The Planetary Rebellion

67:6.1The fol­low­ers of Van early with­drew to the high­lands west of In­dia, where they were ex­empt from at­tacks by the con­fused races of the low­lands, and from which place of re­tire­ment they planned for the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion of the world as their early Ba­don­ite pre­de­ces­sors had once all un­wit­tingly worked for the wel­fare of man­kind just be­fore the days of the birth of the San­gik tribes.

67:6.2Be­fore the ar­rival of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, Van placed the ad­min­is­tra­tion of hu­man af­fairs in the hands of ten com­mis­sions of four each, groups iden­ti­cal with those of the Prince’s regime. The se­nior res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers as­sumed tem­po­rary lead­er­ship of this coun­cil of forty, which func­tioned through­out the seven years of wait­ing. Sim­i­lar groups of Ama­don­ites as­sumed these re­spon­si­bil­i­ties when the thirty-nine loyal staff mem­bers re­turned to Je­ru­sem.

67:6.3These Ama­don­ites were de­rived from the group of 144 loyal An­don­ites to which Amadon be­longed, and who have be­come known by his name. This group com­prised thirty-nine men and one hun­dred and five women. Fifty-six of this num­ber were of im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus, and all (ex­cept Amadon) were trans­lated along with the loyal mem­bers of the staff. The re­main­der of this no­ble band con­tin­ued on earth to the end of their mor­tal days un­der the lead­er­ship of Van and Amadon. They were the bi­o­logic leaven which mul­ti­plied and con­tin­ued to fur­nish lead­er­ship for the world down through the long dark ages of the postre­bel­lion era.

67:6.4Van was left on Uran­tia un­til the time of Adam, re­main­ing as tit­u­lar head of all super­hu­man per­son­al­i­ties func­tion­ing on the planet. He and Amadon were sus­tained by the tech­nique of the tree of life in con­junc­tion with the spe­cial­ized life min­istry of the Mel­chiz­e­deks for over one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years.

67:6.5The af­fairs of Uran­tia were for a long time ad­min­is­tered by a coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers, twelve Mel­chiz­e­deks, con­firmed by the man­date of the se­nior con­stel­la­tion ruler, the Most High Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. As­so­ci­ated with the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers was an ad­vi­sory coun­cil con­sist­ing of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers, a Trin­i­tized Son in ap­pren­tice­ship train­ing, a vol­un­teer Teacher Son, a Bril­liant Evening Star of Avalon (pe­ri­od­i­cally), the chiefs of ser­a­phim and cheru­bim, ad­vis­ers from two neigh­bor­ing plan­ets, the di­rec­tor gen­eral of sub­or­di­nate an­gelic life, and Van, the com­man­der in chief of the mid­way crea­tures. And thus was Uran­tia gov­erned and ad­min­is­tered un­til the ar­rival of Adam. It is not strange that the coura­geous and loyal Van was as­signed a place on the coun­cil of plan­e­tary re­ceivers which for so long ad­min­is­tered the af­fairs of Uran­tia.

67:6.6The twelve Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia did heroic work. They pre­served the rem­nants of civ­i­liza­tion, and their plan­e­tary poli­cies were faith­fully ex­e­cuted by Van. Within one thou­sand years af­ter the re­bel­lion he had more than three hun­dred and fifty ad­vanced groups scat­tered abroad in the world. These out­posts of civ­i­liza­tion con­sisted largely of the de­scen­dants of the loyal An­don­ites slightly ad­mixed with the San­gik races, par­tic­u­larly the blue men, and with the Nod­ites.

67:6.7Not­with­stand­ing the ter­ri­ble set­back of re­bel­lion there were many good strains of bi­o­logic prom­ise on earth. Un­der the super­vi­sion of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, Van and Amadon con­tin­ued the work of fos­ter­ing the nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion of the hu­man race, car­ry­ing for­ward the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of man un­til it reached that cul­mi­nat­ing at­tain­ment which war­ranted the dis­patch of a Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter to Uran­tia.

67:6.8Van and Amadon re­mained on earth un­til shortly af­ter the ar­rival of Adam and Eve. Some years there­after they were trans­lated to Je­ru­sem, where Van was re­united with his wait­ing Ad­juster. Van now serves in be­half of Uran­tia while await­ing the or­der to go for­ward on the long, long trail to Par­a­dise per­fec­tion and the un­re­vealed des­tiny of the as­sem­bling Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity.

67:6.9It should be re­corded that, when Van ap­pealed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia af­ter Lu­cifer had sus­tained Cali­gas­tia on Uran­tia, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers dis­patched an im­me­di­ate de­ci­sion sus­tain­ing Van on ev­ery point of his con­tention. This ver­dict failed to reach him be­cause the plan­e­tary cir­cuits of com­mu­ni­ca­tion were sev­ered while it was in tran­sit. Only re­cently was this ac­tual rul­ing dis­cov­ered lodged in the pos­ses­sion of a re­lay en­ergy trans­mit­ter where it had been ma­rooned ever since the iso­la­tion of Uran­tia. With­out this dis­cov­ery, made as the re­sult of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions of the Uran­tia mid­way­ers, the re­lease of this de­ci­sion would have awaited the restora­tion of Uran­tia to the con­stel­la­tion cir­cuits. And this ap­par­ent ac­ci­dent of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion was pos­si­ble be­cause en­ergy trans­mit­ters can re­ceive and trans­mit in­tel­li­gence, but they can­not ini­ti­ate com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

67:6.10The tech­ni­cal sta­tus of Van on the le­gal rec­ords of Sa­ta­nia was not ac­tu­ally and fi­nally set­tled un­til this rul­ing of the Eden­tia Fa­thers was re­corded on Je­ru­sem.