The Lucifer Rebellion

53:3.1What­ever the early ori­gins of trou­ble in the hearts of Lu­cifer and Sa­tan, the fi­nal out­break took form as the Lu­cifer Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty. The cause of the rebels was stated un­der three heads:

53:3.21. The re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Lu­cifer charged that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther did not re­ally ex­ist, that phys­i­cal grav­ity and space-en­ergy were in­her­ent in the uni­verse, and that the Fa­ther was a myth in­vented by the Par­a­dise Sons to en­able them to main­tain the rule of the uni­verses in the Fa­ther’s name. He de­nied that per­son­al­ity was a gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He even in­ti­mated that the fi­nal­i­ters were in col­lu­sion with the Par­a­dise Sons to foist fraud upon all cre­ation since they never brought back a very clear-cut idea of the Fa­ther’s ac­tual per­son­al­ity as it is dis­cern­i­ble on Par­a­dise. He traded on rev­er­ence as ig­no­rance. The charge was sweep­ing, ter­ri­ble, and blas­phe­mous. It was this veiled at­tack upon the fi­nal­i­ters that no doubt in­flu­enced the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens then on Je­ru­sem to stand firm and re­main stead­fast in re­sis­tance to all the rebel’s pro­pos­als.

53:3.32. The uni­verse gov­ern­ment of the Cre­ator Son—Mi­chael. Lu­cifer con­tended that the lo­cal sys­tems should be au­ton­o­mous. He protested against the right of Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Son, to as­sume sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don in the name of a hy­po­thet­i­cal Par­a­dise Fa­ther and re­quire all per­son­al­i­ties to ac­knowl­edge al­le­giance to this un­seen Fa­ther. He as­serted that the whole plan of wor­ship was a clever scheme to ag­gran­dize the Par­a­dise Sons. He was will­ing to ac­knowl­edge Mi­chael as his Cre­ator-fa­ther but not as his God and right­ful ruler.

53:3.4Most bit­terly did he at­tack the right of the An­cients of Days—“for­eign po­ten­tates”—to in­ter­fere in the af­fairs of the lo­cal sys­tems and uni­verses. These rulers he de­nounced as tyrants and usurpers. He ex­horted his fol­low­ers to be­lieve that none of these rulers could do aught to in­ter­fere with the op­er­a­tion of com­plete home rule if men and an­gels only had the cour­age to as­sert them­selves and boldly claim their rights.

53:3.5He con­tended that the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days could be de­barred from func­tion­ing in the lo­cal sys­tems if the na­tive be­ings would only as­sert their in­de­pen­dence. He main­tained that im­mor­tal­ity was in­her­ent in the sys­tem per­son­al­i­ties, that res­ur­rec­tion was nat­u­ral and au­to­matic, and that all be­ings would live eter­nally ex­cept for the ar­bi­trary and un­just acts of the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days.

53:3.63. The at­tack upon the uni­ver­sal plan of as­cen­dant mor­tal train­ing. Lu­cifer main­tained that far too much time and en­ergy were ex­pended upon the scheme of so thor­oughly train­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals in the prin­ci­ples of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, prin­ci­ples which he al­leged were un­eth­i­cal and un­sound. He protested against the age­long pro­gram for prepar­ing the mor­tals of space for some un­known des­tiny and pointed to the pres­ence of the fi­nal­i­ter corps on Je­ru­sem as proof that these mor­tals had spent ages of prepa­ra­tion for some des­tiny of pure fic­tion. With de­ri­sion he pointed out that the fi­nal­i­ters had en­coun­tered a des­tiny no more glo­ri­ous than to be re­turned to hum­ble spheres sim­i­lar to those of their ori­gin. He in­ti­mated that they had been de­bauched by over­much dis­ci­pline and pro­longed train­ing, and that they were in re­al­ity traitors to their mor­tal fel­lows since they were now co-op­er­at­ing with the scheme of en­slav­ing all cre­ation to the fic­tions of a myth­i­cal eter­nal des­tiny for as­cend­ing mor­tals. He ad­vo­cated that as­cend­ers should en­joy the lib­erty of in­di­vid­ual self-de­ter­mi­na­tion. He chal­lenged and con­demned the en­tire plan of mor­tal as­cen­sion as spon­sored by the Par­a­dise Sons of God and sup­ported by the In­fi­nite Spirit.

53:3.7And it was with such a Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty that Lu­cifer launched his orgy of dark­ness and death.