The Lucifer Rebellion

53:0.1Lu­cifer was a bril­liant pri­mary La­non­an­dek Son of Neb­a­don. He had ex­pe­ri­enced ser­vice in many sys­tems, had been a high coun­selor of his group, and was dis­tin­guished for wis­dom, sagac­ity, and ef­fi­ciency. Lu­cifer was num­ber 37 of his or­der, and when com­mis­sioned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, he was des­ig­nated as one of the one hun­dred most able and bril­liant per­son­al­i­ties in more than seven hun­dred thou­sand of his kind. From such a mag­nif­i­cent be­gin­ning, through evil and er­ror, he em­braced sin and now is num­bered as one of three Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns in Neb­a­don who have suc­cumbed to the urge of self and sur­ren­dered to the soph­istry of spu­ri­ous per­sonal lib­erty—re­jec­tion of uni­verse al­le­giance and dis­re­gard of fra­ter­nal obli­ga­tions, blind­ness to cos­mic re­la­tion­ships.

53:0.2In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, the do­main of Christ Mi­chael, there are ten thou­sand sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds. In all the his­tory of La­non­an­dek Sons, in all their work through­out these thou­sands of sys­tems and at the uni­verse head­quar­ters, only three Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns have ever been found in con­tempt of the gov­ern­ment of the Cre­ator Son.