유란시아 책
III 부. 유란시아의 역사
캘리개스챠가 몰락하고 그에 따라 사회가 혼란해짐으로 말미암아 문화가 퇴보하고 영적으로 빈곤해졌으나, 유란시아 민족들의 육체적 상태 곧 생물학적 상태는 거의 영향을 받지 않았다. 캘리개스챠와 달리개스챠의 모반에 뒤따라 아주 신속하게 발생된 문화와 도덕의 후퇴와는 거의 상관없이, 유기적 진화는 급속히 진행됐다. 그러던 가운데 행성 역사에 어떤 시기가 도래했는데, 약 4만 년 전에, 근무 중이던 생명 운반자들은, 순전히 생물학적 관점에서만 볼 때, 이제 유란시아 인종들의 발달 과정이 정점{頂點}에 가까웠다는 사실에 주목했다. 멜기세덱 관재인들도 이 점에 대해서는 생명 운반자들에게 즉각 동의했으므로, 그들은 생물학적 개량자인 한 쌍의 물질 아들과 딸을 파견시킬 수 있는 장소로서 유란시아가 적합한 상태에 있는지 면밀히 검토해 달라고, 에덴시아의 지고자들에게 요청했다.
73:0.1 (821.1)
THE cultural decadence and spiritual poverty resulting from the Caligastia downfall and consequent social confusion had little effect on the physical or biologic status of the Urantia peoples. Organic evolution proceeded apace, quite regardless of the cultural and moral setback which so swiftly followed the disaffection of Caligastia and Daligastia. And there came a time in the planetary history, almost forty thousand years ago, when the Life Carriers on duty took note that, from a purely biologic standpoint, the developmental progress of the Urantia races was nearing its apex. The Melchizedek receivers, concurring in this opinion, readily agreed to join the Life Carriers in a petition to the Most Highs of Edentia asking that Urantia be inspected with a view to authorizing the dispatch of biologic uplifters, a Material Son and Daughter.
73:0.3 (821.3)
Tabamantia, sovereign supervisor of the series of decimal or experimental worlds, came to inspect the planet and, after his survey of racial progress, duly recommended that Urantia be granted Material Sons. In a little less than one hundred years from the time of this inspection, Adam and Eve, a Material Son and Daughter of the local system, arrived and began the difficult task of attempting to untangle the confused affairs of a planet retarded by rebellion and resting under the ban of spiritual isolation.
73:1.1 (821.4)
On a normal planet the arrival of the Material Son would ordinarily herald the approach of a great age of invention, material progress, and intellectual enlightenment. The post-Adamic era is the great scientific age of most worlds, but not so on Urantia. Though the planet was peopled by races physically fit, the tribes languished in the depths of savagery and moral stagnation.
73:1.2 (821.5)
Ten thousand years after the rebellion practically all the gains of the Prince’s administration had been effaced; the races of the world were little better off than if this misguided Son had never come to Urantia. Only among the Nodites and the Amadonites was there persistence of the traditions of Dalamatia and the culture of the Planetary Prince.
73:1.3 (821.6)
The Nodites were the descendants of the rebel members of the Prince’s staff, their name deriving from their first leader, Nod, onetime chairman of the Dalamatia commission on industry and trade. The Amadonites were the descendants of those Andonites who chose to remain loyal with Van and Amadon. “Amadonite” is more of a cultural and religious designation than a racial term; racially considered the Amadonites were essentially Andonites. “Nodite” is both a cultural and racial term, for the Nodites themselves constituted the eighth race of Urantia.
73:1.4 (822.1)
There existed a traditional enmity between the Nodites and the Amadonites. This feud was constantly coming to the surface whenever the offspring of these two groups would try to engage in some common enterprise. Even later, in the affairs of Eden, it was exceedingly difficult for them to work together in peace.
73:1.5 (822.2)
Shortly after the destruction of Dalamatia the followers of Nod became divided into three major groups. The central group remained in the immediate vicinity of their original home near the headwaters of the Persian Gulf. The eastern group migrated to the highland regions of Elam just east of the Euphrates valley. The western group was situated on the northeastern Syrian shores of the Mediterranean and in adjacent territory.
73:1.6 (822.3)
These Nodites had freely mated with the Sangik races and had left behind an able progeny. And some of the descendants of the rebellious Dalamatians subsequently joined Van and his loyal followers in the lands north of Mesopotamia. Here, in the vicinity of Lake Van and the southern Caspian Sea region, the Nodites mingled and mixed with the Amadonites, and they were numbered among the “mighty men of old.”
73:2.1 (822.5)
For almost one hundred years prior to Tabamantia’s inspection, Van and his associates, from their highland headquarters of world ethics and culture, had been preaching the advent of a promised Son of God, a racial uplifter, a teacher of truth, and the worthy successor of the traitorous Caligastia. Though the majority of the world’s inhabitants of those days exhibited little or no interest in such a prediction, those who were in immediate contact with Van and Amadon took such teaching seriously and began to plan for the actual reception of the promised Son.
73:2.2 (822.6)
Van told his nearest associates the story of the Material Sons on Jerusem; what he had known of them before ever he came to Urantia. He well knew that these Adamic Sons always lived in simple but charming garden homes and proposed, eighty-three years before the arrival of Adam and Eve, that they devote themselves to the proclamation of their advent and to the preparation of a garden home for their reception.
73:2.4 (822.8)
Van divided his volunteers into one hundred companies with a captain over each and an associate who served on his personal staff as a liaison officer, keeping Amadon as his own associate. These commissions all began in earnest their preliminary work, and the committee on location for the Garden sallied forth in search of the ideal spot.
73:2.5 (822.9)
Although Caligastia and Daligastia had been deprived of much of their power for evil, they did everything possible to frustrate and hamper the work of preparing the Garden. But their evil machinations were largely offset by the faithful activities of the almost ten thousand loyal midway creatures who so tirelessly labored to advance the enterprise.
73:3.1 (823.1)
The committee on location was absent for almost three years. It reported favorably concerning three possible locations: The first was an island in the Persian Gulf; the second, the river location subsequently occupied as the second garden; the third, a long narrow peninsula—almost an island—projecting westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
73:3.2 (823.2)
The committee almost unanimously favored the third selection. This site was chosen, and two years were occupied in transferring the world’s cultural headquarters, including the tree of life, to this Mediterranean peninsula. All but a single group of the peninsula dwellers peaceably vacated when Van and his company arrived.
73:3.3 (823.3)
This Mediterranean peninsula had a salubrious climate and an equable temperature; this stabilized weather was due to the encircling mountains and to the fact that this area was virtually an island in an inland sea. While it rained copiously on the surrounding highlands, it seldom rained in Eden proper. But each night, from the extensive network of artificial irrigation channels, a “mist would go up” to refresh the vegetation of the Garden.
73:3.4 (823.4)
The coast line of this land mass was considerably elevated, and the neck connecting with the mainland was only twenty-seven miles wide at the narrowest point. The great river that watered the Garden came down from the higher lands of the peninsula and flowed east through the peninsular neck to the mainland and thence across the lowlands of Mesopotamia to the sea beyond. It was fed by four tributaries which took origin in the coastal hills of the Edenic peninsula, and these are the “four heads” of the river which “went out of Eden,” and which later became confused with the branches of the rivers surrounding the second garden.
73:3.6 (823.6)
The site chosen for the Garden was probably the most beautiful spot of its kind in all the world, and the climate was then ideal. Nowhere else was there a location which could have lent itself so perfectly to becoming such a paradise of botanic expression. In this rendezvous the cream of the civilization of Urantia was forgathering. Without and beyond, the world lay in darkness, ignorance, and savagery. Eden was the one bright spot on Urantia; it was naturally a dream of loveliness, and it soon became a poem of exquisite and perfected landscape glory.
생물학적 개량자인 물질 아들이 진화 세계에 머물기 시작할 때, 그들이 거주하는 장소는 종종 에덴 동산이라고 불리는데, 꽃으로 아름답게 장식되고 식물로 장관을 이루는 성좌 수도{首都} 에덴시아의 특성을 띠기 때문이다. 반은 이 관습을 잘 알았고, 이에 따라 반도 전체가 동산에 소속되도록 준비했다. 목초와 동물 사육은, 대륙과 인접된 지역에서 이뤄지게 입안됐다. 동물 생명체 중에서는 단지 새와 다양한 길들여진 종류들만 그 공원에 거하게 돼있었다. 에덴이 동산이어야 하고 최적의 동산이 돼야 한다고 반이 지시했다. 어떤 동물도 그 관할 지역 안에서는 도살하지 못하게 했다. 건설하는 기간 내내, 동산 일꾼들이 먹은 모든 고기는 대륙에서 사육된 동물 떼에서 조달됐다.
73:4.1 (823.7)
When Material Sons, the biologic uplifters, begin their sojourn on an evolutionary world, their place of abode is often called the Garden of Eden because it is characterized by the floral beauty and the botanic grandeur of Edentia, the constellation capital. Van well knew of these customs and accordingly provided that the entire peninsula be given over to the Garden. Pasturage and animal husbandry were projected for the adjoining mainland. Of animal life, only the birds and the various domesticated species were to be found in the park. Van’s instructions were that Eden was to be a garden, and only a garden. No animals were ever slaughtered within its precincts. All flesh eaten by the Garden workers throughout all the years of construction was brought in from the herds maintained under guard on the mainland.
73:4.3 (824.2)
A zoological garden was created by building a smaller wall just outside the main wall; the intervening space, occupied by all manner of wild beasts, served as an additional defense against hostile attacks. This menagerie was organized in twelve grand divisions, and walled paths led between these groups to the twelve gates of the Garden, the river and its adjacent pastures occupying the central area.
73:4.4 (824.3)
In the preparation of the Garden only volunteer laborers were employed; no hirelings were ever used. They cultivated the Garden and tended their herds for support; contributions of food were also received from near-by believers. And this great enterprise was carried through to completion in spite of the difficulties attendant upon the confused status of the world during these troublous times.
73:4.5 (824.4)
But it was a cause for great disappointment when Van, not knowing how soon the expected Son and Daughter might come, suggested that the younger generation also be trained in the work of carrying on the enterprise in case their arrival should be delayed. This seemed like an admission of lack of faith on Van’s part and made considerable trouble, caused many desertions; but Van went forward with his plan of preparedness, meantime filling the places of the deserters with younger volunteers.
73:5.1 (824.5)
At the center of the Edenic peninsula was the exquisite stone temple of the Universal Father, the sacred shrine of the Garden. To the north the administrative headquarters was established; to the south were built the homes for the workers and their families; to the west was provided the allotment of ground for the proposed schools of the educational system of the expected Son, while in the “east of Eden” were built the domiciles intended for the promised Son and his immediate offspring. The architectural plans for Eden provided homes and abundant land for one million human beings.
73:5.2 (824.6)
At the time of Adam’s arrival, though the Garden was only one-fourth finished, it had thousands of miles of irrigation ditches and more than twelve thousand miles of paved paths and roads. There were a trifle over five thousand brick buildings in the various sectors, and the trees and plants were almost beyond number. Seven was the largest number of houses composing any one cluster in the park. And though the structures of the Garden were simple, they were most artistic. The roads and paths were well built, and the landscaping was exquisite.
73:5.3 (824.7)
The sanitary arrangements of the Garden were far in advance of anything that had been attempted theretofore on Urantia. The drinking water of Eden was kept wholesome by the strict observance of the sanitary regulations designed to conserve its purity. During these early times much trouble came about from neglect of these rules, but Van gradually impressed upon his associates the importance of allowing nothing to fall into the water supply of the Garden.
73:5.4 (825.1)
Before the later establishment of a sewage-disposal system the Edenites practiced the scrupulous burial of all waste or decomposing material. Amadon’s inspectors made their rounds each day in search for possible causes of sickness. Urantians did not again awaken to the importance of the prevention of human diseases until the later times of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before the disruption of the Adamic regime a covered brick-conduit disposal system had been constructed which ran beneath the walls and emptied into the river of Eden almost a mile beyond the outer or lesser wall of the Garden.
73:5.5 (825.2)
By the time of Adam’s arrival most of the plants of that section of the world were growing in Eden. Already had many of the fruits, cereals, and nuts been greatly improved. Many modern vegetables and cereals were first cultivated here, but scores of varieties of food plants were subsequently lost to the world.
73:5.7 (825.4)
And so was the Garden of Eden made ready for the reception of the promised Adam and his consort. And this Garden would have done honor to a world under perfected administration and normal control. Adam and Eve were well pleased with the general plan of Eden, though they made many changes in the furnishings of their own personal dwelling.
73:5.8 (825.5)
Although the work of embellishment was hardly finished at the time of Adam’s arrival, the place was already a gem of botanic beauty; and during the early days of his sojourn in Eden the whole Garden took on new form and assumed new proportions of beauty and grandeur. Never before this time nor after has Urantia harbored such a beautiful and replete exhibition of horticulture and agriculture.
73:6.1 (825.6)
In the center of the Garden temple Van planted the long-guarded tree of life, whose leaves were for the “healing of the nations,” and whose fruit had so long sustained him on earth. Van well knew that Adam and Eve would also be dependent on this gift of Edentia for their life maintenance after they once appeared on Urantia in material form.
“선과 악을 알게 하는 나무”는 잡다한 인간 체험을 상징적으로 나타내는 회화적{繪畵的} 표현일 수도 있지만, “생명나무”는 지어낸 이야기가 아니며;실제였고, 오랜 기간 유란시아에 남아있었다. 에덴시아의 지고자들이 캘리개스챠를 유란시아의 행성 왕자로, 그리고 100명의 예루셈 시민을 그의 경영 참모진으로 임명하도록 승인했을 때, 에덴시아에서 한 묘목{苗木}을 멜기세덱들 편에 행성으로 보냈고, 이 묘목이 유란시아에서 자라나 생명나무가 됐다. 지성이 없는 이 형태의 생명체는 성좌 본부 구체의 토산품인데, 하보나 구체들뿐 아니라 지방우주나 연방우주들의 본부 세계에서도 발견할 수 있지만, 체계 수도에는 없다.
73:6.3 (825.8)
The “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” may be a figure of speech, a symbolic designation covering a multitude of human experiences, but the “tree of life” was not a myth; it was real and for a long time was present on Urantia. When the Most Highs of Edentia approved the commission of Caligastia as Planetary Prince of Urantia and those of the one hundred Jerusem citizens as his administrative staff, they sent to the planet, by the Melchizedeks, a shrub of Edentia, and this plant grew to be the tree of life on Urantia. This form of nonintelligent life is native to the constellation headquarters spheres, being also found on the headquarters worlds of the local and superuniverses as well as on the Havona spheres, but not on the system capitals.
이 초월 식물은, 동물 실존을 노화{老化}-시키는 요소를 해독하는 어떤 공간-에너지를 축적하고 있었다. 생명나무의 과실은 초화학적 축전지{蓄電池} 같아서, 그것을 먹으면 신비하게도 생명을 연장시키는 우주의 힘이 거기서 흘러나온다. 이런 형태의 자양분은, 유란시아의 일반 진화 존재에게는 아무 효과가 없으나, 특별히 100명의 물질화된 캘리개스챠 참모진, 그리고 왕자의 참모진에게 자신의 생명 원형질을 기부했던 100명의 변경된 안돈족속에게는 유용하게 쓰였는데, 그들은 그 대가{代價}로 이 생명 보완물을 지닐 수 있게 됐고, 이것 없이는 필사적{必死的}일 수밖에 없는 자신의 실존을 무한히 연장하기 위하여, 생명나무 과실을 활용할 수 있게 됐다.
73:6.4 (826.1)
This superplant stored up certain space-energies which were antidotal to the age-producing elements of animal existence. The fruit of the tree of life was like a superchemical storage battery, mysteriously releasing the life-extension force of the universe when eaten. This form of sustenance was wholly useless to the ordinary evolutionary beings on Urantia, but specifically it was serviceable to the one hundred materialized members of Caligastia’s staff and to the one hundred modified Andonites who had contributed of their life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and who, in return, were made possessors of that complement of life which made it possible for them to utilize the fruit of the tree of life for an indefinite extension of their otherwise mortal existence.
73:6.5 (826.2)
During the days of the Prince’s rule the tree was growing from the earth in the central and circular courtyard of the Father’s temple. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion it was regrown from the central core by Van and his associates in their temporary camp. This Edentia shrub was subsequently taken to their highland retreat, where it served both Van and Amadon for more than one hundred and fifty thousand years.
73:6.6 (826.3)
When Van and his associates made ready the Garden for Adam and Eve, they transplanted the Edentia tree to the Garden of Eden, where, once again, it grew in a central, circular courtyard of another temple to the Father. And Adam and Eve periodically partook of its fruit for the maintenance of their dual form of physical life.
물질 아들의 계획이 잘못된 길로 가버렸을 때, 아담과 그 가족에게는 그 나무 둥치를 동산에서 옮겨가는 것이 허락되지 않았다. 에덴으로 침범해온 놋족속은, “그 나무의 열매를 따먹으면 신{神}들처럼 될 것이라”는 말을 들어서 알고 있었다. 그들은 그 나무가 방치돼있음을 발견하고 무척 놀랐다. 여러 해 동안 과실을 마음껏 따먹었지만, 아무 효험이 없었으며;모두 그 영역의 물질 필사자였으며;그 나무의 과실이 보완물 역할을 할 만한 형질을 갖고 있지 않았다. 생명나무로부터 약효를 섭취할 능력이 없음에 격분하게 됐고, 여러 차례 내란이 일어나는 중에, 성전과 나무가 모두 불에 타버리고 말았으며;나중에 동산이 물에 가라앉을 때까지 오직 돌담만 남아있었다. 이것은 아버지를 모시는 성전의 두 번째 소멸이었다.
73:6.7 (826.4)
When the plans of the Material Son went astray, Adam and his family were not permitted to carry the core of the tree away from the Garden. When the Nodites invaded Eden, they were told that they would become as “gods if they partook of the fruit of the tree.” Much to their surprise they found it unguarded. They ate freely of the fruit for years, but it did nothing for them; they were all material mortals of the realm; they lacked that endowment which acted as a complement to the fruit of the tree. They became enraged at their inability to benefit from the tree of life, and in connection with one of their internal wars, the temple and the tree were both destroyed by fire; only the stone wall stood until the Garden was subsequently submerged. This was the second temple of the Father to perish.
73:6.8 (826.5)
And now must all flesh on Urantia take the natural course of life and death. Adam, Eve, their children, and their children’s children, together with their associates, all perished in the course of time, thus becoming subject to the ascension scheme of the local universe wherein mansion world resurrection follows material death.
아담이 첫 동산을 떠난 후에, 놋족속과 컷족속과 선족속이 그곳을 점령했다. 그 동산은 나중에, 아담족속과 협동하기를 거부한 북부 놋족속의 거주지가 됐다. 반도{半島}는 아담이 동산을 떠난 뒤 거의 4천 년 동안, 열등한 계층에 속하는 이 놋족속의 지배를 받아오다가, 둘러싸고 있는 여러 화산의 격렬한 활동과, 아프리카에 이르는 시칠리아 연결육지의 침수{沈水}와 관련해서, 지중해 동쪽 지반{地盤}이 물에 잠기게 됐는데, 에덴 반도 전체도 함께 물속에 가라앉았다. 이런 광대한 지역이 침수됨에 따라서, 지중해 동쪽 해안선이 많이 솟아올랐다. 그리고 이것은 유란시아에 있었던 가장 아름다운 천연 창작품의 종말이기도 했다. 이 침몰은 갑작스런 것이 아니었고, 반도 전체가 전면적으로 가라앉기까지는 수백 년이 걸렸다.
73:7.1 (826.6)
After the first garden was vacated by Adam, it was occupied variously by the Nodites, Cutites, and the Suntites. It later became the dwelling place of the northern Nodites who opposed co-operation with the Adamites. The peninsula had been overrun by these lower-grade Nodites for almost four thousand years after Adam left the Garden when, in connection with the violent activity of the surrounding volcanoes and the submergence of the Sicilian land bridge to Africa, the eastern floor of the Mediterranean Sea sank, carrying down beneath the waters the whole of the Edenic peninsula. Concomitant with this vast submergence the coast line of the eastern Mediterranean was greatly elevated. And this was the end of the most beautiful natural creation that Urantia has ever harbored. The sinking was not sudden, several hundred years being required completely to submerge the entire peninsula.
73:7.2 (827.1)
We cannot regard this disappearance of the Garden as being in any way a result of the miscarriage of the divine plans or as a result of the mistakes of Adam and Eve. We do not regard the submergence of Eden as anything but a natural occurrence, but it does seem to us that the sinking of the Garden was timed to occur at just about the date of the accumulation of the reserves of the violet race for undertaking the work of rehabilitating the world peoples.
73:7.3 (827.2)
The Melchizedeks counseled Adam not to initiate the program of racial uplift and blending until his own family had numbered one-half million. It was never intended that the Garden should be the permanent home of the Adamites. They were to become emissaries of a new life to all the world; they were to mobilize for unselfish bestowal upon the needy races of earth.
73:7.4 (827.3)
The instructions given Adam by the Melchizedeks implied that he was to establish racial, continental, and divisional headquarters to be in charge of his immediate sons and daughters, while he and Eve were to divide their time between these various world capitals as advisers and co-ordinators of the world-wide ministry of biologic uplift, intellectual advancement, and moral rehabilitation.