Subject: Where In The World Did This Earth Come From? Nov. 7, 2008.
This shows where our Earth got started.
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THE URANTIA BOOK
PART III - THE HISTORY OF URANTIA
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These papers were sponsored by a Corps of Local Universe
Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.
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PAPER 57 - THE ORIGIN OF URANTIA (JW URANTIA is the
name of this Earth we are living on right now.)
IN PRESENTING excerpts from the archives of Jerusem for the records
of Urantia respecting its antecedents and early history, we are
directed to reckon time in terms of current usage--the present
leap-year calendar of 3651/4 days to the year. As a rule, no attempt
will be made to give exact years, though they are of record. We will
use the nearest whole numbers as the better method of presenting
these historic facts.
When referring to an event as of one or two millions of years ago,
we intend to date such an occurrence back that number of years from
the early decades of the twentieth century of the C-ristian era.
We will thus depict these far-distant events as occurring in even
periods of thousands, millions, and billions of years.
"1. THE ANDRONOVER NEBULA"
1. 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
space in the superuniverse of Orvonton, long, long ago.
At the time of the beginning of this recital, the Primary Master
Force Organizers of P-radise had long been in full control of the
space-energies which were later organized as the Andronover nebula.
987,000,000,000 years ago associate force organizer and then
acting inspector number 811,307 of the Orvonton series, traveling out
from Uversa, re****ted 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.
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 g-vernment authorizing the dispatch of a force
organizer and staff to the region
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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.
The recording of this permit signifies that the force organizer
and staff had already departed from Uversa on the long journey to
that easterly space sector where they were subsequently to engage in
those protracted activities which would terminate in the emergence of
a new physical creation in Orvonton.
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 of 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 e-olution of
such a new physical system.
At about this time the narrative ****fts 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 Pa-adise
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.
"2. THE PRIMARY NEBULAR STAGE"
All ev-lutionary 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. As
the astronomers of near-by universes looked out upon this phenomenon
of space, they saw very little to attract their attention.
Gravity estimates made in adjacent creations indicated that space
materializations were taking place in the Andronover regions, but
that was all.
700,000,000,000 years ago the Andronover system was assuming
gigantic pro****tions, and additional physical controllers were
dispatched to nine surrounding material creations to afford sup****t
and supply co-operation to the power centers of this new material
system which was so rapidly evolving. At this distant date all of the
material bequeathed to the subsequent creations was held within the
confines of this gigantic space wheel, which continued ever to whirl
and, after reaching its maximum of diameter, to whirl faster and
faster as it continued to condense and contract.
600,000,000,000 years ago the height of the Andronover
energy-mobilization period was attained; the nebula had acquired its
maximum of mass. At this time it was a gigantic circular gas cloud
in shape somewhat like a flattened spheroid. This was the early
period of differential mass formation and varying revolutionary
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velocity. Gravity and other influences were about to begin their work
of converting space gases into organized matter.
"3. 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. This is the natural history of most nebulae; before they
begin to throw off suns and start upon the work of universe building,
these secondary space nebulae are usually observed as spiral
phenomena.
The near-by star students of that faraway era, as they observed
this metamorphosis of the Andronover nebula, saw exactly what
twentieth-century astronomers see when they turn their telescopes
spaceward and view the present-age spiral nebulae of adjacent outer
space.
About the time of the attainment of the maximum of mass, the
gravity control of the gaseous content commenced to weaken, and there
ensued the stage of gas escapement, the gas streaming forth as two
gigantic and distinct arms, which took origin on opposite sides of
the mother mass. The rapid revolutions of this enormous central core
soon imparted a spiral appearance to these two projecting gas
streams. The cooling and subsequent condensation of ****tions of these
protruding arms eventually produced their knotted appearance. These
denser ****tions were vast systems and subsystems of physical matter
whirling through space in the midst of the gaseous cloud of the
nebula while being held securely within the gravity grasp of the
mother wheel.
But the nebula had begun to contract, and the increase in the rate
of revolution further lessened gravity control; and erelong, the
outer gaseous regions began actually to escape from the immediate
embrace of the nebular nucleus, passing out into space on circuits of
irregular outline, returning to the nuclear regions to complete
their circuits, and so on.
But this was only a tem****ary stage of nebular progression. The
ever-increasing rate of whirling was soon to throw enormous suns off
into space on independent circuits.
And this is what happened in Andronover ages upon ages ago. The
energy wheel grew and grew until it attained its maximum of
expansion, and then, when 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. This
blazing streak broke away from the mother gravity grasp and tore out
into space on an independent adventure in the cosmos of creation. Its
orbit was determined by its path of escape. Such young suns quickly
become spherical and start out on their long and eventful careers as
the stars of space. Excepting terminal nebular nucleuses, the vast
majority of Orvonton suns have had an analogous birth. These escaping
suns pass through varied periods of evol-tion and subsequent universe
service.
400,000,000,000 years ago began the recaptive period of the
Andronover nebula. Many of the near-by and smaller suns were
recaptured as a result of the gradual enlargement and further
condensation of the mother nucleus. Very soon there was inaugurated
the terminal phase of nebular condensation, the period which always
precedes the final segregation of these immense space aggregations
of energy and matter.
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It was scarcely a million years subsequent to this epoch that
Michael of Nebadon, a Creator Son of Pa-adise, selected this
disintegrating nebula as the site of his adventure in universe
building. Almost immediately the architectural worlds of Salvington
and the one hundred constellation headquarters groups of planets were
begun. It required almost one million years to complete these
clusters of specially created worlds. The local system headquarters
planets were constructed over a period extending from that time to
about five billion years ago.
Part 1.
John Winston. johnf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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