architectural spheres

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.

43:6.4The ar­chi­tec­tural worlds en­joy ten forms of life of the ma­te­rial or­der. On Uran­tia there is plant and an­i­mal life, but on such a world as Eden­tia there are ten di­vi­sions of the ma­te­rial or­ders of life. Were you to view these ten di­vi­sions of Eden­tia life, you would quickly clas­sify the first three as veg­etable and the last three as an­i­mal, but you would be ut­terly un­able to com­pre­hend the na­ture of the in­ter­ven­ing four groups of pro­lific and fas­ci­nat­ing forms of life.

43:6.7Be­ing en­dowed with ten di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life, not to men­tion the mor­ontia vari­a­tions, these ar­chi­tec­tural worlds pro­vide tremen­dous pos­si­bil­i­ties for the bi­o­logic beau­ti­fi­ca­tion of the land­scape and of the ma­te­rial and the mor­ontia struc­tures. The ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans di­rect the na­tive sporna­gia in this ex­ten­sive work of botanic dec­o­ra­tion and bi­o­logic em­bel­lish­ment. Whereas your artists must re­sort to in­ert paint and life­less mar­ble to por­tray their con­cepts, the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and the uni­v­i­ta­tia more fre­quently uti­lize liv­ing ma­te­ri­als to rep­re­sent their ideas and to cap­ture their ide­als.

46:2.5Je­ru­sem and its as­so­ci­ated worlds are en­dowed with the ten stan­dard di­vi­sions of phys­i­cal life char­ac­ter­is­tic of the ar­chi­tec­tural spheres of Neb­a­don. And since there is no or­ganic evo­lu­tion on Je­ru­sem, there are no con­flict­ing forms of life, no strug­gle for ex­is­tence, no sur­vival of the fittest. Rather is there a cre­ative adap­ta­tion which fore­shad­ows the beauty, the har­mony, and the per­fec­tion of the eter­nal worlds of the cen­tral and di­vine uni­verse. And in all this cre­ative per­fec­tion there is the most amaz­ing in­ter­min­gling of phys­i­cal and of mor­ontia life, ar­tis­ti­cally con­trasted by the ce­les­tial ar­ti­sans and their fel­lows.

37:10.1Be­sides the se­raphic and mor­tal or­ders, who will be con­sid­ered in later pa­pers, there are nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional be­ings con­cerned in the main­te­nance and per­fect­ing of such a gi­gan­tic or­ga­ni­za­tion as the uni­verse of Neb­a­don, which even now has more than three mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds, with ten mil­lion in prospect. The var­i­ous Neb­a­don types of life are much too nu­mer­ous to be cat­a­logued in this pa­per, but there are two un­usual or­ders that func­tion ex­ten­sively on the 647,591 ar­chi­tec­tural spheres of the lo­cal uni­verse, that may be men­tioned.

15:5.1310. Ar­chi­tec­tural Worlds. These are the worlds which are built ac­cord­ing to plans and spec­i­fi­ca­tions for some spe­cial pur­pose, such as Sal­ving­ton, the head­quar­ters of your lo­cal uni­verse, and Uversa, the seat of gov­ern­ment of our super­uni­verse.

48:1.3All of these worlds are ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, and they have just dou­ble the num­ber of el­e­ments of the evolved plan­ets. Such made-to-or­der worlds not only abound in the heavy met­als and crys­tals, hav­ing one hun­dred phys­i­cal el­e­ments, but like­wise have ex­actly one hun­dred forms of a unique en­ergy or­ga­ni­za­tion called mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able so to mod­ify the rev­o­lu­tions of the pri­mary units of mat­ter and at the same time so to trans­form these as­so­ci­a­tions of en­ergy as to cre­ate this new sub­stance.

32:2.3The first com­pleted act of phys­i­cal cre­ation in Neb­a­don con­sisted in the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the head­quar­ters world, the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere of Sal­ving­ton, with its satel­lites. From the time of the ini­tial moves of the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers to the ar­rival of the liv­ing staff on the com­pleted spheres of Sal­ving­ton, there in­ter­vened a lit­tle over one bil­lion years of your pres­ent plan­e­tary time. The con­struc­tion of Sal­ving­ton was im­me­di­ately fol­lowed by the cre­ation of the one hun­dred head­quar­ters worlds of the pro­jected con­stel­la­tions and the ten thou­sand head­quar­ters spheres of the pro­jected lo­cal sys­tems of plan­e­tary con­trol and ad­min­is­tra­tion, to­gether with their ar­chi­tec­tural satel­lites. Such ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are de­signed to ac­com­mo­date both phys­i­cal and spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties as well as the in­ter­ven­ing mor­ontia or tran­si­tion stages of be­ing.

32:1.5When en­ergy-mat­ter has at­tained a cer­tain stage in mass ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, a Par­a­dise Cre­ator Son ap­pears upon the scene, ac­com­pa­nied by a Cre­ative Daugh­ter of the In­fi­nite Spirit. Si­mul­ta­ne­ously with the ar­rival of the Cre­ator Son, work is be­gun upon the ar­chi­tec­tural sphere which is to be­come the head­quar­ters world of the pro­jected lo­cal uni­verse. For long ages such a lo­cal cre­ation evolves, suns be­come sta­bi­lized, plan­ets form and swing into their or­bits, while the work of cre­at­ing the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds which are to serve as con­stel­la­tion head­quar­ters and sys­tem cap­i­tals con­tin­ues.

48:3.157. Area and Build­ing Cus­to­di­ans. Even the ma­te­rial and mor­ontia struc­tures in­crease in per­fec­tion and grandeur as you ad­vance in the man­so­nia ca­reer. As in­di­vid­u­als and as groups you are per­mit­ted to make cer­tain changes in the abodes as­signed as head­quar­ters for your so­journ on the dif­fer­ent man­sion worlds. Many of the ac­tiv­i­ties of these spheres take place in the open en­clo­sures of the var­i­ously des­ig­nated cir­cles, squares, and tri­an­gles. The ma­jor­ity of the man­sion world struc­tures are roof­less, be­ing en­clo­sures of mag­nif­i­cent con­struc­tion and ex­qui­site em­bel­lish­ment. The cli­matic and other phys­i­cal con­di­tions pre­vail­ing on the ar­chi­tec­tural worlds make roofs wholly un­nec­es­sary.

15:8.1The head­quar­ters spheres of the super­uni­verses are so con­structed that they are able to func­tion as ef­fi­cient power-en­ergy reg­u­la­tors for their var­i­ous sec­tors, serv­ing as fo­cal points for the di­rec­tion­iza­tion of en­ergy to their com­po­nent lo­cal uni­verses. They ex­ert a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence over the bal­ance and con­trol of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies cir­cu­lat­ing through or­ga­nized space.

15:8.2Fur­ther reg­u­la­tive func­tions are per­formed by the super­uni­verse power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, liv­ing and semiliv­ing in­tel­li­gent en­ti­ties con­sti­tuted for this ex­press pur­pose. These power cen­ters and con­trol­lers are dif­fi­cult of un­der­stand­ing; the lower or­ders are not vo­li­tional, they do not pos­sess will, they do not choose, their func­tions are very in­tel­li­gent but ap­par­ently au­to­matic and in­her­ent in their highly spe­cial­ized or­ga­ni­za­tion. The power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers of the super­uni­verses as­sume di­rec­tion and par­tial con­trol of the thirty en­ergy sys­tems which com­prise the gravita do­main. The phys­i­cal-en­ergy cir­cuits ad­min­is­tered by the power cen­ters of Uversa re­quire a lit­tle over 968 mil­lion years to com­plete the en­cir­clement of the super­uni­verse.

15:8.3Evolv­ing en­ergy has sub­stance; it has weight, al­though weight is al­ways rel­a­tive, de­pend­ing on rev­o­lu­tion­ary ve­loc­ity, mass, and anti­grav­ity. Mass in mat­ter tends to re­tard ve­loc­ity in en­ergy; and the any­where-pres­ent ve­loc­ity of en­ergy rep­re­sents: the ini­tial en­dow­ment of ve­loc­ity, mi­nus re­tar­da­tion by mass en­coun­tered in tran­sit, plus the reg­u­la­tory func­tion of the liv­ing en­ergy con­trol­lers of the super­uni­verse and the phys­i­cal in­flu­ence of near-by highly heated or heav­ily charged bod­ies.

15:8.4The uni­ver­sal plan for the main­te­nance of equi­lib­rium be­tween mat­ter and en­ergy ne­ces­si­tates the ev­er­last­ing mak­ing and un­mak­ing of the lesser ma­te­rial units. The Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors have the abil­ity to con­dense and de­tain, or to ex­pand and lib­er­ate, vary­ing quan­ti­ties of en­ergy.

15:8.5Given a suf­fi­cient du­ra­tion of re­tard­ing in­flu­ence, grav­ity would even­tu­ally con­vert all en­ergy into mat­ter were it not for two fac­tors: First, be­cause of the anti­grav­ity in­flu­ences of the en­ergy con­trol­lers, and sec­ond, be­cause or­ga­nized mat­ter tends to dis­in­te­grate un­der cer­tain con­di­tions found in very hot stars and un­der cer­tain pe­cu­liar con­di­tions in space near highly en­er­gized cold bod­ies of con­densed mat­ter.

15:8.6When mass be­comes over­ag­gre­gated and threat­ens to un­bal­ance en­ergy, to de­plete the phys­i­cal power cir­cuits, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers in­ter­vene un­less grav­ity’s own fur­ther ten­dency to over­ma­te­ri­al­ize en­ergy is de­feated by the oc­cur­rence of a col­li­sion among the dead gi­ants of space, thus in an in­stant com­pletely dis­si­pat­ing the cu­mu­la­tive col­lec­tions of grav­ity. In these col­li­sional episodes enor­mous masses of mat­ter are sud­denly con­verted into the rarest form of en­ergy, and the strug­gle for uni­ver­sal equi­lib­rium is be­gun anew. Even­tu­ally the larger phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sta­bi­lized, be­come phys­i­cally set­tled, and are swung into the bal­anced and es­tab­lished cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses. Sub­se­quent to this event no more col­li­sions or other dev­as­tat­ing catas­tro­phes will oc­cur in such es­tab­lished sys­tems.

15:8.7Dur­ing the times of plus en­ergy there are power dis­tur­bances and heat fluc­tu­a­tions ac­com­pa­nied by elec­tri­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions. Dur­ing times of mi­nus en­ergy there are in­creased ten­den­cies for mat­ter to ag­gre­gate, con­dense, and to get out of con­trol in the more del­i­cately bal­anced cir­cuits, with re­sul­tant tidal or col­li­sional ad­just­ments which quickly re­store the bal­ance be­tween cir­cu­lat­ing en­ergy and more lit­er­ally sta­bi­lized mat­ter. To fore­cast and oth­er­wise to un­der­stand such likely be­hav­ior of the blaz­ing suns and the dark is­lands of space is one of the tasks of the ce­les­tial star ob­servers.

15:8.8We are able to rec­og­nize most of the laws gov­ern­ing uni­verse equi­lib­rium and to pre­dict much per­tain­ing to uni­verse sta­bil­ity. Prac­ti­cally, our fore­casts are re­li­able, but we are al­ways con­fronted by cer­tain forces which are not wholly amenable to the laws of en­ergy con­trol and mat­ter be­hav­ior known to us. The pre­dictabil­ity of all phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena be­comes in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult as we pro­ceed out­ward in the uni­verses from Par­a­dise. As we pass be­yond the bor­ders of the per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Par­a­dise Rulers, we are con­fronted with in­creas­ing in­abil­ity to reckon in ac­cor­dance with the stan­dards es­tab­lished and the ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired in con­nec­tion with ob­ser­va­tions hav­ing ex­clu­sively to do with the phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena of the near-by as­tro­nomic sys­tems. Even in the realms of the seven super­uni­verses we are liv­ing in the midst of force ac­tions and en­ergy re­ac­tions which per­vade all our do­mains and ex­tend in uni­fied equi­lib­rium on through all re­gions of outer space.

15:8.9The far­ther out we go, the more cer­tainly we en­counter those vari­a­tional and un­pre­dictable phe­nom­ena which are so unerringly char­ac­ter­is­tic of the un­fath­omable pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties. And these phe­nom­ena must be in­dica­tive of some uni­ver­sal over­con­trol of all things.

15:8.10The super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton is ap­par­ently now run­ning down; the outer uni­verses seem to be wind­ing up for un­par­al­leled fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties; the cen­tral Ha­vona uni­verse is eter­nally sta­bi­lized. Grav­ity and ab­sence of heat (cold) or­ga­nize and hold mat­ter to­gether; heat and anti­grav­ity dis­rupt mat­ter and dis­si­pate en­ergy. The liv­ing power di­rec­tors and force or­ga­niz­ers are the se­cret of the spe­cial con­trol and in­tel­li­gent di­rec­tion of the end­less meta­mor­phoses of uni­verse mak­ing, un­mak­ing, and re­mak­ing. Neb­u­lae may dis­perse, suns burn out, sys­tems van­ish, and plan­ets per­ish, but the uni­verses do not run down.

41:1.3The one hun­dred lo­cal uni­verse cen­ters are sta­tioned on Sal­ving­ton, where they func­tion at the ex­act en­ergy cen­ter of that sphere. Ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, such as Sal­ving­ton, Eden­tia, and Je­ru­sem, are lighted, heated, and en­er­gized by meth­ods which make them quite in­de­pen­dent of the suns of space. These spheres were con­structed—made to or­der—by the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and were de­signed to ex­ert a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence over en­ergy dis­tri­bu­tion. Bas­ing their ac­tiv­i­ties on such fo­cal points of en­ergy con­trol, the power cen­ters, by their liv­ing pres­ences, di­rec­tion­ize and chan­nel­ize the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of space. And these en­ergy cir­cuits are ba­sic to all phys­i­cal-ma­te­rial and mor­ontia-spir­i­tual phe­nom­ena.

45:0.3This en­tire sys­tem of fifty-seven ar­chi­tec­tural worlds is in­de­pen­dently lighted, heated, wa­tered, and en­er­gized by the co-or­di­na­tion of the Sa­ta­nia Power Cen­ter and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers in ac­cor­dance with the es­tab­lished tech­nique of the phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and ar­range­ment of these spe­cially cre­ated spheres. They are also phys­i­cally cared for and oth­er­wise main­tained by the na­tive sporna­gia.

46:1.3The en­ergy of Je­ru­sem is su­perbly con­trolled and cir­cu­lates about the sphere in the zone chan­nels, which are di­rectly fed from the en­ergy charges of space and ex­pertly ad­min­is­tered by the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers. The nat­u­ral re­sis­tance to the pas­sage of these en­er­gies through the phys­i­cal chan­nels of con­duc­tion yields the heat re­quired for the pro­duc­tion of the equable tem­per­a­ture of Je­ru­sem. The full-light tem­per­a­ture is main­tained at about 70 de­grees Fahren­heit, while dur­ing the pe­riod of light re­ces­sion it falls to a lit­tle lower than 50 de­grees.

46:1.4The light­ing sys­tem of Je­ru­sem should not be so dif­fi­cult for you to com­pre­hend. There are no days and nights, no sea­sons of heat and cold. The power trans­form­ers main­tain one hun­dred thou­sand cen­ters from which rar­efied en­er­gies are pro­jected up­ward through the plan­e­tary at­mo­sphere, un­der­go­ing cer­tain changes, un­til they reach the elec­tric air-ceil­ing of the sphere; and then these en­er­gies are re­flected back and down as a gen­tle, sift­ing, and even light of about the in­ten­sity of Uran­tia sun­light when the sun is shin­ing over­head at ten o’clock in the morn­ing.

46:1.5Un­der such con­di­tions of light­ing, the light rays do not seem to come from one place; they just sift out of the sky, em­a­nat­ing equally from all space di­rec­tions. This light is very sim­i­lar to nat­u­ral sun­light ex­cept that it con­tains very much less heat. Thus it will be rec­og­nized that such head­quar­ters worlds are not lu­mi­nous in space; if Je­ru­sem were very near Uran­tia, it would not be vis­i­ble.

46:1.6The gases which re­flect this light-en­ergy from the Je­ru­sem up­per iono­sphere back to the ground are very sim­i­lar to those in the Uran­tia up­per air belts which are con­cerned with the au­ro­ral phe­nom­ena of your so-called north­ern lights, al­though these are pro­duced by dif­fer­ent causes. On Uran­tia it is this same gas shield which pre­vents the es­cape of the ter­res­trial broad­cast waves, re­flect­ing them earth­ward when they strike this gas belt in their di­rect out­ward flight. In this way broad­casts are held near the sur­face as they jour­ney through the air around your world.

46:1.7This light­ing of the sphere is uni­formly main­tained for sev­enty-five per cent of the Je­ru­sem day, and then there is a grad­ual re­ces­sion un­til, at the time of min­i­mum il­lu­mi­na­tion, the light is about that of your full moon on a clear night. This is the quiet hour for all Je­ru­sem. Only the broad­cast-re­ceiv­ing sta­tions are in op­er­a­tion dur­ing this pe­riod of rest and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.

29:3.9Out­side of Ha­vona the Su­preme Power Cen­ters func­tion only on es­pe­cially con­structed (ar­chi­tec­tural) spheres or on oth­er­wise suit­ably con­sti­tuted space bod­ies. The ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are so con­structed that the liv­ing power cen­ters can act as se­lec­tive switches to di­rec­tion­ize, mod­ify, and con­cen­trate the en­er­gies of space as they pour over these spheres. They could not so func­tion on an or­di­nary evo­lu­tion­ary sun or planet. Cer­tain groups are also con­cerned in the heat­ing and other ma­te­rial ne­ces­si­ties of these spe­cial head­quar­ters worlds. And though it is be­yond the scope of Uran­tia knowl­edge, I may state that these or­ders of liv­ing power per­son­al­i­ties have much to do with the dis­tri­bu­tion of the light that shines with­out heat. They do not pro­duce this phe­nom­e­non, but they are con­cerned with its dis­sem­i­na­tion and di­rec­tion­iza­tion.

43:8.1The phys­i­cal en­dow­ment of Eden­tia and its sur­round­ing spheres is well-nigh per­fect; they could hardly equal the spir­i­tual grandeur of the spheres of Sal­ving­ton, but they far sur­pass the glo­ries of the train­ing worlds of Je­ru­sem. All these Eden­tia spheres are en­er­gized di­rectly by the uni­ver­sal space cur­rents, and their enor­mous power sys­tems, both ma­te­rial and mor­ontial, are ex­pertly super­vised and dis­tributed by the con­stel­la­tion cen­ters, as­sisted by a com­pe­tent corps of Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors.

15:5.1The bulk of the mass con­tained in the suns and plan­ets of a super­uni­verse orig­i­nates in the neb­u­lar wheels; very lit­tle of super­uni­verse mass is or­ga­nized by the di­rect ac­tion of the power di­rec­tors (as in the con­struc­tion of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres), al­though a con­stantly vary­ing quan­tity of mat­ter orig­i­nates in open space.

43:1.10The Eden­tia sea of glass is one enor­mous cir­cu­lar crys­tal about one hun­dred miles in cir­cum­fer­ence and about thirty miles in depth. This mag­nif­i­cent crys­tal serves as the re­ceiv­ing field for all trans­port ser­a­phim and other be­ings ar­riv­ing from points out­side the sphere; such a sea of glass greatly fa­cil­i­tates the land­ing of trans­port ser­a­phim.

43:1.11A crys­tal field on this or­der is found on al­most all ar­chi­tec­tural worlds; and it serves many pur­poses aside from its dec­o­ra­tive value, be­ing uti­lized for por­tray­ing super­uni­verse re­flec­tiv­ity to as­sem­bled groups and as a fac­tor in the en­ergy-trans­for­ma­tion tech­nique for mod­i­fy­ing the cur­rents of space and for adapt­ing other in­com­ing phys­i­cal-en­ergy streams.

37:10.3The Sporna­gia. The ar­chi­tec­tural head­quar­ters worlds of the lo­cal uni­verse are real worlds—phys­i­cal cre­ations. There is much work con­nected with their phys­i­cal up­keep, and herein we have the as­sis­tance of a group of phys­i­cal crea­tures called sporna­gia. They are de­voted to the care and cul­ture of the ma­te­rial phases of these head­quar­ters worlds, from Je­ru­sem to Sal­ving­ton. Sporna­gia are nei­ther spir­its nor per­sons; they are an an­i­mal or­der of ex­is­tence, but if you could see them, you would agree that they seem to be per­fect an­i­mals.

30:3.21. The Star Stu­dents, the ce­les­tial as­tron­o­mers, choose to work on spheres like Uversa be­cause such spe­cially con­structed worlds are un­usu­ally fa­vor­able for their ob­ser­va­tions and cal­cu­la­tions. Uversa is fa­vor­ably sit­u­ated for the work of this colony, not only be­cause of its cen­tral lo­ca­tion, but also be­cause there are no gi­gan­tic liv­ing or dead suns near at hand to dis­turb the en­ergy cur­rents. These stu­dents are not in any man­ner or­gan­i­cally con­nected with the af­fairs of the super­uni­verse; they are merely guests.