The Lucifer Rebellion

53:2.1Lu­cifer and his first as­sis­tant, Sa­tan, had reigned on Je­ru­sem for more than five hun­dred thou­sand years when in their hearts they be­gan to ar­ray them­selves against the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his then vicegerent Son, Mi­chael.

53:2.2There were no pe­cu­liar or spe­cial con­di­tions in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia which sug­gested or fa­vored re­bel­lion. It is our be­lief that the idea took ori­gin and form in Lu­cifer’s mind, and that he might have in­sti­gated such a re­bel­lion no mat­ter where he might have been sta­tioned. Lu­cifer first an­nounced his plans to Sa­tan, but it re­quired sev­eral months to cor­rupt the mind of his able and bril­liant as­so­ciate. How­ever, when once con­verted to the rebel the­o­ries, he be­came a bold and earnest ad­vo­cate of “self-as­ser­tion and lib­erty.”

53:2.3No one ever sug­gested re­bel­lion to Lu­cifer. The idea of self-as­ser­tion in op­po­si­tion to the will of Mi­chael and to the plans of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, as they are rep­re­sented in Mi­chael, had its ori­gin in his own mind. His re­la­tions with the Cre­ator Son had been in­ti­mate and al­ways cor­dial. At no time prior to the ex­al­ta­tion of his own mind did Lu­cifer openly ex­press dis­sat­is­fac­tion about the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. Not­with­stand­ing his si­lence, for more than one hun­dred years of stan­dard time the Union of Days on Sal­ving­ton had been re­flec­ti­vat­ing to Uversa that all was not at peace in Lu­cifer’s mind. This in­for­ma­tion was also com­mu­ni­cated to the Cre­ator Son and the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Nor­la­ti­adek.

53:2.4Through­out this pe­riod Lu­cifer be­came in­creas­ingly crit­i­cal of the en­tire plan of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion but al­ways pro­fessed whole­hearted loy­alty to the Su­preme Rulers. His first out­spo­ken dis­loy­alty was man­i­fested on the oc­ca­sion of a visit of Ga­briel to Je­ru­sem just a few days be­fore the open procla­ma­tion of the Lu­cifer Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty. Ga­briel was so pro­foundly im­pressed with the cer­tainty of the im­pend­ing out­break that he went di­rect to Eden­tia to con­fer with the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers re­gard­ing the mea­sures to be em­ployed in case of open re­bel­lion.

53:2.5It is very dif­fi­cult to point out the ex­act cause or causes which fi­nally cul­mi­nated in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. We are cer­tain of only one thing, and that is: What­ever these first be­gin­nings were, they had their ori­gin in Lu­cifer’s mind. There must have been a pride of self that nour­ished it­self to the point of self-de­cep­tion, so that Lu­cifer for a time re­ally per­suaded him­self that his con­tem­pla­tion of re­bel­lion was ac­tu­ally for the good of the sys­tem, if not of the uni­verse. By the time his plans had de­vel­oped to the point of dis­il­lu­sion­ment, no doubt he had gone too far for his orig­i­nal and mis­chief-mak­ing pride to per­mit him to stop. At some point in this ex­pe­ri­ence he be­came in­sin­cere, and evil evolved into de­lib­er­ate and will­ful sin. That this hap­pened is proved by the sub­se­quent con­duct of this bril­liant ex­ec­u­tive. He was long of­fered op­por­tu­nity for re­pen­tance, but only some of his sub­or­di­nates ever ac­cepted the prof­fered mercy. The Faith­ful of Days of Eden­tia, on the re­quest of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, in per­son pre­sented the plan of Mi­chael for the sav­ing of these fla­grant rebels, but al­ways was the mercy of the Cre­ator Son re­jected and re­jected with in­creas­ing con­tempt and dis­dain.