The Lucifer Rebellion

53:8.1Lu­cifer and Sa­tan freely roamed the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem un­til the com­ple­tion of the be­stowal mis­sion of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. They were last on your world to­gether dur­ing the time of their com­bined as­sault upon the Son of Man.

53:8.2For­merly, when the Plan­e­tary Princes, the “Sons of God,” were pe­ri­od­i­cally as­sem­bled, “Sa­tan came also,” claim­ing that he rep­re­sented all of the iso­lated worlds of the fallen Plan­e­tary Princes. But he has not been ac­corded such lib­erty on Je­ru­sem since Mi­chael’s ter­mi­nal be­stowal. Sub­se­quent to their ef­fort to cor­rupt Mi­chael when in the be­stowal flesh, all sym­pa­thy for Lu­cifer and Sa­tan has per­ished through­out all Sa­ta­nia, that is, out­side the iso­lated worlds of sin.

53:8.3The be­stowal of Mi­chael ter­mi­nated the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in all Sa­ta­nia aside from the plan­ets of the apos­tate Plan­e­tary Princes. And this was the sig­nif­i­cance of Je­sus’ per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence, just be­fore his death in the flesh, when he one day ex­claimed to his dis­ci­ples, “And I be­held Sa­tan fall as light­ning from heaven.” He had come with Lu­cifer to Uran­tia for the last cru­cial strug­gle.

53:8.4The Son of Man was con­fi­dent of suc­cess, and he knew that his tri­umph on your world would for­ever set­tle the sta­tus of his age­long en­e­mies, not only in Sa­ta­nia but also in the other two sys­tems where sin had en­tered. There was sur­vival for mor­tals and se­cu­rity for an­gels when your Mas­ter, in re­ply to the Lu­cifer pro­pos­als, calmly and with di­vine as­sur­ance replied, “Get you be­hind me, Sa­tan.” That was, in prin­ci­ple, the real end of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. True, the Uversa tri­bu­nals have not yet ren­dered the ex­ec­u­tive de­ci­sion re­gard­ing the ap­peal of Ga­briel pray­ing for the de­struc­tion of the rebels, but such a de­cree will, no doubt, be forth­com­ing in the full­ness of time since the first step in the hear­ing of this case has al­ready been taken.

53:8.5Cali­gas­tia was rec­og­nized by the Son of Man as the tech­ni­cal Prince of Uran­tia up to near the time of his death. Said Je­sus: “Now is the judg­ment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast down.” And then still nearer the com­ple­tion of his life­work he an­nounced, “The prince of this world is judged.” And it is this same de­throned and dis­cred­ited Prince who was once termed “God of Uran­tia.”

53:8.6The last act of Mi­chael be­fore leav­ing Uran­tia was to of­fer mercy to Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia, but they spurned his ten­der prof­fer. Cali­gas­tia, your apos­tate Plan­e­tary Prince, is still free on Uran­tia to pros­e­cute his ne­far­i­ous de­signs, but he has ab­so­lutely no power to en­ter the minds of men, nei­ther can he draw near to their souls to tempt or cor­rupt them un­less they re­ally de­sire to be cursed with his wicked pres­ence.

53:8.7Be­fore the be­stowal of Mi­chael these rulers of dark­ness sought to main­tain their au­thor­ity on Uran­tia, and they per­sis­tently with­stood the mi­nor and sub­or­di­nate ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties. But since the day of Pen­te­cost this traitorous Cali­gas­tia and his equally con­temptible as­so­ciate, Dali­gas­tia, are servile be­fore the di­vine majesty of the Par­a­dise Thought Ad­justers and the pro­tec­tive Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael, which has been poured out upon all flesh.

53:8.8But even so, no fallen spirit ever did have the power to in­vade the minds or to ha­rass the souls of the chil­dren of God. Nei­ther Sa­tan nor Cali­gas­tia could ever touch or ap­proach the faith sons of God; faith is an ef­fec­tive ar­mor against sin and in­iq­uity. It is true: “He who is born of God keeps him­self, and the wicked one touches him not.”

53:8.9In gen­eral, when weak and dis­so­lute mor­tals are sup­posed to be un­der the in­flu­ence of dev­ils and demons, they are merely be­ing dom­i­nated by their own in­her­ent and de­based ten­den­cies, be­ing led away by their own nat­u­ral propen­si­ties. The devil has been given a great deal of credit for evil which does not be­long to him. Cali­gas­tia has been com­par­a­tively im­po­tent since the cross of Christ.