Lucifer rebellion

• Most Highs seized planetary authority

43:3.6Al­though the con­stel­la­tion regime stands be­tween you and the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, as in­di­vid­u­als you would or­di­nar­ily be lit­tle con­cerned with the con­stel­la­tion gov­ern­ment. Your great in­ter­est would nor­mally cen­ter in the lo­cal sys­tem, Sa­ta­nia; but tem­porar­ily, Uran­tia is closely re­lated to the con­stel­la­tion rulers be­cause of cer­tain sys­tem and plan­e­tary con­di­tions grow­ing out of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

43:3.7The Eden­tia Most Highs seized cer­tain phases of plan­e­tary au­thor­ity on the re­bel­lious worlds at the time of the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion. They have con­tin­ued to ex­er­cise this power, and the An­cients of Days long since con­firmed this as­sump­tion of con­trol over these way­ward worlds. They will no doubt con­tinue to ex­er­cise this as­sumed ju­ris­dic­tion as long as Lu­cifer lives. Much of this au­thor­ity would or­di­nar­ily, in a loyal sys­tem, be in­vested in the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign.

43:5.1The ro­ta­tion of the Most Highs on Eden­tia was sus­pended at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. We now have the same rulers who were on duty at that time. We in­fer that no change in these rulers will be made un­til Lu­cifer and his as­so­ciates are fi­nally dis­posed of.

43:5.2The pres­ent gov­ern­ment of the con­stel­la­tion, how­ever, has been ex­panded to in­clude twelve Sons of the Vo­ron­da­dek or­der. These twelve are as fol­lows:

43:5.31. The Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther. The pres­ent Most High ruler of Nor­la­ti­adek is num­ber 617,318 of the Vo­ron­da­dek se­ries of Neb­a­don. He saw ser­vice in many con­stel­la­tions through­out our lo­cal uni­verse be­fore tak­ing up his Eden­tia re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.

43:5.42. The se­nior Most High as­so­ciate.

43:5.53. The ju­nior Most High as­so­ciate.

43:5.64. The Most High ad­viser, the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Mi­chael since his at­tain­ment of the sta­tus of a Mas­ter Son.

43:5.75. The Most High ex­ec­u­tive, the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Ga­briel sta­tioned on Eden­tia ever since the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

43:5.86. The Most High chief of plan­e­tary ob­servers, the di­rec­tor of the Vo­ron­da­dek ob­servers sta­tioned on the iso­lated worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

43:5.97. The Most High ref­eree, the Vo­ron­da­dek Son in­trusted with the duty of ad­just­ing all dif­fi­cul­ties con­se­quen­tial to re­bel­lion within the con­stel­la­tion.

43:5.108. The Most High emer­gency ad­min­is­tra­tor, the Vo­ron­da­dek Son charged with the task of adapt­ing the emer­gency en­act­ments of the Nor­la­ti­adek leg­is­la­ture to the re­bel­lion-iso­lated worlds of Sa­ta­nia.

43:5.119. The Most High me­di­a­tor, the Vo­ron­da­dek Son as­signed to har­mo­nize the spe­cial be­stowal ad­just­ments on Uran­tia with the rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tion of the con­stel­la­tion. The pres­ence of cer­tain arch­an­gel ac­tiv­i­ties and nu­mer­ous other ir­reg­u­lar min­is­tra­tions on Uran­tia, to­gether with the spe­cial ac­tiv­i­ties of the Bril­liant Evening Stars on Je­ru­sem, ne­ces­si­tates the func­tion­ing of this Son.

43:5.1210. The Most High judge-ad­vo­cate, the head of the emer­gency tri­bu­nal de­voted to the ad­just­ment of the spe­cial prob­lems of Nor­la­ti­adek grow­ing out of the con­fu­sion con­se­quent upon the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion.

43:5.1311. The Most High li­ai­son, the Vo­ron­da­dek Son at­tached to the Eden­tia rulers but com­mis­sioned as a spe­cial coun­selor with the Faith­ful of Days re­gard­ing the best course to pur­sue in the man­age­ment of prob­lems per­tain­ing to re­bel­lion and crea­ture dis­loy­alty.

43:5.1412. The Most High di­rec­tor, the pres­i­dent of the emer­gency coun­cil of Eden­tia. All per­son­al­i­ties as­signed to Nor­la­ti­adek be­cause of the Sa­ta­nia up­heaval con­sti­tute the emer­gency coun­cil, and their pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer is a Vo­ron­da­dek Son of ex­traor­di­nary ex­pe­ri­ence.

43:5.15And this takes no ac­count of the nu­mer­ous Voron­dadeks, en­voys of Neb­a­don con­stel­la­tions, and oth­ers who are also res­i­dent on Eden­tia.

43:5.16Ever since the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion the Eden­tia Fa­thers have ex­er­cised a spe­cial care over Uran­tia and the other iso­lated worlds of Sa­ta­nia. Long ago the prophet rec­og­nized the con­trol­ling hand of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers in the af­fairs of na­tions. “When the Most High di­vided to the na­tions their in­her­i­tance, when he sep­a­rated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the peo­ple.”

43:5.17Ev­ery quar­an­tined or iso­lated world has a Vo­ron­da­dek Son act­ing as an ob­server. He does not par­tic­i­pate in plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion ex­cept when or­dered by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther to in­ter­vene in the af­fairs of the na­tions. Ac­tu­ally it is this Most High ob­server who “rules in the king­doms of men.” Uran­tia is one of the iso­lated worlds of Nor­la­ti­adek, and a Vo­ron­da­dek ob­server has been sta­tioned on the planet ever since the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal. When Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek min­is­tered in semi­ma­te­rial form on Uran­tia, he paid re­spect­ful homage to the Most High ob­server then on duty, as it is writ­ten, “And Mel­chiz­e­dek, king of Salem, was the priest of the Most High.” Mel­chiz­e­dek re­vealed the re­la­tions of this Most High ob­server to Abra­ham when he said, “And blessed be the Most High, who has de­liv­ered your en­e­mies into your hand.”

• most of Lucifer’s followers are interned

45:1.10The seven satel­lites sur­round­ing the Fa­ther’s world are var­i­ously uti­lized in the dif­fer­ent sys­tems. In Sa­ta­nia they are now used as the de­ten­tion spheres for the in­terned groups of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. The con­stel­la­tion cap­i­tal, Eden­tia, has no anal­o­gous prison worlds; the few ser­a­phim and cheru­bim who went over to the rebels in the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion have been long since con­fined on these iso­la­tion worlds of Je­ru­sem.

45:1.11As a so­journer on the sev­enth man­sion world, you have ac­cess to the sev­enth tran­si­tion world, the sphere of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and are also per­mit­ted to visit the Sa­ta­nia prison worlds sur­round­ing this planet, whereon are now con­fined Lu­cifer and the ma­jor­ity of those per­son­al­i­ties who fol­lowed him in re­bel­lion against Mi­chael. And this sad spec­ta­cle has been ob­serv­able dur­ing these re­cent ages and will con­tinue to serve as a solemn warn­ing to all Neb­a­don un­til the An­cients of Days shall ad­ju­di­cate the sin of Lu­cifer and his fallen as­so­ciates who re­jected the sal­va­tion prof­fered by Mi­chael, their uni­verse Fa­ther.

• adjudication of Gabriel vs. Lucifer recently begun; not complete

46:8.1The purely lo­cal and rou­tine af­fairs of Je­ru­sem are di­rected from the one hun­dred tri­an­gles. These units are clus­tered around the ten mar­velous struc­tures domi­cil­ing the lo­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion of Je­ru­sem. The tri­an­gles are sur­rounded by the panoramic de­pic­tion of the sys­tem head­quar­ters his­tory. At pres­ent there is an era­sure of over two stan­dard miles in this cir­cu­lar story. This sec­tor will be re­stored upon the read­mis­sion of Sa­ta­nia into the con­stel­la­tion fam­ily. Ev­ery pro­vi­sion for this event has been made by the de­crees of Mi­chael, but the tri­bu­nal of the An­cients of Days has not yet fin­ished the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Sa­ta­nia may not come back into the full fel­low­ship of Nor­la­ti­adek so long as it har­bors arch­re­bels, high cre­ated be­ings who have fallen from light into dark­ness.

46:8.2When Sa­ta­nia can re­turn to the con­stel­la­tion fold, then will come up for con­sid­er­a­tion the read­mis­sion of the iso­lated worlds into the sys­tem fam­ily of in­hab­ited plan­ets, ac­com­pa­nied by their restora­tion to the spir­i­tual com­mu­nion of the realms. But even if Uran­tia were re­stored to the sys­tem cir­cuits, you would still be em­bar­rassed by the fact that your whole sys­tem rests un­der a Nor­la­ti­adek quar­an­tine par­tially seg­re­gat­ing it from all other sys­tems.

46:8.3But ere long, the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of Lu­cifer and his as­so­ciates will re­store the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem to the Nor­la­ti­adek con­stel­la­tion, and sub­se­quently, Uran­tia and the other iso­lated spheres will be re­stored to the Sa­ta­nia cir­cuits, and again will such worlds en­joy the priv­i­leges of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion and in­ter­sys­tem com­mu­nion.

46:8.4There will come an end for rebels and re­bel­lion. The Su­preme Rulers are mer­ci­ful and pa­tient, but the law of de­lib­er­ately nour­ished evil is uni­ver­sally and unerringly ex­e­cuted. “The wages of sin is death”—eter­nal oblit­er­a­tion.

• Michael remained aloof from

53:5.1Upon the out­break of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion, Mi­chael took coun­sel of his Par­a­dise brother, Im­manuel. Fol­low­ing this mo­men­tous con­fer­ence, Mi­chael an­nounced that he would pur­sue the same pol­icy which had char­ac­ter­ized his deal­ings with sim­i­lar up­heavals in the past, an at­ti­tude of non­in­ter­fer­ence.

• Michael, not then sovereign, could not exercise summary jurisdiction

53:5.2At the time of this re­bel­lion and the two which pre­ceded it there was no ab­so­lute and per­sonal sov­er­eign au­thor­ity in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Mi­chael ruled by di­vine right, as vicegerent of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, but not yet in his own per­sonal right. He had not com­pleted his be­stowal ca­reer; he had not yet been vested with “all power in heaven and on earth.”

53:5.3From the out­break of re­bel­lion to the day of his en­throne­ment as sov­er­eign ruler of Neb­a­don, Mi­chael never in­ter­fered with the rebel forces of Lu­cifer; they were al­lowed to run a free course for al­most two hun­dred thou­sand years of Uran­tia time. Christ Mi­chael now has am­ple power and au­thor­ity to deal promptly, even sum­mar­ily, with such out­breaks of dis­loy­alty, but we doubt that this sov­er­eign au­thor­ity would lead him to act dif­fer­ently if an­other such up­heaval should oc­cur.

• adjudication of Gabriel vs. Lucifer recently begun; not complete

53:8.4The Son of Man was con­fi­dent of suc­cess, and he knew that his tri­umph on your world would for­ever set­tle the sta­tus of his age­long en­e­mies, not only in Sa­ta­nia but also in the other two sys­tems where sin had en­tered. There was sur­vival for mor­tals and se­cu­rity for an­gels when your Mas­ter, in re­ply to the Lu­cifer pro­pos­als, calmly and with di­vine as­sur­ance replied, “Get you be­hind me, Sa­tan.” That was, in prin­ci­ple, the real end of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. True, the Uversa tri­bu­nals have not yet ren­dered the ex­ec­u­tive de­ci­sion re­gard­ing the ap­peal of Ga­briel pray­ing for the de­struc­tion of the rebels, but such a de­cree will, no doubt, be forth­com­ing in the full­ness of time since the first step in the hear­ing of this case has al­ready been taken.

• Michael offered rebels forgiveness, some form of reinstatement
• most of Lucifer’s followers are interned

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.

53:9.2The archde­ceiver has never been on Uran­tia since the days when he sought to turn back Mi­chael from the pur­pose to com­plete the be­stowal and to es­tab­lish him­self fi­nally and se­curely as the un­qual­i­fied ruler of Neb­a­don. Upon Mi­chael’s be­com­ing the set­tled head of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, Lu­cifer was taken into cus­tody by the agents of the Uversa An­cients of Days and has since been a pris­oner on satel­lite num­ber one of the Fa­ther’s group of the tran­si­tion spheres of Je­ru­sem. And here the rulers of other worlds and sys­tems be­hold the end of the un­faith­ful Sov­er­eign of Sa­ta­nia. Paul knew of the sta­tus of these re­bel­lious lead­ers fol­low­ing Mi­chael’s be­stowal, for he wrote of Cali­gas­tia’s chiefs as “spir­i­tual hosts of wicked­ness in the heav­enly places.”

• Michael’s petition to intern rebels

53:9.3Mi­chael, upon as­sum­ing the su­preme sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don, pe­ti­tioned the An­cients of Days for au­thor­ity to in­tern all per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pend­ing the rul­ings of the super­uni­verse tri­bu­nals in the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer, placed on the rec­ords of the Uversa su­preme court al­most two hun­dred thou­sand years ago, as you reckon time. Con­cern­ing the sys­tem cap­i­tal group, the An­cients of Days granted the Mi­chael pe­ti­tion with but a sin­gle ex­cep­tion: Sa­tan was al­lowed to make pe­ri­odic vis­its to the apos­tate princes on the fallen worlds un­til an­other Son of God should be ac­cepted by such apos­tate worlds, or un­til such time as the courts of Uversa should be­gin the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer.

53:9.4Sa­tan could come to Uran­tia be­cause you had no Son of stand­ing in res­i­dence—nei­ther Plan­e­tary Prince nor Ma­te­rial Son. Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek has since been pro­claimed vicegerent Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia, and the open­ing of the case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer has sig­nal­ized the in­au­gu­ra­tion of tem­po­rary plan­e­tary regimes on all the iso­lated worlds. It is true that Sa­tan did pe­ri­od­i­cally visit Cali­gas­tia and oth­ers of the fallen princes right up to the time of the pre­sen­ta­tion of these rev­e­la­tions, when there oc­curred the first hear­ing of Ga­briel’s plea for the an­ni­hi­la­tion of the arch­re­bels. Sa­tan is now un­qual­i­fiedly de­tained on the Je­ru­sem prison worlds.

53:9.5Since Mi­chael’s fi­nal be­stowal no one in all Sa­ta­nia has de­sired to go to the prison worlds to min­is­ter to the in­terned rebels. And no more be­ings have been won to the de­ceiver’s cause. For nine­teen hun­dred years the sta­tus has been un­changed.

53:9.6We do not look for a re­moval of the pres­ent Sa­ta­nia re­stric­tions un­til the An­cients of Days make fi­nal dis­po­si­tion of the arch­re­bels. The sys­tem cir­cuits will not be re­in­stated so long as Lu­cifer lives. Mean­time, he is wholly in­ac­tive.

• ends on fallen worlds as fast as divine Sons arrive

53:9.7The re­bel­lion has ended on Je­ru­sem. It ends on the fallen worlds as fast as di­vine Sons ar­rive. We be­lieve that all rebels who will ever ac­cept mercy have done so. We await the flash­ing broad­cast that will de­prive these traitors of per­son­al­ity ex­is­tence. We an­tic­i­pate the ver­dict of Uversa will be an­nounced by the ex­e­cu­tion­ary broad­cast which will ef­fect the an­ni­hi­la­tion of these in­terned rebels. Then will you look for their places, but they shall not be found. “And they who know you among the worlds will be as­ton­ished at you; you have been a ter­ror, but never shall you be any more.” And thus shall all of these un­wor­thy traitors “be­come as though they had not been.” All await the Uversa de­cree.

53:9.8But for ages the seven prison worlds of spir­i­tual dark­ness in Sa­ta­nia have con­sti­tuted a solemn warn­ing to all Neb­a­don, elo­quently and ef­fec­tively pro­claim­ing the great truth “that the way of the trans­gres­sor is hard”; “that within ev­ery sin is con­cealed the seed of its own de­struc­tion”; that “the wages of sin is death.”

53:9.9[Pre­sented by Manovan­det Mel­chiz­e­dek, one­time at­tached to the re­ceiver­ship of Uran­tia.]

• had it occurred during Michael’s bestowal, rebels might have been instantly annihilated
• Michael offered rebels forgiveness, some form of reinstatement

54:4.5There are many rea­sons known to us why the Su­preme Rulers did not im­me­di­ately de­stroy or in­tern the lead­ers of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. There are no doubt still other and pos­si­bly bet­ter rea­sons un­known to us. The mercy fea­tures of this de­lay in the ex­e­cu­tion of jus­tice were ex­tended per­son­ally by Mi­chael of Neb­a­don. Ex­cept for the af­fec­tion of this Cre­ator-fa­ther for his erring Sons, the su­preme jus­tice of the super­uni­verse would have acted. If such an episode as the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion had oc­curred in Neb­a­don while Mi­chael was in­car­nated on Uran­tia, the in­sti­ga­tors of such evil might have been in­stantly and ab­so­lutely an­ni­hi­lated.

• adjudication of Gabriel vs. Lucifer recently begun; not complete

54:4.8But these mercy de­lays are not in­ter­minable. Not­with­stand­ing the long de­lay (as time is reck­oned on Uran­tia) in ad­ju­di­cat­ing the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, we may re­cord that, dur­ing the time of ef­fect­ing this rev­e­la­tion, the first hear­ing in the pend­ing case of Ga­briel vs. Lu­cifer was held on Uversa, and soon there­after there is­sued the man­date of the An­cients of Days di­rect­ing that Sa­tan be hence­forth con­fined to the prison world with Lu­cifer. This ends the abil­ity of Sa­tan to pay fur­ther vis­its to any of the fallen worlds of Sa­ta­nia. Jus­tice in a mercy-dom­i­nated uni­verse may be slow, but it is cer­tain.

• Michael, not then sovereign, could not exercise summary jurisdiction

54:5.65. Re­gard­less of Mi­chael’s at­ti­tude to­ward Lu­cifer, not­with­stand­ing his be­ing Lu­cifer’s Cre­ator-fa­ther, it was not in the prov­ince of the Cre­ator Son to ex­er­cise sum­mary ju­ris­dic­tion over the apos­tate Sys­tem Sov­er­eign be­cause he had not then com­pleted his be­stowal ca­reer, thereby at­tain­ing un­qual­i­fied sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don.

• adjudication of Gabriel vs. Lucifer recently begun; not complete

54:5.1312. Time, even in a uni­verse of time, is rel­a­tive: If a Uran­tia mor­tal of av­er­age length of life should com­mit a crime which pre­cip­i­tated world-wide pan­de­mo­nium, and if he were ap­pre­hended, tried, and ex­e­cuted within two or three days of the com­mis­sion of the crime, would it seem a long time to you? And yet that would be nearer a com­par­i­son with the length of Lu­cifer’s life even if his ad­ju­di­ca­tion, now be­gun, should not be com­pleted for a hun­dred thou­sand Uran­tia years. The rel­a­tive lapse of time from the view­point of Uversa, where the lit­i­ga­tion is pend­ing, could be in­di­cated by say­ing that the crime of Lu­cifer was be­ing brought to trial within two and a half sec­onds of its com­mis­sion. From the Par­a­dise view­point the ad­ju­di­ca­tion is si­mul­ta­ne­ous with the en­act­ment.

• adjudication of Gabriel vs. Lucifer recently begun; not complete

67:4.7The vast ma­jor­ity of all hu­man and super­hu­man be­ings who were vic­tims of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem and the var­i­ous mis­led plan­ets have long since heart­ily re­pented of their folly; and we truly be­lieve that all such sin­cere pen­i­tents will in some man­ner be re­ha­bil­i­tated and re­stored to some phase of uni­verse ser­vice when the An­cients of Days fi­nally com­plete the ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the af­fairs of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion, which they have so re­cently be­gun.

• Immanuel asked Michael to terminate L.r. as Son of Man

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.

• rebellion virtually settled on Mount Hermon

134:8.9On an af­ter­noon in late sum­mer, amid the trees and in the si­lence of na­ture, Mi­chael of Neb­a­don won the un­ques­tioned sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse. On that day he com­pleted the task set for Cre­ator Sons to live to the full the in­car­nated life in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh on the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of time and space. The uni­verse an­nounce­ment of this mo­men­tous achieve­ment was not made un­til the day of his bap­tism, months af­ter­ward, but it all re­ally took place that day on the moun­tain. And when Je­sus came down from his so­journ on Mount Her­mon, the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia and the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion on Uran­tia were vir­tu­ally set­tled. Je­sus had paid the last price re­quired of him to at­tain the sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse, which in it­self reg­u­lates the sta­tus of all rebels and de­ter­mines that all such fu­ture up­heavals (if they ever oc­cur) may be dealt with sum­mar­ily and ef­fec­tively. Ac­cord­ingly, it may be seen that the so-called “great temp­ta­tion” of Je­sus took place some­time be­fore his bap­tism and not just af­ter that event.

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.”

• 1/4 of administrator seraphim and lower seraphic orders

39:4.6In the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia very few of the jus­tice guides were lost, but more than one quar­ter of the other ad­min­is­tra­tor ser­a­phim and of the lower or­ders of se­raphic min­is­ters were mis­led and de­luded by the soph­ist­ries of un­bri­dled per­sonal lib­erty.

• Morontia Companions

48:3.3The Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions main­tain ten thou­sand head­quar­ters in a lo­cal uni­verse—on each of the first man­sion worlds of the lo­cal sys­tems. They are al­most wholly a self-gov­ern­ing or­der and are, in gen­eral, an in­tel­li­gent and loyal group of be­ings; but ev­ery now and then, in con­nec­tion with cer­tain un­for­tu­nate ce­les­tial up­heavals, they have been known to go astray. Thou­sands of these use­ful crea­tures were lost dur­ing the times of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia. Your lo­cal sys­tem now has its full quota of these be­ings, the loss of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion hav­ing only re­cently been made up.

• 647,000 Material Sons

51:1.5An orig­i­nal or di­rectly cre­ated Adam and Eve are im­mor­tal by in­her­ent en­dow­ment just as are all other or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship, but a diminu­tion of im­mor­tal­ity po­ten­tial char­ac­ter­izes their sons and daugh­ters. This orig­i­nal cou­ple can­not trans­mit un­con­di­tioned im­mor­tal­ity to their pro­cre­ated sons and daugh­ters. Their progeny are de­pen­dent for con­tin­u­ing life on un­bro­ken in­tel­lec­tual syn­chrony with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. Since the in­cep­tion of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, thir­teen Plan­e­tary Adams have been lost in re­bel­lion and de­fault and 681,204 in the sub­or­di­nate po­si­tions of trust. Most of these de­fec­tions oc­curred at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• Adam and Eve not involved in L.r.

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.

53:1.1Lu­cifer was not an as­cen­dant be­ing; he was a cre­ated Son of the lo­cal uni­verse, and of him it was said: “You were per­fect in all your ways from the day you were cre­ated till un­righ­teous­ness was found in you.” Many times had he been in coun­sel with the Most Highs of Eden­tia. And Lu­cifer reigned “upon the holy moun­tain of God,” the ad­min­is­tra­tive mount of Je­ru­sem, for he was the chief ex­ec­u­tive of a great sys­tem of 607 in­hab­ited worlds.

53:1.2Lu­cifer was a mag­nif­i­cent be­ing, a bril­liant per­son­al­ity; he stood next to the Most High Fa­thers of the con­stel­la­tions in the di­rect line of uni­verse au­thor­ity. Not­with­stand­ing Lu­cifer’s trans­gres­sion, sub­or­di­nate in­tel­li­gences re­frained from show­ing him dis­re­spect and dis­dain prior to Mi­chael’s be­stowal on Uran­tia. Even the arch­an­gel of Mi­chael, at the time of Moses’ res­ur­rec­tion, “did not bring against him an ac­cus­ing judg­ment but sim­ply said, ‘the Judge re­buke you.’” Judg­ment in such mat­ters be­longs to the An­cients of Days, the rulers of the super­uni­verse.

53:1.3Lu­cifer is now the fallen and de­posed Sov­er­eign of Sa­ta­nia. Self-con­tem­pla­tion is most dis­as­trous, even to the ex­alted per­son­al­i­ties of the ce­les­tial world. Of Lu­cifer it was said: “Your heart was lifted up be­cause of your beauty; you cor­rupted your wis­dom be­cause of your bright­ness.” Your olden prophet saw his sad es­tate when he wrote: “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lu­cifer, son of the morn­ing! How are you cast down, you who dared to con­fuse the worlds!”

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.

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.

53:1.6The dragon even­tu­ally be­came the sym­bolic rep­re­sen­ta­tion of all these evil per­son­ages. Upon the tri­umph of Mi­chael, “Ga­briel came down from Sal­ving­ton and bound the dragon (all the rebel lead­ers) for an age.” Of the Je­ru­sem se­raphic rebels it is writ­ten: “And the an­gels who kept not their first es­tate but left their own habi­ta­tion, he has re­served in sure chains of dark­ness to the judg­ment of the great day.”

• spiritually blinded by brilliant personality of Lucifer

53:6.2At the out­break of re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem the head of the se­raphic hosts joined the Lu­cifer cause. This no doubt ex­plains why such a large num­ber of the fourth or­der, the sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tor ser­a­phim, went astray. The se­raphic leader was spir­i­tu­ally blinded by the bril­liant per­son­al­ity of Lu­cifer; his charm­ing ways fas­ci­nated the lower or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings. They sim­ply could not com­pre­hend that it was pos­si­ble for such a daz­zling per­son­al­ity to go wrong.

• 37 Planetary Princes

53:7.1The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion was sys­tem wide. Thirty-seven se­ced­ing Plan­e­tary Princes swung their world ad­min­is­tra­tions largely to the side of the arch­re­bel. Only on Panop­tia did the Plan­e­tary Prince fail to carry his peo­ple with him. On this world, un­der the guid­ance of the Mel­chiz­e­deks, the peo­ple ral­lied to the sup­port of Mi­chael. El­lanora, a young woman of that mor­tal realm, grasped the lead­er­ship of the hu­man races, and not a sin­gle soul on that strife-torn world en­listed un­der the Lu­cifer ban­ner. And ever since have these loyal Panop­tians served on the sev­enth Je­ru­sem tran­si­tion world as the care­tak­ers and builders on the Fa­ther’s sphere and its sur­round­ing seven de­ten­tion worlds. The Panop­tians not only act as the lit­eral cus­to­di­ans of these worlds, but they also ex­e­cute the per­sonal or­ders of Mi­chael for the em­bel­lish­ment of these spheres for some fu­ture and un­known use. They do this work as they tarry en route to Eden­tia.

53:7.4This was a La­non­an­dek re­bel­lion. The higher or­ders of lo­cal uni­verse son­ship did not join the Lu­cifer se­ces­sion, al­though a few of the Life Car­ri­ers sta­tioned on the rebel plan­ets were some­what in­flu­enced by the re­bel­lion of the dis­loyal princes. None of the Trin­i­tized Sons went astray. The Mel­chiz­e­deks, arch­an­gels, and the Bril­liant Evening Stars were all loyal to Mi­chael and, with Ga­briel, valiantly con­tended for the Fa­ther’s will and the Son’s rule.

• Mansion World Teachers
• Morontia Companions
• superior seraphim

53:7.5No be­ings of Par­a­dise ori­gin were in­volved in dis­loy­alty. To­gether with the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers they took up head­quar­ters on the world of the Spirit and re­mained un­der the lead­er­ship of the Faith­ful of Days of Eden­tia. None of the con­cil­ia­tors apo­s­ta­tized, nor did a sin­gle one of the Ce­les­tial Re­cord­ers go astray. But a heavy toll was taken of the Mor­ontia Com­pan­ions and the Man­sion World Teach­ers.

• 1/4 of administrator seraphim and lower seraphic orders
• cherubim
• supervisor seraphim

53:7.6Of the su­preme or­der of ser­a­phim, not an an­gel was lost, but a con­sid­er­able group of the next or­der, the su­pe­rior, were de­ceived and en­snared. Like­wise a few of the third or super­vi­sor or­der of an­gels were mis­led. But the ter­ri­ble break­down came in the fourth group, the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels, those ser­a­phim who are nor­mally as­signed to the du­ties of the sys­tem cap­i­tals. Man­otia saved al­most two thirds of them, but slightly over one third fol­lowed their chief into the rebel ranks. One third of all the Je­ru­sem cheru­bim at­tached to the ad­min­is­tra­tor an­gels were lost with their dis­loyal ser­a­phim.

• planetary helper seraphim
• transition ministers

53:7.7Of the plan­e­tary an­gelic helpers, those as­signed to the Ma­te­rial Sons, about one third were de­ceived, and al­most ten per cent of the tran­si­tion min­is­ters were en­snared. In sym­bol John saw this when he wrote of the great red dragon, say­ing: “And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them down in dark­ness.”

• 647,000 Material Sons
• midwayers

53:7.8The great­est loss oc­curred in the an­gelic ranks, but most of the lower or­ders of in­tel­li­gence were in­volved in dis­loy­alty. Of the 681,217 Ma­te­rial Sons lost in Sa­ta­nia, ninety-five per cent were ca­su­al­ties of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. Large num­bers of mid­way crea­tures were lost on those in­di­vid­ual plan­ets whose Plan­e­tary Princes joined the Lu­cifer cause.

53:7.9In many re­spects this re­bel­lion was the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous of all such oc­cur­rences in Neb­a­don. More per­son­al­i­ties were in­volved in this in­sur­rec­tion than in both of the oth­ers. And it is to their ev­er­last­ing dis­honor that the emis­saries of Lu­cifer and Sa­tan spared not the in­fant-train­ing schools on the fi­nal­i­ter cul­tural planet but rather sought to cor­rupt these de­vel­op­ing minds in mercy sal­vaged from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

• many ascending mortals fell, but withstood rebellion better than lower spirits

53:7.10The as­cend­ing mor­tals were vul­ner­a­ble, but they with­stood the soph­ist­ries of re­bel­lion bet­ter than the lower spir­its. While many on the lower man­sion worlds, those who had not at­tained fi­nal fu­sion with their Ad­justers, fell, it is re­corded to the glory of the wis­dom of the as­cen­sion scheme that not a sin­gle mem­ber of the Sa­ta­nia as­cen­dant cit­i­zen­ship res­i­dent on Je­ru­sem par­tic­i­pated in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• many celestial beings on Urantia

67:3.2On Uran­tia forty mem­bers of the cor­po­real staff of one hun­dred (in­clud­ing Van) re­fused to join the in­sur­rec­tion. Many of the staff’s hu­man as­sis­tants (mod­i­fied and oth­er­wise) were also brave and no­ble de­fend­ers of Mi­chael and his uni­verse gov­ern­ment. There was a ter­ri­ble loss of per­son­al­i­ties among ser­a­phim and cheru­bim. Al­most one half of the ad­min­is­tra­tor and tran­si­tion ser­a­phim as­signed to the planet joined their leader and Dali­gas­tia in sup­port of the cause of Lu­cifer. Forty thou­sand one hun­dred and nine­teen of the pri­mary mid­way crea­tures joined hands with Cali­gas­tia, but the re­main­der of these be­ings re­mained true to their trust.

• spiritually blinded by brilliant personality of Lucifer

67:4.6It was very dif­fi­cult for such be­ings as an­gels and mid­way­ers to con­ceive of bril­liant and trusted rulers like Cali­gas­tia and Dali­gas­tia go­ing astray—com­mit­ting traitorous sin. Those be­ings who fell into sin—they did not de­lib­er­ately or pre­med­i­tat­edly en­ter upon re­bel­lion—were mis­led by their su­pe­ri­ors, de­ceived by their trusted lead­ers. It was like­wise easy to win the sup­port of the prim­i­tive-minded evo­lu­tion­ary mor­tals.

• Planetary Prince and Material Son on neighboring planet in Satania

72:0.1By per­mis­sion of Lanaforge and with the ap­proval of the Most Highs of Eden­tia, I am au­tho­rized to nar­rate some­thing of the so­cial, moral, and po­lit­i­cal life of the most ad­vanced hu­man race liv­ing on a not far-dis­tant planet be­long­ing to the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem.

72:0.2Of all the Sa­ta­nia worlds which be­came iso­lated be­cause of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, this planet has ex­pe­ri­enced a his­tory most like that of Uran­tia. The sim­i­lar­ity of the two spheres un­doubt­edly ex­plains why per­mis­sion to make this ex­traor­di­nary pre­sen­ta­tion was granted, for it is most un­usual for the sys­tem rulers to con­sent to the nar­ra­tion on one planet of the af­fairs of an­other.

72:0.3This planet, like Uran­tia, was led astray by the dis­loy­alty of its Plan­e­tary Prince in con­nec­tion with the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. It re­ceived a Ma­te­rial Son shortly af­ter Adam came to Uran­tia, and this Son also de­faulted, leav­ing the sphere iso­lated, since a Mag­is­te­rial Son has never been be­stowed upon its mor­tal races.

• 4/5 of primary midwayers on Urantia

77:1.7This regime con­tin­ued un­til the tragic days of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion, which en­snared a lit­tle over four fifths of the pri­mary mid­way­ers. The loyal corps en­tered the ser­vice of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceivers, func­tion­ing un­der the tit­u­lar lead­er­ship of Van un­til the days of Adam.

• many guardian angels who went astray have sincerely repented; all are detained on Jerusem

113:6.10All per­sonal and group guard­i­ans in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia who went astray in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, not­with­stand­ing that many sin­cerely re­pented of their folly, are to be de­tained on Je­ru­sem un­til the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the re­bel­lion. Al­ready have the Uni­ver­sal Cen­sors ar­bi­trar­ily taken from these dis­obe­di­ent and un­faith­ful guard­i­ans all as­pects of their soul trusts and lodged these mor­ontia re­al­i­ties for safe­keep­ing in the cus­tody of vol­un­teer se­con­a­phim.

• chief of angelic hosts on Urantia

114:6.3As plan­e­tary chief of ser­a­phim, I pre­side over this coun­cil of se­raphic chiefs, and I am a vol­un­teer super­na­phim of the pri­mary or­der serv­ing on Uran­tia as the suc­ces­sor of the one­time chief of the an­gelic hosts of the planet who de­faulted at the time of the Cali­gas­tia se­ces­sion.

• many celestial beings on Urantia

167:7.3“The an­gels never die, as man does. The an­gels are im­mor­tal un­less, per­chance, they be­come in­volved in sin as did some of them with the de­cep­tions of Lu­cifer. The an­gels are the spirit ser­vants in heaven, and they are nei­ther all-wise nor all-pow­er­ful. But all of the loyal an­gels are truly pure and holy.

53:2.1Lu­cifer and his first as­sis­tant, Sa­tan, had reigned on Je­ru­sem for more than five hun­dred thou­sand years when in their hearts they be­gan to ar­ray them­selves against the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his then vicegerent Son, Mi­chael.

53:2.2There were no pe­cu­liar or spe­cial con­di­tions in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia which sug­gested or fa­vored re­bel­lion. It is our be­lief that the idea took ori­gin and form in Lu­cifer’s mind, and that he might have in­sti­gated such a re­bel­lion no mat­ter where he might have been sta­tioned. Lu­cifer first an­nounced his plans to Sa­tan, but it re­quired sev­eral months to cor­rupt the mind of his able and bril­liant as­so­ciate. How­ever, when once con­verted to the rebel the­o­ries, he be­came a bold and earnest ad­vo­cate of “self-as­ser­tion and lib­erty.”

53:2.3No one ever sug­gested re­bel­lion to Lu­cifer. The idea of self-as­ser­tion in op­po­si­tion to the will of Mi­chael and to the plans of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, as they are rep­re­sented in Mi­chael, had its ori­gin in his own mind. His re­la­tions with the Cre­ator Son had been in­ti­mate and al­ways cor­dial. At no time prior to the ex­al­ta­tion of his own mind did Lu­cifer openly ex­press dis­sat­is­fac­tion about the uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion. Not­with­stand­ing his si­lence, for more than one hun­dred years of stan­dard time the Union of Days on Sal­ving­ton had been re­flec­ti­vat­ing to Uversa that all was not at peace in Lu­cifer’s mind. This in­for­ma­tion was also com­mu­ni­cated to the Cre­ator Son and the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers of Nor­la­ti­adek.

53:2.4Through­out this pe­riod Lu­cifer be­came in­creas­ingly crit­i­cal of the en­tire plan of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion but al­ways pro­fessed whole­hearted loy­alty to the Su­preme Rulers. His first out­spo­ken dis­loy­alty was man­i­fested on the oc­ca­sion of a visit of Ga­briel to Je­ru­sem just a few days be­fore the open procla­ma­tion of the Lu­cifer Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty. Ga­briel was so pro­foundly im­pressed with the cer­tainty of the im­pend­ing out­break that he went di­rect to Eden­tia to con­fer with the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers re­gard­ing the mea­sures to be em­ployed in case of open re­bel­lion.

53:2.5It is very dif­fi­cult to point out the ex­act cause or causes which fi­nally cul­mi­nated in the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. We are cer­tain of only one thing, and that is: What­ever these first be­gin­nings were, they had their ori­gin in Lu­cifer’s mind. There must have been a pride of self that nour­ished it­self to the point of self-de­cep­tion, so that Lu­cifer for a time re­ally per­suaded him­self that his con­tem­pla­tion of re­bel­lion was ac­tu­ally for the good of the sys­tem, if not of the uni­verse. By the time his plans had de­vel­oped to the point of dis­il­lu­sion­ment, no doubt he had gone too far for his orig­i­nal and mis­chief-mak­ing pride to per­mit him to stop. At some point in this ex­pe­ri­ence he be­came in­sin­cere, and evil evolved into de­lib­er­ate and will­ful sin. That this hap­pened is proved by the sub­se­quent con­duct of this bril­liant ex­ec­u­tive. He was long of­fered op­por­tu­nity for re­pen­tance, but only some of his sub­or­di­nates ever ac­cepted the prof­fered mercy. The Faith­ful of Days of Eden­tia, on the re­quest of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers, in per­son pre­sented the plan of Mi­chael for the sav­ing of these fla­grant rebels, but al­ways was the mercy of the Cre­ator Son re­jected and re­jected with in­creas­ing con­tempt and dis­dain.

• occasions difficulty in understanding God

4:3.3Much, very much, of the dif­fi­culty which Uran­tia mor­tals have in un­der­stand­ing God is due to the far-reach­ing con­se­quences of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal. On worlds not seg­re­gated by sin, the evo­lu­tion­ary races are able to for­mu­late far bet­ter ideas of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; they suf­fer less from con­fu­sion, dis­tor­tion, and per­ver­sion of con­cept.

• many ages required to restore universe to former paths

46:0.1Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, is an av­er­age cap­i­tal of a lo­cal sys­tem, and aside from nu­mer­ous ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties oc­ca­sioned by the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and the be­stowal of Mi­chael on Uran­tia, it is typ­i­cal of sim­i­lar spheres. Your lo­cal sys­tem has passed through some stormy ex­pe­ri­ences, but it is at pres­ent be­ing ad­min­is­tered most ef­fi­ciently, and as the ages pass, the re­sults of dishar­mony are be­ing slowly but surely erad­i­cated. Or­der and good will are be­ing re­stored, and the con­di­tions on Je­ru­sem are more and more ap­proach­ing the heav­enly sta­tus of your tra­di­tions, for the sys­tem head­quar­ters is truly the heaven vi­su­al­ized by the ma­jor­ity of twen­ti­eth-cen­tury re­li­gious be­liev­ers.

• prevented mortals from passing directly 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.

• enhanced careers of those who withstood

54:6.5And there is com­pen­sa­tion for these tri­als, de­lays, and dis­ap­point­ments which in­vari­ably ac­com­pany the sin of re­bel­lion. Of the many valu­able reper­cus­sions of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion which might be named, I will only call at­ten­tion to the en­hanced ca­reers of those mor­tal as­cend­ers, the Je­ru­sem cit­i­zens, who, by with­stand­ing the soph­ist­ries of sin, placed them­selves in line for be­com­ing fu­ture Mighty Mes­sen­gers, fel­lows of my own or­der. Ev­ery be­ing who stood the test of that evil episode thereby im­me­di­ately ad­vanced his ad­min­is­tra­tive sta­tus and en­hanced his spir­i­tual worth.

• with time, evil became stationary while good increased

54:6.6At first the Lu­cifer up­heaval ap­peared to be an un­mit­i­gated calamity to the sys­tem and to the uni­verse. Grad­u­ally ben­e­fits be­gan to ac­crue. With the pass­ing of twenty-five thou­sand years of sys­tem time (twenty thou­sand years of Uran­tia time), the Mel­chiz­e­deks be­gan to teach that the good re­sult­ing from Lu­cifer’s folly had come to equal the evil in­curred. The sum of evil had by that time be­come al­most sta­tion­ary, con­tin­u­ing to in­crease only on cer­tain iso­lated worlds, while the ben­e­fi­cial reper­cus­sions con­tin­ued to mul­ti­ply and ex­tend out through the uni­verse and super­uni­verse, even to Ha­vona. The Mel­chiz­e­deks now teach that the good re­sult­ing from the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion is more than a thou­sand times the sum of all the evil.

54:6.7But such an ex­traor­di­nary and benef­i­cent har­vest of wrong­do­ing could only be brought about by the wise, di­vine, and mer­ci­ful at­ti­tude of all of Lu­cifer’s su­pe­ri­ors, ex­tend­ing from the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers on Eden­tia to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther on Par­a­dise. The pass­ing of time has en­hanced the con­se­quen­tial good to be de­rived from the Lu­cifer folly; and since the evil to be pe­nal­ized was quite fully de­vel­oped within a com­par­a­tively short time, it is ap­par­ent that the all-wise and farsee­ing uni­verse rulers would be cer­tain to ex­tend the time in which to reap in­creas­ingly ben­e­fi­cial re­sults. Re­gard­less of the many ad­di­tional rea­sons for de­lay­ing the ap­pre­hen­sion and ad­ju­di­ca­tion of the Sa­ta­nia rebels, this one gain would have been enough to ex­plain why these sin­ners were not sooner in­terned, and why they have not been ad­ju­di­cated and de­stroyed.

• devastating calamity

67:0.1The prob­lems as­so­ci­ated with hu­man ex­is­tence on Uran­tia are im­pos­si­ble of un­der­stand­ing with­out a knowl­edge of cer­tain great epochs of the past, no­tably the oc­cur­rence and con­se­quences of the plan­e­tary re­bel­lion. Al­though this up­heaval did not se­ri­ously in­ter­fere with the prog­ress of or­ganic evo­lu­tion, it did markedly mod­ify the course of so­cial evo­lu­tion and of spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment. The en­tire super­phys­i­cal his­tory of the planet was pro­foundly in­flu­enced by this dev­as­tat­ing calamity.

• compelled all parties to choose between sin and righteousness

67:2.5Ser­a­phim and cheru­bim and other ce­les­tial be­ings were in­volved in the de­ci­sions of this bit­ter strug­gle, this long and sin­ful con­flict. Many super­hu­man groups that chanced to be on Uran­tia at the time of its iso­la­tion were de­tained here and, like the ser­a­phim and their as­so­ciates, were com­pelled to choose be­tween sin and righ­teous­ness—be­tween the ways of Lu­cifer and the will of the un­seen Fa­ther.

67:2.6For more than seven years this strug­gle con­tin­ued. Not un­til ev­ery per­son­al­ity con­cerned had made a fi­nal de­ci­sion, would or did the au­thor­i­ties of Eden­tia in­ter­fere or in­ter­vene. Not un­til then did Van and his loyal as­so­ciates re­ceive vin­di­ca­tion and re­lease from their pro­longed anx­i­ety and in­tol­er­a­ble sus­pense.

• story of Amadon has done more good than all evil of the L.r.

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.

• many ages required to restore universe to former paths

148:5.2“Na­than­iel, you and many oth­ers are thus per­plexed be­cause you do not com­pre­hend how the nat­u­ral or­der of this world has been so many times up­set by the sin­ful ad­ven­tures of cer­tain re­bel­lious traitors to the Fa­ther’s will. And I have come to make a be­gin­ning of set­ting these things in or­der. But many ages will be re­quired to re­store this part of the uni­verse to for­mer paths and thus re­lease the chil­dren of men from the ex­tra bur­dens of sin and re­bel­lion. The pres­ence of evil alone is suf­fi­cient test for the as­cen­sion of man—sin is not es­sen­tial to sur­vival.

53:5.7But this war in heaven was very ter­ri­ble and very real. While dis­play­ing none of the bar­bar­i­ties so char­ac­ter­is­tic of phys­i­cal war­fare on the im­ma­ture worlds, this con­flict was far more deadly; ma­te­rial life is in jeop­ardy in ma­te­rial com­bat, but the war in heaven was fought in terms of life eter­nal.

158:1.7As they par­took of their mea­ger evening meal, Pe­ter asked the Mas­ter, “How long do we re­main on this moun­tain away from our breth­ren?” And Je­sus an­swered: “Un­til you shall see the glory of the Son of Man and know that what­so­ever I have de­clared to you is true.” And they talked over the af­fairs of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion while seated about the glow­ing em­bers of their fire un­til dark­ness drew on and the apos­tles’ eyes grew heavy, for they had be­gun their jour­ney very early that morn­ing.

53:7.12It was over two years of sys­tem time from the be­gin­ning of the “war in heaven” un­til the in­stal­la­tion of Lu­cifer’s suc­ces­sor. But at last the new Sov­er­eign came, land­ing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the re­serves mo­bi­lized on Eden­tia by Ga­briel, and I well re­mem­ber the first mes­sage of Lanaforge to the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Nor­la­ti­adek. It read: “Not a sin­gle Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen was lost. Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal sur­vived the fiery trial and emerged from the cru­cial test tri­umphant and al­to­gether vic­to­ri­ous.” And on to Sal­ving­ton, Uversa, and Par­a­dise went this mes­sage of as­sur­ance that the sur­vival ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tal as­cen­sion is the great­est se­cu­rity against re­bel­lion and the surest safe­guard against sin. This no­ble Je­ru­sem band of faith­ful mor­tals num­bered just 187,432,811.

45:2.1The chief ex­ec­u­tive of a lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds is a pri­mary La­non­an­dek Son, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign. In our lo­cal uni­verse these sov­er­eigns are in­trusted with large ex­ec­u­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, un­usual per­sonal pre­rog­a­tives. Not all uni­verses, even in Or­von­ton, are so or­ga­nized as to per­mit the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns to ex­er­cise such un­usu­ally wide pow­ers of per­sonal dis­cre­tion in the di­rec­tion of sys­tem af­fairs. But in all the his­tory of Neb­a­don these un­tram­meled ex­ec­u­tives have ex­hib­ited dis­loy­alty only three times. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia was the last and the most wide­spread of all.

• outbreak of rebellion took form as Declaration of Liberty

53:3.1What­ever the early ori­gins of trou­ble in the hearts of Lu­cifer and Sa­tan, the fi­nal out­break took form as the Lu­cifer Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty. The cause of the rebels was stated un­der three heads:

• 1. denied reality of Father
• finaliters in collusion with Paradise Sons to foist fraud

53:3.21. The re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Lu­cifer charged that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther did not re­ally ex­ist, that phys­i­cal grav­ity and space-en­ergy were in­her­ent in the uni­verse, and that the Fa­ther was a myth in­vented by the Par­a­dise Sons to en­able them to main­tain the rule of the uni­verses in the Fa­ther’s name. He de­nied that per­son­al­ity was a gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He even in­ti­mated that the fi­nal­i­ters were in col­lu­sion with the Par­a­dise Sons to foist fraud upon all cre­ation since they never brought back a very clear-cut idea of the Fa­ther’s ac­tual per­son­al­ity as it is dis­cern­i­ble on Par­a­dise. He traded on rev­er­ence as ig­no­rance. The charge was sweep­ing, ter­ri­ble, and blas­phe­mous. It was this veiled at­tack upon the fi­nal­i­ters that no doubt in­flu­enced the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens then on Je­ru­sem to stand firm and re­main stead­fast in re­sis­tance to all the rebel’s pro­pos­als.

• 2. said local systems should be autonomous
• worship is scheme to aggrandize Paradise Sons

53:3.32. The uni­verse gov­ern­ment of the Cre­ator Son—Mi­chael. Lu­cifer con­tended that the lo­cal sys­tems should be au­ton­o­mous. He protested against the right of Mi­chael, the Cre­ator Son, to as­sume sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don in the name of a hy­po­thet­i­cal Par­a­dise Fa­ther and re­quire all per­son­al­i­ties to ac­knowl­edge al­le­giance to this un­seen Fa­ther. He as­serted that the whole plan of wor­ship was a clever scheme to ag­gran­dize the Par­a­dise Sons. He was will­ing to ac­knowl­edge Mi­chael as his Cre­ator-fa­ther but not as his God and right­ful ruler.

• attacked Ancients of Days as foreign potentates

53:3.4Most bit­terly did he at­tack the right of the An­cients of Days—“for­eign po­ten­tates”—to in­ter­fere in the af­fairs of the lo­cal sys­tems and uni­verses. These rulers he de­nounced as tyrants and usurpers. He ex­horted his fol­low­ers to be­lieve that none of these rulers could do aught to in­ter­fere with the op­er­a­tion of com­plete home rule if men and an­gels only had the cour­age to as­sert them­selves and boldly claim their rights.

• maintained immortality inherent except for unjust divine executioners

53:3.5He con­tended that the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days could be de­barred from func­tion­ing in the lo­cal sys­tems if the na­tive be­ings would only as­sert their in­de­pen­dence. He main­tained that im­mor­tal­ity was in­her­ent in the sys­tem per­son­al­i­ties, that res­ur­rec­tion was nat­u­ral and au­to­matic, and that all be­ings would live eter­nally ex­cept for the ar­bi­trary and un­just acts of the ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the An­cients of Days.

• 3. attacked plan of ascendant mortal training

53:3.63. The at­tack upon the uni­ver­sal plan of as­cen­dant mor­tal train­ing. Lu­cifer main­tained that far too much time and en­ergy were ex­pended upon the scheme of so thor­oughly train­ing as­cend­ing mor­tals in the prin­ci­ples of uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion, prin­ci­ples which he al­leged were un­eth­i­cal and un­sound. He protested against the age­long pro­gram for prepar­ing the mor­tals of space for some un­known des­tiny and pointed to the pres­ence of the fi­nal­i­ter corps on Je­ru­sem as proof that these mor­tals had spent ages of prepa­ra­tion for some des­tiny of pure fic­tion. With de­ri­sion he pointed out that the fi­nal­i­ters had en­coun­tered a des­tiny no more glo­ri­ous than to be re­turned to hum­ble spheres sim­i­lar to those of their ori­gin. He in­ti­mated that they had been de­bauched by over­much dis­ci­pline and pro­longed train­ing, and that they were in re­al­ity traitors to their mor­tal fel­lows since they were now co-op­er­at­ing with the scheme of en­slav­ing all cre­ation to the fic­tions of a myth­i­cal eter­nal des­tiny for as­cend­ing mor­tals. He ad­vo­cated that as­cend­ers should en­joy the lib­erty of in­di­vid­ual self-de­ter­mi­na­tion. He chal­lenged and con­demned the en­tire plan of mor­tal as­cen­sion as spon­sored by the Par­a­dise Sons of God and sup­ported by the In­fi­nite Spirit.

53:3.7And it was with such a Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty that Lu­cifer launched his orgy of dark­ness and death.

• issued at annual conclave of Satania

53:4.1The Lu­cifer man­i­festo was is­sued at the an­nual con­clave of Sa­ta­nia on the sea of glass, in the pres­ence of the as­sem­bled hosts of Je­ru­sem, on the last day of the year, about two hun­dred thou­sand years ago, Uran­tia time. Sa­tan pro­claimed that wor­ship could be ac­corded the uni­ver­sal forces—phys­i­cal, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual—but that al­le­giance could be ac­knowl­edged only to the ac­tual and pres­ent ruler, Lu­cifer, the “friend of men and an­gels” and the “God of lib­erty.”

• government should be limited to individual planets, voluntary confederation in local systems

53:4.2Self-as­ser­tion was the bat­tle cry of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. One of his chief ar­gu­ments was that, if self-gov­ern­ment was good and right for the Mel­chiz­e­deks and other groups, it was equally good for all or­ders of in­tel­li­gence. He was bold and per­sis­tent in the ad­vo­cacy of the “equal­ity of mind” and “the broth­er­hood of in­tel­li­gence.” He main­tained that all gov­ern­ment should be lim­ited to the lo­cal plan­ets and their vol­un­tary con­fed­er­a­tion into the lo­cal sys­tems. All other super­vi­sion he dis­al­lowed. He prom­ised the Plan­e­tary Princes that they should rule the worlds as su­preme ex­ec­u­tives. He de­nounced the lo­ca­tion of leg­isla­tive ac­tiv­i­ties on the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and the con­duct of ju­di­cial af­fairs on the uni­verse cap­i­tal. He con­tended that all these func­tions of gov­ern­ment should be con­cen­trated on the sys­tem cap­i­tals and pro­ceeded to set up his own leg­isla­tive as­sem­bly and or­ga­nized his own tri­bu­nals un­der the ju­ris­dic­tion of Sa­tan. And he di­rected that the princes on the apos­tate worlds do the same.

53:4.3The en­tire ad­min­is­tra­tive cab­i­net of Lu­cifer went over in a body and were sworn in pub­licly as the of­fi­cers of the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the new head of “the lib­er­ated worlds and sys­tems.”

• majorities rule; mind is infallible

53:4.4While there had been two pre­vi­ous re­bel­lions in Neb­a­don, they were in dis­tant con­stel­la­tions. Lu­cifer held that these in­sur­rec­tions were un­suc­cess­ful be­cause the ma­jor­ity of the in­tel­li­gences failed to fol­low their lead­ers. He con­tended that “ma­jori­ties rule,” that “mind is in­fal­li­ble.” The free­dom al­lowed him by the uni­verse rulers ap­par­ently sus­tained many of his ne­far­i­ous con­tentions. He de­fied all his su­pe­ri­ors; yet they ap­par­ently took no note of his do­ings. He was given a free hand to pros­e­cute his se­duc­tive plan with­out let or hin­drance.

53:4.5All the mer­ci­ful de­lays of jus­tice Lu­cifer pointed to as ev­i­dence of the in­abil­ity of the gov­ern­ment of the Par­a­dise Sons to stop the re­bel­lion. He would openly defy and ar­ro­gantly chal­lenge Mi­chael, Im­manuel, and the An­cients of Days and then point to the fact that no ac­tion en­sued as pos­i­tive ev­i­dence of the im­po­tency of the uni­verse and the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

53:4.6Ga­briel was per­son­ally pres­ent through­out all these dis­loyal pro­ceed­ings and only an­nounced that he would, in due time, speak for Mi­chael, and that all be­ings would be left free and un­mo­lested in their choice; that the “gov­ern­ment of the Sons for the Fa­ther de­sired only that loy­alty and de­vo­tion which was vol­un­tary, whole­hearted, and soph­istry-proof.”

53:4.7Lu­cifer was per­mit­ted fully to es­tab­lish and thor­oughly to or­ga­nize his rebel gov­ern­ment be­fore Ga­briel made any ef­fort to con­test the right of se­ces­sion or to coun­ter­work the rebel pro­pa­ganda. But the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers im­me­di­ately con­fined the ac­tion of these dis­loyal per­son­al­i­ties to the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Nev­er­the­less, this pe­riod of de­lay was a time of great trial and test­ing to the loyal be­ings of all Sa­ta­nia. All was chaotic for a few years, and there was great con­fu­sion on the man­sion worlds.

• outbreak of rebellion took form as Declaration of Liberty

53:6.5“Hav­ing been au­to­mat­i­cally thrown out of the con­stel­la­tion cir­cuits by the se­ces­sion of Lu­cifer, we were de­pen­dent on the loy­alty of our in­tel­li­gence corps, who for­warded calls for help to Eden­tia from the near-by sys­tem of Rantu­lia; and we found that the king­dom of or­der, the in­tel­lect of loy­alty, and the spirit of truth were in­her­ently tri­umphant over re­bel­lion, self-as­ser­tion, and so-called per­sonal lib­erty; we were able to carry on un­til the ar­rival of the new Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, the wor­thy suc­ces­sor of Lu­cifer. And im­me­di­ately there­after I was as­signed to the corps of the Mel­chiz­e­dek re­ceiver­ship of Uran­tia, as­sum­ing ju­ris­dic­tion over the loyal se­raphic or­ders on the world of the traitorous Cali­gas­tia, who had pro­claimed his sphere a mem­ber of the newly pro­jected sys­tem of ‘lib­er­ated worlds and eman­ci­pated per­son­al­i­ties’ pro­posed in the in­fa­mous Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty is­sued by Lu­cifer in his call to the ‘lib­erty-lov­ing, free-think­ing, and for­ward-look­ing in­tel­li­gences of the mis­ruled and mal­ad­min­is­tered worlds of Sa­ta­nia.’”

• masqueraded in habiliments of liberty

54:2.3Lu­cifer’s folly was the at­tempt to do the non­doable, to short-cir­cuit time in an ex­pe­ri­en­tial uni­verse. Lu­cifer’s crime was the at­tempted cre­ative dis­en­fran­chise­ment of ev­ery per­son­al­ity in Sa­ta­nia, the un­rec­og­nized abridg­ment of the crea­ture’s per­sonal par­tic­i­pa­tion—free­will par­tic­i­pa­tion—in the long evo­lu­tion­ary strug­gle to at­tain the sta­tus of light and life both in­di­vid­u­ally and col­lec­tively. In so do­ing this one­time Sov­er­eign of your sys­tem set the tem­po­ral pur­pose of his own will di­rectly athwart the eter­nal pur­pose of God’s will as it is re­vealed in the be­stowal of free will upon all per­sonal crea­tures. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion thus threat­ened the max­i­mum pos­si­ble in­fringe­ment of the free­will choice of the as­cend­ers and servers of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia—a threat forever­more to de­prive ev­ery one of these be­ings of the thrilling ex­pe­ri­ence of con­tribut­ing some­thing per­sonal and unique to the slowly erect­ing mon­u­ment to ex­pe­ri­en­tial wis­dom which will some­time ex­ist as the per­fected sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Thus does the Lu­cifer man­i­festo, mas­querad­ing in the ha­bil­i­ments of lib­erty, stand forth in the clear light of rea­son as a mon­u­men­tal threat to con­sum­mate the theft of per­sonal lib­erty and to do it on a scale that has been ap­proached only twice in all the his­tory of Neb­a­don.

• outbreak of rebellion took form as Declaration of Liberty

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.”

53:6.1There were many no­ble and in­spir­ing acts of de­vo­tion and loy­alty which were per­formed by nu­mer­ous per­son­al­i­ties dur­ing the in­terim be­tween the out­break of hos­til­i­ties and the ar­rival of the new sys­tem ruler and his staff. But the most thrilling of all these dar­ing feats of de­vo­tion was the coura­geous con­duct of Man­otia, the sec­ond in com­mand of the Sa­ta­nia head­quar­ters’ ser­a­phim.

53:6.3Not long since, in de­scrib­ing the ex­pe­ri­ences as­so­ci­ated with the on­set of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, Man­otia said: “But my most ex­hil­a­rat­ing mo­ment was the thrilling ad­ven­ture con­nected with the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion when, as sec­ond se­raphic com­man­der, I re­fused to par­tic­i­pate in the pro­jected in­sult to Mi­chael; and the pow­er­ful rebels sought my de­struc­tion by means of the li­ai­son forces they had ar­ranged. There was a tremen­dous up­heaval on Je­ru­sem, but not a sin­gle loyal ser­a­phim was harmed.

53:6.4“Upon the de­fault of my im­me­di­ate su­pe­rior it de­volved upon me to as­sume com­mand of the an­gelic hosts of Je­ru­sem as the tit­u­lar di­rec­tor of the con­fused se­raphic af­fairs of the sys­tem. I was morally up­held by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, ably as­sisted by a ma­jor­ity of the Ma­te­rial Sons, de­serted by a tremen­dous group of my own or­der, but mag­nif­i­cently sup­ported by the as­cen­dant mor­tals on Je­ru­sem.

53:6.6This an­gel is still in ser­vice on Uran­tia, func­tion­ing as as­so­ciate chief of ser­a­phim.

43:1.6The Mel­chiz­e­deks also main­tain two spe­cial col­leges on Eden­tia. One, the emer­gency school, is de­voted to the study of prob­lems grow­ing out of the Sa­ta­nia re­bel­lion. The other, the be­stowal school, is ded­i­cated to the mas­tery of the new prob­lems aris­ing out of the fact that Mi­chael made his fi­nal be­stowal on one of the worlds of Nor­la­ti­adek. This lat­ter col­lege was es­tab­lished al­most forty thou­sand years ago, im­me­di­ately af­ter the an­nounce­ment by Mi­chael that Uran­tia had been se­lected as the world for his fi­nal be­stowal.

54:5.1110. The Di­vine Min­is­ter of Sal­ving­ton is­sued as her third in­de­pen­dent procla­ma­tion a man­date di­rect­ing that noth­ing be done to half cure, cow­ardly sup­press, or oth­er­wise hide the hideous vis­age of rebels and re­bel­lion. The an­gelic hosts were di­rected to work for full dis­clo­sure and un­lim­ited op­por­tu­nity for sin-ex­pres­sion as the quick­est tech­nique of achiev­ing the per­fect and fi­nal cure of the plague of evil and sin.

53:7.15Thus were these arch­re­bels al­lowed to roam the en­tire sys­tem to seek fur­ther pen­e­tra­tion for their doc­trines of dis­con­tent and self-as­ser­tion. But in al­most two hun­dred thou­sand Uran­tia years they have been un­able to de­ceive an­other world. No Sa­ta­nia worlds have been lost since the fall of the thirty-seven, not even those younger worlds peo­pled since that day of re­bel­lion.

50:6.5You should not for­get that for two hun­dred thou­sand years all the worlds of Sa­ta­nia have rested un­der the spir­i­tual ban of Nor­la­ti­adek in con­se­quence of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. And it will re­quire age upon age to re­trieve the re­sul­tant hand­i­caps of sin and se­ces­sion. Your world still con­tin­ues to pur­sue an ir­reg­u­lar and check­ered ca­reer as a re­sult of the dou­ble tragedy of a re­bel­lious Plan­e­tary Prince and a de­fault­ing Ma­te­rial Son. Even the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael on Uran­tia did not im­me­di­ately set aside the tem­po­ral con­se­quences of these se­ri­ous blun­ders in the ear­lier ad­min­is­tra­tion of the world.

61:7.8200,000 years ago, dur­ing the ad­vance of the last glacier, there oc­curred an episode which had much to do with the march of events on Uran­tia—the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

• robbed man of moral assistance which well-ordered society provides

34:7.4The Uran­tia peo­ples are suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences of a dou­ble de­pri­va­tion of help in this task of pro­gres­sive plan­e­tary spir­i­tual at­tain­ment. The Cali­gas­tia up­heaval pre­cip­i­tated world-wide con­fu­sion and robbed all sub­se­quent gen­er­a­tions of the moral as­sis­tance which a well-or­dered so­ci­ety would have pro­vided. But even more dis­as­trous was the Adamic de­fault in that it de­prived the races of that su­pe­rior type of phys­i­cal na­ture which would have been more con­so­nant with spir­i­tual as­pi­ra­tions.

• perversion of planetary schools by Caligastia

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.

• wrecked plan for race improvement

51:5.4For the first time the racial wars and other tribal strug­gles are di­min­ished, while the world races in­creas­ingly strive to qual­ify for rec­og­ni­tion and ad­mis­sion to the gar­den. You can at best have but a very mea­ger idea of how this com­pet­i­tive strug­gle comes to oc­cupy the cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties on a nor­mal planet. This whole scheme of race im­prove­ment was early wrecked on Uran­tia.

• horrible confusion, spiritual darkness followed

66:7.20At the out­break of the re­bel­lion, Dala­ma­tia had a res­i­dent pop­u­la­tion of al­most six thou­sand. This num­ber in­cludes the reg­u­lar stu­dents but does not em­brace the vis­i­tors and ob­servers, who al­ways num­bered more than one thou­sand. But you can have lit­tle or no con­cept of the mar­velous prog­ress of those far­away times; prac­ti­cally all of the won­der­ful hu­man gains of those days were wiped out by the hor­ri­ble con­fu­sion and ab­ject spir­i­tual dark­ness which fol­lowed the Cali­gas­tia catas­tro­phe of de­cep­tion and sedi­tion.

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.

67:2.2The pre­sen­ta­tion of this as­tound­ing de­mand was fol­lowed by the mas­terly ap­peal of Van, chair­man of the su­preme coun­cil of co-or­di­na­tion. This dis­tin­guished ad­min­is­tra­tor and able ju­rist branded the pro­posed course of Cali­gas­tia as an act bor­der­ing on plan­e­tary re­bel­lion and ap­pealed to his con­fer­ees to ab­stain from all par­tic­i­pa­tion un­til an ap­peal could be taken to Lu­cifer, the Sys­tem Sov­er­eign of Sa­ta­nia; and he won the sup­port of the en­tire staff. Ac­cord­ingly, ap­peal was taken to Je­ru­sem, and forth­with came back the or­ders des­ig­nat­ing Cali­gas­tia as su­preme sov­er­eign on Uran­tia and com­mand­ing ab­so­lute and un­ques­tion­ing al­le­giance to his man­dates. And it was in re­ply to this amaz­ing mes­sage that the no­ble Van made his mem­o­rable ad­dress of seven hours’ length in which he for­mally drew his in­dict­ment of Dali­gas­tia, Cali­gas­tia, and Lu­cifer as stand­ing in con­tempt of the sov­er­eignty of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don; and he ap­pealed to the Most Highs of Eden­tia for sup­port and con­fir­ma­tion.

67:2.3Mean­time the sys­tem cir­cuits had been sev­ered; Uran­tia was iso­lated. Ev­ery group of ce­les­tial life on the planet found it­self sud­denly and with­out warn­ing iso­lated, ut­terly cut off from all out­side coun­sel and ad­vice.

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.

67:3.1The out­break of re­bel­lion on Je­ru­sem, the cap­i­tal of Sa­ta­nia, was broad­cast by the Mel­chiz­e­dek coun­cil. The emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks were im­me­di­ately dis­patched to Je­ru­sem, and Ga­briel vol­un­teered to act as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Cre­ator Son, whose au­thor­ity had been chal­lenged. With this broad­cast of the fact of re­bel­lion in Sa­ta­nia the sys­tem was iso­lated, quar­an­tined, from her sis­ter sys­tems. There was “war in heaven,” the head­quar­ters of Sa­ta­nia, and it spread to ev­ery planet in the lo­cal sys­tem.

67:3.3The traitorous Prince mar­shaled the dis­loyal mid­way crea­tures and other groups of rebel per­son­al­i­ties and or­ga­nized them to ex­e­cute his bid­ding, while Van as­sem­bled the loyal mid­way­ers and other faith­ful groups and be­gan the great bat­tle for the sal­va­tion of the plan­e­tary staff and other ma­rooned ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties.

67:3.4Dur­ing the times of this strug­gle the loy­al­ists dwelt in an un­walled and poorly pro­tected set­tle­ment a few miles to the east of Dala­ma­tia, but their dwellings were guarded day and night by the alert and ever-watch­ful loyal mid­way crea­tures, and they had pos­ses­sion of the price­less tree of life.

67:3.5Upon the out­break of re­bel­lion, loyal cheru­bim and ser­a­phim, with the aid of three faith­ful mid­way­ers, as­sumed the cus­tody of the tree of life and per­mit­ted only the forty loy­al­ists of the staff and their as­so­ci­ated mod­i­fied mor­tals to par­take of the fruit and leaves of this en­ergy plant. There were fifty-six of these mod­i­fied An­don­ite as­so­ciates of the staff, six­teen of the An­don­ite at­ten­dants of the dis­loyal staff re­fus­ing to go into re­bel­lion with their mas­ters.

67:3.6Through­out the seven cru­cial years of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion, Van was wholly de­voted to the work of min­istry to his loyal army of men, mid­way­ers, and an­gels. The spir­i­tual in­sight and moral stead­fast­ness which en­abled Van to main­tain such an un­shak­able at­ti­tude of loy­alty to the uni­verse gov­ern­ment was the prod­uct of clear think­ing, wise rea­son­ing, log­i­cal judg­ment, sin­cere mo­ti­va­tion, un­selfish pur­pose, in­tel­li­gent loy­alty, ex­pe­ri­en­tial mem­ory, dis­ci­plined char­ac­ter, and the un­ques­tion­ing ded­i­ca­tion of his per­son­al­ity to the do­ing of the will of the Fa­ther in Par­a­dise.

67:3.7This seven years of wait­ing was a time of heart search­ing and soul dis­ci­pline. Such crises in the af­fairs of a uni­verse demon­strate the tremen­dous in­flu­ence of mind as a fac­tor in spir­i­tual choos­ing. Ed­u­ca­tion, train­ing, and ex­pe­ri­ence are fac­tors in most of the vi­tal de­ci­sions of all evo­lu­tion­ary moral crea­tures. But it is en­tirely pos­si­ble for the in­dwelling spirit to make di­rect con­tact with the de­ci­sion-de­ter­min­ing pow­ers of the hu­man per­son­al­ity so as to em­power the fully con­se­crated will of the crea­ture to per­form amaz­ing acts of loyal de­vo­tion to the will and the way of the Fa­ther in Par­a­dise. And this is just what oc­curred in the ex­pe­ri­ence of Amadon, the mod­i­fied hu­man as­so­ciate of Van.

• Amadon was the outstanding human hero of

67:3.8Amadon is the out­stand­ing hu­man hero of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. This male de­scen­dant of An­don and Fonta was one of the one hun­dred who con­tributed life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and ever since that event he had been at­tached to Van as his as­so­ciate and hu­man as­sis­tant. Amadon elected to stand with his chief through­out the long and try­ing strug­gle. And it was an in­spir­ing sight to be­hold this child of the evo­lu­tion­ary races stand­ing un­moved by the soph­ist­ries of Dali­gas­tia while through­out the seven-year strug­gle he and his loyal as­so­ciates re­sisted with un­yield­ing for­ti­tude all of the de­cep­tive teach­ings of the bril­liant Cali­gas­tia.

67:3.9Cali­gas­tia, with a max­i­mum of in­tel­li­gence and a vast ex­pe­ri­ence in uni­verse af­fairs, went astray—em­braced sin. Amadon, with a min­i­mum of in­tel­li­gence and ut­terly de­void of uni­verse ex­pe­ri­ence, re­mained stead­fast in the ser­vice of the uni­verse and in loy­alty to his as­so­ciate. Van uti­lized both mind and spirit in a mag­nif­i­cent and ef­fec­tive com­bi­na­tion of in­tel­lec­tual de­ter­mi­na­tion and spir­i­tual in­sight, thereby achiev­ing an ex­pe­ri­en­tial level of per­son­al­ity re­al­iza­tion of the high­est at­tain­able or­der. Mind and spirit, when fully united, are po­ten­tial for the cre­ation of super­hu­man val­ues, even mor­ontia re­al­i­ties.

67:3.10There is no end to the recital of the stir­ring events of these tragic days. But at last the fi­nal de­ci­sion of the last per­son­al­ity was made, and then, but only then, did a Most High of Eden­tia ar­rive with the emer­gency Mel­chiz­e­deks to seize au­thor­ity on Uran­tia. The Cali­gas­tia panoramic reign-rec­ords on Je­ru­sem were oblit­er­ated, and the pro­ba­tion­ary era of plan­e­tary re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion was in­au­gu­rated.

• radical reorganization of whole world attempted; revolution displaced evolution

67:5.1Great con­fu­sion reigned in Dala­ma­tia and there­about for al­most fifty years af­ter the in­sti­ga­tion of re­bel­lion. The com­plete and rad­i­cal re­or­ga­ni­za­tion of the whole world was at­tempted; rev­o­lu­tion dis­placed evo­lu­tion as the pol­icy of cul­tural ad­vance­ment and racial im­prove­ment. Among the su­pe­rior and par­tially trained so­journ­ers in and near Dala­ma­tia there ap­peared a sud­den ad­vance­ment in cul­tural sta­tus, but when these new and rad­i­cal meth­ods were at­tempted on the out­ly­ing peo­ples, in­de­scrib­able con­fu­sion and racial pan­de­mo­nium was the im­me­di­ate re­sult. Lib­erty was quickly trans­lated into li­cense by the half-evolved prim­i­tive men of those days.

67:5.2Very soon af­ter the re­bel­lion the en­tire staff of sedi­tion were en­gaged in en­er­getic de­fense of the city against the hordes of semi­sav­ages who be­sieged its walls as a re­sult of the doc­trines of lib­erty which had been pre­ma­turely taught them. And years be­fore the beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters went down be­neath the south­ern waves, the mis­led and mis­taught tribes of the Dala­ma­tia hin­ter­land had al­ready swept down in semi­sav­age as­sault on the splen­did city, driv­ing the se­ces­sion staff and their as­so­ciates north­ward.

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.

67:5.4One hun­dred and sixty-two years af­ter the re­bel­lion a tidal wave swept up over Dala­ma­tia, and the plan­e­tary head­quar­ters sank be­neath the wa­ters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge un­til al­most ev­ery ves­tige of the no­ble cul­ture of those splen­did ages had been oblit­er­ated.

67:5.5When the first cap­i­tal of the world was en­gulfed, it har­bored only the low­est types of the San­gik races of Uran­tia, rene­gades who had al­ready con­verted the Fa­ther’s tem­ple into a shrine ded­i­cated to Nog, the false god of light and fire.

• effaced gains of Prince’s administration

73:1.2Ten thou­sand years af­ter the re­bel­lion prac­ti­cally all the gains of the Prince’s ad­min­is­tra­tion had been ef­faced; the races of the world were lit­tle bet­ter off than if this mis­guided Son had never come to Uran­tia. Only among the Nod­ites and the Ama­don­ites was there per­sis­tence of the tra­di­tions of Dala­ma­tia and the cul­ture of the Plan­e­tary Prince.

• did not seriously interfere with organic evolution

78:1.1Al­though the minds and morals of the races were at a low level at the time of Adam’s ar­rival, phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion had gone on quite un­af­fected by the ex­i­gen­cies of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion. Adam’s con­tri­bu­tion to the bi­o­logic sta­tus of the races, not­with­stand­ing the par­tial fail­ure of the un­der­tak­ing, enor­mously up­stepped the peo­ple of Uran­tia.

• did not seriously interfere with organic evolution

81:0.1Re­gard­less of the ups and downs of the mis­car­riage of the plans for world bet­ter­ment pro­jected in the mis­sions of Cali­gas­tia and Adam, the ba­sic or­ganic evo­lu­tion of the hu­man species con­tin­ued to carry the races for­ward in the scale of hu­man prog­ress and racial de­vel­op­ment. Evo­lu­tion can be de­layed but it can­not be stopped.

• ended first epochal revelation after 300,000 years

92:4.51. The Dala­ma­tian teach­ings. The true con­cept of the First Source and Cen­ter was first pro­mul­gated on Uran­tia by the one hun­dred cor­po­real mem­bers of Prince Cali­gas­tia’s staff. This ex­pand­ing rev­e­la­tion of De­ity went on for more than three hun­dred thou­sand years un­til it was sud­denly ter­mi­nated by the plan­e­tary se­ces­sion and the dis­rup­tion of the teach­ing regime. Ex­cept for the work of Van, the in­flu­ence of the Dala­ma­tian rev­e­la­tion was prac­ti­cally lost to the whole world. Even the Nod­ites had for­got­ten this truth by the time of Adam’s ar­rival. Of all who re­ceived the teach­ings of the one hun­dred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy con­cept in Amerindian re­li­gion when con­tact with Chris­tian­ity greatly clar­i­fied and strength­ened it.

53:7.3All se­ces­sion pro­pa­ganda had to be car­ried on by per­sonal ef­fort be­cause the broad­cast ser­vice and all other av­enues of in­ter­plan­e­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tion were sus­pended by the ac­tion of the sys­tem cir­cuit super­vi­sors. Upon the ac­tual out­break of the in­sur­rec­tion the en­tire sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia was iso­lated in both the con­stel­la­tion and the uni­verse cir­cuits. Dur­ing this time all in­com­ing and out­go­ing mes­sages were dis­patched by se­raphic agents and Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers. The cir­cuits to the fallen worlds were also cut off, so that Lu­cifer could not uti­lize this av­enue for the fur­ther­ance of his ne­far­i­ous scheme. And these cir­cuits will not be re­stored so long as the arch­re­bel lives within the con­fines of Sa­ta­nia.

53:7.13With the ar­rival of Lanaforge the arch­re­bels were de­throned and shorn of all gov­ern­ing pow­ers, though they were per­mit­ted freely to go about Je­ru­sem, the mor­ontia spheres, and even to the in­di­vid­ual in­hab­ited worlds. They con­tin­ued their de­cep­tive and se­duc­tive ef­forts to con­fuse and mis­lead the minds of men and an­gels. But as con­cerned their work on the ad­min­is­tra­tive mount of Je­ru­sem, “their place was found no more.”

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.

53:8.1Lu­cifer and Sa­tan freely roamed the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem un­til the com­ple­tion of the be­stowal mis­sion of Mi­chael on Uran­tia. They were last on your world to­gether dur­ing the time of their com­bined as­sault upon the Son of Man.

53:8.2For­merly, when the Plan­e­tary Princes, the “Sons of God,” were pe­ri­od­i­cally as­sem­bled, “Sa­tan came also,” claim­ing that he rep­re­sented all of the iso­lated worlds of the fallen Plan­e­tary Princes. But he has not been ac­corded such lib­erty on Je­ru­sem since Mi­chael’s ter­mi­nal be­stowal. Sub­se­quent to their ef­fort to cor­rupt Mi­chael when in the be­stowal flesh, all sym­pa­thy for Lu­cifer and Sa­tan has per­ished through­out all Sa­ta­nia, that is, out­side the iso­lated worlds of sin.

53:8.3The be­stowal of Mi­chael ter­mi­nated the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion in all Sa­ta­nia aside from the plan­ets of the apos­tate Plan­e­tary Princes. And this was the sig­nif­i­cance of Je­sus’ per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence, just be­fore his death in the flesh, when he one day ex­claimed to his dis­ci­ples, “And I be­held Sa­tan fall as light­ning from heaven.” He had come with Lu­cifer to Uran­tia for the last cru­cial strug­gle.

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.”

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.

53:8.7Be­fore 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.

53:8.8But even so, no fallen spirit ever did have the power to in­vade the minds or to ha­rass the souls of the chil­dren of God. Nei­ther Sa­tan nor Cali­gas­tia could ever touch or ap­proach the faith sons of God; faith is an ef­fec­tive ar­mor against sin and in­iq­uity. It is true: “He who is born of God keeps him­self, and the wicked one touches him not.”

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.