유란시아 책
III 부. 유란시아의 역사
Paper 67
The Planetary Rebellion
The Planetary Rebellion
67:0.1 (754.1)
THE problems associated with human existence on Urantia are impossible of understanding without a knowledge of certain great epochs of the past, notably the occurrence and consequences of the planetary rebellion. Although this upheaval did not seriously interfere with the progress of organic evolution, it did markedly modify the course of social evolution and of spiritual development. The entire superphysical history of the planet was profoundly influenced by this devastating calamity.
67:1.1 (754.2)
For 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.”
67:1.2 (754.3)
In 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.”
67:1.3 (754.4)
In all the administrative work of a local universe no high trust is deemed more sacred than that reposed in a Planetary Prince who assumes responsibility for the welfare and guidance of the evolving mortals on a newly inhabited world. And of all forms of evil, none are more destructive of personality status than betrayal of trust and disloyalty to one’s confiding friends. In committing this deliberate sin, Caligastia so completely distorted his personality that his mind has never since been able fully to regain its equilibrium.
67:1.4 (754.5)
There are many ways of looking at sin, but from the universe philosophic viewpoint sin is the attitude of a personality who is knowingly resisting cosmic reality. Error might be regarded as a misconception or distortion of reality. Evil is a partial realization of, or maladjustment to, universe realities. But sin is a purposeful resistance to divine reality—a conscious choosing to oppose spiritual progress—while iniquity consists in an open and persistent defiance of recognized reality and signifies such a degree of personality disintegration as to border on cosmic insanity.
67:1.6 (755.2)
And when sin has so many times been chosen and so often been repeated, it may become habitual. Habitual sinners can easily become iniquitous, become wholehearted rebels against the universe and all of its divine realities. While all manner of sins may be forgiven, we doubt whether the established iniquiter would ever sincerely experience sorrow for his misdeeds or accept forgiveness for his sins.
사탄이 시찰한 직후에, 그리고 행성 경영 당국이 유란시아에서 있을 큰 사건을 깨닫기 전에, 북부 대륙이 한겨울을 지내고 있던 어느 날, 캘리개스챠는 동역자 달리개스챠와 긴 시간 논의했고, 그후에 달리개스챠는 10개의 유란시아 협의회를 특별히 소집했다. 이 집회는, 캘리개스챠 왕자가 자신이 유란시아의 절대 주권자임을 선언하려한다는 발표와 함께 시작됐고, 행성 정부를 재구성하고 경영 권한을 갖는 이 부서들을 나중에 다시 배치할 때까지, 모든 경영 집단은 모든 기능과 권한을 피신탁인{彼信託人}인 달리개스챠에게 넘겨줌으로써 자리에서 물러나라고 요구했다.
67:2.1 (755.3)
Shortly after Satan’s inspection and when the planetary administration was on the eve of the realization of great things on Urantia, one day, midwinter of the northern continents, Caligastia held a prolonged conference with his associate, Daligastia, after which the latter called the ten councils of Urantia in session extraordinary. This assembly was opened with the statement that Prince Caligastia was about to proclaim himself absolute sovereign of Urantia and demanded that all administrative groups abdicate by resigning all of their functions and powers into the hands of Daligastia as trustee, pending the reorganization of the planetary government and the subsequent redistribution of these offices of administrative authority.
어리둥절케 하는 이런 요구가 발표된 후에, 협조를 담당하는 최고 협의회 의장인 반의 탁월한 호소가 이어졌다. 뛰어난 실력의 경영자요 유능한 법학자인 이 의장은, 캘리개스챠가 획책하는 행로가 행성 반역에 가까운 행위라고 규정했고, 사타니아의 체계 주권자인 루시퍼에게 항소할 수 있을 때까지, 어떤 일에도 참여하지 말 것을 회의 참석자들에게 호소했으며;전체 참모진의 지지를 얻었다. 따라서, 항소가 예루셈에 제기됐고, 캘리개스챠를 유란시아의 최고 주권자로 임명한다는 명령과, 그의 지시에 절대적이고 무조건적인 충의를 바치라는 명령이 지체 없이 하달됐다. 그리고 이런 놀라운 소식에 대한 응답으로, 숭고한 반은 일곱 시간에 걸친 잊을 수 없는 긴 연설을 통해서, 네바돈 우주의 주권을 지속적으로 모욕하는, 달리개스챠와 캘리개스챠와 루시퍼를 정식으로 고발했으며;에덴시아의 지고자들에게 지지와 확인을 호소했다.
67:2.2 (755.4)
The presentation of this astounding demand was followed by the masterly appeal of Van, chairman of the supreme council of co-ordination. This distinguished administrator and able jurist branded the proposed course of Caligastia as an act bordering on planetary rebellion and appealed to his conferees to abstain from all participation until an appeal could be taken to Lucifer, the System Sovereign of Satania; and he won the support of the entire staff. Accordingly, appeal was taken to Jerusem, and forthwith came back the orders designating Caligastia as supreme sovereign on Urantia and commanding absolute and unquestioning allegiance to his mandates. And it was in reply to this amazing message that the noble Van made his memorable address of seven hours’ length in which he formally drew his indictment of Daligastia, Caligastia, and Lucifer as standing in contempt of the sovereignty of the universe of Nebadon; and he appealed to the Most Highs of Edentia for support and confirmation.
67:2.4 (755.6)
Daligastia formally proclaimed Caligastia “God of Urantia and supreme over all.” With this proclamation before them, the issues were clearly drawn; and each group drew off by itself and began deliberations, discussions destined eventually to determine the fate of every superhuman personality on the planet.
67:2.5 (755.7)
Seraphim and cherubim and other celestial beings were involved in the decisions of this bitter struggle, this long and sinful conflict. Many superhuman groups that chanced to be on Urantia at the time of its isolation were detained here and, like the seraphim and their associates, were compelled to choose between sin and righteousness—between the ways of Lucifer and the will of the unseen Father.
67:2.6 (756.1)
For more than seven years this struggle continued. Not until every personality concerned had made a final decision, would or did the authorities of Edentia interfere or intervene. Not until then did Van and his loyal associates receive vindication and release from their prolonged anxiety and intolerable suspense.
67:3.1 (756.2)
The outbreak of rebellion on Jerusem, the capital of Satania, was broadcast by the Melchizedek council. The emergency Melchizedeks were immediately dispatched to Jerusem, and Gabriel volunteered to act as the representative of the Creator Son, whose authority had been challenged. With this broadcast of the fact of rebellion in Satania the system was isolated, quarantined, from her sister systems. There was “war in heaven,” the headquarters of Satania, and it spread to every planet in the local system.
유란시아에서는, 1백 인의 육체전환 참모진 가운데 (반을 포함해서) 40명이 반란에 가담하기를 거부했다. 참모진의 인간 보조원(즉 변경된 보조원과 기타 보조원) 중에서 다수 역시, 미가엘과 그의 우주정부를 용감하고 고귀하게 수호한 자였다. 스라빔과 체루빔 중에서는 몹시 많은 인격체가 손실됐다. 행성에 배정됐던 경영자 스라빔과 과도기 스라빔 중에서는, 거의 절반이 루시퍼의 주장을 지지하면서, 그들의 지도자와 달리개스챠에게 합류했다. 1차 중도 피조물 중에서 40,119명이 캘리개스챠와 손잡았지만, 이 존재들 가운데 나머지는 자신이 맡은 책임에 충실한 채 남아있었다.
67:3.2 (756.3)
On Urantia forty members of the corporeal staff of one hundred (including Van) refused to join the insurrection. Many of the staff’s human assistants (modified and otherwise) were also brave and noble defenders of Michael and his universe government. There was a terrible loss of personalities among seraphim and cherubim. Almost one half of the administrator and transition seraphim assigned to the planet joined their leader and Daligastia in support of the cause of Lucifer. Forty thousand one hundred and nineteen of the primary midway creatures joined hands with Caligastia, but the remainder of these beings remained true to their trust.
67:3.3 (756.4)
The traitorous Prince marshaled the disloyal midway creatures and other groups of rebel personalities and organized them to execute his bidding, while Van assembled the loyal midwayers and other faithful groups and began the great battle for the salvation of the planetary staff and other marooned celestial personalities.
67:3.4 (756.5)
During the times of this struggle the loyalists dwelt in an unwalled and poorly protected settlement a few miles to the east of Dalamatia, but their dwellings were guarded day and night by the alert and ever-watchful loyal midway creatures, and they had possession of the priceless tree of life.
67:3.5 (756.6)
Upon the outbreak of rebellion, loyal cherubim and seraphim, with the aid of three faithful midwayers, assumed the custody of the tree of life and permitted only the forty loyalists of the staff and their associated modified mortals to partake of the fruit and leaves of this energy plant. There were fifty-six of these modified Andonite associates of the staff, sixteen of the Andonite attendants of the disloyal staff refusing to go into rebellion with their masters.
67:3.6 (756.7)
Throughout the seven crucial years of the Caligastia rebellion, Van was wholly devoted to the work of ministry to his loyal army of men, midwayers, and angels. The spiritual insight and moral steadfastness which enabled Van to maintain such an unshakable attitude of loyalty to the universe government was the product of clear thinking, wise reasoning, logical judgment, sincere motivation, unselfish purpose, intelligent loyalty, experiential memory, disciplined character, and the unquestioning dedication of his personality to the doing of the will of the Father in Paradise.
기다리면서 보낸 이 7년 세월은, 마음을 추스리고 혼을 단련시키는 기간이었다. 우주 직무에서 그런 위기는, 영적 선택의 한 요소로서 정신이 얼마나 지대한 영향을 미치는지를 보여준다. 교육과 훈련과 체험은, 진화하는 모든 도덕적 피조물이 내리는, 생사를 좌우하는 대부분의 결정에서 요인이 된다. 그러나 낙원에 계시는 아버지의 뜻과 방법에 충성스럽게 헌신하는 놀라운 행동을, 온전히 헌신한 피조물 의지가 수행할 수 있도록 하기 위해서, 내주하는 영{靈}이, 결정하고-결심하는 인간 인격의 능력과 직접 접촉하는 것이, 전적으로 가능하다. 이것이 바로, 반의 변경된 인간 동료인 아마돈의 체험에서 일어났다.
67:3.7 (756.8)
This seven years of waiting was a time of heart searching and soul discipline. Such crises in the affairs of a universe demonstrate the tremendous influence of mind as a factor in spiritual choosing. Education, training, and experience are factors in most of the vital decisions of all evolutionary moral creatures. But it is entirely possible for the indwelling spirit to make direct contact with the decision-determining powers of the human personality so as to empower the fully consecrated will of the creature to perform amazing acts of loyal devotion to the will and the way of the Father in Paradise. And this is just what occurred in the experience of Amadon, the modified human associate of Van.
아마돈은 루시퍼 반역에서 걸출한 인간 영웅이다. 안돈과 훤타의 후손인 이 남자는, 왕자의 참모진에게 생명 원형질을 기부했던 100명 가운데 하나였고, 그 사건이 있은 후로 줄곧, 동역자와 인간 보좌관으로서 반에게 배속돼왔었다. 아마돈은 길고 괴로운 투쟁기간에, 자신의 최고책임자와 한 편이 되기로 선택했다. 그리고 7년의 투쟁기간 내내, 아마돈과 그의 충성스런 동역자들이, 명석한 캘리개스챠의 온갖 현혹하는 가르침에 굴복하지 않고 대항하는 동안, 진화하는 인종 출신인 이 사람이, 달리개스챠의 궤변에 동요되지 않고 굳건히 서 있는 것은 감격스러운 광경이었다.
67:3.8 (757.1)
Amadon is the outstanding human hero of the Lucifer rebellion. This male descendant of Andon and Fonta was one of the one hundred who contributed life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and ever since that event he had been attached to Van as his associate and human assistant. Amadon elected to stand with his chief throughout the long and trying struggle. And it was an inspiring sight to behold this child of the evolutionary races standing unmoved by the sophistries of Daligastia while throughout the seven-year struggle he and his loyal associates resisted with unyielding fortitude all of the deceptive teachings of the brilliant Caligastia.
67:3.9 (757.2)
Caligastia, with a maximum of intelligence and a vast experience in universe affairs, went astray—embraced sin. Amadon, with a minimum of intelligence and utterly devoid of universe experience, remained steadfast in the service of the universe and in loyalty to his associate. Van utilized both mind and spirit in a magnificent and effective combination of intellectual determination and spiritual insight, thereby achieving an experiential level of personality realization of the highest attainable order. Mind and spirit, when fully united, are potential for the creation of superhuman values, even morontia realities.
67:3.10 (757.3)
There is no end to the recital of the stirring events of these tragic days. But at last the final decision of the last personality was made, and then, but only then, did a Most High of Edentia arrive with the emergency Melchizedeks to seize authority on Urantia. The Caligastia panoramic reign-records on Jerusem were obliterated, and the probationary era of planetary rehabilitation was inaugurated.
마지막 출석을 점검했을 때, 왕자의 참모진 가운데 육체전환 요원들은 다음과 같이 정렬돼있었다:반과 그의 조정 법정 전체는 충성된 상태를 견지했다. 양식 담당 협의회 중에서 앙과 세 요원이 살아남았다. 동물을 이용한 축산 담당 부서는 모두 반역에 가담했고, 동물을-정복하도록 충고하는 자들 전원도 마찬가지였다. 교육 담당 교수진 중에서 다섯 명과 횃은 구원됐다. 산업과 무역을 담당하는 위원단 전체와 놋은 캘리개스챠에게 가담했다. 종교를 계시하는 전체 학부와 합은, 반과 그의 훌륭한 일행들과 함께 충성된 채로 남았다. 럿과 건강 담당 부서 전체는 유실됐다. 예술 및 과학 담당 협의회 전체가 충성된 채로 남았지만, 부족 정부 담당 위원단 전체와 텃은 타락했다. 그리하여 1백 인 중에서 40명이 구제됐고, 나중에 예루셈으로 옮겨갔고, 거기서 낙원으로 가는 여정을 계속했다.
67:4.1 (757.4)
When the final roll was called, the corporeal members of the Prince’s staff were found to have aligned themselves as follows: Van and his entire court of co-ordination had remained loyal. Ang and three members of the food council had survived. The board of animal husbandry were all swept into rebellion as were all of the animal-conquest advisers. Fad and five members of the educational faculty were saved. Nod and all of the commission on industry and trade joined Caligastia. Hap and the entire college of revealed religion remained loyal with Van and his noble band. Lut and the whole board of health were lost. The council of art and science remained loyal in its entirety, but Tut and the commission on tribal government all went astray. Thus were forty out of the one hundred saved, later to be transferred to Jerusem, where they resumed their Paradise journey.
행성 참모진 가운데 반역에 가담한 60명은 놋을 지도자로 뽑았다. 그들은 반역한 왕자를 위하여 전심으로 일했으나, 체계의 생명 회로가 주는 영양을 빼앗겼음을 곧 깨달았다. 자신이 이미 필사 존재 상태로 퇴보됐다는 사실에 눈을 떴다. 그들은 정말로 초인적 존재였으나, 동시에 물질이고 필사자였다. 달리개스챠는 원래의 60명과 변경된 44명의 안돈족속 동역자가 조만간 죽음으로 소멸될 운명임을 잘 알고 있었기 때문에, 그들의 수를 늘리기 위해 즉시 성교{性交}로 자식을 낳도록 명령했다. 달라마시아가 와해된 후에, 불충한 참모진은 북쪽과 동쪽으로 이주했다. 그들의 후손은 놋족속으로, 그들이 거주하던 곳은 “놋의 땅”으로, 오랫동안 알려졌다.
67:4.2 (757.5)
The sixty members of the planetary staff who went into rebellion chose Nod as their leader. They worked wholeheartedly for the rebel Prince but soon discovered that they were deprived of the sustenance of the system life circuits. They awakened to the fact that they had been degraded to the status of mortal beings. They were indeed superhuman but, at the same time, material and mortal. In an effort to increase their numbers, Daligastia ordered immediate resort to sexual reproduction, knowing full well that the original sixty and their forty-four modified Andonite associates were doomed to suffer extinction by death, sooner or later. After the fall of Dalamatia the disloyal staff migrated to the north and the east. Their descendants were long known as the Nodites, and their dwelling place as “the land of Nod.”
67:4.3 (758.1)
The presence of these extraordinary supermen and superwomen, stranded by rebellion and presently mating with the sons and daughters of earth, easily gave origin to those traditional stories of the gods coming down to mate with mortals. And thus originated the thousand and one legends of a mythical nature, but founded on the facts of the postrebellion days, which later found a place in the folk tales and traditions of the various peoples whose ancestors had participated in these contacts with the Nodites and their descendants.
67:4.5 (758.3)
When the staff of one hundred came to Urantia, they were temporarily detached from their Thought Adjusters. Immediately upon the arrival of the Melchizedek receivers the loyal personalities (except Van) were returned to Jerusem and were reunited with their waiting Adjusters. We know not the fate of the sixty staff rebels; their Adjusters still tarry on Jerusem. Matters will undoubtedly rest as they now are until the entire Lucifer rebellion is finally adjudicated and the fate of all participants decreed.
67:4.6 (758.4)
It was very difficult for such beings as angels and midwayers to conceive of brilliant and trusted rulers like Caligastia and Daligastia going astray—committing traitorous sin. Those beings who fell into sin—they did not deliberately or premeditatedly enter upon rebellion—were misled by their superiors, deceived by their trusted leaders. It was likewise easy to win the support of the primitive-minded evolutionary mortals.
67:4.7 (758.5)
The vast majority of all human and superhuman beings who were victims of the Lucifer rebellion on Jerusem and the various misled planets have long since heartily repented of their folly; and we truly believe that all such sincere penitents will in some manner be rehabilitated and restored to some phase of universe service when the Ancients of Days finally complete the adjudication of the affairs of the Satania rebellion, which they have so recently begun.
67:5.1 (758.6)
Great confusion reigned in Dalamatia and thereabout for almost fifty years after the instigation of rebellion. The complete and radical reorganization of the whole world was attempted; revolution displaced evolution as the policy of cultural advancement and racial improvement. Among the superior and partially trained sojourners in and near Dalamatia there appeared a sudden advancement in cultural status, but when these new and radical methods were attempted on the outlying peoples, indescribable confusion and racial pandemonium was the immediate result. Liberty was quickly translated into license by the half-evolved primitive men of those days.
67:5.2 (758.7)
Very soon after the rebellion the entire staff of sedition were engaged in energetic defense of the city against the hordes of semisavages who besieged its walls as a result of the doctrines of liberty which had been prematurely taught them. And years before the beautiful headquarters went down beneath the southern waves, the misled and mistaught tribes of the Dalamatia hinterland had already swept down in semisavage assault on the splendid city, driving the secession staff and their associates northward.
67:5.3 (759.1)
The Caligastia scheme for the immediate reconstruction of human society in accordance with his ideas of individual freedom and group liberties, proved a swift and more or less complete failure. Society quickly sank back to its old biologic level, and the forward struggle began all over, starting not very far in advance of where it was at the beginning of the Caligastia regime, this upheaval having left the world in confusion worse confounded.
67:6.1 (759.4)
The followers of Van early withdrew to the highlands west of India, where they were exempt from attacks by the confused races of the lowlands, and from which place of retirement they planned for the rehabilitation of the world as their early Badonite predecessors had once all unwittingly worked for the welfare of mankind just before the days of the birth of the Sangik tribes.
67:6.2 (759.5)
Before the arrival of the Melchizedek receivers, Van placed the administration of human affairs in the hands of ten commissions of four each, groups identical with those of the Prince’s regime. The senior resident Life Carriers assumed temporary leadership of this council of forty, which functioned throughout the seven years of waiting. Similar groups of Amadonites assumed these responsibilities when the thirty-nine loyal staff members returned to Jerusem.
67:6.3 (759.6)
These Amadonites were derived from the group of 144 loyal Andonites to which Amadon belonged, and who have become known by his name. This group comprised thirty-nine men and one hundred and five women. Fifty-six of this number were of immortality status, and all (except Amadon) were translated along with the loyal members of the staff. The remainder of this noble band continued on earth to the end of their mortal days under the leadership of Van and Amadon. They were the biologic leaven which multiplied and continued to furnish leadership for the world down through the long dark ages of the postrebellion era.
67:6.4 (759.7)
Van was left on Urantia until the time of Adam, remaining as titular head of all superhuman personalities functioning on the planet. He and Amadon were sustained by the technique of the tree of life in conjunction with the specialized life ministry of the Melchizedeks for over one hundred and fifty thousand years.
수석 성좌 통치자인 노라티아덱의 지고자 아버지의 명령으로 승인을 받아서, 열두 멜기세덱 행성 관재인들로 구성된 협의회가 유란시아 직무를 오랫동안 경영했다. 멜기세덱 관재인들과 관련된 자문 협의회는:타락한 왕자의 충성스런 조력자들 중에서 하나, 거주하는 생명 운반자 둘, 견습{見習} 훈련을 받는 삼위일체화된 아들 하나, 자원봉사자인 교사{敎師} 아들 하나, (때때로) 아바론의 찬란한 저녁 별 하나, 스라빔과 체루빔의 최고책임자들, 두 이웃 행성에서 온 자문가들, 하위 천사 생명체의 지휘 사령관, 그리고 중도{中道} 피조물의 최고책임 지휘자인 반으로 구성됐다. 유란시아는 아담이 도래할 때까지 그렇게 경영됐다. 용감하고 충성스런 반이, 유란시아 직무를 그토록 오랫동안 경영한 행성 관재인 협의회에서 한 자리를 차지한 것은 조금도 이상하지 않다.
67:6.5 (759.8)
The affairs of Urantia were for a long time administered by a council of planetary receivers, twelve Melchizedeks, confirmed by the mandate of the senior constellation ruler, the Most High Father of Norlatiadek. Associated with the Melchizedek receivers was an advisory council consisting of: one of the loyal aids of the fallen Prince, the two resident Life Carriers, a Trinitized Son in apprenticeship training, a volunteer Teacher Son, a Brilliant Evening Star of Avalon (periodically), the chiefs of seraphim and cherubim, advisers from two neighboring planets, the director general of subordinate angelic life, and Van, the commander in chief of the midway creatures. And thus was Urantia governed and administered until the arrival of Adam. It is not strange that the courageous and loyal Van was assigned a place on the council of planetary receivers which for so long administered the affairs of Urantia.
67:6.6 (760.1)
The twelve Melchizedek receivers of Urantia did heroic work. They preserved the remnants of civilization, and their planetary policies were faithfully executed by Van. Within one thousand years after the rebellion he had more than three hundred and fifty advanced groups scattered abroad in the world. These outposts of civilization consisted largely of the descendants of the loyal Andonites slightly admixed with the Sangik races, particularly the blue men, and with the Nodites.
67:6.7 (760.2)
Notwithstanding the terrible setback of rebellion there were many good strains of biologic promise on earth. Under the supervision of the Melchizedek receivers, Van and Amadon continued the work of fostering the natural evolution of the human race, carrying forward the physical evolution of man until it reached that culminating attainment which warranted the dispatch of a Material Son and Daughter to Urantia.
67:6.8 (760.3)
Van and Amadon remained on earth until shortly after the arrival of Adam and Eve. Some years thereafter they were translated to Jerusem, where Van was reunited with his waiting Adjuster. Van now serves in behalf of Urantia while awaiting the order to go forward on the long, long trail to Paradise perfection and the unrevealed destiny of the assembling Corps of Mortal Finality.
루시퍼가 유란시아에서 캘리개스챠를 지지한 후에, 반이 에덴시아의 지고자에게 항소했을 때, 반이 주장하는 모든 점에 대해서 지지한다는 즉각적인 결정을, 성좌 아버지들이 보냈다는 사실을 밝혀야만 할 것이다. 그러나 그것이 전달되던 도중에, 행성의 통신 회로{回路}가 단절됐기 때문에, 이 판결은 그에게 전달되지 못했다. 오직 최근에 이르러서야, 유란시아가 격리된 후부터 줄곧 고립돼있는 교대{交代} 에너지 전달자의 소유물 속에, 이 실제 판결이 들어있음이 발견됐다. 유란시아 중도자들이 조사한 결과로 이뤄진 이런 발견이 없었다면, 이 결정의 발표는 유란시아가 성좌 회로에 복귀할 때까지 기다려야했을지도 모른다. 그리고 행성 간 연락에서 이런 명백한 사고{事故}는, 에너지 전달자들이 정보를 받고 보낼 수 있지만, 연락을 직접 주도할 수는 없기 때문에 가능했다.
67:6.9 (760.4)
It should be recorded that, when Van appealed to the Most Highs of Edentia after Lucifer had sustained Caligastia on Urantia, the Constellation Fathers dispatched an immediate decision sustaining Van on every point of his contention. This verdict failed to reach him because the planetary circuits of communication were severed while it was in transit. Only recently was this actual ruling discovered lodged in the possession of a relay energy transmitter where it had been marooned ever since the isolation of Urantia. Without this discovery, made as the result of the investigations of the Urantia midwayers, the release of this decision would have awaited the restoration of Urantia to the constellation circuits. And this apparent accident of interplanetary communication was possible because energy transmitters can receive and transmit intelligence, but they cannot initiate communication.
67:7.1 (760.6)
The personal (centripetal) consequences of the creature’s willful and persistent rejection of light are both inevitable and individual and are of concern only to Deity and to that personal creature. Such a soul-destroying harvest of iniquity is the inner reaping of the iniquitous will creature.
67:7.3 (761.2)
By fifty thousand years after the collapse of the planetary administration, earthly affairs were so disorganized and retarded that the human race had gained very little over the general evolutionary status existing at the time of Caligastia’s arrival three hundred and fifty thousand years previously. In certain respects progress had been made; in other directions much ground had been lost.
죄의 영향은 결단코 국지적일 수 없다. 우주의 경영 구역들은 유기적이며;한 인격체의 처지는 반드시 전체와 어느 정도까지 공유하게 돼있다. 죄는, 실체에 대한 인격자의 태도이므로, 관련된 어느 우주 가치 수준에서든지, 그 안에 내재된 부정적 수확을 거두게 돼있다. 그러나 잘못된 사고나 악한 행동 또는 죄로 가득한 계획으로 인한 전체 결과는, 오직 실제로 실행하는 수준에서만 체험될 수 있다. 우주 법칙을 어기는 것은, 정신에 심각한 영향을 미치지 않고 영적 체험을 해치지 않으면서도, 물리적 영역에서 파멸을 가져올 수 있다. 죄는 그 존재 전부의 태도일 때에만, 즉 정신이 선택하고 혼이 의도하는 것을 죄가 대표할 때에만, 죄가 인격 생존에 파멸적 영향을 초래한다.
67:7.4 (761.3)
Sin is never purely local in its effects. The administrative sectors of the universes are organismal; the plight of one personality must to a certain extent be shared by all. Sin, being an attitude of the person toward reality, is destined to exhibit its inherent negativistic harvest upon any and all related levels of universe values. But the full consequences of erroneous thinking, evil-doing, or sinful planning are experienced only on the level of actual performance. The transgression of universe law may be fatal in the physical realm without seriously involving the mind or impairing the spiritual experience. Sin is fraught with fatal consequences to personality survival only when it is the attitude of the whole being, when it stands for the choosing of the mind and the willing of the soul.
67:7.5 (761.4)
Evil and sin visit their consequences in material and social realms and may sometimes even retard spiritual progress on certain levels of universe reality, but never does the sin of any being rob another of the realization of the divine right of personality survival. Eternal survival can be jeopardized only by the decisions of the mind and the choice of the soul of the individual himself.
67:7.6 (761.5)
Sin on Urantia did very little to delay biologic evolution, but it did operate to deprive the mortal races of the full benefit of the Adamic inheritance. Sin enormously retards intellectual development, moral growth, social progress, and mass spiritual attainment. But it does not prevent the highest spiritual achievement by any individual who chooses to know God and sincerely do his divine will.
캘리개스챠는 반역했고 아담과 이브는 태만했지만, 그후에 유란시아에서 태어나는 어떤 필사자도, 이런 큰 실책들 때문에 자신의 개인적인 영적 체험에서 고통 받지는 않았다. 캘리개스챠 반역 이후에 유란시아에 태어난 필사자마다, 어떤 의미에서 시간상-불이익을 당하고 있으나, 그런 혼이 받을 장차의 번영은 영원토록 결코 위험에 빠지지 않는다. 어떤 인격자가 다른 인격자의 죄 때문에 심각한 영적 결핍을 당하는 경우는 전혀 없다. 죄의 영향이, 경영적, 지적, 및 사회적 영역에 광범하게 미침에도, 죄가 가져오는 도덕적 죄책감이나 영적 결과는 전적으로 개인에게 발생한다.
67:7.7 (761.6)
Caligastia rebelled, Adam and Eve did default, but no mortal subsequently born on Urantia has suffered in his personal spiritual experience because of these blunders. Every mortal born on Urantia since Caligastia’s rebellion has been in some manner time-penalized, but the future welfare of such souls has never been in the least eternity-jeopardized. No person is ever made to suffer vital spiritual deprivation because of the sin of another. Sin is wholly personal as to moral guilt or spiritual consequences, notwithstanding its far-flung repercussions in administrative, intellectual, and social domains.
67:8.1 (761.8)
The Lucifer rebellion was withstood by many courageous beings on the various worlds of Satania; but the records of Salvington portray Amadon as the outstanding character of the entire system in his glorious rejection of the flood tides of sedition and in his unswerving devotion to Van—they stood together unmoved in their loyalty to the supremacy of the invisible Father and his Son Michael.
67:8.2 (762.1)
At the time of these momentous transactions I was stationed on Edentia, and I am still conscious of the exhilaration I experienced as I perused the Salvington broadcasts which told from day to day of the unbelievable steadfastness, the transcendent devotion, and the exquisite loyalty of this onetime semisavage springing from the experimental and original stock of the Andonic race.
루시퍼의 반역이 지역 체계와 그 타락한 세계들을 방해했다면, 이 아들과 잘못 인도된 동역자들의 실패가 노라티아덱 성좌의 진보를 일시적으로 훼방한 것이 사실이었다면, 아마돈의 불충한 상관들이 가한 그토록 극심하고 불리한 압력에 직면해서, 더 높은 우주 관리 개념과 경영 개념을 지지하여 확고부동하게 버틴, 이 자연인{自然人} 한 사람과 그의 동지 143명의 굳게 결심한 무리가 보여줬던, 용기를 북돋우는 업적을 멀리까지 퍼져나가게 한, 그 소식의 효과가 얼마나 컸을지 생각해보라. 그리고 너희는 안심해도 좋은데, 이것은 네바돈 우주와 오르본톤 연방우주에서, 루시퍼 반역으로 인한 모든 악과 불행의 총계가 능가할 수 없을 만큼, 이미 좋은 일을 했다.
67:8.4 (762.3)
If the Lucifer rebellion has handicapped the local system and its fallen worlds, if the loss of this Son and his misled associates has temporarily hampered the progress of the constellation of Norlatiadek, then weigh the effect of the far-flung presentation of the inspiring performance of this one child of nature and his determined band of 143 comrades in standing steadfast for the higher concepts of universe management and administration in the face of such tremendous and adverse pressure exerted by his disloyal superiors. And let me assure you, this has already done more good in the universe of Nebadon and the superuniverse of Orvonton than can ever be outweighed by the sum total of all the evil and sorrow of the Lucifer rebellion.
67:8.5 (762.4)
And all this is a beautifully touching and superbly magnificent illumination of the wisdom of the Father’s universal plan for mobilizing the Corps of Mortal Finality on Paradise and for recruiting this vast group of mysterious servants of the future largely from the common clay of the mortals of ascending progression—just such mortals as the impregnable Amadon.