유란시아 책
I 부. 중앙우주와 연방우주들
Paper 15
The Seven Superuniverses
The Seven Superuniverses
Sections
- Introduction
- § 1. The Superuniverse Space Level
- § 2. Organization of the Superuniverses
- § 3. The Superuniverse of Orvonton
- § 4. Nebulae—The Ancestors of Universes
- § 5. The Origin of Space Bodies
- § 6. The Spheres of Space
- § 7. The Architectural Spheres
- § 8. Energy Control and Regulation
- § 9. Circuits of the Superuniverses
- § 10. Rulers of the Superuniverses
- § 11. The Deliberative Assembly
- § 12. The Supreme Tribunals
- § 13. The Sector Governments
- § 14. Purposes of the Seven Superuniverses
우주 아버지가 --아버지로서-- 고려되는 한, 우주들은 사실상 존재하지 않으며;아버지는 인격체들과 관계하시며;인격체들의 아버지시다. 영원 아들과 무한 영이 --창조자의 동반자로서-- 고려되는 한, 우주들은 창조주 아들들과 창조적 영들의 공동 통치 아래서 국지적이고 개별적이다. 낙원 삼위일체가 고려되는 한, 하보나 외부에는 오직 일곱 인간거주 우주, 즉 하보나-이후{以後}의 첫 공간 층{層} 궤도를 관할하는 일곱 연방우주만이 존재한다. 일곱 으뜸 영은 자신의 영향력을 중앙 섬으로부터 방출하여 방대한 창조계를 하나의 거대한 바퀴로 구성하는데, 중심축은 영원한 낙원 섬, 일곱 바퀴살은 일곱 으뜸 영의 방사상{放射狀} 배열, 테두리는 광우주의 외곽 지역이다.
15:0.1 (164.1)
AS FAR as the Universal Father is concerned—as a Father—the universes are virtually nonexistent; he deals with personalities; he is the Father of personalities. As far as the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit are concerned—as creator partners—the universes are localized and individual under the joint rule of the Creator Sons and the Creative Spirits. As far as the Paradise Trinity is concerned, outside Havona there are just seven inhabited universes, the seven superuniverses which hold jurisdiction over the circle of the first post-Havona space level. The Seven Master Spirits radiate their influence out from the central Isle, thus constituting the vast creation one gigantic wheel, the hub being the eternal Isle of Paradise, the seven spokes the radiations of the Seven Master Spirits, the rim the outer regions of the grand universe.
15:0.2 (164.2)
Early in the materialization of the universal creation the sevenfold scheme of the superuniverse organization and government was formulated. The first post-Havona creation was divided into seven stupendous segments, and the headquarters worlds of these superuniverse governments were designed and constructed. The present scheme of administration has existed from near eternity, and the rulers of these seven superuniverses are rightly called Ancients of Days.
연방우주들에 대한 방대한 주요 지식에 관하여 내가 너희에게 말할 수 있는 것이 거의 없을 듯하지만, 물리적 힘과 영적 힘에 대한 지성 통제 기법이 이 영역에서 두루 작동하고, 우주의 인력{引力} 현존들이 웅대한 능력과 완전한 일치 속에서 작용한다. 연방우주 영토들의 물리적 구성과 물질 조직에 관한 적절한 관념을 먼저 얻는 것이 중요한데, 그렇게 되면, 그것들을 다스리는 영적 정부를 위해 제공되고, 이 일곱 연방우주 전역에 여기저기 흩어져있는, 무수한 인간거주 행성에 거하는 의지{意志} 피조물의 지적 진보를 위해 제공된 경이로운 조직의 의미를 너희가 파악하도록, 더 잘 준비될 것이기 때문이다.
15:0.3 (164.3)
Of the vast body of knowledge concerning the superuniverses, I can hope to tell you little, but there is operative throughout these realms a technique of intelligent control for both physical and spiritual forces, and the universal gravity presences there function in majestic power and perfect harmony. It is important first to gain an adequate idea of the physical constitution and material organization of the superuniverse domains, for then you will be the better prepared to grasp the significance of the marvelous organization provided for their spiritual government and for the intellectual advancement of the will creatures who dwell on the myriads of inhabited planets scattered hither and yon throughout these seven superuniverses.
너희의 짧은 년{年} 단위 기준으로 100만 년 또는 10억 년 동안의 세대들이 얻은 제한된 범위의 기록과 관찰과 기억으로 볼 때, 모든 실질적 의도와 목적에 맞춰서, 유란시아 및 유란시아가 소속된 우주는 새로운 공간으로 들어가는, 하나의 긴 미지의 몰입{沒入}에 해당하는 모험을 체험하고 있지만;우버사 기록에 따르면, 옛 관측기록과 일치되게, 우리가 속한 계층의 더 확장된 체험과 계산에 조화되도록, 그리고 이 발견 및 다른 발견들에 기초하여 판단한 결과에 따라서, 우리는 우주들이 질서 있고 잘-예측되고 완전하게 통제된 행렬 속에 들어있으면서, 위대한 제1 근원 및 중심과 그가 거주하는 우주 주변의 장엄한 모습 속에서 회전하고 있다는 것을 안다.
15:1.1 (164.4)
Within the limited range of the records, observations, and memories of the generations of a million or a billion of your short years, to all practical intents and purposes, Urantia and the universe to which it belongs are experiencing the adventure of one long and uncharted plunge into new space; but according to the records of Uversa, in accordance with older observations, in harmony with the more extensive experience and calculations of our order, and as a result of conclusions based on these and other findings, we know that the universes are engaged in an orderly, well-understood, and perfectly controlled processional, swinging in majestic grandeur around the First Great Source and Center and his residential universe.
엄청난 타원 곧 거대하고 길게 늘어난 궤도를 일곱 연방우주가 지나가고 있다는 것을, 우리는 오래 전부터 발견했다. 너희 태양계를 비롯하여 한때의 다른 세계들은, 지도나 나침반도 없이, 오지{奧地}의 공간 속으로 급속히 빨려 들어가고 있는 것이 아니다. 너희 체계가 속한 지방우주는, 중앙우주를 도는 거대한 진폭 주변에서, 분명하고 잘 알려진 반시계방향 진로를 따라가고 있다. 유란시아 천문학자들이 너희 태양계를 구성하는 행성들의 궤도를 잘 알고 있는 것과 마찬가지로, 이 시공우주 경로는 도표에 잘 표시돼있고, 연방우주 별 관찰자들이 이를 철저히 알고 있다.
15:1.2 (165.1)
We have long since discovered that the seven superuniverses traverse a great ellipse, a gigantic and elongated circle. Your solar system and other worlds of time are not plunging headlong, without chart and compass, into unmapped space. The local universe to which your system belongs is pursuing a definite and well-understood counterclockwise course around the vast swing that encircles the central universe. This cosmic path is well charted and is just as thoroughly known to the superuniverse star observers as the orbits of the planets constituting your solar system are known to Urantia astronomers.
유란시아는 온전하게 조직되지 않은 지방우주와 연방우주에 자리잡고 있으며, 너희의 지방우주는 부분적으로 완성된 수많은 물리 창조계에 바로 근접해있다. 너희는 최근에 조성된 우주들 가운데 하나에 속해있다. 그러나 오늘날 너희는, 미지의 공간 속으로 거칠게 빨려 들어가거나, 미지{未知}의 지역 속으로 마구잡이로 휙 날아가고 있지 않다. 너희는 연방우주 공간 층에서, 예정되고 질서 있는 경로를 따라가고 있다. 너희의 행성 체계 또는 그보다 앞선 체계들이 여러 시대 전에 지나갔던 바로 그 공간을, 너희가 지금 지나가고 있으며;먼 훗날 언젠가 너희 체계 또는 그것을 따라오는 체계들이, 지금 너희가 매우 신속하게 돌진해 통과하고 있는 동일한 공간을 다시 지나갈 것이다.
15:1.3 (165.2)
Urantia is situated in a local universe and a superuniverse not fully organized, and your local universe is in immediate proximity to numerous partially completed physical creations. You belong to one of the relatively recent universes. But you are not, today, plunging on wildly into uncharted space nor swinging out blindly into unknown regions. You are following the orderly and predetermined path of the superuniverse space level. You are now passing through the very same space that your planetary system, or its predecessors, traversed ages ago; and some day in the remote future your system, or its successors, will again traverse the identical space through which you are now so swiftly plunging.
이 시대에 유란시아에서 따지는 방향에 의거할 때, 일{1}번 연방우주는, 거대{巨大} 근원 및 중심들의 낙원 거주지 및 하보나 중앙우주에 대략 반대쪽으로, 동쪽 방향에서, 거의 정북{正北}으로 돌고 있다. 이 지점은, 서쪽에서 그에 대칭되는 지점도 마찬가지로, 시간세계의 구체들이 영원한 섬에 물리적으로 가장 가깝게 접근했음을 의미한다. 이{2}번 연방우주는 북쪽에 있고, 서쪽을 향해 돌 준비를 하고 있으며, 한편 삼{3}번은 현재 거대한 공간 경로의 가장 북쪽 부분을 차지하고 있는데, 남쪽으로 몰입{沒入}하도록 이끄는 만곡{彎曲}으로 이미 돌아서고 있다. 사{4}번은 비교적 남쪽으로 똑바로 날아가고 있는데, 앞선 부분은 이제 거대 중심들 반대편으로 접근하고 있다. 오{5}번은 중앙 중심 반대 지점을 거의 떠나는 동시에, 동쪽으로 회전하기 직전에 똑바로 남쪽 진로를 따라가고 있으며;육{6}번은 남쪽 곡면, 즉 너희 연방우주가 거의 다 지나간 지역 대부분을 차지하고 있다.
15:1.4 (165.3)
In this age and as direction is regarded on Urantia, superuniverse number one swings almost due north, approximately opposite, in an easterly direction, to the Paradise residence of the Great Sources and Centers and the central universe of Havona. This position, with the corresponding one to the west, represents the nearest physical approach of the spheres of time to the eternal Isle. Superuniverse number two is in the north, preparing for the westward swing, while number three now holds the northernmost segment of the great space path, having already turned into the bend leading to the southerly plunge. Number four is on the comparatively straightaway southerly flight, the advance regions now approaching opposition to the Great Centers. Number five has about left its position opposite the Center of Centers while continuing on the direct southerly course just preceding the eastward swing; number six occupies most of the southern curve, the segment from which your superuniverse has nearly passed.
15:1.5 (165.4)
Your local universe of Nebadon belongs to Orvonton, the seventh superuniverse, which swings on between superuniverses one and six, having not long since (as we reckon time) turned the southeastern bend of the superuniverse space level. Today, the solar system to which Urantia belongs is a few billion years past the swing around the southern curvature so that you are just now advancing beyond the southeastern bend and are moving swiftly through the long and comparatively straightaway northern path. For untold ages Orvonton will pursue this almost direct northerly course.
15:1.6 (165.5)
Urantia belongs to a system which is well out towards the borderland of your local universe; and your local universe is at present traversing the periphery of Orvonton. Beyond you there are still others, but you are far removed in space from those physical systems which swing around the great circle in comparative proximity to the Great Source and Center.
15:2.1 (165.6)
Only the Universal Father knows the location and actual number of inhabited worlds in space; he calls them all by name and number. I can give only the approximate number of inhabited or inhabitable planets, for some local universes have more worlds suitable for intelligent life than others. Nor have all projected local universes been organized. Therefore the estimates which I offer are solely for the purpose of affording some idea of the immensity of the material creation.
1. 체계. 약 1,000개의 인간거주 세계 또는 거주 가능한 세계로 구성되는, 연방정부의 기초 단위. 타오르는 항성, 차가운 세계, 뜨거운 항성에 너무 근접된 행성, 그리고 피조물 거주지로서 적당치 않은 다른 구체는 이 집단에 포함되지 않는다. 생명체를 지탱하기에 적합한 이 1,000 세계를 체계라고 부르지만, 젊은 체계의 경우에는, 이처럼 생명체가 거주하고 있는 세계들의 수가 비교적 적다. 각 인간거주 행성마다 한 명의 행성 왕자가 관장하고, 본부로 쓰이는 건축양식{建築樣式} 구체가 각 지역 체계마다 있으며, 한 체계 주권자가 이를 통치한다.
15:2.3 (166.2)
1. The System. The basic unit of the supergovernment consists of about one thousand inhabited or inhabitable worlds. Blazing suns, cold worlds, planets too near the hot suns, and other spheres not suitable for creature habitation are not included in this group. These one thousand worlds adapted to support life are called a system, but in the younger systems only a comparatively small number of these worlds may be inhabited. Each inhabited planet is presided over by a Planetary Prince, and each local system has an architectural sphere as its headquarters and is ruled by a System Sovereign.
15:2.4 (166.3)
2. The Constellation. One hundred systems (about 100,000 inhabitable planets) make up a constellation. Each constellation has an architectural headquarters sphere and is presided over by three Vorondadek Sons, the Most Highs. Each constellation also has a Faithful of Days in observation, an ambassador of the Paradise Trinity.
15:2.5 (166.4)
3. The Local Universe. One hundred constellations (about 10,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a local universe. Each local universe has a magnificent architectural headquarters world and is ruled by one of the co-ordinate Creator Sons of God of the order of Michael. Each universe is blessed by the presence of a Union of Days, a representative of the Paradise Trinity.
15:2.6 (166.5)
4. The Minor Sector. One hundred local universes (about 1,000,000,000 inhabitable planets) constitute a minor sector of the superuniverse government; it has a wonderful headquarters world, wherefrom its rulers, the Recents of Days, administer the affairs of the minor sector. There are three Recents of Days, Supreme Trinity Personalities, on each minor sector headquarters.
15:2.9 (166.8)
7. The Grand Universe. Seven superuniverses make up the present organized grand universe, consisting of approximately seven trillion inhabitable worlds plus the architectural spheres and the one billion inhabited spheres of Havona. The superuniverses are ruled and administered indirectly and reflectively from Paradise by the Seven Master Spirits. The billion worlds of Havona are directly administered by the Eternals of Days, one such Supreme Trinity Personality presiding over each of these perfect spheres.
15:3.1 (167.17)
Practically 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.
15:3.2 (167.18)
From 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.
15:3.3 (167.19)
Observation 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.
15:3.4 (167.20)
Of 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.
15:3.5 (168.1)
The 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.
너희의 태양 및 그것과 연합된 행성들이 속하는 물리 체계의 핵심은, 옛 앤드로노버 성운의 중앙이다. 전에 나선형이었던 이 성운은, 너희 태양계가 탄생하면서 발생된 사건과 관련된 여러 인력{引力} 분열로 인해 약간 일그러져있는데, 어떤 큰 이웃 성운이 가깝게 접근하기 때문에 발생됐다. 거의 충돌할 뻔 한 이것이 앤드로노버를 약간 구형{球形} 집합체가 되도록 변경시켰지만, 그 항성들 및 그에 관련된 물리적 집단의 양방향 행진을 전적으로 파괴하지는 않았다. 너희 태양계는 이제 이 일그러진 소용돌이 축들 가운데 하나에서 상당히 중앙에 위치하며, 중심에서 별 흐름 가장자리 쪽으로 거의 절반 정도 떨어져 있다.
15:3.6 (168.2)
The 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.
15:3.15 (168.11)
These 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.
창조물과 우주 조직은 언제까지든 무한한 창조주들과 그 동역자들의 통제를 받고 있으나, 그 현상 전체는 정해진 기법에 따라 힘과 에너지와 물질의 인력 법칙에 일치하면서 진행된다. 그러나 공간에서 우주의 힘-충전과 관련된 신비한 무엇이 존재하는데;궁극체{窮極體} 단계 이후의 물질 창조 조직은 우리가 상당히 이해하지만, 궁극체라는 시공우주 선조{先祖}에 대해서는 충분히 납득하지 못한다. 우리는 이 선조 힘이 낙원에서 기원됐다고 확신하는데, 낙원의 정확하고 거대한 윤곽선을 따라서, 충만 공간을 통하여 영구히 회전하기 때문이다. 낙원 인력에 대해 반응하지 않음에도, 모든 물질화의 조상인 이 공간 힘-충전이 하부 낙원 현존에 대해서 항상 반응하는데, 하부 낙원 중심의 안과 밖에서 뚜렷이 회로를 이루기 때문이다.
15:4.1 (169.1)
While 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.
15:4.2 (169.2)
The 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.
15:4.3 (169.3)
This 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.
낙원 힘 조직가들이 성운 창설자이며;그들은 자신의 공간 현존 주변에 거대한 힘을 지닌 회오리바람을 일으킬 수 있는데, 이것은 일단 시작 되면, 모두-충만시키는 힘이 궁극체 단위의 우주 물질들을 결국 출현시키기 위해 동원될 때까지, 결코 멈추거나 제한될 수 없다. 나선형의 성운 및 기타 성운, 즉 직접-기원되는 항성들과 그 다양한 체계의 모체{母體} 회전구름이 그렇게 존재하게 된다. 외부 공간에서는 10가지 다른 형태의 성운 곧 1차 우주 진화 국면들을 볼 수 있고, 이 방대한 에너지 회전구름은 일곱 연방우주의 경우와 동일하게 기원됐다.
15:4.4 (169.4)
Paradise 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.
15:4.5 (169.5)
Nebulae 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.
15:4.6 (169.6)
Nebulae 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.
나선형 성운 전체가 항성 만들기에 참여하지는 않는다. 더러는 그것에서 떨어져나간 별 후손 가운데 다수를 계속 통제해오고 있으며, 그것의 나선형 모습은, 항성들이 긴밀한 대형을 이루면서 성운 축에서 멀어졌더라도 다양한 경로로 돌아온다는 사실에 원인이 있고, 그래서 그것들을 한 지점에서 관찰하기는 쉬우나, 다른 회귀 경로에서 성운 축으로부터 멀리 밖으로 널리 퍼져있을 때에는 관찰하기가 더욱 어렵게 된다. 지금 오르본톤에서 항성을 형성하는 활발한 성운은 그리 많지 않음에도, 인간이 거주하는 그 연방우주 외곽에 있는 안드로메다는 매우 활동적이다. 멀리 있는 이 성운은 육안으로도 식별 가능하고, 너희는 그것을 볼 때 눈에 들어오는 그 빛이, 멀리 있는 그 항성에서 거의 100만 년 전에 떠났음을 잠시 멈춰서 검토해야한다.
15:4.7 (170.1)
Not 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.
15:4.8 (170.2)
The 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.
15:4.9 (170.3)
The 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.
15:5.1 (170.4)
The 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.
15:5.3 (170.6)
1. 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.
3. 인력-폭발 행성. 나선형 또는 막대기 모양의 성운에서 탄생할 때, 항성은 상당한 거리를 두고 방출되는 경우가 종종 있다. 이런 항성은 대단히 기체 상태이므로 어느 정도 식고 응축된 후에, 거대한 질량의 어떤 물질 곧 공간의 어떤 거대한 항성 또는 흑암 섬 근처에서 회전할 수도 있다. 이런 접근은 충돌을 일으킬 정도로 가까워지지는 않을지 몰라도, 큰 천체의 인력이 작은 천체에 조수{潮水} 격변을 일으키기 시작하여, 진동하는 항성 양쪽에서 일련의 조수 융기가 동시에 발생할 수 있을 만큼 충분히 가깝다. 절정에 도달하면 이런 폭발적인 분출은, 분출하는 그 항성의 인력권(引力圈) 지대 너머로 투사될 수도 있는 일련의 다양한-크기의 물질 집합체를 산출하고, 그리하여 이 과정에서 고려된 두 천체 가운데 하나의 주변 궤도 안에서 안정돼간다. 나중에는 더 큰 물질 집합체들이 결합하고, 작은 천체들을 자체 방향으로 더욱 끌어당긴다. 비교적 작은 체계들에서 고체 행성 가운데 다수가 이런 방법으로 생기게 된다. 너희 태양계가 바로 이렇게 기원됐다.
15:5.5 (170.8)
3. 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.
15:5.6 (171.1)
4. Centrifugal Planetary Daughters. Enormous suns, when in certain stages of development, and if their revolutionary rate greatly accelerates, begin to throw off large quantities of matter which may subsequently be assembled to form small worlds that continue to encircle the parent sun.
15:5.7 (171.2)
5. Gravity-deficiency Spheres. There is a critical limit to the size of individual stars. When a sun reaches this limit, unless it slows down in revolutionary rate, it is doomed to split; sun fission occurs, and a new double star of this variety is born. Numerous small planets may be subsequently formed as a by-product of this gigantic disruption.
6. 붙잡힌 별. 비교적 작은 체계 안에서, 가장 큰 외부 행성이 때로 그 주변 세계들을 끌어당기며, 한편 항성 가까이에 있는 행성들은 항성 쪽으로 마지막 돌진을 시작한다. 너희 태양계의 경우에, 이런 종말은 태양이 네 개의 안쪽 행성을 차지하고, 한편 가장 큰 행성인 목성이 나머지 세계들을 점령함으로써 크게 증대될 것을 의미한다. 한 항성계의 이런 종말은, 크기가 다른 인접한 두 항성을 생산하며, 이는 이중{二重} 별이 형성되는 한 유형이다. 이런 격변은, 연방우주 별 집합체들 중에서 바깥쪽 가장자리 이외에서는 잘 일어나지 않는다.
15:5.8 (171.3)
6. Contractural Stars. In the smaller systems the largest outer planet sometimes draws to itself its neighboring worlds, while those planets near the sun begin their terminal plunge. With your solar system, such an end would mean that the four inner planets would be claimed by the sun, while the major planet, Jupiter, would be greatly enlarged by capturing the remaining worlds. Such an end of a solar system would result in the production of two adjacent but unequal suns, one type of double star formation. Such catastrophes are infrequent except out on the fringe of the superuniverse starry aggregations.
15:5.9 (171.4)
7. Cumulative Spheres. From the vast quantity of matter circulating in space, small planets may slowly accumulate. They grow by meteoric accretion and by minor collisions. In certain sectors of space, conditions favor such forms of planetary birth. Many an inhabited world has had such an origin.
15:5.10 (171.5)
Some of the dense dark islands are the direct result of the accretions of transmuting energy in space. Another group of these dark islands have come into being by the accumulation of enormous quantities of cold matter, mere fragments and meteors, circulating through space. Such aggregations of matter have never been hot and, except for density, are in composition very similar to Urantia.
15:5.11 (171.6)
8. Burned-out Suns. Some of the dark islands of space are burned-out isolated suns, all available space-energy having been emitted. The organized units of matter approximate full condensation, virtual complete consolidation; and it requires ages upon ages for such enormous masses of highly condensed matter to be recharged in the circuits of space and thus to be prepared for new cycles of universe function following a collision or some equally revivifying cosmic happening.
15:5.12 (171.7)
9. Collisional Spheres. In those regions of thicker clustering, collisions are not uncommon. Such an astronomic readjustment is accompanied by tremendous energy changes and matter transmutations. Collisions involving dead suns are peculiarly influential in creating widespread energy fluctuations. Collisional debris often constitutes the material nucleuses for the subsequent formation of planetary bodies adapted to mortal habitation.
항성을 진화시키고 행성을 분리시키는 수많은 다른 기법이 있지만, 앞에서 말한 과정은 거의 대부분의 별 체계와 행성 집단이 실존하게 되는 방식을 암시한다. 별이 변질되고 행성이 진화하는 것과 관련되는 모든 다양한 기법을 적으려고 시도하려면, 거의 100가지 다른 방식으로 항성이 형성되고 행성이 기원되는 것을 설명해야한다. 너희 별 연구자들이 하늘을 살펴보면, 별이 진화하는 이 모든 형식을 알려주는 현상을 관찰할 수 있겠으나, 빛나지 않는 작은 물질 덩어리들의 형성에 대한 증거를 포착하는 경우는 드물 것인데, 이 덩어리들은 광대한 물질 창조물 중에서 가장 중요한, 인간거주 행성으로 이용된다.
15:5.14 (172.2)
There are numerous other techniques for evolving suns and segregating planets, but the foregoing procedures suggest the methods whereby the vast majority of stellar systems and planetary families are brought into existence. To undertake to describe all the various techniques involved in stellar metamorphosis and planetary evolution would require the narration of almost one hundred different modes of sun formation and planetary origin. As your star students scan the heavens, they will observe phenomena indicative of all these modes of stellar evolution, but they will seldom detect evidence of the formation of those small, nonluminous collections of matter which serve as inhabited planets, the most important of the vast material creations.
15:6.7 (173.5)
With the exception of the architectural spheres, all space bodies have had an evolutionary origin, evolutionary in the sense that they have not been brought into being by fiat of Deity, evolutionary in the sense that the creative acts of God have unfolded by a time-space technique through the operation of many of the created and eventuated intelligences of Deity.
15:6.8 (173.6)
The Suns. These are the stars of space in all their various stages of existence. Some are solitary evolving space systems; others are double stars, contracting or disappearing planetary systems. The stars of space exist in no less than a thousand different states and stages. You are familiar with suns that emit light accompanied by heat; but there are also suns which shine without heat.
평범한 항성 하나가 열과 빛을 수조{兆} 년 계속 방출한다는 사실이, 각 물질 단위가 포함하는 에너지의 방대한 저장량을 잘 설명한다. 눈에 보이지 않는 이 물질 입자 속에 저장된 실제 에너지는, 거의 상상할 수 없을 정도다. 그리고 타오르는 항성 내부에 널리 퍼지는 엄청난 열 압력 및 연합된 에너지 활동의 지배를 받으면서, 이 에너지는 거의 전부 빛이 될 수 있다. 또 다른 조건 아래에서, 이 항성들은 확립된 공간 회로에서 그것들의 길을 따라오는 공간 에너지 대부분을 변형시키고 방출해 낼 수 있게 한다. 항성 발전기가, 물질 에너지의 여러 국면과 물질의 모든 형태를 끌어들이고, 그런 후에 나눠준다. 항성은 이런 방법으로 에너지를 순환시키는 지방 가속기{加速機}로서 활동하는데, 자동 동력-통제소 역할을 한다.
15:6.9 (173.7)
The trillions upon trillions of years that an ordinary sun will continue to give out heat and light well illustrates the vast store of energy which each unit of matter contains. The actual energy stored in these invisible particles of physical matter is well-nigh unimaginable. And this energy becomes almost wholly available as light when subjected to the tremendous heat pressure and the associated energy activities which prevail in the interior of the blazing suns. Still other conditions enable these suns to transform and send forth much of the energy of space which comes their way in the established space circuits. Many phases of physical energy and all forms of matter are attracted to, and subsequently distributed by, the solar dynamos. In this way the suns serve as local accelerators of energy circulation, acting as automatic power-control stations.
15:6.10 (173.8)
The superuniverse of Orvonton is illuminated and warmed by more than ten trillion blazing suns. These suns are the stars of your observable astronomic system. More than two trillion are too distant and too small ever to be seen from Urantia. But in the master universe there are as many suns as there are glasses of water in the oceans of your world.
공간의 흑암 섬. 이것은 죽은 항성, 그리고 빛과 열이 없는 물질의 거대한 기타 집합체다. 흑암 섬은 때때로 거대한 덩어리이고, 우주 평형과 에너지를 다룰 때 강력한 영향력을 발휘한다. 이 큰 덩어리들 가운데 일부의 밀도는 거의 믿을 수 없을 정도다. 그리고 거대하게 농축된 이 덩어리가 이 흑암 섬들로 하여금 강력한 평형 원동력 역할을 하게 하는데, 이웃에 있는 큰 체계들을 효과적인 끈으로 붙잡는다. 이것들은 많은 성좌에서 인력의 힘 균형을 유지하며;이것들이 없다면 가까이에 있는 항성들 속으로 빠르게 파괴되어 들어갈 많은 물리 체계들이, 이 보호 흑암 섬들의 인력 지배 속에 안전하게 붙잡혀있다. 이 기능 때문에, 우리는 흑암 섬들의 위치를 정확하게 결정할 수 있다. 우리는 빛을 내는 천체의 인력 작용을 측정해왔고, 따라서 공간의 흑암 섬의 정확한 크기와 위치를 계산할 수 있는데, 일정한 체계를 그 진로 안에 안정되게 붙잡을 수 있을 정도로 매우 효과적으로 작용한다.
15:6.11 (173.9)
The Dark Islands of Space. These are the dead suns and other large aggregations of matter devoid of light and heat. The dark islands are sometimes enormous in mass and exert a powerful influence in universe equilibrium and energy manipulation. The density of some of these large masses is well-nigh unbelievable. And this great concentration of mass enables these dark islands to function as powerful balance wheels, holding large neighboring systems in effective leash. They hold the gravity balance of power in many constellations; many physical systems which would otherwise speedily dive to destruction in near-by suns are held securely in the gravity grasp of these guardian dark islands. It is because of this function that we can locate them accurately. We have measured the gravity pull of the luminous bodies, and we can therefore calculate the exact size and location of the dark islands of space which so effectively function to hold a given system steady in its course.
많은 혜성{彗星}은, 항성을 탄생시킨 모체 회전구름이 낳은 정착되지 않은 자유분방한 자손이며, 중앙에서 지배하는 항성 통제 아래로 서서히 들어오고 있다. 혜성은 또한 수많은 다른 기원을 갖는다. 혜성의 꼬리는, 잡아당기는 천체 또는 항성의 반대 방향을 가리키는데, 이는 크게 팽창된 기체의 전기적 반작용 때문이고, 항성에서 방사되는 빛 그리고 기타 에너지의 실제 압력 때문이다. 이 현상은 빛의 실체 및 그에 관련된 에너지를 명확하게 증명하는 것들 가운데 하나이며;빛이 무게를 갖고 있음을 나타낸다. 빛은 실재하는 물질이고, 단순히 가정적{假定的}인 에테르 파동이 아니다.
15:6.13 (173.11)
Many comets are unestablished wild offspring of the solar mother wheels, which are being gradually brought under control of the central governing sun. Comets also have numerous other origins. A comet’s tail points away from the attracting body or sun because of the electrical reaction of its highly expanded gases and because of the actual pressure of light and other energies emanating from the sun. This phenomenon constitutes one of the positive proofs of the reality of light and its associated energies; it demonstrates that light has weight. Light is a real substance, not simply waves of hypothetical ether.
15:6.14 (173.12)
The Planets. These are the larger aggregations of matter which follow an orbit around a sun or some other space body; they range in size from planetesimals to enormous gaseous, liquid, or solid spheres. The cold worlds which have been built up by the assemblage of floating space material, when they happen to be in proper relation to a near-by sun, are the more ideal planets to harbor intelligent inhabitants. The dead suns are not, as a rule, suited to life; they are usually too far away from a living, blazing sun, and further, they are altogether too massive; gravity is tremendous at the surface.
15:6.15 (173.13)
In your superuniverse not one cool planet in forty is habitable by beings of your order. And, of course, the superheated suns and the frigid outlying worlds are unfit to harbor higher life. In your solar system only three planets are at present suited to harbor life. Urantia, in size, density, and location, is in many respects ideal for human habitation.
15:6.16 (173.14)
The laws of physical-energy behavior are basically universal, but local influences have much to do with the physical conditions which prevail on individual planets and in local systems. An almost endless variety of creature life and other living manifestations characterizes the countless worlds of space. There are, however, certain points of similarity in a group of worlds associated in a given system, while there also is a universe pattern of intelligent life. There are physical relationships among those planetary systems which belong to the same physical circuit, and which closely follow each other in the endless swing around the circle of universes.
각 연방우주 정부는, 공간 구획{區劃}에 속하는 진화 우주들의 중심 근처에서 관장하는데, 그 정부는 주문받아 만들어진 한 세계를 차지하고, 공인된 인격체들로 채워져 있다. 이 본부 세계들은 건축양식 구체, 즉 특별한 목적을 위해 특이하게 구축된 천체다. 이 구체들은, 가까이 있는 항성들의 빛을 공유하는 한편, 별도로 빛을 받고 따뜻하게 된다. 각 구체에는 낙원 위성들과 마찬가지로 열없이 빛을 발하는 하나의 항성이 있고, 한편 구체 표면 가까이에 있는 어떤 에너지 흐름의 순환으로 열이 공급된다. 이 본부 세계들은, 각 연방우주의 천문적{天文的} 중심 주변에 자리잡은 더 큰 체계 가운데 하나에 속해있다.
15:7.1 (174.1)
While 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.
15:7.2 (174.2)
Time 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.
15:7.3 (174.3)
The 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.
15:7.4 (174.4)
The 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.
15:7.5 (174.5)
Jerusem, 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.
우버사는 너희 오르본톤 연방우주의 본부이고, 의지를 지닌 상승하는 피조물을 위한, 일곱 개의 진보된 영적 훈련 고등 대학으로 바로 둘러싸여있다. 경이로운 구체들로 구성된 이 일곱 성단은 각각, 우주 훈련 및 영 교양에 헌신하는 수천 개의 풍부한 연구소 및 조직들을 포함하는 70개의 특화된 세계로 구성돼있으며, 여기서 시간 순례자들은 하보나를 향한 긴 비행에 대비하기 위하여 다시 교육받고 다시 검증받는다. 시간세계로부터 도착하는 순례자는, 연합된 이 세계들에서 언제든지 받아들여지지만, 떠나가는 졸업생은 항상 우버사 기슭에서 직접 하보나로 파송된다.
15:7.10 (175.1)
Uversa, 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.
15:8.1 (175.4)
The 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.
그 이상의 규제 기능은 연방우주 동력 중심과 물리 통제관들이 수행하는데, 이들은 각자 이 명백한 목적을 위하여 선정된 활기찬 지성 실재와 약간활기찬 지성 실재다. 이 동력 중심과 통제관들을 이해하기는 어려우며;낮은 계층은 자발적이지 않은데, 그들에게는 의지가 없고, 선택할 수 없으며, 그들의 기능은 아주 지성적이지만 외견상 자동적이고 고도로 전문화된 조직에 내재돼있다. 연방우주의 동력 중심과 물리 통제관들은, 인력세력 영역을 구성하는 30개의 에너지 체계를 지휘하고 부분적으로 통제하는 일을 맡는다. 우버사의 동력 중심들이 경영하는 물리적-에너지 회로는, 연방우주를 한 바퀴 다 돌기까지, 9억 6,800만 년보다 약간 더 걸린다.
15:8.2 (175.5)
Further 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.
15:8.3 (175.6)
Evolving 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.
15:8.4 (175.7)
The 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.
15:8.5 (175.8)
Given 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.
덩어리가 과도하게 응집{凝集}되어 에너지의 균형을 깨뜨리고 물리적 동력 회로들을 고갈시키면, 공간에서 거대한 죽은 별들 사이에서 충돌이 발생하여 에너지를 과도하게-물질화하는 인력 자체의 계속적인 경향이 무너지지 않는 한, 누적된 전체 인력을 물리 통제관들이 개입하여 한 순간에 철저히 소멸시킨다. 이런 충돌 사건에서 물체의 막대한 중량은, 가장 보기 드문 형태의 에너지로 갑자기 변환되며, 우주의 평형을 위한 투쟁이 새롭게 시작된다. 결국에는 큰 물리 체계들이 안정을 이루게 되고, 물리적으로 정착되며, 연방우주들의 균형이 잡히고 확립된 회로들 속으로 회전해 들어간다. 이 사건 이후에 그런 확립된 체계들에서는, 충돌 또는 황폐하게 만드는 다른 격변들이 더 이상 발생하지 않을 것이다.
15:8.6 (176.1)
When 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.
15:8.7 (176.2)
During 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.
우리는 우주 평형을 다스리는 법칙 대부분을 알아볼 수 있고 우주 안정성에 대해 많이 예측할 수 있다. 실질적으로 우리의 예측은 믿음직하지만, 우리에게 알려진 에너지 통제와 물질 행태의 법칙을 전면적으로 따르지 않는 어떤 힘에 우리는 늘 직면한다. 우리가 낙원에서 밖으로 진행함에 따라서, 모든 물리적 현상에 대한 예측 가능성은 더욱 낮아진다. 낙원 통치자들이 직접 경영하는 경계선 너머를 지나갈 때, 확립된 표준에 따라서, 그리고 근처에 있는 천문학상 체계들의 물리적 현상을 독자적으로 취급해온 관측과 관련하여 획득된 체험에 따라서 계산할 능력이 점점 줄어듦에 우리는 직면한다. 일곱 연방우주 영역에서도 우리는 힘 작용과 에너지 반응 한가운데서 살고 있는데, 이 작용과 반응은 우리 영토 전체에 충만하고, 외부 공간의 모든 지역 전반에 걸쳐서 통합된 평형 상태로 확장돼있다.
15:8.8 (176.3)
We 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.
15:8.9 (176.4)
The 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.
15:8.10 (176.5)
The 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.
15:9.1 (176.6)
The universal circuits of Paradise do actually pervade the realms of the seven superuniverses. These presence circuits are: the personality gravity of the Universal Father, the spiritual gravity of the Eternal Son, the mind gravity of the Conjoint Actor, and the material gravity of the eternal Isle.
15:9.2 (177.1)
In addition to the universal Paradise circuits and in addition to the presence-performances of the Absolutes and the experiential Deities, there function within the superuniverse space level only two energy-circuit divisions or power segregations: the superuniverse circuits and the local universe circuits.
15:9.15 (177.14)
When there develops such a spiritual harmony in a local universe that its individual and combined circuits become indistinguishable from those of the superuniverse, when such identity of function and oneness of ministry actually prevail, then does the local universe immediately swing into the settled circuits of light and life, becoming at once eligible for admission into the spiritual confederation of the perfected union of the supercreation. The requisites for admission to the councils of the Ancients of Days, membership in the superuniverse confederation, are:
15:9.17 (177.16)
2. Spiritual Loyalty. There must exist a state of universal recognition of, and loyalty to, the Sovereign Son of God who presides over the affairs of such a local universe. There must have come into being a state of harmonious co-operation between the individual planets, systems, and constellations of the entire local universe.
너희 지방우주는 연방우주의 정착된 물리 계층에 소속될 만하다고 간주되지도 않으며, 연방정부로부터 인정받는 영적 집단 회원으로 남을만하다고 간주되기에는 더욱 부족하다. 비록 네바돈이 우버사에 아직 대표자를 보내지 못하고 있더라도, 내가 우버사에서 유란시아로 직접 온 것과 마찬가지로, 연방우주 정부에 속한 우리는 때때로 특별한 사명을 띠고 네바돈의 여러 세계에 파송된다. 우리는 너희를 지휘하는 자들과 통치하는 자들이 어려운 문제를 해결할 때 가능한 모든 방법으로 도와주며;너희 우주가 연방우주 집단의 연합된 창조계 안으로 충분히 받아들여질 만큼 자격을 갖추기를 고대하고 있다.
15:9.18 (177.17)
Your local universe is not even reckoned as belonging to the settled physical order of the superuniverse, much less as holding membership in the recognized spiritual family of the supergovernment. Although Nebadon does not yet have representation on Uversa, we of the superuniverse government are dispatched to its worlds on special missions from time to time, even as I have come to Urantia directly from Uversa. We lend every possible assistance to your directors and rulers in the solution of their difficult problems; we are desirous of seeing your universe qualified for full admission into the associated creations of the superuniverse family.
15:10.1 (178.1)
The headquarters of the superuniverses are the seats of the high spiritual government of the time-space domains. The executive branch of the supergovernment, taking origin in the Councils of the Trinity, is immediately directed by one of the Seven Master Spirits of supreme supervision, beings who sit upon seats of Paradise authority and administer the superuniverses through the Seven Supreme Executives stationed on the seven special worlds of the Infinite Spirit, the outermost satellites of Paradise.
15:10.2 (178.2)
The superuniverse headquarters are the abiding places of the Reflective Spirits and the Reflective Image Aids. From this midway position these marvelous beings conduct their tremendous reflectivity operations, thus ministering to the central universe above and to the local universes below.
15:10.11 (178.11)
The three Ancients of Days are immediately assisted by a corps of one billion Perfectors of Wisdom, with whom are associated three billion Divine Counselors. One billion Universal Censors are attached to each superuniverse administration. These three groups are Co-ordinate Trinity Personalities, taking origin directly and divinely in the Paradise Trinity.
나머지 세 계층 곧 강력한 사자들과 권세 높은 이들 그리고 이름과 번호가 없는 이들은, 영화롭게 된 상승한 필사자다. 이 계층 중에서 첫째는 상승 체제를 통하여 올라왔고, 그랜환다 시대에 하보나를 거쳐서 지나갔다. 낙원에 도달하고 나서, 그들은 완결성취 단체에 모집됐고, 낙원 삼위일체가 받아들였고, 그후에 태고 항존자들의 숭고한 업무에 배정됐다. 등급{等級}으로 볼 때, 이 세 계층은 삼위일체화된 달성 아들로서 알려지는데, 이중{二重} 기원에 해당되지만 지금은 삼위일체 업무에 속해있다. 그리하여 연방우주 정부의 행정 분야는, 영화롭게 되고 완전하게 된 진화 세계 자녀를 포함할 정도로 확장됐다.
15:10.12 (178.12)
The remaining three orders, Mighty Messengers, Those High in Authority, and Those without Name and Number, are glorified ascendant mortals. The first of these orders came up through the ascendant regime and passed through Havona in the days of Grandfanda. Having attained Paradise, they were mustered into the Corps of the Finality, embraced by the Paradise Trinity, and subsequently assigned to the supernal service of the Ancients of Days. As a class, these three orders are known as Trinitized Sons of Attainment, being of dual origin but now of Trinity service. Thus was the executive branch of the superuniverse government enlarged to include the glorified and perfected children of the evolutionary worlds.
15:10.21 (179.8)
The Reflective Image Aids also function as the representatives of numerous groups of beings who are influential in the superuniverse governments, but who are not, at present, for various reasons, fully active in their individual capacities. Embraced within this group are: the evolving superuniverse personality manifestation of the Supreme Being, the Unqualified Supervisors of the Supreme, the Qualified Vicegerents of the Ultimate, the unnamed liaison reflectivators of Majeston, and the superpersonal spirit representatives of the Eternal Son.
15:10.22 (179.9)
At almost all times it is possible to find representatives of all groups of created beings on the headquarters worlds of the superuniverses. The routine ministering work of the superuniverses is performed by the mighty seconaphim and by other members of the vast family of the Infinite Spirit. In the work of these marvelous centers of superuniverse administration, control, ministry, and executive judgment, the intelligences of every sphere of universal life are mingled in effective service, wise administration, loving ministry, and just judgment.
15:10.23 (179.10)
The superuniverses do not maintain any sort of ambassadorial representation; they are completely isolated from each other. They know of mutual affairs only through the Paradise clearinghouse maintained by the Seven Master Spirits. Their rulers work in the councils of divine wisdom for the welfare of their own superuniverses regardless of what may be transpiring in other sections of the universal creation. This isolation of the superuniverses will persist until such time as their co-ordination is achieved by the more complete factualization of the personality-sovereignty of the evolving experiential Supreme Being.
15:11.1 (179.11)
It is on such worlds as Uversa that the beings representative of the autocracy of perfection and the democracy of evolution meet face to face. The executive branch of the supergovernment originates in the realms of perfection; the legislative branch springs from the flowering of the evolutionary universes.
15:11.2 (179.12)
The deliberative assembly of the superuniverse is confined to the headquarters world. This legislative or advisory council consists of seven houses, to each of which every local universe admitted to the superuniverse councils elects a native representative. These representatives are chosen by the high councils of such local universes from among the ascending-pilgrim graduates of Orvonton who are tarrying on Uversa, accredited for transport to Havona. The average term of service is about one hundred years of superuniverse standard time.
오르본톤 행정관과 우버사 집회 사이에 불일치가 있었다는 말을, 나는 한 번도 들은 적이 없다. 우리 연방우주 역사에서 지금까지, 연방정부의 행정 부서가 수행하기를 망설일만했던 어떤 충고도, 심의 기관이 내보낸 적이 전혀 없었다. 가장 완전한 조화와 실제 합의가 항상 우세했는데, 이 모든 것은 완전한 기원과 신성한 본성을 지닌 인격체들과 교제할 자격을 갖춘 완전케 된 지혜의 경지에, 진화 존재들이 실제로 도달할 수 있다는 사실을 증명한다. 여러 심의회가 연방우주 본부에 현존하는 것은 우주 아버지와 영원 아들의 전체적인 방대한 진화 개념에 담긴 지혜를 드러내며, 그것이 궁극적으로 승리할 것을 예시한다.
15:11.3 (180.1)
Never have I known of a disagreement between the Orvonton executives and the Uversa assembly. Never yet, in the history of our superuniverse, has the deliberative body ever passed a recommendation that the executive division of the supergovernment has even hesitated to carry out. There always has prevailed the most perfect harmony and working agreement, all of which testifies to the fact that evolutionary beings can really attain the heights of perfected wisdom which qualifies them to consort with the personalities of perfect origin and divine nature. The presence of the deliberative assemblies on the superuniverse headquarters reveals the wisdom, and foreshadows the ultimate triumph, of the whole vast evolutionary concept of the Universal Father and his Eternal Son.
우리가 우버사 정부의 행정 부서와 심의{審議} 부서들을 이야기할 때, 너희는 어떤 형태의 유란시아 시민 정부와 유사한 점에 비추어 우리도 셋째 부서 곧 사법부를 둘 수밖에 없다고 추론할 수 있겠고, 또한 실제로 그렇게 하지만;우버사 정부에 별도의 인력은 없다. 우리 법정은 다음과 같이 구성된다:사건의 본질과 중대함에 따라서, 태고 항존자나 지혜 완비자 또는 신성한 조언자가 주관한다. 개인이나 행성이나 체계나 성좌 또는 우주에 유리하거나 불리한 증거물이 제시되고, 검열관들이 해석한다. 시간세계의 자녀들과 진화 행성들에 대한 변론은 강력한 사자들이 제공하는데, 강력한 사자는 지방우주 및 지역 체계들에 대한 연방우주 정부의 공식 감시자다. 권세 높은 이들이 상위{上位} 정부의 입장을 대변한다. 그리고 일반적인 경우에, 이름과 번호가 없는 이들 그리고 그 심의회에서 뽑은 공감하는 인격체 집단이 절반씩 차지하는, 다양한-크기의 위원단에서 판결문이 작성된다.
15:12.1 (180.2)
When we speak of executive and deliberative branches of the Uversa government, you may, from the analogy of certain forms of Urantian civil government, reason that we must have a third or judicial branch, and we do; but it does not have a separate personnel. Our courts are constituted as follows: There presides, in accordance with the nature and gravity of the case, an Ancient of Days, a Perfector of Wisdom, or a Divine Counselor. The evidence for or against an individual, a planet, system, constellation, or universe is presented and interpreted by the Censors. The defense of the children of time and the evolutionary planets is offered by the Mighty Messengers, the official observers of the superuniverse government to the local universes and systems. The attitude of the higher government is portrayed by Those High in Authority. And ordinarily the verdict is formulated by a varying-sized commission consisting equally of Those without Name and Number and a group of understanding personalities chosen from the deliberative assembly.
태고 항존자 법정은, 구성하는 우주 전체의 영적 판결을 위한 높은 재심{再審} 재판소다. 지방우주의 주권자 아들은 자신의 영역에서 가장 높으며;의지를 지닌 피조물의 소멸에 관련되는 문제를 제외하고, 태고 항존자들의 조언 또는 판결을 받으려고 자발적으로 문제를 제시하는 한에서만 연방정부에 종속된다. 판결하는 명령은 지방우주에서 시작되지만, 의지를 지닌 피조물의 소멸을 포함하는 선고문{宣告文}은, 반드시 연방우주 본부에서 작성되고 거기서 집행된다. 지방우주 아들이 필사적 사람의 생존에 대해 판결할 수 있으나, 영원한 삶과 죽음의 문제에 대해서는 오직 태고 항존자들만이 행정 심판석에 앉을 수 있다.
15:12.2 (180.3)
The courts of the Ancients of Days are the high review tribunals for the spiritual adjudication of all component universes. The Sovereign Sons of the local universes are supreme in their own domains; they are subject to the supergovernment only in so far as they voluntarily submit matters for counsel or adjudication by the Ancients of Days except in matters involving the extinction of will creatures. Mandates of judgment originate in the local universes, but sentences involving the extinction of will creatures are always formulated on, and executed from, the headquarters of the superuniverse. The Sons of the local universes can decree the survival of mortal man, but only the Ancients of Days may sit in executive judgment on the issues of eternal life and death.
15:12.3 (180.4)
In all matters not requiring trial, the submission of evidence, the Ancients of Days or their associates render decisions, and these rulings are always unanimous. We are here dealing with the councils of perfection. There are no disagreements nor minority opinions in the decrees of these supreme and superlative tribunals.
15:12.4 (180.5)
With certain few exceptions the supergovernments exercise jurisdiction over all things and all beings in their respective domains. There is no appeal from the rulings and decisions of the superuniverse authorities since they represent the concurred opinions of the Ancients of Days and that Master Spirit who, from Paradise, presides over the destiny of the superuniverse concerned.
15:13.2 (181.2)
The courts of the Perfections of Days are constituted much as are those of the Ancients of Days except that they do not sit in spiritual judgment upon the realms. The work of these major sector governments has chiefly to do with the intellectual status of a far-flung creation. The major sectors detain, adjudicate, dispense, and tabulate, for reporting to the courts of the Ancients of Days, all matters of superuniverse importance of a routine and administrative nature which are not immediately concerned with the spiritual administration of the realms or with the outworking of the mortal-ascension plans of the Paradise Rulers. The personnel of a major sector government is no different from that of the superuniverse.
15:13.3 (181.3)
As the magnificent satellites of Uversa are concerned with your final spiritual preparation for Havona, so are the seventy satellites of Umajor the fifth devoted to your superuniverse intellectual training and development. From all Orvonton, here are gathered together the wise beings who labor untiringly to prepare the mortals of time for their further progress towards the career of eternity. Most of this training of ascending mortals is conducted on the seventy study worlds.
15:13.4 (181.4)
The minor sector governments are presided over by three Recents of Days. Their administration is concerned mainly with the physical control, unification, stabilization, and routine co-ordination of the administration of the component local universes. Each minor sector embraces as many as one hundred local universes, ten thousand constellations, one million systems, or about one billion inhabitable worlds.
15:13.5 (181.5)
Minor sector headquarters worlds are the grand rendezvous of the Master Physical Controllers. These headquarters worlds are surrounded by the seven instruction spheres which constitute the entrance schools of the superuniverse and are the centers of training for physical and administrative knowledge concerning the universe of universes.
소구역{小區域} 정부 경영자들은 대구역 통치자들의 직접 관할권 아래에 있다. 최근 항존자들은, 지방우주 본부 구체에 삼위일체 관찰자 및 자문가로서 머물고 있는 합동 항존자로부터, 그리고 성좌 본부에서 지고자로 구성된 협의회에 비슷하게 배속된 신실 항존자로부터 연방우주로 올라오는 모든 관찰 보고를 받고 모든 충고를 조화시킨다. 그런 모든 보고서는 대구역에 있는 완벽 항존자에게 발송되고, 그후에는 태고 항존자 법정에 전달된다. 그래서 삼위일체 체제는 지방우주 성좌로부터 연방우주 본부에 이르기까지 확장된다. 지역 체계 본부에는 삼위일체 대리인{代理人}이 없다.
15:13.6 (181.6)
The administrators of the minor sector governments are under the immediate jurisdiction of the major sector rulers. The Recents of Days receive all reports of observations and co-ordinate all recommendations which come up to a superuniverse from the Unions of Days who are stationed as Trinity observers and advisers on the headquarters spheres of the local universes and from the Faithfuls of Days who are similarly attached to the councils of the Most Highs at the headquarters of the constellations. All such reports are transmitted to the Perfections of Days on the major sectors, subsequently to be passed on to the courts of the Ancients of Days. Thus the Trinity regime extends from the constellations of the local universes up to the headquarters of the superuniverse. The local system headquarters do not have Trinity representatives.
15:14.1 (181.7)
There are seven major purposes which are being unfolded in the evolution of the seven superuniverses. Each major purpose in superuniverse evolution will find fullest expression in only one of the seven superuniverses, and therefore does each superuniverse have a special function and a unique nature.
15:14.2 (182.1)
Orvonton, the seventh superuniverse, the one to which your local universe belongs, is known chiefly because of its tremendous and lavish bestowal of merciful ministry to the mortals of the realms. It is renowned for the manner in which justice prevails as tempered by mercy and power rules as conditioned by patience, while the sacrifices of time are freely made to secure the stabilization of eternity. Orvonton is a universe demonstration of love and mercy.
15:14.3 (182.2)
It is, however, very difficult to describe our conception of the true nature of the evolutionary purpose which is unfolding in Orvonton, but it may be suggested by saying that in this supercreation we feel that the six unique purposes of cosmic evolution as manifested in the six associated supercreations are here being interassociated into a meaning-of-the-whole; and it is for this reason that we have sometimes conjectured that the evolved and finished personalization of God the Supreme will in the remote future and from Uversa rule the perfected seven superuniverses in all the experiential majesty of his then attained almighty sovereign power.
오르본톤이 본질적으로 독특하고 개별 운명을 갖는 것처럼, 오르본톤과 관련된 여섯 연방우주 각각 역시 그렇다. 아무튼 오르본톤에서 이뤄지고 있는 많은 것들이 너희에게 계시되지 않았으며, 오르본톤 생애 중에 계시되지 않은 이 특색 가운데 많은 부분은, 다른 어떤 연방우주에서 가장 완성된 표현을 찾게 된다. 연방우주 진화의 일곱 가지 목적이 전체 연방우주 전반에 걸쳐서 유효하지만, 각 연방창조물은 이 목적들 가운데 하나에 대해서만 아주 충분한 표현을 제시할 것이다. 이 연방우주 목적들을 더욱 이해하려면, 너희가 이해하지 못할 많은 것이 계시돼야하겠지만, 그때가 되더라도 너희는 거의 납득하지 못할 것이다. 이 이야기 전체는 끝없는 창조를 얼핏 훑어본 것에 불과하며, 너희 세계와 지역 체계는 그 창조의 일부분이다.
15:14.4 (182.3)
As Orvonton is unique in nature and individual in destiny, so also is each of its six associated superuniverses. A great deal that is going on in Orvonton is not, however, revealed to you, and of these unrevealed features of Orvonton life, many are to find most complete expression in some other superuniverse. The seven purposes of superuniverse evolution are operative throughout all seven superuniverses, but each supercreation will give fullest expression to only one of these purposes. To understand more about these superuniverse purposes, much that you do not understand would have to be revealed, and even then you would comprehend but little. This entire narrative presents only a fleeting glimpse of the immense creation of which your world and local system are a part.
15:14.6 (182.5)
Satania has a headquarters world called Jerusem, and it is system number twenty-four in the constellation of Norlatiadek. Your constellation, Norlatiadek, consists of one hundred local systems and has a headquarters world called Edentia. Norlatiadek is number seventy in the universe of Nebadon. The local universe of Nebadon consists of one hundred constellations and has a capital known as Salvington. The universe of Nebadon is number eighty-four in the minor sector of Ensa.
15:14.7 (182.6)
The minor sector of Ensa consists of one hundred local universes and has a capital called Uminor the third. This minor sector is number three in the major sector of Splandon. Splandon consists of one hundred minor sectors and has a headquarters world called Umajor the fifth. It is the fifth major sector of the superuniverse of Orvonton, the seventh segment of the grand universe. Thus you can locate your planet in the scheme of the organization and administration of the universe of universes.
15:14.8 (182.7)
The grand universe number of your world, Urantia, is 5,342,482,337,666. That is the registry number on Uversa and on Paradise, your number in the catalogue of the inhabited worlds. I know the physical-sphere registry number, but it is of such an extraordinary size that it is of little practical significance to the mortal mind.