Paper 78 Overview: The Violet Race After the Days of Adam

The second Eden served as the epicenter of civilization for nearly thirty thousand years, with the Adamic peoples spreading their genetic and cultural influence to distant regions of the world. The enduring impact of the violet race is evident in their eventual amalgamation with Nodite and Sangik tribes to form the Andite peoples, bearers of advanced civilization who greatly accelerated human cultural evolution on Urantia. Through widespread migrations, settlements, and cultural exchanges, the descendants of Adam reshaped the course of planetary history.

This chronological account follows the violet race from approximately 35,000 B.C., after Adam’s default, through their fusion with other groups to form the Andite peoples around 15,000 B.C., and ends with their disappearance from Mesopotamia by about 2,000 B.C. Expansion patterns, cultural innovations, and the diffusion of genetic traits are explored in relation to shifting geological, climatic, and demographic conditions. Despite the partial failure of the Adamic mission, the legacy of Adam and his descendants endured through their lasting contributions to the biological and cultural advancement of humankind.

The second Eden was the cradle of civilization for almost thirty thousand years. 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. From this region went those men and women who initiated the doings of historic times, and who have so enormously accelerated cultural progress on Urantia.

This paper depicts the planetary history of the violet race, beginning soon after the default of Adam, about 35,000 B.C., and extending down through its amalgamation with the Nodite and Sangik races, about 15,000 B.C., to form the Andite peoples and on to its final disappearance from the Mesopotamian homelands, about 2000 B.C.

Although the minds and morals of the races were at a low level when Adam arrived, physical evolution had progressed unimpeded by the Caligastia rebellion. Adam's contribution to the biological status of the races, despite his partial failure, significantly enhanced humanity's genetic inheritance on Urantia. Adam and Eve additionally contributed substantial value to social, moral, and intellectual advancement, dramatically accelerating civilization's development across the world and establishing foundations for future progress.

Thirty-five thousand years ago, the world at large possessed minimal culture, with only isolated centers of civilization existing amidst widespread primitive conditions. The racial and cultural distribution at this time placed the violet race, Adamites and Adamsonites, primarily in the second garden within the Tigris-Euphrates river system, which became the crucible for Occidental and Indian civilizations. A secondary northern center of violet culture existed in the Adamsonite headquarters near the Caspian Sea. Pre-Sumerians and other Nodites inhabited Mesopotamia near the river mouths, while Andonites maintained settlements across Eurasia, particularly in mountainous regions.

The red race occupied the Americas, having migrated from Asia more than fifty thousand years before Adam's arrival. The yellow race controlled eastern Asia, the blue race populated Europe, pre-Dravidian India contained a complex mixture of all earthly races, and the Saharan civilization housed superior elements of the indigo race. The Mediterranean basin featured the most highly blended race outside of India, with blue men from the north and Saharans from the south mingling with Nodites and Adamites from the east.

For millennia, Adam's descendants labored diligently along Mesopotamia's river systems, developing sophisticated irrigation and flood-control infrastructure to the south while strengthening defensive capabilities to the north. They persistently strove to preserve the traditions and cultural legacy of the first Eden against the influences of surrounding tribal cultures. Their leadership demonstrated remarkable heroism in maintaining the vision of the Adamic mission, despite enormous challenges from neighboring peoples with less advanced cultural and genetic backgrounds.

These extraordinary individuals consistently prioritized their civilizing mission, sending their most capable sons and daughters as emissaries to earth's diverse races even when this practice depleted their home culture's resources. The civilization established by the Adamites substantially surpassed the general evolutionary level of Urantia's races, comparable only to the advanced settlements of Van, Amadon, and the Adamsonites. However, this civilization represented an artificial structure rather than an evolved development, which made it vulnerable to eventual deterioration as it sought equilibrium with natural evolutionary progression.

Adam left behind a profound intellectual and spiritual cultural legacy, but without advanced mechanical applications, as civilization depends on available natural resources, inherent genius, and sufficient leisure for inventive development. After Adam's death, as the traditions of Eden gradually faded through successive generations, the cultural sophistication of the Adamites steadily declined until it reached a point of balance with the status of surrounding peoples and the natural evolutionary capacities of the violet race. By 19,000 B.C., the Adamites had established themselves as a substantive nation of four and a half million people, having already disseminated millions of their progeny among surrounding populations.

The violet race maintained the Edenic traditions of peacefulness for many millennia, which explains their significant delay in territorial conquests and expansion. When confronted with population pressures, rather than engaging in warfare to secure additional territory, they implemented the more enlightened strategy of dispatching their excess inhabitants as teachers and cultural emissaries to other races. This approach demonstrated their adherence to Edenic principles while still facilitating genetic and cultural diffusion. Though the immediate cultural impact of these early migrations proved relatively short-lived, the biological absorption of Adamite teachers, traders, and explorers substantially enhanced the genetic constitution of surrounding populations.

Some Adamites ventured westward to the Nile Valley and others penetrated eastward into Asia, though these movements represented minority trends. The predominant pattern involved a gradual but persistent northward migration, with the majority eventually circling westward around the Caspian Sea into European territories. Around 25,000 B.C., the early Adamic migrations began reaching into Europe and central Asia, continuing until approximately 15,000 B.C. As they penetrated northward, these migrants became progressively less Adamic through admixture with other races, particularly the Nodites in Turkestan.

By the conclusion of this migratory period around 15,000 B.C., more descendants of Adam resided in Europe and central Asia than in any other region, including Mesopotamia itself. Europe's blue races had undergone significant infiltration, while the territories now known as Russia and Turkestan were occupied throughout their southern expanses by a diverse reservoir of Adamites mixed with Nodites, Andonites, and red and yellow Sangiks. Southern Europe and the Mediterranean coastal regions contained a mixed population of Andonite and Sangik peoples—orange, green, and indigo—with a modest infusion of Adamite stock. Asia Minor and central-eastern European territories were predominantly held by Andonite tribes.

The Andite races emerged from the primary blending of the pure-line violet race with Nodites and other evolutionary peoples, creating a superior genetic stock that would profoundly influence human development. In general classification, Andites possessed between one-eighth to one-sixth Adamic blood in their genetic composition—a significantly higher proportion than present in modern races, including the northern white populations. The earliest Andite peoples originated in regions adjacent to Mesopotamia more than twenty-five thousand years ago, arising from the interbreeding of Adamites and Nodites along the periphery of the second garden's zone of influence.

The Andites represented the most exceptional all-around human stock to appear on Urantia since the pure-line violet peoples, encompassing the highest types of the surviving Adamite and Nodite races, later incorporating superior strains of yellow, blue, and green racial groups. These early Andites were not yet Aryan or white in classification, but rather pre-Aryan and pre-white in their characteristics and development. They were neither Occidental nor Oriental in geographic orientation, yet it is their genetic inheritance that provides the diverse mixture of so-called white races with the generalized homogeneity classified as Caucasoid. As the purer strains of the violet race had maintained the Adamic tradition of peace-seeking, their early migrations were peaceful in nature. However, upon uniting with the more bellicose Nodite populations, their Andite descendants became, for their era, the most skilled and strategically capable military forces in Urantia's history.

This martial transformation redirected Mesopotamian population movements from peaceful migrations toward more aggressive territorial conquests. The Andites demonstrated remarkable adaptability and adventurous dispositions; only an increase in Sangik or Andonite genetic influence tended to stabilize these tendencies. Nevertheless, their descendants continued their expansive migrations until they had circled the globe and discovered the most remote continental territories.

For twenty millennia, the cultural achievements of the second garden persisted despite gradual decline, until approximately 15,000 B.C., when the revitalization of the Sethite priesthood and Amosad's visionary leadership inaugurated a brilliant renaissance. This cultural revival precipitated massive waves of civilization that subsequently spread throughout Eurasia, following the extensive intermingling of Adamites with surrounding mixed Nodites to form the dynamic Andite populations. These Andites initiated unprecedented advances across the Eurasian continent and North Africa, establishing a dominant cultural presence from Mesopotamia through Sinkiang. Their civilization was continuously refreshed and reinvigorated by newcomers from Mesopotamia, particularly the later Andite cavalry forces that expanded their influence.

The so-called Aryan mother tongue was evolving in the highlands of Turkestan, forming through the blending of the Andonic dialect with the languages of the Adamsonites and later Andites. This linguistic foundation would eventually contribute to most Western languages. By 12,000 B.C., three-quarters of the global Andite population resided in northern and eastern Europe, and when the final exodus from Mesopotamia occurred, sixty-five percent of these last emigration waves entered Europe. Andites not only migrated extensively throughout Europe but also penetrated northern China and India, while numerous groups traveled as missionaries, teachers, and traders to the distant corners of the world. They substantively enhanced the cultural, religious, and genetic constitution of the populations they encountered, even reaching remote regions like Madagascar and the Polynesian islands.

Their missionary activities, commercial enterprises, and settlement patterns continued unabated through the period of 8,000 to 6,000 B.C., during their final dispersions. These migrations progressively depleted the biological reserves of their Mesopotamian homelands while simultaneously strengthening and advancing the cultural and genetic composition of surrounding regions.

The terminal three waves of Andite emigration from Mesopotamia occurred between 8,000 and 6,000 B.C., driven by increasing pressure from hill tribes to the east and persistent harassment from plainsmen to the west. The inhabitants of the Euphrates valley were compelled to execute their final exodus in multiple directions, fundamentally altering the demographic landscape across Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. This dispersal represented not merely a migration but the comprehensive dissolution of the original Andite civilization in its Mesopotamian heartland.

The distribution pattern of this final exodus was remarkably systematic: sixty-five percent of the departing Andites entered Europe via the Caspian Sea route, where they conquered and assimilated with the newly emerging white races, creating a blended population from the blue men and earlier Andite settlers. Ten percent, including a significant contingent of the Sethite priesthood, moved eastward through the Elamite highlands into the Iranian plateau and Turkestan, with many of their descendants later being driven into India alongside their Aryan brethren from northern regions. Another ten percent pursued a northeastern trajectory into Sinkiang, where they integrated with the existing Andite-yellow inhabitants, with the majority of their capable offspring subsequently entering China and substantially improving the northern division of the yellow race. Ten percent traversed Arabia to enter Egypt, establishing influential settlements. The remaining five percent, representing the most superior cultural elements near the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates who had maintained their genetic purity, refused to abandon their homelands, constituting the survival of superior Nodite and Adamite strains.

By 6,000 B.C., the Andites had almost completely vacated Mesopotamia, though their descendants, extensively mixed with surrounding Sangik races and the Andonites of Asia Minor, remained to confront northern and eastern invaders in subsequent eras. The cultural pinnacle of the second garden terminated with this increasing infiltration of surrounding inferior genetic stocks, as civilization's center shifted westward to the Nile valley and Mediterranean islands where it continued to flourish long after its Mesopotamian source had deteriorated.

The river-dwelling populations of Mesopotamia had historically adapted to seasonal flooding as a regular feature of their environmental conditions. However, new hydrological challenges emerged due to progressive geological changes occurring in northern regions. For millennia following the submergence of the first Eden, the mountains surrounding the eastern Mediterranean coastline and those northwest and northeast of Mesopotamia underwent continuous elevation, a process that accelerated dramatically around 5,000 B.C. This heightened orogenic activity, combined with substantially increased snowfall accumulation on the northern mountain ranges, precipitated unprecedented spring flooding throughout the Euphrates valley watershed.

These annual inundations progressively intensified in severity and scope, eventually compelling inhabitants to abandon riverine settlements in favor of more secure locations in the eastern highlands. For nearly a millennium, dozens of previously prosperous urban centers were effectively depopulated due to these relentless deluges. Almost five millennia later, when Hebrew priests in Babylonian captivity attempted to reconstruct Jewish genealogical records back to Adam, they encountered significant chronological difficulties. One priest resolved this challenge by conceptualizing a universal flood during Noah's era, thus establishing a narrative device to trace Abraham's lineage directly to one of Noah's three surviving sons. While traditions of world-encompassing floods exist across numerous cultures, the Biblical account of Noah represents a construction of the Hebrew priesthood during the Babylonian exile period.

The only time Urantia's surface was completely submerged occurred during the Archeozoic age, before continental landmasses had begun to emerge. However, Noah was indeed a historical figure—a viticulturist from Aram who maintained detailed records of annual river fluctuations. His advocacy for elevated boat-shaped dwellings and seasonal animal evacuation brought him ridicule until an exceptionally severe flood destroyed his village, with only Noah's family surviving in their house-boat. These catastrophic hydrological events completed the disintegration of Andite civilization, effectively eliminating the second garden's cultural continuity. Only among the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia did vestiges of former glory persist.

When the final Andite dispersal fractured the biological foundation of Mesopotamian civilization, a small but significant minority of this superior race remained established near the river mouths. These were the Sumerians, who by 6,000 B.C. had developed a population that was predominantly Andite in genetic composition, though their cultural orientation remained more distinctly Nodite in character, maintaining steadfast adherence to the ancient traditions of Dalamatia. The racial amalgamation in Mesopotamia had already reached advanced stages by this period, as evidenced by cranial morphology in burial sites from this era.

The agricultural societies of the Euphrates and Tigris valleys had long endured periodic raids from nomadic peoples, but the increasing aridity of highland pastures eventually precipitated a coordinated invasion of unprecedented scale. These mounted invaders possessed large numbers of domesticated horses, conferring a decisive military advantage over the sedentary agricultural communities to their south. Within a relatively brief period, they overran all of Mesopotamia, driving forth the final waves of Andite culture that subsequently diffused across Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. However, the Sumerians at the Persian Gulf successfully resisted conquest due to their superior intelligence, advanced weaponry, and sophisticated military canal infrastructure that complemented their irrigation systems. These Sumerians maintained their racial and national integrity through religious cohesion, enabling them to preserve their independence while surrounding regions succumbed to invasion.

The northern invaders quickly recognized the value of these peace-loving Sumerians as educators and administrators, seeking their expertise in art, industry, commerce, and governance across territories stretching from Egypt to India. After the dissolution of the early Sumerian confederation, city-states emerged under the leadership of apostate descendants of Sethite priests, who claimed kingship when conquering neighboring cities. This fragmented political landscape persisted until Sargon of Kish proclaimed himself king and initiated the conquest of Mesopotamia, ending the era of autonomous, priest-dominated city-states. By 2,500 B.C., the Sumerians experienced significant military setbacks from northern Suites and Guites, with their capital at Lagash falling and Erech maintaining resistance for only thirty additional years. By the establishment of Hammurabi's rule, the Sumerians had been completely absorbed into the northern Semitic populations, and the Mesopotamian Andites disappeared from historical record.