Adam

Adam is, in The Urantia Book, the Material Son who came with his mate Eve from Jerusem to Urantia as its biologic uplifter, arriving 37,848 years before A.D. 1934 74:0.1. The book describes him not as the first human being but as a visitor sent to improve an already ancient human race, and it calls the pair the founders of the violet race, the ninth human race to appear on the planet 76:4.1.

The book's account runs across Papers 73 to 76, all presented by Solonia, the seraph it identifies as "the voice in the Garden" 73:7.5. It covers the pair's preparation, the 117 years of their rule in the Garden of Eden, their default, their life as mortals in the second garden, and their survival 74:8.14.

Origin and selection

According to Paper 51, every Material Son sent to a world as a biologic uplifter carries the name Adam, after the original Material Son of Satania 51:0.1. The Urantia pair belonged to the senior corps of Material Sons on Jerusem, jointly numbered 14,311; they were of the third physical series and "a little more than eight feet in height" 74:1.1. For more than fifteen thousand years they had directed a division of experimental energy applied to the modification of living forms, and before that they had taught in the citizenship schools of Jerusem 74:1.2.

When volunteers were called for the Urantia mission, the whole senior corps offered itself, and the Melchizedek examiners, with the approval of Lanaforge and the Most Highs of Edentia, chose this pair 74:1.3. They had stayed loyal during the Lucifer rebellion, and they were placed under oath to the Most Highs and to Michael and told to regard themselves as subject to the Melchizedek receivers of Urantia 74:1.4. They left behind one hundred children, fifty sons and fifty daughters 74:1.5.

The mission was requested almost forty thousand years ago by the Life Carriers and the Melchizedek receivers, who judged that the races were nearing their biological peak 73:0.1. Tabamantia inspected the planet and recommended the sending of Material Sons; Adam and Eve arrived a little less than a hundred years later 73:0.3.

Arrival and rule

The pair arrived at noon in the Garden, by seraphic transport, and were rematerialized in human form over ten days within the temple of the Universal Father 74:0.1. On waking they were greeted by Van and Amadon, the loyalists of the earlier Caligastia secession, and Adam addressed Amadon in his own Andonic dialect, which he had learned on Jerusem 74:2.1-2. The senior Melchizedek handed over planetary custody, Van gave up the titular authority he had held for more than 150,000 years, and Gabriel announced the second judgment roll call of Urantia, opening "the age of Adam, the third planetary epoch" 74:2.6-8.

The book narrates their first days in detail. On the sixth day Adam inspected the animal life of the planet, naming creatures by sight; his companions did not know that he was "one of the most expert anatomists of all Satania" 74:3.8. That night the Garden leaders resolved to worship the pair as gods, and on the seventh morning Adam told them that only the Father may be worshiped: he "would accept any honor and receive all respect, but worship never!" 74:4.3-4. The book gives this as the origin of the Sabbath tradition 74:4.6.

After almost seven years the Melchizedek receivers left, despite Adam's requests that they stay 74:5.1-2. Adam fostered manufacture and trade, and tried to build a world government, but outside the Garden he met the resistance of Caligastia and Daligastia, who though deposed had not been removed from the planet 74:5.3-5. He fell back on Van's system of companies of a hundred and established almost one hundred outlying trade and social centers 74:5.6-7. The book credits him with teaching sex equality, and says the sending of ambassadors between tribes dates from his time 74:7.22 74:5.8.

Family

Adamson was the first-born of the violet race 74:6.2. Eve bore sixty-three children before the default, and when the pair left the Garden their family numbered 1,647 pure-line descendants in four generations 74:6.2. Adam and Eve took "light and energy" from space emanations together with the fruit of the tree of life, and their bodies gave off a shimmer of light, which the book names as the origin of the halo in religious art 74:6.4-5.

Default

After more than a hundred years Adam saw little progress outside the Garden 75:0.1. The book judges that the pair "would have sometime met with success had they been more farseeing and patient," and calls both, "especially Eve," too impatient 75:1.6. Caligastia, unable to move Adam, turned to Eve through the Nodites 75:2.3. Serapatatia, an honest Nodite leader, proposed that a child of part violet descent be born to the Nodites to bind them to the Garden, and after more than five years Eve met secretly with Cano and consented to the plan 75:3.5-9.

Adam, learning what had happened, chose to share Eve's fate: the next day he sought out Laotta, head of the western schools, and "with premeditation committed the folly of Eve" 75:5.2. The book stresses that "Adam was not beguiled; he knew exactly what he was about" 75:5.2. Adam then wandered alone for thirty days 75:5.5. Seventy days after the default the Melchizedek receivers returned, "and then he knew they had failed" 75:5.8.

With a Nodite army marching on the Garden, Adam led about twelve hundred followers out of Eden rather than fight 75:6.2. On the third day of the journey Gabriel pronounced the verdict: the pair were in default, though absolved of "contempt of the universe government," and were reduced to mortal status 75:7.1-3. Their children who had reached twenty were offered a choice, and two thirds of them, together with all the younger children, were taken to Edentia 75:6.3.

Second garden and death

The caravan took almost a year to reach the Euphrates and settled between the rivers in what became the second garden 76:1.1-2. Cain, son of Eve and Cano, and Sansa, daughter of Adam and Laotta, were born on the way 76:0.2. Abel was born in the second garden and later killed by Cain, who left for the land of Nod 76:2.1-9. Seth, born 129 years after Adam's arrival, founded the Sethite priesthood 76:3.4.

Adam spent most of his remaining time training his children in administration, education and religion 76:3.2. Before he died, a commission headed by Eve brought 1,570 children of the Adamic life plasm into the world through 1,682 selected women, the beginnings of the Andite race 76:4.8. After their reduction to mortal status, the pair received Thought Adjusters 76:5.2. Adam received a personal message from Michael promising that he would be called from mortal sleep "when I come to Urantia" if not before 76:5.3.

Adam lived for 530 years; he died of what might be termed old age.76:5.5

Eve had died nineteen years earlier, and both were buried in the center of their temple 76:5.5. On the third day after Adam's death, Gabriel conducted a special resurrection in which Adam and Eve and 1,316 of their associates were repersonalized on the mansion worlds 76:6.2. They rose to Jerusem again, "this time as members of a different order," and now serve among the four and twenty counselors 76:6.3.

Assessment in the book

The book denies that there was a "fall of man": Adam and Eve fell from material sonship to mortal status, but the human race "has been uplifted despite the immediate consequences of the Adamic default" 75:8.1-2. It says Adam "should not be regarded as the cause of a curse on the human race" 75:8.3. It also says "there probably never was a more disheartening miscarriage of wisdom on any planet in all Nebadon" 75:8.6, and closes the story as one "of trial, tragedy, and triumph" 76:6.4.

Adam and the Bible

The book presents Genesis as a late, reworked memory of these events and departs from it on several points:

• First man. Genesis makes Adam the first human Gn 2:7. The book says the Jews assumed this because Moses traced Abraham's lineage back to Adam, and points to Cain's wife from the "land of Nod" as a trace of pre-Adamic peoples 74:8.8 74:8.10 Gn 4:16-17.
• Creation. The six days of creation, it says, grew from Adam's six days of inspecting the Garden, and the creation of Eve from a rib condenses memories of the arrival and of the earlier creation of bodies for Caligastia's staff 74:8.1-3 Gn 1:1-31; Gn 2:21-23.
• Naming the animals. Genesis's scene of Adam naming the creatures is matched by his tour of the animals on the sixth day 74:3.8 Gn 2:19-20.
• The serpent. In Genesis a serpent tempts Eve Gn 3:1-6; in the book the tempter is Caligastia working through sincere Nodites, and the "Lord God" who calls "Where are you?" was Solonia 75:3.3 75:4.8 Gn 3:8-9.
• Lifespan. Genesis gives Adam 930 years Gn 5:5; the book gives 530 76:5.5.
• The second Adam. The book adopts Paul's phrase, saying that Michael became the successor of Adam as "the second Adam" 93:10.7 1 Co 15:45-47.

Index of references

Adam, along with his consort, Eve, are the Material Sons of Jerusem in charge of acting as the initiators of the adamic race on Urantia, following a plan that is thus carried out on all inhabited planets.

On Jerusem (74:1)

• Adam and Eve had been experimental energy directors for living forms for 15,000 years, and had previously worked as instructors in citizenship schools 74:1.2
• both were expert anatomists 74:3.8
• left behind 100 sons and daughters born on Jerusem 74:1.5

Warned in Jerusem

• Adam and Eve were members of the senior body of Material Sons, registered as 14,311 74:1.1
• Both had kept their oath of allegiance to the Most Highs and to Michael 74:1.4
• Adam and Eve were thoroughly instructed on the dangers of Urantia
• Both had been loyal during the Lucifer rebellion but upon receiving their mission they were asked to remain loyal 51:3.4 (74:1.4,6)
• should be subject to the directives of the Melchizedek receivers 74:1.4
• the guardian archangel warned them on Urantia not to combine good and evil 75:4.4
• if they deviated from the divine plan the sure result would be degradation to mortal status 75:7.4

Arrival of Adam and Eve

• their arrival was authorized by the Most Highs, and especially by Tabamantia, the sovereign overseer of the experimental worlds 73:0.2-3
• both were rematerialized on Urantia 37,848 years ago; the process lasted 10 days 61:7.18 74:0.1 74:2
• asked the Melchizedek receivers to stay with them; they refused and left Adam and Eve with responsibility for the planet 74:5.2 75:1.4
• Both had learned and spoke the Andonic dialect of Urantia 74:2.2
• Together with Eve they both established a government and an administration 74:5
• Adam advised not to initiate a racial uplift until his family amounted to 500,000 descendants; he also gave other instructions 73:7.3-4
• Adam taught agriculture 68:5.9
• He rejected the worship of the Garden dwellers 74:3.10 74:4

Children

• Adam and Eve had 105 pure-line children 74:6.2
• after default, all those under 20 years of age withdrew to Edentia, along with two-thirds of those over 20 who also decided to leave 75:6.3 77:5.3
• Adam and Eve established a whole new system of education 74:6.7 74:7.1-11
• on Edentia the sons of Adam were deprived of their procreative powers 55:7.3
• it is believed that one day they will serve on Urantia alongside the Planetary Sovereign 55:7.3

Default of Adam(75)

• The Urantia Book recounts in detail how the default of Adam and Eve occurred 75:4
• Adam broke his orders, but did not get involved in Lucifer's rebellion.
• Caligastia never got Adam and Eve to join her rebellion 51:3.4 (75:7.1-2,7) 76:5.1
• Adam had premeditated sex with Laotta after Eve had sex with Cano 75:5.2
• He then wandered in solitude for 30 days 75:5.5-7
• the fault occurred after 117 years from arrival 74:8.14
• Caligastia contributed to the fault 66:8.4
• Caligastia held many conferences with Adam 75:2.1 76:4.5
• degradation occurred after Adam, Eve, and her children were defaulted to mortal status 75:7
• the Urantia races were deprived of a physical nature more consonant with spiritual aspirations 34:7.4-5
• but the default did not prevent biological evolution 81:0.1
• Gabriel appeared before Adam and Eve to pronounce the verdict of their judgment 75:7.1
• the fault left the Garden of Eden unopposed to the Nodites, who invaded it 75:6.2-4
• Adam and Eve were not allowed to take the tree of life with them after the failure, and they remained in the first Garden 73:6.7
• They both received a personal message from Michael after the foul, somewhat enigmatic, which provided comfort 76:5.3
• Both received Adjusters after the fault, something that encouraged them greatly despite their degradation to mortal status 76:5.2
• The Melchizedeks refused to advise Adam and Eve after the fault, and were urged to do what they considered most correct 75:6.1
• the consequences of the Lucifer rebellion and the neglect of Adam and Eve represent a double tragedy for Urantia 50:6.5
• Regardless, Adam and Eve were told that the transgression was an error of judgment, not a sin 76:5.1
• The offense consisted of a departure from the orderly path 74:8.14

After default

• Adam and Eve encouraged Cain to leave the second Garden 76:2.7
• the lands of the Adamic family in the first Garden covered just over 1,300 hectares 74:6.1
• Adam and Eve had a family of 1,647 pure-line descendants before the fault, and they had 42 children after the fault. In total Adam and Eve had 63 children of their own 74:6.2
• Both Adam and Eve were too impatient; they were well-meaning but deluded 75:1.6 76:6.4
• The plan was to build a strong reserve of the violet race before beginning racial upstep 75:3.6
• The original plan of the Melchizedeks was to upstep the red race with one million pure-line descendants of Adam, but it could never be 79:5.9
• They could emit and receive their thoughts up to a distance of 50 miles, but lost this ability with failure 74:6.6
• it is speculated that Adam, Eve, or some of their descendants may ever return to Urantia as Vice-Manager Material Sons of Urantia 93:10.7
• Adam and Eve's special senses were not progressively transmitted to their descendants 76:4.5
• Adam and Eve, after their death, survived and passed to Jerusem as ascending citizens 76:6
• Adam's sons impregnated 1,682 women, mainly Nodite women, who produced 1,570 superior sons 76:4.8
• Due to the amount of things that overwhelmed Adam, he delegated the subject of worship and education to the Nodites, who reverted to their old ways 76:2.3
• Adam lived 530 years; he died of old age 76:5.5
• Michael is the second Adam on Urantia, achieving success where Adam did not 93:10.7
• the reason for going out and forming a second Garden was to avoid an armed conflict with the Nodites; Adam had no appreciation for war 75:6.2
• Adam was not in the royal ancestry of Joseph, father of Jesus, despite the statements of the Gospels 122:1.1
• currently Adam is one of Michael's 24 personal counselors on Jerusem 45:4.11

Inheritance of Adam and Eve

• He bequeathed much of the humor that current races enjoy, more than what is conveyed in music or art 48:4.13
• Adam's genetic inheritance created immunity to many diseases 65:5.2
• the result of Adam's effort was enormously upstepped Urantia peoples 51:0.3 51:5.6 51:6.1 75:8.1-2 76:6.4 78:1.1
• Adam's gift improved the brain power of the races 81:5.1
• the Adamic lineage stimulated the tendency for adventure and exploration 81:3.8
• the ancient Hebrews awaited the return of Adam 92:5.6

Physical nature of Adam and Eve

• they were about eight feet tall; their bodies shimmered 74:1.1 74:6.5
• they were able to see the midwayers, the angels, the Melchizedeks, and Caligastia 76:4.5
• they ate fruits and nuts once a day; they also absorbed light and energy from space and ate from the tree of life 74:6.4 76:4.3
• they had a double circulatory system of physical and non-physical nature; the second system was nourished by the tree of life 75:7.6
• they never ate meat on a regular diet; never cooked food 74:6.3-4 76:3.7 76:4.4
• Adam and his children never drank animal milk, only fruit juice 74:6.3

Teachings about Adam and Eve

• the belief was established that his sin caused a curse on mankind | original sin doctrine
• The Jews sought to trace their origin back to Adam himself 78:7.3
• legends about Adam were confused with events that occurred with the Planetary Prince's staff at his coming 66:2.8
• Paul elaborated the doctrine of Christ as the second Adam based on a similar doctrine of Peter, although both failed in the scope and understanding of this idea 140:8.24
• The Prince's staff were promised that they would obtain the Adamic gift at some point 66:5.16

Urantia problem for Adam and Eve (75:1)

• Adam and Eve were coming to establish a representative government, but such a thing did not exist on Urantia 74:5.7
• they remained isolated, distressed, and disheartened by the sorry plight of the world 74:3.1-3 75:0.1 (75:1.1,4) 75:8.4
• his mission was fraught with danger 51:0.2 51:3.4
• no Adam ever had to deal with a more difficult world (75:1.3,6)
• They had many problems establishing a system of law and order as Caligastia's ideas of unbridled freedom had permeated the backward tribes 74:5.4-7

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Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Animal inspection 74:3.8 — Gn 2:19-20.
• Commingle good & evil, you will die 75:4.4 — Gn 2:17.
• Creation of mankind 74:0.1 — Gn 1:26-27; Gn 2:7,21-24; Gn 5:1-2; Gn 6:7; Is 45:12; Dt 4:32; Mal 2:10.
• The way of the transgressor 75:6.3 — Pr 13:15.
• East of Eden 74:7.1 — Gn 2:8; Gn 3:23-24.
• Leaving Eden 75:6.2 — Gn 3:23-24.
• Eat fruit, become as gods 73:6.7 — Gn 3:1-5.
• Caligastia's plot 75:3.6 — Gn 3:1a.
• Prince of Peace 93:10.7 — Is 9:6.
• Second Adam 93:10.7 — 1 Co 15:45-47.
• Racial upstepping 76:4.8 — Gn 6:2.
• Adam's death 76:5.5 — Gn 5:5.
• Lineage of Joseph 122:1.1 — Mt 1:1-16; Lk 3:23-38.
• Death sentence 75:7.6 — Gn 3:22-24.
• Fruits of the trees 76:4.4 — Gn 1:29; Gn 2:16; Gn 3:2.
• Jew genealogies 78:7.3 — Gn 4:1-2,17-26; Gn 5:3-32; Gn 6:9-10; Gn 10:1-32; Gn 11:10-26.
• The destruction of the world 78:7.3 — Gn 6:5-10.
• Christ as second Adam 140:8.24 — 1 Co 15:45-49.
• The “sin” of Adam & Eve 75:8.4 — Gn 3:6.

Where it appears

Adam is linked in 116 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• Eve
• Garden of Eden
• Material Sons

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