Orvonton

[|Orvonton]


== Urantia Text [|Paper 15]:[|3. THE SUPERUNIVERSE OF ORVONTON] ==

15:3.1 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 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 [|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 Of the ten major divisions of Orvonton, [|eight have been roughly identified] [|[1]] 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 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.[|(?)] 15:3.6 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. 15:3.7 The [|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]: 15:3.8 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]. 15:3.9 The [|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].
 * 1. The revolution of Urantia around its sun.
 * 2. The [|circuit] of your [|solar system] about the [|nucleus] of the former [|Andronover nebula].
 * 3. The rotation of the Andronover stellar family and the associated clusters about the composite rotation-[|gravity] [|center] of the star cloud of [|Nebadon].
 * 4. The swing of the local star cloud of Nebadon and its associated creations around the [|Sagittarius] [|center] of their minor sector.
 * 5. The rotation of the one hundred minor sectors, including [|Sagittarius], about their major sector.
 * 6. The whirl of the ten major sectors, the so-called [|star drifts], about the [|Uversa] headquarters of [|Orvonton].
 * 7. The [|movement] of Orvonton and six associated superuniverses around [|Paradise] and [|Havona], the counterclockwise [|processional] of the superuniverse space level.