Nebulae

=Nebulae=

== Urantia Text [|Paper 15]:[|4. NEBULAE—THE ANCESTORS OF UNIVERSES] ==

15:4.1 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 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 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]. 15:4.4 [|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 [|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 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. 15:4.7 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 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 [|Cluster globular] type of star clusters predominates near the outer margins of [|Orvonton]. 15:4.9 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.