Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 80
ANDITE EXPANSION IN THE OCCIDENT
1. The modern white peoples incorporate the surviving strains of the Adamic stock which became admixed with the Sangik races, some red and yellow but more especially the blue. There is a considerable percentage of the original Andonite stock in all the white races and. still more of the early Nodite strains.
2. For more than thirty thousand years. Egypt received a steady stream of Mesopotamians, who brought along their art and culture to enrich that of the Nile valley.
3. The blue men, then dominant in Europe, had no religious practices which were repulsive to the earlier migrating Adamites, and there was great sex attraction between the violet and the blue races. The best of the blue men deemed it a high honor to be permitted to mate with the Adamites. Every blue man entertained the ambition of becoming so skillful and artistic as to win the affection of some Adamite woman, and it was the highest aspiration of a superior blue woman to receive the attentions of an Adamite.
4..For these and other reasons, not the least of which was more favorable paths of migration, the early waves of Mesopotamian culture made their way almost exclusively to Europe. And it was these circumstances that determined the antecedents of modern European civilization.
5. The early expansion of the violet race into Europe was cut short by certain rather sudden climatic and geologic changes. With the retreat of the northern ice fields the water‑laden winds from the west shifted to the north, gradually turning the great open pasture regions of Sahara into a barren desert.
6. About the time of these climatic changes in Africa, England separated from the continent, and Denmark arose from the sea, while the isthmus of Gibraltar, protecting the western basin of the Mediterranean, gave way as the result of an earthquake, quickly raising this inland lake to the level of the Atlantic Ocean. Presently the Sicilian land bridge submerged, creating one sea of the Mediterranean and connecting it with the Atlantic Ocean. This cataclysm of nature flooded scores of human settlements and occasioned the greatest loss of life by flood in all the world's history.
7. The European civilization of this early post‑Adamic period was a unique blend of the vigor and art of the blue men with the creative imagination of the Adamites. The blue men were a race of great vigor, but they greatly deteriorated the cultural and spiritual status of the Adamites...The blue men were perfectly honest in all their dealings and were wholly free from the sexual vices of the mixed Adamites...These Cro‑Magnon peoples were a brave and farseeing race.
.8. It was not uncommon during the rigors of winter for their sentinels standing on
night guard at cave entrances to freeze to death. They had courage, but above all they
were artists; the Adamic mixture suddenly accelerated creative imagination.
9. While the Andites poured into Europe in a steady stream, there were seven major invasions, the last arrivals coming on horseback in three great waves….The earlier expansions of the purer violet race were far more pacific than were those of their later semimilitary and conquest‑loving Andite descendants. The Adamites were pacific; the Nodites were belligerent. The union of these stocks, as later mingled with the Sangik races, produced the able, aggressive Andites who made actual military conquests.
10. But the horse was the evolutionary factor which determined the dominance of the Andites in the Occident ...All previous waves of Andites had moved so slowly that they tended to disintegrate at any great distance from Mesopotamia. But these later waves moved so rapidly that they reached Europe as coherent groups, still retaining some measure of higher culture... These were the ancestors of the so‑called Nordic races, the fore‑fathers of the Scandinavian, German, and Anglo‑Saxon peoples.
11. For three thousand years the military headquarters of the northern Andites was in Denmark. From this central point there went forth the successive waves of conquest, which grew decreasingly Andite and increasingly white as the passing centuries witnessed the final blending of the Mesopotamian conquerors with the conquered peoples
12. The decisive struggles between the white man and the blue man were fought out in the valley of the Somme... Thor, the victorious commander of the armies of the north in the final battle of the Somme, became the hero of the northern white tribes and later on was revered as a god by some of them.
13. The Cro‑Magnoid blue man constituted the biologic foundation for the modern European races, but they have survived only as absorbed by the later and virile conquerors of their homelands. The blue strain contributed many sturdy traits and much physical vigor to the white races of Europe, but the humor and imagination of' the blended European peoples were derived from the Andites. This Andite‑blue union, resulting in the northern white races, produced an immediate lapse of Andite civilization, a retardation of a transient nature. Eventually, the latent superiority of these northern barbarians manifested itself and. culminated in present‑day European civilization.
14. Egypt became the successor of Mesopotamia as the headquarters of the most advanced group on earth... The Andites built the first stone structures in Egypt. The first and most exquisite of the stone pyramids was erected by Imhotep, an Andite architectural genius, while serving as prime minister.
15. About 12,000 B.C. a brilliant tribe of Andites migrated to Crete ...This group were the narrow‑headed, smaller‑statured Andites who had intermarried with the Vanite division of the northern Nodites...These emigrants to Crete were highly skilled in textiles, metals, pottery, plumbing, and the use of stone for building material.
16. Almost two thousand years after the settlement of Crete a group of the tall descendants of Adamson made their way over the northern islands to Greece... The group which finally settled in Greece consisted of three hundred and seventy‑five of the selected people comprising the end of the second civilization of the Adamsonites. These later sons of Adamson carried the then most valuable strains of the emerging white races. They were of a high intellectual order and, physically regarded, the most beautiful of men since the days of the first Eden ...No wonder the Greeks had mythological traditions that they were directly descended from gods and superhuman beings.
17. It was during this age in Crete that the mother cult of the descendants of Cain attained its greatest vogue ...And this mother cult persisted on down to the times of Christ, becoming later incorporated in the early Christian religion under the guise of the glorification and worship of Mary the earth mother of Jesus.
l8. About 5000 B.C. a mighty host of progressive Mesopotamians moved out of the Euphrates valley and settled upon the island of Cyprus...Another great colony settled on the Mediterranean near the later site of' Carthage. And from north Africa large numbers of Andites entered Spain and later mingled in Switzerland with their brethren who had earlier come to Italy from the Aegean Islands.
19. The Greeks were not only great teachers and artists, they were also the world's greatest traders and colonizers.
20. These descendants of Andon were dispersed through most of the mountainous regions of central and southeastern Europe...The Danubians were Andonites...Much of central Europe was thus early settled by these mixed types of the broad‑headed white races which practiced mother worship and the religious rite of cremating the dead, for it was the custom of the mother cultists to burn their dead in stone huts.
21. The racial blends in Europe toward the close of the Andite migrations became generalized into the three white races as follows;
1. The northern white race. This so‑called Nordic race consisted primarily of the blue man plus the Andite but also contained a considerable amount of Andonite blood: together with smaller amounts of the red and yellow Sangik...
2. The central white race. While this group includes strains of blue, yellow, and Andite, it is predominantly Andonite...By 2500 B.C. the westward thrust of the Andonites reached Europe ...These invaders definitely Andonized the character of the central European races, which have ever since remained characteristically Alpine.
3. The southern white race. This brunet Mediterranean race consisted of a blend of the Andite and the blue than, with a smaller Andonite strain than in the north. This group also absorbed a considerable amount of secondary Sangik blood through the Saharans.
22. The vogue of sun worship indicates that this was a great period of agriculture in southern Europe.
The superstitions of this comparatively recent sun‑worshiping era even now persist in the folkways of Brittany.
23. But it is a fallacy to presume to classify the white peoples as Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean. There has been altogether too much blending to permit such a grouping ...Even in 3000 B.C. the ancient social groups were no more of one race than are the present inhabitants of North America.
24. During the past century this culture has been experiencing its best opportunity for blending in the cosmopolitan population of North America; and the future of that continent will be determined by the quality of the racial factors which are permitted to enter into its present and future population, as well as by the level of the social culture which is maintained.
Discussion Questions
1. Was proximity of immigration to the Mediterranean region by the Adamites and the sexual attraction of the blue race the main reasons that the third and fourth epochal revelations appeared in this region?
2. How did the great vigor of the blue race help the Adamites spread their superior religion?
3. How have various animals helped human development?
4. What do you think of the initiation rites of the shaman priests in destroying the inferior blue people?
5. Do the descendants of Adamson and Ratta explain why the Greeks gained the reputation of physical and intellectual superiority?
6. Does knowledge of the history of the mother cult help us understand its value?
7. Why is so much emphasis placed on the biological quality of the peoples of the world?
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