The Central and Divine Universe

14:1.1From the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise to the in­ner bor­ders of the seven super­uni­verses there are the fol­low­ing seven space con­di­tions and mo­tions:

14:1.21. The qui­es­cent midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise.

14:1.32. The clock­wise pro­ces­sional of the three Par­a­dise and the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits.

14:1.43. The semiquiet space zone sep­a­rat­ing the Ha­vona cir­cuits from the dark grav­ity bod­ies of the cen­tral uni­verse.

14:1.54. The in­ner, coun­ter­clock­wise-mov­ing belt of the dark grav­ity bod­ies.

14:1.65. The sec­ond unique space zone di­vid­ing the two space paths of the dark grav­ity bod­ies.

14:1.76. The outer belt of dark grav­ity bod­ies, re­volv­ing clock­wise around Par­a­dise.

14:1.87. A third space zone—a semiquiet zone—sep­a­rat­ing the outer belt of dark grav­ity bod­ies from the in­ner­most cir­cuits of the seven super­uni­verses.

14:1.9The bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona are ar­ranged in seven con­cen­tric cir­cuits im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing the three cir­cuits of Par­a­dise satel­lites. There are up­wards of thirty-five mil­lion worlds in the in­ner­most Ha­vona cir­cuit and over two hun­dred and forty-five mil­lion in the out­er­most, with pro­por­tion­ate num­bers in­ter­ven­ing. Each cir­cuit dif­fers, but all are per­fectly bal­anced and ex­qui­sitely or­ga­nized, and each is per­vaded by a spe­cial­ized rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, one of the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. In ad­di­tion to other func­tions this im­per­sonal Spirit co-or­di­nates the con­duct of ce­les­tial af­fairs through­out each cir­cuit.

14:1.10The Ha­vona plan­e­tary cir­cuits are not super­im­posed; their worlds fol­low each other in an or­derly lin­ear pro­ces­sion. The cen­tral uni­verse whirls around the sta­tion­ary Isle of Par­a­dise in one vast plane, con­sist­ing of ten con­cen­tric sta­bi­lized units—the three cir­cuits of Par­a­dise spheres and the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona worlds. Phys­i­cally re­garded, the Ha­vona and the Par­a­dise cir­cuits are all one and the same sys­tem; their sep­a­ra­tion is in rec­og­ni­tion of func­tional and ad­min­is­tra­tive seg­re­ga­tion.

14:1.11Time is not reck­oned on Par­a­dise; the se­quence of suc­ces­sive events is in­her­ent in the con­cept of those who are in­dige­nous to the cen­tral Isle. But time is ger­mane to the Ha­vona cir­cuits and to nu­mer­ous be­ings of both ce­les­tial and ter­res­trial ori­gin so­journ­ing thereon. Each Ha­vona world has its own lo­cal time, de­ter­mined by its cir­cuit. All worlds in a given cir­cuit have the same length of year since they uni­formly swing around Par­a­dise, and the length of these plan­e­tary years de­creases from the out­er­most to the in­ner­most cir­cuit.

14:1.12Be­sides Ha­vona-cir­cuit time, there is the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona stan­dard day and other time des­ig­na­tions which are de­ter­mined on, and are sent out from, the seven Par­a­dise satel­lites of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Par­a­dise-Ha­vona stan­dard day is based on the length of time re­quired for the plan­e­tary abodes of the first or in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit to com­plete one rev­o­lu­tion around the Isle of Par­a­dise; and though their ve­loc­ity is enor­mous, ow­ing to their sit­u­a­tion be­tween the dark grav­ity bod­ies and gi­gan­tic Par­a­dise, it re­quires al­most one thou­sand years for these spheres to com­plete their cir­cuit. You have un­wit­tingly read the truth when your eyes rested on the state­ment “A day is as a thou­sand years with God, as but a watch in the night.” One Par­a­dise-Ha­vona day is just seven min­utes, three and one-eighth sec­onds less than one thou­sand years of the pres­ent Uran­tia leap-year cal­en­dar.

14:1.13This Par­a­dise-Ha­vona day is the stan­dard time mea­sure­ment for the seven super­uni­verses, al­though each main­tains its own in­ter­nal time stan­dards.

14:1.14On the out­skirts of this vast cen­tral uni­verse, far out be­yond the sev­enth belt of Ha­vona worlds, there swirl an un­be­liev­able num­ber of enor­mous dark grav­ity bod­ies. These mul­ti­tudi­nous dark masses are quite un­like other space bod­ies in many par­tic­u­lars; even in form they are very dif­fer­ent. These dark grav­ity bod­ies nei­ther re­flect nor ab­sorb light; they are non­re­ac­tive to phys­i­cal-en­ergy light, and they so com­pletely en­cir­cle and en­shroud Ha­vona as to hide it from the view of even near-by in­hab­ited uni­verses of time and space.

14:1.15The great belt of dark grav­ity bod­ies is di­vided into two equal el­lip­ti­cal cir­cuits by a unique space in­tru­sion. The in­ner belt re­volves coun­ter­clock­wise; the outer re­volves clock­wise. These al­ter­nate di­rec­tions of mo­tion, cou­pled with the ex­traor­di­nary mass of the dark bod­ies, so ef­fec­tively equal­ize the lines of Ha­vona grav­ity as to ren­der the cen­tral uni­verse a phys­i­cally bal­anced and per­fectly sta­bi­lized cre­ation.

14:1.16The in­ner pro­ces­sion of dark grav­ity bod­ies is tubu­lar in ar­range­ment, con­sist­ing of three cir­cu­lar group­ings. A cross sec­tion of this cir­cuit would ex­hibit three con­cen­tric cir­cles of about equal den­sity. The outer cir­cuit of dark grav­ity bod­ies is ar­ranged per­pen­dic­u­larly, be­ing ten thou­sand times higher than the in­ner cir­cuit. The up-and-down di­am­e­ter of the outer cir­cuit is fifty thou­sand times that of the trans­verse di­am­e­ter.

14:1.17The in­ter­ven­ing space which ex­ists be­tween these two cir­cuits of grav­ity bod­ies is unique in that noth­ing like it is to be found else­where in all the wide uni­verse. This zone is char­ac­ter­ized by enor­mous wave move­ments of an up-and-down na­ture and is per­me­ated by tremen­dous en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of an un­known or­der.

14:1.18In our opin­ion, noth­ing like the dark grav­ity bod­ies of the cen­tral uni­verse will char­ac­ter­ize the fu­ture evo­lu­tion of the outer space lev­els; we re­gard these al­ter­nate pro­ces­sions of stu­pen­dous grav­ity-bal­anc­ing bod­ies as unique in the mas­ter uni­verse.