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.
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.
