Caligastia

• advocated cause of Lucifer on Urantia

49:5.23With the emer­gence of hu­man group­ings, this Plan­e­tary Prince ar­rives to in­au­gu­rate hu­man civ­i­liza­tion and to fo­cal­ize hu­man so­ci­ety. Your world of con­fu­sion is no cri­te­rion of the early days of the reign of the Plan­e­tary Princes, for it was near the be­gin­ning of such an ad­min­is­tra­tion on Uran­tia that your Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia, cast his lot with the re­bel­lion of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lu­cifer. Your planet has pur­sued a stormy course ever since.

• before rebelling › Planetary Prince of Urantia

50:3.1On go­ing to a young world, a Plan­e­tary Prince usu­ally takes with him a group of vol­un­teer as­cend­ing be­ings from the lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters. These as­cend­ers ac­com­pany the prince as ad­vis­ers and helpers in the work of early race im­prove­ment. This corps of ma­te­rial helpers con­sti­tutes the con­nect­ing link be­tween the prince and the world races. The Uran­tia Prince, Cali­gas­tia, had a corps of one hun­dred such helpers.

• sin of Caligastia › perverted planetary schools

50:4.11On Uran­tia these plans for plan­e­tary prog­ress and cul­tural ad­vance­ment were well un­der way, pro­ceed­ing most sat­is­fac­to­rily, when the whole en­ter­prise was brought to a rather sud­den and most in­glo­ri­ous end by Cali­gas­tia’s ad­her­ence to the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

50:4.12It was one of the most pro­foundly shock­ing episodes of this re­bel­lion for me to learn of the cal­lous per­fidy of one of my own or­der of son­ship, Cali­gas­tia, who, in de­lib­er­a­tion and with mal­ice afore­thought, sys­tem­at­i­cally per­verted the in­struc­tion and poi­soned the teach­ing pro­vided in all the Uran­tia plan­e­tary schools in op­er­a­tion at that time. The wreck of these schools was speedy and com­plete.

50:4.13Many of the off­spring of the as­cend­ers of the Prince’s ma­te­ri­al­ized staff re­mained loyal, de­sert­ing the ranks of Cali­gas­tia. These loy­al­ists were en­cour­aged by the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia, and in later times their de­scen­dants did much to up­hold the plan­e­tary con­cepts of truth and righ­teous­ness. The work of these loyal evan­gels helped to pre­vent the to­tal oblit­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual truth on Uran­tia. These coura­geous souls and their de­scen­dants kept alive some knowl­edge of the Fa­ther’s rule and pre­served for the world races the con­cept of the suc­ces­sive plan­e­tary dis­pen­sa­tions of the var­i­ous or­ders of di­vine Sons.

• failed to involve Adam and Eve in rebellion
• power of Caligastia › opposed Adam’s mission though shorn of most power

51:3.4The plans for race up­step­ping are pre­pared by the Plan­e­tary Prince and his staff and are ex­e­cuted by Adam and Eve. And this was where your Ma­te­rial Son and his com­pan­ion were placed at great dis­ad­van­tage when they ar­rived on Uran­tia. Cali­gas­tia of­fered crafty and ef­fec­tive op­po­si­tion to the Adamic mis­sion; and not­with­stand­ing that the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers of Uran­tia had duly warned both Adam and Eve con­cern­ing the plan­e­tary dan­gers in­her­ent in the pres­ence of the re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince, this arch­re­bel, by a wily stratagem, out­ma­neu­vered the Edenic pair and en­trapped them into a vi­o­la­tion of the covenant of their trustee­ship as the vis­i­ble rulers of your world. The traitorous Plan­e­tary Prince did suc­ceed in com­pro­mis­ing your Adam and Eve, but he failed in his ef­fort to in­volve them in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• power of Caligastia › contested Moses’ passage to mansion worlds

52:5.5On Uran­tia the es­tab­lish­ment of this “new and liv­ing way” was a mat­ter of fact as well as of truth. The iso­la­tion of Uran­tia in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion had sus­pended the pro­ce­dure whereby mor­tals can pass, upon death, di­rectly to the shores of the man­sion worlds. Be­fore the days of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia all souls slept on un­til the dis­pen­sa­tional or spe­cial mil­len­nial res­ur­rec­tions. Even Moses was not per­mit­ted to go over to the other side un­til the oc­ca­sion of a spe­cial res­ur­rec­tion, the fallen Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia, con­test­ing such a de­liv­er­ance. But ever since the day of Pen­te­cost, Uran­tia mor­tals again may pro­ceed di­rectly to the mor­ontia spheres.

• deposed Planetary Prince of Urantia; the devil; evil one

53:1.4Very lit­tle was heard of Lu­cifer on Uran­tia ow­ing to the fact that he as­signed his first lieu­tenant, Sa­tan, to ad­vo­cate his cause on your planet. Sa­tan was a mem­ber of the same pri­mary group of La­non­an­deks but had never func­tioned as a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign; he en­tered fully into the Lu­cifer in­sur­rec­tion. The “devil” is none other than Cali­gas­tia, the de­posed Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia and a Son of the sec­ondary or­der of La­non­an­deks. At the time Mi­chael was on Uran­tia in the flesh, Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and Cali­gas­tia were leagued to­gether to ef­fect the mis­car­riage of his be­stowal mis­sion. But they sig­nally failed.

• Abaddon was chief of staff of

53:1.5Abad­don was the chief of the staff of Cali­gas­tia. He fol­lowed his mas­ter into re­bel­lion and has ever since acted as chief ex­ec­u­tive of the Uran­tia rebels. Beelze­bub was the leader of the dis­loyal mid­way crea­tures who al­lied them­selves with the forces of the traitorous Cali­gas­tia.

• advocated cause of Lucifer on Urantia

53:7.2Through­out this pe­riod Cali­gas­tia was ad­vo­cat­ing the cause of Lu­cifer on Uran­tia. The Mel­chiz­e­deks ably op­posed the apos­tate Plan­e­tary Prince, but the soph­ist­ries of un­bri­dled lib­erty and the delu­sions of self-as­ser­tion had ev­ery op­por­tu­nity for de­ceiv­ing the prim­i­tive peo­ples of a young and un­de­vel­oped world.

• before rebelling › Planetary Prince of Urantia
• proclaimed God of Urantia by Daligastia

53:8.5Cali­gas­tia was rec­og­nized by the Son of Man as the tech­ni­cal Prince of Uran­tia up to near the time of his death. Said Je­sus: “Now is the judg­ment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast down.” And then still nearer the com­ple­tion of his life­work he an­nounced, “The prince of this world is judged.” And it is this same de­throned and dis­cred­ited Prince who was once termed “God of Uran­tia.”

• Michael offered mercy to
• power of Caligastia › never able to oppress or coerce normal individuals against their wills
• power of Caligastia › no power to enter men’s minds unless they so desire
• still free on Urantia

53:8.6The last act of Mi­chael be­fore leav­ing Uran­tia was to of­fer mercy to Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia, but they spurned his ten­der prof­fer. Cali­gas­tia, your apos­tate Plan­e­tary Prince, is still free on Uran­tia to pros­e­cute his ne­far­i­ous de­signs, but he has ab­so­lutely no power to en­ter the minds of men, nei­ther can he draw near to their souls to tempt or cor­rupt them un­less they re­ally de­sire to be cursed with his wicked pres­ence.

• power of Caligastia › since Pentecost, servile before Adjusters, Spirit of Truth

53:8.7Be­fore the be­stowal of Mi­chael these rulers of dark­ness sought to main­tain their au­thor­ity on Uran­tia, and they per­sis­tently with­stood the mi­nor and sub­or­di­nate ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties. But since the day of Pen­te­cost this traitorous Cali­gas­tia and his equally con­temptible as­so­ciate, Dali­gas­tia, are servile be­fore the di­vine majesty of the Par­a­dise Thought Ad­justers and the pro­tec­tive Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Mi­chael, which has been poured out upon all flesh.

• power of Caligastia › since Pentecost, servile before Adjusters, Spirit of Truth

53:8.9In gen­eral, when weak and dis­so­lute mor­tals are sup­posed to be un­der the in­flu­ence of dev­ils and demons, they are merely be­ing dom­i­nated by their own in­her­ent and de­based ten­den­cies, be­ing led away by their own nat­u­ral propen­si­ties. The devil has been given a great deal of credit for evil which does not be­long to him. Cali­gas­tia has been com­par­a­tively im­po­tent since the cross of Christ.

• Michael offered mercy to

53:9.1Early in the days of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, sal­va­tion was of­fered all rebels by Mi­chael. To all who would show proof of sin­cere re­pen­tance, he of­fered, upon his at­tain­ment of com­plete uni­verse sov­er­eignty, for­give­ness and re­in­state­ment in some form of uni­verse ser­vice. None of the lead­ers ac­cepted this mer­ci­ful prof­fer. But thou­sands of the an­gels and the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings, in­clud­ing hun­dreds of the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, ac­cepted the mercy pro­claimed by the Panop­tians and were given re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion at the time of Je­sus’ res­ur­rec­tion nine­teen hun­dred years ago. These be­ings have since been trans­ferred to the Fa­ther’s world of Je­ru­sem, where they must be held, tech­ni­cally, un­til the Uversa courts hand down a de­ci­sion in the mat­ter of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer. But no one doubts that, when the an­ni­hi­la­tion ver­dict is is­sued, these re­pen­tant and sal­vaged per­son­al­i­ties will be ex­empted from the de­cree of ex­tinc­tion. These pro­ba­tion­ary souls now la­bor with the Panop­tians in the work of car­ing for the Fa­ther’s world.

• before rebelling › arrived 500,000 years after appearance of will, with appearance of colored races

61:7.4500,000 years ago, dur­ing the fifth ad­vance of the ice, a new de­vel­op­ment ac­cel­er­ated the course of hu­man evo­lu­tion. Sud­denly and in one gen­er­a­tion the six col­ored races mu­tated from the abo­rig­i­nal hu­man stock. This is a dou­bly im­por­tant date since it also marks the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince.

66:0.1The ad­vent of a La­non­an­dek Son on an av­er­age world sig­ni­fies that will, the abil­ity to choose the path of eter­nal sur­vival, has de­vel­oped in the mind of prim­i­tive man. But on Uran­tia the Plan­e­tary Prince ar­rived al­most half a mil­lion years af­ter the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will.

66:0.2About five hun­dred thou­sand years ago and con­cur­rent with the ap­pear­ance of the six col­ored or San­gik races, Cali­gas­tia, the Plan­e­tary Prince, ar­rived on Uran­tia. There were al­most one-half bil­lion prim­i­tive hu­man be­ings on earth at the time of the Prince’s ar­rival, and they were well scat­tered over Eu­rope, Asia, and Africa. The Prince’s head­quar­ters, es­tab­lished in Mes­o­po­ta­mia, was at about the cen­ter of world pop­u­la­tion.

• before rebelling › secondary Lanonandek #9344

66:1.1Cali­gas­tia was a La­non­an­dek Son, num­ber 9,344 of the sec­ondary or­der. He was ex­pe­ri­enced in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the af­fairs of the lo­cal uni­verse in gen­eral and, dur­ing later ages, with the man­age­ment of the lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia in par­tic­u­lar.

• before rebelling › attached to Life Carriers on Jerusem
• before rebelling › elevated to Lucifer’s personal staff

66:1.2Prior to the reign of Lu­cifer in Sa­ta­nia, Cali­gas­tia had been at­tached to the coun­cil of the Life Car­rier ad­vis­ers on Je­ru­sem. Lu­cifer el­e­vated Cali­gas­tia to a po­si­tion on his per­sonal staff, and he ac­cept­ably filled five suc­ces­sive as­sign­ments of honor and trust.

• before rebelling › repeatedly denied commission as Planetary Prince

66:1.3Cali­gas­tia very early sought a com­mis­sion as Plan­e­tary Prince, but re­peat­edly, when his re­quest came up for ap­proval in the con­stel­la­tion coun­cils, it would fail to re­ceive the as­sent of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. Cali­gas­tia seemed es­pe­cially de­sirous of be­ing sent as plan­e­tary ruler to a dec­i­mal or life-mod­i­fi­ca­tion world. His pe­ti­tion had sev­eral times been dis­ap­proved be­fore he was fi­nally as­signed to Uran­tia.

• personal characteristics › ultraindividualistic; restless; resented supervision; tendency to disagree with established order, join parties of protest

66:1.4Cali­gas­tia went forth from Je­ru­sem to his trust of world do­min­ion with an en­vi­able rec­ord of loy­alty and de­vo­tion to the wel­fare of the uni­verse of his ori­gin and so­journ, not­with­stand­ing a cer­tain char­ac­ter­is­tic rest­less­ness cou­pled with a ten­dency to dis­agree with the es­tab­lished or­der in cer­tain mi­nor mat­ters.

• personal characteristics › experienced, brilliant, original mind
• personal characteristics › fell in love with himself

66:1.5I was pres­ent on Je­ru­sem when the bril­liant Cali­gas­tia de­parted from the sys­tem cap­i­tal. No prince of the plan­ets ever em­barked upon a ca­reer of world ruler­ship with a richer prepara­tory ex­pe­ri­ence or with bet­ter prospects than did Cali­gas­tia on that event­ful day one-half mil­lion years ago. One thing is cer­tain: As I ex­e­cuted my as­sign­ment of putting the nar­ra­tive of that event on the broad­casts of the lo­cal uni­verse, I never for one mo­ment en­ter­tained even in the slight­est de­gree any idea that this no­ble La­non­an­dek would so shortly be­tray his sa­cred trust of plan­e­tary cus­tody and so hor­ri­bly stain the fair name of his ex­alted or­der of uni­verse son­ship. I re­ally re­garded Uran­tia as be­ing among the five or six most for­tu­nate plan­ets in all Sa­ta­nia in that it was to have such an ex­pe­ri­enced, bril­liant, and orig­i­nal mind at the helm of world af­fairs. I did not then com­pre­hend that Cali­gas­tia was in­sid­i­ously falling in love with him­self; I did not then so fully un­der­stand the sub­tleties of per­son­al­ity pride.

• before rebelling › Dalamatia commandments enjoined obedience to

66:7.102. You shall not dis­obey the Fa­ther’s Son, the world’s ruler, nor show dis­re­spect to his super­hu­man as­so­ciates.

• personal characteristics › ultraindividualistic; restless; resented supervision; tendency to disagree with established order, join parties of protest

66:8.1In look­ing back over the long ca­reer of Cali­gas­tia, we find only one out­stand­ing fea­ture of his con­duct that might have chal­lenged at­ten­tion; he was ul­train­di­vid­u­al­is­tic. He was in­clined to take sides with al­most ev­ery party of protest, and he was usu­ally sym­pa­thetic with those who gave mild ex­pres­sion to im­plied crit­i­cism. We de­tect the early ap­pear­ance of this ten­dency to be rest­less un­der au­thor­ity, to mildly re­sent all forms of super­vi­sion. While slightly re­sent­ful of se­nior coun­sel and some­what restive un­der su­pe­rior au­thor­ity, nonethe­less, when­ever a test had come, he had al­ways proved loyal to the uni­verse rulers and obe­di­ent to the man­dates of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. No real fault was ever found in him up to the time of his shame­ful be­trayal of Uran­tia.

• patiently warned regarding pride, critical tendencies

66:8.2It should be noted that both Lu­cifer and Cali­gas­tia had been pa­tiently in­structed and lov­ingly warned re­spect­ing their crit­i­cal ten­den­cies and the sub­tle de­vel­op­ment of their pride of self and its as­so­ci­ated ex­ag­ger­a­tion of the feel­ing of self-im­por­tance. But all of these at­tempts to help had been mis­con­strued as un­war­ranted crit­i­cism and as un­jus­ti­fied in­ter­fer­ence with per­sonal lib­er­ties. Both Cali­gas­tia and Lu­cifer judged their friendly ad­vis­ers as be­ing ac­tu­ated by the very rep­re­hen­si­ble mo­tives which were be­gin­ning to dom­i­nate their own dis­torted think­ing and mis­guided plan­ning. They judged their un­selfish ad­vis­ers by their own evolv­ing self­ish­ness.

• power of Caligastia › opposed Adam’s mission though shorn of most power

66:8.4The Prince of Uran­tia went into dark­ness at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, thus pre­cip­i­tat­ing the long con­fu­sion of the planet. He was sub­se­quently de­prived of sov­er­eign au­thor­ity by the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the con­stel­la­tion rulers and other uni­verse au­thor­i­ties. He shared the in­ev­i­ta­ble vi­cis­si­tudes of iso­lated Uran­tia down to the time of Adam’s so­journ on the planet and con­tributed some­thing to the mis­car­riage of the plan to up­lift the mor­tal races through the in­fu­sion of the lifeblood of the new vi­o­let race—the de­scen­dants of Adam and Eve.

• power of Caligastia › curtailed by incarnation of Melchizedek
• power of Caligastia › shorn of authority during incarnation of Michael

66:8.5The power of the fallen Prince to dis­turb hu­man af­fairs was enor­mously cur­tailed by the mor­tal in­car­na­tion of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek in the days of Abra­ham; and sub­se­quently, dur­ing the life of Mi­chael in the flesh, this traitorous Prince was fi­nally shorn of all au­thor­ity on Uran­tia.

• power of Caligastia › never able to oppress or coerce normal individuals against their wills

66:8.6The doc­trine of a per­sonal devil on Uran­tia, though it had some foun­da­tion in the plan­e­tary pres­ence of the traitorous and in­iq­ui­tous Cali­gas­tia, was nev­er­the­less wholly fic­ti­tious in its teach­ings that such a “devil” could in­flu­ence the nor­mal hu­man mind against its free and nat­u­ral choos­ing. Even be­fore Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia, nei­ther Cali­gas­tia nor Dali­gas­tia was ever able to op­press mor­tals or to co­erce any nor­mal in­di­vid­ual into do­ing any­thing against the hu­man will. The free will of man is su­preme in moral af­fairs; even the in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster re­fuses to com­pel man to think a sin­gle thought or to per­form a sin­gle act against the choos­ing of man’s own will.

• power of Caligastia › now shorn of all power to harm

66:8.7And now this rebel of the realm, shorn of all power to harm his for­mer sub­jects, awaits the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion, by the Uversa An­cients of Days, of all who par­tic­i­pated in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

67:1.1For three hun­dred thou­sand years Cali­gas­tia had been in charge of Uran­tia when Sa­tan, Lu­cifer’s as­sis­tant, made one of his pe­ri­odic in­spec­tion calls. And when Sa­tan ar­rived on the planet, his ap­pear­ance in no way re­sem­bled your car­i­ca­tures of his ne­far­i­ous majesty. He was, and still is, a La­non­an­dek Son of great bril­liance. “And no mar­vel, for Sa­tan him­self is a bril­liant crea­ture of light.”

67:1.2In the course of this in­spec­tion Sa­tan in­formed Cali­gas­tia of Lu­cifer’s then pro­posed “Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty,” and as we now know, the Prince agreed to be­tray the planet upon the an­nounce­ment of the re­bel­lion. The loyal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties look with pe­cu­liar dis­dain upon Prince Cali­gas­tia be­cause of this pre­med­i­tated be­trayal of trust. The Cre­ator Son voiced this con­tempt when he said: “You are like your leader, Lu­cifer, and you have sin­fully per­pet­u­ated his in­iq­uity. He was a fal­si­fier from the be­gin­ning of his self-ex­al­ta­tion be­cause he abode not in the truth.”

• personal characteristics › deliberate sin completely distorted his personality

67:1.3In all the ad­min­is­tra­tive work of a lo­cal uni­verse no high trust is deemed more sa­cred than that re­posed in a Plan­e­tary Prince who as­sumes re­spon­si­bil­ity for the wel­fare and guid­ance of the evolv­ing mor­tals on a newly in­hab­ited world. And of all forms of evil, none are more de­struc­tive of per­son­al­ity sta­tus than be­trayal of trust and dis­loy­alty to one’s con­fid­ing friends. In com­mit­ting this de­lib­er­ate sin, Cali­gas­tia so com­pletely dis­torted his per­son­al­ity that his mind has never since been able fully to re­gain its equi­lib­rium.

67:1.4There are many ways of look­ing at sin, but from the uni­verse philo­sophic view­point sin is the at­ti­tude of a per­son­al­ity who is know­ingly re­sist­ing cos­mic re­al­ity. Er­ror might be re­garded as a mis­con­cep­tion or dis­tor­tion of re­al­ity. Evil is a par­tial re­al­iza­tion of, or mal­ad­just­ment to, uni­verse re­al­i­ties. But sin is a pur­pose­ful re­sis­tance to di­vine re­al­ity—a con­scious choos­ing to op­pose spir­i­tual prog­ress—while in­iq­uity con­sists in an open and per­sis­tent de­fi­ance of rec­og­nized re­al­ity and sig­ni­fies such a de­gree of per­son­al­ity dis­in­te­gra­tion as to bor­der on cos­mic in­san­ity.

67:1.5Er­ror sug­gests lack of in­tel­lec­tual keen­ness; evil, de­fi­ciency of wis­dom; sin, ab­ject spir­i­tual pov­erty; but in­iq­uity is in­dica­tive of van­ish­ing per­son­al­ity con­trol.

67:1.6And when sin has so many times been cho­sen and so of­ten been re­peated, it may be­come ha­bit­ual. Ha­bit­ual sin­ners can eas­ily be­come in­iq­ui­tous, be­come whole­hearted rebels against the uni­verse and all of its di­vine re­al­i­ties. While all man­ner of sins may be for­given, we doubt whether the es­tab­lished in­iq­ui­ter would ever sin­cerely ex­pe­ri­ence sor­row for his mis­deeds or ac­cept for­give­ness for his sins.

• proclaimed God of Urantia by Daligastia

67:2.4Dali­gas­tia for­mally pro­claimed Cali­gas­tia “God of Uran­tia and su­preme over all.” With this procla­ma­tion be­fore them, the is­sues were clearly drawn; and each group drew off by it­self and be­gan de­lib­er­a­tions, dis­cus­sions des­tined even­tu­ally to de­ter­mine the fate of ev­ery super­hu­man per­son­al­ity on the planet.

• ideas for premature freedom failed

67:5.3The Cali­gas­tia scheme for the im­me­di­ate re­con­struc­tion of hu­man so­ci­ety in ac­cor­dance with his ideas of in­di­vid­ual free­dom and group lib­er­ties, proved a swift and more or less com­plete fail­ure. So­ci­ety quickly sank back to its old bi­o­logic level, and the for­ward strug­gle be­gan all over, start­ing not very far in ad­vance of where it was at the be­gin­ning of the Cali­gas­tia regime, this up­heaval hav­ing left the world in con­fu­sion worse con­founded.

• power of Caligastia › opposed Adam’s mission though shorn of most power

73:2.5Al­though Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia had been de­prived of much of their power for evil, they did ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble to frus­trate and ham­per the work of prepar­ing the Gar­den. But their evil machi­na­tions were largely off­set by the faith­ful ac­tiv­i­ties of the al­most ten thou­sand loyal mid­way crea­tures who so tire­lessly la­bored to ad­vance the en­ter­prise.

• power of Caligastia › opposed Adam’s mission though shorn of most power

74:3.1And now, af­ter their for­mal in­stal­la­tion, Adam and Eve be­came painfully aware of their plan­e­tary iso­la­tion. Silent were the fa­mil­iar broad­casts, and ab­sent were all the cir­cuits of ex­tra­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Their Je­ru­sem fel­lows had gone to worlds run­ning along smoothly with a well-es­tab­lished Plan­e­tary Prince and an ex­pe­ri­enced staff ready to re­ceive them and com­pe­tent to co-op­er­ate with them dur­ing their early ex­pe­ri­ence on such worlds. But on Uran­tia re­bel­lion had changed ev­ery­thing. Here the Plan­e­tary Prince was very much pres­ent, and though shorn of most of his power to work evil, he was still able to make the task of Adam and Eve dif­fi­cult and to some ex­tent haz­ardous. It was a se­ri­ous and dis­il­lu­sioned Son and Daugh­ter of Je­ru­sem who walked that night through the Gar­den un­der the shin­ing of the full moon, dis­cussing plans for the next day.

• personal characteristics › invisible to humans
• power of Caligastia › opposed Adam’s mission though shorn of most power

74:5.5Adam made a heroic and de­ter­mined ef­fort to es­tab­lish a world gov­ern­ment, but he met with stub­born re­sis­tance at ev­ery turn. Adam had al­ready put in op­er­a­tion a sys­tem of group con­trol through­out Eden and had fed­er­ated all of these com­pa­nies into the Edenic league. But trou­ble, se­ri­ous trou­ble, en­sued when he went out­side the Gar­den and sought to ap­ply these ideas to the out­ly­ing tribes. The mo­ment Adam’s as­so­ciates be­gan to work out­side the Gar­den, they met the di­rect and well-planned re­sis­tance of Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia. The fallen Prince had been de­posed as world ruler, but he had not been re­moved from the planet. He was still pres­ent on earth and able, at least to some ex­tent, to re­sist all of Adam’s plans for the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion of hu­man so­ci­ety. Adam tried to warn the races against Cali­gas­tia, but the task was made very dif­fi­cult be­cause his arch­en­emy was in­vis­i­ble to the eyes of mor­tals.

• held many conferences with Adam
• power of Caligastia › never able to oppress or coerce normal individuals against their wills

75:2.1Cali­gas­tia paid fre­quent vis­its to the Gar­den and held many con­fer­ences with Adam and Eve, but they were adamant to all his sug­ges­tions of com­pro­mise and short-cut ad­ven­tures. They had be­fore them enough of the re­sults of re­bel­lion to pro­duce ef­fec­tive im­mu­nity against all such in­sin­u­at­ing pro­pos­als. Even the young off­spring of Adam were un­in­flu­enced by the over­tures of Dali­gas­tia. And of course nei­ther Cali­gas­tia nor his as­so­ciate had power to in­flu­ence any in­di­vid­ual against his will, much less to per­suade the chil­dren of Adam to do wrong.

• personal characteristics › misguided high Son of local universe
• titular Planetary Prince until deposed in times of Jesus

75:2.2It must be re­mem­bered that Cali­gas­tia was still the tit­u­lar Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, a mis­guided but nev­er­the­less high Son of the lo­cal uni­verse. He was not fi­nally de­posed un­til the times of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia.

• deposed Planetary Prince of Urantia; the devil; evil one

75:2.3But the fallen Prince was per­sis­tent and de­ter­mined. He soon gave up work­ing on Adam and de­cided to try a wily flank at­tack on Eve. The evil one con­cluded that the only hope for suc­cess lay in the adroit em­ploy­ment of suit­able per­sons be­long­ing to the up­per strata of the Nod­ite group, the de­scen­dants of his one­time cor­po­real-staff as­so­ciates. And the plans were ac­cord­ingly laid for en­trap­ping the mother of the vi­o­let race.

75:2.4It was far­thest from Eve’s in­ten­tion ever to do any­thing which would mil­i­tate against Adam’s plans or jeop­ar­dize their plan­e­tary trust. Know­ing the ten­dency of woman to look upon im­me­di­ate re­sults rather than to plan far­sight­edly for more re­mote ef­fects, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, be­fore de­part­ing, had es­pe­cially en­joined Eve as to the pe­cu­liar dan­gers be­set­ting their iso­lated po­si­tion on the planet and had in par­tic­u­lar warned her never to stray from the side of her mate, that is, to at­tempt no per­sonal or se­cret meth­ods of fur­ther­ing their mu­tual un­der­tak­ings. Eve had most scrupu­lously car­ried out these in­struc­tions for more than one hun­dred years, and it did not oc­cur to her that any dan­ger would at­tach to the in­creas­ingly pri­vate and con­fi­den­tial vis­its she was en­joy­ing with a cer­tain Nod­ite leader named Ser­a­p­ata­tia. The whole af­fair de­vel­oped so grad­u­ally and nat­u­rally that she was taken un­awares.

75:2.5The Gar­den dwellers had been in con­tact with the Nod­ites since the early days of Eden. From these mixed de­scen­dants of the de­fault­ing mem­bers of Cali­gas­tia’s staff they had re­ceived much valu­able help and co-op­er­a­tion, and through them the Edenic regime was now to meet its com­plete un­do­ing and fi­nal over­throw.

• Serapatatia not aware of being used by

75:3.3Ser­a­p­ata­tia be­came one of the most able and ef­fi­cient of all of Adam’s lieu­tenants. He was en­tirely hon­est and thor­oughly sin­cere in all of his ac­tiv­i­ties; he was never con­scious, even later on, that he was be­ing used as a cir­cum­stan­tial tool of the wily Cali­gas­tia.

• Serapatatia not aware of being used by

75:3.6It should again be em­pha­sized that Ser­a­p­ata­tia was al­to­gether hon­est and wholly sin­cere in all that he pro­posed. He never once sus­pected that he was play­ing into the hands of Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia. Ser­a­p­ata­tia was en­tirely loyal to the plan of build­ing up a strong re­serve of the vi­o­let race be­fore at­tempt­ing the world-wide up­step­ping of the con­fused peo­ples of Uran­tia. But this would re­quire hun­dreds of years to con­sum­mate, and he was im­pa­tient; he wanted to see some im­me­di­ate re­sults—some­thing in his own life­time. He made it clear to Eve that Adam was of­ten­times dis­cour­aged by the lit­tle that had been ac­com­plished to­ward up­lift­ing the world.

• failed to involve Adam and Eve in rebellion

75:7.7Cali­gas­tia did suc­ceed in trap­ping Adam and Eve, but he did not ac­com­plish his pur­pose of lead­ing them into open re­bel­lion against the uni­verse gov­ern­ment. What they had done was in­deed evil, but they were never guilty of con­tempt for truth, nei­ther did they know­ingly en­list in re­bel­lion against the righ­teous rule of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his Cre­ator Son.

• held many conferences with Adam

76:4.5Both the phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual vi­sions of Adam and Eve were far su­pe­rior to those of the pres­ent-day peo­ples. Their spe­cial senses were much more acute, and they were able to see the mid­way­ers and the an­gelic hosts, the Mel­chiz­e­deks, and the fallen Prince Cali­gas­tia, who sev­eral times came to con­fer with his no­ble suc­ces­sor. They re­tained the abil­ity to see these ce­les­tial be­ings for over one hun­dred years af­ter the de­fault. These spe­cial senses were not so acutely pres­ent in their chil­dren and tended to di­min­ish with each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion.

• sin of Caligastia › by-passing time governor of progressive liberation

118:8.7The in­iq­uity of Cali­gas­tia was the by-pass­ing of the time gov­er­nor of pro­gres­sive hu­man lib­er­a­tion—the gra­tu­itous de­struc­tion of re­strain­ing bar­ri­ers, bar­ri­ers which the mor­tal minds of those times had not ex­pe­ri­en­tially over­rid­den.

• Immanuel instructed Michael to adjudicate

120:2.2“2. Apart from your earth mis­sion and your uni­verse rev­e­la­tion, but in­ci­den­tal to both, I coun­sel that you as­sume, af­ter you are suf­fi­ciently self-con­scious of your di­vine iden­tity, the ad­di­tional task of tech­ni­cally ter­mi­nat­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, and that you do all this as the Son of Man; thus, as a mor­tal crea­ture of the realm, in weak­ness made pow­er­ful by faith-sub­mis­sion to the will of your Fa­ther, I sug­gest that you gra­ciously achieve all you have re­peat­edly de­clined ar­bi­trar­ily to ac­com­plish by power and might when you were so en­dowed at the time of the in­cep­tion of this sin­ful and un­jus­ti­fied re­bel­lion. I would re­gard it as a fit­ting cli­max of your mor­tal be­stowal if you should re­turn to us as the Son of Man, Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, as well as the Son of God, su­preme sov­er­eign of your uni­verse. As a mor­tal man, the low­est type of in­tel­li­gent crea­ture in Neb­a­don, meet and ad­ju­di­cate the blas­phe­mous pre­ten­sions of Cali­gas­tia and Lu­cifer and, in your as­sumed hum­ble es­tate, for­ever end the shame­ful mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions of these fallen chil­dren of light. Hav­ing stead­fastly de­clined to dis­credit these rebels through the ex­er­cise of your cre­ator pre­rog­a­tives, now it would be fit­ting that you should, in the like­ness of the low­est crea­tures of your cre­ation, wrest do­min­ion from the hands of these fallen Sons; and so would your whole lo­cal uni­verse in all fair­ness clearly and for­ever rec­og­nize the jus­tice of your do­ing in the role of mor­tal flesh those things which mercy ad­mon­ished you not to do by the power of ar­bi­trary au­thor­ity. And hav­ing thus by your be­stowal es­tab­lished the pos­si­bil­ity of the sov­er­eignty of the Su­preme in Neb­a­don, you will in ef­fect have brought to a close the un­ad­ju­di­cated af­fairs of all pre­ced­ing in­sur­rec­tions, not­with­stand­ing the greater or lesser time lag in­volved in the re­al­iza­tion of this achieve­ment. By this act the pend­ing dis­sen­sions of your uni­verse will be in sub­stance liq­ui­dated. And with the sub­se­quent en­dow­ment of su­preme sov­er­eignty over your uni­verse, sim­i­lar chal­lenges to your au­thor­ity can never re­cur in any part of your great per­sonal cre­ation.

• forever silenced by Jesus’ life of self-forgetful service

120:4.1And so cer­tain un­wor­thy chil­dren of Mi­chael, who had ac­cused their Cre­ator-fa­ther of self­ishly seek­ing ruler­ship and in­dulged the in­sin­u­a­tion that the Cre­ator Son was ar­bi­trar­ily and au­to­crat­i­cally up­held in power by virtue of the un­rea­son­ing loy­alty of a de­luded uni­verse of sub­servient crea­tures, were to be si­lenced for­ever and left con­founded and dis­il­lu­sioned by the life of self-for­get­ful ser­vice which the Son of God now en­tered upon as the Son of Man—all the while sub­ject to “the will of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther.”

• fully visible to Jesus on Mount Hermon

134:8.6Near the end of the moun­tain so­journ Je­sus asked his Fa­ther if he might be per­mit­ted to hold con­fer­ence with his Sa­ta­nia en­e­mies as the Son of Man, as Joshua ben Joseph. This re­quest was granted. Dur­ing the last week on Mount Her­mon the great temp­ta­tion, the uni­verse trial, oc­curred. Sa­tan (rep­re­sent­ing Lu­cifer) and the re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince, Cali­gas­tia, were pres­ent with Je­sus and were made fully vis­i­ble to him. And this “temp­ta­tion,” this fi­nal trial of hu­man loy­alty in the face of the mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions of rebel per­son­al­i­ties, had not to do with food, tem­ple pin­na­cles, or pre­sump­tu­ous acts. It had not to do with the king­doms of this world but with the sov­er­eignty of a mighty and glo­ri­ous uni­verse. The sym­bol­ism of your rec­ords was in­tended for the back­ward ages of the world’s child­like thought. And sub­se­quent gen­er­a­tions should un­der­stand what a great strug­gle the Son of Man passed through that event­ful day on Mount Her­mon.

• Jesus defeated

136:3.1Je­sus had en­dured the great temp­ta­tion of his mor­tal be­stowal be­fore his bap­tism when he had been wet with the dews of Mount Her­mon for six weeks. There on Mount Her­mon, as an un­aided mor­tal of the realm, he had met and de­feated the Uran­tia pre­tender, Cali­gas­tia, the prince of this world. That event­ful day, on the uni­verse rec­ords, Je­sus of Naz­a­reth had be­come the Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. And this Prince of Uran­tia, so soon to be pro­claimed su­preme Sov­er­eign of Neb­a­don, now went into forty days of re­tire­ment to for­mu­late the plans and de­ter­mine upon the tech­nique of pro­claim­ing the new king­dom of God in the hearts of men.

• sin of Caligastia › prostituted divine talents for own aggrandizement

136:6.9In this de­ci­sion Je­sus of Naz­a­reth por­trayed to an on­look­ing uni­verse the folly and sin of pros­ti­tut­ing di­vine tal­ents and God-given abil­i­ties for per­sonal ag­gran­dize­ment or for purely self­ish gain and glo­ri­fi­ca­tion. That was the sin of Lu­cifer and Cali­gas­tia.

• sin of Caligastia › tried to get ahead of slow, sure way of accomplishing divine purpose

136:8.5Je­sus was fully aware of the short cuts open to one of his pow­ers. He knew many ways in which the at­ten­tion of the na­tion, and the whole world, could be im­me­di­ately fo­cused upon him­self. Soon the Pass­over would be cel­e­brated at Je­ru­sa­lem; the city would be thronged with vis­i­tors. He could as­cend the pin­na­cle of the tem­ple and be­fore the be­wil­dered mul­ti­tude walk out on the air; that would be the kind of a Mes­siah they were look­ing for. But he would sub­se­quently dis­ap­point them since he had not come to re-es­tab­lish David’s throne. And he knew the fu­til­ity of the Cali­gas­tia method of try­ing to get ahead of the nat­u­ral, slow, and sure way of ac­com­plish­ing the di­vine pur­pose. Again the Son of Man bowed obe­di­ently to the Fa­ther’s way, the Fa­ther’s will.

• power of Caligastia › enemy would seek to draw apostles away

138:7.3Je­sus now re­counted for them the com­ing of John, the bap­tism in the Jor­dan, the mar­riage feast at Cana, the re­cent choos­ing of the six, and the with­drawal from them of his own broth­ers in the flesh, and warned them that the en­emy of the king­dom would seek also to draw them away. Af­ter this short but earnest talk the apos­tles all arose, un­der Pe­ter’s lead­er­ship, to de­clare their undy­ing de­vo­tion to their Mas­ter and to pledge their unswerv­ing loy­alty to the king­dom, as Thomas ex­pressed it, “To this com­ing king­dom, no mat­ter what it is and even if I do not fully un­der­stand it.” They all truly be­lieved in Je­sus, even though they did not fully com­pre­hend his teach­ing.

• Jesus defeated

174:5.12Then Je­sus con­tin­ued to speak: “All this has not hap­pened for my sake but for yours. I know of a cer­tainty that the Fa­ther will re­ceive me and ac­cept my mis­sion in your be­half, but it is need­ful that you be en­cour­aged and be made ready for the fiery trial which is just ahead. Let me as­sure you that vic­tory shall even­tu­ally crown our united ef­forts to en­lighten the world and lib­er­ate man­kind. The old or­der is bring­ing it­self to judg­ment; the Prince of this world I have cast down; and all men shall be­come free by the light of the spirit which I will pour out upon all flesh af­ter I have as­cended to my Fa­ther in heaven.

• deposed Planetary Prince of Urantia; the devil; evil one
• Judas’s betrayal pleased

179:2.3Je­sus be­gan thus to talk to his apos­tles be­cause he knew that his hour had come. He un­der­stood that the time had come when he was to re­turn to the Fa­ther, and that his work on earth was al­most fin­ished. The Mas­ter knew he had re­vealed the Fa­ther’s love on earth and had shown forth his mercy to man­kind, and that he had com­pleted that for which he came into the world, even to the re­ceiv­ing of all power and au­thor­ity in heaven and on earth. Like­wise, he knew Ju­das Is­car­iot had fully made up his mind to de­liver him that night into the hands of his en­e­mies. He fully re­al­ized that this traitorous be­trayal was the work of Ju­das, but that it also pleased Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and Cali­gas­tia the prince of dark­ness. But he feared none of those who sought his spir­i­tual over­throw any more than he feared those who sought to ac­com­plish his phys­i­cal death. The Mas­ter had but one anx­i­ety, and that was for the safety and sal­va­tion of his cho­sen fol­low­ers. And so, with the full knowl­edge that the Fa­ther had put all things un­der his au­thor­ity, the Mas­ter now pre­pared to en­act the para­ble of broth­erly love.

• Judas’s betrayal pleased

183:0.4Though Je­sus knew that the plan for his death had its ori­gin in the coun­cils of the rulers of the Jews, he was also aware that all such ne­far­i­ous schemes had the full ap­proval of Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and Cali­gas­tia. And he well knew that these rebels of the realms would also be pleased to see all of the apos­tles de­stroyed with him.

• council seat of C. occupied during time of tomb

188:3.14There is good rea­son for be­liev­ing that some per­son­al­ity sat in the seat of Cali­gas­tia in the sys­tem coun­cil of the Plan­e­tary Princes on Je­ru­sem which con­vened while the body of Je­sus rested in the tomb.

• deposed Planetary Prince of Urantia; the devil; evil one

189:3.3Not­with­stand­ing that count­less in­di­vid­u­als hav­ing per­sonal se­raphic guard­i­ans and those achiev­ing the req­ui­site at­tain­ment of spir­i­tual per­son­al­ity prog­ress had gone on to man­so­nia dur­ing the ages sub­se­quent to the times of Adam and Eve, and though there had been many spe­cial and mil­len­nial res­ur­rec­tions of Uran­tia sons, this was the third of the plan­e­tary roll calls, or com­plete dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions. The first oc­curred at the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince, the sec­ond dur­ing the time of Adam, and this, the third, sig­nal­ized the mor­ontia res­ur­rec­tion, the mor­tal tran­sit, of Je­sus of Naz­a­reth.