The Planetary Rebellion

67:8.1The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion was with­stood by many coura­geous be­ings on the var­i­ous worlds of Sa­ta­nia; but the rec­ords of Sal­ving­ton por­tray Amadon as the out­stand­ing char­ac­ter of the en­tire sys­tem in his glo­ri­ous re­jec­tion of the flood tides of sedi­tion and in his unswerv­ing de­vo­tion to Van—they stood to­gether un­moved in their loy­alty to the su­prem­acy of the in­vis­i­ble Fa­ther and his Son Mi­chael.

67:8.2At the time of these mo­men­tous trans­ac­tions I was sta­tioned on Eden­tia, and I am still con­scious of the ex­hil­a­ra­tion I ex­pe­ri­enced as I pe­rused the Sal­ving­ton broad­casts which told from day to day of the un­be­liev­able stead­fast­ness, the tran­scen­dent de­vo­tion, and the ex­qui­site loy­alty of this one­time semi­sav­age spring­ing from the ex­per­i­men­tal and orig­i­nal stock of the An­donic race.

67:8.3From Eden­tia up through Sal­ving­ton and even on to Uversa, for seven long years the first in­quiry of all sub­or­di­nate ce­les­tial life re­gard­ing the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion, ever and al­ways, was: “What of Amadon of Uran­tia, does he still stand un­moved?”

67:8.4If the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion has hand­i­capped the lo­cal sys­tem and its fallen worlds, if the loss of this Son and his mis­led as­so­ciates has tem­porar­ily ham­pered the prog­ress of the con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, then weigh the ef­fect of the far-flung pre­sen­ta­tion of the in­spir­ing per­for­mance of this one child of na­ture and his de­ter­mined band of 143 com­rades in stand­ing stead­fast for the higher con­cepts of uni­verse man­age­ment and ad­min­is­tra­tion in the face of such tremen­dous and ad­verse pres­sure ex­erted by his dis­loyal su­pe­ri­ors. And let me as­sure you, this has al­ready done more good in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton than can ever be out­weighed by the sum to­tal of all the evil and sor­row of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

67:8.5And all this is a beau­ti­fully touch­ing and su­perbly mag­nif­i­cent il­lu­mi­na­tion of the wis­dom of the Fa­ther’s uni­ver­sal plan for mo­bi­liz­ing the Corps of Mor­tal Fi­nal­ity on Par­a­dise and for re­cruit­ing this vast group of mys­te­ri­ous ser­vants of the fu­ture largely from the com­mon clay of the mor­tals of as­cend­ing pro­gres­sion—just such mor­tals as the im­preg­nable Amadon.

67:8.6[Pre­sented by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]