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128:7.6Never lose sight of the fact that the prime mis­sion of Je­sus in his sev­enth be­stowal was the ac­quire­ment of crea­ture ex­pe­ri­ence, the achieve­ment of the sov­er­eignty of Neb­a­don. And in the gath­er­ing of this very ex­pe­ri­ence he made the su­preme rev­e­la­tion of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther to Uran­tia and to his en­tire lo­cal uni­verse. In­ci­den­tal to these pur­poses he also un­der­took to un­tan­gle the com­pli­cated af­fairs of this planet as they were re­lated to the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

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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.

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136:3.4While wan­der­ing about in the hills, seek­ing a suit­able shel­ter, Je­sus en­coun­tered his uni­verse chief ex­ec­u­tive, Ga­briel, the Bright and Morn­ing Star of Neb­a­don. Ga­briel now re-es­tab­lished per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Cre­ator Son of the uni­verse; they met di­rectly for the first time since Mi­chael took leave of his as­so­ciates on Sal­ving­ton when he went to Eden­tia prepara­tory to en­ter­ing upon the Uran­tia be­stowal. Ga­briel, by di­rec­tion of Im­manuel and on au­thor­ity of the Uversa An­cients of Days, now laid be­fore Je­sus in­for­ma­tion in­di­cat­ing that his be­stowal ex­pe­ri­ence on Uran­tia was prac­ti­cally fin­ished so far as con­cerned the earn­ing of the per­fected sov­er­eignty of his uni­verse and the ter­mi­na­tion of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. The for­mer was achieved on the day of his bap­tism when the per­son­al­iza­tion of his Ad­juster demon­strated the per­fec­tion and com­ple­tion of his be­stowal in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and the lat­ter was a fact of his­tory on that day when he came down from Mount Her­mon to join the wait­ing lad, Tiglath. Je­sus was now in­formed, upon the high­est au­thor­ity of the lo­cal uni­verse and the super­uni­verse, that his be­stowal work was fin­ished in so far as it af­fected his per­sonal sta­tus in re­la­tion to sov­er­eignty and re­bel­lion. He had al­ready had this as­sur­ance di­rect from Par­a­dise in the bap­tismal vi­sion and in the phe­nom­e­non of the per­son­al­iza­tion of his in­dwelling Thought Ad­juster.

136:3.5While he tar­ried on the moun­tain, talk­ing with Ga­briel, the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­ther of Eden­tia ap­peared to Je­sus and Ga­briel in per­son, say­ing: “The rec­ords are com­pleted. The sov­er­eignty of Mi­chael num­ber 611,121 over his uni­verse of Neb­a­don rests in com­ple­tion at the right hand of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I bring to you the be­stowal re­lease of Im­manuel, your spon­sor-brother for the Uran­tia in­car­na­tion. You are at lib­erty now or at any sub­se­quent time, in the man­ner of your own choos­ing, to ter­mi­nate your in­car­na­tion be­stowal, as­cend to the right hand of your Fa­ther, re­ceive your sov­er­eignty, and as­sume your well-earned un­con­di­tional ruler­ship of all Neb­a­don. I also tes­tify to the com­ple­tion of the rec­ords of the super­uni­verse, by au­tho­riza­tion of the An­cients of Days, hav­ing to do with the ter­mi­na­tion of all sin-re­bel­lion in your uni­verse and en­dow­ing you with full and un­lim­ited au­thor­ity to deal with any and all such pos­si­ble up­heavals in the fu­ture. Tech­ni­cally, your work on Uran­tia and in the flesh of the mor­tal crea­ture is fin­ished. Your course from now on is a mat­ter of your own choos­ing.”

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136:4.5The trans­ac­tions of this event­ful time were not the fan­tas­tic vi­sions of a starved and weak­ened mind, nei­ther were they the con­fused and puerile sym­bol­isms which af­ter­ward gained rec­ord as the “temp­ta­tions of Je­sus in the wilder­ness.” Rather was this a sea­son for think­ing over the whole event­ful and var­ied ca­reer of the Uran­tia be­stowal and for the care­ful lay­ing of those plans for fur­ther min­istry which would best serve this world while also con­tribut­ing some­thing to the bet­ter­ment of all other re­bel­lion-iso­lated spheres. Je­sus thought over the whole span of hu­man life on Uran­tia, from the days of An­don and Fonta, down through Adam’s de­fault, and on to the min­istry of the Mel­chiz­e­dek of Salem.

136:4.6Ga­briel had re­minded Je­sus that there were two ways in which he might man­i­fest him­self to the world in case he should choose to tarry on Uran­tia for a time. And it was made clear to Je­sus that his choice in this mat­ter would have noth­ing to do with ei­ther his uni­verse sov­er­eignty or the ter­mi­na­tion of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. These two ways of world min­istry were:

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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:

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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.

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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.

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158:0.1It was near sun­down on Fri­day af­ter­noon, Au­gust 12, A.D. 29, when Je­sus and his as­so­ciates reached the foot of Mount Her­mon, near the very place where the lad Tiglath once waited while the Mas­ter as­cended the moun­tain alone to set­tle the spir­i­tual des­tinies of Uran­tia and tech­ni­cally to ter­mi­nate the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. And here they so­journed for two days in spir­i­tual prepa­ra­tion for the events so soon to fol­low.

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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.

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159:3.9In preach­ing the gospel of the king­dom, you are sim­ply teach­ing friend­ship with God. And this fel­low­ship will ap­peal alike to men and women in that both will find that which most truly sat­is­fies their char­ac­ter­is­tic long­ings and ide­als. Tell my chil­dren that I am not only ten­der of their feel­ings and pa­tient with their frail­ties, but that I am also ruth­less with sin and in­tol­er­ant of in­iq­uity. I am in­deed meek and hum­ble in the pres­ence of my Fa­ther, but I am equally and re­lent­lessly in­ex­orable where there is de­lib­er­ate evil-do­ing and sin­ful re­bel­lion against the will of my Fa­ther in heaven.

22:2.3Ev­ery as­cen­dant mor­tal of in­sur­rec­tionary ex­pe­ri­ence who func­tions loy­ally in the face of re­bel­lion is even­tu­ally des­tined to be­come a Mighty Mes­sen­ger of the super­uni­verse ser­vice. Like­wise is any as­cen­dant crea­ture who ef­fec­tively pre­vents such up­heavals of er­ror, evil, or sin; for ac­tion de­signed to pre­vent re­bel­lion or to ef­fect higher types of loy­alty in a uni­verse cri­sis is re­garded as of even greater value than loy­alty in the face of ac­tual re­bel­lion.

35:9.10There ex­ists a plan for sav­ing these way­ward and un­wise Sons, and many have availed them­selves of this mer­ci­ful pro­vi­sion; but never again may they func­tion in those po­si­tions wherein they de­faulted. Af­ter re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion they are as­signed to cus­to­dial du­ties and to de­part­ments of phys­i­cal ad­min­is­tra­tion.

35:10.4It is in con­nec­tion with these ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres of the La­non­an­deks that most of the sal­vaged Sons of that or­der serve as cus­to­di­ans and di­rec­tors of plan­e­tary af­fairs. And these de­fault­ing Plan­e­tary Princes and their as­so­ciates in re­bel­lion who choose to ac­cept the prof­fered re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion will con­tinue to serve in these rou­tine ca­pac­i­ties, at least un­til the uni­verse of Neb­a­don is set­tled in light and life.

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.

169:1.15Je­sus was very par­tial to telling these three sto­ries at the same time. He pre­sented the story of the lost sheep to show that, when men un­in­ten­tion­ally stray away from the path of life, the Fa­ther is mind­ful of such lost ones and goes out, with his Sons, the true shep­herds of the flock, to seek the lost sheep. He then would re­cite the story of the coin lost in the house to il­lus­trate how thor­ough is the di­vine search­ing for all who are con­fused, con­founded, or oth­er­wise spir­i­tu­ally blinded by the ma­te­rial cares and ac­cu­mu­la­tions of life. And then he would launch forth into the telling of this para­ble of the lost son, the re­cep­tion of the re­turn­ing prodi­gal, to show how com­plete is the restora­tion of the lost son into his Fa­ther’s house and heart.

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.

52:6.8If you could be trans­planted from your back­ward and con­fused world to some nor­mal planet now in the postbestowal Son age, you would think you had been trans­lated to the heaven of your tra­di­tions. You would hardly be­lieve that you were ob­serv­ing the nor­mal evo­lu­tion­ary work­ings of a mor­tal sphere of hu­man habi­ta­tion. These worlds are in the spir­i­tual cir­cuits of their realm, and they en­joy all the ad­van­tages of the uni­verse broad­casts and the re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vices of the super­uni­verse.

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.

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.

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.

7:4.52. The Be­stowal Plan. The next uni­ver­sal plan is the great Fa­ther-rev­e­la­tion en­ter­prise of the Eter­nal Son and his co-or­di­nate Sons. This is the pro­posal of the Eter­nal Son and con­sists of his be­stowal of the Sons of God upon the evo­lu­tion­ary cre­ations, there to per­son­al­ize and fac­tu­al­ize, to in­car­nate and make real, the love of the Fa­ther and the mercy of the Son to the crea­tures of all uni­verses. In­her­ent in the be­stowal plan, and as a pro­vi­sional fea­ture of this min­is­tra­tion of love, the Par­a­dise Sons act as re­ha­bil­i­ta­tors of that which mis­guided crea­ture will has placed in spir­i­tual jeop­ardy. When­ever and wher­ever there oc­curs a de­lay in the func­tion­ing of the at­tain­ment plan, if re­bel­lion, per­chance, should mar or com­pli­cate this en­ter­prise, then do the emer­gency pro­vi­sions of the be­stowal plan be­come ac­tive forth­with. The Par­a­dise Sons stand pledged and ready to func­tion as re­triev­ers, to go into the very realms of re­bel­lion and there re­store the spir­i­tual sta­tus of the spheres. And such a heroic ser­vice a co-or­di­nate Cre­ator Son did per­form on Uran­tia in con­nec­tion with his ex­pe­ri­en­tial be­stowal ca­reer of sov­er­eignty ac­quire­ment.

33:3.4The Son func­tions as a fa­ther in his lo­cal uni­verse. The Spirit, as mor­tal crea­tures would un­der­stand, en­acts the role of a mother, al­ways as­sist­ing the Son and be­ing ev­er­last­ingly in­dis­pens­able to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the uni­verse. In the face of in­sur­rec­tion only the Son and his as­so­ci­ated Sons can func­tion as de­liv­er­ers. Never can the Spirit un­der­take to con­test re­bel­lion or de­fend au­thor­ity, but ever does the Spirit sus­tain the Son in all of ev­ery­thing he may be re­quired to ex­pe­ri­ence in his ef­forts to sta­bi­lize gov­ern­ment and up­hold au­thor­ity on worlds tainted with evil or dom­i­nated by sin. Only a Son can re­trieve the work of their joint cre­ation, but no Son could hope for fi­nal suc­cess with­out the in­ces­sant co-op­er­a­tion of the Di­vine Min­is­ter and her vast as­sem­blage of spirit helpers, the daugh­ters of God, who so faith­fully and valiantly strug­gle for the wel­fare of mor­tal men and the glory of their di­vine par­ents.

54:5.87. It is ev­i­dent that Im­manuel coun­seled Mi­chael to re­main aloof from the rebels and al­low re­bel­lion to pur­sue a nat­u­ral course of self-oblit­er­a­tion. And the wis­dom of the Union of Days is the time re­flec­tion of the united wis­dom of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

54:5.98. The Faith­ful of Days on Eden­tia ad­vised the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers to al­low the rebels free course to the end that all sym­pa­thy for these evil­do­ers should be the sooner up­rooted in the hearts of ev­ery pres­ent and fu­ture cit­i­zen of Nor­la­ti­adek—ev­ery mor­tal, mor­ontia, or spirit crea­ture.

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.

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.

54:5.1211. An emer­gency coun­cil of ex-mor­tals con­sist­ing of Mighty Mes­sen­gers, glo­ri­fied mor­tals who had had per­sonal ex­pe­ri­ence with like sit­u­a­tions, to­gether with their col­leagues, was or­ga­nized on Je­ru­sem. They ad­vised Ga­briel that at least three times the num­ber of be­ings would be led astray if ar­bi­trary or sum­mary meth­ods of sup­pres­sion were at­tempted. The en­tire Uversa corps of coun­selors con­curred in ad­vis­ing Ga­briel to per­mit the re­bel­lion to take its full and nat­u­ral course, even if it should re­quire a mil­lion years to wind up the con­se­quences.

35:9.7The large num­ber of these Sons who have lapsed from in­tegrity does not in­di­cate any fault in cre­ator­ship. They could have been made di­vinely per­fect, but they were so cre­ated that they might bet­ter un­der­stand, and draw near to, the evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures dwell­ing on the worlds of time and space.

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35:9.5The Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns are true to their names; they are well-nigh sov­er­eign in the lo­cal af­fairs of the in­hab­ited worlds. They are al­most pa­ter­nal in their di­rec­tion of the Plan­e­tary Princes, the Ma­te­rial Sons, and the min­is­ter­ing spir­its. The per­sonal grasp of the sov­er­eign is all but com­plete. These rulers are not super­vised by Trin­ity ob­servers from the cen­tral uni­verse. They are the ex­ec­u­tive di­vi­sion of the lo­cal uni­verse, and as cus­to­di­ans of the en­force­ment of leg­isla­tive man­dates and as ex­ec­u­tives for the ap­pli­ca­tion of ju­di­cial ver­dicts, they pre­sent the one place in all uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion where per­sonal dis­loy­alty to the will of the Mi­chael Son could most eas­ily and read­ily in­trench it­self and seek to as­sert it­self.

35:9.6Our lo­cal uni­verse has been un­for­tu­nate in that over seven hun­dred Sons of the La­non­an­dek or­der have re­belled against the uni­verse gov­ern­ment, thus pre­cip­i­tat­ing con­fu­sion in sev­eral sys­tems and on nu­mer­ous plan­ets. Of this en­tire num­ber of fail­ures only three were Sys­tem Sov­er­eigns; prac­ti­cally all of these Sons be­longed to the sec­ond and third or­ders, Plan­e­tary Princes and ter­tiary La­non­an­deks.

• occurred 3 times by Lanonandeks; over 700 involved

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.

• occurred 3 times by Lanonandeks; over 700 involved

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.

• Michael’s bestowal in substance liquidated pending dissensions; future challenges cannot recur

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.

• Ancients of Days mandated instantaneous extinction of new rebels during Michael’s bestowal

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.

• 1st r. was by Lutentia of Palonia in system 11 of constellation 37

119:2.1For al­most one hun­dred and fifty mil­lion years af­ter the Mel­chiz­e­dek be­stowal of Mi­chael, all went well in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, when trou­ble be­gan to brew in sys­tem 11 of con­stel­la­tion 37. This trou­ble in­volved a mis­un­der­stand­ing by a La­non­an­dek Son, a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, which had been ad­ju­di­cated by the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers and ap­proved by the Faith­ful of Days, the Par­a­dise coun­selor to that con­stel­la­tion, but the protest­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign was not fully rec­on­ciled to the ver­dict. Af­ter more than one hun­dred years of dis­sat­is­fac­tion he led his as­so­ciates in one of the most wide­spread and dis­as­trous re­bel­lions against the sov­er­eignty of the Cre­ator Son ever in­sti­gated in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, a re­bel­lion long since ad­ju­di­cated and ended by the ac­tion of the An­cients of Days on Uversa.

119:2.2This rebel Sys­tem Sov­er­eign, Lu­ten­tia, reigned su­preme on his head­quar­ters planet for more than twenty years of stan­dard Neb­a­don time; where­upon, the Most Highs, with ap­proval from Uversa, or­dered his seg­re­ga­tion and req­ui­si­tioned the Sal­ving­ton rulers for the des­ig­na­tion of a new Sys­tem Sov­er­eign to as­sume di­rec­tion of that strife-torn and con­fused sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds.

• 2nd r. was in system 87 of constellation 61

119:3.1The su­preme coun­cil on Sal­ving­ton had just fin­ished the con­sid­er­a­tion of the call of the Life Car­ri­ers on planet 217 in sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61 for the dis­patch to their as­sis­tance of a Ma­te­rial Son. Now this planet was sit­u­ated in a sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds where an­other Sys­tem Sov­er­eign had gone astray, the sec­ond such re­bel­lion in all Neb­a­don up to that time.

• 2nd r. was in system 87 of constellation 61

119:3.3And, as might have been ex­pected, on the third day there­after there ap­peared, unan­nounced, on the head­quar­ters world of sys­tem 87 in con­stel­la­tion 61, a strange Ma­te­rial Son, ac­com­pa­nied by a lone se­con­a­phim, ac­cred­ited by the Uversa An­cients of Days, and cer­ti­fied by Im­manuel of Sal­ving­ton. Im­me­di­ately the act­ing Sys­tem Sov­er­eign ap­pointed this new and mys­te­ri­ous Ma­te­rial Son act­ing Plan­e­tary Prince of world 217, and this des­ig­na­tion was at once con­firmed by the Most Highs of con­stel­la­tion 61.

• Ancients of Days mandated instantaneous extinction of new rebels during Michael’s bestowal

120:1.5“And that you may know with as­sur­ance that I am em­pow­ered to do all that I am now promis­ing (know­ing full well that I am the as­sur­ance of all Par­a­dise for the faith­ful per­for­mance of my word), I an­nounce to you that there has just been com­mu­ni­cated to me a man­date of the An­cients of Days on Uversa which will pre­vent all spir­i­tual jeop­ardy in Neb­a­don through­out the pe­riod of your vol­un­tary be­stowal. From the mo­ment you sur­ren­der con­scious­ness, upon the be­gin­ning of the mor­tal in­car­na­tion, un­til you re­turn to us as su­preme and un­con­di­tional sov­er­eign of this uni­verse of your own cre­ation and or­ga­ni­za­tion, noth­ing of se­ri­ous im­port can hap­pen in all Neb­a­don. In this in­terim of your in­car­na­tion, I hold the or­ders of the An­cients of Days which un­qual­i­fiedly man­date the in­stan­ta­neous and au­to­matic ex­tinc­tion of any be­ing guilty of re­bel­lion or pre­sum­ing to in­sti­gate in­sur­rec­tion in the uni­verse of Neb­a­don while you are ab­sent on this be­stowal. My brother, in view of the au­thor­ity of Par­a­dise in­her­ent in my pres­ence and aug­mented by the ju­di­cial man­date of Uversa, your uni­verse and all its loyal crea­tures will be se­cure dur­ing your be­stowal. You may pro­ceed upon your mis­sion with but a sin­gle thought—the en­hanced rev­e­la­tion of our Fa­ther to the in­tel­li­gent be­ings of your uni­verse.

• occurred 3 times by Lanonandeks; over 700 involved

120:1.6“As in each of your pre­vi­ous be­stowals, I would re­mind you that I am re­cip­i­ent of your uni­verse ju­ris­dic­tion as brother-trus­tee. I ex­er­cise all au­thor­ity and wield all power in your name. I func­tion as would our Par­a­dise Fa­ther and in ac­cor­dance with your ex­plicit re­quest that I thus act in your stead. And such be­ing the fact, all this del­e­gated au­thor­ity is yours again to ex­er­cise at any mo­ment you may see fit to req­ui­si­tion its re­turn. Your be­stowal is, through­out, wholly vol­un­tary. As a mor­tal in­car­nate in the realm you are with­out ce­les­tial en­dow­ments, but all your re­lin­quished power may be had at any time you may choose to rein­vest your­self with uni­verse au­thor­ity. If you should choose to re­in­state your­self in power and au­thor­ity, re­mem­ber, it will be wholly for per­sonal rea­sons since I am the liv­ing and su­preme pledge whose pres­ence and prom­ise guar­an­tee the safe ad­min­is­tra­tion of your uni­verse in ac­cor­dance with your Fa­ther’s will. Re­bel­lion, such as has three times oc­curred in Neb­a­don, can­not oc­cur dur­ing your ab­sence from Sal­ving­ton on this be­stowal. For the pe­riod of the Uran­tia be­stowal the An­cients of Days have de­creed that re­bel­lion in Neb­a­don shall be in­vested with the au­to­matic seed of its own an­ni­hi­la­tion.

• Michael’s bestowal in substance liquidated pending dissensions; future challenges cannot recur

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.

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.’”

51:7.5By the time of the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the fifth dis­pen­sa­tion of world af­fairs, a mag­nif­i­cent ad­min­is­tra­tion of plan­e­tary ac­tiv­i­ties has been achieved. Mor­tal ex­is­tence on such a well-man­aged sphere is in­deed stim­u­lat­ing and prof­itable. And if Uran­tians could only ob­serve life on such a planet, they would im­me­di­ately ap­pre­ci­ate the value of those things which their world has lost through em­brac­ing evil and par­tic­i­pat­ing in re­bel­lion.

52:2.1With the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince a new dis­pen­sa­tion be­gins. Gov­ern­ment ap­pears on earth, and the ad­vanced tribal epoch is at­tained. Great so­cial strides are made dur­ing a few thou­sand years of this regime. Un­der nor­mal con­di­tions mor­tals at­tain a high state of civ­i­liza­tion dur­ing this age. They do not strug­gle so long in bar­barism as did the Uran­tia races. But life on an in­hab­ited world is so changed by re­bel­lion that you can have lit­tle or no idea of such a regime on a nor­mal planet.

52:2.4This dis­pen­sa­tion wit­nesses a spir­i­tual dawn, and the dif­fer­ent races and their var­i­ous tribes tend to de­velop spe­cial­ized sys­tems of re­li­gious and philo­sophic thought. There uni­formly run through all of these racial re­li­gions two strains: the early fears of prim­i­tive men and the later rev­e­la­tions of the Plan­e­tary Prince. In some re­spects Uran­tians do not seem to have wholly emerged from this stage of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion. As you pur­sue this study, you will the more clearly dis­cern how far your world de­parts from the av­er­age course of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress and de­vel­op­ment.

27:0.2Pri­mary super­na­phim are also placed in com­mand of the se­raphic hosts min­is­ter­ing on worlds iso­lated be­cause of re­bel­lion. When a Par­a­dise Son is be­stowed upon such a world, com­pletes his mis­sion, as­cends to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, is ac­cepted, and re­turns as the ac­cred­ited de­liv­erer of this iso­lated world, a pri­mary super­na­phim is al­ways des­ig­nated by the chiefs of as­sign­ment to as­sume com­mand of the min­is­ter­ing spir­its on duty in the newly re­claimed sphere. Super­na­phim in this spe­cial ser­vice are pe­ri­od­i­cally ro­tated. On Uran­tia the pres­ent “chief of ser­a­phim” is the sec­ond of this or­der to be on duty since the times of the be­stowal of Christ Mi­chael.

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.

112:5.7If ever there is doubt as to the ad­vis­abil­ity of ad­vanc­ing a hu­man iden­tity to the man­sion worlds, the uni­verse gov­ern­ments in­vari­ably rule in the per­sonal in­ter­ests of that in­di­vid­ual; they un­hesi­tat­ingly ad­vance such a soul to the sta­tus of a tran­si­tional be­ing, while they con­tinue their ob­ser­va­tions of the emerg­ing mor­ontia in­tent and spir­i­tual pur­pose. Thus di­vine jus­tice is cer­tain of achieve­ment, and di­vine mercy is ac­corded fur­ther op­por­tu­nity for ex­tend­ing its min­istry.

112:5.8The gov­ern­ments of Or­von­ton and Neb­a­don do not claim ab­so­lute per­fec­tion for the de­tail work­ing of the uni­ver­sal plan of mor­tal reper­son­al­iza­tion, but they do claim to, and ac­tu­ally do, man­i­fest pa­tience, tol­er­ance, un­der­stand­ing, and mer­ci­ful sym­pa­thy. We had rather as­sume the risk of a sys­tem re­bel­lion than to court the haz­ard of de­priv­ing one strug­gling mor­tal from any evo­lu­tion­ary world of the eter­nal joy of pur­su­ing the as­cend­ing ca­reer.