The Seven Superuniverses

15:4.1While cre­ation and uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion re­main for­ever un­der the con­trol of the in­fi­nite Cre­ators and their 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 ma­te­rial cre­ations from the ul­ti­ma­tonic stage for­ward, but we do not fully com­pre­hend the cos­mic an­ces­try of the ul­ti­ma­tons. We are con­fi­dent that these an­ces­tral forces have a Par­a­dise ori­gin be­cause they for­ever swing through per­vaded space in the ex­act gi­gan­tic out­lines of Par­a­dise. Though non­re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity, this force-charge of space, the an­ces­tor of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, does al­ways re­spond to the pres­ence of nether Par­a­dise, be­ing ap­par­ently cir­cuited in and out of the nether Par­a­dise cen­ter.

15:4.2The Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers 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 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 uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

15:4.3This 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 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 skill­fully and in­tel­li­gently ma­nip­u­late.

15:4.4Par­a­dise 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 ul­ti­ma­tonic units of uni­verse mat­ter. Thus are brought into be­ing the spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, the mother wheels of the di­rect-ori­gin suns and their var­ied 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.

15:4.5Neb­u­lae 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.

15:4.6Neb­u­lae are not di­rectly re­lated to any of the ad­min­is­tra­tive units, such as 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.

15:4.7Not all 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.

15:4.8The Milky Way galaxy is com­posed of vast num­bers of for­mer spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, and many still re­tain their orig­i­nal con­fig­u­ra­tion. But as the re­sult of in­ter­nal catas­tro­phes and ex­ter­nal at­trac­tion, many have suf­fered such dis­tor­tion and re­ar­range­ment as to cause these enor­mous ag­gre­ga­tions to ap­pear as gi­gan­tic lu­mi­nous masses of blaz­ing suns, like the Mag­el­lanic Cloud. The glob­u­lar type of star clus­ters pre­dom­i­nates near the outer mar­gins of Or­von­ton.

15:4.9The vast star clouds of Or­von­ton should be re­garded as in­di­vid­ual ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter com­pa­ra­ble to the sep­a­rate neb­u­lae ob­serv­able in the space re­gions ex­ter­nal to the Milky Way galaxy. Many of the so-called star clouds of space, how­ever, con­sist of gaseous ma­te­rial only. The en­ergy po­ten­tial of these stel­lar gas clouds is un­be­liev­ably enor­mous, and some of it is taken up by near-by suns and re­dis­patched in space as so­lar em­a­na­tions.