astronomy

46:2.9Trans­ports ar­rive on the crys­tal field, the so-called sea of glass. Around this area are the re­ceiv­ing sta­tions for the var­i­ous or­ders of be­ings who tra­verse space by se­raphic trans­port. Near the po­lar crys­tal re­ceiv­ing sta­tion for stu­dent vis­i­tors you may as­cend the pearly ob­ser­va­tory and view the im­mense re­lief map of the en­tire head­quar­ters planet.

46:5.306. The cir­cles of the cour­tesy colonies. The seven cir­cles of the cour­tesy colonies are graced by three enor­mous struc­tures: the vast as­tro­nomic ob­ser­va­tory of Je­ru­sem, the gi­gan­tic art gallery of Sa­ta­nia, and the im­mense as­sem­bly hall of the re­ver­sion di­rec­tors, the the­ater of mor­ontia ac­tiv­i­ties de­voted to rest and recre­ation.

• space respiration

12:4.12The pres­ent re­la­tion­ship of your sun and its as­so­ci­ated plan­ets, while dis­clos­ing many rel­a­tive and ab­so­lute mo­tions in space, tends to con­vey the im­pres­sion to as­tro­nomic ob­servers that you are com­par­a­tively sta­tion­ary in space, and that the sur­round­ing starry clus­ters and streams are en­gaged in out­ward flight at ever-in­creas­ing ve­loc­i­ties as your cal­cu­la­tions pro­ceed out­ward in space. But such is not the case. You fail to rec­og­nize the pres­ent out­ward and uni­form ex­pan­sion of the phys­i­cal cre­ations of all per­vaded space. Your own lo­cal cre­ation (Neb­a­don) par­tic­i­pates in this move­ment of uni­ver­sal out­ward ex­pan­sion. The en­tire seven super­uni­verses par­tic­i­pate in the two-bil­lion-year cy­cles of space res­pi­ra­tion along with the outer re­gions of the mas­ter uni­verse.

12:4.13When the uni­verses ex­pand and con­tract, the ma­te­rial masses in per­vaded space al­ter­nately move against and with the pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity. The work that is done in mov­ing the ma­te­rial en­ergy mass of cre­ation is space work but not power-en­ergy work.

12:4.14Al­though your spec­tro­scopic es­ti­ma­tions of as­tro­nomic ve­loc­i­ties are fairly re­li­able when ap­plied to the starry realms be­long­ing to your super­uni­verse and its as­so­ciate super­uni­verses, such reck­on­ings with ref­er­ence to the realms of outer space are wholly un­re­li­able. Spec­tral lines are dis­placed from the nor­mal to­wards the vi­o­let by an ap­proach­ing star; like­wise these lines are dis­placed to­wards the red by a re­ced­ing star. Many in­flu­ences in­ter­pose to make it ap­pear that the re­ces­sional ve­loc­ity of the ex­ter­nal uni­verses in­creases at the rate of more than one hun­dred miles a sec­ond for ev­ery mil­lion light-years in­crease in dis­tance. By this method of reck­on­ing, sub­se­quent to the per­fec­tion of more pow­er­ful tele­scopes, it will ap­pear that these far-dis­tant sys­tems are in flight from this part of the uni­verse at the un­be­liev­able rate of more than thirty thou­sand miles a sec­ond. But this ap­par­ent speed of re­ces­sion is not real; it re­sults from nu­mer­ous fac­tors of er­ror em­brac­ing an­gles of ob­ser­va­tion and other time-space dis­tor­tions.

• opposite clockwise procession of 1st outer space level

12:4.15But the great­est of all such dis­tor­tions arises be­cause the vast uni­verses of outer space, in the realms next to the do­mains of the seven super­uni­verses, seem to be re­volv­ing in a di­rec­tion op­po­site to that of the grand uni­verse. That is, these myr­i­ads of neb­u­lae and their ac­com­pa­ny­ing suns and spheres are at the pres­ent time re­volv­ing clock­wise about the cen­tral cre­ation. The seven super­uni­verses re­volve about Par­a­dise in a coun­ter­clock­wise di­rec­tion. It ap­pears that the sec­ond outer uni­verse of galax­ies, like the seven super­uni­verses, re­volves coun­ter­clock­wise about Par­a­dise. And the as­tro­nomic ob­servers of Uversa think they de­tect ev­i­dence of rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ments in a third outer belt of far-dis­tant space which are be­gin­ning to ex­hibit di­rec­tional ten­den­cies of a clock­wise na­ture.

• multiple revolutionary movements in Orvonton

15:3.7The Sagit­tar­ius sec­tor and all other sec­tors and di­vi­sions of Or­von­ton are in ro­ta­tion around Uversa, and some of the con­fu­sion of Uran­tian star ob­servers arises out of the il­lu­sions and rel­a­tive dis­tor­tions pro­duced by the fol­low­ing mul­ti­ple rev­o­lu­tion­ary move­ments:

15:3.81. The rev­o­lu­tion of Uran­tia around its sun.

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

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.

15:3.114. The swing of the lo­cal star cloud of Neb­a­don and its as­so­ci­ated cre­ations around the Sagit­tar­ius cen­ter of their mi­nor sec­tor.

15:3.125. The ro­ta­tion of the one hun­dred mi­nor sec­tors, in­clud­ing Sagit­tar­ius, about their ma­jor sec­tor.

15:3.136. The whirl of the ten ma­jor sec­tors, the so-called star drifts, about the Uversa head­quar­ters of Or­von­ton.

15:3.147. The move­ment of Or­von­ton and six as­so­ci­ated super­uni­verses around Par­a­dise and Ha­vona, the coun­ter­clock­wise pro­ces­sional of the super­uni­verse space level.

15:3.15These mul­ti­ple mo­tions are of sev­eral or­ders: The space paths of your planet and your so­lar sys­tem are ge­netic, in­her­ent in ori­gin. The ab­so­lute coun­ter­clock­wise mo­tion of Or­von­ton is also ge­netic, in­her­ent in the ar­chi­tec­tural plans of the mas­ter uni­verse. But the in­ter­ven­ing mo­tions are of com­pos­ite ori­gin, be­ing de­rived in part from the con­sti­tu­tive seg­men­ta­tion of mat­ter-en­ergy into the super­uni­verses and in part pro­duced by the in­tel­li­gent and pur­pose­ful ac­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

81:2.9When asked where fire came from, the sim­ple story of An­don and the flint was soon re­placed by the leg­end of how some Prometheus stole it from heaven. The an­cients sought a super­nat­u­ral ex­pla­na­tion for all nat­u­ral phe­nom­ena not within the range of their per­sonal com­pre­hen­sion; and many mod­erns con­tinue to do this. The de­per­son­al­iza­tion of so-called nat­u­ral phe­nom­ena has re­quired ages, and it is not yet com­pleted. But the frank, hon­est, and fear­less search for true causes gave birth to mod­ern sci­ence: It turned as­trol­ogy into as­tron­omy, alchemy into chem­istry, and magic into med­i­cine.

88:6.5Magic was the branch off the evo­lu­tion­ary re­li­gious tree which even­tu­ally bore the fruit of a sci­en­tific age. Be­lief in as­trol­ogy led to the de­vel­op­ment of as­tron­omy; be­lief in a philoso­pher’s stone led to the mas­tery of met­als, while be­lief in magic num­bers founded the sci­ence of math­e­mat­ics.