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Our own sun is 6 billion years old and currently in a period of greatest efficiency, shining for more than twenty-five billion years. 41:9.5

Calcium atoms ride light beams, facilitating their dissemination throughout space, defying gravity to escape the sun and become the chief component of the worlds of space. 41:6.3-6

The sun's surface temperature of 6,000°F masks its true core temperature of 35,000,000°F. 41:6.7 41:7.2

Urantia's sun is one of 1,013,572 offspring from the Andronover nebula, marking the end of its terminal breakup 6,000,000,000 years ago. 57:1.1 57:4.8

The suns in Nebadon, including the one in our solar system, have an average diameter of about 1 million miles. 41:3.2

The solar system sun's intense heat accelerates ultimatons and electrons to unimaginable speeds, with the power to boil all of Urantia's ocean water in just one second. 41:7.13

The mass of Urantia's sun is two octillion tons, with a density 1.5 times that of water, existing as a gaseous supergase with a density equal to iron, despite being non-solid and highly heated, functioning as a sun. 41:4

The veritable flood of death-dealing rays from your sun is offset by fortuitous protective operations on Urantia, similar to the action of the ozone layer. 58:2.4

Solar centers radiate nearly one hundred billion tons of matter annually, experiencing stability after surpassing maximum internal temperatures and releasing subatomic energies, with larger suns displaying convulsive pulsations. 41:9.3

God's love shines on the evil and the good, bestowing life and mercy upon all. 2:5.1 140:3.16 166:4.4

Unknown spectral lines in the sun's spectra are modified by shattered elements floating in space, remnants of solar elemental battles. 41:6.1

Spectral analyses of the sun's surface exaggerate the iron content due to the optimal temperature for iron spectrum registration. 41:6.7

Urantia's atmosphere filters only about one two-billionth of the sun's total light emanation reaching Earth, which includes a vast array of solar energies beyond just visible light. 58:2.1

Our sun will shine efficiently for 25 billion years, having attained relative equilibrium and passing out of its six billionth year. 41:9.5

In the Urantia Book

Sun worship

  • Amenemope taught that God-consciousness should guide all conduct, influencing Hebrew philosophy and advocating for integrity in positions of trust. 95:4.2
  • Among Egyptians, the stars represented the souls of the dead, with some souls believed to be absorbed into the sun during a period of solar veneration and ancestor worship. 95:2.7-8
  • Andon narrowly avoided becoming a fire worshiper by turning to the sun for superior comfort and awe. 63:6.2
  • The Salem gospel was absorbed by ancient cults, hindering its widespread acceptance among tribes and races. 93:7.3
  • During the New Stone Age and Bronze Age, European white races delighted in setting up great stones as tokens to the sun, similar to Stonehenge, symbolizing a period of agricultural prosperity and sun worship. 80:9.13
  • Ikhnaton wisely established monotheism under the guise of the sun-god, maintaining outward worship while leading in the worship of the One God. (95:5.6,7,11)
  • The vogue of sun worship in agricultural ages marked a great period of agriculture in southern Europe. 80:9.13 85:5
  • Mithraic Sol Invictus, the militant god of the Mithraic cult, ascended into the heavens after slaying a sacred bull and becoming immortal through his valiant exploits. 98:5.3
  • Despite being Christianized for over fifteen hundred years, the superstitions of sun-worshiping era persist in the folkways of Brittany, where charms from the New Stone Age ward off the evil eye and thunderstones are kept in chimneys for protection against lightning. 80:9.14
  • Sun worship superseded moon worship as the chief religious ceremony, with the sun honored by the naming of Sunday. 85:5.2

Sunlight | light:material light; suns:sunlight

  • Knowledge of sunlight's health-giving and disease-destroying properties overcame the superstitions hindering hygiene progress among ignorant peoples. 66:5.20
  • The sun ionizes the upper atmosphere, creating auroral displays and influencing weather phenomena within the different layers of the earth's atmosphere. 58:2.6-10
  • The ozone layer shields Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays, crucial for human health. 58:2.2

Sunspots

  • Your sun's 11-1/2 year cycle reveals its past as a variable star, with mighty pulsations once every three and a half days. 41:3.8 57:5.2
  • In its youth, the sun of Urantia was a variable star, with titanic heaves lasting three and one-half days, but today it has achieved relative stability. 57:5.2

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.

See also

LightMonmatiaSolar systemsSunsWorship
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