The Seven Superuniverses

15:7.1While each super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment pre­sides near the cen­ter of the evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses of its space seg­ment, it oc­cu­pies a world made to or­der and is peo­pled by ac­cred­ited per­son­al­i­ties. These head­quar­ters worlds are ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, space bod­ies specif­i­cally con­structed for their spe­cial pur­pose. While shar­ing the light of near-by suns, these spheres are in­de­pen­dently lighted and heated. Each has a sun which gives forth light with­out heat, like the satel­lites of Par­a­dise, while each is sup­plied with heat by the cir­cu­la­tion of cer­tain en­ergy cur­rents near the sur­face of the sphere. These head­quar­ters worlds be­long to one of the greater sys­tems sit­u­ated near the as­tro­nom­i­cal cen­ter of their re­spec­tive super­uni­verses.

15:7.2Time is stan­dard­ized on the head­quar­ters of the super­uni­verses. The stan­dard day of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton is equal to al­most thirty days of Uran­tia time, and the Or­von­ton year equals one hun­dred stan­dard days. This Uversa year is stan­dard in the sev­enth super­uni­verse, and it is twenty-two min­utes short of three thou­sand days of Uran­tia time, about eight and one fifth of your years.

15:7.3The head­quar­ters worlds of the seven super­uni­verses par­take of the na­ture and grandeur of Par­a­dise, their cen­tral pat­tern of per­fec­tion. In re­al­ity, all head­quar­ters worlds are par­a­di­si­a­cal. They are in­deed heav­enly abodes, and they in­crease in ma­te­rial size, mor­ontia beauty, and spirit glory from Je­ru­sem to the cen­tral Isle. And all the satel­lites of these head­quar­ters worlds are also ar­chi­tec­tural spheres.

15:7.4The var­i­ous head­quar­ters worlds are pro­vided with ev­ery phase of ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual cre­ation. All kinds of ma­te­rial, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual be­ings are at home on these ren­dezvous worlds of the uni­verses. As mor­tal crea­tures as­cend the uni­verse, pass­ing from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual realms, they never lose their ap­pre­ci­a­tion for, and en­joy­ment of, their for­mer lev­els of ex­is­tence.

15:7.5Je­ru­sem, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia, has its seven worlds of tran­si­tion cul­ture, each of which is en­cir­cled by seven satel­lites, among which are the seven man­sion worlds of mor­ontia de­ten­tion, man’s first post­mor­tal res­i­dence. As the term heaven has been used on Uran­tia, it has some­times meant these seven man­sion worlds, the first man­sion world be­ing de­nom­i­nated the first heaven, and so on to the sev­enth.

15:7.6Eden­tia, the head­quar­ters of your con­stel­la­tion of Nor­la­ti­adek, has its sev­enty satel­lites of so­cial­iz­ing cul­ture and train­ing, on which as­cend­ers so­journ upon the com­ple­tion of the Je­ru­sem regime of per­son­al­ity mo­bi­liza­tion, uni­fi­ca­tion, and re­al­iza­tion.

15:7.7Sal­ving­ton, the cap­i­tal of Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, is sur­rounded by ten uni­ver­sity clus­ters of forty-nine spheres each. Hereon is man spir­i­tu­al­ized fol­low­ing his con­stel­la­tion so­cial­iza­tion.

15:7.8Umi­nor the third, the head­quar­ters of your mi­nor sec­tor, Ensa, is sur­rounded by the seven spheres of the higher phys­i­cal stud­ies of the as­cen­dant life.

15:7.9Uma­jor the fifth, the head­quar­ters of your ma­jor sec­tor, Splan­don, is sur­rounded by the sev­enty spheres of the ad­vanc­ing in­tel­lec­tual train­ing of the super­uni­verse.

15:7.10Uversa, the head­quar­ters of Or­von­ton, your super­uni­verse, is im­me­di­ately sur­rounded by the seven higher uni­ver­si­ties of ad­vanced spir­i­tual train­ing for as­cend­ing will crea­tures. Each of these seven clus­ters of won­der spheres con­sists of sev­enty spe­cial­ized worlds con­tain­ing thou­sands upon thou­sands of re­plete in­sti­tu­tions and or­ga­ni­za­tions de­voted to uni­verse train­ing and spirit cul­ture wherein the pil­grims of time are re-ed­u­cated and re-ex­am­ined prepara­tory to their long flight to Ha­vona. The ar­riv­ing pil­grims of time are al­ways re­ceived on these as­so­ci­ated worlds, but the de­part­ing grad­u­ates are al­ways dis­patched for Ha­vona di­rect from the shores of Uversa.

15:7.11Uversa is the spir­i­tual and ad­min­is­tra­tive head­quar­ters for ap­prox­i­mately one tril­lion in­hab­ited or in­hab­it­able worlds. The glory, grandeur, and per­fec­tion of the Or­von­ton cap­i­tal sur­pass any of the won­ders of the time-space cre­ations.

15:7.12If all the pro­jected lo­cal uni­verses and their com­po­nent parts were es­tab­lished, there would be slightly less than five hun­dred bil­lion ar­chi­tec­tural worlds in the seven super­uni­verses.