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66:8.1 In looking back over the long [[career]] of [[Caligastia]], we find only one outstanding feature of his [[conduct]] that might have [[challenged]] [[attention]]; he was ultraindividualistic. He was inclined to take sides with almost every party of protest, and he was usually [[sympathetic]] with those who gave mild [[expression]] to implied [[criticism]]. We detect the early [[appearance]] of this tendency to be restless under [[authority]], to mildly resent all forms of supervision. While slightly resentful of senior [[counsel]] and somewhat restive under superior [[authority]], nonetheless, whenever a test had come, he had always proved [[loyal]] to the [[universe rulers]] and obedient to the [[mandates]] of the [[Constellation Fathers]]. No real fault was ever found in him up to the time of his [[shameful]] [[betrayal]] of [[Urantia]].
66:8.2 It 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.
66:8.3 From the arrival of Prince [[Caligastia]], [[planetary]] [[civilization]] progressed in a fairly [[normal]] [[manner]] for almost three hundred thousand years. Aside from being a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA life-modification sphere] and therefore subject to numerous irregularities and unusual [[episodes]] of [[evolutionary]] fluctuation, [[Urantia]] progressed very satisfactorily in its planetary [[career]] up to the times of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] and the concurrent [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:1._THE_CALIGASTIA_BETRAYAL Caligastia betrayal]. All subsequent [[history]] has been definitely [[modified]] by this [[catastrophic]] blunder as well as by the later [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 failure] of [[Adam and Eve]] to fulfill their planetary mission.
66:8.4 The [[Planetary Prince|Prince]] of [[Urantia]] went into [[darkness]] at the time of the [[Lucifer rebellion]], thus precipitating the long [[confusion]] of the [[planet]]. He was subsequently deprived of [[sovereign]] [[authority]] by the [[co-ordinate]] [[action]] of [[the constellation]] [[Most Highs|rulers]] and other [[universe]] [[authorities]]. He shared the [[inevitable]] [[vicissitudes]] of [[isolated]] [[Urantia]] down to the time of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adam's] sojourn on the [[planet]] and [[contributed]] something to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 miscarriage] of the plan to uplift the [[mortal]] [[races]] through the infusion of the lifeblood of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 new violet race]—the [[descendants]] of [[Adam and Eve]].
66:8.5 The [[power]] of the fallen Prince to disturb [[human]] affairs was enormously curtailed by the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]] in the days of [[Abraham]]; and subsequently, during the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 life of Michael in the flesh], this traitorous Prince was finally shorn of all [[authority]] on [[Urantia]].
66:8.6 The [[doctrine]] of a [[personal]] [[devil]] on [[Urantia]], though it had some [[foundation]] in the [[planetary]] [[presence]] of the traitorous and [[iniquitous]] [[Caligastia]], was nevertheless wholly fictitious in its [[teachings]] that such a "devil" could [[influence]] the [[normal]] [[human]] [[mind]] against its [[free]] and natural [[choosing]]. Even before [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 Michael's bestowal on Urantia], neither [[Caligastia]] nor [[Daligastia]] was ever able to oppress [[mortals]] or to coerce any [[normal]] [[individual]] into doing anything against the [[human]] [[Free will|will]]. The free will of man is [[supreme]] in [[moral]] affairs; even the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]] refuses to compel man to [[think]] a single [[thought]] or to [[perform]] a single [[act]] against the choosing of man's own will.
66:8.7 And now this [[rebel]] of the realm, shorn of all [[power]] to harm his former subjects, awaits the final [[adjudication]], by the [[Uversa]] [[Ancients of Days]], of all who [[participated]] in the [[Lucifer rebellion]].
66:8.8 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66 Go to Paper 66]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 66 - The Planetary Prince of Urantia]]
66:8.1 In looking back over the long [[career]] of [[Caligastia]], we find only one outstanding feature of his [[conduct]] that might have [[challenged]] [[attention]]; he was ultraindividualistic. He was inclined to take sides with almost every party of protest, and he was usually [[sympathetic]] with those who gave mild [[expression]] to implied [[criticism]]. We detect the early [[appearance]] of this tendency to be restless under [[authority]], to mildly resent all forms of supervision. While slightly resentful of senior [[counsel]] and somewhat restive under superior [[authority]], nonetheless, whenever a test had come, he had always proved [[loyal]] to the [[universe rulers]] and obedient to the [[mandates]] of the [[Constellation Fathers]]. No real fault was ever found in him up to the time of his [[shameful]] [[betrayal]] of [[Urantia]].
66:8.2 It 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.
66:8.3 From the arrival of Prince [[Caligastia]], [[planetary]] [[civilization]] progressed in a fairly [[normal]] [[manner]] for almost three hundred thousand years. Aside from being a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA life-modification sphere] and therefore subject to numerous irregularities and unusual [[episodes]] of [[evolutionary]] fluctuation, [[Urantia]] progressed very satisfactorily in its planetary [[career]] up to the times of the [[Lucifer rebellion]] and the concurrent [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67#67:1._THE_CALIGASTIA_BETRAYAL Caligastia betrayal]. All subsequent [[history]] has been definitely [[modified]] by this [[catastrophic]] blunder as well as by the later [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 failure] of [[Adam and Eve]] to fulfill their planetary mission.
66:8.4 The [[Planetary Prince|Prince]] of [[Urantia]] went into [[darkness]] at the time of the [[Lucifer rebellion]], thus precipitating the long [[confusion]] of the [[planet]]. He was subsequently deprived of [[sovereign]] [[authority]] by the [[co-ordinate]] [[action]] of [[the constellation]] [[Most Highs|rulers]] and other [[universe]] [[authorities]]. He shared the [[inevitable]] [[vicissitudes]] of [[isolated]] [[Urantia]] down to the time of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adam's] sojourn on the [[planet]] and [[contributed]] something to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 miscarriage] of the plan to uplift the [[mortal]] [[races]] through the infusion of the lifeblood of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 new violet race]—the [[descendants]] of [[Adam and Eve]].
66:8.5 The [[power]] of the fallen Prince to disturb [[human]] affairs was enormously curtailed by the [[mortal]] [[incarnation]] of [[Machiventa]] [[Melchizedek]] in the days of [[Abraham]]; and subsequently, during the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 life of Michael in the flesh], this traitorous Prince was finally shorn of all [[authority]] on [[Urantia]].
66:8.6 The [[doctrine]] of a [[personal]] [[devil]] on [[Urantia]], though it had some [[foundation]] in the [[planetary]] [[presence]] of the traitorous and [[iniquitous]] [[Caligastia]], was nevertheless wholly fictitious in its [[teachings]] that such a "devil" could [[influence]] the [[normal]] [[human]] [[mind]] against its [[free]] and natural [[choosing]]. Even before [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 Michael's bestowal on Urantia], neither [[Caligastia]] nor [[Daligastia]] was ever able to oppress [[mortals]] or to coerce any [[normal]] [[individual]] into doing anything against the [[human]] [[Free will|will]]. The free will of man is [[supreme]] in [[moral]] affairs; even the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]] refuses to compel man to [[think]] a single [[thought]] or to [[perform]] a single [[act]] against the choosing of man's own will.
66:8.7 And now this [[rebel]] of the realm, shorn of all [[power]] to harm his former subjects, awaits the final [[adjudication]], by the [[Uversa]] [[Ancients of Days]], of all who [[participated]] in the [[Lucifer rebellion]].
66:8.8 Presented by a [[Melchizedek]] of [[Nebadon]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66 Go to Paper 66]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 66 - The Planetary Prince of Urantia]]
