The most extraordinary book to ever appear on this planet happens to be so circumstantially insulated from the ordinary channels of inquiry that even after a half million copies are loose in the world it remains a great cosmic mystery. I refer to The Urantia Book, about which there is so much to say yet it is so difficult to …
PARAG KHANNA writes in “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony“. . . It is 2016, and the Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Barack Obama administration is nearing the end of its second term. America has pulled out of Iraq but has about 20,000 troops in the independent state of Kurdistan, as well as warships anchored at Bahrain and an Air Force …
This morning, our solar system is a few billion years past the swing around the southern curvature of a great oval, so that we are just now advancing beyond the southeastern bend and are moving swiftly through the long and comparatively straightaway northern path. And for untold ages, the enormous aggregation of suns, black holes, planets and moons will pursue this almost direct northerly course.
Our world, Urantia belongs to a system which is well out towards the borderland of our local universe; and our local universe is at present traversing the periphery of Orvonton, the name of an enormous galactic system of which our world is a tiny part. Beyond us there are still others, but we are far removed in space from the physical systems which swing around the great circle in comparative proximity to the Great Source and Center.
Does that help?
I didn’t think so.
Try this:
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 [our] 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.
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
