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ADAM AND EVE
アダームとハヴァー
1955 74:0.1 ADAM AND EVE arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. It was in midseason when the Garden was in the height of bloom that they arrived. At high noon and unannounced, the two seraphic transports, accompanied by the Jerusem personnel intrusted with the transportation of the biologic uplifters to Urantia, settled slowly to the surface of the revolving planet in the vicinity of the temple of the Universal Father. All the work of rematerializing the bodies of Adam and Eve was carried on within the precincts of this newly created shrine. And from the time of their arrival ten days passed before they were re-created in dual human form for presentation as the world’s new rulers. They regained consciousness simultaneously. The Material Sons and Daughters always serve together. It is the essence of their service at all times and in all places never to be separated. They are designed to work in pairs; seldom do they function alone.
2015 74:0.1 アダームとハヴァーは、西暦1934年から遡る3万7,848年前にユランチアに到着した。二人が到着したのは、園が花盛りの季節の半ばであった。正午しかも発表もなく、生物の改善に努めるもののユランチアへの輸送を任されたジェルーセム要員に同伴された二名の熾天使輸送係が、宇宙なる父の寺院近くの回転惑星の表面にゆっくりと着いた。アダームとハヴァーの再度の肉体化のすべての仕事が、新たに建設されたこの神殿の境内の中で進められた。世界の新統治者としての披露のために二元的な人間の姿に再現されるまで二人の到着から10日が経過した。二人は同時に意識を取り戻した。物質の息子等と娘等はいつも共に役目を果たすのである。二人の本質的重要性は、何時でも何処でも決して切り離されることなく仕えることがである。二人は対で働くように予定されており、めったに単独では機能しない。
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¶ 1. ジェルーセムでのアダームとハヴァー
1. ADAM AND EVE ON JERUSEM
1. ジェルーセムでのアダームとハヴァー
1955 74:1.1 The Planetary Adam and Eve of Urantia were members of the senior corps of Material Sons on Jerusem, being jointly number 14,311. They belonged to the third physical series and were a little more than eight feet in height.
2015 74:1.1 ユランチアに到着の惑星のアダームとハヴァーは、双方共に1万4,311番であるジェルーセムの物質の息子の年長部隊に属する隊員であった。二人は、物理的には3番目の組に属し、およそ2メートル半の身長であった。
1955 74:1.2 At the time Adam was chosen to come to Urantia, he was employed, with his mate, in the trial-and-testing physical laboratories of Jerusem. For more than fifteen thousand years they had been directors of the division of experimental energy as applied to the modification of living forms. Long before this they had been teachers in the citizenship schools for new arrivals on Jerusem. And all this should be borne in mind in connection with the narration of their subsequent conduct on Urantia.
2015 74:1.2 アダームは、ユランチア行きに選ばれた時、ジェルーセムの試験と実験の物理実験室で仲間と共に働いていた。彼らは、1万5,000年以上も生形体に適用される実験エネルギー部門の管理者であった。このずっと以前には、ジェルーセムの新規到着者のための公民学校の教師であった。そしてこのすべてが、ユランチアにおける彼等のその後の行為の叙述に関し覚えておかれるべきである。
1955 74:1.3 When the proclamation was issued calling for volunteers for the mission of Adamic adventure on Urantia, the entire senior corps of Material Sons and Daughters volunteered. The Melchizedek examiners, with the approval of Lanaforge and the Most Highs of Edentia, finally selected the Adam and Eve who subsequently came to function as the biologic uplifters of Urantia.
2015 74:1.3 ユランチアにおけるアダームの冒険任務のための志願者要請が発表されると、物質の息子と娘の年長部隊全体が志願した。メルキゼデクの試験官は、ラナフォーゲとエーデンチアのいと高きものの承認と共に、ユランチアの生物上の改善に努めるものとして機能するために最終的にアダームとハヴァーを選出した。
1955 74:1.4 Adam and Eve had remained loyal to Michael during the Lucifer rebellion; nevertheless, the pair were called before the System Sovereign and his entire cabinet for examination and instruction. The details of Urantia affairs were fully presented; they were exhaustively instructed as to the plans to be pursued in accepting the responsibilities of rulership on such a strife-torn world. They were put under joint oaths of allegiance to the Most Highs of Edentia and to Michael of Salvington. And they were duly advised to regard themselves as subject to the Urantia corps of Melchizedek receivers until that governing body should see fit to relinquish rule on the world of their assignment.
2015 74:1.4 アダームとハヴァーは、ルーキフェレーンスの反逆期間、ミカエルに忠実であり続けた。にもかかわらず、二人は、尋問と指令のために体系君主とその内閣全体に召喚された。ユランチア問題の詳細は、すっかり提示され、二人は、そのような紛争で疲弊した世界の支配者の責務を引き受けるに当たり、果たされるべき計画について徹底的に指示を受けた。二人は、ともにエーデンチアのいと高きものとサルヴィントンのミカエルへの忠誠の宣誓をした。そして二人は、その行政機関が、配属先の世界の支配から手を引くのが適当であると思われるまで、メルキゼデク受信者のユランチア部隊に従属すると見なすよう順当に助言を受けた。
1955 74:1.5 This Jerusem pair left behind them on the capital of Satania and elsewhere, one hundred offspring—fifty sons and fifty daughters—magnificent creatures who had escaped the pitfalls of progression, and who were all in commission as faithful stewards of universe trust at the time of their parents’ departure for Urantia. And they were all present in the beautiful temple of the Material Sons attendant upon the farewell exercises associated with the last ceremonies of the bestowal acceptance. These children accompanied their parents to the dematerialization headquarters of their order and were the last to bid them farewell and divine speed as they fell asleep in the personality lapse of consciousness which precedes the preparation for seraphic transport. The children spent some time together at the family rendezvous rejoicing that their parents were soon to become the visible heads, in reality the sole rulers, of planet 606 in the system of Satania.
2015 74:1.5 ジェルーセムのこの1組の男女は、サタニアの首都と他の場所に100名の子—50名の息子と50名の娘—進行途中の落とし穴を逃がれ、両親のユランチアに向けての出発時点において、宇宙の信頼に対し忠実な執事として全員が就役していたすばらしい被創造者達を後に残した。そして、これらの娘と息子の全員が、物質の息子の美しい寺での贈与承認の最後の儀式に伴う送別授与式に参列していた。これらの子供等は、属する系列の非物質化本部にむけて両親に同伴し、両親が、熾天使の輸送のための準備に先立つ人格の意識中断状態のうちに眠りに入るとき、一番最後に両親への別れとその道中の安全を述べた。子供等は、まもなく両親が目に見えるサタニア系の惑星606号の代表者、実際には唯一の支配者となることを喜びながら家族の待合せ場所でしばらくともに時を過ごした。
1955 74:1.6 And thus did Adam and Eve leave Jerusem amidst the acclaim and well-wishing of its citizens. They went forth to their new responsibilities adequately equipped and fully instructed concerning every duty and danger to be encountered on Urantia.
2015 74:1.6 アダームとハヴァーは、こうして、市民が、拍手喝采し成功を願う中でジェルーセムを後にしたのであった。二人は、ユランチアで遭遇するあらゆる義務と危険に対し適切に装備し、充分に指導を受け新たな責務へと旅立っていった。
¶ 2. アダームとハヴァーの到着
2. ARRIVAL OF ADAM AND EVE
2. アダームとハヴァーの到着
1955 74:2.1 Adam and Eve fell asleep on Jerusem, and when they awakened in the Father’s temple on Urantia in the presence of the mighty throng assembled to welcome them, they were face to face with two beings of whom they had heard much, Van and his faithful associate Amadon. These two heroes of the Caligastia secession were the first to welcome them in their new garden home.
2015 74:2.1 アダームとハヴァーはジェルーセムで眠りにつき、二人を歓迎するために集まった、大観衆のいるユランチアの父の寺院で目覚めたとき、以前よく耳にしていた二人、ヴァンとその忠実な仲間アマドンに直接向かい合っていた。新庭園の家で最初に二人を歓迎したのは、カリガスティア脱退のこの2人の英雄であった。
1955 74:2.2 The tongue of Eden was an Andonic dialect as spoken by Amadon. Van and Amadon had markedly improved this language by creating a new alphabet of twenty-four letters, and they had hoped to see it become the tongue of Urantia as the Edenic culture would spread throughout the world. Adam and Eve had fully mastered this human dialect before they departed from Jerusem so that this son of Andon heard the exalted ruler of his world address him in his own tongue.
2015 74:2.2 エーデンの言葉は、アマドンの話すアンドン方言であった。ヴァンとアマドンは、24文字の新アルファベットの作成によりこの言語を著しく改良し、またエーデン文化が世界中に広まるにつれ、それが、ユランチアの言葉になるのを見たいと願っていた。アダームとハヴァーは、ジェルーセム出発前にこの人間の方言を完全に習得していたので、アンドンのこの息子は、自分の世界の地位の高い支配者が同じ言葉で演説するのを聞いた。
1955 74:2.3 And on that day there was great excitement and joy throughout Eden as the runners went in great haste to the rendezvous of the carrier pigeons assembled from near and far, shouting: “Let loose the birds; let them carry the word that the promised Son has come.” Hundreds of believer settlements had faithfully, year after year, kept up the supply of these home-reared pigeons for just such an occasion.
2015 74:2.3 その当日、走者が、遠近から集められた伝書鳩の集合場所へと「鳥を放て。約束された息子が来られたと知らせを運ばせよ。」大急ぎで叫んでいると、エーデン中に大きな興奮と喜びがあった。毎年のように何百もの信者の集落は、まさしくそのような特別の機会のためにこれらの自家飼育の鳩の供給を忠実に続けてきた。
1955 74:2.4 As the news of Adam’s arrival spread abroad, thousands of the near-by tribesmen accepted the teachings of Van and Amadon, while for months and months pilgrims continued to pour into Eden to welcome Adam and Eve and to do homage to their unseen Father.
2015 74:2.4 アダームの到着の知らせが広まると、近隣の何千人もの部族民がヴァンとアマドンの教えを受け入れる一方で、巡礼者は、何カ月も何カ月も、アダームとハヴァーを歓迎するため、また見えない父に敬意を表するためにエーデンへと繰り出してきた。
1955 74:2.5 Soon after their awakening, Adam and Eve were escorted to the formal reception on the great mound to the north of the temple. This natural hill had been enlarged and made ready for the installation of the world’s new rulers. Here, at noon, the Urantia reception committee welcomed this Son and Daughter of the system of Satania. Amadon was chairman of this committee, which consisted of twelve members embracing a representative of each of the six Sangik races; the acting chief of the midwayers; Annan, a loyal daughter and spokesman for the Nodites; Noah, the son of the architect and builder of the Garden and executive of his deceased father’s plans; and the two resident Life Carriers.
2015 74:2.5 目覚めの直後、アダームとハヴァーは、寺の北部にある大きい堤での正式の歓迎会へ案内された。この自然の丘は、拡大され、世界の新支配者の就任のために用意されていた。ここで正午に、ユランチア歓迎委員会は、サタニア系のこの息子と娘を歓迎した。アマドンはこの委員会の議長であった。委員会は、サンギクの6人種の各代表を含む12人の構成員；中間者の臨時の主任、ノヅ系の忠誠な娘であり広報担当であるアナン、園の設計者かつ建築者の息子であり、また故人となった父の計画実行者であるノア、そして在住の2名の生命搬送者から成った。
1955 74:2.6 The next act was the delivery of the charge of planetary custody to Adam and Eve by the senior Melchizedek, chief of the council of receivership on Urantia. The Material Son and Daughter took the oath of allegiance to the Most Highs of Norlatiadek and to Michael of Nebadon and were proclaimed rulers of Urantia by Van, who thereby relinquished the titular authority which for over one hundred and fifty thousand years he had held by virtue of the action of the Melchizedek receivers.
2015 74:2.6 次の活動は、年輩のメルキゼデク、ユランチアの財産管理の協議会長が、アダームとハヴァーに対して惑星後見義務を実施することであった。物質の息子と娘は、ノーランティアデクのいと高きものとネバドンのミカエルとに忠誠の誓いを立て、ヴァンは、アダームとハヴァーが、ユランチアの支配者であると宣言した。その結果、ヴァンは、メルキゼデク受信者の働きの効力により15万年以上維持してきた名義上の権威を放棄した。
1955 74:2.7 And Adam and Eve were invested with kingly robes on this occasion, the time of their formal induction into world rulership. Not all of the arts of Dalamatia had been lost to the world; weaving was still practiced in the days of Eden.
2015 74:2.7 この時、つまり世界支配者への正式の就任時に、王らしい礼服が、アダームとハヴァーに授けられた。ダラマティアの全ての芸術が世界から失われていた訳ではなかった。エーデンの時代、機織りはまだ営まれていた。
1955 74:2.8 Then was heard the archangels’ proclamation, and the broadcast voice of Gabriel decreed the second judgment roll call of Urantia and the resurrection of the sleeping survivors of the second dispensation of grace and mercy on 606 of Satania. The dispensation of the Prince has passed; the age of Adam, the third planetary epoch, opens amidst scenes of simple grandeur; and the new rulers of Urantia start their reign under seemingly favorable conditions, notwithstanding the world-wide confusion occasioned by lack of the co-operation of their predecessor in authority on the planet.
2015 74:2.8 その時大天使の宣言が聞こえ、加えてガブリエルの放送の声が、ユランチアの2度目の裁決点呼と、サタニア606号の恩寵と慈悲の2度目の配剤の対象である眠れる生存者たちの復活を命じた。王子の統治は終わり、アダームの時代、つまり3度目の惑星時代は、簡易で雄大な場面の中で開始する。ユランチアの新支配者達は、惑星で権力を持つ前任者の協力不足で引き起こされた世界的混乱にもかかわらず、見たところ好ましい状態の下で治世に着手する。
¶ 3. 惑星について学ぶアダームとハヴァー
3. ADAM AND EVE LEARN ABOUT THE PLANET
3. 惑星について学ぶアダームとハヴァー
1955 74:3.1 And now, after their formal installation, Adam and Eve became painfully aware of their planetary isolation. Silent were the familiar broadcasts, and absent were all the circuits of extraplanetary communication. Their Jerusem fellows had gone to worlds running along smoothly with a well-established Planetary Prince and an experienced staff ready to receive them and competent to co-operate with them during their early experience on such worlds. But on Urantia rebellion had changed everything. Here the Planetary Prince was very much present, and though shorn of most of his power to work evil, he was still able to make the task of Adam and Eve difficult and to some extent hazardous. It was a serious and disillusioned Son and Daughter of Jerusem who walked that night through the Garden under the shining of the full moon, discussing plans for the next day.
2015 74:3.1 そして今、アダームとハヴァーは、正式の就任後、自分達の惑星の孤立に痛々しいほどに気づくようになった。馴染みのある放送は全く静寂で、惑星外の通信回路は、すべて休止していた。アダームとハヴァーのジェルーセムの仲間は、自分たちが初期の経験をしている間に、定着した惑星王子と経験豊富な部下が、自分たちのための受けいれの準備ができており、協力ができるそのような円滑に動いている世界に行った経験があった。しかし、ユランチアでは、反逆がすべてを変えてしまった。惑星王子は、ここでは非常に目立ち、また悪を働く力の大部分を刈り取られたにもかかわらず、それでもなおアダームとハヴァーの任務を難しくし、またある程度危険に晒すことができたのであった。その夜、満月の輝く下で翌日の計画を明確にしながら庭園の中を歩いたのは、ジェルーセムの真剣で、しかも幻滅を感じている息子と娘であった。
1955 74:3.2 Thus ended the first day of Adam and Eve on isolated Urantia, the confused planet of the Caligastia betrayal; and they walked and talked far into the night, their first night on earth—and it was so lonely.
2015 74:3.2 アダームとハヴァーの初日は、孤立したユランチア、カリガスティアの裏切りで混乱した惑星でかくして終わった。二人は、かなり夜遅くまで、地球での初めての夜、歩いて、そして話した。—それは、誠に孤独であった。
1955 74:3.3 Adam’s second day on earth was spent in session with the planetary receivers and the advisory council. From the Melchizedeks, and their associates, Adam and Eve learned more about the details of the Caligastia rebellion and the result of that upheaval upon the world’s progress. And it was, on the whole, a disheartening story, this long recital of the mismanagement of world affairs. They learned all the facts regarding the utter collapse of the Caligastia scheme for accelerating the process of social evolution. They also arrived at a full realization of the folly of attempting to achieve planetary advancement independently of the divine plan of progression. And thus ended a sad but enlightening day—their second on Urantia.
2015 74:3.3 アダームの地球での2日目は、惑星の受信者と顧問機関との会議に費やされた。アダームとハヴァーは、メルキゼデク、それにその仲間からカリガスティア反逆の細部と世界進歩のその大変動の結果に関しさらに学んだ。それは、つまり世界情勢にかかわるこの長い不始末の詳説は、概して期待外れの話であった。二人は、社会進化の過程を加速するカリガスティアの企みの完全な崩壊に関するすべての事実を知った。かれらは、惑星の前進を果たすために神の発展計画を独自に試みる愚かさを完全に認識する結果となった。このようにして、悲しくはあるが、得るところの多い日—ユランチアでの2日目が、終わった。
1955 74:3.4 The third day was devoted to an inspection of the Garden. From the large passenger birds—the fandors—Adam and Eve looked down upon the vast stretches of the Garden while being carried through the air over this, the most beautiful spot on earth. This day of inspection ended with an enormous banquet in honor of all who had labored to create this garden of Edenic beauty and grandeur. And again, late into the night of their third day, the Son and his mate walked in the Garden and talked about the immensity of their problems.
2015 74:3.4 3日目は、庭園の実況検分にあてられた。アダームとハヴァーは、乗客用の大きい鳥—ファンドル—から世界一美しい場所の上空で運ばれている間、茫漠たる庭園を見下ろした。この検分の日は、エーデンの美と壮大さをもつこの庭園を世に送り出すために尽力したすべての者を称えるとても大きな宴会で終わった。そして再び、息子とその連れ合いは、庭園の中を歩き、3日目の夜遅くまで、自分達の問題の計り知れなさについて語った。
1955 74:3.5 On the fourth day Adam and Eve addressed the Garden assembly. From the inaugural mount they spoke to the people concerning their plans for the rehabilitation of the world and outlined the methods whereby they would seek to redeem the social culture of Urantia from the low levels to which it had fallen as a result of sin and rebellion. This was a great day, and it closed with a feast for the council of men and women who had been selected to assume responsibilities in the new administration of world affairs. Take note! women as well as men were in this group, and that was the first time such a thing had occurred on earth since the days of Dalamatia. It was an astounding innovation to behold Eve, a woman, sharing the honors and responsibilities of world affairs with a man. And thus ended the fourth day on earth.
2015 74:3.5 4日目、アダームとハヴァーは、園に集合した者に演説をした。二人は、就任の丘から世界回復のための計画について話し、また罪と反逆の結果堕落したユランチアの社会文化を低い水準から救うための方法をあらまし説明した。これは、すばらしい日であり、また世界情勢の新しい管理責任を負うために選ばれていた男女からなる委員会のための祝宴で閉じられた。注目しなさい。男性のみならず女性もこの集団にはおり、そのようなことは、ダラマティアの時代以来、地球に起こった初めてであったということを。ハヴァーが、つまり女性が、男性と世界情勢に関し名誉と責任を分かち合うところを見ることは驚くべき革新であった。地球での4日目は、このようにして終わった。
1955 74:3.6 The fifth day was occupied with the organization of the temporary government, the administration which was to function until the Melchizedek receivers should leave Urantia.
2015 74:3.6 5日目は、一時的な政府組織、メルキゼデク受信者のユランチア出発時まで機能することになる行政部の組織に専念した。
1955 74:3.7 The sixth day was devoted to an inspection of the numerous types of men and animals. Along the walls eastward in Eden, Adam and Eve were escorted all day, viewing the animal life of the planet and arriving at a better understanding as to what must be done to bring order out of the confusion of a world inhabited by such a variety of living creatures.
2015 74:3.7 6日目は、人と動物の非常に数多くの型の検分に当てられた。アダームとハヴァーは、エーデンの東部の壁に沿って惑星の動物の生態を見たり一日中案内をうけ、そのようなさまざまな生物が生息する混乱状態の世界に秩序をもたらすためにしなければならないことにより良い理解にいたった。
1955 74:3.8 It greatly surprised those who accompanied Adam on this trip to observe how fully he understood the nature and function of the thousands upon thousands of animals shown him. The instant he glanced at an animal, he would indicate its nature and behavior. Adam could give names descriptive of the origin, nature, and function of all material creatures on sight. Those who conducted him on this tour of inspection did not know that the world’s new ruler was one of the most expert anatomists of all Satania; and Eve was equally proficient. Adam amazed his associates by describing hosts of living things too small to be seen by human eyes.
1955 74:3.9 When the sixth day of their sojourn on earth was over, Adam and Eve rested for the first time in their new home in “the east of Eden.” The first six days of the Urantia adventure had been very busy, and they looked forward with great pleasure to an entire day of freedom from all activities.
1955 74:3.10 But circumstances dictated otherwise. The experience of the day just past in which Adam had so intelligently and so exhaustively discussed the animal life of Urantia, together with his masterly inaugural address and his charming manner, had so won the hearts and overcome the intellects of the Garden dwellers that they were not only wholeheartedly disposed to accept the newly arrived Son and Daughter of Jerusem as rulers, but the majority were about ready to fall down and worship them as gods.
2015 74:3.10 しかし情況は、別な状態に決定づけた。アダームがユランチアの動物生活について非常に理知的に、徹底的に論じて過ぎ去ったばかりのその日の経験は、その見事な就任演説とその魅力ある態度と合わせて、庭園居住者の心を勝ちとり、知力を圧倒したので、かれらは、新たに到着したジェルーセムの息子と娘を支配者として心から受け入れる気になったばかりではなく、大多数の者は、神として二人に平伏し崇拝せんばかりであった。
¶ 4. 最初の大変動
4. THE FIRST UPHEAVAL
4. 最初の大変動
1955 74:4.1 That night, the night following the sixth day, while Adam and Eve slumbered, strange things were transpiring in the vicinity of the Father’s temple in the central sector of Eden. There, under the rays of the mellow moon, hundreds of enthusiastic and excited men and women listened for hours to the impassioned pleas of their leaders. They meant well, but they simply could not understand the simplicity of the fraternal and democratic manner of their new rulers. And long before daybreak the new and temporary administrators of world affairs reached a virtually unanimous conclusion that Adam and his mate were altogether too modest and unassuming. They decided that Divinity had descended to earth in bodily form, that Adam and Eve were in reality gods or else so near such an estate as to be worthy of reverent worship.
2015 74:4.1 その夜、すなわち6日目の夜、アダームとハヴァーが微睡んでいると、奇妙なことがエーデンの中央部にある父の寺の付近で起こっていた。そこで、興奮状態の熱心な何百人もの男女が、まろやかな月の光の下で何時間も指導者達の熱情的な請願を聴いた。指導者達は、好意はもっていたが、新支配者の友愛的、民主的な気取りのない態度をどうしても理解できなかった。そして夜明のかなり前、世界情勢に関わる新たで、臨時の管理者達は、アダームとその相方は、全体的に穏やかで、控え目であり過ぎるという実質的には一致した結論に達した。皆は、神が肉体の姿で地球に降りて来られたと、つまりアダームとハヴァーはほんとうは神であると、でなくとも敬虔な崇拝に値するほどの地位に近接していると決め込んだ。
1955 74:4.2 The amazing events of the first six days of Adam and Eve on earth were entirely too much for the unprepared minds of even the world’s best men; their heads were in a whirl; they were swept along with the proposal to bring the noble pair up to the Father’s temple at high noon in order that everyone might bow down in respectful worship and prostrate themselves in humble submission. And the Garden dwellers were really sincere in all of this.
2015 74:4.2 地球でのアダームとハヴァーの最初の6日間は、世界の善人達でさえも不用意のその心には全く手に余るものであった。皆の頭は渦巻いていた。皆は、敬意をもって崇拝し、また謙虚の服従でひれ伏すことができるように高貴なその一組の男女を正午に父の寺まで招来するという提案に心を奪われていた。園の居住者達は、この全てに実に真剣であった。
1955 74:4.3 Van protested. Amadon was absent, being in charge of the guard of honor which had remained behind with Adam and Eve overnight. But Van’s protest was swept aside. He was told that he was likewise too modest, too unassuming; that he was not far from a god himself, else how had he lived so long on earth, and how had he brought about such a great event as the advent of Adam? And as the excited Edenites were about to seize him and carry him up to the mount for adoration, Van made his way out through the throng and, being able to communicate with the midwayers, sent their leader in great haste to Adam.
2015 74:4.3 ヴァンは異議を申し立てた。アマドンは、アダームとハヴァーと共に夜通し残る名誉の護衛の任にあり不在であった。ヴァンの抗議は一蹴された。ヴァンは、同じ様に穏やかであり過ぎ、控え目であり過ぎると、ヴァン自身は神からそれほどかけ離れてはいない、でなければ何故それほど長い間地球に住んでいたのか、また、アダームの到来のようなすばらしい出来事を引き起こしたのかと言われた。そして、興奮気味のエーデン人が、崇拝のためにヴァンを差し押さえ山に連れていこうとしたとき、ヴァンは群衆の波を泳ぎ出て中間者達と話し合いができ、大急ぎでその指導者をアダームのところへ向かわせた。
1955 74:4.4 It was near the dawn of their seventh day on earth that Adam and Eve heard the startling news of the proposal of these well-meaning but misguided mortals; and then, even while the passenger birds were swiftly winging to bring them to the temple, the midwayers, being able to do such things, transported Adam and Eve to the Father’s temple. It was early on the morning of this seventh day and from the mount of their so recent reception that Adam held forth in explanation of the orders of divine sonship and made clear to these earth minds that only the Father and those whom he designates may be worshiped. Adam made it plain that he would accept any honor and receive all respect, but worship never!
2015 74:4.4 アダームとハヴァーがこれらの善意の、しかし見当違いの人間の驚異的な申し出の知らせを聞いたのは、地球での7日目の夜明け近くであった。それから、乗客用の鳥が二人を寺に連れ行くために迅速に飛んでいるときでさえ、そのようなことができた中間者たちは、アダームとハヴァーを父の寺に輸送した。アダームが、神の息子の身分に関する序列に関し長々説明をし、また父だけが、それに父が指名する者だけが崇拝されてもよいのだと、地球のこれらの心に明らかにしたのは、この7日目の朝早くであった。アダームは、いかなる名誉も受け入れ、すべての敬意を受けいれるだろうが、礼拝は決して受けないということを明らかにした。
1955 74:4.5 It was a momentous day, and just before noon, about the time of the arrival of the seraphic messenger bearing the Jerusem acknowledgment of the installation of the world’s rulers, Adam and Eve, moving apart from the throng, pointed to the Father’s temple and said: “Go you now to the material emblem of the Father’s invisible presence and bow down in worship of him who made us all and who keeps us living. And let this act be the sincere pledge that you never will again be tempted to worship anyone but God.” They all did as Adam directed. The Material Son and Daughter stood alone on the mount with bowed heads while the people prostrated themselves about the temple.
2015 74:4.5 それは重要な日であった。アダームとハヴァーは、ちょうど正午前、使者である熾天使が、世界の支配者たちの就任に関わるジェルーセムの承認を携えて到着する時刻、群衆から離れ父の寺を指差して言った。「父の目に見えない臨場である物質的象徴の場所にいま行き、我々皆を創られ、我々を生き続けさせるあの方に頭を下げて崇拝しなさい。そして、神以外の何者をも迷って二度崇拝しないというこの行ないを誠実な誓約としなさい。」皆は、アダームの指示通りにした。人々が寺の周りでひれ伏す一方で、物質の息子と娘は、二人だけで山上に立ち頭を垂れていた。
1955 74:4.6 And this was the origin of the Sabbath-day tradition. Always in Eden the seventh day was devoted to the noontide assembly at the temple; long it was the custom to devote this day to self-culture. The forenoon was devoted to physical improvement, the noontime to spiritual worship, the afternoon to mind culture, while the evening was spent in social rejoicing. This was never the law in Eden, but it was the custom as long as the Adamic administration held sway on earth.
¶ 5. アダームの管理
5. ADAM’S ADMINISTRATION
5. アダームの管理
1955 74:5.1 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.
2015 74:5.1 メルキゼデク受信者たちは、アダームの到着後のおよそ7年間、任務に着いたままでいたが、遂にアダームに世界情勢の管理を譲りジェルーセムに戻るときがやって来た。
1955 74:5.2 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.
2015 74:5.2 受信者たちの送別は1日掛かりで、晩には個々のメルキゼデクが、アダームとハヴァーに別れの助言と応援を伝えた。アダームは、顧問達に共に地球に残るよう何度か要請してきたが、陳情はいつも拒否された。物質の息子が、世界の問題処理に対して完全な責任を負わなければならない時が来た。そこで真夜中に、サタニアの熾天使の輸送は、ジェルーセムに向け14人の生命体と惑星を出発、つまり12人のメルキゼデクの出発とヴァンとアマドンの返還の同時に進行した。
1955 74:5.3 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.
2015 74:5.3 ユランチアでは当分の間すべてが完全に順調であり、やがてはアダームが、エーデン文明の小刻みな進展の助長をするために何らかの開発計画が、可能であるらしく見えた。アダームは、メルキゼデクの意見に従って、外の世界との貿易関係を築く考えをもって製造技術を促進し始めた。エーデンが混乱に陥ったときには100を越す原始の製造工場が生産過程にあり、周辺部族との大規模な貿易関係が確立されていた。
1955 74:5.4 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.
2015 74:5.4 アダームとハヴァーは、長い間、漸進的文明の発達にむけ専門的な貢献に備えて世界の改善方法を教えられてきた。しかし今二人は、未開人、野蛮人、半文明人の世界での法や秩序の設立というような緊急課題に直面していた。園に結集した地球の人口の最上部は別として、ここかしこで、わずかの集団しか、アダーム文化の受け入れ準備は、できていなかった。
1955 74:5.5 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.
2015 74:5.5 アダームは、世界政府樹立のために英雄的、かつ決然たる努力をしたが、事あるごとに頑固な抵抗があった。アダームは、すでにエーデン全体で集団経営体制に着手し、これらの全集団をエーデン連盟の連邦制にした。しかし、問題が、重大な問題が、アダームが園外に赴きこれらの考えを遠隔地の部族に適用しようとした際、結果として起こった。アダームの仲間が、園外で働き始めたその瞬間、カリガスティアとダリガスティアの直接の、しかも巧みに計画された妨害にあった。堕落した王子は、世界の支配者としては既に退位させられていたが、惑星からは除去されてはいなかった。まだ地球におり、人間社会再建のためのアダームの全計画に、少なくともある程度、抵抗することができた。アダームは、カリガスティアについて警告しようとしたが、大敵は、人間の目には見えず、その仕事は非常に困難であった。
1955 74:5.6 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.
2015 74:5.6 エーデン系の中にさえ、カリガスティアの人格の放逸な自由の教えに傾くという混乱した心をもつ者がいた。そして、アダームに多くの苦労をもたらした。常に、秩序正しい前進と実質的な開発のための慎重な計画を覆していた。アダームは、自分の迅速な社会化に関する予定を取り下げざるを得なかった。彼は、ヴァンの組織方法に頼ってエーデンの者を100人単位の一団に分割し、それぞれに団長をつけ、それに10人単位の集団を担当する副官を配する方法を最後の拠り所とした。
1955 74:5.7 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.
2015 74:5.7 アダームとハヴァーは、君主政治の代わりに代議政治を制定するようになるが、どんな政府も全地球上ではその名に相応しくないことがわかった。アダームは、当面のところは、代議政治設立への全ての努力をやめ、エーデン政権が崩壊する前に、強い個人がアダームの名で統治している園外に100か所ほどの貿易と社会的な中心地の確立に成功した。これらの中心地の大部分は、ヴァンとアマドンによりあらかじめ組織化されていた。
1955 74:5.8 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.
2015 74:5.8 1部族から他の部族への大使の派遣は、アダームの時代から始まった。これは、政治の発展における大きい前進であった。
¶ 6. アダームとハヴァーの家庭生活
6. HOME LIFE OF ADAM AND EVE
6. アダームとハヴァーの家庭生活
1955 74:6.1 The Adamic family grounds embraced a little over five square miles. Immediately surrounding this homesite, provision had been made for the care of more than three hundred thousand of the pure-line offspring. But only the first unit of the projected buildings was ever constructed. Before the size of the Adamic family outgrew these early provisions, the whole Edenic plan had been disrupted and the Garden vacated.
2015 74:6.1 アダーム家の敷地は1,300ヘクタールをわずかに越える広さを有した。直接にこの敷地をの周りでは、30万人以上の純系子孫のための対策が、講じられていた。しかし、計画された建築物の最初の1個だけが建設されたに過ぎなかった。アダームの家族の規模が、これらの初期の設備よりも大きくなる前に、エーデンの全計画が中断され、園を立ち退いた。
1955 74:6.2 Adamson was the first-born of the violet race of Urantia, being followed by his sister and Eveson, the second son of Adam and Eve. Eve was the mother of five children before the Melchizedeks left—three sons and two daughters. The next two were twins. She bore sixty-three children, thirty-two daughters and thirty-one sons, before the default. When Adam and Eve left the Garden, their family consisted of four generations numbering 1,647 pure-line descendants. They had forty-two children after leaving the Garden besides the two offspring of joint parentage with the mortal stock of earth. And this does not include the Adamic parentage to the Nodite and evolutionary races.
2015 74:6.2 アダームソンは、ユランチアの紫色人種の長子で、その後には妹と、アダームとハヴァーの2番目の息子のハヴァーソンが生まれた。ハヴァーは、メルキゼデクが去る以前に5人の子—3人の息子と2人の娘—の母であった。次の2人は双子であった。彼女は、不履行前に、63人の子供、32人の娘と31人の息子を生んだ。アダームとハヴァーが園を離れるとき、その家族は、純系子孫4世代から成る1,647人を数えた。二人には、地球の人間の血筋との親から生まれた2人の子供以外に園を出た後42人の子供がいた。これは、アダームの血統のノヅ系と進化する人種に関しては含まれていない。
1955 74:6.3 The Adamic children did not take milk from animals when they ceased to nurse the mother’s breast at one year of age. Eve had access to the milk of a great variety of nuts and to the juices of many fruits, and knowing full well the chemistry and energy of these foods, she suitably combined them for the nourishment of her children until the appearance of teeth.
2015 74:6.3 アダームの子供は、1歳で母乳をやめる際、動物からの乳を取らなかった。ハヴァーは、多種多様の木の実の液汁と多くの果汁とを利用できたし、またこれらの食物の化学的属性やエネルギーについてよく知っていたので、子供の育成のために歯が生えるまで適当にそれらを混合した。
1955 74:6.4 While cooking was universally employed outside of the immediate Adamic sector of Eden, there was no cooking in Adam’s household. They found their foods—fruits, nuts, and cereals—ready prepared as they ripened. They ate once a day, shortly after noontime. Adam and Eve also imbibed “light and energy” direct from certain space emanations in conjunction with the ministry of the tree of life.
2015 74:6.4 エーデンのすぐ隣のアダーム地区の外では料理が一般的にされていたが、アダームの家庭では料理はしなかった。熟して食べ頃の食物—果実、木の実、穀類—を採集した。1日に1度、真昼直後に食べた。また、アダームとハヴァーは、生命の木の援助と併せて、一定の空間放散物から直に「光とエネルギー」を吸収した。
1955 74:6.5 The bodies of Adam and Eve gave forth a shimmer of light, but they always wore clothing in conformity with the custom of their associates. Though wearing very little during the day, at eventide they donned night wraps. The origin of the traditional halo encircling the heads of supposed pious and holy men dates back to the days of Adam and Eve. Since the light emanations of their bodies were so largely obscured by clothing, only the radiating glow from their heads was discernible. The descendants of Adamson always thus portrayed their concept of individuals believed to be extraordinary in spiritual development.
2015 74:6.5 アダームとハヴァーの体は光輝を発したが、仲間の習慣に合わせていつも衣服を身につけた。二人は、日中はあまり着なかったが、夕暮れには夜間用の巻き布を身につけた。敬虔で神聖であると思われている人々の頭を取り巻く伝統的な光輪の起源は、アダームとハヴァーの時代にまでさかのぼる。彼らの体からの光の発散は、主に衣服で覆い隠されたので、頭からの放射の輝きだけが認識できた。アダームソンの子孫は、このように常に精神的開発において並はずれていると信じられる自分達個人についての考えを絵にした。
1955 74:6.6 Adam and Eve could communicate with each other and with their immediate children over a distance of about fifty miles. This thought exchange was effected by means of the delicate gas chambers located in close proximity to their brain structures. By this mechanism they could send and receive thought oscillations. But this power was instantly suspended upon the mind’s surrender to the discord and disruption of evil.
2015 74:6.6 アダームとハヴァーは、およそ80キロメートルの距離にわたって、お互いに、また子供との意思疏通ができた。この思考のやりとりは、脳構造のすぐそばに位置する精巧な気体室からもたらされた。この仕組みによって、思考の振幅を送受することができた。しかし、この力は悪からくる不和と分裂へ心を引き渡したときに即座に停止された。
1955 74:6.7 The Adamic children attended their own schools until they were sixteen, the younger being taught by the elder. The little folks changed activities every thirty minutes, the older every hour. And it was certainly a new sight on Urantia to observe these children of Adam and Eve at play, joyous and exhilarating activity just for the sheer fun of it. The play and humor of the present-day races are largely derived from the Adamic stock. The Adamites all had a great appreciation of music as well as a keen sense of humor.
2015 74:6.7 アダームの子供は、16歳になるまで独自の学校に通い、年少者は年長者に教えられた。年下の者達は30分毎に、年上の者達は1時間毎に活動を変えた。アダームとハヴァーの子供達の純然に楽しげで陽気な活動で遊んでいる姿は、ユランチアでは確かに新しい光景であった。現代人の遊びとユーモアは、主にアダーム系から得ている。アダーム系は皆、鋭いユーモア感覚ばかりでなく音楽への大いなる理解もあった。
1955 74:6.8 The average age of betrothal was eighteen, and these youths then entered upon a two years’ course of instruction in preparation for the assumption of marital responsibilities. At twenty they were eligible for marriage; and after marriage they began their lifework or entered upon special preparation therefor.
2015 74:6.8 婚約の平均的年齢は18歳であり、そこで若者たちは、婚姻責任の承諾に備え、２年の教育課程に入った。20歳で結婚の資格があった。そして結婚後に、それぞれの生涯の仕事、あるいは、そのための特別な準備を始めた。
1955 74:6.9 The practice of some subsequent nations of permitting the royal families, supposedly descended from the gods, to marry brother to sister, dates from the traditions of the Adamic offspring—mating, as they must needs, with one another. The marriage ceremonies of the first and second generations of the Garden were always performed by Adam and Eve.
2015 74:6.9 兄弟と姉妹との結婚を認めるという、おそらくは神の系統を汲むいくつかの後の国々の王室の習慣は、アダームの子孫の伝統—配偶すること、（互いに必要であることから）—を端緒としている。園の一世代と二世代の結婚式は、ずっとアダームとハヴァーがとりおこなった。
¶ 7. 園の生活
7. LIFE IN THE GARDEN
7. 園の生活
1955 74:7.1 The children of Adam, except for four years’ attendance at the western schools, lived and worked in the “east of Eden.” They were trained intellectually until they were sixteen in accordance with the methods of the Jerusem schools. From sixteen to twenty they were taught in the Urantia schools at the other end of the Garden, serving there also as teachers in the lower grades.
1955 74:7.2 The entire purpose of the western school system of the Garden was socialization. The forenoon periods of recess were devoted to practical horticulture and agriculture, the afternoon periods to competitive play. The evenings were employed in social intercourse and the cultivation of personal friendships. Religious and sexual training were regarded as the province of the home, the duty of parents.
2015 74:7.2 園の西側の学制の全体的目標は社会化であった。午前中の休み時間は、実用的な園芸と農業に、午後の休み時間は、競技的遊戯に当てられた。夜は社交と個人的親交性の育成に使われた。宗教的、性教育は、家庭の領域、すなわち両親の義務と見なされた。
1955 74:7.3 The teaching in these schools included instruction regarding:
2015 74:7.3 これらの学校での教育は、次のような教授に関係した。
1955 74:7.5 2. The golden rule, the standard of social intercourse.
2015 74:7.5 2. 黄金律、社交の基準
1955 74:7.6 3. The relation of individual rights to group rights and community obligations.
2015 74:7.6 3. 集団の権利と共同体の義務に対する個人の権利の関係
2015 74:7.10 7. 肉体的な戦いに代わる遊び、ユーモア、競争の教化
1955 74:7.11 The schools, in fact every activity of the Garden, were always open to visitors. Unarmed observers were freely admitted to Eden for short visits. To sojourn in the Garden a Urantian had to be “adopted.” He received instructions in the plan and purpose of the Adamic bestowal, signified his intention to adhere to this mission, and then made declaration of loyalty to the social rule of Adam and the spiritual sovereignty of the Universal Father.
2015 74:7.11 学校、事実上は園のあらゆる活動は、常に訪問者に公開されていた。非武装の観察者が、自由にエーデンに短期訪問することが許された。ユランチア人は、園に滞在するためには「養子」にならなければならなかった。ユランチア人は、アダーム贈与の計画と目的に関する教授を受け、この任務を順守する意志を示した上で、アダームの社会的な規則と宇宙なる父の精神主権への忠誠をの宣言した。
1955 74:7.12 The laws of the Garden were based on the older codes of Dalamatia and were promulgated under seven heads:
2015 74:7.12 園の法は、ダラマティアの古い規範に基づいており、7項目の見出しで公表された。
1955 74:7.18 6. The civil codes of the golden rule.
2015 74:7.18 6. 黄金律の民法
1955 74:7.20 The moral law of Eden was little different from the seven commandments of Dalamatia. But the Adamites taught many additional reasons for these commands; for instance, regarding the injunction against murder, the indwelling of the Thought Adjuster was presented as an additional reason for not destroying human life. They taught that “whoso sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.”
1955 74:7.21 The public worship hour of Eden was noon; sunset was the hour of family worship. Adam did his best to discourage the use of set prayers, teaching that effective prayer must be wholly individual, that it must be the “desire of the soul”; but the Edenites continued to use the prayers and forms handed down from the times of Dalamatia. Adam also endeavored to substitute the offerings of the fruit of the land for the blood sacrifices in the religious ceremonies but had made little progress before the disruption of the Garden.
1955 74:7.22 Adam endeavored to teach the races sex equality. The way Eve worked by the side of her husband made a profound impression upon all dwellers in the Garden. Adam definitely taught them that the woman, equally with the man, contributes those life factors which unite to form a new being. Theretofore, mankind had presumed that all procreation resided in the “loins of the father.” They had looked upon the mother as being merely a provision for nurturing the unborn and nursing the newborn.
1955 74:7.23 Adam taught his contemporaries all they could comprehend, but that was not very much, comparatively speaking. Nevertheless, the more intelligent of the races of earth looked forward eagerly to the time when they would be permitted to intermarry with the superior children of the violet race. And what a different world Urantia would have become if this great plan of uplifting the races had been carried out! Even as it was, tremendous gains resulted from the small amount of the blood of this imported race which the evolutionary peoples incidentally secured.
2015 74:7.23 アダームは、同時代人が理解できるすべてを、だが相対的にそれほど多くはない全てを教えた。にもかかわらず、地球部族のより知力ある者は、紫色人種の優れた子供との結婚が許されるその時をしきりに待つのであった。ユランチアは、もし人種を向上するこの偉大な計画を断行していたならばどんなにか違った世界になっていたことであろう。そのままであってさえ、途方もない利益が、進化的民族が偶然に手にしたこの持ち込まれた人種の少量の血液から生じたのであった。
1955 74:7.24 And thus did Adam work for the welfare and uplift of the world of his sojourn. But it was a difficult task to lead these mixed and mongrel peoples in the better way.
2015 74:7.24 アダームは、このようにして自分が滞在した世界の福祉と向上のために働いたのであった。しかし、より良い方法でこれらの混合した、雑種の民族を導くことは、難しい仕事であった。
¶ 8. 創造に関する伝説
8. THE LEGEND OF CREATION
8. 創造に関する伝説
1955 74:8.1 The story of the creation of Urantia in six days was based on the tradition that Adam and Eve had spent just six days in their initial survey of the Garden. This circumstance lent almost sacred sanction to the time period of the week, which had been originally introduced by the Dalamatians. Adam’s spending six days inspecting the Garden and formulating preliminary plans for organization was not prearranged; it was worked out from day to day. The choosing of the seventh day for worship was wholly incidental to the facts herewith narrated.
1955 74:8.2 The legend of the making of the world in six days was an afterthought, in fact, more than thirty thousand years afterwards. One feature of the narrative, the sudden appearance of the sun and moon, may have taken origin in the traditions of the onetime sudden emergence of the world from a dense space cloud of minute matter which had long obscured both sun and moon.
1955 74:8.3 The story of creating Eve out of Adam’s rib is a confused condensation of the Adamic arrival and the celestial surgery connected with the interchange of living substances associated with the coming of the corporeal staff of the Planetary Prince more than four hundred and fifty thousand years previously.
1955 74:8.4 The majority of the world’s peoples have been influenced by the tradition that Adam and Eve had physical forms created for them upon their arrival on Urantia. The belief in man’s having been created from clay was well-nigh universal in the Eastern Hemisphere; this tradition can be traced from the Philippine Islands around the world to Africa. And many groups accepted this story of man’s clay origin by some form of special creation in the place of the earlier beliefs in progressive creation—evolution.
1955 74:8.5 Away from the influences of Dalamatia and Eden, mankind tended toward the belief in the gradual ascent of the human race. The fact of evolution is not a modern discovery; the ancients understood the slow and evolutionary character of human progress. The early Greeks had clear ideas of this despite their proximity to Mesopotamia. Although the various races of earth became sadly mixed up in their notions of evolution, nevertheless, many of the primitive tribes believed and taught that they were the descendants of various animals. Primitive peoples made a practice of selecting for their “totems” the animals of their supposed ancestry. Certain North American Indian tribes believed they originated from beavers and coyotes. Certain African tribes teach that they are descended from the hyena, a Malay tribe from the lemur, a New Guinea group from the parrot.
2015 74:8.5 人間は、ダラマティアとエーデンの影響から離れ、ゆるやかな人類上昇への思考体系の傾向がみられた。進化の事実は、現代の発見ではない。古代人は、人間進歩の遅いが進歩する特質を理解した。初期のギリシア人は、メソポタミアへの近さにもかかわらず、これについての明確な考えを持っていた。地球の様々な人種は、発展に関する概念で、悲しいことに、混乱するようになったが、にもかかわらず、原始部族の多くは、自分達が様々な動物の子孫であることを信じていたし、教えもした。原始民族は、「トーテム的な象徴」のためにそうだと考えられている自分達の祖先の動物を選択する習慣を作った。ある北米インディアン部族は、自分達はビーヴァーとコヨーテに源があると信じた。アフリカの複数の部族は、自分達の起源はハイエナであると、マレー部族は、キツネザルから、ニューギニアの集団はオウムからであると教えている。
1955 74:8.6 The Babylonians, because of immediate contact with the remnants of the civilization of the Adamites, enlarged and embellished the story of man’s creation; they taught that he had descended directly from the gods. They held to an aristocratic origin for the race which was incompatible with even the doctrine of creation out of clay.
2015 74:8.6 バビロニア人は、アダーム系の文明の名残りとの直の接触ゆえに、人間創造の話を拡大し、尾ひれをつけた。自分達は、直接神から降りてきたと教えた。バビロニア人は、実に粘土からの創造の教義さえも相容れない人種の貴族的起源に固執した。
1955 74:8.7 The Old Testament account of creation dates from long after the time of Moses; he never taught the Hebrews such a distorted story. But he did present a simple and condensed narrative of creation to the Israelites, hoping thereby to augment his appeal to worship the Creator, the Universal Father, whom he called the Lord God of Israel.
2015 74:8.7 創造にかかわる旧約聖書の報告は、モーシェの時代からずっと後に始まる。モーシェは、そのような歪められた話をヘブライ人に決して教えなかった。だが、イスラエルの主なる神と自らが呼んだ創造者、宇宙なる父を崇拝する自分の訴えを増大させることをこのように望み、イスラエル人に単純かつ凝縮された創造の物語を与えた。
1955 74:8.8 In his early teachings, Moses very wisely did not attempt to go back of Adam’s time, and since Moses was the supreme teacher of the Hebrews, the stories of Adam became intimately associated with those of creation. That the earlier traditions recognized pre-Adamic civilization is clearly shown by the fact that later editors, intending to eradicate all reference to human affairs before Adam’s time, neglected to remove the telltale reference to Cain’s emigration to the “land of Nod,” where he took himself a wife.
1955 74:8.9 The Hebrews had no written language in general usage for a long time after they reached Palestine. They learned the use of an alphabet from the neighboring Philistines, who were political refugees from the higher civilization of Crete. The Hebrews did little writing until about 900 B.C., and having no written language until such a late date, they had several different stories of creation in circulation, but after the Babylonian captivity they inclined more toward accepting a modified Mesopotamian version.
2015 74:8.9 ヘブライ人は、パレスチナ到達後の長い間、一般的な用法としての文字をもっていなかった。かれらは、高度のクレテ文明からの政治難民であった近隣のペリシテ人からアルファベットの使用を学んだ。ヘブライ人は、紀元前およそ900年まであまり書いたことがなく、またそのような後の時代まで文字をもたなかったので、いくつかの異なる創造物語があったが、バビロニア人の監禁後は、メソポタミア変更版をより受け入れる傾向にあった。
1955 74:8.10 Jewish tradition became crystallized about Moses, and because he endeavored to trace the lineage of Abraham back to Adam, the Jews assumed that Adam was the first of all mankind. Yahweh was the creator, and since Adam was supposed to be the first man, he must have made the world just prior to making Adam. And then the tradition of Adam’s six days got woven into the story, with the result that almost a thousand years after Moses’ sojourn on earth the tradition of creation in six days was written out and subsequently credited to him.
1955 74:8.11 When the Jewish priests returned to Jerusalem, they had already completed the writing of their narrative of the beginning of things. Soon they made claims that this recital was a recently discovered story of creation written by Moses. But the contemporary Hebrews of around 500 B.C. did not consider these writings to be divine revelations; they looked upon them much as later peoples regard mythological narratives.
1955 74:8.12 This spurious document, reputed to be the teachings of Moses, was brought to the attention of Ptolemy, the Greek king of Egypt, who had it translated into Greek by a commission of seventy scholars for his new library at Alexandria. And so this account found its place among those writings which subsequently became a part of the later collections of the “sacred scriptures” of the Hebrew and Christian religions. And through identification with these theological systems, such concepts for a long time profoundly influenced the philosophy of many Occidental peoples.
2015 74:8.12 モーシェの教えであると考えられたこの偽の文献は、エジプトのギリシア人王プトレマイオスの注意を引くこととなり、かれは、アレキサンドリアの自分の新しい書斎のために70人の学者からなる委員会にギリシア語に翻訳させた。こうしてこの報告は、ヘブライ宗教とキリスト教の「神聖な経典」のその後の収集の一部になった文書の中にその場所を見つけた。そのような概念は、これらの神学体系による認証を経て長い間、多くの西洋民族の哲学に深く影響を及ぼした。
1955 74:8.13 The Christian teachers perpetuated the belief in the fiat creation of the human race, and all this led directly to the formation of the hypothesis of a onetime golden age of utopian bliss and the theory of the fall of man or superman which accounted for the nonutopian condition of society. These outlooks on life and man’s place in the universe were at best discouraging since they were predicated upon a belief in retrogression rather than progression, as well as implying a vengeful Deity, who had vented wrath upon the human race in retribution for the errors of certain onetime planetary administrators.
2015 74:8.13 キリスト教の教師は、命令による人類創造の信仰を永続させ、そしてこのすべてが、過去のユートピア的至福の最盛期の仮説構成と、非ユートピアの社会状態について説明する人や超人間の堕落の理論構成へと直接導いた。人生と宇宙における人の居場所に関するこれらの見通しは、かつての惑星の特定の管理者達の誤りのために人類に怒りを発散させた執念深い神を含意すると同時に、進行よりもむしろ後退への信念に基づく叙述であったがゆえに、せいぜいよく見ても落胆させるものであった。
1955 74:8.14 The “golden age” is a myth, but Eden was a fact, and the Garden civilization was actually overthrown. Adam and Eve carried on in the Garden for one hundred and seventeen years when, through the impatience of Eve and the errors of judgment of Adam, they presumed to turn aside from the ordained way, speedily bringing disaster upon themselves and ruinous retardation upon the developmental progression of all Urantia.
2015 74:8.14 「最盛期」は神話であるが、エーデンは事実であり、園の文明は実際に転覆された。アダームとハヴァーは、117年間園で生き続け、ハヴァーのいらだちとアダームの判断の誤りにより定められた道から大胆にも逸脱しようとした時、直ちに自分たちには災難を、ユランチア全体の開発上の進行には破滅的妨害を招いた。
¶ 参照
¶ 聖書
- ↑ 74:0.1 人類の創造: 創 1:26-27; 創 2:7,21-24; 創 5:1-2; 創 6:7; イザ 45:12; 申 4:32; マラ 2:10.
- ↑ 74:3.8 動物検査: 創 2:19-20.
- ↑ 74:3.9 休みの日: 創 2:2.
- ↑ 74:3.9 エデンの東: 創 2:8; 創 3:23-24.
- ↑ 74:4.6 安息日の伝統: 創 2:3; 出 20:8-11; 申 5:12-15.
- ↑ 74:7.1 エデンの東: 創 2:8; 創 3:23-24.
- ↑ 74:7.20 誰が血を流すか、血が流される: 創 9:6.
- ↑ 74:7.20 神のイメージで作られた男: 創 1:26-27.
- ↑ 74:7.21 魂の欲望: 詩 63:1; 詩 84:2; イザ 26:8.
- ↑ 74:7.22 父の腰: 創 35:11; 創 46:26; ヘブ 7:5,10.
- ↑ 74:8.1 創造の伝統: 創 1:1-31; 出 20:11.
- ↑ 74:8.1 安息日の伝統: 創 2:2-3; 出 20:9-11.
- ↑ 74:8.2 太陽と月: 創 1:3-5,14-18.
- ↑ 74:8.3 アダムの肋骨物語のイブ: 創 2:21-23.
- ↑ 74:8.4 アダムとイブの体: 創 2:7,21-22; 創 3:19,23.
- ↑ 74:8.8 うなずきの国: 創 4:16.
- ↑ 74:8.10 ヘブライ系統: 創 4:1-2,17-26; 創 5:3-32; 創 6:9-10; 創 10:1-32; 創 11:10-26.
- ↑ 74:8.11 法律を「見つける」: 代下 34:13-19.
- ↑ 74:8.15 庭の声: 創 3:8-10.