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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 [http://urantiabook.org/archive/science/bl_holes.htm dark islands] of space.
*3. Minor space bodies—[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comets comets], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteors meteors], and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetesimals planetesimals].
*4. The [[planets]], including the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds].
*5. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES Architectural spheres]—worlds made to order.
15:6.2 With the exception of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15_-_The_Seven_Superuniverses#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Core 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:5._NETHER_PARADISE space circuits]. Many [[phases]] of physical energy and all [[forms]] of [[matter]] are attracted to, and subsequently [[distributed]] by, the [[Suns|solar dynamos]]. In this way the suns serve as local accelerators of energy circulation, acting as [[automatic]] [[power]]-[[control]] [[Centers|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 ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes 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 [[Neighbor|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]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lensing] 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteors 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity electrical] [[reaction]] of its highly expanded [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas gas]es 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight weight]. Light is a real substance, not simply [[waves]] of hypothetical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetesimals 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]] [[Beings|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]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49#49:5._THE_PLANETARY_SERIES_OF_MORTALS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49#PAPER_49:_THE_INHABITED_WORLDS 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]].
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[[Category:Paper 15 - The Seven Superuniverses]]
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 [http://urantiabook.org/archive/science/bl_holes.htm dark islands] of space.
*3. Minor space bodies—[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comets comets], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteors meteors], and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetesimals planetesimals].
*4. The [[planets]], including the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds].
*5. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES Architectural spheres]—worlds made to order.
15:6.2 With the exception of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15_-_The_Seven_Superuniverses#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Core 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:5._NETHER_PARADISE space circuits]. Many [[phases]] of physical energy and all [[forms]] of [[matter]] are attracted to, and subsequently [[distributed]] by, the [[Suns|solar dynamos]]. In this way the suns serve as local accelerators of energy circulation, acting as [[automatic]] [[power]]-[[control]] [[Centers|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 ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes 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 [[Neighbor|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]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lensing] 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteors 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity electrical] [[reaction]] of its highly expanded [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas gas]es 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight weight]. Light is a real substance, not simply [[waves]] of hypothetical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetesimals 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]] [[Beings|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]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49#49:5._THE_PLANETARY_SERIES_OF_MORTALS 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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 [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49#PAPER_49:_THE_INHABITED_WORLDS 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]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15 Go to Paper 15]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 15 - The Seven Superuniverses]]