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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 15
THE SEVEN SUPERUNIVERSES
15:0.1
AS FAR as the Universal Father is concerned -- as a
Father -- the universes are virtually nonexistent; he
deals with personalities; he is the Father of
personalities. As far as the Eternal Son and the
Infinite Spirit are concerned -- as creator partners --
the universes are localized and individual under the
joint rule of the Creator Sons and the Creative Spirits.
As far as the Paradise Trinity is concerned, outside
Havona there are just seven inhabited universes, the
seven superuniverses which hold jurisdiction over the
circle of the first post-Havona space level. The Seven
Master Spirits radiate their influence out from the
central Isle, thus constituting the vast creation one
gigantic wheel, the hub being the eternal Isle of
Paradise, the seven spokes the radiations of the Seven
Master Spirits, the rim the outer regions of the grand
universe.
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Early in the materialization of the universal creation
the sevenfold scheme of the superuniverse organization
and government was formulated. The first post-Havona
creation was divided into seven stupendous segments, and
the headquarters worlds of these superuniverse
governments were designed and constructed. The present
scheme of administration has existed from near eternity,
and the rulers of these seven superuniverses are rightly
called Ancients of Days.
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Of the vast body of knowledge concerning the
superuniverses, I can hope to tell you little, but there
is operative throughout these realms a technique of
intelligent control for both physical and spiritual
forces, and the universal gravity presences there
function in majestic power and perfect harmony. It is
important first to gain an adequate idea of the physical
constitution and material organization of the
superuniverse domains, for then you will be the better
prepared to grasp the significance of the marvelous
organization provided for their spiritual government and
for the intellectual advancement of the will creatures
who dwell on the myriads of inhabited planets scattered
hither and yon throughout these seven superuniverses.
1. THE SUPERUNIVERSE SPACE LEVEL
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Within the limited range of the records, observations,
and memories of the generations of a million or a
billion of your short years, to all practical intents
and purposes, Urantia and the universe to which it
belongs are experiencing the adventure of one long and
uncharted plunge into new space; but according to the
records of Uversa, in accordance with older
observations, in harmony with the more extensive
experience and calculations of our order, and as a
result of conclusions based on these and other findings,
we know that the universes are engaged in an orderly,
well-understood, and perfectly controlled processional,
swinging in majestic grandeur around the First Great
Source and Center and his residential universe.
15:1.2
We have long since discovered that the seven
superuniverses traverse a great ellipse, a gigantic and
elongated circle. Your solar system and other worlds of
time are not plunging headlong, without chart and
compass, into unmapped space. The local universe to
which your system belongs is pursuing a definite and
well-understood counterclockwise course around the vast
swing that encircles the central universe. This cosmic
path is well charted and is just as thoroughly known to
the superuniverse star observers as the orbits of the
planets constituting your solar system are known to
Urantia astronomers.
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Urantia is situated in a local universe and a
superuniverse not fully organized, and your local
universe is in immediate proximity to numerous partially
completed physical creations. You belong to one of the
relatively recent universes. But you are not, today,
plunging on wildly into uncharted space nor swinging out
blindly into unknown regions. You are following the
orderly and predetermined path of the superuniverse
space level. You are now passing through the very same
space that your planetary system, or its predecessors,
traversed ages ago; and some day in the remote future
your system, or its successors, will again traverse the
identical space through which you are now so swiftly
plunging.
15:1.4
In this age and as direction is regarded on Urantia,
superuniverse number one swings almost due north,
approximately opposite, in an easterly direction, to the
Paradise residence of the Great Sources and Centers and
the central universe of Havona. This position, with the
corresponding one to the west, represents the nearest
physical approach of the spheres of time to the eternal
Isle. Superuniverse number two is in the north,
preparing for the westward swing, while number three now
holds the northernmost segment of the great space path,
having already turned into the bend leading to the
southerly plunge. Number four is on the comparatively
straightaway southerly flight, the advance regions now
approaching opposition to the Great Centers. Number five
has about left its position opposite the Center of
Centers while continuing on the direct southerly course
just preceding the eastward swing; number six occupies
most of the southern curve, the segment from which your
superuniverse has nearly passed.
15:1.5
Your local universe of Nebadon belongs to Orvonton, the
seventh superuniverse, which swings on between
superuniverses one and six, having not long since (as we
reckon time) turned the southeastern bend of the
superuniverse space level. Today, the solar system to
which Urantia belongs is a few billion years past the
swing around the southern curvature so that you are just
now advancing beyond the southeastern bend and are
moving swiftly through the long and comparatively
straightaway northern path. For untold ages Orvonton
will pursue this almost direct northerly course.
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Urantia belongs to a system which is well out towards
the borderland of your local universe; and your local
universe is at present traversing the periphery of
Orvonton. Beyond you there are still others, but you are
far removed in space from those physical systems which
swing around the great circle in comparative proximity
to the Great Source and Center.
2. ORGANIZATION OF THE SUPERUNIVERSES
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Only the Universal Father knows the location and actual
number of inhabited worlds in space; he calls them all
by name and number. I can give only the approximate
number of inhabited or inhabitable planets, for some
local universes have more worlds suitable for
intelligent life than others. Nor have all projected
local universes been organized. Therefore the estimates
which I offer are solely for the purpose of affording
some idea of the immensity of the material creation.
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There are seven superuniverses in the grand universe,
and they are constituted approximately as follows:
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1. The System.
The basic unit of the supergovernment consists of about
one thousand inhabited or inhabitable worlds. Blazing
suns, cold worlds, planets too near the hot suns, and
other spheres not suitable for creature habitation are
not included in this group. These one thousand worlds
adapted to support life are called a system, but in the
younger systems only a comparatively small number of
these worlds may be inhabited. Each inhabited planet is
presided over by a Planetary Prince, and each local
system has an architectural sphere as its headquarters
and is ruled by a System Sovereign.
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2. The
Constellation. One hundred systems (about 100,000
inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Each
constellation has an architectural headquarters sphere
and is presided over by three Vorondadek Sons, the Most
Highs. Each constellation also has a Faithful of Days in
observation, an ambassador of the Paradise Trinity.
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3. The Local
Universe. One hundred constellations (about
10,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a local
universe. Each local universe has a magnificent
architectural headquarters world and is ruled by one of
the co-ordinate Creator Sons of God of the order of
Michael. Each universe is blessed by the presence of a
Union of Days, a representative of the Paradise Trinity.
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4. The Minor
Sector. One hundred local universes (about
1,000,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a minor
sector of the superuniverse government; it has a
wonderful headquarters world, wherefrom its rulers, the
Recents of Days, administer the affairs of the minor
sector. There are three Recents of Days, Supreme Trinity
Personalities, on each minor sector headquarters.
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5. The Major
Sector. One hundred minor sectors (about
100,000,000,000 inhabitable worlds) make one major
sector. Each major sector is provided with a superb
headquarters and is presided over by three Perfections
of Days, Supreme Trinity Personalities.
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6. The
Superuniverse. Ten major sectors (about
1,000,000,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a
superuniverse. Each superuniverse is provided with an
enormous and glorious headquarters world and is ruled by
three Ancients of Days.
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7. The Grand
Universe. Seven superuniverses make up the present
organized grand universe, consisting of approximately
seven trillion inhabitable worlds plus the architectural
spheres and the one billion inhabited spheres of Havona.
The superuniverses are ruled and administered indirectly
and reflectively from Paradise by the Seven Master
Spirits. The billion worlds of Havona are directly
administered by the Eternals of Days, one such Supreme
Trinity Personality presiding over each of these perfect
spheres.
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Excluding the Paradise-Havona spheres, the plan of
universe organization provides for the following units:
Superuniverses. . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Major sectors . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Minor sectors . . . . . . . . . . 7,000
Local universes . . . . . . . . 700,000
Constellations. . . . . . . .70,000,000
Local systems . . . . . . 7,000,000,000
Inhabitable planets . 7,000,000,000,000
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Each of the seven superuniverses is constituted,
approximately, as follows:
One system embraces, approximately . . . . . . . . 1,000
worlds
One constellation (100 systems). . . . . . . . . 100,000
worlds
One universe (100 constellations). . . . . . .10,000,000
worlds
One minor sector (100 universes) . . . . . 1,000,000,000
worlds
One major sector (100 minor sectors) . . 100,000,000,000
worlds
One superuniverse (10 major sectors) . 1,000,000,000,000
worlds
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All such estimates are approximations at best, for new
systems are constantly evolving while other
organizations are temporarily passing out of material
existence.
3. THE SUPERUNIVERSE OF ORVONTON
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Practically all of the starry realms visible to the
naked eye on Urantia belong to the seventh section of
the grand universe, the superuniverse of Orvonton. The
vast Milky Way starry system represents the central
nucleus of Orvonton, being largely beyond the borders of
your local universe. This great aggregation of suns,
dark islands of space, double stars, globular clusters,
star clouds, spiral and other nebulae, together with
myriads of individual planets, forms a watchlike,
elongated-circular grouping of about one seventh of the
inhabited evolutionary universes.
15:3.2
From the astronomical position of Urantia, as you look
through the cross section of near-by systems to the
great Milky Way, you observe that the spheres of
Orvonton are traveling in a vast elongated plane, the
breadth being far greater than the thickness and the
length far greater than the breadth.
15:3.3
Observation of the so-called Milky Way discloses the
comparative increase in Orvonton stellar density when
the heavens are viewed in one direction, while on either
side the density diminishes; the number of stars and
other spheres decreases away from the chief plane of our
material superuniverse. When the angle of observation is
propitious, gazing through the main body of this realm
of maximum density, you are looking toward the
residential universe and the center of all things.
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Of the ten major divisions of Orvonton, eight have been
roughly identified by Urantian astronomers. The other
two are difficult of separate recognition because you
are obliged to view these phenomena from the inside. If
you could look upon the superuniverse of Orvonton from a
position far-distant in space, you would immediately
recognize the ten major sectors of the seventh galaxy.
15:3.5
The rotational center of your minor sector is situated
far away in the enormous and dense star cloud of
Sagittarius, around which your local universe and its
associated creations all move, and from opposite sides
of the vast Sagittarius subgalactic system you may
observe two great streams of star clouds emerging in
stupendous stellar coils.
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The nucleus of the physical system to which your sun and
its associated planets belong is the center of the
onetime Andronover nebula. This former spiral nebula was
slightly distorted by the gravity disruptions associated
with the events which were attendant upon the birth of
your solar system, and which were occasioned by the near
approach of a large neighboring nebula. This near
collision changed Andronover into a somewhat globular
aggregation but did not wholly destroy the two-way
procession of the suns and their associated physical
groups. Your solar system now occupies a fairly central
position in one of the arms of this distorted spiral,
situated about halfway from the center out towards the
edge of the star stream.
15:3.7
The Sagittarius sector and all other sectors and
divisions of Orvonton are in rotation around Uversa, and
some of the confusion of Urantian star observers arises
out of the illusions and relative distortions produced
by the following multiple revolutionary movements:
1. The revolution of Urantia around its sun.
2. The circuit of your solar system about the nucleus of
the former Andronover nebula.
3. The rotation of the Andronover stellar family and the
associated clusters about the composite rotation-gravity
center of the star cloud of Nebadon.
4. The swing of the local star cloud of Nebadon and its
associated creations around the Sagittarius center of
their minor sector.
5. The rotation of the one hundred minor sectors,
including Sagittarius, about their major sector.
6. The whirl of the ten major sectors, the so-called
star drifts, about the Uversa headquarters of Orvonton.
7. The movement of Orvonton and six associated
superuniverses around Paradise and Havona, the
counterclockwise processional of the superuniverse space
level.
15:3.8
These multiple motions are of several orders: The space
paths of your planet and your solar system are genetic,
inherent in origin. The absolute counterclockwise motion
of Orvonton is also genetic, inherent in the
architectural plans of the master universe. But the
intervening motions are of composite origin, being
derived in part from the constitutive segmentation of
matter-energy into the superuniverses and in part
produced by the intelligent and purposeful action of the
Paradise force organizers.
15:3.9
The local universes are in closer proximity as they
approach Havona; the circuits are greater in number, and
there is increased superimposition, layer upon layer.
But farther out from the eternal center there are fewer
and fewer systems, layers, circuits, and universes.
4. NEBULAE -- THE ANCESTORS OF UNIVERSES
15:4.1
While creation and universe organization remain forever
under the control of the infinite Creators and their
associates, the whole phenomenon proceeds in accordance
with an ordained technique and in conformity to the
gravity laws of force, energy, and matter. But there is
something of mystery associated with the universal
force-charge of space; we quite understand the
organization of the material creations from the
ultimatonic stage forward, but we do not fully
comprehend the cosmic ancestry of the ultimatons. We are
confident that these ancestral forces have a Paradise
origin because they forever swing through pervaded space
in the exact gigantic outlines of Paradise. Though
nonresponsive to Paradise gravity, this force-charge of
space, the ancestor of all materialization, does always
respond to the presence of nether Paradise, being
apparently circuited in and out of the nether Paradise
center.
15:4.2
The Paradise force organizers transmute space potency
into primordial force and evolve this prematerial
potential into the primary and secondary energy
manifestations of physical reality. When this energy
attains gravity-responding levels, the power directors
and their associates of the superuniverse regime appear
upon the scene and begin their never-ending
manipulations designed to establish the manifold power
circuits and energy channels of the universes of time
and space. Thus does physical matter appear in space,
and so is the stage set for the inauguration of universe
organization.
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This segmentation of energy is a phenomenon which has
never been solved by the physicists of Nebadon. Their
chief difficulty lies in the relative inaccessibility of
the Paradise force organizers, for the living power
directors, though they are competent to deal with
space-energy, do not have the least conception of the
origin of the energies they so skillfully and
intelligently manipulate.
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Paradise force organizers are nebulae originators; they
are able to initiate about their space presence the
tremendous cyclones of force which, when once started,
can never be stopped or limited until the all-pervading
forces are mobilized for the eventual appearance of the
ultimatonic units of universe matter. Thus are brought
into being the spiral and other nebulae, the mother
wheels of the direct-origin suns and their varied
systems. In outer space there may be seen ten different
forms of nebulae, phases of primary universe evolution,
and these vast energy wheels had the same origin as did
those in the seven superuniverses.
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Nebulae vary greatly in size and in the resulting number
and aggregate mass of their stellar and planetary
offspring. A sun-forming nebula just north of the
borders of Orvonton, but within the superuniverse space
level, has already given origin to approximately forty
thousand suns, and the mother wheel is still throwing
off suns, the majority of which are many times the size
of yours. Some of the larger nebulae of outer space are
giving origin to as many as one hundred million suns.
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Nebulae are not directly related to any of the
administrative units, such as minor sectors or local
universes, although some local universes have been
organized from the products of a single nebula. Each
local universe embraces exactly one
one-hundred-thousandth part of the total energy charge
of a superuniverse irrespective of nebular relationship,
for energy is not organized by nebulae -- it is
universally distributed.
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Not all spiral nebulae are engaged in sun making. Some
have retained control of many of their segregated
stellar offspring, and their spiral appearance is
occasioned by the fact that their suns pass out of the
nebular arm in close formation but return by diverse
routes, thus making it easy to observe them at one point
but more difficult to see them when widely scattered on
their different returning routes farther out and away
from the arm of the nebula. There are not many
sun-forming nebulae active in Orvonton at the present
time, though Andromeda, which is outside the inhabited
superuniverse, is very active. This far-distant nebula
is visible to the naked eye, and when you view it, pause
to consider that the light you behold left those distant
suns almost one million years ago.
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The Milky Way galaxy is composed of vast numbers of
former spiral and other nebulae, and many still retain
their original configuration. But as the result of
internal catastrophes and external attraction, many have
suffered such distortion and rearrangement as to cause
these enormous aggregations to appear as gigantic
luminous masses of blazing suns, like the Magellanic
Cloud. The globular type of star clusters predominates
near the outer margins of Orvonton.
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The vast star clouds of Orvonton should be regarded as
individual aggregations of matter comparable to the
separate nebulae observable in the space regions
external to the Milky Way galaxy. Many of the so-called
star clouds of space, however, consist of gaseous
material only. The energy potential of these stellar gas
clouds is unbelievably enormous, and some of it is taken
up by near-by suns and redispatched in space as solar
emanations.
5. THE ORIGIN OF SPACE BODIES
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The bulk of the mass contained in the suns and planets
of a superuniverse originates in the nebular wheels;
very little of superuniverse mass is organized by the
direct action of the power directors (as in the
construction of architectural spheres), although a
constantly varying quantity of matter originates in open
space.
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As to origin, the majority of the suns, planets, and
other spheres can be classified in one of the following
ten groups:
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1. Concentric
Contraction Rings. Not all nebulae are spiral. Many
an immense nebula, instead of splitting into a double
star system or evolving as a spiral, undergoes
condensation by multiple-ring formation. For long
periods such a nebula appears as an enormous central sun
surrounded by numerous gigantic clouds of encircling,
ring-appearing formations of matter.
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2. The Whirled
Stars embrace those suns which are thrown off the
great mother wheels of highly heated gases. They are not
thrown off as rings but in right- and left-handed
processions. Whirled stars are also of origin in
other-than-spiral nebulae.
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3.
Gravity-explosion Planets. When a sun is born of a
spiral or of a barred nebula, not infrequently it is
thrown out a considerable distance. Such a sun is highly
gaseous, and subsequently, after it has somewhat cooled
and condensed, it may chance to swing near some enormous
mass of matter, a gigantic sun or a dark island of
space. Such an approach may not be near enough to result
in collision but still near enough to allow the gravity
pull of the greater body to start tidal convulsions in
the lesser, thus initiating a series of tidal upheavals
which occur simultaneously on opposite sides of the
convulsed sun. At their height these explosive eruptions
produce a series of varying-sized aggregations of matter
which may be projected beyond the gravity-reclamation
zone of the erupting sun, thus becoming stabilized in
orbits of their own around one of the two bodies
concerned in this episode. Later on the larger
collections of matter unite and gradually draw the
smaller bodies to themselves. In this way many of the
solid planets of the lesser systems are brought into
existence. Your own solar system had just such an
origin.
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4. Centrifugal
Planetary Daughters. Enormous suns, when in certain
stages of development, and if their revolutionary rate
greatly accelerates, begin to throw off large quantities
of matter which may subsequently be assembled to form
small worlds that continue to encircle the parent sun.
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5.
Gravity-deficiency Spheres. There is a critical
limit to the size of individual stars. When a sun
reaches this limit, unless it slows down in
revolutionary rate, it is doomed to split; sun fission
occurs, and a new double star of this variety is born.
Numerous small planets may be subsequently formed as a
by-product of this gigantic disruption.
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6. Contractural
Stars. In the smaller systems the largest outer
planet sometimes draws to itself its neighboring worlds,
while those planets near the sun begin their terminal
plunge. With your solar system, such an end would mean
that the four inner planets would be claimed by the sun,
while the major planet, Jupiter, would be greatly
enlarged by capturing the remaining worlds. Such an end
of a solar system would result in the production of two
adjacent but unequal suns, one type of double star
formation. Such catastrophes are infrequent except out
on the fringe of the superuniverse starry aggregations.
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7. Cumulative
Spheres. From the vast quantity of matter
circulating in space, small planets may slowly
accumulate. They grow by meteoric accretion and by minor
collisions. In certain sectors of space, conditions
favor such forms of planetary birth. Many an inhabited
world has had such an origin.
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Some of the dense dark islands are the direct result of
the accretions of transmuting energy in space. Another
group of these dark islands have come into being by the
accumulation of enormous quantities of cold matter, mere
fragments and meteors, circulating through space. Such
aggregations of matter have never been hot and, except
for density, are in composition very similar to Urantia.
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8. Burned-out
Suns. Some of the dark islands of space are
burned-out isolated suns, all available space-energy
having been emitted. The organized units of matter
approximate full condensation, virtual complete
consolidation; and it requires ages upon ages for such
enormous masses of highly condensed matter to be
recharged in the circuits of space and thus to be
prepared for new cycles of universe function following a
collision or some equally revivifying cosmic happening.
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9. Collisional
Spheres. In those regions of thicker clustering,
collisions are not uncommon. Such an astronomic
readjustment is accompanied by tremendous energy changes
and matter transmutations. Collisions involving dead
suns are peculiarly influential in creating widespread
energy fluctuations. Collisional debris often
constitutes the material nucleuses for the subsequent
formation of planetary bodies adapted to mortal
habitation.
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10. Architectural
Worlds. These are the worlds which are built
according to plans and specifications for some special
purpose, such as Salvington, the headquarters of your
local universe, and Uversa, the seat of government of
our superuniverse.
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There are numerous other techniques for evolving suns
and segregating planets, but the foregoing procedures
suggest the methods whereby the vast majority of stellar
systems and planetary families are brought into
existence. To undertake to describe all the various
techniques involved in stellar metamorphosis and
planetary evolution would require the narration of
almost one hundred different modes of sun formation and
planetary origin. As your star students scan the
heavens, they will observe phenomena indicative of all
these modes of stellar evolution, but they will seldom
detect evidence of the formation of those small,
nonluminous collections of matter which serve as
inhabited planets, the most important of the vast
material creations.
6. THE SPHERES OF SPACE
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Irrespective of origin, the various spheres of space are
classifiable into the following major divisions:
1. The suns -- the stars of space.
2. The dark islands of space.
3. Minor space bodies -- comets, meteors, and
planetesimals.
4. The planets, including the inhabited worlds.
5. Architectural spheres -- worlds made to order.
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With the exception of the architectural spheres, all
space bodies have had an evolutionary origin,
evolutionary in the sense that they have not been
brought into being by fiat of Deity, evolutionary in the
sense that the creative acts of God have unfolded by a
time-space technique through the operation of many of
the created and eventuated intelligences of Deity.
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The Suns.
These are the stars of space in all their various stages
of existence. Some are solitary evolving space systems;
others are double stars, contracting or disappearing
planetary systems. The stars of space exist in no less
than a thousand different states and stages. You are
familiar with suns that emit light accompanied by heat;
but there are also suns which shine without heat.
15:6.4
The trillions upon trillions of years that an ordinary
sun will continue to give out heat and light well
illustrates the vast store of energy which each unit of
matter contains. The actual energy stored in these
invisible particles of physical matter is well-nigh
unimaginable. And this energy becomes almost wholly
available as light when subjected to the tremendous heat
pressure and the associated energy activities which
prevail in the interior of the blazing suns. Still other
conditions enable these suns to transform and send forth
much of the energy of space which comes their way in the
established space circuits. Many phases of physical
energy and all forms of matter are attracted to, and
subsequently distributed by, the solar dynamos. In this
way the suns serve as local accelerators of energy
circulation, acting as automatic power-control stations.
15:6.5
The superuniverse of Orvonton is illuminated and warmed
by more than ten trillion blazing suns. These suns are
the stars of your observable astronomic system. More
than two trillion are too distant and too small ever to
be seen from Urantia. But in the master universe there
are as many suns as there are glasses of water in the
oceans of your world.
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The Dark Islands
of Space. These are the dead suns and other large
aggregations of matter devoid of light and heat. The
dark islands are sometimes enormous in mass and exert a
powerful influence in universe equilibrium and energy
manipulation. The density of some of these large masses
is well-nigh unbelievable. And this great concentration
of mass enables these dark islands to function as
powerful balance wheels, holding large neighboring
systems in effective leash. They hold the gravity
balance of power in many constellations; many physical
systems which would otherwise speedily dive to
destruction in near-by suns are held securely in the
gravity grasp of these guardian dark islands. It is
because of this function that we can locate them
accurately. We have measured the gravity pull of the
luminous bodies, and we can therefore calculate the
exact size and location of the dark islands of space
which so effectively function to hold a given system
steady in its course.
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Minor Space
Bodies. The meteors and other small particles of
matter circulating and evolving in space constitute an
enormous aggregate of energy and material substance.
15:6.8
Many comets are unestablished wild offspring of the
solar mother wheels, which are being gradually brought
under control of the central governing sun. Comets also
have numerous other origins. A comet's tail points away
from the attracting body or sun because of the
electrical reaction of its highly expanded gases and
because of the actual pressure of light and other
energies emanating from the sun. This phenomenon
constitutes one of the positive proofs of the reality of
light and its associated energies; it demonstrates that
light has weight. Light is a real substance, not simply
waves of hypothetical ether.
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The Planets.
These are the larger aggregations of matter which follow
an orbit around a sun or some other space body; they
range in size from planetesimals to enormous gaseous,
liquid, or solid spheres. The cold worlds which have
been built up by the assemblage of floating space
material, when they happen to be in proper relation to a
near-by sun, are the more ideal planets to harbor
intelligent inhabitants. The dead suns are not, as a
rule, suited to life; they are usually too far away from
a living, blazing sun, and further, they are altogether
too massive; gravity is tremendous at the surface.
15:6.10
In your superuniverse not one cool planet in forty is
habitable by beings of your order. And, of course, the
superheated suns and the frigid outlying worlds are
unfit to harbor higher life. In your solar system only
three planets are at present suited to harbor life.
Urantia, in size, density, and location, is in many
respects ideal for human habitation.
15:6.11
The laws of physical-energy behavior are basically
universal, but local influences have much to do with the
physical conditions which prevail on individual planets
and in local systems. An almost endless variety of
creature life and other living manifestations
characterizes the countless worlds of space. There are,
however, certain points of similarity in a group of
worlds associated in a given system, while there also is
a universe pattern of intelligent life. There are
physical relationships among those planetary systems
which belong to the same physical circuit, and which
closely follow each other in the endless swing around
the circle of universes.
7. THE ARCHITECTURAL SPHERES
15:7.1
While each superuniverse government presides near the
center of the evolutionary universes of its space
segment, it occupies a world made to order and is
peopled by accredited personalities. These headquarters
worlds are architectural spheres, space bodies
specifically constructed for their special purpose.
While sharing the light of near-by suns, these spheres
are independently lighted and heated. Each has a sun
which gives forth light without heat, like the
satellites of Paradise, while each is supplied with heat
by the circulation of certain energy currents near the
surface of the sphere. These headquarters worlds belong
to one of the greater systems situated near the
astronomical center of their respective superuniverses.
15:7.2
Time is standardized on the headquarters of the
superuniverses. The standard day of the superuniverse of
Orvonton is equal to almost thirty days of Urantia time,
and the Orvonton year equals one hundred standard days.
This Uversa year is standard in the seventh
superuniverse, and it is twenty-two minutes short of
three thousand days of Urantia time, about eight and one
fifth of your years.
15:7.3
The headquarters worlds of the seven superuniverses
partake of the nature and grandeur of Paradise, their
central pattern of perfection. In reality, all
headquarters worlds are paradisiacal. They are indeed
heavenly abodes, and they increase in material size,
morontia beauty, and spirit glory from Jerusem to the
central Isle. And all the satellites of these
headquarters worlds are also architectural spheres.
15:7.4
The various headquarters worlds are provided with every
phase of material and spiritual creation. All kinds of
material, morontial, and spiritual beings are at home on
these rendezvous worlds of the universes. As mortal
creatures ascend the universe, passing from the material
to the spiritual realms, they never lose their
appreciation for, and enjoyment of, their former levels
of existence.
15:7.5
Jerusem, the
headquarters of your local system of Satania, has its
seven worlds of transition culture, each of which is
encircled by seven satellites, among which are the seven
mansion worlds of morontia detention, man's first
postmortal residence. As the term heaven has been used
on Urantia, it has sometimes meant these seven mansion
worlds, the first mansion world being denominated the
first heaven, and so on to the seventh.
15:7.6
Edentia, the
headquarters of your constellation of Norlatiadek, has
its seventy satellites of socializing culture and
training, on which ascenders sojourn upon the completion
of the Jerusem regime of personality mobilization,
unification, and realization.
15:7.7
Salvington,
the capital of Nebadon, your local universe, is
surrounded by ten university clusters of forty-nine
spheres each. Hereon is man spiritualized following his
constellation socialization.
15:7.8
Uminor the third,
the headquarters of your minor sector, Ensa, is
surrounded by the seven spheres of the higher physical
studies of the ascendant life.
15:7.9
Umajor the fifth,
the headquarters of your major sector, Splandon, is
surrounded by the seventy spheres of the advancing
intellectual training of the superuniverse.
15:7.10
Uversa, the
headquarters of Orvonton, your superuniverse, is
immediately surrounded by the seven higher universities
of advanced spiritual training for ascending will
creatures. Each of these seven clusters of wonder
spheres consists of seventy specialized worlds
containing thousands upon thousands of replete
institutions and organizations devoted to universe
training and spirit culture wherein the pilgrims of time
are re-educated and re-examined preparatory to their
long flight to Havona. The arriving pilgrims of time are
always received on these associated worlds, but the
departing graduates are always dispatched for Havona
direct from the shores of Uversa.
15:7.11
Uversa is the spiritual and administrative headquarters
for approximately one trillion inhabited or inhabitable
worlds. The glory, grandeur, and perfection of the
Orvonton capital surpass any of the wonders of the
time-space creations.
15:7.12
If all the projected local universes and their component
parts were established, there would be slightly less
than five hundred billion architectural worlds in the
seven superuniverses.
8. ENERGY CONTROL AND REGULATION
15:8.1
The headquarters spheres of the superuniverses are so
constructed that they are able to function as efficient
power-energy regulators for their various sectors,
serving as focal points for the directionization of
energy to their component local universes. They exert a
powerful influence over the balance and control of the
physical energies circulating through organized space.
15:8.2
Further regulative functions are performed by the
superuniverse power centers and physical controllers,
living and semiliving intelligent entities constituted
for this express purpose. These power centers and
controllers are difficult of understanding; the lower
orders are not volitional, they do not possess will,
they do not choose, their functions are very intelligent
but apparently automatic and inherent in their highly
specialized organization. The power centers and physical
controllers of the superuniverses assume direction and
partial control of the thirty energy systems which
comprise the gravita domain. The physical-energy
circuits administered by the power centers of Uversa
require a little over 968 million years to complete the
encirclement of the superuniverse.
15:8.3
Evolving energy has substance; it has weight, although
weight is always relative, depending on revolutionary
velocity, mass, and antigravity. Mass in matter tends to
retard velocity in energy; and the anywhere-present
velocity of energy represents: the initial endowment of
velocity, minus retardation by mass encountered in
transit, plus the regulatory function of the living
energy controllers of the superuniverse and the physical
influence of near-by highly heated or heavily charged
bodies.
15:8.4
The universal plan for the maintenance of equilibrium
between matter and energy necessitates the everlasting
making and unmaking of the lesser material units. The
Universe Power Directors have the ability to condense
and detain, or to expand and liberate, varying
quantities of energy.
15:8.5
Given a sufficient duration of retarding influence,
gravity would eventually convert all energy into matter
were it not for two factors: First, because of the
antigravity influences of the energy controllers, and
second, because organized matter tends to disintegrate
under certain conditions found in very hot stars and
under certain peculiar conditions in space near highly
energized cold bodies of condensed matter.
15:8.6
When mass becomes overaggregated and threatens to
unbalance energy, to deplete the physical power
circuits, the physical controllers intervene unless
gravity's own further tendency to overmaterialize energy
is defeated by the occurrence of a collision among the
dead giants of space, thus in an instant completely
dissipating the cumulative collections of gravity. In
these collisional episodes enormous masses of matter are
suddenly converted into the rarest form of energy, and
the struggle for universal equilibrium is begun anew.
Eventually the larger physical systems become
stabilized, become physically settled, and are swung
into the balanced and established circuits of the
superuniverses. Subsequent to this event no more
collisions or other devastating catastrophes will occur
in such established systems.
15:8.7
During the times of plus energy there are power
disturbances and heat fluctuations accompanied by
electrical manifestations. During times of minus energy
there are increased tendencies for matter to aggregate,
condense, and to get out of control in the more
delicately balanced circuits, with resultant tidal or
collisional adjustments which quickly restore the
balance between circulating energy and more literally
stabilized matter. To forecast and otherwise to
understand such likely behavior of the blazing suns and
the dark islands of space is one of the tasks of the
celestial star observers.
15:8.8
We are able to recognize most of the laws governing
universe equilibrium and to predict much pertaining to
universe stability. Practically, our forecasts are
reliable, but we are always confronted by certain forces
which are not wholly amenable to the laws of energy
control and matter behavior known to us. The
predictability of all physical phenomena becomes
increasingly difficult as we proceed outward in the
universes from Paradise. As we pass beyond the borders
of the personal administration of the Paradise Rulers,
we are confronted with increasing inability to reckon in
accordance with the standards established and the
experience acquired in connection with observations
having exclusively to do with the physical phenomena of
the near-by astronomic systems. Even in the realms of
the seven superuniverses we are living in the midst of
force actions and energy reactions which pervade all our
domains and extend in unified equilibrium on through all
regions of outer space.
15:8.9
The farther out we go, the more certainly we encounter
those variational and unpredictable phenomena which are
so unerringly characteristic of the unfathomable
presence-performances of the Absolutes and the
experiential Deities. And these phenomena must be
indicative of some universal overcontrol of all things.
15:8.10
The superuniverse of Orvonton is apparently now running
down; the outer universes seem to be winding up for
unparalleled future activities; the central Havona
universe is eternally stabilized. Gravity and absence of
heat (cold) organize and hold matter together; heat and
antigravity disrupt matter and dissipate energy. The
living power directors and force organizers are the
secret of the special control and intelligent direction
of the endless metamorphoses of universe making,
unmaking, and remaking. Nebulae may disperse, suns burn
out, systems vanish, and planets perish, but the
universes do not run down.
9. CIRCUITS OF THE SUPERUNIVERSES
15:9.1
The universal circuits of Paradise do actually pervade
the realms of the seven superuniverses. These presence
circuits are: the personality gravity of the Universal
Father, the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son, the
mind gravity of the Conjoint Actor, and the material
gravity of the eternal Isle.
15:9.2
In addition to the universal Paradise circuits and in
addition to the presence-performances of the Absolutes
and the experiential Deities, there function within the
superuniverse space level only two energy-circuit
divisions or power segregations: the superuniverse
circuits and the local universe circuits.
15:9.3
The Superuniverse
Circuits:
15:9.4
1. The unifying intelligence circuit of one of the Seven
Master Spirits of Paradise. Such a cosmic-mind circuit
is limited to a single superuniverse.
15:9.5
2. The reflective-service circuit of the seven
Reflective Spirits in each superuniverse.
15:9.6
3. The secret circuits of the Mystery Monitors, in some
manner interassociated and routed by Divinington to the
Universal Father on Paradise.
15:9.7
4. The circuit of the intercommunion of the Eternal Son
with his Paradise Sons.
15:9.8
5. The flash presence of the Infinite Spirit.
15:9.9
6. The broadcasts of Paradise, the space reports of
Havona.
15:9.10
7. The energy circuits of the power centers and the
physical controllers.
15:9.11
The Local
Universe Circuits:
15:9.12
1. The bestowal spirit of the Paradise Sons, the
Comforter of the bestowal worlds. The Spirit of Truth,
the spirit of Michael on Urantia.
15:9.13
2. The circuit of the Divine Ministers, the local
universe Mother Spirits, the Holy Spirit of your world.
15:9.14
3. The intelligence-ministry circuit of a local
universe, including the diversely functioning presence
of the adjutant mind-spirits.
15:9.15
When there develops such a spiritual harmony in a local
universe that its individual and combined circuits
become indistinguishable from those of the
superuniverse, when such identity of function and
oneness of ministry actually prevail, then does the
local universe immediately swing into the settled
circuits of light and life, becoming at once eligible
for admission into the spiritual confederation of the
perfected union of the supercreation. The requisites for
admission to the councils of the Ancients of Days,
membership in the superuniverse confederation, are:
15:9.16
1. Physical
Stability. The stars and planets of a local universe
must be in equilibrium; the periods of immediate stellar
metamorphosis must be over. The universe must be
proceeding on a clear track; its orbit must be safely
and finally settled.
15:9.17
2. Spiritual
Loyalty. There must exist a state of universal
recognition of, and loyalty to, the Sovereign Son of God
who presides over the affairs of such a local universe.
There must have come into being a state of harmonious
co-operation between the individual planets, systems,
and constellations of the entire local universe.
15:9.18
Your local universe is not even reckoned as belonging to
the settled physical order of the superuniverse, much
less as holding membership in the recognized spiritual
family of the supergovernment. Although Nebadon does not
yet have representation on Uversa, we of the
superuniverse government are dispatched to its worlds on
special missions from time to time, even as I have come
to Urantia directly from Uversa. We lend every possible
assistance to your directors and rulers in the solution
of their difficult problems; we are desirous of seeing
your universe qualified for full admission into the
associated creations of the superuniverse family.
10
. RULERS OF THE SUPERUNIVERSES
15:10.1
The headquarters of the superuniverses are the seats of
the high spiritual government of the time-space domains.
The executive branch of the supergovernment, taking
origin in the Councils of the Trinity, is immediately
directed by one of the Seven Master Spirits of supreme
supervision, beings who sit upon seats of Paradise
authority and administer the superuniverses through the
Seven Supreme Executives stationed on the seven special
worlds of the Infinite Spirit, the outermost satellites
of Paradise.
15:10.2
The superuniverse headquarters are the abiding places of
the Reflective Spirits and the Reflective Image Aids.
From this midway position these marvelous beings conduct
their tremendous reflectivity operations, thus
ministering to the central universe above and to the
local universes below.
15:10.3
Each superuniverse is presided over by three Ancients of
Days, the joint chief executives of the supergovernment.
In its executive branch the personnel of the
superuniverse government consists of seven different
groups:
1. Ancients of Days.
2. Perfectors of Wisdom.
3. Divine Counselors.
4. Universal Censors.
5. Mighty Messengers.
6. Those High in Authority.
7. Those without Name and Number.
15:10.4
The three Ancients of Days are immediately assisted by a
corps of one billion Perfectors of Wisdom, with whom are
associated three billion Divine Counselors. One billion
Universal Censors are attached to each superuniverse
administration. These three groups are Co-ordinate
Trinity Personalities, taking origin directly and
divinely in the Paradise Trinity.
15:10.5
The remaining three orders, Mighty Messengers, Those
High in Authority, and Those without Name and Number,
are glorified ascendant mortals. The first of these
orders came up through the ascendant regime and passed
through Havona in the days of Grandfanda. Having
attained Paradise, they were mustered into the Corps of
the Finality, embraced by the Paradise Trinity, and
subsequently assigned to the supernal service of the
Ancients of Days. As a class, these three orders are
known as Trinitized Sons of Attainment, being of dual
origin but now of Trinity service. Thus was the
executive branch of the superuniverse government
enlarged to include the glorified and perfected children
of the evolutionary worlds.
15:10.6
The co-ordinate council of the superuniverse is composed
of the seven executive groups previously named and the
following sector rulers and other regional overseers:
1. Perfections of Days -- the rulers of the
superuniverse major sectors.
2. Recents of Days -- the directors of the superuniverse
minor sectors.
3. Unions of Days -- the Paradise advisers to the rulers
of the local universes.
4. Faithfuls of Days -- the Paradise counselors to the
Most High rulers of the constellation governments.
5. Trinity Teacher Sons who may chance to be on duty at
superuniverse headquarters.
6. Eternals of Days who may happen to be present at
superuniverse headquarters.
7. The seven Reflective Image Aids -- the spokesmen of
the seven Reflective Spirits and through them
representatives of the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise.
15:10.7
The Reflective Image Aids also function as the
representatives of numerous groups of beings who are
influential in the superuniverse governments, but who
are not, at present, for various reasons, fully active
in their individual capacities. Embraced within this
group are: the evolving superuniverse personality
manifestation of the Supreme Being, the Unqualified
Supervisors of the Supreme, the Qualified Vicegerents of
the Ultimate, the unnamed liaison reflectivators of
Majeston, and the superpersonal spirit representatives
of the Eternal Son.
15:10.8
At almost all times it is possible to find
representatives of all groups of created beings on the
headquarters worlds of the superuniverses. The routine
ministering work of the superuniverses is performed by
the mighty seconaphim and by other members of the vast
family of the Infinite Spirit. In the work of these
marvelous centers of superuniverse administration,
control, ministry, and executive judgment, the
intelligences of every sphere of universal life are
mingled in effective service, wise administration,
loving ministry, and just judgment.
15:10.9
The superuniverses do not maintain any sort of
ambassadorial representation; they are completely
isolated from each other. They know of mutual affairs
only through the Paradise clearinghouse maintained by
the Seven Master Spirits. Their rulers work in the
councils of divine wisdom for the welfare of their own
superuniverses regardless of what may be transpiring in
other sections of the universal creation. This isolation
of the superuniverses will persist until such time as
their co-ordination is achieved by the more complete
factualization of the personality-sovereignty of the
evolving experiential Supreme Being.
11. THE DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLY
15:11.1
It is on such worlds as Uversa that the beings
representative of the autocracy of perfection and the
democracy of evolution meet face to face. The executive
branch of the supergovernment originates in the realms
of perfection; the legislative branch springs from the
flowering of the evolutionary universes.
15:11.2
The deliberative assembly of the superuniverse is
confined to the headquarters world. This legislative or
advisory council consists of seven houses, to each of
which every local universe admitted to the superuniverse
councils elects a native representative. These
representatives are chosen by the high councils of such
local universes from among the ascending-pilgrim
graduates of Orvonton who are tarrying on Uversa,
accredited for transport to Havona. The average term of
service is about one hundred years of superuniverse
standard time.
15:11.3
Never have I known of a disagreement between the
Orvonton executives and the Uversa assembly. Never yet,
in the history of our superuniverse, has the
deliberative body ever passed a recommendation that the
executive division of the supergovernment has even
hesitated to carry out. There always has prevailed the
most perfect harmony and working agreement, all of which
testifies to the fact that evolutionary beings can
really attain the heights of perfected wisdom which
qualifies them to consort with the personalities of
perfect origin and divine nature. The presence of the
deliberative assemblies on the superuniverse
headquarters reveals the wisdom, and foreshadows the
ultimate triumph, of the whole vast evolutionary concept
of the Universal Father and his Eternal Son.
12. THE SUPREME TRIBUNALS
15:12.1
When we speak of executive and deliberative branches of
the Uversa government, you may, from the analogy of
certain forms of Urantian civil government, reason that
we must have a third or judicial branch, and we do; but
it does not have a separate personnel. Our courts are
constituted as follows: There presides, in accordance
with the nature and gravity of the case, an Ancient of
Days, a Perfector of Wisdom, or a Divine Counselor. The
evidence for or against an individual, a planet, system,
constellation, or universe is presented and interpreted
by the Censors. The defense of the children of time and
the evolutionary planets is offered by the Mighty
Messengers, the official observers of the superuniverse
government to the local universes and systems. The
attitude of the higher government is portrayed by Those
High in Authority. And ordinarily the verdict is
formulated by a varying-sized commission consisting
equally of Those without Name and Number and a group of
understanding personalities chosen from the deliberative
assembly.
15:12.2
The courts of the Ancients of Days are the high review
tribunals for the spiritual adjudication of all
component universes. The Sovereign Sons of the local
universes are supreme in their own domains; they are
subject to the supergovernment only in so far as they
voluntarily submit matters for counsel or adjudication
by the Ancients of Days except in matters involving the
extinction of will creatures. Mandates of judgment
originate in the local universes, but sentences
involving the extinction of will creatures are always
formulated on, and executed from, the headquarters of
the superuniverse. The Sons of the local universes can
decree the survival of mortal man, but only the Ancients
of Days may sit in executive judgment on the issues of
eternal life and death.
15:12.3
In all matters not requiring trial, the submission of
evidence, the Ancients of Days or their associates
render decisions, and these rulings are always
unanimous. We are here dealing with the councils of
perfection. There are no disagreements nor minority
opinions in the decrees of these supreme and superlative
tribunals.
15:12.4
With certain few exceptions the supergovernments
exercise jurisdiction over all things and all beings in
their respective domains. There is no appeal from the
rulings and decisions of the superuniverse authorities
since they represent the concurred opinions of the
Ancients of Days and that Master Spirit who, from
Paradise, presides over the destiny of the superuniverse
concerned.
13. THE SECTOR GOVERNMENTS
15:13.1
A major sector
comprises about one tenth of a superuniverse and
consists of one hundred minor sectors, ten thousand
local universes, about one hundred billion inhabitable
worlds. These major sectors are administered by three
Perfections of Days, Supreme Trinity Personalities.
15:13.2
The courts of the Perfections of Days are constituted
much as are those of the Ancients of Days except that
they do not sit in spiritual judgment upon the realms.
The work of these major sector governments has chiefly
to do with the intellectual status of a far-flung
creation. The major sectors detain, adjudicate,
dispense, and tabulate, for reporting to the courts of
the Ancients of Days, all matters of superuniverse
importance of a routine and administrative nature which
are not immediately concerned with the spiritual
administration of the realms or with the outworking of
the mortal-ascension plans of the Paradise Rulers. The
personnel of a major sector government is no different
from that of the superuniverse.
15:13.3
As the magnificent satellites of Uversa are concerned
with your final spiritual preparation for Havona, so are
the seventy satellites of Umajor the fifth devoted to
your superuniverse intellectual training and
development. From all Orvonton, here are gathered
together the wise beings who labor untiringly to prepare
the mortals of time for their further progress towards
the career of eternity. Most of this training of
ascending mortals is conducted on the seventy study
worlds.
15:13.4
The minor sector
governments are presided over by three Recents of Days.
Their administration is concerned mainly with the
physical control, unification, stabilization, and
routine co-ordination of the administration of the
component local universes. Each minor sector embraces as
many as one hundred local universes, ten thousand
constellations, one million systems, or about one
billion inhabitable worlds.
15:13.5
Minor sector headquarters worlds are the grand
rendezvous of the Master Physical Controllers. These
headquarters worlds are surrounded by the seven
instruction spheres which constitute the entrance
schools of the superuniverse and are the centers of
training for physical and administrative knowledge
concerning the universe of universes.
15:13.6
The administrators of the minor sector governments are
under the immediate jurisdiction of the major sector
rulers. The Recents of Days receive all reports of
observations and co-ordinate all recommendations which
come up to a superuniverse from the Unions of Days who
are stationed as Trinity observers and advisers on the
headquarters spheres of the local universes and from the
Faithfuls of Days who are similarly attached to the
councils of the Most Highs at the headquarters of the
constellations. All such reports are transmitted to the
Perfections of Days on the major sectors, subsequently
to be passed on to the courts of the Ancients of Days.
Thus the Trinity regime extends from the constellations
of the local universes up to the headquarters of the
superuniverse. The local system headquarters do not have
Trinity representatives.
14. PURPOSES OF THE SEVEN SUPERUNIVERSES
15:14.1
There are seven major purposes which are being unfolded
in the evolution of the seven superuniverses. Each major
purpose in superuniverse evolution will find fullest
expression in only one of the seven superuniverses, and
therefore does each superuniverse have a special
function and a unique nature.
15:14.2
Orvonton, the seventh superuniverse, the one to which
your local universe belongs, is known chiefly because of
its tremendous and lavish bestowal of merciful ministry
to the mortals of the realms. It is renowned for the
manner in which justice prevails as tempered by mercy
and power rules as conditioned by patience, while the
sacrifices of time are freely made to secure the
stabilization of eternity. Orvonton is a universe
demonstration of love and mercy.
15:14.3
It is, however, very difficult to describe our
conception of the true nature of the evolutionary
purpose which is unfolding in Orvonton, but it may be
suggested by saying that in this supercreation we feel
that the six unique purposes of cosmic evolution as
manifested in the six associated supercreations are here
being interassociated into a meaning-of-the-whole; and
it is for this reason that we have sometimes conjectured
that the evolved and finished personalization of God the
Supreme will in the remote future and from Uversa rule
the perfected seven superuniverses in all the
experiential majesty of his then attained almighty
sovereign power.
15:14.4
As Orvonton is unique in nature and individual in
destiny, so also is each of its six associated
superuniverses. A great deal that is going on in
Orvonton is not, however, revealed to you, and of these
unrevealed features of Orvonton life, many are to find
most complete expression in some other superuniverse.
The seven purposes of superuniverse evolution are
operative throughout all seven superuniverses, but each
supercreation will give fullest expression to only one
of these purposes. To understand more about these
superuniverse purposes, much that you do not understand
would have to be revealed, and even then you would
comprehend but little. This entire narrative presents
only a fleeting glimpse of the immense creation of which
your world and local system are a part.
15:14.5
Your world is called Urantia, and it is number 606 in
the planetary group, or system, of Satania. This system
has at present 619 inhabited worlds, and more than two
hundred additional planets are evolving favorably toward
becoming inhabited worlds at some future time.
15:14.6
Satania has a headquarters world called Jerusem, and it
is system number twenty-four in the constellation of
Norlatiadek. Your constellation, Norlatiadek, consists
of one hundred local systems and has a headquarters
world called Edentia. Norlatiadek is number seventy in
the universe of Nebadon. The local universe of Nebadon
consists of one hundred constellations and has a capital
known as Salvington. The universe of Nebadon is number
eighty-four in the minor sector of Ensa.
15:14.7
The minor sector of Ensa consists of one hundred local
universes and has a capital called Uminor the third.
This minor sector is number three in the major sector of
Splandon. Splandon consists of one hundred minor sectors
and has a headquarters world called Umajor the fifth. It
is the fifth major sector of the superuniverse of
Orvonton, the seventh segment of the grand universe.
Thus you can locate your planet in the scheme of the
organization and administration of the universe of
universes.
15:14.8
The grand universe number of your world, Urantia, is
5,342,482,337,666. That is the registry number on Uversa
and on Paradise, your number in the catalogue of the
inhabited worlds. I know the physical-sphere registry
number, but it is of such an extraordinary size that it
is of little practical significance to the mortal mind.
15:14.9
Your planet is a member of an enormous cosmos; you
belong to a well-nigh infinite family of worlds, but
your sphere is just as precisely administered and just
as lovingly fostered as if it were the only inhabited
world in all existence.
15:14.10
Presented by a Universal Censor hailing from Uversa.
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