Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion

54:2.1With the Son and in the Spirit did God project eter­nal Ha­vona, and ever since has there ob­tained the eter­nal pat­tern of co-or­di­nate par­tic­i­pa­tion in cre­ation—shar­ing. This pat­tern of shar­ing is the mas­ter de­sign for ev­ery one of the Sons and Daugh­ters of God who go out into space to en­gage in the at­tempt to du­pli­cate in time the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nal per­fec­tion.

54:2.2Ev­ery crea­ture of ev­ery evolv­ing uni­verse who as­pires to do the Fa­ther’s will is des­tined to be­come the part­ner of the time-space Cre­ators in this mag­nif­i­cent ad­ven­ture of ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. Were this not true, the Fa­ther would have hardly en­dowed such crea­tures with cre­ative free will, nei­ther would he in­dwell them, ac­tu­ally go into part­ner­ship with them by means of his own spirit.

54:2.3Lu­cifer’s folly was the at­tempt to do the non­doable, to short-cir­cuit time in an ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verse. Lu­cifer’s crime was the at­tempted cre­ative dis­en­fran­chise­ment of ev­ery per­son­al­ity in Sa­ta­nia, the un­rec­og­nized abridg­ment of the crea­ture’s per­sonal par­tic­i­pa­tion—free­will par­tic­i­pa­tion—in the long evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle to at­tain the sta­tus of light and life both in­di­vid­u­ally and col­lec­tively. In so do­ing this one­time Sov­er­eign of your sys­tem set the tem­po­ral pur­pose of his own will di­rectly athwart the eter­nal pur­pose of God’s will as it is re­vealed in the be­stowal of free will upon all per­sonal crea­tures. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion thus threat­ened the max­i­mum pos­si­ble in­fringe­ment of the free­will choice of the as­cend­ers and servers of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia—a threat forever­more to de­prive ev­ery one of these be­ings of the thrilling ex­pe­ri­ence of con­tribut­ing some­thing per­sonal and unique to the slowly erect­ing mon­u­ment to ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom which will some­time ex­ist as the per­fected sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Thus does the Lu­cifer man­i­festo, mas­querad­ing in the ha­bil­i­ments of lib­erty, stand forth in the clear light of rea­son as a mon­u­men­tal threat to con­sum­mate the theft of per­sonal lib­erty and to do it on a scale that has been ap­proached only twice in all the his­tory of Neb­a­don.

54:2.4In short, what God had given men and an­gels Lu­cifer would have taken away from them, that is, the di­vine priv­i­lege of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the cre­ation of their own des­tinies and of the des­tiny of this lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

54:2.5No be­ing in all the uni­verse has the right­ful lib­erty to de­prive any other be­ing of true lib­erty, the right to love and be loved, the priv­i­lege of wor­ship­ing God and of serv­ing his fel­lows.