Presented by Solonia, the seraphic " voice in the Garden. " ]
http://urantiabook.org/newbook/papers/Paramony/pmny073_7.html

Part 3 of 3.

John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com