The Universe of Universes

12:1.1The uni­verse of uni­verses is not an in­fi­nite plane, a bound­less cube, nor a lim­it­less cir­cle; it cer­tainly has di­men­sions. The laws of phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion prove con­clu­sively that the whole vast ag­gre­ga­tion of force-en­ergy and mat­ter-power func­tions ul­ti­mately as a space unit, as an or­ga­nized and co-or­di­nated whole. The ob­serv­able be­hav­ior of the ma­te­rial cre­ation con­sti­tutes ev­i­dence of a phys­i­cal uni­verse of def­i­nite lim­its. The fi­nal proof of both a cir­cu­lar and de­lim­ited uni­verse is af­forded by the, to us, well-known fact that all forms of ba­sic en­ergy ever swing around the curved path of the space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse in obe­di­ence to the in­ces­sant and ab­so­lute pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity.

12:1.2The suc­ces­sive space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse con­sti­tute the ma­jor di­vi­sions of per­vaded space—to­tal cre­ation, or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited or yet to be or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited. If the mas­ter uni­verse were not a se­ries of el­lip­ti­cal space lev­els of less­ened re­sis­tance to mo­tion, al­ter­nat­ing with zones of rel­a­tive qui­es­cence, we con­ceive that some of the cos­mic en­er­gies would be ob­served to shoot off on an in­fi­nite range, off on a straight-line path into track­less space; but we never find force, en­ergy, or mat­ter thus be­hav­ing; ever they whirl, al­ways swing­ing on­ward in the tracks of the great space cir­cuits.

12:1.3Pro­ceed­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise through the hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space, the mas­ter uni­verse is ex­is­tent in six con­cen­tric el­lipses, the space lev­els en­cir­cling the cen­tral Isle:

12:1.41. The Cen­tral Uni­verse—Ha­vona.

12:1.52. The Seven Super­uni­verses.

12:1.63. The First Outer Space Level.

12:1.74. The Sec­ond Outer Space Level.

12:1.85. The Third Outer Space Level.

12:1.96. The Fourth and Out­er­most Space Level.

12:1.10Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, is not a time cre­ation; it is an eter­nal ex­is­tence. This never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing uni­verse con­sists of one bil­lion spheres of sub­lime per­fec­tion and is sur­rounded by the enor­mous dark grav­ity bod­ies. At the cen­ter of Ha­vona is the sta­tion­ary and ab­so­lutely sta­bi­lized Isle of Par­a­dise, sur­rounded by its twenty-one satel­lites. Ow­ing to the enor­mous en­cir­cling masses of the dark grav­ity bod­ies about the fringe of the cen­tral uni­verse, the mass con­tent of this cen­tral cre­ation is far in ex­cess of the to­tal known mass of all seven sec­tors of the grand uni­verse.

12:1.11The Par­a­dise-Ha­vona Sys­tem, the eter­nal uni­verse en­cir­cling the eter­nal Isle, con­sti­tutes the per­fect and eter­nal nu­cleus of the mas­ter uni­verse; all seven of the super­uni­verses and all re­gions of outer space re­volve in es­tab­lished or­bits around the gi­gan­tic cen­tral ag­gre­ga­tion of the Par­a­dise satel­lites and the Ha­vona spheres.

12:1.12The Seven Super­uni­verses are not pri­mary phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions; nowhere do their bound­aries di­vide a neb­u­lar fam­ily, nei­ther do they cross a lo­cal uni­verse, a prime cre­ative unit. Each super­uni­verse is sim­ply a ge­o­graphic space clus­ter­ing of ap­prox­i­mately one sev­enth of the or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited post-Ha­vona cre­ation, and each is about equal in the num­ber of lo­cal uni­verses em­braced and in the space en­com­passed. Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, is one of the newer cre­ations in Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

12:1.13The Grand Uni­verse is the pres­ent or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation. It con­sists of the seven super­uni­verses, with an ag­gre­gate evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tial of around seven tril­lion in­hab­ited plan­ets, not to men­tion the eter­nal spheres of the cen­tral cre­ation. But this ten­ta­tive es­ti­mate takes no ac­count of ar­chi­tec­tural ad­min­is­tra­tive spheres, nei­ther does it in­clude the out­ly­ing groups of un­or­ga­nized uni­verses. The pres­ent ragged edge of the grand uni­verse, its un­even and un­fin­ished pe­riph­ery, to­gether with the tremen­dously un­set­tled con­di­tion of the whole as­tro­nom­i­cal plot, sug­gests to our star stu­dents that even the seven super­uni­verses are, as yet, un­com­pleted. As we move from within, from the di­vine cen­ter out­ward in any one di­rec­tion, we do, even­tu­ally, come to the outer lim­its of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ation; we come to the outer lim­its of the grand uni­verse. And it is near this outer bor­der, in a far-off cor­ner of such a mag­nif­i­cent cre­ation, that your lo­cal uni­verse has its event­ful ex­is­tence.

12:1.14The Outer Space Lev­els. Far out in space, at an enor­mous dis­tance from the seven in­hab­ited super­uni­verses, there are as­sem­bling vast and un­be­liev­ably stu­pen­dous cir­cuits of force and ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing en­er­gies. Be­tween the en­ergy cir­cuits of the seven super­uni­verses and this gi­gan­tic outer belt of force ac­tiv­ity, there is a space zone of com­par­a­tive quiet, which varies in width but av­er­ages about four hun­dred thou­sand light-years. These space zones are free from star dust—cos­mic fog. Our stu­dents of these phe­nom­ena are in doubt as to the ex­act sta­tus of the space-forces ex­ist­ing in this zone of rel­a­tive quiet which en­cir­cles the seven super­uni­verses. But about one-half mil­lion light-years be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the pres­ent grand uni­verse we ob­serve the be­gin­nings of a zone of an un­be­liev­able en­ergy ac­tion which in­creases in vol­ume and in­ten­sity for over twenty-five mil­lion light-years. These tremen­dous wheels of en­er­giz­ing forces are sit­u­ated in the first outer space level, a con­tin­u­ous belt of cos­mic ac­tiv­ity en­cir­cling the whole of the known, or­ga­nized, and in­hab­ited cre­ation.

12:1.15Still greater ac­tiv­i­ties are tak­ing place be­yond these re­gions, for the Uversa physi­cists have de­tected early ev­i­dence of force man­i­fes­ta­tions more than fifty mil­lion light-years be­yond the out­er­most ranges of the phe­nom­ena in the first outer space level. These ac­tiv­i­ties un­doubt­edly presage the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial cre­ations of the sec­ond outer space level of the mas­ter uni­verse.

12:1.16The cen­tral uni­verse is the cre­ation of eter­nity; the seven super­uni­verses are the cre­ations of time; the four outer space lev­els are un­doubt­edly des­tined to even­tu­ate-evolve the ul­ti­macy of cre­ation. And there are those who main­tain that the In­fi­nite can never at­tain full ex­pres­sion short of in­fin­ity; and there­fore do they pos­tu­late an ad­di­tional and un­re­vealed cre­ation be­yond the fourth and out­er­most space level, a pos­si­ble ever-ex­pand­ing, never-end­ing uni­verse of in­fin­ity. In the­ory we do not know how to limit ei­ther the in­fin­ity of the Cre­ator or the po­ten­tial in­fin­ity of cre­ation, but as it ex­ists and is ad­min­is­tered, we re­gard the mas­ter uni­verse as hav­ing lim­i­ta­tions, as be­ing def­i­nitely de­lim­ited and bounded on its outer mar­gins by open space.