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. 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. [UB 15:2:10] [UB 15:14:8]
God the Father, Ruler and Creator of All. 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. At present, the
master universe is composed of the central universe [Paradise and Havona], the
seven inhabited superuniverses, and the four outer space
levels. 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.
[UB 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. [UB 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. 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 following brief description of the Andronover nebula illustrates the vast stretches of time required for the initiation and evolvement of the various space bodies emanating from it.
There is a simple explanation for this
question once certain facts are known. One difficulty scientists encounter and which they
will never overcome is that they cannot see the universe personnel who are
charged with initiating a new nebula.
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 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.
Comment. The billion eternal and perfect worlds of Havona revolve around Paradise, but here we are concerned with the residence of God the Father.
[UB 11:0:1] [UB 11:1:2,4] [UB 11:9:2] [UB 12:1:1,2] [UB 12:4:1] [UB 14:0:1]
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. [UB 12:1:3,8] [UB 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. [UB 12:0:1,3]
Comment. Architectural spheres are created according to plans and specifications. The numerous worlds in the capitals of all universe government divisions are constructed according to plans and specifications. [UB 15:2] [UB 15:6:2]
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. [UB 15:4:2,4] [UB 56:9:12]
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. [UB 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 three Ancients of Days are the rulers of our superuniverse of Orvonton.] [UB 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. [UB 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. [UB 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. [UB 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. [UB 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.) [UB 57:3]
Comment. Jesus began the organization of our local universe about 400,000,000,000 years ago. [UB 119:0:7]
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. [UB 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. [UB 57:5,6] [UB 57:6:11]
Beginning of Paper
Source: The Urantia Book.
Note: Numerous statements in this paper were quoted verbatim from the source.
Revised November 27 2008