The Origin of Urantia

57:4.1The pri­mary stage of a neb­ula is cir­cu­lar; the sec­ondary, spi­ral; the ter­tiary stage is that of the first sun dis­per­sion, while the quar­tan em­braces the sec­ond and last cy­cle of sun dis­per­sion, with the mother nu­cleus end­ing ei­ther as a glob­u­lar clus­ter or as a soli­tary sun func­tion­ing as the cen­ter of a ter­mi­nal so­lar sys­tem.

57:4.275,000,000,000 years ago this neb­ula had at­tained the height of its sun-fam­ily stage. This was the apex of the first pe­riod of sun losses. The ma­jor­ity of these suns have since pos­sessed them­selves of ex­ten­sive sys­tems of plan­ets, satel­lites, dark is­lands, comets, me­te­ors, and cos­mic dust clouds.

57:4.350,000,000,000 years ago this first pe­riod of sun dis­per­sion was com­pleted; the neb­ula was fast fin­ish­ing its ter­tiary cy­cle of ex­is­tence, dur­ing which it gave ori­gin to 876,926 sun sys­tems.

57:4.425,000,000,000 years ago wit­nessed the com­ple­tion of the ter­tiary cy­cle of neb­u­lar life and brought about the or­ga­ni­za­tion and rel­a­tive sta­bi­liza­tion of the far-flung starry sys­tems de­rived from this par­ent neb­ula. But the pro­cess of phys­i­cal con­trac­tion and in­creased heat pro­duc­tion con­tin­ued in the cen­tral mass of the neb­u­lar rem­nant.

57:4.510,000,000,000 years ago the quar­tan cy­cle of And­ro­no­ver be­gan. The max­i­mum of nu­clear-mass tem­per­a­ture had been at­tained; the crit­i­cal point of con­den­sa­tion was ap­proach­ing. The orig­i­nal mother nu­cleus was con­vuls­ing un­der the com­bined pres­sure of its own in­ter­nal-heat con­den­sa­tion ten­sion and the in­creas­ing grav­ity-tidal pull of the sur­round­ing swarm of lib­er­ated sun sys­tems. The nu­clear erup­tions which were to in­au­gu­rate the sec­ond neb­u­lar sun cy­cle were im­mi­nent. The quar­tan cy­cle of neb­u­lar ex­is­tence was about to be­gin.

57:4.68,000,000,000 years ago the ter­rific ter­mi­nal erup­tion be­gan. Only the outer sys­tems are safe at the time of such a cos­mic up­heaval. And this was the be­gin­ning of the end of the neb­ula. This fi­nal sun dis­gorge­ment ex­tended over a pe­riod of al­most two bil­lion years.

57:4.77,000,000,000 years ago wit­nessed the height of the And­ro­no­ver ter­mi­nal breakup. This was the pe­riod of the birth of the larger ter­mi­nal suns and the apex of the lo­cal phys­i­cal dis­tur­bances.

57:4.86,000,000,000 years ago marks the end of the ter­mi­nal breakup and the birth of your sun, the fifty-sixth from the last of the And­ro­no­ver sec­ond so­lar fam­ily. This fi­nal erup­tion of the neb­u­lar nu­cleus gave birth to 136,702 suns, most of them soli­tary orbs. The to­tal num­ber of suns and sun sys­tems hav­ing ori­gin in the And­ro­no­ver neb­ula was 1,013,628. The num­ber of the so­lar sys­tem sun is 1,013,572.

57:4.9And now the great And­ro­no­ver neb­ula is no more, but it lives on in the many suns and their plan­e­tary fam­i­lies which orig­i­nated in this mother cloud of space. The fi­nal nu­clear rem­nant of this mag­nif­i­cent neb­ula still burns with a red­dish glow and con­tin­ues to give forth mod­er­ate light and heat to its rem­nant plan­e­tary fam­ily of one hun­dred and sixty-five worlds, which now re­volve about this ven­er­a­ble mother of two mighty gen­er­a­tions of the monar­chs of light.