The Planetary Rebellion

67:4.1When the fi­nal roll was called, the cor­po­real mem­bers of the Prince’s staff were found to have aligned them­selves as fol­lows: Van and his en­tire court of co-or­di­na­tion had re­mained loyal. Ang and three mem­bers of the food coun­cil had sur­vived. The board of an­i­mal hus­bandry were all swept into re­bel­lion as were all of the an­i­mal-con­quest ad­vis­ers. Fad and five mem­bers of the ed­u­ca­tional fac­ulty were saved. Nod and all of the com­mis­sion on in­dus­try and trade joined Cali­gas­tia. Hap and the en­tire col­lege of re­vealed re­li­gion re­mained loyal with Van and his no­ble band. Lut and the whole board of health were lost. The coun­cil of art and sci­ence re­mained loyal in its en­tirety, but Tut and the com­mis­sion on tribal gov­ern­ment all went astray. Thus were forty out of the one hun­dred saved, later to be trans­ferred to Je­ru­sem, where they re­sumed their Par­a­dise jour­ney.

67:4.2The sixty mem­bers of the plan­e­tary staff who went into re­bel­lion chose Nod as their leader. They worked whole­heart­edly for the rebel Prince but soon dis­cov­ered that they were de­prived of the sus­te­nance of the sys­tem life cir­cuits. They awak­ened to the fact that they had been de­graded to the sta­tus of mor­tal be­ings. They were in­deed super­hu­man but, at the same time, ma­te­rial and mor­tal. In an ef­fort to in­crease their num­bers, Dali­gas­tia or­dered im­me­di­ate re­sort to sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, know­ing full well that the orig­i­nal sixty and their forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates were doomed to suf­fer ex­tinc­tion by death, sooner or later. Af­ter the fall of Dala­ma­tia the dis­loyal staff mi­grated to the north and the east. Their de­scen­dants were long known as the Nod­ites, and their dwell­ing place as “the land of Nod.”

67:4.3The pres­ence of these ex­traor­di­nary super­men and super­women, stranded by re­bel­lion and pres­ently mat­ing with the sons and daugh­ters of earth, eas­ily gave ori­gin to those tra­di­tional sto­ries of the gods com­ing down to mate with mor­tals. And thus orig­i­nated the thou­sand and one leg­ends of a myth­i­cal na­ture, but founded on the facts of the postre­bel­lion days, which later found a place in the folk tales and tra­di­tions of the var­i­ous peo­ples whose an­ces­tors had par­tic­i­pated in these con­tacts with the Nod­ites and their de­scen­dants.

67:4.4The staff rebels, de­prived of spir­i­tual sus­te­nance, even­tu­ally died a nat­u­ral death. And much of the sub­se­quent idol­a­try of the hu­man races grew out of the de­sire to per­pet­u­ate the mem­ory of these highly hon­ored be­ings of the days of Cali­gas­tia.

67:4.5When the staff of one hun­dred came to Uran­tia, they were tem­porar­ily de­tached from their Thought Ad­justers. Im­me­di­ately upon the ar­rival of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers the loyal per­son­al­i­ties (ex­cept Van) were re­turned to Je­ru­sem and were re­united with their wait­ing Ad­justers. We know not the fate of the sixty staff rebels; their Ad­justers still tarry on Je­ru­sem. Mat­ters will un­doubt­edly rest as they now are un­til the en­tire Lu­cifer re­bel­lion is fi­nally ad­ju­di­cated and the fate of all par­tic­i­pants de­creed.

67:4.6It was very dif­fi­cult for such be­ings as an­gels and mid­way­ers to con­ceive of bril­liant and trusted rulers like Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia go­ing astray—com­mit­ting traitorous sin. Those be­ings who fell into sin—they did not de­lib­er­ately or pre­med­i­tat­edly en­ter upon re­bel­lion—were mis­led by their su­pe­ri­ors, de­ceived by their trusted lead­ers. It was like­wise easy to win the sup­port of the prim­i­tive-minded evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals.

67:4.7The vast ma­jor­ity of all hu­man and super­hu­man be­ings who were vic­tims of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem and the var­i­ous mis­led plan­ets have long since heart­ily re­pented of their folly; and we truly be­lieve that all such sin­cere pen­i­tents will in some man­ner be re­ha­bil­i­tated and re­stored to some phase of uni­verse ser­vice when the An­cients of Days fi­nally com­plete the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion, which they have so re­cently be­gun.