Satan

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.

153:4.3Then said Je­sus: “How can Sa­tan cast out Sa­tan? A king­dom di­vided against it­self can­not stand; if a house be di­vided against it­self, it is soon brought to des­o­la­tion. Can a city with­stand a siege if it is not united? If Sa­tan casts out Sa­tan, he is di­vided against him­self; how then shall his king­dom stand? But you should know that no one can en­ter into the house of a strong man and de­spoil his goods ex­cept he first over­power and bind that strong man. And so, if I by the power of Beelze­bub cast out dev­ils, by whom do your sons cast them out? There­fore shall they be your judges. But if I, by the spirit of God, cast out dev­ils, then has the king­dom of God truly come upon you. If you were not blinded by prej­u­dice and mis­led by fear and pride, you would eas­ily per­ceive that one who is greater than dev­ils stands in your midst. You com­pel me to de­clare that he who is not with me is against me, while he who gath­ers not with me scat­ters abroad. Let me ut­ter a solemn warn­ing to you who would pre­sume, with your eyes open and with pre­med­i­tated mal­ice, know­ingly to as­cribe the works of God to the do­ings of dev­ils! Ver­ily, ver­ily, I say to you, all your sins shall be for­given, even all of your blas­phemies, but whoso­ever shall blas­pheme against God with de­lib­er­a­tion and wicked in­ten­tion shall never ob­tain for­give­ness. Since such per­sis­tent work­ers of in­iq­uity will never seek nor re­ceive for­give­ness, they are guilty of the sin of eter­nally re­ject­ing di­vine for­give­ness.

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.”

153:4.2When the peo­ple mar­veled, one of the Phar­isees stood up and charged that Je­sus could do these things be­cause he was in league with dev­ils; that he ad­mit­ted in the lan­guage which he em­ployed in cast­ing out this devil that they were known to each other; and he went on to state that the re­li­gious teach­ers and lead­ers at Je­ru­sa­lem had de­cided that Je­sus did all his so-called mir­a­cles by the power of Beelze­bub, the prince of dev­ils. Said the Phar­isee: “Have noth­ing to do with this man; he is in part­ner­ship with Sa­tan.”

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.

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.

53:1.4Very lit­tle was heard of Lu­cifer on Uran­tia ow­ing to the fact that he as­signed his first lieu­tenant, Sa­tan, to ad­vo­cate his cause on your planet. Sa­tan was a mem­ber of the same pri­mary group of La­non­an­deks but had never func­tioned as a Sys­tem Sov­er­eign; he en­tered fully into the Lu­cifer in­sur­rec­tion. The “devil” is none other than Cali­gas­tia, the de­posed Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia and a Son of the sec­ondary or­der of La­non­an­deks. At the time Mi­chael was on Uran­tia in the flesh, Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and Cali­gas­tia were leagued to­gether to ef­fect the mis­car­riage of his be­stowal mis­sion. But they sig­nally failed.

53:2.1Lu­cifer 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.

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.”

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.

• sought to attend Edentia conclave

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.

• fell as lightning from heaven

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.”

• freely roamed Satania until completion of Michael’s bestowal

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

• freely roamed Satania until completion of Michael’s bestowal

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.

• freely roamed Satania until completion of Michael’s bestowal

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.

• sympathy for S. perished after attempt to corrupt Michael on Urantia

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.

• fell as lightning from heaven
• freely roamed Satania until completion of Michael’s bestowal

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

• Ancients of Days allowed S. to visit apostate princes

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.

• now detained on Jerusem prison worlds

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.

• now detained on Jerusem 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.

• fell as lightning from heaven

163:6.2When the sev­enty re­lated how “even the dev­ils were sub­ject” to them, they re­ferred to the won­der­ful cures they had wrought in the cases of vic­tims of ner­vous dis­or­ders. Nev­er­the­less, there had been a few cases of real spirit pos­ses­sion re­lieved by these min­is­ters, and re­fer­ring to these, Je­sus said: “It is not strange that these dis­obe­di­ent mi­nor spir­its should be sub­ject to you, see­ing that I be­held Sa­tan falling as light­ning from heaven. But re­joice not so much over this, for I de­clare to you that, as soon as I re­turn to my Fa­ther, we will send forth our spir­its into the very minds of men so that no more can these few lost spir­its en­ter the minds of un­for­tu­nate mor­tals. I re­joice with you that you have power with men, but be not lifted up be­cause of this ex­pe­ri­ence but the rather re­joice that your names are writ­ten on the rolls of heaven, and that you are thus to go for­ward in an end­less ca­reer of spir­i­tual con­quest.”

67:1.2In the course of this in­spec­tion Sa­tan in­formed Cali­gas­tia of Lu­cifer’s then pro­posed “Dec­la­ra­tion of Lib­erty,” and as we now know, the Prince agreed to be­tray the planet upon the an­nounce­ment of the re­bel­lion. The loyal uni­verse per­son­al­i­ties look with pe­cu­liar dis­dain upon Prince Cali­gas­tia be­cause of this pre­med­i­tated be­trayal of trust. The Cre­ator Son voiced this con­tempt when he said: “You are like your leader, Lu­cifer, and you have sin­fully per­pet­u­ated his in­iq­uity. He was a fal­si­fier from the be­gin­ning of his self-ex­al­ta­tion be­cause he abode not in the truth.”