Subject: The Temptation Of Eve. 
Mar. 14, 2012.

 Well, it seems like Eve gets blamed for everything.  This is what was
read at the last Ralph Squire's meeting.

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The Urantia Book  Paper 75The Default of Adam and Eve (839.1) 75:0.1

AFTER more than one hundred years of effort on Urantia, Adam was able to
see very little progress outside the Garden; the world at large did not
seem to be improving much.'

The realization of r-ce 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.
1. The Urantia Problem
The Adamic mission on experimental, rebellion-seared, and isolated
Urantia was a formidable undertaking. And the Material Son and
Daughter early became aware of the difficulty and complexity of their
planetary assignment.
Nevertheless, they courageously set about the task of solving their
manifold problems. But when they addressed themselves to the
all-important work of eliminating the defectives and degenerates from
among the human strains, they were quite dismayed. They could see
no way out of the dilemma, and they could not take counsel with their
superiors on either Jerusem or Edentia. Here they were, isolated
and day by day confronted with some new and complicated tangle,
some problem that seemed to be unsolvable.

Under normal conditions the first work of a Planetary Adam and
Eve would be the co-ordination and blending of the ra-es. But on
Urantia such a project seemed just about hopeless, for the rac-s,
while biologically fit, had never been purged of their retarded and
defective strains.

Adam and Eve found themselves on a sphere wholly unprepared
for the proclamation of the brotherhood of man, a world groping
about in abject s-iritual darkness and c--rsed with confusion worse
confounded by the miscarriage of the mission of the preceding
administration. Mind and morals were at a low level, and instead of
beginning the task of effecting r-ligious unity, they must begin all
anew the work of converting the inhabitants to the most simple
forms of re-igious belief.
Instead of finding one language ready for adoption, they were
confronted by the world-wide confusion of hundreds upon hundreds
of local dialects. No Adam of the planetary service was ever set
down on a more difficult world; the obstacles seemed insuperable
and the problems beyond creature solution.

They were isolated, and the tremendous sense of loneliness which
bore down upon them was all the more heightened by the early
departure of the Melchizedek receivers.
Only indirectly, by means of the a-gelic orders, could they
communicate with any being off the planet. Slowly their
courage weakened, their s0irits drooped, and sometimes
their faith almost faltered.

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And this is the true picture of the consternation of these two
noble s-uls as they pondered the tasks which confronted
them. They were both keenly aware of the enormous
undertaking involved in the execution of their planetary
assignment.

Probably no Material Sons of Nebadon were ever faced with
such a difficult and seemingly hopeless task as confronted
Adam and Eve in the sorry plight of Urantia.
But they would have sometime met with success had they been
more farseeing and patient. Both of them, especially Eve,
were altogether too impatient; they were not willing to settle
down to the long, long endurance test.
They wanted to see some immediate results, and they did,
but the results thus secured proved most disastrous both to
themselves and to their world.

Plot
Caligastia paid frequent visits to the Garden and held many
conferences with Adam and Eve, but they were adamant to all
his suggestions of compromise and short-cut adventures. They
had before them enough of the results of r-belion to produce
effective immunity against all such insinuating proposals. Even
the young offspring of Adam were uninfluenced by the
overtures of Daligastia. And of course neither Caligastia nor
his associate had power to influence any individual against
his will, much less to persuade the children of Adam to do
wrong.

It must be remembered that Caligastia was still the titular
Planetary Prince of Urantia, a misguided but nevertheless high
Son of the local universe. He was not finally deposed until the
times of C-rist Michael on Urantia.

But the fallen Prince was persistent and determined. He soon
gave up working on Adam and decided to try a wily flank attack
on Eve. The evil one concluded that the only hope for success
lay in the adroit employment of suitable persons belonging to
the upper strata of the Nodite group, the descendants of his
onetime corporeal-staff associates. And the plans were
accordingly laid for entrapping the mother of the violet -ace.

It was farthest from Eve's intention ever to do anything which
would militate against Adam's plans or jeopardize their
planetary trust. Knowing the tendency of woman to look upon
immediate results rather than to plan farsightedly for more
remote effects, the Melchizedeks, before departing, had
especially enjoined Eve as to the peculiar dangers besetting
their isolated position on the planet and had in particular
warned her never to stray from the side of her mate, that is, to
attempt no personal or se-ret methods of furthering their
mutual undertakings.
Eve had most scrupulously carried out these instructions
for more than one hundred years, and it did not occur to her
that any danger would attach to the increasingly private and
confidential visits she was enjoying with a certain Nodite
leader named Serapatatia. The whole affair developed so
gradually and naturally that she was taken unawares.

The Garden dwellers had been in contact with the Nodites
since the early days of Eden. From these mixed descendants
of the defaulting members of Caligastia's staff they had
received much valuable help and co-operation, and through
them the Edenic regime was now to meet its complete
undoing and final overthrow.

3. The Temptation of Eve

Adam had just finished his first one hundred years on earth when
Serapatatia, upon the d-ath of his father, came to the
leadership of the western or Syrian confederation of the Nodite
tribes. Serapatatia was a brown-tinted man, a brilliant
descendant of the onetime chief of the Dalamatia commission on
health mated with one of the master female minds of the blue
race of those distant days. All down through the ages this line
had held authority and wielded a great influence among the
western Nodite tribes.

Serapatatia had made several visits to the Garden and had
become deeply impressed with the righteousness of Adam's
cause. And shortly after assuming the leadership of the Syrian
Nodites, he announced his intention of establishing an
affiliation with the work of Adam and Eve in the Garden. The
majority of his people joined him in this program, and Adam
was cheered by the news that the most powerful and the
most intelligent of all the neighboring tribes had swung
over almost bodily to the support of the program for world
improvement; it was decidedly heartening. And shortly after
this great event, Serapatatia and his new staff were
entertained by Adam and Eve in their own home.

Serapatatia became one of the most able and efficient of
all of Adam's lieutenants. He was entirely honest and
thoroughly sincere in all of his activities; he was never
conscious, even later on, that he was being used as a
circumstantial tool of the wily Caligastia.

Presently, Serapatatia became the associate chairman of
the Edenic commission on tribal relations, and many plans
were laid for the more vigorous prosecution of the work of
winning the remote tribes to the cause of the Garden.

He held many conferences with Adam and Eve especially
with Eve and they talked over many plans for improving
their methods. One day, during a talk with Eve, it occurred
to Serapatatia that it would be very helpful if, while awaiting
the recruiting of large numbers of the violet ra-e, something
could be done in the meantime immediately to advance the
needy waiting tribes. Serapatatia contended that, if the
Nodites, as the most progressive and co-operative rac-, could
have a leader born to them of part origin in the violet stock, it
would constitute a powerful tie binding these peoples more
closely to the Garden.  And all of this was soberly and honestly
considered to be for the good of the world since this child, to
be reared and educated in the Garden, would exert a great
influence for good over his father's people.

It should again be emphasized that Serapatatia was altogether
honest and wholly sincere in all that he proposed. He never
once suspected that he was playing into the hands of Caligastia
and Daligastia. Serapatatia was entirely loyal to the plan of
building up a strong reserve of the violet -ace before attempting
the world-wide upstepping of the confused peoples of Urantia.
But this would require hundreds of years to consummate, and
he was impatient; he wanted to see some immediate results
something in his own lifetime. He made it clear to Eve that
Adam was oftentimes discouraged by the little that had been
accomplished toward uplifting the world.

For more than five years these plans were sec-etly matured.
At last they had developed to the point where Eve consented
to have a secr-t conference with Cano, the most brilliant mind
and active leader of the near-by colony of friendly Nodites. Cano
was very sympathetic with the Adamic regime; in fact, he was
the sincere sp-ritual leader of those neighboring Nodites who
favored friendly relations with the Garden.

The fateful meeting occurred during the twilight hours of the
autumn evening, not far from the home of Adam. Eve had never
before met the beautiful and enthusiastic Cano and he was a
magnificent specimen of the survival of the superior physique
and outstanding intellect of his remote progenitors of the Prince's
staff. And Cano also thoroughly believed in the righteousness of
the Serapatatia project. (Outside of the Garden, multiple
mating was a common practice.)

Influenced by flattery, enthusiasm, and great personal persuasion,
Eve then and there consented to embark upon the much-discussed
enterprise, to add her own little scheme of world saving to the
larger and more far-reaching divine plan.
Before she quite realized what was transpiring, the fatal step
had been taken.
It was done.

4. The Realization of Default

The celestial life of the planet was astir. Adam recognized that
something was wrong, and he asked Eve to come aside with
him in the Garden. And now, for the first time, Adam heard the
entire story of the long-nourished plan for accelerating world
improvement by operating simultaneously in two directions:
the prosecution of the divine plan concomitantly with the
execution of the Serapatatia enterprise.

And as the Material Son and Daughter thus communed in the
moonlit Garden, the voice in the Garden reproved them for
disobedience. And that voice was none other than my own
announcement to the Edenic pair that they had transgressed
the Garden covenant; that they had disobeyed the instructions
of the Melchizedeks; that they had defaulted in the execution
of their oaths of trust to the sovereign of the universe.

Eve had consented to participate in the practice of good and
e-vil. Good is the carrying out of the d-vine plans; sin is a
deliberate transgression of the di-ine will; ev-l is the
misadaptation of plans and the maladjustment of techniques
resulting in universe disharmony and planetary confusion.
Every time the Garden pair had partaken of the fruit of the
tree of life, they had been warned by the archangel custodian
to refrain from yielding to the suggestions of Caligastia to
combine good and evi-. They had been thus admonished: In
the day that you commingle good and -vil, you shall surely
become as the mortals of the realm; you shall surely d-e.

John Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com