The features of the surrounding picture were, a church with hoarding and scaffolding about it, which had been under suppositious repair so long that the means of repair looked a hundred years old, and had themselves fallen into decay; a quantity of washed linen, spread to dry in the sun; a number of houses at odds with one another and grotesquely out of the perpendicular, like rotten pre-
Adamite cheeses cut into fantastic shapes and full of mites; and a feverish bewilderment of windows, with their lattice-blinds all hanging askew, and something draggled and dirty dangling out of most of them.
A notorious womanizer, he spread
Adamite (nudist) ideas, and hoped to became a sect leader preaching sexual freedom.
He produced a best-seller book Adam and the
Adamite, an argument for the superiority of the Semitic and Caucasian races, the blacks being seen as "pre-Adamite." In his "Sermons in Stone" he relates the geological epochs to the "days" of the creation myth, and applies Baconian reasoning over a wide range of scientific disciplines in support of his interpretation of biblical creation, in what amounted to a serious rearguard action to discredit Darwin.
Causland, D.M., Adam and the
Adamite, or the Harmony Between Scripture and Ethnology, (London: Richard Bentley), 1868.
Margaret's Fall from her Edenic innocence is enacted as a fall from the
Adamite language of proper name into what Walter Benjamin calls "the abyss of prattle," where words have lost their alleged fixed, natural connection with the things they represent.
Among the curious assembly in this utopian community were British transcendentalist Charles Lane and his 10-year-old son; Isaac Hecker, who founded the Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers; and an
Adamite (a member of a Christian nudist sect).
The word as something externally communicating, as it were a parody by the expressly mediate word of the expressly immediate, the creative word of God, and the decay of the blissful,
Adamite language-mind that stand between them" ("On Language" 327).
Further the letter of Jan Zizka describing
Adamite practices.
As individual vicegerents of Allah here in the sublunar world, and as the Sole Vicegerent of Allah in the Whole World of Creation because of their
Adamite Trusteeship, humanity owes it to itself to help each other in the event of need.
Vathek, the ninth caliph of the Abbasside dynasty, is a haughty, effeminate monarch, induced by his sorceress mother, the Greek Carathis, and by his own curiosity and egotism to offer allegiance to Eblis, the Devil, in the hope of obtaining the throne of the pre -
Adamite sultans.
A number of attractive, pale yellow-green spheroidal clusters of prehnite crystals (looking very much like Ojuela mine
adamite, except for the association with tanzanite) to 3 cm in diameter came out in September 2006, primarily through Steve Ulatowski at New Era Gems; he sold them wholesale to Rob Lavinsky, who offered them through his website.
He goes on to calculate predicted life spans, based on the number of "pre-Adamite" and, to coin a word, "
Adamite" ancestors.