warnings

75:7.4Long be­fore Adam and Eve left Je­ru­sem, their in­struc­tors had fully ex­plained to them the con­se­quences of any vi­tal de­par­ture from the di­vine plans. I had per­son­ally and re­peat­edly warned them, both be­fore and af­ter they ar­rived on Uran­tia, that re­duc­tion to the sta­tus of mor­tal flesh would be the cer­tain re­sult, the sure penalty, which would un­fail­ingly at­tend de­fault in the ex­e­cu­tion of their plan­e­tary mis­sion. But a com­pre­hen­sion of the im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus of the ma­te­rial or­der of son­ship is es­sen­tial to a clear un­der­stand­ing of the con­se­quences at­ten­dant upon the de­fault of Adam and Eve.

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.

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.

179:4.8This sup­per, with its ten­der episodes and soft­en­ing touches, was Je­sus’ last ap­peal to the de­sert­ing Ju­das, but it was of no avail. Warn­ing, even when ad­min­is­tered in the most tact­ful man­ner and con­veyed in the most kindly spirit, as a rule, only in­ten­si­fies ha­tred and fires the evil de­ter­mi­na­tion to carry out to the full one’s own self­ish projects, when love is once re­ally dead.

139:12.11The Mas­ter many times, both pri­vately and pub­licly, had warned Ju­das that he was slip­ping, but di­vine warn­ings are usu­ally use­less in deal­ing with em­bit­tered hu­man na­ture. Je­sus did ev­ery­thing pos­si­ble, con­sis­tent with man’s moral free­dom, to pre­vent Ju­das’s choos­ing to go the wrong way. The great test fi­nally came. The son of re­sent­ment failed; he yielded to the sour and sor­did dic­tates of a proud and venge­ful mind of ex­ag­ger­ated self-im­por­tance and swiftly plunged on down into con­fu­sion, de­spair, and de­prav­ity.