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.
67:0.1 (754.1) 若不了解過去某些重大事件，特別是行星反叛的發生及後果，便無法理解與玉苒廈上人類生存相關的問題。雖然這場動盪並未嚴重干擾有機進化的進程，但確實顯著地改變了社會演化與靈性發展的軌跡。這場毀滅性的災難，對該行星的整個超物質歷史產生了深遠的影響。
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.”
67:1.1 (754.2) 卡裡迦夏已掌管玉苒廈三十萬年了，這時，路西法的助手撒旦進行了一次例行巡查。當撒旦抵達這顆行星時，他的外貌與你們對其「邪惡尊榮」的諷刺描繪截然不同。他當時是，如今依然是，一位輝煌、卓絕的拉那南德聖子。「這也不足為奇，因為撒旦本身就是一位光輝燦爛的光之受造物。」
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.”
67:1.2 (754.3) 在此次視察期間，撒旦向卡裡迦夏透露了路西法當時擬定的「自由宣言」；正如我們現在所知，這位君王同意在反叛宣告之際出賣這顆行星。正因這種蓄意背叛信任的行為，忠誠的宇宙人格體們對卡裡迦夏君王懷有極深的鄙夷。造物聖子曾這樣表達這種蔑視： 「你就像你的首領路西法一樣，並以罪惡的方式延續了他的罪孽。從他開始自我吹噓的那一刻起，他便是一個說謊者，因為他沒有立於真理中。」
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.
67:1.3 (754.4) 在地方宇宙的所有管理工作中，沒有任何一種高度信任比賦予行星君王的那份更為神聖，因為他肩負著在一個新的居住世界上，為進化中的凡人謀求福祉並引導他們的責任。而在所有形式的惡中，沒有任何一種比背叛信任、對傾心相托的朋友不忠，更能摧毀人格地位。卡裡迦夏在犯下這項蓄意的罪時，如此徹底地扭曲了自身的人格，以致其心智自此之後便再也無法完全恢復平衡。
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.
67:1.4 (754.5) 看待罪的方式有很多種，但從宇宙哲學的觀點來看，罪是指一個人格故意抗拒宇宙實相的態度。錯則可被視為對實相的誤解或扭曲。惡是對宇宙實相的片面體現，或是與之失調。但罪則是對神性實相的有意抗拒——即有意識地選擇反對靈性進步——而孽則在於對公認實相的公然且持續的違抗，並意味著人格解體已瀕臨宇宙性瘋狂的程度。
67:1.5 (755.1) Error suggests lack of intellectual keenness; evil, deficiency of wisdom; sin, abject spiritual poverty; but iniquity is indicative of vanishing personality control.
67:1.5 (755.1) 錯顯示缺乏智性敏銳；惡，則顯示智慧的匱乏；罪，顯示極度的靈性貧乏；但孽則表明人格控制力的逐漸消失。
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.
67:1.6 (755.2) 當罪被一再選擇、反覆重演，便可能演變成習慣。慣於犯罪者很容易變得罪孽深重，成為全心全意反抗宇宙及其所有神性實相的叛逆者。雖然各類罪皆可獲得寬恕，但我們懷疑，那些根深蒂固的作惡者，是否會由衷地為自己的惡行感到懊悔，或是領受對其罪行的寬恕。
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.
67:2.1 (755.3) 在撒旦視察後不久，正當行星管理機構即將在玉苒廈成就大事之際，北方大陸正值隆冬，某一天，卡裡迦夏與其副手達裡迦夏舉行了一次長時間的會議，會後，達裡迦夏便召集玉苒廈的十個理事會舉行特別會議。會議伊始便宣布，卡裡迦夏君王即將自封為玉苒廈的絕對主權者，並要求所有管理團隊退位，將其所有職能與權力移交給達裡迦夏作為受託人，以待行星政府重組及隨後對這些管理職權的重新分配。
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.
67:2.2 (755.4) 在這項令人震驚的要求提出之後，最高協調理事會主席凡恩發表了一場極具說服力的呼籲。這位傑出的管理者兼精通法理的法官，將卡裡迦夏所提議的行動定性為一種近乎行星反叛的行徑，並呼籲與會者暫勿參與其中，以待向撒旦尼亞系統君主路西法提出上訴；他贏得了全體成員的支持。於是，上訴提交至耶路瑟姆，且隨即收到指令，指定卡裡迦夏為玉苒廈的最高主權者，並要求絕對且不容置疑地服從他的命令。正是為了回應這則令人震驚的消息，高貴的凡恩發表了那場長達七小時、令人難忘的演說，他在演說中正式指控達裡迦夏、卡裡迦夏以及路西法藐視內巴頓宇宙的主權；並向伊甸廈的極高者們尋求支持與確認。
67:2.3 (755.5) Meantime the system circuits had been severed; Urantia was isolated. Every group of celestial life on the planet found itself suddenly and without warning isolated, utterly cut off from all outside counsel and advice.
67:2.3 (755.5) 此時，系統迴路已被切斷；玉苒廈被隔離了。這個行星上的每一個天界生命群體都發現自己突然且毫無預警地被隔離了，與所有外界的指導與建議徹底隔絕。
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.
67:2.4 (755.6) 達裡迦夏正式宣告卡裡迦夏為「玉苒廈之神和至高無上者」。面對這項宣告，陣營已然劃定；每個團體各自退至一旁並開始商議，這些討論最終將決定這個星球上每一位超人類人格的命運。
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.
67:2.5 (755.7) 熾天使、小天使及其他天界存有，都被捲入這場嚴酷鬥爭、這場漫長而充滿罪惡衝突的決擇之中。許多在玉苒廈被隔離時恰巧身處此地的超人類群體，都被滯留於此，並與熾天使及其同伴一樣，被迫在罪惡與正義之間——在路西法的道路與不可見上父的旨意之間——作出抉擇。
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.
67:2.6 (756.1) 這場鬥爭持續了七年多。只有在所有相關人士都做出最終決定之後，伊甸廈的當權者才會予以干預或介入。直到那時，凡恩和他忠實的同伴們才獲得平反，並從長期的焦慮和難以忍受的煎熬中解脫出來。
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.
67:3.1 (756.2) 撒旦尼亞系統首府耶路瑟姆爆發的反叛事件，已由默基瑟德理事會向外廣播。應急類默基瑟德隨即被派往耶路瑟姆，加百列則自願擔任造物之子的代表——該造物之子的權威已遭到挑戰。隨著這一撒旦尼亞反叛事件被廣播出去，該系統便與其姊妹系統隔離開來，並被全面封鎖。一場「天上的爭戰」在撒旦尼亞總部肆虐，並蔓延至地方系統的每一顆行星。
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.
67:3.2 (756.3) 在玉苒廈，一百位肉身屬員中有四十位（包括凡恩）拒絕加入叛亂。許多屬員的人類助手（無論是否經過改型）同樣是邁克爾及其宇宙管理機構勇敢而高尚的捍衛者。在熾天使與小天使中，有大量人格迷失。派駐到該行星的管理類與過渡類熾天使中，近半數追隨其首領及達裡迦夏，支持路西法的主張。四萬零一百十九位第一類中道受造物倒戈支持了卡裡迦夏，但其餘這些存有則堅守了他們所受的託付。
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.
67:3.3 (756.4) 那位叛逆的君王召集了不忠的中道受造物及其他反叛人格群體，並將他們組織起來以執行他的命令；與此同時，凡恩則召集了忠誠的中道者及其他忠信的群體，展開了一場拯救行星屬員及其他受困天界人格體的偉大抗爭。
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.
67:3.4 (756.5) 在這場鬥爭期間，忠誠者們居住在達拉瑪希亞以東數英里外一個沒有城牆、防禦薄弱的定居點，但他們的住所日夜都有警覺且時刻保持警惕的忠誠中道受造物守護著，而且他們還掌控著那棵無價的生命之樹。
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.
67:3.5 (756.6) 反叛爆發之際，忠誠的小天使與熾天使在三位忠誠的中道者協助下，承擔起生命之樹的監護重任，並僅允許四十位忠誠屬員及其相關的改型凡人，享用這棵能量植物的果實與葉片。這些改型的安東族屬員隨從共計五十六位，其中十六位不忠屬員的安東族隨從，拒絕與他們的主人一起參與反叛。
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.
67:3.6 (756.7) 在卡裡迦夏反叛這關鍵的七年裡，凡恩全心投入，悉心照料他那支由人類、中道者與天使組成的忠誠隊伍。凡恩能夠對宇宙管理機構保持如此堅不可摧的忠誠，其背後的靈性洞見與道德定力，源於清晰的思維、睿智的推理、合乎邏輯的判斷、真摯的動機、無私的意圖、明智的忠誠、經驗的記憶、自律的品格，以及將自身人格全然奉獻於遵行天堂之父的旨意。
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.
67:3.7 (756.8) 這個等待的七年，是一段探索內心與淬鍊靈魂的時光。宇宙事務中的此類危機，彰顯了心智作為靈性抉擇中的因素所具有的巨大影響力。教育、訓練與經驗，都是所有進化類道德受造物在做出多數重大決定時所考量的因素。但內住之靈完全有可能與人類人格中的決策力直接接觸，藉此賦予受造物那全然奉獻的意志以力量，使其能對天堂之父的旨意與道路展現驚人的忠誠奉獻。而這正是阿瑪頓的經歷中所發生的事，他是凡恩的改型人類夥伴。
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.
67:3.8 (757.1) 阿瑪頓是路西法反叛中一位傑出的人類英雄。這位安東和芳達的男性後裔，是向君王屬員貢獻生命質的一百人之一；自那以後，他便一直跟隨凡恩，擔任其隨從與人類助手。在這場漫長而艱辛的鬥爭中，阿瑪頓選擇始終與他的首領並肩作戰。目睹這位進化種族之子，面對達裡迦夏的詭辯岿然不動，在長達七年的鬥爭中，他與其忠誠的同伴們始終以堅韌不屈的毅力，抵禦了才華橫溢的卡裡迦夏所宣揚的一切欺騙性教義，這景象著實令人振奮。
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.
67:3.9 (757.2) 卡裡迦夏雖具備極高的智力與豐富的宇宙事務經驗，卻偏離正道——擁抱了罪。阿瑪頓，雖智力平平且毫無宇宙經驗，卻始終堅定不移地服務宇宙，並對同伴保持忠誠。凡恩同時運用了心智與靈性，將智性決斷與靈性洞察以一種絕妙且有效的方式融匯，從而達至經驗性人格實現層次的最高境界。當心智與靈性完全合一時，便能孕育出超人類的價值，乃至靈質性的實相。
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.
67:3.10 (757.3) 這些悲劇歲月中驚心動魄的事件，實難一一盡述。但最終，最後一位人格體做出了決定，那時——但也唯有在那時——伊甸廈的一位至高者才與應急的默基瑟德一同抵達，接管了玉苒廈的管轄權。耶路瑟姆的卡裡迦夏全景式在位記錄被徹底抹除，行星復興的考驗期就此開啟。
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.
67:4.1 (757.4) 當最終點名時，君王屬員中的肉身成員立場如下：凡恩及其整個協調法院仍保持忠誠。昂與食品理事會的三名成員倖存下來。動物馴化理事會的全體成員以及所有動物征服顧問，全都捲入了反叛。法德與教育部門的五名成員倖免於難。諾德及產業與貿易理事會的全體成員都加入了卡里迦夏的行列。哈普與整個啟示宗教學院則與凡恩及其高尚團隊一同保持忠誠。盧特與整個健康理事會全數迷失。藝術與科學理事會全體成員均保持忠誠，但圖特與部落管理理事會全都走上了歧途。如此一來，一百人中有四十人得以倖免，他們後來被轉移至耶魯塞姆，並在那裡重新踏上前往天堂的旅程。
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.”
67:4.2 (757.5) 那六十名加入反叛的行星屬員推選諾德為他們的領袖。他們全心全意為這位反叛君王效力，但很快便發現自己被剝奪了系統生命迴路的供養。他們這才驚覺，自己已被降格為凡人的身份。他們固然是超人類，但同時也是物質的、會死的凡人。為了增加他們的數量，達裡迦夏命令立即採用有性生殖，他深知，原有的六十位及其四十四位經改型的安東族同伴，注定遲早會因死亡而滅絕。達拉瑪希亞陷落後，那些不忠的屬員便向北和向東遷徙。他們的後裔長期以來被稱為諾德族人，而他們的居住地則被稱為「諾德之地」。
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.
67:4.3 (758.1) 這些非凡的超人男女因反叛而受困於此，並與世間的兒女交合，他們的存在輕易地孕育了那些神明下凡與凡人交合的傳說。就這樣，無數帶有神話色彩的傳說便由此誕生，但它們都建立在反叛後時期的事實基礎之上，後來，這些傳說便融入了各民族的民間故事與傳統之中，而這些民族的祖先都曾參與過與諾德族人及其後裔的接觸。
67:4.4 (758.2) The staff rebels, deprived of spiritual sustenance, eventually died a natural death. And much of the subsequent idolatry of the human races grew out of the desire to perpetuate the memory of these highly honored beings of the days of Caligastia.
67:4.4 (758.2) 那些被剝奪了靈性供養的反叛屬員，最終歸於自然死亡。而人類種族隨後的許多偶像崇拜，正是源於渴望永誌這些在卡裡迦夏時代備受尊崇的存有。
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.
67:4.5 (758.3) 當那一百名屬員來到玉苒廈時，他們暫時與自己的思想調整者分離了。默基瑟德接收者一到，這些忠誠的人格體（除了凡恩）便立即被送回耶路瑟姆，並與等待他們的調整者重新結合。我們不知道那六十名反叛屬員的命運；他們的思想調整者仍滯留在耶路瑟姆。毫無疑問，在整個路西法反叛事件最終得到裁決，且所有參與者的命運皆被定奪之前，現狀將維持不變。
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.
67:4.6 (758.4) 對於天使和中道者這類存有而言，實在很難想像像卡裡迦夏和達裡迦夏這樣才華橫溢且值得信賴的統治者，竟會誤入歧途——犯下叛逆之罪。那些陷入罪惡中的存有並非蓄意或預謀地參與反叛，他們只是被上級所誤導，被他們信賴的領袖所欺騙了。同樣，要贏得那些心智原始的進化凡人的支持，也是輕而易舉的事。
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.
67:4.7 (758.5) 在耶路瑟姆及各個受誤導的行星上，曾淪為路西法反叛受害者的絕大多數人類與超人類，早已由衷地為自己的愚行深感懺悔；我們由衷地相信，當亙古常在者最終完成對撒旦尼亞反叛事件的審判時，所有這些真誠的懺悔者都將以某種方式獲得修復，並重返某個方面的宇宙服務中，這個裁決近期已經開始。
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.
67:5.1 (758.6) 在反叛發動之後，達拉瑪希亞及其周邊地區陷入了長達近五十年的巨大混亂。人們試圖對整個世界進行徹底而激進的重組；變革取代了進化，成為教化提升與種族改良的方針。在達拉瑪希亞及其周邊地區那些資質優異且受過部分訓練的旅居者之中，教化水平似乎突然有所提升；但當這些新穎而激進的方法被嘗試應用於偏遠地區的族群時，隨即引發了難以形容的混亂與種族騷亂。當時那些尚未完全進化的原始人，很快便將自由轉化為放縱。
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.
67:5.2 (758.7) 反叛爆發後不久，全體煽動反叛的成員便全力投入保衛這座城市，抵禦那些因過早被灌輸自由教義而圍攻城牆的半野蠻人部落。而在這座美麗的總部沉入南方波濤下之前多年，達拉瑪希亞偏遠地區那些被誤導且受過錯誤教導的部落，早已發動半野蠻式的襲擊，橫掃了這座宏偉的城市，將叛離的屬員及其同伴向北驅趕。
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.
67:5.3 (759.1) 卡裡迦夏旨在依據其關於個人自由與群體解放的理念，立即重建人類社會的計畫，最終迅速且幾乎徹底地失敗了。社會很快便退回到原有的生物層次，而向前進步的奮鬥又從頭開始，起點與卡裡迦夏政權初期相比並未提前多少；這場動盪使世界陷入了更加混亂的境地。
67:5.4 (759.2) One hundred and sixty-two years after the rebellion a tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, and the planetary headquarters sank beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated.
67:5.4 (759.2) 反叛發生後一百六十二年，一場海嘯席捲了達拉瑪希亞，行星總部沉入海中，直到那些輝煌時代的高等教化，幾乎所有痕跡都被抹去之後，這片土地才再次浮出水面。
67:5.5 (759.3) When the first capital of the world was engulfed, it harbored only the lowest types of the Sangik races of Urantia, renegades who had already converted the Father’s temple into a shrine dedicated to Nog, the false god of light and fire.
67:5.5 (759.3) 當這世界的第一座首府被吞沒時，那裡僅棲息著玉苒廈桑吉克種族中最低等的一類，那些叛逆者早已將上父的聖殿改造成一座供奉那位虛假的光與火之神諾革的神殿。
6. 凡恩——堅定不移者
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.
67:6.1 (759.4) 凡恩的追隨者很早就撤退到了印度西部的高地，在那裡他們可免於遭受低地那些混亂種族的攻擊；而他們正是在這個隱居之地，策劃著世界的復興，正如他們早期的巴德南族先輩們，曾在桑吉克部族誕生之前，無意間為人類的福祉而努力過那樣。
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.
67:6.2 (759.5) 在默基瑟德接收者抵達之前，凡恩將人類事務的管理交由十個委員會負責，每個委員會由四名成員組成，這些團體與君王體制的組織完全相同。駐留的資深生命載運者暫時接管了這個由四十人組成的理事會，該理事會在長達七年的等待期間持續運作。當那三十九位忠誠的屬員返回耶路瑟姆時，阿瑪頓族人的類似團體便接手了這些職責。
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.
67:6.3 (759.6) 這些阿瑪頓族人源自阿瑪頓所屬的那群144名忠誠的安東族人，他們後來因阿瑪頓的名字而聞名。這個群體包括三十九名男子和一百零五名女子。其中五十六人已具備不朽之身，除阿瑪頓外，所有人都與忠誠的屬員一同被提升。這個高尚團隊的其餘成員則在凡恩和阿瑪頓的領導下，繼續留在地球上，直至他們的凡人生命終結。他們猶如生物性的酵母，不斷繁衍，並在反叛後時代那漫長而黑暗的歲月裡，持續為世界提供領導力量。
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.
67:6.4 (759.7) 凡恩一直留在玉苒廈，直至亞當時代，期間始終擔任該行星上運作的所有超人人格體的名義首領。他與阿瑪頓憑藉生命之樹的技術，結合默基瑟德的專門生命事工，維持了超過十五萬年。
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.
67:6.5 (759.8) 玉苒廈的事務長期以來由一個行星接管人理事會管理，該理事會由十二位默基瑟德組成，並經由資深星座統治者，即諾拉歇德星座極高父者的授權予以確認。與默基瑟德接收者協同工作的，是一個顧問理事會，其成員包括：那位墮落君王的忠實助手之一、兩位常駐的生命載運者、一位正在接受見習訓練的三一化聖子、一位志願的教導聖子、一位阿瓦隆的閃耀暮星（定期出席）、 熾天使和小天使的首領、來自兩個鄰近行星的顧問、從屬類天使生命總管，以及中道受造物的指揮官凡恩。在亞當抵達之前，玉苒廈便是如此被治理與管理的。勇敢而忠誠的凡恩，被委任進入這個長期管理玉苒廈事務的行星接收者理事會，這並不令人感到意外。
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.
67:6.6 (760.1) 玉苒廈的十二位默基瑟德接收者完成了英勇的壯舉。他們保全了文明的遺存，而凡恩則忠實地執行了他們的行星政策。在反叛發生後的一千年內，他已在世界各地建立了超過三百五十個先進的群體。這些文明的前哨主要由忠誠的安東族後裔組成，其中略微混雜了桑吉克種族（尤其是藍種人）以及諾德族人的血統。
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.
67:6.7 (760.2) 儘管反叛帶來了可怕的退步，但地球上仍有許多充滿生物性潛力的優良血統。在默基瑟德接收者的監管下，凡恩和阿瑪頓持續推動人類種族的自然進化，他們促進人類的生理進化，直至達到足以證明有必要向玉苒廈派遣一位物質之子與一位物質之女的巔峰成就。
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.
67:6.8 (760.3) 凡恩和阿瑪頓一直留在地球上，直到亞當和夏娃抵達後不久。數年後，他們被轉送至耶路瑟姆，在那裡，凡恩與一直等待著他的調整者重新結合了。如今，凡恩目前在為玉苒廈的利益而服務，同時等待著指令，以便在通往天堂完美，以及正在集結的凡人終局者團隊之未揭示天命的漫漫征途上繼續前行。
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.
67:6.9 (760.4) 應予以記錄的是，當路西法在玉苒廈支持卡裡迦夏之後，凡恩向伊甸廈的極高者提出上訴時，星座之父們立即作出了裁決，在凡恩所提出的每一項論點上都支持他。這項裁決未能送達他手中，因為在傳遞過程中，行星間的通訊迴路被切斷了。直到最近，這項實際裁決才被發現存放在一個中繼能量傳送者的所有物中，自從玉苒廈被隔離以來，它便一直被擱置在那裡。若非玉苒廈中道者的調查所帶來的這個發現，這項裁決的公佈將不得不等到玉苒廈重新納入星座通訊迴路之後。而這種看似偶然的行星間通訊事故之所以會發生，是因為能量傳送者雖然能夠接收和傳送訊息，卻無法主動發起通訊。
67:6.10 (760.5) The technical status of Van on the legal records of Satania was not actually and finally settled until this ruling of the Edentia Fathers was recorded on Jerusem.
67:6.10 (760.5) 直到伊甸廈之父們的這項裁決在耶路瑟姆備案之後，凡恩在撒旦尼亞法定檔案中的正式身份才真正且最終地確定下來。
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.
67:7.1 (760.6) 受造物有意並持續地拒絕光明所帶來的人格性（向心性）後果是不可避免的, 且具個體性，它僅與神靈和那一人格受造物有關。這種摧毀靈魂的罪孽之果，正是那悖逆的意志受造物內在所收穫的果報。
67:7.2 (761.1) But not so with the external repercussions of sin: The impersonal (centrifugal) consequences of embraced sin are both inevitable and collective, being of concern to every creature functioning within the affect-range of such events.
67:7.2 (761.1) 然而，罪所帶來的外在影響卻並非如此：擁抱罪所產生的非人格性（離心性）後果是不可避免的，且具集體性，凡處於此類事件影響範圍內的每一個受造物，都與此息息相關。
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.
67:7.3 (761.2) 在行星管理體系崩潰五萬年後，地球上的事務是如此混亂且停滯不前，以致人類在進化層面上，與三十五萬年前卡裡迦夏抵達時所處的整體進化狀態相比，幾乎毫無進展。在某些方面雖有所進步；但在其他方面卻倒退了很多。
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.
67:7.4 (761.3) 罪所產生的影響，絕非僅限於局部。各宇宙的管理分區具有有機體的特性；某個人格體所面臨的困境，在某種程度上必然會由所有人格體共同分擔。罪，作為個人對實相的一種態度，注定會在宇宙價值的任何及所有相關層面上，顯現其固有的負面後果。然而，錯誤的思維、惡行或罪惡的計畫所帶來的全部後果，僅會在實際發生的層面上顯現。違反宇宙法則，在物質領域中或許是致命的，但未必會嚴重影響心智，或妨礙靈性體驗。唯有當罪成為整個存有的態度，當它代表心智的選擇和靈魂的意願時，才會對人格的存續帶來致命的後果。
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.
67:7.5 (761.4) 惡與罪會在物質與社會領域中產生相應的後果，有時甚至可能在宇宙實相的某些層面上阻礙靈性進步；但任何存有的罪，絕不會剝奪另一存有領悟人格存續的神聖權利。唯有個體自身心智的決定與靈魂的選擇，才可能危及永恆的存續。
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.
67:7.6 (761.5) 在玉苒廈，罪對生物進化的延緩作用微乎其微，但它確實導致凡人種族無法從亞當的遺傳中充分獲益。罪極大地阻礙了智性發展、道德成長、社會進步以及大眾的靈性達成。然而，它無法阻礙任何選擇認識神並真誠遵行其神聖旨意的個體，達到最高的靈性成就。
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.
67:7.7 (761.6) 卡裡迦夏反叛了，亞當與夏娃也確實違約了，但此後在玉苒廈出生的凡人，沒有一個因這些大錯而在其個人的靈性體驗中深受其害。自卡裡迦夏反叛以來，每一位出生於玉苒廈的凡人，在某種程度上都受到時間上的懲罰，但這些靈魂的未來福祉，從未在永恆層面上受到絲毫威脅。絕不會有人因他人的罪而遭受至關重要的靈性剝奪。就道德過失或靈性後果而言，罪完全是個人的，儘管它在管理、智性及社會領域中會產生深遠的影響。
67:7.8 (761.7) While we cannot fathom the wisdom that permits such catastrophes, we can always discern the beneficial outworking of these local disturbances as they are reflected out upon the universe at large.
67:7.8 (761.7) 雖然我們無法理解那種允許此類災難發生的智慧，但當這些局部動盪在整個宇宙中產生影響時，我們總能從中辨識出其帶來的益處。
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.
67:8.1 (761.8) 在撒旦尼亞的各個世界中，許多勇敢的存有抵制了路西法的反叛；但薩爾文頓的紀錄將阿瑪頓描繪為整個系統中最傑出的代表人物，因他光榮地抵禦了煽動叛亂的滔天浪潮，並矢志不渝地效忠於凡恩——他們並肩而立，對不可見的父及其聖子邁克爾的至高權威，始終保持著毫不動搖的忠誠。
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.
67:8.2 (762.1) 在這些重大事件發生之際，我正駐紮在伊甸廈；至今我仍能清晰地感受到，當我細讀薩爾文頓的廣播報導時所體驗到的那種振奮，這些報導日復一日地描述著這個源自安東種族實驗性原始血統的、曾經的半野蠻人，所展現出的難以置信的堅定、超乎一切的赤誠，以及無與倫比的忠誠。
67:8.3 (762.2) From Edentia up through Salvington and even on to Uversa, for seven long years the first inquiry of all subordinate celestial life regarding the Satania rebellion, ever and always, was: “What of Amadon of Urantia, does he still stand unmoved?”
67:8.3 (762.2) 從伊甸廈到薩爾文頓，甚至一直到尤沃薩，長達七年的時間裡，所有從屬天界生命一提到撒旦尼亞反叛時，第一個問題始終是：「玉苒廈的阿瑪頓怎樣了？他是否依然堅定不移？」
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.
67:8.4 (762.3) 如果路西法反叛使該地方系統及其墮落世界陷入癱瘓；如果這位聖子及其受誤導同伴的喪失，暫時阻礙了諾拉歇德星座的進展， 那麼，請權衡一下: 這位自然之子及其143名堅定夥伴，在面對不忠上司所施加的如此巨大且不利的壓力時，仍堅定不移地捍衛宇宙管理與行政之更高理念，這種鼓舞人心之舉在廣闊宇宙中傳播所產生的深遠影響。讓我向你們保證，這件事在內巴頓宇宙與奧溫頓超級宇宙中所帶來的益處，已經遠遠超過路西法反叛所造成的一切邪惡與悲痛的總和，且永遠無法被其抵銷。
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.
67:8.5 (762.4) 而這一切，極其動人且無比壯麗地彰顯了上父宇宙計劃的智慧，該計劃旨在集結天堂的凡人終局者團隊，並主要從那些普通肉胎的揚升凡人中，招募這支龐大而神秘的未來服務者團隊；而這些凡人，正是像堅不可摧的阿馬頓這般的人物。
67:8.6 (762.5) [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
67:8.6 (762.5) [由內巴頓的一位默基瑟德所呈獻。]