due process

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.

53:7.14While Lu­cifer was de­prived of all ad­min­is­tra­tive au­thor­ity in Sa­ta­nia, there then ex­isted no lo­cal uni­verse power nor tri­bu­nal which could de­tain or de­stroy this wicked rebel; at that time Mi­chael was not a sov­er­eign ruler. The An­cients of Days sus­tained the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers in their seizure of the sys­tem gov­ern­ment, but they have never handed down any sub­se­quent de­ci­sions in the many ap­peals still pend­ing with re­gard to the pres­ent sta­tus and fu­ture dis­po­si­tion of Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and their as­so­ciates.

43:4.7The one hun­dred Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns come pe­ri­od­i­cally to the Eden­tia con­claves which de­lib­er­ate on the wel­fare of the con­stel­la­tion. Af­ter the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion the arch­re­bels of Je­ru­sem were wont to come up to these Eden­tia coun­cils just as they had on for­mer oc­ca­sions. And there was found no way to stop this ar­ro­gant ef­fron­tery un­til af­ter the be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia and his sub­se­quent as­sump­tion of un­lim­ited sov­er­eignty through­out all Neb­a­don. Never, since that day, have these in­sti­ga­tors of sin been per­mit­ted to sit in the Eden­tia coun­cils of the loyal Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns.

43:4.8That the teach­ers of olden times knew of these things is shown by the rec­ord: “And there was a day when the Sons of God came to pre­sent them­selves be­fore the Most Highs, and Sa­tan came also and pre­sented him­self among them.” And this is a state­ment of fact re­gard­less of the con­nec­tion in which it chances to ap­pear.

43:4.9Since the tri­umph of Christ, all Nor­la­ti­adek is be­ing cleansed of sin and rebels. Some­time be­fore Mi­chael’s death in the flesh the fallen Lu­cifer’s as­so­ciate, Sa­tan, sought to at­tend such an Eden­tia con­clave, but the so­lid­i­fi­ca­tion of sen­ti­ment against the arch­re­bels had reached the point where the doors of sym­pa­thy were so well-nigh uni­ver­sally closed that there could be found no stand­ing ground for the Sa­ta­nia ad­ver­saries. When there ex­ists no open door for the re­cep­tion of evil, there ex­ists no op­por­tu­nity for the en­ter­tain­ment of sin. The doors of the hearts of all Eden­tia closed against Sa­tan; he was unan­i­mously re­jected by the as­sem­bled Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns, and it was at this time that the Son of Man “be­held Sa­tan fall as light­ning from heaven.”