quarantine

• spiritually defensive reaction to safeguard God’s presence

3:1.10Con­cern­ing God’s pres­ence in a planet, sys­tem, con­stel­la­tion, or a uni­verse, the de­gree of such pres­ence in any cre­ational unit is a mea­sure of the de­gree of the evolv­ing pres­ence of the Su­preme Be­ing: It is de­ter­mined by the en masse rec­og­ni­tion of God and loy­alty to him on the part of the vast uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion, run­ning down to the sys­tems and plan­ets them­selves. There­fore it is some­times with the hope of con­serv­ing and safe­guard­ing these phases of God’s pre­cious pres­ence that, when some plan­ets (or even sys­tems) have plunged far into spir­i­tual dark­ness, they are in a cer­tain sense quar­an­tined, or par­tially iso­lated from in­ter­course with the larger units of cre­ation. And all this, as it op­er­ates on Uran­tia, is a spir­i­tu­ally de­fen­sive re­ac­tion of the ma­jor­ity of the worlds to save them­selves, as far as pos­si­ble, from suf­fer­ing the iso­lat­ing con­se­quences of the alien­at­ing acts of a head­strong, wicked, and re­bel­lious mi­nor­ity.

• worlds subject to quarantine › have difficulty formulating concepts of 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.

• spirit gravity unaffected by

7:1.7Like the ma­te­rial grav­ity of Par­a­dise, the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son is ab­so­lute. Sin and re­bel­lion may in­ter­fere with the op­er­a­tion of lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits, but noth­ing can sus­pend the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pro­duced many changes in your sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds and on Uran­tia, but we do not ob­serve that the re­sul­tant spir­i­tual quar­an­tine of your planet in the least af­fected the pres­ence and func­tion of ei­ther the om­ni­pres­ent spirit of the Eter­nal Son or the as­so­ci­ated spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit.

• of Urantia by Satania › spiritual isolation

20:8.4In all uni­verses all the Sons of God are be­holden to these ever-faith­ful and uni­ver­sally ef­fi­cient Trin­ity Teacher Sons. They are the ex­alted teach­ers of all spirit per­son­al­i­ties, even the tried and true teach­ers of the Sons of God them­selves. But of the end­less de­tails of the du­ties and func­tions of the Teacher Sons I can hardly in­struct you. The vast do­main of Day­nal-son­ship ac­tiv­i­ties will be bet­ter un­der­stood on Uran­tia when you are more ad­vanced in in­tel­li­gence, and af­ter the spir­i­tual iso­la­tion of your planet has been ter­mi­nated.

• Universe Circuit Supervisors effect

24:1.12Whether act­ing in the lo­cal or higher uni­verses, cir­cuit super­vi­sors di­rect all con­cerned as to the proper cir­cuits to em­ploy for the trans­mis­sion of all spirit mes­sages and for the tran­sit of all per­son­al­i­ties. In their work of cir­cuit super­vi­sion these ef­fi­cient be­ings uti­lize all agen­cies, forces, and per­son­al­i­ties in the uni­verse of uni­verses. They em­ploy the un­re­vealed “high spirit per­son­al­i­ties of cir­cuit con­trol” and are ably as­sisted by nu­mer­ous staffs com­posed of per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit. It is they who would iso­late an evo­lu­tion­ary world if its Plan­e­tary Prince should rebel against the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his vicegerent Son. They are able to throw any world out of cer­tain uni­verse cir­cuits of the higher spir­i­tual or­der, but they can­not an­nul the ma­te­rial cur­rents of the power di­rec­tors.

• worlds subject to quarantine › some circuits essential to reflectivity not functional

28:7.4We are de­nied the full priv­i­lege of us­ing these an­gels of the re­flec­tive or­der on Uran­tia. They are fre­quent vis­i­tors on your world, ac­com­pa­ny­ing as­signed per­son­al­i­ties, but here they can­not freely func­tion. This sphere is still un­der par­tial spir­i­tual quar­an­tine, and some of the cir­cuits es­sen­tial to their ser­vices are not here at pres­ent. When your world is once more re­stored to the re­flec­tive cir­cuits con­cerned, much of the work of in­ter­plan­e­tary and in­teruni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion will be greatly sim­pli­fied and ex­pe­dited. Ce­les­tial work­ers on Uran­tia en­counter many dif­fi­cul­ties be­cause of this func­tional cur­tail­ment of their re­flec­tive as­so­ciates. But we go on joy­fully con­duct­ing our af­fairs with the in­stru­men­tal­i­ties at hand, not­with­stand­ing our lo­cal de­pri­va­tion of many of the ser­vices of these mar­velous be­ings, the liv­ing mir­rors of space and the pres­ence pro­jec­tors of time.

• worlds subject to quarantine › intercommunication denied

33:6.5From Sal­ving­ton, broad­casts are si­mul­ta­ne­ously di­rected to the con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters, the sys­tem head­quar­ters, and to in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. All higher or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings are able to uti­lize this ser­vice for com­mu­ni­ca­tion with their fel­lows scat­tered through­out the uni­verse. The uni­verse broad­cast is ex­tended to all in­hab­ited worlds re­gard­less of their spir­i­tual sta­tus. Plan­e­tary in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion is de­nied only those worlds un­der spir­i­tual quar­an­tine.

• worlds subject to quarantine › readmission decided upon by Ancients of Days

33:7.63. The ques­tion of the read­mis­sion of any con­stituent part of a lo­cal uni­verse—such as a lo­cal sys­tem—to the fel­low­ship of full spir­i­tual sta­tus in the lo­cal cre­ation sub­se­quent to spir­i­tual iso­la­tion must be con­curred in by the high as­sem­bly of the super­uni­verse.

• worlds subject to quarantine › have observer Vorondadek Sons

35:5.6On those worlds seg­re­gated in spir­i­tual dark­ness, those spheres which have, through re­bel­lion and de­fault, suf­fered plan­e­tary iso­la­tion, an ob­server Vo­ron­da­dek is usu­ally pres­ent pend­ing the restora­tion of nor­mal sta­tus. In cer­tain emer­gen­cies this Most High ob­server could ex­er­cise ab­so­lute and ar­bi­trary au­thor­ity over ev­ery ce­les­tial be­ing as­signed to that planet. It is of rec­ord on Sal­ving­ton that the Voron­dadeks have some­times ex­er­cised such au­thor­ity as Most High re­gents of such plan­ets. And this has also been true even of in­hab­ited worlds that were un­touched by re­bel­lion.

• rebellion by Planetary Prince causes
• worlds subject to quarantine › only bestowal Son can re-establish circuits

35:9.9In the event of re­bel­lion on a sys­tem head­quar­ters, a new sov­er­eign is usu­ally in­stalled within a com­par­a­tively short time, but not so on the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. They are the com­po­nent units of the ma­te­rial cre­ation, and crea­ture free will is a fac­tor in the fi­nal ad­ju­di­ca­tion of all such prob­lems. Suc­ces­sor Plan­e­tary Princes are des­ig­nated for iso­lated worlds, plan­ets whose princes of au­thor­ity may have gone astray, but they do not as­sume ac­tive ruler­ship of such worlds un­til the re­sults of in­sur­rec­tion are par­tially over­come and re­moved by the re­me­dial mea­sures adopted by the Mel­chiz­e­deks and other min­is­ter­ing per­son­al­i­ties. Re­bel­lion by a Plan­e­tary Prince in­stantly iso­lates his planet; the lo­cal spir­i­tual cir­cuits are im­me­di­ately sev­ered. Only a be­stowal Son can re-es­tab­lish in­ter­plan­e­tary lines of com­mu­ni­ca­tion on such a spir­i­tu­ally iso­lated world.

• worlds subject to quarantine › seraphim carry messages between

39:5.177. The Re­serves. The Sa­ta­nia re­serve corps of the plan­e­tary ser­a­phim is main­tained on Je­ru­sem in close as­so­ci­a­tion with the re­serves of the Ma­te­rial Sons. These abun­dant re­serves re­pletely pro­vide for ev­ery phase of the man­i­fold ac­tiv­i­ties of this se­raphic or­der. These an­gels are also the per­sonal mes­sage bear­ers of the lo­cal sys­tems. They serve tran­si­tion mor­tals, an­gels, and the Ma­te­rial Sons as well as oth­ers domi­ciled on the sys­tem head­quar­ters. While Uran­tia is, at pres­ent, out­side the spir­i­tual cir­cuits of Sa­ta­nia and Nor­la­ti­adek, you are oth­er­wise in in­ti­mate touch with in­ter­plan­e­tary af­fairs, for these mes­sen­gers from Je­ru­sem fre­quently come to this world as to all the other spheres of the sys­tem.

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.”

• worlds subject to quarantine › have observer Vorondadek Sons

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.”

• of Satania by Norlatiadek › circuits will not be restored so long as Lucifer lives, archrebels harbored
• of Satania by Norlatiadek › Most Highs imposed

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.

• of Urantia by Satania

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.

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

• worlds subject to quarantine › student visitors allowed on all

48:3.103. Hosts to Ce­les­tial Vis­i­tors. These gra­cious crea­tures are ded­i­cated to the en­ter­tain­ment of the super­hu­man groups of stu­dent vis­i­tors and other ce­les­tials who may chance to so­journ on the tran­si­tion worlds. You will have am­ple op­por­tu­nity to visit within any realm you have ex­pe­ri­en­tially at­tained. Stu­dent vis­i­tors are al­lowed on all in­hab­ited plan­ets, even those in iso­la­tion.

• worlds subject to quarantine › are confused, retarded

50:6.1The iso­la­tion of Uran­tia ren­ders it im­pos­si­ble to un­der­take the pre­sen­ta­tion of many de­tails of the life and en­vi­ron­ment of your Sa­ta­nia neigh­bors. In these pre­sen­ta­tions we are lim­ited by the plan­e­tary quar­an­tine and by the sys­tem iso­la­tion. We must be guided by these re­stric­tions in all our ef­forts to en­lighten Uran­tia mor­tals, but in so far as is per­mis­si­ble, you have been in­structed in the prog­ress of an av­er­age evo­lu­tion­ary world, and you are able to com­pare such a world’s ca­reer with the pres­ent state of Uran­tia.

50:6.2The de­vel­op­ment of civ­i­liza­tion on Uran­tia has not dif­fered so greatly from that of other worlds which have sus­tained the mis­for­tune of spir­i­tual iso­la­tion. But when com­pared with the loyal worlds of the uni­verse, your planet seems most con­fused and greatly re­tarded in all phases of in­tel­lec­tual prog­ress and spir­i­tual at­tain­ment.

50:6.3Be­cause of your plan­e­tary mis­for­tunes, Uran­tians are pre­vented from un­der­stand­ing very much about the cul­ture of nor­mal worlds. But you should not en­vis­age the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds, even the most ideal, as spheres whereon life is a flow­ery bed of ease. The ini­tial life of the mor­tal races is al­ways at­tended by strug­gle. Ef­fort and de­ci­sion are an es­sen­tial part of the ac­quire­ment of sur­vival val­ues.

• of Satania by Norlatiadek › for 200,000 years

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.

• of Satania by Norlatiadek › Most Highs imposed

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.

• of Satania by Norlatiadek › effect during Lucifer rebellion

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.’”

• of Satania by Norlatiadek › circuits will not be restored so long as Lucifer lives, archrebels harbored
• of Satania by Norlatiadek › effect during Lucifer rebellion

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.

• of Satania by Norlatiadek › circuits will not be restored so long as Lucifer lives, archrebels harbored

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.

• self-protective act against the halfhearted or doubt-stricken

54:5.109. On Je­ru­sem the per­sonal rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Su­preme Ex­ec­u­tive of Or­von­ton coun­seled Ga­briel to fos­ter full op­por­tu­nity for ev­ery liv­ing crea­ture to ma­ture a de­lib­er­ate choice in those mat­ters in­volved in the Lu­cifer Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty. The is­sues of re­bel­lion hav­ing been raised, the Par­a­dise emer­gency ad­viser of Ga­briel por­trayed that, if such full and free op­por­tu­nity were not given all Nor­la­ti­adek crea­tures, then would the Par­a­dise quar­an­tine against all such pos­si­ble half­hearted or doubt-stricken crea­tures be ex­tended in self-pro­tec­tion against the en­tire con­stel­la­tion. To keep open the Par­a­dise doors of as­cen­sion to the be­ings of Nor­la­ti­adek, it was nec­es­sary to pro­vide for the full de­vel­op­ment of re­bel­lion and to in­sure the com­plete de­ter­mi­na­tion of at­ti­tude on the part of all be­ings in any way con­cerned there­with.

• worlds subject to quarantine › system circuits severed upon rebellion

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.

• ancients isolated afflicted individuals

90:3.41. Ghosts—di­rect spirit in­flu­ences. The ear­li­est hy­poth­e­sis ad­vanced in ex­pla­na­tion of dis­ease and death was that spir­its caused dis­ease by en­tic­ing the soul out of the body; if it failed to re­turn, death en­sued. The an­cients so feared the malev­o­lent ac­tion of dis­ease-pro­duc­ing ghosts that ail­ing in­di­vid­u­als would of­ten be de­serted with­out even food or wa­ter. Re­gard­less of the er­ro­neous ba­sis for these be­liefs, they did ef­fec­tively iso­late af­flicted in­di­vid­u­als and pre­vent the spread of con­ta­gious dis­ease.

• interplanetary communication by liaison of self-acting Adjusters during q.

108:4.4When a world is iso­lated by re­bel­lion, when a planet is cut off from all out­side en­cir­cuited com­mu­ni­ca­tion, as was Uran­tia af­ter the Cali­gas­tia up­heaval, aside from per­sonal mes­sen­gers there re­mains but one pos­si­bil­ity of di­rect in­ter­plan­e­tary or uni­verse com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and that is through the li­ai­son of the Ad­justers of the spheres. No mat­ter what hap­pens on a world or in a uni­verse, the Ad­justers are never di­rectly con­cerned. The iso­la­tion of a planet in no way af­fects the Ad­justers and their abil­ity to com­mu­ni­cate with any part of the lo­cal uni­verse, super­uni­verse, or the cen­tral uni­verse. And this is the rea­son why con­tacts with the su­preme and the self-act­ing Ad­justers of the re­serve corps of des­tiny are so fre­quently made on quar­an­tined worlds. Re­course is had to such a tech­nique as a means of cir­cum­vent­ing the hand­i­caps of plan­e­tary iso­la­tion. In re­cent years the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit has func­tioned on Uran­tia, but that means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion is largely lim­ited to the trans­ac­tions of the arch­an­gel corps it­self.

• of Urantia by Satania › quarantine circumvented by archangels’ circuit

114:5.4This rather loosely or­ga­nized and some­what per­son­ally ad­min­is­tered plan­e­tary gov­ern­ment is more than ex­pect­edly ef­fec­tive be­cause of the time­sav­ing as­sis­tance of the arch­an­gels and their ever-ready cir­cuit, which is so fre­quently uti­lized in plan­e­tary emer­gen­cies and ad­min­is­tra­tive dif­fi­cul­ties. Tech­ni­cally, the planet is still spir­i­tu­ally iso­lated in the Nor­la­ti­adek cir­cuits, but in an emer­gency this hand­i­cap can now be cir­cum­vented through uti­liza­tion of the arch­an­gels’ cir­cuit. Plan­e­tary iso­la­tion is, of course, of lit­tle con­cern to in­di­vid­ual mor­tals since the pour­ing out of the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh nine­teen hun­dred years ago.