The Seven Superuniverses

15:1.1Within the lim­ited range of the rec­ords, ob­ser­va­tions, and mem­o­ries of the gen­er­a­tions of a mil­lion or a bil­lion of your short years, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, Uran­tia and the uni­verse to which it be­longs are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the ad­ven­ture of one long and un­charted plunge into new space; but ac­cord­ing to the rec­ords of Uversa, in ac­cor­dance with older ob­ser­va­tions, in har­mony with the more ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence and cal­cu­la­tions of our or­der, and as a re­sult of con­clu­sions based on these and other find­ings, we know that the uni­verses are en­gaged in an or­derly, well-un­der­stood, and per­fectly con­trolled pro­ces­sional, swing­ing in ma­jes­tic grandeur around the First Great Source and Cen­ter and his res­i­den­tial uni­verse.

15:1.2We have long since dis­cov­ered that the seven super­uni­verses tra­verse a great el­lipse, a gi­gan­tic and elon­gated cir­cle. Your so­lar sys­tem and other worlds of time are not plung­ing head­long, with­out chart and com­pass, into un­mapped space. The lo­cal uni­verse to which your sys­tem be­longs is pur­su­ing a def­i­nite and well-un­der­stood coun­ter­clock­wise course around the vast swing that en­cir­cles the cen­tral uni­verse. This cos­mic path is well charted and is just as thor­oughly known to the super­uni­verse star ob­servers as the or­bits of the plan­ets con­sti­tut­ing your so­lar sys­tem are known to Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers.

15:1.3Uran­tia 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 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.

15:1.4In 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 res­i­dence of the Great Sources and Cen­ters and the cen­tral uni­verse of Ha­vona. 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.

15:1.5Your 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.

15:1.6Uran­tia be­longs to a sys­tem which is well out to­wards the bor­der­land of your lo­cal uni­verse; and your lo­cal uni­verse is at pres­ent travers­ing the pe­riph­ery of Or­von­ton. Be­yond you there are still oth­ers, but you are far re­moved in space from those phys­i­cal sys­tems which swing around the great cir­cle in com­par­a­tive prox­im­ity to the Great Source and Cen­ter.