41:0.1 (455.1) THE characteristic space phenomenon which sets off each local creation from all others is the presence of the Creative Spirit. All Nebadon is certainly pervaded by the space presence of the Divine Minister of Salvington, and such presence just as certainly terminates at the outer borders of our local universe. That which is pervaded by our local universe Mother Spirit is Nebadon; that which extends beyond her space presence is outside Nebadon, being the extra-Nebadon space regions of the superuniverse of Orvonton—other local universes.
41:0.1 (455.1) 使每一個地方造物與所有其他地方造物區分開來的特徵性空間現象，乃是創造之靈的臨在。整個內巴頓確實遍布著薩爾文頓神性職司的空間臨在，而這一臨在也同樣確實地終止於我們地方宇宙的外部邊界。凡為我們地方宇宙母靈所遍及的，即是內巴頓；凡延伸至她的空間臨在之外的，即是內巴頓之外，屬於奧溫頓超級宇宙中內巴頓境外的空間區域——其他地方宇宙。
41:0.2 (455.2) While the administrative organization of the grand universe discloses a clear-cut division between the governments of the central, super-, and local universes, and while these divisions are astronomically paralleled in the space separation of Havona and the seven superuniverses, no such clear lines of physical demarcation set off the local creations. Even the major and minor sectors of Orvonton are (to us) clearly distinguishable, but it is not so easy to identify the physical boundaries of the local universes. This is because these local creations are administratively organized in accordance with certain creative principles governing the segmentation of the total energy charge of a superuniverse, whereas their physical components, the spheres of space—suns, dark islands, planets, etc.—take origin primarily from nebulae, and these make their astronomical appearance in accordance with certain precreative (transcendental) plans of the Architects of the Master Universe.
41:0.2 (455.2) 雖然大宇宙的行政組織顯示出中央宇宙、超級宇宙與地方宇宙各管理機構之間明確的劃分，而雖然這些劃分在哈沃納與七個超級宇宙的空間分隔上有著天文上的對應，但並不存在這樣清楚的物理分界線，把各地方造物彼此區分開來。甚至奧溫頓的大區與小區（對我們而言）清晰可辨，但要辨識地方宇宙的物理邊界卻不是那麼容易。這是因為，這些地方造物在行政上是依循某些支配超級宇宙總能量荷之分割的創造性原則而組織的，然而，它們的物理組成部分，即空間中的天體——太陽、暗島、行星等——則主要起源於星雲，而這些星雲依循主宇宙建築者某些前創造性（超越性）的計畫，在天文上出現。
41:0.3 (455.3) One or more—even many—such nebulae may be encompassed within the domain of a single local universe even as Nebadon was physically assembled out of the stellar and planetary progeny of Andronover and other nebulae. The spheres of Nebadon are of diverse nebular ancestry, but they all had a certain minimum commonness of space motion which was so adjusted by the intelligent efforts of the power directors as to produce our present aggregation of space bodies, which travel along together as a contiguous unit over the orbits of the superuniverse.
41:0.3 (455.3) 一個或多個——甚至許多個——這樣的星雲，都可能被涵括在單一地方宇宙的領域之內，正如內巴頓在物理上是由安德洛諾弗及其他星雲的恆星與行星後代聚集而成。內巴頓的諸天體具有各異的星雲祖源，但它們全都具有某種最低限度的空間運動共同性；而這種共同性經由力量主管者具智能的努力如此調整，以致產生了我們現今的空間天體聚集，它們作為一個彼此毗鄰的單位，沿著超級宇宙的軌道一同行進。
41:0.4 (455.4) Such is the constitution of the local star cloud of Nebadon, which today swings in an increasingly settled orbit about the Sagittarius center of that minor sector of Orvonton to which our local creation belongs.
41:0.4 (455.4) 這就是內巴頓地方恆星雲的構成；它如今正沿著一條日益安定的軌道，環繞著我們地方造物所隸屬的那個奧溫頓小區的人馬座中心運行。
41:1.1 (455.5) The spiral and other nebulae, the mother wheels of the spheres of space, are initiated by Paradise force organizers; and following nebular evolution of gravity response, they are superseded in superuniverse function by the power centers and physical controllers, who thereupon assume full responsibility for directing the physical evolution of the ensuing generations of stellar and planetary offspring. This physical supervision of the Nebadon preuniverse was, upon the arrival of our Creator Son, immediately co-ordinated with his plan for universe organization. Within the domain of this Paradise Son of God, the Supreme Power Centers and the Master Physical Controllers collaborated with the later appearing Morontia Power Supervisors and others to produce that vast complex of communication lines, energy circuits, and power lanes which firmly bind the manifold space bodies of Nebadon into one integrated administrative unit.
41:1.1 (455.5) 螺旋星雲及其他星雲——空間天體的母輪——是由天堂力組織者所啟動的；而繼引力回應之星雲演化後，它們在超級宇宙中的職能便由力量彙聚者與物理控制者接替，他們隨即承擔起指導隨後各世代恆星與行星子代之物理演化的全部責任。內巴頓前宇宙的這種物理監督，在我們的造物聖子抵達之後，立即與其宇宙組織計畫相協調。在這位天堂神之聖子的領域內，至上力量彙聚者與主物理控制者，與後來出現的靈質力量監督者及其他存有協作，以產生那由龐大的通訊線路、能量迴路與力量通道所組成的龐大複合體，將內巴頓繁多的空間體牢固地繫結成一個整合的行政單位。
41:1.2 (456.1) One hundred Supreme Power Centers of the fourth order are permanently assigned to our local universe. These beings receive the incoming lines of power from the third-order centers of Uversa and relay the down-stepped and modified circuits to the power centers of our constellations and systems. These power centers, in association, function to produce the living system of control and equalization which operates to maintain the balance and distribution of otherwise fluctuating and variable energies. Power centers are not, however, concerned with transient and local energy upheavals, such as sun spots and system electric disturbances; light and electricity are not the basic energies of space; they are secondary and subsidiary manifestations.
41:1.2 (456.1) 一百位第四類別的至上力量彙聚者被永久委派到我們的地方宇宙。這些存有接收來自尤沃薩第三類別彙聚者的輸入力量線路，並將經降階與修改過的迴路轉送到我們各星座與系統的力量中心。這些力量中心相聯發揮職能，以產生那有生命的控制與均衡系統，此系統運作以維持原本波動且變化能量的平衡與分配。然而，力量彙聚者並不關切短暫而局部的能量劇變，例如太陽黑子與系統中的電性擾動；光與電並不是空間的基本能量；它們是次要且附屬的顯現。
41:1.3 (456.2) The one hundred local universe centers are stationed on Salvington, where they function at the exact energy center of that sphere. Architectural spheres, such as Salvington, Edentia, and Jerusem, are lighted, heated, and energized by methods which make them quite independent of the suns of space. These spheres were constructed—made to order—by the power centers and physical controllers and were designed to exert a powerful influence over energy distribution. Basing their activities on such focal points of energy control, the power centers, by their living presences, directionize and channelize the physical energies of space. And these energy circuits are basic to all physical-material and morontia-spiritual phenomena.
41:1.3 (456.2) 這一百位地方宇宙彙聚者駐於薩爾文頓，他們於該天體的精確能量中心處發揮職能。諸如薩爾文頓、伊甸廈與耶路瑟姆這類建築天體，其受照明、供熱與能量供應所採用的方法，使它們完全不依賴空間中的太陽。這些天體是由力量彙聚者與物理控制者所構建——依特定要求而製成——並被設計成能對能量分配施加強大的影響。力量彙聚者以此類能量控制的焦點為其活動基地，憑藉其有生命的臨在，定向並渠引空間的物理能量。而這些能量迴路是一切物理-物質性現象與靈質-靈性現象的基礎。
41:1.4 (456.3) Ten Supreme Power Centers of the fifth order are assigned to each of Nebadon’s primary subdivisions, the one hundred constellations. In Norlatiadek, your constellation, they are not stationed on the headquarters sphere but are situated at the center of the enormous stellar system which constitutes the physical core of the constellation. On Edentia there are ten associated mechanical controllers and ten frandalanks who are in perfect and constant liaison with the near-by power centers.
41:1.4 (456.3) 十位第五類別的至上力量彙聚者被委派至內巴頓主要分區——一百個星座——中的每一個。在你們的星座諾拉歇德，他們並非駐於總部天體，而是位於那構成該星座物理核心的巨大恆星系統的中心。在伊甸廈上，有十位相聯的機械控制者與十位弗蘭達朗克，他們與鄰近的力量彙聚者保持著完美而恆常的聯繫。
41:1.5 (456.4) One Supreme Power Center of the sixth order is stationed at the exact gravity focus of each local system. In the system of Satania the assigned power center occupies a dark island of space located at the astronomic center of the system. Many of these dark islands are vast dynamos which mobilize and directionize certain space-energies, and these natural circumstances are effectively utilized by the Satania Power Center, whose living mass functions as a liaison with the higher centers, directing the streams of more materialized power to the Master Physical Controllers on the evolutionary planets of space.
41:1.5 (456.4) 一位第六類別的至上力量彙聚者駐於每一地方系統的精確引力焦點。在撒坦尼亞系統中，受委派的力量彙聚者佔據著一座位於該系統天文中心的空間暗島。這些暗島中有許多是調動並定向某些空間-能量的巨大發電機，而撒坦尼亞力量彙聚者有效地利用了這些自然條件，此力量彙聚者有生命的質量，發揮與較高彙聚者們的聯繫功能，將那些更為物質化的動力流，引導至空間之各演化行星上的主物理控制者。
41:2.1 (456.5) While the Master Physical Controllers serve with the power centers throughout the grand universe, their functions in a local system, such as Satania, are more easy of comprehension. Satania is one of one hundred local systems which make up the administrative organization of the constellation of Norlatiadek, having as immediate neighbors the systems of Sandmatia, Assuntia, Porogia, Sortoria, Rantulia, and Glantonia. The Norlatiadek systems differ in many respects, but all are evolutionary and progressive, very much like Satania.
41:2.1 (456.5) 雖然主物理控制者在整個大宇宙中與力量彙聚者一同服務，但他們在像撒坦尼亞這樣的一個地方系統中的職能，較容易理解。撒坦尼亞是構成諾拉歇德星座行政組織的一百個地方系統之一，其直接相鄰的系統有桑德馬提亞（Sandmatia）、阿桑提亞（Assuntia）、波羅吉亞（Porogia）、索托里亞（Sortoria）、蘭圖利亞（Rantulia）和格蘭托尼亞（Glantonia）。諾拉歇德的各系統在許多方面各不同，但全都是演化且漸進的，與撒坦尼亞十分相似。
41:2.2 (457.1) Satania itself is composed of over seven thousand astronomical groups, or physical systems, few of which had an origin similar to that of your solar system. The astronomic center of Satania is an enormous dark island of space which, with its attendant spheres, is situated not far from the headquarters of the system government.
41:2.2 (457.1) 撒坦尼亞本身由七千多個天文群體，或稱物理系統，所組成，其中很少有與你們的太陽系相似的起源。撒坦尼亞的天文中心是一座巨大的空間暗島，它連同其隨屬天體，坐落於距系統管理機構總部不遠之處。
41:2.3 (457.2) Except for the presence of the assigned power center, the supervision of the entire physical-energy system of Satania is centered on Jerusem. A Master Physical Controller, stationed on this headquarters sphere, works in co-ordination with the system power center, serving as liaison chief of the power inspectors headquartered on Jerusem and functioning throughout the local system.
41:2.3 (457.2) 除了受委派的力量彙聚者之臨在外，對撒坦尼亞整個物理-能量系統的監督，皆以耶路瑟姆為中心。一位駐於此一總部天體的主物理控制者，與系統力量彙聚者協同工作，擔任總部設於耶路瑟姆、並在整個地方系統中履行職能之力量督察者的聯絡首長。
41:2.4 (457.3) The circuitizing and channelizing of energy is supervised by the five hundred thousand living and intelligent energy manipulators scattered throughout Satania. Through the action of such physical controllers the supervising power centers are in complete and perfect control of a majority of the basic energies of space, including the emanations of highly heated orbs and the dark energy-charged spheres. This group of living entities can mobilize, transform, transmute, manipulate, and transmit nearly all of the physical energies of organized space.
41:2.4 (457.3) 能量的迴路化與渠引，由散布於撒坦尼亞各處的五十萬名有生命且具智能的能量操控者所監督。透過這類物理控制者的行動，負責監督的力量彙聚者得以完全而完美地控制空間中大多數的基本能量，包括高度受熱星體以及黑暗的能量-充載（energy-charged）天體之放射。這一群有生命的實體，能夠動員、轉化、嬗變、操控並傳送有組織空間中幾乎所有的物理能量。
41:2.5 (457.4) Life has inherent capacity for the mobilization and transmutation of universal energy. You are familiar with the action of vegetable life in transforming the material energy of light into the varied manifestations of the vegetable kingdom. You also know something of the method whereby this vegetative energy can be converted into the phenomena of animal activities, but you know practically nothing of the technique of the power directors and the physical controllers, who are endowed with ability to mobilize, transform, directionize, and concentrate the manifold energies of space.
41:2.5 (457.4) 生命具有動員與嬗變宇宙能量的內在能力。你們熟悉植物生命將光的物質能量轉化為植物界多樣顯現的作用。你們也略知這種植物性能量可藉以轉換為動物活動之現象的方法，但對於被賦予了動員、轉化、定向並集中空間中多重能量之能力的力量主管者與物理控制者的技術，你們幾乎一無所知。
41:2.6 (457.5) These beings of the energy realms do not directly concern themselves with energy as a component factor of living creatures, not even with the domain of physiological chemistry. They are sometimes concerned with the physical preliminaries of life, with the elaboration of those energy systems which may serve as the physical vehicles for the living energies of elementary material organisms. In a way the physical controllers are related to the preliving manifestations of material energy as the adjutant mind-spirits are concerned with the prespiritual functions of material mind.
41:2.6 (457.5) 這些能量界域的存有，並不直接關切作為有生命受造物之構成因素的能量，甚至也不關切生理化學的領域。他們有時關切生命的物理前置事項，關切那些能量系統的精細建構，而這些系統可充當初等物質有機體之有生命能量的物理載體。在某種意義上，物理控制者與物質能量的前生命顯現有關，就如同輔助心智-靈關切物質心智的前靈性功能。
41:2.7 (457.6) These intelligent creatures of power control and energy direction must adjust their technique on each sphere in accordance with the physical constitution and architecture of that planet. They unfailingly utilize the calculations and deductions of their respective staffs of physicists and other technical advisers regarding the local influence of highly heated suns and other types of supercharged stars. Even the enormous cold and dark giants of space and the swarming clouds of star dust must be reckoned with; all of these material things are concerned in the practical problems of energy manipulation.
41:2.7 (457.6) 這些具有力量控制與能量主管的智能受造物，必須在每一天體上，依照該行星的物理構成與架構調整其技術。他們必定運用其各自物理學家及其他技術顧問成幕僚所作、關於高度受熱太陽及其他類型超充載恆星之局部影響的計算與推論。甚至空間中巨大、寒冷且黑暗的巨體，以及成群的恆星塵雲，也都必須計算在內；所有這些物質事物，都涉及能量操控的實際問題。
41:2.8 (457.7) The power-energy supervision of the evolutionary inhabited worlds is the responsibility of the Master Physical Controllers, but these beings are not responsible for all energy misbehavior on Urantia. There are a number of reasons for such disturbances, some of which are beyond the domain and control of the physical custodians. Urantia is in the lines of tremendous energies, a small planet in the circuit of enormous masses, and the local controllers sometimes employ enormous numbers of their order in an effort to equalize these lines of energy. They do fairly well with regard to the physical circuits of Satania but have trouble insulating against the powerful Norlatiadek currents.
41:2.8 (457.7) 對演化的有居住者世界之力量—能量的監督，是主物理控制者的責任；但這些存有並不為玉苒廈上所有的能量失常行為負責。造成這類擾動有若干原因，其中一些超出了物理監護者的領域與控制。玉苒廈位於極大能量的線路之中，是巨大質量迴路中的一顆小行星，而地方控制者有時會動用其類別中的巨大數量，努力使這些能量線路達到均衡。關於撒坦尼亞的物理迴路方面，他們做得相當不錯，但在隔絕強大的諾拉歇德之流方面，卻遭遇困難。
41:3.1 (458.1) There are upward of two thousand brilliant suns pouring forth light and energy in Satania, and your own sun is an average blazing orb. Of the thirty suns nearest yours, only three are brighter. The Universe Power Directors initiate the specialized currents of energy which play between the individual stars and their respective systems. These solar furnaces, together with the dark giants of space, serve the power centers and physical controllers as way stations for the effective concentrating and directionizing of the energy circuits of the material creations.
41:3.1 (458.1) 在撒坦尼亞，有兩千多顆燦爛的太陽傾瀉出光與能量，而你們自己的太陽是一顆中等的熾燃星體。在距離你們的太陽最近的三十顆太陽中，只有三顆更為明亮。宇宙力量主管者啟動那些在個別恆星與其各自系統之間往來運作的專門化能量流。這些太陽熔爐，連同空間的黑暗巨體，充當力量彙聚者與物理控制者的驛站，用以有效地集中並定向物質造物的能量迴路。
41:3.2 (458.2) The suns of Nebadon are not unlike those of other universes. The material composition of all suns, dark islands, planets, and satellites, even meteors, is quite identical. These suns have an average diameter of about one million miles, that of your own solar orb being slightly less. The largest star in the universe, the stellar cloud Antares, is four hundred and fifty times the diameter of your sun and is sixty million times its volume. But there is abundant space to accommodate all of these enormous suns. They have just as much comparative elbow room in space as one dozen oranges would have if they were circulating about throughout the interior of Urantia, and were the planet a hollow globe.
41:3.2 (458.2) 內巴頓的太陽與其他宇宙的太陽並無多大不同。所有太陽、暗島、行星與衛星，甚至流星，其物質組成都完全相同。這些太陽的平均直徑約為一百六十萬公里，你們自己的太陽星體直徑則略小於此。宇宙中最大的恆星——恆星雲心宿二（Antares）——其直徑是你們太陽的四百五十倍，體積則是其六千萬倍。然而，有充裕的空間容納所有這些巨大的太陽。它們在空間中所擁有的相對活動餘地，恰與一打柳橙在玉苒廈內部四處循環運行時所會擁有的一樣多，假若該行星是一個空心球體的話。
41:3.3 (458.3) When suns that are too large are thrown off a nebular mother wheel, they soon break up or form double stars. All suns are originally truly gaseous, though they may later transiently exist in a semiliquid state. When your sun attained this quasi-liquid state of supergas pressure, it was not sufficiently large to split equatorially, this being one type of double star formation.
41:3.3 (458.3) 當過大的太陽從一個星雲母輪被拋出時，它們很快便會解體，或形成雙星。所有太陽最初都是真正氣態的，雖然它們後來可能短暫地以半液態存在。當你們的太陽達致這種超氣體壓力的準液態時，它並未大到足以沿赤道分裂，而這種分裂是雙星形成的一種類型。
41:3.4 (458.4) When less than one tenth the size of your sun, these fiery spheres rapidly contract, condense, and cool. When upwards of thirty times its size—rather thirty times the gross content of actual material—suns readily split into two separate bodies, either becoming the centers of new systems or else remaining in each other’s gravity grasp and revolving about a common center as one type of double star.
41:3.4 (458.4) 當不及你們太陽大小的十分之一時，這些熾熱天體會迅速收縮、凝聚並冷卻。當其大小超過你們太陽的三十倍——更確切地說，是實際物質總含量的三十倍——太陽便很容易分裂成兩個分離的物體，它們或成為新系統的中心，或仍維持在彼此的引力掌握之中，繞著一個共同中心公轉，作為一種類型的雙星。
41:3.5 (458.5) The most recent of the major cosmic eruptions in Orvonton was the extraordinary double star explosion, the light of which reached Urantia in a.d. 1572. This conflagration was so intense that the explosion was clearly visible in broad daylight.
41:3.5 (458.5) 奧溫頓最近一次重大的宇宙噴發，是那次非凡的雙星爆炸；其光於西元1572年抵達玉苒廈。這場大火極其猛烈，以致那次爆炸在白晝之中也清晰可見。
41:3.6 (458.6) Not all stars are solid, but many of the older ones are. Some of the reddish, faintly glimmering stars have acquired a density at the center of their enormous masses which would be expressed by saying that one cubic inch of such a star, if on Urantia, would weigh six thousand pounds. The enormous pressure, accompanied by loss of heat and circulating energy, has resulted in bringing the orbits of the basic material units closer and closer together until they now closely approach the status of electronic condensation. This process of cooling and contraction may continue to the limiting and critical explosion point of ultimatonic condensation.
41:3.6 (458.6) 並非所有恆星都是固態的，但許多較古老的恆星確實如此。有些呈紅色、微弱閃爍的恆星，在其巨大質量中心已獲得如此高的密度，以致可以這樣來表述：這樣一顆恆星的一立方公分，倘若在玉苒廈上，將重達約一百七十公斤。巨大的壓力，伴隨著熱量與循環能量的流失，已導致基本物質單元的軌道愈來愈靠近，直到它們如今已非常接近電子凝聚的狀態。這種冷卻與收縮的過程，可能持續到終極子凝聚的極限與臨界的爆炸點。
41:3.7 (459.1) Most of the giant suns are relatively young; most of the dwarf stars are old, but not all. The collisional dwarfs may be very young and may glow with an intense white light, never having known an initial red stage of youthful shining. Both very young and very old suns usually shine with a reddish glow. The yellow tinge indicates moderate youth or approaching old age, but the brilliant white light signifies robust and extended adult life.
41:3.7 (459.1) 大多數巨型太陽都相對年輕；大多數矮星都很古老，但並非全都如此。碰撞矮星可能非常年輕，並可能發出強烈的白光，從未經歷過年輕閃耀的初始紅色階段。非常年輕與非常年老的太陽，兩者通常都發出帶紅色的光輝。黃色色調表示中度的年輕，或漸近老年，但燦爛的白光則意指強健而長久的成年生命。
41:3.8 (459.2) While all adolescent suns do not pass through a pulsating stage, at least not visibly, when looking out into space you may observe many of these younger stars whose gigantic respiratory heaves require from two to seven days to complete a cycle. Your own sun still carries a diminishing legacy of the mighty upswellings of its younger days, but the period has lengthened from the former three and one-half day pulsations to the present eleven and one-half year sunspot cycles.
41:3.8 (459.2) 雖然並非所有青春期的太陽都會經歷脈動階段，至少不是可見地，但當你眺望空間時，你可以觀察到許多這些較年輕的恆星；它們龐大的呼吸起伏需要二至七天才能完成一個週期。你們自己的太陽仍帶有其年輕時代強大湧升的漸減遺緒，但週期已從先前三天半的脈動，延長為目前十一年半的太陽黑子週期。
41:3.9 (459.3) Stellar variables have numerous origins. In some double stars the tides caused by rapidly changing distances as the two bodies swing around their orbits also occasion periodic fluctuations of light. These gravity variations produce regular and recurrent flares, just as the capture of meteors by the accretion of energy-material at the surface would result in a comparatively sudden flash of light which would speedily recede to normal brightness for that sun. Sometimes a sun will capture a stream of meteors in a line of lessened gravity opposition, and occasionally collisions cause stellar flare-ups, but the majority of such phenomena are wholly due to internal fluctuations.
41:3.9 (459.3) 恆星變光體有許多起源。在某些雙星中，當兩個物體在其軌道上環繞運行時，由迅速改變的距離所造成的潮汐，，也會引起週期性的光變動。這些引力變化產生規律而反覆的閃焰，正如藉由能量-物質在表面吸積而捕獲流星體，會導致一次相對突然的閃光，並迅速回落至該太陽的正常亮度。有時，一顆太陽會沿著一條引力阻抗減弱的線路上捕獲一股流星體之流，偶爾，碰撞也會引起恆星的突發閃焰，但大多數此類現象完全是由於內部波動所引起的。
41:3.10 (459.4) In one group of variable stars the period of light fluctuation is directly dependent on luminosity, and knowledge of this fact enables astronomers to utilize such suns as universe lighthouses or accurate measuring points for the further exploration of distant star clusters. By this technique it is possible to measure stellar distances most precisely up to more than one million light-years. Better methods of space measurement and improved telescopic technique will sometime more fully disclose the ten grand divisions of the superuniverse of Orvonton; you will at least recognize eight of these immense sectors as enormous and fairly symmetrical star clusters.
41:3.10 (459.4) 在一群變星中，光波動的週期直接取決於光度，而對此一事實的認識，使天文學家得以利用這類太陽作為宇宙燈塔或精確的測量點，以進一步探索遙遠的星團。藉由這項技術，可以極精確地測量遠達一百萬光年以上的恆星距離。更完善的空間測量方法與改良的望遠鏡技術，終有一天將更充分地揭露奧溫頓超級宇宙的十大分部；你至少會將這些宏大分區中的八個，辨識為巨大且相當對稱的星團。
41:4.1 (459.5) The mass of your sun is slightly greater than the estimate of your physicists, who have reckoned it as about two octillion (2 x 10 27 ) tons. It now exists about halfway between the most dense and the most diffuse stars, having about one and one-half times the density of water. But your sun is neither a liquid nor a solid—it is gaseous—and this is true notwithstanding the difficulty of explaining how gaseous matter can attain this and even much greater densities.
41:4.1 (459.5) 你們太陽的質量，略大於你們物理學家的估計；他們推算其約為1.8千秭（1.8x 1027）公噸。它目前約處於最稠密與最稀薄的恆星之間的中點，其密度約為水的一倍半。但你們的太陽既非液體，也非固體——它是氣態的——而儘管難以解釋氣態物質何以能達致這樣、甚至遠大於此的密度，這一點仍然屬實。
41:4.2 (459.6) Gaseous, liquid, and solid states are matters of atomic-molecular relationships, but density is a relationship of space and mass. Density varies directly with the quantity of mass in space and inversely with the amount of space in mass, the space between the central cores of matter and the particles which whirl around these centers as well as the space within such material particles.
41:4.2 (459.6) 氣態、液態與固態，是原子-分子關係的問題，而密度則是空間與質量的關係。密度隨空間中質量的數量而正向變化，並隨質量中空間的總量而反向變化，而質量中的空間即物質的中心核心與環繞這些中心迴旋的粒子之間的空間，以及在這類物質粒子內部的空間。
41:4.3 (459.7) Cooling stars can be physically gaseous and tremendously dense at the same time. You are not familiar with the solar supergases, but these and other unusual forms of matter explain how even nonsolid suns can attain a density equal to iron—about the same as Urantia—and yet be in a highly heated gaseous state and continue to function as suns. The atoms in these dense supergases are exceptionally small; they contain few electrons. Such suns have also largely lost their free ultimatonic stores of energy.
41:4.3 (459.7) 正在冷卻的恆星，可以在物理上是氣態的，同時又具有極大的密度。你們並不熟悉太陽超氣體（supergases），然而這些以及其他不尋常的物質形態，解釋了何以即使是非固態的太陽，也能達致與鐵相等的密度——大約與玉苒廈相同——而仍處於高度受熱的氣態狀態，並繼續發揮太陽的功能。這些稠密超氣體中的原子異常微小；它們所含的電子甚少。這類太陽也已大量失去了其自由的終極子能量儲備。
41:4.4 (460.1) One of your near-by suns, which started life with about the same mass as yours, has now contracted almost to the size of Urantia, having become forty thousand times as dense as your sun. The weight of this hot-cold gaseous-solid is about one ton per cubic inch. And still this sun shines with a faint reddish glow, the senile glimmer of a dying monarch of light.
41:4.4 (460.1) 你們附近太陽的其中一顆，其生命開始時的質量約與你們的太陽相同，如今已收縮至幾乎與玉苒廈一般大小，其密度已成為你們太陽的四萬倍。這個熱-冷的氣態-固體，重量約為每立方公分六十公斤。然而，這顆太陽仍發出微弱帶紅色的光輝——那是一位垂死的光之君王衰老的微光。
41:4.5 (460.2) Most of the suns, however, are not so dense. One of your nearer neighbors has a density exactly equal to that of your atmosphere at sea level. If you were in the interior of this sun, you would be unable to discern anything. And temperature permitting, you could penetrate the majority of the suns which twinkle in the night sky and notice no more matter than you perceive in the air of your earthly living rooms.
41:4.5 (460.2) 然而，大多數太陽並沒有如此稠密。你們較近鄰居的其中一個，其密度恰好等於你們海平面處大氣的密度。倘若你置身於這顆太陽的內部，你將無法辨識任何東西。而且，若溫度容許，你可以穿入在夜空中閃爍的大多數太陽，而所察覺到的物質，不會比你在自己地上起居室空氣中所感知到的更多。
41:4.6 (460.3) The massive sun of Veluntia, one of the largest in Orvonton, has a density only one one-thousandth that of Urantia’s atmosphere. Were it in composition similar to your atmosphere and not superheated, it would be such a vacuum that human beings would speedily suffocate if they were in or on it.
41:4.6 (460.3) 巨大的沃倫提亞太陽，是奧溫頓最大的太陽之一，其密度只有玉苒廈大氣密度的千分之一。倘若它在成分上與你們的大氣相似，且未經過度加熱，它將會是如此的真空，以致人類存有若身處其中或其上，將迅速窒息。
41:4.7 (460.4) Another of the Orvonton giants now has a surface temperature a trifle under three thousand degrees. Its diameter is over three hundred million miles—ample room to accommodate your sun and the present orbit of the earth. And yet, for all this enormous size, over forty million times that of your sun, its mass is only about thirty times greater. These enormous suns have an extending fringe that reaches almost from one to the other.
41:4.7 (460.4) 奧溫頓的另一顆巨星，現今的表面溫度略低於攝氏一千六百五十度。它的直徑超過四億八千萬公里——足夠空間容納你們的太陽以及地球目前的軌道。然而，儘管其大小如此巨大，超過你們太陽的四千萬倍，其質量卻僅大約三十倍。這些巨大太陽有延伸的外緣，幾乎從一顆觸及另一顆。
41:5.1 (460.5) That the suns of space are not very dense is proved by the steady streams of escaping light-energies. Too great a density would retain light by opacity until the light-energy pressure reached the explosion point. There is a tremendous light or gas pressure within a sun to cause it to shoot forth such a stream of energy as to penetrate space for millions upon millions of miles to energize, light, and heat the distant planets. Fifteen feet of surface of the density of Urantia would effectually prevent the escape of all X rays and light-energies from a sun until the rising internal pressure of accumulating energies resulting from atomic dismemberment overcame gravity with a tremendous outward explosion.
41:5.1 (460.5) 空間中的諸太陽並非十分緻密，這一點可由逸出的光-能量之穩定流得到證明。過大的密度會藉不透明性阻留光，直到光-能量的壓力達到爆炸點。在一顆太陽內部，存在著巨大的光壓或氣體壓力，致使使它射出如此一道能量流，足以穿透空間數百萬又數百萬公里的空間，為遙遠的行星供能、照亮並加熱。約4.6公尺、具玉苒廈之密度的表層，便足以有效阻止所有Ｘ射線與光-能量從一顆太陽逸出，直到源自原子解體而不斷累積能量之持續升高的內部壓力，以一次極大的向外爆發克服引力。
41:5.2 (460.6) Light, in the presence of the propulsive gases, is highly explosive when confined at high temperatures by opaque retaining walls. Light is real. As you value energy and power on your world, sunlight would be economical at a million dollars a pound.
41:5.2 (460.6) 在推進性氣體在場的情況下，當光在高溫中受到不透明阻留壁的禁閉時，它便具有高度爆炸性。光是真實的。按你們在你們的世界上對能量與力量的估價，陽光即使以每公斤約兩百二十萬美元計，仍可算是經濟的。
41:5.3 (460.7) The interior of your sun is a vast X-ray generator. The suns are supported from within by the incessant bombardment of these mighty emanations.
41:5.3 (460.7) 你們太陽的內部是一座大規模的Ｘ射線發生器。諸太陽藉著這些強大放射無休止的轟擊，而從內部受到支撐。
41:5.4 (460.8) It requires more than one-half million years for an X-ray-stimulated electron to work its way from the very center of an average sun up to the solar surface, whence it starts out on its space adventure, maybe to warm an inhabited planet, to be captured by a meteor, to participate in the birth of an atom, to be attracted by a highly charged dark island of space, or to find its space flight terminated by a final plunge into the surface of a sun similar to the one of its origin.
41:5.4 (460.8) 一個受到Ｘ射線激發的電子，要從一顆一般太陽的正中心逐步穿行而上，抵達太陽表面，需要超過五十萬年，然後它從那裡開始其空間冒險，或許去溫暖一顆有居住者的行星，或許被一顆流星捕獲，或許參與一個原子的誕生，或許被一座高度充載的黑暗空間島所吸引，或者最終墜入一顆與其起源太陽相似的太陽表面，而結束其空間飛行。
41:5.5 (461.1) The X rays of a sun’s interior charge the highly heated and agitated electrons with sufficient energy to carry them out through space, past the hosts of detaining influences of intervening matter and, in spite of divergent gravity attractions, on to the distant spheres of the remote systems. The great energy of velocity required to escape the gravity clutch of a sun is sufficient to insure that the sunbeam will travel on with unabated velocity until it encounters considerable masses of matter; whereupon it is quickly transformed into heat with the liberation of other energies.
41:5.5 (461.1) 一顆太陽內部的Ｘ射線，為高度受熱且受擾動的電子充載足夠的能量，以攜帶它們向外穿出空間，越過介於其間物質的眾多阻滯影響，並且不顧方向各異的引力吸引，繼續前往邊遠系統中的遙遠天體。為逃脫太陽的引力箝制所需的巨大速度能量，足以確保太陽光束會以不減的速度繼續前行，直到它遭遇相當大量的物質團塊；隨即它迅速被轉化為熱，同時釋出其他能量。
41:5.6 (461.2) Energy, whether as light or in other forms, in its flight through space moves straight forward. The actual particles of material existence traverse space like a fusillade. They go in a straight and unbroken line or procession except as they are acted on by superior forces, and except as they ever obey the linear-gravity pull inherent in material mass and the circular-gravity presence of the Isle of Paradise.
41:5.6 (461.2) 能量，無論以光或其他形態，在其穿越空間的飛行中都是筆直向前移動的。物質存在的實際粒子，如同一陣連發的彈丸般穿越空間。它們沿著筆直且未中斷的線路或行列前進，除了受到更強之力的作用，以及除了它們始終服從物質質量所固有的線性引力牽引與天堂島之環形引力臨在。
41:5.7 (461.3) Solar energy may seem to be propelled in waves, but that is due to the action of coexistent and diverse influences. A given form of organized energy does not proceed in waves but in direct lines. The presence of a second or a third form of force-energy may cause the stream under observation to appear to travel in wavy formation, just as, in a blinding rainstorm accompanied by a heavy wind, the water sometimes appears to fall in sheets or to descend in waves. The raindrops are coming down in a direct line of unbroken procession, but the action of the wind is such as to give the visible appearance of sheets of water and waves of raindrops.
41:5.7 (461.3) 太陽的能量或許似乎是以波的形式被推進，但那是由於共存且各異的影響之作用。某種特定形式的有組織能量，並不是以波的形式行進，而是沿著直行線路前進。第二種或第三種形式的力-能量之存在，可能使受觀察之流看似以波的隊形行進，正如在一場伴隨強風、幾乎遮蔽視線的暴雨中，水有時看似成片落下，或一波波地下降。雨滴正沿著由未中斷行列組成的直行線路落下，但風的作用卻使之呈現出成片水幕與一波波雨滴的可見外觀。
41:5.8 (461.4) The action of certain secondary and other undiscovered energies present in the space regions of your local universe is such that solar-light emanations appear to execute certain wavy phenomena as well as to be chopped up into infinitesimal portions of definite length and weight. And, practically considered, that is exactly what happens. You can hardly hope to arrive at a better understanding of the behavior of light until such a time as you acquire a clearer concept of the interaction and interrelationship of the various space-forces and solar energies operating in the space regions of Nebadon. Your present confusion is also due to your incomplete grasp of this problem as it involves the interassociated activities of the personal and nonpersonal control of the master universe—the presences, the performances, and the co-ordination of the Conjoint Actor and the Unqualified Absolute.
41:5.8 (461.4) 存在於你們地方宇宙之空間區域中，某些次級能量以及其他尚未被發現的能量，其作用使太陽光的放射看似表現出某些波狀現象，同時也看似被切分為具有確定長度與重量之無限小的部分。而就實際考量而言，所發生的正是如此。在你們對內巴頓空間區域中運作的各種空間-力與太陽能量間之相互作用及相互關係，獲得更清晰的概念以前，你們很難指望對光的行為得出更好的理解。你們目前的困惑，也由於你們對這個問題的掌握並不完整，因為其牽涉到對主宇宙之人格性與非人格性控制的交互相聯活動——聯合行動者與無限定絕對者的臨在、施為與協調。
41:6.1 (461.5) In deciphering spectral phenomena, it should be remembered that space is not empty; that light, in traversing space, is sometimes slightly modified by the various forms of energy and matter which circulate in all organized space. Some of the lines indicating unknown matter which appear in the spectra of your sun are due to modifications of well-known elements which are floating throughout space in shattered form, the atomic casualties of the fierce encounters of the solar elemental battles. Space is pervaded by these wandering derelicts, especially sodium and calcium.
41:6.1 (461.5) 在解讀光譜現象時，應當記住，空間並非空無一物；光在穿越空間時，有時會被在一切有組織的空間中循環的各種形態的能量與物質輕微修改。出現在你們的太陽光譜中一些表明未知物質的譜線，是由於那些以破碎形態漂浮於整個空間中的熟知元素——太陽元素交戰之激烈交鋒的原子傷亡者——的修改所致。空間瀰漫著這些漫遊的遺棄物，尤其是鈉與鈣。
41:6.2 (461.6) Calcium is, in fact, the chief element of the matter-permeation of space throughout Orvonton. Our whole superuniverse is sprinkled with minutely pulverized stone. Stone is literally the basic building matter for the planets and spheres of space. The cosmic cloud, the great space blanket, consists for the most part of the modified atoms of calcium. The stone atom is one of the most prevalent and persistent of the elements. It not only endures solar ionization—splitting—but persists in an associative identity even after it has been battered by the destructive X rays and shattered by the high solar temperatures. Calcium possesses an individuality and a longevity excelling all of the more common forms of matter.
41:6.2 (461.6) 事實上，鈣是遍及奧文頓的空間之物質滲透的首要元素。我們整個超級宇宙都灑布著磨成極細微粉末的石頭。石頭確然是空間中行星與天體的基本建構物質。宇宙體系雲，即那巨大的空間覆蓋層，大部分由經修改的鈣原子所構成。石頭原子是最普遍且最持久的元素之一。它不僅能承受太陽的電離——分裂——而且即使在遭受具破壞性的X射線猛擊，並被太陽高溫擊碎之後，仍以一種相聯的同一性持存。鈣擁有一種優於一切較常見物質形態的個別性與長壽性。
41:6.3 (462.1) As your physicists have suspected, these mutilated remnants of solar calcium literally ride the light beams for varied distances, and thus their widespread dissemination throughout space is tremendously facilitated. The sodium atom, under certain modifications, is also capable of light and energy locomotion. The calcium feat is all the more remarkable since this element has almost twice the mass of sodium. Local space-permeation by calcium is due to the fact that it escapes from the solar photosphere, in modified form, by literally riding the outgoing sunbeams. Of all the solar elements, calcium, notwithstanding its comparative bulk—containing as it does twenty revolving electrons—is the most successful in escaping from the solar interior to the realms of space. This explains why there is a calcium layer, a gaseous stone surface, on the sun six thousand miles thick; and this despite the fact that nineteen lighter elements, and numerous heavier ones, are underneath.
41:6.3 (462.1) 正如你們的物理學家所推測的，這些缺損的太陽鈣殘餘，確然乘著光束，至不等的距離，因而它們在整個空間中的廣泛散布得到了極大的助益。鈉原子在某些修改之下，也具有藉光與能量而行進的能力。鈣的這項壯舉尤其引人注目，因為此一元素的質量幾乎是鈉的兩倍。鈣對局部的空間滲透，是由於鈣以經修改的形態，藉著確然乘坐向外射出的太陽光束，而從太陽的光球層逃脫。在一切太陽的元素中，鈣儘管相對龐大——其中含有二十個公轉的電子——卻是在從太陽內部逃脫至空間諸界域中最成功的。這解釋了為何太陽上存在著一層厚約九千七百公里的鈣層，一個氣態的石質表面；儘管在它之下尚有十九種較輕的元素以及許多較重的元素。
41:6.4 (462.2) Calcium is an active and versatile element at solar temperatures. The stone atom has two agile and loosely attached electrons in the two outer electronic circuits, which are very close together. Early in the atomic struggle it loses its outer electron; whereupon it engages in a masterful act of juggling the nineteenth electron back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth circuits of electronic revolution. By tossing this nineteenth electron back and forth between its own orbit and that of its lost companion more than twenty-five thousand times a second, a mutilated stone atom is able partially to defy gravity and thus successfully to ride the emerging streams of light and energy, the sunbeams, to liberty and adventure. This calcium atom moves outward by alternate jerks of forward propulsion, grasping and letting go the sunbeam about twenty-five thousand times each second. And this is why stone is the chief component of the worlds of space. Calcium is the most expert solar-prison escaper.
41:6.4 (462.2) 在太陽的溫度下，鈣是一種活躍而多遍的元素。石頭原子在兩個彼此非常接近的外層電子迴路中，有兩個靈活而結合鬆散的電子。在原子掙扎的早期，它失去其外層電子；隨即，它便從事一場高超的的拋接之舉，將第十九個電子在電子公轉的第十九與第二十迴路之間來回拋擲。藉著將這第十九個電子在其自身軌道與其已失去同伴之軌道間，每秒來回拋擲超過兩萬五千次，一個缺損的石頭原子得以部分地抗拒引力，從而成功地乘著那湧出的光與能量之流——太陽光束——駛向自由與冒險。這個鈣原子以交替的向前推進之急動向外移動，每秒抓住又放開太陽光束約兩萬五千次。這就是為何石頭是空間諸世界的主要首要。鈣是最為精熟的太陽牢獄逃脫者。
41:6.5 (462.3) The agility of this acrobatic calcium electron is indicated by the fact that, when tossed by the temperature-X-ray solar forces to the circle of the higher orbit, it only remains in that orbit for about one one-millionth of a second; but before the electric-gravity power of the atomic nucleus pulls it back into its old orbit, it is able to complete one million revolutions about the atomic center.
41:6.5 (462.3) 這個特技般的鈣電子之靈活性，可由以下事實顯示：當它被溫度-X射線的太陽諸力拋至較高軌道的環圈時，它僅在那條軌道上停留約百萬分之一秒；然而，在原子核的電-引力（electric-gravity）的力量將它拉回其舊軌道之前，它已能繞原子中心完成一百萬次公轉。
41:6.6 (462.4) Your sun has parted with an enormous quantity of its calcium, having lost tremendous amounts during the times of its convulsive eruptions in connection with the formation of the solar system. Much of the solar calcium is now in the outer crust of the sun.
41:6.6 (462.4) 你們的太陽已分出了巨量的鈣；在與太陽系形成相連的痙攣性噴發時期，已失去了極大的量。如今太陽的鈣有許多位於太陽的外殼中。
41:6.7 (462.5) It should be remembered that spectral analyses show only sun-surface compositions. For example: Solar spectra exhibit many iron lines, but iron is not the chief element in the sun. This phenomenon is almost wholly due to the present temperature of the sun’s surface, a little less than 6,000 degrees, this temperature being very favorable to the registry of the iron spectrum.
41:6.7 (462.5) 應當記住，光譜分析所顯示的僅是太陽表面的組成。例如：太陽光譜呈現許多鐵的譜線，但鐵並不是太陽中的首要元素。此一現象幾乎完全是由於太陽表面目前的溫度——略低於攝氏三千三百度——這一溫度非常有利於鐵光譜的顯示。
41:7.1 (463.1) The internal temperature of many of the suns, even your own, is much higher than is commonly believed. In the interior of a sun practically no whole atoms exist; they are all more or less shattered by the intensive X-ray bombardment which is indigenous to such high temperatures. Regardless of what material elements may appear in the outer layers of a sun, those in the interior are rendered very similar by the dissociative action of the disruptive X rays. X ray is the great leveler of atomic existence.
41:7.1 (463.1) 許多太陽——甚至們自己的太陽——的內部溫度，遠比一般所認為的高得多。在太陽內部，幾乎不存在完整的原子；它們全都或多或少地被這種內生於如此高溫的強烈X射線轟擊所粉碎。無論何種物質元素可能出現於太陽的外層，那些在內部的元素，都受到具瓦解性X射線的解離作用，而變得極為相似。X射線是原子存在的偉大均平者。
41:7.2 (463.2) The surface temperature of your sun is almost 6,000 degrees, but it rapidly increases as the interior is penetrated until it attains the unbelievable height of about 35,000,000 degrees in the central regions. (All of these temperatures refer to your Fahrenheit scale.)
41:7.2 (463.2) 你們太陽的表面溫度約3,300度，但隨著向內部深入，溫度迅速上升，直至在中央區域達致約19,400,000度這一令人難以置信的高度。（所有這些溫度均指你們的攝氏溫標。）
41:7.3 (463.3) All of these phenomena are indicative of enormous energy expenditure, and the sources of solar energy, named in the order of their importance, are:
41:7.3 (463.3) 所有這些現象皆表明巨大的能量耗費；而太陽能量的來源，依其重要性順序列舉，如下：
41:7.4 (463.4) 1. Annihilation of atoms and, eventually, of electrons.
41:7.4 (463.4) 1. 原子的湮滅，以及最終電子的湮滅。
41:7.5 (463.5) 2. Transmutation of elements, including the radioactive group of energies thus liberated.
41:7.5 (463.5) 2. 元素的嬗變，包括由此釋出的放射性能量群。
41:7.6 (463.6) 3. The accumulation and transmission of certain universal space-energies.
41:7.6 (463.6) 3. 某些萬有的空間-能量的積聚與傳輸。
41:7.7 (463.7) 4. Space matter and meteors which are incessantly diving into the blazing suns.
41:7.7 (463.7) 4. 無休止地墜入熾燃太陽之中的空間物質與流星。
41:7.8 (463.8) 5. Solar contraction; the cooling and consequent contraction of a sun yields energy and heat sometimes greater than that supplied by space matter.
41:7.8 (463.8) 5. 太陽收縮；一個太陽的冷卻及其隨之而來的收縮，所產出的能量與熱，有時甚至超過空間物質所提供的。
41:7.9 (463.9) 6. Gravity action at high temperatures transforms certain circuitized power into radiative energies.
41:7.9 (463.9) 6. 高溫下的引力作用，將某些已迴路化的力量轉化為輻射能量。
41:7.10 (463.10) 7. Recaptive light and other matter which are drawn back into the sun after having left it, together with other energies having extrasolar origin.
41:7.10 (463.10) 7. 再度捕獲的光與其他物質——二者在離開太陽之後又被吸引回來——連同其他具有太陽外起源的能量。
41:7.11 (463.11) There exists a regulating blanket of hot gases (sometimes millions of degrees in temperature) which envelops the suns, and which acts to stabilize heat loss and otherwise prevent hazardous fluctuations of heat dissipation. During the active life of a sun the internal temperature of 35,000,000 degrees remains about the same quite regardless of the progressive fall of the external temperature.
41:7.11 (463.11) 存在著包覆太陽的調節性熱氣體覆蓋層（溫度有時達數百萬度），其作用在於穩定熱損失，並以其他方式防止熱耗散的危險波動。在太陽的活躍生命期間，其19,400,000度的內部溫度大致維持不變，全然不受外部溫度逐漸下降的影響。
41:7.12 (463.12) You might try to visualize 35,000,000 degrees of heat, in association with certain gravity pressures, as the electronic boiling point. Under such pressure and at such temperature all atoms are degraded and broken up into their electronic and other ancestral components; even the electrons and other associations of ultimatons may be broken up, but the suns are not able to degrade the ultimatons.
41:7.12 (463.12) 你們不妨試著把與某些引力壓力相結合的19,400,000度的熱，想像為電子沸點。在這樣的壓力之下、這樣的溫度之中，所有原子都被降解，並被分裂為其電子及其他的祖源成分；甚至電子以及其他終極子的其他結合體都可能被分裂，但太陽無法降解終極子。
41:7.13 (463.13) These solar temperatures operate to enormously speed up the ultimatons and the electrons, at least such of the latter as continue to maintain their existence under these conditions. You will realize what high temperature means by way of the acceleration of ultimatonic and electronic activities when you pause to consider that one drop of ordinary water contains over one billion trillions of atoms. This is the energy of more than one hundred horsepower exerted continuously for two years. The total heat now given out by the solar system sun each second is sufficient to boil all the water in all the oceans on Urantia in just one second of time.
41:7.13 (463.13) 這些太陽溫度的運作，極度地加速終極子與電子，至少對於那些在這些條件下仍繼續維持其存在的電子是如此。當你停下來思量，一滴普通的水含有超過十億兆個原子時，你將體認到，就終極子與電子活動的加速而言，高溫意味著什麼。這是超過一百馬力持續施出兩年的能量。太陽系的太陽目前每秒所放出的總熱量，足以在僅僅一秒的時間內，將玉苒廈所有海洋中的全部海水煮沸。
41:7.14 (464.1) Only those suns which function in the direct channels of the main streams of universe energy can shine on forever. Such solar furnaces blaze on indefinitely, being able to replenish their material losses by the intake of space-force and analogous circulating energy. But stars far removed from these chief channels of recharging are destined to undergo energy depletion—gradually cool off and eventually burn out.
41:7.14 (464.1) 唯有那些在主要的宇宙能量流之直接渠道中發揮功能的太陽，才能永遠照耀下去。這類太陽熔爐無限期地熾燃下去，因為它們能藉由攝取空間-力及類似的循環能量，補充其物質損失。然而，遠離這些首要再充載渠道的恆星，注定要經歷能量耗竭——逐漸冷卻，最終燃燒殆盡。
41:7.15 (464.2) Such dead or dying suns can be rejuvenated by collisional impact or can be recharged by certain nonluminous energy islands of space or through gravity-robbery of near-by smaller suns or systems. The majority of dead suns will experience revivification by these or other evolutionary techniques. Those which are not thus eventually recharged are destined to undergo disruption by mass explosion when the gravity condensation attains the critical level of ultimatonic condensation of energy pressure. Such disappearing suns thus become energy of the rarest form, admirably adapted to energize other more favorably situated suns.
41:7.15 (464.2) 這樣已死或垂死的太陽，可藉由碰撞性的衝擊而重新恢復活力，或可藉由空間中某些不發光的能量島、或透過對鄰近較小太陽或系統的引力劫掠而被再充載。大多數已死的太陽，將藉由這些或其他演化性的技術而重新復甦。那些最終未被如此再充載的太陽，當引力凝聚達致終極子能量壓力凝聚的臨界層級時，注定要經由質量爆炸而經歷瓦解。如此消逝中的太陽因而成為最罕見形式的能量，極佳地適合為其他位置更為有利的太陽賦能。
41:8.1 (464.3) In those suns which are encircuited in the space-energy channels, solar energy is liberated by various complex nuclear-reaction chains, the most common of which is the hydrogen-carbon-helium reaction. In this metamorphosis, carbon acts as an energy catalyst since it is in no way actually changed by this process of converting hydrogen into helium. Under certain conditions of high temperature the hydrogen penetrates the carbon nuclei. Since the carbon cannot hold more than four such protons, when this saturation state is attained, it begins to emit protons as fast as new ones arrive. In this reaction the ingoing hydrogen particles come forth as a helium atom.
41:8.1 (464.3) 在那些於空間-能量渠道內被納入迴路的太陽中，太陽能量經由各種複雜的核反應鏈而釋出，其中最常見的是氫-碳-氦反應。在這一蛻變過程中，碳以能量催化劑角色行事，因為它實際上絲毫未被這個將氫轉換為氦的過程所改變。在某些高溫條件下，氫會穿入碳原子核。由於碳無法容納超過四個這樣的質子，當達致此一飽和狀態時，它便開始以新質子進入的同樣速率放出質子。在這一反應中，進入的多個氫粒子以一個氦原子出現。
41:8.2 (464.4) Reduction of hydrogen content increases the luminosity of a sun. In the suns destined to burn out, the height of luminosity is attained at the point of hydrogen exhaustion. Subsequent to this point, brilliance is maintained by the resultant process of gravity contraction. Eventually, such a star will become a so-called white dwarf, a highly condensed sphere.
41:8.2 (464.4) 氫含量的減少，會增加一顆太陽的光度。在那些注定燃盡的太陽中，光度的高峰於氫耗盡之點達致。此點之後，亮度藉由隨之而來的引力收縮過程所維持。最終，這樣一顆恆星將成為一顆所謂的白矮星，一個高度凝聚的天體。
41:8.3 (464.5) In large suns—small circular nebulae—when hydrogen is exhausted and gravity contraction ensues, if such a body is not sufficiently opaque to retain the internal pressure of support for the outer gas regions, then a sudden collapse occurs. The gravity-electric changes give origin to vast quantities of tiny particles devoid of electric potential, and such particles readily escape from the solar interior, thus bringing about the collapse of a gigantic sun within a few days. It was such an emigration of these “runaway particles” that occasioned the collapse of the giant nova of the Andromeda nebula about fifty years ago. This vast stellar body collapsed in forty minutes of Urantia time.
41:8.3 (464.5) 在大型太陽——小型圓形星雲——中，當氫耗盡而引力收縮隨之發生時，倘若這樣一個物體不夠不透明以保持對外部氣體區域的內部支撐壓力，便會發生突然的坍縮。引力-電性的改變生成大量不帶電位的微小粒子，而這類粒子輕易地從太陽內部逸出，從而造成一顆巨大太陽於數日之內坍縮。正是這些「脫逃粒子」的這樣一次外移，致使約五十年前仙女座星雲中那顆巨大新星坍縮。這一龐大的恆星體，在玉苒廈時間四十分鐘內便坍縮了。
41:8.4 (464.6) As a rule, the vast extrusion of matter continues to exist about the residual cooling sun as extensive clouds of nebular gases. And all this explains the origin of many types of irregular nebulae, such as the Crab nebula, which had its origin about nine hundred years ago, and which still exhibits the mother sphere as a lone star near the center of this irregular nebular mass.
41:8.4 (464.6) 通常，那大量被擠出的物質，會作為廣布的星雲氣體雲，繼續存在於殘餘的冷卻中太陽周圍。而這一切解釋了許多類型的不規則星雲的起源，例如蟹狀星雲，它大約起源於九百年前，且仍呈現其母天體為此不規則星雲團塊中心附近的一顆孤星。
41:9.1 (465.1) The larger suns maintain such a gravity control over their electrons that light escapes only with the aid of the powerful X rays. These helper rays penetrate all space and are concerned in the maintenance of the basic ultimatonic associations of energy. The great energy losses in the early days of a sun, subsequent to its attainment of maximum temperature—upwards of 35,000,000 degrees—are not so much due to light escape as to ultimatonic leakage. These ultimaton energies escape out into space, to engage in the adventure of electronic association and energy materialization, as a veritable energy blast during adolescent solar times.
41:9.1 (465.1) 較大的太陽對其電子維持著如此的引力控制，以致光唯有藉著強大X射線之助方能逸出。這些幫助射線穿透一切空間，並參與維持能量之基本終極子結合。一顆太陽在其早期，於達致最高溫度——超過19,400,000度——之後的巨大能量損失，與其說是由於光的逸出，不如說是由於終極子的逸漏。這些終極子能量逸出至空間中，，去投入電子結合與能量物質化的冒險，在太陽的青春期成為一場名副其實的能量爆發。
41:9.2 (465.2) Atoms and electrons are subject to gravity. The ultimatons are not subject to local gravity, the interplay of material attraction, but they are fully obedient to absolute or Paradise gravity, to the trend, the swing, of the universal and eternal circle of the universe of universes. Ultimatonic energy does not obey the linear or direct gravity attraction of near-by or remote material masses, but it does ever swing true to the circuit of the great ellipse of the far-flung creation.
41:9.2 (465.2) 原子與電子受制於引力。終極子則不受制於局部引力，即物質吸引力的相互作用，但它們完全服從絕對引力或天堂引力，服從由眾宇宙組成的宇宙那萬有而永恆之環圈的趨向與運行。終極子能量不服從鄰近或遙遠物質質量的線性或直接引力吸引，但它的確始終不偏移地沿著廣袤造物那大橢圓的迴路運行。
41:9.3 (465.3) Your own solar center radiates almost one hundred billion tons of actual matter annually, while the giant suns lose matter at a prodigious rate during their earlier growth, the first billion years. A sun’s life becomes stable after the maximum of internal temperature is reached, and the subatomic energies begin to be released. And it is just at this critical point that the larger suns are given to convulsive pulsations.
41:9.3 (465.3) 你們自己的太陽中心每年輻射出將近九百一十億公噸的實際物質，而巨型太陽在其較早的成長時期——最初十億年——則以異常巨大的速率損失物質。在內部溫度的最高點達到、且次原子能量開始被釋放之後，太陽的生命便變得穩定。而正是在這個臨界點上，較大的太陽容易發生痙攣性的脈動。
41:9.4 (465.4) Sun stability is wholly dependent on the equilibrium between gravity-heat contention—tremendous pressures counterbalanced by unimagined temperatures. The interior gas elasticity of the suns upholds the overlying layers of varied materials, and when gravity and heat are in equilibrium, the weight of the outer materials exactly equals the temperature pressure of the underlying and interior gases. In many of the younger stars continued gravity condensation produces ever-heightening internal temperatures, and as internal heat increases, the interior X-ray pressure of supergas winds becomes so great that, in connection with the centrifugal motion, a sun begins to throw its exterior layers off into space, thus redressing the imbalance between gravity and heat.
41:9.4 (465.4) 太陽的穩定性完全取決於引力-熱相爭之間的平衡——極大的壓力由難以想像的高溫所抵衡。太陽的內部氣體彈性支撐著覆於其上的多樣物質層，而當引力與熱處於均衡時，外部物質的重量恰好等於位於其下及內部的氣體之溫度壓力。在許多較年輕的恆星中，持續的引力凝縮產生不斷升高的內部溫度；而隨著內部的熱增加，超氣體風的內部X射線壓力變得如此之大，以致與離心運動相連，太陽開始將其外層拋入空間，從而矯正引力與熱之間的失衡。
41:9.5 (465.5) Your own sun has long since attained relative equilibrium between its expansion and contraction cycles, those disturbances which produce the gigantic pulsations of many of the younger stars. Your sun is now passing out of its six billionth year. At the present time it is functioning through the period of greatest economy. It will shine on as of present efficiency for more than twenty-five billion years. It will probably experience a partially efficient period of decline as long as the combined periods of its youth and stabilized function.
41:9.5 (465.5) 你們自己的太陽早已在其膨脹與收縮週期——那些產生許多較年輕恆星之龐大脈動的擾動——之間達致相對的平衡。你們的太陽如今正走出它的第六十億年。目前它正處於最為節約的時期而運作。它將以目前的效率繼續照耀超過二百五十億年。此後，它很可能將經歷一段具部分效率的衰退期，其長度等同其青年期與穩定化運作期兩者的總和。
41:10.1 (465.6) Some of the variable stars, in or near the state of maximum pulsation, are in process of giving origin to subsidiary systems, many of which will eventually be much like your own sun and its revolving planets. Your sun was in just such a state of mighty pulsation when the massive Angona system swung into near approach, and the outer surface of the sun began to erupt veritable streams—continuous sheets—of matter. This kept up with ever-increasing violence until nearest apposition, when the limits of solar cohesion were reached and a vast pinnacle of matter, the ancestor of the solar system, was disgorged. In similar circumstances the closest approach of the attracting body sometimes draws off whole planets, even a quarter or third of a sun. These major extrusions form certain peculiar cloud-bound types of worlds, spheres much like Jupiter and Saturn.
41:10.1 (465.6) 有些變星，在最大脈動狀態或接近此狀態時，正處於生成附屬系統的過程中，其中許多系統最終將與你們自己的太陽及其公轉的行星十分相似。當大質量的安戈納（Angona）系統運行進入近距離接近時，你們的太陽正處於這樣一種強大的脈動狀態，而太陽的外表面開始噴發出名副其實的物質流——不間斷的物質片層。這種情形以日益增加的猛烈程度延續，直到彼此相距最近之際，此時太陽內聚的極限被達到，一座廣大的物質尖峰——太陽系的祖先——被噴吐而出。在類似情況下，吸引體最接近時，有時會拉離整顆行星，甚至一個太陽的四分之一或三分之一。這些大型擠出物形成某些特殊的雲封（cloud-bound）類型世界，十分類似木星與土星的天體。
41:10.2 (466.1) The majority of solar systems, however, had an origin entirely different from yours, and this is true even of those which were produced by gravity-tidal technique. But no matter what technique of world building obtains, gravity always produces the solar system type of creation; that is, a central sun or dark island with planets, satellites, subsatellites, and meteors.
41:10.2 (466.1) 然而，大多數太陽系有著與你們的完全不同的起源，甚至那些藉由引力-潮汐技術所產生的太陽系也是如此。但無論通行何種世界建造技術，引力總是產生太陽系類型的造物；亦即，一個中央太陽或暗島，連同行星、衛星、次衛星與流星。
41:10.3 (466.2) The physical aspects of the individual worlds are largely determined by mode of origin, astronomical situation, and physical environment. Age, size, rate of revolution, and velocity through space are also determining factors. Both the gas-contraction and the solid-accretion worlds are characterized by mountains and, during their earlier life, when not too small, by water and air. The molten-split and collisional worlds are sometimes without extensive mountain ranges.
41:10.3 (466.2) 個別世界的物理面向，在很大程度上由起源方式、天文處境以及物理環境所決定。年齡、大小、公轉速率以及穿越空間的速度，也都是決定性因素。氣體-收縮世界與固體-吸積世界都以山為其特徵，並且在其早期的生命中，只要不是太小，亦以水與空氣為特徵。熔融-分裂世界與碰撞世界，有時並沒有廣闊的山脈。
41:10.4 (466.3) During the earlier ages of all these new worlds, earthquakes are frequent, and they are all characterized by great physical disturbances; especially is this true of the gas-contraction spheres, the worlds born of the immense nebular rings which are left behind in the wake of the early condensation and contraction of certain individual suns. Planets having a dual origin like Urantia pass through a less violent and stormy youthful career. Even so, your world experienced an early phase of mighty upheavals, characterized by volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, and terrific storms.
41:10.4 (466.3) 在所有這些新世界的較早時代，地震頻繁，而且它們全都以巨大的物理擾動為特徵；這一點尤其適用於氣體-收縮天體，即那些誕生自宏大星雲環的世界，這些星雲環是緊接著某些個別太陽早期凝聚與收縮之後被遺留下來的。像玉苒廈這樣具有雙重起源的行星，經歷一段較不猛烈、較少狂暴的年輕期生涯。即使如此，你們的世界仍經歷過一個強大劇變的早期階段，其特徵為火山、地震、洪水與駭人的風暴。
41:10.5 (466.4) Urantia is comparatively isolated on the outskirts of Satania, your solar system, with one exception, being the farthest removed from Jerusem, while Satania itself is next to the outermost system of Norlatiadek, and this constellation is now traversing the outer fringe of Nebadon. You were truly among the least of all creation until Michael’s bestowal elevated your planet to a position of honor and great universe interest. Sometimes the last is first, while truly the least becomes greatest.
41:10.5 (466.4) 玉苒廈相對孤立地位於撒坦尼亞——你們的太陽系統——的邊陲；你們的太陽系，是除一個例外之外距離耶路瑟姆最遠的，而撒坦尼亞本身則是諾拉歇德中僅次於最外圍的系統，且這個星座現今正穿行於內巴頓的外緣。你們曾真正位居全體造物中最微小者之列，直到邁克爾的賜予將你們的行星提升至一個尊榮且受重大宇宙關注的位置。有時在後的便是在前的，而最微小者則真正成為最大者。
41:10.6 (466.5) [Presented by an Archangel in collaboration with the Chief of Nebadon Power Centers.]
41:10.6 (466.5)［由一位大天使協同內巴頓力量彙聚者首領呈獻。］