The Planetary Rebellion

67:1.1For three hun­dred thou­sand years Cali­gas­tia had been in charge of Uran­tia when Sa­tan, Lu­cifer’s as­sis­tant, made one of his pe­ri­odic in­spec­tion calls. And when Sa­tan ar­rived on the planet, his ap­pear­ance in no way re­sem­bled your car­i­ca­tures of his ne­far­i­ous majesty. He was, and still is, a La­non­an­dek Son of great bril­liance. “And no mar­vel, for Sa­tan him­self is a bril­liant crea­ture of light.”

67:1.2In the course of this in­spec­tion Sa­tan in­formed Cali­gas­tia of Lu­cifer’s then pro­posed “Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty,” and as we now know, the Prince agreed to be­tray the planet upon the an­nounce­ment of the re­bel­lion. The loyal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties look with pe­cu­liar dis­dain upon Prince Cali­gas­tia be­cause of this pre­med­i­tated be­trayal of trust. The Cre­ator Son voiced this con­tempt when he said: “You are like your leader, Lu­cifer, and you have sin­fully per­pet­u­ated his in­iq­uity. He was a fal­si­fier from the be­gin­ning of his self-ex­al­ta­tion be­cause he abode not in the truth.”

67:1.3In all the ad­min­is­tra­tive work of a lo­cal uni­verse no high trust is deemed more sa­cred than that re­posed in a Plan­e­tary Prince who as­sumes re­spon­si­bil­ity for the wel­fare and guid­ance of the evolv­ing mor­tals on a newly in­hab­ited world. And of all forms of evil, none are more de­struc­tive of per­son­al­ity sta­tus than be­trayal of trust and dis­loy­alty to one’s con­fid­ing friends. In com­mit­ting this de­lib­er­ate sin, Cali­gas­tia so com­pletely dis­torted his per­son­al­ity that his mind has never since been able fully to re­gain its equi­lib­rium.

67:1.4There are many ways of look­ing at sin, but from the uni­verse philo­sophic view­point sin is the at­ti­tude of a per­son­al­ity who is know­ingly re­sist­ing cos­mic re­al­ity. Er­ror might be re­garded as a mis­con­cep­tion or dis­tor­tion of re­al­ity. Evil is a par­tial re­al­iza­tion of, or mal­ad­just­ment to, uni­verse re­al­i­ties. But sin is a pur­pose­ful re­sis­tance to di­vine re­al­ity—a con­scious choos­ing to op­pose spir­i­tual prog­ress—while in­iq­uity con­sists in an open and per­sis­tent de­fi­ance of rec­og­nized re­al­ity and sig­ni­fies such a de­gree of per­son­al­ity dis­in­te­gra­tion as to bor­der on cos­mic in­san­ity.

67:1.5Er­ror sug­gests lack of in­tel­lec­tual keen­ness; evil, de­fi­ciency of wis­dom; sin, ab­ject spir­i­tual pov­erty; but in­iq­uity is in­dica­tive of van­ish­ing per­son­al­ity con­trol.

67:1.6And when sin has so many times been cho­sen and so of­ten been re­peated, it may be­come ha­bit­ual. Ha­bit­ual sin­ners can eas­ily be­come in­iq­ui­tous, be­come whole­hearted rebels against the uni­verse and all of its di­vine re­al­i­ties. While all man­ner of sins may be for­given, we doubt whether the es­tab­lished in­iq­ui­ter would ever sin­cerely ex­pe­ri­ence sor­row for his mis­deeds or ac­cept for­give­ness for his sins.