The Planetary Rebellion

67:7.1The per­sonal (cen­tripetal) con­se­quences of the crea­ture’s will­ful and per­sis­tent re­jec­tion of light are both in­ev­i­ta­ble and in­di­vid­ual and are of con­cern only to De­ity and to that per­sonal crea­ture. Such a soul-de­stroy­ing har­vest of in­iq­uity is the in­ner reap­ing of the in­iq­ui­tous will crea­ture.

67:7.2But not so with the ex­ter­nal reper­cus­sions of sin: The im­per­sonal (cen­trifu­gal) con­se­quences of em­braced sin are both in­ev­i­ta­ble and col­lec­tive, be­ing of con­cern to ev­ery crea­ture func­tion­ing within the af­fect-range of such events.

67:7.3By fifty thou­sand years af­ter the col­lapse of the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion, earthly af­fairs were so dis­or­ga­nized and re­tarded that the hu­man race had gained very lit­tle over the gen­eral evo­lu­tion­ary sta­tus ex­ist­ing at the time of Cali­gas­tia’s ar­rival three hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years pre­vi­ously. In cer­tain re­spects prog­ress had been made; in other di­rec­tions much ground had been lost.

67:7.4Sin is never purely lo­cal in its ef­fects. The ad­min­is­tra­tive sec­tors of the uni­verses are or­gan­is­mal; the plight of one per­son­al­ity must to a cer­tain ex­tent be shared by all. Sin, be­ing an at­ti­tude of the per­son to­ward re­al­ity, is des­tined to ex­hibit its in­her­ent neg­a­tivis­tic har­vest upon any and all re­lated lev­els of uni­verse val­ues. But the full con­se­quences of er­ro­neous think­ing, evil-do­ing, or sin­ful plan­ning are ex­pe­ri­enced only on the level of ac­tual per­for­mance. The trans­gres­sion of uni­verse law may be fa­tal in the phys­i­cal realm with­out se­ri­ously in­volv­ing the mind or im­pair­ing the spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. Sin is fraught with fa­tal con­se­quences to per­son­al­ity sur­vival only when it is the at­ti­tude of the whole be­ing, when it stands for the choos­ing of the mind and the will­ing of the soul.

67:7.5Evil and sin visit their con­se­quences in ma­te­rial and so­cial realms and may some­times even re­tard spir­i­tual prog­ress on cer­tain lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity, but never does the sin of any be­ing rob an­other of the re­al­iza­tion of the di­vine right of per­son­al­ity sur­vival. Eter­nal sur­vival can be jeop­ar­dized only by the de­ci­sions of the mind and the choice of the soul of the in­di­vid­ual him­self.

67:7.6Sin on Uran­tia did very lit­tle to de­lay bi­o­logic evo­lu­tion, but it did op­er­ate to de­prive the mor­tal races of the full ben­e­fit of the Adamic in­her­i­tance. Sin enor­mously re­tards in­tel­lec­tual de­vel­op­ment, moral growth, so­cial prog­ress, and mass spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. But it does not pre­vent the high­est spir­i­tual achieve­ment by any in­di­vid­ual who chooses to know God and sin­cerely do his di­vine will.

67:7.7Cali­gas­tia re­belled, Adam and Eve did de­fault, but no mor­tal sub­se­quently born on Uran­tia has suf­fered in his per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence be­cause of these blun­ders. Ev­ery mor­tal born on Uran­tia since Cali­gas­tia’s re­bel­lion has been in some man­ner time-pe­nal­ized, but the fu­ture wel­fare of such souls has never been in the least eter­nity-jeop­ar­dized. No per­son is ever made to suf­fer vi­tal spir­i­tual de­pri­va­tion be­cause of the sin of an­other. Sin is wholly per­sonal as to moral guilt or spir­i­tual con­se­quences, not­with­stand­ing its far-flung reper­cus­sions in ad­min­is­tra­tive, in­tel­lec­tual, and so­cial do­mains.

67:7.8While we can­not fathom the wis­dom that per­mits such catas­tro­phes, we can al­ways dis­cern the ben­e­fi­cial out­work­ing of these lo­cal dis­tur­bances as they are re­flected out upon the uni­verse at large.