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==PAPER 15: THE SEVEN SUPERUNIVERSES==

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2:_The_Evolutionary_Antithesis first post-Havona space level]. The [[Seven Master Spirits]] radiate their [[influence]] out from the central Isle, thus [[constituting]] the vast creation one gigantic wheel, the hub being the eternal [[Isle of Paradise]], the seven spokes the radiations of the Seven Master Spirits, the rim the outer regions of the [[grand universe]].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2:_The_Evolutionary_Antithesis first post-Havona space level]. The [[Seven Master Spirits]] radiate their [[influence]] out from the central Isle, thus [[constituting]] the vast creation one gigantic wheel, the hub being the eternal [[Isle of Paradise]], the seven spokes the radiations of the Seven Master Spirits, the rim the outer regions of the [[grand universe]].

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15:0.2 Early in the [[materialization]] of the [[universal]] [[creation]] the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD sevenfold scheme] of the [[superuniverse]] [[organization]] and [[government]] was formulated. The first post-Havona creation was divided into seven stupendous segments, and the headquarters worlds of these superuniverse governments were [[designed]] and constructed. The present scheme of [[administration]] has existed from near [[eternity]], and the rulers of these seven superuniverses are rightly called [[Ancients of Days]].

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15:0.2 Early in the [[materialization]] of the [[universal]] [[creation]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#VIII._GOD_THE_SEVENFOLD sevenfold scheme] of the [[superuniverse]] [[organization]] and [[government]] was formulated. The first post-Havona creation was divided into seven stupendous segments, and the headquarters worlds of these superuniverse governments were [[designed]] and constructed. The present scheme of [[administration]] has existed from near [[eternity]], and the rulers of these seven superuniverses are rightly called [[Ancients of Days]].

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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]] [[force]]s, and the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#III._THE_FIRST_SOURCE_AND_CENTER 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 [[Understand|grasp]] the significance of the [[marvelous]] organization provided for their spiritual government and for the [[intellectual]] [[Progress|advancement]] of the [[will]] [[creatures]] who dwell on the myriads of [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets] scattered hither and yon throughout these seven superuniverses.

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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]] [[force]]s, and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_0_-_The_Foreword#III._THE_FIRST_SOURCE_AND_CENTER 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 [[Understand|grasp]] the significance of the [[marvelous]] organization provided for their spiritual government and for the [[intellectual]] [[Progress|advancement]] of the [[will]] [[creatures]] who dwell on the myriads of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets] scattered hither and yon throughout these seven superuniverses.

==15:1. THE SUPERUNIVERSE SPACE LEVEL==

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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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System 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.

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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]] [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:1._THE_DIVINE_RESIDENCE residence] of the Great Sources and Centers and the central universe of Havona. [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Display_diagram:_A_Simplified_Chart_of_the_Master_Universe 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.

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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]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:1._THE_DIVINE_RESIDENCE residence] of the Great Sources and Centers and the central universe of Havona. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Display_diagram:_A_Simplified_Chart_of_the_Master_Universe This position, with the corresponding one to the west], represents the nearest [[physical]] approach of the [[spheres]] of [[time]] to the [[eternal Isle]]. Superuniverse number two is in the north, preparing for the westward swing, while number three now holds the northernmost segment of the great space path, having already turned into the bend leading to the southerly plunge. Number four is on the comparatively straightaway southerly flight, the advance regions now approaching opposition to the Great Centers. Number five has about left its position opposite the Center of Centers while continuing on the direct southerly course just preceding the eastward swing; number six occupies most of the southern curve, the segment from which your superuniverse has nearly passed.

15:1.5 Your local universe of [[Nebadon]] belongs to [[Orvonton]], the seventh superuniverse, which swings on between superuniverses one and six, having not long since (as we reckon time) turned the southeastern bend of the superuniverse space level. Today, the [[solar system]] to which Urantia belongs is a few billion years past the swing around the southern curvature so that you are just now advancing beyond the southeastern bend and are moving swiftly through the long and comparatively straightaway northern path. For untold ages Orvonton will pursue this almost direct northerly course.

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==15:2. ORGANIZATION OF THE SUPERUNIVERSES==

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15:2.1 Only the [[Universal Father]] knows the location and actual [[number]] of [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] in space; he calls them all by [[name]] and number. I can give only the approximate number of inhabited or inhabitable planets, for some local universes have more worlds suitable for intelligent life than others. Nor have all projected [[local universes]] been [[organized]]. Therefore the estimates which I offer are solely for the [[purpose]] of affording some [[idea]] of the immensity of the [[material]] [[creation]].

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15:2.1 Only the [[Universal Father]] knows the location and actual [[number]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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:

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*1. 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 architectural sphere as its headquarters] and is ruled by a [[System Sovereign]].

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*1. 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_46 architectural sphere as its headquarters] and is ruled by a [[System Sovereign]].

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*2. 15:2.4 2. ''The Constellation''. One hundred systems (about 100,000 inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Each constellation has an [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS architectural headquarters] sphere and is presided over by three [[Vorondadek]] Sons, the [[Most Highs]]. Each constellation also has a [[Faithful of Days]] in [[observation]], an [[ambassador]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

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*2. 15:2.4 2. ''The Constellation''. One hundred systems (about 100,000 inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Each constellation has an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_43#43:1._THE_CONSTELLATION_HEADQUARTERS 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]].

*3. 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]] [[Satania|architectural headquarters]] world and is ruled by one of the co-ordinate [[Creator Sons]] of God of the order of Michael. Each universe is blessed by the presence of a [[Union of Days]], a [[representative]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]].

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*4. 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#18:5._THE_RECENTS_OF_DAYS Recents of Days], [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#PAPER_18:_THE_SUPREME_TRINITY_PERSONALITIES Supreme Trinity Personalities], on each minor sector headquarters.

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*4. 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#18:5._THE_RECENTS_OF_DAYS Recents of Days], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#PAPER_18:_THE_SUPREME_TRINITY_PERSONALITIES Supreme Trinity Personalities], on each minor sector headquarters.

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*5. 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#18:4._THE_PERFECTIONS_OF_DAYS Perfections of Days], Supreme Trinity Personalities.

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*5. 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#18:4._THE_PERFECTIONS_OF_DAYS Perfections of Days], Supreme Trinity Personalities.

*6. 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]].

*7. 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 [[Reflectivity|reflectively]] from [[Paradise]] by the [[Seven Master Spirits]]. The billion worlds of [[Havona]] are directly administered by the [[Eternals of Days]], one such Supreme Trinity Personality presiding over each of these perfect spheres.

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15:3.5 The rotational center of your minor sector is situated far away in the enormous and dense star cloud of [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_(constellation) 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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_nebula (?)]

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15:3.6 The [[nucleus]] of the physical system to which your sun and its associated planets belong is the center of the onetime [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:1._THE_ANDRONOVER_NEBULA Andronover] [[nebula]]. This former [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy spiral nebula] was slightly distorted by the [[gravity]] disruptions associated with the [[events]] which were attendant upon the [[birth]] of [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:5._ORIGIN_OF_MONMATIA.E2.80.94THE_URANTIA_SOLAR_SYSTEM 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.

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15:3.6 The [[nucleus]] of the physical system to which your sun and its associated planets belong is the center of the onetime [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:1._THE_ANDRONOVER_NEBULA Andronover] [[nebula]]. This former [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy spiral nebula] was slightly distorted by the [[gravity]] disruptions associated with the [[events]] which were attendant upon the [[birth]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:5._ORIGIN_OF_MONMATIA.E2.80.94THE_URANTIA_SOLAR_SYSTEM 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_(constellation) Sagittarius] sector and all other sectors and divisions of [[Orvonton]] are in rotation around [[Uversa]], and some of the [[confusion]] of Urantian [[Astronomy|star observers]] arises out of the [[illusions]] and [[relative]] distortions produced by the following multiple [[revolutionary]] [[Motion|movements]]:

*1. The revolution of Urantia around its sun.

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*2. The [[circuit]] of your [[solar system]] about the [[nucleus]] of the former [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:1._THE_ANDRONOVER_NEBULA Andronover nebula].

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*2. The [[circuit]] of your [[solar system]] about the [[nucleus]] of the former [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:1._THE_ANDRONOVER_NEBULA 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_(constellation) Sagittarius] [[center]] of their minor sector.

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*7. The [[Motion|movement]] of Orvonton and six associated superuniverses around [[Paradise]] and [[Havona]], the counterclockwise [[processional]] of the superuniverse space level.

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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]] [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS force organizers].

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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]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS force organizers].

15:3.9 The [[local universe]]s 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]].

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==15:4. NEBULAE—THE ANCESTORS OF UNIVERSES==

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15:4.1 While [[creation]] and [[universe]] [[organization]] remain forever under the [[control]] of the [[infinite]] [[Creators]] and their [[Supreme Creators|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 [[Matter|material]] creations from the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42_-_Energy_-_Mind_and_Matter#3._CLASSIFICATION_OF_MATTER ultimatonic stage] forward, but we do not fully [[comprehend]] the cosmic [[ancestry]] of the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42_-_Energy_-_Mind_and_Matter#6._ULTIMATONS.2C_ELECTRONS.2C_AND_ATOMS ultimatons]. We are [[confident]] that these ancestral forces have a [[Paradise]] [[origin]] because they forever swing through [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:7._SPACE_FUNCTIONS_OF_PARADISE pervaded space] in the exact gigantic [[outlines]] of [[Paradise]]. Though nonresponsive to [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:8._PARADISE_GRAVITY Paradise gravity], this force-charge of space, the [[ancestor]] of all [[materialization]], does always [[respond]] to the [[presence]] of [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:5._NETHER_PARADISE nether Paradise], being apparently circuited in and out of the nether [[Paradise]] [[center]].

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15:4.1 While [[creation]] and [[universe]] [[organization]] remain forever under the [[control]] of the [[infinite]] [[Creators]] and their [[Supreme Creators|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 [[Matter|material]] creations from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42_-_Energy_-_Mind_and_Matter#3._CLASSIFICATION_OF_MATTER ultimatonic stage] forward, but we do not fully [[comprehend]] the cosmic [[ancestry]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42_-_Energy_-_Mind_and_Matter#6._ULTIMATONS.2C_ELECTRONS.2C_AND_ATOMS ultimatons]. We are [[confident]] that these ancestral forces have a [[Paradise]] [[origin]] because they forever swing through [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:7._SPACE_FUNCTIONS_OF_PARADISE pervaded space] in the exact gigantic [[outlines]] of [[Paradise]]. Though nonresponsive to [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:8._PARADISE_GRAVITY Paradise gravity], this force-charge of space, the [[ancestor]] of all [[materialization]], does always [[respond]] to the [[presence]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:5._NETHER_PARADISE nether Paradise], being apparently circuited in and out of the nether [[Paradise]] [[center]].

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15:4.2 The [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS Paradise force organizers] [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#4._ENERGY_AND_MATTER_TRANSMUTATIONS 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29 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 [[Cosmic|universe]] [[organization]].

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15:4.2 The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS Paradise force organizers] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#4._ENERGY_AND_MATTER_TRANSMUTATIONS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29 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 [[Cosmic|universe]] [[organization]].

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15:4.3 This [[Fraction|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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS 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 [[Skill|skillfully]] and [[intelligently]] [[manipulate]].

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15:4.3 This [[Fraction|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS 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 [[Skill|skillfully]] and [[intelligently]] [[manipulate]].

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15:4.4 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#6._ULTIMATONS.2C_ELECTRONS.2C_AND_ATOMS ultimatonic units] of universe [[matter]]. Thus are brought into being the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy spiral] and other [[nebulae]], the mother wheels of the direct-origin [[suns]] and their varied [[Solar System|systems]]. In [[outer space]] there may be seen ten different forms of nebulae, [[phases]] of primary [[universe]] [[evolution]], and these vast energy wheels had the same origin as did those in the seven superuniverses.

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15:4.4 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#6._ULTIMATONS.2C_ELECTRONS.2C_AND_ATOMS ultimatonic units] of universe [[matter]]. Thus are brought into being the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy spiral] and other [[nebulae]], the mother wheels of the direct-origin [[suns]] and their varied [[Solar System|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.

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15:4.6 Nebulae are not directly related to any of the [[administrative]] [[units]], such as [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:13._THE_SECTOR_GOVERNMENTS minor sectors] or [[local universes]], although some local universes have been organized from the products of a single nebula. Each local universe [[embraces]] exactly one one-hundred-thousandth part of the total [[energy]] charge of a [[superuniverse]] irrespective of nebular [[relationship]], for energy is not organized by nebulae—it is universally distributed.

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15:4.6 Nebulae are not directly related to any of the [[administrative]] [[units]], such as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:13._THE_SECTOR_GOVERNMENTS 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy spiral nebulae] are engaged in sun making. Some have retained [[control]] of many of their segregated stellar offspring, and their spiral appearance is occasioned by the fact that their suns pass out of the nebular arm in close formation but return by [[diverse]] routes, thus making it easy to observe them at one point but more difficult to see them when widely scattered on their different returning routes farther out and away from the arm of the nebula. There are not many sun-forming nebulae active in [[Orvonton]] at the present time, though [[Andromeda]], which is outside the inhabited superuniverse, is very active. This far-distant nebula is visible to the naked eye, and when you view it, pause to consider that the light you behold left those distant suns almost one million years ago.

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==15:5. THE ORIGIN OF SPACE BODIES==

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29 power directors] (as in the construction of [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES architectural spheres]), although a constantly varying [[quantity]] of [[matter]] originates in open space.

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29 power directors] (as in the construction of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES 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:

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*5. 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission fission] occurs, and a new [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Star double star] of this variety is born. Numerous small planets may be subsequently formed as a by-product of this gigantic disruption.

*6. 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, [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter 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 [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Star double star] formation. Such [[catastrophes]] are infrequent except out on the fringe of the superuniverse starry aggregations.

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*7. 15:5.9 7. ''Cumulative Spheres''. From the vast [[quantity]] of matter circulating in [[space]], small planets may slowly accumulate. They grow by [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Fnature%2Fjournal%2Fv132%2Fn3346%2Fabs%2F132934b0.html&ei=G1h8S_jRAsuVtgeL__W6BQ&usg=AFQjCNHQOPRp5K3Mmq0d4I-OmM1pSbHWvQ&sig2=uaNqQ_9r_Xp8ZjnZ1u_OHw meteoric accretion] and by minor collisions. In certain sectors of space, conditions favor such forms of [[planetary]] [[birth]]. Many an [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited world] has had such an [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_41#41:10._ORIGIN_OF_INHABITED_WORLDS origin].

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*7. 15:5.9 7. ''Cumulative Spheres''. From the vast [[quantity]] of matter circulating in [[space]], small planets may slowly accumulate. They grow by [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Fnature%2Fjournal%2Fv132%2Fn3346%2Fabs%2F132934b0.html&ei=G1h8S_jRAsuVtgeL__W6BQ&usg=AFQjCNHQOPRp5K3Mmq0d4I-OmM1pSbHWvQ&sig2=uaNqQ_9r_Xp8ZjnZ1u_OHw meteoric accretion] and by minor collisions. In certain sectors of space, conditions favor such forms of [[planetary]] [[birth]]. Many an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited world] has had such an [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_41#41:10._ORIGIN_OF_INHABITED_WORLDS origin].

15:5.10 Some of the dense dark islands are the direct result of the [[accretion]]s of transmuting [[energy]] in space. Another [[group]] of these dark islands have come into being by the accumulation of enormous quantities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_dark_matter cold matter], mere fragments and meteors, circulating through space. Such aggregations of matter have never been hot and, except for [[density]], are in composition very similar to [[Urantia]].

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*8. 15:5.11 8. ''Burned-out Suns''. Some of the dark islands of space are burned-out isolated suns, all available [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#5._WAVE-ENERGY_MANIFESTATIONS 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_matter_physics 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]] [[Event|happening]].

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*8. 15:5.11 8. ''Burned-out Suns''. Some of the dark islands of space are burned-out isolated suns, all available [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#5._WAVE-ENERGY_MANIFESTATIONS 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_matter_physics 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]] [[Event|happening]].

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*9. 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]] [[change]]s and [[matter]] [[transmutation]]s. Collisions involving dead suns are peculiarly [[influential]] in creating widespread energy fluctuations. Collisional debris often constitutes the material [[nucleus]]es for the subsequent formation of planetary bodies adapted to [[mortal]] [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 habitation].

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*9. 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]] [[change]]s and [[matter]] [[transmutation]]s. Collisions involving dead suns are peculiarly [[influential]] in creating widespread energy fluctuations. Collisional debris often constitutes the material [[nucleus]]es for the subsequent formation of planetary bodies adapted to [[mortal]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 habitation].

*10. 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]].

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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 [[Solar System|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, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-solar_planets nonluminous collections] of matter which serve as [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets], the most important of the vast material creations.

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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 [[Solar System|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, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-solar_planets nonluminous collections] of matter which serve as [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets], the most important of the vast material creations.

==15:6. THE SPHERES OF SPACE==

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*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].

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*4. The [[planets]], including the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds].

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*4. The [[planets]], including the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds].

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*5. [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES Architectural spheres]—worlds made to order.

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*5. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES Architectural spheres]—worlds made to order.

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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]].

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15:6.2 With the exception of the [https://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.

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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]].

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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 [https://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.

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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]].

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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].

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15:6.10 In your [[superuniverse]] not one cool planet in forty is habitable by [[beings]] [https://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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 human habitation].

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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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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 [https://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]].

==15:7. THE ARCHITECTURAL SPHERES==

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#PAPER_13:_THE_SACRED_SPHERES_OF_PARADISE 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 [[system]]s situated near the [[astronomical]] center of their respective superuniverses.

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#PAPER_13:_THE_SACRED_SPHERES_OF_PARADISE 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 [[system]]s 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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period#Small_body_orbiting_a_central_body]

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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]].

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15:7.5 ''[[Jerusem]]'', the headquarters of your [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#PAPER_45:_THE_LOCAL_SYSTEM_ADMINISTRATION 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47_-_The_Seven_Mansion_Worlds#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first mansion world] being denominated the first heaven, and so on to the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47_-_The_Seven_Mansion_Worlds#47:9._THE_SEVENTH_MANSION_WORLD seventh].

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15:7.5 ''[[Jerusem]]'', the headquarters of your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45#PAPER_45:_THE_LOCAL_SYSTEM_ADMINISTRATION 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47_-_The_Seven_Mansion_Worlds#47:3_THE_FIRST_MANSION_WORLD first mansion world] being denominated the first heaven, and so on to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47_-_The_Seven_Mansion_Worlds#47:9._THE_SEVENTH_MANSION_WORLD seventh].

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15:7.6 ''[[Edentia]]'', the headquarters of your [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Constellation#PAPER_43:_THE_CONSTELLATIONS constellation] of [[Norlatiadek]], has its [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Constellation#43:8._THE_EDENTIA_TRAINING_WORLDS seventy satellites] of socializing [[culture]] and [[training]], on which ascenders sojourn upon the completion of the [[Jerusem]] regime of [[personality]] mobilization, [[unification]], and [[realization]].[~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_WORLDS]

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15:7.6 ''[[Edentia]]'', the headquarters of your [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Constellation#PAPER_43:_THE_CONSTELLATIONS constellation] of [[Norlatiadek]], has its [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Constellation#43:8._THE_EDENTIA_TRAINING_WORLDS seventy satellites] of socializing [[culture]] and [[training]], on which ascenders sojourn upon the completion of the [[Jerusem]] regime of [[personality]] mobilization, [[unification]], and [[realization]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_WORLDS]

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15:7.7 ''[[Salvington]]'', the capital of [[Nebadon]], your [[local universe]], is surrounded by [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_WORLDS ten university clusters] of forty-nine spheres each. Hereon is man spiritualized following his [[constellation]] socialization.

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15:7.7 ''[[Salvington]]'', the capital of [[Nebadon]], your [[local universe]], is surrounded by [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:3._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_WORLDS 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.

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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 [[institution]]s 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]].

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15:7.11 Uversa is the [[spiritual]] and [[administrative]] headquarters for approximately one trillion inhabited or [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabitable worlds]. The [[glory]], grandeur, and [[perfection]] of the [[Orvonton]] capital surpass any of the [[wonders]] of the [[time-space]] [[creations]].

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15:7.11 Uversa is the [[spiritual]] and [[administrative]] headquarters for approximately one trillion inhabited or [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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 [[part]]s were established, there would be slightly less than five hundred billion architectural worlds in the seven [[superuniverses]].

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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]].

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15:8.2 Further regulative functions are [[performed]] by the superuniverse [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:2._THE_SUPREME_POWER_CENTERS power centers] and [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:8._PARADISE_GRAVITY gravita domain]. The physical-energy [[circuits]] [[administered]] by the power centers of [[Uversa]] require a little over 968 million years to complete the [[Circulation|encirclement]] of the superuniverse.

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15:8.2 Further regulative functions are [[performed]] by the superuniverse [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:2._THE_SUPREME_POWER_CENTERS power centers] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:8._PARADISE_GRAVITY gravita domain]. The physical-energy [[circuits]] [[administered]] by the power centers of [[Uversa]] require a little over 968 million years to complete the [[Circulation|encirclement]] of the superuniverse.

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS living energy controllers] of the superuniverse and the [[physical]] [[influence]] of near-by highly heated or heavily charged bodies.

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS living energy controllers] of the superuniverse and the [[physical]] [[influence]] of near-by highly heated or heavily charged bodies.

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15:8.4 The [[universal]] plan for the [[maintenance]] of [[equilibrium]] between [[matter]] and [[energy]] [[necessitates]] the [[Eternal|everlasting]] making and unmaking of the lesser [[material]] [[units]]. The [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#PAPER_29:_THE_UNIVERSE_POWER_DIRECTORS Universe Power Directors] have the ability to condense and detain, or to expand and [[liberate]], varying [[quantities]] of energy.

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15:8.4 The [[universal]] plan for the [[maintenance]] of [[equilibrium]] between [[matter]] and [[energy]] [[necessitates]] the [[Eternal|everlasting]] making and unmaking of the lesser [[material]] [[units]]. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#PAPER_29:_THE_UNIVERSE_POWER_DIRECTORS 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_matter condensed matter].

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15:8.6 When mass becomes overaggregated and threatens to unbalance energy, to deplete the [[physical]] [[power]] [[circuits]], the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS 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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giants], 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.

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15:8.6 When mass becomes overaggregated and threatens to unbalance energy, to deplete the [[physical]] [[power]] [[circuits]], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS 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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giants], 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 [[Turbulence|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 [[Prediction|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]].

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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 [[Universe of Universes|universes]] from [[Paradise]]. As we pass beyond the borders of the [[personal]] [[administration]] of the [[Paradise Sons|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]].

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15:8.9 The farther out we go, the more certainly we encounter those variational and [[Random|unpredictable]] [[phenomena]] which are so unerringly characteristic of the [[Mystery|unfathomable]] [[presence]]-[[performances]] of [[the Absolutes]] and the experiential Deities. And these phenomena must be indicative of some [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL universal overcontrol] of all [[Everything|things]].

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15:8.9 The farther out we go, the more certainly we encounter those variational and [[Random|unpredictable]] [[phenomena]] which are so unerringly characteristic of the [[Mystery|unfathomable]] [[presence]]-[[performances]] of [[the Absolutes]] and the experiential Deities. And these phenomena must be indicative of some [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL universal overcontrol] of all [[Everything|things]].

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15:8.10 The [[superuniverse]] of [[Orvonton]] is apparently now running down; the [[Outer Space|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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:1._THE_SEVEN_SUPREME_POWER_DIRECTORS power directors] and [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS force organizers] are the [[secret]] of the special [[control]] and [[intelligent]] direction of the endless [[metamorphoses]] of universe making, unmaking, and remaking. [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulae Nebulae] may disperse, [[suns]] burn out, [[systems]] vanish, and [[planets]] perish, but the [[universes]] do not run down.

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15:8.10 The [[superuniverse]] of [[Orvonton]] is apparently now running down; the [[Outer Space|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:1._THE_SEVEN_SUPREME_POWER_DIRECTORS power directors] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:5._THE_MASTER_FORCE_ORGANIZERS force organizers] are the [[secret]] of the special [[control]] and [[intelligent]] direction of the endless [[metamorphoses]] of universe making, unmaking, and remaking. [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulae Nebulae] may disperse, [[suns]] burn out, [[systems]] vanish, and [[planets]] perish, but the [[universes]] do not run down.

==15:9. CIRCUITS OF THE SUPERUNIVERSES==

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15:9.1 The [[universal]] [[circuits]] of [[Paradise]] do actually pervade the realms of the seven [[superuniverses]]. These [[presence]] circuits are[~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:3._UNIVERSAL_GRAVITY]: the [[personality]] [[gravity]] of the [[Universal Father]], the [[spiritual]] [[gravity]] of the [[Eternal Son]], the [[mind]] [[gravity]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]], and the [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11_-_The_Eternal_Isle_of_Paradise#11:8._PARADISE_GRAVITY material gravity] of the eternal Isle.

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15:9.1 The [[universal]] [[circuits]] of [[Paradise]] do actually pervade the realms of the seven [[superuniverses]]. These [[presence]] circuits are[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:3._UNIVERSAL_GRAVITY]: the [[personality]] [[gravity]] of the [[Universal Father]], the [[spiritual]] [[gravity]] of the [[Eternal Son]], the [[mind]] [[gravity]] of the [[Conjoint Actor]], and the [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11_-_The_Eternal_Isle_of_Paradise#11:8._PARADISE_GRAVITY 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.

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*1. 15:9.3 ''The Superuniverse Circuits'':

**1. 15:9.4 The unifying [[intelligence]] circuit of one of the [[Seven Master Spirits]] of [[Paradise]]. Such a [[cosmic]]-[[mind]] [[circuit]] is limited to a single [[superuniverse]].

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**2. 15:9.5 The reflective-service circuit of the seven [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] in each [[superuniverse]].

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**2. 15:9.5 The reflective-service circuit of the seven [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] in each [[superuniverse]].

**3. 15:9.6 The [[secret]] circuits of the [[Mystery Monitors]], in some [[manner]] interassociated and routed by [[Divinington]] to the [[Universal Father]] on [[Paradise]].

**4. 15:9.7 The circuit of the inter[[communion]] of the [[Eternal Son]] with his [[Paradise Sons]].

**5. 15:9.8 The flash [[presence]] of the [[Infinite Spirit]].

**6. 15:9.9 The [[broadcasts]] of [[Paradise]], the [[space]] reports of [[Havona]].

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**7. 15:9.10 The energy circuits of the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:2._THE_SUPREME_POWER_CENTERS power centers] and the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS physical controllers].

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**7. 15:9.10 The energy circuits of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:2._THE_SUPREME_POWER_CENTERS power centers] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS physical controllers].

*2. 15:9.11 ''The Local Universe Circuits'':

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*1. 15:9.16 ''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.

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*2. 15:9.17 ''Spiritual Loyalty''. There must exist a [[state]] of [[universal]] recognition of, and [[loyalty]] to, the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY 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]], [[Satania|systems]], and [[constellations]] of the entire [[local universe]].

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*2. 15:9.17 ''Spiritual Loyalty''. There must exist a [[state]] of [[universal]] recognition of, and [[loyalty]] to, the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY 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]], [[Satania|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]].

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==15:10. RULERS OF THE SUPERUNIVERSES==

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:1._THE_SEVEN_SUPREME_EXECUTIVES Seven Supreme Executives] stationed on the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:4._THE_WORLDS_OF_THE_INFINITE_SPIRIT seven special worlds] of the [[Infinite Spirit]], the outermost [[satellites]] of [[Paradise]].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:1._THE_SEVEN_SUPREME_EXECUTIVES Seven Supreme Executives] stationed on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_13#13:4._THE_WORLDS_OF_THE_INFINITE_SPIRIT seven special worlds] of the [[Infinite Spirit]], the outermost [[satellites]] of [[Paradise]].

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15:10.2 The superuniverse headquarters are the abiding places of the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] and the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:4._THE_REFLECTIVE_IMAGE_AIDS Reflective Image Aids]. From this midway position these marvelous beings conduct their tremendous [[reflectivity]] operations, thus ministering to the [[Havona|central universe]] above and to the [[local universes]] below.

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15:10.2 The superuniverse headquarters are the abiding places of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:4._THE_REFLECTIVE_IMAGE_AIDS Reflective Image Aids]. From this midway position these marvelous beings conduct their tremendous [[reflectivity]] operations, thus ministering to the [[Havona|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:

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_19#PAPER_19:_THE_CO-ORDINATE_TRINITY-ORIGIN_BEINGS Co-ordinate Trinity Personalities], taking [[origin]] directly and divinely in the [[Paradise Trinity]].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_19#PAPER_19:_THE_CO-ORDINATE_TRINITY-ORIGIN_BEINGS Co-ordinate Trinity Personalities], taking [[origin]] directly and divinely in the [[Paradise Trinity]].

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:1._THE_TRINITY-EMBRACED_SONS 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary worlds].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_22#22:1._THE_TRINITY-EMBRACED_SONS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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:

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*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.

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*7. The seven [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:4._THE_REFLECTIVE_IMAGE_AIDS Reflective Image Aids]—the spokesmen of the seven [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] and through them [[representatives]] of the [[Seven Master Spirits]] of [[Paradise]].

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*7. The seven [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:4._THE_REFLECTIVE_IMAGE_AIDS Reflective Image Aids]—the spokesmen of the seven [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:3._THE_REFLECTIVE_SPIRITS Reflective Spirits] and through them [[representatives]] of the [[Seven Master Spirits]] of [[Paradise]].

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15:10.7 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:4._THE_REFLECTIVE_IMAGE_AIDS 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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_55#55:12._THE_SEVENTH_OR_SUPERUNIVERSE_STAGE Unqualified Supervisors of the Supreme], the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106#106:4._ULTIMATE_QUARTAN_INTEGRATION Qualified Vicegerents of the Ultimate], the unnamed [[liaison]] reflectivators of [[Majeston]], and the superpersonal [[spirit]] [[representatives]] of the [[Eternal Son]].

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15:10.7 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:4._THE_REFLECTIVE_IMAGE_AIDS 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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_55#55:12._THE_SEVENTH_OR_SUPERUNIVERSE_STAGE Unqualified Supervisors of the Supreme], the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106#106:4._ULTIMATE_QUARTAN_INTEGRATION Qualified Vicegerents of the Ultimate], the unnamed [[liaison]] reflectivators of [[Majeston]], and the superpersonal [[spirit]] [[representatives]] of the [[Eternal Son]].

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:3._THE_SECONAPHIM 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]].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_28#28:3._THE_SECONAPHIM 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]].

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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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislature legislative branch] springs from the flowering of the [[evolutionary]] [[universes]].

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15:11.2 The deliberative assembly of the superuniverse is confined to the [[Uversa|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.[~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15_-_The_Seven_Superuniverses#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES]

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15:11.2 The deliberative assembly of the superuniverse is confined to the [[Uversa|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.[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15_-_The_Seven_Superuniverses#15:7._THE_ARCHITECTURAL_SPHERES]

15:11.3 Never have I known of a disagreement between the [[Orvonton]] [[executive]]s 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]].

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==15:12. THE SUPREME TRIBUNALS==

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15:12.1 When we speak of [[executive]] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislature 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary 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]], [[Satania|system]], [[constellation]], or [[Local Universe|universe]] is presented and [[interpreted]] by the [[Universal Censors|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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:11._THE_DELIBERATIVE_ASSEMBLY deliberative assembly].

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15:12.1 When we speak of [[executive]] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislature 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 [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary 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]], [[Satania|system]], [[constellation]], or [[Local Universe|universe]] is presented and [[interpreted]] by the [[Universal Censors|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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_15#15:11._THE_DELIBERATIVE_ASSEMBLY deliberative assembly].

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15:12.2 The [[courts]] of the [[Ancients of Days]] are the high review tribunals for the [[spiritual]] [[adjudication]] of all component universes. The [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY 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 [[Death|extinction]] of [[will]] [[creatures]]. Mandates of [[judgment]] originate in the [[local universes]], but sentences involving the [[Death|extinction]] of will creatures are always formulated on, and [[executed]] from, the headquarters of the [[superuniverse]]. The [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 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]].

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15:12.2 The [[courts]] of the [[Ancients of Days]] are the high review tribunals for the [[spiritual]] [[adjudication]] of all component universes. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY 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 [[Death|extinction]] of [[will]] [[creatures]]. Mandates of [[judgment]] originate in the [[local universes]], but sentences involving the [[Death|extinction]] of will creatures are always formulated on, and [[executed]] from, the headquarters of the [[superuniverse]]. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35 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]].

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==15:13. THE SECTOR GOVERNMENTS==

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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]], [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#PAPER_18:_THE_SUPREME_TRINITY_PERSONALITIES Supreme Trinity Personalities].

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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]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_18#PAPER_18:_THE_SUPREME_TRINITY_PERSONALITIES 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]].

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending mortals] is conducted on the seventy [[study]] worlds.

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40 ascending mortals] is conducted on the seventy [[study]] worlds.

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 systems], or about [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 one billion inhabitable worlds].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 systems], or about [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 one billion inhabitable worlds].

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15:13.5 Minor sector headquarters worlds are the grand [[rendezvous]] of the [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS 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]].

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15:13.5 Minor sector headquarters worlds are the grand [[rendezvous]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_29#29:4._THE_MASTER_PHYSICAL_CONTROLLERS 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]].

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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 [[Satania|local system]] are a part.

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] at some [[future]] time.

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited worlds] at some [[future]] time.

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 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]].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_45 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]].

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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 [~~http~~://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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]].

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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 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 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]].

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