Nebadon

Nebadon is the local universe that contains Urantia. The Urantia Book describes a local universe as "the handiwork of a Creator Son of the Paradise order of Michael," made up of one hundred constellations of one hundred systems each, every system eventually holding about a thousand inhabited worlds 32:0.1. Nebadon's sovereign is Michael, whom the book calls "the God-man of Nebadon, Jesus of Nazareth and Michael of Salvington" 32:0.3, and its co-ruler is the Mother Spirit of Salvington 37:0.1.

The book counts Nebadon "a young cluster in the starry and planetary realms of Orvonton," with 3,840,101 inhabited planets "at the last registry" 32:2.9. Urantia's full address is "606 of Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon": the 606th inhabited world in the system of Satania, in the constellation of Norlatiadek 43:0.1.

Place in the grand universe

In the book's scheme, about ten million inhabitable planets make a local universe, and one hundred local universes make a minor sector of a superuniverse 15:2.5-6. The plan provides for seven hundred thousand local universes in the seven superuniverses 15:2.14. Nebadon belongs to Orvonton, the seventh superuniverse 15:1.5, and "is now well out towards the edge" of it; from Satania's capital it is over two hundred thousand light-years to the center of Orvonton 32:2.11. Its nearest neighbors are named as Avalon, Henselon, Sanselon, Portalon, Wolvering, Fanoving and Alvoring 32:2.12.

A local universe has no sharp physical boundary. The book defines Nebadon instead by the reach of its Mother Spirit: "That which is pervaded by our local universe Mother Spirit is Nebadon" 41:0.1. Its suns and planets came from several nebulae, among them Andronover, and were adjusted by the power directors to move together "as a contiguous unit over the orbits of the superuniverse" 41:0.3.

Origin

The physical groundwork came first. Paradise force organizers and then the superuniverse power directors mobilized the energies of space, and no Creator Son can begin until there is "a material foundation—literal suns and material spheres" 32:1.1-2. When that stage is reached, a Creator Son arrives with a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, and work begins on the headquarters world 32:1.5. Michael began organizing Nebadon "about four hundred billion years ago" 119:0.7. The one hundred power centers who helped in that first work still serve on Salvington 32:2.2.

The first finished act of physical creation was Salvington itself, its completion taking a little over a billion years. Next came the hundred constellation capitals and the ten thousand system capitals 32:2.3. Salvington sits at the exact energy-mass center of the universe 32:2.4.

The book then gives an order for the creation of living beings. The first joint act of the Son and the Spirit produced the Bright and Morning Star, Gabriel 32:2.6 33:4.2. Next came the sons and daughters of the local universe and its government, down to the Planetary Princes of the individual worlds 32:2.7. Only "when such a universe has been so completely organized and so repletely manned" does the Creator Son take up the plan to create mortal man 32:2.8.

Government

The Universal Father acts in Nebadon "through the person of the Creator Son" 33:0.1. To its inhabitants Michael is "to all practical intents and purposes, God" 33:1.4. In running the universe the Mother Spirit is "codirector with the Son," and the book likens their roles to a father and a mother 33:3.3-4. Gabriel is the chief executive 33:4.5 and acts as regent while Michael is away 33:6.1. Immanuel, the Union of Days, represents the Paradise Trinity as an adviser who "gives counsel only on request" 33:5.1-2.

Responsibilities are divided by level. Systems deal mostly with the physical and biological welfare of their planets, constellations with social and governmental matters, and the universe rulers "are more occupied with the spiritual status of the realms" 33:6.3. There are no true legislatures on Salvington: the legislative assemblies meet on the constellation capitals, while the universe capital deals mainly with adjudication 33:8.1. Michael does not judge. "Creators never sit in judgment on their creatures" 33:7.1. The high courts work under Gabriel's supervision 33:7.2, and questions of eternal life and death go to the courts of Orvonton 33:7.4.

Nebadon keeps its own calendar. Its standard day equals "eighteen days and six hours of Urantia time, plus two and one-half minutes," and its year of one hundred days is about five Urantia years 33:6.7.

Population of Sons

There is one Creator Son in Nebadon. It has its full quota of 1,062 Magisterial Sons, and the author estimates fifteen to twenty thousand Trinity Teacher Sons 35:0.1. More than ten million Melchizedeks are on record at their headquarters 35:2.9.

The ascension through Nebadon

The book presents the local universe as a school. Its narratives describe the administration of "enormous training schools, schools wherein the pilgrims of time advance from life to life and from world to world" until they leave for the superuniverse 37:10.6. After the mansion worlds and Jerusem, ascenders go on to Edentia, the constellation capital, with its seventy satellites of socializing culture 15:7.6. Then they reach Salvington, which "is surrounded by ten university clusters of forty-nine spheres each." The text continues: "Hereon is man spiritualized following his constellation socialization" 15:7.7.

Rebellion and bestowal

Nebadon has known rebellion. About a hundred and fifty million years after Michael's first bestowal, a System Sovereign named Lutentia led "one of the most widespread and disastrous rebellions" in system 11 of constellation 37 119:2.1-2. A second System Sovereign later went astray in system 87 of constellation 61 119:3.1. In Satania, the Lucifer rebellion carried thirty-seven Planetary Princes with it 53:7.1.

The book makes Urantia central to Nebadon's history because Michael's seventh and last bestowal took place there. It calls Urantia "the sentimental shrine of all Nebadon, the chief of ten million inhabited worlds" 119:8.8. When Michael returned to Salvington after the bestowal, the Mother Spirit publicly acknowledged him as sovereign for the first time 33:3.5, and Michael answered with a "Proclamation of Equality" making her co-ruler 33:3.6.

Destiny

Nebadon is unfinished. Except for Havona, "perfection is a progressive attainment" 32:3.3. A local universe is not 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" 32:3.2. The book calls each local universe "in a certain sense, a duplication of the administrative organization of the central or pattern creation" except for the personal presence of the Father 32:3.4, and it describes the perfect central universe and the evolving ones as needing each other: "Each requires the other to achieve completion of function, service, and destiny" 32:3.15.

Index of references

Urantia is one of many inhabited planets in Nebadon, a local universe within the superuniverse of Orvonton, which is part of the greater creation of divine perfection. 0:0.5 15:1.5 15:14.6

Salvington, the capital of Nebadon, is surrounded by ten university clusters of forty-nine spheres each, where man is spiritualized. 15:7.7

Celestial personalities in Nebadon

• * 1 Associate Inspector: The Associate Inspector on Salvington is a personal representative of the Supreme Executive of Orvonton for both himself and his Assigned Sentinels. 37:8.5
• * 1 Bright and Morning Star | Gabriel
• * 1 Creator Son | Michael of Nebadon
• * 1 directional control creature | directional control creatures
• * 1 Father Melchizedek | Father Melchizedek
• * 1 local universe Mother Spirit | local universe Mother Spirit of Nebadon
• * 1 Universe Circuit Supervisor, Tertiary: Tertiary Universe Circuit Supervisor Andovontia serves eternally in the group of his original assignment, overseeing spirit and morontia circuits in Nebadon. 24:1.11 37:8.3
• * 3 million Celestial Overseers: The Nebadon educational system is overseen by 3 million Celestial Overseers, volunteers who serve as educational advisers for the realm's ascending creatures. 37:6.1
• * 70 billion Morontia Companions: The ministry of the seventy billion Morontia Companions guides pilgrims on Nebadon's transition planets. 37:8.9
• * 75 Celestial Recorders: In Nebadon, there are 75 ascendant seraphim serving as senior or supervising recorders. 37:8.8
• * 100 Supreme Power Centers: One hundred Supreme Power Centers forever remain in associated control of energy in Nebadon, working in liaison with the Creator Son. 32:2.2 41:1.2
• * 400 million Universal Conciliators: In Nebadon, there are around 100 million conciliating commissions, serving as the traveling courts of the universes of time and space. 37:8.6
• * 500 million High Commissioners: In Nebadon, there are 500 million High Commissioners who have advanced to the higher levels of function through long experience and great service. 37:5.6
• * 500 million Technical Advisors: Nebadon boasts a staggering 500 million Technical Advisors, who serve as vast living libraries of law for the entire cosmos. 37:8.7
• * 10,000 Assigned Sentinels: The 10,000 Assigned Sentinels in Nebadon are representatives of the Supreme Executive of Orvonton. 37:8.5
• * 13,641 Brilliant Evening Stars: In Nebadon, the 13,641 Brilliant Evening Stars encompass both created dignity and attained service, with 4,832 of created dignity and 8,809 ascendant spirits who have achieved exalted service levels. 37:2.4
• * 800,000 archangels: In Nebadon, there are nearly 800,000 archangels, the highest type of high spirit beings born from the Creator Son and the Universe Mother Spirit. 37:3.1
• * 161,432,840 Material Sons on local system capitals: In Nebadon, there were 161,432,840 Material Sons on local system capitals, whose numbers are continually growing under the guidance of higher governing bodies and advisory councils. 45:5.4
• * cherubim and sanobim
• * Lanonandek Sons
• * Life Carriers
• * Mansion World Teachers
• * Material Sons of God
• * Melchizedek Sons
• * midwayers
• * Most High Assistants, many millions: In Nebadon, many millions of Most High Assistants volunteer as central and superuniverse representatives or observers. 37:4.1
• * Salsatia, the Nebadon Census Director based in the Gabriel sector of Salvington, records the birth and death of will creatures in the local universe and collaborates closely with the personality recorders on the archangels' record worlds. 37:8.4
• * Reflective seconaphim serve as essential support for superuniverse personnel, complementing the rare and unique services provided by supernaphim. 37:8.10
• * seraphim
• * The Solitary Messengers provide invaluable service in overcoming time and space constraints, always willing to assist even when not under local universe authority. 37:8.2
• * Spirit-fused mortals in Nebadon achieve immortality through fusion with the local universe Mother Spirit but are not destined for the Paradise Corps of the Finality. 37:5.2 40:9.9
• * The Spironga are the spirit helpers of Nebadon. 37:10.2
• * The spornagia diligently maintain the physical worlds of the architectural headquarters in Nebadon. 37:10.3
• * Supernaphim provide rare and unique assistance, serving as the chief of Urantia seraphim and aiding superuniverse personnel as reflective seconaphim and temporary Most High Assistants. 37:8.10
• * The Susatia are the offspring of the Creator Son and Creative Spirit, closely associated with the Spirit-fused mortals in Nebadon. 37:9.7
• * tertiaphim: Nebadon's tertiaphim are often called upon as Most High Assistants for rare and unique services. 37:8.10
• * The Univitatia serve as a vital and unique presence on the constellation headquarters worlds of Nebadon. 37:9.8
• * Vorondadek Sons

Courts of Nebadon

• The Master Son, Michael, focuses on creation, sustenance, and ministry, while the high courts of Nebadon, supervised by Gabriel, handle all judicial matters except for issues of extinction, Universe Son default, and revocations of quarantines. 33:7
• Nebadon is the universe created and ruled by Michael, the personification of divinity and infinity in his realm. 1:2.9 33:1 128:1.1
• Gabriel, chief executive of Nebadon, holds executive power and jurisdictional authority delegated by the Creator Son and the local universe Mother Spirit. 33:0.1 33:4.5-6 33:6.1 37:1.9 37:2.2 50:2.1
• Legislative bodies in Nebadon are located on the headquarters of the one hundred constellations, while Salvington focuses on adjudication. 33:8.1
• In Nebadon, no groups have evolved to the point of becoming voluntary collaborators with the finaliters in the settled constellations in light and life. 55:8.5
• The administration of Nebadon is entrusted to the Creator Son, who, in conjunction with the local universe Mother Spirit, forms and executes plans, policies, and administrative acts. 33
• The universe of Nebadon is being forged between the anvil of justice and the hammer of suffering, overseen by the merciful and loving Infinite Spirit. 9:1.8
• During this period, the supreme council of Salvington and the Ancients of Days of Uversa were in communication regarding the universe of Nebadon. 188:3.12
• The System Sovereigns of Nebadon are intrusted with unusual personal prerogatives, exercising wide powers with disloyalty shown only three times in history. 45:2.1
• The space presence of the Creative Spirit pervades Nebadon, setting it apart from the extra-Nebadon regions of the superuniverse of Orvonton. 41:0.1 45:1.8 116:5.13
• Those High in Authority recently from Nebadon include ascendant mortals trinitized as Mighty Messengers. 22:2.4 22:3.2
• The soul-identity of Jesus, built up during his life on Earth, may be released for leadership of finaliters in Nebadon. 188:3.8

Language of Nebadon

• The higher orders of Nebadon are bilingual, speaking both the language of Nebadon and the tongue of Uversa. (44:4.3,7)
• The alphabet of Nebadon, with 48 symbols, is less elaborate than the concept symbols of Uversa, which embrace over a billion characters despite an alphabet of only seventy symbols. 44:4.4
• Mastering both local universe and Uversa languages before arriving on Jerusem ensures proficiency at all levels of ascension. 47:7.2
• Andon and Fonta, also known as Sonta-an and Sonta-en, embodied human perfection hunger and were bestowed their names at the time of fusion with their Thought Adjusters in Nebadon. 63:0.3

Physical aspects

• The physical aspects of Nebadon are defined by the presence of the Creative Spirit, extending to the borders of our local universe. 41:0.1
• Less than three percent of inhabited worlds in Nebadon are populated by nonbreathing intelligent beings. 49:3.1
• The four points of compass inherent in Nebadon guide all living creatures in orientation and direction. 34:4.12-13
• Nebadon's architectural spheres showcase ten diverse divisions of physical life, offering boundless possibilities for biologic beautification and artistic representation using living materials. (43:6.4,7) 46:2.5
• Ninety percent of worlds in Nebadon have Adjuster-fusion mortals, determined by their relation to the indwelling Mystery Monitor during prefusion experience. 49:5.31
• Nebadon is situated near the edge of Orvonton, over 200,000 light-years from the central sun cluster of the seventh superuniverse. 32:2.11
• From the far edge of Nebadon to Uversa is a distance of 250,000 light years. 32:2.11
• In Nebadon, there exist 647,591 architectural spheres where two unusual orders play a significant role in maintaining the vast organization of the local universe. 37:10.1
• Nebadon, a young cluster in Orvonton, currently boasts 3,840,101 inhabited planets with many more in the works. 32:2.9 37:10.1
• Antares is the largest star in Nebadon, each sun having plenty of space like oranges in a hollow planet. 41:3.2
• The seven superuniverses traverse a well-charted counterclockwise swing around Paradise, ensuring the orderly journey of our solar system and other worlds within the local universe. 15:1.2
• Nebadon swings around Sagittarius in its settled orbit within Orvonton's minor sector. 15:3.11 41:0.4
• Urantia, in the local universe of Nebadon, is part of the superuniverse of Orvonton, which includes the minor sector of Ensa. 0:0.5 15:14.6
• Nebadon is located in the superuniverse circuit of Orvonton, bordering nearby local universes such as Avalon, Henselon, Sanselon, Portalon, Wolvering, Fanoving, and Alvoring. 32:2.12
• Salvington, the headquarters of Nebadon, is positioned at the precise energy-mass center of the local universe, which is not a single astronomic system, despite a significant system being located at its physical center. 32:2.4
• Despite not being in settled circuits, Nebadon remains hopeful for admission into the spiritual confederation of the perfected union of the supercreation. 15:9.15-18
• The oldest inhabited planets in Nebadon are 200 billion years old, originating during the progression of contraction and condensation in the Andronover central cluster. 57:3.10
• Nebadon, one of the newer creations in Orvonton, is located on the outer southeast edge of the Grand Universe. 12:1.12-13 15:1.3-6 32:2.9-12
• Nebadon was physically assembled from the stellar and planetary progeny of Andronover and other nebulae, encompassing diverse nebular ancestry yet forming a cohesive unit traveling through the superuniverse. 41:0.3 57:1.1 57:3.8-9
• The headquarters of Nebadon, Salvington, sits at the precise energy-mass midpoint of the expansive local universe. 32:2.4
• Nebadon's diverse spheres share a minimum commonness of space motion, uniting them in a contiguous orbit within the local universe. 41:0.3
• about the time in Nebadon see link about time | time:days and years
• Work on Nebadon began 400 billion years ago when Michael of Nebadon chose it as the site for building a universe. 57:3.8-9

Suffered 3 rebellions by System Sovereigns

• The first rebellion by Lutentia in system 11 of constellation 37 disrupted the tranquility of Nebadon after nearly 150 million years of peace following the Melchizedek bestowal of Michael. 119:2.1-2
• The second rebellion in system 87 of constellation 61 in Nebadon was swiftly addressed with the arrival of a mysterious Material Son, approved by higher authorities. (119:3.1,3)
• third rebellion | Lucifer rebellion
• Our universe, Nebadon, has experienced significant administrative trouble due to the high degree of personal liberty given to our Lanonandek Sons, leading to a higher loss of this order than any other local universe in Orvonton, except Henselon. 35:9.8

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Out of the throne, lightnings 34:4.12 — Rev 4:5-6a.
• Quick understanding 34:4.12 — Is 11:3.
• Four “beasts” 34:4.12 — Rev 4:6b-9; Rev 5:8,14.
• Michael's creation 57:3.8 — Ps 33:6; Ps 102:25; Is 45:12,18; Jn 1:1-3; Eph 2:10; Eph 3:9; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2,10; Rev 4:11.

Where it appears

Nebadon is linked in 234 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• local universes
• Salvington

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