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제054편 : 루시퍼 반란의 문제 - Problems Of the Lucifer Rebellion

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루시퍼 반란의 문제
PROBLEMS OF THE LUCIFER REBELLION

54:0.1
진화하는 사람은 악, 잘못, 죄, 그리고 사악의 의미들을 파악하고 의의(意義)를 충분히 이해하는 것이 어렵다는 것을 발견한다. 사람은 대조적인 완전성과 불완전성이 잠재적 악을 산출한다는 것; 모순된 진리 그리고 허위가 혼란스러운 실수를 만든다는 것; 자유의지 선택의 신성한 자질이 죄와 정의(正義)의 산개된 영역 안에서 결국 생겨난다는 것; 사악의 권역으로 인도하는 그것의 계속적인 거부와 대조되어, 신성에 대한 끊임없는 추구가 하느님의 왕국으로 인도한다는 것을 감지하기가 어렵다.
EVOLUTIONARY man finds it difficult fully to comprehend the significance and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error; that the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the kingdom of God as contrasted with its continuous rejection, which leads to the domains of iniquity.

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하느님들은 악을 창조하지 않을 뿐만 아니라 죄와 반역을 허용하지도 않는다. 잠재적 악(惡)은 완전 의미들과 가치들의 차이 있는 차원들을 포옹하는 우주 안에서의 시간-실재함 이다. 죄(罪)는 불완전한 존재들이 선과 악의 사이에서 선택할 수 있는 능력을 부여받은 모든 영역에 잠재한다. 진리와 허구, 사실과 거짓말의 바로 그 상반되는 현존이 실수의 잠재성을 이룬다. 악에 대한 고의적인 선택이 죄를 가져오며; 진리에 대한 고의적 거부가 실수이며; 죄와 실수에 대한 끊임없는 추구가 사악이다.
The Gods neither create evil nor permit sin and rebellion. Potential evil is time-existent in a universe embracing differential levels of perfection meanings and values. Sin is potential in all realms where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to choose between good and evil. The very conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potentiality of error. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity.



1. 참 해방과 거짓 해방
1. TRUE AND FALSE LIBERTY

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루시퍼 반역으로부터 발생된 복잡한 모든 문제들 중에서, 미성숙한 진화적 필사자들이 참 해방과 거짓 해방을 구분하지 못한 것보다 더 큰 어려움이 없었다.
Of all the perplexing problems growing out of the Lucifer rebellion, none has occasioned more difficulty than the failure of immature evolutionary mortals to distinguish between true and false liberty.

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참 해방은 오랜 세월에 걸친 탐구요, 진화하는 진보에서의 포상이다. 거짓 해방은 시간의 실수와 공간의 악에 대한 미묘한 속임수이다. 영구적인 해방은 공의(公義)의 실체─지성, 성숙, 형제우애관계, 그리고 동등성─에 입각한다.
True liberty is the quest of the ages and the reward of evolutionary progress. False liberty is the subtle deception of the error of time and the evil of space. Enduring liberty is predicated on the reality of justice -- intelligence, maturity, fraternity, and equity.

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해방은 그것의 동기가 비(非)지능적이고 무조건적이며 조정되지 않을 때 조화우주 실재의 자아-파괴하고 있는 하나의 기법이다. 참 해방은 실체에 점진적으로 관계되며, 사회적 공정성, 조화우주 공평성, 우주 형제우애관계, 그리고 신성한 의무들에 대해 항상 경의를 표한다.
Liberty is a self-destroying technique of cosmic existence when its motivation is unintelligent, unconditioned, and uncontrolled. True liberty is progressively related to reality and is ever regardful of social equity, cosmic fairness, universe fraternity, and divine obligations.

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해방은 물질적 공의(公義), 지적 공정성, 사회적 관용, 도덕적 의무, 그리고 영적 가치들과 분리될 때 자멸적이다. 해방은 조화우주 실체와 분리되어 실재할 수 없으며, 모든 개인성 실체는 그것의 신성 관계들과 비례한다.
Liberty is suicidal when divorced from material justice, intellectual fairness, social forbearance, moral duty, and spiritual values. Liberty is nonexistent apart from cosmic reality, and all personality reality is proportional to its divinity relationships.

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억제되지 않은 자아-의지와 조정되지 않은 자아-표현은 수그러들지 않은 이기심, 하느님추구를 벗어나는 것에서의 절정과 같다. 자아에 대한 연합되고 그리고 계속-증가하는 정복이 없는, 해방은 자기본위적 필사자 상상에서 나온 산물이다. 자아-동기화된 해방은 개념적 환상, 비참한 속임수이다. 해방이라는 옷으로 꾸민 방종은 비천한 속박의 선구자이다.
Unbridled self-will and unregulated self-expression equal unmitigated selfishness, the acme of ungodliness. Liberty without the associated and ever-increasing conquest of self is a figment of egoistic mortal imagination. Self-motivated liberty is a conceptual illusion, a cruel deception. License masquerading in the garments of liberty is the forerunner of abject bondage.

54:1.6
참 해방은 진실한 자아-존중의 친구이며; 거짓 해방은 자아-찬양의 동료이다. 참 해방은 자아-조정에서의 열매이며; 거짓 해방은 자아-주장에서의 가정이다. 자아-조정은 애타적 봉사를 가져오며; 자아-찬양은 자기 동료 존재들에게 불의한 힘으로 압제하려는 목적으로 의로운 달성을 기꺼이 희생하는 것에 따라서 그처럼 그러한 잘못된 개별존재의 이기적 확대증강을 위해 다른 사람들을 착취하려는 방향으로 나아간다.
True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.

54:1.7
지혜조차도 그것이 규모에서 조화우주적이고 동기에서 영적일 경우에만 신성하고 안전하다.
Even wisdom is divine and safe only when it is cosmic in scope and spiritual in motivation.

54:1.8
지능존재에게 저들 개인들의 자연적인 해방을 박탈할 목적으로, 다른 존재에게 힘을 행사하도록 갈망을 일으키는 그러한 종류의 자아-본위의 착각보다 더 큰 실수는 없다. 인간의 공정함에서의 황금률은 그러한 모든 기만, 불공정, 이기심, 그리고 부당함에 대항할 것을 크게 외치고 있다. 오직 진실하고 진정한 해방만이 사랑의 지배 그리고 자비의 사명활동과 공존할 수 있다.
There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness. Only true and genuine liberty is compatible with the reign of love and the ministry of mercy.

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우주의 최극 통치자들이 의지의 이 특권들과 개인성의 잠재들에 대한 자비로운 존중심을 가지고 뒤로 물러서 있을 때 자기를 주장하는 창조체가 어떻게 감히 개인적 해방이라는 이름으로 자기 동료들의 권한들을 침입할 수 있는가! 개인의 가정된 해방을 행사함에 있어서 어떤 존재도 창조주들에 의해 수여 받은 실재할 수 있는 특권들을 어떤 다른 존재들로부터 빼앗을 수 있는 권한을 갖지 못하며 그들의 모든 충성된 동료들과 하급자들 그리고 국민들에 의해 온당하게 존경받을 수 없다.
How dare the self-willed creature encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the Supreme Rulers of the universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and potentials of personality! No being, in the exercise of his supposed personal liberty, has a right to deprive any other being of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creators and duly respected by all their loyal associates, subordinates, and subjects.

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진화적 사람은 죄와 사악의 세계에서 또는 원시적인 진화하는 구체의 초기 시대 동안 자신의 물질적 해방을 위해 폭군들 그리고 압제자들과 싸우지 않을 수 없겠지만, 모론시아 세계들 또는 영 구체들에서는 더 이상 그렇지 않다. 전쟁은 초기 진화적 사람의 유산이지만, 정상적으로 진보하는 문명의 세계에서는 인종적 오해들을 조정하는 기법으로서의 물리적 투쟁이 오래 전부터 나쁘게 평가되어 왔다.
Evolutionary man may have to contend for his material liberties with tyrants and oppressors on a world of sin and iniquity or during the early times of a primitive evolving sphere, but not so on the morontia worlds or on the spirit spheres. War is the heritage of early evolutionary man, but on worlds of normal advancing civilization physical combat as a technique of adjusting racial misunderstandings has long since fallen into disrepute.



2. 해방 탈취자
2. THE THEFT OF LIBERTY

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아들과 함께 그리고 영 안에서 하느님은 영원한 하보나를 구체적으로 투사하였고, 그 후로 계속 창조에서 합동 참여─공유─의 영원한 원형틀을 달성해 왔다. 공유의 이 원형틀은 때에 맞추어 영원한 완전의 중앙우주를 복제하려고 시도하는 일에 참여하기 위해 공간 속으로 나아가는 하느님의 아들들과 딸들 각자를 위한 본질적 설계이다.
With the Son and in the Spirit did God project eternal Havona, and ever since has there obtained the eternal pattern of co-ordinate participation in creation -- sharing. This pattern of sharing is the master design for every one of the Sons and Daughters of God who go out into space to engage in the attempt to duplicate in time the central universe of eternal perfection.

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아버지의 뜻을 행하기를 열망하는 모든 진화 우주의 모든 창조체는 체험적 완전성 달성의 이 장엄한 모험 여행에서 시간-공간 창조주들의 동반자가 되도록 운명되어 있다. 만일 이것이 사실이 아니었다면, 아버지는 창조적인 자유의지를 그처럼 창조체들에게 자질로 부여하실 수 없었을 것이며, 뿐만 아니라 자신이 그들에게 기꺼이 깃들어, 그 자신의 영을 수단으로 하여 그들과 실질적으로 동반자관계를 맺는 일을 하지도 않았을 것이다.
Every creature of every evolving universe who aspires to do the Father's will is destined to become the partner of the time-space Creators in this magnificent adventure of experiential perfection attainment. Were this not true, the Father would have hardly endowed such creatures with creative free will, neither would he indwell them, actually go into partnership with them by means of his own spirit.

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루시퍼의 어리석은 행동은, 할 수도 없는 일, 체험적 우주 안에서 시간의 단락(短絡)을 시도한 것이었다. 루시퍼의 범죄는 , 사타니아에 있는 모든 개인성의 반(反)공민권획득을 창조적으로 시도한 것, 개별적으로 또 집단적으로 빛과 생명의 지위를 달성하려는 긴 진화적인 투쟁에의 창조체의 개인적 참여─자유의지 참여─를 인지하지 않고 박탈한 것이었다. 그러한 행동을 하면서, 이 왕년의 너희 체계 주권자는, 모든 개인적 창조체에게 내려진 자유의지의 증여로서 계시되는 바와 같은, 하느님의 의지의 영원한 목적을 직접 가로질러, 자기 자신의 현세적 목적으로 정해 버렸다. 루시퍼 반역은 이처럼 사타니아 체계의 상승자와 봉사자들의 자유의지 선택을 가능한 최대한 침해─언젠가는 사타니아의 완전체계로서 존재할 체험적 지혜를 향해 기념비를 천천히 세우는 일에, 독특하고 개인적인 무언가를 기여하는 떨리는 체험을, 이들 모든 존재에게서 박탈하려는 언제까지나 계속되는 위협이었다. 그리하여 루시퍼 성명서는, 해방이라는 옷으로 변장하면서, 이성의 맑은 빛 안에서, 개인적 해방에 대한 탈취에서 절정에 이른 기념비적인 위협으로 두드러지고 있으며, 그리고 네바돈의 모든 역사에서 오직 두 번 접근되었던 규모로 행하는 것으로 두드러진다.
Lucifer's folly was the attempt to do the nondoable, to short-circuit time in an experiential universe. Lucifer's crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in Satania, the unrecognized abridgment of the creature's personal participation -- freewill participation -- in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively. In so doing, this onetime Sovereign of your system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly athwart the eternal purpose of God's will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures. The Lucifer rebellion thus threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania -- a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania. Thus does the Lucifer manifesto, masquerading in the habiliments of liberty, stand forth in the clear light of reason as a monumental threat to consummate the theft of personal liberty and to do it on a scale that has been approached only twice in all the history of Nebadon.

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요약하자면, 하느님이 사람들과 천사들에게 주셨던 것을 루시퍼가 그들로부터 빼앗고자 하였는데, 그것은 거주되는 세계들로 이루어진 이 지역체계의 운명과 그들 자신의 운명에 대한 창조에 참여하는 신성한 특권이다.
In short, what God had given men and angels Lucifer would have taken away from them, that is, the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds.

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우주 전체에서 어떤 존재도 다른 존재로부터 참 해방, 사랑하고 사랑 받을 수 있는 권리, 하느님을 경배하고 자기 동료들을 봉사하는 특권을 빼앗으려는 것을 정의로운 해방으로 가질 수는 없다.
No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.



3. 공의(公義)의 시간 지연
3. THE TIME LAG OF JUSTICE

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진화 세계들의 도덕적인 의지적 창조체들은 모든-지혜이신 창조주들이 왜 악과 죄를 허용하는지에 대한 경솔한 질문으로 항상 근심한다. 그들은 만약에 창조체가 정말로 자유롭게 되려면 두 가지가 다 필수적이라는 것을 이해하지 못한다. 진화하는 사람이나 참으로 아름다운 천사의 자유로운 의지는 단순한 철학적인 개념, 상징적 이상이 아니다. 선이나 악을 선택할 수 있는 사람의 능력은 하나의 우주 실체이다. 스스로 선택할 수 있는 이 해방은 최극 통치자들의 자질이며, 그들은 어떤 존재 또는 존재들의 집단도 이 신성하게 증여된 해방의 넓은 우주 안에서─설사 이 이름이 잘못된 개인적 해방의 즐거움에 잠겨서 그렇게 잘못 인도되고 무지한 존재들이 만족하도록 한다 해도, 그래도 단 하나의 개인성도 박탈하는 것을 허용하지 않을 것이다.
The moral will creatures of the evolutionary worlds are always bothered with the unthinking question as to why the all-wise Creators permit evil and sin. They fail to comprehend that both are inevitable if the creature is to be truly free. The free will of evolving man or exquisite angel is not a mere philosophic concept, a symbolic ideal. Man's ability to choose good or evil is a universe reality. This liberty to choose for oneself is an endowment of the Supreme Rulers, and they will not permit any being or group of beings to deprive a single personality in the wide universe of this divinely bestowed liberty -- not even to satisfy such misguided and ignorant beings in the enjoyment of this misnamed personal liberty.

54:3.2
의식적으로 그리고 전심(全心)으로 악(죄)과 정체화달성을 이루는 것이 비(非)실재(절멸)와 동등하다 하더라도, 죄(罪)와의 그러한 개인적 정체화달성과 형벌의 집행─악을 그렇게 고의적으로 채택한 것에 대한 자동적 결과─시기 사이에는 모든 관련된 개인성들에게 전반적으로 만족감을 줄 수 있을 정도로 그러한 개별적 우주에서의 그러한 판결을 위해 허용될 수 있는 충분한 길이의 시간이 반드시 들어 있으며, 그리고 그것은 죄인 자신의 승인에 도달하는 것과 마찬가지로 그처럼 매우 공정하고 정당할 것이다.
Although conscious and wholehearted identification with evil (sin) is the equivalent of nonexistence (annihilation), there must always intervene between the time of such personal identification with sin and the execution of the penalty -- the automatic result of such a willful embrace of evil -- a period of time of sufficient length to allow for such an adjudication of such an individual's universe status as will prove entirely satisfactory to all related universe personalities, and which will be so fair and just as to win the approval of the sinner himself.

54:3.3
그러나 만일 진리와 선의 실체에 대항하는 이 우주 반역이 평결을 인정하기를 거부한다면, 그리고 만일 죄인이 자신의 유죄 판결의 공의(公義)를 가슴속으로 알고 있지만 그렇게 고백하기를 거부한다면, 판결 집행은 옛적으로 늘계신이의 사려 깊은 분별력에 따라 연기되지 않으면 안 된다. 그리고 옛적으로 늘계신이는 행악자 속에 있는 모든 도덕적 가치들과 모든 영적 실체들, 둘 모두가 모든 관계된 옹호자와 그리고 가능한 동조자 안에서 절멸될 때까지, 어떤 존재든지 멸절시키기를 거부한다.
But if this universe rebel against the reality of truth and goodness refuses to approve the verdict, and if the guilty one knows in his heart the justice of his condemnation but refuses to make such confession, then must the execution of sentence be delayed in accordance with the discretion of the Ancients of Days. And the Ancients of Days refuse to annihilate any being until all moral values and all spiritual realities are extinct, both in the evildoer and in all related supporters and possible sympathizers.



4. 자비의 시간 지연
4. THE MERCY TIME LAG

54:4.1
놀라시아덱이라는 별자리에서 설명하기에 다소 어려운 또 하나의 문제는, 체포되고 억류되며 재판을 받기 전까지 루시퍼와 사탄 그리고 몰락한 영주들이 해독을 끼치도록 허용되었던 이유들에 관한 것이다.
Another problem somewhat difficult of explanation in the constellation of Norlatiadek pertains to the reasons for permitting Lucifer, Satan, and the fallen princes to work mischief so long before being apprehended, interned, and adjudicated.

54:4.2
자녀들을 낳고 키운 부모들은 창조주-아버지인 미가엘이 자기 자신의 아들들을 책망하고 파괴시키는 일을 왜 주저하는지를 더 잘 납득할 것이다. 방탕한 아들에 대한 예수의 이야기는 사랑하는 아버지가 잘못한 자녀의 회개를 얼마나 오랫동안 기다릴 수 있는지를 잘 설명해 준다.
Parents, those who have borne and reared children, are better able to understand why Michael, a Creator-father, might be slow to condemn and destroy his own Sons. Jesus' story of the prodigal son well illustrates how a loving father can long wait for the repentance of an erring child.

54:4.3
악을-행하는 창조체가 그릇된 일을 행하기─죄를 짓기─를 실제적으로 선택할 수 있다는 바로 그 사실이 자유-의지성의 사실을 입증하며 만일 연장된 자비가 뉘우침과 회복을 이끌어낸다면 공의(公義) 실행에 있어서 그 어떤 지연도 충분하게 정당화한다.
The very fact that an evil-doing creature can actually choose to do wrong -- commit sin -- establishes the fact of free-willness and fully justifies any length delay in the execution of justice provided the extended mercy might conduce to repentance and rehabilitation.

54:4.4
루시퍼가 추구하였던 대부분의 해방들을 그는 이미 소유하고 있었으며; 다른 것들은 그가 앞으로 받게 되어 있었다. 이들 모든 고귀한 자질은 성급함에 길을 내어주고 그리고 자신이 지금 추구하는 것을 소유하려는 그리고 그것을 우주의 우주를 이루고 있는 모든 다른 존재의 권리와 해방을 존중해야 하는 책무를 공개적으로 무시하면서 소유하려는 욕망에 굴복함으로서 잃게 되었다. 윤리적 책무들은 태생적이고, 신성하고 그리고 우주적인 것이다.
Most of the liberties which Lucifer sought he already had; others he was to receive in the future. All these precious endowments were lost by giving way to impatience and yielding to a desire to possess what one craves now and to possess it in defiance of all obligation to respect the rights and liberties of all other beings composing the universe of universes. Ethical obligations are innate, divine, and universal.

54:4.5
최극 통치자들이 루시퍼 반역의 지도자들을 즉각적으로 괴멸하거나 억류시키지 않는 많은 이유들을 우리는 알고 있다. 우리에게 알려지지 않은 또 다른 그리고 아마 더 나은 이유들이 틀림없이 있을 것이다. 공의(公義)의 실행을 유예시키는 자비의 특징은 직접적으로 네바돈의 미가엘에 의해 연장되었다. 실수를 범하는 자신의 아들들에 대한 이 창조주-아버지의 사랑을 제외하고, 초우주의 최극 공의(公義)가 활동해 왔다. 만일 루시퍼 반란과 같은 그러한 사건이 미가엘이 유란시아에서 육신화된 동안 네바돈에서 발생하였다면, 그러한 악의 선동자들은 즉시적으로 그리고 절대적으로 절멸(絶滅)되었을 것이다.
There 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.

54:4.6
최극 공의(公義)는 신성한 자비에 의해 억제되지 않을 때 즉시 활동할 수 있다. 그러나 시간과 공간의 자녀들에 대한 자비의 사명활동이 이러한 시간 지연, 씨를 뿌리는 시간과 거두는 시간 사이에 있는 이 구원의 간격을 항상 제공한다. 만약에 뿌려지는 씨가 선하면, 이 간격은 성격의 시험과 개량을 위해 제공되며; 만일 뿌려지는 씨가 악하면, 이 자비로운 연기는 회개와 교정을 위한 시간을 제공한다. 행악자들에 대한 판결과 집행에서의 이 시간 지연은 일곱 초우주들의 자비 사명활동 속에 선천적으로 들어 있다. 자비에 의한 이 공의(公義)의 억제는 하느님이 사랑이라는 것과, 그러한 사랑의 하느님이 우주들을 지배하고 자신의 모든 창조체들에 대한 숙명과 심판을 자비 안에서 조정하고 있음을 입증한다.
Supreme justice can act instantly when not restrained by divine mercy. But the ministry of mercy to the children of time and space always provides for this time lag, this saving interval between seedtime and harvest. If the seed sowing is good, this interval provides for the testing and upbuilding of character; if the seed sowing is evil, this merciful delay provides time for repentance and rectification. This time delay in the adjudication and execution of evildoers is inherent in the mercy ministry of the seven superuniverses. This restraint of justice by mercy proves that God is love, and that such a God of love dominates the universes and in mercy controls the fate and judgment of all his creatures.

54:4.7
시간의 자비로운 연기는 창조주들의 자유로운 의지의 명령에 의해서이다. 죄로 물든 반역들을 처리하는 데 있어서의 이러한 인내의 기법으로부터 우주 안에 선(善)이 파생된다. 악을 꾀하고 실행하는 자에게는 악으로부터 선이 발생될 수 없음이 너무나 당연한 것과 같이, 하느님을 알고 그의 뜻을 실천하기를 사랑하며 그의 영원한 계획과 신성한 목적에 따라 낙원천국을 향해 상승하는 모든 존재들에게는 모든 것이(잠재적인 악과 명백한 악을 포함하여) 협력하여 선을 이룬다는 것도 똑같이 참이다.
The mercy delays of time are by the mandate of the free will of the Creators. There is good to be derived in the universe from this technique of patience in dealing with sinful rebels. While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose.

54:4.8
그러나 이 자비의 지연은 무한한 것이 아니다. 루시퍼 반란을 판결하는 데 있어서의 긴 지연(유란시아에서 계산되는 시간으로)에도 불구하고, 이 계시가 이루어지는 동안, 가브리엘 대 루시퍼의 계류 중인 사건에 대한 첫 번째 청문회가 유버사에서 열렸고, 이 후로는 사탄이 루시퍼와 함께 감옥 세계에 갇힐 것을 지시하는 옛적으로 늘계신이의 명령이 떨어졌음을 우리는 기록할 수 있다. 이것은 사타니아의 몰락한 세계들 중 어디에 더 방문할 수 있는 사탄의 능력에 종지부를 찍었다. 자비가 지배하는 우주에 있어서의 재판은 속도는 느릴 수 있지만, 분명하게 있다.
But 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.



5. 지연의 지혜
5. THE WISDOM OF DELAY

54:5.1
루시퍼와 그의 공모자들이 보다 빨리 억류되거나 판결을 왜 받지 않았는지 나에게 알려진 많은 이유들 중에서, 나는 다음과 같이 이야기하도록 허락을 받았다:
Of the many reasons known to me as to why Lucifer and his confederates were not sooner interned or adjudicated, I am permitted to recite the following:

54:5.2
1. 자비는 그의 악한 생각들과 죄로 물든 행위들에 관해 고의적이고 충분히 선택된 태도를 형성하기에 충분한 시간을 모든 그릇된 일을 행한 자들이 가질 것을 요구한다.
1. Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude regarding his evil thoughts and sinful acts.

54:5.3
2. 최극 공의(公義)는 아버지의 사랑에 의해 지배를 받으며; 그러므로 자비가 구원할 수 있는 것을 공의(公義))가 파괴하지 못할 것이다. 구원을 받아들일 수 있는 시간은 모든 행악자들에게 허락되어 있다.
2. Supreme justice is dominated by a Father's love; therefore will justice never destroy that which mercy can save. Time to accept salvation is vouchsafed every evildoer.

54:5.4
3. 어떤 애정 어린 아버지도 그의 가족 중 실수를 범하는 일원에게 방문하여 벌을 줄만큼 서두르는 법이 없다. 인내는 시간과 독립하여 기능할 수 없는 것이다.
3. No affectionate father is ever precipitate in visiting punishment upon an erring member of his family. Patience cannot function independently of time.

54:5.5
4. 그릇된 행동이 한 가정에게 항상 해로운 반면, 지혜와 사랑은 죄인이 자신의 방법의 실수를 보고 구원을 받아들이도록 하는 애정 어린 아버지에 의해 시간이 수여되는 동안 정직한 자녀들이 실수를 범하는 형제를 참아내도록 훈계한다.
4. While wrongdoing is always deleterious to a family, wisdom and love admonish the upright children to bear with an erring brother during the time granted by the affectionate father in which the sinner may see the error of his way and embrace salvation.

54:5.6
5. 루시퍼를 향한 미가엘의 태도와는 상관없이, 그가 루시퍼의 창조주-아버지임에도 불구하고, 그가 그 당시에 자신의 증여 생애를 완벽하게 끝내지 않았고 그리하여 네바돈의 분별불가적 주권을 달성하지 않았기 때문에 배신자 체계주권자에 대해 즉석 재판을 행하는 것이 창조주 아들의 권한에 속하지 않았다.
5. Regardless of Michael's attitude toward Lucifer, notwithstanding his being Lucifer's Creator-father, it was not in the province of the Creator Son to exercise summary jurisdiction over the apostate System Sovereign because he had not then completed his bestowal career, thereby attaining unqualified sovereignty of Nebadon.

54:5.7
6. 옛적으로 늘계신이는 이 반역들을 즉각적으로 절멸(絶滅)시킬 수 있었지만, 그들은 충분한 의견 청취 없이는 그릇된 일을 행한 자들을 거의 처형하지 않는다. 이 경우에 그들은 미가엘 결정들을 뒤엎는 것을 거절하였다.
6. The Ancients of Days could have immediately annihilated these rebels, but they seldom execute wrongdoers without a full hearing. In this instance they refused to overrule the Michael decisions.

54:5.8
7. 임마누엘이 미가엘에게 반역자들로부터 초연하게 남아있고 반란으로 하여금 자아-말소의 자연적인 과정을 따르도록 허용하라고 조언한 것이 분명하다. 그리고 결합으로 늘계신이의 지혜는 낙원천국 삼위일체의 결합된 지혜의 시간 반영이다.
7. 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.

54:5.9
8. 에덴시아에 있는 충심으로 늘계신이는 별자리 아버지들에게 반역자들로 하여금 놀라시아덱의 모든 현재 그리고 미래 시민들─모든 필사자, 모론시아, 또는 영 창조체─의 가슴속에서 이 행악자들에 대한 모든 동정심이 곧 뿌리째 뽑히게 되는 끝날 까지 자유롭게 진행하도록 허용하라고 충고하였다.
8. 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.

54:5.10
9. 예루셈에서는 오르본톤의 최극 집행자의 개인적 대표자가 가브리엘에게 조언하여, 루시퍼 해방 선언에 포함된 그 문제들에 있어서 신중한 선택을 하도록 모든 살아있는 창조체에게 충분한 기회를 제공하게 하였다. 반역의 문제들이 부풀어 오르자, 가브리엘의 낙원천국 비상 충고자는, 그러한 충만하고 자유로운 기회가 모든 놀라시아덱 창조체들에게 제공되지 않는다면, 가능성 있는 그러한 모든 마음이 내키지 않거나 의심에 싸인 창조체들이 전체 별자리에 대항하여 자아-방어 속에서 연장될 것임을 설명하였다. 놀라시아덱의 존재들에게 상승의 낙원천국 문들을 계속 열어놓기 위하여, 반역의 충분한 발전에 대비하는 것이 필요하였고, 그것과 함께 모든 방법에 있어서 모든 존재들의 역할을 완벽하게 결정하도록 보장하는 것이 필요하였다.
9. 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.

54:5.11
10. 구원자별의 신성한 사명활동자는 그녀의 세 번째 별도 선언으로서 하나의 명령을 내렸는데, 어떤 것도 절반의 치료가 이루어지거나, 비겁하게 은폐되거나, 아니면 반역자들 그리고 반역의 무시무시한 모습을 감출 수 없다고 지시하였다. 천사 무리는 악과 죄의 전염병에 대한 완전하고도 최종적인 치료를 이룩하는 가장 빠른 기법으로써 죄-표현을 위한 무제한적 기회와 충분한 폭로를 위해 일하도록 지시를 받았다.
10. 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.

54:5.12
11. 막강한 사자들을 구성하는 필사자-이후(以後)의 비상 협의회, 비슷한 상황들에서 개인적 체험을 이미 가졌던 영화롭게 된 필사자들이, 그들의 동료들과 함께, 예루셈에서 조직되었다. 그들은 만일 억압이라는 독단적 또는 즉결 방법들이 시도된다면 많은 존재들이 빗나가게 될 것임을 적어도 세 번 가브리엘에게 충고하였다. 조언자들로 구성된 전체 유버사 무리단은, 그 결과들을 가져오기까지 백만 년이 소요된다 하더라도 그것의 충만하고도 자연적인 과정을 택하도록 반역자들을 허용할 것을 가브리엘에게 충고하는 일에 동의하였다.
11. 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.

54:5.13
12. 시간은, 심지어 시간의 한 우주 안에서도, 상대적이다: 만약에 평균적인 기간의 삶을 산 유란시아 필사자가 전 세계적 대혼란을 재촉한 죄를 범하였다면, 그리고 만일 그가 죄를 저지른 지 이틀이나 또는 삼일 안에 체포하고 재판하고 처형하였다면, 그것이 너희들에게 긴 시간으로 보이겠는가? 그렇지만 루시퍼의 판결이 유란시아 햇수로 10만년 동안 완결되지 못했고, 만약 지금 그것이 시작된다 해도, 바로 그러한 기간과 비슷하게 비교될 수 있을 것이다. 소송이 계류 중에 있는 유버사의 관점에서 보면 그 상대적 시간 상실은 루시퍼의 범죄가 그것의 범행에 2.5초 안에 시도되었다고 말함으로써 표시될 수 있다. 낙원천국의 관점에서 보면 판결은 법령과 동시적이다.
12. Time, even in a universe of time, is relative: If a Urantia mortal of average length of life should commit a crime which precipitated world-wide pandemonium, and if he were apprehended, tried, and executed within two or three days of the commission of the crime, would it seem a long time to you? And yet that would be nearer a comparison with the length of Lucifer's life even if his adjudication, now begun, should not be completed for a hundred thousand Urantia years. The relative lapse of time from the viewpoint of Uversa, where the litigation is pending, could be indicated by saying that the crime of Lucifer was being brought to trial within two and a half seconds of its commission. From the Paradise viewpoint the adjudication is simultaneous with the enactment.

54:5.14
너희에게 부분적으로 이해될 수 있는 루시퍼 반란을 독단적으로 중지시키지 않은 똑같은 숫자의 이유들이 있지만, 나는 그것을 설명하도록 허락 받지 못했다. 나는 악이 자신의 도덕적 파산과 영적 소멸의 충분한 과정을 거치도록 허용한 48개의 이유들을 우리가 유버사에서 가르친다는 것을 너희에게 알릴 수 있다. 나는 나에게 알려지지 않은 많은 추가적 이유들이 똑같이 있으리라고 믿는다.
There are an equal number of reasons for not arbitrarily stopping the Lucifer rebellion which would be partially comprehensible to you, but which I am not permitted to narrate. I may inform you that on Uversa we teach forty-eight reasons for permitting evil to run the full course of its own moral bankruptcy and spiritual extinction. I doubt not that there are just as many additional reasons not known to me.



6. 사랑의 승리
6. THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE

54:6.1
어떤 어려움들이 있든지, 진화적 필사자들은 루시퍼 반역을 납득하려고 시도하게 되는데, 반역들을 취급하는 기법이 신성한 사랑을 입증한다는 것이 모든 사려 깊은 사색가에게 분명하게 될 것이다. 반역자들에게 확장된 사랑의 자비가 많은 무고한 존재들을 시험과 환란 속에 개입시키는 것처럼 보이지만, 압류된 이 모든 개인성들은 모든-지혜이신 심판관들로부터 자비뿐만 아니라 공의(公義) 속에서 그들의 운명들을 판결하도록 안전을 보장받게 될 것이다.
Whatever the difficulties evolutionary mortals may encounter in their efforts to understand the Lucifer rebellion, it should be clear to all reflective thinkers that the technique of dealing with the rebels is a vindication of divine love. The loving mercy extended to the rebels does seem to have involved many innocent beings in trials and tribulations, but all these distraught personalities may securely depend upon the all-wise Judges to adjudicate their destinies in mercy as well as justice.

54:6.2
지능존재들에 대한 그들의 모든 관계에 있어서, 창조주 아들과 그의 낙원천국 아버지 둘 모두 사랑에 지배당한다. 만약에 아버지로서의 하느님이 인간성에 대한 신성의 모든 관계들에 있어서 신(神) 현시의 다른 모든 위상들보다 앞선다는 것을 기억하지 않는다면, 반역자들과 반역─죄와 죄인들─을 향한 우주 통치자들의 태도의 여러 위상들을 이해하는 것은 불가능하다. 또한 낙원천국 창조주 아들들이 모두 자비에 의해 동기가 유발된다는 사실도 상기되어야만 할 것이다.
In all their dealings with intelligent beings, both the Creator Son and his Paradise Father are love dominated. It is impossible to comprehend many phases of the attitude of the universe rulers toward rebels and rebellion -- sin and sinners -- unless it be remembered that God as a Father takes precedence over all other phases of Deity manifestation in all the dealings of divinity with humanity. It should also be recalled that the Paradise Creator Sons are all mercy motivated.

54:6.3
큰 가족의 자애로운 아버지가 심각한 그릇된 행위를 저지른 자기 자녀들 중 하나에게 자비를 베푼다면, 품행이 옳지 못한 이 자식에게 자비를 확장시키기 위해 행실이 바른 다른 모든 자녀들에 대해서도 일시적으로 어려운 일을 시키게 될 것이 자명하다. 그러한 결국 생겨나는 것들은 필연적이며; 그러한 모험은 사랑스러운 부모를 갖게 되는 그리고 가족 집단의 어떤 구성원이 되는 실체 상황과 분리될 수 없다. 한 가족의 각 구성원은 다른 모든 구성원의 의로운 행위성에 의해 유익을 얻으며; 마찬가지로 각 구성원은 다른 모든 구성원의 잘못된 행위성으로 인한 직접적 시간-영향들을 겪는다. 가족들, 집단들, 종족들, 세계들, 체계들, 별자리들, 그리고 우주들은 개별성을 소유하는 연합의 관계들이며; 그러므로 크든지 작든지 그러한 모든 집단의 각 구성원은 관계되는 집단의 다른 모든 구성원의 옳은 행위와 그릇된 행위의 영향을 받는다.
If an affectionate father of a large family chooses to show mercy to one of his children guilty of grievous wrongdoing, it may well be that the extension of mercy to this misbehaving child will work a temporary hardship upon all the other and well-behaved children. Such eventualities are inevitable; such a risk is inseparable from the reality situation of having a loving parent and of being a member of a family group. Each member of a family profits by the righteous conduct of every other member; likewise must each member suffer the immediate time-consequences of the misconduct of every other member. Families, groups, nations, races, worlds, systems, constellations, and universes are relationships of association which possess individuality; and therefore does every member of any such group, large or small, reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of the rightdoing and the wrongdoing of all other members of the group concerned.

54:6.4
그러나 한 가지를 분명하게 하지 않으면 안 되는데: 만일 너희가 너희 가족, 어떤 동료 시민 또는 동료 필사자, 심지어 체계 또는 다른 어느 곳에서의 반란의 어떤 구성원의 죄로 말미암는 악한 영향을 받게 되었다면─너희가 너희 동료들, 친구들, 또는 선배들의 그릇된 행동 때문에 무엇을 견디어내야 하는지 상관없이─그러한 시련들이 과도기 고통이라는 영원한 확신을 가지고 너희는 안심해도 좋다. 집단 안에서의 비행이 이들 형제우애에 미치는 결과 중, 그 어떤 것도, 결코 너희의 영원한 가능성을 위태롭게 하거나, 또는 낙원천국 상승과 하느님 달성에서의 너희의 신성한 권한을 아무리 작은 것이라 해도 빼앗을 수 없다.
But one thing should be made clear: If you are made to suffer the evil consequences of the sin of some member of your family, some fellow citizen or fellow mortal, even rebellion in the system or elsewhere -- no matter what you may have to endure because of the wrongdoing of your associates, fellows, or superiors -- you may rest secure in the eternal assurance that such tribulations are transient afflictions. None of these fraternal consequences of misbehavior in the group can ever jeopardize your eternal prospects or in the least degree deprive you of your divine right of Paradise ascension and God attainment.

54:6.5
그리고 반역이라는 죄에 변함없이 동반하는 이들 시련들, 지연들 그리고 실망에는 보상이 있다. 이름을 붙일 수 있는 루시퍼 반역에 대한 가치 있는 많은 반향들 중에서, 나는 오직 필사자 상승자들의 향상된 생애에만 주의를 집중할 것인데, 그들은 죄의 궤변에 대항함으로써 장차 막강한 사자들, 나와 같은 계층에서의 동료가 되는 줄에 자리를 차지했다. 악의 사건을 견디었던 모든 존재는, 그로써 자신의 행정적 지위를 즉각적으로 향상시켰으며 자신의 영적 가치를 강화시켰다.
And there is compensation for these trials, delays, and disappointments which invariably accompany the sin of rebellion. Of the many valuable repercussions of the Lucifer rebellion which might be named, I will only call attention to the enhanced careers of those mortal ascenders, the Jerusem citizens, who, by withstanding the sophistries of sin, placed themselves in line for becoming future Mighty Messengers, fellows of my own order. Every being who stood the test of that evil episode thereby immediately advanced his administrative status and enhanced his spiritual worth.

54:6.6
처음에는 루시퍼 격변이 체계에 대하여 그리고 우주에 대하여 완화되지 못할 재난이 될 것처럼 보였다. 점진적으로 이익들이 발생되기 시작하였다. 체계 시간으로 2만 5천년(유란시아 시간으로 2만년)이 지나면서, 멜기세덱들이 루시퍼의 어리석은 행동으로부터 나오는 선한 것들이 초래된 악과 맞먹을 정도가 되었음을 가르치기 시작하였다. 전체의 악은 그때까지 거의 정지된 상태에 있었는데, 특정의 고립된 세계들에서만 증가되었고, 반면에 우주와 초우주에 두루 그리고 심지어는 하보나에 이르기까지 유익한 반향들이 계속 증가되고 확장되었다. 멜기세덱들은 이제 사타니아 반역으로부터 발생되는 선한 것들이 전체 악의 합계보다 수천 배에 달한다고 가르친다.
At first the Lucifer upheaval appeared to be an unmitigated calamity to the system and to the universe. Gradually benefits began to accrue. With the passing of twenty-five thousand years of system time (twenty thousand years of Urantia time), the Melchizedeks began to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer's folly had come to equal the evil incurred. The sum of evil had by that time become almost stationary, continuing to increase only on certain isolated worlds, while the beneficial repercussions continued to multiply and extend out through the universe and superuniverse, even to Havona. The Melchizedeks now teach that the good resulting from the Satania rebellion is more than a thousand times the sum of all the evil.

54:6.7
그러나 그릇된 행위의 그러한 색다르고도 유익한 추수는 오직, 에덴시아에 있는 별자리 아버지들로부터 낙원천국에 계신 우주 아버지에 이르기까지. 루시퍼의 위에 계신 모든 분 전체의 현명하고 신성하며 자비로운 태도에 의해서만 생길 수 있었다. 시간의 흐름은 루시퍼의 어리석은 행동으로부터 파생될 수 있는 필연적인 선을 증진시켜 왔으며; 유죄 선고를 받을 악이 비교적 짧은 시간 안에 제법 충분히 발전되었기 때문에, 모든-지혜이신 멀리 내다보는 우주 통치자들이 점점 더 유익한 결과를 초래할 그 시간을 연장시키는 것을 확신하게 될 것이 분명하다. 사타니아 반역자들을 체포하여 선고를 내리는 것을 지연시키는 추가적인 많은 이유들은 차치하고, 이 한 가지 소득은 왜 이 죄인들이 더 빨리 억류되지 않았는지, 그리고 왜 그들이 선고를 받고 궤멸되지 않았는지를 설명하기에 충분하였을 것이다.
But such an extraordinary and beneficent harvest of wrongdoing could only be brought about by the wise, divine, and merciful attitude of all of Lucifer's superiors, extending from the Constellation Fathers on Edentia to the Universal Father on Paradise. The passing of time has enhanced the consequential good to be derived from the Lucifer folly; and since the evil to be penalized was quite fully developed within a comparatively short time, it is apparent that the all-wise and farseeing universe rulers would be certain to extend the time in which to reap increasingly beneficial results. Regardless of the many additional reasons for delaying the apprehension and adjudication of the Satania rebels, this one gain would have been enough to explain why these sinners were not sooner interned, and why they have not been adjudicated and destroyed.

54:6.8
멀리 보지 못하고 시간에 매여 있는 필사자 지능체들은 우주 사건들에 대해 선견지명이 있는, 모든-지혜이신 행정자들의 시간 지연을 함부로 판단해서는 안 된다.
Shortsighted and time-bound mortal minds should be slow to criticize the time delays of the farseeing and all-wise administrators of universe affairs.

54:6.9
이들 문제에 관한 인간 사고(思考)의 한 가지 실수는 만일 죄가 그들의 세계를 저주하지 않았다면 진화하는 행성에 있는 모든 진화적 필사자들이 낙원천국 생애에 들어가기를 선택하였을 것이라는 관념에 있다. 생존을 거부하는 능력은 루시퍼 반역의 시절에서부터 시작된 것이 아니다. 필사자 사람은 낙원천국 생애에 대한 자유의지 선택의 자질을 항상 소유해 왔다.
One error of human thinking respecting these problems consists in the idea that all evolutionary mortals on an evolving planet would choose to enter upon the Paradise career if sin had not cursed their world. The ability to decline survival does not date from the times of the Lucifer rebellion. Mortal man has always possessed the endowment of freewill choice regarding the Paradise career.

54:6.10
너희가 생존하는 체험 속에서 상승하면서 그에 따라, 너희는 우주 개념들을 넓히고 의미들과 가치들의 범위를 확장시키게 될 것이다; 그리하여 너희는 루시퍼와 사탄과 같은 그러한 존재들이 왜 반역을 계속 진행하도록 허용되었는지를 더 잘 납득할 수 있을 것이다. 너희는 또한 궁극적 선이 시간-제한 악으로부터 어떻게 발생될 수 있는지(만일 즉각적이 아니라면) 더 잘 깨닫게 될 것이다. 너희가 낙원천국을 달성한 후에, 너희는 뛰어난 철학자들이 우주 조절의 이 난해한 문제들을 토의하고 설명하는 것을 듣게 될 때 정말로 깨달음을 얻고 위안을 얻게 될 것이다. 그러나 그러한 때가 되어도, 나는 너희가 너희 자신의 마음속에 충분한 만족감을 갖게 되리라고는 생각하지 않는다. 적어도 나는 내가 우주 철학의 정상을 그렇게 달성하였을 때에도 그렇지 못하였다. 나는 초우주 안에서 행정적 임무에 배정된 후에야 이 복잡성들에 대해 충분한 이해를 성취하게 되었는데, 그곳에서 나는 실제적인 체험에 의해 조화우주 평형과 영적 철학 안에서 그러한 다방면의 문제들에 대해 이해하기에 충분한 개념적 능력을 획득하였다. 너희가 낙원천국을 향하여 상승할 때, 너희는 우주 행정의 문제를 지닌 듯한 많은 모습들이 오직 증가되는 이 체험적 능력의 성취에 따라 그리고 증진된 영적 통찰력의 달성에 따라 납득될 수 있을 뿐임을 점점 더 배우게 될 것이다.
As you ascend in the survival experience, you will broaden your universe concepts and extend your horizon of meanings and values; and thus will you be able the better to understand why such beings as Lucifer and Satan are permitted to continue in rebellion. You will also better comprehend how ultimate (if not immediate) good can be derived from time-limited evil. After you attain Paradise, you will really be enlightened and comforted when you listen to the superaphic philosophers discuss and explain these profound problems of universe adjustment. But even then, I doubt that you will be fully satisfied in your own minds. At least I was not even when I had thus attained the acme of universe philosophy. I did not achieve a full comprehension of these complexities until after I had been assigned to administrative duties in the superuniverse, where by actual experience I have acquired conceptual capacity adequate for the comprehension of such many-sided problems in cosmic equity and spiritual philosophy. As you ascend Paradiseward, you will increasingly learn that many problematic features of universe administration can only be comprehended subsequent to the acquirement of increased experiential capacity and to the achievement of enhanced spiritual insight. Cosmic wisdom is essential to the understanding of cosmic situations.

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[현재 오르본톤 초우주 정부에 배정되었고 구원자별의 가브리엘의 요청에 따라 이 문제에서 활동하고 있는 시간 우주들의 첫 번째 체계 반역에서 체험적으로 생존된 막강한 사자에 의해 제시되었음]
Presented by a Mighty Messenger of experiential survival in the first system rebellion in the universes of time now attached to the superuniverse government of Orvonton and acting in this matter by request of Gabriel of Salvington.
 
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Paper 54, Problems of the Lucifer Rebellion
By Mighty Messenger
Jan 15, 2008, 19:06



PAPER 54 - PROBLEMS OF THE LUCIFER REBELLION

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Evolutionary man finds it difficult fully to comprehend the significance and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error; that the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the kingdom of God as contrasted with its continuous rejection, which leads to the domains of iniquity.
The Gods neither create evil nor permit sin and rebellion. Potential evil is time-existent in a universe embracing differential levels of perfection meanings and values. Sin is potential in all realms where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to choose between good and evil. The very conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potentiality of error. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity.
1. TRUE AND FALSE LIBERTY

Of all the perplexing problems growing out of the Lucifer rebellion, none has occasioned more difficulty than the failure of immature evolutionary mortals to distinguish between true and false liberty.
True liberty is the quest of the ages and the reward of evolutionary progress. False liberty is the subtle deception of the error of time and the evil of space. Enduring liberty is predicated on the reality of justice--intelligence, maturity, fraternity, and equity.
Liberty is a self-destroying technique of cosmic existence when its motivation is unintelligent, unconditioned, and uncontrolled. True liberty is progressively related to reality and is ever regardful of social equity, cosmic fairness, universe fraternity, and divine obligations.
Liberty is suicidal when divorced from material justice, intellectual fairness, social forbearance, moral duty, and spiritual values. Liberty is nonexistent apart from cosmic reality, and all personality reality is proportional to its divinity relationships.
Unbridled self-will and unregulated self-expression equal unmitigated selfishness, the acme of ungodliness. Liberty without the associated and ever-increasing conquest of self is a figment of egoistic mortal imagination. Self-motivated liberty is a conceptual illusion, a cruel deception. License masquerading in the garments of liberty is the forerunner of abject bondage.


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True liberty is the associate of genuine self-respect; false liberty is the consort of self-admiration. True liberty is the fruit of self-control; false liberty, the assumption of self-assertion. Self-control leads to altruistic service; self-admiration tends towards the exploitation of others for the selfish aggrandizement of such a mistaken individual as is willing to sacrifice righteous attainment for the sake of possessing unjust power over his fellow beings.

Even wisdom is divine and safe only when it is cosmic in scope and spiritual in motivation.
There is no error greater than that species of self-deception which leads intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of human fairness cries out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness, and unrighteousness. Only true and genuine liberty is compatible with the reign of love and the ministry of mercy.
How dare the self-willed creature encroach upon the rights of his fellows in the name of personal liberty when the Supreme Rulers of the universe stand back in merciful respect for these prerogatives of will and potentials of personality! No being, in the exercise of his supposed personal liberty, has a right to deprive any other being of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creators and duly respected by all their loyal associates, subordinates, and subjects.
Evolutionary man may have to contend for his material liberties with tyrants and oppressors on a world of sin and iniquity or during the early times of a primitive evolving sphere, but not so on the morontia worlds or on the spirit spheres. War is the heritage of early evolutionary man, but on worlds of normal advancing civilization physical combat as a technique of adjusting racial misunderstandings has long since fallen into disrepute.
2. THE THEFT OF LIBERTY

With the Son and in the Spirit did God project eternal Havona, and ever since has there obtained the eternal pattern of co-ordinate participation in creation--sharing. This pattern of sharing is the master design for every one of the Sons and Daughters of God who go out into space to engage in the attempt to duplicate in time the central universe of eternal perfection.
Every creature of every evolving universe who aspires to do the Father's will is destined to become the partner of the time-space Creators in this magnificent adventure of experiential perfection attainment. Were this not true, the Father would have hardly endowed such creatures with creative free will, neither would he indwell them, actually go into partnership with them by means of his own spirit.
Lucifer's folly was the attempt to do the nondoable, to short-circuit time in an experiential universe. Lucifer's crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in Satania, the unrecognized abridgment of the creature's personal participation--freewill participation--in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively. In so doing this onetime Sovereign of your system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly athwart the eternal purpose of God's will as it


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is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures. The Lucifer rebellion thus threatened the maximum possible infringement of the freewill choice of the ascenders and servers of the system of Satania--a threat forevermore to deprive every one of these beings of the thrilling experience of contributing something personal and unique to the slowly erecting monument to experiential wisdom which will sometime exist as the perfected system of Satania. Thus does the Lucifer manifesto, masquerading in the habiliments of liberty, stand forth in the clear light of reason as a monumental threat to consummate the theft of personal liberty and to do it on a scale that has been approached only twice in all the history of Nebadon.

In short, what God had given men and angels Lucifer would have taken away from them, that is, the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds.
No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.
3. THE TIME LAG OF JUSTICE

The moral will creatures of the evolutionary worlds are always bothered with the unthinking question as to why the all-wise Creators permit evil and sin. They fail to comprehend that both are inevitable if the creature is to be truly free. The free will of evolving man or exquisite angel is not a mere philosophic concept, a symbolic ideal. Man's ability to choose good or evil is a universe reality. This liberty to choose for oneself is an endowment of the Supreme Rulers, and they will not permit any being or group of beings to deprive a single personality in the wide universe of this divinely bestowed liberty--not even to satisfy such misguided and ignorant beings in the enjoyment of this misnamed personal liberty.
Although conscious and wholehearted identification with evil (sin) is the equivalent of nonexistence (annihilation), there must always intervene between the time of such personal identification with sin and the execution of the penalty--the automatic result of such a willful embrace of evil--a period of time of sufficient length to allow for such an adjudication of such an individual's universe status as will prove entirely satisfactory to all related universe personalities, and which will be so fair and just as to win the approval of the sinner himself.
But if this universe rebel against the reality of truth and goodness refuses to approve the verdict, and if the guilty one knows in his heart the justice of his condemnation but refuses to make such confession, then must the execution of sentence be delayed in accordance with the discretion of the Ancients of Days. And the Ancients of Days refuse to annihilate any being until all moral values and all spiritual realities are extinct, both in the evildoer and in all related supporters and possible sympathizers.
4. THE MERCY TIME LAG

Another problem somewhat difficult of explanation in the constellation of Norlatiadek pertains to the reasons for permitting Lucifer, Satan, and the fallen


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princes to work mischief so long before being apprehended, interned, and adjudicated.

Parents, those who have borne and reared children, are better able to understand why Michael, a Creator-father, might be slow to condemn and destroy his own Sons. Jesus' story of the prodigal son well illustrates how a loving father can long wait for the repentance of an erring child.
The very fact that an evil-doing creature can actually choose to do wrong--commit sin--establishes the fact of free-willness and fully justifies any length delay in the execution of justice provided the extended mercy might conduce to repentance and rehabilitation.
Most of the liberties which Lucifer sought he already had; others he was to receive in the future. All these precious endowments were lost by giving way to impatience and yielding to a desire to possess what one craves now and to possess it in defiance of all obligation to respect the rights and liberties of all other beings composing the universe of universes. Ethical obligations are innate, divine, and universal.
There 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.
Supreme justice can act instantly when not restrained by divine mercy. But the ministry of mercy to the children of time and space always provides for this time lag, this saving interval between seedtime and harvest. If the seed sowing is good, this interval provides for the testing and upbuilding of character; if the seed sowing is evil, this merciful delay provides time for repentance and rectification. This time delay in the adjudication and execution of evildoers is inherent in the mercy ministry of the seven superuniverses. This restraint of justice by mercy proves that God is love, and that such a God of love dominates the universes and in mercy controls the fate and judgment of all his creatures.
The mercy delays of time are by the mandate of the free will of the Creators. There is good to be derived in the universe from this technique of patience in dealing with sinful rebels. While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose.
But 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.


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5. THE WISDOM OF DELAY


Of the many reasons known to me as to why Lucifer and his confederates were not sooner interned or adjudicated, I am permitted to recite the following:
1. Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude regarding his evil thoughts and sinful acts.
2. Supreme justice is dominated by a Father's love; therefore will justice never destroy that which mercy can save. Time to accept salvation is vouchsafed every evildoer.
3. No affectionate father is ever precipitate in visiting punishment upon an erring member of his family. Patience cannot function independently of time.
4. While wrongdoing is always deleterious to a family, wisdom and love admonish the upright children to bear with an erring brother during the time granted by the affectionate father in which the sinner may see the error of his way and embrace salvation.
5. Regardless of Michael's attitude toward Lucifer, notwithstanding his being Lucifer's Creator-father, it was not in the province of the Creator Son to exercise summary jurisdiction over the apostate System Sovereign because he had not then completed his bestowal career, thereby attaining unqualified sovereignty of Nebadon.
6. The Ancients of Days could have immediately annihilated these rebels, but they seldom execute wrongdoers without a full hearing. In this instance they refused to overrule the Michael decisions.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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


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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.

11. 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.
12. Time, even in a universe of time, is relative: If a Urantia mortal of average length of life should commit a crime which precipitated world-wide pandemonium, and if he were apprehended, tried, and executed within two or three days of the commission of the crime, would it seem a long time to you? And yet that would be nearer a comparison with the length of Lucifer's life even if his adjudication, now begun, should not be completed for a hundred thousand Urantia years. The relative lapse of time from the viewpoint of Uversa, where the litigation is pending, could be indicated by saying that the crime of Lucifer was being brought to trial within two and a half seconds of its commission. From the Paradise viewpoint the adjudication is simultaneous with the enactment.
There are an equal number of reasons for not arbitrarily stopping the Lucifer rebellion which would be partially comprehensible to you, but which I am not permitted to narrate. I may inform you that on Uversa we teach forty-eight reasons for permitting evil to run the full course of its own moral bankruptcy and spiritual extinction. I doubt not that there are just as many additional reasons not known to me.
6. THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE

Whatever the difficulties evolutionary mortals may encounter in their efforts to understand the Lucifer rebellion, it should be clear to all reflective thinkers that the technique of dealing with the rebels is a vindication of divine love. The loving mercy extended to the rebels does seem to have involved many innocent beings in trials and tribulations, but all these distraught personalities may securely depend upon the all-wise Judges to adjudicate their destinies in mercy as well as justice.
In all their dealings with intelligent beings, both the Creator Son and his Paradise Father are love dominated. It is impossible to comprehend many phases of the attitude of the universe rulers toward rebels and rebellion--sin and sinners--unless it be remembered that God as a Father takes precedence over all other phases of Deity manifestation in all the dealings of divinity with humanity. It should also be recalled that the Paradise Creator Sons are all mercy motivated.
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other and well-behaved children. Such eventualities are inevitable; such a risk is inseparable from the reality situation of having a loving parent and of being a member of a family group. Each member of a family profits by the righteous conduct of every other member; likewise must each member suffer the immediate time-consequences of the misconduct of every other member. Families, groups, nations, races, worlds, systems, constellations, and universes are relationships of association which possess individuality; and therefore does every member of any such group, large or small, reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of the rightdoing and the wrongdoing of all other members of the group concerned.

But one thing should be made clear: If you are made to suffer the evil consequences of the sin of some member of your family, some fellow citizen or fellow mortal, even rebellion in the system or elsewhere--no matter what you may have to endure because of the wrongdoing of your associates, fellows, or superiors--you may rest secure in the eternal assurance that such tribulations are transient afflictions. None of these fraternal consequences of misbehavior in the group can ever jeopardize your eternal prospects or in the least degree deprive you of your divine right of Paradise ascension and God attainment.
And there is compensation for these trials, delays, and disappointments which invariably accompany the sin of rebellion. Of the many valuable repercussions of the Lucifer rebellion which might be named, I will only call attention to the enhanced careers of those mortal ascenders, the Jerusem citizens, who, by withstanding the sophistries of sin, placed themselves in line for becoming future Mighty Messengers, fellows of my own order. Every being who stood the test of that evil episode thereby immediately advanced his administrative status and enhanced his spiritual worth.
At first the Lucifer upheaval appeared to be an unmitigated calamity to the system and to the universe. Gradually benefits began to accrue. With the passing of twenty-five thousand years of system time (twenty thousand years of Urantia time), the Melchizedeks began to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer's folly had come to equal the evil incurred. The sum of evil had by that time become almost stationary, continuing to increase only on certain isolated worlds, while the beneficial repercussions continued to multiply and extend out through the universe and superuniverse, even to Havona. The Melchizedeks now teach that the good resulting from the Satania rebellion is more than a thousand times the sum of all the evil.
But such an extraordinary and beneficent harvest of wrongdoing could only be brought about by the wise, divine, and merciful attitude of all of Lucifer's superiors, extending from the Constellation Fathers on Edentia to the Universal Father on Paradise. The passing of time has enhanced the consequential good to be derived from the Lucifer folly; and since the evil to be penalized was quite fully developed within a comparatively short time, it is apparent that the all-wise and farseeing universe rulers would be certain to extend the time in which to reap increasingly beneficial results. Regardless of the many additional reasons for delaying the apprehension and adjudication of the Satania rebels, this one gain would have been enough to explain why these sinners were not sooner interned, and why they have not been adjudicated and destroyed.
Shortsighted and time-bound mortal minds should be slow to criticize the time delays of the farseeing and all-wise administrators of universe affairs.


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One error of human thinking respecting these problems consists in the idea that all evolutionary mortals on an evolving planet would choose to enter upon the Paradise career if sin had not cursed their world. The ability to decline survival does not date from the times of the Lucifer rebellion. Mortal man has always possessed the endowment of freewill choice regarding the Paradise career.

As you ascend in the survival experience, you will broaden your universe concepts and extend your horizon of meanings and values; and thus will you be able the better to understand why such beings as Lucifer and Satan are permitted to continue in rebellion. You will also better comprehend how ultimate (if not immediate) good can be derived from time-limited evil. After you attain Paradise, you will really be enlightened and comforted when you listen to the superaphic philosophers discuss and explain these profound problems of universe adjustment. But even then, I doubt that you will be fully satisfied in your own minds. At least I was not even when I had thus attained the acme of universe philosophy. I did not achieve a full comprehension of these complexities until after I had been assigned to administrative duties in the superuniverse, where by actual experience I have acquired conceptual capacity adequate for the comprehension of such many-sided problems in cosmic equity and spiritual philosophy. As you ascend Paradiseward, you will increasingly learn that many problematic features of universe administration can only be comprehended subsequent to the acquirement of increased experiential capacity and to the achievement of enhanced spiritual insight. Cosmic wisdom is essential to the understanding of cosmic situations.
[Presented by a Mighty Messenger of experiential survival in the first system rebellion in the universes of time now attached to the superuniverse government of Orvonton and acting in this matter by request of Gabriel of Salvington.]


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Candace Definitions of some terms in this chapter for those who have not fully read the Urantia Book

Superuniverse, Orvonton: There are 7 huge superuniverses with 100,000 universes in each one. Orvonton is Superuniverse #7, the youngest of the Superuniverses which form over time and the one we belong to.

Paradise, Havona: The central Universe, the original universe, is at the center of all creation. Everything revolves around it. It has 1 billion perfected spheres on which on lives, and studies. The Paradise Isle is the unrevolving, stationary 밺isk? It revolves around nothing. The 1 billion worlds of Havona revolve around it, as does all the superuniverses. It is the goal of all choosing the eternal journey to one day live and study on these spheres, and 뱒it at the right hand of the Father,?when you graduate your course of study. But you don뭪 rest there for eternity, you go on with your learning and continue is service to Creation in a huge variety of ways.

Mighty Messenger: One who has graduated Paradise in a special class of those who are rebellion tested and proved loyal. I have a work in the messages section with Mother Shekhmet, who is one of the Mighty Messengers who wrote some of the papers of the Urantia Book. It뭩 called Mother Shekhmet Speaks, and I believe the piece immediately following that one, has some additional information about which papers she wrote.

System of Satania: Creation is governed and divided into units for governance similar to how a world has countries, with states, counties and cities. The System is the basic unit of governance above a life bearing planet. There are up to 1000 life bearing planets in a system. This has nothing to do with the earth term of 뱒olar system? although even our solar system has spiritual governance also. Sanat Kumara, Esu뭩 father, is solar logos. Satania is the name of the system our planet (Urantia) belongs to.

Lucifer: the one time governor of Satania, who chose to rebel against the divine plan, wishing to separate this system from the rule of the higher universe. He wanted to be God of this region, the highest authority. The reason this interfered with the true liberty, is that he intended to keep all beings associated with his realm, including the Ascending Sons, under his thumb, depriving them of the journey to find the Father, graduation from the Central Universe schools. Moses and other that came here, had to stay and weren뭪 released until Christ Michael came 2000 years ago. Lucifer created a system of bondage, not liberty. He and his cohorts were confined to this planet to this planet to work out their rehabilitation. This is the time of their judgment, in general.

Nebadon: our universe, which is number 611,121 (I think). Nebadon belongs to Orvonton. I have a piece called 밢ne Creation, Many Universes?span> which is currently under Candace뭩 section on religion. Universes 600,001 through 700,000 belong to Orvonton and all are in existence, but many are very young, still in formation.

Ancients of Days: Rulers of the Superuniverses. Each has 3 if I recall correctly. Also, in some literature on this planet, you will find Sanat Kumara also called by this term, as he has been involved for a very long period in the upliftment of earth and this solar system. However, he is not an Ancient of Days from our Superuniverse. He is an ascending Son, and the Ancients of Days, are Descending Sons. See 밪onship with God?for further reading by Candace.

Immanuel, mentioned once above: A older brother of Michael, from the Central Universe, not Sananda Immanuel Esu Kumara.

Candace: Many of you have written me, and others, asking why these dark ones are not immediately annihilated by God, and after reading this you know. Everyone of us has made errors and probably done some intentional sin. The Father gives all his sons, no matter their origin, plenty of time to learn, for it is by this long learning that true wisdom is obtained. If everyone who had become evil we immediately uncreated, there wouldn뭪 be very many of us!

Many of you reading this material may in fact be amongst the 밼allen angels?and other incarcerated on this 뱎rison planet? a world in which you can뭪 get off, until you properly graduate. Many of you have graduated and with honors and will be returning at some point to the realms from whence you came! Aren뭪 you glad for these multiple chances to learn what works and what doesn뭪? That뭩 what it뭩 all about.

And notice the final comments of the Mighty Messenger who wrote this paper. Learning continues always, and wisdom always is greatly enhanced by actual experience. That said, many of the evil ones have lost all of any goodness about them and face their final judgment during these times, for they can뭪 go with the Earth into her Ascension into light and life. They may go to the void, an extreme prison planet, or continue on another planet or realm appropriate to their current level of learning. Many will be annihilated. Times up!

The importance of reading this piece, regards the preparation for mission work, is that you must study this, re study it, because we do have a mistaken idea of liberty on this planet. A good understanding of this will help you plan your missions, and serve fully the Planetary Prince, plus prepare you for any of our joint upcoming pieces on service ideas, and what it means to serve.

You can read the UB online at www.urantia.org and several other sites, but I don뭪 have those bookmarked. I have bolded some important comments in this paper. Also, I may well add additional commentary to this work, and will post a note to that effect when I do.

As an example of unbridled liberty that is not serving, when I opened the forum, a goodly number of people joined. They posted a variety of unserving and unwelcome material, used it for a social chat room, had fun uncreating ghosts, and then the bashing began to get really heavy. This was not my purpose for the forum, and we closed it for a few weeks, while I thought things through and we cleaned the nonsense off of it. We banned the disruptive ones permanently and these ones then went out, and posted to other groups, and ones they started how I was not a democratic person at all, but very controlling. Excuse me, but as our democracies work on this earth, they are by the rule of the unifomed mobs serving a few dictators. We need to establish real representative rule on this planet. I had the perfect right AND responsibility to not allow this type of behavior on a forum serving the goals of the planetary prince and AbundantHope. Unbridled liberty these ones were requesting, in being able to post any sort of irrelevant mis mash they wished, woudl have destroyed the entire purpose of the forum and driven those that were serious in serving, away.

It is NOT wrong to interfer with evil and sin beloveds, and we have lots of misteaching on this planet around the acceptance of all behavior. Our morals are going down the tube on television and other media, we are allowing the destruction of our families, and the story goes on. It is not only OK, but absolutely correct and necessary to interfer in destructive behavior. The idea that you can let each and every other person their unbridled personal journey was the Lucifer idea that did not work. What happens with your kids when you are too allowing? What happens to you when you are too allowing with others, in their constant abuse of you? What example would I have demonstrated on my forum, if I let people get away with beating me up. I would have demonstrated I had no respect for myself, nor the other contributing members to the forum. And so it goes. -Candace

 
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