THE URANTIA BOOK
5. ADAM'S ADMINISTRATION
 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
evolutionary 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.
Adam made a heroic and determined
effort to establish a world government, but he met with stubborn
resistance at every turn. Adam had already put in operation a system of
group control throughout Eden and had federated all of these companies
into the Edenic league. But trouble, serious trouble, ensued when he
went outside the Garden and sought to apply these ideas to the outlying
tribes. The moment Adam's associates began to work outside the Garden,
they met the direct and well-planned resistance of Caligastia and
Daligastia. The fallen Prince had been deposed as world ruler, but he
had not been removed from the planet. He was still present on earth and
able, at least to some extent, to resist all of Adam's plans for the
rehabilitation of human society. Adam tried to warn the races against
Caligastia, but the task was made very difficult because his archenemy
was invisible to the eyes of mortals.
Even among
the Edenites there were those confused minds that leaned toward the
Caligastia teaching of unbridled personal liberty; and they caused Adam
no end of trouble; always were they upsetting the best-laid plans for
orderly progression and substantial development. He was finally
compelled to withdraw his program for immediate socialization; he fell
back on Van's method of organization, dividing the Edenites into
companies of one hundred with captains over each and with lieutenants
in charge of groups of ten.
Adam and Eve had come to institute representative government in the
place of monarchial, but they found no government worthy of the name on
the face of the whole earth. For the time being Adam abandoned all
effort to establish representative government, and before the collapse
of the Edenic regime he succeeded in establishing almost one hundred
outlying trade and social centers where strong individuals ruled in his
name. Most of these centers had been organized aforetime by Van and
Amadon.
The sending of ambassadors from one
tribe to another dates from the times of Adam. This was a great forward
step in the evolution of government.
The Urantia book in Swedish
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Adam och Eva Edens Lustgård Urantia boken |
Melkisedek i Urantiaboken |
Lucifers uppror. Urantia boken |
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