THE LOCAL UNIVERSE

                                CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
                                                 April 2003
                                      
          PAPER 5
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Copyright

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The only creation that is perfectly settled is Havona, the central universe, which was made directly by the thought of the Universal Father and the word of the Eternal Son.

The creations of the seven universes are finite, evolutionary and consistently progressive.

 

The physical systems of time and space are all evolutionary in origin. They are not even physically stabilized until they are swung into the settled circuits of their superuniverses.

Neither is a local universe settled in light and life until its physical possibilities of expansion and development have been exhausted, and until the spiritual status of all its inhabited worlds has been forever settled and stabilized.

 

Except in the central universe, perfection is a progressive attainment.

Central universe is the pattern of perfection which has to be attained in all other realms by the methods established for the advancement of those particular worlds or universes.

 

Local universe is the handiwork of a Creator Son of the Paradise order of Michael.

There are almost infinite varieties that characterize the plans of the Creator Sons for organizing, evolving, disciplining and settling their respective local universes.

 

On the headquarters of local universe there reside all those creator and creative personalities who represent self-contained authority and administrative autonomy, almost every class of intelligent beings existing in the central universe except the Universal Father, who is present and personally represented by local universe Creator Son.

 

The evolutionary creatures find difficult to envisage the Universal Father in his Creator Sons and the surest safeguard for them is to hold on to the truth-fact of the Father’s presence in his Sons, because literally and figuratively, spiritually and personally, they are one.

It is truly the fact: “He who has seen a (Creator) Son has seen the Father”.

 

 

 EVOLUTION OF LOCAL UNIVERSE

 

Local universes of time and space are all evolutionary. Each comprises 100 constellations, each embracing 100 local systems which will each have eventually about 1,000 inhabited planets.

 

Each local universe is the creative work of Paradise Creator Son of Michael’s order.

The creative plan of the Paradise Michael’s always proceeds along the path of gradual evolvement and progressive development of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual natures and capacities of its creatures inhabiting the varied orders of spheres comprising the local universe.

 

Urantia belongs to a local universe whose sovereign is Michael of Salvington, one of Michael’s Creator Sons of God, or better known on Urantia as Jesus of Nazareth, son of man.

All of Michael’s plans for this local universe were fully approved by the Paradise Trinity before he ever embarked upon the supreme adventure of space of local universe of Nebadon.

 

The Sons of God may choose the realms of their creator activities but these material creations were all originally projected and planned by the Paradise Architects of the Master Universe.

 

 

PHYSICAL EMERGENCE OF LOCAL UNIVERSES

 

The pre-universe manipulations of space-force and the primordial energies are the work of the Paradise Master Force Organizers; but in the superuniverse domains, when emergent energy becomes responsive to a local or linear gravity, they retire in favor of the power directors of the superuniverse concerned.

 

These power directors function alone in the pre-material and post-force phases of a local universe creation and there is no opportunity for a Creator Son to begin local universe organization until the power directors have effected the mobilization of the space-energies

sufficiently to provide a material foundation for the emerging local universe, i.e. literal suns and material spheres.

 

The local universes are all approximately of the same energy potential, though they differ greatly in physical dimensions and may vary in visible-matter content from time to time.

The power charge and potential- matter endowment of a local universe are determined by the manipulations of the power directors and their predecessors as well as by the Creator Son’s activities and by the endowment of the inherent physical control possessed by his creative associate.

 

The energy charge of a local universe is approximately 1/ 100,000th of the force endowment of its superuniverse, and in the case of our local universe of Nebadon it is a trifle less.

 

When energy- matter has attained a certain stage in mass materialization, a Paradise Creator Son appears upon the scene, accompanied by a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit.

Simultaneously with the arrival of the Creator Son, work is begun upon the architectural sphere which is to become the headquarters world of the projected local universe.

For a long ages such a local creation evolves, suns become stabilized, planets form and swing into their orbits, while the work of creating the architectural worlds which are to serve as

constellation headquarters and local system capitals continues.

 

 

LOCAL UNIVERSE ORGANIZATION

 

The Creator Sons are preceded in the local universe organization by the power directors and other beings originating in the Conjoint Actor of 3rd Source and Center.

From the energies of space, thus previously organized, our Creator Son Michael has established the inhabited realms of his local universe of Nebadon, and ever since has been painstakingly devoted to their administration. From pre-existent energy he has materialized visible matter, projected living creatures, and with the co-operation of his consort, the Divine Minister, the daughter of the Infinite Spirit, has created a diverse retinue of spirit personalities.

 

The power directors and energy controllers, who long preceded Creator Son, in the preliminary physical work of local universe organization, continue to serve in liaison with Michael, forever remaining in associated control of those energies which they originally organized and directed.

On Salvington there now actively function the same 100 power centers that cooperated with Michael in the original formation of local universe of Nebadon.

 

The first completed act of physical creation in Nebadon consisted in the organization of the headquarters world, the architectural sphere of Salvington with its satellites.

From the time of the initial moves of the power centers and physical controllers to the arrival of the living staff on the completed spheres of Salvington, there intervened a little over 1 billion years of present Urantia time. The construction of Salvington was immediately followed by the creation of the 100 headquarters of projected constellations and 10,000 headquarters of local systems of planetary control and administration, together with their architectural satellites.

 

The organization of the planetary abodes is still progressing in Nebadon, for this local universe is

still a young cluster in the starry and planetary realm of Orvonton and at the last registry there was 3,840,101 inhabited planets in Nebadon.

 

Urantia is commonly referred to as 606 of Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, meaning the 606th inhabited world in the local system of Satania, situated in the constellation of Norlatiadek, one of

100 constellations of the local universe of Nebadon.

 

Constellations being the primary divisions of a local universe of Nebadon, their rulers link the local systems of inhabited worlds to the central administration of the local universe on Salvington and through Salvington to the superadministration of the Ancients of Days on Uversa.

 

Satania, the local system of our local universe, where our planet Urantia is located, is not a uniform astronomic physical system. Its 619 inhabited planets are located in over 500 different

physical systems and out of those there are 46 worlds having 2 inhabited planets and 5 have more then 2 inhabited worlds where 1 of these five has 4 inhabited planets.

 

The Satania system of inhabited worlds is far removed from the physical or astronomical great sun cluster center of the 7th superuniverse, and from Jerusem, the capital of Satania, it is over 200,000 light years to the physical center of the Orvonton. Satania is on the periphery of the local universe of Nebadon which is now well out at the edge of the Orvonton.

 

From the outermost system of the inhabited worlds to the center of the superuniverse of Orvonton is a trifle less then 250,000 lightyears where the local universe of Nebadon now swings far to the south and east in its superuniverse circuit.

The nearest neighboring local universes of Nebadon are Avalon, Henselon, Sanselon, Portalon, Wolvering, Fanoving and Alvoring.

 

Architectural worlds are designed to accommodate both physical and spiritual personalities as well as the intervening transition phase (morontia) stages of ascending personality progression.

 

Salvington, the headquarters of Nebadon, is situated at the exact energy-mass center of the local universe, however it is not a single astronomic system, though a large system does exist at its physical center.

Salvington is the personal headquarters of Michael of Nebadon where he, in association with the

Creative Spirit, projects his plan of life creation.

First creative act formulated and executed was the bringing into being Gabriel, the Bright and Morning Star, the personification of this initial creative concept of identity and ideal of divinity.

 

Gabriel is the chief executive of the local universe, the personal associate of his father, the Creator Son Michael. Once when Gabriel as the right-hand helper and the chief executive was provided, then there ensued into the existence a vast array of different other creatures.

 

Soon thereafter the government of such creation was provided, extending from the supreme councils of the local universe to the fathers of the constellations and the sovereigns of the local systems, the aggregations of those worlds which are designed subsequently to become the homes of the varied mortal races of will creatures; and each of these worlds becomes presided over by the Planetary Prince of Lanonandek’s order.

 

Only after such local universe was completely organized and so sufficiently manned, does the Creator enter into the Father’s proposal to create mortal man in their divine image.

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

There is a great and glorious purpose in the march of the universes through space and we are all part of an immense plan, an eternal project under Gods supervision and outworking where the whole universal mechanism moves on majestically through the space to the music of the meter of the infinite thought and the eternal purpose of the God the Father of the First Source and Center.

 

It is the vastness of this undertaking that renders evolutionary mortal of its comprehension and understanding especially during one short human life where the events of time hinder mortals of this recognition.

 

However through the struggles of material existence faithful ascending mortals eventually bridge over to the other side, to the promised land of eternal spiritual reality and supernal existence, of something never beginning and never ending, something of high spiritual ideal that God the Father always wanted of his children to have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

REFERENCE :

 

The Urantia book, The Urantia Foundation