The Second Garden of Eden | A Urantia Book Story


The Second Garden of Eden | A Urantia Book Story

The Urantia Book (Papers 74–76), Adam and Eve stand upon the hills above the Euphrates — exiles from the First Garden, yet unbroken in faith. Before them stretches the fertile valley that will become the Second Garden of Eden — a new beginning for the violet race and for all mankind. Here dawns the age of renewal, when courage, sorrow, and divine purpose blend into one radiant hope for the world.

 

 
 
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In the aftermath of the Adenic default,

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Adam and Eve, weighed down by sorrow and

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humility, led their loyal followers

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eastward. They did not flee in fear, but

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withdrew in dignity, choosing peace over

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conflict. When the hostile Nodite tribes

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threatened war, with the original garden

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no longer tenable, and divine support

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withdrawn, the Adenic company turned

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toward the only open route, the lands

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between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

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Their long journey was marked by

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hardship and resolve.

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The caravan moved slowly across the

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Mesopotamian plains, burdened with

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children, livestock, seeds, and the

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aching memory of lost purpose.

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When they reached the flooding

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Euphrates, they waited 6 weeks before

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crossing into a territory that had once

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been considered a possible sight for

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Eden itself.

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Providence, it seemed, had preserved a

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second chance.

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The indigenous tribes upon hearing that

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the sovereigns of Eden were approaching

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had fled in fear, abandoning their

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settlements.

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Adam and his company entered unopposed.

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There, in the fertile cradle of

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Mesopotamia, the second Garden of Eden

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was born, not a paradise prepared by

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celestial hands, but a land to be tamed

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through sweat and toil. The soil was

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unyielding, the thorns real, and every

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gain hard one. Yet from this raw land

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they carved farms, raised herds, and

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planted orchards using the preserved

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life forms of the original Eden. A wall

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56 mi long was constructed to protect

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the valley's northern edge where the

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rivers converged, securing their new

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homeland.

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In the second garden, Adam's sons and

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daughters continued the mission, though

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now humbled and mortal.

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Adamson journeyed north to establish a

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secondary center.

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Everson became his father's chief

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administrator, while Seth, born after

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the default, took up the spiritual

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mantle, founding a priesthood rooted in

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health, education, and worship.

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These Sethite priests became physicians,

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teachers, and moral guides, a beacon of

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truth and service in a world largely

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primitive. Here, family life flourished.

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Children were nurtured with care, taught

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skills of living and ideals of spirit.

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Women held honored roles, and knowledge

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was treasured. The community preserved

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literacy, metallurgy, agriculture, and

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architecture that surpassed anything of

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their age. The arts and sciences, though

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wounded, were not lost. The tragedy of

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Cain and Abel cast a dark chapter over

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their early years. Cain, son of Eve and

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the Nodite Cano, slew his younger

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brother in a moment of rage. The murder

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shocked the community. Cain stricken

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with guilt left the garden and

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eventually became a leader among the

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nodites forging peace between his two

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lineages.

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Though born of disappointment, the

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second garden bore fruit.

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Adam and Eve implemented a final mission

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to share the superior genetic legacy of

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the violet race with the world.

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Over 1,500

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women were selected from surrounding

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tribes and with divine consent bore

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children by Adam.

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These offspring carried Eden's legacy

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far beyond the garden, seed in what

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would become the Andite peoples. Adam

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and Eve lived for centuries in the

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second garden, guiding, teaching, and

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laboring. Eve died of heart failure.

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Adam some 19 years later of age. They

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were buried beneath the temple of

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worship, the sacred heart of their new

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homeland.

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The civilization of the second garden

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endured for millennia, its influence

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rippling outward through migrations and

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cultural exchanges.

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Though eventually diluted by time and

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mingling with the evolutionary races,

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the light of Eden continued to shine

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through the Andites who carried its

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legacy into Europe, India, and the

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cradle of Sumerian civilization.

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In the end, the second garden of Eden

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was not a failure. It was a bridge.

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Through sacrifice, perseverance, and

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quiet triumph, the children of Eden

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passed their torch to humanity,

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leaving the world forever changed.

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When the dust of exile had settled, the

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children of Adam and Eve did not vanish

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into the wilderness. They built a new, a

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civilization between the rivers,

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luminous and deliberate.

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The Adamites, descendants of the violet

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race, brought with them the remnants of

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paradise,

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order, knowledge, and the memory of a

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higher way of life. In the centuries

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that followed, their settlement flowered

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into a beacon of culture.

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Within their walled valley, the air was

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alive with craft and learning. The

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potter's wheel turned beside the smith's

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furnace. Scribes etched symbols into wet

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clay, shaping the world's third

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alphabet. The flicker of lamps

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illuminated woven tapestries, bronze

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tools and polished vessels. Echoes of

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Eden refined through human hands.

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The Adamites became the keepers of

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civilization's first light. From the

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arts of metallurgy, pottery and weaving

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to the birth of architecture itself,

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their touch transformed the plain into a

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living city. Their home stood in ordered

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rows. Gardens flourished with cultivated

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vines, and the temple rose at the

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confluence of the two great rivers, a

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structure of symmetry and reverence,

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built not to worship idols, but to honor

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the source unseen.

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Family life in the second garden was

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sacred. Children grew in the warmth of

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enlightened homes where both father and

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mother were teachers, not masters.

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The hearth was a classroom, the field a

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living lesson. From the time they could

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walk, the young learned to plow, to

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heal, to read the stars, and to pray.

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The Sethite schools became the pride of

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Mesopotamia,

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courts of learning where faith,

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medicine, and science intertwined.

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In open halls shaded by fig trees,

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pupils studied the cycles of the moon,

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the curing of herbs, the laws of balance

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and breath.

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These were not superstitions, but the

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first sciences of civilization.

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Their system of education, the book

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tells, has never since been surpassed.

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And at the heart of it all stood the

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understanding that health, knowledge,

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and worship were one.

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Three paths to the same divine center.

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Yet even the brightest flame cannot burn

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forever against the winds of time. The

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civilization of the second garden was an

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artificial dawn. A divine culture

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transplanted into the soil of a still

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primitive world.

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Surrounded by tribes untouched by Eden's

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teaching, the Adamites faced a steady

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erosion, not by war, but by mingling.

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Generation by generation, they sent

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forth their best. Emissaries of peace,

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not conquest. They traveled north into

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the highlands and west toward the sea,

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sewing the seeds of civilization among

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darker peoples.

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In so doing, they diffused their

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strength even as they spread their

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light. When Adam passed from this world,

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his presence, the living axis of their

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unity, was gone.

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The temple flame still burned, but its

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keepers grew fewer. The walls of the

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garden endured. Yet the spirit that had

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raised them began to fade.

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Over centuries, the once pure violet

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race merged into the vast tide of

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humanity, leaving behind the Andites,

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a mixed but vigorous people who carried

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forward the torch of progress into

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Eurasia.

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Even as the second garden declined, the

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world it had touched began to awaken.

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The crafts of the Adamites became the

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foundation of every later culture. The

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Sumerian potter, the Acadian builder,

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the Egyptian priest all bore traces of

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their influence.

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The early citystates of the Euphrates

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were built upon the bones of Eden's

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canals.

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The written word, the temple plan, the

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measured brick, each carried an echo of

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the garden's harmony. There was no fall

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of man, only the blending of heaven's

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memory with earth's evolution.

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In truth, the mission of Adam and Eve

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did not fail. It transformed.

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Their blood and their ideals did not

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vanish. They diffused. The violet spark

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merged into the stream of human life,

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enobbling it from within. When all is

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