nebulae

• superuniverse boundaries never divide

12:1.12The Seven Super­uni­verses are not pri­mary phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tions; nowhere do their bound­aries di­vide a neb­u­lar fam­ily, nei­ther do they cross a lo­cal uni­verse, a prime cre­ative unit. Each super­uni­verse is sim­ply a ge­o­graphic space clus­ter­ing of ap­prox­i­mately one sev­enth of the or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited post-Ha­vona cre­ation, and each is about equal in the num­ber of lo­cal uni­verses em­braced and in the space en­com­passed. Neb­a­don, your lo­cal uni­verse, is one of the newer cre­ations in Or­von­ton, the sev­enth super­uni­verse.

• initiated by Paradise force organizers

12:4.6In outer space the force or­ga­niz­ers are ap­par­ently re­spon­si­ble for the pro­duc­tion of the gi­gan­tic uni­verse wheels which are now in pro­cess of stel­lar evo­lu­tion, but their abil­ity so to func­tion must have been made pos­si­ble by some mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

15:3.1Prac­ti­cally all of the starry realms vis­i­ble to the naked eye on Uran­tia be­long to the sev­enth sec­tion of the grand uni­verse, the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton. The vast Milky Way starry sys­tem rep­re­sents the cen­tral nu­cleus of Or­von­ton, be­ing largely be­yond the bor­ders of your lo­cal uni­verse. This great ag­gre­ga­tion of suns, dark is­lands of space, dou­ble stars, glob­u­lar clus­ters, star clouds, spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, to­gether with myr­i­ads of in­di­vid­ual plan­ets, forms a watch­like, elon­gated-cir­cu­lar group­ing of about one sev­enth of the in­hab­ited evo­lu­tion­ary uni­verses.

15:3.2From the as­tro­nom­i­cal po­si­tion of Uran­tia, as you look through the cross sec­tion of near-by sys­tems to the great Milky Way, you ob­serve that the spheres of Or­von­ton are trav­el­ing in a vast elon­gated plane, the breadth be­ing far greater than the thick­ness and the length far greater than the breadth.

15:3.3Ob­ser­va­tion of the so-called Milky Way dis­closes the com­par­a­tive in­crease in Or­von­ton stel­lar den­sity when the heav­ens are viewed in one di­rec­tion, while on ei­ther side the den­sity di­min­ishes; the num­ber of stars and other spheres de­creases away from the chief plane of our ma­te­rial super­uni­verse. When the an­gle of ob­ser­va­tion is pro­pi­tious, gaz­ing through the main body of this realm of max­i­mum den­sity, you are look­ing to­ward the res­i­den­tial uni­verse and the cen­ter of all things.

15:3.4Of the ten ma­jor di­vi­sions of Or­von­ton, eight have been roughly iden­ti­fied by Uran­tian as­tron­o­mers. The other two are dif­fi­cult of sep­a­rate rec­og­ni­tion be­cause you are obliged to view these phe­nom­ena from the in­side. If you could look upon the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton from a po­si­tion far-dis­tant in space, you would im­me­di­ately rec­og­nize the ten ma­jor sec­tors of the sev­enth galaxy.

15:3.5The ro­ta­tional cen­ter of your mi­nor sec­tor is sit­u­ated far away in the enor­mous and dense star cloud of Sagit­tar­ius, around which your lo­cal uni­verse and its as­so­ci­ated cre­ations all move, and from op­po­site sides of the vast Sagit­tar­ius sub­galac­tic sys­tem you may ob­serve two great streams of star clouds emerg­ing in stu­pen­dous stel­lar coils.

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.

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.

15:3.16The lo­cal uni­verses are in closer prox­im­ity as they ap­proach Ha­vona; the cir­cuits are greater in num­ber, and there is in­creased super­im­po­si­tion, layer upon layer. But far­ther out from the eter­nal cen­ter there are fewer and fewer sys­tems, lay­ers, cir­cuits, and uni­verses.

15:4.1While cre­ation and uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion re­main for­ever un­der the con­trol of the in­fi­nite Cre­ators and their as­so­ciates, the whole phe­nom­e­non pro­ceeds in ac­cor­dance with an or­dained tech­nique and in con­for­mity to the grav­ity laws of force, en­ergy, and mat­ter. But there is some­thing of mys­tery as­so­ci­ated with the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space; we quite un­der­stand the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial cre­ations from the ul­ti­ma­tonic stage for­ward, but we do not fully com­pre­hend the cos­mic an­ces­try of the ul­ti­ma­tons. We are con­fi­dent that these an­ces­tral forces have a Par­a­dise ori­gin be­cause they for­ever swing through per­vaded space in the ex­act gi­gan­tic out­lines of Par­a­dise. Though non­re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity, this force-charge of space, the an­ces­tor of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, does al­ways re­spond to the pres­ence of nether Par­a­dise, be­ing ap­par­ently cir­cuited in and out of the nether Par­a­dise cen­ter.

15:4.2The Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers trans­mute space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force and evolve this pre­ma­te­rial po­ten­tial into the pri­mary and sec­ondary en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions of phys­i­cal re­al­ity. When this en­ergy at­tains grav­ity-re­spond­ing lev­els, the power di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates of the super­uni­verse regime ap­pear upon the scene and be­gin their never-end­ing ma­nip­u­la­tions de­signed to es­tab­lish the man­i­fold power cir­cuits and en­ergy chan­nels of the uni­verses of time and space. Thus does phys­i­cal mat­ter ap­pear in space, and so is the stage set for the in­au­gu­ra­tion of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

15:4.3This seg­men­ta­tion of en­ergy is a phe­nom­e­non which has never been solved by the physi­cists of Neb­a­don. Their chief dif­fi­culty lies in the rel­a­tive in­ac­ces­si­bil­ity of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers, for the liv­ing power di­rec­tors, though they are com­pe­tent to deal with space-en­ergy, do not have the least con­cep­tion of the ori­gin of the en­er­gies they so skill­fully and in­tel­li­gently ma­nip­u­late.

• forms are barred, concentric contraction rings, spiral, star clouds
• initiated by Paradise force organizers

15:4.4Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers are neb­u­lae orig­i­na­tors; they are able to ini­ti­ate about their space pres­ence the tremen­dous cy­clones of force which, when once started, can never be stopped or lim­ited un­til the all-per­vad­ing forces are mo­bi­lized for the even­tual ap­pear­ance of the ul­ti­ma­tonic units of uni­verse mat­ter. Thus are brought into be­ing the spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, the mother wheels of the di­rect-ori­gin suns and their var­ied sys­tems. In outer space there may be seen ten dif­fer­ent forms of neb­u­lae, phases of pri­mary uni­verse evo­lu­tion, and these vast en­ergy wheels had the same ori­gin as did those in the seven super­uni­verses.

• each can produce 100 million suns

15:4.5Neb­u­lae vary greatly in size and in the re­sult­ing num­ber and ag­gre­gate mass of their stel­lar and plan­e­tary off­spring. A sun-form­ing neb­ula just north of the bor­ders of Or­von­ton, but within the super­uni­verse space level, has al­ready given ori­gin to ap­prox­i­mately forty thou­sand suns, and the mother wheel is still throw­ing off suns, the ma­jor­ity of which are many times the size of yours. Some of the larger neb­u­lae of outer space are giv­ing ori­gin to as many as one hun­dred mil­lion suns.

15:4.6Neb­u­lae are not di­rectly re­lated to any of the ad­min­is­tra­tive units, such as mi­nor sec­tors or lo­cal uni­verses, al­though some lo­cal uni­verses have been or­ga­nized from the prod­ucts of a sin­gle neb­ula. Each lo­cal uni­verse em­braces ex­actly one one-hun­dred-thou­sandth part of the to­tal en­ergy charge of a super­uni­verse ir­re­spec­tive of neb­u­lar re­la­tion­ship, for en­ergy is not or­ga­nized by neb­u­lae—it is uni­ver­sally dis­tributed.

15:4.7Not all spi­ral neb­u­lae are en­gaged in sun mak­ing. Some have re­tained con­trol of many of their seg­re­gated stel­lar off­spring, and their spi­ral ap­pear­ance is oc­ca­sioned by the fact that their suns pass out of the neb­u­lar arm in close for­ma­tion but re­turn by di­verse routes, thus mak­ing it easy to ob­serve them at one point but more dif­fi­cult to see them when widely scat­tered on their dif­fer­ent re­turn­ing routes far­ther out and away from the arm of the neb­ula. There are not many sun-form­ing neb­u­lae ac­tive in Or­von­ton at the pres­ent time, though An­dromeda, which is out­side the in­hab­ited super­uni­verse, is very ac­tive. This far-dis­tant neb­ula is vis­i­ble to the naked eye, and when you view it, pause to con­sider that the light you be­hold left those dis­tant suns al­most one mil­lion years ago.

15:4.8The Milky Way galaxy is com­posed of vast num­bers of for­mer spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, and many still re­tain their orig­i­nal con­fig­u­ra­tion. But as the re­sult of in­ter­nal catas­tro­phes and ex­ter­nal at­trac­tion, many have suf­fered such dis­tor­tion and re­ar­range­ment as to cause these enor­mous ag­gre­ga­tions to ap­pear as gi­gan­tic lu­mi­nous masses of blaz­ing suns, like the Mag­el­lanic Cloud. The glob­u­lar type of star clus­ters pre­dom­i­nates near the outer mar­gins of Or­von­ton.

15:4.9The vast star clouds of Or­von­ton should be re­garded as in­di­vid­ual ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter com­pa­ra­ble to the sep­a­rate neb­u­lae ob­serv­able in the space re­gions ex­ter­nal to the Milky Way galaxy. Many of the so-called star clouds of space, how­ever, con­sist of gaseous ma­te­rial only. The en­ergy po­ten­tial of these stel­lar gas clouds is un­be­liev­ably enor­mous, and some of it is taken up by near-by suns and re­dis­patched in space as so­lar em­a­na­tions.

• forms are barred, concentric contraction rings, spiral, star clouds

15:5.31. Con­cen­tric Con­trac­tion Rings. Not all neb­u­lae are spi­ral. Many an im­mense neb­ula, in­stead of split­ting into a dou­ble star sys­tem or evolv­ing as a spi­ral, un­der­goes con­den­sa­tion by mul­ti­ple-ring for­ma­tion. For long pe­ri­ods such a neb­ula ap­pears as an enor­mous cen­tral sun sur­rounded by nu­mer­ous gi­gan­tic clouds of en­cir­cling, ring-ap­pear­ing for­ma­tions of mat­ter.

15:5.42. The Whirled Stars em­brace those suns which are thrown off the great mother wheels of highly heated gases. They are not thrown off as rings but in right- and left-handed pro­ces­sions. Whirled stars are also of ori­gin in other-than-spi­ral neb­u­lae.

15:5.53. Grav­ity-ex­plo­sion Plan­ets. When a sun is born of a spi­ral or of a barred neb­ula, not in­fre­quently it is thrown out a con­sid­er­able dis­tance. Such a sun is highly gaseous, and sub­se­quently, af­ter it has some­what cooled and con­densed, it may chance to swing near some enor­mous mass of mat­ter, a gi­gan­tic sun or a dark is­land of space. Such an ap­proach may not be near enough to re­sult in col­li­sion but still near enough to al­low the grav­ity pull of the greater body to start tidal con­vul­sions in the lesser, thus ini­ti­at­ing a se­ries of tidal up­heavals which oc­cur si­mul­ta­ne­ously on op­po­site sides of the con­vulsed sun. At their height these ex­plo­sive erup­tions pro­duce a se­ries of vary­ing-sized ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter which may be pro­jected be­yond the grav­ity-recla­ma­tion zone of the erupt­ing sun, thus be­com­ing sta­bi­lized in or­bits of their own around one of the two bod­ies con­cerned in this episode. Later on the larger col­lec­tions of mat­ter unite and grad­u­ally draw the smaller bod­ies to them­selves. In this way many of the solid plan­ets of the lesser sys­tems are brought into ex­is­tence. Your own so­lar sys­tem had just such an ori­gin.

• initiated by Paradise force organizers

29:4.3While the pres­ence of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties en­cir­cles the grand uni­verse and sweeps around the cir­cle of eter­nity, the in­flu­ence of any one of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its is lim­ited to a sin­gle super­uni­verse. There is a dis­tinct seg­re­ga­tion of en­ergy and a sep­a­ra­tion of the cir­cuits of power be­tween each of the seven super­cre­ations; hence in­di­vid­u­al­ized con­trol meth­ods must and do pre­vail.

• initiated by Paradise force organizers
• power centers, physical controllers direct evolution of

41:1.1The spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, the mother wheels of the spheres of space, are ini­ti­ated by Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers; and fol­low­ing neb­u­lar evo­lu­tion of grav­ity re­sponse, they are su­per­seded in super­uni­verse func­tion by the power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, who there­upon as­sume full re­spon­si­bil­ity for di­rect­ing the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of the en­su­ing gen­er­a­tions of stel­lar and plan­e­tary off­spring. This phys­i­cal super­vi­sion of the Neb­a­don pre­uni­verse was, upon the ar­rival of our Cre­ator Son, im­me­di­ately co-or­di­nated with his plan for uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion. Within the do­main of this Par­a­dise Son of God, the Su­preme Power Cen­ters and the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers col­lab­o­rated with the later ap­pear­ing Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors and oth­ers to pro­duce that vast com­plex of com­mu­ni­ca­tion lines, en­ergy cir­cuits, and power lanes which firmly bind the man­i­fold space bod­ies of Neb­a­don into one in­te­grated ad­min­is­tra­tive unit.

• origin in force-charge of space (absoluta)

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.

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.

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.

• critical centrifugal breakup stage

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.

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.

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.