Lucifer

62:7.5And no sooner had the Most Highs left off speak­ing than the beau­ti­ful mes­sage of Lu­cifer, then sov­er­eign of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem, be­gan to plan­e­tize. Now the Life Car­ri­ers heard the wel­come words of their own chief and re­ceived his per­mis­sion to re­turn to Je­ru­sem. This mes­sage from Lu­cifer con­tained the of­fi­cial ac­cep­tance of the Life Car­ri­ers’ work on Uran­tia and ab­solved us from all fu­ture crit­i­cism of any of our ef­forts to im­prove the life pat­terns of Neb­a­don as es­tab­lished in the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem.

• now confined on prison worlds

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.

• brought to trial in 2-1/2 seconds Uversa time
• Gabriel vs. Lucifer case before Ancients of Days recently begun

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.

• free in Satania for 200,000 years

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.

53:7.15Thus 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.

• free in Satania for 200,000 years

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.

• Gabriel vs. Lucifer case before Ancients of Days recently begun

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.

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.”

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.

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.]

• Gabriel vs. Lucifer case before Ancients of Days recently begun
• now confined on prison worlds

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.

• brought to trial in 2-1/2 seconds Uversa time

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.

• brought to trial in 2-1/2 seconds Uversa time
• Gabriel vs. Lucifer case before Ancients of Days recently begun

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.

• rebellion took origin in L.’s mind

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.”

• disaffected for 500 years before rebellion
• relations with Michael had always been intimate and cordial

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.

• first outspoken disloyalty during Gabriel’s visit

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.

• persuaded himself rebellion was good for system
• rejected Michael’s mercy with increasing contempt

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.

• declared friend of men and angels

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.”

• Judas’s betrayal pleased

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

• Judas’s betrayal pleased

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

• turned face away from horror of crucifixion

183:1.2The Fa­ther in heaven de­sired the be­stowal Son to fin­ish his earth ca­reer nat­u­rally, just as all mor­tals must fin­ish up their lives on earth and in the flesh. Or­di­nary men and women can­not ex­pect to have their last hours on earth and the super­ven­ing episode of death made easy by a spe­cial dis­pen­sa­tion. Ac­cord­ingly, Je­sus elected to lay down his life in the flesh in the man­ner which was in keep­ing with the out­work­ing of nat­u­ral events, and he stead­fastly re­fused to ex­tri­cate him­self from the cruel clutches of a wicked con­spir­acy of in­hu­man events which swept on with hor­ri­ble cer­tainty to­ward his un­be­liev­able hu­mil­i­a­tion and ig­no­min­ious death. And ev­ery bit of all this as­tound­ing man­i­fes­ta­tion of ha­tred and this un­prece­dented dem­on­stra­tion of cru­elty was the work of evil men and wicked mor­tals. God in heaven did not will it, nei­ther did the arch­en­e­mies of Je­sus dic­tate it, though they did much to in­sure that un­think­ing and evil mor­tals would thus re­ject the be­stowal Son. Even the fa­ther of sin turned his face away from the ex­cru­ci­at­ing hor­ror of the scene of the cru­ci­fix­ion.

162:7.3“I know that you are Abra­ham’s seed, yet your lead­ers seek to kill me be­cause my word has not been al­lowed to have its trans­form­ing in­flu­ence in their hearts. Their souls are sealed by prej­u­dice and blinded by the pride of re­venge. I de­clare to you the truth which the eter­nal Fa­ther shows me, while these de­luded teach­ers seek to do the things which they have learned only from their tem­po­ral fa­thers. And when you re­ply that Abra­ham is your fa­ther, then do I tell you that, if you were the chil­dren of Abra­ham, you would do the works of Abra­ham. Some of you be­lieve my teach­ing, but oth­ers seek to de­stroy me be­cause I have told you the truth which I re­ceived from God. But Abra­ham did not so treat the truth of God. I per­ceive that some among you are de­ter­mined to do the works of the evil one. If God were your Fa­ther, you would know me and love the truth which I re­veal. Will you not see that I come forth from the Fa­ther, that I am sent by God, that I am not do­ing this work of my­self? Why do you not un­der­stand my words? Is it be­cause you have cho­sen to be­come the chil­dren of evil? If you are the chil­dren of dark­ness, you will hardly walk in the light of the truth which I re­veal. The chil­dren of evil fol­low only in the ways of their fa­ther, who was a de­ceiver and stood not for the truth be­cause there came to be no truth in him. But now comes the Son of Man speak­ing and liv­ing the truth, and many of you refuse to be­lieve.

• sought to displace all superior orders of sonship

43:4.6The traitorous Lu­cifer, one­time sov­er­eign of Sa­ta­nia, in an­nounc­ing his claims to in­creased ju­ris­dic­tion, sought to dis­place all su­pe­rior or­ders of son­ship in the gov­ern­men­tal plan of the lo­cal uni­verse. He pur­posed in his heart, say­ing: “I will ex­alt my throne above the Sons of God; I will sit upon the mount of as­sem­bly in the north; I will be like the Most High.”

54:2.1With the Son and in the Spirit did God project eter­nal Ha­vona, and ever since has there ob­tained the eter­nal pat­tern of co-or­di­nate par­tic­i­pa­tion in cre­ation—shar­ing. This pat­tern of shar­ing is the mas­ter de­sign for ev­ery one of the Sons and Daugh­ters of God who go out into space to en­gage in the at­tempt to du­pli­cate in time the cen­tral uni­verse of eter­nal per­fec­tion.

54:2.2Ev­ery crea­ture of ev­ery evolv­ing uni­verse who as­pires to do the Fa­ther’s will is des­tined to be­come the part­ner of the time-space Cre­ators in this mag­nif­i­cent ad­ven­ture of ex­pe­ri­en­tial per­fec­tion at­tain­ment. Were this not true, the Fa­ther would have hardly en­dowed such crea­tures with cre­ative free will, nei­ther would he in­dwell them, ac­tu­ally go into part­ner­ship with them by means of his own spirit.

• attempted disenfranchisement of all Satania

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.

54:2.4In short, what God had given men and an­gels Lu­cifer would have taken away from them, that is, the di­vine priv­i­lege of par­tic­i­pat­ing in the cre­ation of their own des­tinies and of the des­tiny of this lo­cal sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

54:2.5No be­ing in all the uni­verse has the right­ful lib­erty to de­prive any other be­ing of true lib­erty, the right to love and be loved, the priv­i­lege of wor­ship­ing God and of serv­ing his fel­lows.

• disrupted time governor restraining premature liberties

118:8.9Lu­cifer sim­i­larly sought to dis­rupt the time gov­er­nor op­er­at­ing in re­straint of the pre­ma­ture at­tain­ment of cer­tain lib­er­ties in the lo­cal sys­tem. A lo­cal sys­tem set­tled in light and life has ex­pe­ri­en­tially achieved those view­points and in­sights which make fea­si­ble the op­er­a­tion of many tech­niques that would be dis­rup­tive and de­struc­tive in the pre­set­tled eras of that very realm.

• prostituted divine talents for own aggrandizement

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

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.

53:5.5The Lu­cifer em­blem was a ban­ner of white with one red cir­cle, in the cen­ter of which a black solid cir­cle ap­peared.

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

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

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.

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.

• 1 of 3 System Sovereigns in Nebadon who rebelled

50:1.3Be­ing quite alone as rep­re­sen­ta­tives of di­vin­ity on the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, these Sons are tested severely, and Neb­a­don has suf­fered the mis­for­tune of sev­eral re­bel­lions. In the cre­ation of the Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns and the Plan­e­tary Princes there oc­curs the per­son­al­iza­tion of a con­cept that has been get­ting far­ther and far­ther away from the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the Eter­nal Son, and there is an in­creas­ing dan­ger of los­ing the sense of pro­por­tion as to one’s self-im­por­tance and a greater like­li­hood of fail­ure to keep a proper grasp of the val­ues and re­la­tion­ships of the nu­mer­ous or­ders of di­vine be­ings and their gra­da­tions of au­thor­ity. That the Fa­ther is not per­son­ally pres­ent in the lo­cal uni­verse also im­poses a cer­tain test of faith and loy­alty on all these Sons.

• 1 of 3 System Sovereigns in Nebadon who rebelled
• able, distinguished, brilliant primary Lanonandek, #37 of his order

53:0.1Lu­cifer was a bril­liant pri­mary La­non­an­dek Son of Neb­a­don. He had ex­pe­ri­enced ser­vice in many sys­tems, had been a high coun­selor of his group, and was dis­tin­guished for wis­dom, sagac­ity, and ef­fi­ciency. Lu­cifer was num­ber 37 of his or­der, and when com­mis­sioned by the Mel­chiz­e­deks, he was des­ig­nated as one of the one hun­dred most able and bril­liant per­son­al­i­ties in more than seven hun­dred thou­sand of his kind. From such a mag­nif­i­cent be­gin­ning, through evil and er­ror, he em­braced sin and now is num­bered as one of three Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns in Neb­a­don who have suc­cumbed to the urge of self and sur­ren­dered to the soph­istry of spu­ri­ous per­sonal lib­erty—re­jec­tion of uni­verse al­le­giance and dis­re­gard of fra­ter­nal obli­ga­tions, blind­ness to cos­mic re­la­tion­ships.

• 1 of 3 System Sovereigns in Nebadon who rebelled

53:0.2In the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, the do­main of Christ Mi­chael, there are ten thou­sand sys­tems of in­hab­ited worlds. In all the his­tory of La­non­an­dek Sons, in all their work through­out these thou­sands of sys­tems and at the uni­verse head­quar­ters, only three Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns have ever been found in con­tempt of the gov­ern­ment of the Cre­ator Son.

• fallen and deposed Sovereign of Satania

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!”

• iniquitous; spiritual prideful

148:4.2“Do not make the mis­take of con­fus­ing evil with the evil one, more cor­rectly the in­iq­ui­tous one. He whom you call the evil one is the son of self-love, the high ad­min­is­tra­tor who know­ingly went into de­lib­er­ate re­bel­lion against the rule of my Fa­ther and his loyal Sons. But I have al­ready van­quished these sin­ful rebels. Make clear in your mind these dif­fer­ent at­ti­tudes to­ward the Fa­ther and his uni­verse. Never for­get these laws of re­la­tion to the Fa­ther’s will:

• iniquitous; spiritual prideful

163:6.6The next day be­ing the Sab­bath, Je­sus went apart with the sev­enty and said to them: “I did in­deed re­joice with you when you came back bear­ing the good tid­ings of the re­cep­tion of the gospel of the king­dom by so many peo­ple scat­tered through­out Gal­i­lee, Samaria, and Judea. But why were you so sur­pris­ingly elated? Did you not ex­pect that your mes­sage would man­i­fest power in its de­liv­ery? Did you go forth with so lit­tle faith in this gospel that you come back in sur­prise at its ef­fec­tive­ness? And now, while I would not quench your spirit of re­joic­ing, I would sternly warn you against the sub­tleties of pride, spir­i­tual pride. If you could un­der­stand the down­fall of Lu­cifer, the in­iq­ui­tous one, you would solemnly shun all forms of spir­i­tual pride.

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.

148:4.6“By na­ture, be­fore the re­birth of the spirit, mor­tal man is sub­ject to in­her­ent evil ten­den­cies, but such nat­u­ral im­per­fec­tions of be­hav­ior are nei­ther sin nor in­iq­uity. Mor­tal man is just be­gin­ning his long as­cent to the per­fec­tion of the Fa­ther in Par­a­dise. To be im­per­fect or par­tial in nat­u­ral en­dow­ment is not sin­ful. Man is in­deed sub­ject to evil, but he is in no sense the child of the evil one un­less he has know­ingly and de­lib­er­ately cho­sen the paths of sin and the life of in­iq­uity. Evil is in­her­ent in the nat­u­ral or­der of this world, but sin is an at­ti­tude of con­scious re­bel­lion which was brought to this world by those who fell from spir­i­tual light into gross dark­ness.

114:1.1The orig­i­nal sov­er­eignty of Uran­tia was held in trust by the sov­er­eign of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. It was first del­e­gated by him to a joint com­mis­sion of Mel­chiz­e­deks and Life Car­ri­ers, and this group func­tioned on Uran­tia un­til the ar­rival of a reg­u­larly con­sti­tuted Plan­e­tary Prince. Sub­se­quent to the down­fall of Prince Cali­gas­tia, at the time of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion, Uran­tia had no sure and set­tled re­la­tion­ship with the lo­cal uni­verse and its ad­min­is­tra­tive di­vi­sions un­til the com­ple­tion of Mi­chael’s be­stowal in the flesh, when he was pro­claimed, by the Union of Days, Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. Such a procla­ma­tion in surety and in prin­ci­ple for­ever set­tled the sta­tus of your world, but in prac­tice the Sov­er­eign Cre­ator Son made no ges­ture of per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of the planet aside from the es­tab­lish­ment of the Je­ru­sem com­mis­sion of twenty-four for­mer Uran­tians with au­thor­ity to rep­re­sent him in the gov­ern­ment of Uran­tia and all other quar­an­tined plan­ets in the sys­tem. One of this coun­cil is now al­ways res­i­dent on Uran­tia as res­i­dent gov­er­nor gen­eral.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

53:8.2For­merly, 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.

• Norlatiadek Most Highs in charge of fallen worlds

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.

• no rotation of Norlatiadek Most Highs

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.

46:8.5[Pre­sented by an Arch­an­gel of Neb­a­don.]