The Planetary Prince of Urantia

66:1.1Cali­gas­tia was a La­non­an­dek Son, num­ber 9,344 of the sec­ondary or­der. He was ex­pe­ri­enced in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the af­fairs of the lo­cal uni­verse in gen­eral and, dur­ing later ages, with the man­age­ment of the lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia in par­tic­u­lar.

66:1.2Prior to the reign of Lu­cifer in Sa­ta­nia, Cali­gas­tia had been at­tached to the coun­cil of the Life Car­rier ad­vis­ers on Je­ru­sem. Lu­cifer el­e­vated Cali­gas­tia to a po­si­tion on his per­sonal staff, and he ac­cept­ably filled five suc­ces­sive as­sign­ments of honor and trust.

66:1.3Cali­gas­tia very early sought a com­mis­sion as Plan­e­tary Prince, but re­peat­edly, when his re­quest came up for ap­proval in the con­stel­la­tion coun­cils, it would fail to re­ceive the as­sent of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. Cali­gas­tia seemed es­pe­cially de­sirous of be­ing sent as plan­e­tary ruler to a dec­i­mal or life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world. His pe­ti­tion had sev­eral times been dis­ap­proved be­fore he was fi­nally as­signed to Uran­tia.

66:1.4Cali­gas­tia went forth from Je­ru­sem to his trust of world do­min­ion with an en­vi­able rec­ord of loy­alty and de­vo­tion to the wel­fare of the uni­verse of his ori­gin and so­journ, not­with­stand­ing a cer­tain char­ac­ter­is­tic rest­less­ness cou­pled with a ten­dency to dis­agree with the es­tab­lished or­der in cer­tain mi­nor mat­ters.

66:1.5I was pres­ent on Je­ru­sem when the bril­liant Cali­gas­tia de­parted from the sys­tem cap­i­tal. No prince of the plan­ets ever em­barked upon a ca­reer of world ruler­ship with a richer prepara­tory ex­pe­ri­ence or with bet­ter prospects than did Cali­gas­tia on that event­ful day one-half mil­lion years ago. One thing is cer­tain: As I ex­e­cuted my as­sign­ment of putting the nar­ra­tive of that event on the broad­casts of the lo­cal uni­verse, I never for one mo­ment en­ter­tained even in the slight­est de­gree any idea that this no­ble La­non­an­dek would so shortly be­tray his sa­cred trust of plan­e­tary cus­tody and so hor­ri­bly stain the fair name of his ex­alted or­der of uni­verse son­ship. I re­ally re­garded Uran­tia as be­ing among the five or six most for­tu­nate plan­ets in all Sa­ta­nia in that it was to have such an ex­pe­ri­enced, bril­liant, and orig­i­nal mind at the helm of world af­fairs. I did not then com­pre­hend that Cali­gas­tia was in­sid­i­ously falling in love with him­self; I did not then so fully un­der­stand the sub­tleties of per­son­al­ity pride.