The Lucifer Rebellion

53:4.1The Lu­cifer man­i­festo was is­sued at the an­nual con­clave of Sa­ta­nia on the sea of glass, in the pres­ence of the as­sem­bled hosts of Je­ru­sem, on the last day of the year, about two hun­dred thou­sand years ago, Uran­tia time. Sa­tan pro­claimed that wor­ship could be ac­corded the uni­ver­sal forces—phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual—but that al­le­giance could be ac­knowl­edged only to the ac­tual and pres­ent ruler, Lu­cifer, the “friend of men and an­gels” and the “God of lib­erty.”

53:4.2Self-as­ser­tion was the bat­tle cry of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. One of his chief ar­gu­ments was that, if self-gov­ern­ment was good and right for the Mel­chiz­e­deks and other groups, it was equally good for all or­ders of in­tel­li­gence. He was bold and per­sis­tent in the ad­vo­cacy of the “equal­ity of mind” and “the broth­er­hood of in­tel­li­gence.” He main­tained that all gov­ern­ment should be lim­ited to the lo­cal plan­ets and their vol­un­tary con­fed­er­a­tion into the lo­cal sys­tems. All other super­vi­sion he dis­al­lowed. He prom­ised the Plan­e­tary Princes that they should rule the worlds as su­preme ex­ec­u­tives. He de­nounced the lo­ca­tion of leg­isla­tive ac­tiv­i­ties on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and the con­duct of ju­di­cial af­fairs on the uni­verse cap­i­tal. He con­tended that all these func­tions of gov­ern­ment should be con­cen­trated on the sys­tem cap­i­tals and pro­ceeded to set up his own leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly and or­ga­nized his own tri­bu­nals un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of Sa­tan. And he di­rected that the princes on the apos­tate worlds do the same.

53:4.3The en­tire ad­min­is­tra­tive cab­i­net of Lu­cifer went over in a body and were sworn in pub­licly as the of­fi­cers of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the new head of “the lib­er­ated worlds and sys­tems.”

53:4.4While there had been two pre­vi­ous re­bel­lions in Neb­a­don, they were in dis­tant con­stel­la­tions. Lu­cifer held that these in­sur­rec­tions were un­suc­cess­ful be­cause the ma­jor­ity of the in­tel­li­gences failed to fol­low their lead­ers. He con­tended that “ma­jori­ties rule,” that “mind is in­fal­li­ble.” The free­dom al­lowed him by the uni­verse rulers ap­par­ently sus­tained many of his ne­far­i­ous con­tentions. He de­fied all his su­pe­ri­ors; yet they ap­par­ently took no note of his do­ings. He was given a free hand to pros­e­cute his se­duc­tive plan with­out let or hin­drance.

53:4.5All the mer­ci­ful de­lays of jus­tice Lu­cifer pointed to as ev­i­dence of the in­abil­ity of the gov­ern­ment of the Par­a­dise Sons to stop the re­bel­lion. He would openly defy and ar­ro­gantly chal­lenge Mi­chael, Im­manuel, and the An­cients of Days and then point to the fact that no ac­tion en­sued as pos­i­tive ev­i­dence of the im­po­tency of the uni­verse and the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

53:4.6Ga­briel was per­son­ally pres­ent through­out all these dis­loyal pro­ceed­ings and only an­nounced that he would, in due time, speak for Mi­chael, and that all be­ings would be left free and un­mo­lested in their choice; that the “gov­ern­ment of the Sons for the Fa­ther de­sired only that loy­alty and de­vo­tion which was vol­un­tary, whole­hearted, and soph­istry-proof.”

53:4.7Lu­cifer was per­mit­ted fully to es­tab­lish and thor­oughly to or­ga­nize his rebel gov­ern­ment be­fore Ga­briel made any ef­fort to con­test the right of se­ces­sion or to coun­ter­work the rebel pro­pa­ganda. But the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers im­me­di­ately con­fined the ac­tion of these dis­loyal per­son­al­i­ties to the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Nev­er­the­less, this pe­riod of de­lay was a time of great trial and test­ing to the loyal be­ings of all Sa­ta­nia. All was chaotic for a few years, and there was great con­fu­sion on the man­sion worlds.