...Many other loyal souls had already been translated at the time of Adam’s arrival, which was attended by a dispensational adjudication of both the sleeping survivors and of the living qualified ascenders.... 76:6.2 (853.3)

So, do you think the angels removed their souls, their Adjusters seized their "mind transcripts", and they all took off for the mansonia resurrection hall and put in new forms? And their human bodies were consumed in translation?

The following always made me wonder:

(51:2.3) While there is this dematerializing technique for preparing the Adams for transit from Jerusem to the evolutionary worlds, there is no equivalent method for taking them away from such worlds unless the entire planet is to be emptied, in which event emergency installation of the dematerialization technique is made for the entire salvable population. If some physical catastrophe should doom the planetary residence of an evolving race, the Melchizedeks and the Life Carriers would install the technique of dematerialization for all survivors, and by seraphic transport these beings would be carried away to the new world prepared for their continuing existence. The evolution of a human race, once initiated on a world of space, must proceed quite independently of the physical survival of that planet, but during the evolutionary ages it is not otherwise intended that a Planetary Adam or Eve shall leave their chosen world.

Being transported off the planet and being translated off the planet are not the same thing.

Being transported off the planet and being translated off the planet are not the same thing.

Which was it for the pre- and post Adamic dispensations?

76:6.2 (853.3) They did not long rest in the oblivion of the unconscious sleep of the mortals of the realm. On the third day after Adam’s death, the second following his reverent burial, the orders of Lanaforge, sustained by the acting Most High of Edentia and concurred in by the Union of Days on Salvington, acting for Michael, were placed in Gabriel’s hands, directing the special roll call of the distinguished survivors of the Adamic default on Urantia. And in accordance with this mandate of special resurrection, number twenty-six of the Urantia series, Adam and Eve were repersonalized and reassembled in the resurrection halls of the mansion worlds of Satania together with 1,316 of their associates in the experience of the first garden. Many other loyal souls had already been translated at the time of Adam’s arrival, which was attended by a dispensational adjudication of both the sleeping survivors and of the living qualified ascenders.

I believe that in the Ages of Life and Light, and at places such as "Morontial Temple", the Authors have indicated how when a human individual has completed his service to his world, achieved finality of perfection, these individuals will become actually "subsumed" or "enraptured" by the spiritual flame in order to leave future individuated destinies behind on Urantia, for other human individuals, and to begin the path of morontial progress.

When people cite the Book of John's Revelation, "as rapture", there is also the rational thought that accompanies this: it is called "the rapture" only by people who believe that "the kingdom of heaven is within themselves, their minds". They read his Revelation, and become spiritually enraptured, sharing the life that John Zebedee experienced in the life of the Supreme Being as a human individual, a mortal ascender. This why I think "Rapture" really describes the experiences of the "Son of Man", or Enoch, becoming the most important concept when you discuss the "exchange of nature, from being constituted into a human tabernacle, to that of a being constituted in will." That type of realisation is a precondition of Rapture, but rapture is not bound to Cristian texts solely. For instance, the Book of Enoch is part of the Bible in the Egyptian Orthodox Christian Church, but not of the Protestant or Roman Catholic Christian Church, not included in the Vulgate but included in the Piby.

the way i read the paragraph the 1,316 associates translated along with Adam and Eve would comprise both the sleeping survivors and the living candidates...so not a lot of living candidates. correct me if i'm reading it wrongly....

The reference says nothing about living people except in the last sentence which is referring to the roll calls at the beginning of the Adamic Dispensation and end of the Planetary Prince Dispensation. I believe the living at that time would have been the faithful members of the Prince's staff along with their associates, (Van and like people). I'm unable to find who the 1,316 associates of Adam and Eve in the first garden were, but there were plenty of evolutionary creatures who voluntarily served in the garden, as well as the Amadonites and some northern Nodites, all who were mortal and died.

(759.6) 67:6.3 These Amadonites were derived from the group of 144 loyal Andonites to which Amadon belonged, and who have become known by his name. This group comprised thirty-nine men and one hundred and five women. Fifty-six of this number were of immortality status, and all (except Amadon) were translated along with the loyal members of the staff. The remainder of this noble band continued on earth to the end of their mortal days under the leadership of Van and Amadon. They were the biologic leaven which multiplied and continued to furnish leadership for the world down through the long dark ages of the postrebellion era.