Subject: Eve And Adam.  Part 2. 
Feb. 9, 2012.

  This shows how Adam attempted to make this world a better place.

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The third day was devoted to an inspection of the Garden. From the large
passenger birds the fandors Adam and Eve looked down upon the vast
stretches of the Garden while being carried through the air over this,
the most beautiful spot on earth. This day of inspection ended with an
enormous banquet in honor of all who had labored to create this garden
of Edenic beauty and grandeur. And again, late into the night of their
third day, the Son and his mate walked in the Garden and talked about
the immensity of their problems.

On the fourth day Adam and Eve addressed the Garden assembly. From
the inaugural mount they spoke to the people concerning their plans
for the rehabilitation of the world and outlined the methods whereby
they would seek to redeem the social culture of Urantia from the low
levels to which it had fallen as a result of sin and rebellion. This was
a great day, and it closed with a feast for the council of men and
women who had been selected to assume responsibilities in the new
administration of world affairs. Take note! women as well as men were
in this group, and that was the first time such a thing had occurred on
earth since the days of Dalamatia. It was an astounding innovation
to behold Eve, a woman, sharing the honors and responsibilities of
world affairs with a man. And thus ended the fourth day on earth.

The fifth day was occupied with the organization of the temporary
g-vernment, the administration which was to function until the
Melchizedek receivers should leave Urantia.

The sixth day was devoted to an inspection of the numerous
types of men and animals.
Along the walls eastward in Eden, Adam and Eve were escorted
all day, viewing the animal life of the planet and arriving at a
better understanding as to what must be done to bring order out
of the confusion of a world inhabited by such a variety of living
creatures.

It greatly surprised those who accompanied Adam on this trip
to observe how fully he understood the nature and function of
the thousands upon thousands of animals shown him. The
instant he glanced at an animal, he would indicate its nature
and behavior. Adam could give names descriptive of the origin,
nature, and function of all material creatures on sight. Those
who conducted him on this tour of inspection did not know
that the world's new ruler was one of the most expert
anatomists of all Satania; and Eve was equally proficient. Adam
amazed his associates by describing hosts of living things too
small to be seen by human eyes.

When the sixth day of their sojourn on earth was over, Adam and
Eve rested for the first time in their new home in the east of Eden.
The first six days of the Urantia adventure had been very busy,
and they looked forward with great pleasure to an entire day
of freedom from all activities.

But circumstances dictated otherwise. The experience of the
day just past in which Adam had so intelligently and so
exhaustively discussed the animal life of Urantia, together
with his masterly inaugural address and his charming manner,
had so won the hearts and overcome the intellects of the
Garden dwellers that they were not only wholeheartedly
disposed to accept the newly arrived Son and Daughter of
Jerusem as rulers, but the majority were about ready to fall
down and w-rship them as g-ds.

4. The First Upheaval
That night, the night following the sixth day, while Adam and
Eve slumbered, strange things were transpiring in the vicinity
of the Father's temple in the central sector of Eden. There,
under the rays of the mellow moon, hundreds of enthusiastic
and excited men and women listened for hours to the
impassioned pleas of their leaders. They meant well, but they
simply could not understand the simplicity of the fraternal
and democratic manner of their new rulers. And long before
daybreak the new and temporary administrators of world
affairs reached a virtually unanimous conclusion that Adam
and his mate were altogether too modest and unassuming.
They decided that D-vinity had descended to earth in bodily
form, that Adam and Eve were in reality go-s or else so near
such an estate as to be worthy of reverent wo-ship.

The amazing events of the first six days of Adam and Eve
on earth were entirely too much for the unprepared minds
of even the world's best men; their heads were in a whirl;
they were swept along with the proposal to bring the noble
pair up to the Father's temple at high noon in order that
everyone might bow down in respectful wor-hip and
prostrate themselves in humble submission. And the Garden
dwellers were really sincere in all of this.

Van protested. Amadon was absent, being in charge of the
guard of honor which had remained behind with Adam and
Eve overnight. But Van's protest was swept aside.
He was told that he was likewise too modest, too unassuming;
that he was not far from a -od himself, else how had he
lived so long on earth, and how had he brought about such
a great event as the advent of Adam? And as the excited
Edenites were about to seize him and carry him up to the
mount for adoration, Van made his way out through the
throng and, being able to communicate with the midwayers,
sent their leader in great haste to Adam.

It was near the dawn of their seventh day on earth that
Adam and Eve heard the startling news of the proposal of
these well-meaning but misguided mortals; and then,
even while the passenger birds were swiftly winging to bring
them to the temple, the midwayers, being able to do
such things, transported Adam and Eve to the Father's
temple. It was early on the morning of this seventh day
and from the mount of their so recent reception that
Adam held forth in explanation of the orders of div-ne
sonship and made clear to these earth minds that only
the Father and those whom he designates may be
wors-iped. Adam made it plain that he would accept
any honor and receive all respect, but worsh-p never!

It was a momentous day, and just before noon, about
the time of the arrival of the seraphic messenger bearing
the Jerusem acknowledgment of the installation of the
world's rulers, Adam and Eve, moving apart from the
throng, pointed to the Father's temple and said: Go you
now to the material emblem of the Father's invisible
presence and bow down in worship of him who made us
all and who keeps us living. And let this act be the sincere
pledge that you never will again be tempted to worshi-
anyone but -od. They all did as Adam directed. The
Material Son and Daughter stood alone on the mount
with bowed heads while the people prostrated
themselves about the temple.

And this was the origin of the Sabbath-day tradition.
Always in Eden the seventh day was devoted to the
noontide assembly at the temple; long it was the custom
to devote this day to self-culture. The forenoon was
devoted to physical improvement, the noontime to
s-iritual wor-hip, the afternoon to mind culture, while
the evening was spent in social rejoicing. This was never
the law in Eden, but it was the custom as long as the
Adamic administration held sway on earth.

For almost seven years after Adam's arrival the Melchizedek
receivers remained on duty, but the time finally came
when they turned the administration of world affairs
over to Adam and returned to Jerusem.

The farewell of the receivers occupied the whole of a
day, and during the evening the individual Melchizedeks
gave Adam and Eve their parting advice and best wishes.
Adam had several times requested his advisers to remain
on earth with him, but always were these petitions denied.
The time had come when the Material Sons must assume
full responsibility for the conduct of world affairs.
And so, at midnight, the seraphic transports of Satania
left the planet with fourteen beings for Jerusem, the
translation of Van and Amadon occurring simultaneously
with the departure of the twelve Melchizedeks.

All went fairly well for a time on Urantia, and it appeared
that Adam would, eventually, be able to develop some
plan for promoting the gradual extension of the Edenic
civilization. Pursuant to the advice of the Melchizedeks, he
began to foster the arts of manufacture with the idea of
developing trade relations with the outside world. When
Eden was disrupted, there were over one hundred primitive
manufacturing plants in operation, and extensive trade
relations with the near-by tribes had been established.

For ages Adam and Eve had been instructed in the
technique of improving a world in readiness for their
specialized contributions to the advancement of ev-lutionary
civilization; but now they were face to face with pressing
problems, such as the establishment of law and order in
a world of savages, barbarians, and semicivilized human
beings. Aside from the cream of the earth's population,
assembled in the Garden, only a few groups, here and
there, were at all ready for the reception of the Adamic
culture.

Part 2.

John Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com