Andronover nebula

• earth’s sun originated in

15:3.6The nu­cleus of the phys­i­cal sys­tem to which your sun and its as­so­ci­ated plan­ets be­long is the cen­ter of the one­time And­ro­no­ver neb­ula. This for­mer spi­ral neb­ula was slightly dis­torted by the grav­ity dis­rup­tions as­so­ci­ated with the events which were at­ten­dant upon the birth of your so­lar sys­tem, and which were oc­ca­sioned by the near ap­proach of a large neigh­bor­ing neb­ula. This near col­li­sion changed And­ro­no­ver into a some­what glob­u­lar ag­gre­ga­tion but did not wholly de­stroy the two-way pro­ces­sion of the suns and their as­so­ci­ated phys­i­cal groups. Your so­lar sys­tem now oc­cu­pies a fairly cen­tral po­si­tion in one of the arms of this dis­torted spi­ral, sit­u­ated about half­way from the cen­ter out to­wards the edge of the star stream.

• Monmatia revolves around

15:3.92. The cir­cuit of your so­lar sys­tem about the nu­cleus of the for­mer And­ro­no­ver neb­ula.

• revolves around star cloud of Nebadon

15:3.103. The ro­ta­tion of the And­ro­no­ver stel­lar fam­ily and the as­so­ci­ated clus­ters about the com­pos­ite ro­ta­tion-grav­ity cen­ter of the star cloud of Neb­a­don.

• Nebadon partially assembled from

41:0.3One or more—even many—such neb­u­lae may be en­com­passed within the do­main of a sin­gle lo­cal uni­verse even as Neb­a­don was phys­i­cally as­sem­bled out of the stel­lar and plan­e­tary progeny of And­ro­no­ver and other neb­u­lae. The spheres of Neb­a­don are of di­verse neb­u­lar an­ces­try, but they all had a cer­tain min­i­mum com­mon­ness of space mo­tion which was so ad­justed by the in­tel­li­gent ef­forts of the power di­rec­tors as to pro­duce our pres­ent ag­gre­ga­tion of space bod­ies, which travel along to­gether as a con­tigu­ous unit over the or­bits of the super­uni­verse.

• earth’s sun originated in

57:1.1Uran­tia is of ori­gin in your sun, and your sun is one of the mul­ti­far­i­ous off­spring of the And­ro­no­ver neb­ula, which was one­time or­ga­nized as a com­po­nent part of the phys­i­cal power and ma­te­rial mat­ter of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. And this great neb­ula it­self took ori­gin in the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space in the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton, long, long ago.

57:1.2At the time of the be­gin­ning of this recital, the Pri­mary Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers of Par­a­dise had long been in full con­trol of the space-en­er­gies which were later or­ga­nized as the And­ro­no­ver neb­ula.

57:1.3987,000,000,000 years ago as­so­ciate force or­ga­nizer and then act­ing in­spec­tor num­ber 811,307 of the Or­von­ton se­ries, trav­el­ing out from Uversa, re­ported to the An­cients of Days that space con­di­tions were fa­vor­able for the ini­ti­a­tion of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion phe­nom­ena in a cer­tain sec­tor of the, then, east­erly seg­ment of Or­von­ton.

57:1.4900,000,000,000 years ago, the Uversa ar­chives tes­tify, there was re­corded a per­mit is­sued by the Uversa Coun­cil of Equi­lib­rium to the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment au­tho­riz­ing the dis­patch of a force or­ga­nizer and staff to the re­gion pre­vi­ously des­ig­nated by in­spec­tor num­ber 811,307. The Or­von­ton au­thor­i­ties com­mis­sioned the orig­i­nal dis­cov­erer of this po­ten­tial uni­verse to ex­e­cute the man­date of the An­cients of Days call­ing for the or­ga­ni­za­tion of a new ma­te­rial cre­ation.

57:1.5The record­ing of this per­mit sig­ni­fies that the force or­ga­nizer and staff had al­ready de­parted from Uversa on the long jour­ney to that east­erly space sec­tor where they were sub­se­quently to en­gage in those pro­tracted ac­tiv­i­ties which would ter­mi­nate in the emer­gence of a new phys­i­cal cre­ation in Or­von­ton.

• initiated 875 billion years ago
• nebula #876,926

57:1.6875,000,000,000 years ago the enor­mous And­ro­no­ver neb­ula num­ber 876,926 was duly ini­ti­ated. Only the pres­ence of the force or­ga­nizer and the li­ai­son staff was re­quired to in­au­gu­rate the en­ergy whirl which even­tu­ally grew into this vast cy­clone of space. Sub­se­quent to the ini­ti­a­tion of such neb­u­lar rev­o­lu­tions, the liv­ing force or­ga­niz­ers sim­ply with­draw at right an­gles to the plane of the rev­o­lu­tion­ary disk, and from that time for­ward, the in­her­ent qual­i­ties of en­ergy in­sure the pro­gres­sive and or­derly evo­lu­tion of such a new phys­i­cal sys­tem.

57:1.7At about this time the nar­ra­tive shifts to the func­tion­ing of the per­son­al­i­ties of the super­uni­verse. In re­al­ity the story has its proper be­gin­ning at this point—at just about the time the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers are prepar­ing to with­draw, hav­ing made the space-en­ergy con­di­tions ready for the ac­tion of the power di­rec­tors and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers of the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton.

57:2.1All evo­lu­tion­ary ma­te­rial cre­ations are born of cir­cu­lar and gaseous neb­u­lae, and all such pri­mary neb­u­lae are cir­cu­lar through­out the early part of their gaseous ex­is­tence. As they grow older, they usu­ally be­come spi­ral, and when their func­tion of sun for­ma­tion has run its course, they of­ten ter­mi­nate as clus­ters of stars or as enor­mous suns sur­rounded by a vary­ing num­ber of plan­ets, satel­lites, and smaller groups of mat­ter in many ways re­sem­bling your own diminu­tive so­lar sys­tem.

• 1,013,628 Orvonton suns took origin in

57:2.2800,000,000,000 years ago the And­ro­no­ver cre­ation was well es­tab­lished as one of the mag­nif­i­cent pri­mary neb­u­lae of Or­von­ton. As the as­tron­o­mers of near-by uni­verses looked out upon this phe­nom­e­non of space, they saw very lit­tle to at­tract their at­ten­tion. Grav­ity es­ti­mates made in ad­ja­cent cre­ations in­di­cated that space ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions were tak­ing place in the And­ro­no­ver re­gions, but that was all.

57:2.3700,000,000,000 years ago the And­ro­no­ver sys­tem was as­sum­ing gi­gan­tic pro­por­tions, and ad­di­tional phys­i­cal con­trol­lers were dis­patched to nine sur­round­ing ma­te­rial cre­ations to af­ford sup­port and sup­ply co-op­er­a­tion to the power cen­ters of this new ma­te­rial sys­tem which was so rapidly evolv­ing. At this dis­tant date all of the ma­te­rial be­queathed to the sub­se­quent cre­ations was held within the con­fines of this gi­gan­tic space wheel, which con­tin­ued ever to whirl and, af­ter reach­ing its max­i­mum of di­am­e­ter, to whirl faster and faster as it con­tin­ued to con­dense and con­tract.

57:2.4600,000,000,000 years ago the height of the And­ro­no­ver en­ergy-mo­bi­liza­tion pe­riod was at­tained; the neb­ula had ac­quired its max­i­mum of mass. At this time it was a gi­gan­tic cir­cu­lar gas cloud in shape some­what like a flat­tened spheroid. This was the early pe­riod of dif­fer­en­tial mass for­ma­tion and vary­ing rev­o­lu­tion­ary ve­loc­ity. Grav­ity and other in­flu­ences were about to be­gin their work of con­vert­ing space gases into or­ga­nized mat­ter.

57:3.1The enor­mous neb­ula now be­gan grad­u­ally to as­sume the spi­ral form and to be­come clearly vis­i­ble to the as­tron­o­mers of even dis­tant uni­verses. This is the nat­u­ral his­tory of most neb­u­lae; be­fore they be­gin to throw off suns and start upon the work of uni­verse build­ing, these sec­ondary space neb­u­lae are usu­ally ob­served as spi­ral phe­nom­ena.

57:3.2The near-by star stu­dents of that far­away era, as they ob­served this meta­mor­pho­sis of the And­ro­no­ver neb­ula, saw ex­actly what twen­ti­eth-cen­tury as­tron­o­mers see when they turn their tele­scopes space­ward and view the pres­ent-age spi­ral neb­u­lae of ad­ja­cent outer space.

57:3.3About the time of the at­tain­ment of the max­i­mum of mass, the grav­ity con­trol of the gaseous con­tent com­menced to weaken, and there en­sued the stage of gas es­cape­ment, the gas stream­ing forth as two gi­gan­tic and dis­tinct arms, which took ori­gin on op­po­site sides of the mother mass. The rapid rev­o­lu­tions of this enor­mous cen­tral core soon im­parted a spi­ral ap­pear­ance to these two pro­ject­ing gas streams. The cool­ing and sub­se­quent con­den­sa­tion of por­tions of these pro­trud­ing arms even­tu­ally pro­duced their knot­ted ap­pear­ance. These denser por­tions were vast sys­tems and sub­sys­tems of phys­i­cal mat­ter whirling through space in the midst of the gaseous cloud of the neb­ula while be­ing held se­curely within the grav­ity grasp of the mother wheel.

57:3.4But the neb­ula had be­gun to con­tract, and the in­crease in the rate of rev­o­lu­tion fur­ther less­ened grav­ity con­trol; and ere­long, the outer gaseous re­gions be­gan ac­tu­ally to es­cape from the im­me­di­ate em­brace of the neb­u­lar nu­cleus, pass­ing out into space on cir­cuits of ir­reg­u­lar out­line, re­turn­ing to the nu­clear re­gions to com­plete their cir­cuits, and so on. But this was only a tem­po­rary stage of neb­u­lar pro­gres­sion. The ever-in­creas­ing rate of whirling was soon to throw enor­mous suns off into space on in­de­pen­dent cir­cuits.

57:3.5And this is what hap­pened in And­ro­no­ver ages upon ages ago. The en­ergy wheel grew and grew un­til it at­tained its max­i­mum of ex­pan­sion, and then, when con­trac­tion set in, it whirled on faster and faster un­til, even­tu­ally, the crit­i­cal cen­trifu­gal stage was reached and the great breakup be­gan.

57:3.6500,000,000,000 years ago the first And­ro­no­ver sun was born. This blaz­ing streak broke away from the mother grav­ity grasp and tore out into space on an in­de­pen­dent ad­ven­ture in the cos­mos of cre­ation. Its or­bit was de­ter­mined by its path of es­cape. Such young suns quickly be­come spher­i­cal and start out on their long and event­ful ca­reers as the stars of space. Ex­cept­ing ter­mi­nal neb­u­lar nu­cle­uses, the vast ma­jor­ity of Or­von­ton suns have had an anal­o­gous birth. These es­cap­ing suns pass through var­ied pe­ri­ods of evo­lu­tion and sub­se­quent uni­verse ser­vice.

57:3.7400,000,000,000 years ago be­gan the re­cap­tive pe­riod of the And­ro­no­ver neb­ula. Many of the near-by and smaller suns were re­cap­tured as a re­sult of the grad­ual en­large­ment and fur­ther con­den­sa­tion of the mother nu­cleus. Very soon there was in­au­gu­rated the ter­mi­nal phase of neb­u­lar con­den­sa­tion, the pe­riod which al­ways pre­cedes the fi­nal seg­re­ga­tion of these im­mense space ag­gre­ga­tions of en­ergy and mat­ter.

• Michael chose as site for Nebadon

57:3.8It was scarcely a mil­lion years sub­se­quent to this epoch that Mi­chael of Neb­a­don, a Cre­ator Son of Par­a­dise, se­lected this dis­in­te­grat­ing neb­ula as the site of his ad­ven­ture in uni­verse build­ing. Al­most im­me­di­ately the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds of Sal­ving­ton and the one hun­dred con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters groups of plan­ets were be­gun. It re­quired al­most one mil­lion years to com­plete these clus­ters of spe­cially cre­ated worlds. The lo­cal sys­tem head­quar­ters plan­ets were con­structed over a pe­riod ex­tend­ing from that time to about five bil­lion years ago.

57:3.9300,000,000,000 years ago the And­ro­no­ver so­lar cir­cuits were well es­tab­lished, and the neb­u­lar sys­tem was pass­ing through a tran­sient pe­riod of rel­a­tive phys­i­cal sta­bil­ity. About this time the staff of Mi­chael ar­rived on Sal­ving­ton, and the Uversa gov­ern­ment of Or­von­ton ex­tended phys­i­cal rec­og­ni­tion to the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don.

57:3.10200,000,000,000 years ago wit­nessed the pro­gres­sion of con­trac­tion and con­den­sa­tion with enor­mous heat gen­er­a­tion in the And­ro­no­ver cen­tral clus­ter, or nu­clear mass. Rel­a­tive space ap­peared even in the re­gions near the cen­tral mother-sun wheel. The outer re­gions were be­com­ing more sta­bi­lized and bet­ter or­ga­nized; some plan­ets re­volv­ing around the new­born suns had cooled suf­fi­ciently to be suit­able for life im­plan­ta­tion. The old­est in­hab­ited plan­ets of Neb­a­don date from these times.

57:3.11Now the com­pleted uni­verse mech­a­nism of Neb­a­don first be­gins to func­tion, and Mi­chael’s cre­ation is reg­is­tered on Uversa as a uni­verse of in­hab­i­ta­tion and pro­gres­sive mor­tal as­cen­sion.

57:3.12100,000,000,000 years ago the neb­u­lar apex of con­den­sa­tion ten­sion was reached; the point of max­i­mum heat ten­sion was at­tained. This crit­i­cal stage of grav­ity-heat con­tention some­times lasts for ages, but sooner or later, heat wins the strug­gle with grav­ity, and the spec­tac­u­lar pe­riod of sun dis­per­sion be­gins. And this marks the end of the sec­ondary ca­reer of a space neb­ula.

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.

• 1,013,628 Orvonton suns took origin in

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.

• 1,013,628 Orvonton suns took origin in

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.

• has remnant family of 165 worlds

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.