Paper 78
1. The second Eden was the cradle of civilization for almost thirty thousand years. Here in Mesopotamia the Adamic peoples held forth, sending out their progeny to the ends of the earth, and latterly, as amalgamated with the Nodite and Sangik tribes, were known as the .Andites.
2. Adam's contribution to the biologic status of the races, notwithstanding the partial failure of the undertaking, enormously upstepped the people of Urantia.
Adam and Eve also contributed much that was of value to the social, moral, and intellectual progress of mankind; civilization was immensely quickened by the presence of their offspring...thirty‑five thousand years ago the world at large possessed little culture.
3. The heroism displayed in the leadership of the second garden constitutes one of the amazing and inspiring epics of Urantia's history. These splendid souls never wholly lost sight of the purpose of the Adamic mission, and therefore did they valiantly fight off the influences of the surrounding and inferior tribes while they willingly sent forth their choicest sons and daughters in a steady stream as emissaries to the races of earth.
4. But the civilization of the second Eden was an artificial structure—it had not been evolved— and was therefore doomed to deteriorate until it reached a natural evolutionary level.
5. From about 30,000 to 10,000 B.C. epoch‑making racial mixtures were taking place throughout southwestern Asia ...As the period of the early Adamic migrations ended, about 15,000 B.C., there were already more descendants of Adam in Europe and central Asia than anywhere else in the world, even than in Mesopotamia.
6. These racial distributions, associated with extensive climatic changes, set the world stage for the inauguration of the Andite era of Urantia civilization. These early migrations extended over a period of ten thousand years, from 25,000 to 15,000 B.C. The later or Andite migrations extended from about 15,000 to 6000 B.C.
7. The Andite races were the primary blends of the pure‑line violet race and the Nodites plus the evolutionary peoples... In the main, the term Andite is used to designate those peoples whose radial inheritance was from one‑eighth to one‑sixth violet. Modern Urantians, even the northern white races, contain much less than this percentage of the blood of Adam.
8. These early Andites were not Aryan; they were pre‑Aryan. They were not white; they were pre‑white. They were neither an Occidental nor an Oriental people. But it is Andite inheritance that gives to the polyglot mixture of the so‑called white races that generalized homogeneity which has been called Caucasoid.
9. These Andites were adventurous; they had roving dispositions. An increase of either Sangik or Andonite stock tended to stabilize them. But even so, their later descendants never stopped until they had circumnavigated the globe and discovered the last remote continent.
10. The so‑called Aryan mother tongue was in process of formation in the highlands of Turkestan; it was a blend of the Andonic dialect of that region with the language of the Adamsonites and later Andites. Many modern languages are derived from this early speech of these central Asian tribes who conquered Europe, India, and the upper stretches of the Mesopotamia plains. This ancient language gave the Occidental tongues all of that similarity which is called Aryan.
11. By 12,000 B. C. three quarters of the Andite stock of the world was resident in northern arid eastern Europe, and when the later and final exodus from Mesopotamia took place, sixty‑five per cent of these last waves of emigration entered Europe.
The Andites not only migrated to Europe but to northern China and India, while many groups penetrated to the ends of the earth as missionaries, teachers, and traders .. ..These Andites were the so‑called Dravidian and later Aryan conquerors of India.
12. One hundred and thirty‑two of this race, embarking in a fleet of small boats from Japan, eventually reached South America and by intermarriage with the natives of the Andes established the ancestry of the later rulers of the Incas.
13. The islands of the Polynesian group were both more numerous and larger then than now, and these Andite sailors, together with some who followed them, biologically modified the native groups in transit. Many flourishing centers of civilization grew up on these now submerged lands as a result of' Andite penetration. Easter Island was long a religious and administrative center of one of these lost groups.
14. The last three waves of Andites poured out of Mesopotamia between 8000 and 6000 B.C... Sixty‑five per cent entered Europe by the Caspian Sea...Civilization moved westward to the Nile and the Mediterranean islands, where it continued to thrive and advance long after its fountainhead in Mesopotamia had deteriorated.
15. The Hebrew priests in Babylonian captivity sought to trace the Jewish people back to Adam, they found great difficulty in piecing the story together; and it occurred to one of them to abandon the effort, to let the whole world drown in its wickedness at the time of Noah's flood, and thus to be in a better position to trace Abraham right back to one of the three surviving sons of Noah.
16. The traditions of a time when water covered the whole of the earth's surface are universal ...The Biblical story of Noah, the ark, and the flood is an invention of the Hebrew priesthood during the Babylonian captivity. There has never been a universal flood since life was established on Urantia.
17. But Noah really lived; he was a wine maker of Aram, a river settlement near Erech. He kept a written record of the days of the river's rise from year to year...He would go to the neighboring river settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only Noah and his immediate family were saved in their houseboat.
18. When the last Andite dispersion broke the biologic backbone of Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority of this superior race remained in their homeland near the mouths of the rivers. These were the Sumerians, and by 6000 B.C. they had become largely Andite in extraction ...Ur became the center of the pottery industry. About seven thousand years ago Ur was on the Persian Gulf.
19. The peaceful grain growers of the Euphrates and Tigris valleys had long been harassed by the raids of the barbarians of Turkestan and the Iranian plateau... When these barbarian cavalrymen from the northeast overran the whole Euphrates valley, they did not conquer the remnants of the Andites who dwelt about the mouth of the river on the Persian Gulf. These Sumerians were able to defend themselves because of superior intelligence, better weapons, and their extensive system of military canals...They were a united people because they had a uniform group religion.
20. About 2500 B.C. the Sumerians suffered severe reverses at the hands of the northern Suites and Guites. Lagash, the Sumerian capital built on flood mounds, fell. Erech held out for thirty years after the fall of Akkad. By the time of the establishment of' the rule of Hammurabi the Sumerians had become absorbed into the ranks of the northern Semites, and the Mesopotamian Andites passed from the pages of history.
U.B. 78:863‑877- Archangel
1. How did the millions of violate race people coming out of the second garden approach the numbers that would have come out of the first garden?
2. If Adam and Eve had not defaulted, would they have cultivated the Andite people?
3. Why didn’t a group of the violet people cultivate a permanent pure blood group of Adamites?
4. What damage to history was caused by the Hebrew priests decision to report that all the world’s people died in Noah’s flood?
5. Is there evidence that we received much of current day civilization from the descendants of the second garden?
6. What do we know about the Sumerians from history?
7. What can we learn from the development of the leaders of the human race?