The Midway Creatures

77:7.1The ma­jor­ity of the pri­mary mid­way­ers went into sin at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. When the dev­as­ta­tion of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion was reck­oned up, among other losses it was dis­cov­ered that of the orig­i­nal 50,000, 40,119 had joined the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion.

77:7.2The orig­i­nal num­ber of sec­ondary mid­way­ers was 1,984, and of these 873 failed to align them­selves with the rule of Mi­chael and were duly in­terned in con­nec­tion with the plan­e­tary ad­ju­di­ca­tion of Uran­tia on the day of Pen­te­cost. No one can fore­cast the fu­ture of these fallen crea­tures.

77:7.3Both groups of rebel mid­way­ers are now held in cus­tody await­ing the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the sys­tem re­bel­lion. But they did many strange things on earth prior to the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the pres­ent plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tion.

77:7.4These dis­loyal mid­way­ers were able to re­veal them­selves to mor­tal eyes un­der cer­tain cir­cum­stances, and es­pe­cially was this true of the as­so­ciates of Beelze­bub, the leader of the apos­tate sec­ondary mid­way­ers. But these unique crea­tures must not be con­fused with cer­tain of the rebel cheru­bim and ser­a­phim who also were on earth up to the time of Christ’s death and res­ur­rec­tion. Some of the older writ­ers des­ig­nated these re­bel­lious mid­way crea­tures as evil spir­its and demons, and the apos­tate ser­a­phim as evil an­gels.

77:7.5On no world can evil spir­its pos­sess any mor­tal mind sub­se­quent to the life of a Par­a­dise be­stowal Son. But be­fore the days of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia—be­fore the uni­ver­sal com­ing of the Thought Ad­justers and the pour­ing out of the Mas­ter’s spirit upon all flesh—these rebel mid­way­ers were ac­tu­ally able to in­flu­ence the minds of cer­tain in­fe­rior mor­tals and some­what to con­trol their ac­tions. This was ac­com­plished in much the same way as the loyal mid­way crea­tures func­tion when they serve as ef­fi­cient con­tact guard­i­ans of the hu­man minds of the Uran­tia re­serve corps of des­tiny at those times when the Ad­juster is, in ef­fect, de­tached from the per­son­al­ity dur­ing a sea­son of con­tact with super­hu­man in­tel­li­gences.

77:7.6It is no mere fig­ure of speech when the rec­ord states: “And they brought to Him all sorts of sick peo­ple, those who were pos­sessed by dev­ils and those who were lu­natics.” Je­sus knew and rec­og­nized the dif­fer­ence be­tween in­san­ity and de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion, al­though these states were greatly con­fused in the minds of those who lived in his day and gen­er­a­tion.

77:7.7Even prior to Pen­te­cost no rebel spirit could dom­i­nate a nor­mal hu­man mind, and since that day even the weak minds of in­fe­rior mor­tals are free from such pos­si­bil­i­ties. The sup­posed cast­ing out of dev­ils since the ar­rival of the Spirit of Truth has been a mat­ter of con­found­ing a be­lief in de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion with hys­te­ria, in­san­ity, and fee­ble-mind­ed­ness. But just be­cause Mi­chael’s be­stowal has for­ever lib­er­ated all hu­man minds on Uran­tia from the pos­si­bil­ity of de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion, do not imag­ine that such was not a re­al­ity in for­mer ages.

77:7.8The en­tire group of rebel mid­way­ers is at pres­ent held pris­oner by or­der of the Most Highs of Eden­tia. No more do they roam this world on mis­chief bent. Re­gard­less of the pres­ence of the Thought Ad­justers, the pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh for­ever made it im­pos­si­ble for dis­loyal spir­its of any sort or de­scrip­tion ever again to in­vade even the most fee­ble of hu­man minds. Since the day of Pen­te­cost there never again can be such a thing as de­mo­ni­a­cal pos­ses­sion.