The Universe of Universes

12:2.1When Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers peer through their in­creas­ingly pow­er­ful tele­scopes into the mys­te­ri­ous stretches of outer space and there be­hold the amaz­ing evo­lu­tion of al­most count­less phys­i­cal uni­verses, they should re­al­ize that they are gaz­ing upon the mighty out­work­ing of the un­search­able plans of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse. True, we do pos­sess ev­i­dences which are sug­ges­tive of the pres­ence of cer­tain Par­a­dise per­son­al­ity in­flu­ences here and there through­out the vast en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions now char­ac­ter­is­tic of these outer re­gions, but from the larger view­point the space re­gions ex­tend­ing be­yond the outer bor­ders of the seven super­uni­verses are gen­er­ally rec­og­nized as con­sti­tut­ing the do­mains of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

12:2.2Al­though the un­aided hu­man eye can see only two or three neb­u­lae out­side the bor­ders of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, your tele­scopes lit­er­ally re­veal mil­lions upon mil­lions of these phys­i­cal uni­verses in pro­cess of for­ma­tion. Most of the starry realms vi­su­ally ex­posed to the search of your pres­ent-day tele­scopes are in Or­von­ton, but with pho­to­graphic tech­nique the larger tele­scopes pen­e­trate far be­yond the bor­ders of the grand uni­verse into the do­mains of outer space, where un­told uni­verses are in pro­cess of or­ga­ni­za­tion. And there are yet other mil­lions of uni­verses be­yond the range of your pres­ent in­stru­ments.

12:2.3In the not-dis­tant fu­ture, new tele­scopes will re­veal to the won­der­ing gaze of Uran­tian as­tron­o­mers no less than 375 mil­lion new galax­ies in the re­mote stretches of outer space. At the same time these more pow­er­ful tele­scopes will dis­close that many is­land uni­verses for­merly be­lieved to be in outer space are re­ally a part of the galac­tic sys­tem of Or­von­ton. The seven super­uni­verses are still grow­ing; the pe­riph­ery of each is grad­u­ally ex­pand­ing; new neb­u­lae are con­stantly be­ing sta­bi­lized and or­ga­nized; and some of the neb­u­lae which Uran­tian as­tron­o­mers re­gard as ex­tra­galac­tic are ac­tu­ally on the fringe of Or­von­ton and are trav­el­ing along with us.

12:2.4The Uversa star stu­dents ob­serve that the grand uni­verse is sur­rounded by the an­ces­tors of a se­ries of starry and plan­e­tary clus­ters which com­pletely en­cir­cle the pres­ent in­hab­ited cre­ation as con­cen­tric rings of outer uni­verses upon uni­verses. The physi­cists of Uversa cal­cu­late that the en­ergy and mat­ter of these outer and un­charted re­gions al­ready equal many times the to­tal ma­te­rial mass and en­ergy charge em­braced in all seven super­uni­verses. We are in­formed that the meta­mor­pho­sis of cos­mic force in these outer space lev­els is a func­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. We also know that these forces are an­ces­tral to those phys­i­cal en­er­gies which at pres­ent ac­ti­vate the grand uni­verse. The Or­von­ton power di­rec­tors, how­ever, have noth­ing to do with these far-dis­tant realms, nei­ther are the en­ergy move­ments therein dis­cernibly con­nected with the power cir­cuits of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations.

12:2.5We know very lit­tle of the sig­nif­i­cance of these tremen­dous phe­nom­ena of outer space. A greater cre­ation of the fu­ture is in pro­cess of for­ma­tion. We can ob­serve its im­men­sity, we can dis­cern its ex­tent and sense its ma­jes­tic di­men­sions, but oth­er­wise we know lit­tle more about these realms than do the as­tron­o­mers of Uran­tia. As far as we know, no ma­te­rial be­ings on the or­der of hu­mans, no an­gels or other spirit crea­tures, ex­ist in this outer ring of neb­u­lae, suns, and plan­ets. This dis­tant do­main is be­yond the ju­ris­dic­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ments.

12:2.6Through­out Or­von­ton it is be­lieved that a new type of cre­ation is in pro­cess, an or­der of uni­verses des­tined to be­come the scene of the fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties of the as­sem­bling Corps of the Fi­nal­ity; and if our con­jec­tures are cor­rect, then the end­less fu­ture may hold for all of you the same en­thralling spec­ta­cles that the end­less past has held for your se­niors and pre­de­ces­sors.