ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE
The Big Bang. What Big Bang?Scientists have spent an enormous amount of time debating the question: How did the universe originate? They diligently gaze toward heaven searching for clues that will confirm their theory [assumption?] that the entire universe came into existence instantaneously as a result of the Big Bang.
There is a simple explanation for this question once certain facts are known. One difficulty scientists encounter and will never overcome is that they cannot see the universe personnel who are charged with initiating a new nebula. Later in this paper there is a brief description of the initiation and evolution of the Andronover nebula, the mother of our solar system.
The debate rages: Are there other inhabited worlds in the universe? The answer is Yes. The grand universe number of our world is 5,342,482,337,666. That is the registry number on Uversa and on Paradise, our number in the catalogue of the inhabited worlds. The universe organization chart provides for about seven trillion inhabited worlds in the grand universe. [15:14:8] [15:2:10]
But first, we need to answer the question: Who is in charge here? Universes do not spring into existence spontaneously. So who is pulling the strings?God the Father, Ruler and Creator of All.
God the Father rules the master universe from his headquarters in Paradise. Paradise is the eternal center of the universe of universes and the abiding place of God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, and their divine co-ordinates and associates. God dwells, has dwelt, and everlastingly will dwell in this same central and eternal abode. It is an eternal and exclusive existence.
Paradise is the geographic center of infinity. It is the gigantic nuclear Isle of absolute stability which rests motionless at the very heart of the master universe and around which the vast creations of time and space revolve. Absolutely nothing is stationary in all the master universe except the eternal Isle of Paradise, the center of gravity.
The true magnitude of the eternal Isle of Paradise is really beyond the understanding grasp of the human mind. It is the most gigantic organized body of cosmic reality in all the master universe.
All forms of basic energy ever swing around the curved path of the space levels of the master universe in obedience to the incessant and absolute pull of Paradise gravity. Force, energy, and matter ever whirl, always swinging onward in the tracks of the great space circuits. Did God move, universal pandemonium would be precipitated, for there converge in him at this residential center the universal lines of gravity from the ends of creation. Thus does God uphold and support the master universe. He literally holds the master universe together.
[The billion eternal and perfect worlds of Havona revolve around Paradise, but here we are concerned with the residence of God the Father.] [11:0:1] [11:1:2,4] [11:9:2] [12:1:1,2] [12:4:1] [14:0:1]At present, the master universe is composed of the central universe [Paradise and Havona], the seven inhabited superuniverses, and the four outer space levels.
Far out in space, at an enormous distance from the seven inhabited superuniverses, there are assembling vast and unbelievably stupendous circuits of force and materializing energies. The metamorphosis of cosmic force in these outer space levels is a function of the Paradise force organizers.
When astronomers peer through their increasingly powerful telescopes into the mysterious stretches of outer space and there behold the amazing evolution of almost countless physical universes, they should realize they are gazing upon the mighty outworking of the unfathomable plans of the Architects of the Master universe. [12:1:3,8] [12:2:1,3,4]
Scientists will never design a telescope that will enable them to see the entire master universe. The master universe is far from finished, but even now the immensity of the far-flung creation of the Universal Father is utterly beyond the grasp of finite imagination. [12:0:1,3]In brief, the long-drawn-out evolutionary process of creating new universes are under the perfect control of the universe creators and administrators and unfold in accordance with the eternal purpose of the Universal Father, proceeding in harmony and order and in keeping with the all-wise plan of God. The grand universe is watched over by those intrusted with such high responsibilities. [3:2:2]
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. [15:4:1]
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 [decree] 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. [Architectural spheres are created according to plans and specifications. The capitals of all universe government divisions are created bodies.] [15:2] [15:6:2]
Paradise force organizers are nebulae originators; they are able to initiate about their space presence the tremendous cyclones of force which will eventually evolve into suns, planets, dark islands of space, double stars, etc., all gravity responsive to the Paradise pull of the Universal Father.
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. [15:4:2,4] [56:9:12]The brief description which follows of the initiation and evolution of the Andronover nebula illustrates the vast stretches of time required for the appearance of the various space bodies.
[Most of the following material is quoted directly from The Urantia Book.]
In passing, we note that even in heaven we have an Inbox and an Outbox!
The Andronover Nebula Urantia 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 the space in the superuniverse of Orvonton, long, long ago. [Our local universe is located in the superuniverse of Orvonton.]
At 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. [57:1:1,2]987,000,000,000 years ago the 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. [Uversa is the capital of the superuniverse of Orvonton. The Ancients of Days are the rulers of our superuniverse of Orvonton.] [57:1:3]
900,000,000,000 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. [57:1:4]
875,000,000,000 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 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. [57:1:6]
At 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. [57:1:7]
Primary Nebular Stage.
All 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.800,000,000,000 years ago the Andronover creation was well established as one of the magnificent primary nebulae of Orvonton.
700,000,000,000 years ago the Andronover system was assuming gigantic proportions, and additional universe personnel were dispatched to nine surrounding material creations to afford support and supply cooperation to the power centers of this new material system which was so rapidly evolving.
600,000,000,000 years ago the height of the Andronover energy-mobilization period was attained; the nebula had acquired its maximum of mass. [57:2]
The Secondary Nebular Stage.
The enormous nebula now began gradually to assume the spiral form and to become clearly visible to the astronomers of even distant universes.
Over a period of billions of years, the energy wheel grew and grew until it attained its maximum of expansion, and then, when the contraction set in, it whirled on faster and faster until, eventually, the critical centrifugal stage was reached and the great breakup began.500,000,000,000 years ago the first Andronover sun was born.
400,000,000,000 years ago began the recaptive period of the Andronover nebula. (During the preceding period much material had escaped from the nebula.) [57:3]
Tertiary and Quartan Stages.
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. These stages extended from about 75,000,000,000 years ago down to 5,000,000,000 years ago. And 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. [57:4]Birth of our solar system (Monmatia).
5,000,000,000 years ago our sun was a comparatively isolated blazing orb.
3,500,000,000 years ago the surrounding planets of our solar system were well formed.
3,000,000,000 years ago our solar system was functioning much as it does today although its members continued to grow in size as space meteors continued to pour in upon the planets and their satellites at a prodigious rate.All this tremendous activity is a normal part of the making of an evolutionary world on the order of our planet and constitutes the astronomic preliminaries to the setting of the stage for the beginning of the physical evolution of such worlds of space in preparation for the life adventures of time. [57:5,6] [57:6:11]
Source: The Urantia Book, Published by Uversa Press 2003, a subsidiary of Urantia Book Fellowship. http://www.urantiabook.org
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Note: Many statements in this paper were quoted directly from The Urantia Book.Revised May 29 2005