The Planetary Rebellion

67:2.1Shortly af­ter Sa­tan’s in­spec­tion and when the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion was on the eve of the re­al­iza­tion of great things on Uran­tia, one day, mid­win­ter of the north­ern con­ti­nents, Cali­gas­tia held a pro­longed con­fer­ence with his as­so­ciate, Dali­gas­tia, af­ter which the lat­ter called the ten coun­cils of Uran­tia in ses­sion ex­traor­di­nary. This as­sem­bly was opened with the state­ment that Prince Cali­gas­tia was about to pro­claim him­self ab­so­lute sov­er­eign of Uran­tia and de­manded that all ad­min­is­tra­tive groups ab­di­cate by re­sign­ing all of their func­tions and pow­ers into the hands of Dali­gas­tia as trus­tee, pend­ing the re­or­ga­ni­za­tion of the plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment and the sub­se­quent re­dis­tri­bu­tion of these of­fices of ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity.

67:2.2The pre­sen­ta­tion of this as­tound­ing de­mand was fol­lowed by the mas­terly ap­peal of Van, chair­man of the su­preme coun­cil of co-or­di­na­tion. This dis­tin­guished ad­min­is­tra­tor and able ju­rist branded the pro­posed course of Cali­gas­tia as an act bor­der­ing on plan­e­tary re­bel­lion and ap­pealed to his con­fer­ees to ab­stain from all par­tic­i­pa­tion un­til an ap­peal could be taken to Lu­cifer, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign of Sa­ta­nia; and he won the sup­port of the en­tire staff. Ac­cord­ingly, ap­peal was taken to Je­ru­sem, and forth­with came back the or­ders des­ig­nat­ing Cali­gas­tia as su­preme sov­er­eign on Uran­tia and com­mand­ing ab­so­lute and un­ques­tion­ing al­le­giance to his man­dates. And it was in re­ply to this amaz­ing mes­sage that the no­ble Van made his mem­o­rable ad­dress of seven hours’ length in which he for­mally drew his in­dict­ment of Dali­gas­tia, Cali­gas­tia, and Lu­cifer as stand­ing in con­tempt of the sov­er­eignty of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don; and he ap­pealed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia for sup­port and con­fir­ma­tion.

67:2.3Mean­time the sys­tem cir­cuits had been sev­ered; Uran­tia was iso­lated. Ev­ery group of ce­les­tial life on the planet found it­self sud­denly and with­out warn­ing iso­lated, ut­terly cut off from all out­side coun­sel and ad­vice.

67:2.4Dali­gas­tia for­mally pro­claimed Cali­gas­tia “God of Uran­tia and su­preme over all.” With this procla­ma­tion be­fore them, the is­sues were clearly drawn; and each group drew off by it­self and be­gan de­lib­er­a­tions, dis­cus­sions des­tined even­tu­ally to de­ter­mine the fate of ev­ery super­hu­man per­son­al­ity on the planet.

67:2.5Ser­a­phim and cheru­bim and other ce­les­tial be­ings were in­volved in the de­ci­sions of this bit­ter strug­gle, this long and sin­ful con­flict. Many super­hu­man groups that chanced to be on Uran­tia at the time of its iso­la­tion were de­tained here and, like the ser­a­phim and their as­so­ciates, were com­pelled to choose be­tween sin and righ­teous­ness—be­tween the ways of Lu­cifer and the will of the un­seen Fa­ther.

67:2.6For more than seven years this strug­gle con­tin­ued. Not un­til ev­ery per­son­al­ity con­cerned had made a fi­nal de­ci­sion, would or did the au­thor­i­ties of Eden­tia in­ter­fere or in­ter­vene. Not un­til then did Van and his loyal as­so­ciates re­ceive vin­di­ca­tion and re­lease from their pro­longed anx­i­ety and in­tol­er­a­ble sus­pense.