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conclusions one will arrive at, if one interprets literally the idea of a general

Resurrection of the bodies of all the human beings belonging to the adamic period.
However imprecise the basis on which one may found an estimation of the number of

human beings having lived on Earth during this period, it gives us an idea of the

enormity of the figure. If we agree that the advent of adamic humanity coincided with

that of the homo sapiens recens, the latest anthropological findings inform us that this
advent may be traced back about fourteen thousand years. This will represent about

560 generations, if we base our calculations on four generations to the century. If we

say that the population of the globe, for the entire adamic period, averaged one

hundred million inhabitants, it brings us to the astronomical figure of 56 milliards of
human beings, which seems unthinkable.

When, therefore, one refers to a general resurrection, one does not mean that of all

the human bodies that have perished since God created Adam and made him a Living

soul.
But how is it that Jesus was not more precise about this subject in His teaching? The

explanation may be that, as in the Old Testament days, the problem of the general

Resurrection was not particularly pressing at His time and at the time when His Apostles

preached. The great problem, which was the object of Christ's mission, was to open the
door to the Cycle of the Son, and to help that section of human society that was the

most developed at