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mythologists make Adam enter the Garden of Eden at dawn, and leave it at eve, after eating the fatal “apple.” Luther is, as usual, very accurate, and says the couple left about midday on the 25th of March (the old Vernal Equinox), which was the Day of the Annunciation, when Eve's condition betrayed her. The story of Adam is probably of Babylonian origin (and repeated in Persian legends), but becomes blasphemous in attributing, to a good and almighty Creator, the making of a race capable of sinning, and of causing misery, to self and others, throughout the ages, and one fated to eternal torment hereafter. ‘The god even conferred on man —say the Churches—a “free will” to bring on himself all such evil, For all was foreseen and determined by the Creator, who allowed the unredeemed, and wicked, race to go on producing its myriads for 4000 Years, and then sent his Son to be sacrificed, in order to appease his own wrath. Yet after this crowning iniquity he permitted—it is ‘said—that unbelief, in the goodne of Creator and Son alike, should continue. x Adamites. An Early Christian sect who, with Nikolaitans and others, said that wives should—like all else—be held in common among the brethren. They were Sakti worshipers (see Sakta), and ™met at stated times to celebrate certain rites in latibula (caverns): or, even in their conventicles, indulged in promiscuous intercourse. Some a embling at midnight, naked, extinguished lights for this purpose (see Epiphanius, Adv. Heres, i, 72, 84, 459, and Payne Knight's B 1 ' Priapus), Some call Adamites followers of the Gnostiks, Florian and Carpocrates, who had similar rites. The sect is said to have revived in the 15th, and continued to be known down to the 17th century a.c. (see Adam). Adam’s Peak. In Ceylon. It is one of many Takt-i-Suliman’s (Solomon’s thrones”), or seats of the god of salvation, life, health, or beneficence—common throughout Asia. 51