The Urantia Book
PAPER 15
THE SEVEN SUPERUNIVERSES
Presented by a Universal Censor hailing from Uversa.
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.
15:0.2 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.
15:0.3 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
15:1.1 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.
15:1.3 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.
15:1.6 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
15:2.1 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.
15:2.2 There are seven superuniverses in the
grand universe, and they are constituted approximately as
follows:
15:2.3 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.
15:2.4 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.
15:2.5 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.
15:2.6 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.
15:2.7 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.
15:2.8 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.
15:2.9 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.
15:2.10 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
15:2.11 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
15:2.12 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
15:3.1 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.
15:3.4 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.
15:3.6 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.
15:4.3 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.
15:4.4 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.
15:4.5 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.
15:4.6 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.
15:4.7 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.
15:4.8 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.
15:4.9 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
15:5.1 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.
15:5.2 As to origin, the majority of the suns,
planets, and other spheres can be classified in one of the
following ten groups:
15:5.3 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.
15:5.4 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.
15:5.5 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.
15:5.6 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.
15:5.7 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.
15:5.8 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.
15:5.9 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.
15:5.10 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.
15:5.11 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.
15:5.12 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.
15:5.13 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.
15:5.14 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
15:6.1 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.
15:6.2 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.
15:6.3 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.
15:6.6 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.
15:6.7 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.
15:6.9 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.
