Daligastia

66:3.3The head­quar­ters of the Plan­e­tary Prince on Uran­tia was typ­i­cal of such sta­tions on a young and de­vel­op­ing sphere. The nu­cleus of the Prince’s set­tle­ment was a very sim­ple but beau­ti­ful city, en­closed within a wall forty feet high. This world cen­ter of cul­ture was named Dala­ma­tia in honor of Dali­gas­tia.

67:2.1Shortly af­ter Sa­tan’s in­spec­tion and when the plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion was on the eve of the re­al­iza­tion of great things on Uran­tia, one day, mid­win­ter of the north­ern con­ti­nents, Cali­gas­tia held a pro­longed con­fer­ence with his as­so­ciate, Dali­gas­tia, af­ter which the lat­ter called the ten coun­cils of Uran­tia in ses­sion ex­traor­di­nary. This as­sem­bly was opened with the state­ment that Prince Cali­gas­tia was about to pro­claim him­self ab­so­lute sov­er­eign of Uran­tia and de­manded that all ad­min­is­tra­tive groups ab­di­cate by re­sign­ing all of their func­tions and pow­ers into the hands of Dali­gas­tia as trus­tee, pend­ing the re­or­ga­ni­za­tion of the plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment and the sub­se­quent re­dis­tri­bu­tion of these of­fices of ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

67:4.2The sixty mem­bers of the plan­e­tary staff who went into re­bel­lion chose Nod as their leader. They worked whole­heart­edly for the rebel Prince but soon dis­cov­ered that they were de­prived of the sus­te­nance of the sys­tem life cir­cuits. They awak­ened to the fact that they had been de­graded to the sta­tus of mor­tal be­ings. They were in­deed super­hu­man but, at the same time, ma­te­rial and mor­tal. In an ef­fort to in­crease their num­bers, Dali­gas­tia or­dered im­me­di­ate re­sort to sex­ual re­pro­duc­tion, know­ing full well that the orig­i­nal sixty and their forty-four mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates were doomed to suf­fer ex­tinc­tion by death, sooner or later. Af­ter the fall of Dala­ma­tia the dis­loyal staff mi­grated to the north and the east. Their de­scen­dants were long known as the Nod­ites, and their dwell­ing place as “the land of Nod.”

66:5.1The one hun­dred were or­ga­nized for ser­vice in ten au­ton­o­mous coun­cils of ten mem­bers each. When two or more of these ten coun­cils met in joint ses­sion, such li­ai­son gath­er­ings were pre­sided over by Dali­gas­tia. These ten groups were con­sti­tuted as fol­lows:

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.”

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.

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.

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.

66:2.2At the head of this group was Dali­gas­tia, the as­so­ciate-as­sis­tant of the Plan­e­tary Prince. Dali­gas­tia was also a sec­ondary La­non­an­dek Son, be­ing num­ber 319,407 of that or­der. He ranked as an as­sis­tant at the time of his as­sign­ment as Cali­gas­tia’s as­so­ciate.

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.