Why was Caligastia left here?

I think they're talking about putting a full stop to the rebellion at its inception, and not so much about taking Cal.

Lucifer's contention was that his way was better, that he could help humanity evolve faster. The universe society in the lower worlds is a very tightly regulated and stringent place to live, and a lot of beings obviously have questions about doing things God's way. If they had put a stop to the rebellion at the very beginning, many beings would have thought that it was heavy-handed; that Lucifer was a well-meaning personality who had his freedom taken away and his experiments disregarded arbitrarily. This would have caused many souls to lose faith in God's government and to actually become rebels themselves, three times as many as in the fallen worlds.

So the choice for the decision-makers was an extreme one -- one which probably caused them a great deal of anguish. Do you let the criminals roam free in the fallen worlds to do as they will with their followers and let those worlds suffer the consequences, or do you stop them and rehabilitate the fallen worlds only to see three times as many individuals throughout the local universe to go astray? The decision to leave them alone would mean that for countless years, trillions of souls in the fallen worlds would say things like "if there was a God the world wouldn't be like this and there wouldn't be so much evil," like they still do here, and be led astray. One can only imagine what went through Gabriel's mind as these, and I'm sure many other horrible thoughts came up at the time.

Lucifer and his crew were allowed to play out their childish fantasies to the full, for two hundred thousand years. It was only after the Pentecost, just two thousand years ago, that Lucifer was finally taken in. Satan's turn came about a hundred years ago. Michael's successful mission here essentially meant that the Lucifer rebellion had been settled and adjudicated -- but technically, the trial still had to commence.

Taking Caligastia didn't have anything to do with how many total souls would be lost throughout Nebadon. Michael's petition to have the rebels removed after the Pentecost was granted except for Caligastia and probably a bunch of the other fallen princes. Undoubtedly, the universe rulers wanted all of the universe to see the ugliness play out to the bitter end, not only for all doubts about God's way to be settled in the minds of all who questioned it, but also to root out every rebel in the fallen worlds.

Look at them today, here in this world, thinking that it's all just meaningless, that they can do what they will with the ignorant and the weak, and laugh as they leave a trail of blood and destruction on their way to the bank. If they only knew.

We're at the end of it now. The world has reached the impasse. The harvest is here...

rich.sachs wrote:

if caligastia was taken sooner then three times the number of beings would be led astray as many would feel this was heavy handed by the ancients of days.

54:5.13 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. 54:5.10 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. 54:5.12 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.

Amy wrote:

I'm trying to figure out why after Lucifer and Satan were incarcerated, Caligastia was left here to prosecute his nefarious designs. Seems to me he should have joined his buddies in jail after betraying our world.

[53:8.6] The last act of Michael before leaving Urantia was to offer mercy to Caligastia and Daligastia,
but they spurned his tender proffer. 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.

There are plenty of mortals around who do in fact wish to be cursed with his wicked presence, and I am quite sure they have a hand in our world's many troubles at present, and on a large scale at that.

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