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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.

30:3.3The as­tro­nom­i­cal colony of Uversa con­tains in­di­vid­u­als from many near-by realms, from the cen­tral uni­verse, and even from Nor­la­ti­adek. Any be­ing on any world in any sys­tem of any uni­verse may be­come a star stu­dent, may as­pire to join some corps of ce­les­tial as­tron­o­mers. The only req­ui­sites are: con­tin­u­ing life and suf­fi­cient knowl­edge of the worlds of space, es­pe­cially their phys­i­cal laws of evo­lu­tion and con­trol. Star stu­dents are not re­quired to serve eter­nally in this corps, but no one ad­mit­ted to this group may with­draw un­der one mil­len­nium of Uversa time.

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.

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.

30:2.1501. Star Stu­dents.

30:3.4The star-ob­server colony of Uversa now num­bers over one mil­lion. These as­tron­o­mers come and go, though some re­main for com­par­a­tively long pe­ri­ods. They carry on their work with the aid of a mul­ti­tude of me­chan­i­cal in­stru­ments and phys­i­cal ap­pli­ances; they are also greatly as­sisted by the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and other spirit ex­plor­ers. These ce­les­tial as­tron­o­mers make con­stant use of the liv­ing en­ergy trans­form­ers and trans­mit­ters, as well as of the re­flec­tive per­son­al­i­ties, in their work of star study and space sur­vey. They study all forms and phases of space ma­te­rial and en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions, and they are just as much in­ter­ested in force func­tion as in stel­lar phe­nom­ena; noth­ing in all space es­capes their scrutiny.

30:3.5Sim­i­lar as­tron­o­mer colonies are to be found on the sec­tor head­quar­ters worlds of the super­uni­verse as well as on the ar­chi­tec­tural cap­i­tals of the lo­cal uni­verses and their ad­min­is­tra­tive sub­di­vi­sions. Ex­cept on Par­a­dise, knowl­edge is not in­her­ent; un­der­stand­ing of the phys­i­cal uni­verse is largely de­pen­dent on ob­ser­va­tion and re­search.

28:7.1The se­con­a­phim have their ori­gin and head­quar­ters on the cap­i­tals of the super­uni­verses, but with their li­ai­son fel­lows they range from the shores of Par­a­dise to the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds of space. They serve as val­ued as­sis­tants to the mem­bers of the de­lib­er­a­tive as­sem­blies of the super­gov­ern­ments and are of great help to the cour­tesy colonies of Uversa: the star stu­dents, mil­len­nial tourists, ce­les­tial ob­servers, and a host of oth­ers, in­clud­ing the as­cen­dant be­ings in wait­ing for Ha­vona trans­port. The An­cients of Days take plea­sure in as­sign­ing cer­tain of the pri­mary se­con­a­phim to as­sist the as­cend­ing crea­tures domi­ciled on the four hun­dred ninety study worlds sur­round­ing Uversa, and here also do many of the sec­ondary and ter­tiary or­ders serve as teach­ers. These Uversa satel­lites are the fin­ish­ing schools of the uni­verses of time, pre­sent­ing the prepara­tory course for the seven-cir­cuited uni­ver­sity of Ha­vona.

23:2.21These mes­sen­ger-ex­plor­ers of undi­rected as­sign­ment pa­trol the mas­ter uni­verse. They are con­stantly out on ex­plor­ing ex­pe­di­tions to the un­charted re­gions of all outer space. Very much of the in­for­ma­tion which we pos­sess of trans­ac­tions in the realms of outer space, we owe to the ex­plo­rations of the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers as they of­ten work and study with the ce­les­tial as­tron­o­mers.

12:2.4The Uversa star stu­dents ob­serve that the grand uni­verse is sur­rounded by the an­ces­tors of a se­ries of starry and plan­e­tary clus­ters which com­pletely en­cir­cle the pres­ent in­hab­ited cre­ation as con­cen­tric rings of outer uni­verses upon uni­verses. The physi­cists of Uversa cal­cu­late that the en­ergy and mat­ter of these outer and un­charted re­gions al­ready equal many times the to­tal ma­te­rial mass and en­ergy charge em­braced in all seven super­uni­verses. We are in­formed that the meta­mor­pho­sis of cos­mic force in these outer space lev­els is a func­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. We also know that these forces are an­ces­tral to those phys­i­cal en­er­gies which at pres­ent ac­ti­vate the grand uni­verse. The Or­von­ton power di­rec­tors, how­ever, have noth­ing to do with these far-dis­tant realms, nei­ther are the en­ergy move­ments therein dis­cernibly con­nected with the power cir­cuits of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations.

44:5.65. The trans­port ad­vis­ers. This corps of tech­ni­cal ad­vis­ers to the trans­port ser­a­phim are most pro­fi­cient in col­lab­o­rat­ing with the star stu­dents in work­ing out rout­ings and in oth­er­wise as­sist­ing the chiefs of trans­port on the worlds of space. They are the traf­fic super­vi­sors of the spheres and are pres­ent on all in­hab­ited plan­ets. Uran­tia is served by a corps of sev­enty trans­port ad­vis­ers.