Why was Caligastia left here?

Amy wrote:

What an interesting thread. Seems very pertinent these days. It really got me thinking. So I did some digging and I'd like to share some of my thoughts.

I'll start here:

93:4.6 - The seven commandments promulgated by Melchizedek were patterned along the lines of the ancient Dalamatian supreme law and very much resembled the seven commands taught in the first and second Edens.

Here is the third of those seven commandments:

93.4.9 - You shall not bear false witness.

It's interesting to note that the commandment against bearing false witness is near the bottom of the list of the traditional 10 commandments we think of today. But originally it came before the commandments against killing (murder), stealing, adultery, and showing disrespect to one's elders. I have always thought that telling a lie, of all of the sins that can be committed, is the worst of all.

Here is something that I think is a major factor in what happened with Lucifer:

84:8.2 - ...pleasure mania, now constitutes the greatest threat that has ever been leveled at the social evolutionary institution of family life, the home.

When Lucifer indulged himself to proclaim that the Father did not exist, he was bearing false witness. Was it pleasurable for him to do that? If that was the case then it certainly did threaten, if not destroy his family home. His home and our home. A system of worlds inhabited by many of his children.

And now onto Caligastia and Daligastia.

It appears that for them and their celestial rebel followers, the day of Pentecost was their day of reckoning. It was game over. They we're all removed from the planet except Cal and Dal.

I think this is why they were left here:

53:8.9 - Caligastia has been comparatively impotent since the cross of Christ.

Impotent meaning powerless. Except for this:

53:8.6 - Caligastia, your apostate Planetary Prince, is still free on Urantia to prosecute his nefarious designs, but he has absolutely no power to enter the minds of men, neither can he draw near to their souls to tempt or corrupt them unless they really desire to be cursed with his wicked presence.

So whatever they were able to do before, they can't do those things anymore right?

Here's something very interesting about what the revelators said about Cal and Dal that I never noticed before:

53:8.7 - But since the day of Pentecost this traitorous Caligastia and his equally contemptible associate, Daligastia, are servile before the divine majesty of the Paradise Thought Adjusters and the protective Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Michael, which has been poured out upon all flesh.

ser·vile
1. having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.
"he bowed his head in a servile manner"
2. of or characteristic of a slave or slaves.
"the servile condition of the peasants"
Similar adjectives:
obsequious, sycophantic, excessively deferential, subservient, humble

54:3.3 - 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.

I don't know. Have we been looking at them incorrectly? Are they actually more or less on their knees? Being forced to look first at the circumstances of the triumph of Jesus and second at the consequences of their failures? Consequences playing out now in all our lives? All because of simply not paying attention to the importance of the commandment of never bearing false witness?

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