Physical Aspects of our Universe Career
- Planet Urantia—Number 606 one of 1,000 inhabited worlds in the system of Satania.
- The Mansion Worlds—the 7 satellite worlds revolving around the Finaliters’ World which is one of the 56 transition culture worlds encircling Jerusem, the capital of Satania.
They are actual training spheres and it’s here where we undergo remedial training to compensate for the handicaps of the evolutionary worlds. About the 7th mansion world The Urantia Book says:
P.538 – §6 …Here you will be purged of all the remnants of unfortunate heredity, unwholesome environment, and unspiritual planetary tendencies. The last remnants of the “mark of the beast” are here eradicated.
Also for those mortals who haven’t had parenting experience, it’s the mansion worlds where we gain experience in this important skill. (See The Seven Mansion Worlds, Paper 47 p.530)
We traverse the 7 mansion worlds by seraphic transport so we lose consciousness and become resurrected with each new transition. The only difference between this kind of resurrection and physical death is that the Thought Adjuster doesn’t leave us.
P.534 – §8 A newly developed and suitably adjusted morontia body is acquired at the time of each advance from one mansion world to another. You go to sleep with the seraphic transport and awake with the new but undeveloped body in the resurrection halls, much as when you first arrived on mansion world number one except that the Thought Adjuster does not leave you during these transit sleeps between the mansion worlds. Your personality remains intact after you once pass from the evolutionary worlds to the initial mansion world.
- JERUSEM—Capital of the system of Satania and surrounded by 56 encircling transition culture worlds which are themselves surrounded by satellite spheres.
Once we’ve finished our “remedial” training on the 7 mansion worlds we go on to Jerusem and gain residential status. Jerusem is an architectural sphere. The energy is received from the energy charges of space which are administered by the Master Physical Controllers (see physical aspects in Paper 46, The Local System Headquarters, p.519). Once we become Jerusem citizens no more literal resurrections will be experienced. We keep this form until the end of our local universe careers.
P.540 – §2 The mortal personality initiated on the evolutionary worlds and tabernacled in the flesh–indwelt by the Mystery Monitors and invested by the Spirit of Truth–is not fully mobilized, realized, and unified until that day when such a Jerusem citizen is given clearance for Edentia and proclaimed a true member of the morontia corps of Nebadon–an immortal survivor of Adjuster association, a Paradise ascender, a personality of morontia status, and a true child of the Most Highs.
- EDENTIA—Capital of the constellation of Norlatiadek and surrounded by 70 major spheres which have 10 satellite spheres encircling each one totalling 770 architectural spheres.
Constellations are the primary divisions of the local universes and there are 100 in each local universe. They are made up of 100 local systems, such as Satania. The rulers of the constellations link the local systems and their inhabited worlds to the central administration on Salvington, which the capital of our local universe of Nebadon. (Paper 43, The Constellations, p.485). Edentia is famous for it’s botanic artistry which has given cause for it to be called the “Gardens of God” (492). Paper 43 on the constellations beautifully describes the physical aspects of Ednetia—the sea of glass, the fascinating highlands, the tens of thousands of sparkling lakes, and much more. It says that water is no different there from water as we know it and the amazing river and canal system makes it possible to circumnavigate Edentia by using the water routes.
The spheres surrounding Edentia are mostly training worlds. They tell us this is our most settled period in our ascension career up to our becoming finaliters. We get re-keyed from time to time but we don’t lose consciousness. They tell us that …our sojourn on Edentia and its associated spheres will be chiefly occupied with the mastery of group ethics, the secret of pleasant and profitable interrelationship between the various universe and superuniverse orders of intelligent personalities. (p.494:2)
P.495 – §5 This constellation sojourn of an ascending mortal is the most uniform and stabilized epoch in the entire career of morontia progression. This experience constitutes the prespirit socialization training of the ascenders.
Page 494 lists various descriptions of the kind of training we’ll be undertaking. It’s truly fascinating to see what we will need to go through to master teamwork and group cooperation or “multisocialization”.
After graduating form the last of the training worlds we become citizens of Edentia. During our sojourn here we are sent on multiple assignments on the seventy progressive univitatia worlds. We spend a long long time on Edentia during our ascension career.
P.495 – §7 And on that day when you are prepared to leave Edentia for the Salvington career, you will pause and look back on one of the most beautiful and most refreshing of all your epochs of training this side of Paradise. But the glory of it all augments as you ascend inward and achieve increased capacity for enlarged appreciation of divine meanings and spiritual values.
- SALVINGTON—the capital of the local universe of Nebadon which comprises 70 primary spheres which have 6 tributary spheres each totalling 490 spheres.
We go through training on all 490 worlds in the acquirement of residential status on Salvington.
P.357 – §1 A local universe is the handiwork of a Creator Son of the Paradise order of Michael. It comprises one hundred constellations, each embracing one hundred systems of inhabited worlds. Each system will eventually contain approximately one thousand inhabited spheres.
P.357 – §3 Urantia belongs to a local universe whose sovereign is the God-man of Nebadon, Jesus of Nazareth and Michael of Salvington. And 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.
P.359 – §8 The Satania system of inhabited worlds is far removed from Uversa and that great sun cluster which functions as the physical or astronomic center of the seventh superuniverse. From Jerusem, the headquarters of Satania, it is over two hundred thousand light-years to the physical center of the superuniverse of Orvonton, far, far away in the dense diameter of the Milky Way. Satania is on the periphery of the local universe, and Nebadon is now well out towards the edge of Orvonton. From the outermost system of inhabited worlds to the center of the superuniverse is a trifle less than two hundred and fifty thousand light-years.
P.360 – §1 The universe of Nebadon now swings far to the south and east in the superuniverse circuit of Orvonton.
- Minor Sector
- Major Sector
- Uversa—Capital of the Superuniverse of Orvonton
P.167 – §17 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.
P.167 – §18 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.
P.167 – §19 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.
P.168 – §1 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.
P.168 – §2 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.
P.168 – §3 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:
P.168 – §4 1. The revolution of Urantia around its sun.
P.168 – §5 2. The circuit of your solar system about the nucleus of the former Andronover nebula.
P.168 – §6 3. The rotation of the Andronover stellar family and the associated clusters about the composite rotation-gravity center of the star cloud of Nebadon.
P.168 – §7 4. The swing of the local star cloud of Nebadon and its associated creations around the Sagittarius center of their minor sector.
P.168 – §8 5. The rotation of the one hundred minor sectors, including Sagittarius, about their major sector.
P.168 – §9 6. The whirl of the ten major sectors, the so-called star drifts, about the Uversa headquarters of Orvonton.
P.168 – §10 7. The movement of Orvonton and six associated superuniverses around Paradise and Havona, the counterclockwise processional of the superuniverse space level.