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

The second Eden was where the Adamic peoples lived for nearly thirty thousand years. They sent their children throughout the world, and later these descendants mixed with the Nodite and Sangik tribes to form the Andite peoples. The Andites spread culture and progress throughout Urantia.

This paper covers the history of the violet race starting after Adam's default about 35,000 years ago. It follows the story of the violet race through its mixing with other races to form the Andite peoples, and continues until the Andites disappeared from Mesopotamia around 2,000 B.C.

The second Eden served as the birthplace of civilization for almost thirty thousand years. From Mesopotamia, the Adamic people sent their descendants throughout the world. Later, these descendants mixed with the Nodite and Sangik tribes and became known as the Andites.

These people greatly sped up cultural progress on Urantia. This paper tells the story of the violet race from about 35,000 B.C., after Adam's default. It continues through their mixing with other races to form the Andites, and follows them until they finally left Mesopotamia around 2,000 B.C.

When Adam arrived, human minds and morals were not well developed, but physical evolution had progressed well despite the Caligastia rebellion. Adam's contribution, even though partly failed, greatly improved the people of Urantia. Adam and Eve also helped social, moral, and intellectual progress.

Thirty-five thousand years ago, most of Urantia had little culture. The violet race lived in the second garden between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which became the birthplace of Western and Indian civilizations. Other races were scattered across the world, including the Nodites in Mesopotamia, Andonites in Eurasia, red men in the Americas, yellow race in China, blue men in Europe, and mixed races in India, Africa, and the Mediterranean.

For thousands of years, Adam's children worked near Mesopotamian rivers. They solved irrigation problems in the south and built defenses in the north while trying to preserve traditions from the first Eden. The leaders of the second garden showed great courage and never forgot the purpose of Adam's mission.

The Adamites fought off surrounding inferior tribes while sending their best sons and daughters as messengers to other races. The Adamites had a higher civilization than other evolutionary races. After Adam died and memories of the first Eden faded, their cultural level slowly declined until it balanced with surrounding peoples. By 19,000 B.C., the Adamites were a real nation of four and a half million people, and they had already sent millions of their descendants to other peoples.

The violet race kept Eden's peaceful traditions for thousands of years, which delayed their territorial conquests. When they had too many people, they sent the extras as teachers to other races. These early Adamite migrants did not leave a lasting cultural impact, but their mixing with other peoples biologically strengthened those races.

Some Adamites traveled west to Egypt and east to Asia, but most gradually moved north and then west around the Caspian Sea into Europe. By 15,000 B.C., there were more descendants of Adam in Europe and central Asia than anywhere else, even Mesopotamia. Europe and Asia were becoming populated with a mix of Adamites, Nodites, Andonites, and Sangik races.

The Andite races were a mix of the pure violet race with Nodites and evolutionary peoples. Usually, Andites had between one-eighth and one-sixth of Adam's blood. Modern people, even northern white races, have much less Adamic blood than this. The earliest Andites appeared near Mesopotamia more than 25,000 years ago from a blend of Adamites and Nodites.

The Andites were the best all-around human stock on Urantia since the pure violet race. They included the highest types of Adamite and Nodite races, and later some of the best yellow, blue, and green races. Early Andites were not Aryan or white; they were pre-Aryan and pre-white. But Andite blood gives the mixed white races their general similarities, known as Caucasoid.

For twenty thousand years, the culture of the second garden continued but slowly declined until about 15,000 B.C. Then the revival of the Sethite priesthood and Amosad's leadership started a brilliant era. Great waves of civilization spread across Eurasia after the Adamites mixed with surrounding Nodites to form the Andites.

The Andites brought new advances throughout Eurasia and North Africa. By 12,000 B.C., three-quarters of the world's Andite stock lived in northern and eastern Europe. The Andites migrated to Europe, northern China, and India, while many groups traveled as missionaries, teachers, and traders to the ends of the earth. Their migrations continued until their final dispersal from 8,000 to 6,000 B.C.

The last three waves of Andites left Mesopotamia between 8,000 and 6,000 B.C. They were pushed out by hill tribes from the east and plainsmen from the west. The people from the Euphrates valley left in several directions during this final exodus.

Sixty-five percent went to Europe, ten percent moved eastward through the Elamite highlands, another ten percent went to Sinkiang and then China, ten percent crossed Arabia and entered Egypt, and five percent stayed in Mesopotamia. By 6,000 B.C., the Andites had almost completely left the region. The cultural age of the second garden ended because inferior stocks moved in, and civilization shifted westward to the Nile and Mediterranean islands.

The people living by rivers were used to seasonal floods. But new dangers threatened the Mesopotamian valley because of geological changes in the north. For thousands of years after the first Eden was flooded, mountains around the Mediterranean coast and near Mesopotamia continued to rise.

This mountain rise sped up around 5,000 B.C. More snow fell on northern mountains, causing unprecedented spring floods in the Euphrates valley. The floods grew worse until eventually people had to move to the eastern highlands. For almost a thousand years, many cities were abandoned because of these extensive floods. These floods helped end Andite civilization, and with these deluges, the second garden disappeared.

When the last Andite dispersal broke apart Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority of this superior race remained near the river mouths. These were the Sumerians, and by 6,000 B.C. they had become largely Andite, though their culture was more Nodite. The races of Mesopotamia were already thoroughly mixed by this time.

The peaceful grain farmers of the Euphrates and Tigris valleys had long been attacked by barbarians from Turkestan and Iran. Now a coordinated invasion occurred because of increasing drought in the highland pastures. These invaders had many tamed horses, giving them a military advantage. They quickly overran Mesopotamia, driving out the last cultural waves. However, the Sumerians at the mouth of the river were able to defend themselves because of superior intelligence, better weapons, and their canal system.