The Planetary Rebellion

67:3.1The out­break of re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem, the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia, was broad­cast by the Mel­chiz­e­dek coun­cil. The emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks were im­me­di­ately dis­patched to Je­ru­sem, and Ga­briel vol­un­teered to act as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Cre­ator Son, whose au­thor­ity had been chal­lenged. With this broad­cast of the fact of re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia the sys­tem was iso­lated, quar­an­tined, from her sis­ter sys­tems. There was “war in heaven,” the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, and it spread to ev­ery planet in the lo­cal sys­tem.

67:3.2On Uran­tia forty mem­bers of the cor­po­real staff of one hun­dred (in­clud­ing Van) re­fused to join the in­sur­rec­tion. Many of the staff’s hu­man as­sis­tants (mod­i­fied and oth­er­wise) were also brave and no­ble de­fend­ers of Mi­chael and his uni­verse gov­ern­ment. There was a ter­ri­ble loss of per­son­al­i­ties among ser­a­phim and cheru­bim. Al­most one half of the ad­min­is­tra­tor and tran­si­tion ser­a­phim as­signed to the planet joined their leader and Dali­gas­tia in sup­port of the cause of Lu­cifer. Forty thou­sand one hun­dred and nine­teen of the pri­mary mid­way crea­tures joined hands with Cali­gas­tia, but the re­main­der of these be­ings re­mained true to their trust.

67:3.3The traitorous Prince mar­shaled the dis­loyal mid­way crea­tures and other groups of rebel per­son­al­i­ties and or­ga­nized them to ex­e­cute his bid­ding, while Van as­sem­bled the loyal mid­way­ers and other faith­ful groups and be­gan the great bat­tle for the sal­va­tion of the plan­e­tary staff and other ma­rooned ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties.

67:3.4Dur­ing the times of this strug­gle the loy­al­ists dwelt in an un­walled and poorly pro­tected set­tle­ment a few miles to the east of Dala­ma­tia, but their dwellings were guarded day and night by the alert and ever-watch­ful loyal mid­way crea­tures, and they had pos­ses­sion of the price­less tree of life.

67:3.5Upon the out­break of re­bel­lion, loyal cheru­bim and ser­a­phim, with the aid of three faith­ful mid­way­ers, as­sumed the cus­tody of the tree of life and per­mit­ted only the forty loy­al­ists of the staff and their as­so­ci­ated mod­i­fied mor­tals to par­take of the fruit and leaves of this en­ergy plant. There were fifty-six of these mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates of the staff, six­teen of the An­don­ite at­ten­dants of the dis­loyal staff re­fus­ing to go into re­bel­lion with their mas­ters.

67:3.6Through­out the seven cru­cial years of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion, Van was wholly de­voted to the work of min­istry to his loyal army of men, mid­way­ers, and an­gels. The spir­i­tual in­sight and moral stead­fast­ness which en­abled Van to main­tain such an un­shak­able at­ti­tude of loy­alty to the uni­verse gov­ern­ment was the prod­uct of clear think­ing, wise rea­son­ing, log­i­cal judg­ment, sin­cere mo­ti­va­tion, un­selfish pur­pose, in­tel­li­gent loy­alty, ex­pe­ri­en­tial mem­ory, dis­ci­plined char­ac­ter, and the un­ques­tion­ing ded­i­ca­tion of his per­son­al­ity to the do­ing of the will of the Fa­ther in Par­a­dise.

67:3.7This seven years of wait­ing was a time of heart search­ing and soul dis­ci­pline. Such crises in the af­fairs of a uni­verse demon­strate the tremen­dous in­flu­ence of mind as a fac­tor in spir­i­tual choos­ing. Ed­u­ca­tion, train­ing, and ex­pe­ri­ence are fac­tors in most of the vi­tal de­ci­sions of all evo­lu­tion­ary moral crea­tures. But it is en­tirely pos­si­ble for the in­dwelling spirit to make di­rect con­tact with the de­ci­sion-de­ter­min­ing pow­ers of the hu­man per­son­al­ity so as to em­power the fully con­se­crated will of the crea­ture to per­form amaz­ing acts of loyal de­vo­tion to the will and the way of the Fa­ther in Par­a­dise. And this is just what oc­curred in the ex­pe­ri­ence of Amadon, the mod­i­fied hu­man as­so­ciate of Van.

67:3.8Amadon is the out­stand­ing hu­man hero of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. This male de­scen­dant of An­don and Fonta was one of the one hun­dred who con­tributed life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and ever since that event he had been at­tached to Van as his as­so­ciate and hu­man as­sis­tant. Amadon elected to stand with his chief through­out the long and try­ing strug­gle. And it was an in­spir­ing sight to be­hold this child of the evo­lu­tion­ary races stand­ing un­moved by the soph­ist­ries of Dali­gas­tia while through­out the seven-year strug­gle he and his loyal as­so­ciates re­sisted with un­yield­ing for­ti­tude all of the de­cep­tive teach­ings of the bril­liant Cali­gas­tia.

67:3.9Cali­gas­tia, with a max­i­mum of in­tel­li­gence and a vast ex­pe­ri­ence in uni­verse af­fairs, went astray—em­braced sin. Amadon, with a min­i­mum of in­tel­li­gence and ut­terly de­void of uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence, re­mained stead­fast in the ser­vice of the uni­verse and in loy­alty to his as­so­ciate. Van uti­lized both mind and spirit in a mag­nif­i­cent and ef­fec­tive com­bi­na­tion of in­tel­lec­tual de­ter­mi­na­tion and spir­i­tual in­sight, thereby achiev­ing an ex­pe­ri­en­tial level of per­son­al­ity re­al­iza­tion of the high­est at­tain­able or­der. Mind and spirit, when fully united, are po­ten­tial for the cre­ation of super­hu­man val­ues, even mor­ontia re­al­i­ties.

67:3.10There is no end to the recital of the stir­ring events of these tragic days. But at last the fi­nal de­ci­sion of the last per­son­al­ity was made, and then, but only then, did a Most High of Eden­tia ar­rive with the emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks to seize au­thor­ity on Uran­tia. The Cali­gas­tia panoramic reign-rec­ords on Je­ru­sem were oblit­er­ated, and the pro­ba­tion­ary era of plan­e­tary re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion was in­au­gu­rated.